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Freshman injured in fraternity house fall is improving
ISU freshman Kaleb Stebens, who was injured in a fall from a third-story window at the FarmHouse fraternity early Sunday, was upgraded to "fair" condition Sept. 11. Stebens remains in the intensive care unit at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines.
Iowa State economists' report puts face on state's immigrant population
Economists Dave Swenson and Liesl Eathington of ISU's Regional Capacity Analysis Program examined a representative sample of more than 16,000 Iowans from the 2006 U.S. Census to make projections on Iowa's foreign and native-born populations. They found that the state's immigrant population is much different than what many people believe.
Team PrISUm to show off car that raced 2,400 miles on sun power
Team PrISUm is inviting sponsors, friends and the public to its garage from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, to show off Sol Invictus, the team's $400,000, 1,400-watt solar race car. The garage is located on the south side of Iowa State University's Sweeney Hall.
Iowa State University fall enrollment is 26,856; fourth-highest on record
Student enrollment at Iowa State University is 26,856, an increase of nearly 2.7 percent (or 696 more students) compared to fall 2007.
The Martins
Remembering a remarkable couple
Painting dedication honors Archie and Nancy Martin, who opened their home to generations of Iowa State black students in the first half of the 20th century.
Osborn Drive section closing Sept. 15 for utilities project
A short section of Osborn Drive, between Coover Hall and the Armory, is scheduled to close Monday morning, Sept. 15. It will remain closed through at least Friday, Nov. 21, while crews complete an underground utility corridor that will provide better service to the northwest part of campus.
Iowa State scientists, students contribute to world's biggest science experiment
Iowa State University physicists will be part of the international research team looking on as the first beam of protons races inside the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The collider -- the world's biggest science experiment -- cost $8 billion and is the work of more than 10,000 scientists and engineers from 500 schools and companies.
Iowa State wins $18.5 million grant to create NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals
The National Science Foundation has awarded Iowa State University and its research partners an $18.5 million grant to establish the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State. The center's focus will be to develop catalysts that promote the chemical reactions that can efficiently produce biorenewable chemicals. The center is also expected to create university and industry partnerships that promote innovation, transform engineered systems, advance technology and produce engineering graduates who can creatively contribute in a global economy.
ISU researchers help map first plant-parasitic nematode genome sequence
Iowa State University researchers have contributed to the release of the annotated genome of one of the most destructive nematodes: Meloidogyne incognita -- the southern root-knot nematode, as reported recently in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Author and reporter Sonia Nazario to speak Sept. 23
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sonia Nazario will speak on "Enrique's Journey and America's Immigration Dilemma," at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Author Adrienne Rich to speak, Sept. 22
Adrienne Rich, writer, award-winning author, poet and feminist icon, will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
ISU student organizations dish up something for every taste
ISU students can climb mountains, ride unicycles, build robots, speak French, study the Bible, dance Celtic, prepare for the Marines, march for peace and walk for AIDS. That's because ISU student organizations have something for everyone. They'll show be showcased at Clubfest "Come See What Happens After Class," 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, in the Memorial Union Durham Great Hall.
Henry Rollins performs free Sept. 18
Henry Rollins, known as a post-punk renaissance man, will launch his new Recountdown Tour, an election-time talking show, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University. The performance is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Bronze Star
David Asjes, assistant professor of naval science and executive officer of ISU's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC), received the Bronze Star in a Sept. 9 ceremony on campus. The Bronze Star is among the highest military awards. Asjes received the medal for exceptional achievement during his service in Iraq from October 2007 to April 2008.
Vote for Cy
Cy is currently competing in the Capital One National mascot of the Year competition. The competition features a head-to-head weekly battle between 12 different mascots. Fan votes will determine the winner. Fans can vote online once a day.
Carly Fiorina is fall Mary Louise Smith Chair
Carly Fiorina -- Victory '08 chairman for the Republican National Committee and the former chair and CEO of Hewlett-Packard -- is the Fall 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics and will conduct a free, public lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.
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Top scholars stay in Iowa
The Des Moines Register
A Des Moines Register survey finds that a majority of top Iowa high school graduates choose to stay here for college, and the largest number of them come to Iowa State.
Bonobos may have greater linguistic skills than previously thought
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month by Iowa State Ph.D. student Janni Pedersen in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings.


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It's Wednesday again! (it seems to happen every week). And that means that members of the Journal Register Company's Idealab - and anyone who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat at noon.
Today we will be talking about recent developments in our company — I believe it's called JRC, which stands for "What's All This About Thunderdome?"
We're also going to be talking about the recent hiring of Jim Brady and Project Thunderdome (cue Tina Turner).
If this sounds cryptic to you, its' because, um, it kind of is, so we'll be talking what all this is, what it means to us, to our users (that would be you), to journalism, and how everything is going to work out without the help of Mel Gibson. And we're all going to be doing this on the Twitters, because that's how we roll.
The live feed is posted below. But you can also follow the chat here or here or also here. And you can also check out past chats over here.
If you want to chime in, just post a tweet with the hashtag "#jrcchat" so it can automatically appear below, or post a comment in the field at the bottom of the chat box.
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Should Google, Amazon And Others Be Able To Lock Up New Generic Top Level Domains For Their Own Use?
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However, a funny thing happened along the way. While there certainly were a bunch of those kinds of TLDs applied for (many with competing claims fighting for the right to cash in), what became more interesting was the fact that the list of applications was absolutely dominated by Google and Amazon seeking to gain control over a very long list of TLDs. In fact, we noted that in many cases, Google and Amazon were lined up head to head competing over who would gain control over those TLDs. For example, they're competing with each other (and with some others) for the rights to .book, .shop, .store, .free, .game, .search, .play, .movie, .show, .mail, .map, .spot, .talk, .wow, .you and .cloud. And both of those companies are going for a bunch of others where they're not competing with each other. Google, for example, wants (among other things) .car, .dad, .mom, .dog, .family, .fyi, .plus, .tour, .prod, .here, .prof, .phd, meme., .lol, .day, .love and more.
As you look down the list, you begin to realize that while the initial fear of registers and registrars shaking down everyone to buy new domain names to "protect" their trademarks was a legitimate concern, there was a second serious concern as well: that a bunch of these new gTLDs were not being applied for to set up a registry where anyone could obtain those kinds of domains, but rather to lock them up for one company's use. And while Amazon and Google are the most prominent players here, lots of other companies jumped in as well. Hasbro wants .transformers. Johnson and Johnson wants .baby (so do a bunch of others). Ralph Lauren wants .polo. Travelers Insurance wants the completely ridiculous .redumbrella, while Nationwide Insurance wants .onyourside. Monster Cable (of course) wants .monster.
While some of those more specific ones wouldn't have any demand for anyone else to register anyway, there is a growing concern that companies might lock up certain TLDs, rather than make them available for registering. I'm sure lots of car companies would like theirname.car. But would that be possible?
Apparently, ICANN -- whose boss has already admitted that they're in way over their heads on these new gTLDs -- is now considering whether or not such a use of a gTLD should even be allowed.
But companies such as Amazon, Google, Goodyear, L'Oreal and others also applied for a wide array of words and indicated that they would like to operate the registry as "closed" -- meaning they may not allow other firms to buy what are known as second-level domains.The article quotes someone from a hosting firm who notes that "It is inherently in the public interest to allow access to ... new [generic top-level domains] to the whole of the Internet Community, e.g., .BLOG, .MUSIC, .CLOUD."
Clearly, companies want to own and control generic words as domains so that they can offer their services. But with that comes the possibility of blocking competitors who want to attach their brand to a term. For example, Ford might want to buy ford.truck but be blocked from doing so by the owner of .truck.
Of course, there is the flipside to this argument as well -- such TLDs that are simply locked up for a single company or service are also not on the market, meaning that they're not another in the long list of domains companies feel they "need to buy" purely for defensive reasons. Either way, at least one (still unnamed) applicant who is competing with a bunch of these companies for a few of the new gTLDs is hiring people to lobby Congress and the EU Parliament not to allow firms to lock up any new gTLD.
In the end, I think our original conclusion still stands: the whole gTLD process appears to be a continuing boondoggle for certain companies, whether it's to lock up certain TLDs or to sell off domains to people and companies who don't really want them, but feel compelled to pay up anyway.


