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HUNTINGTON BEACH – The students wait as patiently as they can but their excitement is visible as each horse is walked to the mounting area.
Some clap, some squeal with laughter and others bounce as they wait their turn at the bottom of the ramp at the Huntington Beach Therapeutic Riding Center's equine-assisted therapy classes.
These students have varying mental or physical disabilities, so learning to ride is more than an after-school hobby. It is something that makes them stronger and more confident.
"Equine-assisted therapy uses different exercises and provides therapy without the kids even knowing it," said Donna Brandt, instructor and president of the riding center's board. "They are up on the horses having to hold themselves upright and using muscles a therapist would ask them to use."
Related: 5 Questions With … Grace Hernandez on equine therapy
Students enrolled in Brandt's current 10-week session include a 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome; a 7-year-old girl with a sensory processing disorder; a blind woman; and Brandt's 21-year-old daughter Jamie, who battles apraxia, a brain and nervous system disorder.
"We provide therapy to children and adults with a wide variety of disabilities, including cerebral palsy, autism, multiple sclerosis, ADHD and amputees," Brandt said.
The students' love for riding is apparent as they mount their horses on a recent Tuesday.
Huge smiles stretch across their faces as they walk and trot their horses around the arena. Classes usually include a warm-up in which students stretch while sitting on top of the horses and play games like "red light, green light" on horseback.
The center opened in 1990 at the Huntington Central Park Equestrian Center.
The group holds fundraisers and looks for grants to keep its operation – which costs up to $6,000 a month – up and running.
Sometimes horses are donated, other times they're purchased. Each horse – whether it's a pony, quarter horse or standard breed – undergoes a 90-day test period to ensure its demeanor is suitable for the riding center.
"For most of these horses, this is their last life before we retire them," Brandt said. "We pay for that and don't euthanize them."
All of the instructors are certified by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International and volunteer their time.
"None of us make any money doing this … we do it because we want to," Brandt said.
One of the reasons the volunteers want to be involved is to experience many of the milestones that are reached in the classes. Some students have said their first words while riding and others have learned to walk because of the therapy, Brandt said.
"To watch these children make progress is more rewarding than anything you can imagine," she said.
Katie wears pink and sits proudly on top of her horse that shares her name but has a different spelling.
She commands Kattie to walk, trot and stop. She waves to onlookers and laughs as she bounces atop the saddle.
When she's finished, Katie high-fives and hugs other students and waves goodbye to the instructors.
"Shy" doesn't seem a word that fits her exuberant personality, but according to her dad, the girl who is all smiles at the Huntington Beach Therapeutic Riding Center is very different from the Katie from several months ago.
Katie, 14, grew up in Redding where her dad, David Gill, said she was the only girl with Down syndrome in her area, which made it difficult for her to socialize.
"It was a really small town and they didn't have any specialized programs," Gill said. "She wasn't involved in anything."
Katie moved to Orange County in 2010 and was exposed to various activities, but getting her to participate in anything new proved difficult.
"Disneyland took eight tries before we finally got her through the gate," he said.
Learning to ride a horse was no different.
For the first four or five weeks of her classes at the riding center, Katie was hesitant. Sometimes she would ride, other times she preferred to watch.
Now, about 10 weeks in, getting her off the horse is the difficult part.
"This is the first thing we found that she really wants to do," Gill said. "She loves it. She really looks forward to it."
Katie is now involved in other activities as well.
She plays baseball and bowls. She is looking forward to trying out for Edison High School's pep squad.
Samantha Rose, also known as "Sammy," stands out in her red boots and multicolored dress.
She's the youngest in the group at age 7 but has no trouble atop even the largest horses at the Therapeutic Riding Center.
The instructors run the group through a warm-up and Sammy stretches out over her horse, Lulu, and reaches for her ears. Her arms can't quite touch so she rests her hands on Lulu's copper-colored mane.
This simple act is an example of the strides Sammy has made in her time at the center.
Sammy has a sensory processing disorder.
She struggles with loud sounds, certain textures, rooms that are too dark and, at one time, could only play with one other person at a time, her grandparents said. She came to the Therapeutic Riding Center at the suggestion of an occupational therapist.
"Her balance has certainly improved and she's actually done really well with the horses," said Mike Pittenger, Sammy's grandfather. "She is actually very comfortable and has improved considerably."
Her grandparents say they have noticed a significant improvement in Sammy's strength, core balance and sensitivity to sensory cues, such as loud noises. She is now able to play with other children and feels more at ease in groups.
They've also noticed how much their granddaughter loves being on a horse, especially the bigger ones.
"There's a certain amount of confidence that comes with that," said Connie Pittenger, her grandmother.


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Tonight I'm joined by two guests—borderline co-star Brandon Tolentino, and my best friend, Dang-san! This podcast is dedicated to the purpose of discussing video games at the request of Lucus-FariaaA.
I recommend skipping the first five minutes or so because you can hear someone eating Chinese food and it's sort of grotesque. Also nothing of great importance is said except for the introductions. This episode is super long and covers all kinds of stuff, so the breakdown is gonna be huge!
What's in this episode:
0:00 – Opening Song: Babs Seed (Assertive Remix)
0:28 – Intro
1:15 – We should talk about video games
1:45 – Brandon's Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament
3:13 – Dang-san played Sleeping Dogs
4:13 – The word "gameplay"
4:46 – The phrase "game feel"
7:11 – I'm playing Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
(Part one: 7:11 – Steam Greenlight explained)
(Part two: 9:28 – The game itself)
(Part three: 12:06 – I rant on hating games about flow, loving modern platformers)
(Part four: 17: 37 – Back to the game itself)
19:16 – Dang-san never plays his Steam games
(Part one: 19:56 – Lead-in)
(Part two: 21:07 – Dang-san talk sabout Dark Souls, beautifully)
(Part three: 22:53 – Wake-up call bosses)
(Part four: 26:09 – How many times has Dang-san played through it now?)
(Part five: 27:42 – I brag about how awesome Dang-san is at video games)
(Part six: 30:51 – Dark Souls' online community)
–33:34 – Here's my Egoraptor/JonTron impression
(Part seven: 34:04 – Why I need Dang-san to help me do a proper Dark Souls analysis)
(Part eight: 36:08 – Dang-san's Soul Level 1 run-through)
(Part nine: 38:09 – Playing blind)
(Part ten: 41:18 – So many ways to play/depth and pacing)
(Part eleven: 44:24 – Why I can't talk about the game alone)
46:02 – My history with Dang-san
(Part one: 46:02 – His shitty writing)
(Part two: 50:20 – My whole history of knowing him)
1:04:00 or so – Meta stuff
1:06:14 – Brandon's favorite game
1:10:13 – That one time they bought me a blow-up doll
1:12:06 – Who's your favorite video game villain?
1:19:23 – Dang-san's favorite game exists
1:21:31 – Playing online
1:24:42 – I have money now!
1:32:44 – My favorite game?

