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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 4, 2012) – A preseason tournament title, an upset of the eventual conference champion and a return trip to the Atlantic Sun Championship semifinals highlighted another strong campaign for the ETSU volleyball program in 2011.
The Bucs advanced to the Atlantic Sun Championship semifinals for the second straight season and earned their seventh straight season of 10 or more wins. The Bucs finished the season with a 15-16 overall record and a solid 7-6 mark in the A-Sun. All of that despite having one of the youngest teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Bucs featured seven freshmen on the squad – the most of any team in the league.
During the pre-conference schedule, the Bucs had some early tournament success, which included a tournament title at the Country Inn & Suites Invitational at Chattanooga. ETSU finished a perfect 3-0 in the event – knocking off UNC Asheville, Chattanooga and Tennessee Tech – dropping just one set along the way. Senior Kiley Tamblyn (Torrance, Calif.) was named Tournament MVP for her stellar defensive effort, while Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) and Kayla Williams (El Paso, Texas) were named to the all-tournament team.
One of the biggest highlights of the season was a thrilling five-set home victory over eventual A-Sun champion Lipscomb on the final weekend of the regular season. It was just Lipscomb's second conference loss in over three years and ended Lipscomb's seven match winning streak against ETSU.
ETSU, the No. 5-seed in the Atlantic Sun Championship, drew No. 4-seeded Kennesaw State in the quarterfinals. The two teams faced each other twice during the regular season with each team winning on the road. In the quarterfinal matchup, Kennesaw State got off to a quick start by winning the first two sets and looked like it would cruise to the semifinals. However, ETSU has something else in mind. The Bucs took sets three and four to force a decisive fifth set. With all of the momentum, ETSU went on to take the deciding set to pull off the improbable come from behind victory. The win meant a meeting with top-seeded Belmont in the semifinals – a team that defeated ETSU twice during the regular season.
The Bucs put up a fight in the first set, but they just could not get over the hump as Belmont earned a tough 27-25 win. The tough opening set loss motivated the Bucs as they came through with an impressive 25-18 victory in the second set to even the match. ETSU kept the momentum in the third set with a tough 25-23 victory to take a 2-1 lead. Belmont quickly regained the momentum; however, by cruising to a 25-13 win in the fourth set – forcing another deciding fifth set. After the Bucs got out to the early start, Belmont went on a timely 5-0 run to take the lead – a lead it would not relinquish. The Bruins held on to take the set 15-8, which clinched a spot in the championship match.
ETSU had many outstanding individual efforts in the A-Sun Championship, but the Buccaneer that etched her name in the record books time after time throughout the year, earned recognition following the tournament. Sophomore Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) was named to the All-Tournament Team after helping the Bucs advance to the semifinals. That was just one of many honors that Devine earned during the season. She was also named First-Team All-Atlantic Sun after pacing the Bucs in several categories. Devine was named the league's first player of the week this season, while being named to several all-tournament teams during the year. In addition, Devine etched her name in the ETSU record books on two different occasions. With 503 kills during the season, Devine ranks second in school history for kills in a season. Meanwhile, she became the school's all-time leader for highest kills per set total in a season with 4.16. She is on pace to break the ETSU record for most career kills, which was set by Callie Kiselich from 2005-07 with 1,420.
Those were not the only records to be added into the ETSU record book during the season. Stancliff, a Second-Team All-Atlantic Sun performer after leading the league in blocks, moved into fourth place in ETSU history for most block assists in a single season with 112. She now holds the third and fourth spots on the list as her 124 block assists last year rank third in school history.
Meanwhile, Tamblyn's 502 digs during the season rank as the fifth most in school history. Tamblyn recorded 538 digs in 2010, which ranks as the fourth most in ETSU single season history.
The team also carved its name into the record books by earning the fourth most block assists in ETSU single season history with 415. In addition, its .307 total attack percentage against North Florida on October 8 is the highest attack percentage in school history for a four-set match. During the match, senior McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) broke the school's all-time record for highest attack percentage in a match by hitting at a .807 clip. Barber had 17 kills in just 21 attempts without a single error.
ETSU returned just five letterwinners and two starters, from a squad that advanced to its first ever trip to the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament final in 2010. During the 2010 season, the Bucs went 26-9 with a 7-3 Atlantic Sun record. The 26 wins were the most for the program since the 1978 season.
For more information on ETSU volleyball please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the volleyball link.


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UNITED KINGDOM - The Pictures Death of Princess Diana of Wales Princess. On August 31, 1997, Diana died, the Princess of Wales, as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Princess Diana Car Accident is the one of History Moment or Great Moment in WOrld.
Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the only survivor. Though at first in the media is attributed to the paparazzi, the crash was ultimately determined that the reckless actions of the driver, who was head of security at the Ritz and before the paparazzi waiting outside the hotel caused stimulated. An 18-month French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the crash of Henri Paul, the control of the car at high speed lost while have been worse under the influence of alcohol, made possible by the simultaneous presence of an anti-depressants caused tranqulizing and traces of anti-psychotic in his body.
From February 1998 claimed Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed (the owner of the Hôtel Ritz, where Paul worked), that the crash was a conspiracy, and later claimed that the crash by MI6 in order orchestrated by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . His claims that the crash was a conspiracy of Paget was a French judicial investigation and the action of a Metropolitan police investigation, the release signed in 2006.
Although the official statement of the pursuing vehicles involved, the jury nor the name of the intoxication of the driver and the safety of the victim's decisions as factors in their death. Mercedes also had more than twice the legal maximum speed of this particular part of the way around and I had long since abandoned by the paparazzi vehicles are far behind the time of Princess Diana Car Accident.
Circumstances of Princess of Wales
On August 30, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales arrived in Paris with Dodi Fayed, son of Mohamed al-Fayed. She was stopped on his way to London after the preceding nine days together on board Mohamed al-Fayed yacht, the Jonikal, in the French and Italian Riviera. She was planning to stay overnight. Mohamed al-Fayed was and is the owner of the Hotel Ritz in Paris. He also owned an apartment in the Rue Arsene Houssaye, not far away and near the Avenue des Champs Elysees.
Henri Paul, deputy head of security at the Ritz Hotel, has been appointed rented black 1994 Mercedes-Benz S280 drive through Paris to escape the paparazzi. [10] A decoy vehicle left the Ritz first draws a crowd of photographers. Diana and Fayed would then depart from the back of the hotel entrance.
At 12.20 on August 31, 1997, Diana and Fayed left the Ritz back in the Rue Arsene Houssaye in the apartment. They were the rear passengers in a black Mercedes-Benz S280, registration number "688 LTV 75", driven by Paul. Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family, personal protection team was in the passenger seat.
They left out the back of the hotel, which on the Rue Cambon.
As the victim lay in the wrecked car, the photographers continued to take pictures. Seriously injured Diana was reported repeatedly muttering, "Oh my God," and after the photographers were pushed by forces, "leave me alone. "
Dodi Fayed had been left in the passenger seat and appeared to be dead. Nevertheless, firefighters are still trying to revive him when he was pronounced dead by a doctor at 01.32 hours, Henri Paul was dead upon removal from the wreck said. Both were right on the Medico-legal Institute (IML), the Paris mortuary, not to a hospital. Autopsy determined that Paul and Fayed had both a fracture suffered in the isthmus of the aorta and a broken back, in the case of Paul, a medullar section in the dorsal region and in the case of Fayed a medullar section in the cervical region.
Diana, who was seated on the right rear passenger seat, was still conscious. It was first reported to be on the floor of the vehicle sat with his back to the road. It was also reported that a photographer who Diana described as her bleeding from the nose and ears, saw with his head on the back of the front passenger seat, rested, he tried to remove them from the vehicle, but their feet. When he told her that help was on the road and staying awake, there was no response from Diana, only to blink.
In June 2007, the Channel 4 documentary Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel claimed that the first person to touch Diana Dr. Maillez, the scene was arbitrary. He reported that Diana had no visible injuries but was in shock, and he delivers them with oxygen.
