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WINTHROP, Wash. — When Donald "Bud" Hover strides into an annual meeting of hay or apple growers or any other commodity group, people notice him for his height, ruddy good looks and engaging smile.
He's 6-foot-2, but stands a little taller in his cowboy boots. He puts people at ease. They quickly warm to him.
His extemporaneous speeches usually include a few facts about the Washington State Department of Agriculture he heads — that agriculture accounts for 13 percent of the state's economy with 166,000 jobs and a $49 billion impact.
A hay grower and former Okanogan County commissioner, Hover, 59, is the kind of guy people in agriculture say they want in state government. He is someone who understands them in a state where farmers and ranchers believe the rural Republican red portion is dominated by a huge population of urban Democratic blue.
Hover was a conservative Republican county commissioner who lost a bid for a third term in 2012 by 10 votes — likely, he admits, for not being conservative enough. He serves a liberal Democratic governor, Jay Inslee, but Hover quickly emphasizes his job is nonpartisan. He notes Inslee served in the Legislature and Congress from Yakima and understands and appreciates the importance of agriculture to the state's economy. The governor, he says, has supported the department and the safety of its inspectors, which has allowed the continued export of grain from Washington ports during difficult longshoremen's strife.
At the recent Northwest Hay Expo in Kennewick he summed up his outlook: "I'm nothing special. Just a guy from Okanogan County who got lucky and got to be in a great job. ... For me cutting hay in my swather is the best therapy. ... I'm one of you."
At home
A ceiling of gray clouds hung low over the Methow Valley. Trees remained flocked in heavy frost all day.
Even though the sun wouldn't shine on the Sunny M Ranch this mid-January day, it was time at home to savor for Hover and his wife, Tonya.
Snow blanketed their hay fields and a wood stove kept the Hovers warm inside the house with a wrap-around porch that they built in 2006. Leather furniture and fir floors are accented on one wall by the rug of a black bear Hover shot on the ranch 10 years earlier and the mount of his six-point bull elk on the other.
"It took a little while for the idea to sink in," Tonya said of her husband's decision last March to accept Inslee's offer to become director of agriculture.
"I had to think about it. My dad's right here and we have three beautiful grandchildren here and their grandmother is very special to them," she said.
It's difficult being away. They both love farm life and Tonya rakes hay, has pulled calves and pitches in wherever the need.
Hover's roots
Hover was born in Seattle and raised in Issaquah. His father was a machinist for Boeing and his mother drove a school bus. His mother's father, LeRoy Jones, gave up farming and mining in North Dakota during the Great Depression and moved his family to Zillah, Wash., where he was a farmworker. Hover's cousins, Will and Denny Jones, own a fruit and vegetable farm there.
Hover grew up with an older sister and three younger brothers. He played sports in school and worked at a large dairy, Carnation Farms, and then at Bill Boeing's Angus cattle ranch.
"I liked farm work, being outside," he says.
Hover played middle linebacker at Washington State University when Dan Doornink was a running back and Jack Thompson was quarterback. Hover was drafted by the Washington Redskins in 1978, finishing his bachelor's degree in agriculture education in the off-season in 1979.
He played for the Redskins when Jack Pardee was coach, Joe Theismann was quarterback and John Riggans was running back. "I got to do something very few people get to do, playing against some of the greatest players like Roger Staubach (Dallas quarterback) and Earl Campbell (Houston running back)," Hover said.
Hover played two seasons for the Redskins and one season for the Calgary Stampeders.
Back to farming
Hover met his future wife, Tonya Holmes, in high school. They went to WSU together and married at the end of their sophomore year in 1975. She grew up in Maple Valley, south of Issaquah, but spent summers on a ranch in Winthrop her folks bought in the early 1960s.
After football, "we moved up here and bought the place from her folks," Hover said. "It was antiquated and needed a lot of work to get up to production."
Interest rates were high, making loans costly. Hover worked in construction with his father-in-law. Slowly farming improved as they raised Angus and hay.
In 1990, the Hovers sold part of their land for what became Sun Mountain Lodge. It left them with 100 acres but, in the deal, they began leasing 2,300 acres.
They quit raising cattle in recent years as hay prices climbed. They make three cuttings of alfalfa and orchard grass hay annually on 400 acres. Most of it goes to feed stores and dairies on the west side of the state in Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. Their son, Wes, 35, now runs the farm and the older son, Andy, owns a lumber yard.
Water wars
Spring Chinook, steelhead and bull trout were listed as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act by the National Marine Fisheries Service in most of Washington in 1998 and 1999. Irrigation water was shut off to a lot of upper Methow Valley ranches, including the Sunny M, for two years for lack of irrigation ditch screens to protect fish.
"It was a pretty tough deal. It cost us a lot of money," Hover recalled. He spent a lot of time in meetings and was "stunned" and "frustrated" by the attitude of some agencies and officials.
"It bothered me that meetings didn't seem to be designed to be productive," he said.
It gave him a desire to get involved in government. He was appointed to two salmon recovery boards, got on some county boards and in 2004 won the first of two terms as county commissioner.
"I found when serving with him that he, by-and-large, made the right decision for the good of the county," said Jim DeTro, an Okanogan County commissioner. Hover was "congenial, outgoing and fairly dynamic" and was fiscally responsible and cared about basic values, DeTro said.
"A lot of people told me he was headed for higher ground and he was from the Methow which is a very difficult place to be," DeTro said. "You have a huge original pioneer family base coupled with an influx of progressive liberals."
Hover was accused of siding with liberals at times, which cost him, he said.
"He's in a position now I feel he can do some real good for rural Washington," he said.
Wolves were only beginning to become an issue before Hover left the commission, "but I would think he would stand with us on the wolf thing," DeTro said. Commissioners favor local control and taking wolves off the list of endangered species.
"Whatever I can do to help protect livestock, I want to," Hover said, "and that's all I want to say on that."
Picked by Inslee
After he lost his bid for a third term on the county commission, Hover wanted another public-sector position. He had completed a master's degree in public administration at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in 2012. His 12 years on the board of the Okanogan County Electric Cooperative was his basis for applying to Gov.-elect Inslee's transition team for a spot on the Northwest Power Council.
Hover had met Inslee a few times as a commissioner while Inslee was in Congress but did not know him well. He will not say if he voted for him.
He credits some of his supporters in the Methow Valley who also supported Inslee for getting him an interview with the transition team. The team asked him to consider director of agriculture. Initially, Hover wasn't sure but talked it over with his family and decided it was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" he couldn't pass up.
Meanwhile, Mike Gempler, executive director of the Washington Growers League in Yakima, was on Inslee's 30-member transition advisory committee and recommended the new governor retain Dan Newhouse, a farmer and former Republican legislator from Zillah, as director of agriculture.
However, Inslee chose Hover, apparently wanting "a fresh start," Gempler said.
He commends Hover for continuing Newhouse's effort to strengthen the department's role in pesticide safety training which had been previously moved to the Department of Labor & Industries, upsetting farmers. Gempler said he hasn't heard any negative comments about Hover's first 10 months in office.
"He's made an effort to engage with the industry," Gempler said. "I think people are pleased with access and the knowledge he has."


