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MIDDLEBURY — Her family and friends in her native Thailand call her by her given name, Chavaran Sriyan.
But to her colleagues and students at the Bridge School in Middlebury, she is simply known as "Angie."
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VERGENNES — Music, which is said to be the great communicator, will soon be a vehicle for social change in Vergennes.
The first-ever Youth Awareness fundraiser concert, organized by Ferrisburgh resident Jackie Rivers, will be held in the Vergennes Opera House on Aug. 19from 4 to 8 p.m.
MONTPELIER (AP) — Nearly three-quarters of Vermont schools did not meet tougher standards under the federal No Child Left Behind Act for a second year in a row, according to results released Monday by the Vermont Department of Education.
BRISTOL — At the beginning of this month, new Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent David Adams took hold of the ANeSU helm, replacing Evelyn Howard who held the position for 12 years.
Adams comes to ANeSU with more than 30 years of teaching and administrative experience. His wife, Judith Adams, is the assistant superintendent at Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union. The avid outdoorsman is currently renting a home in Huntington, and he has two daughters and three grandchildren.
VERMONT — Last Monday, 30 students and two teachers from China arrived in Vermont to experience a way of life and learning different from anything they've ever known — very different.
MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) will start the 2012-2013 academic year with 25 new faces, including a substantially revamped central office that will soon be led by a new superintendent.
New central office hires include Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Development Carol Fenimore; Business Manager Laura Nassau; Linda Darrow, coordinator of early childhood services; Jason LaMora, director of technology; and Susan English, associate director of student services.
ADDISON — Snake Mountain was host to many unfamiliar visitors on Monday afternoon. Two dozen foreign and American students hiked up the mountain's slope, many students of whom had a mere 48 hours earlier been on the other side of the Pacific Ocean en-route to a three-week study-trip to Vermont.
These 25 high school students traveled thousands of miles to participate in the nonprofit, educational program Green Across the Pacific.
NEW HAVEN –– A line of farmers waded through waist-high wheat in a New Haven field last Thursday, looking closely at the plants, determining if it could be harvested soon and asking questions about everything from the effects of dry and wet weather to the types of wheat that are doing the best this year.
MIDDLEBURY — It may be summer vacation, but 30 students will be traveling halfway around the world to attend classes at Middlebury Union High School later this month.
Those students will be coming from the cities of Chongchiang and Guizhou in southern China, through a program coordinated by Burlington-based SPIRAL International. Founded in 2010, SPIRAL International is a non-profit educational organization that promotes inter-cultural learning, understanding and relationships through international student placement services and exchange programs.
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M. Gujrati, J.G. Parvani, W.P. Schiemann, Z.R. Lu
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Keywords: siRNA, nanoparticle, metastatic breast cancer
Summary:Successful siRNA-mediated cancer therapy requires the use of multifunctional nanoparticle systems to overcome the barriers associated with delivery. We have recently developed a cationic lipid-based carrier, ECO, which efficiently delivers siRNA intracellularly to induce potent gene silencing. ECO forms stable nanoparticles (NPs) with siRNA that protect the payload against degradation, promote endosomal escape following cellular internalization, and facilitate cytosolic siRNA release via a glutathione-dependent mechanism. In breast cancer, β3 integrin is linked to the acquisition of metastasis via TGF-β-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). As such, silencing of β3 integrin with ECO NPs (ECO/siβ3 NPs) may be an attractive therapeutic means of combating metastatic breast cancer. In NME cells stimulated with TGF-β, ECO/siβ3 NPs successfully induced silencing of β3 integrin, restored expression levels of EMT markers (N-cadherin and E-cadherin), and suppressed the formation of actin stress fibers, a hallmark event that occurs during EMT. Importantly, in a 3D organotypic model, treatment of metastatic NME cells with ECO/siβ3 NPs both inhibited growth and led to a decrease in mammosphere size. Taken together, the multifunctional ECO NPs loaded with β3 integrin siRNA are a promising therapeutic modality for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

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A 17-year-old girl is expected to survive after being shot in the neck in the city's Riverdale neighborhood tonight, police said.
The victim was hit by single gunshot while sitting on the porch of a residence in the 13300 block of South Prairie Avenue about 8:15 p.m., Calumet Area Sgt. John Doherty said.
She was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for treatment of the wound, a Fire Department spokesman said. Her condition had been stabilized as of 9:45 p.m., Doherty said.


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Rob Rubinovitz, Deputy Chief Economist, oversees the staff of the Office of the Chief Economist. Prior to coming to ESA, Dr. Rubinovitz served as a vice president at NERA Economic Consulting, where he analyzed economic and policy issues in such areas as telecommunications and media, pharmaceuticals and over-the counter drugs, retail products, and financial services and developed expertise in the application of econometrics to merger analysis and other applied microeconomic topics.
From 1988 to 1997, Dr. Rubinovitz was an economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he analyzed the effects that mergers, long-term contracts, regulations, and legislation had on competition in industries such as banking, healthcare, radio, cable television, and ticket distribution. During this time, he also spent time on a detail at the Federal Communications Commission.
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11.6% = The Lowest Black Unemployment Number Since President Obama Took Office (so far…)! At 11.6% Black unemployment has now hit the lowest number it has ever been since President Obama took office in 2009. The April Black unemployment number is 11.6% according to the Department of Labor. The number is 6.3% overall. All that with zero help from the Republican party.
The overall unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since the worst part of the financial crisis in September 2008
When President Obama took office, the Black unemployment number was 12.7%, The number hit a 28 year high in late 2011 with a stunning 16.7% Youth unemployment remained at a whopping 36%.
Even though the 11.6% number is still double the overall rate if unemployment — it is an impressive number during a presidency where Black unemployment has been in the 12s and 13s regularly. Still, the number is not as low as the some of the low Black unemployment numbers posted during the eight years of the Bush presidency. Black unemployment hit 8.4% in 2006.


