text: Back to News Quarterfinal and Semifinal Matches Set at 2014 Region IV Presidents Cup Quarterfinal Matches Set for: U-13G, U-14G, U-15G, U-17G, U-15B, U-16B, U-17B Semifinal Matches Set for: U-13B, U-14B, U-16G Day 3 of 5 Schedules, Scores and Standings Facebook | Twitter | Instagram #PresidentsCup MORGAN HILL, Calif. (June 13, 2014) – The fields narrowed down for the Under-13 through Under-17 Boys and Girls teams participating in the 2014 US Youth Soccer Region IV Presidents Cup in Morgan Hill, Calif. After three days of play, quarterfinal and semifinal matches are set, and teams get one step closer to a regional title and a berth to the 2014 US Youth Soccer National Presidents Cup, July 10-13 in Greenville, S.C. The US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup is designed for teams seeking additional challenges to play for a national title against teams of similar abilities. The cup provides a progressive, competitive experience to teams that might not otherwise get the opportunity to participate in a series of unique experiences highlighting competition, camaraderie and community from the state to regional to national levels of US Youth Soccer. Teams to Watch: Under-13 Girls: Eagles White (CA-S) Eagles White defeated fellow Cal-South team Murrieta Surf 1-0 to get their third win in preliminary play. A goal by Elysia Laramie in the 50th minute and a strong backline helped the U-13 Eagles remain undefeated in the match and in pool play. The Eagles will next face CSC Tsunami (AK) in quarterfinals. Under-14 Girls: West Coast FC United White (CA-S) West Coast FC United White (CA-S) defeated Utah Storm Premier-Dean (UT) 4-0 to move on to quarterfinals. West Coast went undefeated in preliminary play, scored ten goals in three games, and didn't allow a single goal to be scored against them. West Coast hopes to continue their streak as they face United White (CA-S) in tomorrow's quarterfinals. Under-15 Girls: Eastside FC G98 White (WA) Three wins gives Eastside FC White (WA) a top spot in Under-15 Girls standings and a chance to move on to tomorrow's quarterfinal match against Impulse from Cal-North. Eastside FC defeated BSC Valley 98G Tiempo (OR) in their final pool play match with a 4-0 result, which saw goals by Anne Maher, Lauren Harwood, Katherine Zue and Alysse Legault. Under-16 Girls: Washington Timbers G97 Green (WA) Washington Timbers G97 Green (WA) defeated Under-16 Girls team Celtic Hoops (CA-S) 3-0 in quarterfinal play. Washington took a 2-0 lead going into halftime after a pair of back-to-back goals by Amanda Shi in the 5th and 40th minutes. In the second half, Desiree Arocha found the back of the net in the 67th minute, giving Washington a 3-0 victory. The undefeated Timbers next face Lady Nomad from Nevada in semifinals. Under-17 Girls: California Elite Soccer Club G96 (CA-S) A 3-1 victory against Dragons Select (UT) allowed California Elite Soccer Club G96 (CA-S) to advance to quarterfinals. California Elite took a 1-0 lead at halftime with an early goal by Sigany Brice in the 6th minute. Erin Reynolds put California Elite up by two in the 41st minute, but Dragons Select held on when Madalyn Hansen shot one in in the 63rd minute. Jacqueline Mendez secured the victory for California Elite with a goal in the 75th minute. The undefeated California side will battle CISC Velocity 97G (AK) in quarterfinals. Under-13 Boys: Fusion FC Traviesos (UT) After going undefeated in preliminary play, under-13 Boys team Fusion FC Traviesos (UT) defeated Sporting White (CA-N) 4-3 in their quarterfinal matchup. A pair of goals by Fusion's Ethan Bengtzen in the 16th and 21st minutes kicked off the match. Sporting leveled the score after goals by Dieumerci Muganza in the 53rd minute and Cesar Prado in the 62nd minute, but Ryan Jiba put Fusion back in the lead in the 66th minute. Bryce Fernandez gave Sporting the equalizer just a minute later, but Arturo Martin's late game heroics in the 74th minute gave Fusion the victory. Fusion FC moves on and faces HG Eagles (CA-S) in semifinals. Under-14 Boys: Oxnard Wave Soccer Club (CA-S) Oxnard Wave Soccer Club (CA-S) got an impressive 5-0 victory against CISC Velocity 00B Blue (AK) in today's Under-14 Boys quarterfinal match. Gerardo Carranza started off on fire, scoring three goals for Oxnard in the first 20 minutes of play. Oxnard Wave Soccer Club continued the momentum in the second half of the match, and got two additional goals by Ivan Lumbrano in the 60th minute and Igor Lumbrano in the 64th minute. Oxnard remains undefeated in all matches as they go into semifinals versus Players SC Elite from Nevada. Under-15 Boys: Tacoma United B98 Chelsea (WA) Tacoma United Chelsea from Washington finished preliminary play with a 3-0-0 record. Their final pool play game against Rogue Valley Timbers Red (OR) resulted in a 2-0 score with second half goals by Miguel Macias and Vicente Aquino. Tacoma United will go up against BNSC Inter (ID) in quarterfinals. Under-16 Boys: L30 Crossfire FC (UT) L30 Crossfire FC (UT) will go up against Merdian United (ID) for tomorrow's Under-16 Boys quarterfinal match. Crossfire defeated Players 98 Elite (NV) 2-1 in their final pool play match with goals by Jaysten Flowers in the 22nd minute and by Carlos Rodriguez in the 47th minute. Under-17 Boys: CYSASL Verona (CA-S) CYSASL Verona (CA-S) racked up 11 goals and went undefeated in their first three pool play matches. Five of those goals were achieved today after a 5-0 win against Real Colorado Edge United (CO). Jason Samperio opened up the scoring early on with a goal in the 5th minute. Jorge Bedolla got a pair of goals in the 46th and 52nd minutes, and Manuel Castellanos added another in the 47th minute. Eulalio Abundez concluded the match with an 80th minute tally. CYSASL Verona (CA-S) faces Under-17 Boys team Ballistic (ID) in quarterfinals. For complete tournament results for Region IV Presidents Cup, click here. For more information on all US Youth Soccer Regional and National Presidents Cup events, click here, or visit the US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup Homepage at www.USYouthSoccer.org/PresidentsCup. Note: The US Youth Soccer Presidents Cup is a separate series of events from the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series.


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Town Manager Joseph M. Zeneski believes the state Department of Public Utilities is acting like the department for public utilities, perpetrating a fraud against the ratepayers of Aquarion Water Co. of Massachusetts.
Earlier this month, he sent letters to Attorney General Martha Coakley, Inspector General Glenn Cunha and state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump asking for "an investigation by your office into the fraud that is the DPU."
Problems began on May 6, 2009, when town meeting voters authorized selectmen to buy the local water system from Aquarion, which does not want to sell an apparently profitable system.
The Oxford Water Co. was created by the Massachusetts Acts of 1904 at the request of several local mill owners. Those acts gave the town the "right at any time" to acquire the water system "on payment of actual cost."
The question facing the courts is what that "actual cost" includes. Worcester Superior Court Judge David Ricciardone already determined that the "actual cost" must be based on the original cost of the "franchise, property, rights and privileges," and a 5 percent return for stockholders. Remaining questions are on the "actual cost" of contributed property, retirement credit, maintenance and repair and other expenses.
The water system has always been privately owned. In 2002, it was purchased by Aquarion, which has approximately 2,600 customers in Oxford.
The town already owns about 20 percent of the Oxford water system, including a half-mile of water pipe, a 273,000-gallon water tank at 6 Pioneer Lane and a 500,000-gallon water tank on Sutton Avenue. Aquarion owns 41 miles of water mains, a 216,000-gallon water tank on Prospect Street, three wells on North Main Street, and a well on Nelson Street.
From 2009 to March 31, 2011, Aquarion reported spending $512,000 in legal fees on the Oxford case. The DPU disallowed approximately half those costs, because they were incurred before the test year used in the rate case, but allowed recovery of $261,000 from ratepayers, since "utility companies are entitled to legal representation."
At least in part to fund legal expenses, on March 30, 2012, the DPU granted Aquarion a 12.5 percent rate increase for customers in Oxford and Millbury and a 10 percent increase for customers in Hingham, Hull and Cohasset, on top of an across-the-board 33 percent rate increase in 2009.
