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Our comprehensive services for cancer begin with prevention and screening and continue with personalized plans for treating cancer and returning you to health. Your treatment plan may include one or a combination of these approaches:
Supportive care, such as nutrition and naturopathic remedies, may be used in conjunction with treatments based on your preference.
We treat all cancers regardless of type and stage. These are a few of the most common:
At St. Vincent Healthcare, you have access to some of the most advanced technology and expertise in all of Montana. To detect and monitor cancer, we use:
As part of treatment, we apply some of the latest tools available to attack tumors and malignancies with precision, while protecting nearby healthy tissue. These include:
We understand that cancer carries an emotional and spiritual burden that goes beyond your physical diagnosis. Our goal is to anticipate your needs and consider even the little things so you can focus on healing.
This means you have access to modern, updated facilities designed for your comfort. Whether you're staying in our hospital or receiving care at St. Vincent Healthcare Frontier Cancer Center, we work to create a warm environment with conveniences and amenities. Our specially trained patient navigators are here to answer your questions, coordinate appointments among your doctors and therapists, and connect you with others who can help, such as financial counselors, social workers and chaplains.
We believe in the power that results when physicians, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists and other professionals come together with a single goal of quality patient care. When you choose St. Vincent Healthcare for your cancer care, you'll benefit from the collaboration of many experts focused on you.
We hold weekly meetings called tumor conferences where doctors and staff from a variety of specialties discuss every patient's case. Different experts will review your diagnosis, explore treatment possibilities and provide you with additional opinions without the need for separate appointments with each doctor.
From support groups to financial assistance, our teams are readily available to help you navigate your cancer care and makes sense of what can be overwhelming and complex.
Sometimes the most comfort comes from fellow cancer survivors with whom you can relate. Hear from our patients who have experienced cancer and been touched by the care they received.
St. Vincent Healthcare is accredited by many of the nation's leading oncology organizations including Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) and the College of Surgeon's Commission on Cancer. This accreditation is only granted to facilities that voluntarily commit to provide the best in cancer diagnosis and treatment and that comply with all the Commission on Cancer standards. We also achieved the organization's National Accreditation Program for Breast Cancers. With this accreditation, you can be assured that we're held to the highest standards of care for patients with diseases of the breast. We are the only facility in Montana to be recognized as a Lung Screening Center of Excellence by the Lung Cancer Alliance and a Designated Lung Screening Center by the American College of Radiology.
Throughout your cancer journey, we provide ongoing education and support. While you receive treatment, your nurse navigators ensure you have access to support groups, and once you beat your cancer, we celebrate survivors. In addition, we actively work with you to prevent your cancer from coming back.
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We aim to make patients as comfortable as possible, and while it is a part of end-of-life care, palliative care can be applied in any stage of cancer. Our services focus on improving quality of life, helping with decision-making and providing emotional support to patients and their families.
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This group offers support for those affected by breast cancer, from newly diagnosed to survivor. It is facilitated by a St. Vincent Healthcare Breast Health Navigator. This group meets the second Monday of each month from 6:30-8pm in the Mansfield Health Education Center, 2900 12th Avenue N. For more information, please call 237-3115.
This group is open to individuals and families affected by hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Please contact the Billings FORCE outreach coordinator at 656-2031 for more information about the group, including meeting times and dates.
Offered in partnership with the Billings Family YMCA, the 12-week LiveStrong program is designed to meet the needs of cancer patients who are making the shift to cancer survivor. Attending a minimum of two classes each week, participants strengthen muscles, increase flexibility and improve energy levels. For additional information, phone Kassia Lyman at (406) 294-1624 or Mistie Mims at (406) 294-1616.
Once you've completed cancer treatment, you face a new set of challenges as a survivor. You may need support for emotional issues or new ways to relating to family, co-workers and loved ones. You'll want to take extra care of your health and possibly make lifestyle changes to lower your risk of recurrence.
Our survivorship care planning program can help you meet these challenges. This program begins when treatment ends and can include your family, friends and caregivers. You'll receive support through follow-up visits with cancer care experts, who will help you maintain and improve your health and wellness and work with oncologists and other team members to provide comprehensive care after treatment.
To learn more about St. Vincent Healthcare's cancer services, clinical outcomes, and care providers, download a copy of the 2018 St. Vincent Healthcare Oncology Annual Report.
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Congratulations to our fantastic team at Portland Parks & Recreation! This week City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade released results of the 20th Annual Community Survey, and we're very proud of what citizens said about our Parks staff.
Also this week, the City approved a tentative Collective Bargaining agreement with the District Council of Trade Unions, representing shared sacrifice and shared gains.
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|2014 Total Compensation
|Donald J. Walker
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- a) Peribere became Sealed Air Corp. CEO on March 1, 2013.
- b) MacKenzie left the CEO position and Amcor Ltd. on Aug. 17.
- c) Newlin left the PolyOne Corp. CEO position on May 15, 2014.
- d) Theisen left the CEO position on Aug. 7, 2014, and Bemis Co. Inc. on May 7.
- Three-year return to shareholders calculated on a fiscal-year basis.
- N.A. = Not available.
- CURRENCY NOTE: All figures reported in foreign currency were converted to U.S. dollars using the average annual exchange rate for the 12 months of a company's fiscal year.
- COMPENSATION CATEGORY DEFINITIONS: Revised Securities and Exchange Commission executive compensation disclosure rules for publicly held companies have redefined what U.S. firms report and how they report it. Canadian Securities Administrators, or CSA, has adopted similar disclosure rules for Canadian companies. This analysis compares U.S. and Canadian-based companies in a fairly consistent fashion. The following notes define key compensation elements in the analysis:
- SALARY: For U.S. and Canadian companies, this value represents the actual base salary paid. Salaries are not annualized for new hires.
- BONUS: For U.S. companies, this value typically represents discretionary bonuses not tied directly to performance, such as retention awards and signing bonuses. Performance-based bonus awards for U.S. firms appear in the NEIP column. For Canadian firms all bonuses — discretionary and performance-based — appear in the NEIP column.
- STOCK AWARDS: For U.S. and Canadian companies, this value represents the grant-date fair value of new service- and performance-based stock and/or unit awards granted during the fiscal year.
- OPTION AWARDS: For U.S. and Canadian companies, this value represents the grant-date fair value of new service- and performance-based option and/or SAR (stock appreciation rights) awards granted during the fiscal year. For companies that did not disclose estimates for the value of option awards, a value was calculated using the widely accepted Black-Scholes methodology.
- NEIP PAYOUTS: For U.S. firms, this value represents performance-based bonus payouts from non-equity incentive plans. For Canadian firms, this value represents both performance-based and discretionary bonuses.
- ALL OTHER CASH COMPENSATION: For U.S. and Canadian companies, this value represents the sum of benefits and perquisites awarded during the last fiscal year. Although company contributions to retirement plans are included, the full value and/or the annual actuarial increase or decrease in retirement plans is not included.
- PERCENTAGE CHANGE FROM FISCAL 2013 IN CASH PAY could not be determined if an executive was not employed by a firm for the entire two most-recent fiscal years.
- COMPANY'S THREE-YEAR TOTAL RETURN TO SHAREHOLDERS: Companies whose stock shares have not traded long enough to have a three-year total return to shareholders are Advanced Drainage Systems Inc., Berry Plastics Group Inc., Ply Gem Holdings Inc. and Unique Fabricating Inc.
- Plastics News' executive ranking covers U.S. and Canadian companies that had publicly traded equity or debt for their 2014 calendar or fiscal year, and that generate roughly 50 percent or more of their annual sales from in-house processing, recycling or compounding of plastics. Australia-based Amcor Ltd. is included due to its large North American operations.
- Equilar Inc., an executive compensation research firm located in Redwood City, Calif., supplied the data for Plastics News' executive ranking. Equilar offers a suite of Web-based tools for analyzing compensation and corporate governance trends. Equilar helps its clients make informed decisions on board-level compensation-related matters with independent research drawn directly from annual proxy filings. Equilar Inc. can be found online at www.equilar.com
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One of the Japanese media's favorite topics is how China copies everything, whether that be giant Gundams or toys. But Japan is no stranger to ripping off the creative work of others.
