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The Orioles entered Tuesday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays needing a miraculous sequence of events to make the playoffs, but they were still mathematically alive in the chase for the second American League wild-card spot.
But the Orioles' 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Blue Jays in front of a half-empty Camden Yards — combined with the Cleveland Indians' 5-4 walk-off win over the Chicago White Sox — killed their faint postseason hopes.
"There were a lot of good things that went on," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "But it's tough to dwell on it too much right now because we understand what the finished product was supposed to be, and it wasn't tonight. And [other teams will] be playing games when we want to play them."
The Orioles' sixth consecutive loss, which tied a season high, was much like many heartbreaking one-run losses before it. The Blue Jays sent the game to extra innings on a two-out seeing-eye single in the eighth, and a close pick-off call at second base in the 10th went against the Orioles before that baserunner eventually became the winning run.
"Being eliminated from the playoffs is a huge disappointment because that was what we had our minds set on and that was our goal this season," Orioles left fielder Nate McLouth said. "To realize that's not going to happen is really disappointing, especially the way the last two games have gone. We feel like we could have or maybe should have won. Kind of strange things happened that didn't allow that to happen, but to be officially eliminated is disappointing."
Tuesday's loss was the Orioles' 13th in their last 16 one-run contests, the latest in a disturbing reel of close losses down the stretch. A day after losing in Tampa Bay on a walk-off homer, the Orioles (81-76) saw a one-run lead disappear in the eighth on Tuesday on pinch hitter Mark DeRosa's two-out bloop base hit that dropped in shallow right field off left-hander Brian Matusz.
In the top of the 10th, DeRosa struck again, this time with a two-out single to right off right-hander Francisco Rodriguez, scoring Jose Reyes. Earlier in the inning, Rodriguez's pick off throw to second appeared to beat Reyes to the bag, but second-base umpire Gerry Davis called Reyes safe.
"This game's not always fair," Showalter said. "Certainly not right now for our guys. … It's a lot of close games. There's some things we did well and some things we didn't. There's a lot of good baseball ahead for this team and this organization. Tonight was a call here and there, a great pitch that the baseball gods didn't shine on us. They got a couple that found holes and we had some situations where we could have expanded the lead and we didn't."
The Orioles, who were 29-9 during last season's remarkable run to the postseason, couldn't duplicate that success this season 17-31 in one-run contests.
Earlier in the day, the Orioles received the uplifting news that the season-ending injury to Manny Machado likely will not require surgery and he could be ready for spring training.
Playing without their All-Star third baseman in the starting lineup for the first time this season, the Orioles scored three runs or fewer for the seventh time in their past 10 games. They have four runs or fewer in six straight games and 17 of their past 21.
In the process, the Orioles are five games above .500 for the first time since May 29.
The announced 16,772 gave Machado a standing ovation when he was shown on the video board in the middle of the fifth inning. Machado tipped his cap to fans, but there was little for the fans to cheer for after that moment.
After back-to-back solo homers by Brian Roberts and Nate McLouth put the Orioles up 2-1 in the third, the Orioles were scoreless for seven innings.
"For some reason, our consistency offensively wasn't there, as it should have been at the end," McLouth said. "The pitching has really pitched well, it seems like, for a while now. We weren't able to consistently score enough runs. We had plenty of pitching tonight, plenty in Tampa. We didn't do enough offensively so it's disappointing, because that's the goal you come into spring training with and we're not going to be able to do that."
The Orioles wasted a quality start from right-hander Chris Tillman, who went seven or more innings for the sixth time in his last seven starts, allowing just one run on five hits over seven innings, tying a career-high with nine strikeouts and recording just one walk.
Tillman received a no-decision, but he became the fifth Orioles pitcher to reach 200 innings in a season since 2001. He joined Jeremy Guthrie (2009, 2010 and 2011), Daniel Cabrera (2007), Rodrigo Lopez (2005) and Sidney Ponson (2004). He also became the first Orioles pitcher 25 years old or younger to reach 200 innings since Ponson, who was 22 when he pitched 210 innings in 1999.
The Blue Jays tied the game in the eighth when Reyes led off the inning with a single off rookie right-hander Kevin Gausman. He moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and on to third on a wild pitch.
After Gausman struck out Brett Lawrie for the second out, left-hander Brian Matusz yielded a run-scoring bloop single to shallow right field to pinch hitter DeRosa to tie the game.
After putting runners on first and second to open in the fourth inning, Tillman faced just one batter over the minimum for the rest of his outing, retiring 11 of the final 13 batters he faced.
Tillman allowed his only run in the second inning. The Blue Jays (71-85) put runners at second and third with one out on Adam Lind's leadoff single and a one-out double by Anthony Gose. Ryan Goins' two-out infield single to shortstop scored Lind for an early 1-0 lead.
Roberts and McLouth's back-to-back solo homers accounted for the Orioles' only offense.
Roberts took a full-count fastball over the heart of the plate from Toronto starter Todd Redmond into the right-field stands for his seventh homer of the season to tie the game. Two pitches later, McLouth followed with his 12th homer of the season, taking a Redmond fastball onto the flag court in right field.
But after the game, with the final five games of the season relegated to playing for pride, the Orioles focus was suddenly forced to shift away from fighting toward the postseason.
"We play all the way from February 15 or whenever we started to get to the playoffs," shortstop J.J. Hardy said. "It's hard to think that after how many games we've played since then, we're not going, so yeah, it's tough."


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Economic and trade issues, as well as Japan's security partnership with the U.S., are on the agenda for the White House meeting. Obama has also said the two will discuss a response to North Korea's test this week of a nuclear device at a remote underground site.
Obama has called the test a "provocation" and says he and Abe have agreed to cooperate on measures aimed at impeding North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. He says the U.S. remains committed to defending Japan, including by nuclear means.

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I chose the name "Tethered Teas" for a number of reasons. The first is that I wanted to make a tea that would be tied to causes, not just to profits. The most interesting people I have ever met are those whom are tied to ideas, values and beliefs. Sometimes, they are tied to family and at other times, to charities. All and all they are people who understand that they have responsibilities to something greater than themselves.
The tea itself is a light blend of juice and tea. The tea is a red rooibos blend with a hint of juice for sweetener. It is served cold, on days where people are off doing good things for other people. The tea is light pink.
While Tethered Teas is still in the embryonic stages, I do believe we will make it.
I'm tethered to making this work.
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An Interview with Mark R. Cookson, Ph.D.Investigator, Cell Biology and Gene Expression Unit
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Q: Most of what is known about the genetics of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been discovered in the past few years. What's driving the current interest in this area?
A: The main reason for the lack of knowledge about genetic forms of Parkinson's is that for a long time everyone "knew" that PD was never inherited. This has turned out to be flat-earth thinking—because everyone "knows" the earth is flat, why would it be round? In fact, there are a small but significant number of cases in which PD is inherited, but this was underappreciated for two important reasons. First, many of the inherited cases have unusual features; for example the disease is very mild but starts very early in some recessive families, enough of a distinction for these cases to be considered atypical. But in other inherited cases, the phenotype [clinical syndrome] is very close to that of sporadic PD.
Second, there are several genes for PD or similar conditions but they show different patterns of inheritance and are still very rare. Added together, all genetic cases account for less than 10 percent of all PD, so it would be easy to miss these cases in the population of patients. So genetics provides important clues to the disease process, but it doesn't yet explain all cases, or even the majority of cases.
What is driving current interest is a complex mixture of motivations that often drive science. Once people realize the world isn't flat, many want to know how round it really is. After the first genes for PD were found, many scientists started to look more seriously at families in which PD may be inherited. This has led to several genes having been identified for certain and a couple of candidates that are less clear—often these are the ones that are very rare.
