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Giants Kayvon Thibodeaux says he's still day-to-day heading into Week 1
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New York Giants' Saquon Barkley (26) checks on Kayvon Thibodeaux (5) as he is helped off the field after getting hurt during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, in East Rutherford, N.J.
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As Week 1 of the NFL season quickly approaches questions remain whether edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux will be on the field in Tennessee when the Giants play the Titans.
Thibodeaux had been injured during the second week of the preseason when New York hosted the Cincinnati Bengals at Metlife Stadium. He suffered a sprained MCL when he got cut blocked and was expected to miss 3-4 weeks, but he was doing some stationary individual drills on Tuesday.
"Pretty good, pretty good," Thibodeaux said when asked how he was feeling. "Just rehabbing. It's day-to-day right now, so I'm just working to get better and back in shape."
He later added: I'm doing a lot better, continuous rehab and we just continue to push forward."
The Giants' edge rusher wasn't sure if he would be able to play on Sunday, telling reporters that it was still up in the air. Thibodeaux was listed as a starter on the team's unofficial depth chart for Week 1, but Wednesday would likely provide a better idea of whether he would play.
Thibodeaux's only marker for being ready to play was being able to practice, which he had begun to do on Tuesday in a limited capacity. Fellow linebacker Azeez Ojulari, who is also injured, joined the rookie in individual work.
Sunday's game against the Titans will help set the tone for the season and with both edge rushers out at the moment, there is some pressure being felt for Thibodeaux to get back on the field quickly.
"I feel like we're both pressed to get back because we both love the sport and want to get back," he said. "But this is the NFL and we have a room full of guys that can get the job done. We have a room full of guys that are actually superstars, so just supporting them and getting back and doing everything we can to get better."
If the fifth overall pick in this year's draft isn't able to play he would try to find any way he could to help the team while sidelined.
"Now you gotta accept however we go," Thibodeaux responded when asked how it would feel not to play. "We're a team and (head coach Brian Daboll) is a person that kind harps on next play, next man up. Just kind of giving any way I can. Realizing that if I am not able to play, if I'm there, then I still have to be engaged and help my team. Contribute to the win."
Thibodeaux had a very strong showing during training camp and in the preseason for the Giants. The rookie felt that he was able to get what he needed out of the time he had in camp, but said that he is always working to get better.
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Maber's Isaac Newton Building : How ARCHICAD Eased Tight Deadlines
The Isaac Newton Building is somewhat unusual in that it is purpose-built as a school of Engineering. At the time of its construction, it was the first such building in the UK for more than 20 years.
Located on the Brayford campus of the University of Lincoln, construction was a collaboration between the University of Lincoln and Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery LTD (SITL). The project was also supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), which contributed a grant of £4.3 million towards the total cost of over £30 million.
The Isaac Newton Building is somewhat unusual in that it is purpose-built as a school of Engineering
One of the most useful features of Graphisoft's ARCHICAD is the way in which the software facilitates a collaborative design process. When a project must be completed according to a strict schedule, that collaborative functionality, along with the many other advantages the software provides, is invaluable. Such was the case with the University of Lincoln's Isaac Newton Building, a school of Engineering constructed to house the school's Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics schools.
Development of the Isaac Newton Building was split into two phases, with the start of the second phase overlapping with the end of the first. In phase one, the existing engineering building was extended, to allow room for the addition of Electrical and Electronic Engineering facilities. In phase two, a new building was constructed to house the university's schools of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. The building also includes a 500-seat lecture theatre and a catering facility.
Maber Uses ARCHICAD to Speed Up the Design Process
The University of Lincoln chose architectural firm Maber to design the new building. An award-winning firm established in 1983, Maber has offices in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Birmingham, and London. The firm designs across a wide range of industry sectors, and has developed a reputation for its work on challenging brownfield and historically sensitive sites. In this instance, the Maber team found themselves working on a tight schedule, and produced a full set of designs and drawings in less than a year. Graphisoft's ARCHICAD was instrumental in helping the team complete the project so quickly.
According to Maber associate Alex Lipinski
"the software helped speed up the design process in a number of ways. With ARCHICAD, there is no barrier to collaboration when contractors are using different platforms. It takes a little time to set everything up, but once the initial coordination document is shared and the parameters are agreed, everyone is working from the same reference point. The curtain walling tool is easy to use too, and it's very quick to get the results you want. Without it, it would have been days of work to complete that element of the design."
One of the key requirements for the design was that it reflect the University of Lincoln's reputation as a top-50 school, with a distinctive design statement. Here, Maber designed a striking curved building facade, accentuated with bronze cladding. The ARCHICAD curtain-walling tool was instrumental in the design of this particular element.
With ARCHICAD, there is no barrier to collaboration when contractors are using different platforms.
Isaac Newton Building Location and Site Challenges
The location and size of the size posed challenges for the Maber design team, too. First, there was the proximity of Lincoln cathedral, located just 500 metres from the site of the construction site of the new building. The new construction had to be designed such that it would not alter or obstruct the viewing corridor for the cathedral.
The next challenge was in working within the space limitations of the project. Each of the different teaching schools had highly specific requirements in terms of the space and facilities that each of them needed. Laboratories, workshops, and computer and robotics suites, all needed large amounts of space, as well as the additional space and complexities of plumbing, pipework, and electrical services.
Then, the fact that the new building must connect with the existing one: the new connection had to be sited over a culvert, on a site that was highly constrained. And all of the work had to be done with students still on campus, and using the existing engineering building. ARCHICAD allowed the design team to handle all of these challenges quickly, and with minimal fuss. And Graphisoft's portable virtual reality tool, BIMx, was also of huge value, allowing the design team to walk the client through the designs, and helping them to test different design concepts quickly and easily.
Easy Collaboration and Data Collection
The specialist nature of the project meant a need for highly precise collaboration and coordination between the architectural firm and a range of different contractors. Here, the use of ARCHICAD made it easy for Maber to share IFC data with service providers and contractors, even in cases where different BIM-authoring tools were being used. Alex said,
"With ARCHICAD, there is no barrier to collaboration when contractors are using different platforms. It takes a little time to set everything up, but once the initial coordination document is shared and the parameters are agreed, everyone is working from the same reference point. Without ARCHICAD and the IFC data already in place, it would have been weeks of work to produce the required COBie information for the client."
Graphisoft's BIM software also enabled Maber to provide the University with COBie data, with little notice. The University asked for the data to help it manage the building more effectively in the future, and Maber was able to deliver in record time, using ARCHICAD IFC management systems.
In Spring of 2017, the Isaac Newton Building was completed
Finally, in Spring of 2017, the Isaac Newton Building was completed. Now fully operational, it's helping to educate a new generation of students, and its handsome bronze facade has proven to be exactly the design statement the University was hoping for. And for Maber, the Isaac Newton Building earned the firm its second BIM Project of the Year Award, along with a runner-up award for Best Public Building.
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I recently visited the dentist because of some tooth sensitivity which she informed me was caused by some things in my diet, and in order to repair the damage that was done she wanted me to switch to a different toothpaste after finding out that I use a natural toothpaste -- to be environmentally friendly and not put harsh chemicals into my body. The look that she gave me when I told her what toothpaste I use has never made me more embarrassed to be someone that is trying to use more natural products and be aware of what is being used on my body.
And then it got me thinking: Are there somethings that we need to sacrifice our healthy body for in order to maintain a healthy body? Should we be using sunscreen with chemicals that hurt our body over long-term use to keep our body safe from the Sun? Should we be using bug spray to protect ourselves from the many insects that carry harmful diseases that you may just have a slight chance to contract? Should we be brushing our teeth with toothpaste that is filled with all of the things that we know hurt our body in order to keep our teeth in top shape?
I read this post over on Gawker today after it was shared on my Facebook feed by a physician friend of mine, and it got me thinking about chemicals that we put into -- and on -- our bodies that maybe aren't as toxic as we think -- unless you are using 20 bottles of sunscreen on your body a day, and brushing your teeth 10 times a day and swallowing the toothpaste. It also made me think about who I should be trusting to give me the information that I need to make the right decisions for my body. I know that my doctor is not going to push me to do things that will harm me, and they have also given advice and offered alternatives and natural ways to approach my health.
