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Celtics forward Brandon Bass was nearly traded once this season—to the Rockets, in a deal that would have brought back Houston center Omer Asik—and sources have told Sporting News that Bass remains the most-discussed player on the Boston roster ahead of next Thursday's trade deadline.
Bass is a veteran big man with playoff experience, averaging 10.9 points and 5.9 rebounds this season. He has a reasonable contract, which pays him $6.5 million this year and $6.9 million next year.
"He is a good fit in a lot of places," one league executive said. "He can start, he can come off the bench, he can make shots, he can play center against small lineups. A lot of teams need a guy like that."
MORE: Pistons fire Mo Cheeks | 76ers lose by 45 points | Rare photos of Steve Nash
Rival executives say the rebuilding Celtics could be among the busiest teams at the trade deadline, at least in terms of phone calls logged. Boston would be willing to make a deal for just about any player on the roster, though there are no plans to trade point guard Rajon Rondo without an overwhelming offer. There has been discussion about Jeff Green, too, but his contract (two more years at $19 million total) makes him difficult to move.
But Bass' manageable contract and ability to chip in for a contender makes him the most likely Celtic to be shipped out by next Thursday, and the group of teams that has expressed interest in Bass is, "a pretty wide range," according to a league source.
Among the teams interested in Bass, sources told Sporting News, are the Warriors, who still have trade exceptions from the summer deal that sent Richard Jefferson and Andris Biedrins to Utah. Backup forward Marreese Speights has been a disappointment this season, averaging 5.7 points on just 40.8 percent shooting, and the team misses the production it got from Carl Landry off the bench last year.
The Warriors don't have a pick in this year's draft to offer Boston, but could absorb his contract and do have a combination of young players that includes injured center Festus Ezeli, as well as rookies Nemanja Nedovic and Ognjen Kuzmic.
Such a deal could push the Warriors over the luxury tax threshold, and there is some question about whether the team would cross that line. To avoid the tax, the Warriors would have to unload Speights, who is owed $3.66 million next season.
But in the offseason, owner Joe Lacob told Sporting News, "I don't want to pay the luxury tax, nobody wants to. That's why it is a luxury tax, it is very punitive. But if it means winning vs. not winning, I choose winning. So that's not an issue."
Also potentially in the mix for Bass are the Bobcats, who are desperate to add depth at power forward as they attempt to make a run to just their second playoff berth in franchise history. Charlotte owes its own draft pick to Chicago, if it winds up landing outside the Top 10, but does have Detroit's pick, if it lands outside the Top 8.
The Bobcats own Portland's pick, which will wind up late in the first round because of the way Portland has played, and that's the pick that would most likely wind up with Boston in a Bass deal.
Another team to watch is Phoenix, which is seeking to fortify the frontcourt and potentially has four picks in the upcoming NBA draft. The Suns have had talks with the Lakers about Pau Gasol and the Grizzlies about Zach Randolph in recent weeks. While the Grizzlies are not expected to trade Randolph, Phoenix and LA could revisit the Gasol situation.
Gasol has a groin injury that could keep him out past the trade deadline, which could torpedo the Lakers' chances of trading him. If the Suns can't find a higher-profile player to boost their big men corps, a source said, Bass could be a backup option in Phoenix.
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Good outbreak response respects shared roles for parents, state and schools… Make memories, take part in local Christmas events
Good outbreak response respects shared roles for parents, state and schools
Should parents or should state and local officials decide whether children ought to be vaccinated or go to school?
Not all parents had their children receive vaccinations. Under state law, that's their right. Yet when an outbreak occurs, under state law, local health departments are required to mandate that those students stay out of school — in this case, about a dozen students until Dec. 12.
Hopefully, parent relief that chickenpox is not among the most dangerous diseases does not reflect complacency. As we've said before, vaccinations are important.
Studies show dangers from the diseases far outweigh risks from vaccines. While some parents may have sincere fears or religious objections, a least a few others are using Michigan's opt-out policy to simply neglect vaccinations, including those for more serious diseases.
Mandating that those students stay out of school — while making arrangements for them to complete their work at home until it's deemed safe to return — is a good policy. It balances the state's responsibility for protecting students and schools with parents' responsibility over their own children.
Make memories, take part in local Christmas events
It may not feel completely like winter yet, but Lenawee County has plenty of festive activities for anyone seeking something to do Friday or Saturday.
Community Editor Marge Furgason has a list on Page A4, and there also is a special section in today's newspaper.
Adrian's downtown Winterfest and Tecumseh's annual events both are Friday and Saturday. Some of the Adrian highlights include Friday's 6:30 p.m. parade from the Armory to the post office, ice skating in the Church Street parking lot across from the museum, musical performances, bowling and other visits with Santa, crafts, a food and toy drive and much more.
Tecumseh's parade — which had 60 entries last year — is at 7 p.m. Friday through downtown and ending at Adams Park, with prizes for the top entries. A Candlelight Home Tour is set from 5:30 to 8 p.m. both days. The Southern Michigan Railroad presents the "Afternoon with Mark Twain" show at 1 p.m. Saturday, and a community arts workshop is planned Saturday. Music includes Sunday's 4 p.m. Big Band & VocalAires concert at the TCA.
Other communities also have activities this weekend. Addison's tree lighting ceremony is at 6 p.m. Saturday. In Blissfield, the Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road will have its Santa Express rides beginning Saturday. Clinton's Christmas Home Tour is from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Hudson's Thompson House Museum's plans include a Boxwood Tree workshop at 7 p.m. today and events throughout the holidays.
We invite readers to see the full list of activities and to take time to join in and make memories. Local organizers put a great deal of effort into these and other events. Participation by local adults and children helps to round out Lenawee County's hometown holiday experience.


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The Four Winds-Minnewaukan Indians outscored Warwick by a 12-6 clip in overtime on Saturday afternoon and rolled to a wild 70-64 victory in a loser-out game at the District 7 Basketball Tournament in New Rockford.
The Four Winds-Minnewaukan Indians outscored Warwick by a 12-6 clip in overtime on Saturday afternoon and rolled to a wild 70-64 victory in a loser-out game at the District 7 Basketball Tournament in New Rockford.
With the win, Four Winds-Minnewaukan advanced to a loser-out matchup this evening against New Rockford-Sheyenne. The winner of the contest will advance to the Region IV Basketball Tournament.
Four Winds-Minnewaukan rode the hot hand of Sawn Black early in the contest. The FW-M standout pumped in several key shots early and helped the Lady Indians race to a 19-10 first-quarter lead.
Warwick fought its way back to within 29-23 in the second quarter.
The Lady Indians looked to have regained the lead in the third. Four Winds-Minnewaukan posted a 20-15 spree in the third and took a 49-38 cushion into the final eight minutes.
Warwick refused to go down quietly. The Lady Warriors scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, including the final 11 of the frame, to knot the score at 58-58 at the final buzzer. Traci Owlboy capped the WHS run by sinking a three-pointer with 3.5 seconds left in regulation.
After Bethany Yankton and Brooke Red Fox had traded baskets early in the OT period, the Lady Indians' offense hit stride. Cherilyn Cloud and Black both hit a pair of free throws and Yankton added a basket to highlight a 7-0 run that staked FW-M to a 67-60 lead.
Black led all scorers in the contest by throwing in 33 points. Trenda Littleghost and Denrae Ami both finished with 10, while Cloud added nine.
Samone Motley led Warwick with 20. Sofia Hernandez chipped in 12.
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FW-Minn 19 10 20 9 12 — 70
Warwick 10 13 15 20 6 — 64
Four Winds-Minnewaukan — Danacia Greywater 1, Demrae Ami 10, Dawn Black 33, Bethany Yankton 4, Charilyn Cloud 9, Trenda Littleghost 10, Cequoia Santoas 3
Warwick — Samone Motley 20, Traci Owlboy 8, Sindy Volk 2, Brooke Redfox 16, Baliee Langstaff 6, Sofia Hernandez 12


