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Glenn Beck Net Worth
Glenn Beck Net Worth: Glenn Beck is an American television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, media personality and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $250 million. Glenn Beck was born February 10, 1964 in Everett, Washington. Glenn Beck rose to become a nationally syndicated television and radio host thanks to his knack for creating controversy. At the age of 13, Beck landed his first radio job when one of the local AM stations put on a contest for a guest DJ and Beck easily won the gig. Two years later Beck applied for a DJ job at a new Seattle FM station, hired without ever meeting with his new bosses face-to-face. Management was taken aback by their new employee's youth, but they liked his polished audition tape and stuck to their decision. After high school, Beck moved to New York City to pursue his dream of being a big city radio personality. Over the next decade, Beck zigzagged across the country, honing his skills as a radio personality in cities of Seattle, Louisville, Washington D.C., Phoenix and Houston. By the age of 21, Beck was commanding a salary of $70,000. Unfortunately, with the money came a change in ego and with the semi-celebrity status came addictions—combined with a series of failed morning programs with big ratings expectations—and in no time turned him into a near has-been in the radio industry. Beck's radio program reached No. 1 following his coverage of the controversy of the Presidential election of 2000. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Beck was offered a syndicated afternoon show. By 2004, Beck was broadcasting The Glenn Beck Program on 150 stations. Two years later, the Glenn Beck brand reached even greater heights when CNN hired him as one of the stars of the recently revamped Headline News. CNN's new man didn't disappoint, earning ratings that were second only to Nancy Grace. In October 2008, Glenn Beck was on the move again when he announced he was leaving CNN for a new job at FOX. He left FOX in 2011 to launch his own media outlet TheBlaze. Beck is also the author of several books, including six New York Times bestsellers.
Glenn Beck
|Net Worth:
|$250 Million
|$20 Million Per Year
|Date of Birth:
|Feb 10, 1964 (56 years old)
|6 ft 2 in (1.9 m)
|Talk show host, Writer, Commentator, Media proprietor, Author, Spokesperson, Critic, Presenter, Radio personality, Journalist
|United States of America
Glenn Beck Earnings
- Glenn Beck$2,000,000/year


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Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark – the main character in the film version of "Iron Man" from Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios. His superpowers are the result of the highly versatile and indestructible high-tech armor that he developed himself. When he is without his suit, the technically-adept billionaire relies on the Audi R8. "The R8 is the perfect car for Tony Stark," Iron Man director Jon Favreau said. "It's a technological masterpiece. Plus it's fast, safe, and sure to be noticed." The leading lady, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Virginia "Pepper" Potts), drives an Audi S5 in the film.
Tony Stark is smart, successful and uncompromising. He's got ideas – and the courage and skill to make them reality. And naturally he puts his extraordinary capabilities to work for the good of mankind – in the form of Iron Man, his superhero alter ego. No other comic book hero has such extensive knowledge of technology or of the opportunities offered by innovation and cutting-edge ideas. The movie opens in theaters around the world in early May 2008.
The film also stars Oscar nominees Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges. "Iron Man" is directed by Jon Favreau from a screenplay by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The film is produced by Avi Arad and Kevin Feige. Executive producers are Louis D'Esposito, Peter Billingsley, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee and David Maisel.

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IMBA Trail Care Crew Visit
A team of IMBA professional trail experts will be in Buena Vista leading a trail work session, meeting with local land mangers, and working with SMT and Ark Valley Velo to improve mountain biking opportunities in Chaffee County. The trail building school will take place on Saturday at the Buena Vista Community Center (Pinon Room - 715 E. Main Street) from 9am till noon and will cover the topics below before heading out on the Midland Trail from 1-5pm to use these newly learned skills. Lunch will be provided.
Class Topics:
Introduction to IMBA, Introduction to the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew, Trail building theory, Essential elements of sustainable trails, Designing a trail, Constructing the trail, Rerouting and reclaiming trails, & Armoring techniques.
More details and registration information available here.
Classroom 9 a.m. - noon @ Buena Vista Community Center - Pinon Room - 715 E. Main Street, Buena Vista, Colorado 81211 Lunch provided Trail work 1 p.m. - 4/5 p.m. @ Midland Trail Must register and attend classroom session prior to trail work.
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Michelle Monaghan to star in Ryan Murphy's Open
Story by Jack Foley
MICHELLE Monaghan has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's Open.
The HBO drama pilot is described as hyper-sexual and already boasts an ensemble including Anna Torv, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wes Bentley and Scott Speedman.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Monaghan will play Grace, a successful and recently engaged gynaecologist.
The pilot is being described as a multi-character exploration of the complex, ever evolving landscape of sexuality, monogamy and intimacy in relationships.
Principal photography is set to begin in early 2014 from a script co-penned by Murphy and Lauren Gussis (of Dexter fame).
If ordered to series, the show will mark Monaghan's latest small screen excursion with HBO – she also stars opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in the cable network's keenly anticipated True Detective, an eight-episode drama that's due to debut in January 2014.
And on the film side, the in-demand actress is to star in Claudia Myers' Fort Bliss alongside Ron Livingston, A Many Splintered Thing with Chris Evans and Better Living Through Chemistry with Sam Rockwell.
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1300 Inflate has won the contract to supply Inflatable pipe plugs and Inflatable Isolation plugs and duct stoppers for the shutdown service and major upgrade of the Mondi paper mill plant in Durban.
The contract will cover all the plugging and isolation product types that are supplied by the 1300 Inflate group and include:
- Kevlar reinforced Pipe line testing plugs for the new sewer lines
- Plug Up Isolation plugs and inflatable stoppers for isolating the pipe and duct lines when old branches are cleaved or fumigation occurs
- Telleborg ODS 300/600 Kevlar reinforced pipe plugs were chosen for plugging all the branches of the turbine cooling system when the pressure test occurs after the major refit of the line.
- Part of the supply agreement will also be the various types of inflation pumps and other pneumatic accessories used as part of the plug systems.
- 1300inflate will be on site to check, train and monitor the use and affectivity of the full range of inflatable pipe plugs that are to be used on this shut, with special reference to the backpressures that are now being achieved with the plug up range of isolation plugs and the effect of fumigation chemicals on the range of materials used for manufacturing the entire range of inflatable pipe plugs, duct plugs and Isolation plugs.