This is "Eco-chan", the mascot for an environmental community center in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture. Let's not screw around, Eco-chan sure as snot looks like Pikachu.
Eco-chan is supposed to be some sort of woodland fairy, but it looks more like somebody in a green Pikachu costume. The character was first unveiled last fall (without mention of Nintendo or Game Freak), and cute characters like this are common for Japanese companies, public utilities, services—you name it.
But Eco-chan? More like Copycat-chan.
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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette council members have begun discussion about a campaign to help win voters' support for the replacement of two levies in November.
The 2.9 mill general fund levy and the 2.0 mill park levy have both been renewed by voters over the years—the general fund levy since 1968—but this time residents will be asked to replace the levies and bring the value of property to current levels.
Village administrator Steve Blue said at the Aug. 8 committee of the whole meeting that council should schedule public meetings to discuss the ballot request and include information with water bills.
Councilor Dave Wheeler added that flyers could be left at businesses, the library and the post office. Mayor Ruth Marlatt suggested presenting a new facet of the millage request every month leading up to the vote to remind residents of the benefits that will follow.
The idea for the replacement effort stemmed from a grant the village received for street paving. The money would cover street repairs for all streets not involved in the sewer project.
The $400,000 grant requires an annual loan payment of $20,400—a sum the village doesn't have available. Council members don't want to let the grant offer slip away so they will try to gain the support of taxpayers.
Blue will provide detailed information about the replacement levy cost to taxpayers.
OVERDUE—Blue told councilors that police offers delivered about 40 water shut-off notices to customers who are overdue on their payments. Several of them paid after the notices were given.
VFO Lisa Zuver said that none of the overdue bills were under $200.
HYDRANTS—Maintenance supervisor Tom Clemenson said his workers are putting Band-Aids on Band-Aids in repairing the village's aging water system.
The 600-foot section of N. Ohio Street has nine holes from past repairs due to water line breaks. Some holes have been opened multiple times.
RECYCLING—Council is still seeking a group interested in volunteering at the recycling center. Dave Lichtenwald will give up his work there in about a year and he needs assistance now to help keep the center in operation.
The sale of recycled materials brings in about $175 per quarter and this could go to a group taking responsibility for overseeing the center.
TREES—When the current round of tree cutting is completed, Blue said, that will take care of the entire town, based on the recommendations of the village tree commission. After that, he said, cutting will be residents' responsibility as listed in the village ordinance book.
Wheeler stated that trees shouldn't be allowed beyond sidewalks.
A tree-trimming project was expected to begin soon to clean overhead branches to a minimum height of 20 feet.


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The state of North Dakota, at least some of the score of RV dealerships spread out across the state as well as its campgrounds have apparently avoided the recession.
Kurt Leier, the sales manager for Capital RV Center Inc. in Bismarck, said the dealership's two stores in the state sold a combination of about 900 RVS in 2008, which is its second highest earning year in its 23-year history, according to KFYR-TV, Bismarck.
"We're stable here but what we're seeing is probably not as many people traveling from other states to here with their families and things. Probably staying closer to home and camping," Leier said.
Meanwhile, the Minot Daily News reported that area campgrounds are packed, loaded with people attending this week's state fair in Minot and oil field workers who have signed long-term camping leases.
Owners of motorhomes and towable RVs that had the fair as a travel destination can consider themselves fortunate if they found an opening at a neighboring campground.
Fair-week travelers have filled available camping spaces this year, forcing campground owners to turn away business.
"The weekend was very busy and we're always full during the fair," said Sandy Boe, owner of KOA Campground east of Minot. "The phone has been ringing constantly. A lot of people were very upset because they couldn't find a place. There's a lot of angry people. It's been a 24-hour-a-day job telling them that all my sites were taken."
Boe welcomes the business she has received, particulary since the KOA Campground was hit by flooding this past spring and didn't open for business until June 29. The campground contains 66 sites. Among the campers staying at KOA this past week was a family from Australia that had rented a camper in Florida and was in the process of touring the United States.
The Roughrider Campground west of Minot, nestled along the Souris River, has also had to turn away business during the fair.
"We don't generally have to turn people away. It has been hard for us," said Danielle Ballweg, owner of Roughrider Campground after telling a caller that there was no space available for his motorhome. "We don't like to do that, but that has been the case."
The Roughrider Campground has more than 80 sites. At late morning Thursday, several campers were packing up to leave and several others were waiting to take their spots.
"A group checks out every day and another group checks in every afternoon," explained Ballweg. "It's been great – more than busy. We're overly filled several nights, especially last weekend, which was huge for us."
Among those lucky enough to have a camping spot during fair week are several regular participants at the fair, including William Crowder of Moundsview, Minn. Crowder is better known as the bugling private who can be found roaming the Fur Trader's Rendezvous at the fair.
"Yup. We have the bugler," said Ballweg with a smile. "He's well known at the fair and he's been fun to have out here. He entertains us in the mornings and the evenings."
Darold Swenson, owner of Valley View RV Park and Swenson's RV, said his park has been 100% full. However, that has been the case at Valley View for most of the year since many oil field workers have signed long-term leases at Valley View.
"We actually added about 25 spots just a couple of weeks before the fair," said Swenson. "But, with the oil activity, we had maybe just eight or 10 available when the fair started. It's been a busy summer and has been for quite a while."


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When writing a muse file it always annoyed me when I have written (for example)
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The way to fix this behaviour is by setting
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Okay, you think, this doesn't affect me – I don't use muse (why not?) How about if you're writing some html/xml.
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Holidaymaker Adam Fryatt, 35, was carrying his GoPro attached to a selfie stick when he fell victim to a shocking hit-and-run attack by a rogue snowboarder.
The electrician, who was knocked out by the sheer force of the crash, was left bleeding in the snow while other snowboarders zoomed past without so much as glancing at him. The electrician from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is now hoping to find the identity of the anonymous person who never even stopped to check he was okay after the smash. Adam said: "In 20 years of snowboarding I've never been badly injured, so I'm still in shock.


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BRIDGETON, NJ -- K&R Vending doubled its size overnight when it acquired longtime competitor B.W. Stetson. The owners of the three-generation New Jersey operation agreed to keep the deal hush-hush until it was consummated on a Friday, making for a busy weekend spent moving trucks, products and people to ensure its newly acquired routes were running smoothly on Monday morning.
The two companies, located at opposite ends of this southern New Jersey community, had gone head to head for years before B.W. Stetson approached K&R Vending in 2007 with an offer to sell its six routes to its long-time rival.
"My dad emailed a reply containing nothing but an attachment agreeing to purchase B.W. Stetson," recalled Bradlee Whitson, who represents the family's third generation in the company that his grandparents and great uncle founded. "I was working in New York City, selling financial software. The next night we had dinner, and two weeks later I was moving back to work in the family business full-time to help manage the much larger company and solidify our strong position in the southern New Jersey market."
Brad Whitson, Bradlee's father, noted that K&R is known for moving quickly on investments that are right for the vending operation. "We are okay when it comes to taking the lead," he said, "which we demonstrate in our early adoption of technology. That has had a lot to do with our success."
photo | BOTH SIDES, NOW: At left, from left, Brad, Lauren and Bradlee Whitson show off snack vender equipped with remote machine monitoring technology, LED illumination and positive delivery assurance sensors, now standard on the company's vending equipment. Remote machine monitoring has boosted route efficiency, and the addition of card readers is underway now, with the goal of offering cashless payment on all K&R machines within three years. The company also has embraced micromarkets; at right is one of its Avanti self-checkout stores.
The company provides full-line vending and coffee service in southern New Jersey, coast to river from Cape May to Burlington County, and in eastern Pennsylvania and parts of Delaware. Its most distant stop is 50 miles from its centrally located Bridgeton headquarters.
