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The newest member of Jacksonville�s soccer team helped the Cardinals defeat their biggest rival Thursday night.
The newest member of Jacksonville�s soccer team helped the Cardinals defeat their biggest rival Thursday night.
Abimelech Taye scored the game-winning goal with 27:30 left as Jacksonville rallied for a 2-1 victory at White Oak in a Coastal 3-A Conference match.
Taye, a junior midfielder, is a foreign exchange student from Ethiopia. He didn�t join the team until the Cardinals had played two games this season.
But on this night Taye emerged as a difference for the defending state 3-A champion Cardinals (8-1-1, 4-0), who remained unbeaten against the Vikings (7-4, 2-2) in the last 17 games in this series, dating back to 2005.
�They (teammates) said it was a big game, but I didn�t expect it like this,� Taye said. �What they told me and what I expected was different. It was a very good game.�
The game was tied 1-1 when Taye found the net.
Jacksonville�s Ryan Johnson delivered a free kick from just outside the right corner of the 18-yard box. The ball sailed over the middle to Taye, who trapped the ball near the left side and shot it through a defender�s legs and into the goal.
�I was very surprised,� Taye said about his goal.
And the Cardinals were certainly thrilled they got a go-ahead goal from an unlikely hero, although Jacksonville coach Dave Miller wasn�t surprised Taye scored a big goal.
�He missed the first two weeks and we have just been trying to get him acclimated to the kids,� Miller said. �The first game we got him in, he wasn�t on the field for more than two minutes and he scored a goal.�
Taye�s goal proved the difference in what was a physical and fast-paced game between the two bitter rivals. Both teams were issued three yellow cards, and Jacksonville�s Warren Washington was given a red card about a minute after Taye�s goal.
The red card put the Cardinals down a man for the remainder of the match. White Oak managed just one shot during the final 26 minutes, that coming when Ken Lyons got his foot on the ball as it was approaching goalkeeper Joe Davis, who had left the box.
�We just had to make sure we sit back and get behind the ball and limit their opportunities and I thought the boys did a good job with that,� Miller said. �Yeah, it was a battle. We should have put on football pads and played.
�That�s the only way they can play with us. They tried to take us out of our game physically. We were able to maintain our composure for the most part and we got it done.�
While disappointed with the loss, White Oak coach Buddy Carroll liked his team�s effort. Goalie Rene Perez made five saves for the Vikings.
�I just told them that I�m proud of the effort that they gave,� he said. �We made two mistakes and gave up some unfortunate goals. All in all, we had good possession and we played well. In a 2-1 loss, I can�t be upset for the effort they gave.
�My hats off to them (Cardinals) because they stepped it up a little bit when Warren went out and continued to battle.�
The Vikings seemed in position for an upset as they led 1-0 in the first half off a goal by junior Kevin Gonzalez. However, junior CJay Sparks gave the Cardinals new life when he scored with four seconds left in the first half to make it 1-1.
Sparks scored after he played a crossing pass from Tyler Moore, turned around toward the goal and shot from near the right post.
�We won the ball off something in the midfield and Tyler got the ball down the (right) sideline and crossed it,� Sparks said. �He crossed it, I touched it, spun and hit it and it went in.�
Miller called Sparks� goal �huge.�
�It was a huge momentum shift for us going into the second half,� Miller said. �Instead of being down 1-0, it�s 1-1. I thought we had the better opportunities and the better run of play in the second half.�
Miller felt like his team had the better play in the first half, too. Still, it was the Vikings who struck first when Gonzalez scored with 14:57 left. After a shot by Gabe Krueger hit off the crossbar, Gonzalez played the ball off the rebound and shot from the right side.
�We didn�t change anything after the goal. We really tried to stay with what we were doing and continue to battle,� Carroll said. �I�m not going to play them like some other teams who sit back and defend. We are going to go for it and may the best man win.�
But in the end it was the Cardinals who still found a way to win. Jacksonville is ranked third in the latest N.C. Soccer Coaches Association 3-A poll and is tied with Swansboro for first place in the Coastal Conference.
�It�s a good rivalry,� Sparks said. �Every game we come in and try to give it our best. Sometimes all the (fundamentals) don�t matter that much because everyone gets after it so hard.�
Jacksonville 1 1 � 2
White Oak 1 0 � 1
GOALS�J: Sparks, Taye. W: Gonzalez. ASSISTS�J: Moore. W: Krueger. IN GOAL�J: Davis (2 saves). W: Perez (5 saves). SHOTS ON GOAL�J 7, W 4. CORNER KICKS�J 3, W 2. RECORDS�J: 8-1-1, 4-0, at Laney on Monday. W: 7-4, 2-2, at Havelock on Tuesday.


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There are a number of simulation/analysis software products available for conducting motion and FEA studies. However, the ability to conduct them both, as well as optimizing assemblies is a tall order, especially for mere mortals and non-CAE specialists. With a relatively short learning curve, for this evaluation SimWise 4D proved its mettle for handling motion, FEA, and optimization in one comprehensive package.
What is known today as SimWise 4D began when Design Simulation Technologies (DST) acquired a license from MSC Software Corp. to the MSC.visualNastran 4D (vn4D) product. That software traces its roots to the Working Model 3D product developed by Knowledge Revolution, which was acquired by MSC in 1999, extended to include FEA capabilities, and renamed Working Model 4D.


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The combination of HIV and tuberculosis packs a deadly one-two punch. As devastating as either disease is alone, together their effect can be catastrophic.
Through Einstein's Global Health Fellowship Program, students Liz Liu and Dorothy Shi went to South Africa, where they assisted with research projects addressing HIV and tuberculosis.A pair of Einstein students spent the summer helping researchers punch back.
Second-year students Liz Liu and Dorothy Shi completed internships at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), in Durban, South Africa.
A collaboration of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, K-RITH brings together scientists throughout the world to conduct basic research into HIV, TB, and their co-infection. The institute was founded in 2009 by a team that included Dr. William Jacobs, an HHMI investigator – and professor of genetics and of microbiology & immunology at Einstein.
The location they chose is no accident.
South Africa is home to about 5.7 million people with HIV, more than any country in the world, according to K-RITH data. South Africa also has one of the highest rates of TB per capita. And each year, 250,000 HIV-infected people in South Africa develop active TB, accounting for about one-third of all the HIV/TB co-infections in the world.
Both HIV and TB are skilled at adapting to and resisting new treatments, compounding their danger.
In 2005, in the South African village of Tugela Ferry, an outbreak of an extensively drug-resistant form of TB produced results that seem like the stuff of science fiction. Fifty-three patients were admitted to the hospital with the disease. All but one died from it, including 44 who were known to be infected with HIV as well. On average, patients lived only 16 days after admission – far too short a time to even diagnose the TB.
The tragedy focused world attention on co-infection by the two diseases and how they might influence each other, and ultimately led to the formation of K-RITH.
Dr. Michelle Larsen, assistant professor of medicine and a member of Dr. Jacobs' lab, worked with the founding team and others to develop plans for the $40 million facility, located on the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine campus. K-RITH's eight labs – including highly secure spaces to handle dangerous pathogens – were designed to be a hub for investigations spanning diverse specialties.
Some local wildlife"Despite the population overlap between TB and HIV, research was really being done in siloes," Dr. Larsen said. "There was a need to focus on both diseases, in one place. And Durban was the place to focus on them."
By last summer, K-RITH had grown enough to consider sharing that focus with medical students. With the leadership of Dr. Jacobs and the support of Einstein dean Dr. Allen M. Spiegel and the Global Health Fellowship Program, a small internship program was created. Encouraged by Dr. Larsen, Ms. Liu and Ms. Shi applied – and were two of just 15 students accepted out of about 90 applicants from medical schools nationwide.