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Smith's 3-pointer lifts Sand Creek past Morenci
BRITTON — The Clinton High School boys basketball team defeated Tri-County Conference opponent Britton Deerfield 54-40 on Tuesday night.
Clinton (4-0, 1-0 TCC) outscored BD 16-5 in the fourth quarter.
"This game was similar to the first few as we kept it close in the first three quarters and then opened it up in the fourth" said Clinton coach Mike Ruhl. "We take care of it when it counts, but it's a dangerous way to play, and we need to play to our potential all four quarters."
TJ Baker led Clinton with 20 points. Grant Clark recorded nine points, 10 rebounds and five steals, while Ricky Miller added seven points and 11 rebounds.
The game was the season opener for BD. Landon Handy led the Patriots with 15 points and four assists. Devin Gruber recorded nine points, while Zach Bearinger added seven points and eight rebounds.
Clinton will host TCC opponent Morenci on Friday night, while Britton Deerfield will host Summerfield.
Sand Creek 48, Morenci 46: At Sand Creek, Micha Smith hit a 3-pointer from the left wing with five seconds remaining to lift the Aggies to their first win in Tuesday's TCC contest.
Sand Creek (1-2, 1-0 TCC) trailed 14-7 after one quarter, but rallied and earned a hard-fought victory.
Smith led Sand Creek with 12 points. Will Gritzmaker had 10 points, Kyle Keller had eight points and nine rebounds, while Kolton Alcock scored eight points. Jameson Near added seven assists.
Austin Sandusky led Morenci with 11 points and four assists. Daiton Lemmon and Alex Thomas each scored eight, while Hayze Wolf added six points and 10 rebounds.
Sand Creek will travel to TCC foe Madison on Friday, while Morenci will travel to face Clinton.
Madison 62, Whitmore Lake 47: At Madison Twp., the Trojans remained unbeaten with a victory in Tuesday's TCC contest.
Madison (3-0, 1-0 TCC) was led by Zach Mellon, who accounted for 20 points, 11 rebounds and four steals. Justin Webster scored 19 points to go with his four assists, and Collin Slates added 12 points.
Madison will host Sand Creek on Friday for another TCC matchup.


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Cam Gigandet Disses His Former 'O.C' Co-Stars Ben McKenzie, Mischa Barton & More in New Interview
Cam Gigandet gets extremely candid when talking about his former The O.C. co-stars including Ben McKenzie, Mischa Barton, and more with Elle magazine.
When asked if he kept in touch with anyone from the show, the 31-year-old actor replied, "No. Actually Ben McKenzie was kind of mean to me. I hadn't done anything at that point and he was a little bit of an ass. But I love him. I think he's a great actor and I love Southland."
When asked about Mischa, he replied, "Mischa? I didn't really…Was she there?" he said. "I don't even have memories of her."
"I learned a lot. But the things that I remember now�"none of them are good," Cam admitted. "It was only the third or fourth season. Those kids were f—ing miserable. They were just�"they would not remember their lines on purpose. They were young."
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I meant to drop her a note and tell her I was thinking about her.
I meant to drop her a note and tell her I was thinking about her.
I thought I might even send her some of the notecards that I make. She was probably getting a lot of well wishes and, knowing how polite she was, she would have sent a thank you.
I met her when I was 18.
She was married to my sister's husband's brother. Yes, confusing I realize. Technically, no relation to me. But there we were in our bridesmaid's dresses at my sister's wedding all those years ago.
During my 20s, I sat through many a holiday with her and the rest of my family. Plenty of Thanksgiving turkeys devoured and Christmas dinners. She always made something to bring to my sister's.
One year she made an appetizer that looked like tiny Christmas trees. Still another, a salad with cranberries and almonds and a liberal amount of goat cheese.
There was the lost weekend in Cape May. It was Thanksgiving. My sister rented a big old house on the bay and the temperature was in the 60s that year. All the boys made a mad dash into the water in their boxer shorts.
We had two turkeys. One wouldn't fit in the second Viking oven, so we did what we had to do and barbecued it.
I was pregnant with Molly and David had just been laid off. I was so incredibly afraid, and she said all the right things to me. She assured me that this too shall pass and to focus on the little bean growing inside of me.
She even offered to help David with resume writing and contacts she had made through the years.
Always a kind word. Always a compliment. Always a genuine interest in you. I even thought her Pittsburgh twang was cute.
She was just as good as they come.
She died Monday evening in her sleep at home. Her cancer diagnosis from just last June ravaged her entirely despite every effort and unsuccessful treatment.
My sister told me that she had never been this close to cancer before and what she became at the end was awful.
She was in her late 40s. One son just out of high school, a daughter who has a prom to go to in a week and a high school graduation to follow.
Another boy the same age as my Olivia. All of them without a mom now. A husband without his wife — the very girl he started dating in junior high.
They have been robbed.
Write that note.
Make that call.
Send those good intentions because you might not have tomorrow.
You might not have another Thanksgiving or the chance to say what you know.
And what you know is we are here for such a tiny speck of time.
We pass in and out of each others' lives.
Let the ones who are really the good ones know you think that they are something great.


