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"Jeopardy!" appearance was in August; program to air on Channel 10
The waiting, which began with the tryout in January, extended through the taping in August, and then through all the months Joshua Bartlett had to smile and say nothing, is over: The University at Albany graduate student will finally appear Thursday on "Jeopardy!"
"I feel lucky," the 32-year-old resident of Bel Air, Md., said. "At least I'm at the beginning of the season."
The episode will air locally at 7:30 p.m. on NEWS10.
A doctoral candidate in the UAlbany English department who has been in the Capital Region since 2006, Bartlett said the taping took place in early August in Culver City, Calif. After all the contestants gathered at 8 a.m. — multiple episodes are shot in a day — taping began at 11 a.m., with contestants not yet participating sitting in the audience watching games.
"You're thinking 'I didn't know the answer to that one ... I didn't know the answer to that one ...'" he said.
In the months since, Bartlett has had to observe the strict non-disclosure agreement that accompanies all game and reality shows. So did his mom, Nancy, who attended the taping.
"It was fun," has been Bartlett's stock non-revealing answer.
Now his long wait is over. But not for his parents back in Maryland: The "Jeopardy!" episode is being preempted by the Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game. To make matters worse, they're Baltimore Ravens fans.
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Description: Future projections suggest an increase in drought globally with climate change. Current vegetation models typically regulate the plant photosynthetic response to soil moisture stress through an empirical function, rather than a mechanistic response where plant water potentials respond to changes in soil water. This representation of soil moisture stress may introduce significant uncertainty into projections for the terrestrial carbon cycle. We examined the use of the soil moisture limitation function in historical and future emissions scenarios in nine Earth system models. We found that soil moisture-limited productivity across models represented a large and uncertain component of the simulated carbon cycle, comparable to 3-286% of current global productivity. Approximately 40-80% of the intermodel variability was due to the functional form of the limitation equation alone. Our results highlight the importance of implementing mechanistic water limitation schemes in models and illuminate several avenues for improving projections of the land carbon sink. Keyword: carbon cycle, Water limitation , drought, Gross primary productivity, soil moisture, and Earth system modeling Creator: Anderegg, William R.L., Mankin, Justin S., Medvigy, David, and Trugman, Anna T. Owner: Anna Trugman Date Uploaded: 06/25/2018 Date Modified: 10/25/2018 Date Created: Spring 2016 Rights: CC BY – Allows others to use and share your data, even commercially, with attribution. Resource Type: Dataset Identifier: https://doi.org/10.7278/S5707ZMS Contact Email: email@example.com Funders: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Programme, Ecosystem Services and Agro-ecosystem Management, grant no. 2017-05521, National Science Foundation grant 1714972, US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) Program award DE-SC0014363 , National Science Foundation Award 1151102 , and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant No. 2017-07164


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Cancer agency names interim executive director
AUSTIN — Facing a rocky legislative session, the governing board of the state cancer agency Friday named Wayne Roberts, a seasoned Capitol insider from Houston, as its interim executive director.
Roberts succeeds Bill Gimson, who resigned 10 days ago amid escalating concerns about the failure of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to properly review applications leading to multimillion-dollar grants. The board accepted Gimson's resignation and named another Capitol insider, former Deputy Comptroller Billy Hamilton, as senior adviser.
"Restoring public confidence in CPRIT is critical, and I believe having two recognized leaders like Wayne and Bill assuming leadership roles will go a long way toward improving the institute's management and restoring confidence in its operations," said Jimmy Mansour, chairman of the agency's board, known as the oversight committee. "They'll bring immediate credibility with the Legislature."
Roberts, associate vice president for public policy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said his first priority will be making sure CPRIT provides information that Gov. Rick Perry and the Legislature need "to move the agency forward." He cited his ability to work with legislators as his top qualification for the job.
Roberts said he will take a leave of absence from UT while serving the cancer agency.
The agency agreed this week to stop issuing new grants until it can ensure the public it has corrected problems involving bypassed procedures, conflicts of interest and a lack of transparency, problems that became apparent in two commercialization grants totaling more than $30 million in taxpayer money. Both projects have been halted.
Mansour announced Friday that the agency has recovered missing 2010 emails concerning one of those projects, an $11 million grant to a Dallas company, Peloton Therapeutics. Mansour last week directed the agency to employ forensic experts to find the emails, which were mentioned in an internal CPRIT audit as having the potential to shed light on why the Peloton grant was never reviewed.
Mansour said he could not provide any information about the content of the messages.
Roberts said he was approached about the CPRIT interim executive directorship this week by a representative of Perry's office who he declined to name. Roberts is closely aligned with Perry. He is a 2009 appointee of the governor to the State Pension Review Board and has served as Perry's senior adviser for higher education, senior fiscal adviser, state budget director and assistant director of budget and planning.
Roberts authored the white paper and draft legislation creating the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a favored project of the governor. Roberts also served under Gov. George W. Bush and was with the Legislative Budget Board for 18 years.
Hamilton works as a private consultant, specializing in issues related to tax and fiscal policy. He is on the board of directors of Kalon Biotherapeutics, which in March 2012 was awarded a $7.9 million CPRIT commercialization grant. Hamilton said Friday he will resign from that board.
The oversight committee is expected to launch a national search for a permanent executive director at its Jan. 17 meeting. At the request of committee member Tom Luce, the board will also consider questions about the agency's foundation, which raises funds to supplement the salaries of top staffers.
The foundation was the subject of tough questioning at a hearing of the House appropriations committee Thursday.


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Members are now speaking for and against the budget.
Rep. Ronald Reynolds, D-Missouri City, complained that lawmakers have gone through an entire session without discussing school funding until the final two days of the session.
"Why wasn't this declared an emergency item?" he asked.
Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, described the budget as "the best that we can do for the priorities important to this House, for the resources that we have."
Texans want lawmakers to make "hard decisions while living within our means," he said.
Rep. Yvonne Davis, D-Dallas, noted lawmakers refused to dip into the multi-billion dollar Rainy Day Fund.
"It's flooding here. I don't why everyone is not clear about that," she said.
Rep. Helen Giddings said like everyone else, "I have no appetite for a special session. At the same time, I have even less appetite to lower standards for education.
She called education cuts irresponsible and reckless. The cuts average $400 per student at a time when Texas ranks No. 43 in the country for public education, Giddings noted.
Tens of thousands of students will lose college grants. Giddings noted 244 students in her district rely on those grants to attend college. She rattled off numbers of students in the districts of some of her colleagues – 528…786…629..569…630….students living in districts represented by Republicans.
"I could go on and on. These are all our children, and it shouldn't matter whether they live in so-called Democratic districts or Republican," she said.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called it "the worst budget in a generation."
Texans are going to ask members next year why they can't afford nursing home care or why their children can't get a TEXAS grant to attend college.
"Look them straight dead in the eye and say, 'because that's what you send me here to do.'"
Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, told his colleagues the $1 billion cut in higher education will force tuition rates to increase again. Projections suggest tuition will go up $1,262 a year – or $5,048 for someone who graduates in four years.
Because of the state's structural revenue deficit and deferrals used in the new budget, Coleman warned colleagues they will be staring at a $20 billion shortfall in two years.
Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, warned his colleagues that the budget hinges on deferring $2.3 billion to the next budget by postponing an August payment to schools until September.
"We can't do it the next time because you have to find $2 billion more just to pay for that trick," he said.
No one disputes the accounting gimmicks inherent in the new budget.
But the problem will grow, he said: "We see the train coming. We're standing on the tracks."
And no one is doing anything about it, he lamented.
Rep. Lanham Lyne, R-Wichita Falls, said "there is never enough. There will be needs if we spend every dollar in this state."
The message from Texas, he said, is: "Cut the budget. Cut the budget. Cut the budget."
Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, warned colleagues: "This is not the real budget."
The budget underfunds Medicaid by $4.8 billion.
"We have placed $4.8 billion on the Medicaid MasterCard, which means the state of Texas is obligated to pay for it," he said.
Public education will be cut by more than $5 billion, including $1.4 billion in discretionary grants to cover programs such as Pre K.
"Tomorrow, you will have to implement your own cuts, and you will sign your name on a reduced check to everyone of your school districts," Turner said, referring to a scheduled vote on Sunday for a school finance plan cutting billions from public education.


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The following /etc/vfstab example shows that the /export/home directory from the system pluto is mounted as an NFS file system on the local system. You can tell that quotas are enabled by the rq entry under the mount options column.
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Last weekend in The Denver Post Home section, we gave you seven ways to think about green remodeling before you traipse off to the Colorado Fall Home Show, which kicks off Friday (Sept. 7) and continues Saturday and Sunday at the Colorado Convention Center.
This week, the show unveiled its slate of seminars full of design tips from American Society of Interior Designers Colorado members. These sessions are all at booth #621 and included in the price of admission. The society also has five interior designers who've styled dining room vignettes with themes ranging from 1940s Hollywood to "rough luxe."
The Fall Home Show is put on by the Colorado Garden & Home Show, a nonprofit that funds horticulture scholarships and grants for Colorado students and new garden projects. Tickets are $10 to $12 (seniors and those bearing a nonperishable food item for 9 Cares, Colorado Shares get a $2 discount; discounted tickets are also available at King Soopers and Tickets West Outlets). Kids 12 and under get in free.
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We'll wrap up the week before the deadline to issue franchise tags by talking to a member of the Ravens with some experience on that front.
Running back Ray Rice was slapped with the tag last year before ultimately signing a new long-term deal with the team in July, so he can offer some advice to quarterback Joe Flacco as Flacco faces the possibility of the same fate this time around. We'll see what that advice might be when Rice joins the Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network crew on Friday afternoon.
Mike Florio, Erik Kuselias and Shaun King will also outline the needs for the Ravens and the rest of the teams in the AFC North once free agency opens up on March 12. We'll also be looking at the same topic through the prism of the NFC North before winding up the week.
It all gets underway at 5 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network.


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She grew up between two generations. Thus, she was too young to participate in the social upheavals of the 1960s, but too old to share the cynicism of her juniors.
Because other generations captured more limelight, Marla often felt left out. This did not stop her from having high expectations, which sometimes went unfulfilled. Still, over the years, Marla has achieved the trappings of success: kids, cars, homes, stocks—and debt.
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Father of 4 children killed during Hurricane Harvey speaks out from jail
Jason Saldivar is finishing a six-month sentence for a parole violation
Jason Saldivar is finishing a six-month sentence for a parole violation
Jason Saldivar is finishing a six-month sentence for a parole violation
When Jason Saldivar, 36, is released from Beaumont's federal prison Thursday, he won't have his four children to return home to.
Saldivar's four children — Daisey, 6, Devy, 16, Dominic, 15, and Xavier, 8 — drowned in a van Aug. 27 in Greens Bayou in east Houston after Hurricane Harvey hit.
Saldivar is finishing up a six month prison term in Beaumont due to a parole violation, he told Chron.com Wednesday morning during a brief pre-paid phone call from prison. In 2010, Saldivar was charged twice in a case involving the intent to distribute more than 220 pounds of marijuana, according to United States federal court documents obtained through PACER.
Saldivar first heard of the death of his children Aug. 29 after another inmate let him use their prepaid phone minutes to talk to his family.
"I was shocked. I thought it was a cruel (expletive) joke," Saldivar told Chron.com. "I really was in shock. I didn't think it was real. Those kids on TV, that's got to be somebody else. That's not my family."
The children's great grandparents, Belia, 81, and Maneul Saldivar, 84, also died in the van. The family was trying to escape rising flood waters in Houston, the Washington Post reported.
Family members told Chron.com after the van was found that it was being driven by family member Sammy Saldivar, who was able to escape. Sammy was found Aug. 30 clinging to a tree near the van, which was submerged in 4 feet of water at the time, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said that day.
"If I was out, I could've prevented this," Saldivar told Chron.com.
The death of the six Saldivar family members was some of the first from Harvey to capture national headlines.
Saldivar was held in Beaumont's federal prison, which has been overrun by rumors of inmate mistreatment and poor living conditions following Harvey. The funeral for the children is Monday and Saldivar will attend, the children's mother, Blanca, told Chron.com.


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My shed is my header by my son Darrell, He painted the Robin for me and said that it reminded him of me. Because Robins use other birds nest and if there is an egg in it, they will take care of it just like its their own. He said thats what I do, I have always taken care of others in need of a home when I come across someone in need. Isnt that Sweet, I had told him I wanted a bird and this is the one he chose. Robins have solid blue eggs which are the symbols for him and his brothers and the speckled egg are the others I have taken into my home. It was very touching to me because he researched his piece, He is a true artist and has lots of great jobs. my neighbor had hers done to
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Mila Kunis Used A Butt Double In 'Friends With Benefits'!
The 'Black Swan' hottie opted for a body double to retain some modesty in a steamy scene in her new hot flick!
Mila Kunis may be one of the sexiest starlets in Hollywood, but unlike most young girls in Tinseltown she is not ready to bare it all on camera! Despite her all of her hard work to get the perfect dancer's body in racy girl-on-girl scenes in Black Swan, Mila was only comfortable showing a little side boob in Friends With Benefits!
"I showed side boob and I figured I can't just give everything all away at once," Mila told Ryan Seacrest. "I gotta let it all out in little pieces here and there."
With so many girls her age stripping down, it's nice to see that the sultry star knows how to stay sexy without pushing the limits. Not too many girls would skip out on the opportunity to shed their clothes with Justin Timberlake, but one lucky booty double got to show her goods to the "Sexy Back" singer. Mila admits that the casting process was intense.
"These young ladies came in and they were in a casting room, the director and the casting director and my makeup artists and these lovely women had to show us their derrière and we chose the one that resembled my body the most without looking like it is fake." revealed Mila.
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Darrell D. Bender, 85, formerly of Wabash, died at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, May 30, at Elms Haven Care in Thornton, Colo. He was born Jan. 18, 1928 in Grayville, Ill., to Eugene and Della Louise (Terry) Bender.
Darrell married Jean Yvonne Maxwell in Albion, Ill., on June 10, 1947; she died Sept. 19, 2004. He served in the US Navy on the USS Casablanca in the South Pacific during WWII. In 1959 he joined the P.N. Hirsch Department Store Co., working as manager in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. Darrell moved to Wabash in 1969 coming from Danville, Ill., to manage the Wabash P.N. Hirsch store. He became the District Manager for the Dollar General Stores when P.N. Hirsch sold, until his retirement in 1989. He then worked for Clarks Finer Foods, and later Scotts Supermarket.
Darrell was a past president of the Highway 24 Shopping Center Merchants Association and served several times on its board of directors. He was also past president of the Wabash Chamber of Commerce Retail Division, member and past president of the Wabash Lions Club, member of Christ United Methodist Church, the Methodist Men's Club, the Wabash American Legion Post 15, the Honeywell Golf Association, and the Men's Bowling League.
He is survived by son, Darrell E. (Elizabeth) Bender of Denver, Indiana; sister, Marjorie (Ray) Marler, Delphi, Ind.; four grandchildren, Kyle (Crystal) Siegfred, Trafalgar, Ind., Brian (Jennifer) Siegfred, Washington, Mo., Forest Bender and Drew Bender, both of Wabash; three step grandchildren, and six step great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter Pamela Brauneller.
