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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there are times when a few words are priceless. That's certainly the case with old photos of family members.
Ever looked at an old photo and wondered who the lovely lady is in the picture? Is that a much younger Aunt Sara or Cousin Roberta? Ever wondered when and where a favorite picture was taken?
Anyone who's ever experienced that sort of frustration will appreciate an innovation from Internet startup LegacyStories.org, a website that provides a safe and easy way to give voice to cherished memories, family histories and personal legacies and pass them on to children and grandchildren.
The site is the brainchild of two entrepreneurs, Tom Cormier and Dennis Slack. Its signature feature is the ability to upload vintage photos and record a narrative, describing the photo with the user's own computer microphone, essentially creating talking pictures.
Cormier explains the importance of a few words. "We keep old family photos because they're so special and meaningful to us, but the people in them may as well be strangers to our grandchildren. With our system, members can give voice to their vintage photos, telling the story behind the event or about the special person."
Members are discovering a wide range of uses for this technology, both professionally and personally.
Butch Hibben, a genealogist from Corona California, narrates photos of his ancestors to inform and educate his family in an engaging way. "Being able to tell the story behind an ancestor photo in a way that captures the attention of our youth has been especially appealing to me."
The free site has amassed an impressive collection of living history, all being preserved on a series of cloud-based servers. The partners say their goal is to build an educational research library that represents the living history of the 20th century.
"We want to give every citizen a chance to secure an honored place in history and make it as easy as possible to contribute their photo narratives to the collection," says Stack.
Connie Bradshaw and Betty Reed, certified legacy advisors from Jacksonville, Florida, have recorded photo stories of local members of the Society of the Sons (and Daughters) of the American Revolution. "These are the direct descendants of the patriots who fought for and formed our nation," says Bradshaw. "Hearing their voices tell these stories are the closest thing to being there."
The site serves as the official archive and repository for the Living Legacy Project, whose mission is the preserve the living history of the 20th century.
It was one of the first to be certified by FamilySearch.org, the world's largest collection (3.3 billion records and counting) of free genealogy resources. That certification allows LegacyStories members to link their stories to the records of family members in the FamilySearch database.
Cormier espouses, "By providing all citizens a way to secure their legacy, we hope to preserve the past, enrich the present and inspire the future."


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Until then, I used to wonder if they tie up or 'glue' the pot on their head and disguise with makeup! But now, for sure I know that it is purely an art of balancing the decorated 'karagam', which is most important to start the attam!!!
They dance with so much grace that it is hard to believe how the pot royally sits on their heads.
At times, as a challenge, they lie down on their stomach by few dexterous movements and pick up a small piece of wood or fruit from the ground, while balancing the karagam!!!
The dancers are called as 'karagattakaran (men) and karagattakari (women). The music is also very peepy and you feel like tapping your foot.
|The man in white is musician of this troupe!
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As New York State residents, we have thought many times about taking a trip up to Lake George but just never got around to it. We finally made the under 4 hour drive there last weekend and we had a blast! We stayed at the Great Escape Lodge and spent our first day at their indoor waterpark and the second day at Six Flags Great Escape Theme Park which is across from the lodge. The outdoor waterpark Splashwater Kingdom had not opened for the season but we still had a fun-filled weekend.
The kids really enjoyed the attractions at the indoor waterpark. It was not extremely busy even though it was a weekend, which was really nice. It is not as large as some we have been to but they had plenty of ways to have fun. The Lazy River was something we spent a lot of time in as a family and it was far from lazy. there are currents that push you around as you free swim or use one of the clear double seater tubes. As you go around there are plenty of cascading water falls, so navigate carefully if you don't want to get soaked!
If you are looking for a thrill ride you can go on together as a family, The Avalanche is a twisting, turning, exhilarating four-person raft ride. This 382-foot tube simulates all the thrills of a white-water rafting experience complete with a 41-foot drop. Oh and the ride is dark to further enhance the thrill! I screamed my lungs out when we went but was glad I experienced it!
Glacier Run and Snow Shoe Falls are 2 tube water slide, thrill rides. Riders will sit on a tube and go through loops, curls and down a 41-foot drop. Both slides are approximately 300-feet. However, they were not running when we were there. Not sure what the issue was.
The Boogie Bear Surf is a surfing simulator where you can body surf or stand-up surf. There are lessons available. To body surf on a boogie board you must be 42″ and over. To stand and surf you must be 54″ and over and a lesson is required to stand up surf.
Little Tots and Young Kids 54″ and under can have fun at Tip-A-Kanu Beach with slides, swings, shallow water and wildlife-themed spurting fountains.
Tall Timbers Treehouse has over 160 play features and is fun for preschoolers and up! There are smaller red slides for kids under 54″ and 3 more thrilling slides for the 40″ and over crowd. Water fights and fun can be had with the swivel water rifles, hydro blasters, arch jets and steering wheels that increase or decrease the water volume out of the fountains. Watch out though because perched high above the tree house is a ginormous bucket that soaks everyone below when it gets full! There are lots of videos from the waterpark on our Instagram.
A couple of issues that I did notice are unlike some indoor waterparks, it is not exclusive to just the lodge guests so there was a birthday party going on and some older kids that were causing a little mischief but the lifeguard quickly put the kibosh on it. The lifeguards are all over and friendly but with the tube slides they should have a little bit better control of making sure only one rider is in the tube at a time. In other parks there is one lifeguard at the entrance of the large slides and they give the okay for each rider to go down the slide only when they have made sure the previous rider has exited. There were several close calls and some collisions we did notice. Our little guy hurt his foot pretty bad when he had a collision with another rider. The lifeguard was so sweet and tried to take his mind off the pain while they called in First Aid to get him ice. Monitoring the slides should be something they think about implementing.