The DPU stated that it made its findings on allowing recovery of the Oxford legal fees "without investigating the underlying rationale," which infuriated Mr. Zeneski.
"It is the DPU's job to investigate the legality of Aquarion's actions. In this case, the DPU is forcing ratepayers to pay for Aquarion to try to prevent the citizens of Oxford from exercising their legal right to take over the water system. The DPU is not doing its job. This is fraud," he said.
Oxford, Hingham and Hull unsuccessfully argued that the litigation "is being conducted for the benefit of shareholders rather than ratepayers" and should not be funded by customers. The towns also argued that it is "not prudent for Aquarion to attempt to prevent Oxford from exercising its statutory right to purchase the company's assets."
Mr. Zeneski said, "What the DPU did was to determine that the corporation's position was appropriate by approving the recovery of the legal expenses and siding with the corporation against ratepayers. Had the DPU taken time to clearly understand the 'underlying rationale,' they would see that far from being 'confiscation of its assets without just compensation,' Oxford is required to pay Aquarion the actual cost of the system.
"The DPU decision is nothing more than positive support of Aquarion's effort to deny Oxford ratepayers the right to own the water supply system and makes a fraud of DPU's mission statement, which requires them 'to ensure that residential ratepayers' rights are protected.' "
Mary-Leah Assad, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Utilities, said on Friday, "If a company is seeking to recover legal costs as part of a rate case, the department ensures that the costs meet certain criteria. In this case, a portion of the costs Aquarion sought to recover met these standards and were approved. All parties to a rate case have the opportunity to appeal the department's decision within 20 days. There were no appeals in this decision. We allow recovery in rates of a utility's litigation expense if they were: incurred during (the) applicable test year, extraordinary and reasonable."
Mr. Zeneski said he did not appeal within the 20 days allowed "because we figured there was no hope. We'd already made our best, very good arguments. We had no new arguments until I learned about Mass General Law Chapter 165 that requires the DPU to inform itself as to a water company's compliance with the law. The DPU is supposed to make sure Aquarion complies with the law. I had to take Aquarion to court because it was not complying with the law."
He said the 1904 law that allows the town to purchase the water system "is an old law, but one that should be followed."
Mr. Zeneski said he was told the attorney general could only intercede during a rate case. He sent an email to Margaret F. Hurley, chief of the Central Massachusetts Division of the attorney general's office, insisting, "Fraud is something you all should be concerned about at all times."
He received a response from Ms. Hurley on Thursday. She said she had forwarded Mr. Zeneski's emails to both the attorney general's Energy and Telecom Division, which normally represents ratepayers in natural gas, electricity and the telecommunications matters, and to the Policy & Government Division, which is charged with "responding to the needs of municipal and state officials."
"Someone will be in contact with you," Ms. Hurley said.
Mr. Zeneski said that he was "given the runaround" when he tried to call Mr. Cunha's office and has not heard from the state auditor's office.
Mr. Zeneski said a letter he sent to Gov. Deval Patrick was forwarded to the Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees the DPU.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a photographer who said that painter Richard Prince violated his copyrights with paintings and collages based on the photographer's published works.
The high court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal from Patrick Cariou, who said Prince used pictures that were taken by Cariou for his book "Yes, Rasta."
Cariou took the pictures during six years he lived with Rastafarians in Jamaica. Prince altered and incorporated several of the photographs in a series of paintings and collages titled "Canal Zone," exhibited in 2007 and 2008.
But the federal courts said Prince transformed most of the pictures enough so that Prince's art could be considered a "fair use" of Cariou's work. The Supreme Court refused to reconsider that decision.


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Older News » Books to get kids reading again and againLast updated 4:19 PM on 20 June 2012
There's nothing like a series to inspire the bookworm in your child. Just think of the way kids reacted to the Harry Potter novels.
Establishing a good relationship with the first book in a series means children can generally be confident they will feel the same way about the rest of the series.
The books in a series often become easier to read as time goes on. Once your child is familiar with the first book's characters, the landscape, style and the author's voice, they can simply sit back and enjoy all the subsequent tales.
Another benefit of the book series is that kids can identify with kids who love the same series.
They can discuss the plots, predict what's going to happen in the next series, and talk about the characters they like and dislike.
Book series for young kids
You may like to introduce your preschooler or Kindy child to Russell Hoban's Frances, a high-spirited badger that experiences all the usual childhood dilemmas, including the arrival of a new sibling.
For the next age group there are classics like Ruth Park's The Muddle-Headed Wombat, Michael Bond's Paddington Bear or contemporary series like Anna Fienberg's Tashi, beautifully illustrated by Kim Gamble, in which the bold storyteller is a pixie-like character who relates many tall tales and is always the hero.
Another contemporary series is Moya Simons' Walk Right in Detective Agency, the humorous adventures of two best friends who solve quirky cases.
For upper primary school students, Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest series supplies endless hours of enjoyment in a fantasy world reproduced in three separate series, while her shorter Wizard of Rondo trilogy is popular and tightly written.
Deborah Abela's Max Remy and Duncan Ball's Emily Eyefinger are great light reads providing a childhood friend who will always be remembered affectionately. The same can be said of the boys' own 007, H. I. Larry's secret agent, Zac Power.
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The Louisiana Small Business Development Center Greater New Orleans Region, housed in the Loyola University New Orleans College of Business, will co-host the seminar, "Angel & Early Seed Financing: Seed Investing for Entrepreneurs," on Thursday, June 28 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the UNO Jefferson Center, located at 3330 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 447, in Metairie, La.
The seminar, co-hosted by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana, is a one-day training and networking event that provides young companies with an inside look at how seed investors think and make decisions, as well as how to work successfully with venture investors and corporate partners.
According to the center's director, Carmen Sunda, the seminar is geared to entrepreneurs whose business ventures show the promise for rapid and accelerated revenue growth.
"This seminar provides the early stage entrepreneur with the tools and methods to learn how to think like an angel investor," Sunda said. "When the time comes for entrepreneurs to approach or make a presentation to an investment forum, angel organization or investment pitch competition, they will be better equipped to speak the same language as their potential investors."
The seminar costs $25 and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For questions or to pre-register, call 504-831-3730 or visit the online registration page.


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PHOENIX (AP) — A fired strip club employee masterminded a plot to rob his former employer of up to $500,000 he believed was stored in the business' safe, a plan that unraveled on New Year's Eve and led to the shooting of a Phoenix police officer and a volunteer sheriff's posse member, according to court documents.
Jason Beau Keep and two other people have been arrested in the brazen midday robbery that fell apart when the suspects spotted a large crowd outside the club that was their intended target, police said.
The thieves, authorities say, instead followed two employees and robbed them of $18,000 outside a nearby restaurant before their confrontation with the officer and civilian, both of whom remained hospitalized in critical condition. Authorities are still seeking a fourth suspect, William Herbert Mayes, 30, on suspicion of armed robbery.
Roger Allen Sharp Jr., 26, was being held on suspicion of attempted murder, resisting arrest and aggravated assault, among other counts. David Lee Murray, 36, faces charges of armed robbery and assault.
Keep, 35, was arrested a few days later on suspicion of armed robbery.
Attorneys for Sharp and Murray didn't return telephone messages Tuesday. No attorney was listed for Keep. Authorities did not immediately respond to a request for interviews of the suspects in jail.
According to court records released this week, Keep was fired from the Pink Rhino Cabaret in Phoenix just before Christmas.
During interrogations of the suspects, police said Sharp told them Keep recruited others to carry out the plan. The suspects discussed the club's layout, where surveillance cameras were and Keep's contention that the club's safe could hold up to $500,000, police said.
The plan to rob the club around 2 p.m. was scrapped after Mayes spotted the crowd outside, according the court papers.
Police say Sharp and Murray then followed the two strip club employees to an east Phoenix restaurant where they robbed the men at gunpoint and stole a duffel bag stuffed with $18,000.
The pair crashed their car while being followed by Phoenix police Officer Scott Sefranka, authorities said.
Murray ran off, but Sharp was confronted by Sefranka, 34, and Phillip Grigg, 63, an Army veteran and member of the Maricopa County sheriff's volunteer posse who tried to help the officer, according to authorities. Police say Sharp wrestled the officer's gun away and shot both men before fleeing into a nearby neighborhood.
