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Tacos de Pescado de la Palapa (Fish Tacos)
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Source: Chef-owners Barbara Sibley and Marguerite Malfy, La Palapa Cocina Mexicana, New York City
Any mild, flaky white fish can be used in these soft tacos with smoky chipotle crema and avocado-tomatillo salsa. Serve with sides of red rice and black beans.
3 tbsp. corn oil
3 pasilla chilies, cut into 1-in.-thick rounds
1 tsp. kosher salt
1/4 cup achiote paste
3/4cup freshly squeezed orange juice (about 2 oranges)
1/4cup freshly squeezed lime juice (about 2 limes)
1/4cup freshly squeezed grapefruit juice (about 1 grapefruit)
1/4cup roasted tomato salsa with arbol chilies
1/2 small white onion
1 tbsp. honey
1 garlic clove
1 tsp. kosher salt
1 cup olive oil
1 lb. tilapia, red snapper, catfish or other flaky, white fish fillets
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 tbsp. corn oil
12 (6-inch) corn tortillas, warmed
12 romaine lettuce leaves from heart, each about 6 in. long and 2 in. wide
Avocado-tomatillo salsa or salsa of choice
1/2 cup crema seasoned with chipotle
- Prepare Chilies: In sauté pan, heat corn oil over med. heat. Add chilies and cook, stirring, about 1 min, or until they plump up and crisp. Take care they do not scorch. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a bowl, season with salt and let cool.
- Prepare Marinade: Combine all ingredients except olive oil in blender; blend until liquefied. With motor running, add oil in a steady stream, processing until mixture is emulsified. Set aside in a nonreactive container. (Should be about 3 cups.)
- Pat fish fillets dry, season with salt and pepper and lay them in a shallow, nonreactive bowl. Add about ½ cup marinade, or just enough to coat fish. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hr. and no more than 2 hr. Remove fish from marinade and pat dry; discard marinade.
- Prepare Tacos: In nonstick skillet, heat corn oil over med-high heat. Sear fillets, turning once, about 2 min on each side, or just until they are opaque and flake easily.
- Add 1/2 cup marinade to skillet; scrape bottom to deglaze and cook about 2 min. longer, or until marinade thickens. Transfer fish to a plate; drizzle any marinade in pan over the top. Cut fillets into 2-in. pieces. (Reserve remaining 2 cups marinade; it will keep, refrigerated, up to 2 days.)
- For service, place about 2 tbsp. fish down center of each tortilla; top with lettuce leaf and 3 or 4 chili pieces. Fold tortilla in half and transfer to a serving plate. Repeat until all the ingredients are used, then arrange the tacos side by side so that they hold one another up. Serve the salsa and crema on the side.


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March 24, 2013
Game Notes | Quotes
By: Brandon Mellor, Seminoles.com Managing Editor
WACO, Texas — And the streak — now officially in its 10th game — continues.
The No. 8-seed Florida State women's basketball team opened the 2013 NCAA Championships Sunday night with a 60-44 victory over No. 9-seed Princeton, to extend the program's first-round winning streak to double digits in "The Big Dance."
The 10-game streak dates all the way back to the 1990 season when the 'Noles (23-9) lost to Penn State in Tallahassee. For some perspective on the 23-years-and-counting that separates that last setback, Alexa Deluzio and Chasity Clayton are the only current members of the team that were alive then.
"It helps us to have extra prep time between the ACC and NCAA Tournament to get ready for these opening games," Deluzio said afterwards. "More than anything, though, having a few extra days to rest our bodies after a long regular season really helps us."
The Seminoles' certainly looked like a rested team inside Baylor's golden-domed Ferrell Center, particularly on defense.
The Tigers (22-7), who have won the Ivy League championship in each of the last four seasons, entered the Oklahoma City Regional shooting nearly 44 percent from the field and 33 percent from 3-point distance with a plus-19.4 scoring margin. But against Florida State, those shooting averages took quite the tumble.
Princeton finished the game just 17-of-67 (24.4 percent) from inside the arc and 6-of-23 (26.1 percent) beyond it and was held to its lowest point total of the 2012-13 season. Reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, Niveen Rasheed, concluded her career with just nine points on 3-of-15 shooting after averaging 16.9 points per game before the tournament.
As a team, Princeton was forced into 19 turnovers and the Seminoles capitalized with 22 points off those takeaways. FSU also shot 48.1 percent from the field and never trailed despite a 48-34 rebounding disadvantage.
"One of the things that is so important in basketball … we all talk about the scorers, but it's the playmakers that create the opportunities for the scorers that need to be defended," FSU coach Sue Semrau said. "I thought that's what we did a good job of. [Rasheed] is such a great player. If we would've just tried to take her out of it, I think everybody else is good enough that they could step up. We had to take the players out of it that get her involved.
"I thought that our team did a great job of understanding that."
Playing in her first NCAA Tournament, senior guard Yashira Delgado — another tournament newcomer — added 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting and a well-timed 3-pointer midway through the second half that halted a 10-0 Princeton run.
Natasha Howard tied her career high with five blocks and scored six points while Deluzio scored seven while battling foul trouble. Chelsea Davis and Clayton scored six apiece.
The Seminoles had kept the Tigers in check through the first 26 minutes of the game but Alex Wheatley's lay-up with 13:45 remaining in the second half cut FSU's lead to single digits at 38-29. Wheatley's bucket helped spark what turned out to be that 10-0 Princeton run, capped by back-to-back 3-pointers by Blake Dietrick that put the Tigers within a 38-37 score — FSU's smallest advantage of the night at that point since the scoreboard showed 2-0 — with 11:07 left to play.
In need of a run-stopping answer, Delgado then heeded that call with her critical 3-pointer at the game's 10:49 mark.
"The ball ended up in my hands on that play and I saw I had an open shot," Delgado said. "I just shot it with confidence and it went in."
Toles then tallied her own jumper to put the Seminoles up 44-39 and combined with Deluzio to add two more baskets and Rodriguez hit a triple and made the highlight tapes with an acrobatic and-one reverse lay-up that gave the 'Noles a 54-39 lead with 5:19 left.
Kate Miller then hit a 3-pointer for the Tigers but it proved harmless as the Seminoles held Princeton to just one two-point basket in the final 4:57 to seal a victory that fittingly started and ended with strong defensive play.
To start the game, Florida State held Princeton to just 20.6-percent shooting from the field and generated a halftime advantage of 31-19 — the Tigers' second lowest opening-frame output of the entire season. The 'Noles also limited Rasheed to just three points on 1-of-7 shooting in the first 20 minutes.
"Full court pressure gave us the opportunity to play less time in the half court defensively," Semrau said.
Florida State's Tuesday-night second-round game at Baylor University will likely be against the hosting Bears. The defending national champions and the tournament's overall No. 1 seed took on Prairie View A&M after the Seminoles' win.

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Russ Hamilton is a Design Director with Farrells and has been with the internationally renowned Urban Design and Architectural firm since 2000. He is involved in the practice's principle design activities and is responsible for complex, mixed-use urban design and regeneration projects; building concept development from theory through to detailed interior design is a specialism. His drawings and visualisations contribute to the developing design and expression of the practice.
Russ is leading on the development of a number of international and cultural urban design master plans including the British Library at St Pancras and a large urban regeneration project in New Zealand. He is the lead designer on high profile public and cultural buildings for Farrells including the recently completed Royal Institution in London and the Great North Museum in Newcastle.


