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John Chute, M.D.
John Chute, M.D., is a physician-scientist who studies blood-forming stem cells. These cells, also known as hematopoietic stem cells, have the capacity to self-renew and give rise to all cell types found in the blood and immune system. Chute seeks to identify how the microenvironment, or 'niche,' that supports and surrounds blood-forming stem cells regulates their ability to regenerate and produce blood and immune cells. His ultimate goal is to translate these findings to develop treatments for a wide range of blood diseases and cancers, and to help patients whose immune systems have been compromised by treatments like chemotherapy recover.
Chute's laboratory has made several key discoveries that have advanced the field's understanding of blood-forming stem cell biology and regeneration. He discovered that endothelial cells — the cells that make up the lining of blood vessels—play a key role in blood-forming stem cell regeneration and identified two proteins that are essential to this process. He also pinpointed a gene, Grb10, a protein, DKK1, and an enzyme, ALDH1, which are all capable of accelerating or dampening blood-forming stem cell self-renewal. The Chute lab is working to leverage these discoveries to inform the development of drugs that boost blood-forming stem cell regeneration. Chute's team is also using this knowledge to uncover how leukemia stem cells fuel their growth in order to develop cellular therapies to halt this process.
Chute also discovered a genetic signature of toxic amounts of unintended radiation exposure that can be detected by a blood test within hours. This finding is informing the development of a novel blood test that would be critical following a nuclear disaster or attack, when first responders need to quickly measure radiation exposure en masse and determine who requires immediate treatment.
Chute's clinical responsibilities as the Director of UCLA Health's Outpatient Stem Cell Transplantation program inspire his efforts to develop therapies to expedite recovery after bone marrow transplants. He studies how transplanted blood-forming stem cells begin to replicate upon arrival in human bone marrow in order to identify new drugs that could accelerate this process. Through this research, he and his collaborators discovered a protein called PTP sigma that sits on the surface of blood-forming stem cells and regulates engraftment, the process by which blood-forming stem cells start to grow and reproduce in the bone marrow after transplantation. In pre-clinical studies, Chute found that blocking this protein led to a 15-fold increase in blood-forming stem cell engraftment. He is now working to develop a drug that can block this protein and increase the engraftment of blood-forming stem cells following bone marrow transplant, which could accelerate the recovery of patients' blood systems after common cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation.
Chute earned a medical degree from Georgetown University and completed his residency and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the National Naval Medical Center/ the National Cancer Institute.
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia stem cells require cell-autonomous pleiotrophin signalingPublished in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Tuesday, October 15, 2019
- PTPσ inhibitors promote hematopoietic stem cell regenerationPublished in Nature Communications on Wednesday, August 14, 2019
- Distinct Bone Marrow Sources of Pleiotrophin Control Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance and RegenerationPublished in Cell Stem Cell on Thursday, August 9, 2018
- Dickkopf-1 promotes hematopoietic regeneration via direct and niche-mediated mechanismsPublished in Nature Medicine on Monday, December 5, 2016
- Deletion of the Imprinted Gene Grb10 Promotes Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and RegenerationPublished in Cell Reports on Tuesday, November 1, 2016
- Protein tyrosine phosphatase–σ regulates hematopoietic stem cell–repopulating capacityPublished in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Friday, November 21, 2014
- Pleiotrophin mediates hematopoietic regeneration via activation of RASPublished in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Wednesday, September 24, 2014
- Epidermal growth factor regulates hematopoietic regeneration after radiation injuryPublished in Nature Medicine on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
- Pleiotrophin Regulates the Retention and Self-Renewal of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow Vascular NichePublished in Cell Reports on Thursday, October 25, 2012
- Pleiotrophin regulates the expansion and regeneration of hematopoietic stem cellsPublished in Nature Medicine on Sunday, March 21, 2010
Honors & Affiliations
- Elected member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2010
- Health Care Heroes Award, Triangle Business Journal, 2010
- American Society of Hematology
- American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Advisory board, NYSTEM/Cornell University research program
Chute's research is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.


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On September 20th, 2014, the Virginia Tech Hokies will play the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus Ohio. I think that the Hokies are going to take down the Buckeyes. I think this because in the last 10 years the Hokies have won more conference championships than the Buckeyes. Virginia Tech also has a lot better offensive line and Logan Thomas is a better quarterback than Braxton Miller.
Don't get me started on how the Hokies defense is better than Ohio State's defense. Ohio State has no good defensive players, and Virginia Tech's defense is way better and way tougher. The final score will be 35 to 14 Virginia Tech.

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Investment Outlook
Our 2020 investment outlook
In creating a robust investment strategy it's important to keep up-to-date about what's happening on both the global stage and in more specific areas.
Our downloadable outlook articles consider the key investment themes and areas we believe will play an important role in the year to come. The articles offer insight and analysis across a number of key topics.
To access any of the reports, please click on the links below:
A world in transition
The world is coming to terms with several factors that are significantly altering the outlook for the global economy, and the world we live in. How the world adapts to these challenges could have significant implications for financial markets in 2020 and beyond.
Global economy
The global economy is not growing fast enough for the comfort of policymakers in most of the major economies. So will governments become more significant contributors to global growth?
Three elements of European integration that matter to markets
An analysis of three specific areas which may play a role in determining the capacity for, and potential success of, further Eurozone integration in the next decade.
A focus on the outlook for the Asian economy, where the new decade starts with optimism.
Global interest rates in 2020
In a sluggish growth environment there is scope for policy rates to drift lower. Without a growth spurt and inflation to accompany, long rates will have little impetus to rise. A supply surge won't push yields higher either, if the Central Bank remains the buyers of last resort.
The credit story in 2020
There is still ample opportunity to generate income streams of acceptable quality in global credit markets.
Developed equity markets
Despite market reservations about the valuation of equities, particularly in the United States, global equity markets still look as if they have positive momentum.
Is this the UK's moment? UK equities are begging to be bought. The equity market sits at a near thirty-year low relative to the global index, and the potential return for a foreign investor is potentially enhanced by a further rally in Sterling.
Indian assets have the scope to deliver double-digit returns, but at the start of 2020, it may be wise for equity investors to be patient and wait for some absolute weakness to add to holdings. Fixed-income investors can be bolder with the Central Bank likely to provide further cuts in interest rates over the course of 2020.
Singapore's trade sensitive economy has been hard hit by global trade tensions. Yet is there cause for optimism for the city state's economy and markets in 2020?
Currency comment
The US Dollar is set for a period of consolidation as growth moderates in the US and interest rates remain low or decrease even further. However, it does not mean that due to more specific factors other currencies will be equally docile.
Precious metals
The allure of gold has both fascinated and captivated humanity for eons. Given the current unparalleled challenges faced by the global financial system, precious metals deserve the same focus and close attention.
Real estate
With the growing list of cash deposits and government and corporate bonds that offer negative yields, investors are looking into every corner of the investment universe for income. Real estate is an obvious asset class for income seekers.
Active vs passive
It is questionable whether investors are paying close enough attention to the nuances of active vs passive management when it comes to investing. 2019 continued the trend where even asset classes favourable towards active management, such as emerging markets, were biased to passive funds than active. In a low return world, investors should leave nothing on the table.
Defining the 2020s
As a new decade begins, it is useful to consider and analyse some of the potential evolutionary changes ahead.
A review of the factors which could impact global markets including economic, climate change and geopolitical considerations.


