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An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is an X-ray test that provides pictures of the kidneys, the bladder, the ureters, and the urethra (urinary tract). An IVP can show the size, shape, and position of the urinary tract, and it can evaluate the collecting system inside the kidneys.
During IVP, a dye called contrast material is injected into a vein in your arm. A series of X-ray pictures is then taken at timed intervals.
IVP is commonly done to identify diseases of the urinary tract, such as kidney stones, tumours, or infection. See a picture of an IVP showing a kidney stone. It is also used to look for problems with the structure of the urinary tract that were present from birth (congenital).
An ultrasound or a computed tomography (CT) scan may be combined with an IVP if more details about the urinary tract are needed. A computed tomography intravenous pyelogram (CT/IVP) is usually done to look for the cause of blood in the urine.
An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is done to:
Before having an intravenous pyelogram (IVP), tell your doctor if:
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?).
You may need to stop eating and drinking for 8 to 12 hours before the IVP. You also may need to take a laxative the evening before the test (and possibly have an enema the morning of the test) to make sure that your bowels are empty.
If you are breast-feeding, use formula for 1 to 2 days after the test.
This test is often done in children to see if they may have an abnormal backflow of urine (vesicoureteral reflux). Prepare your child for examinations and tests that are needed. Doing so will help your child understand what to expect and can help reduce fears.
An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is usually done by a radiology technologist. The IVP pictures are interpreted by a doctor who specializes in interpreting imaging tests (radiologist).
You will need to remove any jewellery that might interfere with the X-ray picture. You will need to take off all or most of your clothes, and you will be given a cloth or paper covering to use during the test. You will be asked to urinate just before the test begins.
You will lie on your back on an X-ray table. An X-ray picture of your belly will be taken and reviewed by the radiologist before the next part of the test begins.
The injection site on your arm will be cleaned and the contrast material will be injected into a vein on the inside of your elbow. The dye travels through the bloodstream, is filtered out by the kidneys, and passes into the urine. The urine then flows into the tubes (ureters) that lead to the bladder.
X-ray pictures are taken several minutes apart as the dye goes through the urinary tract. Each picture is developed right away. Sometimes more pictures are taken based on earlier ones. You may be asked to turn from side to side or to hold several different positions so the radiologist can take a complete series of X-rays.
During IVP, a compression device may wrapped around your belly to keep the dye in the kidneys. The most common compression device is a wide belt containing two inflated balloons that push in on either side of your belly to block the passage of dye through the ureters. If you have recently had abdominal surgery or have an abdominal disorder, the band will not be used.
A special type of X-ray technique called fluoroscopy may also be used during IVP. During fluoroscopy, a continuous X-ray beam is used to display a moving image on a video monitor.
IVP usually takes about an hour. After the test is over, you will need to drink plenty of liquids to help flush the contrast material out of your body.
You will feel no discomfort from the X-rays. The X-ray table may feel hard and the room may be cool. You may find that the positions you need to hold are uncomfortable.
You will feel a brief sting when the needle is inserted into the vein in your arm. When the contrast material is injected, you may feel slight burning in your arm and flushing throughout your body. You may also notice a salty or metallic taste in your mouth.
The compression belt may feel tight. If it is painful, tell the technologist and ask that it be readjusted.
You may feel slightly weak, nauseated, or light-headed for a short time after the test.
There is always a slight chance of damage to cells or tissue from radiation, including the low levels of radiation used for this test. But the chance of damage from the X-rays is usually very low compared with the benefits of the test.
There is slight risk of having an allergic reaction to the contrast material. The reaction can be mild (itching, rash) or severe (trouble breathing or sudden shock). Death resulting from an allergic reaction is very rare. Most reactions can be controlled with medicine. Be sure to tell your doctor if you have asthma or allergies of any kind, such as hay fever, iodine allergy, bee stings, or food allergies.
People with certain conditions (such as diabetes, multiple myeloma, chronic kidney disease, sickle cell disease, or pheochromocytoma) have increased chances of having sudden kidney failure from IVP. Older adults and people taking medicines that affect the kidney may also have increased chances for problems after an IVP.
An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is an X-ray test that provides pictures of the kidneys, the bladder, the ureters, and the urethra (urinary tract). Your doctor may be able to talk to you about some results right away. Complete results are usually ready in 1 to 2 days.
The kidneys, ureters, and bladder are normal in position, size, and shape.
The contrast material reaches the kidneys in a normal amount of time.
No blockage can be seen in the kidneys, ureters, or bladder.
In men, the prostate gland looks normal in position, size, and shape.
The kidneys, ureters, or bladder may be abnormal in position, size, or shape. A kidney may be absent, or an extra kidney or ureter may be present.
The kidneys are too large or too small.
The contrast material takes longer than normal to reach a kidney.
An abnormal growth (such as a tumour), one or more cysts, an abscess, or a kidney stone is seen.
A kidney is swollen with urine from a blockage such as a tumour or kidney stone.
Injury to the kidney, ureter, or bladder is seen.
The kidney contains scarring.
In men, the prostate gland is too large.
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is not usually done for a pregnant woman because the X-rays could damage the growing baby. If a view of a pregnant woman's kidneys is needed, an ultrasound test may be done instead.
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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What does the word "whale" bring to mind? For many, it might be the image of a blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived.
But did you know that dolphins and porpoises, which are far smaller and look quite different, are also types of specialized whales? Today, there about 80 species of living whales, or cetaceans.
These 80 species fall into two groups: baleen and toothed.
Called mysticetes—a word derived from the Greek for "mustache" and "whales"—baleen whales are toothless. They feed by using their unique baleen—fringes of keratin hanging from the roof of their mouths—to help keep vast numbers of tiny prey (such as krill) in and filter water out. Blue whales, humpback whales, and gray whales are all mysticetes.
Called odontocetes—from the Greek for "toothed whales"—toothed whales are the bigger group, comprising about 70 of the whale species living today. The group includes beaked whales and sperm whales. (Sperm whales are far larger than most other species in this group—reaching about 60 feet long.)
The toothed-whale group also includes porpoises, dolphins (including orcas, also called killer whales), and the monodonts—narwhals and belugas.
Toothed whales such as sperm whales hunt their prey one by one. They often use echolocation to find it and sometimes swallow it whole.
Learn more about the diversity of these marine mammals in Whales: Giants of the Deep, which opens at the Museum Saturday, March 23.
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Forest society tells Northern Pass: Hey, we own land under Route 3
By DAVE SOLOMON
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Northern Pass partners may think momentum is shifting in their favor after announcing a new route in June for hydroelectric transmission lines through the North Country, but the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests believes it still has an ace up its sleeve.
The society claims it owns the land under Route 3 along the Connecticut River between Pittsburg and Clarksville, where PSNH has proposed burying the 1,200-megawatt power lines intended to carry hydroelectric power from Quebec into New England.
"We own the land that they want to go underground on, and we are not a willing landowner," said society spokesman Jack Savage. "So it's unclear to us and our attorneys how they might be able to do this without some entity exercising some form of eminent domain."
Northern Pass partners will challenge that assertion, said Martin Murray, a spokesman for PSNH.
"We disagree with the Forest Society's evaluation of the issue," he said. "We are confident that we have proposed a legitimate crossing of Route 3 that respects all easements and is in keeping with state law. We are also disappointed to learn that the Forest Society, after calling for Northern Pass to use more underground construction, is now actively working to block the use of underground construction."
Murray also took issue with the notion that eminent domain could come into play.