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Three men who stole high performance cars from homes across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire have been jailed for a total of 24 years.
Grant Johnson, Dane Shaw and Karl Morley targeted a string of homes during an eight-month crime spree in 2012.
Detectives from Derbyshire Constabulary and Nottinghamshire Police began separate investigations following reports of burglaries in April that year.
In the majority of the incidents, the suspects used tools to force their way inside the homes before searching for car keys and taking vehicles.
Working together, officers from both forces began a two-year investigation, piecing together evidence, gathering intelligence and trawling mobile phone records in order to build a case against Johnson (28), Shaw (25) and Morley (25).
A total of 47 incidents were linked to Johnson, Shaw and Morley, in which cars, including Audis, Volkswagens, Mazdas, BMWs and a Porsche were stolen.
They committed 23 offences in Derbyshire targeting homes in Chesterfield, Buxton, Killamarsh, Eckington and Dronfield stealing a total of 15 cars.
The trio, from Sheffield, confronted one elderly victim in his home on Holymoor Road, Chesterfield on July 15, 2012.
The 76-year-old victim had gone downstairs to make a drink at around 3am and saw a man stood outside his kitchen window.
The victim then heard a glass panel in his front door being smashed and one of the men forced his way into the house. He demanded the victim's car keys and stole his VW Golf.
The car was crashed and abandoned nearby and a pair of mole grips and a face covering were also found discarded by police. Morley's DNA was found on the face covering.
Johnson, formerly of Walthe Road, Sheffield, Shaw, formerly of Paddock Crescent, Sheffield, and Morley, formerly of Spinkhill Road, Sheffield, were all charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and theft, between 1 March 2012 and 10 November 2012 in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.
They also faced an additional charge of conspiracy to commit theft of motor vehicles between the same dates.
The trio pleaded guilty to both offences at an earlier hearing in March and appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday 16 April where Morley was sentenced to nine years, Shaw eight years and Jonson seven and a half years.
Detective Inspector Julian Wilson, from Chesterfield CID, said: "This was a long and complex investigation, with officers from three counties working together to bring these men to justice.
"Johnson, Shaw and Morley used sophisticated techniques and carried out targeted burglaries, stealing cars with a combined worth of more than £600,000.
"Many of their crimes had a profound and lasting effect on their victims.
"The sentences handed down to these men reflect the severity of their crimes and we hope they will act as a deterrent to other would-be burglars."
Detective Inspector Richard Monk, from Ashfield CID, said: "This was a calculated, highly organised and pre-planned operation in which Johnson, Shaw and Morley picked their targets based on the value of the vehicle parked outside.
"They used the same system in every incident – silently forcing their way into a house, searching the property by torchlight and snatching the car keys.
"They would then drive in convoy to a car park where the stolen vehicle would be left overnight – giving them enough time to obtain false plates. The next morning they would return to move the car before selling it on, repeating this routine at locations across three counties.
"A dedicated team of officers from both Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire have worked tirelessly for two years to build a robust case against these three men who not only intruded on the lives of innocent victims, shattering their sense of security and making them feel vulnerable in their own homes."
Pictured from top: Grant Johnson, Dane Shaw and Karl Morley
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It's Saturday morning, the clock reads 11 am. I've had a long Friday night of dining, dancing and perhaps a cocktail or two with the girls, and a restful few hours of sleep. I wake up and it's about that time for curling up under the cover for a treasured weekend-morning ritual– drinking a cup of coffee and watching an awesomely bad 80s chick flick! Hey, don't judge, everyone's got their something… If you know anything about awesomely bad 80s chick flicks, you know there is an abundance of options at my disposal every Saturday morning, everything from For Keeps to Just One of the Guys— it's a tradition exactly like cartoons, except for really lame adults! Anyways, the single best option if all else fails is an 80s chick flick so full of fluff, yet so incredible that I don't think anything so far has matched it, Desperately Seeking Susan!
1985's Desperately Seeking Susan is fantastic, but also a really great Madonna vehicle. But oh! what a fashion forward Madonna vehicle it is! Directed by Susan Seidelman, the film is the story of bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (played by a ditsy Rosanna Arquette) who gets her excitement by reading about a mysterious figure woman named Susan (Madonna) in the New York tabloid personals. When Roberta opens the paper to find a personal entitled "Desperately Seeking Susan", she decides to finally head to NYC and see if she can run into the mysterious Susan once and for all. Although she doesn't quite run into her, she does suffer a bump on her head that leaves her with amnesia. Roberta awakes confused and is mistaken for the free-spirited Susan, and quickly finds that being Susan means a series of crazy mishaps involving hot boys, magician schools, possible prostitution and dancing at nightclubs downtown. Also, it includes mafioso men who are on Susan's tail, hoping to get back a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings. Eventually, things are righted and Susan becomes Susan again, while Roberta becomes Roberta.
With a plot as borderline murky as this, the movie is lucky that Madonna's style frenzy was at its apex during production. Having just hit the top of the charts with Like a Virgin, Madonna's signature 1980s style was in high-demand. The movie, which captured the then-seedy downtown New York City bohemian punk, New Wave and dance cultures, was able to use Madonna's style as a fair representation of what the kids were into at the time. A wise move, because Madonna's looks in the film went on to become iconic. The basics her character wears are shockingly relevant today: lots of black leggings, oversized tops and blazers, bold neon colors, lots of mesh and studded everything. Layering was an essential and was a great opportunity to mix textures– lace and sequins galore!
Mixing and matching the unlikely was also a big part of Susan's look in the film. Madonna's character blended looks, such as mens' boxers, with more feminine pieces like a frilly tank top to create a stand-out appeal. Strong shoulders of the 80s were paired with girly sequins. Even the delicate lace of her leggings got a tough upgrade when paired with her studded boots. Susan was doing the whole eclectic hobo thing long before the Olsens ever were!
Beyond the basics, probably the best part of the fashion in Desperately Seeking Susan is the accessories! Susan's style– and by extension, Roberta's– is all about taking things to the next level with quirky statement pieces. A healthy dose of black rubber bracelets,layered necklaces (hello, religious symbolism!) and colorful head ties were all a part of the look. Most of the accessories were punk in feel, but truly, influences were so varied. Her Raybans? 50s chic! Her gold earrings and cunky belt buckles? Kinda reminds me of grandma jewlery. No matter the source, the result was amazing and inspiring for any fashionista who puts stock in the cult of accesorizing!
Oh, and that whole undies as daywear trend going on now? Yep, that's right, Susan was one of the originators of that whole bandwagon. Mens boxers, womens lingere, heck, even a bra! If you wear it, Susan firmly believed it was meant to be shown off, regardless of how lacey and intimate it was!
Fashion wise, there isn't a girl out there who isn't inspired and enthralled by Madonna's early look. Although the Material Girl has gone through more transformations since then than anyone'd care to keep track of, most girls remember Madonna's Desperately Seeking Susan look most fondly. The layers, leggings, and quirky eccentricity is what has made the movie an irreplacable part of my Saturday morning routine!
Check out the infamous club scene from the movie below– the debut of Madonna classic "Get Into the Groove", and a bonus live performance of the classic!
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Today's Challah Baking
Today is Friday, so of course it's time to bake challah. I have been baking challah for my family (husband and 3 sons) for about the last 8 years. Not only do they love the challah, but they love to come home from school with the smell of the challah baking in the oven.
Over the years, I have figured out how to bake the challah during a day filled with work, appointments, the gym, etc. For a couple of years I was swearing by my bread machine to mix the dough (it takes about 10 minutes-MAX-to throw all of the ingredients in the machine) and then I'd come home 3-5 hours later to shape, proof and bake it. That does work well, but I'm onto a new method now. First of all, I swear by the King Arthur flour recipe, which is on my website. I mix the sponge ingredients as soon as I wake up (7 a.m) and let it sit while I have my oatmeal (another obsession of mine) and watch my kids get themselves ready for school. About 45 minutes later, once the sponge is bubbling, I throw everything into the food processor. It will knead the dough 90% of the way, but then I like to knead it a bit by hand–I like the feel of the dough and it also confirms that I made it versus modern technology.
The rest is by the book; let it sit and rise, punch down rise again, etc. This is really so easy!! Earlier this year when my company, Challah Connection stopped local deliveries of challah (that's how the company got started–delivering challah into peoples mailboxes every Friday), I was touched and surpised by how much people were upset about the end of the service. They became truly reliant on the service and said that it was the 1 reliable symbol of Shabbat that they could bring their families. I apologized for stopping the service (not particularly profitable) and then told them where to find the challah recipe on the website. Most were taken aback that they could bake–but it really is SOOO easy. So, happy baking today!! Jane Moritz