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Washington, D.C. (April 20, 2009) – Reflecting the continued commitment of America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies to encourage practices that best serve the needs of patients and the healthcare community, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Board of Directors have unanimously endorsed measures that strengthen PhRMA's Principles on Conduct of Clinical Trials and Communication of Clinical Trial Results.
The newly revised PhRMA Principles, which build on improvements already made in the 2004 revision, are part of an ongoing effort to help ensure objectivity in research and enhance transparency in clinical research.
"Our member companies have a longstanding commitment to ethical conduct of clinical trials and to transparency in reporting," said Billy Tauzin, PhRMA President and CEO.
"But, we've heard the calls that we could do more. And these revised Principles, which come on the heels of our updated Code on Interactions With Healthcare Professionals, further renew our pledge to 'practice what we preach.'"
"We hope that all companies that sponsor clinical research and publish results on websites and in peer-reviewed journals will adopt these standards," Tauzin added.
The PhRMA Principles on Conduct of Clinical Trials and Communication of Clinical Trial Results (read the report), which take effect on October 1, 2009, fortify our commitment to patients and healthcare professionals by increasing transparency in clinical trials, enhancing standards for medical research authorship and improving disclosure to manage potential conflicts of interest in medical research.
Among its changes, the revised Principles:
- Increase transparency by committing companies to the timely registration of all interventional clinical trials involving patients – including some early Phase 1 studies – on a public website, to help patients who need medical care enroll in relevant studies. There are important public health benefits associated with making appropriate clinical trial information widely available to healthcare practitioners, patients and others. The most important clinical trials are those that test a medicine in patients –people who actually require medical care. Results of these trials provide medical evidence regarding the safety and effectiveness of medicines in the precise population the medicine is intended to help.
- Greatly expand transparency in medical research by committing to provide results summaries for all interventional clinical trials involving patients – regardless of whether the medicines are approved or the particular research programs have been discontinued. By providing results summaries of safety and effectiveness data for clinical trials shortly after a drug's approval or discontinuation of development, PhRMA members will significantly expand the universe of publicly available data about clinical trials in patients.
- Move in lockstep with medical journal editors by adopting the authorship standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Under these revised Principles, only individuals who make substantial contributions to medical manuscripts will be recognized as authors.
- Enhance disclosure standards for published research that companies sponsor by also aligning with ICMJE standards regarding disclosure in medical journal manuscripts of all financial or personal relationships that might present a conflict of interest – whether in an article or a letter. What's more, authors of medical journal manuscripts should describe the role of sponsors in designing the study, collecting and interpreting data, and writing the report.
In addition, the revisions announced today bring the Principles regarding company-sponsored clinical trial investigator meetings in line with the revised PhRMA Code on Interactions With Healthcare Professionals, which went into effect January 2009.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
PhRMA Internet Address: www.phrma.org
For information on how innovative medicines save lives, visit: www.innovation.org
For information on the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, visit: www.pparx.org
For information on the danger of imported drugs, visit: www.buysafedrugs.info


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Cruz Won't Delay Senate Vote
Texas Republican Opposes Budget Agreement
WASHINGTON—Sen. Ted Cruz came up empty-handed Wednesday in his battle to gut the Affordable Care Act, saying that he wouldn't stand in the way of a Senate budget deal that includes none of the major changes to the health-care law that conservatives were seeking.
Mr. Cruz's high-profile fight against the law known as Obamacare kicked off last month with a headline-grabbing 21-hour speech, and on Wednesday, it appeared likely to end—at least for the moment—with a political defeat for the Texas Republican....


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Europe defends emissions record at climate talks
Europe defended its record Wednesday in curbing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions as the countries of the world entered their third day of talks in Qatar on ways to tackle climate change.
Under pressure at UN negotiations in Doha to raise its emissions reduction target from 20 to 30 percent, the European Union said through its climate commissioner that other countries should also do more.
"Europe is doing its fair share," Connie Hedegaard insisted at a webcast press conference in Brussels.
The bloc is on track to meet its goal of emissions reductions of 20 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels and is poised to exceed it, thanks to support for greener fuels and cleaner technology, she said.
"We are not just resting on the laurels. We are actually trying despite all our economic difficulties to move on and still be in the lead, which we are," Hedegaard said.
The latest round of UN climate talks opened in Doha on Monday with developing countries and the EU staking out rival positions on the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, which binds rich nations to greenhouse gas emission caps.
Small island states most exposed to rising sea levels want the EU as a historical polluter to boost its emissions-slashing targets and bring forward the deadline for meeting them.
Hedegaard agreed that the world faced a "huge challenge" in the growing gap between targets and the actual emission levels required to hold climate change at a manageable two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels.
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres reminded delegates at the Doha talks of the urgent need to cut emissions even further.
"International commitments to cut greenhouse gases and deal with the impacts of climate change are higher than they have ever been, yet are still not sufficient to prevent the global average temperature rising beyond the two degrees Celsius target," she said in a statement.
Hedegaard said the EU had convinced the conference presidency to call a five-hour ministerial meeting next week to discuss options to help boost short-term emission reduction targets, such as phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies.
Climate observers meanwhile urged the rich world to provide details on how it intended to boost funding for poor nation's greenhouse gas reduction efforts from $30 billion in the period 2010-2012 to $100 billion a year from 2020, as promised.
Failure to put a plan on the table by next week "could see this (conference) start to unravel," Tim Gore of Oxfam International said in a statement.
But Hedegaard said the details would probably not be finalised in Doha.
"We know that we have to come up with more money," said the commissioner.
"People are trying despite difficulties in their countries to come up with the money."
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Everyone knows that a Bachelor's degree has pretty much become a prerequisite in the job market. But did you know that employers are starting to feel like recent graduates are unprepared when it comes to hiring? According to an article by Karin Fischer published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, employers find candidates with bachelor's degrees to be under-qualified and ill-prepared. Many of these employers are blaming colleges for the lack of preparedness, with over 30% ranking them as "fair or poor." But why is this? What are we doing wrong? And what can we do to fix it?
Fischer states that the breakdown between the goals college degree and the expectations of employers differ in regards to marketability. She believes that colleges seek to prepare graduates on a broad scale, giving them a wide variety of knowledge and skills, whereas employers want candidates with specialized skills and specific knowledge. Employers want a college grad to be trained and ready to begin working from day one.
According to the survey in the article, as well as a survey of employers in the 2013 NACE Job Outlook, the most important (and lacking) skill for recent college grads is the ability to effectively communicate verbally. Employers are looking for candidates that can speak their mind and give intelligent responses to questions and problems. These skills are often overlooked, but can be very important in a job setting, as you will most likely be working with a group of people from time to time. David E. Boyes is quoted in the Chronicle article as having said, "It's not a matter of technical skill, but of knowing how to think." Developing critical thinking skills will allow you to make decisions and express yourself in an effective way.
Here at UW-Green Bay we offer a wide range of critical thinking course as part of our interdisciplinary approach to education. Consider taking Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication (Comm-166) and Communication Problems (Comm-200) to develop and hone these marketable skills. There are also numerous leadership opportunities in student organizations, including Student Government Association, Sigma Tau Delta, and other major related clubs. Search the UWGB webpage for a list of all orgs offered on campus. If you want to further develop on-the-job skills, try an internship. The Career Services office can assist you in searching and applying for internships. Check out the PRO website to browse local internship options.
The jobs market it always changing; there's not changing that. But how we adapt to it is entirely up to us. Knowing which skills and assets are important to employers can help you better develop skills to meet these growing demands. Stop by Career Services (SS 1600) to find out more about what you can do to prepare yourself for the jobs market and beyond.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
A Pleasant Grove doctor has been charged with murdering his wife and obstructing the investigation into her death.
Martin Joseph MacNeill, 56, was charged Friday with first-degree felony murder and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony, in 4th District Court. Police suspect he overmedicated his wife, Michele MacNeill, on April 11, 2007.
At the time of her death, investigators say MacNeill, the former clinical director of the Utah State Developmental Office, was involved in an extra-marital affair. The evidence suggests that MacNeill devised a scheme to kill his wife so that he could continue the affair without seeming to be the one leaving the marriage or being responsible for her death, according to charging documents.
After MacNeill's wife came home to recover from a cosmetic surgery on April 4, 2007, investigators suspect he gave her a potentially deadly mixture of prescription drugs. Michele MacNeill became listless and unresponsive, according to the charges. Their daughter refused to leave her mother's bedside until she returned to medical school in Nevada on April 10, the charges state.
The next day Michele MacNeil was dead.
Martin MacNeill picked up one of his daughters from school on April 11. When they got home, the daughter found her mother in a bathtub that was a quarter full of reddish-brown water, the charges state.
MacNeill called 911. But he lied to the dispatcher about performing resuscitation and lied to police about events surrounding her death in an effort to hinder, delay or prevent any investigation, according to the charges.
Michele MacNeill died that afternoon at the hospital after doctors stopped resuscitation efforts.
A toxicology report indicated that Michele MacNeill would have likely taken some of the drugs within an hour of her death, and that morning, her husband was home or only a five-minute drive away, the charges state.
"The investigation has revealed that Martin has reported to various doctors, including a record of admission on official military documents, he heard voices directing him to kill. Martin also asserted he killed his family members and others," according to the charges. Orem City police previously arrested Martin for threatening to kill his wife in a domestic dispute, and he had threatened and offered to kill one of his daughters and told a former mistress that he killed a member of his family and patients, the charges state.
MacNeill was arrested Friday and booked into Utah County Jail, held on $1 million bail.
He was convicted in 2009 for accepting benefits from a fraudulent insurance claim. He also has a pending court case for forcible sexual abuse for an incident alleged to have occurred a month after his wife died.