Sharp forced his way into a home, telling the resident, "I just shot a cop," according to the court documents.
Both men were arrested a short time later.
Keep, the former strip club employee, once played center for University of San Diego and later Oklahoma State University's basketball team. He is described on the Oklahoma State website as an "eccentric ... heavily tattooed big man who once defeated an OSU teammate at chess in four moves."
Keep also once played professionally for the Philippine Basketball Association.


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By Irene Klotz
BOSTON (Reuters) - An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered just last year, passed about 17,200 miles from Earth at 2:25 p.m. EST (1925 GMT), closer than the networks of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
"It's like a shooting gallery here. We have two rare events of near-Earth objects approaching the Earth on the same day," NASA scientist Paul Chodas said during a webcast showing live images of the asteroid from a telescope in Australia.
Scientists said the two events, both rare, are not related -the body that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 10:20 p.m. EST Thursday (0320 GMT Friday) came from a different direction and different speed than DA14.
"It's simply a coincidence," Chodas said.
NASA has been tasked by the U.S. Congress to find and track all near-Earth objects that are .62 miles in diameter or larger.
The effort is intended to give scientists and engineers as much time as possible to learn if an asteroid or comet is on a collision course with Earth, in hopes of sending up a spacecraft or taking other measures to avert catastrophe.
About 66 million years ago, an object 6 miles in diameter smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, leading to the demise of the dinosaurs, as well as most plant and animal life on Earth.
Scientists estimate that only about 10 percent of smaller objects, such as DA14, have been found.
"Things that are that tiny are very hard to see. Their orbits are very close to that of the Earth," said Paul Dimotakis, a professor of aeronautics and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Asteroid DA14, for example, was discovered last year, and it was found serendipitously by a group of amateur astronomers.
"This is a shot across the bow," Dimotakis said. "It illustrates the challenge of the observation campaign which is now in progress."
The planet is regularly pelted with objects from space, adding up to about 100 tons of material per day, said astronomer Donald Yeomans, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Rocks the size of basketballs come in every day. Things the size of a small car arrive every couple of weeks. Larger meteors are less common, so the frequency of hits decreases, Yeomans added.
The rock that broke apart over Russia was believed to be a tiny asteroid, estimated to be about 49 feet - more than twice the size of a small car - and traveling at 11 miles per second, NASA said.
"These things are very faint until they get close enough to the Earth to be seen. An asteroid such as this, which approaches the Earth from the daytime sky, is virtually impossible to see ahead of time because telescopes have to look in the night-time sky to discover asteroids," Chodas told reporters on a conference call.
The asteroid weighed about 7,000 tons, and created a fireball trail visible for 30 seconds - in daylight - as it plummeted through the atmosphere.
Shock waves from the blast shattered thousands of windows and damaged buildings. Many of the 1,200 people injured were hit by flying glass, Russia's Interior Ministry said.
"You can see what sort of destruction and shock wave that a smaller asteroid can produce. It's like Mother Nature is showing us what a tiny one can do," Chodas said.
The Russian fireball was the largest space rock to hit Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event when an asteroid or comet exploded over Siberia, leveling 80 million trees over 830 square miles (2,150 sq km), NASA said.
Asteroid DA14 blazed past the planet at about 8 miles per second. At that speed, an object of similar size on a collision course with Earth would strike with the force of about 2.4 million tons of dynamite, the equivalent of hundreds of Hiroshima-type bombs.
"It's a good thing it's not hitting us, because truth be told there's nothing we could do about it except possibly evacuate, which is not going to be easy given the uncertainty about where the impact would take place," Dimotakis said.
"We would essentially take the hit," he added.
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Suri's $100,000 Birthday Party
The birthday party held for Suri Cruise's second birthday cost a whopping $100,000!
The catering bill for the two parties cost Tom more than $45,000, reveals the insider, who adds that Tom asked his friend, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, to cater the events, reports In Touch.
Tom reportedly filled their Hollywood Hills home with more than $17,000 worth of fresh flowers.
An insider also says that the Cruises spent almost $5,000 on cakes.
"They're very specific about what they like," said Jane Lockhart, whose Sweet Lady Jane Bakery in West Hollywood made the cakes. "They wanted [Suri's] cake to look simple and childlike so they designed it themselves, which was kind of interesting. They brought in photos they had seen of butterflies and other cakes."


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The Organ Factory
This is the conclusion of a five-part series. To read the first part, click here. To read the second, click here. For the third, click here. For the fourth, click here.
Three days ago, we looked at a study in which Japanese scientists extracted rat embryos from wombs, cultured them in lab dishes, and used them as hosts to grow transplantable kidney tissue from human stem cells. The scientists called this an "in vitro organ factory" based on "whole-embryo culture."
Yesterday I talked to Dr. Helen Liu, a researcher at Cornell University's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. She has grown womb tissue in the lab, put mouse embryos on it, and watched them implant and develop. After a week, she moved some of them to the abdominal cavities of adult mice. At 17 days—four days shy of full term—she took them all out. The embryos in vitro had died, but not before developing functional hearts. The embryos in vivo, which had spent nearly half their gestation in vitro—and none of it in a womb—seemed small but otherwise normal. They looked, says Dr. Liu, like "a well-formed, healthy mouse with eyes, with legs, with a tail."
The purposes of the two experiments couldn't have been more different. Dr. Liu helps women with fertility problems. She's trying to grow babies, not organs. But her methods fit the rat study like a key in a lock. The rat embryos had to be grown halfway to term in the womb, and they died soon after being removed. The mouse embryos grew to the same stage—and in many cases beyond it—outside the womb. Put the two technologies together, and you could grow organs in embryos without ever implanting them in a womb.
The rat study shredded the distinction between in vivo and in vitro. The human cells were inside an organ inside an embryo inside a dish. But the mouse study added a third, crucial in vivo layer: a blanket of womb tissue (endometrium) between the embryo and the dish. That's why Dr. Liu's mouse embryos, unlike mouse embryos in previous experiments, kept growing. Other researchers "only culture them in vitro, without any of the endometrium," she says. "Mine is with engineered endometrium tissue. This tissue is sort of like in vivo. … The embryo and the endometrium must interact with each other, and the endometrium must produce a lot of factors to support embryo growth."
Why did she engineer the womb tissue? Because medicine demanded it. Some infertility patients have physical difficulty with implantation or pregnancy. If the embryo won't come to the womb, maybe the womb can come to the embryo.
But soon medicine may demand something else. The science we examined Monday and Tuesday suggests that to save patients suffering from some diseases, we might need to grow transplantable tissues in embryos. The ethics we studied Wednesday and Thursday indicate that we could grow embryos for several weeks based on many of the same principles—organization, neural development, utility—that already justify research up to 14 days. But we left out one principle and one problem: implantation.
Ethics committees have generally forbidden implantation of embryos used in research. They've done this to draw a bright line between embryos for procreation and embryos for research. The line assured us that research embryos weren't really potential people, since they lacked the womb necessary for development. It also spared us the trouble of figuring out how many days or weeks we should let them grow. As Canada's national ethics report put it 11 years ago, "Researchers have not to date been able to keep human zygotes developing normally in vitro beyond 7 days, so there is no realistic possibility, for the foreseeable future, of experimenting on zygotes that have reached the stage of individuation."
Well, now there's a realistic possibility. Dr. Liu says she has grown human embryos to 10 days in artificial wombs, and the only reason she stopped at that point was to comply with the 14-day rule. That was four years ago, before she grew mice nearly to term. The technology is always improving, and as we saw yesterday, it's easy to relax the 14-day rule. We gained some control of the implantation line three decades ago when we invented in vitro fertilization. Now we can push the line forward, and maybe get rid of it.
You could argue that implantation in a dish is still implantation. But it shatters our moral understanding of the word. Two months ago, when the House passed legislation to expand funding of embryonic stem cell research, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., explained, "Those leftover eggs will have no potential ever of becoming a human being unless they are implanted in a woman's body." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, declared, "I do not believe that life begins in a Petri dish." Really? Were the mice with beating hearts in Dr. Liu's lab not alive? How about the human embryos? Are they fair game for research—not Dr. Liu's kind, but the kind we saw in the rat study—until they're transferred to a woman's body? How many weeks of in-vivo-in-vitro tissue differentiation will that buy us?
