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Do It Yourself, Honey
Urban farmers take living well into their own hands
A colony of 80,000 bees holds enough sting to kill you—actually, it holds enough to kill about 80 of you. But sitting a few feet away from a hive that's nearly as tall as she is, Chantal Foster is unfazed as yellow-and-black honeybees whiz by on a pollen-fueled highway. Maybe it's because, with rare exception, the potentially deadly flying insects seem to have no interest in her. The bees are on a mission, and it's about getting frisky with flowers, not ferocious with humans.
Foster runs the Albuquerque Beekeepers Association, and she's seen the group's membership double over the course of a year. "Last year there would be 30 to 40 people at a meeting," she says. "Now it's standing-room-only with 60-plus people—and on a Wednesday night." A lot of those new members are young, and many of them are women, she says. "There's something in the zeitgeist," she says. "Maybe people are feeling discontented with the way of modern life."
Foster herself didn't harbor a lifelong yen to become a beekeeper. But a few years ago, after going to a barbecue where a friend was babysitting a beehive, she felt something click. There was a magic about the bees—the duality between the danger they could potentially inflict and the sweet elixir they produce. And there, in the middle of Albuquerque—not in some rural pasture far away from people—was a hive of perfectly peaceful bees. She realized she didn't have to be a traditional farmer to harvest honey; she just needed a backyard.
The nationwide push toward eating locally grown food has swelled significantly in the past few years. As the word "locavore" crept into the American lexicon, even megastores like Walmart started marketing some of its produce as local. Now the trend is coming full-circle as urbanites like Foster rediscover the most fundamental level of eating local: growing your own food—be it through bees, goats, chickens or a classic patch of vegetables.
Jen Prosser began farming long before it was considered cool. She was going to school in New York City, studying to become a literature professor. But the more time she spent in classrooms, the more she found herself dreaming about being outside. When she was downsized from an administrative job and given a severance package, she used it to move upstate to the Catskills and start a farm with her partner, Tree McElhinney.
The two raised goats and chickens and grew herbs and vegetables for about 10 years on their 21 acres. But it rains a lot in the Catskills, Prosser says—so much that it makes farming difficult. Eventually, Prosser and McElhinney began to crave the sun. After a countrywide search, they decided on Albuquerque. Packing up three goats, 10 chickens, two dogs and two cats for a cross-country move out West, they settled in the South Valley in 2007.
"There's something in the zeitgeist. Maybe people are feeling discontented with the way of modern life."
Chantal Foster, Albuquerque Beekeepers Association
Sunstone Farm and Learning Center sits on just one and a half acres, and Prosser and McElhinney can hear Coors Boulevard from their yard. But that one and a half acres is an urban oasis. The two harvest honey from three hives of bees. They raise chickens—including a particularly charismatic cuckoo maran hen named TicTac—for eggs and meat. Those three regal goats are milked, and their creamy bounty is made into cheese, yogurts and soaps. The couple also grow vegetables and fruits that account for about 60 percent of their diet. After living in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, Prosser is happy as a desert clam on her abundant plot.
"In New York, people expected you to work 24 hours a day," she says. "There can be a slower pace here if you allow yourself." Prosser starts her workday at 5 or 6 a.m. every morning, but she stops when she chooses, which is usually in the mid-afternoon. It allows her the luxury to connect with the food she's grown. She and McElhinney have what Prosser calls a "slow meal" every day, savoring the arugula and spinach grown in their backyard and sprinkling their salads with homemade cheese.
Americans get most of their meat from cellophane-wrapped trays at the grocery store and their produce from parcels of land several countries away. In sharp contrast, the do-it-yourself movement champions all things homemade and local. But cultivating a relationship to the land and the food extends far beyond the pedigree of what's on your dinner plate: It also requires a network of human relationships, as well as their shared bank of knowledge—techniques passed down from generation to generation that are strangely absent in modern society.
"I think all these things I do fall under the heading of 'sustainable.' It's about creating abundance in your life."
Jen Prosser, Sunstone Farm and Learning Center
Prosser found a greater appreciation for the "old-fashioned" way of doing things once she started growing her own food, she says. It was a gateway into traditional methods and crafts, like food fermentation, soda-making and composting. In a turn that seems fitting with her previous ambitions of being a professor, Prosser teaches classes on how to do all the things she's learned: raising backyard chickens, creating an urban homestead, making goat milk soap, baking artisan bread. Many of her classes are devoted to herbalism, since Prosser is also an herbalist. In addition to teaching people about the practice, she does consultations.
The participation at her classes is telling. "There seem to be two different kinds of people who attend: urban hippies and survivalists." Those from the former category come because they want to learn how to be more sustainable, she says. The others come because they think "the rapture's going to be here in five years." They want the skills they'll need to live through it. "It's important to know how to talk to people who are different," says Prosser.
Finding common ground is just another facet of the urban farming movement. "I think all these things I do fall under the heading of 'sustainable'," she says. "But they all have an effect on the larger picture without politics or drama. It's about creating abundance in your life."
While Foster found beekeeping out of pure interest and Prosser became a farmer out of a desire to get her hands into the earth, Maggie Shepard became a fluent member of the DIY movement for an entirely different reason: money. Shepard is the founder of the newly formed The Old School, a collection of teachers who host classes on how to do a variety of traditional crafts and skills.
"As an American, I value independence and perseverance, and independence for me means being able to take care of yourself in the most dire of situations."
Maggie Shepard, The Old School
"My family and I don't have a lot of money," Shepard says. "Whenever I wanted to learn these skills myself, classes were too expensive." Even if Shepard could afford a class, she had to find a babysitter for her two kids; it just never worked out. "I thought, There's probably more people like me who can't afford classes." Shepard sent an email to everyone she knew in late February, explaining that she wanted to start a class series and was looking for teachers. In just two months, she's already amassed 20 instructors offering 22 classes.
The scope of the classes is wide-ranging: The Old School teaches about quilting, solar cooking, homebrewing, gray-water recapture, fermenting kombucha, container gardening, canning and making homemade beauty products. And that's just a sampling. Most classes cost less than $10 to attend, and free or low-cost child care is available at all of them. Adding to the feel-good meter, 10 percent of all proceeds from classes are donated to Water for People.
"As an American, I value independence and perseverance," Shepard says. "And independence for me means being able to take care of yourself in the most dire of situations." In this country, a dire situation is being without money, she adds. She thinks the DIY movement has arisen, at least partially, for that reason. "We've become so reliant on corporations to get milk, clothing, etc.," she says. "It's an expression of our need for security combined with a need for independence."