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I guess since it's an off topic forum I had a chance to just mention a few things that got me really into macro and micro fetishes. It started with friends that were into furry art, obviously being macro/micro but I wasn't really into it. In all fairness, all of my furry friends were gay and I sort of like playing both sides of the field but when they found out I wasn't a furry they basically stopped being my friends.
Later on I found a few other websites, forums, chat rooms and this was back during dial up so I wasn't too active but I did have a few friends that kept in touch sending e-mails. I noticed a trend that most of them were trying to make me buy stuff from them, some were good friends but a good chunk were people who edited photos of giantess women and trying to make me pay for stuff to download or buy something through the mail. I don't want to sound like a complete freeloader but I had no interest in what they were trying to sell, most of my fun discussions were about movies, tv shows and other stuff to spark a conversation.
I've been lurking websites since 2004, and I guess I like everything around me being giant. Things always seem better when they're bigger.


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Why? The whole set-up raises questions about whether the GOP has minimized opportunities for thousands of Republican voters around the state to weigh in.
Let's face it: caucuses themselves are crazy affairs — they require voters to devote a block of time to making their preferences known, and they're far more time consuming than just filling out a ballot. They're scheduled in one time period, and there's no early voting, or absentee voting: if voters can't make it, they're out of luck.
But in Nevada, a tourism-driven state, the state party and local county operations seem to have put up even MORE roadblocks. Under the system they've set up, look for lots of senior citizens with lots of time to show up. Families, working people, parents with small kids — they'll have a much tougher time. If they can make it at all.
Here's a rundown of some of those hurdles:
1. The timing: Party officials say that the Republican Party officials in each party can decide the timing of their caucus meetings. That means in Clark County, home to Las Vegas and 70 percent of the state residents, they're at one time and one time only: 9 a.m. on Saturday. UNLV's Stephen Brown, an economics professor, says the schedule is puzzling in a tourism-driven state, where peak work times for legions on the job — taxi drivers, waitresses, small business folks — are the weekend, Fridays through Sundays. There's 300,000 Nevadans in the service industry, but good luck getting off time to vote.
2. The locations: Four years ago, when Democrats held their caucuses, the media was treated to the unusual sight of massive caucuses held in all the major hotels on the Las Vegas Strip precisely to allow working people to attend. Many came between shifts in their work clothes, and that included maid uniforms and showgirl costumes. Apparently Republicans have either entirely ceded this crowd to the other side, or simply don't want to encourage their participation. According to the list released by the state GOP, Clark County's caucuses are being held in schools and community centers, with not a single one located in a Strip location that would be convenient to workers in the industries that are the lifeblood of the state.
3.. The lack of media observation: According to the release put out by the Nevada GOP, five of the state's 17 counties — almost one third — will allow NO media coverage or observation inside the caucus process; and another is allowing media only outside at the registration tables. And one county, Elko, is leaving it up to "individual precinct leaders" to decide if the press will be allowed to report from inside the events. Granted, most of these counties are rural operations. But for those of us who've reported from inside Iowa's caucuses, and seen the (often moving) democratic process in action, t only raises one question: What are they afraid of?
4.. The special treatment for a billionaire casino magnate:In a departure from the rest of the state, the Clark County Republicans have decided to schedule a special caucus at 6 p.m. Saturday night at the Adelson Educational Center, specifically to accommodate "religious" voters. Talk to any Nevada GOPer, and they'll tell you the real deal: Sheldon Adelson, an observant Jew who donated $5 million to Newt Gingrich, and his wife, who did the same, pressured for their own night caucus, and they got it. They'll be observing the Sabbath on Saturday morning. Their caucus is expected to draw about 500 conservative religious Jews. Questions: fair to religious people, Jews and non-Jews alike, in other counties of Nevada who get no such accommodation? Nope. Fair to other people who can't attend on Saturday at 9 a.m. for work or family reasons? Nope. Crazy? Yup.
5. The release of the results:The Nevada GOP told reporters on a press call last week it will begin releasing results of the caucuses at 5 p.m. on Saturday. But that's before the special Adelson evening caucus even starts. Release the results via Twitter and Google while voting is still in progress? Is this an opening for 1. disaster 2. possible legal challenges? 3. hanky panky/foul play?
Bet on it, Nevada.


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Cellist Wendy Warner In A Russian Mood
Cellist Wendy Warner In A Russian Mood
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Cellist Wendy Warner and pianist Irina Nuzova at WGBH in Boston.
Scriabin: Etude Op. 8, No. 11 (arr. Piatigorsky)
Beethoven: Variations on 'Bei Mannern' from Mozart's 'Magic Flute'
Myaskovsky: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 81
Schnittke: 'Musica Nostalgica'
Cellist Wendy Warner owns two cellos. One was built by Becker in 1963 and the other by Gagliano in 1772; "it's like being married to two different people," she says. The modern Becker is bright, with a focused and far-reaching sound, while the Gagliano's voice is rich, dark and full of intrigue. When Warner and her duo partner, pianist Irina Nuzova, came to our Fraser Performance Studio, it was the Gagliano that made the trip with them because it has the qualities that bring out the shadowy Russian landscapes in the music of Scriabin and Myaskovsky.
Warner won the 4th International Rostropovich Competition in 1990. She went on to study with Rostropovich, and I was fascinated when she told us that he never played the cello for her in their lessons. Instead, he would play the piano or conduct, and he would unleash his imagination and colorful thinking. He was "very pictorial," she says, and he wanted Warner to learn to generate her own sound with a vast palette of colors. He didn't demonstrate because he didn't want his students to imitate him. Warner has long believed, like Rostropovich, that people are born with an ideal sound within them, and that their task is to find it and give it voice.
Myaskovsky's second cello sonata was a stunning discovery for many of us in the studio audience. It's one of those pieces, Nuzova says, that takes time to ripen and reach its listeners. It's subtle, she says, but it stays with you. Myaskovsky's symphonies — there are 27 of them — are superbly crafted and full of atmosphere. So is this sonata, with its long lines and quiet passion. Myaskovsky dedicated it to Rostropovich. It haunted me for days afterward, especially the opening melody, which felt like something I've always known. Warner and Nuzova bring color and honesty to its every gesture.


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Researchers from Rice University are set to begin a three-year study on how urban development is affecting neighborhoods and residents in greater Houston, a project inspired by the city's continuing urbanization.
"There are always two sides to development – some are very positive, while others are negative," Steve Murdock, sociology professor and director of the university's Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, said in a statement. "This project will examine the issue from both sides, and our goal is to provide quantitative, definitive data on how metropolitan, Harris County and Houston neighborhoods are changing."
The university received a $1 million grant from the Houston Endowment for the study, which aims to identify population changes between 2000 and 2014 in metropolitan-area counties and in neighborhoods within Harris County and the city of Houston.
The study will rely on population and housing data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses, as well as American Community Survey data from 2005 through 2014. New data will be obtained through a survey be administered in 2015 and conducted by the University of Houston's Hobby Center for Public Policy.
A research team will start by identifying areas in the city and area counties that are undergoing significant development and redevelopment.
"In urban development, traditionally people move from the central city out to the suburbs," Mike Cline, a research scientist at the Hobby Center said in the statement. "Now there has been a lot of discussion of people moving back to the central city. Academic literature indicates that this may be happening in some locations, but we do not know how much of that is true for our area. We also do not know the extent of recent changes in the Houston-metropolitan area, in Harris County and the city of Houston. This is a major goal of the study."