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A severely disabled 3-year-old girl who weighed just 11 pounds when she died Monday was starved to death, Philadelphia police said as they held the girl's parents for questioning.
Nathalyz Rivera's father found her unresponsive inside the family's bug-infested home around midnight, but called her mother instead of 911, Homicide Capt. James Clark said. The girl was driven to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Carlos Rivera, 30, allegedly fled after dropping off his four other children with a relative but was found later in the day and detained at police headquarters, where his wife was also being questioned.
"It's very sad, very disturbing," Clark said of the girl's death, which the medical examiner termed a homicide caused primarily by starvation.
Nathalyz also had some bruising, but Clark said that may have come from flea, bug or rodent bites at the house, which he said was in "bad shape."
"(She) had not seen a doctor in over a year, even with all the severe disabilities," Clark said. He did not specify the girl's medical conditions.
Police have handled several starvation deaths involving children in Philadelphia, including the 2006 death of a disabled teenager whose family was targeted for an array of weekly city services at their home. Danieal Kelly weighed just 42 pounds when she died at age 14. More than a dozen people were convicted in the case, including her parents, city social workers and contractors.
Nathalyz, a twin, was not in preschool or enrolled in any other city services despite her special needs, Clark said. The family had one prior contact with the Department of Human Services in 2008, but Clark did not immediately view that issue as relevant to the girl's death.
Her mother, who is married to Rivera but apparently comes and goes at the house, was being interviewed by police Monday afternoon. Clark said she had seen her daughter in recent weeks, and he expected her to be charged in the death.
"I saw the photos and even for me, they were difficult to look at," Clark said.
The other Rivera children — ages 9, 8 and 7, along with Nathalyz's 3-year-old twin — were being checked at a hospital before being placed with DHS.
Danieal Kelly's death became the subject of a harrowing grand jury report, which found that city workers and contractors lied about making the visits to the family home. They are now serving lengthy prison terms. The girl's mother is serving 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder, and the father up to five years for felony child neglect, for abandoning Danieal at her unfit mother's home.
In a more recent case, a homeless mother of six was convicted of involuntary murder this year for the starvation death of her premature twin at a shelter just before Christmas in 2010. Quasir Alexander, who was 2 months old and weighed just over 4 pounds, had been seen by a social worker shortly before his death. The social worker testified that she had not seen the twins undressed. Quasir's twin was found near death.
The mother, Tanya Williams, awaits sentencing. Her defense lawyer has questioned how much she understood about caring for the premature infants, given her low IQ. The twins were released from a city hospital to the homeless shelter when they were four days old, although Williams was getting parenting help there from several sources.


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As "Game of Thrones" starts Season 3, there will be dragons headed to Westeros, promising to fire up the action in HBO's already sizzling saga.
It's a fantasy realm where furs are in fashion, where the idea that "heads will roll" is not just a metaphor, where all the women seem to get naked sooner or later, and where a dwarf is a sex symbol.
"Game of Thrones," based on George R.R. Martin's books, is kind of like "Lord of the Rings" with an NC-17 rating.
The producers of "Game of Thrones" pay careful attention to detail, even commissioning an entire fictional language for the series.
RELATED: 'Game of Thrones' Stars Talk Season Three
On YouTube, you can find practically an entire syllabus of Dothraki 101, including pronunciation guides, practice videos and chat groups. There's even an unofficial Dothraki-English dictionary.
Entire scenes in the show are done with subtitles in a language that was created by an amateur linguist who answered an online casting call.
"The Language Creation Society put out a call to the various language creation communities online and I was one of those who responded," said David Peterson, 32, who went on to create the Dothraki language, which at this point is every bit as real as Klingon from "Star Trek" or Navi from "Avatar."
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Basically, his hobby became his profession, and "I think that's one of the first times that's happened," he said.
"Right now Dothraki is at about 3,700 words," Peterson said. "I would love to get it up to about 10,000 words, which will take a while but I think is pretty reasonable."
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Peterson's Dothraki was inspired by the language of George R.R. Martin's books, but it's an entirely new creation.
"I kind of interpreted how I thought George R.R. Martin wanted these things pronounced, and then did something to reflect that," Peterson said. "But I apparently got it wrong. He actually pronounces it Doth-ROCK-EYE. It was really befuddling to me when I saw this the first time."
Peterson's language has a bit more of an Arabic feel to it. For English speakers, it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Peterson records every line for the actors and says individual actors have surprised him by adding accents and styles of speaking that he says suit the backstories of their characters.
Why bother with this level of detail?
"I think the bar is just being raised," he said. "Audiences are coming to expect this type of thing. They expect this level of authenticity."
Dothraki has been so successful that Peterson has been hired to create alien languages for several sci fi shows in development on other cable networks, plus a second "Game of Thrones" language that will debut Sunday in the third season's premiere.
'Game of Thrones' Actor Has Part of Ear Bitten Off
One of several things to look forward to.
"There's more shocks, more deaths, there's tender moments too," said actor Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones." "It's my favorite season so far."
"This is kind of the game-changer," said Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the show. "People's fortunes switch on their heads this season. You can expect a lot of shocking stuff."
As a Dothraki might say: Gango awazat!


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The veil that separates the spirit world and the material world is thinnest at Halloween, allowing for eighth graders to be transformed into ghosts. Our school's traditional "perilous path" sends upper grades students on a macabre journey through delights and frights performed by the eighth grade class. Paired with the "protected path" of the lower grades, its purpose is to give the adolescent something to singly and courageously overcome, a rite of passage.
This year, our perilous path was called "Lucinda's Curse: A Rescue Mission." It was set in Renaissance Florence, Italy, where the Pazzi family kidnapped the fictitious Lucinda de Medici, sister of Lorenzo and Giuliano. It was reported that Lucinda was taken and held prisoner at the Pazzi Castle, in some secret underground dungeon. She was never found. Fast forward to the present, and archaeologists have discovered a secret entrance to the dungeon, and they may have found evidence to support that Lucinda was there. But the archaeologists go missing! A rescue team is mobilized to find the missing scientists. Then members of the rescue team go missing too! And supposedly, creepy sounds, scary occurrences, and sightings of ghosts have come from the subterranean catacombs. At the perilous path, the story continues as the student going through the path becomes a new recruit to the rescue team and is sent through tunnels and freakish rooms with zombies, poisoned rescue team members, and the ghost of Lucinda haunting every nook and cranny of the path! Needless to say, the eighth grade students had a blast!
With a wonderful set of class parents, we pulled it off. The mission was a success!