Foster comes to it from a different angle. Beekeeping doesn't save her money. She eats and brews up flowery mead concoctions from some of the honey she harvests. But she gives most of it away. What she likes about the practice is the awareness it gives her. She notices when the elm trees in her yard start to bloom, as it's the first pollen her bees get in the spring. This year, she just discovered that one of the bushes in her front yard has tiny flowers because she saw bees hovering around it. Like Prosser, it gives her a connection to her environment and a hand in shaping it.
What she likes most about beekeeping, though, is more existential. A colony of bees acts as a super organism, with thousands of individual members working toward the same goal, often simultaneously. Like ants and flocks of birds and schools of fish, bees have their individuality—some take on nurse roles while others are guards or foragers—but they're tapped into a larger form of consciousness created by the whole. They act collectively. Foster sees human populations the same way. "How do you convince 30,000 bees to swarm?" she asks. "How do you decide to overturn the leadership in Egypt?"


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News | May 24, 2011
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report
Hardware Lifting Incident
Updated May 27, 2011 at 11:45 a.m. PDT
Lifts Resumed; No Damage From May 20 Incident
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project has completed actions in response to an inadvertent lift of the spacecraft's back shell on May 20. Analysis found no damage resulted from the incident.
Use of cranes for maneuvering spacecraft components has resumed with operational processes strengthened to help prevent future lift issues. Normal prelaunch assembly and processing of the spacecraft is continuing.
PASADENA, Calif. -- During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell.
A crane lift of the hardware caused unexpected mechanical loads on interfaces between the back shell and its ground support equipment. These interfaces are used during ground operations in preparation for launch. A structural assessment of the back shell was performed in the area of these interfaces.
Inspections and analyses through Monday, May 23, have not identified any damage. Flight processing is expected to continue this week.
The back shell is used to protect the rover and descent stage during entry in Mars' upper atmosphere.
Mars Science Laboratory will launch during the period from Nov. 25 to Dec. 18, 2011, taking its rover, Curiosity, to an August 2012 landing. During a two-year mission on Mars, Curiosity will investigate whether a selected area of Mars has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life and for preserving evidence about life.
The spacecraft's back shell, heat shield and cruise stage were delivered to Kennedy Space Center on May 12. The rover and descent stage will be delivered in June.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. More information about the Mars Science Laboratory is available online at http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ and http://www.nasa.gov/msl .
News Media ContactGuy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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Boston Massachusetts (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
Chemical Publishing Company is seeking Authors to contribute to a definitive title on the technology surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing Technology or "Fracking" .
Hydraulic fracturing is a proven technological advancement which allows producers to safely recover natural gas and oil from deep shale formations.
This technology has the potential to not only dramatically reduce our reliance on foreign fuel imports, but also to significantly reduce our national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and accelerate our transition to a carbon-light environment.
Yes, there is some controversy around "fracking" and the use of large amounts of water needed to produce the gas, however, deep shale gas and oil formation development is important to America's energy needs and economic renewal.
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a proven and well-regulated technology. First used in the 1940s, hydraulic fracturing has unlocked massive new supplies of oil and clean-burning natural gas from dense deposits of shale, supplies that increase our country's energy security and improve our ability to generate electricity, heat homes and power vehicles for generations to come.
Fracking has been used in more than one million U.S. wells, and has safely produced more than seven billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Chemical Publishing Company is seeking authors who wish to publish materials on the subject of hydraulic fracturing. They are encouraged to submit materials to Chemical Publishing Company for favorable consideration by our editorial staff.
Chemical Publishing Company is also seeking Corporations for branding partnerships in this category such as Haliburton, Weatherford, BP, or Schlumberger. Please contact Chemical Publishing Company if interested.
Chemical Publishing has a specialized niche within the STM publishing market which covers the areas of water treatment, waste water treatment, cooling water and boiler water treatment issues.
Founded in 1934 in New York City, Chemical Publishing Company has consistently provided the best in applied science and reference publications.
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Watch Policeman Get Down to Pharrell's 'Happy' [VIDEO]
This policeman sure knows how to stay 'Happy' during work!
The Boynton Beach Police Department posted this joyful video of Officer Ron Ryan showing off his dance moves to Pharrell's hit 'Happy' on the team's Facebook page. According to their post, while responding to a house party call, Officer Ryan took the opportunity to have a little fun while the song blasted in the background. In this 30 second clip, Ryan isn't afraid to let loose and bust a move while on duty serving the citizens of Boynton Beach, Florida.
'Happy' is currently sweeping the nation off their feet ever since it was released as the single off the 'Despicable Me 2' soundtrack last summer. The song, written and produced by Pharrell, was nominated for an Academy Award and fans have taken to YouTube to show off their own enthusiastic covers and dances.
Officer Ryan, we salute you and commend you on a job well done.


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It's not news that Time magazine uses different covers for its different regional editions, but it's only when you gather them all together -- so you can see what Europe and Asia read in Time compared to what Americans read in Time -- that it becomes clear how insular the U.S. edition of Time is.
If you live abroad, the current edition of Time features a dramatic picture of an Arab rebel wearing a gas mask under the headline "Revolution Redux." In America, we got "Why anxiety is good for you":
Publishing ain't easy, of course. Editors need to pick what sells (and what sells advertising). There are good reasons why the U.S. audience won't be as interested in the movie Tintin as Europe's will be, which explains why Tintin dominated the foreign Time covers on Oct. 31. In the U.S., to Time's credit, that edition featured "The China Bubble," a piece about whether economic growth in the East is sustainable.
That laudable example aside, however, this collection of recent Time covers does make us Americans look like we're just not that interested in the rest of the world.
You can read Time's response here.


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Roy Hunter wrote:Don't get why I'm hating it.
It's got proper actors, it's got a story, it's got swordplay, swearing and drinking in it. Hell, it's even got tits in it! Why don't I like it? No idea.
I've only managed to see the first 3 episodes. I was impressed by the Design of the titles but didn't love the first episode...but by the end of the second episode I was hooked. I'm just too stingy to buy the series...I should though because TV is crap at the moment.


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By Henry Flores, director of the CFCA Communication Center in El Salvador
What is the value of higher education or a university degree if you can't find a job?
In many parts of the world, students go through extreme situations just to go to school. They struggle with monthly tuition, poor nutrition, lack of access to technology and research tools for assignments, and, in some cases, access to a nearby school.
