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At 7:45am, August 8, 2008, a 28 year old woman was seated in her vehicle – which was parked in the driveway of her residence along the 1200 block of S. 18th Street. Suddenly, a man approached her with a knife. He held the knife to her throat as he reached across her body and grabbed her pass from the passenger seat. He immediately fled west bound on B Street. Since her cellular phone was inside her purse, the victim drove to SunMart at 17th & South to contact police. She did sustain minor cuts to her neck during the incident.
Officers immediately converged to the area. An officer canvassing nearby neighborhoods saw a man, matching the suspect's description, enter an apartment building in the 600 block of S 20th Street. The officer then located the victim's cell phone where that man was last seen. A short time later, officers found Rodney Mann hiding inside a sofa at 612 S. 20th Street. The victim's purse and its contents have been recovered. Rodney was lodged in jail for Robbery and Use of a Firearm to Commit a Felony.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State senior Pete Massaro (Newtown Square) is among the candidates for the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's Scholar-Athlete Fellowship and the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy, presented to the nation's premier college football student-athlete.
A defensive end, Masaro is among the Campbell Trophy semifinalists and has an opportunity to become Penn State's 17th NFF Scholar-Athlete recipient, the last being offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski in 2010.
Massaro graduated in December 2011 with a superlative 3.85 cumulative grade point average, among the squad's highest marks. He earned a degree in finance and is on schedule to earn a second degree, in economics, this December.
A 2010 first-team Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American®, Massaro should be a strong candidate to earn Academic All-America® honors for a second time. An Academic All-Big Ten honoree, he also was nominated for the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS Award for the 2012 college football season.
Massaro returned to the field this season after rehabilitating his second season-ending knee injury, which forced him to miss the 2011 campaign. The former Marple Newtown High School all-state player tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the 2009 Blue-White Game, forcing him to miss his redshirt freshman season. After starting the final 11 games of the 2010 season, in which he recorded 8.0 tackles for loss (3.5 sacks) and 37 tackles, Massaro tore his left ACL during spring practice in 2011, sidelining him for the season.
This season, Massaro has two tackles, with 0.5 TFL, in his two games played. He suffered a shoulder injury at Virginia and did not play in the wins over Navy and Temple.
During his Penn State career, Massaro's community service activities include Special Olympics Pennsylvania State Summer Games, THON Make-A-Wish program, Centre County Down Syndrome Society dance, Penn State Uplifting Athletes Lift For Life and the Children's Miracle Network.
Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, semifinalists must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor, and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. The trophy is named in honor of Bill Campbell, former player and head coach at Columbia University and the 2004 recipient of the NFF's Gold Medal.
"The NFF would like to personally congratulate each of the nominees for maintaining such high standards throughout their collegiate careers," said NFF President & CEO Steven J. Hatchell. "We are extremely proud to showcase their achievements, and there is no question that the NFF Awards Committee will have an incredibly difficult task in selecting the final group of honorees from among this esteemed group."
The NFF Awards Committee will select up to 16 finalists and announce the results on Thursday, Oct. 25. Each finalist will be recognized as part of the 2010 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class, receiving an $18,000 post-graduate scholarship. The Campbell Trophy winner, who will have his scholarship increased to $25,000 and receive a 25-pound bronze trophy, will be announced live at the NFF's 55th Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 4 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. A total distribution of $300,000 in scholarships will be awarded at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner, pushing the program's all-time distributions to more than $10.1 million.
Coach Bill O'Brien's Nittany Lions host Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 6, for Penn State's Homecoming game and second conference game of the season. The contest will kick at noon ET and air on ESPN, the Penn State Sports Network and www.GoPSUsports.com.
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text: Catalogue raisonné of the German language art of Lawrence Weiner. Text by Gabriele Wix. "One of Conceptual art's most popular and iconic protagonists, Lawrence Weiner (born 1942) has stood as a pioneer for practitioners of language-based art for the last 40 years. His philosophical aphorisms, poetical declarations, idle observations and casual musings, and his appropriation of the art catalogue as artist's book, have proved enduringly influential strategies. About two thirds of Weiner's oeuvre--which to date comprises more than 1,000 works--has only been presented in German, in the German-speaking world (much of it either translated by Weiner himself or conceived by him in German). Featuring over 800 works, this volume is the first catalogue raisonné of those works. As always, Weiner has assumed responsibility for the book's typography and design. Accompanying text and visual documents shed light on his methods." -- publisher's statement. Text in English and German.


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I'm doing a course in Discrete Mathematics (so far: Four Colour Theorem, Intro Graph Theory, Intro Logic Theory, Intro Set Theory and Intro Proofs) at University, but unfortunately they don't record the lectures.
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The LRC is located off the academic mall. The second and third floors contain the Lydia Olson Library. The lower levels house the Central Upper Peninsula and NMU Archives, Audio-Visual Services, Public Radio 90, and WNMU-TV 13, where students produce the Public Eye News program and have other opportunities to gain studio production experience.
The first level is also home to the computer Help Desk, Micro-Repair and Academic Computing. Traditional and distance-learning classrooms are complemented by a spacious concourse suitable for between-class and late-night studying along with the comfortable Starbucks® lounge. In addition, Fieras restaurant offers made-to-order Mexican food and an assortment of grab-and-go healthy meals. An underground tunnel connects the LRC with the West Science Building.
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CDC confirms 4 NH patients have fungal infections tied to steroids produced at Framingham facility
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday confirmed that four people in New Hampshire have fungal infections linked to a meningitis outbreak that has swelled to more than 200 confirmed cases nationwide and claimed the lives of 15 people.
Three patients have fungal meningitis — an inflammation of the brain — and a fourth person has a peripheral joint infection, according to the CDC, and all cases are related to apparently tainted steroids produced by a Framingham facility.
The New Hampshire patients are between the ages of 40 and 60 and are the first confirmed victims of the outbreak in New England.
The crisis has been linked to New England Compounding Center of Framingham, which officials believe produced contaminated steroids that were used to treat pain. The company has voluntarily recalled all products that it produced since January.
The three men and one woman who were infected in New Hampshire received steroid injections from PainCare LLC, a pain management practice that obtained the product from the compounding center.
Dr. Michael O'Connell, PainCare's chief executive officer, said Sunday that three of the patients are being treated at various hospitals in New Hampshire, but he had no word on their conditions, though they did not appear to have life threatening complications. One man who was infected has been treated and released.
PainCare has identified 741 patients who may have been exposed to the contaminated steroid, but O'Connell said that number could grow.
"We feel it's quite likely that there will be more cases that will be identified as related to the exposure to the tainted product,'' O'Connell said. "I don't see how that could not be the case.''
He said providers and patients at PainCare, which is the only known company in the state to have used the tainted product, have been under considerable stress.
"Everyone has been putting in many, many extra hours,'' O'Connell said. "Not only in evaluating and … [performing] diagnostic testing of patients, but they also have been putting in more hours on call, taking calls from patients who are worried and in distress.''
He said of the patients, "They are beside themselves.''
As the number of confirmed cases related to the outbreak continued to grow, the CDC on Sunday issued updated guidelines for doctors in treating affected patients.
O'Connell said it is difficult to determine the best course of action for patients, some of whom show symptoms, even though their initial test results came back normal.
"That's why it's important that the patients not just be seen once but … [also] repeat some of the diagnostic testing,'' he said.
Fungal meningitis is not transmitted from person to person. However, any patients who have received an epidural steroid injection since May 21 should contact their doctors if they experience any one of several symptoms, according to the CDC.
Those symptoms are new or worsening headaches; fever; sensitivity to light; neck stiffness; new weakness or numbness; slurred speech; or increased pain, redness or swelling at the point of the injection.
The CDC confirmed Sunday on its website that the New Hampshire patients are four of the 205 infections nationwide that are tied to the outbreak, which now spans 14 states. Fifteen people have died.
New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services has said the product that is believed to be behind the outbreak was distributed at PainCare locations in Somersworth, Merrimack, and Newington.
A spokeswoman for the department could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
David Kibbe, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, said in a statement that the agency has worked with federal officials to notify all states that were potentially affected, and the parties are continuing to share information as the investigation progresses.
"None of the three contaminated lots were shipped to Massachusetts locations and there are no cases in the Commonwealth,'' Kibbe said.
Besides New Hampshire, the other New England states to receive the recalled product from the compounding center are Rhode Island and Connecticutt, according to the CDC.
