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OCEAN CITY – After hearing a detailed account of the potential benefit to the town and its golf-playing visitors, Ocean City officials this week approved the addition of GPS systems on the carts at the municipally-owned Eagle's Landing course in West Ocean City.
The Ocean City Mayor and Council on Monday approved a measure that will add the popular GPS course management system to Eagle's Landing and instructed staff to begin ironing out the language in the contract. Golf GPS systems are rapidly becoming the norm at quality courses around the country. The monitors affixed to golf carts at the courses give players detailed information about each hole from tee to green, providing them with distance measurements, maps of the holes and the locations of hazards and other pertinent information about the conditions.
From the course management side, the GPS systems on the carts allow starters and rangers to track the pace of play, address back-up areas on the course and alert players of changes in conditions or update them on the weather. In addition, the GPS system allows the course to increase revenue by directing food and beverage carts to concentrated areas of golfers on the course and by advertising specials on food and beverages and retail items in the clubhouse.
While enhancing the amenities for the golfers and improving course management for the club itself are among the top reasons for adding the GPS systems to the carts at Eagle's Landing, there is a large financial benefit for the town and the company, ProLink, that supplies them. The screens on the GPS systems provide space for national and regional advertising along with opportunities for some local advertising and specific information about upcoming events at the course or in the town of Ocean City in general.
The provider, ProLink, has entered an agreement with national television network ABC to provide space for national advertising from companies with ties to golf such as FedEx, Buick, and Cadillac, for example. In a sense, ProLink is a middleman of sorts, providing space on its GPS screens for national advertisers through its agreement with ABC, while providing additional space for the town of Ocean City for advertising it sells or its own promotional information.
The advertisements on the cart-mounted GPS screens would change at each hole on the course. Under the agreement, ProLink would sell advertising rights to national companies through ABC on 15 of the holes at Eagle's Landing, while the town would reserve the right to advertising space on three of the holes.
While ProLink would negotiate with the national advertisers on the system, the town would maintain the final say on advertisements displayed. For example, as a town officially sponsored by Pepsi, no Coca-Cola advertisements could be displayed. Similarly, if the pro shop at Eagle's Landing features Titleist equipment exclusively, no Nike equipment could be advertised on the signs.
In terms of the bottom line, after hearing the presentation on Monday, town officials are satisfied the deal with ProLink represents an opportunity to enhance the amenities at Eagle's Landing while offering an opportunity to increase revenue at the facility. The six-year lease with ProLink to provide and maintain the GPS system will cost the town about $26,000. However, Ocean City will receive $12,000 each year as share of the revenue generated by the sale of national advertising on the system.
In addition, adding the GPS system will allow Eagle's Landing to remain competitive with the glut of private courses in the area that already offer the system. Eagle's Landing golf professional Bob Croll told the council on Monday just three of the major facilities in the resort area, including Eagle's Landing, currently do not offer GPS system on their courses.
"It's really become part of the mainstream," he said. "Players have come to expect it when they come to the nicer courses such as Eagle's Landing."
Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan agreed, saying most of the golfers that come to the resort expect the added amenities the GPS system provides.
"If you play one or two courses that have it, then you play one that doesn't, you can really tell the difference," he said. "It really sets you apart. We have a top-notch facility out there and it has become essential that we add this. If we don't do it now, we'll probably pay more to do it down the road."
ProLink spokesman Jeff Kline told town officials they should expect a return on their initial investment of about 168 percent in five years. Kline explained food and beverage sales increase about 20-30 percent and sales of apparel and equipment in the pro shop should follow a similar trend. In addition, the town will be able to realize increased revenue from its share of the national advertising as well as the sales of its own advertising space on the system.
Perhaps more importantly, the GPS systems on the carts improve the pace of play, allowing the course to book and sell more rounds during prime times and improving the experience for the golfers on the course.
"The increase in food and beverage sales alone will cover the cost," said Kline. "If the pace of play picks up and you can add one or two more foursomes a day, it will pay for itself in no time."


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She shares his surname, athleticism and demeanor, those who know her say. But Jillian Unitas, 22, is determined to blaze her own trail in the sports world, apart from that set by her late grandfather.
"I've never wanted to disappoint my last name, so I put a lot of pressure on myself," said Unitas, of Baldwin, who graduated from Flagler College (Fla.) in June with a degree in communications and an eye on a career in sports marketing.
"I know my name opens doors, but I want to be judged not for what my grandfather did, but for the work I put forth. I'm just trying to make a path for myself, and to work off my own merit."
Unitas' job this week runs the gamut from cranking out pre-race news releases, to posting updates on road closures, to managing social media sites for the Grand Prix (Facebook and Twitter). Come the weekend, after each race, she'll usher drivers to on-site media interviews
"Jillian has been wearing a lot of hats, and she's doing very well," said Jade Gurss, director of corporate communication for Andretti Sports Marketing, which is running the event.
"This job requires local knowledge, and she certainly has a local heritage. We were intrigued but not star-struck by her background; Andretti is a very prominent name itself. Who you are doesn't mean much when you sit down to write a news release."
Unitas admitted she "wasn't the most knowledgeable person about Indy cars" when she got the job in June, "but I'm picking up the terminology, and I now know all of the drivers.
"My parents call me Mario Andretti because I've always driven fast myself. My grandfather wasn't into racing, but he was a big Cadillac fan. When I was 6, he'd drive my brother and I around in his big brown Caddy — but it didn't have racing stripes, or flames."
Her father, John Unitas Jr., said that he sees a lot of his dad in his daughter.
"Jillian takes a page out of my father's book," he said. "She's quiet, she leads by example and she works hard. And when she's down, she just works harder."
In retirement, his son said, Unitas bought a 20-acre farm in Baldwin, took Jillian and his other grandchildren on tractor rides around the property, and fixed up a go-cart for them to rattle around the place.
"My dad may not have followed auto racing, but he knew Andretti from seeing him at card shows," John Unitas Jr. said.
Jillian Unitas said that until her grandfather's death in 2002, she tagged along with him to celebrity golf events, which piqued her interest in sports marketing.
"I'd sit with him in the golf cart, and we'd talk about stuff," she said. "I loved spending one-on-one time with him. But [those events] also taught me how interviews work, and how cameras and public relations operate.
"That stuff doesn't faze me now. It's kind of nice to have an insider's view of this business, considering how I've seen it for so long."

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Tada! I have decided to move away from Blogger and instead leverage features afforded to me by my new web host, DreamHost. I have now acquired the tekArtist.org domain name and set myself up with a WordPress instance to run the present site.
Besides having imported my previous Blogger posts to the new blog section, you can now also browse through two new main sections:
The base page is mostly there as a soft landing pad for visitors just stumbling upon my site, but also serves as an OpenID delegate through myOpenID.
Please bare with me in regards to the domain-wide search, as I'm only using Google's most basic site search feature. They have not yet picked up my pages in their index, since I just turned off the temporary password I had setup at the root level this morning.
Technologically speaking, the new site features tools and options such as:
- LAMP environment: Debian Linux, Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP.
- WordPress as a blogging and CMS platform.
- MooTools compact Javascript framework to enhance the client-side experience when possible, but without relying on it for the core functionalities (see Unobtrusive Javascript).
- As close to valid XHTML and CSS as I can, with an emphasis on relative sizing to accomodate a wide array of screen sizes.
- Universal access through proper document structure and adapted stylesheets (EG: try printing or disabling all stylesheets).
- Microformats, where and when valuable, such as hCard, hAtom, XFN, rel-license, rel-tag, etc.
- Sitemap protocol for search engines to easily pickup my pages in their index.
- and more, as the site evolves.
You can read more about the WordPress theme I custom develop for this site in the related labs page. Since there is nothing really private in it (sensitive values are protected through more appropriate means), I have also decided to make the theme's source available publicly, fact which might change at any time if I realize that this leads to abuse or security issues outside of what I originally planned for.
I have been relatively quiet online in the past few years while primarily focusing my energies on my responsibilities as a dad and as a professional. I obviously never stopped playing, but limited my personal publishing activities to blogging and participating in online communities, rather than releasing products or experiments.
Now that my beloved children are starting to require less of my attention (IE: less then 24-7), I now have the opportunity to revert closer to previous levels of contribution to the web and Open Source spheres. Don't get me wrong though, I still have clear priorities. :)
As a final note, I just wanted to mention that my moving away from Blogger had nothing to do with necessity, as they truly have an excellent blogging platform, but stemmed from a desire for the increased flexibility that only a full on web hosting account and a product like WordPress can provide.


