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Camden County College is one of the largest, most comprehensive community colleges in New Jersey and the surrounding region and is a vital resource for transfer education, workforce training and cultural event. Its three distinct campuses in Blackwood, Camden and Cherry Hill – along with its satellite locations in Lakeland, Sicklerville and elsewhere throughout the County – share the common mission of providing accessible, affordable higher education and occupational study to all who can benefit.
Recent studies of federal Department of Education data have shown that in addition to ranking among the nation's top 100 community colleges for overall associate's degree completion and among the nation's top 10 for associate's degree completion in education, the College also ranks among the top 50 for associate's degrees completed in registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing; health professions and related programs; and science technologies/technicians. CCC also ranks among the top 100 in associate's degrees completed by African-American students, Asian-American students and non-minority students.
The College also is recognized nationally as a leader in technology programs such as video game design/development and photonics. In addition, it is acknowledged for maintaining one of the lowest tuition rates of any college or university in the state or region. Perhaps most importantly, CCC is known for responding to the changing needs of the communities and students it serves by continuously updating its programs and services to support the area's economic development and residents' professional and personal development.
CCC: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Camden County College's mission was launched when what had been the Mother of the Savior Seminary was purchased early in 1967. That fall, the first class of Camden County College students was taking courses on what had become the Blackwood Campus. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, new buildings were constructed to keep pace with growing enrollments and expanding academic offerings.
In 2005, the Camden County Freeholders announced an $83 million capital initiative to rebuild the Blackwood Campus that would affect more than half of its facilities and structural amenities. The first phase of this plan included refurbishment of the busiest classroom building, Madison Hall, and construction of the Connector Building, which connects Madison with the Otto R. Mauke Community Center and houses the College's Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility. Subsequent phases focused on creation of roads, grounds and athletic fields and additional demolition, refurbishment and construction, including a 107,000-square-foot science building that opened to students in 2013.
The Blackwood Campus offers a traditional collegiate setting with more than 20 buildings on 320 acres. It provides the majority of the College's academic programs.
The College's presence in the City of Camden began in 1969, when a diploma-completion program was begun in borrowed space to help students prepare to pass their GED test so they could begin college-level courses on the Blackwood Campus that fall. In 1991, a five-story Camden City Campus building – now called College Hall – provided the College's first permanent home in the City. The eight-story academic, retail and parking facility known as the Camden Technology Center was added in 2004 as one of the first projects completed under the Camden Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act. Today, the Camden City Campus focuses on an urban mission to support the economic development of the City of Camden and Camden County through associate degree studies and workforce training.
Camden County College's third campus location opened in 2000 as the result of a unique public/private partnership between the College, Cherry Hill Township and the William G. Rohrer Charitable Foundation. The William G. Rohrer Center is named to reflect the generosity of the late banker's endowment and offers core associate degree courses and business and industry training in a technology-rich setting.
In 2011, CCC assumed administration of the Camden County Regional Emergency Training Center and the Camden County Police Academy, both at Lakeland, and the Technical Institute of Camden County, housed on the campus of Camden County Technical Schools in Sicklerville. This development brought all County-funded postsecondary education under the supervision of the College. The Regional Emergency Training Center is a state-of-the-art, environmentally safe site that serves firefighters, emergency medical technicians and other public safety personnel and houses the Camden County Fire Academy and Camden County Police Academy. It offers classroom and hands-on instruction in the most extensive and contemporary array of credit and certification courses for first responders that is available.
Thanks to technology-rich physical resources and highly qualified, dedicated faculty, staff and administration, Camden County College maintains a tradition of high-quality education and a reputation of agile, responsive service. Each year, the College serves more than 30,000 students through 100-plus degree and certificate programs and hundreds of non-credit and community-interest courses.
Degree, certificate and training programs cover technical fields such as automotive technology and mechanical engineering; health professions such as nursing and medical coding; and liberal arts and sciences such as English and chemistry. There also is a multitude of recreational offerings, ranging from social dancing to computer applications.
All who study, visit or work at the College find comfortable, safe and attractive settings. These sustain a vibrant academic community that is characterized by imaginative teaching, caring student services, energetic management and collegial discussion of diverse ideas and opinions.
Into the future, Camden County College will continue to enhance the quality of life in Camden County and beyond by preparing students to live, work and thrive in a global economy. The College also will further fulfill its responsibility to the citizens of Camden County and New Jersey by continuing to create a skilled and stable local workforce; encourage enlightened civic engagement; provide an avenue of social mobility; and serve as a destination for cultural and recreational activities.


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Evaluation of Patients With Liver Disease
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001971
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : January 19, 2000
Last Update Posted : February 8, 2019
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The proposed study aims to evaluate, investigate, and follow-up patients suffering from acute and chronic liver disease. The study will focus on understanding diseases affecting the liver.
Patients participating in the study will first undergo a routine check-up as an outpatient. They will be asked to provide blood and urine samples for laboratory testing and will undergo an ultrasound of the liver. Ultrasound examinations use sound waves to determine the size and texture of the liver. After the initial visit subjects will be requested to follow-up once a year at the outpatient department for a similar check-up.
Additional tests may be requested throughout the study to provide information for other research studies and individual consent will be requested. These tests may include liver biopsies, skin biopsies, and / or specialized blood, plasma, and lymphocyte examinations.
Subjects that qualify for medications presently being studied may be offered the opportunity to benefit from experimental therapy.
|Condition or disease
|Biliary Liver Cirrhosis Hemochromatosis Hepatitis Hepatolenticular Degeneration Liver Disease
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|Estimated Enrollment :
|99999999 participants
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Patients With Liver Disease
|Study Start Date :
|September 10, 1991
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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An indefinite number of patients with acute or chronic liver disease will be enrolled in this study. Criteria for selection will be the following:
Age above 2 years, male or female.
Evidence of acute or chronic liver disease on evaluation by the outside referring physician.