The Rhode Island Department of Health had no reported cases as of Sunday, a spokeswoman said.


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At its eighth annual Research@Intel event on Thursday in Mountain View, California, the chip giant gave a crowd-gathering demo of what it calls a Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL).
The demo setup included a hefty transmitter and receive-coil pair in which the receive coil had at its center a small speaker, with both the audio signal and the power required to drive the speaker being transmitted wirelessly.
The WREL, as its name implies, transmits power by setting up a resonant relationship between the transmitter and the receive coil, much as does the battery recharger in your wireless electric toothbrush.
However, as Intel researcher Emily Cooper told The Reg, the WREL's power transmission is "very different from the electric toothbrush charger [power] that falls off after about a millimeter."
Although the demo was transmitting only about one or two watts at a distance of over a meter, Cooper claimed that in Intel's Seattle lab, they've managed to power a netbook at distances of between one and two meters, providing between 14 and 20 watts. She also said that lab tests had powered 40 and 60-watt light bulbs.
Research@Intel: Wireless Resonant Energy Link demo
Intel's wireless-power prototype - transmitter on the right, speaker-equipped receive coil on the left
Cooper demonstrated that the receiver didn't drop or attenuate the signal when it changed its orientation in the transmitted beam. Even at a 90 degrees orientation to the transmitter, the receive coil's tinny speaker's tunes remained equally tinny. Her explanation: "As long as we're capturing some of the flux from this source, we can transduce that."
She also pointed out that the transmitted power is not subject to the familiar inverse square law, which decrees that signal strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the transmitter. "That's what's interesting about this coupling mechanism," she said, "there are ways to make the transfer efficiency constant until you reach a certain point."
When asked what would happen to the signal strength if there were something between the transmitter and the receive coil, Cooper said there'd be a problem "only if there were a Faraday Cage in the middle," and that "certainly this transmitter could be embedded in a wall with plasterboard over it and that wouldn't effect the transmission."
Even such wetware as human beings walking through the transmission path shouldn't effect the signal: "People, not so much - there's really not good coupling with people," Cooper said.
Wireless power transmission has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla, and although some progress has been made by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, most wireless-power devices have been of the electric-toothbrush variety.
Wireless-power company Fulton Innovation, for example, has been at it for some time, even demonstrating a wirelessly powered blender. However, that appliance needs to be placed on what the company calls an "Access Point" before it can make a strawberry-banana smoothie.
Powermat also showed wireless rechargers at this year's CES, but again the device to be recharged needs to be placed directly on their eponymously named Powermats. And then there's the progress being made in tiny remote sensors called WISPs (wireless identification and sensing platforms) that draw their power from the ambient energy emitted by sources such as WiFi hotspots, cell towers, or TV broadcast signals.
Of course, there's been a great deal of hubbub - and conflicting studies - about the possible ill effects of even such low-power, inverse-square-law-obedient signal sources as cell-phone towers. Intel is aware of the controversy and has said in a statement about the WREL that "We are investigating the safety and regulatory issues. It is too early to definitively evaluate the safety or regulatory compliance of any proposed product, as basic properties such as transmitted power levels and safety features have not been set yet."
In addition to its regulatory challenges, existing WREL technology is clearly far too large for most commercial uses, but Cooper said that the size of the receive coil is "something we're working on and that's very important to this application space." The goal, she said, is "to be able to scale these to cell-phone size, to laptop-size."
When asked when shrinking the receive coil to a manageable size might allow WREL-enabled products to appear in your local electronics boutique, Cooper said that mid-next-decade was a "reasonable estimate."
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In his first post, the new guy broke down the school whose football team lost to the North Dakota State Bison two years ago, the Minnesota Golden Gophers – I will breakdown the darlings of the NCAA's from Fargo in like fashion.
1. Key to a Bison Win: Be aggressive but under control. Saul Phillip's team looked extremely passive in the first half of the Summit League Championship game. I don't know if that was nerves or a team that was over confident and waiting for the game to balance out and "come to them". Either way, they need to play their game with aggression from the opening tip.
2. Key Player for the Bison: Ben Woodside. Predictable, you might say. Sure, it's predictable, he is NDSU's leading scorer. Why is he so valuable?? He is the best player in the Summit League and is the 10th leading scorer in the country. Typically, as Woodside goes, so go the Bison.
3. X-Factors for Bison: Everyone not named Ben Woodside. The Bison have capable scorers and I have a feeling Kansas will have a guy hounding Woodside from the moment the ball is in play. The Bison have double-digit scorers in Mike Nelson (11.9), Brent Winkelman (18.7), and Michale Tviet (9.7) has picked up his game of late and shoots 46% from deep. Plus, all the Bison fans will make the Dome feel like a Bison home game (my goal was to say Bison as many times as possible in this paragraph – I got 6).
4. Why the Bison Could Lose: It's Kansas. They have Cole Aldrich. He is a monster in the post. The Bison were beat-up by Oakland's 6'11" center, Keith Benson . Aldrich goes for 15 and 11 a game, and his shot is nearly unblockable – he has the KG behind the head release.
5. How Far will the Bison Get?: It depends on who wins the West Virginia and Dayton match-up. I think it will be a tough match-up against WV, NDSU is more efficient on the offense end, but could struggle guarding WV's length and athletic ability. Dayton is more balanced, has no player averaging more than 13 points, and shoots only 33% from distance.
Additional Note– The Bison are the 3rd best in the country in FG% at 48.9% and 5th in 3PT% at 41.2%, compared to KU who is 21st in FG% at 47.9% and 34th in 3PT% at 37%. The Bison starting line-up is taller than KU- expect at center – so the Bison should be able to get their shots off , and if the percentages hold true, NDSU will be in the game.
I do not expect them to win on Friday, but I think is the game is close, the Bison are lead by experienced players who are confident and battle tested.
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IMF Survey Vol.31, September 2002
- Africa seeks to lay foundation for growth
- Supporting regional integration
- Advisory councils launched: Improving Africa's investment climate
- Debt strategy: Poor countries' goal is to reduce debt, fight poverty, and achieve durable growth
- How the HIPC Initiative works
- Poverty reduction: Supporting country-led efforts
- IMF expands antipoverty work in the former Soviet Union
- Social dimensions of IMF financing
- Financial architecture: Fast-changing world economy drives IMF reforms
- When countries can't repay their debts
- Effective surveillance and crisis prevention: Helping IMF members reduce vulnerabilities, promote stability, and foster growth
- Independent Evaluation Office: Evaluators look at prolonged IMF borrowing, fiscal reforms, and capital account crises
- Conditionality: IMF reviews its approach to conditionality, emphasizes country ownership of reforms
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Ireland, Irish Éire, country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles.
The magnificent scenery of Ireland's Atlantic coastline faces a 2,000-mile- (3,200-km-) wide expanse of ocean, and its geographic isolation has helped it to develop a rich heritage of culture and tradition that was linked initially to the Gaelic language. Washed by abundant rain, the country's pervasive grasslands create a green-hued landscape that is responsible for the popular sobriquet Emerald Isle. Ireland is also renowned for its wealth of folklore, from tales of tiny leprechauns with hidden pots of gold to that of the patron saint, Patrick, with his legendary ridding the island of snakes and his reputed use of the three-leaved shamrock as a symbol for the Christian Trinity. But while many may think of Ireland as an enchanted land, the republic has been beset with perennial concerns—emigration, cultural and political identity, and relations with Northern Ireland (comprising the 6 of Ireland's 32 counties within the province of Ulster that remain part of the United Kingdom). At the beginning of the 21st century, Ireland's long-standing economic problems were abating, owing to its diverse export-driven economy, but calamity struck again in 2008 when a new financial and economic crisis befell the country, culminating in a very costly bailout of the Irish economy by the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund.
The emergence of Ireland as an independent country is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the 17th century, political power was widely shared among a rather loosely constructed network of small earldoms in often-shifting alliances. Following the so-called "Flight of the Earls" after an unsuccessful uprising in the early 17th century, Ireland effectively became an English colony. It was formally incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801. A 1914 Home Rule Act was passed but never implemented due to pro-union militancy in the north, the onset of World War I, and the subsequent Irish War of Independence. In 1920 the island was effectively partitioned with the creation of Northern Ireland, a six-county area with devolved powers within the United Kingdom, whereas under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, the other 26 counties became the Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth and Empire. In 1937 the southern state passed a new constitution that offered a more robust expression of sovereignty, and in 1949 it formally left the Commonwealth as the Republic of Ireland.
