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Seeking funding for your startup? Consider nontraditional sources
So you want to start a business. Maybe you have the perfect idea that you know will make you the next multi-millionaire. Or, perhaps you're bored with your 9-5 job and have an urge and an idea to start a business. Or, you just really want your hobby to evolve into a full career. Beyond your great idea, though, it's very possible you're struggling to find the funding you need to get started. Good news – there are options for funding beyond the most traditional (pocketbook, family and friend) sources. Some funding could certainly come from other traditional sources, such as Federal, state and local sponsored grant and lending programs. On top of those, though, there are additional non-traditional sources out there, such as: • Business Incubators/Accelerators: Incubators and Accelerators are designed to provide a suite of resources and services to early-stage companies to help them take the first major step toward a successful venture. For instance, these organizations could help you turn an idea into a prototype and provide proof of concept. Examples of these organizations exist right here in Northeast Ohio, and include BioEnterprise, Akron Global Business Accelerator, LaunchHouse and Great Lakes Innovation & Development Enterprise. • Funding Platforms for Creative Projects: There are some funding organizations that provide startups with a large audience for your concept and solicit orders for your product. This is an "all-or-nothing" approach where you can determine how many orders you must receive in order to cover the associated costs. And, if your goal is met, your project will be funded. In this approach, you could gain the awareness and foundation you need to succeed, without giving up any ownership in your company and without having any financial institutions to answer to via personal guarantees and collateral requirements. An example of this type of platform is Kickstarter. • Micro-Lending: Micro-lending is often facilitated by an organization that accepts a class of small business owners. These business owners meet select criteria, which could include being in business for typically up to a handful of years, or those that have a need for a small amount of low-interest financing. Micro-lending organizations typically have an 8-10 week curriculum where they teach the small business owners some essentials of owning and operating a business, the development of a business plan and financial projections. At the end of the curriculum, if criteria are met, an SBA guaranteed loan will be funded. These typically go up to the $25,000 range. Bad Girl Ventures is an example of a micro-lender here in Ohio. • Crowdfunding: While this concept is still very new, it is a very hot topic for 2013 and beyond. With the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (JOBS Act), a whole new avenue for organizations is available to raise money, while not being subject to the strict regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Qualifications must be met in order to be a candidate for Crowdfunding. And, because unknowns are associated at this point in time with the concept, we recommend you consult your business advisor to make sure you understand all relevant aspects. Getting a business from idea to a successful and profitable organization can be quite a challenge. Connecting with the right investor continually proves to be a difficult step in the process for most startups. If you're willing to look hard and work harder for your money, and combine creative and alternative sources of funding with a strong business advisor that you trust, you're on the right path to building your business from the ground up.


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I fear I smell sleight of hand.
However, the resub is as clear a sign as the cancel, so yes, I will resubscribe, but as many, many people have pointed out, there is more to this change that simply a forum ID change.
So the backdown is announced here (thank you to all of you that sent it to me while I slept and dreamed of Internet Dragons):
The sleight of hand I speak of, comes from the fact that over the last few days we have learned that Blizzard didn't/doesn't intend to stop with the forums, however there no real admission of this yet.
As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.
Not so definite:
I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature.
This is still where my issue lies.
If you want to participate fully in our games in the future, you will have to hand your balls to the wall on a plate
Ohh yeah, that's my interpretation…
Why can't they just pull their finger out at let us have a single sign on "Handle", then all the problems in the world will go away.
As Achtung Panzercow puts it:
But rest assured that I will never take anything they say at simple face value ever again, and nor should you. With their claim that "this is just to de-troll the forums!", they insulted my intelligence. I don't like that.
Make the optional part:
I can choose to use my real name, or my handle.
You see one of the things that has pissed me off about this whole debate is, that it will be easier for Blizzard to shut down the trolls… why, because they have our real name? The already know what account the trolls have posted from – CLOSE THE TROLL'S ACCOUNT! They don't need real names anywhere to shut down a players account, THEY are BLIZZARD, THEY have the account details.
The Carrot and the Stick
I used the biggest sticks I possess over the last few days, I know many of you did so too.
The thing about sticks, is they lose their effectiveness unless balanced with carrots, so I am resubscribing, and I encourage those of you that joined me in a /ragequit to do the same – because just as the account cancellation was the clearest signal of your displeasure, so will the resubscription be the clearest indication of your approval of the change in policy.
I can assure you I will not be reactivating 6 month subscription – I don't trust them that much, I don't trust them any longer. I refuse to be the frog in the pot.
- Thanks to all of you that said your farewells. I'd love to go back and reply to you all.. but do you really want a series of "Thank you & bye for nows"
- Thanks to all of you that sent me invitations to join them in other games (or build new communities to enable ex-WoW players to remain together, without Blizzards assistance).
- Thanks to all of that supported me in my rage, whether by comment, blog linkage, or blog post unrelated to mine, that added perspective and kept the fire alive.
- Thanks to all of you that disagreed with me, that made me review my stance. I still don't agree with you, but I did listen and think.
- Thanks to Grimmtooth for expressing my /ragequit best…
- Gnomageddon /ragequits. We're almost there ourselves. Someone asked me if I was surprised; after thinking of it, I realized that Gnome's passionate spirit made this move fall right into his idiom. Our first RealID casualty, and a bitter one it is.
Maintain the rage
As I went to bed last night, I expressed my fear about this weekend to the folk on Twitter. I was concerned that after a weekend of raiding, after Cataclysm annoucements and Beta announcements, the rage would have subsided.
Gnomeaggedon Unlike other bloggers, I am not sick of RealID posts. Actizzard are waiting for 21st century apathy to step up and claim our rage.
SuicidalZebra @Gnomeaggedon Expect to see a new Beta Build push today simply to get the WoW news sites and blogs to change the subject.
Gnomeaggedon http://bit.ly/aiBBXX and http://bit.ly/cGJILH Maybe I should go PvP to calm down
Gnomeaggedon @antikris77 1st I must take my Battleground rage out on Blizzard.. they trained me in it, time to turn it on my master
Copra @Gnomeaggedon btw. you should be calm to make any real PvP. angry… you just mess around and get frustrated.
Gnomeaggedon @Copra I am a Fire Mage… my PvP is chaos… think Berserker, shrunk to 3 foot then add FIRE!
I am happy that Blizzard have chosen to back down at the beginning of the weekend. I think if they waited another few days they could have pushed.
Hello for now
So, it's not goodbye, it's hello for now. Until the next time, and there will be a next time.
It's just a shame I didn't get to share my flower arranging post with you… maybe I still can… let that be a post for another day.
In other great backdown news
Senator (I'm a fuckstick just wont admit it) Conroy has backed down on the Australian internet filter – for now.
Once again, don't let the rage subside… they just want to win the election.. then as usual will claim an "Mandate"
Gnomer and Out!
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Kings Park, N.Y. - Senior Melissa Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) and freshman Jacob Kashani (Roslyn, N.Y.) each finished in 15th place individually for Farmingdale State at the St. Joseph's College Invitational at Sunken Meadow State Park. The women's team finished in seventh place and the men finished ninth at the race.
Bonilla had a team-best time of 22:30.3, while freshman Kristen Starke (Bellmore, N.Y.) placed 27th in 23:32.7. Sophomore Carina Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) took 39th place overall with a time of 24:22.5 for the Rams.
Kashani led the men's team with a time of 30:59.1 and sophomore Dan Barrett (Wantagh, N.Y.) placed 29th in 32:01.9. Sophomore Patrick DiMaria (Commack, N.Y.) recorded a 54th place finish in 34:11.7.
The cross country teams next will travel to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y. for the Skyline Conference Championship on Sunday, October 27th. The women's race will begin at 12:00 p.m. and the men will start at 1:00 p.m.