There is a fun-filled arcade called the Star Light Arcade but our kids are more the type that want to be the action, actually our whole family is, so we spent our time at the waterpark and Six Flags Great Escape. If your family likes arcades, the arcade features over 45 games fun for kids of all ages. They can collect tickets when they win and then redeem them for a variety of prizes.
If you want to shop for Lake George Souvenirs the lodge features North Woods Traders where you will find a wide variety of clothing, Adirondack gifts and craftsmen-inspired treasures. Various travel supplies and sundries are also available in case you forgot anything.
If you are in need of some pampering the Tranquility Spa offers a variety of services to help you relax and rejuvenate. Need some "Mommy & Me" time? No problem, get a Mommy & Me Facial, Mani or Pedi! The Fitness Center features an elliptical, upright bike and universal gym, along with a flat-screen TV.
Everyone at the Lodge was so helpful and friendly. They have several activities with kids and Scrappy Doo. There was a dance party and our sons were so amused along with all the other kids. They also had a story time at 7:30 pm but our boys were not ready to leave the waterpark then. The waterpark was open until 9pm when we were there. Click HERE to see a video clip of the Scrappy Doo Dance Party on our Instagram.
All of their Adirondack-themed suites are non-smoking and furnished with rustic log inspired furniture and accents in warm colors. We stayed in a traditional suite but they have other room options. The traditional suite we had was very nice and spacious, it had 2 queen beds and a sitting area with a couch that converts into another bed if needed. There is a table and 2 chairs as well as a coffee table in front of the couch. The bathroom has a tub/shower combo and toilet. The tub needed to be calked badly and it appeared black where the calk was missing in places. That is the only thing I found off-putting with the room. I would think they would have fixed that and cleaned it up. There were plenty of clean towels and the beds were clean and fresh. The sink is outside the bathroom area. Our room had a mini-refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, iron/ironing board and Wi-Fi access. They had ice cream machines and drink vending machines for any late night snacks. Other suites are available with breakfast bars, bunk beds and more, you can see all the options HERE!
On Site dining options are Johnny Rockets, Tall Tales Tavern, Birch Bark Grill (by the indoor waterpark) and for coffee lovers there is the Tall Pines Coffee Corner. There are many restaurants off site too as well as a Walmart and many other stores in the immediate area.
Special Deals are available, check them out HERE!
Great Escape Theme Park across from the lodge has over 135 rides, shows and attractions and features the brand new looping coaster-Greezed Lightin'.
Greezed Lightnin' officially opened to the public on May 28th but was able to be ridden by us and other select guests.
There are plenty of games if you like that, loads of thrill rides, a nice carousel, log flume ride, several kiddie rides and plenty of places to eat. We found it to be an awesome place to spend with our family making memories. I would like to go back when Splashwater Kingdom is open!
The park was very nice and quaint with Story town, with so many adorable, theme tiny houses that you could go in, my kids just loved those! The swan boat ride was nice and so was a train ride that took you around the park. The hot rod cars that you could drive were another favorite
A trip to one of the gift shops on our way out of the park to pick up two special friends to remind our kids of their awesome weekend was the perfect end to a super great weekend.
If you are looking for a family fun destination in the Northeast, check out Great Escape Lodge in Lake George. If you have been to Great Escape I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments. If you have any questions, ask in the comments and I will be happy to answer as best I can.
Our stay and admission in both the indoor water park and Six Flags Great Escape was sponsored as a blogger working with USFG. As always my words and views are 100% my own.


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Lloyds Banking Group has said it has completed an "immense" system integration aimed at dramatically cutting costs.
As the part-nationalised bank announced a heavy annual loss, at £3.5 billion, it said that IT integration was playing a key part in cost cutting. Most of the loss came from payouts over missold payment protection insurance.
"As at 31 December 2011, we had realised annual run-rate savings of £2,054 million from the integration programme," said the bank in its annual financial statement. The integration concerns the addition of accounts from HBOS, which Lloyds acquired in 2009 as the financial crisis hit.
"A major part of the integration from an IT perspective was the migration of Halifax and Bank of Scotland customer accounts and data to the scaled Lloyds TSB platforms, and this was successfully completed in the third quarter."
The bank said it was "an immense exercise involving the migration of approximately 30 million customer accounts" as well as "35 billion pieces of data". The new platforms, it said, "will now provide the foundation for the group's transformation plans."
"This has been the largest ever financial services IT Integration, and at its peak it involved many thousands of colleagues across the organisation," it said.
The programme consisted of three phases. Firstly, it introduced the Lloyds TSB Branch Counter System to all Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches, and moved 3,800 HBOS cash machines to the Lloyds platform.
After that, HBOS' mortgage sales platform was rolled out to Lloyds TSB advisers.
In the final stage, the 30 million HBOS retail and business accounts were moved to Lloyds' platform, following 11 dress rehearsals, and 250,000 individual tests. Some 27,000 employees were trained on the new system.
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Underneath his inviting personality, optimistic outlook and relentless drive to stay healthy, Steve Nash has continually faced this preseason an uncomfortable reality.
No matter how many practices he misses and treatment he receives, the 39-year-old guard has faced what he calls a "day-to-day" struggle in ensuring he stays ahead of Father Time.
Nash participated all but the end of Thursday's practice because of a neck Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni described as "stiff." Nash called his sore left ankle "good enough." Meanwhile, it's possible Nash will sit out of the Lakers' preseason finale Friday against the Utah Jazz at Honda Center to ensure his back and hamstrings also stay healthy, injuries he spent all offseason rehabbing.
"Age ultimately wins all battles, but at the same time, I'm not going to concede everything," Nash said. "I feel like I can do everything I've always done. It's just a matter of if I have my body in a place where I can do it consistently and recover and be able to find that health to execute."
