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PHIL MICKELSON confessed he was amazed to join the exclusive '59' club - the best score in professional stroke-play history - after winning the PGA's Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii.

Most people can agree on certain key classics of contemporary music, but countless gems inevitably fall through the cracks. Every Wednesday, "Shadow Classics" will showcase an overlooked rock, pop, soul, jazz or classical recording -- by both famous and unknown artists -- that critic Tom Moon feels should be discussed in the same breath as music's best-loved essential recordings.

CLOSE Take a look at USA TODAY Sports' projected top 10 teams ahead of the 2018 college football season. USA TODAY Sports Russell Wilson runs the ball against Penn State during his one season at Wisconsin. (Photo: Jeff Hanisch, USA TODAY Sports) That quarterbacks would own the first round of this week’s NFL draft seemed set in stone as early as last summer, when a quick review of the crop of draft-eligible starters indicated that 2017 would be the year of QB in college football. Four are almost certain to go within the first dozen or picks: Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield, Southern California’s Sam Darnold, UCLA’s Josh Rosen and Wyoming’s Josh Allen. A fifth, former Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson of Louisville, should also find a home in the first round. But not all starting quarterbacks are found in the first round of the draft. Drew Brees went in the second round. You may have heard that Tom Brady lasted all the way to the sixth round in 2000. Insert your own example here. So this week’s Top 10 list looks back since 2010 to ask: Which former college quarterbacks taken outside of the first round have put together the best NFL careers? 1. Russell Wilson, Wisconsin Wilson was taken 75th overall in the third round by the Seattle Seahawks in 2012, as the sixth quarterback taken in his class. Any fears about his height, or lack thereof, have been proven to be ridiculous: Wilson has started every game of his career since that 2012 season with 161 touchdowns and a Super Bowl ring – and he probably should’ve won two. MOCK DRAFT: Predicting all 32 picks in the first round TOP 40: Draft prospect rankings: Who's best overall in 2018 class? OFF SCRIPT: Why Lamar Jackson is the most intriguing player in the draft 2. Derek Carr, Fresno State The Raiders grabbed Carr with the 36th overall pick in 2014, just a few spots into the second round, and he’s been the starter ever since. Carr’s thrown for least 3,270 passing yards and 20 touchdowns in each of his four years, and in 2016 led Oakland to its first year of double-digit wins since the 2002 team that went to the Super Bowl. 3. Andy Dalton, TCU Like Wilson and Carr, Dalton has been a starter since being taken 35th overall in the second round by the Bengals in 2011. This period has been among the best in franchise history: Dalton led the Bengals to the postseason in each of his first five seasons, though he’s yet to win a playoff game. 4. Colin Kaepernick, Nevada As NFL teams look elsewhere in search of competent options under center, it’s worth remembering that Kaepernick threw 72 touchdowns against just 30 interceptions, averaged 7.3 yards per attempt, ran for 2,300 yards and 13 touchdowns, and won an NFC championship after being drafted by the 49ers one spot after Dalton in 2011. 5. Kirk Cousins, Michigan State The former Michigan State standout wasn’t even the first quarterback Washington selected in 2012; that’d be Robert Griffin III. Cousins lasted until the fourth round, 102nd overall. But he ascended to the full-time starting role in 2014 and threw for more than 4,000 yards in each of the past three years before landing an enormous contract from the Minnesota Vikings. 6. Dak Prescott, Mississippi State Maybe this is a little high for Prescott, considering he’s only been in the NFL for two seasons. But he gets a few bonus points for lasting until the fourth round, when the Cowboys happily scooped up the Mississippi State product and inserted him into the lineup to replace an injured Tony Romo. His second season wasn’t as good as his first, but Prescott figures to spend the rest of his career as the prime example of how teams can find top-tier starters outside of the first round. 7. Nick Foles, Arizona Prior to this past January, Foles was best known for a ridiculous 2013 season, when he threw for 27 touchdowns against just two picks in Chip Kelly’s offense with the Eagles. The third-round pick in the 2012 draft was a non-factor for years – one awful year with the Rams, another doing little for the Chiefs – before returning to the Eagles prior to last season and driving the team’s postseason push to a Super Bowl. 8. Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech Taylor was drafted in the sixth round by the Ravens in 2011 and spent the next four years holding a clipboard before the Bills plucked him away and made him their starter in 2015. After three seasons there, Taylor will spend 2018 as either the Browns’ starter or a key veteran reserve, depending on what direction Cleveland goes with its first overall pick. Not bad for a guy who was the second-to-last quarterback taken in his draft. 9. Jimmy Garoppolo, Eastern Illinois Garoppolo’s career as a starter is just warming up for the 49ers, who traded with the Patriots to make the former Eastern Illinois quarterback the face of its offense. In his six games for San Francisco in 2017, Garoppolo completed 67.4% of his attempts and averaged a tidy 8.8 yards per throw. After biding his time behind Tom Brady, the former second-round pick in 2014 is ready to break out. 10. Mike Glennon, North Carolina State This is probably a good time to say that the miss rate on quarterbacks taken from the second through the seventh rounds in higher than first-round picks, unsurprisingly. But so are the expectations: Quarterbacks who go in the first round are supposed to become starters at worst and franchise difference-makers at best. On the other hand, quarterbacks such as Glennon, who has started 22 games for two franchises since being taken in 2013, provide above-average return on a third-round investment. 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The dot product takes two vectors and calculates how much they "lie on each other" or "how much they align." Two vectors at 90 degrees from one another will have a dot product of zero since they do not lie on each other at all, while other vectors are less so. More quantitatively, given two vectors A and B, the dot product is also a cheap way of calculating |A||B|cos(x) where x is the angle between the two vectors. Essentially calculating the value of cosine without actually calculating cosine turns out to be very useful in other aspects. It comes up in physics often because quantities tend to be conserved in the 3 dimensions, that is say for instance momentum is conserved along the x, y, and z directions. Having to calculate these components often involves the use of trigonometric functions, at which point the dot and cross products can help due to their inherent nature.

Litigation is time consuming and results in air quality being determined by the courts.

It could possibly be OK, but is it worth your time to make a beer just to find out whether you've saved $9? Chuck it.

Bleach is a chemical that whitens clothing. The bleaching process has been known for millennia, but the chemicals currently used for bleaching resulted from the work of several 18th century scientists.

An average person has a stride length of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile and 10,000 steps would be almost 5 miles.

List of WWE Champions The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. Some reigns were held by champions using a ring name, while others use their real name. The first champion was Buddy Rogers, who won the championship in 1963. The champion with the single longest reign is Bruno Sammartino with a reign of 2,803 days, while the record for longest combined reign is also held by Sammartino at 4,040. The current champion is AJ Styles, who is in his second reign. He won the championship by defeating Jinder Mahal on SmackDown in Manchester, England on November 7, 2017.[9]

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Deep conditioners are to be used after cleansing, not before. Shampoos usually have a pH balance of 8, which is slightly alkaline, enabling the hair shaft to swell and raise the cuticle layers for thorough cleansing. Deep conditioners have a pH balance of 3.5-6 to close the cuticle and seal in moisture.

Medical studies have demonstrated that autistic children are more receptive to their therapy when on a strict gluten free diet. The problem is that children love to eat tasty chocolaty 'junk' food things. So how to satisfy their taste buds and maintain a gluten free diet? Alot of the gluten free stuff out there is non-palatable.<br /><br />After MUCH trial and error we discovered this delicious chocolate chip cookie. We performed a blind taste test with all the Dream Factory tribe and this cookie stood at the top of the cookie heap. Flavorful crunchy. Microwaving for about 20 sec softens them up and brings out their chocolate flavor even more. Their small size (2" dia) is perfect for little hands.<br /><br />Did you notice on the bags cover; the cookie on top to the right. The configuration of the chips makes a sad face.. . . Look.<br /><br />Pamelas also makes a great pancack mix.

Don't (Ed Sheeran song) About his other songs, Sheeran has openly stated who inspired the lyrical content.[10] But since the release of "Don't", he had remained silent to whom the song is directed to.[11] In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Sheeran articulated that he had dated a few singers, but friend, Taylor Swift, was not among them, and in fact, he played the track to her. Tabloids linked the singers, Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding, to Sheeran.[8] On 31 October 2015, Fuse posted an interview in which Sheeran says, "'Don't' is just a song that’s close to the bone and definitely opened up a door that I probably shouldn't have opened up. [...] I just won't say who it's about because... I mean everyone, everyone fucking knows anyway. But like I just won't say who it's about cause it's quite a negative song."[10]

So far so good. I have the Manduaka LiveOn PLUSfoam Yoga Mat, 5mm thickness. It fits with out a problem and comfortable to carry. I have no problems with the mat slipping out or the sling becoming loose.