Absence of other significant medical illnesses that might interfere with prolonged follow up evaluation.
Willingness to enter the study.
There are no specific reasons to exclude any patients from this protocol (exception below for plasmapheresis and lymphapheresis, and genetic analysis of serum samples) as it does not entail significant risk to the patient or excessive clinical burden to the Liver Diseases Branch. Patients who resolve their chronic liver disease, such as patients with chronic hepatitis B who become negative for HBsAg or patients with chronic hepatitis C who become negative for HCV RNA will continue to be followed despite lack of apparent disease or disability. This is to document that clearance of these hepatitis viruses is, indeed, associated with resolution of the liver disease and lack of long-term adverse effects. Because there are data suggesting that chronic HBsAg carriers who become HBsAg-negative and patients with chronic hepatitis C whose liver disease becomes inactive, can still develop long-term consequences of these diseases (especially hepatocellular carcinoma), following such patients is important.
Plasmapheresis and lymphapheresis: Patients will have to fulfill the criteria of the NIH Department of Transfusion Medicine regarding lymphapheresis donors. These include age (less that 65 years), weight (greater than 120 pounds), hematocrit (greater than 30 percent), blood pressure (less than 120 diastolic and greater than 90 systolic), and temperature (less than 37.5 degrees C). Because this is a research procedure to obtain reagents and assay materials, only patients who are active and relatively fit (i.e. not disabled from their liver disease) will be asked to undergo this procedure.
The only strict exclusion criterion will be active therapy with interferon. The basis for this exclusion was the findings from a retrospective analysis of a recent trial of recombinant human alpha interferon as therapy of chronic hepatitis B. In that study, the "response rate" or rate of clearance of hepatitis B virus with alpha interferon therapy was lower among patients who underwent lymphapheresis during therapy (48 percent) (p less than .01). Lymphapheresis performed before treatment did not seem to affect the outcome of interferon therapy. These findings were unexpected but have led us to avoid both plasmapheresis and lymphapheresis in patients receiving alpha interferon therapy. The reasons why lymphapheresis might interfere with a response to alpha interferon are to known, but probably relate to the importance of an intact, healthy immune system in the process of recovery from a chronic viral infection.
Fibroscan: Consecutive adult patients (ages 18 or older) with chronic liver disease who have had a liver biopsy performed within the previous 6 months or who are scheduled to undergo liver biopsy will be eligible for participation in this aspect of the study. Patients with liver biopsies that are inadequate for histological scoring or who have ascites will be excluded from this aspect of the study.
Genetic Analysis of Serum Samples: All adult subjects with a Hct of less than 30 and pediatric subjects with a Hct less than 26 will be excluded for phlebotomy that is necessary for isolation of DNA material from the blood cells. Inability to understand or sign informed consent will also exclude patients from this aspect of the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00001971
|Contact: Amy (Wen-Chun) Huang
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|Contact: T. Jake Liang, M.D.
|(301) 496-1721
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|T. Jake Liang, M.D.
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis D
Chronic Cholestatic Syndromes
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
Wilson's Disease
Liver Biopsy
Noncirrhotic Portal Hypertension
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JMH Creative necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 320 diseños de 67 diseñadores freelance.
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Please feel free to review my photos for inspiration.
I'm an internationally trained photographer who has worked on photo shoots in cities all over the world.
I am in love with Italy and the Italian culture. I spend most of my time currently shooting in the Meatpacking District of New York City. This district is a 20 square block, 24-hour neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan, flanked by Chelsea Market to the North and Gansevoort Street to the South.
Alongside the meatpacking plants - fashion designers, graphic designers, writers, architects, artists and photographers have created a destination for design, architecture, fashion, salons, beauty and luxury boutiques. Restaurants and nightlife venues create an up-all-night vibe about the neighborhood. I would like my brand to encapsulate this sense of style and modernism.
My target audience would be a young-hip-fashion-style crowd. Models. Actors. Think the brands (but not logos) of GQ and Vogue.
The logo should compliment my style of photos. I am not set on any particular style or color. Simple, chic, clear.
- No flowers or floral designs.
- Minimal simplistic styles preferred over busy and complicated
- Professional look
- Do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
We will be providing feedback three times daily on all submissions that are still in the running.
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Bears head coach Lovie Smith continues to thrive in his ninth year because his team does the ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Smith's scheme is not especially complex. He does a phenomenal job of coaching sound gap control, good tackling, and stripping the ball.
Since 2004 when Smith took over the Bears, Chicago leads the NFL in takeaways, third-down defense and red-zone defense. The beat goes on this season. Chicago entered Thanksgiving Week leading the league with 30 takeaways. The Bears are No. 2 in third-down defense and are tied for fourth in red-zone defense.
Smith remains an advocate of the Cover 2 scheme, with two deep safeties preventing big plays and the middle linebacker - Brian Urlacher - required to cover the deep middle of the field as well as stuffing the run. Cover 2 still is a key defense in the NFL. But many teams have played it less in recent years, partly because a dominant defensive line is required to prevent runs between the tackles.
Like Bills defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt, Smith puts a lot of pressure on his defensive linemen, asking them to be playmakers by attacking the line of scrimmage, getting into the backfield and wreaking havoc. The Bears have quality defensive ends in Julius Peppers and Israel Idonije and have one of the more underrated defensive tackles in the league in Henry Melton, a fourth-year player who is having his best season. Behind the front four, Smith has stud linebackers in Urlacher and Lance Briggs and one of the best cornerback tandems in the league in Charles Tillman and Tim Jennings.
No coach wins without talent. But Chicago's track record of creating turnovers is exceptional. The Bears have seven defensive touchdowns this season. The single-season record is 10 by Seattle in 1998. It's the coaching of Smith and his assistants that gets the Bears to play fast and strip the ball.
"You get labeled 'Cover 2' and everybody assumes we play Cover 2 every snap, and that's the furthest thing from the truth," Smith says. "We can play Cover 2 maybe a third of the time. I would say most people would want to play Cover 2 ... if you get teams in a passing situation, that's a good coverage. But we do a lot more than just that."