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We headed to Nemacolin Woodlands for a little getaway. Located on about 3,000 acres in Farmington, Pennsylvania. There are a million things to do. Honestly, something for everyone. To name a few ::climbing wall::ropes course::target paintball::archery::bike rental::off-road driving academy::miniature golf::shopping::spa::pools::auto toy store::animal encounter::sled dog kennels::wild world animal shows::black bear habitat::wildlife habitat::buffalo habitat::zebra habitat::canoe museum::sail and peddle boats::equestrian trail rides::pony rides::combat paintball::mystic rock golf course::falling rock golf course::tennis::art::skiing::tubing
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Wow, that place sounds amazing, something for everyone, really. And that photo of the bronze lady not working on your sock is hilarious!ReplyDelete
Ha! Nice statue - freaked me out at first!ReplyDelete
Looks and sounds like an awesome place.
Hey, I get second sock syndrome too!
You've got to finish the sock, that yarn is too gorgeous for just a single!ReplyDelete
Love the bronze!
Nemacolin is amazing, my bank account is still recovering from a recent visit there--hope you gave yourself the spa treatment there!ReplyDelete
It sounds like you had a great time and so much to do! I love that photo--too funny!ReplyDelete
Your version of that bronze statue is so funny. At first I was kind of worried because she looked so life like and had such a bad case of sun burn :)ReplyDelete
It's good to know that even statues have Second Sock Syndrome! Great pic!!ReplyDelete
We went to Nemacolin Resort last summer and it was bliss! I loved the spa and oh it was wonderful - your post about it takes me there again. We stayed at the Chateau and my son had the best time oohing and ahhing over our room.ReplyDelete
Now I bet you feel refreshed for more of summer's fun.
I'm glad you enjoyed your time there. I love the bathing bronze statue! How I long to have a one week break from work. I miss exploring all the marvelous beaches at the Panama City Beach. Vacation rentals there are incredibly cheap! Hopefully, I could go on a vacation soon.ReplyDelete


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Gays and lesbians are not entitled to the same heightened legal protection and scrutiny against discrimination as racial minorities and women in part because they are far from politically powerless and have ample ability to influence lawmakers, lawyers for a U.S. House of Representatives group said in a federal court filing.
The filing Friday in San Francisco's U.S. District Court comes in a lesbian federal employee's lawsuit that claims the government wrongly denied health insurance coverage to her same-sex spouse. Karen Golinski says the law under which her spouse was denied benefits _ the Defense of Marriage Act _ violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
But attorneys representing the House's Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group counter that DOMA is subject to a lower level of court scrutiny because gays and lesbians don't meet the legal criteria for groups who receive heightened protection from discrimination. Under that lower standard, DOMA is constitutional, they argue.
"A spate of recent news stories only confirms the conclusion that homosexuals are far from politically powerless," the filing says, arguing that the court should deny Golinski's motion for summary judgment in her favor. "Accordingly, gays and lesbians cannot be labeled `politically powerless' without draining that phrase of all meaning."
The filing cites a poll of Americans showing support for gay candidates, New York's decision to legalize gay marriage, and the lifting of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.
Golinski's attorney, Tara Borelli, said in a phone interview Saturday, "We don't think that DOMA can survive a court review under any level."
A recent ruling by a District Court judge in Massachusetts supported that view, Borelli said.
Golinski's case has received support from the Obama administration. In a brief filed in July that urged the court to find DOMA unconstitutional, the administration argued that it reflected Congressional hostility to gays and targeted an immutable characteristic _ sexual orientation _ that has nothing to do with someone's ability to contribute to society.
The administration also characterized gays and lesbians as minorities with limited political power. It had previously said it would not defend the marriage act.
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Social media is playing an important role in IT purchases throughout the decision-making process, according to a report by Starcom MediaVest Group and Mashwork. The study, "B2B Technology Decision Journey," was based on an analysis of social conversations among 500 business and IT decision-makers throughout 2012. According to the report, 80% of IT decision-makers said word-of-mouth is the most important source when making buying decisions, and 58% said they use social media to learn from trustworthy peers. The study broke down the various stages of the technology-purchase cycle, from awareness and consideration to purchase and post-purchase, and looked at how IT decision-makers use social media at each stage.
Overall, 13% of social media conversations about IT purchases took place during the awareness phase, the study found. "A majority of this conversation takes the form of sharing and discussing news about new products, often coming from tech blogs and Twitter users," Starcom MediaVest said in the report. Nine percent of social media conversations by IT buyers took place during the consideration phase, when technology decision-makers had narrowed their choice to a few options. "At this stage of the decision journey, b-to-b technology decision-makers reach out to their networks to ask questions," the report said. "B-to-b technology decision-makers ask for guidance and inquire about other people's experiences with the products they are considering."
Other areas of the IT decision-making and post-purchase process in which social media plays a significant role are: customer advocacy (17%); experiencing success with products purchased (14%); "sabotage," in which decision-makers disparage tech brands (12%); product implementation (9%); and other issues around tech products (4%). Other types of social conversations that play a role in technology decision-making come from external sources, including guidance from those familiar with the products being purchased (15% of conversations) and those detracting from tech brands (8% of conversations). "Because this decision journey is a modular, continuous cycle, b-to-b decision-makers are perpetually surrounded by individuals providing opinions and information about technology products," the report said.
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In case you were wondering how the people at Affliction are feeling about the UFC's all out counter-programming assault, USA Today's Sergio Non has an article that looks at where the clothier/MMA organization stands right now. Turns out that with a month still to go, they aren't in bad shape.
VP Tom Atencio claims they've sold between 7,000 and 8,000 tickets so far, which is good news this far from the event if it's true. Anaheim's Honda Center holds around 17,000. That's about on par with the Prudential Center in New Jersey, where Elite XC sold just over 8,000 tickets when all was said and done.
Affliction's big marketing push is planned for two weeks before the show, and as for the impact of UFC Fight Night 14, Atencio is planning on the miracle of modern technology to protect him:
"As far as I'm concerned, people are going to Tivo (the UFC show) and watch our fight, and then go back to (watch UFC) later," he said. "Obviously you're going to get those people who are going to watch something for free (rather) than pay. … But our card is definitely stacked. I don't know anybody that can say it's not a great card."
That's a valid strategy as it relates to hardcore fans. We'll see whether it will work on those people we always hear about who only know the UFC.
Atencio is right when he says the card is stacked, though it's stacked largely with fighters who appeal to that hardcore fan base and much less so to the casual fan, who may or may not have heard the name Fedor at any time in his life. Their success with this show — particularly with the UFC going up against them on Spike TV — could tell us a lot about the actual interest level in MMA as a sport, rather than simply the UFC as a brand.
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The Kern County Planning and Community Development Department and First District Kern County Supervisor Mick Gleason invited the public to the first public workshop on Wednesday to discuss the Resource Opportunity Plan for the Indian Well Valley.
The Kern County Planning and Community Development Department and First District Kern County Supervisor Mick Gleason invited the public to the first public workshop on Wednesday to discuss the Resource Opportunity Plan for the Indian Well Valley.
The plan is being touted as the first comprehensive and complete document of all water data collected in the IWV. The plan is being composed by Todd Engineers. Todd is not conducting any new tests but is collecting information already available on the water system.
All of the data being collected by Todd are reports and other information that is public record.
At Wednesday's meeting, Todd senior hydrologist Gus Yates introduced his theory based on the data collected thus far that IWV groundwater is a closed basin system. This means there are few sources for the basin to collect more water to replenish the valley's supply.
Yates presented his theory to the crowd at the Inyokern Senior Center and then Lorelei H. Oviatt director of Kern County Planning Department opened the room to discussion on the closed system hypothesis as well as other suggestions and input for the plan.
There was a mix of comments from the public ranging from concerns over the pistachio groves to adjudication.
Adjudication is a legal way of determining who has right to water, how much water can be used and who gets priorities during a shortage. The process is also very expensive, according to Oviatt.
Oviatt said she hopes that this plan will be a way around costly and time-consuming litigation.
There were several comments and concerns raised by individuals concerning the current growth in agriculture in the valley, namely pistachio orchards.
One public member said they have seen a significant drop in the water level of their well since the orchards have gone in. The person asked if the county could institute a moratorium. Oviatt answered there would not be a moratorium, but thanked the member for their comment sand the input about their well.
Another member asked that, since the plan is being composed of studies already conducted, whether current data from wells and other sources would be included in the plan.
Projections for growth will be used in the plan, Oviatt said. She added that with Bureau of Land Management surrounding the IWV, an unexpected growth bubble is not expected anytime soon.
When someone asked why there is not a new study being done, Oviatt replied there is not enough time to conduct a study and that Todd is not being paid to do a study.
Oviatt replied that current data from wells will be collected and included in the plan. She added that the water belongs to everyone: the ranchers and farmers, businesses and people of the IWV.
Gleason was asked on his stance on agricultural development.
"My opinion will rest on the plan," Gleason said, adding he will also wait to see what the public has said they want for their future.
Oviatt said the water issue is an urgent matter to be reconciled as soon as possible. She added that Ridgecrest uses more water than any other desert community, including Lancaster and Rosamond.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon expects Iraq to agree in writing to legal protections for the military advisory teams that President Barack Obama is sending as part of an effort to stiffen Iraqi defenses against insurgents, a spokesman said Friday.
"I can assure you we will have those protections," the Pentagon press secretary, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, told reporters. He said U.S. officials are currently consulting with the Iraqi government about that issue.
Iraq refused to agree to such legal protections for a much larger number of U.S. troops that the Obama administration had proposed leaving in Iraq after its combat mission ended in December 2011. As a result, that residual force was never deployed.
Kirby said the U.S. does not need a Status of Forces Agreement of the type it tried to negotiate with Iraq in 2011. He was not specific about the type of written agreement being sought in this case but said he had no doubt it will be obtained.
"I'm confident that the legal protections that are needed will be in place," he said.
The point of having such legal protections is to ensure that U.S. troops would be subject to the U.S. military justice system if needed and not to the Iraqi judicial system.
Obama earlier this week authorized the deployment of up to 300 special operations forces into Iraq to assess and assist the Iraq security forces as they battle an aggressive insurgent group, the al-Qaida breakaway group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which also is fighting in neighboring Syria.
Kirby said the first portion of that U.S. force would be comprised of military members who are already in Baghdad as part of the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq, which is part of the U.S. Embassy. They will focus on assessing the state of Iraq's security forces and the state of the insurgency; that assessment will inform decisions about how follow-on adviser teams will be used, he said.