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Alytes muletensis
|Scope: Global & Europe
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Alytes muletensis (Sanchiz & Adrover, 1979)
Common Name(s):
Baleaphryne muletensis Sanchíz & Adrover, 1979
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Frost, D.R. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (27 January 2014). New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. (Accessed: 27 January 2014).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable D2 ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Joan Mayol Serra, Richard Griffiths, Jaime Bosch, Trevor Beebee, Benedikt Schmidt, Miguel Tejedo, Miguel Lizana, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Alfredo Salvador, Mario García-París, Ernesto Recuero Gil, Jan Willem Arntzen
|Cox, N. and Temple, H.J. (Global Amphibian Assessment)
Listed as Vulnerable because it is known from fewer than five locations, and its Area of Occupancy is less than 20 km2, and population declines are plausible without ongoing intensive conservation efforts. The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been detected in reintroduced captive-bred populations, and it is plausible that severe population declines could take place in the future.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is restricted to the Sierra Tramuntana of northern Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. The present altitudinal range is from 10-850 m asl. Its area of occupancy is less than 10km², but slowly increasing as a result of intensive conservation action.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Spain (Baleares)
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|The population is approximately 500-1,500 adult pairs (Gasc et al. 1997; Arnold 2003). There are approximately 25, mostly isolated, populations. The total population is slowly increasing following coordinated recovery efforts, following a long period of decline and near extinction. The current increase, which probably started around the time that the first re-introductions were made in 1989, has been maintained even during years of drought, notably in 1999-2000. The population trend in this species is monitored through annual tadpole counts, the counts for 2004 (over 30,000 tadpoles) being the highest on record. The increase in numbers in established populations is not dependent upon continued re-introductions. However, it is unlikely that new populations would be established without re-introductions.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|It is currently found only in small streams deeply carved into limestone mountains. The presence of the species is positively associated with steep slopes. Breeding takes place in the small streams that persist as pools in summer. A few populations occur by man-made water sources (cattle troughs, containers, rain tanks etc.) in open mountainous country; these are within the river basins of nearby canyon-living populations. Animals are generally found in rock crevices and under stones. This species does not tolerate serious habitat degradation. The distribution of predators on the species is negatively associated with elevation, and reproductive success is positively associated with elevation.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Major Threat(s):
|The major threats are predation by the introduced Viperine Snake (Natrix maura), and competition for space with Perez's Frog (Rana perezi). Development of tourism and human settlements, specifically the increased need for water resources (including damming and canalization of streams), is an additional threat. The threats are not likely to decrease, and so the current recovery programme needs to be continued more or less indefinitely. One isolated re-introduced population was impacted by an unidentified non-fungal disease in 2002 which killed some tadpoles. This disease did not recur in 2003 and 2004. Chytridiomycosis has been identified in the wild population, with the source of this chytrid infection traced to reintroduced captive-bred animals from Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, UK (Walker et al. 2008).
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is protected by sub-national and national legislation. It is listed on Appendix II of the Bern Convention, on Annexes II and IV of the EU Habitats Directive, and on the national and sub-national Red Data Books. It is present in the protected areas of the Tramuntana mountains. The Balearic Government and Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust have undertaken captive-breeding, re-introduction and other conservation initiatives. At least 10 populations have been successfully reintroduced. Re-introductions of animals from the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust stopped in 2002, but a new captive-breeding facility now exists on Mallorca, and re-introductions are expected to resume. However, as a result of the recent discovery of disease, a recommendation was made in 2004 to the Balearic Government to halt the re-introduction programme. A new recovery programme for the species is now being developed. There is a need to closely monitor populations of this species, especially with regard to the recent detection of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in introduced animals (Walker et al. 2008). A systematic programme is in place to remove Natrix maura from the range of the species.
|Joan Mayol Serra, Richard Griffiths, Jaime Bosch, Trevor Beebee, Benedikt Schmidt, Miguel Tejedo, Miguel Lizana, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Alfredo Salvador, Mario García-París, Ernesto Recuero Gil, Jan Willem Arntzen. 2009. Alytes muletensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T977A13099129. . Downloaded on 21 September 2018.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right to be deeply concerned about Iran, but his recent statements go too far. He has asserted that Iran's leaders would have " no hesitation" about using nuclear weapons. If this is your view, then negotiations don't make much sense – better to invoke the 1930s and advocate confrontation. Despite denials, the Prime Minister seems to be preparing Canadians to support a military strike against Iran's nuclear program.
Is this where Canada should be positioned? Certainly, the Prime Minister is working closely with our allies, but there is still quite a difference between his statements and those of U.S. President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama has taken no options off the table but is working toward a negotiated solution; Mr. Harper seems to be tilting in a different direction. This is the first time in decades that a Canadian prime minister, Liberal or Conservative, appears to be advocating approaches that reduce diplomatic opportunities for peace during an international crisis.
One such opportunity, an initiative by Turkey and Brazil, almost reached a breakthrough. In 2010, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew to Tehran and negotiated a deal to move a significant portion of Iran's enriched uranium offshore for reprocessing. They had a prior understanding with Washington about what might be acceptable and came very close to delivering. During the few weeks that it took them to convince Tehran, the situation in Washington changed and the political room Mr. Obama had for deal-making shifted. The peace initiative failed, but could still be resuscitated in modified form when Iran returns to the negotiating table in Turkey next month. This is the type of middle-power diplomacy that Canada has practised with skill and success in the past; we should be there now.
There is another aspect to what Ottawa is advocating that should give cause for concern. After an attack, Iranian leaders would almost surely close down the human-rights movement as they rallied their country's population. And yet it is precisely this movement that offers the most long-term hope for Iran to emerge from isolation and rejoin the international community. Moreover, support for human rights has been a fundamental principle of our policy toward Iran. We have led successive UN votes condemning its human-rights record; we draw attention to specific cases of abuse, particularly ones involving our own dual citizens; and we provide refuge for Iranians who want to leave. We should not abandon them.
Under present circumstances, there is virtually no chance that the United Nations Security Council will support military action against Iran, but yet this has not swayed advocates of a strike. Canada will have a choice: We can remain faithful to the system of collective security under the UN charter that we helped to create, or we can support a pre-emptive war undertaken without full international legitimacy. We chose the first option in 2003, despite considerable risk to our relationship with the United States, when Washington launched a pre-emptive war against Iraq. We should remain true to our principles now.
Finally, even advocates of a military strike admit that it would not stop Iran's nuclear program. At best, it would delay it. Indeed, many analysts believe it would make weaponization of Iran's nuclear program inevitable.
Here are four suggestions for the Canadian government:
- Tone down the rhetoric. In particular, make clear to the Iranian people that we do not support demonizing their country – our concern is with the policies of their leaders.
- Inform Israel that Canada wants a negotiated solution to the crisis and will not support unilateral military action. Our support for Israel should not be unconditional.
- Speak up for human rights in Iran.
- Encourage Israel to resume the peace process with the Palestinians and re-engage with its neighbours, particularly our NATO ally, Turkey. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Ottawa on March 2.)
Iran's leaders have done many abhorrent things, but they are neither irrational nor suicidal. They are best understood as leaders of a failed revolution who are now preoccupied with self-preservation.
Canada can play a bigger role in enhancing the cohesion and unity of the international community at a time when it's essential for Iran to engage in meaningful negotiations to resolve the crisis.
John Mundy is a former Canadian ambassador to Iran who was expelled in 2007. Now retired, he is working on a book about his experience.


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King Tuff
King Tuff's eponymous second album (his first on Sub Pop) has all of my new favorite songs. I missed the spooky rock and roll record when it was released back in May. Stream in full here, or at right. The band plays at the Launchpad on Aug. 20.


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OnStyle Notebook: Ralph Rucci and Opening Ceremony
The best thing about Ralph Rucci was the clothes. The second best thing was seeing them in his studio on West 26th Street. I was seated with my back to a wall of glass that separated a long hallway, where we were seated, from the atelier where the seamstresses work.
When I turned for a longer look at a model in a deceptively simple red silk gown, I saw a cluster of seamstresses in white lab coats watching, gathered around a cutting table. Ken Downing, Neiman Marcus' fashion director, turned and applauded the seamstresses as the show concluded.
It's easy to get misty-eyed at moments like that because those seamstresses execute the impossible. Rucci cannot be an easy man to work for. His concoctions are so precise and flawless (the show was packed with his clients, and he comes as close to a modern haute couturier as America has to offer). For instance, he stitches together boomerang and moon-shaped pieces of fabric, using the seams as architectural details that both excite the eye, and distract it. But how does one sew a seam like that? (I'm remembering the failure of a gauze mumu that I sewed for home economics in seventh grade.)
Stunning looks included a wide croc-leather belt sewn into the waist of a dress, a long tassel tie streaming toward the floor, and a dress with leather at the mid-sleeves and waist — details that separate fashion from style. His colors: black, olive maroon, pale lavender, palest pink, rich red.


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Since 1994, the NAFTA Opportunity Center has helped hundreds of Illinois companies capitalize on the potential of Free Trade Agreements around the world, including the state's two top export destinations - Canada and Mexico. Whether your company is new to international trade or already has established export markets, contact us to maximize your export potential.
Our services include:
- One-on-one counseling on export issues, confidential and at no cost
- Trade flow research that allows you to determine the top export markets for your product.
- International Agent/Distributor searches that help you find the right partner in the right market
- NAFTA Certificate of Origin consultation
- Classification of Goods under the Harmonized System
- Interpretation of Preferential Rules of Origin
- Evaluation of the potential Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) hold for your company
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- all other FTA's
- Customized on-site FTA compliance training
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Solar fridges could play a vital role in helping aid workers get life-saving vaccines to people in remote parts of developing countries, researchers have said.
Engineers have developed a prototype that could keep vaccines at the required temperature until they are needed for treatment.
Thousands of children in Third World countries die every day from diseases that are preventable by vaccination.
Researchers believe the technology could have a huge impact in countries where delivering humanitarian aid is challenged by fuel shortages and high temperatures, meaning vaccines often deteriorate before they arrive.
Tests show that the proposed system, designed at the University of Edinburgh and tested in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council's ITAE research institute, can produce up to 5kg of ice each day.
The fridge can store vaccines at between 2°C and 8°C for as long as three days, the target set by the World Health Organization.
The technology is also compliant with the requirements of the main humanitarian organisations in supporting aid operations in areas affected by catastrophic events.
The team at Edinburgh hope a new, more compact and market-attractive prototype can be developed as a result of their research.
Dr Giulio Santori, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering, who is leading the project, said: "We are very pleased by the encouraging results obtained so far on the proof-of-concept prototype.
"We are now seeking to develop a first generation commercial version, which combines the solar thermal and adsorption-based technologies."