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Jim Mora watched the play and had an identical reaction to that of his son, the UCLA football coach by the same name. They both saw Bruins safety Adarius Pickett dip his upper body toward Stanford tight end Dalton Schultz’s midsection as Pickett approached to make a tackle. A moment before impact, Schultz dropped his shoulder and head to protect himself. Pickett then struck him helmet to helmet, resulting in a targeting penalty and Pickett’s ejection. Father, like son, didn’t see any culpability on the part of the defender. “He told me the other day, he said, ‘If I was to put together a clinic tape on how to tackle, Adarius Pickett’s would be one of the ones I showed. It was a perfect tackle,’ ” the younger Mora said of his father, a former NFL coach. “And it was a perfect tackle.” College football installed the targeting rule for safety reasons in 2008, hoping to eliminate what is considered forcible contact to the head or neck. But its application during games — and the stiff accompanying punishment — continue to trouble some coaches and players. Pickett was ejected during the first quarter of UCLA’s loss to Stanford, with the Bruins allowing 55 points in his absence. Players who are ejected for targeting in the second half of a game must sit out the first half of their team’s next game. “You [only] get so many opportunities to play the game of football,” Pickett said, “and getting kicked out of the game, especially like that, early, that hurts.” There are other gripes with the targeting rule. Washington State coach Mike Leach called it “micromanaging, for lack of a better word,” citing too many variables and inconsistent enforcement. Stanford coach David Shaw echoed a sentiment shared by Mora and Pickett: that there should be different levels of targeting penalties corresponding with the severity of the infraction. “If the offensive player lowers his helmet, hey, great, put the onus on the defensive player and let’s have the 15-yard penalty,” Shaw said. “But let’s leave him in the game because it’s obvious that he’s trying not to hit the guy in the helmet, it just happened incidentally.” David Coleman, the Pac-12 Conference’s director of officials, said varying levels of targeting penalties was a topic that he expected the NCAA’s rules committee to discuss after this season. Since the issue involves player safety, any rule change could be implemented for the 2018 season. I see it is changing behavior ... players are being taught and coached to understand that they can make a play without using their head. — Dave Coleman, Pac-12 Conference director of officials, on targeting rules Bradley Leeb / Associated Press Illinois linebacker Tre Watson (33) makes helmet-to-helmet contract with Western Kentucky wide receiver Nacarius Fant (1) during a game earlier this season. Illinois linebacker Tre Watson (33) makes helmet-to-helmet contract with Western Kentucky wide receiver Nacarius Fant (1) during a game earlier this season. (Bradley Leeb / Associated Press) This is the second season that replay officials have been allowed to initiate targeting penalties that are not called on the field. Replay officials are also responsible for confirming or overturning targeting calls made during a play. Coleman said he believes the targeting rule is having its intended effect of making the game safer. The NCAA rule book prohibits both forcible contact with the crown of the helmet and forcible contact to the head or neck of a defenseless player. “I see that it is changing behavior, and that’s what it’s all about,” Coleman said, “that players are being taught and coached to understand that they can make a play without using their head.” UCLA has been called for four of the nine targeting penalties upheld against Pac-12 teams this season, according to qwikref.com, an online repository for tracking officials’ calls. Four other targeting penalties against Pac-12 teams were waved off after being reviewed by replay officials. With the season less than half over, the Pac-12 is on pace to surpass its 16 targeting calls that were upheld in 2016. Coleman said he didn’t view the potential increase as troubling. “It’s not a cause for concern per se,” he said. “It is an area of focus in terms of the fact that we really want to do everything we can to call these fouls when they take place.” UCLA’s Mora disputed two of the targeting calls that went against his team, including the play involving Pickett and one in which linebacker Josh Woods appeared to be turning his body at the last moment in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid helmet-to-helmet contact with a Hawaii receiver. The Bruins also were involved with a non-call that the Pac-12 later acknowledged should have been ruled targeting against a Hawaii player for helmet-to-helmet contact that popped UCLA linebacker Kenny Young’s helmet off his head before he hit the ground. Young sustained head trauma that sidelined him for the rest of the game as well as the Bruins’ next game against Memphis. USC is among the Pac-12 teams that have avoided a targeting penalty through the season’s first five games. Trojans coach Clay Helton credited the team’s practice methods. “Our kids have done a good job of, one, I think being trained to protect themselves as well as others,” Helton said. “Anything to be able to help the safety of our game, I think, is important.” Remembering to apply the proper techniques in the midst of a game can be difficult. When UCLA defensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa closed in on Memphis quarterback Riley Ferguson last month, he slammed his helmet into Ferguson’s neck area before pushing him to the ground. Odighizuwa was called for targeting and ejected. Odighizuwa said the Bruins have practiced proper tackling techniques in an effort to make them instinctive. “The more we drill it, the more natural it will become,” Odighizuwa said, “and you won’t really have to think about it as much and I think that’s what’s going to help a lot, making it a natural thing to aim lower. That’s kind of the point of the rule.” Pickett learned that sometimes the aiming and contact points can be different, leading to ejections for what otherwise would have been routine football plays. “We have to accelerate the movement toward a resolution,” UCLA’s Mora said, “because we are hurting young men’s ability to go out and play in games that are important to their future.” CAPTION In his second season with the Dodgers, Dieter Ruehle is putting a hip spin on baseball stadium organ music. In his second season with the Dodgers, Dieter Ruehle is putting a hip spin on baseball stadium organ music. CAPTION In his second season with the Dodgers, Dieter Ruehle is putting a hip spin on baseball stadium organ music. In his second season with the Dodgers, Dieter Ruehle is putting a hip spin on baseball stadium organ music. CAPTION Bill Plaschke previews game one of the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bill Plaschke previews game one of the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. CAPTION The 0-4 Chargers will face the 0-4 Giants Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Hear from quarterback Philip Rivers on both teams trying to get their first win of the season. The 0-4 Chargers will face the 0-4 Giants Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Hear from quarterback Philip Rivers on both teams trying to get their first win of the season. CAPTION Chargers beat writer Dan Woike has a new name for the Chargers when they return to StubHub ... For now, though, he discusses the upcoming battle between the winless Chargers and Giants with reporter Annie Heilbrunn. Chargers beat writer Dan Woike has a new name for the Chargers when they return to StubHub ... For now, though, he discusses the upcoming battle between the winless Chargers and Giants with reporter Annie Heilbrunn. CAPTION Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw on short rest and how he prepares for the playoffs. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw on short rest and how he prepares for the playoffs. ben.bolch@latimes.com Twitter: @latbbolch

Always like the Pendergast character and enjoyed the embedded "lost" Sherlock Holmes story in this novel. Preston writes great action scenes. Trouble is, in White Fire one of the major characters keeps doing stuff so stupid that her behavior simply isn't credible and that undermined (a plot pun, intended) my enjoyment of the book.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Matt Hackworth of the Baltimore-based humanitarian group Lutheran World Relief about the devastation caused in Nicaragua this month from Hurricanes Iota and Eta.

Simply said, it is possible but because we live in much denser places and have a global exchange of pathogenes, we are more likely to carry a (deadly) disease than them. Further, we have cuttibg edge med. technologies if it comes hard on hard.

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To confirm whether their account has been deleted, you need to do some detective work. Head to an Instagram account you know the person follows and look for comments or likes they've left; if you find any, it confirms that they haven't closed their account, and have indeed blocked you.

The Mercedes driver had previously said it was the "worst-looking modification in F1 history". But after a presentation by the FIA on the benefits of the halo, Hamilton said he had been convinced. "I don't think we can ignore it," Hamilton said. "It's a safety thing that we all have to accept." He added it would be good if "there is any way to make it look a little better". Governing body the FIA spent more than an hour going through the results of its research into the halo with the drivers. It showed that in every incident in which a driver had suffered a head injury, or had narrowly avoided one, in the last 20 years, the halo was either a positive safety improvement or had a neutral effect. The FIA also allayed the drivers' concerns on visibility. "I paid close attention to the great briefing we were given on it," Hamilton said. "I take safety very, very seriously. The interesting thing is that while the halo system does not look great or in the racing spirit, the chances [in one of the examples given] are 17% better of saving the driver's life. "But it can still be improved so at some stage we will have canopies and then it will be 100%." Hamilton admitted that the halo "doesn't look like it belongs on an F1 racing car", but he added: "It looked terrible but if one of us is going to have a 17% better chance of surviving in a serious incident… "They showed us a GP2 car running along a wall [upside down]. Luckily he didn't get injured but it could have taken his head off." A decision on whether the halo will be adopted in F1 in 2017 is to be taken by the strategy group of leading teams and bosses on Thursday. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is opposed to it, as is Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, both of them on the grounds of aesthetics and because it appears to be against the spirit of F1, which has always been an open-cockpit formula. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said he was reserving his opinion until he had heard the discussion. FIA president Jean Todt told the last strategy group meeting that he would not use the governing body's right of veto on safety grounds if the vote went against the halo. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel said: "It is not made for looks, is it? The outcome was positive in all the scenarios the FIA went through. It is now up to the FIA to push it through. "You can debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the strategy group but overall we need to trust the results of the FIA and their findings and on balance it always looked positive." McLaren driver Jenson Button added: "The decision has to be taken on safety grounds. It is not for us to decide whether we have it or not. It should be decided by the sport as a whole. "If the FIA decide it is a safety issue not to have it on the car, we should have it. If they don't think it's an issue us not having it, we shouldn't have it. "It shouldn't be a question for teams. It is a safety issue. That's the way it should be." Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Dracula's Castle is for sale. You might remember last year Romania's former royal family got the castle back from Romania's former Communist Government. High on a cliff in Transylvania, the 800-year-old castle once hosted Vlad the Impaler — a torture loving warlord immortalized in fiction as Dracula.