- A range of special purpose plugs and curtains will also be deployed to isolate sensitive area of the plant when the wash down occurs. This is being implemented to avoid any uncontrolled runoff into the main sewer or storm water drainage that may cause contamination,
- The contract also includes the manufacture of a range of custom shaped inflatable pipe plugs for specific access hatches, which need to be sealed on this shut down.


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Studio Policies
Private Studio Locations: The primary teaching studio of Trevor Barroero is located in Athens, Georgia near the UGA Campus. However, a majority of Trevor's students live outside of Georgia and are currently enrolled in Virtual Lessons. Students partaking in Virtual Lessons (via Skype, FaceTime, etc) have the added flexibility of staying at home and performing on their own instruments for each lesson. Trevor's virtual students have reported no diminishment in quality of instruction and continue to win auditions, competitions, and scholarships.
Areas of Study: Students will develop skills on snare drum, drum set, mallet percussion (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel), timpani, marching percussion, world percussion, and auxiliary percussion. While each student may choose to specialize on a particular instrument later in his or her studies, this studio thrives on the concept of Total Percussion.
Practice: ALL students are expected to practice regularly and diligently. The amount of time to be practiced daily will be discussed individually with each student / parent. It is expected that the student will journal his or her daily practice in a detailed manner. This journal is designed to organize the student's work, track learning curves, and improve efficiency. Each entry should include the date, minutes spent, instrument practiced, tempo ranges, number of repetitions (as appropriate), and any other details pertinent to that practice session. The more detail the student includes, the more can be learned from this journal. The student must dedicate a notebook to this exclusive use.
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Instructional Experience
Trevor Barroero has been teaching privately since 2009. The highlights of his students' accomplishments are as follows:
As a private instructor, Trevor excels in specializing his curriculum for each individual student. His experiences have ranged from teaching young children to read their first rhythms to preparing high school seniors for their college entrance auditions. As an educational artist, Trevor has presented masterclasses and interactive demonstrations in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona and in Marietta, Athens, and Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about specific educational clinics or private curriculums, please fill out the contact form above.
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With series like the Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games books becoming international mega-bestsellers, young-adult fiction is now a thriving genre that draws readers of all ages. YA Why? is a periodic book-review column that looks at YA releases from the perspective of what they do or don't do with familiar YA tropes, whether they appeal to a broad audience or strictly to the younger set, and why we might want to read them.
Book: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, originally published April 1967
Plot: Set in Hinton's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965, The Outsiders centers on Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old living with his two older brothers: 20-year-old Darry, a former football player who assumed responsibility of the family after a car crash killed their parents; and 16-year-old Sodapop, a pretty-boy dropout who works at a gas station. The three brothers are part of a gang, along with several others: Sodapop's best friend Steve Randle, wisecracking Two-Bit Matthews, hardened New York transplant Dallas Winston, and jumpy Johnny Cade, who endures the abuse of alcoholic parents. As kids living on the poor East Side of town, they're called Greasers, due to their long, greasy hair.
Their rivals are the Socs, "the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet-set, the West Side rich kids," who, with nothing better to do, spend their time picking fights with Greasers. After a couple of Soc girls named Cherry and Marcia meet Ponyboy and Johnny at a drive-in movie, their drunken Soc boyfriends—who recently beat Johnny within an inch of his life—confront the guys for hanging out with their girls. In an ensuing fight, one of the Socs tries to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, and a terrified Johnny stabs Cherry's boyfriend, Bob. Ponyboy and Johnny seek to escape Tulsa to avoid repercussions, but end up setting off a larger Greaser/Soc gang war.
Series status? The Outsiders is a standalone novel, though most of Hinton's books are interconnected stories about various Greasers set in the same fictional universe in and around Tulsa. Several characters from The Outsiders have cameo appearances in the subsequent novels That Was Then, This Is Now and Tex.
YA cliché: Though it isn't a Romeo & Juliet-style tragedy, The Outsiders does employ the stalwart "rival gangs from opposite sides of the tracks" backdrop for the story. Ponyboy is the youngest member of his gang of Greasers, but also the most academically gifted, with the best chance of raising himself out of his surroundings instead of being trapped by them.
Bad sign: Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was 16, which is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it doesn't just approximate the perspective of an adolescent—it's actually written by someone who would understand that point of view exceedingly well. At the same time, it's rough and shoddy in its technical aspects. It's a first book that reads like an extended diary entry. The narrative conceit is that Ponyboy writes his harrowing story down for a school assignment, so the stream-of-consciousness passages and timeline cross-cutting make sense, but it's still a noticeably juvenile work, for better and worse.
Good sign: Hinton supposedly decided to write The Outsiders after growing dissatisfied with the state of literature written for young adults in the '60s, and to her credit, it does blend a great many archetypal themes together into a plot that churns forward in spite of jerky motions and redundancy. The class conflicts, family turmoil, and survival elements are contrasted with wistful and romantic scenes between Ponyboy and Cherry Valance. In its finest moments, The Outsiders finds a lyrical groove as Ponyboy narrates simple yet insightful philosophical tangents about fleeting happiness, entrenched socioeconomic inequality, law enforcement targeting the poor, and the ethics of violence. He's struck by the gravity of his situation with poor Johnny, pausing while on the run to finally step back and observe: "Then for the first time, really, I realized what we were in for. Johnny had killed someone. Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny, who wouldn't hurt a living thing on purpose, had taken a human life."
Young-adult appropriate? The Outsiders is notoriously one of the most-challenged young-adult books ever written, but for a novel ostensibly about gang violence, it's fairly tame. All of the cursing is merely hinted at in comedic fashion instead of fully written out. There's a lot of underage drinking, but age restrictions were different in the '60s, and particularly lax in more rural states like Oklahoma. Pretty much everyone smokes cigarettes constantly, even Ponyboy, though the man who accompanies him to the hospital after he and Johnny save some kids from a burning church notes he's too young to smoke. And though there is inevitable violence and death, Hinton never glorifies or revels in it. Before the big rumble, Ponyboy asks everyone else why they fight, concluding that his friends do it for fun, pride, hatred, or conformity; but he himself can't justify fighting for any reason but self-defense.