The Lakers are monitoring other injuries.
Lakers forward Chris Kaman missed Thursday's practice and isn't expected to play against Utah after nursing a stomach virus all week. D'Antoni also said Lakers guard Steve Blake has a stiff neck, though he practiced Thursday and likely will play against the Jazz. Kobe Bryant has continued rehabbing his left Achilles tendon.
And there's Nash, who missed 32 games last season because of a fractured left leg and back and hamstring issues.
"He's a trooper and trying to get out on the floor and practice with the guys as much as he can," Bryant said. "At the same time, he's trying to knock the (injuries) out as much as he possibly can going into game one."
Nash plans to play in the Lakers' season opener Tuesday against the Clippers in a designated home game at Staples Center. But for how long?
He sat out of the last three quarters of the Lakers' preseason loss two weeks ago to Sacramento because of his sore left ankle. He skipped the second half of the Lakers' preseason win Tuesday against Utah because of his neck.
"I want to play because I want to get a rhythm," said Nash, who has averaged 3.5 points on 42.9 percent shooting and 3.71 assists through six preseason games. "At the same time, I don't want to do it to where I put myself out for a couple of weeks."
Nash sounds more willing to sit out because of what Blake and Jordan Farmar offer in point guard depth.
"I have a lot of confidence in Jordan and Steve and the team," Nash said. "We have a lot of depth in a lot of areas."
Nash also expressed more openness about sitting out in back-to-back games.
"My nature has been to push throughout my career," he said. "Now might be the time where I need to be realistic. I don't want to be closed to anything that will help myself or the team."
The challenges keep piling up, but Nash seems intent on pushing.
"I'm fighting as much as I can to get through this year," Nash said. "I'm up for the challenge. I felt excited and inspired by my teammates. I love being part of this team and want to do whatever I can to help be on the floor as much as possible. I'm not going to give up anytime soon."


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KALAMAZOO—Western Michigan University's Department of Theatre has launched the annual Acting Against Poverty food drive.
The drive will run in conjunction with two Department of Theatre productions: "The Three Musketeers," Oct. 11-21, and "Spring Awakening," Oct. 26 through Nov. 4. Theatre patrons are encouraged to bring canned soups, stews or any other non-perishable food items with them to performances.
The community is also welcome to drop off food items at the box office Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. for the duration of the campaign. All donations will be contributed to Kalamazoo's local food pantry, Loaves and Fishes.
According to 2010 Census data, Kalamazoo ranks fifth among U.S. cities in terms of poverty; 38.8 percent of Kalamazoo city residents live below the poverty line. The Department of Theatre and its students aim to make sure no one goes hungry this winter season and to celebrate the spirit found in The Three Musketeers: "All for one, and one for all!"
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The leader of the company that made the infamous StarCaps nutritional supplement has been fined for the misbranding of the drug.
Nikki Haskell, who incorporated the now-defunct company that sold StarCaps, was fined $60,000 on Friday by a federal judge in New York, according to Reuters. Haskell plead guilty to a misdemeanor in March in connection with the misbranding.
StarCaps was a weight-loss aide that contained bumetanide, a substance banned by the NFL. However, the presence of bumetanide was not listed as an ingredient in the drug. Seahawks defensive tackle Kevin Williams and Patriots defensive end Will Smith were among the players who served suspensions for taking StarCaps after a legal battle.
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Dr. Rose earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1973 in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Yanofsky. His thesis research focused on regulation of the tryptophan operon of E. coli. He then did postdoctoral research at MIT in the laboratories of Drs. David Baltimore and Harvey Lodish, where he began work on eucaryotic RNA viruses. In 1978, Dr. Rose took a faculty position at the Salk Institute, where he continued work on RNA virus transcription, as well as structure, function, and transport of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) glycoprotein. In 1986, he moved to become Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. In 1994, his laboratory developed a system for recovering non-segmented, negative-strand RNA viruses from DNA plasmids. His work at Yale during the past fifteen years has focused largely on new approaches to vaccine development using vectors based on recombinant VSV and other viral replicons. This work has led to development of robust vaccine platforms that can protect animals against numerous viral and bacterial pathogens, typically after a single dose. A VSV-based HIV vaccine advanced from the Rose laboratory has recently completed a successful Phase I clinical trial.
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Marcus Evans returns for his eighth season with the Lipscomb University track and field staff again serving as the assistant coach working primarily with the sprinters, hurdlers, relays, jumpers, and multi-event athletes.
During his tenure Evans has helped athletes break school records 34 times including the men's and women's 4x400m relays, the Men's 4x100m, 110m Hurdles, 400 hurdles, 100m, 200m, and 400m. With Evans as coach Jonathan Imes ran 47.56 in the 400m and is the reigning indoor and outdoor champion.
Other successes include Teanna Jules who broke the 60m record in February 2017, Tucker Peabody qualified for the NCAA East regional in 100m and 200m three times and the USATF National Championships. Wayne Newman also qualified for the USATF indoor championships for the 60mH, NCAA Preliminary Round for the 110m Hurdles three times (13.82) and 400m Hurdles (51.13). Newman won four indoor 60m Hurdle Atlantic Sun titles in a row 2014-2017.
Evans has also assisted with steeplechase/hurdling technique contributing to both the men's and women's 3000m Steeplechase records being broken. Marcus' specific work with Madi Talbert has contributed to her 3x time qualification to the NCAA finals in Eugene Oregon where she has been awarded All-American status. Evans has also assisted in all nine of the Cross Country Championships for the men (3) and women (6 consecutive).
Before his time at Lipscomb, Evans was an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Adrian College in Michigan, where he helped the sprinters, hurdlers and high jumpers. During his year at Adrian, Evans coached five MIAA conference champion sprinters and a NCAA Division III high jump qualifier.
