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Shasta County Real Estate
Shasta County is located at the north end of the Central Valley on Interstate 5, approximately 150 miles north of Sacramento and 100 miles south of the Oregon border. This prime setting is surrounded by mountain ranges, lakes, outdoor activities, and wildlife.
Approximately 75% of Shasta County consists of national forest and park lands, which provide endless entertainment. Shasta Dam, an engineering marvel, was completed in 1945 and created Shasta Lake, which offers an incredible 370 miles of pristine shoreline. Whiskeytown Dam was dedicated in the summer of 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, and resulted in a sailing paradise.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park is the result of a vision by philanthropists Carl and Leah McConnell. This extensive exhibit proudly sits on the Sacramento River and serves to educate visitors using unique cultural, historical, and natural resources. The crown jewel of this venue is the Sundial Bridge, which links the north and south campuses, and has allowed for the extension of the popular Sacramento River Trail.
Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen, and the Western Range dominate the Northern California skyline and offer a wealth of recreational opportunities. These outdoor activities include hiking, camping, mountain climbing, kayaking, fishing, snow skiing, and water skiing, just to name a few.
Kool April Nights, a classic car show, has been held the third weekend in April for the last 22 years, and draws thousands of car enthusiasts from all over the country.
Put simply, Shasta County has it all. Let us help you find the perfect Shasta County home for sale!
Sources: City of Redding Website and Shasta County Website
If you're in the market for Shasta County Homes for Sale, we invite you to contact us at Coldwell Banker C&C Properties today. We're here to help!
Shasta County Real Estate
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December 30, 1952 - November 24, 2012
Parksville, NY
Mary C. Ragel, of Parksville, passed away on Saturday November 24, 2012 at her home. She was 59.
The daughter of Jose Ragel and Vicenta Rivera, she was born on December 30, 1952 in Brooklyn, NY.
She leaves to cherish her memories her mother, Victoria Rivera of Liberty; her companion, William Stinson at home; son, Thomas L. Young of Parksville; daughters, Giah D. Young of Parksville and Sunsoree Young of Claryville; brothers, Edgar Ragel and his wife, Edie of New Jersey and John Hernandez of Arizona; grandchildren: Michael, Kaylee, Lugan and Caiden and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father, Jose Ragel and two brothers, Luis and Patrick.
Friends may call on Tuesday, November 27 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Ramsay's Funeral Home, 275 S. Main St., Liberty, NY. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 28 at 11 a.m. at Ramsay's Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions can be made in Mary's name to Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties, 800 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY 12550.
For directions or to send the family a condolence, please visit www.ramsaysfuneralhome.com.

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- Page 1 Grid10 Review
- Page 2 GridOS Review
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £259.00
- 1366 x 768 resolution screen
- Grid OS
- 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor
Being different is generally a good thing, but being
different for difference's sake is pointless. And this is a distinction that the
CEO of Fusion Garage is well aware of.
"It's different and it's usable, I think that is critical,"
Chandra Rathakrishnan told us at a one-on-one briefing about the new Grid10
tablet, which uses the proprietary Grid10 operating system.
In a world of iPads, identikit Android tablets and
opportunities}, something different is always welcome. While the Grid
is built on the Android Kernel, it could not look much more different
from the
Honeycomb interface we are now so used to.
The tablet itself has a 10.1in screen with a widescreen 16:9 ratio
that will also help it stand out in the tablet market. It uses a 1366×768 pixel panel, where most Android tablets have 1280×800 pixel screens. The tablet measures 274 x 173 x 14mm and weighs 680g.
While it is certainly not the slimmest of tablets, it
doesn't feel that much thicker in the hand that tablets like the super slim
Galaxy Tab 10.1, thanks to its curved back. This also makes it easy to hold in
one hand in either portrait or landscape orientation.
Fusion Garage claims that the TFT screen has the
highest resolution of any 10.1in tablet on the market and at 1366 x 768 pixels this certainly seems to be the case. However, from our brief time with the tablet, the screen was
not the best, comparing unfavourably to the bright and vivid screens seen on the iPad or the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It
was also incredibly glossy and attracted fingerprints very easily.
The viewing angles were decent on three of the four sides
but poor on the fourth, a fact Chandra readily accepted – adding that this
would help you keep prying eyes off your screen. The screen is surrounded by a
rather large bezel which certainly took away from the overall sleek look of the
There are no physical buttons on the face of the screen and
the only button to be found anywhere on the device was a small circular power
button on one end.
In fact there was very little to break the smooth lines of
the Grid10 with the only ports bring a microSD card (up to 64GB), 3G port
(under a plastic flap) and a dock/charging connector. No HDMI or USB ports, then,
but these can be 'added' by using an adapter connected to the docking port.
The back of the Grid 10 has a grey matt finish with a metal Grid10 logo in the centre. There is no camera to break up the lines,
but this is something we don't feel is a major problem on a tablet, where
taking pictures is not really something we want to use it for. There is however a 1.3 megapixel
front-facing camera for video calling.
Unlike other sites, we thoroughly test every product we review. We use industry standard tests in order to compare features properly. We'll always tell you what we find. We never, ever accept money to review a product. Tell us what you think - send your emails to the Editor.


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Mideast experts to discuss Israeli election prospects
Crown and Schusterman Centers sponsoring panel Jan. 16
With much of their neighborhood in turmoil, Israeli voters are about to elect their next government.
The campaign, which ends with the January 22 balloting, has not attracted much attention in the Western media, perhaps because of the widely held assumption from the outset that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would triumph easily.
Netanyahu is still expected to form the next government, but some surprises have occurred, particularly the emergence of a charismatic former aide to Netanyahu who is well to the Right of the prime minister and, according to recent public opinion surveys, is drawing strength away from Netanyahu's center-Right coalition.
This and other developments have set off broad speculation about whether Netanyahu will move to the Right or the center in forming the next government.
A panel of Brandeis experts and guests will discuss the campaign and potential impacts of the results on Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the West at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in Rapaporte Treasure Hall.
The event is sponsored by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. It will be moderated by Schusterman Center Director Ilan Troen, the Stoll family Chair in Israel Studies.
Panelists are Professor of Politics Shai Feldman, the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center; Dr. Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow, the American Task Force on Palestine and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership; and Dr. Yehudah Mirsky, Associate Professor of the Practice of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis.
Feldman likened recent developments on Netanyahu's political Right to the changes that have shaken the Republican party, where Tea Party activists have replaced more moderate conservatives like Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar.