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Between the SLU teams, Hermann Stadium has hosted eight conference tournaments and has been an NCAA Tournament venue in 11 of the 17 years since the renovation. Most notably, the facility was the home of the 2006 NCAA Men's Soccer College Cup, which SLU hosted in conjunction with the St. Louis Sports Commission.
The stadium is located one block east of Grand Boulevard on Laclede Avenue, just behind the Busch Student Center. Game parking is available a short walking distance away in a 2,000-car garage at the intersection of Olive Boulevard and Compton Avenue. The Billiken Sports Center's baseball and softball diamonds are adjacent to Hermann Stadium, and Chaifetz Arena, which opened in April 2008, is located to the southeast.
The Hermann Stadium renovation began March 17, 1999, with the removal of the synthetic surface. The sod for the natural-grass field was laid May 25. The state-of-the-art surface is a mixture of blue grasses that cover 155,000 square feet. The Billikens play on a regulation 120x75-yard soccer pitch.
The surface sits upon an 8,400-ton root zone composed of 90 percent sand and 10 percent peat moss. A four-inch gravel drainage blanket is composed of 3,100 tons of pea gravel. The drainage system is capable of filtering 10 inches of rain in an hour. The grass is watered by a sprinkler system that features 70 sprinkler heads connected by approximately 1.5 miles of piping.
The addition of permanent seating on the east side of the stadium, along with expansion of the main grandstand, increased the facility's seating capacity from 2,400 to 6,050.
Munie Outdoor Services of Caseyville, Ill., was the contractor for the project under the direction of the University's grounds and materials management office.
The Billiken men's team christened Hermann Stadium by knocking off defending national champion and preseason No. 1 Indiana 3-2 in an exhibition game Aug. 21, 1999, before a record on-campus crowd of 6,517. The women's team also won its inaugural game at Hermann Stadium, prevailing 5-3 over Iowa Aug. 27. Mandy Trokey netted the Bills' first goal at the facility.
After hosting three conference tournaments on the pitch, including the 2006 Atlantic 10 Championship, the women's team played two NCAA Tournament games at Hermann Stadium that same season. The A-10 Championship returned in 2008, followed by the men's A-10 Championship in 2011.
Originally opened for play in 1990 as the Billiken Sports Center, the facility was home to the men's soccer team until 1994. It also served as the site for NCAA Division I and II playoff games and as the home field for other local collegiate soccer programs when their fields were unplayable due to severe weather conditions.Hermann Stadium at a Glance
Original Cost: $5.1 million
Original Design: Hastings & Chivetta Architects
Original Construction: Sverdrup Corp.
Renovation Contractor: Munie Outdoor Services, Caseyville, Ill.
Renovation Coordinator: Rich Moffitt, SLU grounds and materials management director
Renovation Began: March 17, 1999
Field Sodded: May 25, 1999
Grandstand Capacity: 2,400
Total Capacity: 6,050
Surface: Natural grass, mix of blue grasses
Surface Area: 155,000 square feet
Field Dimensions: 120x75 yards
Grade: No crown
Surface Variance: +/- 1/2 inch
Infiltration Rate: 10 inches per hour
Irrigation: 70 sprinkler heads, 23 valves, approximately 1.5 miles of piping
Root Zone: 10 inches, 8,400 tons, 90 percent sand, 10 percent peat moss
Gravel Drainage Blanket: 4 inches, 3,100 tons