Evans competed in track and field as a hurdler for Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville as a hurdler during the school's transition from NCAA Division II to Division I. Evans was a team captain and served as vice-president and member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.
Evans is a two-time Division II NCAA provisional qualifier and Division I regional qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles (52.20). Evans is also a SIUE record holder as a member of the sprint medley relay. Evans earned GLVC all-conference honors as a 200-meter hurdle indoor champion and was member of the 4x400-meter relay team.
In 2010, Evans earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications with an emphasis in television and radio from SIUE. Evans earned a Master's degree in Conflict Management from Lipscomb University. Evans is a USATF Level 1 certified coach, and he also has Track and Field Coaching and Sprint, Hurdle, and Relay Specialist certificate holder from the USTFCCCA.
Coach Evans resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Megan. Evans is from Skokie, Ill., where he competed in basketball, track and field, and cross-country for Niles North High School. Evans was born in Chandler, Ariz. where he competed in club track and field for the Arizona Cheetahs beginning at the age of 6 years old.


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With institutional investors getting a bad rap in beverages these days – the National Enquirer version of the complaint is they force you to juice your projections in order to get the deal done, then steal your company when you fail to hit those unrealistic targets – a lot of early-stage beverage companies have been in a quandary as to where else to turn once they've reached the limits of where friends-and-family and angels can take them. (In fairness, the institutional groups have their own grievances against beverages as good investment prospects.)
One avenue worth a gander – albeit with a careful eye – is the growing ranks of beverage incubators. "Grade school for consumer products," is how Dino Sarti, a partner in an incubator called L.A. Libations, put it at the recent BevNET Live conference in Santa Monica, and that kind of captures their essence. Though they take various forms and their substance is not always easy to separate from their marketing hype, the incubators offer a range of expertise in critical areas such as product development, distribution and financing (including sometimes serving as an intermediary with the institutions). For new brands, they offer the prospect of devising a grounded development and launch plan. For the distributors and retailers who're being pitched, they offer some assurance that the entrepreneur has received at least minimal adult supervision on the way to market.
I'll admit I find the borders to be blurry between incubators and other species of service providers to new brands: consultancies like Cascadia Managing Brands and Jim Tonkin's Healthy Brand Builders; boutique private-equity shops like First Beverage Group; sales agencies like Coast Brands Group (which itself launched an incubation unit earlier this year). But it's worth scanning some of the options.
Incubation units launched by the beverage giants always garner a disproportionate share of attention because those companies represent such an obvious strategic exit for new brands. Currently, Coca-Cola's Venturing & Emerging Brands unit has earned a spot in everyone's Rolodex for its bias toward action and willingness to experiment. (It operates separately from another incubator, minority-owned by Coke, called Brain-Twist in New York.) Among other strategics, the Learning Labs concept established by Pepsi Bottling Group seems to continue on at PepsiCo, though its strategy and approach remain murky, whether by design or because of the ongoing churn at PepsiCo. We might also include Nestle Waters North America among these, though I get the sense so far that NWNA prefers not to go really small in chasing opportunities.
Partnering with one of those is a fairly predictable aspiration, because of their national distribution networks and identity as potential acquirers. But it can leave you exposed to the whims of those companies' own portfolio strategies as they, for example, launch their own entries into the same category. (Or, as in the case of Anheuser-Busch with its 9th Street Beverage unit, the incubator can be abruptly abandoned when the core strategy changes.)
Among strategics not wedded to a specific national channel is Sunsweet, which has been involved with brands like Function, Ayala Herbal Water and C2O Coconut Water. Independent Coke bottler Coca-Cola Consolidated has remained committed to an incubation unit called BYB, which has scored a sizable success with its sub-premium Tum-E Yummies kids line while looking to build premium brands such as Bean & Body and Bazza. And Sunny Delight Beverage Co. has sought to move beyond its value-price niche with plays such as Bossa Nova acai. All three meld the deep resources of a big company, a channel-agnostic approach to distribution, and leadership by big-company lifers who've proved surprisingly agile in the emerging-brand realm.
Then there are the independents. Big Red has successfully grown its core soft drinks while placing a side bet on Thomas Kemper Soda and winning the assignment to produce and distribute the much-ballyhooed Street King energy shot line. Shadow Beverages, created by some old Pepsi hands, has been on an impressive run, capped by its assignment to develop a multi-tier functional line for GNC. GBS Growth Partners got started helping Coke Consolidated devise its BYB plan but has managed forays into fresh teas, energy drinks and functionals.
Among others, L.A. Libations has served as an agent for relatively established brands like Icelandic Glacial water while nurturing small brands, some of them Coke entries like Illycaffe, and recently launching an aloe line of its own. Maverick Brands, though it seems to prefer to operate under the radar, has done well with Sunkist Naturals and launched a coconut water play called Coco Libre. And Brands Within Reach has parlayed its success managing Danone's Volvic brand into a broad array of investments, acquisitions and agency assignments.
Though it's hard for outsiders to sort out the incubators' different approaches and verify their claims, they do offer advantages to startups. They usually bring deep experience in a range of disciplines, and are more likely to be agnostic on the right distribution approach than a strategic with a captive system to keep humming. Most have solid contacts at retail chains, though it's important that these have been deployed not just on mainstream sodas and teas, where brand-building is a very different game. And while they generally prefer an ownership stake as well as a retainer, that's not a bad thing in keeping the partners aligned, as long as it's tied to measurable accomplishments by the incubator. As GBS partner Jack Brennan promised at BevNET Live, "we also understand that the entrepreneur needs to make a big part of the money, so we're not greedy."
Editor's note: This article also appears in the December 2011 issue of BevNET Magazine.