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AMD's anticipated budget chipset, the RS740, has won the approval of PCI Express overseer, the PCI SIG, for its compatibility with version 1.1 of the standard.
The RS740 turned up on a leaked chipset roadmap a wee while ago. It's expected to appear this summer to support AMD's next-generation Athlon and Sempron processors, all of which will use the Socket AM2+ interconnect running HyperTransport 3.
The PCI SIG approval notice provides no details about the chipset's features beyond PCIe 1.1 support. The part is listed as a product in its own right and as part of a motherboard reference design. The chip is expected to go out to mobo makers with AMD's SB600 South Bridge chip.
The RS740 is expected to be accompanied by the mid-range RX740 and the high-end RD790, the latter expected to support up to four graphics cards in CrossFire configurations. The RD790 has already been certified for PCIe 1.1 compatibility.


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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which garnered her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music', with twenty-five number-one singles, and a record forty-one top-10 country albums. She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is tied with Reba McEntire as the only country artists with No. 1 singles in four consecutive decades.
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Viviane Reding's proposed overhaul of Europe's 1995 data protection law needs clarification and improvement, an independent advisory group urged today.
The Article 29 Working Party, which is vice-chaired by the UK's Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, said it "regrets the European Commission's level of ambition" on data protection rules for police in specific relation to cooperating with judiciary authorities on criminal matters.
It added: "The working party is especially concerned that the directive fails to include important data protection principles such as limiting retention periods, transparency and accuracy of personal data."
The group "generally" welcomed much of Commissioner Reding's proposal, which was tabled on 25 January this year.
But it warned that the overhaul to the legislation needed careful consideration from the council and members of the European Parliament to ensure improvements were made to the draft bill.
Here's one such area of concern for the group:
The Article 29 Working Party is in favour of creating a concept of a one-stop shop for companies with a 'lead authority', which is the data protection authority non-exclusively competent for supervision of the processing operations of a controller or processor in all member states.
In addition, a clear obligation for data protection authorities to cooperate and to refer to the consistency mechanism to ensure that the regulation is applied consistently in cases where data subjects in several member states are likely to be affected by processing operations, is welcomed. This will lead to a consistent interpretation and application of the EU legal framework, thus creating legal certainty.
However, in order for the mechanism to be able to function, the manner in which it is decided where a multinational company (whether EU-owned or non-EU-owned) has its main establishment needs to be further clarified. This is important because this definition of main establishment seems to be primarily intended to determine which national data protection authority should be the 'lead authority' in a particular case, or for a particular company.
Furthermore, the consequences on the competences of other data protection authorities need to be clarified. It should in any event be clear that the competence of a lead data protection authority is non-exclusive. This means that the competence of a lead data protection authority is subject to the obligations to cooperate, provide and accept mutual assistance, and make use of the consistency mechanism and act in agreement with other involved data protection authorities.
The working party also highlighted concerns previously raised by Graham, who has labelled Reding's proposal as "half-baked". The group called for an independent assessment of the increased costs involved with saddling national data protection authorities with more duties to enforce the new law.
Earlier this month, the European Data Protection Supervisor - a key advisory body lending a hand in the rewrite of Europe's law for safeguarding information - reeled off its concerns over Reding's draft data protection bill.
It warned that the rules laid out in the justice commissioner's proposal fell short of an all-embracing overhaul of the 17-year-old Data Protection Directive legislation.
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I love it when new books remind me of old favorites. My latest read, True (…Sort of) by Katherine Hannigan, brought to mind such favorites as The Great Gilly Hopkins and Maniac Magee. This nominee for the 2012-2013 South Carolina Children's Book Award tells the tale of Delly, a young girl who has a very close relationship with trouble. (I have a feeling quite a few of my students will identify with Delly.) No matter what she does, or how good her intentions might be, Delly gets into predicaments that get her labeled as a "bad kid." Now, Delly knows she's not really bad, but the people around her are starting to make her think that she'll never outrun the trouble that always seems to follow her. With the arrival of a new kid in town, however, Delly may have a chance to turn everything around…
No one knows much about Ferris Boyd. The new kid never talks, can't be touched, spends all her time alone, and is often mistaken for a boy. Delly Pattison, though, sees Ferris Boyd as her way out of trouble. When Delly–and her little brother RB–are with Ferris, trouble seems to stay away. And Delly desperately needs to keep away from trouble, or her parents will send her to a reform school–or a reDellyformatory.
Even though Ferris doesn't talk, Delly, Ferris, and RB find a way to communicate and form real friendships that will help all of them through the issues they're facing. Even though Delly is quite familiar with her own brand of trouble, Ferris is dealing with something much more serious…something that has robbed her of the ability or desire to speak. With the help of Delly, RB, and Brud, another unlikely friend, Ferris will be able to come to terms with the fear that has held her captive. And Delly will learn that some things–like the safety and well-being of a dear friend–are worth the risk of getting into a little trouble.
True (…Sort of) is a quick, often hilarious, read that will grip readers from the first page. Delly is a character that is often misunderstood by those around her, something that nearly everyone can relate to on some level. Her quest to stay out of trouble is admirable, and readers will rejoice in her successes, but they'll also be wowed by Delly's ability to find a bit of fun in the small things around her and turn even the most mundane things into Dellyventures.
I also think young readers will be inspired by Delly's vocabulary. Her made up words tell so much about her personality, and I hope that my students will create their own vocabulary to explain the truly unique things about their own lives. (There is a "Dellyictionary" at the back of this book with a list of words and definitions for all of the words Delly uses throughout the book.) Even the non-cuss words Delly makes up tell readers how unique–and creative–this character is.
Even though this book is lighthearted at times, it also deals with a serious issue. This issue is personified in the character of Ferris Boyd, and it will be all too easy for readers to realize that something is really wrong in this young girl's life. Her selective mutism and aversion to touching tells everyone that this girl has been through something awful. She may still be involved in something no child should ever have to deal with. Delly sees what others don't. She sees that her friend is sad and afraid, and, even though Delly knows she'll get into trouble for helping Ferris, she does what no one else has before. She puts Ferris' safety above everything, and that decision changes more than one life…for the better.
True (…Sort of) is a book that will resonate with readers of all ages, and it is my hope that we'll all pay a little more attention to children who might otherwise be overlooked, especially the "troublemakers" and the "invisible." Sometimes, these are the kids who need us the most and who are just looking for their chance to shine.
For more information about True (…Sort of) and other books by author Katherine Hannigan, visit http://www.katherinehannigan.com/.