Brad's father-in-law, Konrad Stutzmann, and Konrad's brother, Richard, entered the vending business in 1978 when they purchased a 10-machine route from a coworker at a printing plant.
The brothers kept their day jobs, moving equipment and making repairs during evenings and weekends, while Konrad's wife (and Brad's mother-in-law), Johanna, wore many hats to help the business expand out of their garage. Within a couple of years, they had grown large enough for Konrad and Richard to join the family venture full-time. Fresh food, made in Johanna's kitchen, was added to the menu to win the business of large industrial accounts. Today, K&R's commissary remains a cornerstone of the family business.
By 1984, the operators had established two routes, one run by Konrad and Johanna, and the other by Richard and his wife Barbara. They built a three-bay garage behind Johanna and Konrad's house to accommodate a larger kitchen and warehouse. Konrad and Johanna's daughter Silvia (Brad's wife) and Richard and Barbara's son, Rich, also came into the growing business.
Brad was an engineer working for Campbell Soup Co. (Camden, NJ) in 1988 when his in-laws asked him to manage and continue expanding the family vending business. He made the career switch, applying his technological know-how and determining what benefits it could bring to the operation.
Months after joining K&R, Brad designed a new 2,500-sq.ft. facility. He equipped it with a nursery for his son Bradlee, making it possible for Silvia to become even more involved in the family business. K&R's headquarters was expanded by another 6,000 square feet in 1994, primarily to increase the production capacity of its kitchen.
Brad computerized K&R's route system in the early 1990s, earning the distinction of being the first company in New Jersey to use Validata's RouteSail vending management system and reportedly the first vendor in the state to employ handheld computers on its routes.
Focused on adopting technology that would better serve its customers, K&R stayed in the vanguard by installing $1 bill validators systemwide in the mid-1990s. The company was also an early adopter of cashless payment at around the same time, with its installation of a "closed" debit card system at a federal prison.
photo | TURN, TURN, TURN: Warehouse automation has allowed route consolidation while minimizing out-of-stocks and improving accuracy. From left, warehouse specialist Jim Manna finds and pulls some 2,000 snacks per hour for prekitting, using LightSpeed's "pick-to-light" technology, while Mike Casper and Earl Ruiz ready coffee and packaged cold beverage orders for K&R Vending's 101â"2 routes.
The New Jersey vending firm has extended its cutting-edge approach to the office coffee service segment as one of the early adopters of Keurig and other portion-pack brewers.
When Bradlee joined the business in 2007, he helped his father spearhead another wave of technological innovation, beginning with micromarkets.
photo | MAKING IT HAPPEN: Skilled management team keeps K&R Vending's operations running smoothly. From left are Danielle Gravley, "Jill of all trades" in the company's front office; route manager James Mikesell, shown here studying sales data collected in real time for use in dynamically scheduling routes; and Tim Couch, who tracks food sales to keep menus current and minimize waste.
"We saw Avanti's concept at a National Automatic Merchandising Association show early on, and flew to see Aaron Spiegel of Piedmont Vending and Jim Brinton of Evergreen Vending," he recalled. Spiegel and Brinton are vending operators, based in Conover, NC, and Seattle, WA, respectively, who founded Avanti Markets, a pioneer developer of micromarkets. "On the way home from the airport, we got a call from a prospective customer who wanted something different from what Canteen Vending was offering as an onsite food solution," the younger Whitson continued. "Very soon thereafter, we placed our first market."
Today, the K&R commissary turns out 2,000 to 3,000 freshly prepared salads, sandwiches and entrées each week. They're sold through 80 food machines and nine micromarkets.
For its micromarkets, K&R developed the premium "Johanna's Kitchen" line (sandwiches, entrees, salads and other refrigerated items) in biodegradable packaging, honoring its founder who ran the commissary for 20 years before retiring in 2009. "We elevated the product quality even higher than our existing 'Deli Delicious' line has always been, along with upgrading the packaging and charging a higher price," explained Bradlee. The company's micromarket foods are priced as high as $4.99, while its vended foods cap out at $3.50.
"In micromarkets, people can see and feel the products up close, which makes them more receptive to higher quality -- and to paying more for it," Bradlee observed. "They simply won't accept the same price-points when it's behind the glass of a vending machine, but we're hopeful that will change."
The next big technological leap for K&R followed right behind micromarkets in August 2011, when the tech-savvy operators recognized a need to change the old vending fill-and-collect model. They believed that remote machine monitoring could be the answer.
"It was the Great Recession, margins were shrinking and gas prices were up," Brad recalled. "We knew vending couldn't survive if we did the same old thing."
After some study, the operation committed to fully deploying Cantaloupe's Seed system, and installed the telemetry devices on 750 of its machines by January. Simultaneously, they upgraded the entire installed equipment base with LED lighting and positive vend assurance sensors.
Until this October, K&R had used a hybrid management system that combined Validata's vending software and Cantaloupe's remote machine monitoring system. But the operators saw the value in moving to a single provider and switched to Cantaloupe's Seed Office, which they say has simplified and streamlined their control and accounting processes.
The real-time machine sales and inventory data gleaned from the telemetry solution enabled K&R to scale its 151â"2 routes down to 101â"2 by dynamically scheduling a stop only when service is needed.
"We all want to think we're the world's greatest vendors and that each item has sold out minutes before we arrived, but we learned from Seed that in one location, Doritos was selling out in six hours," Bradlee noted. "With a static route schedule, you wouldn't go back to fill that machine for a week."
He emphasized, however, that while Seed's software does a remarkable job tailoring machine menus based on line-item sales data, there's still a need for oversight and careful analysis by the company's route manager.
"We service food-processing factories where our machines can't sell nuts, for example, but the category management software may recommend nuts," Brad instanced. "Only humans can know the idiosyncrasies of each account. We talk a lot about what the customers see and feel when they walk up to our vending machines. Our goal is to leverage technology, combined with a human touch, to hopefully elevate vending to a retail channel people want to use rather than simply a last resort."
K&R's investment in leading-edge technology extends to its warehouse, which it equipped with LightSpeed Automation's pick-to-light system last year. The system simplifies order fulfillment by using computer-controlled light signals to direct warehouse workers to the products they need to "prekit" route orders.
"It's been wonderful," reported Bradlee. "With paper pick-tickets, we averaged 400 to 500 units an hour. Now, we're approaching 2,000, and with a huge improvement in accuracy."
K&R is also well on its way to its goal of being 100% cashless ready within three years, with 25% of its machines already equipped with card readers. "We believe the credit card reader is the new bill validator," Bradlee stated. "It's not an option; it has to be on every machine because if it's what customers want to use, they should be able to."
The company's use of cutting-edge vending technology gave it a ground-floor entry to USConnect, a recently-formed nationwide network of independent vending, foodservice and micromarket operators linked by a wireless network and by a shared mission to elevate the automated retailing experience through employing the latest tools.
photo | BEST FOOD FORWARD: Excellent fresh food in vending machines and micromarkets helps K&R Vending win high-volume clients. At left, commissary veteran Lill Brown and three coworkers prepare 2,000 to 3,000 sandwiches, salads and entree per week in the company's central kitchen; at center, K&R's signature Johanna's Kitchen selections enhance variety of Deli Delicious and Healthier Choice items in a reach-in cooler. At right, K&R principals Bradlee, Lauren and Bradley Whitson make sure route truck conveys a professional company image.
"It brings us together with fellow operators who share cutting-edge ideas and best practices, but we have exclusive territories, so we're not competing with each other," Brad told VT. "It also gives us a nationwide footprint to secure national accounts. You have to invest in technology and run your business right to succeed today. That's what excites us about USConnect: sharing that common vision with operators across the country and pooling our resources."
K&R is in the process of replacing its existing "healthy" vending program with USConnect's "The Right Choice ... For a Healthier You" initiative. Complete with signage, static clings for machines and other marketing materials, it follows nutritional guidelines that emphasize sensible nutrition choices, education and a healthy, active lifestyle. USConnect also has a dietitian on staff to help members develop recipes that meet those criteria, and qualifying them for the program's apple-heart logos.