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Earlier this month, I was fortunate to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Keystone, Colorado. I was notified of my participation only two weeks before, and I wasn't aware of this conference at all. I made my reservations and printed out the conference agenda, which I reviewed on the plane on the way there.Most conferences give you access to the agenda ahead of time, and it's a good idea to print that out and have a look at it.
As for me, after one quick pass through it, I started by putting a "dot" next to anything I might be interested in, and a "star" next to anything that was a 'must see'. Then I started to notice some trends emerging. I came up with these goals for the conference, based on what was in the agenda:
- meet other IBM women (this was, after all, a Women in Computing conference, and IBM was sending me)
- text analytics technologies
- women in technology issues, including attracting more students
- social networking and collaboration
- cool stuff other than the above
To that end, I circled the name of any IBMer, and labeled each of the rest of what I noted as one of the above. Now, I realize, this approach might seem a bit, well, organized -- particularly for me. But it really worked, particularly to keep my attention and also keep a balance of different topics, as well as provide a tiebreaker when there were multiple sessions at the same time - I just look at the balance of the other sessions I've been attending.
Another thing you want to do while you're there is talk to other people about what they've seen, what they are going to see, etc. It's so easy to miss something or misinterpret something in an agenda.
If you keep a good balance between "use right now" and "good to know for the future" topics, you can help keep your brain from overflowing - that's always a danger at a multi-day conference!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of a new year, a libertarian strain pulses through America — a get-government-out-of-my-personal-life sensibility that cuts across ideologies and is driven by a younger generation's cultural attitudes.
We've seen it in gay-marriage legalization and marijuana decriminalization. And in the fact that, four decades after Roe v. Wade allowed abortion, there's little appetite among most for overturning it. Perhaps we've also seen this play out with guns, with a more limited role for government in regulating firearms.
But today, a mourning nation must square that shift toward fewer gun restrictions with a series of fatal mass shootings in the past few years, the latest claiming 20 elementary school students among the dead. And the pendulum may swing just as quickly back toward curbs on gun rights: A country that's become more tolerant on other cultural issues may end up bucking the trend on this subject.
Here's why: It can't be boiled down to "my body, my decisions."
The gun issue doesn't fit neatly into the libertarian lane in which the United States has been driving when it comes to gay marriage, abortion and marijuana — the belief that people have the right to make their own decisions about how they live their lives, as long as they respect the rights of others to do the same. And that's because while it may be your right to own a gun, you can use it to harm others, thereby taking away their right to live their lives as they want.
This is not a new tension in America, a republic founded by men with libertarian leanings that has always struggled to strike the right balance between rights for one and safety for all.
The first settlers fled the big hand of Mother England, seeking a smaller government to protect basic freedoms — and founding a nation built on the "inalienable" rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence acknowledged the stress in America's foundation, saying the new country's government would secure those rights, but people would have the authority to alter or abolish it if it were to become "destructive of these ends."
In modern times, libertarianism, which draws from both liberal and conservative influences, has reared its head often in American history — most recently in today's tea party, which is uncompromising in pursuing a smaller government role in fiscal matters.
These days, 16 to 18 percent of adults in various surveys identify themselves as libertarians. But many more have libertarian views on individual issues even as they call themselves Republicans, Democrats or independents. It also can be a generational thing, with a Pew Research Center poll in December 2011 finding that 50 percent of Americans under age 30 had positive reaction to the label compared with only 25 percent of senior citizens.
The debate now under way underscores how different guns are from other social issues — how this topic is not just about you, but about us.
There is a thicket of considerations. The fact that many people view gun ownership as a foundational right. Mental health. Urban vs. rural matters. Sports. Crime. Violence in video games and movies. Parental responsibility. "We know," President Barack Obama said, "this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides."
The multiple factors at play — and the loss of young innocents — could explain why, despite the nation's recent libertarianism on cultural matters, the Newtown, Conn., killings quickly spurred calls from across the political spectrum for at least a discussion of whether new limits should be placed on guns. This suggested a possible expansion of government in this realm.
"This awful massacre of our youngest children has changed us, and everything should be on the table," said Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. And Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the senior Republican on the committee that would take up any legislation, said: "You've got to take all these things into consideration."
The NRA, the nation's largest gun-rights lobby, has promised opposition to more regulations, just as it helped ensure the federal assault weapons ban wasn't renewed in 2004 and state gun laws were loosened by legislatures.
Advocates for gay marriage, marijuana legalization and abortion rights also all have made significant recent strides. Each has pushed legislation in states with friendly political environments while also taking advantage of the country's changing mindset.
Consider that in the last election:
—Washington, Maryland and Maine became the first states ever to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote. Now nine states and the District of Columbia recognize gay unions.
—Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana use, and Obama's administration signaled it wouldn't pursue those users, even though the drug is illegal under federal law.
—Several Republicans who took rigid stands against abortion rights lost. Among them: GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Then, only six weeks after the election, came Sandy Hook. And gun control jumped to the front of the national conversation.
In the days and weeks before, lawmakers in the GOP-led states of Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Pennsylvania considered proposals to loosen restrictions on employees keeping guns in their vehicles on work property, and Ohio's legislature passed a law allowing guns to be left in parked vehicles underneath the Statehouse.
A federal appeals court in Illinois struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons, while Florida's GOP-led administration announced that 1 million people would soon have valid permits to carry them. Michigan's legislature also approved laws easing restrictions, though its Republican governor, Rick Snyder, later vetoed a measure allowing certain gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public places.
Public opinion polling has illustrated the trend since 2000, with more Americans now generally favoring the right to own guns over increased limitations on ownership. But there is also widespread support in surveys for reinstating the federal assault weapons ban and for limiting high-capacity magazines.
It is, for sure, a contradictory series of messages — unsurprising for an issue that asks such an intricate question: In a world of weaponry unimaginable to the people who came up with the Second Amendment, how do you strike the right balance between the individual's right to bear arms and the government's role in protecting the public?
With the latest eruption of the gun debate, we've returned to the enduring fight over libertarian principles that we've kept going for more than 200 years — the core tension between what's right for one of us and what's right for all of us.
Whatever happens with gun control in the aftermath of Newtown, the debate reveals what this generation faces as it tries to shape the nation it inherits: the enduring struggle to understand that delicate constitutional space that exists between my right to swing my arm around freely and your right not to be hit in the face.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Liz Sidoti is the national politics editor for The Associated Press.


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2nd WEC Baltic Sea Roundtable Discussions
World Energy Council member committees from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia who surround the Baltic Sea gathered in Tallinn for the 2nd annual WEC Baltic Sea Roundtable. They met to discuss the most topical issues for the energy sector, namely regional energy security and the competitiveness of European energy-intensive economy. The 2nd WEC […]
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WEC intensifies Central and Eastern Europe activities
The WEC is set to intensity its members' activities in Central and Eastern Europe. At the recent WEC Central and Eastern Europe regional meeting, held in Bucharest during 18–20 March, WEC member committees agreed to establish the regional meeting as a regular gathering, to take place every year. Every second meeting will be held within […]
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WEC speaks at Baltic market integration conference
Einari Kisel, WEC Senior Fellow, commented on European energy market policies and discussed the role of the World Energy Council in a presentation at the Conference on the Baltic Energy Market Integration Plan (BEMIP) on 14 September in Vilnius, Lithuania. The BEMIP aims to connect the electricity and gas markets of the Baltic states (Lithuania, […]
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This is about a sentence from Taylor book 2 page 137
A brother having got trapped it the king's treasury tells his brother
to cut off is head lest, the first brother being recognised, the other
is also executed.
ο δε ουν ετερος ευ τε λεγειν αυτον ενομισε και πεισθεις ταυτα εποιησεν.
My (rather literal) translation is:
And the second both considered that he (ie his brother) spoke well and obeying these (things?)
did it.
The construction "both ... and" sounds very odd in English and diogenes suggests just
dropping it when translating but I am still curious as to what τε adds for the Greek
reader. It would also be nice to know when one should use such a construction when
composing in Greek.


