text:
Cryogenic temperature monitors
Model 12i, Model 14i and Model 18i from CryoCon
We offer cryogenic temperature monitors with eight, four and two independent multipurpose input channels, supporting silicon and GaAlAs diode sensors, platinum, CLTS and Rhodium-Iron RTDs, Negative-Temperature-Coefficient (NTC) resistor sensors and all other cryogenic resistor temperature sensors, including an optional dual thermocouple input. The low temperature monitors offer built-in sensor calibration curves that support most industry standard low temperature sensors. Additionally, eight user calibration curves are available for custom or calibrated sensors. Each user curve may have up to 200 entries. The temperature range (between 500 mK and 1200 K) depends on the sensor type. The controller offers a wide variety of standard remote interfaces including Ethernet and RS-232. GPIB and USB are optional. LabView drivers are available for all interfaces.
|Two, four or eight multipurpose input channels
|Supports all common temperature sensors on the market
|Operation from 1.0 K to over 1500 K with an appropriate sensor
|Continuous data logging into internal non-volatile memory
|Built-in web server
Industrial Control Systems
- Modbus protocol directly interfaces to most industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Flexible input power scheme with Power over Ethernet
- Two high current relay outputs
- Remote command language is SCPI compliant
Cryogen-Free systems
- Up to eight input channels
- Two high-current relay outputs
General purpose laboratory
- Supports virtually every type of cryogenic temperature sensor
- Ethernet connectivity for ease of remote control
- Temperature activated relays and alarms
- Instrument status and control via a standard web browser
Distributed Instrumentation
- Ethernet facilitates separation of instruments over great distances so the instrument can be moved closer to the temperature sensors
- Many instruments can be connected to a single LAN
- Power over Ethernet simplifies power distribution
Superconducting Magnets
- Robust support for the NTC temperature sensors that are commonly used in magnet systems
- Internal data logging to NV memory records time stamped data and survives a power failure
Data Acquisition / Computer control
- Secure Ethernet connection
- Remote command language is SCPI compliant
- LabView drivers for all remote interfaces


text:
Prime Hide Soft Calf Hide Brown Leather wallet Trifold Design£15.995
Out of stock - We can let you know when it's back in stock
DescriptionPrime Hide Soft Calf Hide Brown Leather wallet Trifold Design. Soft Calf leather wallet with Coin Purse and loads of great storage options - stylish wallet from made from soft calf hide leather
Key Features
- Coin Purse
- 4 card slots
- Pouch pocket
- 2 note pockets
- Opens up for 5 card slots and an ID pouch
Nice styled wallet. Size closed - 4 x 3.5 inches ( W x H)
Delivery Information
All orders comes with free standard uk delivery included Orders despatched same or next day post via Royal mail Business post. Orders before 13.00 are normally despatched the same day - orders after 13:00 next day.Larger items such as Holdalls etc are sent via Courier.
View more information
Product Promise
We work incredibly hard to ensure that all our products are of the highest quality leather at all price points. We travel the world in the search of the highest quailty leather hides that are crafted into our products. We apply those same standards for the wide range a leather brands that we stock. Whether its one of our own luxury leather brands or one of the handpicked brands we offer are backed by our product quality promise.
Product Video

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Saturday for the development of his country's energy sector, the official IRNA agency said.
Each year, as part of his constitutional duties, the supreme leader of the Islamic republic outlines the country's main policies.
This year, Khamenei insisted on the need to "discover all of the country's (oil and gas) deposits".
On Friday, Tehran signed an agreement with a Swedish company to explore the Caspian Sea for oil, vowing not to let the unresolved legal status of the sea stop Iran from claiming its share of potentially vast energy reserves.
Iran signed a $226 million contract with Sweden's GVA Consultants. The company will build Tehran a submersible exploration platform expected to be up and running off the coastal town of Neka, in the northern Mazandaran province, in just under three years.
Khamenei said he also wants to change the oil export policy, with a shift of focus from crude to petrochemicals as well as the development of Iran's natural gas field.
In the non-oil energy sector, the nuclear industry was at the top of Khamenei's priorities. Iran's supreme leader called for "efforts to obtain nuclear science and the construction of new power stations".
The Iranian nuclear energy organisation announced Friday that the southern Bushehr power station, built in cooperation with Russia, will be operational within a year.
Iran says its nuclear programme is purely civilian and is regularly inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The United States accuses Tehran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and wishes to block Iran from receiving any high-tech military assistance from third countries such as Russia.—AFP.
(c) –Agence France Presse 2001.
© 2001 Mena Report (www.menareport.com)


text:
Or Login using BecomeGorgeous
Please fill the form below and follow the further instructions.
You are about to receive a email from us please make sure to check your spam or junk folder and add our email [email protected] to your contact list.
Thank you!
With just a couple of months left until the release of Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1, the promoters for the movie, Summit Entertainment, are teasing the fans with two new posters featuring the movie's hottest characters played by Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. In the sizzling poster shots, Bella and Edward appear wearing their wedding rings while in a sensual pose in each other's arms. In The Breaking Dawn part 1 titled Forever is Only the Beginning Bella will marry her vampire love Edward in a traditional open-air cer... Read More


text:
E-cards deliver on election, fiscal cliff
For those who like a little humor with their news, this year's most memorable political moments are best showcased in an unusual medium: the e-card.
In the heat of election season, it came in the form of: "I wish Nate Silver could predict when I'll stop hearing about the election." Or: "May you be as creative in calculating your age as Fox News is in calculating election returns."
Story Continued Below
But the end of the election hasn't meant the end of their political cards, particularly for Someecards, the popular — and popularly snarky — e-card site.
"I'm confident the fiscal cliff will get resolved before I'm able to comprehend an article about the fiscal cliff," says one. "Here's to the fiscal cliff negotiations making my workplace seem comparatively calm, harmonious, and wildly interesting," says another.
"Anything that people are talking about, anything that would have been water-cooler conversation, that kind of stuff we try to create humor around," said Duncan Mitchell, a co-founder of Someecards. "We've always tried to be involved if we think it makes sense, if we can make it funny."
He has noticed that the intersection of politics and pop culture — a nexus he hopes his cards will zero in on — has become more popular of late. Some examples:
"I wish autumn wasn't as confused about its identity as the Republican Party is."
"I hope Obama can grow the economy by the same amount he and Romney spent on their campaigns."
- "Thanks for sending me fewer irritating emails than Obama does."
- "Don't forget to vote on Tuesday for the slightly less awful and eventually completely ineffective candidate."
- "It was great hearing both political parties map out how they'll prevent each other from getting anything done for another four years."
- "All I want for Christmas this year is the 2008 version of Obama."
"I think people, more and more, are gravitating [toward] requiring humor mixed in with their pop culture, their news, their politics," Mitchell said. "I mean, that's why 'The Daily Show' and 'Colbert Report' do so well, and I think we want to be part of that conversation going forward. … That does seem to be an industry on the rise." Mitchell has noticed an increased interest in his site's political cards from media outlets (including the outlet you're reading right now).
"I think news is more interested in comedy, and comedy is interested in spending more time on news," said Mitchell, explaining the burst in attention.


text:
Whether they use tests, work samples, discussion, or ongoing observation, teachers make sense of students' reading and writing development. They read these many different texts, oral and written, that students produce in order to construct an understanding of students as literate individuals. The sense they make of a student's reading or writing is communicated to the student through spoken or written comments and translated into instructional decisions in the classroom (e.g., subsequent assignments, grouping for instruction). Because of such important consequences, teachers must be aware of and deliberate about their roles as assessors.This responsibility demands considerable expertise. First, unless teachers can recognize the significance of aspects of a student's performance—a particular kind of error or behavior, for example—they will be unable to adjust instruction accordingly. They must know what signs to attend to in children's literate behavior. This requires a deep knowledge of the skills and processes of reading and writing and a sound understanding of their own literacy practices. Therefore, it is important that teachers themselves be readers and writers who understand these processes from the inside out. The more knowledgeable teachers are on the subjects of reading and writing and the more observant they are of students' literate behavior, the more productive their assessments will be. It is particularly important that teachers who work with English-language learners possess the specific knowledge and skills required to recognize students' developing proficiency and help them become fully literate.Second, teachers must have routines for systematic assessment in order to ensure that each student is benefiting optimally from instruction.Third, because of the need for this level of expertise and because the quality of formative assessment has a strong effect on the quality of instruction, improving teachers' assessment expertise requires ongoing professional development, coaching, and access to professional learning communities. Nurturing such communities must be a priority for improving assessment. Teachers need to feel safe to share, discuss, and critique their own work in public forums with their peers. These conditions encourage the engagement of the multiple perspectives necessary both for learning and for reducing the effects of individual biases.Fourth, as agents of assessment, teachers must take responsibility for making and sharing judgments about students' achievements and progress. They cannot defer to others or to other instruments. At the same time, others must come to trust and support teachers in their judgments. Such trust and support are fostered when school communities are organized in ways that bring multiple perspectives to the assessment process and counter any inherent bias (see standard 5).Fifth, much of the assessment information in classrooms is made available in students' talk about their reading and writing. When students have conversations about a book, for instance, a teacher hears the process of their comprehending. Unless a teacher can generate such conversations among children, this information is simply not available.Unlike makers of standardized tests, teachers are in a unique position to engage in valid assessment. Because they are closest to students' learning, they have the opportunity to make many detailed observations over time. For example, the use of classroom portfolios can reduce the likelihood that a student's "bad day" performance will unduly influence a teacher's conclusions about that student's overall literacy. Classroom portfolios also allow a wider range of observations to be made in more diverse and representative situations, thus increasing the validity of the assessments. Teachers can adapt assessments to the special characteristics of individual students, instructional programs, and community expectations, as well as using their assessments to reflect on the effectiveness of their own instructional practice.Superficially, commercially published tests appear to offer an objectivity that teachers' classroom assessments may lack. In reality, our understanding of language asserts that it is not possible to construct an unbiased test of literacy. The basis for less-biased assessment repertoires is teachers' knowledge about learning and literacy. The foundation of this assessment ability is deep and diverse knowledge of individual students and of reading and writing. The more teachers know about literacy development in general and, more important, about the literacy development of individual students, the more insightful they will be about understanding students' literate practices and the better equipped they will be to provide appropriate instruction.Teacher knowledge cannot be replaced by standardized tests. Any one-shot assessment procedure cannot capture the depth and breadth of information teachers have available to them. Even when a widely used, commercial test is administered, teachers must draw upon the full range of their knowledge about content and individual students to make sense of the limited information such a test provides. A teacher who knows a great deal about the range of techniques readers and writers use will be able to provide students and other audiences with specific, focused feedback about learning. Indeed, students learn things about themselves and about literacy from teachers' feedback that no standardized test can supply. Most standardized tests compare students to one another, while teachers' comments can be specific and individualized, providing a clear picture of each student's special strengths and weaknesses. Students can then use such feedback in their self-evaluations. When students are able to engage in self-evaluation, they are more likely to take control of their own literate learning.
Copyright © 1998-2019
National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved in all media.
1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096 Phone: 217-328-3870 or 877-369-6283
Looking for information? Browse our FAQs,
tour our sitemap
and store sitemap,
or contact NCTE
Read our Privacy Policy
Statement and Links Policy.
Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use
Visit us on:
This document was printed from http://www.ncte.org/standards/assessmentstandards/standard2.
NCTE - The National Council of Teachers Of English
A Professional Association of Educators in English Studies, Literacy, and Language Arts


