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Varian radiosurgery can be used for treating benign, malignant, metastatic or non-oncologic targets. Benign lesions can include schwannomas, adenomas, neurofibromas and meningioma. Malignant lesions include astrocytomas and glioblastomas. Metastases to distant targets, such as brain or spine, can come from any malignant primary cancer, the leading ones of which are lung, breast, melanoma, and prostate. Non-oncologic targets include vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia and others prescribed by the doctor.
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Each year a massive amount of freshwater—equal to nearly twice the annual discharge of the Mississippi River—enters the Gulf of Alaska. This freshwater runoff is economically and ecologically important, but a new study supported by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center shows that as glaciers change, future runoff patterns from may have important regional differences.
Researchers from USGS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and University of Alaska Southeast based the study on some of the longest paired glacier change and runoff records in Alaska. Interior Alaska's Gulkana Glacier and Kenai's Wolverine Glacier have been tracked by USGS for over 45 years. Researchers compared the glaciers' mass balance data—the budget of ice gained versus ice lost each year—to measurements of streamflow from the same basins.
They found that between 1967-2011 both glaciers had lost mass. What surprised them, however, was the proportion of streamflow that came directly from the shrinking glaciers. In the Alaska Range, glacier runoff made significant and increasing contributions to the total runoff. On the coast, where there is significantly more precipitation in general, the loss of glacier ice did not substantially affect the volume of streamflow. In the future, runoff volumes from interior Alaska glaciers are likely to be altered much more strongly by climate change compared to glaciers located in coastal, maritime environments.
This study is important for several reasons. Glacier runoff is different from rain or snow runoff—it has minerals and organic material that support species at the bottom of river and ocean food chains. Glacier runoff is also very cold, so it affects salmon habitat and the movement of ocean currents. Moreover, glacier runoff provides a notable water and power resource. Runoff from the Eklutna Glacier is used to quench the thirst and power needs of Anchorage residents.
This research will help project future changes in runoff that could impact habitat quality, freshwater availability, and hydropower development.
The work was supported by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center (AK CASC). Established in 2011, the AK CASC is one of eight regional centers across the US that brings together university and agency researchers to meet climate change research needs in Alaska.
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Mets take part in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
On anniversary of storm, COO Wilpon and club delegates refurbish Boys & Girls Club
GARFIELD, N.J. -- It's an anniversary that hits close to home.
On Tuesday, one year after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along the East Coast, the Mets decided to drop in and lend another hand in the rebuilding effort. The Mets, in conjunction with Jersey Cares, sent a team of delegates to help refurbish the Garfield Boys & Girls Club.
That group, led by chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, painted the interior and exterior walls of the Boys & Girls Club, and they spent some time landscaping and putting together new furniture. It's all for the betterment of the community, said Wilpon, and it's a chance to help out those less fortunate.
"Painting's not as easy as it looks," said Wilpon. "You think you've covered it, and then you go back and it's like, 'Wow, look at all the spots you've missed.' It's a little bit more of an art form than just slopping paint on the wall, but we're doing a pretty good job of slopping the paint."
Garfield, a city named after James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, lost power for about a week after Sandy hit, and when it was restored, the Boys & Girls Club became a temporary rallying point for families that needed a hot meal or a place to charge their cell phones.
The Boys & Girls Club of Garfield plays host to about 200 kids a day, and it has programs for children from the ages of 5-18. The facility endured wind and rain damage during the storm, but the Mets and Jersey Cares arrived Tuesday to give it a little paint and a lot of love.
"A year ago, everyone was in such trauma and such devastation here and to where we went last year in Brooklyn. Out in Coney Island, especially, as well as Staten Island and Breezy Point etc.," said Wilpon. "The bunch of visits we did last year were really great to do, and to do it a year later and help out, to have the kids come in later and see all this stuff freshened up will be really neat."
Shane Sudol, director of development for the Garfield Boys & Girls Club, said Tuesday that the children are very observant and will surely be grateful for the refurbishment. But more importantly, he said, it's good for people to pitch in and work together for the betterment of the community.
"That's the most important thing," he said. "Sometimes people get lost because they don't have a check to write. It gets lost that if you can spend a few hours and paint a little bit, it goes a long way. It's not about the money all the time. It's about connecting with the community. And it's a good bonding experience. It gets them out of the office, out of their routine and lets them do something good."
Jersey Cares, a Newark-based service organization, has partnered with the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund to come up with 80 projects and 5,000 volunteers to work around the anniversary of the storm. There is still much renovation to be done, and Kaitlyn Brady, a corporate service manager with Jersey Cares, said that there is an amazing body of citizens waiting to carry it out.
"I don't necessarily think people have forgotten about it, but it's surprising to people how much there is still to do," Brady said of the storm's one-year anniversary. "It's great to see such a great turnout between these two days, and it's a great reminder to people. There are still homes to be gutted and there are still people that aren't living in their homes. Over the weekend, I was at a home where they had just moved back in two weeks ago. It's really amazing how much work there is still to do."
The Mets' employees painted and landscaped and spent a few hours putting a shine on the Boys & Girls Club, and Wilpon spent a few moments with the media discussing his baseball team.
Wilpon made sure to note that teams aren't supposed to make any headlines and distract from the ongoing World Series, but he admitted that the Mets could be in for a winter of change.
"I would say a little bit of transition, because we have definite deficiencies that we've got to fill this offseason. And the ability to do it," said Wilpon. "There's probably a glut of first basemen. ... You could count five if you wanted to, and something's got to happen there with the logjam. There's been some interest already, but where that interest goes and what that brings back, that you've got to let play out a little bit. It probably won't be until the GM Meetings or maybe even the Winter Meetings."
Wilpon said that the Mets are confident with David Wright at third base and in a trio of their starting pitchers -- Jon Niese, Dillon Gee and Zack Wheeler. Wilpon also addressed Matt Harvey, his team's injured ace, and said that the team has gotten good returns on the right-hander's elbow surgery.
Wilpon said he was confident that Harvey will stay abreast of the recommended rehab schedule, and when cautioned by one reporter that recovery time for elbow surgery can sometimes take 15 months, he sounded a hopeful note. The Mets, he said, are willing to wait however long it takes.
"I think 80 percent of Matt Harvey is pretty good. We'll take it," said Wilpon of his staff's recovering workhorse. "I hope he's back 100 percent, but I have full confidence he's going to be back and be as good as ever. How quickly that happens, someone of a higher authority can tell you that."


