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Proper feeding management of the dairy herd can improve the economy of production and provide for a healthier cow. Feeding to increase production of milk with maximum levels of milk fat and protein is essential for achieving these benefits.
Milk solid components include fat, protein, lactose and minerals. Normal values for milk fat range from 3.7 percent (Holstein) to 4.9 percent (Jersey); milk protein ranges from 3.1 percent (Holstein) to 3.8 percent (Jersey). Lactose is usually 4.6 to 4.8 percent for all breeds and minerals (ash) average 0.74 percent. Dairy producers focus on maximizing milk fat and protein content. Current milk pricing formulas emphasize milk fat, giving maintenance of normal milk fat test an economic advantage. Normal milk fat percentages also reflect good rumen and cow health. Generally, diets that cause low milk fat test also cause sore feet (laminitis), acidosis and feed intake problems. Milk protein has economic value because higher protein leads to higher cheese yields. Increasingly, milk protein content is being emphasized as milk fat price differentials decline due to the public's demand for low-fat dairy foods.
Factors that affect milk composition include genetics, stage of lactation, level of milk production, age of cow, environment, disease (for example, mastitis), and nutrition. Fifty-five percent of the variation in milk composition is due to heredity, while 45 percent is due to environmental factors such as feeding management. Generally, if the milk protein to milk fat ratio is less than 0.80 for Holsteins, milk protein depression is a problem. When this ratio is greater than 1.0, the herd suffers from milk fat depression (low milk fat test). Milk protein percent follows changes in milk fat test except during milk fat depression and when high levels of fat are fed. The following feeding guidelines should help the dairy producer increase production of solids-corrected milk.
The following guidelines are critical to maximizing solids-corrected milk production:
Nutritional changes can occur rapidly and are the best way to respond to changing market demands. The following sections describe important aspects of feeding management to produce high levels of milk solids.
The importance of maximizing feed intake is related to minimizing negative energy balance during early lactation. As cows move into positive energy balance, body weight is regained, losses of body condition score are minimized, and cows produce milk of normal fat and protein composition. Increased feed intake can improve milk protein by 0.2 to 0.3 units. This increased milk protein percent may be due to overall increases in balanced energy intake as total feed intake increases. High-producing dairy cows should eat 3.6 to 4.0 percent of their body weight daily as dry matter.
Example1,350-pound cow x 0.04 (4 percent) = 54 pounds of dry matter intake. If the diet is 50 percent dry matter, the cow should eat 108 pounds as fed (54 ÷ 0.50 = 108).
If a herd is consuming less dry matter than 3.5 to 4.0 percent of bodyweight, production of solids-corrected milk may be limited. Major feeding factors that affect feed intake include:
Increased feeding frequency increases fat test, especially with low fiber, high grain diets. The greatest response is seen for diets with less than 45 percent forage and when grain is fed separately as in parlor feeding. When diets are fed as total mixed rations, feeding frequency is not as important as long as feed remains palatable and is fed at least once daily.
Properly feeding concentrates primarily involves maintaining proper forage to concentrate ratios and non-fiber carbohydrate (NFC) levels. Non-fiber carbohydrates include starch, sugars and pectin. The level is calculated as: NFC = 100 - (crude protein + neutral detergent fiber + fat + minerals).
Non-fiber carbohydrates should range between 20 and 45 percent. A level of 40 to 45 percent is typical of diets with forage to concentrate ratios of 40 to 60 or less forage. Diets with large amounts of high quality forage and minimal grain may be deficient in non-fiber carbohydrates. Feeding proper non-fiber carbohydrate levels can improve both milk fat and protein test, while overfeeding leads to milk fat depression of one unit or more and often increases milk protein percent by 0.2 to 0.3 unit.
The amount of grain per feeding should be limited to 7 pounds to avoid rumen acidosis, off-feed problems, and reduced fat content of milk. Grain feeding guidelines to maximize milk fat and protein production follow:
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Grain should be limited to a maximum of 30 to 35 pounds per cow daily. Manure that contains much undigested corn or with pH less than 6.0 indicates that too much grain, or non-fiber carbohydrates, is being fed improperly.
Grain processing also can influence milk composition. Flaked corn can increase milk protein percent. Oats have decreased milk protein percent by 0.2 unit compared with barley. Generally, rolled or ground barley or flaked corn causes a rapid and severe decrease in milk fat when overfed. Fibrous byproducts such as soybean hulls can replace starchy grains and reduce the severity of milk fat depression. University of Nebraska research indicates that soybean hulls can replace 50-75 percent of the corn in a concentrate mix to maintain normal milk fat test.
The dairy cow's fiber requirement consists of fiber level and fiber particle size. Both level and particle size contribute to the effectiveness of a fiber source for stimulating rumination (cud chewing), salivation, and maintaining normal milk fat and protein composition. Minimum acid detergent fiber (ADF) levels required in the ration dry matter are 19-21 percent. Neutral detergent fiber (NDF) should not fall below 26-28 percent. Below these levels, cows risk a low milk fat test, acidosis, lameness, chronic feed intake fluctuations, and poor body condition, especially in early lactation. To assure adequate particle length, forage should not be chopped to less than 3/8 inch theoretical length of cut (TLC). Chopping finer than this may dramatically decrease fat percent and increase milk protein percent by 0.2 to 0.3 units. As with overfeeding non-fiber carbohydrates (starchy concentrates), even though milk protein content increases, the cow and her rumen are not healthy. Feeding inadequate fiber is not recommended for increasing milk protein content. Seventy-five percent of the neutral detergent fiber in a diet should come from long or coarsely chopped forage to fully satisfy the cow's fiber requirement.
Rations too high in fiber (too low in energy) limit milk protein production because not enough energy is consumed. Generally, 40-50 percent forage dry matter in a ration is the minimum amount to avoid low milk fat test. When feeding 65 percent or more forage, it must be of high quality to avoid energy deficiencies that lower milk protein. For different corn silage and alfalfa haylage mixtures (dry basis), recommended minimum forage dry matter levels are as follows:
Meeting the dairy cow's requirement for both crude and escape protein is essential to maintaining normal milk protein test. For a 1,300-pound cow producing 4 percent butterfat, crude protein requirements range from 15 percent for 50 pounds of milk to 18 percent for cows producing 110 pounds of milk. For cows in early lactation (90 to 120 days in milk), the level of escape protein should range from 33 to 40 percent. Currently, a precise requirement has not been defined, but having at least 33 percent escape protein (as a percent of crude protein) appears necessary to maintain normal milk protein levels.
Generally, dietary crude protein level affects milk yield but not milk protein percent, unless the diet is deficient in crude protein. For example, a producer may feed his herd a 14.5 percent crude protein ration when the requirement is 16.5 percent. This herd will probably have a low milk protein test. This situation often occurs when poor quality forage is fed and the producer has not tested the forage to properly formulate a grain mix. Also, feeding excessive degradable crude protein, such as urea, can reduce milk protein. Generally, limit urea feeding to cows past 120 days in milk. Urea should make up only 1 to 2 percent of the concentrate mix to maintain palatability, and it works best when mixed well into the diet as with a total mixed ration.
