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Almost over, almost finished. There will be just this post, this one right here that you're reading, and then
one two more tomorrow (I believe) in 2013, and then I think Counterforce will be finished…
WordPress put together a nice little package of the year 2012 in review for the blog, which didn't contain a lot because we didn't do a lot with the blog in 2012. Hence, I'm afraid, it's coming to a close.
I'm not going to make it public, though it gives you the option to do so, but I will give you two highlights from it which I think are funny…
I do like WordPress in general. I know there are a lot of other blogging platforms out there that people like better, and I don't doubt that they're better, but WordPress has always pleased me with its simplicity and being relatively easy to use.
Anyway, I would like to do more and say more, but there's no time. I would like to end the blog right now, today, have it close its doors for the last time in 2012, but again, no time. I have other plans, other things to accomplish, a life that exists only part of the time on the internet, and that's a small part of why the blog is ending. Plus, it's funny to me to see it last just a little bit longer, to dip over just a little into the next year. If the world had ended last week as we were promised, then it wouldn't be an issue, but oh well. One down, two to go.
So, that said, have a nice New Year's Eve, you perverts, and have fun. And we'll make our final goodbyes tomorrow in


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10 Ways to Get Better Gas Mileage
Who doesn't want better gas mileage these days? Maximizing your fuel efficiency will not only save you money, it is better for your vehicle and the environment! With some proper maintenance, and simple tips and tricks, you can make fewer trips to the pump, which will be friendlier on your car, and your wallet.
Tires - The right tires for your driving conditions are important. For the best gas mileage choose low rolling resistance tires. These are designed to maximize fuel efficiency and performance by increasing the tire's grip on the road. Tires for racing and oversized off-roading tires are designed only for specific uses, and shouldn't be used as your vehicle's primary tires.

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Utter the word "taxes" and you'll get a shudder from most Americans across the country.
While the filing deadline for personal income taxes may not be until April 15th, both financial experts and your average Joe will tell you that this is one area where procrastination should be avoided at all costs.
For Latinos, who are not always known for their punctuality, now is when they should be getting their financial affairs in order, experts say.
"The first thing Latinos should not do is wait until the last minute to file their taxes," financial expert Mike Periu told Fox News Latino.
"Refunds come on a first come, first serve basis."
The longer you wait to file, the harder it can be to anticipate potential problems, he said.
"If you have a problem or you don't have all the documents you need, you may not have time to get all the necessary paperwork in order," adds Periu.
The next step Latinos should take is evaluating if they really need to pay a tax preparer.
Latinos have a long history of going to their local preparer, or notaries, for help. But Periu points out that this tradition could be a waste of money. Latinos, he said, assume they have to shell out hundreds to a tax preparer to get their taxes done.
"In reality, most Latinos have a very easy tax return," he said.
By doing your taxes on your own with the use of software programs like Turbo Tax or Tax Act, it is possible to save at least $150.
If you decide that you'd rather let a tax preparer handle all the dirty work for you after all, make sure they are registered with the IRS to prepare tax returns on behalf of other individuals.
A common mistake many Latinos make is not filling out a tax return because they think they're income is too low.
However, according to Periu, "even if you make a very low income you can qualify for tax credits that are refundable."
Regardless on if you decide to do your taxes yourself or enlist the help of someone else, it is all about paying attention to detail.
"What happens with Latino families is that sometimes the classification they select isn't the correct one for their situation," he said. "An innocent mistake can become a bigger issue."
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Congratulations to our Director, Linda Birnbaum! She is one of six people selected to receive the 2016 North Carolina Award, the State's Highest Honor.
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Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., became the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) on January 18, 2009. In these roles Birnbaum oversees federal funding for biomedical research to discover how the environment influences human health and disease. Several advisory boards and councils provide Birnbaum and NIEHS/ NTP staff with input to accomplish this large task.
Birnbaum is the first toxicologist and the first woman to lead the NIEHS/NTP. She has spent most of her career as a federal scientist.
Birnbaum has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, in October 2010, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.
Birnbaum's own research and many of her publications focus on the pharmacokinetic behavior of environmental chemicals; mechanisms of actions of toxicants, including endocrine disruption; and linking of real-world exposures to health effects.
Birnbaum also finds time to mentor the next generation of environmental health scientists. For example, she serves as an adjunct professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Curriculum in Toxicology, and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as in the Integrated Toxicology Program at Duke University.
A native of New Jersey, Dr. Birnbaum received her M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The mission of the NIEHS is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives. Achieving this mission depends on a set of core values that apply to all activities of the Institute:
- Research excellence (innovation; discovery of new scientific knowledge and technology)
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- Community outreach, education, and involvement.
At the NIEHS and NTP, we engage in a special form of public service – producing scientific knowledge that promotes individual and public health. Our institute is uniquely positioned to help prevent disease and transform new scientific knowledge into improvements in human health. There are many opportunities before us to build and expand the contributions of the NIEHS:
- Foster research on environmental triggers of disease;
- Communicate advances in environmental health sciences to the public;
- Foster training and development of emerging young environmental health scientists and practitioners;
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- Foster safety assessment research on chemicals and other environmental factors.
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Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS Mom, Altiris, etc. For years I've recommended Servers Alive as a reasonably priced (about $200) solution that lets you do basic fault monitoring. It can alert on low disk space, check that a web page is running, login to a SQL Server (which isn't the same as saying the service is running!), and notify you via email, pager, or instant message when a problem is detected. You can monitor up to 10 items for free, after that you have to pay. Most of us in the DBA world use SQL Agent to do a lot of our monitoring/alerting, but on rare occasion SQL Agent can fail. It's nice to have a secondary level of monitoring running from a different machine.
There are probably similar products out there, it's one of those "I could write that!" type apps, and I stopped looking when I found something that met my needs.


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A Look at HIV/AIDS and Muslims in Zambia
An Interview With Sheikh Ali Charles Banda
September 2008
Sheikh Banda, can you introduce yourself and tell us a little about yourself?
My name is Sheikh Ali Banda. I come from a country called Zambia. I am Muslim in faith and also as the Mufti of the Muslims of Zambia. A Mufti is what you call the hierarchy of the Muslim leadership, the leader of all the Muslims in Zambia, you say. I am also in charge, meaning I'm an Imam and sheikh, of one of our Islamic centers in Zambia, where we have a school with a mosque and many other activities around that place. Also, I am a representative of the Muslim World League in Zambia and a board member of ANERELA [African Network of Religious Leaders].
Do you get any trouble from other Muslims in your community for being involved in this HIV/AIDS movement?
I cannot deny that fact that there are some Muslims, sheikhs and imams, and the general Muslims, who still feel that this issue is not really in the Muslim community. They'll tell you that a true Muslim cannot have HIV, or cannot be HIV positive. So there are some circles amongst the Muslim community where they still feel that HIV is out there, and not in the Muslim communities or family.