Our legal system is completely unprepared for this. Massachusetts used to define an "unborn child" as "the individual human life in existence and developing from fertilization until birth." This year, as part of a stem-cell research bill, it changed that definition to "the individual human life in existence and developing from implantation of the embryo in the uterus until birth." New Hampshire law says, "No preembryo that has been donated for use in research shall be transferred to a uterine cavity." But what if there's no cavity? What if there's no transfer? What if the embryo never implants "in the uterus"?
Ethics reports are blind, too. The latest one, issued last year by President Bush's bioethics council, calls for a ban on 1) "the transfer of a human embryo (produced ex vivo) to a woman's uterus for any purpose other than to attempt to produce a live-born child" and 2) "the transfer, for any purpose, of any human embryo into the body of any member of a nonhuman species." Neither provision bars a combination of the rat and mouse experiments—whole-embryo organ culture in an artificial womb—using human embryos.
Step by step, science is erasing the moral distinctions that kept us safe and sane. Artificial wombs erase the line between in vitro embryos and implanted embryos. Whole-embryo organ culture erases the line between therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Alternative stem-cell proposals, now before the Senate, erase the line between adult and embryonic stem cells. Adult can become embryonic. Implantation can be in vitro. Reproduction, at least through the early weeks of development, can be therapeutic.
Even the definition of the embryo is blurring. Under a proposal by William Hurlbut, a member of Bush's bioethics council, a single genetic tweak could turn a would-be embryo into a "clonal artifact" that "might legitimately be developed within artificial microenvironments beyond 14 days. This would allow the production of more advanced cell types, the study of tissue interactions and the formation of primordial organismal parts." Why has Hurlbut, a pro-lifer, invited scientists to grow and exploit near-embryos in artificial environments beyond 14 days? Because he knows that the demand for parts and tissues, combined with the difficulty of making them from stem cells, will build pressure to lift the 14-day limit on the real thing.
None of this is what Dr. Liu had in mind. She wants to transplant embryos back into the womb once they've developed far enough. Trying to replicate later stages of pregnancy in the lab is "too complicated," she says. That's a big problem if, like her, you want a baby. But if all you want is tissue, who cares? You can tell yourself what we already tell ourselves about unwanted in vitro embryos: They're doomed anyway. Patients' lives are at stake. We can't let personal morality get in the way of science. We can't wait.
But that's the funny thing: We are waiting. Every day that we don't grow embryos beyond two weeks for their tissue, we're waiting. I wonder why.


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By Robert Woodward
PARIS (Reuters) - Venus Williams felt the chill of defeat in the French Open on Wednesday when she became the first seed to lose in the second round, falling 2-6 6-3 6-4 to Anna Schmiedlova of Slovakia.
The 29th seed, wearing long sleeves to stay warm in temperatures of 14 Celsius, has never won the claycourt grand slam in 16 visits and the former world No.1, now 32, may have to accept she never will.
Schmiedlova, aged 19 and ranked 56 in the world, wasted two match points on Williams's serve before the American hit wide to set up a third, and she won the match with a fine backhand cross court.
"This is the biggest win of my life," said Schmiedlova, who broke down when expressing how much Venus had meant to her when she was growing up. "Now I want to beat the other one."
The defeat spoiled the chances of a Williams family reunion in the third round, between Venus and her younger sister Serena, the world No. 1 and defending champion.
Venus had got off to a solid start against Schmiedlova, winning four games in a row to take the opening set.
Her opponent, however, stepped up a gear and after an early exchange of breaks, stole the nine-times grand slam champion's serve in the seventh game of the second set and levelled the contest when her opponent netted a forehand.
Schmiedlova pulled through thanks to a series of fine passing shots to set up a meeting with Serena, providing the American beats Spain's Garbine Muguruza later on Wednesday.
Venus Williams was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease in September 2011 and since losing in the fourth round of Wimbledon that year, has lost in the first or second round of every grand slam she has taken part in with the exception of the 2013 Australian Open, where she reached the third round.
Russian Mikhail Youzhny, the men's 15th seed, joined her in heading for the exit when he lost 6-0 6-3 3-6 6-4 to Czech Radek Stepanek.
Eugenie Bouchard, the 18th seed, recovered from a slow start in chilly conditions to beat Julia Goerges of Germany in three sets, winning eight in a row to set up her winning position.
Goerges made the most of the Canadian's early lethargy to break Bouchard's serve in the third game and she took the first set when her opponent double-faulted.
But Bouchard began to move better and find her range, and she was soon chasing Goerges along the baseline with her accuracy and depth of shot.
After breaking for 3-2 in the second set, she did not lose another game until she served for the match as Goerges lost hope and accuracy, spraying the ball long and wide.
The German regained some pride by breaking back for 5-1 but the end was not long delayed and Bouchard won 2-6 6-2 6-1.
Gilles Simon, the 29th seed in the men's draw, eased past Alejandro Gonzales of Colombia 6-4 6-0 6-2.
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The sounds of power boats will be heard in the air for miles around Lakeland this weekend.
The 75th Orange Cup Regatta will be Saturday and Sunday at Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland.
The Orange Cup Regatta is a series of power boat races involving more than 50 boats in different classes competing for points going toward crowning an American Power Boat Association champion.
To get you ready for racing, we wanted to break down all you'll need to know for going to the race.
The Course
Lake Hollingsworth's nickname is the "Lake of Records" because more world records in power boating have been set here than at any other lake in the world. The course is one mile around the lake and it's surveyed to make sure any potential world records set this weekend are accurate. Race Director Gene Engle said the race conditions at Lake Hollingsworth are perfect for setting records.
Inboard vs. Outboard
There are two main kinds of power boats, inboard and outboard boats. There are many styles in each category, but to put it simply an outboard boat has its engine in the water and an inboard boat has its engine inside the boat.
Popular Boat Classes
There are several power boat classes competing. One of the fan-favorite divisions is the inboard Jersey Speed Skiffs. The Jersey Skiffs are extremely powerful and spend most of the time airborne.
"The crowds love them, they bounce all over the race course," Engle said.
Another popular class is the Outboard Performance Craft (OPC). The OPCs are tunnel boats that can reach up to 140 mph, and the courses involve making sharp 90-degree turns at five times normal gravity. It should be noted that the OPC is the only division that doesn't race to break records.
"You've got a little bit of everything. There's not one class that stands out where you say, 'that's the best.' Not true, not true at all because they're all so different," said chief scorer Sally Titus.
Engle said what makes this event very popular for power boat teams is they can earn double points. Each division will race once on Saturday and once on Sunday. There is no set time when each race will begin, but the boats will start racing about 10 a.m. Saturday.
What to Bring
Patrons are encouraged to bring blankets and folding chairs to sit at any of the grassy areas surrounding Lake Hollingsworth. It's also recommended to bring a coat as the high temperatures will be in the low 60s this weekend.
Fans can bring coolers with food and drinks. There will also be food vendors in the cold pit area serving concessions.
The parking lot east of the Lakeland Yacht and Country Club will be used as the pit area, but there will be limited parking around the lake. Additional parking can be found near Florida Southern College or the Beerman Family Tennis Center at 1000 E. Edgewood Drive, a half mile from the yacht club.
Matt Reinstetle can be reached at email@example.com or 802-7533.
75th Orange Cup Regatta Roars Onto Lake Hollingsworth This Weekend
The sounds of power boats will be heard in the air for miles around Lakeland this weekend.


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August 28. 2013 12:30AM
Plaistow walks the walk on pedestrian safety for school children
By ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
— A survey of Plaistow students and parents completed earlier this year shows that many students choose not to walk to school because of traffic on Main Street.
Town officials state that the study is indicative of persistent pedestrian safety issues on Main Street and are hoping a state grant could help the town address some of those issues.
"We applied for a Safe Routes to School grant this July," said Town Manager Sean Fitzgerald. He said the town could hear if it has received the grant within the next several weeks.