The New Jersey vendor plans to upgrade its machines with touchscreen displays, but is waiting for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue its final calorie-disclosure rules before taking that leap.
"We want to incorporate touchscreens for nutrition information, as well as marketing and promotions, but we don't want to pick a 6" version, for example, only to find out the rules require 8" or something else," Bradlee explained. "That's one thing that requires a wait-and-see approach."
With increasing numbers of accounts focused on "green" initiatives, K&R is also promoting USConnect's "The Right Choice for Earth" program to communicate the role of LED lighting and Energy Star compliant machines in reducing energy usage and encouraging recycling.
Another benefit of USConnect membership is access to its loyalty and rewards card, which offers patrons cash back, discounts and promotions. K&R has rolled it out in a few locations, and said it has found the rewards card to be a feature attractive to location decision-makers and end-users alike.
"Embracing technology has positioned us very strongly as a company," Bradlee observed. "I've spoken across the country at industry technology seminars to share what we've learned, because the whole industry benefits when we are profitable and when we raise the customer's expectations of vending. But it's impossible to do that without using new tools available to us."
The newest family member to join the K&R team, a year ago, is Bradlee's wife, Lauren. Charged with cultivating new business, she brings a background in public relations and communications to that task, as well as a shared passion for carrying on the family legacy.
"We're well positioned as we aggressively pursue new business, and we're seeing good, steady growth," Bradlee summed up.
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2010 Volunteer of the Year Award
We are please to announce the Volunteer of the Year Award Winner to our members, students, volunteers, sponsors, partners, and stakeholders. The winner of the award for 2010 is Hank Clemente for his outstanding service in Curriculum Development.
Throughout 2010, and continuing in 2011, Hank has worked with staff to develop aggressive schedules for the release of course manuals supported by SeniorNet Headquarters. Thanks in large part to his diligence, these schedules are being successfully completed.
These include Photoshop Elements 8, Computer Fundamentals for Windows 7, Introduction to Computers with WordPad, Introduction to Computers with Word 2007, and Exploring Windows 2007. Revisions have been released as required.
Also scheduled in 2011 are Exploring Windows Live Mail 2011, Windows 7 File Management, Exploring Internet with IE 9, and Introduction to Office 2007.
When Office 2010 is made available, Hank will prepare the manuals for Word and other applications, as required.
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For the second consecutive week, UMBC senior forward Pete Caringi III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) has earned the America East Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week award. In addition, the Retriever striker was named College Soccer News' National Player of the Week for games ending Sept. 8, 2013.
Caringi and his teammates are off to a 4-0-0 start and have risen to Top 25 status in both the College Soccer News (No. 24) and Top Drawer Soccer (No. 25) men's collegiate soccer polls.
Caringi has scored two goals apiece in each of UMBC's four games to date. He is the fastest to the eight-goal mark in school history, edging past Andrew Bulls who scored seven goals through four games in 2009..
Caringi's 32 career goals are now 7th on UMBC's all-time list. He struck in the 16' and 56' to give UMBC a 2-0 edge in the 3-1 victory over Central Connecticut on Sept. 5 and tallied in the 28' and 73' in the 3-1 triumph versus St. Francis Brooklyn on Sept. 7.
UMBC faces its first road test of the 2013 campaign when they travel to Radford for a match on Sept. 14.


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Several book signings by Eagles Quarterback Michael Vick have been canceled due to threats of violence against Vick and his family, according to a family spokesperson.
Vick was scheduled to sign copies of his book "Michael Vick: Finally Free" at Barnes and Noble stores in Atlanta, New Jersey and Exton, Pennsylvania. All three appearances have been canceled however because of safety concerns.
"This was a joint decision between Michael Vick's advisers and the publisher," said Vick family spokesman Chris Shigas. "They were canceled because of a recent uptick in credible threats of violence against Michael Vick, his family, the bookstores and the book store employees."
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Many people flooded the Barnes and Noble's Facebook page with comments after word of Vick's scheduled appearances spread.
One person wrote, "I would go there to slit your throat knowing how you treat animals."
Another person wrote, "Hope your kids don't fall in a pool with a battery."
Shigas claims multiple threats were made, with some even being posted on Vick's Facebook page.
"There just seemed to be a collective, very few extremists who were noting the time and the place where these events would be," said Shigas. "They were working to gather support to commit acts of violence. They wrote and said disgusting things, including going after his fans with words of racism, including the N-word."
Police continue to investigate the threats.
"We're going to work with authorities and we're confident that they're taken the threat seriously and that they'll investigate it accordingly," said Shigas.
Byron Williamson, the President of Worthy Publishing, the company who published Vick's book, also told Philadelphia Magazine the following:
While we stand by Michael Vick's right to free speech and the retailers' right to free commerce, we cannot knowingly put anyone in harm's way, and therefore we must announce the cancellation of Mr. Vick's book-signing appearances. We've been assured these threats of violence, which have been reported to the police, are being taken very seriously by local authorities.
Vick has been surrounded by controversy since he joined the Eagles in 2009 following a 19-month stint in federal prison for running a dog fighting operation.
"It's kind of ridiculous that after being a part of the Philadelphia community for this long which is supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love, he's receiving death threats," said Brandon Bower of Coatesville. "It seems kind of ridiculous to me."


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There's nothing that can compare with getting together with friends
and family to enjoy the summer months sunshine. Having a few
refreshing drinks while a mouthwatering steak sizzles on the
barbecue - what's not to love?
Dependent upon where you live this could be a good idea, or something of a gamble. Some places can almost guarantee great weather to get a summer party in the great outdoors whereas others can let you down badly at the last minute and with the least amount of notice.
So what can you do about it?
No, cancelling the party will not be an option; neither is all piling into the kitchen and putting muddy footprints all over the best carpet.
The secret is to be prepared. Just a few well thought out and planned items can help to make your party successful whatever the weather (well, almost).
When you organize a party in your back yard you don't only have to worry about your guests getting cold or wet, you also may need to worry about them getting sunstroke.
You need to make sure that there is plenty of shade to be used as required, whether that means shelter from the summer showers or shelter from your sweltering sunshine. Make sure that there are several shady places for your guests to gather as and when they want to.
This can include something as simple as installing a sail shade canopy to the patio, a number of well placed sun shade patio umbrellas or even a fully fledged gazebo. Incidentally, a gazebo with side netting can also provide great respite from another potential problem at outdoor parties - uninvited guests arriving in the form of bugs and insects.
Depending upon the layout and vegetation in your garden or yard you just might take advantage of the shade which is already available. If needed, how about clearing out the opening and garage up the door to provide an unexpected emergency shelter? Think about installing a sail shade canopy between the trees from the back yard? Perhaps you are lucky enough to have lots of natural shade from trees, hedges or have a shed where you could take cover if necessary.
No outdoor party will ever be complete without having a barbecue. Guys love to barbecue so it affords the women the chance of a well earned break. Well, just as long as they have already bought the meals, prepared the meal and are able to run in and out of the house carrying and fetching the foodstuff to the dude standing from the barbecue together with the apron, tongs in one hand and a tin of beer in the other then they will have a well earned break. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
You should also think on how to keep the drinks cold when the sun ishot and hot, hot.
You may have to be a little more creative in your thinking if you aren't lucky enough to offer an outdoor refrigerator. A few buckets of ice with beer and soda bottles placed in them will work well for a few hours. This can also make a superb drink cooler - fill it with cold water and a few ice cubes and add your drinks as required in case you have children with a paddling pool.
