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Just the thought of riding a bicycle for any distance in August's heat and humidity might deter even the best of us; not Lee Hansen, even with the added challenge of limited lung capacity.
When Lee began pulmonary rehabilitation at Rome Memorial Hospital, his sights were set on riding in the Livestrong Challenge - a bike ride through the Pennsylvania countryside to help raise money to fight cancer. But, first he had to deal with the shortness of breath that he faced after losing his right lung to cancer.
Lee, 63, was determined to accomplish his goal. On Aug. 22, just three weeks after completing the pulmonary rehab program, he crossed the Livestrong Challenge finish line.
"The 80 degree temperatures, pouring rain and high humidity made it a little harder to breathe," Lee explained. "Throw in a few hills and some wind and it made for an interesting morning!"
He planned to ride 20 miles but with unexpected weather and road construction detours, he clocked over 30 miles.
"I ended up riding about 32 miles," Lee said. "I thought of my rehab team at Rome Memorial Hospital with every pedal stroke! I couldn't have done it without their help."
Lee attended the pulmonary rehabilitation program while going through chemotherapy and worked hard to increase his strength and endurance in spite of working with one lung and being treated for COPD, explained Lynda Ferris, Rome Memorial Hospital's pulmonary rehabilitation coordinator.
"He is an inspiration to us all," Ferris said. "Lee is an example of how hard work, determination and a positive attitude can pay off in the end."
Lee participated in the Livestrong Challenge, an event supporting the Lance Armstrong Foundation, for the first time in September 2006 just eight months after his first lung surgery and two months after finishing chemotherapy for the first time.
"I rode again in 2007," Lee noted. "Unfortunately, pneumonia prevented me from taking part in 2008, but I rode again in 2009. After surgery that removed the remainder of my right lung, I became even more determined to meet my rehab goal and ride in 2010."
Lee has already registered to ride in this year's Livestrong Challenge, to be held Aug. 20 - 21 in Philadelphia.
As a five-year survivor of lung cancer, a milestone about only fifteen percent of lung cancer patients reach, Lee hopes his accomplishments will spread the word about the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation and give hope to others battling cancer and lung disease.
"Everyone I met in the pulmonary rehabilitation program had their own goal," Lee continued. "The staff helped each of us develop a realistic plan that included education and exercise."
"But we shared one common goal," he said. "We were all working to regain the parts of our lives taken away by lung disease. It didn't take long before we realized what was possible."
Certified by the American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Rome Memorial Hospital's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program is a hospital-based outpatient program for patients with chronic lung disease or other conditions that affect breathing. COPD is the most common diagnosis, but the program also serves patients with other respiratory problems such as pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and pre/post lung transplant patients.
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The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs reported that a concerned citizen called police there last week to report a man in a hot dog costume near a bus stop where children congregate.
When officers arrived, they found the man was actually a 6-foot-tall statue, with spindly legs and a pair of high-top sneakers. Its hands are missing, and a U.S. flag is draped across its back.
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The statue has been spotted elsewhere in the city, but police Capt. Terry LeMaster says no one knows anything about it or where it came from. It is being stored at the police department until someone claims it.
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JACKSON, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech moved from up from fifth to third place in the final round of the Grover Page Classic Tuesday, righting its ship with a strong finish after struggling in the first tournament of the season a week ago.
The Golden Eagles finished with a team score of 899, just three strokes off second place and 18 out of first in the 12-team field. Tennessee-Martin, the host squad, won the event with an 881 while Southern Illinois placed second with an 896.
Greg Kitts led Tech and placed in a tie for 10th overall, following up a first-round 76 and second-round 73 with another 73 in Tuesday's final 18 holes.
The Golden Eagles were one of the most balanced clubs on display at Jackson Country Club, with no player finishing lower than 27th place in the field of 75 golfers.
Behind Kitts, Lee Maxwell was Tech's second finisher and led the Golden Eagles after two rounds, firing an even-par 72 in the first round and following with a second-round 75 and a final-round 79 for a combined score of 266.
Travis Ramsey posted a 78-78-71=227, Tyler Cassetty shot 77-74-78=229 and Mason Griffin finished at 78-77-75=230 to round out the Tech contingent.
Murray State's Patrick Newcomb won the tournament on a scorecard playoff after finishing tied for first place individually with Southern Illinois' Jake Erickson. Both shot a combined 217 for the tournament.
Tech finished two strokes ahead of both Jackson State and Murray State, who finished in a tie for fourth at 901. The rest of the field consisted of Lipscomb (909), Morehead State (910), Nicholls State (928), John A. Logan CC (935), Tennessee State (942), Union (946) and Bethel (986).


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CINCINNATI -- So much has changed since these guys were last together.
As snow fell outside, the Reds gathered inside at the Duke Energy Convention Center for the 2013 edition of Redsfest on Friday. It was the first chance for the club to show off what has changed since the team's Oct. 1 elimination from the playoffs.
CINCINNATI -- So much has changed since these guys were last together.
As snow fell outside, the Reds gathered inside at the Duke Energy Convention Center for the 2013 edition of Redsfest on Friday. It was the first chance for the club to show off what has changed since the team's Oct. 1 elimination from the playoffs.
Days after the loss vs. the Pirates in the National League Wild Card Game, manager Dusty Baker was let go. Bryan Price was promoted from pitching coach to manager. Price and general manager Walt Jocketty hired a mostly revamped coaching staff. Some free agents were signed while familiar faces have moved on.
Several players seemed to embrace the changes.
