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Where did the mad rush go? Art Basel Miami Beach opens serenely in newly revamped venue.
Among this year’s newcomers is FilmBrazil, which promotes Brazil as an advertising production hub. To boost interest, it is hosting a networking dinner and director’s showcase with Brazilian producers, animators, and sound studios.
Chile’s new partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Association of Chilean Contemporary Art Galleries is hoping to attract interest by bringing nine galleries to three fairs: PINTA Miami, Art Miami, and UNTITLED.
PINTA Miami has long been a place for Latin American artists to showcase their work during Art Week. This year, Argentine curator Florencia Battiti decided to bring three artists from Rosario, in addition to two from Buenos Aires, to the fair. Battiti sees the fair as a great opportunity to open people’s eyes to places outside the country’s capital.
“For me, bringing them from Rosario and having the possibility to open those artistic links, it’s very important,” she said.
For Barbados, the VIP opening of the PRIZM fair was an opportunity to showcase both art and cuisine. Barbados’ star chef Michael Hinds prepared the meal, courtesy of Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.
This story has been updated to correct the location of the mural. It will be at the RC Cola Plant in Wynwood, not the Miami Beach Convention Center.
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2019-04-22T20:29:46Z
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https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article222600775.html
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The program extends undergraduate studies in financial accounting, management accounting, auditing and taxation. Students undertake advanced coursework and a research thesis. Classes are conducted in a seminar setting. Students will have the opportunity to interact with research active academic staff, engage in the analysis of advanced accounting issues, and develop critical thinking skills.
Students aspiring to the Honours program should consult the Honours Convenor in the Research School of Accounting and Business Information Systems for advice. Students from other universities can also apply for entry.
with a weighted average mark equivalent to an ANU 70 per cent calculated from the 36 units (i.e. 0.75 EFTSL) of courses eligible for inclusion in an ANU accounting major or equivalent, excluding 1000-level courses (i.e. introductory undergraduate courses), with the highest marks.
48 units from completion of the Accounting Honours specialisation.
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Last night, I came home to a nice little surprise in my inbox. My Fantasy Romance, A Soul For Trouble, was named a finalist in the OVRWA Enchanted Words Contest. I did a little happy dance and updated my webpage, adding to the accolades this unpublished, unagented manuscript has received.
But that’s why I bring this up. You’re not going to please everyone in a contest. You may get the judge who’s SO just left her because she was PMSing too much. You may get the NYT bestseller who offers some great advice. It’s all luck of the draw. But the key here is that YOU GET FEEDBACK. And you’ll get it from more than one person. The good, the bad, and the ugly — your opening pages will be finely dissected, and your story will be weighed and measured.
I’d sworn off contests in the past because I don’t write to formula all the time and have gotten some rather harsh feedback from judges because of it. But I took their advice, applied to my WIP at the time, and started entering A Soul For Trouble. At first I was a bit gun-shy, so I just entered my local RWA contest. I won frist place. Then I entered my specialty genre chapter’s contest with ASFT and another manuscript that had been ripped to shreds in the past and recently revised. They both finalled, and the revised manuscript won it’s category. I was on a roll. I started scouring the RWR (Romance Writer’s Report) for any contest I could enter. I became an addict, wanting to reap more rewards for my writing. I even started a spreadsheet for all the contests I could enter, listing the deadlines, the fees, and the final judges.
What are you thoughts on writing contests? Are you a contest whore, too? Do you avoid them like the plague?
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2019-04-21T06:39:03Z
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The Nashville Predators have a chance to even its series against the Dallas Stars Saturday night.
Dallas was able to take Game 1 of its Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup against Nashville Wednesday, 3-2.
Alexander Radulov, Mats Zuccarello and Miro Heiskanen all tallied goals for the Stars. Both of Nashville’s goals came from defenders, with P.K. Subban and Roman Josi lighting the lamp.
