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Mourinho has been the subject of intense speculation in the last few days, with reports suggesting the ex-Porto, Chelsea and Inter boss has agreed to return to Stamford Bridge this summer.
Now the Portuguese boss has spoken of his "big emotional connections" with the Blues, connections that mean one day he will "have to be back in English football, or at Chelsea."
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"Of course, Chelsea means more to me than other clubs. Chelsea is in my heart, as Inter is for example.
"One day I have to be back but again it is normal that I am in London. The same way I walk in my home city in Portugal, people see that as normal and this is normal, the same thing is normal when I am in London."
Recent reports have suggested that Mourinho and his agent Jorge Mendes have signed provisional agreements with both Chelsea and Paris Saint Germain, stating the manager will take over in the summer if he so desires.
It is also believed that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is ready to hold his hands up and admit he made an error five and a half years ago when sacking Mourinho.
Given his latest comments, many will feel the return of the Special One is on the cards, but Mourinho insists his focus right now is solely on Madrid.
He continued: "I am in Madrid and I am very, very committed to the club's ambitions for the remainder of the season.
"People know that I am professional and for the moment I only think about my job in Real."
The Madrid boss went on to admit he has played a part in the speculation over a Chelsea return.
"There is a lot of talk but people need to understand that I can be in London very often.," he added. "We have a house here and we love it here. Being in London is a very normal thing for us.
"Every time I come people start immediately making connections to a return. I feed it because I say every day that I love it and will return one day. To be fair I give a little contribution to the speculation."


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Services were held Nov. 30 at Carthage Nazarene Church for Willis George, Jr.
Services were held Nov. 30 at Carthage Nazarene Church for Willis George, Jr.
Willis passed away Sunday, Nov. 25 from injuries sustained in a car accident in Oklahoma. He was born Aug. 2, 1973 in Joplin, Mo; the son of Willis Sr. and Gloria George. He graduated from Carthage High School in 1991. Willis married Shelly Rhoades on June 4, 1994. Willis enjoyed a career of truck driving. Willis loved to spend time with his family. He enjoyed working on cars and loved to fish. Willis grew up in the Carthage Nazarene Church.
Willis is survived by his mother, Gloria, of Carthage, his grandmother Jean Lingle, Carthage, five children: Alyssa Bolin, Autum George, Valorie Holbrook, Caden George, Tylor Lewis and Faith Elizabeth Lewis. A step daughter, Stacey Everitt. By three grandchildren: Brooklyn Everitt, Blake Everitt, Kevin Bolin. By a special friend, Erin Sanderson. He was preceded in death by his father, grandparents, and a special uncle and aunt, Leon and Rosalee Smith.


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Teen killed in head-on crash in Randolph County
An 18-year-old was killed and his passenger was airlifted to the hospital following a head-on crash Tuesday in Randolph County.
Isaac Tate died in the crash around 5 p.m. on Racine Road about 4 miles northeast of Randleman.
A female passenger in Tate's vehicle was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The driver of the other vehicle was treated for injuries at Randolph Hospital.
Tate's pickup truck was going southbound when it crossed the center line and collided with a pickup truck going northbound, troopers said.
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The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), after consultation with the General Services Administration, has renewed the Trinity River Adaptive Management Working Group (Working Group) for 2 years. The Working Group provides recommendations on all aspects of the implementation of the Trinity River Restoration Program and affords stakeholders the opportunity to give policy, management, and technical input concerning Trinity River restoration efforts.Start Further Info
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The Working Group conducts its operations in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S. C. Appendix). It reports to the Trinity River Management Council (TMC) and functions solely as an advisory body. The TMC reports to the Secretary through the Mid-Pacific Regional Director of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Pacific Southwest Regional Director (Region 8) for the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Working Group provides recommendations and advice to the TMC on: (1) The effectiveness of management actions in achieving restoration goals and alternative hypotheses (methods and strategies) for study, (2) the priority for restoration projects, (3) funding priorities, and (4) other components of the Trinity River Restoration Program.
Working Group members represent the varied interests associated with the Trinity River Restoration Program. Members are selected from, but not limited to, Trinity County residents, recreational and commercial fishermen, commercial and recreational boaters, power/utility companies, agricultural water users, private and commercial timber producers, ranchers and people with grazing rights/permits, tribes, environmental organizations, and Federal, State, and local agencies with responsibilities in the Trinity River Basin. Members must be senior representatives of their respective constituent groups with knowledge of the Trinity River Restoration Program, including the Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management Program.
We have filed a copy of the Working Group's charter with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration; Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate; Committee on Natural Resources, United States House of Representatives; and the Library of Congress.
I hereby certify that the Trinity River Adaptive Management Working Group is necessary and is in the public interest Start Printed Page 4366in connection with the performance of duties imposed on the Department of the Interior by Public Laws 84-386 and 96-335 (Trinity River Stream Rectification Act), 98-541 and 104-143 (Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Act of 1984), and 102-575 (Central Valley Project Improvement Act). The Working Group will assist the Department of the Interior by providing advice and recommendations on all aspects of implementation of the Trinity River Restoration Program.Start Signature
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In the American Grain
Neil Young's legendary inconsistencies.
"I'll always remember something Chris Rock said …" is a fine way to start an anecdote, but it does not meet any muse's definition of a good piece of songwriting. These are the compromises that one makes for Neil Young, the old, irascible, Bartleby-like guitar hero whose career has rested on an aesthetic of powerful clumsiness. The Chris Rock riff appears, awkward and immovable, in the middle of " No Wonder," a track from Young's latest album, Prairie Wind. It's hard to imagine someone on the cusp of 60 with nearly 40 albums to his name growing more inscrutable with age. But Young's head, cluttered with marooned ideals and other people's voices, has grown more fascinating over time, particularly on the three albums he has made since 9/11: the bizarre and unsettlingly frank Are You Passionate?; the gnarled, folkloric Greendale; and now the wispy, history-beaten Prairie Wind.
The appeal of Neil Young has always been mysterious. His voice is neither pretty nor strong, resembling the insistent, unsettled whine of a kettle whistle. He writes songs steeped in American Studies 101, yet he grew up in Canada, imbibing those notions at arm's length. He has been a model of iconoclasm, nearly letting his career implode many, many times—most notably in the early-1980s, when he leaped from punk-approved arena rock to isolationist country to synth-pop to rockabilly, all while supporting Reagan. At times, it appears that the only coherent thread running through his career—especially the last 25 or so years—is that he is one of the most inconsistent artists of our time.
Young started out as a folk singer in mid-1960s Toronto. Sensing that the coffeehouses of Canada probably weren't the best launching pads to stardom, he moved to Los Angeles, where he helped form Buffalo Springfield. Tensions within the band—a constant theme in Young's musical life—inspired him to go solo, and by the early-1970s he had cut a series of folk-rock albums obsessed with the themes and images of rural labor. Through his music, Young was revisiting America's own journey westward as a romantic, unfulfilled ideal. It was a lonely journey: After the gold rush—after the dream came true—what were you really left with? For Young, it wasn't much. His work throughout the late 1970s and 1980s showed the unchecked randomness of a 2-year-old, and perhaps that's why we kept listening. As Young's manager explains in Jimmy McDonough's Young biography, Shakey: "Neil's a that-day guy." There was little about him that seemed at all contrived.
Eventually, this earnestness made it impossible to keep score, which was one reason people stopped caring. Despite an early-1990s revival spurred by Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam, the Young of recent years is usually regarded as a curmudgeonly old codger, lost and rudderless, warbling about histories foreign to us all.
This changed on Sept. 21, 2001. Ten days after the terrorist attacks on New York City, Young performed a stirring and savage version of John Lennon's "Imagine" on a television special. The next year, he released Are You Passionate?, a surprisingly low-key and generally weak album of Southern soul-influenced grooves. Young transferred much of that clenched-teeth energy into a retreat toward something primal and simple—something he romantically (and somewhat naively) called "passion."Are You Passionate? was notable for " Let's Roll," a gauche 9/11 tribute song written from the perspective of a passenger on Flight 93, resisting hijackers and downing the plane short of its target.
While the song was memorable solely for being terrible, it offered a template for his follow-up, 2003's excellent Greendale. If the loosened emotions and "Let's Roll"-style machismo of Are You Passionate? represented a knee-jerk indignation to the events of 9/11, Greendale was protest at its mildest and most subtle. Everything about it seemed provincial in a good way, from Young's calm strumming to the album's cover, a hand-drawn map of a town surrounded by trees and water, rather than fiber optics and airplanes. The cover called to mind Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, a unified collection of short stories published in 1919. Anderson's bird's-eye tales about the town's inhabitants mingle together casually. The characters file in and out as chronology takes a backseat to an evocation of the choked but questing spirit of the American Midwest.
Similarly, Young's Greendale was the story of a bygone way of life, songs picking up and then dropping storylines with a confusing ease. At the story's center was the Green family; fanning outward were subplots involving a murder, some cocaine, protests against cable news and the president, and faith in the younger generation. But the album's conscience is Young's—on "Falling From Above," Grandpa Green wonders out loud, "Seems like that guy singing this song/ Been doin' it for a long time/ Is there anything he knows/ That he ain't said?"
Young claims that he wrote Greendale on the fly, meaning he didn't know until the morning he recorded " Grandpa's Interview"that the album's looming patriarch—the character clearly patterned after himself—was going to die. Near the end of the album, as the Green granddaughter experiences her political coming-of-age, Young seems to step out of the conceit for an instant: "The moral of this story/ Is try not to get too old." Young has spent much of his creative life pining for a simpler, imaginary America and looking for a place like Greendale. Having created one out of thin air, he discovered that life there wasn't so simple after all. Sept. 11 wasn't an occasion for nostalgia or retreat; it was a reminder that good and evil still shadowed human affairs, not just overseas, or in the desert battlefields Grandpa followed on televisions, but in the houses of government and on the roads of this idyllic town.
In a way, this was the moment Young had been preparing for throughout his whole career—he had survived needles and youth; he had grown into the " Old Man" for whom he felt affinity back in 1972; and he had lived too long to tempt the "better to burn out than fade away" sentiment from 1979's "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black),"* famously quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note. Young's latest album, Prairie Wind, is the sound of someone who survived it all, only to survive it all again these past few years. (Young's father died and he himself discovered that he had a brain aneurysm before its recording.) Like his best albums from the early-1970s, it is a spare and mostly acoustic outing towed by his now-flickering voice: "If you follow every dream/ You might get lost,"* he whispers on "The Painter," while the gentle lilt of "Falling off the Face of the Earth" belies Young's depressing, unmoored lyrics.
The album ends with " When God Made Me," a track he performed on a recent Katrina benefit program. Backed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers and a lone piano, Young sings a series of rhetorical questions about the nature of faith and society: "Was He thinking about my country or the color of my skin? Did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me?" The song flares with each verse. It's as though Young knows that he can ask these questions only so much longer, as time (or rock obsolescence) will soon catch up with him. Better to fade away, but with a clenched jaw and a quickened pulse.
Corrections, Oct. 21: The article originally incorrectly identified the title of Neil Young's 1979 song, "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)." ( Return to the corrected sentence.) The article also omitted the word "every" from the lyrics of "The Painter." (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Leica Geosystems now has a new high-accuracy real-time kinematic (RTK) upgrade option for use with the Leica mojo3D guidance display — the Leica mojoXact.
The Leica mojoXact can be mounted in any orientation inside the tractor cab and connected to the guidance display via a port expansion cable. It includes a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiver, inertial positioning technology and an interface for steering solutions.
MojoXact options include a built-in radio for mojoRTK base station connection, plus an external radio port and cellular modem compatibility. It uses open standards, including RTCM 3.x, for compatibility with third-party reference sources. Software for the mojoXact can be updated directly via USB flash drive or remotely via Leica's Virtual Wrench integrated Web-based support and diagnostic tool.
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chewybaws wrote:coroho wrote:Squats: That's more like 50kg, didn't have much trouble at all. I'm still trying to make my new squat form more fluid, right now I kind of do it in parts.
Bench Press: My shoulder started hurting again once I got up to 45kg. I think I'm going to skip BP for the next couple workouts and just do some weighted dips.
Elevated Rows: PR by +1. Could be cause I didn't BP as before.
Dips: Didn't add any weight cause I didn't wanna further aggravate my shoulder, but I'm happy to see I haven't lost any strength since I last went for BW dips. Gained a bit actually.
Reverse Crunches: I think I'm going to drop to 5lb next time even if I can't get 3x12.
I'm actually doing the exact same weight on Squats as you just now (obviously both deloaded), but doing 3x8 instead. I'm aiming for the same as you - I think I was pausing too much in the down position and that was putting too much pressure on my joints. Trying my best to try to keep everything tight throughout the whole exercise. I would say I need to try and control my speed (doing them real quick just now) - but that will sort itself out as we get heavy again
Sucks about your shoulder man. It's been a couple of workouts, rest it up so you can get to benching heavy again as soon as possible.
I swear we're a couple of rehab patients on squats. Feels good just to be doing them again though. Hopefully only heavy weight slows us down this time around On the shoulder, yeah I know, I wasn't expecting it to take this long to heal. But then at first I'd felt it on BP, dips, OHPs, pullups, and deadlifts so it's kind of hard to rest fully. I'm hoping cutting out BP will do it cause that's the only time it really starts to hurt again now. If not, I'll try cutting out dips too. Sucks cause my A days already feel pretty weak.