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The smartphone toting world is still very much in love with the pig smashing game of Angry Birds.
You can play the game on an iOS , Android or Windows Phone device. You can also play the game through your browser (if you're using Google Chrome).
Now, for your Microsoft Windows users there is a desktop theme made specifically for you to show your love for the characters and the sounds of Angry Birds.
The theme is a collection of six desktop wallpapers featuring the beloved pigs, birds and sound effects.
The desktop images are cool, but you gotta check out the sounds – when you exit Windows, the birds give off a familiar screem and when you get an email message, you get the familiar grunting of the pigs.
The Angry Birds theme is officially designed for Windows 7 but you can also use it a XP and Vista machines with a simple hack.
Have fun.
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shortText - saveTime?
A friend asked me what I thought of shortText today. I've had a play with it before but had put it in the Web2.0 toy basket and forgotten about it.
Then I got it out again today as I head-scratch over ingenious ways to manage lots of different projects at once and stick to deadlines!
One thing I'm learning about managing projects is to scoop and do things up as you go along rather than putting them on lists or waiting 'till the right moment.
For example, I always have to write an evaluation report at the end of a course. One of the worst things to do is to wait until the project is over before I start collecting feedback on the process; the second worst thing is to say I'll keep observation notes of the process; and the third worst thing is to go back and wade through the course documents and conversations looking for comments and feedback that people made during the process.
So at the moment Nancy and I are keeping a Whiteboard in Basecamp where we just copy/paste the feedback or reflections people are making. We also jot down our thoughts (finished or not) as we go along. By the end of the course we'll have a Whiteboard full of the things we scooped up during the process. That will make it easier - and more informative - in writing up the final report.
But I want to experiment now with shortText. With shortText you get a unique URL for a short text you write. So, this is my idea. We scoop up feedback and thoughts during the process of the course, putting each one into shortTexts as we go along. Save the shortText in del.icio.us with relevant tags e.g. Projectname, ProjectEvaluation ... Then at the end of the course all thoughts related to Project Evaluation (for example) will be neatly filed in del.icio.us under its own tag.
You can also make comments on the shortText and it has RSS.
I think I might have found a time-saver!
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General Overview of the Homeschooling Laws in New Hampshire
Children in New Hampshire must attend school between the ages of 6 (if they reach that age before September 30 of the current school year) and 18. They can also be exempt from attending a school if they have graduated. If graduating before the age of 18, children can submit a certificate or letter to the New Hampshire Department of Education.
Find out more about homeschool laws in New Hampshire:
To homeschool your child, they must fall within this age range. You must also contact the local school superintendent, keep a portfolio of your child's work, and have an annual evaluation.
Notification of Intent to Homeschool in New Hampshire
When you start homeschooling, you must send a letter of notification to the school superintendent before the school year starts, if you are withdrawing your child from a public school between years, or your child is not attending public school at all. If you are withdrawing your child from a public school during the school year, you must notify the school and superintendent within 5 days of withdrawing your child. You should send the notification of intent and also keep a copy for yourself.
We have stated that you should notify the resident district superintendent, but you can also notify the commissioner of education or non-public school principal. We recommend going with the superintendent.
Your notification should include the name, address, and date of birth of your child, the name and address of any parents/guardians, a contact number, and the date on which the homeschooling will start.
Once you have sent your initial letter, it is expected that you are going to homeschool each year after and do not need to send a letter of intent for every year which you are homeschooling.
Qualifications Required to Homeschool in New Hampshire
There are no parent/guardian qualifications needed to teach your child in the state of New Hampshire. You are responsible for what you teach your child and how you teach them. There are also no standardized tests needed to display that your child is gaining knowledge, but we recommend that you keep track of your child's progress to show your local school board.
Number of Days/Hours of Instruction Required for Homeschoolers in New Hampshire
There are no laws governing the amount of instruction which you need to give to your child each year. When you start the year, you may have to come up with a plan detailing what you are teaching your child and when but there are no laws governing how much tuition time you give to your child.
What Subjects Need to be Covered in Home Education (and for how long) in New Hampshire?
New Hampshire law has no formal requirements when it comes to what subjects you teach your child, but you may be required to come up with a learning plan each year to describe what you are going to teach your child.
You are not required to teach any specific subjects in any given year.
What are the Recordkeeping Requirements for Homeschoolers in New Hampshire?
Parents are required to keep a portfolio of their child's work each year and keep these records for two years. The portfolio is the property of the parents and does not need to be submitted if requested by the superintendent or district for review.
This portfolio should keep a log of all reading materials used by your child and a record of the child's work related to the homeschooling curriculum. There are no guidelines to dictate how much work should be in the portfolio but it is handy for evaluation purposes, and it is recommended that you have two pages for each subject inserted at three different times of the year (six pages total for each subject).
You are also required to have your child evaluated each year. There are a few methods for evaluation, and the portfolio can be handy in these circumstances. A certified teacher can evaluate your child. Your child can also take a national student achievement test. Your child can also be evaluated in any other way which the parents and the superintendent/school board agree upon at the start of the homeschool year.
You should then keep this evaluation on file should you need to prove that your child is learning as a homeschooler.
Is Part-time Enrollment Permitted in New Hampshire?
Yes. Under New Hampshire education law, your child can be partially enrolled in public school. This means that your child can take regular school classes as part of their homeschooling education and can split their time between home and school (as long as the school offers this).
Homeschoolers are also eligible to participate in extracurricular activities in public schools. Any homeschoolers who live with a disability are also eligible for services through their local public school (the same services which students with disabilities would receive if they were enrolled in public school).
You should submit a letter of intent if you wish for your child to participate in any public school programs.
Are Homeschoolers Permitted to Participate in Extracurricular Activities in New Hampshire?
Yes, and it is encouraged. Homeschool children are permitted to participate in any other extracurricular activities, whether it be with a public school or another organization.
To receive more information about the homeschooling laws in the State of New Hampshire, you may want to visit the Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire website.