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Super Rugby
Rebels suffer record loss to Sharks
March 24, 2013
Ryan Kankowski produced a powerful performance against the Rebels
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Melbourne Rebels have suffered a record Super Rugby drubbing with the Sharks running in 10 tries in a 64-7 bloodbath in Durban.
The Rebels flew to South Africa confident of cracking their first ever win abroad but instead were embarrassed by the rampant Sharks. Their previous biggest defeat was 53-3 at the hands of Queensland in March 2011.
The home side had only managed three tries in three rounds leading into the match but eclipsed that in the 34th minute when skipper Keegan Daniel charged across the line for try number four.
Compounding the misery for the Rebels, star playmaker James O'Connor was yellow-carded in the second half for a lifting tackle which could face further scrutiny.
The proud home side was shocked last week when the Brumbies ran in four first-half tries in their 29-10 victory and made their intentions clear from kick-off.
Melbourne skipper Gareth Delve was penalised at the breakdown in the first minute of play although Pat Lambie missed the kick.
The Sharks didn't have to wait long though with points on the board in the sixth minute. Following a Rebels handling error, Daniel made a break from the back of the scrum and the Sharks swarmed, with fullback Louis Ludik touching down.
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Two tries came after the Sharks pack drove across the line following a line-out, with the Rebels unable to stop the dominance of their big forwards.
They were out to 24-0 by the halftime break thanks to Daniel's own try, with credit going to the Sharks who didn't miss a tackle in that 40 minutes. The Rebels in contrast had missed seven, with 10 turnovers and a 10-5 penalty count giving coach Damien Hill some miserable reading.
The second half couldn't have started any worse for Melbourne. Hooker Kyle Cooper scored in the 41st minute, followed by tries in the 44th, 47th and 50th which brought the tally to 50-0.
The scoreboard ticked over for a further two tries, with Ludik getting his second followed by Riaan Viljoen, who brought up No.10 for the first time in Sharks history.
Delve was held up over the line in the 63rd minute before Scott Higginbotham finally opened the Rebels' account in the 68th minute after halfback Nick Phipps took a quick tap and passed on to the Wallaby backrower.
Delve described the loss as a "kick in the teeth".
"We need to go away and look at ourselves," Delve said. "There's not many positives we can take from, but we need to go away and pick through the bones and make sure we finish the tour on a high."
The Rebels next face the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.
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On Mississippi farm precision agriculture is more than theory Precision farming is not just a theory on Kenneth Hood's Perthshire, Miss., farms. This innovative, early adopter has tried it all, often working with prototypes as individuals, universities and companies put new products and theories in his hands for testing. Hood lists NASA, Mississippi State University, Case IH, Spectral Visions, USDA and others among his collaborators.
Over the last three years, Hood has tested grain and cotton yield monitors, GPS field mapping, precision soil sampling, near infrared photography from satellites and low flying aircraft, variable rate technology for seeding and applying fertilizers, herbicides, plant growth regulators and insecticides. He shared his experiences with farmers from across the South at the recent AgTech 2000 and Southeast Vegetable and Fruit Expo in Greensboro, N.C.
Hood shared the podium with John Havlin, head of the soil science department at North Carolina State University, and Chad Dosch, a consultant with McLawhorn Crop Services in Cove City, N.C.
"Technology is a wonderful thing," Hood says. "I think it's going to keep you and me in business in the future. The technology keeps getting better and more affordable. The first thing I would buy is yield monitors for all of my equipment. The yield monitors on my grain combines and cotton pickers show us yield variations in every field."
Hood uses a private plane to fly over and take infrared photographs of every field every week, giving him a running record of everything from crop stands to crop vigor, insect and weed pressure and even moisture stress.
"The infrared film can detect moisture stress a week or more before we can see any wilted leaves," he says. "That's the value of this technology. We need weekly photographs so we can detect problems and correct them before they cost us yields."
To any grower who might think farming is getting as easy as looking at photographs or computer analyses of fields and making accurate production decisions, Hood has these observations. "No computer is going to out-farm me. We do a lot of ground verifying and validating. Consultants check our fields twice every week. We plant map every cotton field every week. When we see something unusual on the photographs or on our yield monitors, we check it out. Then, when we make an application of any product, we go back to the field to verify the results. We are doing some pretty good economic studies."
With fields as large as 800 to 900 acres, Hood says the new technologies for evaluating and precision-applying products are really paying off. A single mistake in an 800-acre field, he notes, can generate a significant yield loss or put excess nutrients or chemicals into the environment.
This past season he was ready to apply a defoliant to one large cotton field. Close examination of the latest infrared photograph showed half the field was mature, but the other half was still green.
"Remote sensing showed us the relative maturity of the cotton," he says. "We terminated the portion of the field that was mature, but we waited 10 days before we terminated the other side. We made an extra half a bale per acre on that last 220 acres just by waiting."
A review of records from the year before told Hood exactly why the 220-acre portion of the field was maturing later. He had peanuts on that field in 1999. Residual nitrogen from the peanuts was keeping the crop green longer.
He also used infrared photographs to identify heavy morningglory infestations in several of his fields. Once the spots were identified, Hood marked them on his computer maps. When the sprayer driver traveled over these fields, the computer automatically turned the sprayer on as it passed over the morningglories and off when no weeds were present.
"The sprayer driver didn't have to go up and down every row," Hood notes. "He looked at the map on the computer and drove to the spots that needed spraying. The variable rate sprayer did the rest."
Consultant Chad Dosch works with farmers in the environmentally sensitive Neuse River Basin in eastern North Carolina. Average field size of most of his clients is about nine acres. Since most of these farmers have been diligent about taking soil samples and following the recommendations for years, most of the small fields show relatively few variations in nutrient or pH levels. So, Dosch sees little need for precision soil sampling in 2.5-acre grids or precision nutrient or lime applications.
Instead, most of his clients elect to map field borders using GPS guided computer software. They then overlay digitized soil series maps over the field maps.
"We accurately locate streets, water control structures, wells, houses, ditches, ponds and other structures on these maps," says Billy McLawhorn, founder of McLawhorn Crop Services. "These maps are accurate enough so a farmer can lay a ruler on the map and figure out quickly how many acres are in each field. He can easily subtract all the areas where he will not plant or spread or spray. With that information so readily available, any of our clients can very easily catch a problem with sprayer or spreader or planter calibration."
When these consultants encounter a field of 15 acres or larger, or a field with significantly differing soil types, they are more inclined to take soil samples from 2.5-acre grids. They also grid sample new farms their clients acquire; farms that might not have been as well taken care of as the land they have farmed for years.
"One of the things our clients like most about the field maps is being able to keep field notes, where the weeds are, or where the low spots are," Dosch says. "They can make the notes right then and there, while they are in the field, right on the computer. They don't have to wait until they are back in the office on a rainy day, trying to remember exactly what they saw several days before. This new technology can be a huge benefit for a lot of farmers. Each farmer has to figure out how they need to use the technology so they can get a return on their investment. Spend your money where it will give you the maximum return."
John Havlin has spent years working with emerging precision agriculture technology, attempting to quantify the benefits of the technology.
"We know intuitively that precision agriculture technology offers the greatest opportunity to improve crop productivity and input efficiency while protecting the environment," says the soil scientist and authority on precision agriculture. "Our work is designed to prove these benefits. U.S. agriculture has developed from hand power to horsepower to mechanical power and science power. Now we are entering the age of information power. Precision agriculture offers us the opportunity for integrated problem solving, producing optimum yields, problem solving and meeting environmental regulations."
Existing precision ag technology allows farmers to collect soil, pest and crop information, integrate and interpret that information and develop prescriptions for farming. Another approach uses on-the-go sensors to collect and interpret field data and make decisions such as what and where to spray chemicals or apply fertilizer, or increase or decrease seeding rates.
"One of the hottest areas of research is remote sensing ( with infrared photographs like those used by Hood)," Havlin says. "We can evaluate nutrients, pesticides, water and other parameters. We can evaluate phosphorus or nitrogen loss, riparian buffer effectiveness and make soil erosion assessments. We have examples where variable rate technology profitability can be substantiated for lime and phosphorus and in some cases nitrogen. Yield monitors are being adopted extensively. Management zones within fields are becoming more practical.
"I believe precision technologies are here to stay," Havlin says.
Farmers attending the 2000 Southeast Vegetable and Fruit Expo and AgTech 2000 had an opportunity to hear from dozens of farmers and other experts in precision agriculture, vegetable and fruit production, harvesting and marketing and numerous other valuable topics.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — European-backed peace talks on ending Ukraine's crisis began with little promise Wednesday when pro-Russian insurgents — who weren't even invited to the session — demanded that the Kiev government recognize their sovereignty.
The "road map" put forth by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe calls for national dialogue as a first step toward resolving the escalating tensions, in which the insurgents have seized government buildings in eastern Ukraine and declared independence, while government forces have mounted limited offensives to retake control of the region.
But instead of a dialogue, the day was more a case of competing monologues, with the two sides as far apart as ever.
Denis Pushilin, a leader of the insurgency in the city of Donetsk, said his faction was not invited to the government-organized roundtable in Kiev, and that the "talks with Kiev authorities could only be about one thing: the recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic."
Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said in his opening remarks at the Kiev talks that authorities were "ready for a dialogue," but insisted they will not talk to the pro-Russia gunmen, which the government has denounced as "terrorists."
"Those armed people who are trying to wage a war on their own country, those who are with arms in their hands trying to dictate their will, or rather the will of another country — we will use legal procedures against them and they will face justice," he said.
The talks lasted 2 1/2 hours and ended inconclusively, with only a vague plan to meet again in a few days.
Ukraine's crisis began with mass protests last winter against Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, who eventually fled to Russia in late February amid rising bloodshed, including demonstrators killed by snipers alleged to have been police.
The protests included a strong faction of Ukrainian nationalists. Predominantly Russian-speaking regions of eastern and southern Ukraine denounced the government in Kiev that took over as a junta bent on repressing them.
The Black Sea peninsula of Crimea voted to secede in March and was quickly annexed by Russia. Armed men seized police stations and other buildings in a large swath of eastern Ukraine.
Kiev and the West alleged Russia was fomenting the unrest, which Moscow denies. The U.S. and European Union has imposed sanctions on Russia in the crisis.
Ukraine's economy was in perilous shape even before the protests, and months of constant disorder have raised fears of severe suffering.
Rinat Akhmetov, regarded as Ukraine's richest industrialist and an influential figure in the Donetsk region, made a rare public statement Wednesday urging the region to remain part of Ukraine.
"The Donetsk People's Republic — nobody in the world will recognize it," he said. "We will face huge sanctions and will not be able to sell or produce."
At the Kiev roundtable, Oleksandr Efremov, parliamentary leader of Yanukovych's former party, urged the government to withdraw its troops from the Donetsk region and said authorities should understand that people are genuinely suspicious of the new government.
The government has said it will not stop its offensive to retake eastern cities that are under the control of the separatists.
Serhiy Taruta, appointed by Kiev as the governor of Donetsk, sought to strike a conciliatory note. Among other things, he urged the government to refrain from calling pro-Russia protesters "terrorists," but he also called for it to dismantle the protest camp on Kiev's Independence Square that led to Yanukovych's departure.
That would send a message that Kiev treats protesters on both sides equally, Taruta said.
The OSCE road map aims to halt the violence and de-escalate tensions ahead of Ukraine's May 25 presidential election. It offers an amnesty for those involved in the unrest and urges talks on decentralization and the status of the Russian language.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebiynis lamented, however, that the OSCE plan does not specifically oblige Russia to do anything.
Even so, European officials applauded the start of the talks. The EU's enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fule, took to Twitter to welcome the session, voicing hope the next meeting would take place in eastern Ukraine.
But that wouldn't be enough for many of the insurgents.
"The government in Kiev does not want to listen to the people of Donetsk," said Denis Patkovski, a pro-Russia militiaman in the eastern city of Slovyansk. "They just come here with their guns."
Protests in the east may have started with Russian-speaking residents demanding autonomy and self-rule, but such calls for a greater say in the central government seem obsolete now.
Insurgent leaders adopted a constitution for the Donetsk People's Republic, which declared independence earlier this week. Pushilin, one of the insurgent leaders, insisted that they "no longer see themselves as part of Ukraine" and were willing to discuss an exchange of prisoners and the withdrawal of "forces of the occupying army."
Russia has strongly backed the OSCE road map while the United States, which says it's worth a try, views its prospects for success with skepticism. Sawsan Chebli, a spokeswoman for German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said Ukraine's acceptance of the round-table format was a step in the right direction, whether the pro-Russia separatists were invited or not.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland welcomed the talks, but said: "We would like to see as much effort as is going into dialogue and roundtables going into de-escalating, getting separatists out of buildings, demilitarizing the east."
Nuland said there would be more sanctions from the U.S. "if Russia doesn't step back."
Karmanau reported from Donetsk. Srdjan Ndelejkovic and Alexander Zemlianichenko in Slovyansk, Ukraine; Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.


