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State police investigating Felton home invasion
Nov. 3, 2013 | 0 Comments
Delaware State Police are investigating a Felton home invasion that happened early Saturday morning.
Two men entered a home in the first block of Pin Oak Court in Canterbury Mobile Home Park at 3:55 a.m. Saturday, and while one of them confronted a 20-year-old woman sleeping on the couch and covered her mouth to try to keep her from screaming, the other hit her once in the head with an unknown type of handgun, Master Cpl. Gary E. Fournier said in a release today.
He said the noise alerted two other women, 22 and 23, respectively, who were sleeping in their bedrooms, but when they came to the living room, the two men forced them to the ground and demanded money.
When the women were unable to give the men money, they took a phone and fled the home in an unknown direction, Fournier said.
Nobody was injured, he said.. .
Read more at http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20131103/NEWS01/311030084/State-police-investigating-Felton-home-invasion?nclick_check=1


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Sacramento County District Attorney in collaboration with University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, the University of California Davis School of Law and Lincoln Law of Sacramento holds an Annual Diversity Open House and Reception. Students meet prosecutors, the District Attorney, and members of executive team while learning about summer employment and career opportunities.
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Mind Matters: Psychology Is everywhere
Posted by Dr. Kayta Gajdos on July 8th, 2017
There is no dearth of topics where research in psychology doesn't have relevant input. I recently unearthed the December 2016, issue of the American Psychological Association Monitor from my pile of journals and discovered the following "print-bites" of knowledge. Here are a few. According to a study in Health Psychology, researchers found that tweens and teens ...


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If you've been contemplating grabbing all the music from your hard drive and leaping up into the cloud with it, first see our comprehensive primer on how to do that with a subscription service, a music locker, or both.
The first option listed there — the online music subscription, which not only lets you listen to your old, legacy downloads, but also any of 15-20 million songs — is by far the best option for music fans who don't already own all the music they want to listen to for the rest of their lives.
If that's looking good to you, maybe it'll look a little better now that half of these services are offering special summer deals (and all of them have some kind of bargain right now). Regardless of which service looks good to you, personally, you'll find something in this list that will save you some cash as you wallow in 20 million or so of tracks — something that would cost you about one-twelfth of what Jeff Bezos paid for the Washington Post, were you to do it in iTunes.
There's not a lot of action on MOG these days, because Beats Electronics bought it to form the infrastructure of an as-yet-unreleased service called Daisy, which has since been spun of from Beats as a standalone company. The only bargain on MOG right now is a 14-day free trial. Still, if you're the adventurous type and you like the sound of Daisy's celebrity-curated whatever-it's-going-to-be (we don't know, because we've asked Daisy several times for details and it's not talking), it's possible that signing up for MOG might get you grandfathered in there. But really, the true summer bargains are further down on this list.
It's too late to score this great-looking Rdio/Vdio deal, but Rdio lets non-paying subscribers listen to a certain amount of free music each month on the web, with a 14-day free trial on mobile devices. It's not offering a special deal at the moment, but as always, it offers a unique family plan: $18/month for two people, $23 for three people, $28 for four people, or $33 for five people.
The best premium subscription music deal right now is Rhapsody, which is offering three months of ad-free, on-demand music for a single dollar. You'll have to put down a credit card, so set a reminder on your calendar three months from now, at which point you can decide whether to keep it. But still… a dollar. For the price of a single iTunes download, you can get unlimited summer jams, on all your devices, well into the fall.
Unlike the other services on this list, Spotify lets you use it forever, without paying, if you're willing to put up with ads and to use it only with a computer (i.e. no smartphones, tablets, or televisions). If you want to play it on your smartphone, as most of us do, Spotify's pricing structure is identical to the others on this list. However, Spotify just launched an affiliate program that gets you free music when you convince other people to sign up. For every five of your friends and family who sign up for Spotify through you, you get a free month of Spotify Premium, a $10 value. This "Spotify friends" program is only available in the U.S.
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I popped off a shot from downstream of a family enjoying the water. Just below them the water turns turbulent – and if you fell in you may not get out. Hard to believe such a small feeder stream has so much force as it squeezes into the gorge.
There are a great number of waterfalls throughout the gorge at Upper Treman State Park, and it usually has a full years run of water.


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Do you have trouble finding the perfect buttons for your handmade garments? Don't agonize—make your own! Take a polymer clay button workshop or two from me, Suzann Thompson, author of Polymer Clay for Everyone, learn basic polymer clay technique, and make several stunning button styles.
I offer two 6-hour workshops for beginners, about making polymer clay buttons. Each workshop stands alone, so you can take the workshops in any order. I cover polymer clay basics and hints in both workshops. You'll take home at least two dozen delightful, machine-washable and dryable buttons.
Even if you've never tried polymer clay crafting before, you are welcome to spend a day or two playing—and I do mean playing—with polymer clay.
To book one of these workshops, please email me at knitandcrochetwithsuzann at outlook dot com.
Make Your Own Buttons Workshop
In "Make Your Own Buttons from Polymer Clay" (sometimes I call it "Polymer Clay Button Boutique 1"), we start with a fake or faux lapis button technique. The buttons are complete with sparkly inclusions, just like real lapis.
Easy but effective swirl buttons are next. They are quick to make and customize with the perfect colors for your garment or other project. These are my favorites.
Millefiori is a glass technique that polymer clay crafters have taken over and made their own. We'll do a group millefiori project, and the buttons will turn out something like this:
After lunch, we make crazy polymer patchwork buttons and learn a clever way to use clay scraps. Here are some crazy patchwork buttons:
Make More Buttons Workshop
"Make More Buttons," sometimes called "Polymer Clay Button Boutique 2," is another six-hour workshop for beginners. It is completely stand-alone, meaning that you don't need any experience with polymer clay to take this class. All the buttons we make in this workshop are different from the ones in my other button workshop.
We start with imitation or faux turquoise, then move on to a traditional millefiori design—a flower. The word "millefiori" means "thousand flowers. When you learn this technique, you'll be surprised at how simple and versatile it is.
After lunch, we tackle mica-shift, a technique that results in sophisticated-looking and subtle buttons. Finally, we make polymer clay mosaic buttons and learn clever ways to use scraps.
Previous Workshops
Here are photos from button workshops I've done in the past. Participants had a great time and made lots of fun buttons!
Grade school students made these buttons in a 4H sewing camp:
We bake buttons in class. Here they are, lined up for their turn in the toaster oven.
My book Polymer Clay for Everyone is out of print, but you can buy it online. Amazon.com often has the book for one cent plus shipping. It's a bargain!