The first police patrol officers at the site at 12.30. Shortly after the Seven paparazzi were arrested at the scene. Diana is removed from the car at 1:00 pm She went to a cardiac arrest. After resuscitation begun outside the heart Beat Again Diana's. She moved to the SAMU ambulance The ambulance left the 01.18 hours of the accident site at 01.41 am and arrived at the Pitié Salpêtrière, 6.2 hours in spite of attempts to save her, her internal injuries too long: they had the heart was left to the right side of the chest, the pulmonary vein and the pericardium crack moves. Despite lengthy resuscitation attempts, including internal cardiac massage, she died at 4 o'clock in the morning. At 5:30, her death was announced at a press conference held by a hospital doctor, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, Interior Minister of France, and Sir Michael Jay, the British ambassador to France.
Many have speculated that if Diana had been wearing a seat belt, her injuries would be less significant. The first media reports stated that Trevor Rees-Jones are the only occupant seat belt was worn. These reports proved false, because both the French and British investigations concluded that none of the occupants of the car seat belt at the time of impact.
Later that morning, research, etc., together with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Bernadette Chirac (wife of French President Jacques Chirac) and Bernard Kouchner (French Minister of Health), a visit to the hospital where Diana's body lay and paid the last honor. After their visit, said the Anglican Archbishop of France, Father Martin Draper, commendatory prayers from the Book of Common Prayer.
At 02.00 hours, Diana's ex-husband, Prince Charles, and two older sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, in Paris, she graduated with her body 90 minutes.
The first media reports stated Diana's car was in the column at 190 km per hour (120 mph) collided, and the speedometer needle was stuck in this position. It was later revealed, the actual vehicle speed at impact was approximately 95 to 110 kilometers per hour (60-70 mph), and the digital speedometer was in violation of the list of available devices and features of the Mercedes- Benz W140 S-Class, to a computer-controlled analog tachometer is used, no digital display for speed. Anyway, the car was safely on the road much faster than the legal speed limit of 50 kmh (31 mph) and faster than was prudent for the Alma tunnel. In 1999 the French study showed a Mercedes was in contact with another vehicle (a white Fiat Uno) are in the tunnel.
Eighteen months of a French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the car accident that Diana was slain by Paul, the control of the car at high speed under the influence lost cause.
In October 2003, the Daily Mirror published a letter from Diana in the ten months before her death she wrote about a possible plot to kill her by tampering with the brakes of her car. "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous." She said: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury, so the path clear for Charles to marry".
On January 6, 2004, six years after her death, Fayed, an investigation into the deaths of Diana and Dodi in London by Michael Burgess, coroner of the Queen to open in the household. The coroner asked the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens, to investigate the response to the speculation (see below), that death was no accident. The Metropolitan Police investigation reported their findings in the operation of Paget in December 2006.
Later in 2004, showed U. S. TV network CBS photographs from the crash site shows an intact rear side and an intact central part of the Mercedes, including Diana unbloodied no external injuries, crouched on the rear floor of the vehicle with her back on the right front passenger, rear right car door open fully. The publication of these pictures caused uproar in Britain, where it was generally felt that privacy was violated by Diana, and spurred another lawsuit by Mohammed al-Fayed.
In January 2006, Lord Stevens said in an interview on GMTV that the case is more complicated than previously thought. The Sunday Times reported on January 29, 2006, they were agents of the British Secret Service questioned because they were in Paris at the time of the accident. It was suggested in many magazines, that these funds could have replaced the driver's blood sample with another sample of blood (though no evidence ever for this to appear).
On 13 July 2006 Italian magazine Chi published a photograph of Diana did not appear in their "last moments" despite an unofficial blackout on such photographs. The photo was taken shortly after the crash and let the princess broke in the back seat while a paramedic attempts to fit an oxygen mask over her face. This picture was also published in other Italian and Spanish newspapers and magazines.
The editor of Chi defended his decision by saying that he published the photographs of French research papers for the "simple reason that they had not seen before," he was taken and the images do not disrespect the memory of the former princess .
Diana's death was met with extraordinary public expressions of grief, and her public funeral in Westminster Abbey on 6 September drew an estimated three million mourners and spectators in London and worldwide television broadcasts, the news of the death of the previous day overshadowed by Mother Teresa.
Members of the public were invited to sign a condolence book at the Palace of St. James's. During the night, combined to the members of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service and the Salvation Army, the support for the people queuing along the Mall to offer. More than one million bouquets of flowers at her London home, Kensington Palace remained, while her family was the estate of Althorp the public asked to stop, flowers, the volume of people and flowers in the surrounding streets, said that a threat to public safety issue.
Until 10 September started the pile of flowers outside Kensington Gardens 1.5 meters deep in places and the bottom layer of compost. The people were silent and waited patiently in line for the book to sign and leave their gifts. There were a few minor incidents. Fabio Piras, a Sardinian tourism was one week long prison sentence on 10 September given that they have a teddy bear in the pile. If the sentence was later reduced by a £ 100 fine Piras was beaten in the face by a member of the audience as he left court. The next day, Mary Rigociova, a 54-year-old high school teacher and Agnesa Sihelska, a 50-year communications technician, received a 28-per-day jail sentence for having a series of eleven teddy bears and flowers from the deck outside St . James' Palace. Again, this was later reduced to a fine (of £ 200 each), after two nights spent in prison.
Some have criticized the response to Diana's death at the time as "hysterical" and "irrational". As early as 1998, philosopher Anthony O'Hear identified blur the funeral as a key issue in the 'mondialisation sentiment of Great Britain ", a media-driven phenomenon in which image and reality. This criticism, which the 10th Anniversary, where the journalist Jonathan Freedland expressed the opinion that it is repeated. "It has become an embarrassing memory, like a sweet, self-pitying teenage entry in a diary. We crawl to think about it" In 2010, Theodore Dalrymple wrote "sentimentality, both spontaneous and generated by the excessive media attention, necessary for the death of the princess in an event of this magnitude in the series was a political goal, one by the nature was unfair to be one of dishonesty, which lies behind much sentimentality itself "parallels. Some cultural analysts disagree. Sociologist Deborah Steinberg noted that many Britons Diana associated not with the royal family, but with social change and a more liberal society: "I do not think the hysteria, the loss of a public figure is a touchstone for other problems to be."
1. Whether driver error caused on the part of Henri Paul, or contributed to the cause of the
2. Whether Henri Paul and the ability was affected by alcohol or drugs
3. Whether a Fiat Uno or any other vehicle caused or contributed to the collision
4. Whether the actions of the paparazzi caused or contributed to the cause of the collision
5. Whether the road / tunnel layout and construction were inherently dangerous, and if so,
whether it has contributed to the collision
6. Whether any bright / flashing lights contributed to or caused the collision, and if so, their
7. Whose decision was it, that must be the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed at the rear
entrance of the Ritz and that Henri Paul, the vehicle leaving
8. Henri Paul's movements 70-10 clock on August 30, 1997
9. The explanation for the money in the possession of Henri Paul on August 30, 1997 and at bank
10. Whether Andanson was in Paris on the night of the collision
11. Whether Diana's life can be saved if she had reached hospital sooner or if her medical
treatment had been different
12. Whether Diana was pregnant
13. Whether Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were about her engagement
14. Whether and under what circumstances, the Princess of Wales feared for her life
15. The circumstances relating to the purchase of the ring
16. The circumstances of Diana's body was embalmed
17. Whether the evidence of Tomlinson throws light on the collision
18. Whether the British or other security services had any involvement in the collision
19. Whether there was anything sinister about (i) the Cherruault burglary or (ii) the
disturbance at the Big Pictures agency
20. Whether the correspondence of the Princess of Wales (including some from Prince Philip) has
disappeared, and if so the circumstances.

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The Department of Theology is a community of scholars responsible for teaching, conducting research, and serving the theological needs of the wider community outside of Marquette. It aims to help educate undergraduates by bringing them to an understanding of their respective faith commitments and traditions in harmony with their overall intellectual, critical, and cultural development. It prepares graduate students for future research work, participation in professional theological activity, and teaching theology on the college and university level.
