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There's nothing new about gangs, they have been around as long as man has been on the Earth. The trouble is that in today's world, they are multiplying beyond our control. A century ago, most gangs were merely bands of thieves. One of the most famous gangs in our area was captured one hundred years ago last week when they tried to steal too much too often.
The stealing spree began just before Christmas 1909. First the thieves burglarized the hardware store of H.E. Barwick in Adrian. After a merry Christmas and a happy new year, the thieves decided to try again, this time hoping to pick up a few fresh pieces of Barwick's new stock. A month later, the trio broke into the office of the Central of Georgia Railroad, where they picked up a cool $250.00 in cash and a booty of goods from J.D. Hussey's store.
Emboldened by their smooth and successful stealing capers, the crooks moved down to Soperton where they cleaned out two stores, before moving up the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad to Rockledge, where they snatched the cash and valuables from the express office.
Fearing that the stores in the larger towns of Adrian and Soperton were too much of a risk, the larcenists moved west up the Brewton and Pineora Railroad to the hamlet of Scott, Georgia. There they found stealing places easy to enter. After grabbing a large stash of loot in John W. Cheek's store, the bandits decided to take what cash they could find in the Bank of Scott. Much to their disappointment, they were only able to retrieve a few dozen pennies - copper cents were worth more then than now, but still relatively useless to unsatisfiable thieves.
Lovett, another small town on the northeastern margin of Laurens County, was next. The thieves robbed all they could from the store of Dick Hardaway. Inexplicably, the looters adopted a new modus operandi by torching the buildings they had just burglarized. Sadly, when Hardaway's store was reduced to ashes, the flames also destroyed the town's Masonic Lodge.
The bandit's binge began to climax in the early morning of April 13, 1910. About half past two in the morning, insomniac residents of Brewton saw flames raging from the store operated by Charles Keen and owned by Mrs. John L. Keen. Nothing could be done by bystanders but to watch the conflagration as it unfolded. Keen's Store, valued at $2600.00, was insufficiently covered by a thousand-dollar policy. Additionally, Dr. W.C. Sessoms, who rented a place in the back of the store, suffered a total uninsured loss of his books, instruments and medicines.
Warren Carter, a leading citizen of Scott, Georgia, decided to take matters into his own hands by beginning his own investigation of the gang's crime spree. Carter, believing that the burning of Keen's store was a coverup to yet another burglary, went out to look after his stock. He found that one of his horses was covered with sweat along with other signs of over exertion in the past few hours, although it was later reported that Carter's stolen horse was found wandering in the woods.
Carter followed the trail of the horse's tracks toward the home of one Berry Bartley. Confident that they had found the villain, Carter confronted Bartley as he was working in his field. The captor refused Bartley's repeated requests to allow him to return to his home to change out of his work clothes. Carter took his captive to the nearest constable for surveillance.
It wasn't long before suspicions were directed toward Will Burton and Tom Cannon as accomplices of Bartley. Both of the suspects were immediately arrested.
A thorough search of Bartley's home revealed a virtual "box car load of goods." Investigators identified goods from the stores of Barwick, Carter, and Keen. A missing gun from the Bank of Scott was found hidden among the booty. Stacked neatly in the cache was an arsenal of pistols, Winchester rifles and assorted firearms.
With a mountain of incontrovertible evidence before them, Burton and Cannon quickly confessed to five burglaries. The duo admitted that Keen's store burned but maintained that the fire resulted from an accidental overturning of a kerosene lamp. Bartley remained staunchly defiant and refused to speak. The ring leader pleaded innocent stating that he was merely storing the goods for friends. Officers questioned Burton and Cannon about additional accomplices, a fact which they admitted to, but refused to disclose their identities.
Marshal George Granger charged all three men with arson and robbery. The marshal escorted the prisoners to Wrightsville, where they were immediately thrown into jail.
A hasty commitment hearing was held by Justice of the Peace Thomas L. Harris. Bartley, despite his earlier claims of innocence, joined his associates and plead guilty to the charges before them. Justice Harris confounded prosecutors and lawmen by sentencing all three defendants on the spot to twelve months of hard labor on the chain gang. Harris' sentence was surprisingly light in view of the fact of the number of burglaries which the prisoners admitted to.
A dispute arose between officials in Johnson County and Laurens County. Sheriff Flanders thought it was improper for Justice Harris to sentence the men on a lesser charge when a more grave offense had been committed upon the property of Laurens County residents. Flanders traveled to Wrightsville to retrieve his prisoners, but was told that they would remain in the care of Johnson County until their sentences were served.
Justice of the Peace Harris did allow Laurens County's court system the right to deal with the men after their other kind of gang experience, the chain gang, was over. The prisoners were sent to the Court of Ordinary where Judge Wiggins put them under the direction of Captain Kemp in his camp in the eastern part of the county.
The convicts did not spend the rest of their lives in jail like the majority of the people in the area thought they should. Within ten years, Berry Bartley was back on his farm in Emanuel County. Sound familiar? In case you didn't get it, that was an editorial comment.
For more history of this area, go to the digital version of the Courier Herald or to my blog at www.dublinlaurenscountygeorgia.blogspot.com.


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By By Frank Lombardi | December 1, 2013
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After many hours in the cockpit, it's not uncommon for a good helicopter pilot to become very in-tune with their machine and its abilities. Getting to know your aircraft to this level and being able to operate it safely at or near its limits is commendable evidence of countless hours of flying. But don't ever use it as a substitute for computing the required performance, weight, and balance checks prior to your flight. A quick check of the NTSB accident reports will show that failure to do so continues to be a factor in many fatal accidents, and therefore worthy of yet another review.
A helicopter's maximum allowable gross weight is determined by many design considerations; but this weight is not necessarily always the maximum allowable operational weight. The maximum operational weight will depend on the ambient conditions (i.e., density altitude) at the time of the flight. The conditions at your takeoff location may not match the conditions at your landing location either, so be wary. The performance charts in the flight manual combine airframe (rotor) performance with engine performance and usually present this to you in a hover ceiling chart.
Be aware that this assumes your engine is healthy and is producing its rated power, and only shows you what maximum weight the helicopter can be hovered at. It does not show you if you have any performance margin remaining to deal with winds, maneuvering in the hover, transitioning to forward flight, or to stop a rate of descent in a vertical landing.
Assuming that there is enough of a fudge factor built into the performance charts for you to ballpark your maximum operational weight is like lining up the holes in the "Swiss cheese" that can take you straight to an accident scene. At high-density altitudes, operating very close to your power limitations can tip the scales toward bad things fast – too fast to be recoverable. A drooping rotor coupled with an approaching tree line will have a predictable outcome. Alternatively, you cannot assume that you are within your max gross weight limit just by your ability to achieve takeoff power. In fact, you may be over gross and still not know it. You risk over-stressing components and possible structural failure in flight due to excessive load factor in maneuvering, strong wind gusts, or turbulence.
Ensuring you are within your operational weight limitation is one half of the equation, so to speak. The other half is ensuring the entire flight is conducted within the aircraft's allowable center of gravity (CG) range. The CG can change throughout the flight as payload changes or as fuel is burned, so always compute zero-fuel CG! All forces affecting roll, pitch, and yaw create moments which act about the CG. The amount of control power available in each direction will depend on CG location. Control power is the amount of aircraft response achievable with the available control margin.
Running out of stick or pedal is like a child on the high end of a see-saw running out of seat behind them to scoot back on, when trying to bring the see-saw back down. An excessive forward CG will require more aft cyclic just to remain in trim, reducing the control margin, or the amount of aft cyclic remaining. This can make it difficult to slow down, or flare properly in an autorotation.
Similarly, too far aft of a CG will reduce your forward cyclic margin. Gusty conditions that cause the rotor to flap back may then be impossible to correct, causing loss of control. Also, as the CG moves aft, the tail rotor must work harder to maintain directional control, decreasing pedal margins especially in a hover or autorotation.
Inattention to lateral CG limits can decrease control available in hoisting, crosswinds or slope landings. Vertical CG changes, though not usually calculated, can affect handling qualities, showing up as "dutch roll," or coupled yawing/rolling tendencies.
Flying thousands of hours during all sorts of missions does not equate to having superior flight discipline. Trying to manage risk with experience alone is a poor approach to conducting a safe flight. The trouble with this approach is that things might be "all good" – until they're not.
With smartphones and tablets becoming prevalent in the cockpit, it's easier than ever to conduct proper preflight performance calculations. Parts 27 and 29 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) do not give an exact amount of control margin required for certification of helicopters at critical weights or CGs, but the generally accepted amount is 10 percent. Without my orange flight suit and a fully-instrumented experimental aircraft strapped to me, I don't want to be the guy finding out exactly where my engines top out, or guessing if I've got 10 percent control margin left on any given flight. Knowledge is power, but the discipline to say "No" is king.

