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SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 15, 2013) - Aurionpro today announced the launch of a new logo, identity system, and website as part of a corporate brand refresh initiative. The company has achieved consistent growth over recent years, exceeding $100M USD in annual revenue, and has initiated this strategic effort to support continued business expansion and brand visibility objectives. The investment is intended to improve the effectiveness of how the company presents its values and personality to both internal and external audiences, and is expected to help advance the company's position in the marketplace.
Commenting on the launch of the updated brand, Amit Sheth, Aurionpro's Managing Director, remarked, "Aurionpro has recently achieved a significant revenue milestone and it has become readily apparent that an increasing number of industry and investor audiences are evaluating our value proposition. We believe that our refreshed brand will help us to more effectively represent our expertise, passion, values, and spirit."
Along with the new logo and updated materials, the effort focused on simplifying the manner in which Aurionpro's various offerings are marketed. Four distinct lines of business, including Banking and Financial Technologies, Supply Chain Management Software, Oracle Implementation Services, and Enterprise IT Services, are now categorized under two primary core competencies, engineering packaged and cloud-based software solutions and delivering expert-level IT consulting services.
Jonathan Bank, Aurionpro's Chief Marketing Officer, added, "Aurionpro's new branding not only leapfrogs the way in which our competitors present themselves, it reinforces to our employees that we are part of a world-class organization that we should all be proud to be part of. I am very excited about Aurionpro's new direction."
Aurionpro's Marketing and Executive teams worked with world-class branding agency MetaDesign to develop the new logo and identity system. The logo was designed to reflect the fact that Aurionpro consists of several complementary businesses that together make up a cohesive and growing organization. The refreshed brand reinforces Aurionpro's evolution as a company and showcases our expertise-driven focus across our software and consulting services offerings.
About Aurionpro
Aurionpro Solutions (NSE: AURIONPRO) (BSE: 532668) is a publicly-traded technology company that helps Fortune 1000 companies to be more efficient through domain-driven software and consulting offerings. Employing more than 1250 individuals across North America, Asia, and Europe, the company has been recognized by Deloitte, Forbes, and the 2011 FinTech 100 as one of the world's fastest growing technology companies. For more information, visit www.aurionpro.com.
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Sumner County will soon be home to a full-blown regional entertainment destination.
Just a few months ago, the 150', by 300' floor was filled with slot machines, table games, and people as it was home to the temporary casino. In a couple of months, the people will return but they will be setting in front of a stage instead of slot machines and dice.
The casino announced on Monday the first big concert that will be coming to Sumner County this Summer – Nashville recording artist, Tim McGraw will be at the casino in the Kansas Star Arena on July 7. Music won't be the only stye of entertainment featured at the arena.
"We want to have a wide variety of programing for our customers," said Kansas Star Arena Director, Tim Lanier. "The circus, rodeo, motor sports, music, trade shows, whatever we can do to serve our customers and the greater-Wichita area, that's what we're going to do." The Tim McGraw concert won't be the inaugural event at the arena, that will take place on June 29 – details about what that event will be have not been released at the time of publication.
Lanier is no stranger to opening arenas. He worked at similar venues in Fort Worth, Texas, and also opened two arenas – Orleans and South Point in Las Vegas, Nev. He said challenges that came up with those, didn't come up with the Kansas Star.
"It wasn't like we were starting from scratch, it wasn't as challenging as you might think," He said, and pointed out the arena structure was already built. "It wasn't as difficult as it would have been...the architects did a good job." There are about 3,400 fixed seats in the arena, with the addition of removable seating, that number goes up to about 6,000.
The stage will be on the south end of the arena, and will be 40' deep and 60' wide. With other venues in the area, such as Intrust Bank Arena, and Hartman Arena, Lanier said the Kansas Star will aim to offer something different.
"What I've seen from the two arenas that already exist here, they have their niche," Lanier said and added that Intrust is a bigger arena. "I think with the built in sporting events that Hartman has, they have a different niche than we do, they can play to a younger crowd." He said the demographics are different for the Kansas Star.
"It's a multi-purpose venue, it was designed and built to do almost anything you can think of that would go into an arena," said Kansas Star General Manager, Scott Cooper. "We can do rodeos, equestrian events, boxing, MMA, monster trucks...it's just a multi-purpose space." Opening the arena is one step closer to the ultimate vision for the casino.
"When we opened the casino right here, the idea always was we want to be a regional destination," Cooper said. "The opening of this arena, delivers on that commitment and promise, and we're excited about it."
With Kansas Star's parent company, Boyd Gaming's presence in Las Vegas future entertainment acts could be pipelined from there to Sumner County.
"If it makes sense as far as routing goes, we might book an act in Vegas, then book it here," Lanier said. "Kind of get some economy of scale going if we can do that." Ticket prices will vary, based on the event.
Tickets for the Tim McGraw show are set at $77 and will go on sale this Friday, May 24 at www.kansasstararena.com.
"For this bigger name it kind of demanded a higher ticket," Lanier said ticket prices will be lower for the June 29 event. "...We're here to draw business and we're here to be a partner with a community." Just how many events will the arena be home to over the course of the year? Casino officials are still working on those details, but it's clear Sumner County has a genuine entertainment destination with the opening of the Kansas Star Arena.
"You'll get a good sampling over the next six months of what we're going to be," Lanier said.


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LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon has given birth to her third child, naming him after a place close to her heart.
Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, Witherspoon's publicist, said Thursday that "Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today. Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled."
The 36-year-old "Legally Blonde" and "Walk the Line" star lived in Tennessee when she was young.
Witherspoon is already a mom to Ava, 13, and Deacon, 8, from her prior marriage to Ryan Phillippe. Toth is an agent for Creative Artists Agency.


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This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
After the last customers had wiped the stray crumbs of meat pie from their faces. After the last jellied eel had slid down throats. After the last cup of tea had been swallowed, Fred Cooke, owner of F. Cooke's pie and mash shop at 41 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2JS, flipped the hand-printed cardboard sign on the front door of the establishment his grandfather had founded when George V assumed the throne from OPEN to CLOSED.
"You bet there were tears," Cooke said of that day, February 11, 1997. Cooke, a thick-bodied man with thinning hair on top that gathered momentum to crest in a lush white wave at the back, stared wistfully at a case in the Hackney Museum. The display featured the net he had used to scoop eels out of the tank, pots for boiling potatoes for the mash, steel pie pans, and paper bags with F. Cooke printed on them for carryout. The kitchenware of a three-generation-old family enterprise had become a museum artifact.
"We were the Buckingham Palace of pie and mash shops," he said. The diamond stud in his right ear and a gold bracelet, thick as a handcuff, testified to the rewards. The pie and mash shop on Kingsland High Street, one of six owned by the Cooke family, had been the flagship of the fleet, but the ship had been scuttled in response to the changing social landscape of East London.