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20 Free or Low-Cost Summer Activity Ideas for Kids.
These ideas for summer activities are great!! Anyone who knows me knows there's no way I would come up with even half of this stuff. I'm printing them off and pinning the ideas to the refrigerator. Happy Summer! (At least I'm planning for it. A first).


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STOCKTON - Looking ahead and making pre-planned funeral arrangements? Want to pay all the costs of death and burial ahead of time?
STOCKTON - Looking ahead and making pre-planned funeral arrangements? Want to pay all the costs of death and burial ahead of time?
If so, know who you're dealing with and be careful.
That's the advice of the District Attorney's Office on the eve of a criminal trial, the State vs. Reginald Thompson, that starts today in San Joaquin County Superior Court.
Thompson, owner of Thompson's Funeral Home, formerly at 2118 Lafayette St., faces five felony and two misdemeanor counts of theft and grand theft, almost all of them involving elderly residents of Stockton.
The case received widespread media attention last summer when the Stockton Police Department, announcing the criminal investigation, asked for victims to come forth.
Many of them had been dealing with the southeast Stockton funeral home for years.
"My husband wanted to get arrangements taken care of," said 57-year-old Linda Campbell, "so we went down to Thompson's. That's how we got sucked in."
She and her husband, 92-year-old Preston Campbell, paid more than $5,000 for such services as embalming, transportation of the body and the casket costs. That was 2004.
They were told that the amount would be placed in an insurance policy with Iowa-based Homesteaders Life Co., a firm founded in 1906 to provide funeral funds.
Linda Campbell followed up with Homesteaders last year and was told by the company that it had no record of her policy.
In the meantime, Thompson had closed up, or moved, his business. It took a lot of digging, but eventually she tracked him down and asked for her money back. "Reggie asked me to give him one week," Linda Campbell said. "And then I never heard from him again."
She is one of seven plaintiffs against Thompson. There are six individuals, five in their 80s, and one business.
At least 20 other complaints sit in a stack of files on the desk of Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams, who is the prosecutor for the case.
"They are not being prosecuted because we didn't have the manpower," said Adams. "I want the community to know that we couldn't get to all of these reports. There weren't enough detectives, and Stockton PD is so short-handed."
Attorney Russell Humphrey of Lodi is defending Thompson. He was unavailable for comment. No one answered the phone listed for Thompson.
Two of the other cases that will be examined during the trial:
� An 83-year-old woman named Minnie paid almost $3,000 in monthly payments toward a pre-arranged funeral, including burial in the same Stockton Rural Cemetery plot as her husband. After the amount was paid in full - and while attending another funeral at the midtown cemetery - she checked to make sure everything was in order only to have cemetery officials tell her they had never heard of her.
� When 57-year-old Ricky Cook died of congestive heart failure last year, his family had to wait five days after a promised date for his remains to be delivered. They also claim the coffin he was in was flimsy and cheaper than the one for which they had paid.
The trial is expected to last into the middle of next week. Proceedings are being heard by San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Xapuri Villapudua.
Adams said Wednesday, at the end of jury selection, that there were lessons in the case for the broader community.
"Always double-check and verify pre-need arrangements," she said. "Contact the insurer and the cemetery, the trust. Diligence on their part is important.
"Most families wouldn't know they were victims until their loved one had died."
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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Okay, the main issue I see here is that she needs to be nursing more often. This could be part of the reason she is getting plugged ducts. It's not that baby isn't getting enough per feeding, it's that baby isn't feeding frequently enough. It is ABSOLUTELY NORMAL for a brand new baby to nurse 30 minutes and then want to nurse again 20 minutes after finishing a feeding- that makes almost an hour between feedings (since you time them from the beginning of one session to the beginning of the next), which is about average for a newborn- sometimes they'll go longer, sometimes shorter. As I said before, their tummies are tiny at this point and breastmilk digests very quickly, so try not to pay attention to the clock or how long it's been since the last feeding and if baby seems to want to nurse- nurse him. So just to be clear, that pattern you describe of nursing-sleeping-nursing again within the hour-TOTALLY NORMAL.
You are getting plenty of wet diapers, so that's great. As long as you're getting at least 5-6 per day your baby is getting enough milk, so keep that in mind as you cut back on the formula. It shouldn't be too difficult to eliminate that one feeding per day.
Also totally normal not to respond to the pump, especially in the beginning or if she is very engorged. The pump is NOT an indicator of what happens when the baby nurses because the mechanics are totally different. Don't think since you aren't getting much when pumping that baby isn't getting much when nursing.
Check the link I posted before about dealing with cracks, there are some great tips in there about how to treat them, how to nurse when you have them, and how to deal with it if they are too painful to nurse.


