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Monitoring Protocol
Goal: Repeat observations of the same individual plants over a summer, and document any phenological changes or pollinator visitors. University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologists, Dr. Christa Mulder and Katie Spellman, want to see if invasive plants such as white sweetclover overlap in flowering time with native Vaccinium sp. plants in different parts of Alaska. With this phenological data we can create models to help us predict which area might be most vulnerable to changes in pollination of native berry plants. Melilotus officinalis is a tracked species of the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN), and we aligned our protocol to match the requirements of their protocols. Our project will contribute to the National Phenology Network data, which supports larger scale sweetclover phenology studies throughout the United States.
Project Contact: Katie Villano Spellman, email@example.com
Overview of citizen monitoring steps:
1. Select a site
2. Select plant species to investigate
3. Select individual focal plants
4. Mark your site and plants
5. Record your observations of plants
6. Report your data
1. Select a site
A site is the area which encompasses any plants you plan to observe.
Select sites that are
• convenient for you to get to
• relatively uniform habitat
• at least 12 m2 in area, but not larger than 200m2.
Remember, if the land is not publicly owned, be sure to secure permission from the landowner to observe plants on the property.
Try to avoid:
• Steep slopes
• Very windy sites
• Areas prone to snow drifts
• Watered or fertilized sites
size of your site will depend on how sparse the species you are observing are
on the landscape. If the plants are dense, a small site will work, if the
plants are sparse, a larger site will be necessary.
When you've selected your site, fill out the site description form so we can have the relevant data about your site. Scan and return this form immediately to Katie via email, or snail mail it to the address in step 6. You'll need to record the latitude, longitude, and elevation of your site. You can do this with a GPS unit, if you have access to one, or you can use Google Earth to locate the exact location of your site find these numbers.
DOWNLOAD Site Description Form here.
2. Select plant species to investigate
focal speices we are investigating are Melilotus
officinalis (sweetclover), Vaccinium vitis-
idaea (lowbush cranberry or
lingonberry), and Vaccinium uliginosum
(lowbush blueberry or bog blueberry). Locate one or more of these species in a
convenient location for you to monitor on at least a weekly basis.
DOWNLOAD an identification guide of our focal plants here.
If you are still unsure if you have the correct species, email us photos and we can make sure you have correctly identified your plants. Do this early on so you don't collect data on the wrong species!
If you do not have Vaccinium uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea or M. officinalis in your local area, you may choose another native or non-native species tracked by the USA-NPN that occurs in Alaska, or another species of interest. Tracked species include the non-native plants white clover (Trifolium repens), or dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). You may also choose to observe an invasive plant of interest in your area.
3. Select individual focal plants
Observing multiple individuals helps to give scientists an idea of the variation in phenology among individuals at your site. You will select and monitor FIVE individuals of the same species at your site. Do not select direct neighbors.
Choose 5 plants that are:
• healthy
• relatively undamaged
• At least 1 m away from other plants you are observing
• For clonal plants, choose individual stems from different clumps
Try to avoid:
• plants that are close to buildings
What if the plant I am observing dies?
• Select a new individual to monitor
• Note the death in the comments section of the datasheet
• Give the replacement plant a new, unique label (for example, plant #6)
4. Marking sites and focal plants
You will make your observations repeatedly at the same site or sites over time. You will want to somehow mark your site so that you can find it again in the future. For most sites, it is probably easiest to mark an easy entry point or nearby tree or shrub with colorful flagging, which is a colored non-adhesive tape often made of PVC or vinyl, scrap cloth, or something similar. You can also use natural or human-made landmarks, like the edge of a yard, large rocks, a bend in a trail, a road, or something similar to remember your site location.
Because plant monitoring requires that you observe the same individual plants repeatedly, you will also need to mark each plant so that you can find it on each visit. Mark each individual plant with a unique label. For example, you could mark pieces of flagging tape or metal plant tags with "Melilotus-1", "Melilotus-2", etc. and then tie them to each of the white sweetclover you are observing. Or, you could label brightly painted popsicle sticks or chopsticks and place them in the ground next to the plant so you can find them as the vegetation grows. Be sure to replace the labels if they get damaged by the weather or animals, so you can be sure to continue marking the correct data for the correct plant.
5. Recording Observations
At least once a week, you will record the phenophase of each focal plant by counting the number of buds, flowers and fruits. You will record these observations on a datasheet. You will record the data for each plant in the column on the data sheet with the same number or label as on the plant. There are different datasheets for sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis) and for the berries (Vaccinium uliginosum and V. vitis-idaea). Be sure you are using the correct data sheet.
DOWNLOAD monitoring datasheets here.
DOWNLOAD a photo guide for the phenophases of our three focal species here!
Leaf Unfurling/ Emergence
New growth of the plant is visible, either from above-ground buds with green
tips, or new green or white shoots breaking through the soil surface. Growth is
considered "initial" on each bud or shoot until the first leaf has
fully unfolded. Record "yes" or "no" if the plant has begun to unfurl leaves (Vaccinium spp.), or has begun to break
through the soil surface (Melilotus
officinalis). This phase will only need to be recorded in May or early June. You do not need to keep recording this phenophase when the leaves have fully emerged.
Flower Buds
Count the number of flower buds that have not yet opened on the plant. For Vaccinium uliginosum (blueberry) the flower buds droop like tiny pink earrings. For Vaccinium vitis- idaea (lowbush cranberry), the flower buds look a bit similar to leaf buds at first, as they are both pink in appearance and come straight from the end of the stem. Look for the pinker buds with hardly any green on them. For Melilotus sp. (sweetclover), rather than counting every tiny flower, count the number of inflorescences (flower spikes composed of many small individual flowers) that have unopened buds. There is a special box on the data sheet for sweetclover for inflorescences that are half buds and half flowers, or half flowers and half unripe fruits. Record these numbers separately.
Count the number of open, fresh flowers or flower spikes (inflorescences) that
are visible on the plant.Do not include wilted or dried flowers
that remain on the plant, or heads whose flowers have all wilted or dried. Flower spikes include many small flowers that usually
do not open all at once. There is a special box on the data sheet for
sweetclover for inflorescences that are half buds and half flowers, or half
flowers and half petal drop, or half petal drop and half unripe fruits. Record these numbers separately.
Petal Drop
Count the number of flowers that have dropped their petals, but have not yet started to have their ovaries swell. In all three species, the little green ovaries will not yet look like they are starting to get spherical, and there will be a pointy stigma protruding quite visibly now that the petals are gone.
Unripe Fruits
Count the number of unripe fruits on the plant. For an unripe fruit, the ovary is swollen and obviously has been fertilized. Count all the fruits that are green or beginning to color. For Melilotus, count the number of inflorescences that are unripe fruit. Again, record the number of flower spikes with half unripe fruit and half flower or ripe fruit separately.
Ripe fruits
Count the number of ripe fruits that are visible on the plant.
Frequency of observations:
• As often as possible, especially during the spring
• At least once a week
• All observations are valuable!
