text: MagnaGlobal, ZenithOptimedia revise ad outlooks Published on June 19, 2012. London and New York—Two major media forecasters, MagnaGlobal and ZenithOptimedia, downgraded their global ad estimates for this year. MagnaGlobal, New York, said global ad revenue will reach $480.0 billion this year, up 4.8% over last year. That was down slightly from a December forecast of 5.0% growth. MagnaGlobal attributed the downgrade to Western Europe's "shaky economy." In North America, ad spending is expected to reach $165.0 billion this year, up 3.9% over last year and a revision from 3.7% growth MagnaGlobal had predicted in December. ZenithOptimedia, London, said global ad spending will reach $502.0 billion, up 4.3% over last year. That forecast is down from a projected increase of 4.8% in March. ZenithOptimedia said global ad spending slowed in April and May as advertisers became cautious about the world economy. In North America, ad spending will reach $171.2 billion this year, up 3.6%, unchanged from the March forecast. Most Popular In this article: BtoB

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- If you see two college-aged kids walking around your neighborhood going door-to-door, you may want to let them in -- or at least hear them out.
Ben Walker of Mamaroneck and Jeremy Garber, of White Plains, have started their own business -- Ben and Jeremy's -- and have been in many a Southern Westchester cul de sac trying to drum up business.
The name and accompanying logo-- yes it's a riff on the famous ice cream company -- are all about saying yes to any mess. As their flyer reads: "We can't clean up the mess our country is in, but we can clean up the mess your house is in!"
The two business majors -- Walker is at Tulane University; Garber is at Lehigh University -- are ready to roll up their sleeves and clean your garage/attic, organize messy rooms, move heavy objects, dispose of unwanted items, and more.
Though both had offers for respected, traditional office internships they wanted to do something different -- and take a risk. "We know we'll spend many years working in an office environment, and we figured now would be a good time for us to start something on our own," said Walker.
The two rising sophomores have been close friends since kindergarten. Somewhere around middle school, their friends began to call the,m "Ben and Jeremy," a play on Ben & Jerry's.
"We always found it funny when people called us that, so we figured it would be a good logo and name for our company," said Garber who designed the logo with some help from PhotoShop and YouTube.
And while they admit they have significantly less expensive than professionals, they are not afraid of hard manual labor. "We feel we provide good value for a relatively modest price," said Walker. "We have references readily available who can attest to that fact."
To drum up business, the two have tried several tactics, the first including going door-to-door. "Although we've had our fair share of doors slammed in our faces, most people are neighborly, and we really enjoy speaking with our potential customers and developing confidence with our 'elevator pitch,'" said Garber.
They've also tried to be creative with social media.
Their logo, similar to Ben & Jerry's is definitely a conversation starter.
If interested, book soon (ish): The two rising college students, who will travel to any part of the county, are only available until summer's end.
Though, said Walker, "If anyone in Southern California or the Bahamas wants help with their garage or attic and would fly us out, we would be delighted to cater to them."
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A light earthquake in Alaska has jolted the state's largest city.
The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center reports that the quake centered 15 miles northeast of Anchorage has a preliminary magnitude of 4.1.
The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says the temblor was felt widely in the greater Anchorage area, but there are no immediate reports of damage. The center gives the quake a preliminary magnitude of 4.0.
The quake also was felt in the town of Palmer to the north.
The quake occurred at shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday and was at a depth of 20 miles.
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CHAPEL HILL � North Carolina waited until the eighth inning Friday night to showcase its offense, scoring six runs on the way to an 8-5 victory against visiting Virginia to secure its first Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season baseball championship since 1990.
It�s the fifth Coastal Division title for the Tar Heels (47-7 overall, 21-6 ACC) since 2006, but the first time the team will finish with the entire league�s best regular-season conference mark in 23 years.
Virginia (44-9, 21-8) had been 37-0 this season when leading after seven innings. Closer Kyle Crockett was on the mound. Michael Russell had an RBI triple, and later in the inning Mike Zolk�s first triple of the season drove in two runs to tie the game at Boshamer Stadium.
Chaz Frank had a go-ahead single before Landon Lassiter�s run-scoring single and Colin Moran�s RBI fielder�s choice.
That gave Moran 80 RBI, becoming only the third North Carolina player in school history to reach that plateau.
Chris McCue (6-0) was the winning pitcher in relief, giving up one run in 2 1/3 innings.
Mike Papi�s RBI double and solo home run and Brandon Downes� solo home runs provided some of the trouble spots for North Carolina starter Benton Moss. The Cavaliers led 5-2 after scoring a run in the top of the eighth.
Russell finished 4-for-4 and Lassiter had three hits. Zolk drove in four runs.
North Carolina clinched the top overall seed for next week�s ACC Tournament at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.


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First Mates
Introducing a new Slate series about the marriages of the presidential candidates.
As high-stress, no-win jobs go, it's hard to think of a more humbling one than political helpmate. On the way up, the candidate's spouse is invisible unless she makes a mistake—or is obliged to stand by, smiling, as her husband announces that he's coming out or going away. Even at the presidential level, it is far easier for an aspiring first lady to hurt than help. (See: Hillary Clinton's crack about baking cookies, Kitty Dukakis'announcement about the decades she spent addicted to diet pills before her husband noticed, and—a couple of lifetimes ago—the not-at-all-jammin' effect that Tipper Gore's campaign against raunchy rock lyrics had on her husband's 1988 presidential run.)
In other countries, the American interest in our president's mate and marriage is thought touching but odd. After French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy announced that she'd really rather be running around Central Park, the French public was riveted but lacked the stamina for a long-haul scandale: "Je veux vivre ma vie sans mentir,'' she explained, and only days later, 89 percent of those polled said the divorce was none of their business. Just as when Italians learned that then-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rarely in residence with his second wife, the general reaction, roughly translated, was whoop-dee-damn-do. But the president's partner and partnership are such telling mirrors, reflecting both their values and our own, that it seems crazy not to look.
So, in full knowledge of the fact that every marriage is its own exotic ecosystem—a planet only imperfectly understood even by its own two natives—this series will examine the marriages of the top-tier presidential candidates and explore what these partnerships suggest about what kind of president each would be.
Do presidential unions matter? Voters think they do. A recent survey found that fully one-third of women voters not only take the happiness of a presidential candidate's marriage into account, but cite it as a significant factor in their decision. In 2004, I argued against the notion that Teresa Heinz Kerry had hurt her husband's chances, but I was wrong. In interviews across the country for my book about what women really want in a president, I heard her perceived snootiness cited more often than I would ever have believed possible as the deciding factor against John Kerry. What these women didn't like about his wife reflected and intensified their reservations about the candidate himself. Just a few weeks after the election, a public health nurse in Illinois put it like this: "I'm a registered Democrat and I'm not for being in Iraq, but I'll tell you what, I voted for Bush. I don't know that Bush is totally truthful, and he's not the smartest person in the world. But Kerry, I really didn't like his wife, and that influenced me. She has a smart mouth and doesn't control it.''
This time around, the questions raised by the would-be first spouses include: Are we going to have to live through four or more years of Clinton marital drama? Or, on the contrary, is presidential nookie as national scandal so 1998? Are we willing to confront our own mortality along with Elizabeth Edwards? Can we depend on the judgment of a president who not only takes phone calls from his wife during a speech, but may have done so to impress us? Does Jeri Thompson attest to the accuracy of my mother's remark, decades ago, as we were having tea in the lobby of a hotel where an American Bar Association convention was in full swing: "See how all the second wives have better jewelry?'' Will Mitt Romney's health-care plan be informed by his wife Ann's remark that her struggle with MS had at one point left her thinking, "Couldn't I just have cancer and die?'' And, the question that kicks off our first marital probe: Is America ready to elect a truly consensus-seeking—and arguably deferential—husband like Barack Obama as commander in chief?