Although the Department of Theology is in the College of Arts and Sciences, it views itself as a distinct discipline. In keeping with its history and tradition, it concentrates on theological studies as distinguished from a purely empirical study of religion and from professional training for the ministry. It also incorporates into Catholic theology an ecumenical dimension which was made normative by the Second Vatican Council, and which is regarded by the Department as an essential service to the Church and the world.
These commitments to the study of theology in a Catholic and ecumenical context are reflected in appointments to the Department's faculty and administrative positions. A tradition of Jesuit leadership and presence plays an essential part in accomplishing this mission and is symbolic of it. The contributions and leadership of other Catholics and representatives of different faith traditions are likewise of crucial importance and in their own way indicative of the Department's fidelity to its heritage.


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Dr. Seth Moore: No fall wolf hunt at Grand Portage
Dr. Seth Moore is Director of Biology and Environment with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
The Grand Portage Reservation is located in the extreme northeast corner of Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Cook County. Bordered on the north by Canada, on the south and east by Lake Superior and on the west by Grand Portage State Forest, the reservation encompasses an historic fur trade site on beautiful Grand Portage Bay.
The band engages in fisheries and wildlife research projects throughout the year, working with moose, wolves, fish, deer, grouse, and environmental issues. Dr. Moore appears regularly on WTIP North Shore Community Radio, talking about the band's current and ongoing natural resource projects, as well as other environmental and health related issues of concern to the Grand Portage Band.
In this segment, Dr. Moore weighs in on wolves and wolf management. Produced by Carah Thomas.


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The Texas wine industry has quite a storied past.
In the 1860s Spanish missionaries began cultivating grapes near present day El Paso. In 1883, Frank Qualia founded the Val Verde Winery in Del Rio, the oldest bonded winery still in operation today.
Texas viticulturist Thomas Munson is credited with saving the European wine industry. Munson developed and delivered a Texas-grown resistant rootstock to European vineyards to help rebuild vineyards struck by the disease phylloxera. The French government presented Munson with the French Legion of Honor Chevalier du Mérite Agricole Award in 1888.
Munson later published Foundations of American Grape Culture, a handbook for U.S. grape growers.
Twenty-five wineries dotted the Texas landscape in 1900 but were closed in 1919 due to the federal prohibition of alcohol. Wineries reopened in 1933 when prohibition was repealed.
In 2005 the Texas Legislature passed a bill allowing the shipment of Texas wines within the state.
Texas' modern day commercial wine grape industry took root in the 1970s. The wineries Llano Estacado in Lubbock and Fall Creek in Austin are credited with pioneering today's wine industry.
The wine industry remains in its infancy with many novices entering the field. The industry needs time to become more successful, says Edward Hellman, viticulture professor and Extension specialist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Tech University. "The Texas wine industry has great potential," Hellman said. "We've only scratched the surface in what the wine industry can achieve."
The wine industry is the fifth largest in the nation with a $1.35 billion economic contribution to Texas coffers.
"It's a steep learning curve in a highly-technical business," Hellman said during a High Plains Planting Tour this past spring. "It's difficult for a small operation with a vineyard and winery to do well. A new person to grapes must learn the grape and wine business simultaneously. People are learning it, but it's a struggle."
In 1986, row crop farmers Neal and Janice Newsom diversified their cotton, milo, and peanut operation in Plains, Texas, with five acres of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. The couple slowly increased the grape plantings over the past two decades. Grapes are now the only crop the Newsoms grow.
"It's a big switch to move to from row crop production to wine grapes," Hellman said. "Those who have successfully done it have studied grapes and visited other vineyards. It's not easy."
Texas' wine grape industry faces another challenge in bringing the supply and demand of fruit into balance, Hellman says.
Texas has 280 commercial wineries with 3,100 acres of vineyards. The acreage represents about 10 percent of the grapes required by the wineries. The other 90 percent is purchased out-of-state, mostly from California.
Most Texas-grown grapes are grown for premium wines priced at $20/bottle and above. Texas lacks the larger acreages of higher-yielding varieties for lower price-point wines.
Texas-grown wine grapes on average sell for $1,500 to $2,000 per ton, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Hellman fields phone calls and e-mails from people interested in the wine business. He helped implement the Prospective Winegrower Workshop, a one-day educational program from the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. The workshop provides an overview of the requirements and risks associated with the establishment and operation of a commercial vineyard in Texas.
"It's really designed to open eyes to what this business is all about," Hellman said. The upfront investment to start a vineyard is $10,000 or more per acre; not including land, well drilling, and equipment costs.
The workshop is a prerequisite for the two-year, Texas viticulture certificate program to be launched this fall by Texas Tech University and AgriLife Extension. The course delves into grapevine biology; site assessment and vineyard development; vine nutrition and water management; canopy and crop load management; plus disease, insect, and weed management. The $2,400 program is limited to 40 participants.
Can the Texas wine industry compete with the larger wine-grape growing states?
"They already are and produce good grapes," Hellman said. "We have good wine makers and wines that compete favorably. We've seen a lot of growth in the Texas wine industry in the past five years."
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The National Historic Landmark has 25 original buildings situated on a rolling hilltop surrounded by open fields, woodlots, and ponds.
The National Historic Landmark has 25 original buildings situated on a rolling hilltop surrounded by open fields, woodlots, and ponds. Visitors have the chance to experience 200 years of the Shaker way of life. Guided tours explain and introduce the customs, inventions, furniture, architecture, and values of this utopian society. An admission fee is charged to help support the preservation of the historic site and its collections.
Canterbury Shaker Village offers a variety of entertaining, educational and engaging experiences in one of the most picturesque settings in northern New England. Your visit to the village will include choices of guided and self-guided tours, accessible historic buildings, family activities, exhibits, educational programs, special events, unique shopping, exceptional dining and breathtaking scenery.
Canterbury Shaker Village is a wonderful place to visit, rain or shine. Visitors are encouraged to allow at least two to three hours to experience the beauty of the Village and its exhibits and demonstrations. Their many choices of tours, interactive activities, and programs easily allow for hours of recreation, education, and enjoyment.
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By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's last space shuttle rolled out of a hangar in Florida on Friday and traveled down the road to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin a new life as a museum piece.
Atlantis is the third and final shuttle to be retired and turned over for public display after the end of the 30-year-old shuttle program last year.
"Don't cry because it's over; smile because we had it," Patty Stratton, a manager with shuttle contractor United Space Alliance, told workers gathered before dawn outside the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building.
The 1960s-era Apollo complex, later used to pair shuttles with booster rockets and fuel tanks for flight, now stands empty.
Kennedy Space Center is in the midst of a transition to support a planned heavy-lift rocket and deep space capsule able to fly astronauts to destinations beyond the International Space Station's 250-mile orbit.
NASA intends to turn over station crew ferry flights to private companies.
For now, Russia has the only transportation system to fly astronauts to the station, a service that costs the United States more than $60 million per seat.
Mounted on top of a 76-wheel flatbed trailer, Atlantis began its final journey before dawn on a clear and cool autumn day at the seaside Florida spaceport. It made several stops along the 10-mile (16-km) route before reaching the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex just after 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).
"It traveled a lot faster in its previous life," quipped former astronaut Chris Ferguson, who commanded the last shuttle flight aboard Atlantis. "I think that maybe a generation or two of pilots after me are going to look at the space shuttle and wonder what it was like to fly that."
Hundreds of current and former employees, including dozens of astronauts, paraded with the shuttle as it slowly made its way beyond the space center's security gates into the publicly accessible Exploration Park, where about 8,000 people had gathered to welcome Atlantis.
Another crowd gathered at the Visitors Complex for a celebration and fireworks show.
"Today marks the end of a phenomenal 30-year program," said Kennedy Space Center director Robert Cabana, during a ceremony to sign over the shuttle to Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, which operates the visitors' center under a contract with NASA.
"Atlantis now takes on a mission of inspiration for future generations," Cabana said.
Between its debut flight in 1985 and the shuttle finale in July 2011, Atlantis racked up more than 306 days in space, including seven missions to the now-defunct Russian space station Mir and 12 flights to the jointly owned international outpost, a $100 billion project of 15 nations.