Because there are now several recognized PD genes, we can begin to build a better picture of what can trigger the disease process. Having one gene is rather like trying to plan a road trip with only one point along the way. Having several genes might, if one can put them in the right order, tell you how to get there.
Q: Your laboratory focuses in part on LRRK2, a large family of genetic mutations associated with hereditary Parkinson's that has been called the Rosetta Stone of the disease. Why is LRRK2 important?
A: LRRK2 is important for its frequency, as much as anything else. LRRK2 cases account for between one and five percent of all Parkinson's disease, depending on which population is studied and how the patients are selected. Although one percent doesn't sound like a significant proportion, we have to remember that this is the archetypal "non-genetic" disease as discussed above. So, to find a significant proportion to have a single genetic cause changes our view of etiology quite substantially, even if it doesn't explain everything. It is also worth pointing out that LRRK2 is an excellent candidate for developing new therapeutic ideas.
Q: How can the study of rare mutations like LRRK2, which affect a relatively small proportion of people with Parkinson's, contribute to the development of therapies?
A: Another way to ask that question is, if some people have a mutation that causes their disease and other people have a similar disease but with a different cause (i.e., not genetic), is it possible that what would work for one group would also work for the other? You might think the responsible response would be that we don't know for sure whether a therapy based around LRRK2 will work for the 95 to 99 percent of people with Parkinson's who don't have a mutation in this specific gene. However, several characteristics of the people with these mutations make us more comfortable with the idea that such a therapy may be more generally helpful.
First, in most cases with LRRK2 mutations the clinical syndrome is very similar to common forms of Parkinson's. The disease starts in midlife (from the age of 50 onward) and progresses over time, just like typical Parkinson's. The patients respond to Levodopa—perhaps not a great drug but as good a drug as we have right now—which suggests that the symptoms have a common root cause in terms of which areas of the brain malfunction. Second, the pathology of cases with mutations overlaps with typical Parkinson's. In post-mortem studies, most cases with LRRK2 mutations have small protein deposits called Lewy bodies in the surviving cells of the brain. This may seem a bit obscure, but it isn't true of all cases with inherited Parkinson's, and therefore suggests that there is something specific about LRRK2 and its relationship to the typical pathology of PD.
If patients with LRRK2 mutations and patients with typical PD share the same clinical and pathological outcomes, then it seems reasonable to infer that the things that happen along the course of the disease are also similar. And if so, then the logical extension is that what works in LRRK2 patients might also work in more typical PD. We don't know this, and it's hard to test in detail, but it's a useful prediction. If the logic holds, then we can identify people with these mutations and have a high-risk group that has the same underlying cause of disease. Anything that is helpful to those people in terms of new therapies would then be worth trying more generally.
Q: Your basic research work on LRRK2 has revealed a drug target that your lab is pursuing. Where are you in your kinase inhibitor program and what are the goals of this research?
A: We're at a very early stage. LRRK2 is one of a large of proteins collectively known as kinases. Kinases are switches that control signaling within each cell. As such, they are involved in most if not all aspects of biology. A well-known example is that kinases control the rate at which cells in the body divide to form new cells; when this goes wrong, one outcome can be cancer. In fact, mutations in kinases are found in several forms of cancer, which has contributed to a large body of work on ways to manipulate kinases, including switching them off with small molecules.
At this point we don't have an inhibitor for LRRK2, so instead we have tried to understand how this kinase activity is regulated and how it affects neurons. We have found that active forms of LRRK2 will cause the death of neurons, but inactive forms do not. This implies that a small molecule inhibitor would do the same and prevent damage, assuming it was sufficiently specific and potent. The limitation here is that our work has mainly been done in a petri dish using cultured neurons, not in an intact brain. The next step is to develop an animal model where things are hopefully a better representation of what would happen slowly over time in the human brain.
The long-term goals are to move this into something that is transferable from laboratory settings into human beings. In one sense this is rather simple conceptually: (A) make an inhibitor for LRRK2; (B) make an appropriate model; then add A to B. If the model is "better" with the inhibitor, then we have proof of the concept that inhibiting LRRK2 is beneficial. Of course, neither is quite as simple as that. To test the hypothesis, we need a predictive model and an inhibitor that is potent, stable and selective; right now we have neither, but we think it can be done. The main point—that kinase activity is important—is a hypothesis and can be proven or disproven, so long as the test is careful enough. Even if it turns out that kinase activity is unimportant clinically, the molecule may offer other clues about Parkinson's.
Q: You have said that recent genetic discoveries in Parkinson's suggest "the problem is tractable, with the right kind of logic." Please expand/explain this viewpoint.
A: The essence is that kinases, in particular, are molecules in which there is a lot of prior knowledge, and so figuring out what they do—and what goes wrong in Parkinson's—ought to be possible. In principle we need "just" two pieces of information. We need to know what the immediate substrate(s) of LRRK2 is/are and we need to know how mutations in LRRK2 affect that activity.
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Update 2008: Please note, that there has been some confusion about this malt's connection to the stunning victories by Japanese whiskies at the 2008 World Whisky Awards. I am trying to nail this all down conclusively, but until I get any further information I am saying that this was NOT the winner of the best single malt whisky in the world award. I believe that went to the 1987 20-year-old I mentioned here. The Yoichi 1987 looks like this:
I haven`t tried the standard range 20 year old yet.
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A 2006 bottling received an average score of 90/100 ("excellent") from 13 reviewers on the Maltmaniacs.org website.
Robert Karlsson, has rated it at 86/100 ("highly recommendable") and in Malt Maniacs 101, February 1, 2007, described it as excellent "with chocolates, toffee, some cardamon, raisin, figs, mature apples."
Serge Valentin, at Whiskyfun.com gave a score of 91/100 ("excellent") and pronounced it a "masterpiece". He said it had an unusual nose, with seaside smells mixed with tars and developing nutty, new wood, vanilla, leathery and spicy notes. In the mouth, it had a "bold, ample, spicy attack, with a great sourness (small apples, grape skin)." It was quite "acrid". Next came liquorice, varnish, tea, and a suggestion of a very pale, very dry sherry. The finish was fresh apples and back to the cinnamon.
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I got this bottle last week, I was very amazed that Japanese can make such a wonderful Single Malt Whisky.
In fact is a cask strength 52% in alcohol. On the nose it reminds me the blend of Islay and Speyside. It has a hint of charcoal grill, smoked,tabacco,caramel,toffee,vanilla and a ginger bread like on the nose. On the palate, is really a big monster and explosive. Long finishing and after taste. What a fine cask strength 20 yrs old single malt whisky!!! And it only cost me NTD3650 in Taiwan, compared to GBP189 in London, Euro199 in Paris SGD289 in Singapore and Yen20,000 in Toyko.
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Stack five 4-inch squares of tissue paper; fold into quarters. Draw petal shapes as shown. Cut out, and unfold.
Bend one end of a green pipe cleaner to form a round nub. With other end, pierce a hole through the center of the stack of petals, and then pull it through the hole to form a stem. Scrunch petals up. Wrap floral tape around the flower base and down the stem. Pull the layers of petals apart.
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"In the late '90s, I returned from a world sailing trip with two kids and wife. We had 21/2 years of sailing our 42-foot sloop around the Pacific and experienced life in ways I could not have imagined earlier," said Un-Cruise Adventures' CEO Dan Blanchard.
After returning to his job at a small-ship cruise company, he realized that it was trying to replicate what the big ships did, which didn't resonate with his experiences in the islands or in the wilds of Alaska. So he went to work for American Safari Cruises in 1997 and acquired it in 2008. Later he helped found InnerSeas Discoveries as a separate brand that focused on expeditions as opposed to the luxury cruises offered by American Safari Cruises. This year he folded them into Un-Cruise.