Pie and mashed potato drenched in neon green parsley sauce, a bowl of eels in a gelatinous matrix, is a vanishing emblem of East End's white working class, which has been replaced by a tide of emigrants from the Indian subcontinent—the legacy of the London docks that were once the gateway out to the rest of the British Empire and the gateway in for immigrants. The Huguenots arrived in the 17th century seeking freedom from religious persecution. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Irish fled famine. Eastern European Jews escaping the pogroms of Russia were next. Now the predominant ethnic group is Bengali; most are Muslim. They began immigrating in large numbers in the 1960s for economic reasons and now make up a third of the population—but there are also Africans, West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians, Turks, Chinese, and Eastern Europeans.
On Cambridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green, the Al-Rahman Supermarket, with itsHALAL MEAT sign, rubs shoulders with the Polski Sklep Mini-Kłos Polish grocery, across from the Somali Mayfield House Day Centre, down the block from the luxury Town Hall Hotel, with a BMW or two parked in front and its £2,500 ($4,000)-a-night De Montfort suite (triple-height ceiling, stained glass windows, room for 16 to dine). Around the corner is York Hall, venue for Saturday night boxing ("Bad Boy Promotions presents: a night of white collar boxing with José 'KO' Corrodus and Lee 'the Bomber' Banks"), and steps away, the Gallery Cafe, where mothers with children in prams drink lattes and young professionals hunch over laptops. There is the crackle of energy, the jazz of diversity; it's a bazaar to pick and choose from according to your taste, mood, and wallet.
The number of East End pie and mash shops—Cooke remembered 14 or 15—could almost be counted on one hand now. "East London became cosmopolitan," Cooke explained. It was unclear if he meant this as a compliment. "They want their peas and rice, mon, and their kabobs." It was said lightly, with an undertow of edge but mostly with resignation.
Things go missing. We drop a glove. Lose a watch. Misplace our glasses. Sometimes they reappear, are appropriated by others, or stay lost. East London is like that. A landscape of disappearances; streets scribbled with traces of the past, a tangle of bits and bobs that alternately vanish, then show up again in different form. A turn-of-the-century Jewish soup kitchen for the poor on Brune Street is reborn as luxury apartments. An 18th-century French Protestant church becomes the Spitalfields Great Synagogue in 1897, then 80 years later turns into the Brick Lane mosque, a testament to Lavoisier's dictum that matter is neither created nor destroyed but simply changed from one form to another.
F. Cooke's pie and mash shop in Dalston was sold to a Chinese businessman, who renamed it the Shanghai. Instead of eels, the menu lists baked lobster with ginger and spring onions. Instead of meat pies, pork dumplings. "I carried on as good as I could," Cooke said, "but there was no use in flogging a dead horse. I decided to get out and enjoy the rest of my life. Nonetheless, it broke my heart."
Trace a line starting at Tower Bridge along the north bank of the Thames; go east to the River Lea; turn north, looping in the borough of Tower Hamlets and part of Hackney; go south, to the old Roman walls of the City, and you have the classic East End of Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper, and the celebrity gangsters of the 1950s and '60s, the Kray brothers—Reggie and Ronnie, of whom one East Ender said: "The Krays were on the streets killing, but they would take care of your mother."
This, historically, is wrong-side-of-the-tracks London. Its proximity to the Thames, and the eastern flow of the river, made the downstream location of shipping and manufacturing a natural consequence. Located beyond the walls of the City, noxious industry—tanneries, abattoirs, lead-smelting furnaces—could operate with minimal oversight. Winds blew from the west, lobbing the stink right across the East End, away from the perfumed air of the genteel West. The industrial revolution and expansion of the British Empire under Queen Victoria exacerbated the sordidness. The huge demand for dockworkers shoehorned even more working-class residents into an area swollen by immigration. Overcrowded housing proliferated. Poor sanitation spread disease. "Not a wery nice neighborhood," observed Sam Weller in Dickens's Pickwick Papers.
Unlike the homogenized grandeur of West London, with its Parliament and palaces, East London's landscape was—and remains—unruly and unkempt. There are oases of loveliness: The quiet calm of houseboat-lined Regent's Canal; the orderly and expensive Georgian houses on Fournier Street, where the edgy lions of British contemporary art like Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George live; the green of Victoria Park, opened in 1845 by grace of a petition signed by 30,000 East Enders, as well as West Enders who wanted a barrier to the diseased air of the East. But there is squalor in the brutal concrete of low-income housing estates, their corridors shading the furtive transactions of drug dealers, the stale smell of urine in stairwells; in the street gangs; in the brown fields with the toxic detritus of moribund factories; in the marshes scarred by rows of electric line pylons and rusting gasworks.
Today East London broadens out—depending on whom you ask—to include the boroughs of Newham, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, and Havering. Whatever the boundaries—despite more than a century of regeneration, despite neighborhoods colonized by white-collar professionals and more than 170 art galleries and museums, despite the prosperity of Canary Wharf's financial district and its Masters of the Universe skyscraper headquarters for HSBC, Barclays, and Citibank—East London is still the quarter of the city most haunted by deprivation.
From 1889 to 1903 the Victorian social scientist Charles Booth published a map series of London poverty that scribed the East-West divide. On Booth's map the West End of Kensington and Belgravia gleam with gold rectangles denoting "Upper-middle and upper classes. Wealthy." The East End is riddled with black patches signaling "lowest class" and blue squares signifying "chronic want." An index of deprivation in London today would read pretty much the same.
In 2005 the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 Olympics to London. The city announced it would use the games as an opportunity to transform East London and tackle "poverty, unemployment, lack of skills and poor health." The Olympics would be, Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, promised, "a force for regeneration."
In East London disparities between the haves and have-nots are in high relief. In Bethnal Green you can order a sausage roll (£1.40) and a cup of tea (70 pence) and eat at the Formica tables with plastic-covered chairs at Hulya's, or nip across the street and ease yourself into the handmade furniture at the Michelin-starred Viajante for squid tartare with squid ink granita, followed by, say, duck heart and tongue with mushroom floss and spiced broth (six courses with wine pairing, £115).
"London," says Danny Dorling, a professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield, "is the capital of inequality." As they say on the London Underground: Mind the Gap.
Turn right on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane facing toward Bethnal Green Road and you approach some of the meanest low-income housing estates in London. Turn left and you approach the terminally cool district of Shoreditch, home of 300 or more digital-based, high-tech businesses.
"Entrepreneurs need four things," explained Elizabeth Varley, a founder of TechHub, just off Old Street, where for £3,300 a year, developers of Web apps and cloud-based products who are hoping to come up with the Next Big Thing can buy desk space. "They need power, a superfast connection, unlimited coffee, and great creative people around them."
East London has become a high-tech nexus, she explained, because of its affordability, its proximity to the city, and the "common vibe." "The area is full of artists, restaurateurs, and retailers, people who want to do things their way."
People like 24-year-old David Tenemaza Kramaley, a computer game developer, who sold his first digital product at 13 for £1,000, was looking to raise £300,000 for his latest venture, and had just moved to a one-room windowless basement flat five minutes from work, for which he was happily paying £1,000 a month.