The fragmentation in the political center and Left and the greater organization and commitment of the Right seem to assure a Right-wing majority, he said, but a government of the Right would place Netanyahu and Likud oddly as the most moderate element in the coalition.
Troen said the discussion would "explore the current moment and try to give some sense what we might expect – the prospects for Israel and the implications for the Palestinians, for the Arab world and for the West in general.
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Confirmation of your race entry will be e-mailed to you once payment has been processed. Printed confirmation or photo id is required at the race package pick-up. If you have not received the email after 20 minutes of registering, please check your junk mail folders as it may not have gone through depending on your spam folder settings.
Yes. The Scotiabank Calgary Marathon is a registered AIMS Marathon, certified by Athletics Canada - which makes it a Boston Qualifier.
For more details on qualifying visit www.bostonmarathon.com
Roughly 12,000.
Scotiabank Calgary Full Marathon - participants must be 16 years of age or older on race day.
Centaur Subaru Half Marathon - participants must be 14 years of age or older on race day.
Scotiabank Kids Marathon - participants must be a minimum of 4 years old on race day and up to the age of 12 year of age.
42.195 kilometres or 26.2 miles.
21.0975 kilometres or 13.1 miles.
You can pick up your race package, which will have everything you need and more at the Health and Wellness Expo. Bring your friends and family members with you as there will be plenty to see, and its FREE!
The Big Four, Stampede Park
1410 Olympic Way SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2W1
Friday, May 24th: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 25th: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
*Printed confirmation or picture ID is required for package pick-up.
Please refer to the Races section to find your race's map
All 50K, marathon, half marathon 10k and 5k and Kids Marathon participants will receive a technical shirt (short sleeve for all distances).
If your shirt size that you requested when you registered does not fit there will be an opportunity to exchange your shirt inside the Grandstand on race morning from 6am-noon.
No. You may not sell, transfer or give your bib to another person. This policy applies to all race participants and is in effect whether you are injured, have an unexpected family/business emergency, have a medical emergency, etc. There are NO exceptions. If someone runs with your bib and becomes injured or needs medical attention, medical professionals will not have their correct medical history and emergency contacts on hand. CMS reserves the right to ban participants who sell a bib/run with a bib that is not their's from all future race participation.
Yes, as long as your desired race distance is not sold out you can upgrade or downgrade your distance prior to the race. Visit raceroster.com, login to your account and go to the dashboard. If it is within roughly 2 weeks of the event (and after the bib numbers have been assigned) you will have to visit the Expo to change from one race distance to another.
Costs are as follows:
The difference between your original category and the one you are upgrading to + a $11.95 processing fee.
$11.95 + processing fee.
Absolutely. The Calgary Marathon Society is proud to feature the Scotiabank Group Charity Challenge. Please visit the Charity section for details on how to fundraise. The fundraising total for 2017 was $969,141
The Calgary Marathon Society is a not-for-profit organization. There is a cost to put on a world-class event and the majority of those costs are directly related to number of participants. The registration fees collected are used for operational costs like timing services, insurance, road use fees, tent rentals, portable toilets, medals, t-shirts and much more. If for some reason you can't participate, your registration fees will be put to good use so we don't offer refunds or registration rollovers to a future year. There are no exceptions.
Please note: The Scotiabank Calgary Marathon is not a bike course and safety of all participants is paramount. With rolling road closures and tight corners, handcyclists will only be permitted to participate recreationally in the 5K and 10K distances
Athletes using a push rim wheelchair will be allowed to race competitively. Racing wheelchair results have their own category. Absolutely no handcycles will be allowed in the race (competitive) category for any distance.
Participation is at sole discretion of the Calgary Marathon and omission of any steps will result in disqualification and removal of bib.
If you are participating in any event using a mobility device of any kind:
Some things to remember:
Wheelchair – Traditional push rim wheelchair with 2 wheels identical in size (rear) and two smaller wheels (front casters)
Racing Wheelchair – Has two large wheels (rear) and one small wheel (front).
Handcycles – A three-wheeled cycle propelled by the arms rather than the legs
No, all participants will be provided with a Chronotrack B-Tag when you pick up your race kit at the Expo. It is a single-use, disposable chip that is applied to the back of your race number.
*Do not remove this tag or your time will not be recorded.
Updated Road Closures available on interactive map.
We encourage you to take the LRT to the Victoria Park or Erlton LRT Station. Limited parking is available for a fee at Stampede Park.
All race-day activities will start and finish in Stampede Park.
The average race-day temperature is a high of 21C (70F) and a low of 7C (45F). Calgary's elevation is 1,040 metres (3,500 feet).
Walkers are invited to participate in all events with precautions for the marathon distance. Marathon walkers are asked to start at 7:00 a.m. with marathon runners. Please seed yourself accordingly. The course will be open for 6 1/2 hours where all walkers must be finished thereafter. After 12:30pm, some roads will have to be re-opened and walkers will be moved up to the sidewalks.
The Pace Bunnies provided by the Running Room, will be available for the 50K Ultra, Scotiabank Marathon and Centaur Subaru Half Marathon. Each pacer's goal time will be clearly indicated. At the race start, line up near your pacer, but please do not crowd them - allow room for other runners to pass.
50KM Ultra 5:00, 5:30, 6:00
Scotiabank 42.2KM 3:15, 3:30, 3:45, 4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 5:30
Centaur Subaru 21.1KM 1:40, 1:50, 2:00, 2:15, 2:30
Yes, there will be markers each kilometer along the route.
Yes, please reference each course map to see the location of aid stations.
All water stations will provide water, sponges, nuun, and toilets approximately every 3 km on the marathon course. Honey Stinger Gels will be located at the 12km, 22km and 30km aid-stations on the marathon course and at the 12km aid station on the half marathon.
First Aid on course will be provided by our local Volunteer Ski Patrol. For more information on what they do check out their web site at www.csps.ca.
Please be sure to write your full name, emergency contact information and any allergies or health conditions you have on the back of your race bib.
The race directors prohibit the use headphones for the safety of the runner and the safety of those around them. If a runner puts themselves or others at risk through an unsafe act that the Board of Directors determine was caused directly or indirectly through the use of the items in question, the race directors reserve the right to disqualify the runner.
Yes, we will have entertainment stationed throughout the course and at the Start/Finish area. If you are interested in being an entertainer for the Scotiabank Calgary Marathon, please email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Each race map indicates the best spectator locations. See race maps in the Race Info section.