Supplemental fat feeding has become increasingly common for today's dairy herds as production levels per cow climb toward 20,000 pounds yearly and higher. It is necessary to follow certain guidelines when feeding fat to avoid a drop in milk protein level of 0.1 to 0.2 unit. If fed properly, added fat usually results in maintained or slightly increased milk fat percent, relatively little change in milk protein test and increased milk production. The net result is that total production of milk protein and solids-not-fat increase.
Generally recommended guidelines for fat feeding are:
Niacin, fed at 6 to 12 grams per day, may correct the milk protein depression seen with high levels of fat feeding. Be certain to limit fat feeding to the first 120 days in milk, balance the ration for non-fiber carbohydrates and crude protein, follow recommended limits for fat sources, feed proper forage levels, and increase calcium concentrations to 0.95 percent of ration dry matter and magnesium concentrations to 0.35 percent of ration dry matter. Higher levels of these two minerals counteract their loss as calcium and magnesium soaps when higher levels of fats are fed.
Feeding practices proven to maximize solids-corrected milk production include:
Table 1 summarizes the feeding practices that influence milk solids. Correctly feeding dairy cows, despite the complexity, is the only way to produce milk with maximum levels of milk fat and protein.
Table 1Summary of feeding management changes that alter milk solids production
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5 Stars Who Have the Luck of The Irish This St. Patrick's Day
You may be prepping your green beauty look or loading up on the alcohol in time for this Sunday's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, but for most celebrities, St. Patrick's Day is every day. Because every day they have the luck of the Irish. Every day they're rich, famous, and gorgeous, and it's not fair.
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Here's a list of the 5 celebrities we think are the luckiest thus far in 2013 (there were literally millions of stars to choose from but we narrowed it down to 5, which was difficult), and why they have the luck of the Irish even though they aren't Irish. Well, except for one person in here who is literally from Ireland, but we swear that was a coincidence…
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A student come up to me before class the week before their business plans were due this past semester looking very dejected.
"My concept just can't work," she said. The more she tried to pivot the business model, the more she uncovered evidence that convinced her that she had reached a dead end.
This is what is known as a teachable moment.
Aspiring entrepreneurs go through an arduous process between the initial spark of an idea to the eventual launch of a business.
They start by sifting through the various ideas they have to find the one that has the most promise. Many ideas may appear promising at a first glance, but careful assessment helps to sort out those that have little promise. Eventually, the entrepreneur selects a product or service they hope will be accepted by the market.
The next step is for the entrepreneur to take the idea and begin to build a business model.
The primary goal of business modeling is not to try and rationalize starting a business based on your idea. Instead, the objective is to discover all of the challenges, flaws, and gaps that need to be addressed if you have any hope of moving from a good idea to a successful business. Business modeling is a process of finding problems and fixing them by altering and expanding the operating framework needed to launch the business and, when necessary, pivoting the concept based on what is learned about your customers and what they really want.
When developing a business model, you may reach a point where you realize that no matter what you do, it just won't work. This realization can happen very late in the process even at the point when you are developing a written business plan based on the business model. If that happens, no matter how much time and effort you have put into the project, you need to be decisive and abandon it.
But this is much easier said than done. You have spent countless hours talking about the business with friends and family. You have shared your idea with advisors and mentors. You may have even pitched the idea in business plan competitions and to investor groups. It feels like your reputation is riding on getting the business launched. There is a sense of inevitability that launching the business is what you are going to do.
But do not ignore the evidence. Have the fortitude to walk away. The fact that you have spent countless hours getting your idea to this point is not a reason to keep moving ahead.
So back to that teachable moment....
As class started that morning I asked the student to share her story with her classmates. I then looked her in the eyes and emphatically said, "You did a great job! You stayed true to the process and had the courage to acknowledge that your concept just won't work. Congratulations!"
The end of this story is that while her initial idea did not work out, the process helped her discover several new ideas and gave her the opportunity to make several new connections with people to add to her network. She learned the lesson that while her idea may have failed, she was successful.


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Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer, Ivan Nova rebounded from a rough outing and the New York Yankees beat Boston 3-2 Sunday night with the aid of another disputed replay ruling that led to the ejection of Red Sox manager John Farrell.
Beltran had three hits and was pressed into his first career appearance at first base for the banged-up Yankees. Ichiro Suzuki robbed David Ortiz of extra bases with a spectacular catch in the eighth inning to help New York take three of four in the first series of the season between the longtime rivals.
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"A war between two of the major conglomerates will always have casualties, and unfortunately for us, this time we are the casualties. We aren't yet at a state where it is impossible to use Google services on Microsoft platforms, but we are moving towards a stricter ecosystem world where we might see Googlers/Gmail users on one side and Bingers/Outlook users on the other. We can only hope for the sake of technologies future and for the sake of innovation that the two companies can learn to work together in an ever expanding world of data." We can hope so, but we're talking large companies, and large companies do not care about users. Never have, never will.


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Dexter: The First Season (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes a good look at his favourite serial killer's first TV adventures in HD
When I threw all my deepest thoughts into my review of Dexter season two (yes, those were my deepest thoughts) on DVD, I did it because I never imagined I'd be forced to look back at season one so soon after. I talked a lot about the superior first season in that review, and haven't developed very many new ideas on the subject, so this brief series review will repeat many of my old thoughts.
Dexter embraces all the right tropes, rejects all the wrong tropes, and (especially important) it doesn't seem to think it's one of the best shows on TV. A serial killer that only kills other serial killers isn't an original idea, and neither is the concept of a likeable vigilante, and I'm pretty sure we already have enough cop shows on the dial. In fact, most of the first season's plot line, which is based (apparently) pretty strictly on Jeff Lindsay's novel ('Darkly Dreaming Dexter'), falls under the 'not so innovative' category (the obvious Batman angle comes up in season two).
But the show doesn't spend all its time dealing with the dark and disturbing elements, the producers find a good mix, and often the proceedings are best when they're at their lightest. When he's pretending to be a good person Michael C. Hall's Dexter is one of the most charming characters in recent memory, and some of the series' best moments come out of those not so rare glimpses of genuine love in Dexter's face. Of course, the show isn't above manipulatively shoving Dexter's evil deeds in the audience's face a scene later, nor is it above relatively mawkish soap opera antics.
Besides great writing and acting, Dexter happens to be a good looking show, and does the impossible by shooting Miami in a stylistic way without mimicking the vastly inferior, but definitively shiny CSI: Miami. The outdoors are shot brightly and colourfully without pressing the saturation too far, while indoors are shot with a noir-ish control of light. Occasionally the coloured lighting even go entirely abstract, like the splash of red that overtakes Dexter's face when facts dawn upon him.