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A Saratoga County resident is recovering from a rare but emerging illness carried by deer ticks that transmit Lyme disease, according to a county health official.
While extremely rare, Powassan virus is deadlier than other tick-borne illnesses — killing 30 percent of those infected statewide since 2004 — and its victims are infected much more quickly.
"With Lyme disease, once you find the tick on you, you've got a day or so to remove it, before it can transmit the pathogen to you," said Richard Ostfeld, disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook. "But with Powassan virus, a tick can start transmitting the virus within 15 minutes."
Unlike Lyme disease, there's no treatment for Powassan virus; doctors can address symptoms only. The virus can cause central nervous system malfunction, meningitis and encephalitis — brain swelling.
Disease experts counsel prevention as the best defense: Cover up, especially when going into wet, wooded areas. Use insect repellent. Check for ticks after being outdoors, and remove them immediately.
Only 15 cases of Powassan virus have been discovered statewide in the last nine years, said Laura D. Kramer, director of the state Health Department's Arbovirus Laboratories in Slingerlands. But that compares to less than one case a year in a previous 40-year period.
"It's a rare disease, there's no question about it," Kramer said. "But it appears to be increasing in prevalence in the ticks, and therefore poses a threat to humans."
Researchers at the Health Department and the Cary Institute found larger-than-expected numbers of ticks infected with Powassan virus in the Hudson Valley, particularly east of the Hudson River, over a five-year period ending 2012. In a study of 13,500 ticks, researchers found as many as 6 percent with the virus, depending upon county, Kramer said.
Over the same period, 14 patients statewide tested positive for deer tick virus, a variant of Powassan that causes the same symptoms. Ten of those patients were in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties — consistent with the cluster of infected ticks. One patient was from Albany County, in 2004.
The Saratoga County resident who is recovering from the illness was diagnosed in May, said Karen A. Levison, the county's director of public health.
The number of other tick-borne illnesses reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the rise, led by Lyme disease, but also including anaplasmosis, babesiosis and ehrlichiosis. The Hudson Valley had been the national epicenter of such diseases for years. In 2011, the last year for which information is available, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties were behind only Orange County for the most reported cases of Lyme disease outside New York City. While Lyme can be treated effectively with antibiotics if caught early, some patients suffer lingering, debilitating symptoms.
The number of pathogens that ticks carry creates "a very serious problem that public health faces," Kramer said. Removing ticks from the environment would be no easy task. People can keep them off their lawns with pesticides. But while insecticides reduce the number of ticks in the yard, studies show they do not lower the residents' chances of contracting a tick-borne illness, Ostfeld said. That suggests more people are away from their property when infected.
Pesticides cannot be used in large wooded areas because they would kill other insects — honeybees, butterflies, spiders and many others.
Some natural remedies — fungi, oil of rosemary, and extract from Alaska yellow cedar trees — have been proven to reduce ticks. But more research about their effectiveness is needed before they should be used widely, Ostfeld said. And spraying large swaths of wilderness, even with natural potions, would be inefficient and costly.
"Figuring out where people get exposed is key," he said.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama targeted sanctions at close allies and aides of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine crisis on Thursday and threatened broad penalties against key sectors of Russia's economy if Moscow moves deeper into Ukraine.
Some of Russia's wealthiest men were cited for sanctions as well as a large Russian bank with ties to Putin's inner circle, in the most significant step Obama has taken to punish Russia for its move to annex the Crimea region of southern Ukraine.
All told, Obama imposed sanctions on 20 Russian individuals, raising to 31 the number of people he has targeted for penalties since Russia's military seizure of Crimea.
Obama said he had also signed a new executive order that clears the way for U.S. sanctions against broad sections of the Russian economy should Putin's military make moves beyond Crimea and into southern and eastern Ukraine.
Senior administration officials said many parts of the Russian economy could be targeted, including the financial services sector and the key energy, defense and mining sectors. Russia's oil and gas industry alone accounts for nearly half of the country's annual budget revenues.
"This is not our preferred outcome. These sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the Russian economy, but could also be disruptive to the global economy. However, Russia must know that further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community," Obama said.
The Obama administration has been careful not to flag its future moves and there was no immediate indication whether it was considering adding two of Russia's biggest businessmen, Gazprom head Alexei Miller and Rosneft head Igor Sechin, to the sanctions list.
The penalties collectively add up to a growing divide between the United States and Russia, in their deepest dispute since the end of the Cold War more than two decades ago.
Among the 20 singled out for sanctions, Obama targeted several individuals close to Putin. Any assets they have in the United States will be frozen and they will also be barred from U.S. travel.
"They will be unable to access any U.S. financial services. They will find it difficult to transact in the dollar. And I suspect will find it very difficult to transact in Europe and elsewhere," said a senior U.S. official.
Russia's Bank Rossiya, which with $10 billion in assets is Russia's 17th largest bank, was singled out for U.S. sanctions. A Treasury Department statement said it is the personal bank for senior officials of the Russian government, including Putin's inner circle.
St. Petersburg-based Bank Rossiya is chaired and partly owned by Yuri Kovalchuk, a close adviser to Putin. Kovalchuk, whose association with Putin dates back to the early 1990s, was among the 20 individuals targeted for sanctions.
The bank will be "frozen out of the dollar," a senior Obama administration official said.
The biggest impact for foreign business may come from the designation of Gennady Timchenko, one of the founders of Gunvor, which is one of the world's largest independent commodity trading companies involved in the oil and energy markets.
"Timchenko's activities in the energy sector have been directly linked to Putin," the Treasury Department said. "Putin has investments in Gunvor and may have access to Gunvor funds."
Others identified for sanctions and considered part of Putin's inner circle included Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Rotenberg, who the Treasury Department said have made "billions of dollars in contracts for Gazprom and the Sochi Winter Olympics awarded to them by Putin."
