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Many producers wouldn't exactly want to brag about the on-set accidents that could have decapitated the Oscar-winning actress at the center of their movie. But David Heyman has many, many reasons to brag. The Harry Potter producer, who ended the franchise in 2011 with all the money and clout in the world to burn, has minted his next hit with Gravity, the meticulously crafted sci-fi adventure from Alfonso Cuaron that is busy demolishing box office records. He feels OK telling you about the two-ton robot that could have killed Sandra Bullock because he knows that the end result worked. If you didn't walk out of Gravity asking yourself "How did they do that?" you're either not paying attention or maybe Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
So how did they do it? We pressed Heyman for as many details as we could get and combed through interviews that Cuaron and Sandra Bullock have given to figure out as many secrets from behind the scenes as possible. SPOILERS AHEAD for Gravity, though truly, it's more the technology that's being spoiled. See the film and be completely baffled by how they pulled it off, then read below to peek behind the technological curtain.
Inventing technology The four-year process that Gravity took to come to life involved plenty of typical filmmaking challenges, but also the process of actually inventing technology to make the movie possible. As Heyman tells us, "It's not a film that could have been made before now." At the Telluride Film Festival earlier this year Cuaron called the film "a big miscalculation," and remembered telling his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki " 'Look: this is a small movie, two characters, we're done in one year.' And for the next four-and-a-half years, he reminded me that I told him that." When Cuaron and Lubezki started the process of actually mapping out the film, "it became very clear that the technology to create the film didn't exist, so we had to invent the technology."
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Donovan McNabb, obviously still not that far in the rearview mirror for Eagles fans, spoke briefly today with Vai Sikahema and John Gonzalez on ESPN 97.5. Not a lot of new ground was broken, which didn't come as a surprise to anyone who followed McNabb's 11 years in Philadelphia. DMac's focus was touting his family's fight against high blood pressure; he did not want to deeply probe the wounds he suffered over the years, or the ones that might have been created by his departure.
"The things that I set out to accomplish and bring back to Philadelphia, I wasn't able to, and I apologize, more than anything, to the people of Philadelphia, not bringing a Super Bowl to 'em, but it didn't happen, and I look forward to trying to achieve that goal here in Washington," McNabb said, the most explicit regret he has expressed.
There was much attempted delving into how the Eagles went from proclaiming McNabb would be the quarterback in 2010, early this offseason, to trading him on Easter Sunday. McNabb didn't have any answers there. The shift seemed to come when the Eagles realized that Kevin Kolb was not going to sign an extension as a backup quarterback, and that they were going to have to decide whether to franchise Kolb after this season -- possibly without really knowing if he could be a fulltime starter -- or lose him to free agency. Bottom line, going into the final contract year with both McNabb and Kolb was an untenable situation for a front office that insists on having the upper hand in contract talks.
"I was hearing the same things everyone else was hearing" early in the offseason,McNabb said. "Things change. Sometimes you get an immediate answer, sometimes you don't."
McNabb added that "Andy (Reid) and I still have a great relationship." He also wished "good luck to the Eagles and everything they set out to do."
McNabb complimented Kolb several times and avoided being drawn into a discussion of Kolb's strengths and weaknesses vs. McNabb's. He was not asked about wideout DeSean Jackson's interview last week, in which Jackson said he thought the Eagles would be fine with Kolb; McNabb was quoted then as taking exception.
"I wish nothing but the best for (Kolb)," McNabb said. "I know he's excited about it, and good things can happen for him."
Asked about his legacy, the Eagles' all-time leading passer reiterated what he said at his introductory press conference in Washington, five weeks back. He said he hoped he would be remembered as "a guy who provided excitement, who gave them a chance to win every time he stepped out on the field, one that they had trust, knowing that I would do the right things, an most importantly, one that won ballgames."


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The source familiar with discussions did not disclose the actual amount of BP's payment but said it would be the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history. That record is currently held by Pfizer Inc, which paid a $1.3 billion criminal fine in 2009 for marketing fraud connected to its Bextra pain medicine.
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Further collaboration to accelerate mutual customers' Design-to-Volume, built on previous success of more than 30 ARM Core-Based SoCs
SAN JOSE, CA., AND CAMBRIDGE, UK - Mar. 4, 2003 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN), and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, today announced at DATE, Munich, a new five-year agreement targeting design chain optimization for their mutual customers. With this agreement, ARM is providing direct access to ARM IP in order to facilitate optimization of Cadence® design and verification solutions on ARM® core-based SoCs.
The cooperation between ARM and Cadence will enable customers to incorporate different ARM cores into the newly announced Cadence Incisive™ verification solution for high-speed verification. As a result, customers will be able to build systems with verified, reusable hardware and software IP blocks faster and with greater confidence that the systems will be manufacturable the first time.
"In today's SoC design environment, reusable IP and design tools need to work 'hand-in-glove' in order to create a design consistency and repeatability in as short a time as possible. It is no longer possible to get premium performance from the latest IP without working with the EDA vendors simultaneously," said Mike Inglis, executive vice president of marketing at ARM. "This new agreement will enable Cadence to leverage access to our IP for the benefit of our mutual customers, enabling a better SoC design experience."
This agreement builds on the companies' existing cooperation on verification, verification acceleration/emulation, signal integrity and design services. Cadence was the first member of ATAP™, the ARM technology access program, and has delivered more than 30 successful tape-outs of ARM Powered® designs through its Design Foundry services business. The two companies are currently working on improving design chain interoperability via standardized models and validation suites for the ARM AMBA™ bus using the SystemC modeling language.
"STEPMIND designs and delivers some of the most innovative systems on the market today for GSM/GPRS/EDGE like the GSM/GPRS/EDGE baseband processor and Four-band GSM RF transceiver. Our design-to-volume will benefit immensely from this alliance," said Alain Jolivet, chairman of STEPMIND. "The combination of pre-verified ARM IP and Cadence software will reduce the risks and turnaround time for our customers and provide us with the comprehensive, best-in-class SoC design and verification solutions we need."
Planned deliverables of this collaboration include Cadence Incisive verification tools combined with the ARM Integrator™ Logic Tile products for acceleration/emulation and Cadence signal integrity solutions combined with ARM signal integrity libraries for specific foundries. The results will benefit systems designers such as architects, hardware verification engineers and software developers, fabless designers and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs).
"ARM is one of the pre-eminent suppliers of IP cores for a significant proportion of Atmel's system-on-chip products," said Michel Guellec, IP integration manager at Atmel "The agreement between ARM and Cadence gives us confidence in continuing to be able to supply right-first-time silicon as we move into nanoscale technology."
"We are enthusiastic about the growing collaboration between ARM and Cadence. We are committed to optimizing the industry design chain to accelerate our customers' design-to-volume," said Penny Herscher, chief marketing officer at Cadence. "This agreement will enable our customers to take full advantage of our advanced technology when designing with ARM IP."