Since then Ireland has become integrated with the rest of western Europe. It joined the European Economic Community (forerunner of the EU) in 1973. Though the country generally retained a neutral role in international affairs, in 2008 Ireland became an impediment to the enactment of the Lisbon Treaty—an agreement aimed at streamlining the EU's processes and giving it a higher international profile—when the Irish voted against the passage of the treaty in a national referendum. The treaty, however, was approved by Irish voters in a second referendum, held the following year.
Dependent on agriculture, Ireland was long among Europe's poorest regions, a principal cause of mass migration from Ireland, especially during the cycle of famine in the 19th century. Some 40 million Americans trace their ancestry to Ireland as a result of that traumatic exodus, as do millions of others throughout the world. Every year members of this diaspora visit their ancestral homeland and forge connections with long-lost family.
Ireland's capital is Dublin, a populous and affluent city whose metropolitan area is home to more than one-fourth of the country's total population. The city's old dockside neighbourhoods have given way to new residential and commercial development. Cork, Ireland's second largest city, is a handsome cathedral city and port in the southwest. Other principal centres include Waterford, Wexford, and Drogheda on the east coast, Sligo in the northwest, and Limerick and Galway in the west.
Although Ireland is now both urbanized and Europeanized, its culture retains many unique characteristics, and its people prize folkloric and social traditions that largely derive from and celebrate the country's rural past. In "Meditations in Time of Civil War" William Butler Yeats, perhaps Ireland's best-known poet, evokes the idyllic and idealized countryside, a place central to the memories of the country's millions of expatriates and their descendants:
An acre of stony ground,
Where the symbolic rose can break in flower,
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The republic of Ireland occupies the greater part of an island lying to the west of Great Britain, from which it is separated—at distances ranging from 11 to 120 miles (18 to 193 km)—by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St. George's Channel. Located in the temperate zone between latitudes 51°30′ and 55°30′ N and longitudes 6°00′ and 10°30′ W—as far north as Labrador or British Columbia in Canada and as far west as the West African state of Liberia—it constitutes the westernmost outpost of the Atlantic fringe of the Eurasian landmass (the absolute extreme of which is Tearaght Island, the westernmost member of the Blasket Islands, which lie off the Dingle Peninsula and are part of County Kerry). Ireland, which, like Great Britain, once formed part of this landmass, lies on the European continental shelf, surrounded by seas that are generally less than 650 feet (200 metres) deep. The greatest distance from north to south in the island is 302 miles (486 km), and from east to west it is 171 miles (275 km).
The territory of the republic consists of a broad and undulating central plain underlain by limestone. This plain is ringed almost completely by coastal highlands, which vary considerably in geologic structure. The flatness of the central lowland—which lies for the most part between 200 and 400 feet (60 and 120 metres) above sea level—is relieved in many places by low hills between 600 and 1,000 feet (180 to 300 metres) in elevation. With many lakes, large bog areas, and low ridges, the lowland is very scenic. The principal mountain ranges are the Blue Stack Mountains in the north, the Wicklow Mountains in the east (topped by Lugnaquillia, at 3,039 feet [926 metres]), the Knockmealdown and Comeragh mountains in the south, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks in the southwest, and the Twelve Pins in the west. Carrantuohill, at 3,414 feet (1,041 metres) in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, is the highest point in the republic. In the west and southwest the wild and beautiful coast is heavily indented where the mountains of Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry thrust out into the Atlantic, separated by deep wide-mouthed bays, some of which—Bantry Bay and Dingle Bay, for example—are, in fact, drowned river valleys. By contrast, the east coast is little indented, but most of the country's trade passes through its ports because of their proximity to British and Continental markets.
The coastal mountain fringe illustrates the country's complex geologic history. In the west and northwest as well as in the east, the mountains are composed mainly of granite. Old Red Sandstone predominates in the south, where the parallel folded mountain ridges trend east-west, separated by limestone river valleys. Ireland experienced at least two general glaciations—one covering most of the country and the other extending as far south as a line linking Limerick, Cashel, and Dublin—and the characteristic diversity of Irish scenery owes much to this glacial influence. The large areas of peat bog to be found throughout the country are a notable feature of the landscape.
The rivers that rise on the seaward side of the coastal mountain fringe are naturally short and rapid. The inland streams, however, flow slowly, often through marshes and lakes, and enter the sea—usually by way of waterfalls and rapids—long distances from their sources. The famed River Shannon, for example, rises in the plateau country near Sligo Bay and flows sluggishly south-southwestward for some 160 miles (260 km), reaching tidewater level at Limerick and draining a wide area of the central lowland on its way. Other major inland rivers—some of them renowned for their salmon fisheries—are the Slaney, Liffey, and Boyne in the east; the Nore, Barrow, and Suir in the southeast; the Blackwater, Lee, and Bandon in the south; and the Clare and the Moy in the west. Because of the porosity of the underlying Carboniferous limestones, an underground drainage system has developed, feeding the interlacing surface network of rivers and lakes. The government has implemented major arterial drainage projects, preventing flooding—and making more land available for cultivation—by improving the flow of water in the rivers and thereby lowering the levels of lakes. There are also state-aided farm-drainage schemes designed to bring wasteland and marginal land into production.
Most Irish soils originate from drift, the ice-scoured waste formerly frozen to the base of the advancing glaciers. Some older rocks in the country's geologic formation—quartzites, certain granites, and shales—weather into infertile and unproductive soils. In many places, however, these have been overlaid by patches of the ice-borne drift, mostly limestone-bearing, which are farmed with considerable success. The bare limestone regions remaining in western areas show how much glacial drift cover has meant to the Irish agricultural economy.
Ireland's climate is classified as western maritime. The predominant influence is the Atlantic Ocean, which is no more than 70 miles (113 km) from any inland location. The mild southwesterly winds and warm waters of the North Atlantic Current contribute to the moderate quality of the climate. Temperature is almost uniform over the entire island. Average air temperatures lie mainly between limits of 39 and 45 °F (4 and 7 °C) in January and February, the coldest months of the year. In July and August, the warmest months, temperatures usually range between 57 and 61 °F (14 and 16 °C), although occasionally considerably higher readings are recorded. The sunniest months are May and June, when there is sunshine for an average duration of 5.5 and 6.5 hours a day, respectively, over most of the country, and the ancient patchwork of fields and settlements making up the landscape glows under a clear, vital light. Average annual precipitation varies from about 30 inches (760 mm) in the east to more than 100 inches (2,533 mm) in the western areas exposed to the darkening clouds that often come sweeping in from the Atlantic. The precipitation, combined with the equable climate, is particularly beneficial to the grasslands, which are the mainstay of the country's large livestock population. Snow is infrequent except in the mountains, and prolonged or severe snowstorms are rare.


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Dr. Meral Gunay-Aygun is an associate professor of pediatrics and genetics at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a medical degree from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Gunay-Aygun completed residencies in pediatrics at Hacettepe University Children's Hospital and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She completed an additional residency in medical genetics at Case Western Reserve University and a fellowship in biochemical genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008.
She is a member of myriad professional organizations, including the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society of Pediatric Research and the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders.
Her work has been recognized through the Innovative Leadership Award from Genetic Allience, as well as the NHGRI merit award for her research on Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease/Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF).