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Clarkson University Cadet Ranks Among Army ROTC's Best
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Clarkson University senior Michael P. McLaughlin of Evans Mills, N.Y., an interdisciplinary engineering and management major, has been named the George C. Marshall Award winner from Clarkson Army ROTC.
Given annually, the award is presented to the most outstanding cadet in the Army ROTC program at Clarkson University. The selection is based on professional excellence, leadership, personal integrity and selfless service to the nation.
The award is named in honor of Army Gen. George C. Marshall, who served as the chief of staff of the Army and secretary of both state and defense. He was the author of the restorative Marshall Plan and the only career soldier to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Cadet McLaughlin has been a great cadet battalion commander and will definitely be an exceptional lieutenant," says Colonel John C. Hinrichs, professor of military science.
McLaughlin, a 2004 graduate of Indian River High School, is the son of Joseph and Marilyn McLaughlin, of Evans Mills.
He will be commissioned in May and will be assigned to HHC, 8th Combat Support, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.


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The first day of spring has come and gone, officially marking the time of year to clean house – and not just your literal home. It's also the perfect season to tidy up your finances. Just like you might have a "to do" list for your house spring cleaning tasks, here are 12 simple to dos to help you clean your financial house.


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"I see it has a front zipper. Does the storm flap have snaps? How does the storm flap seal?"
There is one snap at the very bottom and 5 velcro fasteners along the rest of the flap up to the hood. The seal is good in conditions I've been in. I suppose if there were a very high wind with the rain coming sideways, the flap might gap a bit when the wind hit it from the right side, but short of that kind of very heavy wind, the seal works well for me.
It has one snap at the bottom and a few velcro spot all the way up the jacket. I've never had a problem with the velcro coming undone, but I also haven't been out in a hurricane with this jacket.
There is a button at top and bottom and Velcro in-between. I bought them for twin grandsons and they were put to the test on a week-long wilderness canoeing trip in Quebec. They were pleased with them. Hope this is useful.
"Some rain jackets are noisy when you wear them. When you walk and your arms swing, the sound ranges from almost silent to a loud, annoying swishing noise depending on the material. For instance, I had to return the Marmot Precip jacket because I couldn't take the noise. How noisy is this material?"
Hi. . . It doesn't strike me as excessively noisy, but it does make a noise as the fabric slides over itself. As long as you are just walking, the only sound would come from where the arms slide over the body, but I've not noticed it to be irritating. If you are sensitive to this sound, though, it may bother you a bit. The waterproof fabric tends to make this swishing noise. I hope this helps some.
I happened to have a Marmot Precip jacket and I tried them to see which one is noisier. The result: both made similar noises. Hope that helps.
"would the hood fit over a bike helmut?"
It will fit but you may or may not be able to zip up the jacket all the way depending on the size of the helmet.
I don't ride a bike often and don't have the experience. I tried it on and found the hood fit quite well so I guess the hood may not cover a regular bike helmet.
I can't say for sure since I don't have a bike helmet, but there is a lot of room for adjustment in the hood. Perhaps if it were opened up completely it would accommodate a bike helmet.
"Does this jacket have zipper under the arms? In other words, can it be used during the summer/ in hot weather condiitons?"
Unfortunately, there are no pit-zips. I used it for the summer in Iowa and had plenty of rainstorms and it worked really well. However, it does not breath well in warmer weather. After the storms, when I would take the jacket off, there would be a layer of moisture on my skin. Generally though, if you are not going to be using it in hot weather for longer than an hour at a time, I think you would be alright. Although, if you are planning on using it for summer hikes, I would look at getting something more breathable.
No, it is like an old-fashioned rain slicker, only much much lighter. I would use it in rain in the summer since it's light, but it's not something you'd wear on a hot day if you had a vented alternative.
"Does this jacket have a liner of any kind? I have an old White Sierra jacket with a mesh liner."
Not really a liner. There are interior mesh side pockets and a small mesh panel in the upper back interior. Not fully lined.
The liner is pretty much non-existant. The only mesh that is present is in the pockets and a little on the mid back.
There is a mesh liner under the flap in the upper back (top part of the vent). But otherwise, no, most of the jacket's inner surface is not covered by a liner.
It has a light, white fabric liner, not sure what material. It's comfortable. It feels like cotton, but probably isn't, given that it's a rain jacket.
"Any pockets"
"I want a waterproof jacket I can put over my regular jacket. How would I figure the right size?"
Measure your chest with your regular jacket on. Use that measurement as your chest measurement when selecting a size. If you click on the sizes the chest measurement the size fits will be displayed. I. E. Sizes Available: L (Chest 42-44) So if the measurement you have with your jacket on is 42" the large should fit over your jacket.


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This afternoon, Jimmy Kempski hosted his weekly philly.com Eagles chat. Here's a look at some of the best - and most frequently asked - questions from you, the readers.
Wouldn't it really be best for the future of the franchise to follow the 76ers strategy and lose a lot of games and get a top pick and draft Bridgewater or one of the other QB's coming out this year? -- Ken B
Kempski: That doesn't work in the NFL. You have 53 players risking body harm in football. Tanking doesn't fly.
Is it worth tanking the season if the skins and giants have terrible ones themselves? They will end up with top draft picks while we might get a couple of wins more ( maybe ) and loose out on possibly a top defensive player. -- London Eagles
Kempski: Nobody is tanking the season. Period. Also, the Washington team doesn't have their 1st round pick.
What positions need to be addressed in next years draft and free agency? -- Guest
Kempski: In no particular order: Offense: QB, WR, TE, OT, OG. Defense: NT, OLB, ILB, CB, S. Yeah, so pretty much everything but DE. In other words, just get good players.
Seems like riley is te playing wr. Why stick with him? -- beijingjake
Kempski: A lot of people are asking that. The Eagles like his ability as a blocker, and to Riley's credit, he does provide a matchup advantage as a blocker in the run game. But if the defense takes away DeSean, Cooper and Avant just aren't going to scare anyone in the passing game. The Eagles could really use a 2nd legitimate threat at receiver to keep defenses honest against DeSean. That's where Riley is a liability.
Two bad teams playing this week, but unfortunately I think the Giants will win it at home. What do you think? -- Ken B
Kempski: Vegas thinks so too. Giants are 2.5 favorites. I don't see it. The Giants have been wretched this season. They've done nothing well. Offense... bad. Defense... bad. Special teams... bad. At least the Eagles have an offense that can move the ball, even if it hasn't led to big numbers on the scoreboard. I like the Eagles in this one.
If Eagles lose to 0-4 Giants...do they finally bench Vick? -- Billy
Kempski: If Vick throws 4 picks and looks horrible, then yes, I think that question will be valid. But if they score 35 and lose? No.
Jimmy - What are your 3 Keys to the game vs. the Gmen? -- EaglesRedZone
Kempski: Hmmm... I hadn't turned my attention to the Giants just yet, but ... 1) Stop Victor Cruz. He's the only guy playing well for the Giants right now. 2) Gash them with the run. Giants are 5th worst in the NFL against the run. 3) No major special teams mistakes. The Eagles are the more talented team. Don't give them easy turnovers on STs.
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NY judge jails wife in Massachusetts fraud scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of a fugitive wanted in Massachusetts in a billion-dollar pyramid scheme was denied bail Thursday after prosecutors told a judge she was caught at John F. Kennedy International airport with a one-way ticket to Brazil, $3,000 in cash and four suitcases weighing 70 pounds.
A lawyer representing Katia Wanzeler failed to convince U.S. Magistrate Joan Azrack that his client had no reason to flee because she's only a witness in the case and was planning to return by the end of the month. He claimed the heavy luggage contained clothes she had bought for her relatives.
"Seventy pounds of luggage? Four suit cases? ... There is no way I'm releasing her," Azrack said in federal court in Brooklyn.
Wanzeler, 49, wearing blue jeans and a hoodie, wiped away tears with her sleeves as she was led out of court. She was to be taken to Massachusetts, where she's been subpoenaed by a grand jury in Worcester.
Carlos Wanzeler and another man were charged earlier this month with cheating investors in TelexFree, an Internet phone company. Court papers allege that rather than generate legitimate revenue, the company recruited new investors to pay returns to the existing ones.
When the scheme collapsed and the company declared bankruptcy last month, federal agents raided its headquarters in Marlborough, Massachusetts. They recovered 10 cashiers checks totaling nearly $38 million, including one made out to Katia Wanzeler for $2 million, prosecutors said.
The day of the raid, Katia Wanzeler told agents who went to the couple's Northborough home that her husband was staying at a hotel on the advice of his attorney, court papers say. In reality, he and his daughter had crossed by car into Canada, where they caught a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, the papers say.
After learning Wanzeler had bought a one-way ticket with cash, authorities obtained a material witness warrant and intercepted her at 9 p.m. Wednesday as she was boarding an American Airlines flight to Rio de Janeiro. They also served her with the subpoena.
Defense attorney Robert Peabody argued Wanzeler, a Brazilian-born U.S. citizen, had no incentive to flee because she didn't know she was being called before the grand jury and had left a teenage son with a caretaker at her home in Massachusetts.