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2006 Grand National Roadster Show -- Saturday
Nobody said it was going to be easy and thankfully we don't have to make the decision. This year's GNRS America's Most Beautiful Roadster class is filled with 12 worthy candidates. They range from completely hand-built (and most likely never to be driven) works of art to some very well detailed drivers (one of which was driven to the show). For all of you that have been waiting in anticipation to see the roadsters that the GNRS judges are going to have to weed down to just one here they are
When John Buck took over the promotion of the GNRS almost a year ago he wanted to make the show even better and reached out to us for suggestions. After the great weather at the 2005 GNRS, we felt that an outdoor show could bring even more excitement. To Buck's credit he actually listened to us. The weather was perfect again this year helping to push the Cruise-In into a huge success. Some of the finest drivers from the Southwest showed up and gave the spectators more reasons to hang out and check out more cars. If this year was any indication next year's Cruise-In promises to be even better.
In addition to America's most beautiful hot rods, the Grand National Roadster Show is the place where you're likely to run into some of the heroes of this hobby's past and present. There are probably a few heroes of the future walking up and down these aisles too.
Variety may be an understatement while trying to describe the many different styles of cars in attendance at the show. No matter what your favorite style of car build, it's likely to be found within one of the six exhibit halls here at the Fairplex.
The Suede Palace saw just about as much traffic as the other indoor buildings filled with the glossier cars. It was a great place to hang out Friday and Saturday night and listen to the Hot Rod Trio. Saturday during the day you could watch pinstripers apply their art to everything from flat panels to cell phones.
For the most part the hot rods and customs in attendance showcase some great mechanical engineering and exterior design (there were only maybe one or two that were downright scary.) With a little more publicity and word-of-mouth it should turn into one of the must-see gatherings in the years to come.


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Roger Clap Memorial, landing site in 1630, Watertown, Massachusetts
Roger is my 8th great-grandfather, and I wrote about trying to locate his burial site in 2011, "Searching for Roger Clap's
Burial Place, Found in Front of Me!"
Charles River, behind the memorial.
For the entire year, all my photos have been taken with the iPad ver.4. Once nice thing about it is the ability to enlarge photos, including the below engraved marker.
, unto a place
called Mattapan Watertown
"We went up the
River, until the river
grew narrow and shallow, and there we
landed our goods with much labor and toil,
the bank being steep; and night coming on,
we were informed that there were hard by
us three hundred Indians. One Englishman,
that could speak the Indian language
(an old planter) went to them and advised
them not to come near us in the night; and
they harkened to their counsel, and came
not. In the morning, some of the Indians
came and stood at a distance off, looking
at us, but came not near us. But when they
had been a while in view, some of them
came and held out a great bass towards
us; so we sent a man with a biscuit, and
changed the cake for the bass. We had not
been there many days, (although by our
diligence we had got up a kind of shelter
to save our goods in,) but we had order to
come away from that place which was about
Dorchester, because there was a neck
of land fit to keep our cattle on."From
Roger Clap's Narrative
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A Rousing Renaissance Kickoff for Manifold Greatness
What do you do when you have an exhibit celebrating the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible? What do you do to get a small, rural community in south Georgia in the right mindset for an exhibit and an onslaught of information on the politics and history surrounding a book that most people know very well, but probably have never thought seriously about? Well, in Tifton, Georgia, we put on a Renaissance Faire and partied like it was 1611!
This event gave a lot of people an opportunity to get in touch with their inner RenRat. Attendees were encouraged to attend in costume and were given handouts instructing them on how to speak "The King's English." The library staff and our amazing volunteers lavished endless attention on costumes and pavilions. Jesse Carpenter, one of our student workers, was recruited to produce cutouts that included King James himself. Members of the Literacy Volunteers and the Rotary Club were cajoled into selling era-appropriate food to our visitors. One of the interesting facts we discovered while researching the time is that gingerbread men were invented during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I!
A children's tent was dedicated to the production of quill pens, swords, shields, and crowns. It is hard to know how long the street will be glittered. We also had a volunteer that taught a steady stream of people how to play Nine Man Morris, a game that we discovered was popular during the time. Wagering on outcomes was not encouraged during our faire.
One of the highlights of the faire was the participation of the Society for Creative Anachronism. These talented individuals came and set up tents and demonstrated blacksmithing, illumination, dancing, sewing techniques, and FIGHTING! Knights fought for the honor of fair maidens picked from the audience and to advance their status in their shires. It was loud and exciting and very, very popular with our visitors. Cameras were encouraged and the fighters were probably the most photographed characters on Faire day.
Why did we open the exhibit this way? It was important for us to have a strong kickoff event for the exhibit. We were looking for something that would appeal to a large number of people, people who might not have thought to come to the exhibit, but might come to the Faire, eat a smoked turkey leg, and then decide to go and see what was happening with the exhibit. We believe that the Faire did this for us. The exhibit had a very strong opening day and we hope that, because we were able to promote the rest of the programming surrounding the exhibit more personally with the Faire-goers, we have good turnouts for what is to come.
Vickie Horst is the Manager of Tifton-Tift County Public Library in Tifton, Georgia.


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Health news and notables from around the world.
A study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention demonstrated that women who are getting tested for "breast cancer genes" don't seem concerned with risk factors. Researchers surveyed 119 women who signed up to be tested for mutations to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which have been linked to breast and ovarian cancer. They found that 8 percent of the women smoked; 27 percent did not engage in regular, moderate exercise; 46 percent did not regularly protect themselves from sun exposure; 39 percent did not eat the recommended five servings of fruit and vegetables a day; and 9 percent drank at least one alcoholic drink a day.
Smoking is strongly linked to lung and other cancers, while prolonged sun exposure causes skin cancer. People who exercise and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables have a markedly lower risk of cancer.
Study leader Karen Emmons, of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, estimates that only 10 to 20 percent of women who get genetic tests also receive advice on how they can reduce their overall cancer risk. Inherited genetic mutations only cause 5 to 10 percent of all cancers, while behavioral factors have been linked to 70 to 80 percent.
Researchers from the department of sport and exercise science at Canterbury Christ Church University College in Kent, England, have concluded that a lengthy hike once a day delivers more health benefits than a series of shorter walks-even if the short walks add up to the same amount of time. After putting 56 participants through an 18-week course of daily walks, they discovered that longer walks produce the most beneficial changes to the composition of blood fats. However, they noted that walks of any length improve the fitness of the heart.
Writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a team of army doctors reported that physical therapy combined with a supervised exercise program can improve symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee and perhaps reduce the need for surgery. As part of a study, the doctors divided 83 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee into two groups. The first group received manual physical therapy and did knee exercises. The second group was a placebo. The doctors found that the treatment group showed significant improvements. In addition, only 5 percent of the group required knee arthroscopy, compared to 20 percent of the placebo group.
Researchers from Penn State University reported that healthy diets help women maintain their immune system as they age. The scientists compared the immune systems of 75 women, age 60 to 80, to women age 20 to 40. They discovered that older women's immune systems were nearly as strong as the younger women's immune systems. The researchers noted that vitamin and mineral deficiencies hurt the immune system, while healthy diets help fight off illness and infection in old age.
The Journal of American Geriatrics Society recently published a study suggesting that exercise can help seniors improve balance in older adults who suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee. Researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Tennessee studied a group of adults over 60 with osteoarthritis of the knee, separating the seniors into three groups. The first group took part in an aerobic walking program, the second group did strength training, and the final group participated in a health education program. After 18 months, the seniors from the walking and strength training groups did significantly better in a balance test.
Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that people who exercise live longer than those who don't, according to the American Journal Of Epidemiology. Going back to 1977, the researchers looked at the exercise habits for 13,500 men who participated in the Harvard Alumni Health Study. They discovered that men who burned the most calories also had the lowest death rate.
A report published recently in Preventive Medicine revealed that exercise can reduce depression, anger and stress. Researchers from Stockholm University found that men and women who exercised at least twice a week were less likely to experience depression, suppressed anger, stress and distrust of others than people who exercised with less frequency. Consistent exercisers also felt better about their health.
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland stated that even a little exercise can have a major effect on high blood pressure, a major cause of heart disease. Published in the American Journal of Hypertension, the study demonstrated that a 45-minute treadmill session-broken down into three 15-minute segments, with four minutes of rest in between-was enough to lower the blood pressure of 11 obese, sedentary, middle-aged men significantly.