"And as far as our philosophy - I think when you have a philosophy you really believe in, you don't change and go to a different defense each week. You go with what you believe in, and that's what we do. Our defense is just based on relentless play, always getting 11 guys to the ball carrier on the football field, and good things are going to happen."
Former Bills safety Matt Bowen said he thought he was playing fast in the NFL until he joined the Rams defense coached by Smith. Then he found out what playing fast in practice every day really meant.
The Bears still keep a "loaf" chart, tracking every defensive player's full-speed effort on every play.
The Bears don't blitz a ton. Last year they rushed five or more men 17.9 percent of the time, which ranked 21st in the league, according to Footballoutsiders.com.
When Smith's defenses have struggled, it's because the front seven didn't stop the run well. In 2009, the Bears were 23rd against the run. Chicago finished 7-9. Ditto for the 7-9 season in 2007, when Chicago was 24th against the run.
This season the Bears are eighth against the run.
The Bears are tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead at 7-3. With an offense ranked third-worst in the league, Smith's defense is going to have to keep the turnovers coming for the Bears to beat out the Packers.
"We are just going to keep doing what we can do and keep playing hard and doing the ordinary things better than everybody else," Smith said earlier this season.
Graham shines
Buffalo's Corey Graham had the best game of his six-year career on national television for the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday. Graham, the Turner-Carroll and University of Maine product, was pressed into the Ravens' starting lineup against Pittsburgh because of injuries to cornerbacks Ladarius Webb and Jimmy Smith. Graham made big-impact plays throughout the Ravens' 13-10 victory.
Graham intercepted a Byron Leftwich pass in the third quarter and returned it 20 yards. That turnover set up a field goal that turned out to be the decisive points. Later in the third quarter, Graham broke up a first-down pass into the end zone for Jerricho Cotchery then forced an incompletion in the end zone on third down. He had eight tackles and three pass break-ups.
"That's what you want. You always want an opportunity to show what you got," Graham told the Baltimore Sun this week. "Over the last couple of years, I've been doing special teams, doing really well at it, and sometimes, you tend to get labeled as a special teamer. There's really nothing you can do about it. I feel like last year when I got an opportunity to play, I played nickel for three games with Chicago and I ended up with three interceptions in those three consecutive games. It just seems like I couldn't get over the hump. ... For some reason, it just seemed like Lovie Smith wanted me to be the guy on special teams. No matter what I did, that's what it came down to. ... I was just happy to get some new eyes to see me and get an opportunity to play."
Graham has played 87 games and started 12. He was a fifth-round pick of the Bears in 2007 and made the Pro Bowl as a special teamer in 2010. He signed a two-year, $3.7 million contract with Baltimore in March.
Starks healthy
James Starks, the Niagara Falls and University at Buffalo product, had his best game of the year last week for Green Bay, rushing for 74 yards on 25 carries in a 24-20 win over Detroit.
Starks is finally healthy after nursing a turf toe injury for almost three months. Starks started out strong, gaining 49 yards on his first 13 carries. Packers running backs coach Alex Van Pelt, the former Bill, acknowledged he rode Starks a little too hard in his first extensive outing.
"Yeah, it was asking a lot for him to carry the load like that," Van Pelt told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "He ran hard, played with good leg drive," Van Pelt said. "I thought even though he had a tackler with him he'd drive for an extra 3 or 4 yards."
The Packers live on the passing of Aaron Rodgers. They're 24th in the league in rushing. But if Starks can stay healthy down the stretch, the Green Bay offense will be harder to stop.
Tepid in Tampa
Tampa is a confounding sports market. The Bucs have won four straight games and are coming off a thrilling comeback win at Carolina. They face the 9-1 Atlanta Falcons today. Yet the team could not sell enough tickets to reach the 85 percent threshold of non-premium tickets sold, and the game will be blacked out of local television. That makes 18 of the last 21 Bucs home games that have been blacked out. The Bucs reduced prices on 80 percent of the seats this season and offered a 12-month payment option for season tickets.
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*Oakland QB Carson Palmer returns to Cincinnati today, two years after forcing his way out of the Queen City by holding out and waiting for Bengals owner Mike Brown to trade him.
"Just a culmination of things," Palmer said of his desire to leave Cincinnati. "Some things that I had learned that ownership ... just some things that built up over time, and it was just time for a change."
Palmer refused to specifically elaborate but added: "I have seen guys, run into guys back in San Diego, talked, texted ... I think that anybody that's ever played for that ownership knows what I was doing and why I was doing it."
*The Nielsen market research company announced the results of a poll that asked Americans who they would most like to invite to Thanksgiving dinner. The winner? Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow. He beat out President Obama, Big Bird and Lady Gaga.
*Buddy Nix made a good evaluation in not re-signing Demetress Bell. He has scored a negative grade in six of seven games he has played for the Eagles. Philadelphia benched him in favor of rookie Dennis Kelly for last week's game against the Redskins. The Eagles rank 27th in sacks allowed per pass attempt.
*Another offensive lineman discarded by the Bills, Jonathan Scott, moves back into the starting lineup for Chicago this week. Scott takes over for Gabe Carimi at right tackle, while Chris Spencer has replaced Chilo Rachal at left guard. The O-line shakeup comes with the Bears ranking 30th in sacks allowed.?
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My Path to Home Performance Contracting
A version of this article appears in the Home Performance Special Issue 2006 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
April 16, 2006
Home performance contracting is a new, exciting, and growing industry. By aligning our company, EnTherm, Incorporated, with this industry, as we did in 2001, we have been able to grow our business steadily and profitably—indeed, our business has doubled over the last four years. EnTherm, Incorporated, which is based in Syracuse, New York, started out as an insulation contracting company in 1980. Over the next two decades, we took small steps to broaden the services we offered. But it wasn't until 2001, when we elected to participate in the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA)-sponsored Home Performance with Energy Star program, that we made the full transition to home performance contracting.While the program's marketing, training, and financing assistance eased our transition, our experience contains some general principles that can serve to shortcut the process of starting and running a successful home performance contracting business.