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Deputies arrested a Gainesville man Tuesday after Union County officials say that while practicing medicine without a license he had drugged a female patient.
Deputies arrested a Gainesville man Tuesday after Union County officials say that while practicing medicine without a license he had drugged a female patient and then sexually assaulted her.
Alachua County Criminal Investigation helped the Union County Sheriff's Office in serving a search warrant at the home of Oscar Armengol, 53, of 4151 NW 43rd Place, Lot 604.
Armengol works as a medical assistant at the practice of Dr. Marvin Johnson at 850 E. Maine St., Lake Butler, where for several years he routinely treated patients, including the victim, a 22-year-old woman with fibromyalgia, according to the report.
Armengol told deputies the treatment for the victim was expensive and something she could not afford, so he offered to treat the woman after hours. On Nov. 4, the victim came to the practice after hours and Armengol provided her with several medications, including Lortab, Xanax and Celebrex, the report said.
While waiting for the medication to take effect, the victim said Armengol asked her if he could take photos of her because she was "attractive." Armengol then administered a pain medication with a syringe on the victim's neck, back, lower back and buttocks, and said he began massaging those areas to circulate the medication, the report stated.
Armengol told deputies that he thought the victim was aroused and asked her if he could "make her relax," then sexually assaulted her for about 30 seconds until she told him to stop. The victim told deputies she had told Armengol several times to stop while he was assaulting her, but he continued against her will, the report said.
The victim was reportedly very groggy from all of the medication Armengol had given her, which was a lot more than he had given her on past treatments. She also said she had gone to his office in the past, but this was the first time he had assaulted her, the report said.
Deputies found numerous prescription medicines in Armengol's Gainesville home, including oxycodone, Alprazolam, Adderall, Cymbalta and Viagra.
He also told police that he is a medical doctor in Honduras, but is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S., the report said.
Although the crime was committed in Union County, Alachua County officials are holding Armengol in the county jail until they determine if they will charge him with additional crimes, sheriff's spokesman Art Forgey said.
Armengol was charged with practicing medicine without a license and sexual assault, according to the report. He was being held as of Wednesday at the Alachua County jail on a $500,000 bond.


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The jet stream. It's what drives our weather patterns, transporting air masses and creating clashing zones for storm formation. This is the time of year when the jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere makes its seasonal southward shift, sparking extreme swings in the weather – such as an EF-4 in Iowa, record rainfall in Texas, and four feet of snow in South Dakota. Scientists have only recently begun to detect changes in the jet stream that may be tied to global warming. Unraveling the complexities of this emerging scientific research is critical to understanding where our weather is headed.
As the globe continues to warm, it is already having an effect on the jet stream and corresponding weather patterns, according to the latest U.N. IPCC climate report, which states: "It is likely that circulation features have moved poleward since the 1970s, involving a widening of the tropical belt, a poleward shift of storm tracks and jet streams, and a contraction of the northern polar vortex. Evidence is more robust for the Northern Hemisphere." The research that goes into this statement comes from multiple lines of evidence – from analyses of the expansion of the tropical Hadley Cell to satellite measured outgoing radiation, radiosonde observations, and weather pattern reanalyses. But just as certainty builds for a poleward shifting jet, there still remain questions about whether the jet is amplifying and promoting more blocking patterns.
A NASA computer model animation showing the evolution of a large dip in the jet stream. Watch here
Many of you are already familiar with the work of Dr. Jennifer Francis and Steven Vavrus since she recently spoke at a few weather events, including the AMS Broadcast Conference in Nashville. Their report finds that as the Arctic warms faster than the tropics, a lessening of the temperature gradient between the equator and the North Pole slows the jet stream. As the jet stream slows, it supports a "wavier," more frequently amplifying jet that increases the probability of extreme weather events, known as Arctic amplification.
However, not all research supports Arctic amplification and its impacts on mid-latitude weather patterns. For example, Screen and Simmonds (2013) tried to link the two through planetary wave patterns and did not find any clear trend. And recently, Barnes (2013) found no significant increase in the frequency of blocking events over North America and the North Atlantic, indicating that severe mid-latitude storms cannot simply be understood through Arctic amplification alone. This research does not mean that Francis and Vavrus' hypothesis is wrong, it simply means that the atmosphere is complex and more research is needed.
Ivana Cvijanovic, a post-doctoral researcher at the Carnegie School for Science, Stanford is also researching the implications of Arctic climate change on mid-latitude weather patterns. In an email exchange, she wrote: "A number of studies indicate sea ice loss as a likely cause of some of the recent weather extremes (Honda et al., 2009; Petoukhov and Semenov 2010; Liu et al., 2012), but it appears we still lack an 'ultimate proof' that sea ice loss will be affecting extreme weather events in the future." One of the difficulties in identifying the right mechanism to link Arctic warming with mid-latitude weather patterns is the lack of longer data sets. Satellite data goes back to the late 1970s, but it's really only in the last ten to fifteen years that we have experienced such an increased rate of loss - hitting multiple record lows. So studies that are based on observational data, present findings that are not yet robust enough to confirm the statistical significance of one factor over another (see for example work by Hopsch et al. 2012).
The relationship between climate change and the jet stream is a complex one, with much still to learn. But this is what science is all about. Establishing a hypothesis, then researching to prove or disprove it. In the end, we will all benefit from a better understanding of our weather patterns and climate system.
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Jennifer Hudson shows off her amazing figure at Keep A Child Alive's 7th annual Black Ball at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday (September 30).
The 29-year-old singer and Oscar winner recently revealed she's lost an additional 20 lbs. – slimming down from a size 16 to a 6 – since starting the Weight Watchers program earlier this year.
At the bash, Jennifer met up with Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys, who flaunted her baby bump on the red carpet.
Beyonce and Jay-Z also attended the event, which raised over $2.4 million for lifesaving AIDS treatment, care and support to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.


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There's nothing we like to see more than an Family Day afternoon filled with dancing tots and the extragalactic energy of the Space Chums. Luckily, as you can see, this is exactly what we got to see last month in the Melody Bar during our annual Family Day Funch (fun brunch) with the Space Chums.
If you like the looks of all this funch, make sure you bring the family to celebrate St. Paddy's Day with us this Sunday March 17th in the Melody Bar. Not only will there be a delicious Sunday Brunch Buffet ($16 for adults, $10 for kids) but the The Bellwoods Trinity will be returning for a fun day of Irish music, singalongs and dancing puppets!