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Mr. Balint, born in Ottawa, Illinois, is an honors graduate of University of Illinois with a BS degree and membership in Beta Alpha Psi and Beta Gamma Sigma. He joined H&S in Los Angeles a year after graduation and has been there ever since, except for a year in our San Francisco Office and time on extended loan to several other offices: to Salt Lake City, Chicago and Dallas in connection with his interest in accounting for life insurance companies, and to the Executive Office on professional development projects. He is presently training director in Los Angeles. He has been active on California CPA Society committees and in the Young Bepublicans Club. He and his wife, Marie, have a young daughter and live in Sherman Oaks. Mr. Brooks, a Floridian raised in Ocala, joined the H&S Jacksonville Office after graduating from the University of Florida with a BSBA degree. He belonged to Sigma Chi and Beta Gamma Sigma and was secretary of his Beta Alpha Psi chapter. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Florida CPA Institute and president of its Jacksonville Chapter. He is a trustee of his church and chairman of the auditing committee of the Community Chest United Fund in Jacksonville, where he lives with his wife, Janice, and their three children. Mr. Cobaugh, who was born in Har-risburg, Pennsylvania, received a BS degree from Bucknell University, where he was on the Dean's list and a member of Sigma Chi. He joined the Firm in Miami when H&S merged with the Florida firm of Pentland, Purvis, Keller & Co., with which he was associated. Mr. Cobaugh has served in various offices of his church and is a member of state and national accounting organizations. He lives with his wife, Betty, and their three sons in Miami. Mr. Darcey was born in Brooklyn, New York. He went to Fordham University and graduated cum laude with a BS degree and membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. He joined H&S New York Office on graduation and in 1963 he transferred to the Executive Office, where he has worked on SEC review and on special assignments. For several years he has assisted with the annual report writing seminars. He and his wife, Gloria, have three children and live in Seaford on Long Island. Mr. Dean was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds a BS degree in business administration from Boston University, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and The Scarlet Key. He has been in the Boston Office since joining the Firm, and for three summers was an instructor in our College Graduate Orientation Seminars. Mr. Dean, president of the PTA for Melrose High School, of which he is himself a graduate, is former finance chairman for the Republican committee in his ward and is active in church affairs. He lives in Melrose with his wife, Barbara, and their two children. Mr. Eggan, a North Dakotan by birth, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with a BA degree and membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Alpha Psi. He then joined our Seattle Office, and took second highest grade in the state on the CPA Examination. He became interested in taxes and in 1964 transferred to Washington, D. C. His article on recapture provisions of the Revenue Code was published in the Journal of Accountancy and placed third in the Firm's Best Paper Awards. A member of state CPA committees, Mr. Eggan has held offices in his church and is a director of the D. C. Institute of Mental Health. With his wife, Dorothy, and three children, he lives in Vienna, Virginia. Mr. Elmlinger was born in Monroe-ville, Ohio and earned a BS degree at Ohio State University, where he was a member of Beta Alpha Psi and Beta Gamma Sigma. After two years with the Army Audit Agency he joined the Cleveland Office of H&S, and five years ago transferred to Columbus. He has been active in the Ohio CPA Society, and in 1966, directed its presentation of the AICPA course "Filings with the SEC." For the Columbus CPA chapter, he is a director and chairman of the professional development committee.


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When most people think of livestock transport they imagine those huge, smelly trailers driving down the road full of cattle, often also full of manure, that are so common on the highways and byways of rural America. While this is one type of livestock hauling, there are other options to consider as well.Traditional or typical livestock hauling is more than just a driving a truck. You will be responsible for assisting with loading and unloading and also making sure that animals are not overcrowded in the truck. When in the truck on the road you have to keep the weather conditions in mind as very hot and very cold conditions can obviously lead to serious health issues for the load. Cattle arriving dead or in poor condition at delivery is not only inhuman but also a very negative strike against you with the customer. Packing plants and auctions will only accept live animals, which leaves you having to dispose of a carcass once you get it off your truck.Livestock hauling also means long hours, often early in the morning, to be at the farm, feedlot or auction to load or unload. This may mean loading in the dark to be at the auction, packing plant or abattoir to unload as soon as the business opens. While this is not always the case, trucking in the livestock industry usually means shorter runs for slaughter bound cattle.But, there are a lot of different livestock hauling options out there other than just hauling cattle for slaughter or short transport. Tapping into these markets and finding your specialization can create a very unique target market with very limited competition. In these specialized types of businesses your name and your personal reputation as a safe, efficient and humane hauler can propel you to the top of the list of truckers within that industry.Hauling HorsesUnless you were raised in and around the "horsey" community you may not realize just how many larger breeding, showing and competitive haulers there are out there. These rigs are not at all like traditional livestock hauling and include transporting horse trailers that may hold as many as 15 plus horses. These trailers will use a standard trailer hookup and may be complete with temperature control, storage compartments and rear and side loading ramps.Hauling horses requires a keen ability to work with both the animals and the owners. These horses are typically competitive or show animals and, considering their value, may be one of the most significant loads you could imagine hauling. As the trucker you will need to check the horses on a regular basis, provide feed and water, and, depending on the contract, you may be required to stop, unload, rest and reload the horses.For this type of specialized livestock hauling it is essential to know about horses and to have experience in hauling these animals. They do move and cause the trailer to shift, which will require top driving skills.Often these customers are very particular about their horses. Any sign of stress or distress, an animal that was injured in the trailer, or any type of concern about your ability to care for the animals and keep them safe will impact your ability to market your services. On the flip side, a highly recommended driver will find there are always loads of horses to take to show, race and competitions both nationally and internationally. Once established drivers in this specialized livestock hauling niche are rarely left without all the work they want.Hauling Show and Purebred Cattle, Goats and PigsLike show horses and competitive horses, show cattle and purebred cattle for breeding programs are not moved in the same types of trucks that cattle for slaughter or basic transport are hauled in. These elite of the bovine world travel in modified horse trailers or in semi or fully closed stock trailers.This type of hauling is in highest demand during the rodeo and show season. In most areas of the United States and Canada this is during the summer and fall months, but in various areas it may be year round. Breeding stock, which may include bulls or cows, typically is steady year round with the heaviest workload in the spring, summer and fall.Larger breeders of goats and pigs may also require a commercial trucker for hauling show animals or breeding stock. This is not as common as cattle and horses, but also requires a much smaller trailer. These hauls can be short distance hauls or can be cross-country trips. Feeding, watering and checking the pigs and goats will be included as part of your tasks as the driver.Overall ConsiderationsHauling livestock requires hard work, a willingness to help in handling the animals, and an understanding of animal health and safety issues. Keeping equipment clean and disinfected, staying on schedule and ensuring top of the line service to each and every customer will certainly go a long way in this very specialized part of the trucking industry.
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Obama diversity disappoints again
President Barack Obama completed his second Cabinet this week with a nod that might have been expected to delight women's groups: he picked longtime supporter Penny Pritzker to serve as Secretary of Commerce, selecting yet another woman for a high-profile executive branch position.
Instead, the National Organization for Women's response sounded a relatively ambivalent note. "Penny Pritzker Appointment is Good, But Still Not Good Enough," the group said in its first statement. "More Women Should be in the Cabinet."
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There were, after all, just eight women among the 23 Cabinet-level officials in Obama's first term. And that number will be even lower in his second.
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After picking an all-white, all-male slate to fill departures at key departments including State and Treasury, Obama urged critics to be patient. Given time, he promised just before his second inauguration, he'd erase concerns sparked by an entirely white and male group of top picks.
"I would just suggest that everybody kind of wait until they've seen all my appointments — who is in the White House staff and who is in my Cabinet — before they rush to judgment," he said. "Until you've seen what my overall team looks like, it's premature to assume that somehow we're going backwards. We're not going backwards, we're going forward."
Now the second term Cabinet is complete, with final selections that include both Pritzker and Anthony Foxx, an African American, for Transportation secretary. Still, Obama's put together a less diverse Cabinet than in his first term, when his picks were criticized for being too white and male. And quite a few of the people Obama had asked to hold off until the picture was complete say they they're not so sure it was worth the wait.
( Also on POLITICO: Questions on Foxx's dual role)
Diversity woes may seem an unlikely headache for the nation's the first black president. After all, Obama has appointed two women to the Supreme Court, including the first Latino justice, and his current Cabinet choices are only slightly less diverse than in the first term — itself second only to President Bill Clinton's "Cabinet that looks like America" in terms of representation. Just a few months ago, the president made no secret of his interest in nominating Susan Rice, an African-American woman, to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
And there's no denying the president's picks for some of the Cabinet's most visible roles — such as Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel — come to their jobs after long and distinguished careers that make them logical picks for a Democratic president looking to stock his team with top talent.