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As any photographer will know, regardless of what equipment they possess, or the quality of their technique, camera-derived art is as much based on post-capture processing, as it is on the pressing of a shutter button and all that leads up to it. The iPhone was one of the first devices truly to combine these two halves of image-making into one package, and as a result, iOS is blessed with both good variety and good quality in the image editing department.
Sadly, many of these fine apps don't make it onto the iPad, or at least not in a format optimized for the larger screen. This is, of course, because few iPad owners use their tablets for anything other than posterity snaps. But as a keen photographer myself, I'm often left wishing that I could utilize that large ten-inch expanse for some editing; let us not forget that Apple, themselves, manufacture a Camera Connection Kit to facilitate the uploading of externally-taken images.
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Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Below are some of the major metacrawlers. Also see the Search Toolbars & Utilities page for metacrawler-style software that you can run from your desktop.
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Award Winners – Other Choices – Specialty Choices
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Award Winners
Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Winner of Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch for 2003. (Review: Dogpile Sports a Fetching New Look, SearchDay, Sept. 2, 2003. Updates: Dogpile Enhances Search Results Search Engine Watch Blog, Nov. 10, 2004 – Dogpile Adds New Features Search Engine Watch Blog, Jan. 18, 2005 )
Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Slick and easy to use. Vivisimo won second place for Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards and winner in 2002. (Review: Power Searching with Vivisimo, SearchDay, July 8, 2003)
If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
Founded in 1996, Mamma.com is one of the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites. The service also provides a paid listings option for advertisers, Mamma Classifieds. Mamma was an honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards.
Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use. Honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
Other Top Choices
Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results. Clusty allows you to use Vivisimo's dynamic clustering technology on ten different types of web content including material from the web, image, weblog and shopping databases. You can access each type of search by simply clicking a tab directly above the search box. (Review: Reducing Information Overkill, SearchDay, Sept. 30, 2004).
Meta search engine for the US and several European countries, as well as in various subject areas. Has ability to save your results for easy rerunning at a future point.
Formerly a crawled-based search engine, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but maintains its own portal features.
Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories. Formerly called SearchOnline.
Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results. Its most useful feature is an advanced search form that allows you to limit your search to a specific country.
Meta search engine with thumbnail displays. The Quick View display, similar to what WiseNut has long offered, is cool. The service queries WiseNut, Yahoo, Teoma and then somewhat repetitively also includes Yahoo-powered MSN, AltaVista and AllTheWeb. Disclosure of search sources within the actual search results is not done, sadly. Makes it hard to know exactly where the results are coming from.
Info.com provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Kanoodle, LookSmart, About, Overture and Open Directory. Also offers shopping, news, eBay, audio and video search, as well as a number of other interesting features. (Review: New Metasearch Engine: Info.com Search Engine Watch Blog, Oct. 18, 2004)
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered.
Infonetware RealTerm Search
This site is primarily designed to demonstrate classification technology from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine, and it does topical classification of results, like Vivisimo. However, it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then "drill down" to see results from all of them, rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic.
http://www.ithaki.net/Ithaki is probably the most "global" of all meta search engines, available in 14 languages and offering more than 35 different categories for limiting your search. In addition, Ithaki offers country specific search, querying only local search engines rather than the regional versions of the major search engines. –>
Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines.
iZito is a meta search engine with a clever feature. Click on any listing you are interested in using the P icon next to the listing title. That "parks" the listing into your to do list. Click on the P tab, and you can see all the pages you've culled. It's an easy, handy way to make a custom result set. Also interesting is the ability to show listings in up to three columns across the screen, letting you see more results at once. (Review: iZito & Ujiko: Meta Search With Personality Search Engine Watch Blog, Sept. 29, 2004)
This search result comparison tool is cool. It allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one of them next. The small overlap visual tool displayed is great. I used to make examples like this to explain search engine overlap and why one search engine may not cover everything. Now I have an easy dynamic way to do this. The stats link at the bottom of the home page provides more visuals. (Update: Jux2 Adds New Features, Search Engine Watch Blog, Oct. 13, 2004)
Meta search with the ability to create an "exclusion list" to block pages from particular web sites being included. For example, want to meta search only against .org sites? French version also offered.
One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington. MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, an online content provider, in Feb. 97.
Search against several major search engines and paid listings services. Offers a nice option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed.
Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as "Invisible Web" resources. Formerly based at the University of Kansas, the site was purchased by search company Intelliseek in April 2000.
Query Server
Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search services.
Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. (Review: Make way for the contender to Google's crown, The Register, May 30, 2003)
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. Search.com absorbed SavvySearch in October 1999. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University.
From the makers of visual meta search tool KartOO, this is a really slick service to try. Do your search, then scroll through the list. See something bad? Click the trash can icon, and the listing goes away. It's a great way to prune your results — even better would have been if everything trashed brought up something new to look at. That would be a help for those who simply refuse to go past the first page of results.
See something you like? Click the heart icon and you can rate the listing. This information is memorized, to help ensure the sites you choose to better in future searches. Unlike KartOO, Ujiko uses results from only one search engine: Yahoo. It also offers many more features I haven't even yet explored, but you can learn more about them here: http://www.ujiko.com/en_htm/. Gary Price also gives a rundown here: http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_04_01_resourceshelf_archive.html. The only downside? Flash is required.
Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface.
Provides a variety of ways to sort the results retrieved, plus provides interesting visualization tools and other features. (Review: ZapMeta: A Promising New Meta Search Engine, Feb. 26, 2004)
Specialty Choices
The metacrawlers listed below let you meta search in specific subject areas.
Family Friendly Search
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines.