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A resource for informing patients and caregivers about Multiple Sclerosis, its possible causes, effects, and treatments. Get the most current information on new developments, clinical trials and other important matters for anyone dealing with MS.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Large Study Shows that Presence of Neutralizing Antibodies Did Not Predict Clinical Response to Betaseron Treatment
WAYNE, N.J., April 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Berlex, Inc., a U.S. affiliate of Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, announced today the results of a retrospective study demonstrating that the presence of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) that can develop in response to Betaseron(R) (interferon beta-1b) therapy did not predict clinical response in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).(1) The study looked at data from over 6,600 patients across three continents. It is the largest dataset ever analyzed on the relevance of NAbs to interferon beta therapy. The results were published in the March issue of The Journal of International Medical Research.
"This study confirms that NAbs, which develop in response to Betaseron therapy, tend to disappear over time and provides important evidence that the presence of NAbs in these patient populations was not associated with a poor clinical response to treatment." said Dr. Douglas Goodin, lead author of the article and Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. "While it is unclear how these findings might apply to other beta interferon therapies, these data underscore the fact that decisions regarding Betaseron treatment should be based on the clinical circumstances of the individual patient and not solely on the basis of their NAb status."
NAbs are antibodies that may attach themselves to an injected protein drug, such as beta interferon therapy, thereby potentially inhibiting its biological activity. All immunomodulating therapies for MS may cause the development of NAbs in a varying portion of patients, but there is controversy in the medical community about the role NAbs may or may not play in a patient's response to therapy.
"This study reinforces expert recommendations that treatment decisions should be based on a patient's overall response to therapy and not on the actual or potential presence of neutralizing antibiodies," said Darlene Jody, M.D., Executive Vice President, Specialized Therapeutics, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany. "When treating MS, especially from the first event, patients and prescribers can continue to rely on the proven efficacy and safety of Betaseron."
The published study addressed the clinical impact of NAbs to Betaseron therapy in an office-based or "real world" setting. These results are in line with the clinical practice guidelines recently published by the American Academy of Neurology.(2) Since the development of NAbs is specific to each medication, it is unclear how these findings for Betaseron might apply to other beta interferons.
About the Study
The study reviewed the NAb status of 6,698 Betaseron patients from North America (n=2010), Europe (n=2417) and Australia (n=2271) using the myxovirus protein A assay (MxA). The prevalence of persistently high neutralizing antibodies in the Australian cohort, which included patients regardless of clinical response to Betaseron, was 37%. This finding was similar to the reported incidence seen in Betaseron clinical trials. The incidence of persistently high NAbs in the European and North American groups, however, was only 28% and 21% respectively even those these patients were pre-classified as having a "poor clinical response" to therapy. Since the patients known to be poor responders were more often NAb negative than the general population, the study concluded that persistent, high NAb status was not a key predictor of clinical response to therapy.
Data for the study were collected during a six-year period (1996-2002). Most of the NAb testing (73%) was performed within the first three years of treatment, when patients are thought to be at the greatest risk of developing NAbs. Patients in the study had MS for an average seven to 10 years at the time of testing.
About Betaseron
Betaseron (Interferon beta-1b) is indicated for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis to reduce the frequency of clinical exacerbations. Patients with multiple sclerosis in whom efficacy has been demonstrated include patients who have experienced a first clinical episode and have MRI features consistent with multiple sclerosis.
The most commonly reported adverse reactions are lymphopenia, injection- site reaction, asthenia, flu-like symptom complex, headache and pain. Gradual dose titration and use of analgesics during treatment initiation may help reduce flu-like symptoms. Betaseron should be used with caution in patients with depression. Injection-site necrosis has been reported in 5% of patients in controlled trials. Patients should be advised of the importance of rotating injection sites. Female patients should be warned about the potential risk to pregnancy. Cases of anaphylaxis have been reported rarely. See "Warnings," "Precautions," and "Adverse Reactions" sections of full Prescribing Information.
About Berlex
Berlex, Inc. is a U.S. affiliate of Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, which is a subsidiary of Bayer AG. Bayer AG is one of the world's leading, innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry and is based in Leverkusen, Germany. The company combines the global activities of the Animal Health, Consumer Care, Diabetes Care, and Pharmaceuticals divisions. The US Pharmaceuticals division comprises the following business units: Women's Healthcare, Diagnostic Imaging, Specialized Therapeutics, Hematology/Cardiology, and Oncology. The company's aim is to discover and manufacture products that will improve human health worldwide by diagnosing, preventing and treating diseases.
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(1) Goodin, DS, Hurwitz B, Noronha A.. Neutralizing Antibodies to Interferon beta-1b are Not Associated with Disease Worsening in Multiple Sclerosis. J Int Med Res. 2007; 35: 173-187.
(2) Goodin DS et al. Neutralizing antibodies to interferon beta: Assessment of their clinical and radiographic impact: An evidence report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2007; 68: 977-984.
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June 18, 2008
The Color & the Shape, in PS & AI
- Dr. Woohoo has been creating some very cool images by driving Illustrator and Photoshop from Adobe AIR. Check out Generative Painting in AI with 3D Symbols, as well as some good bits on Flickr. "For this animation," says the Adobe Design Center, "Dr. Woohoo developed an AIR app that drives the colors, brushes, and animation timeline in Photoshop CS3 via a swfPanel in Illustrator CS3."
- Veerle Pieters talks about making simple organic shapes in Photoshop. If that trips your trigger, you might also like her quick tutorials on creating a spiral ornament in Illustrator, and making light motion trails & glowing sparks in PS.
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8 Unanswered Questions We Had After Watching 'The Cabin in the Woods'
To be clear, I thoroughly enjoyed The Cabin in the Woods, so don't take my questioning it as a sign that I'm trying to tear it to shreds. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm here to celebrate Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's enormously inspired and entertaining movie by bringing up a few of the things I was still thinking about long after the credits rolled, because I kind of don't want to stop talking about it.
Obviously there are spoilers ahead, so please only read on after you've seen the film. And please, do chime in below with answers to these questions, or post any queries of your own.
1. Why no Ghostface? Jason? Freddy? Chucky?
The obvious answer here is that a rights issue prevents any known horror icons from appearing in the movie, but I'm still surprised there's no analog for the biggest names in the business. The basement is packed with triggers for familiar genre characters and various supernatural norms, but there's no hockey mask, no landscaping glove, no cheesy costume mask, no creepy child's doll. And that wouldn't surprise me, because all of them together would be a little too on the nose. However, Cabin does include their Pinhead variant (who they call Buzzsaw), and there's absolutely nothing subtle about his inclusion. So why does Hellraiser get the hat tip and the other horror greats get the cold shoulder? I'm not complaining, I like the first Hellraiser more than any of the Elm Streets or Friday the 13ths, but its inclusion is made all the more curious by the absence of the others.
2. Is the Harbinger actually a psychic?
My favorite character in the movie might just be Mordecai, the gas station harbinger of death; mainly because he's such a great riff on the creepy gas station attendant we all know too well, but also because he's the only sincere person from the 'other side.' Sure, by the time the sh*t so gloriously hits the fan, everyone underground gets a bit more serious, but he's the only one who takes the ritual seriously from the get go, and he's made fun of for it. But, I digress. The real question here is, is Mordecai an actual psychic? His speakerphone call to headquarters is played for laughs, but it does include some actual doom prophecy for the engineers down below. Is he just in-character? Or is he an actual psychic? Either way, I love that with a few lines of dialogue that are mostly laughed over, the ominous omen for the college co-eds actually becomes the death omen the people downstairs ignore.
Side question: What's Mordecai's equivalent in the other arenas? A creepy, super wrinkly old woman in Tokyo? The weird guy in the pub in London or Stockholm?
3. What happened in Stockholm?
Well? What did happen. They're the first other arena we hear about, but all we know is their rapid failure is a surprise to everyone. Was their yeti too easy to kill?
4. Was the bird into the grid a studio note?
This question comes from our own John Gholson, and it's not something I thought of. When the co-eds take the pass through the mountain, a majestic eagle enters the frame and soars beak-first into the grid. It's a great moment that cranks the 'this isn't your normal cabin in the woods movie' dial to 11. However, when the grid finally comes into play later for the demise of the athlete, it's played like a total surprise that they're contained. Obviously it's a surprise to the characters, but imagine how that moment would have played to an audience who hadn't already seen the grid. If all we had to go on was the moment of Marty getting high, looking at the sky and remarking that he thought there'd be stars, the canyon jump sequence would have been a real holy sh*t moment. It's still constructed with tension in mind, but it's robbed of any because we know exactly what's going to happen. Was the eagle's death added in after someone complained that the later revelation of the grid was too extreme of a surprise?
5. How were they supposed to put the Buckners to rest, anyway?
The co-eds screw themselves by reading the Latin from the deadgirl's diary, which then summons her pain-worshiping family back to life in search of more torment, but how exactly were they supposed to get out of the scenario? They're not supposed to, obviously, but the entire point of the sacrifice is that these are innocent people who are undone (mostly) of their own volition, and it's the possibility for redemption that presumably makes their deaths satisfying to the slumbering ancients. So how were they expected to kill the Buckners? The emphasis is placed on Patience, the little girl, and she even comes back at the very end and brings with her the implication that maybe they can put her spirit to rest at the 11th hour, but how were they supposed to do that? Burn her diary?
6. Where does the blood for the machine come from?
Once the co-eds start dying, the blood machine is set in motion and it starts filling a vessel which then drips out onto the wall carvings. At first it seems like the blood must belong to the poor souls above, but then Marty is presumed dead and the fool's carving is allowed to fill with blood. But then Marty is revealed to still be alive, so whose blood went into the fool's carving? If it's not the sacrifice's actual blood, why do they even need to kill people in such an elaborate way?
7. What all is on the white board?
This one I have an actual answer to, thanks to Titan Books' amazing The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Visual Companion. Thanks to a clear shot of the board in the book, it includes: Werewolf, Alien Beast, Mutants, Wraiths, Zombies, Reptilius, Clowns, Witches, Sexy Witches, Demons, Hell Lord, Angry Molesting Tree, Giant Snake, Deadites, Kevin, Mummy, The Bride, The Scarecrow Folk, Snowman, Dragonbat, Vampires, Dismemberment Goblins, Sugarplum Fairy, Merman, The Reanimated, Unicorn, Huron, Sasquatch/Wendigo/Yeti, Dolls, The Doctors, The Redneck Torture Family, Jack O'Lantern, Giant, Twins.
Those are hardly the only classic baddies in the movie, though. The book is packed with a ton of images of all the creepy crawlies, some that are easily recognized from the movie, some less so. For example, there's several shots of 'the blob' being created for the film, but I don't remember seeing him actually in it. Same goes for their badass, Krull-worthy Cyclops.
8. Why is the virgin's status and fate so arbitrary?
The whole movie is built around the idea that the virgin needs to be sacrificed, either literally or emotionally, to complete the ritual, but then when it comes time to make good on it, the movie completely laughs off the fact that Dana is not a virgin when the Director says, "We work with what we have." It gets a good chuckle, but it does kind of undercut the film's otherwise elaborate evolution of the whole blood sacrifice storyline. What kind of lazy old ones are they trying to appease? The slumbering elders require a virgin, but she doesn't even have to die? And even if she does die - and if she does, it absolutely must be last -, meh, she doesn't really need to be a virgin? I get that it's a poke at the genre and the current state of the final girl, but it's one of the only moments in the movie where the humor actually gets in the way of the story they're trying to tell.
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Tennesse Medical Student Caught With Gun At 9/11 Memorial Escapes Jail Time
New York has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. It's a fact some gun owners traveling to the state sometimes miss with incarcerating results. For one Tennessee medical student at least, jail has been avoided.


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COURTHOUSE - A group of sheriff's deputies took the streets early Wednesday morning and arrested six parents who have warrants against them for failing to make child support payments.
The six defendants arrested were responsible for nine children and owed a total of $57,777.07, according to the department. One of the parents owed $30,867.33. The department did not release the names of the defendants arrested Wednesday morning.
'As always, I urge parents who have outstanding warrants for child support payments to come into our office to resolve their cases,' said Sheriff Russell Bono said in a press release Wednesday. 'We will continue our steady focus on making sure that county kids get their child support.'
There are now 25 parents in Montgomery who are still have active bench warrants for failing to pay child support to a total of 51 children, according the sheriff's department, which released the names of the remaining defendants at large.
There are 13 defendants who had a last known address in Norristown who owe over $176,000 in arrears: Vincent Whipple owes $8,579.89; Jay McGhee owes $1957; Lafayette Hill owes $3,364.88; Whitney Brazzle owes $23,804.55; Andre Cook owes $9237.12; Michael Jones has two cases against him, owes a total of $14,615.68; Bradley Davis has two cases against him and owes $6,598.83; James Kornegay has two cases against him and owes $44,894.05; Timothy Smith owes $15,076.08; Gilbert Rameriz owes $13,152.25, Shakoor Davis owes $1034.56; Marquis Robinson has two cases against him and owes $27,158.03 and Israel Pardon owes $7,964.47.
In the Pottstown area, seven wanted men owe more then $13,000 in child support: Corey Ryder of Royersford owes $2,207.80; Desbee Doctor of Douglassville owes $1,131.65; Shane Kime of Pottstown owes $1,513.80; Joseph Bilinski of Pottstown owes $889.42; Todd Littlejohn of Pottstown has two cases against him and owes a total of $6,866.91; Terry Pearsall of Pottstown owes $2,010.46; James Pascavage of Collegeville has two cases against him and owes $835.64.
Rebecca Baker from Horsham owes $23,992.02, John Dyczok of Abington owes $17,690.09 and Brian Allen of Worcester owes $29,222.44.
The sheriff's department is asking for anyone who has seen any of the county's most wanted parents to call the department's tip-line at 610-278-3340 or submit an anonymous tip on the sheriff's department's website at www.montcopa.org.