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'Domino transplant' saves lives of two
Rare procedure is a method of coping with donor shortages
On a late afternoon in July, 31-year-old Tiffany Schwantes got a phone call at her Alabama home, prompting a difficult but speedy decision.
Two years earlier, the wife and mother was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare, aggressive form of liver cancer. She knew she didn't have long to live, but she was at the bottom of the transplant list.
The phone call she got that day was from doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital saying that they had a donor for her: 60-year-old Vernon Roberson of Houston.
Roberson suffered from amyloidosis, a genetic blood disease that attacks the heart, liver and other organs. The disease left Roberson needing a new heart and liver.
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The list: More than 110,000 people currently await a transplant in the U.S.
In Texas: More than 10,000 Texans are awaiting organ transplants.
Health facilities: Local hospitals that perform liver transplants are Houston Methodist Hospital, Memorial Hermann, Texas Children's, St. Luke's and the Michael DeBakey VA Medical Center.
The need: Someone is added to the National Organ Transplant waiting list in the U.S. every 11 minutes.
Registry: Go to the Glenda Dawson Donate Life-Texas Registry at donatelifetexas.org to register as a donor.
The unusual twist, though, was that while Roberson's liver was failing him, doctors believed that Schwantes could live decades with it before amyloidosis might, if ever, develop in her.
Doctors told her this rare opportunity could be her only chance to live.
Schwantes called other doctors for second opinions, she talked to her husband, she cried and then made her decision. Less than half a day later she was in a Houston Methodist operating room, across a short corridor from Roberson who was doing the same.
"He (Roberson) saved my life," said Schwantes, whose cancer is now in remission. "He didn't have to do that."
The surgery, called a "domino transplant," is rare and involves a living donor donating an organ while receiving another organ from someone else, doctors said.
With a growing organ donor shortage and more than 110,000 people in the United States awaiting transplants, doctors are looking for innovative solutions such as this to close the gap, said Dr. A. Osama Gaber, director of transplantation at Houston Methodist.
Anyone can register to be an organ donor, with few exceptions such as those with HIV or active cancer. Of more than 4 million registered organ donors, only 1 percent will actually become organ donors, according to Laura Frnka-Davis of LifeGift.
For your organs to help another after you die, you essentially need to die of cardiac arrest while on life support in a health care facility. That means, for example, that if you die in a car accident on a freeway, your organs won't be viable for transplantation.
More than 11,000 Texans are waiting for transplants today. During the past 15 years, more organs, such as Roberson's damaged liver, have been used to address the organ shortage, Gaber said. In cases like this one, it's because adding years to Schwantes' life outweighs the chance that she could develop the disease Roberson had.
"What we do is give these livers to people for whom that amount of survival would be a tremendous advantage, like a patient with cancer," he said.
Roberson said that when doctors told him that his liver could save someone else, he didn't hesitate.
This type of transplantation itself is quite an undertaking. Dr. Mark Ghobrial, who performed and coordinated the 12-hour surgery, said the transplant team involved nearly 50 people, including four liver surgeons, two cardiac surgeons and two anesthesia teams.
The transplant surgery is made even more demanding because surgeons must preserve all the blood flow in the organ, so that it remains viable for the recipient, said Ghobrial, director of the center for liver disease and transplantation at Houston Methodist.
A few days after the surgery, Schwantes was excited to meet Roberson.
"It made me feel like there are still some good people in this word," she said, noting that her new liver had renewed her faith in humanity.
Roberson wants to thank the family who donated their loved one's heart and liver to him. "It's important for me to meet them," he said. "They did the same thing I did."


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Hacking Arts 2016 event (November 18-20)
I was just reminded that the yearly "Hacking Arts" event at MIT is being held November 18-20th.
What is "Hacking Arts"?
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Reality Virtually hack event at MIT last weekend (VRATMIT)
This past weekend at MIT, was an extended weekend-long hackathon centered around Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (i.e. VR/AR/MR) called: "Reality Virtually". The event consisted of Friday Workshops followed by two days of hacking to transform the future of immersive technologies. Read more »


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UnNews:Queen regrets the colonies that got away
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
26 July 2006
LONDON, Wales -- Queen Elizabeth II said Tuesday she "regrets" breaking up with Great Britain's colonial possessions.
"As I stand before my Lords, I am reminded of the words of the poet," the Queen told Parliament in her Speech From the Throne. "'Ever since this world began/There is nothing sadder than/A one-realm monarch/Looking for the lands/The lands that got away.' This is as true today as it was then."
Since Elizabeth assumed the throne in 1952, the United Kingdom has parted with its territories in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The Queen, who once insisted that the break-ups were "good for everyone," now attributes the decolonisation process to "youthful willfulness."
"I suppose I was trying to find out who I was," the Queen has told her aides. "I wanted to be a constitutional monarch, not an empress. That led to some tough choices. Malaysia was really wonderful. But I thought I needed someone who wasn't so independent. I wish I hadn't pushed it away."
Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen's Consort, says Elizabeth now spends hours in her room, looking over photo albums and red-inked maps.
"She's come down with a bit of nostalgia," Phillip said. "The other day, she asked me if we should call Kenya and see how it was doing. Frankly, I don't think Kenya wants to talk, not after the ugly way they parted."
In the last week, Elizabeth has written long letters to Barbados and Zambia, telling their heads of state she wants to "catch up." Letters addressed to Ceylon have been returned.
"Life would have been so very different if we continued together," the Queen said. "Richer, I suppose. But maybe it was best we went our separate ways. I'm glad I got out of that relationship with Southern Rhodesia. It had a lot of problems."
Reaction from the former colonies has been mixed. While Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has not returned any of the Queen's e-mails, Botswanan President Festus Mogae called her late Tuesday, and the two chatted long into the night. At a press conference Wednesday, Mogae said they were trying to find a good day to do lunch.
"We went through some difficult times, and sometimes I felt I gave more to Great Britain than it gave to me," Mogae said. "But that was decades ago. I prefer to remember the good times."
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom "hi Singapore it's me ". Gmail., July 23, 2006
- Arlen, Harold "British Decolonisation: Crisis and Challenge 1947-1982 ". A Commonwealth is Born, April 3, 1986 (revision of 1954 edition)
|This article features first-hand journalism by an UnNews correspondent.