Photographic data:
You can take photos of your plants to help you remember the phenology and identity of the plants. There is a space on the datasheet to record the photo number from your digital camera. Make sure your plant labels are visible in the photo. You can put the site name, plant number, and date on a slip of paper or whiteboard and put this in the photo so you can better keep track of your photos. An example is pictured to the right.
6. Reporting your data.
Please submit your weekly datasheets to Katie Spellman on a regular basis. You may submit the data in any of the following ways:
1) Online at https://sites.google.com/a/alaska.edu/melibee-project/citizen-science/submit-data
2) Email scanned data sheets to firstname.lastname@example.com
3) Mail paper data sheets to
Katie Spellman
Biology & Wildlife Department
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 756100
211 Irving 1
Monitoring kits are available for citizen scientists and monitoring groups participating in our project. Please contact Katie if you are interested in receiving a monitoring kit. The kit includes:
- 5 metal plant tags
- fluorescent flagging tape for marking your site
- "Research Area" laminated sign to mark your site
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- Focal Plant Identification Guide
- Phenophase Photo Guide for your species
- Monitoring Protocol
- Site Description Form
- Data sheets
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The Southeastern region's tradition of supporting the lowest salary levels remains, with average starting salaries at $40,383 (5.4% below the overall average). Yet 2010 graduates felt a small boost of 1.1% in salaries compared to previous years, which had actually dropped from $39,964 in 2008 to $39,925 in 2009. In a few glimmers of light, some grads finding jobs in the Southeast reported salaries at the uppermost levels of salary ranges, with the highest reported salary of $97,000 for a federal government position. Salaries were helped along by high-paying federal jobs in Washington, DC, as well as strong participation by graduates of Valdosta State University, GA, and Louisiana State University. Graduates claiming minority status ($45,652) in the Southeast and men ($42,477) enjoyed healthy growth in salaries (5.2% and 8.2%, respectively). Reported unemployment also stabilized in the Southeast, dropping from 8.5% in 2009 to 4.0% in 2010.
Jobs, library by library
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Jobs in reference and information services also sprang back from previous years. Reference jobs continue to be highly popular among new LIS graduates. They find themselves in academic, public, and special libraries as well as providing similar functions in archives, research foundations, and records management agencies. Placements in reference jobs grew from a depressing low of 15.4% of the overall jobs in 2009 to an impressive rate of 23.8%, echoing levels of the mid-2000s. This hike may be due to the restructuring of public library jobs, where adult service librarians (i.e., readers' advisors) have had their roles broadened to incorporate adult and youth services with other public services, including outreach and programming, with a the broader title of reference/information librarian. Additionally, the emphasis on instruction and information literacy in academic libraries has changed the nature of the reference role, aligning education closely with information seeking. One of the unique opportunities reported in this area was the role as residence hall librarian at a university, providing assistance on-site in the residence halls while also serving as the liaison between the academic library and the residents. Regardless of the job description, however, salaries for new reference librarians eased back slightly to $40,759 (losing 2.5%) from a high of $41,795 in 2009.
Cataloging continues to be a subject of discussion and concern among new graduates. Cataloging salaries, while up, remained well below the overall average for recent graduates ($39,574 compared to $42,556), though they improved $2,016 (5.1%) from 2009 ($39,574 compared to $37,558). In 2010, the majority of the cataloging placements (54%) were in academic libraries. New graduates expressed dismay that cataloging jobs are frequently considered to be nonprofessional rather than professional; hence the lower salaries, fewer benefits, and part-time hours. While they did not have the highest rate of part-time positions (circulation jobs do at 47.2%), approximately 22% of the reported cataloging jobs required less than full-time hours.

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To the Wonder: 6/10
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To the Wonder
Hmmmm. A really big fat hmmmmmmm.
I really like Malick (as others on here have noted in the past) but this one was a real test of my appreciation. It's very much in the same vein as The Tree of Life - in fact it's so similar it's borderline Tree of Life part 2. However, where Tree of Life had some pretty meaty themes underneath the artsy-fartsyness (death, life, the meaning of existence), this was really just a fairly mundane love story.
Not that the point of these things is the story, but wile the imagery was still STUNNING (really truly breathtakingly beautiful), because it wasn't that thought-provoking, it made sitting through the two odd hours a real challenge.
And it was a challenge most of the cinema wasn't up for. I'd say pretty much half had left by the end. Never seen so many people walk out a film. I suspect most thought they were just seeing a Ben Affleck romantic drama, but even some of the more beard-scratchy types lost patience as well.
I think it's worth watching if you like Malick, but I think it ultimately fails where Tree of Life succeeded. It's in many ways a superb piece of film making, and yet at the same time, I think it probably is quite a bad film - if that makes sense...
Oh, craigy, snap!
The cook, the Thief is probably his most watchable film as well.
I haven't seen it in a very long time but I remember finding it quite funny. Very dark humour less, but it made the artsyness easier to stomach somehow (possibly not the right phrase for this film...).
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@kalel - thanks for review of To the Wonder. I think I would lose patience too, although the chappy in The Giardian really enjoyed it. I might have to find out for myself...
I think if you like The Tree of Life there's a chance you might like To the Wonder. If you don't like Tree of Life, you will definitely hate To the Wonder.
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The Cook...is one of those films, I find compelling, despite also wanting to be sick all the way through. It has a very uneasy feel to the whole thing. I don't think I've seen it for about 12 years though, maybe I need to revisit it. Like Kalel said, it's probably Greenaway's most 'accessible' piece.
@kalel your sentiments about To the Wonder are pretty close to my own. I think maybe the problem is that it's too soon since The Tree of Life to deliver another film in the same vein. Trying to figure out whether if Wonder came before Tree of Life I'd think better of it, but I genuinely think it's the weaker of the two.
craigy wrote:Maybe, but The New World was also pretty much the same kind of thing, but like Tree of Life just more interesting somehow. Although not much to be honest. But yes, the gap between Tree of Life and To the Wonder is perhaps too short. I do wonder in fact how he managed to film it so quickly give every single shot of the film appeared to be a sunrise shot. I'd have thought there weren't enough days.
@kalel your sentiments about To the Wonder are pretty close to my own. I think maybe the problem is that it's too soon since The Tree of Life to deliver another film in the same vein. Trying to figure out whether if Wonder came before Tree of Life I'd think better of it, but I genuinely think it's the weaker of the two.
Bit worried he has disappeared up his own arse. As much as I like his last few films, Badlands. Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line are significantly better imo.
Do you reckon Malick decided to cut most of Affleck's performance out from the edit like he did with Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line? Affleck was barely present, but I can't figure out if that's a deliberate choice to serve the story and depict the character as cold/distant/not in the moment, or whether he couldn't give enough improv-wise and there wasn't enough filmed material to work with to make him a coherent character.
No idea really. Most of the shots of him seemed to be from the chin down, which was interesting as well.I do know it was originally supposed to be Christian Bale, whatever that suggests, if anything.
One review I read had a great comment that the French girl was "Malick's twirliest female lead yet". Made me laugh.
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Hmm. I really want to see To The Wonder. Think I still will, but I'm intrigued now to see if my patience wanes.
Fwiw, I think Tree Of Life is fucking brilliant.