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond says he has "no vendetta" against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and hopes professional cycling can clean up its sport.
LeMond spoke Monday night at a University of Texas symposium on doping in sports. Despite more than a decade of clashes with Armstrong in a feud that he said pushed him out of cycling, LeMond was restrained in his criticism of the rider who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in a doping scandal.
Armstrong was just beginning his run of seven consecutive victories when LeMond publicly criticized his relationship with Italian sports doctor Michele Ferrari. Ferrari is now a central figure in the Armstrong case for his involvement in the U.S. Postal Service doping program, and has been banned from sports for life.
"I have no vendetta against Armstrong," LeMond said.
He also said "I don't rejoice" over Armstrong being stripped of his victories, even though it means LeMond is now recognized as the only American winner of cycling's most prestigious race. LeMond won the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 and 1990.
Joining LeMond for the two-hour panel was his wife, Kathy, Betsy Andreu, a key witness against Armstrong and the wife of former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, and Bill Bock, attorney for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which investigated Armstrong.
Armstrong did not attend the symposium in the city where he lives and declined comment when reached by The Associated Press.
Betsy Andreu said she tried to meet with Armstrong, but he refused.
"He didn't trust me," she said.
LeMond said professional cycling won't clean up its doping problem until drug testing is run by someone other than the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union known as UCI.
"Drug testing has to be separated from UCI," LeMond said. "It's not a game."
LeMond said riders don't trust the UCI, which has tried to defend itself against criticism that it helped Armstrong cover up doping offenses. LeMond noted that European legal authorities have pursued drug cheats in recent years.
"I want to see cycling get to where I can say I can see a real winner," LeMond said.
Bock noted that UCI was highly critical of the USADA investigation and tried to stop it.
"They demanded we drop the case," Bock said.
Andreu said doping in sports won't clean up until athletes face criminal charges for cheating. A federal criminal grand jury had investigated Armstrong but prosecutors dropped the case in February 2012 without explanation.
"Make doping a crime. Athletes don't want to face jail," Andreu said.
LeMond said he believes cycling can clean up.
"I'm hopeful," LeMond said. "I'm not optimistic with UCI involved ... I love cycling. I believe cycling is an incredible sport."
Bock said cycling should remain vigilant about catching cheaters and should not treat Armstrong's doping with his U.S. Postal Service team as an isolated case.
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Captain Everett Eugene Donham of Hensley, Arkansas was born August 9, 1930
in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of the late William Everett and Gertie Mae Palmer Donham.
Captain Donham died Monday, April 8, 2013 at Southern Trace Nursing Home in Bryant at the age of 82.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 11, 2013 at East Union Baptist Church in East End. Burial will follow at Salem Cemetery in East End. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Memorial Gardens Funeral Home of Sheridan (870)942-1306. To sign the online guestbook, www.memorialgardenssheridan.com
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Awwwwfully Up Close and Personal With Two Lil Lions
It's another adoro lil big cat, this time a different species (Java's a leopard) but just as ready for that close-up. The four-week-old lion cub was born in Dortmund, Germany and there's actually a twin.
No joke but these two are already quite the soccer stars, perhaps in training for next year's World Cup and taking after another German animal we love to look at? I'm not sure if they're on offense or defense but see what I mean as both cubs play ball (and with mom) in the precious pictures below.


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Marriage amendment
From Conservapedia
The Federal Marriage Amendment states:
- Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.
It has not obtained the two thirds majority necessary for a constitutional amendment to be sent to the states for ratification, but has repeatedly been supported by a majority in the House of Representatives and a plurality (49-48) in the Senate.[1] The amendment has only been proposed in election years.
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Hanoi, Viet Nam, 11 June 2007 - Today an international conference on "The Role of Non-Timber Products (NTFPs) in Poverty Alleviation and Biodiversity Conservation" is being held in Hanoi. It is jointly hosted by the NTFP Sub-Sector Support Project, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), The German Technical Cooperation (gtz), CARE International, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) and The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO).
Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) play an important role in the livelihoods of the rural poor, as a source of food, medicine, construction materials, and income. It has been estimated that there are more than 60 million highly forest-dependent people in Latin America, West Africa, and South East Asia, with an additional 400 million to 500 million people directly dependent on these natural products. Access to forest resources helps rural households diversify their livelihood base and reduce their exposure to risk. Earnings from forest products are often important as a complement to other income. Very large numbers of households generate some of their income from selling forest products, often when farm production is not enough to provide self-sufficiency year round. Income from forest products is often used to purchase seeds, hire labour for cultivation, or generate working capital for trading activities. For the poorest households, NTFPs can play a critical role in providing both food and income.
While there is growing appreciation of the importance of NTFPs for rural households, especially of the very poor, there are concerns about the potential impact of NTFP collection on biodiversity. A number of critical questions are often raised: Under what conditions can NTFPs, both plants and animals, be sustainably harvested? Can on-farm production of NTFPs result in improved biodiversity conservation? Does commercialization of NTFPs result in over-harvesting? What is needed for markets to be pro-poor? Are attempts to develop NTFPs for Poverty Alleviation really reaching the poorest of the poor? To what extent are these attempts impacting biodiversity conservation? This conference will explore these questions, identify successful initiatives and businesses that strive to be both pro-poor and pro-biodiversity, and determine what are the critical elements for success.
The Conference has brought together researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs from Asia and other regions who are involved in NTFP initiatives, including successful commercial enterprises that provide opportunities to address poverty reduction while maintaining biodiversity. Participants share methodologies, approaches, product and market information and other lessons learned from NTFP development and conservation initiatives. The trade fair on the third day of the conference will provide an opportunity for NTFP producers to display their products and meet potential buyers.
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The World Conservation Union is the world's largest conservation network. The Union brings together 84 States, 108 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organisation with 1000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland. https://www.iucn.org/
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1. Joorischat
So the Flames signed another college free agent this week, this time a kid out of Union College named Josh Jooris, of whom they got a nice eyeful at this most recent development camp.
I know that I — for a fairly good reason — have the reputation around here of knowing everything about college hockey, but when it comes to Jooris, and indeed Union as a whole, my knowledge is fairly rudimentary. But in my constant efforts to please Flames fans, I have asked around with some college hockey experts for some opinions about him and the results were, shall we say, mixed.
"Honestly, he's meh," said one. "Decent size, OK skater. Won't be a goal scorer and is a so-so playmaker. I thought he was overrated at Union."
The reason for that?
"He benefited from playing with a lot of guys – Jeremy Welsh – who scored a lot of goals. They had two 20-goal scorers last year."
Welsh is famous for being heavily scouted during the NCAA playoffs in 2011-12, with about five or six NHL general managers going specifically to see him play (he ended up signing with Carolina after a hard sell from Jim Rutherford and Kirk Muller. Welsh put up 53 goals and 100 points in 119 NCAA games, which is no small feat at that level.
Another guy I talked to said of Jooris, "Good three-zone player, good vision and shot. Plays bigger than he is. Remember being surprised he was only 6-1 after seeing him hit someone."
So this should come as no surprise, but Jooris is, at 23 years old, looking like a definitive AHLer to start his career. That's fine, that's great, but to expect any more than that from a guy who underwhelmed in college from a production standpoint seems like a lot. It's important to fill out the AHL roster, obviously, and competition is never a bad thing, but all these quotes about how this is an NHL contract and so forth, well, that's true only in the most technical of senses.
2. This is becoming a trend
I don't mean, "The Flames signing college free agents," because that's a trend that's been around awhile now, and it's a smart one for NHL teams. Bringing on NCAA or junior players without having to give up anything more than a few hundred thousand dollars is smart; most of these guys have relatively low ceilings and the vast majority need at least a few years of seasoning in the minors, but it fleshes out rosters pretty well.