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My latest literary undertaking, Mr. Obama Goes to Washington, And Then What Happened, Mommy?, is now, FINALLY, available!
It is a the usual -- cartoons and other irreverent observations -- of the Obama years, and all his many enemies that plagued him from start to finish. It will also pay attention to the rebirth of racism, so enamored of the Republican hate machine, as well as the emergence of that darkest of dark intruders, that depressing skunk at the garden party, Trump, and his oversized ego. Lotsa levity, whimsy and snark. I hope you will find a smile or two buried therein.
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The Son Also Sets, Vol. 2, The Last Gasp Years - Continues in the tradition of nailing the late and very unlamented administration to the cross when appropriate, which was all too often. The book also zeros in on the lengthy, tedious, and all too often pathetic, trite, vapid and embarrassingly asinine two years of the '08 presidential election. The two books together try to encapsulate the whole eight-year chapter of reactionary drear -- the New Dark Age from which we are now only beginning to emerge into the sunlight... well, at least let's hope so.
My hope for both books is that they provide enough impropriety, waggery and mischief along the way to make the readers journey a satisfying one, maybe even - ironically - a pleasant one.
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My first magnum opus, George W, The Son King, Coup and Consequences of an Unelected President, chronicles the first six years or so of the disastrous "presidency" of the creep in chief, George W. Bush, with all the usual indictments -- yellow cake uranium, nonexistent WMDs, an illegal war, dissing global climate change, embracing the religious dogma, authorizing torture, undermining the Constitution, illegally spying on U. S. citizens, &c., &c. The Bush Brigade did nothing but crank out misinformation, diversions, divisiveness, illegalities - and fear - all couched behind a wall of impenetrable secrecy. And did so until its last dismal hour.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
– Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
SELF PORTRAIT WITH MODEL by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
ARTIST WITH MODEL by Bob Kessel
Born May 6, 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner studied architecture and painting before forming the artists' group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Dresden on 7 June 1905, with Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911, and within two years the group split.
Kirchner worked at a feverish pace, producing art that drew its subject matter from his studio life with artist friends and models, the street and nightclub life of the city, and summer trips to beaches. His works were exhibited and collected from 1905, and by the mid-teens Kirchner had a number of devoted collectors, both private and institutional.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Kirchner joined the German army, but eventually suffered a nervous breakdown. Despite ill health and struggles to recover, he continued to produce major paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture. In 1917 he moved to Davos, Switzerland, and began to include in his work images of rural life and the surrounding Alps. Through the 1920s major exhibitions of his work were held in Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, and other cities. In 1931 he was made a member of the Prussian Academy.
Labeled a degenerate artist by the Nazis, Kirchner was asked to resign from the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1933. In 1937, more than 600 of his works were confiscated from German museums and were either destroyed or sold, many ending up in America. In 1938 the psychological suffering caused by the Nazi authorities rejecting him as "un-German," the dispersal and destruction of his works, and the Nazi occupation of Austria so close to his home in Davos led to Kirchner's suicide.
BERLIN FRAU print by Bob Kessel exhibited at gallery show
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Standard Class Course Time - An appropriate set time for each course shall be calculated by the judge, who shall take into account the course length, the height category of the dogs competing, and the grade or grades of the dogs competing in the relevant class, together with any other relevant factors i.e. weather.
The course length must be measured by the judge using a commercially available measuring wheel, using the straight line distance between obstacle centres method (Regulation H(1)(B)1.a.(4) refers). The judge will then use the Course Times Matrix to arrive at a course time suitable for that class. The set time shall be stated by the judge before judging commences.
In 2010, the Agility Liaison Council asked the Judges' Working Party to look into updating the Course Times Matrix. The guide 'How to Measure an Agility Course & Course Time Matrix' is available to download in the toolbar on the right hand side of this page. This matrix was first produced in the mid 1980's and it was felt it no longer provided relevant course times - some too generous and others unachievable for the courses being set today.
Research was conducted which involved courses being measured at agility shows throughout the UK. The judge's course time was recorded and the times of the places along with notes about the complexity of the course, for example; number of pull throughs, pull rounds, weaves, etc.
The first discussion was how to measure a course? There have never been any guidelines previously published on how a course should be measured. The accepted practice was to measure along the dogs' anticipated path but this has only ever been carried out by a small percentage of judges. However, under tests conducted by the researchers it was found there was too much difference in length when different people measured the same course. The measured length at times was different by several metres - therefore a way of measuring was sought to provide a more accurate course length. The researchers found that measuring straight lines between the centres of each obstacle provided an accurate length of the course no matter who did the measuring.
To date some 750+ have been recorded and in analysing the data it became apparent that the lower grade dogs were now faster than 25 years ago, probably due to better training methods used today and that the higher grades were travelling slower, due to more complex courses. What has also been revealed is that there is a difference in speed between Large dogs and Small/Medium dogs. The updated matrix reflects all of this.
Data will continue to be gathered and the matrix will be updated as / when required depending on the future findings from the research.


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The single is a bi-fold wallet designed to carry all a guy needs and a little more. It's also still slim enough to carry in your front or back pocket. Made with 3 oz Horween Leather and is hand stitched with waxed thread.
• Horween leather is a premium leather from one of the oldest tannery's still running in the USA.
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I was given an electric Masterbuilt smoker. It throws a code ErrF that the company said it the meat probe and they are sending a new one.
But from my research about these smokers their Chinese electronics are crap and I should expect more problems. I like the smoker so can I gut the current electronics hard wire into the heating element like a Little Chief and go from there?
Or use a hot plate and a pan inside. Modern hot plates will shut off if temperatures go too high and I've read that some people cut the bottom out of their smoker to get the element inside but keep the body outside to stay cool.
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Ontario auto insurance rates increase as report slams system
Auto insurance rates in Ontario rose in the first three months of 2017, putting the Liberal government further away from its already-missed goal of cutting rates by 15 per cent by August 2015.
Approved rates posted this week by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario show an average increase of 1.24 per cent.
In 2013, the Liberal government promised a 15-per-cent average cut, but after the self-imposed deadline came and went, Premier Kathleen Wynne admitted that was what she called a "stretch goal."
The new approved rates put the average cut since 2013 at a little over seven per cent.
A report by Ontario's auto insurance adviser quietly posted last week found that the province has the most expensive auto insurance premiums in Canada despite also having one of the lowest levels of accidents and fatalities.
David Marshall found that the average auto insurance premium in Ontario is $1,458, which is almost 55 per cent higher than the average of all other Canadian jurisdictions.
If Ontario's premiums were closer to the Canadian average of about $930 it would save Ontario drivers almost 40 per cent -- or about $4 billion a year, he wrote.
The system favours cash settlements in lieu of care, Marshall found. Sprains and strains -- the majority of claims -- often take more than a year to settle and about one-third of overall benefit costs goes toward competing expert opinions, lawyers' fees and insurer costs to defend claims instead of going to treatment, he wrote.
Marshall's recommendations include adopting a "care not cash" approach, exploring better ways to care for people who are catastrophically injured and making lawyers' contingency fees more transparent.
The government says it will consult with stakeholders on the recommendations.
It has already lowered the maximum interest rate that an insurer can charge for monthly auto premium payments, prohibited minor at-fault accidents from boosting premiums and introduced a winter tire discount.