Funeral services will be held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service on Monday, June 10, at 10 a.m., with grandson, Kyle Siegfred, son, Darrell E. Bender, and Rev. Brent Fitzgerald officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawns Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call 2-5 p.m. on Sunday at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is Christ United Methodist Church, 477 N. Wabash St., Wabash, Indiana 46992.
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Families of Fallen Oklahoma Police Officers Supported with Ride4Cops Motorcycle Ride to the State Capitol
NIC CEO Harry Herington, Oklahoma Interactive and local C.O.P.S chapter team up to raise awareness in Oklahoma on June 4th
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – May 28, 2010 – Each year, approximately 150 police officers nationwide are killed in the line of duty and their families and co-workers are left to cope with the tragic loss. Harry Herington, Chief Executive Officer of NIC Inc., is riding across the country to raise money for the National C.O.P.S. program through Ride4Cops (www.ride4cops.com). The mission of Ride4Cops is to raise awareness of the inherent dangers of law enforcement and the sacrifices made by the families of fallen officers.
On Friday, June 4th at 2:00pm on the south plaza steps of the Oklahoma state capitol, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) Commissioner Kevin Ward, President of Oklahoma Concerns of Police Survivors (OKCOPS), Carol Botts, other OKCOPS members, Oklahoma Law Enforcement, family members of fallen officers, employees from Oklahoma Interactive, LLC (OK.gov) and parent company NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) will demonstrate their united support for the Oklahoma C.O.P.S. chapter by making a stop at the state capitol and participating in the Ride4Cops program. A motorcycle ride will then proceed at approximately 3:00pm to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial located on the west grounds of the DPS Headquarters, 3600 M. L. King Avenue in Oklahoma City.
Supporting the needs of the families left behind is the core mission of Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.), a national not-for-profit organization.
"This is a wonderful opportunity that NIC's Harry Herington has provided for our chapter and the families who benefit from our services", said Carol Botts, OKCOPS President. "We appreciate any assistance that allows us to help rebuild a family's life after the tragic losses they endure when any one of our great heroes is killed in the line of duty. The public can find ways to donate to C.O.P.S. through our local chapter Web site at http://www.okcops.org."
Ride4COPS has committed to raising more than $125,000 during the next three years for C.O.P.S. Herington, a former police officer, intends to ride his Harley Davidson motorcycle to every capitol across the country to raise awareness and generate contributions for C.O.P.S. and other local organizations that support families of fallen law enforcement officers.
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BOSTON, Mass. - Yale did just about everything it wanted to defensively against Boston University on Wednesday. The Bulldogs held the Terriers to 55 points, nearly 16 below their average, and 39 percent shooting from the field. Corey Lowe, who scored a career-high 35 points last year against Yale, had only 12. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite enough. The Terriers were equally impressive on the defensive end, limiting the Bulldogs to 15 second-half points en route to a 55-43 victory at Case Gym.
"It was a hard-fought, tough basketball game," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "I thought both teams gave great effort. Defensively, we did a great job of contesting every shot and switching when necessary."
Yale took a 36-33 lead on Ross Morin's jumper with 13:08 left in the second half. The Terriers, though, answered with a 10-1 run over the next six minutes, capped by two free throws from Scott Britain.
The Bulldogs got back within three, 43-40, on two Jordan Gibson free throws with 6:27 remaining. BU's Tyler Morris then scored the next four points, including a big three-pointer with 3:55 left. After Lowe made two free throws, Porter Braswell's three-pointer cut the deficit to 49-43, but Boston University scored the game's final six points.
Morin led Yale with 12 points and seven rebounds. Gibson and Garrett Fiddler each had eight points. Fiddler was 4 of 5 from the field and added five rebounds. Braswell, Alex Zampier and Paul Nelson both chipped in five points.
The Bulldogs were without Travis Pinick, who missed the game with an injury.
Jake O'Brien paced the Terriers with 13 points. Lowe made only 3 of 10 shots from the field but was BU's second-leading scorer with 12 points, nearly eight below his season average. Matt Wolff added nine points and Morris finished with seven points and seven rebounds.
The first half featured seven ties and three lead changes. Yale led 13-9 after eight minutes, but BU responded with a 9-5 run to tie the score at 18-18. The Terriers took their biggest lead of the half, 27-22, on Lowe's three-pointer, but the Bulldogs rallied to tie the score at 28-28 at the intermission.
Yale outscored BU 20-4 in the paint in the first half and turned six offensive rebounds into eight second-chance points.
"Neither team had too many transition baskets," Jones said.
The Terriers clamped down defensively in the second half, holding the Bulldogs to 21.7 percent from the field.
Yale also struggled from the foul line in the game, making only five of 13 attempts.
The Bulldogs now have an 18-day layoff for final exams and the holiday. Yale plays at Alabama on Dec. 28 at 6 p.m. CST.
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I have found in life and through cooking that sometimes we (I) spend so much time looking for different recipes (or other things, I suppose) when the best ones just turn out to be the simplest. Sometimes they are right in front of you and you didn't even know it. Now don't get me wrong, I love new recipes and I can appreciate fancy as much as the next person. However, I often find that my favorite recipes are the ones that just do enough to bring the best out in something. Nothing fancy, not a ton of ingredients, no special techniques. Just goodness.
This is one of those recipes. When I told Jim I wanted to post this he was like, "Well it isn't really much of a recipe." I said, "but the chicken is just so good and it is just a great, simple way to prepare it." So that is why this recipe/technique is appearing on the blog. Plus, what smells better roasting in your oven than chicken??????
There are lots of ways you can cook this crispy baked chicken. They key is to get the skin nice and crispy. You could replace some of the oil with butter. You could also cook the chicken skin side up the whole time and it will still get crispy. I like how cooking it skin side down gives it a nice sear. Just make sure all the chicken gets cooked through. Since chickens vary in size so much you will have to adjust the times accordingly but not by much.
As my girls will tell you, I always eat my chicken with a little hot sauce. It must be the Buffalo girl in me.
Crispy Baked Chicken
- 1 Whole Chicken Cut-Up
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in the bottom of a rimmed baking sheet (you can add a little more if you need it depending on the size of your pan. Place in the heated oven for 3 minutes
- Combine salt, pepper and paprika in a small bowl
- Rub Chicken with 1/2 of the olive olive oil and sprinkle evenly the salt mixture and place skin side down in the heated pan. Make sure the chicken pieces are not crowding each other in the pan.
- Bake chicken for 35 minutes and then flip chicken and cook another 15 minutes or until chicken is done (juice is no longer pink from the thickest part of the meat.)
- Enjoy!


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First, as given in 250.53(G) [Rod and Pipe Electrodes], "The electrode shall be installed such that at least 2.44 m (8 ft) of length is in contact with the soil." Unless this is a 10-ft rod, which is not the norm, we have a violation.
Second, this same section of the Code also says, "The upper end of the electrode shall be flush with or below grade level unless the above-ground end and the grounding electrode conductor attachment are protected against physical damage as specified in 250.10." Compliance with the requirement in 250.10 is difficult to obtain, at best. And exactly what must be done is hard to envision. The best approach is to ensure that the rod is "flush with or below grade."
Third, Sec. 250.53(A) states, "Where practicable rod, pipe, and plate electrodes shall be embedded below the permanent moisture level." It's hard to know if compliance with this rule is impracticable, but if that is the case, the burden of proof would be on the installer. How one would go about establishing the impracticability of compliance is not exactly clear.
Lastly, the fourth sentence in 250.70 [Methods of Grounding and Bonding Conductor Connection to Electrodes] says, "Not more than one conductor shall be connected to the grounding electrode by a single clamp or fitting unless the clamp or fitting is listed for multiple conductors."


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A new study (a meta-analysis, actually) about Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) is due out next week and I'm wondering if I should blog about it.
