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Summer at Mammoth Mountain is in full swing in the Eastern Sierra. Hit the Adventure Center for the hub of summer activities including mountain biking, climbing, the all-new kids ropes course, Woolly's Mining Co, euro-bungee and more.
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U12 - $22.00 SG Training Run (Mandatory) / U12 - $33.00 per SG Race
U10 - $28.00 per GS Race (cash, check or credit card) Entries can be faxed, mailed or for online registration please visit www.AdminSkiRacing.com
ENTRY DEADLINE: Sunday, March 5, 2018. Entries received after 5:00 pm on this date will be assessed a late fee of $20.00 per race.
ELIGIBILITY: All U10 & U12 athletes must be a member of US Ski & Snowboard (formerly USSA) & Far West.
Age 5 – 12: $24.00/ day (racer ticket)
Age 13 – 22: $48.00/ day (racer ticket)
Specially priced parent and family tickets are available at registration.
REGISTRATION: 7:30am – 9:00 am daily in the Race Dept. office, Team HQ
TEAM CAPTAIN'S MEETING: Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5:00 P.M. for U12's
Friday, March 9, 2018 at 4:00pm for U10's
- both meetings held in the "Team HQ" located on the west side of the Broadway Express (Chair #1)
BIBS: Bibs will be issued to coaches at Team Captain's Meeting. Athletes must turn in bibs at the completion of the event. Athletes will be charged $50 for any missing bibs.
Friday, March 9, 2018 - U12 SG Training Run - Mandatory (Time & Course TBD)Saturday, March 10, 2018 - U12 SG Race (Time & Course TBD)
Saturday, March 10, 2018 - U10 GS Race (Time & Course TBD)
Sunday, March 11, 2018 - U12 SG Race (Time & Course TBD)
Sunday, March 11, 2018 - U10 GS Race (Time & Course TBD)
VOLUNTEERS: We are looking for volunteers to help with this event. Interested parties please visit our online volunteer sign-up page at: VOLUNTEER (http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/8050E49AFAE2AA02-201718) or contact the Race Department for details on jobs, schedules and benefits.
LODGING: Please call 800-MAMMOTH (1-800-626-6684) until the room block cutoff date, Friday, February 23, 2018 for reservations by referencing the group name, Mono Cup or Booking ID: 25270. Cutoff date is Friday, February 23, 2018 and $10 Resort Fee. Individuals may book ONLINE until the room block cutoff date, Friday, February 23, 2018 by accessing our online website, https://groups.mammothmountain.com/mammothresort/rlp/monocup and using the following information: Group ID: 25270.
Helmets are required! Competitors are responsible for all equipment meeting USSA specifications. (USSA rule 222.1)
Please keep in mind that weather and/or snow conditions may cause a change in the schedule. Please note that dogs are not permitted on the snow or in buildings at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
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By Sruthi Ramakrishnan
(Reuters) - Cloud software maker VMware Inc reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as it sold more licenses to enterprise customers and indicated that strong licensing revenue growth would continue into next year.
The company said it expected revenue to grow 15 percent in 2014 on continued strength in its enterprise licensing business and higher demand for its vCloud Suite of products.
"The guidance for next year is for a stronger license trajectory, which remains the key ingredient in the company's recipe for success over the coming years," FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives told Reuters.
License revenue rose 15 percent in the quarter ended September 30, VMware said on Monday.
VMware shares rose 9 percent in extended trading, while those of parent EMC Corp rose 5 percent, even though VMware lowered the upper end of its full-year revenue forecast range to $5.21 billion from $5.26 billion.
Analysts on average were expecting revenue of $5.20 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
VMware sells virtualization software, which enables the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. This helps companies use server and storage space more efficiently and reduce IT costs.
The company's vCloud Suite of products, introduced in 2012, allows companies to build a complete cloud infrastructure.
"The strength in the quarter was licenses. They had a very good license quarter and that's kind of front and center for investors," Ives said. "It seems the company is poised to see a nice reacceleration in license revenue heading into 2014."
VMware said it signed its largest-ever enterprise license deal with the U.S. Army in the third quarter.
The company, which gets 10-15 percent of its revenue from the U.S. government, said it expected government-related revenue to be flat in the current quarter, which included a two-week government shutdown.
VMware raised the high end of its full-year revenue forecast range in July, saying government demand and enterprise deals were likely to pick up in the second half.
Over the last year, VMware has been renewing its enterprise licensing contracts at a higher rate and adding more enterprise customers, Mizuho Securities USA analyst Abhey Lamba wrote in a pre-earnings note.
Long-term license agreements including maintenance and support make up a quarter to one third of VMware's sales.
VMware said third-quarter net income rose to $261 million, or 60 cents per share, from $157 million, or 36 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company earned 84 cents per share.
Total revenue rose 14 percent to $1.29 billion.
Analysts on average had expected earnings of 82 cents per share on revenue of $1.29 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Editing by Ted Kerr)

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Equal pay for women is another distraction by Obama administration
Equal pay for women is another Democrat issue that has no basis in fact. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that may garner votes from the uninformed, but is simply another attempt to distract citizens from the Obamacare debacle, his feckless economic and energy policies and dangerous foreign policies.
When studies compare women and mens' pay for jobs with similar education, training and experience requirements, there is no significant difference.
Of course, if one simply takes an organization's payroll and takes the average pay for men and compares it to the average pay for women, there often is a difference because women and men migrate toward different jobs that have different pay scales.
According to one source, women working at the White House only make about 88 percent of what men do. So, is the president guilty of paying women less than men for the same jobs? Of course not.
My experience working for several large companies is that gender never even enters the decision when making an offer or considering a raise.
According to Forbes, 71 percent of human resource managers are women. Would these women allow other women to be discriminated against in pay? I think not.
Ray Davis
Last year the University of Aberdeen released research that proposes to head off the imminent catastrophe threatened by anthropogenic climate change by breeding low-methane-emitting cows. A more recent study from a different source posits that we should reduce the demand for cows, and thus their number, by forcing humans onto a strict vegetarian diet. I respectfully submit that these researchers are approaching the methane problem from the wrong angle.
Instead of changing the way cows internally process their food or changing our own diets, perhaps the cows' diets could be changed by converting cows from herbivores to carnivores. Taxpayers' money would be much more productively spent converting cows into carnivores than applying it to either of the first two proposals.
Carnivorous cows would emit very little noxious methane and would be the best means to eliminate the original herbivorous cows, which would be easy prey. The benefits derived from carnivorous cows would be far-reaching. No more herbivorous cows would mean many more plants. More plants would mean less CO² and more oxygen.
Carnivorous cows would also offer the means to a much-needed population reduction in humans by natural selection through the cows' consumption of humans, who, as every graduate of a public educational institution has been taught, are the root cause of global climate change and all of its attendant miseries.
Savor the delicious irony of them eating us, instead of us eating them. Is that justice, or what? The obvious solution to anthropogenic climate change is carnivorous cows.
Stephen H. Pulliam
Rich pay most taxes
A recent letter was unfocused and inaccurate. It blamed the national debt on tax cuts having been skewed to enrich the wealthy. What tax cuts? In the past few years, the rich had a 3.8 percent Medicaid tax levied on high income.
The top federal tax bracket was raised from 35 percent to 39.5 percent. Now he wants a 10 percent tax on the top 10 percent of the wealthiest taxpayers? The top earners now pay over 70 percent of the federal taxes (Taxfoundation.org). There is little to be gained by taxing this group (I want to know the calculation the writer used to show how his new 10 percent tax will reduce the national debt to $2 trillion).
Meanwhile, taxes on low-income wage earners have dropped due to earned income tax credits and other government subsidies. Almost half of this population is on some form of government subsidy. Our problem isn't taxing the rich, it's spending too much.
The writer then blames "budget impasses" on the lowering of our credit rating. So why has it not been raised now that the impasses are behind us? Would $17 trillion in debt have anything to do with it?
Rants are fine, but put some facts and thought behind them.
Richard Bendure
Wake up, Kentucky
Sen. Mitch McConnell was happy with the Supreme Court's ruling last week that enables people to give any amount of money to favorite candidates. That was great news for him, since billionaires want to keep more of their money and McConnell in the Senate can keep on making it easy for them.
McConnell had the help of the two most right-wing judges. He was the most powerful Republican in the Senate and worked so well with George W. Bush when he appointed those two justices to protect the Republicans on every angle. Also McConnell has been scared as all get out of Alison Grimes, so he believes he is safe now that he can call in as much money as he thinks he will need to win a sixth term.
He still has a problem though. Kentuckians have begun to wake up and see that MsConnell has not voted for them, but for big rich corporations. Voters have begun to realize that votes can trump big money when the people stick together and vote for Grimes.
Linwood Hardy
Greed divides us
Have we the people of this country let a few greedy lobbyists and politicians divide our country to a level this wide?
The politician stood before a large crowd and told them of all the things he had done for them, and they answered with loud applause.
Not far away, in a broken-down shack, was a teenage girl in rags freezing from the cold, about to give birth to her first child. After the child was born and she looked into its trusting eyes, she broke down and cried as if her heart would break. She raised her eyes toward Heaven and said "Lord help us." The next morning as the sun peeped through the broken window, there laid two frozen bodies and two broken hearts.
Cliff Barker