So how do you deal with that?
Of course, it's a mammoth task, but the way we are dealing with it is that, as Muslims, we understand Islam is a comprehensive way of life -- meaning that when we interpret the religion of Islam, or the Islamic faith, we say it is a comprehensive way of life, meaning it encompasses all what a human being needs.
Hence, Islam should have a say on HIV and AIDS, unless we are denying the fact that Islam is a comprehensive way of life. Then, Islam has no solution, has no say about HIV and AIDS. But if we agree that Islam tells us or teaches how a Muslim is supposed to conduct himself and how to live all his way of life, then Islam should have something to say about HIV.
That is the starting point, and that is where many Muslim leaders find themselves caught up in that world, that all things Islam talks about -- how you should do business, how you should conduct yourself at work, and many other things -- but why should it have anything to say about HIV?
So from that, now, we -- it is a process, of course -- discuss it with religious leaders. We have had a number of trainings through ANERELA, and also through the partnership with World Vision, where we have workshops and trainings for imams and religious leaders.
ANERELA also has brought this platform that, for the first time, if I may speak of Zambia, in particular, have had imams and sheikhs and Muslim women leaders who have come to me and told me about their status ... something which never happened.
Now, because of my association with ANERELA, and people having a place where they can go and confide in, this has really helped. So just to answer your question, this is the beginning point, where we discuss about the comprehensiveness of the teachings of Islam. Many Muslim scholars come to appreciate, to say yes; we need to talk about this. And how can we talk about something which we don't know? Again, that is another process.
How deep is the training? How many imams have been trained? How many people of faith have been trained. Does this go on in many mosques?
Inside, internally, as Muslims, we have had a number of trainings. But I feel that through my interaction with ANERELA and the trainings where I've done with ANERELA, I find that just reading from the scriptures -- I mean, from the Koran, the Hadith, and the teachings of Islam -- without understanding the scientific aspect on how the virus is transmitted to another person -- makes an imam not able to make an informed Islamic point of view on HIV and AIDS.
So it is the training now. We are combining the scientific facts of HIV and AIDS, how it is spread, and vis-?-vis how can we respond Islamically and in what the Koran tells us. For example, HIV prevention and all these things. What is condom use? What does Islam say about condom use? And many other preventive measures.
So the training is both scientific and Islamic, and with other partners like World Vision, which has the Channels of Hope, which is a comprehensive training specifically targeting religious leaders, which has a faith response in the process of the trainings, has really highlighted and helped many imams, not only in Zambia, but in many other countries, which have conducted these workshops and trainings.
A question that is often asked is, what do you say when people of faith say that HIV is a punishment from God for sinning?
I think this is very much prominent, if I may talk specifically about Islam, where there are many quotations which people refer to. One such example is the famous saying of the Prophet Mohammed, where he said that when fornication and adultery becomes rampant, then expect that God will send a disease which has never been seen by their ancestors. Meaning, a disease will befall the people which has never been seen.
Now, many sheikhs and imams translated these to say this is the result of the pandemic. This is the HIV, and it is a punishment from God. But again, it is also contradictory in itself, because there are many epidemics and pandemics which have been there. You talk of cholera in Africa. You talk of syphilis. It killed a lot of ... Malaria today has killed a lot of people. And many other sexually transmitted diseases.
So which one is it? Again, we go back and -- this is why I mention about the Channels of Hope training manual, which we train with the Muslims -- because these issues are addressed.
Can we say it is a punishment? Islamic teachings tell us anyone who is born is born free of sin. But how can we say a child who has contracted HIV, or got infected during birth from the mother; can we say he or she is a sinner? No, it is not that way. And there are many other forms of transmission. This is where, as I mentioned earlier on, the aspect of also empowering the imams with the scientific facts of the virus comes in. Because that's when they will understand and make informed decisions.
So the understanding that it is a punishment from God, even at many high levels of Muslim scholars, many Muslim scholars are of the opinion that we cannot say disease is a punishment of God, per se, because in some other teachings of the same prophet, he's saying if God wants to forgive somebody of the things he or she has committed, he may give him a disease as a way of relieving him from the sins he has committed. So, again, disease can be a blessing. It is a two-way thing. In short, we are saying HIV is not a punishment from God. And many of the scholars -- and I think this is now cooling down in the Muslim sectors. There are only a few who are really not participating in these activities, and people who are not really trying to interact with people living with HIV.
Can we say all people who are living with HIV are sinners, and all those who are not HIV positive are not sinners?It's only when you live with someone living with HIV, or yourself, you are infected; that's when you can really understand that really, that it's not a punishment. If it was, then all the people who have committed adultery and fornication were going to be sinners. We know that there are some Muslims who are involved in fornication and adultery and not all of them are HIV positive. Can we say they are not sinners? This is why we always pose the question of saying: Can we say all people who are living with HIV are sinners, and all those who are not HIV positive are not sinners? This is the question which we pose when we are discussing with the imams.
So we are coming towards the understanding that it is not a sin; but rather, it is a way of trying to bring us back to reflect a blessing, in this case, to understand deeper our teachings, and to show our concern to other people.
The pandemic, or the HIV, has brought cooperation and working partnerships with many other faiths, and has really set an example. So we could say it is a blessing in disguise, to some extent.
Another question I wanted to ask is, what do you think people of faith need to understand about HIV-positive people?
What they need to understand, first and foremost, is that they are human beings. Secondly, they should understand that they are called to facilitate, in helping and assisting the people who are living with, or affected, by any kind of calamity. That is their duty. Now, if they are denying this fact, it's denying their role, or the responsibility they are called to, as people of God.
The other thing that they should understand is that it is not because somebody is a sinner or not a sinner for him to be living with HIV. We have seen a very dedicated couple, a very dedicated woman, Muslim woman, in terms of religious matters. But three years, four years down the line, you hear that she's living with the virus. And you wonder: Is she a sinner? OK. We have, as I mentioned earlier on also, people who are involved in accidents and other calamities. This is another aspect, which many Muslims overlook.
You know, the Islamic tradition is that, when a person dies, we bury within 24 hours. As Muslims, the way we conduct our funerals is, you wash the entire body, the way you wash a person. You can bathe a person, or a baby. So during that process, if somebody died of an accident, blood is still there, and the virus, under those conditions, will still be active. Many people have contracted the virus through that. So we cannot say that these are sinners. I may request of the religious leaders of people of faith that they need their support, and they need encouragement. They need to be encouraged because we have many examples.