I've talked about this with another friend of mine that knows a lot about chemicals and used to test water adjacent to mines for harsh chemicals. We were talking about the ingredients in the food at the supper table, and he mentioned that anti-freeze is in one of the salad dressings. I asked him about the affects that that would have on our bodies, and he said it's fine in small doses as long as you don't chug the entire bottle. It reminds me of the old adage of everything in moderation, and, as Oscar Wilde says: "Everything in moderation, including moderation."
There is so much research done to find out the affects of chemicals on our bodies in the short term and in the long term, and this is turning into a post that is way too scientific for me and beyond my point. There is nothing wrong with using natural products. I use them on my face, in my hair, and to clean my house on a daily basis. I love natural products and the philosophy behind them, but when you've had two root canals and three fillings -- with another five that need to be done -- over the course of four years then maybe there are some natural products that you just shouldn't be using.
When we seek council in the right places -- not someone on the internet that discredits members of the scientific community -- then we are able to make the correct choices for ourselves and the body that we want to have.


The 11th annual SSPI Future Leaders Dinner is just around the corner — November 9th, to be specific.
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At the Future Leaders Dinner, three young satellite professionals will receive a Promise Award for demonstrating initiative, creativity and problem-solving skills that made a positive impact on their company's performance. At the same dinner, the Mentor Award will be given to a satellite executive who has fostered young talent, both within his or her organization and throughout the industry and who has also volunteered time and energy in support of the industry.


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Whittington Trust launches competition to showcase work of budding artists in Archway hospital
PUBLISHED: 13:22 06 April 2017 | UPDATED: 16:00 06 April 2017
Whittington Health chairman Steve Hitchins with two Ray Walker pieces at the Whittington Hospital.
An Archway hospital trust is launching an art competition designed to seek out budding artists from across north London.
Open to all, the competition is part of a new drive to showcase the creative work of the community in the Whittington Hospital.
As well as having their artwork displayed in the Magdala Avenue hospital, winners of the competition will also win a range of top prizes including, VIP visits to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs, free cinema tickets, art equipment and classes.
Whittington Health, the trust behind the hospital, will also be putting a special triptych mural entitled The Legend of Dick Whittington and his Cat, back on public view at the hospital.
Painted by Ray Walker, who died in 1984 aged just 39, the mural captures the essence of Whittington, the Archway hospital's namesake, and his journey to London.
Trust chairman Steve Hitchins said: "We have a long history of working closely with our community and our new art competition is an exciting new addition.
"It is also part of our effort to engage more with the local population and to make the hospital a place where people aren't frightened to come.
"We're looking for budding artists, regardless of ability, to get involved and share their work with us.
"We know that there is a huge amount of talent in our community, and we're hoping that this new competition will really inspire people to get involved – we may even discover the next Ray Walker."
Under the banner of 'my favourite activity', entries to the art competition are split into five categories; under 5s, five to seven years, eight to 11 years, 12 to 16 years and over-17s.
The creation must be a two dimensional painting, drawing, cartoon, collage or tablet-generated piece of art, A2, A3 or A4 in size or a photograph sent as an email attachment to whh-tr.WhittingtonForum@nhs.net.
To enter the competition – which closes on July 31 – visit whittington.nhs.uk. All entrants will be signed up to the trust's new Whittington Health Community Forum.
Winning prizes will be presented at the hospital on Sunday, September 16.
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KAUST Ph.D. student Rawan Alghamdi wins second prize in IEEE Competition on NTN
Toward Equitable 6G Access Service via Cloud-Enabled High-Altitude Platform Systems
The research work of KAUST Ph.D. student Rawan Alghamdi was announced as the runner-up prize winner in the IEEE Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Beyond 5G and 6G, as part of the "Connecting the World from the Skies" Forum.
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The hybrid three-day forum took place simultaneously in Riyadh and online from November 8-10. The event was hosted by the International Telecommunication Union and the Communications, Space & Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia and organized by the IEEE Future Networks Initiative.
The forum covered airborne and space-borne communication networks from technology, space and science policy perspectives. A total of 28 papers were submitted, representing the work of 100 participants from 17 countries and 34 universities and research centers.
Second place, and a prize of $5,000, was awarded to Alghamdi based on her work titled "Toward Equitable 6G Access Service via Cloud-Enabled High-Altitude Platform Systems."
"To be able to compete and be selected alongside other more experienced researchers is an honor. It also confirms the excellent mentorship and support I receive from my advisors at KAUST. This award allowed me to attend the forum and meet several researchers whose work inspired me," Alghamdi said of her recent prize.
"It was a great pleasure not only to compete with them but also to socialize with them. Holding technical and scientific discussions with academic and industry professionals boosted my confidence in my technical skills."
Exploiting NTNs to bridge the digital divide
The research paper is a joint work between Alghamdi and her colleagues Hayssam Dahrouj, Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sharjah, UAE; Tareq Al-Naffouri, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST; and KAUST Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mohamed-Slim Alouini.
In their work, the researchers examined the problem of digital inequality or unequal access to digital technology and internet access in many parts of the world. Recognizing this issue as a contemporary manifestation of inequality, their research explores efficient solutions that offer equitable wireless access to rural areas by utilizing non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to communicate from the sky.
One candidate solution considers stratospheric high-altitude platform systems (HAPS), which fly at an altitude of approximately 20 km. Their proposed model considers HAPS as clouds in the sky, providing high-speed data-sharing fronthaul connection to hot-air balloons and terrestrial base stations. These balloons and stations would provide radio access to aerial and terrestrial users.
"Our work devises resource allocation schemes inspired by the need to create a digital equity paradigm. A paradigm that finds a trade-off between maintaining a good quality of service for the connected and providing an inclusive and equitable service for the unconnected," she explained.
Maintaining an appetite for cutting-edge research
Alghamdi is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the joint supervision of KAUST Professors Alouini and Al-Naffouri. Her research interests mainly focus on wireless communication theory and networks, next-generation communication systems and cross-layer optimization in wireless communication systems.
The main thrust of her current research is the integration of air-ground-maritime-underwater communication networks to provide connectivity to unconnected areas. According to Alghamdi, developing a comprehensive understanding of each segment and the integration between them is critical to society's ability to experience a fully immersive connectivity framework in the next 20 years.
"The aim of the KAUST Information Science Lab and the Communication Theory Lab is to create a seamless connectivity framework that can connect people in sparsely populated, densely populated and hard-to-reach areas. We believe in creating an inclusive connectivity model that leaves no one behind," she explained.
"I am very grateful to be given the opportunity to represent our work and KAUST at the forum. I would also like to thank my advisors—Profs. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Tareq Al-Naffouri and my research mentor, Prof. Hayssam Dahrouj—for teaching me everything I know about research and developing my research appetite to what it is now," Alghamdi concluded.
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Years ago, postcards, flyers, magnets and brochures were the go-to when it came to marketing yourself as an agent. With the introduction of digital marketing, those strategies have been disrupted by social media, websites and email newsletters. All good things, but mailing postcards and other direct mail pieces, combined with introducing yourself to the neighborhood door-to-door, is still the most personal and most memorable way to build positive relationships with potential clients.


The Hyatt Center was designed by Harry Cobb and incorporates a bright glass and steel facade with an oval-shaped footprint on the site.
Site prep work began on July 10, 2002, and the ceremonial groundbreaking took place on December 5th of the same year.
At the time of the ceremonial groundbreaking, only 400,000 of the building's 1.7 million square feet of office space was still on the market.
A similar building by the same architecture firm is the Tour EDF near Paris.
The Monroe Street side features extensive landscaping, with two triangular plazas filling out the site.
An earlier plan for this development named Pritzker Tower was designed by British architect Lord Norman Foster.


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Must be depressing for Israel to watch their ISIS pets get wiped out along with their delusional Greater Israel plans.