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Dragon Quest, formerly known in the West as Dragon Warrior, is a series of Japanese Role-Playing games published by Enix. Since its debut, it has become one of the foremost series of its type, and one of the best selling series of games in Japanese history.
History Edit
Dragon Quest began in 1986 with the eponymous first game for the Famicom. The game was one of Enix's earlier games, and it was created by gaming pioneers such as Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama, a manga artist. Although inspired by Western RPG's Dragon Quest was notable for its visualization and the increased ease of access of many RPG elements. The game was eventually a hit, resulting in three sequels for the game on the system. These games came out in 1987, 1988, and 1990. The third iteration in particular was a huge success, selling 3.8 million units on the Famicom alone.
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Dragon Quest would have its fifth and sixth iterations on the Super Famicom in 1992 and 1995. Each game sold about 3 million copies in Japan, continuing the series status as one of Japan's dominant franchises. There would not be another main entry in the series until 2000's Dragon Quest 7 for the Nintendo 64. This game used a mixture of 2D and 3D graphics so as to save space on the limited N64 cartridges. Dragon Quest 7sold 4 million copies in Japan, breaking series records.
All main Dragon Quest games since 7 have been developed by Level-5, which has become Enix's primary developer of games in general. 8 was released for the GameCube in November 2005, and although sales in Japan were lower than those for 7, this was compensated for by higher Western sales than previously in series history.
Dragon Quest 9 was, in a surprise move, announced for the Game Boy Nitro in late 2006. The final game turned out to be reminescent of the earlier games in the series, with new modern elements added such as cooperative and online play. Dragon Quest 9 was a huge sales success, selling over 5 million copies worldwide.
The latest main series Dragon Quest Game, 10, was released for the Revolution in August 2012. The game sold significantly less than its immediate predecessor, but in the same league as 7 and 8. Therefore, it is widely expected that the inevitable Dragon Quest 11 will be released for the recently released Game Boy 3DS.
Reception Edit
Along with Final Fantasy and Pokemon, Dragon Quest is part of the "holy trinity" of Japanese RPG's. Every main entry game in the series since the NES-era has been a multi-million seller, with some games being upon the best selling in Japanese history. Although the series lacks the critical acclaim of some others in the West, thanks in part to the fairly conservative nature of new games in the franchise, the games have also been critically successful, particularly in Japan.


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|"The mag rail produces a powerful energy beam. In alt-fire mode, it is an EMP attack that can be fired through walls and other solid objects, striking the target without damaging the intervening objects."
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The Mag Rail is an energy weapon in Deus Ex: Invisible War.
The Mag Rail is an experimental energy weapon produced and supervised by Dr. Patton, the Mag Rail Project Manager for Mako Ballistics. It was launched in 2072 just after Alex Denton comes in the Seattle Mako Ballistics Facility.
The gun has two fire modes and fires a high-density energy beam boasting high damage and accuracy, omitting any damage resistance. Primary fire mode is excellent against living tissue, with secondary fire mode being extremely efficient against those susceptible to EMP attacks and capable of shooting through static scenery, including walls, doors, containers and similar. Both firing modes consume medium amount of ammunition per shot and have a noticeable cool down time.
- There is a significant cool down time between shots, so installing the Refire rate mod is advisable.
- The secondary attack will shutdown the cameras and turrets without setting off the alarm, as well as hit targets through multiple doors, walls or boxes.
- A level 3 Vision Enhancement aug makes it possible to to see everything in a level, which works very well with the alternate fire's ability to pierce through walls. With Vision Enhancement and the Mag Rail, the player can defeat foes in a room without ever having to enter it.
- Equipping the Ammo scavenger mod is also useful, as the weapon consumes a good amount of ammo per shot, no matter what firing mode is used.
- It is first obtainable at Mako Ballistics, after which high level enemies like Omar guards, Illuminati Elite Trooper or Templar Paladins will begin to use them occasionally later in the game.
- The weapon exists in some form in many first person shooter games, namely Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, where a walkthrough pointed out that it is in so many games because it is so fun to use.
- Its ability to shoot through walls, makes it a likely technological successor to the laser rifle.


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In Chapter 5, Paul picks the children up from Karol's house and apologizes for not being able make Karol's name change hearing. As Paul leaves with the kids, Karol continues listening to the news for information concerning the McKoy exhibition. Two years prior, McKoy led another expedition to the Heimkehl Caverns in Germany where they found cars and famous paintings. McKoy secured permits to go on the excavation and is only allowed to keep a certain amount of the money.
At the beginning of Chapter 6, Paul brings Marla and Brent back home. He gets into the house easily because Rachel insists he keep a key to the house. The house still remains in both of their names and he is welcome to come there whenever he wants to be there, but tries not to abuse it. Paul misses Rachel and...
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Auto insurance rates better in Iowa than most states
In an annual state-by-state comparison of auto insurance rates, Iowa has the second-best rates in the country.
The survey, recently posted online by Insure.com, ranked Iowa only behind Maine for the best rates in the U.S. Maine residents pay an average of $934 per year for car insurance. Iowan's pay an average of $1,028.
People are less likely to sue over a car wreck in Iowa. Paul Pohlson, president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa, said Iowa drivers might not be so rushed and might not have as much road rage as those in other states.
Illinois ranked 14th in the survey, with an average annual rate of $1,322 for car insurance.
The national average was $1,510.
The worst rates in the country were in Louisiana, where the average annual premium was $2,699. The report says drivers in Louisiana are more likely than those in other states to file bodily injury claims after a wreck, and they're more likely to file comprehensive claims which include damage from natural disasters.