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New Toronto Group (NTG) was founded in 2002 and is privately held. It is a leading provider of software sales and services. NTG is a strong reseller of Adobe software products and is one of North America's foremost Adobe Connect Partners. NTG also provides instructor-led training for various software products, including Adobe's software development and web conferencing tools.
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LAKELAND | As the "Joker," Matthew James Lash could perhaps have picked a better victim.
LAKELAND | He wasn't the "Joker" of "Batman" fame, but Polk County Sheriff's deputies say it was close.
Deputies say Matthew James Lash, 22, of Arrowhead Boulevard in Lakeland, twice vandalized a deputy's patrol car, vandalized the deputy's personal vehicle and burglarized and vandalized another property. He then taunted the deputy, leaving a note on the front door that read in part "The Joker is here! Jokes on you."
Deputies say the joke is on Lash now after he was arrested Friday night on burglary and criminal mischief charges.
Tuesday morning, Lash threw concrete blocks and landscaping rocks at the deputy's patrol car shattering a window and causing $1,129 worth of damage in addition to stealing a rechargeable flashlight, deputies said. Lash also broke out the windows of the deputy's personally owned pickup truck causing $1,769 in damages, the Sheriff's Office said.
The second incident occurred early Friday morning. A man living in the same neighborhood as Lash reported that someone was attempting to open the sliding glass door into his bedroom. As the man started to investigate, someone, who deputies said was later determined to be Lash, threw a landscape rock through the glass door of the Florida room causing $3,000 in damage.
As the residents investigated further, they heard loud noises coming from the area of Matthew Lash's residence on Arrowhead Road, deputies said. They also noticed the driver's side window of the deputy's vehicle broken out a second time, according to a report.
Deputies arrived and found Lash out in the street with a BB rifle acting erratically. He was ordered back to his home but later came out with a box cutter. He was then taken into custody. The note was also found on the front door of the deputy's residence.
Lash admitted to the vandalism and burglaries, the Sheriff's Office said. He later told deputies that he was drinking, got angry, and that he holds no ill will toward the deputy.
Lash was charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of criminal mischief (over $1,000 damage), two counts of petit theft, burglary of an occupied dwelling, firing a weapon into a structure (BB gun), improper exhibition of a weapon (BB b-gun), carrying a concealed weapon or device, two counts of criminal mischief (under $1,000 damage), tampering with evidence, and burglary of a conveyance.
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We're no experts, but that's not gonna stop us from pretending.
How To Be A Dad (HTBAD) is a not so much a "how-to", but a "how-not-to" blog for dads, moms, soon-to-be parents and even those with no plans of procreating, whatsoever. Follow bloggers Andy Herald and Charlie Capen, two sleep-deprived friends with nothing left to lose but their sanity as they learn to be dads and try to look smart doing so. They're not experts, but that isn't gonna stop them from pretending. You've been warned.