"Raising the false specter of eminent domain is both misleading and disingenuous," he said. "State law addressed this more than a year ago." The Legislature passed HB 648 in 2011, prohibiting for-profit utility projects from using eminent domain to take private land.
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In a wide-ranging conference call with investment analysts on Tuesday, executives for Northeast Utilities said they were confident that all state and federal approvals for the project would be in hand by mid-2015, which would put the project on track for completion by 2017.
The Department of Energy is continuing its work on a draft environmental impact statement necessary for the presidential permit, according to Leon J. Olivier, executive vice president and chief operating officer.
"As soon as that draft is complete, we will use it as part of our application with the New Hampshire site evaluation committee," he said. "Once we file that application, the site evaluation committee will review and adjudicate it. Our plan has both the state and federal permitting processes complete by mid-2015. On that schedule, we expect to bring the project into service around mid-2017."
Officials from PSNH, a Northeast Utilities subsidiary, announced a new route for the northernmost 40-mile section of the transmission project in June, with plans to bury eight miles of line through the most controversial areas.
The plan calls for laying the line underground along Route 3 where the highway crosses the Connecticut River between the Canadian border towns of Pittsburg and Clarksville.
Much of the line would have to be buried in sections of Route 3 that cross through an area known as the Washburn Family Forest, consisting of 2,128 acres in Clarksville purchased in 2008 from Malcolm Washburn and family.
The Forest Society raised $2.8 million to conserve the land and cover all transaction costs.
Immediately after the new route was announced, the Forest Society went to work researching its rights under Route 3 in the Washburn area.
"We've been doing research to find out exactly what the state owns and what we own and what other rights of way exist and so forth," Savage said. That research revealed that the Forest Society owns the land under Route 3, and under the Connecticut River, in the Washburn Forest area, according to the Forest Society.
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Representatives of the Forest Society met with the Select Boards of Pittsburg and Clarksville in a joint session earlier this week, at their invitation, "and we shared this information with them," Savage said.
When asked why the society had not previously brought this issue forward, Savage said the research was only recently concluded.
"We wanted to make sure we were right, that we in fact owned that land," he said. "We wanted to take a close look at exactly what (Northern Pass) was proposing. Roads are very, very complex, and that's one of the reasons it's taken our attorneys a little while to research this issue. We now have a clearer understanding of exactly what rights and ownership we believe that we have."
Olivier told stock analysts on Tuesday that reaction to the new route has been very positive. "We see a building consensus in the polls that were taken," he said. "We see a rise in support for the project."
Northern Pass opponent Nancy Martland of Sugar Hill says she was surveyed in what she described as a "push poll."
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The news of the Forest Society's potential "blocking action" comes as PSNH prepares to host a series of open forums in North Country communities between Aug. 5 and Aug. 21, with sessions scheduled in Millsfield, Stark, West Stewartstown, Pittsburg and Groveton.
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right so i offer up a couple possible things i think you might be saying and then ask if you could clarify whether i am right or going the right directino with some of them- you respond telling me im the one with a communication problem......ok
right about that last part- it just seemed a bit funny to me that its obvious i go to w&L and you felt the need to hammer on that several times- and im usually very unsenstiive to anything- in fact this may be the first time on here someone has bugged me with some snappy remarks-----either way- we've gone off point--- i still don't think you have given any reason and prefer to simply make remarks trying to sound like a smart ass and you think i'm just not listenting and doing nothing but responding negative to everything you say- whatever, i've had enough of this nonsense
So... what's up with W&L's job placements, anyway?
Quote from: aufhebung on March 30, 2006, 11:13:15 AMSo... what's up with W&L's job placements, anyway?LOL that's what I'm asking! The three relevant points I've heard:-many people go into government work, which requires you to pass the bar before you start work-the class included in the year USNWR data was lame; these stats should go up in the future-W&L doesn't lie, cheat and steal its way into better stats the way some schools doYep, that's it. Assuming I go there, I just plan on making sure I don't end up in the bottom quartile - those who do well from W&L will have a ton of opportunities in the east, although transferrability to the west coast without any job experience has been called into question.
Oh god I so wanted this stupid discussion but I guess my lets just drop it attempt failed- Since you think Im not listening to you I will now prove that you are mistaken:Your first post: To save space, you note w&l doesnt do as well on other rankings (citing leiter and consus- not sure what the second is)- you say us news overvalues for sizeNext:1- You make a very bold claim- W&L is nothing like BU or ND and if anything is closer to w&m and george mason ---no evidence yet presented2- You mention small size for course offerings- thats fine- i think this goes without saying but thats why I left it alone3- BU, Iowa, and ND have a name that will travel to almost anywhere in the country- W&L does not4- basically you go back to the overrated claim due to sizeTo summarize- so W&L is overrated because it has much less national recognition- you offer up the leiter rankings and the leiter explanation on the flaws of usnews- not really convincing info to me. I then responded making a quick remark about the size method and why I think letier is wrong (without going into detail), note why I think his faculty rankings are bs to an extent and ask you to explain yourself further.Your next post-You first start off stating another obvious point- I go to w&l, not that it isnt obvious from the giant letters in bold- you seem to imply since I go to w&l I am hiding the ball- maybe I overreact to this comment a bit but what you said seems unnecessary as I deliberately make it obvious where I go to schoolStepping onto the campus- you seem to think that this only tells you about atmosphere and neighborhood- to an extent you are correct but it seems very naïve that some numbers or lists tell you all you need to knowThen you go to the whatever you want in your experience criteria- this would be fine by me- as I responded, what a person wants does play a role- at this point I thought you were simply saying that each person has their own preference based on what they wantThe thing is you dont do this. Next you decide to go back to your overrated claim. Not overrated for you, which is a personal opinion, but overrated. You mention the vault list. I assume you mean the leiter vault rankings? You never really say. Hard to make a point without any facts. Then you say again it doesnt have the national rep those other schools do in the west. Again, however, no facts.Now you go to the faculty point. You have some personal experience here so I cant say your claim is 100% baseless on this point but you do conclude that publications reveal faculty quality. Now while you obviously have more experience then most of us here, this still seems like a pretty strong claim.So again, you make a strong assertation that w&l is nowhere near as national as its peer schools. You back this up with some US News data and what leiter says about big schools being given a bump. You think the faculty isnt as good because publications are important to finding out quality. I dont think anything I said was baseless. I was trying to see what you were trying to say because you jump around a bit. At one point, you discuss what an individual wants and another how w&l isnt really as good as most people think. Is this two arguments, or one? That is what I was trying to figure out. I dont see how anything I said wasnt listening especially when you make some major claims that go against what most people think and offer weak support for those claims. So there you have it. If you have a specific point and backup for it, then fine, I will gladly agree to disagree. I just dont see anything that justifies the very strong stance you are making.now can we please drop this- if you have some points- make another post and ill be sure to listen- but everything in this thread has been ridiculous
This is like a legal dispute, both sides offer different set of facts that are both self-interested and rooted in the truth. I would sum it up like this, LitDoc, whether she admits it or not, set off the thread with the provocative statement that W&L was not comparable to schools like Iowa, ND, BU, or ILL. Some people, including myself criticized that stance and then everybody dug their heels in and starting trying to justify their position. Then when people started saying they were being too adversial, we started pleading our case that the other person started it. In conclusion saying "Iowa, ND, BU, or ILL aren't comparable to W&L probably was not a smart thing to say because its based to much on opinion (and the first post def did not say it as an opinion, but said it rather matter of factly.) After that people probably over-reacted.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball's average attendance fell 1.2 percent this year, with the Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies experiencing big drops.