"I like living here because of the convenience and ability to network," he said. Kramaley, whose round face is framed by a Beatle-like mop of black hair, relishes the roller-coaster ride of a start-up. "I know I could get a well-paid job doing coding or marketing, but I like being in control of my own destiny."
His goal?
"To make two million pounds."
"Everyone keeps looking for the newest immigrants," said Sotez Chowdhury, 22, a Bengali community organizer for Shoreditch Citizens. "They keep wondering—which ethnic group is next? I keep saying, These are the new immigrants, and you can't say they don't belong." He meant the young professionals who had moved in, lured by the vibrancy and hipness of the place.
One night Sotez; his mother, Rowshanara, who is a family therapist; and I walked down Brick Lane, the heart of Banglatown, as it's called. The lower end of the street with its curry restaurants (there are more than 50) glowed with the flamingo pinks, acid greens, and garish yellows of neon signs; the air practically vibrated with the smells of curry, cloves, and burning charcoal and the blaring Bollywood music.
At Woodseer Street, a Maginot Line of sorts, demographics change: Curry Restaurant Brick Lane turns into Boutique Brick Lane, with vintage clothing stores, music clubs, and bars filled with young men with sandpaper beards and young women in leggings and abbreviated tops. The Brickhouse bar and supper club that week promised the burlesque chanteuse Lady Beau Peep, along with Audacity Chutzpah, Bouncy Hunter, and Vicious Delicious.
An old Bengali man struggled to make his way against a tide of young people. "This used to be his neighborhood," Sotez said of trendy Brick Lane, beyond Woodseer Street. The street was filled with the careless exuberance of a different generation, with money to spend. Did they have any sense of the deprivation that lay just around the corner? I asked Rowshanara. "They don't have a clue," she said.
"I'd come here with my friends from uni," said Sotez. "It's vibrant. It's cool. We'd have a look around. From here you can see the lights of Canary Wharf, but they turned out to be an illusion." He paused and his face seemed to harden. "My mates all wanted to be investment bankers. None of them are."
In one of those gleaming glass towers in Canary Wharf, Jerome Frost, head of design for the Olympic Delivery Authority, leaned forward on an impeccably white-topped table of the sort that telegraphs modern design and explained the driving force behind the London Olympics. "The games present a unique opportunity for London," he explained. "We would reinvent the event. Make it more sustainable. The bid we made to the Olympic Committee was positioned on what we would leave behind." The games were dubbed the "legacy Olympics." In developing the site, the ODA cleaned up a square mile of contaminated land, buried power lines underground, and created 200 acres of new parkland. No environmentally correct detail was too small: 2,000 newts were carefully relocated away from the construction to a nearby nature reserve.
After the Olympics the buildings would find new life as community sport centers, and the athletes' village would become private housing—half, it was said, earmarked for low-income buyers. The regeneration bounty would spill over to the surrounding area. Westfield Stratford City, one of Europe's largest shopping centers, had recently opened in Stratford, gateway to the Olympics, with 1.9 million square feet of brand-name shops.
Impressive, though the trumpeted word "legacy" provoked skepticism in some precincts. "'Legacy' is one of those words like 'cool' and 'brand,'" said Stephen Bayley, a London design critic. "You can't create a legacy. Let us not imagine that great buildings can undo a ghetto."
"Will they get it right this time?" I pressed Jerome Frost. On the plus side, he said, a chunk of East End had been cleaned up in record time and under budget, an improbable accomplishment if left to the private sector. But would those who live there really benefit? Or would it end up as another Canary Wharf, a walled-off Vatican, one urban studies scholar called it, that merely underlined the economic divide?
"If this doesn't work," Frost said with a sigh, "nothing will."
Perhaps the menu needs updating?
The question was put to Fred Cooke's cousin Bob, who still runs his pie and mash shop at Broadway Market, Hackney. Bob Cooke set a bowl with a piece of eel floating in a sea of green sauce in front of me and sat down. It was tricky spooning the slippery segment out and trying to nibble around the tiny white cylinder of vertebrae in the middle.
"One of my pals said: 'Why don't you sell pizzas? Kids love pizzas.'
"I said: 'You look after your laundry. I'll look after my pie shop.'"
Cooke stood up and wiped his hands on his blue-striped apron.
"Yes, we have customers, but they're older and getting fewer. Yuppies are not our customers," he said, as a tall young man with a ponytail peered in the doorway, then walked away. "I sell 3,000 pies a week," he said. "We've been here more than a hundred years. We'll be here another hundred."
Noon was approaching. The street outside was packed with young people trolling the Broadway Market—which once sold utility-grade cabbages, onions, and potatoes—for organic gluten-free banana-walnut cake, pedigreed Devon beef, and truffled olive oil. There was music in the air, and the smell of fresh-baked artisanal bread. There were only five customers in the shop eating pie and mash.
In East London you may hear more than 200 different languages—Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil, Swahili, Latvian, among others. Immigration makes itself heard as well as seen, but there are sounds no longer heard—like Yiddish, Brick Lane's lingua franca at the turn of the 20th century. For the same reasons white working-class Cockneys moved east to places in Essex, East London Jews moved north to suburbs like Golders Green and High Barnet. It was about aspiration: about moving up and out. Until the 1950s Brick Lane was a Jewish high street. Now practically the only trace of its former life is two bagel bakeries.
"That's my Jewish East End," said Mildred Levison, showing me the apartment off Brick Lane where she grew up during the Second World War. ("I'm sure the vermin are still there. In London you are never very far away from a rat.") We walked to Spitalfields Market, a bomb shelter during the blitz, now gentrified to within an inch of its life with boutiques and bistros. Levison, 72, retired from a career in public housing, lives in North London now. She recalled the six pence it cost for the public baths and playing in bombed-out rubble ("Brick Lane feels different but strangely the same, because my grandparents were immigrants"), as well as the warmth of community and family. "None of it is here anymore." She paused, then touched her heart. "But it's here."
It's still here, just in a different guise. East London remains a continuum of arrivals and departures, appearances and disappearances, a human march, sometimes, of simply getting on with it. Generations had landed with little or nothing and built a business, a family, a life. If poverty had retained its stubborn grip, one would do well to remember, says Alveena Malik, director of UpRising, a program to train young leaders in East London, that "being economically deprived doesn't mean you are spiritually deprived."
"I came from Bangladesh in 1973 to continue my studies," Shahagir Bakth Faruk told me over dinner one night. "My uncle sponsored me, but there was no money, so I found a job as a shop assistant in an electronics shop in Brick Lane for £28 a week. I remember sitting in a park reading a letter from my brother. It had taken 17 days to arrive from home. My tears soaked the paper."
In time he made a new life. He started a successful business. He ran twice for Parliament as the Conservative candidate from Bethnal Green and Bow. ("And lost twice. Bethnal Green has always been Labour," he said ruefully.)
Faruk, now 64, became British. And another thing...