What I mean is that NCAA free agent are now signing what amount to AHL deals with NHL teams (plus signing bonuses) with a little bit more frequency than I think I remember in the past. This has been the case with NCAA FAs since the New NHL CBA was signed (as opposed to the current one, which I consider the New New NHL CBA), when they changed the rules for how college players can be signed, though those mostly applied to drafted players. Teams are getting more aggressive, yes, but so too are the players themselves.
Another recent example of this is Ludwig Karlsson, a Swedish-born, 22-year-old skillsy forward out of Northeastern who attended Ducks and Predators devo camps the last two seasons but ended up signing with Ottawa for as much as $1.475 million per season (including $92,500 signing bonuses in each of the two seasons of the contract) but just $70,000 a year at the AHL level. I've seen the kid play a lot, and he's going to spend a lot of the year in the minors, if not the duration of the contract. Word around college hockey was that his agent got very aggressive in getting him signed this summer, ahead of what would have been is third season in college hockey.
This, obviously, isn't necessarily a good thing for the NCAA hockey product, or the chances of the schools themselves to replace these players on such short notice, but sending more kids to the best two pro leagues early is certainly not a bad thing.
3. Ugh, they're gonna do it
The longer summer goes on without the Flames signing another pro-level center, the more I'm starting to think Sean Monahan makes the team out of camp. I've talked in the past about why it's a bad idea for the Flames to do that, and let me reiterate again:
It's a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY bad idea.
Even apart from the fact that the decision to bring him aboard makes him more expensive down the road, what good would it do for his development? Yeah, he's proven he can play hard, hard minutes on a garbage junior team, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to do with an 18-year-old rookie. You'd rather he continue to log 23 minutes a night on that crap junior team rather than 13 of kind of soft minutes against mediocre NHLers with the occasional power play appearance mixed in.
Plus there's the prospect that he might be traded to an actual good team, and that the ability to play alongside players who can put the puck in the net in real life might help him to develop his burgeoning offensive game even further. Who's he gonna play with at the NHL level that can do that? No one on the Flames roster, that's who.
4. More on Seattle?
So a report came out late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning that with the Phoenix moving to an actual good hockey market having fallen through, the NHL would instead look to expand to Seattle. Makes perfect sense to me. Why wouldn't it? If they have an ownership group in mind that has an appetite to put a team there and is willing to pay what will likely be a sizable expansion fee, and the arena is ready, then absolutely.
Oh but according to this report, Gary Bettman would be pushing for this team to become a thing for the 2014-15 season. You know, a year from now. Which seems crazy to me. Wouldn't the arena have not even been ready?
It would be one thing to have the Coyotes, a transient team, hole up in an interim arena for a year or two while they build the new one (even if maximum capacity for hockey at KeyArena is less than 15,200). But to have a brand new team not have a brand new arena seems very odd to me.
5. Hey they re-signed Brodie
I sat here for most of yesterday afternoon with four definitive things and a bunch of question marks next to "5." Then the Brodie signing was announced.
"Oh god," I said to myself, "is it a bridge deal?" And then it WAS! Oh boy is that probably going to work out poorly. Not PK-Subban-winning-the-Norris poorly, but poorly nonetheless. God, bridge deals are so stupid.
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Man accused of molesting 9-year-old at Gaston park
Man accused of molesting 9-year-old at Gaston park
A Bessemer City man is jailed under $1 million bond after police said he sexually molested a 9-year-old girl at a Gastonia park.
Gastonia Police say 51-year-old David Glenn Scott is charged with two counts of first-degree sex offense and six counts of indecent liberties with a child. Authorities said the incidents occurred between Feb. 1 and June 20.
Police Sgt. Gene Weaver said Scott knew the girl from church and was trusted. Weaver also said Scott cooperated with the investigation.
Gastonia attorney Richard Beam is representing Scott, and he declined to comment Tuesday, saying he'd just taken the case.


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Habitat for Humanity Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 Habitat team embarked on an adventure completely different from their previous trips. This year was fraught with challenges from the beginning, when the team learned that they would not be able to build in Columbus, GA as they have in past years and would have to find somewhere new. After months of planning, the officers found a place for the team in Albany, GA. Habitat for Humanity International graciously opened up some of their housing in Americus, GA. The team worked in Albany for four days alongside other groups from Juniata College and Ashland University. The three schools formed bonds as they worked on two handicap-accessible homes. The WAC team traveled back to Columbus on Thursday night to work with Columbus Area Habitat for a day, finishing homes that they had worked on during the Spring 2012 trip. Before returning home, the group was finally able to attend their first dedication ceremony for the home of Albert and Patricia Hartman, whose home the team worked on in Spring 2012.


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Well, first of all, the way the question was worded is what caused all the jokes/flames, not the question itself. I still have no idea exactly what the question was. If I could understand what he was asking, I would be more willing to try and help.
Anyway, as someone else stated, buffer overflows are quite involved. If you take the time to search the forums for buffer overflow, you will notice that there are a few tutorials on how to write them. I posted a link in a different thread to a paper that is VERY in depth on how buffer overflows work, and how to write them. I didn't write the paper, so I didn't post it (since I didn't get the authors permission). Anyway, if you take the time to search for Buffer Overflow, right here in the Forum Search box on the main page, you get 338 results. Of course some are not great, but take the time to look.
For those of you who don't know how to use a search engine, click this little link to go directly to the thread where I posted the links to that report.... http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=223099


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The World Health Organization is warning health care workers everywhere to suspect a disease called Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, whenever they see a case of unexplained pneumonia.
Monday's warning comes at the end of a six-day WHO investigation in Saudi Arabia, where 40 of the 55 cases of the respiratory disease have occurred. Sixty percent of those people with known infections died.
Meanwhile, recent reports in the journal Cell present evidence that two other worrisome viruses — H5N1 and H7N9 flu — may be on the verge of becoming more contagious in humans.
Recent samples of these bird flu viruses are only one or two genetic mutations away from developing the ability to latch onto receptors lining the respiratory tracts of humans, biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say.
"Some of them are one amino acid away from achieving the necessary strength or affinity to latch onto human receptors," Ram Sasisekharan of MIT tells Shots. "That's a key step."
Both viruses have shown themselves capable of infecting people and causing serious illness and death. H5N1 has sickened 630 people over the past decade and killed 60 percent of them.
The H7N9 virus, which popped up this spring in southeastern China, has infected 132 people, 37 fatally, according to the latest WHO tally. Cases have dwindled in recent weeks, and only 14 remain in the hospital. But health authorities worry the virus could return with cooler autumn weather, especially if precautions are eased at the live bird markets that seem to be the source of most infections.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, says the MIT reports are "important evidence" of how the flu viruses are evolving. "However, that is not the entire story, at all, of how viruses evolve in a way to have sustained transmission," he says.
Fauci says what makes animal flu viruses highly contagious among people is complex and poorly understand. "In fact," he says, "I'm not even sure what the extent of the complexity is."
Reassuringly, he points out that there's never been a flu pandemic involving the H5 or H7 families of viruses.
When it comes to MERS, Fauci says he's taking it "very seriously."
He acknowledges that it's unheard of to have three emerging disease threats to worry about simultaneously.
"I've been doing emerging infections for a very long period of time," Fauci says. "And we usually have one on the radar screen, and occasionally two. But to have three on the radar screen, at least in my experience, is pretty unique."
For all three of the current viral threats, the numbers of people affected so far don't seem so threatening on a global scale. But officials worry that as human infections continue, any of the viruses could acquire the characteristics necessary to spread readily through the air and efficiently infect cells in human respiratory tracts.
With MERS, they're also concerned that some people could become so-called super-spreaders of infection — people who produce large amounts of virus in respiratory secretions and then pass the virus to dozens of others. This is how SARS, a cousin of MERS, spread rapidly to around 8,000 people in 2003, killing 11 percent of them.