Arkady Rotenberg is a long-time judo sparring partner of Putin and owns Stroygazmontazh, a builder of oil and gas pipeline projects for Russian state firms Gazprom and Rosneft.
Vladimir Yakunin, chairman of the board of Russian state-owned Russian Railways, was sanctioned, as were: Andrei Fursenko, a Putin aide; Alexei Gromov, an official in the Russian presidential office; Sergei Ivanov, Putin's chief of staff, and Igor Sergun, the head of Russia's GRU military intelligence service.
The U.S. Treasury cautioned Americans on Thursday against conducting transactions with a Russian firm that may be controlled by an individual slapped with sanctions, even if that person does not hold a majority stake.
Obama, who has already ruled out a U.S. military excursion into Ukraine, is using sanctions to try to force Russia to accept a negotiated solution, but Putin has so far resisted any serious diplomatic concessions.
One official said Washington was preparing additional sanctions that would sting Moscow while having the smallest impact possible on the United States and its allies.
"Sanctions build over time. They are very powerful. And people may think that they are a mere wrist slap. I can assure them that they are not," the official said.
Obama, who travels to Europe next week, promised unwavering U.S. support to NATO allies, which include Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Additional reporting by Susan Heavey, Lesley Wroughton, Doina Chiacu and David Storey in Washington and Tom Miles in Geneva; editing by G Crosse and Ross Colvin


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Alaska bucks the global temperature warming during new millennia
Previously, state warmed at twice the rate of the rest of the globe
This just in: 2012 was the coldest year of the new century in Fairbanks, and the second coldest here in the last 40 years.
Fairbanks isn't the only chilly place in Alaska. Average temperatures at 19 of 20 long-term National Weather Service stations displayed a cooling trend from 2000 to 2010, according a recent study written up by Gerd Wendler, Blake Moore and Lian Chen of the Alaska Climate Research Center.
The rest of the world has not been going Alaska's way. For 36 consecutive years, the yearly global temperature in 2012 was warmer than average. That temperature, calculated from satellite data by researchers with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was about 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit (Fairbanks's was 24.1 degrees F).
During the first decade of the 2000s, Alaska bucked the global warming trend, though the temperature variations were so slight you might not have noticed. Except during winter, when most of the cooling occurred. One example was the frigid January of 2012. How could you forget it in Bettles, where the average temperature was an all-time low of minus 35.6 degrees F? That's a chilly month.
But January 2012 also featured record highs throughout the Lower 48. Almost everywhere outside of Alaska is warming. So why has Alaska been an island of cool?
"This trend was caused by a change in sign of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation," Wendler, Blake and Chen wrote in their paper, "The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska."
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a mysterious pattern of sea-surface temperatures in the North Pacific Ocean that seems to flip-flop every 20-to-30 years. The PDO influences the intensity and location of the Aleutian Low, which spins just offshore of the Alaska Peninsula. When sea-surface temperatures are relatively high in the North Pacific, the Aleutian Low is strong, causing warmer weather patterns in Alaska. We were in that groove from about 1977 to about 2000. It seems the switch has flipped to cool again.
Despite our recent trend, Alaska has for the last century warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe, "as expected by the increasing CO2 and other trace gases," Wendler and his colleagues wrote. Regarding the effect of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, they wrote that warming "is sometimes temporarily modified or even reversed by natural decadal variations."
How long the cooling of Alaska lasts is anyone's guess, but if the Pacific Decadal Oscillation did indeed shift around 2000, cooler temperatures could persist in Alaska for another 20 years.
"From the '40s to 1976 was a cold period (caused by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation)," Wendler said. "So there's no reason why not."
More details from "The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska," published in the Open Atmospheric Science Journal in 2012:
• Barrow was the only station didn't show a cooling trend, warming 1.7 degrees Celsius during the decade of study.
• King Salmon was the other extreme, with 2.9 degrees C of cooling from 2000-2010.
• Seventy-seven percent of the cooling showed up in winter temperatures, followed by spring at 17 percent. Summer and autumn cooled only slightly — not enough to be statistically significant.
Correction: In last week's column about the reactions of people in Sitka and Craig to a recent earthquake, I wrote that a tsunami siren in Craig was broken. Craig City Administrator Jon Bolling wrote me to say Craig has no emergency sirens, but he hopes to install some later this year.
(Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.)


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When we are sure we are born of God we can be more sure we will overcome the world. This will lead us to live the Christian life more confidently and see many answers to prayer as we pray more ...Read More
His Commandments
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Overcoming the World
Do you believe Jesus is the divine Word of God who became incarnate for the sake of our salvation? Do you believe He is truly God and truly man? If so, this verse promises you will overcome the world. Are ...Read More
Three That Testify
As the early church grappled with heretics of various sorts, the orthodox were united on the absolute necessity of the full deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ. They realized that only God Himself could rescue us from our desperate ...Read More
The Testimony of God
Those who reject the full humanity and full deity of Jesus are not only mistaken, they are sinning. It is not possible to accept the Son of God unless you believe the biblical testimony — God's testimony — about His person ...Read More
Whoever Has the Son
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Blessed Assurance
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Sin That Leads to Death
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He Who Was Born of God
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Ahmed Tewfik
Dr. Ahmed Tewfik is the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Tewfik has joined the UT ECE department as the new department chair beginning Fall 2010. Tewfik brings to the Cockrell School an impressive research record, entrepreneurial insight as the founder and CEO of a software company and leadership gained through various positions with IEEE, the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology.
Dr. Tewfik's current areas of research interests include: medical imaging for minimally invasive surgery, programmable wireless networks, genomics and proteomics, neural prosthetics and audio signal separation. He has made seminal contributions in the past to food inspection, watermarking, multimedia signal processing and content based retrieval, wavelet signal processing and fractals.