"I think a little stir-up was needed," starting pitcher Mike Leake said. "We needed something to get things going again, to get some fire going instead of being friends with everyone, I guess."
Cincinnati won 90 games in 2013, but finished third in a highly competitive NL Central race behind the Cardinals and Pirates. The Reds got within two games, but never really challenged for the division lead down the stretch and lost their final six games of the year -- including the final five regular-season games.
It was Baker who took the fall for the way the Reds went out. It was the third time in four years the club made the postseason, but also the third straight time it failed to win a playoff series.
"You can't fire all of the players," reliever Sam LeCure said. "I think the organization wanted to show that we are serious about winning and we're not just going to sit on our hands and they made a change. I don't think what happened last year was Dusty's fault, by any means. I think that falls on us.
"But if I was able to take myself away from the situation and be an outsider a little bit looking in, I thought it was the right thing to do. It's a little change of identity. We made the postseason a couple of years. Now our identity needs to be winning in the postseason for a couple of years. It was a wake-up call."
On the roster, the Reds expect to lose leadoff hitter Shin-Soo Choo and rotation mainstay Bronson Arroyo as free agents. On Tuesday, veteran catcher Ryan Hanigan was traded to the Rays. Hanigan was eligible for free agency after the 2014 season and he seemed likely to be moved after the Reds signed free-agent catcher Brayan Pena to a two-year, $2.275 million contract. Devin Mesoraco will now become the primary catcher.
Another free-agent acquisition, Skip Schumaker, mingled and met with his new teammates while wearing his new No. 25 Reds jersey. Schumaker signed a two-year, $5 million contract last month.
"Ryan Hanigan, I played a long time with him and I had a really good relationship with him. Personally, he'll be missed," first baseman Joey Votto said. "Shin-Soo Choo, I'm not sure what's going to happen, but I loved playing with him and learning from him. There's no question, he'll be missed if he doesn't come back. I'm not very familiar with our coaching staff, but that will come with time and experience. Our new players, I'm not very familiar with, but I will play next to them and learn from them. There's time left in the offseason.
"I think giving Devin Mesoraco a chance to play every day will be very beneficial. He's a guy that seems to be stuck in that potential mode. The only way to achieve his potential is by playing every day. Hopefully, now he gets the chance to play as much as possible."
The offseason makeover is not yet completed. Jocketty is still looking to add a bat or two. If Choo isn't re-signed, prospect Billy Hamilton will be the starting center fielder and leadoff hitter.
"I think that's the nature of the beast -- change," reliever J.J. Hoover said. "They want to go a different way. I think we've got a good core group here. I'm excited for the season and what it can be."
A couple of players are hoping someone who can bring intangibles and leadership to the clubhouse can also surface -- whether it's from the outside or within.
"We lacked a vocal leader. We lacked a glue," LeCure said. "Somebody will have to force their voice into people's ears this year."
"In my opinion, we haven't had anyone for the last four years -- as long as I've been here," Leake said. "We had Jonny Gomes, but even then, he was kind of on pins and needles a little bit fighting to keep a job. Look at the Boston team. You couldn't put a better character team together than they had -- [Dustin] Pedroia and Gomes on the same team and the other guys."
Leake believed that the first new voice will be the most important in Price.
"He has to set the tone for us, set some ground rules and get everybody to jump on board with his rules," Leake said. "He can't let anything slide. If you let things slide, that's when things get slacked. It's up to him to get us going. ... There's been little things guys got away with where there wouldn't be any repercussions."
Regardless of who is managing the team, Votto pointed out, it's ultimately up to the players to step up and perform -- and right what went wrong in seasons past.
"I think every player needs to be accountable for themselves," Votto said. "A coach or a manager reserves the right to have their own set of rules and training styles and discipline. When you get to the Major Leagues, the game has a way of policing you and solving all of those things. We're in a performance-based business. It has a way of weeding people out."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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Mike Dougherty, director of the long-delayed and mistreated Trick 'r Treat and co-writer of X-Men 2 joined the /Filmcast over the weekend and in their special "After Dark" segment, where they talk about whatever's on their mind, their conversation hit on the interesting subject of X-Men 3, for which Dougherty and Singer were not a part of, but would have been had Singer not swung over to DC to make Superman Returns (for which Dougherty helped write).
In the audio clip, Dave Chen, Adam Quigley and Devindra Hardawar bring up the subject the X3 and quiz Dougherty on his thoughts of the movie, for which he answered reservedly and professionally. The interesting parts however, came afterward, when Dougherty moved on to explain some of the ideas he pitched to Bryan Singer for what of been their version of the third installment of the X-Men film franchise.
To start, we'll go through some parts of the conversation, transcribed by Alex Billington of First Showing.
When questioned about what his and Singer's ideas were for X-Men 3, Dougherty revealed some parts (that he was allowed to - he doesn't want any angry calls from Bryan and these ideas could still be used down the road...) that he could remember from what he pitched as story elements.
"The idea - you open up with Alkali Lake but it's completely barren and dried up and there are these odd reports of strange phenomena going on around the world accompanied by bright lights in the sky."
"The idea would be that both the X-Men and the Brotherhood realize that essentially a very god-like force had entered their reality and that it was causing disruptions around the world - mutant prisons being decimated. I had pitched an idea about a fleet of cargo ships getting torn apart in the Atlantic and you found out that they were shuttling mutants as slave labor."
"So basically you found out was that Phoenix was going round the world taking things into her own hands and that she had basically returned as a god, which they did touch upon in X3. She had viewed herself as above the conflict, that she was here to end things on her terms, she was basically sick of the fighting and she was going to take things into her own hands and she didn't give a shit what the X-Men or the Brotherhood had to say about it."