Old-adult appropriate? It isn't Romeo & Juliet or The Warriors, but what The Outsiders lacks in narrative complexity and graphic brutality, it makes up for in skillful genre-shifting. Like many young-adult protagonists, Ponyboy seems far older than 14 due to his environment, and the struggles of the Curtis family and their gang is compelling even when Hinton's diction is simplistic. As for the book being applicable to modern times, that's perhaps best summed up by what Cherry says to Ponyboy to explain how the Socs and Greasers are more similar than he thinks: "Things are rough all over."
Could use less: Justification for the Socs. Is there ever a good excuse for kids who have everything to throw it all away to become miserable jackasses? Bob's best friend Randy is an attempt to embody the saner side of the Socs, and round them out with more humanity as he tries to make peace with Ponyboy at several points during the novel. It works to a certain extent, and it furthers Hinton's goal of displaying violence as petty and useless when everyone is just human at the core. But seriously, these kids have nice cars, dress like douchebags, and go around beating up the poor kids, and the excuse for Bob is that his parents didn't have the backbone to say "no" to him? Come on, nobody should be shedding a tear for anyone but Johnny and Dally.
Also, a little less colloquial slang would be nice. Reading The Outsiders is nothing close to parsing a fabricated dialect like that of A Clockwork Orange or 1984, but a lot of the "Aw, shucks" and "boy howdy" really feels dated.
Could use more: Multidimensional female characters. The Outsiders features some truly complex male friendships and sibling bonds. Ponyboy is constantly navigating his feelings for his older brothers and friends, and that emotional journey is one of the more rewarding aspects of the novel. Though it's reductive to retroactively slap the Manic Pixie Dream Girl label on Cherry Valance, she's really the only female character with any depth, providing a much more gentle side to the Socs than any of the boys. Still, she clearly has a thing for bad boys, as she whispers to Ponyboy that she "could fall in love with Dallas Winston," and, "I hope I never see him again, or I will." The one girl who seems to be able to think for herself and isn't just an object is a sucker for the boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
For fans of: Stories of socioeconomic struggles, the classic "two households" grudge match—think West Side Story, but darker and without the celebration of cultural heritage—or the work of children's author Jerry Spinelli. Even fans of such wildly different stories as Pretty In Pink and The Warriors—which was released as a novel in 1965 and as a movie in 1979, four years before Francis Ford Coppola's Brat Pack-sparking Outsiders film—can find traces of both in The Outsiders.


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I find EEK to be a really useful word, which is why I overuse it so shamelessly. Facebook friends will confirm that I EEK at every opportunity. There is no anniversary, anecdote or lame joke that I won't EEK at. I even EEK at photos of peoples' lunches, cats, etc, etc. Especially the cats.
That causes a problem when there is something that's really worth EEKing about. Like now. What can I possibly say?
I recently signed with a brilliant agent from a brilliant literary agency. Therese Coen, are you sure you didn't confuse me with someone else? And thanks to my brilliant agent, Blaggard's has just been sent to some of the best publishers of kids' lit in the UK. And she's subbing it at the Frankfurt Book Fair next week.
All I can say is - yes, you've guessed it -EEEEK!


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MPS is experiencing a little bit o' heartbreak today, so I'm digging into my archives to find some advice that could apply to what I'm feeling. Because getting laid off is a heartbreak of its own, isn't it?
After perusing my posts, I found the following two. I think they're perfect for the sadness I'm experiencing. None of them includes a tissue or lavender eye-mask…I think. I hope they help you, too. No matter what ails you!
7 Things to Do When You're Angry
Revisit Your Inner Kid
So, based on the advice, here's my game plan for the week:
- Run that pissed-off feeling out of my body (well, maybe tomorrow)
- Hug my dog-daughter and play ball with her (Miss SJB, I'm on my way home!)
- Drink some (cheap) wine with my UPiC
- Watch a really cheesy movie or Sunday night's episode of "Drop Dead Diva". If you haven't seen this new show and its star Brooke Elliott, both are precious and uplifting
- Read another chapter of the new "smart girl's beach book" I bought at the Strand in NYC, Commencement
- Re-read portions of Gigi Levangie Grazer's awesome new novel, Queen Takes King. Basically, it's about a woman who kicks ass. Love it. BTW–Gigi is my idol
- Maybe go see "Breakfast at Tiffany's"for the umpteenth time, but this time at the Fox Theater…with a pre-show wine tasting. Some may consider Holly Golightly a cliche heroine, but her trip to the Five-and-Dime with George Peppard's "Fred" is enough to lift anyone's spirits
- Check in with the ladies over at E. Jean Carroll's Advice Vixens. Those gals will whip me into shape fast. E. Jean: Honey, if ever there was a time I needed you!
- Lie out by the pool this Saturday and recapture that glow I'm missing
- Dive into the pile of magazines I got in the mail over the weekend. Allure, O, Elle, Self, Cosmo—girls, I hope you've got something good for me!
Am I missing a step? What do you do to heal a bruised heart?


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Report by Craig Sears-Black
Dulwich To Dunwich
Saturday 21st July progressed like many others with regular chore, DIY, ferrying children and gardening but my day ended sitting in a Suffolk pub eating a Brie filled roll and drinking espresso.
At 19:15 I left home on my bike after packing a small shoulder bag with a pair of shorts and big chunks of flapjack made by my daughter earlier in the day for my ride. The bag had been a source of much debate - what do you actually need to take for an overnight ride and the train journey home? The saddle wedge was packed with tubes, first aid goodies and tools so I settled on a minimalist approach to save weight.
As the London Overground from West Hampstead approached Hackney Central, Graham Ricketts' warning to make sure my bike wasn't nicked started ringing in my ears but this was clearly an unnecessary comment. On leaving the train at 8:15 I immediately started to swim against a huge tide of bikes that had already left London Fields but made it to the start to experience a gathering of some 1,800 cyclists preparing for the night ahead.
The first 15 miles was completed through East and North East London streets en-masse at a very slow pace as the bubble of riders made their way north in the fading light. Once past the M25 I made my first stop at a petrol station to take on board a cheese sandwich and from that point there was a steady stream of riders in front and behind with flashing rear lights as far as the eye could see.
The event has reached such awareness and magnitude that every pub en-route catered for riders seeking sustenance and several gardens were turned into refreshment areas with hot dogs and drinks being served through the night.