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A little cooler, a little drier and, to most people's satisfaction, a little less snowier than usual.
That's how November's weather turned out, according to local climate observer George Isobar.
"We often get a high temperature in the 70s in November, but that didn't happen this year," Isobar said. "We had just two days in the 60s, with a high of 61° on the 12th."
There's often at least one reading in the teens, he said, so this year's two morning in that range were nothing unusual. The low of 15° was recorded Nov. 28.
"There were just a lot of days when the high and low were averaged and it came out on the chilly side," Isobar said. "In fact, 20 out of 30 days were below the long-term average."
Overall, the mean temperature for the month was just 0.8° below average since those cold days were balanced out by some extra warm ones.
The most notable came Nov. 20 with a high of 57° and a low of 52°. That produced a daily average that was 17° above normal, according the to National Weather Service office in Toledo.
"Precipitation was pretty miniscule until just before Thanksgiving," Isobar said. "We had only about half an inch until the 21st when 1.37 fell."
The total ended at 2.45, which about seven-tenths below the average of the past 30 years.
"We had a trace of snow as early as Nov. 5, but no measurable amount until Nov. 18. That was barely measurable," Isobar said. "About two-tenths fell Nov. 25, but there wasn't even a trace by the next morning."
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Saturday, May 6 2017
9:30am - 11:30am
Wind Under Their Wings
Eagle Celebration Flag Ceremony
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Troop 355 has been asked to provide a few scouts to participate in the Flag Ceremony at the Wind Under Their Wings Eagle Celebration. Please let Mr. Moffat know if you might be able to help out. Event details are as follows:
Saturday, May 6, 2017
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
San Gabriel Country Club
350 E. Hermosa Dr.
San Gabriel, CA 91775
Wear your Class A Uniforms (no sash required)
Service hours will be given!
9:30 a.m. practice Color Guard Presentation with other scouts
10:15 a.m. Greet Guests
11:15 a.m. Present the Colors then dismissed
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In the early afternoon of June 19, 2012, my third annual road trip collided with Mitt Romney's presidential bus tour in the lovely little town of DeWitt, Mich. I suppose it was inevitable that sooner or later we'd come across a full-fledged stump speech, and there was Romney, in front of Sweetie-licious Bakery Caf, saying, with utterly feigned surprise, "We came here to have some cherry pie and we find all these friends standing here," as if his campaign hadn't spent the last 24 hours blocking off Bridge Street and setting up loudspeakers and security posts. But I quibble: Romney was actually a lot better than when I last saw him during the Republican primaries. He had some new lines, like, Obama "promised hope and change, but now he's hoping to change the subject" from the economy. Occasionally, he even hoisted himself to moments of semi-convincing passion. He said he was going to get the Keystone pipeline built, and here he started to yell, "if I have to build it myself!"
The afternoon was notable for another reason. After 19 days on the road, I finally found an unalloyed, enthusiastic Romney supporter. Her name was Penny Ancel. She had worked for Governor George Romney as a paralegal. "He was intense," which was clearly a euphemism, "but there was never any question where he stood." She supports young Romney "because I know the integrity and honesty he was raised with." And she really didn't like Barack Obama. Well, maybe her support was more of a father-to-son bank shot.
The polls are close in Ohio and Michigan. Both Romney and Obama have problems in the heartland, but Romney's are more serious. People have mixed feelings about the President. Most are disappointed that he didn't turn out to be Superman, but they credit him for trying hard and for being smart, honest and benign; others have legitimate policy beefs with the Obama Administration, especially environmental and regulatory complaints in the coal country of southeastern Ohio; and then there are some who see him as the devil incarnate. Romney, on the other hand, inspires very little passion one way or the other. Midwestern businessmen tend to trust him for that reason, but most of his other supporters simply see him as the lesser of two evils, at best.
"Romney smells like money to me," said Janice Jarvis, an Ohio Republican whose family was in the process of tumbling out of the middle class. I met her as she stocked up at a food pantry in Newcomerstown. Her husband had taken a 60% reduction in salary at General Electric; her son and daughter-in-law had moved back home, jobless (although her son was just starting work on a garbage truck). "But I guess I have to vote for him." Why? I asked. "Because I think Obama is hiding the truth about his past. I think he's a Muslim and he's trying to destroy America. One day the truth will come out."


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The World Trade Center complex came under the control of a private owner for the first time only in mid-2001, having been built and managed by the Port Authority as a public resource. The complex was leased to a partnership of Silverstein Properties and Westfield America.
The new controllers acquired a handsome insurance policy for the complex including a clause that would prove extremely valuable: in the event of a terrorist attack, the partnership could collect the insured value of the property, and be released from their obligations under the 99-year lease.
Author Don Paul investigated this and related issues for his 2002 book, which contains the following passage detailing financial aspects and ownership changes of the complex preceding the attack.
On April 26 of 2001 the Board of Commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded Silverstein Properties and mall-owner Westfield America a 99-year-lease on the following assets: The Twin Towers, World Trade Center Buildings 4 and 5, two 9-story office buildings, and 400,000 square feet of retail space.
The partners' winning bid was $3.2 billion for holdings estimated to be worth more than $8 billion. JP Morgan Chase, a prestigious investment-bank that's the flagship firm of its kind for Rockefeller family interests, advised the Port Authority, another body long influenced by banker and builder David Rockefeller, his age then 85, in the negotiations.
The lead partner and spokesperson for the winning bidders, Larry Silverstein, age 70, already controlled more than 8 million square feet of New York City real estate. WTC 7 and the nearby Equitable Building were prime among these prior holdings. Larry Silverstein also owned Runway 69, a nightclub in Queens that was alleged 9 years ago to be laundering money made through sales of Laotian heroin.
In December 2003, the Port Authority agreed to return all of the $125 million in equity that the consortium headed by Silverstein originally invested to buy the lease on the World Trade Center. The Port Authority rejected a request by the Wall Street Journal to review the transaction.
A press report from November 2003 about the same transaction noted that it would allow Silverstein to retain development rights.
The lease deal didn't close until July 24th, just 6 weeks before the attack.
Don Paul also documented the money flows surrounding the loss of Building 7.
The insurance money flows involved in the destruction of the original six World Trade Center buildings were far greater. Silverstein Properties, the majority owner of WTC 7, also had the majority interest in the original World Trade Center complex. Silverstein hired Willis Group Holdings Ltd. to obtain enough coverage for the complex. Willis undertook "frenetic" negotiations to acquire insurance from 25 carriers. The agreements were only temporary contracts when control of the WTC changed hands on July 24.
After the attack, Silverstein Properties commenced litigation against its insurers, claiming it was entitled to twice the insurance policies' value
because, according to a spokesman for Mr. Silverstein, "the two hijacked airliners that struck the 110-story twin towers Sept. 11 were separate 'occurrences' for insurance purposes, entitling him to collect twice on $3.6 billion of policies." This was reported in the Bloomberg News
less than one month after the attack.
The ensuing legal battle between the leaseholders and insurers of the World Trade Center was not about how the 9/11/01 attack on the WTC could be considered two attacks, when the WTC was only destroyed once. Rather it seemed to revolve around whether the beneficiaries thought it was one or two "occurrences." The proceedings before U.S. District Judge John S. Martin involved a number of battles over the insurers' discovery rights regarding conversations about this issue between insurance beneficiaries and their lawyers.
In December 2004, a jury ruled in favor of the insurance holders' double claim.
To put these events in perspective, imagine that a person leases an expensive house, and immediately takes out an insurance policy covering the entire value of the house and specifically covering bomb attacks. Six weeks later two bombs go off in the house, separated by an hour. The house burns down, and the lessor immediately sues the insurance company to pay him twice the value of the house, and ultimately wins. The lessor also gets the city to dispose of the wreckage, excavate the site, and help him build a new house on the site.