50K Ultra Marathon - 7:00 am, Sunday May 26th, 2019
Scotiabank Marathon - 7:00 am, Sunday May 26th, 2019
Centaur Subaru Half Marathon - 7:00 am, Sunday May 26th, 2019
Jugo Juice 10K - 7:30 am, Sunday May 26th, 2019
GoodLife Fitness 5K Family Walk & Run - 12:00 pm, Sunday May 26th, 2019
Official photographs will be taken along the course and at the finish line by strategically placed MarathonFoto photographers. To get the best pictures possible, keep your race number uncovered and in clear view at all times. Our photography partner will then email proofs of your photographs with ordering information within one week after the race.
All finishers, in every race category will receive a medal.
*Full Marathon and 50K Ultra finishers are the only ones to receive unique belt buckle medals.
New in 2019 - add 5k for 55 years!
We are celebrating our 55th year since the start of the Scotiabank Calgary Marathon Race Weekend. As such we had some fun with the medals and created a 5K medal that is awesome on its own but can also be added to any other distance medal for an extra awesome big medal in celebration of our big anniversary year.
Post race massages will be available on the second level inside the Grandstand on a first come, first serve basis. Massages begin at 7:30am and can be purchased with your online registration for $15 or purchase on-site for $20.
Chips are now disposable. No need to return them. Please recycle them accordingly.
There is a recommended meeting area inside the Grandstand. We recommend that you choose areas with less traffic to meet your friends/family as the finish line can be very crowded.
Join us in the beer gardens, on-site entertainment, the awards ceremony and a range of interesting vendors. Bring your friends and family members down to celebrate your achievement!
Following the event, race results will be posted on our web site. Chip timing will track your start and finish providing quick and accurate results and all runners must use this system. You will pick up your chip at package pick up. Please note, the chips are disposable and are not required to be returned.
Registration for 2019 is now open!
Register HERE today!
Click the yellow button that has the charity name in it to be redirected to your fundraising page. Once in your fundraising page you can send out emails to your friends and family to support you!
You definitely can. Please follow these three steps to set up your fundraising page.
Please note the team you create is supporting the Charity that you choose when you signed up.
Please ensure all cheques are made out directly to your charity of choice and ensure you have the donors correct email address. Make sure you add the donations to your page so they show up on your page!
If you get injured or for some reason you can not participate in the run, not to worry all of your donations still go to the charity!
If you are interested in making a direct donation to the charity itself please click on the "Donate" button located on each charity page.
50K runners will start with the marathoners and half marathoners at 7:00 a.m.
42K of the 50K will be on the road. There is an extension on the pathway system to make up part of the distance however it is marked, measured and marshalled just as all other parts of the course are.
The 50K will be timed and runners will wear chips. Your 42.2K time will also be recorded and it will be accepted as a qualifying time by B.A.A if you qualify for Boston.
Yes. B.A.A. will accept your marathon time as a official Boston qualifying result
Yes. The 50K Ultra serves as the National 50K Championships. If you met the following elite standards email email@example.com for an invite.
Sub 3:40 for men
Sub 4:05 for women
Please note there is no prize money however top male and top female will be crowned national champion and be given a special medal.
There will be signs on course and volunteers telling 50K runners where to go and at the turnaround. Please note it is the runner's responsability to know the route.
50K runners received a 50K Ultra event t-shirt at package pick-up in addition to a belt buckle finishers medal along with bragging rights of completing 50K of course!
The 50K Ultra is reserved for runners who have completed at least one marathon (or ultra) in the last 18 months in less than 4.5 hours (or pro-rated for ultra distances).
The criteria is 100% strictly logistical as our municipal road permit relies on us being off the city roads in 6.5 hours and the course is pro-rated. This means we can't have any more roads for any extra length of time. In order to put on our road race and in this case a special event that is longer than our usual distance we must work with our city partners. Until we have a race that draws participation like New York or Boston and have the support of non-runners in the city who come out and cheer runners on and don't mind the roads being closed, we will be limited in what roads we can have and for how long. So please encourage your friends and family to be cheerleaders on the last Sunday in May!


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I purposely didn't check the voltage during float/charging because I wasn't sure if the battery was holding up very well. I just picked up a second multimeter last weekend to perform this test and I'm within a tenth of a volt.JeremyW wrote:That's concerning if true. Lead acid batteries develop sulfation (lead sulfate crystals on the plates impeding current flow) if they sit too long at a partially discharged state. Lead acids love to sit at 100% all the time. This makes them perfect for the float application and partially why Nissan went with it instead of something newer for the house battery. You can give it a float charge and it will be happy for years.DarkStar wrote:I'm seeing about 12.3 volts at rest, which is considered only about 70% charged.
However, I do ask what kind of multimeter you are using to read the voltage. Some of the no-name brands are notoriously inaccurate. I'd check with another meter just to be sure. You should be seeing something around 13.5 to 14.1 during float/charging. My guess is the meter is off by a few hundred millivolts, and the DC/DC is fine.
I have a small power backup system for emergencies and I float it at about 13.85 volts (70 degrees F). If I take that battery off and let it rest for an hour or so, it will read 12.8 volts (12.7 volts is considered 100% charged).
I'll have to double-check, but I'm pretty sure I was seeing a voltage of about 14.4 at the battery when the vehicle is powered on. That would be just about right for bulk-charging, but would cause issues once the battery was fully charged (if the voltage doesn't taper).