Meta search service for licensed and commercially available digital media downloads including music, movies, music videos, ringtones, mobile games and PC games, searching over 12 million media files. (Review: GoFish Multimedia Shopping Search: IceRocket Deal & Closer Look, Search Engine Watch Blog, Feb. 4, 2005)
Searches 15 U.K. engines. The advanced search form allows you to change the order that results are presented, either by speed or manually to suit your own preferences.
Watson for the Macintosh
Watson is a "Swiss Army Knife" with nineteen interfaces to web content and services — an improvement on Sherlock, with nearly twice as many tools, including Google Searching.
All-In-One Search Pages
Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search pages do not send your query to many search engines at the same time. Instead, they generally list a wide-variety of search engines and allow you to search at your choice without having to go directly to that search engine.
Google Versus Yahoo Tool
See visually how results compare on Google versus Yahoo.
One Page MultiSearch Engines
Clean interface lets you query major services from one page.
Lets you easily send your search to one of several search engines. It also has links to search engine help pages.
Queryster lets you quickly get results from one of several major search engines, simply by clicking an icon. (Review: A Fun Multi-Search Tool, Feb. 23, 2004)
Select your search engines from the many choices offered. The results will all appear within one page, side-by-side. It's a great way to compare results, though a bit hard to read with more than two search engines selected.
Meta Search Articles
For other articles and older reviews, also see the Search Engine Reviews page.
Meta Search Engines are Back
SearchDay, Dec. 4, 2003
It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored their usefulness as worthy search tools.
Meta Search Engines: An Introduction
SearchDay, September 16, 2002
This week, SearchDay focuses on the world of meta search engines, looking under the hood at how they work and profiling the major players and their offerings
The Big Four Meta Search Engines
SearchDay, September 17, 2002
Though there are dozens of useful meta search engines, InfoSpace is the industry gorilla, operating the four arguably best known and most heavily used properties.
The Best and Most Popular Meta Search Engines
SearchDay, September 18, 2002
Meta search engines look pretty much the same up front, but their approach to presenting results varies widely. Here's a list of Search Engine Watch's pick of the best and most popular metas for searching the web.
A Meta Search Engine Roundup
SearchDay, September 19, 2002
Completing our roundup of meta search engines, this list focuses on services that are competent and in many cases worthy of a look, but don't meet all of our evaluation criteria.
Meta Search Or Meta Ads?
The Search Engine Report, June 4, 2001
A review of meta search services by Search Engine Watch shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service.
Looking for more articles and reviews of meta search engines? See the Meta Search category of the Search Topics section of Search Engine Watch available to Search Engine Watch members.
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This is as much for me to have a record as it is for anyone else. This is info off of the Gen 3 3SGE.
Valve bucket diameter 31mm (Shim under)
1ZZ buckets are also 31mm (Shimless)
Stock rod + cap, nut, stud weights in at ~746g
Eagle 3SGTE rod weighs in at 555g
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We've got the killer's DNA
And you know what that means—
We're going to look for evil
In some broken set of genes
We're on a search for evil's cause
And here's an added plus:
We're looking for an answer
That will distance him from us.
So, yeah, I'm behind the others on this (the Cuttlekids are still here, so I'm having fun in meatspace), but it seems there will be a search for answers in a place pretty much guaranteed to find something utterly meaningless and useless… which is exactly what is wanted.
You already know I think most of the public hypothesizing has been an exercise in self-protective othering; we see a monster who looks remarkably like us, and need to distance ourselves from him. Whether we blame the removal of prayer from classrooms (good people like us who want prayer would never have the sort of evil in our souls that could cause behavior like this), mental illness (the outsider label of choice for centuries), or an unfortunate genetic predisposition (it's not his fault; he's just different from us normal folk), we are pursuing an explanation that allows us to look for blame rather than cause.
There are abundant causes we can point to in the environment–but those are things that apply to the rest of us, as well as the killers that make the headlines. Mind you, most killers don't make the headlines. We usually kill people by ones and twos, and hardly ever make the national news. Chicago, today, hit 500 homicides (oops–499 and counting); New York is on track for a 400-homicide year. We know that New England has the lowest regional rate of murder, and that the South has (by far) the highest. This is not a genetic difference, this is a difference of cultures, of economics, of education. But these are differences we could actually look at meaningfully, with an eye toward making changes. Maybe that's why we're looking at genes instead.
Far better to have something that we cannot change, that allows us to blame someone else, than to find something we *can* change if we accept that there are no monsters, just people like ourselves, and that it's normal people, not monsters, who are killing one another by the thousands every year.


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Two questions left over from a recent chat got me thinking again about people's fixation with the home-mortgage deduction.
Understandably, around tax time, people wonder if they're getting all the deductions and credits they are entitled to. One of the most coveted tax breaks is on mortgage interest. So revered is this deduction that some folks who have the money to pay off their mortgages struggle over whether it makes sense to be debt-free. Here's an example:
Q: I have enough money in savings to pay off my mortgage in full and still have a cushion for emergencies. The money in the savings account earns far less than the interest rate on the mortgage. People are telling me that paying off the mortgage will negatively affect my taxes since I will no longer have that deduction. But it seems to me that I only get a benefit of a portion of the money I pay out for the interest. I can live within my means without the mortgage payment, and I do not live large (no cable, no cellphone, etc.), but I can't with it. It is important to me to max out my retirement savings/401(k), and that takes up a chunk of my paycheck. By the way, I'm single with no kids and in my 50s. What do you think?
Singletary: I know I'll get letters from people who will disagree with me, but I say go for being debt-free — with a caveat.
If you itemize your tax return, you can usually deduct the interest you pay on a mortgage for your main home. The mortgage-interest deduction is different from a tax credit, a distinction that is sometimes lost on people trumpeting the tax break as a key reason to get a home or keep a mortgage. A tax credit reduces dollar-for-dollar the taxes you owe. A deduction eliminates only a percentage of the tax. If you don't have a mortgage, you may pay more in taxes but not as much as you would have to pay in annual interest on the home loan, especially in the beginning years. You are right on the money to appreciate how illogical it is to keep a mortgage just for the tax break.