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2019-04-23T23:57:19Z
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The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, recently launched on the web, is an anthology of works by an international group of authors "that pushes through the boundaries of literary forms, creating new kinds of experiences for interacting readers." Published by the Electronic Literature Organisation, and edited by Laura Borràs, Talan Memmott, Rita Raley, and Brian Kim Stefans, Volume 2 picks up where the first volume, ELC1, left off.
Like ELC1, the collection can be browsed by author, title, or keyword. ELC2 speaks to both the continuity as well as the bright future of electronic literature. The works include many of the emerging categories of e-lit: mash-ups, geolocative, codework, as well as “traditional” and evolving forms such as hypertext, chatbots, and interactive fiction. The authors list presents readers with both veterans and newcomers to the field.
Contributors to this TRG blog, Kate Pullinger and Christine Wilks, are amongst the authors represented in the collection. ELC2 is also available on DVD for free on request from the ELO.
ELC2 is published under a Creative Commons license, which means the collection can be freely shared, non-commercially, between individuals, libraries, and schools, provided that appropriate attribution is maintained and the works are unmodified.
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2019-04-18T10:36:38Z
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The annihilation contribution to the masses of the JPC=0-+ isoscalars is calculated in the bag model. The resultant mass shift for the η′ is large and positive. For αs=1.15 we obtain mη=0.53 GeV and mη′=0.965 GeV, leading to a good description of pseudoscalar masses within the model.
Donoghue, JF and GOMM, H, "CALCULATION OF THE ETA AND ETA-' MASSES IN THE BAG MODEL" (1983). PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 216.
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For the full text of the Code, click here.
For the full text of the Rule for the Application during the Games, click here.
The IOC took the lead in preparing such a Code following the International Forum for Sports Integrity last April. The Olympic Movement was called upon to develop global standards regarding the manipulation of competitions and related corruption in compliance with the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions. It also coincided with the IOC’s renewed commitment to protect clean athletes and the integrity of sport as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement.
All measures related to ethics and compliance, transparency and good governance recommended by Olympic Agenda 2020 have now been implemented. Measures include the creation of a USD 10 million fund to prevent match-fixing, manipulation and related corruption. The IOC has also initiated and is implementing around the world robust educational awareness programmes in cooperation with INTERPOL to prevent Olympic and other sporting events from any kind of manipulation. A new mechanism for reporting potential cases of competition manipulation as well as other violations of the integrity of sport – the Integrity and Compliance Hotline – was also successfully launched earlier this year. Moreover, the IOC has reinforced its Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) and is enhancing monitoring and information exchange between law enforcement agencies, sports organisations and betting operators/regulators.
To learn more about the IOC’s integrity initiatives click here.
To learn more about the IOC Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) click here.
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2019-04-26T07:54:07Z
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https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-publishes-unprecedented-olympic-movement-code-for-preventing-competition-manipulation
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Friday: Birthday kickoff! Drinks and tapas with the girls!
Technology is increasingly becoming a more and more integral part of our world and it is very important for our kids to learn how to use it. Fortunately, many kids today seem more adept at handling modern technology than their parents. However, there are many technical aspects to computers that elude even them, such as programming. I took my first programming class when I was in college and it was very basic, I wouldn’t even know how to begin to explain the concept to my high schooler. So, I was excited to take a look at Code for Teens: The Awesome Beginner’s Guide to Programming from Code for Teens for this review.
As your child moves through each chapter they will complete chapter quizzes, reviews and projects that they will save on the computer in their “workbook”. Answers to these quizzes and reviews are in the back of the book (which is awesome if you are not tech-literate like me). This workbook also gives them a sense of accomplishment as they see all that they have done as they work through the program. The projects are actually fun, and not boring, which my son kind of thought they would be (because, as he told me, most end of chapter projects are). Some of them are similar to logic puzzles, or may involve writing a bio of themselves or some other sort of activity, but he enjoyed them all and there are helpful hints in the back of the book if your child gets stuck (again, thank you Jeremy Moritz for that because I would not have been able to help on my own for sure!).