The average was 30,514, down from 30,895 last year and the peak of 32,785 in 2007. Total attendance of 74.03 million was down from 74.86 million last season but was the sport's sixth-highest.
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After cutting payroll ahead of their second season in a downtown ballpark, the Marlins went 62-100 and experienced a 29 percent drop in home attendance, from 2.2 million to 1.6 million. The Phillies were 73-89 in their poorest season since 2000 and watched home attendance fall from 3.57 million to just over 3 million.
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As the Florida Senate's full redistricting committee prepares to give its stamp of approval to its Senate and Congressional reapportionment maps today, Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich has offered up two options for them to consider, one for each map. See the Herald/Times analysis of the maps here.
Surprise: each of Rich's proposals reduce the Democratic packing in the Senate and Congressional seats proposed by Republicans, designs more competitive Republican seats, and create more Democrat-leaning districts. Download Senate_compare
Let's start with the Senate, since this map may be the closest to completion after today. The House subcommittee on Monday already rubber stamped the first proposed Senate drawn by Republican leaders and there is no indication they're prepared to tamper with it. The only question now is how many votes will the Senate map get from Democrats. Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Miami, told the Herald/Times she likes the GOP-drawn map. She and six of the other Democrats on the committee voted for the GOP's proposal, but that was before Rich proposed the alternative.
Rich's proposed map also ends the meandering Jacksonville-based district of the Republican map -- now held by Sen. Audrey Gibson, a Democrat -- and makes it much more compact within Duval County. Her map treats the Tampa Bay area about the same way the Republicans do -- merging east Tampa with south St. Pete and a piece of Manatee County. The districts in the Orlando area are more compact on the Democrats' version. In Miami, both maps have long,narrow districts running up the Miami-area coast but in the Democrat's map the district performs better for Democrats while in the GOP map it performs better for Republicans.
The biggest change may be the way Rich handles minority districts -- she makes all districts more diverse and less racially packed. Six of the Democrat-drawn districts have 50 percent or more minority voters: Nos. 29, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40. None have a district that is 90 percent white but 16 are 80-89.9 percent white. By contrast, eight GOP-drawn districts have 50 percent or more minority voters: Nos. 14, 19, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40. One district is 90 percent white -- No. 28 -- and 15 districts are 80-89.9 percent white.
When it comes to party registration, Rich's map has 50 percent or more registered Democrats in seven districts: Nos. 3, 5, 6, 18, 29, 32 and 33. There are 50 percent or more registered Republicans in only one Democrat-drawn district: No. 4. By contrast, the map prepared by Senate leadership has 50 percent or more registered Democrats in eight districts: Nos. 5, 6, 12, 19, 31, 34, 38, 40 but only one district with 50 percent or more registered Republicans: No. 1.
-- Tampa Bay Times Researcher Darla Cameron provided the analysis for this report.


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So, in an effort to carve just a little time out of each day for myself, I've thrown myself headlong into distance running.
It started out two summers ago with my first 5k, where I startlingly enough learned that not just running, but racing is addictive. Now - I'm not really fast - I have often been passed by the elderly and disabled, but I've always come out in the top half of my division.
Took a bit of a hiatus to be pregnant with the twins, but jumped back in with 10ks this last spring. Just finished my first 15k on Sunday (I *just* stopped feeling like I need a hip replacement surgery this morning), and just signed up for my first half marathon (The Shamrock in March 07), and intend to do the Chicago Marathon in Oct. 07. I even dropped almost $200 on the nike+ipod so I can know EXACTLY how far I've been running at any given second.
Now, since I've started racing, it seems to me that I can't go to an event without tripping over another NY Capital Region planner - at one race this spring, 5 planners that I new happened to be doing a 5mi. trail run.
So - I know Mskis runs (and got me a kick ass running journal for my SS gift two years ago) - but anyone else on the bandwagon?


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Speculators are abandoning money-losing positions that stocks with the closest links to the U.S. economy will fall as America's most-hated shares stage the best rally in a year relative to the broader market.
The 20 stocks with the highest short sales in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose an average of 5.1 percent in December, compared with 0.7 percent for the full gauge, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The performance gap is the widest since January 2012. Companies from U.S. Steel Corp. to J.C. Penney Co. are gaining at the expense of phone companies and utilities, which usually do best when the economy contracts.
Market bulls say the capitulation underscores growing confidence in the U.S. recovery, while bears say the rally shows indiscriminate buying as earnings estimates fall close to a one-year low. The change echoes money manager Laszlo Birinyi's prediction that the four-year bull market will finally attract investors who have stayed away from equities.
"Let's put it this way, I made more money on my longs than on my shorts," Gilles Sitbon, who helps oversee $2.1 billion at Sycomore Asset Management in Paris, said in a phone interview on Jan. 3. His Sycomore Long-Short Opportunities fund rose 15 percent in 2012. "It's not just hard to be short, it is painful."
Equities tend to rally when companies with the most short interest outperform. In March 2009, the least-loved shares beat the S&P 500 by 8.1 percentage points just before American stocks posted the biggest annual increase in six years. January's advance came as the benchmark gauge was starting a three-month, 12 percent advance.
Biggest Rally
The S&P 500 soared 13 percent in 2012, adding almost $1.9 trillion to the value of stocks in the best increase since 2009. The measure has risen within 6.7 percent of its 2007 record as the Federal Reserve tied monetary policy to unemployment and announced a third round of bond purchases, while the European Central Bank pledged to buy as many securities as needed to lower borrowing costs and preserve the euro.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent to 1,460.01 at 10:03 a.m. in New York today.
U.S. shares have moved up steadily since Nov. 15, when House Speaker John Boehner reported progress in budget talks with President Barack Obama. Companies with the highest bearish bets climbed 13.8 percent on average since then compared with a 8.4 percent return in the S&P 500.
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Policy: VIII.A.6x2 (inactive)
Issued: September 20, 1996
Owner: Assistant Vice President for Research Administration in the Office of Sponsored Programs
Latest Revision: January 28, 2004
1.0 Purpose
This policy describes how administrative and clerical salaries should be charged.
2.0 Policy [Top]
Section f.6.b. of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, "Cost Principles for Educational Institutions," states the following regarding the charging of administrative/clerical salaries as direct cost:
"The salaries of administrative and clerical staff should normally be treated as indirect cost. Direct charging of these costs may be appropriate where a major project or activity explicitly budgets for administrative or clerical services and individuals involved can be specifically identified with the project or activity."
OMB, with assistance from Health and Human Services (HHS), has issued the following interpretation guidelines:
"This provision is intended to establish the principle that administrative and clerical staff salaries should usually be treated as indirect costs but that direct charging of these costs may be appropriate where the nature of the work performed under a particular project requires an extensive amount of administrative or clerical support which is significantly greater than the routine level of such services provided by academic departments. The costs would need to meet the general criteria for direct charging in section D.1 i.e... 'be identified specifically with a particular sponsored project'...relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy. The special circumstances requiring direct charging of the services would need to be justified to the satisfaction of the awarding agency in the grant application contract proposal."
The following examples illustrate circumstances where direct charging of administrative or clerical staff salaries may be appropriate:
- Large, complex programs. Such as General Clinical Research Centers. Primate Centers, Program Projects, environmental research centers, engineering research centers and other grants and contracts that entail assembling and managing teams from a number of institutions.