"In Bangladesh, if a girl wants to marry outside the Muslim religion, there is a one in a million chance the parents will give their consent. It isn't done," he said.
"But when my son came to me to say he wanted to marry a girl whose mother is Christian and whose father is Hindu, I didn't give it a second thought.
"Now, my younger son wears an earring; when a friend pointed it out, I said: 'So what?'"
Just then, his cell phone rang. His married son was checking on him.
"This city taught me an important lesson," Faruk said, putting down the phone.
"The lesson it taught me was tolerance."


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BOSTON — Boston Bruins head coach Claude Julien today had a brief update on both injured winger Milan Lucic and defenseman Andrew Ference, neither of whom practiced with the team today at TD Banknorth Garden.
Lucic, who missed last night's game with Ottawa and didn't practice Wednesday either, is out with an undisclosed injury. Julien said he's improving and remains day-to-day.
Ference, out since Nov. 13 with a broken foot, was once ahead of schedule. He'd joined the team for practices and morning skates last week but he left the ice early Jan. 5 and hasn't skated since.
"He's pretty close," Julien said. "We had to pull him back a little bit here. So we're back to the original schedule."
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Nokia has just sent out a few preliminary comments about the company's performance during the fourth quarter of 2012. Nokia's figures are a good indicator for how well Windows Phone 8 is doing, and, in all honesty, I'm not exactly blown away. Apparently, neither was Nokia itself, since the company decided to redefine their Asha phones from feature phone to smartphone to prop up their smartphone sales figures.
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Key Programs and
Events - March
Included in this advisory are key programs and events at the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which aim to inspire
curiosity and excite minds of all ages through scientific
Opens March 12 - BODY WORLDS & The Story of the
This all-new exhibition will reveal - through the lenses
of anatomy, cardiology, psychology and culture - how the heart
nourishes, regulates and sustains life. The exhibition will
give Museum visitors profound insight into the human body, health
and disease, and the intricate world of the cardiovascular
system. The exhibition will awe visitors with more than 200
human specimens, including whole-body plastinates, organs and
translucent body slices.
Coming February 19 - Arabia IMAX
Go behind the veil on a journey into the exotic world of Arabia
and experience the culture, history and religion of this unfamiliar
region of the world. Explore the ancient tombs of a lost city, dive
into the shipwrecks of the Red Sea with underwater archaeologists,
and experience the extraordinary pilgrimage known as the
hajj-the largest gathering of people on Earth.
Coming March 19 - Hubble IMAX
Experience a gripping story full of hope, crushing disappointment,
dazzling ingenuity, bravery and triumph. Hubble recounts the
amazing journey of the Hubble Space Telescope, arguably the most
important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope
and the greatest success in space since the Moon landing. Narrated
by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble will change the way you see
the universe.
Parent-Child Workshop - Lions, Tigers, and Cheetahs, Oh
Saturday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m. - $20 per member pair, $25 per
nonmember pair
The world's great cats inhabit an array of locations around the
world, including the Congo, Calcutta and Colorado. You'll
have a fun-filled morning investigating these ferocious
felines. Age 3 plus adult.
Children's Workshop - BRRR! It's Cold!
Saturday, March 6 from 1-3 p.m. - $60 for members, $70
for nonmembers
How do animals keep warm in the bitter cold of winter? Learn
all about the special ways an animal stays toasty from its nose to
its toes and create a fun winter craft. Ages 4 and 5.
Children's Workshop - Introduction to Survival
Saturday, March 6 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - $60 for members,
$70 for nonmembers
Live the life of a hunter-gatherer. Learn how ancient
peoples survived before central heating and microwave ovens.
Master the nomad's guide to survival and build your own model
shelter. Grades 4 - 6.
Behind-the-Scenes Tour - Image Archives and Collections
Tuesday, March 16 at 6 p.m. - $20 for members, $25 for
Develop your own photography skills under the direction of Museum
photographer Rick Wicker. Watch him in action as he manages
to capture dioramas without glare and experiment with your own
camera. Image archivist René Payne provides a tour of the
Museum's precious collection of vintage photographs and insight
into photo preservation.
The Science Lounge: Arabian Nights
Thursday, March 18 from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Enjoy a mind-expanding experience with cocktails and entertainment
every third Thursday of the month. Ages 21 and up. This
month, take a trip to an exotic and fascinating land during an
evening showing of the IMAX film Arabia. Enjoy
drinks, live music, a fashion show of Middle Eastern traditional
dress, and get a henna tattoo. Converse with cultural experts who
will answer your questions about a society and way of life often
hidden from view.
Children's Workshop - Gee-ology
Saturday, March 20 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - $60 for members,
$70 for nonmembers
Travel to the earth's core and uncover the globe's deepest
secrets. Start your very own rock collection and watch a
volcano blow its top. Grades K and 1.
Children's Workshop - Junior Surgeons:
Saturday, March 20 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - $60 for members,
$70 for nonmembers
Chop open a chicken's wing, segment a sheep's heart and lungs, and
carve into a cow's eye as you gather information about the inner
workings of your own incredible body. Grades 2 and 3.
Parent-Child Workshop - Down Under
Saturday, March 20 from 9-10:30 a.m. - $20 per member pair, $25
per nonmember pair
Hop, don't walk! Grab your joey and join us on a trip down
under to learn about the fascinating creatures and cultures of
BODY WORLDS -Young Professionals
Wednesday, March 24 from 6-9 p.m. - $50 for members, $55 for
Gain exclusive access to BODY WORLDS & The Story of the
Heart plus enjoy beer, wine, and appetizers and connect with
other young professionals.
BODY WORLDS - Life After Death: The Journey of
the Body
Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m. - $8 for members, $10 for
Take a behind-the-scenes look at BODY WORLDS & The Story
of the Heart. Learn how these famous human specimens are
preserved once their hearts stop beating. Delve deep into the
legal and ethical issues surrounding body donation and discover how
museum visitors can partake in this captivating process.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Success Nwogu The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Paul Arkwright, has said African countries have great potential but lack good leadership system to achieve greatness. Arkwright, represented by Brig. Charles Calder of the British armed forces, stated this on Friday at the valedictory programme for the 2018 final-year students of Thomas Adewumi International College, [ ]
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Pope urges international community's commitment on behalf of the poor
29 April 2013, Rome, Italy - In a letter to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, Pope Francis has urged the international community's commitment to help the poorest.
"I encourage the determined and effective commitment of the international community to help the poorest," the Pope wrote, saying that he would pray for the successful work of the United Nations and the FAO.
"I ask the Lord to give you clarity and to support you in the important task that you have assumed in the service of mankind and to provide positive and just solutions to the numerous serious forms of suffering that dramatically affect many people, and in particular children," Pope Francis said in his message.
On behalf of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Graziano da Silva attended the inaugural Mass of Pope Francis on 19 March, during which the two met for the first time. On that occasion, Graziano da Silva noted: "The support of the Vatican and other religions is indispensable in our bid to eradicate hunger, build a sustainable future, and improve the lives of the most vulnerable among us. These efforts not only make political and economic sense, but morally they are also the right thing to do."