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Ten years into my career as an aid worker, I have finally brought myself around to reading Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil. For those not familiar with the book, General Dallaire was the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) between 1993 and 1994, during the time of the Rwandan genocide. Shake Hands is his memoir of the events that took place during his twelve months or so in that office.
I've had the book on my iPad Kindle app for over 2 years, and had it on my reading list for many more. I think I delayed reading it because I knew what the content matter was going to be and, quite frankly, you kind of have to steel yourself for that sort of thing. You know before you open the first page it's going to be a harrowing read, especially because it covers true events.
I'm not overly sensitive to these things as a rule. Over the years I've had to deal with horrendous subject matter coming across my desk. Pretty much the first task I was given when I started out in this line of work, back in 2003, was to synthesise what was going on at the time in the Liberian civil war, and the stuff I waded through did a good job of setting me up to deal with almost any horror stories the aid world has pitched my way since. That said, it still takes a certain energy to sink yourself into an account that deals with such tragic material.
The events in Rwanda, as well as being one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century- a period that was not short on tragedies- also act as a milestone in the development of the humanitarian industry, and I think anybody in this line of work has a responsibility to understand intimately the dynamics and processes at work during that time, how the history unfolded, and the complicity of the international community in what happened. A few years ago I read Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families, a book that is in some ways even more harrowing than Shake Hands, although in other ways, less-so. At any rate, in my opinion both Gourevitch and Dallaire should be required reading for anybody working in the humanitarian sector. Or, for that matter, in international relations and foreign policy.
I recap the events of 1994 briefly because they are so devastating in their impact that it is inexcusable that there be any chance they might be relegated to some dusty shelf of historical anecdotes and forgotten. They must be retold so that our children, and theirs, know what transpired. I was a teenager at the time of the genocide, nearly twenty years ago now, and living in Geneva, and I suspect had more exposure to the events at the time than many people my age. Those very much younger than myself may not remember them at all. Regardless, I believe it is our responsibility to remember the victims and what happened to them, just as it is our responsibility to carry the memory of those who have died fighting just wars.
The backdrop to the genocide is complex and deep-seated. Rwanda- a tiny country in the heart of the African continent- has a population divided between two key ethnic groups- a minority Tutsi and a majority Hutu. The Tutsi did at various points over the last couple of hundred years hold a disrepresentational amount of wealth and political influence, in part exacerbated by the Belgian colonial system. A sequence of ethnic slaughters had occured over many decades, with atrocities committed by both groups. By 1993, a large contingent of Tutsis were living as refugees in Tanzania and a rebel Tutsi army was carrying out offensive operations in the north of the country against the mainly Hutu government forces (and populace). Rwanda had a government dominated by increasingly extremist Hutu elements, and the international community was attempting to broker a naive peace agreement between the belligerents.
On the night of April 6 1994, the plane transporting Rwanda's Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down, killing all on board. Those responsible for the shooting down of the airplane have never been identified, however it is generally (though not universally) accepted that the assassination was carried out by Hutu extremists, who immediately blamed the Tutsis and used the killing as an excuse to launch what was to become the Rwandan genocide.
The genocide itself had been planned for months, if not years, with weapons stockpiled, militias organized, victims identified and a campaign of hate propaganda disseminated. It was no spontaneous chaos.
Over the next three months, while the international community failed to intervene, far-right Hutu death squads carried out a systematic and well-rehearsed annihilation of Tutsis and moderate Hutus across the country. An estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered, roughly 8-10,000 per day, most killed with machetes and farm implements. Rape and torture were systemic. The killing was only really brought to an end as the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the Tutsi rebel group led by Paul Kagame (now Rwanda's President), took control of the country and drove the genocidaires, together with nearly two million Hutu refugees, into Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). There, the violence continues nearly 20 years later.
As part of the Arusha peace negotiations, UNAMIR was given a Chapter VI (peace-keeping) mandate to monitor a cease-fire between the RPF and the Rwandan Government Forces (RGF) from late 1993 onwards. Dallaire, a Canadian, had command of this mission, and was present during the six month lead-up to the genocide, and was also on the ground throughout the height of the genocide itself and the accompanying civil war.
The United Nations has been widely condemned for its inaction in stopping the genocide from occuring, given that it had both intelligence that plans were underway, and peacekeeping troops on the ground who, at times, stood by and watched while civilians were hacked to death in front of them. Gen. Dallaire, as UNAMIR's Force Commander, is unavoidably tainted by this failure, and although the book only touches intermittently on the subject, consequently suffered years of psychological illness as a result of the situation he found himself in- as did many of the troops under his command.
Shake Hands is an interesting, at times awkward book structurally, because it is several things at one time. It is, at its most superficial level, a memoir of the twelve months or so that Dallaire spent in Rwanda. At another level, it is Dallaire's own attempts to purge his demons- to put down in writing and convince himself, if nobody else, that he did all he could. And on another, it is a methodical, almost clinical account of every step, every decision, every administrative process that prevented the international community from stopping a genocide that people clearly knew was in the works before it even began.
The book is written entirely from Dallaire's perspective and as such focuses almost exclusively on his own experiences and reactions. It hangs in an odd space of being both banal and horrifying. In the space of a single paragraph, the prose jumps from describing some bureaucratic tedium of logistics or process, to a vivid description of bloated bodies jamming a stream, or the hacking to death of a group of children.
The narrative is subjective but reads fairly. There are those he singles out for damnation- particularly the leaders of specific world powers who failed to intervene, some of the poorly-equipped and -disciplined UNAMIR military forces, and the apparently inept UN Special Representative in Rwanda. Others he praises, particularly those he served with, but others too. Whether critical or applauding, his judgement is consistently based on the merits of their actions and contributions.
There are moments when the book reads like a list of defences, as though Dallaire is trying to demonstrate at every point that his hands were tied. His approach is methodical and reflective of his military background. As far as his position is concerned, he has crossed every t, dotted every i. He does not shirk blame either but acknowledges that he has failed- one could even say that he is unduly harsh on himself- and reading between the lines, it is easy to see that behind his careful description is a soul that is tortured by a guilt it will never, ever escape.
In many ways this is the second tragedy of the book- not to compare in any way to the horror of the genocide itself. Dallaire was put in an inexcusably impossible position, and essentially hung out to dry. Dallaire's account- and history more generally- makes it clear that the powers that could have intervened quickly to stop the killing- the US, France, Britain, and to a lesser extent Belgium and other nations- allowed the bureaucracy of the international system to tie itself in knots and found excuses not to engage. Dallaire and UNAMIR were left with negligible resources, a nearly powerless mandate, and virtually no ability to seriously defend themselves- let alone intervene against multiple hostile militant forces to protect civilians. The argument is quite clear: had Dallaire gone on the offensive with the scant troops available to him, it would have been literal suicide. Tens of thousands of people were undoubtedly saved from death by the actions that UNAMIR, under Dallaire's initiative, did take, but the overall inaction and the weakness of the force meant that hundreds of thousands that might have been saved perished. Dallaire, caught in the middle of both the war and the criminal negligence of the international community, has to live with that knowledge for the rest of his life.
It's often said that the biggest threat to the emotional and mental wellbeing of aid workers is not the difficult scenes they witness on the ground, but the ineptitude of colleagues and the breakdown of organizational systems and political will to actually create a solution. Reading Shake Hands, the overwhelming sense is remarkably similar. The accounts of the violence visited on innocent Rwandans makes for horrible reading (though to be honest I found Gourevitch to be far more confronting from that perspective, as his journalistic style and his choice of stories made the accounts far more personal, less clinical). However what makes you come away from the book feeling sullied, angry, and deeply affected is just how simple it might have been to save 800,000 Rwandan lives, and how a broken and self-serving international system completely failed to kick into action.
There was nothing 'new' per se in Shake Hands that I didn't already know. I've read enough accounts, visited enough analysis on Rwanda, and spent enough time in the humanitarian and international systems to understand how Rwanda was utterly failed. None the less, being taken through these failures step by step, and watching them add up- not just one error, not just ten, but a conspiracy of failures that sprawl from one end of the narrative to the other- is heartbreaking.
I came away from Shake Hands with a melancholic but intense respect for Romeo Dallaire. Like the tragic hero of an ancient epic, his story is deeply flawed. None the less, his humanity, the impossibility of his situation, and his heroic efforts to resolve it within the limits of his capacity come through.
The read is a heavy one, both in terms of the subject matter and in terms of the methodical way that Dallaire lays out the bureaucratic impediments put before him and how he worked to move the system forward. It leaves you with an anger at the decision-makers who stood by and allowed the genocide to occur. Not just the genocidaires themselves, but powerful people- Francois Mitterand, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, even the likes of Kofi Annan (then in charge of the Department of Peace Keeping Operations and who has recently released a book on the subject of the challenges of humanitarian interventions) and Boutros-Boutros Ghali (then UN Secretary General)- leaving you wondering why some of these men and women aren't also standing before a tribunal to give account of their actions and their complicity in genocide.
Shake Hands isn't fun, but it is an important narrative and I would seriously endorse it to anybody involved in this line of work. We all have a responsibility to understand tragedies like this. It is where history finds its highest value as a discipline- trying to ensure that we (as individuals, even if larger institutions around us fail) do not become guilty of repeating past mistakes, but work to avoid and solve them. And to take the time to unpack the sorts of complexities that a case like Rwanda presents means we're more likely to take that time to understand the current events of our time that equally can't be summarized by a tweet or a headline- Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Sri Lanka, Darfur, DRC, the LRA and Myanmar to name just a few.
Sorry for the heavy post. As you can see, the book left me needing to do a little written debrief. And in its defence, going through some tough things in my own life just at the moment, it really helped me get some perspective on what really matters.
Read Shake Hands with the Devil. But maybe keep a glass of your favourite scotch handy to wind down afterwards.
NB: A note on the photo used with this review. I have never traveled to Rwanda myself- much as I would like to- but friend and fellow photographer Nick Ralph was there not long ago and snapped this gorgeous shot of a young boy with a scythe, with building rain clouds behind. I love the shot- it's the sort of image I really like in photography, and the child, the red soil, the dark skies and the lush green backdrop are very evocative of the Rwanda that Dallaire describes in his narrative. Additionally, I like the image because, despite the sombre tones of both shot and article, it shows that 18 years on, Rwanda has taken a road towards recovery- albeit one that is incomplete and still fraught. I want to thank Nick for giving me permission to use this shot. Do check out his 500px site, where hopefully he'll start putting more fab shots like this one up. Incidentally, Nick tells me this shot is in fact a stitch of four vertical frames. Nicely worked sir.