text:
San Diego kidnap survivor Hannah Anderson spoke out on-camera Saturday for the first time since the 16-year-old was rescued, thanking supporters as she left a car wash fundraiser with her father in Lakeside.
When asked by NBC 7's Steven Luke if she had anything to say to the public following her story, Hannah simply said, "Just thank you. Thank you."
Wearing a black knee brace on her left leg, Hannah had greeted her friends at the fundraiser and gave out hugs.
NBC 7 spoke exclusively with her father, Brett Anderson, at the event and he said his daughter felt compelled to attend the fundraiser and give her personal thanks to organizers and supporters.
"It's wonderful that [the community] is out here helping her. She just wanted to come out and thank these people personally," Brett said.
He said his daughter is still going through a lot, but the overwhelming support from the community – particularly her hometown of Lakeside – helps.
"[Right now things] are very difficult. Every moment is difficult for her," Brett added.
After a few moments, Brett told Hannah they had to go.
"We have to go? Oh, okay," said Hannah, as she hugged and said goodbye to other children at the car wash. "I've gotta (sic) go, bye guys."
Before leaving with her father, Hannah walked over to one of the organizers of the fundraiser, Traci
Paulson. She gave Paulson a big hug and said thank you, before walking back to her father's car and speaking to NBC 7.
The car wash fundraiser was held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lakeside's Living Hope Christian Fellowship church on Los Coches Road in the San Diego County community to benefit Hannah and her family.
The money raised at the car wash – about $1,000 -- will be donated to the Anderson family and will help cover funeral expenses for slain Lakeside residents Christina Anderson, 44, and her son, Ethan Anderson, 8.
The funds will also help cover ongoing therapy expenses for Hannah.
Saturday's event was organized by Traci Paulson and Bonnie Barker, neighbors of Christina, Ethan and Hannah Anderson.
Paulson said it marked the first time she had seen Hannah in person since her return to San Diego.
"It's amazing to see her. It made my day," said Paulson.
The teen's appearance, albeit brief, was the highlight of the day for organizers and participants – kids who grew up playing with Hannah and her late little brother, Ethan, in their Lakeside neighborhood.
Angelina Pellegrino, 12, has fond memories of playing with the Andersons – and one chilling memory of hanging out with Hannah the day before she disappeared with accused abductor James Lee DiMaggio.
"We had camp the day before she got kidnapped. We hung out with her the entire day and the next day, she was gone," Pellegrino told NBC 7. "The girls who were with her – we feel like we have to do this."
With the help of dozens of volunteers, fundraiser organizers raised nearly $1,000 for the Anderson family – a family still in shock.
"I wanted to do something to help the family and this is my way of helping," said one participant.
Alex Ramirez, a senior at El Capitan High School and fellow schoolmate of Hannah, said the brief encounter with Hannah was a welcome surprise.
"It was crazy. I didn't expect her to come," said Ramirez, adding that it was good to see Hannah.
Even better for Ramirez: the chance to do something for the Anderson family, one car and one donation at a time.
TIMELINE: The Search for Hannah Anderson
This was the second fundraiser this week for Hannah and her family.
On Thursday, a large fundraiser was held at a Boll Weevil restaurant in Lakeside. In her first public appearance since her kidnapping and rescue, Hannah attended the event along with her family.
Hannah's father, Brett Anderson, issued a brief statement outside Thursday's event, thanking the public for their support and giving a short update on his daughter.
"Hannah sends her love. She's doing good day by day. We'll just keep moving forward from here," Brett said. "We're just looking for her future and to get her settled."
In addition to these fundraisers, an Anderson Family Memorial Fund has been established at Wells Fargo. The account number for that fund is 3224408462, and anyone can donate.
NBC 7 has confirmed that funeral services for Christina and Ethan Anderson are set to take place at 11 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Guardian Angel Roman Catholic Church in Santee. As of right now, the service will be open to the public, unless the Anderson family decides otherwise.
Christina and Ethan Anderson's charred bodies were discovered by officials on Aug. 4 at the burned out property of kidnap and murder suspect James Lee DiMaggio in the community of Boulevard, near San Diego.
According to search warrants, investigators believe DiMaggio – a longtime friend of the Anderson family – "tortured and killed" Christina and Ethan on Aug. 4 before allegedly kidnapping Christina's daughter Hannah.
DiMaggio then fled San Diego with Hannah, sparking an Amber Alert that spanned across six states.
The pair ended up in the rugged Idaho backcountry near Cascade and Morehead Lake, where they were spotted by a group of horseback riders on Aug. 7.
After seeing the Amber Alert, the riders reported the sighting to authorities, leading more than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officials to the rural community in Idaho in search of Hannah and DiMaggio.
The pair was ultimately found by an FBI tactical team near Morehead Lake on Aug. 10.
Hannah was rescued safely by officials. DiMaggio was shot at least five times and killed at the scene.
Hannah has since reunited with her family and returned home to San Diego. Days after her rescue, the teen was fielding questions about her kidnapping on social media. On Thursday, she made her first public appearance since her rescue at the fundraiser in Lakeside.
The teenager's family has asked for privacy as Hannah continues to recover.


text:
A Mini Session is $150 and includes 15 minutes of photography and you receive a minimum of 15 edited high resolution images in an online gallery. It is designed for families, couples, or children that just need a quick updated photo. They can be used for holiday cards too! There are no outfit changes and I will pick a location for each day. There will be a certain number of time slots and they will fill up fast! If this sounds like a good idea for you, please check out the locations/dates/times below and sign up! (These are not available for milestones such as newborn, one year, engagement, etc.)
Payment must be made in advance to reserve your session.
5pm: Dennis - Reserved
5:20pm (golden hour): Straley - Reserved
5:40pm (golden hour): Bester - Reserved
6pm (golden hour): Nelson - Reserved
6:20pm (dusk): Zachau - Reserved


text:
Josphine (Age 23)
Ophelia, VA
About JOSPHINE :
"I love fun and sex and im merely looking for some adult online fun right now……
Have been out of the adult dating scene for awhile and def not ready for nething serious like a relationship.. Just casual encounters; quick fix with great sex
Send me a message and I might consider you"
Sherlyn (Age 24)
Broadway, VA
About SHERLYN :
"Idiotic comments, suggestions or remarks will result in u findin ur place on my blocked list! Lemme simplify this coz it seems a lot of u r struggling ta understand :- * NO – im not interested if your in a relationship (i aint like that) * NO – i dont wanna be a part of ur 3sum * NO – KIDS (They scare me, seriously, i cant tolerate em, so i wont be playin 'mummy' to urs) * NO – i dont want your money (you wanna buy sommat? Go to the shop) * NO – i dont want to go on holiday with you * and NO NO NO NO NO! – dont continue to message me if i dont reply to you, if i dont respond then its pretty obvious i aint interested (and tellin me im 'the one', you 'love me' n other such gibberish will get you nowhere, so dont even try)"
Kathern (Age 20)
Honaker, VA
About KATHERN :
"need a man to join my friend in fuckin me senseless.
As you can see my other hole feels really neglected so i decided to use a couple of fingers and stretch it up for you a bit..
I would really prefer a bit long cock just my my bf has for my other tight little hole..
Would you look to fuck my asshole while my friend fucks my pussy and takes some pics for our private stash?"