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com
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Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design technologies, methodology services, and design services. Cadence solutions are used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other electronics-based products. With approximately 5,300 employees and 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information about the company, its products and services are available at www.cadence.com.
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Hi Everyone,For those dutch people and maybe for the developers. ( for next release or maybe an update )Shortly i will finish the translation of linuxmce from English to the Dutch language ( Netherlands ) , so if anybody is interested, i'm glad to share it with linuxmce user!!!With kind regard, ( Met vriendelijke groet, )Dave
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Fly fishing, or any fishing, is supposed to be enjoyable without any thought of being gored or battered by a crazed animal.
In this week's weird deer story, a Utah angler was peacefully casting his fly on the Weber River when he and some other anglers spotted a mule deer approaching. Kevin Bybee, of North Ogden, was fishing in the river near a high school one afternoon in early February when the deer showed up.
Some other anglers petted the deer, which approached them peacefully. Then it moved over to Bybee, who cautiously petted it but was wary.
"I wasn't feeling threatened," he said during a telephone interview with the Standard-Examiner for this story. "I just didn't feel comfortable."
Smart guy. The mule deer went nuts and began throwing haymakers with its hooves. Bybee took a beating, threw the deer into the river (twice!) and scampered to shore to climb a tree.
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Parkersburg, W.Va. 1/24/13 – West Virginia Community and Technical College System (CTCS) chancellor James Skidmore joined West Virginia University at Parkersburg president Marie Foster Gnage, Ph.D., and other officials for the grand opening of the college's new Culinary Academy. The ribbon cutting ceremony took place Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. to celebrate the new facility.
The associate of applied science in culinary arts will be the first program offered in the college's newly renovated downtown center on Market Street. The program will be blend traditional classroom and online courses, and foods grown by the diversified agriculture students will be used to prepare foods.
"We have developed a program that is aligned with high quality industry outcomes and have instituted an entry process into the program that will be competitive," said Dr. Rhonda Tracy, senior vice president for academic affairs. "We hired an excellent program coordinator, Gene Evans, and have the latest in culinary equipment."
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When I was a child, Rosa Luxemburg's name would sometimes be mentioned with awe in my slightly irreverent left-wing household. Who was she? I'd ask. A great socialist, I'd be told. She criticized Lenin. She was assassinated. For years I thought the Soviets had murdered her. In a sense, I wasn't so far off. In 1931 Joseph Stalin had Luxemburg "excommunicated" from the canon of Marxist heroes. If she'd been living in his Russia she'd certainly have been eliminated. No revolutionary as independent-minded as she could fail, come the revolution, to be denounced as a counterrevolutionary.
She was born Rozalia Luksenburg in 1871 in a small city in Russian-occupied Poland to a family of secular Jews. When she was 3 the family moved to Warsaw, where the Poles hated the Russians, the Russians hated the Poles and everyone hated the Jews. Nonetheless, the Luksenburgs settled in, the children were sent to school and all went well enough until Rosa was 5, when it was discovered that she had a hip disease. She was put to bed for a year with her hip in a cast, and when she got up, one leg was shorter than the other.
There she was: a girl, a Jew, a cripple—possessed of an electrifying intelligence, a defensively arrogant tongue and an unaccountable passion for social justice, which, in her teens, led her to the illegal socialist organizations then abounding among university students in Warsaw. In the city's radical underground, she opened her mouth to speak and found that thought and feeling came swiftly together through an eloquence that stirred those who agreed with her, and overwhelmed those who did not. The experience was exhilarating; more than exhilarating, it was clarifying; it centered her, told her who she was.
At 18—already on the Warsaw police blotter—Rosa was sent to Zurich to study, and never went home again. Although she was registered at the university as a student in natural sciences, it was at the German socialist club—with its library, reading room and lecture hall—that she got her education. There, in the autumn of 1890, she met Leo Jogiches, a Lithuanian Jew three years her elder and already a student revolutionary of local reputation. A self-styled hero of Russian radical literature, Leo was brooding, angry, remote, enamored of Bakunin's famous definition of the revolutionary as a man who "has no interests of his own, no cause of his own, no feelings, no habits, no belongings, he does not even have a name. Everything in him is absorbed by a single, exclusive interest, a single thought, a single passion—the revolution." Rosa was enraptured. Leo, in turn, was aroused by her adoration. They became lovers in 1891; but, from the start, theirs was a misalliance.
From earliest youth, Rosa had looked upon radical politics as a means of living life fully. She wanted everything: marriage and children, books and music, walks on a summer evening and the revolution. Personal happiness and the struggle for social justice, she said, shouldn't be mutually exclusive. If people gave up sex and art while making the revolution, they'd produce a world more heartless than the one they were setting out to replace. Leo, on the other hand, withdrawn and depressed—he hated daylight, sociability and his own sexual need—told her this was nonsense; all that mattered was the Cause. Yet Rosa's longing for intimacy with him did not abate. It held her attention with the same unwavering strength as did the analysis of capital or the general strike. The irony is that it was precisely the compelling nature of this frustrating relationship that, over the next twenty-five years, would make her think hard, and yet harder, about what, exactly, this brave new world of theirs could be about.


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The Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman will again bring the excitement of postseason college football to the Washington, D.C., area Thursday while also supporting the USO and our nation's military personnel.
Now in its fifth year, The Military Bowl is projected to raise more than $100,000 for the USO while providing at least 5,000 complimentary tickets for active-duty military personnel and their families.
This year's matchup pits Bowling Green (8-4) against No. 24 San Jose State (10-2). It will be the first meeting between the two teams. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. EST at RFK Stadium, and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
"We couldn't be more excited," Military Bowl Executive Director and President Steve Beck said. "This could potentially be the best matchup in our five-year history."
The popular military village will also return for a second year. Located on the D.C. Armory Mall on the way to RFK Stadium, the village – along with a new outdoor tailgate – will be open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. on game day. Admission to the military village is free.
"The military village was wildly successful in its debut last year and we're looking forward to an even better experience this year," Beck said. "Nothing can replicate this event."
Among the military displays scheduled are:
- An MH-65 helicopter and crew
- A 29-foot Coast Guard boat
- A Navy SEAL pull-up challenge
- Two Humvees and other large equipment from the Navy Seabees
- A helicopter and three tactical vehicles from the Army National Guard
- A helicopter, robot demonstration and K-9 demonstration from the Air Force
- Two Mobile USO units with giveaways.
The rock and blues band Halfway to Concord will perform throughout the day, and a drill team performance will take place at 1:30 p.m. in front of the USO Metro Mobile. Food and beverages will be available for purchase from food trucks and vendors.
It's not too late to get tickets, which are on sale at militarybowl.org, with prices starting at just $2.
–Story by Joseph Andrew Lee, USO Staff Writer
Their journey is everyone's responsibility. From the moment they enlist, through their assignments and deployments, and as they transition back to their communities, they can rely on your support.


