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A Goalie Mask Gallery
In pro team sports, players are given a uniform and little discretion on what else they can wear. The NFL is notorious for harshly enforcing its stringent dress code. If you wear the wrong color shoes or if your uniform becomes untucked for too long, be prepared to be fined on Monday morning. There's simply little room for style in the apparel.
One major exception is hockey, where goaltenders can design their own masks. One can choose a cool design, a favorite character, or simply an homage to the home team's city and place it on your mask. Below for your perusal is a gallery of some of our favorite goalie masks from various levels of Hockey.


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Angels on the Laundry Line
Collected Poems, 1943–2004
The huge, comprehensive edition of Richard Wilbur's Collected Poems represents the work of some sixty years. In addition to his most recent poems, it includes seventeen previous collections, five children's books, and translations from several languages. Over the length of his distinguished career, Wilbur has also published two books of literary essays and has translated the plays of Molière and Racine to high praise. For his accomplishments, he has been honored with a National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the Bollingen Translation Prize, and many other prestigious awards.
The critic Peter Stitt described him as standing apart from his literary age in at least three ways. Wilbur, he wrote, "exhibits a classic, objective sensibility in a romantic, subjective time; he is a formalist in the midst of relentless informality; and he is a relative optimist among absolute pessimists."1 I agree with that, except for one minor quibble. All poets, if they are any good, tend to stand apart from their literary age. They either linger in the past, advance into some imaginary future, or live in some version of the present that is altogether their own. What is interesting about Wilbur is how faithful he has been over a lifetime to what may appear to some as a very odd choice.
The recognition came early to Wilbur with the publication of his first book of poems in 1947. With the exception of Robert Lowell, who was four years older and already had a small reputation, most of the poets of his generation, including such diverse figures as Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Denise Levertov, Louis Simpson, and Richard Hugo, were barely known to the poetry-reading public. Eventually, they all became the distinctive poets we know them to be, while often modifying or radically altering the poetry they were writing—but not Wilbur. One could shuffle his poems, disregarding the order in which they first appeared, and mixing the earliest with the latest work, without confusing or displeasing the reader. The same cannot be said of any other poet of this period. Most of them would now and then go out on a limb and do something completely unpredictable and risky. Needless to say, I'm exaggerating. Wilbur's later poems are plainer and a little more personal, but are in truth not that different from his earliest ones. Unlike others, he has been happy to work within an older and well-established poetic tradition over these many years.
"It was not until World War II took me to Cassino, Anzio, and the Sieg-fried Line," Wilbur later said, "that I began to versify in earnest."2 Earlier he had thought of a career in journalism since his mother's father and grandfather had been newspaper editors. He was born in 1921 in New York City. His father, Lawrence Wilbur, was a painter. He graduated from Amherst College in 1942. While still a student, he spent his…
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SOURCE: Compushare, Inc.
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Investment Will Accelerate Compushare's Strategic Growth With Community Financial Institutions and Support D+H's Plans to Expand Service Portfolio
Investment Will Accelerate Compushare's Strategic Growth With Community Financial Institutions and Support D+H's Plans to Expand Service Portfolio
SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Today Compushare, Inc., the nation's leading technology management provider for the financial industry and only pure cloud computing provider to financial institutions, announced that it has accepted an offer from Davis & Henderson (D+H), a leading provider to the financial services industry and ranked thirty-fifth on the 2012 FinTech 100 list, to purchase the remainder of the company's outstanding shares. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
"We are excited to join the D+H family of companies. Being part of D+H will enable us to accelerate our growth and pursue additional opportunities with Community Banks, Credit Unions and Financial Service Providers throughout the United States," said Compushare's founder and CEO, Romir Bosu. "With the only true community cloud based solution offered to a market that is readily adopting the technology, we will be better positioned to rapidly meet this demand, while continuing to invest in additional innovative solutions. We are pleased to join D+H, a company with deep experience in serving the technology and compliance needs of a wide range of financial institutions in North America," added Bosu.
As D+H continues to grow its capabilities in the North American FinTech space, Compushare's suite of technology management and cloud based solutions complements its already strong footprint among U.S. community banks, credit unions and financial service providers where D+H provides Software as a Service (SaaS) mortgage and loan origination solutions through its Mortgagebot subsidiary to over 1,400 financial institutions. "Our goal is to be a leading solutions provider to the North American financial services industry and we believe our decision to acquire Compushare continues to strengthen our ability to deliver on our vision," stated Gerrard Schmid, CEO of D+H. "In particular, this investment enables us to participate in the growing needs of U.S. financial institutions for cloud delivered services and applications to better allow them to manage their infrastructure focus on IT strategy and more effectively support their growth. We look forward to working with the talented team at Compushare as we both expand our businesses," added Schmid.
Compushare offers a full suite of technology solutions that assist community banks, credit unions and other financial service providers in controlling costs, increasing efficiencies and preparing for increased compliance requirements. As the leader in delivering the only community-based cloud platform built to meet the specific needs of financial institutions, Compushare brings an innovative way to solve technology challenges to the market. Compushare currently serves hundreds of financial customers with these solutions."
About Compushare
Compushare is the leading provider of high quality, innovative technology and compliance solutions for the financial market. Whether it's providing a totally outsourced cloud computing solution or assisting with the management of your technology or IT strategic plan, Compushare takes a consultative approach to its solutions. With more than 17 years of technology experience supporting over 800 financial clients nationwide, Compushare is an SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type II, FFIEC reviewed, and preferred partner with many major providers such as The Independent Community Bankers Association of America (ICBA). From our leadership team to the members of our service delivery team, our array of knowledge, certifications and practical expertise is unrivaled in the Financial Services Industry.
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Public invited to talk by distinguished author Yi-Fu Tuan on March 13University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Public Info Officer, Arts and Sciences Community and Alumni Relations
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the Art Auditorium on Wednesday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at the event from the UH Bookstore.
An innovator and winner of the Lauréate Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, Tuan has been called "one of the most remarkable and creative forces in the intellectual life of our time," by Simon Schama, of Columbia University, and "a scholar with immense learning and an original point of view…who has reinvented our notions of space and place," by Michael Kammen of Cornell.
The author of over two dozen influential books, Tuan has redefined the field of human and cultural geography by exploring the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human culture and the meanings of home, place, wilderness, human goodness, art, and environment.
Born and raised in China, Tuan was educated in Australia and the Philippines in his early teens, and went on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley. With his cosmopolitan upbringing, he moved to the American Midwest to teach. He became a full professor at the University of Minnesota in 1968, and later spent 15 years as a cherished teacher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before retiring as the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography.
Tuan remains fully engaged in writing and publishing. His most recent books include: Landscapes of Fear, Human Goodness, and Coming Home to China. His other books include: Dominance and Affection, Place, Art, and Self, Place and Space: The Perspective of Experience, and the ground-breaking Topophila: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values.
The lecture is made possible by the late Dr. Dai Ho Chun through his estate gift that established the Dai Ho Chun Endowment for Distinguished Lecturers at the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Chun was himself a distinguished and visionary educator.
The lecture is also sponsored by the UH Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, with additional help from the Dai Ho Chun Endowment Selection Committee, UH Mānoa Geography Department, and Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.