The Tree of Life is brilliant, but I was clock-watchiing big time during Wonder.
Yeah, same. I did go into a bit of a trance in both, but I came out of it much quicker in To the Wionder. Last half hour I was more interested in the people walking out than I was the film.
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I do wonder how much it's up to Malick to have all these superstars in his films. It does feel like it's more about tricking people into actually seeing them than anything else. My guess is that it's the studio demanding the big names.
Although Rachel McAdams was very good in To the Wonder. It suddenly became much more interesting when she was in it.
I was gagging to see more of Bardem's Father Quintana. It only scratched the surface of his story.
Yeah, that was all a bit odd the Bardem stuff.
Apparently in Italy audience were laughing at his parts, and booing and stuff. If didn't go down well at all at Venice film festival.
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kalel wrote:Yeah, I don't know if it did, but "Man, or Muppet" should have won an Oscar last year.
Also the songs are written by the Flight of the Conchords guy and are also great.
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Watched Argo last night.
Deserved of the Oscar if you ask me, for the shit he gets Ben Affleck could well be one hell of a director over the next 20 years. I'v already pretty much enjoyed everything he has done so far. Crazy talent when you consider he was involved in such turds as reindeer games.
A solid 9/10.
And if you don't like the score then Argo fuck yourself.
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craigy wrote:From reading the posts it seems as though Ben Allfeck isn't in it much. Neither is Bardem? Don't tell me it's fucking 90 minutes of lovely looking fucking tree shots!
I was gagging to see more of Bardem's Father Quintana. It only scratched the surface of his story.
Olga Kurylenko (or however you spell it) is the main lead. McAdams has about 5 minutes of screen time. Affleck barely says two lines. The marketing materials definitely don't represent the film in terms of who the stars are.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence - 3/10
Terrible but fun. Cage looks like he's having a stroke for most of it.
Sinister - 6/10
It tries to be a creepy little horror and almost succeeds. But is ultimately predictable, relying on cheap jump scares.
Been checking out the Shameless collection. They�re from the 1970�s / 1980�s and tend to be constructed from various sources to build up the most complete version of each film available. Picture quality�varies�quite abit, and its not uncommon for the film to switch from English dubbed to Italian for example.
23 - Satan�s Baby Doll / La Bimba di Satana (1982)
Poor stuff, even by Shameless standards. It made Papaya Del Caraibi (1978) seem good. The story revolves around Jacqueline who is possessed by a wicked spirit of her dead mother, and takes place in a castle. Even the nudity couldn�t save this one.
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Oh come on, that pair of boobs was worth at least 3.
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It was what I expected a post-2000 version of Friday the 13th to be.
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A very good point!
Colour blindness, What you refer to, is an "Interface" anomaly but Colour Codes still exist in the base Processing System that manifests All, and don't suffer from the same Phenomena.
Colour exists irrespective, but remember Both the Eyes and the Brain are a Decoder/Encoder Interface, between (Awareness, Consciousness, True Mind) LIFE! and the Experience ie The Universe and the species.
What im asking is have you got any ideas/theories on how to reverse this "Interface anomaly" as you described it?????
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HttpResponse.WriteSubstitution Method (HttpResponseSubstitutionCallback)
The .NET API Reference documentation has a new home. Visit the .NET API Browser on docs.microsoft.com to see the new experience.
Allows insertion of response substitution blocks into the response, which allows dynamic generation of specified response regions for output cached responses.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
The target of the callback parameter is of type Control.
You can use the WriteSubstitution method for post-cache substitution in your output-cached pages. By passing a HttpContext object to a callback method with a prescribed HttpResponseSubstitutionCallback signature, you can replace output cached content at any given location in the page cache. To initiate the replacement, call the WriteSubstitution method, passing it the callback method, which must be thread safe and can be either of the following:
A static method on the container page or user control.
A static or instance method on another arbitrary object.
On the first request to the page, the WriteSubstitution calls the HttpResponseSubstitutionCallback delegate to produce the output. Then, it adds a substitution buffer to the response, which retains the delegate to call on future requests. Finally, it degrades client-side cacheability from public to server-only, ensuring future requests to the page re-invoke the delegate by not caching on the client.
Post-cache substitution is not supported for a cached user control where output caching is applied at the user control level. This is also known as fragment caching. For more information, see Caching Portions of an ASP.NET Page.
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Laura Plantinga, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory Department of Medicine
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Dr. Plantinga is a recent graduate of the Rollins School of Public Health (PhD, epidemiology) and she previously trained at Johns Hopkins University (ScM, biostatistics) and University of Maryland (BS, zoology). Her research focuses on the quality of care among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Her doctoral work examined the sociodemographic and geographic determinants of quality of care among U.S. lupus patients with ESRD. Additionally, Dr. Plantinga collaborates on a variety of studies with Emory investigators in transplant, geriatrics, rheumatology, and epidemiology, as well as renal medicine, aimed at improving care in the underserved CKD/ESRD patient population.
Prior to completing her doctoral degree, Dr. Plantinga served as project director and co-investigator for a CDC-funded effort to establish a national CKD surveillance system (http://nccd.cdc.gov/CKD/). Through this work, she disseminated national estimates of CKD burden, awareness, and quality of care. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Kidney International and as an Associate Editor for BMC Nephrology.
For a more complete list of publications please view on PubMed.
Patzer RE, Gander J, Sauls L, Amamoo MA, Krisher J, Mulloy LL, Gibney E, Browne T, Plantinga L, Pastan SO. The RaDIANT community study protocol: community-based participatory research for reducing disparities in access to kidney transplantation. BMC Nephrol. 2014;15:171.
Plantinga LC, Drenkard C, Patzer RE, Klein M, Kramer MR, Pastan SO, Lim SS, McClellan WM. Sociodemographic and geographic predictors of quality of care in U.S. patients with end-stage renal disease due to lupus nephritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014: in press.
Plantinga LC, Patzer RE, Drenkard C, Kramer MR, Klein M, Lim SS, McClellan WM, Pastan SO. Association of time to kidney transplantation with graft failure among U.S. patients with end-stage renal disease due to lupus nephritis. Arthritis Care Res. 2014: in press.
Patzer RE, Plantinga L, Krisher J, Pastan SO. Dialysis facility and network factors associated with low kidney transplantation rates among United States dialysis facilities. Am J Transplant. 2014;14:1562-1572.
Plantinga LC, Kim M, Goetz M, Kleinbaum DG, McClellan WM, Patzer RE. Pre-end-stage renal disease care not associated with dialysis facility neighborhood poverty in the United States. Am J Nephrol. 2014;39:50-58.
McClellan WM, Plantinga LC. A public health perspective on CKD and obesity. Nephrol Dialysis Transplant. 2013;28:iv37-iv42.