Both original DVD releases were a disappointment in the video department. There's only so much you can do with standard definition, but there's also no real excuse for such a grainy, noisy and blocky presentation (especially for anyone that's seen any HBO DVD releases). This Blu-ray release isn't perfect, but it makes up for several of the previous releases' shortcomings, and if you have a Blu-ray player (and a few extra bucks) it's actually worth a repurchase. The colours are consistently clean, clear of blocking, and are ultimately much brighter than those of the DVDs. Details are noticeably inconsistent, mostly pertaining to handheld cameras vs. standing cameras, or wide shots vs. close-ups, but there are plenty of itty bitty elements it was easy to miss the first time. Edge-enhancement is also a small problem, but not a continuous one.
Despite a few minor hisses the DVD releases did not disappoint in the realms of surround audio, so there wasn't too much room for improvement on this Blu-ray re-release. The new Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track is a step up in overall volume, depth, and all other things that come with a lack of compression. Dexter's sound mix is quite theatrical, often playing with the dynamics between silence and noise. There's plenty of fine details and hyper-realistic exclamation points to explore in the mix, but the basic blend of dialogue, music and effects isn't forgotten either. Despite a special focus on the emotions expressed between actors without words, Dexter himself narrates his own adventures in a strange past and present tense, and with his audience in mind. In TrueHD Dexter's voice booms over the rest of the track, but not in an overwhelming fashion, just loud enough to let us know it's an important element. And like I said last time, Dexter has some great original music. Rolfe Kent's opening theme, and Daniel Licht's score have never sounded more eerily menacing than, and the new track offers more warmth and spatial broadness than ever before.
I'm actually not usually particularly concerned with extra features by the time I'm done with a season of a television series, but Showtime's Dexter releases are kind of mean spirited in their lack of non-advertisement extras. This collection holds one real extra, a commentary track (which is the best kind of extra for a TV release anyway), and a BD-Live collection of ads for season three, along with other Showtime originals.
The single commentary track, which features the show's three executive producers, is pushed all the way back to the final episode, but the commentators are good enough to clue us in on all the steps it takes to get to a final season episode. There's a bit of blank space, and a bit of repetition in what the participants talk about, but it's an informative track, especially for those of us that haven't read 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter'.
It's the mix of all these components, familiar and unfamiliar, welcoming and unwelcoming, that makes Dexter so damn good. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll curl up in fear, you'll well up with anger. If you haven't gotten around to the show yet you're in for a treat with this hi-def release, which is as close to perfect as I've seen the show look and sound. Now then, let's have season two on Blu-ray.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Billy Gates Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 651
Great review Gabe! This is one of my favorite shows on TV, and the first season was wayyyy better than the second or third, so I think I'll definitely be picking this one up.
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I guess getting this is only way I'll ever get to see Lauren Velez again, since I only have basic cable. I loved her in NY Undercover and Oz....
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Great show - can't wait to watch season 3....
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I want to pick this up. Might try to rent a disc first to see if the video is up to my standard, but according to the review it is. I was appalled at how bad both seasons looked on DVD. I have never seen so many compression artifacts on a studio-pressed disc in my life. Glad to hear the Blu-ray doesn't share such an inexcusable flaw.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 6th January 2009
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Surround Spanish
Subtitles: English HoH, French, and Spanish
Extras: Producer Commentary, Weblink Extras
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Keith Carradine, Jaimie Murray
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama and Thriller
Length: 576 minutes
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The Develop 100 has been published today - and is available to read online for free.
Published in association with Deep Silver and compiled using data from GfK Chart-Track, the book is the only guide of its type - it ranks the most successful studios in the world based on the sales of their games in the UK.
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|Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy
|Geological description:
|Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
|The name 'tartaro' is probably derived from the resemblance of some calcareous precipitates to the encrustrations of potassium bitartrate ('tartar') deposited in wine casks during fermentation. It has also been suggested that Corsi's samples are named after Lago di Tartaro, a location close to Tivoli. Other examples of this stone are uncommon; they include samples in the Pescetto collection (1870) in Rome, and a tablet in an inlayed table-top brought back from Rome in 1830 and now in the National Trust's Farnborough Hall in Oxfordshire. Corsi's specimens from Terni appear indistinguishable from the Tivoli specimens; are they indeed from a different locality?
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|Corsi's classification:
|Class 1. Marbles; Section 4. Concretionary marbles; Species 2. Tartari
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NEW BEDFORD — On Sept. 26, 1942, in the midst of World War II, Louise and Jim Harwood tied the knot in a modest ceremony at a Midwestern church.
The two had grown up together in their native New Bedford but were separated when Jim's U.S. Navy assignment took him to Chicago.
But when Jim proposed — via a posted letter — Louise didn't hesitate.
"As soon as I read it, I knew my answer," recalled Louise, now 92. "A girl doesn't pass something like that up."
Making the trip to the Midwest accompanied by her mother and future mother-in-law, Louise, who was 22 at the time, had no reservations about following her heart.
"I borrowed a dress and we had a quiet little wedding in a church followed up with a turkey dinner at a friend's house," she said.
On a whim before the ceremony, she'd also visited the local Five and Dime in search of some decorations for Jim's and her big day.
"I felt like we needed something to dress it up a little and I came across this paper bell. It couldn't have cost me more than 10 cents," she said.
"It wasn't about making things glamorous. I just wanted a little something to make the day special."
Like the Harwoods' seven decades of marriage, the accordian-style paper bell has not only endured, but has taken on a richer meaning. It graced their milestone 70th anniversary in September and the bell has also "attended" the weddings and anniversaries. of more than two dozen family members and friends.
"She's taken such great care of (the bell) over the years," said Jim, now 91, acknowledging that his wife has always been the more organized one.
"Back then, I wasn't thinking much about decorations. I was thinking about having to go back and serve."
And serve he did. In fact, Jim even missed the birth of the first of his three children while serving his country. While the Navy had given him leave, the baby was a late arrival and he had to return to duty before she came along.
In addition to their three children, the Harwoods, who still live in New Bedford, have been blessed with eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Jim pursued a career as a sheet metal worker after his military service was completed, while Louise worked at the Star Store until its closing.
"I was only 65 when they closed and not ready to retire, so I started to work for the schools," she said, noting she officially retired as a teacher's aide in the New Bedford Public Schools at age 85.
"I couldn't stand sitting around, so I decided to start volunteering with the schools and still do."
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Brad Halverson has been appointed chief financial officer and group president of corporate services for Caterpillar Inc. He will assume his new role on January 1, 2013. He currently serves as a vice president with responsibility for the finance services division. After auditing and tax experience with Price Waterhouse, he joined the Caterpillar in 1988 as an accountant. In 1993, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, as a strategy and planning consultant with Caterpillar Overseas S.A. He went on to become controller in Europe, responsible for Caterpillar's financial reporting in EAME and returned to the United States in 1996 to manage general accounting and financial systems. From 1998 until 2002, Halverson provided financial leadership as a business resources manager in Caterpillar's Engine Division and was named director of corporate business development before becoming corporate controller in December 2004. Halverson has a Bachelor's degree and an MBA from the University of Illinois.