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Washington State University researchers say the next step for perennial wheat is field trials.
John Reganold and Stephen Jones recently returned from a three-day meeting of researchers in Rome, Italy, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Reganold, a professor of soil science, said about 10 countries were represented at the meeting, where they heard about the development of perennial grains.
Jones, director of WSU's research and extension center in Mount Vernon, Wash., bred a new species by crossing wild wheats with domestic wheats. They are not genetically modified organisms.
The next step is to submit an article on the new species to a scientific journal, Jones said. The new species is not yet named, but will likely be classified in the Triticum genus.
"Once you get into the real details, which is where we are right now, we'll have to see," Jones said. "There may be other genera names that it fits into better."
The process will stretch into early 2014, Jones said.
Research on the new species is continuing in farmers' fields in Ritzville and Kahlotus, Wash. It will be planted at a western Washington dairy in the fall.
"That's really key — to see how it does in the farmer's hands," Jones said.
Jones has also shared material with other researchers, who are growing it experimentally in Italy, China and Australia.
Researchers are also baking with it. It's not currently comparable to existing wheat for breads, having lower strength and loaf volume, Jones said, but there are efforts to blend the new species into bread products.
"It's not unexpected, but it gives us these benchmarks to work from," he said.
Reganold hopes to test the new species in a variety of plots. He called for more grants from the USDA and foundations to step up breeding and field trials.
In 2010, Reganold published an article predicting perennial grains would be available by 2030. He believes efforts are on track to meet that timeline.
"There's going to be all kinds of farming systems represented, so (we could) have one or two different crops that are successful as perennials, like wheat or sorghum," he said. "It might be that they're grown with annuals at the same time, in rotation with annuals or grown by themselves."
Reganold expects testing of combinations of perennials and annuals in the next five years to see how they interact.
Perennial wheat would give farmers more variety, especially in the Pacific Northwest, Reganold said. Perennials could enhance soil quality and decrease erosion.
"With perennial grains you're going to have deeper roots, thicker roots, fibrous roots," he said. "They're going to hold the soil together better, they're going to build the soil up better."
Perennial grains would also mean fewer equipment passes, especially for farmers raising perennials for two to three years, Reganold said.


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Midmarket Push at Partner Summit: New Cloud Managed Services and Catalyst Switch
Co-Author: Sanjit Biswas, VP and GM, Cisco's Cloud Networking Group
Since our acquisition of Meraki in late 2012, you have heard us talking about the midmarket and new opportunities for channel partners and customers. I'm pleased to say that today, at the Cisco Partner Summit in Boston, we have some exciting updates for you. Specifically, we'll focus on our Made for Midmarket portfolio which includes a range of new product offerings, services and solutions designed for midsize customers.
As part of Cisco's newly formed Cloud Networking Group, we are unveiling our complete cloud managed networking portfolio specifically focused for midmarket deployments, consisting of security appliances, switches and wireless LANs.
Get Your Heads in the Cloud – Services and Revenue Opportunities
New for partners today we are introducing the Cisco Meraki Managed Services Dashboard – bringing together a number of features for Managed Service Providers (MSP) to offer cloud-managed networking as a service to their customers. This MSP dashboard features specific tools, analytics and monitoring capabilities and is built to allow our service providers to manage end-customer networks easily from a central location while still maintaining separation and security of each customer network.
Key Highlights of the Managed Services Dashboard
- MSP Portal – Service providers can easily monitor the health of end-customer networks from a centralized location.
- Manage your Brand: MSPs can customize the logo on the dashboard to promote their own brand with end-customers. Cisco will work directly with the MSP to customize the content.
- Support Ticketing: Easy for MSPs to create, monitor and respond to support cases with Cisco staff.
- Remote Live Tools: A complete set of tools that make remote monitoring of the network significantly easier – a perfect fit for Helpdesk or Network Operations Center (NOC) staff.
- Partner Benefits: Using the new MSP dashboard, partners can increase profits through managed services, enable existing MSPs to profitably grow their midmarket offering and allow traditional VARs to quickly introduce managed service offerings.
It doesn't end here… also new from Cisco this week is the Catalyst 2960-X series of stackable gigabit Ethernet access switches.
New Catalyst 2960-X Switches
The announcement of the Catalyst 2960-X switches provides our customers with yet another opportunity to cost-effectively address their growing business needs with intelligent services. The Catalyst 2960-X is a perfect fit for midmarket customers who are dealing with challenges associated with BYOD scalability and security – many of the same needs as a big business, but with smaller IT staffs and budgets to meet them.
The new Cisco Catalyst 2K switches doubles the scale of the previous generation of Cat2K switches, while adding application visibility, routing options, and redundant power supply options to provide customers maximum investment protection.
"Green" Energy-Saving Benefits
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-X was designed to reduce the total cost of ownership over comparative industry switches with energy-saving features that can reduce power consumption by up to 80%.
How does this energy-saving performance compare with the rest of the industry? For context, IDC reported roughly 230 million comparable switch ports were sold in 2012[1]. Not that we're being greedy – but if these were all Catalyst 2960-X units, that would mean roughly 14.4 Billion kWh of energy saved.
What could you do with that energy?
- Shut down the Hoover Dam for 3.4 years
- Power all households in San Francisco for 3.3 years
- Make 76 round trips to Mars in a Toyota Prius, 45,000 round trips to the Moon, or 870,000 trips around the Earth
- Reduce CO2 emissions by 7.5 billion pounds (3.4 billion kg), the equivalent of planting 193 million trees, the same as every household in the United States planting 1.7 trees
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches will continue to make the Catalyst 2K family the world's most widely-deployed access switch by addressing business challenges of today and helping customers prepare for the future.
This is just the beginning. Cisco will continue to invest and build out our midmarket overall portfolio of solutions and technology across all areas of our business, for partners to get up and running quickly. From the datacenter, with the Virtualized Foundation Smart Solution, to Collaboration, and beyond – we have lots more in store for partners.
It's clear that Cisco has its finger on the midmarket pulse. We estimate a $25B technology opportunity by FY16 and approximately $5B will be for networking equipment in our core wireless and cloud networking franchise. We have the broad resources and pedigree to lead in this market. We are excited to grow in this market with our customers and partners, today and tomorrow. For more information on the complete midmarket strategy, which includes marketing and channel support, in addition to the portfolio, check out today's post from Andrew Sage, Vice President of Worldwide Partners Sales, http://blogs.cisco.com/channels/how-cisco-partners-win-in-the-midmarket-2. We can't wait to share what's next!
Be sure to follow the conversation on Twitter – for all things related to Cisco Partner Summit, use the official hashtag: #ciscops13. For all things mobility, follow the chatter @Cisco_Mobility and for updates on the Catalyst 2-X switch series, engage with us @CiscoSwitching.
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It looks like an RMM platform for Cisco's proprietary equipment. Does Cisco plan to engage the rest of the market with cloud, server, desktop, and virtual system management?
Cloud management tools play an essential role in automated delivery of high quality IT services. Thanks for sharing this information.


