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We love what we do & have fun caring for patients
Dr. Connall avidly pursues learning and applying the latest and most effective surgical techniques to plastic surgery problems, while emphasizing patient safety.
While Dr. Connall's professional training and experience are impeccable, it is his highly personalized approach to every patient that sets him apart. When you meet Dr. Connall he will listen to you and understand your wishes and then work with you to help you achieve your goals. He deeply appreciates the uniquely personal nature of cosmetic surgery and has refined a variety of state-of-the-art approaches to cosmetic surgery problems.
A Portland native, Dr. Connall graduated with multiple honors from the Honors College at the University of Oregon. After U of O, he completed his medical degree on scholarship at New York University School of Medicine in New York City. He also completed a six-year general surgery residency at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. His training there culminated with a board certification in general surgery.
Dr. Connall completed a three-year plastic surgery residency at The University of Texas and the USAF Wilford Hall Medical Center.
Dr. Timothy Connall is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Oregon Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Dr. Connall is currently the president of the Oregon Society of Plastic Surgeons. Prior to starting his private practice in Oregon, Dr. Connall served as Chief of Plastic Surgery at USAF Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.


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How to test the MAFs yourself and How MAFs work.
The MAFs are vital to the proper function of the S62 engine. The engine can never work better than its MAFs.
The MAFs (Mass AirFlow meters) are located in the M5 and Z8 air intake tubes. The MAFs report to the Engine Electronics (DME aka ECU) the amount of air that is drawn into the engine, and what temperature this air is. The DME uses this to calculate how much fuel to inject.
Vital as the MAFs are, those have to be _really_ bad before you actually get a stored fault-code.
The functional test by the BMW tester just tests the MAFs at idle with the car standing still. IMH experience that says absolutely nothing about how they perform at WOT (Wide Open Throttle).
I think there is an economical (warranty) reason why BMW does not want the MAF fault code to trigger as soon as the MAFs start to be less-than-perfect, rather than only when there is extremely poor MAF function.
MAFs typically last 50000 miles before getting so contaminated it affects S62 engine performance.
There are two methods to test the MAFs yourself:
Method A - using the instrument cluster of the car *********
Read post #11 in:
Follow those instructions, and select the mode for fuel consumption per hour.
With the engine fully warmed up, drive several WOT (wide open throttle) accelerations. Notice the fuel flow per hour numbers. If everything is ok the numbers should increase continously to about 140 litres per hour at WOT at 7000 RPM. (don?t worry about bouncing into the rev-limiter)
The fuel-flow is directly proportional to the MAF reading reported to the Engine Electronics, so if the Fuel-flow is correct, the MAFs are most likely correct too.
Method B - using an OBD-II scan-tool *******************
1. Get a graphing and data-logging OBD-II scantool. If you already have a laptop PC, it will cost you about US$ 100 to buy one. Worth every cent. (I use the one called "ISO" from www.obd-2.com which I am very pleased with)
2. Plug it into the car and go for a drive
3. Look at the graph for CLV (calculated load value). This is basically the MAF signal expressed in percent of the expected maximum at each RPM.
When you accelerate WOT this number should immediately go to 100% and stay there until you release the throttle or hit the rev-limiter .
4. If the CLV reading it is low at all RPMs, try new air filters.
5. If it is ok at low RPMs, but lower at higher RPMs, try the MAF cleaning procedure and the retest immediately. If this improves the numbers you know 100% there is (or if the cleaning was very successful used to be) a MAF problem. This does not say it is the only problem, but the car can never run better than its MAFs.
Symptoms of bad MAFs ************************
In degree of malfunction of the MAFs possible symptoms are:
High Lambda values at idle (lean air-fuel-mixture)
Engine hesitation at high RPM
Engine misfire at high RPM
Engine going into limp-home mode at high RPM
MAF cleaning procedure ************************
(by m5board member Louv)
How the MAFs work ***************************
The MAFs have a non-heated temperature sensor and heated temperature sensor. The latter is made of a very thin wire of platinum metal. The wire is heated to about 200 deg C, and its temperature is continously monitored and the heating current is controlled so as to keep the wire at this temperature. The more air that passes the wire on its way into the engine, the more the wire will be cooled. The electrical current needed to maintain the sensor wire at 200 deg C, is directly proportional to the amount of air that passes it, and also depends on the temperature of the air (hence the non-heated temperature sensor).
The electrical current and the air temperature are measured, and the corresponding air-flow is calculated and reported to the engine electronics.
How MAFs clean themseves ***********
Once in a while the MAFs will run a very high electrical current for a few seconds through the platinum sensor wire, so the wire gets red-hot (1000 deg C). This burns off much of the contaminants, and probably help keep the MAFs working much longer between manual cleaning or replacment intervals.
How MAFs fail *********************
With time the MAF platinum-wire gets fouled with contaminants settling from the rapidly passing intake-air. These contaminants acts as thermal insulation on the wire. The effect is that the wire will not be cooled as much as it should by the air-flow, and thus reports too low air-flow to the engine electronics. The engine electronics in turn uses this too low air-flow number when calculating how much fuel to inject. The fuel injection will be to low, and the air-fuel mixture in the cylinders of the engine will be lean.
NB: Many M5 owners have reported K&N oiled intake air filters to cause MAF contamination.
Warranty *************************
As the MAFs influence the air-fuel mixture and cause high Lambda values (lean mixture), it is possible to fail emissions testing due to non-perfect MAF sensors. When the vehicle fails emissions testing the Emissions Components Warranty may be applicable.
In the USA see:
The mandatory warranty covers everthing relating to emissions for the first two years, and the OBD, ECU (DME in BMW language) and the Catalytic converters for eight years.
So in the US the MAFs are covered for at least 2 years by law, but not for eight years.

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Sherie Eubanks is in her 13th season as the administrative assistant for the Lipscomb men's and women's basketball programs. Her duties include providing administrative support for both programs, arranging travel for both the men's and women's teams, organizing Lipscomb basketball camps and serving as the liaison with other departments on campus.
Eubanks earned her bachelor's degree in Office Management with a minor in Marketing in 1987. She earned her CPS (Certified Professional Secretary) designation in 1988.
Eubanks joined the basketball staff in September 1999 when she was hired by Lipscomb men's coach Scott Sanderson and women's coach Frank Bennett. Prior to working for Lipscomb, Eubanks was the office manager for Ron Swang and she also spent time as the executive assistant for the President of Boone, Brandon, Johnston, and Evans.
Eubanks graduated from David Lipscomb High School in 1984 and went on to receive her degree from Lipscomb University in 1987.
In her spare time, Eubanks enjoys traveling, cooking, and shopping. She married Tommy Eubanks in December 1987. They have two daughters, Kaitlin and Hayley. Both attend David Lipscomb Campus School.


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Facebook's Workforce is Mostly White Males
At Facebook, women represented 31 percent of all employees in June 2014, but only 15 percent work in technical jobs. Forty-seven percent of non-technical jobs and 23 percent of senior level jobs are held by women.
Fifty-seven percent of all employees identify as white. Thirty-four percent are Asian, four percent are Hispanic, three percent are two or more races, and two percent are black, according to the company.
Seventy-four percent of senior level workers are white, while 19 percent are Asian.
Williams highlighted some of the efforts the company is making to increase diversity. Last year, Facebook launched a strategic diversity team, which is seeing improved new hire figures for underrepresented groups, according to Williams. The company is also partnering with organizations like the Anita Borg Institute and National Center for Women & Information Technology to support women working in technology.
Yahoo, Google, and LinkedIn have also released diversity figures.


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that three of the four City civilian unions have agreed to change the the City employee retirement plan to a $1 to $1.29 match for new employees. The unions are:
"Many Lincoln residents have seen their employers cut back on salaries and benefits," Mayor Beutler said. "They have heard about three straight years of City budget cuts and a fourth on the horizon. They question the City's priorities. No one should question the priorities of the LCEA, ATU and M Class unions. They understand the challenges faced by the City in solving the budget's structural problems and have agreed to participate in a piece of the solution."