Atlantis is the last of NASA's three surviving spaceships to be retired. Discovery is located at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and Endeavour was turned over to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Two shuttles, Challenger and Columbia, were lost in accidents that claimed the lives of 14 astronauts. A prototype shuttle, Enterprise, was given to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
Delaware North is designing a $100 million exhibit scheduled to open in July 2013 to showcase Atlantis and educate the public about the shuttle program.
The ship will be suspended from a pedestal, belly up with its cargo bay doors open, as if it were flying in space.
"It'll be a tremendous exhibit," said NASA spokesman Michael Curie.
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Iron‑gall Ink Treatments at the Library of Congress: Old Manuscripts ‑ New Tools
Claire Dekle, Preservation Specialist and Senior Book Conservator
Mary Elizabeth Haude, Senior Paper Conservator
Conservation Division
April 28, 2009
About the Lecture:
The Library of Congress Conservation Division's Protocols for Iron‑Gall Ink Treatment Group (PIT) incorporated recent scientific findings into treatment practice and developed a unified approach to the conservation of paper‑based collections containing iron‑gall ink. Between 2006 and 2008, Library conservators refined the PIT methodology and tools as they used them to guide treatment of books and documents containing iron‑gall ink at various stages of deterioration. This presentation demonstrateD the use of the PIT tools in recent conservation treatments of 18th‑century American manuscripts.
About the Speakers:
Claire Dekle is a Preservation Specialist and Senior Book Conservator at the Library of Congress, where responsibilities as a conservation liaison to the Manuscript Division have re‑focused her interest in the conservation of iron‑gall ink‑inscribed materials. Before joining the Conservation Division in 2003, she held conservator positions in research and special libraries, including the Smithsonian Libraries. Claire received a M.S. in Library Service and a Certificate in Library and Archives Conservation from Columbia University.
Mary Elizabeth Haude joined the Library of Congress Conservation Division in 2003 as a Preservation Specialist and Senior Paper Conservator. As conservation liaison for unbound materials to the Manuscript Division, she spends a large portion of her time treating manuscripts written in iron‑gall ink. Previously Ms.Haude worked at the Huntington Library where she held the positions of Conservator and Head Conservator. She received a B.F.A. in studio art in 1989 and an M.L.I.S. with an Advanced Certificate in Conservation in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin.


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WPTV and the Scripps Howard News Service investigate AEDs and the laws that govern their placement and usage.
Directions on an AED device so it can be used quickly and easily.
Michael Abt, a 12-year-old middle-schooler from Vero Beach, Fla., Josh Miller, a high-school middle linebacker from Barberton, Ohio, and Connecticut lawyer Michael Sage, 29, all died when their hearts suddenly stopped beating.
But though their hearts also abruptly went still, Mary Tappe, a 45-year-old executive from Denver; Richard Strain, a financial officer from Canton, Ohio; and Claire Dunlap, a 15-year-old high-school softball centerfielder from Boynton Beach, Fla., survived.
Each was stricken by sudden cardiac arrest when they were nowhere near a hospital. None knew that he or she was at risk from a heart-rhythm problem that kills more than 350,000 people in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association.
The difference: Those who survived had a chance at life because there were people around them ready and willing to quickly intervene -- and a nearby automated external defibrillator, or AED, that could shock the heart back to normal rhythm. The American Red Cross estimates that as many as 20,000 of those deaths a year could be prevented if AEDs were more prevalent across America.
Dunlap calls herself "living proof of what an AED can do." The athletic trainer at the field where she collapsed in 2008 quickly determined that she needed an AED and delivered three shocks to her chest before her heart began beating again.
"I would not be here if it was not for that," she said.
Ken Miller's son, Josh, might still be alive if an AED had been nearby, but there was none at the field.
Miller says he knows "the helplessness of seeing my son pass away in front of my eyes. There's a good chance of saving kids in the same situation if they just have the AED."
Josh Miller, who died in 2000, was an athlete – a wrestler and football player football player who never flunked a physical. "You would never, ever think he had a problem, and he did," his father said.
Sudden cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack, which usually is caused by blocked arteries. In cardiac arrest, which strikes young and old alike with little warning, the heart stops when the electrical pulses that tell it to beat misfire. Only the "reset" from an electrical shock gives it a chance to resume normal function.
First used in hospitals in the 1950s, defibrillators gradually became small enough to be carried by paramedics. In the 1990s, several manufacturers came out with backpack-sized AEDs that required no medical training, and the devices began to be placed in public spaces. Today, they're even smaller and smarter.
AEDs save lives by saving time. If an AED delivers a shock within the first three to five minutes after a person's heart stops, studies show, the odds of survival are 60 percent to 70 percent.
That is far shorter than the time it usually takes emergency medical personnel to arrive. In much of the country, EMS response time averages nine minutes. In many big cities and rural areas, it can take 15 or 20 minutes or longer for an ambulance to arrive. So the availability of an AED, and a bystander to use it, is, literally, a matter of life and death.
The Red Cross says its goal is to have every person in America within four minutes of an AED and someone prepared to use it. Other experts say an AED ideally should be within 300 feet of a victim. Those goals remain far off.
Despite two decades of efforts to expand public access to AEDs, the devices remain unevenly distributed, often hidden away under lock and key, subject to a daunting patchwork of state regulations, mandates and laws, and tens of millions too few in number.
About 2.5 million AEDs are scattered across a country of more than 300 million people; experts calculate that 30 million of the devices are needed just to cover all major metropolitan areas.
And even if your office building or church is equipped with an AED, you might not know it. Unlike fire extinguishers, which are a familiar sight in buildings, AEDs often are not prominently visible and identifiable, and are frequently kept under lock and key.
Finding one can be a matter of happenstance. In some states and cities, lists of the locations of AEDs are kept, but the information is rarely publicly accessible or used by 911 operators. In 19 states, there are no registries at all.
Overall, the AEDs that are in place are mainly deployed in places like schools, fitness centers, transit hubs, arenas and government buildings, often because state laws mandate them. But unlike for fire extinguishers in workplaces and commercial vehicles, there are no federal regulations requiring AED placement, testing or training, except for in federal buildings and commercial airliners.
Where an AED is placed is often a matter of good will and luck, driven mainly by volunteer efforts and the decisions of business and government leaders.
Many businesses and even local officials remain leery of hosting AEDs due to liability concerns.
"In many companies, the insurers and risk-management guys still seem to think they're better off not having AEDs than having them,'' said Linda Campbell, a retired nurse and manager of aeromedical issues for American Airlines who helped found the company's AED program in the mid-1990s, and is now on the board of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association.
Critics say some property owners may be put off by complex and inconsistent state and local rules on where and how AEDs are placed and maintained, even though every state has "good Samaritan" laws intended to shield those who provide or use the devices to try and save a life.
Cost is also cited as an obstacle, as the devices can run $1,000 and up, plus money for maintenance and staff training.
Another major hindrance to life-saving is the reluctance of bystanders to use AEDs.
Unfamiliarity with the devices' simplicity and general ease of operation -- one study showed that sixth-graders mastered them quickly -- leaves some bystanders intimidated and afraid they will make a mistake and hurt the victim. The odds that bystanders will use an AED on a cardiac-arrest victim who collapses in public are about 2 in 100, according to one large study published by the American Heart Association several years ago.
"Companies and governments fear getting sued; the public is afraid of using them because they're scary," said Craig Goldenfarb, a West Palm Beach, Fla., attorney who specializes in cases arising from sudden cardiac arrest.
But doctors and other experts say such fears pale against what AEDs offer: A shock to the heart gives the victim a fighting chance to live.
"It's kind of blunt, but the bottom line is when you're in (cardiac) arrest, you're dead before you hit the ground. There's no way you can cause that victim any more harm using that device. You're trying to bring them back," said Greg Slusser, vice president for Connecticut-based Defibtech, one of a half-dozen manufacturers of AEDs in the U.S.
Contrary to decades of television medical dramas, AEDs come with no clunky paddles, shouts of "clear" or jolts that cause patients to jump off stretchers. AEDS are small and consumer-friendly.