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Famous Pedal Boards
Pedal Boards Of The Stars!
Becks FX
Just one of many permutations of this musical chameleons pedal board. Just about every insane effect, sampler and instrument has appeared on a Beck record somewhere.
Billy Corgan's Pedal Bits
One of the Muff Club, along with Jack White, J Mascis and Dave Gilmour. Billy tends towards the heavily saturated signature sound and has a few Boss staples to fill in elsewhere.
Albert Hammond's FX Rig
You'd expect nothing less from a man who doesn't leave the house unless suited and booted. A pedal board with pink trim and choice boutique effects from Mad Professor, Visual Sound and Menatone, everyone still loves a Boss tuner though.
Brent Hind's Brutal, Battery Powered Boxes
We already know he loves Orange amps and Brent's pedal board has plenty of overdrive to get the most out of those sweet British stacks. There's also a Morpheus Drop Tune that might be used as a handy utensil or for the oddball guitar sounds that Mastodon sometimes pull out the bag.
Flea's Funktional Pedal Rig
He's still got the funk with a classic Q Tron and the Muff really does get everywhere. It's not really a board without a Boss pedal on there.
Tom Morello's Favourites
Whammy users don't get more famous than Mr Morello.
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Santa Claus is coming to town
Its that time of year again when Jolly Old St. Nicholas will be visiting the Village of Amityville accompanied by the Amityville Fire Department. Santa Claus has a lot of visits to make so he asks that you be ready when you hear the fire trucks coming.
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Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge, east of Las Vegas, will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Sunday in November the Traditional Annual Fall Flight Festival featuring a 4-1/2 mile self-guided auto drive. This tour allows visitors to enjoy the spaciousness of the short-grass prairie in areas of the refuge that are not open for general public use the rest of the year.
The New Mexico Highlands University Concert Choir will present a "Holiday Favorites" concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4 at Ilfeld Auditorium, 900 University Ave.
The concert choir will perform pieces such as Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Silent Night, and The First Noel, among other holiday favorites.
Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, director of Highlands University's choral program, will direct the concert.
Lydia Madrick of the Santa Fe Symphony is the piano accompanist.
Once again, Las Vegas First Independent Business Alliance is sponsoring the Cross the Bridge shopping promotion beginning Nov. 1 and running through Dec. 24. Everyone is invited to join in the effort to promote local shopping and to encourage a shift in shopping habits toward locally owned businesses.
Several attorneys were honored at a luncheon last Friday for their work in providing free legal services to needy people in their community.
Recognized at the event were David Silva, Suzanne Gaulin, Danelle Smith, Robert Sanchez, Craig Fretwell, Oneida L'Esperance, Wilma Brown, Martin Lopez, Art Bustos, Nick Leger, Judith Kilpatrick and Anna Aragon.
New Mexico Chief Justice Petra Jimenez Maes thanked local attorneys for their pro bono service in the 4th Judicial District, which covers San Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe counties.
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A few years ago Mark Anthony was an Executive Chef for the largest hospital operating system in the country.
He was also at his largest weight of 305 pounds. As he looked around at the patients in the hospitals, he discovered one common element to most of their conditions; they were almost all there for cholesterol-related problems. He thought to himself, "I'd better do something or I'm going to end up being one of the people in this hospital."
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Ben Ortega, son of Ben and Bernice Ortega of Rociada, has been appointed to senior vice president and Lead Project Manager of Development at Penn-Florida Companies.
His real estate development career spans nearly 30 years, and he is an expert in managing class "A" multifamily projects from the initial planning stage to final product delivery.
The Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation invites the public to nominate persons and businesses that have significantly improved their buildings this past year for CCHP's annual preservation awards.
Awards and recognition will be given for renovations, restorations and general improvements of historic homes and buildings throughout Las Vegas. Recognition may also be given to individuals who have made a significant impact on preservation in Las Vegas.
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Rick Scott at Midterm
Gov. Rick Scott, the outsider, has had to become more of an insider.
Scott aims to eliminate Florida's corporate income tax. In 2011, lawmakers increased the business tax exemption from $5,000 to $25,000 and doubled it to $50,000 this year. He also convinced the Legislature to put a constitutional amendment on this month's ballot to eliminate the personal property tax on businesses with between $25,000 and $50,000 in machines and other property — a change that could cost local governments approximately $20.1 million by 2013-14. He also signed legislation nearly cutting in half an increase in the unemployment tax for 460,000 businesses.
Growth Management
Scott and the Legislature removed state-mandated concurrency requirements and gave more control to local governments. He also eliminated the state's planning agency, the Department of Community Affairs, and folded some of its previous functions into the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
Economic Development
Florida's unemployment rate has eased somewhat, but Scott is nowhere near delivering on his campaign promise to generate 700,000 jobs over seven years. Business leaders praise Scott's energy and willingness to engage in cold-calls and other nitty-gritty of economic development. The governor has embarked on six foreign trade missions (he heads to his seventh destination, Colombia, in December). He also reorganized Enterprise Florida and created a Department of Economic Opportunity, which serves as the point of contact for businesses interested in relocating to Florida. To help facilitate trade between Florida and Brazil, Scott opened an office for Enterprise Florida in São Paulo in 2011 and lobbied the U.S. government on visa waiver status for Brazil.
According to a June Orlando Sentinel analysis, Scott has cut more economic development deals than his two predecessors, but the deals have generally involved cheaper incentive packages and are often aimed at expansion projects for Florida companies like Publix, Raymond James and Chico's.
Scott has moved to expand Florida's seaports in anticipation of increased container traffic after the Panama Canal expansion in 2014. Under Scott, the state's investment in port expansion and modernization projects — including projects in Miami, Port Canaveral and Tampa — has grown 278% from $148.8 million in 2011 to $562.7 million budgeted for next year.
Scott hasn't fully restored the $1.3 billion he cut from K-12 funding in his first year in office. He signed legislation — now being challenged in court — that eliminates teacher tenure and creates a "merit pay" system that ties salaries to student performance. He signed a bill making it easier for high-performing charter schools to expand. Most recently, he's positioned himself behind changes in the FCAT that were already afoot. By the 2014-15 school year, the test will be replaced by a system known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers.
Scott has taken a hard-edged approach toward imposing more accountability on the higher education system, suggesting that liberal arts degrees like anthropology are a bad investment. He has also questioned the "purpose" of faculty tenure and bypassed the Board of Governors by creating a Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform that will deliver recommendations this month. During the 2012 legislative session, Scott approved a $300-million cut for Florida's state universities but vetoed a bill that would have eliminated caps on tuition increases for Florida State University and the University of Florida. He also signed a bill championed by Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander that created Florida Polytechnic from a former Lakeland branch of the University of South Florida.
Health Policy
Scott's decision not to expand Medicaid eligibility has alarmed some Florida hospitals, which were depending on new Medicaid enrollees to offset cuts in Medicare payments that were part of the Affordable Care Act. In 2011, Scott commissioned a study to scrutinize the state's public hospitals. More recently, Scott warned three state-supported cancer research facilities that they are at risk of losing state research funds if they franchise their brands to private entities.
Scott has pledged to cut $1 billion from state prison spending, in part by privatizing medical care for 100,000 inmates. He's also supported Republican lawmakers' efforts to outsource more than two dozen state-run corrections facilities — a move that would create the largest private prison system in the country but that has thus far been stymied by court challenges and the state Senate. Scott believes he can privatize the prisons without the whole Legislature's sign-off.