In Durban, Ms. Liu did bench work, helping to develop what may become a faster, more effective diagnostic tool for extensively drug-resistant TB. Ms. Shi joined a clinical team that collected and analyzed sputum, blood, and other specimens used by bench researchers, obtained from patients at neighboring hospitals.
"We had a unique view of the epidemic, working on research in the place where knowledge from that research is needed most," said Ms. Liu, who is taking part in Einstein's Student Opportunities for Academic Research Program (SOAR), with a concentration on global health, under the guidance of Dr. Larsen's colleague and fellow K-RITH researcher Dr. Max O'Donnell. "TB and HIV are so complex, there are so many questions that need to be answered. It can feel overwhelming at times. But I am so grateful I could be there."
Ms. Shi echoed those thoughts. "We were at the epicenter of the epidemic, seeing it day in and day out, learning day in and day out," she said. "Everything felt like a 'first' to me. It was truly a great experience."
One factor that surprised both students was the language barrier that sometimes made communication difficult. Nearly all patients spoke Zulu; almost no doctors did, requiring nurses to serve as translators. The two Einstein students and the other interns were often at a loss for words, literally.
"These patients have to confront so many barriers," Ms. Shi said. "They often lack money. Getting to the hospital can be difficult. They have to take many medications according to complicated schedules, and when there's a language difference between them and their doctors, they can't ask questions directly."
Ms. Liu said, "How do you share information vital to treating a patient when you can barely communicate with them? Not only did this internship highlight how absolutely critical communication is to good medical practice, but it also taught me to be more mindful of differences between people and cultures. This experience really expanded my horizons."
Indeed, teaching students to deal with differences may be one of global health fellowship's greatest benefits.
"Being immersed in another system, in another culture, is disruptive. It forces you to ask questions," said Dr. Larsen. "That's important for any scientist."
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DALLAS – Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have made a key observation regarding how fat cells (also referred to as adipocytes) interact with tumor cells and thereby allow a cancer to thrive in dense breast tissue or fatty livers.
Fat cells near tumors secrete a variety of extracellular factors, some of which boost tumor development and progression, the UT Southwestern researchers report in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The correlation between obesity and various solid and hematological cancers – along with other diseases like diabetes, osteoarthritis, and cardiovascular disease – has long been known. The ongoing challenge – and the focus of this latest investigation by Dr. Philipp Scherer, Director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern – is to identify which extracellular factors are most important in driving tumor growth and to determine how to target them.
The UTSW research has found that endotrophin is a fat cell-derived extracellular factor that fuels the growth of breast tumors in mice. Working with the lead author, Dr. Jiyoung Park, assistant instructor of internal medicine, Dr. Scherer showed that blocking endotrophin secreted by the rodent's fat cells had a remarkable effect on breast cancer tumors: blocking endotrophin with an antibody not only reduced tumor growth, but also prevented the cancer from metastasizing to other parts of the body.
"Not all fat is bad, but endotrophin happens to be more abundant in unhealthy fat tissue," Dr. Scherer said. "In the context of tumor growth, fat cell-derived endotrophin stimulates the growth of blood vessels that in turn feed cancer cells and enables the tumor to grow more rapidly.
"As we gain weight, we not only have an increased risk of developing cancer, but we also decrease the chance of successfully fighting the tumor," Dr. Scherer said.
The researchers said future efforts will explore various pathological settings to establish whether this blocking approach is a viable strategy in the clinic.
The study received support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Defense Fellowship.
Visit the Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center to learn more about oncology at UT Southwestern, including highly individualized treatments for cancer at the region's only National Cancer Institute-designated center.
About UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern, one of the premier medical centers in the nation, integrates pioneering biomedical research with exceptional clinical care and education. The institution's faculty has many distinguished members, including five who have been awarded Nobel Prizes since 1985. Numbering more than 2,700, the faculty is responsible for groundbreaking medical advances and is committed to translating science-driven research quickly to new clinical treatments. UT Southwestern physicians provide medical care in 40 specialties to more than 100,000 hospitalized patients and oversee nearly 2 million outpatient visits a year.
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Thank you for visiting my site. Hopefully, you are here looking for a book or two, or just curious to see what I've been up to. For the latter, please visit my Blog, I do my best to add something there a few times a week.
I'm often asked why I write. The simplest answer is: because I want to. But seriously, I love to write and when I'm pounding out the words on my little MacBookAir everything seems to feel right in the world.
Almost thirty years ago, I wrote my first song. After that, I wrote a few dozen more, along with a hundred poems... after all, aren't lyrics poetry too?
My first published prose happened to be one of those poems. On a whim, I'd sent a few off to a greeting card company and heard back from one of their editors. They sent me a contract, which I eagerly signed, licensing them to use my poem. They even gave me a credit on the card. I was on my way! Yeah! Well, not quite. Today, those poems and song lyrics are sitting in a box, buried somewhere in my basement. Maybe one day I'll go through the exercise of typing in all those poems (used a typewriter in those days), and then format them into something I can give away on Amazon. It'd be a project, but someone might give it a read.
I wrote my first novel almost fifteen years ago. A dreadful tale about the personification of Death—like that hasn't been done before. The writing was clunky, the grammar bad, but I was having fun. And then tragedy! With eighty percent of the first draft complete, my hard-drive crashed. Keep in mind that I am talking about a time before Dropbox or home networks and Drobos or even some decent backup software. I've kept the hard drive, promising myself to reclaim the platters if I ever make enough money from my writing. I do have one printed copy of that story, a partial at best, and guess where that is? The basement.
After almost finishing a novel, life got Lifey and a dozen years passed before the writing bug would strike again. I still remember the day… a Virginia Beach vacation with my family and a story suddenly popped in my head. I'm always coming up with stories, but this time I saw words too. Using an iPad and the Notes App, I jotted down the opening page. And that was that, I started writing and didn't stop for another 100k words..
I try to write and read a little every day, but life still gets lifey, and most of the time my lofty goal of a few thousand words amounts to just a few hundred. I never let that bother me—okay just a little—I do the best that I can. As for writing, I have a few things to share about that too, which you can find further down.
Thanx again for visiting my page and please sign up to receive my newsletter, or contact me if you have a question.
Stephen King
If you're a new writer and trying to find the path to getting your words in front of readers, then indie publishing is one of the fastest.
Just recently, two well known authors wrote, edited and published new stories in the course of a single day. A few tweets, some posts on Facebook, and their fans were reading the new stories. And isn't that the goal?
How to get started?
When I'd first written a book, I had no idea what I was doing other than putting words on paper. I scoured the web, looking for answers to the questions I had, only to find that in most cases, I'd been asking the wrong questions. Publishing is a business: traditional or otherwise. Regardless of the success level you're after, put the time and effort into writing as much as you would with any other job.
Where did I find answers? How did I take that next step? I found Kindleboards.com, which has since been renamed to KBoards.com. Of particular value is the Writer's Cafe. I found myself visiting every day, asking questions, and even answering a few. I can't say enough about the community and how amazingly helpful the cafe is. I didn't personally know a single author before starting this journey. From the cafe, I've met dozens and have made new friendships.
There are a few recommendations that I kept, and still visit for a refresher every few months.
The first is Stephen King's On Writing: a must read! And when you finish reading it, then read it again. I'm not kidding.
Around the time of publishing my first book, Hugh Howey's Wool blew up. What an amazing run to watch, reading post after post at the cafe, wondering how far the story would go. Simply amazing.
From that success, Hugh gave back in the form of some fabulous blog posts. One post in particular was his advice to aspiring authors—bookmark his post and revisit it a few times a month and fill-up on inspiration. After all, inspiration is the secret sauce of every successful writer.
A piece of advice from Hugh's post that I've adopted is the balance of writing vs. everything else. Terrific writer and friend, Kay Bratt shares a similar message, and today I approach writing with this in mind. Today I'm a writer. Tomorrow I'll be a writer. I'll continue to be a writer and build my library for as long as I can. I've got the rest of my life to market and promote, but I have today to write.