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One method of forecasting election outcomes is to focus on contests individually -- assessing voting trends in a particular district or state, the candidates' strengths and weaknesses, and any issues or circumstances that loom as potentially decisive factors. While the year's general tone may be taken into account, this method largely agrees with the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "All politics is local."
The macro alternative is to assess the national issue agenda, the tilt of the national political terrain, and the parallels to previous election years. This is essentially a sophisticated way of licking one's finger to ascertain which way and how fast the wind is blowing, and making a guess based on historical patterns, national polls, and subjective judgment.
For House elections, the race-by-race micro method usually works best. But about every four elections, it simply doesn't. It just didn't in 1974, 1978, 1982, and 1994, and (to a lesser extent) didn't in 1998. (In big macro elections, when a tsunami develops, even the most sophisticated micro analyses prove useless, because first-rate candidates often lose to inferior ones simply because of party affiliation.) Micro analysis once worked reasonably well as a predictor of Senate outcomes, but that hasn't been true in the past four elections. Close Senate races have tended in recent years to break in one direction.
At this stage in the 2005-06 election cycle, just about any micro analysis would predict minimal changes in the House and Senate: Too few seats appear to be truly in play for either side to roll up a big win. Yet, history reminds us that the midterm election during a president's second term tends to deal a setback to the president's party -- generally because that party's members felt discouraged and failed to show up at the polls while the opposition felt energized and turned out in large numbers. The presidential party can get into electoral trouble because it has run out of intellectual gas, grown lethargic, overreached, suffered a scandal, or hit economic hard times. Any of those factors could, at least theoretically, turn 2006 into a macro election.
The scandals surrounding Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay are making a lot of Republican strategists very nervous. And Rove has a far higher public profile than DeLay. So, GOP strategists have a new reason to fret over whether Rove knowingly disclosed the identity of an undercover CIA operative. We don't yet know which reporters Rove talked to, what he said, or whether he realized that Plame was a secret agent.
Rove's involvement in the Plame case is already creating a political problem for the White House and the Republican Party. We just don't know whether the problem will escalate into a GOP nightmare capable of damaging the party in the 2006 midterm elections.
The irony, of course, is that the Rove story is developing just as President Bush has tipped back "right-side up," as pollsters say, with his job-approval rating higher, although just barely, than his job-disapproval rating. His uptick is most likely the result of the London bombings. The two Gallup/CNN/USA Today polls conducted in June had pegged the president's overall job-approval rating at 45 percent and 46 percent. Now it's 49 percent, with his disapproval score, which had been 53 percent and 51 percent in June, 48 percent. Pew Research Center polling showed a bit more of an upward jump -- from 42 percent to 47 percent in approval, with disapproval dropping from 49 percent to 46 percent.
Obviously, hundreds of things will happen between now and the 2006 midterm elections. And the long-term political impact of the Rove/Plame affair and of heightened concerns about terrorism is impossible to know. But suffice it to say that Republicans certainly don't need another scandal right now. The current spotlight on Rove's behind-the-scenes maneuvering isn't something that heartens anyone in the GOP. The same can't be said, of course, for Democrats.


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The Constitutional Moment
Judge Vinson introduces ObamaCare to Madison and Marshall.
'If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Federal Judge Roger Vinson opens his decision declaring ObamaCare unconstitutional with that citation from Federalist No. 51, written by James Madison in 1788. His exhaustive and erudite opinion is an important moment for American liberty, and yesterday may well stand as the moment the political branches were obliged to return to the government of limited and enumerated powers that the framers envisioned.
As Judge Vinson took pains to emphasize, the case is not really about health care at all, or the wisdom—we would argue the destructiveness—of the newest entitlement. Rather, the Florida case goes to the core of the architecture of the American system, and whether there are any remaining limits on federal control. Judge Vinson's 78-page ruling in favor of 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, among others, is by far the best legal vindication to date of Constitutional principles that form the outer boundaries of federal power.
At the heart of the states' lawsuit is the individual mandate, which requires everyone to purchase health insurance or be penalized for not doing so. "Never before has Congress required that everyone buy a product from a private company (essentially for life) just for being alive and residing in the United States," Judge Vinson writes.
Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration justified this coercion under the Commerce Clause, so it is fitting that Judge Vinson conducts a deep investigation into its history and intent, including Madison's notes at the Constitutional Convention and the jurisprudence of the fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall. The original purpose of the Commerce Clause was to eliminate the interstate trade barriers that prevailed under the Articles of Confederation—among the major national problems that gave rise to the Constitution.
The courts affirmed this limited and narrow understanding until the New Deal, when Congress began to regulate harum-scarum and the Supreme Court inflated the clause into a general license for anything a majority happened to favor.
In a major 1942 case, Wickard v. Filburn, the Court held that even growing wheat for personal use was an activity with a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce, thus justifying federal restrictions on the use of agricultural land meant to prop up commodity prices. It wasn't until the William Rehnquist Court, a half-century later, that the Justices began to recover some of the original limits, notably in the Lopez (1995) and Morrison (2000) cases.
Yet even in its most elastic interpretations, the Commerce Clause applied only to "clear and inarguable activity," Judge Vinson writes, the emphasis his. It never applied to inactivity like not buying health insurance, which has "no impact whatsoever" on interstate commerce. He argues that breaching this frontier converts the clause into a general police power of the kind that the Constitution reserves to the states. As the High Court put it in Lopez, obliterating this distinction would "create a completely centralized government."
The Administration contends that not purchasing insurance—inactivity—is really activity, because everyone will eventually need medical care and their costs will be transferred to the insured. But Judge Vinson dissects that as a "radical departure" from the Constitution and U.S. case law. It is "not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted," he writes. "Surely this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended."
He notes that no one can opt out of eating any more than they can from the medical system, so return to the Wickard example of wheat: "Congress could more directly raise too-low wheat prices merely by increasing demand through mandating that every adult purchase and consume wheat bread daily, rationalized on the grounds that because everyone must participate in the market for food, non-consumers of wheat bread adversely affect prices in the wheat market."
Unlike Judge Henry Hudson in Virginia, who also found ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, Judge Vinson addresses the Administration's fallback argument that the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause justifies the law even if the Commerce Clause doesn't. He writes that this clause "is not an independent source of federal power" and "would vitiate the enumerated powers principle." In other words, the clause can't justify inherently unconstitutional actions.
Judge Vinson also went beyond the Virginia case in striking down the entire ObamaCare statute—paradoxically, an act of judicial modesty. Democrats intentionally left out a "severability" clause if one part of the bill was struck down, and the Administration repeatedly argued that the individual mandate was "essential" to the bill's goals and mechanisms and compared it to "a finely crafted watch." Judge Vinson writes that picking and choosing among thousands of sections would be "tantamount to rewriting a statute in an attempt to salvage it."
We take a measure of vindication in the decision—David Rivkin and Lee Casey, the lawyers who argued the Florida case, first suggested in these pages that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. Judge Vinson's learned opinion has put down a Constitutional argument that will reverberate all the way to the Supreme Court.
This story has been corrected. An earlier version said that John Marshall was the first Chief Justice. He was the fourth.