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Gallery: Happy National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!
Squish it, stomp it, jump up and down on it– no matter what your method of choice, bubble wrap is always there for you with its satisfying crunch and glorious pop. What better way to honor this giant among packing materials than by giving it its own holiday? Furthermore, what better way to celebrate that holiday than by dressing entirely in bubble wrap? Bubble wrap, we salute you!


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This poorly designed website features infos about Zzzzra's pathetic universe. But also some of his best chamber music and the ability to download a limited amount of goodies. No fun required.
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I am specialized in the dub-techno genre so if you need a good price/quality ratio for your mastering service, have a look HERE. Add a pinch of "Magic Zzzzra Touch" to your releases now !
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- Aug 2014 : Added a page dedicated to mastering.
- Aug 2014 : SevenOne 7" vinyl with The Marx Trukker @ Noorden
- May 2014 : L.A.A.P. (EP) @ Perso Records
- Apr 2014 : Christonia5 Und Zzzzra - Zeitanalyse (EP) @ Trucs Et Astuces
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- Zzzzra - xxx (LP) @ Bedroom Compost
- Musicians With guns - Le Cri Du Peuple (LP) @ Trucs Et Astuces
Don't forget to visit my Soundcloud page from time to time. This is the place I post all my recent work-in-progress.
SevenOne (EP) - Noorden
- Split 7" vinyl with The Marx Trukker @ Noorden. Details are here.
- Re-edition of a briefly released EP in 2007. More about it here.
Zeitanalyse (EP)
- First mutual release with Christonia5 on Trucs Et Astuces label. More details here.
Overstepping Artifacts (LP)
- First LP for my ambient/drone/experimental project "Musicians With Guns". Learn more about it here.
Le Futur Vaincra EP - Trucs Et Astuces
- A new EP on a new label ! More details here.
Obehixa LP (Re-issue) - Entropy Records
- RE-issue of my first CD album on entropy Records. More details here.
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Let's all design a car together
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. recently invited me to make design suggestions for the next Camry. Not because I'm qualified to do so, but because I happen to be a Camry-owning household.
I and a million or so people just like me, who no doubt received the same survey.
"Toyota needs your help," the e-mail claimed.
"Your responses to this survey will help guide the development of the next-generation Camry, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could tell us what you want from your Camry so that we can not only meet, but exceed your expectations," the appeal read.
By some coincidence, Nissan North America is planning to begin reaching out to its million or so Facebook friends and inviting them to make suggestions for future products, too. Little suggestions at first, but then maybe bigger ones later.
What's going on here?
An exercise in crowd-sourced product design? Have two global auto giants run dry on product ideas?
No one is seriously going to build a car that has been designed by a committee of thousands. And rest assured Toyota's r&d legions don't actually need my help on the 2016 Camry. (Which I declined to give them anyway.)
What's really happening is free communications.
Automakers like to know what customers are thinking. And the customary practice of conducting focus groups is time-consuming and expensive, shuttling marketing groups from city to city. What if instead you could simply post a question on your Facebook page: "Hey, what do you think of these headlights?"
Not that a manufacturer is necessarily going to use the feedback it gets. But they like the back-and-forth conversation.
Which is really what this is about. Being invited to talk seriously to the people who designed and built your car and probably financed your purchase probably makes you feel a little closer to them -- as opposed to being ignored and taken for granted. Having a conduit of free communications with consumers -- through Facebook or by e-mail -- creates a human connection, regardless of whether your suggestion for torpedo-shaped headlights ever makes it into production.
As car salesmen always point out, strike up a friendly conversation with a showroom customer and the odds of selling them a car begin to rise.
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What about this?
What the exact color is it? The exact color is Red.
Student or Learner
What the heck is it? This comes to my ear once in a while.Originally Posted by Casiopea
What about this?
What the exact color is it? The exact color is Red.
If you have the Cassell's slang dictionary, look under "what the hell", "what the devil"...it has exactly the same meaning. You say that when you are surprised or annoyed or both. "What in the blue hell...", "What the dickens..." and many many more.Originally Posted by blacknomi
What the heck is a very common phrase. It's a much milder version of other phrases containing the four letter word.
Thank you, Natalie!
You are very welcome!Originally Posted by blacknomi


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WillaKenzie Estate is located in Oregon's Willamette Valley on rolling hillsides in the Chehalem Mountains. The winery was named after the Willakenzie soil on which the vineyards are planted to convey the influence that the soil imparts on the wine's flavors and aromas. The vineyards are planted with grapes of the Pinot family, mostly new Dijon clones of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris from Alsace. Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris are cool climate grapes, which are particularly well adapted to Oregon.
One of Pinot Noir's most successful New World outposts, the Willamette Valley is the largest and most important AVA in Oregon. With a Mediterranean climate moderated by a Pacific Ocean influence, it is perfect for cool-climate viticulture—warm and dry summers allow for steady, even ripening, and frost is rarely a risk during spring and winter.
Mountain ranges bordering three sides of the valley, particularly the Chehalem Mountains, provide the option for higher-elevation, cooler vineyard sites. The three prominent soil types here create significant differences in wine styles between vineyards and sub-AVAs. The iron-rich, basalt-based Jory volcanic soils found commonly in the Dundee Hills are rich in clay and hold water well; the chalky, sedimentary soils of Ribbon Ridge, Yamhill-Carlton and McMinnville encourage complex root systems as vines struggle to search for water and minerals. Silty, loess soils are found in the Chehalem Mountains.
One of the most difficult yet rewarding grapes to grow, Pinot Noir is commonly referred to by winemakers as the "heartbreak grape." However, the greatest red wines of Burgundy prove that it is unquestionably worth the effort. More reflective than most varieties of the land on which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate, requires low yields to achieve high quality, and demands care in the vineyard and lots of attention in the winery. It is an important component of Champagne and the only variety permitted in red Burgundy. Pinot Noir enjoys immense popularity internationally, most notably in Oregon, California, and New Zealand.
In the Glass
Pinot Noir Is all about red fruit—strawberry, raspberry, and cherry. It is relatively pale in color with soft tannins and lively acidity. It ranges in body from very light to the heavier side of medium, typically landing somewhere in the middle—giving it extensive possibilities for food pairing. With age (of which the best examples can handle an astounding amount), it can develop hauntingly beautiful characteristics of fresh earth, autumn leaves, and truffles.
Perfect Pairings
Pinot's healthy acidity cuts through the oiliness of pink-fleshed fish like salmon, ocean trout, and tuna. Its mild mannered tannins don't fight with spicy food, and give it enough structure to pair with all sorts of poultry—chicken, quail, and especially duck. As the namesake wine of Boeuf Bourguignon, it can even match with heavier fare. Pinot Noir is also very vegetarian-friendly—most notably with any dish that features mushrooms.
Sommelier Secret
Pinot Noir is dangerously drinkable, highly addictive, and has a bad habit of emptying the wallet. Look for affordable but still delicious examples from Germany (as Spätburgunder), Italy (as Pinot Nero), Chile, New Zealand, and France's Loire Valley and Alsace regions.