Plantinga L, Howard VJ, Judd S, Muntner P, Tanner R, Rizk D, Lackland DT, Warnock DG, Howard G, McClellan WM. Association of duration of residence in the southeastern United States with chronic kidney disease may differ by race: the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort study. Int J Health Geogr. 2013;12:17. PMC3606831
Shahinian VB, Hedgeman E, Gillespie BW, Young EW, Robinson B, Hsu CY, Plantinga LC, Burrows NR, Eggers P, Saydah S, Powe NR, Saran R for the CDC CKD Surveillance System. Estimating prevalence of CKD stages 3-5 using health system data. Am J Kidney Dis. 2013;61:930-938.
Grubbs V, Plantinga LC, Tuot DS, Hedgeman E, Saran R, Saydah S, Rolka D, Powe N, for the CDC CKD Surveillance Team. Americans' use of dietary supplements that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2013;61:739-747.
Tuot DS, Plantinga LC, Judd SE, Muntner P, Hsu C-Y, Warnock DG, Gutierrez OM, Safford M, Powe NR, McClellan WM. Healthy behaviors, risk factor control and awareness of chronic kidney disease. Am J Nephrol. 2013;37:135-143.
Plantinga L. Socio-economic impact in CKD [review]. Nephrol Ther. 2013;9:1-7. [in English]
Jaar BG, Chang A, Plantinga L. Can we improve quality of life of patients on dialysis? [invited editorial]. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013;8:1-4.
Tuot DS, Plantinga LC, Hsu C-Y, Powe NR. Is awareness of chronic kidney disease associated with evidence-based guideline-concordant outcomes? Am J Nephrol. 2012:35:191-197. PMC3326277
Grubbs V, Plantinga LC, Vittinghoff E, O'Hare AM, Dudley RA. Medicare immunosuppressant coverage and access to kidney transplantation: a retrospective national cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2012:12:254. PMC3470983
Grubbs V, Plantinga LC, Tuot DS, Powe NR. Chronic kidney disease and use of dental services in a United States public healthcare system: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Nephrol. 2012;13:16.
McClellan AC, Plantinga L, McClellan WM. Epidemiology, geography, and chronic kidney disease [review]. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2012;21:323-328.
Plantinga LC, Tuot DS, Grubbs V, Hsu C-Y, Powe NR. Chronic kidney disease identification in a high-risk urban population: does automated eGFR reporting make a difference? J Urban Health. 2012;89:965-976.


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Sam Falls at Luce Gallery
Nov 10th - Dec 29th
Corso San Maruizo 25
Torino, Italy
Sam Falls' first show in Italy will be running until the end of December at the Luce Gallery in Turin. If you happen to be in the city, it looks well worth a viewing and if not, their website offers a nice look at the pieces featured in the show. As usual the artist explores structure, form and colour through a mixture of photography, painting and sculpture.—Sam Falls at Luce Gallery


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Laser ablation ICP-MS workshop in Charleston, South Carolina
March 6 - 8, 2013
Workshop goals
- Identifying and propagating the limiting uncertainties in LA U-Th-Pb dating
- Reassessing the use of population statistics and the appropriate use of linear regressions and weighted means
- Identifying software processing contributions to improving the 2% (2s) ILC uncertainty limit
- Understanding interpretation limits in assessing ages and uncertainties of complex datasets – the role of geological phenomena
- Isoplot-type functionality for the future
Please follow the link to the workshop website
Zircon - a key mineral for dating and tracking geological processes
September 8 - 13, 2013, Pavia, Italy
The international school is hosted by University of Pavia and devoted to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers. The school will explore new frontiers of zircon geochronology, petrology and thermochronology. Case studies on the usefulness of zircon studies in tracking magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic processes will be presented by several lecturers, including F. Corfu (University of Oslo, Norway), M. Horstwood (British Geological Survey, UK), J. Kosler (University of Bergen, Norway), M. Malusà (Università Milano Bicocca, Italy), J-L. Paquette (CNRS & Université B. Pascal, France), D. Rubatto (ANU, Australia), F. Wu (Chinese Academy of Science, China) and M. Zattin (University of Padova, Italy). The school will end with a one-day excursion (led by S. Sinigoi, Università di Trieste, Italy) to the Sesia magmatic system (Ivrea-Verbano Zone, southern Alps).
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Halloween Happenings
5 worthy events for little ones
A lot of effort goes into a toddler's costume. Might as well milk the thing until the threads come loose.
Trick or Treat @ The Market (10/27, 11am-2pm), gives little ones a chance to snag free candy from the produce aisles of the Dallas Farmer's Market. Frisco's Pumpkins on the Prairie (daily, through 10/31) rounds out the usual pumpkin patch offerings with a bouncy house, hay maze, and movies under the stars. The Dallas Arboretum packs its Pecan Grove with Halloween festivities throughout October; on 10/27-28 there will be trick or treating in the gardens of the Small Houses of Great Artists, from noon to 4pm. Little monster lovers can drop in for Simply Spooktacular (10/26, 10-11:30am) at the Museum of Nature & Science to make a monster craft and participate in an interactive reading of Go Away Big Green Monster. Bookmarks' Creepy Crawloween (10/24, 10:30am) is similar, offering critter-inspired crafts and story time. And the Forth Worth Zoo is decking the exhibits with candy, pumpkins, larger-than-life spider webs and scavenger hunts during Boo at the Zoo (10/19-21 and 10/26-28, 12-5pm).


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Late Saturday night, it was reported that FSA fighters captured a Syrian chemical factory used to make toxic chlorine. Some reports suggested that the chloride factory at Al-Safira, southeast of Aleppo, is a also a chemical weapons depot and research station with chemical tipped scud missiles. The town, along with the factory has reportedly been overrun by jihadists who are purportedly fighting the Syrian government. The jihadists are members of al Nusra, a terrorist group associated with al-Qaeda.
Keeping in mind that the Syrian "opposition" has been overrun by al Qaeda fighters, who have themselves been guilty of horrendous crimes against the Syrians, this turn of events is ominous and is precisely what Assad himself warned about.
In the hands of al Qaeda jihadists, chemical weapons may be the next horror of a war that has brought nothing but horror for the people of Syria.While Syrian Christians have been particularly targeted by the jihadis, no one is safe from their malevolent aspirations and armed with chemical weapons, Syrians have reason to be afraid.
The final paragraph in the following article refers to the arming of the jihadi groups by countries including the United States. This is known to be true, and one may reasonably wonder why we are arming and otherwise supporting groups associated with al Qaeda.
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Syria warned the United Nations on Saturday that rebels may use chemical weapons after they gained control of a factory producing toxic chlorine east of Aleppo city.
"Terrorist groups may resort to using chemical weapons against the Syrian people… after having gained control of a toxic chlorine factory," the Foreign Ministry said, adding that Syria would never use chemical weapons.
The statement may be referring to the Syrian-Saudi Chemicals Company (SYSACCO) factory near the town of Safira, which was taken over earlier this week by rebel fighters from the jihadist Al-Nusra Front.
This factory, which produces sodium hydroxide and hydrogen chloride, is in an agricultural area and has been the subject of numerous complaints from farmers for polluting the local water supply.
The ministry sent separate letters to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, reiterating that Syria would "not use chemical weapons under any circumstance, if they exist."
Syria "is defending its people against terrorism, which is supported by known countries, with the United States at the forefront," it added.