Look, I didn’t enjoy math when I was in school, and I enjoy it even less now. As a homeschool mom, I managed to navigate elementary school math okay, but once we got to the upper level stuff, I knew I was in trouble. So I did what most of us do when we encounter a subject we don’t want to teach, I farmed it out through online and computer courses. However, there are still some times my son needs my help, and I need to be able to help him which means I need some help. So, for this review, I was happy to check out the Math Refresher for Adults book from Math Essentials. This simple workbook is chock full of information for adults (and older kids) like you and me, who maybe have some big gaps in their math instructions, or just don’t remember it and need a little help.
So, getting started, I should tell you this workbook is full of all kinds of problems on all kinds of topics from the very basic like addition and subtraction of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, to much more complicated things like finding the slope of a line, graphing equations, probability and even (gasp!) word problems! But don’t worry, you aren’t left hanging trying to figure all of this out on your own. Math Essentials gives you access to video tutorials for the lessons led by Richard Fisher on their website and the No Nonsense Algebra website so you can watch the lesson before you try to do the problems.
Most of the tutorials are (thankfully) brief, at least from what I’ve seen so far, and that works since I do not have the patience to sit through a 45 minute math lesson. I like to watch the video, pause it, try a few problems, then watch it again, try a few more, and check my answers to see if I’m doing them right. There is an answer key in the back of the book for each lesson, which is convenient, I only wish they showed how they got the answers for some of the problems, but that might be asking a little too much.
You could certainly work through this whole workbook if you wanted to review higher math concepts on your own, or you could use it as a summer refresher for one of your students if you wanted. I also think it would be great for some extra test prep as well. If you have just a few topics you need to freshen up on you could easily just go through the table of contents and pick and choose which ones you want to practice (or have your child practice). There really are a lot of possibilities for this one, but I think it’s a great addition to your homeschool shelf, especially if you have one or more students who struggle with math. I definitely feel like I am in a better position to help my son with some of his algebra when he comes to me with questions now.
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. CHANGING DIET AMONG THE CONGOLESE REFUGEE POPULATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL INTEGRATIONS. Undergraduate Research Journal, [S.l.], aug. 2015. Available at: <http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/URJ/article/view/1409>. Date accessed: 25 apr. 2019.
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My dog Charlie and I are members of PALS. With our team of other dogs and their handlers we visit retirement homes and extended care homes. As much as I like to talk about my dog, this book is really about many seniors that need to have their story told to a younger generation.
This book “When I First Came to this Land” reminds me of the many immigrant seniors that are nestled away in these homes needing to have their story told. The book is based on a song by Oscar Brand, retold by Harriet Ziefert with illustrations by Simms Taback.
Between Ziefert passion for folk music and Taback’s folk art style the two of them came up with a wonderful book. The literal part of the book is of rhyme and repeated lyrics that are funny, but illustrations add a spark of ah ha to the story, especially for children. It’s a colourful history, like back in the day.
Speaking of “back in the day” Maud Lewis (1903-1970) is a historical Canadian artist with a similar folk art style of Taback. She too had a delightful way of making; playful & bold art.
I would like to encourage you and your children to paint your story. Art is a visual signature, tell us about you through your art. Use colour and shape to begin.
This entry was posted in Art Education, Art History, Children's Books, history family and tagged art for the public, bold art, children's illustrations, colourful, Country folk, fun and playful art, immigrants, tell your story. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-18T22:40:25Z
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Anna Nalick: "In the Rough"
She won't discuss. She doesn't listen. She made erroneous presumptions and would not allow them to be corrected or even questioned. She violates the rules of good communication that she told to me and will not be called on it. She rushed to judgment and convicted without a trial, even misrepresented material facts in her righteousness and her fear. As long as she is right and I am broken we can talk but otherwise, my opinion is invalid. She can critically examine and judge every choice I have made in my life but I am "unqualified" to have my own opinion about her choices or even to question them. What kind of deal is that? Forget whether it is moral to accept such a deal; how moral is it to offer such a deal? She often treats me with contempt. How many times have I been on the dishing-out side of that? Maybe I just needed to learn what if feels like to be on the receiving end. It hurts to love someone who will not treat you as an equal. I can't help but see the poetic justice in that. It isn't easy to take, though I can't say I haven't learned anything.
