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|Christ School [N.C.]
Courtesy: Duke Sports Information
Release: September 11, 2008
Miles Plumlee Bio
Career Notes
- Has played in 64 games with 26 starting assignments ... averaging 3.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 0.6 blocks per game ... boasts a .543 field goal percentage (101-of-186)
- An athletic big man with outstanding leaping ability and foot speed ... one of the top run and jump athletes in the ACC
- Leads the team with a 36.0 inch vertical leap ... jumping ability has led to 39 dunks over his first two seasons
- Continues to develop as a defensive presence and as an offensive threat ... has the ability to score on the block or facing up from 15 feet ... becoming more aggressive on both ends of the floor
- Has worked hard throughout his first two years to improve his strength and conditioning ... has positioned himself for a breakout junior campaign
- Efforts in the weight room have helped him gain nearly 25 pounds since arriving in Durham in the summer of 2008 ... one of the strongest players on the team
- Will be looked upon to fill the interior void left by the graduation of Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas
- Active in Duke's award-winning Verizon Read with the Blue Devils program
- Joined on the team by his younger brother, Mason ... the pair is the 10th brother tandem to play at Duke ... the Plumlees are just the sixth pair of brothers to play at the same time
- Played in all 40 games, making 24 starts ... averaged 5.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, while shooting 56.1 percent (83-of-148) from the field
- Led the Blue Devils with 33 dunks ... finished fourth with 26 blocks
- Scored in double figures in the first four games of the season and seven games overall
- Had three double-doubles and four double figure rebounding games ... led the team in rebounds seven times
- Blocked a shot in 17 games with two or more in six contests
- First sub off the bench in each of the last 16 games after starting the first 24 contests of the season
- Recorded four points and seven rebounds in the NCAA Sweet 16 against Purdue (3/26) and in the NCAA Elite Eight against Baylor (3/28)
- Notched six points and eight rebounds against Arkansas-Pine Bluff (3/19) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament
- Made his first career three-point field goal at No. 23 Maryland (3/3)
- Tallied six points and six rebounds against Tulsa (2/25)
- Grabbed eight rebounds against No. 17 Clemson (1/23)
- Posted career highs of 19 points and 14 rebounds against Wake Forest (1/17), making a career-high 7-of-8 from the free throw line
- Made 5-of-6 field goals for 12 points, along with five rebounds, one block and one steal versus Boston College (1/13)
- Shot 4-of-4 from the field for eight points to go with five rebounds and two steals at No. 20 Georgia Tech (1/9)
- Pulled down 10 rebounds to go with nine points against Penn (12/31)
- Scored 13 points on 6-of-8 from the field to go with three assists and three blocked shots against Gardner-Webb (12/15)
- Blocked five shots and grabbed 13 rebounds wins over Arizona State (11/25) and Connecticut (11/27) at Madison Square Garden during the NIT Season Tip-Off
- Scored 12 points and grabbed 11 rebounds against Radford (11/21)
- Recorded his first career double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds against Charlotte (11/17). Also had career highs in assists (2) and steals (2) against the 49ers
- Narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds in the season opener against UNC Greensboro (11/13) to go along with three blocks
- Played in 24 games with two starts ... averaged 1.8 points and 1.4 rebounds per game
- Posted a .474 (18-of-38) field goal percentage
- Finished fifth on the team with 12 blocked shots
- Had one steal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Binghamton (3/19)
- Tallied four points, three rebounds and two blocked shots at St. John's (2/19)
- Scored four points on 2-of-2 shooting against Virginia (2/1)
- Recorded two points and one steal at No. 6 Wake Forest (1/28)
- Tallied five rebounds and a season-high three blocked shots against Maryland (1/24)
- Made his only field goal attempt and was 2-of-2 from the foul line for four points against No. 13 Georgetown (1/17)
- Posted two points, two rebounds and one assist against Loyola (12/31)
- Recorded two points and one rebound in four minutes against No. 7 Xavier (12/20)
- Scored six points and grabbed four rebounds against UNC Asheville (12/17)
- Blocked three shots and scored four points against Duquesne (11/28)
- Made 3-of-4 from the field for six points to go with three rebounds against Montana (11/23)
- Pulled down four rebounds in the semifinals against Southern Illinois (11/20)
- Recorded five points and five rebounds against Georgia Southern (11/11) in the second round of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer
- Became the 25th Duke freshman to start in his first collegiate game against Presbyterian (11/10)
High School
- Two-year letterwinner under David Gaines at Christ School in Arden, N.C.
- Led Christ School to a 63-6 record as a junior and senior
- Two-time NCISAA 3A all-state team selection
- An Asheville Citizen-Times All-Western North Carolina first team pick as a junior and senior
- Averaged 15.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game, while leading his team to a 34-2 record and the 2008 NCISAA state championship
- Led the team to 14 straight victories, including a 50-41 win over Greensboro Day in the state championship game to close his high school career
- Scored 13 points and added 18 rebounds in a 77-60 win over Cannon in the state semifinals
- Posted 23 points and 10 rebounds in a 71-68 loss to national power Oak Hill Academy during his senior year
- Named to the Chick-fil-A Classic All-Tournament team after averaging 18.0 point per game in three wins ... scored 16 points in 75-73 win over Pinewood Prep in the championship game
- Led Christ School to a 29-4 record and the 2007 NCISAA state championship as a junior
- Scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a 53-49 win over Greensboro Day in the state championship game
- Averaged 14.3 points and nearly 10.0 rebounds per game as the Christ School beat No. 6 Charlotte Latin, No. 2 Charlotte Christian and No. 1 Greensboro Day to win the state championship
- Also lettered in track as a senior
- Posted a school record high jump of 6'9" and finished second in the state meet
- Played at Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw, Ind. as a freshman and sophomore
- Ranked 40th overall and 14th among power forwards by Scout.com
- Listed 47th (15th at the power forward position) by ESPN 100 ... rated 101st by Rivals.com
- Born Miles Christian Plumlee on September 1, 1988, in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Son of Perky and Leslie Plumlee
- Father, Perky, is a lawyer and played basketball at Tennessee Tech
- Mother, Leslie, is a pharmacist and played basketball at Purdue
- Has two younger brothers, Mason and Marshall, and a younger sister, Madeline
- Marshall also attends and plays basketball at Christ School
- Grandfather, Albert Schultz, played basketball at Michigan Tech (1944) prior to joining the U.S. Air Force ... he also played on the U.S. Air Force Service Team in 1945
- Uncle, William Schultz, played basketball at Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1971-72) prior to being deployed to Vietnam ... 1972 NAIA National Runner-up
- Uncle, Chad Schultz, played basketball at Wisconsin-Oshkosh from 1983-86
- Class salutatorian in 2008 at Christ School
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Favorite athlete is LeBron James
- Received the W. Fleming Talman Memorial Award for outstanding 3A/4A male athlete in a major sport in 2008
- Psychology major with a certificate in markets & management studies