In Sweida the population hanged three ISIS, after they have assassinated a lot of women and children and executed captured soldiers. It seems that the ISIS in the two little Sweida pockets will go all directly to hell.
Not just Europe, Canada too.
Interrogations are badly needed,,for future evidence in reparations payments by the crooked zionist west.
Russia can request a permission to interrogate them right? It won't be Abu Ghraib-Style… but a little friendly Chit-Chat & exchange of visions with those Brave Heroes those Saviours of Humanity should be possible right?
Meh, send them home to their sponsors; lots of merriment are bound to ensue. Better this (or your virgin-bound option) than busing them to Idlib, where you'll have to fight them all over again.
nice and easy does it; I hope they're ready for the next zionist terrorist atrocity.
I wonder is Nutandyahoo watching through his binoculars today??He loves to look over his squatter Fiefdom.
Netanyahu should pack their luggages from Golan Heights because Syrian forces and their allies are coming like a sea. SAA and their allies are sending ISIS the cousins of Israeli migrants to the hell. The next number is of Israel.


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Most Dangerous Superman Costume Powered by Darkseid Revealed
In an alternate Earth, Superman got his most dangerous costume by becoming Darkseid's son.
Yes, What you heard is true. Superman not only joining forces with Darkseid but also became his son.
Superman's costume is largely unchanged over the past 80 years. However, Darkseid gave him dark armor to wear on an alternate earth.
In short, After Darkseid found his rocket, Superman was given his most dangerous costume by the Lord of Apokolips in the miniseries Superman: The Dark Side, 1998.
John Francis Moore wrote the miniseries with Kieron Dwyer providing support in the art department.
Since 1938, The iconic Superman costume can be seen in every superhero comic. As mentioned, the costume has remained the same for a long period.
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Though there have been some exceptions to this rule over the years. The most notable one is the "Electric Superman" story in the late 1990s.
This was then spun into the Superman Red/Superman Blue story.
DC also published Elseworlds titles around the same time. These featured DC's most famous characters in different settings.
For example, Martha and Thomas Wayne found Superman's rocket in one of their worlds. These stories were fun and original but takes on a completely different path to their former (just like Marvel's Whatif?).
In Superman: The Dark Side comics, Kal-El's rocket was found by Darkseid, the Lord Of Apokolips! (yes, the worst place to send Superman)
As it does every time, the story unfolds as it always does.
Jor-El sends their infant son to Earth. But just as the rocket enters Earth's atmosphere, Metron, New Genesis, teleports the rocket back to Apokolips.
Darkseid as expected seizes the infant and raises him secretly to become his secret weapon of destruction.
There is one catch you might have missed here. Apokolips does not live under the yellow sun, So Superman is not able to use his wide range of powers.
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In fact, Superman no longer wears a cape.
He now wears battle armor in black and red, complete with a helmet and sword. In a corrupted version, the "S" logo appears on the armor.
A Look at the Dangerous Superman Costume given by Darkseid
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Superman becomes Darkseid's servant and is sent to Earth. Luckily for us, He discovers his true nature and leads an army against Darkseid.
Kal-El is shown wearing a Superman-style suit in the end of the book. The image that Kal-El cuts in the armor Darkseid made for him is horrifying.
The Man of Steel's logo is corrupted by Darkseid, and readers can see all the worse things about him in that look.
Superman doesn't hide behind masks or helmets. He is a symbol of "JUSTICE".
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But Darkseid has influenced him to do just that. Darkseid has twisted the "S" logo to look like the symbol for the SS, Nazi Germany's stormtroopers. This is the most alarming sign of Superman being corrupted by Darkseid.
Comic fans all over the globe know Superman's costume, but Darkseid, his greatest enemy, gave him his darkest look.
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Kylie Jenner Just Stood Up to Constant Hair Change Pressure
Who knows what will come next.
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At this point, seeing a celebrity like Kylie Jenner or Bella Hadid debut a brand new hair style on Insta has turned into a game of "is she or isn't she" re: whether or not this is a real-deal change or a wig at work. Jenner especially has made her name on constantly switching up her look with different, out there colors—it's a way for her to experiment for fun without commitment. But apparently, that expectation for constant hair changes has spiraled into a pretty dark place, and on last night's Life of Kylie the 20-year-old beauty guru took a stand: She's not here to be pressured into changing her looks and wants to start doing her hair the way that makes her happy.
"I don't want to disappoint anybody, but I just want my hair long and black and pretty," she confessed on camera. With a makeup empire that's made $420 million in the 18 months it's existed, it's no surprise that the heat is on for Jenner to constantly churn out beauty evolutions—but it seems she's done keeping up with that now. "I don't want to be a weirdo," she continued. "I don't want to pull up with purple hair, I'm over it. I'm over keeping up with this lifestyle of crazy hair and wigs and sh-t."
Now, let it be said that purple hair doesn't make anyone a "weirdo" if they don't want it to—you do you—but we've gotta respect that Jenner is listening to herself and standing up to the pressure of constantly needing to top yourself, which is undeniably rough (and hard to avoid).
So how'd we get here? Jenner says that it started from a place of trying to find herself, but when that became the norm it morphed into an unhappy thing. "I always try to be different," she explained. "I always try to do new things. I think my following started to get a little bigger when I was just finding out my style and who I was, and dying my hair, and not everyone was dying their hair blue and green, you know? People know I kind of just do what I want. They just don't know what to expect."
One thing we can expect: Jenner is always right on the beauty cutting edge, so we'll be on high alert to see what she does with her look next. She did give us one clue, though. Look out for "cool earrings, makeup, my tits out," she joked. As usual, she's doin' her.
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The Many Hair Colors of Kylie Jenner
It seems like the youngest Kardashian-Jenner changes her hair color as often as us non-celebs change our socks. Here's a look at a few of our favorite colorful 'dos that Jenner has unveiled — and who they remind us of.


In 2010, the South Carolina General Assembly enacted Act 224 authorizing pharmacists to administer the influenza vaccine to individuals 18 years without a prescription drug order pursuant to a protocol issued by the SC Board of Medical Examiners. The Act established a Joint Pharmacist Administered Influenza Vaccine Committee comprised of pharmacists, physicians and nurse practitioners to recommend a protocol to the Board of Medical Examiners. On November 10, 2010, the Committee's recommendation was approved by the Board of Medical Examiners. The protocol has been signed and is now considered effective.
This is the first legislation to be passed in South Carolina directly addressing pharmacist-administered immunizations. The new protocol issued by the Board of Medical Examiners gives a pharmacist prescriptive authority for the influenza vaccine to patients 18 years and older. It is important to understand vaccine administration by pharmacists was an existing practice in South Carolina prior to this new protocol. Pharmacists can administer vaccines pursuant to a patient specific prescription drug order (individual prescription or an order derived from a collaborative practice agreement). This current practice remains effective - the state flu protocol does not replace current practice, but provides an additional authorization for administering the flu vaccine.
What sort of CPR training do I need for this program?
According to the protocol, Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification. The pharmacist must complete the American Heart Association "BLS for Healthcare Providers Course" and possess a valid Course Completion Card. This certification must be renewed every 2 years.


In just a couple of weeks, I will be heading to the beautiful Caribbean island of St John for a family vacation. Like always, I plan to squeeze in as much birding as possible and I have bought some field guides to the region to prepare for the trip. Over two-thirds of the island is a U.S. National Park and I can't wait to explore it!
The two books that I bought are Birds of the West Indies (Princeton Illustrated Checklists) and Birds of the West Indies (Princeton Field Guides). Since they are both published by Princeton University Press and their titles are pretty much the same, I was half expecting that the books would be nearly identical. Luckily I was wrong and they both offer some features that the other book does not.
This book is the most up-to-date field guide to the West Indies that I could find. It was published in 2010 and thus has the best information on the distribution of birds on the islands that make up the West Indies. One area where I felt that this field guide was lacking was in the introduction. The introduction covers what I would consider the typical field guide introduction information, a map of the area the guide covers and a short explanation of it, pictures of bird topography, and a short section on what is included in the text to help with identification. Pretty standard stuff and there is nothing necessarily wrong with it but the other field guide just offers readers much more (more on that later).