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Question by Quantum Leap: Baking soda on cat hairballs on the carpet.. does this really work?
I once heard that if you sprinkle baking soda on a hairball that a cat (or dog) left on your carpet, and let it sit, that it will be easy to just come back around with a vacuum cleaner and it will take it right up, leaving just a slight stain on the carpet. Is this true, or just a myth?
I just tried it, and it did work. Right after my cat hacked up the hairball, I sprinkled the baking soda on it, and I let it for about an hour and half, than I vacuumed it up, and you can't even tell it was there. After that, I sprayed some Febreeze on it just so their won't be an odor. So the baking soda on hairballs does work. =)
I made a typo, I meant to say that I let it sit for an hour and half.
Best answer:
Answer by old cat lady
Sounds like it works pretty well. I use club soda on those kind of stains. It must be the same principle – the soda neutralizes the acid in the upchuck which is acidic from the cat's stomach acids.
So the powder might be even better as it dries the stuff out and makes it easier to vacuum up.
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February 9, Thimphu: The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for supply of organic vegetables was signed between the Rangzhin Sanam Detshen (RSD) and 11 Hotels: Amankora Resort, Taj Tashi, Terma Linca, Druk Hotel, Hotel Galingkha, Bhutan Suites, Hotel Ariya, Tashi Yoedling, Hotel Pedling, Bhutan Hotel and Fu Lu Shou, Thimphu in presence of Gasa Dzongda.
The Rangzhin Sanam Detshen, is the first ever certified organic growers group of Khatoed Gewog, Gasa. They will supply organic potato, garlic and carrot at agreed prices of Nu. 31, Nu. 120 and Nu. 60 respectively, per kilogram.
Gasa Dzongda conveyed his special gratitude to the hoteliers and stated that such tie-ups would play a key role to make farming more attractive and vibrant. He insisted the buyers to extend all kinds of support and cooperation and make it a Corporate Nation Building Responsibility. He also emphasised that Gasa would kick start the program on a smaller scale and gradually upgrade.
He said that Gasa Dzongkhag is not so developed but such initiation will contribute to National policy of becoming self-sufficient. He also highlighted that with quantity, Gasa will work towards achieving qualitative produce.
-Reported by Tashi Yangzom with photos by Choidup Zangpo, ICS
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Recap: After squabbling with the UP for some time, the Legion has been given diplomatic immunity and the members who have issues with the law have been pardoned. After struggling with finances for some time, the team is now flush with cash since merchandising their symbol. But the team is still fighting a many front war. The threat of beamed in techno-constructs is in the background. A planet has been working its way through the solar system. And there has been plenty of internal squabbles. Projectra is leaning towards totalitarianism. And Saturn Girl succumbed to Ultra Boy's closet and had sex in the pantry. Hooray bright future!
Legion of Super-Heroes #46 is another one of those issues where I think Jim Shooter thought he had much more time to craft his tale. As stated above we are dealing with any number of plot lines that have been slowly creeping through the book. Some have seemingly been forgotten or put away. Luckily the bureaucratic subplots seem to have been wrapped up last issue. But I know historically that there are only 4 issues left with this run after this book. How can things be wrapped up by then?
Even with a planet traveling to Earth and an ongoing guerilla war with dinosaur constructs, Shooter only nudges these major plotlines forward. Instead, he concentrates on a new and seemingly meaningless plot with Ultra Boy. He also adds a personal subplot of the fallout between Garth and Imra because of her infidelity. I suppose I should be happy that the other plots were progressed.
And, as always, there is plenty of sort of backwards feeling cheesecake throughout the book. I just get the sense that Shooter has a grudge against women given that female characters are oversexed, oversexualized beings who seem to exist to fall into the virile arms of the men around them.
Still, the Francis Manapul art continues to shine. You can start to see some of Manapul's more current sensibilities in the art.
Four more issues.
This issue picks up right where last issue ended. Invisible Kid has walked in on Ultra Boy and Saturn Girl having sex in the cafeteria supply closet. Ultra Boy was able to pull up his pants but Imra is merely covering herself with her costume.
Both Jo and Imra fear that Lyle will tell Garth what he has seen. They decide that they need to tell Lightning Lad the truth. Jo says he will.
And yes, we get a panel of Imra sliding her panties back on.
Fan service with Saturn Girl?
Meanwhile, despite Brainy declaring last issue that he failed in stopping the oncoming planet, in this issue he is praised for stabilizing everything. Maybe Shooter was told that he only had a couple more issues and truncated that plot.
Of course, throughout these scenes Lightning Lad called the President of the United Planets by her first name Kin'thea. She even, literally, fell into his arm last issue. And here she seems to be ogling him a bit calling him ... pause ... an interesting young man. Her coy smile in the second panel says a lot. (Or am I reading to much into this?)
Meanwhile, the UP Young Heroes tryouts were canceled because of the incoming catastrophe and now these petulant super-powered teens are causing chaos around the town.
Freed from prison, Princess Projectra returns to the headquarters and gets a new costume from 'Carmine's Actionwear'. It has a distinctively Dave Cockrum/Mike Grell feel with the cutouts and skin showing. I guess Grellwear would be too on the nose. Was Carmine Infantino still editor in chief when the Cockrum/Grell stuff was coming out? Is this an homage to him?
Projectra is definitely still reeling from the destruction of her family. She continues to be haughty about peasants. Luckily Tinya reaches out to here. In a nod to Waid's run, Phantom Girl tells Jeckie a story from an old comic book (one of the inspirations for the team back in the early issues). But Projectra definitely is treating Phantom Girl more like a servant than a friend.
It is clear that Ultra Boy is definitely one of Shooter's favorites. He has been in the spotlight since the beginning of this run.
Here we get pages of him singlehandedly stopping the rampaging Young Heroes applicants. I do like how we see Jo alternating his powers in battle, switching things around.
And he certainly is an equal opportunity brawler, smashing a woman in the face. She is a fighting him so I get it. But is weird is her saying 'you wouldn't hit a woman' line.
That small exchange again makes me question Shooter's thoughts about women.
One of the lingering plots has been who is behind the techno-construct beasts who are attacking the UP. These soldiers have some way to evolve and Brainy has deduced it is secondary to their weapon.
When Brainy hears that Chameleon Boy scanned one of these things, Querl knows that he finally has an in. Remember, Shooter went out of his way to say that Cham can become whatever he scans in its entirety. So when he scanned the creature, he scanned its weapon as well. Cham becomes a perfect copy of this thing.
And, without warning, Brainy uses a knife to cut off Cham's hand so he can dissect the weapon.
There is so much I can't grasp here. Cham can scan inorganic objects and replicate them? Seems wrong. He could become a Phantom Zone projector? A Mother Box? The Miracle Machine? I don't get it.
Second, couldn't Brainy tell Cham he was going to cut off his hand? Anesthetize him? I know Cham can regenerate. But seems cruel.
Meanwhile, M'rissey has done some legal legwork. We had heard that Ultra Boy was charged with vehicular homicide on Rimbor. With a line, M'rissey says he has cleared Jo of the crime. I forget if we hear more. Maybe this was Shooter dropping another plotline.
Then we learn that Projectra, while pardoned, is still considered dangerous and will need to undergo a psyche scan.
I really don't like what happens to Projectra in this volume.
Have I mentioned the fan service in this book?
For no apparent reason, we get this two panel scene which seems to exist only so we can see Ayla disrobe. And the way she is leaning in that second panel? That is for the reader not because Ayla would naturally bend that way.
Thankfully, Shooter does answer a question I have been asking all along. There had to be some other Orando citizens off world when their planet was destroyed. And some of their assets must have been elsewhere and not being able to be seized.
Projectra is greeted by some survivors. They cryptically tell her that her powers have been tremendously increased. There is a terrible strength in her. They call her Imperiatrix, a rather fascist-sounding title. And they give her a magical item to let her get through the psych-scan without her hidden feelings discovered.
I can understand how Projectra's life has been ripped from her, destroyed. But it is sad that she decided to descend into evil.
Garth says they are finished. And later he tells Ultra Boy that the perils to the system have to come first. He won't deal with this infidelity before all is safe.
I don't know if this plotline with Imra moves the book forward in any way. While I know that Levitz had Saturn Girl be tempted by Timber Wolf in his run, there was a different feel to that book and those characters. Levitz made those characters three dimensional. And made it more personal and less tawdry.
And Brainy's mutilation of a friend and the Ayla strip tease all felt more grotesque to me than I would like.
This whole Shooter run has felt a bit like a mess.
We are one issue closer to the end.


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Locks and Security News: your weekly locks and security industry newsletter
23rd September 2020 Issue no. 526
Your industry news - first
We strongly recommend viewing Locks and Security News full size in your web browser. Click our masthead above to visit our website version.
Locksmiths Exhibition update
Well, this week has gone mad - several 'new start' exhibitors and two new stand sales so in actual fact the show is oversold space. Now we need a shoe horn to squeeze them all in! The Locksmiths Exhibition now contains 61 unique stands in around 600sq metres of showspace.
The new stands this week are Aldridge who have taken the vacant Citysafe stand - and great news - Tony Hill and Howard Crossland have formed a new company Citysafe UK Ltd and will be at the show to welcome old and new customers and to open accounts.
In other show news:
Credit Card Keys Ltd will be showing their Sentinal Key safes; Axxium will have a new 'electronic spindle' - it freewheels until powered, then the handle works. They also have a brand new electric sashlock to show.
Locksmiths Supplies will have a range of special 'locksmith drills' and other tools and gadgets; MytradeTV - Big Lee will have an interesting TV advertising (via internet) package; while Gerri and Fiona will bring their packs of Springs on the 'Springman table'; not forgetting the 'Lock collectors' with their used bargains.
AND you can also see our Very own Kate about your website, social media and all that Internet mumbo jumbo stuff.
SO with your £10.00 annual magazine subscription offer (for visitors only), great food and drink at 'proper' prices and not inflated exhibition centre prices, hotel on site all new and shiny, the hot spots of Nottingham just a short cab ride away, why would you not come along?
Pre-register now - we are not that short of the 1000 signup prize either - so have a go my son!
I have had people asking for their QR codes - Please log into your account on the www.lockexpo.co.uk website and go to 'membership details' and there it all is.
Any queries: [email protected]
Registrations: www.lockexpo.co.uk
Call me 01359 241699 - show mobile is live 07952 662 890
This will be the best show so far - don't miss it! The full list of exhibitors is below:
1010 Security
1st Call Lockouts Ltd
3D Group UK
Abus (UK)Ltd
Advanced Access Ltd
Advanced keys
Aldridge Security
Alpro Architectural Hardware
Assa Abloy Ltd
Axxium Ltd
Borg Locks
Citysafe UK Ltd
Credit Card Keys Ltd
Davenport Burgess
EMK Consulting Ltd
ERA Products Ltd
Greenfox solutions
Hickleys Ltd
Hoppe (UK) ltd
Ingersoll Rand
KAPdiagnostics.com Ltd
Lock Collectors
Locksmiths Supplies
MLA/Sold Secure
MPL (multipik)
Mul-T-Lock (UK)
Nigel Waters Hardware Ltd
Rainer Security Products Ltd
RhinoCo Technology
Rollins and Sons (London) Ltd
safe ventures Ltd
Security Express
Security Hardware
Silca Ltd
SKS Ltd
Souber Tools Ltd
Southern Grill & Gate
Sterling Locks Ltd
The Spring man
TLJ Systems
Total Product sales Ltd
Yale UK
Zone Security Products Ltd
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Clothes were stuffed in the drawers of the dresser and more were dangling on hangers inside the closet, but I didn't need to audition all the possible combinations.
I knew the look I wanted to create.
So I completed the turtleneck-pants duo that was popular in the '90s, even for an 8-year-old, with a blue cardigan sweater.
Now I was ready to go to my first NHL game.
Before arriving in Edmonton from the suburbs to watch the Oilers host the Blues, my sense of anticipation was akin to waiting to walk across the stage at graduation.
I had studied hockey for years, learning the rules, history and strategy. And I had practiced the tenets, prescribing to the sacredness of loyalty and basking in the camaraderie of the sport from the other side of the television set.
But now, I could continue my education in person — alongside other students and in the most important classroom of them all.
And the evening's lesson didn't disappoint.
Actually, it was perfect because I watched the game with my dad, Dwayne.
My dad was my sidekick growing up, the accomplice in most of my memories.
When I pored over my math homework, his head was buried in the textbook, too. At soccer games, he stood along the sideline near the corner my team attacked and offered encouragement.
In between school and soccer, we focused on hockey — even after we moved from Canada to Arizona.
He was the one who taught me the game, and from those early chats in the living room, with him on the couch and me stationed on the carpet in front of the TV, I adopted his allegiance.
Hockey became our language; it's how we filled silence in car rides, analyzing the previous game and individual performances, but it also became a tool he'd use to pass along life lessons about chasing my dreams, handling adversity and believing in myself.
I never wanted these talks to end and would scour newspaper articles for new information to add to our next discussion. I'd bring back trade rumors and trends, mixing in my own insight, and he cared about what I had to say. He genuinely wanted to hear what I thought, and that was the best feeling ever.
Not until years later did I realize that by sharing his love for the game with me my dad was helping me realize my own passion in life — covering hockey.
And that's why I'm so excited to be the new Wild beat writer for the Star Tribune.
Hockey isn't an assignment to me, a designation at the end of a business card.
It's who I am, what I love.
It's my dad.
So I made it my career.
I graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and chronicled the Coyotes for five years at the Arizona Republic before making this move to Minnesota, and I'm eager to write about the Wild — like how goalie Devan Dubnyk responds after having his impressive shutout streak nixed, what impact winger Zach Parise's eventual return will have on the team and whether this season's version can finally find a way to translate regular-season success into playoff prowess.
But there are other stories, too, about what makes each player unique as a person — because hockey isn't just power plays, defensive pairings and goals-against averages. It's that feeling when the goal horn sounds and the motivation behind a 5 a.m. practice. And it's a bond between father and daughter.
My dad and I still talk hockey on a daily basis, and I cherish these chats even more now because of the effect they've had on my life.
But the conversation is about to change.
It's going to start to include you, the State of Hockey.
And I can't wait.
Sarah McLellan's debut as the Wild beat writer begins in the Sunday Star Tribune. Follow her on Twitter @sarah__mclellan