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Predicting space weather improved by new DREAM modeling tool
Earth's radiation belts can now be studied with a new modeling tool called Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM).
Researchers in LANL's Space Science and Applications (ISR-1) group are developing DREAM and described its current capabilities and applications in an article published in Space Weather, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Space environment and its hazards
The space environment poses a number of radiation hazards to space systems and their occupants. Relativistic electrons, the dominant source of the radiation dose to spacecraft traveling in the outer radiation belts (3-7 Earth radii), have an electron flux that varies by more than three orders of magnitude on time scales ranging from minutes to years.
This complex variation occurs in response to solar, interplanetary and geomagnetic conditions. Accurately modeling this population is complicated, which is where DREAM comes into play.
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DREAM is a modeling tool that improves the understanding of the physical processes that control Earth's radiation belt structure and dynamics. DREAM uses a modular software approach that is extremely flexible and adaptable to new developments, new data sources, and new physical understanding.
It starts with a very simple physical model to which researchers can add more complex physical processes when their effects can be tested against observations and their uncertainties can be calculated. The tool incorporates observational measurements in the model to simulate the global, time-dependent space environment out to beyond geosynchronous orbit.
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The most common application envisioned is to use DREAM to determine the radiation environment at a particular satellite that does not have its own environmental measurements and therefore might be vulnerable to unforeseen events.
In addition to its basic research applications, a DREAM implementation in development will run on workstation-level platforms using real-time space weather observations and an interactive user interface to support satellite operators and space weather forecasters. For national security applications, DREAM could include a module to calculate the injection and trapping of artificial radiation belts from a high-altitude nuclear explosion.


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DETOUR — The De Tour Friends of the Library has announced the July author presentations, scheduled for July 11 and July 25.
DETOUR — The De Tour Friends of the Library has announced the July author presentations, scheduled for July 11 and July 25.
LSSU professor Julie Brooks Barbour will read from her chapbook Come to Me and Drink at DeTour Public Library on July 11, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. A discussion and book signing will follow. Barbour received an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC-Greensboro. Her chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012, and her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Literary Mama, Verse Daily, and The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works. She teaches in the English Department at Lake Superior State University where she is co-editor of the journal Border Crossing.
Romance author Donna Winters, a Garden Peninsula writer, will give her presentation on Thursday, July 25, at 6:30 p.m. Winters, the author of seventeen novels in her Great Lakes Romances® Series, will explain how she got started in the writing and publishing business, and will reveal some of the intriguing stories behind the real ones in her series. She will save plenty of time for questions and for autographing her books for interested readers.
Winters' series offers wholesome fiction for readers twelve and up, and features Michigan settings on both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Locations depicted in the series include Mackinac Island, South Manitou Island, North Manitou Island, Traverse City, L'Anse Bay on the Keweenaw Bay, Calumet, Fayette on the Garden Peninsula, and many more. To learn more about Winters and her series, visit http://greatlakesromances.com.
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Appeal of: "Needs to Improve" CRA Rating - (First Quarter 2000)
A community bank appealed its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rating of "needs to improve" assigned by the supervisory office. The PE (PE) stated that the bank's lending performance was in need of improvement, and that the loan-to-deposit (LTD) ratio was les than reasonable, given the bank's size, financial condition, capacity to lend, and assessment area credit needs. It also stated that the public was not aware of the loan products offered by the bank, bank management had a reputation for conservative lending practices, and the community perception was that submitting a loan application would be futile.
The appeal focused on the LTD ratio component of the CRA evaluation process. The bank believed the LTD ratio was reasonable given the demographics, economic factors, and limited lending opportunities in the area.
The CRA regulation performance standards' criteria for evaluating a small bank's record of helping to meet the credit needs of its community include an evaluation of the bank's LTD ratio adjusted for seasonal variations and, as appropriate, other lending-related activities, such as loan originations for sale to the secondary markets, community development loans, or qualified investments, the reasonableness of the ratio is assessed considering the performance context in which the bank operates including its size, financial condition, and assessment area credit needs. This ratio is one indicator of a bank's ability and willingness to help meet the assessment area's credit needs.
The OCC recognizes that every bank is unique in its own right and evaluates each bank's CRA performance based on the context in which it operates. In reviewing the bank's performance in their assessment area, the ombudsman considered the following factors:
The performance context under which this bank operates is unique. It includes:
Therefore, considering the above factors the ombudsman opined that the bank's loan-to-deposit ratio was reasonable. In determining the appropriate overall CRA rating, the ombudsman also considered the following:
Based on the bank's performance context and the small bank performance criteria, the bank's performance under the Community Reinvestment Act was found to be more reflective of a "satisfactory" rating. In accordance with the regulation, the bank is helping to meet the credit needs of the communities in which it operates. A revised PE reflecting this change was forwarded to the bank from the supervisory office.
Appeal of "Satisfactory" CRA Rating-Lending and Service Tests -(First Quarter 2000)
A large interstate bank filed a formal appeal concerning its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) composite rating of "satisfactory record of meeting community credit needs"
(Satisfactory). Specifically, the bank appealed its lending test and service test ratings in one multi-state MSA and one state rating. The bank requested:
The bank offered four rationales to support its appeal for upgraded ratings. First, it felt that the selection of areas for a full-scope evaluation unfairly skewed the results of the examination, due to the recent merger and the additional assessment areas created. It also felt that more assessment areas within the one state should have received a full-scope review to provide a more balanced picture of the bank's performance in the state. Second, the bank stated that it had an even higher level of performance in the lending and service areas of community development than it had in the prior period when it was rated outstanding. Third, the bank felt its performance compared favorably to another large bank that had been rated outstanding during the same time period. Lastly, the bank provided additional investments made during the period that were inadvertently not provided to the examiners during the exam.
The bank's composite rating and ratings for the one state and multi-state MSA, in question, were based on the examiner's assignment of the following individual test ratings:
Lending Test
In evaluating a bank's lending performance, the OCC considers a bank's:
Performance Tests and Composite Ratings
Number and amount of home mortgage, small business, small farm and consumer loans, if applicable, in the bank's assessment area(s);
The ombudsman's analysis of bank and examination prepared work papers and the CRA Performance Evaluation (PE) identified that the bank:
1) Did not provide its consumer loans for review as part of the lending test evaluation.
2) Home mortgage and small business lending levels, in terms of number or dollars had increased since the prior evaluation. However, when the lending volume was compared to demographic data, including the percent of owner-occupied housing units by geography, percent of low- and moderate-income families within the bank's assessment areas, and the number and location of small businesses, the bank's performance was determined to be similar to the prior period.