The Mayor said the change will save 20 to 25 percent in retirement costs for each employee hired after the contracts go into effect September 1.
The three unions represent about 800 of the 1,260 City jobs outside of Police and Fire. The fourth civilian union - the Public Association of Government Employees (PAGE) representing "blue collar," clerical and technical workers – has rejected the City's offer and plans to take the issue to the State Commission of Industrial Relations, which mandate that compensation be determined by comparison with similar cities. The Lincoln Police Union and the Lincoln Firefighters Association Local 644 participate in a separate pension plan.
The City currently contributes $2 for every $1 contributed by employees in the retirement plan. The City is unable to legally change the retirement match for current employees.


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Seasonal dressing
Your most pressing style questions answered
How do I keep warm in my suit in the winter, if I don't want to resort to a coat?
They might be the least exciting item in a man's wardrobe, but an undershirt is an easy, cheap and inconspicuous first step. After that, consider a sleeveless cashmere cardigan, or try a three-piece suit next time. And do look out for suits in heavier fabrics. As well as being warmer they inevitably look better, hang better and last longer.
Having lost enough hair to need to shave what remains, I find my head gets cold - what kind of hat can I wear without embarrassing myself?
We favour a tweed flat cap for the country or at the weekend, a fedora or trilby in the town in winter, and a panama in the summer.
Is there a good alternative to wearing a skiing jacket when it's really cold?
A certain scepticism about artificial fibres is healthy when choosing clothes. Sometimes they are a necessary evil, but normally there is a better natural alternative. If the weather calls for a down jacket, try a sophisticated one in navy wool or grey flannel.
I'm going on a one-week beach holiday. What do I need to pack?
In addition to underwear, socks and what you wear to travel: seven lightweight polo shirts, three pairs of swimming shorts, three or four linen shirts, a pair of chinos, a jacket for the evening, espadrilles or sandals for the beach, loafers for the restaurant and a panama hat. Depending on the pretentions of the hotel, a tie might also be required.
Just how much flesh can I show by the pool on holiday? I don't like tan marks.
If you've got it, flaunt it - but nothing that provides less coverage than a pair of traditional Y-fronts is acceptable in public.


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I love the way the title of this book sits in American garden history. America's strongest landscape tradition is not of its private gardens but of its national parks; and 'Beautiful America' is most often, even today, its unique wildernesses. In 'My Country 'Tis of Thee', the nation's de facto anthem, it is
"Thine inland seas, Thy groves and giant trees,Thy rolling plains;Thy rivers' mighty sweep,Thy mystic canyons deep,Thy mountains wild and steep,--"
of which we sing, and where stronger 'garden' histories arise (of the garden as opposed to the natural or presumed natural landscape) they are generally in more urban regions of what remains a sparsely populated country, for its size.
|from the online history of Frances Benjamin Johnston at clio, which also lists her main biographical sources
But Frances Benjamin Johnston--pioneering photographer, photojournalist, visual artist, whose garden photography, 1895-1935 is the subject of a truly beautiful new book by Acanthus Press--was a city girl and saw the making of gardens as a way to improve urban conditions, presaging modern trends like the urban farming movement and guerilla gardening.
She was a member of the first city garden club, The Society of Little Gardens, founded in Philadelphia in 1915, which promoted 'the love of growing plants and making gardens within small city limits'. Her goals are still laudable today:
"...to turn unsightly backyards into gardens, to beautify all waste places, to plant trees near important buildings and on long treeless streets, to encourage window-box planting, and to be observant of the workings of the park department, in order that we may make city life richer by fostering the love of beauty..."
(gardenhistorygirl detects a bit of suspicion of the nefarious park department there), and her photography was part and parcel:
"...we feel that it is very necessary to have photographs for successful developments so that people can clearly see the possibilities of their own backyards, and receive inspiration".
|Laura Stafford Stewart house, 205 West 13th Street, New York, New York
|Grey Gardens in the Hamptons in 1914, later to be famous as the home of Big and Little Edie
A celebrity photographer, FBJ shot the wedding of Alice Roosevelt, portraits of successive US Presidents, and produced vanity garden spreads for wealthy homeowners as well as photographing gardens for 'magazines of class'. But she used that access and patronage to further her own goals, to do things like documenting vanishing colonial architecture or the success of the agriculture college in Hampton, Virginia, where Booker T. Washington went to school.
|Cupola House, Edenton, North Carolina; in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In these efforts she was catholic in her taste, photographing both hovels and plantation houses. Her garden photography, though heavily weighted toward the rich and famous, shows this same expansiveness, an appreciation of the beauty to be found on the stairs to a basement apartment, as in my favorite photograph of the collection, the Janitor's Garden.
Most of the photos are something of a Social Register for Gardens, with hand-coloring in FBJ's preferred Ruskinian idealism to boot. So you'll find the Vanderbilt estates here, and some of England and Italy's most famous gardens, but I am more enamored of the Rhode Island Farmhouse and the sandbox in the back of a doctor's townhouse and the California adobes (present day Californians could learn much from the appropriateness of these landscapes to their settings).
The lovely folks at Acanthus Press have made a copy available to give away to you, dear readers! Just leave a comment to this post by midnight CST on Monday, May 14 to be eligible. You can leave any sort of a comment, but of course I always like to hear nice words about the blog. Nice or not, though, all comments will be numbered and the winner selected by random number generator on Tuesday. Bonne chance!


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DAY 0: Sunday 24 July 2011
- Arrive at CARMA. Campers go to Ferguson Campground [yellow marker on google map], in the Cedar Flat Group Camp 1 mile west of CARMA site after checking in at the CARMA Control building; others to dorm/cottage at OVRO as assigned by Mary Daniel.
- Fixings for spaghetti dinner will be available on Sunday to cook yourself. You may also choose to eat before you arrive or go to a restaurant in Big Pine or Bishop.
DAY 1: Monday 25 July 2011
7am-8am Breakfast at CARMA Site or Owens Valley Kitchen
If you are staying in the valley, eat in the kitchen. If you are camping, eat in the CARMA control building.
8am Get settled in at CARMA site (Everyone) On the first day of class only, we ask that everyone arrive at CARMA by 8am so that you can get seated, connect to internet, check your email, whatever, and be ready to focus at 9am.
9am Official Welcome (Nikolaus)
- Go round the room and everyone introduce themselves.
9:15-10:15am Introduction (Melvyn)
- Goals for the week
- Get some data, reduce it, make maps
- Student presentations on Friday
- Write a CARMA memo
- Astronomy from comets to cosmology
- Emission mechanisms: thermal and non-thermal
- source selection: astronomy, frequency, size, brightness sensitivity
- Atmospheric windows at optical, IR, and radio frequencies
- CARMA site characteristics
10:15-10:30 am Break
10:30-11:30 am Aperture Synthesis Basics (Melvyn)
- Radio antennas: collecting area and resolution
- Aperture arrays
- Response of a 2-element interferometer to point source.
- Coordinate systems: (u,v,w), u,v tracks for different arrays.
- CARMA array characteristics. antennas, Rx bands, correlator.
- Aperture Synthesis Imaging.
11:30-noon Intro to CARMA computers (Marc)
- Computers, control & monitoriing, data flow, archiving
- basic observing procedures, on-line monitors and data inspection
- key programs: sac, checksource, checkcat, checksafe (E array)
12pm - 1pm Lunch at CARMA Site
1:00-2:00 pm Basic demos (students guided by Nikolaus)
- observe a point source (maser or quasar) and a planet.
- plot amplitude and phase vs. uvdistance
- constant amplitude for point source, Bessel function (with phase flips) for planet
- set up correlator in various modes, take spectra of Orion
2:00-3:00 pm Observing Procedures (Melvyn)
- Calibrations:
- gain(t,f,p) - gain, bandpass, polarization, pointing.
- Calibration intervals. V' = gain(t,f,p) x V + noise
- Observing scripts
- Selecting suitable observations for the target sources.