I'll be the first to admit that promoting and marketing, and all that comes with it is not something that I commit as much time. When given the choice, I'll always side with putting my time into writing.
Once you've written your first story, you'll be in a position to hit the publish button. What are some of the tools and resources that I use? The list below is a basic list, which has been refined, and will continue to be updated as the tools continue to evolve.
Word - I put Microsoft Word first simply because nearly every platform that you can submit to will accept manuscripts in Word format. From Agents, to Amazon KDP and KindleWorlds, to every editor, Word is supported.
Pages - Apple's most excellent word processor, this is what I use every day. My love affair with this word processor blossomed a few years ago, but then with Apple's 5.0 release, the love has wilted some and I've started to feel a bit lost. The fix (though somewhat temporary) was to stay with version 4.3.
Scrivener - Quite a few authors have moved their entire writing workflow to the Scrivener platform. There isn't much that you can't do with Scrivener. After all story changes, and the umpteenth draft from the editor is vetted, it is time to format. You can always send the work out and have a service perform the formatting, but I like to do my own and Scrivener is one of the easiest.
Photoshop and InDesign - For cover work and print formatting. And like the eBook formatting, there are plenty of services out there, offering book covers and print formatting. I let time and challenge dictate the need. For the more ambitious covers, I go outside. The same is true for print formatting too.
Editors - I cannot emphasize enough just how very important it is to have your manuscript properly edited. If your manuscript is on the traditional publishing path then you can skip this step. However, if you're publishing on your own, then find an editor and work with them.
If you're lucky, you'll find a copy editor who can't help themselves and will wear the development editor's hat while working with your manuscript. Editors are readers first and can help a story shine with just a little bit of tugging and pushing.
Writer's Cafe - mentioned above. Stop right now, visit the Writer's Cafe and bookmark that page!!
Brian Johnson - The Breakfast Club
Who am I?
I'm a resident of Virginia, living with my wife and children, along with three cats (sometimes more), a mouse, parrot, lizard and the funniest chinchilla on the east coast.
Although I live in Virginia, my heart is still in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where I grew up. And I hope that one day, I'll be able to call Philadelphia home again.
Growing up, I liked to read short stories, but struggled with the words. You see, I had a secret: a sad little secret. Ashamed and embarrassed, I was the little kid in the back row of the schoolroom, quietly moving my lips along with the class while everyone read aloud. I couldn't read. I couldn't write. I hoped nobody would notice, but they did. They always did.
By the time I'd reached the fourth grade, my secret wasn't a secret anymore. The teachers knew something was wrong. Dyslexia. Maybe that is why I liked science fiction so much? All those crazy looking glyphs on the screen, glowing, flashing.
The fix? Back to the third grade for me, and then special classes three days a week. It worked. Once I started reading, I never stopped. Stephen King, Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz, and even the Judy Blume books my sisters discarded.
I'm still one of the slowest readers I know, but school was never a problem again. I finally graduated the third grade, and then kept on going until I finished my Masters.
These days, I work as an engineer and spend my nights writing, editing and thinking up the next great story.


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The hoopla surrounding Florida freshman forward Chris Walker's debut created a frenzied atmosphere in the O'Connell Center.
The hoopla surrounding Florida freshman forward Chris Walker's debut created a frenzied atmosphere in the O'Connell Center.
But in the end, UF's backcourt stole the show in its 68-58 win over Missouri before 12,123 at the O'Connell Center. After struggling against Missouri's mix of zone defenses in the first half, senior point guard Scottie Wilbekin and sophomore shooting guard Michael Frazier II stepped up in time to keep the Gators unbeaten in Southeastern Conference play.
Wilbekin finished with a team-high 19 points, while Frazier scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half on four 3-pointers.
The Gators (20-2, 9-0 SEC) won their 14th straight, extended their school-record win streak to 28 games and notched their 16th straight 20-win season under head coach Billy Donovan.
"It was a struggle all the way through," Donovan said. "Nothing was easy for us. I didn't think that we played very well at all offensively in the first half. We played much better in the second half."
Senior center Patric Young added 13 points and six rebounds for Florida. Florida looked to him inside more in the second half in an effort to find holes in Missouri's zone.
"We know as the top team in the SEC, we're going to get everyone's best shot," Young said. "We don't want to have any letdowns. We want to bring our A-game every night."
Walker wound up with four points, two rebounds and two blocked shots for the Gators in seven minutes off the bench. The 6-foot-10 forward from Bonifay displayed his athleticism, scoring both of his baskets late in the first half on alley-oop dunks from freshman point guard Kasey Hill.
"I've known Kasey since ninth grade," Walker said. "We played AAU together. I just looked in his eyes. It brought back flashbacks."
But with the game tight, Walker played just one minute in the second half. Instead, Florida turned to Young, Frazier and Wilbekin to break away from Missouri in the final 20 minutes.
With the score tied at 45, Frazier hit back-to-back 3-pointers, pumping his fist after the second one extended UF's lead to 51-45. Frazier's fourth 3-pointer of the second half put Florida up 54-48. From there, the Gators maintained their lead for the rest of the game.
Frazier went 4 of 7 from 3-point range in the second half after going 0 of 4 from beyond the arc in the first half.
"I give him credit for coming back with some confidence in the second half to make some shots and give us the lead," Donovan said.
Wilbekin, who had made 86 straight free throws in Monday's practice, made 7 of 8 in the final 2:23 to seal the win. The 6-foot-2 Gainesville native had four assists and went 13 of 16 from the free-throw line.
"I want to get to the free-throw line and was able to make them," Wilbekin said. "Anytime you get free points, it's good."
As a team, Florida shot 72.7 percent from the free-throw line, above its season average of 65.6 percent.
"Our guys overall were a little bit better there than we have been in some of our previous games," Donovan said.
Junior guard Jabari Brown led Missouri (16-6, 4-5 SEC) with 15 points, with point guard Jordan Clarkson adding 14 points. But for the most part, Florida kept Missouri's high-scoring backcourt in check.
For the second straight game, Florida struggled from the perimeter in the first half. The Gators missed their first six 3-point attempts and finished 1 of 11 from 3-point range, unable to shoot over Missouri's mix of zone defenses. In its previous game against Texas A&M, Florida went 1 of 12 from 3-point range in the first half.
Florida trailed for most of the first half due to its early shooting struggles and inability to move the ball. The Gators finished with just five first-half assists, compared to six turnovers.
"In the first half, we moved the ball around the perimeter with no purpose," Donovan said.
Missouri handled Florida's press effectively in the first half, though the
Gators were still able to generate 10 first-half points off turnovers. Donovan stuck with the press throughout the game.
"What I did not want to have happen in the second half was them just to walk the ball up the floor, those guys stay somewhat fresh, there's no pressure against them, they are playing in a comfort zone," Donovan said. "So even though we didn't force a lot of turnovers … we at least made them have to work."
Late in the first half, an Earnest Ross 3-pointer put the Tigers ahead 23-18, but Florida responded with a 7-2 run. Walker checked back in at the 2:25 mark and scored his first career basket on an alley-oop pass from Hill. A second alley-oop from Hill to Walker with 4.3 seconds left in the first half tied the score at 25. But before the first-half buzzer, Brown was able to get free in transition and drain a 24-footer to put Missouri up 28-25.
In the first half, Missouri shot 43.5 percent from the field and 50 percent from 3-point range (4 of 8). Florida shot just 39.1 percent from the field in the half.
It was the first time Florida trailed at halftime since being behind 36-35 Jan. 11 at Arkansas.
But in the second half, Florida made adjustments.
"I told our guys at halftime when we were coming out that we've been in this situation before and we've won almost every one of them," Wilbekin said. "This is where we shine. This is where we play our best, in the close, tough games."