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ROCHESTER — The Rochester Economic Development Department and the abi Innovation Hub CEO Jamie Coughlin announce an informative presentation to benefit start-up, technology-based businesses.
The session will take place at the Frisbie Conference Center on Jan. 24, from 7:30 to 9 a.m.
Come and hear about the changing start-up and technology landscape of New Hampshire from Matt Rightmire, partner at Borealis Ventures. Rightmire will explain the Borealis Granite Fund initiative that is collaborating with the Business Finance Authority to raise $30 million in venture capital specifically for New Hampshire, technology-based businesses.
In addition, Coughlin will explain the changes taking place in New Hampshire as a new start-up ecosystem develops and how Rochester may benefit from this exciting development. This meeting is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to the Economic Development Office, by calling 335-7522 or emailing email@example.com.
This event is being held to kick off the first Start Up Business Competition that is being organized and will be held in Rochester next month. The winning business plan will receive a $10,000 prize. Applications are available at the Economic Development office, and online at abihub.org. You can also download the application form on the city website, www.thinkrochester.biz.
This competition will identify start up companies, providing contestants with the opportunity to be found by potential venture investors as well as by customers. It is a great way to test the marketplace and get feedback on your business idea. If you have an innovative idea, or have started a business that qualifies, you are welcome to submit an application. There is no application fee and you do not have to be a Rochester resident. Applications may be submitted starting Jan. 1, until Jan. 31. Finalists will be selected by a panel of local judges and are asked to bring their pitch to the Start Up event. The public will be invited to attend and participate in the final selection of the winning contestant. You can find more information about other business contests and past winners at the abihub.org.
For more information, contact the Economic Development Office at 335-7522 or visit abihub.org and click on 2013 STARTUP Rochester competition.


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In December 2010, Bei Bei Shuai, who was eight months pregnant at the time, swallowed rat poison when her boyfriend broke up with her.
Doctors successfully treated Shuai and delivered her premature daughter, Angel, by caesarian section. A few days later, Angel bled into her brain and died.
Indiana prosecutors charged Shuai with murder. According to media reports, she spent more than a year in jail before a higher court that declined to dismiss the murder charge at least ordered a lower court to set bond.
Prosecutors offered Shuai a plea bargain: Plead guilty to attempted feticide, and well drop the murder charge. The best-case scenario would be a suspended sentence; the worst case, up to 20 years in prison.
Shuai declined.
She intends to fight these charges vigorously, her attorney said. She doesnt want any other woman to go through what she has gone through.
Prosecutors said a suicide note proved Shuai wanted her baby to die with her. But her attorney argued that Shuais primary intent wasnt to kill the baby. She intended to kill herself and care for her baby in the afterlife.
Friend-of-the-court briefs filed in Shuais support say that a conviction would be a precedent that would allow pregnant women to be prosecuted if they engaged in behaviors such as smoking that are known to endanger the fetus.
Lots of things endanger fetuses and cause miscarriages. Behaviors generally disapproved of in pregnant women, such as drinking and drug use, do so. So does a failure to seek prenatal care. So does lack of strict compliance with medical advice for women with diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. So does being overweight. Women who conceive late in life have a higher risk of abortion and birth defects. Crimes? Hardly. But where do you draw the line?
One would think, one of my colleagues wrote, that there were more important cases/causes to pursue in Indiana than this unfortunate, wretched woman.
Brings the Taliban to mind, another wrote.
Associated Press reports lack details that Id like to know. I wonder why the doctors thought it was necessary to do a pre-term caesarian. I wonder how they determined definitively that the brain bleed three days after delivery was a consequence of Shuais suicide attempt. It probably was, but probably doesnt cut it in a murder trial. I wonder if the prosecutors consulted with a forensic pathologist. If they did, I wonder what they were told. If they didnt, I wonder why not.
Colorado law specifies that the coroner must investigate cases of criminal abortion. Would a precedent in this case require me to investigate all miscarriages to see whether the mother engaged in any behavior that might have caused her to lose the baby?
Thats not appealing.
At least I wouldnt have to state whether the death of a miscarried fetus was natural or a homicide. As fetuses arent considered to have been alive, theres no place on a fetal death certificate to record such an opinion.
email@example.com. Dr. Carol J. Huser, a forensic pathologist, served as La Plata County coroner from 2003 to 2012. She now lives in Florida and Maryland.


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Less than 50 tickets remain available for sale for "Wines in the Wild," a popular fundraising event benefiting the Buffalo Zoo. The summertime favorite event, presented by the ProZoo Board and Women's Board, will take place on Wednesday, July 24, from 6 until 9 p.m. at the Buffalo Zoo.
"Wines in the Wild" will feature food and beverages from some of Western New York's finest establishments, as well as a basket auction, silent auction and visits with some of the zoo's animals.
Tickets to the event cost $45. To purchase one, call 716-995-6131 or order online at www.buffalozoo.org. Guests must be at least 21 years or older.
"Wines in the Wild" is sponsored by 2FindYourHome and Mutual of Omaha with special thanks to Fox 29, MyTV, Buffalo Spree Magazine, Classic Hits 104.1, 103.3 The Edge and 97 Rock.
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School maintenance problems
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Some Wisconsin school districts have put off maintenance work until leaders fear the buildings may be unsafe. They point to a boiler failure at an Oshkosh elementary school and gaping holes in the roof at a middle school in Pulaski. School leaders in Sheboygan are recommending closing an elementary school there because it has deteriorated beyond repair. And The Wausau Daily Herald reports school administrators are becoming more concerned as the time approaches for the first round of major maintenance on buildings constructed in the 1990s. Dale Knapp of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance says many schools have had to choose between putting money toward repairs or school programs. He says that with state limits on revenue growth, many districts are now looking to referendums to raise money for repairs.
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I've written several editorials and articles for BioPharm and PTE in the past, and I am also a member of the editorial advisory boards for both of these publications. For those who are not familiar with me, I've been in the biopharmaceutical industry for more than 31 years and have worked in filtration process development and validation with many pharmaceutical and biotech companies since before the biotech revolution. As an active member of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), the American Society for Mechanical Engineering–BioProcess Equipment Committee (ASME–BPE) and the Bio-Process Systems Alliance (BPSA), I've been a contributor or reviewer on numerous industry guides and standards, and have conducted training for regulatory agencies in the Western hemisphere, Europe, and Asia. In my present role as chairman of the board and the Technology Committee of the BPSA, I have had the opportunity to interact with suppliers and users of single-use technologies worldwide and look forward to sharing that perspective here.