Even people who were chosen Islamically, people who were chosen by God, were affected by certain calamities. Not that God did not like them, because God does not look at somebody because of his status. As Muslims, we have a good example in the prophet, whom you call Job. In the Koran we call him Ayub. His calamities in the Koran goes in detail and talks about how he suffered and how the people stigmatized him. And this was a lesson for the Muslim, that we should not stigmatize, we should not look at a person, judge a person, because of his status of a disease, or his suffering.
So then why do you think stigma is still so prevalent?
People are getting more and more involved in the HIV and AIDS. I can't deny the fact, including myself -- being one of those imams who stood in the mosque and talked about HIV as a curse from God, and God is punishing the disbelievers, people who don't believe in God. That time is long gone because now we have a good number of Muslims who are living with the virus. Many Muslims have died. Many Muslims have died in the hospitals. We have seen many imams and sheikhs living with the virus.
Are they public? Are they public about their status?
That is another aspect of stigma. It is very easy to have just a male member in the mosque to talk about their status. They have got a good number. But there are very few imams who have come in open. In many countries I've visited, there are very, very few. But I know. What I know: it is like an example of hippo. You only see the nose outside of the waters. But down there, there is a big, huge body down there, lying under the waters. So the problem we might see it as the noses of the hippo. But the problem, really, is very big. I'm referring to the imams and the sheikhs amongst those people who really should come out. This would make a very big change. This will lessen the stigma.
There are many aspects people look at because they could be removed from their mosques. They could not be allowed to teach the children at the Koranic madrassa, and other places. So, really, this is what their fear is. But if I may give an example of Zambia. Because they have a kind of security that the person in leadership is very much involved with HIV. He talks about his status. He talks about the status of his relatives. And people now have the confidence to come in. It has to be leaders to take the lead in talking about their status, and also talking about HIV and AIDS.
Thank you so much for talking with me and for all that you do to make a difference.
Thank you very much.
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the bow tie Army The lion has told me about her problems with the growing Chippendale herd. Suddenly it dawns on me, I can solve the lions problem! This is the army I'm been searching for! But first I have to have an uniform, Dressed to kill I now had everything I needed to start an Army. But when I was among the Chippendales I found that they ignored me, they where not impressed at all. Consulting with the Lion she informed me that Chippendales are picky when choosing their leaders, and that they never listen to anyone without a thong. In order to lead a Chippendale army I had to become one.. This for me was a big step, not only in a fashion sense. In order to muster strength I took a stroll through our picture gallery. As it happened I found me in front of an image of Charles IV. Charles IV he became a Catholic in order to ascend the throne of France. If he could sacrifice his beliefs I can sacrifice my clothes. An Empire is well worth a Thong.. TO BE CONTINUED
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I grew up in a tech-savvy family, which also led to the profession I learned as Poly Mechanical Engineer.
Despite my work as a mechanical engineer, photography kept dominating my life. The camera was my daily companion. Passionate about Photography, I continuously kept capturing images of amazing landscapes and gradually learned the art of light. All types of cameras passed through my hands and thanks to my technical skills and photographic understanding I developed the ability to work with different models and brands.
Years of observation sensitized my eyes and senses for photography.
Meanwhile I have established myself in different areas both in studio photography and as a freelance photographer.
Whether it is Street, Fashion or Landscapes Photography or Photojournalism it all has become an integral part of my life.
When I held the x-camera in my hands for the first time I was immediately taken back to the time of analogy photography. Being able to capture the moment, the emotion and passion all with one piece of technology is why a camera holds such value to me. The camera is a beautiful tool that helps me in the development of my creative work


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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows 2003/XP/2000
The kernel is the core of the operating system and provides basic services for all other parts of the operating system.
If exploited successfully, MS09-058 allows to gain unauthorized privileges on a computer or network. An example of privilege elevation would be an unprivileged user who could manage to be added to the Administrator's group. In such case, the hacker could take complete control of the system: create, modify or delete files, install programs, create new user accounts, etc.
MS09-058 is usually exploited by running a specially crafted program in the vulnerable computer. In order to do so, a hacker must be able to log on locally to the system.
If you have a Windows Server 2008/7/Vista/2003/XP/2000 computer, it is recommended to download and apply the security patch for this vulnerability. Click here to access the web page for downloading the patch.
Bear in mind that this security patch replaces a previous one, called MS09-058.


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President Barack Obama will arrive at the Vatican on Thursday eager to meet the new pope he's quoted in a speech and lauded on television – and perhaps to bask in a little of Pope Francis' stratospheric popularity.
Obama has gushed over the new leader of the world's Roman Catholics, who's put the poor at the center of his papacy. Looking to hitch onto that part of the pope's message, the White House talked in advance about the two men's "shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing inequality."
There's also the photo opportunity, appearing with the pontiff whom polls suggest has struck a chord around the world in a way that reaches beyond his own religion.
"Everybody on the planet would love to have their picture taken with the pope right now," said Stephen F. Schneck, the director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. "And Obama's not much different."
Schneck, who served as a national co-chair of Catholics for Obama during the president's campaign, said Francis' emphasis on the poor reflected a "convergence and overlap" for Obama, who's made narrowing the widening gap between rich and poor a central focus of his second term.
Francis, in an official Vatican "Evangelii Gaudium," declared "inequality is the root of social ills," and Obama in December used a quote from Francis as he assailed income equality in the U.S.
"How can it be," Obama said, quoting Francis, "that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"
If they agree on the need to help the poor, they differ on other issues, however, as debate raged in the U.S. over the mandate in the new health care law that employer-provided health insurance provide free contraception.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over that provision this week, a mandate opposed by Catholic bishops and many Americans.
Minnesotans Ellen Poquette and her husband, Patrick, who stood in a cold drizzle Wednesday morning in St. Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver his Wednesday sermon, hope that Obama is listening.
"A viewpoint (Obama) needs to hear is how central it is to our Catholic faith that we honor conception from life to death," she said. "I don't know if it will make a difference, but I'm hoping he hears it."
At home, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested Obama should explain to Francis "why he is telling businesses in America they can't remain true to their faith and stay in business. "
Francis is unlikely to diverge from the bishops, said Stephen P. White, a fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.
"If the president hopes to score political points or drive a wedge between the pope, who's committed to the poor, and the bishops . . . that message is going to be contradicted by the reality of the situation," White said. "He's not going to scold but he's going to be firm."
Other issues that might come up include immigration, gay rights and the environment.
Regardless of the issue, Obama will find in Francis a charismatic leader whose popularity his first year on the world stage rivaled, if not surpassed, Obama's own.
A recent poll pegs Francis' popularity at 85 percent among U.S. Catholics, and 63 percent among all Americans. The new survey by Saint Leo University's polling institute put his negatives at 5 percent among Catholics and 8 percent of all Americans.