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Paul Cully takes a look at five of the most pressing matters in Super Rugby from the past week.
Hugh McMeniman is showing the signs that every Wallabies fan wanted. In the 21st minute of the Force's improved performance in Pretoria, Bulls and Springboks fullback Zane Kirchner tried to initiate a counter-attack and was hammered in a heavy, front-on tackle by the big second-rower. After 49 minutes, a bruising McMeniman run sent dizzy Bulls enforcer Jacques Potgieter to the touchline to search for his wits and three minutes later he was dropping a shoulder into the huge, charging Flip van der Merwe close to the Force's try line. McMeniman is the sort of abrasive big man Robbie Deans has been looking for since Dan Vickerman's aborted comeback. Just pray that the body holds up, because he is still playing with that familiar scant regard for his own well-being.
Better from the Tahs, much better. Criticism of their first-half performance does not give enough credit to the Rebels, who looked particularly good when Nick Phipps, who was excellent, and James O'Connor combined. O'Connor's frequent appearances at first receiver are good news for the Wallabies - he is beginning to look to put others in space as well as take on the man. But the Tahs were admirable in the second 40, lifted yet again by Ben Volavola's incisive play at fullback. The question marks for NSW are obvious - the No.9-No.10-No.12 mix is not yet right, but they got so much more out of Benn Robinson than has been seen for 12 months and the sight of forwards and backs offloads in contact with the expectation a support runner would be present was encouraging.
Defence is the best form of attack. Chiefs assistant coach Wayne Smith produced a statistic a few weeks ago which, if you let it circulate around upstairs for long enough, might profoundly change the way you look at the game. Forty per cent of tries, Smith said, come from good defence producing turnovers. That figure could conceivably rise if you take in the number of tries conceded by sides that have lost heart running into a brick wall. It's little surprise to find out, then, that Smith and Sir Graham Henry are in charge of defensive responsibilities at the Chiefs and the resurgent Blues. Neither of their sides conceded a try at the weekend and ran in a combined total of 11 five-pointers of their own.
A mixed bag for the new television match official powers. After Israel Dagg's try against the Blues was contentiously ruled out at a crucial stage of the Blues-Crusaders game, the new powers of the TMO were looking like a can of worms that SANZAR should have never opened. It was the fourth call, following two in the Bulls-Stormers game and one in the Hurricanes-Blues encounter in round two, that left heads well scratched. SANZAR had indicated that the powers would only be used in ''clear and obvious'' instances, but when you start looking at incidents in slow motion from various angles it is self-evident they are anything but. However, there was an excellent ''no try'' call against the Bulls when they played the Force, for a forward pass, and there was probably enough evidence to similarly rule against the Hurricanes in Brisbane. But the intention of the powers, to remove the controversy from decisions, does not look like being fulfilled at the moment.
Queensland will be smiling on the inside. The style of the Reds' performances so far leave something to be desired, but you suspect if you had offered them two wins from three from those opening three fixtures it would have been bitten off. They are effectively fighting with one hand without James Horwill and, in particular, Will Genia, whose game management has not been replaced by either Ben Lucas, Nick Frisby or Quade Cooper. But they have the Rebels and Force next up and if they get through them in decent condition with Genia increasingly close to returning, they will be set for another run at the finals.
Paul Cully is a rugby columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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TORONTO – Tim Clark shot a bogey-free 6-under 64 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Dean Wilson in the Canadian Open in another low-scoring day at straight-hitter friendly St. George's.
Wilson had his second straight 65 to match Clark, The Players Championship winner in May, at 10-under 130 on the hilly, tree-lined course.
"I certainly didn't expect to be scoring like that around this course," Clark said. "I felt like it was going to be pretty tough. I've been able to drive it really well. … Driving the fairway is a huge key on the course and I've done that."
Wilson closed with a 20-foot par putt on the par-4 18th after missing the fairway.
"That was a nice way to finish off the day," said Wilson, the 2006 International champion. "You can't ask for a better position."
Brent Delahoussaye and Steve Wheatcroft were a stroke back. Delahoussaye had a 69 a day after matching the Canadian Open record with a 62.
"It's tough to follow up an 8-under-par round," Delahoussaye said. "So, I figured anything under par today would be great for me. I'm pleased with the round."
Wheatcroft shot a 66. J.J. Henry (65), Rob Grube (66), Hunter Mahan (67) and Brock Mackenzie (68) were at 8 under, and Tim Herron (63) and defending champion Nathan Green (65) topped the group at 7 under.
Kevin Sutherland had the best round of the day, matching the tournament record with a career-best 62 to reach 5 under.
Sutherland took advantage of soft, receptive greens and calm early conditions after rain delayed the start for two hours. Because of the wet conditions, players were allowed to use preferred lies in the fairways.
"If you drive the ball in the fairway, with the greens being soft, it's not that hard," Sutherland said. "If you get in the rough, this golf course can really beat you up. And I did a pretty good job of keeping the ball in the fairway."
After opening with a 73, Sutherland was 5 under on his first four holes Friday, making an eagle on the par-5 11th. The 2002 Match Play Championship winner played the front nine – his first and last eight holes – in 5-under 29.
"It got kind of silly," Sutherland said. "The hole just got so big for me. I was just making putts from everywhere. I made a putt on the last hole that I don't even know how far it was. Seventy feet? I'm guessing, 60 feet."
Canadian star Mike Weir missed the cut for the 12th time in 20 Canadian Open starts, following his opening 72 with a 74.
"You can't score from the rough," said Weir, fighting tendinitis in his right arm.
Adam Hadwin, a 22-year-old former Louisville player from British Columbia, shot a 66 – holing a 15-foot par putt on 18 – to top the 18 Canadians at 6 under. Stephen Ames, a naturalized Canadian citizen from Trinidad and Tobago, was 5 under after a 68.
"That's pretty exciting for me," said Hadwin, making his first PGA Tour start. "Coming up to that putt on 18, I looked at the scoreboard and I saw Ames at 5, and I knew I was at 6, so I wanted to make that putt to stay low Canadian. That was a huge momentum boost for me for the weekend."
Hadwin and Delahoussaye were in the same group.
"He's a good player, and just fresh out of college, and doesn't look like any of this is affecting him," Delahoussaye said. "Some young guys get a little nervous out here, but he's hitting it well. He hits it long and he can putt it really well."


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"Two," she said. "But I've kissed three."
Both hands were wrapped around the coffee mug that was hiding her smile.
Four billion guys in the world, and only three have kissed her. He didn't dare say it out loud.
She giggled.
The sun cast shadows on her eyelashes, and he imagined how long they'd look if they were closed.
"It was that hour when everything stills itself…"
They were sitting outside. Spring had just arrived and the day was lengthening, drawing itself slowly toward sunset.
Mary looked at him and wrinkled her nose without dropping the soft smile playing on her lips. Her eyes danced. "What's that from?"
He shrugged and leaned back in his chair, unable to keep a straight face.
Mary looked away. "Ah, yes. Professor Davies can't tell all his sources. He must remain mysterious if he's to be respected."
A breeze slowly worked its way through her hair, left to right.
You are beautiful.
"Your turn."
He looked down. Then he looked away. "Four."
"For which question?"
"The first. I've kissed six."
Her eyes were daring him and he couldn't match her.
The smell of her coffee mixed with the smell of outside, and he closed his eyes and inhaled.
"You want some?"
He nodded, and she passed him her coffee mug. He felt the steam before the mug reached his mouth. The coffee was sticky sweet and the heat felt good. He took another small sip and handed it back to her.
"I could make you a cup, you know."
"No, that's okay. Thank you, though."
He waited for the panic. Her dancing eyes and teasing smile. The way her hair was barely moving.
"I like you."
I know, her eyes said. But her smile ran away.
Come back.
Then he said something and she was laughing and her laugh mixed with the rustle of the leaves.
Today's almost as perfect as you. He was embarrassed for himself.
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The not very elusive HTC Puccini is making a public appearance once again. As we saw a week ago, the HTC Puccini is a Honeycomb tablet headed to AT&T with LTE support. Today, we got one more piece of the puzzle, the tablet will be powered by Qualcomm's MSM8660 Snapdragon dual-core CPU.
We last saw the MSM8660 at CES back in January, and while the CPU showed promise, it lost the race to market to NVIDIA's Tegra 2. A few months later, Tegra 2 is everywhere from Audi vehicles to phones but we've yet to see a single device carrying the MSM8660. By the time we start seeing devices powered by Qualcomm's chip, NVIDIA will be getting ready to launch Tegra 3.
However, we've yet to see how this 1.5 Ghz dual-core Snapdragon beast will perform, so I'll keep an open mind until I see some benchmarks. (UPDATE: According to these benchmarks, the MSM8660 leaves Tegra 2 in the dust, Thanks, Dags)
Chinese blog, 911HTC.com, also managed to get a screenshot (seen above) of how Honeycomb will supposedly look with HTC Sense on top. Nonetheless, I'd take this screenshot with the biggest grain of salt you can find. Simply because I don't think HTC is capable of doing such an atrocity to the already-beautiful Honeycomb UI. Stretching out the Android phone UI and changing the app launcher is not my idea of improving Honeycomb. This could very well be how Android looks on the HTC Puccini right now, but it'll definitely change before release — I hope.
We're definitely in for a crazy holiday season this year. With Qualcomm bringing out the big guns to fend off NVIDIA, and NVIDIA fighting back with Tegra 3, Android devices are about to get a whole lot faster. Now you just have to ask yourself, which one will I choose?