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The best new series of the year is Showtime's twisty nail-biter of a psychological thriller, an emotionally intense cat-and-mouse game between two damaged souls: Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a Marine POW who may have been turned by terrorists during eight years in Iraqi captivity, and Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, the unstable CIA analyst who breaks all the rules to get under his skin — and at times under the sheets. (Bringing new meaning to undercover agent). The actors are as electrifying as the storytelling in this taut tale of homeland insecurity, which also features a marvelously restrained Mandy Patinkin as Carrie's melancholy mentor and a revelatory Morena Baccarin as Brody's understandably conflicted wife. Homeland comes from the veteran producers of 24, who have lost none of their knack for sustained suspense, but within this more realistic framework have been able to concoct a thoughtful and gripping meditation on the human toll of the war on terror.
A complete delight. PBS' sprawling, Emmy-winning Masterpiece miniseries, with echoes of Jane Austen and Upstairs Downstairs in its wittily sudsy panache, is set on a grand but embattled English estate in the years before WWI, with romantic and financial intrigues distracting the well-born and servant class alike. First among equals in the brilliant ensemble: Maggie Smith as the perpetually indignant Countess Dowager, given to hilariously withering pronouncements like, "No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house." The very idea!
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Not missing a beat in its excruciatingly suspenseful fourth season, AMC's dark fable of violent corruption pits the desperate Walt White (Bryan Cranston, deepening the darkness of this outrageous anti-hero) against the icy kingpin Gus Kring (Giancarlo Esposito in a masterful performance of understated menace) in an unpredictable season-long battle of wills. After the cunningly plotted and literally explosive season climax, Walt says "I won" to his morally compromised wife Skyler (Anna Gunn). Yes, he did, but at what cost?
4. COMMUNITY-vs-THE BIG BANG THEORY
Airing opposite each other all year on Thursdays were two fabulous extremes on the spectrum of comedy magic. NBC's low-rated gem, the epitome of cult comedy, the experimental and existential — and hugely entertaining — "fan favorite" Community defies genre categorization (a Glee holiday parody is also a takeoff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers) while bringing to life an ensemble of indelible misfits. And dominating the time period, The Big Bang Theory, CBS' gut buster of a monster sitcom hit, has only intensified its geeky genius since beefing up the roles of the ladies in these dysfunctional brainiacs' lives, with Mayim Bialik's dour Amy and Melissa Rauch's perky Bernadette keeping Kaley Cuoco's Penny from being the oddest girl out.
HBO successfully brings the epic fantasy to TV with dynamic impact in this adult, red-blooded and relentlessly brutal saga derived from George R.R. Martin's iconic page-turners. Grim tidings befall good people (including Sean Bean's noble Ned Stark) in a medieval mash-up of dynastic mayhem with just the right amount of supernatural menace.
In the sensational second season of FX's tangy, twangy crime drama, the lethally charming U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) meets his match — in Emmy winner Margo Martindale's monstrously ruthless Kentucky mountain matriarch Mags Bennett. With her deadly Apple Pie moonshine always at arm's reach, she presides over a tangled multi-family feud for control of Harlan County. If only her bumbling offspring had inherited her steel. Justified goes down with the kick of blended whiskey.
The have-not Hecks of Indiana and the well-off West Coast Pritchett/Dunphy clan have little in common, except being uncommonly funny. ABC's underappreciated The Middle nails the raucous comic anxiety of overwhelmed parents (the award-worthy Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn) and their underachieving square-peg kids: lazy Axl, Poor Sue and oddball Brick. In terms of cultural relevance, The Middle may actually be TV's most significant current comedy. Meanwhile, the acclaimed Modern Family continues to spearhead TV's comedy renaissance with sophisticated farce that anyone with relatives can relate to.
Living on the fringe of the TV schedule and ratings, Fox's sci-fi/fantasy mind-blower just keeps expanding in its mystical complexity. As Peter Bishop plays peek-a-boo between warring universes, we're treated to cautionary Frankenstein parables of the dangers of playing God. A more than worthy successor to The X-Files.
Once Alicia (Emmy winner Julianna Margulies) embraced her bad side, in a tumultuous secret liaison with her boss Will (Josh Charles), network TV's most compelling drama is also its steamiest, cunningly blending the personal with a sharply written legal procedural that is never less than stimulating.
Four's company, and great company at that. In Fox's endearingly zany new comedy, a free-spirited pixie (Zooey Deschanel in a career-defining test of the how-much-is-too-cute threshold) moves into a man cave with three guys, including Max Greenfield as the hilariously smarmy Schmidt. Their bro-code of conduct will never be the same with this sweet, silly and needy interloper in their midst. She's a hoot, and so's the show.
Under the heading of honorable mention, I would have liked to include DirectTV/NBC's Friday Night Lights and FX's Rescue Me on the list for their final seasons, but we were already cheering their finales within the same issue's "Cheers & Jeers" package, so honor was done. In retrospect, I'm sorry I didn't find room for FX's small but mighty, and darkly funny, Louie. Under most improved, and getting better all the time, Parks and Recreation succeeds Community (going on undeserved hiatus) as NBC's best comedy. Damages enjoyed another taut, suspenseful season on DirecTV. What's TV's best American horror story? Not that overrated FX monstrosity, but AMC's imperfect but perfectly harrowing The Walking Dead. And my biggest surprise since fall, because the pilot didn't blow me away, is the guilty pleasure of ABC's Revenge, especially since the evil Tyler showed up to spread his malice in the Hamptons. He makes Emily look like an amateur.
In terms of the year's biggest disappointments, that list would include the aforementioned American Horror Story (which, with the exception of the fabulous Jessica Lange, is as inept and indulgent as it is sickeningly ugly), HBO's turgid Mildred Pierce miniseries, the woeful Oscar-night hosting of James Franco and Anne Hathaway, Starz' misguidedly Americanized Torchwood: Miracle Day, ABC's shoulda-been-more-fun Pan Am, AMC's shoulda-been-more-original Hell on Wheels, and ABC's shoulda-never-aired Charlie's Angels reboot. There are more (many thankfully forgotten), but why dwell on the bad?
Here's to an even better 2012 in TV. Happy new year!