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Dr. Anderson da Cunha, IACUC Chair
Ms. Dawn Best-Desjardins, Administrator Coordinator
Dr. David G. Baker, Attending Veterinarian
Effective immediately, the LSU IACUC has instituted the following important changes in the animal protocol approval process:
Animal Use Protocols will only be required at the time of submission of a grant application if the funding agency requires it. If the funding agency (e.g. NIH and NSF) does not require protocol approval until a grant application is approved for an award, you do not need to submit a protocol before that time. The investigator will determine whether an approved protocol is required at the time of grant submission or only at the time of grant award.
It is recommended that when you know that a grant application is going to be funded, you then submit an animal use protocol. The Office of Sponsored Programs cannot accept or release funds until the protocol has been approved.
Even if a protocol is not required at the time of grant application, Ms. Dawn Best-Desjardins in DLAM is required to sign your electronic routing sheet. she will indicate "Just-In-Time" for "Vertebrate Animals" use. The OSP cannot process your grant application unless they know that a protocol is not needed until the award is made.
These changes do not affect projects for which funds are already in hand (e.g. departmental funds), or as indicated above, for grant applications for which animal use protocols are required by the funding agency at the time of grant submission (e.g. USDA and others).
Remember that you must have an approved animal use protocol before animals can be obtained or used for teaching or research purposes, regardless of funding source.
If you anticipate that a grant application will be funded and there may be a short "turn-around" time between notification and establishment of an account (e.g. internal awards), you can request that the IACUC review your protocol before the award is made.
At the time you submit an animal use protocol, you will also be asked to submit one copy of any grant(s) funding the work described in the protocol. The University must assure the federal government that all of the animal work described in your grant(s) is covered under an approved Animal Use Protocol. We will do a sided-by-side comparison of your grant(s) and animal use protocol(s) to verify congruency and meet this requirement. The animal use protocol will not be approved by the IACUC until congruency has been verified.
Clearly, these changes are intended to: 1) eliminate the need for investigators to write animal use protocols for projects that are never funded; 2) reduce the time spent by the IACUC members reviewing and discussing protocols; and 3) establish a mechanism to assure that animal use described in grants is covered by an approved animal use protocol, in accordance with federal law.


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Water, whether still or in motion, has such an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects fascinating as those produced by the reflections in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing and their subtle combinations of colors. Shillong has plenty of natural waterfalls where you can take a dip and relax and rejuvenate. Here are some of them:
Unlike waterfalls in other parts of the country, waterfalls in shillong rarely dry up and always are in their full glory. Keep your camera handy to capture some beautiful moments. The cool water is a natural stress buster. Take a bath, play water volleyball or just dip your feet and relax, be sure to have a great time!


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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 23, 2012) - The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu and Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais, accompanied by victims of crime, will make an announcement regarding criminal justice legislation.
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Let a Bail Bondsman Guide You Through the Complexities of Posting Bail
If someone you care about has gotten in trouble with the law, your first priority is to see if you can help him post bail. But there are cases when the bail is set at an amount that you cannot afford. This is why you may need to use bail bonds.Details


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Checkfront has been selected along with 20 other promising Canadian technology companies to attend 48 hours in the Valley on May 19th.
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Writing for Publication Equals College Readiness at the Tips of our Fingers
Lesson 8 of 11
Objective: SWBAT use technology to polish and publish their narratives by typing their narratives in MLA format and uploading them to Edmodo.
We have two labs at my school. One with 30 computers and one with 25 computers. I have 35 students, so I prefer the larger lab. However, I never know what I am going to get.
My 35 eager publishers may be relegated to the small lab. If all computers are working, I can improvise and put one kid on my lap top, one kid on the teacher computer, and I can farm out the rest to teachers who have student computers in their room. Most students are computer literate however they do not always know how to use a computer to produce academic content. By working with my students in a lab, I can help them develop their skills in using the computer to produce and share their writing (W 9-10.6).
This lab has special rules. Each student has to sign on a magic paper that then allows them to sit at a specific computer and log in. While the students log in, I will take the remaining students int various classrooms to borrow computers. I give the students who are in other teachers' room my cell phone number. I tell the to text me if they have any questions.
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Today's lesson focuses on independent work because they are at different points in the final stage of the writing process. Students are finishing their personal narratives (W 9-10. 2). It is the formal writing component of the culture unit. This is the prompt they are working form:
- A well-written, revised and proofread essay in which you express your personal identity based on the five aspects you chose and how those aspects define your cultural context. Your essay should have a clear claim, demonstrate strong organization, and use imagery that creates a verbal picture of you and your culture.
Once we are are logged on--I go through the directions of formatting their essay. The header, name, date, and spacing. It is the basics of MLA format (L 9-10. 3a) . I will not accept an essay that is not properly formatted. I remind students to use the Purdue OWL if they need a reference. I also tell them if they used a source other than themselves they must have a works cited page. The easiest way to create a citation is using EasyBib. It is a free website that practically does all the work for you. If it is a web site or a common book, easybib can auto cite it. If not, students can plug in the necessary information and easybib with create the citation.
I spend the period walking around the lab answering questions and checking papers before students upload to Edmodo.
Students are at various stages of writing. Most of them are putting a final polish on their essay by checking the conventions and making minor alterations (W 9-10. 5). The goal is to get the paper typed in MLA format and submitted by the end of the period.
By the end of the period students need to type their essays and upload them to Edmodo. In order to submit, students log into the class homepage. Next they click on the turn in button. This button takes them to a page that has an upload button. They click the upload button, select their essay and hit submit (W.9-10.6).
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I give students a 10 minute warning. It starts the turn in and log off countdown. If you have students working in other rooms, check on them quickly. I make sure everyone can log into edmodo to turn in their essay.
At the end of the period, I remind them to log off and to read "Trees for Democracy" for the next class.