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2019-04-20T07:20:49Z
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https://montecristo.livejournal.com/139476.html
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Alexis was born and raised in Ireland. After graduating, he found himself harvesting grapes on the chalky slopes of Chablis in Burgundy. The experience proved to be a revelation: realizing that he had to find a way to sustain a new lifestyle, he studied winemaking in Burgundy and went on to spend the next 12 years working in the French wine industry before moving with his family to Andalucía where he began working in tourism.
Alex loves life on the road and believes that cruising on a bike is the greatest way to see a new country up close and experience a new culture; slow down, see more. Genuinely interested in people, he enjoys the quirky side of life, and is always eager to share his love of gourmet food and fine wines with a willing audience. Alex lives with his wife and two children in the south of Spain.
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2019-04-21T13:14:27Z
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https://www.duvine.com/team/alexis-timon/
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We present this course to you and invite your organization or group to join with us in facilitating it across the nation. You can order all the course materials right here online so you can help support the military families near you.
If you'd like Dr. Cantrell to facilitate this workshop for your group or organization please contact her.
Following closely the concepts of her book, Once a Warrior: Wired for Life, Dr. Bridget Cantrell has formulated this interactive guide in fifteen practical steps. It is an easy-to-follow workbook course geared to assist military personnel in utilizing their tremendous potential in achieving success and happiness after military service. It highlights a fulfilling path on the journey from Warrior to Civilian. Warriors and loved ones alike will benefit significantly as they participate in this much needed process of coming home after a tour of duty is over.
The Once a Warrior Wired for Life workshop is a structured awareness course revealing various ways warriors and their partners/family change during military separation. It provides them with effective coping techniques ensuring a smooth transition in regards to their communication and intricate relationship-building methods after returning from a war zone. It is also designed to encourage healthy interactions and discussions in a group setting and help them work together in dealing with critical issues they may face before and after the deployment(s).
When and How to Make a Referral: Know your strengths and limitations when it comes to supporting your military personnel and their families.
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2019-04-24T14:10:09Z
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The Cowboys know it’s a real possibility that defensive end Anthony Spencer will have to start the regular season on the PUP list as he makes his way back from microfracture surgery and he isn’t the only member of the defensive line that they’ll be waiting to see on the field.
Bryan Broaddus of the Cowboys website reports that defensive tackle Henry Melton will not take part in OTAs, which start Tuesday, or any other on-field activity this spring. Melton hopes to be fully cleared to participate when the team gathers in Oxnard, California for training camp this summer.
Melton is recovering from a torn ACL, which has a bit more certainty in terms of a recovery timeline than Spencer’s microfracture surgery. There’s no such certainty about what kind of toll the injury might have taken on Melton, though, and the Cowboys will likely reintegrate him into football work patiently because they really need a healthy Melton in the middle of their defensive line whether or not Spencer is able to start the season on the field.
Recently signed defensive tackle Amobi Okoye will also miss OTAs after missing all of last season with an undisclosed medical problem and missing these defensive pieces has a familiar feel to it after the last two Cowboys seasons.
Tommie Harris 2.0. Melton will never be the same player again. The Bears were smart to let him go and not throw good money after bad.
Wouldn’t Dallas have been better off signing UFA rather than broken down costly FA’s?
Gunna be last year all over again..
That Cowboy’s GM sure knows how to scout out the talent.
It’s May not July so no need to panic and foolishly hurry Melton into action.