But overall, there's no denying the group he wound up with isn't just less diverse than the current demographics of the country, and far less representative of the coalition of voters that got Obama reelected. It even falls short in virtually every category of the marks he set in his first term.
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The failure of his quest to nominate Rice has resulted in an Obama Cabinet with no women serving in its top ranks — State, Defense, Justice, Treasury. With the exceptions of Valerie Jarrett, Jennifer Palmieri and Lisa Monaco, his senior advisers are nearly all white men. And so a group which had already been criticized for being too white and too male is about to become even more so.
If Foxx is confirmed, there will be three African Americans in the Cabinet, one fewer than before. The number of Asian Americans has dropped from 3 to just 1: first-term holdover Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. And if Labor Secretary-designate Thomas Perez is confirmed, the number of Latinos will have officially made an identical slide.


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Ould Virginia
"Ould Virginia" as a term enjoyed brief currency in the seventeenth century as a name for territory south of the Chesapeake Bay covered by Sir Walter Raleigh's 1584 patent of discovery. John Smith may have coined the name, and Robert Vaughan's map of "Ould Virginia" in Smith's General History of Virginia (1624) accelerated its spread. William Strachey had used South Virginia in the same sense around 1612. While the two names were interchangeable, confusion sometimes occurred because "South Virginia" also referred to the land holdings of the Virginia Company of London (34°-41° N). By midcentury the use of both names was in decline. North Virginia, the holdings of the Virginia Company of Plymouth (38°-45° N), had come to be known as New England (perhaps another of Smith's coinages), so there was no further need for a South Virginia to balance it. Meanwhile, the most populous part of South Virginia had been partitioned into Virginia and Maryland, and the Royal grants of 1629 and 1663 officially named the sparsely settled area below the 36th parallel "Carolana" and "Carolina," respectively. Virginia's nickname of "Old Dominion" refers to the predominant royalism of Virginia in the Commonwealth Period and has nothing to with Ould Virginia.
Matthew Page Andrews, Virginia: The Old Dominion (1949).
John Fiske, Old Virginia and Her Neighbours (1897).
William S. Powell, North Carolina through Four Centuries (1989).
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Rasmussen, William M. S. and Tilton, Robert S. Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal. Charlottesville, Va.: Howell. 2003.
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Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. London: J.D. and J.H. for Michael Sparks. 1624. Documenting the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/smith/smith.html
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We're publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, David Lawrence on the common forms of human enhancement.
I should warn you: I took a cognitive enhancement drug before I began to write this. A central nervous system stimulant, to be precise. I took it to increase my capacity to think clearly, and to keep me focused. It gives me an advantage over the girl at the table next to mine – I'm going to be able to keep working longer and more productively with my enhanced brain than she is. Until she buys a dose too, anyway. It's perfectly legal – in fact, there aren't any specific regulations on it at all.
Okay, so I had a coffee. You probably had one too this morning, without considering that you were, in fact, enhancing yourself. Caffeine crosses your blood-brain barrier and inhibits your adenosine receptors from reducing your synaptic activity, so that morning brew has artificially altered your brain chemistry to your advantage. Until those molecules are rendered pharmacologically inactive, you're something more than a normal human. Right now, I'm Superman, though I might avoid the tights.
Admittedly, there's a world of difference between my mildly increased alertness and the potential of biomedical enhancement. Leaving the hyperbole behind, technology and biotechnology are promising us abilities beyond those of mortal man. Prosthetics, developing at a rapid rate to meet the needs of military amputees, can in some cases now be grafted directly to a patient's own nerves. Maybe not today, but in time it will be perfectly feasible technically to endow one of these robotic limbs with a strength beyond that of flesh and blood. Nootropic drugs – cognitive enhancers, akin to the one coursing through my nervous system – offer improved memory, increased metabolism, augmented thought processing, and, potentially, an extended lifespan. More controversially, perhaps, there are genetic manipulation techniques that could render us immune to diseases, specify our attributes or even grant us traits we could never have inherited from our parents.
These are much more than just theories. For instance, Melissa officinalis, the herb 'lemon balm', has produced a "significant increase in the speed of mathematical processing, with no reduction in accuracy" in human tests performed by the University of Northumbria. We hear stories of star athletes banned from competition for 'doping'; another, unsporting, form of enhancement. And on a similar theme, the transtibial prostheses of Oscar Pistorius. the famed 'blade runner', have generated controversy over whether this gives him an advantage as a sprinter.
In academia, there has been decades of debate over the ethics of such technologies. Scientists and philosophers on both sides have sparred without resolution in the pages of journals, both praising the prospective benefits and admonishing us against the theorised risks to our health and humanity. If I alter my natural state, am I playing God or subverting nature? In my effort to break the limits of humanity, might I lose my inherent dignity? And how could I possibly predict any side effects, in years ahead?
They're valid questions, and debate could rage unabated for years to come. Some of them might never be answered, at least not to everyone's satisfaction. Take embryonic stem cells: a field of research with wonderful therapeutic possibilities, but fraught with argument over morality, the right to life and what constitutes a human. Cloning, too, is a hotbed of contention, as are developments in the creation of synthetic life. These biotechnologies offer us much, but has their maturation been stalled to some degree by the questions that, rightly, needed to be asked?
That is the important difference which sets past and future biotechnologies apart: we can address these questions in advance. Prior to the resounding success of Dolly, cloning was largely science fiction in the public consciousness. Before the birth of Louise Brown, IVF treatment simply wasn't something the general population had sufficient awareness of to conduct a reasoned debate. Discussion and dispute came after the scientific advance, along with reactive legislation like the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, which established regulations on in vitro work long after the practice had become widespread.
Now we're in a different position. We use technologies and pharmaceuticals to augment our capabilities every day. The development of new ones isn't a surprise. We are in the perfect position to debate standpoints and conceive laws ahead of time, instead of playing catch-up to the science. And given the potential of enhancement techniques, can we afford to lose progress by not thinking through the issues beforehand?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to enhance my cognition. This time with foam. And sprinkles.
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Dr. Erik Castle is a board-certified urologist who joined the Mayo Clinic staff in Arizona in 2007.
Dr. Castle is an associate professor of urology at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and a senior associate consultant in the Department of Urology, where he also is assistant residency coordinator.
He was an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at Tulane University in New Orleans from 2004 to 2006 after serving as a clinical instructor/fellow at Mayo Clinic in Arizona for one year.
Dr. Castle's research interests include prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer. He is the director of the Desert Mountain Prostate Cancer Research Fund and is the principal investigator of Castle labs housed at the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His basic science research is focused on novel secondary hormonal therapies of prostate cancer as well as genomics of prostate and bladder cancers.
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Samardzija K's career-high 13, but offense falters
ATLANTA -- Through the first two innings Sunday, Jeff Samardzija appeared to be on pace to strike out 27 batters. The problem is, he didn't finish the game the way he wanted.
Samardzija struck out a career-high 13 batters, but not Ramiro Pena. The Atlanta infielder, one of two starters who didn't whiff, hit a tie-breaking two-run single in the sixth and Dan Uggla added a solo home run in the eighth to lift the Braves to a 5-1 victory over the Cubs.
Samardzija, coming off a stellar season opener in which he gave up two hits over eight scoreless innings, looked as if he was going to challenge the team strikeout records. He is the first Cubs pitcher to strike out as many as 13 batters in fewer than six innings.
"It's a double-edged sword when you strike guys out like that," Samardzija said. "Your pitch count gets up, you're showing them a lot of pitches. It's not a bad thing. I felt good, the pitches all felt good and a couple bad decisions there came back to haunt me."
The Cubs gave him a 1-0 lead in the first when David DeJesus doubled to lead off and scored one out later on Anthony Rizzo's groundout.