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Whatever sentence the court hands down on May 30, the conviction last month of Charles G. Taylor, former president of Liberia, on charges of crimes against humanity shows the importance of the United Nations' international tribunal structure. The courts can and do pursue those responsible for genocide and other mass violence. This is progress. The verdict is also unique in that, while leading members of other nations have been charged and tried, Mr. Taylor is the first head of state since World War II to be convicted of war crimes. This trial has focused world attention on his crimes, ensuring them a place in history's annals of human cruelty. The best outcome of the trial process would be to deter other tyrants.
But the process also highlights the current limitations of the courts. First, justice has been anything but swift. The rebel atrocities in Sierra Leone, financed and abetted by Mr. Taylor, took place in the 1990s, but his trial did not begin until 2006, leaving victims to languish. Second, court expenses have piled up for others to pay. Mr. Taylor's fortune, built from the sale of West African diamonds and allegedly used to buy weapons and fighters, is missing. It might have defrayed trial costs and assisted his victims.
Third, the court has no alternative means by which to compensate victims. Some 50,000 people died in the war in Sierra Leone, but thousands more live on, impoverished in a country decimated by war. Men, women and children, left mutilated by rebel forces, must endure lifelong hardship. Through having their case heard by the world's highest courts, the victims have experienced a measure of justice. Still, the contrast is haunting: Mr. Taylor, spared in these courts from the death penalty, will likely spend his remaining years well fed and sheltered in a British prison. His victimized neighbors, by contrast, can expect no comparable food, shelter or care.
Hopefully, This Too Shall Pass
Recently in the Style section of The Washington Post (4/18), those who love precise use of the English language were grievously impacted by the news that the adverb hopefully has transitioned. It happened with the blessing of the Associated Press, moving from an adverb ("I prayed hopefully for a cure") to a pseudo-verb in a mini-sentence ("Hopefully I'll be cured at Lourdes"). Loyal defenders of the active verb—"I hope I'll survive this"—like disciples of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, which ruled in 1959 that to say, "Hopefully I'll leave on the plane" is to talk nonsense, were crushed. Embarrassed, an AP editor confessed, "You just can't fight it."
Supporters of changes like this argue that the corruption of words' previous meanings is as irresistible as an avalanche in the Alps. New words and meanings roll in, infiltrate common speech and, no matter how vulgar, nest and breed. Others corrupt the vocabulary of television anchors and politicians. Thus to impact, as a verb, once meant "to smash two things together," like cars in a junkyard press; but now "Obama's speech impacted the audience" means they were impressed by it. Incredible meant "not to be believed." Now it competes with OMG as a meaningless interjection. Her dance, his jump shot, the snow storm are all incredible. It means no more than "Cool!". Hopefully this whole mess will transition and we can disimpact the damage it has done.
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Are book publishers a dying breed? The alarm that greeted the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the price-fixing scheme of five major publishers would seem to indicate the sky is falling, at least for those of us who make a living worrying over words. The D.O.J. cited the publishers for colluding with Apple Inc. to raise the prices of electronic books. The publishers' alleged action was intended to counter the growing dominance of Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, which is determined to control the cost of digital books and extend the market share of its Kindle e-reader.
The publishers have reason for concern. If Amazon drives down the prices of digital books, as it is expected to do, publishing houses would make less money on each title, leaving them less to invest in promising young authors or feats of reporting like those of, say, Robert Caro, the tireless biographer of Lyndon Johnson. Apple may have drawn the government's attention, but Amazon deserves scrutiny too. The retailer's control of a vast swath of the digital marketplace threatens more than just the book industry.
Yet book publishers also need to rethink their business model. Setting higher prices for digital books is a shortsighted solution to a long-term problem. Publishers should focus on the benefits of e-readers and try to capitalize upon them. These devices have made it easier, and more affordable, for the public to access books. Creating a culture of readers in a media-saturated landscape is no small accomplishment. Publishers need to find new ways to market content to an audience as hungry as ever for quality material.