"It's pretty much the universal consensus that traffic on Main Street is heavy, there's a lot of it, and it's moving fast," said Robert Gray, chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
The board also approved an additional $100,000 in matching funds for the grant."If it is approved, the town will have over $300,000 to apply to pedestrian safety," said Fitzgerald. "I think that can do a lot to help with pedestrian safety, but it will just be the beginning of the investment as we move forward."
Pedestrian safety has been an area the town has been looking to address for several years.
"We've conducted a number of initiatives and studies over the past few years," said Fitzgerald. He said a $50,000 grant from Plan New Hampshire gave the town the ability to bring in architects to draw up an initial design for pedestrian safety measures.
Through the Rockingham Planning Commission, the town also did a comprehensive study of the entire Plaistow village corridor, looking at preliminary designs for public safety.
"It was focused on pedestrian safety and has the empirical data to help us make intelligent decisions and also to help us support some of our grant applications," said Fitzgerald.
The town has implemented some public safety measures over the past several years, including the installation of radar and speedometers along Main Street.
"We've also really picked up our enforcement," said Fitzgerald. "The police are out there vigilantly. Enforcement is a big part of the solution to some of these problems, but we also need some infrastructure improvements."
One potential for improved safety would be to install raised, granite-curbed sidewalks along Main Street, according to Fitzgerald.
"That's a really big safety feature in terms of sidewalks," he said. "We want to look at raising the sidewalk profiles along Main Street and reconfiguring the intersection with Elm Street."Planning Board member Tim Moore said he would like to see the town prioritize Main Street traffic-calming projects over the next several months.
"The problem is only going to get worse and worse unless we do something," said Moore. "The towns to our north are growing, and to get there, you have to drive through Plaistow one way or another. It's an important issue we need to tackle or at least get the plans in place to tackle it."


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Available now at Hallmark stores is this set of four Halloween-themed Looney Tunes ornaments. Called "Trick or Treating in Oz" the set has Bugs as Dorothy, Taz as the Cowardly Lion, Tweety as the Tinman, and Sylvester as the Scarecrow.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
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Nice! but I would prefer a looney tunes ornament inspired from the Wizzard of Ow, the new tune of Wile E. and Road Runner
So...this is the list
Wile E. is D0RoThy
Road Runner is The Ev1L Witch
other charachters: taz, sylvester tweety as the Cowardly Lion, the Tinman and the Scarecrow
- August 19, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Taz as the Flying Monkey
- August 20, 2007 at 10:12 AM
no...I see wile E. with his happy green Batman's outfit as that sorts of bats in the movie of Wizzard of Ow...I don't know..monkeys or Bat!
- August 23, 2007 at 2:25 AM
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So yesterday we had the best sideshore wind ever in Tel Aviv,
and I had the chance to ride the new Xenon Laluz 135 for more than an hour.
The board is really forgiving and snappy, feels like my 132 board (laluz 2010).
The landings are easier and softer, probably the combo of the new 2013 board and the new size.
I landed kiteloops and railies that I don't think I would with my board.
Personally, I also like the minimalist design of the board... lots of room for stickers
For conclusion : If you like TT boards, you must give this one a try.
I love my 2010 laluz but now I know its time for an upgrade


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Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu has released a new song, "Happy Hanukkah,' to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Starting today, all proceeds from the song will go to the Jewish Federations of North America and The Robin Hood Foundation to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. Proceeds from the song will be donated to these organizations until the of Hanukkah on December 16. You can download "Happy Hanukkah" via iTunes, Amazon and MatisyahuWorld.
As previously reported, Matisyahu will kick off his sixth annual "Festival of Light" Hanukkah tour on December 8. Matisyahu is currently in the middle of his fall college tour, which has taken him to campuses all over the country. The newly shorn musician stopped by the Relix office this past summer to play "Sunshine" off his latest album Spark Seeker. You can watch a video of the performance above.


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For the American market, its all about the 2014 KTM RC390 and its single-cylinder sport bike format. But for the rest of the world, especially emerging markets, the talk of the 2013 EICMA show is focusing on the KTM RC200 and KTM RC125 — the smaller siblings in KTM's "Race Competition" line.
Like the RC390, the RC200 and RC125 share engine designs with their Duke model counterparts. Both bikes feature the same aggressive styling as the KTM RC390, courtesy of Kiska Design, and are ideally situated for markets with tiered licensing programs and heavily segmented small-displacement categories. For us, we just think these motorcycles look hot.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Every two seconds someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion. One donation of a pint of blood can save up to three lives.
On September 7 from 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. area residents can help alleviate blood shortages by donating to the American Red Cross at the Air Zoo. The American Red Cross supplies approximately 40 percent of the nation's blood supply and provides blood for patients in nearly 3,000 hospitals across the United States.
Blood donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, be in good health and have a photo ID present. Donors are eligible to give blood every 56 days.
For more information about donating blood, please visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 1.800.GIVE.LIFE. For more information about the Air Zoo, please call 269.382.6555 or visit www.airzoo.org.
The Air Zoo is a nonprofit organization located at 6151 Portage Rd. in Portage, Mich. It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and offers a restaurant, gift shop and banquet facilities. General admission is $8 per person. Unlimited rides and attractions may be purchased with a wristband package (Ultimate Ace-$15, Junior Flyer-$12, Co-Pilot-$8), which includes general admission, or tickets can be purchased individually for rides. Children who are 4 years old or younger are free.


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Nutritional Status and TPN
My father has had a total small bowel and sub-total large bowel resection due to a carcinoid tumor. He is currently on a total TPN diet but continues to lose weight and is spending a lot of time in the hospital I feel he is not getting the proper amount of protein in his TPN. Any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Lisa B. Aiello RN, MSN, OCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist for the University of Pennsylvania Health System Clinical Nutrition Support Services, responds:
Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) is a specialized therapy that not all physicians are trained and proficient in managing/ordering. It is a unique liquid diet combination given into the vein with a needle. The mixture contains all the protein, sugars, fat, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients needed. There are many considerations to developing and managing a TPN prescription and TPN's associated complications, especially in the person with cancer. If you are concerned about your father's nutritional status, you should communicate this to the physician who is managing his TPN. If you are still not satisfied with his progress, I would recommend going to the closest teaching hospital and looking up their nutrition support service. There you should find a physician who specializes in TPN.


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Less Is More: Jeep Wrangler JK SuspensionPosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on March 1, 2011
For some reason, many JK Wrangler owners insist on installing tires larger than 35inches tall. This often results in a lot of axle-related failures, including prematurely worn ball joints, broken axleshafts, broken lockers, and bent front axle housings. The commonly adored 37-inch tires only net you about 1-inch more ground clearance than the 35s, but the 37s add quite a bit more weight and increased leverage that wreak further havoc, degrading the JKs steering and axle assemblies. To get the most out of your JK in factory trim, we think it's best to stick with 35s or smaller. That is, unless you plan to replace your axles with something more robust.
After accumulating about 30,000 miles on our lifted JK with 35s, some of our aftermarket suspension components were worn out beyond useable condition. During that time we came to the conclusion that we liked the way our JK rode and drove better with the stock suspension on it. However, we appreciated the additional clearance that the 35s afforded. So we set out to find a way to keep the big tires and regain the factory-like ride, handling, and performance both on- and off-road. And since the '07-up Wrangler is already a bit portly, we investigated wheel and tire selections to save weight and regain a small amount of lost engine performance. Here's what we came up with after a bit of testing and wrenching. In this case, less is more.
But I Really Want 37s!
Of course you do, but maybe you're not totally aware of the worm can you're opening when you step up to 37-inch tires. The drawbacks outweigh the benefits of the bigger meats for most of us. The truth is that if you really use your Jeep you'll likely bend the front axlehousing and prematurely wear out steering components with 35s anyway. But consider that a typical 37-inch mud tire weighs about 10 pounds more than a typical 35-inch mud tire. That may not seem like much, however it's rotating weight, meaning it's added weight that your engine has to turn and your brakes have to stop. The general rule of thumb is that every 10 pounds of wheel weight equals 100 pounds of carried weight inside the Jeep. So by going with the 37s instead of the 35s, you effectively add another 400 pounds of cargo to your Jeep. That will be a significant drag in the horsepower department, and we haven't even considered the gearing situation yet. A 35-inch tire is about 8 percent larger than the stock Rubicon tire. You can, in many cases, get by with the stock axle gears (less true if you have an automatic transmission). The 37-inch tires are over 14 percent larger than the stock tires and will require a gear swap to make your Jeep more drivable and less of a pig on-road. If you plan to stick with 37s, are you sure you want to toss money into those stock axles that likely won't hold up?