Over the past 10 years or so, we've seen singleuse technologies explode from production-scale filter capsules, tubing, and simple biocontainers to encompass sterile connectors, membrane-chromatography adsorbers, bioreactors, mixers, and integrated platform systems with increasing levels of sensors and automated controls. Many articles have been published, and singleuse conferences have become regular events, with topics evolving from fundamental technologies to user evaluations, and on to process and facility integration.The main issues today include implementation, quality, security of supply, regulatory expectations, system design, integrity/installation testing, QbD, PAT, quality agreements, standardization, disposal and environmental issues, and economic justification. As this column progresses, let me know what singleuse issues and topics you would like to see further explored. This month, I will touch on some recent developments in standardization and quality agreements, and provide an update about some of the latest BPSA initiatives in this area.
Standardization of singleuse components has become a frequent topic in articles, on chat boards, and at conferences. Interest has been expressed in standardizing the materials for films and tubing, as well as the dimensions of sterile connectors, hose barb, and sanitary flange fittings. When considering standardization of singleuse components, it is important to bear in mind that although some aspects of singleuse components can be standardized (e.g., approaches to sterilization, characterization of extractables, particle and endotoxin testing, tubing ID, hose barb, and flange dimensions), it is unlikely that any materials or design features will become a commodity subject to standardization because of the proprietary nature of many singleuse components. Other than ASME–BPE and ASTM International, none of the primary industry professional or trade associations (PDA, ISPE, and BPSA) or regulatory bodies issue formal standards. Pharmaceutical standards bodies, such as the US or European Pharmacopoiea or the International Organization for Standardization, tend to focus on the final drug product and packaging. These can be extrapolated or adapted to singleuse equipment, but the industry organizations themselves primarily issue best practice recommendations and technical guides rather than formal or obligatory standards.
One of the key roles of BPSA, in addition to producing its own best-practice guides, is to stimulate other organizations to also develop guides or standards that facilitate implementation of singleuse equipment. For example, BPSA recently submitted a letter to ASME, encouraging a review of the ASME–BPE standard for sanitary flange fittings with regard to using polymeric material instead of traditional metal alloys. The current ASME–BPE standard for sanitary flanges was developed with stainless steel in mind and specifies dimensions and tolerances that are costly to achieve in a variety of polymers. A modified standard addressing the properties of polymer-based flange connectors that maintains critical fitment requirements, while accommodating the unique properties of molded polymers, could reduce cost of ownership and ensure that all parts can work with singleuse and stainless steel systems. For flange-connector manufacturers, tooling and production costs also could be reduced if more liberal tolerances were allowed.
Many singleuse systems integrators now offer standardized singleuse assembly configurations for common functions, or subassemblies that can be custom assembled aseptically with sterile connectors by the user. Such rationalization can help reduce complexity and cost, but further standardization of designs or materials among suppliers is practically difficult and would be a barrier to further product development. Singleuse technology may have moved out of its infancy, but standardization to create commodities needs to be considered very carefully. Establishing standards for equivalency of designs or materials would stifle innovation and conflict with market demands for improved designs and materials.


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Shawnee City Commissioners will meet to discuss several issues Monday night, including several rezonings.
Shawnee City Commissioners will meet to discuss several issues Monday night, including several rezonings.
Seven rezone requests will be heard, including a request for a conditional use permit for selling alcohol for a liquor store to be located at 45th and Kickapoo streets.
Another potential rezone includes a Hardship request for temporary placement of a mobile home on property at 31909 Lake Road. The planning commission recommended denying this request.
Another item regarding rezonings includes a possible moratorium on boarding or rooming houses in all zoning districts.
Additionally the Airport Pedestrian Trail contract will be awarded. The city is recommending the project be awarded to Bishop Paving for the amount of $633,409.90. However the city only has $410,000, which leaves more than $220,000 to be raised.
In a memorandum, City Engineer John Krywicki recommended using the excess funds from the Expo Parking Lot Project, which total more than $50,000. Additionally Krywicki recommended using excess funds from the 302 Street Fund, because some funds are unallocated, he stated in the memorandum.
Additionally, the Shawnee Municipal Authority and the Shawnee Airport Authority will vote on moving excess money over from the 2012 budget to the 2013 budget.
The Shawnee City Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in Commission Chambers at Shawnee City Hall.


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Four Hidden Storylines For 'UFC Fight Night 30: Machida vs. Munoz'
By Adam Martin
UFC Fight Night 30: Machida vs. Munoz is really flying under the radar as an overall card (thanks in no small part to the truly epic evening that was UFC 166), but if you take a closer look at it, there are actually quite a few intriguing matchups with important questions to answer.
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'Ending Deflation'
"Japan's monetary policy is focused on ending deflation and stabilizing the domestic economy by achieving sustainable growth under price stability," Shirakawa, who will retire next month, told reporters in Moscow. "The biggest factor for a weak yen is a change in global investors' stance to avoid risks."
There are also differences within the G-20 over how far to revise goals for budget deficits and debt the G-20's advanced nations set for themselves in 2010 and which most are now on course to miss.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for "concrete" targets, only for Russian official Ksenia Yudaeva to say new formal commitments would be "counterproductive."
Confusion broke out on Feb. 12 as one G-7 official said the group's first statement on currencies since 2011 was meant as a criticism of excessive moves in the yen and Japan's occasional willingness to guide investors on its desired value. A U.K. official later denied any country was being singled out.
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Differences within the smaller group may have limited the chances for reaching a new consensus on exchange rates in Moscow. China is one G-20 member that manages its currency's value. The G-20's final communique won't include a separate statement about Japan, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak told reporters in Moscow today.
"If the G-20 statement just reaffirms its existing stance, or even just adopts the slightly more specific G-7 statement, then we would expect the major currency trends to be resumed," Morgan Stanley foreign-exchange strategists led by Hans Redeker said in a report to clients.
Indonesian central bank Deputy Governor Hartadi Sarwono said today in Moscow that a stronger Japanese economy should be welcomed as a boost for global growth.
"If the Japanese increase their domestic demand, it will help Indonesia, especially from the export side," Sarwono said. "Up to now we don't really have very much concern on the depreciation itself."
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Still, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, who coined the phrase "currency war" in 2010, said his government wouldn't allow the real to over appreciate after reaching a nine-month high. Mantega has repeatedly criticized stimulus by developed nations for forcing capital into economies such as his, pushing up their currencies and threatening asset bubbles.
Not all G-20 policy makers want a lower exchange rate. European Central Bank council member Jens Weidmann said in a Feb. 13 interview published today that "the exchange rate of the euro is broadly in line with fundamentals" and "you cannot really say that the euro is seriously overvalued."
ECB President Mario Draghi said today in Moscow although the central bank doesn't have a goal for the euro, it plays an important role in assessing the outlook for inflation and growth.
"Chatter" about exchange rates is "self-defeating," he said.
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Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for communications infrastructure applications, today reported results for its fiscal first quarter of 2013. For the quarter ended December 28, 2012, Mindspeed recorded net revenues of $44.4 million and earnings per share of $0.14 on a non-GAAP basis, or $0.03 on a GAAP basis. The non-GAAP results include the benefit of the $6.0 million sale of non-core intellectual property. Net product revenue for the quarter was $38.4 million.