3) Home mortgage and small business lending performance was mixed throughout the state. In one significant assessment area, the bank demonstrated excellent lending performance. However, performance in the remaining state assessment areas, which represent more of the bank's deposits than the above-mentioned assessment area, was generally adequate to poor.
4) Community development lending within the state was adequate. However, half of the dollar volume of these loans was concentrated within one assessment area.
5) Several flexible home mortgage-lending products had been developed specifically for low- and moderate-income borrowers.
6) Overall home mortgage, small business, and community development lending in the multi-state MSA was considered excellent.
Additionally, the ombudsman concluded that the descriptions of lending performance in the CRA PE were not consistent when describing similar performance among the various rating areas. Consequently, the PE provided a confusing picture of the bank's actual performance.
Investment Test
In evaluating a bank's investment performance, the OCC considers the:
The ombudsman's analysis of bank and examination prepared work papers and the CRA PE identified that:
1) Several of the investments the bank provided with its appeal were "qualified investments" and were added to the investment totals.
2) The examiners evaluated the bank's performance using the funded value of the bank's qualified investments rather than the book value. Using the book value increased the total investment dollars in the state and multi-state MSA.
3) The increase in both dollar and number of qualified investments had a positive impact on the investment test rating in the state and bank overall.
4) The qualified investments were responsive to community credit and development needs, but generally did not evidence innovation or complexity and were routinely provided by other private investors.
Service Test
In evaluating a bank's service performance, the OCC considers the:
The ombudsman's analysis of bank and examination prepared work papers and the CRA PE identified that:
Examination Scope
The ombudsman agreed with the bank that the merged institution's data should not have been included in the evaluation of the bank's performance. Additionally, the examiners should have performed a full-scope review of more state assessment areas to better ascertain the bank's performance. However, the ombudsman concluded that altering the examination scope would not change the bank's state or composite rating.
Comparison of Performance with Other Institutions
The bank provided comparisons of its lending and investment data with that of another large bank. Comparing one bank's raw data to another bank's, without an appropriate context is difficult and does not necessarily result in being able to conclude that performance is similar or dissimilar. In the ombudsman's review, this bank's lending data was compared to nine other large banks examined during the same time period. The conclusion was that this bank's lending data was not inconsistent with other large banks that received a high satisfactory under the lending test.
Based on the above findings and others contained within the PE, the ombudsman concluded that some of the individual test ratings for the multi-state MSA, the state, and the bank overall should be upgraded.
Additionally, it was concluded that the merged institution's data should remain in the PE. The decision to leave the data in the evaluation was based on the bank having an assessment area in the applicable state prior to the merger. Accordingly, performance in the state would have to be rated and the inclusion of the merged institution's data did not negatively impact the bank's composite CRA rating.
Changing the examination scope in the state, in question, may have helped develop a better context in which to assess the bank's performance and provided more support for the rating assigned. However, analysis of this additional data would not change the state and composite ratings.
The revised ratings are reflected in the following table.
Performance Tests and Composite Ratings*
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Style to Spare: 10 Inspired Dwellings
Browsing through imagery after imagery of millions of different spaces, I have quickly acquired what I instinctually love and don't love about home, office, kitchen, bedroom or any dwelling for that matter. I've realized I don't necessarily have one preference over another but I do love warm rich textured spaces.
It can be as simple as an office with a messy collage of images, notes and artwork plastered above the desk. I love a loft space that is lived in filled with books, furniture and a great view. Perhaps our favorite hide out is in mobile trailer or a make shift tent. Enclosed are ten spaces that I immediately thought "I want to go there".
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I have tonnes of pictures of Mykonos at night time. Would love to share some of them here... Most shops in Mykonos close at 11PM, but party until early next morning. But closing time for restaurants and cafes was midnight... To those who love shopping, shopping at night in Mykonos is better than Paris, Milan & St. Moritz!
The church of Panagia at night...
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Greek Cheese!
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EUGENE — For a young team to build confidence, it can't be thrown to the wolves week in and week out.
So instead of having her team run against the best teams in the West at last Saturday's Northwest Classic, Hood River Valley girls cross-country coach Kristen Uhler chose to enter her team in the junior varsity race instead.
And the plan worked, as the Eagles ran to a seventh-place finish out of 18 teams.
Led by sophomore Janne Lucas (30th overall) and freshman Melissa Kauffman (31st overall), HRV finished with a score of 220.
Sophomore Jennifer Jeffries was third on the team in 44th overall, while sophomore Jolie Hobbs was 51st, and senior Caitlin Becker was 64th.
"Our plan was to run up front and compete in the JV race," Uhler said. "And despite the heat, most of the girls ran PR's."
Uhler said she wants her team to experience what it's like to run toward the front of the pack, and in order for a young team to be competitive, sometimes it has to run against younger competition.
"This was a real learning experience," she said. "We have been running JV times of late, and I think it's for the best right now to run JV races."
The Northwest Classic, held at Lane Community College, attracts the top teams in the Northwest, and provides an excellent midseason barometer for a team's progress.
And after last Saturday's race, the HRV boys discovered that they have a little ways to go before they can be considered one of the best in the Northwest.
The Eagle boys placed 19th out of 22 teams in the varsity race, with junior Alex Jimenez clocking in first at 49th overall (official times not available).
"Half of the team ran well in the heat, but the other half struggled," boys coach Rich Hedges said. "The 95-degree temperatures definitely made it tough on everybody, and as a result, we took a small step backward."
But, while the results weren't as astounding as the Sept. 20 race at Seaside, Hedges said he was pleased with the progress of some of his runners.
"Chris Jennings and Kevin Dye outran two varsity runners, and they will jump up to varsity for our next race (today at Grant High School)," he said. "We need to run faster and pack better, but we have still trained very well the past two weeks."
Hedges said that Jimenez had an "off day," finishing behind 10 runners from Intermountain Conference rivals Mountain View and Hermiston.
Senior Fernando Ochoa finished second on the team, followed by senior Graham Hay, junior Jess Jennings and sophomore Carlos Quintana.
Senior Brian Crosswhite and junior Mat Foster each had rough outings, and will have to earn their way back onto varsity at today's P.I.L. Crossover meet.
The JV boys finished 14th out of 23 teams, and were led by Chris Jennings, Dye, K.C. Christiansen, Gary Paasch, Ian Myer, Victor Martinez and Louis DeSitter.
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'Grey's Anatomy': It's not a finale without a body count
"Grey's Anatomy" has a history of strong finales. With the exception of Cristina's wedding -- which I'll excuse because that was the year of the writers' strike -- each season-ender has been poignant enough to move me to tears. This year, I was too stunned to cry.
The finale, "Sanctuary / Death and All His Friends," turns the hospital from a sanctuary into a battle field. Mr. Clark returns, still upset by his wife's death at the hand of Webber, Lexie and McDreamy despite the board's ruling that the doctors made the right decisions.