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On Cougar Town Season 5 Episode 5, Jules tries to get Chick out of his Alzheimer's funk by getting him involved in some local activities. Particularly the activities that might save Andy's mayoral prospects, but as Chick's involvement progresses the group gets more unstable.
Ellie gets sick and begins to mix wine and flu medicine to hilarious effects, but who will she bring down with her?
Bobby convinces Grayson to live out his dreams of acting by auditioning for a commercial, but when Grayson books the part his role throws him off guard.
Travis and Laurie try to come up with pet names for each other they can agree on, but which names stick and which names are just ick?
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Cheick Oumar Sissoko, who lives and works in Mali, has looked around and noticed that his fellow filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa are few–"and due to our financial need (great with regard to our savings, though meager in relation to the international film industry), it seems to me that our films are not allowed the luxury of anecdote." Nothing less than "the deep-rooted realities of Africa" will do–realities that include civil war and genocide, as well as the occasional hope of reconciliation.
So he begins his new film with this dedication: "To all victims of fratricide–to all who make peace."
Set within a parched landscape dominated by a flat, steep-sided mountain, Sissoko's film is a tale of interrelated yet warring tribes: an encampment of nomadic herders, a troop of hunters and brigands, an agricultural community living within a town of rough stone walls. These people and their setting may seem primitive (to a contemporary African viewer, no less than to an American). And yet, as we quickly learn, the characters feel themselves to be anything but timeless. Certainties and restraints have crumbled; a younger generation, respecting no law, piles havoc upon mass murder, mass murder upon rape. The fiercest of the old leaders watches from a distance, waiting only for his chance at plunder and revenge. The wisest retreats to his tent, planning to mourn away what remains of his life.
Such is the Africa that Sissoko depicts in Genesis, his adaptation of the Jacob cycle in the first book of the Bible.
A work of deep conscience and imagination, of great visual beauty and human presences that are indelibly strong, Genesis proves to be a remarkably faithful adaptation, despite the relocation of the action to the southwest. Nor is it a violation of the text that Sissoko (aided by screenwriter Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux) takes liberties with the chronology. Like the ancient rabbis, who deliberately ignored "before" and "after" in their readings of the Bible, the filmmakers reorder events to make Jacob the thoroughly abject figure you see at the start of Genesis.
He is a hunted man, relentlessly pursued by his brother Esau (played by music star Salif Keita). Standing on a hill overlooking Jacob's encampment, Esau narrows his eyes and howls an echoing denunciation of his brother for having long ago taken his birthright–stolen it, to Esau's way of thinking. Now Esau and his men circle like predators, waiting for the prey to weaken.
Yet when we see Jacob (Sotigui Kouyaté), we find he is already helpless and alone. His favored wife, Rachel, has died. Her son Joseph, who was to be Jacob's heir, is missing, supposedly torn to pieces by wild beasts. The real beasts, as Jacob knows only too well, are the sons of his other wife, the unloved Leah, who sits in bitterness outside his tent.
As if to complete the misery, a local prince rapes Jacob's daughter, Dina (Fatoumata Diawara). Although the young man quickly repents and asks to marry Dina–who seems willing to accept this restitution–Jacob is unable to enforce the peace he negotiates. Ignoring their father's wishes, Leah's sons go off and murder every man in the prince's town, down to the howling infants, so that only the chief is left–old Hamor (Balla Moussa Keita), Jacob's distant cousin. He lives to bear witness to Jacob's uselessness, while Dina, driven mad, hangs by Hamor's side, laughing and mocking.


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An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there's an adventure on its way.
But what does "spudvetch" actually mean, and why do Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says it to him? Perhaps Kidd and Pearce are bank robbers talking in code. Perhaps they're spies. Perhaps they are aliens. Whatever it is, Jimbo and Charlie are determined to find out.
There really is an adventure on its way. A nuclear-powered, one-hundred-ton adventure with reclining seats and a buffet car. And as it gathers speed and begins to spin out of control, it can only end one way . . . with a BOOM!
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MARK HADDON is an author, illustrator, and screenwriter who has written 15 books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003 in the U.K. It won 17 literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award, and is an international bestseller. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford, England.
I was on the balcony eating a sandwich. Red Leicester and gooseberry jam. I took a mouthful and chewed. It was good but not a patch on strawberry jam and Cheddar. That was my best yet.
I spent a lot of time on the balcony. The flat was tiny. Sometimes it felt like living in a submarine. But the balcony was amazing. The wind. The sky. The light. You could see the 747s circling slowly in the stack, waiting for a space on the runway at Heathrow. You could watch police cars weaving their way through the tiny streets like toys, their sirens whooping.
You could see the park too. And on this particular morning you could see, in the middle of the huge expanse of grass, a solitary man holding a metal box in his hands. Buzzing high above his head you could just make out a model helicopter, banking and swerving like a dragonfly.
Dad has always been crazy about models. Trains, planes, tanks, vintage cars. But after he lost his job at the car factory it became the biggest thing in his life. To be fair, he was brilliant. Give him a brick and a rubber band and he'd have it looping the loop before you could say, 'Chocks away!' But it didn't seem right somehow. It was a hobby for little boys and weird blokes who still lived with their mums.
A flock of pigeons clattered past and I heard the sound of a familiar motorbike engine. I looked down and saw Craterface's large black Moto Guzzi turn into the estate car park. My darling sister, Becky, was on the seat behind him, a grimy leather jacket over her school uniform.
She was sixteen. I could remember the time, only a couple of years back, when she tied her hair in bunches and had pony posters on her bedroom wall. Then something went badly wrong in her brain. She started listening to death metal and stopped washing her armpits.
She met Craterface at a gig six months ago. He was nineteen. He had long greasy hair and enormous sideburns with bits of breakfast stuck in them. When he was younger he had spots. They'd gone now, but they'd left these holes behind. Hence the nickname. His face looked like the surface of the moon.
He had the brain of a toilet brush. Mum, Dad and I were in complete agreement about this. Becky, however, thought he was God's Gift to Women. Why she fancied him, I haven't a clue. Perhaps he was the only person who could stand her armpits.
The bike rumbled to a halt ten storeys below and I experienced a moment of utter madness. Without thinking, I peeled off half my sandwich, leaned out and let go. I realized almost immediately that I had done a very, very stupid thing. If it hit them I would be murdered.
The slice wobbled and flipped and veered left and veered right. Craterface turned off the engine, got off the bike, removed his helmet and looked up towards the flat. I felt sick.
The slice hit him in the face and stuck, jammy side down. For a couple of seconds Craterface just stood there, absolutely motionless, the slice of bread sitting there like a face pack. Becky was standing beside him, looking up at me. She was not a happy bunny.
Now, normally you can't hear much from the balcony, on account of the traffic. But when Craterface tore the sandwich off and roared, I think they probably heard him in Japan.
He stormed towards the doors but Becky grabbed his wrist and dragged him to a halt. She wasn't worried about me. She'd have quite liked him to kill me. Just not in the flat. Because that would get her into trouble.
Craterface finally saw sense. He waved his fist and shouted, 'You're dead, scum!' climbed onto the Moto Guzzi and thundered away in a gust of dirty grey fumes.
Becky turned and strode towards the door. I looked down at the rest of my sandwich and realized that I no longer felt very hungry. There was no one in the car park now so I dropped this half too, and watched it wobble and flip and veer and land neatly beside the first slice.
At which point the balcony door was kicked open. I said, 'It was an accident,' but Becky screamed, 'You little toad!' and hit me really hard on the side of the head, which hurt quite a lot.
For a couple of seconds everything went double. I could see two Beckys and two balconies and two rubber plants. I didn't cry, because if I cried Becky would call me a baby, which was worse than being hit. So I hung onto the rail until the pain died down and there was only one Becky again.
'What did you do that for?' I asked. 'It didn't land on you. It landed on Craterface.'
She narrowed her eyes. 'You are so lucky he didn't come up here and hit you himself.'
She was right, really. Craterface had a black belt in kung fu. He could kill people with his ears.
'And another thing,' she hissed. 'His name is Terry.'
'Actually, I've heard his name is Florian. He just pretends to be called Terry.' I stepped backwards to avoid the second punch but it never came. Instead, Becky went very quiet, leaned against the railing and nodded slowly. 'That reminds me,' she said, in a sinisterly pleasant way. 'There's something I've been meaning to tell you.'
'Amy and I were in the staff room the other day, talking to Mrs Cottingham.' Becky took a packet of cigarettes from the pocket of her leather jacket and lit one very slowly, as if she were in a black and white film.
'Smoking's bad for you,' I said.
'Shut your ugly mouth and listen.' She sucked in a lungful of smoke. 'We overheard Mr Kidd talking about you.'
'What was he saying?'
'Bad things, Jimbo. Bad things.' This had to be a wind-up. But she wasn't smiling. And it didn't sound like a wind-up.
'What bad things?' I pulled nervously at the rubber plant and one of the leaves came off in my hand.
'That you're lazy. That you're a nuisance.'
'You're lying.' I slid the leaf of the rubber plant down the back of the deckchair.
'According to Mr Kidd your work is rubbish. According to Mr Kidd – and this is the really good bit – they're thinking of sending you to that school in Fenham. You know, that special place for kids with problems.' She blew a smoke ring.
'That's not true.' I felt giddy. 'They can't do that.'
'Apparently they can.' She nodded. 'Jodie's brother got sent there.' She stubbed out her cigarette in one of the plant pots and flicked it over the railing. 'Jodie said it's like a zoo. You know, bars on the windows, kids howling all the time.'
The glass door slid open and Mum stepped out onto the balcony holding one of her shoes in her hand.
'Hello, you two,' she said, wiping the sole of the shoe with a wet cloth. 'Honestly, the mess on this estate. I just trod on a half-eaten sandwich, of all things.'
I turned round so that Mum couldn't see my face, and as I did so I saw, in the distance, Dad's helicopter clip the top of a tree, burst into flames, spiral downwards and land in the gravel of the dog toilet, scaring the living daylights out of a large Dalmatian.
Dad threw the control box to the ground and lay facedown on the grass, hammering it with his fists.
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AN ELDERLY woman driver collided with a police car as officers were dealing with a previous crash.
The accident yesterday evening caused major delays to drivers trying to head out of Liverpool on the M62.
Police had been called to the Rocket junction just before 5.30pm yesterday following a crash involving three cars.
According to initial reports, no-one was seriously injured in the initial smash, which involved a Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Corsa and a Rover.
But a spokesman for Merseyside Police said that while officers were dealing with that incident a fourth vehicle collided with a police car .
According to the police, there were no officers in the car when it was struck.
It is understood the 79- year -old woman who was driving the Seat was injured.
However, police said her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, but North West Ambulance Service said they were unable to confirm whether their paramedics had attended the incident.
Access to the east-bound carriageway of the M62 was closed for more than four hours as a result of the two incidents. The Highways Agency said that, as the crashes had happened off the motorway network, it was a Merseyside Police incident.
One frustrated motorist said there had been major delays travelling out of the city.
He said: "It took me an hour and a half to get to Rainhill, a trip that would normally take about 20 minutes."
Drivers also took to social network Twitter to warn others to avoid the Edge Lane approach to the Rocket junction.
One wrote: "Avoid start of M62 junction at Edge Lane by Rocket major incident road closed avoid area."
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Listening to the Brain
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Some months ago researchers demonstrated an ability to reconstruct a silent video a person watches, just by measuring signals from the brain. Soon we may be getting a talkie from brain. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have successfully converted brainwaves into sounds close enough to the original word for it to be guessed accurately 80-90% of the time.
This technology required the use of electrodes placed on the brain (the volunteers were already going to receive such implants for a normal medical procedure) and the signal was recorded as single words were spoken to the subject. Using computational models the brain waves were translated into audible sounds which were close enough for the original word to be guessed. With hours of repetition it should be possible to perfect the sound, so a guess is not needed, but the researchers recognize this isn't very helpful. In real life a conversation cannot be repeated over and over again; the conversion has to work on the first try.
This could be a huge advance for people who have lost the ability to speak due to disease or stroke. If neuroscientists can find where imaginary conversation occur within the brain (where one talks to him or herself), then it may be possible to return to these people the ability to talk. That may still be a ways off, but this is an impressive step towards that end. You can listen to the audio of the original words and the converted brainwaves at the source link.