Obama's approval ratings are "more modest," notes the Catholic university in Florida: He drew 47 percent, with 49 percent disapproving of his job performance. The data is derived from a national poll of 1,009 people conducted March 16 to 18.
Obama's meeting with Francis will be the 28th between a sitting U.S. president and a pope, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
George W. Bush had held the distinction of being the only sitting U.S. president to meet two popes, but he'll share that with Obama, who met with Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
Bush, however, holds the record for meeting with the pope more times than any other sitting president: six.
Obama will also play tourist at the Colosseum while he's in Rome, forcing street vendors along the route from the Vatican to the amphitheater to close up shop for the day.
That's fine with Akal Lama, who's been on the same spot for 15 years, selling souvenir key chains, snow globes, cigarette lighters, decorative plates and for the past year, Pope Francis bobble heads.
"We have respect for the big guys," he said. "This is important."
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If I were a kid, I would probably have the date May 7, 2013 memorized like a video game cheat code. That's when the Legoland hotel in San Diego opens its brick-adorned doors, ushering in the first Lego-themed auberge on the continent.
Similar to the already-running Legoland hotel in Windsor, U.K., the entire façade and interior of the hotel features Lego elements from head to toe. Upon arriving, kids will surely gasp at a Lego dragon near the entrance that emits real smoke when irritated. Another example of Lego flair can be found in the lobby, where 6,000 Lego minifigures stand neatly lined up behind the concierge desk.
Guests can stay in one of 250 rooms and choose between themes such as pirate, kingdom, or adventure, each tying into their various related Lego product lines. The accommodations offer themed bedding and other theme-related ornaments, as well as a nice chunk of Legos to play with. Adults get a queen-size bed, while up to three younglings sleep in an adjacent room with a bunk bed. Each room also comes with a treasure chest, which does not open until the occupants solve a series of riddles implanted in the room. Why do kids get all the cool stuff these days?
Amenities at the upcoming Legoland hotel include several interactive play areas, shopping, a swimming pool, a Bricks restaurant, and a skyline bar.
Those seeking to reserve a room can do so via the Legoland hotel Web site, which just recently started accepting reservations. The nightly fee includes admission to the Legoland California resort, Sea Life Aquarium, Legoland water park, as well as breakfast.
I did a test run to see how much a room would cost per night for two adults and two children during the introductory month, and saw an average of $509 a night on weekdays, while the weekend bumped it up to $609. Premium rooms -- which include more elaborate decorations and an additional treasure chest -- cost about $80 more than standard.
Want to see the Legoland California hotel under construction? Check out this live construction cam.


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Ten nights ago, the Flyers' Ray Emery blanked Calgary, 3-0, and was starting to look like the goalie who led Ottawa to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2007.
Now his season is in jeopardy.
Emery will be shut down for at least three more weeks and, based on medical information provided by the Flyers Thursday, no one is certain if he will return this season.
That means Michael Leighton will be the No. 1 goalie for the foreseeable future.
Emery has an injured left hip that is almost definitely going to need surgery; the Flyers are hoping three weeks of rest enables him to return to action next month. If that happened, surgery is likely after the season.
Because of the two-week Olympic break, Emery would miss only five games if he was able to return after three weeks.
General manager Paul Holmgren would not say what an MRI on Emery's hip revealed. He said tests showed "issues there" and added, "I'm not going to get into specifics because we're still working through some stuff."
Based on hints the general manager has been dropping, it appears that Emery has a torn labrum.
"Is he going to need surgery at some point? I would probably say, 'Yeah,' " Holmgren said. "Right now, we're trying to take that out of the equation. After three weeks, we're fairly confident that he'll be OK to play."
Holmgren paused.
"Let me rephrase that," he said. "We don't know about surgery down the road. He's got hip issues. What we're trying to do" is help him get better "through rehabilitation and keeping him off the ice."
Holmgren said he had no interest in acquiring Dallas' Marty Turco or the New York Islanders' Marty Biron, a former Flyer.
The Flyers have little salary-cap space and figure to use the blossoming Leighton and Brian Boucher the rest of the way if Emery cannot return.
Leighton, 28, has been brilliant since the Flyers claimed him off re-enrty waivers from Carolina, compiling a 2.21 GAA and .925 save percentage.
Emery, 27, had a 2.17 GAA in the eight straight starts he made after returning from abdominal surgery. His last start was the shutout win in Calgary on Feb. 1. Four days later, he injured his hip during practice in Minnesota.


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it comes to office file(.doc,.xls,etc..) corruption or office files that is being deleted.
is there a way to recover these files manually or you need a third party software to recover corrupted office files..?
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We know it's a cryptic headline, but there's a
big HUGE move happening today in India as far as motorcycles are concerned, and we couldn't help being overly dramatic. Holding a 26% stake in Hero Honda, Honda announced that it will be selling its position in Indian joint-venture, the world's largest two-wheel manufacturer, to the Hero Group's founders, the Munjal family, and various investment funds.
Honda in turn will be pumping its resources into its own fully-owned subsidiary in India called Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India (HMSI). Buying its stock back at a discounted rate, the Honda will be selling the stock to Hero Honda for $1.2 billion, presumably in exchange for a larger percentage of the company's early revenue (Honda currently takes home 2.5% of Hero Honda's yearly revenue).


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It has been 473 days since Chris Pronger last appeared in a Flyers uniform, though it feels much longer since his in-your-face personality has bellowed through the halls of the Flyers' practice facility.
Pronger has not played since Nov. 11, 2011. We explained in September why he will never play again.
Pronger, 38, has understandably not addressed the media or the public about his ultimate career-ending eye injury until now. There isn't much he's allowed to say.
He gave his first interview to close family friend, Rogers Sportsnet analyst Dan Murphy in a two-part series which will air beginning Wednesday night in Canada. Murphy recently finished a book with Pronger's younger brother, Sean, called "Journeyman."
Pronger was struck in the eye on Oct. 24, 2011 against the Maple Leafs, when Mikhail Grabovski's errant stick caught him. His reaction was not all that different from the one you saw Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, when Marc Staal writhed on the ice in pain. Pronger's painful shrieks were audible from the press box, in an ultra-quiet Wells Fargo Center.
It was a sound you never forget as a journalist, one that still gives you chills. He never recovered from that stick to the eye, which may have resulted in an ocular-nerve concussion, and returned too soon.
"What happened was, I had 30-year-old eyes. I got hit and the doctor told me I had 60-year-old eyes," Pronger said. "I don't have very good peripheral vision. That so-called sixth sense? I used to have a really good one. Now, I couldn't feel anyone coming around a corner.
"My kids scare me all the time."
Pronger's interview, according to those who have seen it, is "absent of his trademark swagger."