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has died. Schalfly championed traditional roles for women and led opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. She helped move the Republican Party to the right on issues including abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Since dinner was the most important meal, this is where most of the foods were consumed. At dinner, the Ancient Greeks would eat: eggs (from quail and hens), fish, legumes, olives, cheeses, breads, figs, and any vegetables they could grow and were in season. Such as: arugula, asparagus, cabbage, carrots, and cucumbers.essert was not a daily thing in Ancient Greece. Much like the diet of today, it was only consumed on occasion. As for sweets, sugar wasn’t known to the Ancient Greeks, honey was the main sweetener. Thus, things like cheese drizzled with honey, or figs and olives with honey, was the most common type of dessert.

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Australian brewer Lion Nathan Ltd this morning said write downs on its wine business and other assets would see its full year result reduced by $A42.

Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Míshlê (Shlomoh), "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament.[1] When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became Παροιμίαι Paroimiai ("Proverbs"); in the Latin Vulgate the title was Proverbia, from which the English name is derived.

I think you mean this part: Duplo Brick 1 x 2 x 2 Rounded Top with Bell It comes with 3 different prints. There are several sellers on bricklink selling the part.

While the Spaniard first patented a steam-operated machine for use in mining, an Englishman is usually credited with inventing the first steam engine. In 1698, Thomas Savery, an engineer and inventor, patented a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure. Savery used principles set forth by Denis Papin, a French-born British physicist who invented the pressure cooker. Papin's ideas surrounding a cylinder and piston steam engine had not previously been used to build a working engine, but by 1705, Savery had turned Papin's ideas into a useful invention.

Walking through doorways resets your short term memory. The theory is that our short term memory is based around environments. When we change environments our short term memory clears to prepare for the new environment.

She is changing, it has nothing to do with you. I know it hurts for her to just move on without giving you any reason for leaving... now is the time to concentrate on your needs and finding things to enjoy on your own! You'll meet new people and make lots of friends!\nLet her make her back to you, if she contacts you, be polite but not TOO friendly! If she thinks she doesn't have to put any effort into the friendship- she won't. She needs to work for your time as much as you have worked for hers. Right now she's putting that energy into other people, and they probably are enjoying her efforts. \nLet this time be of good use to you, it may be lonely at times, but you have us here at Answers, and there's a big world out there to explore.\nBe brave dear, and let her go for the moment.\n\nBest wishes! - J

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Sigh. Words cant describe how happy I am that we got another Beaston/Ana story. I could read at least a dozen more about them and not get sick of it. Such a great short story, which just makes you love our broken bear that much more. Definitely a great read, Christmas time or not. Overall, definitely recommend this book as well. On to the Boarlanders next!

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist -- who gained fame in 2004 when he claimed to have cloned human embryonic stem cells -- on Monday was convicted of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, state media reported. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Hwang Woo-suk, 56, to a two-year prison term, suspended for three years, the Yonhap news agency reported. The scientist in 2006 admitted faking his findings, after questions of impropriety had emerged. Reports of his studies had attracted worldwide attention and enthusiasm from researchers and patients excited about their potential for treating diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. In 2006, prosecutors said Hwang masterminded the process of creating false studies on stem-cell technology. They also backed up his assertion that assistant researcher Kim Sun-jong deceived him with fake data that became part of the research. Prosecutors said Kim smuggled in-vitro fertilized stem cells into Hwang's lab to make it look as though the scientist was successful in creating stem cells through cloning. Hwang was charged with accepting 2 billion won ($2.1 million at the time of charges) in private donations based on falsified research, prosecutors said. They also accused him of embezzling about 800 million won ($856,000 at the time of charges) in private and government research funds. Hwang apologized publicly in January 2006 after a panel of scientists from Seoul National University found he had not derived human stem cells from eggs, as he claimed. "It is true that the research papers had fabricated data, and I will take full responsibility. I acknowledge this and apologize," he said at the time. He acknowledged that much of the data and photographs published in the U.S.-based journal Science in 2004 and 2005 had been fabricated. The university panel's report said Hwang did produce the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy.

Thousands of empirical studies now document that aspects of religion or spirituality are linked with desirable health outcomes. This chapter provides an overview of how religious or spiritual (R/S) beliefs, behaviors, and belonging to a faith community contribute to health outcomes. When living with a health challenge, individuals often use R/S beliefs to cope with their circumstances. These beliefs can be positive or negative; they also impact healthcare decision-making. R/S behaviors observed to be associated with health outcomes include attendance at religious services and various practices such as prayer and meditation. For those who belong within a faith community, that community may provide social support and informal caregiving. This evidence ought to prompt healthcare professionals to plan and implement care that supports R/S in an ethical manner. Indeed, there is evidence that indicates when healthcare professionals support patient R/S, it is associated with various positive outcomes.

Updated Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. ET An angry mob protesting American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria tried to storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing through the main entrance and setting fire to a reception area as Marines guarding the compound fired tear gas to hold them back. The protesters reportedly were made up of supporters of a Shia group, the Kataib Hezbollah militia, that was targeted in the Sunday airstrikes, which killed about two dozen fighters. The U.S. strikes were carried out as a retaliation against the group for the killing of an American contractor in Iraq on Friday. Kataib Hezbollah called for retaliation after the strikes but has denied any involvement in the contractor's death. The sprawling, heavily fortified U.S. Embassy compound in the Iraqi capital covers 104 acres. It was not immediately clear whether the protesters had managed to breach anything but the outermost ring of security. Earlier, protesters gathered carrying what they said were coffins of some of the fighters killed in the airstrikes. They marched near government buildings and then to the embassy, where they lit fires to show their anger, chanting, "America, leave, leave!" On Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted: "Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!" After the U.S. launched the series of airstrikes inside Iraq and Syria over the weekend, the government in Baghdad condemned the action as an attack on its sovereignty and said it would summon the U.S. ambassador. "We stress that Iraq is an independent country, and its internal security takes priority, and serious attention, and will not be allowed to become a battlefield, or a route for launching attacks," Iraq's Foreign Ministry said in a statement about what it planned to tell the U.S. ambassador. It added that Iraq planned to discuss the future presence in the country of the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS. KH and more than two dozen other Iranian-backed militias have a complicated position within Iraq. The paramilitary has fought against ISIS and is formally part of Iraq's security forces — though U.S. officials have raised concerns about whether the Iraqi government actually has control over it and other Iranian-backed groups. A U.S. State Department official said the airstrikes were "designed to protect American forces and American citizens in Iraq, but it is also aimed at deterring Iran." As NPR's Tom Bowman reported, KH "has been for months now firing mortars and rockets at U.S. forces at locations throughout Iraq." The U.S. government blames it for the recent attack on an Iraqi base near the city of Kirkuk in which a U.S. contractor was killed. The attack on the base used by U.S. and Iraqi forces, which involved more than 30 rockets, also injured four U.S. service members and two Iraqi troops, according to the Defense Department. The U.S. military says it launched "precision defensive strikes" against three of the militia's facilities in Iraq and two in Syria. Jonathan Hoffman, an assistant to the secretary of defense, said in a statement that the locations "included weapon storage facilities and command and control locations that KH uses to plan and execute attacks on [Operation Inherent Resolve] coalition forces." Some of these strikes led to large secondary explosions, Bowman reported. Hoffman said that KH has a strong link to Iran's elite Quds Force and said it has received weapons and other support from Iran that it turned on coalition forces. "The U.S. and its coalition partners fully respect Iraqi sovereignty, and support a strong and independent Iraq," Hoffman stated. "The U.S., however, will not be deterred from exercising its right of self-defense." "Our battle with America and its mercenaries is now open to all possibilities," KH said in a statement after the strikes, according to The Associated Press. "We have no alternative today other than confrontation and there is nothing that will prevent us from responding to this crime." Previous KH strikes had not caused serious injuries. But they were enough to worry U.S. officials. In May, as Bowman reported, "Secretary Mike Pompeo abruptly canceled a trip to Germany and flew to Baghdad because, I'm told, intelligence showed the possibility of a large attack on U.S. forces, presumably by these militias." That threat did not materialize at the time. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi's office said in a statement that he received a call from U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper shortly before the airstrikes and asked for them to be called off. Abdul-Mahdi decried the strikes as a unilateral act by the U.S.-led coalition that is considered a violation of Iraq's sovereignty. A State Department official told reporters that the U.S. is not worried about the poten

Naturally they cannot be friends. We can say they are ''unlike friends, though friends ''. Jupiter and Mars are absolutely opposite to each other. Mars is very aggressive and short tempered; these faults cause hatred, anger, fires, accidents and many more.

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Michael Farese steps leaves his position as senior vice president of engineering at the smart phone maker to become CEO of a semiconductor company.