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I have been involved with St. Paul Library for 34 years. The first 17 years were as a volunteer and the last 17 as a part-time member of the staff. I graduated from UW-Stout with a degree in Home Economics in Business in 1975. Ironically, I worked in both my high school and college libraries. Before moving to Dousman in 1983, I was a kitchen designer at Green Bay Kitchen Mart. I have been married to Jim for 43 years. Both of our sons, Jeff age 40 and Andy, age 31 graduated from St. Paul's.
While at St. Paul's, I've been active in Art and Environment, Forensics coach and judge, Watkins Sale coordinator, Scholastic Book Fair Chair since 1991, Great America Reading program, Library Club, National Geographic Bee, Civic Oration coordinator and judge, and school Spelling Bee coordinator. This will be the second year I am the Student Council coordinator.
I enjoy doing photography, basket weaving, gardening, baking and watercolors. Besides entering baking at Waukesha County Fair and horticulture at Wisconsin State Fair, I am also a certified judge for 4-H photography. I also enjoy spending time with my 13 year old granddaughter, Anna. And of course, I love to READ and share that passion with students!


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The TV commercials and other paid advertising are ready to go, but the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange is postponing its promotional push to get individuals to buy health insurance in the face of problems plaguing the federal exchange.
"We're holding back on paid media until we know when the glitches at the federal exchange can get worked out," Robin Hunn, an exchange spokeswoman, told the Journal.
New Mexico's exchange, known as a SHOP exchange, is successfully enrolling small businesses that want to provide insurance to their employees, but it also acts as a portal to the federal exchange where individuals are sent to purchase health insurance.
"The SHOP system is working fine, so we are promoting that with the same energy as before," Hunn said, adding that 672 small businesses have set up accounts on the exchange.
Hunn said she does not know how many New Mexicans have tried to enroll on the federal exchange via the New Mexico website, but she said there had been 45,651 unique visitors to the state website as of Oct. 6.
"There is some level of frustration out there among people who have tried to open accounts on the federal exchange," she said. "Hopefully, the feds will get it worked out very soon."
Hunn said federal officials have not said when they expect problems to be solved but that they update exchange officials daily.
An analysis by Millward Brown Digital, a New York-based multinational marketing consulting firm, found that in the first week of operation, the federal exchange website received 9.47 million unique visitors. Of those, 3.72 million attempted to register, which is required before an individual can begin to shop for insurance.
Among those who attempted to register, 1.01 million were able to complete the registration, but only 271,000 successfully logged onto the website after they registered. Only 36,000 visitors were able to complete the process of enrolling.
The exchange website "was clearly unprepared to handle the huge spike in traffic on Oct. 1, the start of open enrollment," according to Millward Brown. "This is roughly equivalent to the daily traffic" on the Target retail store's website.


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Rikki and Vikki Ikki to Star in A Double Shot at LoveMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Tila Tequila who?!?
The bisexual reality TV star has passed on the ridiculous dating show baton to twin sisters Rikki and Vikki Ikki. They will be featured in a spin-off to A Shot at Love, aptly titled A Double Shot at Love.
Both genders will vie for each twin's affections on the series, which premieres December 9.
"When the men and women arrive, they are pleasantly surprised to find that the women they are fighting for are actually gorgeous twin sisters all living under one roof," MTV said in the statement. "The 12 straight men and 12 lesbians are narrowed down each week in a dramatic elimination ceremony."
We're on the edges of our seats already.
From posing naked in Playboy to starring in their own reality show, life is good for Rikki and Vikki Ikki.
As for these twins' preferrer date activities?
"I like to watch the Padres at Hooters and have the date take care of the bill," Rikki said, while Vikki favors being "in a bikini and there'll be candles, a blanket on the sand and a big bowl of chocolate!"
We hope you're taking notes, future suitors.
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Back in the saddle! Thanks to Daniel Hartigan for covering for me the last couple weeks. Dude's about this close to launching his own show.
Allison and I have rescheduled our conversation to next Wednesday. I have a cold that's come screaming back with a vengeance, and Allison is knee-deep in writing a complicated article. It'll be way better when our heads are clear. Thanks!
She'll be talking about whatever comes up… and that will almost certainly include the proposed detention center in Bellows Falls. It'll be interesting to hear what a reasonable voice steeped in actual research might have to say on that topic.
Me, I want to learn more about her grandpa, W.D. Teague, a giant of industrial design in the early- to mid-'50s.
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SODC produces a revised Local Plan to meet SHMA housing target
South Oxfordshire District Council has produced a revised Local Plan to meet the SHMA housing target outlining possible options for the allocation of new housing, including a new town between Walllingford and Thame, and building in the Oxford Green Belt.
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In the summer of 2014, CPRE Oxfordshire launched a new campaign – Protect Rural Oxfordshire (PRO) – to challenge the unrealistic and deeply flawed housing figures proposed in the Oxfordshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment and to fight for a more sustainable vision for the future of our county.
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Our media statement in response to the suspension of the Examination in Public of Cherwell District Council's Local Plan.
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CPRE Oxfordshire has called on local District Councils to reject new housing figures after a report reveals they are over 2.5 times the Government's own projections.
CPRE Oxfordshire launches new campaign to challenge SHMA figures
CPRE Oxfordshire is today (Thursday 15 May) launching a new campaign – Protect Rural Oxfordshire (PRO) – to challenge the Oxfordshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), which suggests that 100,000 houses are needed in Oxfordshire by 2031, up from an earlier estimate of 54,700.