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Kris Kobach's immigration bill gets lukewarm response in Kansas
After four days of passionate testimony last week, Kansas' leading Republican lawmakers don't appear willing to tackle the aggressive immigration measures that Secretary of State Kris Kobach — a fellow Republican — has been advocating.
"I don't have a burning desire to address immigration this year," said House Speaker Mike O'Neal, a Hutchinson Republican. "If we do address immigration in some way, I want it to be something that gets a lot of buy-in and that people can agree this is the way to go."
Lawmakers in this legislative session have a buffet of choices on immigration compared with last year, when all of Kobach's ideas were rolled into one bill that died in a House committee. But this year immigration is competing for attention with such big-ticket issues as overhauling the state tax code and school finance reform.
If lawmakers follow some of Kobach's tougher immigration proposals, however, they would be passing bills that would:
Deny public benefits to undocumented immigrants.
Require governments to verify that applicants for public benefits are here legally.
Make it illegal to harbor undocumented immigrants.
Require police to verify of the citizenship of anyone they detain if they reasonably suspect that person is here illegally.
Kansas lawmakers could take a narrower approach and go with something that would only require the state to participate in an Internet-based system called E-Verify, which allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.
Interviews with lawmakers indicated that some variation of an E-Verify proposal might be doable this year.
"I think you will see something happen on immigration, but I think it's probably going to be pretty limited in scope," said Rep. Paul Davis, a Lawrence Democrat and the House minority leader.
Kobach said he think it's most likely that an E-Verify bill will get traction in the Legislature.
"As every Kansas legislator who goes door-to-door and talks to his or her constituents knows, the people of Kansas are becoming increasingly frustrated with legislative inaction on the subject of illegal immigration," he said Monday.
Kobach has argued strenuously for tough new laws to deal with the state's estimated 65,000 undocumented immigrants. Without doing anything, Kansas will become a magnet for illegal immigration, he warned legislators.
"We risk being the one state in the middle of a five-state area that has actually done nothing to discourage illegal immigration," he said. "At this point, we are the one state that is rewarding illegal aliens without doing anything to discourage them."
In the Missouri Senate, Lee's Summit Republican Will Kraus has crafted legislation mirroring controversial laws first passed in Arizona and Alabama. The bill mandates that all public schools verify the immigration status of enrollees and would require law enforcement officers to check immigration status on all stops when they have reasonable cause.
A Missouri House committee, meanwhile, has given its approval to legislation mandating the state only offer driver's license exams in English.
But there's a wild card in Kansas this year, with one proposal that presents a very different approach to immigration than the one Kobach advocates.
A coalition of businesses and the Kansas Chamber of Commerce wants a program allowing undocumented immigrants to help fill state-certified labor shortages in agriculture and other industries.
The program would cover undocumented immigrants who've been here at least five years and haven't committed more than one misdemeanor, not counting traffic violations.
Blasted by Kobach and others as "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, the proposal's future is uncertain. Leading senators seem more amenable to the measure, although some lawmakers don't think it will even get out of a House committee.
The reluctance of some lawmakers to embrace the immigration issue comes as there's some political blowback to similar measures that have been enacted in states such as Arizona, Alabama and Georgia.
At a time when lawmakers are trying to make the Kansas economy grow, it doesn't help for them to see headlines predicting that Alabama's immigration law — written by Kobach — could result in the loss of up to $264 million in state income and sales taxes because of illegal immigrants forced to leave the state.
And there are already signs that lawmakers there may rewrite portions of the law, which is being challenged by the federal government.
"The more people are learning about what has happened in Arizona, the more people want to shy from the direction (Kobach) wants to go," House minority leader Davis said.
Reports from Arizona about the recall of the state Senate president who backed that law, also drafted by Kobach, were on the mind of Senate President Steve Morris when he recently discussed immigration bills with reporters.
"I think that's the first time in history that a Senate president's ever been recalled, and it was strictly because of the support for that very punitive bill," Morris said.
Asked about the prospects of the more aggressive immigration proposals backed by Kobach, Morris said, "I don't sense support in the Senate for that kind of legislation."
In the House, Rep. Steve Brunk, a Bel Aire Republican who's chairman of the committee evaluating the immigration proposals, wouldn't predict how receptive his committee might be toward the bills.
But the fact that last year's single immigration bill was broken into separate pieces of legislation this year meant leadership didn't think the entire bill had a chance of passing, said state Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican.
"I think the bill this year that has the greatest likelihood of getting out of committee to the floor of the House is the E-Verify portion," Rubin said.
He noted that the bill requiring law enforcement to check the citizenship of people they detain would probably be the most problematic.
Capt. Tom Hongslo of the Lenexa Police Department warned legislators that the law could create a perception that authorities are targeting people based on skin color rather than their behavior, and that such detentions would take cops off the street for long periods of time.
"It is the time and it's the manpower," Hongslo told the committee. "Its not as simple as some people may think."
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BARRINGTON — Just over a year ago a movie entitled "The Big Year" made a brief appearance at some local theaters. It was loosely based on a book of the same title by Mark Obmascik. The book, a factual account of three avid birders on separate quests to see every bird species in North America within on year, received favorable reviews. But the movie, although it featured some good shots of birds, left much to be desired.
Lo and behold, another birding movie may be making the rounds if local theaters show any interest in such a non-violent, low-budget film. According to a review in The Christian Science Monitor, "Birders: The Central Park Effect" is "an affectionate movie about people who are delightedly obsessed about all manner of birds, specifically the more than 100 species that congregate in (New York's) Central Park … a little piece of nature right in the city." If it doesn't make it local cinemas, perhaps it will become available on DVD.
Locally, the next birding event is the Back Yard Winter Bird Survey, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10. It's easy to participate: obtain a packet from NH Audubon by calling 224-9909 or checking the nhaudubon.org website. The packet contains useful tips for identifying similar species such as Chipping, American Tree, and House Sparrows. We are asked to "watch and count the birds in your yard at any time during the weekend" and report them on the enclosed form.
The survey got started in 1967 and was originally called the Cardinal-Titmouse-Mockingbird survey, since then there were so very few, if any, of those species in New Hampshire, especially in mid-winter. Now, of course, the picture is far different, with Northern Cardinals and Tufted Titmice very much in evidence year-round, and Northern Mockingbirds less so, but still fairly common.
A species to be watching for is the Common Redpoll. A friend recently reported a dozen at her feeder. Similar in size and shape — and a fondness for thistle seed — to the familiar American Goldfinch, large flocks of redpolls—in some years—make a southerly, winter irruption from their summer habitat in far northern Canada.
Common Redpolls are brown-streaked overall with varying degrees of pinkish wash on their breasts, and have a black chin and a red spot on their forehead. Sometimes a few Hoary Redpolls, which are similar but have a white breast and rump, might be in a flock of Commons.
One fall at the Madbury farm a half-dozen Rusty Blackbirds stopped by and lingered for a few days, but this writer hasn't seen one since. Now comes a chance to learn more about this bird. "Rusty Blackbird, Elusive Denizen of Northern Wetlands" is the topic at the Wednesday, Feb. 13 meeting of Seacoast Audubon. Carol Foss, PhD, Director of Conservation, NH Audubon, will "take the audience deep into northern swamps to reveal the birds' basic ecology, share new discoveries, and hint at plans for future investigations."
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Australia's dizziness stopped that time when the day declared stumps at tea due to rain. It was third day for second battle of Ashes, where Australia badly stuck between a rock and a hard place. Australia firstly faced stormy acceleration of Alastair Cook and then Kevin Pietersen fixed the way of Aussie's devastation with similar fashion.
Cook resumed third morning with yesterday's unbeaten 136, whereas Pietersen started with 85 runs. They already gave outstanding stand of 175 runs yesterday, but good luck to Australia after an ages, Cook missed a terrific delivery of Ryan Harris and caught behind the wickets after adding 12 runs in this morning. It was the pleasant moments for Australia but it was just for a while.