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Says Millie Mackintosh is 'queenie' these days . More romance in the pipeline but won't look for love like Cheska Hull . Is planning a bachelor pad with Spencer . By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 13:01 EST, 26 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:53 EST, 29 November 2012 . Made in Chelsea fans were up in arms when Jamie Laing rejected pretty co-star Binky Felstead in favour of newcomer Lucy Watson. But the loveable, pint-sized blonde won the sympathy of the viewers once again after Lucy rejected his invitation to a party and instead arrived on the arm of Jamie's friend Andy Jordan. 'There is ridiculous drama this season. Andy is a chief, he's a schweff who likes girls more than his mates. Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing says newcomer Lucy is a 'b***h' and Andy values girls over his friends . Jamie found it hilarious that Lucy ditched him for friend and co-star Andy Jordan . 'As much as I was annoyed that she rejected me, Lucy is a b***h who doesn't care what people think of her, she's hilarious. 'The situation between us is pretty bad as you'll see tonight. We're not mates, she doesn't like me,' he told MailOnline. The 22-year-old reality TV star has had his fair share of love interests on the show and avid fans will remember his love predicament with Binky earlier this season. After she announced that she will be buying her former flame a 'Guilty Pour Homme' fragrance for Christmas, Jamie feels nothing but remorse. Jamie says he accepts that he didn't treat Binky well and has bought her a 'sweet' Christmas present to make up for it . 'I think it's fair enough that she's buying me that; I deserve it. I've already got her present. Let's just say it's very sweet and you put it on your keys,' he said. The star, who will be spending Christmas at home in Gloucestershire, is jetting off for some winter sun in Barbados with co-star and best friend Ollie Proudlock for the New Year. 'We've been to Barbados together before with Francis too but he is playing polo or something this time so can't come. Jamie will be moving in with Proudlock, Francis and Spencer who he nicknames 'the pug' 'It's going to be so fun, partying and hanging out with girls on the beach.' The three boys have as much off-screen rapport as on-screen and have spent the last year living together. 'I have had the most fun I've ever had in my life living with the boys this year and it is so upsetting that we have to move out of the house but we are looking for somewhere new and are going to take the plunge and live with Spencer too, it's going to be awesome,' he said. Jamie, Proudlock and Spencer (who Jamie refers to as 'the pug') spent the day at the Kingdom of Sweets in Lakeside, Essex where Jamie's Candy Kittens range is being sold. Jamie Laing has collaborated with Kingdom of Sweets to launch an exclusive Candy Kitten confectionary selection, Today was his third launch at Lakeside, Essex, with Spencer Matthews and Oliver Proudlock . Jamie will be hosting another pop-up store in London in December and the boys, including Spencer, will be supporting their friend . Jamie (centre), with his Made In Chelsea castmates Proudlock (left) and Spencer (right), tucks into some custom-made lollipops during their visit at Kingdom of Sweets Lakeside where Jamie's Candy Kitten's range is being sold . As well as the signature clothing and accessories featuring Jamie's trademark terms 'Let's Pardy' and 'Yeah Boi', the range will include winter bobble hats, lollipops and advent calendars. His next pop-up shop will be opening on Carnaby Street, London in December for a month. 'I'm so excited. There's going to be Christmas jumpers, lots of snow, girls in sexy outfits, no coal and plenty of happiness,' he said. If he had to chose anyone from the show to be a candy kitten (a gorgeous sweet-bearing girl), he would opt for Binky. 'I would choose Binks. Possibly Millie too but she is a bit too queenish at the moment. And Sophia is good looking and fun,' he said. Jamie says he would choose Millie as a candy kitten but she is quite 'queenish' lately while Cheska is too busy looking for a boyfriend . And although it seems he has had his fair share of love for one season, Jamie hopes for more romance in the final weeks. He said: 'Hopefully there will be some more romance for me. But if you look for a relationship it doesn't happen. 'I love her to bits but Cheska keeps looking and doesn't find anyone. Everyone she meets, she thinks will be her boyfriend.' Kingdom Of Sweets stocks sweets from all over the world and has stores at Lakeside, Cardiff and on Oxford Street. Visit their online sweet store www.kingdomofsweets.com for all your favourite sweetie brands in one place! Lucy Watson has only been in two episodes of Made In Chelsea and has already caused quite a stir. After . rejecting Jamie Laing's invitation to Rosie Fortescue's dinner party, . the self-confessed 'player' then turned up at the actual event with love . rival Andy Jordan. It . wasn't long before a row kicked off over dinner, with Lucy making . everyone laugh in shock when she asked: 'Why is everyone getting up in . my grill (business)?'

The head of world cycling, David Lappartient, on Wednesday urged the public to ensure British rider Chris Froome has a "safe" Tour de France. The world's biggest cycling race starts on Saturday, just days after four-time champion Froome was cleared of doping suspicions by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), headed by Lappartient. In a post on his Twitter account, Lappartient said the UCI's decision should be respected, as should "all riders, including Chris Froome". "He has the right to operate in a safe environment. I have heard calls, sometimes completely irrational, to violence on the Tour de France. "I cannot accept that and I call on all spectators to protect all the athletes and to respect the judicial decision so that Chris Froome can compete in a safe and serene environment like all other athletes." Kenyan-born Froome, 33, was under investigation after delivering an abnormal test sample during the Tour of Spain last year. He recorded an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for Salbutamol, an asthma medication, meaning he exceeded the allowed dose of a permitted substance. "I feel the need to say to cycling lovers, to lovers of the Tour de France, that the decision that was taken (to drop the case against Froome) was taken on the basis of reports from experts which led the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to consider that no violation of anti-doping rules had taken place. "And from this point on, that decision must be respected," Lappartient added. Opposition to Froome had been building in France ahead of the Tour, with five-time Tour winner Bernard Hinault labelling him a cheat and organisers barring him from riding before relenting earlier this week and lifting the ban. Froome is out to emulate five-time winners Hinault, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain when he competes for a fifth win in the three-week Tour. A win would also make Froome the second racer after Merckx to win four straight Tours.

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The Central Powers, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria – hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance – was one of the two main factions during World War I. It faced and was defeated by the Allied Powers that had formed around the Triple Entente. The Powers' origin was the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879. The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria did not join until after World War I had begun, although the Ottoman Empire retained close relations ...

By Annie Reuter Update: Drake has deleted his Instagram post. Drake surprised the crowd at Coachella this past weekend when he joined Future for a three-song performance of “Jumpman,” “Gyalchester” and “Fake Love” and while he looked like he had a blast on stage, the rapper revealed that he had a much less enjoyable experience when he was racially profiled during his stay at the Madison Club. Related: Drake, Migos Joins Future on Stage at Coachella While the club is described as “the most exclusive private residential community in La Quinta, California offering the finest golf and club facilities in an intimate and sophisticated setting,” it seems that Drizzy didn’t enjoy all of the amenities the joint has to offer. After his visit to the establishment, Drake slammed the Madison Club on social media. “The most offensive place I have ever stayed at in my life with staff who pick and choose who they are going to accommodate based on racial profiling,” he captions an image of the club. Drake’s fans had his back and quickly began posting one-star ratings to the Madison Club on Yelp. If the country club didn’t know who Drake was while he was staying there, they do now.

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Yes it should be allowed. Pro-lifers are not pro life, they are pro-birth because they don’t give a shit about what happens to those babies after they are born, nor do they give a shit about the mothers suffering through an unwanted pregnancy for whatever reason.