- Projects which involve extensive data accumulation, analysis and entry. surveying, tabulation, cataloging, searching literature, and reporting, such as epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and retrospective clinical records studies.
- Projects that require making travel and meeting arrangements for large numbers of participants, such as conferences and seminars.
- Projects whose principal focus is the preparation and production of manuals and large reports. books and monographs (excluding routine progress and technical reports).
- Projects that are geographically inaccessible to normal departmental administrative services, such as seagoing research vessels and radio astronomy projects, and other research field sites that are remote from campus.
- Individual projects requiring project -specific database management.
These examples are not exhaustive, nor are they intended to imply that direct charging of administrative and clerical salaries would always be appropriate for the situations illustrated in the examples. Where direct charges for administrative and clerical salaries are made, care must be exercised to assure that costs incurred for the same purpose in like circumstances are consistently treated as direct cost for all activities. This should be accomplished through a 'Direct Charge Equivalent' or other mechanism that assigns costs directly to the appropriate activity."
The above guidelines should be followed for all future proposals. It is recommended that the need for clerical/administrative support be fully justified in the budget summary/explanation section of the proposal. Please note that these guidelines do not allow the routine charging of administrative/clerical salaries for general departmental functions.
See also:
Procedure 8-14, "Budgeting Direct Costs of Sponsored Programs,"
Office of Sponsored Programs Cost Accounting Standard Guidelines
3.0 Definitions [Top]
4.0 References [Top]
5.0 Approvals and Revisions [Top]
Previous version in effect from 9/20/96 to 1/28/04 available in policy archive.


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2010: Second-team All-Ivy... CoSIDA Academic All-District 2009-10... Co-Recipient of the 2010 G.H. Walker, Jr. Award, given to the Bulldogs' most valuable player... Started all 44 games for the Bulldogs... Hit .339 with seven stolen bases, 23 RBI, and 35 runs scored... Second on the team in hits with 58... Hit by a pitch a team high 11 times.
2009: Appeared in 36 games, including 34 starts at shortstop and second base...Hit .294 with three stolen bases, five RBI and 23 runs scored...Totaled nine multiple-hit games...Led Yale with seven sacrifice hits...Reached base five times, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and three runs scored, in the March 9 win at Maryland-Baltimore County...Went 6-for-11 with four runs scored in a three-game series at Towson...Went 2-for-3 with a double, RBI and run scored in an April 5 win against Penn...Batted 4-for-4 with an RBI in game two of a doubleheader against Dartmouth on April 18.
2008: Played in the first 40 games, starting 38 contests at shortstop, before missing the final week with an injury...Hit .264 and tied for the team lead with two triples...Smacked first career hit, a single, in the season opener at George Washington on March 1...Later came around to score...Collected first career extra-base hit and first career RBI the next day with an RBI double...Had first career multi-hit game at Wofford on March 14, going 2-for-4...Belted first collegiate home run at Presbyterian on March 20...Went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored against Sacred Heart on April 9...Whacked an RBI triple in the second game of a doubleheader against Fairfield on April 16.


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I am a Muslim woman living in Europe. I have been living in my home for a year. Few months ago I noticed that some things are disappearing from my home. Initially I did not care about it. But something returned after it disappeared, I have been looking for this thing for three months in the same place where I found it eventually. I became really frightened and started to remember all things that disappeared before. My heart is full of fear and doubt. Are there devils or something in this house? I pray regularly and read Quran daily, Alhamdulillah. I may neglect the daily adhkaar sometimes but now I am Alhamdulillah regular in saying them. I still fear for myself and family. Shall I leave this home or not? I cannot tolerate living here anymore, I am really tired, please help me.
You have done well to pray regularly and recite Qur'aan daily, because these are among the best of deeds and means of protection against destructive and harmful things. We ask Allaah to protect you and give you well being in your religious and worldly affairs.
If you are certain that some things have disappeared from your house, and that no one who lives with you has taken something for some reason, and that has happened repeatedly, then it is not unlikely that that was done by the jinn, because there are good and bad among them, and there are some who steal for themselves or for others. But the remedy for that is simple, praise be to Allaah. If you mention the name of Allaah when you put something down, and you say the name of Allaah when you enter the house, and when you shut the door, then the jinn will have no way of entering your house or taking any of your things.
Muslim (2018) narrated from Jaabir ibn 'Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: "When a man enters his house, and mentions Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted, when he enters and when he eats, the shaytaan says: 'You have no place to stay and no dinner.' But if he enters and does not mention Allaah when he enters, the shaytaan says, 'You have found a place to stay.' And if he does not mention Allaah when he eats, he says: 'You have found a place to stay and dinner.'"
And Muslim (2012) narrated from Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with him that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Cover vessels, tie up waterskins, close doors and extinguish lamps, for the shaytaan does not undo waterskins or open doors or uncover vessels. If one of you cannot find anything but a stick to place over his vessels, or to mention the name of Allaah, let him do so…"
Al-Bukhaari (3280) narrated it with the wording: "Shut your door and mention the name of Allaah; extinguish your lamps and mention the name of Allaah; tie up your waterskins and mention the name of Allaah; cover your vessels and mention the name of Allaah, even if you just place something on top of it."
Based on this, if you shut the door and mention the name of Allaah, and you put your things in a box, for example, and say the name of Allaah, then they will be protected, in sha Allaah, because the shaytaan cannot upon a door or uncover a vessel.
Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said, concerning the lessons learned from the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah and his conversation with the jinni who was stealing from the zakaah dates: The jinn eat human food, and they speak human words, and they steal and cheat. It also points to the virtue of Aayat al-Kursiy and the virtue of the last verses of Soorat al-Baqarah, and tells us that the jinn can get food over which the name of Allaah has not been mentioned. End quote.
If you take these means, but you still do not feel comfortable staying in the house, then it is better to look for another house. Abu Dawood (3942) narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: A man said: O Messenger of Allaah, we lived in a house and we were great in number and wealthy, then we moved to another house where our numbers and our wealth grew less. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Leave it for it is bad." Classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
See also question no. 27192.
And Allaah knows best.


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Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore promotion debuted in front of around 1,900 fans in Poughkeepsie, New York last night. The main event saw Dreamer defend his FWE Heavyweight Title against Carlito and Mike Knox. Carlito won the match and captured the title.
After the intermission, WWE Hall of Famer Edge came out and spoke. He put over how Tommy Dreamer worked hard to put on the show. Edge talked about how he was glad to get a chance to see the younger talents. He introduced The Young Bucks and the team of Brian Kendrick and Paul London, who would face each other next. Edge compared them to the team of he and Christian vs. The Hardys.
Dreamer told fans at the show that there will be a second House of Hardcore event. He commented on Twitter:
"Overwhelmed w/ the anount of people that r here to support @HouseofHardcore close to a sellout #ilovewrestling"
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NKorean soldiers put down arms to help plant crops
SASI-RI, North Korea (AP) — The North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity — not of fighting, but of farming.
Beyond the barbed wire, ruddy-faced North Korean soldiers put down their rifles Wednesday and stood shoulder to shoulder with farmers as they turned their focus to another battle: the spring planting.
As neighboring nations remain on guard for a missile launch or nuclear test that South Korean and U.S officials say could take place at any time, the focus north of the border is on planting rice, cabbage and soybeans. In hamlets all along the DMZ, soldiers were knee-deep in mud and water as they helped farmers with the spring planting.