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March 19, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Food Package Changes
SUBJECT 2: Training Webinars-Important Announcement
SUBJECT 3: Second Quarter Holiday Office Hours
SUBJECT 4: Breast Pump Order
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Peer Counselor-Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center
- Food Package Changes: Due to funding shortages and increased actual food costs at the grocery stores, it will be necessary to make changes in our current Missouri WIC Approved Food List. The State WIC office will be scheduling district conference calls with the local WIC providers during the next two weeks to explain the changes that will take place. The State WIC office will be providing a Public Service Announcement to inform the public of the food package changes. We will be notifying the retailers of the changes and revising our web page to reflect these changes. We hope you will be able to participate on the conference calls when they are scheduled. We apologize for this short notice.
- Training Webinars-Important Announcement: In April 2011, the State Agency was evaluated by USDA staff using the Management Evaluation (ME) process (similar to contract monitoring that local agencies have every two years). There were findings on three topics (Application Security, Applicant Processing Standards and Income Assessment) that require training to local agencies to ensure compliance with WIC federal regulations. We normally would do this training in person, which would require staff to travel to training, taking a significant part of a day. Because we are gearing up for e-Learning and have the necessary software, we have prepared webinars for staff to view. All local agency staff is required to view the webinars at this location.
Staff must complete all webinars on this page, including the Navigation Presentation. This is a short module that will help viewers understand the controls used in the webinars. The total time to take these webinars is about 1 hour and 20 minutes, considerably less than if travel was required to go to a face-to-face training. The trainings are in separate modules so they do not need to be viewed all at once. New staff is required to take the four modules of the application security webinar prior to having access to MOWINS. The ASAP form now has a field for the date staff viewed the security webinar. WIC Coordinators are required to ensure all staff has completed the webinars and to fill out the attached spreadsheet, adding agency name at top of page, adding the names of staff in the indicated row on the left and place an X under each training heading to indicate the person attended the training. These trainings must also be entered into the staff's training record. The trainings must be completed for all staff and the spreadsheet showing the completion must be emailed to Ellen Whittington by end of day June 23, 2012. Ellen's email address is email@example.com.
If you have questions, please contact Mark Davis at email@example.com or 573-526-5323 or 800-392-8209. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
Second Quarter Holiday Office Hours: We are asking agencies to complete this quick survey to help us determine WIC Help Desk coverage for the upcoming holiday on May 8, 2012, Truman's Birthday. The survey will be open from March 26th – April 6th for completion. If you have questions, please contact Michelle Nienhuis at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 800-392-8209 or 573-751-6244.
Breast Pump Order: The state WIC office has a limited budget for our current breast pump order. Unfortunately, requests came in for almost double of what we had budgeted. Due to this, the majority of the requests had to be reduced, some of them substantially. If we have funds available at the end of the fiscal year we will offer another opportunity for local WIC agencies to order more pumps. If you have any questions about your breast pump order, please contact Kathy Mertzlufft at 573-526-4792 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Peer Counselor will work with WIC team members to encourage and support breastfeeding among WIC participants. This position will counsel pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers by telephone and in the WIC office at scheduled intervals; teach prenatal and breastfeeding classes with approved lesson plan provided by the health center. Current or previous enrollment in WIC preferred. Position requires three days of training to become a peer counselor. Fax resume to (816) 889-1839 or email resume to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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As Drake trekked across the U.S. of A and his native Canada for his "Would You Like A Tour?" gig, he celebrated his 27th born day Thursday (Oct. 24) alongside tour mates Future and Miguel, who also rang in his 28th birthday a day prior (Oct. 23). "Scorpio Squad," the Toronto MC wrote under a cheesy photo of the three. Decked out in a white tuxedo, Drizzy redefined the meaning of birthday suit. Scroll through photos of his born day bash and Canuck cake above.
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Battles of the Immortal War
The following battles took place during [The Immortal War]], as well as numerous smaller, unrecorded conflicts.
See also: Timeline of the Immortal War
The Fall of Fico: A desperate stand by the Gamma Corps on their home planet, Fico, against an unstoppable invading foe, The Immortals. This marks the first major incident in the Immortal War, tearing apart several empires and forcing others to choose sides or perish under the hammer.
Zombie (Zulu) Dawn: A Flare up of tensions between multiple Star Nations that took place during a Zombie Apocalypse. Orchestrated by a band of Rouge Peach dissidents and their genetic mutation experiments. You, know, the usual. Staring a cast of millions. Full After-Action Report Here: Immortal Admiral Warhead's Debriefing
The Vol consolidation campaign: The Vol alliance with the Immortals was not met with approval by all, even among the Vol. Currently, the Vol have been consolidating power, subjugating dissenting clans and forging an even more efficient and more formidable empire.
An Immortal's Worst Nightmare: Truly a nightmare, this was PedoNuker's first forum battle, and like anything else he does, was a piece of crap. The premise totally raped the entire Immortal War storyline by introducing this "Immortal-killing" Mcguffin, and having a couple star nations fight over it. Luckily, Stubby stepped in halfway through the battle and banned the little idiot before anything could happen. Nothing is known about the rest of the battle and the fate of the mcguffin, but it is assumed that stubby banhammered the entire planet, destroying the mcguffin, the camera crew filming the battle, and all the living things on it. Final Transmission from Surface: News Team D0
The Immortal Incident on Medivo: The forces of Evuul on the primitive planet of Medivo seek the aid of the Immortals in their fight against their insidious and sickeningly goody two shoes enemies. Full Overview Report: Immortal Oversight Craft IEX109
Hope's last stand: After the Akkadian technological development of personal teleporters, all neighboring planets immediately launched an assault on Akkadia, in an attempt to stop the teleportation accelerator from becoming fully operational. They failed in accomplishing this, and their deaths opened up pro-immortal opportunities for advancement in the Akkadian sector. Afteraction Report: Immortal Class III Sniper I0158
The Immortal Hunt: A squad of Silvarian soldiers attempt to capture the knocked-out Immortal called M from a few Shady Mercenaries. Just beside this caravan battle was another one, a gaggle of Britannians trying to recapture several treasure chests from manly pirates. All are pursued by a hovercar of Fenian Raiders. The result was a temporary victory of the Shady Mercs, (everything else was destroyed by a giant cat) until the three mercs trapped on a broken vehicle in the middle of the desert were found and killed by the Silvarian Empire. Bystander Account: Giant Cat Tribe
Boarding the Hyperion: By Koincidence, an Immortal Navy SHIP was raided by both Briktopians and Pirates at the same time. The raid ultimately failed but it turned out that the computer core from Zombie (Zulu) Dawn was onboard the Hyperion together with Emperor Warhead who had apparently retrieved it from the void. Also, Zombie Lincoln was captured by the Immortals, whose contacts, and possibly support, between The Immortal Empire and the peach abominations were revealed. Security Log Files: Captain of Security (deceased)