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Solange Knowles Performs At Peace Ball In Two Gorgeous Outfits
Solange Knowles performed at the Peace Ball at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19th, and she looked gorgeous. Not only did Solange look fabulous, her performance was even better! What did you guys think of Solange's outfit?
Solange Knowles, 30, arrived at the 2017 Peace Ball, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. on Jan 19th to celebrate the newly elected President, Donald Trump, 70. Solange looked amazing at the concert and we are obsessed with her entire outfit. Solange is constantly surprising us when it comes to her outfits because you never know what she's going to show up in.
Solange & Beyonce Knowles — See Gorgeous Pics Of The Sisters
Sometimes Solange plays it cool and will opt for something simple, and then other times Solange goes all out with her outfits and arrives in something pretty unique.
This is seriously exciting that Solange was one of the special guests at the event, considering it's in her blood. Her sister, Beyonce, 35, performed at both of Presidents Obama's inaugurations. In 2009 she performed at the official ball and then in 2013 she sang the national anthem at the swearing in.
Andy Shallal, organizer of the Peace Ball stated, "It's a celebration of accomplishment — over the last four years, there's been progress on marriage equality, criminal justice reform, and health care. We don't always take the time to stand back and look at this great stuff and celebrate." The list of hosts and attendees includes Danny Glover, Ashley Judd, Fran Drescher, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman, Van Jones, Melissa Harris-Perry, Esperanza Spalding, and more.
We were so happy when Solange signed on for the Peace Ball and she looked absolutely stunning! We loved her outfits — did you guys?


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Native States, Bureaucracy,
and Colonial Influence
In 1896, a man named Sayajirao Gaekwad ordered his staff to have makeshift beds for his wife and himself made out of silver while their permanent beds, made out of gold, were being repaired.1 He had the money to order a hundred such beds if he so desired. He was the ruler of a wealthy princely state, Baroda, and the eighth-richest man in the world in the early years of the twentieth century.2 As a Baroda ruler, moreover, he was merely carrying on an established practice of spending vast sums of money on jewelry and precious metals. A previous ruler, Khanderrao Gaekwad, had cannons cast out of gold and silver and carpets woven from pearls. He diverted money (thirty-six lakhs of rupees) earmarked to provide the residents of the capital city with clear drinking water to build a palace for his bride and added eccentricity to extravagance by conducting pigeon marriages with solemnity and ostentatious pomp.
Sayajirao, gold and silver beds notwithstanding, was a different kind of ruler. By the end of his reign, he would be known for his progressiveness and enlightenment, unlike the rulers of numerous other princely states, who typi-


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Evans recently earned the title of 49th best overall place for emergency first responders to live in a report from a consumer research website.
The Weld County municipality earned the honor in the third annual "Best Cities for First Responders" report by Goodcall.com. The report, which reviewed data from 835 cities across the U.S., recognized Evans for its favorable first responder salaries, job availability, plentiful amenities, educational attainment and low unemployment and crime rates.
To view the full report, go to http://bit.ly/2s6tbqv.
PDC Energy donates to Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County
PDC Energy donated $5,000 to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County on Friday.
The donation is a continuation of PDC Energy's "Energizing Our Community Day," according to a news release from the energy company.
In addition to the money, several PDC employees also donated toiletries and other items to the Boys and Girls Clubs, according to the release.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
The Weld County commissioners recognized Thursday as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
They dedicated the day to raising awareness about the growing problem of elder abuse and neglect in countries all over the world in order to engage more active support for older adults, according to a news release from Weld County.
The U.S. Administration on Aging estimates as many as 1 in 10 older Americans are abused or neglected each year. According to the release, elder abuse can be financial, emotional, physical or sexual.
"The board would like to thank the Weld County Area Agency on Aging Adult Protective Services team for working each day to support and protect our at-risk elders," said Commissioner Barbara KirkmeyerCQ in the release. "Each of us has a moral responsibility to get involved so that people in our community can live safely and with dignity as they age, free from all forms of abuse. Older adults are vital, contributing members of our society, and their mistreatment diminishes us all."
The aging population of Weld County is rapidly increasing and is projected to increase significantly over the next 30 years, creating a larger group of at-risk elders in the area, according to the release.
Although professionals are mandated by law to report mistreatment of elders, department of human services officials encourage anyone concerned about the safety and well-being of any at-risk adult in Weld County to report to law enforcement by calling 911 or file a report with the Adult Protection Hotline by calling (970) 346-7676.
For more information about elder care in Weld County, click on the Area Agency on Aging link on the Department of Human Services web page at www.weldgov.com.
Aims Community College Foundation will receive ambulance for EMS Training
Banner Health will donate an ambulance, to the Aims Community College Foundation on Tuesday.
Students in Aims' emergency medical services program will benefit by gaining training in a moving vehicle that simulates real-world experiences, according to a news release from the community college.
Aims will receive the ambulance at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday at the Public Safety Institute on the Windsor campus located at 1130 Southgate Drive.
"Aims Community College's relationship with Banner Health is vital to the success of EMS students," said Aims President Leah BornsteinCQ in the release. "Banner Health provides clinical experiences for students at their hospitals and clinics. The EMS students at Aims are fortunate to have such strong support from an organization such as Banner Health."
The success of the Aims EMS program is dependent on the real-world simulations and a hands-on experience built into the curriculum, according to the news release.
"Altogether, Banner has provided $260,400 in support to Aims' health-care programs," said Kelly JacksonCQ, Aims Foundation executive director in the release. "These very generous donations provide Aims the ability to offer state-of-the-art health-care programs, training opportunities, future stability and a foundation from which to grow. We appreciate Banner's continued support of Aims' programs and their investment in our students and community."