The comments help explain why we've only seen him wearing glasses, such as when he was helping with scouting at the Flyers' training camp in January or being honored at the Blues game in St. Louis last Thursday. Pronger and his family, including wife Lauren, sons George and Jack and daughter Lilah, moved back to the St. Louis-area last season.
Pronger gave an update on his status, which doesn't make living everyday life seem all that easy. Why hasn't he come back to hockey? He's got too much to lose. Pronger has made in excess of $100 million in his career. His kids are young. He's won a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal and World Championships. He is a sure-fire first ballot Hall of Famer. He played in 1,340 games including playoff games and was one of the best defenseman of his generation.
He'd likely fall among the Top 10 defenseman of all-time.
"It's gotten a little better. I can leave the house and go do stuff," Pronger told Sportsnet. "If I do too much, I may get a headache. Occasionally, if I start to feel a bit better and I do a bit more, I get nauseous.
"Everyone wants to go out like a John Elway, where he wins two Super Bowls and retires on his own terms. Very, very few people get a chance to do that."
The first part of Murphy's sit-down interview airs Wednesday night on "Connected" on Rogers Sportsnet in Canada. We'll post it here if we receive permission to share.
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Guess what I found on my front porch here in Oshkosh, Wisconsin? What a happy event to end a kind of poopy week! I cannot WAIT to dig through this exotically fragrant box filled with goodies!
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I also read about the chaos with the last box. I'm glad these seem to be moving smoothly. :)
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I am sorry to say that the tea box got a little bogged down here in Wisconsin. However, I have finally gone through it and have ideas in mind (muhahahaha) for some wonderful teas that I am going to put in it. It will be packed up and ready to go on Sunday, and will resume its trip on Monday afternoon, with a sad, sad story about having to spend a week and a half in boring Oshkosh, WI, hidden from three naughty cats who kept trying to get to it and steal baggies out of it. (Don't worry, they didn't get at anything, not for lack of trying.) I heartily apologize for the delay, it is totally my fault and I should have kept you guys posted. :-( Mea culpa.
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My kitchen scale is off by a couple of ounces. The post office scale weighed the box at 1 lb. 5.6 oz. So BoxerMama, I guess you're just going to have to take out a little extra tea. ;-) I hope it gets to you soon!
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By the end of the brief video, my wife was simultaneously weeping and grinning like a child seeing snow for the first time. So was I, and I'd already seen it.
A spiritual practice? To me, anything that inspires wonder is spiritual. As is anything that uplifts the soul, proclaims the dignity of the human spirit or affirms our capacity to rise above obstacles, shatter boundaries and transcend limitations. Thanks to TV and the Internet, Jason McElway lifted millions of souls above their everyday worries and trivial pursuits. Anything that does that even for a few minutes deserves to be called a spiritual practice.
Of course, not every sporting event is as wondrous as Jason McElway's shooting streak. But many come close: a pitcher throwing a perfect game, Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points, Mark Spitz winning seven gold medals. Some transcend sports altogether and rise to the level of mythology: the U.S. hockey team beating the Soviets, Jesse Owens humiliating Hitler, Jackie Robinson breaking the color line. Of course, some performances are so miraculous as to make you feel you were watching a sea part its waters or listening to a burning bush. Others elicit the same kind of awe as magnificent art—the Taj Mahal, Fred Astaire, a Van Gogh—or a stunning natural landscape. Watching Michael Jordan defy gravity, for example, makes the legendary mind-over-matter feats of yogis and fakirs seem plausible.
Feats that go beyond physical prowess and bring to bear strength of will and nobility of character elevate the spirit in a different way. Acts of courage, fortitude and self-sacrifice in athletic competition bring a lump to my throat, much like the spirit-driven works of Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa. Watching great teamwork takes my breath away and brings to mind the importance of community in spiritual life; when teammates interact with friction-free harmony, virtually psychic communication and selfless execution, I gasp at what humans can accomplish when they let go of their egos, tune in deeply to other souls and strive for common goals instead of individual glory.


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Actress Kate Walsh is a self-described "one-percenter" now, but in a personal video posted on her website, she says she grew up with government assistance.
Walsh speaks directly to the camera in the 6 1/2 -minute video she calls "My Story: Why I'm voting for Barack Obama." The 45-year-old actress explains that her father was an Irish immigrant and her family relied on food stamps when she was growing up. As a young woman, she amassed more than $30,000 in student-loan debt before quitting college to pursue acting. With no health insurance, Planned Parenthood provided her annual check-ups.
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She says she made the video "to explain a little bit about where I came from and why I'm doing what I'm doing" to support Obama and encourage people to vote.
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Liverpool's Pepe Reina is looking forward to renewing old rivalry with Chelsea, when both the sides lock horns this Sunday at Anfield.
The Spanish International, who has been a regular first-choice
goalkeeper at Anfield since joining the Reds in 2005, stressed the magnitude of the game this weekend insisting that games against Chelsea are huge.
The match on Sunday will also witness the return of Rafa Benitez to Anfield, who had earlier managed the Merseyside club from 2004 to 2010, before being sacked by the owners.
Chelsea currently sit third in the Premier League table, knowing that a win over the Reds would be a huge step forward in their bid to finish inside the top-four.
The hosts, though, will be desperate to close the gap on their neighbours Everton by collecting all three points and consequently give themselves a shot for Europa League places next season.
Ahead of the game, Reina told reporters: "It's always nice because of the blue and red, it looks good to walk alongside them and be ready for that game.
"Also because of the rivalry between us and Chelsea lately, especially a few years back – we were almost playing three, four, five times every season against them. Every game was huge.
"It hasn't changed a lot, to be honest, and it's always special when you face Chelsea."
Liverpool got their campaign off to a shaky start, but have recovered well since the turn of the year. And Reina who was earlier criticised for his poor job in goal has been in brilliant form of late and seems to have put to bed all talks of his exodus from Anfield this summer.
However, the Spaniard vowed to improve even further and feels his team needs to do the same if they are to challenge for top four places next term.
He finished by saying: "I'm happy because we've already kept more clean sheets than last season but there's still plenty of room to improve it.
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This week the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the annual Harvest Festival with the theme of "Super Heroes." After the experiences my mother, Mary Dee Peyton, and family have had over the last two months I think this is a great theme for this community.
It started with those heroes who volunteered their time and energy to come to our house when I needed them for Mom. The guys on the Rescue Squad were professional, friendly, knowledgeable and efficient. Next it was Dr. Carol and all the nurses, technicians, therapists and staff at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital. Wow! You guys were outstanding. The care Mom received was second to none. The food was great, the place was exceptionally clean. I can't say enough good things about all of you.
Mom's next stay was with the Super Heroes at Hilltop Estates. Once again we were constantly impressed with how friendly, happy and enthusiastic everyone there was. Mom's stay there was nothing like I had envisioned a care facility to be. The help from the staff was great, not only in Mom's care, but in guiding us through the maze of rules, regulations, and all the other stuff that frankly we hadn't thought of in regard to Mom's future care.