My night passed surprisingly quickly; teaming up with similar paced riders of all sorts to share the work at the front but there is no denying that between the hours of 3 and 5 I did ask the question 'Why?'.
Daylight brought with it a damp chill but the pace quickened as I found an experienced 'Dun-run' rider wanting to be ahead of the breakfast queue. We made it to Dunwich beach well ahead of the masses and soon after 6:00 had a 'full English' in the Dunwich Pub that was to have a line of hungry cyclists snaking down the lane waiting to be served their breakfast by 07:00.
I had planned to ride to Saxmundham to catch the 08:45 to Ipswich but decided I would actually get an earlier train by cycling directly there. Fortunately a couple of others had decided the same and we made our way at a fairly brisk pace to catch the train to get back to Liverpool St by 11:00.
So, reflecting on the event as I returned home for Sunday lunch, it was an interesting challenge and certainly at a total distance of 240Km achieved a number of firsts for me as a novice cyclist. It's something I would do again but it's an experience best shared with friends to take a leisurely approach as the time really doesn't matter; its the shared experience of cycling through the night for no reason whatsoever other than 'because you can'.


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The Rolex Explorer II, reference 216570, along with the Submariner, GMT Master, and the Datejust, constitute Rolex's most popular watches. While the Explorer model, like the others, is a child of the late 1950s; unlike the others, it has two current models, both popular, but also quite different. The first model, the Rolex Explorer II Replica Watches, is 39mm and is closest to the original version, while the Explorer II is 42mm and more adapted to modern tastes. In this post, I review the latter model. And while any of the Rolex Explorer models make for a solid tool watch, in this review, I am not taking it to some mountain trekking odyssey, but instead I am doing modern day exploration. My account is based on taking it for a month long journey to Asia, exploring a distant land, an ancient people, and a fascinating culture: China.
First off, the Rolex Explorer was one of the first wristwatches to be designed for exploration, in particular, exploring new lands and varied terrains. While today, a Casio ProTrek or similar solar-powered multifunction watch will serve you well on a distant trek, in the 1950s and early 1960s when real exploration of the poles and the high peaks of the world was taking place, no quartz watch existed. And even today, if you were to attempt to explore the earth's pole or climb Mt. Everest, the Cheap Rolex Replica Explorer might still be a better choice than a quartz device, since these suffer when exposed to high and low temperatures and depend on an external source of power. However, the Rolex Explorer II is guaranteed to work as well as it does day to day even under extreme temperature gradients and with no source of power, except wearing it daily and moving a bit.
At the airport, the first step was to set the local and home time to PDT. As the plane took off and we got an indication of the time in Beijing, using the quick set feature on the hour hand, I simply pulled the crown and moved it forward about 8 timezones for the time in China. Interestingly, unlike many large countries, China has one timezone! It does not matter if you are in the east or western part of China, there is just one. Makes it easy for doing business, I suppose, though I imagine Chinese get a very different experience of time over the year depending on what side of the country they live on.
Of course, the Cheap Rolex was never the issue during my Wall trek, but rather my knees and my feet walking and climbing this amazing structure. Of course, I was also carrying my DSLR camera and made sure to stop, take a breathe, and take some pictures of the vast landscape. The weather was clear, so the view went on for miles. The white face of the Rolex Explorer II was never out of place. And I was very happy to use the 5mm easy link extension to relieve my wrist after a hard day hiking under the sun.
While clearly remaining a Rolex with the classic oyster case, the cyclops on the crystal, and the famous Rolex dial, this model is less common than the Submariner and GMT Master II, easily making it the more interesting Rolex Replica Watches if you want a solid sports watch from the famous brand – and hence it is one that you will more rarely see anyone else wearing during the day. As a matter of fact, during my entire time traveling to China, I only spotted one other person wearing a Rolex Explorer II (black dial), though I spotted countless other Rolex sports watches.


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About the Ensembl Project
The Ensembl project was started in 1999, some years before the draft human genome was completed. Even at that early stage it was clear that manual annotation of 3 billion base pairs of sequence would not be able to offer researchers timely access to the latest data. The goal of Ensembl was therefore to automatically annotate the genome, integrate this annotation with other available biological data and make all this publicly available via the web. Since the website's launch in July 2000, many more genomes have been added to Ensembl and the range of available data has also expanded to include comparative genomics, variation and regulatory data.
The number of people involved in the project has also steadily increased. Currently, the Ensembl group consists of between 40 and 50 people, divided in a number of teams.
- The Genebuild team creates the gene sets for the various species. The result of their work is stored in the core databases, which are taken care of by the Software team. This team also develops and maintains the BioMart data mining tool.
- The Compara, Variation and Regulation teams are responsible for the comparative, variation and regulatory data, respectively.
- The Web team makes sure that all data are presented on the website in a clear and user-friendly way.
- The Production team are responsible for coordinating the regular updates to Ensembl data.
- Finally the Outreach team answers questions from users and gives workshops worldwide about the use of Ensembl.
Ensembl is based at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBI-EBI), which is located on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, south of the city of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
You can read more about ongoing developments in Ensembl on our blog.
If you would like to cite Ensembl in your work, we recommend refering to the most recent overview article.
Assemblies and sequence
The DNA sequences and assemblies used in the Ensembl genebuild are provided by various projects around the world. Please see individual species' home pages for acknowledgements.
In order to improve consistency between the data provided by different genome browsers, Ensembl has entered into an agreement with UCSC and NCBI with regard to sequence identifiers:


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The oft-seen advertisement for AT&T is my current favorite, showing a real-life incredible running play in high school football. I get major warm fuzzies every time I see it, because watching someone get a ticket to greatness punched OUGHT to give you warm fuzzies.
The ad ends up with Head Coach Bob Stoops of Oklahoma Sooner football fame greeting the player who ran the miraculous play, leading you to believe the kid got a Sooner scholarship offer.
My dose of reality, would Coach Saban or Coach Chip Kelly have been that impressed? Doesn't dampen the fuzzies, though.


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The NFL has yet to announce which team will be featured on HBO's hit show, "Hard Knocks," this summer, and either Bay Area teams could be forced to be on the show if no other team volunteers.
There are three ways for a team to be exempt from the show: a team can have a first-year head coach, have made the playoffs once in the past two years, or have been featured on the show sometime in the past decade.