After departure of Cook, his partner Pietersen becomes more aggressive, he found his feet and mesmerized Aussie's hopes of fight back. Pietersen treated Aussie's bowlers as head honcho for complete disaster. Pietersen scored unbeaten 213, second highest of his career, and he is looking in best position to overhaul.
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ROCKFORD - More than 200 artifacts and other museum pieces will need restoration in the wake of a broken water pipe at the Burpee Museum of Natural History.
The pipe broke between the time the museum closed Monday for the Christmas holiday and reopened at 9 a.m. Thursday.
Employees arrived to find 2 inches of water on the main-floor vestibule, gift shop and Milton Mahlburg Auditorium, where the broken water inside a south wall was discovered.
The floodwaters would have been even deeper if water hadn't leaked down the walls and air vents into lower-level storage rooms where the museum houses a vast majority of its collection.
"It was literally raining in here," Executive Director Maureen Mall said. "We're still mitigating."
Dispersed among the museum's diverse collection of 70,000 paleontology, geology, biology and anthropology specimens are 20 to 30 Servpro dehumidifiers and fans.
Like most museums, Burpee keeps 90 percent of its collection in storage, rotating exhibits as needed to keep the public coming back. However, much of the museum's storage space is in lower-level climate-controlled rooms usually off-limits to the public, with the exception of the Paleo Viewing Lab.
The museum reopened Saturday - except for the lower level.
Mall and other employees spent much of Thursday toting thousands of stuffed birds, wild animals and Indian artifacts, including a hooded buffalo-hide ceremonial coat, into the lower-level River View Room where the pieces were placed on tables and aired out.
"The smell of wet taxidermy is very pleasant," Mall said facetiously.
Even if water did not fall directly on an artifact, the sudden increase in moisture was damaging.
As an example, Scott Williams displayed a petrified dinosaur bone coated in a white grainy substance. "It's starting to leach out salt," the director of exhibits and science said.
Despite the water damage, Mall assured that no artifacts will be tossed: "They will either be restored or kept as is."
The total cost of the damages is still being assessed.
"We're working with the (Rockford) Park District and insurance adjustors," she said.
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In the run-up to Sunday's Oscars, nominees should remember: it ain't over till the fat lady sings.
Film critics, industry insiders and movie fans have speculated for months about who will win Hollywood's most prized trophy, and they've come up with a widely-accepted list of favorites.
But nominees who didn't make the short list shouldn't fear: the race for the statue is anybody's game.
This year, most think the best picture Oscar will come down to either "Avatar" or "The Hurt Locker."
But "An Education" and "Inglourious Basterds," among others, have received their fair share of critical acclaim and certainly have a chance at winning the title.
While the entertainment world can't get enough of the best actress battle between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock, the performances of Gabourey Sidibe as an abuse victim in "Precious" and Carey Mulligan as a teenager trying to find herself in "An Education" shouldn't be overlooked.
And even though Jeff Bridges won the Golden Globe for best actor for his role in "Crazy Heart," the quietly inspiring performance of George Clooney as a lost businessman in "Up in the Air" and Jeremy Renner as a member of an Army bomb squad in enemy territory in "The Hurt Locker" could give Bridges a run for his money.
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I quilt esposti sono vere e proprio opere d'arte. Giudicate voi:
A few days ago my friend Iris wrote me an email pointing out this exhibition that every two years is held near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in which take part about 40 artists.
The exhibited quilts are real artworks. Judge for yourself:
Per sostenre le spese del catalogo, è stato chiesto di donare una piccola opera tessile formato cartolina, fatta con qualsiasi tecnica e con qualsiasi soggetto. Queste opere verranno messe all'asta col prezzo base di 50 dollari. Ho raccolto il guanto, la mia 'opera d'arte' parte domani.
Iris tickled my curiosity by proposing that I took parte in a collateral event that celebrates the 10 years of this exhibition that has become one of the most important in the country.
In order to support the expenses of the catalogue, it was requested to donate a fabric art postcard made with any fiber medium and on any subject. These works will be auctioned with a starting price of 50 dollars. I took up the gauntlet and my 'artwork' will be in the mail tomorrow.
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• Sept. 29, 2006 | 2:23 p.m. ET
A tale of two brothers: The banker and the swindler (Dennis Murphy, Dateline correspondent)
Maybe residents get jaded with their city's nightly sound and light spectacular but even jetlagged and dazed as producer Marianne O'Donnell and I were after a 14-hour slog, we realized that arriving in Hong Kong at night is a "whoa" experience.
But we weren't shop-op tourists. We'd come to Hong Kong to try to make sense of the Pink Milkshake Murder case. That's what everyone there called it.
The detail of the pink milkshake—the one laced with knock-out nasties like date-rape drug—had captivated Hong Kong all through the monsoon summer a few years back.
The concoction had been blended up by an American banker's wife, served to the millionaire investment banker unwittingly, by their child.
Days later, Rob Kissell, was found stuffed inside an oriental carpet in a storage lock-up of his high-rise apartment, bludgeoned to death, said the authorities, by his fashionable wife Nancy. She struck him five times, the cops said, with a decorative metal object, an heirloom piece, a very heavy one.
Pieces of broken skull pierced the banker's brain.
"...blood was everywhere..." Hong Kong reporter Albert Wong would tell me when we talked about testimony from the sensational murder trial that followed.
It was hard to make-up: How behind locked doors Nancy Kissel slept in the same room as her husband's corpse, keeping the household help at bay in their sprawling luxury apartment. "She told her domestic helpers don't bother to clean up the room," Albert remembered, "while she continued changing the linen, changing the rugs, and then eventually wrapping him up in the rug, tying it up and ordering removal men to take it to a storeroom."
The jury would hear from the accused herself about an abusive marriage: drugs, affairs, rough sex. Was any or all of it true?
"It's going to be a Black Rain day tomorrow," someone said. And sure, enough, the next morning the skyline on the Kowloon side disappeared under the blackest skies I'd ever seen. Punctuation points of lightning and claps of thunder.
We had four days to finish our interviews, get our pictures, find the places where key events had taken place.
Then it would be time to get back to the states to wrap-up the second half of our story, the one about the stabbing murder of the Hong Kong banker's brother, back in Connecticut.
Robert and Andrew Kissel, two brothers, the banker and the swindler, millionaire's both, each found dead in the basement.
It was hard not to think that the two must have been born on a Black Rain day.
'The Milkshake Murders' airs Dateline Saturday, Sept. 30 8 p.m.
• Sept. 7, 2006 | 2:23 p.m. ET
Dennis previews Friday's show in a video blog from FloridaVideo: Romantic stroll turned murder
Click here to read the transcript to the show, and for a 'crime file' on Fla. vs. Barber.
• August 29, 2006 | 2:23 p.m. ET
Audrey's story (Dennis Murphy, Dateline Correspondent)
She's so composed, so rational, intelligent eyes, I can hardly believe she's put into words what she's just said. When I first met Audrey Kishline 10 years before, she was on "Dateline" telling us that problem drinkers, like herself, didn't have to give up alcohol altogether. If you just decided to cut back to, say, no more than nine drinks a week, and monitor it, you'd be an OK social drinker. She wrote a book and started a self-help group not unlike Alcoholics Anonymous. She called it "MM" for Moderation Management. She promoted her ideas on "Oprah" and the "Leeza" shows.
But Audrey, it turned out, had been kidding herself with deadly consequences. Even while she was on TV calling on others to drink less, she was secretly drinking more and more. Audrey's a smart woman, though, and saw the hypocrisy of it all and six years ago told her followers in an e-mail that she couldn't cut it with her own guidelines for MM and had decided to abstain from booze altogether. Wine had been her noontime secret taste.
But it was a bottle of vodka by the seat of her pick-up as she set out from her home in Seattle after a two-day bender in March of 2000. That's when she said this shocking thing, this married mother of two, in her early 40s. I had to look at the transcript we make of interviews later to see if I'd heard it right.