Jeep Wrangler JK Front Suspension
Up front we pitched nearly all of our 3-inch lift kit. The only things we retained were the brake line extensions. Our Jeep has an aftermarket steel front bumper and a winch. The factory JK front coils are incredibly light to provide a good ride but they will compress under this additional weight. So in place of the aftermarket lift coils we installed the stock coils along with Daystar 3-inch urethane coil spacers and bumpstop extensions. We reinstalled the factory JK upper and lower control arms as well as the original forged track bar and sway bar links. The stock shocks were reused too but we fitted them with Rubicon Express extensions (PN RE2003). With everything in place we set the Jeep back on the ground and centered the steering wheel by adjusting the drag link. Make sure you get this adjustment as close to perfect as possible or the Jeep's Electronic Stability Program (ESP) will freak out.
Jeep Wrangler JK Rear Suspension
In the rear we went back to basics. Out came the aftermarket 3-inch lift coils, aftermarket lower control arms, and aftermarket shocks. In their place we installed the factory rear JK coils along with Daystar 1.75-inch urethane coil spacers. Make sure the rear coils are seated properly or the coil on the passenger side will rub on the track bar. To keep axle movement in check we slapped in the factory lower control arms and the Daystar sway bar spacers. The factory shocks were reinstalled thanks to the rear shock extensions (PN RE2004) from Rubicon Express. Since our two-door JK has a J.E. Reel 1310 CV-style rear driveshaft we needed some way to rotate the axle upward to keep the driveshaft in line. To get that adjustability we added Rubicon Express Super Flex upper control arms (PN RE3757). Don't waste your time with adjustable cam bolts unless your Jeep is mostly a street machine. Egging out control arm mounting holes is never a good idea and isn't as easy as it might seem. We retained the factory rear track bar and then rounded out our short lift with Black Diamond 3-inch-lift sway-bar links, bumpstops, brake line extensions, and track bar axle bracket. To clear the 35s cleanly at full stuff you will likely need to pound back or trim just a bit from the pinch seams in the lower forward part of the rear wheelwells.
How's It Work?
We've put over 5,000 miles on our pieced-together lift kit. Overall the Jeep is more pleasant to drive both on- and off-road. The valving in the stock shocks combined with the factory coils provides a soft ride without upsetting the sensitive ESP system. The Jeep feels really stable. The front end has a decent 5 degrees of positive caster and we set the alignment at 1/8-inch toe-out to eliminate the slight shimmy at lower speeds.
There is less head toss when traversing driveways on-road and staggered rocks or holes off-road. We typically run the 35x12.50R17 Goodyear MT/R tires at 25psi front and rear on the street and 12psi or lower in the snow, mud, rocks, dirt, and sand. The rear of our two-door JK sits just a bit higher (maybe 1/2- to 3/4-inch) but we are still running the stock rear bumper and no rear seat. As a bonus, the slightly forward stance keeps the hood from buffeting at freeway speeds. If your Jeep has the stock bumpers front and rear you should get good results with 1.75- to 2-inch spacers front and rear. Although if you want your stock-bumpered '07-present Wrangler to sit level you might be better off with a 3-inch spacer up front and a 1-inch spacer in the rear. We're currently working with Bilstein to come up with longer soft-valved shocks for people like us that want a smoother ride and don't mind a little sway in the corners.
Wheel and Tire Selection
Of course we'd all love to have the look of an aggressive luggy mud tire with burly looking beadlock wheels. But most of us can't just build for the weekend, we have to drive the Jeep to work on Monday. Comfort, drivability, tire wear, and fuel economy often take precedence over our dream tires. For all-around best performance you should look for the lightest tire and wheel combo that meets your needs on- and off-road. We like the performance we get from a good mud tire, and we've been really happy with our aluminum 17x8.5 AEV Pintler beadlock wheels. So we set out to find a durable lightweight tire with some meaty lugs. We found that 35x12.50R17 tire weights ranged from 61 to 83 pounds each! We also found that by switching to comparable 15-inch tires and wheels (which will fit on a JK with 3.50 to 3.75 inches of backspacing) we could drop over 10 pounds per corner in some cases. But not all 15-inch wheels will fit your JK, so do your research before buying. We ended up with some 35x12.50R17 Goodyear MT/R Kevlar tires (far right) that weighed in at 64 pounds apiece. They are 14 pounds lighter than the 35-inch tires that were on our Jeep. That's a total loss of 56 pounds of rotating weight, which will help us in the performance department.


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We have an online installation docs with a section for user contributed notes and additions which is accessed through the soundcard matrix. Feel free to make additions and contributions. This is the official reference for user docs.
We also have an ALSA-HOWTO WIKI. Feel free to make additions and contributions.
The online alsa-docs (above) have info on using the .asoundrc file. There is also a basic overview here and you can find more in the ALSA WIKI and the alsa-lib documentation.
Take a look at the latest INSTALL file to read information about the newest drivers and their use. If you have questions ask on the mailing lists.
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|Includes M. nesophilus and M. provectus, island populations that previously were regarded as distinct species (see Modi 1986; Musser and Carleton, in Wilson and Reeder 1993, 2005). Microtus breweri from Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, sometimes has been included in this species but is here considered distinct; see Moyer et al. (1988) for recent study of relationships between these two taxa. Microtus pennsylvanicus has been proposed as conspecific with Old World M. agrestis, but chromosome differences support their recognition as distinct species (see Musser and Carleton 2005).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Cassola, F.
|Amori, G.
|Linzey, A. & Hammerson, G.A.
Listed as Least Concern because it is common and widely distributed, and there are no major threats.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs throughout most of Canada and Alaska (United States), south through the northern half of the United States, to Oregon, northern Utah, central New Mexico, Kansas, northern Missouri, Georgia, and South Carolina; also disjunctly (by 500 km) in Florida and in Chihuahua, Mexico (Hall 1981). Its range has expanded southward in the Great Plains since the mid-1960s as the climate has become cooler and more mesic (Frey 1992).
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Native:Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland I, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Saskatchewan, Yukon); Mexico; United States (Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
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|This species is widespread in North America and common in many areas. In recent decades, its range has expanded southward in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky (Krupa and Haskins 1996). High densities of 50-60 per acre are not unusual; average densities are probably closer to 8-10 per acre (Baker 1983).
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|It is found in a wide variety of habitats from dry pastures and wooded swamps to marshes and orchards. Needs loose organic soils for tunneling. Builds extensive underground tunnels. Nests in these tunnels under rocks or logs, and in self-constructed grassy clumps. Breeds throughout year. Peak breeding activity occurs April-October. Gestation lasts about 21 days. Litter size is 1-9 (average 4-5). Litter size is smaller in fall than in spring/summer, there may be 5-10 litters per year.
Home range seldom exceeds 0.25 acres (Banfield 1974). Successful homing of 11 of 848 voles displaced 1.2 km indicates that dispersal distance probably is more than 1 km (Ostfeld and Manson 1996). Diet consists mainly of vegetable matter, such as grasses, roots and seeds. Active day and night throughout the year.
This species can an affect old-field succession through seedling predation (Ostfeld and Canham 1993). It may inflict serious damage on apple trees by feeding on bark and vascular tissues of lower trunks and roots (Tobin and Richmond 1993). Expanding populations apparently are displacing the southern bog lemming via competitive exclusion in southeastern Kentucky (Krupa and Haskins 1996).
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|There are no major threats to this species.
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|Its range includes several protected areas.
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|This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.
|Cassola, F. 2016. Microtus pennsylvanicus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T13452A115114123. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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Dragonlance - War of the Lance
Dragonlance: The War of the Lance - Forum
Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e
Greetings All! After looking, and thinking I decided to attempt to run a game here. I loved reading the Dragonlance books, so I am going to run the updated Dragonlance Adventures based on Dragons of Autumn, Dragons of Winter, and Dragons of Spring. Although I am running these adventures I am not going to have people run the premade characters (Tanis, Flint, Sturm, etc.). Everyone will make their own characters, but there will be some specific things that need to be filled.