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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian prosecutor overseeing the case of a jailed New York businessman allegedly robbed and extorted by a ring of corrupt government officials says the American remains the subject of a money-laundering investigation.
Prosecutor Carlos Robles told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his office is still awaiting a Swiss government report on whether funds that a Swiss partner invested in the American's rice-growing venture in Bolivia were clean.
Jailed American Jacob Ostreicher and defense lawyer Yimy Montano dispute that. Montano says the report arrived last month but a high-ranking government official prevented it from being entered as evidence. Ostreicher says that official was the ringleader of the alleged corruption ring arrested this week.
Ostreicher has been jailed for 18 months without charge and insists he is innocent.


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Be an advocate for preventive veterinary care
Compliance with preventive veterinary care is down, and it's time for veterinarians and their teams to renew their commitment to advocating for the health and well-being of animals in their care.
Perhaps the best place to start is by taking a trip down memory lane to revisit the reasons you became a veterinary practitioner. Surveys conducted at a national symposium in 2011 and 2012 confirmed that veterinarians enter the profession for a variety of reasons. But principally, we do it for love of animals and the reward of supporting the relationship between animals and people.Maybe it's also time to reexamine what it means to be an advocate in the true sense of the word: one who supports or promotes the interests of another; one who defends a cause. If the Veterinarian's Oath states that a veterinarian's responsibility toward animals is to protect health and prevent suffering, then by definition being a veterinarian means being an advocate for patients in your care. The team members who work in your practice must be committed to the same core principle.
Preventive healthcare has been shown to be far preferable to interventional treatment. It reduces the likelihood of disease and is far less costly in terms of time, inconvenience and money to the pet owner. All major pet healthcare guidelines stress the importance of preventive measures, yet, like human healthcare, veterinary medicine has become more focused on disease treatment than prevention. The result is that millions of pets are exposed to preventable diseases. This clearly indicates that the veterinarian's role as advocate isn't what it used to be, nor what it originally aspired to be.
The concept of core and noncore vaccines was introduced in veterinary medicine some 20 years ago. Core vaccines are those that have been deemed necessary for all dogs and cats. Unfortunately, the role of noncore vaccines has been less clear, and as a result they've come to be seen as optional and less important rather than "situationally" core.
What's more, most veterinarians are now opting to administer core vaccines on a triennial basis. Consequently, they've gotten out of the habit of advocating for annual noncore vaccines. Because noncore vaccines are now less familiar to pet owners, client education on the part of the veterinarian is that much more critical to remove the stigma of their being optional and unnecessary.
Perhaps veterinarians themselves have begun to see noncore vaccines as less important to preventing disease. However, annual risk assessments show that many if not all pets are at significant risk of exposure to the diseases these noncore vaccines protect against. In fact, the risk is often greater than that of being infected by so-called core diseases. Just think of feline retrovirus in cats or, in dogs, leptospirosis, respiratory disease and Lyme disease. The goal is to stop thinking of noncore vaccines as optional and develop protocols that recognize their specific role in achieving the goals of veterinarians and pet owners alike—namely, the health and well-being of pets.


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Blizzard of praise in storm's aftermath: sidewalks now priority
Roads are clear and memories of the Blizzard of 2013 are melting at about the same speed as the snow, which for some is not fast enough.
With schools re-opened, attention is now being focused on the safety of children and pedestrians with the clearing of sidewalks in the vicinity of schools and housing complexes. Police started issuing "safety alert notices" to property owners – including Warwick schools – to clear sidewalks Tuesday and were following up with summons yesterday.
Meanwhile, there was no letup for Department of Public Works crews who were at work Tuesday clearing sidewalks and continued the effort yesterday.
But it was also an occasion to recognize the extraordinary efforts on the part of so many city personnel during the storm and immediately afterward.
"Their job demands them to leave their families and to come to work. If it wasn't for them, we couldn't get on the roads," Jean Bouchard, president of municipal workers, said early yesterday morning. Bouchard was one of more than 150 city and school workers, who all had a hand in battling the blizzard, gathered at Thayer Arena for words of thanks from Mayor Scott Avedisian, DPW acting director David Picozzi, Fire Chief Edmund Armstrong and council members Donna Travis and Steve Colantuono.
Picozzi praised workers for doing "a great job," observing, without naming names, that Warwick is far better off than many other communities. He also said the Public Works Department has "its critics," but he didn't see them out in the storm.
"Some had to leave families at home without heat," he said of workers. "These are the things the public doesn't see."
And although Warwick streets were open when those in other municipalities were not, City Hall received about 40 calls Tuesday.
Not all of the calls are complaints, either.
"One woman called just to say 'what a great job,'" said receptionist Betty Smith. Melissa Coutcher, who handles many of the complaints, recalled how a nurse, who doesn't live in the city, simply called to report that compared to other municipalities, "Warwick roads are terrific."
Between the two of them, there were five calls praising the work of Warwick crews. Then there were the others.
Coutcher said one caller complained schools had re-opened and voiced the opinion that they should remain closed until roadways were widened and sidewalks cleared.
"Then what?" asked Coutcher. "They would be complaining because the schools would still be open in July."
Another caller demanded shortly after the storm that City Park be plowed because he and his dog needed the exercise. "People are stuck in their homes and they need recreation," was the logic.
Complaints aren't limited to calls. There were emails, some including pictures like that of a mailbox a couple of feet away from a plowed street. The sender wanted the snow cleared up to the mailbox.
"People haven't seen a storm like this in 10 years," said Coutcher. "They forget."
Not all complaints are outlandish.
Sidewalks, especially in the vicinity of schools, are a concern.
"It's a difficult balancing act," said Lt. Michael Gilbert yesterday. He noted that even though many property owners have sought to clear walks, city and state crews, in an effort to widen roads, have pushed snow back on them. Then there are issues of who is responsible. Schools clear school parking lots, but in many areas, the sidewalks are traditionally cleared by the city.
As of Tuesday, Gilbert said the department had identified 13 priority locations near schools and housing complexes.
Summons that carry a fine of $100 a day were being issued in instances where either the walks have not been cleared or there has been no effort to do so, he said.
The City Council also took note of the work done by city workers. At Monday's meeting, Council President Donna Travis said, "I was in constant contact with them and they kept me updated with all the information."
Ward 5 Councilman Ed Ladouceur agreed. For him, this was his first blizzard as a council member. Nevertheless, he braved the storm and worked alongside city workers to ensure the safety of the public.
"I was baptized under fire, if you will, during this recent blizzard, and I've seen firsthand what teamwork can do," he said. "My accolades and compliments to Mr. Picozzi and his team at DPW, and the police department. We actually had a truck on fire in my neighborhood and the fire department responded and took care of that in short order."
He named employees, as well as staffers from both tree and line services, who did a "phenomenal job with great cooperation." Based on conversations he's had of late, he said constituents living in other Rhode Island municipalities weren't as satisfied with city services in comparison to Warwick residents.
"I appreciate everything they've done for Ward 5, and throughout the city," Ladouceur said.
Ward 4 Councilman Joseph Solomon, who described the storm as a "difficult battle," echoed Ladouceur's sentiments. He also tipped his hat to Ladouceur, plus Ward 7 Councilman Charles "C.J." Donovan and Ward 8 Councilman Joseph Gallucci for toughing it out in the storm.
"I'd like to thank some of my colleagues, especially the freshman colleagues I ran into out there," said Solomon. "It says something when a councilperson gets out there in a storm to address immediate concerns of constituents. That's true devotion to the job."
He went on to say unsung heroes, such as neighbors and friends who assisted others in need, also deserve applause.
"At times such as this, we really can appreciate the camaraderie that exists in the city of Warwick," Solomon said. "It brings out a lot of good in people that we sometimes overlook. Although it was a difficult storm, it was great to see neighbors helping neighbors. Everyone here deserves accolades. I can't say it enough."
But Solomon, along with his son, was also out in the storm with his plow, as was Gallucci. He, too, witnessed everyone's collaborative effort.
"We have to remember that our responsibility on the council goes a long way to the public safety and welfare of the city," he said. "I think we did an outstanding job and all people involved should be commended."
people should not be fined for unshoveled side walks this is city property thats why we pay taxes
but if you wanted to use a side walk for your personal use the city would not allow it