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The holidays are in full swing and everyone is scrambling to find the perfect gift for their sister, brother, aunt, cousin, mom — you name it. There are gift guides galore and just about everyone is offering holiday deals to pressure you into buying that new gadget that your dad will never use. Well, this year maybe it makes sense to spend your money wisely and give a gift that keeps on giving. A gift that is meaningful and captures a moment in time. A gift that will preserve a wonderful memory for someone you love.
Ben Larrabee is the perfect gift to give this holiday season. He is a nationally recognized portrait photographer who specializes in photographing people and families. His images are found not only in some of the finest homes from Santa Barbara to Chicago to New York but also in the permanent collections of museums including the MoMA and the Museaum of Fine Arts in Boston.
His work is unlike other portrait photographers because he has a way of seeing people and showing their inner spirit. He calls his work "Moments of Grace"
A photo of Ben on the other side of the camera at Rooms with a View 2012.
A stunning photo of horses printed on kozo paper and then hand shaped and contoured – this is incredible in person!
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Ben also worked on a series called 'Faces of Light' with women from Greenwich and Darien, CT who are all breast cancer survivors. The images and their stories are incredible. The entire series can be seen on his website. You can also read the numerous and wonderful testimonials from clients and learn more about Ben and where he got started. The photos above are a few examples of the wonderful portraits he has taken over the years!
For more information about commissioning Ben Larrabee for a portrait session you can contact him here
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Date: 9/21/2006; 28 minutes
Emergency preparedness. We all know how important it is, but are you prepared? Colleen Buono, M.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, UCSD, educates us on how best to prepare for the next disaster. As part of the team dispatched to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Buono has practical tips to share. For additional information, please refer to The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services. Recorded on 7/25/2006. (#11703)
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Dolores Grandizio loves to dance, swim, go on long hikes through the mountains, and do just about anything that involves being active. She maintained this lifestyle despite having daily severe back pain caused from a fall more than a decade ago. Throughout the years, the pain progressed and her spine degenerated, causing scoliosis – a condition in which the spine curves abnormally to the side rather than being straight. As a result, Dolores struggled to do even the simplest of things, such as walking and tying her shoes. At age 82, she realized that if she did not receive treatment soon, she would never again be able do any of the activities that she loved.
Dolores visited her primary care physician to seek answers for her debilitating back pain. Her doctor ordered an x-ray that confirmed a severe curve in her lower back. He advised her to have surgery and recommended that she speak with the experts at UPMC to learn more about the available treatment options for scoliosis. After consulting with spine surgeons at UPMC and doing her own research, Dolores decided to have the surgery at UPMC and was scheduled immediately. "I knew I was in the right hands as soon as I spoke to the doctor," said Dolores. "He seemed so confident and ensured me that he would do his best to make sure I could get back to what I love doing."
To correct the curve in Dolores' spine, the surgeons utilized the minimally invasive XLIF® procedure, or eXtreme lateral interbody fusion. During the procedure, the surgeons accessed Dolores' spine from the side of her body (instead of from the front or back) and replaced the damaged areas with height-restoring cages and biological agents. This approach causes far less damage to muscles and internal organs and reduces complications associated with other procedures that have traditionally been used to treat scoliosis. Screws and rods were then placed to finalize the correction and fortify the structure and alignment of her spine.
Dolores was able to return home only a few days following her surgery, and almost immediately, her back pain that she knew for years was gone. With minimal rehabilitation, Dolores was quickly able to resume most of her daily activities. She even indulged in a much-needed vacation. "One month after my surgery, I went to Disney World with my husband and some of our extended family. I wasn't able to ride any rides, but I was in much less pain and had a great time."
One year later, Dolores is "pain free" and back to doing what she loves – being active. "I can't thank the doctors enough for doing what they did," she says. "I love being able to go dancing or gardening and not have the pain I used to have. It's incredible."
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Jim Larranaga
Head Men's Basketball Coach, University of Miami
Jim Larrañaga was named the 12th head coach of the University of Miami basketball program on April 22, 2011.
After leading UM to the 2013 NCAA Sweet 16, and winning the school's first ACC regular season and tournament championships, Larrañaga was honored as the AP, Naismith, USBWA Henry Iba and ACC Coach of the Year. The Bronx native helped Miami to a No. 2 national ranking by both the AP and USA TODAY, and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. He is the 10th coach in the last 10 years to lead two top-10 programs, as Miami was No. 2 on Feb. 18, 2013, and George Mason was No. 8 in the final Top 25 poll in 2006.
In 2014-15 Larrañaga led the Hurricanes to the championship game of the NIT, played in his home state of New York, his first time competing as a head coach in Madison Square Garden. The Hurricanes' 25-13 record marked the second-most victories at the school, behind UM's 29 in 2012-13, and Larrañaga's fourth 25-win season as a head coach. In January, the Canes downed eventual national champion then-No. 4 Duke, 90-74, at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the only team to defeat Duke at home this season. Miami also defeated No. 8/7 Florida and Syracuse on their home courts, two of Miami's 10 regular season wins away from home. The Canes ranked 13th in the country in turnovers per game (10.1), were 22 in the nation with a 74.6 percent clip at the free throw line and No. 53 with 7.7 3-pointers made per game. Miami finished the season sixth in the ACC after being projected to finish 10th, the fourth-straight year the Canes have exceeded expectations. Junior forward Tonye Jekiri was named to the All-ACC Defensive Team and third in voting for ACC Most Improved Player, and along with classmates Sheldon McClellan and Angel Rodriguez, all three were honorable mentions to the All-ACC team.
Returning just 13 percent of the team's scoring, 15 percent of rebounding and no starters from the championship season, Larrañaga led the 2013-14 Hurricanes to a 17-16 record with a 10th-place, 7-11 mark in the ACC. After starting the year No. 175 in field goal defense, the Canes ended the year No. 39 in the NCAA in the category. The Canes sent five games to overtime and played 13 games that were decided by five points or less, and won five of the last eight games to post UM's seventh-straight winning season. Five more seniors graduated under Larrañaga's watch, with the sixth senior earning both his bachelor's and master's degrees next spring.
Larrañaga, who earned his 500th win during the 2013-14 season, directed the Canes to a 27-point win over No. 1 Duke and three other 20+ point wins over ACC opponents this season, including North Carolina (+26), Florida State (+24) and Boston College (+22). UM's 29 overall and 15 ACC wins in 2012-13 were program-bests, as was the 14-game winning streak and 13-0 start in conference play. Other program firsts include defeating all three teams in the North Carolina Triangle in the same season, beating a trio of teams in the Top 20 since joining the ACC and hosting five home sellouts at the BankUnited Center.
Individually, Larrañaga saw Shane Larkin earn the ACC Player of the Year and Lute Olson National Player of the Year awards, as well as All-American status and finalist nods for the Bob Cousy, John Wooden and James Naismith player of the year honors before declaring early for the 2013 NBA Draft. Larkin was also the ACC Tournament MVP, on the ACC Defensive team and a defensive All-American. Durand Scott was the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, three players—Larkin, Scott and Kenny Kadji— were listed on all-conference teams and four were on the ACC All-Tournament Team—Larkin, Scott, Julian Gamble and Trey McKinney Jones.
All six seniors on the Sweet 16 team earned academic degrees from the University of Miami and one player was listed on the All-ACC Academic Team.
Larrañaga came to Miami after serving as the head coach at George Mason for 14 seasons. He guided that program to five NCAA Tournament appearances (2011, 2008, 2006, 2001, 1999) - including an unprecedented run to the 2006 Final Four that captured the nation's attention, defeating Michigan State, North Carolina, Wichita State and UConn along the way. Following that run, he was selected the 2006 Clair Bee Coach of the Year.
In Year One at The U, the Canes posted a 20-13 record, making Larrañaga the first Miami head coach to record 20 wins in his inaugural season in Coral Gables. Under the new coaching staff, UM won nine games in conference play, the first time Miami has posted a winning record in ACC play since joining the conference for the 2004-05 season. The Canes ended the season tied for fourth in the ACC, another program-best accomplishment.
On February 5, 2012, Larrañaga and his crew did what no other hoops coach at Miami had done when he took the Canes into Cameron Indoor Stadium and defeated No. 7/5 Duke. The Canes downed the Blue Devils 78-74 in overtime that afternoon, led by 27 points and 12 rebounds from Reggie Johnson, and received votes in the next AP Poll for the first time since 2010. Gaining momentum, Miami then beat No. 15/16 Florida State at home in front of a packed house, UM's first win over FSU since 2009. Teetering on the edge of The Dance bubble, the Canes went 1-1 in the ACC Tournament and ended up in the NIT, defeating Valparaiso, but falling to Minnesota, the eventual NIT Championship runner-up.
Three players earned postseason recognition under Larrañaga's watch, as Kenny Kadji was selected to the All-ACC Third Team, Durand Scott was voted an honorable mention performer and Shane Larkin earned a spot on the ACC All-Freshman Team.
Larrañaga built the GMU Patriots' program into a perennial contender in the highly- regarded Colonial Athletic Association, winning more games than any other coach in program and conference history (273) en route to three conference titles (2008, 2001, 1999).
A two-time CAA Coach of the Year honoree, Larrañaga earned the accolade in 2011, leading the Patriots to a 27-7 overall record and 16-2 conference mark en route to the CAA regular-season title and their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance under his leadership. Seeded a program-best eighth in the NCAA Tournament, George Mason rallied from a double-digit deficit to defeat ninth-seeded Villanova, 61-57, before falling to overall No. 1 seed Ohio State in the third round.
Larrañaga's teams are known for their offensive efficiency and a frenetic defense dubbed the "Scramble." In Larrañaga's last season, his Patriots - who were ranked 24th in the final RPI - finished the season 11th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (39.5), 18th in scoring margin (10.3), 22nd in turnovers (11.1), 26th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.28) and 37th in scoring defense (62.5). During its 16-game win streak - which catapulted Mason to No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll on Feb. 28 - all but four victories came by a double-digit margin. That streak included the 71-51 win at VCU on Feb. 15, with Mason holding the Rams to a season-low offensive output.
He became Mason's all-time leader in men's basketball victories with his 131st win on January 22, 2005, with the 77-58 decision at James Madison. He became the CAA's all- time leader in wins on February 4, 2006, when the Patriots defeated UNC Wilmington. His Mason teams went 182-89 in CAA play.
In 2006, Larrañaga became the first coach at a mid-major school to take his team to the Final Four in 27 years and earned an at-large berth for a CAA team for the first time in 20 years. Along the way, he led Mason to a school record in wins, the school's first-ever national ranking, George Mason's first-ever appearance in the Top 10 and the school's first wins over Top 10 teams.
The Patriots finished the year with a 27-8 record and a No. 8 ranking in the final USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Earlier that season, Mason cracked the polls at No. 25, but NCAA tournament wins over Michigan State, No. 10 North Carolina, Wichita State and No. 2 Connecticut vaulted Mason up the poll, into the national conscience and made Larrañaga a household name.
The remarkable run at George Mason began just two years into Larrañaga's tenure. After going 9-18 in his first year with the Patriots in 1997-98, Larrañaga guided the 1999 Patriots' squad to a 19-11 overall record and a 13-3 CAA mark. That season, he earned his first Coach of the Year accolades in the CAA and NABC District 4 after making a 10- game improvement and leading the program to its first-ever conference regular season championship, its second CAA Tournament title and first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1989.
The Patriots followed that with another 19-11 overall mark in 1999-2000, tying for first place in the CAA at 12-4 and earning the top seed in the conference tournament. In 2000- 01, the Patriots finished 18-12 overall and 11-5 in the CAA, good for a tie for second place, and they won the CAA Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. The Patriots produced another solid campaign with a 19- 10 overall record (13-5 in the CAA) and a NIT berth in 2001-02. Mason's 2002-03 roster was hampered by injuries, but managed to pull together a 16-12 record (11-7 in the CAA), and a fourth-place CAA finish.
In 2003-04, Larrañaga led the Patriots to a 7-2 non-conference record and to a school- record 23-win season, as Mason finished 23-10 on the year, its first 20-or-more win campaign in 14 years. Gaining an NIT berth (the Patriots fourth postseason appearance in six years), Larrañaga led Mason to two consecutive postseason victories for the first time in school history.
Under Larrañaga, the Patriots have won three CAA titles including the 2008 championship when Mason went 23-11. The Patriots have appeared in the postseason each of the past four seasons for the first time in Mason history, advancing to the NCAA Tournament in 2008, the NIT in 2009, the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament in 2010 and back to the NCAA Tournament in 2011.
With 28 years of head coaching experience, the native of Bronx, New York, previously served as the head coach at Bowling Green for 11 seasons (1986-1997) and at Division II American International for two seasons (1977-79).
At Bowling Green, he made an immediate impact in his first season. In 1986-87, the Falcons were the nation's most improved team under a first-year head coach that took over a program with a losing record, posting a 15-14 record for an eight-game improvement over the previous season. Larrañaga went on to record a 170-144 mark in 11 years at Bowling Green, earning the 1997 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year honors after leading Bowling Green to a 22-10 record, a conference regular season co- championship and a berth in the National Invitation Tournament. The 22 victories were the most by a Bowling Green team in 47 years and the 13 conference wins were the second-highest total in Falcon history.
Larrañaga's 170 victories at Bowling Green ranked second all-time on the Falcons' coaching list and he was only the second coach to record consecutive postseason appearances. Larrañaga led his squad to NIT berths in 1990 (18-11) and again in 1991 (17-13), the first time the Falcons enjoyed back-to-back postseason appearances since the early '60s. Bowling Green won better than 61 percent of its games in Larrañaga's last four years, recording a 70-44 mark during that stretch. The Falcons finished fourth or better in the MAC in five of Larrañaga's 11 seasons and he is among the winningest coaches in MAC history.
Larrañaga received his first head coaching position in 1977 when he was named to the post at American International, a Division II program in Springfield, Massachusetts. Taking over a team that had suffered through five consecutive losing seasons prior to his arrival, Larrañaga turned AIC into a winning program in his first year and compiled a 28-25 mark in two seasons.
A 1971 graduate of Providence College with a degree in Economics, Larrañaga was a four-year letterman for the Friars. As the team captain in his senior season, he led Providence to a 20-8 record and an NIT appearance. He graduated as the school's fifth all-time leading scorer with 1,258 points and was selected in the sixth round of the draft by the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. He was the team's top scorer as a sophomore and junior and was named New England's Division I Sophomore of the Year in 1969. He was inducted into the Providence College Hall of Fame in 1991.
His first coaching opportunity came at Davidson College, where he served as an assistant coach to Terry Holland. Davidson captured three Southern Conference regular-season championships and an NIT berth in his five years there, and he compiled a 47-12 record doubling as the freshman team coach. In 1976, he left Davidson and spent one season as player-coach for the Geronemo Basketball Club in Belgium.
After his two-year stint at American International, Larrañaga was reunited with Holland at the University of Virginia in April 1979. An assistant coach under Holland for seven seasons from 1979-86, he helped the Cavaliers reach the NCAA Final Four on two occasions (1981 and 1984), finish in the top five of the AP and UPI polls and average more than 24 victories per season. The Cavaliers were 169-62, won three regular season Atlantic Coast Conference championships and made four NCAA Tournament appearances. Virginia also made a pair of NIT appearances, winning the NIT Championship in 1980. Larrañaga was on the staff during the careers of three-time National Player of the Year Ralph Sampson and NBA first-round draft choice Olden Polynice.
Larrañaga, and his wife, Liz, have two sons and four grandchildren. Their son Jay played for his father at Bowling Green, was the head coach of the NBDL's Erie Bayhawks, and his now an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics. Jon was a member of his father's George Mason teams from 1999-2003.