This time, he wants revenge of the "eye for an eye" variety, and he's got the jacket full of ammunition to prove it.
It's been 11 years since the Columbine High School massacre, and only three since the Virginia Tech massacre. Despite the fact that "Grey's Anatomy" takes place in a hospital, not a school, the episode couldn't help but recall those memories. Like a school, a hospital is a safe place. It's somewhere people go to be taken care of and nurtured. To be honest, this episode was hard for me to watch.
Death is a common occurrence on "Grey's Anatomy;" someone dies in nearly every episode. However, it's never been a violent, intentional death at the hand of another human being. I don't know what the body count was from Mr. Clark's shooting spree, but I expect we'll find out next season. What I do know is that Seattle Grace will never be the same.
The good
Even in the midst of hospital chaos, the Seattle Grace doctors never lose their signature "Grey's" style of speaking. Arizona's line, "Do not alarm the makers of the tiny humans," was spot on. Later, when things got more dire, Cristina still sounded like Cristina. "I can't do this if you're in there staring at me with big, sad, don't kill McDreamy eyes." The best thing about "Grey's" is that the characters remain consistent. They may be consistently childish or consistently boring ... but they're consistent.
As always, Chandra Wilson blew this episode out of the water. The range of emotion Bailey experienced in tonight's episode was epic, for lack of a better word. The work that Wilson puts into her role really comes across on screen. You get the impression that the emotions are genuine, when in actuality, an enormous level of thought and commitment must go into each scene.
I was thrilled to see Callie and Arizona reconcile. I've made no secret of the fact that I think Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw are the strongest actresses on the show, and their interactions make for some of the most emotional scenes, and some of the most funny. My only concern is that a reconciliation in such a time of crisis can't last.
Dr. Webber really shined tonight. At the beginning of the season, I was so disappointed in him. We'd invested so much in his character just to see him let the hospital down. Tonight, he proved himself a Chief again, and I hope that while Derek is recovering, he cedes the throne to Webber. When he told the officer, "I'm the Chief -- I'm the former -- look, this is my hospital," I truly believed him.
I've been a fan of Mandy Moore's for years, but I don't think her performance added much to the episode. As this week's big name guest star, all eyes were on her. So why was her dialogue so unnatural and so exposition-heavy? Though the writers remembered to keep the regular characters witty, Moore's character fell flat. I hope she returns for an episode or two next season to redeem herself. After enduring a trauma like this, it would seem odd for her not to forge a relationship with Bailey.
I'm probably going to get reamed for saying this, but I think that the episode would have had more emotional weight if one of the regular doctors had died. Reed and Charles were the only people killed that we recognized, and not only were they the new alien Mercy Westers, but they were also our least favorite Mercy Westers. It almost feels like they were introduced just to be killed.
After Columbine, rumors spread that the shooters asked victims whether they believed in God, and shot them if they said yes. Those rumors were later disproved, but when Mr. Clark asked the hospital staff whether they were surgeons and then shot them if they said yes, it hit a little bit too close to the mark. Since when is "Grey's Anatomy" the show that's "ripped from the headlines"? There are ways to establish fictional tragedy without borrowing so heavily from real tragedy.
This season has been jam-packed with big changes. It seems like a lifetime ago that we were wondering (well, sort of) whether Izzie and George would live or die. Certainly, such a tragic and traumatic event will make even bigger waves. I have a feeling that the Seattle Grace we return to next season will be a very unfamiliar, very scary place.
What are your thoughts on the episode? Were you as shocked as we were by the death toll? Who will you miss the most? Chime in with your expectations for next season in the comments below.
--Carina MacKenzie
Photo: (top) Ellen Pompeo, left, as Meredith and Sarah Drew as April.
Credit: ABC
Photo: (bottom) Mandy Moore as Mary.
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Whether it's a beanstalk, a tree, a rope, a ladder…children just love to climb things! Up we go and then oops, down we go again. This playful, happy, jolly childlike theme keeps on rising up and up until….weeee back to the start again and try once more. It features a fun, silly melody that keeps going through different keys. It plays out on the vibraphone, glockenspiel and old cheesy organ with acoustic bass, piano and drums providing the background. I really enjoyed writing this, it sounds a bit like a fairground ride on the waltzers or a carousel. Like an old music hall theatre organ treat. I hope it makes somebody smile. It is cheerful and the stepwise, playful nature gives it a sense of perpetual, joyful motion that should put a sunny shine on a kid's face.
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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is fading fast after its massive debut, while significantly more people are seeing "The Blind Side."
Tickets sales in the U.S. and Canada for Summit Entertainment's $50-million teen vampire drama plummeted 70% over the three-day weekend compared with a week ago, to a studio-estimated $42.5 million, demonstrating that interest among avid fans was heavily front-loaded and its box-office life is sure to be very short. Receipts for the first "Twilight" picture dropped 62.2% on the same weekend last year. The larger decline this year indicates that although interest in the sequel has grown significantly from the original, a not insignificant percentage of the opening weekend growth for the sequel came from people who saw "Twilight" later in its run last year but came out sooner for "New Moon."
The five-day domestic gross over the full holiday weekend for "New Moon" was $66 million, and its total is now $230.7 million. At the same point last year, total box office for "Twilight" was $119.7 million.
While "New Moon" had the largest second-weekend drop of any movie this year, "The Blind Side" went the opposite way. Its ticket sales rose 18%, the fourth-largest such increase ever for a movie playing at more than 3,000 theaters. Driven by extraordinary word of mouth after audiences gave the inspirational football drama starring Sandra Bullock an average grade of A-plus last weekend, "Blind Side" took in $40.1 million over the three-day weekend and $64.2 million for five days, putting it surprisingly close to "New Moon." The total gross for the movie, which was financed by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros., is $100.3 million.
None of the weekend's three new movies in wide release proved particularly strong. The comedy "Old Dogs" was another disappointment in a tough year for Walt Disney Studios at the box office, collecting just $16.8 million for the weekend and $24.1 million over five days. The very similar "Wild Hogs," which also starred John Travolta and was directed by Walt Becker, opened to $39.7 million in March 2007 without the benefit of most people being out of work and school on its first Friday.
The martial arts flick "Ninja Assassin," financed by Dark Castle Entertainment and Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros., took in $13.1 million for the weekend and $21 million over five days, a decent start given its cost of just under $50 million. It's expected to do very well overseas, particularly in Asia given the popularity of its star, South Korea's Rain.
The stop-motion animated movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox," from 20th Century Fox, grossed a very weak $7 million for the weekend and $9.5 million since Wednesday. Including its solid results at four theaters the previous two weekends, the quirky adaptation of the Roald Dahl book directed by Wes Anderson has grossed $10.1 million. It cost about $35 million to produce.