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Departments / Divisions
Centers & Institutes
- MD, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (1987)
- Marmara University Faculty of Medicine / Pediatrics (1989)
- Haceteppe Children's Hospital / Pediatrics (1994)
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Genetics (1997)
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Pediatrics (1999)
- Cleveland Clinic (1999)
- National Institutes of Health / Genetics (2004)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics / Clinical Genetics / MD (1999)
Research & Publications
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Graduate Program Affiliation
- Medical Genetics Residency and Clinical Biochemical Genetics Fellowship Programs, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Medical Genetics Fellowship Program, NHGRI, NIH
- Medical Biochemical Genetics Residency Program, NHGRI, NIH
- Inborn errors of metabolism course (MEDI 507), Foundation for advanced education in the sciences (FAES) graduate school at NIH
Courses and Syllabi
Inborn errors of metabolism course
2011 - 2016
Introduction to Medical Genetics
Inherited Kidney Disorders
2012 - 2016
Activities & Honors
- Best Senior Pediatric Resident Research Project Award, Case Western Reserve University, 1998
- NHGRI Merit Award For Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease/Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis, National Human Genome Research Institute, 2007
- Innovative Leadership Award for ARPKD/CHF Research, Genetic Alliance, 2011
- Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC)-Funded Flagship Project, NIH, 2013
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Collage of Medical Genetics
- American Society of Human Genetics
- Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis Alliance
Professional Advisory Board
Scientific Review Board
- Ohio Department of Health Newborn Screening Laboratory Advisory Committee, 2001 - 2003
Laboratory Consultants Subcommittee
- Society for Inherited Metabolic Diseases
- Society for Pediatric Research
Videos & Media
Lectures and Presentations
Clinical Findings of NIH Natural History Protocol on ARPKD/CHF
Invited Lecture, First NIH/Office of Rare Diseases Conference on Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF), Bethesda (01/05/2005)
NIH ARPKD/CHF Natural History Study
Invited Lecture, Polycystic Kidney Foundation Meeting (01/23/2005)
Report on the NIH ARPKD/CHF Natural History Study
Invited Lecture, Symposium on ARPKD/CHF Society for Pediatric Research /Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Francisco (01/02/2006)
Cystic Diseases and Cilia: A New Frontier
Invited Lecture, National Institutes of Health "Demystifying Medicine" Lecture Series, Bethesda (01/22/2008)
Natural History of Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF)
Invited Lecture, Polycystic Kidney Disease: Basic Translational and Clinical Science, 2008 FASEB Summer Research Conferences, Snowmass Village (01/27/2008)
Fibrocystic diseases of the kidneys and liver in disorders of the primary cilia/centrosome
Invited Lecture, 29th Annual David W Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis, Mont-Tremblant (Quebec) (01/08/2008)
Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis: A common feature in various ciliopathies
Invited Lecture, American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (01/11/2008)
Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease; Lessons from the NHGRI Natural History Study
Invited Lecture, Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Baltimore (01/05/2009)
Kidney and Liver Disease in Joubert Syndrome and related disorders
Invited Lecture, Joubert Syndrome and Related Cerebellar Disorders Foundation Biennual Meeting, Cincinnati (01/15/2009)
Clinical Characteristics of Human Ciliopathies
Invited Lecture, Johns-Hopkins University-McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine Seminar Series, Baltimore (01/10/2010)
Spectrum of Clinical Diseases Caused by Ciliopathies
Invited Lecture, Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Overlapping Syndromes Conference, St. Louis (01/30/2010)
Characteristics of Kidney and Liver Disease in 40 Joubert syndrome patients
Invited Lecture, Joubert Syndrome and Related Cerebellar Disorders Foundation Biennual Meeting, Orlando (01/15/2011)
Subtleties and Surprises: The Clinical Manifestations of Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
Session: Renal Cystic Diseases: New Insights into Clinical Disease Expression, World Congress of Nephrology 2011, Vancouver (01/10/2011)
International Society of Nephrology
Gray Platelet Syndrome: Clinical features and Genetic Analysis
Congenital Thrombocytopenia, Kyoto (01/23/2011)
XXIII Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Homeostasis
Overview of Clinical Features of Disorders of the Primary Cilia
25th Annual NIH Research Festival, Bethesda (01/24/2011)
Natural History Studies of Rare Diseases: Meeting the Needs of Drug Development and Research
Panelist, Prospective Cross-sectional studies session, National Institutes of Health Workshop, Bethesda (01/16/2012)
Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
Panelist, Consensus Development Meeting, Washington (01/07/2013)
Alstrom syndrome: NIH study findings
Research Clinic, and Scientific Symposium, 7th International Family Conference, Plymouth (01/09/2013)
NIH Study: Clinical and Molecular Investigations into Human Ciliopathies
FASEB Meeting, Biology of Cilia and Flagella, Niagara Falls (01/23/2013)
Hepatorenal disease in Joubert syndrome and related disorders
Joubert Syndrome and Related Disorders Foundation Conference, Minneapolis (01/10/2013)
Natural history of Joubert Syndrome
2nd Joubert Syndrome Biennial Conference: Advancing Translational Ciliopathy Research, Enhancing Clinical Care, Boston (01/21/2013)
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
Newborn screening for metabolic disorders in Ohio: interpretation, confirmatory testing and interim management
Pediatric Grand Rounds, Akron (01/01/2001)
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron
Approach to the child with fatty acid oxidation defect
Pediatric Grand Rounds, Akron (01/01/2001)
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron
Clinical Characteristics of Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and other Ciliopathies
Renal Grand Rounds, Baltimore (01/04/2012)
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Bardet-Biedel Syndrome
Cleveland (01/01/1996)
University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University
Abdominal wall defects: gastroschisis and omphalocele
High risk neonatology Grand Rounds, Cleveland (01/01/1998)
University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University
Fragile-X Syndrome
Genetics Grand Rounds, Cleveland (01/01/1999)
University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University
Ciliary Diseases: Converging Observations and Diverging Models
NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, Bethesda (01/27/2010)
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New Delhi, President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday gave his approval to an ordinance that awards stricter punishment for sexual crimes against women, including death sentence in rare instances. Women's groups are, however, planning a protest against the ordinance, which they term as a "big joke".
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, was passed by the cabinet Friday. It is based largely on former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma's 631-page report.
Women's rights activists have slammed the ordinance as a mockery of the Verma Committee recommendations and lashed out at the government for quietly passing the ordinance without a debate or discussion.
On Saturday, they urged the president not to sign the ordinance, saying it lacks teeth to fight sexual crimes against women.
With the presidential assent, the ordinance comes into effect immediately. It has to be passed by parliament within six months.
The government Saturday said the ordinance would be open to review when it is brought before parliament.
Women's groups said they would stage a protest here Monday against the ordinance.
The Verma panel was set up by the government last month to review laws to provide speedier justice and enhanced punishment in cases of aggravated sexual assault.
This followed the country wide outrage over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman Dec 16. The victim died in a Singapore hospital 13 days later.
The panel submitted its voluminous report to the government last week.
Activist Kavita Krishnan, secretary All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), said the president "could have listened to the pleas of women's groups" and not signed the ordinance.
She wondered why the government was "in such a hurry to issue the ordinance".
"An ordinance is issued in a state of emergency. Where was the emergency? They basically wanted to sideline the recommendations of the Justice Verma panel," Krishnan told IANS.
"Every single recommendation has been rejected," she added.
According to provisions of the ordinance, it has kept the perpetrator of rape as gender neutral, which is not what the women's groups and the panel had recommended, said Krishnan.
The ordinance has also criminalized consensual sexual relations of those between 16-18 years, unless they are married. "This gives legal backing to moral policing… it is appalling and will interfere in relations between a boy and girl in inter-caste and inter-religious cases," she added.
The ordinance also exempts marital rape. "The woman loses the right to say yes or no," said Krishnan.
"It also leaves out automatic prosecution of judges, magistrates and army officers in cases of sexual crimes. There will be no automatic prosecution – one will have to seek sanction for it. It is not just about the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act), the judge, magistrate and army officer retain impunity under the ordinance," she said.
Krishnan termed the Verma panel recommendations as "path-breaking".
She was also critical of the provision for death penalty in rarest of rare cases, saying "with the clause why will the perpetrator leave the victim alive to testify against him?"
Lawyer Rebecca John termed the ordinance a "bit of a joke".
"I don't understand why the government was in a tearing hurry to bring this ordinance. These are historic moments and opinions of people have to be considered. Moreover they (government) have instituted the Verma committee and should have deliberated upon its recommendations," John told IANS.
"This is a populist, knee-jerk ordinance which will serve no purpose and has only angered the activists," she added.
"I am protesting against the ordinance in whatever way I can and will be joining the several women's groups who are protesting against it too. We have to bring it to the notice of the parliamentarians," she said.
The activists are to hold a protest at Jantar Mantar Monday afternoon and are planning a mass signature campaign. "We want to begin a mass awareness about the provisions of the ordinance. On Feb 7 we will hold another protest rally," said Krishnan.
They are also planning to hold a "vigil" outside parliament when it meets Feb 21 for the budget session.


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To Demonia and Back Again
The beautiful and feisty half-cyborg secret agent Lila Black is back for a visit to the demon realm. She goes to the land of the dead and Hell too but the last is not a place.