Mauricio, a sponsored child and student in El Salvador.
But if it is this difficult to go to elementary and high school, it becomes much harder to access college education. High tuition in private universities and limited access to public universities make the dreams of many teenagers seem impossible. In spite of all these burdens, many have enough determination to obtain a college degree.
However, having a college degree does not necessarily guarantee that you will have a job. It doesn't even mean that you will find a job. After studying for years, investing in that education and finally graduating, just to discover that there is no job available is the reality for many students worldwide.
If this is the case, why is a degree important? Because education sets you free. A developed society is based largely on the fact that its citizens are educated or are being educated. Education allows people to make thoughtful decisions, based upon their rights, their benefits and†their knowledge. Education has the capacity to open a whole new world. Maybe that knowledge will not be useful at the moment, but it helps the individual to build a better future by making intelligent decisions, passing their knowledge down to future generations and reaching new horizons they never thought possible.
I remember two years ago meeting Antonio, who was 38 years old at the time. He is married to Ana Margarita, and they have three kids: Herber, Bryan and Tania. Antonio suffered from poliomyelitis (polio, the viral disease that can only be prevented by immunization) and had a leg disability. In spite of his reality and problems, he understood the need for an education and, with much effort and support from his family, he graduated as a computer and network specialist.
Even though he had not found a job for more than a year, he is a better man who can offer himself as an example for his own children and whose wife is proud of him. He can lead the family toward a better future. He is ready for that one opportunity to rise. He is now transmitting the importance of education to his children, and he and his children can make better decisions for their country in the future.
Education is the first step toward a better future for people. Education is the center where all possibilities become connected and a door to opportunities opens up. For some, those doors can be smaller, and opportunities can be much less, but still, being educated means being ready to conquer the world we want for ourselves, when that one chance comes by.


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Las Dueñas Palace
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Calle Santa Teresa de Jesús, 12
47400 Medina del Campo, Valladolid (Castilla y Leon)
Tel.:+34 983427259
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Valladolid
Built in the XVI century commissioned by Rodrigo de Dueñas. The Renaissance Plateresque design is by the architect of King Carlos I, Luis de Vega. The facade is brick with a tower.The main front has two columns and a heraldic coat of arms.In the upper part there is a classic pediment.On the exterior walls there are various small windows and a balcony with grilles.Inside there is a central patio on two floors with three-centred arches.In it there are medallions of the Kings of Castille.The beautiful chapel and handiwork of the building is noteworthy. Currently the site of a high school, Teacher's Centre and the Spanish Open University.
- Construction: Palace
- Artistic period: Plateresque
- Historic period: 16th century
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How can a disease that afflicts some three million Americans, 90 percent of them women, be as obscure as Sjögren's syndrome? Experts say it is one of the three most common autoimmune disorders, but few lay people know of it, and doctors rarely think of it when patients describe its various symptoms.
Medical students, even those in postgraduate training, learn little or nothing about Sjögren's (pronounced SHOW-grins), in which the body attacks its own secretory glands and tissues. Diagnosis can be difficult because symptoms vary widely from patient to patient, and many of those symptoms mimic those of a host of other conditions.
As a result, "this major women's health problem is still largely underdiagnosed and undertreated," said Dr. Frederick Vivino, a rheumatologist at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and director of the Penn Sjögren's Syndrome Center in Philadelphia.
But Dr. Vivino said in an interview that there had been "a dramatic change" in the diagnosis and management of Sjögren's in the last 5 to 10 years. Although it was originally listed in the National Organization for Rare Disorders registry, recent population studies in the United States and in Britain have documented Sjögren's as the second-most common autoimmune rheumatic disease, behind rheumatoid arthritis.
The disorder was first described in 1892 in a 42-year-old man and called Mikulicz's syndrome. But the diagnosis fell into disuse because it seemed to encompass so many conditions. The syndrome was resurrected in 1933 by Henrik Sjögren, a Swedish ophthalmologist, who described 19 women suffering from dry mouth and dry eyes, the most common symptoms of the disorder.Continue reading the main story
A Spectrum of Symptoms
Lisa Worthington, 43, finally learned she had Sjögren's last December, after six to eight years of confusing health problems.
"Sjögren's is like a chameleon — it causes so many disparate symptoms throughout the body," Ms. Worthington said in an interview. "It can seem like multiple sclerosis, stroke, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, chronic fatigue, reflux and a bunch of other diseases. I've often had to explain it to physicians."
Ms. Worthington now runs a marketing and public relations agency out of her home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which permits her to take time off when her health demands it. Before receiving a correct diagnosis and treatment for her spectrum of symptoms, Ms. Worthington said, she was told she had fibromyalgia, a reasonable explanation for her chronic muscle fatigue, joint pain and weakness.
"If I had to spend all day on my feet, the next day I had to stay in bed," she said. But not until she awoke one morning with her eyes so dry she could not open them — "the lids were stuck to the eyeballs" — did a rheumatologist suggest Sjögren's.
Though a blood test for telltale antibodies was negative, which happens in 40 percent of cases, the doctor sent her for a lip biopsy at the Sjögren Clinic at the National Institutes of Health, which confirmed his suspicions.
The all-too-common delay in diagnosis, which Dr. Vivino said still averages six years, can result in serious complications, including damage to vital organs.
Prompt diagnosis is also important because people with Sjögren's face a 44-fold increased risk of developing lymphoma and must be alert to early signs of this cancer.
Changes for the Better
Dr. Vivino said that although Sjögren's was long thought to be an affliction primarily of white women around the age of menopause, it is increasingly being recognized in nearly all population groups: younger women, women of various racial and ethnic groups, men and even children.
"About 200 pediatric cases have been identified thus far," he said.
Ms. Worthington was 37 when she developed symptoms that prompted her to consult a doctor; knowing what she does now, she believes signs were present years earlier.
Two other important advances are the publication in 2002 of internationally accepted criteria for diagnosing primary Sjögren's (the condition can also occur secondary to other disorders), and the development of several medications that can stimulate the flow of saliva and relieve dryness and inflammation of the eyes.
Dr. Vivino said there was also growing interest among pharmaceutical companies in biologic remedies that could cause a remission of symptoms.
Widespread Effects
Sjögren's can affect the basics of daily living and forces its sufferers to adjust life around it.