text: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 PTJ's Impact Factor Rises According to the just-released Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Physical Therapy (PTJ) ranks #1 among all physical therapy journals and #3 among all 43 rehabilitation journals listed by JCR. PTJ's impact factor is 2.645 (the highest impact factor for rehabilitation journals is 3.77), with a 5-year impact factor score of 3.158. Citations to PTJ totaled 6,250 in 2010. PTJ ranks 7th among 61 journals listed in the orthopedics category. Among rehabilitation journals, PTJ also is ranked third in both the Eigenfactor score and the Article Influence score. Says PTJ's Editor in Chief Rebecca Craik, PT, PhD, FAPTA, "I like to think these healthy scores reflect our content. I'm delighted that so many authors are submitting manuscripts that are relevant to clinical practice. The quality of clinical research studies has improved exponentially. We also continue to call for basic research that has relevance to clinicians. Our case reports provide examples in clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and care; models of new clinical management; and classroom teaching. And the Linking Evidence to Practice (LEAP) series helps readers apply results of Cochrane and other systematic reviews to individual patients." Craik adds that PTJ's old reputation for protracted review times has been overturned. "If you are an author, please consider PTJ; if you are a reader, please visit our Web site and enjoy learning what's new." JCR is published by Thomson Reuters / ISI Web of Knowledge. The 2010 impact factor is calculated based on the number of articles published in 2008 and 2009 and the number of citations to those articles in 2010. Comments Congratulations Dr. Craik and the AEs on a job well done. Posted by Steve Wolf on 7/8/2011 2:36 PM That is wonderful and fully deserved. Great job to Dr. Craik and all of the others involved in making the Journal so respected and useful. Posted by Shirley Sahrmann on 7/10/2011 9:24 PM This is great news, Dr. Craik. Thank you for providing outstanding leadership for PTJ. Posted by Alan Jette on 7/11/2011 6:29 AM Congratulations to team APTA. I have a query and would be grateful if you could sort it out. What is the impact of Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal which is an official journal of APTA. Posted by Shipra Puri on 4/12/2013 6:34 AM Physical therapy journal, consider among the top journals provide a physical therapy by evidence based reaches support to develop guidelines for different disorders Posted by Faten Abd Elazeim on 10/10/2017 4:00 PM It is Great similar improvement done I'm delighted that so many authors are submitting manuscripts that are relevant to clinical practice. The quality of clinical research studies has improved exponentially. In bultuine Faculty of physical therapy. Cairo University , Egypt Posted by Faten H Abdelazeim on 6/20/2018 1:45 AM


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Thursday, April 13, 2017
Happy Easter from Set VisionsWe are on countdown to the four-day weekend here at Set Visions HQ. Spring is in the air, plenty of sunshine streaming in to our studio. The flowers are blooming outside and the birds are singing away, all in time for a lovely long Easter weekend.
Here's a few Springtime inspirations to get you in the holiday mood from seasonal tulip table top photography, to family friendly picnics and adorable spring inspired soft toys.
The SV team will be packing up for the Easter weekend from Friday 14th returning on the 18th April, we hope you have a great break!


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The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget on Wednesday gave the final required signoff for the expedited closure of the LSU Earl K. Long Medical Center in north Baton Rouge.
The vote came after two hours of sometimes heated discussion over the Jindal administration's handling of the hospital's closure and the moving of patient care and medical education programs to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in south Baton Rouge.
The move takes place Monday, which is well ahead of the November date in the original contract. Nearly 780 employees will lose their state jobs at the Earl K. Long hospital and its outpatient clinics around the city.
The budget committee was required to act on the timing change as well as the expansion of the cooperative endeavor agreement to cover the Our Lady of the Lake operation of the outpatient clinics. That transition also occurs Monday.
"This is about preserving patient care for the Medicaid and uninsured in Baton Rouge," said state Department of Health and Hospitals Undersecretary Jerry Phillips. "This is a very good deal for the people of Baton Rouge."
He said the public-private partnership was a better and less expensive route to replacing the antiquated hospital that ran into accreditation problems year after year.
But some local legislators criticized the exclusion of those affected in the decision-making process. They complained about LSU officials moving up the date of the closure without having all the arrangements finalized, such as where to provide care for women and prisoners.
The original agreement was signed three years ago.
LSU System health executive Frank Opelka said an agreement with Woman's Hospital to take over LSU's women's clinic was formalized Tuesday. He also said arrangements for prisoner care traditionally delivered at the Earl K. Long facility on Airline Highway "are being worked out today."
Opelka said some financial terms of the agreement with the Lake's purchase of services from LSU are still being negotiated.
"Here we are five days away from the closure of a major health care facility and we are still here in a meeting trying to get answers to questions," said state Sen. Sharon Broome, D-Baton Rouge. "There's something wrong with that picture.
"This whole process has been a betrayal of the public trust," Broome said.
State Rep. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, sought a delay in the hospital closure. "I am very worried that many people in my area won't have access to care," she said.
Barrow pointed to "all the unanswered questions," including more than 30 coming from the federal agency that must approve a key part of the financing for the Lake takeover.
"We are the only ones losing a major hospital" as part of the administration's plan for private takeover of LSU hospitals, said state Rep. Bodi White, R-Central.
White said he is concerned that more uninsured patients are going to be showing up in the emergency rooms of Baton Rouge General-Mid City and Lane Memorial Regional Medical Center in Zachary, the two hospitals closest to the Earl K. Long facility.
The state needs to provide extra dollars to care for the uninsured or the community hospitals might go bankrupt, White said.
White's motion for the budget committee's approval of the contract changes passed without objection.
Later, Barrow complained to her House colleagues about her treatment before the budget panel.
"I feel completely disrespected by chairman," Barrow said, referring to state Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Covington, who strongly encouraged those testifying to keep comments brief. She said she hoped any chairman of a House committee would "want the opposition to speak and not be rushed."
Donahue, who also had gotten a complaint from Broome, said he was trying to limit discussion to the state-Lake agreement changes.
Scott Wester, the chief executive officer for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, tried to reassure legislators that access to care would not suffer and that physicians in training would get a better experience and exposure to a larger volume of patients.
Wester said the Lake has already been accepting patients from the Earl K. Long facility.
More than 300 people have been hired to work in outpatient clinics that will be staffed by LSU physicians, Wester said.


text: Northwestern's consolation for missing out on the NCAA Tournament was hosting one of tonight's opening NIT games against Akron. While they missed this attempt to score before the halftime buzzer, I'm pretty sure knocking the ESPN camera assistant's hat off is worth a couple hundred tickets at a Navy Pier shooting gallery. [ESPN2]


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Since 1991 our charity has been assembling one of the largest and most prestigious Collections of original Scottish art in the country. These artworks are uniquely available for display in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
Art in Healthcare is truly committed to the important role that art plays in the healing environment but we need your help to properly maintain and build this unique Collection for the enjoyment and benefit of the hundreds of thousands of staff, patients and visitors who view it each year.
With your help we're able to:
Keep our Collection on display in hospitals and care homes
Support young artists at their degree shows
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Adopt an artwork from our Collection for just £3 a month and you'll receive:
Your name (or a loved one's) written next to your chosen artwork online
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Robert De Niro is ready to take the field with ESPN.
The iconic actor has been tapped to play legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in a biopic being developed by ESPN Films and the NFL, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, simply titled "Lombardi," is being written by "Forrest Gump" scribe Eric Roth.