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May 10, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Redshirt sophomore Maddie O'Brien's big two-out, two-run home run in the fifth inning highlighted No. 19 Florida State softball's 3-0 victory over rival North Carolina in front of 791 fans on Friday at JoAnne Graf Field.
With the Seminoles (41-15) clinging to a 1-0 lead in a competitive pitcher's duel, O'Brien stepped to the plate with junior Courtney Senas on first base and two outs. On the first offering from North Carolina pitcher Lori Spingola (29-13), O'Brien wasted no time and belted a two-run home run to right center to provide a couple critical insurance runs for the Seminoles. The home run was O'Brien's ninth of the season and one of the biggest of her career.
Although O'Brien's round tripper was the biggest moment of the contest, sophomore Lacey Waldrop (22-7) was dominant once again as she helped Florida State to its 18th shutout performance of the season. Waldrop tossed her 14th complete game of the year and yielded just two hits with five strikeouts against a potent hitting team in the Tar Heels (39-19).
"All along it's been one of our goals to win the regular-season and the ACC championship," head coach Lonni Alameda said. "From everything that we've had I can't be more proud of our team and how we've been and how we've been playing together. We aren't the most athletic when you go player by player, but we're jelling right now and playing real well."
UNC's two base hits, both singles, mark the 18th time the Seminole pitching staff has scattered two hits or less this season. The Tar Heels managed to go just 2-for-24 against Waldrop, as the Chester, Va. native got the important first out against six of her seven leadoff batters faced.
Top-seeded Florida State faces No. 2 seed NC State in the ACC Championship title game on Saturday at 6 p.m. on ESPN2. It will be the Seminoles' 17th championship game appearance, showing a 10-5-1 record. It will be Florida State's fourth title game appearance in the last five seasons under Alameda.
Freshman first baseman Victoria East came up big with her 19th multiple-hit game of the season, one shy of the team high held by Senas. East provided two singles, including a line drive shot to centerfield that indirectly led to the game's first run. With one out and fellow freshman Alex Kossoff on second base, East's single was mishandled by UNC centerfielder Aquilla Mateen and allowed Kossoff to score after she was already rounding third base.
Senior outfielder Morgan Bullock kept her hitting streak alive when she laced an infield single in the bottom of the sixth, stretching her streak to 14 games to tie Kirstin Austin for the team high. Bullock has reached base safely in 20 straight games, the highest of any Seminole this season.
Florida State's two RBIs on the day, both off the bat of O'Brien, give it 303 for the season to mark the second highest total in program history. The 2013 Noles are just the second team in school history to record at least 300 runs scored, 400 base hits and 300 RBIs in a season.
On Friday, the Seminole offense's production at the plate wasn't imperative with the way Waldrop threw in the circle. She faced the minimum three batters in three of her seven innings pitched, and her only big jam came in the second frame. Amber Parrish led off that inning with a single to left field, then pinch runner Tisha Mahon advanced to second on a walk by Constance Orr with no outs. After a fielder's choice to third base put runners on first and second base with one out, Waldrop got Kati Causey to strike out and Erin Satterfield to ground out to end the inning.
Waldrop finished the job in the seventh, starting the inning with a groundout by Parrish that bounced off Waldrop's leg and tested the quick reaction time of Senas at third base. Senas fielded the ball cleanly near the circle and tossed out a hard-charging Parrish at first base. After Orr singled through the left side, Jenna Kelly struck out looking and Amy Nece flew out to shallow centerfield to end the game.
The ESPN2 telecast on Saturday at 6 p.m. between NC State and Florida State will feature Adam Amin on the call and softball legend Jennie Finch providing color commentary.