B.J. Upton led off Atlanta's first by reaching on an infield single that handcuffed second baseman Alberto Gonzalez. Samardzija then struck out six in a row before pesky Pena grounded out to start the third. Samardzija was two K's shy of the Cubs record for consecutive strikeouts of eight, done by three pitchers, most recently Juan Cruz in 2003.
Braves starter Tim Hudson followed Pena, and Samardzija got him looking at strike three, then walked B.J. Upton and fanned Jason Heyward on a slider to end the inning. Samardzija struck out two more in the fourth to reach 10, and Juan Francisco swung and missed a slider for No. 11 to start the fifth.
The Braves tied the game in the fifth. With two outs, Pena doubled and Hudson walked. That free pass turned the lineup over, which wasn't what the Cubs wanted to do. Both moved up on a wild pitch, and Samardzija then walked B.J. Upton. Ball four skipped past catcher Dioner Navarro and Pena scored on the wild pitch. Heyward swung and missed at a splitter to end the inning for Samardzija's 12th strikeout.
"It was an impressive outing and he obviously had his velocity and his split," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said of Samardzija. "It was one pitch that got away [on the wild pitch] that changed the whole game around."
Justin Upton was called out on strikes to begin the sixth for No. 13. With two on and two outs, Chris Johnson tried to dodge an inside pitch, which he said hit him. Samardzija argued that Johnson had swung, but home plate umpire Alfonso Marquez agreed with Johnson that he was hit, and the bases were loaded.
"We were trying to go up and in after I threw a slider and I guess it grazed him," Samardzija said.
Pena then delivered his go-ahead single.
"Pena beat us two days in a row," Sveum said. "He's one guy in that lineup who you didn't expect to beat us two days in a row. He caught us with our guard down."
Samardzija was lifted after 105 pitches, and Hudson helped himself with an RBI single off Michael Bowden.
Samardzija's previous strikeout high was 11, which he had done twice before, including July 2 at Turner Field. That start sparked a strong finish to the 2012 season as he posted a 2.58 ERA in his final 13 games. Samardzija also fanned 11 on Aug. 13 against the Astros.
Strikeouts are fun, but they don't always help you win games.
"You've got to finish," Samardzija said. "I was happy with how I was through five, and you just have to finish the ballgame out especially with a lineup like that. You take a deep breath. That team is going to win 95 games this year. You need to lock it down the whole time you're on the mound, you need to make sure you're making your pitches to the one-hole hitter, the eight-hole hitter."
Samardzija has seen Kerry Wood's record 20-strikeout game from May 1998.
"I've seen it about 100 times in the clubhouse," Samardzija said. "I know what's going on."
He's got different goals.
"You strike out a lot of guys, the pitch count gets up, and as a starter, your job is to pitch deep in the game and keep it close and I failed to do that," Samardzija said. "Strikeouts or no strikeouts, it doesn't really matter. All that matters is the outcome, and the outcome wasn't in our favor so I didn't do my job."
With the loss, the Cubs finished the road trip 2-4, and now head to Chicago for their home opener against the Brewers. It will be the 100th season of baseball at Wrigley Field, and Hall of Famer Ernie Banks will lead the crowd in the seventh inning stretch.
"I'm excited about it," said Edwin Jackson, who will make his second start. "We get to officially start the season in front of our home crowd, I'm sure they're excited as well. It should be a good time. Hopefully the weather permits us to play."
Chicago's forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of rain. The Cubs' offense, batting a feeble .175, could use some warm weather, sunshine and the wind blowing out.
"Your starters can't be that good [as they have been]," Sveum said. "They've been really, really good up to this point. It's hard to win when you're scoring one, two, three runs consistently."


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Out of the Past
Of that post-WWII generation of male actors who came of age in war flicks but really defined themselves in the Film Noir genre, none was cooler than Robert Mitchum (and that was a group of cool dudes that included Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Sterling Hayden, Robert Ryan, and his co-star here Kirk Douglas). Whether playing a hero or a villain, Mitchum reeked of both danger and manly charm even when he spewed indifference. His career spanned decades with a number of signature roles and important films, but of the Noir period none was better than that of ex-detective turned gas station owner Jeff Bailey in Out of the Past.
Director Jacques Tourneur is more known today for his groundbreaking horror flicks with producer Val Lewton: Cat People, The Leopard Man and I Walked With a Zombie. Though in retrospect those eerie and strange shadowy black n' white flicks could be called horror noir, making the Frenchman the perfect director to bring his almost Expressionistic approach to a crime mystery in what was then considered a B-genre. Like much gothic horror, Jeff Bailey is a guy haunted by his past, trying to escape from his own mind and hide from his own instincts.Continue Reading
Run for The Sun
Richard Widmark got his only Oscar nomination playing one of the great psycho creeps in film history, Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death. It was his first film and it made him an instant star, most famous for that scene where he pushes a woman in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs while giggling hysterically. Though he was ruggedly handsome with sweepy blond hair, he was never fully able to drop that creepy Klaus Kinski quality, even as he gradually moved into heroic leading man roles, but it helped make even the most generic film a little more interesting. Widmark was part of that impressive group of leading men who emerged after WWII, mostly in Film Noir. Though he starred in a number of significant films including Panic in the Streets, Night and the City, and Pickup on South Street, he is not remembered today with the same iconic status as his contemporaries, such as Lancaster, Mitchum or Kirk Douglas, who all had more important roles on their resume. But with MGM releasing a little known gem, Run for the Sun, on their Limited Edition DVD Collection, perhaps it will help Widmark's career get more reevaluation.
Though British director Roy Boulting did over 20 movies, he might be best known for making Disney child actress Hayley Mills his fourth wife (he directed her in the oddball horror flick Twisted Nerve). Run for the Sun may prove to be his lost almost-masterpiece (okay, I'm exaggerating. It's no masterpiece, but it's very watchable). The script is credited to Boulting and Dudley Nichols (Stagecoach) but the credits say it was based on a story by Richard Connell, making it another kinda-sorta version of his famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell's story had been adapted before as a classic with Fay Wray in 1932 and then less memorably in a Robert Wise directed flick retitled A Game of Death in 1945 (and much later and more loosely in the John Woo/Jean-Claude Van Damme collaboration, Hard Target, and the Ice-T trash epic, Surviving The Game). In the end Run for the Sun is about as close to "The Most Dangerous Game" as The Hunger Games is; that is to say, there are some plot crossovers, but not much more.Continue Reading


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- This article is about the spirit. For the first Avatar, see Wan.
|"I am Wan Shi Tong, he who knows ten thousand things, and you are obviously humans; which, by the way, are no longer permitted in my study."
|— Wan Shi Tong introducing himself to Professor Zei and Team Avatar.[1]
Wan Shi Tong is an ancient, wise, and powerful spirit who collects information for his Spirit Library. He is the most knowledgeable being among humans and spirits, never missing an opportunity to learn new facts or boast about his vast intelligence,[2] though he has developed an indifference for studying human technology since leaving the physical world.[3] Although his regular shape is that of a huge black-and-white barn owl, when angered he can assume much more frightening, stronger forms.
Giving humanity knowledge
Long before his encounter with Team Avatar, Wan Shi Tong brought his library from the Spirit World to the physical world. Together with his band of knowledge-seeking foxes, he collected knowledge from all over the world, which he displayed in his library in hopes that humanity would use it to better itself. Wan Shi Tong became the world's oldest librarian.[4]
Although he left his great collection of knowledge available to the mortal world for many years, Wan Shi Tong eventually became angry at humankind when he observed humans using the library's knowledge solely for the purpose of getting an edge on one another, such as when Zhao once stumbled upon the library and learned about Tui and La's mortal forms, information he used to help the Fire Nation conduct a large scale invasion of the Northern Water Tribe. Consequently, the wronged owl spirit banned humans from his study.[1]
Encountering Team Avatar
Wan Shi Tong met Team Avatar and Professor Zei with hostility upon their arrival at his library. Following his explanation for banning humans from the library, the Knowledge Spirit agreed to admit Team Avatar and the professor upon Sokka's promise to not use the knowledge for violence. In return, Wan Shi Tong required each person to provide an addition to his collection. While he was pleased with Zei's and Katara's donations, he reluctantly accepted those of Aang and Sokka.