Inside the DMZ, hundreds of North Korean soldiers marched in a line with backpacks. On a hilltop above them in North Hwanghae province, Col. Kim Chang Jun said they were being dispatched to farms — but still prepared for war if need be.
"From the outside, it looks peaceful: farmers are out in the fields, children are going to school," he said. "But behind the scenes, they are getting ready for war. They're working until midnight but come morning, if the call comes, they'll be ready to go to battle."
To the west, inside the Joint Security Area that is the heart of the DMZ, a tense quiet hangs over the area that divides North from South. This is the spot that foreign tourists see, a stage where the observation decks, pavilions, pine trees, cherry blossoms and azaleas belie the tanks and traps hidden from view along the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer) buffer zone.
South Korean soldiers stand with fists curled at their hips in a combat-ready mode borrowed from taekwondo. Across the way, a unit of North Korean soldiers goosesteps into position, rifles slung across their backs. Visitors on a tour bus from the South Korean side peer up at a North Korean building known as Panmungak.
Because of the tensions, tourists are not allowed inside the three blue conference halls straddling the border, North Korean Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho said. Typically, they are allowed to go into the meeting rooms as soldiers from both Koreas stand guard.
"This is a place that the whole world is watching, so of course it seems quiet on the surface," said Nam, who guides tours to Panmungak. But he said the prospect of war is always on the minds of soldiers manning the world's most militarized border.
"Is there anyone in the world who doesn't worry about war?" he told the AP on Tuesday. "We don't want a war. But if the American imperialists provoke us unjustifiably, we will answer with a nuclear war."
Since early March, North Korea has steadily and dramatically ramped up the rhetoric warning of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula, though it has quieted in recent days.
Leader Kim Jong Un ordered soldiers in charge of North Korea's arsenal of missiles on standby and North Korean officers at the front line severed communications with the South Korean military.
North Korea takes issue with tightened U.N. sanctions punishing Pyongyang for carrying out a long-range rocket launch in December and conducting a nuclear test in February in violation of Security Council resolutions. Pyongyang also is incensed by joint U.S.-South Korean military drills taking place now south of the border, annual exercises that this year have included nuclear-capable bombers and fighter jets.
South Korean defense officials say the North has moved missiles to the east coast, including a medium-range missile believed to be designed to strike U.S. territory, but there has been no indication of when they might test-fire the weapon.
When asked about North Korea's plans to fire a missile, Lt. Col. Nam said he didn't know anything specific, adding with a chuckle, "That's a national secret, top secret among secrets.
"But we have made it clear: Our army is capable of striking any place on earth."
As diplomats in the region conferred about how to bring down the tension and rein in an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang, Nam and Col. Kim reiterated in separate interviews this week that North Koreans want peace. But they said North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons, seen here as a necessary deterrence against the powerful "American imperialists."
"We want to live peacefully and happily, but we will not sit by for one second if we are provoked," said Kim, whose job involves telling tourists about a concrete wall that the North says the South built in the late 1970s just south of the DMZ. North Korea considers the structure an affront to the goal of reunification.
"If a (nuclear) war breaks out, the death and destruction would be heartbreaking," Kim said. "But we may have no other course but to defend ourselves if we are provoked."
It remains unclear how far North Korea's nuclear weapons program has progressed in the years since six-nation negotiations to provide aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament fell apart in 2009. After pledging to mothball its plutonium-processing plant in 2008, Pyongyang announced last month that it would restart the facilities and continue enriching uranium, which experts say would provide North Korea with a second way to make atomic bombs.
Last month, Kim Jong Un enshrined the pursuit of nuclear weapons, along with building the economy, as key goals for the nation.
Col. Kim, at the lookout point along the DMZ, called nuclear weapons "the lifeblood" of North Korea. "If we don't have nuclear weapons, we'll continue to be threatened by outside forces."
For the moment, however, the labor of many North Korean soldiers is turned to the land. Spring is arriving slowly this year in North Korea, pushing back the crucial planting season by a month. Impoverished North Korea struggles to feed its 24 million people, with the U.N. estimating that two-thirds of the population cope with chronic food shortages.
Farmers in Panmunjom-ri, the North Korean village inside the DMZ, were busy planting rice, cabbage, soybeans and radish in fields surrounded by barbed wire and anti-tank barriers.
Elsewhere, faces flushed and still in their uniforms, men and women soldiers waded into muddy paddies and bent down with fistfuls of spinach to plant.
Around them, red banners fluttered in the wind. One read, "At a breath," a phrase urging North Koreans to work hard. The other read, "Defend to the death."
Follow AP's bureau chief in Pyongyang at www.twitter/newsjean.


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Depending on how many years you've read manga, have you changed your type of manga's to read? I have. When I first started to read manga's I used read nothing but Shoujo's. Now I'm getting kind of bored with that genre. I've read so many of those type that I can tell how the story will develop and how the main character will end up with.So I moved on to action WITH romance lol. I find that more entertaining now. Although one thing that hasn't changed is that I still stay away from the ecchi stuff :b
'One day your life will Flash before your eyes, Make sure it's worth watching'
I started with a bit of shojo and more shounen. Fruits Basket, Nana, Tsubasa, Bleach...now I'm all into shounen. I don't know, probably I'm more into the action than the romance. Its more exciting and fast paced in my opinion. Yeah and ecchi stuff is a turn off. I mean I quit reading Fairy Tail cause it was a bit too much there (well fan service...)
Used to like moe, shoujo, magical girl stuff, like Fruits Basket and Tokyo Mew Mew, though I still liked seinen. Now I'm mostly into shounen. I don't really like those kawaii slice of lifes anymore; Strawberry Marshmellow, K-ON, and Lucky Star now bore me, but Azumanga Daioh will always be a classic, and I'm probably going to see YuruYuri for the hell of it. I used to like shounen-ai, but now it pretty much bores me too, it's all yaoi now.
Tom-san spanks Shizu-chan as punishment for having a perfectly round derriere
I started with shoujo then moved on to shounen,then now YAOI,but I still read alot of shounen,but comapared to yaoi it's nothing
I used to think the stuff I read was hardcore,but now,it's all fluff and clouds compared to the yaoi I read now,I think yaoi will stay with me,shoujo just bored me,and the girls got annoying,but girls like Alice in Alice in the country of hearts are fine with me
Wondering if I should buy it. . . . . . . . .
Used to like Shonen and Shojo (u know like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura) genre... But then I started to read senien, horror, comedy, harem, and hentai of all sorts (except beastality, ntr, and guro)... Adventure genre kinda lost it's appeal to me
well, to be hunest when I started reading manga, I liked a little bit of everything. But to be honest, after a while I started to find shoujo
mangas a litte bit boring.
So it is written:
And the Magicuser fell out of her trap of Moe and Moe was banished from the land of her favorites forevermore for everyone had braincells.
- Book of Moe, vs. 16 - 18.
1% evil. 99% fangirl.
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I started with shoujo then moved on to shounen,then now YAOI,but I still read alot of shounen,but comapared to yaoi it's nothing
I used to think the stuff I read was hardcore,but now,it's all fluff and clouds compared to the yaoi I read now,I think yaoi will stay with me,shoujo just bored me,and the girls got annoying,but girls like Alice in Alice in the country of hearts are fine with me
omg..i think the exact same thing
Haven't really moved from one genre to another. I am pretty much all consuming if my requirements gets filled. Which is good art/drawing, well made characers, a good story/plot - though the story/plot can be down prioritized if the art and characters are good enough.