"The primary lesson from SARS is we do need to watch for that sort of thing," Dr. Anthony Mounts of WHO tells Shots. "SARS didn't seem so transmissible among normal circumstances. But then we saw these events in which it spread really crazy fast from person to person."
Health authorities worry that the MERS virus might spread among pilgrims expected to visit holy sites in Saudi Arabia next month during Ramadan, or the millions more expected in October for the annual Hajj to Mecca.
Mounts is also concerned the MERS virus could sneak out of the region in the lungs of guest workers. "Pakistan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines all have large populations in the Middle East, and travel back and forth quite a bit," he says.
MERS has already shown its ability to spread within health care facilities in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and France. And its incubation period is believed to be as long as 12 days — plenty of time for an infected person to carry the virus anywhere in the world before falling ill.
Hence the new WHO warning that health care workers everywhere should think about MERS if they encounter unexplained respiratory illness.
Last week's WHO investigation in Saudi Arabia produced no new information on how people are getting MERS in the first place — from what animal source, or by what route.
The purpose of last week's mission to Saudi Arabia, led by WHO assistant director-general and virus specialist Dr.Keiji Fukuda, was to help sort through the data collected by the Saudis to discern patterns of spread and exposure.
There's been mounting frustration among public health workers over the lack of information about MERS coming from Saudi Arabia. Officials there have tended to release numbers of cases with a bare minimum of detail and little or no epidemiologic analysis.
For example, the Saudis startled everyone last month by announcing 13 new cases that turned out to have occurred in a hospital in Al-Ahsa in the kingdom's eastern province. That brought unhappy reminders of SARS, which spread rampantly in health care institutions.
But there has, so far, been no thorough analysis of how the hospital outbreak unfolded.
Similarly, there are reports of a second hospital outbreak involving five cases in a different Saudi town. But the circumstances and location were unclear last week even to WHO workers monitoring the situation.
WHO officials had expected to hold a press conference on Sunday to announce the results of their latest investigation, but that didn't happen. The press release the agency put out on Monday contained only general statements about the MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia and lauded the Saudis for doing "an excellent job in investigating and controlling the outbreaks."
The statement noted that "large gaps" remain in the knowledge of MERS, but cautioned that "it often takes time for scientific investigations to produce results."
MERS first appeared in Saudi Arabia last June, and the coronavirus that causes it was first described last September.
The World Health Organization says doctors everywhere should suspect a new disease called MERS when they see cases of unexplained pneumonia. The WHO issued a statement today. It says the MERS virus can spread from infected people to close contacts, including health workers. But it's still not clear how people are getting infected in the first place. MERS is one of three deadly viruses that public health officials are watching closely.
NPR's Richard Knox says any one of them could turn into a global problem and possibly a pandemic.
RICHARD KNOX, BYLINE: Today's warning about MERS, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, comes at the end of a six-day WHO investigation in Saudi Arabia. That's where most of the reported 55 cases of the respiratory disease have occurred. Sixty percent of the victims have died.
WHO director-general Margaret Chan called MERS her greatest global health concern when she closed the annual World Health Assembly two weeks ago.
MARGARET CHAN: We understand too little, too little about this virus when viewed against the magnitude of its potential threat.
KNOX: The past week's investigation produced no new information on how people are getting MERS - from what animal source or by what route.
ANTHONY MOUNTS: That's the number one priority question right now.
KNOX: That's Dr. Anthony Mounts of the WHO.
MOUNTS: Where is it coming from and how are people getting it? If we can find that out, then it would really help a lot in knowing what's causing it to accelerate.
KNOX: He says it's possible MERS could morph into another SARS, the respiratory virus that struck 8,000 people around the world in 2003 and killed nearly 800.
MOUNTS: The lesson from SARS was that we do need to watch for that sort of thing. SARS didn't seem so transmissible under normal circumstances. But then you saw these events in which it spread really crazy fast, you know, from person to person.
KNOX: Officials worry about the risk that MERS may spread among pilgrims who visit holy sites in Saudi Arabia next month during Ramadan, or the millions more expected in October for the annual Hajj to Mecca. Mounts also worries that MERS could sneak out of the region in the lungs of guest workers.
MOUNTS: Pakistan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines all have large populations in the Middle East and travel back and forth quite a bit.
KNOX: But global health specialists don't have the luxury right now of worrying about just one potential pandemic virus at a time. There's new evidence two flu viruses that came from birds are close to becoming more contagious in humans. Both are deadly among people infected so far. The H5N1 bird flu virus that emerged a decade ago is only one or two tiny mutations away from being able to easily infect cells in the human respiratory tract, according to a team at MIT.
Their report is in the journal Cell. Author Ram Sasisekharan of MIT says recent samples of another bird flu virus discovered in China this spring called H7N9 may also be getting close to spreading efficiently in humans.
RAM SASISEKHARAN: Some of them are one amino acid away to achieve the necessary strength or affinity to latch onto human receptors. That's a key step.
KNOX: Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health says that's important evidence.
ANTHONY FAUCI: However, that is not the entire story, at all, of how viruses evolve in a way to have sustained transmission.
KNOX: He says what makes animal flu viruses highly contagious among people is complex and poorly understood.
FAUCI: In fact, I'm not even sure what the extent of the complexity is.
KNOX: But he points out one possibly reassuring fact - there's never been a flu pandemic involving the kind of H5 or H7 bird viruses that are causing occasional infections and deaths among humans. But MERS comes from a family of viruses scientists understand even less than flu.
FAUCI: We take MERS very seriously.
KNOX: He says MERS is not likely to become what he calls a doomsday virus.
FAUCI: But does it have the potential to evolve into something that really has a much greater impact than it's having now? Oh, absolutely.
KNOX: Fauci says one thing about the current situation is certain.
FAUCI: I've been doing emerging infections for a very long period of time and we usually have one on the radar screen and occasionally two. But to have three on the radar screen, at least in my experience, is pretty unique.
KNOX: All over the world, from officials at WHO to scientists in labs to doctors in hospitals, it's keeping a lot of people on their toes. Richard Knox, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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In the entryway to Christa Baroth's home in Murrieta, there hangs an old violin -- 50 years old at least -- surrounded by playbills and framed in a three-dimensional piece of art.
One of the playbills is from a performance of "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Pietro Masagni.
"It's my favorite opera and Masagni's most famous," Baroth said.
As she spoke last week, it was obvious that opera has been one of her great passions. It also is the one that got away. She studied voice, sang for a while with The Denver Post Opera Company; and eventually gave it up.
Soon she will be 82 and now she regrets that she didn't pursue music more than she did. Her problem was that life got in the way. And she has led quite a life.
Exactly 68 years ago, Baroth was a young schoolgirl caught up in the maelstrom that marked the end of World War II. She was German. The Americans were closing in on one side and the Russians were coming from the other. She didn't know what to expect.
"There were stories about the soldiers' brutality," Baroth said. "We were shot at by warplanes. First the Americans came in and then the Russians. Fortunately, we never had contact with the Russians."
Her mother died when Christa was only 10 years old. Her father sent her to an all-girls boarding school near the Polish border. Her twin brother was sent to another school on the other side of the country. She was left to face the war in Europe virtually on her own.
And near the end she and her classmates slept in a car on a freezing winter night. Later they jumped a freight train for a 400-mile trip to a school far from the Russian front. The trip left them exhausted, hungry and lice-infested. It was the residue of war.
"My brother and I lost our childhood," said Baroth, who eventually was reunited with her family. "We grew up very fast. We never had much fun."
Things changed for Baroth at age 24 when she met a Lutheran minister visiting from Denver. He volunteered to sponsor her if she wanted to come to America and live with his family. Her brother had moved to Canada a few years earlier.