Another hero is Angie Barkmeier and the Senior Center who provided us with so many useful items we needed for Mom. We were not aware of all the services the Senior Center offers. Again, we feel very lucky to live here in Gothenburg.
Mom is now at Stone Hearth Estates and, while she hasn't been there long enough for us to get to know all the folks there, we have already been impressed with the friendliness and willingness to help from everyone with whom we've dealt.
We are looking forward to Mom's continued improvement and her climb to better health that we know is going to happen at Stone Hearth.
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The breadth of U.S. advertisers across virtually all industries means that growth of advertising spend is highly correlated with the GDP, a measure of the country's productivity. The story becomes different when disaggregating advertising spend by channel. While TV, direct mail and newspapers account for nearly three-fourths of all advertising spending combined, the Internet channel has grown the fastest since 2001, taking share away from most traditional channels. Internet advertising grew at an annual clip of 18% from 2001-2006 and only cable TV (10%) was close to a double digit growth rate. Other channels basically kept pace with GDP growth (about 3%), with newspapers (1%) and radio (2%) most negatively affected. Total US internet advertising was $21.2B in 2007, a 26% increase over 2006. Consumer related advertising made up 55% of revenue. However, in the first quarter of 2008, for the first time in three years, quarterly internet ad revenues failed to set a new record.[1]
Advertising on the Internet has the dual benefit of being generally more efficient and effective compared to other media channels. A standard advertising cost metric is CPM or Cost per Thousand Impressions. For example, a $1 CPM equates to a cost of $1 to reach 1,000 theoretical viewers or readers (theoretical because not everyone will read or look at an advertisement). Internet CPM rates in 2006 averaged $6, much less than most traditional media (see table below). Compounding this lower cost is the effectiveness of Internet advertising, which can be measured using a variety of tracking methods. An advertiser can tell, for example, who clicked on an Internet ad and even who bought a product or service during an internet session. Companies such as Google and Yahoo! have leveraged the measure-ability of the Internet to charge advertisers for clicks rather than impressions, further attracting advertisers with its pay-for-performance model. On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to measure how effectively television, newspaper, radio or magazine ads drive sales.
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Video games and mobile phones are two channels that may threaten or accelerate Internet advertising companies. Console video games (i.e., PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii) are increasingly connected, and Internet-based games themselves (e.g., large online multiplayer games) have risen in popularity. In addition, mobile phones are one of the most popular devices in the world and have increased in capabilities through technology such as 3G, which enables a wide range of activity such as email, Internet browsing, and multimedia capabilities. Advertising on these channels is a small but rapidly growing trend. Internet advertising companies such as MSN and Yahoo! may benefit from these trends if they build capabilities to leverage these channels; otherwise, these emerging media may take share away from "traditional" Internet advertising as advertisers seek innovative ways to reach potential customers--for instance, mobile advertising has the benefit of being location-based and highly targetable. Internet video advertising is also growing in popularity and companies such as MODAVOX INC (MDVX) are assisting publishers of online videos in monetizing online videos. Whereas traditional TV advertising has relied on per-show and DMA targeting, internet video marketing can tailor advertising delivery on a per-user basis, according to the interests, viewing habits, demographics, time and / or location of every individual viewer. Internet video delivery also allows insertion parameters to be adjusted and optimized to maximize performance on the fly.[2]
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"We're at another interesting inflection point in our outlook. While we don't think we'll see a double-dip recession, we do project the overall economy growing slower than we previously forecast. That means the downside risks are increasing." –Eric Starks, president and senior consultant, FTR Associates.
So I listened in on FTR Associates "The State of Freight" webinar today and got mixed bag of projections for trucking's near- and long-term health.
On the plus side, Noel Perry – principal of research firm Transport Fundamentals, as well as managing director and senior consultant with FTR Associates – said freight volumes are definitely on the upswing, with a growing capacity crunch helping truckers boost rates and margins.
After watching truck freight pricing plummet by 11% last year, excluding fuel surcharges, Perry said prices should recover roughly 10% this year and next because freight demand is exceeding current capacity so strongly.
Fuel costs, of course, are always a wild card in all of this, but here Perry also sees some positive trends shaping up.
While the excess production capacity maintained by OPEC [the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries] has dropped by a third from its four million barrels per day peak of last year, there's still enough left to give truckers a year or two "grace period" before any major fuel price spikes might occur.
Of course, there are some areas of concern, noted Perry. The first (unsurprisingly) regards the growing shortage of drivers. "Fleets just received a big lesson in caution during this recession, and when they are in pain, they cut overhead," he explained.
Yet that overhead is the key tool through which truckers expand – especially in terms of the management and administrative skills necessary to hire drivers.
Those skills will be even more highly prized as hours of service (HOS) reform and new Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) rules are put in place – efforts that may put at least 12% of the current drive pool off limits. He believes that may create double the size of the driver shortage faced by the industry back in 2004.
"It takes a LOT of work to hire drivers, and reducing all the overheard contracted the hiring pipeline by 33% or more over the course of the last year or so," Perry said. "It's going to take several years to rebuild all of that."
Finally, there's the overall economic picture. Based on its analysis, FTR is scaling back its U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to the 3%-3.5% range – a full percentage point lower than its previous estimate. The firm also thinks growth will remain "choppy" not only for the foreseeable future but will become the nominal state of economic behavior.
"We're entering an era of 'slow' economic recovery, one characterized by several quarters of slow, uneven growth," Perry said. "Economies just don't recover in consistent ways – they jump around a lot more and while this is painful it will be normal."
That's also going to be strongly reflected in trucking industry financials from here on out, he thinks. "The long term volatility of the economy is going to be six times that of the 1980s and 1990s," Perry said. "And transportation demand is going to be five times more volatile, with extremes in capacity doubling."
As a result, trucking earnings are going to be far more volatile as well and not necessarily match the economic picture. "Carriers have tried to maintain steady earnings and just can't. That's going to be the challenge in the future here," he said.


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The 43-year-old Gulf War veteran gunned down by Las Vegas police in a weekend parking lot confrontation felt like his life was spiraling out of control and sought help from a veterans advocate days before he was killed.
Stanley Lavon Gibson suffered from cancer he blamed on his Army service, faced eviction from his home, and was due for sentencing on an assault charge after an argument with a Veterans Affairs doctor.
He also was taking painkillers, antidepressants and anxiety medications.
After recently having his disability payments reduced, Gibson called the Las Vegas Review-Journal seeking help.
"I'm a desperate man. I'm very desperate," he said in a Nov. 12 voicemail message to a reporter about fears that he and his wife would lose their home.