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Kroger donates toward Lost in Space summer adventure at San Jacinto College
04.11.2014 | By Jeannie Peng-Armao
(left to right) Sara Malloy, San Jacinto College Aerospace Academy project coordinator; Dr. Sarah Janes, San Jacinto College vice president of Continuing and Professional Development; Emily Savino, Aerospace Academy senior administrative assistant; Angie Hughes, Aerospace Academy director; and Enrique Morales, Kroger Consumer Affairs Specialist. Photo credit: Jeannie Peng-Armao, San Jacinto College marketing, public relations, and government affairs department.
PASADENA, Texas – The Aerospace Academy at San Jacinto College is sending high school students on a geocaching adventure thanks to support from the Kroger Foundation.
Recently, Kroger donated $5,000 to the Aerospace Academy to assist in supporting the Lost in Space camp, July 14-16, 2014. This camp will offer students activities in GPS tracking and mapping of the International Space Station, geocaching, basic electronics instruction, tours of NASA-Johnson Space Center, and professional speakers.
"By supporting such activities as the Lost in Space camp, Kroger aims to play a role in the enrichment of the community's science and math education," said Enrique Morales, Kroger Consumer Affairs Specialist.
This will be the first year of the Lost in Space camp through the Aerospace Academy, which collaborates with education, industry, government, economic development and community groups to advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career development. Sara Malloy, Aerospace Academy project coordinator, said the Academy is looking for 30 area students to participate in the camp this year.
"Lost in Space will be an exciting scavenger hunt to teach students about GPS and geocaching, while also educating them about the International Space Station and what NASA has to offer in their own backyard," said Malloy.
The Aerospace Academy is rolling out a variety of upcoming events for area school students this summer. In addition to Lost in Space, the Academy also is hosting the underwater robotics camp, Water Bots, in June and July. For more information, or to register for any activity through the San Jacinto College Aerospace Academy, visit http://www.sanjac.edu/aerospace-academy.
About San Jacinto College
Surrounded by monuments of history, industries and maritime enterprises of today, and the space age of tomorrow, San Jacinto College has been serving the citizens of East Harris County, Texas, for more than 50 years. The Achieving the Dream Leader College is committed to the goals and aspirations of a diverse population of 30,000 students in more than 200 degree and certificate options, including university transfer and career preparation. Students also benefit from the College's job training programs, renowned for meeting the needs of growing industries in the region. San Jacinto College graduates contribute nearly $630 million each year to the Texas workforce. San Jacinto College. Your Goals. Your College.
For more information about San Jacinto College, please call 281-998-6150, visit www.sanjac.edu, or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SanJacintoCollege.


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text: At the IAB annual meeting: 'Three fundamental truths' By John Obrecht. Published on February 25, 2013. Phoenix—The new chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau kicked off his tenure Sunday by stressing the vital role of online advertising in brand building. Randy Kilgore, chief revenue officer at Tremor Video, said in his opening remarks at the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting here that there are "three fundamental truths" on which the interactive advertising industry can anchor its future. "First and foremost, online advertising can and does sell brands," said Kilgore, who succeeded Peter Naylor, exec VP-ad sales at NBC News Digital, as IAB chairman. "Online advertising can and should be as much about insane creativity and storytelling as TV," Kilgore said. "While TV gives us sight, sound and motion, interactive media adds one more powerful tool: touch. When someone leans in to look at your ad, hits 'play' to see it a second time, opts in to see additional content, or likes your ad on Facebook, they are touching your brand and spending more time with your messages." The second truth, Kilgore said, is: "The path forward is in data." "We are all grappling with a lot of data," he said. "But weeding through that onslaught is so worth it. Somewhere in that data is the magic that can propel the next ad, or the next Web series, to greatness." The third truth, Kilgore said, is: "The more time a person spends with a brand message, the better." In support of this, he cited research from Tremor Video that found an 8% increase in purchase intent when a viewer chooses to engage with an online ad. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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A shape-shifting film, it resembles a poem. At other moments, it is closer to a symphony. Most often, it approximates a fervent prayer.
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Malick clings to the promise of grace: His vision of the afterlife is a dreamy beach, enhanced by an excellent playlist of fine classical music, and promising the peace that surpasses all understanding. Plus a beautiful sky.
Daring in concept, occasionally daffy in execution and ultimately unforgettable, Mr. Malick's film offers a heartfelt answer to the question of where we humans belong - with each other, on this planet, bound by love.
Brandishing an ambition it's likely no film, including this one, could entirely fulfill, The Tree of Life is nonetheless a singular work, an impressionistic metaphysical inquiry into mankind's place in the grand scheme of things that releases waves of insights amid its narrative imprecisions.
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Unique, difficult, poetic masterpiece about life and death.
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Parents need to know that, even more so than his previous movies, this drama from legendary and elusive director Terrence Malick is a work of poetic images rather than a cohesive, solid story. The main theme seems to be family relationships, but it all takes place within a huge universal context of infinite time, space, and even dreamscapes. There's the suggestion of simmering violence on the part of the father, but while he often yells, he very rarely lashes out physically. Language is minimal; a flashback sequence contains passing visual references to sexual reproduction. But even though there's not a huge amount of age-inappropriate content for teens, younger viewers are likely to be bored; this movie requires a great deal of patience and the ability to embrace new and unique cinematic encounters.
Messages: The movie wrestles with some big and universal themes. The kids begin to behave badly, mainly in response to their father's all-encompassing anger and frustration. But when one grows up, he begins to realize that all things are connected, specifically families and nature. In a kind of dream/fantasy sequence, he learns empathy and tolerance for his family. In general, all of these themes -- and others -- are not literally outlined. They're up for interpretation and debate.
Role models: Certainly the father is no role model. He's bitter and miserable and takes out his frustrations on his family. He keeps preaching that, to get ahead in the world, you have to be ruthless. His oldest son, Jack, struggles with these teachings his whole life, but in the end -- in a kind of dream/fantasy sequence -- he seems to reconnect with his family and find a kind of inner peace, though this revelation is very abstract.
Violence: Most of the violence is just under the surface. The father is constantly angry and threatening, but he rarely lashes out in a physical way -- though in one scene, he tries to slap one of his boys for talking back at the dinner table. A boy drowns in a swimming pool. A little blood is on display during a poetic flashback sequence. Two boys play with a BB gun, and one is shot in the finger. Other scenes include some mildly disturbing imagery.
Sex: There's something akin to a "creation of life" montage with some peripherally sexual images; viewers see a pregnant woman, and later they see her with her newborn baby.
Language: "Hell," "my God," and one character says "get 'em by the nuts."
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: In brief sequences, there are hints of secondary characters smoking, though none of the main characters or kids actually smokes.
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The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee held its first 2012 farm bill hearing, "The Role, Risks and Challenges for American Agriculture and the next Farm Bill."
Members acknowledged the challenges of writing a new farm bill with tight budget constraints and the perception that high prices render the safety net less important.
However, members acknowledged that agriculture is cyclical and noted that current disasters resulting from floods, droughts and tornadoes remind everyone that risk management tools are critical. Most members focused on the need for crop insurance and some expressed support for a permanent disaster program citing times when crop insurance isn't sufficient to cover widespread disasters.
Members also discussed the challenges that agriculture faces in supplying adequate food and fiber to a growing world population — noting that experts forecasted that demand will increase 70-100 percent by 2050. Members also cited the importance of funding research designed to improve productivity.