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text: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Pioneer Back Pain Clinician Robin McKenzie Dies at Age 82 Robin Anthony McKenzie passed away at his home at Raumati Beach, New Zealand, at the age of 82, on Monday, May 13 after battling with cancer for several months. McKenzie established the internationally recognized McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) and in 1982 founded the McKenzie Institute International. McKenzie developed a special interest in treating spinal disorders after opening a private practice in Wellington, New Zealand, after graduating in 1952 from the New Zealand School of Physiotherapy. APTA named him an honorary member "in recognition of distinguished and meritorious service to the art and science of physical therapy and to the welfare of mankind." The McKenzie Institute has published a full obituary and established a tribute page at www.mckenziemdt.org, where visitors are welcome to express condolences to his family and to share memories. Comments I am saddened at the lost of a devoted and creative therapist who developed a treatment that aided the patients with back pain by showing them and us how they could be helped in reducing their pain and improving their function using the MeKenzie Method.. Posted by Vanie Jones on 5/21/2013 4:27 PM I was very sorry to hear that Robin McKenzie had passed away. He was an inspiration to me as a physiotherapist and I have found his MDT has helped my practice and patients enormously. I would like to extend my sympathy to his wife and family. Gair Gordon Posted by Gair Gordon on 5/28/2013 11:37 AM Robin's book helped me a great deal to improve my lower back pain. My sympathy goes to him wife and family. Med Fadel, Texas, USA Posted by Med Fadel on 4/12/2015 4:26 PM


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On a busy road within sight of the white sands of Kenya's Indian Ocean beaches, a stone's throw from luxury tourist hotels, a tall, black, barred gate is guarded by a man with an automatic rifle.
Beyond it, up a short driveway, stands the imposing breeze-block building that is now the focus of international efforts to prosecute Somalia's pirates. It is Shimo la Tewa maximum-security prison, 10 miles north of the coastal city of Mombasa.
Last week, the first hearings were held in a courtroom designed to ease the immense pressure on a country leading the way in bringing pirates to justice.
The court was paid for with money from the United States, the European Union, Canada, Australia, and others, channeled through the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). "This, we hope, is going to go a long way to improving the efficiency of the trials, in a secure, modern environment," says Alan Cole, coordinator of a counterpiracy program at the UNODC office in Nairobi.
There had been concerns over busing suspected pirates daily to and from the main courtroom in Mombasa, which does not have a secure dock and which is swamped with nonpiracy cases. There, witnesses, lawyers, and the public milled around, raising further worries about security. With the court now on the grounds of the prison holding the suspects, concerns have been eased, Mr. Cole says.
Kenya is holding the highest number of piracy suspects in the region, with 105 on trial and 18 already convicted, with sentences ranging from seven to 20 years. Other Somali pirate suspects are being tried or held in the US, Germany, Spain, and France. In the Netherlands last month, five Somalis were sentenced to five years each in the first convictions of Horn of Africa pirates in Europe.
Puntland (the breakaway enclave north of Somalia), the Seychelles, and the Maldives hold others. But how Mombasa became the de facto headquarters of modern world piracy trials is unclear and open to legal question, critics say.
As attacks by the seaborne buccaneers soared in 2009, Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding with the US and Britain, and undertook an informal agreement with the EU, to prosecute pirates arrested in the waters off its anarchic neighbor. Before this, the legal framework was opaque, drawing partly on jurisprudence from the Barbary Wars off North Africa 200 years ago.
Most navies that capture Somalis engaged in piracy in the Indian Ocean typically release them after confiscating their weapons. The catch-and-release policy means most suspected pirates are put back in their boats, and are free to return to Somalia and go back to stealing ships and ransoming them.
One reason for the catch-and-release policy is that it's not clear which country should prosecute these cases.
"The situation is further complicated by the fact of multiple jurisdictional aspects of international shipping," Edward White, an expert in admiralty law in Jacksonville, Fla., wrote in a recent analysis.
Vessels often are flagged to countries with cheap licensing, like Liberia. The ship might be owned by a firm in a second country, chartered by one in a third, and crewed by sailors from still elsewhere.
But most Western nations have been wary of agreeing to capture pirate suspects, many of whom were expected to claim asylum in the countries where a trial is held.
The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mauritius, was approached first, eventually refused to host the pirate court. Kenya stepped up last year. Its penal code prohibits piracy, it borders Somalia, and its judicial system was seen as one other countries could work with.
But the process is slow. Witness depositions are hard to gather. There were worries over what to do with pirates once they complete their sentence, or are acquitted. Kenya complained it could not pay to return dozens of Somalis to their homeland, and was worried that they would stay in Kenya. (Canada has offered funds to the UNODC for repatriations, Cole says.)
But as the cases built up in a judicial system clogged by more than 1 million trials dating to 1984, according to a recent report, authorities became frustrated. The justice minister snapped earlier this year that Kenya would stop accepting pirate suspects unless other countries helped. It is a strategy that appears to have paid off.
First, the courtroom at Shimo la Tewa was built with $5 million of international donations. The Seychelles agreed that it, too, would prosecute pirates. The UNODC is refurbishing the main prison in Victoria. Tanzania will soon begin talks over taking suspects.
"It's important that we get more help," says Donald Muyundo, a defense lawyer representing pirate suspects. "Building a new court is not enough. What about training more magistrates, employing more translators, helping the defense build its capacity in the way that prosecutors have been helped. They have the backing of the international community. For the defense, it's just me."