Once I got into the heart of this book, the first thing I noticed was the fantastic illustrations. They are extremely detailed, have very vivid colors, and I believe they will be a great resource in the field. I should note that no juvenile plumages are shown as a way to save space. The text that accompanies the illustrations is short but concise. It offers good descriptions of behavior, habitat and distribution but lets the illustration show the field marks rather than explaining them to you which I appreciate.
The biggest complaint I have about this guide is that the species range maps are located in the back of the book not with the species illustration and description. This drives me crazy in any field guide and is especially challenging when the there are many islands and I would like to see if the species will be on an island I will be visiting.
Overall, this is a fantastic field guide that has complete coverage of the West Indies. It has been an invaluable resource for my preparation for my trip.
This field guide was published back in 2003 so it is a little older than the book by Arlott but the information does not seem to be dated at all. Raffaele offers one of the best introductions to a field guide that I have seen in a long time. He not only covers the typical information featured in a field guide introduction, but also includes a section on endangered species of the islands and the islands' conservation issues.
The illustrations in this guide are extremely well done but on average, they do not show the vivid colors of many of the species quite as well as the guide by Arlott. There are a couple of notable exceptions. This field guide offers much better illustrations of both parrots and hummingbirds. Also, since this book is slightly larger, I do not feel that the illustrations are quite as crowded. the larger size also allowed more juvenile plumages to be included.
This book also addresses the major complaint I had with the other field guide. All of the range maps area included next to the text discussing each species. This allows me to quickly recognize if the species will be present on the island that I am visiting.
I feel that this too is a must have guide for the region. I always like to have multiple field guides with me when visiting new locations and I can't wait to test these two out in the field!


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Editors: Vieira, Gonçalo, José Luís, Zêzere, Mora, Carla (Eds.)
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The book brings together contributions from over 35 Portuguese geomorphologists, presenting a thorough overview of the main highlights of the landscape of Portugal's mainland, Azores and Madeira. The book, which is a tribute to Professor António de Brum Ferreira, first President of the Portuguese Association of Geomorphologists and former Professor at the University of Lisbon, who passed away in January 2013, is organized in 3 parts: a) Introduction, which presents a general framework of the physical geography of Portugal, b) Geomorphological landscapes, presenting ca. 30 short papers with regional focus on key geomorphological areas, c) Applied geomorphology, providing an updated vision on the protection of geomorphological heritage with a focus on geoparks, as well as on Geomorphological hazards in Portugal. This first book ever to concentrate on the geomorphology of Portugal will surely become a benchmark for Portuguese geomorphology.
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My name is Grace Marie Theresa Arcolina Preli Monzeglio Sohoel-Goldberg. But you can call me Grace or GG. I live on Cape Cod, a small but well-known island off of Massachusetts and I attend university in Boston. However, Madrid feels like my true home.
So yeah, that's basically what's important about me.
You can figure the rest out by yourself.


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Light Stream - A Life's Work in Film, 1960-2001 . . .
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The Little Festival That Could: Media City 14: The 14th Annual International Festival of Experimental Film and Video Art
4 – 8 March 2008
They say good things come in small packages. Case in point: the Media City International Festival of Experimental Film and Video Art, now in its 14th year. Media City is indeed a "small" festival in size – it is four days and nine or ten programs (if you don't count a Tuesday night event across the river in Detroit) – and most of the programs are held to just over an hour in length. But this lack in quantity allows programmers Jeremy Rigsby and Oona Mosna to focus on quality. They have developed a reputation for intelligent, thoughtful and rigorous selections and expect that their audience will approach the work with a degree of seriousness (they do).
Given the sophistication of the programming it is a bit surprising that Media City takes place in Windsor, Ontario rather than New York, London, or other large metropolis. Something of a Canadian suburb of Detroit, Windsor is a Jekyll and Hyde city, split between art and vice: it has a vibrant and enthusiastic arts community, from the very grassroots to the excellent Art Gallery of Windsor; but it is also home to casinos, strip clubs and a 19 year-old drinking age which attracts Michigan college kids from across the river.
The 2008 festival, as was the case for the previous six editions I've attended, had a particularly high ratio of hits to misses. In fact, among the international group shows, there was only one film I disliked. This is a festival that abounds in riches. From the simple playfulness of Jason Halprin's Super-8 film of Andy Warhol's mylar balloons (Mylar Balloon Ripoff) to the complex articulations of sound and image in Michael Robinson's stupendous Victory over the Sun, there was much to like.
Two of the best works reconfigure or tweak conventional genres in experimental film to unsettle expectations. British artist Rachel Reupke's video Land of Cockaigne is nominally a landscape work. But she shot it using a camera obscura in Sussex, England, which warps and distorts the image and throws it on its side and upside down at times. There is a feeling of randomness to what we see and sudden, awkward reframings add a sense of loss of control. The destabilising formal approach is mirrored by the non-traditional landscape we do see. None of the usual lush, picturesque scenes but rather a barren field, a grouping of non-descript houses, and a roadside. It is here that Reupke again confounds things. She has staged several people along the road, who seem to be just lying about. A "narrative" intervention in which the characters don't do anything. Only the sound changes, from ambient noise to the Talking Heads, singing "nothing ever happens…".
Androa Autoportrait features the Congolese artist and performer Androa Mindre Kolo running through the campus of an art academy in Kinshasa while holding a video camera trained on his own face. Self-portraiture, of course. But the video was actually conceived of and "made" by the Belgian artists Matthias De Groof and Kristin Rogghe. Autoportrait scrambles definitions and notions of authorship. How can someone be credited as the director of a "self-portrait" of another person, especially when that person is his own cameraman? Beyond the conceptual frame and genre provocation of the video, it is also a powerful and compelling piece of portraiture, tinged with elements that undercut norms for the genre. In place of careful composition, we have a shaky hand-held camera that wanders occasionally from Kolo's face to his chest. We are unable to fix on him as he is constantly in movement. As he runs, his position in relation to the sun changes, sometimes illuminating him clearly; sometimes throwing him into an obscuring silhouette. Any attempt to "see" him as a person is continually frustrated.
Broken Horses by the Vienna-based American filmmaker Peter Miller and Garden/ing by the Japanese artist Sonoda Eriko both work to fracture the image, transforming it into constant movement and near-abstraction. Miller uses an optical printer to create a flicker film of horses. The rapid alteration of shots and the use of dissolves to further blur distinctions forces the viewer to focus on shape and texture rather than seeing the horses as individual animals. Garden/ing is a perplexing video that you stare at and wonder what the hell is going on. Simple in its construction, it is complicated in its effect. Sonoda is playing with trompe l'oeil and image regression as she shoots and reshoots still images of a sliding glass door that looks out onto a garden and clothesline in an arcing pattern from left to right. At intervals, she tapes a mosaic of photographs of the view outside onto the door, so that we no longer see "reality" but a representation of it. Images layer, the view is consumed into itself, and the speed increases to a swirl that no longer allows the viewer to find a point of fixed perspective. It is spinning in a Hall of Mirrors where everything devolves to disorientation.
Bachelor Machines: Part I and Part II are two companion films by the Scottish artist Rosalind Nashashibi. The first is a thirty-minute observational film shot on an Italian cargo ship. Unlike the static long-takes of Peter Hutton's recent ship film At Sea, Nashashibi breaks her film up in several different ways – frequent cutting; an inquisitive, moving camera; and close-ups which fragment the image. She also divides the film into more than 20 "chapters" which range in length from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. This chaptering seems almost arbitrary and adds a subtle, wry humour to the film, which is also found in some of her compositions, particularly some obvious and rather goofy framings of portholes and other openings into nearly anthropomorphic faces. The cinematography is beautiful and Nashashibi has a well-trained eye for finding telling instances of colour, form and movement. The five-minute Bachelor Machines: Part II is a double 16mm film, with two images projected side-by-side. On the left, in a black and white portrait, artist Thomas Bayrle talks about the relationship between machines and the rosary. On the right, out of focus shots of a building exterior and people moving about resolves into focus at the end to reveal a New York City police station. Nashashibi juxtaposes the intellectual denseness of Bayrle's argument and the obscured vision of the police station. She forces the viewer to split their attention, both sides requiring different modes of concentration. Instead of the formal fragmentation of Part I, here it is the mind of the audience that is fragmented.