text:
Dickinson College offers a major and minor in medieval & early modern studies (MEMS). What makes our program unique is the flexibility students have to design their courses of study according to their own interests, enabling them to bring together courses from many different departments—English, history, art, music, philosophy, religion, classical studies and foreign language—around a topic involving European civilization from late antiquity to the 18th century.
MEMS is made up of 18 experienced faculty members, all of whom are accomplished and respected scholars in their fields of study. The major culminates with a senior seminar and a research paper or project developed with two faculty advisors from different disciplines who serve as mentors throughout the capstone experience.
The breadth and rigor of our program will prepare students who would like to continue their studies in graduate school, as well as a variety of other professions in the contemporary workplace. Your MEMS education, grounded in advanced competency in critical thinking, analysis and verbal expression (both written and oral), will be relevant wherever you go beyond Dickinson.
Contact Info
Melinda Schlitt
Prof., Art & Art History, William W. Edel Prof. of Humanities
Department Coordinator:
Michele Karper
Acad Dept Coord Art & Art Hist
2nd Floor, Weiss
Mailing Address


text:
How Gluten Attacks the Intestine in Celiacs
When someone with celiac disease eats the gluten found in wheat, rye, or barley, everything goes along just fine until the gluten reaches the small intestine.
The first thing that goes wrong is that the grain causes the body — in all humans, not just celiacs — to produce too much of the protein zonulin. This excess causes the junctions between cells in the small intestine to open too much. All sorts of things — like toxins and gluten fragments — can get into the bloodstream, a condition known as leaky gut syndrome.
In people with celiac disease, the body sees gluten fragments as invaders — toxins that shouldn't be there. So it launches an all-out attack against these invaders, but the body also attacks itself, which is why celiac disease is classified as an autoimmune disease.
Specifically, the body attacks the villi on the lining of the small intestine. As the villi get chopped down — blunted is the technical term — they can no longer be as effective in absorbing nutrients. That's why you see malabsorption (poor nutrient absorption) and nutritional deficiencies in people with celiac disease who still eat gluten.
Because the food is just passing through without being absorbed the way it's supposed to be, celiacs sometimes suffer from diarrhea. The small intestine is nearly 22 feet long, and damage from celiac disease starts at the upper part — so there's lots of small intestine to compensate for the damaged part that's not able to do its job. That means by the time you develop diarrhea, you're usually a very sick puppy.


text:
The Brea Line newsletter is the city's official newsletter. It is published six times a year and mailed directly to each household in Brea. Issues can be viewed online and hard copies are available and the Civic & Cultural Center. View the current issue of Brea Line in a "flip" version.
View current and past Brea Line issues in the archive center.


text:
British & Irish Lions 59-8 Barbarians, Hong Kong
Brits banned for Farrell punch
Tom Hamilton in Hong Kong
June 2, 2013
Schalk Brits is sent to the cooler © PA Photos
Barbarians hooker Schalk Brits has been hit with a three-week suspension after striking British & Irish Lions fly-half Owen Farrell in Saturday's match in Hong Kong.
The suspension could see Brits miss out on the opening three matches of Saracens' 2013-14 Aviva Premiership season. The incident occurred early in the first-half of yesterday's match in Hong Kong and Brits was cited by International Rugby Board citing commissioner Simon Ryan after hitting his Sarries team-mate Farrell with his arm.
Brits was handed a yellow card at the time and he could yet be free to play for Sarries at the start of next season if the panel allow their pre-season fixtures to be taken into account. But it could have been worse for Brits with IRB judicial officer Steve Lewis deciding Brits' offence warranted a five-week suspension, but this was reduced to three due to "compelling mitigating factors."
"The IRB's sanctions for foul play have been established on the basis that a one-week period of suspension would normally result in a player missing one match," the statement read.
"Consequently, he is suspended from all rugby up to and including the third Aviva Premiership match of the 2013-14 season, unless the judicial officer confirms in writing that any pre-season match shall be considered meaningful for the purpose of regulation 17.19.11 (d), in which case such match shall be included as one of the three matches."
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
Communication error please reload the page.


text:
quote:ORIGINAL: newattd1 I am still confused
quote:ORIGINAL: limadecaco Charlene, I've read and re-read your instructions and, like newattd1, I get why R1:C6 and R2:C6 are filled, and that R1:C3 and R2:C3 are blank, but after that I'm stuck again. How do you determine which of the remaining 4 squares is blank? It seems to me that it could be any of them.
quote:What I really need (I think all of us confused ones need) is a step-by-step for the whole puzzle. I think then it might sink in. I just know that this is a case where once I "get it", it's going to click and I'm going to have no trouble, but I've found literally no good help on the internet anywhere and just can't figure it out on my own.
© 1997-2019 Conceptis Ltd. Все права защищены.


text:
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 11/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 389,022 share decrease in total short interest for Itron, Inc. (ITRI - Get Report), to 1,041,536, a decrease of 27.19% since 10/31/2016. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days (at the average volume) it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed. Average daily volume for ITRI at the 11/15/2016 settlement increased to 435,479, as compared to 149,976 at the 10/31/2016 report. That brought "days to cover" down to 2.39, a 74.93% decrease from the 9.54 days to cover calculated at the previous short interest data release.The below chart shows the historical "days to cover" for ITRI at previous short interest release dates:
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ITRI makes up 6.04% of the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund ETF (GRID) which is up by about 1.1% on the day Monday.


text:
MANKATO, Minn. — No. 9-ranked Minnesota State defeated Michigan Tech 4-2 at Verizon Wireless Center tonight in WCHA hockey. The Huskies' Alex Petan scored his 12th and 13th goals of the season, but it was not enough to lift the Black and Gold to a third straight win.
Playing on the large ice sheet for just the fourth time this season, Tech had a hard time generating offensive chances. The Mavericks put up a 36-22 advantage in shots on goal.
"We couldn't quite get in sync," said head coach Mel Pearson. "Give them credit. Their speed and quickness gave us problems on the big sheet. They played a more tenacious game tonight."
For the fifth consecutive game, Tech got on the board first. MSU's Max Gaede was called for a five-minute major for boarding on Daniel Sova. On the ensuing power play, Petan fired a shot through MSU netminder Stephon Williams at the 4:35 mark. Jujhar Khaira and Ryan Furne had assists on the play.
The hosts answered later in the frame with a power-play goal of their own. Dylan Margonari walked in from the blue line and put one past Pheonix Copley.
The Mavericks found the back of the net again in the first 70 seconds of the second period as Eriah Hayes collected a loose puck in the offensive zone and tucked it inside the left post.
Petan knotted the game back up at 2-all with his second power-play goal of the game. The sophomore banked a shot from below the left faceoff dot off Williams and into the net. David Johnstone and Steven Seigo picked up assists on the play.
MSU regained the lead for good when Johnny McInnis scored on a slap shot at the 13:38 mark of the second period.
Tech killed off a 5-on-3 to start the third, but surrendered another goal at the 3:31 mark as Matt Leitner slid the puck around Copley.
The hosts kept the pressure on Copley the entire third period and posted a 16-7 advantage in the frame.
The Huskies finished 2-for-6 on the power play compared to the Mavericks' 1-for-3 mark on the man advantage. Copley, who started his 12th consecutive game, made 32 saves. Williams had 20 stops.
The two teams will skate again tomorrow to wrap up their two-game series. Faceoff is set for 8:07 p.m. ET.
Notes: Petan extended his team point lead to 28 on 13 goals and 15 assists … Sova returned to play later in the first period, but did not finish the game … Tech fell to 10-3-1 when scoring the game's first goal.
No. 9 Mavericks Top Huskies 4-2 in Hockey
|Michigan Tech (9-15-4,6-13-4 WCHA)
|Minnesota State (19-9-3,13-9-1 WCHA)
MANKATO, Minn. — No. 9-ranked Minnesota State defeated Michigan Tech 4-2 at Verizon Wireless Center tonight in WCHA hockey. The Huskies' Alex Petan scored his 12th and 13th goals of the season, but it was not enough to lift the Black and Gold to a third straight win.