- sensitivity
- source size; mosaicing.
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 pm Group discussion selecting student projects. (Marc)
- Students pair off on projects.
- After discussion period, each group should insert project via the proposal web page. The login/password will be given at the school.
4-6 pm Intro to preparing CARMA observing scripts (John)
Tutorial: generate the script for the first observing project. Afterwards student work on their individual scripts guided by staff.
6 pm Dinner at the CARMA site
Student projects observed on CARMA array overnight.
DAY 2: Tuesday 26 July 2011
7am-8am Breakfast at CARMA Site or OVRO Kitchen
8:50 am Announcements
9:00-9:45 am Introduction to MIRIAD (Doug)
- Overview of data reduction procedure
- Introduction to MIRIAD data reduction package.
- Basic Miriad data format: header, history, visdata, gains, bandpass
- Inspecting uvdata: uvindex, uvlist, uvplt, uvspec
- Selecting uvdata: keywords select= and line=
- Flagging bad data with uvflag
- Antenna based calibration; selfcal and mfcal. gpplt. gains bandpass polcal
- Rewriting edited data sets with uvaver, uvcat, uvcal
9:45-10:30 Observer's Everyday Responsibilities (Tom)
- creating master schedule and running observing scripts
- deciding whether to do 1mm or 3mm
- data quality reports
- flux calibration/array health tasks
- etc
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Students work on creating scripts with staff help
11:15-noon Imaging (Melvyn)
- Review of basic math: brightness distribution is FT of visibility data.
- FFT requires convolving onto a grid; choosing the pixel and image size.
- mosaicing
- invert; choice of natural, uniform, robust weighting, effect on the synthesized beam
- deconvolution algorithms: clean, maxen, mossdi, mosmem, restor
12 - 1 pm Lunch at the CARMA site
1-2 pm CARMA Hardware I. Receivers and Calibration (Dick)
- Introduce system block diagram;
- receiver, cal load, local osc, phaselocks, fiber, downconverter, correlator
- compute energy collected if observing 20 Jy source for 1 yr; would need to observe for 10^5 yrs to heat 1 drop of water by 1 C
- receiver types:
- bolometers: not suitable for interferometry because they don't preserve phase
- HEMT amplifiers: not yet competitive at 1mm
- heterodyne rcvr: downconvert to lower freq in a nonlinear device
- SIS mixers: photon-assisted tunneling; not a Josephson effect
- cryogenics; closed-cycle refrigerators, compressors
- local oscillator: Gunn oscillator
- combining LO and signal: mylar beamsplitter
- receiver and system temperature
- calibration:
- ideally, calibrate on loads outside the earth's atmosphere
- the chopper wheel method
2-3:30 pm. Antenna tour (Dave Woody; Dick; Tom Culverhouse)
- Visit to telescopes. Intro to antenna hardware. Bring hats and water.
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-4:30 pm Example data reduction using student data (John)
Everyone will download the first set of data and reduce them together.
4:30-6 pm students prepare observing scripts, analyze data.
6pm Dinner at the CARMA site.
Student projects observed on CARMA array overnight.
DAY 3: Wednesday 27 July 2011
7am-8am Breakfast at CARMA Site or OVRO Kitchen
8:50 am Announcements
9:00-10:30 am Calibration (Melvyn)
- Calibrations - gain, bandpass, polarization, pointing.
- Antenna based calibrations: amplitude and phase closure
- Atmospheric and instrumental phase characteristics
- Tsys and Jy/K
- Pointing
- correlator calibration techniques.
10:30 am-noon Laptop tutorial data reduction and analysis of student data
12 - 1 pm Lunch at the CARMA site
1-2 pm CARMA Hardware Lecture 2 - Correlator; Software Control (James Lamb)
- review system block diagram
- correlator is detector and spectrometer for the array
- XF vs FX
- delays, 2nd LO lobe rotation, sideband separation
- correlator modes
- FPGA's
- noise source
- system architecture
2-2:30 pm Correlator Tour (Lamb)
2:30-6pm Calibration and analysis of student projects (all)
- Students prepare observing scripts, reduce and analyze data.
6pm Dinner at the CARMA site
Evening - Group Photo (all)
Student projects observed on CARMA array overnight.
DAY 4: Thursday 28 July 2011
7am-8am Breakfast at CARMA Site or OVRO Kitchen
8:50 am Announcements
9-10 pm Special Topics In Mapping (Melvyn)
- The missing short spacing problem;
- importance for getting correct answers for spectral index, etc;
- negative sidelobes due to extended structure;
- filling in missing spacings with larger single dish or Ekers-Rots scheme
- Mosaicing: setting up grid files, linear and nonlinear mosaicing schemes
- Heterogeneous array imaging
10:00am - noon Students observe, reduce and analyze data
12 - 1 pm Lunch at the CARMA site
1-2pm CARMA Hardware Lecture 3 - Local Oscillators, Phaselocks (Dick)
- Review system block diagram, heterodyne system, local oscillator
- Independent oscillators, 100 GHz, synchronized to fraction of one cycle over periods of hours (sounds hard)
- Basic phaselock: mix with reference, low pass filter, generate correction voltage; keeps phase relationship fixed
- CARMA phaselock chain; synthesizer, YIG, Gunn, 10 MHz, 50 MHz
- Fiber system; linelength correction
- Lobe rotation
- compute differential doppler shift due to earth's rotation for 100 GHz signal incident on 2 antennas 10-m apart: 0.24 Hz
- lobe rotators
- interferometer response for a double sideband conversion system
- need to offset freq of 1st LO as well as insert delays
- can be understood as removing differential doppler shift due to earth's rotation
- Phaselocks; the LO system
- Cable length measurement system
- Phase switching; Walsh functions
- Sideband separation by phase switching;
- note that only signals common to an antenna pair can be separated; noise appears in both sidebands
- Fiber optic hardware
2 - 2:30 pm CARMA Future Plans (Nikolaus)
2:30 - 6pm Students observe, reduce and analyze data, work on presentations
6pm Dinner at the CARMA site.
Student projects observed on CARMA array overnight.
DAY 5: Friday 29 July 2011
7am-8am Breakfast at CARMA Site or OVRO Kitchen
8:50 am Announcements
9:00-10:00 am Combining Single dish and interferometric data (Melvyn)
10:00-12 Student Presentations
- Each observing team will give a 5-10 minute presentation on their project
12 - 1 pm Lunch at the CARMA site
1-2 pm Array Reconfiguration (Nikolaus)
- moving the antennas and calibrating a new array configuration
- finding new pad coordinates
- finding pointing offsets.
- finding the delay centers
- radio and optical pointing
- finding a baseline
2-4 pm Student Presentations continued
4-6 pm Analysis of student data and work on memo contributions
6 pm Dinner at the CARMA site
- Drink Beer (provided :-)
- Decide on destination of hike.
~7 pm Special Presentation: Lecture by Forest Service on Natural History of Bristlecone Area (John Louth or Dave Hardin)
Student projects observed on CARMA array overnight.
DAY 6: Saturday 30 July 2011
Group Hike, destination TBD.
Student projects observed on CARMA array all day and overnight (volunteer observer needed)


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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Army Sgt. Jason Daniels, a native of Sand Rock, Ala., and flight medic assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, has played a key role in Task Force Knighthawk's medical evacuation program.
According to his supervisors, Daniels embodies the skill-set necessary to be an aviation flight medic – a key component to Task Force Knighthawk's medevac success during Operation Enduring Freedom XII-XIII under Task Force Falcon.
When asked why he chose to become a flight medic, Daniels said, "There is no other occupation for him because this is by far the most rewarding job in the Army, and I am honored to have the opportunity to make a difference."
Daniels enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves in 2004 to establish himself in a profession that would make his family proud and to serve his country. Three years later, he made the decision to enlist active duty. He has been saving the lives of Afghan National Security Forces and local national civilians during his current tour in Afghanistan with Task Force Knighthawk. "There is a lot of history in Army medevac and it is amazing to see how far we have come with patient treatment," said Daniels. "I'm just proud to be a part of it."