"It was like there was an angel was on my shoulder," she said. "Germany had very little to offer after the war, so I decided to start a new life. I came over here on an American warship and still remember seeing the Statue of Liberty as we sailed into New York."
In Denver, she studied music, got married and had a son and daughter. The marriage didn't last and eventually she took her children to Chicago, where there was a large German population.
Several years later, her next move was to Southern California, following her brother who had preceded her. And that's where her worst tragedy struck.
Her son, who by this time was in college, accidentally shot himself. It was in 1982. He was only 19 years old. Her home now is filled with many of his photographs.
She completed a successful career in business and retired to Oceanside. Now she lives with her daughter in Murrieta and is in remission from a bout with cancer. She volunteers each week at the help desk at Rancho Springs Medical Center.
In that entryway is another wall hanging that reads, "Life is a song; Love is music."
For Christa Baroth the song hasn't always been a happy one, but considering all that she has faced and all the dreams she has filled, there should still be plenty of music to help guide her.
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MIT graduate and undergraduate students will get a renewed opportunity to develop as effective leaders this year through the MIT L.E.A.D. (Lead, Engage, Act, Develop) program. Now in its second year, MIT L.E.A.D. is offering new workshops, expanded online resources and a series of leadership lunches.
Sponsored by the Student Activities Office (SAO), L.E.A.D. provides intentional and easily accessible forms of leadership training for students and student organizations. The program offers workshops and online resources to help students sharpen and hone their leadership skills and learn what it takes to make a student organization successful.
Last year, more than 150 students, both undergraduate and graduate, attended the workshops. "The program has been received positively by students, especially in its second year," says Leah Flynn, assistant dean and director for student leadership and engagement programs. "Students realize these programs are available and valuable, they have heard from their peers that it has been helpful, and they are eager to get started."
Workshops such as Student Organizations 101 teach students how to balance their many responsibilities effectively, ensuring success for the student leader and the organization. "Many student leaders find that the juggling act of being involved in organizations while trying to do their best in their academic work can prove to be difficult," says Alana Hamlett, assistant director for SAO. "It can feel like they are being pulled in many different directions when both responsibilities are important and students want to put adequate time into each."
Another important aspect for students is learning how to manage interpersonal relationships while in a leadership position, a concern addressed in one of this year's new workshops, "Controversy with Civility," which will teach techniques to address differences of viewpoints.
"Whether it is working with colleagues, friends or individuals that don't share the same ideals or values, it can be hard to figure out how to disagree without being disagreeable and what to do when conflict arises within a student group," Hamlett says. "L.E.A.D. addresses these elements of the leadership experience to help students find a way to work through them."
L.E.A.D. workshops are led by staff from across the Institute and cover a variety of topics. Students can take as few or as many workshops as they like, and select which themes best address their needs.
"Leadership is not a 'one size fits all' approach; it has to be adapted based upon the organization and individuals working within it," Hamlett says.
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Variety selection plays a crucial role in a farmer's ability to produce high yields of top quality fiber, says Norm Hopper, Texas Tech University agronomist. But other information about the seed may provide equally important clues as to how the crop will perform.
Hopper said farmers, many of whom have cut back on seeding rates to reduce costs, should put more emphasis on seed vigor. "Planting high quality seed makes good sense if farmers are planting fewer seeds per acre," he said.
"Uniform spacing also becomes critical," Hopper said during a presentation recently at the Southwest Crops Production Conference in Lubbock.
He said farmers should look at more than just germination percentage. Two factors play important roles in a seed's viability — vitality and vigor.
The germination percentage shows that the seed is alive and will germinate. Vigor indicates seed strength and provides at least an idea of how well seeds will germinate and how well seedlings will perform under a variety of growing conditions.
Hopper said vitality ratings come from a warm germination test and show the seed's "ability to germinate and produce normal seedlings under ideal conditions.
"Vigor rates the seed's potential for rapid, uniform emergence and development of normal seedlings under varied conditions."
He said seed quality peaks at physiological maturity while it's still on the plant. From that point on, it begins to deteriorate. Viability deteriorates slowly, to a point, and then increases. Vigor, Hopper said, deteriorates more rapidly.
Vigor testing takes place at a 64 degree Fahrenheit temperature and that temperature can't vary more than one degree up or down.
"We don't expect cool germination temperatures to equal warm test ratings," he said. "We may get 60 percent, 70 percent or 80 percent instead of the 80 percent to 85 percent we're accustomed to in warm germ tests."
He said a cool/warm vigor index is a combination of warm and cool tests. The procedure is: Run the cool germination test and count normal seedlings greater than 1.5 inches long after seven days; Run the warm germination test and count normal seedlings 1.5 inches long after four days; Add the results of the two tests.
A value of 160 to 200 on the warm/cool vigor test earns an excellent score. From 140 to 160 qualifies as good; 120 to 140 would be fair and anything below 120 is poor.
Hopper said the vigor rating could help farmers decide when to plant certain seed lots.
"In early May, temperatures are fairly cool, especially at night but with periods of warm temperatures." The vigor index provides a gauge for planting under these adverse conditions.
"Growers should use seed with better test results when environmental conditions may be most stressful and plant the weaker seeds when temperatures are more favorable for germination and early growth," he said.
Hopper said cottonseed need 50 degree-days at 60 degrees (DD 60s) to emerge.
"Cotton germinates best at temperatures above 65 degrees and germinates very little below 60 degrees. Below 50 degrees, expect chill injury; temperatures below 40 degrees can cause death of the seed."
Hopper said seed are most sensitive when they first begin to absorb water and approximately two days after beginning of imbibition (when seeds begin to swell). He said ideal planting conditions exist when the daytime maximum temperature forecast for the next five days indicates temperatures higher than 85 degrees and nighttime temperatures greater than 50 degrees. "That allows for 5 DD 60s per day," Hopper said.
He said good stands establish the potential for high yields. "A good stand results, in part, from using high quality seed, fungicide treatments and planting under warm conditions."
Uniform stands should include uniform spacing and uniform growth of healthy plants, he said.
Hopper said a planting guide for best yield and quality should include:
Select an adapted variety for the area.
Insist on good quality seed.
Provide fungicide protection
Plant in a warm soil with a warm forecast.
Plant into a well-prepared and moist seedbed.
Set the planter correctly, spacing, depth, etc.
Calibrate the planter properly.
Hopper said waiting for ideal conditions might prove a pipedream for some growers who must get over significant acreage in a short period. Starting out with high quality seed, he said, will improve their chances of achieving a uniform stand of healthy cotton plants.


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When i run a norton scan on my computer it says that this file is known spyware and that I should delete it. But when I try to delete it, it says that it is being used so I can't.
I can uninstall it in control panels *add and remove* but....It warns me that this programme supports many free programms and if I uninstall it, some of my free programms my not work properly.
Does anyone know about *Media Access*. And if so.....Will I be able to uninstall it without other programms messing up on me.
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12/2012 V-neck dress
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V-neck dress
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Crpe satin
This is a variation of pattern 106A. The pdf pattern is the same. The required materials for this variation are:
Crpe satin, 140 cm (55 ins) wide: 2.80 – 2.80 – 2.80 – 3.10 – 3.10 m (31/8 – 31/8 – 31/8 – 31/2 – 31/2 yds) . Vilene/Pellon G 785. 1 invisible zip, 40 cm (16 ins) long, and a special presser foot. 6 small, fabric-covered buttons.
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Feb 25, 2013, 01.39 PMby Eliza Gray
Surely this is Dec 2011, not 2012?