Among Un-Cruise offerings are wildlife cruises, one of which I took with InnerSea last summer.
Our 76-guest vessel, the Wilderness Explorer, spent three days in Glacier Bay, where we could stop to kayak, hike and explore.
Whales often swam quite close to our ship outside of Glacier Bay. On another occasion, we watched two arctic wolves confront a young coastal brown bear on a beach.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Men's Fitness magazine released its annual list of the fittest and fattest cities in the United States on Monday. Colorado Springs, CO is the fittest while Las Vegas is the fattest.
Joining Colorado Springs among the fittest cities in America are Minneapolis, Albuquerque, NM, Denver and Portland, OR. Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera says having the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs as well as several military bases in the area—including the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs—helps give the city its fit image.
"It's just perfect to be called fittest city, and we're going to work hard to keep that," Rivera tells USA Today.
Meanwhile, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman was none too pleased that his city was ranked the fattest in America. He calls the magazine's study "irresponsible journalism."
"I don't understand how they do this besides being cute," Goodman tells USA Today.
After Las Vegas, the next four fattest cities, according to the study, are all in Texas: Arlington, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso.
Men's Fitness bases its rankings on 17 categories that include sports participation, the number of fitness centers and fast food restaurants per capita and access to parks and open spaces, recreational facilities and health care. The 17 categories fall into five general categories: healthy habits, risk factors, natural environment, urban environment, and attitudes and action.
"Those are the categories, and then we weigh them according to how we feel they impact the citizenry," says Roy S. Johnson, editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness. "Sports participation, obviously the amount of stuff people do where they get off their duffs and go outside, and the amount of parks and open space, we value that very highly."
Oklahoma City was ranked No. 8 on the fattest cities list, but that city is making strides to improve on its ranking for next year. Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett launched the Web site www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com, which allows residents to track their weight loss and includes healthy recipes as well as a list of fitness centers in the city. Since Jan. 1, nearly 15,000 people on the Web site have lost more than 26,000 pounds.
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Author Notes: Who says people don't know their neighbors anymore? Most people think that city dwellers, in particular, simply coexist in parallel and faceless existences. But we've got some great neighbors, the kind who'll even share secret recipes.
My husband and I moved to our unfashionable "inner city" San Francisco neighborhood 14 years ago, primarily because it is firmly outside of the city's fog belt. We also fell in love at first sight with the house, which we first rented from the owner. She had painted it in outrageously vivid colors after a lovestruck trip to Mexico, and it radiated warmth.
Unlike our friends in tonier neighborhoods, we know almost all of our entire block of neighbors by name, and exchange greetings, holiday cards, and neighborhood gossip.
The neighbors on one side of our house are pretty much family now. They're an elderly couple who basically function as our kids' third set of grandparents. They took care of them as babies, and are our emergency contacts if one of them needs to be picked up early from school. They share their wisdom and dole out advice. I have called over many times to borrow the proverbial cup of sugar that I overlooked and needed in a hurry to finish what I was baking.
This brings me to the pudding. Teresa, the honorary grandma, makes a fabulous and decadently rich rice pudding. The pudding shows its Mexican origins in its use of tres leches (three different kinds of milk, as in the cake). She usually tops it with lots of bittersweet cocoa powder, but a more recent variation uses the zest of Meyer lemons. This is the best rice pudding there is. Its custardy richness is cut just enough by the fragrant scent of the Meyer lemons, which come from the tree of another neighbor, Jack. When Teresa started her family here 50 years ago, her best pal and next-door neighbor was Jack's mother, who passed away long ago. Jack is way beyond needing a neighbor to care for anything but his mother's garden, and so Teresa, with her green thumb, tends it. Before we got to know our neighbors, my husband used to risk falling over the fence and breaking his bones to forage for the forbidden fruit. Now that we know our neighbors, we acquire our Meyer lemons more honestly, simply by asking.
We are so lucky to be living in this urban village, where we know our neighbors, advice and recipes are dispensed freely, Meyer lemons scent the air, and the rice pudding is rich and creamy. Try this pudding for a taste of this goodness. —Beautiful, Memorable Food
Food52 Review: Here's what I really like about this rice pudding. The only sweetener comes from the sweetened condensed milk, so you can actually taste the cream and the rice. Folks, comfort food just doesn't get any better than this. And I love that the lemon zest, with its beautiful brightness, sits on top, so you can see and smell it, as well as taste it. I halved the amounts (which worked beautifully). I'm looking forward to playing with this, substituting orange zest and adding nutmeg or cardamom, or perhaps both. —AntoniaJames
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- May be served warm or cold. If it gets too thick when set, stir in additional cold milk to desired consistency. Sprinkle lemon zest just prior to serving. Share with your neighbors.
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Forget the program name - PowerDVD Ultra is now much more than a DVD player. CyberLink now bill it as more of a universal media player, and with some justification, considering the program's extremely lengthy feature list.
The program can now handle and play all the video, audio and digital image formats which matter, for instance: all the main standards, mobile formats such as 3GP and its variants, HD formats, Flash video (FLV), many RAW format images, and a whole lot more.
It can also handle all your DVDs and Blu-ray discs, including 3D content. CyberLink's TrueTheater technology can now convert all your media - photos, videos, DVD and Blu-ray discs - to 3D, for any display type: anaglyph, 3D-ready HDTV, shutter glass, HDMI 1.4. And a new focus on audio sees extended support for surround and lossless HD Audio formats, including DTS-HD 7.1, Dolby TrueHD 7.1, OGG and FLAC.
Of course the content you need won't always be located on your own PC, so PowerDVD is now better able to reach out, and access media wherever it might be. You can open local files as normal. Comprehensive DLNA support sees you able to stream media to or from compatible PCs, media servers or other devices. And online media support sees you able to access YouTube, Facebook and Flickr content from within the program.
Yet none of this ever gets too complex, because PowerDVD 12's media library provides multiple ways to organise, view and search your files, so the content you need is never more than a click or two away.
And by way of demonstrating this, PowerDVD 12 Ultra now includes free Android and iOS apps so you can access media in your library from iPhones, iPads or Android devices. The system will intelligently convert videos and photos for the best possible display on your devices. You can set up Smart Sync rules to automatically synchronise your media with Android devices, so they're ready to take anywhere. And when you're at home, your device can become a PowerDVD remote, so you can easily control the program from a distance.
And if you're short on content then CyberLink would also be happy to see you stock up at their integrated music store, where over 17 million DRM-free tracks await your attention (in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, anyway). The practical benefit being that this lets you store your music in the cloud, so again you can access your content from anywhere, via up to 5 devices.