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By Karin Calloway
Potato-Artichoke Salad
Summer and potato salad are nearly synonymous. And, though I enjoy my traditional potato salad made with mayonnaise, sour cream and plenty of sliced green onions, I'm always trying to find a new, fresher replacement. My recipe for Potato-Artichoke Salad has become a picnic favorite, replacing the classic, mayonnaise-laden version. Its flavor is fresher, and it's a cinch to prepare.
Marinated artichokes in a jar have always been one of my pantry staples, used as an addition to an antipasto tray or pasta salad. Often, the artichokes are drained, and the wonderful marinade washed away. Not here, as the marinade becomes the base for a lemony vinaigrette, which dresses the potato salad. The recipe makes a big batch of salad, and is perfect picnic fare alongside grilled burgers, steaks or chicken.
Slice potatoes 1/3-inch thick and place in a large bowl. Add the black olives, roasted red pepper and parsley, then toss gently to distribute the vinaigrette and other ingredients. Chill several hours before serving.
Makes 10 side dish servings.


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CFD (Ryan Mejillano) vs Kinawawang INC (Julius Cutin)
Tingnan po naman ninyo ang isa nanamang kinawawang Ministro ng INC-Manalo laban sa ating kapatid na si Bro. Ryan Mejillano ng Catholic Faith Defenders.
This four-part video is the supposed discussion turned debate between CFD Bro. Ryan and Minister Julius Cutin of INC(Manalo), Locale of Mintal, District of Davao. It was initiated by the INC (of Manalo) to trap Bro. Ryan thinking that the latter was just a petty and mediocre Catholic Christian. This happened at the residence of an INC member who was very desiroua few months before to engage Bro. Ryan in a debate with another INC (of Manalo) Minister.
Please notice the difference between a Catholic Christian and Iglesia Ni Cristo (Ni Manalo). Notice how an INC Minister delivers his part, his speeches, how he evades from the main topic that was agreed, how he first use foul words from the start to the end of these four videos.
Enjoy and reflect.
Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.
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Who's to blame? There's been a lot of debate on the LeMons forums about who bears most of the responsibility for the wreck. You decide, below.
Here's the view from inside the ONSET Cavalier. We see the Cavalier's driver going for a pass in Turn 10 at Infineon, apparently trying to use the #25 Team Automatica E30 as a "pick" on the #44 No Whining Wracing Team Maxima. The Maxima's driver moves over, PITs the Cavalier, which then hits the E30… and then terrible stuff happens, culminating in a horrible impact with a concrete wall and a cracked vertebrae for the Cavalier driver.
Tyler, the Cavalier's driver, is going to be fine; no surgery needed (though he'll spend quite a while in a neck brace), but there's been a lot of debate on the LeMons forums about who bears most of the responsibility for the wreck. The Maxima's driver visited Tyler in the hospital and there appear to be no hard feelings there, but the mood at the track was virulently anti-Maxima at the time; in fact, the Nissan won the People's Curse as a result. Fanning the flames was the fact that the ONSET team has been racing Cavaliers in LeMons forever and its members are much beloved by the veterans, while the Maxima guys are relative newcomers.
Here's the incident as captured from the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys' Peugeot 505:
Here's the immediate aftermath, as seen from the Metro-Gnome, showing Tyler escaping the burning car.
So, racing experts (and everyone else), on whom would you place the blame here? Cavalier? Maxima? Both? If both, what's the percentage blame split?