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It's finally here!
Netflix released the full trailer for season two of Orange is the New Black, and it's so damn good.
Piper is back in SHU, Morello is out of prison, and there's a new girl behind bars. Plus, find out why Gloria (played by Selenis Leyva) doesn't trust any of these bitches.
Here it is -- we'll be watching over and over until the new season is released on Netflix on June 6th:


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SED406 Student Teaching Seminar
All secondary education students must take this seminar while student teaching. The principal purposes of the seminar are four: first, to provide an orientation for students about to begin to student teach; second, to offer practical support for students while student teaching; third, to help students develop individual professional portfolios; and fourth, to serve as a culminating educational experience for all pre-service secondary education students.
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- Practicum - Non-Clinical
- Must be enrolled in the following level: Undergraduate
- Must be enrolled in one of the following majors: Adolescence Ed: Earth Science (102A), Adolescence Ed: English (103A), Adolescence Ed: Spanish (110A), Adolescence Ed: French (105A), Adolescence Ed: Mathematics (107A), Adolescence Ed: Social Studies (109A), Adolescence Ed: Biology (101A), Adolescence Ed: Chemistry (104A)
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History most certainly repeats itself, especially for those who have government jobs and are card carrying Democrats.
Back track for a moment and recall the Bill and Hilary Clinton White House.
Numerous scandals took place while those two resided comfortably at 1500
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. Hilary, like a cat with a feather hanging from its mouth, knew nothing about the shredded files after the suspicious death of Vincent Foster. The question still remains, why were those files suddenly destroyed? In addition; what happened to the FBI files which precipitously vanished. But questioning Hilary or Bill would only bring the infamous answer used by a majority of Democrats, "I don't remember."
If the "I don't remember" clause was not involved with extreme seriousness it would almost be humorous. Fast tracking to the present and the scandals evolving in the government, all of which are extremely serious, lets Americans know there is no humor to the game this diabolical administration plays.
Take Eric Holder for example.
From his past shady dealings with Chiquita Banana Gate he should never have
gotten the office of Attorney General. However, Obama tapped him for what many would claim to be not his expertise, but his race. He is the first black man to ever hold the office of Attorney General.
Eric Holder represented Chiquita Banana
officials who seemingly were responsible for over 4,000 deaths in Colombia South
America. Chiquita paid funds, to the tune of 1.7 million dollars to the AUC, a terrorist organization. Holder, under Bill Clinton, had
been a member of the Justice Department. He negotiated with the Justice Department in favor of Chiquitaofficials.
The South American Mafia murdered Union organizers, yet under the
guidance and support of Holder, went unscathed without prison time.
At present, Mr. Holder has the proverbial loss of memory. He does not
remember approving the FBI to seize James Rosen, a Fox News Reporter's phone
records. Mr. Rosen's email accounts were hacked and his parents harassed. But, Holder says in a recent investigation,"This is something I've never been involved in, heard of, or would think to be wise policy."
Isn't it against the law to suppress freedom of the press? Of course it
is, unless your last name is Holder and you have the undivided protection of the
Fast and Furious instituted by Holder, yet he could remember nothing that would involve him in this murderous ordeal.
He made sure the Black Panthers who threatened voters at the polls in Pennsylvania where not jailed.
He brought Gibson Guitars into his devious scheme, investigating them not once, but several times because they contributed to the Republican Campaign.
When questioned about felon Marc Rich and why he would consider signing his pardon, Holder simply said, "I don't know, perhaps I should have dug deeper into his case."
Holder prosecuted Dan Rostenkowski D-IL., for corruption in a Post Office scandal. And when did he avoid any form of corruption since he has been in governmental limelight?
What is wrong with this picture?
Holder can prosecute someone guilty of corruption, yet he goes away with
a smile on his plastic face, shrugs his shoulders and says, "I don't remember."
Obama, who himself has many scandals against his record (a record not known to anyone) puts Holder in charge of the investigation. Is that not like putting a fox at an open hen house door? Rest assured Obama has his reasons. His finger prints are all over the Fast and Furious gun running, and putting someone else in charge of the investigation would surely expose him as being compliant.
Obama has his own chairs to assemble on a ship going down. He has Benhgazi,
IRS, eligibility issues and the death of the Ambassador Chris Stevens, plus the
3 others killed 9/11/12. In addition, 38 troops were killed that there seems to be no answers for their deaths.
Obama was never vetted.
He had no political history to speak of since he spent very little time
on his job as U. S. Senator. He had two very important things going for him when he ran the first time, he was a good orator, he could lie, boost and make promises that he knew would not be fulfilled, yet the people believed him.
Today, due to the corruption Obama brought
with him to the White House from the streets of Chicago, this country's
government is shameful. One time the bright city on the hill, today the lights of glamour has diminished and the United States of America is a laughing stock. Is it over?
Not until the fat lady sings a song of victory when both Holder and Obama
leave the White House peacefully.


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Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer . It is different because it grows in more of a sheet-like shape and brings changes to the skin in response to inflammation. Inflammation occurs when the body is fighting infection, injury, or irritation. The changes in the skin appear similar to other conditions like mastitis . Early diagnosis and treatment are important with IBC. The sooner it is found, the more favorable the outcome.
IBC is rare in women and extremely rare in men.
Breast Changes Associated With IBC
Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Eventually these uncontrolled cells form a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths invade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body. It is not clear exactly what causes these problems in the cells, but is probably a combination of genetics and environment.
Risk Factors
The average age for women with IBC (59 years old) is lower than that of women with other breast cancers. Other factors that may increase your chance of IBC include:
- African American race
- Obesity
- History of flattening, crusting, or retraction of the nipple
- History of mastitis that doesn not respond to antibiotic treatment
- Family members with breast cancer
- Increased breast density
Note: Studies show that most women with known risk factors do not get breast cancer. Many women who get breast cancer have none of the risk factors listed above.
Normally, breast cancer cells create a tumor. IBC cells develop in a sheet-like pattern so you may not feel any lumps or masses. Symptoms of IBC can occur together and develop quickly. IBC may cause:
- Rapid change in the size, shape, or feel of one breast (can occur over days or weeks)
- Discoloration of the breast; breast may appear red, purple, pink, or bruised
- Peau d'orange—an area of the breast that looks like the skin of an orange
- Thickened areas of skin
- Breast feels warm to the touch
- Changes in the nipple, such as flattening, turning in, retracting, or areola color change
- Enlarged lymph nodes under the arm or above or below the collarbone
- Itching
- Breast pain
Some of these symptoms are similar to a condition known as mastitis. However, mastitis should respond to treatment. If it does not, talk to your doctor again right away.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done. Since IBC develops in a sheet-like pattern, it is hard to find by a breast exam or mammogram .
Test may include:
- Biopsy (excisional or skin)—a sample of tissue is removed and examined for cancer cells
- PET scan
- CT scan
- Bone scan
If cancer is detected, the cancerous tissue will also be tested to look for:
- Hormone receptors
- HER2 gene—suggests an aggressive form of cancer
The physical exam combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. IBC is generally detected in later stages, which gives cancer cells more time to invade other tissues.
Talk with your doctor about the best plan for you. Finding cancer in later stages reduces the chances of a favorable outcome. Better outcomes are achieved with a combination of therapies.
Treatment may include one or more of the following:
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. It may be given in many forms including pill, injection, and via an IV. The drugs travel through the body in the blood, killing mostly cancer cells. Some healthy cells are killed as well. Chemotherapy drugs for IBC may include:
- Anthracyclines
- Taxane
- Antimetabolites
The only surgery recommended for IBC is a modified radical mastectomy . This involves removal of the whole breast, lymph nodes under the arm, and the lining over the chest muscles under the breast.
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells. It may be necessary in cases when chemotherapy prior to surgery isn't effective. Radiation may be used to shrink cancer cells in advance of surgery. Types of radiation therapy include:
- External radiation therapy—radiation directed at the breast from a source outside the body
- Internal radiation therapy—radioactive materials placed into the breast in or near the cancer cells
There are other factors about your specific type of cancer that can affect treatment such as:
Hormone receptors—some cancers have hormone receptors attached to them. Certain drugs can target these receptors to help control or eliminate the cancer. This hormone therapy may include drugs such as:
- Tamoxifen
- Aromatase inhibitor
HER2—Cancers with the HER2 gene tend to be more aggressive. Drugs that may be effective against HER2-positive cancer include:
- Trastuzumab
- Lapatinib
It is important to catch IBC as early as possible. If you have any of the symptoms listed above, see your doctor right away. If you are being treated for mastitis that is not responding to treatment, see your doctor again.
Breast exams may help identify changes in your breast, such as the orange-peel skin. For breast exams, the American Cancer Society recommends:
- Women aged 20 or older may perform a breast self-exam (BSE) every month. Report any changes to your doctor right away.
Women aged 20-39 should have a clinical breast exam by a health professional every three years. Starting at age 40, women should have a clinical breast exam every year.
- A breast exam should be done more regularly if there is a family history or there have been previous breast biopsies.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
Edits to original content made by Denver Health.
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Inflammatory breast cancer fact sheet. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/ibc-fact-sheet. Updated April 18, 2012. Accessed January 2, 2014.