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School hires construction manager
After a lengthy discussion, the Moose Lake School Board passed a motion, with a 5-1 vote, to enter into a contract with ICS Consulting to gather information about what is needed in a new school, determine the square footage, meet with the task force and Vote Yes Committee, organize the referendum campaign, and act as construction manager if the referendum is successful. The special meeting was held on Monday, November 5.
Gary Benson, Pat Overom and Scott Johnson formed ICS Consulting several years ago, and had been hired by the Moose Lake School Board to coordinate restoration after the June flood for a cost of $15,000.
However, ICS Consulting had presented an additional charge of $500 to the school board after additional expenses were incurred for restoration of a flooded tunnel under the elementary wing that carried the heating pipes and other utilities.
Superintendent Robert Indihar explained that ICS Consulting would absolve the bill for $500 if the school board approved the current contract.
Benson, who had been employed by Kraus-Anderson Construction at the time, had been the Moose Lake School District's construction manager for past building bond referendums. All of the referendums had failed in the vote by school district property owners.
Board members Julie Peterson and Kristi Skelton-Weisert pointed out that there were two parts to the contract, an $18,000 charge for the preliminary portion of gathering information about the needs in a new building and bringing the information to the task force.
If the task force, made up of members from the school district, approves the preliminary plans, ICS Consulting will work with the Vote Yes Committee to coordinate a campaign for a building bond referendum, estimated at $30 million.
As construction managers, a lump sum of $750,000 would be charged by the consulting firm, which is approximately 2 ½ percent of the total project.
Peterson wanted more information from other school boards that had a construction manager and those that don't before making a decision about the contract. And she wanted to see if the construction company that will be building the new school would have its own construction manager.
Skelton-Weisert suggested that the board agree to the first part of the contract for the preliminary portion with the $18,000 but not the second until it was determined that a construction manager was needed.
"These are two different issues," she said. "We are talking about a lot of money."
It was pointed out that, if the board approved the contract as written, both charges would be included in the building bonds, if approved by the voters. If the board approved part of the contract for the preliminary work, and then did not approve the second part later, the $18,000 charge would have to come out of the school district's General Fund.
Board members Peter Steen, Jamie Jungers and Kris Lyons, members of the Building Committee, had met with Benson earlier and explained that this contract includes the plan for the building.
"Last time we had a project estimated at $25 million," said Jungers. "We didn't have a plan. This one gathers all of that information ahead of time and then it is brought to the task force."
Skelton-Weisert said that if the board is unhappy with the consulting firm's work, it would not have to approve the second part of the contract.
Steen said that the full contract would result in a seamless plan from beginning to end.
Superintendent Indihar, who had also attended the Building Committee meeting, explained that Benson had presented a timeline from gathering the information to a referendum election to be held in May. Any delays in approving the contract would delay the referendum until November next year.
With approval of the referendum in May, an architect would be hired to design the building and construction could begin in the spring of 2014. The building would be completed for the 2015-2016 school year.
"If the referendum passes in May, the construction manager would be on board to get bids," said Steen.
"It's good business to lock us into a contract tonight," said Jungers.
"I don't want to see this delayed," said Superintendent Indihar. "If a decision is delayed another month it will go past the possible May election."
Steen made the motion, and Jungers seconded it, to accept the contract as is.
The motion passed by a 5–1 vote. Peterson voted nay.
In other business, Superintendent Indihar reported that he had met with city officials and agreed with the general tenets and the price for the school district property that had been set aside for commercial development along Highway 73 on the south end of town. He added that the city would purchase the property and sell it to the developer with certain controls.
The city council would discuss the purchase and approve it at its next meeting, he said. Mayor Ted Shaw had said that the purchase could be completed by the holidays.
"The city was very reassuring that nothing will go up there that we don't want up there," he added.
It was said that Benson would be asked to attend the next meeting of the school board on November 19.

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Junior Sara Groenewegen, the Gophers pitching-hitting machine, was not named the Big Ten player of the year this season.
Sierra Romero of Michigan was. Groenewegen won the award last season.
And Groenewegen wasn't named the conference pitcher of the year.
That major postseason honor went to Michigan's Megan Betsa. Groenewegen got that award two years ago when she was also picked Big Ten freshman of the year.
But on Saturday, the Gopher from White Rock, British Columbia, earned a pretty big honor herself. She was named the Most Outstanding Player in the Big Ten softball tournament in College Station, Pa.
It was a no-doubter. It could not have been anybody else.
In the final two days of the tournament, Groenewegen won three games, pitching every inning, 24 in all.
She beat Illinois 2-0 on a one-hitter in Friday's quarterfinals.
She hit a three-run homer in the incredibly long first semifinal Saturday -- which was broken up with almost a one-hour rain delay after the fourth inning -- and ended with the Gophers beating good-hitting Northwestern 8-4. She got her 300th strikeout of the season near the end of that game that took nearly four hours.
And, then, for the capper, Groenewegen beat No. 2 Michigan 4-3 in 10 innings. It took 3 hours, 40 minutes.
She threw almost 300 pitches Saturday, but got the job done: 125 pitches vs. Wildcats, 158 vs. Wolverines
Minnesota won its second Big Ten tournament title in two years -- and third in school history. The first came in 1999, the second in 2014 with a 3-2 win over Michigan.
"A lot of people outside of Minnesota softball don't believe we can do it," Groenewegen said in a postgame interview on the Big Ten Network, "and they don't believe we can be in the top-25 in this country, and I think this proves right there that we can compete with anyone in the country."
Romero hit a solo homer off Groenewegen in the top of the first inning but Minnesota answered in the bottom when leadoff hitter Sam Macken walked and came around to score on a wild pitch.
The title game quickly turned into a pitchers' duel between Metsa and Groenewegen.
Metsa went nine innings. She was more stingy on hits, giving up only three and striking out 10. But she had control problems, walking eight and hitting two batters.
Groenewegen, in her 10 innings, gave up two earned runs, nine hits and two walks. She struck out 11.
"Sara Groenewegen just laid it all on the line," Gophers coach Jessica Allister said. "This is one of the gutsiest performances I have seen."
"This means so much to us," said Groenewegen, who cried and laughed in the postgame celebration.
The teams each scored a run in the third and another in the sixth, and then it was the bottom of the 10th.
Michigan put in senior Sara Driesenga to pitch. She got a quick strikeout. But then No. 8 hitter Sydney Dwyer singled to right, the opposite field, and stole second. Sydney Fabian got on base on an error by the third baseman.
Then after a force out at third for the second out, Danielle Parlich came up with runners at first and second. Her sharp grounder went off the leg of the shortstop into center field. It was the second error of the inning and fourth of the game for Michigan.
Fabian rounded third and ran toward home and slid. The throw from the center fielder was high and to the left of home plate, allowing Fabian to slide in under the tag.
Ball game.
Allister described the Gophers in one word: "Resilient -- that was a tough game."
Notes: Macken and Houlihan of the Gophers also were named to the all-tournament team along with Groenewegen.
This was the first extra inning championship game.
Michigan is 46-5 now, the Gophers 41-12.
The NCAA selection show will be at 9 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU.


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Comedian Henny Youngman once quipped: "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport." Mothers-in-law are the easy butts of jokes, often stereotyped as controlling, ugly, nasty, and cruel. The barbs poke at a perplexing fact: When we marry, our spouse's family instantly becomes ours too, yet they're strangers with different values, customs, and expectations for everything from relationships with their children to gift giving. Navigating these relationships can be so challenging that family members resort to jabs and digs to mask their discomfort.
It doesn't have to be that way, says Ruth Nemzoff, who offers tools for positive interactions in her new book, Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). If it's any comfort, she says, tensions between spouses and in-laws are universal. She discovered that truth when speaking to audiences here and abroad over a three-year period while promoting her 2008 book, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children. Audience members regularly pulled her aside to lament stressful relationships with their in-laws. Nemzoff knew she had the makings of her next book.
Don't Roll Your Eyes explores how in-law bonds can be strained when families confront the challenges of intermarriage, children, money, and death and dying. "People think in-laws don't matter, but you're going to be involved with these people if they get sick, when a grandchild is born, or when there's a health crisis," says Nemzoff, a resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. Her other roles have included professor, legislator, and doctoral student, as well as wife, mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother. The Boston native enrolled at Barnard after succumbing to the lure of New York City, earning a master's degree in counseling from Columbia in 1964. She received her doctorate in administration, planning, and social policy in 1979 from Harvard. She also served in the New Hampshire legislature from 1975 to 1981.
Friends may rally in an emergency, but family members often remain the first line of defense. "You might not have expected to be living in the same house with your mother-in-law, but she may be the only one able to help," she says. The value of family as caretakers hit home nearly three years ago when her Boston-area home of 25 years was damaged in a fire. "It was really the kids, in-laws included, who led us around until we were back on our feet," says Nemzoff. With her husband, Harris Berman, she has four children, including Sarabeth Berman '06, four in-law children, and seven grandchildren.
Married for nearly 50 years, Nemzoff says her respect for her mother and her in-laws grew over time. "I understood it," she says. "The mother really loves her son and gave a lot to him. And I think she has some rights to his affection and his finances if needed. Parenting is a lot of work and sacrifice."
Adjusting to evolving roles is a lifelong process. People learn to compromise, soften rough edges, ignore annoying habits, and tolerate, or perhaps even appreciate, quirks. "Be forgiving," she advises. "Give people a break when they call it wrong." Nemzoff encourages both generations to recognize that their perceptions of one another may be colored by their own expectations about childrearing, holiday traditions, spending, and saving. Rigid beliefs can trigger judgmental attitudes, and anyone who feels judged is also likely to feel insecure. She urges compassion and understanding. In-law relationships, whether new or established, can be deepened if the parties respect the connection that turned them from strangers into relatives. "If we want to be in a relationship with the children," she says, "we have to love what they love."