Chairwoman Stabenow (D-Mich.) said in her opening remarks that the starting focus for discussion would not be on programs, but on principles the farm bill should accomplish. Sen. Johanns (R-Neb.) noted stakeholders often think from one five-year farm bill to the next, but in drafting the 2012 farm bill, lawmakers must weigh agriculture's long-term role in meeting the needs of a "troubled and hungry world," which he said is key to the nation's future.
The Senators and witnesses suggested a greater emphasis should be placed on research, conservation and risk management.
Cautions against deep cuts
However, Sen. Conrad (D-N.D.) cautioned against cutting too deeply into programs for U.S. farmers, especially when "the playing field is tilted against them." He said the European Union is "outdoing us in support three to one."
Sen. Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and several other Senators asked Agriculture Secretary Vilsack about ethanol. He responded that he supported the need to have a "glide path" for phasing out ethanol subsidies as well as the need to make additional investments in ethanol related infrastructure.
"We hope you don't provide a cliff," Vilsack said, citing the devastating blow delivered to the biodiesel industry when subsidies totally stopped last year. "If there is to be an end, there needs to be a glide path and perhaps a redirection to help bolster the industry. At a time when high gas prices are already hurting consumers, the situation would be worse without ethanol. Americans are paying 89 cents a gallon less because we have the ethanol industry."
Vilsack added that when people hear "farm bill" they immediately think mostly if not entirely of subsidies. The reality is the farm bill is far more expansive than that, and one of the key steps moving forward will be to publicize the key role that research plays in agricultural development and progress.
More land is going to non-agricultural uses, yet the world's population is growing. Research and new technologies will be critical to meet future needs. Biotech crops already have increased farmer income. Fortified seeds, drought-resistant crops, and other innovations benefit the United States and developing nations.
Vilsack also noted that the 2012 farm bill will be smaller than the 2008 farm bill with the question being how to leverage available funds as cuts will be difficult to make. He said, though, that the present time poses an opportunity for the Agriculture Department to have greater efficiency and flexibility and improved services and delivery.
Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said the United States is poised to continue its leadership position in agricultural research. However, he said, "We need a 21st century review of our agricultural research." A lot of research is important, but also repetitive or routine, he added; and there is not enough generic, basic research.
Sen. Grassley (R-Iowa) cited the importance of crop insurance and ethanol programs and encouraged Secretary Vilsack to continue to push for tighter limitations and income tests to insure payments "go to those who truly need them."


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For Malika Rose, it has always been about working her way up to the top, especially with tennis.
Rose, a junior at Oklahoma State, got her first taste of tennis when she was 6 years old. Her father, a tennis pro at Midtown Tennis Club in Manhattan, N.Y., put a racket in her hand, and she has been playing ever since, she said.
Rose began practicing with different academies all over the state of New York as she became more skilled at the sport. At 12, she and her family moved to Miramar, Fla., to play tennis year-round and seek out more opportunities. As her coach, her father took her to tournaments around the country in an effort to improve her game.
Playing tennis 24/7 does take its toll. In 2008, Rose suffered a back injury due to overplaying, she said. As a result, she missed out on several recruiting opportunities. However, that didn't stop her from looking.
"It's probably the most important year when it comes to recruiting, and I missed that year," she said. "I took a year off to give myself time to scout, and I was looking at Vanderbilt and Fresno State along with a few other schools."
In the summer of 2009, at a tournament in St. Joseph, Mo., Rose met Cowgirl tennis coach Chris Young. At the time, Young was the women's tennis coach at Wichita State University. The two exchanged contact information for a possible recruit visit. Weeks later, Young shared with Rose news of him moving to Oklahoma State to coach tennis and invited her to take a campus tour.
After visiting OSU, Rose narrowed down her options.
"It was between OSU and Vanderbilt," she said. "My dad really wanted me to go to Vanderbilt for the academics, but I wanted to go to OSU because of the coaching staff. It was a tough decision."
Rose decided on Oklahoma State and enrolled in the spring of 2010, making her Young's first recruit at OSU.
Just three days after arriving to OSU, Rose played in her first collegiate dual match against Arkansas at No. 5 singles. She went on to have a season she was expected to have, she said.
The next fall, the OSU coaching staff brought in C.C. Sardinha, a transfer from Syracuse, and Kanyapat "Meaw" Narattana, a freshman from Thailand.
Rose thought there would be no place for her in the starting lineup.
"I was competing for my spot because we had two extra girls," she said. "The lineup wasn't looking too good for me."
She stared the challenge in the face and spent her sophomore season making her way up the lineup. At the start of the spring season, Rose went back and forth playing at positions No. 5 and 6. Rose cruised along the first half of the season undefeated so Young moved her to the No. 4 spot for the Tulsa match. There was still no stopping her.
"I played an ex-teammate from Oklahoma State," Rose said. "There was a lot of pressure in that match. Beating her playing No. 4 for the first time was pretty memorable. After that, I just kept winning."
With the Cowgirls' home opener against Baylor approaching and Rose sitting on a solid 12-0 record, she was bumped up another spot and played the No. 3 position. It was her first loss of the season. She continued to play No. 3 and finished her 2011 spring campaign with a 16-6 overall record.
It was no shock that Rose had climbed her way up to competing at No. 2 singles to start the 2011-12 season.
"My junior year, I came in with high expectations because I had such a good sophomore season," Rose said. "Coach put me at No. 2, and I've been playing it ever since."
The junior has delivered a season worth talking about. Rose's performance this season has decided many doubles points, match decisions and even a bid to the NCAA tournament.
On April 22, 2012, she did all three of those things in the regular season finale when Oklahoma State defeated then-No. 6 Texas for the first time in more than 20 years.
Rose and doubles partner, Narattana, sealed the doubles point for the Cowgirls to start the day, giving OSU the advantage going into singles.
The match decision came down to the No. 2 singles court where Rose took Noel Scott to a third set. After being down, 2-0, Rose gave the crowd an exciting show winning six games in a row to take the set and the match.
OSU's win over Texas boosted the Cowgirls to a No. 37 ranking and a spot in the NCAA Championship.
"Definitely the win against Texas would be the biggest accomplishment this season," Rose said. "It was pretty dramatic and one of the best wins I've ever had."
Not only has Rose improved her singles game, she has also brought her doubles game to a new level.
"I think her doubles play is probably what has improved most out of anything," Young said. "She'll be the first to tell you that when she came here, she wasn't used to playing doubles. She wasn't comfortable at the net and now watching her play, she's very active, knows where she needs to be and puts herself in a good spot."
Young said Rose has been a big part of the program's quick turn-around.
"She's helped really turn around our program, and I think that's important," Young said. "I'm proud of Malika for her development. This season has been a marker for her improvement since she came here. She's been through each stage of development, and she has an understanding of herself, what's expected of her and what's expected of the team."
Rose is thankful for the opportunity she has been given, and she knows she has the opportunity to make even more of an impact on the Cowgirl program.
"It's kind of sad knowing that next year will be my last season, but overall my experience has been great and I'm looking forward to my final memories as a Cowgirl," Rose said. "I think if I work hard and I stay dedicated then I can achieve big things."