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The Leavenworth County Commission is expected to save close to $1 million as a result of a refinancing action OKed Monday.
The Leavenworth County Commission is expected to save close to $1 million as a result of a refinancing action OKd Monday. The proposal, from investment bank Piper Jaffray of Leawood, Kan., concerns three different portions of the county's outstanding debt — a bond from the Kansas Department of Transportation for the county's emergency communication upgrade, another from the Kansas Turnpike Authority used to finance the construction of improvements to County Road 1 leading to an interchange on the turnpike and about $900,000 of the principal amount on an outstanding series of bonds from 2009. Greg Vahrenberg, managing director of Piper Jaffray, said his firm had two goals in mind when they started working on the issue. The first was to lower interest costs by paying back those bonds early and issuing new notes at a lower interest rate. "An equally important goal to simply achieving the savings was to make sure we matched up the repayment schedule for the refunded bonds with the sales tax revenue stream that you have," he said. As previously scheduled, the KDOT loan was set to mature in 2018, after the countywide 1-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2006 was set to expire. That tax revenue is paying the debt service of that bond. To shorten the schedule for the KTA loan, the county will have to pay higher debt service costs in years 2014 through 2017. However, Vahrenberg said the county is still scheduled to save $920,293 from the refinancing action, even after costs are deducted. "We're currently at an all-time record low interest rate," he said, explaining the savings. The average interest rate before the refinancing action on that debt was about 4.5 percent, Vahrenberg said. According to County Administrator Pat Hurley, the new rate will be about 1.2 percent. But Commissioner Clyde Graeber said he wanted to make sure that the county would be able to handle the new schedule from fiscal standpoint. "Are we going to have sufficient sales tax to make these payments?" he asked. County Counselor David Van Parys said yes, and Vahrenberg said even with zero-percent growth in the sales tax revenues, that fund balance could handle the increased payments without going in the red. "The numbers look even better, obviously, if you see some growth in that sales tax," Vahrenberg said. The commission voted to approve resolutions for the bond purchase agreement, the escrow trust agreement, agreement for the issuer or agent of a debt compliance policy.


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Zeke Parker broke out again reining five winners on the 12 race card at Monticello raceway on August 14. It marks the third time in the past two weeks that Parker has won five or more races on a card.
Zeke got his day rolling with a 1:55.4 victory with Stanley Indig's recent claimed Fuguzzi ($3.00)in the second race. It was the second start and second consecutive win for the pacer's new owner.
Parker then won the third with Mike Carubba's Model Magnate ($5.60) in 1:57.4.
Win number three came after Parker reined Charles Strukel's Snuff Box ($17.40) to a head to a victory in a time of 1:57.4 in the seventh race. Then in the eighth race Parker got Bill Demberg's Southwind Irvin ($5.00) home first in a 1:56 clocking for the pacer's 13th seasonal victory.
Parker then won the 12th race with Lav's Racing Stables Ooby Dooby ($5.60) in a time of 1:56.4 making training double for Joe Carubba, who also conditions Model Magnate.
"Speed seemed to be holding up today so I put most of my winners on the front-end," Parker said at day's end. " I wasn't alone either, most of the other winners today were on the front end, too.";
With his five driving victories today Zeke now has 10,751 career wins which ranks him seventh all=time.
And the trainer -driver combination of Pete Pellegrino and Greg Merton just keep winning. Merton , first choice of trainer Pellegrino, guided the Baron Racing Stables Arts Day to a 1:56.4 triumph in the sixth race notching the pacer's eighth consecutive victory and 11th in 22 starts.
Pellegrino also handed the lines to Merton in the 10th race and together they enjoyed a 1:56.2 vicotry with Kiss My Cam, also owned by the Baron Racing Stable.
Pellegrino is in a dog-fight for top training honors with Gary Messenger. Messenger lead by one victory 78-77.
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Local teams capture road conference wins
The Morenci High School boys basketball team earned its first Tri-County Conference win and upset Clinton 62-49 on Friday night.
Morenci (2-10, 1-7 TCC) outscored Clinton (11-2, 6-2) in the second half, 36-23. The Bulldogs snapped a five-game losing streak.
Alex Thomas led the Bulldogs with 17 points and nine rebounds, Hayze Wolf tallied 13 points, seven rebounds and four steals, while Austin Thomas scored nine points to go with seven rebounds. Austin Sandusky added eight points, seven rebounds and four assists.
TJ Baker led the Redskins in scoring with 12 points to go with seven rebounds. Grant Clark scored 10 points while adding seven rebounds, and Ricky Miller added 11 points and seven rebounds.
Madison 57, Sand Creek 32: At Sand Creek, the Trojans held Sand Creek to only 11 second-half points in Friday's TCC matchup.
Madison (11-2, 7-1 TCC) pulled away from Sand Creek (2-10, 1-7) with 22 points in the fourth.
The Trojans were led by Justin Webster, who led all scorers with 13 points and added six rebounds. Zach Mellon (six rebounds) and Prince Benson (10 rebounds, six blocks) each had 10 points, while Collin Slates added nine points and Zach Denig four steals.
Will Gritzmaker was the top scorer for the Aggies, finishing with nine points. Micah Smith had six points, and Jameson Near added five points.
Onsted 57, Erie Mason 49: At Erie, the Wildcats earned a key Lenawee County Athletic Association victory Friday night over Erie Mason.
Onsted (8-3, 6-2 LCAA) led 40-30 after three quarters and withstood an Erie Mason run in the fourth.
Onsted was led by Reese Klebba, who tallied 17 points and 14 rebounds. Zach Cranson added 15 points and six assists, while Colt Niezurawski scored 11 points.
Addison 64, Manchester 37: At Manchester, the Panthers cruised their way to a win against Cascades Conference opponent Manchester.
Addison (7-3, 5-1 Cascades) led 35-12 at halftime and rolled to the victory.
Addison had all 12 players on the roster score, led by Luke Meyer with 21 points and Gabe Guerra with 14 points.
Columbia Central 69, Hudson 50: At Hudson, the Tigers lost to Lenawee County Athletic Association opponent Columbia Central despite a strong second half.
Hudson (1-11, 0-8 LCAA) trailed 34-20 at halftime, but scored 30 points over the final two quarters.
Bubba Williams hit five 3-point shots to lead the Tigers in scoring with 15, while Justin Boies added 13 points.
Ida 71, Blissfield 53: At Ida, the Royals struggled to slow down the Bluestreak offense in Friday's LCAA game.
Blissfield (3-9, 2-6 LCAA) managed only eight points in the first quarter and allowed 26 in the third.
The Royals were missing Connor Vandecaveye due to injury, but Jordan Willson stepped up for the Royals, finishing with 21 points and eight rebounds. Zech Bostick had 10 points and Cody Wulf added nine points and four steals.


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See the Led Zeppelin 'Houses of the Holy' Album Cover Child Models All Grown Up
It's one of the most recognizable album covers of the '70s. Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy' features a group of naked youngsters roaming a stone-laden earth.
TheFW has managed to track down the child models from that shoot. Samantha Gates, now 46 and the mother of a daughter named Tallulah, went on to enjoy life out of the spotlight in Cape Town. However, the same can't be said for her younger brother Stefan.
He went on to become a celebrity chef and hosts BBC2′s 'Cooking in the Danger Zone.' He's also hosted another series called 'Eating Insects with Stefan Gates.' The younger Gates says even though he and his sister appeared on the cover, he'd actually never heard the Led Zeppelin album until a few years ago. After declaring during a 2010 BBC Radio 4 documentary on the making of the disc that he had never heard it, he was presented with the opportunity.
At the time, he stated he always found the artwork "disturbing and haunting," but admitted that after listening for the first time that a weight had been lifted from him by hearing it.
The cover art for 'Houses of the Holy' was inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clarke's novel, 'Childhood's End,' which featured several hundred naked children roaming the earth. Both of the children had their photos taken in black and white and they were later multi-printed to create 11 children on the cover. The photos were snapped by Aubrey Powell near Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.
TheFW has managed to track down many of the past cover models to find out where they turned up. From the boy on U2's 'Boy' to the jeans model from the Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' album, check out the whole list by clicking the button below.


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Vikings draft UCLA P Jeff Locke in 5th round
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have selected UCLA punter Jeff Locke with the 155th overall selection in the fifth round.
That could spell the end of veteran Chris Kluwe's time in Minnesota. Locke was the first punter taken in the draft.
Kluwe has gained some notoriety for being outspoken on several political issues, and special teams coordinator Mike Priefer appeared to tire of the headlines Kluwe was making as the season wore on.
The Vikings started the day on Saturday by taking Penn State linebacker Gerald Hodges in the fourth round. They also have a choice in the sixth round and two more in the seventh.
The draft picks on Saturday join first-rounders Sharrif Floyd of Florida, Xavier Rhodes of Florida State and Cordarrelle Patterson of Tennessee in the Vikings draft class.