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NEWARK — A 5-year-old boy suffered serious injuries and his mother also was hurt when a sport utility vehicle knocked them off their bikes Wednesday night, police said.
An SUV traveling north on Newark Boulevard collided with the boy and the woman in the crosswalk at Ruschin Drive, at about 8: 07 p.m., Newark police Sgt. Manuel DeSerpa said. The boy was under the SUV after the collision, but a bystander pulled him out and gave him first aid, DeSerpa said.
The boy and his mother were taken to a hospital trauma center, DeSerpa said, and remained hospitalized Thursday morning. It was not known if the boy's injuries were considered life- threatening. The mother's injuries were moderate, DeSerpa said.
The boy's father also was on the ride but was not injured, DeSerpa said.
The driver of the SUV, a 72-year-old woman, cooperated with police, and DeSerpa said alcohol and drugs are not considered to be a factor.
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Connecticut Expos, producer of several women events in Connecticut has just announced the launch of the St. Vincent's Health Services Southern Connecticut Women's Expo! The event will take place September 21 & 22 at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT.
This event will attract thousands of women looking to shop for the latest products and services in fashion, beauty, health, wellness, nutrition, fitness, financial planning, careers, home decor, automobiles, gifts, vacations, spas, education and much more!
Attendees will get to experience free health screenings, including mammograms along with health & wellness related seminars provided by the title sponsor: St. Vincent's Health Services.
Attendees will be pampered with free beauty treatments including: makeovers, facials, massages, and hair touch-ups. Attendees will also receive psychic readings, visit a Farmer's Market and attend a job fair. There will plenty of free samples, shopping among 250 unique vendors, grand prize giveaways, celebrity appearances, free seminars, book signings, live cooking & dance demonstrations, fashion shows, beauty makeovers and other forms of entertainment.
According to Nick Curci, President of Connecticut Expos: "We are very excited to be able to extend our Women's Expo brand to the Greater Bridgeport area as well as New Haven County. This event will complete the coverage of our Women's Expo brand across the entire state of Connecticut." "We could not ask for a better title sponsor and partner than we have with St. Vincent's Health Services – we have great plans together to make this event a successful and substantial forum to empower women in all parts of their lives". Connecticut Expos also produces the Connecticut Women's Expo in Hartford each September and the Fairfield County Women's Expo in Stamford each April.
"St. Vincent's is thrilled to have this opportunity to reach out to so many members in the community during such an exciting event. The Women's Expo will be a great venue for people to come and see what services are available not only from St. Vincent's Health Services, but from local vendors as well," said Dianne Auger, senior vice president, St. Vincent's Medical Center / St. Vincent's Health Services, president / CEO, St. Vincent's Foundation.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to St. Vincent's Swim Across the Sound.
Show hours are 11:00 am to 5:00 pm both on Saturday and Sunday.
WHEN: September 21-22, 2013
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It wasn't so long ago that Santa Claus was a fairly rare sight during the Christmas season. It seems impossible to imagine given the thousands of Santa faces we see on every screen, product or street corner these days.
"I remember when I first started giving gifts to children. I was visiting just a few families in a small town in Myra (Turkey)," Santa said. "I saw they were in need and my faith taught me to help them."
Things have changed quite a bit since Santa's reputation and gift program went international.
In fact, Santa used to be more of a sidekick to the main event - just a kindly, faithful gentleman who helped children embrace good behaviors and ideals in exchange for a small gift.
But even in his minor role, Santa's annual giveaway has always had a bigger purpose in mind.
"You might say I give gifts to those who are still too young to understand the importance of being good for the sake of being good. Until they have time to grow up, they don't yet know that love, caring, responsible action and kindness are their own reward."
In his benevolence, Santa has sometimes been viewed as "an easy grader" - a generous stand-in for a more challenging teacher who often comes to people later in life and expects a lot more.
"I think being charitable with someone when they are young is a good way to prepare them for the hard solo work ahead," Santa said in his own defense.
Santa does worry that the lessons about compassion and forgiveness that he learned (encouraging him to begin his life of giving) seem to be getting talked about less and less during the holiday season.
In fact, with all the exposure, Santa's easy reward system for children seems to have taken top billing - moved to the upper rung of the holiday lesson ladder, so to speak.
"It almost seems like I've become the destination resort for some, instead of one of the many helpful conductors on the train," joked Santa, in his usual jolly manner.
Some people worry about this a lot. They worry that Santa is being used to teach the wrong lessons.
"I don't really worry about whether people see me as a distraction, the latest American Idol, or a simple, foolish idea. I try to stay focused on bringing a little joy to the children.
"I know some folks understand my message, though. I can look around and see all of my Santa-helpers (those guys that dress like me) and see how they have opened their hearts for the children.
"Of course I have no way to stop other people from adding my name or photo to their Christmas advertising. This is a free market economy, after all," noted Santa with a rueful smile.
"I just hope the kids don't worry about that too much. I'm all about giving and that can happen without any money being spent at all. Look at how much a beautiful poem or hand-drawn picture can mean, if it's given with love."
When asked what he hopes for the future, Santa patted his mighty belly with eyes twinkling and said, "I just hope to make a few people's lives a little happier so that they might spread that happiness to someone else. You know - pay it forward."
With just a small self-effacing head nod, Santa spoke out on behalf of his critics' concerns.
"I'm really okay with whatever people believe about me for two reasons: I genuinely believe that people are mostly good, and I'm sure of my good intentions.
"Well, even if people think I'm a little outdated or if they completely disagree with the faith that got me started on my path, I have one consistent reply: Wouldn't this be a better world if everyone spread a little more happiness around?"
Closing with his trademark wink and a challenge to us all, Santa added, "And maybe a few more hearty laughs now and then would do us all a bit of good!"
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Experiments with less familiar bubbles - bubbles of water.
Champagne owes much of its allure to its tiny bubbles
A great blog post looking at how the bubbles makes champagne the unique drink for celebrations.
Sinking Bubbles in Stout Beers
Mathematical models looking at the flow of bubbles of in your stout beer, like guinness.
Helium Bubbles!
This site includes a short QuickTime movie illustrating bubbles full of helium.
Mathematics Of Beer Bubbles
Mathematicians analyse beer bubbles to peer deeper into the structure of materials


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Answers sought after Manchester stabbingStaff Report
March 28. 2014 8:53PM
MANCHESTER — A 24-year-old city man underwent surgery Friday for stab wounds to the upper torso, after he was injured during an argument with two other men.
Police said the stabbing happened just after midnight near East High and Nashua streets. Officer Jake Tyler arrived to find Manchester Fire Department personnel attending to the injured man, who was suffering from "multiple stab wounds to his upper torso," according to police.
The man was taken to Elliot Hospital where he underwent surgery. Police said his injuries did not appear to be life threatening.
Detectives said the man was involved in an argument with two other men, one a 23-year-old Bedford resident and the other a 30-year-old Manchester resident. One of those two stabbed him, police said.
Investigators continue to sort through the facts and hoped to interview the injured man later Friday. They would then determine if charges will be filed. No arrests had been made as of Friday night.
Police said it is still unclear what prompted the stabbing.
Investigators are withholding the names of all involved until the investigation is complete.


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HOUSTON (AP) -- Bazu Worku and Merima Mohammed gave Ethiopia a sweep of the men's and women's divisions of the Houston Marathon on Sunday. Ethiopians also won both races in the half marathon.
This was Worku's first marathon title. He finished in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 17 seconds and won by more than two minutes. Mohammed was timed in 2:23:37.
On day of light to sometimes heavy rain with temperatures in the 40s, Ethiopians were runners-up in both marathon divisions.
Teferi Balcha finished second among the men in 2:12:50. Andrew Carlson was the top American, seventh in 2:17:16. Buzunesh Deba was the women's runner-up in 2:24:36.
In the men's half marathon, Feyisa Lilesa successfully defended his half marathon title, winning in 1:01:54, beating countryman Deriba Merga by seven seconds. The women's winner was Mamitu Daska in 1:09:53. She won the Houston Marathon in 2011.


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Fine art of maintaining balance
Contending for years that the most difficult task any individual has to do in life is to maintain balance between their educational, professional, charitable and family time, I've personally never seen this effort so daunting. Just think of your own holiday calendar from Thanksgiving through the New Year. We all love our friends and family, our coworkers (mostly), our neighbors, and those we come into contact with all year long, but when the holiday parties take up every night of the week, where is the time to dedicate to family?
Luke, Chapter 9, Verse 25 asks a question: "For what is a man's advantage if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?" I know what the verse teaches, but I believe it could also apply to the fact that a person can seek to gain the whole world or the world's attention, and lose his own family. How sad that would be for all concerned.
Having worked with ministers church staff members, and school administrators and teachers for years across this nation, I've seen what men and women have allowed to happen to their own boys and girls, blaming it all on "serving God in the ministry." There is no more important ministry than our family members. Start first at home — teaching, helping, supporting, admonishing, spending time with and loving on your own family before going out to save the world.
I would add here, too, something I read a short while ago: "Familiarity breeds contempt." The illustration given in the story I read was about two couples that practically moved in with each other. Where you saw one, you saw the other. If the mom of one family wore jeans and a yellow sweater, the other mom showed up in jeans and a yellow sweater. If the family got a new vehicle, it wasn't a month before the second family had to have a new vehicle. The women cooked the same meals, shopped at the same stores, and attended the same church services until one day the friendship simply exploded. They were tired of each other. It left the children confused and disoriented. What had happened? Too much of a good thing is simply too much of a good thing. Every person needs his or her own individuality. That is the way God made us.
What had been mutual fun interests now became chains of control. What once was southern hospitality was now required attendance. When close friendship was once offered, now it was a sense of "you owe me to do what I want because I am your best friend." When one of the couples went out to dinner with a third couple, contempt bred of being too familiar became quite obvious. It was a parting of the ways, and it was sad.
Be very cautious who you allow to have unusual influence over your children and teens. Check out their companions and for heaven's sake, do not bring adults into the home that talk of nothing but alcohol, drugs, wild parties and unsavory sex. If our families are to be saved, and especially during this happy holiday season, we must limit over exposure to the wrong things and the wrong people. It might sting a little, but learn to follow what the Bible teaches and develop your own convictions.
Brenda Cannon Henley is an award-winning journalist and writer living on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Having enjoyed more than four decades in ministry, Brenda shares her columns with our readers and works with churches and faith-based programs nationwide. She can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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Hitachi NR83A2S Construction Nailer Full Round-Head
The NR83A2S Construction Nailer is used for floor and wall framing and general heavy duty construction, including sub-flooring, sheathing and heavy fence building. This nailer can use what is known as 16d short (3-3/8" nails). It is not rated for true 3-1/2" nails.
Standard Equipment:
- NR83A2S Construction Nailer
- Safety Glasses
- Allen Wrenches
Optional Accessories:
- "M" Style Coupling System
NOTE: This tool uses the 1503-DL Male Coupler Plug with 3/8" Thread
- 115158 50' Air Hose
- Straight & Coiled Air Hose
- Nail Type: Full Round-Head, 21° Plastic Ribbon Collated
- Nail Gauge: .113, .120, .131
- Range: 2"- 3-1/4" Smooth or Ring
- Magazine Capacity: 64-70
- Operating Pressure: 70-120 psi
- Air Inlet Type: 3/8" NPT
- LxWxH: 22"x 4-3/32"x 13-3/8"
- Weight: 7.9 lbs
- At 7.9 lbs the NR83A2S is lightweight and well-balanced for easy maneuverability.
- 2-piece steel magazine, for replacement ease.
- Open nose design, for easy extraction of a jammed nail.
- Rubber grip, for added comfort.
- Hardened agressive toenail push lever, resists wear for prolonged life.
- Selective actuation (ANSI Compliant), allows transition from single actuation to contact actuation.