I do think Melton is going to be critical to the success of the defensive line this year. If he can return to 2012 form, then he will make others around him better.
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2019-04-22T02:53:35Z
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/27/henry-melton-to-remain-out-until-training-camp/
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So I finally did something really fun in this sandy desert; I went to see STOMP. For those of you who are not familiar with STOMP it is a unique musical percussion show that uses different objects, including the body, to make different percussion sounds.
Totally contagious! I mean, I could not wait to get home and get my floors as clean as the STOMP crew. My normally grueling and boring Friday morning cleaning was revived when I tapped and stomped my mop against the two potties in my bathroom. The sound was groovin when I decided to do a little spin and rap on the shower curtain rod hanging behind me.
Well, it was hanging. And so was the toilet paper.
They really need to put a disclaimer in the brochure: These are professionally trained sweeper-mopper-stomppers. Do not attempt this at home.
On the bright side, I may have come up with some new “tones” for the show.
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2019-04-21T10:47:17Z
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How Can You Be Sad When You’re Eating a Cupcake?
A couple of years ago, my bestfriend and I went to Cupcake Camp (essentially an excuse to devour an obsene amount of cupcakes). After we’d chosen the lucky cakes, we plopped ourselves down and dove in. Across the room, we noticed a girl bawling her eyes out. The first thing I thought was, “How can anyone be sad when they’re eating a cupcake?” But we’ve all done it.
How many moments have we missed because we’ve been utterly immersed in a problem? I know I’m guilty of it. Whether it was worrying about getting my masters finished, worrying about a fight I had with a friend, worrying about getting behind at work – I know that my worrying interferes with my joy. So what’s a girl to do? I’ve done my fair share of sitting in sadness. But I’ve found letting a little sunshine in diminishes the power a problem has over me. Everytime I’ve taken a step back and accepted the little gifts this world is offering up, I’ve felt better. Because really, how can I be sad when it’s so sunny outside? How can I be sad when I’m soaking in a hot tub? How can I be sad when I’m eating a cupcake?
I made these cupcakes this weekend. And you know what? I can think of a couple of people who found a moment of happiness by chowing down on them. Enjoy!
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. pans. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. The batter will b incredibly thin! Don’t worry! You didn’t do anything wrong! Pour the batter into muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.
Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth and creamy. Mix in powdered sugar, one cup at a time. Mix in cocoa powder. Spread over cooled cupcakes. Devour!
It’s about that time of year when everybody starts feeling a little blah. The weather is blah. Your motivation is blah. And even your wardrobe feels blah – you’re over the chunky knit sweater phase but it’s too cold to wear skirts and ballet flats.
What we need is a little somethin’ somethin’ to perk up our spirits. My suggestion? Romance. And I’m not talking about the kind that requires a beau.
I think we deserve our own kind of romance, don’t you? Let’s woo our fabulous selves by picking up posies for our abodes, lighting candles, dining out at that cute little bistro around the corner, reading the classics, listening to jazz, taking long hot bubble baths, enjoying a massage for a delicious hour and half, watching a Cary Grant film, savouring a piece of dark chocolate and rocking hot pink lipstick. What do you say? I’ve already booked a massage for this weekend and prettied up my coffee table with pink tulips.
One of these days, I’m going to march into Laduree Paris and order a macaroon or two or six. I’ll probably freak out in a way teenage girls do in reaction to Justin Bieber (minus the crying). I’ll take pictures of the shop, the unimpressed Parisians just trying to get their macaroon fix, and finally myself stuffing my face with the sugary goodness. For that day, the biggest decision I’ll have to make is which colour of macaroon should I eat first. Because really, do you save the prettiest ones for last or not? It could be a great debate. If you’re craving a little Paris at home, you could always try your hand at making the world famous macaroons with the Laduree: The Sweet Recipes Cookbook.