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- Placement Location: Phnom Penh
- Requirements: Degree in Occupational Therapy or a related subject
- Accomodation: Shared apartment with fellow volunteers
- Length of placement: From 4 weeks
- Start Dates: Flexible
As a volunteer occupational therapist in Cambodia you will work in a busy organization helping victims of war suffering with physical disabilities.
Veterans International (VI) is an international humanitarian organization that addresses the causes, conduct and consequences of war through programs of advocacy and service to the victims of war.
VI's mission is to support Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Cambodia, who are victims of war and who are the poorest among the poor and marginalized in society. They aim to empower these people to build better lives for themselves and their families.
Your professional expertise as an occupational therapist will provide valuable help to Veterans International.
How can a volunteer occupational therapist help in Cambodia?
What will I gain from this project?
What will Projects Abroad PRO provide?
What skills or qualifications do I need?
How can a volunteer occupational therapist help in Cambodia?
As a volunteer occupational therapist you will work for Veterans International in Cambodia. You will be based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's bustling capital city.
VI firmly believes that having an artificial limb or brace and being mobile makes a difference between exclusion and participation in education, employment, and community life. Their goal is that PWDs and their families can have a better quality of life that is more active and fulfilling and also become an equal member of the community, with equal rights, opportunities, and responsibilities.
You will support physical therapists, prosthetists, and orthotists and other medical professionals in helping these victims of war. Your role is varied and will include
- Take part in consultations, assessments, analysis, planning, and treatment of PWDs.
- Join in patients rounds with other physical therapists and prothetists and othotists to discuss complicated cases.
- Evaluate progression of patient condition and adapt treatment and prescriptions accordingly.
- Educate PWDs and their caregivers about client condition, prognosis and home exercise programs.
- Facilitate recreational activities for PWDs when required.
- Carry out paperwork for PWDs treatment concisely and clearly.
- Assess PWD's abilities in performing activities of daily living (ADL) in their own home.
- Design home adaptation to improve ADL of PWDs.
- Train PWDs on ADL to gain their independence.
This project runs all year. Volunteers are required to undertake this project for a minimum of 2 months. You will be placed at the National Baby and Children's centre (NBC) if you can only commit to 4 weeks.
What will I gain from this project?
You will be involved with a friendly and highly dedicated team who are committed to the service they provide. Working with often limited resources and staff lacking technical knowledge and training, you will be able to adapt and develop your existing expertise to a different working environment. You will often face challenges not experienced in your home country. Through this cultural exchange you will learn different methodologies and techniques in your own discipline.
You will also have the opportunity to develop skills and experience in a wide variety of areas. These could be (and are project dependent)
- Assessment of the needs of the project partner.
- Collaborating with the project partner to develop more efficient and effective systems in the workplace.
- Collaborate with the project partner to develop outreach programs in the local community and beyond.
- Use your expertise to train staff and other volunteers.
- Using your initiative and problem solving skills to develop, set up and manage projects/programs.
- Monitor existing or new projects/programs.
- Develop and contribute to project evaluation reports to help with continuity between volunteers.
All of these can provide you with valuable experience and transferable skills useful for your career, and make valuable use of your existing expertise where it is truly needed.
What will Projects Abroad PRO provide?
We have over 20 years' experience of running volunteer projects. We provide you with the following support to make sure your time in Cambodia is successful and enjoyable:
- Safe accommodation with a shared apartment close to your place of work.
- Friendly and dedicated local staff available to help 24 hours a day.
- A friendly member of staff available to meet you on arrival at the airport.
- Comprehensive medical and travel insurance.
What skills or qualifications do I need?
If you have at least a degree in Occupational Therapy or a related subject then you will be suited for this project.
Ideally, a qualified occupational therapist would also possess at least two years' experience of practicing professionally.
Specific specialisms or interests in your field will be highly desirable. Please discuss this with us on application.
Please contact us if you think your knowledge may be useful on this project but do not have the required qualifications.


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All across America on Monday, people will be celebrating Columbus Day. I don't know what that means exactly, except usually there's a white sale where you can buy your sheets at 20% off. Supposedly, though, there may be parades, people get time off from work, school, etc. According to Wikipedia, "Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in 1937, though people have celebrated Columbus' voyage since the colonial period."
I personally don't know anyone who "celebrates" Columbus Day. I know plenty of people who protest Columbus Day.
In other states, that is. See, 22 years ago here in South Dakota, Republican Governor George Mickelson replaced Columbus Day with Native American Day. That makes this the only state that honors the indigenous people of this land, rather than honor the beginning of their attempted genocide. Mickelson proclaimed 1990 as a "Year of Reconciliation" and changed the holiday the same year, with the help of the state legislature. It was supposed to be the beginning of a long road to improve racial relations in the state that has a tormented history on that score.
I always felt proud that our state didn't honor someone who murdered, enslaved, and raped indigenous people. Considering that it was the beginning of a genocide, this would be like putting a day aside to honor the memory of Hitler and selling sheets at a discount for the role he played in the world. Mickelson's initiative made me feel like we were a little ahead of the rest of the country: this is the same state that remembers the Wounded Knee Massacre, the Occupation of Wounded Knee, and unsolved deaths of our people in the 1973 incident. So, we celebrated Native American Day, not Columbus Day.
Yet, as Lakota people, we have all experienced racism in the state of South Dakota. Every single one of us, many times. My first time was when I was six years old and moving off the reservation. I was called horrible names, but I survived. And that was only the beginning.
I recall another time, when I was 18: my family moved to the nearest city off our reservation. It was a real nice, historic neighborhood; my stepfather was a lawyer. We received an anonymous letter in the mail calling us names and telling us to move back to the reservation. I took the letter and went knocking on doors trying to find out who'd sent it. Of course, no one admitted it; I went home mad and in tears. The next day, neighbors brought us casseroles, cookies, and fudge. But when they left, my mother wouldn't let us eat the food: she was paranoid that the food might get us sick (if one of the givers was the one who had sent the letter).
That wasn't to say the fudge and cookies didn't disappear mysteriously, though. Too many kids in the house.
So, 22 years after Governor Mickelson's proclamation of "the year of reconciliation", have the race relations in this state improved? We all like to think they did. But then, it's hard to ignore an incident like the one that occurred a few weeks ago, at the South Dakota State University, where Native American students from in-state reservations were subjected to graffiti in a dormitory bathroom that read "Praire [sic] niggers, go back to the rez" (listing specific students' room numbers).
This was the same insult I'd read in that anonymous letter sent to my family when I was 18. This recent incident has not stopped the Native American students from attending the university, and it is being investigated as a hate crime. But it shows that some of our citizens clearly still have a long way to go in learning to accept the people who lived here before them.
Our hope is that we all learn from this – and remember Governor Mickelson, who made that huge first step, and who died, aged 52, in a place crash in 1993. One day, we hope, the rest of the states of the union will join South Dakota in not honoring the memory of a murderer.


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It was in the early twenties that the ferment for reform in the accounting profession began to manifest itself. The chief instigator was Durand W. Springer, an outspoken AIA charter member. I had known him from the days he had served as the principal of Ann Arbor High School which I had attended. Still earlier he had been a member of the staff of the Detroit Trust Company—a small group whose function was to investigate and report on the affairs of both prospective seekers of loans and those to whom loans had been extended. He had pioneered for many years as the secretary and moving spirit of the Michigan State Board of CPA Examiners.
Durand Springer was a cool, forward, blunt individual who could not stomach the leisurely ways of the elite who in those days domi-nated the Institute's activities—such as they were. Heading that elite group was A, P. Richardson, a nonaccountant and an import who has often been referred to as the epitome of a perfect English gentleman, and with whom Springer never ceased to be at issue. Noting the rising flood of certified financial statements containing conjured-up valuations of assets, overstated profits, understated liabilities, and the beginnings of inflated income statements free from unfavorable operating losses "charged to surplus," Springer had urged as early as the reorganization of the Institute in 1916 that links be established with state societies, that uniform principles and standards be agreed to and even that centrally devised CPA exami-nations be promoted. His adjurations had fallen on deaf ears. And so, in 1922, backed by a loyal and enthusiastic band of Institute sup-porters, he established the American Society of CPAs and inaugu-rated a monthly journal, The Certified Public Accountant. He served as the Society's one and only secretary until its absorption by the Institute thirteen years later—after Richardson had disappeared from the scene, the stock market had crashed, the Great Depression had begun, and signs of contrition were being displayed by the In-stitute's management. During its existence the ASCPA had made serious inroads on the AIA membership; and, among other things, uniform examinations had been initiated (I was their begetter) and