These few simple sentences are already a step up from how the ever-important Phoenix Saga was treated on screen in Brett Ratner's adaptation. In X3: The Last Stand, The Phoenix character was resigned to standing and staring blankly in a red dress... that's it. Every scene, she stands, stares and sometimes destruction surrounds her when she's angry (and staring). There was no character, no purpose, just the under-utilized idea that she was all-powerful which never showed through and really didn't have a plot.
Was X3 about Phoenix or about a cure to the mutation? It didn't do either well, and neither storyline served its purpose fully.
In Dougherty's version, he goes on to explain that in the end of his version Phoneix/Jean doesn't get stabbed and die again but instead, chooses to leave. It gets better though as he continues to share his idea of the Cyclops we all know and love, the leader that should have been.


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Phil Anderson ... denies seeing Armstrong offer bribes to teammates. Source: Aaron Francis / News Limited
Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson has denied witnessing Lance Armstrong offer a bribe to help fix a race.
Two other former cyclists have alleged Armstrong offered inducements to rival competitors during a lucrative 1993 race series in the United States.
Armstrong scored a $1 million bonus by winning three successive races in the series.
New Zealander Stephen Swart gave evidence in a court case seven years ago that Armstrong offered his team $50,000 to not ride aggressively in the second race.
The ABC's Four Corners program asked Anderson if he was in the room when Armstrong made the offer to Swart's Coors Light team.
At the time, Anderson and Armstrong were riding together on the Motorola team.
"I don't recall being in that meeting," Anderson told the program. "I mean nah, it's ... $50,000, substantial amount, I'd remember that you know."
When contacted by AAP, Anderson strenuously denied witnessing the offer.
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"I have thought long and hard about it and I cannot remember it at all," Anderson said.
American Frankie Andreu also alleged that Armstrong offered money to two rival Italian riders during the third race.
Andreu said he saw Armstrong give the two Italians "a shoe box filled with money" after the race.
Anderson also said he did not recall Armstrong trying to bribe rivals during the third race.
Up until now, Armstrong's downfall has focussed on his doping and bullying of people who tried to expose him for using banned methods.
Australian anti-doping scientist Mike Ashenden again savaged Armstrong in the same program, calling him a professional and pathological liar.
Ashenden has insisted Armstrong doped during his 2009-11 competition comeback, something the disgraced cyclist strenuously denied during last month's Oprah Winfrey interview.
"He's a professional liar, for 15 years? - I don't think anyone should even blink at the prospect of maybe he told one more fib," Ashenden said.
He also disputed Armstrong's denial about making a payment to cycling's world governing body the UCI to cover up a positive test during the 2001 Tour of Switzerland.
"Armstrong would have us believe, even today, that he gave that money to improve the fight against doping," Ashenden said.
"I mean he's a doper, giving money to improve the system to try and catch himself, that's like a robber giving money to a bank to improve their security system.
"When you have a pathological liar telling you a story as farcical as that, you can be pretty sure there's something he's trying to hide."
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First she learned to weld toys. Then jet engines. Then she helped put a country back together.
In a world where, too often, tradition still limits women to running the home, Maria and her sister, Elvira, dreamed of doing more. In grade school, Maria and her sister studied auto mechanics at their all-girls Catholic school, where the nuns believed there should be no limits on what girls can learn. One day when Maria and Elvira were in high school, their father noticed a CARE flyer offering free courses in welding and metal design. He thought his teenage daughters might be interested – and they were!
Maria and Elvira knew that learning to weld could be a great opportunity because there were very few welders on their side of town – and certainly none who were women. Maria and Elvira were the only women in the welding class, and they passed with flying colors. They liked the class so much, they signed up for additional CARE courses, where they learned both technical and business skills.
With CARE we didn't just learn how to weld. We learned how to start a business.
Shortly after graduating, the sisters put their new skills to work, where the rarity of seeing women welders caused quite a stir! They went to work welding door and window frames, making toy airplanes, and eventually welding jet engines for real planes.
Truly an entrepreneur and visionary, Maria developed a plan to start her own company to address an emerging market: weddings and events. Maria knew she could create structures and seating to outfit any venue. But when Maria applied for a traditional bank loan, she was denied. They said she was too young and had no collateral. Maria once more turned to CARE, and received a $10,000 loan through our EDYFICAR microfinance program. She repaid the loan, in full, in just one year.
Today, Maria is the proud owner of three successful businesses. She has been recognized by the Peruvian government for her contribution to the country's economic development, and was one of 31 women entrepreneurs from around the world chosen to participate in a Fortune 500 mentoring program.
At home in Peru, Maria shares her success to help open doors for women and give back to her community. When an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Pisco, Peru, in August 2007, 40,000 families lost their homes. Most were forced to live in the streets and open fields under tarps and other makeshift structures. Something had to be done quickly. CARE contracted Maria and Elvira to weld 1,000 family tent frames for earthquake survivors in need of shelter. The sisters also built 100 classroom-sized tents so that children could resume their studies.
"I think a lot about people who were affected by the earthquake," says Maria. "I don't have a lot of resources but by making these tents we can provide some comfort to people in their time of need."
Maria concludes, "We can make big things happen with a lot of little things."
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My party is trying get back to civilization alive (a city five days travel away), but we have two characters in the final stages of Filth Fever*: a 5th-level Paladin of Pelor and a 4th-level Rogue.
We also have a 3rd-level Artificer and a 2nd-level Wizard. What are our healing options?