Blind Spot: A battle on a minor planet near the Immortal power base. The Immortals attacked with a guerrilla force to destroy a comms relay. Battle Report: Orbital Observer
The Battle of The Altai Sector: As a small side note. The combined Silvarian, NSST and Tyronian fleets defended the capital of the NSST from the MNU. The battle was ended when Ross Varn's personal ship warped in and sent the shuttle to Nyphilis. The battle escalated, with the Immortals getting involved as temporary allies, ending with the complete destruction of the Nyphilian Empire and extermination of every last one of the little gits. An Immortal/ Tyronian fleet raided an escape convoy, boarded the shuttle, and captured the President Austin (who'd allegedly resigned), a lower general, and several Secret Service men. All were executed or all slated for execution by Lord Warhead. The battle is further illustration of pedonuker's mental instability. First empire to fall after the Immortals introduced themselves to the galaxy by booting the Gamma Corps off Fico. The Battle: The Brik Fourms: Neutral Territory Space The Capture: The Brik Fourms: Execution Chamber Aio-9
The Alighieri Incursion: Vergilius Raskolnikov invaded the FELC world of Alighieri as part of his universal conquest campaign. What at first looked like a simple enough fight was made more complicated when Pirates and BrikThulhian abominations joined the fray. To top it off, an Immortal strike force appeared, declaring war on the FELC for their betrayal of The Immortal Empire. A combination of unholy magic and tentacle rape eventually purged the entire planet of life, ending the battle. Full file here: Independent Archivist Arkbrik's Report
The War for Remarque: Vergilius Raskolnikov continued his war against the FELC, igniting the Eastern Region's border wars over unclaimed worlds. Briktopian Empire troops reinforced FELCian troops as the ground war burst from the trenches. The previously present crew of pirates appeared, cast out from BrikThulhu's locker, and intent on mayhem. An Immortal detachment arrived to attack the FELC, but was destroyed itself by the anti-Immortal allies. Vergilius army was eventually wiped out (in part thanks to the timely intervention of some overpowered illiterates) and Vergilius Raskolnikov himself was killed by pirate captain Rodrigo Palo. At the end of the day, the FELC stood triumphant on Remarque, having repulsed Raskolnikov's invasion and enlarged their own empire. Full file here: Independent Archivist Arkbrik's Report
Sythians Under Attack: Emperor Warhead sends the newly hired Zupponn Mining Co. mercenaries with some Immortal support to raid a run down Scythian mining outpost. Unexpectedly, Farce Using Ninjas, Ruffians, and Medieval Enthusiasts show up to create some chaos. Eventually the battle ends with the Immortals and their Zupponn Mining Co. allies victorious as they destroy the outpost and put a dent in the Scythian war effort. Battle Report: Scythians Under Attack
Blitzkrieg: The Immortal War truly begins when the Immortals break out from Fico, and invade into the surrounding systems.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States "can and must be more transparent" about surveillance programs and promised to work with Congress to put constraints on government spying.
He was speaking at a news conference in the White House where he announced plans to increase oversight of government collection of Internet and phone data.
(Reporting by Alistair Bell; Editing by Eric Walsh)


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Chitala chitala
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Chitala chitala (Hamilton, 1822)
Mystus chitala Hamilton, 1822
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Hamilton (1822) described Mystus chitala from Bengal and Bihar, subsequently placed under the genus Chitala by Jayaram (1981).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Chaudhry, S.
|Rema Devi, K.R., Arunachalam, M., Daniel, B.A. & Dahanukar, N.
|Molur, S. & Ng, H.H.
The species is an apparently widespread species, reported from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. However, Chitala chitala is likely restricted to the Indian subcontinent; the genus appears to be absent from Myanmar (misidentification of records may be based on very large Notopterus notopterus), and in Southeast Asia, C. borneensis, C. hypselonotus, C. lopis or C. ornata have been misidentified as C. chitala (H.H. Ng, pers comm., 2010; Roberts 2007).
Populations have declined significantly across much of its range in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal due to pollution and over-harvesting. The species is assessed as Near Threatened based on a suspected population decline approaching 30% in recent years and the species is still very highly utilised across much of its range in Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
Data from population studies are not available and it is not possible to estimate the period over which the suspected decline has occurred. The species should be re-assessed if further information becomes available on the species population status elsewhere within its range, and it may qualify for a threatened category; additional taxonomic study should be undertaken to confirm the species absence from Myanmar, southeast Asia, and from Indonesia.
|Range Description:
|The species is recorded from Pakistan, India (Manipur, Uttaranchal, West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar), Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. It is widespread in the western and eastern Himalayas.
However, Chitala chitala is likely restricted to the Indian subcontinent; the genus appears to be absent from Myanmar (misidentification of records may be based on very large Notopterus notopterus), and in Southeast Asia, C. borneensis, C. hypselonotus, C. lopis or C. ornata have been misidentified as C. chitala (H.H. Ng, pers comm., 2010; Roberts 2007).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bangladesh; India (Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Nepal; Pakistan
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Limited information is available; it has declined in some parts of its range, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and northeastern India due to declining water quality (siltation) and, mainly, overexploitation (S.C. Dey, pers. comm., 2010; S. Chaudhry pers. comm., 2010). In Nepal, very few specimens were recorded in recent surveys (B. Jha pers. comm., 2010). Specific figures are not available.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Inhabits freshwaters, particularly the larger rivers, but is also found in swamps. The species congregates, making it easily caught where it is present.
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Congregatory (and dispersive)
|Use and Trade:
|This species attains a length of 122 cm, but market specimens are about 26 cm long. Swamps yield considerable quantities of this species in Indian area, where it is captured with seine nets. The flesh is of good flavour but full of small bones; the fish is in considerable demand. The catches of this species are fast declining in India. Breeding has been successfully undertaken for the food trade.
|Major Threat(s):
No information available for all of its range. In parts of India the species has declined due to over exploitation and decline in habitat quality.
|Conservation Actions:
Captive breeding of the species is being undertaken in parts of India to provide food fish (Ponniah and Sarkar 2000). Further research is required to understand the impact of harvesting across the species range.
Hamilton, F. 1822. An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Constable and Co, Edinburgh, UK.
IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010).
Jayaram, K.C. 1989. Freshwater fishes of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka - A handbook. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkota.
Ponniah, A.G and U.K. Sarkar (eds). 2000. B. 2, pp. 228. NBFGR-NATP, Fish biodiversity of Northeast India.
Roberts, T.R. 1992. Systematic revision of the old world freshwater fish family Notopteridae. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwater 2(4): 361-383.
|Chaudhry, S. 2010. Chitala chitala. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T166510A6225101. . Downloaded on 26 September 2018.
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The General Education Program at UMass Lowell fosters active learning by asking students to think critically, communicate effectively and embrace cultural diversity.
Courses within the program are designed to provide students with a foundation that prepares them for continued work within their major and minor fields, as well as endowing them with the intellectual habits that will enable them to become lifelong learners.