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Skullcandy makes a a whole range of products geared towards the young, technologically-inclined, urban individual. From the company's backpacks with built-in speakers and microphones that integrate with your cell phone and/or MP3 players to its extremely varied range and styles of closed-ear and in-ear headphones, Skullcandy was definitely one of the larger draws in Moscone West at this Macworld.
Even before heading over to the booth this morning, I had heard about Skullcandy's products from more than a few non-media attendees. Skullcandy's target audience are younger individuals who identify with the skater/snowboarding/urban demographic and the designs reflect that aesthetic. While some companies will offer a product in a range of colors, Skullcandy takes it a step further by switching up the whole feel of the product by changing the material, and patterns within the same model (take the "G.I." model as a good example of this).
Skullcandy announced a special product at Macworld this year that works with the iPhone. The Full Metal Jacket headset is one of the few new products coming out now that is built especially with the iPhone in mind. By that, I mean that the stereo jack is engineered to a size that fits snugly in the iPhone's oddly-recessed jack, has a built-in microphone, and includes a button (exactly like the iPhone headphones) that allows your to accept calls and navigate through your music using the same click patterns the default Apple headphones use. Essentially, you lose nothing in terms of functionality and gain a better-sounding, better looking (in this writer's humble opinion) pair of headphones.
The headphones themselves are in-ear and (to my untrained, non-audiophile ear) sound much better than the standard Apple headphones. I've listened to a lot more expensive pairs of similar headphones here at Macworld, and these sound just as good at almost half the price. The iPhone-compatible Full Metal Jacket product also works as a headset for the BlackBerry Curve, is shipping now, and will only set you back $79.95.


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If you have known me even for t-e-n nanoseconds you would know that when there is a microwaveable-done in twenty minutes- besan laddoo versus stove top-arm twisting- back aching-one whole hour-besan laddoo, I will choose the former. If you are the kind who will go for the latter, more power to you and a Happy Diwali in the kitchen. Others, please read on.
I could have cited reasons as this, this and this for my choices but no, the bottom line simply is that I am a very phankibaaj kind and love food especially sweets that can be done short and simple. That is SWEET to me. If the sweet is not going to help me tide over a dinner, a lunch or even a breakfast why should I spend a big chunk of my life making it is my basic principle of life.
No wonder Bhapa Doi, Kalakand and Rosgollar Paayesh holler out to me and get done in less than half hour. Except of course Paayesh which I stir and stir and then stir some more for over an hour because that is what Mother told me to. Thank God she didn't profess other such time consuming wisdom and left me on my own regarding besan laddoos.
When I had first seen these ravishing plump very 70-ish beauties at Red Chilies(who in turn had found it at Bhaatukli), I wanted to do it right then because me & besan laddoos are insanely in love with each other. But I checked myself. That amount of Ghee deserves a special occasion and what better than one dressed up in lights and crackling with sparklers. So Besan Laddoos it is for Diwali. I did a small test run yesterday and those laddoos blew us away. It is worth all that Ghee and more. The fact that it takes under 20 minutes and one microwave safe dish to wash is a gift that no Dhantaras can ever bring.
Original Recipe Source: Red Chilie's Besan Laddoo and Bhaatukli's Besan Laddoo
Besan Laddoo in Microwave
I halved Supriya's recipe and so I used 1/2 cup Besan, 1/2 Cup sugar and 3 tbsp of Ghee to make about 6 laddoos.
In a microwave safe bowl or dish mix
1/2 cup of Besan with
2 tbsp of melted ghee
Make sure that all of the besan is coated in ghee.
Microwave for 2 minutes. beep Beep.
Take out. Careful, it will be hot. Add 1 tbsp of melted ghee and stir mixing it together.
Microwave for 2 minutes. Beep, Beep.
Take it out and by now you will get the nice aroma of besan roasting. The besan will also have turned a deeper shade. Stir gain.
Back in the microwave. This time anywhere between 1 minute to 2 minutes. I did 2. The Besan will have turned a rich nut brown shade and the aroma will make sure that is is cooked through. If you feel besan is raw, add a little more ghee and microwave for one more minute.Besan should not be raw or overcooked.
Now let it cool slightly.
When it is still warm to touch but can be handled
add 1/2 cup of fine sugar
and 1/4 tsp of Cardamom Powder.
Mix thoroughly with a spatula or with your fingers. As you do this you will feel the mix binding as the sugar melts and mixes with the besan. Do this for about 5 minutes. Supriya says to add more melted ghee , at this point if the mixture is not coming together. But mine did and yours will too.
Now fashion small balls and decorate with raisins, varak or anything that catches your fancy.
I think these Besan Laddoos, sweet and decadent as they are and which I found over ether at a blog which in turn was shared by another blog carries forward the true spirit of Diwali, of giving and sharing and of acceptance that all things good need their Ghee and sugar.
Have a Happy Deepavali.


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Filed under: Uncategorized
The past two days have been very busy, as other activities made it difficult for me to work on the Census. But I will keep plugging away. I have done another 500 the past couple of days. I was able to find my great grandmother Sophronia Sanders living with her son Loranzia Sanders and his wife Bertie. His sister Ellen Pruitt was also living with them. They were in Izard, Union County the surrounding area.
Another couple day will be busy as I will attend the celebration of my sister's 75th birthday, with her family. And as celebrating another Easter.
I will see how much I can get indexed this next week.
Filed under: 1940 Census
It has been a cool dreary day, a good day for staying inside, appreciate the moisture that has come the past couple of days. This kind of day is a good day for staying in and working on indexing. Over the past 3 days I have indexed 1800 names for the state of Kansas. That means when a second person has looked over these pages and they are arbitrated they will be ready to be searched. I have had the counties of Butler, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clay, Chase, Cowley, Cloud, Decatur, Crawford, Ellis and Franklin.
When I took a break and checked Geneabloggers, Randy Seavers gave the address for finding the downloaded pages on Family Search. I went to Kansas, Pawnee County and Enumeration Districk 73-7, which I found using Steve Morse's web site. On page three here is what I found
They were living in Grant Township outside of Rozel, Kansas in Pawnee County.
My father was renting the land and it was a farm, he was listed as R K with wife Inez V their ages were 35 and 25. Melbarose(sic) Melba Rose, daughter was 3, and Kenneth L was 1. As his birthday is later in the month of April he was almost 2 years old. Eldred Sanders aged 17, sister-in-law was living with them. R K provided the information for this census, he completed 8 grade and Inez had completed 7th grade (My understanding Mom had not gotten that far in school). Eldred had also completed 8th grade. The places of birth were Montana, Arkansas, Kansas, Kansas and Arkansas. On April 1, 1935 he reported they were living in rural Stafford County, this may have been where he was in 1935, but they were not married until 1936, so where was she, in Arkansas or Oklahoma. Radium which is where they first set up housekeeping is in Stafford County. They were married in Paul's Valley Oklahoma, but how long was she there before they were married. Eldred was in Rodney, Arkansas in 1935. Rudolf was employed 52 week in 1939, and worked 80 a week, for a Salary of $250.
Eldred is still living and maybe on a good day, I can find out when Inez went to Oklahoma.
I had never examined the map that closely and I though Radium was either in Pawnee or Barton Counties, but it is located in Stafford.
As I close out this day. I am pleased with what I have accomplished. There something about seeing a family member's name on a Census. As so many of the family members I will be searching for are in rural areas, and I don't know exactly where they lived, I will be patient and wait out the coming months for each state to be come indexed.
As anyone who is indexing can see there are many more states and names to be indexed.
Tomorrow I can not devote the day to indexing, I have other commitments that come first, I will try to get a few pages worked in.