Will any of these work?
- Artificer's Healing infusion (since it doesn't use the target's healing surges)
- Extended rest: can they still recover HP even if they don't recover any healing surges?
- Potion of cure light wounds** (also doesn't require healing surges)
* They lose all healing surges and cannot regain hit points, and suffer –2 penalty to AC, Fortitude defense, and Reflex defense.
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Packing list - A document enclosed with a shipment that lists the contents of the shipment. A packing list allows the customer to match the items sent against the items ordered. Also called Shipping list.
Page charges - Charges by some journal publishers to authors whose articles they publish. Page charges reduce the cost of publication.
Pay directly to publisher (PDP) - See Direct order.
Pay-per-article - See Pay-per-view.
Pay-per-look - See Pay-per-view.
Pay-per-view - Service offered by some publishers and information providers of electronic access at a charge on an article by article basis. Users are allowed to enter an account previously established or a credit card number to see articles from journals not on subscription. May also be referred to as Pay-per-look or Pay-per-article. (McKay (1999): p.16).
PDF (Portable Document Format) - A file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that can be viewed, navigated, printed, or forwarded to someone else. PDF files are especially useful for documents such as journal articles when there is a need to preserve the original graphic appearance online.
Peer reviewed journal - See Refereed journal. Periodical - A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular or stated intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally containing separate articles, stories, or other writings. Newspapers disseminating general news, and the proceedings, papers, or other publications of corporate bodies primarily related to their meetings are not included in this term. [ALA Glossary] See also Journal, Magazine.
Perpetual License - The continuing right to access digital information after the termination of a license agreement (http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/definiti.shtml)
Personal subscription price - The price charged by a journal publisher for a subscription placed by individuals for their personal use. Some publishers charge less for personal subscriptions than for those placed by institutions. Also called Individual subscription price. See also Differential pricing, Foreign subscription price, Institutional subscription price, Membership.
Photo CD (Photo Compact Disc) - A compact disc format developed by Kodak that stores digitized 35 mm slides or negatives. A multi-session CD-ROM drive is required to read images that are added after that original set. See also CD-ROM drive. (International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources [ISBD(ER)]: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd2.htm#4)
Photo Compact Disc - See Photo CD.
Pixel - Often referred to as dot, as in "dots per inch". "Pixel" is short for picture elements, which make up an image, similar to grains in a photograph or dots in a half-tone. Each pixel can represent a number of different shades or colors, depending on how much storage space is allocated for it. Pixels per inch (ppi) is sometimes the preferred term, as it more accurately describes the digital image (http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction/rsrc_glossary.html)
Platform - The underlying hardware or software for a system. The platform defines a standard around which a system can be developed. See also Operating system.
Plugin - Helper application needed to support the multimedia (animation, sound, etc.) in electronic resources.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel for transparency. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits per component. See also GIF, TIFF and Raster. (W3C, World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG)
Port - (n) 1. An interface on a computer to which you can connect a device. Personal computers have various types of ports. Internally, there are several ports for connecting disk drives, display screens, and keyboards. Externally, personal computers have ports for connecting modems, printers, mice, and other peripheral devices. Almost all personal computers come with a serial RS-232C port or RS-422 port for connecting a modem or mouse and a parallel port for connecting a printer. On PCs, the parallel port is a Centronics interface that uses a 25-pin connector. SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) ports support higher transmission speeds than do conventional ports and enable you to attach up to seven devices to the same port. 2. In TCP/IP and UDP networks, an endpoint to a logical connection. The port number identifies what type of port it is. For example, port 80 is used for HTTP traffic. (v) To move a program from one type of computer to another. To port an application, you need to rewrite sections that are machine dependent, and then recompile the program on the new computer. Programs that can be ported easily are said to be portable. (Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/port.html)
Portable Document Format - See PDF.
Portable Network Graphics - See PNG.
Portal - A term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. See also Gateway and World Wide Web site.
Prepay - 1. A type of order for which payment must be received by the supplier before the material will be sent. 2. The act of making payment on this type of order. See also Proforma invoice. Prepublication price - The discounted price granted orders placed prior to publication. Price change analyses - Studies of the prices of library materials that show the changes over time of individual titles or categories of materials. Such studies normally include the dollar amount of the changes and the percentage of change. They may also offer a comparison with a standard measure of inflation such as the Consumer Price Index.
Primary research journal - See Academic research journal.
Proceedings - The published record of a meeting of a society or other organization, frequently accompanied by abstracts or reports of papers presented, which are more properly called Transactions, which see. [ALA Glossary)
Producer - The person or corporate body with the financial and/or administrative responsibility for the physical processes whereby an electronic resource is brought into existence. Specific responsibilities may relate in varying degrees to the creative and technical aspects of a particular work, including collecting data and converting data into a computerized form. (International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources [ISBD(ER)]: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd2.htm#4)
Proforma invoice - An invoice the customer must pay before the supplier will ship the ordered material. See also Prepay.
Proof of payment - Verification, such as a canceled check, that an order has been paid. Something a library may request of a subscription agent to confirm that a subscription has been started or renewed. Also something a publisher or vendor may request of a library.
Proxy - See Proxy Server.
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Publication schedule - The order, sequence, or frequency in which published works are released.