The meta-analysis takes into consideration the findings of eight research facilities and is expected to report some general trends in the research into a circulatory connection in multiple sclerosis (MS).
The reason I ask the question in our title is that every time I mention CCSVI — whether in support of research or questioning the theory — our comments pages are filled with scores of sometimes-readers who jump all over us for even considering that this may not be the answer. I can take the personal attacks, but I don't accept sharpened sticks being pointed at our community by those who see the topic differently than I.
I've also seen from your comments that many of you, our regulars, don't enjoy such heated debate and skip those posts all together.
I'm not expecting anything big and new or exciting in this report but wanted to present the idea of covering its release to you, our community. I said in our first post over five years ago that this is "all about you." So, I'm asking you what you'd like.
There was a research study update on the topic from the National MS Society a few months back, but I didn't report on that because it was basically stating the enrollment of studies and not any real data. This study will have some information gleaned from research in at least five countries.
No matter how I report the information, there will be some personal bias; this is after all a "blog" and not a medical journal. We try to make things factual, but many of you are here for more than "just the facts, ma'am" reading. Besides, seldom are research papers without room for more questions to be asked and answered.
So, I'm asking because this is our site, not mine.
Should I cover this next research announcement and every one thereafter? Should I only report those that have what I consider substantial information? Or would you rather just have links to press releases on such research?
Asking for your input.
Wishing you the best of health.
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It's hard to remember a time when reports of data breaches, ransomware attacks and business email compromises (BEC) weren't part of our daily lives. In fact, not so long ago we were pretty content to believe that the controls companies had in place were enough to protect us from the invisible threat of hackers and cyber criminals. But that was just a dream – and it wasn't long before that dream manifested into a nightmarish scenario for one of the nation's largest retailers.
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Two years ago, cyber criminals gained access to the point-of-sale systems belonging to Target. Authorities later learned that the hacker(s) gained access to about 11 GB worth of data (including highly-sensitive personal and credit card information). When the dust settled, about 70 million consumers nationwide were left vulnerable to identity theft and credit card fraud. This magnitude of this breach was huge and, as a result, companies everywhere made an effort to buckle down and implement a slew of "best practices." But what has really changed since December 2013?
What Have We Learned From Target?
The Target breach symbolizes the moment when the threat of personal data security violations became mainstream in America; and today, we don't think about fraud in terms of if it will happen – it's when it will happen. But instead of becoming more vigilant about data security practices, it appears as though consumers have chosen a more desensitized reaction. These days we are content with trusting the credit card companies to notify us of any suspicious activity occurring on our account rather than implementing safer payment practices in our daily lives.
Retailers and credit card companies, on the other hand, have worked hard to make it more difficult for hackers to access their customer data. Since the breach, Target has:
- Installed EMV compliant point-of-sale (POS) terminals in all stores to allow for transactions to be processed using a token instead of actual credit card numbers.
- Joined two cybersecurity threat-sharing organizations in order to share and retrieve valuable information concerning data breaches and the source of those breaches.
- Implemented more stringent firewall rules and governance procedures.
- Constantly monitors and logs system activity.
- Applied whitelisting technology, an administrative process that allows only preapproved applications to execute in a system, on the store's POS systems.
- Disabled or placed limited access on vendor accounts.
- Deployed 2-factor authentication.
- Established password vaults and required the use of more complex passwords.
- Thoroughly reviewed and revised its process on how to determine which employees and contractors would have access to consumer data.
With the exception of the first two points, the measures Target has taken since its 2013 data breach are considered best practices, which means that if your business doesn't have these security measures in place, you shouldn't wait any longer. And, with regard to EMV technology, most businesses were expected to install and activate the new technology before Oct. 1, 2015 to avoid liability for losses resulting from fraudulent transactions.
A Moving Target
As long as there are fraudsters willing to pay for stolen names, addresses, credit card numbers and expiration dates, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, etc., there will be cyber criminals looking for a way to hack into your company's system to gain access to your consumer data or intellectual property. But if you are really serious about keeping your data safe, there are additional measures you can take.
1. Reinforce Your Firewall
Firewalls should be securely configured and continuously monitored. There are many providers that perform 24-7 firewall monitoring services to protect your company from attacks and or to alert you to signs of a possible breach. Moreover, providers are also coupling these services with the use of whitelists or blacklists, which triggers an immediate response if a potential threat is identified. Another great reinforcement for companies with experienced IT staff, would be the implementation of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) or IDS (Intrusion Detection System) software.
2. Take Your VIP List Seriously
Not everybody should have access to your company's domain – especially outside groups, and you should take care to review your employee and vendor access accounts routinely. The 2013 Target breach was a result of a breach that was intended for one of Target's vendors. But, once in, the hacker was able to work his way into the Target Vendor Portal and infiltrate the Target POS systems.
3. Don't Take Your Passwords For Granted
While doing so, be sure to verify that these credentials, in particular, require complex passwords, a limit on the number of attempts allowed before automatically disabling the account, and that they are required to be changed regularly. (Believe it or not, the most common password continues to be "123456" – proving that we are still not learning from past mistakes.)
By: Brian Garland, CPA (Dublin office)
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Derrick Rose shook off poor shooting early to hit clutch shots late and Carlos Boozer had 20 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 104-95 preseason victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Derrick Rose shook off poor shooting early to hit clutch shots late and Carlos Boozer had 20 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 104-95 preseason victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night.
Chicago (7-0) remained the only unbeaten team in the preseason behind Rose, who hit three 3-pointers in the final 4 minutes. He scored 26 points on 6-of-15 shooting in 34 minutes.
Luol Deng had 20 points and 10 rebounds for Chicago.
Kevin Durant's 22 points in 32 minutes and Jeremy Lamb added 19 points for the Thunder (3-3) while Reggie Jackson had 14 points.
The Bulls outrebounded the Thunder 46-32 in the game played at Intrust Bank Arena.
Rose followed two free throws with a pull-up 3-pointer to put the Bulls ahead for good, 89-85.
The victory didn't have coach Tom Thibodeau smiling.
"You never want to feel good in this league," he said "When you start feeling good, well, you know what happens."
But even Thibodeau had to admit that the work of Rose and Deng to close out a game felt familiar.
"They have a great chemistry, know how to read things," he said. "Derrick showed great patience. His shot wasn't falling early, but he was able to make things happen down the stretch."
For most of the game, it appeared Chicago was in control. Then Durant led a comeback
His 12-foot jumper with 5:16 remaining in the third quarter gave him eight points in the half and trimmed Chicago's lead to 64-62.
A layup by Steven Adams with 9:46 to play put the Thunder ahead 78-76, Oklahoma City's first lead since 9-8 with more than 7 minutes left in the first quarter.
"I thought we did a good job trusting the system," Durant said. "We fought back to take the lead. But they did a great job of closing it out."
Notes: The Thunder were missing Russell Westbrook, and Serge Ibaka did not play. Kirk Hinrich and Joakim Noah did not play for the Bulls. … The Thunder completed their preseason schedule and open the regular season Oct. 30 at Utah. The Bulls' final preseason game is Friday against visiting Denver. … One of the biggest ovations came for Thunder rookie Rodney McGruder, who played at Kansas State. Former Kansas All-America Nick Collison was also greeted warmly and scored 12 points in 23 minutes.


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After having introduced a hypothetical model of elementary particles and the way they cause gravitation, it is natural to evaluate the hypothesis from a cosmic view! This may sound contradictory, or even arrogant, but it is not totally far-fetched. The gravitational field created by the discussed particles is quite special, and gravitation is the known force that works on the cosmic scale.