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TAMHSC joins Texas Alzheimer's consortium
(AUSTIN, TX) – The Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (TCADRD) has announced that the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) has been elected to full membership and participation in the prestigious Texas Alzheimer's Research and Care Consortium (TARCC).
The TAMHSC will provide expertise in research, care and education that complements existing consortium members – Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the University of North Texas Health Science Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
"This is a great day for our medical research institution to have a role in the advancement of care and cure for this terrible disease that affects so many Texans," said Clint P. Hackney, TCADRD vice chair and Texas A&M University alumnus.
TAMHSC faculty currently are studying Alzheimer's development and working on markers for earlier detection, as well as testing specific drugs to prevent or eliminate the disease. Research also is being done on the impact from lifestyle and the environment, outside of genetics and biology.
"We are pleased to be part of the Texas Alzheimer's Research and Care Consortium and share our knowledge and expertise," said David S. Carlson, Ph.D., TAMHSC vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies. "Alzheimer's not only affects the individual but also puts a tremendous strain on caregivers and our society, and our faculty are committed to finding how to prevent, treat and perhaps even eradicate this devastating disease."
Interested in this topic? Contact us for more information.


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Jeffrey Lemberger via Crowdrise
March 02, 2012
EVENT: Honda LA Marathon 2012
EVENT DATE: Mar 18, 2012
BEIT TSHUVAH wrote -
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Our Team:
Team Beit T'Shuvah is back for its 3rd year in a row as an official participating LA Marathon charity and could not be more excited! We are welcoming both new and returning members to our team and looking forward to another successful year. We want every member on our team to have a positive life-changing experience and are committed to doing all we can to help that happen. By running with Team Beit T'Shuvah you will be raising funds to help people recover from addictive and behavioral disorders, recover their passion and discover their purpose. Join our team and help us Run to Save a Soul at the 2012 LA Marathon. For more information visit www.beittshuvah.org/marathon
Here's How it Works:
- Train with our team every Sunday morning at various W.LA locations (26 week training program led by 4 experienced Coaches)
- Raise $200 to get a Run to Save a Soul shirt.
- Raise $500 to get a seat at our Team Beit T'Shuvah dinner the night before the race.
- Raise $1000 to get your race registration paid and a spot in a Team Beit T'Shuvah hotel room the night before the race (2 runners per room.)
*Minimum fundraising requirement is $1000 and the fundraising deadline is March 1, 2012.
Our Cause:
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Fawcett Publications, Incorporated, 1963 - Intercultural communication - 192 pages
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Hotel Villa Diana
It's a little hotel realised in 1950 by the swiss painter Edwin Hunziker from an ancient eolian house renovated and enlarged, immersed in the green of a wide garden of citrus and olive trees.
Today, it belongs to the artist's family that runs it with the same spirit of simple and warm hospitality of its founder.
From its garden and the wide terraces, you can enjoy a view of singular beauty of the sea, the city of Lipari and its acropolis.
Thanks to its delightful position, the wide spaces, the peacefulness of the place, Villa Diana is the ideal hotel for relax.
The hall and part of the rooms are furnished with antique furniture and a real art gallery of the founder's works.
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text: In his seminal modernist paintings, Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985) delved deep into questions of ground and materiality. Such themes were highly charged during the post–WWII period in which he worked, shortly after the destruction of many European cities as well as the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the war. The surfaces of his canvases are thick and clotted; their aesthetic is muddy and scatological. Dubuffet coined the term "Art Brut" to describe the kind of work that he collected and aspired toward: the untrained, outsider art of alienated groups, including children and the mentally ill. His own paintings are purposefully "deskilled," often possessing the spontaneity and crude aesthetic of finger paintings.


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DEFCON is a stunning, online, multiplayer strategy simulation based around the theme of global thermonuclear war. The game, inspired by the 1983 cult-classic WarGames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era.
The player assumes the role of a General hidden deep within an underground bunker, the mission being to successfully exterminate the enemy's civilian population while at the same time disabling the enemy's ability to retaliate. Desperate attempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances - alliances that may at any moment break-down to become treacherous and very
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It's been nearly two years since the New York Giants won the Super Bowl in one of the greatest upsets in NFL history, a fact that is hard to forget if one is married to a die-hard Giants fan. Another piece of handy trivia is knowing the team's home uniform color scheme: blue with white lettering, red accents, and gray pants, all of which bears a distinct resemblance to a can of Dale's Pale Ale from Oskar Blues, which back in 2002 was the first U.S. microbrewery to make craft beer and offer it only in an aluminum can. That's right. Not a bottle. A can.
In fact, canned beer and the Super Bowl have more in common than halftime commercials. Like the Giants' stunning victory over the undefeated New England Patriots, Dale's Pale Ale has proven to be another underdog victor in the battle of perception: bottle versus can.
When we started, the idea of canning beer was blasphemous," says Dale Katechis, founder of Oskar Blues. "It was frowned upon as a cheap way to deliver lager-style cheap beer. The fact is, if you put bad beer in a can, it's going to be bad beer. But our goal is to deliver beer as fresh as possible, and the can is the best.
Since Oskar Blues first hand-canned their crisp, hoppy Dale's Pale Ale eight years ago, today some 50 domestic craft breweries as well as 25 Canadian and a dozen internationally are following suit, placing their premium beers in cans.
The three biggest enemies of beer are light, oxygen, and heat. So if you think about it, cans eliminate the first two hazards. But as logical as that sounds, for this skeptic, tasting was believing. I confess that while I've been a fan of Dale's Pale Ale for several years, I'd mentally filed the beer under the novelty category. (Wow! A great beer in a can!) My true conversion came when my favorite Fat Tire Amber Ale from New Belgium, which had previously only been available in brown bottles, came out in a can two summers ago. Here is where things get crazy. Taste the can and the bottle—side by side—and judge for yourself. The beer from the can tastes rich, toasty, and creamy. By comparison, the same beer in the bottle tastes a little flat, less fresh. Turns out there's a reason why. New Belgium adds a slurry of active live yeast to its Fat Tire cans just before sealing to take up oxygen and prevent stale off-flavors. The result is a fresher, more complex beer. Think of it as a mini keg.
Now, try conducting the same side-by-side taste test with cans and bottles from one of your favorite craft brewers, like Brooklyn Brewery or 21st Amendment. Or from one of the larger quality producers, like Guinness or Stella Artois. I conducted this experiment with several colleagues, including our resident beer aficionado and design director, Matthew Lenning. "I was completely preconditioned to think that canned beer equaled bad beer (see Meister Bräu). Tasting is believing, however," Lenning admits. "What seemed to me from the outset as just a gimmicky attempt to latch onto the Pabst-in-a-Can trend has actually improved the quality of what we drink."
The truth is that many of us still largely associate cans with college kids, hipsters, and, let's face it, cheap beer. "The myth is that high-quality craft beer has to be in a brown bottle," says Oskar Blues' Katechis. When American craft brewers started competing against import beers in green bottles some 20 years ago, they entered the market using brown glass bottles, which didn't allow as much UV light in. (Green bottles are more prone to skunking beer.) This gave American craft brewers the advantage in quality control, and the ability to compete. "Microbrewers have always sold one beer at a time. It's a grassroots movement. The moment a craft brewer gets focused on quantity, they stop being a craft brewer," says Katechis. "These guys started in their garages and basements, and 20 years ago the only machines out there for cans were very large, so craft brewers were forced into bottles."
Garrett Marrero at Maui Brewing Co. adds, "Even the large domestic breweries will tell you that cans are a better package for the beer. The myth of the metallic taste goes back to 50 years ago when tin cans were soldered with lead." Today's aluminum cans feature a water-based polymer lining that eliminates any metallic contamination. That is, the beer never comes in contact with the aluminum. "You'd have to bite the can while you were drinking from it," Marrero jokes. "Coors has done the best job of marketing cans with the Frost Brew Liner to seal in freshness. That's the same liner that has been in cans for more than 20 years now, and it does exactly what Coors says it does."
But canned beer's benefits don't stop at freshness. Cans are easier on the environment: They are nearly 50 percent lighter to ship than bottles, which greatly reduces their carbon footprint
Jamie Gordon at Cask Brewing Systems, the Canadian company that invented the craft canning system in 1999 and sold its first U.S. model to Oskar Blues several years later, says the number one reason brewers call him is environmental concerns.
Creating a more eco-friendly product is what led Marrero to put his craft brews exclusively in cans, a decision that helped earn him a "Who's Keeping Hawaii Green" award in 2008. "Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, and recycled cans can be back on the shelf with new product within eight weeks," says Marrero. "To use bottles, we'd have to ship from thousands of miles away only to ship it back. The cans are locally produced and have a one-way journey. It's better for the beer, better for the environment."
So whether you're going green or toasting your team's colors, when settling in this February 7 for America's most-watched television broadcast, why not root for the underdog? Grab a pint glass, a can of craft brew, and prepare to level the playing field in the great beer debate.