text:
WHEN A SKELETON IS FOUND ON A TIMES SQUARE TOUR BUS, THE CSIs MUST INVESTIGATE WHETHER IT'S A PRACTICAL JOKE OR A MURDER,
"American Dreamers" -- When a tourist discovers a skeleton on a Times Square double-decker tour bus, the CSIs must investigate whether the remains were left there as a practical joke or if the person was murdered, on a rebroadcast of CSI: NY, Wednesday, Dec. 29 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Rob Bailey directed the episode written by Eli Talbert, one of the series' producers. (Originally broadcast 10/6/04)
After closely examining the remains, Dr. Hawkes discovers that the victim was likely a Caucasian male teenager who died from a blow to the head more than 10 years ago. Their search leads them to a bus station and a missing boy who disappeared in 1987. The team must then piece together the clues to find out how the boy really died and who was to blame.
Gary Sinise: Det. Mack "Mac" Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes: Det. Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo: Danny Messer
Vanessa Ferlito: Aiden Burn
Hill Harper: Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill: Det. Don Flack
Grant Albrecht: Dr. Leonard Giles
Johnny Sneed: Joel/Aaron Moreland
John Ross Bowle: Lester Jayne
Susan Ruttan: Mrs. Moreland
Charles Park: Mr. Moreland
Thomas Kopache: Paul Danner
Frank Medrano: Bruno
Latarsha Rose: Girlfriend
J. Kyle Manzay: Boyfriend


text:
Weld highways experiencing blowing snow, temperature warms in Greeley
December 23, 2013
Noon UPDATE: A tractor-trailer rear-ended a University of Colorado Health ambulance responding to a traffic accident at about 9:45 a.m. near the intersection of Colo. 392 and Weld County Road 27 in Windsor.
Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Todd Vess said the ambulance was stopped in traffic about 400 yards from the scene of the wreck when a tractor-trailer failed to stop and rear-ended the ambulance. He said the impact mostly damaged the rear end and side of the ambulance.
A paramedic and emergency medical technician stationed on ambulance at the time of the wreck were transported to Medical Center of the Rockies with "non-life-threatening injuries," Vess said.
10 a.m. UPDATE: The sun broke through a low-level cloud bank and is turning snowpacked roads in Greeley into slush after the morning rush hour wrapped up. Streets around the city were mostly clear after the storm dumped several inches of snow overnight.
Recommended Stories For You
Roads outside of the city, however, are a different story. Colo. 14 from Fort Collins to Ault is snowpacked and slick, especially closer to Ault. U.S. 85 between Ault and Greeley is also slick, and county roads in the area have several inches of snow on them.
The Colorado Department of Transportation reports blowing snow and icy patches along highways outside of the city including U.S. 85 toward the Wyoming border, U.S. 34 east of Greeley and Interstate 76 across Weld County.
CDOT also tweeted that there were multiple reports of accidents and slide-offs along those roadways this morning, especially in northern Weld where the commute was "treacherous.".
Temperatures are still predicted to warm up to around 40 degrees Monday and reach into the mid-40s on Tuesday.
Roads in the Greeley area and Weld County are snowpacked and icy in spots after a surprise winter storm left several inches of snow in the area.
U.S. 85 between Denver and Wyoming, Interstate 25 between Denver and Wyoming, U.S. 34 between Loveland and Fort Morgan, and Colo. 14 between Fort Collins and Sterling are all reported to be snowpacked and icy in spots, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
According to the National Weather Service, bands of light snow could continue to fall until 8 a.m. today. Heavier amounts, up to one-half inch per hour, are forecast for eastern Weld and Morgan counties.
Clouds are expected to clear the way for sunshine later today, with a high of 38 degrees Monday and a high of 46 on Tuesday in Greeley.


text:
- Super-middleweight
Kessler rematch offers Froch 'redemption'
IBF champion Carl Froch cannot wait to get into the ring with Mikkel Kessler in his bid to cement his legacy as one of the great modern super-middleweights before he hangs up his gloves.
The Dane's team finally agreed to a rematch with Froch in the UK just hours before the IBF set a mandatory title defence for the Nottingham native with Canada's Adonis Stevenson, giving Froch the chance to avenge his 2010 defeat.
A unification bout with WBA champion Kessler, and beyond that a return to the ring with Andre Ward, the only other fighter to beat Froch during his professional career, would be a fitting finale for the 35-year-old.
Speaking on Buncey's Boxing Podcast, Froch admitted the points defeat to Kessler in 2010 continues to eat away at him, and he is delighted to have the chance for revenge.
"It was fantastic news, it's a chance for me to redeem myself, where he's got a win on me on his record. It will be nice to rectify that loss," Froch said on ESPN's latest podcast.
"It's also important for me to get my legacy secured and intact because, boxing at the level I'm boxing at, when you get beat it grinds away at you and upsets you.
"It's one of the two losses, the other one being Andre Ward, that I can try and get the record straight with."
Froch believes that the conditions will not count against him this summer, with Kessler coming to the UK this time - and while he is likely to announce a London venue for the fight when the details are announced next week, he is in no doubt as to where the pair would meet if he had his say.
"When I boxed him before I boxed in Denmark," Froch added. "It was a good fight, it was close, everyone enjoyed it, but he was always going to get the win if it was a close fight.
"Fair enough, he beat me fair and square. I just feel that in the UK, me firing on all cylinders, Kessler won't have a chance. Not because it's in the UK, but because when it was in Denmark I wasn't at my best for various reasons - one of them being the volcanic ash cloud.
"Nottingham Forest's City Ground, that's where I'd have it," he added without a moment's hesitation when asked for his dream venue.
Despite the last-minute nature of the deal, Froch believes getting Kessler back into the ring was always a certainty.
"He's an honourable man, he a warrior like me. Fighting is in his heart. When I said to him 'rematch someday' and he said 'yes I'll honour you with a rematch' I knew he meant it.
"I was going to start giving him a bit of stick because it has taken him a long time to tell me when this fight was on. I wondered why - it was just him sorting out his business side of things with his promoters."
And though Froch insists that while the Dane can expect a war in the ring, beyond the ropes the duo are good friends.
"We've got various things in common - motorbikes, he's got a couple of properties that he rents out - we're just two of the same kind of people. We were talking about women and all sorts.
"I consider him a friend, I really do, he's cut from the same cloth as me. The way he fights, mentalities, mindsets - I don't have a bad word to say about him if I'm totally honest."


text:
DEMO 07 Kicks It
Attendio: It delivers localized event info directly to mobile devices. (Get ready to see an explosion of these kinds of services).
Blinkx.com: This video search engine has been in beta for a long time. (This service brings up videos that sites like Yahoo and Google seem to ignore. I hate the name).
Boorah: Uses natural language search to perform local searches. (Do we really need to ask search engines complete questions? I still prefer keyword search)
Boston Power, Inc.: New Lithium-Ion batteries that, among other things charge 50% faster than other Lithium-Ions.(No word on if they're less likely to overheat than Sony batteries).
Scram: Hides message and text inside images (Why, exactly do we want this?)
GETaBUZ.com: Now you can mix your voice with your favorite tune to create a unique voicemail greeting. (there are a shocking number of companies at DEMO offering voice and video mail solutions).
CircleUp: Send your question to a larger group and get back a single-organized result. (This kind of social interaction and information management is also hugely popular here.)
DesignIn: Plan your home and room design with others. (My wife and I can't agree on which pictures to put on our walls, how are we supposed to agree with a "community" of design helpers?)
Devicescape: Use a Website to register wireless devices (WiFi phones, laptops, etc), and don't worry about authentication at random hotspots. (I think this idea has legs).
DoMO: Mobile content sharing via your own personal "mobile portal". You create the content on your client PC and the app does the rest. (I bet you'll need a pretty good mobile browser to check these portals out.
Helium: Real world knowledge powered by ordinary people (sounds Wikipedia-ish to me).
Jaman: Share world-cinema with people all over the, um, world. (Interesting, see films that might never, ever make it to your local multiplex.).
Mywaves: Collect mobile video from popular sources like CNN, MTV and VH1 and create your own personal mobile channel. (I'm not sure I want to watch TV on some of these tiny screens.
Share2Me: Adds a button browser to Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari that lets you share digital content . (I hope it looks more exciting than it sounds).
OurStory.com: Capture you photos, videos and writings into a life-long interactive timeline. You can save them on the site, in bond books and on DVD. (Is anyone's life really that interesting?)
PairUp: A new service called "ConnectedTravel" lets you plan business trips that coincide with colleagues. (Great, now you can run into people you were trying to avoid on the road.)
Preclick IPM (Instant Photo Messenger): Now you can share photos without e-mail or visiting a Web site. (Gosh, is it that hard to do that?)
reQall: This mobile apps lets you record ideas, thoughts, reminders, whatever, when you think of it. Speech recognition organizes the thoughts and even sends reminders. (Bizarre spelling aside, I like this idea).
Seagate's DAVE: Pocket-sized mobile storage with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. (If it works as advertised, this could be a great pocket-sized idea.)
SplashCast: Another create-your-own channel idea. This one lets you create and mix channels of video, photos, text narration and more. Display the channel on any Web page. (Do we all need our own channel?)
Digger.com: A neither search tool. This one "infers" meaning from user queries. (Search officially bores me.)
Trailfire: Not exactly search. This product is about content discovery but following other users' online Trails of related pages. (Interesting, though I'm not sure it's compelling.)
Vringo: Viral ringtone service that also lets users "share" ringtones. (I'm not a fan of ringtones, a service that lets people do more with them makes me--oh, never mind.)
WHISHER: Many wireless networks and one app that promises to aggregate all of them into one "free global wireless community." (I wonder how people who charge for hot spot access will feel about this.)
ZINK: Zero-Ink printing. Real photos, no ink, nuf said. (This is one to watch).