The Quantum Bomb opened up connections with the realms of elves, demons, fairies, elementals and the dead. At least the denizens of the first three all knew about earth before but now the humans know about them too.
Most of the characters from book one are back. And we also get to know some interesting new one like Thingumajig, the entertaining but irritating red imp. Lila also gets to explore Demonias social scene since Zal spend most of his time trapped in Zoomenon. Lila has barely landed in Demonia when the assassination attempts commence. The violence gets fairly graphics but entertaining.
The tone is darker than in book one; Lila's trauma starts to catch up with her; her parents believing she is dead, the spirit of a dead elf necromancer she is sharing her body with; She has issues with accepting her new self when she need her strength the most. This shows more depth to her character. I think overall that the characters in this book have more depth than in the first book.
The demonic society with their violence and absolute truthfulness to themselves is creative and something I enjoyed immensely. Lila also learns that there is more to the universe than the realms she knows of, seems the other races have kept the humans in the dark.
The narration gets a bit shattered since it jumps back and forth between mainly Lila, Zal and Malachi. This gets rather frustrating at times.
Selling Out is Lila Black dancing with Demons and other minor acts of violence. It is well written, fast paced fun fantasy with a spice of science and steampunk.
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Selling Out (Quantum Gravity 2) by Justina Robson – Gollancz (2007) – Bought from Amazon UK | US
Book two of the Quantum Gravity series sees Lila Black drawn into the intoxicatingly dangerous demon realm. Capricious, in love with beauty, demons are best left to themselves. This is not easy when they can't resist tampering with humans.
Justina Robson's new series is a joyful melding of science fiction and fantasy brought together in the figure of the dangerously lovely Lila Black, a 21-year-old secret agent who's had much of her body replaced with weapon-and-armor-heavy intelligent metal and who isn't sure where her mind ends and her installed AI begins. Lila's world is one where demons, elves, and elementals live alongside people. And somehow Lila and the other agents of the security agency have to provide security for all and stay alive themselves.


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Actress Kelly Rutherford's custody battle with her ex Danie Giersch has hit a new low – the pair is now legally bound to follow a script when they meet so they remain polite.
The former "Gossip Girl" star has been in and out of court since last year when a judge ruled that her children, Hermes, 6, and Helena, 3, should live with their businessman father in France.
As the custody battle rumbles on, lawyers have drawn up legal documents ordering the pair to exchange pleasantries in a bid to halt any nasty exchanges.
The custody orders, obtained by TMZ.com, state the pair should "exchange polite and friendly greetings" when handing over the children, and demands that German Giersch speak in English so he can't berate her in a foreign language.
It also advises they follow a script when in each other's company, with suggested sentences including, "Have a great time with (the other parent)" and "I'll talk to you tomorrow."
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After reading last week's editorial in the Henry County Local, I feel I should address some of the issues raised.
For all Henry County residents there are two new opportunities for assistance that you may be interested in. First, on the last Wednesday of each month the Dare to Care Mobile Food Pantry will be at the Henry County Fairgrounds from 3 to 6 p.m. The Henry County and Eminence Schools Family Resource Centers have taken the lead on this new program and are doing an excellent job with it. The mobile pantry came to Henry County for the first time last month. It served an estimated 250 people, providing them with a box of food which included meat and potatoes.
At the end of the year, and with an eye on the beginning of another legislative session, the General Assembly often receives studies from a handful of special committees formed to study a single issue.
2009 was no different, with at least five providing their findings in recent weeks. Energy was the driving force behind two, while education and the economy were the focus of the other three.
With all due respect to Campbellsburg City Council member Rex Morgan, the lack of urinals at the Campbellsburg Fire Department is, in itself, far from a travesty.
The travesty is that months after reconstruction of the station began, problems still are cropping up. If the bidding process was any indication, this shouldn't be a surprise.
We want to thank everyone who helped in any way to once again make sure the ministry of the Bethlehem Living Nativity keeps going.
This portrayal of our savior Jesus Christ's birth is now 51 years old.
Without all your help and support these many years, this would surely not have been possible.
Again, thank you so much. May God bless each of you.
Bethlehem Living Nativity Committee
The other day I overheard a conversation in the grocery store while waiting in line to check out. A woman was saying that Christmas is for children, and her listener clucked her tongue and said that she certainly had to agree. I have heard this sad assessment of the holiday season before, but I am always taken aback.
Certainly, the religious significance of the Christmas season does not fade as one ages. If anything, it may deepen as you become stronger in your faith. I am sure there are many heartfelt sermons delivered on that very topic each December.
As for the maintenance of the properties in Pleasureville if you had listented to what I said I am 100 percent for keeping our town looking good, the trash picked up and the yards mowed. I am not for putting a lien on someone's property because they don't have the money to put siding on their house. I think we have bigger things to worry about like the Pool Room was broken into; the hardware store was broken into; the post office, someone used the bathroom and wiped it on everything; a car was stolen. But they say we don't need a police officer.
This year for the first time in my 55 years I will not be in Henry County in the days before Christmas which means that for the first time I can remember since I was a teenager, I will not stand in the Bethlehem Living Nativity.
I am happy to have my husband and daughters and in-laws to share Christmas Day here in Memphis — and we will cross the rivers and woods on Dec. 26 to reach my folks' Henry County farm for another celebration with four generations of Clubbs.
Did you hear? A couple of weeks ago, on Nov. 30, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Kentucky State Police raided the Henry County Courthouse. They took computers and financial records.
No, wait, that's not right.
They raided Henry County Planning and Zoning and, in addition to taking computers and financial records, shut the Planning and Zoning office down.
You didn't hear that? Hmm. If you didn't, you must have been under a rock a couple weeks ago.
I attended the last two meetings of the Pleasureville City Council where the issue of property maintenance and police protection was discussed in length by both the citizens in attendance and the members of the city council. This has been a hot topic in the city for several years.
Last week someone wrote a Letter to the Editor entitled "Jesus is a Liberal." To say that Jesus was a liberal is to say that the Bible is a liberal publication. This statement cannot be farther from the truth. You can read in the Book of Judges that the Jewish people were self-governed. They had no formal government. Liberals constantly want larger government with more regulation and higher taxes as a result. When we read 1 Samuel, we find the Israelites asking God for a king. God explains to them that they are to be set apart from other
Thankfully, the nation is not gripped in an energy crisis that drives up home heating costs this winter. Experts predict that Kentuckians can expect to pay about 39 percent less for natural gas than they paid last winter as natural gas prices drop to their lowest levels in six years. The cost of electric heat, heating oil and propane has also declined this year, meaning smaller bills and bigger savings for many households.
We are now halfway through the registration period for the 2010 election cycle. For anyone considering running for any countywide public office, you have until Jan. 26 to register at the Henry County Clerk's office.
The next Henry County Republican Party meeting will be held in the new Henry County High School cafeteria at 7 p.m. on Dec. 15. In lieu of our standard agenda, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson will be attending the meeting to discuss and answer any questions about the election process.
A month ago, there was a dust-up in Frankfort regarding what to call the evergreen tree that traditionally stands in the front of the Capitol every Christmas season. For most of us, this symbol of the renewal and promise of Christ's birth is called the Christmas Tree. Regrettably, in a misguided attempt to be politically correct, the Governor decided to be the first Kentucky Governor to call it a Holiday Tree. This change spurred disappointment and even anger throughout the Commonwealth. Thousands joined a Facebook page urging the Governor to reconsider.
In the spirit of the holiday season, I have decided to give candy-making one more try this year. It just seems like such a festive undertaking, and I have collected some very pretty containers in the past few years that would be perfect to fill with homemade candy and give away to friends as Christmas gifts.
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate the season, it is important to take time to remember the brave men and women in uniform who cannot be home with their loved ones during the holidays because they are serving our country abroad.
This year, about 285,000 American troops will serve overseas during the holidays, including more than 6,400 from Kentucky. Fortunately, there are many ways we can show our support and share the Christmas spirit with our nation's service men and women.
During my relatively short time in newspapers, I've been welcomed into countless homes.
I've been welcomed into homes great and small, opulent and sparse. I've been welcomed into homes by those who are sick and dying, and by those who are healthy and living life to its fullest.
And last week, I was welcomed into the home of Tony and Connie Hernandez. Theirs is a home full of love, life, joy and laughter.
The family is, to put it simply, amazing.