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I used to think coffee is coffee, meaning it didnt really matter where it came from because it all tasted the same. Boy was I wrong! Coffee is a plant that produces cherry-like fruit from which the beans are eventually extracted and distributed. Coffee is grown in approximately 50 countries that span the globe. [2] So then I assumed, all Kenyan coffees taste the same, or all Guatemalan coffees are the same. Wrong, again. I am learning that coffees from the same country can vary in taste, aroma and body. How? Well, within coffee growing countries lie different regions that can feature varying altitudes and climates, distinctive soil conditions, and even unique coffee processing techniques that have evolved over generations. All these factors contribute to specific flavor profiles for regions, coffee farms, and sometimes a specific flavor profile for an area within a coffee farm. This relationship between coffee flavor and specific origin is referred to as terroir. Terroir (French word for taste of the soil [2]) is a word that is usually applied to wine, but has been redefined in America to apply to coffee, tea, chocolate and other food products. [1] The exact definition of terroir according to The French Wine Guide is a group of vineyards(or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation, and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions, grapes and wine-making savoir-faire, which contribute to give its specific personality to the wine. [1] According to the Specialty Tea Institute, history, tradition, and even ownership are factors that contribute to the taste of place that terroir connotes.[1]
Interestingly enough an internet search brings up an article from 2006 featured in Imbibe Magazine talking about terroir in relation to coffee titled Tasting the Place. Cant make it to Guatemala? A cup of coffee might be the next best way to get there. It addresses the relationship between taste, body and aroma of coffees and the qualities of the soil, water, climate and conditions under which theyre grown.[2] It goes on to include comments from Peter Giuliano of Counter Culture Coffee and former president of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, who explains how he can sample a coffee from Ethiopia Yirgacheffee region, and be transported back to this particular location as the coffee has taken on the bright, cool attributes of that region. [2] This is terroir!
Terroir can be a bit overwhelming. However, it has certainly helped me realize that coffee is more than just a brown beverage that contains caffeine. Instead, coffee is a complex beverage with a wide variety of possibilities worth exploring.
1. Specialty Tea Institute Level 1 certification manual- http://www.teausa.com/general/star/
2. Imbibe Magazine- http://www.imbibemagazine.com/Coffee-Origins-Coffee-Terroir
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StormFactory necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 220 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
The Storm Factory
We are a husband and wife team establishing a new entertainment, development, and production company focused on becoming the Paramount, Dreamworks or Universal Studios of the internet.
We are launching our web site and two explosive new web series. We need a sexy logo that will help brand the company.
Our projects will appeal to the 18 to 34 and 25 to 54 demographic that loves movies like "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Star Trek," "The Hurt Locker," the James Bond movies and any Jerry Bruckheimer film.
It also needs to target movie studio and television executives.
The logo needs to look great on our web site, business cards, letterhead, etc.. Most importantly it should look great on our title card at the start of each show. It should look good at any size -- like the side of a DVD spine or bottom of movie poster and big like at the start of a movie.
The graphic part of the logo should incorporate a factory and/or a storm in some kind of creative way.
We LOVE logos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnfjKoexB0o and http://www.jbfilms.com/archive/home.html
The logo must contain the text "The Storm Factory"
Or possibly "Storm Factory" without the "The" and adding "Entertainment" as the subtext.
We would like the logo to be iconic and have depth. We like colors, but we are open to suggestions. If in color, it should also look good in black or white.
Here are some examples of other logos we like http://www.stormfactory.com/logo_samples.jpg.
But we also like vector based logos. We liked a lot of the submissions we saw here https://99designs.com/logo-design/c…logo-29511
This is our first time doing this so we will keep things simple at and just let you create something that is...
- Custom and Original!
- Eye catching
- Clean
- Professional
- Recognizable
And is NOT...
- Some generic graphic with Storm Factory thrown next to it
- Some generic font that we could have found and put together ourselves in Photoshop.
- Cheesy
- Easily forgettable
So with all that said, just go for it! Good luck and thanks for submitting.
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Ayurveda is the ancient art of healing that deals with all aspects of a person's life as an entity. This holistic system of medicine from India uses a constitutional model for every person is an individual, unique and complete being. Its aim is to provide guidance regarding food and lifestyle so that healthy people can stay healthy and persons with health challenges can improve their health.
Ayurveda is a Science of Life as well as a medical system. Hence, the meaning of Ayurveda; two Sanskrit words: Ayu which means life and Veda which means the knowledge of. To know about life is Ayurveda and according to the ancient Ayurvedic scholar Charaka, "ayu" is comprised of four essential parts: the combination of mind, body, senses and the soul. With Ayurveda healing, the purpose is not just to bring remedy to an illness but also to bring harmony to out-out-balance factors.
In Ayurveda, when the body doshic balance of vata-pitta-kapha is agitated or in disorder, or if any of these types are accumulated, the individual may become unwell. Ayurveda philosophy views a person as a unique individual made up of five primary elements: ether (space), air, fire, water, and earth just as in nature. Should any of these elements be present in the environment, they will have an impact on us. Two examples are the weather and the food in our diet.
In addition, certain elements are seen to have an ability to combine and form various physiological functions as follows:
Ether + air = Vata dosha
Vata governs the principle of movement and therefore can be seen as the force which directs nerve impulses, circulation, respiration, and elimination.
Fire + water = Pitta dosha
Pitta is the process of transformation or metabolism, metabolism in the organ and tissue systems as well as cellular metabolism. An example is the transformation of foods into nutrients that our bodies can assimilate.
Water + earth = Kapha dosha
Kapha is responsible for growth, adding structure unit by unit and protection. Types of Kapha found in the body, for example, are cerebral-spinal fluid protecting the brain and spinal column and the mucousal lining of the stomach protecting the tissues.
Ayurveda sees each person as a special mixture because ratios of the doshas: vata, pitta and kapha vary in each individual, giving us diversity and uniqueness.
Ayurveda healing first deal with any emergency or life-threatening symptoms like high fever or asthma attacks, and then look into the problem of the fundamental causes. Remedies like herbal medication, changes in diet and nutrition, cleansing procedures like bathing, yoga postures, exercises and even breathing techniques in Ayurveda, remove symptoms and eradicate the underlying causes of a disease or health problem. If these underlying problems are not dealt with, it will manifest again either in the same way or another form.
Ayuveda disease management
Chikitsa, also known as disease management, is the Ayurveda approach to restoring health. There are eight traditional components in the complete healing program and its purpose are:
Identify health problem Eliminate underlying cause of illness Purify the body Reestablish and restore balance Strengthens and revitalizes affected organs, tissues and system to prevent recurrence
The 8 Essential Components of Ayurveda Healing are:
1. Locate person's constitution (prakruti): vata, pitta or kapha
2. Locate the present imbalance of doshas in the body (vikruti)
3. Find the reason and causes of illness such as lifestyle, diet, genetic predisposition, emotional and relationship factors, psychological stress, etc.
4. Initial treatment is to remove the cause
5. Give appropriate regimen like exercise, yoga, diet and relaxation accordingly to person's constitution, vikruti and environemnt changes, etc.
6. Detoxification treatment by either:
elimination like panchakarma or shodana, or palliation like shamana
7. Rejuvenate the body in general in order to strenthen specific ogans and tissues
8. Two types of therapies based on the principle that opposite qualities give balance:
Antagonistic therapy to the provoked dosha Antagonistic therapy to the disease
When a person becomes ill, the illness is not likely completely cured unless you change behaviours that caused it such as poor diet, inadequate exercise, bad lifestyle habits like excessive alcohol or smoking, even stress (caused by work or other factors), unresolved relationships and related psychological factors. Getting to the bottom of these factors is important in the process of healing and complete recovery.
It is necessary to identify the health problem discriminatingly and determine whether the constitutional condition of the individual. The specific treatment will not be benefit the person if diagnosis is inaccurate. So it is important to look at all symptoms physically to help you determine if it is a vata, pitta or kapha condition.
Once the condition is diagnosed, the treatment is given according to constitutional type. Some general treatment can benefit all types of constitutional types.
Ayurveda remedies are simple and natural, using common household herbs and strategies such as a warm bath and soothing herbal tea. Common Ayurveda herbs are also recommended in the remedies. There are several remedies for each health condition. Every person is unique and the remedies will work differently so you do not have to try all of them. Some may work better for you and not others. If it dissolves the problem, stick with it, otherwise, try the other approaches.