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Trust Verlander to right ship in 2013
Sometimes it comes down to trust, and that's what we saw Wednesday night -- late Wednesday night -- with Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers.
A one-hour and five-minute rain delay separated Verlander from his 13th out recorded and his 14th, and that's five minutes longer than manager Jim Leyland would typically allow his starter to rest before opting to pull the plug.
Sometimes it comes down to trust, and that's what we saw Wednesday night -- late Wednesday night -- with Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers.
A one-hour and five-minute rain delay separated Verlander from his 13th out recorded and his 14th, and that's five minutes longer than manager Jim Leyland would typically allow his starter to rest before opting to pull the plug.
But as the tarp was pulled at Progressive Field, Verlander was adamant that he felt ready to return to the mound. The Tigers were clinging to a 9-5 lead on the Indians with none on and one out, and Verlander wanted to finish the fifth and be in line for the win. Leyland allowed it.
"All of our pitchers have been really good soldiers and done a lot for us during my time here," Leyland said. "That's just kind of a reward. Since I've been here in 2006, he's been our horse. As rough as the sledding was, he deserved the opportunity."
Leyland trusts his ace, and for good reason.
Verlander evolved into an MVP arm through a great deal of trial and error, learning to temper his emotions, corral his feisty fastball and sophisticate his secondary selections. He learned how to limit the big pitch-consuming innings and go deeper into games, and he learned how to maintain his delivery and his focus from game to game.
But the process of pitching never truly ends, not even for the most elite of arms. And so we've seen, in recent weeks, a slight reversion for Verlander, a few shaky starts that have been surprising if only for their sheer dearth of dominance.
Over his last three starts, including Wednesday night in Cleveland, Verlander has allowed 16 earned runs in just 12 2/3 innings, with the Indians (twice) and Rangers batting .373 with a 1.032 OPS off him. He's required an average of 23 pitches per inning in that span, an alarmingly inefficient output for a guy prone to blazing through batters.
"These spurts for me don't come very often," Verlander said after Wednesday's start, in which he allowed five runs on 10 hits in five innings, yet saw progress. "I've been able to thwart them the last two years. Last year, a little bit, but two years ago [the American League MVP Award and AL Cy Young Award-winning season] was just one of those years where this just didn't happen."
That it's happening now is not so much a cause for alarm as it is intrigue. Because this is where pitchers of Verlander's ilk separate themselves from the pack. The "spurts," as it were, happen to everybody at this level -- pitchers and hitters alike -- but not everybody has the wherewithal to correct them quickly.
"You find guys with track records -- guys with five, six, 10 years in the league -- and they usually end up where they're supposed to end up," Verlander said. "It's funny how they get there sometimes. You look at hitters and pitchers, and they'll go through bad stretches and through great stretches. Usually you end up where you're supposed to end up."
It says here that Verlander will end up where he should. Maybe not in line for another AL Cy Young Award, but probably not far off. Because while Verlander's April velocity dip was eye-catching, it was understandable after the added wear and tear of the 2012 postseason necessitated a revised offseason throwing program. The loss of a couple ticks on the radar gun clearly caught the eye of Verlander, too, because he began to deliberately try to uncork the pitch at top speeds to the detriment of his once-flawless command.
"I think that was part of it," pitching coach Jeff Jones said. "We were tinkering a little bit too much in his delivery to try to get some velocity. His last outing in Texas, he threw some pitches 98, 99 [mph], so I think he was more at ease with that."
The results in Texas made Verlander uneasy, and so he changed his approach to the start in Cleveland. For one, he was given an added day of rest, buying him an extra bullpen session between starts. Verlander also swore off watching video of himself so as not to allow paralysis by analysis.
An analysis of Wednesday's outing is mixed. For two innings, Verlander was rough around the edges and roughed up. Leyland thought he looked "jittery," as it was certainly evident this was would be a highly scrutinized outing against a Tribe team Verlander had had some trouble with. The next two innings, though, it was vintage Verlander. Command, poise, presence. A 1-2-3, 10-pitch third and a struck-out side in the fourth. The fifth saw Verlander attempting to beat the clock, with rain looming, and it backfired, with Carlos Santana belting a two-run homer shortly before the tarp came out.
What was revealing was not so much the line in the box score as the lines uttered by Verlander afterward. He's his own harshest critic, after all, yet he felt encouraged by the way he returned after the rain and quickly retired two Tribe batters, as well as the way his command did not completely abandon him when the early results didn't go his way.
"I feel like my past experience allows me to come out of this quicker than I would before," Verlander said. "I've put in a lot of hard work the last eight years. My feel for my body is much better now than it was back then. Years ago, I don't know how I would have fixed this quickly."
Maybe Verlander won't fix it quite as quickly as he (and Tigers fans) would like. But just as the Tigers, as a unit, can generally be expected to live up to their track record and be a factor come the end of September, so, too, can Verlander be expected to be at or near the top of the class when all is said and done in 2013.
"Since I've managed the Detroit Tigers and Justin Verlander has been in my rotation, I feel pretty good when I come to the park when Justin Verlander's pitching," Leyland said. "I think that's the highest compliment you can pay to a pitcher."
Indeed, outright worry about the recent results seems unwarranted. Verlander has earned more than just cautious optimism that he'll put it back together. He's earned trust.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense when he was attacked.
Lee's act, which ended in the couple fleeing their home, is of a piece with the even more egregious act of the New Black Panthers, which offered a bounty for Zimmerman's "capture."
The story of Zimmerman and Martin took a new twist on Thursday when Zimmerman's father spoke with the Fox News affiliate in Orlando. According to Robert Zimmerman, his son never made contact with Martin until the latter attacked him and threatened to kill him.
If so, that truth explodes the meme running wild in the media, that Trayvon was merely an innocent boy who was shot because he was "walking while black."
Lee's Actions
Yet the near tragedy for septuagenarians David and Elaine McClain did not begin with film director Spike Lee.
Rather, as the online site The Smoking Gun reported, it began with someone named "Marcus Davonne Higgins, a 33-year-old Los Angeles man who uses the online handle 'maccapone.'"
According to TSG, Higgins "first began disseminating the Sanford address to his Twitter followers last Wednesday [March 21], including the claim that Zimmerman 'Like the fat punk he is, he still lives at home with mommie & daddy.'"
In a simultaneous post to his Facebook wall, Higgins told his 4000 friends, "FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT & TOUCH HIM." He also claimed in another post that, "REAL TALK MY PEOPLE OUT THERE IN FLORIDA JUST TOLD ME GEORGE ZIMMERMAN IS NOT AT HIS HOUSE THEY OUT THERE RIGHT NOW."
Higgins's dissemination of Zimmerman's purported Edgewater Circle address was not, however, limited to cyberspace. At a protest rally last Thursday in an L.A. park near his Crenshaw home, Higgins held a sign containing Zimmerman's name, address, and phone number.
Except, of course, none were accurate.
The cyberspace vigilante thought that Elaine McClain's son, William George Zimmerman, was the man who shot Trayvon Martin. He was wrong. The man who shot Martin is George M. Zimmerman.
Lee didn't bother checking up on the amateur gumshoe's detective work. On March 23, he retweeted the false address to 200,000 followers.
What happened to the McClains? TSG reported that the couple were "'afraid' due to the online linking of ... [their] address to Zimmerman."
"We're keeping everything locked," she said. McClain added that the couple was particularly unnerved by a letter mailed to them at their home. On the envelope, she said, were printed the words "Taste The Rainbow," the slogan for Skittles. Martin was carrying a pack of Skittles and a can of ice[d] tea when he was gunned down by Zimmerman.
McClain said her husband returned the envelope unopened to the post office.
Eventually, the McClains left their home.
Not surprisingly, Higgins ducked TSG's calls for comment.
On Wednesday, Lee apologized: "I deeply apologize to the McClain Family for retweeting their address. It was a mistake. Please leave the McClain's in peace. Justice in Court." He also called the couple.
Lee's settlement with the McClains is undislosed.
Whether there will be "justice in court" remains to be seen. First, police have to determine George Zimmerman committed a crime. Thus far, they have not charged him.
New Black Panthers
While Higgins and Lee were wreaking havoc on the McClains, the New Black Panther Party, most recently famous for getting away with voter intimidation at polling stations in Philadelphia during the 2008 election, announced a $10,000 bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman, although it also published a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster for him.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, the NBP announced the bounty at one of the many rallies for Trayvon. When a Sentinel reporter asked whether the group was calling for violence, NBP leader Mikhail Muhammed defiantly replied, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
The Sentinel reported that "Muhammed led the small group in chanting 'Justice for Trayvon!' and 'Black Power!'
"If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, leading his group of eight party members in chants like "freedom or death" and "justice for Trayvon" while making the iconic gesture of raising their fists into the air.…
As [a police officer at the rally] walked back to his cruiser, Muhammad berated and pointed angrily at him saying "If you'd had shown this much concern, Trayvon may still be alive today."
The fiery rhetoric and often profanity-laden diatribes made some visitors to the impromptu memorial uncomfortable.
Even the widely discredited leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, which routinely smears conservatives as "racists," lists the NBP as a hate group.
While Jesse Jackson denounced the NBP, he also threatened more protests if a grand jury does not indict Zimmerman in Martin's death.
Robert Zimmerman: Trayvon Threatened to Kill My Son
Since the shooting, "civil rights" leaders and leftist radicals have been pushing the media to report that Zimmerman is a racist vigilante who profiled Trayvon Martin and shot him for no reason other than being black.
That meme is best exemplified by the remarks from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga). Said Johnson, "He was executed for 'WWB' in a 'GC.' Walking While Black in a Gated Community."
Johnson is the Congressmen who, during a hearing on Capitol Hill, asked a Navy admiral if the island of Guam would capsize if too many Marines were stationed there.
Details arebeginning to emerge that belie the received narrative. On Thursday, Fox News in Orlando aired its interview with Robert Zimmerman, George's father. The elder Zimmerman's tale is rather a different story from the one Martin's family and Al Sharpton (of the Tawana Brawley hoax and Crown Heights Riot) are pushing.
According to Robert Zimmerman, his son saw Trayvon Martin walking behind town homes in the neighborhood and thought it was suspicious. "[George Zimmerman] called the non-emergency number first, and they asked him where he was, because he was at the rear of the town houses and there was no street sign," the elder Zimmerman told the Fox affiliate.
Robert Zimmerman said his son pursued Martin so he could pin down an address to give police. "He lost sight of the individual, he continued to walk down the same sidewalk to the next street, so he could get an address for the police," he said.
He went to the next street, realized where he was and was walking to his vehicle. It's my understanding, at that point, Trayvon Martin walked up to him and asked him, "Do you have a [expletive] problem?" George said, "No, I don't have a problem," and started to reach for his cell phone ... at that point, he (Martin) was punching him in the nose, his nose was broken and he was knocked to the concrete. Trayvon Martin got on top of him and just started beating him. In the face, in his nose, hitting his head on the concrete.
The reporter asked whether Martin said anything to George Zimmerman.
After nearly a minute of being beaten, George was trying to get his head off the concrete, trying to move with Trayvon on him, into the grass. In doing so, his firearm was shown. Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of, "you're gonna die now or you're gonna die tonight," something to that effect. He continued to beat George, and at some point, George pulled his pistol and did what he did.
The reporter asked whether Trayvon "verbally threatened his life."
"Yes," the elder Zimmerman replied.
Robert Zimmerman's summary of events mirrors the report his son gave to police, and which was reported in the Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel reported that "much of [George Zimmerman's account] has been corroborated by witnesses."
Photo of Spike Lee: AP Images


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Women writers' use of metaphor as gender rhetoric in discourse on HIV/AIDS and sex-related issues: The case of "Totanga patsva" (We start afresh) by Zimbabwe Women Writers. Kangira, Jairos; Mashiri, Pedzisai; Gambahaya, Zifikile (Polytechnic of Namibia, Department of Communication., 2007)This article analyses the metaphors that women writers use to communicate various messages about HIV/AIDS and sex. We argue that the writers use metaphors in their discourse mainly because the Shona culture places ...