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The children pile into the stadium in shiny clothes, clutching green-and-white Pakistani flags. Their parents light the area with cell phones to record the event as they scream, chant and cheer, watching soldiers close a gate that separates India from Pakistan. In the evening ritual at the Wagah-Attari border, near Lahore and Amritsar, soldiers from both countries high-kick, shake their fists, then shake hands – and slam the gate shut. It is deeply visceral for many Pakistanis: an acknowledgement of their border, of a plucky country they feel they have sacrificed so much to create. Pakistan was imagined more than 70 years ago by a stern, British-educated, whiskey-drinking Shiite lawyer. Muhammad Ali Jinnah hoped for a nation as cosmopolitan as he was. He led the fight to carve the country out of British-ruled India. In a new, independent India, Muslims were fearful that they would be dominated by a Hindu majority. But in the decades since, the sense of who is a citizen in the Muslim state hasn't been resolved. The question has come at a high price: Although Pakistan's constitution specifies the protection of minority rights, "the government limited freedom of religion," according to the State Department. The country's tiny minorities of Sikhs, Christians and Hindus are vulnerable to persecution. Certain laws, such as blasphemy laws, are often used to target them. Within the Muslim community as well, the definition of who exactly is a Muslim has narrowed. The seeds of Pakistan's intolerance were sown within the country's very ideology as a Muslim state, says Taimur Rehman, a political scientist at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. That intolerance was "inherent in the very way in which Pakistan was created and the very purpose which it was supposed to serve of being a Muslim state," he says. "By its very definition, it has already singled out a community in opposition to another one," he says, referring to Muslims and Hindus. "And it's very easy for that community to be to be narrowed further." Over the decades, he argues, the narrowing has been exacerbated by the military, Pakistan's most powerful institution, which cultivated hard-line Islamists to wage a jihad in the disputed region of Kashmir, among other things. This has given right-wing religious groups outsize influence. "Despite never having won an election," Rehman says, "they are nonetheless able to dictate the narrative in the country because of the support that they have from the military establishment." Perhaps none have suffered more than members of a small Muslim sect, known as Ahmadis, whose beliefs clash with the dominant Sunni version of Islam. They played a key role in founding Pakistan. They are a community of over-achievers: An Ahmadi physicist, Abdus Salam, received one of only two Nobel prizes awarded to Pakistanis. But the state declared Ahmadis as heretics via a constitutional amendment in the 1970s and restricted their rights further in the 1980s. They're not allowed to call themselves Muslims, and can't refer to their houses of worship as mosques. Over the years, militants have attacked their mosques and targeted them in killings. In a leafy suburb near Lahore, the Khans live in a two-story home behind a high gate that's firmly bolted. Mrs. Khan stands on the balcony every morning, waiting for her husband to return from prayers at their local mosque. She's terrified that somebody will kill him. "We are frightened," she says. "For the life." (Her first name isn't being published out of concern for the family's safety.) Most of her family already fled overseas. So far, Mrs. Khan insists on staying. She runs a clinic that dispenses free medicine to her poorer neighbors. "If I go, the people will suffer," she says. She doesn't want to "just sit and eat" in exile. "This is not the meaning of life." She's also worried about her nephew. Twice, somebody threw a note into his house warning him to convert to Sunni Islam — or die. He hides out here when he's afraid. He repeatedly tried to flee Pakistan – but he says the U.K., Sweden and Canada all rejected applications. The roots of intolerance run deeper than just how Pakistan defines itself as a Muslim state, says Anam Zakariya, an oral historian in Islamabad. She traces it back to Pakistan's birth story – at the time of Partition, in 1947, when millions of Hindus and Sikhs fled to India and Muslims to Pakistan. Mobs raped and butchered each other — around a million people died. But Zakariya says those events are pushed aside. Pakistan focuses on celebrating its creation – and emphasizes how Muslims were victims. "Now if it's your biggest victory to date," Zakariya says, "you have to make sure that the bloodshed is portrayed to the younger generations as perpetrated by Indians — Hindus and Sikhs." It's to drive home the point: "And that's why there was a need to create Pakistan." There are challenges emerging to that narrative. In a sprawling park in the heart of noisy, smoggy Lahore, a museum will soon open that will look at Partition through the stories of the people who witnessed it. It's a collaboration between the Citizens Archive of Pakistan, a nonprofit, and the government of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province. "This is the first place in the entire country where you'll experience what the refugees in 1947 experienced," says Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and head of the Citizens Archive. Being exposed to stories from survivors of Partition will help create a more inclusive Pakistan, she believes, but it's a race against time – the people who lived through Partition are fading away. And 70 years on, the very idea of what Pakistan is meant to be – an Islamic state, in opposition to Hindu-dominated India – feels hard to shake. Near the museum construction site, the Abdul Aziz family huddles under a shelter as a sudden summer rain drenches the park. Their patriarch, Yousef, isn't sure of his age, but says he used to work in fields alongside Hindus – and so he predates Partition. When the Hindus left Pakistan, he said, Muslims became free. "We are now in a country where we can say, 'There is no God but God and Muhammed is his messenger,'" he says, reciting the Muslim declaration of faith. In Pakistan, he says, "There is no idolatry" – a reference to polytheist Hinduism. His granddaughters Sania, 22, and Aya, 19, nod in agreement. He says he's proud of Pakistan, which he describes as a "fort of Islam" where it's safe for his grandchildren to grow up. Sania says she's not interested in a museum. She's already heard her grandfather's stories of Partition, and she'll tell them one day to her own children. Besides, she says, "I know history — the Islamic history of Pakistan."

Ello is an invitation-only and recent reports suggest requests to join it have increased from 4,000 to 30,000 in just one week . Facebook has been criticised for suspending the accounts of drag artists and other performers who don't want to use their real names on their profiles. And now users fed up with this policy are flocking to a social networking site, dubbed ‘Hello Ello’, which allows anyone to sign using a fake name. The site is invitation-only and recent reports suggest requests to join have increased from 4,000 to 30,000 in just one week. Ello looks like a cross between Twitter and Tumblr, using the @handles more commonly associated with former. It was created by California-based designer Paul Bundnitz who came up with the design after feeling ‘fed up with other social networks.' To sign up, users are instructed to enter their email address, or an existing user has to invite them. The criteria for being accepted are unclear. The site itself has a black-and-white colour scheme and a clean, scroll-down layout that lets users post status updates, upload pictures and comment on each other’s posts. Those . invited into the network are only allowed to invite five to 10 new . people and the website's homepage states they will keep user data and . privacy safe. ‘Your . social network is owned by advertisers,’ the site reads. ‘Every post . you share, every friend you make and every link you follow is tracked, . recorded and converted into data. VIDEO Scroll down to see who else is annoyed with Facebook . Those . invited into the network are only allowed to invite five to 10 new . people and the website's homepage states they will keep user data and . privacy safe . ‘Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. You are the product that’s bought and sold.’ Unusually for a social network, the site is ad-free in the hope of enticing users away from Twitter and Facebook. However, Jason Duaine at Complex points out that sites such as Diaspora and App.net built themselves around an add-free model, without much success. But Ello intends to make its money by offering users themes and services that can make the social networking site better. Drag . queens (from left) Lil Ms Hot Mess, Sister Roma and Heklina spoke of . their disappointment last month after Facebook executives met with them . and refused to change the policy banning stage names . Earlier this month, drag queens threatened to boycott Facebook for refusing to let them use stage names on the site. The world's largest social media network has been blocking hundreds of profiles that do not comply with the policy requiring users to operate under their legal names. But a group of transvestites in San Francisco claim it is their human right to identify as their alter-egos. The social media giant claims the policy 'helps create a safer and more accountable environment'. Jinkx Monsoon, star of RuPaul's Drag Race, condemned the policy as a distraction from other more important issues in the community, who told MailOnline: 'Can Facebook just get this figured out quickly please? Aliases have existed for ages, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.' While the increase in user requests is yet to be explained, many are claiming it is due to Facebook’s naming policy, which requires all users to go by their legal name. The policy was criticised, earlier this month, as several drag performers and activists said they had been locked out of their accounts for breaching the policy. After San Francisco city officials got involved, Facebook agreed to temporarily give individuals affected by the policy back their accounts, the social network has so far not changed their rules. Facebook has been blocking hundreds of profiles that do not comply with the policy requiring users to operate under their legal name . Ello intends to make its money by offering users themes and services that can make the social networking site better. It has already been making waves on other social networks such as Twitter . Unusually for a social network, the site is ad-free in the hope of enticing users away from Facebook .

RENO — Jay Norvell is looking for a few good, confident men. "Confident players start fast," the Nevada Wolf Pack football head coach said this week. "I don't know how else to say it. We need more self-confident players who are aggressive and believe in what they do." The winless Wolf Pack, which hosts the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors on Saturday (7:30 p.m.) at Mackay Stadium, has seen its confidence shaken with five consecutive losses to start the season. It is the Wolf Pack's first 0-5 start since 1964 when the school was in the Far Western Conference. "You don't want to start off 0-5," Wolf Pack offensive lineman Ziad Damanhoury said. "Nobody does. Some people right now might think the season is done. But as a team you can't. You have to stay together." Hawaii, which is coached by former (2012-15) Wolf Pack offensive coordinator Nick Rolovich, is also in desperate need of a victory. Both teams will bring losing streaks (Hawaii's skid is at 3, Nevada's streak is at 5) to Mackay Stadium on Saturday. "We're at a crossroads with our team," said Rolovich, who is 9-10 as Hawaii's head coach over the past two seasons. "Maybe because we had a nice win in the bowl game last year (52-35 over Middle Tennessee in the Hawaii Bowl), we might have thought it was just going to happen again. It's not. We have to earn it." Recommended Stories For You Both teams will also be in search of their first Mountain West victory this season. Hawaii has already lost to Colorado State (51-21 last week) and Wyoming (28-21 on Sept. 23) while the Pack was beaten 41-21 at Fresno State last week "We're 0-2 in conference," Rolovich said. "That has to change pretty quick." The Wolf Pack has not started 0-2 in conference play since 2007 in the Western Athletic Conference. "We can easily rattle off a couple (victories) right now," Damanhoury said. "A streak starts with one." The Wolf Pack has not scored first in any of its five games this season. The Pack has also already allowed more points (51) in the first quarter this season than it did all of last season (47). The Wolf Pack has trailed after one quarter in each of its last four losses, getting outscored 44-3 after the first 15 minutes combined in those four games. The only time the Pack didn't trail heading into the second quarter was the season opener at Northwestern when it was tied 7-7. "We have to find a way to play better at the start of games," Norvell said. Hawaii, which beat the Wolf Pack, 38-17, last season in Honolulu, might be exactly what the Wolf Pack needs right now. The Rainbow Warriors have allowed an average of 19 points in the first half of each game this season. Hawaii has also led after one quarter just once all year, taking a 7-0 lead into the second quarter against Western Carolina. Last week the Rainbow Warriors trailed 14-0 after one quarter against Colorado State. "This should be an evenly matched game," said Norvell, who is the first Pack coach to lose consecutive games by 20 or more points (45-7 at Washington State, 41-21 at Fresno State) since Chris Ault in the final two games (54-17 at Fresno State, 58-21 to Boise in Reno) in 2004. "It's kind of frustrating wondering what has gone wrong," running back Jaxson Kincaide said. "We look at film and we see that we're so close to being a great team. As time goes by we have to remember how hard we've worked, how much talent we have. We can pull off a seven-game win streak." Hawaii is led on offense by 6-foot junior quarterback Dru Brown, who has passed for 1,414 yards and 10 touchdowns. Brown passed for 222 yards and two touchdowns, completing 15-of-18 passes against the Pack last year. Brown's favorite target is 5-8 wide receiver John Ursua, who is one of the most productive receivers in the nation with 37 catches for 527 yards and four touchdowns. Diocemy Saint Juste, a 5-8 senior, has rushed for 651 yards and three touchdowns. He ran for 205 yards against Nevada a year ago in Honolulu. "The quarterback (Brown) is a good little operator," Norvell said. "He (Saint Juste) is a good back. Athletic. They are kind of like us, trying to find consistency in their play." Wolf Pack quarterback Ty Gangi, who is expected to start against Hawaii, has passed for 729 yards and six touchdowns this year. Kincaide leads Pack backs with 267 yards rushing while receivers Wyatt Demps (32 catches, 327 yards, four touchdowns) and McLane Mannix (23 catches, 384 yards, three touchdowns) are also a big part of the Wolf Pack offense. "We feel we have a lot of great athletes who can make plays," Mannix said. "We have the athletes to do it. We're just not executing right now. We just need a little momentum, a little confidence." The Wolf Pack is confident it can exploit Hawaii's struggling defense. The Rainbow Warriors allow an average of 38 points a game (the Pack allows 37 a game). "We always talk about stopping the run," Rolovich said. "We didn't do that (against Colorado State). We didn't get off the field on third down. We have to tackle better. I would like a turnover (by Hawaii's defense). It's been three games now without a takeaway. That's what we thrive on." Hawaii, like the Wolf Pack, loves to blitz on defense. "We expect to see a lot of man coverage," Mannix said. "We like that." "They blitz a lot," Norvell said. "There's going to be some opportunities for big plays." Wolf Pack quarterback Tyler Stewart completed 19-of-33 passes for 203 yards and one touchdown against Hawaii last year. Gangi got on the field for one play last year at Hawaii, running the ball for eight yards during the Pack's first possession of the game. "We're going to have shots downfield," said Kincaide, who scored on a 2-yard run last season against Hawaii. "I feel like this is going to be a big game for Gangi to get his confidence back up."