The patient treatment Daniels is referring to is the "Vampire" program. According to Maj. Jason Jones, commander, C Company, the administration of packed red blood cells on board medevac helicopters is not new to trauma medicine, but the far-forward use of PRBCs, potentially within minutes of injury, is definitely on the leading edge of pre-hospital care. Jones says that pre-hospital use of blood as fluid therapy in trauma is not yet proven to change the patient's outcome.
Daniels, who works with the blood program, also works as one of the medical training noncommissioned officers charged with teaching junior flight medics from the task force. Earlier this year, he was crucial to the Kandahar Air Wing flight medic training that certified the KAW flight medics on in-flight care. Task Force Knighthawk certified Afghan air force flight medics and instructors to sustain the program.
"Afghan medics now have the mental skill set and knowledge to facilitate a transition from coalition-provided health care to health care provided by their own," said Daniels. "The Afghan medics have been very receptive toward the instruction that was provided because of their willingness to learn and take care of their own." Army 1st Sgt. Jay Shearer is Daniels' company first sergeant. He says Daniels' performance over the past nine months has been nothing short of phenomenal. Shearer goes further to say that not only has Daniels' vast knowledge benefited Regional Commands South and Southwest, but also the Afghan National Security Forces.
"His instruction of the blood program has expanded the knowledge of the Afghan flight medics and has paved the way forward for Afghanistan and their healthcare system," said Shearer.
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Johnny Be Gone
I had heard awhile back (through the hot stove grape vine) that the only way Johnny Damon would be able to return to the Yankees would be if he crawled back on his hands and knees and begged. Obviously he did not proceed to do that and now he is officially gone and not coming back.
Yesterday Damon and the Detroit Tigers cut a one year, $8 million deal.
I have to say, this was not completely his fault. For the most part, I blame this move on his agent Scott Boras. According to reports, the Yankees had attempted to negotiate with the left fielder several times with talks eventually stalling out before a deal was reached.
Boras has been known to do these types of things to players in the past. If you remember back to the end of the 2007 season, Alex Rodriguez had an opt-out clause in his contract. Rodriguez, also represented by Boras, chose to opt-out of his contract at the most inopportune time imaginable: in the middle of the World Series.
The Yankees had tried to negotiate with Rodriguez prior to the end of 2007 season, but no deal was made. Rodriguez told the Yanks that he was not interested in working out a new deal in the middle of the season. The Yankees responded by basically telling Rodriguez, "if you opt-out now, we are not chasing after you."
Unlike Damon, Rodriguez became a free agent and reached out to the Yankees. The team and Rodriguez had a meeting and eventually worked out a new deal. Along with the new contract, Rodriguez distanced himself from Boras because of the ugly press he received for the opt-out move.
Good move, A-Rod. Unfortunately Damon was not as smart. He received ugly press and he allowed Boras to make a deal for him/control his destiny.
I'll admit, I liked Damon and I will miss him. He was a hard worker, played the game the right way, and really did not make any excuses. The whole time he was in New York, I don't think I ever heard him make an excuse for a bad game or a failure.
On top of that, he enjoyed many moments of success as a Yankee. Here are five:
5) June 7, 2008— A six hit day
The Yankees played the Royals on a hot Saturday afternoon–should have been an easy win by any Yankee fan's standards. But it looked like a lost cause at the end of the third inning when Kansas City was winning 5-1.
Never underestimate your opponent, but also never underestimate the Yankee left fielder.
Damon put together a career day at the plate, going 6-for-6 with four RBIs and a run scored as the Yankees battled back. He even drove in the winning run on a walk-off ground rule double in the bottom of the ninth.
The Yankees won the slugfest, 12-11.
The ground-rule double was Damon's first walk-off hit as a member of the Yankees, and he became the first Yankee since Myril Hoag to have six hits in a game. (Hoag accomplished the feat in 1934).
I would say Damon showed how valuable he can be on that day.
4) Boston Massacre, 2006
It was a really fun weekend to be a Yankee fan.
Heading into a five-game weekend series in Boston on Aug. 18, the American League title was basically up for grabs. We knew that whichever team won this series was the favorite to win the East.
Damon had been blasted when he returned to Boston earlier that season on May 1. Red Sox fans even held up a sign in center field that read "JUDAS DAMON" (the 'N' in his last name of course being the interlocking 'NY')
But never one to let things bother him, Damon kept his focus on the game. In the first three games of the five game series, he hit two homers, scored eight runs, and drove in eight runs.
Talk about letting your former team know what they are missing. And if you are wondering, the Yankees swept the Red Sox that weekend and went on to win the AL East. The Red Sox did not make the playoffs in '06.
They had the Yankees to thank for that.
3) Walk-off Against Minnesota
Many people say the series the Yankees played against the Twins in May of last year was the turning point of their Championship season.
Melky Cabrera hit a walk-off single on May 15, Alex Rodriguez smacked a walk-off homer on May 16, and on May 17 it was Damon's turn to ignite the team.
With two hits already under his belt on the day and the game knotted at two in the bottom of the tenth, Damon crushed a long, solo home run into the right field seats to win the game for the Yankees.
Damon's walk-off blast marked the first time since 1972 the Yankees won three games in a row in their final at-bat. After the win, Damon proudly proclaimed faith in the team and the Yankees' ability to win tough games.
He also received a pie in the face from A.J. Burnett, a tradition that occurred after every walk-off Yankee win in 2009.
2) Oct. 7, 2007–Game 3 of the ALDS
Down two games to none and facing elimination in Game Three, "The Boss" George Steinbrenner had issued an edict to then-manager Joe Torre: "Beat Cleveland or you are gone."
Roger Clemens started the game and quickly let the Yankees fall into a hole. Clemens was forced to an early exit because of a strained hamstring and rookie Phil Hughes took over on the mound. The youngster was able to toss 3 2/3 innings of scoreless baseball, but the Yankees were still down 3-1 by the fifth inning.
Damon then came up to bat with two runners on base and took Indians' starter Jake Westbrook deep to put the Yankees up 4-3. I had never breathed such a sigh of relief in my life. Damon had practically single-handedly saved Torre's life as Yankee manager with one swing of the bat.
The Yanks were able to tack on four more runs and win the game by a count of 8-4. Unfortunately the next night in Game Four they were not as lucky and lost 6-4 in Torre's last game as Yankee skipper.
Yet I cannot forget Damon's effort in Game Three. He once again showed credibility in the playoffs and came through in the clutch. We Yankees fans had seen how capable he was in the 2004 playoffs and I for one was happy to see it translate in '07.
In humility, Damon had five words to say after the game:
"We won it for Joe."
1) Man of Steal: Game Four, 2009 World Series
It was the most epic base-running play I have ever seen in a World Series game.
After giving a warrior-like effort at the plate (a nine-pitch at-bat) and tapping a two-out single off the end of his bat into left field, Damon stood on first base in the ninth inning of a 4-4 game. The Philadelphia Phillies' infield was playing the over-shift with Mark Teixeira batting from the left side of the plate.
With third baseman Pedro Feliz playing where the shortstop normally would, no one was covering third base. Damon took off like a shot and hustled to second base, the throw down to second being late. In a heads-up move, Damon right away noticed no one covering the bag and bolted to third, basically uncontested, and made it there safely.
You cannot coach that. It was just self-awareness. Damon was awarded with two steals.
Teixeira got hit with a pitch, setting up Alex Rodriguez who knocked in the go-ahead run with a double to left field. The Yankees tacked on two more runs after Rodriguez's double and went on to win 7-4.
Damon kept the team alive with his valiant effort with two outs in the inning and his great instinct on the base path. I have never seen a player keep his wits about him in such a pressure-laden situation. He maintained his bearings and made a terrific play.
I still feel if Damon had made an out, the Yanks would have lost Game Four.
But that didn't happen thanks to his intelligence and heads-up steals. Ricky Henderson, eat your heart out!