"Lombardi" will focus on the years the coaching legend brought the NFL's Green Bay Packs back to prominence in the 1960s. During a nine-year stretch, Lombardi's Packers won five NFL titles.
He died in 1970 after a battle with cancer. He was 57.
"There are few actors who could accurately portray the fire, passion and grit of Lombardi, and we're thrilled to have Robert De Niro on our team," said Charles Coplin, the NFL's vice president of programming.
The film is slated to debut the week before Super Bowl XLVI in February 2012.
De Niro was last seen in the 2009 dramedy "Everybody's Fine," co-starring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell.
He currently has three films awaiting release – the "Meet the Fockers" sequel "Little Fockers," Robert Rodriguez's action film "Machete" and the crime drama "Stone" with Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich.
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Karthickgopal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 532 diseños de 139 diseñadores freelance.
We are a young startup online company that wishes to help users locate restaurants by providing them with menu cards online along with other relevant information to help them find the perfect place to dine or order home delivery from.
We are currently based in India but plan to expand our borders soon.
[UPDATE]: We thank you for the entires so far but we request you to please go beyond just tomatoes, we aren't a tomato only based company (juice food etc) the name just rhymes.
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yellowishjazz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de fondo de Twitter y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
We are a 3-piece band of childhood friends who are going to release our debut EP on November 25, 2010. I want to get this twitter background up on that day as well.
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The font used for the band name "Vicksburg" on the album cover is called "Archeologicaps" and you can download it from dafont.com if you decide to use it.
I know for sure that I would like the distressed feel that we used on the album cover integrated into this background in some way. You don't necessarily have to use the exact background we used on the album, just something with the same feel... maybe something similar to the backgrounds you'll see on http://twitter.com/thirdday/ and http://twitter.com/brooks_dunn
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Starting the thread earlier -Who i hope to see going home: Tim and AndrewHopefully... no surprise vote offs this week. Everyone else deserved to stay till Idol Gives Back!!!!!
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To be successful, young athletes need good nutrition
T-ball, soccer, softball and tennis are in full swing, and young athletes need nutritious foods for top-notch performance.
"In order to properly fuel their bodies for sport, youngsters need to eat a daily diet that focuses on adequate calories, particularly in the form of carbohydrates, to support exercise and growth, and adequate protein," registered dietitian Mary Wilson said.
A board-certified specialist in sports dietetics and director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at Eastern Kentucky University, Wilson recommends that parents follow the 2010 dietary guidelines for Americans and Myplate.gov for feeding their active youngsters.
The best foods for young athletes are: carbohydrates from whole grains (breads, cereals, pasta, brown rice), fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk and yogurt; and protein from legumes, nuts, seeds, low-fat milk, yogurt and cheese, poultry and lean cuts of meat.
Registered dietitian Jill Kindy, the mother of two young athletes ages 9 and 11, said planning is important in providing healthful foods for young people. Kindy, health education coordinator at the University of Kentucky, recommends keeping non-perishables such as granola bars, cheese and crackers, dry cereal or trail mix in the car, so they're available to eat when kids are heading to the park after school.
"We sometimes travel with an insulated bag/cooler with an ice pack, so we can have items like string cheese or cold drinks. This way, you won't get stuck running through the drive-through and ending up with a high-fat, high-calorie choice. If you do end up at fast food, go for the grilled chicken, a sub sandwich, and apples and fruit instead of french fries."
Kindy, who also is a sports dietetics specialist, suggests that youngsters eat something that is mainly carbohydrates before a game or practice that lasts longer than an hour. During a lengthy activity, children can eat fruit, bagels or granola bars, and they can drink sports drinks.
"After strenuous activity, it's good to replenish losses shortly after the competition or practice ends — like within 30 to 60 minutes," Kindy said. This meal or snack should contain some carbohydrates and some protein. Snacks can be chocolate milk or peanut butter crackers or low-fat cottage cheese and fruit.
For a meal after the game, youngsters should eat lean protein, starch and vegetables, with the plate being about three-fourths rice or pasta and vegetables or fruit, and one-fourth protein.
"If your plate looked like a clock, from about 12 to 4 should be protein (lean meat, chicken, fish) and from 4 back around to 12 should be starch and vegetables," she said. "Also, remember to drink enough to replenish fluid losses."
Consuming adequate fluids is important to prevent dehydration, Wilson said.
"Urine color can be a convenient way to monitor hydration," Wilson said. "Urine should be pale yellow. Dark urine indicates dehydration and shows that an athlete needs to drink more fluids before, during and after exercise.
One of the best insurance policies for adequate nutrition during competition is eating well on a daily basis during the season, Wilson said.
"Parents can help by ensuring that these healthful foods are readily available, helping kids learn to plan ahead to fuel workouts and competitions, and, of course, serving as a role model for children with respect to nutrition," she said.
Just as important as what active youngsters eat is when they eat.
"Meals and snacks should be spaced throughout the day, so energy is available to muscles when needed," she said. An athlete who trains or practices at 4 p.m. should eat breakfast, lunch, and possibly a light snack before, followed by dinner after the activity.
For a 6:30 p.m. practice, the athlete should eat breakfast, lunch and a light dinner or substantial snack about 4 or 5 p.m, followed by a substantial snack or light meal after practice, she said.
As the season continues, the young athletes will head into tournaments that can last all day. "Athletes should stick to familiar, well-tolerated foods, focusing on carbohydrates and lean protein on the day of competition," Wilson said. "Most exercisers can eat a snack one to three hours prior to a competition. This pre-competition meal/snack is especially important for morning competitions."
For daylong competitions, planning is crucial to ensure that adequate carbohydrates and protein are available during the event. Good choices to have on hand include fresh and dried fruit, crackers, yogurt, sandwiches, cheese, granola bars and peanut butter.
Wilson advises youngsters to stick to the normal sports diet (plenty of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk products and lean protein) during the week before and day before competition.
Kindy said the pre-game meal "cannot undo a bunch of unhealthy eating that you do the rest of the week. If you eat well all the time, then you will be practicing at your optimum, which ultimately should mean that you are competing at your optimum."
A new book focuses on nutrition for school-age children. Sports Nutrition for Young Athletes by Anita Bean is written for those engaged in athletics, whether at the recreational level or in serious competition.
"There's no doubt that what children eat affects their health as well as their performance in sport," Bean writes in the introduction. "If they eat a poor-quality diet, then they not only risk illness but they will not be able to train and compete to the best of their ability. But if they eat a healthy diet that provides the correct amount of energy and nutrients, then they will enjoy better health and improved performance in their sport.