I've tried reading yaoi, but it's just pointless - as implied by the meaning of the word yaoi. Seems like the exact same things happen to the exact same character stereotypes. I've been recommended one series that was supposed to be actually good, but I've yet to check it out.
Most of the thing I end up avoiding shoujo and such, because I just don't like the drawing style many of them have.
I read all genre's. If it's interesting I'll read it.
I've not read a great deal of manga in my lifetime. I don't care for the actual genre, as long as it's aimed at mature audiences.
My interest constantly shifts from one thing to another...
Stupidity: The leading cause of death.
at first, I like read shoujo manga more than shouene manga, then since i read one piece manga, and naruto manga, i found i like shounen manga more...
and now i still follow these manga. .but now, i also like the heeling manga.. that;s seems sweet.
I've never really ruled out something based on genre alone, though my preference has definitely shifted. About, oh, 13 years ago, I was mostly reading shounen and some hentai, but that's partly because that's most of what was out there in English. (This predates the Tokyopop boom, for perspective.) But things shifted me more toward shoujo and josei, and eventually to BL, which is where my current preference lies. Though I have to say slice-of-life and 4-koma have been gaining my interest lately...
A Roku is great for watching shows!
Mine stayed pretty much the same
romance & comedy,
I also dont like the echi, its too corny & not my style, so i stay away from those a long with the tooo much drama i hate when on of the characters is sooo evil it makes me mad that i have to stop reading the manga & find a new one.
I want to read action manga but it feels like i cant get into it like the action isnt really action but still action since they are just pictures
True ♥Love is a fairy tale....


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Journal, Oct. 1, 1910
The Tautog have at last apparently struck in. The fishermen at Beavertail made good catches Sunday, one man taking over 70 at the "Gully."
The sidewalk on the easterly side of Clinton Avenue near the foot of the street is being built up with the crushed stone taken from the work on Narragansett Avenue.
Mr. George Chandler is busy hauling out his fleet of small boats for the winter.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 26, 1935
(At the school committee meeting) expense money of $5 per teacher was voted for the annual institute to be held in Providence in October. …A see-saw unit for the girls' side, at the Carr School, was ordered purchased. …Plans for the Americanization class …were discussed. The opinion was that the class should be organized and continued as long as there was a call for it.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 27, 1935
(A protest was received by the town council from property owners in the Dumplings and Shoreby Hill, which stated) we wish to call to your attention the lack of town necessities which those of us who live at the Dumplings are obliged to suffer. The lights on Highland drive were not turned on until late in the season, and then because of a protest. The roads have been clouded with dust. …Dogs are allowed to run loose and invade the property of the neighbors. The assessments of our properties have been practically unchanged for years. In spite of the fall of the value in all real estate, we are paying more taxes in 1935 than in any year since 1917.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 27, 1960
Another round in the fight against establishment of an oil refinery in Jamestown will get underway Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court is asked to review a lower court decision favoring the refinery.
Harold E. Shippee, superintendent of Mackerel Cove beach and Ft. Getty reservation, reported to the (Town) Council $3,695 in total receipts for the summer as compared with $2,174 in 1959, in spite of the shorter season this year. Beach and Ft. Getty stickers brought in $1,044; day tickets, $757; and Ft. Getty season tickets for non-residents, $894.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 28, 1985
Hurricane Gloria turned into more of "a lady" than expected and was just a tropical storm today, but left at least five dead, millions without power and East Coast officials still counting the property damage in her wake.
One man was injured trying to remove a tree limb, and seven yachts ripped from the moorings and crashed ashore at East Ferry Friday during the height of Hurricane Gloria. But Jamestown preparedness, coupled with Gloria's swing to the west, spared the island from the worst during the hurricane, which carried winds gusting to 90 mph. Many trees and limbs were torn down throughout the island. The island was divided briefly at Mackerel Cove when the seawater washed over Southwest Avenue.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 30, 1985
The Town Council will meet with other town boards tonight in an effort to establish "more frequent direct communication" among them.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 28, 1995
Town officials have shut down the municipal well at North Pond reservoir and will leave it off until water levels in the surrounding area stabilize. All water used by islanders tied into the municipal water lines is now coming from North Kingstown through the Jamestown emergency pipeline and directly into the town's distribution system.
Water use at the town-owned Ft. Getty campground this season was lower than what would be expected. …The 653,690 gallons of water used at Ft. Getty during the droughtplagued summer was well within the water department's projections for per person water use.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 28, 2000
The U.S. Postal Service has informed the town by letter that they are considering two parcels of land on which to put a new town post offi ce. A third parcel at 28 Narragansett Ave., the site of Jamestown Distributors, was rejected by the Postal Service, the letter said. (One of the considered sites is at 78 Narragansett Ave. The Clarke/Ceppi building houses Mansions & Manors Real Estate. If accepted by the Postal Service, the house would be demolished for a new building.) The other site under consideration is the lot that the post office is currently on, plus the lot to its immediate west heading up Narragansett Avenue.


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The Virtual Incubation Network is a two-year Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant-funded initiative led by the American Association of Community Colleges and 11 community colleges. The effort encourages the creation of more start-up businesses through virtual business incubation services and supports by community colleges and their partners.
The development of the Virtual Incubator Network recognizes that incubation services need not depend on a traditional brick-and-mortar facility. Instead the new network will "test-drive" new delivery mechanisms that include support provided at the business site and hybrid in-person and technology processes. The AACC hopes its member colleges will eventually be able to bring this work to scale at hundreds of community colleges, particularly in geographically isolated, depressed and hard-to-serve communities where they are needed most.
As communities across the country revitalize their local economies with entrepreneurship and small business growth, they often call on community colleges and their partners to provide skilled training, educational services and guidance to build out innovative ideas. Many colleges establish small business incubators to nurture companies through the most challenging start-up stages of development, with an ultimate aim of increasing jobs and revenue in the local community. The development of the VIN recognizes that these services need not depend on a traditional brick-and-mortar facility. Instead the VIN's new delivery mechanisms include support provided at the business site and hybrid in-person and technology processes. The tools created by the VIN will help community colleges grow entrepreneur talent while offering more flexible delivery to existing small business owners and start-up businesses leaders.
The toolkit will support community colleges in building and sustaining a virtual incubation and economic development effort. Its tools are tailored for the needs of three primary audiences:
As your college embarks on a bold and bright virtual incubation effort, it is important to note that the VIN Toolkit is not a complete cookbook for success, but rather the compilation of the most current, varying and successful virtual incubation elements drawn from community colleges across the country. Colleges will need to review the complete tool set to determine the ones that fit their needs appropriately.
The Virtual Incubator Initiative will be implemented by AACC in collaboration with the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), and through partnerships with the U.S. Small Business Administration including with the national network of Small Business Development Centers, many of which are operated on community college campuses.
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"Let's get out of here and live our life," I typed to Himself on Facebook. He in one room, I in the other, both on Facebook dwindling a hot Saturday afternoon while all three kids were out of the house. What? Are you kidding me? It is so easy to lazy away a day in front of screens, watching others live their lives as we sit and wish it were us trekking across Italy, or at the beach, or buying a new car. So we jumped up, got in the car and spent the afternoon into the evening at two places recommended to us by my cousin who is a Belgium beer importer. ChurchKey DC upstairs to Birch & Barley was where we started our night with some beers and a small plate of Potato Croquettes- I always need a little food when I have a drinky-poo. I was so pleased they had 4 ounce servings of beer as that is about all I can handle! Himself had a smoky beer that was like drinking bacon. Not my kind of beer. But I had a nice light and crispy glass of Allagash. Perfect.