Take into the air my quiet breath by the Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne) is a fascinating exploration the representation of the city, tradition vs. modernisation, and state bureaucracy. Shots of Damascus are tied together by a voice-over narrative of a Syrian architect recounting the 40-year odyssey of a building site and the ever-changing on-again/off-again plans for construction. Decades of governmental indecision almost rise to the level of comedy and the architect's obsession (he won two early design competitions that were both abandoned) with this rather mundane problem serves to humanise a country that is frequently demonised in the West. Governmental ineptitude and inaction seems universal.
Jeanne Liotta spent seven years filming time-lapse footage of the night sky for her beautiful film Observando el Cielo. It is deliberately rough-hewn, with splices, scratches, and head and tail flares showing, and abounds with a visual energy from the staccato bursts and streaking lines of terrestrial light sources counterpointed against the gliding movements of the stars, moon and clouds in the sky. Liotta frames her shots to include not only the celestial, but also fragments of houses and observatories, tying the earth and the heavens together. The soundtrack, by filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, bridges the space between the two, by pulling VLF radio recordings out of the air. Observando feels like something Joseph Cornell would have made as a NASA commission.
One of the more quiet films in the festival was UK filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn's Quartet. Hamlyn has a talent for transforming spare interior spaces into sites of fragile wonder. Shot entirely in a single room, the film seeks out geometric forms, lines and angles, to create a domestic landscape of sorts. It is a simple articulation of the idea that beauty can be found anywhere, if one just looks.
Brooklyn-based filmmaker/architect Bruce McClure is, to my mind, one of the best moving image artists working today. Two works performed at the Views from the Avant-Garde in 2006 and at Mark McElhatten's Walking Picture Palace series at Anthology Film Archives in 2007 were overwhelming, immersive experiences and among the very greatest works I saw each of those years. That Dislocated Big Parts and Dislocated Smaller Parts don't measure up to those is just a matter of degree of quality: on their own, these are still impressive works. McClure does live "projector performances" which feature multiple projectors, sometimes with modified film gates; film loops that generally are alternating clear and black frames in various patterns that create a visual flicker and an audio pulse or thump; riostats to control the image brightness; and guitar effects pedals to manipulate the sound coming from the projector. McClure "plays" the projectors in much the same way a musician would play an instrument, but he is working with both sound and image. In the last few years it has been the sound of his works that he seems to be concentrating on and instead of being just incidental to the image as in earlier works, now it has a richness and complexity all its own (I've been telling him for a couple of years that he needs to release "soundtrack albums" – and not facetiously). The two Dislocated works are more spare in their visuals that other recent work – simple rectilinear images manipulated in differing ways – but they are given a sense of weight through the dynamic audio. McClure proves that the projector truly is a light and sound machine.
The festival closed with a program of live projector performance works by British filmmaker Guy Sherwin (most in collaboration with his partner Lynn Loo). Sherwin, a fixture in the UK experimental film scene since the 1970s, has been exploring the use of the projector as a performative tool for decades. His works, compared to Bruce McClure's, tend toward the minimal and conceptual side – not surprising given his formative years were during the heyday of the British Structural movement. The highlight of the program, and perhaps the highlight of the entire festival, was the Super-8 performance work Man with Mirror. Certainly minimal and conceptual, this piece is also very moving and gentle. In 1976 Sherwin, then in his twenties, filmed himself on Super-8mm standing in front of the camera while holding a mirror that has been painted white on the reverse side. He raises and lowers the mirror and flips it from reflective side to white side. For the performance, Sherwin runs the film and stands in front of the projector with an identical mirror. He choreographs his movements to those in the film. Sometimes the film images is seen on the white mirror back; sometimes it is reflected on to a wall or ceiling by the mirror. Occasionally the image of Sherwin's twenty-something year old face is projected on his now nearly sixty-year-old face. The result is unexpectedly moving and a fitting end to the festival.
Media City website: http://www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity/
Coming to the World Too Late: A Retrospective on Gerbert Rappaport at the 2008 Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film
Six Degrees of Separation: The Small Possible Worlds of Canadian Film: The 2nd Possible Worlds Film Festival
Patrick Friel is the Director and Programmer of the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (organised by Chicago Filmmakers), founder and programmer of the independent screening series White Light Cinema, and former Program Director (1996-2007) for Chicago Filmmakers. He has published in Film Comment, Cineaste and Time Out Chicago and is the current Managing Editor for the volunteer-run Chicago online film resource Cine-File.
Where More Meets MORE: The 37th Toronto International Film Festival
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The Last Picture Shows: Midnight Madness Films at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival
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Who the Hell Is Toby Young?
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Metromix ran a Q&A the other day with Top Chef guest judge, Toby Young. I'm not surprised that it's a big old softball — Bravo's PR machine doesn't allow any room to criticize or question the network's often inexplicable choices of guest judge (remember when Debra Messing was the final judge on season one of Project Runway? Randomville, USA) — but in all its listing of his UK food-TV resume and favorite has-been NYC restaurants, it completely fails to answer a basic question:
He's a Writer
Here's what I knew about Toby Young going in: He's British, he's a writer, he's best known for his book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a roman a clef based on his time working at Vanity Fair like a decade ago, which I've read (you can read it too, for free) and didn't like very much.
He's an Imitator
People compare How to Lose Friends to Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and here's my theory: When McInerney basically failed to pull off similarly successful subsequent novels, he became a really excellent wine writer. Toby Young wrote a second book, and I can remember absolutely nothing about it, not even the title, except that some flabby media dudes got in a fight at the launch party. So Toby Young looks around, sees that McInerney pulled off a comeback talking about how shit tastes, realizes that everyone compared him to McInerney, and started asserting that he's a food guy.
He's Kind of a Dick
The reason How to Lose Friends was such a fun read is that the main character is a complete dick. There's a pervasive sense of entitled opinionism and lack of politesse throughout, which is fun until you realize that it applies to the real Toby as much as his quasi-fictional counterpart. It's not really surprising — this is a guy whose father coined the word "meritocracy," for christ's sake — but it is horribly unpleasant.
Or Maybe Just a Jerk
The same unpleasantness shows up throughout the Toby Young oeuvre — for example, when he made an appearance on UK Channel 4's Come Dine With Me, a dinner party reality show in which his inability to not be a jerk basically made all the other contestants hate him. Or his abrasive turn as a judge on the largely-unwatched UK show Eating With the Enemy. Or basically any media appearance at all.
How About a Dickwad?
One of the things I find particularly insidious about Toby is that he's fashioned all this as a persona, painting himself as sort of a Bertie Wooster of the internet age (though while he is bumbling, dismissive, obnoxious, and snooty, he's got none of the Wodehouse charm). I've got a sneaking suspicion that Toby doesn't just playact Oblivious Dickwad — I think it's the real him, and I think he keeps up with it as a matter of personal pride.
This echo chamber of assholery has the additionally infuriating quality of making it incredibly difficult to chronicle my dislike: I run the risk of looking like I'm not in on the joke. But the hook, for me, is the arbitrary "hey, I'm a food guy!" sign tucked in his back pocket. Because hey, Toby, you're not really a food guy. He showed up on three episodes of three separate reality shows, and now he's making his stateside debut on one episode of the fourth and most shark-jumpy season of yet another reality show.
Well, He's Certainly British
In his Metromix interview, he says that he "was probably a little harder on the [Top Chef] contestants than they're used to, primarily because I'm British." I think he's trying to paint himself as a Simon Cowell figure, speaking the hard truth from a position of authority using a silly accent. Thing is, Simon Cowell had made zillions of dollars being a successful music executive before he got all that American Idol fame. Toby Young, on the other hand, is just a complainy British guy doing pre-publicity for the upcoming movie of his one successful book. Who the hell is Toby Young? Not much of anyone, actually.