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(CNN) -- Country music legend Dolly Parton on Thursday announced her company is in a partnership to open a new theme park in Nashville. The new 50/50 joint venture between Gaylord Entertainment Co. and Dollywood will be developed on a 114-acre site for a family entertainment zone across from the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Convention Center. Phase I of the $50 million project will be a water and snow park. Groundbreaking is anticipated late this year or in early 2013, with the park's opening slated for summer of 2014. Parton, who turned 66 on Thursday, told CNN's Brooke Baldwin that "we are going to be bringing more family entertainment into Nashville." The Dollywood company will serve as the project's operating partner and will employ 450 full- and part-time employees, Parton said. The park will provide a mix of high-energy water activities for the summer season and designated snow activities for winter play. The first-year attendance is projected to be a half-million. The park will be similar to the Snow Mountain attraction at Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, according to CNN affiliate WKRN. "Tourism is the second-largest industry in Tennessee, generating more than a billion dollars in tax revenue annually and employing more than 170,000 Tennesseans," Gov. Bill Haslam said in a statement. "This project will be a welcome addition to the wide variety of attractions and destinations across our great state, and I applaud the collaboration and spirit that has led to this announcement." "We are thrilled by the prospect of bringing to Nashville a family focused entertainment center with one of the pre-eminent theme park owners and operators in the country," said Colin V. Reed, chairman and chief executive officer, for Gaylord Entertainment. An additional 35 acres will be reserved for future developments.

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To praise those who are gone. To comfort their survivors. To encourage the wounded and their families. To inspire the nation to move beyond the immediate tragedy and to live rededicated  lives so the dead won’t have died in vain. Such are the tasks of a president at a memorial service meant to help the nation deal with its grief. In his speech in Tucson Wednesday evening, the president did all these things. Indeed, all of that was in the version of the president’s speech distributed to journalists at the start of the ceremony. But he was able to do one more thing that wasn’t part of the prepared speech. He delivered to the nation the good news that on Wednesday just after he and the first lady left her hospital room, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes for the first time since the shooting. That news provided the best, most unexpected moment of the speech and was appropriately greeted with a standing ovation as Mark Kelly, Giffords’ astronaut husband stood and acknowledge the huge audience at the University of Arizona arena. It was also an element that made the speech different than some of the other presidential speeches after national tragedies that pundits thought could be models for Obama's speech - President Ronald Reagan's speech after the Challenger accident or President Bill Clinton's after the Oklahoma City bombing. In a speech that White House aides said the president worked on late into night, Obama also didn’t shy away from the partisan controversy that has raged ever since the shootings Saturday. Without getting into too much detail, he urged the nation not to use the shootings to score political points. Read More He said: “But what we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another.  As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility.  Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.” At another point, he flatly rejected the argument that the mass shooting was caused by the often angry rhetoric in the political debate. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let’s remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy -- it did not -- but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud. The words “it did not” wasn’t in the speech as written. The president added it so no one could mistake his point. By being so emphatic, perhaps the president hoped to put an end to the raging argument over what role heated rhetoric played in the shooting. Because there were, mercifully, only six dead, the president was able to linger over each of them for a while: U.S. Judge John Roll, the hardest-working jurist in the Ninth Circuit. Gabe Zimmerman, a congressional aide with a passion for helping people. Dorothy “Dot” Morris, who died as her husband of 50 years tried to shield her. Dorwan Stoddard, another senior who helped maintain his church and who died as he also protected his wife with his body. Phyllis Schenck, a snowbird from New Jersey, a gifted quilter and a Republican who liked Gabby, as the congresswoman is known. Then there was the Christina Taylor Green, age 9. Little Christina, as most everyone probably knows by now, was the grade schooler who had gone with a neighbor to the shopping center where the shooting occurred because she was interested in politics, having been elected to her school’s student council. Because of her age, her innocence, her death has seemed to many the unkindest cut of all. Knowing this, the president lavished the most time on her and she became a vehicle for a larger point. How best to live up to the trust and ideals of this lost child? the president asked. He had an answer. “Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation’s future.  She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful.  She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model.  She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted. I want us to live up to her expectations.  I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it.  All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.” That message - let’s do it for our children - is one that’s difficult to argue with. He seemed to say our better angels are our children and w

ANN ARBOR (CBS Local) – An engineer in Michigan may have just answered the prayers of many parents who have messy children at home. Researchers at the University of Michigan have reportedly created a new coating that’s being called an “everything-repellent.” The Details: University of Michigan scientists develop “omniphobic” coating that can repel nearly every liquid Inspired by co-author’s dream to create material that would make cleaning up after his child easier Coating prevents grime buildup on surfaces like tables, floors, walls, even phone screens ‘Everything Repellant’ could be game-changer for daycares, homes with young kids Next phase of study is to ensure material isn’t toxic Anish Tuteja, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, says his team has developed an “omniphobic” substance, which can repel nearly every known liquid. The clear and durable coating was inspired by the scientist’s dream to create a material that could make cleaning up after his child a much easier chore. “I have a 2-year-old at home, so for me, this particular project was about more than just the science,” Tuteja said in a university paper. “We’re excited about what this could do to make homes and daycares cleaner places, and we’re looking at a variety of possible applications in industry as well.” According to the team’s findings, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the omniphobic coating can be applied to any surface and would prevent grime from building up on tables, floors, walls, and even phone screens. The new coating mixes two substances, a bonding agent called fluorinated polyurethane and a molecule known as F-POSS. “The repellent and binder mix together well enough to make a clear coating, but there’s a very small amount of phase separation between them,” researcher Mathew Boban explained in a press release. Boban added that the F-POSS will “float to the surface” of the mixture and forms the kid-proof layer. Tuteja says his team is now studying their new coating to make sure it’s not toxic. Items like yoga mats, which contain polyurethane foam, have previously been linked to infertility due to exposure to the flame retardant chemical.

Great dvd to go along with the story of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! It also has several other scholastic stories on it. Both my daughter and my preschool class loved all the stories!

jeopardy/1594_Qs.txt at master jedoublen/jeopardy GitHub FOR THE KID IN YOU | A party here, "Where a kid can be a kid", goes: playtime--pizza--performance--cake--open gifts--90 minutes are up | Chuck E. Cheese's.