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God's Discipline?
I woke up one morning last week with the verse "Obadiah 4" in m head. This was very unusual I thought, since it was a very random book in the Bible and one I had never actually read, or had any mention/contact/sighting of in any recent memory. I looked it up and it was not a "good" verse (Obadiah is a one chapter book... so Obadiah 1:4 reads):
Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,"
declares the LORD.
I thought umm... yikes, ok, must have been random. Why would God give me a verse like this? It seems kind of... mean... and I don't *feel* like I struggle with pride... or have been particularly "bad" or something...
Well it was/has been bugging me for a while, and then stuff started going bad...
* I got last place on this contest I entered on something I am good at or is my main talent area, and while it wasn't representative of my best work and I didn't expect much, it was still kind of humiliating. On top of that, things have been quieter because a lot of my friends have moved away and I went to this contest thing award night thing by myself, because my family and the handful of friends I have in town all couldn't go. Oh and they had raffle tickets that they gave out consecutively in line as you entered, ie 4080, 4081, 4082, and I let some guy cut in front of me in line and his number was called for the raffle! THAT WAS MINE!! Grr.
* I had a really discouraging interaction with this one girl I like
* I felt like God withdrew his presence from me and I noticed it until I resolved to obey him on a challenging thing I felt on my heart. I felt like I was supposed to not take my paycheck for the month from the small Christian non-profit I was working for, because I hadn't earned it for that month with the amount of hours I put in, and that in the past months before that I had missed enough hours with my flexible schedule that I "owed" time and that was their money because I hadn't given them all the hours I owe.
* I've never had an accident or ticket in my 8 years of driving and I got a ticket for 60 in a 55 which is just lame. To be honest I've deserved a ticket a great deal of times and been pulled over 8-9 times and never got cited, so I guess I had it coming, but in the context of this verse and this week... I feel like God let me get ticketed.
I just feel like everything is going wrong and I normally would never attribute that to God, except for that I woke up with that verse in my head and I've felt like I've been continually humbled, rebuked, and disciplined in the last weeks. And while I don't feel sad or self-pity I'm kind of like "man what did I do" ... I wasn't deliberately like being bad or something... actually I'd been really close to God lately and in the last years just growing and learning a lot.
So I feel like God is "disciplining" me as a son, I felt like that verse came to mind when I was praying about it the other night, and I feel like God has/was working in me for a long time and now that I'm "strong" enough in Him maybe he wants to discipline me because (1) I can handle it now and (2) I need it to be what God wants me to be...
I just can't help but wonder... I feel like bad things keep happening and I can't help but feel like it's God's hand bringing them to me to discipline me... is that right? I read Oswald Chamber's Utmost for His Highest entry for August 14th and I wonder if that is what God is doing in my life right now?
Your thoughts? Thanks.
"Random" thoughts can come from the Holy Spirit, from spirits that are not holy (the same ones that bring temptation), as well as from half forgotten things floating around in our brain. I hadn't heard the commercial in years but a while back I caught myself singing "my bologna has a first name ..." Once data get stored in our mental computers it's never fully erased and is subject to random recall. That's true for scripture verse addresses as well as other data; remember how the devil quoted scripture out of context when he was trying to tempt Jesus. We also know that the Lord leads us and the devil pushes us. You can feel the difference if you stop a moment to think about it.
Since it was not part of an ongoing dealing of the Lord when it first came to your mind and since it is so easy to get so focused on something that everything seems to relate to that something when there may be no real connection the best way to figure out the source is to look at the result. Is this drawing you closer to God or putting a wall between you, building your relationship with Christ or weakening it? God certainly does chastise us and does use circumstances to help us become more and more like Christ. We resist often especially of the circumstances seem to be hard ones. Read Romans 8:28-31 to see that that is the goal of God's dealings with us. Hebrews 12:11 als reminds us "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. "
All of us have some pride, some instances when we think of ourselves, our wants more than we think of God or of other people and their needs and wants. Obadiah seems to describe an extra ordinary degree of pride and disrespect however/ It is certainly reasonable to ask God if this is something He is working on in your life and of so to please help you cooperate wth Him rather than resist and get damaged.
1Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. ... Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. Matthew 25:40 & 45
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Fiscal cliff: The lowest point
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner opened their negotiations last month by pledging to work constructively to avert the fiscal cliff.
But on Wednesday, the two men at the center of the talks traded blame, not counteroffers.
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Obama and Boehner hit their lowest point yet during a day of sharp words and legislative confusion — and the outlook significantly darkened for reaching a deficit-reduction deal before the new year. The talks are stalled, and Boehner is scrambling to muscle his own bill through the House — a proposal the president has already promised to veto.
With 12 days to go until the deadline, the president faulted Boehner for wasting time on a bill that will never reach the Oval Office. Senior administration officials accused the speaker of incompetence by pursuing a short-sighted tactic that makes it harder to reach a deal and brings the country closer to the cliff.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama, Boehner duel on fiscal cliff)
Boehner responded with a curt statement from the Capitol, where he told the president to "get serious soon," or else Obama "can be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history." Boehner then turned and walked out.
The dueling public statements signaled that little has fundamentally changed between Obama and Boehner, who have been here before. They got close to a grand bargain on the debt and deficit in 2011 only to see it crumble amid partisan pressures. Both felt burned.
On Wednesday, it looked like history had a good shot at repeating itself, as the tenuous progress they made over the past week seemed to unravel.
( Also on POLITICO: Cliff talks turn into public posturing)
Obama, betraying some of those bruised feelings, said Republicans just need to "take the deal."
"They keep on finding ways to say 'no' as opposed to finding ways to say 'yes,'" Obama said. "And I don't know how much of that just has to do with, you know, it is very hard for them to say yes to me. But, you know, at some point, you know, they've got to take me out of it and think about their voters and think about what's best for the country."
Boehner's Plan B bill is going nowhere, Obama added.
( Also on POLITICO: "Plan B" stalls in Senate)
He's likely to get an assist on that point from congressional Democratic leaders.
Senate Democrats haven't settled on a final strategy, but the most likely option is they don't even take the House bill up — if it passes — and pound the speaker for refusing to cut a deal with Obama. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) believes she may not lose any of her members, making Boehner's job more difficult.
"I haven't seen her work a vote this hard since health care" in 2010, said one top Democratic aide.
The distance between Obama and Boehner on Wednesday was particularly striking on Capitol Hill, where the speaker spent Wednesday working to pass his fallback plan to raise tax rates on income above $1 million.
Boehner took his pitch to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) office, where he spoke to a meeting of deputy whips — the small group of lawmakers tasked with taking stock of how Republicans are voting and with trying to convince them to support leadership priorities.
It was a rare appearance in front of this group — several lawmakers said Boehner has attended fewer than five times before, including once during the 2011 debt limit showdown — and underscored his concern about avoiding a defeat on his own bill. The Republican vote-counting team was predicting a razor-thin margin.ec