Jan 3, 2012, 08.48 PMby mawea
Sleek and smooth, lovely
Dec 31, 2011, 03.20 PMby MaggieMoise
this is currently my project, it's gorgeous, yes, but a pain in the patootie to finish. I spent a whole day trying to figure out the front, because birda's description and pattern markings for this pattern was not very dependable. Also, I altreded it, in the back, since I'm petite, it came out looking very beautiful, but be warned to depend on your skill to make those front folds. Overall, the dress is remarkable, very classy and I'm very happy burda put it in the magazine because it has such class to it (in any color.) Another thing, make sure you use silk charmeause.
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Dec 31, 2011, 05.45 PMby marionouchka
hope you'll finish it so we can see how it looks!
I did it too but mine is sleeveless… and yes it was a bit painfull as I don't sew really well ;)
Dec 30, 2011, 04.35 PMby LadyDanburry
love love love.
Dec 30, 2011, 12.55 PMby blueartisan
I think I have to wait a couple of months for this mag (only managed to pick up Octobers yesterday!) But all this green I'M IN LOVE!!!!
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I fell in love with this instantly when I got my burda mag.
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St. Paul Cop Apologizes for Muslim Clothing Photo
ST. PAUL (AP) - A St. Paul police officer has apologized for a photograph showing him dressed as a Muslim woman.
The St. Paul Police Department issued a statement Tuesday on behalf of Officer Robert Buth. Buth says the photo shows him at a private Halloween party on his own time, and was never intended to become public.
Buth says he regrets the image "may have been viewed to be insensitive to the Muslim community."
St. Paul Police Chief Tom Smith also issued a statement, saying he believes Buth's apology is sincere.
A police spokesman says Buth is still assigned to the K-9 unit, and an investigation continues.
Mukhtar Ibrahim, a journalist in Washington, D.C., had directed a tweet at the St. Paul Police Twitter account over the weekend, asking about the photo.
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Stainless Steel Telescopic Slide
3 beams total extension
This 3 beam stainless steel telescopic slide, offers a full extension.
Its design is simple, sliding action soft and noiseless.
Very compact, it is intended for medium loads in applications requiring a very small footprint.
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This slide guide is intended for medium duty applications, such as hoods or enclosures for guard of medium size machine, drawers of medium loads requiring improved access.
Recommended operating temperatures from -20 to 80°C.
Installing these guides in applications with severe vibrations is not recommended: indentation of profiles by ball bearings might occure. Do not hesitate to contact us.
Mounting on a minor axis: Increased risk of friction between beams during operation. A flat mounting will create significant deflection.
Increase space between the beams through spacers not supplied, in order to avoid the scraping due to the deflection.
These slides are not designed to withstand intensive use.
This product can be used as a keyboard drawer, Slide-pan, telescopic rod, drawer slide, furniture slide, handling rail, suspended horizontal guidance, or in some cases, as vertical guide as guard door.
Chambrelan produces this telescopic slide using cold rolled stainless steel profiles.
Standard coating is electropolishing.
It is equipped with polyamide stoppers when opening and closing.
It has ball cages made of stainless steel.
Its ball bearings are made of stainless steel. It is greased with a white grease.
Chambrelan is specialized in the design and manufacturing of telescopic slides and rails for industrial applications: reinforced slides, linear slide bearings rail, bearings guide, steel, aluminum or stainless steel sliders, partial, full or over extension, heavy duty industrial drawers...
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We do not recommend using this product outside the standard temperature range.
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The extension of this slide cannot be modified on stock items. On request, we can produce the requested extension. Please allow a production lead time.
increased development reduces the maximum permissible load.
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This slide can be mounted vertically. However, to avoid jamming, it is necessary to install, during production, additional stoppers to relocate the ball cages. It is therefore necessary to specify the type of installation requirements: downward or upward movement.
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42nd USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Series
The 2017 CNT defeated Cuba 5-0 in game three
Cuba won Game 5 against the CNT
The CNT dropped Game 4 to Cuba 7-2
The 2017 CNT won it?s second straight game over Cuba
Seth Beer hit a walk-off single to defeat Cuba 5-4
The 2017 CNT went 4-0 against Chinese Taipei
CNT won their third straight game over Chinese Taipei
The 2017 CNT takes game 2 over Chinese Taipei 3-0
The Collegiate National Team topped Chinese Taipei
The 2017 CNT defeated Martinsville 2-1 in 7 innings
The 2017 CNT defeated the Catawba Valley Stars 22-1
The 2017 CNT defeated the Catawba Valley Stars 10-0
Day two of action at the Americas Baseball Festival
A three-run 4th inning leads Cuba to a 5-1 win
Team USA wins 2-0 behind a second shutout
Team USA no-hits Cuba to win game one of the series
The CNT and CTBA series came to a close Saturday
James Kaprielian K's 12 in Team USA's July 4 win
CNT launched a pair of homers in their game two win
Game 1 Recap - USA CNT vs Chinese Taipei
Look back at the CNT's 2013 season
Rodon presented with Player of the Year Award
Behind the scenes of the USA vs. Cuba series
Game 5: USA CNT vs. Cuba from Durham, N.C.
Game 4: USA CNT vs. Cuba from Cary, N.C.
Game 3: USA CNT vs. Cuba from Omaha, Neb.
San Diego's Kris Bryant wins 2013 Golden Spikes Award
Game 2: USA CNT vs. Cuba from Omaha, Neb.
USA CNT vs. Cuba from Des Moines, Iowa
Take a look back at the 2013 Irish Classic
2012 Prospect Classic Game 4: Stars vs. Stripes
2012 Prospect Classic Game 2: Stars vs. Stripes
2012 Prospect Classic Game 1: Stars vs. Stripes
Go inside the Blue Monester scoreboard at the DBAP
Promo video for 2012 USA Baseball Prospect Classic
The Collegiate National Team visits North Carolina
USA Baseball announces inaugural Prospect Classic
7/24/10: CNT at Rosenblatt
7/21/10: CNT vs Korea: Game 5
7/19/10: CNT vs Korea: Game 4
7/17/10: CNT vs Korea: Game 2
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Edward Lee, of the Baltimore Sun, reports the Baltimore Ravens have revamped their special teams this offseason. They signed LB Gary Stills, S Gerome Sapp and CB Corey Ivy. They also re-signed TE Daniel Wilcox. New special teams coordinator Frank Gansz Jr. will be responsible for revitalizing the Ravens special teams. "If there's one area of this team that I'm excited about the improvement made, it's at special teams," Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick said. "Not only do you have the staples of AD [Adalius Thomas], Bart Scott and Dan Wilcox, now you also add Corey Ivy, Gary Stills and Tim Johnson. Those are three top-end special teams guys that everybody knows around the league."
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Have you always wanted to go to a Round Rock Express Game but with the stadium juuuust a bit outside of Austin the traffic is killin' you smalls? We're here to take care of that by providing (among other things) round trip luxury transportation to the stadium, just remember, there's no crying on the bus. Below are the full details for this ridiculously fun package.
On the Bus:
- Depart from Downtown Austin at 5:30 p.m. (Return at 10:30pm)
- We'll be playing your favorite baseball movies during the ride!
- May 25th: The Sandlot, July 19th: A League of Their Own, August 31st: Major League
- "Soda and Cracker Jacks" Austin Style with Topo Chico and Kind Bars
- Beer and Cocktails from Local Sponsors
- You may also BYOB
- We'll have the Party Porch all to ourselves to hang out in for the duration of the night, it's right above the craft beer section in the stadium under the big Budweiser sign (pictured).