text:
Lmp1 and Lmp2 Specific CTLs Following Cd45 Antibody for Relapsed Ebv-Positive Hodgkin's Or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (ALDI)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00383097
Recruitment Status : Terminated (The trial was terminated in 2010 due to lack of enrollment.)
First Posted : October 2, 2006
Last Update Posted : May 24, 2012
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
The purpose of this study is to obtain blood (up to 90 ml or 18-teaspoonfuls on one or two occasions) to make LMP1- and LMP2-cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and grow them in the laboratory in such a way that they are able to attack LMP1- and LMP2-positive cells in the laboratory.
If we are successful in growing these cells and if we feel they would be helpful to the donor, we would then give the cells back to the donor.
This trial is for patients that have a type of lymph gland cancer called Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or chronic active Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection, which has come back or not gone away after treatment, including the best treatment we know.
This is a research study using special immune system cells called LMP1- and LMP2-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (LMP1- and LMP2-CTLs), a new experimental therapy. As in chronic active EBV infection, some patients with Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma show evidence of infection with the virus that causes infectious mononucleosis (EBV) before or at the time of their diagnosis of the Lymphoma. EBV is found in the cancer cells of up to half the patients with lymphoma, suggesting that it may play a role in causing lymphoma. The cancer cells infected by EBV are able to hide from the body's immune system and escape destruction. We want to see if special white blood cells, called T cells, that have been trained to kill EBV infected cells can survive in the patient's blood and affect EBV-positive cells. In this present study we are trying to find out if we can improve this treatment by growing T cells that only recognize two of the proteins expressed on lymphoma cells called LMP1 and LMP2. These special T cells are called LMP1- and LMP2-specific cytotoxic CTLs.
|Condition or disease
|Hodgkins Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
|Genetic: LMP1 SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES Genetic: LMP2-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES
|Phase 1
Show Detailed Description
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|6 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Administration of LMP1- and LMP2- Specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes Following CD45 Antibody to Patients With Relapsed EBV-Positive Hodgkin's or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma or Chronic Active EBV Infection (ALDI)
|Study Start Date :
|September 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2010
- Genetic: LMP1 SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES
1 injection One of the following 4 dose levels: 2x 10^7 cells/m2, 1x 10^8 cells/m2, 3 x 10^8 cells/m2, 1 x 10^9 cells/m2
- Genetic: LMP2-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES
1 injection One of the following 4 dose levels: 2x 10^7 cells/m2, 1x 10^8 cells/m2, 3 x 10^8 cells/m2, 1 x 10^9 cells/m2
- Dose limiting Toxicity: Two patients in each cohort are followed [ Time Frame: 6 weeks post CTL infusion ]
- Safety: All patients who received CD45 MAbs and LMP1- and LMP2-CTL infusions will be included in the safety analysis of this combination regimen [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Laboratory data which includes CBC, BUN, creatinine, etc. will be examined at pre-infusion, and at 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks post- CTL infusion, 3-month intervals for the first year [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Frequency of T cells specific for LMP1-, LMP2-, and other EBV-antigens as well as T cell specific for CMVpp65 will be measured and summarized at pre and post-infusion time points [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Changes of T cells specific for LMP1-, LMP2-, and other EBV-antigens as well as for CMVpp65 from pre-infusion to each time point of post-infusion in the overall patient group. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Analysis of immunologic function of tetramer-positive cells in peripheral blood, and EBV-DNA in plasma will be performed at each time point of follow-up and paired comparisons of changes from baseline will be performed. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Frequency of T cells specific for adenovirus and EBV. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Analysis of anti-tumor activity; Overall response rates as well as by dose groups will be presented after the end of CTL infusion. [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Diagnosis of EBV-positive Hodgkin's disease (HD), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL; all histological subtypes except Burkitt's lymphoma), or EBV (associated)-T/NK-LPD, or chronic active EBV infection (CAEBV) after second or subsequent relapse including after autologous or syngeneic stem cell transplant (or first relapse or with active disease if immunosuppressive chemotherapy contraindicated). CAEBV is defined as i) illness for greater than 3 months duration (EBV-related illness or symptoms including fever, persistent hepatitis, extensive lymphadenopathy, or hepatosplenomegaly); ii) increased amounts of EBV-DNA in peripheral blood (equal or greater than 400 genome copies per ug of DNA) or abnormal high levels of EBV antibodies (VCA IgG equal or greater than 1:5120 or EA IgG equal or greater than 1:640; and iii) no evidence of previous immunological abnormalities or other recent infection that might explain the observed condition.
Patients with life expectancy greater than 6 weeks.
Patients with a Karnofsky score (age ≥16) of greater than 50 or Lansky score (age<16) of greater than 50
No severe intercurrent infection.
HIV negative donor (if autologous donor, patient must be HIV negative)
Patient, parent/guardian able to give informed consent.
Patients with bilirubin less than3 x normal, AST less than 5 x normal, and Hgb greater than 8.0
Patients with a creatinine less than 2 x normal for age
Patients should have been off other investigational therapy including T cell therapies for one month prior to entry in this study.
Female patients with reproductive capacity must have a negative pregnancy test. Women of childbearing potential must not be pregnant and must be on effective birth control. The male partner should use a condom.
Note: Patients who would be excluded from the protocol strictly for laboratory abnormalities can be included at the investigator¡¦s discretion after approval by the CAGT Protocol Review Committee and the FDA reviewer.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient, parent/guardian unable or unwilling to give informed consent
- Pregnant women
- Patients with a Karnofsky score of < 50
- Patients with a severe intercurrent infection
- Patients with a life expectancy of <6 weeks
- Patients with a bilirubin greater than 3x normal. AST greater than 5x normal and Hgb less than 8.0 g/dl
- Patients with a creatinine greater than 2x normal for age
- Due to unknown effects of this therapy on a fetus, pregnant women are excluded from this research. The male partner should use a condom.
Note: Patients who would be excluded from the protocol strictly for laboratory abnormalities can be included at the investigator's discretion after approval by the CCGT Protocol Review Committee and the FDA reviewer.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00383097
|United States, Texas
|Texas Children's Hospital
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|The Methodist Hospital
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Study Director:
|Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine
|Responsible Party:
|Stephen Gottschalk, Principal Investigator, Baylor College of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00383097 History of Changes
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|October 2, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 24, 2012
|Last Verified:
|May 2012
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


text:
DayZ Standalone Gameplay – Day 9 – Path of revenge failed
Let's play Dayz
Playing with some Belgian friends i met on 9lives or ingame.
DayZ is a multiplayer open world survival horror video game in development by Bohemia Interactive and the stand-alone version of the award-winning mod of the same name. The game was test-released on December 16, 2013, for Microsoft Windows via digital distribution platform Steam, and is currently in early alpha testing.
The game places the player in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where an unknown virus has turned most of the population into violent zombies. As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons, and medicine, while killing or avoiding zombies, and killing, avoiding or co-opting other players in an effort to survive the zombie apocalypse.
DayZ began development in 2012 when the mod's creator, Dean Hall, joined Bohemia Interactive to work on it. The development has been focused on altering the engine to suit the game's needs, developing a working client-server architecture, and introducing new features like diseases and a better inventory system. The game has sold over 1 million copies since its alpha release.