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Right after the Sunday morning service we have "Connections." This year we are having several different groups and topical teachings. Connections is a great way to get to get to know others while exploring the Bible.
As we study, pray, and spend time with each other, we hope to see the members of our class growing as a community of disciples who love one another, serve others, honor The Lord, and effectively display His glory.
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Medicom combines their Kubrick and Bearbrick lines into one adorable set of Mega Man figures, coming in January 2010 to a dusty shelf near you.
The Kubrick/Bearbrick Mega Man set is actually a Rockman set, but I figured our North American readers might know him better by his bastardized name. Rockman looks vaguely pissed to be packaged alongside a clear blue Rockman fan-bear, but such is his lot in life. Not even swapping out his helmet for flowing hair seems to help.
The two figure set, which Capcom revealed back in October, is the first of two combo packs from Medicom, with a Proto Man set on the way featuring a similarly 1-Upped Bearbrick figure.
The Rockman set will begin shipping to fine toy importers in January. NCSX is currently accepting preorders, with $30.90 securing your 2.75 inch robot bear pair.
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Mark Harrington, owner of Healthworks Fitness Centers Inc., Boston, says the allegations in a lawsuit filed against him and the company by a former personal trainer are "entirely without merit."
The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in Suffolk County (MA) Superior Court in Boston on behalf of DeAnna Putnam and other similarly situated plaintiffs. The complaint includes eight counts, including unpaid wages, overtime violations, minimum wage, retaliation and breach of contract.
The lawsuit claims that Healthworks does not have enough personal training business to ensure that personal trainers are able to work enough hours to meet the company's full-time requirement and that personal trainers often work many unpaid hours to try to meet that requirement.
"Healthworks ensures that it has free labor from its personal trainers and has them perform work for which it would otherwise have to pay another employee for, such as helping customers on the exercise floor and teaching group exercise classes," according to the complaint.
The lawsuit also claims that Healthworks' personal trainers are not paid for complimentary sessions and special workshops for members on certain days, such as the company's monthly Member Appreciation Day.
Hillary Schwab, the attorney representing Putnam, says that Putnam is the only named plaintiff in the case. Schwab adds that she has been contacted by six former and current Healthworks personal trainers who confirm Putnam's allegations in the complaint.
"What the client has alleged is backed up from the documentation from the pay stubs and other documentation of hours worked that she received from Healthworks," Schwab says.
The lawsuit claims Putnam was fired by Healthworks earlier this year after she filed a formal complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. Harrington disputes the allegation.
Personal trainers at Healthworks must work 24 sessions per week, or at least 35 hours, to achieve full-time status, Harrington says. The company credits 1 1/2 hours for each training session. If a trainer does 14 sessions in a week, for example, that equals 21 credit hours, so a trainer would be required to work the floor of the club for an additional 14 hours that week. At no time, Harrington says, are trainers paid less than $10 an hour.
Healthworks personal trainers are 100 percent commissioned, Harrington adds. Full-time benefits include a greater split for each personal training session, health and dental insurance, longer paid vacations, sick days, personal days, holiday pay and eligibility for individual and team bonuses, plus an annual trip incentive. The full-time trainers at the club where Putnam was employed had an average annual salary of at least $60,000 and recently earned a trip to a resort in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Harrington says.
"Our compensation package is the best in the city of Boston that we know of, and we've checked them all," Harrington says.
The lawsuit seeks damages related to wages as well as attorneys' fees and costs.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Investors hinted that consumer websites are still a popular investment despite Facebook's follies, pushing the price for online money-transfer site Xoom more than 50 percent higher in its market debut Friday.
The online-payments company priced initial public offering at $16 a share Thursday night, $1 higher than the top of the suggested range of $13 to $15. A total of 6.3 million shares were sold, with 1.1 million coming from early investors and the rest from the company, for a total take of $101.2 million and valuation of more than $500 million.
When the stock began trading under the ticker symbol "XOOM" Friday morning on the Nasdaq at 7:50 a.m. Pacific time, the price jumped 31.3 percent to $21 immediately, but that ended up being the lowest price paid for shares on the open market on Xoom's debut day. The stock traded in a range from $21 to $25.70 before closing at $25.10, a gain of 56.9 percent from the IPO price.
The San Francisco company, cofounded in 2001 by early PayPal investor Kevin Hartz, updates the traditional model of sending money to contacts in foreign countries, bringing in mobile phones and the Internet.
Rather than walking into Western Union to wire money home, immigrants can log onto Xoom.com and send money to 30 countries on six continents. Cash is wired to the recipient's cellphone from a bank account, credit card or PayPal account; the recipient can withdraw that cash at participating stores or banks or even have it delivered home.
In an interview with this newspaper, CEO John Kunze pronounced himself "thrilled" by Wall Street's reaction, while adding that it had taken the company a decade to reach the IPO milestone. Hartz handed the reins at Xoom to Kunze before he and his wife turned their attention to their other hot Silicon Valley startup — Eventbrite, which lets users plan, promote and sell tickets for events.
Kunze, who previously took Plum Tree Software public before selling it to BEA Systems for $200 million, said that in the past 10 years, Xoom has built an extensive system of relationships with regulators, retailers and banks in dozens of countries. That's given the company an enormous head start over potential competitors, he added, giving investors confidence in its ability to profit from an $82 billion global market for money transfers.
Hartz said that sprawling market was one of the reasons he launched the money-transfer startup. "When I think about the companies I'm involved in, we're always trying to reach 6 billion people, as opposed to just the 300 million in the U.S.," he said.
Plus, he added: "I don't like businesses that use abusive practices. If you look at the traditional money-transfer companies, they're really fleecing immigrants who are working hard to support their families back home."
Xoom charges fees to customers to complete the transactions, though its says the fees are much lower than those charged by entrenched players in the field like Western Union. In the past five years, customers have used the platform to send $6.6 billion with nearly half of that transmitted last year. That helped Xoom post its largest revenues yet last year, at $80 million, but the business is not yet profitable.
"Xoom has loyal customers that love the company's product," said Sam Hamadeh, CEO of a New York firm called PrivCo that analyzes the finances of private companies.
He said the company's high percentage of repeat customers, plus 60 percent revenue growth between 2011 and 2012, "reassures IPO investors that Xoom will have solid quarterly earnings visibility once it's a public company."
Still, Xoom's IPO filing warns that the challenges the company faces are the thicket of international regulations that govern money transfers and the risk that criminals or terrorists might use the service, scaring off legitimate customers.
Websites that depend on the fickle consumer to generate revenue have also faced a tough road with investors since Facebook's record-breaking IPO in May of 2012. Since its second day of trading, Facebook stock has yet to reach the price commanded at IPO time, $38, and few consumer-Web companies have even dared to attempt a Wall Street debut.
Kayak, a travel-reservations website, successfully debuted in July, receiving a solid first-day "pop" to 27.6 percent higher than its IPO price of $26 apiece. Rival Priceline jumped it to buy the company for $40 a share just a few months later, however.
Trulia, a real estate information site, also had a successful IPO with a model that depends on consumer interest, but that San Francisco company also has a strong enterprise offering, with real estate professionals paying fees in order to access the company's information. Enterprise IPOs have been much more successful in the wake of Facebook's IPO, with Silicon Valley companies like Wi-Fi provider Ruckus, cloud security software firm Palo Alto Networks and solar-energy installer SolarCity finding success.
Hartz cofounded the company with help from other members of the so-called PayPal Mafia, and two other influential alumni of the online-payments pioneer are on the board of the company, Keith Rabois and Roelof Botha.
Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.