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As Brazoria County's leading economic propeller, Port Freeport offers great career opportunities, competitive compensation and a great benefits package. We are always on the lookout for intelligent, dynamic, and talented individuals to be a part of our team.
Port Freeport is an equal employment opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment in a manner that violates the law. Port Freeport has a zero-tolerance substance abuse policy requiring pre-employment screening.
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If there are no current positions that fit your skills and interest, you may still send us your cover letter and resume at firstname.lastname@example.com to be considered for future job openings.
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This would just be consistent. Sometimes we have lists of tasks with story points and it would help to quickly enter them to the system.
In Quick Project planning, add the "Story Points" column to the list of available columns
story points field in quick project planning you can edit by click on Other field icon on the right side of line.
Thank you for your feedback. I know ... it's just not conceivable why this field can not be configured to be directly enterable ... basically all simple fields should be supported.


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Here is a press release from Dino Oberto clearing up the rumor circulating about the Modifieds.....
This posting is to ALL Modified teams in regards to the Hoffman Bros. 100-lapper this coming Saturday night, July 22.
"There seemed to be some sort of silly rumor that only certain race teams can compete and this message is to inform ALL that no such rule, regulation or anything of that nature exists.
We welcome all Modified teams to be part of an exciting night of action that will pay $3000 to win and $200 to take the green.
Hope this will clear up any uncertainty that may have otherwise clouded anyone's thoughts.
All regular track classes will also be running. Late Models, Street Stocks, Pro4 Late Models, Factory Stocks and 4-Cylinder Stocks.
Pit gates open at 1:00. Paid practice is from 2:00 to 5:00. Regular practice takes place from 5:30 to 6:30, with the first heat at 7:00.
Grandstand gates open at 5:00.
For more information, please contact the speedway office at 610-398-4923. On race day, you can call the track directly at 570-386-4900.
We look forward to seeing all those who elect to come and race Saturday night."
Thank you,
Dino Oberto


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Studies of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Volume 18
Klaus Kempter:
Joseph Wulf.
Ein Historikerschicksal in Deutschland
422 pp. with 11 illustrations
Hardcover with dust jacket
Göttingen/Bristol, Conn.: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013
2nd edition, 2014
Price: 70,00 € (D)
ISBN 978-3-647-36965-5 (e-book)
Price: 59,99 € (D)
The Auschwitz survivor Joseph Wulf (1912–1974) was in the nineteenfifties the first to publish books on the Holocaust in Germany. Several years ago, a controversy erupted around him regarding early research in the Federal Republic on National Socialism. At its center was the question: whether German contemporary historical inquiry was geared to an apologetics of national history, and systematically excluded the Jewish historical experience – the perspective of the victims.
Klaus Kempter illuminates this question anew looking at Joseph Wulf's life and work. He revises and corrects the previously predominant image of Wulf as a tragic and failed life, seemingly confirmed by his suicide in 1974. By dint of his origin and chosen path in life, Wulf was an outsider; yet his publications made a key contribution to knowledge about National Socialism. This first biography of Wulf will appear on the centennial of his birth on 22 December 2012.