Planar gravitation
The predicted gravitational field is confined to two dimensions and concentrated in one plane defined by the elementary particle. In my opinion, a two-dimensional gravitational field is even suggested by the inverse-square nature of gravitation. Elementary particles and atomic nuclei are usually randomly orientated to each other, meaning that the sum of elementary gravitational fields is perceived as radiating in three dimensions from the body of mass. But one can think of conditions were particles align to concentrate the gravitational field in a common plane!
For particles to fix their position relatively to each other, their gravitation has to overcome their thermal motion. This requires either a very strong gravitational field, or very cold particles. Further, nuclei in free atoms, or nuclei bound in a common plane, will more easily align. In molecules were nuclei are restricted to different planes, not all nuclei can contribute to planar alignment at any time. Anyhow, the total gravitational field will not perfectly reduce to two dimensions, considering that some wobbling is expected due to thermal motion.
So where would be best to look for the effects of planar gravitation? Probably in extensive accumulations of extremely cold gas...
Spiral galaxies
Galaxies consist of astronomical(!) numbers of stars and other matter, bound together by gravitation. Our own Milky Way is classified as a spiral galaxy, which in general consist of two parts: A rotating disk where new stars are constantly forming from abundant gas, and a central bulge of mostly older stars. The bulge is shaped like a spheroid, and has very little gas compared with the disk.
Apparently, the rotational velocity of the outer disk is too high to be balanced by gravitation from the visible matter in spiral galaxies! This is usually justified by the concept of "dark matter", first suggested by Fritz Zwicky in 19331 to explain dynamics of galaxy clusters. In spiral galaxies, "dark matter" is supposed to be contained in a spherical halo surrounding the visible disk2. It has never been detected.
Another explanation for the rotational dynamics of spiral galaxies could possibly be planar gravitation. If most of the gravitation from interstellar gas is contained within the plane of the disk, extra "dark matter" may be superfluous!
Planar gravitation could even explain the high velocity of orbiting galaxies in galaxy clusters. If this is the case, spiral galaxies should orbit the centre of their cluster edge-on.
Elliptical galaxies
Not surprisingly, these galaxies are shaped like ellipsoids (including spheroids). Like bulges of spiral galaxies, they are dominated by older stars and contain very little gas. No disk. They are usually found centrally in galaxy clusters.
Interestingly, they may lack "dark matter"! The velocity dispersion of the stars seems to be adequately explained by the visible matter contained in them3. Complex models have been introduced to put "dark matter" into ellipticals4.
Planetary rings
Four of the planets in our solar system have each an annular disk in orbit. These are the gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The disk around Saturn is the most impressive by far, and the one most people associate with planetary rings. The disks consist of water ice, small particles and gas. Even though gas may only constitute a small fraction of the orbiting matter, the sheer size of the systems allows for a lot of gas! One can speculate if the stability of the disks is due to aligned gravity of their gas components...
Disk-formations in space seem to be easily explained by two-dimensional, planar gravitation – either in agreement with the presented model of elementary particles, or not.
1 Zwicky F (1933) Die Rotverschiebung von extragalaktischen Nebeln. Helvetica Physica Acta 6:110–127
2 Exactly how the "dark halo" is supposed to restrict the visible matter to a disk remains enigmatic to me.
3 Romanowsky AJ et al. (2003) A dearth of dark matter in ordinary elliptical galaxies. Science 301:1696–1698
4 Dekel A et al. (2005) Lost and found dark matter in elliptical galaxies. Nature 437:707–710


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FARINA – When Kinzie Neilson attended a camp at Lincoln Land Community College prior to her senior year, LLCC coach Jim Dietz had a few suggestions for her arm swing.
When he scouted Neilson at this season's regional tournament, he was very pleased to see that she had taken his suggestions seriously.
Illinois College is in uncharted territory.
Never before has the Illinois College football team qualified for the NCAA Division III Playoffs. That all changed on Sunday evening.
After posting a 9-1 overall record and an 8-1 mark in the Midwest Conference, the IC Blueboys got the call. They were the final team that did. They will travel to play Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Saturday at 11 a.m.
South Central senior Kinzie Neilson was named the Midland Trail Conference Player of the Year, coach Mary Brimberry was named Co-Coach of the Year and four other Lady Cougars were named all-conference.
Senior Emily Atwood finished second in the voting for Player of the Year honors to earn first-team all-conference status for the second season in a row. Brimberry said that she had hoped Neilson and Atwood would have shared Player of the Year honors.
The proceeds from this season's Volley for a Cure game at Vandalia Community High School last week were donated to the Fayette County Relay for Life team. The amount donated was $7,428.13
The Vandalia High School boys basketball team will open its season against South Central next Tuesday.
In last season's matchup, Vandalia defeated the Cougars, 48-42, with Dathan Berning leading the Vandals in scoring, with 17 points. For South Central, Colby Bushue was the leading scorer, with 12 points.
For the Vandals, who finished 17-11 last season, the game will serve as a warm-up for the DuQuoin Tip Off Classic, which begins on Nov. 28.
The Vandalia High School girls basketball team will open its season next Tuesday at South Central, with a varsity-only contest beginning at 6:15 p.m.
For the Lady Vandals, the game will serve as the first test in a season during which the goal is to win at least 20 games.
In last season's game, Vandalia won, 67-33, with Amber Bruno scoring 12 points and Haley Wollerman and Hannah Edwards each scoring 11. Then-senior Amy Walton also added 11 for the Lady Vandals.
The Mulberry Grove and Ramsey High School Thanksgiving boys basketball tournaments have been consolidated into one event this season.
Both schools will host a pool of four teams this week, with all eight teams coming together to play on Saturday, Nov. 26, at Mulberry Grove. Next season, the finals will be played at Ramsey.
The new event is called the Mulberry Grove/Ramsey Super Turkey Tournament.
There has been a lot happening at the Fayette County YMCA, and there are several upcoming programs at the Y.
For more information regarding any of the programs mentioned below, contact the YMCA at 283-1258 or visit www.fayetteymca.com.
•The Fayette County Family YMCA board of directors recently voted not to increase membership rates for 2012.
•On Thanksgiving, the Fayette County Family YMCA will be open to anyone – including non-members – from 7-10 a.m.
The following day, the YMCA will be open from 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
Vandalia Community High School graduate and current Vanderbilt University bowler Jessica Earnest was pictured in a collage of athletes in the Nov. 7 issue of Sports Illustrated. Earnest's picture appears on page 52 of the issue, and is part of the article, "Pay for Play," which examines how college athletes could be compensated financially while in school. The St. Louis Cardinals are on the cover of the issue.
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Extra Points: Offseason brings no clarity to Eagles' QB situation
Philadelphia, PA – Thursday marked the end of the Philadelphia Eagles' offseason workouts and the veterans will now have seven weeks to take a breather before heading back to the NovaCare Complex for training camp.
The regime change in South Philly has made OTAs and minicamp a little more meaningful this spring with reporters assembling to catch a glimpse of Chip Kelly and what college football's mad scientist is going to unleash on the NFL.
After attending five or so of his scaled-down offseason sessions, about the only thing I can tell you about Kelly is that he has an eclectic playlist on his iPod and he likes things up-tempo at all times.
If you are looking for a glimpse into who is going to be underneath center for Kelly on Sept. 9 in D.C., can't help you. And neither can anyone else.
About the only thing we do know is that Kelly would like to have Robert Griffin III or Colin Kaepernick piloting his offense. Or perhaps Cam Newton or Russell Wilson, but none of those tailor-made fits is options for Philadelphia.
Chip's choices are Michael Vick, the soon-to-be 33-year-old turnover machine who still has the athleticism to whet Kelly's appetite but not the decision- making skills, along with two pure pocket passers, second-year man Nick Foles and rookie Matt Barkley, a pair of players who could develop into sharp decision makers who get rid of the football with alacrity but offer no threat in the read-option Kelly is enamored with.