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Latrodectus geometricus is also known as the brown widow because it is brown and because all widow spiders are mistakenly thought to eat the male after mating. The spider is well known in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. During the nineties the brown widow seemed to have spread throughout Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Topic: Hobo Spider
Black Widow S.
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The primary reason for this is probably the milder winters in the U.S.during the last few years, which gives them more insects to feed on. Another factor increasing its presence is transportation by vehicles.
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Camel Spider
The markings on a brown widow are not as apparent as on those more darkly colored. The female can get as big as 16 mm in length, while the male is much shorter. It is very timid of animals, and they are nocturnal and active in their web—not elsewhere.
The brown widow varies from light tan to dark brown or almost black. It has markings of black, white, orange, and brown on the back of its abdomens.
The hourglass of the brown widow is orange to yellow in color and can always be differentiated from other spiders with red hourglasses.
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Wolf Spiders
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Brown Widow Spiders
A bite from a brown widow does require urgent medical treatment. In a lot of cases, a bite from a brown widow will only cause pain because of the bite in itself; in other cases, a red marking will occur at the site of a bite.
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Are spiders insects?
But only one out of twenty bites causes death. Most die after severe pain and respiratory failure (children) or heart failure (adults). The spider is not aggressive and will retreat when disturbed, and most bites occur when it is accidentally pressed against the skin of a person.
Brown widow spiders do not attack without reason. The venom from a brown widow is about twice as potent as venom from a black widow.
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The egg sac of a brown widow is covered with projections, unlike the egg sac of other widows. This is also a way to differentiate this widow from others.
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The males are quite suicidal in their mating behavior. Having been accepted as a mate, the female widow mauls the male's abdomen with her fangs.
The lifecycle of the brown widow spider is quite the same as most other widow spiders. After laying 200-300 eggs in an egg sac, spiderlings emerge from the egg sacs after approximately 3-8 weeks. The hatching occurs after three weeks, and the juveniles remain in the egg sac for some time depending on weather conditions, etc. When out of the egg sac, the young spiders molt to their second stage and begin feeding. The spiders molt from three to eight times before reaching adulthood. Female brown widows must molt six to eight times before they are fully grown. The brown widow breeds all year round in some areas of the United States.
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In the beginning of the tutorial, I introduce the ELF Format and mention that there exist some exploitation techniques on that. In this post, I will introduce the ret-2-dl_resolve technique based on source code of glibc. Furthermore, I will give a more detailed explanation at binary level for explaining the memory layout during exploitation based on ld-2.19.
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(Photo Credit: Korean War Veterans Memorial)
It is Veteran's Day and I am quite thankful for the contributions of service my grandfathers each made as well as too all the other service men and women today - listening to the stories on NPR today were just heart-wrenching.
It is fitting, I think, that while I was out doing my errands today I made one special stop.
And I even scheduled my next appointment in January. Can you?
I also stopped at the local thrift shop and found this:
Nicky Epstein's Knitted Embellishments, for $2! Score! There was some very thin red acrylic yarn that I passed on and I paused to consider some white and cream colored yarn for maybe some dye experiments, but passed on those as well. I think for my $2 I will get some really neat ideas out of this book including things of what not to do, like this:
Aside from the fact that it's an.... interesting challenge to knit I'm sure, who is worthy of my knitting time? and then who loves me enough to wear it? wow. Thankfully, that's just one idea of combining techniques in the end which I believe is called "Clever Constructions". There are some neat things with icord, cables, and edgings.
At the library I picked up an interlibrary loan request (totally working my tax dollars). Erica Wilson's Children's World:
I heard about this on Ravelry - Muppets!!!!
How awesomely weird is that? They are knit too, bonus! I think these might be a must have for Lorelai. I'm trying to get her to learn who Kermit the frog is, but Sesame Street (Happy 40th Anniversary!!) no longer shows the Frog on the Street. Even yesterday's newest episode of the 2009 season had Elmo's World focus on frogs, and there was but a mere glance at Kermit. I thought for sure when it was time to "talk to a frog" Kermit would be there. Oh well. We've also watched a few episodes of the Muppet Show, but holy smokes. It's a lot cornier than I remember and borders on being inappropriate (Sandy Duncan singing in a bar about not being "that girl"?!)
But there's more!
Babar!! The book has other cross stitch, embroidery, sewing projects for a variety of characters - Winnie the Pooh, Water Babies, Holly Hobby-style, Mice. Some of it's cute. Some is weird. Whatever... MUPPETS!!
Today I had a really neat idea for a cowl. Wonder if I actually could get this idea from my head and sketches on paper on to the needles?
4 comments:
- Stefanie said...
What a cool book! I might have to put a library request in too. My husband (and son) would love the muppets.
Great score at the thrift store too! Lots of good karma from donating blood. :)
- Sinclair said...
I cannot give blood because I weigh less than 110 pounds, and though I applaud those who do, I have always secretly been glad I was barred. I hate pain.
But, I am happy that we donated to the Southern Oregon Veterans just before Veterans Day, and I want to thank you again for being a part of the project.
- Sunflowerfairy said...
I'm seriously petrified to give blood, yet I really want to. I think it's important to do, but can't bring myself to do it. I wish someone would come with me and hold my hand.
I'd love to see that book with the muppets in it. And no, there's hardly any Kermit anymore. Sad.
- Stefanie said...
Thanks to your post, I snagged a copy of this book on Amazon and added a bunch of the knitting patterns to ravelry. I've almost finished Kermit. He's so cute! It is making me want to learn how to crochet so I can do gonzo too. Hmm...


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The truth is that the Democratic Party has been the engineer of the destruction of black Americans, and everyone knows it except the very people who need to know it the most - black Americans. The turbo-destruction will continue for black Americans until they realize that dirty Democrat politicians are their true enemy, not their salvation. Fortunately, some are beginning to embrace this self-evident truth.And, at the same time, Herman Cain, the marvelously entertaining gaffe-machine of the 2012 Republican primary, says about Americans in general that President Obama is continuing his campaign even though the election is over and he's been reelected and Cain and Bill O'Reilly agree that Obama has not been able to solve all of America's problems (Gee, an obstructionist House majority and a constantly-filibustering Senate minority wouldn't have anything to do with that, would they?), but the real problem is that (selected excerpts) "51% of the voters were...misled enough to vote for him." O'Reilly: "How dumb are they?" Cain: "We have a severe ignorance problem." So yeah, I guess we liberals are just too stupid to know what's good for us.
Funny how, when the "smart people" were in charge, we ended up getting into a completely unnecessary war and the Great Recession. Hmm, strange how that works out!


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Come and join us for 20 minutes of mindfulness practice
When: Every first Monday of the month 12-12.30pm
Where: Stoke Mandeville Multi Faith Room
In the first 10 minutes learn what mindfulness is and what it can do for your health & wellbeing & take part in a 20 minute guided practice straight afterwards.
For further details please contact Rashmi Sharma on 110 5998 or Lindsay VanDijk on 07922 267343…or Just Turn Up!
Wellbeing Wednesdays
Following on from the success of last year's health and wellbeing education talks, the Healthier Lifestyles Service have developed a programme of regular evening seminars for staff, covering a variety of health and wellbeing topics.
These evening seminars are from 5.30–6.30pm on the following dates:
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Third Wednesday of the month – Marlow Room, Education Centre, Wycombe Hospital.
No need to book, please just turn up on the day.
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Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography was an 1852 exhibition organised by the Society of Arts.
It was held at the House of the Society of Arts in London from 22 December 1852 until 29 January 1853 and featured the work of 76 photographers, for many of whom this was their first public exhibition. It led directly to the creation of the Photographic Society.
The exhibition was proposed by Joseph Cundall and agreed upon by the Society of Arts on 17 November 1852. Organised mainly by Cundall and Philip Henry Delamotte, it opened on 22 December 1852 at the House of the Society of Arts in London. Roger Fenton gave at the night of the opening a lecture titled "On the Present Position and Future of the Art of Photography", which was also included in the catalogue. Some 400 photographs were initially on display. Originally intended to only stay open for a week, it was extended until 29 January 1853 due to the greater than expected success, including visits from well-known painters like Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This also lead to the addition of 400 further photographs and a reprint of the catalogue. In total, 76 photographers had their work shown at the exhibition, many of them British but with a large representation of Continental, mainly French artists as well.
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Blessings Spread
After silently reciting Al-Fatiha (the first surah of the Quran), a Muslim wipes face with both palms, as a gesture of spreading blessings received by reading Allah's words.
May Allah's blessings spread all over earth this Eid. Happy Eid for you all.
* Pictures: Sitt Raqiyyeh Mosque, Damascus.
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Now, my first reaction was to get in touch with the estate agents handling the sale and inform them of this outrageous transgression. After all, I reasoned, as a property owner myself, I wouldn't want squatters wandering in and out of my house. And who was to say he was the only one with keys? Before you knew it, the place could be over run with drug addled thugs burgling their way through the neighbourhood and terrorising the local population. However, during the course of Monday, I just didn't find time to contact the agents. When I got home that evening, I noticed the van was back. Later, I looked out of the window at it, only to see my former neighbour sat in the front seat forlornly eating what looked like a Pot Noodle. It was clear that he was currently homeless and, in desperation, had returned to his former home for some kind of shelter. Suddenly, I felt like a total shit and realised what a self-righteous bastard I'd been earlier. I felt even worse when, much later that night, I returned from the pub - assuming that he must have let himself into the house to sleep - to find that the van's engine was running, presumably in an attempt to keep warm as he slept. So, far from being a squatter, it seemed he wasn't even taking advantage of the property's empty status to get a reasonably warm and comfortable night's sleep. Indeed, I recalled that the main sound I'd heard from next door the previous morning had been that of running water. It seemed he was only using his key to get a wash and/or shower. What a judgemental little shit I'd been! I decided then not to say anything to the agents. He wasn't doing any harm. Besides, if the owner (who has been a pretty unscrupulous absentee landlord, reluctant to carry out repairs, according to some of the previous tenants), is too tight or too stupid to change the locks, he deserves all he gets. At the end of the day, I'm not going to kick a man when he's down. Let's face it, there can be few situations sadder than having nowhere else to go other than the house you used to live in. It must be hell, having to sit across the road from it in a van.
So there you are, thanks to a Pot Noodle, I discovered that I'm not such a bastard after all. Some embers of compassion still stir in my breast. Not that I actually feel any better as a result of my decision. The fact is that, in some ways, I actually resent the bastard for making me feel so inadequate! There's a part of me which wishes there was something more I could actually do to help him. Yet still I don't go over to that van and offer any solace. I suspect he wouldn't welcome my pity and I'd just feel like a smug git - commiserating with him om his misfortune before retreating back to my cosy warm house. Besides, my attempts to actively help people usually end badly, more often than not they're thrown back in my face. So, for now at least, I'll settle for helping through inaction. The whole situation just makes me feel so bloody sad. It simply emphasises how damned powerless I really am to really affect the lives of those most in need. Maybe the fact that the third anniversary of my father's death is fast approaching is clouding my judgement: perhaps if it was any other time of year I'd dob my former neighbour in. I'd like to think not. Anyway, he was in there again this morning, and his van's parked opposite again tonight. God knows what he's going to do when the place is finally sold. I hope he sorts himself out soon, if for no other reason so that I can go back to being a self-righteous bastard.