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Left shoulder over left foot
Sometimes, in an effort to clear the hips in the downswing when striking your irons, the spine leans away from the target excessively. This will often lead to either fat or thin shots when the clubhead reaches the ball before the butt end of the club.
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So Long, Joe
The Red Sox fire a good wan for no good reason
The Boston Red Sox just don't get it, do they? On Oct. 8 they fired their 60-year-old manager, Joe Morgan, after four seasons in which they had finished first, third, first and second in the American League Fast, and hired Butch Hobson, the 40-year-old manager of their Pawtucket, R.I., Triple A affiliate. Four managers lost their jobs last week and another quit (page 38), but the biggest surprise and the biggest shame was Morgan's getting the ax.
It's bad enough that Boston canned its first skipper to finish first twice since Bill Carrigan did it in 1915 and '16. But Morgan was also a man with a delightfully sane sense of values—he went mushrooming with his grandson on the day of an American League Championship Series game last year.
He talked as if he came from a John R. Tunis novel. He would say a team was "smacking the pea around the yard" or a player was "smoking one over the bricks." Having grown up in Walpole, Mass., where he still lives, and graduated from Boston College, Morgan understood the New England mind. It didn't bother him that he was torched in the local newspapers because he knew the Sox were an obsession. In a town where every man is a baseball manager, Morgan was Everyman.
He never managed by the book, yet many of his unconventional moves worked. The Sox came up short this year, but it was hardly Morgan's fault. On the final Sunday of the season, he brought his team out onto the field and told the Fenway faithful. "Have a good autumn, a good winter, and we'll have a better year next year." It would have been better if Morgan's overpaid, underachieving players had offered a public apology. Instead, Tom Brunansky, Jack Clark and Roger Clemens let it be known that they would be happier if Morgan were out. So, two days after the season ended, general manager Lou Gorman fired Morgan. It was a disgraceful move. A good man was let go for no good reason.
That was on Tuesday. On Thursday the Red Sox announced that they were bringing back Don Zimmer as a third base coach. Zimmer, who did less than Morgan did as a Red Sox manager with more talent, will now serve as a reminder as to why the Red Sox haven't won the World Series in 73 years.
D.C. Distraction
Poor CBS: The eyes of the nation were not on the ball
CBS can't get a break. Last year—its first under a four-year, $1.06 billion contract to televise major league baseball—the network lost more than $100 million on its baseball coverage (SCORECARD, Sept. 23). Then this season the baseball gods conspired to deal the network another blow when Atlanta, Minnesota and Pittsburgh, none of them in big TV markets, and a Canadian team, Toronto, won their divisions.
Still, CBS was hoping that a rip-roaring postseason would help make up for some of its bad luck. The first game of the ALCS on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 8, drew an 11.6 rating, better than an average Tuesday night at CBS, but still disappointing. The next night's National League opener was better, drawing 14.0.
Just when things were looking up for CBS, along came the resumption of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, which, with their lurid flavor, captured the nation's attention. According to A.C. Nielsen's survey of 25 television markets on Friday night, when Judge Thomas was testifying on ABC and NBC and the Twins and Blue Jays were playing Game 3 of the ALCS, the overnight ratings were a blowout: The hearing attracted a combined 26.5 on the two networks, while CBS's baseball coverage drew a 10.1—believed to be the smallest audience ever for a prime-time postseason baseball game.
Ironically, CBS finally got a terrific game on Friday night, with the Twins defeating the Blue Jays 3-2 in 10 innings. The Washington senators, however, beat both of them.
A Familiar Ring
George Foreman's next foe is not that Jimmy Ellis
When it was announced recently that 42-year-old George Foreman had signed for a Dec. 7 fight with Jimmy Ellis, some people immediately assumed that Foreman had finally found a fighter close to his age, namely, the Jimmy Ellis who was the WBA heavyweight champ in 1968. Unfortunately for vintage fight huffs, and perhaps for Big George himself, this Jimmy Ellis is a 27-year-old former ML linebacker from Boise, Idaho, and not the 51-year-old from Louisville.
Did Foreman know which Jimmy Ellis he was getting? "Of course I knew," says Foreman. "I just hope he is not as good a boxer as the first Jimmy Ellis." For-his part, the new Ellis wants to make it clear he is neither a potato farmer, as early reports had it, nor a tomato can. He grew up in Redondo Beach, Calif., where he played high school football and sparred regularly with his older brother, John, a professional heavyweight. Jimmy went to Boise State on a football scholarship even though, he says, "I didn't know where Idaho was." Drafted in 1987 by the Los Angeles Raiders, Ellis saw action during that season's players' strike but was cut when the walkout ended. He returned to Boise to finish his degree and then headed for the gym.
"I figured he was there to work off some aggression, but he stuck with it." says John, who is now his brother's trainer, promoter and. along with Raider Howie Long, co-manager. Unlike his namesake, the 6'3", 225-pound Ellis is not a slick boxer. Since turning pro in February 1989, he has a record of 16-0-1 with 15 knockouts. "I'm used to slamming into guys and knocking them around." he says.
Now Ellis is eager to knock around the venerable Foreman. "I was a kid listening on the radio when he fought Ali," says Ellis. "But when I get in the ring, I can't worry about respect. I want to make sure that when people hear the name Jimmy Ellis, they think of me."
Lip Service
Leo Durocher belonged in Cooperstown before he died
Leo Durocher, who died on Oct. 7 at the age of 86, was once described as "a man of many facets, all turned on." Durocher was a gambler, a pool shark, a card player, a clotheshorse (he loved expensive suits), a ballplayer, a manager, a broadcaster, a sometime actor, a friend of the famous and, at all times, a talker. He had a loud, brassy voice and used it incessantly.
Leo the Lip, as he was called, talked so much that people tended to forget his baseball virtues. He was a superb shortstop, a shrewd if weak-hitting batter and a brilliant leader. Only five managers in major league history won more games than Durocher's 2,008.
Durocher, a French-Canadian from Springfield, Mass., broke into the majors with the Yankees in 1925. Babe Ruth didn't like Durocher—a lot of people didn't like Leo—and the story went around that he had stolen the Babe's watch, a fable without foundation. The Yankees let him go to the Cincinnati Reds for the waiver price. A few years later Branch Rickey, then running the Cardinals, traded a fine pitcher, Paul Derringer, for Durocher, and he made Rickey look good by becoming the spark of the fiery Gashouse Gang Cardinals, who won the World Series in 1934.
When Durocher became player-manager of the moribund Brooklyn Dodgers in 1939, he had no managing experience, but the job fit him like a glove. In 1941 the Dodgers won their first pennant in 21 years. However, the pugnacious Durocher antagonized baseball's executives by fighting with fans, arguing with umpires and consorting off the field with alleged gamblers. The culmination came in 1947 when baseball commissioner A.B. (Happy) Chandler suspended him for a year, a harsh and unjustifiable sentence.
His transfer as manager from Brooklyn to the hated New York Giants in July 1948 stunned fans of both teams and, for that matter, Durocher. Undaunted, he pushed the complacent Giants owners into trading longtime stars for the aggressive players he wanted, and in 1951 his rebuilt Giants beat Brooklyn for the pennant on Bobby Thomson's famous home run. In the 1954 World Series, Durocher's Giants swept the heavily favored Cleveland Indians.
He left the Giants in 1955, did some broad-casting, served as a coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers and in 1966 returned to managing with the Chicago Cubs, who hadn't finished higher than fifth for 20 years. Durocher brought them home second or third for five straight seasons. Later he managed the Houston Astros before retiring for good in '73.
Durocher was both damned and praised. Some players hated him: others said Durocher was the best manager they had ever seen. Vain, opinionated, self-serving, obscene in language and bullying in behavior, he was nonetheless a formidable, unforgettable force for more than 40 years. That he was not named to the Hall of Fame long before his death is a disgrace.
Talking Turkey
They use fowl language at the Yellville Turkey Trot
There's more to turkey calling than just gobble, gobble. There is, for instance, the Early Morning Fly Down and Cackle call. Also, the Lost Old Hen in Spring, the Assembly Cluck, the Lost Kee-Kee of a Young Bird in the Fall and, simply, the Mating.
Those five were the required categories at the 46th Annual National Wild Turkey Calling Contest, held last Saturday in, yes, Yellville, Ark. The winner of this year's Yellville contest, the country's oldest and most prestigious turkey calling contest, was Mac Drake, a 37-year-old deputy sheriff from Columbus, Ga.
But the turkey calling contest was only part of the annual Yellville Turkey Trot. The festival also included a parade, a dance, a beauty pageant, Mr. and Ms. Drumstick contests (for best-looking legs) and several Turkey Flybys, in which live birds are released from passing aircraft. The flybys have caused many animal rights activists concern, but the promoters are quick to point out that turkeys can fly. Indeed, the toms tossed from a plane on Saturday, after looking as if they might plummet to the earth like Butterballs, spread their wings and glided to the ground.
Come to think of it, why not add another category to next year's contest: Tom Pushed from an Airplane Making What He Thinks Will Be His Last Call call?
By most (especially Red Sox) standards, Morgan's teams were very successful.
CBS tried showing both dramatic confrontations but just couldn't win.
This Ellis is making a comeback in name only.
Ruiz didn't start what she finished.
Leo, whose language was often Dodger blue, had the umps' attention.
Judgment Calls
[Thumb Up]To Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jose Rijo, for buying two ambulances for the police department and the hospital in his hometown of San Cristóbal in the Dominican Republic.
[Thumb Down]To the Reds, for their refusal to award Rijo a $62,500 bonus he would have received had he pitched 205 innings this season. Rijo, who won 15 games despite missing five weeks with an ankle injury, pitched 204'Öì innings.
[Thumb Down]To Walt Nadzak, athletic director at The Citadel, for not granting scholarship releases to two freshman athletes that would have allowed them to transfer to another Southern Conference school. The two students left The Citadel after humiliating hazing incidents.
John Gutekunst, University of Minnesota football coach, after his Gophers lost to Colorado 58-0 on Sept. 21: "The new NCAA rule says we have to have one day oft each week. I just didn't think they'd take game day off."
Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' "
Making a List
The marathon season is in full swing, with races the next few weeks in Detroit, Chicago and New York City. Halloween is also approaching, so here is a list of 10 notable marathon impostors—runners who only pretended they ran the entire race:
1. Spiridon Belokas, in the 1896 Olympics in Athens. Belokas finished third, but later admitted that he had ridden part of the way in a carriage.
2. Fred Lorz, in the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. The apparent winner, Lorz was photographed with President Roosevelt's daughter before it was discovered that lie had hitched a ride for 11 miles.
3. George Plimpton, in the 1947 Boston Marathon. After some of his fellow Harvard students challenged him. Plimpton jumped in and ran for several miles—and a participatory journalist was born.
4. Norbert Sudhaus, in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Just before Frank Shorter entered the Olympic Stadium, Sudhaus, a German student, bolted onto the track. When asked what he thought of the guy who came in ahead of him, Shorter said, "What guy?"
5. Rosie Ruiz, in the 1980 Boston Marathon. In the most famous marathon hoax ever, Ruiz (above) appeared to have won the race, until it was discovered that she ran only the last mile or so.
6. Marie Evangelista, in the 1985 Pittsburgh Marathon. Evangelista ran 15 miles, hopped on a city bus for 10 miles and then ran across the finish. After she was given a medal as the top finisher among local women, she said, "They just put the thing around my neck, and I kept walking."
7. John Bell, in the 1986 New York Marathon. After he was declared the winner in the 40-and-over division, it-was revealed that Bell had taken a detour through Past Harlem, saving himself about five miles.
8. The Sean Sweeney impersonator, in the 1987 Boston Marathon. Sweeney was too ill to participate in the race, but this still-unidentified man "won" the 50-59 age division with Sweeney's number on his bib. "I don't know who ran it or why, but I know it wasn't me," Sweeney said. It was later discovered that the impostor did not run the whole race.
9. Richard Roodberg, in the 1990 Los Angeles and Boston Marathons. When asked why he did not appear on videotapes taken at checkpoints along the Boston race, Rood berg said, "Must have been bad camera angles or something."
10. Abbes Tehami, in the 1991 Brussels Marathon, Tehami's coach ran the first nine miles of the course as number 62; then Tehami put on the number and won the race. Tehami's ruse was discovered when journalists noticed that the number 62 who finished the race did not have a mustache and the number 62 who started the race did.
That Bud's Not Beer
After the final out was made in the New York Mets' last game of the season, Ralph Kiner, the Mets broadcaster, long renowned for his verbal miscues, said, "We'll be back to wrap things up and talk about David Cone's 19-strikeout performance, after this word from Bud Black." Kiner, of course, meant the sponsor, Bud Light, and not the pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.
Replay: 25 Years Ago in Sports Illustrated
Flashing across our Oct. 17, 1966, cover was New York Jet quarterback Joe Namath, whom we described as "pro football's very own Beatle." We also reported the trade of another free spirit named Joe. Joe Don Looney was dealt from the Detroit Lions to the Washington Redskins after he refused to go into a game to relay a play, saying to Lion coach Harry Gilmer, "If you want a messenger, call Western Union."


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Warner LeRoy (March 3, 1935 – February 22, 2001), was a New York businessman. LeRoy was the son of film producer-director Mervyn LeRoy and Mervyn's second wife, Doris Warner, and was the grandson of Harry Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros. and a major contributor to the development of the film industry.
Warner founded LeRoy Adventures, which owned and operated the York Cinema, Maxwell's Plum, Potomac in Washington, D.C., Great Adventure, Tavern on the Green and the Russian Tea Room.
Tavern on the Green, located in Central Park, was one of the most popular restaurants in New York City. In 1974, LeRoy took over the restaurant's lease and reopened it in 1976 after $10 million in renovations.[2] During a labor dispute in 1989, Warner was quoted as asking, "What do waiters need a pension for?"[citation needed] Warner was known to pay for his employees' children's education. Tavern routinely produced the highest gross revenue of all U.S. restaurants during the years from the 1980s until the early 2000s.
In 1995, LeRoy purchased The Russian Tea Room, and sank $32 million into renovations. It closed in 2002, one year after LeRoy's death. It later reopened under different ownership.
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He had one child, Bridget, with his first wife, Gen LeRoy Walton, and three children with his second wife Kay O'Reilly: Carolyn, Max, and Jennifer. Jennifer became the CEO of LeRoy Adventures at age 22 upon LeRoy's death of complications from lymphoma in 2001.
Warner's son Max was killed in a motorcycle accident in November 2005 at the age of 30; Max was a close friend of Sean Lennon, who dedicated his 2006 album, Friendly Fire to Max.