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The panel will present one representative study from three different areas of investigation in order to provide a basis for examining the role of values in interdisciplinary information research. It will address questions such as:
1. How are human values embedded in information systems? How should they be used to inform information systems design?
2. How do organizational values vary among different types of organizations?
3. What types of values do users place on different information formats? Do users tend to place higher or lower values on paper-based or digital information objects?
4. What role do community values play in information privacy? How can information policy be used to protect privacy values?
The panel will include three presentations: "The Ethical Implications of Values in Computational Modeling," by Kenneth R. Fleischmann and William A. Wallace; "Personal Values and Digital Artifacts in Personal Information Management," by Andrea Japzon, and "Privacy Values and Digital Libraries: A Sociotechnical Analysis," by Michael Khoo.
Together these analyses span a wide range of information science and technology topics, tied together by the concept of values. The panel will analyze how values have been studied in these areas and offer suggestions for a research agenda related to values and information. The session will conclude with a discussion encouraging audience members to explain how values influence their own individual areas of research and investigation.
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BHSU students honored with John T. Vucurevich scholarships
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Rapid City Journal (May 13, 2014): SPEARFISH | Twenty-seven Black Hills State University students were recently honored as John T. Vucurevich scholars including Melissa Barnard, theatre major from Rapid City, and Jillian Draine, biology and chemistry major from Spearfish, who are this year's Presidential Scholars.
Recipients of the Vucurevich Presidential Scholar award are nominated by faculty and staff and are among the best and brightest students at BHSU entering their junior year.
Before beginning her academic career, Barnard owned a production company that created documentaries, short films and commercials. She has worked with Disney, NBC, Nick @ Nite, MTF, Travel Channel, SyFy, plus a major Italian movie and other independent films. While at BHSU, Barnard has been in many theatre productions including "How I Learned to Drive," Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol," and "Plaza Suite" for which she was nominated for an Irene Ryan acting award. She also designed the set which was nominated for a Barbizon award. She has maintained a 4.0 grade point average and has continued to work on films while enrolled at BHSU, integrating her gained knowledge into the projects. After graduation, she plans to make her own movies and work on outside movie projects.
Draine is involved in SCIENCIA, a campus organization that focuses on keeping students interested in science. She is also a member of the Health Sciences Student Organization. Jillian is currently assisting Dr. John Dixson, BHSU associate professor of chemistry, with research on malaria. Last summer, she received a NASA Space Grant stipend for her research. When she is not busy with her classes or other University activities, Drained helps teach dance to children, tutors high school students and volunteers at her church. After graduation, she plans on attending medical school.
BHSU students receiving a Vucurevich Math and Science Scholarship include: Morgan Larson, pre-nursing major from Mitchell; Kennedy McClausland, exercise science major from Box Elder; Kristin Rath, chemistry education major from Canton; Kylee Lerback, pre-nursing major from Rapid City; Shane O'Brien, math education major from Rapid City; Aaron Schone, biology major from Rapid City; Jayce Marks, math and science education major from Rapid City; Nick Olson, math education major from Spearfish; Maria Steckline, math major from Sturgis; Kayla Marquardt, exercise science major from Canistota; Jaylen Osborne, applied health sciences major from Sturgis; Amy Weiers, Project SECOND graduate students from Rapid City; Colin Weinzirl, math major from Sturgis; Michael Birkeland, math and science education major from Rapid City; Emma Crim, math education major from Belle Fourche; Hayley Hansen, biology major from Beresford; Katelynne Blades, biology major from Sioux Falls; Mandi Decker, math education major from Frankfort; Genetie Hendrix, biology major from Sturgis; Paige Brink, exercise science major from Union Center; Kylie Farrar, biology education major from Rapid City; Alissa Humphrey-Iverson, biology major from Spearfish; Samantha Christensen, biology major from Wall; Jordan Frost, exercise science major from Rapid City; and Alexandra Hurdel, math and science education major from Rapid City.
These scholarships were made possible thanks to the generosity of the John T. Vucurevich Foundation. The late philanthropist grew up in Lead, where he learned the value of hard work, telling the truth, the need for keeping sound spiritual values, and the importance of helping those persons less fortunate. He felt that community service was very important and served in both the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate, and was also an active supporter of higher education. He was a successful banker, and his success allowed him to create the John T. Vucurevich Foundation to carry out his goal "to make a piece of the world a brighter place."
For more information about the John T. Vucurevich Scholars program or BHSU scholarships contact Steve Meeker, vice president of University Advancement at BHSU, at 605-642-6228 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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|Ellis Island's Immigrant Landing Station, February 24, 1905
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Research Class: 12:15 PM
Main Program: 1:45 PM
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Hall
520 Dana Street
San Luis Obispo, California
The May research class, The History Center of San Luis Obispo County: Organization, Resources, and Genealogy Research, will be presented by Jill Fletcher. From this overview of local historical society activities, learn what types of sources might be waiting for you at historical societies throughout the United States!
Following the research class will be a brief business meeting at 1:00 PM, followed by snacks and time for chatting with other members. Don't miss the drawings for some excellent prizes!
The main program will be Coming to America: Castle Garden, Ellis Island, and Your Immigrant Ancestors presented by Nancy Loe.
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Jill Fletcher is the museum manager of the History Center of San Luis Obispo County. Jill grew up in New England. Residing in the Lexington/Concord area of Massachusetts for most of her childhood, she developed an interest in the rich history and literature of the area. After high school she moved to California and worked in the entertainment industry for 13 years and eventually ended up doing legal research for film and television. After leaving Los Angeles, she worked as a legal assistant in Colorado. She has also lived in New York City, Iowa, and Ojai, California. She moved to San Luis Obispo in 2008. Jill started working at the History Center in 2009 as the volunteer coordinator. One of her goals is to connect all of the county history organizations so that they can share resources and network.
Nancy Loe is a professional archivist, librarian, and genealogist, with master's degrees in American History and in Library Science. She was director of special collections and archives at Cal Poly for nearly three decades. Nancy has appeared on PBS's American Experience and California Gold, and at Rootstech and the SoCal Jamboree. Her website, sassyjanegenealogy.com, was featured in the Jan-Feb 2014 issue of Family Tree Magazine's "Social Media Mavericks: 40 to Follow." Nancy is working on her own family tree in Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Austria, Prussia, and New Zealand, as well as the United States.
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A radio DJ is urging Scots to get worrying moles checked out after one on her back turned out to be Stage 3 melanoma.
A year since 32-year-old Diane Knox's shock diagnosis, she is backing the nationwide mole awareness campaign by the not-for-profit Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital which aims to encourage Scots to 'Be Mole Aware'.
The campaign highlights the importance of regular self-examination, giving tips and advice on what to look out for. A web page www.nuffieldhealth.com/hospitals/glasgow/be-mole-aware provides important information.
Diane, who works for Clyde 1, found a tiny, pinhead spot one night. But the spot continued to grow and four months later she was told she had skin cancer.
"I had a 5cm radius of skin around the mole removed along with lymph nodes in my neck and underarm," she said.
"Thankfully, it hadn't spread so I didn't require chemotherapy or radiotherapy. I'm one of the lucky ones."
Cases of skin cancer in Scotland have increased by more than 30 per cenrt in the past decade. Early detection can be vital and can significantly increase survival rates.