Always keep a fundamental therapeutic guideline when using self-treatments like Ayurveda principles and remedies. If they do not work, do not be discouraged. Sometimes it's hard to determine constitutional type and your diagnosis may not be correct. Reassess your illness and the reactions to the approach taken, and treat your actual condition. Its very rare but possible that your illness may not coincide with your own constitutional type. So be discerning to select the right remedy that fits your symptoms of your sickness, and not just body type. However, if your health condition is critical or fatal, consult your doctor immediately. Should your problem be chronic, give some time for healing and it may be months before symptoms diminish. Ayurveda is not a quick remedy so allow your body healing mechanism to process at its own pace, momentum and duration.
In Ayurveda healing, each condition comes with not only medication and herbal formulas, but also other measures like special diets, exercise, yoga, relaxation therapies like massages, tea and healing paste, among others, to provide healing. Together with medicinal treatment, changing your daily routine can help you improve health and live harmoniously in your surrounding with nature. The human body is always resilient, working to restore balance and complete health so the natural process of healing recommended in Ayurveda will support the body and bring benefits in keeping you in the pink of health and your life in harmony.


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Texas Book Festival sets event in San Antonio
DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Book Festival is set to hold one-day events in San Antonio and Dallas next year.
Texas Book Festival, held annually in October at Texas Capitol in Austin, announced Tuesday that it will partner with the San Antonio Public Library Foundation to present the San Antonio Edition on April 13.
Details have not yet been released on the Dallas event.
The free event in San Antonio, part of the celebrations of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation's 30th anniversary, will be held at the San Antonio Central Library and neighboring Southwest School of Art. Fifty Texas and national authors are expected to participate.
The Texas Book Festival in Austin features readings and discussions from more than 250 Texas and national authors and counts more than 40,000 participants.


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Petraeus: Model for email privacy
Privacy buffs have struggled for years to make their fight to keep law enforcement out of email feel personal — and now they've got a face.
The David Petraeus scandal has galvanized tech companies and civil libertarians who want Congress to drag a 1986 statute called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act into the 21st century.
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"One of the most difficult things about privacy reforms is sometimes it can be hard to put a face on the harm. It's sort of a diffuse issue," said Chris Calabrese, the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative counsel. "Well, the Petraeus scandal puts a face on it."
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The argument: If the nation's top spy can't hide his personal communications from law enforcement — who can?
And even though the snooping uncovered an unflattering story about the general, it's put questions about digital privacy back in the news.
The privacy law does little to shield Americans' emails. Law enforcement agents generally don't need a search warrant to request access from an email provider to those messages if they're older than 180 days — an issue in an era when email storage seems limitless, and most consumers' inboxes are overflowing with notes that might contain personal information that's saved there for ease.
( Also on POLITICO: Petraeus scandal tests D.C. code)
The FBI has offered few details about how it obtained email as part of the Petraeus affair, but told POLITICO "legal processes were adhered to and followed."
Privacy pushers are trying to turn the high-profile episode into a lesson for Congress and teach lawmakers that ordinary Americans' communications are just as vulnerable to prying law enforcement eyes.
"I think people do look at this and think, well, I certainly wouldn't want to be in the position of having all this information exposed because someone sent a catty email. Maybe that will build more interest and more support for finally bringing these 1986 rules into the 21st century," said Julian Sanchez, research fellow at the CATO Institute.
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To the satisfaction of consumer groups and tech companies, lawmakers have been working behind the scenes for months on an update to ECPA.
Even before the Petraeus incident surfaced, the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee actually planned to mark up a bill that could include a number of reforms to the old privacy rules — including an end to its disparate legal treatment of old emails.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the panel's chairman and lead voice on ECPA reform, did not comment for this story.
( Also on POLITICO: 5 Gmail lessons from David Petraeus affair)
Despite the appetite, there's also a sense in Washington that his efforts probably won't result in much immediate progress this year: Republicans still fear that an overhaul of ECPA might harm law enforcement, and the Obama administration hasn't commented much publicly on the debate. Still more, Leahy's counterpart in the House — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who leads the Judiciary panel there now — didn't do much to revisit the law in the 112th Congress.


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CORE is a not-for-profit membership association of Internet domain name registrars and registries. Its purpose is to operate, on a cost-recovery basis, a shared registration system (SRS) for Internet domain names.
CORE was created in 1997 based on the Generic Top-Level Domains Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to launch new names spaces. Since inception, CORE has been active in the development of protocols and methodologies to facilitate access to domain registrations, including a multi-protocol Shared Registration System (SRS) and registration gateway.
Who are CORE members?
CORE's members are registrars who register and maintain domains on behalf of their customers through CORE SRS and gateways. To register domains and to get value added services, please check the list of members offering registration services.
What are the advantages of a CORE Membership
- CORE is an ICANN accredited Registrar offering registration services through tis members. The TLDs available via CORE's channel services include most generic top-level domain and a growing list of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
- CORE is not-for-profit association where the membership is the ultimate basis for the governance of all activities. All members have the same rights and obligations, the same contractual terms, access to the same pricing and the same weight in voting.
- In addition to access to TLDs via CORE's accreditation, CORE offers the Agent-Mode interface. This allows Registries, Registrars, ISP, Resellers to use their own ICANN or registry accreditations with CORE as a technical Back End.
- CORE offers a unified registrar channel interface for member registrars. The same protocol can be used for all TLDs.
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CORE provides Registry Services for for TLDs. CORE has supported the introduction of new TLDs since its inception in 1997. CORE currently provides technical back-end services for two TLDs, .cat and .museum.
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HTSQL is a comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases. HTSQL is designed for data analysts and other accidental programmers who have complex business inquiries to solve and need a productive tool to write and share database queries. HTSQL is free and open source software. For more detail, visit http://htsql.org/.
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As we start the New Year, I want to reflect on four events that took place in the last few months of 2012 that illustrate how the Obama Administration's human rights policies are achieving concrete results.
• In November, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Burma. This visit was the culmination of 18 months of active diplomatic efforts between the United States and Burma focused significantly on political and economic reform and the protection of human rights. During the President's visit, the Burmese government announced a series of important human rights commitments, including access for the International Committee of the Red Cross to prisons and conflict areas, the opening of a permanent office by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the release of additional political prisoners, and the establishment of an ongoing review process for prisoner cases. The visit followed the first ever human rights dialogue between our two countries. The dialogue gave us an opportunity to discuss political reforms, rule of law, challenges relating to ongoing conflicts in ethnic states, political prisoners, and laid the groundwork for future progress. The administration's efforts in Burma reflect our commitment to principled engagement where human rights concerns are firmly integrated into U.S. policy-making.
• Secretary Clinton commemorated Human Rights Day in Dublin, underscoring that not only are universal values "vital to who we are and what we hope to see our world become," but that "human rights are at the center of some of the most significant challenges to global security and stability and therefore to our national interests." She also emphasized that "human rights cannot be disconnected from other priorities. They are inextricably linked with all of the goals we strive for in our countries and around the world. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not just a catalog of rights and government obligations. It is a time-tested blueprint for successful societies." The Secretary's speech underscored the challenges we face, the commitment we place on advancing human rights principles, and the centrality of these issues to America's strength and influence in the world.