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Meet Susan Fletcher, a nursing professor at Chamberlain College of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri, and one of her current senior nursing students, Sarah Turner. In this episode, you'll hear all about their international service project, taking nursing students to areas around the world.
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Jamie Davis: Sarah and Susan, I want to welcome both of you to Nursing Notes Live. So I think we'll start with you, Sarah. You're still currently in nursing school, at least, for a few more days. So tell us a little bit about your background why you wanted to become a nurse and your path and your nursing experience through nursing school?
Sarah Turner: Well, I've always had a really strong desire to learn science and medicine and really be very aware of what's going on with people and their bodies. And went to school, got a biology degree, became a teacher. Got tired of it really quickly and then my mom was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. And throughout the time that we lived with her disease, we had a lot of nurses coming and going and we also got a lot of help from the community. Our friends, our families, strangers – people pitched in all the time to make sure that everybody in the family was doing really well. So after we lost my mom, I felt like I needed to re-evaluate a little bit and look at what I was doing. And decided to leave teaching and choose a path that was going to not only give back to the community that gave me so much but give back to everybody around the world and really highlight my love of medicine and science.
Jamie Davis: Excellent. I find so many people that are touched by the nurses that helped them and want to give back and I've heard that kind of story many times before. I think it's one of the ways that many of us are led to the nursing profession.
Sarah: It really is. They not only became the people that come and go from our house or our friends, they became a part of the family and a part of our closest circle as we went through the most difficult times in our lives. I really truly, as I go forward in my nursing career, look forward to becoming a part of the family for everybody I worked with and helping them through the difficult times as well as some of the really happy times.
Jamie Davis: Susan, what about you? What led you to nursing? Tell us a little bit about your background through school and through your profession to where you are today.
Susan Fletcher: Okay. My interest has probably always been there in helping people and helping things. Even as a kid, I would be the one that would bring home the sick animals. My father was a physician and I'd bring home birds. I'd bring home dogs or cats. One time, I brought home this great big snake and the family freaked out over that because it was a poisonous snake but I didn't know that at the time. Other than that, I knew I always wanted to be a nurse. I always wanted to be involved in helping. My first job was in public health. Then I did Emergency Room nursing for quite a while. From public health and emergency, I went into education. And I blended both of those roles into international nursing which is what I do now. It is like the dream job for me. I absolutely love everything that I do and the opportunity to work with so many unique people, so many wonderful students. Sarah is just a wonderful example of the quality people that I have an opportunity to be connected with. But we have the opportunity to serve humanity in so many different countries. So that's me.
Jamie Davis: Sarah, you got involved when you were at school, a nursing school, with the International Nursing Service Project and working with Susan on going somewhere overseas. Tell us a little bit about why you chose that as an opportunity for you to give back and do some service projects as part of your nursing experience in school?
Sarah: Well, I heard about the Nursing Service Project and going to other countries in trying to help them as much as we're helping the people around us and realized that there are community nursing classes. Of the 65 of us in my class, most of them are going to be go out and helping the people in a community. I felt like I wanted to move in a broader scope. I want to help everybody. But I really wanted to take the opportunity to travel outside of my comfort zone and change my perspective a little bit. And so when the opportunity to go to Kenya or Brazil or – my options were Kenya and Brazil at that time – I knew I had to jump on it. There was no question. I had to. So when Dr. Fletcher and I spoke for the first time and she was trying to decide, we're discussing whether or not I wanted to go to Kenya or Brazil, I asked her straight up, "Which one am I going to get the dirtiest? Where am I going to get knee-deep and everything?" She said, "Kenya's the one." So it really became a drive to get to Kenya and begin the process and truly immerse myself in their culture and their lifestyle and trying to help as much as I could.
Jamie Davis: Su, are all the students is go-get-them and driven to do these types of projects when they come and talk to you?
Susan: The students that are interested in the international project are because it is something that they have to apply for. So it's a competitive program. They have to have a certain GPA to qualify for the program. They have to be recommended from their faculty to just get in for an interview. So it's not like, "I think I want to do this." It's "Would you consider me or put me with the list of applicants?" I tell you, I bring the best and the brightest when we go to any of these countries. The students are very committed. They're very dedicated. In addition, they have to earn the money to pay for the trips themselves. Then, in addition to that, we offer college credits for the experience and they have to pay for the college course. So these kids work really hard so that they can eat rice and eggs for two weeks and work in the slums. It's incredible. I am just so proud of the people that I bring.
Jamie Davis: Sarah, what are some the things you learned? What were some of the biggest impacts on you from this trip?
Sarah: I think the thing that really impacted me the most, and it took several days before it hit hard, was that we have so much of everything in the United States and so many people are living with so little. We take advantage of that. We don't realize that we are truly gifted with what we have here. And when I came back, everything changed in my life. I stopped going to shopping binges. I donated a lot of things to the Goodwill and to the homeless shelters. Because I truly realized that I don't need everything that I have. And while I may want it, other people need it. It was really important for me to keep that in mind and I still remind myself, "I don't need this. I want it but I don't need it."
Susan: Sarah, I think that's what a lot of people say to when they come back from the trip. Your differentiation between need and want, I think that's one of the major transformative changes that we see in everybody. Don't you agree that that's a big change for the people?
Sarah: It is and it's overwhelming. The shopping mall was – just isn't the experience when I got home. I went in, turn around, and walked right back out. It was too big, too much, too bright, couldn't handle it. That was my big moment. It was too much. When you're in Kenya, when you're with your group and your community, you learn so quickly how to create what you need. And it becomes almost innate maybe to look around and say, "Okay, I need this. I don't have it. How can I make it?" and to come back to the United States and say, "Oh, I need this. Bam! It's right here." It's overwhelming.
Susan: Yes, so what's an example of that, creating something?
Sarah: Oh, we made eyedrops. We taught them how to make lots and lots of eyedrops. We taught people to add salt to their water as they boil it and then let it cool to rinse their eyes out because the pollution is really bad out there. It really bothers and creates all the issues and bothering their eyes. So we taught them how because – "Yes, we can give you a bottle of eyedrops but that's not going to last very long."
Jamie Davis: I've heard that from numerous interviews I've done over the years with people that travel to other parts of the world. That necessity to create something from nothing almost and to redefine your viewpoint of what basic medical and healthcare is because you don't have the resources that you take for granted here in the United States, for instance.
Susan: Right. What happens then after you've been gone a year from Kenya? So how has that experience changed you now?
Sarah: I still stop to help strangers far more often than I did before. I always carry an extra granola bar in my purse for homeless people because it's hard to be hungry and everybody – my vision change. Everybody deserves to eat. Everybody deserves human kindness when somebody is saying, "I have this. Let me share it with you." And really knowing I have so much now and it hasn't changed much since before and until the end of the nursing school. I have a lot less than I did when I started but there's no reason I can't share it. I think that's one of the biggest changes. I knew that I needed to share before and I was always willing to – but now I go out of my way to try to make a difference in the people we see.
Susan: So how then does that experience change the way you are going to be a nurse?
Sarah: I think it puts me in a little more contact with my patients emotionally. I can look beyond socio-economic borders very easily now. It doesn't make any difference to me with my patients. I've had several patients who were not English-speaking. I had one patient who spoke only sign language and, in Kenya, most of our patients spoke Swahili. And I learned a little while I was there but I think when I learned from that was just try because they really appreciate when we try. I had a patient who spoke sign language and I went in and I can finger spell and instead of being afraid or try, I walked in and I had a conversation with her and we spelled the whole thing out. I sat down. I took the time. We spelled out the conversation and I got what she needed to be comfortable. That made a big difference in her stay at the hospital.
Susan: Right. I think that – like another thing that you brought out was that you connected with them. When we go on a trip, we had so little. We don't have all the high-tech equipment. All we have is by assessment skills and we have to actually touch a person and if we bring that home, that connection with people where it doesn't matter if we were in intensive care or out in community or public health. When we do more than just listen to the verbage but we listen to the language, we look at their body language and we really look and touch the people. I think that then becomes maybe the art of nursing.
Sarah: Very true. It's more than what the lab values tell us. Our patients know their bodies and they know when something's wrong and we have to remember to listen to them.
Jamie Davis: So why is it do you think that nurses are always the ones that we see out on these peripheral edges of society and the population in the world? Even here in the US, nurses tend to lead the way in public health initiatives into a rural and backwoods areas. What is it about the nursing practice that makes that the case?
Susan: That's a good question. I think our connection with humanity, although, I will say that the trips that we have started, we bring medical students and nursing students. So that we have this collaboration going on in practice. We end up with better patient outcomes and we also end up with a change in how nurses view physicians and how physicians view nurses. I know one of the med students just wrote me and said after being on their trip, he's changed his major from a specialty to family practice. So I think once we get them there, that we can see that same change take place.
Jamie Davis: Sarah, any thoughts about that?
Sarah: I think that in order to be a nurse you have to want to be a caregiver and accept people at their worst honestly. They're sick. They don't feel well. Nobody's personality is fantastic when you don't feel well. Honestly, those people who are living on the outskirts are homeless or living in the slums have a similar need to be taken care. And our personality as nurses drive that caretaking. And so we are truly just the people who take care of the people. And those people in Africa and the homeless areas in the cities, they're the people who need to be taken care of. I feel like that's why you go into nursing, is to take care of those people and all people.
Susan: Yes. I think nursing is more than just diagnostics. That it is an art and sometimes, we, in general, may forget that. But I think that the people that we talk about are the ones that have taken that art of nursing to heart. Now I kind of think of Florence Nightingale and the lantern and the Statue of Liberty and the Torch and "Bring me your downtrodden, bring me your weary." That's what we, as nurses, are willing to do, "Bring those to us but let us serve you.
Jamie Davis: As we wrap up, because we can probably sit here and talk about this all day. I'm just fascinated with the stories you've been able to tell, just in the brief time we've been here together. There are other nurses and even nursing students listening to this, what advice would you give to one of them that maybe a trip like this comes along that they have an opportunity either as a nurse or as a nursing student to go and step out of their comfort zone and have an opportunity to give back in this type of situation. What advice would you offer to them?
Sarah: I've actually, had several of the students at school come talk to me about it and say, "Oh, I really want to go. I'm so scared." And I tend to tell them, "Go ahead and do it. Don't be scared. The fear is healthy. It's unknown. It's uncomfortable. But it will change your life and it will change your world. If you can make it happen, give there because you will change the life of every other person."
Susan: That's why I end up with so many people flying for Kenya because Sarah is down in Phoenix telling all this people to apply.
Sarah: I'm making your life harder.
Susan: I think you are. We're just fine. No, I like that. I tried to be deadly serious and totally honest when I speak to students or to people at in-the-outside that are interested in trips like this. I tell them about the challenges. Tell them about coming back absolutely exhausted. For example, the last trip when we were in Kenya, we were there for two weeks and doing clinical. We treated over 3,000 individuals at that time. So we work very, very hard as we do these clinics. But you come back, you're exhausted, you can barely keep your eyes open and within a few weeks, you're wondering when can you go back? It changes you or transforms you that much that you jump at the chance to serve the people again. The people I think are the driving force that bring us back to the Kenya and so many of the developing countries. The students that have gone, they come back as RN. They come back and they pay again. They come up with more money to go on a trip again. One of the former students, paid to go as a student, had just gotten married and for her honeymoon, she and her new husband are spending their honeymoon money to come back to Kenya and participate in another trip working two weeks in the slum. That is incredible to me when I meet people like that.
Make sure you check out the entire December, 2013 issue of Nursing Notes, where we look at nurses giving back to the communities around them. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don't miss the other Nursing Notes Live episode this month bringing you another panel discussion on nurses who give back to their communities. In that episode we'll have University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nursing professor Megan Williams and one of her former students, trauma center nurse Lindsey Lang as they share with us a project that provided nutritious food and financial support to a local food bank for senior citizens. You'll find this and other episodes of Nursing Notes Live in the podcast area on iTunes.