On behalf of Yankee fans everywhere, THANK YOU Johnny Damon!
You afforded us some wonderful memories and like Hideki Matsui, we will truly miss you. It's unfortunate how your tenure in New York ended, but at least you helped bring the city another title.
Have fun in Detroit with Austin Jackson.
P.S. We are sorry Scott Boras ruined it for you. Be smart and dump him. Please.


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Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox and a former fellow at CityLab. He lives in New York.
Witnesses repeatedly described the scene Monday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where two bomb blasts ripped through a crowd of spectators, as unimaginable. Security experts called Friday's citywide "shelter-in-place" order unprecedented, and onlookers could only compare the siege in Watertown, where soldiers, SWAT teams, helicopters and armored Humvees cordoned off a large swath of the neighborhood, to a movie.
But emergency management personnel in the Boston region had not only been imagining such a complex scenario, they had been rehearsing it.
Over the past two years, area hospitals had sent teams of doctors and nurses to citywide training exercises and run internal drills for mass casualty incidents like bombs, plane crashes, and fires. Vivid, citywide disaster simulations – conducted in 2011 and 2012 – put hundreds of officials through hypothetical 24-hour crisis situations. Boston is one of four U.S. cities whose all-hazards plan has been accredited by EMAP, the national emergency planning evaluation program.
"Even local businesses these days have response plans in place," says Rick Nelson, a veteran of the National Counterterrorism Center and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
So when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded on Monday afternoon, Boston's emergency operations centers knew what to do. Emergency medical personnel affixed tourniquets – Boston's first responders all carry these battlefield dressings, though many ambulances and hospitals nationally do not – to bloodied limbs. The most serious casualties were distributed among area hospitals, a technique known to optimize critical care during disaster events. Boston Marathon medical tents set up for fatigued runners were transformed within minutes into trauma centers. Police officers took up positions to keep spectators off the course and turned back runners approaching the finish line.
As the medical response unrolled, a parallel series of preventative measures were put into action. Service on Boston's Green Line, which has a station at Copley Square near the scene of the attacks, was suspended between Kenmore and Park Street. Security checks were installed at local transit hubs. The FAA temporarily grounded all flights at Logan International Airport.
The scene on Boylston Street was an admirable display of bravery, skill and calm by first responders and volunteers. But less remarked, and equally remarkable, was the value of the city's foresight. Few U.S. cities could have been better prepared for the events of this week.
"Everything that you saw happen within seconds of the explosion," says James Baker, the president of security consultancy Cytel Group, "was all because someone thought they should be prepared for that." Baker would know. In the past 24 months, he has helped Boston run two massive, 24-hour worst-case scenario simulations that bore no small resemblance to the situation unfolding this afternoon in Watertown.
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Over the past decade, the Department of Homeland Security has funneled billions of dollars towards the protection of U.S. cities. Boston is one of the DHS's "Tier 1" U.S. metro areas -- in DHS's view, one of the country's ten most likely targets for terrorism. The Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), the largest part of the Homeland Security Grant Program, distributes half a billion dollars annually to 31 U.S. metros, and sent $11 million to Boston in the 2012 fiscal year.
The Metro Boston Homeland Security Region (MBHSR) -- nine cities including Boston -- directs that money into an array of local counterterrorism programs. In the past few years, the MBHSR has upgraded over 5,000 portable radios for first responders and installed a communication system inside the tunnels of the Boston T.
Part of that money must go towards live drills, so over the past couple years, Boston has conducted two citywide disaster simulations with Cytel Group's Urban Shield, using the preparation and after-action reports from the first trial (in May 2011) to improve the city's preparedness in the second, in November 2012. (The city also hosted an emergency management summit last August.)
U.S. cities have been doing disaster drills for decades, and some exercises -- such as Detroit's World War II black-out drills or Portland's 1955 "Operation Greenlight" -- have been of some magnitude. But in the last decade, the trend in disaster drills has moved from the purely local exercise to the vertically integrated simulation that coordinates a reponse across the different levels of government. "What is different," Nelson says, "is the range and depth of missions they're responding to."
Urban Shield, which Baker started in 2007, is one of several drill programs that have sprung up over the last decade in response to DHS grants for thorough emergency preparedness training. In 2010, it received UASI's honorable mention for best overall program.
In Boston, Urban Shield was sufficiently disruptive and expansive that Mayor Thomas Menino's felt obliged to ask residents to remain calm:
"Urban Shield: Boston will run for a 24-hour period. As a result residents in the area may hear simulated gunfire, observe officers responding to simulated emergencies, or see activity in the Boston Harbor. Each scenario will be run multiple times, and organizers urge residents not to be alarmed."
The drills, which included hostage situations, HazMat incidents and a movie theater shooting, brought together emergency officials from the city, state and federal government, as well as from the Boston Police, SWAT teams, the Fire Department, EMS, local hospitals, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the Coast Guard. All in all, there were over 600 participants in the November drill, from over fifty different departments and agencies.
"What the Urban Shield program does is test it all at the same time – bomb squads working, swat teams working, fire, HazMat, search and rescue, command centers activated, all your radio systems, hospitals activated – everyone's kind of working together," says Baker, who worked closely with the city to execute the simulation. "That's where you start to find your gaps – who can't speak to whom on the radio. You identify the real problems when you get everyone together."
The drills are intended to be strikingly lifelike. Urban Shield has worked with Strategic Operations, a Hollywood effects company that also helps prepare army medics for the battlefield. (Their disaster scenario staff, Baker says, include an amputee.) With a generous helping of moulage, their drills aim to force officials to confront both the logistical and atmospheric challenges of a disaster.
"The leadership is outstanding," Baker says, referring to Boston. "I have found that they are proactive and forward thinking – they invested a lot of time and energy in getting ready for something that they never thought would happen."
Speaking of the Urban Shield program in a video released in September, Daniel Linskey, superintendent-in-chief of the Boston Police Department, sounded oddly prescient. "You have to train for things that may be out of the ordinary," he said, "because you can't wait for them to happen to be ready."
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Nationwide, the hierarchy of emergency management can be staggeringly complicated, and the varying power structures within U.S. states — think of how L.A. County contains 88 cities, while New York City contains five counties — make it difficult to generalize about who calls the shots.
For example: Boston has an Emergency Operations Center run out the city's Office of Emergency Management. Massachusetts has a State Emergency Operations Center, run out of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. The MBHSR (which runs the Boston Regional Intelligence Center) is a federal jurisdiction that contains nine cities.
What began as the Cold War-era Office of Civil Defense has long since evolved into alphabet soup, which poses two related problems for disaster planners: first, how do all these agencies communicate when something goes wrong, and second, and more importantly, how does the DHS begin to regulate and standardize city responses, making it easier for the federal government to lock up with local jurisdictions during crises?
Since 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, experts say, collaboration and communication between agencies and jurisdictions has been one DHS's highest priorities. "Government agencies are better at talking to each other, coordinating, cooperating," says Stevan Weine, a psychiatry professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who studies counterterrorism and resilience. "They're better at partnering with other entities, local communities, the business community."
Though every city has an all-hazard plan by one name or another, it can be difficult to predict how various authorities will interact in a time of crisis. "Coordination is key," Nelson says. Boston's MBHSR, like many regional DHS jurisdictions, is working to implement the National Incident Management Program (NIMS), a national framework for disaster reporting and response.
"When you talk about disasters, it's all about partnerships," says Ken Kondo, a program specialist at the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management. Training exercises are indispensable. Last month, Kondo says, L.A. County performed an exercise in response to an imagined 7.8-magnitude earthquake, working out hypotheticals with the National Guard, the Red Cross and dozens of city and county departments in between.
Not every effort at integration across departments has gone so smoothly. In 2003, DHS began to develop a network of "fusion centers," cross-agency intelligence outlets designed to assist law enforcement, public safety, emergency response, and other regional authorities in "preventing, protecting against, and responding to crime and terrorism." The program has had its growing pains: a 2012 Senate investigation found that fusion centers mostly gathered "irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence," and often spent money frivolously.