Because of the mortgage-interest deduction, many people are enticed into buying a home before they are ready. Yes, the deduction is a nice bonus. But it shouldn't be the primary reason to get a home or to hold on to the loan if you can afford to pay it off early. By the way, many people don't even take the deduction. "Close to half of homeowners with mortgages — most of them middle- and lower-income families — receive no benefit from the deduction," writes the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Here's my caveat about paying off your mortgage. Be careful about getting rid of your savings in the current economy. Really think about whether you are vulnerable to losing your job, because if it takes you a long time to find employment, or you can't work because of health reasons, you could easily go through your emergency fund. I don't suggest you clean out your savings or sell all your investments to pay off your mortgage. You don't want to be house rich and cash poor, meaning all your money is locked into the equity in your home — equity, I might add, that you can tap only by borrowing on your home or selling it.
But since you have a good emergency fund and retirement savings, and you can still pay off your mortgage with money outside those two pots, I would do it.
I often ask people this question: If you had a home that was paid off, would you take out a loan just so you could deduct the interest?
I hope you would say, "Absolutely not, that's crazy."
Q: My mother is turning 57 and is thinking about buying a house. She's been renting for more than eight years, and from what I can tell the costs really add up. I think that it's a good — and financially savvy — move tax-wise. I still think it's a good investment and probably cheaper than continuing to rent for years down the road. What do you think?
Singletary: The tax advantage of buying a home shouldn't be front and center when considering if it's prudent to buy a home, whether you're 27 or 57. In this case, your mother should factor in when she wants to retire and whether her retirement income can handle a mortgage. She might qualify for a mortgage with her current income, but she's nearing the typical retirement years. She needs to ask herself a lot of other questions and make sure she can afford a mortgage based not just on the monthly payment. There are a lot of other costs and issues associated with homeownership.
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Hugo Weaving's been busy recently doing interviews for Cloud Atlas, but of course, it's hard for an actor who's appeared in so many popular franchises not to wind up talking about one of those roles as well. And though you probably remember him best as Agent Smith in The Matrix, Elrond in The Lord of the Rings or Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, he also lent his voice to Megatron in the Transformers films-- and that's the role that's now got him in trouble with one of his previous directors.
After Weaving called his work as Megatron "meaningless," pointing out to Collider that he never met Michael Bay and that he never read the script, Bay struck back in his inimitable, vaguely childish way. On his own website Bay doesn't actually name Weaving-- and for some reason cites The Hollywood Reporter in this fracas-- but it's pretty clear who he's talking about. You can read his mini-rant below:
Do you ever get sick of actors that make $15 million a picture, or even $200,000 for voiceover work that took a brisk one hour and 43 minutes to complete, and then complain about their jobs? With all the problems facing our world today, do these grumbling thespians really think people reading the news actually care about trivial complaints that their job wasn't "artistic enough" or "fulfilling enough"? I guess The Hollywood Reporter thinks so.
On some level, sure, Michael Bay is right-- actors have pretty cushy jobs, and any complaining they do ought to be taken with a massive grain of salt and recognition that they're doing OK. But that's not really what Weaving was doing here. He was stating some basic facts about a voiceover job that didn't challenge him that much and wasn't that meaningful-- and realizing he never met the director, you can't really blame him for feeling that way. Weaving isn't saying he did a bad job, or that he's not grateful for the paycheck, or even that the movies are bad. He's just admitting he wasn't especially engaged with it. Have any of us really not felt that way about our jobs at some point?
Even though Hugo Weaving has been in some of the biggest movies of all time, he's still a working actor who needs to take jobs-- and I"m not going to begrudge him taking one gig in a huge movie that he didn't care about 100%. Michael Bay may be the "wronged" director in this situation, but it's pretty hard to imagine taking his side.


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For decades, Jack Daniel's whiskey has celebrated its small Tennessee hometown of Lynchburg with folksy, black-and-white advertisements urging folks to slow down and have a sip.
Now local officials want the maker of the world's top-selling whiskey to pay a bigger bar tab as they struggle with their budget. How does up to $US5 million ($A4.90 million) sound?
A measure approved by the Moore County Council asks the Tennessee legislature to authorize a local referendum on whether the distillery should pay that much in new taxes on the 500,000 barrels it fills with whiskey each year.
The 145-year-old distillery, tucked away on 1,700 hilly acres down the road from Lynchburg's quaint town square, now pays $1.5 million in local property taxes.
If the barrel tax is approved, it would be a huge help to the local government, whose annual budget is $3 million and would get every last drop, so to speak, of the money.
Distillery officials say they already do their civic and fiscal duty.
"We're paying our part, our fair share," said Tom Beam, senior vice president and general manager of production at the facility.
He said the distillery has already helped the area in several ways, including assisting with renovations at the courthouse and a swimming pool.
"We operate as a partner with the county," he said.
He worries that such a law would be a terrible precedent for other businesses in the state.
"Other counties could try to do the same thing, attacking businesses. It could be a job killer," he said.
Nevertheless, supporters of the referendum say Jack Daniel's still owes more.
"Lynchburg and the people of Moore County have been involved in the success of the Jack Daniel's brand; the value of the brand worldwide is due in no small measure because they have marketed our town and people successfully," said Charles Rogers, who has led the campaign for the new tax.
The town and Jack Daniel's brand are entwined like few other products. The iconic black-and-white label of Jack's "Old No. 7" whiskey even lists Lynchburg's population.
The bottle says 361, but the town and county really have about 6,400 people. Ten million cases of the sour mash whiskey, led by Old. No. 7, are sold worldwide every year.
"They owe something back to the county," said Rogers, a Lynchburg native and retired executive with the Chrysler Corp.