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Holiday Dinner Party Menu | Recipes for Christmas Dinner Party
When you're entertaining for the holidays, it is so, so important to make it easy. Yes, it must, of course, be amazing and special, but make sure it is something that is simple! Sound like a challenge? This menu is both. This was THE most popular menu I prepared as a caterer - which I loved because it was soooo easy.
Holiday Dinner Party
Hors D'Oeuvres
Petite Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Remoulade
Baked Brie with Caramelized Pecans & Crackers
Beef Tenderloin with Warm Blue Cheese Cream Sauce
Roasted Truffled Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta
Poached Pears in Wine & Spices
Coffee with Whipped Cream
Beef Tenderloin may sound intimidating, but it is really the easiest thing you can make for a crowd at a dinner party. Top it with a blue cheese cream sauce to make it even more special. Both of the sides, Roasted Truffled Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta, are roasted in the oven on baking sheets at the same temperature just before dinner, making them so simple to prepare.
All of the menu items in this menu can be prepped ahead of time, then put in the oven during cocktail hour. All you'll have to do before dinner is slice the beef and put everything onto platters or plates. Below I've included the timeline I would use for this party. It always helped me to have it written out for me ahead of time, so everything would be on auto pilot during the party.
6:50 pm : Preheat oven to 500 degrees
7:00 pm : Guests Arrive! Cocktails & Light Hors D'oeuvres
7:15 pm : Beef Tenderloin - goes into 500 degree oven for 20-25 minutes
7:35 pm : Check/Remove Beef Tenderloin
7:35 pm : Lower Oven heat to 425 degrees
7:40 pm : Truffled Potatoes go into 425 degree oven for 15-20 minutes
7:45 pm : Brussels Sprouts go into 425 degree oven for 10-15 minutes
7:50 pm : Slice Beef Tenderloin
7:55 pm : Remove Potatoes & Brussels from oven
8:00 pm : Plate & Serve!
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Farrah Abraham, the Council Bluffs, Iowa woman who found fame on MTV's "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" shows and recently released a sex tape filmed with top porn star James Deen, recently announced that she has a reality show based on her life in the making. Spinboi Films, a production company based in New York, calls the venture with Farrah a "docu-soap." While no network has shown an interest yet, both Spinboi and Farrah have taken to social media platforms to gush about their new partnership.
This solo venture is not the only reality show Farrah has in the works, though. MTV is considering a special television show that would be a spinoff from "Teen Mom," the TV show that is already a spinoff of MTV's "16 and Pregnant." The idea that MTV is trying to develop would involve both Farrah and fellow "Teen Mom" star Jenelle Evans. Both of these controversial stars would live in a house together, along with their mothers, for one week.
Even if neither of these shows starring Farrah gets picked up, thanks to the exposure that her porn tape has generated, you will still get plenty of her outside of that tape. During the summer of 2013, Farrah will be appearing in a number of venues across the country. It should probably come as no surprise that these venues are topless gentlemen clubs.
She will kick off the season with a double appearance at clubs in both Fort. Lauderdale and Hollywood, Florida on her birthday, May 31. She will stay in Fort Lauderdale on June 1 before moving to Wisconsin the following weekend and then hitting two New Jersey clubs the weekend after that. She will wrap up her appearance schedule with events in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Now 21 years old, Farrah Abrahams went from being a cheerleader in high to being the star of her own television show in a span of less than four years. When she was 18 years old, she gave birth to a girl and named her Sophia. Because Sophia's father died in a car accident just months before the little girl was born, Farrah has been raising her solo from the start.