One of the most challenging problems facing state government these days is our sky-rocketing prison population.
This decade alone, the number of inmates has risen nearly 50 percent, while costs have gone up by more than half. In the last fiscal year, we spent $450 million to house more than 21,000 prisoners, a population roughly the same size as our 17th largest city.
In January, the legislature's Program Review and Investigations Committee began taking a closer look at the reasons behind this surge.
Jesus did not ask the blind man or the leper, "give me your silver pieces and THEN I will heal you." Health care in this country is bought and sold at the marketplace for profit like any other private consumption good at the expense of human lives. Yet, we claim to be a Christian nation. 122 people die each day in the US due to lack of access to health care; that number is far greater than those who died on 911 and the death toll continues to rise. Where is the memorial to these fellow Americans?
The White House says it has good reasons to bring the terrorists who planned the 9/11 attacks to New York City to try them in a federal courtroom instead of at the secure detention facility at Guantanamo. But I can't think of any.
The reasons why that decision is a mistake, however, are easy to list. It puts the tools we use to fight terror at risk. And it is a needless risk to America's security. And it gives these terrorists a worldwide platform to spread their hateful propaganda.
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Winder city officials are considering a move that once ignited a major City Hall controversy. But this time, the funding for the alleviation of a longstanding eyesore would not come from a multi-million-dollar federal loan to be paid back over the next 40 years. The new administration would pay cash. The goal now is similar to what it was in 2010, and that is to relocate the city's public works and utility departments from their 5-acre site off West May Street to a portion of the 350 undeveloped acres the city owns off Miles Patrick Road.
For the full story, see the Jan. 23 issue of the Barrow Journal.
Winder officials addressing city 'eyesore'
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Like Steve, I was struck by President Obama's threat during "cliff" negotiations to use his inaugural address to blame Republicans for any breakdown in the talks. How Lincolnesque would that be? A speech for the ages.
On reflection, though, we shouldn't be shocked if Obama attacks the Republicans in his inaugural address and/or his State of the Union speech (which he also threatened to use for this purpose), regardless of what happens in "cliff" talks. Obama has been in full campaign mode since November 6. Why, absent complete capitulation by Republicans, would we expect him to switch to statesman mode in the next month or two? And why, given his attack on the Supreme Court during his most memorable State of the Union speech, would we expect him not to rip Republicans in the upcoming one?
In reality, Obama has never had much luck persuading the American people of anything other than that the Republicans and conservatives are worse than the Democrats and liberals. For example, despite repeated attempts, he couldn't persuade them that Obamacare is worthwhile. And even when it came to Republican-bashing, he needed Bill Clinton to persuade folks that the Republicans are mainly to blame for the poor economic performance during Obama's four years. For this, Obama referred to Clinton "the Secretary of Explaining Stuff" (the word "stuff" represented a cleaning up of the original).
Rhetorically, Obama has become a one-trick pony (okay two tricks; he's good at orations after mass shootings). He's probably willing to deliver a pedestrian, standard-issue inaugural address and State of the Union speech. But deep down, he'd much rather blast Republicans. It's whaat he's about.


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WASHINGTON — San Jose State's football players came a long way to prove a point here Thursday. Both physically and metaphorically.
Mission accomplished. Both physically and metaphorically.
"I think we proved that we're simply the best San Jose State team ever," said safety James Orth.
Whew. Really? Yes, really. Given everything that Orth and his teammates accomplished in spite of what they were forced to endure over the last three weeks, his statement would be a difficult debate proposition to refute.
Thursday afternoon, the Spartans concluded their cross-country excursion to the Military Bowl at RFK Stadium with a tough-it-out 29-20 victory over Bowling Green. This allowed San Jose State to finish the season with an 11-2 record, the most wins by a San Jose State team since 1940. Only the 13-0 Spartans of 1939 won more games — although until 1950, San Jose State was not a major college program.
None of those previous teams, however, was forced to navigate the same crazy emotional gauntlet that this one did. The last three weeks were a blur for the Spartans players. Their head coach, Mike MacIntyre, announced on Dec. 10 that he was leaving SJSU to quadruple his salary by becoming head coach at the University of Colorado. The next day, defensive assistant Kent Baer was named to coach the Spartans for this bowl game. And a week later, new head coach Ron Caragher was hired.
How does a team handle all that upheaval? Remarkably well. Unbelievably well. Astoundingly well.
Baer agreed the team should be "considered the greatest team in San Jose State history." And he didn't mind taking on any challenges from those 1939 or 1940 teams.
"We'll play them," Baer said with a grin. "I know they had good teams in those days. But I don't think they were better than this one."
San Jose State certainly had no focus issues Thursday, although the whole day had a breezy, hazy, dreamy vibe — from the military vehicles and helicopters parked outside the stadium (as a salute to chief sponsor Northrop Grumman, the military contractor) to the old Washington Redskins mementos on the lawn to the bracing gusts of winter wind whipping around all the concrete.
Meanwhile, out in the parking lot stood a tent packed with San Jose State alums and friends, the vast majority from the West Coast. Even 68-year-old alum Krazy George showed up with his drum to pound out Spartans cheers, some of them directly into the ear of smiling school president Mohammad Qayoumi.
And oh, look. Right here in the press box was Caragher, another slightly-out-of-context sight. After being named the new Spartans coach, he didn't want to interfere with Baer's bowl preparation job. Caragher showed up here, however, to shake hands and watch his future players.
"I'm here to just meet a lot of people, try to become part of the San Jose State community," Caragher said during a brief interview in the third quarter, as action proceeded below. "From the coaching perspective, it's low stress. I'm here to root for the good guys."
Caragher did admit that he had addressed the team briefly last week before the flight east.
"I wished them safe travels," he said. "And I told them bowl games are only fun when you win."
Then, suddenly, Caragher looked up, just as San Jose State blocked a Bowling Green punt into the end zone.
"Oh, good!" Caragher blurted. "Get it!"
It was that kind of day. The safety turned out to be a key moment in the game, allowing the Spartans to pull within one point after Bowling Green had taken a 13-10 lead — and then score a go-ahead touchdown after the Falcons had to punt the ball following the safety.
Yet not until the fourth quarter, when San Jose State finally abandoned a run game that was going nowhere against a rugged Bowling Green defense, did the Spartans pull away to clinch the victory. David Fales, the Spartans' junior quarterback, completed 33 of 43 passes for 395 yards and set up himself for a monster senior season in 2013.
"They deserved to win the game," said Bowling Green coach Dave Clawson of the Spartans. "They're a good football team. They deserve their ranking. That's easily the best passing offense we've faced all year."
It's just too bad San Jose State couldn't have played a bowl closer to home, so more people could have watched that offense in person. Thursday's announced attendance was 17,835 — a legitimate figure by the eyeball test — which filled far less than half of the 46,000 seats in creaky old RFK.
Even so, 1,500 or so Spartans followers in the house made as much noise as anyone in the stadium — and were probably more excited than any human beings in the D.C. area for three hours. This was just SJSU's second bowl game in the past 22 years, as opposed to Bowling Green's fifth in the past 10 years. Next season, San Jose State joins the Mountain West Conference, a league with far more friendly bowl affiliations — at least for Bay Area alumni and fans. Of the six bowl games that are committed to select Mountain West teams, the farthest east is in Fort Worth, Texas.
Baer, after successfully guiding his Spartans players through a strange yet fulfilling journey, was visibly spent. He's likely joining MacIntyre's staff at Colorado, so this was his last time with the SJSU team.
"I didn't cry," Baer said. "But I wanted to. It's been a little emotional the last few days."
Granted, the Military Bowl is not the Rose Bowl. Bowling Green is not Alabama or Notre Dame. The Spartans still deserve full marks for holding things together as football players on unfamiliar turf and emerging with a result that will allow them to preserve or improve their No. 24 national ranking. MacIntyre, watching on television from his San Jose home, felt both pride and melancholy. Contacted by this newspaper following the game, MacIntyre said he and his wife were brought to tears celebrating the team's victory.
"I think we proved that it wasn't just because of Coach Mac that we were successful," said tight end Ryan Otten. "He was a huge part of it. But I think this team showed that we could work hard and change the culture and move San Jose State football up to a level that I hope can continue."
Travis Johnson, the Spartans' all-conference defensive end, was even more outspoken.