The 49ers and Raiders meet none of these requirements, meaning that if the NFL wants them on the show, they have to be on the show, period.
Hard Knocks typically features five episodes each season chronicling a team's training camp and preseason in July and August. The Cleveland Browns were featured on the show last year, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers played host to the HBO crews in 2017.
Detroit, Washington, and the New York Giants are the other three teams that could be forced to be on the show this year, and with the exception of maybe New York, none of these three teams would be as compelling as the two Bay Area teams.
For the 49ers, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo's return from a torn ACL would make for a nice comeback story, and cornerback Richard Sherman always makes for good soundbites.
In addition, Nick Bosa was the second overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, and Hard Knocks always makes a point to see how rookies navigate their first NFL training camps. The 49ers' wide-open competition at receiver would also make for an intriguing storyline, as Dante Pettis, Marquise Goodwin, Trent Taylor, Kendrick Bourne, and rookies Deebo Samuel and Jalen Hurd are all expected to compete for playing time.
Tight end George Kittle is also an entertaining character, as is left tackle Joe Staley. Staley may be nearing the end of his career, which would also make for a fun storyline on the show.
Finally, the personal story of defensive end Solomon Thomas (his sister committed suicide in early 2018, and he has since become an outspoken advocate for suicide prevention efforts) would also be a compelling story.
The 49ers would make for great television, but the Oakland Raiders would probably be even better.
Head coach Jon Gruden has a background in reality television with his old ESPN show, "Gruden's QB Camp," and is arguably the most quotable person in football.
Newly acquired receiver Antonio Brown has a mercurial personality that's made for reality television, as does new linebacker Vontaze Burfict, who has a slightly complicated history with Brown. The two new teammates say the past is behind them, and their potential interactions would be a fun story for HBO to follow.
The Raiders also have three first-round rookies in Clelin Ferrell, Josh Jacobs and Johnathan Abram. Ferrell's story could be particularly interesting since his selection was one of the biggest surprises of the draft.
This is also likely to be the Raiders' final season in Oakland, and that, in of itself, is a captivating storyline.
The NFL can't go wrong with either Bay Area team, but both teams have shown a reluctance to be on the show.
49ers general manager John Lynch has stated on multiple occasions that he is fundamentally opposed to informing a player that he's been released with a camera rolling in the background, and Raiders owner Mark Davis joked that he'd fire Gruden to stop the Raiders from being on the show.
But if no other NFL team volunteers for the show, the HBO crews could very well be coming to the Bay Area this summer.
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Care Coordination allows consumers to receive the services they need from every part of the healthcare system while improving a consumer's experience and avoiding duplication of services.
Imagine all the specialists involved in your clients' care, including labs and pharmacies, are connected electronically, with the ability to see a complete record of your clients' history across the spectrum of providers in your community. For agencies in the Foothold Technology community, this functionality is a reality…
Care Coordination and EHR Interoperability
The practical mechanics of interoperability:
- Health Information Exchange (HIE) connections will plug your agency into your region or state's cloud for healthcare records and let you send records, pull records back, and receive alerts seamlessly. Think of this as an online file sharing system similar to Google Drive or Dropbox.
- Direct messages (like HISP for example) will let you safely and securely send healthcare records to other providers. This works like email and is especially helpful for referrals.
- E-Labs and E-Prescribing (eRx) functionality allow you to send and receive prescriptions and orders for medications and lab tests.
Holistic use cases:
- An individual you are supporting goes to an emergency room; that client's record is accessible there.
- A client is discharged or transitioned; that client record can be sent to other providers and specialists.
- A client meets with a specialist, needs lab work, and/or a controlled substance as part of their care plan.
Focus on the Individual
At the heart of coordinated care is the individual. As a provider, you want to make sure you are providing person-centered care and support while meeting the "whole person" needs of the individual. With interoperability, coordinated care results in better support for the individual and savings in costs for the provider and the community.
Focus on the individual:
- By considering how those you serve are interacting with the Healthcare System as a whole.
- By integrating Person-Centered Care or Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) into your model.
- By interacting with the collaborative organizations that enable care coordination. Whether it's a Care Coordination Organization (CCO), Behavioral Health Care Collaborative (BHCC), or some other similarly named unit of care that is organizing providers to coordinate care, these entities are working with providers to share data and move toward a Value-Based Care (VBC)/Value-Based Payments (VBP) model aimed at improving the patient experience, improving outcomes, and reducing costs.
Where does AWARDS fit in to all of this? AWARDS is your key to interacting with the broader healthcare system. With interoperability offered through AWARDS Certified Edition, you are able to send structured data, receive alerts, send and receive referrals, exchange care plan data, and reconcile medications.
Why is Interoperability Important to My Agency?
- Contribute healthcare records in case of an emergency or transition of care.
- Incorporate physical health and behavioral health data in one place for an individual's "one record."
- Receive critical alerts on client activity such as emergency room/department visits.
- Send data to the larger healthcare system to aid in research, support the identification of trends like population health, and examine social determinants of health.
Webinar | Care Coordination and Interoperability – From Theory to the Real World
You have heard about the benefits of connecting to a Health Information Exchange (HIE); better outcomes, better care for clients, but what does this actually look like for an organization?
What You'll Learn
- We look at different types of Health Information Exchanges and how that data gets shared – securely!
- Examples and challenges of how we hooked into HIEs so you can get a clear picture of what this process might look like and what it will mean for your agency.
Why Partner with Foothold Technology?
At Foothold, we've been taking proactive steps for years to prepare our providers to be a part of this vision of coordinated care. We established partnerships with groups like InterSystems, the global leader of HIE technology, and integrated with our AWARDS software the Intersystems HealthShare platform, which is currently being used in HIEs across the US and around the world.
When you partner with Foothold Technology, you have access to powerful tools allowing your agency to operate with a high level of interoperability. Built on years of experience and partnerships within the industry, here's some of what you can expect:
- We offer a secure environment to capture your agency's work, including the secure exchange of electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI).
- We meet the latest and greatest interoperability standards, ensuring our customers can coordinate care.
- We go above and beyond in working with partners to bring you support and collaboration well beyond your initial EHR implementation phase.