Lavender + Chocolate. Could there be a better match? I think not. Except perhaps salt + chocolate. Or lavendar + lemonade. But enough of that. I was doing a little blog homework this morning (it’s tough work perusing through my favourite blogs) and landed on this post by This is Glamorous. If you love pretty things, you’ll die and go to heaven just looking at her blog. And while you’re there, print off the recipe to Lavender Hot Chocolate. Heaven…I’m in heaven….
I have a fierce craving for scones with whipped butter and strawberry jam. Fierce. If you want to make these beauties, here’s the recipe. I will just stare and drool from a distance. Le sigh.
New amazing blog alert! I basically want to eat every item in the Cozy Kitchen. French toast, smore pudding, heirloom pizza. Yes please.
Megan of Limited Supervision sent me the most amazing thing this morning: a recipe for pumpkin spice latte. Sweet goodness! I’m dying to try it out but I’d feel awful keeping a secret like this to myself. So join me, dear readers, for a cup of pumpkiny goodness. I’m personally picking up all the ingredients tonight. Yummo.
What a great idea for an engagement shoot! The smarties over at Styled Creative thought this one up. There’s no end to what you could do with this idea! Spell out numbers for your niece’s birthday, write “Will you marry me?” as a proposal, nosh on “peace” or “joy” on Christmas morning. So very sweet indeed.
I want to eat this cake. I don’t want to sit and admire it. I don’t want to take pictures. Somebody already did that. I just want to eat this cake. Immediately. That’s all.
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Bradford: Bradford can be quite congested around the city centre at peak times .
Bradford: There is a car park on Midland road near the away end the guy charges around £3 for this. Coach Parking is on Midland Road.
Bradford: We have no blue badge spaces at the ground but again on Midland road there are around 10 blue badge bays owned by the council you have to come quite early to get one of these.
Bradford: We have no on site bar and people say The Bradford Arms on Manningham Lane and the city centre pubs ie City Vaults are Friendly to away fans.
Bradford: Tesco express just by the ground.
Bradford: There are 3 stations that can be used the interchange in the city centre from there you can get a bus onto the ground, Foster Square station is about a 10-minute walk to the ground there is a McDonalds, Costa, Greggs, Subway in the retail park by the station. Frizinghall station is about a 20-minute walk.
Buses run along Manningham Lane around every 20 minutes and can be accessed From Bradford Interchange .
There are no baby changing Facilities in the away end.
Bradford: We have kiosks on the concourse that sell pies, burgers, hot dogs, sausage rolls and chips, hot and cold beverages beer and pop, crisps and chocolate.
Bury: What is the postcode for Sat Nav users?
Bradford: If parking away from the ground please lock all valuables away as in the past we have had a couple of incidents of theft. Please do not park in Foster square car park as the limit for parking is only 1 ½ hours.
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https://www.buryfc.co.uk/news/2018/february/slo-information-bradford-city/
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TIRANA, MARCH 21 (ATA)- The deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, Janos Kranidhiotis, had a telephone talk with Prime Minister Fino, today.
Kranidhiotis familiarised Fino with the visit he paid several days ago to Gjirokaster. He stressed that during all the meetings with the local government in Gjirokaster he had stressed his support and that of the Greek government for the National Reconciliation Government and had transmitted everywhere the message of support by the Greek party.
The two expressed their predisposition to continue friendly relations between the two countries.
TIRANA, MARCH 21 (ATA)- By A. Frasheri, The Secretary General of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Onur Omen, is visit ing Albania on Monday, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Press and Informati on Office reports.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - The Foreign Minister of Albania, Arjan Starova, paid an official visit to Italy from March 19-20, 1997 upon an invitation of the Itali an Foreign Minister. Mr Starova and Mr Dini, says a report of the Albanian Foreign Ministry spokesman, discussed a possible assistance for Albania in the context of the EU.