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August 17. 2013 2:56PM
COLEBROOK — A Bradford man was flown to the hospital Saturday after he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle, authorities said.
Mike Gadoury, 52, of Bradford, was traveling north on the ATV trail on Corridor 5 when he was thrown from his Polaris Sportsman. He lacerated his face, injured his side and was having difficulty breathing, according to Fish and Game.
His sons, who were with him, transported Gadoury to a road junction and met rescue personnel from Colebrook Fire Department and 45th Parallel EMS. Conservation officers and Colebrook Police Department investigated the accident, reported at 10:19 a.m.
Gadoury was transported from Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, for treatment, authorities said.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Somber confidants of President Hugo Chavez say he is going through a difficult recovery after cancer surgery in Cuba, and one close ally is warning Venezuelans that their leader may not make it back for his swearing-in next month.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Wednesday night that Chavez was in "stable condition" and was with close relatives in Havana. Reading a statement, he said the government invites people to "accompany President Chavez in this new test with their prayers."
Villegas expressed hope about the president returning home for his Jan. 10 swearing-in for a new six-year term, but said in a written message on a government website that if Chavez doesn't make it, "our people should be prepared to understand it."
Villegas said it would be irresponsible to hide news about the "delicateness of the current moment and the days to come." He asked Venezuelans to see Chavez's condition as "when we have a sick father, in a delicate situation after four surgeries in a year and a half."
Moving to prepare the public for the possibility of more bad news, Vice President Nicolas Maduro looked grim when he acknowledged that Chavez faced a "complex and hard" process after his latest surgery.
At the same time, officials sought to show a united front amid the growing worries about Chavez's health and Venezuela's future. Key leaders of Chavez's party and military officers appeared together on television as Maduro gave updates on Chavez's condition.
"We're more united than ever," said Maduro, who was flanked by National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, both key members of Chavez's inner circle. "We're united in loyalty to Chavez."
Analysts say Maduro could eventually face challenges in trying to hold together the president's diverse "Chavismo" movement, which includes groups from radical leftists to moderates, as well as military factions.
Tapped by the 58-year-old president over the weekend as his chosen political heir, Maduro is considered to be a member of radical left wing of Chavez's movement that is closely aligned with Cuba's communist government.
Cabello, a former military officer who also wields power within Chavez's movement, shared the spotlight with Maduro by speaking at a Mass for Chavez's health at a military base.
Just returned from being with Chavez for the operation, Cabello called the president "invincible" but said "that man who is in Havana ... is fighting a battle for his life."
After Chavez's six-hour operation Tuesday, Venezuelan television broadcast religious services where people prayed for Chavez, interspersed with campaign rallies for upcoming gubernatorial elections.
On the streets of Caracas, people on both sides of the country's deep political divide voiced concerns about Chavez's condition and what might happen if he died.
At campaign rallies ahead of Sunday's gubernatorial elections, Chavez's candidates urged Venezuelans to vote for pro-government candidates while they also called for the president to get well.
"Onward, Commander!" gubernatorial candidate Elias Jaua shouted to a crowd of supporters at a rally Wednesday. Many observers said it was likely Chavez's candidates could get a boost from their supporters' outpouring of sympathy for Chavez.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in the October presidential election and is running against Jaua, complained Wednesday that Chavez's allies are taking advantage of the president's health problems to try to rally support. He took issue with Jaua's statement to supporters that "we have to vote so that the president recovers."
Maduro looked sad as he spoke on television, his voice hoarse and cracked at times after meeting in the pre-dawn hours with Cabello and Ramirez. The pair returned to Venezuela about 3 a.m. after accompanying Chavez to Cuba for his surgery.
"It was a complex, difficult, delicate operation," Maduro said. "The post-operative process is also going to be a complex and hard process."
Without giving details, Maduro reiterated Chavez's recent remarks that the surgery presented risks and that people should be prepared for any "difficult scenarios."
The constitution says presidents should be sworn in before the National Assembly, and if that's not possible then before the Supreme Court.
Former Supreme Court magistrate Roman Duque Corredor said a president cannot delegate the swearing-in to anyone else and cannot take the oath of office outside Venezuela. A president could still be sworn in even if temporarily incapacitated, but would need to be conscious and in Venezuela, Duque told The Associated Press.
If a president-elect is declared incapacitated by lawmakers and is unable to be sworn in, the National Assembly president would temporarily take charge of the government and a new presidential vote must be held within 30 days, Duque said.
Chavez said Saturday that if an election had to be held, Maduro should be elected president.
The dramatic events of this week, with Chavez suddenly taking a turn for the worse, had some Venezuelans wondering whether they were being told the truth because just a few months ago the president was running for his fourth presidential term and had said he was free of cancer.
Lawyer Maria Alicia Altuve, who was out in bustling crowds in a shopping district of downtown Caracas, said it seemed odd how Maduro wept at a political rally while talking about Chavez.
"He cries on television to set up a drama, so that people go vote for poor Chavez," Altuve said. "So we don't know if this illness is for that, or if it's that this man is truly sick."
Some Chavez supporters said they found it hard to think about losing the president and worried about the future. His admirers held prayer vigils in Caracas and other cities this week, holding pictures and singing hymns.
Chavez has undergone four cancer-related surgeries since June 2011. He has also undergone months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Throughout his treatments, Chavez has kept secret some details of his illness, including the exact location and type of the tumors.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa wished his close ally the best, while also acknowledging the possibility that cancer might end his presidency. "Chavez is very important for Latin America, but if he can't continue at the head of Venezuela, the processes of change have to continue," Correa said at a news conference in Quito.
Associated Press writer Christopher Toothaker contributed to this report.


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by Karen Kanakanui, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association member and copywriter
If you're taking the first steps to getting your farm on the web, there are a few basic questions you need to keep in mind. The good news is, creating an online presence doesn't have to be difficult or expensive even if you hire a web designer. The key is finding someone who understands your goals and who can provide you with good answers to your questions.
1. What are my goals for the website? As you're thinking about creating a website, it's helpful to define your goals. Your website is your online storefront and presence. It's important that it represents you in a professional manner. Beyond that, what else does the website need to accomplish? For one thing, your website needs to quickly tell visitors what you do and what you offer. You want visitors to arrive at your site, read a few lines, and think, "Ah, I'm in the right place." It's also helpful to answer questions your visitors might have. Put yourself in their position and think about what's most helpful to them.
2. Why can't I just create a Facebook page and forget the website? Good question. Some businesses have done that successfully. But the main reason against this strategy is simple: you don't own the social media platforms. If Facebook were to shut down tomorrow or change the rules about businesses on the site, you could be out of luck. They make the rules. On your website, however, you're the ruler, as long as you pay attention to the next question.
3. Who owns the domain name? The correct answer should be YOU. (The domain name is the name of your website, the something-something.com that represents you.) Even if you choose to have a web designer set up your domain name and host your website, the domain name and the hosting should be registered in your name or your company name. Otherwise, you don't own it and if your web designer disappeared off the face of the earth, you would not own your website name. Really.
4. Do you like the work the web designer has done for others? Make sure you check the portfolio of the web designer. Web designers have different strengths and design sensibilities, and they need to mesh with yours. If they don't have any samples to show you, run.
5. How will the designer make your website "search" friendly? Search Engine Optimization, sometimes called SEO, or just "search," is a big buzzword that encompasses all kinds of techniques that you don't necessarily need to know a whole lot about, but you need to make sure your designer does. What you do want is to be "found" on the Internet by people looking for businesses like yours, and you do need a strategy for that – which your web designer should provide.
6. What are your options for going "social" with your site? Similar to question 5, there are some fairly easy ways to tie your website into whatever social media you're on or plan to join. In most cases, this is not a lot of extra work for the designer, and more can be added later. If you're already on social media, it needs to be accessible from your website.
7. How easy will it be for you to make changes to your website? In the olden days (which is to say 5-10 years ago!) websites had to be updated by the web designer. Every change, from adding a word to changing a comma placement, had to be made by the designer. No more! Many designers will build in simple "content management systems" (CMS) so that you can make your own changes. WordPress, which is a very popular CMS and blogging system, allows for great customization of your website through the use of "themes." It is also fairly user-friendly when it comes to making changes to the website. Many designers are using WordPress templates and customizing them to make them unique to your business.
8. Who's going to do the writing? As a copywriter, I have some strong feelings about who "should" be doing the writing, but let me start by saying this. If you're going to write your own copy, make sure that – at the very least – you cover these main points:
a. Who is your target market? Who are you writing to when you're thinking about what you want to say? (Hint: The answer can't be "everyone." That's too broad a market – you can't say enough in a short space to convince the whole world they should buy from you – even if it's true!)
b. What message do you want to get across? And the message needs to be couched in terms of your visitors. So it's not so much "we have this" and "we offer this" as it is "your need for this will be fulfilled here" and "you will get the best value for your dollar here" – or words to that effect.
c. Create a call-to-action for your website. What do you want people to do? Call you directly, sign up for your newsletter, visit other pages on your site, for example. You need no more than one call-to-action on each page – offering too many choices often leads to someone making no choice and clicking away somewhere else.
d. What sets you apart in the marketplace? In marketing, we call this differentiation but it's basically just what makes you different from your competitors. In other words, why should someone buy from you instead of the person down the street? Usually, you want to be able to put forth a reason why you offer more value for your product or service, but be careful with what you choose. It's rarely a good idea to try and compete on price.
9. Do you get good answers from the web designer to the questions you ask? And by "good," I mean answers that can be understood by the general public and not just techies. Remember, it will be your site and it's a lot easier to make changes before a project begins than after it is complete.
10. How much should it cost? I hesitate to put this in here because each project is different, but I will make this generalization based on some missteps I've seen small businesses take in the last 10 years. Unless you are creating some massive database of all your farm products and need to track inventory, cost of goods sold, sales, etc., you do not need to pay thousands of dollars. The more complex your site is, the more you can expect to pay. Small, simple sites can be easily created for under $1000.
Finally, make sure the home page of your website puts your best foot forward. Many times visitors will never make it past the home page, so you have one chance to make a good impression. And let your personality shine through – "professional" does not mean "boring." Welcome to the web!
Karen Kanakanui is a member of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and a copywriter and voiceover artist whose background in entertainment and the leisure/hospitality industry taught her the importance of effective storytelling for business. Karen believes that story marketing extends the human delight in hearing a story into the marketing realm and allows businesses to reach customers and clients in a more direct manner—personal but still professional. She works with small business owners, primarily in the food and hospitality industries who recognize the importance of business storytelling in their marketing efforts, but need help telling their stories well! Find out more about her work at www.copyvox.com.