"It's not essential that young athletes eat a perfect diet all the time, but provided they get it right about 80 percent of the time, then they will have a great chance of putting in their best performance."
Here are some snack recipes that will provide energy for the young athlete.
Honey energy bar
2⁄3 cup honey
3/4 cup chunky peanut butter
4 cups granola mix
In 4-cup microwave-safe container, microwave honey at high 2 to 3 minutes, or until honey boils. Stir in peanut butter; mix until thoroughly blended. Place granola in large bowl. Pour honey mixture over granola and combine thoroughly. Press firmly into 13- by 9- by 2-inch baking pan. Let stand until firm. Cut into bars.
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Strawberry bars
1 cup flour
1 cup rolled oats
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1⁄3 cup light brown sugar
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1⁄8 teaspoon salt
¾ cup strawberry jam
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, mix everything together except strawberry jam. Measure out 2 cups of the mixture. Leave the rest in the bowl, and set it aside.
Press the 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of a square (8- by 8-inch) pan coated with shortening or non-stick spray. You may use your hands or a spoon. Make sure you cover the entire bottom of the pan.
Using a large spoon, spread strawberry jam on top of the mixture in the pan. Take the mixture that was left in the bowl and spread it over strawberry jam. Press down lightly. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove pan from oven, and allow it to cool at least 15 minutes. Cut the bars into 12 squares.
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Learning how to make compost is easy and can reduce the amount of organic trash going to the curb every week. Composting will help you reuse some of those kitchen scraps, like that left-over salad, and give you a rich, fertile soil for your garden. All organic matter eventually decomposes. Utilizing this fact, you can easily compost that organic material by providing an ideal environment for bacteria and other decomposing microorganisms to thrive. The final product, humus or compost, looks and feels like fertile garden soil.
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Behind the lodge in Monte Sano Park, There's an overlook from which you can see south down a chain of mountains, 15 miles to the Tennessee River. Very pretty when the leaves are on the trees.
©John W. Ivy
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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Read the TechMission Case Study
Harvard Business School has widely popularized helping students learn by publishing case studies. TechMission was featured in a Case Study by three Northeastern Professors: Susan Seiloff, Ray, Kennunen and Robert Young.
The case study, titled "TechMission: Jesus, Justice and Technology", was published in the Case Research Journal. You can read the case study here.
We believe that the case study, like its title, accurately represents the core values of TechMission of Jesus, Justice and Technology. Our hope is that it will help others better understand the decisions that leaders of faith-based nonprofits encounter like 1) How do you run a Christian nonprofit organization without compromising your faith 2) How do you make strategic decisions to help grow a ministry focused on serving the poor.
This case is one of only four cases that show up if you search for "Christian nonprofit" on the HBS Case Study website, so we are encouraged to help represent Christian nonprofits to future students learning through case studies.


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Robert Moore Williams (1907—1977), born in Farmington, Missouri, was an American writer, primarily of science fiction.
His first published story was Zero as a Limit, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1937, under the pseudonym of "Robert Moore". He was a prolific author throughout his career, with his last novel appearing in 1972. His "Jongor" series was originally published in Fantastic… (more)


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The Men in Black star is no stranger to the music stage, but he stunned fans who were anticipating a closing set from native Scotsman Harris.
Before Harris entered, Smith walked out in front of the thousands in attendance to a roar of applause, and told them, "I said to Calvin Harris, I have two weeks free and I want an experience. Calvin said, 'Come home with me, come to Scotland... Ladies and gentlemen - Scotland's own Calvin Harris!"
Near the end of his gig, Harris told the revellers, "T in the Park, I brought Will Smith here so I could see a real Scottish reaction. I want to see you jump up and down for Will Smith!"
Smith took to the stage yet again, as Harris finished up his set and fireworks lit up the sky.
Smith and Harris have spent the past few days together - they hit the party scene in Ibiza, Spain, where Harris posted a photo of himself with the actor at Amnesia nightclub on his Instagram.com page on Wednesday (09Jul14).


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Gone are the days when homeowners refused to paint their walls in distinctive colors. While they may not choose to saturate their rooms in bright hues, there are plenty of accent colors that can give a lift to a room along with traditional neutrals.
Sonu Mathew, senior interior designer for Benjamin Moore, believes consumers have often taken their lead from popular culture when it comes to choosing a more colorful path in home design. Shows like "Sex and the City" featured bold hues in apartments as well as fashions and may have led many home decorators to do the same.
"It got people excited about color, and that's what color is meant to do," she told the Los Angeles Daily News.
Having Rich Choices
Colors like wine, a deep purple with undertones of dark brown, for instance, is a great accompaniment to wood floors and furnishings. The same can be said of deep reds, bright orange, periwinkle and violet blues. Yellow is a great complement to green, gold and camel.
However, HGTV designer Candace Olson added one caution for her viewers. She recommended choosing one category of hues - all jewel tones or light pastels - for a good flow from room to room. Otherwise, the overall decorating scheme can end up as what she called "a patchwork of opposite looks."
Don't overlook rooms that are small or have a utilitarian purpose. Home offices, bathrooms and laundry areas can be turned from drab functional places to those with style all their own. Once the new colors are introduced, homeowners may want to upgrade further. Adding a heated towel rack, for instance, provides the comfort of warm towels all ready for people as they step out of their showers and tubs.
Going with Gray
Once gray took over in recent years as a favorite neutral in wall color, a wide range of reds and pinks began to emerge as natural complements. According to Sarah Cole, marketing director at Farrow & Ball, pink has a warm tone that creates a casual, relaxed feeling in a room. It's especially effective in rooms that get lots of natural light.
At Sherwin-Williams, a new variety of reds are favored by many paint shoppers. As Jackie Jordan, the company's director of color marketing, told the Daily News, the new variations go well beyond the stop sign red that was popular on exterior doors about a decade ago and now have more subtle undertones.
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For those who are stepping gingerly around using bold tones, the experts suggest trying them in unexpected places - the inside of a bookcase or on the rear wall of glass-door kitchen cabinets.
Soft furnishings such as slipcovers and window treatments are another way for homeowners to introduce a bright color if they don't want to commit to one on their walls.
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Family Circle 2009 Fiction Contest Winner: "Our Atlantis"
Lisa A. Koosis' story, "Our Atlantis," won first place in the Family Circle 2009 Fiction Contest.