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Nearly all women experience some form of nausea and vomiting, particularly during the first trimester of pregnancy. For some people, though, morning sickness goes on all day and night, day after day, and is especially severe. The condition is called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), and I was one of those unlucky people.
Once in a while, I'll hear women tell stories about discreetly excusing themselves from a work meeting to be sick in the restroom or needing to eat three crackers each morning before getting out of bed to prevent the onset of nausea. In these conversations, I always hold the trump card: With HG, I was in the emergency room twenty-one times between my sixth and twenty-third week of pregnancy. Those visits included seven admissions for multiple day stay, outpatient IV therapy, and the placement of a PICC line (permanent IV) for six weeks.
HG is defined as unrelenting and excessive pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting leading to dehydration, a loss of body weight, and metabolic imbalances. It can be crippling, making you incapable completing even routine daily activities.
The major symptoms of HG arrived during the sixth week of my pregnancy:
- Frequent and severe nausea and vomiting. I would vomit every 20-30 minutes for at least a twenty-four hour period before seeking medical intervention for relief.
- Dehydration and the production of ketones (protein) in urine.
- Loss of weight. This is generally defined as a loss of more than 5% of pre-pregnancy weight.
I also had some quirky side effects that I later discovered are common for women with HG. In particular, I had hypersensitivity to smell. One of my cats was suddenly so stinky that I couldn't have him in the same room. I had a hard time kissing my husband for the duration of my pregnancy, no matter how minty fresh he made his breath.
My pregnancy quickly became about survival. I couldn't eat anything at all most days, let alone taking pre-natal vitamins or focusing on a healthy diet of omega-3 rich foods and raw kale. My go-to when I could eat at all was Coca-Cola and English tea biscuits. My plans of working out regularly to facilitate a healthy pregnancy became laughable. Mostly, I couldn't get out of bed. I took weeks off from work; I'm grateful my company was understanding and supportive.
The medical community isn't sure what causes HG, and treatments don't always offer relief. Primarily, what I needed to develop was a close relationship with my doctor, a network of family support, and the ability to focus on the outcome of this ordeal…a baby girl.
Fortunately, like many women with HG, the symptoms lifted substantially after about 20 weeks – 23 to be exact. I was able to eat some foods, gain weight, and get through to the end of my pregnancy. After taking so many medicines to combat the nausea and subsisting primarily on coca-cola, it was reassuring to deliver a totally healthy baby.
If you suspect you may have HG or have been diagnosed, here is my best advice:
1. Join an online community for women with HG. www.helpher.org is a great resource.
2. Explain the difference between morning sickness and HG to your boss, your closest friends, and your immediate family. Ask for support. Ask your boss for a leave of absence. Ask friends to bring over freezer meals for your family.
3. Talk frequently with your doctor (and don't be afraid to reach out to other doctors) about different treatment options. If possible, try to bring someone along to your appointments. My husband, mom and my mom-in-law all played the very helpful role of health advocate.
4. Try to find a few things that work for you. I found ice packs on my forehead and little sips of coke to help, particularly when on an upswing of a vomiting cycle.
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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Annie Groom has spent much of her first indoor track season scrambling to meet deadlines and looking for opportunities. Very few meets offer every event, so success hinges upon every little decision.
Does she run relays or focus on individual events? Is anyone close to qualifying for the state meet or an upcoming invitational meet? These are the questions that plague the coach between contests.
"It's fun. I come home from one meet, and I'm already trying to figure it out for the next one," she said. "There's always something that we couldn't have anticipated like injuries. In the end, we want to get as many of them to states as possible. You have to balance the individual and the team."
On Thursday, Jan. 3, Groom had a chance to test the middle distance runners at Glastonbury's indoor meet. The cramped high school is a poor venue for long distance times, but it offered a chance to attack the short track.
So Groom shifted the focus, and her Knights came through. Southington athletes captured five heat titles and a pair of top five finishes in a field that included athletes from Old Saybrook, NW Catholic, Bristol Eastern, RHAM, and Bacon Academy.
"We were trying to get in some good speed work, but I wasn't expecting a lot of fast times," said Groom. "We were able to bring a lot of people, and everybody got a chance to compete. This was a good opportunity for our varsity and JV athletes to mingle, and it was a great chance to put together our new girls 4x800m relay."
Alyssa Lombardi paced the girls team with the fastest time in her 600m heat (1:54.4), and she teamed with Raquel Romano, Lauren Perkowski, and Sarah Palko to claim the title in an odd 4x900m relay because of the 150m track.
"Their 12:03 was good enough to be first, and when I calculated the time [that it would have been in a 4x800m relay] it would have broken 11 minutes," said Groom. "That's what we need to do to qualify for states, and that's what we'll shoot for at the Yale Invite next week."
Nick Garcia led the boys with a victory in the 1600m (5:08). Kyle Summa won the 600m (1:39.3), and Joe Pappalardo captured the 1,000m (3:01).
In addition, Amanda Hamel finished fourth in the girls 1,000m (3:58), and Perkowski placed fifth in the girls 1600m (6:17).
"We did very well considering it was such a slow track," said Groom. "Alyssa Lombardi just missed qualifying for states by .45 seconds in the 600m, and at a different track, she would have made it. Ben Gibbons and Mike Sullivan both ran 41 seconds for the 300m races, and that's close to qualifying. The biggest surprise was Jessica Howe, a freshman. She just ended up missing a state qualifying time in the 55m."
With just a few more weeks to qualify athletes for the postseason, Groom will continue to shuffle athletes into the mix at practice and the meets. This Friday, the team will compete at the McGreavy Invitational at Wesleyan University in Middletown, and that's a meet that's set up more for relays than individual running events.
"We're going to do some heavy duty speed work which some of the mid-distance and distance people need. We're working on hand-offs for the relay, and we're hoping to qualify the 4x400m girls relay on Friday night," said Groom. "We have just a couple more weeks to get it all done."