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It's Me-Me Monday again, and that means I want to hear all about my readers. Today's topic is music. Each of you will be invited, at the end of this post, to share your ultimate playlists with me. So put on your thinking caps.
When I have time, I love perusing the celebrity playlists at iTunes. True, a lot of time I hear music I wouldn't listen to while I cleaned dog poop off the rug. Sometimes, though, I hear a song that becomes part of my iTunes Top 50 Most Played.
With equal interest, I look at novelists' playlists.
- Rachel Caine, author of the Morganville Vampires series, has her playlists for each installment in the series printed at the back of the book. She also has playlists on MySpace
- Nancy A. Collins, creator of Sonja Blue and Golgotham, has a playlist on MySpace. She has some cool, dark taste in music.
- Stephen King's ultimate playlist is posted at the Entertainment Weekly website.
I'm not prejudiced. I even look at literary agents' playlists. Kristen Nelson, agent and blogger extraordinaire, always has a line at the beginning of her blog saying what's playing on her iPod or XM radio right now. If I don't know the song, I sample it on iTunes.
The following is my ultimate playlist, which includes a short explanation of why I picked each song. The links will either take you to You Tube or iTunes.
Be sure to sample a couple of songs you don't already know. Word of mouth–even if it's online–is how I find 99% of my new music.
Seed of Memory by Terry Reid — This song plays as the credits roll on The Devil's Rejects. The song follows an intense death scene, and it just fits. I've found it's a great cruising song.
Fun Factoid: Terry Reid was asked to be the lead singer the group that would become Led Zeppelin and turned them down.
Jolene by Ray Lamontagne: This is one of my favorite performers. He has a beautiful voice, and his songs have the most haunting lyrics. In this one it's
A picture of you holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Fun Factoid: Ray Lamontagne decided to become a singer/songwriter after waking up on morning to Stephen Stills' "Treetop Flyer" playing on his clock radio.
Plus one: "Jolene" plays as the credits roll on The Town.
Life without You by Stevie Ray Vaughan — I'm a lifelong fan, and the song I'd want on my ultimate playlist evolves. Right now, it's "Life without You" because the music starts with sort of a dreamy quality but builds in strength as the song goes on. Stevie was truly taken from us too early.
Fun Factoid: Stevie wrote "Life without You" upon the death of his friend and mentor Charley Wirz, who was the owner of Charley's Guitar Shop in Dallas, Texas.
Plus one: Stevie's tattoo looks sort of like a baby peacock, but Stevie's intent was for it to be a phoenix rising from the ashes. He got it in 1973.
Clay Pigeons by Blaze Foley — Blaze Foley is one of those artists who achieved fame after death. He died a rather tragic death back in the late 1980s. It's a shame because he was an excellent songwriter. This song has served as advice to me during some hard times.
Fun Factoid: There's a rumor that Blaze Foley's body had to be dug up to retrieve a pawn ticket from his suit. The pawn ticket was for a guitar.
Blue Jeans Blues by ZZ Top — I'm not a real Texan if I don't love ZZ Top. Their music is the soundtrack to my life. The first time I heard this song, I was completely awed because it is such a departure from the rest of their music.
If I had a Boat by Lyle Lovett — This song is so special to me. I interpret the lyrics as "don't just dream; dream big…and go for it." Whenever I want to quit writing, I listen to this song. If I don't dare to dream, and if I don't push myself to try…well, I'll never be able to ride my pony on my boat.
Fun factoid: Lyle Lovett was married to Julie Roberts 1993-1995.
Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana — This was a hard pick. Nirvana was/is one of my Best of All Time rock bands. They were ahead of their time in so many ways. Twenty years later, their music still sounds contemporary and fresh.
Fun Factoid: The title came from a nickname Courtney Love had given Kurt Cobain. The original title was "Heart Shaped Coffin."
Changed the Locks by Lucinda Williams — I'm a huge Lucinda Williams fan. I chose this song out because it is such an accurate representation of my personality. Yes, this is stuff I'd really do if it were possible. When I'm done with somebody, I am done.
Fun Factoid: Tom Petty covered this song. Sample his version at iTunes here.
Devil May Dance by A. J. Roach — I discovered this wonderful song on the now cancelled United States of Tara. I started sampling A. J. Roach's music on iTunes and got really into it. I think he has a beautiful voice, and he writes these really poignant lyrics.
At the Crossroads by Sir Douglas Quintet — I love this song for a couple of reasons. Sir Douglas Quintet–which was founded by Doug Sahm–had a great sound. They blend a lot of Texas sounds in their music, and it feels like Texas. It's also a favorite because of the lyrics:
But you just can't live in Texas
If you don't have a lot of soul
Fun Factoid: Freddie Fender makes a dedication to Doug Sahm of Sir Douglas Quintet on Wasted Days and Wasted Nights. Fender and Sahm later played together in the Tejano band, Texas Tornados.
Cat Scratch Fever by Pantera — This is a band from Arlington, Texas whose original lead singer–Dimebag Darrel–died a tragic death. Their cover of Cat Scratch Fever was one of their best moments.
Fun Factoid: This song was originally written and recorded by Ted Nugent, who is an interesting Texan in his own right.
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Celebrating its 42nd year of operations in 2017-18, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) is one of the nation's largest Division III conferences. The 15-member ODAC, including two associate members, stands as the second-largest multi-sport NCAA Division III conference in the country.
The league was formed on May 18, 1975 as the Virginia College Conference and began operations in September of 1976. (The name change to Old Dominion Athletic Conference became effective January 1, 1976). Charter members were eight colleges located in the state of Virginia: Bridgewater College, Eastern Mennonite College, Emory & Henry College, Hampden-Sydney College, Lynchburg College, Randolph-Macon College, Roanoke College and Washington and Lee University.
From its initial year of operation through the 1981-82 academic year, the ODAC sponsored competition in 10 men's varsity sports, including football, soccer, and cross country in the fall; basketball, wrestling, and indoor track and field in the winter; and baseball, golf, tennis, and outdoor track and field in the spring. Women's sports were added prior to the 1982-83 school year. Today, the ODAC has grown to sponsor championships in 24 sports (11 men and 13 women) and houses 11 full-time coeducational institutions with three single-gender schools making up the current 14 full-time members.
The conference expanded in the late 1980s, early 1990s and most recently in 2012. Virginia Wesleyan became the 13th member of the conference in 1988 and began full-scale competition in the league in the 1989-90 academic year. Guilford College, voted into the conference in the spring of 1990, began competing for conference championships in the 1991-92 season. The Catholic University of America (DC) was accepted for associate membership in football on January 12, 1999, and ended its affiliation with the league following the 2016 season. Greensboro College and Notre Dame of Maryland University were voted into the conference in the sport of swimming, effective for the 2011-12 academic year. Notre Dame disbanded its swimming program prior to the 2016-17 season, leaving Greensboro and newest swimming associate, Ferrum College, as the lone part-time members of the conference. Shenandoah University became the 14th full-time member of the league in the summer of 2012, and began competing for conference championships in 2012-13.
Over the past 24 years the conference and the City of Salem, Va., have gained national attention through hosting eight NCAA Division III championships in baseball, men's basketball, football, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, women's lacrosse, and volleyball. The growing list of titles passed out in Salem began in the fall of 1993 with the DIII Football Championship. Through the 2016-17 academic year, the conference and city have hosted 69 NCAA Division III Championships since the '93 Stagg Bowl. This year, the two will serve as hosts to the DIII football, men's basketball and women's lacrosse championships.
The Conference is governed by a 14-member Presidential body consisting of all of the full-time members' CEOs. Shenandoah University's President, Tracy Fitzsimmons, is the chair of the ODAC Presidents' Council. In addition to presidential leadership, the conference's day-to-day operations are supervised by its Board of Directors, which consists of all conference member Directors of Athletics. Randolph College Director of Athletics Tina Hill serves as the current Board President.
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November 28, 2013
Making a Witch Broom
Millie wanted to be a witch for Halloween this year. We didn't have a good broom to use as a costume prop, so I told her we could make one. I took a deadwood stick from the woods in back of my office, and cut some dead weeds around the edge of the parking lot. We got started on the Saturday before Halloween.
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November 12, 2013
Cider 9: making 800 liters of cider in one day, by bicycle power
For the 9th year running, we made cider. Most of the last 9 years' cider get togethers have been organized by Ben Polito and his family, and have been hosted at their holdings in Five Islands, Maine. This year the weather was perfect, everything went smoothly, and people generally enjoyed themselves.
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Kristin Chenoweth: 'Good Christian Belles' Promo Pics!
Check out these stills and promo pics of Kristin Chenoweth in Good Christian Belles!
The ABC drama, which is based on the book Good Christian Bitches, centers around a group of women living in an affluent Dallas neighborhood – and a world of gossip, Botox, and duplicity.
The show also stars Leslie Bibb, Annie Potts, Jennifer Aspen, Miriam Shor, and Marisol Nichols.
Kristin will be making an appearance on the June 10 live season finale of CMT's Next Superstar, EW reports.
Also pictured: Kristin hopping into a car while chatting on her HP Veer phone on Wednesday (June 1) in NYC.