"I have trouble swallowing," Ms. Worthington said. "I can't swallow anything without liquid. I always carry a bottle of water with me, long before it was fashionable. Even at night, I have to drink water frequently and, of course, use the bathroom frequently. I often wake up feeling like I never slept."
My stepmother, Sophie Brody, also had Sjögren's. She thought at first she had a tumor because food would become stuck in her throat. Eventually she was unable to swallow anything but pureed and liquid foods. Even to swallow those without difficulty, she had to have her esophagus dilated every three months.
Her dentist was the first to suspect Sjögren's. Her teeth were inexplicably decaying, breaking and falling out, the result of an insufficient flow of saliva to cleanse them. Women who develop Sjögren's in early adulthood often need complete dentures by their mid-40s, Dr. Vivino said.
Depression is another frequent component of Sjögren's, often preceding the onset of debilitating symptoms that may make anyone depressed. In fact, doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical Center are investigating various neurological manifestations of the syndrome, including spinal inflammation that can result in a misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Because Sjogren's affects so many organ systems, other common symptoms and signs include vaginal dryness; enlarged parotid glands, the salivary glands in front of the ears; hoarseness; chronic dry cough; recurrent sinusitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; an extreme sensitivity to cold; dry skin and rashes; digestive problems, including a sensitivity to gluten; thyroid disorder; kidney problems; memory problems; numbness, tingling and burning pain in the feet and hands; frequent oral yeast infections; and an altered sense of taste.
Ms. Worthington's taste buds are now much less sensitive, she said, and when she cooks she has to be careful not to use much garlic, salt or pepper.
She uses a variety of medications to relieve her symptoms, including one that stimulates secretions throughout the body, special eye drops that treat both the dryness and inflammation, and regular eye drops throughout the day.
Now that she and her doctors know what they are dealing with, she is checked every three months by a rheumatologist for signs of lymphoma, every six months by a dentist and every year by an ophthalmologist.Continue reading the main story


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IRVING — University of Houston head coach Tony Levine plans to stage two or three mock games at Robertson Stadium during preseason camp in August.
Levine said the purpose is to simulate situations for players and coaches – from calling plays to having the punt team ready – in advance of the Sept. 1 opener against Texas State.
"So the first time we do that is not Sept. 1 standing across the field from Coach (Dennis) Franchione and Texas State," Levine said.
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Linebacker will be a strength for the Cougars this season with returning starters Phillip Steward and Derrick Mathews.
Everett Daniels, a senior who will replace Marcus McGraw at middle linebacker, had the best spring of the trio, Levine said.
"I'm really excited about him," the coach said.
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Around C-USA: Commissioner Britton Banowsky told the Orlando Sentinel the four departing league members are slated to pair their exit fees on time.
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Crawford Performance builds fast Subarus. That's what they do. So when the BRZ and its paltry 200 horsepower entered the shop, they blew it out to 500. Then they gave it to another man familiar with that number: $500 rally car ace Bill Caswell. This is what it can do on track.
On track, the BRZ is already a lot of fun, but why not go nuts and give it a ton more power, more tire, and a cage? Exactly. You would if you could.
In order to properly demonstrate the driving wonderfulness of the Crawford tune on the BRZ. Caswell entered the car in a Time Attack event, his first ever. This is a more aggressive tune than the car that Matt Farah drove for Tuned, so you can imagine the fantasticness of this one.


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2) On days three through seven, add brown rice (1 cup throughout the day), fruits, and vegetables. Try to stick with organic produce. Cruciferous vegetables--such as bok choy, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, rutabagas, and turnips--are particularly effective at activating those enzymes in the liver that promote the natural detoxification process. I stick to greens, greens, greens during these days. You can add healthy oils on top, such as olive, avocado or coconut oil. You should eat portion sizes appropriate to your hand size as per Eat-Clean Diet Recharged (page 405) and eat 6 small meals each day. Healthy fats, Remember, NO breads or pastas. This is basically a strict Eat-Clean plan like The Eat-Clean Diet Stripped, however, protein is coming from brown rice and bone broth.
3) Consider herbs and supplements in addition to your standard multivitamin. Chlorophyll-rich "green" products—for example, those containing wheat grass, barley grass, or various types of algae—are a source of beta-carotene and other vitamins and minerals. Although studies are lacking, many people claim these green drinks and powders provide an energy boost. It is really important to take a good vitamin C supplement throughout the detox.
4) After 7 days return to your normal Eat-Clean Diet plan.
5) I maintained a normal workout schedule, but we are all different. You may need to go lighter. This could be an opportunity to try an equally detoxifying workout routine such as Bikram or Moksha yoga (aka hot yoga). Sweating it out in an infra-red sauna is similar. Remember, listen to your body to decide how much activity you can do.


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Are you interested in joining our team?
Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, SCORE has a team of roughly 30 individuals that support the nationwide organization. Learn about our current job and volunteer openings. You can also contact your local chapter to learn more about opportunities in your community.
Meet Our Leadership Team
W. Kenneth Yancey, Jr., CEO
W. Kenneth Yancey, Jr. currently serves as CEO of the SCORE Association, a position he has held since 1993. During his tenure with SCORE, Mr. Yancey has been responsible for developing SCORE into a one of the most efficient, effective job creation and business formation engines in the nation. SCORE has served more than 10 million existing and aspiring small business owners since inception and helps to create more than 58,000 new businesses and over 71,000 new jobs annually. Mr. Yancey empowers and inspires 300 SCORE chapters and 10,000 volunteer mentors across the nation. Prior to joining SCORE, Yancey served as Executive Director for the National Business Association.
Recognized as one of the nation's leading advocates for small business, Mr. Yancey represents SCORE nationally before the media, industry leaders and in Congressional testimony. He serves on the Small Business Advisory Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and, alongside President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden; he was involved in the launch of the national Joining Forces Initiative in the summer of 2011.
Mr. Yancey speaks across the country on the topics of entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, small business trends and volunteer mentoring, appearing on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News and PBS. He is also a frequent guest on several radio shows including Small Business Advocate, Build Your Business, Small Business Trends and Biz Talk. He serves as a member of the HuffPost Small Business Board of Directors and has been honored with numerous awards including 2011 Small Business Influencer Champion, the USA Freedom Corp Award of Excellence, the American Society of Association Executives Summit Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit.
A Texas native, Mr. Yancey received a bachelor's degree in business administration and finance from Texas A&M University. He now resides in Northern Virginia with his wife of 18 years and two sons and is an active outdoorsman, leader in the Boy Scouts of America, and little league football coach.