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Tim Pawlenty makes his plans for 2012.
If you're running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, you're not allowed to admit it. But just because you can't admit it doesn't mean you have to stop campaigning. So when Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota was asked this morning to describe what his party should offer in 2012, he didn't simply say "me." Instead he described a bright future that had a Tim Pawlenty-shaped hole in it.
"What do people think when they think about Republicans? What's the stereotype?" he asked. "We're all CEOs or sons or daughters of CEOs. We play polo on the weekends. We never got our fingernails dirty. We drink Chablis and eat brie. Uh, that's not my story, and it's not the story for the Tea Party, and it's not the story for most Republicans."
He mentioned the CEO stereotype a few more times, just to make sure that any reporter at the breakfast meeting would get the message. The only way he could have been less subtle is if he had spelled out M-I-T-T R-O-M-N-E-Y with his sausage links. (Romney is the very wealthy founder and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private-equity firm.) Such a display would have offered a segue into Pawlenty's life story, which started in a meatpacking town. He is the youngest of five children, whose mother died when he was 16. Pawlenty, the only one in his family to attend college, was raised by his truck-driver father.
Presidential candidates generally try to sell themselves as the opposite of the current occupant. So Pawlenty said the next GOP nominee needed to offer an antidote to Obama's cool detachment. "When you walk into a VFW and talk to somebody wearing a Carhartt jacket, drinking a Miller High Life beer, you can explain to them your seven-point plan for health care reform," he said. "But what they mostly want to know is: do your values generally line up with theirs, does your life story generally line up with theirs, do you have some life experiences that would indicate that you understand their circumstances, their challenge, and their worries and they connect to you on a heart and a gut level?"
Pawlenty made his gut pitch at his first Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Even in an age when prospective candidates are jockeying on Facebook and Twitter, the breakfast remains a required stop for presidential candidates (particularly for less well-known ones like Pawlenty). The 44-year tradition allows political candidates to test out ideas in front of national political reporters and get wide exposure for their views. It was at a Monitor breakfastin January 1968 that Robert Kennedy first hinted that he might run for president. In 1991, Bill Clinton hinted at the rumors in his personal life—with his wife also at the breakfast (the idea was to inoculate himself against future disclosures).
Pawlenty had several messages to send. He arrived fresh from his most recent trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. He pointed out that he'd been to Iraq five times and Afghanistan three times. For a candidate without extensive foreign policy experience, it is important to show that you can talk about national security issues.
He spoke with knowledge but no particular insight on the two wars. He opposes Obama's July 2011 deadline for starting to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, saying it is having a corrosive effect on our efforts to get Afghan leaders and the Pakistanis to cooperate. He says none of the military officials he talked to expressed this opinion, though.
Pawlenty is in the position Barack Obama was in when he was a candidate. Perhaps it's the trap all candidates are in. They take trips predicated on gathering facts and seeing things up close, but the trips only serve to confirm their existing positions. Pawlenty's is the conventional Republican view, which means he and his party are on track to use Afghanistan as an issue in 2012 against Obama—just as he used it as an issue against George Bush (and John McCain) in 2008.
Pawlenty is wise to make distinctions on tone, because, as he pointed out, "in the end, there's going to be five, 10, 12 candidates standing on the stage who, at least for now, all look kind of the same. And they're going to say about the same thing. There'll be general agreement as to the content of the message."
He's right. His views are largely indistinguishable from those of his likely opponents. He opposes tax increases to shrink the deficit ("I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed") and supports Arizona's immigration law ("It has been wildly, irresponsibly mischaracterized by people quoted in the press including the president of the United States"). * One area of potential separation from potential rivals is on the TARP, which Romney and Palin supported but which Pawlenty opposed ("I think some creative destruction of some of the misbehavior as it relates to Wall Street firms and investment banks would have been a healthy signal to send.")
Of all of his potential rivals, Pawlenty mentioned only Sarah Palin by name. He pointed out that she might not have to get into the race until later because she's so well-known. That means she doesn't have to spend time introducing herself to people and can raise money quickly. This may be wise analysis, or it may be a trap, if the conventional wisdom is true and voters in early primary states penalize candidates who don't work hard for their vote. A late entrant can be accused of taking the voters for granted.
That's another reason, of course, to attend these Monitor breakfasts: to show reporters that you don't take them for granted. At least on that front, Tim Pawlenty is running ahead of Palin.
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DES MOINES – A public safety officer came to the Legislature Wednesday armed with statistics related to inattentive driving, but it was unclear whether lawmakers are willing to move beyond the current balance between safety concerns and individual freedom this session.
Patrick Hoye, chief of the Iowa Governor's Transportation Safety Bureau, spent a half hour detailing the dangers of distracted driving, noting there were 7,357 crashes that resulted in 3,450 injuries and 26 deaths on Iowa roadways between 2003 and 2012.
As a risky behavior, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now says driving a vehicle while texting is more dangerous than driving while intoxicated, Hoye told members of the Senate Transportation Committee.
He noted that at any daylight moment across America, about 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or other electronic devices while driving and that texting is particularly dangerous because it entails all three types of distractions that reduce the driver's vision, takes an operator's hands off the wheel and takes a driver's mind off the task of driving.
"Distracted drivers endanger not only themselves and their passengers but everyone else on the road and any bystanders," he said.
Hoye said the top legislative priority voted by the Joint Public Safety Board – comprised of firefighters, peace officers, state troopers, sheriffs, deputies and others – is to address distracted driving and a primary texting law.
Officials with the state Department of Public Safety officials say distracted driving is a growing concern and they plan to push this session for ways to strengthen enforcement of state laws designed to keep motor-vehicle operators focused on their responsibilities while occupying the driver's seat.
Currently, Iowa law bans texting for all drivers and bars teenagers operating vehicles under restricted or intermediate licenses, as well as instructional or school permits, from using cellphones or electronic devices while driving. The violation is a simple misdemeanor punishable by a $30 scheduled fine, although there are enhanced fines and licensure sanctions for texting violations involving an accident that caused property damage, serious injury or death ranging up to $1,000 and a 180-day license suspension.
The current Iowa law -- which bars a person from using a hand-held electronic communication device to write, send or read a text message while driving a motor vehicle -- is only enforceable as a secondary action when a peace officer stops or detains a driver for a suspected violation of another motor vehicle law.
Committee chairman Sen. Tod Bowman, D-Maquoketa, called distracted driving a "big, big problem." But Sen. Jeff Danielson, D-Waterloo, who was floor manager when the Senate debated the texting ban, said there was a resistance to giving law officers too much discretion in deciding what constitutes a distracted-driving violation and he believes that tension still exists.
"There are a lot of gray areas," said Danielson. "I think if we could get a broad distracted driving statute and address some of the concerns about discretion and the penalties that come after that, I think it's worth a conversation."
However, he said the last legislative debate was not able to balance the loss of rights versus the public safety aspects of restricting inattentive behavior.
"I think that's still going to be a part of that discussion," Danielson said. "We need to be careful that that discretion doesn't trample the basic rights. That's always the tension in that argument."
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Tow truck driver dies; State Patrol trooper injured after being hit by F-250 pickup truck
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A tow truck driver was killed when he was hit by a pickup truck about 1 p.m. Saturday while he was helping to clear wreckage from an earlier crash just south of Fort Lupton.