Meanwhile, Disney's hopes that "A Christmas Carol," which cost nearly $200 million to make, would play strong through the holidays after its weak start continued to come true. Ticket sales for the digital 3-D picture rose 30% over the weekend, even higher than the 24% rise for "The Polar Express" in 2004, another 3-D holiday movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, whose performance the studio has been hoping to follow.
In limited release, Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" opened to a massive $712,000 in just two theaters, a mix of high demand and inflated ticket prices for an experience that included several hours of activities beyond watching the new hand-drawn animated flick. Over five days it took in $1.1 million.
Weinstein Co. opened "The Road," financed by 2929 Entertainment for $25 million, to a so-so $1.5 million from 111 theaters. The five-day total is $2 million.


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TRENTON – New Jersey school aid figures unveiled late Thursday showed that Gov. Chris Christie's administration plans to take money away from urban and low-income school districts and provide additional funds to suburban stretches of the state.
Camden City, for example, is set to lose $5.5 million compared to last year's aid under formulas that are proposed to be adjusted by the state Department of Education. Asbury Park would receive $2.4 million less than last year.
Meanwhile, the Freehold Regional in Monmouth County would be the big winner in the state, with $3.4 million more. Cherry Hill is slated to get another $1.4 million over last year.
Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf said the changes were necessary to better equalize educational funding and help foster better schools in low-income areas.
"These recommendations, along with the new policy aspects, will serve disadvantaged children in the state better than they've ever been served before," Cerf said. "We are all living in a universe where we've been led to believe that you equate effectiveness with dollars. I don't think the evidence supports that at all."
School aid and property taxes have been the most contentious issues in the state for nearly two decades. Under a series of state Supreme Court decisions, regularly criticized by Christie, 31 low-income school districts have received the majority of state funds for years.
Under a new school funding formula adopted in 2008 under Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, districts received more money if they had low-income or disabled students, or students with limited English speaking abilities, for example
Districts which had experienced enrollment drops – often in cities — also received extra funding to keep them from suffering sharp state aid cuts.
Cerf, in a press teleconference yesterday, said the state was making a series of changes to the formulas and even coming up with a new way to count enrollment based on average attendance throughout the year instead of one a single day.


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If you're not already a fan of Einstein Bros. Bagel on Facebook, now is a great time. They're running some fantastic weekly promotions just for fans, like a coupon for a FREE Chocolate Almond Latte with any purchase this week!
We did something this morning that we don't do very often. Since my boys are on Spring Break, we decided to round up the kids and head to brunch at Einstein Bros. It's been a good while since I've eaten there, and I have to say it was absolutely delicious.
I had a Spinach Egg Panini (and my FREE Chocolate Almond Latte, of course!), and everyone else had bagels and schmear -- an everything bagel for my husband and chocolate chip bagels for the kids.
Although, as you can see, my littlest monkey preferred the cream cheese to the bagel, gasp! See more pics from our family outing here.
All in all we found Einstein Bros. to be a warm and friendly, family-oriented establishment. The help was nice as could be, and the cozy atmosphere made for a perfect brunch.
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In addition, Einstein Bros. has provided me with a $25 Gift Certificate to give away to one of my lucky readers. Entering to win is simple -- just head over and enter to win on Divine Caroline, and then come back and leave me a comment letting me know you did so!
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Vaughans Vocabulary Defining football...
My wife, our son and I were at the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for the game between the University of Mississippi and Vanderbilt University. While there I decided to devote a column to terms from the game of football.
See how well you do in this week's Vaughan's Vocabulary:
1. An imaginary line that extends from the forward tip of the ball to both sidelines is the
A. game line.
B. line of scrimmage.
C. first down.
D. ipse dixit (IP-see DIK-sit).
2. touchback (TOUCH-back)
A. an angle at which the ball is kicked
B. a signal given to the center by the quarterback
C. when the ball is put in play on the receiving team's 20 yard line
D. when an offensive player blocks a defensive player from behind
A touchback is called if the ball is kicked beyond the end zone or if the kick returner catches it in the end zone and touches the field with a knee.
3. Kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the goal posts:
A. A Hail Mary
B. kickoff
C. first down
D. field goal
4. Which one of the following can't take place on fourth down?
A. A field goal can be attempted.
B. The ball can be punted.
C. The offense can try for the first down.
D. A kickoff return
Let's see how you are progressing across the field, as it were, in this little fun quiz. No. 1 is B. No. 2 is C. No. 3 is D. No. 4 is D.
5. rushing (RUSH-ing)
A. yardage gained by running plays
B. a foul committed against a kicker or passer
C. hustling
D. moving on the field faster than the opponent
Aside from B, rushing is advancing the football by running plays.
6. A referee placing his left hand atop his head means ___________, but stretching his arms straight out horizontally means
A. watch out for the falling ball – time out.
B. ineligible receiver – unsportsmanlike conduct.
C. offside – first down.
D. delay of game – incomplete pass or missed extra point
When the referee has his body in the shape of the letter T, it is unsportsmanlike conduct; having his hand on his head means ineligible receiver.
Last week's mystery word clue was that I write this on the outlines of students who make assertions without backing them up. The first two letters are the same two letters of a title of an opera by Gluck. The word is ipse dixit.
This week's mystery word can describe a football. The second letter is the letter that begins each word in the name of this column.
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Hidden in the far corner of a relative�s attic sat a trunk � a relic long forgotten and covered with dust.
Hidden in the far corner of a relative�s attic sat a trunk � a relic long forgotten and covered with dust.
Inside were letters, pictures and an unfurled burial flag presented by the Army to the family of Ernest Bolt, a prisoner of war who died in captivity during World War II. When Tammy Rivers, his great-niece found the flag in the trunk, she knew it needed to be properly refolded. That�s where the Marine Corps stepped in.
As the sun rose Friday morning aboard New River Air Station, six of Bolt�s family members watched as a detail of Marines from Headquarters Squadron flew the flag above the base before lowering it, tightly folding it and presenting it to the family of six.
�It was so surreal,� said Rivers, 49, of Newport. �The Marines took so much care to get it right. It really is a statement that he matters to them even though he never met him. They were respectful and embraced that they don�t want any man or family left behind.�
The flag � now refolded � will be encased and displayed at her father�s house. For Christmas, all Rivers wanted was to give her father a freshly creased flag, she said. She couldn�t be more appreciative of the Marine Corps for making that happen, thanks to the Corps� decision to provide such services in some cases.
�I hope he is looking at us and saying thanks for the honor,� Rivers said. �I hope he is proud of us for taking the effort to make this happen. As it went up the flagpole and the bell was ringing, I could barely breathe. I think I held my breath the whole time it went up.�
Windell Bolt, the nephew of Ernest Bolt, came with his wife from Pulaski, Va. to see the flag folded.
�It was truly amazing watching them raise the flag again,� said Windell Bolt, 72. �It was like they brought him back here to be with us even if it was just for a few moments.�
Hopefully, he said, it will mean a lot to his uncle that the Marines took the time to honor him by refolding his flag.