John Fuqua, Vice President of Finance
John Fuqua brings over two decades of financial management experience to SCORE as Vice President of Finance. Most recently, John has served as a consultant to Washington, DC area businesses as a specialist in corporate oversight and business strategy.
Previously, John served as the Chief Financial Officer for the D.C. Children & Youth Investment Trust Corporation which combined both public and private funds to offer programmatic support for DC youth. Earlier in his career, John was the Chief Financial Officer of Savant Corporation, a software company in Bethesda, and oversaw financial aspects of their merger and acquisition activities. He was also a financial controller for Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott. John, a displaced Floridian, has an MBA from The George Washington University and enjoys participating in outdoor sports.
Steve Records, Vice President of Field Operations
Steve Records is responsible for managing the national operations of SCORE's 300 chapters and 10,000 volunteers as well as overseeing the headquarters Human Resources, Recruitment, and Volunteer Services programs.
Prior to joining SCORE, Steve was a Managing Consultant for The Gallup Organization in Washington, DC and his previous experience includes multiple field sales, marketing, field management, and consulting positions within a multinational chemical and energy company. Steve is a graduate of Purdue University and completed an MBA at the University of Nevada.
Bridget Weston Pollack, Vice President of Marketing & Communications
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Centre-Periphery Structures in Europe [1880-1978]: An International Social Science Council (ISSC) Workbook in Comparative Analysis (ICPSR 7571)
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This study presents economic, cultural, electoral, and administrative variables from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries on four European countries: Britain, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland. In particular, this study focuses on the relationships between military-administrative, economic, and cultural "centers" within a nation-state and its surrounding hinterlands. The four countries selected illustrate very different types of territorial structure from the federal, multi-centered model to the unitary, single-centered model. In physical size, they represent both large and small political entities. This study contains extensive information for all four countries in such areas as geography, demography, urban settlement patterns, occupational structures, education, income, industrial and agricultural production, health and household conditions, cultural and religious traits, and political beliefs.
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The dataset was constructed at the request of the Standing Committee on Comparative Research of the International Social Science Council to serve as a teaching tool on research methodology in the social sciences. Its purpose is to introduce students to international comparative studies by offering them the opportunity to investigate the structures of territories in modern Western Europe. The separate country level files in this study vary in the unit of analysis: KREISE for the Federal Republic of Germany, CONSTITUENCIES for the United Kingdom, communes within counties (FYLKE) in Norway, and CANTONS in Switzerland. These units were chosen explicitly to allow the student to grapple with the problems of choosing a level of aggregation in comparative analyses. The workbook was developed and tested under the auspices of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and by UNESCO. Texts and data are made available as a joint venture of ICPSR, the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (Bergen), the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University (Halifax), and the Zentralarchiv fur empirische Sozialforschung der Universitat zu Koln (Cologne). Instructional data and workbooks examining other areas of comparative research in the social sciences have been sponsored by the ISSC and UNESCO. These include: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 8350), SOCIAL MOBILITY, [1973-1976]: AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 8682), and TIME BUDGET RESEARCH: AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 8542). Copies of these codebooks may be ordered directly from the publisher: Campus Verlag, Myliusstrasse 15, 6000 Frankfurt 1, Federal Republic of Germany.
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There are a lot of diseases that run in families. By that I mean, if family members have the disease, others in the family are at a greater risk. There is a tendency to say that this must be genetic, but many other things are familial: recipes, political leanings, and athletic supporting. If I and my sons picked the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl, I am not sure anyone wants our DNA for evaluation.
In the study of disease, going from recognizing a familial pattern to an understanding of the underlying genetics is a crucial step. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an interesting example. For more than 90 percent of people, AD is a sporadic disease—there's no clear-cut family pattern. However, if you have a close relative (parent, uncle, aunt, or sibling) with Alzheimer's, your chances of getting it are about three times higher than those without such relatives. Understanding the actual genetics has been an unfulfilled challenge. At present, it appears that the genetics for the sporadic form of AD are complex, with multiple genes increasing a person's risk of the disease, but no causative genetic mechanism has been established. How does one get around this dilemma? One option is to study rare families with clear evidence of inheritance; that is, families with two (parent and multiple offspring) or three (grandparent, parent, and child) generations involved. With Alzheimer's, such families exist, but are rare (probably less than two percent of all those with the disease). They have been the subjects of intense investigation, and virtually all have some genetic mutation relating to the metabolism of amyloid. There are multiple different genetic mutations involved, and many have been the basis for developing mouse models of AD. Based on these genetic defects, clinical trials have been undertaken in the human using agents designed to reverse the amyloid accumulation. So far, all have failed. I think it is fair to say that emphasis on amyloid as a single mechanism is fading, while other mechanisms are being sought. In this issue, another mysterious neurological disease, Tourette Syndrome, has popped up with a possible genetic mechanism. Tourette Syndrome (often referred to as Tourette's) is a tic disorder involving motor and phonic (sound) components. The motor components range from rapid eye blinking to abnormal facial movement. The phonic components also have a range of appearances including throat clearing and vocal words. In the notorious form of the disease, persons utter obscene words as part of the tic (so-called coprolalia). That form of the disease is rare, in less than 10 percent of subjects. The disease starts in late childhood, around 8-10 years, and symptoms diminish with age, making Tourette's uncommon in older people. A family with the father and all eight of his children with the disease was used for study of a possible genetic mechanism. This family was previously reported by Matt State and his colleagues at Yale, who found that the family had a mutation in the key enzyme involved in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter histamine. Following the strategy used in Alzheimer's, Christopher Pittenger and his colleagues, also at Yale, knocked out this gene in mice, producing Tourette's-like symptoms. Further, in the mouse, these symptoms could be ameliorated by infusing histamine to the brain. The level of another transmitter, dopamine, was elevated. This elevation, and the Tourette's-like symptoms, were alleviated by the dopamine antagonist, haloperidol. These findings open the door to all kinds of future exploration, including looking for this mutation in other families and trying therapies that modify dopamine. The big advantage of having a mouse model of a disease is that one can impose studies that could not be done in the human. Such studies might clarify the mechanism of a disease and point the way to a therapy for humans.
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Boeing recently released an incredible set of renderings regarding the interiors of its brand new space capsule, which is scheduled to be ready for space flight in 2017. Dubbed CST-100, the capsule was initially designed as a means of transportation for astronauts and cargo pieces to the International Space Station, but as its design evolved, the capsule started to become more and more luxurious and comfortable.