Gibson was put in touch with a veterans advocate, who told the newspaper he talked to Gibson last week and planned to start reviewing his case Monday.
But Gibson was shot by an officer early Monday after a report of a man breaking into a northwest Las Vegas condominium. The Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/vwfSF1) Gibson may have been confused and trying to find his way home to an unfamiliar apartment where he and his wife moved Dec. 1.
Police said Gibson was unarmed, but that he rammed his vehicle into police cruisers that pinned his Cadillac in a parking lot.
Police supervisors decided to use a beanbag shotgun to shoot out at least one window of Gibson's vehicle to reach him. But when an officer fired the beanbag gun, another officer fired multiple bullets into Gibson's vehicle, killing him, the newspaper reported.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie promised an investigation, and refused to speculate about why the officer opened fire. Department spokeswoman Carla Alston called it "speculative" and "premature" to comment on details before the probe was complete.
Gibson's wife, Rondha, said her husband had run out of anxiety medication and was prone to paranoid delusions and anxiety.
Just two days before the shooting, police took Gibson to jail on a resisting arrest charge after he screamed at passing cars and accused his wife of conspiring against him.
Rondha Gibson said police told her Stanley Gibson would be seen by a doctor on a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation, but he arrived back home Sunday. He told his wife he had taken out the trash and didn't remember going to jail.
Gibson's Army discharge shows he separated from the service in 1992 as a specialist, after three years of service with headquarters and headquarters company of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment.
Department of Veterans Affairs medical records show Gibson underwent five surgeries for a form of adenoid cancer that left his jaw disfigured and had spread to a lung.
He alleged his cancer was linked to his exposure during Operation Desert Storm to depleted uranium from armor-piercing shells used by M-1 tanks.
The VA records show his cancer was diagnosed in 1995 and he was rated 100 percent disabled. But the VA's regional office in Reno told him in an Aug. 8 letter that his service-connected disability rating had been lowered to 80 percent. His disability payments were then reduced.
About the same time, a friend wrote to the VA, saying Gibson suffered from anxiety and depression and had tried to commit suicide twice this year.
An Aug. 9 note from a doctor at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System's North Las Vegas clinic said Gibson had recurrent cancer, should be considered fully disabled and should have a guardian appointed for his safety.
Several weeks later, security officers arrested Gibson during a confrontation with another VA doctor. Gibson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to one count of assaulting a federal employee and was scheduled for sentencing in February.
Veterans advocate Joe Tasby, a decorated Vietnam veteran and American Legion post commander, told the Review-Journal he spoke with Stanley and Rondha Gibson last Thursday about their concerns with the VA's handling of his case. He planned to review Gibson's VA and military records.
"I told him, `I'm working with you. Just give me a little more time,'" Tasby said.
VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System chief John B. Bright offered condolences to Gibson's family and said officials would review Gibson's case "to see what we can figure out."
"Any way you look at this, it's a tragedy," Bright said.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com


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Letters to the University Community Provost Announcement
June 5, 2013
A few months ago, we launched the search for the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH System, and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Houston. The Search Committee forwarded three candidates for the position. We interviewed two (the third one accepted another job before coming to Houston for an interview). After carefully reviewing the feedback on both candidates, meeting with them, and doing my due diligence independently, I have reached the conclusion that while both candidates are very talented, neither of them are the right fit for our needs at this time. Interestingly, during the search process, the System and University community started to rally behind Dr. Paula Myrick Short, who has been serving in an interim capacity. This week, I went back to presidents, vice presidents, deans, the UH Faculty Senate and the UH Student Government Association for another voice, and they are unanimously and strongly in favor of appointing Dr. Short. In my opinion, she has done a stellar job and is a great fit as we build that division. During this brief period of four months, she has:
- Reorganized the Division of Academic Affairs by making difficult personnel decisions
- Brought together an outstanding group of faculty leaders to head the new organizational structure
- Implemented an outcome-based funding model for colleges
- Successfully headed our effort to get the UH System on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform
- Built academic consensus on two new building projects
- Supervised leadership changes in two colleges, and
- Testified in Austin and visited our UH System universities with very positive feedback
Given this record of performance and support for the continuation of her role, I have decided to appoint Dr. Paula Short as the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH System, and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Houston. I will submit her name at an upcoming Board of Regents meeting for confirmation. Please click here to view her CV and bio. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Short to the office. I urge you to offer her your full support and make her successful in providing leadership during this time of transformation for the University of Houston System.
I thank the Search Committee for doing an outstanding job. Committee members gave their valuable time and expertise selflessly and ran an extremely professional search.
With Warm Regards,
Renu Khator
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"Sink or Swim" is the first painting I did for a new series Im working on for a show at The Shooting Gallery, called "33 Knots" which opens Feb. 10, 2007.
This is the fourth series of paintings I have produced and it developed much like the others. I start with a single image or idea. When that is finished I ask myself, "What came before this and what should come next?" Then I paint those paintings, ask myself the same question; ideas build on themselves and grow and develop into a narrative.
Storytellers have always had a huge influence on me, way more than any individual artist. A good story, one that expresses a persons views and experiences, sparks my imagination and drives my creativity. I get inspiration from all types of storytelling: childrens books, television, movies, comic books, novels, music, they all give me different ideas and they feed off each other and inspire me in different ways.
The most recurring theme in all my paintings is "Man vs. Nature", more specifically, mans abuse of nature and natures ways of fighting back. In my first series, "It Tastes like Whiskey", I used a tornado as a character in my paintings that takes its revenge on man for his wrong doings. In "The Collectors Conscience" I used germs for the same reason. In "Fire Season" I used fire, and in this new series, water.
I use a lot of symbolism in my paintings that tie together the individual pieces within the series. In "Sink or Swim", the sailboat is a way of harnessing the power of nature without harming it. The pirates and the bottles represent debauchery and abuse of nature. The kid in the water represents innocence or the loss thereof. The banjo represents a simpler time that has come and gone.
My hope is when people view my work, they will be able to enjoy the individual pieces as well as get a greater understanding of what Im trying to say with the entire series.
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Feb. 26, 2006
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Oregon senior Amy Harris threw the program's 13th no-hitter and the UC Santa Barbara softball team fell to the 22nd-ranked University of Oregon 3-0 as both teams wrapped up the Palm Springs Classic Sunday afternoon.
OU improves to 9-7 on the year, while the loss drops UCSB to 7-5. Harris faced just two over the minimum as only two Gauchos reached base.
Sophomore catcher Ericka Hansen reached on an Oregon error in the second inning, while junior right fielder Shelby Hensler was hit by a pitch in the third. Harris had four strikeouts and walked none to improve to 6-4 overall this season. Her no-hitter is the first since 2004 and the 13th ever in program history.