Care Coordination in Practice
What follows are a few examples of how our client community is using AWARDS to meet their care coordination and interoperability needs along with some of the initiatives Foothold participates in to help our clients navigate coordinated care.
Nothing speaks louder than the voices of our customers using AWARDS Certified Edition. Here are just a few examples of those voices:
The Bridge, New York
Michael Blady shares thoughts on how his organization, The Bridge, is working with Foothold Technology to share data with Health Information Exchanges.
BronxWorks, New York
Charlela Lacewell & Sarah Carbone share thoughts on how AWARDS is providing BronxWorks with tools it needs for interoperability and Health Information Exchange.
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Foothold In The Fight Against Opioid Abuse: Partnering With Others Through the HIMSS EHRA
As an Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor, Foothold Technology participates in several national collaboratives convened to examine the challenges individuals and providers face in our changing landscape. Through partnerships and by collaborating with others, we share ideas on how to effectively harness the power of technology to support communities across the country. Through our participation, we strive to ensure the voices of our customers are heard on a national level, and actively generate innovative ways to address, collectively, the needs of the communities we support. This includes our participation with groups like the HIMSS EHRA, which is designed to improve or enhance the ability of interoperability functionality among physical and behavioral health providers and to identify how an EHR can impact healthcare in positive ways.
THINK TANK | The Challenges and Opportunities of Care Coordination Involving Behavioral Health Data
As an electronic health record (EHR) vendor, we know there are challenges and opportunities related to care coordination in an ever-evolving landscape. There are challenges related to data, workflows, resources, and understanding and implementing the concept of coordinated care. I've written about some of these topics before. To address these challenges, Foothold Technology continues to enhance our software, but we also continue to collaborate with partners, leading experts, and our customers on issues related to healthcare IT and interoperability
Changes to Meaningful Use Could Bring New Opportunities
For many of Foothold Technology behavioral health customers, interoperability has already become an increasingly important aspect of their work. It will continue to be the case as the landscape of care continues to adapt.


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There is a lot to like about Mozart in the Jungle (2015-), but, if you rewatch the opening episode, you will notice that it is a continuity nightmare in comparison to the rest of the series. At best, the discrepancies between the pilot and later episodes can be written off as the minor missteps of a show finding its voice over time. At worst, the episode can be viewed as a dishonest marketing plot to draw viewers in with a more ostentatious opening.
The party at Hailey's (Lola Kirke) and Lizzie's (Hannah Dunne) unrealistically large (but ever so camera-friendly) loft tries to not so subtly hammer in the message that the classical world is far more exciting than we expect. With the partygoers' musically inventive ways to get high and drunk, we see this is not just an extremely passionate creative class but also a group of people that knows how to party. The scene is effective at getting our attention, but it does not really mesh with the rest of the series: in later episodes, we learn that Lizzie isn't a classical musician but an aimless Bohemian, and Hailey isn't particularly rich with friends or a happening social life.
Then there's the gratuitous sex: there are three hookups in the opening episode in addition to a playful recounting of sexual exploits with a range of musicians that Cynthia (Safron Burrows) shares with Hailey, positing herself as a sexual superstar of sorts akin to the Walt Chamberlain of classical music. Another of the hookups, between Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) and an orchestral staff worker, Sharon (Jennifer Kim), plays like wish-fulfillment for her and a quick way to illustrate his sexual prowess and maverick style. Leading up to the scene in question, he appears bored in her company and treats her disrespectfully, but for reasons unexplained (the power of a jump cut), they end up making out before he discards her again, leaving her breathless. This serves the pilot's need for attention-grabbing action, but it is not particularly consistent with Rodrigo's personality (he doesn't seem so thoughtless in his personal interactions) or Sharon's (she's significantly more assertive) in later episodes. It is later revealed that Sharon is not just any staffer but his personal assistant. The two never seem to exhibit any sexual chemistry after this moment or make reference to what happened.
Additionally, Rodrigo is written so arrogantly in the pilot that it is hard to explain this behavior in light of his character in future episodes. In addition to his treatment of Sharon, he blatantly calls out departing conductor Thomas (Malcolm McDowell) for his inadequacies as a conductor and doesn't bat an eye when he's called a prick. Rodrigo eventually becomes the emotional centerpiece of the series and someone worth rooting for, but he is a relatively static character. Arguably, he appears arrogant or aloof at first, while he becomes more lovable as the protagonists (and audience) get to know him better. But that doesn't entirely excuse the inconsistency of his relationship with Thomas. When Thomas attempts to be friendly with Rodrigo a couple episodes later, Rodrigo exhibits a reverence towards the man that contradicts the initial relationship established, in which one party exhibited disdain and the other exhibited indifference.
So what gives? Mozart in the Jungle was part of the Amazon Pilots program, in which viewers watch the first episodes of various original shows, influencing Amazon's decision as to which shows it will pick up for a full season. The most likely explanation for the style of Mozart's pilot is that, because it was the free preview Amazon offered to entice subscribers, the episode is front-loaded with gratuitous sex and misleading exposition to sell the flash and pomp of the series. It's worth asking the question: is this how it's always been done?
Under the traditional cable model, a pilot is sold to a TV network. In order to beat the competition and get that greenlight, the pilot has to successfully meld exposition with flashy excitement and a sense of what the show's voice will be. After the series gets picked up, the writing team gets a front season order (for typically 13 episodes), and they have a chance to further develop that voice while doing what Mozart in the Jungle failed to do: tonally integrate the pilot with the rest of the season.
Under the traditional model, the pilot still has to be flashy because the show is competing against other new shows for the attentions of a trigger-happy audience. However, the show is judged by the ratings on a week-to-week basis, so the writers can't just write a different show in week two for fear of losing the audience that tuned in the first week. What critics often decry as a detriment to quality (the need to appease mass audiences from week to week) can also act as a continuity safety net.
Under the newer subscription model, Netflix and Hulu Plus have no pressure to catch viewers with the first episode, and they have measures in place to support shows from having to sensationalize early episodes: no ratings numbers are released, and shows are generally given two season deals right off the bat. It's perhaps due to the skills of Netflix's acquisition team that there have been few slow burns (at least according to most audience reception) under this model, but one wouldn't be surprised to see Netflix or Hulu Plus as places where slow-burning shows could thrive.