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Running Hard
In its 10 years on the market, Viagra has earned a reputation for enhancing performance. "When it comes to hardness, Viagra delivers," says the pill's Web site. Thanks to the drug, the site boasts, many previously flaccid men have "achieved grade 3 or 4erections."
Now Viagra may be in trouble for delivering a different kind of achievement. The World Anti-Doping Agency is funding studies to detect whether the drug gives athletes an aerobic advantage. If it does, it could be banned from future Olympics.
How could a drug for sex boost performance in sports? Simple. As the video on its Web site explains, "Viagra works by increasing blood flow to the penis." It's not a penis drug. It's a blood-flow drug. By dilating vessels and increasing oxygenation, it can improve athletic performance. Two studies have already verified this effect in cycling and mountaineering. "It clearly provides an unfair advantage, at least at altitude," an expert leading WADA's research tells the New York Times. "I couldn't imagine it not going down on the [prohibited drugs] list."
Note the caveat: at altitude. Only the cycling study tested Viagra at sea level, and there, the drug made no difference. Even at altitude, it improved performance only to standards normally seen at sea level. In other words, it erased an externally induced deficit. Was that an unfair advantage? Or was it just the correction of a disadvantage?
It's true that in any given race, contestants share the same altitude. But the world's best athletes don't just compete against their immediate rivals. In pursuing world records, they compete against the greats of previous years, some of whom ran at higher or lower altitudes. That's why the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, held at an elevation of 7,500 feet, produced world records in some events and debacles in others. According to the International Olympic Committee, "The altitude was an advantage in the events which needed a brief but intense effort … but a handicap for efforts lasting longer than two minutes." Advantage. Handicap. The unfairness, from a record seeker's standpoint, could hardly be clearer.
Altitude hasn't been an issue lately, since the summer Olympics have stayed closer to sea level. Pollution, however, has become a serious problem, especially this year in Beijing. That's where WADA's studies raise an interesting possibility. One of them, according to the Times, "is measuring the potential effects of Viagra as an antidote to air pollution," with 30 athletes assigned to "ride exercise bikes in clean air and in a room with the air polluted by the exhaust of leaf blowers and lawnmowers." The hypothesis seems to be that air pollution, like altitude, can constrict oxygen flow—and that Viagra might restore it.
If that proves true, it further complicates the debate. The top finisher in the Olympic men's marathon in Beijing didn't set a world record. He wasn't even close. Six of the fastest times in marathon history were recorded this year, but they didn't happen in Beijing. They happened in London and Berlin, which have hosted the world's eight fastest marathon performances and, in separate years, five of the last six record-breaking runs.
What do London and Berlin have that Beijing lacks? Clean air. According to a 2006 World Bank study based on 1999 data, Beijing's air had an estimated 106 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter. Of the 200 American cities tested, none reached even 50 micrograms. Los Angeles, the host of the 1984 Olympics, registered 38. Berlin had 25; London had 23. In a Beijing marathon, you have to breathe air four times as polluted as the air in London or Berlin. What chance do you have of breaking the world record?
Suppose the new studies find that Viagra cancels out pollution just as it cancels out altitude. Suppose long-distance runners in Beijing and other bad-air venues pop the little blue pill to give themselves an even chance at beating records set in London or Berlin. Are they tilting the playing field? Or are they leveling it?


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Some ground rules:
- Please do not ask for tickets.
- Do not ask for VIP Passes
- Do not ask when they're playing whichever city/country.
considering Dexter has been online lately and answered a couple questions, I thought it'd be cool to make an interview (of sorts) thread, where each of us asks a question, and if Dexter gets to read it, he might consider answering the ones he wants to.
So, do it like this: Just ask a question! Maybe he'll answer it!
My question:
Are there any outtakes from RAFRAG?


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The same old thing usually works in politics.
Until it doesn�t.
Take the national election, for example � you know, the one for president. It�s becoming apparent that politics doesn�t really matter anymore.
It�s about math � and science.
In the game �Trivial Pursuit� I could never answer questions in that category.
Apparently, it�s also a problem for Republicans.
It would help, of course, if many Republicans could first acknowledge that science even exists.
That�s a start.
According to the New York Times, the Barack Obama campaign used behavioral scientists to build a database of millions of undecided voters and targeted the ones in key precincts in swing states most likely to vote for Democrats, Obama or both.
They registered those voters and tracked them for months and weeks with regular telephone calls.
On Election Night, Mitt Romney�s campaign noticed pro-Obama results in precincts it never saw coming � not at all.
They were shocked is what they were.
By comparison, I got a call on Election Day at my office at the Times-News from a pretty confused Romney volunteer who had no idea he was even phoning a business to seek votes at the last minute.
From all appearances, the Obama campaign was cooking with digitally controlled gas while the Romney campaign hadn�t discovered fire yet.
And spent a lot of money doing it.
Speaking of, ahem, science, the online presidential poll at www.thetimesnews.com recorded 2,834 votes for Romney, or 65 percent, and 1,540 votes for Obama, or 35 percent.
Two cable news services � Fox and MSNBC � no longer have viewers but political cheerleaders.
Frequently political cheerleaders are only told what they want to hear.
Bad news interferes with the cheering, apparently.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said at Elon University she believes the worst thing Barack Obama did when he first took office in 2009 was to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Harry Reid in charge of the stimulus, which they simply turned into another cash cow for longtime friends of Democrats.
Of course they did.
She doesn�t think he�ll make that mistake again.
Better not.
One of the saddest aspects of these elections locally is saying goodbye to two state representatives. Whether I agreed or disagreed with either one of them, I always enjoyed talking to Dan Ingle and Alice Bordsen. Neither decided to seek re-election this year. A shame, really.
I hope they still take the time to call every so often.
Alamance County will have a freshmen-only class in the state House when the session begins in 2013. That hasn�t happened since at least 1995, when Cary Allred won election to the state House.
Someone asked me on Thursday what surprised me about this election. I had to think on it awhile. Not much surprises me when it comes to the whims of American voters.
After all, these are the people who give Congress a disapproval rating of nearly 90 percent, yet send their own congressperson back election after election.
By the way, Alamance County voters sent three incumbents back to Congress on Tuesday.
What I did find a little off kilter was the overwhelming rejection of the quarter-cent sales tax proposed to pay for the bonds to build a new classroom structure at Alamance Community College and unspecified economic development. On the other hand, voters by a wide margin OK�d bonds to construct the building at ACC.
I first wondered if some form of multiple personality thing might be going on among local voters.
Then I figured they just didn�t want to put a large amount of money into the hands of politicians to spend willy-nilly.
Can�t say I blame them.
But I do hope the college gets the building it needs.
Newly elected County Commissioner David I. Smith said after winning his seat on Tuesday that upon being sworn into office he intends to reveal his master plan to �get the county in financial shape.�
I guess if he lost, this potentially county-saving proposal would�ve remained a deep and dark secret.
On the other hand, it has the novelty of being a promise offered after the campaign is over.
Alamance County Democrats can�t be very encouraged by the Election Night results. Its candidates lost across the board, except for incumbent Linda Massey in the Board of Commissioners� race.
Republicans like to use the acronym RINO to describe Republican in Name Only. In this case some might say Massey could be a DINO.
It must get pretty lonely over at the courthouse for Democratic District Attorney Pat Nadolski.
David Spruill finally got elected to something, which might be the most noteworthy event of the 2012 local election season. He�s now on the Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors. He tried four previous times to get on that board. He also ran for a few other offices a time or two.
At least it�s not the same old thing.
Madison Taylor is editor of the Times-News. Contact him by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter @tnmadisontaylor.