Audrey Kishline: Finally, I decided that I couldn't abstain anymore. And I was gonna leave the family so I could still drink.
Dennis Murphy: Choose drink over the family?
Kishline: I choose drink over everything! I couldn't imagine living without alcohol.
She left her family for liquor and on that same day drove her pick-up head on into a car carrying a teenage girl named LaShell and her father Danny. Audrey had been driving the wrong way on Interstate-90 out of Seattle. The father and daughter died, Audrey was sentenced to four and half years in prison for vehicular homicide.Video: Broken in prison
Back when I first met her, Audrey struck me as the kind of person who finds a passion, devours all the information she can about it and then tells the rest of us what she learned. She's a storyteller, at heart. The story she tells now— facing up to the unbearable horror of what she'd done, coming to find forgiveness from the mother of the little girl she killed— is an American tragedy, a story none of want to hear but like a bad wreck on the highway, one we can't divert our eyes from. And shouldn't.
Audrey's story airs Sept. 1, Friday, 8 p.m. on Dateline NBC.
• August 8, 2006 | 10:39 a.m. ET
Is this what a killer looks like? (Dennis Murphy, Dateline correspondent)
Could this meticulous, problem-solving, engineer actually have made a blunder that would never have tripped-up any self-respecting killer on "Law and Order" or "CSI"? Did he actually wrap his wife's body in one of their king-sized bed sheets, weighed her down with concrete blocks from the garden, and then dump the corpse in the bay off their waterfront home? And then toss the murder weapon a few feet off their home's backyard seawall?
Could anyone be so stupid? That rhetorical question would become a building block of Don Moringiello's defense. Would a certifiably smart man with assets in the millions kill his wife for no apparently good reason and then cover up his crime in such a clumsy fashion?
He said he didn't do it. There was a fight over dinner and she — Fern — stormed out, pulling her roller-bag behind her and declaring that she was going on a vacation from him.
Three days later, sheriff's divers recovered her body from the bay five doors down from the house.
Had he been framed? Had someone wanted his wife dead and made this gabby, amiable retiree the fall guy?
Tough questions for the jury to figure out. To listen to the testimony and look at the defendant. Puzzle through whether a killer could look like somebody at a Florida Early-Bird special.
"Five Doors Down," a report on the Moringiello murder case in Florida, airs Dateline Saturday, 8 p.m. on NBC. Click here to read a transcript of this report .
• March 19, 2006 | 11:13 a.m. ET
Bed bugs are back (Dennis Murphy, Dateline correspondent)
We're in Rob Allen's editing room looking at a full-frame creature with bulging eyes, hairy legs and a menacing twisty snout. Clearly, this must be a running buddy of the radioactive giant ants from the 50's sci-fi classic "Them." But, of course, it's just our old friend Cimex Lectularius, as your local entomologist calls him. "Bed bugs" to the rest of us and your exterminator.
And he's back. Boy, is he.
Slideshow: Strangers in the night Bed bugs in America disappeared about the time of the rotary phone. The upside of DDT, and long-gone pesticides like it, was that it worked very well. The little blood suckers were dead as the Dodo here but they lived happily on in Asia, Africa, eastern Europe. Now they're hitching rides in luggage, shaving kits, coming soon to a hotel near you, perhaps. Or a college dormitory, or your very own bedroom.
More pictures. Mary Ann Rotondi, the producer of Sunday's report, shows me photos of a woman from Pennsylvania, her body so coverered with red blotchy welts it looks like crime-scene evidence.
She'd checked into a New York City hotel last December. As she slept, sometime, probably after three in the morning, the bed bugs crawled out of the headboard, maybe from under the seams of the mattress, and began feasting on her blood. She was bitten by bed bugs in dozens of places up and down her legs, her arms, her face. For the next few weeks, she told us, life was an agony of itching.
"I was just clawing away at my skin," she told us, "I could not stop."
Two months later Mary Ann and the crew went back to that same hotel and guess what? Well, I hope you'll see.
Here are some fun facts about bed bugs we learned in the course of our reporting:
- They can live for an entire year or more on one blood meal.
- Exterminators are reporting infestations in 45 of the 50 states.
- They are as likely to set-up housekeeping in a five-star hotel as a flea bag. Good hygiene doesn't count.
- Disgusting as they are to anyone but an entomologist, bed bugs don't appear to transmit disease.
So, the old adage is right: you really, REALLY, don't want to let the bed bugs bite unless you're the scientist we met who has a personal collection of 10,000 plus bed bugs. But dinner hour with him is another story.
You'll see.
Dateline's special report on 'Bed Bugs' airs Sunday, March 19, at 7 p.m. on NBC. Click here to learn more about these creatures.


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Fort Trumbull goes national, again
It's been a while since New London took a big spotlight in national headlines, although a lot of stories did bounce around the Internet a few years ago, when the whale fountain was shut down because homeless people were accused of using it for personal business.
The big mother lode of national news attention on the city, of course, goes back to Kelo v. City of New London, when the city went to the Supreme Court to defend the taking of homes in Fort Trumbull by eminent domain, and won.
Kelo became a rallying cry nationally for conservatives, who often frame the debate as a war of liberal interventionism versus property rights.
So imagine the glee at the assignment desk of the conservative Weekly Standard, when they learned that nothing, NOT A SINGLE THING, has been built on the eminent domain properties in New London, takings blessed by the Supreme Court in Kelo.
And so not long ago, a writer for the Weekly Standard parachuted into town, to report in great, painful detail about the nothing that is now Fort Trumbull.
Of course this is not news to us here.
The long resulting cover piece in the Weekly Standard by Charlotte Allen is predictably in the conservative slot of thinking on the subject, blaming the liberal wing of the court for the Kelo debacle.
She even complained that New London won the case after hiring a "prominent civil rights lawyer" from Hartford. Those liberals ruin everything, it seems.
What was startling in the piece was the way in which Allen chose to validate the failure of Kelo by sharpening her pen and focusing on New London's continuing woes.
She starts out by describing New London as a "rundown onetime whaling port on the Atlantic coast that never recovered after the whaling industry died at the end of the 19th century."
Not only is that especially harsh but it is not exactly true; New London had a few good years in the 20th century, too, thanks.
She goes on to relentlessly tear down the city, from the steam leak in City Hall (who could miss it) to its drug trade.
I thought she also drifted into what has the makings of racism.
"Police raids on heroin and cocaine rings run by Dominican immigrants are a staple of New London news," Allen wrote.
Couldn't she complain about eminent domain without smearing an entire ethnic population?
I have been critical of Mayor Daryl Finizio and his slow development of an antidote to the harm eminent domain has done to the city, a campaign promise he has hardly begun to fulfill after two years in office.
Still, I thought he did surprisingly well in his interview with the race-baiting writer from the Weekly Standard.
Finizio, correctly, I thought, pointed out that the whole long controversy played out differently here than the way it was perceived nationally, through political prisms.
Indeed, much of the will here for the takings came more from a middle class belt of the city, worried about the tax base, than some intervention by extreme liberal interventionists, Finizio suggested.
"On the local level the case was about taxation and corporate development," Finizio was quoted as saying, adding that the debate before the Supreme Court, about the limits of government power, was different than the debate held here, around issues of economic development and lower taxes.
"There were a lot of people on the south side of the city who were tired of paying high property taxes, and they felt that something had to be done.
"My response to that has always been: If your taxes are too high, you need a smaller house. You don't have a right to bulldoze someone else's house."
Of course, others make the legitimate argument that there is middle ground in there, too, between paying higher taxes or living in a smaller house, a middle ground that stops somewhere short of bulldozing other peoples' houses. These are lower spending advocates.
I noticed some ripple effect in national news blogs, after the Weekly Standard story ran. But I think that will die down.
The story that nothing was ever built at Fort Trumbull is not that compelling beyond New London.