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Except it's not that simple. Throughout the common route, Yumiko can often be found lurking on the periphery of the rest of the group's social activities; they're all aware of her and take care not to exclude her, but they also don't try to force her to participate in anything. It's clear that even if she doesn't show it on her face or through her behaviour, she finds comfort in being around people who care for her and are considerate of her feelings. Even the foul-mouthed Makina proves herself to be enormously perceptive of Yumiko's personality traits, accurately "reading her thoughts" in one particularly memorable scene.
In the common route, we're given a teaser of what has made Yumiko as withdrawn, sullen and prone to lashing out as she is -- it's clearly to do with her father. Upon returning from a shopping trip to the town, a number of the group report a suspicious-looking black car outside the station, though those who have been at the school longer know that this is a sign that Yumiko's father is coming to inspect the school, which it seems he financed and had built. Yumiko, meanwhile, refuses to see her father, instead preferring to watch his cursory inspection of the school grounds from the dormitory rooftop; it's clear that he's not really inspecting anything, but is instead hoping that he might be able to get through to his daughter.
When Yumiko's route proper starts, we're given a bit more information about Yumiko's father, who has already been suggested to be a not very nice person. Indeed, early in Yumiko's route, we're given a third-person scene (i.e. protagonist Yuuji isn't present for it) in which we see Yuuji's handler JB and Yumiko's father discussing how they might get Yumiko to come back to her family and be prepared to take over the family railway business. Yumiko, until now, has been having none of this, of course, and so her father resorts to desperate measures, requesting that JB assign Yuuji to bodyguard duty for Yumiko and then arranging for her to be attacked and abducted. What he didn't count on is that Yuuji is more than capable of taking care of a few hired thugs, particularly as they had been specifically instructed not to actually harm Yumiko -- at least initially.
Yumiko is initially resistant to Yuuji guarding her, insisting that "it's not as though [her] life's anything worth protecting", and that she "doesn't particularly mind if someone does come for [her]". The initial attack from her father's men puts her somewhat on her guard, though, and from that point on she is less resistant to Yuuji's efforts to protect her, and gradually softens towards him over time, eventually developing feelings for him because she's come to rely on his protection -- a feeling of safety and security that she's never enjoyed before.
Yuuji, being a stubborn idiot prone to inadvertently annoying women with non-deliberate insensitive comments, of course, doesn't notice that Yumiko has started to feel something for him -- or refuses to admit that this might be a possibility, at least -- but sticks beside her "because it's [his] job". When JB pulls him off the case at the request of Yumiko's father, he is somewhat surprised to receive a direct request from Yumiko to continue working as her bodyguard in a private capacity.
On one excursion, the heavens open and Yuuji and Yumiko find themselves trapped under a bridge in a torrential downpour. Something doesn't seem right about Yumiko's behaviour to Yuuji, and it's not long before things come to a head; a thunderclap and flash of lightning absolutely terrify Yumiko, who crumples into Yuuji's arms in an uncharacteristic display of weakness, fragility and reliance on others. Having already come this far in showing her fragile side to Yuuji, she then relates the story of how she came to be the person she is today, and what she is doing at the mysterious school.
Yumiko's mother was the daughter of a pair of struggling business owners. She married into the Sakaki family primarily for financial and political reasons, and bore Yumiko as the family's only child. Being a girl, Yumiko was an immediate disappointment to the family, who had been hoping for a son and heir apparent, but Yumiko's mother was much too weak to survive another pregnancy, and eventually succumbed to a debilitating psychological disorder that saw her and Yumiko retreat back to the countryside and her family home. She was hospitalised, and Yumiko was left to live with her grandparents, who resented her existence because she was a symbol of their failing business, and how they wouldn't be able to rely on the support of the Sakaki family forever.
Yumiko tried to stay positive amid this bleak situation, but the youthful joy she once had at the simple sight of a passing dog eventually gave way to bitterness and resentment. Her only outlet was her neighbour, who had formerly been employed by her grandparents as a servant, but now continued to help them out for free. Yumiko was the only one to show her gratitude, and she resented her grandparents for taking advantage of her right up until her death -- a feeling shared by her daughter and son-in-law.
Her hospitalised mother gradually comes to show an improvement, eventually reaching a point where it looks like she's going to be discharged from hospital, but suffers a catastrophic relapse upon hearing the news that her husband -- Yumiko's father -- had taken a mistress in her absence, and said mistress had borne him a son.
A year passes, and Yumiko's bitterness grows, since her mother had relapsed so severely that she couldn't even remember anything about her family. She had no-one to rely on, no-one to talk to, no friends, which is why when her father's aides come to collect her from her grandparents' house -- bearing the offer "if you let me have Yumiko back, I'll continue supporting your family and your business" -- she jumps at the opportunity.
Initially resenting her father for the anguish he caused her and her mother, Yumiko eventually softens towards him as he appears to be making a genuine effort to reconnect with his daughter. It eventually transpires that he is only doing this because his illegitimate son died and his mistress abandoned him shortly afterwards, leaving Yumiko once again as the only potential heir to his business. Feeling a familiar, growing sense of rage at this, Yumiko is in a fragile mental state and is pushed over the edge when she overhears one of her classmates speaking untruths about her.
Prior to this, she had taken to expressing her anger through destruction. "The clicking of the blade emerging from its sheath," she relates. "The sound of something once whole being severed apart. Those had become calming sounds to me. How wonderful would it be if I could slice away my femininity with a single box cutter? How wonderful would it be if I could sever my fate with the touch of a blade? How wonderful would it be if one movement of my hand could cut me free of all the troubles that coiled around me and choked the air from my lungs?"
The first thing she destroys is her long, black hair; an attempt to "slice away her femininity" and look more like a boy -- a largely successful effort, though one that causes people to shy away from her even more than normal. Later, she destroys her artwork and the diary in which she had written down all the growing positive thoughts she had been feeling as she had mistakenly thought her father truly loved her.
And ultimately, the event which sees her totally severing her ties to her old life: she stabs her classmate, whom she had previously thought was a friend, but who had turned out to be just as much of a turncoat as everyone else in her life.
Yumiko escaped a criminal conviction for her violent outburst, because money can make anything go away, and her father knew that very well indeed. Knowing that the situation couldn't continue in the way it had been, however, he offloads her onto Mihama Academy, and that's how she finds herself in the situation she is now.
What happens next remains to be seen! I'm very interested to see how all this turns out. And since Yumiko's route is apparently the weakest of all of them -- or at least the one with the least overall "relevance" to the series as a whole, I understand -- I'm now very much looking forward to the other routes, if this is the standard of the weakest one.


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Good Friday Tweets by Influential Pastors
As Good Friday is being observed by Christians around the world, pastors have expressed their thoughts via Twitter on Jesus Christ's death on the cross.
The following are tweets by some of the nation's most well-known pastors:
Max Lucado, minister of Preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas
- On this Good Friday, envision the Savior on the cross, bloodied and cast in shadows. Listen as heaven whispers: For you, my child. For you.
- Jesus' last moments were not left to chance. God chose the path; Jesus chose the nails.
John Piper, pastor for Preaching & Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minn.
- It is finished.
- "I had an abortion eight years ago." Good Friday is for this.
Louie Giglio, pastor at Passion City Church
- Sunday's coming, but God give us grace to linger at the place our Savior suffered and died.
Bill Hybels, senior pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill.
- Today should be called "Worldwide Goodness Day." When God's good Son atones for not-so-good people like me, what else should we call it?
Mark Driscoll, Preaching and Vision pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash.
- Why do we commemorate Good Fri? It's a day to remember that God willingly came as a man to die in our place.
T. D. Jakes, senior pastor at The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas
- Can't imagine the love that held him to the cross!
Greg Laurie, senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif.
- Calvary shows how Far Men will go in Sin and how Far God will go for Man's Salvation.
Joel Osteen, senior pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas
- Because Jesus died and rose again, we can have a personal, relationship with Him.
David Platt, senior pastor at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala.
- If we want to understand the mystery of suffering, we must behold the majesty of the cross. Good Friday
- The Great Commission involves great suffering, but eternity will prove it is worth it. Good Friday


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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Joe Tedesco, who has a knack for finding shoddy electrical work, did the dirty work and found this mess. Now it's your turn to identify the violation.
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Our three winners this month (Michael J. Lewis, P.E., director of engineering field services, Fidelity Real Estate Company, LLC, Durham, N.C.; Thomas B. Carron, P.E., senior engineer, Integrated Design Solutions, Architecture, Engineering, Interiors & Technology, Troy, Mich.; and Brian Burke, P.E., senior electrical engineer, High Voltage Maintenance Corp., Middletown, Ohio) all correctly identified the following Code violations associated with the January 2008 photograph.
As per 406.9(B) [Grounding-Pole Identification], "Grounding-type receptacles, adapters, cord connections, and attachment plugs shall have a means for connection of an equipment-grounding conductor to the grounding pole. A terminal for connection to the grounding pole shall be designated by one of the following:"
Of the four options in this section, let's focus on item (3), which states, "A similar green-colored connection device, in the case of adapters. The grounding terminal of a grounding adapter shall be a green-colored rigid ear, lug, or similar device. The equipment grounding connection shall be so designed that it cannot make contact with current-carrying parts of the receptacle, adapter, or attachment plug. The adapter shall be polarized."
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They're going to let a masked vigilante testify in court???
But if he's the first superhero of his world, then surely the rest of their laws must be very like ours---
No WAY that would be legally admissable.
Or is that going to be the defense's strategy...?
PS. Not to nitpick, really, just hoping this will help...hey, nobody knows everything...
From HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING PROPORTIONS at http://realcolorwheel.com/human.htm ----
"The head sideways is one head length high and one head length wide. The top of the ear is on line with the eye brows."
"The chest side view is one head width wide at the nipples."
You're improving on how wide you make the head from the side, although it should be even wider--- but you need to do the same with the torso. It's only about half a head wide, if that, in the second panel, giving Lightbringer a somewhat lollipop-like appearance.