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Big things are happening in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Construction of the first new, private liberal arts college to be built from the ground up in the last 25 years was completed, just in time for the fall semester.
Situated on 103 acres in Orange County, the $220 million campus for Soka University of America (SUA) includes 18 buildings, providing more than 750,000 square feet of learning, living and public space. The campus was master-planned and designed by New York City-based Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA) and Santa Monica, Calif.-based Summit Architects Inc. Swinerton Builders of San Francisco was construction manager and general contractor, while the Los Angeles office of Ove Arup & Partners provided the structural, mechanical and electrical engineering services.
The master plan for SUA capitalizes on the natural topography, with buildings sited to mirror existing landforms much like a Mediterranean hilltown. A loop road defines the campus core, limiting traffic and parking to the perimeter. Surrounded on three sides by 400 acres of wooded parkland, campus facilities have been clustered toward the center of the site. According to architect Norman Pfeiffer of HHPA, this allows for easy pedestrian travel and encourages student-faculty interaction through the creation of formal and informal public spaces, while allowing for more than 50 percent of the site to remain open space.
The campus features numerous plazas, courtyards, paseos and overlooks, as well as a man-made lake — the first vista seen by visitors to the campus. Outside gathering areas are wired to provide students access to the Internet, the campus intranet and library/information systems.
Mediterranean village
Contemporary interpretations of Mediterranean-style buildings, terraced within the scenic hilltop terrain, are constructed of smooth, hand-troweled plaster with Italian travertine and American cherrywood detailing, heavy timber eaves, copper flashing and gutters, and terra-cotta roofs and chimney pots. The 18 buildings are clustered to encourage student and faculty dialogue, and are intersected by small plazas, terraces, gardens and colonnades.
The 124,000-sq.-ft. Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Library serves as the gateway to the university, with a grand stair that leads into the campus via a monumental arch. Behind the library are two four-story academic buildings that together house classrooms, seminar rooms, lecture halls, student lounges, student team workspaces, conference rooms and administrative offices.
Serving as link between the residence halls and the academic core, the student center building will be constructed in phases to reflect the growth of the student population. Tiered steps leading up to the four-story facility from the academic core are designed to encourage impromptu meetings and to serve students as a place to interact and socialize between classes. An open-air plaza allows for "marketplace" activities, outdoor dining and receptions.
Housing exists close to, but apart from, the academic core, and is arranged around courtyards and terraces. The first phase of student housing accommodates approximately 470 students in eight residence halls.
The most distinctive structure is the 60,000-sq.-ft. Founders Hall student services building, which faces the university's man-made lake. It incorporates a 54-ft.-diameter double-dome atop a 10-story-high atrium. The dome's exterior shell is constructed of lightweight, prefabricated concrete and clad with 3,750 pounds of copper. The interior shell is constructed of prefabricated gypsum with articulated, architectural coffers. Dome lighting incorporates state-of-the-art fiber optics, both on the interior and exterior. Moreover, the building's lakefront entrance is enhanced by an 18-ft.-high-by-195-ft.-long stone belvedere.
With the judicious placement of the buildings, the campus is planned to feel complete, even during initial stages. Fully built, SUA will serve as many as 1,200 students. Future phases include additional classrooms, laboratories, administrative offices, residence halls and a 2,000-seat performing arts center.


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Pan-Grilled Steakwith Olive Sauce or Why I Love My Cast Iron Grill Pan
Pan-Grilled Steak with Olive Sauce
(Makes 4 servings, recipe from Food to Live By with slight adaptations by Kalyn.)
4 lean, tender steaks (use a cut like top loin, top sirloin or well-trimmed New York steak)
olive oil, to rub steak
salt and fresh ground pepper to rub steak
Olive Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 tsp. garlic puree (ground garlic, or use finely-minced fresh garlic)
pinch salt
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
2 1/2 T fresh lemon juice
1 can good-quality pitted black olives (slightly over 1 cup)
1/2 cup pitted green olives (without pimento)
1/4 cup pitted Kalamata olives
3 T olive oil
Remove steaks from refrigerator and rub with olive oil and season on both sides with salt and pepper, then let come to room temperature.
While steak is coming to room temperature, put garlic, salt, dijon mustard, lemon juice, black olives, green olives, Kalamata olives, and half of olive oil in food processor or mini-chopper. Pulse until olives are coarsely chopped, then blend at full speed for a few seconds to combine all ingredients. (Don't over process like I did!) Remove from processor and stir in olive oil.
Put cast iron grill pan on top of stove, turn on burner to medium, and heat pan for about 5 minutes before putting meat in pan. (If the pan starts to slightly smoke, it's hot enough!) Lay steaks at a diagonal and cook until grill marks are showing, about 3 minutes. Rotate and cook about 3 minutes more on first side, then turn and cook 3-5 minutes more on second side, depending on how done you like it.
I cooked my one-inch thick steaks exactly 10 minutes and they were perfectly medium-rare. If you have a meat thermometer, this is a good time to use it. For medium-rare, the temperature should be 130F. (The recipe gave instructions for heating the pan in a 500F oven, then cooking the steak as described above. Since it's hot here, I didn't want to heat the oven, and this stovetop method was great. Of course, the steak could also be grilled on a gas or charcoal barbecue.)
Remove steak from pan and let rest about 5 minutes, then serve with olive sauce spooned over the top. This recipes makes slightly over one cup of olive sauce, which will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks. The sauce would be good on tomatoes, chicken breasts, or fish, or as a spread on sandwiches.
South Beach Suggestions:
More Unusual and Yummy Treats with Olives:
(Recipes from other blogs may or may not be South Beach friendly, check ingredients.)
Baked Tilapia with Onions, Peppers, Olives, and Feta
Green Bean Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, Red Pepper, and Feta
Chicken with Roasted Lemons, Green Olives, and Capers
Tomato, Egg, and Olive Salad with Gorgonzola Vinaigrette
Mediterranean ChickPea Fritters with Olives and Sun-Dried Tomatoes from Lucullian Delights
Moroccan Chicken with Lemon and Olives from Simply Recipes
Really Stuffed Sicilian Olives from Cook (almost) Anything At Least Once
Chicken Empanada with Chorizo and Olives from Smitten Kitchen
Fig and Olive Tapenade from David Lebovitz


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The Saket collection offers several rugs made from either leather or jute. These rugs are hand woven and imported from India. This rug offers a simple, natural look in rich browns that would accent your style and décor. Leather
5 ft x 8 ft
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Candles from Bath & Body Works
There's nothing quite like walking into an amazing-smelling room, taking a deep breath and instantly relaxing – and that feeling is exactly why we make the best scented candles! Plus, did you know Bath & Body Works candles have more fragrances than any other candle maker? Bath & Body Works 3-Wick Candles, Single Wick Candles and seasonal candles can help you relax, set the mood or even take you to your own little paradise. They also melt evenly and consistently for amazing-room filling fragrance for hours – guaranteed!


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WBEZ News
The Chicago Tradition: Teaching Our City (South Side Bureau)
Chicago is a city where artists work and are of the working class. The tradition, across genre, has produced a broad and proud history of realist portraiture documenting, reflecting, refracting and re-imaging the Chicago(s) around us.
Join WBEZ and Young Chicago Authors for a rich discussion, where those gathered will be reading and sharing and working towards the building of a Chicago "cannon" to debate the Chicago aesthetic.
Each discussion – May 16th at the WBEZ West Side Bureau, May 23rd at the WBEZ South Side Bureau, and May 30th at the WBEZ North Side Bureau – will aim to explore how educators can create new narratives in hip-hop poetic/prose workshops, as well as find new ways to bring this work into the classroom and community centers of our city.
This event is a co-production of Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) and Young Chicago Authors, which encourages self-expression and literacy among Chicago's youth through creative writing performance and publication. With a process that emphasizes artistic development and mentorship, YCA aims to create safe spaces where a young person's life matters. The organization and its leadership believes that through their words, young people can promote tolerance and remove barriers, transforming their lives and society.
Support for Chicago Public Media's South Side Community Bureau is provided in part by Polk Bros. Foundation, Dr. Scholl Foundation, Met Life Foundation, and Crown Family Philanthropies.