You must file a Declaration of Major form with the Registrar's Office once you have decided on a major/plan. You must declare a major/plan by the end of your sophomore year, or by the time you achieve 60 credits. If you are considering a plan that follows a highly structured curriculum, you should declare that plan as soon as possible.
Yes. If you are studying as hard as you can, have talked with your instructor, have tried tutoring, and it still seems that you will fail the course, then you can withdraw and receive a grade of W. This will not affect your GPA, but it means you do not earn any credits for that class. If it is required for your major, you will have to take it again. The last day to withdraw from a any semester is the 50th day of class. The specific date for each semester is in the academic calendar.
Often students will come to see a professional advisor in the Centers for Learning and Academic Services (CLASS) because they are unsure of the major they are in or are conflicted between one of two majors. Also, students will see a CLASS advisor because they have questions on policy and deadlines at UMass Lowell. Faculty advisors and CLASS advisors work very closely to ensure students are getting correct information.
If students are interested in Studying Abroad they should contact the Centers for Learning at 978-934-2936 and schedule an appointment.
The Honors Program offers students many academic and social opportunities at UMass Lowell. For more information call 978-934-3924.
Yes. If you have earned fewer than 60 credits at UMass Lowell, you can take classes at a community college or at a four-year school. When you have earned more than 60 credits, you must take the course(s) at a four-year school. If you take the classes at UMass Lowell, the grades will become part of your UMass Lowell GPA. If you take courses at another school, you will receive transfer credit as long as you earn a "C" or better in the course, but the grades do not affect your GPA. Before you take any course off-campus, you should have it approved to be sure that it will be accepted for graduation credit at UMass Lowell.
Yes, but Winter Intersession classes are very intense. The session only lasts about three weeks. Classes meet three hours a day six days a week! Every class day covers what would normally be done in a full week during the semester. You need to be prepared to be in class three hours a day, and do homework for five to six hours a day. Not all schools offer Winter Intersession, but UMass Lowell does. Remember, if you have earned fewer than 60 credits at UMass Lowell, you can take classes at a community college. When you have earned more than 60 credits, you must take the courses at a four-year school. If you take the classes at UMass Lowell, the grades will become part of your UMass Lowell GPA. If you take courses at another school, you will receive transfer credit as long a you earn a "C" or better in the course, but the grades do not affect your GPA. You should have any course you plan to take off-campus approved before you take the course to be sure that it will be accepted for graduation credit at UMass Lowell.
Yes you can! You may delete or substitute up to 15 credits if you receive a C-, D+, D or F in a course. If you transferred in 60+ credits you can delete or substitute up to 7 credits. In order to substitute a grade, you must register for the same course. To delete a grade, you must submit a grade-deletion form to the Registrar's Office.
An Advisement Report is the data analysis that indicates whether a student has completed all of the requirements for graduation or if outstanding requirements must still be satisfied.
As a student progresses toward graduation, the advisement audit engine analyzes all career, program, plan and sub-plan information, coursework taken, grades earned, restrictions, and pre-conditions or conditions completed (successfully and unsuccessfully).
Advisors and students are able to click directly from the Academic Advisement Report into the search engine and find classes being offered that will meet requirements. The report runs live, so advisors and students have access to the most up-to-date information possible.
To find your Advisement Report in SiS:
You can call UMass Lowell's Help Desk: 978-934-HELP (4357) and they can do it over the phone or you can go to Olsen Hall (North Campus) 1st floor and someone will assist you.
Your faculty advisor is there to assist you with your academic and future professional career. It is a good idea to meet with them at least once per semester to discuss your degree progress.
Finding your advisor in SiS:
First you should speak with the faculty teaching the course to see if he/she has any suggestions of why you may be having trouble.
You can also get assistance from the Centers for Learning Tutoring Center. We are located in Southwick Hall 3rd floor- North, O'Leary Library 3rd floor – South, Fox Hall 1st floor and the Inn and Conference Center 2nd floor. We also have On-line Tutoring in the evenings. Check the Center for Learning and Academic Services (CLASS) site for schedules.
You are more than welcome to make an appointment with a professional advisor from the Advising Center. Call and make an appointment at 978-934-2936.
Being "undeclared" is a status not a major. Often students are "undeclared" because they haven't decided on a major yet or their GPA is not adequate for the major of interest. A student must declare a major between 45-60 credits.


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Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: Other Plants That Cause a RashSkip to the navigation
Topic Overview
Poison ivy, oak, and sumac are not the only plants that can cause rashes.
Rashes from urushiol
Some plants contain urushiol, the same oil found in poison ivy, oak, and sumac. Or they may contain a substance that is enough like to urushiol to cause a similar rash. Contact with these plants can make you allergic to urushiol. As a result, you will get a rash upon contact with poison ivy, oak, or sumac, even if you never had contact with it before. These plants include:
- Ginkgo trees.
- Japanese lacquer trees.
- Mangoes (the allergenic oil is in the fruit's rind and leaves).
- Cashews (the allergenic oil is in the shell).
- Indian marking nut trees.
- Tropical silk oaks (sometimes grown as ornamental houseplants).
Rashes from irritant plants
Irritant plants may cause a rash where they come into contact with the skin. Unlike with poison ivy, oak, or sumac, you do not have to be allergic to the plant to develop a rash. Irritant plants include:
- Flower bulbs, such as hyacinth or daffodil bulbs or tulip bulb sheaths. These can cause a reaction called daffodil itch or tulip fingers. Tulips can cause either an irritant reaction or an allergic reaction.
- Roses, rose hips, and dahlias.
- Stinging nettle and spurge nettle.
- Herbs such as comfrey, borage, barberry, tansy, yarrow, garlic, and hot peppers.
- Rhubarb.
- Plants of the bromeliad family, such as pineapple and Spanish moss.
- Cacti and sharp grasses.
Rashes from plants and sunlight
Certain plants have a chemical that sunlight converts into an allergen. Some people who touch these plants and then go into the sun have an immune system reaction similar to a poison ivy, oak, or sumac rash (allergic contact dermatitis). The rash only develops in areas exposed to sunlight. These plants include:
- Celery, parsley, parsnip, carrot, dill, and fennel.
- Citrus plants (bergamot, lemon, lime).
- Queen Anne's lace.
- Rue and angelica.
- Fig.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting a finishing touch on his second term Cabinet, President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Maria Contreras-Sweet, the founder of a Latino-owned community bank in Los Angeles and a former California Cabinet secretary, to be head of the Small Business Administration.
Obama praised Contreras-Sweet, who immigrated to the United States when she was 5 years old, as a "champion of women-owned and family owned businesses."
Contreras-Sweet, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, has a history of working with small businesses and has been an advocate for Hispanics. As California's secretary of the state's Business, Transportation and Housing Agency from 1999 to 2003, she was the first Latina to serve as a Cabinet secretary in the state and oversaw 40,000 state employees and a $12 billion budget.