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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The French patrol in two armored personnel carriers showed up just as the bystanders started pulling out their mobile phones to photograph what moments ago had been a human being.
Now his body lay on the side of the road after the mob killed and mutilated him.
"He was a Muslim carrying grenades," shouted one man, defending the crowd's actions.
"He is Seleka," shouted another, referring to the Muslim rebels who became deeply despised by Bangui's Christian majority after they overthrew the president in March 2013 and began killing and torturing civilians.
Now, after the Seleka leader-turned-president has stepped down from power, Bangui residents are taking revenge on anyone perceived as having supported the Seleka rebels — using stones, machetes and bare hands to kill their victims in broad daylight.
The 1,600 French and 5,000 African peacekeepers in Central African Republic are struggling to keep a lid on the violence. Murderous mobs roamed the capital on Wednesday, even though the French killed 13 vigilantes, according to a French army captain who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Crowds started to yell not long after the French patrol showed up at another murderous scene in the Miskine district of Bangui. A stone's throw from the main airport checkpoint, another Muslim man was being killed in his shop.
The French soldiers did not move. As they watched dozens rush toward the scene, they called to the peacekeeping headquarters. "The crowd seems to be moving ... awaiting orders," a French soldier said.
A good 10 minutes later they moved forward, firing in the air to disperse the gathering. From the cover of trees, they called on a group of men who had run away from the firing to come out, their hands in the air, and proceeded to secure the area.
Confident there was no threat from gunmen, they pulled back, leaving the already dead man and his workshop to the now hundreds who had gathered. The horror here has reached a level where the bodies of the dead are viciously mutilated.
Former colonizer France sent its troops in early December to stabilize a country that teetered on the brink of anarchy after the men behind the March 2013 coup failed to control the ethnic and religious violence sweeping across the country. Then Christian militia fighters who opposed the Seleka forces launched an attempted coup that led to more than 1,000 deaths in a matter of days.
Violence has continued unabated throughout Bangui, so fast that local Red Cross officials have not been able to keep up with the tally of dead. The peacekeepers have also suffered losses: In less than two months, two French soldiers have been killed while trying to disarm the former Seleka fighters.
At dusk on Wednesday crowds gathered again, this time yelling "The French are fake," and "The whites are here to kill us." African peacekeepers from Rwanda and Burundi managed to keep the mob at bay and evacuated a group of Muslims to a mosque in PK5, a traditionally Muslim neighborhood.
Before leaving, one Muslim man begged journalists to take with his 25-year-old tortoise.
"If we leave it here, they will eat it," the fleeing man said, putting the 80-kilogram (175-pound) creature into a journalist's car for safekeeping.
Muslims who can are now fleeing en masse toward neighboring Chad while those left behind are in fear for their lives.
"It's like they have no need for us anymore," said Mustafa Abakar, a Muslim who had sought shelter at a Seleka base now abandoned by the Muslim fighters. "And we are Central Africans, this is our country. Foreigners can go home, but where are we to go?"
As night falls on Bangui, more than 100,000 refugees huddle in makeshift tents at the French-guarded airport, bracing for another night of fear.
Jerome Delay is the chief Africa photographer for The Associated Press, and has been documenting the violence in Central African Republic since early December.


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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
Agent.BKM is a backdoor that allows hackers to gain remote access to the affected computer in order to carry out actions that compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed on the computer.
It reduces the security level of the computer:
it opens one or more ports to allow remote access to the computer and takes action that compromises user confidentiality.
Agent.BKM accesses several websites to download files, which it then runs. These can be any type of file, although they are normally malware.
Agent.BKM does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.


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Elastic V-panel for easy on and off.Plush faux shearling lining.Suede leather footbed provides light cushioning.Arch insert for added support.Flexible, one-piece, mixed-rubber outsole.Imported. Measurements: Weight: 5 oz Product measurements were taken using size 12, width D - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size.Weight of footwear is based on a single item, not a pair.


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November 10, 1983
To: Deans and Administrative Heads
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Procedure for Granting Released Time (with or without Representation) Units 2, 5, 7, 9, (CSEA)
Current collective bargaining contracts state that Union business shall not interfere with campus programs or operations. Union business involving employees shall be conducted during non ?- worktime except as indicated in the procedures below.
In order to expedite the process of granting authorized released time to employees, requests will be handled as follows:
- The request must be made to the Personnel Office prior to the
requested released time. It should include the following
- the contract section(s) under which the request for released time is made.
- the name of the represented employee and the name of his/ her supervisor.
- the name of the representative, if any, and the name of his/her supervisor.
- a requested date and time, and approximate amount of released time requested.
- the name of the administrator with whom the meeting is requested, if the purpose of the released time is to meet with a university representative.
- After consultation with appropriate supervisors and manage ment, the Personnel Office will notify all concerned parties of the time set for the exercise of representation rights as set forth in the various collective bargaining agreements.
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The perception that (despite much effort) no progress is actually being made as one attempts to struggle forward with one's life. From salmon run + (tape or film) loop; combining the difficultly encountered by salmon as they head upstream to spawn and the endless repetition of a film or tape loop.
Every month it was the same thing: a salmon run loop of cutting back on everything in order to keep up with the spiraling interest on the family's credit cards.
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Beloit College faculty are scholar-teachers who act as mentors to their students, include them in their lessons and research, and support their development within the classroom and outside it. Beloit professors guide, engage, interact, and ask tough questions, all while continuing to explore their own work as scholars, bringing students along for research opportunities and summertime projects. Of the roughly 105 full-time faculty at Beloit, 97 percent hold a Ph.D. or the highest degree in their field.
Professor Rob LaFleur, the 2011 winner of the James S. Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, says Beloit is a place that "channels intellectual passion" and continues to inspire and drive his scholarly pursuits.
"I have found, in short, in my colleagues and students, a place where the longing for meaning and introspection is not just talk," he said.
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We've written here many times about Golda Meir, Israel's fourth prime minister, in posts based on the ISA's forthcoming commemorative volume on her life. We're happy to announce that the book (in Hebrew) has finally been published and is available from the Archives.
Last week the book was launched by its editor, Dr. Hagai Tsoref, at the Association of Israel Studies conference in Jerusalem. Dr. Tsoref presented Golda's achievements in setting up the welfare state in Israel and the controversy over her role in the Yom Kippur war. But the hottest debate at the session focused on new research by Professor Pnina Lahav of Boston University on gender issues: male attitudes towards Golda as a female leader and whether she was a feminist.
Golda's stand on these issues displays the duality in her character also found in her attitude towards peace with the Arabs and the social gap between the established classes and poor Mizrachi immigrants. On the one hand she was an "Iron Lady", and on the other a sentimental grandmother. She first came to prominence as an activist in the Council of Women Workers of the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labour in Palestine. As one of its joint secretaries, she supported setting up crèches for working mothers in the cities as well as training and financial help for female workers in agricultural settlements, as you can see in this letter which we found in the Lavon Institute Archives.
In 1931 she came to New York, and raised money for these causes while heading the Pioneer Women's organization. Throughout her life she was deeply concerned with social justice and helping poor families and she frequently quarrelled with economic experts who failed to see the human beings behind the numbers of unemployed or those without a roof over their head.
After her return from the US, Golda moved from women's organizations to the national stage and held important positions in the Histadrut, serving as the head of the Political Department from 1941. Her connections with the Labor movement in the US, her command of English and speaking skills helped her to advance to the leadership, together with her determination and devotion to the cause. In 1946, when the British arrested the heads of the Jewish Agency political department, Moshe Shertok (Sharett) and Bernard (Dov) Joseph, Golda as a woman was spared and took their place.
Golda's path to power was also smoothed by her association with powerful men, such as Zalman Shazar, one of the editors of the "Davar" newspaper, and especially with her mentor and lover David Remez, secretary-general of the Labour Federation in the 1930s and later a government minister.
As Minister of Labour between 1949 and 1956 Golda did little or nothing to promote women to positions of influence. It seems that she distanced herself from any identification with women's issues and felt it was not possible to promote special solutions for employing women who could not be sent to labour on public works, like so many of the immigrants
Professor Lahav showed that her appointment as Foreign Minister in 1956 was met with derision from a journalist who did not believe that a woman could fill this post. But most observers believed that she was chosen instead of Moshe Sharett mainly because Ben-Gurion saw her as a loyal lieutenant and fellow hardliner. Sharett himself (who had deliberately given preference to women in the Foreign Service) wrote bitterly in his "Personal Diary" about her agreement to replace him, which he regarded as a stab in the back from a party colleague, and
added that she was unfit for the post, not because of her gender, but because of her lack of formal education.
Golda became Prime Minister in 1969 when she was already 71 years old, and in poor health. She ruled her cabinet with a rod of iron, but was often presented as a homely figure, holding important consultations in her kitchen and shopping for arms in the US with her capacious handbag and sensible "Golda" shoes.
|"!At last, a man as the Prime Minister''
Caricature by Yosef Bass, 14 November 1969
Golda Meir and President Nixon in Washington, 1 March 1973
Photograph: Moshe Milner, Government Press Office
Like many of Israel's prime ministers, the end of her career was a tragic one, and she was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war. The documents in the book show Golda's strength and determination during the war, but afterwards she blamed herself for listening to her generals, and not overruling them to order full mobilization of the reserves when warnings of a possible Arab attack arrived. On 10 April 1974 Golda resigned after the publication of the Agranat Report. But she stayed on to complete the
separation of forces agreement with Syria about which we have already written here. Frightening reports were circulating about the Syrians' treatment of the Israeli POWs,
including rumours about torture and murder of some of them. Golda refused to open negotiations with Syria until the Red Cross had visited the prisoners.
Here we see the message she sent to Sadat (and through him to Hafez al-Assad)
on this issue.
Golda's last act as prime minister was the signing of the agreement which brought
the POWs back to Israel.
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DIY Backpainted Glass Backsplashes
We haven't done this project ourselves (yet), but it's something we're considering for our own kitchen. So, we set out to find DIY backpainted glass on the web. Let's just say it's not very widely represented. So, while we aren't going to venture to tell you how to do this (yet!), we would like to share with you what little we turned up:
Judging from the examples collected here, it sounds as though a backpainted glass backsplash is definitely a possible DIY. It costs a pretty penny to hire it done - and many will try to sway you in that direction - but those who have done it and succeeded generally seem to recommend it. Here are a few examples as pictured above:
- A stunning blue example using a product called Glass Primer.
- From Skyhooks and other Projects, a spray-painted glass panel held up with double-sided tape.
- Read the story of Terri Brandmueller's backsplash at Frugalbits.
Related: A Rammed Earth Kitchen Wall
(Images: Glass Primer, Skyhooks and other Projects, Casey Phaisalakani/Frugalbits)