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One way for early stage companies to become reputable is to join a startup incubator.
Incubators are popping up all over the country, with Y-Combinator on the west coast and TechStars in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and New York.
Inc put together a list of the 10 best startup incubators to watch.
You should watch the companies coming out of them too. Some have gone on to have billion-dollar valuations.
Founded in 2006, TechStars is one of the country's most prestigious incubators.
Its four locations in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle, host 10 teams for three months of the year on rotation, funding each team member between $6,000 and $18,000. More than 600 teams applied last year, making TechStars one of the country's most competitive incubators.
This summer, more than 1,000 startups applied to the program. Here's a list of the companies and founders who were accepted.
TechStars focuses on technology companies with transnational appeal, and requires a 6 percent equity stake in any new companies that are funded. Each program ends with a pitch event with venture capitalists and other investors.
Since 2005, Y-Combinator has set the standard for technology incubators.
Founded by tech entrepreneur Paul Graham, the Silicon Valley-based paradise for coders with an entrepreneurial streak hosts teams in two rotations from January to March and from June to August of each year.
Y-Combinator invests about $18,000 per company for the session, and asks an equity stake that averages about 6 percent. Roughly 300 companies have received funding to date, among them Scribd, WePay, and Reddit.
Michael Gaiss, a senior vice president at Highland Capital Partners, decided in 2007 that an in-house incubator might be an ideal way for investors to acquaint themselves with next-generation entrepreneurs.
The program took a hiatus last year, but has returned this summer to host 11 teams spread across locations in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. The incubator has accepted applications from companies with a variety of different ideas in past years, but decided to narrow its scope to technology companies this round.
Teams of two-to-four members receive $15,000, along with office accommodations from early June through the end of August.
DreamIt Ventures began hosting start-ups in Philadelphia in 2007. Recently, the incubator expanded to New York City, where 12 of its alumni companies are based.
Offering $5,000 for each additional team member (up to $25,000 for a team of five), DreamIt makes available a bit more seed funding than the average incubator. Like other top-tier incubators, DreamIt provides successful applicants with mentorship from entrepreneurs, as well as legal, accounting, and administrative help, and a demonstration day during which teams present their fledgling companies to investors.
Founded in Washington, D.C., LaunchBox Digital expanded last year into North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
Teams receive $15,000 to $30,000 in seed funding in exchange for a 4 to 8 percent equity stake in the company. This incubator, which favors proposals with a technological orientation, provides the companies it selects with administrative and legal advice over 12 weeks leading up to their demo day.
Flashpoint doesn't look for the latest location-based app or daily deals scheme.
This incubator based in Washington, D.C., was founded in 2003 to provide space and supplemental financial support to nonprofit arts organizations in the Beltway. The average Flashpoint business has just one, two, or three paid staff members, and receives technical support, professional development, and office equipment during residency.
Notable alumni include Irish contemporary arts group Solas Nua, professional dance company Step Afrika!, and Washington Improv Theater.
Capital Factory sets up shop in Austin, Texas, from the end of May to the beginning of August each summer.
The program is capped by a demo day with 250 investors in September. For the 10 weeks of the program, each team receives $20,000, office space, and brand and logo development as well as accounting, banking, help with PR, and legal aid. In exchange, Capital Factory asks a 5 percent equity stake.
Capital Factory prides itself on the mentors it makes available to participants, including SKYLIST founder Joshua Bear, ApartmentRatings.com founder Jeremy Bencken, and Smart Bear founder Jason Cohen.
Situated in what was once Bethlehem Steel's main research facility, Ben Franklin TechVentures was founded in 1983 and moved to its current location on the campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2007.
Residents at TechVentures don't receive any seed money. This regional incubator assists early-stage companies with operating costs, connections to investors, and business advice. One of a group of ten regional Pennsylvania technology incubators, TechVentures provides the facilities, lab space, and management advice that start-ups need.
More than a decade older than most of the other incubators on this list, the Environmental Business Cluster is the nation's largest clean-tech incubator.
Founded in 1994, the EBC has assisted more than 150 companies by providing facilities like conference centers and office space as well as education, counseling, and access to investors, all in the hope of promoting businesses that are working to develop renewable energy sources, better waste management treatments, and other forms of emerging green and environmental technology.
Part of the University of Illinois's Research Park, EnterpriseWorks hosts early-stage tech firms, and has had particular success with information and biotechnology companies.
About 70 companies have had their start at EnterpriseWorks since the incubator opened its doors in 2003. If you're looking to hobnob with the venture capital flash that only Silicon Valley can offer, this may not be the incubator for you.
But for tech firms that need some time to get their business in order, a residency at EnterpriseWorks provides office and lab space, meetings with the incubator's three entrepreneurs in residence, and the option to hire student employees from the University of Illinois's student body.


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About David Evans
What was it about Job that flicked off the lightswitch?
I'm curious, because if I was going to pick something objectionable out of the Bible, I'd expect Job to be pretty far down the list.
Mr Castle may be giving to us straight. Obscurity, as large as it looms, probably isn't an artist's greatest enemy. Their biggest enemy would be the IP lawyers.
Those guys loom like it's their job. Oh wait...
Said hoop also sends mall security a nude photo of you if you happen to have on you any object sold in the mall, but not a reciept.
Quicker than *not* getting the product, of course.
Can anybody confirm my research that Charter Communications is not in on the Six Strikes deal? I'm planning on switching my internet over to them, just on principle.
I spent some time looking into Paul's & Rand Paul's history, the newsletters and David Duke.
I'm not seeing any evidence of Paul himself being a white supremacist. Maybe I'm just not finding the really bad bits.
Even if that's all true, though, and you take the very worst interpretation of all the evidence presented, I rather seriously doubt that his voting record and libertarian philosophy are some curtain that he's going to throw back at some point to reveal sudden world domination by the KKK.
I like Paul's foreign policy. I like his domestic policy of small federal government. I like the ways he says he's going to accomplish his goals. If he became president, and if he did then suddenly support some obviously racist policy or other, the backlash would be so sudden and so severe, he'd think he'd been teleported out of DC.
As it is, though, I don't hear anyone else even pretending to advocate libertarian philosophies, so I'm still for Paul.
I already do that kind of preferential purchasing for myself. I'm trying to fit this kind of boycott into a package that doesn't require a lot of parsing by the person I'm trying to sell it to, so that I can tack it to a stack of articles that the internet should be mad about and say "Please Do This".
Unfortunately, the **AAs aren't really directly consumer connected, so it's hard to know easily enough what to protest. The SOPA protest worked because there were some people who put together some tools that made it possible to protest with near-zero effort. I think if we can do that for other issues, then we can win more of these fights.
Sorry, my post kinda does make me look retarded.
Allow me to clarify : I already did some searches. I found a list of companies who supported SOPA and... not much else.
I'm trying to figure out where to aim a boycott to actually hurt the MPAA or RIAA. Is there anything, other than just not seeing any movies or not buying any music? Not everything is MAFIAA, and there's not a lot of point in a shotgun-style boycott.
If I knew who to boycott, I'd be pushing it to friends and strangers every single dang day.
Ok. How? Which things are MPAA / RIAA? Is there a list somewhere? I've tried to figure out out to effectively boycott these people, and I'm not finding anything.
Isolationism and non-interventionism are pretty seriously different positions.
Paul still advocates a high degree of diplomatic involvement in global issues, just not the gonzo military involvement that's bankrupting us and making us enemies.
Your characterization of Paul as a confederate is about right, but... which stances do you think are 'extremely problematic'?
He's a little nuts on a couple of things, but by and large he seems to be the sanest on a whole host of issues.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." ―Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin
This whole conversation is hilarious.
Actually... using that napkinmath, it should be infinitely profitable.
Man... Al Gore is going to tear them apart.
I recommend profanity. Lots of it.
That's a spectacular idea. They could work with AT&T to develop a suite of search plans.
50 Searches $10*
100 Searches $18*
2000 Searches $65*
Unlimited** Searches $65
Family Plan $135
*Plus $0.35 per search above your plan
**5000 Searches, Top 20 Sites only
Family Plan includes 500 searches, and additional search at the rate of $0.25 each, and includes no*** porn.
***We accept no liability for porn found in a family plan search. Se our definition of porn at brokenlink.con.
(In all cases, you agree not to let anyone under the age of 18 use our search service.)
Those are definitely options that the public doesn't have now. They'll love it!
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be like having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
Unless you want invisible criminals...
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be like having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
Unless you want invisible criminals...
Not shared walls! The criminals could just rent their own buildings and that would be lik having invisible criminals! We need to have an Homeland Security listening post between each building.
Unless you want invisible criminals...
True. However, lynch mobs are best prevented by giving the people an acceptable set of rules to live under.
Otherwise you get childish little things like the Boston Tea Party. Tends to happen when the people in power are too detatched to even understand the problem.