Public access terminals - Terminals made available to the patrons of a library or other research institution for use by the general public. (Licensing Digital Information: Definitions of Words and Phrases Commonly Found in Licensing Agreements: http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/definiti.shtml)
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PURL (Persistent Uniform Resource Locator) - A naming and resolution service for general Internet resources. The names, which can be thought of as Persistent URLs (PURLs), can be used in documents, Web pages, and in cataloging systems. PURLs increase the probability of correct resolution over that of URLs, and thereby reduce the burden and expense of maintaining viable, long-term access to electronic resources. See also URL. (PURL: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/inet96.html)


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Mary Mair
There's this photograph that's been part of my life for many years. It hangs on my living room wall centered directly under a large sign that boasts: "Loran Larsen State Park."
In the photo are four then-much-younger men gathered around Mary Mair, a very special woman. All five of us sport huge grins. We were already family but time would bring us even closer. When word came that Mary had passed away last week in Salt Lake City, recollections of times spent in her company returned in a flood.
But to go back, I think the first time I noticed Mary was when she and a few other local women were busy building sandwiches in the rear of the food-service area on the middle floor of what was then the Lodge at the old Treasure Mountain Resort.
The year 1968 had only been around for a few weeks when four of us who still lived in L.A. decided on a road trip to visit friends already hunkered down in Park City and, of course, get in a few turns while we were at it. So there we were, Mary in the back and our bunch at the counter ordering our pre-ski breakfast when, momentarily, our eyes met and then went about their business.
Years later, we would both recall the moment. Mary's eyes sparkled, as they always did when she recounted humorous events from the past. The reason she had looked up, she informed me with delight, was in response to one of her co-workers whispering, "Get a load of them hippies."
A couple of years later, after I had moved to Park City, we began running into each other at various spots about town. She and her husband Allen lived just off the batting-cage area down at City Park and Mary showed up at a lot of softball games.
Living behind the old Miners Hospital and working as a bartender up at the resort's Rusty Nail Saloon gave me plenty of other opportunity to bump into Mary during my early years in town. She just had to be one of the friendliest people I had ever met and the welcoming manner in which she treated us newcomers was not the norm by any stretch.
Once the '70s had run their course – a decade during which I spent most of my working time at various radio stations down in Salt Lake – the creation of KPCW and a job at the Park City Ski Area had me hanging out more and more in Park City. After that, Mary and I saw even more of each other.
But not as much as we would once I transferred to the Building Maintenance Department at the ski area, where Mary held forth in a most dignified den-mother fashion. A Uriarte girl, she flaunted her Basque heritage, and not only made me feel a part of her working family but also, as with all of her friends, part of her family as a whole.
Mary became our godmother. She held us in her heart while attempting to protect us from our inner demons. There were many times when she was successful – other times, somewhat less so.
But no matter the gravity of our offense, she nurtured each of us along on our respective journeys, however ill-thought-out they may have been. She loved her "little bastards," as she affectionately referred to us, and if there was ever anything we needed, we knew where to go.
And that brings us back to the picture that hangs on my wall. You can tell at first glance that it was very early in the ski season (1985) due to the cloud of white spewing from the older-style snowmaking machines and, other than on the lower ski runs, the general lack of snow on the mountains. A vintage Thiokol groomer and a Skidoo snowmobile also add to the fabric of the photo and the timeframe.
We building maintenance workmates pose with the tools of our trade. Jim Runyon holds a paint roller; Robin Linden has a snow shovel; Pitch Schooler sports a urinal screen around his neck; and I've got a toilet plunger. Actually, as I would learn later, it was rightfully termed a "hydro thrust force cup."
Mary, beautiful Mary, the center of attention, has a toilet brush stuck in her pocket and the warmest, most natural smile you could ever imagine spread across her beautiful face. A more eccentric family photo of a more eccentric bunch would be difficult to fathom. The beauty and the beasts, as it were.
All who ever crossed Mary's path have similar stories and will miss her as much as we. She was the quintessential Western mining town queen of nobility, integrity and loyalty and had more love in her heart than any hundred of the current crop. How could you expect less? She was Mary Mair, godmother to scoundrels and a true Park City legend!
Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social scenes for more than 40 years.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed world leaders to a rainy Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday under a cloud of criticism that a three-day summit is falling far short of its promise to establish clear goals for sustainable development.
Before the official start of the event, known as Rio+20 because of the landmark Earth Summit in the city two decades ago, Brazil convinced visiting delegations to finalize a draft declaration for their leaders. But many delegations and summit organizers - as well as outraged environmentalists and activist groups - are lambasting the document as weak.
"Let me be frank: Our efforts have not lived up to the measure of the challenge," Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, said in opening remarks. "Nature does not wait," he added later. "Nature does not negotiate with human beings."
The draft document, finalized on Tuesday, laid out aspirations, rather than mandatory goals, on issues like food security, water and energy. It also called for countries to pursue "sustainable development goals," a vague set of U.N. objectives built around the environment, economic growth and social inclusion.
Many of those who agreed on the draft said it was stripped of vital specifics. "I was disappointed that we did not go further," Nick Clegg, Britain's deputy prime minister, said in prepared comments.
French President Francois Hollande criticized "shortcomings" in the document, especially a failure by U.N. members to fortify its existing environmental program and transform it into a full-fledged agency. He also criticized the omission of a French proposal to help fund development programs through a tax on financial transactions.
Expectations have long been low for the gathering, which is expected to include nearly 100 heads of state and government by the time it concludes on Friday. Overall, 193 state delegations are at the event.
Many leaders are more focused on the global economic slowdown and the debt crisis in Europe. Rousseff herself, visibly tired during her welcome speech, had just returned from a meeting in Mexico of the Group of 20 major economies.