The crash also injured a State Patrol trooper.
Colorado State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Mike Baker said that the tow truck was parked in the left lane with its amber directional lights on, loaded with the vehicle from the previous crash. A State Patrol vehicle also was parked in the left lane with its amber directional lights on, and a trooper was inside the vehicle. It is unknown at this time whether the patrol vehicle's red and blue lights were on, because of the damage to the patrol car.
The crash happened on U.S. 85 about a half-mile north of Weld County Road 6 when a Ford F-250 pickup truck driven by 61-year-old Dana Beales of Fort Lupton was headed southbound on U.S. 85 and approached the trooper from behind in the left lane. It appears Beales did not slow down or move. He collided with the State Patrol vehicle, forcing it across the right lane and off the right side of the road. The F-250 then collided with the tow truck operator, who was sweeping debris off the road. The F-250 stopped about 20 feet short of the tow truck, which was not part of the crash.
The speed limit on that stretch of U.S. 85 is 65 mph and troopers told Tribune media partner 7News the pickup truck could have been traveling that fast.
The trooper was flown to Denver Health with moderate, non-life threatening injuries. Beales was transported to Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton with minor injuries.
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The tow truck driver was identified as Martin Braden, 47, of Aurora. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:41 p.m., according to Weld County Coroner Mark Ward. Braden is the 28th person to die on Weld County roads so far this year. Through Aug. 24 of last year, 26 people had died.
Baker said the name of the trooper will be released today.
Beales has not yet been charged, but is in contact with State Patrol and will be charged, though Baker said he didn't know what charges Beales would face.
Authorities closed U.S. 85 in both directions at Weld County Road 6 for about an hour and a half before they reopened one northbound lane. All lanes were fully reopened about 6:30 p.m.
Baker reminded drivers that state law requires them to move over when they see flashing lights, and many motorists don't follow that law.
"We're sick of it," he told 7News. "These tow operators, we work with them every day. They're our partners. They're our friends. We're tired of it. It's not acceptable for these accidents to happen anymore.
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Ian Laperriere will not need surgery and will play in Round 2, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren announced on Saturday.
The winger needed 60 to 70 stitches above his right eye when hit by a shot Thursday in New Jersey.
According to Holmgren, Laperriere suffered a non-displaced fracture of the orbital bone that won't require surgery.
"I think hell would freeze over before he doesn't play," Holmgren said.
Laperriere "looks a lot better today than yesterday _ other than it being very colorful," Holmgren said.
Laperriere did not practice Saturday; he will be re-evaluated on Monday.
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CHL Game Night: 12-5-09
Owen Sound Attack 5 @ Belleville Bulls 3
RW Kyle DeCoste, BEL: 0-1-1, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 27 GP, 9-8-17, +1, 26 PIM
With Bulls: 14 GP, 7-7-14, +3, 6 PIM
With SSM: 13 GP, 2-1-3, -2, 20 PIM
DeCoste's point streak is now at four games.
Barrie Colts 6 @ Niagara IceDogs 1
LW/C Alex Hutchings, BAR: 1-0-1, +1, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 30 GP, 18-20-38, +17, 22 PIM
Hutchings scored his fourth shorthanded goal in the last three games, extending his goal-scoring streak to seven games and has point streak to eight. He has eight points in his last three games and likely has a Player of the Week award in his immediate future. Barrie is on a 17 game win streak.
Sarnia Sting 2 @ Erie Otters 3 (SO)
G Jaroslav Janus, ERIE: Did not play.
Season Totals: 7 GP, 4-2-1-0, 2.93 GAA, .915 sv%
With Norfolk (AHL): 2 GP, 0-2-0, 1.52 GAA, .939 sv%
Janus served as the backup to Ramis Sadikov (2010 draft) as he continues to battle injuries. Shane Owen, Erie's third goaltender, was let go recently upon Janus' (re)arrival to the club from AHL Norfolk. Owen, 19, passed through OHL waivers unclaimed and has since signed with the QMJHL's Moncton Wildcats, home of Lightning prospect Mark Barberio. Owen went 3-6-2, 4.31, .880 for Erie in Janus' absence.
Windsor Spitfires 9 @ Peterborough Petes 5
C Richard Panik, WSR: 0-1-1, E, 7 PIM (roughing, fighting)
Season Totals: 29 GP, 7-9-16, +13, 19 PIM
Panik (pictured) tangled with Petes defenseman Chris Buonomo (2010) in his first OHL fight. Panik got in several rights before dropping him with a left (watch it here). Windsor now has at least a point in 21 straight games. At 25-3-0-3 they remain on a collision course with Barrie (25-4-0-1) for the OHL championship this spring. They play each other for the first time in the regular season on January 14.
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With the largest surgical team in the area, the pediatric surgeons at St. Louis Children's Hospital are dedicated to providing compassionate care and advanced treatments in a child-friendly environment. All of our physicians are Fellowship trained in pediatric surgery and maintain close contact with families and the referring physician. Results of a recent survey showed 99% patient satisfaction.
In addition to general surgery, our program provides surgical services in the following specialties: cardiothoracic surgery; orthopedic surgery; neurosurgery; plastic surgery; urologic surgery; ophthalmology surgery; otolaryngology surgery; and transplant surgery.
The department works closely with cancer specialists at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, an internationally recognized cancer care center, in providing surgical treatment of many types of tumors. We also offer advanced care to children who have some of the most serious burn and trauma injuries seen by hospitals in the region.
As a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, the surgeons work closely with trauma services and our transport team.
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Home Health and Hospice Care of Merrimack names new CEOBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON<
Union Leader Correspondent
August 08. 2014 8:45PM
MERRIMACK — John Getts has been selected as the new president and CEO of Home Health and Hospice Care of Merrimack.
Getts is currently the chairman of the board of directors for the New Hampshire Health Care Association.
"I'm looking forward to leading the dedicated caregivers at Home Health and Hospice Care as they strive to provide essential home care services for individuals in southern New Hampshire," Getts said in a statement.
He has 30 years of experience in the health-care industry, and for the past 15 years worked as CEO at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation-Greenbriar in Nashua.
Getts replaces Dr. Karen L. Baranowski, who served as the president and CEO at Home Health and Hospice Care for about 11 years. His first day will be Aug. 25.
"John was selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the country, and has all the experience and character that is so critical to the work that our employees do and the patients we serve," said Claire Castanino Moses, chairwoman for the Home Health and Hospice Care board.
Getts is an active member of the local community, and serves as a board member of St. Joseph's Community Services Meals on Wheels, and as an officer of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American College of Health Care Administrators.
"At a time when the health-care industry is in significant transition, we are confident that John's proven leadership will skillfully help to steer our organization's future," Moses said in a release.
Getts has a degree in health administration and planning from the University of New Hampshire, and pursued graduate studies at Plymouth State College.He previously worked as the regional vice-president of operations for New Care Health Corp., and regional director and administrator for the Willowood Group.
Home Health and Hospice Care is a nonprofit Visiting Nurse Association and hospice organization serving southern New Hampshire communities, including Nashua and Manchester, for more than 130 years, according to a release.