His education includes a B.S.E.E. from Cairo University, Cairo Egypt, in 1982, an M.S.E.E. in 1984 and Sc.D. in 1987, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Tewfik is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1997 to 1999. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Award in 2000. Dr. Tewfik was awarded the E. F. Johnson professorship of Electronic Communications in 1993, the Taylor Faculty Development Award from the Taylor Foundation in 1992 and an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1990.


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Business application software vendor Infor has announced Infor Workspace, a new consumer grade user interface, which the company hopes will refresh the experience of doing business using enterprise applications. Built on Microsoft SharePoint, this new offering blends a common user interface, in-context collaboration, and business intelligence. Fusing industry processes, analytics, and enterprise applications, Infor Workspace aims to provide single sign-on, common look-and-feel, and seamless navigation across multiple applications deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.
This new product release is intended to provide real-time in-context business intelligence and (according to Infor) is the first tool that allows applications to coexist and bring in outside information including KPIs, dynamic alerts, and other tools targeting key functions within the application for the user. Because the tools are context aware, they will automatically anticipate and adapt to user needs and interests based on the users' role and the business function they are performing at a given moment.
"While there have been consistent interface advancements since business applications were first introduced, Infor Workspace is a new approach. It's a step function advancement, designed to revolutionize the way users work with software and each other," said Soma Somasundaram, senior VP of product development, Infor. "Infor Workspace melds business and social tools together, making it as easy to interact with coworkers around the world as it is to use the application itself. We call it socializing the enterprise and believe this kind of new user experience will not only result in dramatically improved employee satisfaction, it will also produce clear, measureable improvements in productivity, performance, and return on investment."


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Whale Watching Photo Safari - Cabo San Lucas - Cabo Adventures
From December 15th through April 15th, the waters off of Cabo San Lucas fill with magnificent humpback whales; creating perfect whale watching conditions - and our Whale Watching Photo Safari is Cabo's premier whale watching tour.
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Enjoy your whale watching tour in our comfortable, high-speed, inflatable boats. These boats provide guest with the best opportunity to witness and photograph these amazing animals and they put on a show yards away. They are also, being inflatable and soft, the safest and most "whale friendly" boats available in Cabo.
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Our professional and enthusiastic whale guides provide the ultimate experience; teaching you all about the whales. You will even have the opportunity to listen to the whales communicate underwater with our hydrophone listening technology.
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There is no such thing as a "typical day" on a whale watching tour off of Cabo. The whales and dolphins are in charge as we join them in their world. We let them lead the way, and join them as they swim, play and put on a show.
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- Min. Age: 5 years old
- Expecting mother restricted
- To ensure maximum visibility, this tour is conducted on inflatable motor boats with no extra facilities aboard.
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Project Payphone
The Idea
There has been much talk of hooking up a payphone to a cheap VoIP account and allowing free use of it as a Noisebridge public service. A popular idea is to put said payphone outside of 83C for public use. Some of us have expressed grave concerns that this will be too much of a liability and quickly result in us no longer having said payphone. Expect bickering over the issue.
The Phone
An awesome old red payphone was serendipitously discovered abandoned on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Our local hero picked it up and brought it to the space.
We got it open to discover the following:
- The date of manufacture seems to be a very scribbly Aug. 1988.
- It is completely missing the coin counting and collecting mechanism.
- The keypad and hang-up switch look intact. The metal buttons on the outside actually just press against a standard little plastic keypad on the inside.
- The headset is not connected to anything, but terminates in four red, black, green and yellow wires that can be hooked up to a standard RJ11 (normal phone jack) connector.
- Out of the keypad/hang-up switch part there is a DB15 connector, equally hooked up to nothing. The assumption is that both this and the headset were connected to the coin counting mechanism which was the brains of the operation.
- We'll likely need to gut another phone for some missing parts, but how much surgery is needed will depend on what that DB15 connector can do for us. For that, we need someone to find a schematic for the pins, or someone who is a master reverse-engineer. If that's you, get to work!
Well, Seth is a master reverse-engineer, and Steen is an old school phreaker, so one long night spent on this later:
- We decoded the standard schema for DTMF that seems to apply at least to both the gutted landline phone and the payphone internals, and determined the pinouts for both the relevant bits. It turns out, a button on the keypad doesn't simply close a circuit to make a pin hot, it activates two pins, which then correspond to inputs on the DTMF encoder chip. In other words, Dual-Tone doesn't just mean the tones that are output, it also applies to the signals inside the phone circutry. Neat! So now we can connect the output pins from the payphone keypad to the DTMF inputs on the landline guts. Seth is (I think) planning on bringing in a db15 breakout box in order to manifest this. Please no one break it further before we get a chance to do so.
- We figured out the order of wires for the headset to operate, corresponding to the (somewhat arbitrary) aligator clip => rj11 cable we made for the purpose. We got this to connect to the guts of a functioning landline phone, and got a dialtone from the VoIP box, as well as a functioning mic. This mapping is complicated to format on the wiki, it's written on the inside of the old headset in sharpie. That counts as documentation.
I actually took more pictures but I strangely had a "Memory Card Error" (GRR!) and these were the two I recovered.
Post more if you got 'em.


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Hey all, here is the first installment of my new epic Lands of Classic-Castle storyline.
In the middle of this cold moonless night, we see two weary travelers arrive at their destination, after many long days of travelling, Sir Cedric Archer, and Captain Cinder Bonebreaker, have finally arrived at the great city of Hallfrost, where they hope to secure an alliance with their northern brothers.