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Eliza Plumridge/Plumidge/Plummer/Plomer? St. John's Wood, Hampstead, UK
Looking for information on Great Grandmother, believed to have been born about 1833 in St. John's Wood, Hampstead, Uk. Father Charles. Eliza had a number of children in Australia to Thomas Ellis. When Thomas was the informant of two childrens' births, the mother's surname was Plumridge. However, when Eliza was the informant her surname was not always the same but appeared to be the various spellings for Plummer. Eliza had a strong accent and was probably illiterate and hence possible surname variations. She died as Mrs Eliza Ellis at Hay, N.S.W. Australia in 1923. Looking to trace her family in UK, arrival in Australia and any other information
Looking for Thomas ELLIS and his family (from UK to Australia)
Thomas ELLIS b abt.1829, London. Together with Eliza Plomer/Plummer/Plumridge b abt. 1833, London,d Hay, NSW 1923 (Eliza's father Charles).They had the following children born in Australia: James b 1862,Terang,Vic. d Goulburn NSW. Charles Henry b 1864,Echuca, Vic. m Florence Mallagh & had a number of children. Sophia b 1867, Hay, d 1874, Hay NSW. Alfred Smith b 1869, Hay, NSW.
Looking for:
(a) information from UK prior to THomas & Eliza's arrival in Australia.
(b)arrival by ship to Australia
(c) death of Thomas in Australia.
(d)All information about Alfred Smith Ellis. In 1923 thought to be in Western Australia.
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... is most probably OpenTTD. It's the same old Transport Tycoon kind of game - you think! Until you realize that the users have created tons of beautiful content including fully open source Grafics, Musics and Sound effects, but also new vehicles like the transrapid and tons of maps from all over the world! :)
This is one of these old style games created with lots of love and care, but
WARNING: it's highly addictive!
If you're under linux, you need to download the graphics package and unpack it into ~/.openttd. I wish the software would do that for you as well in the same way it downloads sounds, maps, extensions and everything else completely automatically!
Switching my Main Browser: Opera 10.51 Review
Well, Opera doesn't seem to have convinced everybody, but it certainly convinced me to switch over again with version 10.51. Also in my personal test it was faster than Google Chrome beta and today's Chromium in the sunspider test (705 vs. 820 and 10xx ms). It works flawlessly with Google Mail, Blogger, etc. It consumes less memory than Chrome or Chromium, especially with many tabs open and uses less CPU when it's just idling. How I love the browser wars!
You can download the newest bleeding edge version of Opera from their Desktop Blog page.
You can download the newest bleeding edge version of Opera from their Desktop Blog page.
Resynthesize Tutorial
Resynthesizing can lead to unwanted results sometimes, especially if you have uneven and complicated surfaces. This tutorial shows you step by step how to get the results you want!
Try Openshot for Video Editing!
I've had lots of problem to even convert the AVCHD files from the HD camera at all at first. But now that totally changed. Openshot is a really new and really great video editor that's based on ffmpeg and can read my .m2ts files without a problem. I can deinterlace them and cut them together for output in almost any format from FullHD to QCIF.
The problem is that at least version 1.1 had a slight issue with memory leaks. It grew to consume more and more RAM. So I recommend to close and reopen it before doing the encode. Or you just close it and do the encode with the command line program openshot-renderer! That also means you can easily edit the video on one computer and then encode it on some other computer, e.g. a headless server. And Openshot encodes pretty quickly as well. Even on my slow old notebook I can export from FullHD in a very short amount of time!
Video editing has never been this easy, fun and fast!
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Blogging - it's about time we started
Liraz Siri - Fri, 2010/01/08 - 00:44
I always figured I would have to try out this blogging "fad" some time in the future. It just never really seemed like the right time to start. Well now we're in 2010 which sounds a lot like the future to the kid in me, so I guess it's time to get our act together and go for it. So yes, it's finally going to happen. The blogging apocalypse is upon us!
Of course, there's a bit more than pure whim involved. Every time Alon and I have a nice long chat about the project blogging (or our lack of) comes up and it seems like such a good idea.
Behind the scenes, our adventures with TurnKey take us far and wide to the four corners of geekdom. We think it'll be fun to open up more and share some of the interesting things we're learning back with the community.
So next time I send an e-mail to Alon thinking "that would make a good blog post", I'll just go a head and publish it.
To talk ourselves into getting started we even made a list of reasons to blog:
- publish reviews of the open source software we're exploring
- share some of the tricks we've learned along the way
- establish a better dialog with the community
- highlight interesting community contributions to the project
- provide a sneak peek at upcoming developments
We realize forming new habits can be hard at first, so to make sure we follow through on giving TurnKey a voice we've resolved to try and post at least once a week.
We're also accepting quality guest submissions from the community. The web site gets several thousand visitors a day, so if you have something interesting to say you think would be a good fit for the TurnKey Blog, send it our way!
News vs Blog
All previous project news announcements have been converted to blog posts tagged under 'news'. By default subscription is now to the blog. Note, if you previously subscribed to the project news feed, you will continue to receive only project news.
The blog is intended to be a bit more chatty than the previous project news section, so we've also added a low-traffic news and security announcements e-mail newsletter which registered users receive by default. Its also available as an RSS feed.


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It's clear the Chicago Cubs are building a team that could be reckoned with in 2015 or '16, though they're well out of the race this season. Virginia Beach's Neil Ramirez, with a 1.21 earned-run average in 35 relief appearances this season, looks like part of it.
The numbers:
Player, Level, Team, Org., Pos., Avg., G, AB, R, H, HR, RBI, OPS;
Jake Cave, AA, Trenton (N.J.), Yankees, OF, .297, 27, 111,...


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Winter fruit is like a secret treasure. Of course, in September the locavore in me is all set to eat nothing but storage apples and berry preserves through the colder months. But by December, I give in and buy the glowing clementines and persimmons that have traveled from warmer latitudes just to brighten my winter. I love walking through Chinatown and looking at all the streetside fruit vendors, and I can never resist taking home a few fat persimmons. Usually I buy the fuyu variety since they can be eaten when firm, and I don't want to wait for their taller cousins the hachiyas to ripen. To remember which is which, I just repeat to myself "short and sweet" as I choose my fruit.
I count myself among the lucky since I have convenient access to the best greenmarket in the city. Even when the farmers are down to the same sturdy storage apples, greens, roots, and squash, I still walk through knowing I'm in the presence of greatness. I roasted a kabocha and sauteed some kale with garlic, and ate them together for days. Can you believe such delicious things are just out there, growing from the ground?
Another of my new favorite apple varities is the Winter Banana. I first read of it in Martha Stewart's Pies and Tarts book, and I was intrigued by the name and description. It's a lovely pale yellow with a slight blush, and tastes warm and fruity like a golden delicious (one of my least-liked apples), but has a saving tartness that keeps me coming back.
And just to give the reins fully to my apple obsession, here's a picture of another very special winter banana. I'm a sucker for fruit with leaves attached, especially when said leaf has left a rub mark on the fruit under it. I'm all out of apples at the moment, but it's Wednesday and I know Union Square has bushels of them, so I'll have to make time to adopt a few more.


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Helpful Notes For The Medicine Plant Aloe Vera
When Buying:
- This plant usually grows slowly when inside–purchase a large, more mature one if possible. If a young one is your only option, you can still use it for first aid treatments but know it will take a few years to get large.
- Young aloe is potent enough to use for first aid treatments, but the more mature one offers a stronger potency, strength does increase with age.
General Care:
- It can be grown indoors or outdoors, but will turn brown in harsh sunlight so choose a location in indirect light.
- Will freeze, make sure to protect it during frost dangers. Not suitable for wintering over in cold weather zones.
- Will thrive outside better than inside, but definitely makes a good indoor houseplant.
- Use well-drained sandy potting soil, a good quality commercial mix with extra perlite, granite grit, or coarse sand are added is recommended. Cacti and succulent mixes may also be used. Source: Wikipedia.
- This is a succulent, don't overwater.
- Allow the soil to become fairly dry before watering. Lightly water during winter months since the drying out will be slower.
- If potting, make sure there is a drainage hole so the water can drain easily.
- When it is rootbound, it will be top heavy and will send out more new shoots or pups, repot.
- Remove new shoots when they are 3 to 4 inches high and replant in their own pots. If you don't, they will suck life from the mother plant. Signs of this happening: The mother will get bright green and spread its leaves horizontally rather than vertically.
- Water the pups well when repotting then don't water again for about 3 weeks, forcing the new roots to get strong and seek water. They may turn grey or brown initially, this is normal. These make great gifts so give freely!
Symptoms Of Poor Care:
- Leaves lie flat instead of upright: usually because of insufficient light.
- Leaves are thin and curled: it's not being watered enough and is using up its own liquid.
- Leaves are brown: too much direct sunlight.
- Very slow growth: High alkaline soil or water; too damp for too long; not enough light; too much fertilizer.
Removing Leaves:
- Harvest leaves as you need, the wound is quickly sealed and healed. The leaf will not grow back, choose those closest to the ground as they are the most mature and most potent.
Using For First Aid Treatments
For benefits and home remedies in first aid, see this page.
How To Cut A Leaf:
- Cut away with a sharp knife.
- Trim the thorny edges from the severed leaf, then slice across its width. The inner transparent, gooey gel is ready to be applied directly to the afflicted area. Use generously, it will be absorbed by the skin within several minutes.
- After the gel from the first layer of ruptured cells has run dry, scratch the surface with a clean knife to rupture more cells, releasing more juice. This can be continued until there is nothing but green skin left.
How Long Will A Cut Leaf Last:
- Wrap partially used leaves in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate, it will last for days.
To Consume:
- The colorless pulp is tasteless, but first rinse off the bitter yellow sap. Peel the green skin from the pulp, then rinse off the sap with cool water.
Source – More complete notes & tips can be found in the booklet:
The Ancient Egyptian Medicine Plant Aloe Vera Hand Book
Author: Max B. Skousen
Aloe Vera Research Institute (1982)