• Perhaps our greatest and most challenging work over the last year has involved countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The transitions that began in the Arab Spring of early 2011 are now entering their third year. In 2012, we saw the inevitable challenges of turning democratic aspirations into reality. From Syria to Egypt, from Tunisia to Libya, from Bahrain to Jordan, meaningful, durable reform will depend on the building of sustainable democracy and respect for human rights. As Deputy Secretary Burns remarked last month, the United States believes "that supporting democratic transitions and political reform is not simply a matter of idealism, it is a strategic necessity."• Finally, I want to mention Secretary Clinton's visit to Northern Ireland in December, where she reflected on the lasting peace born from the tireless efforts of advocates and leaders. She stressed -- in terms that apply to the Middle East and others areas in transition -- that durable peace rests not only on resolving political conflicts, but on reaching "the hard-to-reach communities -- like the young man...whose father couldn't find work and who sees his own chances for a job good slipping away" or the young woman "who's had to give up the idea of going to university." Including people who risk being economically, politically, or socially marginalized is critical to building lasting peace and security.
As we begin 2013, we will build on these themes and continue to advance universal principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law as essential components of U.S. foreign policy around the globe.
Mari in the U.S.A. writes:
The world will not miss the hypocrisy of the US posturing about human rights in Burma, while at home, the US President orders "targeted assassinations" of US citizens, pervasive electronic surveillance, and the cruel and unusual punishment of whistle-blowers like Bradley Manning.
Hi, Sec Hillary Rodham Clinton.
someone say to me "Hi" is very rude saying to Sec.
i see but want say to Sec, Hi.
read or not.
Today issue? is, issue? can i write issue?
if permit i want say issue.
issue is
Venezuela President need mento
just like other countries,
other leaders.
we no You and he and Venezuela citizen
discuss accept he to President, open and public.
i think, this is not only Venezuela's problem but also USA and other middle and South America's.
i want this argue becomes real political
talk not power game, not military concern.
so much time need need talk, at least this problem.
because, USA success in Mexico some parts, continues this tide and
With work Brazil and near countries.
i think economy boost by Brazil, yes Mexico is good maybe 7months later, Mexico will be buy USA goods.
really,2014,i think,
i need buyer, now and today buys goods.
i recommend Brazil
therefore Venezuela's problems
solve by talk not power, not military
not Intelligency Agency.
Just, my thinking. just my's.
Thank You.
Have a dinner? with family?
To Sec
Welcome back to our, healthy and soundly.
(if Sec Hillary Clinton resign, State will be, Oasis without Desert, Oasis without Desert, just my thinking.)
-President and Sec, i think, it `s need for our survive. we(include me?) need some affairs.
Watching the news-International Monetary Fund (IMF) working group spends in Cairo to discuss Egypt with respect to the bailout, the IMF senior officials (local time), said.
Watching the news,
Ready to finish that, at least for the economic reconstruction of Egypt. Personally think
However, the IMF's financial support, Egypt's promised jobs to the unemployed, but also the possibility of
Egypt, the business must offer to match the characteristics of the Egyptian Jobs to the people of Egypt, promising jobs to struggling businesses and employees around our bit of a test bed, while never promised that ...
Read the old story, but also to read?
Homeland, most of the population is concentrated around the Nile, Egypt's land use, approximately 90% of the desert, and little rain does ....
Thought is so suitable to the development of solar photovoltaic and solar thermal environment.
Moment, beyond the topic,,,,,
Weighted led unemployed has increased too much, angel investors and renewable energy industry in the future of solar energy and solar power to cause the failure of intensive GE and SHARP, anxiety. However, in the presidential election commitment to accelerate investment in the renewable energy industry, providing jobs and a suitable environment to survive, the human has promised.
So I personally think, to try a new economic system than the United States or China, Egypt, solar photovoltaic and solar power should be forced to. Egypt, and economic development through the existing energy system, which promises to economic development through low wages and its sequelae caused by the way of economic development in the 1980s, China and India are experiencing, and social sequelae was also talk about the possibility of mass production to .
Back to the point ....
Must be resolved through economies of scale, low efficiency, photovoltaic and solar thermal development of a chronic problem, its weaknesses. Industrial investment, low productivity, various problems occur during the initial stages, even if the issues can be overcome, however, likely to give rise to skepticism about the renewable energy re-oriented in the developed countries, the growth rate of the immobilized.
Frankly, a very difficult situation, but in politics for endowments and efficiency, not to give up the sweet economic growth and that growth takes place in a short period of time to provide a numerically
Political success and transition to a new energy system, in order to
Will you (including me?)
New construction of the Suez Canal.
Almost the exit level of the business sector, so look like a breakthrough, but also the possibility of
Renewable, showing a strong policy commitment in the field of energy policy that offers promise for economic recovery, and likely to be
At the very least, people who are engaged in the development of solar and photovoltaic, you'd like it, I expect.
Acid battery technology and the slow advance of the course, the negative view, but understanding
Imagination to transcend their own people, a large-scale project, always, always, the fear is.
Well, at least higher than the other areas in Egypt is likely to succeed, photovoltaic and solar.
And, you need to practice. For renewable energy ......
Already been implemented, but still, high interest and provide hope for the future of the media and corporate, national large-scale project that provides a lower efficiency, but the technology to human beings and nature coexist, it was time to give hope Personally I think ...
GE, SHARP, China ......
Several companies in Korea are interested in solar and photovoltaic discussed, even if, in reality, want to introduce you to ....
Talked about in the past, so do I need to convince my parents? And,
President and Sec, i think, it `s need for our` s survive. we (include me?) need some affairs.
Anna in Washington, D.C. writes:
I watched the Secretary's speech in Dublin. It was amazing. She will be missed!
Susan C. in Florida writes:
It was good to see Secretary Clinton "back on the job" on the news last night. She has done a remarkable job as Secretary of State and will be remembered as one of the very best State has ever had. Her hard work has taken a total on her and I hope she will take time for herself to rest and just enjoy, perhaps, sleeping in! Secretary Clinton, you have served our country with dedication and honor. I second Anna in D.C., you will be missed.
Dr. Francis P. in California writes:
Dear Dr. Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democrary, Human Rights and Labor:
We really Appreciate / Bravo the achieved concrete results of the Obama Administration's human rights policies in Burma and Ireland, through the President Obama and the Srecretary of State Hillary Clinton, in 2012 !
Now,in 2013, We wish and looking for the positive Human Rights Projects that should be implemented and deployed sucessfully in VIET-NAM and / or CHINA by the U.S.Administration, to make the Freedom of Religion , Freedom of Press and Media / Internet Communications, Freedom of people demonstration for democracy and sovereingty of national lands and sea, Liberation of all political prisoners come TRUE. Specially, the freedom of the Union Labor formation and deployment by the people will lead the country ( Viet-Nam and/or China) to democracy regime (For instance Poland Solidarity Labor Union in Poland): Those cited missions are truly the duties of Dr. Michael Posner, Assistant of The Secretary of State.
God Bless You and Family as well as your human missions
My Best Regards.
Dr. Francis Phu
Saman B. writes:
All the 30 Articles intresting to read,thank you.
Some businessman and some policians visiting, today, return to beijing...
just, watched news.
new york city, ferry accident, sorriable.
Korea's issue need talk, each other.
But not ban to your willing.
just hit by my brain, understand?
@AMBASSORDORKOLOB is who?
Not good but someone's spy?
China try deal with you?
if want fight
not today
do tomorrow.
where are going? i'm?
Japan and BK PM is not fit to me, just
only economic cocerns.
i want
make bank, my bank but
have not a penny
just only have debt.
how, where are begins?
Vi A. in Nebraska writes:
I want to comment that while all the advancement President Obama made in the area of human rights doesn't address the harm done by having sanctions against Russia and then prompting the adoption ban that subsequently occurred against citizens of the US. Where is the outcry of the human rights issue of thousands of orphans that will not receive homes because of this retalitory action.