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Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Pai Lotus & Orange Blossom BioAffinity Toner
6 comments:
- Anonymous25 October 2012 at 14:41
I really want to try this - I am happy with the Rice Plant & Rosemary but am curious about this and like the idea of extra hydration which seems to be a common comment from other users. Thanks Meeta.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm glad that you like the Rice Plant one - I thought this would be my favourite as I love Rosemary but I am a sucker for the scent of the orange blossom!Delete
I really like this as well and have re-bought it, I do think its a bit pricey though for the amount you get.ReplyDeleteReplies
It is pricey, ideally it would be nice to get double the amount!Delete
It sounds nice, thanks for the review!ReplyDelete
I like using toning mists as a refresher throughout the day....it is especially nice with the dryness caused by heaters
I just got the anti aging mist by Intelligent NutrientsReplies
Hi ClaraDelete
If I'm at home during the day I like using mists as refreshers but out and about I often forget about them.
I haven't tried the Intelligent Nutrients one, although I love their Harmonic shampoo so have been meaning to try some more things of theirs.


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Christina Castro, the mother of 3-year-old Jayden Figueroa, was allowed to see her son one last time Sunday before the deceased child�s wake and funeral.
Jayden died March 11 after the car his mother was driving allegedly slammed into parked vehicles on Franklin Street at 70 mph. Two of his three brothers were also in the car. One, who is 7 years old, was still in intensive care as of Friday. A 5-year-old brother was released from the hospital last week.
Ms. Castro, 27, of Wall Street Court, is being held on $50,000 bail on charges of motor vehicle homicide and reckless endangerment of a child. Her lawyer, Gregory J. White, filed a motion Friday asking that she be allowed to leave MCI Framingham to attend a private viewing from 4 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Rock of Salvation Pentecostal Church in Worcester before Jayden�s wake, which started at 6 p.m.
She did not attend the wake and funeral.
District Court Judge David P. Despotopoulos granted the motion Friday. It was impounded until Monday.


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Positive events and wellness programs can really benefit a company.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 21, 2013
Protect America invited local businesses big and small to showcase what their business was about in their employee lounge for a wellness fair. My Fit Foods, Infinite Massage Therapy, Rogue Running, Concentra Biometric Screening, 24 Hour Fitness, Koko FitClub, and a few other businesses stopped by. Many of the companies gave free items away with invitations to join their programs.
Creating an atmosphere where you not only come to work expecting to work, but come to get something back other than just your normal pay is an awesome feeling. Many companies today are implementing programs like this and the feedback from employees is great. Not only does this increase in-house productivity, but also positively effects overall company morale.
The overall concept of every business was to promote a healthy lifestyle amongst employees. Throughout the day many people stopped by and were able to talk with these businesses to see what they could do to positively change their exercising and eating habits. The businesses gave away free samples, free trials to their gyms, and even a free massage!
"I thought the wellness fair at Protect America was pretty awesome," said Matt Houston, web developer at Protect America. "I personally have been looking into running, and think the Rogue Training Programs are a perfect fit. Not to mention I got a free meal from My Fit Foods!"
The wellness fair was a great success. Protect America plans to keep health a top priority throughout the company and is planning on having similar events for its staff in the future.
Positive events and wellness programs can really benefit a company. If you research some of the most innovative companies and best places to work, they all share the same common factors. The happiness of your employees means happiness with your customers. It's all about sharing and creating positivity around your business.
For more information about Protect America visit their website here: http://www.protectamerica.com
About Protect America, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Protect America is based in Austin, Texas and employs approximately 300 people. A pioneer of the self-install wireless home security system, Protect America provides protection against intrusion, fire, carbon monoxide, flooding, and more. Protect America also offers interactive home video surveillance and GPS vehicle tracking. Protect America is dedicated to providing reliable and affordable home security that's within the reach of any household budget.