Despite the presence of the French president and the Russian and Chinese prime ministers, several other high-profile leaders are missing, including U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Compared with the original Earth Summit, which led to historic decisions on biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, organizers say this week's summit is only the beginning of a new goal-setting process for global development. The 1992 event, they noted, was the culmination of years of negotiations.
Speakers sought on Wednesday to highlight the issues most pressing for their nations in the global debate over development. While many spoke of their need for sustainable sources of energy, food and water, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pressed rich countries to eschew "materialistic" desires and pursue "spiritual" development.
"The collapse of the current atheistic order is reaching its time," he predicted, citing wars, turmoil in the Middle East, and disasters that shaped the world.
Rio authorities, gearing up to host the World Cup and Olympics later this decade, have been working to put a friendly face on the gathering. The city's famous Christ the Redeemer statue is illuminated green, its glow shining nightly on traffic jams and motorcades below.
Demonstrators have made their displeasure known.
Outside the summit in the Rio suburbs, environmental and political activists and others marched through steady drizzle and called for bold action.
At a parallel event nearby, an activist interrupted a speech by Clegg. "This is the great nature sale," shouted the demonstrator, wearing a mask with Clegg's likeness.
Earlier this week, bare-breasted feminists marched through the city center, and Amazonian tribesmen, donning war paint and arrows, descended on Brazil's national development bank, which is financing dams and other controversial infrastructure projects in the Amazon rain forest.
Diplomats said Brazil's push for a draft document had forced delegations to focus and come to an agreement, but it may have shut the door on bolder action by leaders when they arrive.
They added that left little leeway for the draft to improve before a final pronouncement on Friday. "Everybody has things that they have given up in the document in one way or the other," said Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy on climate change. "This is the thread that once you start pulling on it, it unravels quickly."
Brazilian officials said the text that was drafted represented "what was possible" among so many different delegations and interests. Noting the protests, Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said, "If you put 193 (of them) together, they would have difficulty finding a common denominator, too."
Even some environmentalists agreed, stressing that local and domestic initiatives, by governments and the private sector, were more likely to improve the environment than slow-moving global diplomacy.
"The agreement is fine, but global agreements aren't going to solve anything," said Peter Seligmann, chief executive of Conservation International, a U.S. based environmental group. "The solutions will only come through the enlightened self-interest of countries, companies and individuals."
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Wabash College's Pass Attack Overwhelms Albion, 38-20by Howard W. Hewitt • November 19, 2005 Share:
Russ Harbaugh and his wide receiving corps showed Albion what it had done all year in a 38-20 first round NCAA Division III football playoff win.
Harbaugh threw for 360 yards on 34-of-39 attempts. Eric Summers had nine of those catches and a touchdown. Geoff Walker and Mike Russell pulled in six apiece, while Ray Green and Kyle Piazza had five catches each. Green hauled in two Harbaugh passes for scores. (Click here to see game photo album.)
The Little Giants will face Capital, a 21-19 winner over North Central, in the Nov. 26 second round action. More details on next week's game will be announced Sunday.
Wabash scored with long, efficient drives on its first two possessions to set the tone. The first score came after taking the opening kickoff. Harbaugh rolled to his right and found Eric Summers in the very corner of the end zone.
"We had sort of a mix-up," Summers said. "I just sort of ran and saw a hole and Russ, like he always does, did a great job of finding me. He threw a touch pass and I was able to catch it. I think if there is one good thing that I do it's that I'm very aware of where I am on football field. I'm usually pretty good at finding the sidelines and keeping my feet inbounds."
Summers had another monster game with nine catches totaling 138 yards. Afterwards, even the Albion players marveled at Harbaugh's accuracy and his fleet wide receiving corps.
"He definitely got a jump on the game just completing ball after ball," said Padric Timmons, who led the Brits and all players with 16 tackles. "He was throwing short routes and it just seemed like we couldn't get to it in time. We tried switching up coverages and keeping guys out, then pushing guys back out to the flats and it just seemed like he'd put the ball either inside us or outside us."
Brit defensive back Tommy Lefere said Harbaugh kept Albion guessing. "We'd be jamming and it seems he'd just drop it right over our heads - right behind us or right in a pocket where we weren't. We've played a couple of top offenses, but he's definitely the top quarterback we've seen all year."
Albion got on the board before the first quarter was over on a 15-yard pass from Steve Wasil to Troy Rundle. But Harbaugh found Ray Green, for the first of two scores, on a 15-yard scoring pass late in the second period to give the Little Giants a 21-6 halftime lead.
"I wanted to play better than last week," Harbaugh said. "They played cover 3 and we thought that would be good for our quick game. We just came out to play. Our first two drives were huge and took off a lot of time."
While the offense was providing the flash and the defense holding the Brit running game in check, the special teams provided the big emotional spark mid-way through the third quarter. Sophomore Richard Roomes recovered a blocked punt in the end zone to end any suspense, 31-6.
"Robert Salinas, a freshman from Texas, made a beautiful move and got off the line right off the bat," Roomes said in a post-game press conference. "He had perfect hand placement for a blocked punt and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time."
The defense wanted to limit Albion's ground attack and did so with a stingy 41 yards. The defense's toughness and offense's efficiency made for a lopsided time-of-possession statistic. The Little Giants controlled the ball for nearly 38 minutes to Albion's 22. Wabash had 27 first downs to the Brits' 15.
Senior linebacker Aaron Selby set the pace for Wabash with nine tackles. Seniors Tim Parker and Peter Kempf added six apiece.
After Albion picked up its second score on a Wasil 8-yard run, Harbaugh answered right back with a 4-yarder to Green to open the final quarter.