For those with thirsty throats fearing a retail price increase if the proposal passes, corporate officials would not speculate. But Beam offered this sobering thought: "We'd be out several million dollars a year. We'd have to look to save money."
The proposal will go to the General Assembly early next year. If authorized there, the referendum in the county could be held as early as next November.
Rogers believes it will be a spirited fight in the legislature, but if authorized there: "I feel pretty certain it would pass (locally)."
State Rep. Debra Maggart, chairwoman of the Republican majority in the Tennessee House of Representatives, agrees the proposal will face opposition in the legislature, where anti-tax sentiment is strong in her party.
"No taxes will be raised on our job creators," she predicted.
The Tennessean newspaper reports that the distillery's owner, Brown-Forman Corp., is ready to make political contributions as a possible fight looms: The company's political action committee has $278,000 heading into the 2012 elections.
About 210,000 people visit the distillery annually, making it a top tourist draw in Tennessee.
With 450 employees, it's the biggest industry in the county. According to Brown-Forman, Jack Daniel's brands had an 8 per cent gain in net sales for the full year ending April 30. The company's net sales for fiscal 2011 were more than $3.4 billion.
Rogers, who moved back to Lynchburg after a career in corporate work, said he has nothing personal against the whiskey.
"I never was a heavy drinker, but I liked Jack Daniel's when I had a drink," he said. "I was a good customer."


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Working my way backwards…
A summary of articles from February 15th to 28th on Washington wine. February 8th through 14th to follow.
From around the country…
Wine Spectator writes about recent efforts to ease restrictions on wine sales.
The San Francisco Chronicle writes about college winemaking efforts including Walla Walla Community College.
The Vancouver Voice writes about southwest Washington wineries.
The Stamford Times writes about Washington wine with callouts to Amavi, Andrew Will, Columbia Crest, and Ch. Ste. Michelle.
From the blogosphere…
Paul at Swordfern Wines takes a look at McCrea's 2006 Syrah, JLC's Spofford Station Syrah 2004, Betz' 1999 Clos de Betz, and L'Ecole's 2005 Columbia Valley Syrah. Swordfern also writes about the logic of the winery mailing list and the dilemma it can pose to the wine buyer.
Write for Wine writes about the upcoming Woodinville Passport. They also write about an Alexandria Nicole release event.
Boise Food Guild writes about Walla Walla's Saffron.
Through the Walla Walla Grapevine writes about Thirsty Pagans.
Wine Press NW writes about the Grand Harvest Awards.
Full Pour checks out Bunchgrass' 2003 Founder's Blend.
Seattle Wine Blog writes about the Taste of Washington in Phoenix.
Wine Peeps tries some Washington red blends and also writes about the Snipes Mountain AVA.
Beyond the Bottle takes a look at Mannina Cellars 2006 Sangiovese.
Travel with Terry writes about Cave B.
Wine Muse writes about Betz and Darby's Dark Side.
The 89 Project writes about Washington Riesling.
Wild 4 Washington Wine writes about the 2006 Boomtown Syrah.
Doug and Josh at Wino do a taste off.
From the locals…
Spokane's Spokesman writes about Precept Brands.
Paul Gregutt writes about Petit Syrah.
The Bellingham Herald writes about the recent increase in malbec bottling in Washington.
Washington Wine Round-up - February 15th to 28th
Working my way backwards…
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LB in WW Says:
Hi Sean,
Saffron is alive and well in Walla Walla. The blog mentioned above shared an email sent out by Island and Chris thanking so many people for their success...it wasn't a notice of passing. Saffron continues to be a little bit of good news on the recently sad Walla Walla restaurant beat, let's hope they are around for a long, long time.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
I am very glad to hear this as I was under the mistaken impression that Saffron was among the restaurants in Walla Walla that have recently closed. I have updated the post accordingly. Many thanks.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI promised his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor in his final words to cardinals Thursday, a poignant and powerful farewell delivered hours before he becomes the first pope in 600 years to resign.
In an unexpected speech inside the Vatican's frescoed Clementine Hall, the pontiff appeared to be trying to defuse concerns about possible conflicts arising from the peculiar situation of having both a reigning pope and a retired one.
He also gave a final set of instructions to the "princes" of the church who will elect his successor, urging them to be united as they huddle to choose the 266th leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
"May the College of Cardinals work like an orchestra, where diversity — an expression of the universal church — always works toward a higher and harmonious agreement," he said.
It was seen as a clear reference to the deep internal divisions that have come to the fore in recent months following the leaks of sensitive Vatican documents that exposed power struggles and allegations of corruption inside the Vatican.
The moment was as unique as Benedict's decision to quit, with the 85-year-old pope, wearing his crimson velvet cape and using a cane, bidding farewell to his closest advisers and the cardinals themselves bowing to kiss his fisherman's ring for the last time.
Some seemed to choke up at that moment, but the scene seemed otherwise almost normal, with cardinals chatting on the sidelines waiting their turn to say goodbye.
Benedict said he would pray for the cardinals in coming days as they discuss the issues facing the church, the qualities needed in a new pope and prepare to enter into the secret conclave to elect him.
"Among you is also the future pope, whom I today promise my unconditional reverence and obedience," Benedict said in his final audience.
Benedict's decision to live at the Vatican in retirement, be called "emeritus pope" and "Your Holiness" and to wear the white cassock associated with the papacy has deepened concerns about the shadow he might cast over the next papacy.
But Benedict has tried to address those worries over the past two weeks, saying that once retired he would be "hidden from the world" and living a life of prayer.
In his final speech in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, he said he wasn't returning to private life exactly, but rather to a new form of service to the church through prayer.
Shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, Benedict will leave the palace for the last time as pontiff, head to the helipad at the top of the hill in the Vatican gardens and fly to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.
There, at 8 p.m. sharp, Benedict will become the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. The doors of the palazzo will shut and the Swiss Guards will go off duty, their service protecting the head of the Catholic Church over — for now.