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School races towards specialist status
A HEADTEACHER today spoke of her delight after her school raised thousands towards a bid for specialist status. Chantry High School headteacher Anne Rickwood announced the school had met the £50,000 fund raising target needed before the government will pump hundreds of thousands of extra funding into the 1,260 pupil school.
A HEADTEACHER today spoke of her delight after her school raised thousands towards a bid for specialist status.
Chantry High School headteacher Anne Rickwood announced the school had met the £50,000 fund raising target needed before the government will pump hundreds of thousands of extra funding into the 1,260 pupil school.
Mrs Rickwood said: "I am absolutely delighted. This time last year I thought we would never get it. We contacted hundreds of firms and organisations.
"It is wonderful and I am thrilled that we have got the money we needed."
The school is planning to specialise in humanities. If agreed by the Department of Education and Skills (DfES) Chantry High School will get up to £750,000 in extra funding during the next four years.
Speaking to The Evening Star during the half-term break, Mrs Rickwood said: "We are leading with English and we want to improve literacy, speaking and listening skills which are crucial for future employment.
"We also hope to drive up standards and exam results."
The school is due to submit its bid on November 7 and it is expected to hear the DfES decision in February 2006.
Mrs Rickwood said: "It would mean so many more resources for our students. They deserve it."
The school's headteacher for the last ten years, Mrs Rickwood said staff and parents had helped secure the cash needed to go with the bid.
She said: "Parents have been so supportive and the staff has worked very hard. We got about £15,000 from an anonymous charity, we raised £8,000 from donations from businesses and parents and we had a significant contribution from the specialist trust partnership fund which made it up to £50,000."
What do you think of the school's bid for specialist status? Write to Your Letters, Evening Star, 30 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AN or send us an e-mail to eveningstarletters@eveningstar.co.
Weblinks www.chantry.suffolk.sch.uk www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk www.dfes.gov.uk


The folks at Graceland and the suits at CBS have to be pleased with the way things went last week. Their six hours of Elvis TV programming from Sunday to Friday paid off big time. Even better, we fans got to watch some pretty good new Elvis shows.
On Sunday night, May 8, Part 1 of the "Elvis" miniseries went head-to-head with "Desperate Housewives." According to tv.yahoo.com, this notable powerhouse took third best for the whole week with 27 million viewers, but "Elvis" hung in there at nearly 15 million, second best for the night, and # 17 for the week (5/2 –5/8).
Part 2 of "Elvis" started against ABC's "Lost" at 8PM Wednesday, May 11, and came in with about 10 million viewers. At 9PM, the competition got tougher, as huge hit "American Idol" grabbed 26 million viewers, enough to rank third for the week (5/9 – 5/16). The funny thing is that, in spite of this, the "Elvis" audience increased to over 11 million for the last hour, pushing the show into second place for the night and #27 for the week.
Did anyone notice that "Elvis By The Presleys" aired on Friday the 13th? Fortunately, there was good luck, not bad, for the King's home movies, as the competition was rather weak: America's Funniest Home Videos" and "Dateline." "Elvis By The Presleys" pulled in 12 million viewers to rank top show for the night. Chalk all this up as more proof that Elvis is the most enduring celebrity in American history. Dead for 28 years, he can go up against some of the strongest shows on television and still pull in 12-15 million viewers.
All in all, I'm glad I invested 6 hours in watching Elvis last week. I will mention the DVD of "Elvis By The Presleys" to my brother-in –law, and I will be glad when he gives it to me at Christmas. If "Elvis" the miniseries comes back on cable in a year or so, I will watch the first half again, but probably not the second. I like my Elvis happy.
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In "Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron", Riri Williams is introduced to the Secret Warriors team as Ironheart, a teen genius who gets her heroic inspiration from Iron Man!
For Kathreen Khavari (Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel), she finds her strength in one particular Marvel hero and that's Storm. And her specific traits include, "The strength that she brings to everything, and what she represents for a group of people that have been marginalized, and the way in which she battles." Hear hear!
Milana Vayntrub (Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl) is inspired by her very own character! "She's the dream, mainly because of her sense of humor," Milana says. "This is the cartoon I wish I had as a kid. Not only were there not enough female heroes for me growing up, there certainly weren't any that had the levity that Squirrel Girl has. Knowing that you can be powerful, resourceful, and have a sense of humor is a really powerful message." She is unbeatable, after all!


The spring of 2002 was a harrowing time in college lacrosse. Automatic berths had finally almost fully seeped into the sport, and the size of the NCAA tournament was still stuck at 12.
Hofstra, at 11-3 and ranked sixth in the country, missed the tournament.
Maryland, at 9-4 with four one-goal losses (three in overtime), missed the tournament.
(Duke, at 7-6 and with a 14-6 loss at Hofstra a weekend before the selection show, got in. But that's an old, old argument for another day).
The point was, it was plausible that both Hofstra and Maryland could have reached the final four. Both teams had one-goal losses to eventual semifinalist Hopkins. Maryland lost to Virginia (another semifinalist) by a goal. And it was scary that such teams didn't have a place in the field.
The expansion to 16 teams eliminated that concern. Realistically, there has never been a team over the last seven years that could truly complain about its fate. At some point or another, everyone had their chances and either exploited them or fell short.
Still, this year's Loyola team went 9-5, with all of its losses by a combined seven goals. And the Greyhounds might be the best team since 2002 to miss the tournament; certainly they have no unexplainable losses and played the likes of Syracuse, Notre Dame, Duke and Johns Hopkins particularly tough.
This isn't an argument against the selection committee. The five-man group pored over the data, applied its criteria and spat out the bubble decision (Brown over Loyola) that it should have based on the numbers.
But for fun, I looked up the two or three best teams to miss the field each season, and Loyola might be the best of the bunch.
* Cornell (9-4) beat tournament teams Penn State and Dartmouth, but struggled against the best teams in the field (Syracuse, Princeton, Georgetown). This version of the Big Red would be a candidate if they hadn't absorbed their losses by an average of seven goals.
* Duke (8-7) did take out Maryland in the ACC tournament, but dug a huge hole for themselves with too many losses.
* North Carolina (7-6) also beat Maryland, but also fell to UMBC and Navy in a year neither outfit was especially strong.
* Notre Dame (7-5) beat no one of substance and lost to a bad Loyola team.
* Brown (9-5) got off to a hot start but didn't upend a particularly strong cast, then went 2-4 in the Ivy League. The Ivy was better than usual that season, but not so good that a 2-4 wasn't an eyesore.
* Dartmouth (8-4) defeated Maryland in Florida, but also lost to Sacred Heart. That was good reason to nix the Big Green's candidacy.
* Denver (9-5) lost to eventual "west" champion Fairfield on the final weekend of the regular season. The Pioneers also lost to .500ish Yale.
* Notre Dame (7-4) upended tournament team Penn State, but also fell to bubblers Dartmouth and Denver. Not a good case.
* Delaware (12-5) got zapped by Sacred Heart and didn't have a top-flight victory. The Blue Hens rightfully had to wait another year to do some damage.
* Towson (8-6) was the best of the bubble teams in that season, topping Delaware, Loyola and UMBC. The Tigers also lost to Binghamton and then to Delaware in the conference tournament.
* Loyola (6-6) shocked Georgetown in mid-April and looked like a possible at-large candidate. But the Greyhounds turned around and lost to a lackluster Fairfield bunch, then clinched their miss with a season-ending loss to Hopkins.
* Colgate (11-5) had no notable victories (beating Syracuse in the Orange's rare sub-.500 year did no good) and lost to 5-8 Penn State.
* Drexel (11-5) started strong with an upset of defending champ Virginia. The Dragons gave that back with a loss to Lehigh (which eventually went 4-9).
* Ohio State (9-5) absorbed four of its five losses against tournament teams (the other was to 11-4 Bucknell). But it didn't do much of anything to enhance its resume.
* Georgetown (9-4) had the holy grail – a defeat of Duke – and also won at bubbler Navy, but a lousy league strength of schedule combined with a closing loss at Penn State did in the Hoyas.