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Liz Phair Explains Every Track on Her Contentious New Album
"It's more, 'I'm not sure if I want to shoot my self or if I wanna f-ck.'"
Liz Phair's new album, Funstyle — released unofficially this summer via the indie vet's website, and officially earlier this month on Rocket Science Records — has pissed off her fans, her critics, her management team, her former label, and, quite possibly, you. That's because Funstyle, in part, consists of decidedly non–Liz Phair elements: peppered throughout eleven varied tracks are bits of self-help dialogue; acted-out vignettes featuring clueless record-label execs and snooty doormen; big, dumb dance beats; and, at least on one track, rapping (yes, rapping by Liz Phair). It's confusing, sure, but also fascinating, and certainly undeserving of its initial, rushed Internet verdict. To make better sense of it all, Vulture got Liz Phair on the phone to break down Funstyle track by track.
1. "Smoke"
This is almost spoken word, and you're recounting a few embarrassing incidents.
There's definitely bitterness behind a lot of the humor. My disgust at the way some people go about what they do, there's an edge to it. But at the same time I think it's really funny — I mean, getting rejected from Hollywood boat parties [as depicted in "Smoke"]. It shows exactly what level I'm dealing with. I'm kind of making the ridiculous out of the actual, and taking it to its extreme, and definitely laughing to keep from crying. [Also,] the mass perception was Exile in Guyville was just confessional, with no stylistic conceit at all. And it definitely, definitely had everything to do with the Rolling Stones; I was very intentionally going after that style. And putting Funstyle with Girlysound, I hope shows — as Girlysound preceded Guyville — that this [conceptual] element has always been a part of my music-making. It doesn't mean it's what I do every time, it just means that they need to chill out and enjoy the show.
2. "Bollywood"
This is the infamous "Liz Phair raps!" song, and you're recounting some business interactions.
I was so frustrated. You have a business colleague, times are tough, you say, "I've made you back money every time, can you cut me a deal?" And they say, "No, because if we cut you a deal then everyone will want a deal." And that attitude will make you want to kill them. That is that fat-cat bullshit, and I've encountered that so many times in my career, and it's nauseating. It's sick, the way some people achieve their power. Nobody can deal with the fact that these are real people, real lives. You can write your little contracts, but you can't fucking own my music. [With the rapping,] partially I was doing something to be as obnoxious as humanly possible. And partially I'm borrowing that thunder from rap that's like "Fight the Power." Obviously I'm not taking to a career in rapping. It was pretty obvious to me that this was a joke.
3. "You Should Know Me"
4. "Miss September"
For the next two tracks, you switch into a style that one would more readily expect to find on a Liz Phair album.
I'm aware that I'm putting high contrast into my work. I'm staking my claim that I'm a complicated human being, and you need to deal with the fact that I have one side and I also have an intimate private side, where I feel vulnerable saying I want to spend my life with you. That's a hard line to sing, these private, intensely personal songs. All of us have a layer for our party selves, a layer for our business selves, a layer of intimacy that we share with only one or two people. And I really feel strongly, as I felt in all my records, that I need to express all my sides. Yes it's jarring, and yes it's an extreme contrast, but I'm daring you to go there with me.
5. "My My"
This one's almost a dance track.
The way I look at it, the emotional journey of Funstyle, then "My My" is almost the first real joke on the record. It's like, "Okay, I just got you to this really intimate place, and then — 'gotcha!'" Just when you feel you have this sensitive, beautiful quiet little moment You know, "Don't get too comfortable." That's a little bit of my heartbreak side. I might hurt you a little.
6. "Oh Bangladesh"
This was really inspired by a sexual what do you call it? An unusual night. It spawned both real intimacy and at the same time, isolation from each other. We were kind of role-playing. It was this fascinating thing to me that I arrived at later in life. I can happily inhabit a strong connection with someone I've had a lot a lovemaking with, to go to that place. But it's also — "I'm here with you, we're doing this, we're really connected, but do you really think there's nowhere else I can imagine being right now?" You're connected while being disconnected as this isolated being, no matter how hard you try to fuck each other.
7. "Bang Bang"
That's a real internal song. It's probably one of the heaviest ones on the record. It's about a really dark place, where you feel abandoned by the person that you love. You can't get through on the phone; there's that desperate time where you really need to talk to that person, and they're not picking up. There are just some really raw, almost horrifyingly frightening moments in life. You almost feel like you could leave this world. But it's more, "I'm not sure if I want to shoot my self or if I wanna fuck." I think it's a beautiful song for its aching aloneness.
8. "Beat Is Up"
Here you're voicing a character.
That's kind of me poking fun at myself but also a lot of the suburban moms that I know. I watched my female friends get twisted like bonsai tree: You have to be so, so positive, you have to do all these things and at the same time, you're secretly drinking and taking drugs. Pills, that's the only kind of drugs you're allowed to take. I have all these female friends and they get drunker faster and earlier in the evening than they should because they're so stressed and pent up in their lives. And these same women are picking up the latest self-help book to try to somehow ease the pain of their twisted life that everybody is supposed to live. It's the American dream of the American housewife, and I'm trying to put a funny face on the horror.
9. "And He Slayed Her"
This is the pissed off Liz doll. I forget what boyfriend said this, maybe it was my ex-husband When I'm pissed I look like the Chucky doll. There's an elfin menace to my face. This is, I had tried really hard to get off Capitol, I was totally powerless, I was being held for no better reason than this person's ego was involved. It was nothing to him and everything to me. It's business, "I don't want you but I don't want anyone else to want you." I had no recourse. This was the position I found myself in — they wouldn't let me off the label, but they wouldn't promote or pay for a record. I started writing my book at that point, and I don't want to get into that, but I was weeping and sobbing on the floor, and I thought Screw them, fuck these people. I went to college, I know that it is a hard road to hoe, but there are other things I can do. "And He Slayed Her" is about imagining ripping through the black void, coming with justice, a stake through [the label exec's] heart. It felt like I was dealing with monsters at that point. Not people. Monsters.
10. "Satisfied"
When I was trying to go pop with the Matrix stuff, [it was because] I found myself on Capitol Records, a major label, after my indie label left me there. I didn't sign to a major, ever. I was like, "Well, when in Rome ... " That was the only stuff they were gonna pay for. And part of that pop period was trying to insert real-life moments, to turn a pop song a little on its head. I love that "Satisfied" has in it this jarring line, an image that you would never find in a pop song, where I am talking about getting wasted and puking. And I love the bridge: "I wanna be like you, you wanna be like me." It's almost a cliché, but it rings very true, very honest to me. That's the problem: Here we all are, living with our decisions. There are the ones that got wealth: They take a lot of vacations and have a lot of parties, but they don't feel like they're with their best friends. Or the people that took a different path, and lost out on the stability of going along with the pack. Nobody quite gets it right. I like to think about the things that terrify other people.
11. "U Hate It"
This is back to the style of the first two songs — there are two fictional record execs talking about hating the record.
I started that song when my management heard "Bollywood." "Bollywood" is a funny song. You don't have to love it. But to have someone professionally say "I hate it" I thought it was so funny. Like "okaaaay." You really, really hate it? "Yeah, I really hate it." We are talking about kind of a funny song. The absurdity that you can hate a song that much. It's really that bad? I can't hate any song so much that it curdles my blood. Maybe "Dreamweaver." But I don't hate it. It's a song.
You've obviously had some negative experiences with labels. Do you take any solace in seeing the music industry crumble a little nowadays?
I totally take solace. And I am waiting for the revolution to come because musicians, we know how to be poor. We don't like it better than anyone else, but we go through our cycles. We know how to do that. I remember watching The Sound of Music, I don't know, ten years ago, and realizing that it's all right there. There's a scene where the Captain is with Max, the talent scout, and they hear the tabernacle choir in the distance. And Max is like, "Now that's a talented group, I should sign them." And Captain Von Trap makes a witty aside, like, "They'll get the fame, you'll get the money." And Max is like, ''Tis unfair, but someday I'll get the fame too." That was like the fifties. This has been going on forever! They keep the money and they keep the power. And so it's nice, let the structures crumble a little bit. This is not the worst time for artists, even if we're totally eating crust. It's the time to be free. That's why I made Funstyle.