Rescues feature simple instructions from the machine, attachment of two adhesive electric leads to the chest, a few seconds for the machine to analyze the patient's condition, and then, if needed, a shock that scarcely makes the patient's chest muscles twitch.
"They're made to be used by people with no training. An AED talks you through what to do. The devices cannot hurt you," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of cardiology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Even so, AEDs are advanced medical tools with parts that can fail.
There have been more than 45,000 AED failures reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the seven years, including more than 1,100 incidents in which patients died. The agency recently announced plans to impose higher safety standards on manufacturers.
Some businesses have gone against convention to install the devices. American Airlines, for example, started putting AEDs on planes in 1995, nearly a decade before the Federal Aviation Administration required them.
"When we took this to our legal and insurance people and laid out the costs for the devices and training 27,000 flight attendants, (then-American Airlines President) Robert Crandall basically said (to) forget the pocketbook, this is the right thing to do,'' said Campbell, who helped develop the airline's program.
Adding two AEDs to the tools at Kumler Collision & Automotive garage on the outskirts of Lancaster, Ohio, was an easy decision for owner Dean DeRolf. His company's readiness for medical emergencies took on new urgency last year after a veteran worker suffered a stroke.
"We'd been talking about whether we knew what to do, could we save someone who went down. I never thought about the liability or the cost that much, just whether we could take care of our people or a customer."
Far more frequently, though, cardiac arrest comes where there is no AED close by. There were none in the law offices where Michael Sage died in 2011, and none when 15-year-old Caleb Hannink collapsed in gym class at Centennial High School in Bakersfield, Calif., last November.
Caleb's death eventually ended a six-year quest by the mother of an earlier young Bakersfield cardiac-arrest victim to convince Bakersfield education officials to install AEDS in schools.
Corrine Ruiz, who leads the local Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association chapter, has been working to raise awareness about the condition and for more AED access in schools since the 2004 death of her daughter, 14-year-old cheerleader Olivia Hoff. The teen's heart stopped at home due to an undiagnosed defect.
Until her daughter died, Ruiz had never thought much about cardiac arrest or the device that might have saved Olivia's life. But like many parents and other family members of sudden-cardiac-arrest victims, she has sought to honor Olivia's memory trying to prevent more deaths.
She began advocating training and pushing Bakersfield education officials to install AEDS in schools. But it took Caleb Hannink's death eight years later to finally prod the district to act.
"We didn't give up; we made a breakthrough, although it took another tragedy,'' Ruiz said.
To Dr. Bentley Bobrow, a Phoenix-based emergency doctor and American Heart Association spokesman, there is no excuse for such tragedies to occur.
"This is a major public-health problem that's not being addressed," said Bobrow, who researches cardiac deaths and rescues.
"We need a different approach. It should be unacceptable anywhere in this country for someone to collapse of apparent cardiac arrest in a public place and not get basic quality CPR and someone at least try to find them an AED,'' Bobrow said.
Mary Tappe, the Denver cardiac-arrest survivor and advocate, says she's always on the lookout for the nearest AED. "I don't need it to save me -- I have one implanted," she said. "But I just couldn't stand it if someone collapsed in front of me and I didn't have the tool I needed to try and save them."
(Contributors to this report include Katie LaGrone and
Lynn Walsh of WPTV in West Palm Beach, Sarah Buduson of WEWS in Cleveland, Lauren Gilger of KNXV in Phoenix, Tiffany Martin of KERO in Bakersfield, Thomas Charlier of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, and Scripps digital journalist Danielle Alberti. Contact Scripps health and science writer Lee Bowman at email@example.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)


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A peek behind democracy's closed doors
It's civics 101: Before any piece of legislation becomes law, it must first be voted on and passed by both the U.S. House and Senate. It sounds simple enough in theory, but in reality, the process is often neither simple nor straightforward.
For the last four years Larry Evans, with the help of a revolving cadre of undergraduate research collaborators, has been looking behind the generally closed doors of Congressional leadership at what he sees as one of the central investigations among political scientists today—the role that political parties and their leaders play in the legislative process. His window on this process has been the tally sheets, or "whip counts," that congressional leaders use to track the positions of members prior to major roll call votes.
"It's actually kind of difficult to measure the impact of leaders and parties on the legislative process," said Evans, Newton Family Professor of Government at William and Mary. "For instance, if you are looking at a roll-call vote, if it is an important issue more often than not you are going to have a party-line outcome with the Democrats on one side and the Republicans on the other. But the question is why?"
Evans noted that political scientists can suppose numerous reasons for the frequency of the party-line split. After all, Democrats and Republicans alike display a high degree of political cohesion, both naturally ideological or driven by interest groups or constituency concerns. Evans says another possible cause is that each party's leadership is stepping in and influencing members. The individuals who are charged with making sure there are no surprises when the votes are tallied are called "whips." In the Senate and the House, each party has a member who serves as the whip and is assisted by many deputy whips and expert staff. The whip's first job is to count votes—or rather, potential votes. Before important bills are considered on the House or Senate floor, whips often see that members of their party are individually polled, in person or by e-mail or phone.
The whip usually marks each member's response in one of five categories—"yes," "leaning yes," "no," "leaning no" or "undecided." The papers logging the responses are called whip counts and are the raw material for Evans and his students. Whips do more than just poll the members of their party. When the vote count isn't solid, whips begin the second part of their jobs, using their influence to turn some yesses into nos—or vice versa.
A public whipping
Sometimes a whip's actions are, literally, front-page news. In March, 2008, current Democrat whip James Clyburn's successful efforts to get the last few votes to pass a crucial ethics bill were very visible on the House floor. The process was televised by C-Span, reported in the Congressional Record and chronicled on page A-1 of the Washington Post.
Congressman Clyburn's high-profile whip work is the exception. Generally, Evans says, the influence of the party whips is exerted more privately. Therefore, the only way to examine how the whips do their jobs is to track changes in the whip counts. To examine patterns in whip counts and roll calls over the course of a given bill, Evans and a team of undergraduate researchers have been coding each tally into a computer database.
Evans credits the students with the bulk of the coding, a time-consuming and painstaking process. He has even conducted a summer research program for the last four years, in which students lived on campus and worked full-time on the project. Nearly 80% of the students involved in the overall project have participated in the summer program.
The students have gone through data from the whip counts of House Democrats from 1955 to 1986 and from House Republicans from 1975 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1994. Some 35 students and counting have worked on the project. No detail has been overlooked. Entries are even included for members who are absent because they are ill or out of town. To date, approximately 500,000 member responses have been coded into the database on over 800 major pieces of legislation considered before Congress since World War II.
Getting the raw data hasn't been easy. While Congressional roll call votes are public documents and recorded in the Congressional Record, whip counts are not. To get them, Evans and a number of his student researchers have traveled to archives around the country, poring over countless files, looking into the records of former Congressional whips. Evans estimates that they have photocopied more than 10,000 pages of documents.
Logan Ferree '07 traveled with Evans to visit the archives of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at the University of West Georgia. "Although I had been interested in government when I first came to William and Mary, working on the project helped turn that interest into a passion that has resulted in a career in politics," he said in a recent email.
The researchers have also found the congressional archives to be a rich source of contextual evidence into the effectiveness of party influence wielded on House votes. This contextual information is being developed through case studies examining what factors move a whip count—for example, leadership lobbying, constituency pressure, team playing, etc. The case studies were completed in Evans' seminar classes and summer research program by student researchers such as Ricky Trotman. Trotman's initial exposure to the project was through an assignment in a freshmen seminar, American Political Development, taught by Evans.
"I did an overall analysis of a 1980s bill funding Angolan rebels. My assignment was to explain why the Democrats failed to defeat that bill. So I coded a bunch of variables like the percentage that Reagan won by in that representative's particular district, minority populations, age brackets, funding received from the party," he explained. "What it ended up coming down to is there were a large number of Hispanics in Florida and the Democrats were overwhelmingly represented in Florida at that point but they swung for the bill and it was that constituency that really put the bill over the top, which I found to be very interesting. Because for that particular whip count there had been, I think, three different polls taken. So you see a progression—maybe like an undecided, an undecided and then, 'No, I'm not voting with you.'"