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Prefer Fresh Juices, Soups over Soda Drinks for Healthy Life
New Delhi, Monday, February 1 – Whenever one says he is following a healthy diet, soups and fruit juices must be the first few things mentioned by him. This is, in fact, right as well. soups made from fresh vegetables and some kitchen staples are perfect to start your day.
Among a whole range of broths, people can settle on one or two regularly when motto is to feel energetic without gorging on unhealthy items. Those who learn significance of including fruits and soups in daily lives are able to face lesser health issues than those who opt for soda drinks, which may weaken bones and even rot teeth.
Being high in extreme sweetener, it makes individuals crave further. Parents must make sure kids don't have excessive consumption of soda to help them stay away from any possibility of falling ill at a young age.


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Where To Find A Good Roofing company
Our roof is very old, so there isn't any wonder we've got leaks. Every time it rains, we live a nightmare. I must put flower pots within three or four places in order to prevent the water from ruining a floor. — Lake Travis Roofing Company
As this is not a normal situation, I've decided to make a big alteration of my life and bring in help to fix my roof. We have enough money aside, but I've always through I shouldn't stand on house repairs. Nonetheless, living is a house with problems is difficult. I'd spend this money to increase the quality of my life. This is why my part of the next few days is to locate a good roofing contractor and convey him over to assess the situation and estimate an expense and a timing to make my roof new.
I've been thinking to start out my search in the BBB directory, as I've heard their visitors have to respect some very strict rules regarding quality and customer relationships. When you have a better idea, I'm ready to accept suggestions, so please inform me what you have in mind. Should you already know a good contractor, that's better still. — Lake Travis Roofing Company