Saman B. writes:
Beforehand I really admire your remarks.
now the Rights acquainted for of the nations,some of these or full maybe are in their country and legislations,but none of these Rights cover us, by no denote me,it's strange and awesome you but this reall; what make profit of these proclaims ! I mean,can it make amends for me,can you block accounts of a regime in the global bank and give me a scruple of enormous $, then make a life myself ???


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Masden Cemetery - Location: , 11695 Preston Highway (Behind the Napa Store) (N 37 50.2534, W 85 43.7926); Elevation: 518 feet; Date Visited: 9/17/08; Available Pictures= 9 [Cem #143]
Below is an image insert from Google showing the location of this Bullitt County cemetery. You can use the arrows in the upper left corner to move the image, or use the plus and minus signs to zoom in or out. You may also put the cursor on the map and drag the image to where you want it. Click on the marker to get cemetery details.
The Bullitt County History Museum, a service of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is located in the county courthouse at 300 South Buckman Street (Highway 61) in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The museum, along with its research room, is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday. Admission is free. The museum, as part of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization and is classified as a 509(a)2 public charity. Contributions and bequests are deductible under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. Page last modified: 08 Sep 2018 . Page URL: bullittcountyhistory.org/cem/masden_cem143.html


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The Seahawks are coming off their worst offensive performance of the season, and now are without Sidney Rice the rest of the way, so the time would appear ideal for Percy Harvin to make his Seattle debut.
It won't work out that way. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll confirmed Harvin will not play Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"Percy won't play this week," Harvin said during his weekly spot on SiriusXM NFL Radio. "He's getting close but not close enough."
Fox Sports 1 reported that Harvin was on track to return against the St. Louis Rams on Monday night until his surgically repaired hip "flared up" in practice last Thursday. The team slowed Harvin down after that.
"We want to make sure we don't go too far too fast," Carroll said Wednesday. "We're looking for the long haul in his recovery. We want to make sure we manage our way through that. We're being very careful. He didn't do a whole lot last week. He did very little. It seems like it's best to keep him in that mode a little longer."
Jermaine Kearse will step into Rice's role in the starting lineup against the Bucs. Harvin should eventually supplant Kearse, though the waiting game continues.
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Here are some other injury updates around the league:
1. Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller was a limited participant in practice for a second consecutive day. Coach Doug Marrone points toward Spiller returning to the lineup following a one-week absence: "I feel good about C.J. Spiller playing."
2. Houston Texans running back Arian Foster returned to practice and took all scheduled reps Thursday. Coach Gary Kubiak said he "feels good" about where's Foster at. Ben Tate also returned to practice, but in a limited fashion.
3. Miami Dolphins right tackle Jonathan Martin was officially downgraded to out for Thursday night's matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals. Martin left the team this week after suffering what was described as an emotional breakdown in the team's cafeteria.
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Here is the POOL FAMILY that I have been able to trace. If you know of these POOL's please contact me. Thanks.
WILLIAM POOL wife: ANN son: WILLIAM POOL born June 4, 1811 in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England
His wife is: MARY ANN BLACKGROVE born abt 1819 died: 1891
married: January 19, 1836 St. Dunstan, Stepney, London, England
1 WILLIAM POOL born abt 1836 Walworth, Surrey, England
2 ANGELINA POOL born May 19, 1840 Newington, Surrey, England
died Aug 16, 1849 Newington, Surrey, England
3 HENRY POOL born abt 1852 Newington, Surrey, England
Son 1 WILLIAM POOL was married to CAROLINE WALKER on May 10, 1860 in Lambeth, Surrey, England
CAROLINE WALKER born abt 1841 Walworth, Surrey, England
died Jan 26, 1891 Croydon, Surrey, England
Children of William & Caroline POOL:
1 CAROLINE ELIZABETH POOL born 1861 Walworth, Lambeth, Surrey, England
died 1910 Godstone, Surrey, England
married: George William Chapman WELSBY on June 6 1881 Croydon, Surrey, England
children:1 Beatrice Caroline Welsby, Sydney John Welsby (wife - Emma Elizabeth E. Goddard), Emily Frances Welsby, Lucy Elizabeth Welsby, Olive May Welsby.
2 ANGELINA POOL born 1862 Walworth, Lambeth, Surrey, England
married: Frank FERRIS in 1884 in Croydon, Surrey, England
children: Emily Angelina Ferris, Elsie Dorothy Ferris.
3 WILLIAM POOL born 1864 Redhill, Surrey, England
4 HENRY POOL born 1866 Redhill, Surrey, England
5 EMILY POOL born Sept 1, 1869 Croydon, Surry, England
died Sept 1, 1934 Woowich, Guelph, Wellington County,
Ontario, Canada
married: William James SWIFT on April 4, 1891 in Croydon, Surrey, England
children: William 'Hubert' Swift, Alfred Victor Swift (wife - Ruby Alvetta Brown Spearman), Grace Evelyn Swift, Blanche Emily Swift, Doris 'Gwendoline' Swift aka Gwen Swift.
6 LUCY POOL born Sept 19, 1872 Croydon, Surrey, England
died in Ontario, Canada
7 ALFRED EVERETT POOL aka Fred Pool (my Great Grandfather)
born April 11, 1875 Croydon,Surrey, England
died ?? British Columbia, Canada?
married: Ellen 'Blanche' Scriver on Jan 11, 1899 Brighton, Ontario, Canada
children: Alfred Everett 'Garfield' Pool aka Gar Poole, Lucy Pool ake Lucy Poole, Alfred 'Raymond' Pool(e), Edward Howard Pool(e), John W. Poole, Beatrice Blanche Poole, Charles 'Alfred' Hubert Frank Poole, Edward Newton Poole, Rose Valentine Poole.
All of their children were born in either Ontario, Saskatchewan or British Columbia, Canada.
8 CHARLES WILLIAM POOL born Jan 11, 1879 Croydon, Surrey, England
died June 15, 1955 Vanderhoof, British Columbia
married: Sarah Marks on Oct 28, 1920 in Fort Williams, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and had 2 children.
Looking for Hodge family tree connections England to Canada
The first "HODGE" ancestor I have is JOHN HODGE from England. I don't know which part of England and I don't have any vital dates for him but I know he married MARY MAYERS who was also from somewhere in England. They immigrated to North America. I don't know if they arrived at a port in the USA or Canada but they ended up in Ontario, Canada. They settled in Smithfield Village, Brighton Township, Northumberland County in the province of Ontario.
They had at least one child when they left England. His name was SAMUEL F. HODGE born Sept. 1837 in England. He died August 4, 1920 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Smithfield, Ontario, Canada.
Samuel married ELEANOR GRIFFIN born Dec. 5, 1835 in Ireland. She died in 1921. They had 2 known children:
1. EDWARD W. HODGE born 1857 in Brighton Twp., Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada He died in 1929 and is also buried in Greenwood Cemetery. I don't know if he married or not.
2. EMMA HODGE (This is my Great Great Grandmother)She was born on November 6, 1858 in Brighton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada She died March 3, 1942 in Smithfield Village, Brighton Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada
Emma married JOHN HENRY SCRIVER born August 22, 1858 in Murray Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. He died Dec. 28, 1935 in Smithfield Village, Brighton Twp., Ontario, Canada.
I would like to have some help from other HODGE researchers who might be researching this line of HODGE in England in order to trace this line further back in time. Thanks.
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Park Sessions 2012: Heavenly Resort
PHOTOS: Bob Plumb & Ben Birk
The second installment of our Park Sessions brought us to Heavenly Resort, in South Lake Tahoe, California. Our crew consisted of Mark McMorris, Craig McMorris, Eero Ettala, Andrew Brewer, Jordan Phillips, Sam Taxwood, and Tyler Flanagan, along with Tahoe locals Nick Poohachoff, Joanna Dzierzawski, and Johnny Lazz. There was a little sun, a lot of boarding, and a ton of gambling, 'cause isn't that what snowboarding in South Lake is all about?