It will continue to be part of the diet of news and politics for a long time here, though, especially if more of that antidote does not appear by the next mayoral election.
If only some national news editors could notice soon that no one has been making personal use of the whale fountain.
This is the opinion of David Collins.


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aaamaretto necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 161 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Ours is a consulting company with an innovative approach to educating physicians about what words to put in their patient's medical charts. Our goal is accuracy in documentation (after all, DCBA stands for Documentation, Coding and Billing Accuracy). Don't be fooled though, we are NOT a medical company and would not like a medically oriented logo. We are a professional consulting firm. We're looking for a logo that better fits our new website (dcbainc.com).
Hospital administrators and staff (CEOs, CFOs, Health Information Management Directors). They are used to seeing pretty boring and mundane marketing materials. We want to show them something that will be appealing and capture their attention, without being flashy or gaudy, rather something smart and clever.
Would like a logo and a complementary favicon.
We don't like anything about our old logo. We're looking for bold and innovative while still professional.
Again, we are NOT a medical company, so no medical logos please :)
Logo should include the letters DCBA in the attached font (naked power rg.ttf). If you feel strongly about another font, we will consider. Was leaning toward a particular color for the font (#333366), but am open to other suggestions that fit with the website color scheme (dcbainc.com).
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Sure, the Miami Heat beat the Memphis Grizzlies by 33 yesterday, but this "Fox X Mo" clip from the end of the first half still bears mention. Why? Because America loves when LeBron James gets hit in the face and runs into teammate Dwyane Wade who, with a lowered shoulder, dropped him the floor like a sack of Cavaliers season tickets.
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Jim has practiced Family Medicine for over 15 years. His special interests are preventative medicine and healthy aging. He routinely tests and treats vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Jim leads a very busy family practice in the Orlando, Florida area. Prior to this, he practiced Family Medicine at Bardmoor Family Care in Clearwater, Florida and Physician Associates Family Practice in Orlando. He also served as chairman of the Family Practice department at Morton Plant Mease Hospital in Clearwater. Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with Cum Laude honors from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of South Florida in Tampa and completed his family practice residency at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Mark has a strong background in mathematics and started working in the natural products industry in 1993, in both sales and Research & Development. Earlier in his career, he won a People's Choice Award for "Best Tasting Health Drink" from a group of more than 10,000 health food store owners. Mark has launched hundreds of different natural products, sold in more than 30 different countries. He is a current member of the Natural Products Association (NPA) and the Institute for Food Technologists (IFT). He graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in Economics.
Dr. VanLue is a family practice physician with interests in: exercise, nutrition, wellness applications and functional medicine. During his extensive medical career, he has owned family practices and been a consulting physician for NBA's Orlando Magic, WNBA's Orlando Miracle, and professional hockey's Orlando Solar Bears. Scott graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Chemistry from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and served his residency at the University of South Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. Scott holds a Florida state medical license, a license from the American Academy of Family Practice and a certificate of added qualifications in sports medicine.
Dr. Steve Talcott is a recognized expert in food processing and phytochemical analysis of fruits, vegetables, and botanicals and conducts research on the appearance, taste, nutritional benefits, and food quality as impacted by natural compounds. These efforts have encouraged fruit and vegetable consumption due to a positive association between plant-based phytochemicals and their role in a healthy lifestyle. His phytochemistry research focuses on individual compounds and compound classes that are isolated and quantified for content, quality, and their role in health-promotion especially following post-harvest, food processing, and storage regimes. Specifically, the focus is related to polyphenolics and carotenoids, key functional elements of high nutrient density fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Talcott was formerly with Silliker Analytical Laboratories and the University of Florida as an Associate Professor of Food Chemistry before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University. He has chaired over 20 Masters and Doctorate student committees.
Dr. Susanne Talcott holds a PhD in Molecular Nutrition from the University of Florida. Her overall research focus is on assessing bioactive compounds in fruits and vegetables, dietary supplements, antioxidant fruit juices and other foods, in their role in the prevention of chronic diseases and the protection of health in an integrative, translational research approach (bench to bedside).
Dr. Talcott is also working in the improvement of quality and determination of health benefits of grapes and wine in collaboration with the Texas Wine and Grape Industry.
Dr. Aruoma was awarded a PhD in biochemistry and MSc in biopharmacy from King's College London, a DSc (Doctor of Science, a higher doctorate degree) in medical biochemistry from the University of London, and a BSc in biochemistry from the University of Sussex and an MBA in business administration from the University of Warwick Business School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci) of the Science Council, UK and a member of the Institute of UK's Institute of Directors.
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IT firm Tech Mahindra on Tuesday posted an over three-fold jump in consolidated net profit to Rs 1,009.8 crore in the quarter ended December, on growth in telecom, financial and manufacturing sectors.
The company had posted a profit of Rs 321.5 crore in the same period last year, Tech Mahindra said in a statement.
Consolidated revenue grew 33.5 per cent to Rs 4,898.5 crore for the reported quarter from Rs 3,668.3 crore in the year-ago period.
"Growth has come from our main verticals -- telecom, manufacturing and BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance). We remain confident of the success of our differentiated offerings," Tech Mahindra Executive Vice Chairman Vineet Nayyar said.
In dollars terms, revenue grew 17.2 per cent year-on-year to $791 million, while net profit was 175.7 per cent higher at $163.1 million.
"Our strategy and investments are aligned with market drivers and demands. Our focus on connected solutions for digital enterprises will continue to drive this momentum," Tech Mahindra Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director C P Gurnani said.
During the quarter, the firm added a net 2,165 people, taking its total headcount to 87,399. Of this, 57,601 were software professionals, 23,213 were engaged with BPO operations and 6,585 were associated with sales and support.
The company had a debt of Rs 342 crore on its books as on December 31, while cash and cash equivalents stood at Rs 3,459 crore.
During the December quarter, Tech Mahindra had announced its merger with Mahindra Engineering Services. Americas accounted for 46 per cent of its revenue while Europe accounted for 33 per cent and rest of the world was 21 per cent.
Telecom's share of revenue was 44 per cent, followed by manufacturing (19 per cent), technology, media & entertainment (13 per cent), BFSI (11 per cent) and retail, transport & logistics (6 per cent).
The company had 605 active clients at the end of December.


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Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel suspended for first half of Rice game
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel will be suspended for the first half of Saturday's game against Rice for what is considered an inadvertent violation of an NCAA rule regarding autographs.
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, school and NCAA officials agreed there was "no evidence that quarterback Johnny Manziel received money in exchange for autographs, based on currently available information and statements by Manziel."
Because of the inadvertent violation of an NCAA bylaw that says athletes are "required to take steps to stop" the use of their name or picture on commercial items sold by an individual or agency, A&M officials declared Manziel ineligible and submitted a three-part penalty that was accepted by NCAA officials.
In addition to sitting out the first half of Saturday's opener against Rice (noon, ESPN), Manziel must address the team regarding the situation and lessons learned. A&M also must revise its education of student-athletes in regard to signing autographs for individuals with multiple items.
The penalties can be reviewed by NCAA officials if additional information surfaces and further action is considered appropriate. NCAA bylaws prohibit signing memorabilia in exchange for money and the joint release said: "Based on information provided by Manziel, that did not happen in this case."
Wednesday's action ends more than three weeks of speculation about the eligibility status of the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and assures that A&M will start a former Tarrant County high school standout at quarterback against Rice: junior Matt Joeckel, an Arlington High School graduate, or Kenny Hill, a freshman from Southlake Carroll.
Speculation about Manziel's availability began Aug. 4, when an ESPN Outside the Lines report alleged that Manziel accepted a five-figure fee in January for signing items for a memorabilia dealer in Florida. Citing unnamed sources, ESPN followed up with additional reports of other signings for profit involving Manziel but indicated many of the network's sources were not willing to talk to NCAA investigators.