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HP grants little telcos NonStop rights
Pay less for the very best
HP wants to give the poor, huddled masses of telecommunications companies in developing countries a chance to buy its very best gear. So, the vendor today rolled out the NonStop NS3000AC server - a more moderately priced, always on system.
The new box stands as HP's very first NonStop server targeted at small- to mid-sized customers in "emerging markets" such as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. To craft an affordable box for this crowd, HP has basically stripped out a lot of the components needed to meet NEBS compliance - a telco standard that ensures hardware can withstand harsh conditions such as earthquakes or extreme temperatures. The end result is a server that starts around $350,000 instead of $500,000 as with typical NonStop telco gear.
"These new servers are designed for smaller operations that are coming under increasing competitive pressure to up their availability," said Bob Kossler, a director of product management at HP.
The NonStop line, which made its way to HP via Tandem and Compaq, has long proved popular with telcos, financial institutions and others that demand resilient servers. As Kossler noted, HP now believes that smaller telcos are willing to pay for such performance as well, since their customers have started to expect always available wireless service, for example. Heck, maybe some massive US telcos will shell out for the new systems, so that our cell phones can work all the time too.
As the name indicates, the NS3000AC is an AC powered box. The base model system ships with 1.6GHz (6MB of cache) single core versions of Intel's "Montecito" flavor of Itanium. Customers will find one chip per 2U blade module, with a minimum configuration of two blade modules. They can then expand with up to four of the blade modules (8U) per 42U rack. You can compare the configurations and other telco systems here.
Customers can outfit the server with between 4GB and 8GB of memory and connect up to 9TB of disk.
Along with the hardware, HP bundles the NonStop operating system, some telco middleware and a SQL/MX database. The company reckons that the software trappings should make life easier on smaller customers as well.
"We provide the entire infrastructure immediately, and you just think about what applications to run on it" Kossler said. "It's pretty much plug and play."
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Acipenser persicus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|In the past, Persian Sturgeon was considered a subspecies of A. gueldenstaedtii (A. g. persicus). Since 1973 (Lukyanenko and Korotaeva), based on immunological, biological and reproduction studies and also the morphological differences, it is currently accepted as a species. Based on mitochondrial DNA analysis no molecular marker has been found to differentiate between these two species. Research is still ongoing. In Iran catch for the two species exists for the past 40 years where managers and fishermen use 7-8 morphometric differences to separate these two species (M. Pourkazemi pers. comm.). A large scale study (joint between Iran and Russia) on the genetic and morphometric differences between these two species is needed. This was identified as a priority in the World Bank sponsored Regional Workshop on Sturgeon Genetics, June 2009.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2cde ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Gesner, J., Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.
|Pourkazemi, M. & Smith, K.
It is difficult to distinguish a decline of the wild populations due to the long term stocking of the species. However, it is suspected that the native wild population has declined by over 80% in the past three generations (estimated at 42 years) as all the wild populations have almost disappeared, apart from the restocked individuals from Iran. There are only occasional records from the northern Caspian basin (in 2008, 100 immature individuals were caught in the northern Caspian basin (Mugue pers. comm.)). Overfishing at sea for caviar will soon cause extinction of natural populations.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is known from the Caspian basin, being most abundant in southern part. In its past distribution, the Persian Sturgeon ascended all rivers around the Caspian Sea. It currently now only ascends lower courses of Iranian rivers, the Volga and Ural, and may enter the Terek and Kura. It is not currently stocked in Russia. More than 80% of total sturgeon stocking in Iran is for this species (Pourkazemi pers. comm.). In 1998, 24.5 million fingerlings were released (Abdolhay and Baradaran Tahouri 2006), but in 2008 only 10 million fingerlings were released.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Azerbaijan; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Kazakhstan; Russian Federation; Turkmenistan
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|The only legal commercial exploitation of this species is in Iran (mainly from hatchery stock). Restocking in Iran started in 1969. It is estimated that 80% of catch originates from stocked individuals (Pourkazemi pers. comm.).
Iranian catch data shows that there has been between 54-56% decline from 1960/65 to 2006; the catch has continued to decline since 2006 but data is not yet available for this time period. The decline in catch does reflect a decline in abundance even though there are fisheries regulations and a reduction in catch effort (Pourkazemi pers. comm.).
In Russia, commercial catch in the Caspian Sea has been banned since 2000. The 2007 Quota for scientific catch was 8 tonnes; it is unknown if this was met.
The following Iranian catch data (Pourkazemi 2006) shows the total sturgeon catch from Iran (it is estimated that approximately 40% of the catch from 1960 to 1989 and 50% of the catch between 1990 and 2007 was of A. persicus, Pourkazemi pers. comm.):
1960 - 2,000 tonnes (A. persicus = 440 tonnes)
1965 - 2,100 tonnes (A. persicus = 462 tonnes)
1970 - 3,000 tonnes (A. persicus = 750 tonnes)
1975 - 1,675 tonnes (A. persicus = 302 tonnes)
1980 - 1,429 tonnes (A. persicus = 372 tonnes)
1985 - 1,650 tonnes (A. persicus = 297 tonnes)
1990 - 2,645 tonnes (A. persicus = 582 tonnes)
1995 - 1,500 tonnes (A. persicus = 480 tonnes)
1997 - 1,300 tonnes (A. persicus = 559 tonnes)
1998 - 1,200 tonnes (A. persicus = 588 tonnes)
1999 - 1,000 tonnes (A. persicus = 480 tonnes)
2000 - 1,000 tonnes (A. persicus = 540 tonnes)
2001 - 870 tonnes (A. persicus = 557 tonnes)
2002 - 643 tonnes (A. persicus = 418 tonnes)
2003 - 463 tonnes (A. persicus = 315 tonnes)
2004 - 500 tonnes (A. persicus = 345 tonnes)
2006 - 330 tonnes (A. persicus = 201 tonnes)
2007 - 225 tonnes (A. persicus = 137 tonnes)
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|Habitat: At sea, coastal and estuarine zones. Spawns in strong-current habitats in the main course of large and deep rivers on stone or gravel bottom. Juveniles are found in riverine habitats during their first summer.
Biology: Anadromous (spending at least part of its life in salt water and returning to rivers to breed). Males reproduce for the first time at 8-15 years, females at 12-18. Age range for mature females is 6-40 years; 85% are between 14-18 years, and 80% of males are between 12-16yrs (Moghim 2003). Average generation length is 14 years. This species does not spawn every year. Spawning takes place in June-August when temperature rises above 16°C. In the southern Caspian basin, the Persian Sturgeon spawns in April-September but reproduction is interrupted from June to August when temperature rises above 25°C. Most individuals migrate upriver in April-May, but some may enter rivers at other times of the year. In the southern Caspian basin, there is a second run in September-October. Juveniles migrate to the sea during their first summer and remain there until maturity. At sea, the Persian Sturgeon feeds on a wide variety of benthic molluscs, crustaceans and small fish.
This species has different ecological biological requirements to A. gueldenstaedtii, as it prefers warmer water for spawning and has a shorter migration run.
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|Use and Trade:
|Skin is used as leather, Caviar is used as cosmetic and medicinal purposes. The intestine is used as sauce (food) and to produce gelatine, and the swim bladder used as glue. Approximately 25% comes from the wild, and 75% stocked.
|Major Threat(s):
Illegal fishing/poaching across the Caspian region is the principle threat. In the Caspian Sea, the illegal sturgeon catch for all species was evaluated to be 6 to 10 times the legal catch (CITES 2000). Bycatch is also a threat to the species in both rivers and the Caspian Sea. In 1996, fish inspection authorities filed 8,000 citations for violations committed by individuals, mainly in the Astrakhan region along the Volga (Vecsei and Artyukhin 2001).
In Iran, pollution from agriculture and domestic waste causes loss and degradation of spawning sites. In Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, oil and industrial pollution has led to the loss of suitable feeding grounds. In Russia, oil pollution is a potential threat. Dams across the region have also led to the blocking of access to spawning grounds.
The Allee affect is also a potential threat to the species.
The lack of ability to genetically identify the species in international trade is a potential threat, as Russian and Persian Sturgeon (caviar) can be mixed.
|Conservation Actions:
Restocking (since 1969) of the species occurs in Iran. Live gene bank and cryopreservation, DNA and tissue preservation exists in Iran and Russia (cryopreservation and tissue samples only).
There is strict national and international regulation of fishing and trading of caviar and meat, but there is still illegal trade. This species was listed on CITES Appendix II in 1998.
A large scale study (joint between Iran and Russia) on the genetic and morpometric differences between these two species is needed. This was identified as a priority in the World Bank sponsored Regional Workshop on Sturgeon Genetics, June 2009. A national action plan is being developed for conservation and sustainable use of this species in Iran. Public awareness raising is an ongoing project in Iran.
|Gesner, J., Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2010. Acipenser persicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T235A13043839. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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An implementation of a simple CLIM dialog box for interactively selecting a text style, i.e. a combination of font family, face and size. It demonstrates a way of creating modal dialogs that return values. Although it was tested only with McCLIM and CMUCL under Linux, it should work with any CLIM implementation with little or no modification.
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It's always fun to hear what Jennifer Lawrence has to say — even if you have to lip read because she's being bleeped.
The bleeping started early for the charmingly blunt Lawrence, a best actress nominee for "Silver Linings Playbook," as ABC silenced her cheeky red-carpet response to actress Kristin Chenoweth.
The two were bonding over "Dance Moms," the Lifetime reality series, when Lawrence asked Chenoweth if she liked it too.
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Interesting EMR Interface Prototype
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
I love when doctors and medical students talk about their first encounter with EHR software. In this case, I came across a medical student who ran into Epic in the hospital and writes about it in this post. Here's his initial response to it:
I took the training module for it and the moment it loaded, I was bewildered. My monitor had turned into a wormhole and was suddenly displaying software built in the 1990s. I stared for 30 minutes at what was basically a wall of text, trying to find my way around small buttons and clogged sub-screens. I hadn't even learned how to use Epic yet and I was already frustrated. Perhaps it's because Epic was a platform built upon billing practices that made it so confusing. Either way, I was done before I had even begun.
The great part is that he wasn't just complaining about the experience. He decided to create a prototype of what he thought an EMR interface could look like. Here's his video prototype:
Obviously, it's lacking a lot of detail, but I love his fresh take on how you could navigate the information in the EHR. We need more people who aren't clouded with current EHR design to offer design suggestions like this.