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BANGKOK - Thailand began its second day under martial law Wednesday with little visible military presence on the streets of Bangkok as residents tried to make sense of the dramatic turn of events after six months of anti-government protests and political turmoil.
Several meetings were planned behind closed doors among senior government officials, opposition party leaders, the Election Commission and others a day after the country's powerful army chief invoked the military's expanded powers and issued more than a dozen edicts that included broad powers of censorship over the media, the Internet and vaguely defined threats to prosecute opponents.
But around Bangkok, there was little sign of any change, and most soldiers that had occupied key intersections around the capital had withdrawn. People went about their work normally, students went to school, and the traffic was snarled as it would be any other weekday in this bustling city.
"After 24 hours of martial law, I have not spotted a single soldier," said Buntham Lertpatraporn, a 50-year-old vendor of Thai-style doughnuts in the capital's central business district along Silom Road. "I've only seen soldiers on TV."
"My life has not changed at all," he said. "But in my mind I feel a little frightened, because I don't know how it will end."
The army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha provided little clarity or a path forward during a press conference Tuesday amid speculation both at home and abroad that the declaration of martial law was a prelude to a military coup.
Prayuth, who is known to be gruff with the media, deflected questions about the likelihood of a coup with flippant answers that added to the confusion. Asked if a coup was taking shape, he replied: "That's a question that no one is going to answer."
Asked if the army was keeping in contact with the government, he answered: "Where is the government right now? Where are they now? I don't know."
Among the dozen or measures announced Tuesday, the military said it was banning demonstrators from marching outside their protest sites and banning any broadcast or publication that could "incite unrest." Fourteen politically affiliated satellite and cable TV stations were also asked to stop broadcasting.
In Washington, the top American diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Russel, called for the early restitution of democracy and free and fair elections after the military intervened after months of violent political unrest.
But Human Rights Watch criticized the Obama administration for failing to call for the immediate reversal of martial law, saying that would be the quickest path to restore democracy. The group issued a statement that called the army's move and its broad restrictions "effectively a coup that threatens the human rights of all Thais."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon echoed calls from across the international community, urging Thailand to respect democratic principles and for all sides in the tense conflict to "exercise utmost restraint (and) refrain from any violence."
Thailand, an economic hub for Southeast Asia whose turquoise waters and idyllic beaches are a world tourist destination, has been gripped by off-and-on political turmoil since 2006, when former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was toppled by a military coup after being accused of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect for Thailand's king.
His overthrow triggered a power struggle that in broad terms pits Thaksin's supporters among a rural majority against a conservative establishment in Bangkok.
The army action came a day after Thailand's caretaker prime minister refused to step down, resisting pressure from a group of senators calling for a new interim government with full power to conduct political reforms.
It also followed threats by anti-government protesters to intensify their campaign to oust the ruling party, and an attack last week on protesters that killed three people and injured over 20.
The military, which has staged 11 successful coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, is widely seen as sympathetic to the protest movement.
In the military announcement, Prayuth cited a 1914 law giving authority to intervene during crises. He said the military was acting to prevent street clashes between political rivals, and that it would "bring back peace and order to the beloved country of every Thai as soon as possible."
"The key going forward will be the military's role in politics," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "If they play the role of enforcer of law and order and even mediator ... this could be a resolution to the impasse."
But if they don't, "we can expect protests and turmoil from the losing side."
The latest round of unrest started in November, when demonstrators took to the streets to try to oust then-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's sister. She dissolved the lower house of Parliament in December in a bid to ease the crisis, and later led a weakened, caretaker government.
Earlier this month, the constitutional Court ousted Yingluck and nine Cabinet ministers for abuse of power. But the move, which left the ruling party in charge, did little to resolve the conflict.
The anti-government protesters want an interim, unelected government to implement vaguely defined reforms to fight corruption — and to remove the Shinawatra family's influence from politics. Critics at home and abroad call the idea unconstitutional and undemocratic.
The leader of the pro-government Red Shirt movement, Jatuporn Prompan, said his group could accept martial law, but wouldn't tolerate a coup.
"We will see what the army wants," he said, warning that the undemocratic removal of the country's caretaker government "will never solve the country's crisis and will plunge Thailand deeper into trouble."
Associated Press writers Todd Pitman and video journalists Kiko Rosario and Raul Gallego Abellan in Bangkok and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.