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Otero Junior College is proud to announce the addition of two new staff members. Cody Long, La Junta, has been named Academic Coach. Holly Lewis, Swink, has been named Director of Support Services (TRiO).
Otero Junior College is proud to announce the addition of two new staff members.
Cody Long, La Junta, has been named Academic Coach. As an academic coach, Long will work with first-year students to ensure a smooth transition into the college environment, help students in developing their academic plans, refer students to resources available for support, and provide students with the tools they need to successfully complete their course of study.
Long has been employed as a part-time tutor at OJC since fall 2012. Prior to working at OJC, Long taught intervention math and reading for the East Otero School District at the middle school and primary school levels.
A 1994 graduate of OJC, Long went on to complete his bachelor of arts degree in interdisciplinary studies with emphasis in education at Adams State University.
In his free time, Long enjoys walking his dogs, gardening, reading and spending time with his family, including wife, Cynthia, a respiratory therapist at the Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center.
Long said that he accepted this position because of the high level of care that is given to the students, staff and the communities of southeastern Colorado by OJC.
"It is my goal to help increase retention and graduation rates of my students and help them make the most of their time at OJC."
Holly Lewis, Swink, has been named Director of Support Services (TRiO). She will be responsible for the recruitment of low-income, first-generation and disabled students to OJC; tracking and supporting student success in program participants; assisting students in transferring to four-year programs; managing TRiO grant data and funding; and supervision of TRiO staff.
Originally from Lamar, Lewis obtained her bachelor of arts degree from Colorado State University, a master of arts from the University of Northern Colorado, and certification as a school counselor from Adams State University.
A licensed professional counselor and certified school counselor, Lewis has worked in a variety of settings. Prior to coming to OJC, Lewis was a school counselor in the Rocky Ford School District. She has also worked as a clinical therapist at the Colorado Boys Ranch.
Lewis and her husband, Don, have two sons, graduates of La Junta High School, and a daughter, a graduate of Rocky Ford High School. Their younger son is a graduate of OJC and their daughter is a current OJC student taking her prerequisite classes for the nursing program.
Lewis said she was drawn to this position because she enjoys working with students and helping them succeed. "TRiO is such a great resource for this," she explained.
"Students need a support system to navigate their education successfully," Lewis added. "My professional goal is to make a positive impact at OJC and in our communities through the TRiO program."


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Hello all out there. I would like to have a definitive answer to this question. Please dont think I am into anything shady.
As I am a home PC user, I never had the chance to experience networking stuff hands-on.
I have found a list of public proxies in my country. What do I have to do in order to get connected to them?
I have a proxy software.If I supply the IP address and port in the HTTP proxy option, will it do or I have to make a seperate rule for the tunnel protocol?
I have also seen a proxy setting in FireFox. If I simply give the server address there, will it do?


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Steam Greenlight Spotlight: Death Inc.
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Author: ClayMeow
Death Inc. is described as a hybrid of real-time strategy, god game, and business simulation. You control a reaper named Grim T. Livingstone, tasked to spread the bubonic plague throughout 17th century England with an array of infected minions. But as in any true god game, you do not have direct control over your units, you can simply issue commands and hope they follow through as you wanted. Thankfully, control in Death Inc. seems easy to use and minions are smarter than you'd think for a bunch of undead.
Control of the game is largely done by a "unique 'freehand' paintbrush-like control system." In fact, the motions are so fluid that it seems like the perfect fit for a touchscreen device like the PS Vita. Thankfully, the controls feel equally smooth using a mouse and keyboard. By simply left-clicking and dragging across the screen, Grim appears and lays down a bright pink (or green, yellow, and blue) path for your infected minions to follow. Any minions that are near or on the line will immediately follow the path you drew until it ends or they come in contact with enemies – basically anyone who's not already infected. Pink orders are followed by everyone, while the aforementioned green, yellow, and blue allow you to fine tune orders so that only specific unit types carry them out; unarmed, ranged, and armed melee, respectively. There are eight standard fighting units and three rare support units. The eight standard fighting units are Peasants, Militiamen, Archers, Soldiers, Musketeers, Brutes, Pikemen, and Cavalry, while the three rare support units are Monks, Plague Doctors, and Captains. In addition, there are also a few siege weapons that can be found scattered in some levels, which can be seen in the following video:
If you took a break from reading this spotlight to watch the video above, you probably saw another feature of the game demonstrated – special abilities. The one shown off in the video is Plague Rats, which when cast on an appropriate building causes infected rats to pour out and attack any enemies near by. Additional abilities include death from above via Pigeon Pox, mass panic and evacuation via Norovirus Brunch, and Exploding Livestock because, well, didn't everyone enjoy rampantly clicking on sheep in Warcraft just to watch them explode? (Please don't call PETA)
Although Death Inc. is largely about ordering your minions to attack and infect your enemies, you're free to tackle each map in your own way. Levels aren't linear, but rather a sandbox with multiple paths. There are even physics puzzles along the way that can help you if you so choose to tackle them, such as ordering your minions to turn a wheel that opens or closes a gate (depending on whether you want to get out or prevent enemies from getting to you). And if you remember from the opening sentence, this game is also part business simulation. Along the way you'll be collecting souls that can be spent to hire underlings, complete secondary challenges, decorate your living quarters, and more.
A demo was released back in February that provides a small taste of the game. It's just one level with no special abilities, no siege weapons, and no physics puzzles, but it does allow you to test out the fluidity of the controls. It's available for Windows (28MB), Mac (32MB), and Linux (28MB), so no matter what you're running, you can go try it out. Although its Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful, developer Ambient Studios assures us that they're "working extremely hard to make this beautiful, bonkers, original game a reality for you all." In addition, if the reliance on colors worries you, the Kickstarter page mentions that there will be a color blind mode. So go vote Yes because while the Kickstarter wasn't successful, Death Inc. certainly deserves a spot on Steam's digital shelf.
Previous Spotlight: Gravi. Favorite the OCC Steam Greenlight Spotlight Collection. And don't forget to visit the forum thread.