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Media release: Mirror launching personalised web content
Trinity Mirror is to deliver personalised web content across its national news and entertainment sites using "recommendation engine technology" by Rummble Labs, a London-based technology start-up.
In a release, Rummble Labs said it will integrate its technology across the Mirror's website, 3am and the Mirror's football site to "provide better targeted and personalised content to users".
The technology will deliver personalised content by combining real-time analysis of social data with site activity, the release states.
Rummble Labs said that the technology will allow Trinity Mirror to take activity data and combine it with meaningful social data insights from Facebook, to provide powerful recommendations on content or products.
In the release, Chris Ellis, Trinity Mirror's managing director, digital, nationals division, said:
The recommendation engine will provide highly-personalised content for our users and will drive engagement and page views across our news, entertainment and sports sites.
Alex Housley, chief operating officer, Rummble Labs said:
Tags: Chris Ellis, personalised content, Rummble Labs, Trinity Mirror
We will be helping Trinity Mirror make sense of a huge amount of social data and enabling them to unlock the real value of that data.
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AMD is expected to release a software program Tuesday that will allow software developers to simulate the virtualization capabilities of AMD's forthcoming Pacifica technology before it appears in AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 chips, according to a company executive.
SimNow, the Pacifica simulator, will be available for download on AMD's Web site (http://developer.amd.com/simnow.aspx) Tuesday, said Margaret Lewis, commercial solutions strategist for AMD. Although it usually provides simulators to large software vendors prior to the release of a new hardware technology, AMD hopes to reach a larger number of software vendors and developers in this case by making the simulator publicly available, she said.
Pacifica is expected to become available in the first half of 2006. It will allow PCs and servers to take advantage of virtualization technology to create separate virtual machines that can run different sets of software.
For example, an IT department would be able to create a section of a desktop or notebook that ran corporate applications, while dedicating another section of the device for personal use, Lewis said. If a user downloaded a virus onto the personal section of the PC, it wouldn't affect the corporate section or the rest of the corporate network, she said.
Or, a single server could run applications written for the Linux operating system on one virtual machine while running Windows applications on another virtual machine, Lewis said.
Companies can already do either of these things with software from companies such as VMware Inc. However, AMD and Intel Corp. are planning to build transistors dedicated to virtualization support into next year's crop of processors in order to improve the performance of virtualization software.
SimNow will allow a wide range of software developers to test and qualify their products for Pacifica before the chips are released so that products are ready to go with the launch of the technology, Lewis said. "We can't provide early hardware for everybody," she said.
The simulator will allow developers to test their applications on the equivalent of single-core Athlon 64 chips and dual-core Opteron chips, Lewis said.


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It was a vast civil engineering programme that diverted the resources of the nation. At fifteen sites across the country, from Durham in the north to Chichester in the south, Norwich in the east to Hereford in the west, thousands of men laboured to create marvels that would amaze their contemporaries.
Their creations would become instant landmarks, the centre of civic pride in their local areas and a clear sign of the power and wealth of their patrons and creators. They would stand the test of time and many years later would remain some of the most popular and most visited buildings ever created.
Am I talking about the great Victorian railway stations? Or Tudor England's palaces and mansions? Perhaps the great Georgian terraces and squares that forced discipline out of unruly city streets? As important as these all are, they do not quite match the sublime splendour of England's Norman cathedrals – an eleventh century building project like no other.
The fifteen Norman cathedrals shown in the map above (with their original building time in brackets) are:
- Durham (1093–1133)
- York Minster (c.1080 – 1100)
- Lincoln (1074 – 1092)
- Norwich (1096-1145)
- Ely (1083-1109)
- Rochester (1083-1130)
- Canterbury (1070 – 1077)
- St. Pauls (1087- 1240)
- Chichester (1075 – 1108)
- Winchester (1079 – 1093)
- Old Sarum Cathedral (1066 – 1092)
- Gloucester (1089–1412)
- Hereford (1107-c.1158)
- Worcester (1084 – 1089)
- Chester (1093 – 1250)
Continue reading "Statements in stone – England's Norman cathedrals"


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Hamachi 18.104.22.168
Downloads: 271082
File size: 982KB
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License: Freeware
Hamachi is a centrally-managed zero-configuration virtual private network (VPN) freeware.
Hamachi 18.104.22.168 Change Log
Added notifications in a form of system tray balloons; this feature
can be turned off via hamachi-override.ini
* Added an option of enabling diagnostic log from the Preferences,
System page. Maximum log size defaults to 16 Megs, split into two
8 MB files. The size and the verbosity of the log file is controlled
via hamachi-override.ini
* Added new languages - Croatian and Hungarian. Serbian is on its way.
* Updated a number of existing translations
* Modified Hamachi adapter driver to use stack space more rationally;
all bulky temporary variables are now allocated off the stack
* Modified the installer to put Hamachi adapter _last_ on Windows'
"adapter binding list"
* Modified the installer to disable "DNS updates" on Hamachi adapter,
which is another way of saying that 5.x.x.x address should NOT now
be getting an A record if the machine's running a DNS server
* Modified the installer to set DefaultGateway on the Hamachi adapter
to 188.8.131.52 and its InterfaceMetric - to 9000. This Vista-specific
fix; non-Vista installations are not affected
* Fixed "stuck in a reconnecting mode" issue
* Fixed UPnP code to understand broken dialects of HTTP/1.1 spoken
by some home routers
* Fixed local value of peer's MAC address being different from the
value used by the peer itself (affects IPX connectivity)
* Fixed "Failed to connect to the adapter" problem by -
# making Hamachi select any suitable adapter if the default one is
not available
# making the installer force Windows to name all newly added items
in a Network Connections folder (affects machines that do not use
Windows Explorer as a default shell)
* Fixed the problem with per-peer information not being saved properly
when Hamachi is running as a service
* Fixed the problem with "Block Vulnerable Services" option not working
* Fixed cosmetic UI issues (language, wording, formatting, etc)


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More Ploetziade 2 ingredients
I go out to the Tohono O'Odham, Pima, Gila River Indian Reservation now and again to find some unusual gifts - for like...Mother's day this Sunday. Usually I am looking for baskets, jewelry, etc but this time I ran into a lady named Ramona Button. She and husband Terry farm their 10 acre reservation allotment (and several others from family and friends that would go fallow otherwise) and mainly grow heirloom beans, some corn and ....wheat! When she mentioned wheat I asked what kind and she said Pima Club and Sonoran White. I got both in whole berries for $5.40 for 1 1/2 pounds each. Both are white wheat, low in gluten and perfect for tortillas .....they would fantastic for baguettes.
I've never heard of Pima Club but she said her grandfather, (an O'Odham and her mother was a Pima) used to grow it on the same original 10 acre allotment of land and that Pima cvlubs were fierce weapons to be feared in their day . She said she might be the only one growing this wheat today.
There are no nutrition or ingredient labels on Indian products since they don't have to comply with any US standards being their own nation and all. For pale faces, she said the wheat is considered all natural and organic - perfect for Ploetziade 2.


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STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Chasson Randle's 17 points and a dominant defensive effort Wednesday brought Stanford a stunning 76-52 whipping of No. 12 Oregon.
The Ducks came into the game on a nine-game winning streak and with a two-game lead in the Pacific-12 Conference, but they managed only 36 percent shooting and turned the ball over 21 times.
Oregon was within reach early in the second half, trailing by 10, but Stanford then blew the game open with a 12-0 run and coasted from there.
Josh Huestis added 14 points for the Cardinal and both Aaron Bright and Dwight Powell had 12.
Stanford (13-8, 4-4 Pac-12) has won three of its last four.
Carlos Emory, with 10 points, was the only player in double figures for Oregon. The Ducks (18-3, 7-1) now lead both Arizona and Arizona State by 1 1/2 games in the conference chase.