"I think this showed what we're made of," Johnson said. "I don't think we've ever been respected like we should have been. People would see San Jose State on the schedule and say, 'That's a beatable team.' We want to be the team that nobody wants to play."
On Thursday, goal accomplished.
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Nokia is spending the morning getting more updates out for Windows Phone consumers and the company doesn't appear to be halting as we've just got word that PhotoBeamer, Smart Shoot and Cinemagraph have all been bumped to new versions. So what's new in the latest releases?
Unfortunately, as per usual, Nokia has failed to supply change logs for the new releases. We've had a play around with version 3.0.5, which is a sizeable jump from the last release, and have found the app to be notably more responsive. What's interesting with this release is the ability to add effects to the recorded footage, including silver, sepia or black and white.
We've previously touched on support on the way for Windows Phone 7.8 hardware, but this doesn't appear to be included. If you've noticed anything new in the latest version of Cinemagraph, be sure to hit us up in the comments. You can download Cinemagraph from the Nokia Collection on the Windows Phone Store.
Smart Shoot
Smart Shoot is an interesting app for Lumia Windows Phones. Version 188.8.131.52 is also a slight mystery (notice a trend here?) with no change log and while we've had a good play around with the app, we haven't come across any new features or functionality. Again, should you be an avid user and notice anything new, be sure to shout at us in the comments.
You can download Smart Shoot from the Nokia Collection on the Windows Phone Store.
Would you be at all surprised if we were to suggest we're not entirely sure what's new in the latest update for PhotoBeamer? Version 18.104.22.168 is a minor jump from 1.1 we covered back in January so we'll assume that we're looking at minor improvements and bug fixes.
You can download PhotoBeamer from the Nokia Collection on the Windows Phone Store (WP7.x version - hasn't been updated).
Thanks, WPUser111, for the heads up!


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Pink frosting makes me think of a giant (Jack and the Bean Stalk sized) princess popping bubble gum, smashing it in her face, collecting it in a bowl, and storing it for later. My pink frosting, however, is not bubble gum-flavored and it does does not have a giant's cooties on it. Better yet, I didn't use any artificial food coloring to make pink frosting. I didn't use any berries, either!
So, how did I do it?
How To Make Pink Frosting
As soon as I saw how red my hibiscus tea was, I was excited to try using hibiscus to make pink frosting. It worked! Unlike using berries – which leave the frosting with a very strong berry flavor and oftentimes more moisture than you would like – making pink frosting with hibiscus only slightly affects the taste of the buttercream. The pink buttercream has just a bit of a pleasant tang to it that most people won't even notice.
The trick to pink frosting is pink butter!
- 1 C (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 1/2 C dried hibiscus
- Melt butter with dried hibiscus. You can do this in a small saucepan on medium-low heat or in a glass bowl in the microwave for one minute.
- Stir until you see lots of pink in the butter. You may see pink oil floating on the butter (like oil and vinegar) rather than integrating with it. Don't worry – when the butter cools, the pink will mix right in.
- Strain out the hibiscus flowers.
- Let the butter come to room temperature, then cool in the refrigerator.
- When ready to use, stir (to evenly distribute the pink color) and bring back to room temperature to use in your favorite frosting recipe.
How Did I Use My Pink Butter?
I topped chocolate cupcakes (the recipe from the Better Than Sex Chocolate Cupcakes) with a buttercream frosting made with pink butter. To make the pink buttercream, I used my vanilla bean buttercream frosting recipe minus the vanilla bean paste (the vanilla bean paste would affect the color of the frosting).
Note: If you want a vanilla flavor and don't want to affect color, you can use clear vanilla (but, keep in mind that it is an artificial flavor).


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On Aug. 16, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. I was in Jackson, Wyo., nervously awaiting a call from a potential employer, a solar energy company back in Vermont. After leaving Vermont for job opportunities out West, I knew the solar position was my chance to get back to a place I loved: Addison County. This was the job I wanted, in the place I wanted to be.
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A recent study from the Solar Foundation found that Vermont had more solar jobs per capita in 2013 than any other state. This is particularly impressive when you consider how the solar industry has thrived across the country, providing plenty of competition. The numbers for 2014 aren't in yet, but based on what I've seen this year, Vermont will likely maintain its No. 1 spot in the rankings.
Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the tax credit allowed Vermont businesses for research and development was cut from 30 percent to 27 percent of the federal credit. The legislation signaling this reduction was signed into law last month, the same month the state went into a tailspin about the future of IBM and its 4,000 jobs.
Included in the legislation is also the requirement that the state tax department publish the names of all those who avail themselves of the reduced tax credit.
MIDDLEBURY — The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center next Tuesday will launch a new program aimed at beefing up the state's meat processing industry.
The Oct. 2 launch comes as the developers of a proposed new meat processing facility slated for Middlebury's industrial park acknowledged a delay in construction. But said they are confident they will break ground on the new facility before the end of the year.
That facility is to provide one of the training grounds for the career center students.
Desperate times breed innovative ideas. That's what happened on the job front in the Los Angeles area when two things happened a few years back: after 40-50 years of traffic gridlock, Los Angeles County residents finally voted to pay for the rail lines through the county. The initiative, called Measure R, required support from two-thirds of the voters. It passed with flying colors.
MIDDLEBURY — Magazine sales promotion company RetailVision will close its doors in Middlebury's industrial park at the end of October, a move that will eliminate around 25 local jobs.
"We did announce last week to our employees in Vermont that we will be shutting down that office by end of October," Stephanie Justice, chief administrative officer of RetailVision's Florida-based corporate owner, Source Interlink Companies (SIM), said in an Aug. 9 e-mail response to the Addison Independent.
RIPTON — At the annual Governor's Lunch on Monday, Gov. Peter Shumlin outlined the five major initiatives he says are necessary to raise the amount of money in Vermonters' pockets.
"We've got to raise income," he told a group of more than 60 gathered at Ripton's Rikert Nordic Center for the event, an annual component of the Addison County Legislative Breakfast series.
MIDDLEBURY — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., marked Labor Day with a sobering message for workers: Barring an abrupt change in the federal government's economic policies, the nation's unemployment problems will worsen and household incomes will go down.
Sanders made his remarks before a capacity crowd at Middlebury's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, an audience that had assembled for a Labor Day dinner and rally sponsored by the Vermont AFL-CIO and several other statewide union groups.
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Dan Walters: California Democrats want to control initiative process
Unquestionably, California's Democratic Party, which holds every statewide office, dominates the state's congressional delegation and has supermajorities in both legislative houses, wants to suppress the one political venue it does not already control – the initiative process.
Two years ago, the party's executive board demanded change, declaring that "the initiative process is being abused by the use of misleading titles and advertisements by unscrupulous signature-gathering companies, hired signature collectors, and concealed sponsors to create laws and programs that benefit a very few people at the expense of the many."
Since then, Democratic legislators have introduced myriad bills to make it more difficult for conservative or business groups to place measures on the ballot, while leaving the process intact for unions and liberal groups.
The party's leaders appear to have adopted the tactics on initiatives that they employ on another constitutionally protected right, gun ownership.
Knowing that a frontal assault would be impossible, they want to make qualifying an initiative – or owning a gun – so expensive and difficult, via Byzantine restrictions, that those involved in either pursuit will simply give up.
That's why 14 gun control bills reached Gov. Jerry Brown's desk this year, as well as Assembly Bill 857, the Democrats' latest effort to thwart ballot measures that might discomfit the party and its allies.
Sponsored by the California Labor Federation and other labor groups, and carried by Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Cupertino, AB 857 would require that 10 percent of signatures on an initiative petition be gathered by non-paid volunteers.
The Assembly version of the bill pegged it at 20 percent, but it was dropped to 10 percent in the Senate.
That sounds reasonable, until one reads the bill's fine print, which essentially exempts unions by counting employees and members of nonprofit organizations (i.e. unions) as volunteer signature-gatherers, and prohibiting mailed-in signatures from being counted as volunteer-gathered names.
It would make gathering signatures by mail or paid gatherers, techniques used by conservative groups, more difficult, while preserving the status quo for unions and their allies.
One of the earlier efforts to bend the initiative process, two years ago, would have made it a crime for any signature-gatherer to be paid by the name. But Brown, who was then planning his own tax increase ballot measure, vetoed it.
"This is a dramatic change to a long-established democratic process in California," Brown said, adding, "I am not persuaded that the unintended consequences won't be worse than the abuses the bill aims to prevent."