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Juanita Broaddrick says Clinton raped her
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The woman known as Jane Doe Number 5 in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's impeachment report to Congress has gone on the record in an interview with the Wall Street Journal claiming that Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1978 when he served as attorney general of Arkansas.
In the first published account of the alleged incident, the former Clinton campaign worker describes a meeting in his hotel room in which Clinton held her down forcibly on a bed and bit her lips while engaging in sexual intercourse.
After the encounter, she says in Friday's edition of the Journal, Clinton told her not to worry because he was sterile. When she was leaving the room, he looked at her bruised face and, according to Juanita Broaddrick, said: "You better put some ice on that."
The account as told by Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal, begins back on a day in 1978 when Attorney General Bill Clinton visited a nursing home owned by Broaddrick, who had been working on Clinton's campaign for governor. During this visit, Clinton invited her to come to his campaign headquarters whenever she was next in Little Rock.
As it happened, Broaddrick was in Little Rock for a nursing home seminar the following week and called the campaign headquarters to set up a meeting with Clinton. They arranged to meet for coffee in the cafe of the Camelot hotel where she was staying. Clinton pointed out that the environs were a bit noisy, according to Broaddrick, and recommended they adjourn to her room and have coffee there.
It was in the hotel room, after Broaddrick had rebuffed an advance by Clinton, that he got her onto the bed and forced her to have sex, she told the Journal in a detailed account.
Her friend, Norma Rogers, a nurse who had accompanied Broaddrick to the seminar, found her on the bed in what she described in an interview as a state of shock — her lip swollen, mouth bruised, and her pantyhose torn at the crotch. According to Rogers, Broaddrick repeatedly said, "I can't believe what happened," as she continued to lay stunned on the bed.
In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Broaddrick said she never went to the police about the incident "because of the mentality of the '70s. There I was, I was married, I was also in a relationship with another man, and … I was there alone in a hotel room with the attorney general and I didn't think anyone would possibly believe me."
Asked why she was telling her story now, she told AP that she was doing it to counter rumors that she had been bribed and intimidated to hush the account. Initially, she had signed a false affidavit after being approached by the Paula Jones lawyers, swearing that there was no sexual assault involved in the meeting between herself and Clinton, wanting to steer as far from the past as possible, but then came Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation.
Broaddrick's son, Kevin, advised his mother to recant her previous statements and tell the whole truth. "[T]his was another whole level," he said in an interview. "She knew it was one thing to lie in a civil trial so she could get away from all this, but another to lie to federal prosecutors and possibly a grand jury."
Thus, after working a deal of immunity with the independent counsel's office, Broaddrick recanted the version of the story contained in her previously signed affidavit, and told a different story — that the sexual advances by Clinton that day were far from consensual.
After years of avoiding the media — since 1992 when the first rumors of the story began to surface — Broaddrick decided to do an interview with NBC. The interview took place on January 20, but NBC, once in possession of the story, didn't seem to know what to do with it. As Broaddrick had heard, her interview was slotted to run on the January 29 episode of "Dateline," but didn't.
In fact, a significant stir was created over the interview when Anchor Tom Brokaw threatened to resign if the interview was aired. As NBC's Lisa Myers, who had interviewed Broaddrick, told her, "The good news is you're credible. The bad news is you're very credible."
It was after NBC had let her "hang out to dry," as Broaddrick termed it, that she turned to the Wall Street Journal to give her story.
White House Spokesman Joe Lockhart dismissed the story by alluding to the Journal's editorial page as having run spurious allegations of the President in the past. The president's lawyer, David Kendall, denied the story entirely, asserting that "Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false."
"Beyond that," Kendall concluded, "we're not going to comment."
As for NBC, the network is currently maintaining that it has not released Broaddrick's story, and will not, until it certain the story is solid — "[a] heartening testimony to the elevated standards of journalism that have now apparently seized the network," Rabinowitz editorialized in the Journal's account. NBC has declined to comment on any plans to air it.
About the president, Broaddrick says, "I don't have an agenda where he is concerned. I could care less what happens to the man." In an interview with the Washington Post published Saturday, she said she did not think it was wrong to keep silent in 1978, but wishes she had come forward in 1992.
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Novak repeated false allegation that Democrats tried to suppress Cisneros report
Echoing a false claim [1] by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, CNN host and nationally syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak accused Democratic senators of secretly attempting to suppress the report of the independent counsel investigating former Clinton cabinet secretary Henry Cisneros. Three Democratic senators introduced legislation to de-fund the investigation effective June 1. In fact, the proposed funding cut would not prevent the report's release.
In his May 5 column [2], Novak wrote: "A Senate rider inserted in an emergency appropriations bill in the dead of night, which would close a rare window into political foul play at the Internal Revenue Service, was quietly removed Tuesday in Senate-House negotiations." Novak was referring to an amendment [S AMDT 399 [3] to HR 1268 [4]] to the supplemental appropriation for Iraq and Afghanistan -- sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and cosponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) -- that would eliminate funding for independent counsel David Barrett's investigation into Cisneros, Clinton's one-time secretary of Housing and Urban Development, effective June 1.
The Senate passed the amendment by unanimous consent as part of its version of the bill, but according to Novak, House negotiators on the House-Senate conference stripped the amendment after Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and James M. Inhofe (R-OK) sent a letter to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, asking that the investigation's funding not be cut because "there is the risk that the final report on this investigation will not be released." But the letter [5] provides no reason why the amendment might pose that risk.
Novak claimed that "[p]assage of the amendment probably would have meant Barrett's voluminous report on the Cisneros case never would see the light of day." Barrett's report, however, has already been submitted to a three-judge panel for review, as Novak himself acknowledged, and de-funding an independent counsel investigation after its report has been submitted for judicial review would not prevent the report's release. According to 28 USC 594(h)(2) [6], a federal law governing independent counsels, the court has ultimate authority to release such reports to the public: "The division of the court may release to the Congress, the public, or any appropriate person, such portions of a report made under this subsection as the division of the court considers appropriate."
In 1995, Barrett was appointed to investigate allegations that Cisneros lied about money he paid to a mistress. Cisneros pleaded guilty to those charges in 1999 and paid a $10,000 fine, but the investigation kept going and continued to receive federal funding -- including $1.26 million in the last six months of fiscal 2004. "Barrett stayed in business to investigate whether anyone in the Clinton administration had attempted to obstruct justice during the probe," according to an April 1 Washington Post article [7].