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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will be spending the next few weeks training with a stopwatch in hand.
Virtue and Moir easily claimed their fifth national ice dance title at the Canadian figure skating championships Sunday, but were left troubled by their marks that included two violation point deductions.
The violations were for holding two lifts over the allowable time — and two points could be the difference between gold and silver when they meet American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White at the world championships in March.
"Marina (Zoueva, their coach) is going to be all over me now with a stopwatch," said Moir — they also use video to monitor lift length.
"(Ice dancing) is a bit fussy. And to be honest we were kind of excited because that was an awesome skate for us. There was no doubt in our minds. That's exactly what we want to do. Now the (violations) don't take away from it but it would be nice to have a big number to go home and work off of."
The two-time world champions and Olympic gold medallists scored 187.23 overall, and their dramatic and sultry "Carmen" free dance brought the capacity crowd of nearly 4,500 fans at the Hershey Centre to its feet.
Toronto's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won the silver with 169.81, while Nicole Orford of Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Williams of Okotoks, Alta., finished third with 152.56.
Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, who grew up just down the road in Ilderton, Ont., are gunning for their third world title when London hosts the championships in March.
They also received a surprisingly low score on one of their spins.
Their "Carmen" program this season is a marked departure from their ethereal gold-medal free dance that most fans remember them for at the Vancouver Olympics. Virtue, wearing a black dress with a neckline that plunges down to her navel, opens by running her hand down Moir's backside — the gesture prompted a wolf-whistle from someone in the crowd Sunday.
Virtue and Moir have never been afraid of taking risks, and despite not receiving the high marks they've been after so far this season, they're still committed to the program.
"We wouldn't be skating if we were just going to play it safe and do the same tricks every year," Moir said. "We're going after it. That'll start to pay off. It already has started to pay off.
"To lose the points — it is disheartening but it's easy too at the same time. At least we have them in black and white, on paper. I always find it a lot more difficult to go home and try and fix the program component scores (the artistic impression scores under the old judging system) where you have no idea where the judges' brains are at."
The Canadian championships was the qualifying event for the Four Continents, Feb. 6-11 in Osaka, Japan, plus part of the world championship team will be announced Monday.
The three ice dance medallists were named to the Four Continents team.
Patrick Chan will skip the Four Continents, so the three men competing there will be Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., Andrei Rogozine of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Elladj Balde of Pierrefonds, Que.
Kaetlyn Osmond, a 17-year-old from Marystown, N.L., leads the women's contingent at Four Continents. Amelie Lacoste of Delson, Que., and Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., are the other two.
The three pairs teams are Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto, and Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Sask., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask.
While Virtue and Moir were virtually a lock to win gold at the Hershey Centre, second and third could have gone to several different ice dance duos.
Perennial runners-up Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje didn't compete here as Weaver broke her ankle five weeks ago when she slid feet-first into the boards.
Canada is known for its ice dancers, and Gilles and Poirier said the depth in the discipline keeps them on their toes.
"The youth is really showing that they are kind of pushing to make the sport grow," Gilles said. "It's making us having to keep pushing the boundaries because if we stay safe, they're going to come up and take our spots."
Canada has a full three spots in ice dance at the world championships in London, Ont., and likely will at next year's Sochi Olympics as well.
"What we're all really hoping is that next year, everyone can be out there and everyone can skate their best and we can make it a super-dee-duper awesome Olympic trial event," Poirier said. "I think that's what the people who are watching want to see and that's what we all want to do, we want it to be the best competition possible."


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For the course 'Applications in operations research' we have to solve a case. This is the case:
Suppose you want to make a career switch and start a biological farm, where you would like to grow a large range of vegetables. You first search for a piece of land perfect for its purpose and, after some market research, you decide which vegetables and how much of each kind of vegetable you will produce. At that point in time, you have to decide where you will sow the different plants and you will notice that the operations research course you followed in a previous live comes in handy. Given that you want to be ecological, there are certain rules to be followed. You will divide your land into different patches. One patch can only be used for vegetables that belong to the same family, e.g. cabbages, greens, carrots, are different families. Depending on the family, the required fertilization of the soil differs. Reserving one patch for one family, prevents over-fertilization of the soil. Further, every year, the use of the patches needs to be changed in order to prevent diseases to survive and over-utilization of the soil, without the use of poison.
The resulting problem is the following. You are given a number of patches; each patch has a given size. Further, you have a set of vegetables, for each vegetable you know the family it belongs to and the amount you want to grow. For each combination of patch and vegetable you are given a score, representing the suitability of the patch for the vegetable. This score depends on what has grown on the patch the previous year, the amount of sunshine, etc. The goal is to assign the vegetables to the patches, such that only vegetables of the same family are together on a patch and such that the total suitability is maximized.
First we have to find a mathematical model consisting of the objective function and constraints. After we found that we need to find a specific algorithm in order to get a possible solution. I was thinking, since we need the highest possible score, first to take the highest score, then find another vegetable (from the same family) with the second highest score (if size isn't too big for the patch, otherwise take vegetable with 3rd highest score etc.), if vegetables have same score, take the one with the lowest size requirements, the more vegetables that can be added to the patch, the higher the score we will get.
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The MEGA 7 3A/4A Conference baseball tournament, originally scheduled to start Monday, was pushed to Tuesday due to heavy rain over the weekend.
Second-seeded East Gaston will face No. 7 seed Garinger in Tuesday�s 7:30 game at Jack Hughes Park in Pineville. The game will follow a 4:30 p.m. matchup between third-seeded Charlotte Catholic and sixth-seeded Harding.
The other first-round game was rescheduled from Tuesday to Wednesday at 6:30. That game pits fourth-seeded Berry Academy against fifth-seeded West Mecklenburg.
The semifinals are set for Thursday, with East Gaston headed to the 4:30 game if it advances. The Warriors would face the winner between Catholic and Harding. The championship is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday. Jack Hughes Park is the venue for all games.
SPC rainouts
A full slate of Southern Piedmont 1A/2A Conference baseball action was also postponed Monday and rescheduled for Tuesday at various times:
West Lincoln at Lake Norman Charter, 4 p.m.
Cherryville at East Lincoln, 7 p.m.
North Lincoln at Lincolnton, 7 p.m.
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All games at Jack Hughes Park, Pineville
First round
(3) Charlotte Catholic vs. (6) Harding, 4:30 Tuesday
(2) East Gaston vs. (7) Garinger, 7:30 Tuesday
(4) Berry Academy vs. (5) West Mecklenburg, 6:30 Wednesday
(1) Olympic, bye
Catholic-Harding winner vs. E. Gaston-Garinger winner, 4:30 Thursday
(1) Olympic vs. Berry-W. Meck winner, 7:30 Thursday
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Perry vows to fight felony charges
- Gov. Rick Perry says the indictment is politically motivated and vows to fight it
- Perry lawyer calls indictments "political abuse of the court system"
- Indictment by country grand jury in Texas stems from effort to remove local prosecutor
- Perry allegedly threatened to veto funding for a program run by the DA in Austin
(CNN) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calling his indictment politically motivated, vowed Saturday to fight charges he abused his power by trying to pressure a district attorney to resign.
"This farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and those responsible will be held accountable," Perry said at a news conference in Austin, the capital.
A grand jury in Travis County indicted Perry, a Republican, on two felony counts stemming from his threat to veto funding for a statewide public integrity unit run by Travis Country District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, unless she stepped down, according to the special prosecutor in the case, Michael McCrum.
The case centers on Perry's June 2013 veto of the $ 7.5 million budget for the unit run by Lehmberg, after she refused his demand to resign following her drunken driving arrest and conviction.
Perry faces accusations of coercion of a public servant and abuse of his official capacity in connection with the threat and veto.
Gov. Rick Perry is accused of abusing his power
Gov. Perry indicted by Texas grand jury
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Right to veto?
According to McCrum, the indictment alleges that the circumstances around Perry's veto threat amounted to a misuse of state money earmarked by the Legislature to fund the public integrity unit in Travis County run by Lehmberg.
The second charge alleges that he improperly used the veto threat to get her to resign following her arrest on a drunk driving charge. She stayed in office.
But the governor said under the state constitution he has the discretionary right to veto items in the state budget.
"I exercised this discretion," he said.
Read the indictment (PDF)
Perry defended his actions, pointing to Lehmberg's blood alcohol level at the time of her arrest in April 2013 and then her behavior during her arrest, which was captured on video and made public.
"Given that information and given that choice again, that is exactly what I would do again," Perry said.
The governor said the indictment amounted to nothing more than "abuse of power."
"We don't settle political differences with indictments in this country," Perry said.
CNN affiliate KVUE reported that Perry will have to report to the Travis County Jail in Austin to be booked, fingerprinted and have his photo made for a mugshot.
Political implications
Perry can continue to serve as governor while under indictment, KVUE reported. His attorneys could seek to have the charges thrown out, a motion that would delay the case, at the very least.
The charges have serious political implications, both in Texas and beyond. Perry is entering his final few months in office after a historic 14-year run in Austin.
Perry's presidential prospects could be damaged. It's an open secret he's laying groundwork for a second presidential campaign after his disastrous 2012 effort.
The governor is scheduled to visit the early primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina in the coming weeks to meet with Republican activists and legislators. He has positioned himself as an early conservative alternative to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another GOP presidential contender.
Perry attorney David L. Botsford on Friday called the indictment a violence of the separation of powers, saying it "sets a dangerous precedent by allowing a grand jury to punish the exercise of a lawful and constitutional authority afforded to the Texas governor."
The special prosecutor, McCrum, told the San Antonio Express-News the claim the case was politically motivated was "not only ridiculous, but it's disappointing."
"I think it's important to note that while that may be good rhetoric for the state, there's absolutely no basis for it," he told the newspaper.
"My investigation not only did not involve that, but my conversations with Mr. Botsford have never involved that. It's always been about the facts and the law. That's what this case is all about — the facts and the law, and nothing else."
Support for Perry
Even so, a number of national political figures — on both sides of the political line — came to Perry's defense.
"Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy," David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's former top adviser, said in a post on Twitter.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, also took to Twitter on the issue: "the indictment of @GovernorPerry seems politically motivated and ridiculous. Major overreach and an encroachment on his veto authority."
But the Texas Democratic Party called on Perry to resign, saying in a written statement that the governor "brought dishonor to his office, his family and the state of Texas.
"We call on Governor Perry to immediately step down from office. Texans deserve real leadership and this is unbecoming of our governor."
Perry's indictment is the first of a sitting governor in Texas on such charges since 1917 when, according to The Dallas Morning News, James "Pa" Ferguson was indicted for vetoing funding for the University of Texas in an attempt to push out faculty and staff. He resigned.
Opinion: The case against Perry
CNN's Steve Brusk, Dana Davidsen, Leslie Bentz and Peter Hamby contributed to this report.