The initiative process probably needs reform, but bending the system for partisan gain isn't it.


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Press the down arrow key to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates.
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Hostel Sunseekers is offering to its guests in Split, a cosy accommodation with safety and experience. We are located in the heart of the old town of Split, in Diokletian's Palace, one of the biggest and best preserved monuments of the Roman Empire, in a beautiful house dated from the 18th century. The ultimate blend of great location, relaxed vibe and good-times. Its cosy, friendly atmosphere and central location make Sunseekers the ultimate hostel for any traveller.
We offer a perfect balance between great atmosphere and amazing location. Our hostel is located in the heart of the city, just around the corner you will find all most important tourist sites in Split. Within small walking distance there are a ton of shops, restaurants, bars and clubs just outside. Inside the hostel you will find a relaxed, informal and friendly atmosphere with all the best facilities. We provide a perfect environment to meet other travelers and make new friends. Relax in our chill-out room and watch a movie on the big-screen, or you can catch up with friends and family over the internet. Free Wi-Fi access is also available throughout the hostel. Don't forget to ask the staff what's new and cool in Split. They always have great recommendations.
To our guests we offer 4 mix dorms (2 dorms with 6 beds, 1 dorm with 2 beds and 1 dorm with 4 beds), 2 bathrooms (24hr hot showers), common room, reception open from 8 am till 10 pm, free internet (computer and printer to be used by our guests) and WiFi is available in all areas of the hostel. Bed sheets, linen and towels are provided and each dorm is air-conditioned and with safety lockers and reading light.
*Reception hours: 8am-10pm
*Please contact us regarding your arrival time.
*Check-in time: 12:00 (noon)
*Check-out time: 11:00 am
*We don't take credit cards! Payment must be in cash (Croatian kuna or Euro)
*We are on the 3rd floor, so please keep this in mind if you're carrying heavy luggage.
*Party people and heavy boozers are most welcome, however, take note that we have to KEEP THE NOISE DOWN FROM 10PM UNTIL 8AM due to neighbors complaining and city noise restriction laws. Alternatively, choose a party hostel, there are a couple of great ones in Split!


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Lindsay Lohan's future stepmother, Kate Major, has apologized for falsely accusing the actress' dad Michael of threatening her with a knife following a dispute at the couple's Florida home on Monday.
Police were called to their Boca Raton property late on Monday to investigate reports of a domestic disturbance and Major raised fears for her safety and that of their young son Landon after posting a series of headline-grabbing accusations on Twitter.com as the fight escalated.
In the worrying tweets, Major claimed Michael Lohan had a knife and was trying to take their one-year-old baby away from her – but he challenged the claims with his own version of events on his Twitter page, insisting he was the one who had called the emergency services, adding, "All I want is for her (Major) to get help so she can be there for our wonderful son. Maybe this will do it."
Now Major has publicly retracted her allegations, blaming fear for prompting her to lie about the seriousness of the situation.
In a statement issued to UsMagazine.com, she writes, "I regretfully tweeted while my emotions were high that I was being threatened by Michael with a knife; this was not the case.
"I made a lot of statements on Twitter that were merely out of fear that he was going to take my son from me. Please respect our privacy through this difficult time."
Major has since deleted the false accusations from her Twitter page, and she has since returned to the blog to declare: "I love Landon & nothing will ever change that or take that from me!!!! I should not have tweeted anything. This has all turned into a whirlwind. I'm sorry."
The embattled couple became engaged in 2010. Lohan divorced Lindsay's mother Dina in 2007.


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Karzai Orders Cameras to Combat Torture in Afghanistanإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered that all interrogation facilities should be equipped with video cameras in a bid to prevent torture, after a recent U.N. report said detainees were abused.
The decree follows a government investigation into the U.N. report about prisoner abuse, which found detainees were tortured at the time of arrest and during interrogations.
"Relevant authorities are required to equip the intelligence and investigating agencies... with modern equipment (and) devices... and videotape the interrogation process," Karzai said in a decree released by his office late on Saturday.
He said the move will also help "eliminate any chance or place for complaints from other parties" about prisoner abuse.
The United Nations, which has run an assistance operation in Afghanistan since the 2001 fall of the Taliban, said in January that prisoners were frequently abused and tortured in the Afghan jail system.
The U.N. report revealed that 326 of 635 prisoners interviewed across the country said they had been abused, including 80 minors.
Fourteen types of torture were described in the U.N. report, including beatings with cables and pipes, attacks on the genitals, threats of execution or rape, electric shocks and forced stress positions.
In the decree, Karzai also ordered the attorney general to "prosecute the perpetrators of torture, so to avoid any suspect, convict or prisoner tortured in the future."
The decree strictly orders law-enforcement bodies, police and the intelligence agencies to avoid torturing detainees. Karzai also orders his justice minister and the court systems to provide defence lawyers to prisoners.
Afghanistan has been in near-continuous war since the late 1970s, the last 11 years a Taliban-led Islamist insurgency being fought by a U.S.-led NATO force that currently numbers more than 100,000 troops.


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Get in, on and amongst Rotorua's lakes
Having 18 pristine and sparkling lakes means you are spoilt for choice when it comes to enjoying the fresh water activities of Rotorua.
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If you are looking for action on the lakes this autumn, give stand up paddleboarding a go. Stand up paddling is like walking on water. The combined power of paddling and grace of surfing provides one of the most fun ways to explore Rotorua's lakes. Rotorua Paddle Tours offer a range of guided tours, including a paddle to the Manupirua Bay Hot Pools on Lake Rotoiti. These hot pools are only accessible by water and offer a tranquil natural experience, great for the whole family.
If paddling isn't your thing, jump in a water taxi or take a walk to Lake Tarawera's Hot Water Beach. On the edge of the lake, gather rocks to create a private lake edge pool, or follow the stream towards the hot spring and take a dip under the native forest canopy.
Check out the action on the water with a Rotorua trout fishing tour. Rotorua is the perfect place to land Rainbow and Brown Trout. There are a number of charters and guided options for fishing the Rotorua lakes, catering for everyone from first timers to seasoned professionals.
The lake temperatures are still relatively warm so be sure to pack your togs for your autumn getaway and get in, on and amongst pristine and sparkling Rotorua's lakes.


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Employment Services and Agencies: a category that's bound to get a lot of page views! If you are one of the millions who have been left in the economic wastelands in recent years, you can make good use of this round up of north state job search agencies. Whether you are searching for a temporary postition or a full time career opportunity, Employment Agencies in the North Valley are abundant and ready to assist.
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By Paul Cole
Henry County Chamber of Commerce
Unemployment rates fell in 112 Kentucky counties, including Henry, between August 2014 and August 2015, rose in six counties and remained the same in two counties (Lawrence and Lee), according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
Statistics shared by the state showed unemployment hit 5.5 percent for Henry County in August 2014. One year later, the county's unemployment rate stood at 4 percent even.
Robert H. Foree Law Office in New Castle recently announced the addition of Matthew D. Doane to the practice, according to a news release. Doane will practice criminal defense, real estate, business planning, estate planning and probate and bankruptcy.
By Paul Cole
Henry County Chamber
Kentucky lost nearly a million acres of farmland between 2007 and 2012, the highest percentage decrease in farmland of any state in the United States, according to the Census of Agriculture. That's equivalent to 45 acres of farmland every day, according to the American Farmland Trust. Every county in our region has streams, rivers or lakes that are too polluted or unsafe for swimming or fishing.
Unemployment rates fell in 118 Kentucky counties between June 2014 and June 2015, but rose in Hancock and Russell counties, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
Woodford County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 3.7 percent. It was followed by Fayette, Owen and Shelby counties, 4.1 percent each; Boone, Oldham and Scott counties, 4.2 percent; Spencer County, 4.3 percent; and Anderson, Campbell and Jessamine counties, 4.4 percent each.
The small town of Pleasureville welcomed a big addition to Main Street in July with the grand opening of the Pleasureville Farmers Market.
The Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (KCARD) team began working with Pleasureville community leaders Susan Schlosnagle, Cheryl Clark and Jakob Beckley early in the development of the farmers market plan, and the three community leaders give the KCARD team credit for helping the market get off the ground.
United Citizens Bank & Trust, headquartered in Campbellsburg, recently announced it has earned Bauer Financial, Inc.'s five-star rating for strength and stability, according to a news release.
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