Read the original article in NowLebanon here.


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Assistive Equipment - Slings
Many of our sailors are able to get in and out of the boat with minimal assistance. However, if this is not possible, sailors can be transferred using a sling and hoist. DSAO has recently had donated by Rotary Toronto three battery powered lifts and davits.
A sling is placed under the person, the straps attached to a battery-powered lift which raises the person out of the wheelchair. The lift is attached to a pivoting davit which allows us to move the sailor above the seat in the boat and safely lower him or her into position. The same procedure is done in reverse for getting back into the wheelchair. This is a very safe transfer method which requires no manual lifting. This type of lift is a newer design, compact, safe and much more comfortable for the disabled sailors. It is becoming a new standard in many disabled sailing programs.
This new lift system requires a different type of sling - this is the item that the sailor is transferred in. Each sling is $348 and we require a total 6 slings for a total of $3132.00. These slings are much more comfortable for the disabled sailors and will improve the ease and be more time efficient.
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A single-car accident resulted in a man's death and the closure of I-27N at 19th Street for several hours Saturday night, March 16.
Christopher Garcia, 34, was ejected from his 1997 Ford Mustang after swerving to miss a box that had fallen from an unknown vehicle, according to a Lubbock police incident report. He swerved right to avoid the collision before swerving left and hitting the box.
Garcia lost control of the car and collided with the guardrail on the west side of the 19th Street exit. The collision ejected him from the car, and he landed on the exit ramp. He was not wearing a seat belt.
Garcia was taken to University Medical Center, where he died of injuries.
Cynthia Garcia, the passanger, was taken to UMC with minor injuries. She wore her seat belt.
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You are the reason Kenya is where it's. You spoiled Cord's votes in 2013. In 2002 you were to be LDP'S presidential candidate but you ran away. Moody Awori and Raila Odinga came for you at the late Adagala's funeral in Vokoli but you took off through amaize plantation. Your reasoning was wakina Biwot had threatened you. You were promised safe custody till you become president elect then you be taken to state house direct but you chickened out. You chose to be VP for three months. The rest is history. Raila rescued you again in 2007 only for you to jump ship at the last minute. I can go on and on. Bottom line, nobody out of his mind can endorse you for president. Even if you were to be endorsed, I would rather stay at home than vote. Already Joho has overtaken the whole lot of you pretenders.
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The three sisters of fate from Greek Mythology. The one in green is Clotho, the weaver of the thread of life. The blonde is Lachesis, the one who measures the length of one's life, and the one with the dreads is Atropos, the one who will ultimately cut the thread.Continue Reading: Atropos
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KSA allocates land in Madinah for housing projects
Saudi Arabia's municipal and rural affairs ministry has given the housing ministry 8.5 million square meters of land in Madinah to build homes for Saudi citizens, Arab News has reported. The first property of 4.6m sq m is along King Abdulaziz Road and the other is 3.9m sq m on Hail Road, north of Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport. The housing ministry is to carry out various surveys and tests, particularly to ensure houses are safe from flooding, said the report.
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"No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no! You don't understand. You can't possibly because you're irreligious."
Um. Interesting. Yet most of the irreligious people I know were RAISED religious. They learned religion at the knees of their parents. In fact, we can understand religious thought very well.
Our rejection comes not from MISUNDERSTANDING...but from understanding it TOO WELL, and going in search of something that makes more sense.
One thing Rush can explain to me, though, is how the shooter deciding that he wants to "die like Christ" could possibly be the result of too little religion.
The boy was crazy. Adding more religion would have just made him express his craziness more religiously. Just as he would have expressed his craziness in secular terms if he had been immersed in secularism.
Secularism didn't make him kill. Religion didn't make him kill.
We all want answers, we all want solutions, we all want this to be a perfect world (from a human perspective). It's not. Blaming secularism might make you feel better Rush, but it does nothing to address the problem.
I just heard on MPR a lead in that was discussing a view that Virginia Tech should not have let the shooter return to school after he was hospitalized with a mental illness.
Are people really saying that employers and schools have to be held responsible for decisions to not descriminate against the mentally ill? I couldn't listen to the broadcast, but the teaser was either repugnant, misleading or both.
If someone's behavior at work or school is threatening and dangerous, then the employer/school should be responsible for dealing with it appropriatly. Merely knowing that they have been hospitalized does not mean that they are responsible to not allow the person on campus/hire them.
How many people have been hospitalized for mental problems and gone on to live normal, productive lives and not treaten anybody.
Ugh. I am so sad for the victims and the families, and for the whole terrible mess. All this over-focusing on single issues is perhaps understandable, but it is inappropriate and will not produce outcomes that will be helpful in any way. People need time to heal before they can respond rationally.
From Conrad Zero I get a link to this article in the Washington Post.
A world-class violinist playing on a priceless violin, posing as a street musician, and his value is only recognized by a few people...a handful who have dabbled at being violinists, and one who recognizes the musician.
People who rushed past, perhaps flipping spare change, perhaps trying to shout over the annoying noise of this bothersom begger...what would they have done if they had realized that they were getting a free front seat at a performance that they would never get another chance at again?
What do people simply throw out as useless, meaningless, even stupid...just because they don't have a reason to really look at it's value?
How much of our "junk science" is the public policy equivilant of a virtuoso with a nearly priceless instrument being ignored by commuters too busy to bother knowing what they are missing?
[UPDATE: Michelle gives us a link in the comments to a blog entry that expands on the "framing" aspect of the WaPo story. She says that in order for the audience to respond to a classical musician in a street musician setting, he needs to develop skills for presenting to that audience appropriately for the kind of audience they are, and in the situation they are in rather than actually expecting them to respond to a performance just because it is good and worthy of their attention.
This is EXACTLY what I've been trying to say. Thank you, Michelle.
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A busker is someone who can turn any place into a stage. Obviously, Joshua Bell needs an actual stage. As a busker one needs to interact with those around, break walls of personal space, and lure people into a collective and spontaneous group experience on the street, in the moment, with you. A bad busking act is when the performer doesn't make an effort to connect with the audience. Like musicians who play for themselves, not acknowledging the audience, just burying their heads in their instruments.
Wow. Finding the link to Max's site inspired me to look for the names of other people I'd had friendships with in Junior High and High School.
I did a search on Lee Helgen, because I knew I would find him. He's a politician in St. Paul now. Ward Five City council member in St. Paul, MN
Lee and I had a falling out over something really stupid when I was in 11th grade. I behaved foolishly and thoughtlessly and ended up not only embarrassing myself, but also doing damage to his car (no, I wasn't driving it). Lee was understandably upset. I was ham-handed in my attempts to reconcile the friendship. Lee and I never talked again, but I have no ill-will toward him as the whole mess was all my fault. I think I've mentioned being kind of screwed up when I was a kid, right? Some people, at some points in their life, are more trouble than they are worth, and if they don't show signs of even thinking about changing, it is perfectly moral and ethical to simply say "No more. You will bring no more chaos to my life". He could have done a lot of damage to me, if he'd wanted revenge, or to exercise some kind of righteous power… but he didn't. He just let me know that he was done, that I should do something to rescue myself from chaos, and walked away.