A Pickle paper
Claire Grandy '09 wrote a seminar paper on former Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle's amendment to the House's 1977 Social Security financing bill in her freshman year. "I was pretty certain (and I still suspect) that no one had ever devoted much more than 15 words to the Pickle amendment," Grandy said of the experience. "But Professor Evans walked us through the process and the research turned out to be fun—and unique."
The whip count project is funded by a large grant from the National Science Foundation and has received additional funding from the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma and the Roy R. Charles Center of the College of William and Mary. The project has already yielded numerous papers—many of which have been presented by the students at political science conferences—as well as two book chapters in edited volumes. A complete book is also on the horizon.
One paper written by Evans and five members of the class of 2005—Sarah Brown, Keith Devereaux, Kristen Haase, Will Marlow and Josh McHenry—received the Patrick J. Fett Award for the best paper on Congress and the Presidency in 2006 at the Mid-west Political Science Association Convention.
Since his freshman seminar, Trotman, who also participated in the summer program, has written a second paper for the project, "Parties, Preferences and Contras in the 1980s House" with Evans and co-authors Miguel Matamoros, Walter McClean and Laura Whipple. The four undergraduates and Evans presented the paper at the Western Political Science Conference in San Diego in March.
Charting the path of influence
Evans, whose research focuses on American national politics, hopes his project will not only provide scholars and others the information necessary to analyze how Congressional leadership and political parties routinely exert their influence but provide a method for tracking this influence over time.
"Because we've got this whip-count data which provides a peek at the decision-making process, you can open up the black box of member decision making in really a rich way," he said.
Followed over time, the patterns of the whip counts and final vote tallies can be telling, especially when paired with the additional contextual information being generated by Evans' project.
"The evidence we have gathered is really useful for evaluating the independent impact of the leadership, allowing us to shed light on a major scholarly debate that really has confounded most of the top scholars in the field," Evans said.
Still, he added, the papers that he and the students have written only scratch the surface in this area of research. "A long-term goal of the project is to develop and maintain one of the more valuable and highly-used research web sites about the American legislative process," he said.
In addition to influencing scholarship about Congress, the project has affected its participants.
"Most of all, through this project and my government seminar the next semester, I gained a great appreciation for good research practice and was delighted to carry over some of the data I'd worked with into coursework completing my major," said Brent Schultheis '08. "I feel more confident now that I can tackle whatever research demands I'll have in law school or the working world."
Trotman admits he was initially overwhelmed by the project, but the history and international relations major now notes he wouldn't trade the experience.
"It was definitely worthwhile thinking back on it now," he said. "Writing the paper at three or four o'clock in the morning, I wasn't thinking it was so rewarding then, but it definitely was worth it. I see a lot of value in the project and it's definitely something that can shape the future study of congressional politics."
The idea that party leaders and presidents are influential in the votes cast in Congress is not entirely a new one, but this project offers a novel way for scholars to add empirical evidence to their theories, Evans said.
"There are all kinds of stories about the techniques that leaders use to influence outcomes," he said. "But, we don't really know systematically how that occurs over a lot of bills, over a lot of years, and this evidence—gathered by all my students and me—sheds a lot of light on that."
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Lafourche Drug Task Force agents were watching the home Tuesday of Daffney Kiger, 37, 505C N. Bayou Drive, deputies said. Before they saw her, they saw Billy Coleman, 31, 319 St. Louis St., pull out of her driveway.
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Sharon Tate Moody posted an article with this provocative title in the Tampa Tribune recently ...
She states ...
The genealogy world is cluttered with materials that purport to be the writers' family histories. Too many of them are nothing more than lists of people with unproven dates of birth, death and marriage, and in many cases the people on the list aren't even related.
The individuals who created those lists are the same ones who believe the television ads about how easy it is to click on a few links and find your entire family. People who believe those ads are sort of the joy riders of genealogy: They steal the family car and have a grand old time for the weekend, racing around the Internet and leaving a mess for someone else to clean up on Monday morning...
Read the full article. And, as always, read the comments! A really neat feature of the blog format are the comments posted by others, whether they agree or disagree they are often entertaining and frequently enlightening.
And, since this post, there has been a "response" post from another genealogist, Amy Coffin, titled Time to Pop a Cap in the Term "Drive-by Genealogist"
Today I read an article about "drive-by genealogists." Apparently this is a label now.
My issue isn't necessarily with this article in particular; it's the message in it that I keep seeing. This piece just happened to be the last place I saw it.
There's a baffling backlash toward those just discovering their interest in family history. I don't believe anyone is anti-newbie, but there's this bizarre assumption that their first efforts are automatically flawed.
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and we have people telling them they're not good enough to be here... Church of Genealogy
Again, do read the full article.
What are your thoughts? I think it's a really tough situation. We were all newbies once and we did get better with time and guidance. On the other hand, it is frustrating to have a lot of not-documented information out there that then gets repeated ad nauseum! Though, it is typically easy-enough to quickly tell if some online information is substantive or not and move on ...
Dare you weigh in on this? Happy to hear your thoughts!
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Salad Recipes
Wood Ear Mushroom and Tofu Stir Fry Recipe
Here's a simple and easy tofu stir fry recipe. Pan-fried tofu is cooked with celery and fresh wood ear mushrooms. Quick and delicious. That's it!
The Asian New Year is Sunday, and as you may have noticed, I've been cooking a lot of tofu dishes over the past few days. Next I'll share with you some of my favorite New Year's desserts. Stay tuned!
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Dau Hu Rang Muoi Recipe (Vietnamese Tofu)
Đậu hũ rang muối is probably my husband Lulu's favorite preparation for tofu. It literally translates to "toasted tofu in salt crust". Indeed, large pieces of silken tofu are covered in tapioca starch, then deep-fried. Finally, a quick stir fry of green onions, freshly sliced red Thai chiles and salt complete the dish.
The simplicity of this dish is what is remarkable about the versatility of tofu. A drizzle of soy sauce and the addition of freshly steamed jasmine rice makes the most delicious meal. Who could ever say tofu is bland and tasteless?
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Lunar New Year: Taro Cake Recipe
Remember I shared my crab cake recipe as a party food idea for the Super Bowl? Well, I developed a vegetarian version for my husband Lulu as well. I mixed shredded taro roots and rice and added green peas for extra color. Visually, they looked pretty similar to crab cakes, and their texture resembled the "real thing" too. The only difference, which you probably already guessed is the taste. But Lulu doesn't like crab, so that's a good thing!
Check back this entire week for my vegetarian dishes in preparation of Tết, the Asian New Year celebration.
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Tet Celebrations: Canh Hoanh Thanh (Wonton Soup Recipe)
This week marks the beginning of the Tết celebrations. A tradition of Tết is that you eat vegetarian (ăn chay) on the last day of the previous year and first day of Asian New Year, so I decided this week I will be sharing several vegetarian Vietnamese dishes with you until the celebration commences this weekend.
I haven't made wonton soup (canh hoành thánh in Vietnamese) in a while, which is a shame because it's not all that complicated. The filling consists of carrots, tofu, chestnuts, green onions, wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms. I also made a simple broth to let the flavorful vegetarian dumplings be the shining stars.
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Crepe Party
Today (February 2nd) is a popular French celebration called La Chandeleur (also known as Christian holiday Candlemas). How do you celebrate it, you ask? You eat crêpes, ton of crêpes.
I prepared 3 large batches of crêpe batter (click the link for the recipe) last night and let the girls toss so they can prepare their own version by laying down multiple filling options on the kitchen counter. Sprinkling crêpes with sugar can be sufficient but is not at all necessary; the possibilities are truly endless. I've gathered a few ideas for you to try. Bon appétit!
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About Objects Student's First iOS App Goes Live on App Store
About Objects student Jeff Richardson has developed a truly impressive app that's now available for download on the App Store for $2.99. It's a remarkably polished first effort that makes it easy to create landscape designs right on your iPhone.
App: Home Outside Design – Create the Landscape You Love.