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Ricky Hatton's father has been arrested for allegedly assaulting him.
The attack is said to have taken place on Thursday, the day before the former world boxing champion announced his return to the ring in November.
The BBC reports that Hatton had to protect himself after 61-year-old dad Ray attacked him in the middle of a heated argument. The fight is said to have taken place in the car park outside the boxer's gym in Hyde, Manchester.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "Shortly before 11.45am on Thursday, police received reports that there had been a fight involving two men outside a health and fitness club on Market Street, Hyde.
"A 33-year-old man was assaulted by a 61-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of common assault and subsequently given a police caution." Hatton is understood not to have been injured in the incident."
Hatton claimed in a press conference that his return to fighting in November is "more than a comeback", saying that he is "fighting to redeem himself" after a string of embarrassing and highly-publicised incidents in his personal life.
The boxer was filmed taking cocaine in a 2010 News of the World sting, which led to him being stripped of his boxing license. He later checked into rehab for several weeks, reportedly suffering from alcoholism and depression.
Hatton will fight an as-yet unnamed opponent at the Manchester Arena on November 24.
Watch Ricky Hatton's comeback press conference below:


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The Seattle Storm has announced that Storm co-owner Ginny Gilder has joined the "Pedal for Pat" initiative, a 1,098 mile bike ride to raise money for The Pat Summitt Foundation. Pedal for Pat will span Oct. 17-28, 2017, beginning at the Pat Summitt statue in Knoxville, TN, and concluding in Key West, Fla., The route was chosen so cyclists will ride one mile for each of Summitt's wins as the University of Tennessee women's basketball head coach.
"I never met Pat Summitt, so it's reasonable to wonder why I am doing this ride," said Gilder. "The truth is, I didn't know much about Pat until 10 years ago when I became a co-owner of the Storm. Suddenly, I was in the thick of women's professional basketball. In my first year as an owner, 2008, one of her players, Candace Parker, went #1 in the draft. Suddenly, I knew about Pat Summitt. And just like that, I became an instant fan of this driven, passionate, and wildly successful woman, a big one."
Storm fans have the opportunity to support Gilder and the Pedal for Pat cycle event through financial donations. She's set a personal goal of $15,000, with the first $10,000 set to be matched by an anonymous donor. Those interested in donating will have the opportunity to take advantage of Seattle Storm tickets, merchandise and autographed items. In accordance with Pat Summitt's wins, suggested donations start at $10.98, and can be made directly to Gilder.
Added Gilder, "I'm irate that she was cut down too early by a disease that not only robs its victims of precious years, but also strips away their memories and stories, and their ability to retain connection with those they love. Pat was an inspiration when she was alive, and she continues to serve as one. She was tough and engendered tough. In a world where people are relentlessly researching, writing and talking about how to develop persistence, how to coax the growth of grit, we have Pat Summitt to show us the way. I only know of Pat through others' memories and public accounts. But I have a good imagination. I imagine that she was a hard ass with a giant heart. She was tough on those she cared for, because a well-lived life demands toughness, and how else could she prepare her athletes for the rigors of adulthood, except by being demanding and exacting? Love is not all about sweetness and light. It's about figuring out how to call forward the best of those for whom we care. Pat Summitt did that, and, in doing so, exemplified the hidden-in-plain-sight promise and power of high expectations."
Gilder is the managing member of Force 10 Enterprises, which owns Force 10 Hoops, the WNBA's Seattle Storm franchise, Force 10 Sports Management, which provides marketing and management expertise to local and national sports organizations, and Force 10 Performance, an affordable multi-sport training center for all athletes and abilities. This latest career chapter blends her love of business with her passion for sports and deep belief in its power to transform lives. Force 10 Enterprises is dedicated to the philosophy that women should enjoy access to competitive opportunities at every level: the Storm showcases the power of women as inspirational athletes and leaders and Force 10 Performance makes affordable, world class training available to everyone.
In addition, Gilder has started several entrepreneurial ventures, both businesses and non-profits, whose founding dreams range from the practical to the transformational. She is CEO of the Gilder family investment office (which she founded in 2004) and president of one of her family's philanthropic entities, the Starfish Group, whose mission is to champion the underdog, individuals who face steeper odds in creating a sustainable life for themselves.
A rower, she earned four varsity letters at Yale University, and was an All-Ivy Champion three times. Her freshman year, she helped usher in the post-Title IX era at Yale by participating in the now-famous women's crew strip-in protesting the lack of equal facilities. Gilder represented the United States on four national teams, including two Olympic teams. She was named to the U.S. team which boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and won a silver medal as the stroke of the women's quadruples sculls with coxswain at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984. She holds a pair of international medals, including a bronze from the 1983 World Championships in the single.
The author of the memoir, Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX, Gilder helped launch community rowing programs in Boston, MA and Derby, CT. She received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award for community service in 2004 and was the recipient of the 2015 US Rowing Association Jack Kelly Award and the 2015 Yale University George H.W. Bush '48 Lifetime of Leadership Award.
"Ginny is not only a world-class athlete, she is a world-class person," said Michelle Brooke-Marciniak, a former Seattle Storm player and co-founder of SHEEX. "To have her intimately involved in our ride is a huge win for Pedal for Pat for the spirit, energy and passion she will bring during the entire ride. As we embark on our journey, we need people like Ginny who will put their heart on the line in order to make a dent in this awful Alzheimer's disease, not only for Pat but for all whom this disease has affected, both directly and indirectly. As a woman who charges through life with guts and vigor, Ginny epitomizes what Pat was all about; courage and fight. Pat is smiling down on us. As the co-chair of Pedal for Pat, it feels like we just signed one of the best players in the country!"
"Ginny's background as an elite athlete and leader naturally make her a great fit for our event, but more than that, Ginny lives out the values that Coach Pat embraced every day," said Joshua Crisp, founder of the 'Pedal for Pat' initiative. "Ginny's commitment reflects her work ethic, resilience and passion for giving back. With Ginny, and the Seattle Storm, joining the Pedal for Pat team, we will indeed accomplish much more together."
Crisp and a core group of riders announced Pedal for Pat in March 2017 and have been training ever since. Each team member is committed to raising $10,000 which will be donated to The Pat Summit Foundation, which designates 100 percent of its grant funding to The Pat Summitt Clinic.