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Some of the key players involved in planning a dramatic, top-to-bottom reorganization of LSU's structure are being paid with private funds and, therefore, aren't subject to public records laws.
The LSU Board of Supervisors, since mid-summer, has partnered with three different consulting firms to help map out a campus consolidation plan and the selection of a new leader. The entire effort is being called LSU2015.
Two of those consultants working with the LSU board have payment plans in place with the private LSU Foundation. A third consulting firm is, so far, working for free with the expectation that a contract with the foundation will be finalized before too long.
The nonprofit and tax-exempt LSU Foundation was created in 1960 out of a collection of business and community leaders looking to support the university.
What was a $66,000 enterprise in 1963 now takes in about $30 million per year and has a $330 million endowment dedicated to various LSU causes.
Both foundation President Lee Griffin and Corporate Secretary William Sylvia Jr. are members of the university's Transition Advisory Team.
The 10-person team working to guide the reorganization has held several public meetings since the beginning of the year.
But Sara Crow, the foundation's communications director, said the organization intends to keep private some of the contractual details surrounding arrangements with consultants.
Crow, however, did say that the foundation is paying Dallas-based R. William Funk & Associates a $120,000 fixed fee along with some "documented out-of-pocket" expenses for the firm's help in recruiting a new president to run a revamped LSU.
Releasing those details, Crow said, is "an atypical business practice" of a private foundation, "but in this case we understand why there is interest in this process."
Crow, on Wednesday, declined to say how much money the LSU Foundation paid the Washington, D.C.-based Association of Governing Boards, whose October report kicked off the current reorganization planning.
The AGB report suggested that LSU would become more efficient by moving away from its model of separate autonomous campuses in favor of a consolidated system organized under the flagship campus in Baton Rouge.
The LSU System is made up of the main campus in Baton Rouge; the law school; agricultural center; academic campuses in Alexandria, Eunice and Shreveport; LSU Health Sciences Centers in New Orleans and Shreveport; 10 public hospitals; and related clinics across the state.
Crow would not disclose whether a single donor or a group dedicated money to pay one or both of the consulting firms.
"I can't talk about specifics of the donors," she said.
Christel Slaughter, of Baton Rouge-based SSA Consultants, has been the public face of LSU's restructuring efforts in recent weeks.
She has organized and moderated the most recent Transition Advisory Team meetings.
On Wednesday, Slaughter said her company has been working without a contract.
"We are going to have a contract," she said. "We're going to be hired officially. I understand it's going to be with the foundation.
Slaughter said her firm "donated time" to the LSU Foundation several months ago while the group was working on a strategic plan.
This time around, Slaughter said the LSU2015 effort "was too important" to wait for a contract.
"We wanted to get started. We love the university. We love this state," she said.
Slaughter said she can't presently estimate a possible fee her firm will charge until LSU or the LSU Foundation explicitly defines SSA's role in the process.


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HICKORY, N.C. – The Coker women's lacrosse team lost a tough 20-7 South Atlantic Conference game to Lenoir-Rhyne University on Saturday (Mar. 22), at Moretz Stadium.
Lenoir –Rhyne got on the board first within the first minute of the game, but the Cobras responded with a goal from Mackenzie Baker to tie the game at 1-1. The Bears would then go on to score the next five goals to take a 6-1 lead, but Baker struck again with Coker's second goal to make the score 6-2. In the last 13 minutes of the first half LR would score two more goals, but Hayley Ferone would tally a goal in the final minute to cut the Bears' lead to a manageable five goals, as the Cobras trailed 8-3 at halftime.
Ferone got the second half started for Coker by scoring her second goal of the game to make it an 8-4 game. The two teams would then exchange a pair of goals for the next 10 minutes, but LR would go on to score eight goals in a row to increase their lead to 18-6. Coker would tack on another goal in the last six minutes, but the deficit was too much to overcome as time wound down in favor of the home team.
Both Baker and Ferone finished the day with three goals apiece, while Ashlyn Burgett added one. Baker also had the teams lone assist for the Cobras, along with four draw controls to add on to her 6.80 average per game, which is fourth best in division II.
Coker will continue their road journey as they travel to Lees-McRae this Tuesday (Mar. 25) to compete in another SAC competition. Game time is set for 4:00 p.m.