That little beer gave me a pretty good appetite, so after pumping more change into the parking meter, we headed downstairs to Birch & Barely for dinner. The atmosphere was relaxing with its wood, brick, and stone features highlighted by flickering candlelight. What impressed me more so than my dinner, which was a spectacular pasta dish, was the Cucumber Melon Salad that was so refreshing and bursting with flavor that I asked the server for the recipe. While he did not give her exact measurements, the chef did let her in on how it was prepared. With a few substitutes, I got close enough, and Himself and I had it again with our dinner last night.
The surprising combination of dill, basil, and spearmint fostered a new flavor combination in each bite, as if eating an entirely different salad with each forkful.
Cucumber Melon Salad
1 cup diced cantaloupe
1 cup diced honeydew melon
1 cup sliced and halved cucumber
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1 T. small basil leaves
1 T. small dill springs
3 T. olive oil
1 T. white balsamic vinegar
pinch Kosher salt
1/2 cup Marcona almonds, toasted
In a large bowl toss fruit with herbs. Whisk together oil, vinegar, and salt and toss gently with fruit. To toast nuts, place in a hot dry skillet and heat until the nuts just start to brown and release their aroma. Top salad with nuts.
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By Bob Grant In science we trust Camp Questers demonstrate how the different colors of baby chicks help them blend in more or less with their environment. Photo By Brian Underwood / courtesy of Camp Quest Winter is the time that many parents begin pondering whether to send their children to summer camp. In sorting through their options, they'll see that one camp's materials contain no descriptions of oaths, no church servic
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Bob Grant
In science we trust
Winter is the time that many parents begin pondering whether to send their children to summer camp. In sorting through their options, they'll see that one camp's materials contain no descriptions of oaths, no church services, no sermons on Sunday mornings. Indeed, at this camp, kids are more likely to spend Sunday mornings identifying insects or testing hypotheses.
Camp Quest (which stands for Question, Understand, Explore, Search, and Test), an operation that holds summer camps in six states in the United States, one in Ontario, and, for the first time last summer, in the United Kingdom, swaps out a religious perspective for a scientific one, and has campers ponder their places in the universe using logic. "The whole thing is to show the virtues of evidence and inquiry and reason over visions and faith," says Edwin Kagin, the Kentucky lawyer who started Camp Quest in 1996. Kagin, who is an Eagle Scout, says that he launched Camp Quest after learning that the Boy Scouts of America were excluding the children of atheists from attending their summer camps, which also require that troops recite an oath promising to "…do my duty to God…," among other pledges. "In consequence, I thought there ought to be something for the children of nonbelievers," Kagin says. And now those children don't even have to wait until summer: Camp Quest Florida is holding its first winter camp from December 25 through the New Year at a state park near Ft. Lauderdale.
Amanda Metskas, executive director of Camp Quest, says that science plays a big role in the activities that campers busy themselves with. Mingled with the typical summer camp fare—campfires, canoeing, etc.—Camp Questers take about 1 hour out of every day to engage in educational activities. In the past, they have collected and identified insects from ponds, categorizing them by their sensitivity to pollutants with the help of scientists. Then campers would form a hypothesis about the health of the pond ecosystem based on their observations. They have also constructed a 5-meter-long timeline of evolutionary history and "ancient creature cards," Metskas says.
"It's about helping kids to learn to use the scientific method and how to think critically about the world," Metskas says of these scientific pursuits. "[Camp Quest] helps kids learn about questioning things and also gives them the freedom to change their minds."
Camp Quest was even tacitly endorsed by renowned British evolutionist Richard Dawkins. His charitable organization, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, donated £500 to fund a "philosophy for children" counselor at the camp's inaugural UK session near Somerset in July. "From all I hear, Camp Quest is wholly admirable, teaching children how to think, not what to think," Dawkins wrote in a letter to UK newspaper The Independent at the end of July.
Samantha Stein, who organized the first UK session of Camp Quest, says that an especially stellar group of children from ages 7 to 17 attended the week-long session, which was evolution-themed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Campers watched presentations on astronomy, paleontology, and evolution, and discussed the application of the scientific method. "The older [kids] really got into it," Stein says.
Though Camp Quest kids participate in many different science-related activities as they enjoy a week in nature, a staple of every session is a round of the "Invisible Unicorns Challenge." Campers are introduced to two invisible unicorns that roam the camp and encouraged to develop rational arguments that prove to camp counselors that the unicorns don't exist. At Camp Quest UK this summer, Stein says that campers turned in some impressive efforts at disproving the unicorns' existence, but as in every previous iteration of the game, no one succeeded. (The winning prize at Camp Quest UK was a £10 note signed by Richard Dawkins.) "Maybe next year," says Stein.


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In case you haven't heard, Facebook announced a huge redesign of its site moving forward into a completely Facebook-centric social experience. As a registered Facebook developer I was able to join the beta-test, and right now I can say that it looks awesome. Here are my top 3 takeaways from today's announcement (in no particular order):
1. I love the large header image at the top of the page. Totally amazing and totally taken directly from Myspace. Tom your check is in the mail.
2. Timeline. In essence, timeline turns your profile into a digital scrapbook of your life from first steps to first tweets. It's beautiful, it's customizible, and it's about to change the way we interact online.
3. App integration within the timeline is going to be a new experience. I look forward to seeing all the developers come together to create unique but integrated experiences inside the browser. As someone who is a huge music geek, being able to showcase artists is important to me. While a website and traditional blog is great the ability to create a new experience for my content on Facebook is an awesome opportunity.
The timeline address the great question of what happens to our memories as we share more and more of them online and not in more traditional fixed mediums…hence the scrapbook analogy. What they are there to do is encourage, capture, and celebrate spontaneity and beauty of moments in our lives. It's really meant to celebrate the social nature of society, a core human need.
It's great that there are differing viewpoints by the minute, and we're experiencing a culture shift in real-time that will be well-written in history books forever.


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Jeffersontown apartment complex catches fire
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. —
Extra units are being called out to the scene of a fire at an apartment complex in Jeffersontown.
The apartment complex is in the 200 block of Stoke on Trent.
Officials say the fire started in a third floor apartment where no one was home at the time.
Flames then spread to the second apartment and roof.
Two cats and a dog were rescued from the initial apartment. The dog was burned and needed medical attention.
The complex has 12 apartments, with six on the side that caught fire.
All of the utilities are shut off to the building.
The cause is under investigation.


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By Zelie Pollon
SANTA FE, N.M., Oct 12 (Reuters) - New Mexico's policy of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants will violate a federal law taking effect in January, meaning residents won't be able to use their licenses as ID to board airplanes, the state's governor says.
"It's deeply concerning that New Mexicans who work at our labs, get on an airplane, or need to show identification at any other federal facility will no longer be able to use their driver's license to do so," New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said in a statement.
States have until Monday to tell the federal government whether they plan to comply with the federal Real ID Act, which is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 15 after several delays in implementation since it was passed in 2005. The law creates national standards for the issuance of state driver's licenses and identification cards.
Seventeen states have passed laws opposing compliance with the law, citing uncertainty about privacy protections and a failure by the federal government to fully fund the law's requirements, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Martinez, a Republican who has fought unsuccessfully to overturn the state law allowing illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday, asking for clarification about "the implications of a state-issued ID that is not deemed secure by the federal government."