The dazzling passing numbers are the result of years of hard work, said Summers.
"We've been playing together for four years, in the same system, same coaches, practice the same things," the senior receiver said. "It's not just Russ and me but the offensive lineman, and we have a lot of seniors on this team especially on offense. I think we do have sort of a special bond out there. He knows where I'm going to be, and I know where he wants to throw the ball."
Summers continued to heap the praise on Harbaugh, who would have none of it.
"He throws a great ball and he makes it easy for us to catch it," Summers explained. "If the quarterback throws it in front of us so we can just go and get the ball that's a great thing for us. That's why his numbers are so good."
"My numbers are so good because they're awesome at making bad passes into good catches," Harbaugh countered.
Coach Creighton said his quarterback and receiving group knows to take what's given.
"Russ does a great job of taking what people give him," Creighton said. "I think it's a reflection too of him knowing how good our wide receivers are. Sometimes we throw for a lot of yards and we're throwing a six-yard passes. But when No. 1 (Summers) has the ball in his hands the six yards can become 50 quickly."
The Wabash coach, and former Kenyon College quarterback, also admitted he had a little envy.
"I just saw Russ was 34 of 39," he said shaking his head. "I'm still waiting for someone to tell me that is incorrect - a typo or something. "34 of 39, I dreamed of that as a player every night before I went to bed but I never came close."
In photos:
Top right: Harbaugh rolls out to pass.
At left: Roomes cradles the ball for a touchdown.
Bottom right: Walker hauls in one of his six catches.
On homepages: Eric Summers slices between Albion defenders. Or, Russ Harbaugh goes back to pass as Brian Hilts gives protection.


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Dan Walters: More storage may be California's most important water issue
The release last week of detailed plans for building water tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta touches off a legal and political battle that could take years to resolve.
The tunnels, however, are merely one aspect of securing an adequate and dependable water supply for the state – and perhaps not even the most important aspect.
The tunnels, if built, would allow some Sacramento River water to bypass the environmentally stressed Delta on its way to the head of the California Aqueduct near Tracy.
However, a more fundamental issue is whether there will be enough water, when needed, to satisfy the 25 million Californians who draw water from the aqueduct and farmers, while enhancing the Delta's deteriorated habitat for fish and other Delta wildlife.
The state's largest reservoir, by far, is the snowpack that accumulates in the Sierra during winter months and is released into the Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems as warmer spring and summer weather melts the snow.
Under natural circumstances, those flows are seasonal, and as California's population increased during the 20th century, state, federal and local agencies constructed dozens of dams and reservoirs to capture the melting snow and keep the state's rivers flowing year-round.
Meteorologists believe that climate change will reduce California's winter snowfall and increase its rainfall, thus shrinking the natural snowpack reservoir. If that's true, California will need more man-made storage, either surface reservoirs or underground aquifers, to capture seasonal rainfall.
Federal and state water officials are planning to expand major reservoirs, such as Shasta and San Luis, to gain marginal increases in capacity, but we really need at least 1 to 2 million acre-feet of new storage, even without climate change effects, as the current drought proves.
"Expanding and improving California's water storage capacity is long overdue," Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote recently. "The last time we saw significant state and federal investments in our water storage and delivery system was in the 1960s, when the state's population stood at 16 million. … If we don't take significant and rapid action, I fear California is at risk of becoming a desert state."
Oddly, however, the environmental groups most alarmed about climate change also oppose increasing water storage, such as a new off-stream reservoir called Sites in the upper Sacramento Valley and a new reservoir called Temperance Flat on the San Joaquin River.
Four years ago, the Legislature approved a water bond issue that includes $3 billion for storage projects, but it was never submitted to voters and efforts will be made in 2014 to write a smaller substitute measure.
One of its major conflicts will be over money for storage, and what happens will have a material impact on California's future.


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The top risks broker-dealers face in dealing with cybersecurity threats are operational risk, "insider" risks posed by rogue employees and hackers penetrating BD systems, Daniel Sibears of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Wednesday at the Securities and Exchange Commission's cybersecurity roundtable.
Sibears, executive vice president of regulatory operations and shared services at FINRA, said those three key BD threats were found in FINRA's recently launched cybersecurity exam sweep of BDs. "We have just started to get the results in of the sweep," Sibears said, stressing that only a cross section of BDs had been analyzed and results were preliminary.
Indeed, for advisory firms large and small, "account takeover is the No. 1 risk" when it comes to cybersecurity, added David Tittsworth, executive director of the Investment Adviser Association in Washington.
Account takeovers have "grown in frequency in the last year or two," Tittsworth said, and involve taking someone's ID and having a firm transfer a client's money to outside accounts, often outside the United States.
Sibears noted that the BD cybersecurity sweep also showed that beyond the top three threats mentioned above, BDs are also concerned about "phishing attacks" where customer information is misappropriated, trades are made and money is transferred out of a client's account.
Another risk BDs noted is malware, Sibears said.
John Denning, senior vice president of operational policy integration, development and strategy at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, who sat on the panel with Tittsworth and Sibears to explore cybersecurity challenges for BD and advisors, said that "firms must have robust information sharing systems" with law enforcement and regulators. "It's the only way we're going to be able to reduce risk to the sector, to start the information sharing."
As for best practices, Craig Thomas, chief information security officer at Computershare, said that firms must "believe that you are going to get attacked; you have to be thinking ahead of the game; security is always trying to catch up with technology."
What Should the SEC Do?
The "SEC should provide principles-based guidance due to the constantly changing landscape," said Marcus Prendergast, director and corporate information security officer of ITG.