In 2006, she founded ProAmerica Bank, a financial institution that aimed to assist small and mid-size businesses. Before that, she was president and co-founder of a private equity firm that provided capital to small California businesses.
"Maria knows how hard it is to get started on a business," Obama said. "The grueling hours, the stress, the occasional self-doubt, although I have not yet seen self-doubt out of Maria. She knows it herself."
If confirmed by the Senate, Contreras-Sweet would fill the last vacant Obama Cabinet slot, filling the SBA administrator's position formerly occupied by Karen Mills who left in August.
Contreras-Sweet would become the second Hispanic in Obama's second-term Cabinet. The other is Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. She would also become the eighth woman in Obama's current Cabinet. Obama's selection had been the subject of intense interest among Hispanic leaders, who wanted to ensure they had a high-profile presence in the administration.
Obama said Contreras-Sweet's grandmother, a migrant worker in Mexico, once advised her that if she studied hard she might eventually work in an office as a secretary and make her proud. Obama noted that she ended up being a Cabinet secretary in California.
"Maria is fulfilling the vision of her grandma in ways that maybe are not entirely expected," he said.
Her pick comes as some small business advocates have questioned the Obama administration's commitment to that broad segment of the private sector.
"Hopefully, upon confirmation, she will reach out to small business organizations and the entrepreneurs themselves to listen to their ideas and concerns," said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. "For the past year or more, the SBA has gone dark in terms of outreach."
Rep. Sam Graves, the Republican chairman of the House Small Business Committee, said the time it took Obama to nominate a successor to Mills "showed us that small businesses really aren't valued much by this administration."
Associated Press writer Joyce Rosenberg in New York contributed to this report.
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HRI Hospital is 62-bed psychiatric facility with adult inpatient services and several partial hospitalization programs. We are part of the largest private mental health system in Massachusetts and can therefore provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for growth and development. At the same time, the smaller size of our facility allows us to provide personalized attention and training to all our employees. Employees are part of a multi-disciplinary team of dynamic professionals providing high quality care to a diverse inpatient and outpatient group of individuals. We are located in Brookline â€" right near Boston University and Coolidge Corner â€" and provide easy access to public transportation and free parking. Employees are our most valued asset and we encourage qualified individuals to apply.
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DISNEY IN-LINE: The Walt Disney Co. said its fourth-quarter earnings through September rose 14 percent to $1.24 billion, or 68 cents per share. The results matched analysts' expectations.
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The New York Giants have put placekicker Josh Brown on the NFL's reserve-suspended list as part of a number of moves to reach the 53-man roster limit.
The team also cut wide receiver Geremy Davis, a sixth-round pick in 2015 from UConn. He played in 10 regular-season games last season, catching two passes for 21 yards.
The Giants announced 20 of their needed 22 roster moves on Saturday. They were waiting until after the 4 p.m. EDT deadline to announce the final two moves.
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HAMPTON - A 70-year-old local man was arrested Friday on charges he shot a gun at another person.Police said James Clark was working on property on Lafayette Road and became involved in a dispute with the property owner over the work and payment terms. Clark allegedly pointed a gun at the other person, whom police did not name, and fired the weapon shortly before 3:30 p.m. Friday.


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Is there some form of protection from someone who might attach a virus too his/her post?I'm just wondering=)
Are you trying to suggest that you want to do something along those lines? If someone posted a virus on here, I'm pretty sure it'd be detected and they'd be banned before anyone even had the chance to download it...
No i am not goingto do something like that i'm just curious
Try reading the Newbie section here Higher
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.- Glen Seaborg
You can probably be quite certain that the server is set up to ward off any such attempt. JP has quite a bit of intrution detection software/hardware in place, and I'm absolutely certain that he wouldn't skimp on virus detection.
I'm quite confidentin JP's skills
Personally I would think a user would be smart enough to scan everything they download, and personally "I had the same idea as avdven" I thought Higher was looking for a method to pull something, but I didn't want to get neg'd for thinking that way. So, I let someone else speak up....
Well i wasn't going to pull anything
hmmm but even if you uploaded a virus surely it wouldn't do anything as the user woulddn't have enough access to run it on the server....
and as for peps downloading it am sure that hopefully most peps on here would be smart enough to scan anything they download before running it!
**this post is for all the script kiddies getting the idea from this post**It doesn't hurt to use common sense and if you do try it, I would say you are an idiot. People here have (or suppsedly have) anti-viruses and anti-trojans installed (either or). Second of all JP takes care of the members and the site very well thwarting any attempt to do any such "attack".
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Slate's New Look
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As regular readers may have noticed, Slate turned 10 last week. Today, we begin decade No. 2 with a redesign. As you click around on the site, you'll see a host of changes. A new logo, our first in 10 years. More and bigger images. An expanded home page that showcases more of our content. And a number of other modifications that should make Slate easier to navigate and read—at least once you get used to them.
Why the makeover? Well, it was about time. It's been more than three years since we last updated the look of our "cover" (and longer than that since we've tinkered with the basic appearance of our article pages). A lot has changed since then. For one thing, we're no longer owned by Microsoft, which for some reason seems to make it easier for us to build a site that works as well in Firefox and Safari as it does in Internet Explorer. And now that larger computer screens and broadband have become commonplace, we felt Slate could do more to take advantage of both. The new home page, for example, is wider than the old one and has graphics so numerous that a dial-up modem would have choked on them. We've used the additional real estate to give permanent homes to Explainer, the Has-Been, Doonesbury, Today's Pictures, and our editorial cartoons—regular features that have sometimes been hard to find.
When we started work on this project last year, we had a long list of changes we wanted to make. But we also enlisted the help of Slate readers, asking you to tell us how we could improve the site. Hundreds of you responded, with comments both helpful (you hated the way our old flyout menus worked) and not so much (sorry, folks, we're keeping the ads). This redesign is in large part a reflection of your great suggestions. The flyout menus, for example, which used to require precision mousework and surgeon-steady hands, have been revamped. Just as important, you told us what not to change. Many of Slate's most loyal readers remain attached to the complete, week-long reverse chronological listing of stories that we publish on the home page. It starts a bit further down than it used to, but we're keeping it.
Armed with your input, we brought in an outside design firm, Helicopter, to help us refresh our look. Our talented friends at Helicopter get credit for the site's new visual sensibility. They encouraged us to scrap our spindly old logo and limit our use of maroon. They came up with a number of appealing new typographical treatments and, through many iterations, helped us reorganize the features on our home page. They also created airier new article pages, with bigger headlines and more space for graphics. Those of us who've been working with these new pages on our beta site love how easy they are to read.