text:
John and Jenni Markello know they're the lucky ones. The Canton couple watch as their 8-month-old son, Parker, gets up on all fours in that "I'm ready to start crawling" position, and they know their little bundle of joy has come a long way since suffering a head trauma when he allegedly was shaken by a caretaker.
John and Jenni Markello know they're the lucky ones.
The Canton couple watch as their 8-month-old son, Parker, gets up on all fours in that "I'm ready to start crawling" position, and they know their little bundle of joy has come a long way since suffering a head trauma when he allegedly was shaken by a caretaker.
"Statistically, it's like winning the lottery for how well he's doing," said John Markello. "It's amazing for him to go from near death to no movement on his left side … and now anyone who sees him can't tell what he's incurred."
No criminal charges have been filed in the case.
Fulton County State's Attorney John Clark said the problem is, there isn't enough evidence pointing to who inflicted the abuse on Parker.
"Was it the father? The mother? A caretaker? From what we have, there really isn't enough evidence to where I feel comfortable bringing charges," Clark said. "Here we have no adult eyewitness and no confession.
"It's one of the most frustrating parts of our job — telling someone we can't file criminal charges," he said. "Wish we could, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do."
But this story isn't about placing blame.
This is a story of awareness.
It begins on Jan. 16, when John received several urgent phone messages from the baby sitter, setting in motion a chain of events this couple never imagined they'd deal with.
What happened
Jenni, 33, who teaches high school-age kids at Canton's alternative school, was at an in-service meeting in the high school library when John rushed in, waving his hands and yelling "Jenni" to a roomful of teachers.
She grabbed her belongings and ran out. Parker was on his way to Graham Hospital in Canton and would be taken by LifeFlight to Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, John told her.
John's morning began by dropping off the kids — Parker, then about 5 months old, and his 2-year-old sister, Sydney — at the baby sitter's house across town.
It was opening day of the late season for deer hunting, and John, 34, a technical document author for Caterpillar Inc., had taken the day off. It was one of those crazily frigid days in January, so John decided to hang out at home until the temperatures warmed up enough for him to hunt in the afternoon.
He played some Xbox 360, and at one point he checked his phone and saw he had four missed calls from the baby sitter.
He immediately called her and was told, "Parker hit his head and was acting funny," he said. "I took off and got there within just a few minutes. I went in and called 911 immediately, before I even reached him. He was in a seizure — stiff as a board, his arms were straight out, his wrists were turned in, his feet were turned in and he was moaning."
John followed the instructions of the 911 dispatcher and waited for the paramedics to arrive. When they arrived, he hurried to scoop up his young daughter, who was witnessing her baby brother in duress.
The baby sitter told the couple she was sitting on the hardwood floor holding a standing Parker between her legs. Parker was jumping up and down, got away from the baby sitter's grip and fell back and hit his head, the Markellos said.
The couple arrived at Graham, "and it was all a blur," John said.
The Journal Star contacted the baby sitter involved in the case. She did not respond to requests for comment.
The next step
At Children's Hospital, Parker was intubated for a brief time because of another seizure and spent three days in the children's intensive care unit. He eventually spent nine days in the intermediate care unit as the seizures continued.
Through various tests, doctors determined Parker had a nonaccidental traumatic brain injury, or shaken baby syndrome. There was bleeding on the brain but no external bumps or bruises indicating that he was struck on the head, his parents said.
Further, Dr. Steven Lichtenstein, associate clinical professor of surgery and pediatrics for University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria with a specialty in pediatric ophthalmology, saw a "lot of blood in the retina in the back of both eyes.
"It was very severe. It takes a lot of shaking to make the blood vessels in the back of the eyes to burst," he said. "The eyes literally go back and forth within the orbits and causes blood vessels to break."
Lichtenstein is the ophthalmologist called in for these types of cases at Children's Hospital.
"Unfortunately, we see hundreds of these cases," he said. "We had a real rash of them a couple months ago."
As for Parker's case, Lichtenstein said there was concern about a loss of vision. The blood has since cleared in the left eye, and the more damaged right eye is beginning to focus better.
"But it's too early to tell if the optic nerve has been damaged," he said. "It's a watch and see."
The road to recovery
Parker has endured three months of anti-seizure medications, CAT scans and endless occupational, speech, eating and physical therapies.
Dr. Andrew Morgan, medical director for pediatric rehabilitation at Children's Hospital, said Parker has improved so greatly that he doubts he'll have to see him for any follow-ups. Parker has been receiving therapy through Morgan's office but has dealt only with the individual therapists.
"There are no significant concerns," he said. "I know he's doing well."
Admittedly, though, the whole recovery process takes times.
"With shaken baby syndrome, there's a lot of hidden damage," Morgan said. "In my experience with these kids, interestingly, it seems they really do well or end up devastatingly impaired — cerebral palsy, seizures, mental retardation, visual impairment, and it's very severe."
For Parker, who is hitting his six-month benchmarks, his mother sees progress every day.
"He's seriously our miracle child," she said.
Jenni recalls during the worst of things hearing that various prayer chains were established.
"Someone told me about one lady from Utah. I don't know how it worked, but it worked," she said. "I'm very, very positive he's going to make a full recovery."
Jenni knows freak accidents can happen, but she's not convinced that was the case with Parker.
"I talked to (Dr. Lichtenstein) about two weeks after the incident, and he described the extent the forward and back shaking motion had to have been to have caused the damage he saw in Parker's eyes," Jenni said. "That was when I finally was convinced it wasn't some freak accident."
But she doesn't dwell on what happened.
"I'm just 100 percent trying to focus on him," she said. "I don't want to let anger seep in. I don't need that in my life."
John said the whole experience has been "really, really tough on our marriage and family in general. We have amazing support in our family, and I don't think we would have gotten through it without them.
"I'm a person who likes to get results very quickly, but with this injury we have to wait and wait and wait until he gets older and see what comes about," he said. "You try to keep it out of your head, but it never goes away. Through this all, Jenni and I have realized how strong we are and how great we are together."
As for Parker, "he's just doing phenomenal," John said. "His spirit is awesome."
Sharing their story
The Markellos wanted to share their experience with others to bring awareness to child abuse (April is child abuse awareness month).
"I think it's just that I was the last person who would believe this would happen," Jenni said. "People need to know it does happen, it can happen, and he deserves something. Parker saved his life, he fought for his life, and now no one is fighting for him. It breaks my heart.
"I'm not out for blood, I just want people to wake up and be aware. It's not always a bad person who does this. In a split second, they can make a bad decision."
John agrees, and he also wanted people to understand what the entire family goes through in situations like theirs.
"You hear about incidents, but you don't understand how much that family is going to go through, and not just for a few months or a year, especially with babies. It's going to be years," he said.
"And the person who inflicted the abuse, they've already done their part, they don't have to worry about the development — is he going to be able to see, have speech problems, agility programs — the list is endless.
"There's no baby out there that does anything to justify any abuse. When they cry, it's for a reason," he said. "It's just the innocence that's ripped away from them that bothers you."
Lisa Coon can be reached at (309) 686-3041 or email@example.com.


text:
For a fast and reliable plumbing service in Annapolis and across Maryland, you can rely on the expertise and first-class service when you choose Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing. We've been delighting Maryland home owners and businesses for over 30 years, and you can read their comments here and about our commitment to customer service excellence here.
Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing can assist with all your plumbing needs, including:
1. Rapid, Same Day Plumbers:
When you require professional plumbing service quickly, you'll really appreciate the rapid and reliable response provided by Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing. You choose the time that is convenient to you and we'll be there.
2. Professional Plumbers
You can rest assured that the technician who responds to your call to Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing will be a clean-cut plumbing professional. Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing hires only the very best plumbers and provides them with ongoing training to ensure you receive a first-class plumbing service each and every time.
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed Service
At Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing we believe in treating all our customers with a red carpet level of service – satisfaction guaranteed!
4. The Best Warranties
We'll show you the best plumbing systems with the best manufacturer's warranties to suit your needs, plus all Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing's workmanship comes backed by a written warranty for your additional peace of mind.
5. Save Money & Up-Front Pricing
Our expert plumbing, drain and sewer maintenance services are made even more affordable by our year-round special offers, discounts and promotions which will help save you money. Plus with Best Choice Plumbers you always know the full price before we begin any work.
6. All Plumbing Needs
We offer a comprehensive plumbing service that can provide a fast and friendly service for sewers, water heaters, repipes or any plumbing requirement you may have across the Annapolis area.
7. Fully Licensed & Insured
Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing is fully licensed and insured for all your plumbing service needs.
8. Clean & Tidy Plumbers
Your home will be left as clean and tidy as when we arrived, as our plumbers wear shoe covers and place mats down on all work areas as well as cleaning up before they leave.
For a fast and reliable service for all your plumbing, drain and sewer needs in the Maryland area, call and speak with the helpful and friendly plumbing professionals at Best Choice Plumbers Plumbing today.


text:
There are many ways to gather information about which center is best for you or a loved one. These include:
- word-of-mouth recommendations through trusted friends and family
- talking with a hospital discharge planner and staff
- discussion with your physician
- promotional literature
- on-site visits
- calling your state ombudsman (visit www.theconsumervoice.org/get_help)
- researching state and Medicare inspection reports (visit www.medicare.gov/NHcompare)
- researching using the internet (visit www.carelookup.com, www.seniorhomes.com, etc.)
Of these, perhaps a personal visit is the most important in helping you and your loved one gain a unique insight into the center, the staff and the quality of life of the residents. Make sure to visit each facility frequently and at various times of the day unexpectedly to ensure consistency of quality. Interacting with various different staff members, from the crucial leaders and directors, to the certified nursing assistants, and other frontline workers, will probably give you a good picture of the care that will be received daily. Ask many questions and observe the staff's relationship to the residents. Pay attention to the residents to see if they are happy and active and having their personal needs met.
Other things to look for on your visit are more general observations of the physical environment, such as cleanliness, organization, odors and food. A detailed checklist of things to look out for can be obtained here – http://www.medicare.gov/files/nursing-home-checklist.pdf
Take the document with you as you make your visits.


text:
Happy ThanksgivingNovember 21, 2018 10:33 am
Every day should be an opportunity to tell those around us how important they are and how much we appreciate them, so I wanted to say that to you today. Thank you for entrusting me to help you with your home loan or allowing me to answer any of the questions you may have had about buying a home.
If I can ever be of service to anyone you know who is looking to buy or refinance their home, please know that I will use the same excellent care with them that I did with you.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. I wish you all the blessings of the season and look forward to talking with you again soon.Holiday


text:
COATESVILLE - Where many saw rough edges, grit and grime, industrial artist Klaus Guido Grutzka often created light and airy paintings that are full of color.
Grutzka, who lived from 1922 to 2011, regularly painted the sharp angles and straight lines of factories. Many might consider his subjects as typically utilitarian industrial sites, including the mills and furnaces of the former Lukens Steel site that he regularly painted.
Graystone Society's National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum recently purchased from Grutzka's family more than 1,000 paintings and much of his paints and tools, while intending to recreate his studio.
Art is jammed from wall to wall and piled nearly floor to ceiling at the society's Old Lukens Executive Office Building at 50 S. First Ave. in the Lukens National Historic District.
During World War II, the plant employed more than 7,000 men and women. Today, the site is owned by ArcelorMittal SA. The steelmaker employs 890 workers in the Coatesville plant and is part of the world's largest steel manufacturer.
Grutzka, a former engineering student and prisoner of war while serving in the German Navy, was on the Bethlehem Steel Co. payroll and painted there as well as in Coatesville, at Phoenix Steel in Phoenixville and dozens of other industrial sites in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Grutzka worked primarily in pencil, oil, watercolor, pen, pastels and through photography. He designed posters, contributed to magazines and his work graced the covers of annual reports for several companies, including John Deere, Union Carbide Co. and Kelloggs. He was an assistant professor at the Hill School in Pottstown in the Art Department and then concentrated on painting for the last 20 years of his life.
Gene DiOrio is a founding member of the Graystone Society and a former Lukens Steel worker.
'An artist can find beauty in whatever he paints and draws - whatever inspires,' DiOrio said. 'It's totally subjective what appeals to an individual artist.'
Scott Huston is the great, great, great, great grandson of Lukens Steel founder Rebecca Lukens and said that the society's purchase of the Grutzka Collection was like discovering a 'gold mine.'
'We want to tell the industrial story,' Huston said. 'This is Pennsylvania's and the nation's industrial story. The industrial landscape - for better or worse - is disappearing in America. To take the visual landscape, and translate to paper, takes you to that world.'
James D. Ziegler, the Graystone Society's National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum executive director, is excited by the acquisition.
'We were contacted by the family of Klaus Grutzka,' Ziegler said. 'They were familiar that he painted the mills and furnaces of Lukens Steel. They wondered if we were interested in acquiring all or some of his collection. We immediately saw the collection's significance to the iron and steel industry we exhibit here at the museum.'
Lukens produced steel used in many U.S. Navy ships, the supports for the World Trade Center, many trains, tanks and even Seattle's Space Needle and the St. Louis Arch, according to Sharon Tandarich, property manager of the Graystone and a 40-year employee for Lukens Steel.
The society will display much of the Grutzka Industrial Art Collection at the Coatesville Country Club, 143 Reservoir Road, on March 21, one week shy of the second anniversary of the artist's death.
The event is open to the public.
The museum, with steel site related displays and located in the historic district, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on the upcoming event or the society's busy event schedule, or to visit the museum, go to www.steelmuseum.org
Part of the immense collection will be on display at The Coatesville Country Club, 143 Reservoir Rd, Coatesville on March 21 when the Rebecca Lukens Award is presented, one week shy of the second anniversary of the artist's passing.