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- 7:05pm Start: May 25th v Las Vegas, July 19th v New Orleans, Aug 31st v Col Springs
- Two beers per person, all the hot dogs & burgers you can eat
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42 U.S. Code § 7274r - Transferred
Section, Pub. L. 108–7, div. D, title III, § 308, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 154, which related to research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to engineering and manufacturing capabilities at covered nuclear weapons production plants, was transferred and is listed in a similar provisions note under the heading Activities at Covered Nuclear Weapons Facilities under section 2812 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXI, § 3156], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–467, which was formerly set out as a note under this section, was renumbered section 4832 of Pub. L. 107–314, the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, by Pub. L. 108–136, div. C, title XXXI, § 3141(k)(12), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1785, and is classified to section 2812 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
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Around the corner from Blair House Inn, in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, the Blue Hole Regional Park is putting on a fundraiser. Proceeds go to Friends of the Blue Hole foundation. A worthy cause dedicated to improving the historic Blue Hole in Wimberley, TX. A central Texas landmark drawing visitors for decades. Help preserve this beautiful oasis in the Texas Hill Country.
Blue Hole Concerts For The Park 2013
Friday June 7th
Friends of Blue Hole Fundraiser- 5 pm to 7:30 pm $45 donation
Complimentary hors' oeuvres; beer & wine available.
Artist Line-up:
Elizabeth Lee 5:00-6:00 pm
Susan Gibson 6:15-7:45 pm
Hal Ketchum 8:00-9:00 pm
Sahara Smith 9:00-10:00 pm
Saturday June 8th
All Day Concert for Blue Hole – $35
Food vendors all day, beer & wine available 4-10 pm
Swimming until 4 pm
Artist Line-up:
The Travis Wheeler Band 11:00-11:45 am
Spilt Milk 12:00-12:45 pm
Opie Hendrix Band 1:00-1:45 pm
T-Bone and The Bluetones 2:00-2:45 pm
Susan Arbuckle Band 3:00-4:00 pm
Eric Tessmer Band 4:15-5:15 pm
Texas Renegade 5:30-6:30 pm
Ruthie Foster 6:45-8:15 pm
Rick Trevino 8:30-10:00 pm
Sunday June 9th
Concert for Blue Hole – $25
Food vendors all day, swimming until 5 pm
Artist Line-up:
Walker Pickens 11:00-12:00 pm
Carrie Ann 12:15-1:15 pm
The Distractions 1:30-2:30 pm
Justin Black 2:45-3:45 pm
Chris Kipp 4:00-4:45 pm
Big Daddy Weave 5-7 pm
Bring your special someone to the Hill Country for three fun filled days of great music and food. Order a romantic picnic to enjoy on the Cypress Creek while listening to some of the best musicians in Texas. Walk or ride on one of the many scenic Hill Country nature trails around Blue Hole and Blair House. Guests are welcome to use our complimentary bicycles. Rooms will fill up quick, so make your reservations at Blair House Inn before someone else has all the fun.
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Graduate Program Application Process
The Department of Communication Studies accepts applications for fall semester only. Our application deadline for fall of 2018 is March 1, 2018.
To apply to the Master in Arts program, please complete the following steps:
Step 1: Apply to SJSU's Graduate Admissions by March 1, 2018
All applicants to the M.A. in Communication Studies program must meet the requirements for admission to the University as set forth in the University's General Catalogue. You can learn about these requirements and the University's application deadlines by visiting the SJSU Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations (GAPE) website. From that site, you can also fill out the online application through Cal State Apply.
To complete the Cal State Apply application you will need to send your transcripts, your application fee, and other requested materials to the office of GAPE. Send those materials as instructed by the MySJSU to-do list. Please note that you must send sealed, official transcripts to GAPE. (GAPE's extended zip code is 95192-0017.)
Step 2: Send the following application materials directly to the Communication Studies Department by March 1, 2018:
1) Two letters of recommendation
Your letters of recommendation can come from professors and/or anyone who has directly supervised your work in a professional capacity. If you ask someone other than a professor to write you a letter, please ask the person to evaluate skills that relate to academic work, such as your oral and written communication skills. All letters should be on professional letterhead and in a sealed envelope, or sent via email by your letter writer.
Note: If you are also applying to the Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA) program, you will need three letters of recommendation. All three letters should speak to both your teaching qualifications and your potential for graduate study. Be sure to carefully read the GTA application requirements before starting this application process.
2) A personal statement
Please prepare a personal statement of approximately 1000 words that provides:
- your reasons for pursuing the M.A. in Communication Studies,
- your goals and expectations for graduate study,
- your relevant professional and academic experience, and
- your phone number and current email address.
Be sure to talk about your particular interests and aspirations that draw you to graduate study in communication. You may cite sources in either APA or MLA style where appropriate. Be sure, too, to place your name at the top of your statement.
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Please include a sample of your scholarly or professional writing. The sample could be a paper you wrote previously for an academic or non-academic context. It should be approximately 3,000 words (not to exceed 4,000 words) and should showcase both your writing and research skills. The topic need not relate directly to the study of communication.
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A sealed copy of your official transcripts should be sent directly to our department. This copy is in addition to the copy you send to the University. Having your transcripts on hand helps us to evaluate your application in a timely manner. If you are a graduate of SJSU, you will need to request that your transcripts be sent to our department. SJSU students can order copies online from the Office of the Registrar.
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WEST, Texas (AP) — Four months after a fertilizer plant explosion tore through their small Texas community, killing 15 people and damaging buildings for blocks around, the West Trojans opened their football season and recovered a degree of normalcy that's been missing since the blast.
The high school field, which became a triage site immediately after the April 17 blast in the community 100 miles south of Dallas, was replanted and repainted for the game against the Little River-Academy Bumblebees. Few Texas traditions are as celebrated or mythologized as high school football under the lights, but Thursday night's kickoff held particular significance for West's roughly 2,800 residents, who have endured months of struggle and uncertainty.
"Everyone is just really excited that we can do normal things like go to football games, when just a couple of months ago we were hurting so badly," high school English teacher Chelsey Lauer said before the game.
The home stands were packed with excited Trojan fans, including many who attended a pep rally earlier in the day that included former Baylor coach Grant Teaff and a Czech-themed dance group, in a nod to West's immigrant roots more than a century ago. Most remained until the end of a 41-7 loss.
Red-clad Trojan players slapped their teammates' backs like drummers during the final notes of the National Anthem, and generations of West graduates raised their right index fingers in the air while the band played the school song.
"From here to now, we didn't even know if we were going to see a first game," said Monique Hardin, whose nephew, Quentin Dancer, plays for the Trojans and ran more than 70 yards for the team's only touchdown.
"God spared me and the rest of us to live this day," she said.
The blast destroyed parts of three schools, including the high school. Immediately after the blast, hundreds of students had to be bused more than 10 miles away to another school district. Officials in West repeatedly said they wanted to get classes in August back in town, even if they didn't have permanent buildings.
School resumed this week in three 10-classroom buildings connected by wooden walkways. Lunch is in a portable cafeteria. More portable classrooms are still being trucked in and installed. A power outage Thursday in some classrooms meant students had to be moved out of hot classrooms into the gym, Lauer said.
"I think that we all know that this is an odd time, and we're trying to make the best of moments like that," she said.
The Trojans have been practicing on the track of where one wrecked school building once stood next to West Fertilizer. Both the school and the plant have been demolished.
"Not one complaint, though," said assistant superintendent Jan Hungate. "They were just happy to be here. We can learn a lot from the kids. They've been so resilient."
The signs of rebuilding are evident everywhere in town. A handful of new houses are almost ready for families to move in. Dozens of wrecked homes that had curved walls and spray-painted messages on the front are gone, leaving empty gravel lots waiting to be rebuilt.
The decision by federal officials to reverse their earlier denial of major emergency aid means millions of dollars are expected to flow into West, allowing town and school officials to rebuild water lines and buildings.
The finished product is years away. On Thursday, students and fans of the Trojans were focused on seeing their team back on the field and trying to beat Little River-Academy.
"It's big, not only because we're overcoming adversity," Hungate said. "It's school spirit, and that happens no matter what kind of building you're in."