The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), one of 77 U.S. fusion centers, was not available for comment this week. But Mike Sena, the President of the National Fusion Center Association, who defended the program after the Senate report, said the BRIC was designed to operate in exactly the sort of inter-agency crisis situation occurring in Boston "This is what fusion centers were built for," Sena told the Wall Street Journal.
The DHS has also strived to institute a system of best practices across cities. According to Cytel's James Baker, the impetus for this is obvious: "If we're doing it one way, and you're doing it another way, we should figure out which way is better."
But given the variations in the power structure, not to mention the geographic and structural differences between cities, a standard municipal operating procedure is, for now, beyond reach. "Every city has its unique requirements," Nelson says. Additionally, resource allocation varies widely. (New York City receives nearly one-third of UASI funding; many of the country's populous metros do not receive any at all.)
FEMA's "Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101" [PDF], released in 2010, tentatively positions itself as a textbook for emergency operations plans -- while acknowledging the critical differences between cities, and the virtues of bottom-up disaster planning (my italics): "This Guide recognizes that many jurisdictions across the country have already developed EOPs that address many emergency management operations. Therefore, CPG 101 establishes no immediate requirements, but suggests that the next iteration of all EOPs follow this guidance."
The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) further encourages a convergence of local and state planning strategies. Established in 2003 under the guidance of DHS and FEMA, EMAP is the country's first accreditation program for all-hazards plans -- the first comparative body that holds all municipal, state, and university emergency plans to a common, respective standard. In November, under the leadership of Rene Fielding, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, Boston became one of only four cities nationwide to receive EMAP accreditation.
DHS-funded programs like Urban Shield also help spread best practices between cities -- as they move from region to region, they share lessons learned. (Two of the EMAP-accredited cities, Boston and Austin, have also held Urban Shield events.) Each Urban Shield simulation also draws dozens of professionals from other, smaller cities, who come to watch and learn.
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Municipal departments also study each other's tactics. While a city like Boston might have a hard time learning from New York City -- the world's most sophisticated police force is actually too good to be helpful (they have over a dozen foreign operatives, for example, and in some countries rivaling the CIA for intelligence) -- it can draw lessons from elsewhere.
For U.S. cities, Israel is a particular area of focus. In October, officials from ten U.S. police departments (though not Boston) traveled to Israel to study counterterrorism, security and resilience. And Israel is a case study for more than just police: Mass General Hospital in Boston, which received dozens of victims from the Marathon bombings, had previously consulted Israeli doctors to "revamp their disaster-response planning."
Resilience, in particular, is one area in which the Israelis excel -- and one that U.S. authorities have been eager to import to U.S. disaster areas.
"When you think about political violence, there's 'How do we stop it?', and if we can't stop it, 'How do we respond?'" says Victor Asal, director of the Homeland Security Certificate concentration at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. "One of the components is resilience – how do you get back to the way things were. And that's different than finding out who did it."
"In Jerusalem, when a terrorist attack happens," he adds, "if you walk by six or 12 hours later, you wouldn't know it. They clean it up and they get people going."
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in Bloomberg View on Tuesday, also cited Israeli resilience. A decade ago, arriving at a Jerusalem cafe the day after a terrorist attack there killed seven people, he found the scene nearly indistinguishable from any other day. "There is no satisfactory solution to the problem of mass anonymous violence," he writes. "As a result, resilience becomes the paramount response. Keeping your wits about you as individuals, as a government and as a culture is what counts."
Whether today's Boston lockdown, prompted by the manhunt for Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Christmas is always a very special time to visit Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, and 2017 is no exception after the popular visitor attraction revealed its festivities for the next two months.
The theme for this year's decorations, Enchanted Menagerie, celebrates the weird and wonderful animals that can be seen throughout Waddesdon's collections, from an elephant parade inspired by the 18th-century musical automaton to a life-sized zebra and trees decked with colourful birds and mythical beasts!
From dusk, an extraordinary new light and sound show Waddesdon Imaginarium, created by video design students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, will be projected onto the Manor's ornate façade. Inspired by the architecture, gardens and history of Waddesdon, objects in the collections have been 3D scanned and transformed into detailed animations.
Visitors will be dazzled by roaming porcelain animals, dancing musical clocks, fluttering clouds of butterflies and moths and
18th-century portraits creating a fantastical visual story of Waddesdon.
Wrap up warm, head outside and discover light art by American artist Lauren Booth. Electric Menagerie winds from the Aviary to the Stables, illuminating the Rothschilds' passion for natural history with neon goats, parrots and even a flea circus.
The Christmas festivities start this Saturday (November 11) and run until January 2 2018 open from Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm (closed 24, 25 & 26 December).
Waddesdon's Christmas Fair, which runs from November 15 to December 10, is a firm favourite in the festive calendar and returns bigger and better than ever, with 80 decorated wooden chalets set against the enchanting backdrop of the floodlit Manor.
In a new location on the North Front, there will be high quality, unique gifts, decorations, crafts and delicious food from local artisan producers and national independent traders.
More festive gifts and beautiful decorations will be found in the Christmas shop at the Stables, incorporating Glow@Waddesdon, a pop-up neon shop with glowing gifts and stocking fillers galore.
The Wigwam Café returns with more undercover seating once again located near the top of the woodland playground. Chef Barney Wrobel will be serving tasty street food, homemade cakes, and festive hot chocolate and mulled wine.
Admission Grounds
Adult: £10, Child: £5, Family: £25
Free for National Trust and Art Fund members and under 5s
House & Grounds
Adult: £25, Child: £12.50 Family: £62.50
National Trust and Art Fund members: Adult: £5, Child: £2.50, Family: £12.50
Free for under 5s
Bookings: 01296 820414 or www.waddesdon.org.uk/christmas
More info: https://waddesdon.org.uk/your-visit/plan-your-day/christmas-2017/


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Nov. 15, 2007
Four Lipscomb Lady Bisons earned accolades from the coaches and sports information directors in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Junior outside hitter Sarah Snider was named First Team All-Conference. Senior libero Ann Mullins was a Second Team All-Conference selection.
Freshman setter Stefine "Jake" Pease was named Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year, the first time a Lipscomb volleyball player has won that honor. Pease and middle blocker Alex Kelly were both named to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team,
Pease is second in the conference in assists with 1,282, 12.33 per game. She is also 56th nationally in NCAA Division I. She has been in a unique situation since there was no one on the roster this season to serve as her backup.
"There was a never a doubt in my mind about Jake's ability from the first time I saw her," said Lipscomb coach Brandon Rosenthal. "She has lived up to every ounce of that.
"This is just a little glimpse of what is to come. She is the absolute real deal. As the years go by she is only going to get better and better."
Despite outstanding stats in high school Pease was told by many so-called experts that she did not have what it takes to be a setter on the NCAA Division I level.
"Obviously, that is not the case," Rosenthal said. "This is all a matter of who she is and what I look for in a recruit. Without a back-up she had pressure to perform all of the time. I'm very proud of her. "
Kelly has also been solid with a .272 hitting percentage and averaging almost one block per game (.99). Rosenthal was worried that Pease and Kelly might split the vote for Freshman of the Year.
"Alex was a little more under the radar than Jake in high school and club volleyball," Rosenthal said. "There was never a doubt about Alex with the speed and the energy she plays with. Alex is going to be a force to be reckoned with for the next three years."
Snider, who transferred to the Lady Bisons from the University of Alabama, has led conference in kills and points for most of the season. She is 18th nationally in NCAA Division I in kills per game with 4.94, 509 total. She also has 567 points, 5.50 per game.
"Sarah is one of, if not the top player, in the conference," Rosenthal said. "This was a great award for her. She has been a pretty consistent player throughout the year and only was recognized once as player of the week.
"She has proven that she is that different level player," Rosenthal said. "It is fun to think about what she will be capable of doing next year."