Amazon Prime's model has neither luxury: It can't afford slow burns so the pilot must be flashy, while the continuity isn't kept in check by week-to-week ratings. As a result a show like Mozart in the Jungle must achieve different aims in the first episode than in the rest of the series.
Ironically, most audiences agree that Mozart in the Jungle improves after its pilot, as it places less emphasis on over-the-top, sex-driven plots in favor of more nuance and depth. The series recently won Golden Globes for Best Actor (Gael García Bernal) and Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy. Evidently, the show has found its voice and grown into a great success. However, looking back at its origins, the distance it has come seems that much greater.


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Former Missouri defensive end Michael Sam announced that he is gay during an interview for ESPN's Outside the Lines on Sunday. He could possibly become the first openly gay athlete in NFL history.
Sam said in the interview that he had revealed his sexual orientation to his fellow Missouri players before the start of last season.
"Coaches just wanted to know a little about ourselves, our majors, where we're from, and something that no one knows about you," Sam said. "And I used that opportunity just to tell them that I was gay. And their reaction was like, 'Michael Sam finally told us.' "Sam said he told his teammates not to keep his sexual orientation a secret.
Asked what that moment felt like, Sam said, "I was kind of scared, even though they already knew. Just to see their reaction was awesome. They supported me from Day One. I couldn't have better teammates. ... I'm telling you what: I wouldn't have the strength to do this today if I didn't know how much support they'd given me this past semester."
Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel showed his support for Sam in a statement.
"We're really happy for Michael that he's made the decision to announce this, and we're proud of him and how he represents Mizzou," Pinkel said. "Michael is a great example of just how important it is to be respectful of others, he's taught a lot of people here first-hand that it doesn't matter what your background is, or your personal orientation, we're all on the same team and we all support each other."
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Well recently in my life I have taken on some big changes. I've taken a more active role in being a good house wife to hopefully prepare me for when its time for me to be a good mother. I've also started on a new career path which will hopefully bring my husband and I to the point we would like to be which is a little thing called being independent. My new job path is in Life insurance sales. In the one month that I have been working for Liberty National I have went from being just an Agent to new this week becoming a Unit Manager.
What you see is not always what you get........
Have you ever heard of the saying "you can't judge a book by it's cover"? Well I think I'm a prime example of that. Right now if you were to take a look at me and my life you would see a wife, a women who is over weight and a person that you may assume has no motivation in here life. That is the cover to my book of life, but the cover of my book is just that a cover. Behind it all when you really get in to the heart of my book. I'm a wife yes but one who loves her husband and is trying her hardest to have a marriage that will last a life time.
Where to begin, My life has been filled with so many downs in the past 6 month I have almost forgoten how to get back up again. Lost two jobs one that I like the other one I loved it made me feel like I had a purpose in life, and well thats gone too. I feel like no matter what I do I'm always in the wrong and no matter how hard i try I'm always going to fail. I've started going back to school again with little support from the one person I'm trying to make proud. In there words " Whats the point in spending the money to go to school when your not going to do anything with it.
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Well I got a new job, it was kind of scary at first because it was alot more professional than any other job I have ever had before. I was one of the best choices I have ever made. I love it, it is doing all the things I used to enjoy. Plus I have found out that I can be professional when I need to be. I know it is only my second week, but I already know that this job is the best thing that could have happened to me.
Midnight Again
Here I am it is midnight once again and I'm still wake. I am typing this blog now because my husband can not sleep until the thoughts that are running through his mind are gone. So here I am its midnight and I'm posting my first blog. Hopfully I will get some sleep soon or tomorrow is going to be a really long day.


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More recycling...I used up the rest of 3+ spools (and one white bobbin!) of my Mom's old polyester thread to baste my "Contentment" quilt.
She used to keep her spools of thread in a clear, large pickle jar on a sunny window shelf...over time, all the spools were naturally variegated!
I think this is the most I have ever basted any quilt top of any size...I don't want this sucker to shift while I am hand-quilting with a hoop!
There is a lot of turning that hoop while outline quilting around all these shapes!
I watched my new Season One DVD of PBS's "Victoria" and re-watched Seasons Two and Three of "The Big Bang Theory" while doing all this basting.
As I start hand quilting, I am enjoying a "Harry Potter" home film festival!
Basting threads are pink, orange, teal and white...
I have started to quilt the center, largest block. I am outlining, then I am doing a close echo/fill. It is the first time I have quilted like this, and I am a little nervous about it, but the applique is so busy that it makes any kind of gridding or straight parallel lines indistinguishable. Even the outlining is extremely hard. Oy! What was I thinking!
Steve saw my close basting and thought I had already quilted it, LOL!
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An interesting video problem and crash as Book One starts, hitches and artifact bars as Zoe heads through the dreamers but will crash to dark or white screen while dealing with the wardrobe tentacles, sound keeps going and game is still running as far as the process is concerned.
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Desperate to politically damage President Trump to lay the grounds for impeachment, Robert Mueller's investigation into "Russian collusion" now includes material "unconnected to the 2016 elections" and even includes tenants who stayed in Trump Tower over the last six years.
Sources told CNN that a "potential prosecution" could be secured not by way of evidence that proves Russia schemed with the Trump campaign to swing the election (which is supposedly the entire focus of the investigation), but by proving past financial improprieties by Trump-owned business interests.
This not only underscores how the entire investigation, which now involves a Grand Jury, is a pure witch hunt, but also how Mueller almost certainly knows that there is no clear evidence of Russian collusion with which to nail Trump.
"Sources described an investigation that has widened to focus on possible financial crimes, some unconnected to the 2016 elections," reports CNN.
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– By Stephen Cohen, O.D.
Happy New Year! Hopefully, included in your resolutions is taking care of your most precious sense: your vision. We were not designed for the current demands on our eyes. If we were, we'd have one eyeball in the middle of our foreheads! For a little diversion, here are some (hopefully) interesting facts about eyes and vision.
Our eyes are composed of more than two million working parts, processing 36,000 bits of information every hour (who did they find to count that?). The eyes can distinguish 200 separate colors (which could make for an impressive Crayola Crayon set!). Our eyes contribute to 85 percent of our total knowledge, and utilize 65 percent of all pathways to our brain. Our two eyes working together is what provides us with depth perception (3-D vision).