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Shopping in Los Cabos
Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo and the Tourist Corridor connecting them in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
This general Introduction to shopping in Los Cabos includes shopping centers and shopping plazas, boutiques, stores and shops in Los Cabos. Hidden Treasures Abound. Enjoy Shopping in Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo.
Los Cabos, the municipality that includes Cabo San Lucas, the Tourist Corridor and San Jose del Cabo is a culturally diverse Mexican oasis at the southernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsula, where an amazing vacation of unparalleled shopping opportunities awaits you within its traditional plazas and upscale boutiques. Fashion in Cabo San Lucas is original and innovative, setting the trends of American fashion. Latin American culture embraces all sizes, ages, and races, as individual tastes merge into one unprecedented style here at land's end.
Boutiques are like restaurants in Cabo. They line the side streets of Cabo San Lucas ranging from posh designers, world-class jewelers, and gourmet cuisine, to hidden trinkets, exotic bargain souvenirs, and deliciously dilapidated taco stands. The plazas of Cabo San Lucas all offer a distinct variety of goods and each provides a unique ambience and exotic shopping environment. Plaza Bonita is located in downtown Cabo fronting the Marina.
Fine dining, shopping, and easy living come together with natural grace at Puerto Paraiso Shopping and Entertainment Plaza and the adjacent Marina Cabo San Lucas. Some places, such as Puerto Paraiso, are huge and obvious. Others occupy intricate corners of more distant back roads. Fortunately, all you need is within walking distance from the heart of Cabo San Lucas.
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In a story that has "Academic Seeks Publicity Gig" written all over it, the New York Times breathlessly revealed the other day that some professor had found a stone with ink writing on it dating from shortly before the time of Christ (they guess). It's broken and faded and lots of text is really hard to read. But that didn't stop the professor from trumpeting it as yet another devastating blow to the Christian understanding of Jesus.
The story begins by delivering a huge non-newsflash to anybody familiar with Christianity:
Naturally, we are told that it's Christians, not journalists, who will be astounded to discover that Jesus was a Jew. Such reportage reminds one of the high school sophomore who gleefully wonders what all those fancypants scientists will say when they find out that light is both a wave and a particle.
Jesus was Jewish? Golly, my Christian world is toppling!
Moving on, we get a brief description of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the debate about the role of the Qumran community in Jewish life. After this, we return to the main story, where it turns out the Big New Discovery is not really new:
"I couldn't make much out of it when I got it," said David Jeselsohn, the owner, who is himself an expert in antiquities. "I didn't realize how significant it was until I showed it to Ada Yardeni, who specializes in Hebrew writing, a few years ago. She was overwhelmed. 'You have got a Dead Sea Scroll on stone,' she told me."
Fair enough. It takes a while to figure out what you've got sometimes. But after the big buildup, we still want to know: What have they got?
That should be our first clue that, whatever it is, we're not going to be reading a text like the gospels and we may well not be reading a text particularly penetrable by exegesis -- ever. But we soldier on and discover the first archeological evidence of scholarly hot-doggery here:
Note the sentence I have emphasized. In translation it means, "Here's a scholar desperate to make a name for himself, a find considerably less rare than a Dead Sea Scroll. What is more, you've got a scholar with a theory (in this case, that there was the notion of a suffering messiah in pre-Christian Judaism), which he was advancing before he had any actual evidence to back up his theory." In short, you've got a scholar looking to force whatever evidence he can find into the template of his theory, for the purpose of "shaking the world of Christology." This does not bode well for good scholarship.
Now he thinks he's found something he can cram into the template. What exactly has he found?
The slaying of Simon, or any case of the suffering messiah, is seen as a necessary step toward national salvation, he says, pointing to lines 19 through 21 of the tablet -- "In three days you will know that evil will be defeated by justice" -- and other lines that speak of blood and slaughter as pathways to justice.
To make his case about the importance of the stone, Knohl focuses especially on line 80, which begins clearly with the words "L'shloshet yamin," meaning "in three days." The next word of the line was deemed partially illegible by Yardeni and Elitzur, but Knohl, who is an expert on the language of the Bible and Talmud, says the word is "hayeh," or "live" in the imperative. It has an unusual spelling, but it is one in keeping with the era.
Two more hard-to-read words come later, and Knohl said he believed that he had deciphered them as well, so that the line reads, "In three days you shall live, I, Gabriel, command you."
To whom is the archangel speaking? The next line says "Sar hasarin," or prince of princes. Since the Book of Daniel, one of the primary sources for the Gabriel text, speaks of Gabriel and of "a prince of princes," Knohl contends that the stone's writings are about the death of a leader of the Jews who will be resurrected in three days.
And that's it. We have a rock with some garbled text of an extremely illusive genre of writing (apocalyptic) containing a couple of dubious lines that could mean 50 things. That's a mighty frail reed with which to beat orthodox Christianity to its knees. But, of course, the good professor is playing to the Mainstream Media which is almost wholly ignorant of orthodox Christianity. So he dilates on this extremely modest data in a way that makes him a natural for membership in the Jesus Seminar:
Um, no. It should not shake our basic view of Christianity. Even if the professor's theory is completely correct and the notion of a suffering messiah who rises in three days is indeed the message on this stone (still a highly dubious bit of exegesis), nothing is "shaken" except the notion of liberal scholarship that Christianity is not the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy and that Christianity is a deformation, not the fulfillment of themes already present in Judaism before Christ.
The article goes on from there and lets Knohl fantasize at will. From this extremely sketchy evidence, he draws fanciful conclusions:
But there was, he said, and "Gabriel's Revelation" shows it.
"His mission is that he has to be put to death by the Romans to suffer so his blood will be the sign for redemption to come," Mr. Knohl said. "This is the sign of the son of Joseph. This is the conscious view of Jesus himself. This gives the Last Supper an absolutely different meaning. To shed blood is not for the sins of people but to bring redemption to Israel."
There are two dynamics at work here, and both are pernicious.
The first is the "Heads I win/Tails, the Church loses" method of exegesis popularized by the Jesus Seminar. If Jesus is reported as saying or doing something that reflects His Old Testament or Jewish background, that means the Gospels are simply putting Jewish ideas into the mouth of Jesus and attributing them falsely to Him. Conversely, if Jesus says something that is not a direct reflection of the Old Testament or Jewish culture, that means the apostles are inventing deeds and sayings and attributing them to Jesus after the fact. The goal is to minimize the proposition that a) the Gospels record what Jesus actually said and did and b) what Jesus said and did was the fulfillment of the Old Covenant. Knohl is straining to argue against the Church's teaching that Jesus is the unique crucified-and-risen Messiah and thinks he has found the way to do this by pointing out that there is evidence to suggest that a suffering messiah was a Jewish concept before Christ.
What Knohl is entirely overlooking in this story is that Jesus and His followers did not merely "adopt" a "cultural theme" of suffering or resurrection after three days. What separates the men from the boys is that Jesus actually rose after three days. Simon's bones remain where he left them -- assuming, of course, this sketchy document really does say what the good professor is bound and determined to make it say in order to fit his theory.
Beyond this, it is baffling how any scholar could say that the theme of a suffering Messiah is not present in pre-Christian Judaism when they have Isaiah 53 staring them in the face. And this brings us to the second pernicious agenda that Knohl seems to be pursuing: the increasingly popular suggestion that the only Jew present at the Crucifixion was the one being crucified. Knohl claims that Jesus knew of this highly dubious stone and based His entire mission on it. From there, Knohl then proceeds to claim total knowledge of the inmost working of Jesus' mind! And very conveniently, it turns out that, in Jesus' heart of hearts, He believed "To shed blood is not for the sins of people but to bring redemption to Israel."
Such a claim is of a piece with growing attempt over the past few years to exonerate the Jerusalem leadership of any complicity in the crucifixion of Jesus and to fundamentally attack the basic Christian understanding as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, both Jew and Gentile. To do this, Jesus is painted as a sort of religio-political radical whose goals were some kind of fuzzy piece of self-oblative zealotry. His one and only foe is Pilate. The Jewish elders have nothing to do with His execution. And His death is not intended as a sacrificial act for the sins of the world but, at best, a sort of failed attempt to redeem Israel from political oppression, a little like a Belfast hunger striker.
According to this narrative, His followers then picked up on whatever detritus was laying around in the culture (in this case, an obscure rock with lines about a suffering messiah who rises in three days) and ran with it, getting the whole thing muddled up with amazing speed into what we now call "Christianity." (Speed was of the essence here, since the basic picture of orthodox Christianity, with its Jesus who dies for the sins of the world, is already pretty much in liturgical concrete by the time Paul starts writing his letters 20 years later).
Unfortunately for Knohl's claim, Isaiah's Suffering Servant, who is five centuries older than the dubious text of "Gabriel's Revelation," does not simply affirm Israel in their okayness or tell them that they are the good guys and the Romans are the bad guys. His vision of redemption far surpasses some political squabble with a Gentile oppressor. Isaiah's Suffering Servant was "smitten for the transgression of his people" (Is 53:8). So far from denying that his shed blood is for the sins of the people, Isaiah's Suffering Servant "makes himself an offering for sin" (Is 53:10). He "was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed" (Is 53:5). In short, he looks a whole lot like Jesus Christ, a fact not lost on his earliest disciples (Acts 8:27-35).
In the end, then, this Latest Real Jesus is, like all the others, a teapot tempest. The good professor moves from shaky data, to extremely dubious hypotheses, to an absolutely preposterous mind-reading of Christ Himself, all in the service of an agenda he was advancing before he ever had any data to support it: finding something -- anything -- that would "shake the world of Christology, as he had hoped." It's an historical leap nobody would take seriously if we were talking about Napoleon or Tutankhamen, but which the press will no doubt blather about for nine days or so.
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NASCAR driver needs a new sponsor, fast. Dollars to doughnuts you won't believe why – Charlotte Observer
NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez will need a new sponsor for the Oct. 15 race at Talladega Superspeedway after sandwich chain Subway pulled out of a four-race sponsorship, stating "due to circumstances beyond our control" that it "had to terminate" the deal.
What were those circumstances?
Suarez handing out Dunkin' Donuts from a golf cart in an NBC TV segment.
The video, made with with Rutledge Wood near New Hampshire Motor Speedway ahead of the July 16 Cup race there, provided a reason for the sandwich chain to end the deal with Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 19 team with one race left, according to several sources, including Fox News.
Because Subway also sells breakfast items, the sandwich maker sees Dunkin' as a competitor.
Team owner Joe Gibbs confirmed that the video, which aired in July, was the reason behind Subway's move, according to NESN's Pat McAssey.
"It's a surprise because we only heard about it (Saturday)," Gibbs told NESN, which described the video as "lighthearted," earlier this week.
The move also caught Suarez off guard. The Cup Series rookie told NASCAR writer Jeff Gluck over the weekend that he didn't know why Subway had pulled its sponsorship.
"On a race weekend, I don't really have time to think about that," Suarez told Gluck. "I have to think about the race."
Suarez took over the No. 19 team this year after Carl Edwards retired. Subway had sponsored Edwards before signing with Suarez.
Suarez sits at No. 17 in the Cup Series standings and would need a win this weekend at Richmond to qualify for the playoffs.
Subway's breakfast menu does not include doughnuts but consists primarily of four flatbread sandwiches. All four feature cheese and eggs with or without a thin slice of red meat. The Dunkin' Donuts breakfast lineup includes one "Veggie Egg White Flatbread" sandwich.
So, there is overlap between the two chains' breakfast offerings.
Still, Suarez' transgression hardly presents circumstances beyond Subway's ability to forgive and move on for one race.
That is what others in the industry, including driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., believe also.
Jalopnik's Stef Schrader compiled fan backlash against Subway. Many felt Subway's logic was half-baked.
Apparently seeing a racecar driver hand out doughnuts was far less likely to keep them out of a Subway restaurant than the sandwich chain backing out of a deal with that driver.
As the Cup Series' only Mexican-born driver, Suarez likely was helping to broaden NASCAR's appeal – and probably Subway's by extension. Now the chain appears to have upset many potential customers over the sponsorship for a single race.
The video is no longer available on NBC NASCAR's social media pages and seems to have disappeared from the Internet, according to Jalopnik's Alanis King. Even if it had remained, who would remember it now if Subway had just let it go?
It would be a good move for Dunkin' Donuts to sponsor Suarez in next month's Alabama 500. But if not, perhaps Krispy Kreme will?
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Reigning juvenile champion and fan favorite Hansen will probably become the latest top 3-year-old to be retired abruptly after he was discovered to have a tear in his left front tendon, majority owner and breeder Dr. Kendall Hansen said Wednesday.
Hansen was slated to run in Saturday's Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Trainer Mike Maker declared the son of Tapit out of the race when inflammation was found in his left front leg Wednesday morning, and Dr. Hansen later confirmed his homebred had about a 20-30 percent tear of the tendon.
While he would seek other opinions and treatment options before making a final decision, Dr. Hansen believes the 2011 winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile is probably done racing.
"It's a typical-type tendon injury where if he was a nice claiming horse, you'd give him six months and see how it looks," Dr. Hansen said. "But it's a different ball game I guess when you're looking at potential stallions. It's really sad, I was looking forward to running him in these upcoming races.
"It's swollen bad today so we'll see what it looks like when the swelling is out of it. I don't want him to come back and be 95 percent, I want him to be 100 percent."
After a ninth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, Hansen sat out the rest of the Triple Crown and returned to win the Grade III Iowa Derby by 10 lengths on June 30. The gray colt then finished fourth as the favorite in the Grade II West Virginia Derby on Aug. 4 and his subsequent workout, in hindsight, may have suggested to his owner something was festering.
"I have my suspicions because he should have dominated (the West Virginia Derby)," Dr. Hansen said. "He'll usually go in 1:01 for 5 furlongs, and his last work was in 1:02 and change. Everything looked normal though, he's never had a sore day in his life."
Dr. Hansen added that while he's been in contact with about four or five farms, no deal on Hansen's stud career has been made.
Popular for his glistening white coat — and his owner's passion for promoting him — Hansen won five of nine career starts, including the Grade III Gotham, with $1,810,805 in earnings.