Sibear added that it was likely FINRA would "push out some effective practices," but whether guidance would be rules-based or principles-based, he "can't say."
However, he said, "we recognized this is a rapidly changing environment, so there has to be a component that allows the industry to adapt."
Tittsworth said industry officials that he has spoken to urge the SEC to "please resist the urge to impose rigid requirements." However, "gathering information can be very helpful."
Indeed, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, assistant secretary for financial institutions at the Treasury Department, noted during the first panel at the roundtable that while the financial services industry is likely the "most advanced in terms of thinking about cybersecurity" as they have "become technology firms," financial services firms should exert a constant effort "to stay ahead" of potential cybersecurity threats. "You can never say you are completely prepared," he said.
Larry Zelvin, director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, added that "finance wins the cybersecurity threat award." The financial sector, he said, is a "massive target because you are where the money is and you also represent our nation." Those who want to perform a cyberattack in the finance sector are "looking for an opening every day," are "getting creative" and are multiplying quickly.
SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar said that the commission should establish a cybersecurity task force, with members from each division.
Both the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority listed cybersecurity as one of their top exam issues for this year. FINRA issued in early February its targeted exam letter to firms stating that the self-regulator was assessing how firms manage cybersecurity threats.
The House Committee on Homeland Security unanimously approved in early February H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013.
The bill was sent to the full House for consideration.
The committee said in a statement that the Act "addresses the cyber threat by giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the tools to secure our nation in cyberspace, while protecting privacy and civil liberties and prohibiting any new regulations at DHS."
The bill codifies several cybersecurity efforts already in progress; beefs up others, like the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center; and focuses on partnerships with the private sector. It is intended to be budget neutral.
Jane Jarcho, National Associate Director of OCIE's National Exam Program, told chief compliance officers in late January that OCIE's exams will include assessing firms' cybersecurity policies — and noted in early March that small firms won't get a "pass" on being required to have such policies. "In today's world, everybody has to be concerned about cybersecurity," Jarcho said.
Actual exams in this area haven't commenced yet, she said, estimating that this would likely start in the fall. "Firms aren't supposed to follow any cybersecurity policies per se," she said.
She added that the agency is currently reviewing as a potential guide the cybersecurity framework issued in early February by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Check out FINRA Plans Cybersecurity Exam Sweep on ThinkAdvisor.


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Toblerone is facing a mountain of criticism for changing the shape of its famous triangular candy bars in British stores, a move it blames on rising costs, NBC News reported.
Consumers in the U.K. noticed they were getting less chocolate in some bars because of bigger gaps between the distinctive chocolate peaks.
Modelez International, the U.S. company that makes the bars, said it was forced to widen the spaces because of "higher costs for numerous ingredients."
It said bars in the U.K. were being reduced from 14.1 oz to 12.7 oz and 6 oz to 5.3 oz but the size of the packaging remains the same.


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"How do I love thee?" If you're still pondering that question, hurry—you only have four days to count the ways. Valentine's Day is next Tuesday! Here are some last-minute gift ideas that are quick and easy.
For your significant other: Surprise your sweetie with a weekend getaway. Sites like Priceline and Travelocity offer mini vacations, some up to 70 percent off when you book at the last minute. Here's one time when it pays to procrastinate.
For your kids: Show them how much you care with an evening of their favorite foods. Let them "order" what they'd like to eat, then prepare a smorgasbord of their favorites on Valentines Day. Create a tablecloth out of butcher paper, include crayons for decorating, and set the table with heart-shaped plates. For dessert, dip into a chocolate fondue or frost and sprinkle sugar cookies. (Messy, yes, but all for love.)
For your parents: Send a last-minute bouquet using ProFlowers coupons, but sweeten the deal with Shari's Berries. Add a sentimental card, and your parents will love the thoughtfulness—and the sweets.
For your pet: No chocolate for Fido, but how about Red Velvet Pupcakes? Whip up some goodies for your favorite four-legged friend and give him a Valentine's Day treat that's both pet and budget-friendly.
For yourself: Last but not least, you have permission to indulge. Buy a spa deal from a daily deal site. Catch a chick flick at the theater instead of an action movie. Or instead of leaving to find alone time, ask your spouse to take the kids out for an evening of fun so you can enjoy the peace and quiet of an empty house. (When's the last time that happened?)


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Derek Andersen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We create fun, useful applications for the social, mobile and web space. We're comprised of young entrepreneurs with complementary talents including game developers, database and social marketing experts.
Males 25-35. Technology wizards. Males/Females that started using Twitter 2-years before you heard about it. Other sites they use are Digg, Reddit, LinkedIn, Mashable, and MeetorDie.com.
We want to crete a mascot for our new social site. This mascot will be in a number of different positions and poses. This mascot will guide users through the site from setup to major interactions.
The mascot and design should be a dinosaur. The main color should be green. With elements of red and white. He should be facing forward in most poses.
The design must be vector. Very clean, very fresh and crisp. The design should be unique, but also simple. It should blend into a clean website and not stick out too much.
The mascot will be themed in multiple situations (5) to satisfy the requirements for the site. Poses include:
Mascot looking happy
Mascot looking sad
Mascot eating
Mascot looking really excited
Mascot with a tie and glasses
Update: Because it's a blind contest and you can't see which dinos I like and don't like, know that I'm looking for a cute creature with soft edges and a pleasant demeanor. I've liked the mini-dinos that people have submitted as well. Doesn't have to be, but the shorter, fat, cute creatures are getting good marks. Good luck!!!