Anyway, I've always thought of Lee as kind of a stand-up guy, but this publication is obsessed with him.
The picture that they paint would have you believe that Lee is some sort of shadowy and rutheless figure somehow under the thrall of local religious leaders and the "liberal" big Pull Tabs lobby, and the Catholic Church.
I especially liked this paragraph:
Helgen objected to a specialty drink advertised at the bar which was called "Diva's naughty fruit". This drink consisted of cherries, olives, and pineapple soaking in vodka. But to Helgen it might have been like the forbidden fruit that Eve offered to Adam - something that was sexually provocative. Council Member Helgen also did not like that fact that Diva's featured a singer named "Rowdy Cowboy" on Thursday evenings. "Rowdy Cowboy", also known as "Bo Billy", was a Nashville recording star who sang Country and Western songs. Maybe Helgen thought that his presence at the bar incited rowdy or violent behavior. There was also an elevated platform at one end of the bar room which looked like - but was not - a place for nude dancing.
It paints Lee as some sort of anti-alcohol puritan, which is just funny to me. Lee would have to have changed a LOT since I knew him to get to that point. He was kind of a goofy, irreverent, sarcastic kid. You all most likly reacall how, in school, the smart, serious, thinking people often put up an armor of wise-cracking bravado. The picture of him as an anti-alcohol puritanical crusader abusing power to wipe out booze and sexual implications just cracks me up.
I DO believe that Lee might have become more religious, as people sometimes do when they get older, but going after a bar owner because she's Ojibwe and he doesn't like that some of her specialties have sexy names? I don't buy it. I could be wrong, because I haven't talked to him in years, but it just doesn't track for me. Maybe someone else who kept in touch with him can shed more light.
Oh, and if you don't follow any of the other links, go to this one. There is a photo of a protest depicting Lee and Father Mike as racists and serving money, ridiculing them for their religion and politics…THEN, lower on the page, it triumphantly trumpets the victory of Michelle Bachman; Minnesota's favorite crazy Jesus lady, who wants creationism taught as science in schools, and thinks that the US has entered into a secret deal to split Iraq with Iran.
Good grief. The creepy weird people are everywhere. It's really disappointing.
I'm sure everyone has heard of the strange case of how two young bloggers got hired by John Edwards to blog for his campaign, and the right-wing smear machine kicked into high gear.
In the case of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, the right-wing blow-hard cry that saying the Pope and other religious leaders obstruct gay rights is "anti-catholic". Hey! You can't say something that is true but unflattering of the Pope! That's anti-Catholic! Plus, these women use bad language and are independant Freethinkers. The religious right couldn't have that. So they round up their posse to send out rape threats and death threats to two young women to show their Godly support of The Church.
Eventually, the young women resign from the Edwards campaign.
We're getting dangerously close to mob rule rather than rule of law, here people.
So I'll leave you with a little quote from Black Sabbath. Just call it a little consolation for the fact that bands like Black Sabbath were seen as the CAUSE of the destruction of civilization, rather than prophetic foretellers of it: and that their "Christian" accusers are the ones carrying the torches and pitchforks.
Close the city and tell the people that something's coming to callDeath and darkness are rushing forward to take a bite from the wall, ohYou've nothing to sayThey're breaking awayIf you listen to fools...The Mob RulesThe Mob RulesKill the spirit and you'll be blinded, the end is always the samePlay with fire, you burn your fingers and lose your hold of the flame, ohIt's over, it's donethe end is begunIf you listen to fools...The Mob RulesYou've nothing to sayOh, They're breaking awayIf you listen to fools...Break the circle and stop the movement, the wheel is thrown to the groundJust remember it might start rolling and take you right back aroundYou're all fools!The Mob Rules!
--Black Sabbath "The Mob Rules"
On December 27th, I was going to the airport to pick up my friend, Val. I was listening to MPR, and I heard a strange spot that they did on a new disease called Morgellon's Syndrome.
The symptoms sounded so preposterous that, had the story been aired on April First, I would have laughed out loud, assuming it to be made up entirely. (bugs crawling around under the skin, cellulose fibers growing from the skin, involvement with or resemblance to just about every single hazy, difficult to diagnose, treat or even prove the existence of condition on the face of the Earth, etc.)
A couple of days ago, I chanced across a website where a man suggested that Morgellon's was perhaps a brilliant and sick instance of viral marketing.
I have since come across several conjectures about what Morgellon's is: that it is a hoax, that it is a variation of delusional parisitosis, that these poor people are actually suffering from a real disease.
At any rate, the site that suggested that it was a viral marketing campaign for the movie based on Phillip K. Dick's Through a Scanner Darkly had the most interesting comments.
The suggestion that Morgellon's was not a real disease brought out people who vitriolically demanded that the author retract his statement. They told of their pain and anguish, their emotional and physical torture with the disease, and they even made comments wishing the disease upon the author so that he could know how much they suffered with it, and then he would not belittle their disease so much.
I don't believe that Morgellon's is a real disease. I am prepared to find out I'm wrong, and retract that statement, but until I see something, anything resembling a rational explanation for the bugs, the fibers, or the lesions that the people are supposedly subjected to, I'm just not going to believe it is real.
I have not seen a picture of the bugs. I haven't heard what their taxonomic category is. You would think it would be simple to come up with the chemical composition of the fibers, and some process by which they can be manufactured. "Information" sites about the disease are only so much noise. With pictures and technobabble that says nothing.
The symptoms are so incredible as to be...well...incredible.
Therefore, I do not believe it is real until it can be demonstrated otherwise.
And if anyone posts a vitriolic response demanding an apology, and demanding that I accept their pain and anguish and suffering as sufficient cause to ignore my reason and what knowledge I have, I'm sorry, but I can't do that.
I'm sorry for people's pain...but me believing the same as they do about the cause of that pain will not ease their pain one bit...whereas compromising critical thought to emotionalism is certainly harmful.
The minor skirmish over one of many small symbols of Christmas cheer has been won by the forces of freedom. Ms. Jensen gets to keep her peace sign wreath up through Christmas, and it won't cost her one penny of her estimated $1,000 in fines from the Loma Linda Homeowner's association.
EclecticsAnonymous has the scoop
It is cool to see a situation like this resolved so quickly and (reletively) painlessly through the actions of many many complete strangers genuinly expressing their outrage.
I suppose Mr. Kearns will hail it as our liberal elite persecuting the much-oppressed but oh-so-morally-superior Grinchy-peacesign-hating-dimbulb minorty.
You never know, maybe he'll form an NGO.
Hey, check it out, some
"peace is the reason for the season"-hatin' conservtives are trying to bully a woman into taking down her peace symbol wreath.
Ben at EclecticsAnonymous has a good link and some original commentary on the story.
Know what I think? I think these people would benefit from a raft of Christmas cards sporting the peace symbol, and hand-written notes asking them why they hate the baby Jesus.
Here's a blast from the past for me and my friends, Sue and Barb.