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Chesapeake Energy said it hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon.
Lawler, who is senior vice president of international and deep-water operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake on June 17, the company said.
McClendon's departure on April 1 came after a tumultuous year in which a series of Reuters investigations led to civil and criminal probes of the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer. Chief Operating Officer Steven Dixon had been appointed as interim CEO.
McClendon's exit was announced in late January, after a governance crisis and a liquidity crunch due to heavy spending on oil and gas properties.
Big shareholders took control of the board last June after McClendon was stripped of his title as chairman of the company he co-founded in 1989.
Chesapeake said on Monday the chairman position will be discontinued and Archie Dunham, Steven Dixon and Domenic Dell'Osso Jr. will continue to serve in their roles as non-executive Chairman of the Board.


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Saitek GM3200 Laser Mouse Review
When it comes to playing a FPS game or taking advantage of the UI elements of your operating system and programs, a standard mouse is what most people use. They have been around forever and, to most people, are nothing special. However, to the enthusiasts and gamers, a mouse can mean a lot. Factors like DPI, number of buttons and the ability to customize it, are meaningful terms that can make the difference in your mouse choice. Although those are all important, companies that produce mice don't talk much about real world performance and comfort in a realistic way, and that is exactly what this review intends to do. Hopefully by reading this review, you will get a good idea of the real world performance that this mouse provides.
The Saitek GM3200 Laser Mouse is one of Saitek's new high end gaming mice. Saitek claims that this is the first 3200 DPI mouse - a very impressive feat. The GM3200 also sports many features along the lines of user customization; for example, the weight of the mouse can be changed by adding or removing small weights and the amount of friction can be changed by flipping the feet of the mouse over. These features sound pretty exciting and will be looked at in-depth over the next couple of pages.
Closer Look:
The packaging that the Saitek GM3200 Laser Mouse comes in is very similar to the packaging that their other mice come in. A simple cardboard box has some of the features on the front and back, while the mouse can be viewed though a plastic covering. Some of the features listed on the front of the box are the 3200 DPI resolution, the laser engine, the adjustable weight, and the adjustable friction. The back lists mostly the same features, but in several different languages.
The left side of the box talks about the adjustable weight and friction system. A cool diagram is included that shows you the basic idea of how this works. On the right side of the box, is a list of the specifications and a picture of the mouse.
Included in the package is a CD that has the software that we will install later in the review, as well as a few other things.


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It's okay to say or do the "wrong" thing. Everyone does, at one time or another. Just, please, be there for us.
We will be more grateful than we can say.
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, wrote in her foreword to Help Me Live, "This is not a book about cancer, it is a book about you. About the importance of your love. About the many helpful ways of being there for someone else."
Although Dr. Remen was referring to the book, this site is not just about the book. It's about sharing information, stories and insights that illustrate what a tremendous difference you can make to someone rendered extra-sensitive, vulnerable, or traumatized by cancer or other serious life-altering conditions. I invite you to look around here for resources and tips, including how to get a temporary pass from Cancerland. Many thanks for being present for your loved ones. May you get back much more than you give!
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"Extraordinarily moving and helpful, this book is essential reading for cancer patients as well as their families and friends."
–Marc Silver, author of Breast Cancer Husband and former
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"Please, please, read this book!"
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Anna B. "Ann" Teten, 90, of Nebraska City, formerly Brock/Talmage area died Oct. 24, 2012 at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City.
Anna B. "Ann" Teten, 90, of Nebraska City, formerly Brock/Talmage area died Oct. 24, 2012 at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City.
Anna Belle (Ann) Burch was born near Rock Port, Mo., Sept. 17, 1922 to Syrus Taber and Dollie Jane (Smith) Burch. Her family moved to the Brownville area in 1933 and then moved to the Peru area in 1939. Ann graduated from Peru High School in 1941.
She was employed for several years as a beautician in beauty salons in Peru, Auburn and Nebraska City. She married Merle B. Teten on Aug. 17, 1946 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Atchison, Kan. They lived on a farm in the Brock and Talmage area most of their married lives.
Ann received Christ as her personal Savior on Oct. 7, 1951 and was baptized on Oct. 2, 1955. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Nebraska City. After her husband died July 10, 1992, she lived in an apartment in Auburn until Sept. 2, 2000 when she moved to the Morton House Assisted Living Facility in Nebraska City. Oct. 18, 2008 she moved to the Ambassador in Nebraska City.
She enjoyed reading, sewing, embroidering, scrapbooking, taking family pictures and baking. She and her children enjoyed packing a picnic basket and taking it to her husband when he was working in the fields. She also enjoyed trips with her family.
She is survived by her children Dean Teten of Omaha, Barbara Clark and husband John of Auburn, Jim Teten and wife Carolyn of Nebraska City and John Teten and wife Vicky of Auburn; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; sister-in-law Evelyn Barnhart of Ft. Collins, Colo.; brother-in-law Robert Teten and wife Rafaela of Bandera, Texas; nieces, nephews, other family and friends.
Besides her husband, she was preceded by an infant daughter, Elizabeth Ann, four half-sisters and four half-brothers.
Funeral services were Saturday, Oct. 27, at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Rev. Keith Hunt of the First Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in the Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City.
Memorials may be given to the family for future designation.
Remembrances may be left at www.gudefuneralhomes.com.
Gude Mortuary was in charge of the funeral arrangements.