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TUCSON – The Arizona Wildcats had the bats going from the very beginning of the day and never let up, sweeping a doubleheader from Sam Houston State on Monday at Hi Corbett Field.
Arizona (26-24) entered the day with one of the top offenses in the nation and showed why, scoring 30 runs in the twinbill in what was its first meeting with the Bearkats (29-22) since the 2017 Lubbock Regional.
The Bearkats now return home for their final weekend of the regular season, beginning Thursday night in the series opener vs Northwestern State. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m from Don Sanders Stadium.
Game 1 (Box Score)
Arizona 14, Sam Houston State 7
Arizona got after the Kats early and often in the day's opener, scoring 14 unanswered runs to support a strong start from Avery Weems to get a 14-7 win.
Sam Houston scored three times off of Weems in the opening inning, getting a two-run triple by Hunter Hearn and an RBI ground out by Gavin Johnson, but Arizona responded by batting around and scoring five runs in the home half of the inning and never looked back.
The Kats had a chance to answer in the second inning after a single by Jackson Loftin and a double by Riley McKnight put two runners in scoring position, but nothing came of it and Weems took over from there as he retired 17 batters in a row until the ninth inning when the Kats struck for four two-out runs before Weems closed out his first career complete game.
Dayton Dooney turned in the biggest offensive game for the Wildcats, homering in the first inning and finishing with five RBI in three at-bats. In all, five Arizona hitters finished with multi-hit games as part of a 16-hit game.
Kyle Backhus got the start, but took the loss to fall to 0-1 on the year. In all the Kats used six arms in the game with Will Duncan carrying the bulk of the load with a pair of strikeouts and just two runs allowed in 3.2 innings of relief.
The Kats got their late runs on the strength of an error and singles by Eric Bohnert and Luke Repka to load the bases. Jordan Cannon followed with a two-run single before Colton Cowser brought in two more with a double to the left-field corner.
Game 2 (Box Score)
Arizona 16, Sam Houston State 2
A pair of big innings did all the damage that the Arizona Wildcats needed as they closed out the doubleheader sweep with a 16-2 win in the nightcap.
Arizona scored seven times in the second inning and eight times in the fourth to take the predetermined seven-inning affair. Senior Colin Cameron was saddled with the loss despite facing just three batters in his first start of the year while George Arias Jr. earned his first win of the year for Arizona.
The Kats gave the start to graduating senior Colin Cameron and the righty retired the first hitter he saw before Cameron Cannon opened the scoring with a solo homer just two batters into the inning. Landon Ausley came in to strike out a pair and get out of the inning, but the second inning did not go as well as the Wildcats pushed across seven runs on just two hits.
They were able to take advantage of five walks in the frame, getting two home on bases-loaded walks and another on a sac fly by Cameron; however, it was a grand slam by Dooney with two outs in the inning that was the shot that broke the game open.
Arizona continued to add on in the fourth, putting up another eight runs on eight hits with both Nick Quintana and Branden Boissiere driving in a pair.
Reliever Cole Wesneski put up a scoreless inning of relief in the fifth and the Kats got their first run of the game in the following inning when singles by Cowser and Jaxxon Grisham set the table and pinch runner Mac Odom came home to score on a wild pitch from Arizona reliever Cameron Haskell.
After Wesneski put up another scoreless frame the Kats got one more run home before things ended as a single by Bohnert and a walk to Repka set up Cannon to get home an RBI with a ground ball.


text: Broadband internet. (Duncan Alfreds, Fin24) RELATED ARTICLES Era of SA subsea cable rush nears end Seacom CEO: SA has enough international connectivity SA 'lags' in corporate fibre connections Johannesburg - Outages affecting a terrestrial network in Egypt have disrupted internet connectivity in South Africa on Thursday.In a statement, undersea broadband cable network Seacom, which connects from South Africa to Europe, said that it's experienced a disruption in the North African country.READ: How SA's internet outage affected Fin24 users"Seacom is experiencing multiple outages on the terrestrial network across Egypt. All our international connectivity through Egypt has been affected since 14:06GMT (16:06 South African time) on the 21st January 2016," said the company earlier on Thursday.UPDATE - Egyptian fibre cut 'fixed'Seacom, in an update, said it had located the outage linked to the terrestrial fibre cable in Egypt and fixed it, thereby restoring services on its network."The SEACOM terrestrial network was successfully repaired on the 21st January 2016 at 16:46 GMT (18:46 South African time)," said the company.Meanwhile, technology website TechCentral has also reported that the West African Cable System (Wacs), which connects Yzerfontein north of Cape Town to London, has also experienced problems with a terrestrial connection in the UK.Amid these issues, complaints of slow and inaccessible internet services in South Africa flooded social media websites such as Twitter on Thursday.How has the outage affected you? Tell us by clicking here.Did someone trip over the seacom cable?— Murray Mitchell (@muzzling) January 21, 2016Hey seacom, have you tried turning it off and on again? #seacom #isp #africa— Werner Strauss (@werner_Strauss) January 21, 2016Some subscribers may experience data connection problems due to a Seacom fault. Repair teams have been dispatched.— Vodacom (@Vodacom) January 21, 2016Wonder how "Seacom" is trending without internet!— Denver Furmage (@DenverFurmage) January 21, 2016By the sounds of thing Seacom is coming back up some should start seeing normality return soon.— Marc Forrest (@MarcForrest) January 21, 2016 Read more about: seacom | south africa | internet share:


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There may be times when you feel you have not received the appropriate care or treatment, either clinical or service. Most problems can be sorted out easily and quickly, often at the time they arise and with the person concerned. But if your problem cannot be dealt with in this way please let us know , ideally within a matter of days, to give us the opportunity to establish what happened and put things right more easily. We have a Complaints Procedure as part of an NHS system for dealing with complaints. In the first instance complaints should be addressed to the Practice Manager, either verbally or in writing. He will explain the complaints procedure to you and will make sure that your issue is dealt with promptly.
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Arnaldo Cohen performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21.
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Join the Grant Park Orchestra inside the Harris Theater for an evening of beloved works by Brahms, Mozart and more, featuring pianist Arnaldo Cohen.
Where & When
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Concert: Friday, August 1, 2014, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Concert: Saturday, August 2, 2014, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Arnaldo Cohen, Piano
Widmann: Con Brio
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
The previously scheduled pianist, Markus Groh, has cancelled his appearance due to illness.