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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 videogame sales begin
The latest addition to one of the world's best selling videogame series went on sale in the UK at midnight.
More than 500 stores held special openings to let gamers buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Its predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops, generated more than $1bn (£620m) of global sales over the first six weeks of its launch.
However, troubles at the studio behind the new title have threatened to overshadow its release.
The latest game follows on from events in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Players take on the role of special forces resisting a Russian invasion of the United States and Europe.
The campaign is set across locations in England, France and Germany as well as Africa, India and the Middle East.
Modern Warfare 3 is the first title in two years to be developed by Infinity Ward, the creator of the Call of Duty series.
Critics are keen to discover if staffing changes at the California-based studio affected the product.
Activision fired Infinity Ward's founders, Jason West and Vincent Zampella, in 2010 accusing them of misconduct. The firm later described them as "insubordinate and self-serving schemers" who had negotiated with rivals while under contract.
The two men sued their ex-employer seeking unpaid royalty payments and damages. Activision countersued, alleging that the men had held secret talks with Electronic Arts.
A court in Los Angeles is set to consider the case in May 2012.
Mr West and Mr Zampella went on to set up a new studio, Respawn Entertainment, which signed a publishing and distribution rights deal with EA.
Several of Infinity Ward's other employees also moved to the new studio. Respawn's website reveals that 40 members of its staff previously worked on the Modern Warfare series.
Activision brought in one of its other teams - Sledgehammer Games - to help the remaining Infinity Ward workers complete Modern Warfare 3.
Several members of Sledgehammer's team had helped develop the highly regarded Dead Space series, helping restore gamers confidence in the project.
There is now huge interest in what they have been able to deliver.
A trailer of the new game, posted on YouTube on 21 October, has already attracted more than four million hits.
IHS Screen Digest predicts the title will sell more than 20 million copies worldwide before the end of the year, despite competition from EA's rival title, Battlefield 3, which was released over the last fortnight.
"It's not just about day one sales for these types of games - there's a heavy online-multiplayer aspect," said Steve Bailey, an analyst at Screen Digest.
"Gamers pay for enhanced subscription services such as Call of Duty: Elite's extra social/profile features, or direct-purchase other content such as map packs.
"The true test will be taking place over the next six months to a year, where we see who can support the gaming community best, retaining and engaging an audience in an ongoing fashion."
Not everyone has been willing to wait. French media reported that thousands of copies were stolen in a Paris heist, and pirated versions of the game have been spotted online.
Other titles fighting for a place at the top of the Christmas games charts include Skyrim, the fifth entry in the Elder Scrolls role-playing series, and the action adventure Batman: Arkham City.


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Top Army acquisition officials had some explaining to do Friday when a House Armed Services Committee member accused the service of buying helicopters that don't fly and withholding details about major field radio program.
"It appears the Army has been paying for [AH-64] Apaches … without transmissions," said Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. "Could you explain why the Army could take delivery of a helicopter that can't fly?"
Lt. Gen. William Phillips, the Army's top uniformed acquisition official, assured Sanchez that the Army only accepts complete aircraft from Boeing, the lead contractor for the Apache.
But in some cases the Army allows Boeing "to take that transmission out and put it back into the production line" until the remaining transmissions arrive from Northstar Aerospace, the subcontractor that produces the transmissions, Phillips said.
As soon as those seven Apaches in question get those transmissions back, they will go to the next unit preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, Phillips said.
"We want as many aircraft available for that unit so they can train and get ready to go," Phillips said.
The alternative would be to shutdown the production line.
"If we shut down the production line, it would impact supply operations in over 41 states and over 300 companies and it would also cost us more money," Phillips said.
But that wasn't the only scolding Army officials had to take during the hearing.
Sanchez also chastised the Army for being nine months late in sending the subcommittee its strategy for the Joint Tactical Radio System, a key part of the service's network effort that involves a $400 million request in the Army's fiscal 2014 proposed spending plan.
"The Army's plans for buying these radios have changed quite a bit over the last few years," Sanchez said. "I am very concerned that the Army is almost a full year late providing the Congress with the plans to proceed with the various parts of JTRS."
Phillips apologized for the delay but assured the subcommittee that JTRS program -- which includes new Rifleman Radios capable of connecting individual soldiers with higher levels of command in the network -- will soon move forward.
The Army plans to issue three requests for proposal this year for three different JTRS radios, Phillips said.
"We are going to execute a full-and-open competition," Phillips said. "We know that industry can produce these radios cheaper, faster and better than we could have done in the program of record."
Phillips didn't offer any details of when the RFPs would be released to industry.
Sanchez said she wanted to make sure that the competition would be as inclusive as possible.
"There are always ways to narrow the people who can go after a contract," said Sanchez, explaining that she had spent time as a consultant working with the defense industry.
"If we are going to take the time to do this -- and I don't have a dog in this fight ---
I just want to make sure that the type of competition you do allows us to get as a good a piece of equipment as we need for as reasonable a price as possible."