�To me, the refolding of this flag is an awesome statement about our military,� Windell Bolt said. �They�re to be truly commended. This reinforces that the military is a big family regardless of what generation you served. They truly take care of their own and this has been an amazing experience.�
Raising and folding the flag made it a very special and unique day, said Staff Sgt. Kevin Caldwell.
�We still care,� Caldwell said. �As I was folding the flag, I was thinking about my family before me who fought during World War II and Vietnam. It also made me think of all the veterans who have served before me.�
The armed forces, Caldwell said, is a brotherhood and everyone should do whatever they can to remember those who have served. For the four junior Marines also in the detail, Caldwell hopes that this was an enlightening experience, he said.
�It�s an honor for me to refold a World War II flag,� Caldwell said. �It�s a moment where we get to remember the fallen. I just hope it means a lot to the family. (Ernest Bolt) did great things overseas and fought in a war but never came home. I hope this shows the family that we still honor those who sacrifice for our nation.�
If you need assistance with a burial flag, contact the Department of Veterans Affairs at 1-800-827-1000 or visit Cem.va.gov/burial_benefits/burial_flags.asp.
Contact Daily News Military Reporter Thomas Brennan at 910-219-8453 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ thomasjbrennan.


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Market Research Report
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Nanocrystals will account for 60% of a $136 billion nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery market by 2021. We forecast the total market size in 2021 to be US$136 billion, with a 60/40 split between nanocrystals and nanocarriers respectively.
Since we now understand that most (if not all) biological processes occur at the nanoscale, the application of life science principles - studying the causes of biological phenomena at the molecular level - means that medical and biomedical research is increasingly using a bottom-up (rather than the top-down) approach.
One of the biggest challenges researchers face when developing a new drug is how to maximise its solubility in the body. Poor solubility in water correlates with poor bioavailability, which in turn leads to poor delivery. Nanocrystals are ground in special mills producing nano-sized drugs, which are applicable intravenously as nanosuspensions. This procedure enhances the surface/volume-ratio and thus the solubility and bioavailability of most insoluble pharmaceuticals.
The low bioavailability resulting from traditional oral and intravenous drug delivery methods and the market forces at work in the pharmaceutical industry - where patents expire after a relatively short period of time unless a novel form of drug delivery is developed that will extend the patent - are two major forces that will fuel the growth of the nano tech enabled drug delivery market.
The healthcare market is changing. We are seeing a paradigm shift away from blockbusters and a 'one-size fits all' approach to a more personalised medicine based on an individual's unique genome and immune response. The more scientists learn about the molecular causes for disease the more targeted and effective nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery therapies will become.


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I was listening to a couple of talks that improve known bounds for various kinds of approximate clustering in high dimensions, and I got to thinking.
One of the revolutions in geometry over the last 10 years has been the development of nontrivial tools for dealing with approximations in high dimensions. This is of course necessitated by the curse of dimensionality, and the hardness of most high-D data analysis problems (most exact solutions are exponential in the dimension). So rather than computing the optimal solution to some problem on n points in d dimensions, we compute a (1+e)-approximation to the optimal solution.
One problem this creates is that every algorithm is now described by a complicated expression involving three parameters (n, d, e). Some algorithms are exponential in 1/e, but polynomial in d. Some are poly in 1/e, and exponential in d. The exponent could have a base of n, or 2, or even d, or 1/e.
In short, it's an unholy mess of strictly incomparable methods that tradeoff different parameters against each other.
This makes life for me, the "user" of approximation technology, rather difficult. What I'd really like to understand are the gadgets that transform one kind of bound to another (and there are many such gadgets: discretization, enumeration, random sampling, etc). But it's hard to gather these from the papers directly: these gadgets (the really useful tools) are buried deep inside lemmas, and inside people's heads.
What I'd like to see is some kind of "taxonomization" or classification of the different "tricks of the trade" in high-dimensional geometric approximation, with some sense of which techniques apply when, and why. In fact, I like this idea so much I might even try to run a seminar on it..


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|System: PS2, PSP
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: High Impact Games
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: SONY
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Nov. 3, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
The other disappointment in the game rears its head intermittently when Daxter gets separated from Jak and is bombarded with dark eco. When this happens, you're forced to trudge your way through tedious puzzle-like levels by hitting switches, pummeling baddies, and spinning around like the Tasmanian Devil to soak up dark eco and blast through walls. Clunky controls bog these sections down. Fortunately, other areas of gameplay are more prevalent throughout the adventure.
A little less than half the adventure actually takes place in the air. In contrast to the tacked-on feeling of the Dark Daxter moments, these new airborne elements are actually a great addition to the gameplay. You'll fly between islands to access new levels and missions, though there are many opportunities to engage in dogfights and other open-ended side missions in the skies. In some cases, you'll engage in massive skyward engagements against squadrons of enemy ships and larger flying targets. These air portions kick-in early on and frequently at different points in the game. There are four different ships you can access, and each can be decked out with various armaments and upgrades.
The Lost Frontier is a good looking game both on land and in the skies. It's simply too bad that the confining camera angles don't let you get a full view of the beautiful environments you'll be bounding through. This is less of an issue when you're in the air, but it does feel like a constraint at times when on foot. The game's excellent cutscenes do a fine job of setting up the story and helping move the plot along at key moments, and they're enjoyable to watch. However, we experienced a steady visual tic in the downloadable version that made it hard to fully focus on the great animations.
If you've been hankering for a full-scale Jak and Daxter game for some time, The Lost Frontier largely fulfills its duty as a continuation of the main series with flying colors. It's not a perfect sequel by any means, but it's strong enough to merit a purchase and some solid play time. Just be prepared to deal with some bumps along the way.
Nathan Meunier
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The Ada County Sheriff's Office is the largest local law enforcement agency in Idaho, with 655 employees. We are committed to giving every citizen the best possible service — to ensure Ada County is a safe place to live, work, and play.
The Ada County Jail was built in 1977 and held a maximum of 160 inmates. The jail can now house 1,217 inmates. Jail deputies also run alternative sentencing programs like work release, labor detail, and community service.
The Patrol Division employs over 100 deputies who provide police services to all unincorporated areas of Ada County and the cities of Kuna, Star and Eagle. Deputies protect 1164 square miles of land and patrol more than 2124 miles of roads in Ada County.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office runs the 911 Public Safety Communications Center for all 11 Treasure Valley law enforcement and fire agencies. We also provide the public with information about crime statistics and handle records requests.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office offers a Neighborhood Watch program, patrol ride-alongs, and opportunities for citizens to tour the Public Safety Building and Ada County Jail. The Sheriff's Youth Foundation provides funding to local non-profit groups geared toward helping at-risk youth.
The ACSO serves the public with several essential programs like civil court document service, issuance of concealed weapons permits and drivers licenses, code enforcement, pretrial services, and misdemeanor probation
As of
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