Mullins was second this season in the conference in digs with 597. She also set a new career record in the conference in digs in only three seasons. She is ranked 25th nationally in digs per game with 5.74.
"Ann has proven herself to be a top player," Rosenthal said. "This is a great finishing touch for her.
"The awards don't matter to her. It is all about winning."
That statement applies to Snider, Pease and Kelly as well.
"They are all very competitive," Rosenthal said. "If you threw all four of them into a room I'm not sure which one would come out."


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by Katie Parker, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 30 Georgia College & State University women's tennis team (10-10, 5-6 PBC) picked-up a big 7-2 win Sunday at the Centennial Center Tennis Facility topping a strong NAIA program in the Savannah College of Art and Design (10-2).
The Bobcats went 2-1 in doubles action, as the freshmen pair of Kayla Barksdale (Martinez, Ga.) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) fell 8-6 to Charoltte Debrey and Nisha Michau. Slotted third, Adriana Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Linda Mosa (Stockholm, Sweden) outlasted SCAD's Annie Chastain and Stephanie Gula 9-8.
Georgia College's Diane Danna (Paris) and Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) found themselves down 7-2 against Courtney Collins and Romina Mrochen in first doubles. Feeling the heat, the French duo came alive and fought back to an impressive 9-7 victory, improving to 11-9 for the season.
Danna carried that momentum into singles play, sweeping Mrochen 6-1 and 6-0 in the first position, while Barksdale beat Collins in the same fashion. Danna is 14-4 this season, taking 10 of her last 11 matches. In the No. 3 spot, Lion improved to 15-4, downing Michau 6-0, 6-2. The junior Lion has won 11 of her last 12.
At fourth singles, Lingner struggled, losing 6-0 and 6-1 to Debrey, while Mosa defeated Gula 6-2 and 7-6. Acuna claimed sixth singles in three sets going, 4-6, 6-4 and 10-8 against Chastain.
The Bobcats are back action Wednesday, April 14 hosting No. 32 Lander University for Senior Day starting at 2:30 p.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Kung Pao Sauce from Wei-chuan is an authentic Chinese dish. Kung Pao is one of the most popular Chinese dishes. Now this stir-fried sauce makes it easier for you to prepare in 3-easy steps (detail on the label ). Kung Pao incorporates all ingredients for authentic flavor. Ingredients: Soy sauce, sugar, salt, rice wine, tomato paste, chili paste, garlic, caramel color, onion, white pepper, guar gum, spices. Net weight: 8.00 oz. Product of Taiwan.
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Vinturi Wine Aerator
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Wine lovers have long known that allowing a wine to breathe before drinking it significantly improves your tasting experience, but the process is time consuming. Speed up natural aeration with this tool, designed to open and develop red wines in the time it takes to pour a glass. Operating without a battery or charcoal filter, the aerator gives wines the same enhanced bouquet, fuller flavor and smoother finish you'd achieve from extended decanting.
- Mixes wines with the ideal of amount of air for the optimal length of time to releases their full flavor and bouquet.
- Internal dimensions and a flow rate specifically designed to bring out the best in red varietals.
- Easy to use: simply hold the aerator over a glass and pour the wine through.
- Solidly made of acrylic.
- Includes a no-drip stand and filter screen.
- Dishwasher safe.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by SeanaGretchen from Great for Enhancing Wine 1 Glass at a Time This is really handy when you only plan on having one or two glasses and don't feel like decanting a whole bottom or cleaning the decanter for that matter. Cleans up easy and aerates the wine well.Date published: 2017-06-08Rated 5 out of 5 by SuSu2 from We like it This aerator works well, does not take up too much space, is not fragile and is easy to clean. Once you learn not to cover the holes while filling, or pour in too much wine at once, it works easily and well. The screen filters out sediment or that occasional piece of cork. It's also very good for an inexpensive weeknight bottle of red. We think it makes a $10 bottle of wine taste like a $15 bottle and so on.....Date published: 2016-12-03Rated 5 out of 5 by LauraPL from Bought. Used. Loved! Picked up the Vinturi Wine Aerator at the Williams-Sonoma Outlet in Leesburg, VA over the 2012 holiday season. This piece is sturdy, allows for a sediment filtration option, aerates, and cleans up in a snap. The stand is a nice touch for repeated use while entertaining. No worries about fragility like some competing (glass) models. Two thumbs up!Date published: 2013-01-18Rated 2 out of 5 by Kitgirl from Interesting concept but flawed execution I had high hopes for this aerator, but it is just too difficult to use. I don't like having to hold it, just so, in order to pour the wine. I also had problems with wine coming out of the air holes on the sides. I prefer the other aerator I have, which is a funnel that sits on top of the glass.Date published: 2013-01-04Rated 3 out of 5 by whomper from works but leaks We love red wine, I purchased it for Christmas for my husband. We followed the directions and every time wine leaks down the sides of the stand. I'm bringing it back. It does airate the wine.Date published: 2013-01-02Rated 5 out of 5 by lllwilli from Wine tastes better Great idea, easy to use, wine tastes much better with aeration. No stand neededDate published: 2012-06-26Rated 5 out of 5 by mo911 from Makes wine very crisp and clean tasting I purchased this for my mother over Christmas and somehow I have ended up with it, so I purchased her another one for Mother's Day. Makes a huge difference in the taste of the wine. Very crisp and clean. I love mine. Can't understand the negative reviews. If you are wine person I think this aerator is a must have for your wine collection.Date published: 2012-05-12


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Project update, October 2012
- The expansion of the plant to treat a total of 50Ml/day is over half way complete and remains on track for full production in early 2014.
- The Anglo American continues to partner with other major players in the mining industry on projects that will replicate the success of the eMalahleni Water Reclamation Project.
- The Minister of the Department of Water Affairs signed up to the Water Resources Group 2030 initiative together with the World Economic Forum, Coca-Cola, Eskom, Nestle, South African Breweries, Sasol and others. The minister has set up a Strategic Water Partnership Network, with number of task teams, to engage with the private sector and identify key projects that will support the implementation of government's water strategies and deliver on overall water security for South Africa. Anglo American is working with Eskom on the Effluent Task Team to identify and replicate the best practice water solutions that have been demonstrated by the private companies. Read more about this here.
- Water Strategy Implementation: Water stewardship is a vital input to Anglo American's operations and the security of its supply is of strategic importance both to the company and the communities and countries in which it operates. The threat posed by climate change is also requiring the company to look at new approaches to managing water in its operations.
- In 2011 nearly 70% of AngloAmerican's operational water requirements were met by recycling or re-using water and continue to work on new projects that will further improve this in the years to come.
Project Background
published: 31.1.2012
Location: Africa, Republic of South Africa, Mpumalanga/eMalahleni
Date project established: October 2007
eMalahleni is a municipality of 510,000 people in a water-stressed region of north-eastern South Africa. It is one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country, and has faced considerable difficulties in meeting increasing demand for drinking water.
The city lies within the Olifants River Catchment – one of the regions in which Anglo American has also been working with internationally recognised research institutions to develop long-term climate models. The results, projected up to 2050, suggest that there is potential for a reduction in mean annual rainfall in this area. Water shortages - or flooding as a result of extreme rainfall events - could have serious implications for one of the most economically dynamic areas of South Africa.
Anglo American's Thermal Coal workings in the area around eMalahleni, however, contain approximately 140,000 megalitres (Ml) of water - a figure that is rising by over 25 Ml a day.
Too little water on the surface is a problem for communities. Too much water underground is no less of a problem for a mining company.
So Anglo American's Thermal Coal invested a decade of research and development into mine water treatment technology. This was aligned with the central government's mine closure and rehabilitation strategy, and the employment, development and environmental requirements of local authorities. The research involved a partnership with South Africa's power utility, Eskom, and all of the major mining houses in the Highveld coalfields.
Anglo American subsequently established the eMalahleni Water Reclamation Scheme to treat the water from its local operations, and that from a nearby, disused mine owned by another mining company. The scheme was commissioned in 2007, and Anglo American put in place the infrastructure needed to deliver the treated water directly into the municipality's system.