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Some have linked nitrogen imbalance with quality-robbing pithiness in drip-irrigated celery, but Tim Hartz, Extension vegetable crops specialist at the University of California, Davis, says the true reason is water stress, either too little or too much.
Speaking to a group of celery growers at Salinas recently, Hartz described his trials with drip irrigation and nitrogen fertility in nine commercial celery fields in Santa Maria and Salinas.
Drip irrigation is being used on about one-third of the California acreage (6,800 acres, 2003 fall season) and is increasing as methods and practices are refined.
Hartz said he found instances where certain growers were using portable drip systems that were poorly designed and operated.
Using drip tapes of various flow rates on various row lengths, those growers were attempting to irrigate different soil textures on the basis of frequency of irrigations rather than the actual volume delivered to the crop. Pithiness of up to 20 percent occurred with these faulty systems.
Pithiness, or a breakdown of internal tissue density, is a major source of quality loss and is particularly important for export markets.
In addition to water stress, the condition can be caused by cold stress, root infection, or other pre-harvest conditions. Storage at 32 degrees after harvest is particularly vital in delaying pithiness.
Approximately 85 percent to 90 percent water distribution uniformity, Hartz explained, is realistic from a portable surface drip system, and when distribution uniformity is below that range, significant over-irrigation will be needed to supply the driest part of a field.
Same bad effect
When plant roots are left in standing water from excessive irrigation, the physiological effect is the same as insufficient moisture.
"Regardless of whether you over-water or under-water, you still have the threat of serious pith development," he said.
"Drip irrigation," said Hartz, "is most efficiently managed by using a combination of two systems: water budget calculation and soil moisture measurement."
Water budget calculation is estimating the amount of water the crop requires based on crop growth stage and weather conditions. Soil moisture measurement is monitoring the depletion of available water in the crop root zone.
In general, for determining irrigation frequency, Hartz said maximizing growth rate and quality of celery requires that no more than 20 to 30 percent of available water in the primary root zone, or the top foot of soil, be depleted between irrigations. Since drip irrigation does not wet the entire soil volume, it must be applied more frequently than sprinkler irrigation.
For soil moisture monitoring, he pointed to use of tensiometers as one of the best methods. Installed in the plant row 10 to 12 inches deep in several different parts of a field, tensiometers measure soil-water tension in centibars, which increase as available soil water is depleted.
Celery, he added, is most sensitive to water stress during the final four to five weeks before harvest and particularly during high evapotranspiration conditions. "Celery maturing from late fall through early spring seldom develops significant levels of pithiness, even if some degree of transient water stress is encountered."
Heavily fertilized
Celery has traditionally been the most heavily fertilized vegetable crop grown in California. Under sprinkler irrigation, applications of 300 to 350 pounds per acre of nitrogen have been common and some growers have applied more than 400 pounds per acre.
Hartz said those rates account for not only the high nitrogen use of the crop, typically 200 to 280 pounds per acre, but also the leaching of a significant amount of the applied nitrogen below the reach of celery roots.
"If you limit the amount of in-season leaching with well-managed drip irrigation nitrogen, fertility rates can be reduced correspondingly."
For a crop maturing in summer, he said, drip irrigation is used for the final nine weeks before harvest. Up to the point where the drip system is started, the total crop nitrogen content averages only about 20 to 30 pounds per acre. Afterward, as the crop growth rate increases, the nitrogen uptake peaks at about 35 pounds per acre per week just before harvest.
The current grower practice, he continued, is to top-dress 80 to 120 pounds per acre of nitrogen under the drip tape just before the system is installed, the theory being that the drip irrigation will carry the nitrogen to the root zone.
"However, it will be several weeks before the crop can utilize this amount of nitrogen, and any leaching in those first few weeks of drip irrigation can flush much of this fertilizer below the root zone."
Efficient approach
A more efficient approach, Hartz suggested, would be to either eliminate the top-dressing, or apply only 20 to 50 pounds per acre and concentrate on applying more by fertigation later in the season when the crop is better able to utilize it.
Detailed guidelines for the above procedures and other calculations for drip irrigation and fertigation management of celery are available from the UC, Davis Vegetable Research and Information Center at www.vric.ucdavis.edu.


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XMNR: While the Wii U doesn't appear to officially support the streaming of videos from your local network, one owner discovered that the functionality is there Thursday and is accessibly through the new Nintendo console's web browser.
Seems a bit harder than it is with the 360/PS3
They need to make MKV integration part of TVii!! It would instantly one up the competitors.


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iSeries injection molded waterproof cases are constructed of ultra high-strength polypropylene copolymer resin and feature a gasketed, waterproof and airtight, submersible design (IP67) that is resistant to corrosion and impact damage. Its molded-in hinges, patented "trigger release" latch system, comfortable, snap-down rubber over-molded cushion grip handle, secure stacking, and automatic ambient pressure equalization valve (MIL-STD-648C) all contribute to its military grade design.


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George Dallam, PhD, is the longtime coach of Hunter Kemper, the No. 1-ranked triathlete in the ITU World Cup during 2005 and most of 2006. He is the founding member of the National Coaching Commission of USA Triathlon, the sport's national governing body, and was USA Triathlon's first national team coach. In 2004 he was a finalist for the Doc Counsilman Award for Science in Coaching category of the United States Olympic Committee's Coach of the Year Award. In 2005 he was USA Triathlon's Elite Coach of the Year.
Dallam is an associate professor of exercise science and health promotion at Colorado State University at Pueblo. As a sport scientist he has authored and coauthored numerous scientific papers relating to triathlon. During his career at CSU-Pueblo, he has received each of the university-wide awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, becoming the only faculty member in the history of the institution to receive all three awards.
During his 16-year triathlon coaching career, Dallam has served as a personal coach to several elite triathletes, including Amanda Stevens, Marcel Vifian, Callahan Hatfield, Michael Smedley, and Ryan Bickerstaff. As the USA Triathlon national team coach, he also served as the Olympic Training Center resident and collegiate programs coach for Olympians Nick Radkewich and Susan Williams as well as perennial international stars Laura Reback, Becky Lavelle, and Doug Friman. Before focusing on triathlon, he coached at various levels in swimming, water polo, and cross country. He resides in Colorado Springs.
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS, has been a regular columnist and contributor to The East Coast Triathlete, Triathlon Today, Triathlon Times, and American TRI. Since 2006, he has written a column titled "Ordinary Mortals: Talking Triathlon with Steve Jonas" for USA Triathlon Life. He is the author of Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals and The Essential Triathlete. He also currently serves as editor in chief for American Medical Athletic Association Journal and has been a member of the editorial board of ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal since 1999. Jonas is a professor of preventive medicine in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York. As author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor, he has published more than 25 books and 135 academic papers on health policy, health promotion, disease prevention, and fitness and exercise. The year 2007 marked Jonas' 25th season as a recreational triathlete. He has competed in over 185 multisport races, including 115 triathlons, at distances up to the Ironman. He is also a certified professional ski instructor. Jonas resides in Port Jefferson, New York.
"In Championship Triathlon Training, George Dallam and Steven Jonas combine the latest research and cutting-edge programming to create the definitive training resource for serious triathletes."
Siri LindleyTwo-Time Triathlon World ChampionWinner of 13 World Cup RacesCoach of Olympic Medalists
"Championship Triathlon Training covers all of the important aspects of triathlon, including those that are often overlooked: strength, nutrition, speed, technique, and mental training. I highly recommend it."
Linda Cleveland, MS, CSCSUSA Triathlon Coach Development Manager
"By combining experience and science, George Dallam has produced the world's top-ranked male triathlete. With coauthor Steven Jonas, a regular triathlon columnist, George shares his knowledge in Championship Triathlon Training so that you can benefit from the sport's best."
Gale BernhardtCoach of World Championship and Olympic Triathletes
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