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Obama's lofty inaugural ideals run into reality
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's lofty ideals from his inaugural address ran smack into reality Tuesday on the first working day of his second term.
Twenty-four hours after Obama pledged to tackle climate change and called for gays and lesbians to be treated equally under the law, the White House struggled to back up his sweeping rhetoric with specifics, raising questions about how much political muscle he'll put behind both issues.
Republicans were already signaling their unhappiness with Obama's agenda.
"The era of liberalism is back," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "If the president pursues that kind of agenda, obviously it's not designed to bring us together."
Obama, standing before hundreds of thousands of people on the National Mall, had vowed to "respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."
But in the White House briefing room a day later, Obama spokesman Jay Carney said he couldn't speculate about future actions. He said that while climate change was a priority for the president, "it is not a singular priority."
On gay rights, the president had declared that the nation's journey is "not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
But Carney said the president was speaking about his personal views and would not take federal action on same-sex marriage, which he continues to see as a state issue.
Even with his last election behind him, Obama has politics to weigh as he considers just how much effort he'll put into pursuing climate change legislation and a gay rights agenda. Both issues are backed by the president's liberal base but opposed by many Republicans and conservative Democrats.
Obama already is asking lawmakers for a lot as he starts his second term. He needs their votes to increase the nation's borrowing limit and approve billions of dollars to keep the government running. And he has pledged to pursue stricter gun legislation and comprehensive immigration reform quickly this year, neither of which can pass Congress without some GOP votes.
For environmental groups and gay rights supporters, Obama's inaugural address provided fresh hope for progress on issues that were stumbling blocks for Obama in his first term.
While Obama put into effect tougher fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, his efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill failed on Capitol Hill due to bipartisan opposition. And despite Obama's many actions to bolster gay rights in his first term — including repealing the military's ban on openly gay service members — his reluctance to back gay marriage frustrated many of his liberal supporters until he ultimately voiced his support for same-sex unions last year.
Supporters of both issues say Obama will quickly have opportunities to demonstrate his commitment to their causes in his second term.
The Supreme Court will soon take up Proposition 8, a California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.
Opponents of the ban have called on the Obama administration to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief to overturn the measure.
"We view the president's filing of an amicus brief in this case as the next natural step to his inaugural remarks," said Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights groups. "His call for equal justice under the law for gay and lesbian Americans including in their committed relationships is the centerpiece of the argument against Proposition 8."
The White House has so far refused to take a position on the Supreme Court case.
For environmental groups, Obama's next best chance to make good on his inaugural address is a looming decision on the Keystone XL pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Obama blocked the pipeline last year, citing uncertainty over the project's route through environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. But on Tuesday, the state's Republican governor, Dave Heineman, gave his approval to a revised route for the pipeline, a widely anticipated move that nonetheless added to the political pressure for the Obama administration to approve or reject the new route without delay.
"If we are going to get serious about climate change, opening the spigot to a pipeline that will export up to 830,000 barrels of the dirtiest oil on the planet to foreign markets stands as a bad idea," said Anthony Swift of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Republicans and many business groups say the pipeline project would help achieve energy independence.
The State Department, which has federal jurisdiction over the $7 billion pipeline because it begins in Canada, said Tuesday that it would not be able to conclude its review during the first quarter of the year.
White House officials sought to look beyond Keystone, with aides saying Tuesday that the president may also pursue executive actions to fulfill his pledge to tackle climate change.
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Career Ministry Gives Unemployed Bit of Faith for Job Search
Recruiters provide advice on resume and interviews plus offer dash of hope.
At Roswell United Methodist Church in Georgia, Monday nights offer a different kind of ministry -- career ministry.
Recruiters, corporate executives and volunteers from other churches come to Roswell's Career Services with a mission: to help people tossed out of work and running out of hope.
While unemployment in the United States is 9.5 percent, Georgia's unemployment rate has hovered at 10 percent for 2.5 years, according to Michael Thurmond, the state's commissioner of labor.
The U.S. Labor Department said today that new claims for unemployment insurance had risen by 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned early in the week that the unemployment rate may rise for a couple of months before it falls again.
"[The volunteers] do this all day long and then they come at night and they spend several hours with job seekers giving their time and expertise to them," said Roswell volunteer Katherine Simons. "They just feel so good about the fact that they can make a difference. It's really loving your neighbor."
One recent Monday night, more than 300 people attended the networking meeting looking for help, from writing resumes to interviews. For many in the group, it was the first time in their career to be without a job.
"Most of us haven't been in a job search in years," said Jo Burkhardt, an executive recruiter who lost her job in the apparel industry. "For me, it has been over 20 years."
Burkhardt said career ministry helped her persevere to the new job she now treasures.
"Faith-based groups not only teach you the fundamentals of the job search and all of the different tools that you use and how to network, but they teach you, they provide the support along the way, that emotional support," she said.
Wally Anderson, a sales executive for more than 30 years, worked for a national software company. He said unemployment takes its toll on a soul.
"I think once you're in that position, you'll never look at an unemployed person in the same way," he said. "Many times we're too busy. We don't get involved, but this is an epidemic."
He called the career ministry "a safe haven." Anderson recently found a job. "It took me approximately 90 days and that's not normally the case for someone my age. I love my job. It's a great company," he said.
Labor Commissioner: Career Ministry Programs 'Have Inspired Me'
Thurmond, the state's commissioner of labor, said programs like Roswell's Career Services fill a void that the government can't.
"Government is limited," he said. "We are being negatively impacted by budget cuts. ... There's only so much we can do. We're here from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday. But obviously there's a need for service and intervention on the weekends and in the evening."
Thurmond said career ministry has helped thousands of Georgians who have been out of work for or years.
"What Roswell does is provide them with the information and support, but more importantly with the spiritual support that allows people to go back out in a very difficult job market and continue to search," Thurmond said.
"It's the networking. ... It's the faith. My affiliation with this ministry inspires me to come back," he said.
Valeria Farris was out of work for almost a year. "I never would have imagined it ever. I was always able to rebound, find other work, find some industries to work in. This time it was just totally different," she said.
Now she works from home, designing instructor-led training for companies around the world. She credits Roswell's Career Services program.
"I never would have thought of going out and looking for opportunities outside the United States if I had not lost my job," she said. "It's going great. I absolutely love it."
ABC News' Erin Hayes contributed to this article.


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No application forms are available at any other time. Between September and January, interested individuals can visit the scholarship application area of this site to determine eligibility and, if eligible, enter the program.
Applicants have until Jan. 15 to write an essay of not more than 550 words explaining their career, academic and/or vocational goals and how they plan to achieve those goals. For more information, read the scholarship FAQ.
American Mensa's local chapters assemble judging teams of at least three members to review the applications. The essays are judged on content and also grammar, organization and craftsmanship. The Local Scholarship Chair refers the best local essays to the Regional Scholarship Chair for review.
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In his first season back, Alvis helped the Retrievers' pitching rotation to one of its most successful stints in recent memory, seeing the program's first-ever perfect game come from rookie Kelly Lane, as well as a no-hitter from classmate Jessica Holte. The freshmen duo each earned America East All-Rookie Team honors after guiding the Retrievers' to their first America East Championship appearance since 2011. In 2015, The Retrievers' pitching staff held opponents to the program's lowest hit total since 2010 (382) and recorded 198 strikeouts, the most since 2012. Holte was recognized on the America East All-Conference Second Team as a pitcher, while Lane received the same honor as a utility player.
Alvis spent his two previous seasons at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where he helped the Gators to their best record in the program's short history in 2013. Prior to his time at Notre Dame, Alvis spent six seasons as the head coach at Mount St. Mary's, where he compiled 118 wins, the most in program history, and was honored as the 2006 Northeast Conference Coach of the Year.
During his first tenure with the Retrievers, Alvis helped French guide UMBC to a Northeast Conference (NEC) regular season title, an NEC Tournament Championship and an NCAA Regional Tournament game victory, the first by any Retriever team in school history. During his stint, UMBC amassed a 114-77 overall mark, including a program-best 47 victories in 2002.
Alvis also spent seven seasons with the Anne Arundel Community College softball team, as an assistant coach for six years and moving to the helm in 2001. He led the Pioneers to a second-place finish at the NJCAA National Championship. AACC advanced to the National Championship game five years in a row, including back-to-back third-place finished during Alvis' reign.
Alvis, a 1979 graduate of UMBC with a bachelor's degree in political science, currently resides in Pasadena, Md. with his wife, Sharon.