Our Atlantis didn't have marble columns or streets paved in gold. Like most places, our streets were macadam, potholed and sand-strewn. And marble, that was for the folks on the North Shore, who lived in A-frames and had private beaches for their backyards. Our Atlantis had acres of cranberry bogs and pristine pine barrens, where aquifers ran clear and deep. It had pizza parlors on every Main Street and ramshackle clam shacks that no outsider would ever think of entering but that served steaming platters of the best mussels and Italian ices with flat wooden spoons glued to their lids.
Our Atlantis wasn't a place though, so much as an age, a time when we walked barefoot and caught fireflies in cupped hands, when we snuck onto the beach after dark with blankets and beer, and swam in the choppy, moonlit waters. We. Kiri, Madge and me. Always.
And when I think of Atlantis now, I return to that last night before Kiri left for college on the mainland, when we crossed through the dark tunnel that led beneath the dunes from parking lot to beach, the slap of our flip-flops echoing from the damp, graffiti-covered concrete.
Madge and Kiri were my fellow Atlanteans, though they wore cutoffs instead of silken robes, and flip-flops instead of leather sandals. We'd been one another's constant companions since grade school, and the thought that it ended that night seemed just that to us, an ending that left us all melancholy and vaguely disoriented.
Emerging from the tunnel always felt like stepping out onto an alien landscape. The beach looked different at night, the sand raked into neat hills and valleys, footprints erased as if nobody had ever set foot there, the empty lifeguard towers like slumbering sea beasts. No matter how many times we snuck onto the beach after dark, it was something I never got used to.
Madge shook out a blanket and spread it onto the sand just over the high tide line, and we sat on the threadbare fleece, each of us taking a corner and anchoring the fourth with our cooler. Kiri passed around beer, stolen from the fridge her dad kept in the garage.
None of us seemed inclined to speak, though tomorrow hung over us like a sail, ready to pull us out to sea. Finally I said, "Are you ready, Kiri?"
She'd be the first to go. I didn't leave for another two weeks, and Madge would be staying local, commuting to a nearby university in the car she'd gotten for graduation.
Kiri tipped her head back and drank from her beer, her long, dark curls spilling across her shoulders. "I guess. I mean, who knows." Still, something about the brightness of her eyes spoke of promise, and I knew Kiri was ready to throw herself headlong into the future.
"What do you think it's going to be like?" Madge asked. "Making new friends and . . . everything." She stood and walked to the water's edge, where she heaved her empty bottle into the water. It filled and sank. Maybe years from now somebody would find its shattered pieces washed up on some shore, sand-frosted, the edges tumbled smooth, a relic of our vanished civilization.
None of us had an answer. Like Madge, we just looked out over the ocean, our gazes following the line of moonlight across the water. On the horizon, something brightened. It must have been a fire, a tanker ablaze or maybe a plane crash, but to me it was a city of golden towers, spires and arches. It hovered there atop the water, and then it began to sink, slowly, until all that remained was a glow on the water. Then that too was gone. Madge continued to look long afterward.
On the way out I spray-painted our names onto the wall of the tunnel—Kiri, Madge, Rhoda—in large, looping script.
Kiri left for college the next day.
In the following weeks, Atlantis appeared time and again. To me, anyway. I didn't know about Madge, really, since she said little even as she helped me pick out linens and lamps and tubes of the bright acrylics, with which I preferred to paint. I glimpsed Atlantis in the curve of a water glass or the bowl of a spoon. Sometimes it appeared in the puddles that collected after a rainfall, lurking just below their surface, untouchable, already lost.
The night before I left Madge and I sprawled across the bed in Madge's room with the stereo blaring, eating chips from the bag. Atlantis was everywhere. It shone from the dark eyes of Madge's stuffed bears and from the chrome knobs of the stereo. It beckoned from the stone in my class ring, and from the glass in the framed picture of Madge, Kiri and me taken the summer I'd turned ten. We saw it too in each other, a glow on our skin, shining in our eyes.
"At least," I said, "I'm not going too far. I can come home some weekends."
Madge only nodded. We said goodnight, but not goodbye.
I did come home some weekends, at least for a while. Madge and I would drive down to the docks and eat French fries and rainbow Italian ices, and watch boats come and go in the bay. We didn't mention the sinking of Atlantis, or that Kiri's letters and calls had become few and far between.
Eventually, my weekends home dwindled to once every few months. At school there were dances and parties, overnight excursions to the city and hours spent in the art cottages stroking paint onto canvas.
Sometimes, though, I painted Atlantis, mixing shimmering golds and oranges beside the colors of the sea there on my palette. I painted it in its glory, light shining on marble columns, arches that glittered gold beneath the moon. And I painted it there below the surface of the ocean, its structures distorted by the swells above, a phantom city, a memory. Sometimes I painted us there: Kiri, Madge and myself, perpetually seventeen, our faces tanned, our hair sun-bleached, our smiles contented.
After my second year ended, I stayed at school for summer session. Madge drove out to spend an afternoon. It felt strange to have her there, strange to sit with her on the steps of the dorm, looking out over hills rather than whitecaps, as if we were two different people in the shells of those bodies. Madge seemed to study the landscape. Her bare toes dug at the concrete until I was sure they'd be raw.
"Have you heard from Kiri at all?" I asked.
"I heard she's home for the summer but . . ." She shook her head and shrugged, and we fell into silence. After a few minutes, without looking at me, she said, "I'm not taking classes this semester."
"You're . . "
"No. Not this semester. My mom's sick. She'll need some help."
"Madge," I said, but she shook her head again and looked out across the hills where students moved along the winding pathways.
She left a little while later, her car disappearing around the bend in the narrow campus road. In her fender, Atlantis gleamed.
After four years I graduated and left the island for good, following my boyfriend to his hometown on the mainland, where the air didn't smell of salt and beach rose. I hadn't seen Madge since her mom's funeral, but I'd heard she'd never returned to school. She'd gotten a job in the office at the high school and was living in her old room at home. Sometimes I imagined her as she'd been that night so long ago, staring out across the ocean to where Atlantis sank.
I rode the ferry off the island for the last time on a Sunday afternoon in June, and I stood on deck as the boat motored away, watching the waters for some sign of Atlantis. But it was gone, as if it had never been.
I got the call two nights ago, Kiri's voice like a memory reaching through the phone lines.
"Kiri," I said. "My God! How long has it been?"