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It is the last few days of the year and time for a review of virtualization 2010. Although VMware was founded in 1998 it was not until 2001 that I first heard of VMware and played with the Workstation product to be able to run different flavors of Linux. So for me, 2010 closes out a great year in virtualization as a whole as well as a decade of virtualization… and what a ride it has been!
Staying focused on 2010 we have had a few things that have been worthy to note. This year we have moved past defining what a "cloud" is and really starting to discuss how we are going to "secure the cloud." The term "cloud computing" still leads the way as one of the biggest buzz word with most all people and companies now having heard of it are planning one way or another on deployment options into their own environments. One thing for sure is the need for fully qualified individuals to maintain and designs the clouds moving forward.One of the biggest stories has been the enlistment strategies and building of Chad's Army of vSpecialists over at EMC. Bloggers, Engineers and Analysts migrated in droves to become vSpecialists Monks and Warriors and with the help of vSpecialist Nick Weaver, the team created vSpecialist's Delight: VMworld 2010 Rap.
The joint venture or coalition from EMC, Cisco and VMware (VCE) called Acadia was really starting to ramp up and looking to try to follow the great recruiting efforts of EMC to staff their own version of vArchitects.
Each week would bring a running joke of speculation as to whom would make the next announcement, on twitter, that they have joined the ranks at EMC and/or Acadia. One thing that I did notice was the silence coming from Cisco on their hiring attempts and recruiting efforts. Their needs are there but never were publicly as aggressive the other members of the coalition.
The bottom line on the recruiting is that 2011 will be another great year for virtualization specialists to grow and thrive as more and more opportunities present themselves. If you are wondering if you have missed the virtualization bandwagon, fear not because the bandwagon has just gotten started.
In the middle of the year VMware vSphere 4.1 was released and with it the last version of VMware ESX Server. Moving forward VMware will just be releasing and updating VMware ESXi Server. For a look at, what I would call, the final hurtles or pain points that VMware has addressed with the 4.1 version of ESXi you can take a look at my earlier post vSphere 4.1 and ESXi.
VMworld 2010 in San Francisco set a new attendance record even in the midst of one of the greatest recessions of our time. The self paced labs had to be one of the best things at the show this year. The labs were made up of three different clouds able to handle the creation and deletion of around 150,000 virtual machines during the four days of the conference. This was no small feat in itself and gave everyone a chance to play with the different VMware virtualization technologies which included the new VMware vCloud director.
At the show certain companies like HyTrust really shined and showed that they remain the leader in virtualization security as well as what I would call the rise of Veeam as a major player in the virtualization space by winning best of show at VMworld 2010. Both these companies will be the ones to watch in 2011 and it will be very interesting to see what they have in store.
Another company that was been around for a while and is worth mentioning is Stratus Technology. Stratus Technology takes fault tolerance to the hardware layer and is one of the only companies to address fault tolerance by lock stepping physical servers together. When one physical server crashes the mirrored or lock stepped secondary server takes over without the underlining systems ever missing a beat. Stratus Technology fault tolerance result is uninterrupted uptime that has been proven to meet or exceed 99.999% — less than 30 seconds per month. No matter how you look at it, this kind of uptime is what we all strive for in our day-to-day lives.
Over the years that I have been involved in virtualization, I have had the honor and pleasure of meeting some very smart and talented people that have been my peers and have become my friends. It is these people that have made the last ten years of my career the best of my career. There are far too many people that have influenced and inspired me, over this time, to acknowledge each by name but for each of you I wish continued happiness and success. It is because of these people and their desire to share what they know that has made the virtualization community one of the absolute best groups to be around and be part of.
Virtualization is a journey, not a project.