Jennifer Davis took the circle for the second straight contest and allowed three runs on seven hits while striking out seven and walking one. She falls to 5-3 on the year with the loss.
The Ducks took the lead early, going ahead 1-0 in the first inning on an RBI single by Beth Boskovich that scored Lovena Chaput.
Freshman Sari-Jane Jenkins hit her second home run of the season to put the Ducks ahead 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning and senior Dani Baird added an RBI single that scored Chaput to make it 3-0 heading into the seventh.
Harris retired the side in the seventh to secure the win and the no hitter. Sunday marked the first time that UCSB was shut out this season.
Santa Barbara leaves Palm Springs after recording a record of 2-3 in the three-day event. They opened the tournament with a 10-1 thrashing of Ohio State, before falling to No. 10 Oklahoma 6-2 and No. 19 LSU 6-1. UCSB then rebounded with a 2-1 victory over Kansas Saturday night.
The Gauchos return to action next weekend when they travel to Fullerton, Calif. for Cal State Fullerton's Worth Invitational March 3-5. They open the tournament with Northwestern Friday at 1:30 p.m.


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Several years later when I became the physical education teacher in that same elementary school, we did things differently. I developed an after-school weight training program for the fifth and sixth graders where the students progressively increased their muscular strength. We had no injuries, and very few program participants ever failed the chin-up test.
This took place in the early 1970s, when the prevailing misunderstanding was that youth strength training was either dangerous or worthless. Many feared that lifting weights would damage bone growth plates. Others felt strength training was useless because young muscles did not have the capacity to gain strength apart from normal growth processes.
Both assumptions have proven false. According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association, there are no documented reports of bone growth plate injury due to sensible strength training.
Several research studies have also demonstrated that boys and girls can gain muscle strength at about the same rate as adults. During the past three years, we at South Shore YMCA have completed five youth strength training studies. All were conducted by certified strength instructors over a two-month training period.
Study One
The first study (Westcott 1991) was conducted with teenage boys and girls. The training group consisted of 14 exercisers, and the control group consisted of five non-exercisers, both with an average age of 14 years. The exercise group trained three days per week for eight weeks, using eight upper and lower body machines. The participants performed one set of eight to 12 repetitions with each exercise, using slow movement speed and full movement range.
The exercise group increased their lower body strength by 63 percent and their upper body strength by 33 percent. By comparison, the non-exercise group improved their lower body strength by 8 percent and their upper body strength by 4 percent.
Both groups experienced a 3-pound increase in body weight over the two month study period. The exercisers added 4 pounds of lean weight and lost 1 pound of fat weight, whereas the non-exercisers added 2 pounds of lean weight and 1 pound of fat weight. Although the control group added lean tissue through normal growth processes, they did not improve their functional muscle strength significantly. However, the exercise group added twice as much lean tissue and made significant improvements in their functional muscle strength.
Study Two
This study (Westcott 1992) involved 10 pre-adolescent boys and girls, with an average age of 10 years. All of the participants trained three days per week for eight weeks with the following machines: leg extension, leg curl, chest press, biceps curl and shoulder press. They performed one set of eight to 12 repetitions with each exercise, using slow movement speed and full movement range.
The subjects increased their chest and triceps strength by 66 percent. They also made a 4-pound improvement in their body composition by adding 3 pounds of lean weight and losing 1 pound of fat weight.


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Report Predicts Decline in Minority College Enrollment
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education published a report that predicts a 50 to 80% drop in minority college enrollment if affirmative action is banned on campuses and SAT scores continue to carry a lot of weight.
"The reality of standardized test scores is that they are not only culturally biased, but are biased against those persons of lower socioeconomic status," said Percy Hintzen, UC-Berkeley African American Studies chair. The study said that the mean SAT scores at institutions like Yale and Caltech were unfair to blacks, since less than half of one percent of blacks meet the median scores for students to be accepted. At the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, applicants who receive less than 28 on the MCAT do not receive interviews; the median score for blacks is 23.5. Minority enrollment plummeted this fall at several Texas and California campuses after affirmative action was banned.
The SAT also has been found to be biased against women.
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Swelled Disposable Income Coupled with Rising Adoption of Advanced Technology is bolstering the Growth of 4K TV's Market
Swelled Disposable Income Coupled with Rising Adoption of Advanced Technology is bolstering the Growth of 4K TV's Market, according to our Research Nester
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Global 4K TV's market is expected to register a CAGR of 18.1% over the forecast period. Moreover, the global 4K TV's market is projected to expand at exponential rate during the forecast period i.e. 2017-2024. The market is expected to expand on the back of growing demand for better picture quality.
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November 06. 2012 2:54PM
Hooksett grassroots group holds vote of its own outside polls
By BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Union Leader Correspondent
Tom Parnell, right, of HELP walks a Hooksett voter through the group's poll on the Manchester high school issue. (Brendan Clogston/Union Leader Correspondent)
HOOKSETT - While Hooksett voted at David R. Cawley Middle School, Hooksett parents associated with the grassroots group High School Education Lifts People (HELP) conducted a democratic experiment of their own at their booth outside, holding a poll for Hooksett voters to mark their opinion on the town's ongoing high school issue.
The poll had two options: continue with the Manchester contract, of which Manchester has informally been accused of breach due to chronic classroom overcrowding, or move to a "Manchester with choice" option, with multiple contacts in effect allowing parents to send their children to a selection of area schools, including Manchester Central, Pinkerton Academy, Pembroke Academy, and Bow High School.
"The whole idea is that in the group, there's a lot of opinions as to what would be the right way to go, and the consensus we've come to is do we want choice or do we not want choice?" said HELP member Tom Parnell. "Do we want to continue down with the Manchester contract only, or do we want to do an all-inclusive choice option?... As these different schools come forward, let them compete. Let the free market dictate what the best option is."
Once the data is collected, the results will be presented to the Hooksett School Board for consideration.
"We want to give the school board some support, say, 'This is what your community has come forward and said at the polls,' " said Parnell. "It's democracy at its best. Here we are saying, 'This is what we want, this is what the voters want.' "
The Hooksett School Board is currently conducting negotiations with the Manchester School District for an early release from the town's contract with the city school district. If an agreement is reached, it will be put in a warrant article for the town to vote on.
Should the negotiations be successful and the warrant article pass, the board will begin negotiations for a replacement school, with Pinkerton Academy in Derry being a popular favorite. HELP's informal internal polling conducted through their Facebook page generally indicates a similar attraction to Pinkerton.
Regardless of whether or not the school board ultimately takes up HELP's proposal or attempts to negotiate a single contract, HELP members believe the board appreciates their engagement.
"They're happy," said Parnell. "They're applauding us for taking this step to try and coalesce segments of the community and give (the board) some direction on where to go with this."