* Drexel (13-4) beat league champ Hofstra but didn't have much else going for it. Another team done in by schedule strength.
* Brown (11-3) simply didn't have any quality victories, and losses to tournament teams Cornell, Denver and Hofstra. Beating a so-so Princeton team on the final weekend didn't help.
So where does this year's Loyola team stand. Probably right behind 2008 Georgetown. Given the emphasis placed on quality victories this season, it's tough to believe the Hoyas would have been excluded if the criteria was applied the same way last spring.
Loyola has the look of that 2002 Maryland team. Like those Terps, the Greyhounds weren't any fun to play and not once embarrassed themselves. They left no record they weren't a good team.
There just wasn't that one result to enter into the evidence that they were besides close losses. At some point, you've got to beat a really good team, and it just never happened for Loyola this season. If it had – against any of the five teams the Hounds lost to – there would be an extra Baltimore team playing on and Brown would be turning in its equipment today.


When it comes to the auto lease deals, the SUV market is the hottest in the automobile sector. However, with so many models available, selecting a Sports Utility Vehicle that suits your requirements can be a daunting task. From compact models to crossovers, the modern car shopper has lots of choices. As a result, the automobile manufacturers are adding a variety of niceties in the quest to woo the shoppers and beat the competition. However, since comfort and luxury are on top of the list when shopping for an SUV, fuel economy seems to take a back seat. The Lexus RX 350 provides all the niceties of an SUV without hurting the fuel economy. In fact, it seems to match some hybrid models in terms of mileage in the urban and rural centers, gallon for gallon.
The Lexus RX 350 has become a perennial best-seller as a result of the luxury it affords without hurting the fuel efficiency. The Lexus RX 350 is a great family car that offers great reliability and high- quality performance and great reliability. If you are fond of driving for hundreds of miles in a rural setup where the service facilities are few and far between, you do not want a car that can break down easily. The Lexus RX 350 fits the bill perfectly as a result of its proven reliability in all types of roads and terrain. The car guarantees immense comfort with the broad range of luxury amenities, safety features, and technology accessories. Besides the safety, it comes with the safety features you need to protect yourself.
While every SUV has unique style and identity, the Lexus RX 350 is distinctly different. Surprisingly, it offers more gas mileage, style, and comfort than most models in its class and those above it. This vehicle relies on the precise Japanese architecture to heighten the performance, luxury, and driving experience. The sleek appearance and clean lines make the car to stand out, and its appearance has made the Lexus RX 350 one of the most sought-after vehicles in the corporate world.
When it comes to automobile manufacturing, the Japanese believe that having excessive power is futile if you cannot control it. As such, the manufacturers not only developed a powerful engine, but they also increased the braking torque to match the power of the engine. The ability to bring the vehicle to an unprecedented halt safely is one of the most exciting features of this vehicle. The ABS ensures that your brakes work perfectly in all sorts of driving conditions. Since the intelligent system distributes the appropriate braking power to every axle depending on the requirements, you can also enjoy the smooth ride even when cruising at a top speed off-road.
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North Carolina High School Prepares Students for Agriculture Careers
Cape Fear High School puts students on the fast track to succeed in agriculture careers
By Jessica Mozo -
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Brandon Turlington works with a young bull at Cape Fear High School's farm. Photo by Jeffrey S. Otto/Farm Flavor Media
Juniors and seniors at Cape Fear High School in Fayetteville are getting a head start on their careers, thanks to the school's innovative Agriscience Academy. Students with an interest in agriculture careers can take college-level classes during their normal school day and receive both high school and college credits.
"We have done classes with Fayetteville Technical Community College and Sampson Community College," says Allen West, director of Cape Fear High School's Academy of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. "There are also discussions about partnering with other colleges in the near future."
Cape Fear high School's Agriscience Academy
Graduates of Cape Fear High School's Agriscience Academy finish ready to join the workforce with certifications in areas such as beef and pork quality assurance and hunter safety, or they can enter college with credits already under their belts.
"Earning college credits during high school is invaluable. This program saves money and time, allowing young adults to focus on an agriculture career one to two years earlier," says Dr. Carol Woodlief, veterinary medical officer for livestock health programs at the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. "Industry partners often see these young adults as strong-willed and enthusiastic employees, willing to work hard and focus."
Not only do students benefit from college credits, they also make connections with professionals in the agriculture industry.
"The academy sets standard academic and work-based learning requirements that must be met, including work experience, community service hours and a variety of agriculture courses," West says. "Many students begin their agriculture classes with very little knowledge about agriculture or the careers out there. Many find a love for agriculture once they learn about the vast opportunities the industry offers."
Teacher Frankie Farbotko works with students identifying plants in the pasture. Photo by Jeffrey S. Otto/Farm Flavor Media
The academy has four teachers who cover animal science, environmental science, horticulture and agricultural engineering. Students in the animal science classes have opportunities to work with animals in an off-campus laboratory that has cows, horses and pigs.
"Our first objective is to expose students to agriculture and hopefully inspire them to consider agriculture as a career," West says.
Filling a Need
The opportunity couldn't have come at a better time, considering there is a huge demand for college graduates with a degree in agricultural programs. And contrary to popular belief, those careers aren't limited to farmers and ranchers – the agriculture industry includes everything from food scientists and hydrologists to veterinarians and drone technologists.
"Agriculture careers are essential for everyone. Farmers and producers provide food and horticulture products for the world," Woodlief says. "The small 'backyard' farmers are a dying breed. As that generation has aged, not as many of their children have followed in their footsteps.
It is imperative that we encourage our young adults and children to continue the multiple agriculture professions to help us all eat, drink and be merry in our beautiful landscaped oasis we call home."
Kevin Dunning graduated from Cape Fear High School in 2017 and was heavily involved in the agriculture program, serving on the school's land judging, horticulture, agronomy and envirothon teams. He is now a freshman at NC State.
Photo by Jeffrey S. Otto/Farm Flavor Media
"I owe it to the agriculture program at Cape Fear for helping me acquire my first job as a fieldworker for an agricultural research company known as Agritechnologies," Dunning says. "My horticulture teacher's father owned the company and was looking for summer workers. My teacher recommended me because of my performance in class. The education I received through the agriculture program prepared me for that workplace environment – I was able to calculate application rates for fertilizers and pesticides, identify agricultural pests, and operate basic agriculture machinery and tools."
In college, Dunning's high school background is proving beneficial as well.
"It has made my first-semester classes extremely easy because most first-level agriculture courses in college are a reiteration of what I was taught in high school, so having an understanding of the topics already allows me to focus on more details I may have missed earlier," Dunning says. "The agriculture program at Cape Fear also helped develop my communication skills through social gatherings and leadership opportunities. I'm an introvert, but the agriculture and FFA program pushed me to expand my horizons and fine-tune my people skills."
Jessica Mozo
North Carolina Agriculture 2019
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The top 10 most popular Dota 2 heroes in the safe lane during 7.11. We will have a look at some of the best picks in the meta, and learn how to play or counter them.
The heroes are arranged by pick rate, and the data considers all games played in any region and bracket during the past 30 days. Statistics from Dotabuff.
Juggernaut is undoubtedly one of the most troublesome carries to deal with as he works well in all stages of the game and is very hard to gank.
You want to shut him down in the early game, but as a support or a ganker that's not achievable easily because he has an innate Black King Bar and burst damage with Blade Fury, and can also survive to harassers using Healing Ward.
I love Naga Siren because Ensnare pierces spell immunity, so if you use it after Juggernaut starts spinning, you will block him in place and even stop his teleport.
The Battle Fury is a popular item in the meta and is excellent on him. Following multiple buffs and decisive changes in 7.07, the Battle Fury became a very used item among carries.
Afterwards, IceFrog slightly reduced its attack damage, and from 7.08 the Quell passive stopped working on illusions, but the weapon is still a great tool which transforms Juggernaut in a split-pushing machine.
The Battle Fury is also a somewhat greedy item, and an early game team composed of pushers could reach the high ground before Juggernaut is able to acquire his core items.