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Only a few days left to submit your paper to the workshop "Public Policies, Cities and Regions", Lyon, December 14-15, 2017, organized by GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne!
This workshop will gather original research papers shedding light on the impact for urban and regional economies of public policies such as enterprise zones, industrial clusters policies, fiscal policies, housing policies, land use and environmental policies. The workshop welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions.
Keynote speakers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto) and Kurt Schmidheiny (University of Basel)
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission: September 25, 2017
Decisions of acceptance: October 20, 2017
Registrations: October 20 - November 26, 2017
Due to technical problems, we did not receive the emails sent before September 5. If you sent your submission before September 5, please send it again. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
Scientific committee: Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Florian Mayneris (Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (Univ. of Lausanne), Elisabet Viladecans (Univ. of Barcelona)
Organizing committee: Sylvie Charlot (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Sylvie Démurger (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2)
More information: https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/ppcr
Do not hesitate to contact us for more details. We look forward to seeing you in Lyon!
Kind regards,
Nelly Exbrayat and Florence Goffette-Nagot, on behalf of the organizing committee.


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The College responds to bias acts, including hate crimes, according to procedures that have been ratified by President's Cabinet and are reviewed on a regular basis; the procedures can be found here. Reports of bias acts will be reviewed by the Bias Acts Response Team; the names and contact information for the team members can be found here.
The Bias Acts Response Team oversees the responses to individuals and/or communities who have been affected by bias acts. Responses may include investigation and adjudication, as appropriate, by University Police Department, the Office of Student Conduct, and/or the Affirmative Action Office. Other kinds of responses (e.g., passive or active programming about bias acts, facilitated meetings among those who have perpetrated bias acts and those who have been targeted, etc.) are arranged on a case-by-case basis. Persons or communities who have been targeted will be contacted by a member of the team to discuss possible responses and options for investigation and adjudication.
For information about bias acts and the College's response, please contact a member of the Bias Acts Response Team, or contact one of these BIAS ACTS RESPONSE Offices:
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Urban heat island effect
Pale pavement trial
Reducing temperatures in urban areas
The City of Sydney is trialling a lighter-coloured pavement in Myrtle Street, between Abercrombie and Smithers streets in Chippendale, as part of an investigation into ways of reducing temperatures in urban areas.
Lighter-coloured surfaces do not generally absorb as much light, or retain as much heat as dark surfaces and therefore have the potential to reduce temperatures, result in lower energy bills for surrounding buildings, and improve road strength.
For more information about the pale pavement trial, please contact:
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Measuring the effect in Sydney
The City of Sydney is collecting information to see how shade trees and pavement colour affect urban temperatures. Extreme and persistent high temperatures cause stress to the health of people, plants and animals.
Cities can be a few degrees warmer than regional areas because surfaces such as roads, foothpaths and the sides of buildings absorb and release energy from the sun.
Monitoring systems have been installed in Chippendale and Redfern. The poles contain a temperature and humidity meter, and one has a pyranometer which measures the strength of the sun. Each also has a unit that sends the information to a server where it can be viewed online, and a small solar panel to power it all.
Real-time results can be viewed at ADMS using the link on this page. On the ADMS website select 'Dashboards' tab and then 'City of Sydney'. Advanced users who wish to download data, select the 'Reports' tab and then 'Subscriber'.
The City intends to work with a university research partner to best work out costs and benefits of solutions to reduce the urban heat island effect. This could be a way to address rising temperatures resulting from climate change.
Measuring the effect will help to form the way we design our city and make it a more comfortable place to live and work.
The University of NSW, in partnership with HASSEL, developed a report called 'Micro-Urban Climatic Thermal Emissions in a Medium-Density Residential Precinct' which was based on a thermal image technique in Victoria Park.
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ELIT2010 - The Study Of The Essay
Fall 2011
This course introduces students to the study of the historical origin and development of the essay as a genre through analysis of select essays written during the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment (16th through 18th centuries) as well as essays by 19th century Romantic and Victorian authors. Students are also exposed to contemporary essays written in English from a variety of perspectives by a culturally diverse group of essayists. In addition, students learn fundamental rhetorical principles of invention, arrangement, and style in order to analyze the essays read for the course and to construct personal and scholarly essays.
Prerequisite: COSK1221
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On the Great Plains of The United States, hidden away on the little traveled back roads of South Dakota, is American Prisoner of War Camp Number 344. It is now known as the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and is the home of the Oglala Lakota. Pine Ridge is ground zero for native issues because of both the work of the American Indian Movement and because of the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, where the US 7th Cavalry killed 300 Sioux and ended the Indian Wars. In this image Oglala youths hold an upside-down flag, an international symbol of distress and an act of defiance toward the U.S. government at a rally to commemorate a 1975 shoot-out between American Indian Movement (AIM) activists and FBI agents. Two agents and one AIM member died; AIM's Leonard Peltier was jailed for life.


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CLL Orange County
Food Photography Intensive
- Presented by:
- Steve Anderson (Bio)
- Program:
- CLL Orange County
- Date:
- June 12, 2016
- Time:
- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Fee:
- $49
- Location:
- Canon Live Learning Orange County
123 Paularino Avenue
Costa Mesa, California 92626
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Food photography has seen a resurgence in the past few years now that people are sharing images of their breakfasts, lunches, snacks, dinners, desserts, where they ate at, their favorite restaurant and the list goes on and on… But do your food photos look as good as they could be?
Join Canon Live Learning as we "set the table" and teach you how to make your food pop! This workshop builds upon our Getting Started with Food Photography class and provides you an opportunity to create, learn and experience photographing your perfect plate! We'll start off together and teach you how to set up your camera, dial in the technical settings and show how a simple lighting design can create beautiful works of art. You'll have the opportunity to develop techniques in a hands-on workshop and borrow gear from Canon's inventory.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own food items and props for discussion, and sharing in creating images.
What you will learn:
• Basic camera settings for food photography
• How composition and depth of field affect an image
• Creating flattering lighting with simple techniques
• Learning about the importance of props
What to bring:
• Camera body with a fully charged battery
• CF or SD cards
• Several lenses of various focal lengths
• Tripod
• Any specific food items and props
What is provided:
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An investigation that found syringes were being reused at a West Virginia pain management clinic — whose operator had his medical license revoked in Texas — was triggered after a patient developed bacterial meningitis, a health official said Tuesday.
Health officials in Ohio and West Virginia advised patients of Valley Pain Management in McMechen on Monday to be tested for blood-borne infections.
West Virginia's state epidemiologist Dr. Loretta Haddy said a patient contracted bacterial meningitis a day after a procedure at the clinic. Haddy told The Associated Press that health officials were notified last October. She declined to disclose where the diagnosis occurred.
Bacterial meningitis is contagious, can cause swelling of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and can be fatal. Survivors can suffer mental disabilities, hearing loss and paralysis. It is spread through saliva or mucous.
Haddy said the subsequent investigation found that the clinic's physician didn't wear a surgical mask during epidural injections, that the clinic reused syringes on more than one patient and had other sanitation issues.
The health advisory is for patients who had an injection between the clinic's 2010 opening and Nov. 1, 2013. Health officials urged patients from both states to be tested and said the clinic's injection practices potentially exposed them to diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
It wasn't immediately clear why patients weren't alerted prior to Monday. Both states' health agencies said they had requested a patient list from the clinic in order to notify patients of their potential risk of exposure and testing options.
Haddy said her department now has subpoenaed the clinic for those records.
"It's our mission to protect the public's health," Haddy said. "Due to the uncooperativeness and unwillingness of the clinic to provide a patient list, we had to go this route."
Dr. Roland Chalifoux Jr. operates the clinic, located in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle across the Ohio River from Ohio. His attorney, Elgine McArdle, said a subpoena violates health privacy laws.
McCardle said she plans to make a motion to quash the subpoena. She said state health officials cited a regulation that allows them to see patient lists if there's an epidemic.
"There is no epidemic," McCardle said Tuesday.
McArdle said saline bags from the clinic that were tested were found not to be infected. She called the investigation a "fishing expedition."
In 2004, the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners revoked Chalifoux's license for violating standards of care in his treatment of three patients, including the 1996 death of a 61-year-old man after unnecessary surgery was performed, according to the board's final order.
A Texas appeals court affirmed the license revocation.
The West Virginia Board of Osteopathy, which was aware of the disciplinary action in Texas, granted Chalifoux a restricted license in 2004 so he could complete a neurosurgery refresher course at West Virginia University's medical school. An unrestricted license was granted in 2005.
Haddy said the Board of Osteopathy has been alerted to the ongoing investigation. A call to the board wasn't immediately returned Tuesday.