text:
Hot Tub for hire
Hire a Hot Tub in Woking, Surrey
About: The UK's diverse Events Hire Company catering to all your entertainment needs within the South East and London region
About: Hi, we are a Bouncy Castle Hire Company hiring everything inflatable from inflatable games, Disco Domes to Inflatable pubs.
Recent review: Brilliant hire service. We booked 2 hot tubs for a private corporate event and were greeted by a lovely technician who installed the hot tubs very efficiently. Will definitely book again as it was a great addition to our party.
About: Your perfect experience... actualized If you are looking for a professional company with a wide range of elegant hot tubs to hire in Crawley Surrey, Sussex and Kent, then look no further, you found us. we hire inflatable hot tubs to all types of customers, from families, to parties and wedding
About: Family run Hot Tub Hire business providing customer in West Sussex and East Sussex with the finest Hot Tubs All our operatives are fully trained, criminally vetted with up-to-date CRB with full public liability insurance. Hen-Do's and Stag Parties Children's Hot Tub Birthday Party Weddin
About: Thames Valley Tubs is a family run local supplier of Hot Tubs, Bell Tents and party packages! We provide hot tub hire throughout the year and bell Tents In Spring and Summer only.
About: South East Hot Tubs offer luxury hot tub hire throughout Essex, London, Kent, Surrey, Suffolk & Hertfordshire. Please contact us for more information and a quote.
Recent review: "Initially they brought the wrong equipment, which then meant they were still setting up when people arrived. I would have preferred the young guy that was working the machine to be dressed smarter than tracksuit bottoms and trainers. Other than that, the pictures and system was very good."
About: We specialist in Dinosaur, Unicorn, Super Heroes & Princess parties. Tyrant the T-Rex is a 4meter long fully mobile Dinosaur that runs, roars, blinks and whips his tail. We also have a whole range of Super Heroes and Princess characters that will create very happy memories.


text:
Managing Friends and Relatives with Emotional Intelligence
Here are some ways that practicing emotional intelligence techniques with close friends and relatives can help you defuse difficult situations and maintain balanced, fulfilling relationships with your loved ones.
Starting with the endgame
People do sometimes completely cut off contact with relatives and friends, and you may find yourself in a situation in which no contact at all is your only sane choice, however, the following are cases in which you expect to stay in some kind of contact with these friends and relatives.
Because you've likely known this person for a long time, you probably already have a good idea how likely she is to change. Your relative or friend probably has ingrained habits or behaviors that you can't easily change.
Assuming that you still have to deal with this person for a long time to come, what can you hope for in the relationship? Here are some examples:
See each other only at holidays and family gatherings (once or twice a year)
Get together somewhat regularly (once every month or so)
Interact regularly (at least every week or more)
The less often you need to interact, the more easily you can deal with the situation. Regardless of how often you see this person, mentally prepare for these interactions by first thinking about how you will stay in control when you greet this person. Picture yourself greeting her and asking some opening questions ("How have you been? What have you been doing since I saw you last?" and so on).
Also, think about how you want the interaction to end. Suppose you're spending a weekend with your mother. Each encounter up to this point has ended with you feeling very tense and emotionally drained, and barely speaking to your mother at the end of the interaction. At the end of this weekend, you want to leave on an even keel emotionally and in a calm and cordial mood with your mother.
Getting to the relationship you want
If you want a less acrimonious relationship, a relationship that has a calmer and more civil discourse as an outcome, with your difficult relative or friend, you can take these steps to better manage your relationship the next time you meet:
Don't take the other person's comments personally.
Find out how to manage your emotions and stay calm.
Refrain from saying things that you'll regret later.
Take the heat. Accept being wrong on insignificant points (you may feel insulted, but so what?).
Don't try to make points or win the arguments.
Be gracious and polite (even when it hurts).
Try to discuss topics on which you agree.
When the other person brings up negative talk, stick to the positive.
Bide your time — the encounter will end eventually, and think how much better you'll feel after you say goodbye to this person.
Try to end your visit on a good note, verbally and emotionally.
You may never get to the point where you have the wonderful relationship of storybooks and 1950s sitcoms. However, you can experience less of the pain and guilt that comes with having a bad relationship with someone you're close to. Setting a realistic goal for the relationship can really help you frame your expectations in a more constructive way. Your expectations shape your encounters. If you start out with unrealistic expectations, you only get frustrated and angry when the interaction doesn't meet those expectations.


text:
Deathreads necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
5 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 65 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Day of the Dead related clothing and clothing accessories with a bit of a twist. Arizona based company. Trying to developing clothing items that are eye catching, macabre and are unique. Try to market something that is different than mainstream clothes.
Want a large Day of the Dead skull with a hand drawn quality with a lot of detail. Has to be bold and colorful. Looking for something dramatic. It obviously has to be an original. Please research Day of the Dead before beginning your ideas. Submitting a few examples that cannot obviously be used. Use these examples as your inspiration but hopefully you will get creative and design something unique that makes us go "Holy @#$%^!". We are hoping for a hand drawn effect with computer enhancement but take your imagination and run with it.
Again, it needs to have enough detail so when placed as a large piece on the front of the shirt, it will be effective. A design that people will be attracted to. Our logo will be on the back of the shirt so DEATHREADS does not need to be on the design.


text:
Model 150-7 Airbrush
by Badger
This double action airbrush comes with three different head assemblies and needles. The choice of head assemblies enables you to spray virtually any type of material. This versatility allows the Model 150 to be used for many applications such as fine painting, technical illustration, t-shirts, ceramics, model trains, planes, cars and various craft projects. Set contains one model 150 airbrush with medium head, attachable 3/4 oz. (22 cc) jar, protective cap, extra fine and heavy duty head assemblies with needles, 1/4 oz. (7 cc) color cup, 2 oz. (60 cc) jar with cover, 8 ft. braided air hose, 1/4 in. pipe thread fitting (adapts brush to compressor or CO2 tank) wrench for head, airbrush holder, and instruction booklet.
?Ask a question about this product
Average User Rating: Based on (2 Reviews)
Chuck C. from Kernersville, NC says:
Works like a charm... There may be better ones on the market, but this approaches the high-end at a fraction of the cost. One can certainly produce marketable work with one of these. I was pleased enough...[more]
Share this Product
Enter Quantity & Click 'Add to Cart'
Please wait...
You May Also Like...
How to get VIP Club Prices
Anyone can be a VIP Member with:
Only $25/year
Learn More »
Tips For Your Question
Your email will not be shared. We will only use your email address to respond to your question. When asking your question, please be as descriptive as possible, it will allow us to give you the most accurate answer possible.


text:
Temple Emanuel of Tempe is a vibrant Jewish community sustained by life-long relationships, excellent educational opportunities, and spirited fellowship. Since our founding in 1976, Temple Emanuel of Tempe has been a Reform congregation that honors tradition. We are an oasis for all who embrace … more
Torah Study
February 6, 2020 @ 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 7:15pm on Thursday, repeating indefinitely
It's the longest on-going discussion in human history – and here's your chance to join the conversation. Each week, the group reads, discusses and learns from sacred Jewish text. No Hebrew is required – everyone is welcome to join. Whether you come once or attend regularly, we invite you to experience cornerstone Jewish texts for yourself, along with an engaging and welcoming group of adult learners.
Non-members welcome