Manziel denied accepting money in exchange for his signature during a six-hour meeting Sunday with NCAA investigators in College Station, sources told CBSSports.com. Wednesday's joint announcement showed that NCAA officials were satisfied with Manziel's denial when weighed against other evidence they collected. His transgression that led to Saturday's suspension stemmed from violating the "spirit" of bylaws 18.104.22.168 and 220.127.116.11, which require an athlete to try to stop the commercial use of his name or likeness for commercial purposes.
Manziel was not available for interviews, and administrators from A&M and the NCAA issued prepared statements about the decision.
"Student-athletes are often asked for autographs from fans, but unfortunately, some individuals' sole motivation in seeking an autograph is for resale," said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president of academic and membership services. "It is important that schools are cognizant and educate student-athletes about situations in which there is a strong likelihood that the autograph seeker plans to resell the items."
Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp, who declared Manziel "innocent" of the allegations during a television interview last week, praised his quarterback and coach Kevin Sumlin for handling the uncertainty surrounding Manziel's eligibility status "with integrity and honesty."
In a statement, Sharp said: "We all take the Aggie Code of Honor very seriously and there is no evidence that either the university or Johnny violated that code."
The code says, "An Aggie does not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who do."
In his statement, A&M athletic director Eric Hyman praised the NCAA staff for "its fairness and professionalism throughout this process," as well as its expediency in getting the case settled before Saturday's kickoff.
A&M, the No. 7 team in The Associated Press' poll, is considered a national title contender. Wednesday's ruling assures that Manziel, barring injury, will be on the field for the team's Sept. 14 showdown in College Station against top-ranked Alabama.
Sumlin was not available for comment. But in Tuesday's news conference, he called the battle for the backup quarterback job between Joeckel and Hill "an ongoing competition."
By Saturday, one of them will replace Manziel in A&M's starting lineup. At least for the first half of the Rice game.


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san francisco – The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) has published a free grower guide, "Reducing Risks through Sustainable Winegrowing: A Growers' Guide," funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency. The 45-page user-friendly guide demonstrates how adopting sustainable methods reduces risk and can be an effective management strategy to enhance the long-term viability of businesses. The guide is available online at: www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/agrowersguide.php.
About 30-35 percent of the state's grape growers are uninsured, placing them at great risk, according to the USDA, Risk Management Agency Western Region Office. Moreover, crop insurance alone does not fully buffer risks to guarantee business success, and additional strategies are needed to minimize losses. The new guide recommends key practices from the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices Workbook and other sources to reduce exposure. Economic, environmental, and social concerns are addressed, revealing how these types of risks are often interrelated. Applying the practices in the guide constitutes an integrated systems approach.
The top risks covered in the guide are water scarcity, impaired water quality, decreased soil quality, diminished air quality and climate change, increased labor costs, rising energy costs, pest outbreaks, aberrant weather and unexpected market challenges. The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.
CSWA's Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP) is a ground-breaking statewide initiative that encourages and enables winegrowers and vintners to adopt the highest standards of sustainable practices. The program was established in 2002 as a partnership between Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG).
In 2003, Wine Institute and CAWG formed the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance, a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to assist in the implementation of the SWP. For more information on the alliance, visit http://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/aboutcswa.php .
USDA Risk Management Agency grant information can be found at: http://www.rma.usda.gov/. The agency can also be reached at its regional office in Davis, CA at 530/792-5870.


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Government Policy and Farmland Markets: The Maintenance of Farmer Wealth
Government Policy and Farmland Markets: The Maintenance of Farmer Wealth
ISBN: 978-0-470-38477-0 February 2008 Wiley-Blackwell 421 Pages
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As the most basic factor of production in the agricultural enterprise, farmland dominates the agricultural balance sheet, accounting for an average of 70% of all agricultural assets. The authors of this timely book provide expert analysis and review of this subject.
Table of contents
Section I: Historical Perspectives on Farmland Values.
1 Farmland Markets in the Development of U.S. Agriculture (Willard W. Cochrane).
2 Disaggregating Farmland Markets (Philip M. Raup).
3 Farmland Markets: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues (Bruce J. Sherrick and Peter J. Barry).
Section II: Government Policies and Farmland Values.
4 The Economics and Politics of Farmland Values (Andrew Schmitz and Richard E. Just).
5 U.S. Commodity Policies and Land Values (Bruce Gardner).
6 Explaining Regional Differences in the Capitalization of Policy Benefits into Agricultural Land Values (Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, and FranFois N. Ortalo-Magne)
7 Do Direct Payments Have Inter-Temporal Effects on U.S. Agriculture? (Terry Roe, Agapi Somwaru, and Xinshen Diao).
8 Economies of Farm Size, Government Payments, and Land Costs (Luther Tweeten and Jeffrey Hopkins).
Section III: Capital Markets and Farmland Values.
9 Capital Markets, Land Values, and Boom-Bust Cycles (Allen M. Featherstone and Charles B. Moss).
10 Hysteresis and the Value of Farmland: A Real-Options Approach to Farmland Valuation (Calum Turvey).
11 The Certainty Equivalence of Farmland Values: 1910 to 2000 (Charles B. Moss, J.S. Shonkwiler, and Andrew Schmitz).
12 Cash Rents, Imputed Returns, and the Valuation of Farmland Revisited (Kenneth Erichon, Ashok K. Mishra. and Charles B. Moss).
Section IV: Transaction Costs and Farmland Values.
13 On the Dynamics of Land Markets under Transaction Costs (Jean-Paul Chavas).
14 Spectral Evidence on the Investment Horizon and Transaction Costs for Present-Value Models of Iowa Farmland Prices (Douglas J. Miller).
15 Using Threshold Autoregressions to Model Farmland Prices under Transaction Costs and Variable Discount Rates (Sergio H. Lence).
Section V: Urbanization, Environmental Quality, and Farmland Values.
16 Local Land Markets and Agricultural Preservation Programs (Lori Lynch and Sabrina J. Lovell).
17 Efficiency, Equity, and Farmland Protection: An Economic Perspective (Lawrence W. Libby).
18 Urban Influence: Effects on U.S. Farmland Markets and Value (Charles Barnard, Keith Wiebe, and Vince Breneman).
19 Rural Amenities and Farmland Values (Lawrence W. Libby and Elena G. Irwin).
Section VI: Regional and International Dimensions.
20 Micro-Markets for Farmland: The Case of Florida and California (John E. Reynolds and Warren Johnston).
21 Effects of Government Restrictions on Land Ownership: The Saskatchewan Case (Jared Carlberg and Hartley Furtan).
- Gives an historical overview of the structure and performance of farmland markets in the United States
- Links farmland values and agricultural policy in the United States
- Discusses the capital market dimension of farmland values and the mechanics of farmland markets, especially the cost of buying and selling farmland
- Looks at environmental concerns, including the potential impact of urban encroachment and the role of regulations against foreign ownership of farmland on farmland values in Canada.


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1 dead, 1 in custody after shooting in Allyn Thursday night
A 47-year-old Allyn man is dead and a 34-year-old Shelton woman is in jail after the woman allegedly shot the man in the face at his home in the 100 block of Sherwood Lane East in Allyn around 9:11 p.m. Thursday.
According to a press release from the Mason County Sheriff's Office:
Mason County Sheriff's deputies responded to the home after 911 dispatchers were called with a report that a man had been shot in the face, and was lying unresponsive in the front area of the residence.
The woman who allegedly shot the man had fled the scene on foot, but was later found by deputies lying in the backyard of a neighbor's home.
Mason County Coroner Wes Stockwell has identified the man as Patrick Joseph Frender.
The woman was taken into custody and booked into the Mason County Jail for investigation of murder with a firearm.
A search warrant was served on the victim's residence by Mason County Sheriff's deputies where a firearm was found and placed into evidence.
Because this is an ongoing investigation; no further information is available.