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — If no one else is prepared to make a big deal of the Philadelphia 76ers and the moves they are making in the Eastern Conference, we'll gladly take up that cause here at HT.
And with the way Doug Collins has his crew playing these days, it's a cause well worth championing (before Utah Jazz fans go crazy, we see you there, too, and we're coming there next if you keep it up).
But Episode 65 of the Hang Time Podcast is heavy on the team that should have folks Philly smiling about at least one of their professional teams this week.
— espnW's Kate Fagan, formerly of the Deep Sixer blog on Philly.com, joined us to break down the Sixers and the culture change that's taken place within the franchise since Collins (and new ownership) came aboard.
With the results of NBA.com's annual GM Survey and USA Basketball's announcement of the 20 finalists for the 2012 Olympic team dropping on the same day, we had to try to make sense of it all.
— NBA.com's John Schuhmann joined us and decipher all the pertinent data. (Jerry Colangelo, Coach K and all the folks at USA Basketball can rest easy now that Schuh has taken care of cutting the roster to the 12 guys that need to be in London.)
And in an effort to bring peace and harmony to all people, we decided to help end the spirited debate Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley have been battling about on the TNT set since last week.
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Sekou Smith of NBA.com, as well as our superproducer Micah Hart of NBA.com's All Ball Blog.
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Sara M needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
DevRight specializes in developing seed ideas and providing the resources and capital to allow them to mature into full blown companies. Developing concepts and methods for greater practice efficiency in a modern world.
DevRight was created for the "development of ideas done right." The company currently specializes in developing concepts and methods for greater practice efficiency for patients and doctors in the medical and dental fields. (ie. software, products, practice management modules, continuing education are some examples) Company was created by Dentists, but is not completely limited to the medical/dentistry field in future endeavors.
They are looking for a logo that conveys a modern but corporate feel to be the center hub of think tank organization. Company is based on creative idea development so logo should be exciting, but with a professional feel.
- Modern, industrial, unique, innovative
- Colors with maybe a black or grey base
- Company tagline is "development of ideas done right"- could be used
- Art needs to be in a vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator
- Company is open to different interpretations, colors and ideas!
- Pastels
- Not sure if DevRight needs to be held to the dentistry/ medical field by new logo
- No "kiddy" looking designs
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Boston, MA, April 30, 2009 – Perceptive Informatics, the industry's leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), today announced that it has developed a robust medical imaging methodology for Central Nervous System (CNS) clinical trials involving Alzheimer's disease. The method, based on measuring ventricular size, provides a new approach to monitor brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and potential treatment effects. The technique was presented on April 26, 2009 in Seattle, Washington during an invitation-only meeting of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).
The advantages of this method include providing higher quality, reproducible, and regulatory compliant assessments with the potential to help clinical trial sponsors make better and faster development decisions about Alzheimer's treatments in development. To develop this method, the Perceptive Informatics team collected Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans from the ADNI database using Perceptive's medical imaging system and regulatory compliant processes.
"It is more critical than ever that biopharmaceutical companies have the ability to make accurate go/no go decisions as early as possible for new compounds. Medical imaging is increasingly being used as a surrogate endpoint or biomarker of drug efficacy in all phases of CNS trials. With this new methodology, we believe that Perceptive's therapeutic area experts are able to help sponsors advance neuroimaging and bring important CNS treatments to patients sooner," said Kenneth G. Faulkner, Ph.D., Vice President of Medical Imaging, Perceptive Informatics.
"Based on ADNI data, measuring ventricular change may be one of the most robust outcomes for imaging progression of Alzheimer's disease. Perceptive has developed a novel method of ventricular measurement that accurately reflects brain atrophy," said James Paskavitz, M.D., Medical Director, Perceptive Informatics. "We believe that this method can support sponsors in reducing the time, cost, and risk associated with clinical development of Alzheimer's treatments by providing medical image data that informs early phase decisions and is reproducible for later phase, multi-center trials."
The Perceptive Informatics Medical Imaging Group has helped to develop and validate novel surrogate endpoints for a variety of CNS disorders. Perceptive offers a range of capabilities in the application of imaging techniques from early clinical development through late phase studies. The medical imaging team operates globally and services a wide range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and metabolism/endocrinology imaging.
More information about the Medical Imaging capabilities provided by Perceptive Informatics is available at http://www.perceptive.com/product/imaging/index-medical-imaging.html.
ADNI is focused on defining the rate of progress of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, developing improved methods for clinical trials in this area, and providing a large database to improve design of treatment trials. A goal of ADNI is to provide information and methods to help lead to effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease, leading to effective prevention. More information about ADNI can be found at http://www.adni-info.org.
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About Perceptive Informatics
Perceptive Informatics, a subsidiary of PAREXEL, is the industry's leading eClinical solutions provider. Perceptive Informatics offers unprecedented access to innovative eClinical technologies and resources, providing clinical trial sponsors, CROs, and other service providers with the benefits of an extensive line of products and services throughout the entire clinical development lifecycle. In August, 2008 Perceptive was joined with ClinPhone plc, and the newly combined organization offers eClinical software and services that increase the efficiency and productivity of clinical research. Perceptive's expansive product portfolio includes Interactive Voice and Web Response Systems (IVRS/IWRS), Medical Imaging, Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems, Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS) and Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) solutions, as well as eClinical systems integration and implementation services. For more information about Perceptive Informatics, visit www.perceptive.com.
About PAREXEL International
PAREXEL International Corporation is a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, providing a broad range of knowledge-based contract research, medical communications and consulting services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Committed to providing solutions that expedite time-to-market and peak-market penetration, PAREXEL has developed significant expertise across the development and commercialization continuum, from drug development and regulatory consulting to clinical pharmacology, clinical trials management, medical education and reimbursement. Perceptive Informatics, Inc., a subsidiary of PAREXEL, provides advanced technology solutions, including medical imaging, to facilitate the clinical development process. Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, PAREXEL operates in 69 locations throughout 52 countries around the world, and has over 9,400 employees. For more information about PAREXEL International visit www.PAREXEL.com.
This release contains "forward-looking" statements regarding future results and events. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends," "appears," "estimates," "projects," "targets," and similar expressions are also intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual future results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements contained in this release. Important factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, risks associated with: actual operating performance; actual expense savings and other operating improvements resulting from recent restructurings; the loss, modification, or delay of contracts which would, among other things, adversely impact the Company's recognition of revenue included in backlog; the Company's dependence on certain industries and clients; the Company's ability to win new business, manage growth and costs, and attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to complete additional acquisitions and to integrate newly acquired businesses or enter into new lines of business, including, but not limited to, the successful business integration and anticipated synergy achievements in connection with the ClinPhone acquisition; the impact on the Company's business of government regulation of the drug, medical device and biotechnology industry; consolidation within the pharmaceutical industry and competition within the biopharmaceutical services industry; the potential for significant liability to clients and third parties; the potential adverse impact of health care reform; and the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and other international economic, political, and other risks. Such factors and others are discussed more fully in the section entitled "Risk Factors" of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008 as filed with the SEC on February 9, 2009, which "Risk Factors" discussion is incorporated by reference in this press release. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's estimates as of the date of this release. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's estimates or views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
PAREXEL is a registered trademark of PAREXEL International Corporation, and Perceptive Informatics is a trademark of Perceptive Informatics, Inc. All other names or marks may be registered trademarks or trademarks of PAREXEL International Corporation, Perceptive Informatics, Inc. or their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.