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Finding a dentist in Little America
This directory contains Little America dentists as well as dental clinics in Little America, Wyoming. Whether you are looking for a Little America oral surgeon, general dental care, or a Little America periodontist the listings below will give you a selection from which to choose.
Choosing a Little America dentist
The type of dentist you choose will largely depend on the dental work you want done. Regular dental check-ups, often offered through family dentistry, are important for maintaining good oral health.
Common Little America cosmetic dental procedures include teeth whitening and veneers. More involved dental procedures include crowns, braces, and oral surgery. A dental assistant may assist a dentist during a procedure, set up anesthesia, expose and develop radiographs or perform other general tasks. In accordance with U.S. law, dental hygienists and dental assistants must work under the supervision of a dentist.
The best place to start your Little America dentist search is with a family or general dentist. A general dentist is licensed to diagnose dental issues and oral conditions, develop treatment plans and provide certain treatments. When necessary, general and family dentists may refer you to a more specialized dental practitioner. If necessary, a dentist will also provide advice for obtaining dental insurance to help pay for dental procedures.
Please refer to the list below of dentists in Little America.
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Arizona Fall League shares several All-Star Game ties
It's another star-filled season for the Arizona Fall League.
The AFL, which has long been a proving ground for baseball's best prospects, will see 36 players and umpires with ties to the league in Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Target Field. With that impressive haul, the AFL can now boast 212 players with All-Star ties to the league since its inception in 1992.
It's another star-filled season for the Arizona Fall League.
The AFL, which has long been a proving ground for baseball's best prospects, will see 36 players and umpires with ties to the league in Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Target Field. With that impressive haul, the AFL can now boast 212 players with All-Star ties to the league since its inception in 1992.
Four former Arizona Fall League umpires -- Scott Barry, Vic Carapazza, Jeff Nelson and Todd Tichenor -- will be working the All-Star Game on Tuesday night. Carapazza will be working in right field and Tichenor will be in left field, while Barry works third base and Nelson calls plays at first base.
But the lion's share of AFL alumni will be on the field in a playing capacity. Fifteen former Arizona Fall League players were named to the American League team, and 21 more players are on the National League's team. Fourteen of the players are in the All-Star Game for the very first time.
Five of the American League's starters -- Josh Donaldson, Derek Jeter, Adam Jones, Mike Trout and Salvador Perez -- were first noticed in the Arizona Fall League. Another one of the league's projected starters -- Matt Wieters -- is an AFL alumni but will be forced to miss the game due to injury.
The National League, meanwhile, will have three former AFL players in the starting lineup. Chase Utley, Troy Tulowitzki and Andrew McCutchen have all starred in the fall league in seasons past.
Dellin Betances, a first-time All-Star who played for the Scottsdale Scorpions in 2012, is the most recent AFL alumni to make it to the Midsummer Classic. There are four players -- Trout, Derek Norris, Aroldis Champan and Tyson Ross -- who played in the Arizona Fall League as recently as 2011.
Jeter (1994) is the only one of the All-Stars who played in the AFL before 2000. Francisco Rodriguez (2001), Pat Neshek (2003) and Utley (2004) are the other long-ago AFL veterans in the mix. An incredible 10 members of the National League bench will have an AFL pedigree on Tuesday night.
American League (15)
Josh Donaldson, 3B ('08 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Derek Jeter, SS ('94 Chandler Diamonbacks)
Adam Jones, OF ('05 Peoria Javelinas)
Mike Trout, OF ('11 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Matt Wieters, C ('08 Surprise Rafters)
Dellin Betances, RHP ('12 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Sean Doolittle, LHP ('08 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Ian Kinsler, 2B ('04 Peoria Saguaros)
Glen Perkins, LHP ('05 Grand Canyon Rafters)
Max Scherzer, RHP ('07 Scottsdale Scorpions) ('08 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Alex Gordon, OF ('05 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Brandon Moss, 1B ('05 Peoria Saguaros)
Derek Norris, C ('10-11 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Salvador Perez, C ('10 Surprise Rafters)
Kurt Suzuki, C ('05 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
National League (21)
Andrew McCutchen ('07 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Troy Tulowitzki, SS ('06 Grand Canyon Rafters)
Chase Utley, 2B ('02 Grand Canyon Rafters)
Aroldis Chapman, LHP ('11 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Craig Kimbrel, RHP ('09 Peoria Saguaros)
Pat Neshek, RHP ('03 Grand Canyon Rafters)
Francisco Rodriguez, RHP ('01 Peoria Javelinas/ Scottsdale Scorpions)
Tyson Ross, RHP ('11 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Huston Street, RHP ('04 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Adam Wainwright, RHP ('04 Mesa Solar Sox)
Tony Watson, LHP ('09 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Charlie Blackmon, OF ('10 Scottsdale Scorpions)
Starlin Castro, SS ('09 Mesa Solar Sox)
Freddie Freeman, 1B ('09 Peoria Saguaros) ('10 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Josh Harrison, IF ('10 Mesa Solar Sox)
Jonathan Lucroy, C ('09 Peoria Javelinas)
Devin Mesoraco, C ('10 Peoria Saguaros)
Miguel Montero, C ('05 Phoenix Desert Dogs)
Daniel Murphy, IF ('08 Peoria Saguaros)
Hunter Pence, OF ('06 Mesa Solar Sox)
Giancarlo Stanton, OF ('09 Mesa Solar Sox)
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Thizz, A Love Story
Genre- Contemporary YA with mature content
By- Nicole Loufas
Expected Publication Date- November 1st
In 2006, while the San Francisco Bay Area was immersed in the Hyphy Movement – Dani was fleeing the city for the small coastal town of Eureka. With a past she wants to forget and a future that may be out of reach – Dani finds Thizz and her world turns inside out.
Dani has a plan. Get into CAL Berkeley. All she has to do is survive six months in Eureka, California. Her plan seems to be working until Matt, the boy she's secretly crushing on, sets her up with his best friend.
Nick Marino is the star of the basketball team, grandson to the wealthiest woman in the county, and the town drug dealer. Nick introduces Dani to Thizz on their first date and suddenly smiling becomes easy, conversations are comfortable. Now if she can just figure out if the tingles she's feeling are caused by Nick or Thizz. After a few weeks of both – she doesn't care.
With Nick by her side, thizz flowing through her veins, and Matt keeping all her secrets – Dani settles into her new life; forgetting about the tragedy that drove her there, and the plan she had to escape.
Matt fell in love with Dani the first time he saw her. He also knew whatever drove her from San Francisco to Eureka in her last semester of high school wasn't something she wanted to share. When she finally started to open up, Matt hesitated just long enough for his best friend Nick to swoop in. Forced to sit and watch their relationship grow, Matt also learns of Dani's obsession with Thizz. He secretly feeds her addiction in a desperate attempt to win her heart.
Pressured into joining Nick's crew, Matt finds himself in the middle of Eureka's own hyphy movement and the hit list of a local biker gang. When a school project uncovers a disturbing link between Dani's parents and Nick's uncle, Matt is torn between his loyalty to Nick and his feelings for Dani as he tries to convince Dani that her life is in real danger; while persuading Nick to turn on his uncle to save the girl they love.


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An allergy is an abnormal immune response or increased sensitivity, to substances known as allergens which are usually proteins. Non-allergic triggers include temperature or barometric pressure changes or odors/irritants such as cleaning agents, fragrances/potpourris, tobacco smoke or vehicle exhaust to name a few. A person with allergies experiences symptoms when exposed to common allergens such as tree, grass, ragweed pollen, cats/dogs and dust mites that correlate with allergy testing. A non-allergic person would respond to irritants and weather changes and allergy testing would be negative. Both allergic and non-allergic rhinitis are very important conditions that need to be differentiated from one another as the treatment of these conditions is quite different from one another.
Patients with allergic rhinitis (hay fever) often have itching of the eyes, ears, nose, throat, runny nose, sneezing, nasal stuffiness and drainage in the back of the throat. Patients with allergic rhinitis are at increased risk for developing asthma. In most cases, with the appropriate medication and avoidance measures, allergic rhinitis and non-allergic rhinitis can be very well controlled to the satisfaction of both the patient and the physician.
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...that makes this kind of hard to talk about, even though it's kind of a big deal. Intel claims that the new type of transistor will lead to serious reductions in power consumption, while delivering more power. It allows Intel to extend Moore's Law, despite doubts over whether the industry would be able to or not. These things have been in development for nearly a decade.
"The performance gains and power savings of Intel's unique 3-D Tri-Gate transistors are like nothing we've seen before," said Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow, "This milestone is going further than simply keeping up with Moore's Law. The low-voltage and low-power benefits far exceed what we typically see from one process generation to the next. It will give product designers the flexibility to make current devices smarter and wholly new ones possible. We believe this breakthrough will extend Intel's lead even further over the rest of the semiconductor industry."
And, here is the cheesy video.
Intel is plans to ship the new type of transistor in the second half of this year, and they will be deployed across the entire spectrum of Intel processors - so not just in the top range.


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While we were all getting sunburns and eating lobster, the arts professionals were putting the finishing touches on an impressive fall arts season for Hartford. And thank goodness.
Summer's gone. The beach is cold. It's time to start planning indoor indulgences – concerts, plays, comedy nights and museum shows.
The biggest news in the capital city is the long-awaited opening of the 500-seat Infinity Hall Hartford theater in the Front Street entertainment district at the end of August.
Infinity's September/October lineup includes Suzanne Vega, ASIA, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer, Kurt Elling, Los Lonely Boys,...