My take on Kelly is he is either a brilliant poker player who can keep things close to the vest with the best of them or he currently has no idea who is going to be his quarterback against the Redskins and RG3.
The talk about an open quarterback competition that most of us scoffed about after the Birds restructured Vick's deal and brought the veteran back for another season became a reality in the offseason workouts.
Take Tuesday, for example. Vick got the first four repetitions in team drills followed by four for Foles, who was thought to be the odd man out when Vick was brought back into the fold, and four for Barkley, the one guy Kelly actually put his stamp of approval on by drafting him in the fourth round this past April.
The next stop on the carousel was then Foles, not Vick. In fact, Foles spent the rest of the day getting the first rep with the ones, at least during the so-called "live" periods -- as live as you can get without pads. Heck, Kelly's old friend from Oregon, journeyman Dennis Dixon, even got some love with the first team
"It will play itself out," Kelly said when discussing the quarterback situation earlier this week. "It will play itself out over the course of time when we've had an opportunity to make a thorough evaluation. It is a big decision. When you make a big decision, you have to take your time and let it play itself out on the field."
There are a lot of cliches in football, but one that has always rung true is the adage about two quarterbacks -- If you think you have two signal callers, you really don't have any.
If you have three, you are just aiming at the dart board and crossing your fingers.
"I think I am doing pretty good," Vick said when asked about the competition. "I don't know (where I stand.) That is up to Coach to decide what is best for this football team, but as of right now, I am very pleased with my progress."
Don't feel bad, Mike, none of us know where you stand, least of all your actual competition.
"I just have the same mentality I have had all along," Foles explained when talking about his part is this duel. "Every day, you want to go out there and compete like you are the starting quarterback, regardless. Look, we're in the National Football League and it's such an exciting thing just to be out there competing."
The only real question in Philadelphia now is whether Kelly is playing darts or poker.
"We're not going to make any rash decisions on any position or anything like that," Kelly said. "We haven't even put the pads on yet. When you put the big boy pads on and get out there hitting, there are a lot of times where a guy can come out of nowhere and surprise you."
Kelly will not be able to split repetitions evenly among three quarterbacks when the real bullets begin to fly, so the answer to Philadelphia's quarterback quandary will quickly start to come into focus shortly after the team reports for its first full training camp practice on July 26.
For now, Vick remains the slight favorite to enter the Beltway as the team's starter come September, but Foles or even Barkley could easily wrest away Vick's tenuous hold on the job.
"It has been great," Vick said of the offseason practices. "It has been very competitive. It has been us coming out here, practicing with an attitude, on edge, and just trying to get the most out of ourselves and out of the position."


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When life is fair, the Beaufort County Council will authorize a referendum on referendums. The first question will read, "Should every project requesting funding from the taxpayers have to stand on its own merits?"
I am sick and tired of hearing politicians tell me that some unjustifiable project that was lumped into the ballot with other needed projects should go ahead in these poor economic times because the voters approved it.
The latest example of this line of justification came at the Beaufort Transportation Advisory Board, BTAG, meeting last week when the subject of funding any number of flyovers at the Hilton Head Bridge area was discussed. It was stated that this project was approved by about 58 percent of the voters when the last referendum question was proposed. Wrong, wrong and wrong. Individual voters approved a long laundry list of projects some desperately needed, some desirable, some pure pork proposed only to garner regional votes. Not a single project was approved on its merits alone. Does anyone believe that a single question on the ballot asking whether or not to build those flyovers would pass?
However, now we are being asked to watch another $30 million of taxpayer's money go toward building a road across a marsh area at the same time we brag that our No. 1 priority is to protect that same environment. The flyover or flyovers, they can't decide how many, will be built crossing U.S. 278 where tourists normally receive their first look at the vista of Hilton Head Island, welcome to paradise, this is the point we should all start singing Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" with emphasis on paving paradise.
Of course, the main justification for these flyovers will be evacuation leading up to a hurricane striking the area, but there will still only be two lanes of traffic coming westbound off the island and very little, if any, going eastbound onto the bridges. Moreover within about four miles, there are four intersections accommodating two left turn lanes, each equipped I assume with an ITS, Intelligent Traffic System, being monitored from some faraway location that could be used to control the left turning traffic. Do we need to spend $30 million on two lanes of traffic when the proposed flyovers just passed will provide a minimum of five lanes open to westbound vehicles?
Perhaps the taxpayer's money would be more wisely spent, if at all, by widening the entire stretch of S.C. 170 to the county line so that the number of available traffic lanes used at evacuation increase as the population of Bluffton and Sun City join the party, not decrease, as is the case today. With the current plan, we are just spending money to push the inevitable bottleneck into Jasper County, at the cost of the environment. Sing that song, Joni.
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It was a night of heartfelt giving at Newport's Balboa Bay Club & Resort.
The American Heart Assn.sponsored the 2012 Heart and Stroke Ball, and the crowd of some 400 guests gave and did so generously, as more than $550,000 was raised.
The black tie evening on the coast was championed by ball chair Brett Wall and his wife Marnie, and supported by VIP sponsors, including Covidien, Roth Staffing, Edwards Lifesciences, Abbott Medical Optics, Union Bank and more.
Guests of honor in the field of cardiovascular science were Harvinder Sahota, M.D. and David Morgan Brown, M.D. Special guest speaker Penney Vaughn shared the personal story of her daughter Peyton, who survived a stroke as an infant in the first weeks of life.
"Peyton will realize her dreams of a full life thanks to the research that finds treatments for the horrible effects of a stroke," Vaughn said.
Major support for the elegant evening, which included dinner and an auction, came from concerned citizens Henrik Fisker, Mary and Dick Allen, Debbie and Mike Bolen, Hoag Hospital's Dr. David Brown and Dr. Christine Brown, Karen and Scott Sherman of Allergen, Rob Reindel and Priyanka and Karan Khanna.
Founded in 1924, the American Heart Assn.is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization devoted to preventing heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the number one and number four killers in America, claiming some 831,000 lives annually.
On June 9, the Balboa Bay Club & Resort will also be the venue for the Hopeful Hearts Foundation Ball, raising funds and awareness for programs designed to promote the health of children suffering from congenital heart defects and cardiac disease.
The foundation supports early detection and education for medical personnel and also is very involved in researching valve replacement. In addition, the foundation offers financial assistance to families suffering hardships due to mounting medical costs and ongoing hospital procedures.
Presenting sponsor of the Hopeful Hearts Foundation Ball will be Quest Software, naming the event "An Evening To Inspire."
"We are thrilled to be sponsoring this event, supporting a charity that is important to our employees," said Quest Vice President Terri Avnaim. "The Hopeful Hearts Foundation focuses not only on research but also on practical help for families. We want Quest Software to make a difference for these children and their families."
The dinner event will feature a specially designed menu by Chef Amar Santana, who rose to prominence with the Charlie Palmer Restaurant label and now runs his own establishment, Broadway in Laguna Beach. Entertainment will be provided by Ravi, an Orange County resident voted in 2010 by the People's Choice as the "World's Best Innovated DJ."
Individual tickets start at $225 per person with tables available beginning at $2,250. For more information, please visit https://www.hopeful-hearts.org/events.htmlhttps://www.hopeful-hearts.org/events.html.
THE CROWD runs Thursdays and Saturdays. B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.


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Intermediate review of the gold market
Firstly, geopolitical tension in the world must be taken into account. On Thursday Saudi Arabia and its allies carried out an operation against insurgents in Yemen; and as expected, the reaction of investors to these events was the quite usual one– they began to buy gold.
The second important factor which influences the rise of prices of gold is the position of the Federal Reserve of USA. The Fed was expected to start the increase in interest rates, but its move was on the contrary. It is difficult for gold to compete with such kinds of investments as obligations etc. while interest rates are high. Also, February turned out to show decreased demand on durable goods. All these factors contribute to the view of the recovery of US economy as erratic.