Other changes you should check out: a new home-page module that keeps track of our most read, most e-mailed, and most blogged-about stories. Each of these rankings tells you something different: "most read" tells you what's most popular in an obvious way—what gets the largest number of clicks. "Most e-mailed" tells you something potentially more interesting: which stories our readers thought were worth passing along to their friends. And the "most-blogged" ranking tells you not only which Slate articles have the most buzz in the blogosphere, but also lets you tap in, via Technorati, to the conversation about them elsewhere on the Web (we'll soon be adding Technorati links to our story pages, as well). We've also introduced something we've been calling the "magic box"—a new navigational tool for our multipart articles (among them Dispatches, Book Clubs, and Dialogues) that makes it easier to tell who's saying what and to whom. We've also put a list of our newest podcasts on the home page.
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UPDATED: CMC surgery patient with rare brain disease may have exposed 8 others
September 04. 2013 8:35PM
MANCHESTER — Eight people who underwent brain surgery between May and August at Catholic Medical Center are waiting to learn if they could be under a death sentence.
At a news conference Wednesday at CMC, health officials said testing is underway to determine if a man who had brain surgery in May and died in August had an extremely rare and fatal ailment called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Dr. Joseph Pepe, CEO of CMC, said the eight patients on whom the same neurosurgery instruments were used have been identified and notified of the possibility of transmission.
"The risk is close to zero, but it's not zero," he said. "Patients have the right to know."
New Hampshire Director of Public Health Jose Montero said the neuroprobe used in the CMC surgery was rented from the medical technology firm Medtronic, and was also used in other states. He would not identify the other states, but said five additional patients have been identified as being at risk if Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is confirmed in the original patient at CMC.
Pepe said the hospital has stopped brain surgeries; it usually does about a dozen a year.
Only about one percent of cases result from transmission through material called prions on instruments used in certain brain surgeries.
Pepe and Montero said it is possible to sterilize the instruments to eliminate prions, but that would render the equipment unusable. They said all the instruments used in the brain surgery have been taken out of service and, if the testing shows the original patient had CJD, they will be destroyed.
"You need a brain biopsy to confirm the diagnosis," Montero said, noting results are not expected for four to six weeks.
There is no treatment for the illness; death follows quickly once symptoms appear, which can be a year or much longer after infection. The disease results in rapid mental deterioration. Health officials stressed that although symptoms are similar, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is not the so-called mad cow disease, which can be contracted through consumption of contaminated meat.
Pepe said there is no danger to anyone else at the hospital or to the friends or relatives of the patients.
"It is not a virus," he said. "It is a prion."
The word prion is derived from protein and infection. The infectious protein causes brain tissue to develop holes and take on a sponge-like texture.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease occurs about once in a million people and there are approximately 200 cases a year in the United States. Eighty-five percent of cases are hereditary; most of the rest are spontaneous.
Montero said the patient had no family history of CJD and had not had any other brain surgery during which the disease could have been transmitted, so it would be a spontaneous case — one that could only be spread by contact with the diseased prions during surgery with contaminated instruments.
Pepe said the original patient had signs of brain cysts when he underwent surgery in May and there was no sign of CJD at the time. A few months later, based on the man's rapid deterioration, CJD "was strongly suspected," he said.
The patient was readmitted in August, said Pepe. He and Montero said the swift deterioration of the patient's mental abilities, as well as spinal fluid, MRIs and other preliminary tests, pointed to CJD, but they had never seen the disease before.
On the same day initial test results were received, the patient died, said Pepe.
Manchester Health Director Tim Soucy praised both CMC and the state for their handling of the situation.
"This has been a complex and sensitive case," he said.
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MANCHESTER – Health officials are holding a news conference this afternoon to discuss a case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
A spokesman for CMC, Michelle Marshall, director of marketing and communications, said, "It is not the same as mad cow disease. It is a variant. It is complicated. We will go over the details at 3 o'clock."
In animals, mad cow disease is known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). If a person eats BSE-infected beef, the person is at a higher risk for getting the human form of the disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD.
The N.H. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) in collaboration with Catholic Medical Center (CMC) and the Manchester Health Department are investigating the case.
The "scope and breadth of the investigation" will be discussed at the news conference with Dr. Jose Montero, DHHS' director of public health, along with Dr. Joseph Pepe, CMC's CEO, and Tim Soucy, Manchester public health director, according to the news release.
Health officials did not say in the release the location of the case they are investigating or any of the specific circumstances. At this afternoon's conference, they are expected to provide more information about the investigation and answer questions.
According to the Mayo Clinic, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and, ultimately, death.
Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) sometimes resemble those of other dementia-like brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's, but Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease usually progresses much more rapidly.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease captured public attention in the 1990s when some people in the United Kingdom developed a form of the disease — variant CJD (vCJD) — after eating meat from diseased cattle. However, "classic" Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has not been linked to contaminated beef.
Although serious, CJD is rare, and vCJD is the least common form. Worldwide, there is an estimated one case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease diagnosed per million people each year, most commonly in older adults.


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Those are good points. When Nonis was dealing from a position of strength so to speak he made better deals (Sopel and Smolinski). And I can agree that Nonis and Gillis operated under different trade deadlines. But that still doesn't excuse Nonis for acquiring players who turned out to be pure rentals. Gillis acquired players he managed to keep. I don't think Nonis even acquired one player at the deadline he managed to keep. And the different era argument didn't apply here. Take the 2006 trade deadline. Besides Nonis' acquisitions, every player acquired for a 3rd round pick or higher were not pure rentals.Todd Bersnoozi wrote: True, Gillis has a better track record with some of his trade deadline deals. I think I admitted that already. But, Gillis and Nonis were in different positions. Gillis was dealing from a position of strength as his canuck teams were like top teams heading into the playoffs, whereas Nonis was in a weaker position, scratching and clawing trying to get in. As I mentioned as well, trade deadlines were a bit different then. There were alot more deals back then, thus draft picks were more easily acquired. Today, teams are more reluctant to give up picks, thus u can get a better player with picks now.
Well Nonis would tell you that the Canucks never played the trap and that they played a similar style to Detroit and if you think the Canucks played the trap you don't know anything about hockey. Seriously though, would you agree there was a marked change in the Canucks' style of play right after Gillis took over? And what were the players that Gillis added in the offseason and in the beginning of the season? You really think the likes of Bernier, Wellwood, Ryan Johnson, SOB, Hordichuk, Demitra, Davison while letting go of Morrison, Naslund, and Krajicek would make a difference to the team's style of play? No Gillis came on board and said that the Canucks would play an uptempo puck possession style of hockey and AV stayed on because he convinced Gillis that he can coach a more uptempo style of hockey. The team had the same coach and the difference in style is evident for all to see.Todd Bersnoozi wrote: Sometimes u gotta play the style that would give your team the greatest chance to win. If u were the GM of the Devils back in the late 90s and early 2000 and u had the likes of Marty Brodeur, Scott Steven, Holik, Daneyko and had Jacque Lemaire coaching your team, would u get your team to play an offensive run and gun system or a defensive trap system? I dunno about u, but I'd get them to play the trap and bring in players that could play and excel in that kind of system. I don't care if it's ugly/boring hockey, if it gets me wins and a cup, that is all I care about.