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Yay! Mazal Tov! An ad on the J. Post that's well-written! No mention of the name of the advertising agency, so I can't give them points. I'm talking about a huge ad by Perrigo Israel, entitled "Take it like a man…" Sensible visual. Clean colors. Good text. Though inconsistent punctuation: you gotta decide whether you place a period at the end of each bulleted text or not. I think the grammatical consensus is that you shouldn't. But inconsistency seems to me worse.
However, lest you should think that Perringo and/or the J. Post – whoever is responsible for the English text – got away with a clean sheet, please note the oval stamp saying "Available in Sick Funds at a reduced price".
Guys, there are no Sick Funds anymore, haven't you heard? Implying that we folks who go to the doctor's are "sick", or that the establishments taking our money are "sick funds" is a no-no. All erstwhile kupot holim are now called Healthcare Services, or Healthcare Service Providers, or the like. So be well. Stay healthy. And translate correctly.
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- N K said...
Right on, Nina!
- March 16, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- Yam Erez said...
You put a period after a list item only if the item constitutes a complete sentence, i.e., "We intend to take over the world".
- March 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Nina Rimon Davis said...
Yep, that's what I seemed to remember. Thanks!
- March 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Shira said...
How about HMO like in the US? Or would that imply a horrible healthcare system...?
- March 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM
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Promo Post: Alien Love Story by A.K. Dawson {Excerpt}
Release Date: June 21, 2016
*** Love at first sighting. ***
Life is a headache for 15-year-old Dan. This isn't some kind of metaphor. Dan suffers from migraines that make just about everything he does unbearable. Added to that he's lost almost everyone he cares about. So he feels lonelier than the last puppy in a pet shop.
But one day he sees a mysterious girl digging in the rubbish bins behind his house. Just by being near her, he finds that all his pain goes away. So he wants to see her again, of course. And get to know her. But she's a bit strange. And her big eyes make her look, well, like an alien.
Does she really exist? Or is she just a figment of an overactive, under-loved imagination?
*** Close encounters of the romantic kind. ***
From Northern England to outer space, and from Dan's bedroom to the sandwich shop over the road, ALIEN LOVE STORY is about a close encounter of the romantic variety. But there's more to it than that.
This book is about discovering parts of yourself you never knew existed. It's about coping with grief and somehow moving on. And it's about how Dan breaks into a mad scientist's lab to perform a daring rescue – but that bit comes much later.
For now it's enough to know there will be excitement, adventure and kissing. Lots of kissing. We did say it was a love story, didn't we? So fasten your safety belt, put on some background music and enjoy the book.
Life is a headache for 15-year-old Dan. This isn't some kind of metaphor. Dan suffers from migraines that make just about everything he does unbearable. Added to that he's lost almost everyone he cares about. So he feels lonelier than the last puppy in a pet shop.
But one day he sees a mysterious girl digging in the rubbish bins behind his house. Just by being near her, he finds that all his pain goes away. So he wants to see her again, of course. And get to know her. But she's a bit strange. And her big eyes make her look, well, like an alien.
Does she really exist? Or is she just a figment of an overactive, under-loved imagination?
*** Close encounters of the romantic kind. ***
From Northern England to outer space, and from Dan's bedroom to the sandwich shop over the road, ALIEN LOVE STORY is about a close encounter of the romantic variety. But there's more to it than that.
This book is about discovering parts of yourself you never knew existed. It's about coping with grief and somehow moving on. And it's about how Dan breaks into a mad scientist's lab to perform a daring rescue – but that bit comes much later.
For now it's enough to know there will be excitement, adventure and kissing. Lots of kissing. We did say it was a love story, didn't we? So fasten your safety belt, put on some background music and enjoy the book.
I was born in South Africa, spent twelve years in the UK and now live in Warsaw, Poland. Last year my feature film won 'Best Screenplay' at the Sydney Indie Film Festival. When I'm not working on scripts, I write prose and was given a Northern Promise Award at the 2010 Northern Writers' Awards.
Chapter 1
Someone shoved a pencil into Dan's left nostril. It was big. One of those oversized souvenirs you find in museum gift shops. And it started twisting, as if Dan's skull were a giant sharpener.
Impossibly, the tip grew.
Lead pierced Dan's brain. Synapses were severed. Neurons were neutralized. Grey matter was shoved aside as if it didn't matter after all.
Like Pinocchio's nose, the lead of the pencil continued to extend. It pushed through bone and scalp. It poked out on the other side.
That's when Dan shut his laptop.
How was he supposed to watch Hot Nurse Party with this pain?
Some days it felt like a pencil jabbing into him. Other days it was the screwdriver. The worst was the woodpecker. Just thinking about the woodpecker dialled his migraine up a notch.
In the book he kept beside his bed Dan made a note:
5:17pm – 6/10 – PAIN STARTED WHILE DOING BIOLOGY HOMEWORK
Doctors had dug in his ears, sampled his blood, beamed lights into his eyes and subjected him to MRI and CAT scans. If it existed they would have set a DOG on him too.
The only explanation they could come up with was that he was over-sensitive. In other words, the pain in his head was all in his head.
The diary had been his therapist's idea.
'There's an explanation for everything,' Doctor Maudlin had told him in her office one day, before handing over his new notebook.
The cover was a radioactive shade of green. Words like WOW, GREAT and FANTASTIC popped out all over the place. Just looking at it gave Dan a headache.
Now the book was half full (though in his current mood it felt half empty). And he was no closer to controlling anything. The pain came and went when it wanted. Like a cat. And Dan was more of a dog person.
Holding his forehead, Dan wobbled to his feet. He was 15 years old and felt like a retired boxer. If this was the prime of his life, how would he cope later on?
Drugs, probably.
With his skinny frame and baby face he had yet to be offered anything stronger than cough mixture, but he could imagine how nice it would be to let go. Just kick back and allow whatever he had taken to swim through his system, dulling the pain. From his head to his heart, all his aches would be gone.
Sure, drugs were bad. But they couldn't be worse than migraines.
The stairs blurred in and out of focus as he staggered down them. What he needed was love. And he knew just who to turn to.
'Finished your homework?' Nana said when he reached the kitchen.
Dan winced.
'Never mind.' His grandmother closed Telly Mag, which she studied religiously despite never actually watching TV. 'Rain must be on the way.'
That was Nana's answer to everything. Headaches, muscle stiffness, colds and possibly even broken legs: rain was coming.
Dan nodded, though he knew the world wasn't that simple. He just didn't want to argue. Especially not when she was making macaroni and cheese. Just the smell of it made him feel better.
It was what she had made on that first day, three months ago. He hated thinking about the time before, but that day was special.
He had stepped off the train with only his suitcase and a headache and she had immediately dragged him across to the Life Science Centre. As if he were still a kid.
In that forest of dinosaur bones, DNA strands, magnets and mirrors they lost themselves. Afterwards Nana bought him a chocolate ice-cream – which made his headache worse, but was a nice gesture. In his new home, he was shown to his room. As promised at the funeral, the whole top floor had been cleared just for him.
Nana took such good care of him that Dan sometimes felt guilty for getting migraines.
'Maybe,' he said, 'I just need some fresh air.'
'In this weather?' Nana frowned at the kitchen window.
It was so sunny that Dan had to screw up his eyes. 'Nana, if it rains I'll come straight in.'
'Yes, don't get caught.' She continued to look at the sky as if at any moment it might burst open and start pouring. But the only thing that looked like a cloud was her hair.
Behind Nana's house was a narrow lane punctuated by wheelie bins. The backs of houses and shops flew by as Dan rolled along. Other than the weekly rubbish truck, no cars came here – which made it perfect for skateboarding.
Dan tapped his back foot and the board popped up. For a second he was weightless. Already he felt better. Not 100%. But better. He was glad he had come outside. If Nana had her way with him, he would be wrapped in cotton wool and packed in the cupboard along with her Royal Family dinner plates. Still, it was good to know that someone was there for him. He wondered briefly what would happen if she were gone, but quickly stopped himself.
The past and future were off limits.
Dan tried a kickflip and landed feet-on-bolts to thunderous applause from an imaginary crowd.
Then he made a mistake. He wished Kyle had seen that.
Kyle was younger by eighteen months, but better than Dan at everything: skateboarding, football, chess, maths, spitting, pull-ups, push-ups and that game where you stamp on the other person's feet. The little bugger even had a girlfriend.
Now he was gone.
Dan tried to derail his train of thought, but it was too late. His head began to throb, reminding him of that day. The Worst Day Ever.
Barely able to focus, he stamped his right foot and flicked out his left heel. It was a trick he barely knew how to do. And the board spun. And spun. Practically going into orbit. Dan's feet connected with the edge of the deck as it clanked down sideways, in the dreaded position known as primo.
Flapping his hands, Dan did his best to balance. But gravity was quick to remind him who the law was around these parts.
He fell.
The back of his head hammered against the tarmac. His ears rang. His ankle hurt. He was sure his left elbow was grazed.
All this was nothing unusual. But today he didn't feel like getting up.
Today he was just going to lie there.
Dan spread out on tarmac that had been warmed by the June sunlight. He stared at the sky, which was still cloudless. Instead of trying to fight his memories, he let them in.
His first headache had been on the morning of that terrible day.
The four of them – him, Dad, Mum and Kyle – had planned to drive to Porthcawl so that he and Kyle could hire longboards and wetsuits and try some winter surfing. Really, it was just an excuse for Dad to use the camera he had got for Christmas.
But when Dan woke up he didn't feel right. In fact, he felt as if he had been run over by a truck.
Mum took his temperature, stared into his eyes and checked his pulse. Her verdict was that you couldn't be too careful with things like this. So instead of going to the beach, they hit the hospital.
Dan was put under observation with suspected meningitis and his brother was left fuming over his lost chance to tame the wild waves of Wales.
Kyle's last words to Dan had been, 'I hate you, dickface.'
His family had sat in the ward until the end of visiting hours and then waved goodbye. Dan had settled in for his evening on the NHS. And that was it.
A lorry, carrying bathroom fittings and steel bedframes, smashed into Mum's Toyota on the A4174. Four people, including the lorry driver, were smeared like peanut butter across the motorway. Dan was told the news just after a hospital feast of pumpkin soup, chicken á la King and jelly – three things he would never be able to eat again.
Various relatives and family friends came to pack up and sell off everything. The only problem was what to do with the sulky teenage son who had survived. And so Dan was shipped from Bristol to Newcastle, where the only person he knew was 73-year-old Moira Glenn, aka Nana.
At school he quickly settled into his role as the mysterious silent kid you see in American movies. Only here in the North of England mysterious and silent equalled creepy. He wasn't much of a footballer, which meant he had nothing to talk to anyone about, and his headaches saw him missing so many classes that even the teachers didn't know his name.
Oh, and now today's headache was turning into the woodpecker.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
With a groan, Dan sat up. Still not quite ready to face the world standing, he dragged himself over to the shade between two wheelie bins.
From here he could see the back of Lunch Munch, the sandwich shop up the road from Nana's. It reminded him that he had to go home for supper. Nana was probably worried about him already, her finger trembling over the phone, poised to dial 999.
But Dan was still in the mood to mope.
He sat there – fate made him sit there, he would later think – until a figure stalked into his frame of vision.
It was a guy in a hooded top and pair of jeans so dirty that he was either homeless or a skateboarder.
Dan watched as he grabbed the handle of the green wheelie bin behind the sandwich shop.
Something about the guy didn't seem right. It wasn't just the hood pulled over his head despite the heat. His proportions were all wrong, his arms and legs too long for his body.
The guy lifted the lid of the bin and leaned inside.
Imagining the stench in there, Dan wanted to be sick. He also wanted to ensure that the kinds of people who ferretted around in rubbish bins stayed away from Nana's house.
'Excuse me,' Dan said.
Waist-deep in the bin, the guy couldn't hear.
Realising that he was being too polite, Dan scrambled to his feet and shouted, 'Hey!'
The guy flopped out like an oversized baby being born from the bin.
'I'm really sorry,' Dan said, feeling a sudden pang of sympathy for someone down on his luck, 'but you shouldn't do that.'
His head lowered in shame, the guy began creeping away.
'I mean, I can bring you a fresh sandwich,' Dan offered. 'Or my grandmother's making mac and cheese. It's really nice. She does it with bits of bacon. My name's Dan, by the way.'
The guy stopped and turned. Beneath the hood he was wearing a pink beanie hat, which was crazy considering the heat. But the beanie wasn't what made Dan gasp.
It wasn't the eyes either. And they were huge: a pair of flickering disks that looked like the lenses of designer sunglasses.
What made Dan gasp was that this wasn't a guy at all. Judging from the tiny nose, perfectly-curved cheekbones and pouting mouth, this was something else entirely.
'You're a girl,' Dan blurted out.
The girl pulled the hood tighter over her head and started running.
'Wait!' Dan shouted.
But she had disappeared round the curve of the street.
Smooth, Dan thought. The first girl you speak to in months and all you can do is point out that she's a girl.
Something else had disappeared too: his headache. It was as if an airlock door had opened in his ear and all the pain had been sucked out. The only thing left was a strange tingly feeling which ran along Dan's scalp and down his back.
When he got home he wrote in his book:
6.30pm – 0/10 – PAIN GONE ON SIGHTING OF UNKNOWN FEMALE. COULD LOOKING AT GIRLS BE THE NEW ASPIRIN?
That is it for today everyone! Don't forget to check this book out on Goodreads, Amazon, etc!
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No new coronavirus deaths reported at Norfolk's three main hospitals
PUBLISHED: 15:15 31 May 2020 | UPDATED: 15:15 31 May 2020
No further coronavirus-related deaths have been announced in the region's three main hospitals.
According to daily figures released by NHS England on Sunday, the region's three hospitals have not recorded any further deaths of patients linked to Covid-19.
The figures which are released at 2pm each day, provide numbers up until 5pm the previous day.
This leaves the number of coronavirus deaths in the county's hospitals at 377.
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Since March 1, 122 Covid-19 patients have died at the Norfolk and Norwich Unviersity Hospital, 112 have died at the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston and 143 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.
NHS England has announced 85 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,614.
Of the 85 new deaths announced on Sunday 15 occurred on May 30, 31 occurred on May 29 and seven were on May 28
The figures also show 22 of the new deaths took place between May 8 and May 27, nine occurred in April, and the remaining one death took place on March 25.
NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago. This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.
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