Further, the new system of gold price fixing has to be taken into account. Recently a new electronic platform was introduced to substitute the old London gold fixing system, which was functioning without significant changes for over a century. As a result, the price of gold is now determined by ICE Benchmark, and not via telephone, as it used to be.
The whole process will be controlled by two representatives from AngloGoldAshanti and DenverGoldCorp and three representatives from London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). Obviously, the electronic method will be more efficient, transparent, and less exposed to manipulations. Now the participants of the market will be more sure of the price fixing.
There is a strong possibility that owing to the above mentioned reasons the prices of yellow metals will continue to rise. It is the time to take advantage of the situation and think how to favorably make an investment.
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The use of cast iron for cookware is centuries old and many of the vintage pieces can still be used today. For example, cast iron Dutch ovens were used by the settlers of the United States as they traveled westward. Without their wood burning stoves, the camp Dutch oven provided a way for the travelers to cook their meals over an open fire.
Wagner Hollow Ware Company (Pre Wagner Manufacturing Company)
The official start of the Wagner Manufacturing Company was in 1891 and you can see the centennial commemoration of this in the 1991 version of the cast iron frying pan. However, the Wagner brothers, Bernard and Milton, actually started making metal castings of light hardware for general stores back in 1881. In addition, the brothers manufactured tin hollowware for government contracts. Tin hollowware is describes general tableware like sugar bowls, tea or coffee pots, soup containers, hot food covers, water pitchers, platters, butter plates and other metal items that went with the dishware on a table. Hollowware does not include flatware. Bernard and Milton Wagner are credited as the first to cast iron for cookware in Sidney, Ohio. WagnerWare was born.
(A short footnote about the Centennial Commemoration of the 1991 version of the skillet, The Wagner's 1891 Original Cast Iron Skillet – though it stated "Original," along with a date, this line of cookware was manufactured in 1991 through the late 1990s. You can tell the quality difference pretty much immediately. modemac over at Cast Iron Chaos has some additional details also.)
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Wagner Manufacturing Company
This is the start of the Wagner cast iron dynasty as we are familiar with it. Two other brothers, William and Louis, were added to the mix in 1891 which triggered the beginning of WagnerWare cast iron cookware. With the momentum of population growth and expansion, the Wagner brothers had a market ripe for growth and built the most modern and technologically advanced manufacturing facility for casting iron at the time. Wagner Manufacturing was able to produce world class cookware, rivaling and later surpassing the other powerhouse in the cast iron cookware arena, Griswold. WagnerWare Cookware was awarded in several nationwide as well as some international expositions, including but not limited to expositions in Chicago, Nashville, Paris, Buffalo, and St. Louis.
Uniting Wagner and Griswold
In some circles, this is stated as "Wagner acquiring Griswold" but it is not that simple. The real story is slightly more complicated and is quite common when small family operated business grow into large corporations. Companies are bought and sold, consolidated and dismantled, and the cast iron cookware business is no different. The Randall Corporation purchased Wagner Manufacturing in 1952. McGraw Edison Inc. bought Griswold on March 29, 1957 and then sold it in December 1957 to Randall who already owned Wagner.
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Beginning of the End
Effectively, the Griswold manufacturing plant in Erie, Pennsylvania was shut down in 1957 and any Griswold cookware made after this period was out of the Wagner Manufacturing Sidney, Ohio plant. This was the beginning of the end of the high quality cookware that both, Griswold and Wagner, were known for. Well, that might be a little bit harsh but most experts do agree that the quality started to decline in quality at this point. In 1959, the final nail in the coffin came when Randall sold off Griswold and Wagner to Textron. It is widely accepted that post 1960 Griswold and Wagner cookware is not in the same collectable class as the pre 1960 cookware. General Housewares Corp. bought Textron Inc. in 1969 and that included the Griswold and Wagner cast iron cookware lines. One could argue that those cast iron skillets, dutch ovens, and griddles that were made after the merger and acquisitions are better than the ones made after 1990 or so, and that probably not far from the truth. However, if you compare a modern day, Made in China, cast iron skillet to a 1970, Made in the USA WagnerWare cast iron skillet, to a 1920 Griswold or Wagner cast iron skillet, the difference will be clear. An interesting note is that cookware that declares it was Made in the USA are typically not considered collectable pieces.
Modern Era
In 1996, a group of investors, which included a former employee of Wagner, purchased the Wagner and Griswold cookware lines. This was known as the WagnerWare Corporation. They continued manufacturing for another 3 years before closing their doors in Sidney in 1999. In 2000, the American Culinary Corporation purchased the rights, legacy, and remaining facilities of the Wagner and Griswold lines. The former employee noted above is Peter Pike and is the President/CEO of the American Culinary Corporation. It is clear that Mr. Pike is dedicated to the legacy and quality of the Wagner and Griswold names.
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Please check out my post on how I acquired my first piece of Wagner Cast Iron. It might be a different scenario than you think!
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House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts has reservations about taking money from the rainy day fund for education, as backed by the Senate Tuesday.
Pitts supports additional money for education, he's just concerned about taking money from the fund for ongoing expenses.
He also said it's a little "iffy" to take as much money from the fund for transportation as proposed by senators, who also backed taking money from the fund for water, a move that Pitts supports.
Pitts additionally questioned using a constitutional amendment to take money from the fund, which would require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature and voter approval on a statewide ballot. He's concerned about the precedent that might set, noting that lawmakers last session didn't have enough time to put the question before voters when they took money from the fund to meet a revenue gap.
But Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Wednesday that he's carrying Senate Joint Resolution 1 despite his reservations because it's an "alternative." He said the Senate Finance Chairman Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, asked him to carry the measure that passed the Senate unanimously Tuesday.
SJR 1 would take $5.7 billion from the rainy day fund and put $2.9 billion into transportation, $2 billion into water and $800 million into public education.


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Nothing says Springtime like the fresh aroma of stinky dog and smelly shoes. If you are like me, my sensitive nose can't stand the smell, but one way to stop stinky odor in its tracks is new Renuzit Sensitive Scents.
Spring isn't about stinky dog and smelly shoes, it's about renewing and refreshing with Renuzit Sensitive Scents
I had the opportunity to try new Renuzit Sensitive Scents Pure Water Blossom & Cucumber Cone , Pure Ocean Breeze Oil, and Pure White Pearl & Lavender Spray.
Pure Water Blossom & Cucumber Cone:
My opinion of this new Renuzit Sensitive Scents adjustable cone is it smells great, not too overpowering with a hint of crispness. This particular product is best used in small spaces. One cone does not work in a living room or kitchen.I used this one in my office which fills my small space with everyday fresh scents. As far as scents go, the aroma is not overpowering which is good if you are sensitive to strong aroma's. I give this product an 8.
Pure Ocean Breeze Oil:
This heavenly scent takes me back to the Oregon Coast. I chose to use Renuzit Sensitive Scents oil in my living room to quell doggy odor and stinky, smelly shoes. It works great, but the aroma is a bit overwhelming. If you have sensitivities, this may not be for you. However, the scent continuously refreshes and renews my living room. The only downside, after a few hours, the scent smells like incense. Two thumbs up!
Pure White Pearl & Lavender Spray:
Spring is in the air and so is the smell of stinky dog. I love my dog, but hate the way he makes my furniture and carpet smell. One spray and smelly odors are gone. This fragrance is light and airy, not too overpowering, but has enough strength to get rid of yucky pet odor. If smelly odor's have you holding your nose, try new Renuzit Pure White Pearl & Lavender Spray. One spray goes a long way, be sure not to overspray due to wetness. I give this one a 10!