In nature, while a worm has no eyes at all, an ant has two eyes that are actually made up of many smaller eyes. An ostrich eye is two inches across, but weighs more than its brain. The giant squid, at 18 inches across (the size of a beach ball), has the largest eyes. In addition to vision, a frog's eyes help to push food down its throat (really!). The human front of the eye has three layers, but a cow's has eight layers to protect it from injury while grazing along the ground. Dogs cannot distinguish between reds and greens (I wonder how they told us that). An owl can see a mouse moving more than 150 feet away with light equivalent to a candle (poor mouse). On the other hand, an elephant can see about 100 yards, the size of a football field (but once they see something, they "never forget it"…sorry…couldn't resist).
Babies cry, but don't produce tears until up to three months after birth. It can also take several months before a baby's permanent eye color is established. Of all the muscles in our body, the eye muscles are the most active. We blink (which re-coats our eyes with new tears) about 12 times per minute, and an average blink lasts about one-tenth of a second. Conversely, when we work on a computer, our blink rate can decrease by up to 60 percent. Each of our eyelashes has a "life span" of about five months. Up to 80 percent of the ultraviolet radiation (which can contribute to cataracts and other eye disorders) we are exposed to in our lifetime occurs by 18 years of age. And, last but not least, Elton John is purported to have over 4,000 pairs of glasses (I wonder if he gets a volume discount?).
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Under the Twin Sisters, 6,116 and 6,135 ft. above sea-level is their city at 4,500 ft. above sea-level. Originally titled Osborne, then called Murphyville, it didn't get right until this town's name was identified by its mountains-Alpine. More than something on the westward glance from town, the Twin Sisters have ruled its core by symbols and art. Like the room of a loyal brother, everywhere in Alpine are images of its Twin Sisters.
Welcome to Alpine from the east on US Highway 67 and 90.
Patch of slain Alpine police officer Jaime Primera Rodriguez.
E Avenue Civic Center and front page of Alpine weekly paper, the Avalanche.
Sul Ross Avenue First Baptist Church
Intersections of 5th Street and Holland
Jackass Park at the old Apache Trading Post.
Big Bend Art Gallery and Trans-Pecos Bank
The Twin Sisters are truly lovely-volcano goddesses, plumed out of the Paisano Caldera. Their iconic gate and cool double cones are not lost on the conscience or imagination of Alpine. Remade at least twenty-five different places (and counting) in the mountain and valley town the double peaks are a sacred part of the heart. I hate to end the colorful post with a sad piece but it is part of a subject that I will often trail on about till more than I can make a solution. A non-conversed irony toys and toils with the Twin Sisters and Texas. Though they are a beloved view and cherished symbol for many in Alpine and Texas, the Twin Sisters are restricted. Like all the other mountains there, the Twin Sisters can turn a romantic or family hike into jail time, fine, and a record for criminal trespassing. Scores of illegal immigrants, hunters, and always hundreds of habitat destructive livestock have their way around the rock slopes and canyons across the Paisano, Sierra De Norte, Davis, and Glass Mountains. Hikers, campers, folks that love the land of Texas, however, are not welcomed by the ranchers but treated as violators of precious private borders. Organizations like the Davis Mountains Trans-Pecos Heritage Association "preserve the land through private ownership." This is an obvious impossible idea considering that ranchers and their employees could never effectively protect the many thousands of acres many of them have. Without State and public help much of the land is rumbled by cattle and littered on by sneaky traffic. I would never wish or want folks in West Texas to give up the rights of their land but I honestly believe that there could be some balance where trails could be allowed. After all, the Hollywood Hills behind LA have trails, so do the Franklin Mountains behind El Paso, Pikes Peak by Colorado Springs, Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, and Sandia Peak with Albuquerque. Must places like Alpine or Sierra Blanca (with nearby Sierra Blanca Peak) be so unfortunately different? I bet there is a naturally nice hike up the natural wonder, Twin Sisters, with an incredible view of Alpine and surrounding mountains from their summits. I pray that someday Texans and Americans will be welcomed there by the land owners-that some balances should be found and formed with compassion to public appreciation, land conservancy, and private rights.


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Our very own Cardinal returns home to a rousing welcome. His Eminence Dr. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith returned to Colombo this morning, after being elevated to the position of Cardinal in the Vatican.
Most Rev. Dr. Malcolm Ranjith is the only Asian among the 24 prelates drawn into the much prestigious Sacred College of Cardinals – the highest ecclesiastical body of the Roman Catholic Church. Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne, President's Secretary Lalith Weeratunge, several Parliamentarians, Apostolic Nuncio in Sri Lanka Archbishop Joseph Spiteri and a distinguished gathering were present at the Katunayake International Airport to warmly greet the new Cardinal.
Members of the Maha Sangha chanted Pirith and invoked blessings on the Cardinal. Members of the Maha Sangha, including the Ven. Kumburugamuwe Vajira thera were present. It was thereafter Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith was conducted in a specially decorated vehicle to the Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka at Tewatte. Catholics as well as Buddhist devotees gathered on either side of the motorcade to have a glimpse of his Eminence.
After offering tribute to his Eminence the Late Thomas Cardinal Cooray, the first Sri Lankan Cardinal, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith celebrated mass. His Eminence blessed the faithful gathered at the Basilica. Large crowds also gathered on either side of the route, while his Eminence was taken in a motorcade to Colombo from the Tewatte Basilica
Born on November 15, 1947 in Polgahawela, he had his education at De La Salle College, Mutwal. He entered St. Aloysius' Seminary in Borella in 1965. Sri Lanka's Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith whom Pope Benedict XVI appointed a Cardinal on October 20 has had a fast rise in the Church ranks. He was ordained a Priest at 27 by Pope Paul VI in Rome, consecrated a Bishop at 43 by Pope John Paul II, elevated an Archbishop at 53 by Pope John Paul II and now made a Cardinal at 62 by Pope Benedict XVI
The 62-year Cardinal-elect is known as a tireless servant of truth, justice and freedom and he has won love, respect and admiration of Catholics all over the world. His Eminence Malcolm has mastered ten languages – Italian, German, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, English, Sinhala and Tamil. His ability to converse and understand the problems of the Catholic Church spread throughout the world and his commitment and dedication in the execution of the enormous responsibilities of the Universal Church has made him one of the most influential voices in the world.