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Warmer Together Card
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Could someone with access to the web site put the Events Team's email address on the contacts page, please? It is firstname.lastname@example.com
I seem to remember a desire to simplify the contacts page, but maybe we've oversimplified.
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Rapper Rick Ross has been the target of criticism the last few weeks for a song he raps on, titled "U.O.E.N.O," in which he seemingly describes drugging a woman's champagne and having sex with her while " she ain't even know it."
That's a problem for Reebok, which has an endorsement deal with Ross to promote its Classics line of sneakers.
Today, protest group UltraViolet will deliver a 71,000-plus signature to Reebok's flagship New York store demanding that Reebok distance itself from Ross. Other rappers have criticized Ross, too.
This isn't Reebok's fault, of course. The company has no control over Ross's artistic output. Marketers at the Boston HQ are probably feeling ambushed by the spat.
Business Insider emailed Reebok's media relations people yesterday asking if they had any statement about Ross, but we received no reply. We called them twice, too. We'll update this item if we hear back from the company.
Ross failed to make the controversy go away when he gave interviews that suggested the lyric did not depict a sexual assault because it did not use the word "rape." He told a radio station:
"Woman is the most precious gift known to man ... And there was a misunderstanding with a lyric...a misinterpretation where the term rape was -- wasn't used. I would never use the term rape, you know, in my lyrics. And as far as my camp, hip hop don't condone that, the streets don't condone that, nobody condones that."
The lyric in question is:
"Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain't even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain't even know it."
"Molly" is a name for the drug ecstasy or MDMA.
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Caesary Full Review
By MMOHut's Erhan Altay
Caesary is yet another browser based strategy game released in the wake of Evony. Like the myriad of other strategy games that use similar scripts, Caesary allows players to slowly build up an empire via prudent resource management and skillful diplomacy. The Roman theme helps set the game apart from competitors and the simple interface helps make Caesary easy to pick up and play.
Access Points
Originally hosted on its own site, Caesary is now accessible from multiple portals. Players can log into the game via the massive flash game platform Kongregate, or through Aeria Games. As a flash game, Caesary will run on a wide variety of computers and does not require high system specs. Most free MMORPG fans are likely to already have Aeria accounts so I recommend that method of entry. New players are presented with a rather dull town that consists of a Rectorate and four resource producing structures. The Rectorate serves as the town center while the Farm, Quarry, Iron Mine, and Sawmill each generate one of the four primary resources: Lumber, Crops, Stone, and Iron. The fifth resource is Sesterces which is the common coinage collected by taxing citizens. A rather buxom Egyptian adviser guides new players through the game's tutorial, and it is well worth completing.
Questing for Rewards
Like in Empire Craft, each city in Caesary starts with a single copy of each resource building and cannot build additional copies. Instead, players must upgrade their structures to increase the number of jobs the structure can create, and at what speed. Job creation is an interesting method of resource generation that helps set Caesary apart from other strategy games. Rather than simply producing more resources as buildings level, players must manually 'create' farming, mining, or forestry jobs in order to put their citizens to work. The tutorial walks newbies through the process of erecting new structures, of upgrading existing ones, and creating jobs. Low level structures can be constructed or upgraded instantly, but higher level ones require the use of premium items to speed up. Luckily, the first few quests provide packages that contain many premium items. Another way for players to acquire premium items for free is through the Zodiac Ceremony which is basically a prize wheel. Players can spin it once a day for free, but it costs 5 gold for each additional shot. The prizes on offer vary from lump sums of a particular resource to items that cost $10 in the item mall. Besides construction boosts, players will receive a hero, and hundreds of combat troops for free. The basic combat mechanics are similar to those in Kingory and War of Legend. Players assign troops trained at the barracks to heroes then issue commands to those heroes around the world map.
Conquering the Wilderness
The interface in Caesary is clean and well organized. There are only two screens to worry about: town view and world view. Players start packed closely together on the world map to encourage interaction. New players are granted 7 days of protection from attack, but upgrading the Rectorate to level 5 or higher will cancel this protection. It's best to use the first week building up your economy, and familiarizing yourself with the game's mechanics. While waiting for buildings to finish, players should send their heroes into the field to claim various wilderness spots. These come in several flavors including Forests, Mountains, Cliffs, Deserts, Lakes, and so on. They vary in level from 1 through 10 and serve a duel purpose. They can be raided for loot in the form of luxury items like Diamonds which are required to train certain heroes or advance in rank, but they can also be seized to provide a boost to resource production. The amount of loot that can be plundered and the resource boost granted vary based on the level of the wilderness, but the higher level ones are better defended. Players can train scouts and use them to detect the strength of the forces defending a wilderness, or a player-controlled city before attacking.
Empire Building 101
As the seven day grace period begins to expire, players should focus more on building up their defenses, and making allies with nearby players. Walls, and warehouses are two important buildings to focus on for defense, but joining a League is the best form of protection. Would-be raiders tend to gloss over cities with a League alignment, least they incur the rather of multiple armies at once. Even if a city is conquered in Caesary, it's not the end of the game. Instead, the city is simply classified as a colony, or tributary, of the conqueror and enjoys 20% of all resources generated from that city. New players need not wait until they are defeated to become colonies. A city that voluntary submits to pay tribute to another can effectively outsource its defense responsibilities for 20% of its resource income. There's no limit to the number of colonies a player can have, so there's a powerful incentive to either make alliances or wage wars. Almost all browser games have a powerful social component, and this one is no different. Players will notice right away that chatting is a common way to kill time, and as leagues mature they will do a fair deal of chatting between themselves.
Throne for Sale
Many Western developed strategy games like Tribal Wars and Ikarium try to limit the advantages players can purchase, but Asian developers don't seem to have that notion of balance in mind. The game's premium currency, gold, costs about 10 cents a piece and can be used to purchase resources, items that speed up construction, and items that give major bonuses to military units. There's even an item for sale that costs $500. There's nothing 'micro' about that transaction! The obvious result of the item shop in Caesary is that in any given conflict, the side that reaches for the credit card more often will prevail. It is still possible to join a large clan and contribute forces while playing for free, but caps on the number of players per clan mean free players are likely to be sidelined.
Final Verdict: Fair
While Caesary has a unique setting, it doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from other strategy games. The slow paced progression, and the unlimited shortcuts paying players receive make Caesary a very unbalanced game. It is possible to play the game casually and enjoy it, especially if the Roman theme sounds appealing.
Pros: +Solid interface. +Good tutorial. +Interesting theme. +Pay tribute in return for protection with the colony feature.
Cons: -Very similar to previous strategy games. -Paying players receive large advantages. -Very slow paced. -Confusing English translations.
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Joseph Michael Jurevicius (born December 23, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State.
Jurevicius has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks and Cleveland Browns. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII.
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Make no mistake -- this one belongs to Kareena and Shahid. With strong emphases on delivery of dialog, Jab We Met is the story of how a woman captures the heart of a man who falls hopelessly in love with her. Given his position as one of the more influential businesspersons in the country, the moments he initially spends with the woman become the driving force behind his successful recovery of a failing business. And so the story goes.
In a nutshell: Guy meets girl. Guy loses girl. Guy misses girl. Guy looks for and finds girl. Guy is about to lose the girl again. Girl announces her allegiance to guy.
Sounds simple on the surface. Watch the film to see how exciting and fun-filled this journey can be! Overall, Jab We Met is a cute film with some feel-good romance and tasteful comedy. Kareena Kapoor looks beautiful and her makeover is well portrayed. She steals the show with her acting. A word on her wardrobe -- it suits her in an excellent fashion (especially the salwar kameez outfits), and adds the grace and simplicity that makes her the epitome of the Bharati naari who is considerate and compassionate while oozing sex appeal.
Shahid Kapoor puts in a very good performance as well. His acting is simple and effective, and has little noise to it. I particularly enjoyed the matter-of-fact approach that he employs with his character. Well done. Overall, a well-deserved three and a half stars for a film that works!
Movie rating: ***1/2 (very good!)
My classification: PG (for plot)
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The solid-state lighting (SSL) revolution taking place in the lighting world today was brought up-to-date at a conference in New York this past March. Sponsored by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York with support from the New York Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), LEDucation IV featured key presentations focused on the topics of architecture, standards, and technology. As with any newer technology, quality standards will help speed market adoption rates.
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and sister technology, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) — the two light sources that constitute the SSL category — have the potential to replace many light sources that either heat a tungsten filament to incandescence or that use filaments within a glass envelope to create an ionized arc stream (i.e., fluorescent and HID lamps). Thus, a presentation on three new standards by Michael Myer, lighting engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., was perhaps the most interesting for lighting practitioners, since the only way to separate false claims from accurate information regarding performance is through valid testing.
New lighting standards are necessary, because existing ones do not address LED characteristics, such as color consistency, lumen maintenance, and thermal effects. The two most important standards issued in recent years (2008) are:
IESNA LM-80, "Approved Method for Measuring Lumen Depreciation of LED Light Sources" — This standard sets up test conditions, including three different operating temperatures, to duplicate expected field conditions and equipment requirements. The lumen output is measured every 1,000 hr to at least 6,000 hr. The reduction in output at these six points is plotted on a chart and extrapolated for 36,000 hr. If the LED is tested for 10,000 hr, then the extrapolation extends to 60,000 hr. The end of useful life for a source is when 30% of its lumen output is lost.
IESNA LM-79, "Approved Method for the Electrical and Photometric Testing of Solid-State Lighting Devices" — This standard was developed to evaluate the performance of the LED source in a fixture. This is accomplished by evaluating how the light source performs in a fixture. Parameters covered include the testing conditions, how to operate and stabilize the LED sources, what instrument is used, and how to take measurements.
To address the unique color characteristics of LEDs, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) published ANSI C78.377-2008, "Specifications for Chromaticity of Solid-State Lighting Products." This standard specifies the range of chromaticities recommended for general lighting with SSL products and ensures that the white light chromaticities of the products can be communicated to consumers. The standard applies to LED-based SSL products with incorporated control electronics and heat sinks. The standard does not cover SSL products for outdoor applications or SSL products for some indoor applications that intentionally produce tinted or colored light.
Through creation of industry alliances, sponsored workshops, and its SSL CALiPER testing program, Energy Star certification program, and Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance (NGLIA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is also helping LEDs gain market acceptance. In 2008, DOE launched an initiative called SSL Quality Advocates (QA), developed jointly with the NGLIA. QA is a voluntary program to ensure accurate reporting, not just in product labeling/packaging and literature, but also in press releases and manufacturers' data sheets. At the core of the initiative is a Lighting Facts Label (shown above) that is placed on a fixture carton, showing performance characteristics of the product.