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Text Formatting Cues to Assist in Resolving Ambiguities
Properly interpreting a reference requires nontextual cues offered by text formatting. To obtain nontextual properties, BibPort requires a mechanism for understanding the document's underlying file format. A manuscript usually follows the standard format of the host wordprocessing tool, such as the structure of a Word document. BibPort understands the Word format and extracts the nontextual information in the citation.
Mining a reference through visual cues is not easy. Many common formats, including the Word document format, encode information in a binary format rather than plaintext. Furthermore, mining the visual cues is tied to a specific wordprocessor's output and is difficult to generalize due to differences in the file formats of wordprocessors. The situation has additional complexity because a parser may need to evolve with the host wordprocessor. For example, each new version of Word tends to change the standard document format in some way, requiring either a more complicated parser or several parsers to decode all formats.
BibPort includes a format-agnostic parser that processes the tokens of a document without understanding the specific underlying format. BibPort's own internal data structure can be extended with a wrapper to integrate with the host wordprocessor's data structure to deliver tokens to the parser. Many wordprocessors provide an API to access the internal structure of documents. For example, Word allows such interaction through VSTO and the Word Object Model (WOM).
Ambiguity Within Reference Types
Ambiguity within a single grammar rule can be resolved partially through nontextual information, which can serve as a guide to delimit the beginning and ending of certain elements (a journal name) of a reference list entry. However, additional challenges remain when parsing a full set of reference types.
The Typical Style
Creating the BibPort grammar for a citation format is not difficultthe process is similar to defining the grammar for a simple programming language. However, there are several citation formats that fail to distinguish between similar types of publications. In the example BibPort grammar for APA (Figure 2), you can see that the grammar productions distinguish between a book and a magazine. At a visual level, the title of the book is completely underlined, but the article title is not. Such visual cues can serve as attributes to assist the parser for a specific grammar. Therefore, there is no ambiguity between a book and magazine in the APA grammar when nontextual information is available.
However, note that the grammar for the journal simply references the grammar for the magazine. This is because the APA style does not distinguish between magazines and journals. However, other citation formats may decide to treat magazines and articles differently, and many management tools distinguish between magazine articles and journal articles. Therefore, even though the grammar may be ambiguous, it's important that the parser have some mechanism for disambiguation so that integration between different styles is possible.
In a grammar specification, optional information is specified by square brackets; for instance, the volume and issue information for the magazine in Figure 2. It is difficult to analyze a citation grammar to produce a parser that's aware of all ambiguities. User-directed parsing needs to disambiguate some citation formats. Most citation formats permit the description of several dozen types of references. In terms of selecting candidates for ambiguous references, BibPort streams every reference list entry to the parser for each reference type. This way, parsers can remain simple, yet all ambiguities are always detected with candidate suggestions.
After an ambiguity is found, users must be involved. Of course, BibPort output should be reliable, so BibPort does not guess about the correct classification of an ambiguous reference without consulting users. Because BibPort is integrated with Microsoft Word, a pop-up dialog menu for each ambiguous reference list entry is displayed to users, who are asked to classify the reference from among the recommended candidates. A similar action can be taken for a reference for which the parser cannot find a suitable production match. An interface lets users populate a data structure with appropriate information, as well as indicate the reference type.


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To arrive at this list of 100 names, we surveyed more than 25,000 local Washingtonian subscribers, plus nearly 2,000 agents who made last year's Best Agents and Top Producers lists. We asked both groups whom they've most enjoyed working with, based on a number of criteria including market knowledge, integrity, communication skills, and closing preparation. We further vetted those results by contacting still more real-estate industry professionals.
For those househunting in particular areas, we have included neighborhoods where each agent does business. But these are only examples. Many of them work all over Washington.
These are agents and teams who produced among the highest sales volumes in Washington last year, along with where they're licensed. The list includes agents in DC; Prince George's, Montgomery, Anne Arundel, and Howard counties in Maryland; and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and Alexandria in Virginia. If your real-estate office didn't receive a Top Producers survey this year and you'd like to participate, please contact senior editor Marisa M. Kashino at [email protected].
How often do we publish this list?
The list is published annually in our July issue.
When will the next Top Producer surveys go out?
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Your broker or an office manager must fill out a Top Producers survey. If you have not previously received a Top Producers survey, please email senior editor Marisa M. Kashino and she will add you to the distribution list.
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Cisco Down 9%: 'We Sure Don't Like Enterprise IT Spend Trend'
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Cisco Systems (CSCO) this afternoon reportedfiscal Q3 revenue and earnings per share narrowly ahead of expectations.
Revenue in the three months ended in April rose 7%, year over year, to $11.6 billion, yielding EPS of 48 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $11.58 billion in revenue and 47 cents EPS.
CEO John Chambers called the results "solid," noting profit growth of 14%, on a non-GAAP basis, was ahead of the revenue growth rate.
Cisco ended the quarter with $48.4 billion in cash and equivalents and investments.
The company bought back 27 million shares of stock for a purchase price of $550 million, it said.
Cisco's conference call with analysts starts t 4:30 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it here.
Cisco shares are down 22 cents, or 0.7%, at $18.60 in late trading.
Gross margin in the quarter was 63%, down from 63.9% a year earlier, but up from 62.4% in Q2. Operating income was 28.6% of revenue, up from 27.2% a year earlier and 28.4% in Q2.
Amongst the various product categories, Cisco's Switching, making up 31% of sales, rose 5% in the quarter, year over year, while routing, 18% of sales, was flat with the prior-year period.
Collaboration, 21% of revenue, was also flat.
Service provider video equipment was up 12%, wireless was up 20%, security products revenue rose 9%, and data center revenue rose 67%.
All other product categories revenue fell 14%. Service revenue was up 13%.
Update: During the conference call, the company projected 2% to 5%, year over year revenue growth this quarter, fiscal Q4.
Non-GAAP EPS is expected in a range of 44 cents to 46 cents.
Based on year-earlier revenue of $11.195 billion, that would imply revenue of $11.42 billion to $11.75 billion, which would be below the $12 billion average estimate of analysts. The EPS outlook is also below the average 47 cents the Street has been modeling.
Margins are expected to fall this quarter. The company sees non-GAAP gross profit margin of 61% to 62%, and operating margin in the range of 26.5% to 27.5%.
Cisco shares are now down $1.65, almost 9%, at $17.11.
Chambers, during the Q&A period, clarified his thoughts on the current market conditions but repeatedly emphasizing the "caution" and "uncertainty" among customers regarding the world regarding global economic conditions.
Added Chambers, "We sure don't like the trend in the enterprise IT spending although we think in our product areas we control our own destiny in terms of share of market."
Enterprise product orders were down 1% for Cisco in the quarter, the only customer segment to see a decline.
Product orders in Europe were flat with the prior-year period, while Americas orders rose 5% and Asia-Pacific orders rose 7%.
Chambers said, however, that Cisco's "mindshare" with customers is "very strong," and that "we have taken wallet share" in selling totelcocustomers:
We remain number one or number two in almost every product market where we play. At the same time, we have maintained our gained share year-over-year in the majority of product categories across service provider, commercial and enterprise. In the most recent quarter for which the market share data is available.


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How We Do It
The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin
Many parents have questions about how to raise children "naturally." When is the natural time to wean a baby? Is early toilet training natural? What about suggestions to eat the placenta?
Martin, a primatologist, looks to evolutionary history for clues to how humans have parented through time. He leads a dizzying tour through evolutionary aspects of human reproduction, starting with sperm and egg, winding through pregnancy and parental care, to reach the decidedly unnatural topics of contraception and in vitro fertilization.
The book is a gold mine of cocktail party trivia. Humans, for instance, have the fattest babies of all primates, and our disdain for dirty diapers is something of an evolutionary anomaly. Most mammals, including our closest relatives, deal with their infant's waste by swallowing it.
Martin often touches on practical