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Joseph S. Blatter made the first-ever visit by a FIFA President to Guam today to inaugurate two Goal projects: a football turf field and football turf mini-pitches located at the headquarters of the Guam Football Association (GFA). These are the third and fourth Goal projects to benefit this beautiful western Pacific island.
Greeting Blatter was a large sign bearing the slogan 'Hafa Adai FIFA' ('Best greetings to FIFA' in Chamorro, the native language of Guam), which was displayed at the entrance of the Guam FA national training centre. Colourful necklaces of flowers were also presented to the guests on this day of celebration.
"Our children will long remember the honour of welcoming the President of FIFA in Guam," proclaimed Richard K. Lai, president of the Guam FA. "Today is a special day. It creates history."
The inauguration ceremony, which, besides the FIFA President, also involved the Honourable Edward Calvo, Governor of Guam, Zhang Jilong, Acting President of the AFC and Richard K. Lai, President of the Guam FA, began with a festive 'Parade of Colors' comprising national players, referees and club teams, including many young players, boys and girls. Praising the display, the FIFA President commented that it had been "unique for me to experience such a parade".
The festivities continued with a traditional island greeting song, followed by speeches from the dignitaries and a proclamation resolution by the Honourable Vicente C. Pangelinan, Senator of the 31st Guam Legislature. The FIFA President also received the Ancient Order of the Chamorri from Guam's Governor.
Our children will long remember the honour of welcoming the President of FIFA in Guam. Today is a special day. It creates history.
"Football is a school of life, based on discipline and respect," said the FIFA President. "You learn to win - that's easy - but you also learn to lose, which is not so easy. I call on you, especially all the young players here today, to bring football and the values of our beloved sport to the society. I also would like to thank the government of Guam for their support. We see the relationship between football and public authorities as a partnership and that partnership is very important."
Fittingly, the ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on the football turf field itself, with a spectacular Pacific sunset offering a beautiful natural backdrop. Zhang Jilong, Acting President of the AFC, expressed a conviction that "these facilities will help develop football in Guam," adding: "I would also like to congratulate the FIFA President for the great role the Goal programme has played."
An inauguration plaque was also unveiled, followed by a photo session with the clubs in attendance and a press conference. "I would like to have all FIFA's member associations participating in the preliminary competition of the FIFA World Cup," Blatter said in response to a question from a local journalist on this topic. "Therefore, I hope Guam will soon return to this stage."
Despite basketball and American football being the most-watched sport on TV in this US territory, football – in a remarkable achievement - has the highest number of active participants. As the Honourable Edward Calvo, Governor of Guam, explained: "In about 30 years, the popularity of football has grown a lot, to become the number one sport in Guam." And addressing the FIFA President, he added: "It's an honour to greet you today and see the fruits of the cooperation between FIFA and the GFA. You've been an advocate for children, for the future of this world. God bless you!"
For his part, Blatter's response was to conclude the event with praise for his gracious and friendly hosts, lauding Guam as "a great island".


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text: Welcome to fourth grade! My name is Sarah Nichols and I will be teaching ELAR for my second year at Springtown Elementary School. This is the start of my eleventh year teaching and am excited to be teaching fourth grade again. This is by far my favorite grade to work with and teach your students. I am originally from Orange County, California where my family still live out there. I graduated from California State University, Fullerton and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where I met my husband Brandon, who I've been married to for almost 9 years. Brandon works on F-35 airplanes for Lockheed Martin. We have two children, Raegan who is 7 and Blake who is almost 5. We moved to Texas last July and love it. I've known I've wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember and love my job and your students will see that when they are in my class. I tend to get excited and loud and talk really fast when I teach, so your student may come home and tell you about their fun and crazy ELAR teacher!