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If the number under Load_Cycle_Count is increasing in a small amount of time (1 or 2 in a minute) you have this issue.
If the number under Load_Cycle_Count is increasing in a small amount of time (1 or 2 in a minute) you have this issue.
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The problem is easily solvable using [[laptop-mode-tools]].
In your /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf you have to set:
In your /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf you have to set:
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I have just bought a new Dell Studio XPS 13. I have not been able to find any information for installing Arch Linux on this machine. It is a very nice looking laptop, and runs fast and smooth. I have had a successful install (32-bit only, 64-bit). I still have a few things to get working, like the Bluetooth, and media buttons.
System Specs:
- Processor
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
- RAM Memory
- Webcam
- 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
- Hard Disk
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- 500GB SATA 7200 rpm HDD
- Video Card
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- Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
- Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter
The basic installation performs normally, with the core cd, also the wireless modules ( Atheros wifi card ) were well recognised and worked out of the box.
Power Management
HDD important issue
With the Western Digital hard drive (not SSD), there is an important issue: using the APM (Advanced Power Management) there are too nomerous spin-down, that can damage the hard drive [1]. To confirm this issue you have to install smartmontools:
# pacman -S smartmontools
And you have to run multiple times this command (once in a minute for like 5 minutes):
# smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count
If the number under Load_Cycle_Count is increasing in a small amount of time (1 or 2 in a minute) you have this issue.
The problem is easily solvable using laptop-mode-tools. In your /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf you have to set:
# # Should laptop mode tools control the hard drive power management settings? # CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1 # # Power management for HD (hdparm -B values) # BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=255 LM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=255 NOLM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=255
This disable all power management systems of the hard drive cause a light heat up (maybe). The same behaviour can be obtained running this command:
# hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
the 255 number is the power-management level, in a range of 1-255 where 1 is maximum powersaving and 255 powersaving disabled. However setting the value to 253 causes a lot of spin-down. Setting the spin-down feature (it parks the heads away from disk) however can save hdd in case of fall.
Hybernation - Suspend
This feature works very well, See pm-utils
Make sure acpid is installed and running. You can add it to the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf.
Then edit these files...
sh ~/bin/suspend
(Taken from http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/laptops/8253-how-to-suspend-and-hibernate-a-laptop-under-linux [+] with a little modification)
#!/bin/sh # discover video card's ID ME=`whoami` if [ "$ME" != "root" ]; then echo "You must be root!" exit 1 fi ID=`lspci | grep VGA | awk '{ print $1 }' | sed -e 's@0000:@@' -e 's@:@/@'` # securely create a temporary file TMP_FILE=`mktemp /var/tmp/video_state.XXXXXX`trap 'rm -f $TMP_FILE' 0 1 15 # switch to virtual terminal 1 to avoid graphics # corruption in X chvt 1 # write all unwritten data (just in case) sync # dump current data from the video card to the # temporary filecat /proc/bus/pci/$ID > $TMP_FILE # suspend echo -n mem > /sys/power/state # restore video card data from the temporary file # on resume cat $TMP_FILE > /proc/bus/pci/$ID # switch back to virtual terminal 7 (running X) chvt 7 # remove temporary file rm -f $TMP_FILE
This should suspend your laptop to RAM when the lid is closed.
The touchpad does not work completely out of the box. By default only the mouse buttons are working. To get the touchpad working, especially the area to move the mouse, follow the instructions described on the wiki page Touchpad Synaptics. Just installing the package and an X restart should do the trick.