Wade Pilloud graduated with us from Bemidji High School. He was also in my Confirmation class and attended our church. He was also one of the small group of students that I went with on a trip to Germany my Senior year. I didn't know him well, and I don't have any opinions of him that would be of any particular use or interest to the general public.
Wade is the K-12 principal of a school in Indus, MN (close to International Falls) who resigned after being put on administrative leave for shooting two kittens on school grounds. They were orphaned, and Mr. Pilloud says he wanted to prevent them from suffering from a death by starvation.
Anyone who grew up n the country knows that it's not uncommon to find burlap sacks full of drowned kittens or puppies along the road, or to hear of people shooting, gassing, or otherwise "doing in" unwanted animal offspring that they can't or won't care for to "prevent suffering".
It is a common and wholly unremarkable attitude from the time and place that we were raised. The fact that he thought this was the best thing to do is unsurprising to me. The fact that he seemed to think it was natural, acceptable, and right to bring a gun onto school grounds and dispatch the animals himself (rather than call animal control to have them rescued by animal welfare professionals) is also unsurprising to me, as it is a natural outgrowth of the mentality and worldview commonly held by the majority of people in the place and time that we grew up.
I happen to disagree with it, which is perhaps a hint as to why I no longer live in rural Northern Minnesota.
I guess that's all I have to say about that.
[Update: I just heard from an extended family member that her husband was going out to "put down" their ancient family dog, who has stopped eating. She wanted to take the dog to the vet to be put down, but as her husband has recently been laid off, and they don't know when he will get a job, they don't have the funds to do it humanely. So he is going to shoot the dog...the most "humane" alternative. Luckily, her husband is quite competent with firearms, and is unlikely to botch the job. Like I said. Pervasive attitude.]
Here's a link to a story defending the right of an employer to dictate an employee's sexual behavior in her own home.
As much as I am comitted to religious freedom, I am beginning to see the point that we would be better off without these people and their poisonous ideas. I realize that this is a little-known regressivist e-rag...but the fact remains that a woman was ordered by her employer to get married to her live in boyfriend, leave him, or quite her job.
AND there are people who feel the court should have upheld the employer and not the wronged employee.
These people are enemies of the right of conscience, the right to free thought, the right to personal freedom of every kind. They are enemies to your right to live on your own terms as a human being.
They have the right to believe whatever they want to believe, but no matter what they believe, that right ends when their beliefs infringe on the rights of others to live as they choose, according to their conscience.
UPDATE: There are seven states with anti-cohabitation laws: Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia. So, if you want to live together with someone and you aren't married to them, don't do it in any of these states.


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This week I booked my annual leave online and today I received an email to say that my manager has approved it! Now, anyone who's been employed for years probably won't understand what all the fuss is about, but for those of us who are usually self-employed, the thought of being paid your full salary while roasting yourself on a beach thousands of miles away from the office is almost too good to be true.
I've now been trawling through holiday websites and currently have my eye on a fabulous, all-inclusive fortnight in The Canaries; fourteen days and nights of sun, sea and sangria while still receiving a wage. For the first time in my life I'm actually going to be paid to spend half a month getting drunk, ogling Spanish lifeguards and generally having an enormous amount of fun. It really does appear that good things come to those who wait, so hang on in there because you never know what exciting new experiences might be just around the corner.


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With only a handful of bowl games left to finish off the 2013 college football season and so many fans feeling disappointed and panicking about the future of Michigan football. I figured I'd share some of the reasons why I'm optimistic about the 2014 season and beyond.
1. We'll have real competition at the QB position. For the first time since ... God knows when, We'll have alegit competiton at the QB spot. It's Devin spot to loose but we'll have 4 scoloarship QB's gunning for the starting job. 3 of the 4 have college game experience!
2. The Offensive line will play better as a whole. I heard all the doom and gloom about how can they possibly improve with losing two NFL caliber tackles. They are right in a way the tackles position will be downgraded next year. The major point is with so much pressure coming up the middle, we could have had Tony Boselli and Jonathon Ogden as tackles and not done much better. Point is there will be competition on the line as well. These guys want to win championships, they are hungry, young and talented. They'll push eachother this off season because nobody is guarenteed a starting job.
3. The running backs as a whole will improve. Green and Smith both played better later in the season even with the offensive line problem and when they played more pass protection looked ALOT better ( sorry fitz but you cant block very well). Denard was an extremely talented college football player but the guy we missed most after Denard had to be Vincent (bang-bang) Smith. Running touissant as an every down back when he couldn't block to save his life got Devin killed most of the time. De'veon smith seemed like a better over all back as far as blocking/ running goes. I'm also not forgetting Drake Johnson was the number 2 back before he got injured.
4. Key players and possible key players coming off major injuries. Jake Ryan came back mid season after tearing his ACL in the fall. It's hard to imagine he was 100% jake Ryan. Countess had a major injury last year, Wormley too. this Year Pipkins went down, Darboh, Drake Harris, Chris Bryant, Chris Fox and Gardner was beat up all year, I wouldn't believe you if you told me Touissant was 100% all year after that fracture. Hopefully these guys are all healthy enough to play their best football next year.
5. Funchess and Butt are the real deal! Funchess had the dropsies a bit this year but, he was a sophmore and honestly didn't get targeted enough as a freshman. When you drop a 1-2nd down pass yea that sucks but when you drop a 3rd down pass that kills a drive. If Funchess can correct the drops he is a great receiver... Tight end. Jake Butt had an awesome freshman year and physically he and Ian Bunting are very similar. If bunting comes in and plays like Butt as a freshman and Jake improves from his freshman year they are going to be 3 guys who are crazy hard to cover. I'm not even going to mention all th other WR's, someone coming back has got to be good atleast. I mean Darboh was the 2nd coming of Jerry Rice before he messed up his foot... right
6. The defense is what it is. This is the same staff that turned around one of our worst defenses ever and made them servicable. They get a pass from me, so i'm expecting the defense to play a lot better as a whole. We played 3 freshman in the secondary. 2 where true freshman. Part of the season we played a true freshman Linebacker, and our D line had mutiple true freshman and red shirt freshman getting alot of play time. I'm not worried about next year.
Now I admit i'm one of those guys who looks at the schedule and says 10-2,11-1 every year. I've been a fan for a long time and thats usually how it went with one head scratcher (why the hell did we lose that game) a year. So 9-10 wins season are what I am used to. I look at our 2014 Schedule and I see 2 really good teams , 2 good teams and 6 teams we should roll. Ohio state and MSU are really good teams and should be really good next year. They are our best chances for a loss. Everybody else tho, come on you have got to like our chances against. We play well at Notre Dame who loses their 2 best defensive players and even when play like crap they can barely beat us. We had 13 turn overs in our last 2 losses to Notre Dame. Utah plays terrible away from home and everbody else is a home game or mediocre. We usually beat mediocre teams on the road. I'll call us 10-2 and 3rd place in our division. If we finish any worse atleast you guys will see some staff changes, so there is another reason to be optimistic!