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Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has issued the following statement on Senator Harry Reid's controversial description of President Barack Obama in a newly released book.
"Senator Reid has apologized to the President for his remarks about the President's skin color and speech, but the Senator's callous insensitivity extends to more than African Americans," said Dr. King. "Senator Reid is trying to dramatically increase the number of abortions and violate the consciences of most Americans by forcing all of us to pay for abortion on demand in the health care bill. The Senator's speech hints at a discriminatory mindset; his actions toward the unborn clearly show that he regards some people as less than human."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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*This is three years after the boys from One Direction became famous.* There is a new band in town called Lovin' Life and One Direction wanted to meet them so they organized a meet and greet between bands. Turns out that One Direction and Lovin' Life have a secret that they didn't even know about. This story will possibly make you cry! Read to find out more.
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Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Ventilated Patients Using Two Repositioning Regimens (PUPPAS)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00847665
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 19, 2009
Results First Posted : April 17, 2013
Last Update Posted : April 17, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Pressure Ulcers
|Other: repositioning
|Phase 3
Pressure ulcers (PUs) pose a major healthcare challenge and are associated with an increased risk of infection and sepsis, longer hospital stay, and higher hospitalization costs. Their reported incidence in critical care patients varies widely from 1% to 56%. Therefore it is important to take appropriate preventive measures, which can often be successful and less costly than the treatment of established ulcers. Among these measures are the use of pressure-reducing surfaces and repositioning strategies in a protocolized way. Though there is general agreement that critical care patients, including those under mechanical ventilation must use pressure-reducing surfaces, there is no enough evidence in the literature about what is the best repositioning schedule when new, high technology mattresses are used. The use of this new technology has lead to propose that repositioning can be less frequent. In the only clinical trial where this subject (time interval turning) has been addressed (Vanderwee et al, Journal of Advanced Nursing), it is concluded that a turning regimen every 4 hours is equally effective than a 2-hour turning, using this kind of mattresses. Nonetheless this study is not made in critically ill patients, that have more risk factors for developing PUs, the reason we don´t share this findings and recommendations cannot be generalized.
The study hypothesis is that in patients using APAMs, a turning regimen every 2 hour compared to a 4-hour is most effective in the prevention of PUs and could be equally safe.
The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of postural turnings every 2 hours compared to every 4 hours on the incidence of grade > II pressure ulcers (PU) in patients in ICU on mechanical ventilation (MV) ≥ 24h that use alternating-pressure air mattresses (APAMs) The study is an open label, randomized, controlled clinical trial. The main variable is the incidence of Pus grade ≥ II. As secondary variables measures of efficacy and safety of patients will be registered. The study will take place in a 26 bed medical-surgical ICU with APAMs. Randomization will be done between 24h-48h from the beginning of MV. The final analysis will be by intention to treat.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|330 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Two Turning Regimens (2 Versus Every 4 Hours) in the Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in Patients on Mechanical Ventilation That Use Alternating-pressure Air Mattresses.
|Study Start Date :
|February 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2011
Active Comparator: Turning every 4 hours
The four-hours repositioning group patients were turned every four hours following the next sequence: left side, back with a 30º elevation of the head end and the foot end of the bed, right side using the 30º tilt, back.
Other: repositioning
Turning every 4 or 2 hours
Experimental: Turning every 2 hours
The two-hours repositioning group patients, were turned every two hours following the next sequence: left side, back with a 30º elevation of the head end and the foot end of the bed, right side using the 30º tilt, back.
Other: repositioning
Turning every 4 or 2 hours
- Incidence of Pressure Ulcer (PU) Grade ≥ II [ Time Frame: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) length of stay (days) ]Pressure ulcers were categorized according to the EPUAP-classification system. A grade I PU is non-blanchable erythema, a grade II is an abrasion or blister, a grade III is a superficial ulcer and a grade IV is a deep ulcer
- ICU Mortality [ Time Frame: ICU length of stay (an average of 28 days) ]ICU mortality (number of death in ICU)
- Workload of Nurses [ Time Frame: icu length of stay ]Time actually spent to manual repositioning by nurses team, in minutes/day
- Length of Mechanical Ventilation (MV) [ Time Frame: ICU length of stay ]Time from initiation to withdrawal of mechanical ventilation. Days
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients admitted to the medical-surgical ICU, requiring more than 24 hours of mechanical ventilation.
- Patients on alternating-pressure air mattresses.
- Patients or their legal representative able to provide written informed consent to participate in the study
- Patients whose weight are within the limits accepted by the mattresses (45-140 Kg)
- Over 18 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with pressure ulcer at ICU admission.
- Pregnant patients
- Patients in which informed consent is not obtained in the first 48 hours of mechanical ventilation
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00847665
|Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves
|Granada, Spain, 18014
|Principal Investigator:
|Francisco Manzano, MD,PhD
|University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Francisco Manzano Manzano, MD,PhD, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00847665 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|February 19, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|April 17, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|April 17, 2013
|Last Verified:
|March 2013
Keywords provided by Francisco Manzano Manzano, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves:
Pressure ulcers
Mechanical Ventilation
Critical care
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pressure Ulcer
Pathologic Processes
Skin Ulcer
Skin Diseases


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Being labelled an "icon" means nothing to Harrison Ford.
So says the "Indiana Jones," Star Wars," "Blade Runner," Witness" and now "Ender's Game" actor, despite having the title attached to his screen persona for the better part of the last quarter century.
"I don't understand what it means to anybody, actually. It seems like a word of convenience, and it seems to attend to the huge success of a certain kinds of movies that I did," says Ford of the descriptor. "I don't know what an icon does except stand in a corner and quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon."
If the 71-year-old actor himself is recalcitrant when it comes to embracing the icon label, his cinematic collaborators on his latest film "Ender's Game" – the big screen adaptation of the Orson Scott Card novel – had no qualms about using his singular movie star stature in the service of their storytelling.
"Both myself and Asa Butterfield had a moment when Harrison Ford walked on the set, and my inner 12-year-old and his literal 12-year-old were a little intimidated," admits director Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi"), who had to find the right dynamic between his young star and the veteran actor.
"But this was good. This was awesome. Because we used it – I even spoke with Harrison about it – and we shot the film in sequence, partly because our little Asa grew two inches during the course of shooting, and partly because he grew emotionally through the course of that film," says Hood. "And Harrison very much used that slight intimidation from the beginning. Not in any way unkindly – he just kept him a little bit at a distance, and the intimidation of Asa Butterfield to icon actor Harrison Ford was perfect for Ender Wiggin to Colonel Graff."
"When I first met Harrison a lot of people worried I was a bit nervous," admits Butterfield. "I mean Han Solo, Indiana Jones, he was one of my idols in a way. I was such a huge fan of 'Star Wars.' So to be able to work with him alone, be in a room with him, it was amazing – and at such a young age as well…Because there was so many young actors on set, I think of Harrison as the man that really brought the best out of us."
"It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not; the job's the same, and I don't have any sort of genre preferences," says Ford of tackling a new science fiction project with franchise potential. "I'm looking for a good story, good character, whether earthbound or not…I actually read the script before I read the book, and I thought it was an interesting subject that I hadn't seen in film. I saw an interesting character that was responsible for supporting some questions about responsibility and the military and about relationships between young people and old people and a lot of things that intrigued me. And when I met with the filmmakers, I had a sense that they were very ambitious and focused on making a film that I thought would be useful to a young audience."
Ford, whose last film in the sci-fi genre was "Cowboys & Aliens" in 2011, has considered opinions about working alongside increasingly eye-popping special effects. "Obviously, the techniques to create the visual elements have changed enormously," he says. "When we were making 'Star Wars,' they were putting together spaceships out of plastic model kits of cars and boats and trains and gluing them all together, and putting them on a stick and flying them past the camera. And it worked. It worked. It was fine. Add a little music, and you believe that big spaceship coming over your head."
But with a film like "Ender's Game," which features its own array of dazzling space effects, he believes that a balance between spectacle and storytelling has to be struck. "The capacity to create effects in the computer has made the job both easier but it has also introduced the complexity that you can, with a few more key strokes, generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go," he says. "You lose human scale on an event, and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization."
Ford says that his feelings when he first sets foot on a movie set haven't altered significantly since he made his first credited feature film debut 40 years ago in George Lucas' "American Graffiti." "I think it's roughly the same," he says. "The excitement of every day is the challenge that you haven't anticipated, the problems you haven't solved; the opportunity to work with creative people in all branches of the service, from the grips and the cinematographer, to the director and the writer; to meet the challenges of getting the story on paper and making the character useful to the telling of the story overall. And it's a job I love. It's challenging and it's exciting. And hopefully, it's useful."
"Ender's Game" opens in theaters Oct. 3.