Wan Shi Tong later confronted Team Avatar when Sokka accidentally revealed his intent to use the knowledge found in the library for violence. Tired of witnessing his knowledge be misused to hurt others, he began to sink the library, pulling it back into the Spirit World and proceeded to attack the foursome as they had already acquired too much information, in his opinion. As the team split up, Wan Shi Tong continued to chase down Katara and Momo, intending to add the winged lemur to his specimen collection. However, before he could attack, he was knocked out by Sokka with a blow to the head.[1]
Encountering Jinora
In 171 AG, Wan Shi Tong met Jinora when she entered his library searching for information on the location of the spirit portals. When she saw the vast collection of books and remarked that she could remain there forever, reading, the owl spirit flew down in front of the young airbender and warned her that the last human who desired to read forever was still there, pointing to Professor Zei's skeletal remains slumped against a bookshelf. Wan Shi Tong ordered her to leave immediately, reminding her that humans were not allowed. Jinora attempted to convince him to let her remain by offering new knowledge as per the old rule, though he rebuffed her, pointing out that the ban for humans had become absolute, and voiced his disbelief that she could offer him anything he did not already know. Jinora offered to provide him with information about the radio, but Wan Shi Tong claimed he had already known how the device worked as he had been provided with the information by one of his Knowledge Seekers. Although Jinora corrected his claim that a radio was operated by a small man who sat in the small box where he sung and played instruments, Wan Shi Tong stated that he had no interest in human inventions and requested once more that she leave. However, upon learning that the young girl was Aang's granddaughter and had come to the Spirit World with Avatar Korra, he allowed Jinora to look around, but warned her not to break anything before flying away.[3]
While Jinora was reading about Harmonic Convergence, Wan Shi Tong returned with Chief Unalaq at his side, having informed the chief of Jinora's presence in the library. Explaining his alliance with Unalaq, the spirit said that the waterbender had proven to be a true friend to the spirits, unlike the Avatar.[3]
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Book Two: Earth (土)
- 210. "The Library"
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Book Two: Spirits (神靈)
- 210. "A New Spiritual Age"
- "Wan Shi Tong" "萬事通" is a phrase in Mandarin Chinese that means "He who knows ten thousand things,"[2] a term he even used to describe himself. However, his name is written on screen as "萬知堂", meaning "Hall of immeasurable (lit. ten thousand) knowledge".[1]
- "Ten thousand things" is a Taoistic expression for all of creation; by introducing himself as "he who knows ten thousand things", Wan Shi Tong is referring to himself as all-knowing. He also directly refers to himself as "all-knowing" when he tells Sokka to at least put in some effort when intending to lie to "an all-knowing spirit being".
- Wan Shi Tong's two forms resemble animals which are used as symbols for knowledge in the real world: the owl (west, such as Europe) and the serpent (east, such as China).
- The owl is considered a symbol of wisdom in Asia and is also a symbol of Athena/Minerva, the Greek/Roman Goddess of Wisdom.
- Wan Shi Tong's normal form as a barn owl is reminiscent of his spirit status. Barn owls, because of their pure white faces and black eyes, are often called "ghost", "demon", or "death owls".
- Like an owl, he has the ability to turn his head almost completely around.
- Wan Shi Tong has studied all three types of waterbending: Northern Water Style, Southern Water Style, and Foggy Swamp Style. After he took the library with him to the Spirit World, knowledge of the Southern Water Style was all but extinct in the Avatar World, except for in the case of the Southern master Hama and Katara, whom she had instructed for a brief period of time.
- He is the only spirit known to ally with Unalaq without being turned into a dark spirit.
- Wan Shi Tong's image is included in the "Gear & More" section of the old Nick.com website's episode descriptions. Therefore, his first appearance, though unnamed, was on Nick.com over a year before he made his television debut.
- He also appeared briefly in the animated short "School Time Shipping", as the school librarian, parodying his library in the regular series.
- Wan Shi Tong's only appearances in the franchise take place in the tenth chapter of the second book of each series.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 O'Bryan, John (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (July 14, 2006). "The Library". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 10. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated, encyclopedia now broken though archived here.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & Graham, Ian (director). (November 8, 2013). "A New Spiritual Age". The Legend of Korra. Season 1. Episode 22. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Avatar Extras for "The Library" on Nicktoons Network.


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Tricare Deputy Director Highlights New Programs
By Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2009 - Tricare is enhancing its programs and services as part of an ongoing commitment to provide quality health care for military families, the new deputy director of Tricare Management Activity said.
One of Tricare's key initiatives is to enhance the contact beneficiaries and their family members have with their primary health care provider, Navy Rear Adm. Christine S. Hunter told "DotMilDocs" listeners July 30 on Pentagon Web Radio.
"The 'medical home' concept is an exciting way of looking at an individual's relationship with their primary care provider," she said.
The medical home concept emphasizes four health care pillars: accessibility, continuity, coordination and comprehensiveness. Hunter said that it takes the doctor-patient relationship to a new level.
"It creates an enhanced relationship with that health care provider to ensure access, continuity and trust," Hunter said. "We need to offer care that is coordinated and comprehensive. In order to do that, we will emphasize preventive care and wellness, ensuring that people are in a partnership with their provider that allows them to get the preventive care that they need, and manage any chronic medical conditions that they have."
Hunter also addressed Tricare programs, and how beneficiaries can make the best use of their benefits by highlighting four main goals of the Tricare health plan: providing beneficiaries and their families with access to the best health care, ensuring satisfaction with their health care, managing health care costs responsibly, and last, but most important, she said, maintaining military readiness.
Part of military readiness, Hunter said, is maintaining family readiness. "We see family readiness as an important part of overall readiness. Secretary of the Navy [Ray] Mabus recently said 'they who wait also serve' and we have a strong commitment to them," Hunter said.
Tricare also is providing to its beneficiaries access to a Web-based Tricare Assistance Program that will provide online counseling.
The program launched Aug. 1, Hunter said, and is for active-duty servicemembers and their families, people in the Transitional Assistance Management Program, and selected reserve members who purchase Tricare Reserve Select and their eligible family members.
"The Tricare Assistance Program provides Web-based supportive counseling; you can dial in on your home webcam to talk to a counselor and get the assistance you need in the privacy and comfort of your own home," Hunter said.
The program enables visitors to obtain an unlimited number of sessions with the same counselor. "We think this will go a long way to making folks feel more comfortable and reducing stigma," she said.
Hunter also discussed electronic health records as a priority. One of the advantages of Tricare is the ability to keep track of the quality of health care beneficiaries receive through the use of electronic medical health records, she said.
She noted that Tricare is fully supportive of President Barack Obama's initiative to help manage health care in America through the use of electronic health records. These records provide long-term health information that can be used to predict trends.
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Among television viewers, Ricardo Montalban is remembered as Mr. Roarke, the mysterious white-suited host of the TV drama Fantasy Island (1978-1984), and as a pitchman for the "soft Corinthian leather" of the luxury Chrysler Cordoba. Montalban was one of a handful of Latin leading men who broke into Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s, though he was often cast as an Arab, a Native American or in other ethnic roles. Montalban also played creepy superdude Khan, Captain Kirk's nemesis in a famous 1967 episode of TV's Star Trek, and reprised the role in a 1982 movie, The Wrath of Khan. But it was his Fantasy Island turn as Mr. Roarke -- dapper and all-knowing, assisted by the teensy aide-de-camp Tattoo (played by Herve Villechaize) -- that made him a star. He also played Grandfather in Spy Kids 2 (2002) and Spy Kids 3 (2003). He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild in 1994.
Montalban's wife, Georgiana, was the sister of actress Loretta Young… Montalban founded Nosotros, an organization promoting Latino involvement and image in the film industry; Nosotros also was the name of a 1945 film starring Montalban.
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