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- Impact starts with message for Red Cross donations to the tornado victims of Moore, OK.
- We go to a highlight video of Abyss' return. Will he be back again? Will AJ Styles join Aces & 8's?
- We go to crowd shots from Tampa, FL.
- Hulk Hogan's music plays and he comes out in the red and yellow to his hometown crowd. He gets a nice reaction and he says it is great to be home. He talks about drinking at the bar with Shark Boy. Hogan switches gears to AJ Styles but says he won't dwell on it. He says all these fans are family but he also has his TNA family. Hogan calls out Sting.
Sting gets in the ring and Hulk tells him he is the GM and Sting doesn't have to do this "no title shot" stipulation. Sting says he is the one who said to trust Bully Ray and he wants to take the power from him. Sting flubs his line really bad and stutters. Sting says if he doesn't succeed, he doesn't ever deserve to be champion again.
Brooke Hogan's music hits and she comes to the ring. She says she is the one who fell in love with Bully and it's not up to Sting or Hulk to fix this. She says she fell for the bad boy. Brooke says she loves the Knockouts and she loves being here but she believes she messed everything up and she wants to resign. Hulk tries to talk her out of it but Bully's music hits.
Bully comes to ringside and says it isn't Sting, Brooke, or Hulk's fault. Bully says this is his fault, to a sea of "WHAT!?!" from the crowd. Bully says he actually blames Brooke for making him fall for her. He says he thinks of her night and day. Bully says he and Brooke have a connection and he still loves her. He shows his ring and says he will never take it off. His music plays and he leaves as Brooke cries in the ring.
- A Suicide vignette runs. He returns next.
- We're back as Kenny King has joined commentary and Joey Ryan makes his entrance. Petey Williams is out next. Christy Hemme introduces Suicide.
Suicide vs. Joey Ryan vs. Petey Williams
Suicide jumps the ropes and as soon as the bell rings he goes to work. Suicide mixes it up with Williams in the ring with Ryan on the floor. Williams hits a dropkick to the back of Suicide's head and he goes to the floor. Ryan comes in and takes over on Petey. Suicide comes off the top with a head scissors takedown on Ryan as he puts oil on his chest.
Suicide knocks Petey to the floor and pulls a Spiderman on the ropes. Petey comes back in for a suicide dive onto Ryan to the floor. Suicide springs to the apron and hits a 450 onto both men. All 3 men are in the ring now. Suicide missed from up top and Petey tries to capitalize. Ryan takes out Williams with a superkick. Suicide drops Ryan on the groin (quite fitting) for the 3.
Winner by pin: Suicide (Suicide moves on the X-Division match at Slammiversary.)
- Chris Sabin approaches James Storm in the back and talks about their history as part of great tag teams. He wants to be Storm's partner. Storm basically says thanks but no thanks. We go to a commercial.
- Brooke approaches "Mark" in the back and she is all broken up. She wants to know if he really still loves her. He says yes he does and walks away, leaving her in tears.
- Velvet Sky and Mickie James talk in the back. Mickie wants Velvet to sit out tonight and wait to be 100%. Velvet says she will be OK and that she is ready. They say they love each other and hug.
- We go to the ring for Sam Shaw's entrance. We go to footage of his Gut Check win last year. Alex Silva's music is interrupted by the Aces & 8's music. Wes Brisco leads DOC and Garett Bischoff out and he cuts a promo about how he deserves to be in this Gut Check tournament. He says he left Silva bloody and beaten in the parking lot.
The Aces & 8's trio get in the ring and maul Shaw. Magnus' music hits and he clears the ring of the brotherhood. Magnus grabs a mic and says all they want to do is "gang attack" people. He says Brisco doesn't deserve to be in the tournament but he gets a match with him (Magnus), right now.
Magnus vs. Wes Brisco
Wes gets in the ring and Magnus pounds him into the canvas. Back from a break to our impromptu battle. Wes has taken over on Magnus throughout the commercial. Magnus creates distance and fires back. Magus catches Wes off the top and slams him with a suplex. Magnus goes up top and DOC and Garett interfere as the ref rings the bell. Magnus starts to get taken apart but Samoa Joe comes to the rescue and clears the ring. The finish isn't announced.
- Back from a commercial to a Hall of Fame video. Who will be the next inductee? Find out at Slammiversary on June 7.
- Aces & 8's talk in the back over beers. They can't believe Bully still loves Brooke. Bully says he doesn't want to talk about personal things. They switch gears to AJ Styles and Bully says AJ won't let them down; he looks over at D-Lo Brown.
- We go to footage of Kurt Angle at The Olympic Wrestling Trials. Angle talks to media outlets about wrestling being dropped from the games.
- Kurt Angle is introduced by Christy Hemme and she gets tripped up when announcing where he hails from. Kurt does not put his crotch in her face. Mr. Anderson is introduced as we go to another commercial.
- AJ arrives on his motorcycle in the back.
Kurt Angle vs. Anderson
We join the match as Angle takes Anderson over in a headlock. They reset and Anderson takes over with strikes in the corner. Angle reverses and goes on the offensive. Angle stomps Anderson in the corner. Kurt hits a nice snap suplex for 2. Anderson moves in the corner and Angle gets hung up on the ropes. Anderson takes advantage by grinding his boot in Kurt's face and then he sends him in for 2.
Anderson starts to work the left arm of Angle and covers him for 2. Anderson stops an Angle comeback and hits a clothesline for 2. Back to the left arm with an armbar. Angle creates some space and hits a missile dropkick off the ropes but he is unable to capitalize. Angle catches Anderson in a belly-to-belly for 2. They go back and forth with quick counters and Anderson gets 2.
Angle hits a trifecta of German Suplexes. Anderson avoids an ankle lock and hits the Mic Check but Angle kicks out. Anderson takes time going up top and Angle pops up from the mat and brings Anderson down the hard way.
AJ shows up and Taz goes and embraces him. Angle is distracted; Anderson hits a low-blow in the ring behind the ref's back for the win.
Winner by pin: Mr. Anderson
Anderson approaches AJ through the crowd and they acknowledge each other as AJ turns and walks away.
- James Storm is on his way to the ring to reveal his partner.
- Gail Kim gloats and brags in the back to the cameras. Taryn attacks her and throws her into furniture. Taryn is pulled off of Gail and Gail retreats and calls her crazy. Taryn continues to kick and scream.
- A James Storm highlight package is shown spanning from his early days up until last week.
- Chavo and Hernandez have joined commentary. James Storm makes his way to the ring. He says he has been part of two of the greatest tag teams is history. He is interrupted by Bobby Roode and Austin Aries on the stage.
Roode says he is the king of tag team wrestling and that his 4 years in Beer Money were the worst of his life. Storm says it isn't his fault Roode can't hang with the beer drinking. Bad Influence come on the stage for shenanigans and jokes. Storm stops the nonsense as
Shark Boy's music hits and he makes his 'Austin strut' past the two teams on the stage. Shark Boy cuts a promo in the ring complete with "WHAT?!?" chants. He gets a "Shell Yeah" from the crowd that they want to see him team with Storm. Robbie E interrupts and comes to the ring. He says Storm doesn't want to team with a loser like Shark Boy. He pulls out a list of tag names: Beer Bro, America's Most Bro...etc.
Shark Boy and Robbie argue off-mic as Gunner jumps in the ring. Gunner double clotheslines both men and lays them out and gets in Storm's face. Storm says he will see Gunner at Slammiversary and they shake. The heels on the stage are not happy. Chavo and Hernandez are amused at ringside.
- Joseph Park gets a pep talk from Sting in the back. Sting tells him he needs Park to set up the re-return of his brother. Park says he isn't in contact with Abyss. Sting says he will settle for the next best thing: Joseph Park. They will team next week against Aces & 8's.
- We go to a Slammiversary card rundown.
- Mickie James is introduced to the ring followed by Velvet Sky.
Knockouts Championship: Velvet Sky (c) vs. Mickie James
The ladies shake hands and here we go. ODB is the ref. Mickie James works the arm and Velvet reverses and they go back and forth with counters and near falls. Velvet hits a basement dropkick for 2. They exchange strikes in the center and Mickie goes to a full nelson as she picks up the intensity.
Back from a break with Mickie in charge in the ring. Velvet goes on a tear and Mickie can be heard calling spots to her. Velvet is still so green. Mickie reverses in the corner and has to be called off by ODB. Velvet hits the spinning head scissors but Mickie clips her knee with a wild look in her eyes. Mickie hits a DDT for the win.
Winner by pin And New TNA Knockouts Champion: Mickie James
Velvet favors her knee on the mat as ODB tends to her and Mickie celebrates.
- A nice AJ Styles video package is shown about the question of his allegiance.
- Bully and Co. toast, in the back, to Anderson for beating Angle. They toast again to AJ Styles. We go to commercial.
- Aces & 8's makes their way to the ring, lead by Bully Ray. Anderson has a vest for AJ. Bully shuts the music off and cuts a promo about who they are. He says no member is more important than the other but when someone screws up, he gets dealt with like D-Lo. Bully praises Anderson for what he has done for the club.
Bully says that tonight is about one man. He calls out AJ Styles and he saunters to the ring. Devon opens the ropes for AJ to get in and Bully says that is the biggest sign of respect he could have shown him. Bully says everyone wants a piece of AJ but AJ knows where the power lies.
Bully hands AJ a beer and says it is no secret that AJ doesn't drink but he wants AJ to 'cheers' him and drink with him. He says AJ can give his heart to Jesus but his soul belongs to the club. AJ slams his beer with Bully and he guzzles it down. Bully is impressed and asks Anderson to give their brother his colors. The crowd chants, "You sold out."
AJ begins to don the vest and Anderson asks to help him put it on as Angle's music hits. Angle cuts a promo on his way down the ramp and he tells AJ to go ahead but he will see Angle at the PPV. AJ slips into the "cut" and he embraces all the members in the ring. Bully raises AJ's hand as Angle rushes the ring but is beaten down. They hold Angle for AJ and Bully hands him a hammer. AJ hits Angle in the knee with the hammer and throws Angle to the floor. They all pose, shoulder to shoulder, for the camera.
All the members of Aces & 8's turn around to pose to the crowd with their backs to the hard camera and AJ swings DOC around and clocks him in the head with the hammer and hits Garett in the gut before escaping to the ramp. Aces & 8's begin to give chase as we go off the air. Bully Ray is beside himself.
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Carl Pini and John Tunnell, violins
Carl Pini and John Tunnell, violins
1. Sonata No 1 in b minor, Z802
Adagio ñ Canzona ñLargo ñ Vivace ñ Grave
2. Sonata No 2 in E-flat Major, Z803
Adagio ñ Canzona ñ Adagio ñ Largo ñ Allegro
3. Sonata No 3 in a minor, Z804
Grave ñ Largo ñ Adagio ñ Canzona ñ (Allegro) ñ Grave
4. Sonata No 4 in d minor, Z805
Adagio ñ Allegro ñ Adagio ñ Vivace ñ Largo
5. Sonata No 5 in g minor, Z806
Adagio ñ Canzona ñ Largo ñ (Adagio) ñ Presto ñ Adagio
6. Sonata No 6 in g minor, Z807 - (Chaconne: Andante)
7. Sonata No 7 in C Major, Z808
Vivace ñ Largo ñ Grave ñ Canzona ñ Allegro ñ Adagio
8. Sonata No 8 in g minor, Z809
Adagio ñ Canzona ñ Grave ñ Largo ñ Vivace
9. Sonata No 9 in F Major, Z810 - "The Golden Sonata"
(Allegro) ñ Adagio ñ Canzona ñ Grave ñ Allegro
Henry Purcell was the finest and most original composer of his day. Though he was to live a very short life, he was able to enjoy and make full use of the renewed flowering of music in England following the Restoration of the Monarchy.
In addition to his royal duties - he worked in Westminster for three different Kings over twenty-five years - Purcell devoted much of his talent to writing operas, or rather musical dramas, and incidental stage music.
He also became involved with the growing London public concert scene for which he wrote chamber music in the form of harpsichord suites and trio sonatas. In these varied and highly enjoyable works Purcell expresses his own special technique of modulation and transition, his highly personal melodic sense and his ability to employ bold strokes of chromaticism which catch the listener unawares and add that highly distinctive Purcellian touch.
Performances are, yes, on period instruments (all three string players perform on 18th century instruments), but not in the style known today as "authentic". Tempi are chosen to bring out the qualities of the music, be it reflective or lively, not to show off the performers' dexterity. Vibrato is used to give the violins that singing quality much prized in Purcell's time, and the overall sound is pleasing to the ear.