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In a fundraising pitch to Democrat supporters, House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi called Americans bigots if they supported DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act. Pelosi wrote:
This is so inspiring!
The Supreme Court just ruled that the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional AND California will join 12 other states and Washington, DC in recognizing the fundamental rights of all families. Just think of what that means for loving LGBT families.
Yet even with today's historic victory, our work is not done. We cannot rest until men and women in every state are granted equal rights. If you're committed to ensuring that justice is done for every American, no matter who they love, now's the time to say it.
Since 2009, Speaker Boehner and House Republicans have spent millions of taxpayer dollars defending bigotry — but together, we saw a huge victory for our movement for justice and equality.
This wasn't an easy fight, and your grassroots support helped make today's reaffirmation of equal justice under law possible.
And the latent threat to move farther along the path toward destroying traditional values was made blatant in her last line: "Let's keep it going."
Going where? The best guess is that the Democrats and their supporters will target religious organizations for extinction. Pelosi is only saying publicly what is soon to become a rallying cry against the religious: Keep it going.


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Where are the best body spots for insulin shots? I am insulin dependant for 15 years and I ran out of suitable spots on the body.
I am on Human insulin. I don't have a pancreas anymore and I have to monitor carefully, and inject between 6 and 10 times depending on the days. I have used the abdomen and lower abdomen area, as well as the upper arms. However, after a decade of hard shots the area is saturated, and I really don't know when I shoot if the injection is going to work. I am taking chromium, Gurmar and blueberry tea, and my daily compounded dosage does not exceed 12 units of Mixtard (30 fast and 70 slow). I am on a very strict diet. Any advice is welcomed since I cannot find help locally, my case being uncommon.
You say you "don't have a pancreas anymore." I don't know whether you mean your pancreas has just completely stopped making insulin or whether you have had your pancreas surgically removed. If you have had your pancreas surgically removed, you probably also need to replace the digestive enzymes made by the exocrine pancreas to help with digestion of food.
There is no one place that is best to inject insulin. If you have not yet tried the legs or buttocks, these might be areas to try. You are correct that you should try to avoid injecting into "hard areas."
I don't understand why you are using Mixtard (fixed combination of Regular and NPH) if you are injecting 6 to 10 times a day depending on the day. If you are injecting that frequently, it might make more sense to inject fixed amounts of NPH, Lente, or Ultralente twice daily and then to add varying amounts of Regular or lispro insulin [Humalog®] frequently during the day.
If you are having trouble with one brand of Human insulin, you may want to try another brand. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly both manufacture human insulin.
Most importantly, it really sounds as though you need to work closely with an endocrinologist to help you manage these problems. I suggest you contact your local diabetes association and ask for the name of someone. Even if you have to travel for a consultation, it would be well worth it if you are able to.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center has a range of Cancer Services to offer the Haywood County community. Board Certified radiologists, surgeons, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists are available locally. A variety of other healthcare professionals including registered dietitians, certified lymphedema specialists, physical therapists, behavioral therapists, and others are available to cancer patients. This team works together to design an individualized treatment plan for each patient.
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We also have access to local state-of-the-art radiation therapy facilities. This means treatment can be done close to home.
Our Breast Center is located in the Women's Imaging department in Outpatient Care Center on the Haywood Regional Medical Center campus. This allows the Nurse Navigator to work with patients in the same facility as digital mammography, radiologists, surgeons, and in close proximity to cancer treatment facilities. This enables open communication and efficient care for those that may have something detected during the examination.
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Johanna meets patients at the point of a biopsy recommendation and stays with the patient from the initial testing and diagnosis, continuing throughout the care and treatment process. She also assists with or coordinates patient appointments; provides educational materials for patient and family members; assesses the medical, emotional and social needs of her patients; works to eliminate barriers to care and follows up with medical staff to monitor and track patient care.
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How to Make Fanciful Ghosts and Dolls Using Fresh Corn Husks.Submitted by Pam on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 21:04
Don't throw away those fresh corn husks!!! Use them to make ghosts, scarecrows, and dolls with this very simple "three in one" tutorial.
All you need are fresh corn husks, waxed dental floss and scissors! A bit of scrap yarn and a felt tip pen will come in handy for "embellishing".
Gourd Jack-o-lanterns! AND Gourd Ghost Pinatas!Submitted by Pam on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 18:09
Sharing a couple new ideas I came up with for playing with gourds!
This one - my totally cool jack-o-lantern face - could also be drawn onto a fresh pumpkin! Just use sharpies and set aside a little quiet time to doodle to your heart's content.
Definitely will be decorating fresh pumpkins with doodles - they will last a LOT longer than they do when cut!
Even fresh gourds in weird shapes are good candidates! Think about it!
A Little Guide to Fall Crafts on Gingerbread Snowflakes.Submitted by Pam on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 21:33
In preparing for our crafty day at the Pumpkin Patch, I put together a handout for visitors to guide them to on line tutorials for fall related crafts.
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And don't forget to check out my Pinterest board - Celebrations and Seasons for more of my favorite fall crafts from the blogisphere!
Making Ghostly Trick-or-Treaters and Glowing Goblin GhostsSubmitted by Pam on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 18:35
How to make table top ghosts - er - trick-or-treaters.
Note: My spooky friends are designed to haunt a table or mantle or peek out from a window sill rather than hang. The tallest is 16" and the littlest fellow is 6".
With care in packing, they can be saved from year to year. I still have two that are over 15 years old!
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A Ghostly Tale and a Giveaway!Submitted by Pam on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 17:12
Spooky! Spooky! Spooky!
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The city government of Marikina lauds the representatives of Marikina City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MCDRRMO) – Rescue 161 for coveting the championship of the 2nd Manilathon Rescue Challenge which was recently held at the World Trade Center.
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The team showcased their skills in rescuing a victim from a collapsed structure, and proper techniques in vehicle extrication.
MCDRRMO-Rescue 161 is comprised of Ronnie Lazana, Julius Hermogenes, Marvin Hermogenes, Christian Bernal, Ross Henry Magsanoc, Michael Angelo Ong, Darwin de Leon, Al Mikhail Banhi, and Jeremiah Bernardo who received cash prize, a trophy, and individual medals.
"More than the honor, we are grateful for the readiness of our rescue team to save lives in the event of any calamity or disaster. We hold regular training sessions not only for the MCDRRMO but also for personnel and volunteers in our barangays and communities," Mayor Del De Guzman said.