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Joseph E. "Joe" Brown (born April 4, 1859, died June 28, 1888 in Warren, Pennsylvania) was a pitcher/utility player in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles.
It was relatively common in the 19th century for baseball teams to use a reserve fielder as a pitcher, and this appears to be true in Brown's case. He appeared in 15 games for the 1884 Cubs (debuting August 16), pitching in seven of those games, six as a starter. His mark that season was 4-2 with a 4.68 ERA. He also played center field, right field, first baseman, and catcher for the Cubs that season, hitting .213 with 3 RBI in 61 trips to the plate.
Brown found himself with the American Association's Orioles in the 1886 season in a similar role for a brief period of time. He pitched in four games, completing and losing each one for a record of 0-4 and an ERA of 5.68. He also appeared in one game as a second baseman. Brown was 3-for-19 at the plate in 1886 to finish his career with a batting average of exactly .200 (16-for-80).


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Simulating Freshwater Flux Induced Abrupt Climate Change in the Arctic/Atlantic Ocean
OCCI Funded Project: 2006
Proposed ResearchAbrupt climate change at high latitudes, such as the Arctic, is intimately related to a rapid melting of sea ice or iceberg drafting. During ice formation and melting, there are freshwater and salt exchanges across the water-ice interface that drive ocean circulation. Since it is difficult to directly measure such exchanges over large regions, we use numerical models to simulate these physical processes in the ocean. In this project, we carried out a numerical study on ice-water interaction, whereby a large influx of freshwater induces abrupt changes in ocean circulation and, thus, climate change.
Two major theoretical problems related to ice formation exist for modelers. First, how do we treat the exchange of freshwater and salt across the water-ice interface? Second, how do we deal with the change in pressure in the upper surface of the water column? For a long time, a suitable way of mathematically handling these issues remained unclear.
In this project, we started from the fundamental physics related to the exchange of freshwater and salt and postulated suitable calculations for handling the ice-water interface during ice freezing and melting. Ice formation is similar to evaporation in that a certain amount of freshwater is removed from the water column during both processes. The freshwater associated with evaporation is diffused into the atmosphere where air currents continually redistribute air masses and render the local atmospheric pressure over the sea nearly unchanged. After ice formation (or evaporation) water below the sea surface is slightly heavier - salt water is denser than fresh water. This process changes the pressure in the surface water, inducing currents, as water masses shift to accommodate new pressure gradients.
In the numerical experiments, we tested boundary conditions suitable for simulating freshwater flow through the air-sea interface with simple geometry. We devised a new formulation and demonstrated it through a simple, analytical model. Numerical simulation through experiments based on an oceanic general circulation model also confirmed our theory.
With a more accurate formulation of boundary conditions, motions related to ice formation and melting can be handled more accurately in our models. In particular, we developed a model based on pressure coordinates, which can handle problems associated with sea ice melting and drafting of icebergs with thicknesses on the order of a few hundred meters.
Results from this study have been described in the manuscript, "On the boundary conditions applied to the sea-ice coupled model" (R. X. Huang and X.-Z. Jin), which was submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research and accepted for publication.


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Kudos to ABC News for a great idea. Its Sunday morning chat show has hired some astute fact-checkers who will determine, week by week, whether the guest politicians are telling the truth or lying like Pinocchio.
The Washington press corps has long been restrained by its own "objectivity" standards, which too often allow politicians to dissemble without fear of being corrected. Under these traditional rules, journalists are simply supposed to report what is said, and leave it up to the readers and viewers to determine truth or falsity. Politicians have long appreciated this tradition, which has often reduced journalists to the status of stenographers - switching off their brains, out of concern that truth-squadding might be criticized as "bias."
Fortunately, the people at ABC's This Week have decided that the old rules are not sufficient, that true "objectivity" requires holding the politicians accountable by proactively comparing their words to the empirical record. Which is why they've tapped PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prizewinning website based at The St. Peterburg Times, to scour the Sunday remarks for evidence of BS.
Seven hours after the show this past Sunday, the website concluded that Defense Secretary Robert Gates had uttered a half-truth about nuclear policy under George W. Bush, and that GOP Senator John Kyl had told the truth when he said that then-Senator Barack Obama once tried to filibuster a Bush high court nominee. All told, it was a quiet debut for the online watchdogs, who will undoubtedly have meatier fare in the months ahead.
This development is long overdue, given the plethora of unchallenged verbal bamboozlement, especially on the Sunday shows. To cite just one recent example: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the Republican who famously said last year that breaking Obama on health care would be his "Waterloo," appeared on the ABC show this past January and insisted, "I did not want this to be the president's Waterloo" - and the host, Terry Moran, didn't challenge him.
On occasions too numerous to mention, back when the Bush administration was selling the Iraq war, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld would show up on Meet the Press and spin like tops, and not even Tim Russert could slow them down. And the print reporters were typically no better. During the summer of '06, Rumsfeld told a Senate commitee that, with respect to Iraq, "I've never painted a rosy picture...and you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances when I've been excessively optimistic" - yet even though this assertion was a lie easily refutable via 30 seconds on Google (among many examples, here's Rumsfeld, April 2003: "It could last six days, six weeks, I doubt six months"), The New York Times and Washington Post didn't even report his false assertion, much less challenge it. AP and the NBC Nightly News reported the assertion, but didn't challenge it.
We're not just talking about Republicans, of course. Bamboozlement has always been a bipartisan practice. I well remember an episode in September 2007, when Hillary Clinton was running for president. She was trying to fend off the embarrassing news that one of her major fundraising guys, businessman Norman Hsu, had been jailed as a felon. She had been forced to refund $850,000 to 260 donors - the largest chunk of money ever returned by a candidate - and she was asked on Meet the Press whether this scandal had undercut her bid to be the candidate of change.
She told Russert: "Well, I'm very much in favor of public financing, which is the only way to really change a lot of the problems that we have in our campaign finance system. You know, as soon as my campaign found out what I and dozens of other campaigns did not know, that he was a fugitive from justice, we took action. And out of an abundance of caution, we did return any contribution that we could in any way, no matter how indirect, link to him. And I believe that we've done what we needed to do based on the information as soon as it came to our attention....We have got to solve this (problem of big money in politics). It is not good for our political system. It is certainly not the way that most people I know who run for office and want to try to do something good for their constituents and their country want to be spending all of their time. And we've got to figure out how we're going to address it, and there has to be a way that public financing becomes the law of the land."
Russert, who was famously tough on his guests, failed on this occasion to challenge the Clinton assertions that contradicted empirical fact. She had actually responded to the Hsu scandal with all the speed of a turtle trundling through molasses, and she was slow to return the Hsu money (if you're really interested, I said so at the time); more importantly, contrary to her claim on the show that she was "very much in favor of public financing," the truth was that as senator she had never expended time or energy on that issue, and that, indeed, she was the first-ever Democratic presidential candidate to skip the public financing rules and privatize her primary campaign. Yet Russert didn't bring up any of that.
Not to rattle on about ancient history, but this is why more fact-checking is essential, and why the ABC News experiment is so worthy. In defense of journalists, it's often difficult to challenge a whopper in real time, if only because it's nearly impossible to prepare in advance for every conceivable whopper. Still, when I think of the traditional objectivity standard, I harken back to the time when it was most egregiously abused, during the '50s heyday of red-baiting Senator Joe McCarthy.
On slow news days, reporters would bug McCarthy for news, and he would happily oblige, by claiming that he had just uncovered 60 or 80 or 100 or whatever number of communists in the State Department or in the Army or wherever. The reporters would write up the latest charge as objective news, simply because a prominent senator had said it. Finally, as a lot of innocents' careers were bring wrecked, and some were being driven to suicide, a New York Times editorial sought to defend the traditional objectivity standard: "It is difficult, if not impossible, to ignore charges by Senator McCarthy...The remedy lies with the reader."
Actually, no. As the ABC News' hiring decision rightly demonstrates, the remedy lies with the journalists.