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From the Airport: Travel east on the H-1 freeway. Take the University exit (Exit 24B). Stay in the far right lane heading north on University Avenue. Take a right on Dole Street at the first light. Take another immediate right on to Lower Campus Road.
From Waikiki: Head north towards Ala Wai Boulevard. Travel west on Ala Wai Boulevard (one-way street) and make a right turn at McCully Street. Take a right at the first light on to Kapiʻolani Boulevard. Take a left at University Avenue. Stay in the far right lane heading north on University Avenue. Take a right on Dole Street. Take another immediate right on to Lower Campus Road.
(Directions courtesy of the UH Athletics Dept.)
The parking structure will open at 5:00 a.m. Campus parking for guests is free but limited on graduation day. Carpooling is strongly encouraged. UH Shuttles will be available from various locations throughout the campus area.
The road leading from the Waiʻalae gate entrance to the Stan Sheriff Center will be closed before and during the ceremony. The area near the ROTC buildings is reserved.
Parking is restricted in the areas behind the Stan Sheriff Center and around the Les Murakami Baseball Stadium. The parking lots in the Student Housing areas are restricted for permit holders only. Stalls marked with a Reserved Parking sign are enforced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The lower campus parking structure is expected to fill up quickly. When the parking structure is full, drivers will be directed to park in the lots on the main campus. As each lot fills, the attendants will direct drivers to the next available lot. They will continue to do this until all lots are full.
Accessible parking stalls in the lower campus parking structure and in the main campus lots are limited. The majority of these accessible stalls are located on the third floor of the Diamond Head side of the lower campus parking structure. With the remaining accessible stalls distributed on each floor of the ʻEwa side of the lower campus parking structure and throughout the lots on the main campus. Parking attendants will be able to provide directions to drivers needing accessible parking. A valid Department of Transportation placard is required to park in these stalls.
Parking shuttle service will be provided from 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m for the 9:00 a.m. ceremony and 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for the 3:30 p.m. ceremony. The shuttle buses are wheelchair accessible and run a continuous route from the Biomedical Science Building to Krauss Circle. The lower campus areas are accessible by crossing Dole Street and proceeding to the elevators on the top floor of the parking structure.
All stops along this route will be marked with the RAINBOW SHUTTLE STOP signs.
The stops along the shuttle route are:
- Biomedical Science Building (near Sherman Laboratory)
- Moore Hall
- Kennedy Theatre
- Physical Science Building
- Art Building
- Krauss Circle
- Kuykendall Hall (near Sustainability Courtyard)
- Watanabe Hall
- Jefferson Hall
- Center for Korean Studies
- Biomedical Science Building (near Sherman Laboratory)
For the return trip, passengers may board the shuttles at Krauss Circle. Please be aware that the length of time for the shuttles to return to this area may vary according to the amount of traffic along the route.
Graduates and participants should anticipate heavy traffic and plan accordingly for ample time to get to their designated staging area. Vehicle access around this staging area will be restricted and passenger drop off will not be allowed in this area.
The designated passenger drop-off area will be on the ground floor area between the parking structure and the Athletic Complex. Signs will be posted to direct drivers to this area. This drop-off area will be closed when the parking structure has filled and/or during the period when traffic is modified for exiting. We recommend students and guests arriving via taxi and ridesharing services be dropped off and picked up in the Bachman Hall parking lot - entrance is from Dole Street. Passengers will not be allowed to be dropped off in the Restricted Parking Area behind the Stan Sheriff Center. For concerns of safety, please do not drop off passengers in the middle of the road or along areas with heavy traffic.
After the ceremony a passenger pick-up area is available in the parking lot on the first base side of the Les Murakami Baseball Stadium. Drivers may access this lot by informing the attendants that they will be picking up their passengers. Again for safety concerns, please do not stop along the road during heavy traffic.
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2015 in Review
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DUBLIN, Ohio — Calling all Wendy's fans.
The fast food chain is jumping into the breakfast business by serving up a new morning menu nationwide. Customers can purchase the new items starting Mar. 2.
The breakfast menu's signature items will include the Breakfast Baconator, Frosty-ccino and Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit.
"Launching breakfast in our U.S. restaurants nationwide provides incredible growth opportunities," said Todd Penegor, President and CEO of The Wendy's Company. "We are well-positioned to pursue it. We believe we have the right team and structure in place, and we put Wendy's fan favorites on our breakfast menu to set us apart from the competition."
Wendy's currently serves breakfast in more than 300 of its locations across the country. This new effort will expand the breakfast menu to every restaurant in their chain.
As a result, the company said they will hire approximately 20,000 new employees. You can apply HERE.


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The Imperial Palace Review
The Imperial Palace
3535 Las Vegas Blvd. So.
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Phone: (800) 351-7400
Minimum Age: 21
Players will find over 830 slots games available at The Imperial Palace! Table games, poker, a race book & sports book are also available within this casino. The Poker room welcomes players to 8 tables with No Limit and Limit cash games. 5 TVs are available as well for guests of players.
The Imperial Palace Promotions
Total Rewards is the players club for this casino as well as many other casinos. Harrah's is a large network of casinos that also participate in this players club. What does that mean for the player? More places to earn points and more places to redeem them! Not only can players redeem their points within the casino but on cruises, flights and more. Total Rewards offers it's players the opportunity to redeem points on the website for gift cards on just about anything. Players can sign up for the players club right on the website or by visiting the casino. Other promotions are available to players by visiting the player's club kiosk at the casino!
The Imperial Palace Amenities
The Imperial Palace offers players a big selection of room choices with classic rooms featuring One King or Two Double beds, cable, hair dryer, iron and ironing board, table, chairs & armoire. The Capri Room offers the same amenities however, it has been updated slightly. Deluxe rooms offer the ability to have wireless internet for a price as well as laundry and refrigerators. The Deluxe Luv Tub Rom offers a King-sized bed, Roman Luv Tub and the mentioned amenities above. The King Suite offers various amenities such as a Nintendo, wetbar, sofa & living room area. The Deluxe King Suites offers Granite Counters which is a nice classy touch. PetStay is also available for those who travel with their pets! Select rooms welcome pets to stay. Dining choices include Betty's Diner & Cyber Cafe, Burger Palace, Embers, Emperors' Buffet, Ginseng 3, Hash House A Go Go, Pizza Palace & Quesadilla. Each restaurant is very unique from the next to combine great choices for dining under one roof! The casino also offers a salon, golf, shopping, a pool, auto collections, bars & lounges as well.
The Imperial Palace Review
The Imperial Palace is operated by Caesars Entertainment and offers tons of amenities and promotions just like their sister properties. One great thing about dealing with a mega giant casino is that players have more places to earn and spend points. This casino and hotel is one of the lower end casinos but has a lot to offer for the price!


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Top 10 Popular Female Celebrities Who Slept Their Way To The Top! [PHOTOS]
Climbing to the top is not an easy task and it requires a long and strong ladder. So many celebrities today, out of desperation have had to go an extra mile just to get on top of their game. From doing dirty jobs to famzing around other celebrities and sleeping with the people who matter in the industry. There is always a prize to pay for something, especially something as good and intoxicating as fame and the glitz and glamour that comes with it, and these women are not to be totally blamed for their actions. The list of female celebs who gave up a little more of their body for fame is quite unending, but here are the top 10 of such women.
10. Rita Ora
According to her one-time boyfriend, Rob Kardashian, American singer Rita Ora supposedly slept with 20 guys to help her career kick off. The angry ex- lover of the poison singer, after their break up in 2012, unleashed his anger on Twitter about how he had been cheated on all because of a dream. He tweeted: "She cheated on me with nearly 20 dudes while we were together. I wonder how many she will sleep with now we're apart."
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Nashville Company Acquires Dallas Pediatric Therapy Provider
Dallas-based Sage Care Therapy Services has been acquired by a Nashville, Tennessee behavioral health company.
ChanceLight Behavioral Health and Education this week snapped up the Dallas company, which employs 100. It offers physical, occupational, and speech therapies to about 750 patients who are 21 and younger. They are each referred by physicians, hospitals, community partners, or home health agencies.
ChanceLight is present in 27 states, and Sage will be joining its behavioral health division.
"Sage Care's compassionate therapists and therapist assistants provide quality care and a path to independence for their patients, many of whom have multiple special needs," Mark Claypool, ChanceLight president and CEO, said. "Sage Care and ChanceLight share the same values, and we both provide services to give children and young adults the opportunity to create successful, independent futures."
Financial information was not disclosed.