Honda has been accused of failing to report more than 1,700 deaths and injuries related to accidents in their vehicles in the US over the past decade. Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), demanded an explanation as to why Honda failed to fulfil its legal obligation to report deaths and injuries, especially those involving air bags. Honda responded by claiming there had been 'various errors related to data entry', which had resulted in failing to notify safety regulators of 1,729 claims of . injuries and deaths related to accidents in its vehicles since . 2003. Honda has failed to notify US safety regulators of 1,729 claims of injuries and deaths related to accidents in its vehicles since 2003 . The Japanese automaker said in a statement that its count of . underreported claims came from a third-party audit. Honda cited . 'various errors related to data entry' and said it used an . 'overly narrow interpretation' of its legal reporting . requirements. It said it is taking steps to remedy these . shortcomings. 'I haven't got a detailed report yet, but it seems there . were a lot of administrative mistakes on the ground,' Honda CEO . Takanobu Ito said, speaking at a corporate event in Japan on Tuesday. Honda and Japanese supplier Takata Corp have been . at the center of investigations of defects in Takata air bags. Since 2008, Honda has recalled more than 7.5 million U.S. cars . because defects can cause the inflators in some Takata air bags . to rupture, spraying metal shards into vehicle occupants. Asked what Honda had made of an early, pre-recall Takata air . bag accident, in 2004, Ito said: 'We don't have knowledge of . inflators but ... it was difficult to foresee that it would . expand' to similar accidents or recalls. Honda has responded by claiming there had been 'various errors related to data entry',and used an'overly narrow interpretation' of its legal reporting requirements . NHTSA sent a second order to Honda on November 5th, seeking . details and documents related to the air bags and . inflators. Honda sent its response on Monday to NHTSA's first order. A . summary of that response was read out by Rick Schostek, . executive vice president of Honda North America, on a conference . call with reporters, though he declined to take questions. Schostek testified last week at a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee . hearing on Takata air bags. In the 'early warning' reporting data required by U.S. law, . Honda failed to disclose eight incidents of ruptured Takata . inflators that resulted in one death and seven injuries, . Schostek said. The company said it provided details of those . incidents to NHTSA outside the 'early warning' reporting . process. Japanese Transport Minister Akihiro Ohta said on Tuesday his . ministry set up a task force late last week to deal specifically . with Takata's recalls. The ministry is also looking into whether . Honda underreported incidents in Japan, an official said. Separately on Monday, a lawsuit was filed in South Carolina . federal court tying a Takata air bag to the 2008 death of Mary . Lyon Wolfe in a 2002 Honda Accord. The lawsuit said the air bag . in Wolfe's car 'deployed with excessive force' and caused grave . injuries. Wolfe died 18 days later from her injuries, it noted. A Takata spokesman declined to comment. A Honda spokesman . said the company had not yet been served with a copy of the . lawsuit and declined to comment on its specifics. Also on Monday, the Senate requested additional air . bag-related documents from Takata 'to gather information that . could address questions left unanswered' at last week's hearing.

In order to level up your Field Skills, you need to be a BLADE operative. You will eventually become one as the story progresses. From there on, with every BLADE level you gain, you will need to talk to Eleonora at the BLADE Concourse in the Administrative District in order to gain a single level of whichever Field Skill you wish. It is recommended to level the Mechanical Field Skill before the others, as you'll need it to place Data Probes, which are a very important source of Miranium and Funds, and also serve as Fast Travel points. Each Field Skill can be levelled up to level 4 at first. In order to reach level 5, you will need to complete the mission "Off the Record" from the BLADE terminal for each Field Skill that has already reached level 4. Since the mission appears and disappears at random, it is recommended you accept it as soon as you see it to prevent it from disappearing. Otherwise, you might have to visit the BLADE terminal several times before the mission reappears.

Curry for three! Basketball player Stephen Curry and actress Ayesha Curry are expecting another child and the couple announced the news in a simple Instagram shared Friday. In the picture, Ayesha stands barefoot in an all-white look and a T-shirt with the word "Preggers" across the front—and just in case her graphic tee wasn't clear enough, she clued fans into the happy news with her caption. Phillip Faraone/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images "Heyyyy how did this happen?! Curry party of 5. Feeling very blessed ... and very sick. Yippie! #curryfor3" she wrote. The Golden State Warriors player has yet to Instagram the news himself, but his fans are already flooding his comments with well-wishes. The Currys have two children already, daughters Riley, 5, and Ryan, 2, and the family frequently shares pics of their lives on their social media accounts. (Riley is an Internet sensation on her own, thanks to her adorable on-camera antics like when she attended her father's MVP acceptance press conference in 2016.) Mi familia 😍😍😍😍😍 A post shared by Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) on Jan 2, 2018 at 9:59pm PST Looks like the Curry family's going for three, and we couldn't be more excited to see it.

(AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti). Breezy Johnson, of the United States, prepares to start an alpine ski, women's world Cup downhill training, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, Saturday Feb. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Marco Tacca). Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, smiles at the finish area during an alpine ski, women's world Cup downhill training, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, Saturday Feb. 3, 2018. By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Americans Breezy Johnson and Lindsey Vonn posted the fastest times in World Cup downhill training on Saturday, less than two hours before the race. Johnson timed 1 minute, 39.52 seconds on the Kandahar course and was 0.29 seconds faster than Vonn, who has won the race in the last two years and three times in total. Sofia Goggia of Italy was 0.01 further back in third. Training was canceled on the previous two days, forcing organizers to stage the mandatory session just before the actual race. Another downhill is scheduled for Sunday in the last weekend of World Cup racing before the Pyeongchang Olympics. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Billie Weiss/Getty Images Listen to Episode 922 of Slate’s The Gist: Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. Advertisement On The Gist, Super Bowl LII is an occasion to ask the age-old question: Who’s more obnoxious, people from Philadelphia or Boston? Plus, Another Period takes the Gilded Age as its setting to satirize the worst of reality TV: extravagant wealth, petty arguments, and a shaky camera. Riki Lindhome co-created and stars in the Comedy Central show. In the Spiel, a reprise of the vaunted documentary, Busted: 43 Minutes of Crisis and Conflict, a production of the American Dream is Deadworks. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus.

Double Duty To date, the most recent attempt was made by Busch in 2014. He finished in 6th place at the Indianapolis 500, and was the fastest rookie. However, he dropped out of the Coca Cola 600 with a blown engine mid-race. He completed 906 miles.

Goals either side of halftime from Ludovic Giuly and Djibril Cisse handed France the vital three points to keep the wheels on their cup campaign, but Domenech was far from happy.

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This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a higher level of wage inequality and a lower level of wage mobility than men in both parts of the country throughout the entire observation period. The mobility decline was sharper in East Germany so that the level of wage mobility has fallen below that of West Germany over time. Looking at long-term mobility, a slowly closing gap between men and women is observed.

Louisana Purchase was a pretty successful move.\nI'm not sure if it rates as a failure, but the vice president shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Thank goodness they don't turn VPs loose with guns anymore.

It's always possible. In order to flip a single switch, you flip it once, and all switches in the same row or column, in any order. The switch itself will be flipped 7 times, the switches in same row or column 4 times, the other switches twice. Which means all other switches will stay the same color. Example: 0000 0010 1101 1111 1101 0101 0001 0000 0010 -3,2-&gt; 1101 -3,1-&gt; 1111 -3,3-&gt; 1101 -3,4-&gt; 1111 -1,2-&gt; 0000 -2,2-&gt; 1111 -2,4-&gt; 0000 0000 0010 0000 1111 1101 0101 0001 0000 0000 0010 0000 0010 1101 0101 0001 0000 Using this technique, we can switch the red switches to green one by one. It will not be the most efficient solution in most cases, but it is possible. Credit goes to @mdc32, his JSFiddle gave me an awesome blackboard!

Gold standard This was meant to be a temporary measure, with the gold price of the dollar and the official rate of exchanges remaining constant. Revaluing currencies was the main purpose of this plan. No official revaluation or redemption occurred. The dollar subsequently floated. In December 1971, the "Smithsonian Agreement" was reached. In this agreement, the dollar was devalued from $35 per troy ounce of gold to $38. Other countries' currencies appreciated. However, gold convertibility did not resume. In October 1973, the price was raised to $42.22. Once again, the devaluation was insufficient. Within two weeks of the second devaluation the dollar was left to float. The $42.22 par value was made official in September 1973, long after it had been abandoned in practice. In October 1976, the government officially changed the definition of the dollar; references to gold were removed from statutes. From this point, the international monetary system was made of pure fiat money.

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The end of Bill Cosby's trial also in effect marked the end of his career as a beloved entertainer and cultural icon. NPR looks back at Cosby's work as an entertainment pioneer, and how his growing conservatism and legal troubles have dimmed that luster for many of his admirers.

Brutal crime: Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, has been charged with killing her newborn baby by setting her ablaze in New Jersey . A woman accused of dousing her newborn daughter with accelerant, setting her on fire screamed 'it's not mine' as a man held her down, according to audiotape of a chaotic 911 call. Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier of Pemberton was told that she was 'disgusting,' by a horrified woman who called 911 from the scene. Dorvilier told the woman, 'It's not mine, it's not mine,' then said, 'I didn't do it, I didn't do it, I didn't do it.' Authorities say the 22-year-old had given birth to the baby shortly before her death. They say she somehow hid the pregnancy from her family. When the baby was found, she still had the umbilical cord and placenta attached, investigators said. Prosecutors haven't specified a motive for the killing. It took police and paramedics more than seven minutes to arrive at the scene in Pemberton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. A dispatcher was initially unable to interpret the correct address from a frantic 911 caller, while another neighbor also reported fighting and screaming in the street before discovering the infant. 'There's a baby on fire,' the first 911 caller told dispatchers. In the background, a man could be heard telling Dorvilier to get down. 'You're not going anywhere,' the man told her. Members of Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier's family, including her mother Juana Sully, right, sit in the back of the courtroom during her initial court appearance via teleconference on January 20 . Judge Philip E. Haines, left, addresses Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier via teleconference . Dorvilier's first audible words can be heard in which she says 'I'm sorry.' 'You just had the baby,' the 911 caller told Dorvilier. 'I didn't know,' Dorvilier replied. 'Well, then, who had it?' the woman asked. 'How could you do this? You should have dropped it off at the hospital.' 'I'm sorry,' Dorvilier says repeatedly. The baby was alive and breathing when she was flown to a hospital in Philadelphia, but she died two hours later. Police said they found a trail of blood leading from Dorvilier's home and she appeared to be bleeding while at the hospital afterward. Karen Andre releases a sky lantern during the candlelight vigil at the Browns Mills United Methodist Church for the baby last week . Amada Espinosa, center, participates in a candlelight vigil at the Browns Mills United Methodist Church . Sisters of Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier's release a sky lantern during a vigil held for Angelica Dorvilier . Her mother and sister told police that they were not aware of her giving birth, but police said they found blood on the floor of the downstairs bathroom. A witness said the woman told him she was burning dog waste. Dorvilier is charged with murder in the January 16 death of her daughter and is being held on a $500,000 bail. She did not enter a plea during a hearing last week in Mount Holly, but said she planned to soon hire an attorney. Scene: Witnesses say 22-year-old mother got out of her car and stopped in the middle of Simontown Road in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, on Friday night and burned the child alive . Dorvilier was found with a can of WD-40 and a lighter in her jacket pocket, and the baby suffered third-degree burns over about 60 percent of her body, investigators said in court documents released by Burlington County prosecutors. A memorial service was held Monday for the baby. A vigil was held last week which Dorvilier's mother and two sisters attended. The baby has now been named Angelica Dorvilier by her family.