Sir Cedric Archer turned to his friend, and fellow ambassador, Captain Cinder Bonebreaker, and said "Well, we have finally arrived, lets just hope that there is a guard or two awake."
"Yes, let us hope, it would be rather unfortunate if we had to walk back to the camp at this time of night."
Replied Captain Bonebreaker.
Meanwhile.... City Guard:"Hey Jon, I think there might be someone outside the gates."
Jon: "Do they look like Garheims?"
CG: "yeah"
J: "I'll go wake the Captain, he'll want to great them."
The massive gates opened, and Sir Archer, and Captain Bonebreaker, were greeted by several heavily armed men, and a large wolf.
A man that looked like he was the one in charge, stepped forward, and called out to the two men. "Brother, and Captain Cinder, it is good to see you."
"Likewise, though is this really necessary?" Said Sir Archer, waving his hand in the direction of the wolf, and large contingent of men.
"Sorry Cedric, with the King dead, and Loreos rebelling, the city has been on high alert for the past week."
"I understand, well it's cold, and I'm tired, and I'm sure Captain Bonebreaker is as well, so, will you lead us to the guest quarters? And we can talk to Lord Layfas tomorrow, about the relationship between Hallfrost and Orevale."
With that, the guards went back to their posts, and Captain Song, led Sir Archer and Captain Bonebreaker, to the guest quarters.
Hey everyone, hope you liked the story, any C&C you may have is much appreciated.
Oh, almost forgot, here is a link to the set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56602732@N ... 701286576/
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Overlock Machine Selection
The perfect compliment to a sewing machine is an overlocker..! The overlock machine is designed to stitch over the edge of one or two pieces of fabric to produce neat edging that will not fray. Usually an overlocker will cut off the untidy rough fabric edges as they stitch.


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Reptiles are some of the more fearsome creatures on Earth. Reptiles are vertebrates that range from 16 millimeters to over seven meters long. Some members of reptilia, such as the dinosaurs are now extinct. Reptiles are similar to amphibians; however, reptiles have tougher skin. Reptiles give birth to amniotic eggs and are predatory animals. God created them on the sixth day along with the land animals, and they have been considered unclean (to eat).
Excluding turtles, reptiles have tough scales made of keratin (a protein). Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not breathe through their skin. Instead they use lungs. Some sea turtles have been found to have gills or thinner skin. Most reptiles have a three chambered heart consisting of two atria and one ventricle. Crocodilians, however, have a four chambered heart. Reptiles have sharp teeth with powerful jaws. Most reptiles use their teeth to hold onto prey and then swallow it whole. Their claws also help them hunt. Some reptiles, mostly snakes and turtles, have a Jacobson organ. This organ allows a snake to locate prey by "smelling" chemicals in the environment around itself. One endangered reptile in an order of its own, called a tuatara, has a light receptive organ on its head, almost like a third eye. Like amphibians, reptiles are ectothermic, or "cold-blooded." They cannot control their own body temperature, so they use their environment to keep their temperature constant.
Most Reptiles reproduce sexually. A few reptiles, in the order Squamata, can perform asexual reproduction. Some reptiles lay eggs and others deliver live young. Those that lay eggs, form amniotic eggs in which the embryos are protected by a fluid filled sack called an amnion. The egg is surrounded by a leathery or hard shell for protection; and since reptile eggs are deposited on land, the amniotic fluid keeps the egg moist.
Reptiles are predatory animals and prefer to consume and not produce. They are generally at the top of the food chain. Reptiles live around the world in many different environments. These range from the desert to tropical rivers to seas and oceans. Reptiles are land-based except for sea turtles and some sea snakes. Reptiles bask in the sun to get warm or swim in water to keep cool.
- Main Article: Dinosaurs
The term dinosaur was invented by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 to describe a large extinct reptile. Evolutionists believe that a cataclysmic event wiped them out. Creationists believe their fossilized ancestors were destroyed during the flood of Noah, but they were also on board the ark and reintroduced along with all other land animals. The legends of dragon could be a reference to recent dinosaurs, and may explain their extinction instead due to the hand of man.
Related References
- Reptiles Animal Diversity Web
- ReptilesClass Reptilia
- Reptiles Wikipedia
- Reptiles Forests.org
- Reptiles AustralianFauna
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The UAE must adopt a new approach to sport if the country is to achieve Olympic glory in the future, according to HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Hasher Al Maktoum.
Sheikh Ahmed became the UAE's first, and to date only, Olympic gold medalist (pictured) at the 2004 Athens Games with victory in the double-trap shooting.
He arrived home from London 2012 this week having coached Brit Peter Wilson to victory in the same event.
The UAE team had several Olympians in action in various sports in the UK capital, but not one of them came close to joining Sheikh Ahmed on the podium.
He feels it will be the same in future Games unless the mentality towards sport in the UAE changes.
"The UAE is a great country but like other Arab countries we lag far behind the rest of the world in sport," Sheikh Ahmed told 7DAYS.
He added: "The level of sport here is embarrassing."
Sheikh Ahmed added: "In shooting there are only a handful of private ranges. There's no academy for schools... Looking for an Olympic champion is far harder than finding a diamond."
He also took aim at sporting bodies in the UAE, claiming not enough money is spent in the right areas.
Referring to the world-class swimming pool in Dubai, constructed for the short-course world championships last year, he said: "How many Emiratis go there every week?
"A lot money in the UAE is spent on the wrong projects. Of all the money spent on sport here, 50 to 70 per cent is spent on football. It's a shame."
However, Sheikh Ahmed insists sporting officials can only do so much.
He said: "The government is busy running the country. The role of parents is important. Children spend too much time on their iPhones and in malls. They have to do sport for the good of themselves and the UAE." He added: "They can still drive their Lamborghinis, but drive them to a sports club."
Via SyndiGate.info
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