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It's unlikely I'll add any blithering for a couple of days – for that matter, probably won't be playing WoW. My anniversary of arrival on this blue ball is tomorrow, and if it was just me I'd probably be eyeball deep all day. As I said in another post, however, I've tried to outgrow such selfishness.
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The government should use all means at its disposal to stem the flow of high-tech investment to China, according to a report out of the National Security Bureau (
The Bureau issued an analysis of their conclusion in a top secret report titled, An Analysis on how the Chinese Communist Party Attracts Taiwanese High Tech Investment for the Suzhou Industrial Park.
According to Chinese-language media, the report implores government officials to curb high-tech investment, saying 74 Taiwan tech firms have already invested NT$20 billion (US$841 million) in the Suzhou (蘇州) Park, which sits just outside of Shanghai.
One official said the report emphasizes high-tech firms due to fears that once they are heavily invested, these firms will become political puppets of Beijing.
"The `no haste, be patient' investment policy has nothing to do with the small and medium-sized companies in Taiwan, only with big investors," said a government official on condition of anonymity.
Formosa Plastics Group Chair-man Wang Yung-ching (王永慶) is a prime example. On public television last week, he implored people in Taiwan to "calmly accept the `one China' principle," while repeating his call to lift all curbs on investment across the Strait.
The "no haste" policy stopped Wang from investing US$6 billion in 1992 to build a chemical complex in China's Fujian Province.
Laws in Taiwan currently limit single investments to only US$50 million for China-bound projects, and ban certain high-tech investments and infrastructure projects. These measures have had little effect on companies who skirt the law by setting up holding companies and transferring investment money directly from overseas accounts into China.
Last year, China's information technology production value topped US$25.5 billion, beating Taiwan for the first time, with Taiwanese firms based in China accounting for an estimated 72 percent of that figure.
"I think people are really getting too emotional about [this issue] because nobody, including the government, is sitting down to discuss this matter rationally. How much money has gone over to China? How much impact will it have on industry here? You have to go over it sector by sector, item by item and ask the businessmen who intend to go or have already gone to talk about this issue in front of the public," said Andrew Yang (
According to the National Security Bureau report, officials in Suzhou are actively developing industry "clusters" which include the entire spectrum of each industry. From downstream component makers like computer motherboard and monitor producers to PC cases and mouse makers, China has slowly won over the computer industry.
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May 1 (Reuters) - Drugs from Amgen Inc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Sanofi that boost white blood cells are being evaluated by U.S. regulators as treatments for radiation exposure caused by a nuclear attack or accident.
The drugs, known as leukocyte growth factors, will be the subject of a Friday meeting of an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Treatment with Amgen's Neupogen and Neulasta, Teva's Tbo-filgrastim and Sanofi's Leukine, may decrease death rates from radiation exposure, according to FDA staff documents released ahead of the meeting.
Neupogen, which like the other drugs in the class is given by injection, has been tested in monkeys exposed to radiation by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Maryland.
Friday's hearing was prompted by data from the trial showing that the drug reduced mortality following lethal irradiation of the animals.
Amgen spokeswoman Ashleigh Koss said the company provided additional nonclinical data from studies using the drugs in radiation-exposed animals, and an overview of literature case studies of their use in victims of radiological accidents.
She declined to comment on whether Amgen planned to participate in any future trials of Neupogen or Neulasta as treatments for radiation exposure.
The Amgen drugs, currently used to reduce the risk of infection for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, had 2012 sales of $5.4 billion.


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Financing progress independently: taxation and illicit flows
Development Progress
"With less than two years to go before the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is time to take stock of what the goals have achieved and, just as importantly, what the goals have overlooked – including finance.
The debate on what follows the MDGs – the post-2015 framework – is a chance to focus on two major finance themes that are not reflected in the goals themselves. First, that taxation is the central source of development finance; and second, that illicit financial flows undermine effective taxation and require international action. If this chance is not to be wasted, we need a consensus – and soon – on targets in these interlinked areas." READ MORE


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With the introduction of its new eco-friendly, resealable bag, Christopher Ranch protects freshness and facilitates disposal and recycling (100% recyclable, the bag compresses flat), while cutting resource consumption by 80%.
Available starting April 2010 in 1, 3 and 5-pound sizes, the sturdy, streamlined pack is compact and easy to store. On the 5-pound pack, a tear-off "hood" and zip-lock closure reduces the risk of contamination and enhances food safety (one and three-pound sizes feature press-and-seal closures). Christopher Ranch date-codes each bag, so operators can monitor usage and rotate product.


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Poll: 9 in 10 Americans support background checks
As the White House continues its campaign to build support for stronger national gun laws, a new poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans - 92 percent - support the idea of background checks for all gun buyers.
The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted among 1,772 registered voters from Jan. 30-Feb. 4, showed that support among those living in a gun-owning household was almost equally high: 91 percent of those voters said they support universal background checks.
"There is no significant voter opposition to requiring background checks for gun buyers," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement. "And there is support for banning high volume ammunition clips and assault weapons, with the issue pretty much falling along party lines." The poll echoes similar findings in a CBS News/New York Times poll taken last month.
The Quinnipiac poll shows that voters support stricter nationwide gun control laws by 52 percent to 43 percent; 56 percent also support a ban on assault weapons and the ban of high capacity magazines holding more than ten rounds.
Among those living in gun-owning households, opposition to a ban on assault weapons outweighed support, by 52 percent to 44 percent. Those voters objected similarly to a ban on high capacity magazines, with 52 percent opposing a ban and 45 percent supporting it.
Forty six percent of registered voters said they identified more strongly with the National Rifle Association's views on guns; 43 percent said the same of President Obama.
The poll, which had a +/- 2.3 percent margin of error, also showed vast support for the Obama administration's recent announcement that it will allow women to serve in combat roles in the military, with 72 percent of registered voters supporting the idea.
Among women, that support was even more pronounced: 77 percent said they favored allowing women to serve in combat roles, while 21 percent opposed the idea. (A CBS News poll released last week showed 66 percent support). Thirty-six percent of men said allowing women in combat would enhance military effectiveness, and 34 percent said it would compromise effectiveness. Women said 46-30 percent that introducing women to combat roles would enhance effectiveness.
Views are more mixed on whether or not women should be included in a draft in the event that one is reinstated. Fifty-two percent of all voters say women should be drafted in that case, with divisions along gender lines. More women oppose than support the idea by a small margin (48-45 percent), while men support drafting women by a margin of 59 percent to 36 percent.
In general, however, most voters (65 percent) oppose reinstating the draft at all.


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