In a letter [8] to the Journal, Dorgan, Kerry, and Durbin criticized the Cisneros probe because it has cost taxpayers than $21 million over a decade. The letter, which was a response to an April 22 Journal editorial similarly accusing the three senators of suppressing the report, flatly refuted the Journal's accusation. "The amendment doesn't prevent the publication of the report, it just closes the outrageously expensive Independent Counsel's office," the senators wrote.
As Media Matters for America noted [1], despite the fact that the accusation of a cover-up was false, the Journal nevertheless touted the letter as "a small victory," claiming that the Democrats were "now saying they want the independent counsel report investigating IRS abuses related to the Henry Cisneros tax-fraud case to be made public." Novak lent credence to the Journal's dubious "victory" by noting that the senators' letter "marked the first mention by the de-funders about making the report public."
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's basketball team picked up their second victory in as many games on Saturday afternoon, when they defeated the Lady Tornado of King College 66-46. Four Cobra women scored in double figures in a victory that improved Coker to 2-3 in Conference Carolinas play.
King scored the opening basket of the game, but that would be their only lead, as the Cobras scored 15 unanswered points in the opening 11 minutes of play, eventually ending the first half with a 32-15 lead.
The Tornado had a much more productive second half, scoring 31 points, but it was not enough to overcome the Cobras first half lead.
Coker senior Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) led all scorers with 14 points, while Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) scored 13 points with four rebounds off the bench. Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) recorded her third straight double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds and Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) also hadded 10 points with five rebounds.
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How about Sunday at Noon at Quincy Park (courts next to central library in Ballston)? I am 3.5 -- 4.0. Mike
I'm out of town for mother's day on Sunday, but I could prob do Tues or Wed evening - does either work?
Wed eve, yes. When can you start? 5:30pm ok?
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I could play at Quincy Park.
Hi! I'm available tonight, if anyone is interested. I'm about 3 miles from Ballston. Email me if you're interested.
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I'm a 3.5/4.0 in the area too. Let me know if you still look for partner!Cheers,
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Herr Kordes is the personal of the web development and online marketing company, targeting mostly the online presence of old-economy companies. Its is German, and it means "Mr Kordes". Mr Kordes is a symbol for the kind of person who is going to "fix" the customer's websites.
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Ben Affleck: 'Blake Lively made me feel old'
BEN AFFLECK had an eye-opener hanging out with his THE TOWN co-star BLAKE LIVELY after she admitted she was clueless about his famed friendship with MATT DAMON.
The actor was showing the 25-year-old Gossip Girl star around his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts while making his 2010 heist movie.
Affleck, who turned 40 last month (Aug12), admits he was shocked when Lively confessed she had no idea the actors grew up together before co-writing and starring in the 1997 drama Good Will Hunting.
He tells Details magazine, "When I was doing The Town, I'd tour the actors around Boston. I was with Blake, and I saw Matt's childhood home. And I said, 'Oh yeah, that's where Matt grew up.' And she said, 'Who?' And I said, 'Matt Damon.' And she said, 'Oh my God! You know Jason Bourne?!'
"She really didn't know. And I thought, 'There it is. The first age of people who are adults who missed the whole Matt-and-Ben propaganda campaign.' Mostly, it just made me feel old."


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There are just weeks remaining to submit your nomination for Terrebonne's Most Useful Citizen.
There are just weeks remaining to submit your nomination for Terrebonne's Most Useful Citizen.
The Courier is seeking nominations for the annual recipient, who is chosen by an anonymous panel. The exact deadline has not been set, but it will likely be in early January.
The award will be presented at the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce's 84th annual banquet, set for 6-9 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
Since 1946, The Courier has recognized a local resident who has had a lasting impact on the community and has volunteered for years for no pay or recognition.
Submissions should include the nominee's name, details of his or her volunteer work and related anecdotes.
"We need anecdotes about how someone has selflessly worked to help others or make a change. We'll take stories from the person for whom the work was done. We encourage nominators to submit testimonial letters," said Miles Forrest, publisher of The Courier and Daily Comet.
The 2007 Most Useful Citizen title went to a couple, an uncommon occurrence in the award's history.
Berwick and Alexis Duval, a husband and wife duo, were selected as joint winners because they served their community at the local and state levels.
The Duvals are life-long residents of Terrebonne Parish and graduates of Vandebilt Catholic High School. They started dating when both were seniors at the Houma school.
Berwick's late father, Stanwick Duval, and late uncle, Claude Duval, were also recipients of the Most Useful Citizen award in 1976 and 1979, respectively.
"It was overwhelming. I also felt I didn't deserve it. I got the award with my wife, and I always thought she probably carried me along," Berwick said, laughing.
The Duvals are one of three pairs to share the title.
n Drs. Ernest and Willard Ellender got it in 1966 for their work on coastal issues.
n Kenneth and Mary Royston got it in 2010 for their work with the Terrebonne Library system.
Alexis, 57, worked more at the local level, while Berwick, 57, served in a state and national capacity. The couple said they consult each other about coastal issues, incorporating those discussions into their daily lives.
Both have been active with multiple organizations and volunteer activities. Both are Leadership Terrebonne graduates and South Central Industrial Association members.
Alexis is a past president and board member of the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce, as well as a member of the Rotary Club of Houma, Women's Business Alliance, Morganza Action Coalition and Friends of the Wetlands. She was also among the local women who traveled to Washington, D.C., with the New Orleans-based Women of the Storm following hurricanes Katrina and Rita to lobby federal lawmakers.
In her role as chamber president, Alexis helped grow the wetlands-conservation curriculum in local schools.
Berwick is involved with the Coastal Conservation Association and is a Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation board member. He previously served as the parish government's attorney and his firm represents the Terrebonne Parish School Board. He is a member of the Terrebonne, Louisiana and American bar associations.
Working closely with officials to develop the state's coastal-restoration and hurricane-protection plan, Berwick has served on the state's Coastal Restoration and Conservation Advisory Committee.
Most recently, he was appointed to the board of America's Wetland, an advocacy campaign aimed at saving Louisiana's wetlands, a cause he said should be important when considering this year's nominees.
"Community service can take many different forms. But we in the Terrebonne-Lafourche area have a lot of issues," he said. "There are people struggling, and there are volunteers to help the unfortunate and people working to help our coast. Those are the type of people eligible."