"Fourteen years. At least." I heard the smile in her voice, and the melancholy too. No matter how hard you throw yourself forward, the past never really disappears. "I hear you're quite the artist now."
"Yeah. And you, a lawyer, right? Wow."
"I know, huh. And sometimes it still seems like I'm seventeen." Silence held the line for a heartbeat, two. Then she said, "You haven't heard?"
The ferry glides across a glass-smooth sound, and I imagine that I'm not just moving across space but across time as well, that when we moor and I cross to the dock, I'll once again be seventeen and lingering in that summer between high school graduation and the start of everything.
Kiri meets me at the docks. For a minute I don't recognize her—maybe because I'm looking for a girl and not a woman—and then she's there, taking my bag and hugging me all in one smooth motion. And she's the same Kiri, even though she isn't, even though her curls are no longer long and wild, even though the angles of her face are different in some inexpressible way.
"I'm glad you came," she says when she lets me go.
On the way to the car we walk past kite stores and seafood dens, candy shops with taffy pulls right in the front windows, and boutiques where they sell cowry shells and tiny, dried starfish by the scoop. Jewelry stores display sea glass pendants and gold-dipped sand dollars, all these things at once so familiar and so alien to me.
Madge rides in the car with us, a pony-tailed ghost in the backseat. We don't speak to her and we don't speak of her, but still she's there. After a bit, we pull into Kiri's old driveway. Her parents still live there, and it looks mostly the same, though the rhododendrons by the mailbox, once straggly, now bloom with hundreds of purple flowers bobbing with bumblebees.
It isn't until we're sitting there in the driveway with the car still idling that Kiri says, "Do you think she did it intentionally?"
I sigh. "I don't know, Kiri. I don't."
"She had one of your paintings hanging on her wall, did you know? I went to see her a few years back, and she had it hanging over her bed. It was beautiful, Rho, these young women—girls I guess—standing in the gateway of a golden city."
She doesn't say Atlantis. Maybe, I think, I was the only one who saw it that way. Still, I nod.
"They're us, aren't they?" Kiri asks. "Those girls?"
"Yeah," I say. "They are."
Sneaking onto the beach after dark isn't hard. Local kids know the right places to park, the unofficial paths that weave through the scrub pine and deposit you beyond the access road where the police hide at night, drinking cups of coffee. Madge knew. We'd done it often enough ourselves.
In the tunnel, only our breath echoes in the darkness. I stop where once I painted our names, but a decade and a half's worth of other names cover the spot where ours once were.
Kiri touches my arm, and we continue walking until we emerge onto the sand and stand beneath the incomplete moon. Madge would have stood here too, only days ago, a towel draped over one arm, her flip-flops dangling from her hand. We too take off our shoes and set them to the side.
We leave footprints in the sand, and my muscles remember how it feels to walk on the shifting hills and valleys. The lifeguard chairs sit empty. If nothing else, the beach is the same.
Kiri and I walk to the water's edge. The tide is going out. Shining stones and bits of broken shells tumble in the surf.
I can imagine Madge spreading her towel onto the sand just above the high tide line, where the dried-out egg cases of skates tangle with seaweed and the plastic connectors from six-packs.
There are so many memories here that my heart beats too fast, too hard. Kiri's lopsided sand castles and Madge emptying beach glass from her pockets. There's the day jellyfish washed up all along the beach like discarded bubblegum and the day that Kiri nearly drowned, when lifeguards had to pull her from the water. And there in the dark, Atlantis is all around me, shining and familiar and so bright that it burns my eyes.
Only three days ago Madge would have stood here, looking out across the ocean while the cold water rushed over her ankles and sand pulled back, leaving hollows beneath her toes. I can picture her. Only it isn't the adult Madge I picture, the face from the black-and-white photo in the newspaper article. Rather, it's the seventeen-year-old Madge that threw her bottle into the waves that night so long ago.
I think of Kiri's question earlier today: Do you think she did it intentionally? And anger wells up in me when I think of her looking out at the horizon and yearning for the golden city that lay there just out of reach. Did she plan on just a solo swim at midnight, a small risk to remind herself that she was still alive, an individual instead of just caretaker for her father now, and worker in a dead-end job? And maybe she just got a cramp or the water was rougher than she'd thought and she couldn't make it back to shore. Or had she swum in a straight line toward Atlantis, not understanding that it was gone forever, something to be watched from afar but never reached again?
I don't realize that I've waded in, the water nipping at my calves, my thighs, until Kiri says, "Don't."
I turn until we're facing each other. The icy water drains my anger, sucks it away with the tide.
Kiri's half in the water now too. Our hands steady each other even as the currents pull and pull. When something sinks, there are always currents, waiting to pull you down and back, to take you under with it.
With one hand on my arm to steady herself, Kiri reaches into her sweatshirt pocket and pulls out two yellow roses, their stems clipped away. She hands one to me. "I just thought . . ."
"I miss her," I say. "I know I hadn't seen her in years, but I just miss her."
Kiri nods. "I do too."
She sets her bloom down onto the surface of the sea, and I place mine there as well. The retreating tide takes them, carrying them toward the place where Atlantis waits, where maybe it always will. We watch until they vanish into the dark, and then we emerge from the water and head toward home.
Originally published in Family Circle magazine, March 2010.


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Look what just popped up on Nokia's Care Suite servers. Why it's Windows Phone 7.5 Consumer Release (CR) 3 aka "Tango" for the Nokia Lumia 710 in China. Specifically the ROM build is 1600.3029.8773.12111 where the "8773" denotes the OS version and the "12111" is the firmware build.
Windows Phone OS 8773 is the "gold" version of Tango which adds support for 256 MB devices, MMS enhancements and other smaller, under the hood changes. A lot of phones today are sporting Mango CR1 (8107) or Mango CR2 (8112) and AT&T is expected to rollout CR3 (8773+) for its devices in the future.
With the addition of this ROM on Nokia's servers it's a safe bet that those with a Lumia 710 in China will be seeing an update notification from Zune Desktop in the next few days.
Of course the big question is can you flash this to your Lumia 710 if you're using Nokia Care Suite (much like the 8107 update)? Technically, yes, you can but seeing as this is a ROM for China we're not too sure on what language packs are on board. It's very likely English is there but if you'll be taking a risk as downgrading a ROM can be difficult.
We'll keep an ear out if this ROM starts to pushed out to user or if you're a risk-taker, whether you can flash it yourself (and void your warranty).
Thanks, @Arktronic, for the tip