Books Used: Dragonlance Campaign Setting (DCS), War of the Lance (WL), Towers of High Sorcery (THS), Races of Ansalon (RA), PHB, and DMG. Other books from Wizards are allowed, I just have too many to list.
Game Description:
Autumn settles on the plains of Abanasinia as rumors of war and strange creatures travel from northern lands. The people of Ansalon need heroes, as the ancient gods have returned to the world, and brought creatures of myth and legend to fight in their battles. Dragons – ancient, deadly, and powerful – have returned to Krynn. An adventure like no other calls the heroes to re-discover the greatest gift given to the mortal races, to find safe haven for hundreds of desperate refugees, and unearth the secrets that might lead to the power of the dragonlance.
Races: Humans, Half-Elves, Kender [DCS 28], Half-Kender [RoA 147], Neidar (Hill) Dwarves [PHB Dwarves], Elf* (Kagonesti, Qualinesti, Silvanesti) [DCS 18], Gnome* [DCS 25], Minotaurs* [DCS 42], Half-Ogres* [DCS 41]. Racial Alternative Class features from Races of Ansalon can be used.
*Needs to have a back-story explaining why the character is not at home with their people.
Alignment: No Evil.
Level: 5
Abilities: 36 point buy. Level 4 ability 1 point increase as normal.
Classes: The Master [WL 20], Barbarian, Bard (No spellcasting ability), Druid (No spellcasting ability, no use of class abilities), Cleric (Considered Heathen Clerics who worship false gods or philosophy. No spellcasting ability, no turning undead, no domains), Fighter, Noble [DCS 50], Rogue, Wizard.*
*A low-level wizard (through 4th level) is considered an apprentice by the Orders of High Sorcery. Knowledge of 1st and 2nd level spells is unrestricted. Anyone who advances power beyond that is required to take the Test of High Sorcery and declare allegiance to one of the Orders of High Sorcery. If you are accepted into the game and are a wizard higher than 4th a Test of High Sorcery will have been done in your back-story. The three moons of magic will be in effect for the game.
Prestige Classes: Gnome Tinker [WL 31], Handler [RA 156], Knights of Solmania (Knights of the Crown have no change, but Knights of the Sword and Knights of the Rose have variant rules in effect – still have to have levels in Knights of the Crown) [DCS 54], Wizard of High Sorcery [THS 22], Inquisitor [DCS 80], Legendary Tactician [DCS 81]. These are the Dragonlance PrCs. Other PrCs are allowed from Wizards books – no divine spellcasting classes, and arcane spellcasting classes are allowed but wizards will still abide by the rules above.
Hit Points: Max at first level. All other levels get half class die plus one plus con modifier. For example a second level fighter with a 16 con would have this for hit points: 13 (1st level 10+3) + 9 (2nd level 5+1+3) = 22.
Feats: No Leadership feat.
Starting Gold: 9,000 steel. 1 Steel piece is worth one 1 D&D gold piece. No items with a divine source (wands of cure light wounds, etc.).
Special: 4 major archetypes must be filled for this game. They are the Prophet, the Leader, the Rogue, and the Sage. Additionally there are 6 other archetypes that can be filled and could be helpful, but not required. They are the Ranger, the Mentor, the Protector, the Idealist, the Ingénue, and the Hawk. Characters can cover more than one archetype.
The Prophet
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Prophet is chosen by the gods of Light to hear Mishakal's calling. She obtains the Blue Crystal Staff and, using it, retrieves the Disks of Mishakal—the holy scripture that will return knowledge of the gods to the people.
The Classic Character
The plainswoman Goldmoon was chosen by the goddess Mishakal to bear the ancient artifact known as the Blue Crystal Staff. As the Prophet, Goldmoon is fated to bring the knowledge of the true gods back into the world. While she does not fully comprehend how to accomplish this, she has accepted the responsibility of this task. Although her possession of the Blue Crystal Staff places her in great danger from those who desire or fear its powers, Goldmoon stands resolute and bold in the face of that threat. Raised as royalty among her people, Goldmoon is not afraid to take a commanding role when one is needed, but she also has the wisdom to allow others to lead when necessary. She is soft-spoken but always maintains an air of confidence and dependability.
What Could Replace the Character
This adventure requires a cleric, for healing during and after combat if nothing else. If Goldmoon is not used, another character with a spiritual outlook (whose player is willing to take at least one level of cleric after retrieving the Disks of Mishakal from Xak Tsaroth) should be created. The NPC Elistan is intended to become the shepherd of the people, so the player taking on the role of Prophet need not be purely devoted to taking levels of cleric. This character must be of good moral alignment.
The Leader
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Leader is the face of the group. He does the talking in delicate social situations; he negotiates with friends and enemies when appropriate. He is trusted to make many decisions on behalf of the entire party.
The Classic Character
Among the original Innfellows, Tanis Half-Elven reluctantly takes on the role of the Leader archetype. Although he often doubts himself, his companions frequently look to him for guidance and direction. Being a half-elf, Tanis has a unique outlook on life. He understands being a victim of prejudice and is never quick to judge or underestimate a person he meets. His long life and wanderings have made him one of the more worldly and experienced of the companions. Tanis often broods over internal conflicts, but he is careful to conceal his true emotions. He doubts his leadership abilities. He struggles over his love for both the human Kitiara and the elf maid Laurana, and he is at odds with his mixed heritage. In his leadership role, Tanis understands the strengths and weaknesses of his companions; he works to bring out their best in any situation. If there is a diplomatic solution to a situation, Tanis will usually be the first to take advantage of it.
What Could Replace the Character
Any charismatic character with a sense of responsibility can fill this role. The other characters should like and trust him, even if he doesn't trust himself. It's unlikely a wizard can fill this role, but many other classes can; a noble or a charismatic fighter would be ideal.
The Rogue
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Rogue is usually the jack-of-all-trades. This archetype has a wide array of skills at his disposal. He regularly uses these skills to his own advantage, but he also often uses them to assist the other members of his party.
The Classic Character
The irrepressible kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot plays the Rogue archetype among the Innfellows. Being a kender, Tasslehoff grew up perfecting a number of skills that come naturally to those of his race; moving silently, hiding in shadows, and picking locks and pockets are all second nature to him. Tasslehoff 's role as the Rogue presents him with challenges that other party members rely on him to overcome. He is employed as a scout to range ahead and find enemies before they find him or his companions. He is also known for acquiring items the party may need (and more than a few they don't). When the party is trapped, it is often Tasslehoff who finds a way out. Tasslehoff is energetic, intensely curious, and entirely fearless.
What Could Replace the Character
There are certainly times when a character who knows how to sneak, pick locks, and get into places he's not supposed to be can be very handy. Rogues (of course) and rangers can fit role very well; a mariner might also work, or even a master with suitable specializations.
The Sage
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Sage is a central character in many fantasy tales. In this adventure, most of the heroes are ignorant of Ansalon's history, but it is through uncovering and understanding the past that the heroes prevail in particular tasks. The Sage is extremely important to the group's success throughout the adventure.
The Classic Character
The red-robed mage Raistlin Majere fills the role of the Sage archetype for the Innfellows. He is highly intelligent and has a thirst for knowledge. Raistlin is physically weak, his body broken by the Test of High Sorcery; therefore, Raistlin draws strength from his knowledge. He jealously guards it, doling it out in small portions. Raistlin has an air of mystery about him, and when he speaks, he is often biting and sarcastic. He keeps many things to himself and only reveals his knowledge if he believes it will further hisown goals or will prove to others he is not as weak and helpless as they believe. He gains a measure of satisfaction in seeing others put his knowledge to use, especially when he uses knowledge to manipulate them to do his bidding.
What Could Replace the Character
A wizard, though not required, is certainly useful. Spell support for the party is always extremely helpful, but the role of a Sage could be filled by a master with the sage focus or a rogue with a number of skill points dedicated to various knowledge checks. However, selecting those classes over wizard will lessen the overall combat effectiveness of the group.
The Ranger
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Ranger is often seen as a dark and stoic warrior. The party relies on the Ranger for his combat abilities and his knowledge of wilderness and nature when traveling to distant lands. The Ranger archetype is not usually suited to take a leadership role as most rangers prefer not to deal with people in general.