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Ponscripter Release (20111009 "Tiramisu")
Welp, I'm finally doing another release of Ponscripter (ponscripter-20111009). This one takes care of a few noted issues, like lack of support for non-ASCII filenames.
I'm not sure where I want to go next with Ponscripter: there's an awful lot of updates to port from ONScripter-EN, enough that I'm tempted to make a new fork from the ons-en source and port Ponscripter features to that, rather than the other way around ^^;
Anyway, you Ponscripter scripters out there, let me know if you have problems with this new release. (I don't recommend that ONScripter-EN users switch to Ponscripter for playing (o)nscripter games, as there's still a lot of ons-en features and fixes yet to be implemented…)
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Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale
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Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdalefrom £129
- Deluxe Room
- Standard Room, 2 Double Beds
- Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking
- Executive Room, 1 King Bed
- Standard Room
- Executive Room, 2 Double Beds
- Room, Accessible (Mobility)
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What's around Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale
Top spots nearby
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- Yorkdale Shopping Centre (8-minute walk)
- Downsview Park (23-minute walk)
- Earl Bales Ski and Snowboard Centre (35-minute walk)
- York University (3.9 mi / 6.3 km)
- Casa Loma (4.2 mi / 6.7 km)
- Black Creek Pioneer Village (4.3 mi / 6.9 km)
- Ontario Science Centre (6.2 mi / 9.9 km)
- CN Tower (6.8 mi / 11 km)
- Canada's Wonderland (9 mi / 14.4 km)
- Toronto Zoo (15.4 mi / 24.8 km)
Getting around
- Toronto, ON (YYZ-Pearson Intl.) 13-min drive
- Toronto, ON (YTZ-Billy Bishop Toronto City) 48-min drive
- Toronto Etobicoke North Station 10-min drive
- Toronto Weston Station 10-min drive
- Toronto Oriole Station 12-min drive
- Yorkdale Station 18-min walk
- Wilson Station 19-min walk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- RV, bus, and truck parking (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 370 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 12 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-1 AM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 19
Travelling with others
- Up to 4 children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room using existing bedding
- Free children's club
- Pets allowed *
- 1 per room (up to 110.23 lb)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
- RV/bus/truck parking *
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 3 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Indoor pool
- Pool sunloungers
- Fitness facilities
- Indoor tennis court
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Golfing nearby
- Pool umbrellas
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Billiards or pool table
- Business centre
- Meeting rooms
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- Conference centre
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter
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- Built in
- Lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Fireplace in lobby
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Pillow menu
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 27-inch TV
- Pay films
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Fridge
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travellers from the UK
Special features
SSci-Ssci Salon & Spa has 1 treatment room. Services include Swedish massages and manicures and pedicures.
The spa is open daily.
DiningCafe Monterey – This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Cascades Lounge – Overlooking the pool, this tapas bar serves lunch, dinner and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Cafe Express – This café serves breakfast and light fare. Open selected days.
Awards and affiliations
Green/Sustainable Property
This property participates in Green Key Eco-Rating Programme, a programme that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: The Environment, the community, the cultural heritage and the local economy.
Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale's small print
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- Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale Hotel
- Holiday Inn Yorkdale Hotel
- Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale
- Holiday Inn Yorkdale
- Yorkdale Holiday Inn
- Holiday Inn Yorkdale Hotel Toronto
- Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale Hotel
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms. These are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag and hen parties.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments, and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Optional extras
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of CAD 50.00
Self-parking costs CAD 18.00 per night with in/out privileges
RV/bus/truck parking is available for an extra charge.
Rollaway beds are available for CAD 15.0 per night
Full breakfast is offered for an extra charge of CAD 23.95 per person (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of CAD 50.00 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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WITH ITS recent acquisition of American Cyanamid, BASF, in one swift stroke of the pen, almost doubled its product line. As of August, the company was offering no less that 34 products in rice, cotton, soybeans and corn, most of them herbicides.
The acquisition, the largest in the corporation's history, moves BASF into the top tier of crop protection manufacturers. Combined sales of American Cyanamid and BASF in 1999 were around $3.6 billion. The acquisition is projected to save about $250 million. BASF also announced plans to launch at least two active ingredients each year through 2006.
In the coming months, the company will integrate its operations and people and streamline its product line.
The acquisition by BASF "brings the option of a large portfolio of products," said Greg Stapleton, a technical service representative with BASF. "We can provide the grower with a complete system of weed control from one company, a sort of one-stop shop. It gives BASF the ability to provide a premier, technical weed control program to growers for an economical cost value benefit.
"In corn particularly, we have Clearfield corn with Lightning (former American Cyanamid product). We can put products like Guardsman down, followed by Lightning plus Distinct. We also have Celebrity Plus and Frontier.
Between 3and 5 million acres of Clearfield corn was planted in the United States in 2000, according to Stapleton. Kentucky led the way with around 25 percent of its corn acreage planted to Clearfield varieties.


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Oregon Tech's Disability Services office coordinates academic adjustments and auxiliary aids for students with disabilities, including visual, hearing or mobility impairments; learning and psychological disabilities; chronic health conditions; and other disabilities. The DS program also assists in the modification of classroom, laboratory, on-campus housing and University program modifications as well as access to adaptive and assistive technology.
Students desiring services to accommodate a disability should contact Disability Services well in advance of entering Oregon Tech. Appropriate documentation of an impairment that might constitute a disability as defined in the relevant laws will typically be required. The student will meet with Disability Services staff to determine eligibility and appropriate academic adjustments and aids. Program staff will assist students in communicating information about needs and adjustments to instructors.
In addition, our campus access map provides information about Klamath Falls campus accessible parking, pathways, and facilities for the campus. Copies of the accessibility map are also available at the Information Booth at the campus entrance and at various locations around campus.
Inquiries, requests for assistance, and information regarding academic adjustments or auxiliary aids on the basis of a disability aids should be directed to the Program staff.
Other Klamath Falls campus resources include the Testing Services, Peer Consulting Services , Student Health Center, and the Tech Opportunities Program.
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I work for a financial institution and we are required to maintain policies for everything from Data Encryption standards to Acceptable VPN and Wireless usage. I recently was asked by auditors to provide some sort of evidence that my users had read and accepted every policy that pertains to them. Of course this is going to be a big pain in the butt.
How do you all handle policy distribution and make sure that everyone that needs to read a certain policy has read, understands and has accepted it? I was thinking about developing an intranet application to help with this, but was wondering if there was already a similar solution available out there?


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Another guest post today from Tarah Van De Wiele, an amazing theologian and Biblical scholar living as an ex-pat in England. You can read more about her and her adventures and her adventures living outside the U.S. at ever popular blog: 2 People, 2 Dogs & 10 Bags.
I am a pacifist. But historically I am an incensed one.
This is why it has finally become dire that I expend the energy built up inside me from the endless culture wars that inform our language, plague our dinner tables, and crawl across the TV screen like some bug you can't seem to swat away. Are you pro or anti? Red or blue? Straight or gay? Black or white? Male or female? Enough. Al. Ready.