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Helping you choose the right venue for your funeral service
The Funeral service will be your official last goodbye to your loved one.
So the venue that you decide to hold the service in will be a very important part of your decision making process.
Church or Service venue?
Not all funeral services are held within a church.
There will be those of you that may prefer the service be held in the chapel of the cemetery or even within a church hall. Both of these places are normally non-denominational, which means that they are neither restricted by or associated with any religious denomination.
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No matter your preference for your funeral day, your Funeral Arranger with work with you and your family to ensure that we arrange exactly what you will require for your funeral arrangements.
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The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program produces estimates of the population for the United States, its states, counties, cities and towns, as well as for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipios. Demographic components of population change (births, deaths, and migration) and demographic characteristics (age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin) are produced at the national, state, county, Puerto Rico Commonwealth and muncipio levels of geography. In addition, housing unit estimates are produced for the nation, states, and counties.
Each year, the Population Estimates Program utilizes current data on births, deaths, and migration to calculate population change since the most recent decennial census, and produces a time series of estimates of population. The annual time series of estimates begins with the most recent decennial census data and extends to the vintage year. The vintage year refers to the final year of the time series. The reference date for all estimates is July 1, unless otherwise specified.
With each new issue of estimates, the Census Bureau revises estimates for years back to the last census. As each vintage of estimates includes all years since the most recent decennial census, the latest vintage of data available supersedes all previously produced estimates for those dates.
These estimates are used in federal funding allocations, as denominators for vital rates and per capita time series, as survey controls, and in monitoring recent demographic changes. Although the American Community Survey also produces population, demographic, and housing unit estimates, it is the Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns, and estimates of housing units for states and counties.
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Participants in the Church Musicians Workshop are invited to take the workshop for 3 credit hours of graduate-level theological education. In addition to the sessions of the CMW, students complete assigned readings, a short writing assignment, and a series of 6 Service Planning Assignments.
Syllabus coming soon.
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to Register for the CMW with 3 credit hours of graduate credit.
Nashotah House Students
Credit for the CMW fulfills elective and/or LT requirements for the MTS, MPM, MM, and Anglican Studies Certificate programs. Contact your Program Director or Fr. Alexander Pryor, CMW Director (email@example.com | 262.646.6520) for details.
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Nashotah House is an accredited member of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS). CMW credit transfers to any ATS-member institution, and may transfer to other institutions by permission of your Academic Dean and/or faculty. Contact Fr. Alexander Pryor, CMW Director (email@example.com | 262.646.6520) and/or your academic adviser or Academic Dean for details.
Note: Students from other institutions must complete the Non-Degree Student application. Contact Fr. Pryor for a coupon code to waive the Non-Degree Student application fee.
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Nashotah House standard tuition rates apply: $500/credit hour.
Clergy and Lay Leader Track taken for credit: $2250 and up.
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I talked to Mark Melni not too long ago to get a Melni Connectors update. Since making a deal with Mark Cuban in season 6, there hasn't been a lot of news in Shark Tank circles about this deal. It wasn't a typical Shark Tank deal, in fact, Mark knew nothing about the business of electrical connectors at all, he invested because of "FOMO" or Fear Of Missing Out.
Melni, who carries one of his connectors in his pocket every day, is animated and excited about his company the day we spoke. "I never heard the term FOMO before we went on Shark Tank," Melni explains." For whatever reason, Cuban knew Mr. Melni was on to something big. That's why he invested $500,000 for 12% of the business – with an option to buy additional shares.
Mark Melni has nothing but praise for Cuban. "His involvement's been phenomenal. Sometimes it's hard to understand how he responds to us and his other entrepreneurs so quickly. He does it all himself and I can't for the life of me comprehend how he does it."
Melni Connectors Update on the Deal
Mr. Melni likes Cuban's input, but he also lies his cash. "When the company's value reached $15 million," says Melni, "Mark invested an additional $1 million." Cuban isn't the only new investor. Electrical connector distributor Remke also invested in Melni Connectors. The Chicago-based company gives Melni 30 plus sales agents in the field who'll sell to wholesale electric supply distributors across the USA. Melni recently shipped their first order.
"It's been a long time since I had my AHA moment," he explains. Mark worked with his dad at a charter bus company in Santa Barbara where he was exposed to "all things mechanical." That's where he first envisioned the Melni Connector. "I was visualizing copper wire twisting around a drill bit. It was interwoven like a Chinese finger trap – the more you pull, the tighter it gets.
What's Next?
The reason it took three years to get from the Shark Tank to real distribution is Melni's attention to detail. His connectors have 7 US and international patents and getting those squared away takes time – and money. The company also wanted an Underwriters Lab (UL) listing which takes time. "Our initial sales are 100% to electricians. We want to concentrate on selling to the professional electrician in the commercial market. Right now, we aren't selling into the consumer market, but some day I'd like to see my connectors next to the big spools of wire at the Home Depot and other stores."
Mr. Melni has reasonable expectations for his new product launch. "When these come in to market, a lot of products won't be necessary," he explains. "Crimping tools are expensive. We are a disruptor in this industry and we have a revolutionary product, but it's a tough nut to crack. I think huge companies that make crimping equipment will work against us in background." Melni didn't stop at electrical connectors. He signed a deal to develop irrigation connectors for Irrigation Components International. He also hinted that a large cable company was interested in purchasing Melni Connectors.
Clearly, Mark enjoyed his Shark Tank experience. He called it "surreal" because the producers came looking for him. "it was a bizarre process," he says, "but our producer gave s lots of tips. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything." He still likes to play piano too; his album is on Youtube if you'd like to give it a listen.
Advice for Entrepreneurs
Mark had this to say to aspiring entrepreneurs: "Follow your bliss. You need to figure out what makes you happiest and when you do its rewarding. Find what it is and immerse yourself in it. When I started Melni Connectors, many said it would never work, but I kept at it and look where we are now."
I had one other question for Mark. He answers that over at the Hot Dog Truck.


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Oakland A's to Host Play Ball, Presented by Sutter Health, Starting in June
Posted on May 29, 2018
Community Sandlot-Style Baseball Games in Oakland Throughout the Summer
The Oakland A's and Sutter Health invite the community to join them at local parks throughout the summer to play sandlot-style baseball games. The team will host five Play Ball events at Oakland parks, with the first event scheduled for Sunday, June 3, at Brookdale Park in Oakland. Kids, adults, and families can play a pick-up style baseball game alongside the A's Street Team and receive A's goodies. The event is free to attend.
A's Play Ball, presented by Sutter Health, is in support of Major League Baseball's (MLB) Play Ball initiative, which encourages young people and communities to engage in baseball and softball-related activities, including formal leagues, special events, and casual forms of play. The A's will also give away 5,000 wristbands, presented by Chevrolet, to kids ages 14 and under during the Sunday, June 10 game versus the Kansas City Royals as part of MLB's Play Ball Weekend.
The first A's Play Ball event is set for Sunday, June 3, at Brookdale Park – 2535 High St. – in Oakland from 9 to 11 a.m. Details for the remaining Play Ball days are listed below. Each event is from 9 to 11 a.m.
- Saturday, July 7 at Defremery Park – 1651 Adeline St., Oakland
- Saturday, July 28 at Ira Jinkins Park – 9175 Edes Ave., Oakland
- Saturday, Aug. 5 at Garfield Park – 2201 E. 17th, Oakland
- Saturday, Sept. 15 at Allendale Park – 3711 Sutter St., Oakland
For more information, visit athletics.com/playball.
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