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Our first full season of High Line Food will soon come to a close. We pulled together some photos of our favorite moments from the year. Take a look, and tell us what you think. We hope you will share your thoughts with us to help make High Line Food even better next year.
One of the most frequent requests we get from visitors is for snack and dining options on the High Line, and we listened!
We are committed to working with entrepreneurial food partners whose products are good for the people eating the food, good for those who grow it, and good for the land. High Line Food took shape early this year with an open house with more than 100 people our neighborhood. Their feedback helped inform our evaluation of the food vendors who responded to our request for proposals.
In April, we selected six vendors to partner with us to offer food and beverage on the High Line: Blue Bottle Coffee, offering a full espresso bar, single origin drip coffees prepared to order, hot chocolate, and house-made baked goods; Melt Bakery, serving delicious ice cream sandwiches in the summer, and warm pies made with season fruit, warm cookies, and hot tea in the fall; La Newyorkina, boasting paletas during the summer, and homemade candies, small pastries, and Mexican hot chocolate in the fall; People's Pops, serving ice pops made from fresh fruit from the greenmarket; and L'Arte Del Gelato a Chelsea Market staple for gelato and sorbetto.
The sixth vendor, The Green Table, partnered with us to operate The Porch, a 40-seat, open-air seasonal café that offered fresh, delicious fare on the lower level of the Chelsea Market Passage at West 15th Street. The Porch's menu focused on food sourced from local family farms that exercise humane and environmentally friendly practices.
The Lot was a temporary space generously donated to Friends of the High Line for the summer by the Related Companies and Abington Properties, the owners of the property. The Lot was home to The Lot on Tap, a wine and beer bar, run by Colicchio & Sons, and a rotating series of food trucks. Featured at The Lot on Tap was the Brooklyn High Line Elevated Wheat, a beer brewed especially for the High Line by Brooklyn Brewery using ingredients mainly sourced from New York State.
Just like the High Line, food brings people together, and that thinking is the reason why we held programs this season that used food as a means to learn, be entertained, and connect with neighbors.
The Green Table served fresh popcorn during the Trains on Film Series; Melt Bakery, La Newyorkina, and other food vendors taught kids and families how to make special recipes, and we held our first communal meal on the High Line.
VIEW PHOTOS from Play With Your Food.
VIEW PHOTOS, WATCH VIDEO, or read about the Social Soup Experiment on our blog.
Help shape our food offerings for 2012!
Let us know what you loved this past season and what you'd like to see on the High Line next year. If you have a favorite food truck or small purveyor that you think would be perfect for the High Line, let us know! Leave your comment here, or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll share your comments and ideas in an upcoming blog post.
Also, don't forget to come out one last time to enjoy a warm drink or autumn treat from Melt Bakery or La Newyorkina. They are still serving treats on the High Line despite the cold temps!
VIEW PHOTOS of highlights from our first season of High Line Food.


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The CareNet counseling network has been providing high quality outpatient counseling services across North Carolina since 1972. Since then, it has become the largest hospital-based program of its kind in the nation and has served clients in 88 North Carolina counties.
The CareNet system builds on a strong tradition of clinical education for ministers and chaplains that began with the School of Pastoral Care at Baptist Hospital in 1947.
Supporting patients spiritually, offering ministries of growth, hope, and healing.
Disclaimer: The information on this website is for general informational purposes only and SHOULD NOT be relied upon as a substitute for sound professional medical advice, evaluation or care from your physician or other qualified health care provider.


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Last Minute? No Problem: 10 DIY Kids' Valentines
So, you waited til the last minute to figure out what to do about valentines for all those kids in class? No worries. We've got a roundup of 10 easy, cute, and creative valentines you can crank out in an hour or two.
• Forceful Valentines from Stitchcraft: With a glow stick, you can create these lightsaber valentines. Holly provides the template to print out and links to other light saber-themed Valentines printables.
• Monster Valentines from Make and Takes: One googly eye, and you're good to go!
• Photo Lollipop Valentines from Remodelaholic: An oldie but a goodie, these tromp l'oeil photograph lollipop valentines have been floating around the interwebs for a while. STILL CUTE.
• Lollipop Flower Cards from Martha Stewart: If the photo card isn't your thing, you can make these sweet flowers from construction paper, with a lollipop center.
• Valentine Surprise Balls by Ardor Blog: A bunch of little goodies wrapped up in crepe paper? It's like a mini piñata that kids are sure to love making and giving.
• Superhero Lollipop Valentines: Clearly, lollipops are a theme, but who doesn't like lollipops? These lollipops are super, though. (Wah, wah, waaaaaahhhhh...)
• Newspaper Valentines from Inhabitots: Into upcycling? Make these cards with what's left of your Sunday paper.
• Paint Chip Valentines from Tastefully Tattered: Yup, more paint chip ideas!
• Crayon Stained Glass Heart Cards from Martha Stewart: Crayon shavings, wax paper, an iron, and boom! Insta-crafty card.
(Images: as credited above)
• A Gazillion (Ok, 31!) DIY Valentine's Day Decoration Projects
• Friendship Bracelet Valentines
• Valentine's Food and Crafts


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Emerging markets, such as distributed power, are increasing the size of power conversion applications. One solution for generating high-power outputs is to place a number of electronic voltage source inverters (VSIs) in parallel. To date, engineers have used several methods to overcome the difficulties associated with paralleling VSIs for standalone operation. These methods, however, take only the fundamental components of a load current into account. In addition, the transmission rate of commands or power calculations limit the system's bandwidth response, which can cause problems during sudden-load applications or removals, motor hard-starting, and nonlinear rectifier load conditions that are typical in existing power systems. A new alternative — the Ecostar Power Converter (EPC) — acts like one unit. It offers an advanced algorithm that reliably connects up to 8 units (1MW each) in parallel and achieves balanced load-sharing during tough loading conditions.
Synchronization Scheme
To minimize circulating real power and maximize power usage, it's necessary to minimize the phase-angle difference among the parallel EPCs. Fig. 1 shows a parallel system with two EPCs. L1 and L2 represent the output inductance of each EPC, and v1 and v2 indicate the output voltage vectors from the two voltage sources. The phase-angle difference between the two voltage vectors is represented as δ.
You can determine the circulating real power between v1 and v2 by using the following equation:
Circulating Real Power =
V1× V2× sin (δ)/2πf/(L1+L2)
The parameter f is the fundamental operation frequency of the inverters, and V1 and V2 are the rms values of the AC output voltage of v1 and v2, respectively. The circulating power and load sharing is sensitive to the phase-angle difference (δ) between any two modules. Therefore, it's important to minimize the phase-angle difference between inverters when paralleling VSIs.
The EPC's synchronization method is based on a square-wave signal generated by the fundamental operating frequency. This square-wave signal is coupled to all of the units in the system. Each EPC then produces a saw-toothed triangle waveform that contains the data needed to generate AC voltage output.
With this synchronization scheme, the updating rate of each EPC doesn't have to be the same or be synchronized for the phase-angle synchronization among the parallel EPCs. Furthermore, the fundamental operating and sampling frequencies do not need precise synchronization.
This method also eliminates the need for analog-to-digital conversion between the microprocessor and the saw-toothed wave generator because the synch signal source is digital and provides much better noise immunity than analog signals. The digital signal is based on a relatively low frequency. Thus, the system bandwidth requirements for transmission among the parallel EPCs is low.
Standalone Mode Performance
In Fig. 2, you can see how a two-unit system maintains balanced load sharing during the transient response to a large step-load test. Around the time of the trigger point, marked as "T," the load changes from 40kW to 80kW. Channels 2 and 3, which represent the phase A current of each EPC, remain in close proximity throughout the test.
Fig. 3 shows a dynamic-load test result for two parallel EPCs. At the time of the trigger point, someone hard-started a 20 hp induction motor. Right after the starting, the load current significantly increased because of the high inrush current at zero speed. The motor then accelerated to the rated speed. (Note: the load current was constantly changing during the acceleration.)
The results indicate that a two-parallel system keeps load sharing balanced — even during the transient response to motor hard-starting. This is demonstrated by the almost true synchronization of Channels 1 and 2 throughout the duration of the test.
The last figure, Fig. 4, depicts a redundancy test result for a total load of 100kW for three parallel EPCs. Channels 2, 3, and 4 represent the phase A current of each EPC. At the time of the trigger point, Channel 4 deliberately drops off the system. The other two EPCs immediately pick up the load and maintain balanced load sharing.
If you need high-power output from a power conversion application, paralleling VSIs is a good approach. This technique allows customers to establish a range of power ratings with one basic design or expand a system by adding more modules. Parallel VSI systems also improve reliability because each VSI handles lower currents and dissipates less heat. Finally, and most important, this method synchronizes the phase angle of VSIs to minimize circulating power and achieve fast, dynamic responses to various load-sharing actions.
Mike Wang is a product design engineer with Ballard Power Systems in Dearborn, Mich. You can reach him at [email protected].
Doug Deng is a principal engineer with Ballard Power Systems. You can reach him at [email protected].