Product revenue from high-performance analog (HPA) products was $19.2 million, or 50 percent of fiscal first quarter 2013 product revenue, and increased eight percent sequentially from the prior quarter, marking another quarter of record revenue from this product line. Product revenue from communications processors was $14.6 million, or 38 percent of total product revenue, and was up four percent sequentially. This included $9.5 million of the former communications convergence processing (CCP) product revenue, excluding wireless, and $5.1 million of wide area networking (WAN) product revenue. Wireless infrastructure revenue contributed $4.6 million in the quarter, or 12 percent of total product revenue, and was up four percent sequentially from the prior quarter. A comparison to past reporting practices is available in the accompanying financial data.
Non-GAAP operating income for the fiscal first quarter of 2013 was $7.4 million, compared to a non-GAAP operating loss of $2.0 million in the prior fiscal quarter. This included the benefit of the $6 million non-core intellectual property sale. GAAP operating income for the fiscal first quarter of 2013 was $2.5 million, compared to a GAAP operating loss of $6.1 million in the prior fiscal quarter. Non-GAAP net income for the fiscal first quarter of 2013 was $6.2 million, or $0.14 per share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $2.6 million, or $0.07 per share, in the prior quarter. GAAP net income in the fiscal first quarter of 2013 was $1.1 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $6.1 million, or $0.15 per share, in the prior quarter. Excluding the $6.0 million non-core intellectual property sale, non-GAAP operating income was $1.4 million and non-GAAP net income was $180,000.
Non-GAAP results exclude stock-based compensation and related payroll costs, restructuring charges, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-cash interest expense on convertible senior notes and asset impairment, among other items. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures are included in the accompanying financial data.
"I'm pleased to report that we reached the important milestone of operating profitability," commented Raouf Y. Halim, Mindspeed's chief executive officer. "As we transition to higher growth markets in high-performance analog solutions, communications processors and small cell wireless infrastructure, including the current ramp in 4G/LTE deployments, we have built a solid foundation for continued future profitable growth."
Mindspeed forecasts total net product revenue in the fiscal second quarter of 2013 to be approximately flat to up or down 2% versus total net product revenue in the fiscal first quarter of 2013. The company expects fiscal second quarter of 2013 non-GAAP gross margin to be between 60-61 percent and anticipates non-GAAP operating expenses to be approximately $22 million in the fiscal second quarter of 2013.
Fiscal First Quarter 2013 Conference Call
Mindspeed will conduct a conference call announcing its fiscal first quarter of 2013 results today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. To listen to the conference call via telephone, call 877-303-3204 (domestic) or 253-237-1154 (international); password: Mindspeed. To listen via the Internet, please visit the Investors section of Mindspeed's web site at http://www.mindspeed.com. A replay of the conference call will be available via telephone for a period of five days, beginning one hour after the conference call concludes by calling 855-859-2056 (domestic) or 404-537-3406 (international). Conference ID # 87096941 is required to access the replay. The replay will also be available in the Investors section of Mindspeed's web site at http://www.mindspeed.com for a period of thirty days after the call.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of network infrastructure semiconductor solutions to the communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data applications in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) mobile networks. The company's high-performance analog products are used in a variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.
To learn more, please visit www.mindspeed.com. Company news and updates are also posted at www.twitter.com/mindspeed.
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We use non-GAAP gross margin, research and development expenses, selling, general and administrative expenses, operating expenses, operating income, other expense, net, net income and net income per share internally to evaluate our operating performance and to determine certain components of management compensation. In addition, we use these non-GAAP measures for internal budgets and forecasts. We believe that these non-GAAP measures can be useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making.
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GREEN BAY, Wis.—Adrian Peterson couldn't find the space Green Bay gave him before. The Minnesota defense had no remedy for Aaron Rodgers. Christian Ponder stood on the sideline in a hooded sweatshirt.
Joe Webb was the only hope the Vikings had left, and in his first start of the season he was simply overmatched against the fired-up Packers.
Peterson was held to 99 yards on 22 carries, after gaining 199 and 210 in his first two games against Green Bay, and Webb stumbled badly in place of Ponder as the Packers rolled to a 24-10 victory over the Vikings in an NFC wild-card game Saturday night.
"Just a learning experience," Webb said, adding: "Work on it in the offseason. Build on it for next season."
Ponder was inactive because of a right elbow injury, suffered when the teams played each other last Sunday. His participation in practice this week was limited and Webb took many of the turns with the first-team offense. But Webb said he didn't plan on playing until this weekend, when Ponder still didn't have the full range of motion in his tight, swollen elbow.
"It wouldn't have been smart to put him at risk," coach Leslie Frazier said. He added: "You just hope the guy you have in that backup role can get it done, and we came up short tonight."
Webb, who hadn't thrown a pass in a game since the preseason in August, was sacked three times and well off target for most of the night. His only highlight was a 50-yard touchdown pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter, but it was far too late for the Vikings (10-7).
"He was up and down at times," Peterson said. "We all know that there's going to be adversity throughout the game. We've just got to bounce back mentally. A couple times I'd say something to him, and he responded well and looked focused."
Webb finished 11 for 30 for 180 yards and became the first quarterback in 20 years to start a playoff game without starting any games during that regular season since Frank Reich did so for Buffalo, according to STATS. Reich led the Bills to their famous comeback victory over Houston that year.
But there was no chance of any of that in this one.
Webb tripped over Clay Matthews for an easy sack early in the second quarter, and he was called for intentional grounding while being swarmed behind the line of scrimmage on the next play.
The Vikings had the Packers stopped for a field goal on fourth-and-4 early in the third quarter, but Jasper Brinkley was called for 12 men on the field when he couldn't make it to the sideline in time. Frazier said there was an extra defensive end on the field-goal block team, and Brinkley has the job of leaving the field in those situations. The penalty gave the Packers just enough yards to keep going, and Rodgers found Kuhn open on the next play. The fullback barged into the end zone by barreling over Jamarca Sanford at the goal line for a 24-3 lead.
The last time the Vikings were in a playoff game, they infamously were called for 12 men on the field, too, on offense that time in the fourth quarter of the NFC championship game in New Orleans to push them out of field-goal range. Brett Favre threw an interception, and they lost to the Saints in overtime.
On the next possession, Webb fumbled at the Green Bay 45 during another sack by Matthews, who recovered. Then, on the ensuing drive for Minnesota, Webb's deep pass was intercepted by Sam Shields at the Packers 8. Then the next time the Vikings got the ball back, Marcus Sherels fumbled the punt, giving the Packers the ball again.
"I think we needed a higher sense of urgency and realize we don't know when we're going to come back," defensive end Jared Allen said. "It took us three years after the NFC championship game to get back, so you don't know when you're going to have that option, you don't have that opportunity."
This was the third game in six weeks between the Packers (12-5) and the Vikings, and second in six days. This time, the Packers finally figured out how to slow down the NFL's rushing leader in Peterson, who fell 9 yards short of breaking Eric Dickerson's all-time single-season record.