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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Opportunity rover didn't rest on its laurels after sending scientists evidence that its landing site on Mars' Meridiani Planum was once drenched in water .
The six-wheel rover completed another round of science observations of its surroundings before its Martian day ended at 11:13 a.m. ET Wednesday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
Opportunity became the star of the $820 million double-rover mission for a Washington news conference on Tuesday. Data and images it sent to Earth showed that water once percolated through rocks it has studied and that the ground would have been suitable for life.
Those findings were based on observations made over the past few weeks. This week, the rover studied the Martian atmosphere with its panoramic camera and an instrument called a mini-thermal emission spectrometer, or Mini-TES, which views infrared radiation from objects to determine mineral composition.
It then turned the Mini-TES to stare at the ground for more observations.
Opportunity later focused on an area of soil dubbed "Pay Dirt," making stereo microscopic images and taking readings with its Mössbauer spectrometer, which is designed to determine the composition and abundance of iron-bearing minerals.
The rover then drove about 16 inches (40 centimeters) toward a rock called "Last Chance" and prepared to deploy its instrument-laden robotic arm.
One of its tasks planned for the Martian workday beginning late Wednesday was to take images of a solar eclipse as Mars' moon Deimos crosses in front of the sun, JPL said.
Halfway around Mars, the twin rover Spirit was working on a rock dubbed "Humphrey," which it began examining during a long drive from its landing site toward a big crater that scientists have named "Bonneville." Scientists hope Bonneville will give Spirit a look at rocks well below the surface.
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Although not technically the correct term for a student at Deerfield Academy, it has become accepted as such. It is a student whose superior education has taught him how to speak English correctly unlike the morons who attend their worthless school in Wallingford,CT. The community college bound Choate students might be more successful in their jibes if they could use this rather simple language well enough to formulate coherent sentences. For instance, the example given below is a direct quote from a Choatie. Perhaps if you were not such a miserable life form you could have made that sentence grammatically correct. In response to Deerfield girls' size, I hope all of you at Choate understand that having 90% of the female population being bulimic is a bad thing. Although in essence it could be good for society, because it is much more difficult for those who have had eating disorders to procreate.
Choatie: a Deerfieldian is "A group of students attending Deerfield Academy with the same intelliegence compared with their ancestoral roots the Neanderthals"
by Choaties are worthless May 08, 2005
A student at Deerfield Academy and the exact opposite of a Choatie, a Deerfieldian is the quitessential student, setting the standard for manners, itellegence, class, and dress.
The Deerfieldians soundly defeated the Choaties at the football game last satuday.
by dictionary April 08, 2005
Deerfieldian: My dad is so richer/better than yours, and my obnoxiously preppy clothes cost more than your salvation army outfit. And, oh my gosh, your school accepts poor people!
Choatie: You're an asshole
Choatie: You're an asshole
by Ed Shanahan November 12, 2009
(female)- Animals, usually hairy and disturbingly fat-characteristic huge lips for kissing enough college admission officer ass, and adorned in stolen or repossessed jewlery to divert attention from their otherwise shocking appearence. Shallow personalities are not uncommon and neither are irritating attitudes. Love to chase wealth and men in their twenties Phil if not older. Adorned in "forest green" with collars popped -as they term it- and tend to parade it, much to the discontent of society in general. Infantile manners and intellect. If spotted, please call pest control.
Deerfieldian, shine my shoes.
by Neil Shelat May 04, 2005
A group of students attending Deerfield Academy with the same intelliegence compared with their ancestoral roots the Neanderthals. Unreasonable amounts of body hair can be found on their female species which has led researchers to suspect that Deerfield has held on to their age old tradition of an all boys education. That being said, Deerfieldians still hold a special place in our Society today. They are good at the occupation of "Tool", "Homo-sexual", "Preppy wannabes", etc. and make good targets for other schools to trash on them. Their location (Deerfield Mass.) is out in the boonies and they resort to alternative activities deemed extremely uncivilized.
DA Student 1: Ug! Ug!
DA Student 2: Unga Bunga!
DA Student 2: Unga Bunga!
by J.Lee May 05, 2005
A fag...one who wears ugly, preppy, gay, white sweathers and buy their way into anything...the chicks look like they've been hit by a truck and all the dudes are gay.
Deerfieldan 1: I really wish these white sweaters were multi-colored.
Deerfieldan 2: Yea, with a huge penis on it, too.
Deerfieldan 2: Yea, with a huge penis on it, too.
by everyone thinks this about u April 14, 2005
No, not the Academy, the town: Deerfield, IL. A Major contributor to the North Shore of Chicago known for its rich bitch snobs, preppy McPrepsters, totally pimped out mom-mobiles, and depressed fathers who work to hard for their own good only to find their hard earned money is carelessly dispensed on uneeded accsessories. Deerfield High School is the zoo in which all of this revolves. Although, among the typical North Shore population there is the infamous Dark Side made up of ghostly pale kids dressed in black with hair the color of a rainbow. At least they know the truth.
That little deerfieldian girl owns a juicy jumpsuit, something from Tiffany's, and birkenstock clogs, and she can't even walk yet! I CANT WAIT FOR HER BAT MITZVAH!
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Canadian producers in the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are harvesting big crops of wheat and barley, but canola and oat production is expected to be lower this year due to heat and disease.
Since Canada is the world's largest producer and exporter of canola, a smaller crop could disrupt supply chains at a time when supplies of protein feeds are already tight.
Statistics Canada released its production estimates for principal field crops Thursday, October 4, which showed the country's total wheat production is forecast to be substantially larger than either the 2010-11 or 2011-12 crops.
Spring wheat production for 2012-13 is estimated at 18,641 million tons, up 3.4% from last year. "Farmers had pretty good spring wheat yields across the prairies," says David Drozod, senior analyst with Ag-Chieve, Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Protein levels are coming in at about 13 to 14%." Canada's estimated total wheat production of 26.7 million tons for the current crop year is 5.8% larger than 2011-12 production. Last year's crop was 9% larger than the 2010 crop.
The country's canola crop, however, has run into problems. Statistics Canada estimates 2012-13 canola production at 13.359 million metric tons, substantially lower than the average trade estimate of 14.7 million metric tons. "There were reduced yields across the prairies," says Drozod. But it was a surprise that Statistics Canada reduced canola production by such a large amount, he adds.
ICE November canola futures jumped more than $15/ton to $610/ton in response to the report.
Excessive heat during the growing season, particularly in Saskatchewan when the canola crop was flowering, hurt canola production, says Drozod. Aster yellows, a disease that typically doesn't affect the prairie provinces, was also an issue this year. Aster yellows affects 300 species of plants and is transmitted by the aster leafhopper.
Despite an expected 7.8% year-over-year reduction in canola production this year, the crop will be the country's second largest ever. Last year's crop of 14.5 million metric tons is the all-time production high. Last year's canola production was 13.5% larger than 2010's 12.77 million metric tons.
This fall for the first time ever, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will begin marketing canola. The wheat board added canola because Canadian producers were interested in using the pool programs to hedge risk. "Farmers have been telling us they want CWB to run canola pools to help manage their price risk and provide them with reliable returns through a system they can trust," said CWB president and CEO Ian White in a news release.
Barley production of 8.5 million metric tons is forecast to increase 10.8% from the 2011-12 crop. Oat production of 2.94 million metric tons is forecast to drop 2%.
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Vintage miniature Fairyland Trees. Great for craft projects or for gnome homes. 6 pieces. Produced by Koziol during the post WWII period.
A vintage set of unique German miniatures that are from the back of our warehouse, brand new old stock! We imported these directly from Germany over 20 years ago and just found one last box. We only have a limited supply of these and when they are gone, they'll be gone forever.
These Fairy tale Trees are one sided (flat backs), come in a set of 6 pieces, and are 1 1/2" tall and 1 1/2" wide. Since they are only detailed on one side, they can be glued for Fairy Gardens, in backgrounds, or on gnome houses, in miniature villages or for snow globes. They are made from high quality molded plastic. Manufactured by Koziol in Germany.


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Hello Kiddles!!
I'm back today to share a little morsel I cooked up for the latest Moxie Fab World Challenge – Get Daring With Decorative Tape. I am such a fan of Cath's challenges, and this one is no exception, especially since she forces me to use untouched craft supplies that I've had for eons. So for that, I thank you, Cath!! Plus, her inspiration almost always revs up my mojo – again, many thanks, Cath!! LOL Coincidentally, this week's CARDS Gallery Challenge is to use Washi Tape, too – the stars are aligned!!
So, my vision was a city skyline – maybe a Miami Beach city skyline. LOL I recently picked up a new EK Success Plaid Border Punch that I just HAD to have but was totally perplexed as to how to use it in my designing. Then it hit me – if I punched the Washi tape with the Plaid Border Punch, it would look like windows in skyscrapers. Brilliance, I tell ya!! LOL And super easy, too!
Since Washi Tape has a light adhesive, you can stick it and remove it pretty easily. So I stuck each strip of Washi tape onto some vellum and punched the Plaid Border Punch. Then I used my handy dandy tweezers to peel it away from the vellum and adhere it to the image panel. I think you're supposed to tear the Washi tape – but I just can't do that. I think it's against my religion . . . it's just too messy for my eye to handle. So, I cut a few of the tapes at an angle at the top. I love the dimension that each building has. I stamped the Hero Arts Grid background in Provincial Gray Fresh Ink to add to the graphic feel of the buildings, and the polka dot road was stamped using Polka Dot Basics from Papertrey Ink (stamped with Slate Fresh Ink). The sentiment is from the Hero Arts Wish You Were Here clear set.
That's it for me today, friends. I'm off to crop at a friend's house today . . . it'll be the last time for a few weeks as my kids will be here next week. Oh I can't wait for that!! Thanks for stopping by today – your visits and comments mean the world to me!


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Not only do swimmers, kayakers and fishermen enjoy the waters of Mirror Lake, those who prefer to stay on dry land also enjoy circling the lake on the red brick sidewalk. ATL (around the lake) as locals call it, has no steep grades and is a less strenuous alternative to hiking a High Peak.
Beginning near the tennis courts in Peacock Park and going in a counter-clockwise loop, the sidewalk takes you along the shore of the lake, past the old Lake Placid Club property. A grassy knoll on the left is a popular and often crowded sun-bathing spot in the summer. Look carefully and you may be able to spot two loons, who took up residence on Mirror Lake last year.
Continuing on, the path leaves the shoreline and continues past Northwood Road and Mount Whitney Road on the right. Mirror Lake Drive now passes through a residential area with multi-million dollar homes, some of them brand new, along both sides of the street.
As you take in the scenery, don't forget to look down. The red brick is occasionally interrupted by 46 grey stones, each bearing a name of one of the Adirondacks' highest peaks. Several grey stone benches, one of them dedicated to local Olympic ski jumping legend Art Devlin, provide resting points.
The sidewalk continues past Ruisseaumont Way and Taylor Way on the right, both private drives with stone pillars, hinting at the quality of the "camps" to be found here. Mirror Lake Drive is now on a skinny piece of land separating Mirror Lake on the left and Lake Placid on the right. The Lake Placid Marina, on the right, is a popular summer boat launch. The sidewalk now passes through another residential area, followed by hotels, inns and cottages before coming to the junction of Main Street and Saranac Avenue.
The streets become busier, bustling with shoppers and cars as you continue past Mid's Park and Lake Placid's main commercial district of shops and restaurants. At the end of Main Street, take a left down Parkside Drive, past the post office and under the toboggan chute to the village beach. The loop ends here, where you started, at Peacock Park.
If you go: Remember to pick up after your dog. Plastic bag dispensers and garbage cans are located every quarter-to-half mile. Although it may be tempting, don't feed the ducks. It makes them dependent on handouts and puts humans at risk for a parasite known as "swimmer's itch."