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WASHINGTON — An independent investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is complete, and Congress will be briefed on its findings this week, the State Department said Monday.
The classified report by the Accountability Review Board will be sent to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a day before the panel's two most senior members will testify in closed session before the House and Senate foreign affairs committees. The board was established to examine the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
An unclassified version of the report is expected to be released to the public after board Chairman Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador, and Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear at Wednesday's hearings, said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
The House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees will then hear open testimony on the report on Thursday from William Burns and Thomas Nides, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's two main deputies, Nuland said.
Clinton created the board in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack to look into security procedures before and during the incident in which heavily armed militants laid siege to the mission and a nearby CIA annex. She had been scheduled to appear before the committees this week, but canceled after fainting and sustaining a concussion while recovering from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated.
Nuland said Clinton had been given a copy of the report on Monday.
She added that Clinton was "on the mend" but was obeying her doctors' recommendations to stay at home this week.


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Project promotes Gov. Cuomo's vision for a revitalized waterfront
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. board of directors met Friday to authorize and enter into a contract with Mark Cerrone Inc. for the construction of the east canal and associated features at the former General Donovan State Office Building site in Buffalo. With this action, construction of the east canal will begin, adding another element at Canalside that builds on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's vision for a revitalized Buffalo waterfront.
"The awarding of this contract represents the final piece of business that the ECHDC board had to sign off on before shovels go in the ground," said ECHDC Chairman Robert Gioia. "The east canal project, developed under the leadership of Gov. Cuomo, represents increased year-round attractions and activities for our visitors as well as a catalyst for private development."
The project, with construction slated to begin in March, involves connecting Main Street to Washington Street with a public space that evokes the memory of the Main and Hamburg Canal, yet terminates in a shaded grove of trees, while seamlessly blending into the development site to the north and south. The work will consist of the construction of the east canal on the site of the former Donovan State Office Building. The project will be complete in December.
Perkins Eastman, formally known as Ehrenkranzt Eckstut & Kuhn EEK, was the project's master architect. C&S Engineers was awarded a contract from ECHDC for design services in November. Through the design phase, C&S had numerous meetings with the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Sewer Authority. In January, C&S presented the plans and specifications to the ECHDC design review committee and the City of Buffalo Planning Board, which made a joint recommendation to accept the design, as it met the project's design guidelines. As a result, at its meeting Feb. 19, the ECHDC board approved the east canal design as consistent with ECHDC's design guidelines for the canalside project.
The item approved Friday authorizes construction of the approved design.
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. is governed by a nine-member board consisting of seven voting directors and two non-voting, ex-officio directors. The seven voting directors are recommended by the New York state governor and are appointed by the New York State Urban Development Corporation, d/b/a Empire State Development, as sole shareholder of ECHDC. The two non-voting, ex-officio director positions are held by the Erie County executive and the City of Buffalo mayor.
As a subsidiary of Empire State Development, the state's chief economic development agency, the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., supports and promotes the creation of infrastructure and public activities at Canalside, the Ohio Street corridor and the outer harbor.
For more information on ECHDC, visit www.eriecanalharbor.com.


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HBO Cancels Enlightened
Sometimes, it seems, ratings do matter to the pay cable network.
The story of Amy Jellicoe, TV's most tragic heroine, has come to an end. HBO announced Tuesday afternoon that it would not be renewing Mike White's contemplative comedy Enlightened for a third season. "It was a very difficult decision," the network said in a statement. Buzzfeed first broke the news.
Viewership for Enlightened has been low from the start, and White told Vulture in an interview last month that he was far from confident he'd be granted another season. "Girls has so much buzz and not great numbers. We have less buzz and less numbers. It actually hurts us," he said, explaining. "In a way, Girls is the show that they go, 'Well, even if the ratings aren't great … ' If Girls was doing huge numbers and we were still doing bad numbers, then we could be more the pro bono case. But Girls is like the pro bono case." Enlightened's second season finale, which aired March 3, drew 220,000 viewers in its first Sunday at 9:30 p.m. airing; by comparison, Sunday's Girls finale drew 632,000 viewers at 9. While the cancellation was not wholly unexpected, White did have plans to continue Amy's journey.


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Producers may soon reach for their iPhones or Droids when they find a problem in their wheat fields instead of sending clippings or dead insects to an expert, according to a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture is funding a four-year program under its Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program to help build a database that will give producers real-time data for diagnostics.
Researchers participating in "iWheat" are AgriLife Research-Amarillo, Texas AgriLife Extension Service-Dallas, Oklahoma State University, Kansas State University and Colorado State University.
"The idea is to extend what we have already been working on with the former area-wide pest management for greenbugs and Russian wheat aphid project," said Dr. Jerry Michels, AgriLife Research entomologist in Amarillo.
Michels was referring to a five-year program in which the group of scientists sampled wheat and did remote sensing to understand the relationship of aphids in wheat crops over the southwestern Great Plains area.
"We tried to put together better management strategies for aphids with the entire area included instead of our individual regions," he said. "We looked at what the similarities and differences were and determined management strategies for the different producers depending on where they were located."
Grower surveys
Michels said a lot of information gathered during that study came from surveys with individual growers in the different geographic areas about how they plant wheat, rotational or continuous, and agronomic practices such as whether they were dryland or irrigated operations.
"It worked fairly well, but we still ended up with five big chunks of data," he said. "We still wanted some way to put it all together."
The group is looking at the abilities of the different information delivery systems such as the iPhone or Droid that will allow them to consolidate this information and make it available to a person on an interactive basis.
"What we will do is put all this into a real-time database that will be made available to people who are cooperating with us for the next four years," Michels said.
Michels said his work will start this fall in several experimental fields, but he's also looking for two wheat farmers who will volunteer to be involved with the program. In addition, he will be working with 10 AgriLife Extension agents.
Many producers, crop consultants and AgriLife Extension agents already use a program called Glance-N-Go to sample aphids in wheat, he said. That program came from the initial five-year study.
Real time data
With the new program, the idea is they can access the system in the field and the data will be entered real time, Michels said. They will be able to enter how many tillers have greenbugs on them, and the system will be able to tell them if there are enough samples to make a decision and if the number of aphids detected warrants treatment.
"As time goes by, the people who are using the system will be able to enter the variety they are planting, when they planted, the fertilizer, etc.," he said. "The idea is that eventually there will be guides available to tell them when to start looking for insects and what they might be looking at in the field."
Another possible option is the producer will be able to take pictures in the field and send them to the database where an expert can look at them.
While some of those details are yet to be worked out, Michels said his program will monitor wheat fields and do the Glance-N-Go and other types of sampling with the producers and AgriLife Extension agents, and determine how this will work out.
"Hopefully we will be able to get input and provide data by the end of the second year and then make it available to the public within four years at the end of the research," he said.
Diverse practices beneficial
With the initial five years of work, researchers found that farmers who used diverse practices instead of planting continuous wheat were getting better results, and while that data was reported in some areas, it wasn't consolidated and easily accessible to farmers, Michels said.
"Accessibility, and even more important, the ability to get the data real time, is what we are looking for now," Michels said. "Instead of sending a picture or clippings of the wheat or an insect by mail or taking it in for an expert to analyze, the information is instantaneous. We hope some day they can take a picture and submit that for analysis."
But to get to that point, it takes someone to do the "field-truthing" and see how it will work. That is why he and others will be working directly with producers to see what they want, what they need and how it should be tweaked to make sure it is something that has value.
Michels said by allowing the diagnosis to take place in the field and determining an appropriate action to take in most cases, this real-time prescription application should save time and money for producers and help them schedule treatment earlier for fields that might need it, thus reducing the overall damage.