Nominations can be hand-delivered to The Courier, 3030 Barrow St., mailed to P.O. Box 2717, Houma, LA 70361 or e-mailed to email@example.com.
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY – The National Academy of Inventors has named Vitaly Vodyanoy, a professor of physiology and director of the biosensor laboratory in Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine, as one of the association's 2013 fellows. Representing 94 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutions, the 143 new fellows collectively hold more than 5,600 U.S. patents.
Vodyanoy is probably best known for his creation of an advanced illumination system that greatly enhances the resolution power of the light microscope. Licensed to CytoViva Inc., microscopes with his illumination system are being sold worldwide and have found a niche in nanomedicine research where they can visualize nanoparticles that cannot be seen with a typical light microscope. The technology won the prestigious R&D Magazine 100 Awards in 2006 and 2007, the Nano 50 Award in 2007 and currently is enabling researchers in biomedical and other fields to advance their science and find solutions to health, environmental and other problems.
"I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Vodyanoy and found him to be an intellectually gifted scholar and gentleman," said John Weete, Auburn's assistant vice president for technology transfer and commercialization. "His ability to recognize and creatively overcome technical obstacles to research is remarkable. "
As a biophysicist, Vodyanoy's work deals with biomembrane phenomena such as sensory receptors, biosensors, transport models, ion channels and olfactory receptor neurons, as well as other areas including cell preservation, symbiotic and probiotic bacteria, proteons from blood and pleomorphism of small DNA particles. He holds 22 U.S. and 37 international patents based on his research. His inventions include a biopolymer for preserving cells, tissue, blood and macromolecules; a mechanism for remote monitoring and recording of olfactory sniff events as detector dogs sample a wide area; and a passive oil collection system.
"Selection as an NAI Fellow is a high honor," said Anne Chasser, former U.S. Commissioner for Trademarks at the USPTO and chair of the NAI Fellows Selection Committee. "The fellows have made outstanding contributions to innovation and discovery in ways that have had a significant impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society."
A member of the Auburn University Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors, Vodyanoy joined Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1989. He received his M.S. in Physics from Moscow Physical Engineering Institute and his Ph.D. in biophysics from Agrophysical Research Institute, Leningrad, USSR.
"The criteria for fellow recognition are rightfully rigorous," said Calvin Johnson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. "Dr. Vodyanoy is truly a remarkable and creative individual, an outstanding citizen of our university and deserving of the recognition and honor of being named NAI Fellow."
Included in the 2013 class are nine Nobel laureates, 69 members of the National Academies, 23 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 23 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, five inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, six recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and two recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Science.
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Connected Learning Exchange, Open House and Chat
Educators are increasingly taking control of their professional development by participating in Professional Learning Communities. To celebrate and encourage this trend, the U.S. Department of Education has declared August Connected Educator Month. Cisco is pleased to join more than 60 major education organizations & communities in events & activities that explore the power of professional online communities.
If you've never been part of an online community or network before, Connected Educators Month offers a wide array of opportunities to network, learn and collaborate. It is in this spirit that Cisco provides the Connected Learning Exchange (CLX) Community as a platform to foster collaboration and allow educators to share best practices and practical solutions that can dramatically improve education everywhere.
We invite you to join us on August 20, 2012, from 9 am to Noon, U.S. Pacific Time, for an online open house and chat to learn how the CLX Community can support your professional development and help to develop your personal learning network. While there are many benefits to participating in the CLX Community, we are particularly interested in offering the CLX as a platform for educators to create their own Communities of Practice.
- Share resources and interact with like-minded colleagues, from around the world, in a rich social networking environment that includes blogs, videos, groups, interactive chats, and discussion forums.
- Participate in Affinity Groups covering a wide variety of topics, such as curriculum, education technology, and instructional pedagogies for next-generation teaching and learning.
- Access free online professional development.
- Be recognized by Cisco and the Community via the CLX Leader Recognition Program.
We hope you'll join us on August 20th to tour the CLX Community. We'll use the CLX Chat feature for a real time conversation on how the community can foster connections and collaborations. We also encourage you to sign up to get news and updates on Connected Educator Month.
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Porn star James Deen has two no-nos when it comes to lovemaking – he won't have sex solely for cash and he refuses to get down and dirty with clowns.
The X-rated actor, who co-starred with Lindsay Lohan in "The Canyons," reveals he once got tricked into a paid-for threesome as part of a sleazy executive's Christmas gift to his wife, and he'll never prostitute himself again – and he discovered clowns were a big turn-off while filming a big top sex scene.
He tells Playboy, "I don't have sex with anyone dressed as a clown. They are creepy.
"I've done it only once, and it was terrifying… I freaked out. I was like… 'I will not have sex with a clown.'


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When we decided to piggyback off of The Backlot's Slash Madness Tournament last year, we actually worried that we might not be able to come up with 32 Femslash couples to fill out our brackets. Boy, were we ever wrong. You nominated over 50 beloved fandom pairings and logged more than a million votes before crowning Rachel and Quinn from Glee The Ultimate Femslash Madness Tourney Champions. But this year — oh, ho! this year — you've already made our tournament even better.
This year, we opened up the nominations to cross-show fanon pairings, with the only requirement being that the couples were fictional and non-canon. You supplied over 300 suggestions. In fact, there were so many established fandom favorites and imaginative couples that we decided to expand our tournament from 32 entrants to 64 entrants this year.
Voting for round one will be open until this Thursday, July 25th until 9:00 p.m. EST. You can vote once per hour between now and then for your favorite couples. The rules this year are: Be awesome. This is a fun, fandom-honoring contest. Let's be cool about it, OK?
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Share your favorites with us in the comments or tag your tweets and Tumblr posts with #FemslashOTP so we can find you. Now, get to voting!


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No problem.....................I previously owned a few 92 inox's, but now shoot the 96 inox. They're basically the only Beretta's that I like. Currently searching for an Italian made 92 or 96 inox. Mine are American made. Just picked up a Sig P220 sas two tone .45........kind of a rare animal.............hoping to use it as a trade in the future for an Italian inox. Have a good day.
Hey Beretta, I apologize for not answering your message. I have spent the last year accessing the forum via Tapatalk and it never showed I had a message.
Thank you for you birthday wishes. I agree us Virgos should stick together.
What Berettas do you run? I have a full size PX4 that I've never warmed up to.
Again, thanks for the birthday wishes and sorry for my apparent rudeness. I'll check my PM's more often.
Have a nice day and a great year mate.
John (PP)