Rodgers showed just how dangerous the Packers can be when they're at full strength. John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, DuJuan Harris added another and Rodgers connected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receivers while throwing for 274 yards, widening the passing gap between these division rivals. Webb ran seven times for 68 yards, but he was hesitant at times to take off, particularly in the first half.
"You still need to be able to complete passes," Frazier said, adding: "We just couldn't make some things happen down the field that we needed to make happen."
The Vikings made plenty happen this season, after finishing 3-13 last year and 6-10 in 2010. After losing 23-14 at Lambeau Field, when Ponder threw two interceptions inside the Green Bay 20-yard line, they reeled off four straight victories to make the playoffs. But in the quiet of the visitor's locker room, nobody was ready to acknowledge the season as a success. Losing the last game always hurts, especially to a team's biggest rival.
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ARISS Contact Schedule and Successful school list updated 2005-09-02 18:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Fri 2005-09-02 09:45 UTC 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan successful! (***) Wed 2005-09-07 14:30 UTC Leroy Chiao is scheduled to talk at Fairview Elementary in Mount Prospect, IL. The school had an ARISS contact back in February 2005. Plans are to retransmit live via streaming audio, Echolink, and IRLP. Watch for URL, Echolink, and IRLP information. Thu 2005-09-08 07:34 UTC Japan Red Cross Radio Corps- Wakasa, Japan Fri 2005-09-16 18:24 UTC Matthew J. Kuss Middle School, MA Sat 2005-10-01 Soyuz TMA7 Launch with Expedition 12 Week 2005-10-24 anticipated start of Expedition 12 ARISS school contacts Early 2005-11 US EVA Early 2005-12 Russian EVA with SuitSat deployment ***************************************************************************** The schedule page has been updated as of 2005-09-02 18:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2005-09-02 18:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.r tf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf ***************************************************************************** There was also a rumor that the ISS was having contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF equipment available yet. ***************************************************************************** Expedition 11 crew is now on the ISS. John Phillips KE5DRY Sergei Krikalev U5MIR Expedition 12 crew is expected to dock 2005-10-03. This means that Expedition 12 ARISS school contacts will start probably the week of 2005-10-24. Expedition 12 William McArthur KC5ACR up on 11S Soyuz TMA7, scheduled launch 2005-10-01 Valery Tokarev up on 11S Soyuz TMA7, scheduled launch 2005-10-01 Thomas Reiter DF4TR up on TBD Greg Olsen KC2ONX up on 11S Soyuz TMA7, scheduled launch 2005-10-01, return on Soyuz TMA6 ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Canines and kids display their talents at 4-H Dog Show Saturday
Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:13 AM
A host of champions were named during the 4-H Dog Show on Saturday, July 6.
The dog show, held at Hier's Park, was the first competition of the 2013 Huntington County 4-H Fair.
Complete dog show results are:
Class 1A - Melina Ashley, B, champion; Hannah Warpup, B, reserve; Vinny Lisinicchia and Hannah Hippensteel, B; Johanna Ashley, Lucas Thomas, Brynn Layman, Bobby King, Sarah Landers, Karissa Marley, Clay Richison, Erica Ashley and Jenna Poulson, C.
Class 1B - Austin Lantz, B, champion; Kirsten Walker, B, reserve; Dani Clark, Adam Stanzak and Kamala Brandiwine, B; Keely Anderson, C; and Stephanie Dryer, participant.
Class 2A- Austin Lantz, A, champion; Lindsey Yoder, B, reserve; Kylie Lavrey, B; Ashley Crago, Lilyanna Alexander, Stephanie Dryer, Taylor Scher and Abby Blocker, C; Madison Worster, Colt Helton and Grace Barlow, participants.
Class 2B - Rachelle Mann, A, champion; Savannah Brown, A, reserve; Trista King, Josh Rice, Gabrielle Haneline and Josilyn Platt, B; Cora Helton and Keely Anderson, C; and Danielle Korporal, Spencer Atkinson and Katie Korporal, participants.
Class 3A - Isaiah Conley, A, champion.
Class 3B - Rachelle Mann, A, champion.
Class 4A - Taylor Scher, A, champion.
Novice - Sarah Landers, champion; Erica Ashley, reserve; Jenna Poulson, third; Johanna Ashley, fourth; and Melina Ashley, fifth.
Junior - Dani Clark, champion; Kylie Lavery, reserve; Trista King, second; Kirsten Walker, third; Keely Anderson, fourth; and Stephanie Atkinson, fifth.
Intermediate - Gabrielle Haneline, champion; Madison Worster, reserve; Austin Lantz, third; Josilyn Platt, fourth; Stephanie Dryer, fifth; and Spencer Atkinson, sixth.
Senior - Rachelle Mann, champion; Cora Helton, reserve; Katie Korporal, third; Kamala Brandiwine, fourth; and Colt Helton, fifth.
Beginner Class A - Stephanie Dryer, A, champion; Austin Lantz, A, reserve; Kirsten Walker, Madison Worster, Grace Barlow, Stephanie Atkinson and Keely Anderson, A; Adam Stanzak, B; and Lilyanna Alexander, participant.
Beginner Class B - Taylor Scher, A, champion; Trista King, A, reserve; Kamala Brandiwine, Gabrielle Haneline, Abby Blocker, Savannah Brown, Colt Helton, Ashley Crago and Spencer Atkinson, A; Josh Rice, Danielle Korporal and Katie Korporal, participants.
Intermediate Class B - Isaiah Conley, A, champion; Josilyn Platt, A, reserve; Cora Helton, A.
Advanced Class A - Taylor Scher, A, champion.
Advanced Class B - Rachelle Mann, A, champion.
Novice Class A - Johanna Ashley, B, champion; Kirsten Walker, B, reserve; Hannah Hippensteel, Austin Lantz, Erica Ashley and Hannah Warpup, B; Melina Ashley, Jenna Poulson, Brynn Lehman and Karissa Marley, C.
Novice Class B - Cora Helton, A, champion; Taylor Scher, A, reserve; Rachelle Mann, A; Colt Helton, Spencer Atkinson and Adam Stanzak, B; Kamala Brandiwine, Danielle Korporal, Josilyn Platt, Stephanie Dryer, Lilyanna Alexander and Trista King, C; Kylie Lavery, Lindsey Yoder, Grace Barlow, Stephanie Anderson and Keely Anderson, participants.
Advanced Class A - Gabrielle Haneline, A, champion; Josh Rice, A, reserve; Abby Blocker, A; Keely Anderson, B.
Advanced Class B - Isaiah Conley, A, champion; Rachelle Mann, A, reserve.
Excellence Class B - Taylor Scher, A, champion.
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Hannah Warpup (right) shows off her dog's agility skills at the 2013 Huntington County 4-H Dog Show on Saturday, July 6. Judge Alicia Bloomfield (left) watches as the pair makes its way through a figure eight route, which volunteer Sharon Ernst helps model as she poses as a guidepost.