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Emphasizing the synergies between science and engineering, these video clips highlight the research of professional ocean scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The clips are accompanied by additional relevant content including images,... (View More) data visualizations, graphs, animations, and other information. Content has been organized into more than a dozen thematic areas such as Solving Old Problems with New Technology and Small Scale Observations and Large Scale Ideas. All content has been aligned with science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards, including "asking questions and solving problems" and "planning and carrying out investigations," providing applicable resources for teachers who want to provide role models of effective practice for their students. (View Less)
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Learners use a Styrofoam ball, sunlight, and the motions of their bodies to model the Moon's phases outdoors. An extension is to have children predict future Moon phases. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities... (View More) developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
This is an activity about the way the moon interacts with sunlight. Learners consider a ball, wrapped in aluminum foil, and experiment with a flashlight to make it appear bright. The children compare the foil-wrapped ball to a Moon globe and... (View More) discover that the Moon reflects very little of the light the falls on it, but still appears bright. The children construct their own globe of the Moon to take home with them by gluing a map template onto a tennis-ball. This activity is most effective when conducted in a dark area, such as outdoors at night or in a darkened room. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
This is an activity about the tides. Learners discover how the Moon's gravitational pull causes the level of the ocean to rise and fall twice a day along most coastlines. Six children represent the oceans, solid Earth, Moon, and Sun and move their... (View More) bodies to show the interactions of these elements. They then consider what the Earth's tides might have been like if there were no Moon. They model the smaller tides that would be produced solely by the Sun. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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This lesson includes a demonstration to show why the sky is blue and why sunsets and sunrises are orange. Learners will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans.... (View More) Requires a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
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This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Andrea Again
My Friend Andrea
Merivale's Finest Author
Mother-Fuckin' Artist
Makes Fine Armour
Masked Fighting Avenger
Munted Frog Appendix
My Famous Amiga
May Fancy Aladdin*
Anyway, Many Fuckin' Accolades!
By the way, if anyone else has any successes (or letters after their name) please let me know, and I will talk about you as well.
*I just put this in because I watched Aladdin the other day and it was just as awesome as it ever was. I watched it with Conor, and we figured out that we were about 4 or 5 when it came out and totally would've watched it together then. Cute, huh? Sorry, Pointless Conor Story. You should really be getting used to it. Anyway, yay Aladdin!
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- a cat of impossible colour said...
Haha, thank you! It totally stands for Masked Fighting Avenger.
More suggestions:
Mild Flatulence Affliction
Many Failed Attempts
- 2:55 pm
Congratulations to your friend!
I have a MFU. Master of Fucking Up.
I'm almost done with my PhD. :)
- 3:27 pm
- Kaileigh said...
Hm, Or "Most Freakin' Awesome"?
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- Tania said...
MFA stands for Music For Animals!
This is a fact :]
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- Holly said...
YAY Andrea!
I cannot think of any other MFAs (FML), so instead I shall just say Congratulations! :D
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- Charlie said...
who knew it stood for so much - yay for andrea! how bout Money for Andrea, but you don't get money.... ill just get her hopes up...
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- Baglady said...
I love Aladdin. And the Little Mermaid. Since then Disney has gone downhill.
I love to play A Whole New World really really loud in my car and sing very loudly to it. Who needs therapy when you've got Peabo Bryson singing loudly in your car. Or Billy Ocean. Or Amy Winehouse. Or Dave Grohl.
I am an ACMA but I don't really use it. MFA could be Mutant French Aubergine. I could see that working with the right outfit.
wv= arlear... What King Lear is called in Yorkshire.
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Visual Glossary
Hanging wall
We classify faults by how the two rocky blocks on either side of a fault move relative to each other. The one you see here is a reverse fault. Take a look at the side that shows the fault and arrows indicating movement. See the block farthest to the right that is shaped kind of like a foot? Thats the foot wall. Now look at the block on the other side of the fault. See how its resting or hanging on top of the footwall block? Thats the hanging wall.
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A program that provides children with support through education, play, music and art received a big boost Friday with the gift of $56,360 from the Spirit of Halloween Superstores.
The Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, which operates in the Children's Hospital, will use the funds to pay for fellowships for individuals training to become certified child life specialists. For the first time, one of the fellows will be assigned to the pediatric infusion center, now located in the Comprehensive Cancer Center on 45th Street.
"There are so many areas within the Children's Hospital where we haven't been able to provide Child Life services," said department manager Diana Sundberg. She said the fellow will be able to assist the pediatric infusion clinic staff by providing the patients with support coping during procedures, diversionary activities during chemotherapy treatment, self-expression projects and other interventions, as needed.
"This support for the Child Life Department is so important because it allows a great children's hospital to be even more amazing," said Robin Steinhorn, professor and Chief of the Department of Pediatrics.
Spirit of Halloween franchise owner Shandra Pierce said the funds were raised thanks to sales associates and generous customers of the company's Halloween-themed pop-up stores throughout California, as well as outside organizations, which held events to raise additional contributions.


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Bricks. You know, those hard rectangular cubes made of heavy solid stuff like cement, stone, concrete, rock . . . and fungus. Yes, fungus. Clean, lightweight, extremely durable, sustainable, (dead) fungus. There's a sculpture made of those fungal bricks shaped into a half-arc tunnel – not to mention two fungus-grown chairs – on display in the Williamson Gallery's current exhibitionIntimate Science (through August 18).
Known for its curatorial connections to the burgeoning ArtScience movement, the Williamson Gallery's recent projects have extended this theme to include artists who are productively reckless when considering the boundaries between traditional domains. Stitching together performance, installation art, design, citizen science, and maker-ingenuity into a complex fabric of artistic practice, ArtScience artists are challenging older single-channel paradigms.
Originally organized by curator Andrea Grover for Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery and now on a national tour, Intimate Science includes a compelling assemblage of crossover objects and intentions. The exhibition's stop at the hillside campus has brought works by artists from London, Seattle, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo to join hometown L.A. participant Machine Project in provoking students, faculty, staff and a stream of inquisitive visitors.
Two recent workshops organized by Machine Project transformed a section of the gallery into an interactive learning lab for unconventional artistic palettes. Attendees examined processes that might inform future hybrid projects by harnessing the behavior of sound vibrations and twisting auditory perceptions, and interfacing with the dynamics of electricity and the natural flow of current in the human body.
At the exhibition's opening reception on May 30, scientists from Caltech and Jet Propulsion Lab mixed with artists, designers, writers, students, faculty, and the generally curious. Carnegie Mellon's Astria Suparak remarked on bringing the exhibition to Art Center's gallery: "We were thrilled to open Intimate Science at the Williamson Gallery — to have the opportunity to bring the gallery's work to Los Angeles, to be seen by a wider audience and have a larger impact."


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OS X isn't the issue (I don't think) since I can use Greek in some places. (+¦+¦-Ä +++¦++-ü-Ä +++¦ +¦-ü+¼-å-ë -â-ä+¦ +ò+++++++++¦+¦+¼ +¦+++++¼ -î-ç+¦ -â-ä++ MS Word +« AppleWorks - +¦+¦++ +++¡-ü-ë +¦+¦+¦-ä+»)
Too bad you can't spell yet
At least I can post stuff in unicode from Opera on this forum. Pretty much every other forum I'm on breaks (changes the text into cr@p) unless I post from Internet Explorer
Demetri,Even though unicode is "universal" you still have to have support installed on your computer for those sections of the unicode that pertain to an individual language--usually. It's still kind of finicky in my opinion.Anastasios
Still OS X is a million times better
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Trivium returns with their 5th and most powerful studio album. Produced by Colin Richardson, the album shows an amazing mature growth for the band technically, sonically and musically.
Packaged in a digipak with expanded packaging including lyrics.
Disc 1:
1. Capsizing The Sea
2. In Waves
3. Inception Of The End
4. Dusk Dismantled
5. Watch The World Burn
6. Black
7. A Skyline's Severance
8. Ensnare The Sun*
9. Built To Fall
10. Caustic Are The Ties That Bind
11. Forsake Not The Dream
12. Drowning In Slow Motion*
13. A Grey So Dark*
14. Chaos Reigns
15. Of All These Yesterdays
16. Leaving This World Behind
17. Shattering The Skies Above*
18. Slave New World*
*Bonus tracks
Disc 2:
Bonus DVD includes:
- In Waves (Live)
- In Waves (Documentary)
"In Waves" Music Video
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