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An FBI sting investigating misconduct at Los Angeles County jails led to the arrest of 18 current and former sheriff's deputies Monday on a range of charges, including conspiracy and obstruction, a federal prosecutor said.
"The five cases allege a wide scope of illegal conduct," said André Birotte Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. "This investigation started by focusing on misconduct in county jails, and we uncovered examples of civil rights violations that included excessive force and unlawful arrests."
The FBI has been investigating reports of excessive force since 2011.
According to the Los Angeles Times, officials were being investigated for allegedly trying to hide an informant who was giving the FBI information after finding the cell phone he had been using to document officer offenses. They allegedly changed the name he had been held under several times and questioned him repeatedly about whether he would testify in an investigation. Sheriff's officials say he wasn't being hidden from the FBI but rather protected after he had been outed.


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The Snaggletooth series are very interesting folding pocket knives. In the realm of knife fighting, these are very effective weapons. The "bump" on the top of the blade is used in a variety of ways, generally the opponent's body is utilized to open the main blade. These also have a "little finger" ring that is revealed with a button. This allows for other handling of this knife. It's a great product and well made and reasonably priced, which is pretty typical of the Mantis products. The KnifeCenter offers a large selection of Mantis products and we ship then around the world.
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Hillsboro police
Third and Cedar Sts.
While traveling southbound, Cara Lee Duell, 43, 604 W. Second St., Hillsboro, slid on the snow-covered road in her 2001 Volvo station wagon and came to rest on the passenger side in the west ditch at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 11. Police reported no injuries. However, her vehicle had to be towed from the scene.
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Sunflower Rd. north of 90th Rd.
Derrick Everett Ratzloff, 17, of 620 Sherman St., Marion, lost control of a 1990 Honda sedan registered to Pamela Anne Webber, 150 Eastmoor Dr., Marion, on snow, went into the ditch, and struck a fence owned by Wildcat Creek Ranch at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 4. Police reported no injuries.
230th Rd. west of K-15
Trevor Paul Jost, 26, 221 Allison, Newton, hit a stop sign with a 2006 Kenworth truck registered to Kropf Lumber Inc., 400 Lancaster Ave., Hesston, while being pulled out of a snow bank at 3 p.m. Feb. 4. Police reported no injuries.
U.S. 77 north of U.S. 56
James Edward Byers, 64, 1210 Queens Place, Kansas City, Mo., went off the road and got stuck in a ditch in a 2012 International registered to Crete Carrier, 400 N.W. 56th St., Lincoln, Neb., while trying to make a U-turn at 6:36 a.m. Feb. 5. The vehicle had to be towed. Police reported no injuries.
Indigo Rd. south of 100th Rd.
Dolores E. Robles, 71, of 231 Grandview St., Florence, lost control of her 2003 Chevrolet sport utility vehicle on an ice-packed road and went into the ditch at 11:48 a.m. Feb. 6. She and passenger Vincenta Robles, 73, same address, had possible injuries, but no transport was made. The vehicle had to be towed.
Indigo Rd. north of 70th Rd.
Courtney Dawn Erwin, 21, 5452 White Fence Rd., Randall, Texas, lost control of a 2000 Honda sedan registered to Keyra Erwin, same address, on the snow-covered road, went into the ditch, and crashed through a fence owned by Charles Unruh, 966 70th Rd., Peabody, at 10 p.m. Feb. 9. Police reported no injuries. The vehicle had to be towed.
Pawnee Rd. between 210th and 220th Rds.
Brian Lee Hyslop, 47, of 3436 S.W. Shady Lane, Benton, backed into a utility pole with a 2011 International truck registered to Waste Connections, 2745 N. Ohio St., Wichita, at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 10. Wires had to be cut to get the vehicle out from under the pole. Police reported no injuries.
190th Rd. west of Mustang Rd.
Alexandra Faye Lewis, 16, 402 Sycamore St., Peabody, hit a patch of snow, lost control, and hit a power pole with a 2001 Ford pickup registered to Sheri S. Lewis, same address, at 1:42 p.m. Feb. 12. She had a possible injury and was taken by ambulance to Hillsboro Community Hospital. The vehicle had to be towed.


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. . . where students and faculty work together with sponsors/partners to make a significant positive difference. We were founded in 2004 by Dr. Michael Escuti (Professor) within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in 2015 we transitioned from our prior group name (Opto-Electronics & Lightwave Engineering Group (OLEG)). We aim to "Think. Do. Repeat."
We research the fundamental behavior and applications of complex patterns in liquid crystals and the geometric phase, aiming for new functionality, higher efficiency, and enhanced fidelity in a wide range of photonics applications. In other words, we strive to invent new ways to achieve what was previously impossible, unfeasible, or unreasonable, leading to consequential discovery and capability.


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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Robert Gober, the next exhibition in his galleries at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard. Robert Gober: Sculpture Drawings Studies will be the artist's first one-person exhibition of new work in four years, and his first one-person show in Los Angeles in fifteen years.
Gober has produced three large sculptures, several smaller sculptures, and a group of works on paper for this exhibition. All of them will be exhibited here for the first time. A selection of related earlier works will also be included.
Robert Gober began exhibiting his work publicly in 1979. Since that time he has had numerous exhibitions, both in this country and abroad. His work has been the subject of one-person museum exhibitions at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1991), the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1992), The Serpentine Gallery, London (1993), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997), and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1999), among others. He represented the United States at the 2001 Venice Biennale. In 2007, the Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland organized a comprehensive overview of his work.
Robert Gober: Sculpture Drawings Studies will be on view from January 19 through April 6, 2013, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.
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