Specifically, she is concerned about a provision of the law that establishes security standards for the "presentation, and verification with the issuing source, of information an applicant provides, including evidence that the applicant is a U.S. citizen or is lawfully present."
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Peter Simonson, executive director of the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, called Martinez's letter a "scare tactic meant to advance her agenda of dismantling New Mexico's driver's license law."
New Mexico is one of three states - along with Utah and Washington - that allow undocumented immigrants to receive driver's licenses. In addition, a California law that allows illegal immigrants with federal work permits to receive driver's licenses takes effect Jan. 1.
Martinez, the nation's first Hispanic female governor, has pushed to outlaw such licenses since she took office in January 2011 and told Napolitano she plans to try again in the legislative session that begins in January.
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We R Forgiven, a gospel quartet representing Springwood Church of God on Hickory Grove Road, in Gastonia, performed at the Stanley Seniors Christmas Dinner at the Stanley Community Center.
The gospel group has been invited to perform at many church conferences in the southeast. In October, for example, the group participated in the High Country Gospel Jubilee in Myrtle Beach.
Two married couples, Bill and Donna Ward of Stanley and Keith and Cathy Mincey of Dallas, are the voices of We R Forgiven. They started singing together at the Springwood Church of God in the Spring of 2011.
"We started singing for ministry and for fun," said Bill Ward, a 50-year-old photojournalist and owner of Compuchild – a computer-instruction and tutoring lab for children and adults.
Cathy Mincey , a 52-year-old homemaker and the winner of the 2011 Female Vocalist of the Year award for the Eastern Conference of the Church of God adds: "From the very first song we sang together, it has just flowed."
At first, We R Forgiven didn't have an official group name and they were calling themselves the Springwood Singers. The Wards, members of Springwood for two years, and the Minceys , who have attended the church for four years, decided to compile a list of potential names and then let the congregation vote.
Donna Ward, a 42-year-old surgical tech with Midtown Surgery Center at Presbyterian Hospital, said she added the name We R Forgiven to the list as an afterthought. It won by an overwhelming majority.
The group members said the name also relates to their own personal struggles and how they were saved through Christ's forgiveness.
As to their future plans, Keith Mincey , a 40-year-old Family Life Sunday school teacher at Springwood Church of God said, "Whatever God's will is for the group …when we put our will in it, we leave His out."
Adds Cathy Mincey : "If we have the chance to touch one person, then we've done something important."
Crystal O'Gorman is a freelance writer


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November 27, 2012 11:10 ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 27, 2012) - Pan Global Resources Inc. ("Pan Global" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:PGZ) is pleased to announce that its Balkan exploration partner Lithium Li Holdings Inc. ('Lithium Li') has recently completed its' 9th hole in the Valjevo basin which has extended the identification of evidence of borate mineralization over an area of some 16 km2. Of the 9 holes drilled in the basin by Lithium Li, 5 have directly intersected borate mineralization over an area of some 6 km2, and three others have intersected pseudomorphs of pre-existing borate mineralization.
In addition, assay results have been returned from Holes VBN-005 and VBN-008. VBN-008 contained a minimum 8m of 12.3% B2O3 including 3m of 15.1% B2O3 as probertite (additional mineralized zone assays pending) while VBN-005 contained 13.4m of 6.4% B2O3 including 3m of 8.7% B2O3 as probertite demonstrating the continuity of significant mineralization.
Julian Bavin, President and CEO of Pan Global stated 'We are very pleased to see that the drilling of wide spaced holes at the Valjevo licence has identified a very extensive resource of borate mineralisation of very significant grade and width, and provided excellent vectors to the depocentre to be tested in follow up drilling which will start in March of 2013. It is also exceedingly encouraging that a review of gravity, geochemical and geological data to prioritise the other 14 licences has increased the prospectivity of the Lopare, Petlovaca, and Lukavac licences to add to the high priority portfolio of Valjevo, Ljig, Jadar West and Badanja licences, while diminishing the prospectivity of 5 other licences.'
In other work, surface exploration including ground gravity surveys, geochemical sampling and geological mapping has now been completed on all 15 licenses in the portfolio, and subsequent prioritization has led to the identification of 7 high priority licenses, and the downgrading of a total of 5 licenses that have been dropped or will be returned to the Ministry of Mining.
As reported on October 10th, the Company has continued its stratigraphic drilling program in the Valjevo license (see Figures 1 and 2). A further five holes (VBN-005 through VBN-009) have now been completed which have extended the evidence of borate mineralization over an area of ~16 km2 and directly intersected borate mineralization over an area of ~6 km2.
VBN-005, located 1.1km northwest of VBN-004, was terminated at 352m in coarse clastic sediments, below the mineralized section. Borate mineralization in the form of probertite was intersected over 13.4m between 297.7 - 311.1m as irregular veins, patches and layers within a 55m thick package of preserved mineralization plus pseudomorphs after borates between 270 and 325m. Assays for the mineralized zone in VBN- 005 returned an average of 13.4m at 6.4% B2O3 with a best 3m interval of 8.7% B2O3.
VBN-006, located ~3km east of VBN-003, was terminated at a bottom depth of 369.5m in basement limestone. The hole tested the continuity of stratigraphy eastward over the gravity high that separates the Valjevo basin from the greater Ljig basin. The hole contained 8.7m of pseudomorphs after probertite from 292.6 to 301.3m as irregular patches and vugs but no preserved borate mineralization.
VBN-007, located ~3.3km WSW of VBN-005 was terminated at a bottom depth of 507m in laminated to thin bedded marl and claystone after coring a thick section of coarse clastic sediments. The hole did not intersect borate mineralization, although a 20m thick zone from 272 to 292m contained evidence of calcite pseudomorphs, possibly after borate mineralization which is tentatively correlated to mineralization intersected in drill holes to the east.
VBN-008, located 1.1km NNE of VBN-004 was terminated at 414.5m in coarse clastic sediments. Borate mineralization in the form of probertite was intersected over 16.3m from 270.5 to 286.8m as veins, lenses and patches in claystone and marl host rock, within a 39m thick package of preserved mineralization plus pseudomorphs after borates from 247.7 to 286.8m. Partial assays for the best mineralized zone in VBN-008 returned a minimum of 8m of 12.3% B2O3 with a best 3m interval of 15.1% B2O3 as probertite.
VBN-009, located 1.5 km NNW of VBN-008 was terminated at 430m in coarse clastic sediments. Calcite pseudomorphs after probertite mineralization were noted from 299.5 - 302.8m depths. Assays are awaited for Hole VBN-9.
To view "Figure 1: Valjevo/Lukavac drill holes, depths and mineralization", please click the following link: http://www.panglobalresources.com/_resources/maps/2012_11_27_1.jpg.
Other work recently completed includes completion of gravity data on the Lopare license in Bosnia, which has further confirmed the prospectivity of this high priority licence.
Results from fieldwork on the Kamenica exploration licence downgraded its potential and it is slated for return to the Mining Ministry. This is the 5th of the 15 licenses to have been downgraded and illustrates the company's ruthless focus on prioritization of opportunities.
To view "Figure 2: Issued licenses in Balkans Option", please click the following link: http://www.panglobalresources.com/_resources/maps/2012_11_27_2.jpg.
The technical information provided in this news release was reviewed and approved by Robert. W. Baxter (FAusIMM), a director of the Company and a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.
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