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:Hey guys, : :I finally got that panic I've been seeing. Here's the backtrace. : :Looks like a null pointer in netinet/ip_input, line 750. : :I should also mention this is my laptop running apm but NOT ACPI. :This has happened with both my Linksys card and my Netgear. Hmm. This can only happen if a network interface is receiving IP packets before it has been configured, or possibly while it is being configured by e.g. dhclient. Was the machine doing anything specific when the panic occured? e.g. like configuring its network interface(s) or something? -Matt


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - With Election Day a little more than a week away, Eyewitness News turned to political analyst Dr. Michael Bitzer to ask how Hurricane Sandy will impact voter turnout.
"We really have nothing in terms of precedent to establish what this could potentially mean," Bitzer said.
Hundreds of voters turned out to an "Obama for America" bus tour Sunday afternoon in North Charlotte.
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx said North Carolina is a key swing state. With Hurricane Sandy looming, he fears turnout could be low in the eastern part of the state.
"It's not great news to ever have a storm like this, but it's particularly bad timing given the election," he said.
There have already been 1.2 million early votes already cast in North Carolina. More than half are from registered Democrats like Joseph Tulley, who's keeping an eye on the storm.
Many swing states like Pennsylvania and New Hampshire don't have early voting, so citizens there can't vote now and get it over with before Sandy hits this week. They'll have to wait until election day.
"There could be some damage. It could damage the [voting] machines, power could be down, people can't get out of their houses," Tulley said.
The president had told supporters after the DNC that he had planned on returning to Charlotte to campaign. It appears unlikely that'll happen.
Dr. Jill Biden's campaign appearance in Charlotte for Sunday morning was canceled.
The cancellations appear to be good news for Mitt Romney, who is leading, slightly, in North Carolina polls.
Bitzer said the president's leadership this week could sway undecided voters.
"I think it sends a signal that the president is the commander-in-chief, he is in charge, he is monitoring the situation. The best thing that he can do right now is be presidential," Bitzer said. "That's one advantage he has that Mitt Romney does not."
Bitzer said both candidates will take a softer approach this week, especially if Sandy causes injuries and deaths.


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Funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will increase in fiscal year 2010, subsequent to President Obama's signing of the Omnibus Appropriations Act shortly before the end of 2009. The package included $31 billion for NIH—representing an increase of 2.3 percent, or $691.8 million, over FY2009 funding.
While not the seven percent for which the Academy had been advocating, the increase still amounts to $250 million more than the president's original request, and remains a positive step during difficult economic times. Past Action Alerts have asked members of Congress to increase NIH funding above 2009 levels, as well as seeking to ensure adequate funding to complete Phase II of the Porter Neuroscience Research Center.
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Updated 9:27 pm, Tuesday, January 31, 2012
STAMFORD -- Prosecutors on Tuesday introduced nearly 50 pieces of crime scene evidence from the condo in which Anna Lisa Raymundo was found stabbed to death in 2002, including blood stains and men's clothes found in a bathroom.
The mountain of evidence, most of which was not relevant to the prosecution's case against self-represented defendant Sheila Davalloo, the 42-year-old former pharmaceutical researcher charged with Raymundo's murder, was presented during the fifth day of her murder trial at state Superior Court in Stamford. The prosecutor, Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney James Bernardi, focused on blood stains found in a bathroom near the foyer where police found Raymundo's body.
The state's Forensic Science Laboratory in Meriden determined eight years ago that Raymundo and Davalloo both contributed to the DNA profiles found in a blood stain on a sink handle from Raymundo's bathroom, according to Davalloo's arrest warrant affidavit. Prosecutors have yet to introduce the DNA report as evidence.
Bernardi asked prosecution witness State Trooper Don Elmendorf, who helped Stamford police investigate the Raymundo homicide, whether he could determine what happened in the bathroom on the day Raymundo was killed.
"That someone was standing in front of the sink trying to clean themselves," Elmendorf said.
Elmendorf testified to inventorying dozens of pieces of evidence from Raymundo's condo on Harbor Drive as Bernardi displayed photos of blood streaks, hair samples and fingerprints. The photos illustrated a crime scene that showed signs of a violent and chaotic struggle. Bernardi asked whether the condo showed any signs of burglary.
"You'd expect to see some missing items, jewelry or china," Elmendorf said, adding: "We didn't see any of that."
Elmendorf testified he found diluted blood stains in a half-bathroom next to where officers found Raymundo's body. Also found in the bathroom were two pieces of men's clothing -- a tan dress shirt and green tie -- left on the floor.
A female 911 caller alerted police to the homicide by telling dispatchers a man was attacking her neighbor at Harbor View Drive. A voice recognition expert testified on Friday that he used digital voice analysis software to determine that Davalloo was the 911 caller.
Davalloo briefly cross-examined Elmendorf following a lengthy process in which Bernardi had the state trooper testify about collecting each piece of evidence. Bernardi then introduced the collection of items -- which ranged from sneakers to pieces of a door frame -- into evidence at one time. Davalloo asked whether the blood stains found in the bathroom could have been diluted by water already on the floor and why troopers collected a men's pair of sneakers. There was blood on them, Elmendorf replied.
Before testimony ended Tuesday, Bernardi called one more state trooper to the stand to re-emphasize that Raymundo hadn't interrupted a burglary before someone killed her. Trooper Matthew Reilly testified the crime scene showed no signs of forced entry and the only way to enter the Harbor Drive condo was through the front door.
The state continues presenting its case Wednesday morning and plans to call two Stamford police officers to the stand. Prosecutors allege Davalloo committed the murder in order to be with Raymundo's boyfriend, a co-worker at Purdue Pharma whom Davalloo had dated in 2001.
Davalloo is serving a 25-year prison sentence for trying to kill her former husband in 2003. She faces between 25 and 60 years in prison if convicted of murder.
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These are not new. Although they look branch new, they were gifted to me by my mom last November when we were on a family holiday in Connoor and Ooty.
I totally loved the pair of scissors and promptly started using it. But had almost forgotten the rest of the goodies.Today when she is coming to visit me, I suddenly remembered the goody bag tucked somewhere in my stash cupboard. I had no recollection of the set of coloured eye chenile needles. I will promptly start using them…they are so super cute !
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I cannot advise you in respect of your daughters passport as that is not my area of specialism - but it makes logical sense to have an Indian passport in place so as to assist in your application to remove from the jurisdiction.
Unfortunately you cannot make such an application to court without your husband knowing. The court will send your husband a copy of your application before the first hearing and he will heavily be involved in the court process and a big part of the courts decision making process.
These types of cases are not easy. The case law has recently changed and the court will need to be satisfied that a move to India will be in your daughters best interests.
You can expect such a court case to last several months as the court will ask a childrens officer to undertake a full report and make a recommendation.
You are suppose to refer such a case to family mediation before you can apply to court. There is an exemption if you are a victim of domestic violence but you will need to get evidence to prove this first.
You wont be able to get legal aid if you have over £3k in savings.
The court form you need is this one:
You are asking the court for permission to permanently remove your daughter from the jurisdiction.
There is a court fee of £215. You send the completed form to your local family court and they will list the case for a first hearing. Your husband will receive notice of this.
Let me know if I can help you further.
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