Developer's Website: Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio
Jeff's Website: All Dreams Digital


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Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Welcome Baby Girl Lincoln!
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have welcomed baby girl Lincoln Bell Shepard into the world, he confirmed on his Twitter account on Thursday (March 28)!
"Lincoln Bell Shepard is here. She has mom's beauty and dad's obsession with breasts. Hooray!!!" the 38-year-old actor updated about him and his 32-year-old actress fiancee's new addition.
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CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) is the largest U.S. pharmacy services provider.[1] It operates pharmacies, which sell prescription and Over the Counter (OTC) drugs, as well as retail merchandise such as cosmetics, convenience foods, and photo processing services. It also provides mail-order pharmaceutical services like prescription fulfillment. Through its businesses, CVS fills or manages more than 1 billion prescriptions per year.[2]
The company benefits from the increased demand for drugs from aging baby boomers, the general increase in prescription drug coverage over the last decade, and the expansion of government spending on health care through programs like Medicare Part D. However, the company does face challenges especially with its largest competitor Walgreen Company (WAG).
CVS Caremark Corporation consists of two major segments: retail pharmacy and pharmacy services. CVS operated over 7,000 retail pharmacy stores nationwide, including CVS Pharmacy stores as well as recently acquired Longs Drug Stores. In addition, it operates the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Pharmacare (including , as well as recent acquisitions: the PBM Caremark, retail health clinic MinuteClinic (mostly located inside CVS pharmacies), and Longs Drug Stores.
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Several external trends are currently increasing all pharmacies' revenues across the industry. In addition to increased sales of prescriptions, CVS will benefit as additional foot traffic for the pharmacy naturally leads to increased retail sales in the front end of the store.
CVS's revenues come from both pharmacy sales and non-pharmacy, or front store, sales. Though medical costs such as prescriptions are not discretionary expenses and thus less vulnerable to an economic downturn, patients still migrate towards lower cost generic drugs instead of more expensive brand name drugs. CVS stands to benefit from this, as they receive higher levels of reimbursement from groups like Medicare for generic drugs. Additionally, CVS Chief Executive Tom Ryan says that very little of front store sales comes from "true discretionary sales," meaning that same store sales won't be affected by penny-pinching consumers.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the much awaited and much debated health reform law signed into law by President Obama, may indirectly help US pharmacies by encouraging increased drug utilization, which could boost pharmacy sales.
First, the law is projected to expand insurance to 32 million Americans previously without coverage. Presumably, newly uninsured patients will increase their utilization of drugs. Part of this expansion of coverage is done through an insurance mandate, while part is done by an expansion of Medicaid eligibility. Partially offsetting the benefit accrusing from those newly covered under Medicaid will be the lower reimbursement rates paid by the program to pharmacies relative to cash customers (who pay higher prices but generally buy fewer drugs).
Second, the law partially fills in the Medicare Part D coverage gap, or "donut hole". This is a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage that kicks in after a moderately high annual threshold of spending on prescription drugs is reached. Before then, Medicare generally covers about two-thirds of drug cost; after reaching the gap, the next $3,610 worth of drugs is fully paid for by the patient, after which Medicare covers 95% of all remaining costs. Beginning in 2011, they will also receive a 50% discount on branded drugs. Over the next nine years, a series of discounts and benefits will lead to elimination of the gap. This should make sicker patients with high drug spend less price-sensitive and thus also encourage drug utilization.[5]
Major drug manufacturers carrying common household OTC medications such as Tylenol, Advil, and Motrin are six times more likely to be purchased by consumers than its same function generics.[6] The main idea behind this thinking, even though most often than not the drug facts are the same, is consumers grew up with these brands and perceive them as safer or more effective than inferior goods.
However, when in the rare case that these trusted household brands are recalled, consumers are often thrown into confusion and will make the switch over to retail pharmacy generics, sometimes permanently. This presents a very valuable opportunity for retail pharmacies. For example, when JOHNSON & JOHNSON (JNJ)'s drugmaking unit McNeil recalled millions of children's and adult versions of those drugs over the past 10 months since late 2009, many consumers have been fraught with confusion as retail pharmacies have been stuck with inadequate supply.[7]
As a result, all major pharmacies such as CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart have revamped private label drug manufacturing.[8] As traditional JNJ loyalist consumers are forced to use generics, they may realize that they are just as effective as Tylenol and JNJ, except cheaper. As such, these loyal consumers may choose to permanently change over, which presents an extremely lucrative opportunity for retail pharmacies.
CVS's biggest competitor is the Walgreens. Walgreens also has its own PBM, Walgreens Health Services, making it the most comparable to CVS Caremark in terms of breadth of offerings. CVS acquired Caremark, it's operating margins increased due to lower operation costs from Economies of scale.
CVS also competes for market share with discount stores, particularly Wal-Mart. The retail discount giant has a smaller presence in the prescription drug market but dwarfs CVS in front store sales. Its large gains in market share for both prescription drugs and front store sales are likely reflective of decreasing consumer spending in the face of the economic downturn.
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Underbelly Productions Presents WUNDERKAMMER at the Edinburgh Festival This Summer
Underbelly has revealed that after a two year absence, the moo-gestic McEwan Hall will be returning to the Pasture for the this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe. At 5pm each day, Australian circus company Circa take to the stage and the air, with their critically acclaimed show Wunderkammer.
Wunderkammer is an exquisite cabaret of the senses, in which a diva melts into a rope, balloons and bubble wrap discover their artistic souls and bodies twist and fly. Seven performers of exceptional ability bend the very fabric of reality. Control and abandon, skill and humour, lyricism and anarchy all meld into a sinuous fugue of beauty.
Circa is world-renowned for creating startling new ways to experience circus. Combining seemingly impossible physical feats with a poetic sensibility, the company has gained an international reputation for being at the very cutting edge of its art form.
Circa Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz said, "Circa is thrilled to be returning to the Fringe after four years with Wunderkammer - a complex feast for the senses - full of humour, emotion, seduction and great skills. The word Wunderkammer means cabinet of wonders and in this show we have aimed to create a contemporary place full of rare and amazing things. Like all of Circa's shows, Wunderkammer takes you beyond circus skills and new vaudeville/burlesque and ultimately infuses us with a strong sense of our own humanity."
Underbelly Co-Director Ed Bartlam says 'We're hugely excited to bring CIRCA back to Edinburgh, doubly so with a show like Wunderkammer - it's an extrodinary piece that we think will thrill festival audiences.'
Since 2006 Circa has toured 25 countries across five continents. The company made their Fringe debut in 2009 with the critically acclaimed show CIRCA, which later transfered to London for a season at the Barbican Centre.
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Bourque, Rask lead B's past Maple LeafsBy SportsDirect Inc.
February 02. 2013 11:22PM
Tuukka Rask turned aside all 21 shots he faced to make Chris Bourque's goal in the first period stand up as visiting Boston maintained its dominance of the Toronto Maple Leafs, 1-0, Saturday.
Chris Kelly added an assist for the second consecutive contest for the Bruins, who have won seven straight versus Toronto to improve to 24-5-5 in their last 34 games.
James Reimer suffered a hard-luck loss after finishing with 33 saves. The young netminder was blitzed by Boston last season en route to dropping both decisions and amassing a gaudy 6.58 goals-against average and .795 save percentage.
Rask kept the Maple Leafs at bay to register his 12th career shutout and first this season. Rask improved to 7-1-0 in his career versus Toronto after stopping seven shots in all three periods.
Bourque provided all the offense Rask would need at 8:54 of the first period when he banged home Kelly's brilliant backhanded feed from in close.
Bourque showed shades of his famous father Ray when he let out a familiar fist pump after he scored his first goal with the Bruins and second of his NHL career.


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That's Entertainment: Twenty years ago
Providence College presented "a classy tale of idles of the rich and French," with fabulous costumes by David Costa-Cabral.
Lynne Singleton brought big bands back to PPAC. Joe Giorgianni and the Loew's Big Band featured trombonist Phil Wilson and trumpet player Byron Stripling.
Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas starred in the melodrama "Shining Through," set during World War II. "Final Analysis" starred Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Kim Bassinger and Chubby Checker.