And on Monday, the cardinals are expected to begin meeting to set the date for the conclave.
Benedict's decision has been met for the most part with praise and understanding. Cardinals, Vatican officials and ordinary Catholics have rallied around him in acknowledgment of his frail state and the church's need for a strong leader.
But Sydney Cardinal George Pell has caused a stir by openly saying the resignation has been "slightly destabilizing" for the church.
In an interview with Australia's ABC radio, Pell noted that Benedict himself had acknowledged the shift in tradition; Benedict said Wednesday that he appreciated his decision was not only serious but "a novelty" for the church.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI promised his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor in his final words to cardinals Thursday, a poignant and powerful farewell delivered hours before he becomes the first pope in 600 years to resign.


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BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Jovanka Broz, widow of late Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, was buried next to her husband Saturday in a ceremony attended by veterans of World War II.
While Serbian President Ivica Dacic gave a eulogy and Broz was buried with military honors, there was no religious service and no flag on the coffin, the Serbian news agency Tanjug reported.
Broz was honored as a veteran who joined the Yugoslav partisans at the age of 16 in 1941 and remembered as a woman who was targeted by political enemies in the last year's of Tito's life and the period immediately after his death in 1980.
"She was the victim of a political showdown and fight for power," Dacic said. "When I delivered to her the passport and the ID card several years ago, she said that she would not travel anywhere, but that for her, the documents represent a proof of existence."
Broz, 89 when she died on Sunday, was under house arrest for a period after Tito's death before the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. She lived quietly for the rest of her life.
She held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Yugoslav People's Army and had been decorated for bravery.
The honor guard was from the 6th Lika Division, in which Broz served during World War II and she was placed in her tomb to the strains of the Partisan anthem "Bella Ciao." Some of the mourners wore red star caps or carried Yugoslav flags and pictures of Tito and Broz.


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While the current situation for American Airlines' ground-based workers can best be described as turbulent, it appears to be full steam ahead with plans for the airlines' flight attendants, who are set to be equipped with Galaxy Note devices in the coming months.
And we're not talking about a small rollout of just a few hundred smartphone/tablets (OK, let's just go with 'phablet' here) for senior members of the cabin crew, no, no, no. Management is planning to equip all 17,000 of its flight attendants with the device by the middle of next year.
Commenting on the program in a press release, American's vice president of flight service, Lauri Curtis, said, "This is a huge step towards a new, modern American Airlines, as our tablet program is the first of its kind in the airline industry, where our flight attendants will have the most up-to-date customer information in the palms of their hands, allowing them to better serve our customers from boarding to deplaning."
American said the phablets will offer quick and easy access to passenger information such as names, seat numbers, food and drink preferences, and loyalty program status. It will also flag up anyone requiring special assistance.
The Note, made by Korean tech giant Samsung, will also be able to provide passengers with the latest information regarding flight connections, flight delays and weather at the destination. However, this service is pending FAA approval as in-flight Wi-Fi will be used to get the latest updates.
Over time, the flight attendant manual will also be added to the device, enabling the airline to do away with the heavy paper-based manual, a move American describes as "a more fuel efficient and environmentally-friendly approach."
The airline said it spent months testing various devices before finally settling on the Galaxy Note. Flight attendants reportedly liked the device for its thin, portable design, which made it easy to handle. In its press release, the airline refers to the phablet's 5.3-inch screen, suggesting it has opted for the first-generation device rather than the soon-to-launch follow-up, which has a slightly bigger display.
Pilots working for American are also getting to grips with a mobile device, though their one is made not by Samsung but by its main rival, Apple. Pilots are using the iPad in place of the usual paper-based electronic flight bag, a bulky manual containing a slew of reference materials and other information.
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Usher Gives Pharrell Williams Some Competition with Coonskin Hat
The hat wars are on. As Pharrell's famous Vivienne Westwood "mountain" hat continues to gain bids on eBay (the highest bid is at $14,500), Usher is on a mission to up the crazy hat game. The singer was recently spotted proudly wearing a furry, coonskin cap.
"Hats off to U. #howurockit," Usher shared on Instagram as the caption to a photo of himself wearing the new accessory. Selfies are obviously in season.
Not only is the singer wearing the new hat on social media — he posed for flicks with Chris Brown and Rick Ross while donning his cold weather fashion — Usher was also spotted rocking the hat on the streets of New York while doing promo for 'The Voice' as well as at L.A.X. airport.
Usually coonskin hats are made by using the skin and fur of a raccoon. PETA might just go after the 'Looking 4 Myself' creator if it is made from animal skin. Hopefully, Usher is wearing a fake fur piece.
Who do you think is killing the hat game — Usher or Pharrell? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.


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Chins and cryptosporidium
I am writing in hopes of asking the vet a question.
I m wondering about chins and cryptosporidium.
Any information they can give on the subject would be great!
From everything that I have read about cryptosporidium in chins, it is an opportunistic infection that usually is diagnosed secondary to something else going on. Usually, if it is a herd problem, there is something wrong with the husbandry such as feed, air quality, temperature, etc. If it is an individual animal diagnosis, then there is probably another primary disease occurring in that animal or it can be from just plain old stress.
Most of the common cases of crypto are with pet store chins and I think this is caused by what we term "shipping fever" which is really any disease that would normally be cured by a healthy animal's immune system, but the body doesn't respond the way it should because of stress on the systems.
It can be treated with an antibiotic called Metronidazole (I know this well because my very good friend contracted crypto in vet school from doing necropsies on sick cows - yuck!). You have to be careful with Metronidazole in chins though because toxicity can occur. Azithromycin is used in rabbits, but I have never used it in a chin. Steam cleaning the environment is a good way to clear it, but there are also some disinfectants that are approved - I just can't remember them right now...
Let me know if there are any other specific questions about cryptosporidium. Oh - the other thing, no reports of chins transmitting crypto to people (unlike cows) so no one should worry about that!
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