Without abilities or items that can save your hero from Juggernaut's ultimate, attempting a solo-gank will often lead to your death. There are some interactions you must always remember.
Magic immunity doesn't block it, and the Linken's Sphere only stops the first attack.
Juggernaut can use items and spells during Omnislash, except for Blade Fury and Teleport Scrolls.
The Ghost Scepter is one of the best counters, especially now that it can't be purged by the Diffusal Blade.
Any unit which is not hero-controlled - except the Roshan - is instantly killed when slashed. But, a neutral Dominated by the HotD is immune to the one-shot mechanic because it is under your control, and it has also a minimum health pool of 1,500.
Bringing one with you in ganks and teamfights can be of great help as it can tank multiple slashes and save your life.
Shadow Shaman is one of the best lane supports. No one will ever complain if you pick him because he is able to harass, can prevent and create ganks thanks to his two disables, and turn in a proficient pusher with his ultimate.
Great lane phase: high attack damage, two disables, good health pool and strength gain by level. He is amazing both as an offensive and a defensive support as he possesses enough damage (71‒78 at level one) to harass most offlaners, and two valid disables to score kills or protect his core.
Hex can't be dispelled. Starting from 7.07, Hex can no longer be dispelled so it became a guaranteed disable you can easily chain to get a kill. This change also contributed to the rise of other heroes, such as Tinker, who can exploit the Scythe of Vyse for similar results.
No farm required. Shadow Shaman doesn't rely on items to do his job, and while some mobility items are a welcomed addition, he is a strong partner even in the most difficult games.
Optimal transition into the late game. Thanks to his skillset he doesn't get weaker in the late game. Ether Shock is a good pusher tool as can kill an entire creep wave, and Mass Serpent Ward is remarkable especially when assaulting a tier 3 tower.
The Wards provide damage, high-ground vision, and a create a small safe-zone for your team as not all opponents are able to tank them, particularly in the mid game.
Great potential with the proper items. If Shadow Shaman is able to get farm and can build the Aghanim's Scepter or the Refresher Orb, he will turn into a really troublesome hero as two buffed Mass Serpent Wards can obliterate an entire team. Even without farm, from 7.07 the Roshan drops a Refresher Shard from his third death, which is perfect for SS.
I may be a little biased because I love Witch Doctor, but he is another amazing companion both in lane and in teamfight.
If compared to Shadow Shaman, WD's stun is less reliable because Paralyzing Cask bounces between the enemy units randomly, stunning and damaging those it hits. It works the best when there are fewer units in the area as it can perma-stun two heroes, so try to not waste it when it could bounce on creeps.
Voodoo Restoration is a skill often neglected by many in pubs, but a level during the lane phase can save your life and the one of the carry. Heals are extraordinarily powerful in the early game as the heroes are able to inflict only a limited amount of damage, so often you can even out-heal them and help to score a kill.
Maledict is a skill that requires practice due to the limited radius, but if well used it can add a prodigious amount of damage against the enemies affected. Unfortunately, smart opponents will buy a Black King Bar in the late game, which completely blocks the magic damage of this ability.
Death Ward is a formidable ultimate that can win a teamfight if your hero is well-positioned. Everyone will try to disable you as soon as the ability is active because it inflicts an enormous amount of damage, especially if you boost it with talents and the Aghanim's Scepter. Also, it deals physical damage, so magic immunity doesn't help.
I know that the Aghanim's is great on WD, and I like to buy one later on if I have the chance, but remember to not neglect your duties. You are a support, and thus you can't be selfish and stop helping your team to save money for the Aghanim's Scepter - in most games this behaviour will lead to a defeat.
A mobility item is mandatory. Your position in a teamfight is fundamental to use Death Ward, and a Blink Dagger is of great help to hide your hero exploiting the high-ground or the Fog of War in the jungle.
Learn more: Three great first pick supports.
The high critical damage and one-shotting potential of Phantom Assassin are particularly loved by low MMR players, and indeed she maintains a high pick rate until 4k rank.
The classic counter to her evasion, the Monkey King Bar, has been reworked in 7.07. The new variant works better against heroes with a poor evasion chance, but PA is an exception with the 50% granted by Blur. Check out the complete analysis for detailed info, but overall know that mostly the new MKB will hit her less times than the old one.
The Silver Edge raised in popularity as a counter, principally because you can utilize it also against other heroes. The ability Shadow Walk disables all the passives of the target affected for five seconds, so anyone in the enemy team can freely attack PA. This is an excellent item also versus Bristleback.
Overall, I believe that the Silver Edge is a better choice if you have a coordinated team that will prioritize Phantom Assassin as soon as she is disabled.
Note that Hex doesn't disable Blur anymore since 6.84 as it no longer applies the break mechanic on the enemies affected.
Some readers will consider this advice unnecessary, but also at my current medal (Ancient) I find multiple PA that do not have a BKB at 45-50 minutes, and often that's one of the reasons we end up losing the match.
I can only imagine how bad is the situation at lower MMR brackets. Of course, damage items are welcomed, but you must be aware that PA is a melee hero made of paper.
Thanks to Blur she is resilient against auto-attackers, but crowd control effects and magic damage will impede her actions and lead to her death prior she can even hit a single enemy.
Learn more: PA talent guide.
Update: Top 10 safe laners of 7.16.
The top 10 most popular Dota 2 heroes in the mid lane during 7.11. We will have a look at some of the best picks in the meta, and learn how to play or counter them.
The top 10 most popular Dota 2 heroes in the off lane during 7.11. We will have a look at some of the best picks in the meta, and learn how to play or counter them.
The top 10 most popular Dota 2 heroes in the safe lane during 7.18. We will have a look at some of the best picks in the meta, and learn how to play or counter them.
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The Messenger, published Quarterly, is the official publication of the Diocese. In addition to relevant news from around the Diocese, it contains Bible Studies and articles related to the faith and practices of the Church and contemporary trends in society.
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When in Rajasthan, act royal! The ancient temples, imperial forts and the calming lakes of the royal land - all point towards the bygone days of triumph and glory. The spirit of the state is always high, thanks to its zestful locals and vivacious traditions.
Rajasthanis love their food and it is quite obvious in their preparations. From the wide range of authentic rajasthani sweets such as katlis, imarti, mohanthal, and more, to the hot and juicy laal maas, daal baati choorma, and gatta curry - the list is endless. Their distinct celebrations during camel, desert and elephant festival speak of the state's rich culture.
If the eerie gives you an adrenaline rush, then gather yourself and visit the Bhangarh Fort, near Alwar and Kuldhara Village near Jaisalmer - the most haunted places of India.
You can relish freshly-made local gulkand, sev, namkeens, and chana jor garam the place is famous for. The native artisans' knack for carving the most must-have pieces of handicrafts is a not-so-known secret. Now that you know, get your hands on some exquisite pieces now.
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I had an ACDF C5/6 performed (plate and donor bone) in Sept. 2006, and my surgeon says the fusion looks like it is almost complete as of April. I am still having some pain in the back of my neck (mainly when I move my head), and he feels that it could be something with the facet joints. I don't have any tingling or numbness like before surgery. Has anyone else had this issue after ACDF or problem with their facet joints?
Also, I got my x-ray report recently, and it says that "there is no motion of the spine at the fusion on the flexion/extension view. There is motion above the fusion. There is anterior disc space narrowing at C6-7 which is exaggerated in flexion." Could this stuff be causing my pain??
Last edited by kgwoz; 04-20-2007 at 08:01 AM.
its hard to say, it would be a good thing to bring up to your surgeon or neurologist.
Well, before my surgery I had facet joint injections, left and right. One of the reasons for my fusion (besides the degenerative disks) was that I had facet joint arthritis (and spurs) at C5-C7, where my fusion was. They told me that with the fusion, it would immobilize those facet joints because with fusion you cant move those levels anymore. So I dont understand how the pain could be coming from the facet joints at the level where you were fused?
Also, I think where it says narrowing disc space - well, pain would depend on how much it were narrowed and what if anything it is compressing.