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CHICAGO, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Brent Seabrook and Jonathan Toews scored first-period goals Sunday and the Chicago Blackhawks, who have yet to lose in the regular season, beat Los Angeles 3-2.
Seabrook and Toews each had one assist apiece for the Blackhawks, who never trailed while improving to 12-0-3 to start the season.
Chicago's 27 points are four better than second-place Anaheim in the Western Conference standings and five better than Eastern Conference leader Pittsburgh.
Patrick Sharp added the eventual game-winner in the second period and Duncan Keith helped out with two assists.
Ray Emery turned aside 25-of-27 shots for the Blackhawks.
The Kings got back into the game with a pair of third-period power-play tallies by Mike Richards off assists from Drew Doughty, but couldn't manage the equalizer.
Jonathan Quick made 34 saves for Los Angeles, which saw its two-game winning streak snapped.


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TPD Presser 2.zip
STOCK PHOTO of a carbine seized by the Tuscaloosa Police Department and the ATF in August. (Stephen Dethrage | al.com)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two new executive actions announced Thursday morning by the Obama administration will make it harder for Americans to buy short-barreled shotguns, machine guns and surplus military firearms.
The Office of the Press Secretary
and said that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would remain committed to using every tool available to the executive branch to curb gun violence. According to the release, the executive actions were necessary because of congressional failure to act on gun control proposals, including the expansion of criminal background checks.
The first of the two executive actions will make purchasing "Class III" guns and accessories, such as short-barreled shotgun, a fully automatic machine gun and silencers, much more difficult.
Right now, perspective buyers of such items have to register them and undergo a thorough, fingerprint-based background check of their criminal history. If a trust or a corporation buys the gun in question, though, no background check is conducted.
According to the release, this "loophole" allows people who would normally be prohibited from owning a firearm, such as felons or domestic abusers, to get around the required background check that would prevent their purchase by using a trust or corporation to facilitate the sale.
According to the press release, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reports that more than 39,000 corporations or trusts submitted requests for the transfer of firearms in that class last year.
The ATF is now proposing a change to their rules that will require every corporation or trust that asks for the transfer of such heavily regulate weapons to go through the same background checks an individual would.
The second executive action will block almost all surplus military weapons from coming back to the United States after they leave their theater of action.
According to the release, allies of the United States who buy or are given guns from this country are not allowed to import them back into America without the governmental approval. With the passage of this executive order, that approval is going to be much harder to get.
The action implements a new administrative policy of deny all requests to put surplus guns in the hands of private entities, with "only a few exceptions, such as for museums."
According to the release, more than 250,000 of these surplus guns have been authorized by the government to be reimported since 2005.
"This new policy will help keep military-grade firearms off our streets," the release said.
The two new executive actions build on a foundation created by 23 executive actions that Biden recommended in January after the president asked him to help curtail gun violence in the wake of the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. According to the release, 22 or those 23 executive actions have been completed and implemented or have seen serious progress.


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Feb. 28, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Top-seeded Wheaton College was too much to handle as the hosts upended No. 8 MIT, 79-36, in the quarterfinal round of the NEWMAC Women's Basketball Championship Tournament on Wednesday. The Engineers wrapped up their campaign with a 12-14 record and registered their first 10-win season since 2002-03, which was also the last time the program reached post-season play.
The Lyons scored 11 unanswered points through the first 4:30, holding MIT without a field goal until the 15:11 mark. The Engineers narrowed the gap to seven on two occasions, the last coming on a steal and lay-up by Clara Yuan with 9:14 on the clock. Wheaton responded with a 20-5 run that resulted in a 38-16 advantage at the break.
The Lyons maintained control in the second stanza while MIT's shooting woes continued. Samia Mahjub finished with 12 points and nine rebounds as Yuan notched seven points. Kimberly Soo Hoo tallied six points and three assists while Cheryl Kwinn pulled down six boards.


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The audience decides the outcome of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical calls on the audience to determine the ending to Dickens' unfinished murder mystery
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 04:22 PM
An ensemble of 37 actors will enlist the audience's help to finish the story of Charles Dickens' final novel, when the musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Muhlenberg College, Oct. 25.
Composer Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical presents Dickens' murder mystery as a play within a play. The world of Victorian music hall and melodrama is the backdrop for the exploits of the Theatre Royale, whose actors attempt to complete the unfinished story.
The musical plays Oct. 25 through Nov. 3 in Muhlenberg's Empie Theatre, in the Baker Center for the Arts.
"'Drood' appeals to me because of the show's wild spirit," says Muhlenberg theater professor Charles Richter, who directs the production. "Hopefully our production will capture that whimsical essence."
The play's most whimsical and most challenging element is its ending: there isn't one. When the actors of the Theatre Royale reach the point in the story when Dickens laid down his pen for good, they turn to the audience to determine how the story will end. Who turns out to be the murderer? It's up to the audience.
In fact, patrons have four decisions to make about the outcome of the play. They must select a murderer, a detective in disguise, and a pair of lovers. There are hundreds of possible permutations - and the cast must be ready for any of them.
"The main hook of the show is that the audience determines what will happen," Richter says. "As far as I know, that makes 'Drood' unique among musicals."
All those extra endings make for extra work for the cast, who will prepare an entire hour of material for potential endings, much of which may never be performed. Senior Stefanie Goldberg, who plays Drood, says she expects some fierce but good-natured competition among the cast to turn the voting in their favor. After all, the "winners" get to perform an extra song at the end of the show.
"I think it's a different process for everyone, because there are so many different layers with which to work," Goldberg says. "It's a challenge for any actor. It's just as exciting for us as it is for the audience."
Dickens began writing "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" in 1870 but died the same year. The novel was to be published in 12 installments, but he completed only six, leaving his readers on the edge of their seats. Subsequent authors and playwrights, including Dickens' son, tried to complete the story, without success.
Fast-forward 100 years or so; pop composer Rupert Holmes rediscovered the mysterious unfinished novel. Having spent his childhood in London, Holmes was familiar with the style of British Musical Hall performances. He used his own childhood experiences at the theater and his growing interest for the novel to build the musical version of "Drood."
Best known for his 1970s hit "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," Holmes says he undertook the project because he was looking for a challenge.
"I'd been a relatively successful pop songwriter, I'd done a couple albums with Barbra Streisand," he says. "And I was looking at that time in my life to try to write something that wasn't three-and-a-half minutes with a fade ending - something more expansive. I was reading the novel, and I said, 'You know, there's a musical in this.'"
"Drood" premiered in 1986 at the New York Shakespeare Festival, where it ran for two years. It was revived on Broadway in 2012 at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Winner of five Tony awards in 1986 and nominated for five for the recent revival, the show features zany show-stopping musical numbers, and over-the-top comedy.
The production features musical direction by Ed Bara and choreography by Jeffrey Peterson. Conductor Vince Di Mura leads an 18-piece orchestra that will round out the show's Music Hall sensibility.
The show features a 19th century British Music Hall-inspired set by Tim Averill with elaborate scenic painting designed by Emily Baldasarra. Nicole Wee designs costumes. Susan Hamburger serves as lighting designer.
All productions are performed at Muhlenberg College, one of the top-rated college performance programs in the country according to the Princeton Review rankings. Muhlenberg is a liberal arts college of more than 2,200 students in Allentown, Pa., offering Bachelor of Arts degrees in theatre and dance.
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" runs Oct. 25 through Nov. 3 in the Empie Theatre, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown.
Opening-weekend performances, Oct. 25-27, are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Second-week performances, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, are Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $22 for adults and $8 for students and children. Special rates are available for groups, subscribers, and LVAIC students and employees.
Tickets and information are available at muhlenberg.edu/theatre or 484-664-3333.


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So, you've got this amazing event coming up. Your band's big concert, a 24-hour urban alleycat bike race, or just your best friend's location wedding. How do you share it with everyone who can't make it?
Simple. Rent Livestream's new streaming HD video Livepack system that sends the HD signal wirelessly, even from a moving vehicle. It works anywhere — even when you don't have a decent Internet connection.
Livepack is a complete system; it includes six 3G modems to carry the HD signal, HD camera, FireWire cable and all other hardware, packed into a single backpack. All data is recorded on the Livestream server.
The system could, in theory, replace broadcast operations' expensive satellite trucks. Livepack is available for a monthy rental for $2,500, or you can get it for one year for $18,000, with 30 hours of streaming 1Mbps connectivity per month.
Livepack's maker, Livestream, was formerly known as Mogulus. It bought the Livestream.com domain name for $100,000. The catchy domain name and high-end offerings like Livepack could help the startup distinguish itself from popular livestreaming competitors like Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Qik.
Via Electronista
NBC Bay Area contributed to this report.
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