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Sin across the country
The Midwest is a lot better than the South, according to a geographical study of sin.
This just confirms my suspicions as a lifelong Midwesterner with a number of friends from the South. Oops! There goes my pride.
The study, conducted by the Kansas State University geography department for a convention of geographers in Las Vegas, is not serious or authoritative of course. But it came up with some interesting maps of "hot spots" for the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
According to Catholic News Service, they did use hard data to make their maps: expenditures per capita on entertainment and recreation for sloth; the total number of fast-food restaurants per capita for gluttony; FBI data on stealing for envy, and rape, assault, and murder for wrath; the number of sexually transmitted diseases per capita for lust; comparing total per capita income with the number of people living in poverty per capita for greed; and an aggregation of the other six sins for pride.
Check out the Las Vegas Sun for the colorful maps that show where there are pockets of sinful activity. The aggregation of the other six sins finds most sin in the South and the least in the Midwest and Western Appalachia.
This reminds me of a highly unscientific analysis of sin and gender that I wrote about earlier this year. It might be interesting to think about but are such studies helpful? Does where we live make us more or less likely to be plagued by a particular vice?


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HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush is undergoing more physical therapy as part of treatment for a painful cough that has forced him to stay in a Houston hospital for almost two weeks.
Methodist Hospital spokesman George Kovacik (Koh-VAH'-chik) said Wednesday that the 41st president remains in stable condition with a bronchitis-related cough.
Kovacik says the 88-year-old Bush has been increasing his physical therapy activities, such as getting up and moving around more Wednesday than he has in the past few days. Kovacik says doctors are pleased with Bush's improvement. No date is set for his discharge.
Bush has been hospitalized since the day after Thanksgiving. Bush's ailment is described as not life-threatening but painful.
Bush and his wife, Barbara, split their time between homes in Houston and Kennebunkport, Maine.


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Hey Guys and girls,
I'm a newbie when it comes to web development, and I just bought a domain name . The domain is now registerd but I have no idea on what to do next, I searched the net but all I could find was info on how to design and do html and all that...... this isn't what I want!! as I'm not even there yet.
Can you guys help me out on step by step thing, on the best and cheapest possible way to set up this thing?
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OK, I am working on a calculator, and I would like it to be able to do algebra and more. However, I would also like it to show every step of the problem and the solution.
The problem is that I would need a variable. From my understanding, an int or double has to be of defined value before it can be used. So I thought the next best step would be to use a String for the equation an manipulate it that way.
Well, the problem is that this would take so much RAM and code I doubt it would be useful. Is there any way to go around this? Or am I forced to use Strings?
I thought about making a variable class that would extend double, but I am (again) not sure if that would work correctly.
So I need a little guidance in this thing.


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Getting different brands of farm implements and tractors to work with each other has long been a crapshoot on Midwest crop farms. Until recently, each manufacturer had its own language for electrical systems used on its machinery, making it difficult for farmers to mix and match brands. But new conformance testing, coming to North America as early as this fall, will move the industry one step closer to standardized communication.
The new test procedure, developed by the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF), will determine whether equipment complies with the International Standards Organization (ISO) 11783, called ISOBUS for short. The standard, introduced to the U.S. in 2001, lays out a universal protocol for electronic communication between implements, tractors and computers.
Until now, farm equipment manufacturers have taken it upon themselves to check for compatibility by organizing industrywide events called Plug Fests. At these events, manufacturers set up their devices on tables and take turns plugging them into the communication interfaces of other equipment. While the gatherings have helped manufacturers identify and solve glitches in equipment, there has been no documentation of compliance with the standard, other than testing performed by the DLG Group, a German agriculture society.
That's where AEF's new conformance testing plan comes in, providing a much-needed stamp of approval to a universally accepted test. Before being marketed, all ISOBUS equipment will undergo compliance testing. The Nebraska Tractor Test Lab will conduct the tests in North America and determine which products are universally compatible with other brands. Those that pass will be listed in an AEF ISOBUS database that consumers can check before making a purchase.
William Rudolph, AEF secretary, says it will be the same test used by the DLG in Europe, where mixed fleets are commonplace. "This will be a big step forward for everyone, especially the customers," Rudolph says.
AEF will test a prototype of the database in late 2011. Once complete, the list will be made available through an AEF website.
"This is a very big job, and it will be difficult to include much of the older ISOBUS equipment," Rudolph says. "But we are certain that, as this database grows, it will make acquisition and use of ISOBUS devices much easier for all."
AEF's next goal is to standardize data transfer among computers, implement controllers, and Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS). Rudolph says an xml protocol that allows for such transfer is already included in the current ISOBUS standard but it is not yet widely used. He says implementation will require the input of FMIS suppliers.
AEF is working to build a task force to encourage their involvement, Rudolph adds. "We feel the FMIS guys need to be an active part in making this work for everyone, so we very much want to bring their expertise into AEF."
All these groups are working toward the goal of standardized information and information sharing because, as the Federation of Engineering Industry states, "the time of insular solutions is over; in the long run, neither the farmers nor the individual manufacturers profit from them.
"In the past," the federation says, "the development of the 3-pt. hitch and the PTO...pursued the goal of standardizing the mechanical connections of the tractor. Now, practice requires the same in the field of electrical and electronic equipment as well as information processing."
According to the group, among the many benefits of ISOBUS are that it will combine the tractor, the mounted implements and the terminal into a system with the qualities of a self-propelled machine; extend the possibilities of precision farming through more intelligent funtions and GPS data integraion; and make duplicate informtion collection and duplicate storage unnecessary.
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... and I have to put a seat deposit down by April 15th.Totally confused! HELP!
I'm trying to decide where to attend law school this fall. I got accepted to SMU and George Mason, and I have to put a seat deposit down by April 15th. It's tough because I have lived in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area my whole life plus I got a Dean's Scholarship offer from SMU in the amount of $10,000 a year. On the other hand, George Mason is "ranked" as a better school. In addition, I kind of want to experience some place new so that I won't have a biased decision about where to start my life. Some people tell me to go with GMU because it is a little more well known. I don't know if I will want to practice in Dallas or elsewhere. Does anyone have any advice about this decision? I'm cutting it close, only 4 more days to make a decision!Totally confused! HELP!


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The Original Peppermint Bark
Our nostalgic peppermint bark is often copied but never matched in quality or flavor. The once-a-year favorite is handcrafted using the finest ingredients, including custom-blended Guittard chocolate and triple-distilled oil of peppermint. Master candy makers pour a layer of melted dark chocolate on a marble table and then top it with a layer of creamy white chocolate. This "bark" is finished with a snowfall of handmade peppermint candy pieces. The result is an unforgettable holiday confection with a perfect harmony of flavors and textures in every bite.
- Available in 1 or 2 lb. collectible tins.
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- This item cannot be shipped to Hawaii but is available for purchase at our Honolulu retail store.
- Dark chocolate: Sugar, chocolate liquor processed with potassium carbonate, cocoa butter, butter oil, lecithin (an emulsifier), pure vanilla, natural oil of peppermint.
- White chocolate: Sugar, cocoa butter, milk, soya lecithin (an emulsifier), pure vanilla.
- Peppermint bits: Sugar, corn syrup, oil of peppermint, FD&C Red #40.
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