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Former Ayotte aide to be Labor Dept. spokesman
August 22. 2017 10:05PM
CONCORD — A longtime New Hampshire Republican congressional staffer is President Trump's choice to become the chief spokesman for the U.S. Department of Labor.
The White House announced Tuesday its intent to appoint Jeffrey Y. Grappone of Concord to be assistant secretary of labor for public affairs.
For four years, Grappone was communications director and chief spokesman for former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH.
Since leaving that post, Grappone has been a senior communicator at the Siemens USA corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Previously, Grappone was press secretary to former Sen. John E. Sununu, R-NH, and had been on the legislative staff of former Congressman Charles Bass, also R-NH.


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Daniel Radcliffe has sparked new romance rumors after flirting with his Kill Your Darlings co-star at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Friday night (18Jan13).
The Harry Potter star was spotted cuddling actress Erin Darke at a Gray Goose Blue Door event in Park City, where they partied with castmate Michael C. Hall and his novelist girlfriend, Morgan Macgregor.
According to onlookers, Radcliffe was affectionate with Darke throughout the night and they even shared a kiss, before huddling together outside the venue later in the evening.
Radcliffe dodged questions about a blossoming relationship, telling People.com, "Erin? Oh, Erin Darke? Yeah, the whole cast is here. It's fantastic," while an insider tells the publication, "They've been dating for a while but have been debating going public."
Radcliffe, who plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, has previously dated actress Laura O'Toole and production assistant Rosie Coker, who he split from last year (12).


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NEWARK, N.J. - May 9, 2013 --A New Jersey Army major and his wife have pleaded not guilty to abusing their foster children.
John and Carolyn Jackson of Mount Holly appeared in federal court in Newark on Thursday. Each remains free on $250,000 bail, charged with endangerment, assault and conspiracy.
The couple are accused of abusing their three foster children with disciplinary measures that included assault, withholding food and water, and forcing the children to eat hot sauce. Bones were also broken.
Prosecutors say the couple told their three biological children they were "training" the foster children to behave and instructed the biological children not to tell anyone.
Prosecutors say the alleged crimes took place in 2010 while the family was living at the Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway Township.


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Alger Parks and Recreation holding Christmas party
ALGER — The Forest Lake Clubhouse will play host to crafts and a book reading Saturday, Dec. 15, when the Alger Parks and Recreation group holds its first ever Christmas party.
Marion Chard, president of the parks and recreation group, said they wanted to give local children some fun activities for the holidays.
"It's something we're really looking forward to," Chard said. "It's something simple, but kids love it, and it gives them something to do."
The party will run from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., and starts with a book reading by Chard. She said Santa Claus is expected to arrive during the book reading to finish up "The Night Before Christmas," before meeting with children for Christmas photos.
Meanwhile, the kids will be able to work on Christmas-related crafts, and get to decorate the frames for their Santa pictures. Chard said candy canes and juice would also be available.
The Alger Parks and Recreation group has only been together for about a year, Chard said, and this is a new event for them. She is expecting approximately 60-65 children based on the turnout they had for their Easter egg hunt in the spring.
The party is free to the public; the clubhouse is located on 6180 Bobcat Trail in the Forest Lake community in Alger.
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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about the Sun at home, at school, or anywhere. It provides 13 free, easy to use, hands-on activities, plus live images of the Sun from NASA's SDO... (View More) satellite, videos of the Sun, and more. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. Some of the activities and media pieces are also available on the project website. The activity materials are widely available and inexpensive. (View Less)
This is an activity about scale. Participants will arrange imagery of Earth and many other space objects in order of their size from smallest to largest, their distance from Earth's surface, their temperature from coolest to hottest, and/or their... (View More) age from youngest to oldest. By manipulating these images and discussing their ideas, children and adults represent and confront their own mental models of space and time. (View Less)
In this activity, learners will experiment with ultraviolet light sensitive plastic beads, which are generally white but turn colors when exposed to UV light. Participants are informed about the nature and risks of UV light and are asked to explore... (View More) what types of materials keep the beads, and hence the user, safe from UV light. (View Less)
This is an activity about sunlight as an energy source. Learners will create a plant box and observe that a plant will grow toward the Sun, its primary source of energy. This hands-on activity is an additional lesson as part of the book, The Day... (View More) Joshua Jumped Too Much. (View Less)
This is a lesson about the electromagnetic spectrum. Learners begin by arranging a set of picture cards; in the discussion afterwards, this activity is related to the electromagnetic spectrum as an arrangement of energy waves. Next, using a... (View More) clothesline to model a logarithmic scale, they add in the electromagnetic spectrum. Finally, learners conduct several simple tests to detect other types of radiation. This activity requires access to a sunny outdoor location and the use of ultraviolet light-sensitive beads. (View Less)
This is an activity about seasons. Learners begin by brainstorming a list of activities and events that occur in each season. Next, learners perform an experiment by comparing the temperature on thermometers left under a lamp for different lengths... (View More) of time to illustrate that Earth heats more when the Sun is in the sky longer. (View Less)
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In this activity, learners construct a classroom-based Space Weather Action Center and use it to obtain, analyze, and record real solar data on a weekly basis. A set of sequential activities are also provided to engage the audience in making... (View More) informed decisions about space weather using their collected data. Please note a computer with an Internet connection is required to access NASA data. This activity is part of the Space Weather Action Center Educator's Instructors Guide, which follows the 5E learning cycle. (View Less)
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This is an activity about bar magnets and their invisible magnetic fields. Learners will experiment with magnets and a compass to detect and draw magnetic fields. This is Activity 1 of a larger resource, entitled Exploring the Sun. The NASA... (View More) spacecraft missions represented by this material include SOHO, TRACE, STEREO, Hinode, and SDO. (View Less)
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In this lesson, learners will construct their own 3-D glasses in order to use them on 3-D images, such as images of the Sun from the STEREO spacecraft. This activity requires special materials, such as red and blue acetate paper and can be used with... (View More) an accompanying activity, titled Create Your Own 3-D Images. (View Less)
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And speaking of "Shark,'' when Jeff Samardzija pitches Thursday, will it be against the Blue Jays or for them?
Maybe this week will be different, but if the Cubs had any questions about the credibility of their favorite hashtag "wearegood," then the Cardinals explained last series why they're still sitting at the kids' table.
That's probably why Maddon approached the four-game series against the Cardinals as just four games, even though they're not and Maddon knows it.
"What means a lot is Monday's game,''


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Windsor Arms Hotel Wedding | Mike & Mary
Mike & Mary chose a gorgeous venue in which to say their 'I do's' and become husband and wife. The Windsor Arms Hotel is located in the Yorkville area of Toronto, and the interior is stunning. The Windsor Arms Hotel is home to Prime Steakhouse, they host high tea in the Tea Room, and also have a luxurious Spa on-site.
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Mass. woman found not guilty of girl's death
Mass. woman found not guilty of girl's death
May. 16, 2013
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — A Nantucket woman authorities say killed her 3-year-old daughter because she thought the girl was possessed by the devil was found not criminally responsible because of mental illness.
Dora Tejada was found not guilty by a judge Wednesday in Nantucket Superior Court and ordered committed to a state mental health institution for six months of observation and treatment. She will be re-evaluated after that to determine whether she should stay in custody or be released with conditions.
Three forensic psychologists hired by the defense, prosecution and the court to evaluate Tejada all concluded that her extreme bipolar disorder and psychosis left her unable to understand her actions and conform her behavior to the law on the day she killed her daughter, the Cape Cod Times reported.
"Usually, with a lack of criminal responsibility, you don't get three experts that agree," James Caramanica, Tejada's lawyer, said outside court after the verdict. "But this case was so clear to everyone involved."
Prosecutors did not challenge the decision.
"All the evidence — the testimony, the physical evidence, everything — it all supported the experts' finding in this case," Assistant District Attorney Sharon Thibeault said
Tejada, a housecleaner originally from El Salvador, suffocated 3-year-old Nicole Garcia inside their home in March 2011, authorities said.
Tejada told investigators God told her to push a rose in the girl's throat to exorcise the devil. Tejada also shoved her fist down the girl's throat, police said. A medical examiner determined that the cause of death was homicidal asphyxia.
During the three-day trial, friends and relatives described Tejada as a loving and responsible mother whose religious convictions increased after she attended a retreat about a week before the killing.
One psychologist also noted that Tejada had suffered from chronic depression for about a decade and had a traumatic childhood in El Salvador.
Information from: Cape Cod (Mass.) Times, http://www.capecodonline.com