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The past two years have felt like Christmas for Yellowcard fans. The band has released two of their best albums to date, toured relentlessly, and poured out their hearts in every way possible. They blew me out of the water last year with their House of Blues performance, and last Saturday night, the band returned to Los Angeles with an even more impressively energetic show demonstrating the group's unparalleled enthusiasm for their music. Lead singer Ryan Key welcomed fans to the "official Southern Air tour" before the band launched into the debut single "Awakening" off that impressive album, and thus began an evening that would more than live up to the high bar set by previous Yellowcard concerts.
Dressed head to toe in black, Key explained that the Florida-based group moved to LA in 2000 and that our city has become their second home. They noted frequently throughout the night that every show and song they performed in LA felt special, and they played several songs centered on Los Angeles, including "Hollywood Died" and "Lights and Sounds." Key confessed that it had been "eleven years since our first show in LA. I have a love/hate relationship with this city. Tonight is a love and then there's, you know, the rest of Hollywood."
I will always cite Yellowcard as one of the most consistently solid bands in regards to both the quality of their music and the group's dedication during live shows. Key told the audience the band had been through "a lot of ups and downs and almost had to call it quits, but these have been the best two years of our careers coming back. There is so much positive energy surrounding this band."
Yellowcard's performance was so tight no one would have suspected it was only the second night of the tour. When they weren't wearing their hearts on their sleeves, the members were constantly moving, with Key raising his hands, the guitar, or the microphone to the audience, and when not executing perfect violin solos, violinist Sean Mackin sang gang vocals to the front row.
While the crowd embraced older songs, they were ready to help bring Yellowcard's newest tracks to life as well. Mackin thanked the crowd for getting Southern Air into the Billboard Top Ten upon its release, while the audience replied by engaging in a circle pit during the punk rock-infused "Rivertown Blues" and screaming gang vocals during "Always Summer." Every song felt like a homecoming, particularly the emotional "Telescope," which was dedicated to Key's late aunt.
Key took the stage with drummer Longineu Parsons to perform a cover song by "a band, not a computer like most songs on the radio." As he began Mumford and Son's "I Will Wait For You," I was blown away by how full of a sound Key created with just an acoustic guitar. "Hang You Up" offered a retrospective look at love and demonstrated why the band still connects so strongly to their audiences. Thematically, Yellowcard songs resonate with listeners across the age spectrum because their messages are simultaneously universal and personal. It was clear fans passionately related to tracks like "Only One" as they screamed the chorus along with Key.
The encore began with "Sing For Me" followed by "Here I Am Alive," during which Tay Jardine of We Are The In Crowd appeared onstage to provide backing vocals. The evening closed with — what else? — "Ocean Avenue," and the crowd exploded. After waving goodbye, Key came back onstage to sign a handdrawn portrait a fan in the front row had been holding all night. Anyone need more proof that these guys are the real deal?
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First Lady Patricia Blagojevich walked out of her Ravenswood Manor home this afternoon and talked with a demonstrator who was holding a sign supportive of Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Patti Blagojevich greets supporter Theresa Gajdos (left) outside the Blagojevich home in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood. (Tribune / E. Jason Wambsgans)
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Members of the Coe College International Club will present the 39th annual Cultural Show on Saturday, Oct. 27, beginning at 7 p.m. in Sinclair Auditorium. The event is part of Family Weekend activities at the college. It is free and open to the public with no tickets required.
This year's program will feature a wide range of dancers, including a Chinese belly dancer, a Japanese Fisherman Dance and a Vietnamese dance. Several bands will perform featuring students from China, Nepal and the United States, along with singing and dancing from Cambodia and Korea, and much more. A style show featuring fashions from around the world will conclude the show.
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Ross McEwan, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has been handed £1.5m of shares in the bank.
Mr McEwan, who took over the top job from Stephen Hester on October 1, was awarded the shares as part of a recruitment package linked to his arrival in the summer of 2012.
Before taking on the chief executive role, Mr McEwan was the head of the bank's retail division.
As part of his recruitment, RBS agreed to match shares Mr McEwan forfeited upon leaving Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he had run its retail arm for five years.
In a stock exchange announcement, RBS said that 454,106 shares had vested at a price of £3.402, worth £1.54m.
The bank said Mr McEwan immediately sold 214,019 to cover tax liabilities arising from the vesting, but that he will hold on to 240,087 shares, worth £816,775, which he will not be able to sell for six months.
The shares were part of a package agreed between Mr McEwan and RBS to cover his CAB shares on arrival in summer 2012.
A further 1.05m shares - worth £3.5m based on RBS's closing price of £3.38 - can be vested until August 2015.
In a statement, the bank said: ""Ross McEwan will not sell any shares in RBS while he is CEO of the bank. He wants everyone to have confidence that his interests are 100% aligned with our customers and our shareholders, including UK taxpayers."
"The bank will always automatically sell shares when they vest to cover tax liabilities," it continued.
Mr McEwan is paid a base salary of £1m, and will receive an annual cash sum in lieu of a pension of up to 35pc of that amount.
He said on his appointment in August however that he will not take a bonus in the role for 2013 or 2014.
Any bonus earned for his role as head of retail until the end of September 2013 will be deferred until 2017, and any subsequent bonuses for 2015 onwards will be conditional on RBS's share price rising above the Treasury's 'in' price for its 79pc stake in the bank.
Mr McEwan's first three months in the role have been dominated by a string of problems, including two major IT failures, the resignation of finance director Nathan Bostock, and three financial misconduct settlements costing £450m.
However just before Christmas the bank was able to remove one of the final pieces of the £46bn Government funded rescue package put in place in 2008, cancelling an £8bn option on a contingent capital facility held by the Treasury.
The RBS chief is expected to unveil a five-year plan at the lender's full-year results in February, following a root-and-branch review of its operations.


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Actress Amanda Seyfried is teaming up with her gay roommate to open an antiques store in New York City, so she has something to fall back on if the acting roles dry up.
The Dear John star recently moved from Los Angeles to the Big Apple with her best friend Alex Nesbitt, and Amanda Seyfried reveals they are planning to curate their own vintage household goods store.
She tells InStyle magazine, "He's gay. He's my roommate and practically my husband. We met in L.A. when I was training with (fitness guru) Harley Pasternak before filming Dear John. Alex managed Harley's business.
"We stayed friends and decided to move to New York together. We're planning on opening an antiques and curiosities home store, which we want to call Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt... I'm worried that I'll lose my career one day, and I'll need something I can contribute to creatively.
"Getting jobs isn't always based on talent or how hard you work. A lot of it is about status. And the business can be very shallow. I want a fall-back plan, and I'm really inspired by interiors."