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After Sandy, Wired New Yorkers Get Reconnected With Pay Phones
Alison Caporimo, a 24-year-old who lives in Manhattan's East Village, is undaunted by newfangled smartphones and computers.
But as for old-fashioned, coin-slot pay phones? The magazine editor had never really trained her Warby Parker eyeglasses on the contraptions.
"I lost a lot of coins," confesses Ms. Caporimo, who didn't even know how to work a pay phone before Tuesday.
With power knocked out in her Sandy-ravaged neighborhood — rendering her cellphone useless — she got a crash course in the low-tech, low-status devices. She returned to her local pay phone Wednesday with more quarters and better knowledge of the pay-phone locations in her area.


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The purpose of the Commonwealth is consultation and cooperation. The sovereign members retain full authority in all domestic and foreign affairs, although Britain generally enjoys a traditional position of leadership in certain matters of mutual interest. There are economic ties in the fields of trade, investment, and development programs for new nations. A set of trade agreements (begun at the Ottawa Conference in 1932) between Britain and the other members gave preferential tariff treatment to many raw materials and manufactured goods that the Commonwealth nations sell in Britain, but the system of preferential tariffs was abandoned after Britain's entry into the European Community (now the European Union) in 1973. Periodically there are meetings of Commonwealth heads of government, but no collective decision made at these meetings is considered binding. In 1965 a Commonwealth secretariat was established, with headquarters in London.
See also British Empire.
See J. D. B. Miller, The Commonwealth in the World (3d ed. 1965); N. Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (1969); W. R. Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East (1986); The Commonwealth Office Yearbook (annual, from 1987); R. J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth (1987).


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This hand lotion has a light fresh citrus fragrance. It is soft to the touch. It is not greasy or heavy but it feels wonderful and hydrating and softening on the hands. It is my new favorite hand lotion!
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In a letter to his friend Wang Hui王回 (1023–1065), the great Song dynasty (960–1279) politician, scholar, thinker, and writer Wang Anshi王安石 (1021–1086) makes a distinction between the golden age of the ancients and the less-than-desirable world of the present. More importantly, it claims that the golden era was marked by a commitment to unity. Not only were morality and customs of the world made the same, but the learned were united in their learnings and opinions. The periods after the golden age, on the other hand, were marked by diversity and confusion arising from how the truth is understood. Wang believed that he had found the truth about unity and how it could be achieved from reading the Classics. His ambitious political reform (called New Policies) was a grand program that sought to bring the ideal of unity to the world through government.
Wang Anshi was of course not the only major thinker in Chinese history to ponder the question of unity. In fact, a dominant and enduring theme in the history of Chinese thought is the search for unity. Faced with uncertainties arising from a diverse and complex world, thinkers in different periods and with different intellectual orientations saw it as their main mission to discover the true nature of unity and ways of realizing it for attaining a harmonious world. The process began when Confucius (551–479
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The Biltmore Estate is a mansion in Asheville, North Carolina built for George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914). It's the largest home in North America, and the landscaping was done by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park in Manhattan.
George Washington Vanderbilt II was the grandson of "The Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who founded the university that bears his name. (Lots of great memories competing at Vandy during my Quiz Bowl days. During a particular slice of life, I knew how to navigate a bunch of college campuses in the middle of the night: UT Knoxville, Georgia Tech, Washington University of St. Louis, etc.) Of course, I've always been interested in the Commodore's 1849 plan to build an Atlantic-Pacific canal through Nicaragua.
A vineyard was established in 1971, and due to the estate's draw as a tourist attraction, it's the most visited winery in the United States. I've previously reviewed one of their Chardonnays and was excited to try the Pinot Noir. The Chardonnay was grown and produced in North Carolina, while in this case the grapes came from California but the actual production occurred in the Tar Heel State.
With an aristocratic wine from a mansion, I'm pairing a lawn that needs a mow and a scruffy mutt that needs a good brushing. Yet somehow Wolfie put on a regal stance, as if to remind me that I'm the servant that brings him his food.
2009 Biltmore Reserve Pinot Noir
Russian River, California
$25, 14.5% abv.
This Pinot Noir has a fairly standard first impression of wild strawberries. But as it opens and develops, you get a touch of bacon fat and black cherry. The finish has a little cough syrup, which isn't a bad note--it implies a fruit character with bitterness and dark herbal aspects. If it's too prominent it's obviously a bad thing, but I like it in small doses. While a lighter and more delicate Pinot Noir would be a good match for salmon, I think this one would stand up fairly well with hearty meat dishes. I enjoyed it with smoked beef brisket.
Note: This wine was received as a sample.
10 August 2011
2009 Biltmore Reserve Pinot Noir
Labels: california, north carolina, pinot noir, sample
3 comments:
- fredric koeppel said...
even the scruffiest dog can conjure a touch of nobility when it's required.
- 10 August, 2011 04:43
Olmstead actually has a Memphis connection, as I believe it was his son who recommended to the city the development of Overton Park and provided the layout.
- 10 August, 2011 15:00
- Benito said...
It's funny, isn't it? I've seen utter goofballs suddenly look like they stepped into a painting from one of the old Dutch masters.
Thanks for the note--park construction is a fascinating side of urban history that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
- 10 August, 2011 22:39
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