The surface tension increment is evaluated for dilute polymer solutions. The first virial coefficient is calculated to first order in excluded volume near two limiting boundary conditions: repulsive (Dirichlet) and reflecting (von Neumann). An interpolation function extends the calculations to intermediate values of the polymer–surface interaction strength and provides the surface pressure as a function of both polymer–polymer and polymer–surface interactions. Comparison with experiments for polystyrene in toluene suggest the importance of nonuniversal contributions to the surface tension increment.

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New hotel? Not so fast The Kolter Group had every reason to think that things would go smoothly as Delray Beach reviewed the company’s plans for a second hotel in the city. After all, Kolter built the stylish Hyatt Place in Pineapple Grove, which city leaders see as a complement to the area. Early reviews have been good for the Hyatt Place in downtown Boca Raton. The company’s new Delray project is on the east side of Federal Highway, two blocks south of downtown. Kolter has assembled four properties for its proposed 150-room hotel. And on Jan. 25, the project was before the Site Plan Review and Appearance Board with a staff recommendation for approval. What could go wrong? A lot. City planner Candi Jefferson presented the project. Jefferson said it complied with all codes. The architectural style—Masonry Modern—is one of seven allowed in the area. It will be a green building. The height will be 54 feet, what the rules allow. Then Dan Sloan went to the mike. He’s president of the Marina Historic District Homeowners Association. He lives in the condo that is northeast of the site. Sloan said Jefferson had “dropped the ball” by not giving the HOA enough advance notice and the project and the SPRAB meeting. He predicted “massive gridlock.” He said the project could “destroy” traffic-calming measures the HOA hopes the city and/or Edwards Companies will pay for to reduce the traffic impact from Atlantic Crossing. Sloan also criticized the design. Masonry Modern might be code-compliant, Sloan said, but he wants a look more like Mallory Square or the Seagate Hotel & Spa. Bradley Miller, the land planner who was representing Kolter, quickly learned that the board members were on Sloan’s side. When Chairman Roger Cope asked for comment, there was a pause. Vice Chairman James Chard then said he saw “another Atlantic Crossing in the making.” Let us assume that Chard is sincere. He’s also running for city commission next month, and there are votes in the marina district. Chard, though, was not an outlier. Other board members weren’t so forceful, but they didn’t agree with the defense Jefferson offered in response to Sloan’s comments. She said no rule requires neighborhood notification—just that the city post all information on its website. As for the complaints about traffic, “these things happen” when people live near districts zoned for certain uses. As the discussion proceeded, the sticking point remained the design. One board member used the expression my daughter does when she spots someone making a poor fashion choice: “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Cope summed things up when he said, “We’re just looking for a better piece of architecture.” Last week, I spoke with city planner Anthea Gianniotes, to whom the city has assigned the Kolter project. She gave a wonderfully coherent analysis of how the proposed hotel reveals the difficulty of achieving city goals that are worthy but sometimes contradictory. Sloan is upset that the hotel would have only one access point from Federal Highway. Traffic also would go through an alley on the north side of the hotel, and that could be a problem for nearby residents. As Gianniotes points out, however, Delray Beach also wants to make Federal Highway—northbound, in this part of town—more walkable. That means limiting the number of turn-ins. Hotel guests, Gianniotes said, will want to walk to Atlantic Avenue for dinner. Though it would not be as long as the project just to the west that includes the Aloft hotel, the Kolter hotel would stretch along Federal Highway. Board members weren’t crazy about that, but Gianniotes notes the obvious: Delray Beach’s four-story height limit. If property owners can’t go up, they will go long, and the rules allow it. Gianniotes told me that the city was working to “facilitate” meetings between Kolter and the residents, perhaps over the weekend. I’ll update this topic when there are developments. Prices rising If nothing else, the hotel project shows how quickly the price of downtown Delray Beach land is rising. Those properties, which comprise just a bit more than an acre, sold for $685,000 in November 2005, when the owner wanted to build townhomes. Kolter bought the property last year for nearly $3 million four months ago. Delray Place update If Kolter wants to find something hopeful after that gobsmacking at SPRAB, the company still is much better shape than the owners of Delray Place. They wanted to expand their project, at Linton Boulevard and Federal Highway, to the south. Residents of Tropic Isle protested that the expansion would route all traffic onto the narrow street that is the entrance to their neighborhood. SPRAB agreed, and rejected the site plan. Delray Place appealed, and lost at the commission. So the site plan has been denied. The owners must wait a year to ask again for that plan. Obviously, they instead need to come up with a different plan. Atlantic Crossing session Last week, the Delray Beach City Commission spent nearly as much time during the regular meeting as during the special meeting on Atlantic Crossing. A 90-minute regular meeting in Delray is unusual. So is a 90-minute meeting related to a lawsuit. One can assume that commissioners kept up the venting we heard last month when they rejected the proposed Atlantic Crossing settlement. Edward Companies was ready to accept the terms, but as commissioners peeled back the details, they found it lacking. Executive sessions are closed to the public, but the city’s lawyers probably heard that the commission wants any settlement linked to Atlantic Crossing’s development agreement. The focus of the rejected settlement was an access road to Federal Highway, but the commission has many other issues. One of the most important is parking, since all of it will underground in an area that floods. City Attorney Max Lohman said another Atlantic Crossing executive session would happen soon. Special events update Here’s an update on Delray Beach’s attempt to focus special events downtown on residents, not visitors. The city recently hosted its annual fashion week. In praising all the volunteers, Mayor Cary Glickstein made it a point to note that most of the attendees were locals. Interestingly, last weekend was Garlic Fest’s debut at John Prince Park after being a fixture in Delray. Glickstein and city commissioners cited the event as one that helped the city at one time but had become more of a hassle. Organizer Nancy Stewart told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Garlic Fest outgrew Delray Beach “years ago” and so moved to the larger site. That didn’t sound like the Nancy Stewart who tried so hard to stay in Delray Beach despite the new special events policy. Looking for sand Boca Raton has a sand hunter. OK, not really. But Jennifer Bistyga, the city’s coastal program manager, said the city does have a consultant who performs what Bistyga calls a “geotechnical sand search.” The goal is to find places— technically called “borrow areas”—from which Boca Raton can pump sand to renourish the city’s constantly eroding beaches. Bistyga anticipates that the consultant will identify 9 million cubic yards by the end of the year. Assuming the city can get permits, Bistyga said that amount would be enough to last nearly half a century. Boca Raton’s current work is on the Central Beach. Work was delayed last week because high seas meant the dredge couldn’t get here from Palm Beach. When the work is done, the city will have used its two borrow sites for the project. Thus the need to seek more for the central and northern beaches. For the southern beach, Bistyga said, the city can keep relying on the source that has supplied sand for three decades. If that long-term source of sand holds up, Boca Raton will be lucky. Coastal cities in Broward and Miami-Dade counties have used up their domestic sources and want to buy sand from foreign countries, the Bahamas being the most obvious. Federal law, however, doesn’t allow such purchases. So the region’s congressional delegation—in a rare show of bipartisanship—is backing the Sand Acquisition, Nourishment and Development Act—or SAND Act. It would repeal the ban on foreign purchases and, as Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm, puts it, “mitigate potential legal battles over domestic sand sources between northern and southern Florida counties.” Missed the last City Watch? Don’t worry. Visit our Community/City Watch page and subscribe to the magazine for the best coverage of Boca and Delray.

Scaling and root planing These processes will persist, causing greater damage, until the infectious bacterial agents (plaque) and local irritating factors (calculus) are removed. In order to effectively remove these at this stage in the disease process, brushing and flossing are no longer sufficient. This is due to several factors, the most important to note being the depth of the periodontal pocket. Brushing and flossing are effective only at removing the soft materia alba and biofilm in supragingival areas, and in pockets up to 3 mm deep. Even the best brushing and flossing is ineffective at cleaning pockets of greater depths, and are never effective in removing calculus. Therefore, in order to remove the causative factors that lead to periodontal disease, pocket depth scaling and root planing procedures are often recommended.

I quit drinking in 2007 so thankfully none.