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It's September, and if you're like me, you're already smelling hints of fall in the air. Before we know it, summer's green will fade and we'll be enjoying the gorgeous vivid colors of autumn.
Here in Ohio, we like to start the fall festivities a bit early by baking yummy pumpkin treats and even starting the season right by enjoying lots of warm soup recipes.
While I'm a fan of those seasonal delights, I also love to keep it simple by baking some of my family's all-time favorite cookies. It isn't that my family isn't adventurous or creative, we're both, but we also tend to stick with the same few favorite cookies as desserts.
One such favorite are these white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies. I love these cookies because they are sweet but not overpowering, and they also make a nice treat to pack with Evan's school lunch because they don't make a mess.
I really like macadamia nuts and love to keep a jar of PLANTERS on hand. The first time I tried this recipe, I used part of a jar of PLANTERS Macadamias that I happened to have in the pantry and now this recipe is on my go-to list!
Are you as excited for fall as I am? I'd love to hear about your favorite fall recipes!
White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Cookies
Prep Time: 40 minutes • Cook Time: 8-9 minutes per batch • Serves: 60 cookies
½ cup, butter, softened
½ cup shortening
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup sugar
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
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2 ¾ cups flour
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PREHEAT oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking soda, and salt. Beat until combined, scraping side of bowl occasionally. Beat in eggs and vanilla until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour, the white chocolate pieces, and PLANTERS macadamias.
DROP dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 9 minutes or just until edges are light brown. Cool on cookies sheets for 2 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool.
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Electronic Combination Lock Circuit
This is the circuit diagram of a simple electronic combination lock using IC LS 7220.This circuit can be used to activate a relay for controlling (on & off) any device when a preset combination of 4 digits are pressed.The circuit can be operated from 5V to 12V.
To set the combination connect the appropriate switches to pin 3,4,5 and 6 of the IC through the header.As an example if S1 is connected to pin 3, S2 to pin 4 , S3 to pin 5, S4 to pin 6 of the IC ,the combination will be 1234.This way we can create any 4 digit combinations.Then connect the rest of the switches to pin 2 of IC.This will cause the IC to reset if any invalid key is pressed , and entire key code has to be re entered.
When the correct key combination is pressed the out put ( relay) will be activated for a preset time determined by the capacitor C1.Here it is set to be 6S.Increase C1 to increase on time.
For the key pad, arrange switches in a 3X4 matrix on a PCB.Write the digits on the keys using a marker.Instead of using numbers I wrote some symbols!.The bad guys will be more confused by this.
Electronic Lock Circuit Diagram .
Pin Assignment of LS7220.
Parts List
C1 1 1uF 25V Electrolytic Capacitor
C2 1 220uF 25V Electrolytic Capacitor
R1 1 2.2K 1/4W Resistor
Q1 1 2N3904 NPN Transistor 2N2222
D1 1 1N4148 Rectifier Diode 1N4001-1N4007
K1 1 12V SPDT Relay Any appropriate relay with 12V coil
U1 1 LS7220 Digital Lock IC
S1-S12 12 SPST Momentary Pushbutton Keypad (see notes)
HD1 1 12 Position Header
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Teachers and students in the Sweetwater Union High School District applauded during a board meeting Monday as Superintendent Ed Brand revealed a recommendation to reinstate adult education cuts.
"As a result of Friday and Saturday's state Senate and Assembly votes staff is comfortable recommending that the adult education and ROP be restored," he said.
As a part of its 2013-14 fiscal year budget, school board members approved funding adult education and ROP at $2.8 million and $2.5 million respectively.
Their decision reinstated 40 frozen and 25 full-time positions eliminated in April for the Regional Occupational Program and Career Technical Education.
The cuts were a precautionary measure because the district was uncertain about whether funds administered by the County Office of Education would be available until the release of Gov. Jerry Brown's May budget revision, Brand said.
In January, the governor's proposal was to shift adult education from K-12 districts to community colleges. Under the new plan, $500 million would fund a group operated by community colleges and school districts.
During public comment, Montgomery Lish, a teacher at Montgomery Adult School, thanked Brand for his support in lobbying for adult education in Sacramento.
In March, Brand said he would work with Sens. Marty Block and Ben Hueso as well as Congressman Juan Vargas to discuss future legislation that would remove the county as an intermediary in distributing ROP funding beginning fiscal year 2014-15 to get funding directly from the state.
"We have a clear path to getting funding through a consortium," Lish said. "It's been a long struggle and we're going to have a couple of challenging years ahead of us."
Lish said while $3 million was only 1 percent of the district's budget, it's about 25 percent of adult education's four-program budget.
Budget development guidelines provided by the San Diego County Office of Education for all districts allow them to include projected revenue enhancements in their budget but require funds above the current revenue limit to be placed in reserve until the state budget is passed.
District Chief Financial Officer Albert Alt said the adoption of the local control funding formula replaces a process previously in place for 40 years and it will take seven months for the department of education to work through the new funding model.
"This is really a watershed moment for us in school funding," Alt said. "It brings us back to pre-recession funding levels."
Overall, Alt said the future is looking brighter.
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Best Players
1. Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart. The Big 12 Player of the Year is a freshman who plays like a senior and has top-10 talent.
2. Duke center Mason Plumlee. A double-double machine who shoots 59 percent from the field, Mason is a candidate for first-team All-American honors.
3. Louisville guard Russ Smith. Dubbed "Russdiculous," he's as tough to contain in the open court as anyone in the country. And fearless. Goodness, he's fearless.
4. Creighton forward Doug McDermott. As skilled as he is smart, McDermott averages 23 points, 7.5 rebounds and shoots 50 percent -- from 3-point range.
Best Coaches
1. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski. Has to be No. 1 on this list (or any other), but the Blue Devils have advanced past the Sweet 16 just once in the last eight years.
2. Rick Pitino. Having taken three different teams to the Final Four, he knows a little something about what it takes to survive and advance.
3. Tom Izzo. Another March mastermind in the Midwest, he only has six Final Fours to his credit.
Dream matchup
No. 1 Louisville against No. 2 Duke. Two powerhouse programs colliding with the Final Four at stake? That might be as entertaining as the teams' November duel in the Bahamas. The Blue Devils won 76-71 after a scintillating final 10 minutes.
Upset Special
No. 14 Valparaiso over No. 3 Michigan State. This makes zero sense, especially
given that MSU will have a home atmosphere in Auburn Hills. But that exactly why it could happen. The Spartans will be looking ahead, to Memphis and Duke.
Sleeper Pick
Oregon. The 12th-seeded Ducks should have plenty of motivation after being undervalued by the selection committee despite winning the Pac-12 tournament title. They have balanced scoring, play tough defense and could find their way to the Sweet 16.
Last Team Standing
Louisville. The Cardinals can be hard to watch offensively, but nobody in the country plays better defense and nobody in the region has tougher guards than Smith and Peyton Siva.
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LEXINGTON—Hot, dry conditions gave way to a chilly wind at Lakeside Country Club on Friday as the Swede golfers battled not only new weather but also unfamiliar course obstacles.
Gothenburg combined for a team total of 423 to finish seventh in the slate of 10 schools at the Lexington Invite.
Mallory McCoy led the Swedes shooting 51 on the front nine and 52 on the back for a team-low 103. Heidi Teahon was close behind with 105 but both were outside the top 15 for medals.
"The girls played very well overall and seemed to hold their composure when finding themselves in trouble on the course," said coach Tara Foster. "Several girls were faced with penalty strokes which impacted their individual scores."
McCook took the top three individual spots as well as the team title carding a 350 total.
Kaylee Samway of McCook was the individual winner shooting 75.
"I would like to see the girls perform to their full potential and to focus on course management as we head into our home invite," Foster said earlier this week.
The Swedes hosted the Gothenburg Invite on Tuesday and will play at Lexington again Friday in the Dawson County meet. Tee time is 1 p.m.


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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California's renowned Chez Panisse restaurant is canceling all reservations for the next two weeks after a pre-dawn fire damaged the building's exterior and dining room.
The Berkeley restaurant said on its website Saturday that it was cancelling reservations through March 23 and apologized to customers. It said it will start taking new reservations on Monday.
Officials say the fire broke out around 3 a.m. Friday and damaged the restaurant's front porch, entryway and downstairs dining room before firefighters extinguished it. The bulk of the building was not damaged, and no one was injured.
Founded by chef and food activist Alice Waters in 1971, Chez Panisse has gained global renown in culinary circles for pioneering the creative use of fresh, local food in season.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.