The scheme treats mine water from current active mining operations. But it will remain in operation well beyond the conclusion of active mining, to sustainably manage environmental needs and make drinking water available to the local community into the future.
Mitigation and/or Adaptation
The city of eMalahleni is licensed to take 75 Ml of water a day from the local Witbank Dam. However, it needs, and abstracts, 120 Ml a day, which has a negative impact on communities downstream of the city. By 2030, the municipality's water demand is forecast to be 50% higher at 180 Ml/day.
The Anglo American reclamation plant currently treats 30 Ml a day. Some of this is used in our own mining operations, but the bulk of it supplies 12% of the city's daily water need. In July 2011, the company approved investment to increase treatment capacity to 50 Ml a day, and this second phase should be operational before the end of 2013.
The second phase has been designed to manage water from five coal mines, some of which have already reached the end of their life. This includes mines owned by a competitor mining company. Anglo American is moving beyond seeking solutions purely for its own mines, and is looking at a holistic way of dealing with the water problems of the entire region.
The reclamation plant provides flexibility for the eMalahleni community and a degree of water security as it seeks to address long-term climate adaptation risks from altered precipitation.
To date the water reclamation plant has treated 30 billion litres and supplied 22 billion litres to the eMalahleni Local Municipality.But as part of its holistic examination of water in the region, Anglo American has been working with internationally recognised research institutions to develop long-term climate models for the Olifants River Catchment – within which the city lies. The results, projected up to 2050, suggest that there is potential for a reduction in mean annual rainfall in this area, highlighting the importance of prudent water management in the catchment.
Social Benefits
The construction of the plant created almost 700 temporary jobs, two-thirds of which were filled by people from the local community. It now has 57 permanent employees - almost all of whom are local.
The plant wants to be a zero waste facility. A daily by-product of the water reclamation is 200 tonnes of gypsum-based solids, and this has been successfully used to make bricks. So far, 66 affordable homes have been built from the gypsum waste for employees and it is hoped that it will soon be expanded to a total of 300 residential units. In addition, it offers an opportunity to further stimulate local employment through the establishment of a community-based enterprise that will manufacture and distribute these gypsum-based products to local builders.
And – of course - the local community has access to an additional source of drinking water for 60,000 people.
A register was tracked during the project construction and operational phase to document the percent of local labour employment.
The second benefit is the increase in the number of people that now have access to clean drinking water. The percentage of people without drinking water has been reduced from 14% to 2%, aiding the provincial government in meeting one of its Millennium Development Goals to ensure that no household goes without a potable, reliable and predictable water supply.
Potential for Scaling-up and replication of project
The project is currently being expanded into its second phase, which will increase output by 2013 from 30 Ml to 50 Ml a day, with a peak capacity of 60 Ml a day.
The site – and the project – has the potential for a third phase.
The project is replicable and is being examined by six of Anglo American's ten Thermal Coal operations.
It has already been replicated by a private mining company, Optimum Coal Holdings, who commissioned a 15 Ml a day plant in June 2010 to the east of eMalahleni. Four other projects in the Witbank Coalfields are in various stages of project development based on the same model as the eMalahleni plant.
Mines other than coal are also looking to replicate this model.
Considerable know-how has been developed as a result of this project with Anglo American recently asked to provide input to government on a national desalination strategy.


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To all Waterfox users and future Firefox 57 users out there!
Discussion of third-party/unofficial Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey builds.
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This might be very interesting for you to read: http://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/13/waterf ... e-browser/
Old news.. FYI There's a forum search function here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
@ If it's so "very interesting" !, I'm sure you could discuss it at the appropriate forum... https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 93#p109293
Edit: Hmmm...Guess not...
@mightyglydd: Not sure where your inappropriate aggression stems from. What did I write in this very thread to cause anger? Anyway, your ridiculous attempt to belittle my info, just by showing that I was banned from the Pale Moon board does not hurt me at all. The fact alone that I operate under the same name here (whereas I could also use another one, entirely possible - in which case this ad hominem wouldn't even work) tells you that I am dealing with that openly for all to see. I was banned for speaking out the truth essentially: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... eaa22f0b24
Edit: Nice try of yours. Hmmm... Guess not...
And now for something completly different
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine" ...Abraham Lincoln
Honestly, I tried to create a topic which I thought would help people being in a dilemma due to add-ons. And what do I receive immediately? Mindless ad hominem stuff, for whatever reason (probably just to provoke). I should use another alias. I really should.
No you tried to derail one thread with off topic crap and as usual troll in another one.
What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
"Terry Pratchett"
Not a single person responding here up until now (including you) has written anything on-topic. The initial post includes two core infos:
- changes regarding add-ons will occur in Firefox
- Waterfox might fix the problem
WHAT is the trolling in there? Care to explain? This thread contains massive trolling, but as it happens you will only find this behavior in the answers given here. Again, because of mindless ad hominem stuff like this (for which this very, extremely harmless thread gives no reason to) I will likely change my alias. Those same answers are the reason why MozillaZine enjoys a certain reputation at certain other sites. I wonder how that came to pass...
It's clear this thread is not going anywhere useful. Locking as redundant to other discussions on coming changes in extension programming.
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Brian Cox has spoken out about entry requirements for science courses "going through the roof" due to a lack of investment. Which are the country's most sought-after physics and astronomy courses?
The tenth highest-ranked physics and astronomy course in the UK – University of Manchester's – will receive an extra dose of star power next year as Professor Brian Cox returns to teach a first-year undergraduate physics module.
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The smaller the down payment, the greater the requirements are on a buyer's financial condition. The reason a lender is willing to lend up to 95% of the value of the house is that history has shown real estate to be such an excellent investment. Lenders expect that the home will be worth more in the future than it is today - so their investment in your home is considered very safe.
That's also why the interest rate you can obtain on a home loan is one of the best around. Consider that America's largest and strongest corporations borrow at what is called the "prime rate," and that today you can borrow a home loan - fixed at the same rate for many years - at substantially less than the prime rate. Lenders have found that home loans tend to be excellent investments, and you benefit every month when you make your loan payment.
What if I don't have enough for the down payment?
Today's homebuyers have more loan options. A homebuyer may have excellent credit and the ability to make the monthly mortgage payment, but not have the cash for the down payment. For this situation a nontraditional loan program such as an 80-10-10 may be the best loan. Homebuyers should not despair and assume that a home is out of reach. There are many loan options available for many different financial situations.


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Chloe Moretz at Critics' Choice 2012
Critics' Choice Awards: Chloë Moretz
The adorable Chloë Moretz opted for a bold, statement-making Chanel frock at tonight's awards. With a sweet fit-and-flare silhouette and textured sleeves, the dress was equal parts girlie and fashion-forward. Add to that a jewel-embellished neckline, and Chloë kept the rest of the look simple with a pair of ankle-strap heels, minimal makeup, and hair just slightly pulled off her face. What do you think?
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Beach Club Hotel
On the Boardwalk and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Beach Club has an ambiance unlike that of any other hotel in Ocean City. Here you'll be welcomed with warmth, taste and style in a spirit of uncomplicated hospitality.
With a beachfront pool, sun terrace and a top rated restaurant offering unequaled ocean views, the Beach Club provides an extraordinary vacation. And if variety is the spice of life, then the diversion you'll find at the Beach Club makes this the hottest of spots. Just fifteen minutes to the glitter and excitement of Atlantic City and twenty minutes to sightseeing in historic Cape May, there is also sailing, deep sea fishing, tennis and golf. Or if you prefer, spend your time in idle moments by the pool or on the beach. At the Beach Club, the choices are almost as endless as the grains of sand on the shore.
- Two queen size beds
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- Full private bath
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- Ocean front heated pool with baby pool
- Café Beach Club Restaurant
- Free parking, one space per room
- Guest laundry
- Beach Tags provided for all registered adults
- Secure enclosed bicycle storage
- Non-smoking property
- Rainy Day Activities