Of course the system and style matters. It's all about organizational philosophy. The Red Wings and Devils were successful for years because they employed a similar system throughout the years even with coaching changes and they drafted and acquired players who were good fits for the system. To be successful, you got to figure out beforehand the style of hockey you want the team to play and stick with it. When the Devils beat Detroit and won their first Cup, you didn't see Detroit go to a trap system. Neither did the Avalanche. You adjust the system and playstyle to suit today's game, but the overarching philosophy is still there. That's why you see that even though Gillis has emphasized size recently, the bigger players were still guys who can play a puck possession game. As for Nonis, he actually had 2 bad years and one good year and didn't really have a philosophy on the type of playing style he wants the team to play or the culture he wants to have.Todd Bersnoozi wrote:The system and style don't matter as much, as long as u get the results... So, Nonis has 1 good year and 1 bad year since going with a defensive system (50%). Not great, but I think not too bad all things considered.
And Quinn might have had a job for a longer time had he drafted Jagr instead of Nedved and the Canucks might have won the Cup if they drafted Eberle instead of Hodgson. Hindsight is 20/20 but ultimately it's the GM's job to be right in hindsight. Not that it matters, but I would have re-signed Naslund if I was the GM at the time (I think most people would have), I would have drafted Kopitar (I think most people here would have) and I would have traded Jovanovski for futures knowing that I couldn't re-sign him. And if I still ended up fielding a team that missed the playoffs two out of three years and I had traded 2nd and 3rd round picks in the process, I would deserve blame just as Nonis deserves blame.Todd Bersnoozi wrote: It's always easy to play armchair quarterback and blame the GM a few years after something happened. It's like saying Pat Quinn, why didn't u draft Jagr instead of Nedved? Or Mike Gilllis, why didn't u take Eric Karlson or Jordan Eberle instead of Cody Hodgson? Hindsight is 50/50 man. So you're saying u wouldn't have resigned Nasi? At the time, Nasi was still a pretty good player and he was the captain of your team. U need some offence from somebody. I think u have to try to keep your franchise player, fan favourite and all-time points leader. Some players can still play at a high lvl at at an old age (ie - Selanne, Jagr, St. Louis), some can't (ie - Linden, D.Weight) and unfortunately Naslund fell into the later category.
And what results did it bring? Let's face it, Burrows was Heisinger 's find and Edler was Gradin's but I will credit Nonis for taking a chance on the two. The problem isn't that Nonis failed to bring in good players. It's that he failed to build a long-term contender. There is a reason why the team went no where under Nonis. Nonis' idea of building a team is to hand out one year contracts to reclamation projects. Gillis, on the other hand, is all about identifying the team's core players and getting them signed and surrounding them with quality players and wait for young players to come along. Nonis didn't do that. Nonis was all about rolling the dice on players like Anson Carter, Pyatt, Bullis, and Brunnstrom and when a player took that one year deal and proved to be a good fit (Anson Carter) Nonis lowballed him (according to Carter). The fact that you have to name Krajicek and Baumgartner as decent acquisitions shows how bad things were under Nonis.Todd Bersnoozi wrote: Yes, he brought in some dead wood. But he brought in some decent players too (some with much longer impact on the team than others). As already mentioned some great ones like Lou, Burr, Edler, Willie, Hansen. Some decent ones with shorter durations with the team: Carter, Krajick, Pyatt, Baumgartner. And he slowly worked in a couple young guys who he inherited and they have become impact players on the Canucks: Kesler and Bieksa.


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"CHRISTMAS is not a health warning."
With this war cry, medico Shaun Rudd said it was time to push back against the wowsers and doomsday merchants looking to kill our Christmas joy and lower our festive kilojoule count.
"Christmas has been hijacked by the do-gooders," Dr Rudd said.
"All this talk about don't eat this and don't eat that - it's over the top.
"Have a drink, enjoy eating a bit too much and enjoy the family.
"Blowing off a bit of steam and over indulging slightly every so often will help you de-stress."
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Jerk Sticks His Mom With $123,000 in Unpaid Tolls
We feel safe in calling Peter Davis a jerk. Not because we know him personally; we'd never heard of the Englewood, NJ resident before yesterday. But it's how we heard of him: using his mom's car to buy drugs in New York and not paying tolls on the George Washington Bridge.
Now his mom's on the hook for $123,000 from 6,600 violations that Davis somehow successfully hid from her. This is why you don't do drugs, kids.
Jean Davis, or rather her good-for-nothing son, is one of the twenty worst toll scofflaws that the New York Port Authority are going after in court. At the top are the people you'd expect: trucking companies, car rental places, things of that sort. But equally surprising are the private citizens who apparently just blow through the toll gate. There are private citizens on that list with blown tolls and associated fees upwards of $70,000!
And they'll have to pay it: the Port Authority has each blown toll fully documented. But in Jean Davis's case, we're rooting for the judge to put the blame where it belongs.
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In case Chicago native Jennifer Hudson's performance didn't sufficiently confirm her miscasting as South African president Nelson Mandela's wife (it does), the end credits of "Winnie Mandela" distractingly roll with the Oscar-winning actress/singer ("Dreamgirls") belting out a tune by hitmaker Diane Warren. Hey, better than Winnie performing a sold-out concert.
This superficial drama, filmed in 2010, primarily exists to applaud the icon, which didn't keep the real Winnie Madikizela-Mandela from protesting the filmmakers' refusal to let her consult. That choice is justified; productions about real people rarely feel objective when they serve as producers—or have you not seen "Keeping Up with the Kardashians"? So it's particularly odd that director/co-writer Darrell Roodt still appears reluctant to process South African history with any perspective or complexity. Obscured truth disrespects history, and a biopic without strong writing and acting isn't much of anything.
For a film covering roughly six decades, "Winnie Mandela" has a short memory, frequently jumping 10 years at a time without filling in the gaps. Before Winnie goes to study in Johannesburg in 1953, her dad says his former disappointment over Winnie being his sixth daughter has become pride. And that's the last we see of her family. Many years later, when she spends months and months in solitary confinement, makeup meant to make the resilient activist look dirty can't hide her body's lack of physical change. Though we don't feel the prison time that's passed for her husband, Nelson (Terrence Howard), he appears to have aged drastically, and she hasn't at all. Toward the film's end, when someone finally realized Winnie should look older, her puffy makeup makes you wonder if she was stung by a bee during a human-rights violations trial that the movie largely shrugs off.
Important historical events and figures are always worth remembering, but not with such a one-dimensional, earnest effort that's been fairly criticized for casting American actors to raise its profile. "Winnie" is a movie about the fight against persecution that itself shies away from depicting hardship, though its few sequences of violence and oppression are appropriately chilly.
Adapting a biography of his subject, Roodt spends too much time talking about work being done and not enough on details, action and the country's changing climate. Sadly, "Invictus" wasn't very good either. Here's hoping the upcoming "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," starring Idris Elba, favors depth over scope.
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