The latest culture war sparked by a certain chicken restaurant completely caught me off guard. I spent an entire day stalking the web for pictures of people fighting in the war. After a few hours I managed to succumb to the purest form of rage available to an incensed pacifist, and began to brainstorm what smart but highly insulting sign I would distribute, what post I would send viral, what boycott I would demand. And the only question by 4 in the afternoon was not if I should curse but HOW MUCH.
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URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama was barely back in Iowa, ready to drink in the adulation of supporters, when the booze news broke: The White House beer recipe is out.
The tweet from presidential spokesman Jay Carney along the motorcade ride seemed light enough — we're talking about honey-flavored beer here — but it also served up a reminder of a campaign imperative. Obama wants to be the guy with whom people want to have a beer.
As constituencies go, Obama would seem to have the voting bloc locked up, given that his opponent, Republican Mitt Romney, does not consume alcohol given his Mormon faith.
But as a political symbol, beer is not just about beer.
It is about the likeable, accessible, regular guy who relates to life in the real world and enjoys popping a cold one. Sure, taste counts, but so do votes.
Romney and Obama are both wealthy men who, in the final two months of the campaign, are trying to build support and turnout among the working-class crowd.
It is why Obama's day in Iowa was not just about his speeches in two cities, but his unexpected stop in Bob Roe's Point After Pizza & Lounge in Sioux City, where one woman wore a t-shirt that said "It's never too early to tailgate."
During his term, Obama has sought to find some racial harmony over beer (there was that media-hyped "beer summit" in the Rose Garden.) He has worked the crowds in sports bars and college bars. He has bought a round for folks at the Iowa State Fair, where the standard cry of political rallies — "Four More Years!" — morphed into the more memorable "Four More Beers!"
And now he even brews his own.
Well, the chefs at the most famous and powerful house in America brew it for him, but it was his idea, and he bought the brewing kit.
"Brewing beer is becoming a thing that Americans are doing in their houses and garages across the country," said White House chef Sam Kass in a video posted Saturday on the White House web site. "And the president certainly thought it would be a great idea to see if would join the American people in that time-honored tradition."
The Obama team knew it had a buzz going here.
Word spread about the home-brewed White House beer last month when Obama, during another stop in Iowa, got in a conversation with a local resident about it. The president had an aide bring the man a bottle of the beer brewed in the White House kitchen.
Since then, growing interest and even a petition drive led the White House to release the recipe just as Obama starts his battleground-state tour toward the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
"Ale to the Chief," said the White House blog post, which included a link to the brewing process.
The White House's rookie brew crew has made three kinds: Honey Brown Ale, Honey Porter and Honey Blonde Ale, although recipes for the first two only were released on Saturday. Kass said on-site historians have determined this is the first time alcohol has been brewed or distilled at the White House.
Add that to Obama's first-term record.
Should he lose, the White House bar menu may well look different. Romney drinks Cherry Coke Zero or Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
Even working the bar crowd can offer a little political risk. Just as Obama roamed the pizza place on Saturday, the Iowa fans who filled the place groaned as a long touchdown was scored against their team. "I don't want to be associated with that play," Obama told three men dejected as he came to their table.
Worse yet, their pitcher of beer was empty.
Associated Press Writers Matthew Daly in Washington and Kasie Hunt in Jacksonville, Fla., contributed to this story.
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Modern Beds and Creative Bed Designs # 2
Collection of modern beds and creative bed designs from all over the world.
Housefish Suspended Bed
Creative suspended bed held by machined aluminum, stainless steel tension cables. The mattress platform is held completely rigid – it does not swing or sway. [link]
Float Bed
$25,000 Float Bed by David Trubridge, a New Zealand designer. [link]
Sampon Daybed Outdoor Bed
Amazing outdoor bed design from Lifeshop Collection. [link]
Floating Bed Chicago
Floating Bed Chicago by Robert Bernstein – the four supporting cables at the corners of the bed go straight up vertically to the ceiling. [link]
Geometric Bed
Ness faceted geometric bed by Jakob+MacFarlane. [link]
The Embrace Lounge
Creative lounge by Lost Angeles based designer Tanya Aguiñiga. [link]
Tree Bed
Creative $15,000 Tree bed by Shawn Lovell. [link]
Private Cloud Rocking Bed
The Private Cloud is a patented rocking bed by German designer Manuel Kloker. [link]
Flotiform Bed
Creative bed design. Pull out side tables with cup holders can be ordered for one or both sides of the bed. [link]
Sleeping Tube
Futuristic two metre "sleeping tube". [link]
Sunset Chaise Lounge
This elegant piece by Rausch, designed for luxurious poolside lounging, could easily be mistaken for a dramatic outdoor sculpture. [link]
Terminal 1 Daybed
It is elegant, fluid, and harmonic, starting from a lucid plastic body, floating on a metallic frame, and varnished with the same colour but with a matt finishing. Its shape invites and supports its double function as an arm-chair and chaise longue. [link]
Magnetic Floating Bed
Conventional furniture is in contact with the earth through gravity. Floating Bed overcomes this fundamental power and falls towards the sky. Four thin cables assure its motionless position and form the only contact with the ground. [link]
The Scoop Bed
Scoop! is a sophisticated and innovative answer to the demand for combinig the sofa function with the bed function. The two semi-circular sides of the bed can be separated resulting in two new pieces of furniture. [link]
Disposable Cardboard Bed
Innovative bed design that may prove handy for poor homeless people worldwide. [link]
Ohm Transformable Bed
Ohm is a bed that can be transformed into two individual beds or used as a bench. [link]


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Great Woodshops: Carving for CEO
Visit the 3 shops of David Monhollen, who shed a successful career in sales to carve wildlife for executives.
By Kara Gebhart
Pages: 34-36
From the February 2004 issue #139
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David Monhollen has three woodshops. His first shop is decidedly bigger than yours. His second shop (his so-called "working" shop) is in his house. And the Crittenden, Ky., carver's third shop (what he calls his "dirty" shop) is in his garage. It's in this dirty shop where he performs the grungy parts of carving – the slamming and banging parts of carving – that give this shop its name.
Although he shares the garage with a car, gardening tools, workbench and canoe, the majority of the floor space is filled with stacks of linden, walnut and cherry. But he doesn't think of this cache as lumber. Rather, he refers to wood as souls of trees. Here, he says, is where they wait for him to create.
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The house we grew up in
To celebrate the release of Lisa Jewell's new book, The House We Grew Up In, we asked you to send us pictures of the places you grew up. Scroll through a gallery of the ten shortlisted photos below.
Lisa Jewell had great trouble picking one winner from the fabulous entries, but she eventually decided on eatyourveg (number five in the carousel). Lisa explained her choice, saying:
"I love the brilliant accents of the white house, the white confirmation dress and the white daisies scattered across the bright green lawn. White was so much whiter in those days and blue was so much bluer. I also love the bittersweet tribute to the house itself, the sense that the house itself is irrelevant, it's the lives being lived inside its walls that make it a home."
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My father built the Devon house I grew up in. In the mid-70s we moved to a tiny village, the highest point between Exmoor and Dartmoor. My childhood was like The Good Life-meets-Enid Blyton. This picture was taken on the winter day the first fire was lit - no floorboards, no windows, snow outside. A magical moment when the house finally felt like home. *katelordbrown*
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