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TriMet is moving forward with the Division Transit Project, and plans currently call for construction to begin in late 2019. According to TriMet, "The Division Transit Project will improve travel between Downtown Portland, Southeast and East Portland and Gresham with easier, faster and more reliable bus service." What does that mean for Division/Clinton? Longer buses with 60% … Continue reading Division Transit Project Moving Forward
Many thanks to everyone who supported and/or came out to the Division Clinton Street Fair & Parade. The weather was great, the energy was beautiful and we had a wonderful time. We paraded down Division, welcomed 8,000 visitors to the Street Fair, were treated to live music and great bands, and an eclectic mix of vendors. … Continue reading 2018 Street Fair & Parade a Success – Many Thanks to Our Sponsors! →
Join us July 21, 2018, for our annual Division-Clinton Street Fair & Parade. Celebrate and enjoy all that Division/Clinton has to offer with a street fair hosting more than 100 vendors, several bands performing live in multiple locations, and a parade that will traverse 25 blocks through the district. Here's what you need to know: … Continue reading Division-Clinton Street Fair & Parade – July 21, 2018 →
No Special Taste for January: Division Clinton 2018 Annual Meeting January 30, 2018 11:30 – 1:30 Carvlin Hall, 2408 SE 16th $20 per person Reservations requested to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Got plans for the Saturday after Thanksgiving? Why not start your holiday shopping, support Division Clinton's small businesses, sample food and drink, and have fun while doing it? There could be bands, carolers, holiday lights, hot cider, mulled wine, sausages, and/or prizes. You are invited! Bring your umbrella (it's November in Portland) and join the fun! … Continue reading Small Business Saturday →
All businesses within the Division/Clinton district are invited to: Business Association Town Hall Thursday, January 26th 5:30PM – 7:30PM Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St. PDX) Beer, wine and snacks provided! Thanks to our sponsor OHSU Richmond. Topics: What should the businesses be collectively focusing on? What projects do we want … Continue reading Town Hall Invitation →
We are so happy to have three new members to the Division/Clinton Business Association. These businesses are supporting the efforts to help enliven the district and make it a great place to shop, work and play. Thank you! Trailhead Credit Union Domino's Pizza Modified Printing
Stop in to any of our member businesses or Travel Portland's downtown Visitors' Center to pick on one of our new walking maps! Special Thanks to Venture Portland for providing us with a grant for this project and Design Anneli for creating the work!
The Division/Clinton Business District has two great events coming up! The Division/Clinton Street Fair and Parade is July 23, 2016 from 10AM to 5PM! Join us for vendors, food, music and fun at SE 26th and Clinton and on side streets between SE 31st and SE 36th and SE Division St. Local businesses will … Continue reading 2016 Street Fair, Parade and Bike to Shop →
Division continues to change. Bella's Treasures is moving into the Southeast corner of 35th and Division. Bella's Treasures, opening in early June, sells antiques and features 1800s clothing, collectables, and good quality recycled clothing. Owners are Joe and Francisa McMillin. Newly opened Gild, at 3370, specializes in fine leather women's shoes and purses. Owners are … Continue reading May Street News →
Small Business Week is May 1 – 7th! Shop local at our great Division/Clinton Small Businesses.
Upcoming Meeting Schedule DCBA Board Meeting: Tuesday, June 20th 12:00pm-2:00pm at D Street Village (3150 SE Division St.)
Please join us Saturday, April 23rd as we beautify SE Division and Clinton Streets! Litter Pick Up 10AM – 12PM Starts and ends at St. Honore Boulangerie (3333 SE Division St.) Volunteers needed! The City and Solve are helping by providing buckets, bags, gloves and pickers. Complimentary coffee and coquettes provided by … Continue reading Litter Pick Up April 23rd →
Please join us for the Division/Clinton Street Fair! Saturday, July 23, 2016. You can learn more at our Eventbrite site or register directly below: Powered by Eventbrite
We are now accepting entries for the 2016 Division/Clinton Street Fair and Parade! Print the application here: Parade Application 2016
Please join us February 23rd for our annual meeting! 11:30AM Ford Building (3rd Floor) 2505 SE 11th Lunch provided by New Seasons! Tickets $20 Buy your tickets here: https://dcba2016annuallunch.eventbrite.com We will be reviewing our great past year as well as plans for this coming year, electing new board members and mingling with our … Continue reading DCBA Annual Meeting →
We are proud to have several new businesses join the Association for 2016! Several of our newest members are helping to make Division/Clinton a retail destination. Carter & Rose features beautiful ceramics and housewares, all made in Oregon. She Bop is a top destination adult boutique specializing in female friendly sex toys. Cloud 9 Comics is one … Continue reading New Member Businesses! →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dylan Rivera Portland Bureau of Transportation 503-577-7534 dylan….@portlandoregon.gov Twitter @PBOTinfo NEWS RELEASE: SE Clinton Neighborhood Greenway to be enhanced with diverter installation, following public awareness campaign (November 19, 2015) As a part of the Clinton Neighborhood Greenway Enhancement Project, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has scheduled the installation … Continue reading Clinton Street Diverters News Release →
This past Saturday, October 24th, the DCBA teamed up with SE Uplift and PSU to host a business district trash and litter clean up. Over 25 community members showed up to help! Thank you to all the volunteers and partners in the clean up! St. Honore and New Seasons both provided … Continue reading Business District Clean Up →
On October 1st, the DCBA took the staff and volunteers of Travel Portland and the Downtown Visitors' Center on a tour of Division/Clinton. Some of the stops included: Burrasca, Xtabay Vintage, Off the Waffle, SE Wine Collective, Carter & Rose and Pinolo Gelato Check out some of the pics from the tour.
MIXER – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH at Inhabit Real Estate TRASH TALK – TOMORROW MORNING!! SEPT 24TH 8AM RETAIL EDUCATION AT VENTURE PORTLAND DIVERTERS ON CLINTON TRAVEL PORTLAND TOUR OF DIVISION/CLINTON CLINTON STREET BLOCK PARTY – THIS SATURDAY! MIXER: Our next quarterly business mixer is Wednesday, October 7th 5:30PM at Inhabit Real Estate. 3121 SE Division … Continue reading DCBA News (as of Sept 23rd) →
All are invited to our next business mixer! Our next quarterly business mixer is Wednesday, October 7th 5:30PM at Inhabit Real Estate. 3121 SE Division St. Please come enjoy snacks, drinks and meeting your business neighbors. We will also be unveiling our new DCBA Website!! Thank you to Inhabit Real Estate for hosting.
As the district has grown, so has the amount of litter on the streets. The DCBA is working hard to address the issue. All are invited to our first Trash Task Force Meeting: September 24th 8AM Living Room Realty Offices 2625 SE 26th Ave., Portland, OR 97202 We will be working on coming up … Continue reading Addressing the trash in our District →
The Division/Clinton Street Fair is JULY 23, 2016! Parade starts at 10:45AM at SE 50th and Division. Vendors, you can find the vendor application here: https://divisionclintonstreetfair2016.eventbrite.com If you have vendor related questions please contact firstname.lastname@example.com Our planning meetings are the second Wednesday of the month at 4:30PM. Locations rotate monthly so please email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
The Support Group will be managing the vendors and volunteers for the July 25, 2015 street fair. If you are interested in being a vendor, musician, or volunteer, contact: Nancy Chapin at firstname.lastname@example.com
Planning has begun on the 2015 Annual Street Fair and Parade! The date has been set for Saturday, July 25th. Save the date and check back for more information!
Join the Division/Clinton Business Association for our annual meeting Catered by La Panza Café St. Philip Neri Church 2408 SE 16th Ave – Tuesday January 27th – 11:30AM $20/person Online Registration ends Monday, January 26th http://www.eventbrite.com/e/divisionclinton-business-association-annual-lunch-tickets-15192870284 Want to avoid the ticket processing fee? Please RSVP directly to Katie Meyer to reserve your place: email@example.com and … Continue reading Annual Meeting →
Dear Division/Clinton Businesses, This past year has seen many changes to both our street(s) and the business association. As we enter 2015, the association is working hard to promote our district and give more benefits for membership. We are teaming up with Travel Portland to market the district to visitors. We have hired ZoePDX to create a walking map … Continue reading 2015 Membership Drive →
The Division Streetscape Project is almost complete! We're celebrating our newly paved roads and the end of construction with a party!
The Tidbit Food Farm and Garden at SE 28th & Division is so much more than food carts. Today was the first day that Parsons Farms was in business at the food cart pod! They had delicious produce for sale. I'm sure they will soon prove to be a huge asset to those living in … Continue reading Tidbit Food Cart Pod Welcomes Parsons Farm Fresh Produce →


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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
Making Sichuan chili oil for dan dan noodles and other Sichuan recipes.
I got sick of paying $10 or more for a jar of good quality chile powder in the store, so I made my own for less than $3 a jar!
My first attempt at canning caramelized onion jam...with a 2 month old.
This sweet and savory condiment is perfect with Indian curries, a cheese platter, or just a spoon!
A sweet and savory chutney that tastes great on top of sausages, burgers, sandwiches, & soups.
A slightly bitter, slightly sweet marmalade with a refined flavor.
This recipe is the best of both worlds, sweet and savory. Warning: may make the best grilled cheese you've ever had in your LIFE.
My favorite recipe for canning pickled asparagus. Why pay $8 a jar at the store when you can make your own (and custom flavor it)?! Use 12 oz jelly jars for extra long spears.
A twist a seriously delicious and easy strawberry rhubarb jam recipe. Take some warm toast, spread with goat cheese and some of this jam. Hot love on a platter.
This recipe is the bomb. It creates the most intoxicating and addictive fruit pickle I have ever had the pleasure of eating. Great on their own, with cheese, in a Manhattan, or with duck.


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A.9957, Cahill: In relation to expanding contraceptive insurance coverage
Published on March 5th, 2018
Memorandum of Opposition
The above-referenced legislation, requested by the Attorney General, would expand current law to require increased insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-causing drugs, and voluntary sterilization. The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this measure.
In 2002, New York State lawmakers passed the "Women's Health and Wellness Act" which requires insurance plans with prescription coverage to cover FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and devices, and provides insufficient protections for religious employers.
The legislation now before you would go further by mandating cost-free contraceptives, requiring that a 12-month supply of contraceptives be covered at one time, and including emergency contraception (EC), the so-called "morning-after pill." We believe that enabling such large amounts of prescription medication, particularly in such high doses as emergency contraception, to get into the hands of young people is irresponsible and dangerous public policy.
This bill would further expand access to emergency contraception by allowing midwives to prescribe EC, allowing pharmacists and nurses to dispense EC without a patient-specific prescription, requiring insurance coverage for any form of EC without cost-sharing of any kind, and requiring state DOH education and outreach about EC to school educators. Such policy would provide girls as young as 11 or 12 years old easy access to these powerful drugs without parental knowledge or physician oversight. As a matter of state law, many products sold by pharmacies, e.g. tobacco and non-prescription allergy medicine, are restricted to consumers 18 years of age and older.
Medical experts and the FDA agree that emergency contraception can work in various ways. It can act to inhibit or delay ovulation, and thus prevent conception. But it can also act to prevent an already-fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall, destroying a developing human embryo. This is early abortion, and it is morally abhorrent to many New Yorkers.
We further oppose this bill because it fails to provide religious liberty protections for employers who may have objections to financing insurance coverage of drugs they find morally objectionable. The legislation keeps in place the inadequate 4-part legal definition of "religious employer" which fails to protect charitable organizations, hospitals and schools sponsored by religious organizations, as well as private organizations. These entities would be forced by this bill to pay for insurance coverage they find objectionable.
Moreover, the language of this legislation creates problems even for those religious employers who do qualify for protection under the 4-part religious exemption. The bill prohibits insurance plans from imposing "restrictions or delays" with regard to "timely access" to contraception, a standard that may not be possible for religious employers which are in the process of obtaining a religious exemption and notifying enrollees.
For these reasons, the New York State Catholic Conference opposes this legislation and urges a negative vote.