The Classic Character
Riverwind fills the archetype of the Ranger for the Innfellows. He rarely speaks; when he does, it is short and to the point. Riverwind is content to follow Goldmoon on whatever path she may take, and he will serve and protect her with his dying breath. He will do the same for any of the companions he feels he can trust. The rest of the Innfellows depend on Riverwind for his skills in battle and wilderness survival. Since he is more of a follower than a leader, he is uncomfortable with giving orders and would prefer to perform missions on his own (or with Goldmoon) rather than take on any kind of leadership position.
What Could Replace the Character
Any character with good fighting abilities and survival skills could fill this role. Player characters with the
barbarian, fighter, or ranger classes are the most likely candidates to fill this archetype. Monks or nobles with skill points in survival would also make an interesting choice.
The Mentor
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Mentor archetype is a character who teaches by example, is a steadfast friend, and counsels the others using his life experience.
The Classic Character
The dwarven blacksmith Flint Fireforge plays the role of the Mentor for the Innfellows. He is not the strongest, most intelligent, or most skilled of the heroes, but Flint's wisdom and levelheaded outlook helps prevent the companions from making rash decisions. He works to keep the more chaotic members of the party in line and gives his council to the Leader when he feels it's necessary. Flint tends to grumble and complain, but he does it in a good-natured manner. When Flint perceives an injustice, he speaks up and doesn't dance around the subject. He speaks plainly and directly to the point. A Mentor must prove he is reliable, and there is no other character more reliable and loyal than Flint Fireforge.
What Could Replace the Character
The most important aspects of filling this role are loyalty and friendship. Wisdom and old age would also seem to be a requirement, but they are not entirely necessary. Since these are roleplaying attributes, it does not matter what class a person plays. Any player who is willing to support the party as a whole, rather than looking out only for himself, would do well in this role.
The Protector
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Protector is the archetype who is always willing to put himself in harm's way for the good of the party. He will step into any fight to shield the ones he loves.
The Classic Character
Among the Innfellows, Caramon Majere fills the role of the Protector. Caramon is a good-looking, strapping young man with a big heart. He cares deeply for all the companions and is always willing to place himself between them and any threat that may come their way. Caramon is protective of anyone who is physically weaker than himself, which is just about everyone. This is especially so for his twin brother Raistlin who is often sick. Caramon and Raistlin often fight back to back, combining their strengths and ensuring that Caramon can defend the wizard. Riverwind, companion and defender of Goldmoon, also qualifies as a Protector.
What Could Replace the Character
The role of the Protector will most likely be served best by a skilled warrior who can stand at the front of the party in any battle and is able to take a beating. Knights and fighters make the best protectors, although a barbarian could also fill the role.
The Idealist
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Idealist archetype is that of the beautiful, gifted, and doomed. This character in the story is fated to fulfill some destiny during the adventure and is willing to give up his life to accomplish this task.
The Classic Character
Sturm Brightblade has chosen to dedicate his life to the tenets of the Knights of Solamnia. In all aspects of his life, he tries to embody the ideals and principles of his knightly training. He would not willingly do anything to mar that image. As the Idealist archetype, Sturm is fated to a tragic end in order to pull together the crumbling organization of the Knights of Solamnia. He is a skilled warrior, willing to defend his friends at any cost. Among the Innfellows, Sturm is not always understood. The rules by which he governs his life sometimes are at odds with the rest of the party. Tanis seems to have an uncanny ability to make Sturm realize that sometimes even the most rigid rules can be interpreted in different ways. As the story progresses, Sturm grows to realize that the world is not as black and white as he once thought.
What Could Replace the Character
The character who takes this role should have some affinity with the noble ideals of the Knights of Solamnia. It will take a huge sacrifice to bring the Knights back together and rally them against the invading Dragonarmies. A knight or warrior affiliated with the Knights would be the most likely candidate for this role, though even a nonknightly character may prove to have the commitment and conviction to rise above the darkness and inspire others at great risk to himself.
The Ingénue
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Ingénue archetype is that of a sweet and beautiful maiden in distress. This character in the story shows a progression from an innocent girl to a strong, worldly woman.
The Classic Character
Tika Waylan serves as the Ingénue archetype in the story. She begins as an acquaintance of the Innfellows who knew her as a small child. But since that time, she has grown into a young woman. The invasion of the Red Dragonarmy forces her to flee Solace with the Innfellows; her love for Caramon keeps her with them. Tika is a freckled-faced redhead who is as beautiful as she is fiery. While she seems to maintain an air of confidence, she is the least experienced of the companions. As the damsel in distress, the companions always have to keep an eye out for her in any dangerous situation. Laurana, Princess of Qualinost, also begins as an Ingénue, but later develops into a strong and inspirational leader of the Solamnic armies.
What Could Replace the Character
The Ingénue archetype has no ties to any particular character class; rogues, nobles, and even monks could take this part in the story. Tika and Laurana begin as NPCs because the innocent and vulnerable character is often not as interesting to play until character growth begins.
The Hawk
This Archetype's Role in the Adventure
The Hawk archetype is related to aggressive impulses. Driven by frustration or despair, this character often seeks a foe upon which to focus his aggression, although as the story develops he may begin to understand the need for peace and stability.
The Classic Character
Gilthanas-Kanan fills this niche in the story. For an elf, he is quick to anger and quick to react against the threat of the Dragonarmies. The fate of his people weighs heavily on his shoulders, and Gilthanas lets his concern for his people fuel his anger. This weight is lifted somewhat once the elves flee into the west, but Gilthanas continues to struggle until the threat of the Dragonarmies is eliminated.
What Could Replace the Character
Any warrior character with levels in fighter, barbarian, or ranger could fill the role of Hawk. Nobles, especially among the nonhuman races, are likely to possess the required emotional drive. Gilthanas begins as an NPC because, in addition to coming from a different set of circumstances than the rest of the Innfellows, his initial aggression and suspicion can be disruptive to the party.
Application Format:
Archetype (the one you are filling)
Physical Description
Back-story (Keep in mind when doing your back-story that the players that are chosen will be figuring out how they know one another, or if they do at all. Once the group is chosen I will present more information on this at that time.)
Full character sheets are not required at this time.
If you have any questions please let me know.
Game Description:
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Gainesville charter bus company A Candies Coachworks has purchased the charter business of Branford company Fabulous Coach Lines.
A Candies goes from 10 to 15 buses and plans to hire 10 to 15 of the more than 50 Fabulous employees, CEO Sander Kaplan said. A Candies currently has 30 employees.
A Candies will fulfill Fabulous Coach's existing charters.
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The work to be bid consists of furnishing all materials, labor, tools, equipment and services required for cement stabilized base reclamation of ten (10) county roads (6.67 miles) in Henry County, Georgia – 8" thick with the addition of Portland cement and the placement and sanding of asphalt prime; includes traffic control.
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Each bid shall be accompanied by a Bid Bond in an amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the total bid amount. The Bid Bond may be in the form of a surety issued bond or cashier's check made payable to the Henry County Board of Commissioners. The Bid Bond shall be forfeited to Henry County, Georgia as liquidated damages if the bidder fails to execute the Contract and provide Performance and Payment Bonds within fifteen (15) days after being notified that he has been awarded the Contract.
Payment will be made on a monthly basis for work performed the previous month, less ten percent (10%) retained by the Owner. Invoices shall be paid within 30 days after approval of the Engineer/Project Manager.
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Mr. Morici is a conservative eager to defeat gun control laws that, he fears, might reduce their availability. That's proof in itself that laws banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and those requiring universal background checks will have exactly the effect intended: They will make it harder for people to obtain such weapons in order to wreak havoc on society.
Mr. Morici says rural residents need military-style weapons to repel nighttime intruders, which happens so rarely that the argument has proven to be nonsense.
Guns are far more likely to be used to commit suicide by their legal owners, to accidentally or intentionally shoot family members or acquaintances or be stolen by burglars than for home defense.
Thankfully, probably the most likely use for a gun is nothing. A gun purchased for defense just sits unused for years.
I urge Mr. Morici to be more honest and just say he opposes any kind of gun control for any reason, no matter how many thousands of people die in shootings every year.
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