"The Lawnmower Man" was all about the latest computer technology, taken from a Stephen King short story and starring Pierce Brosnan as a computer scientist.
It was 20 years ago that Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey starred in "Wayne's World," the dumb comedy based on a five-minute "Saturday Night Live" skit.
The RI Philharmonic Pops presented "The Best of the Beatles" under the direction of Newton Wayland. They also offered a Valentine Pops Concert at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet.
Academy Players did A.J. Gurney's lively "The Dining Room" at East Greenwich's Swift Civic Center, directed by Thomas R. Pezzullo.
2nd Story Theatre's Pat Hegnauer directed a new series of one-act plays for $5.
Perishable Theatre had "North Atlantic," a confusing play that I gave an "A" for effort.
Bobby McFerrin is making his first Rhode Island appearance thanks to FirstWorks in 2012, but he was at the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford 20 years ago, where he gave a fantastic performance for their 10th anniversary.
The Rocky Point Chowder House on Post Road in Warwick had all-you-can-eat red chowder and clamcakes for $4.95. Oh, do we miss those clamcakes!


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"The World Food Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people," but this year has honored three biotech scientists, angering citizens around the world.
We live in a world rich with fertile soil, a world covered in croplands, a world that produces enough food to feed every man, woman, and child. We also live in a world in which nearly 870 million people suffer from chronic undernourishment, most of them in developing countries, and many of them children. Luckily however, we live in a world constantly striving to end hunger, and the World Food Prize recognizes the efforts of a few shining individuals in their efforts to "advance human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world." This year the illustrious prize was awarded to "three distinguished scientists… for their independent, individual breakthrough achievements in founding, developing, and applying modern agricultural biotechnology. Their research is making it possible for farmers to grow crops with: improved yields; resistance to insects and disease; and the ability to tolerate extreme variations in climate."
Yes, it may come as a surprise, but The World Food Prize has embraced the promise of biotechnology's ability to improve yields, increase resistance to disease and insects, and to increase tolerance of adverse conditions such as drought. It is surely no coincidence that the Food Prize's list of sponsors includes such biotech and corporate agriculture luminaries as Monsanto, DuPont, Cargill, and Hormel, and these are just some of the names at the top of the list. Genetically modified (GM) crops have largely failed to fulfill their early promises, though research has been controversial and inconclusive. This is not to say that GM food has no place in the global food system—though many would argue that it doesn't.
Let's take the case of golden rice, which has the potential to drastically improve children's health in impoverished regions. Though not without its own set of controversies (including how these genes will spread in the wild over centuries to come), golden rice demonstrates the potential for genetic modification. However, what the multi-billion dollar biotech agriculture industry and the World Food Prize are missing, is that hunger is not due to a lack of food but rather it is a consequence of unfair economic systems, prioritizing money over health and justice, and the unequal distribution of basic food stuffs.
Monsanto offers a pretty picture of the future, but environmentalists and advocates have a host of concerns. (image courtesy of Monsanto Photos via flickr)
Corporate biotech giants like Robert Fraley's (one of the World Food Prize recipients) Monsanto and Mary-Dell Chilton's (another winner) Syngenta are doing nothing to address the systemic issues of hunger, and in fact are likely perpetuating and exacerbating nutritional and financial inequalities. The major problem with GM food, in addition to the potential health risks (research has yet to determine the risks to human or ecological health), is the monopolization of agriculture around the world. Corporations like Monsanto lock farmers into contracts forcing them to use their seeds and spray with roundup, which leads to long-term soil toxicity and the inability to transition back to non-GM seeds. William Engdahl describes this business tactic as promoting a new kind of serfdom. Biotechnology firms patent their seeds, and thus collect royalties on their sales, providing huge incentive for raising seed prices. In India, the introduction of Monsanto cotton seeds precipitated a seed price increase of 8,000 percent, leading to huge numbers of farmers in debt.
It is clear that GM food needs to be more rigorously analyzed, and by independent researchers external to the biotech industry. Preliminary research, however, suggests that benefits from GM crops are temporary, as yields fall in the long run and crops build up resistance to the biotech-developed pesticides, prompting the growth of super weeds. Insects too, are starting to show resistance to the insect-resistant strains. The World Food Prize has shown its corporate dependence, angering citizens around the world.
The World Food Prize argues for economic and environmental sustainability in agriculture, yet undermines its very mission with this award. While GM food may have a role in a sustainable future, that role is difficult to envision at the current time. Much of the current GM crop is going towards animal feed or biofuel production, which is rife with its own set of issues. Instead of blindly following its corporate sponsors, the World Food Prize should have chosen from a host of other deserving recipients, and reinforced its dedication to food security through environmentally and culturally sustainable practices.


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Head to Antarctica on an adventure to explore the frozen continent
Experience an adventure tour of Antarctica and explore the unique conditions at the end of the Earth. Embark from Tierra Del Fuego and travel through the Beagle Channel and Drake Passage to the South Shetland Islands to see the incredible landscapes created by the Antarctic climate. See multiple species of playful penguins, the imposing and graceful frames of Antarctica's whales, and a frenzy of feeding birdlife. Benefit from the navigational expertise and local knowledge of a professional crew and make the most of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Travel to Antarctica and see the exotic, alien nature of this frozen world for yourself.
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Begin your adventure in the Patagonian outpost of Ushuaia, often referred to as the 'city at the end of the world'
Follow in the path of historic explorers, as you sail through the Beagle and Drake channels
Observe abundant species of whales, seabirds and seals on regular Zodiac excursions in the South Shetland Islands
Visit rookeries teeming with chinstrap penguins and hike up hills to enjoy 360 degree views of the Antarctic Peninsula
Optional activities such as sea kayaking or polar ice camping on selected voyages can take your adventure to the next level. Book early, as these sell out fast
Although our ice strengthened ships are big and sturdy, Antarctic waters can be unpredictable and rough. Some people may experience seasickness, especially through the Drake Passage and other open water crossings. Please be prepared with medications to combat this. There is also a doctor on-board should you need further assistance.
As you'd expect, temperatures in the Antarctic are freezing. A warm parka will be provided along with waterproof boots and unlimited hot drinks, but you should also bring base layers and lots of warm clothing. Please see the trip notes for further important information about what to bring.
Weather depending, you will be making regular excursions in a Zodiac boat to explore the local area and look for wildlife. It can get very cold and wet on the Zodiac, so make sure you are dressed appropriately and that you keep your camera safe and dry. Sturdy sea legs are needed as you make wet and dry landings from the boat, and on steep terrain, snow and other uneven surfaces. Some ships have a lot of stairs, so please hold on to the handrails if seas are rough.
The weather plays a pivotal part in this adventure and although there's an itinerary in place, there are no guarantees that you'll be able to do everything that is planned for. A level of flexibility and openness to embracing the unexpected are important in expedition travel, especially to such a remote area. There are nearly 200 recognised sites in the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetlands; the places mentioned in the itinerary may need to be changed to others (which are equally as interesting). We may also be confined to the ship during rough weather. The on-board library and educational lectures are ideal ways for keeping entertained.
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Arctic and Antarctic bookings have an increased deposit requirement of 20% of the full voyage cost (before any discount). The balance is due 120 days before departure.
If a booking is cancelled 120 days or more before departure - the cancellation fee is the full loss of the deposit paid.
If a booking is cancelled between 119 days and departure - the cancellation fee is 100% of the total price of the voyage.
Other fees may apply for air tickets and other arrangements booked in conjunction with a Polar voyage.
Kayaking is available to book on all Antarctic voyages. Some voyages also offer other activities such as camping, stand up paddle boarding, cross country skiing and mountaineering. All of these activities must be booked prior to departure and incur an additional cost. Spaces are limited so please enquire at time of booking. For kayaking, previous, recent experience is essential and a good level of fitness is required for cross country skiing and mountaineering. See the itinerary for Adventure options available on this voyage.
Your voyage is operated by our sister company, Quark Expeditions. All accommodation and transfer arrangements as listed in the itinerary are also operated by Quark Expeditions or their local representatives.