text:
Tina Dalgren via Crowdrise
December 10, 2011
BENEFITING: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, June 3, 2010
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named the nation's top children's cancer hospital in the 2010-11 Best Children's Hospital rankings published in U.S. News & World Report. St. Jude received the best overall score summarizing quality of care. St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children and serves as an international resource to physicians and researchers.
"This recognition is an outstanding external acknowledgment for our institution, but more importantly for the dedicated St. Jude faculty and staff who devote their time, talent and lives to the young patients we see every day," said Dr. William E. Evans, St. Jude director and CEO.
This year's rankings were based on how well a hospital did in three areas: reputation; medical outcomes such as cancer survival; and care-related indicators of quality such as the number of patients, nursing staff and other factors.
The 2010-11 Best Children's Hospitals rankings are posted at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals. They will also be published in the August print issue of U.S. News & World Report.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Ranked the No. 1 pediatric cancer hospital by Parents magazine and the No. 1 children's cancer hospital by U.S. News & World Report, St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world, serving as a trusted resource for physicians and researchers. St. Jude has developed research protocols that helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancer from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened to almost 80 percent today. St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium and the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. In addition to pediatric cancer research, St. Jude is also a leader in sickle cell disease research and is a globally prominent research center for influenza.
Founded in 1962 by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world, publish
The Team: $352 TOTAL RAISED SO FARJOIN THE TEAM
Donor Comments
marry morris
8 years ago
Aubrielle Dyer
8 years ago
Kevin McClave
In loving memory of all the brave and innocent souls taken too soon. 8 years ago
Marvin Morris Dyer 8 years ago
Angela Taylor
My childhood 9 years ago
9 years ago
jeremie siefert
9 years ago
Jerome Van Husen
:) 9 years ago


text:
My friend Paul called this morning and said when he clicked onto Chicken-Fat this morning and clicked on a picture to enlarge it the screen turned red and a warning came up saying the blog contained something to spy on his finances.
I apprecaite that he told me.
I looked at Chicken-Fat on my computer and on Anna's computer and got no such warning. So, I can not say if Paul's virus detector is off its rocker or it really sensed something.
Actually, it is Phase One of my plan for World Domination.
Read this blog at your own risk.
Labels: Blog Management


text:
If you've taken the subway in any big city after a night out, you've probably had to fight the urge to drift off. Sadly for you, subways are not the best bedrooms. However, the thoughtful folks at Improv Everywhere are trying to make late-night travel more of a sweet dream.
The merry New York City pranksters — the folks behind the annual No Pants Subway Ride — used the Astoria-to-Coney Island (via Manhattan) N line as the stage for their latest bit of theater, setting up three cots and offering pajamas, sleeping masks and earplugs to weary late-night riders. As they note: Sleeping on the seats is against the law, but no one said anything about sleeping off the seats.
Honestly, given the delays some riders face waiting for a train, the cots might make more sense in the stations instead.


text:
Saturday, February 1, 9:00a.m. � 5:00p.m.
Saturday, February 1, 9:00a.m. � 5:00p.m.
Free Day: Forget Me Not
Join us on this special day as we explore how we remember our history. Tour the first floors of our historic buildings, enjoy the smells and tastes of our historic kitchens, and explore the winter gardens�all free of charge! In the North Carolina History Center, have fun with the whole family while enjoying free hands-on crafts, such as quilt making with interpreters in historic clothing, or take advantage of our discounted gallery passes and visit our interactive exhibits, including the traveling exhibit �Blackbeard�s Queen Anne�s Revenge 1718.� Tryon Palace will also offer visitors a rare opportunity to dress in historic clothing and have their picture taken. These pictures will be taken in Mattocks Hall for a nominal donation and you�ll be able to walk away with your very own 19th-century Carte de Visite-inspired photograph.
Two free lectures are scheduled at Cullman Hall, beginning at 10 a.m. with a lecture focused on discovering your genealogy, and a second at 2 p.m. entitled �Filling in the Blanks: Rediscovering �lost� History.�
With TLC�s massively popular series �Who Do You Think You Are� already in its 5th season and Ancestory.com having recently expanded its services to include in-home DNA testing, there�s no denying that people are interested in researching their own genealogy! Join VictorT. Jones, Jr., Department Head of the New Bern-Craven County Public Library�s Kellenberger Room, as he gives invaluable insights and tips for anyone interested in genealogical research. His free presentation will be given at 10:00 am in Cullman Auditorium. And don�t miss Rebecca Arthur, adjunct instructor of American history for Liberty University Online, as she delves into �lost� pieces of our history and explores how historical research, living history museums, and archaeology can help us to rediscover them. Her lecture, Filling in the Blanks: Rediscovering �lost� History, will be held at 2 p.m.
Free Day is made possible thanks to a generous donation from the Harold H. Bate Foundation.
For additional information, please contact Tryon Palace at 252-639-3500 or visit www.tryonpalace.org.
Sunday, Feb. 16, noon to 5 p.m.
Last day to see the traveling exhibit, �Blackbeard�s Queen Anne�s Revenge.�
Thursday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.
�New York and the 19th-Century Slavery Question�
� Cullman Performance Hall, North Carolina History Center, 529 South Front St., New Bern, NC
� Free admission
Tami Tyree, an actress, historian, musicologist, and featured vocalist in the movie �12 Years a Slave,� will help Tryon Palace celebrate Black History month with a musical lecture entitled �New York and the 19th-Century Slavery Question.� Hosted by Tryon Palace�s monthly African American Lecture Series, this free event will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in Cullman Performance Hall. Tyree explains that while citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line were arguing the slavery question, slaves were artfully making their own statements. Preserved through oral testimonies, these stories from the hearts and minds of those in bondage were fused with melody and poetic verse to form the earliest religious folk songs. Known today as spirituals, these moving, historical songs from the past are described by Tyree as the freedom cry of enslaved African Americans.
Tyree lives and breathes these first songs of resistance. Noted for her concise and passionate delivery of African American history in song, she will deliver spiritual masterpieces and explain the slavery situation as it appeared in 19th century America. As a native New Yorker, she will highlight occurrences with an emphasis on the Empire State as a geographical, moral, and civil conduit for the abolition of slavery. Special attention will also be given to her role in the movie �Twelve Years A Slave� (2013 Golden Globe winner for Best Picture). The lecture is also based upon her series of articles inspired by the movie and the historical and current social issues surrounding it. The publication �Reflections on 12 Years a Slave� will be available for purchase.
Tryon Palace African American Lecture Series offers a free, new program on the third Thursday of each month. All performances begin at 7 p.m. in Cullman Performance Hall and are free, thanks to a generous donation from the Harold H. Bate Foundation. Special hearing devices are available if needed. Contact Tryon Palace 48 hours in advance of the performance to make arrangements. For additional information about "New York and the 19th-Century Slavery Question " and other programs at Tryon Palace, please call (252) 639-3500. Information is also available at www.tryonpalace.org.
Feb. 21 � March 19(Mon-Sat, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.)
Twin Rivers� Quilt Guild Exhibition
� Duffy Exhibition Gallery, NC History Center, 529 South Front St., New Bern, NC
An exhibition of quilts made by members of the Twin Rivers� Quilt Guild will be displayed in the Duffy Gallery in February
and March, which is National Quilting Month). For over two centuries, quilts and quilting have been one of the key ways that American women have commemorated people and times past, and preserved communities across long distances. In addition to beautiful, locally-made quilts, the exhibit will feature examples from some of the Quilt Guild�s service activities, such as quilts made for injured returning service members and veterans� hospitals. Visitors will also have the opportunity to see quilters demonstrate their skills and participate in a workshop to learn more about this unique art.
For additional information, please contact Tryon Palace at 252-639-3500 or visit www.tryonpalace.org.
Friday, February 21, 7:00-8:45 p.m.
USAF Heritage of America Band - Rhythm in Blue
� Cullman Performance Hall, North Carolina History Center, 529 South Front St., New Bern, NC
Enjoy a concert given by the United States Air Force Heritage of America Rhythm in Blue Jazz Ensemble at Cullman Performance Hall. This concert is free and open to the public. Rhythm in Blue features the diverse talents of 17 professional musicians whose commitment to excellence has earned worldwide acclaim and military distinction. The band incorporates a wide repertoire of jazz and fusion, from big band swing to cutting-edge contemporary music. Their fabulous vocalist radiates sounds of the great jazz divas and inspires with patriotic classics.
Activated in 1941, The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band has a rich history of inspiring public patriotism and enhancing esprit de corps among all the US military service branches. These world-class musicians are stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia. They travel throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, presenting over 300 events annually for the general public and in support of Airman morale and protocol events. The USAF Heritage of America Band remains at the forefront of communicating Air Force core values and preserving and enriching America's military and musical heritage into the 21st century.
For additional information about this free concert, please contact Tryon Palace at 252-639-3500 or visit the band's website www.heritageofamericaband.af.mil. Seating is limited and preregistration is required. Register online at https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=10034
Saturday, February 22, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 23, 2:00 p.m.
Deborah Boily in Concert
� Cullman Performance Hall, North Carolina History Center, 529 South Front St., New Bern, NC
The New Bern Civitan Club presents a benefit concert starring Deborah Boily. Described by writers from �Cabaret Scenes� Magazine as �one of the greatest cabaret voices on either side of the Atlantic,� Boily is a rare breed of singer. Combining a uniquely beautiful voice with an intelligence and sensitivity that transports the audience to a magical musical realm. Boily is known for transforming the stage into a place where artistry, skill and sheer talent reign supreme.
Both performances will be held in Cullman Performance Hall, located inside the North Carolina History Center, and feature the accompaniment of talented pianist, Jerry Atwood.
For more information and to purchase tickets, call 252-636-2217 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
March 1 � May 31
Spring Garden Hours
Monday � Saturday, 9:00 a.m. � 6:00 p.m.; Sunday, 1:00 p.m. � 6:00 p.m.
Last ticket sold at 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 15 � Sunday, March 16
Civil War Weekend: A Family Divided
This weekend of special events will explore the effects that war had on the American Family during the 1860�s. A special emphasis will be placed on the Stanly family. The weekend will include special Civil War-themed tours, programs, and craft activities.