The spokesman confirms that during the official meetings of Minister Starova with Italian authorities, they have not discussed any kind of bilateral military agreement and the less so to have signed any of such agreement. Reports or comments of some segment of Italian medias about the above question are completely a fabrication.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - Dr Alois Mock, chairman of the European Democratic Union, deputy to the Austrian Parliament and ex-Foreign Minister of Austria today said in Vienna in a declaration for foreign medias that "European Union should not offer 'minimal solutions' for the current difficult sitation in Albania.
"Unfortunately, the echo of the conference of the EU Foreign ministers was not to the proper level," said Mock in his declaration.
"The efforts of the new Government in Tirana are threatened by the chaotic activity of the gangs of rebels, Mafia members and communists," he added. Dr Alois Mock hailed the efforts of his successor, deputy chancellor and Foreign Minister of Austria, Dr Wolfgang Schussel to organize, in the context of the European Union and broader, an allround assistance aiming the restoration of stability and security in Albania.
The OSCE delegation led by former Austrian Chancellor Vranitzsky, after knowing the difficult situation in Albania, proposed that a great number of policemen from the European Union countries and an economic aid be sent to Albania.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - Deputy of Austrian Parliament and member of five commissions in the Parliament, Dr Wolfgang Grossruk reiterated through a statement in Vienna on March 21, 1997 the legitimacy of Albanian President Sali Berisha.
He said among others in his statement that "We must have understanding for a part of the population who lost their savings in pyramid invesmtnet schemes, which had promised them big returns.
There are also in Albania groups of rebels, mafia members, drug-traffickers, criminals, communists and former leaders of the defunct communist dictatorship, who are working against the legitimacy of the constitutional and democratic order in that country. These groups of criminals and rebels have not even the minimal democratic legitimacy.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - By Atlant Frasheri: Albanian Foreign Minister Arjan Starova today at noon met with the leader of the delegation of the International Red Cross Committee Allen Lenard and the chairman of the Albanian Red Cross, Shyqyri Subashi, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry reported today.
Mr Starova briefed Mr Lenard of the situation in Albania and the efforts of the National Reconciliation Government to stabilize the situation in all the fields in the country. He expressed the Albania's gratitude for the readiness of the International Red Cross to help in these difficult moments.
He assures Mr Lenard of the assistance that the Foreign Affairs Ministry will give to the International Red Cross in Albania.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - By P Shuteriqi: Many children and teenagers have been hospitalized recently in Tirana with wounds caused mainly by uncontrolled explosions.
TIRANE, MARCH 21 (ATA) - The Parliamentary Group of Chancellor Kohl in Bundestag supports the senior institutions of the Albanian state and the territorial integrity of Albania. In a debate on the situation in Albania held yesterday in the German Bundestag, deputy Klaus Francke, speaking in the name of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, said that the aim of the German and European policy towards Albania should be the safeguarding of the territorial integrity of Albania as a sovereign state.
"We are not allowed not to see that the conflict, along with the attacks by former officers of the regime of Hoxha and the Mafia influence, aims a division between the north and south of the country. All the parties must conduct a constructive dialogue. President Berisha and Prime Minister Fino, supported by the European Union and the OSCE, must continue their cooperation. Additionally, the authority of the elected local government should be restored.
TIRANA, MARCH 21 (ATA) - The Chairman of the Presidency of the People's Assembly of Albania Pjeter Arbnori today met, with her request, the U.S. Ambassadress in Albania, Mariza Lino. Mr Arbnori said that in the present situation, of vital importance for Albania, is the defence of Albania's sovereignty and integrity respecting the legitimate institutions and the Main Constitutional Provisions.
"We have a government of National Reconciliation which works on the basis of a platform which was agreed upon in the round table of the political parties with the President of the Republic, which the Parliament has supported and will continue to support in the implementation of all the points of the political agreement with the aim of realising the national reconciliation, restoring the public and constitutional order and carrying the country towards fresh elections.
He said "we recognize only the local government structures elected freely and not the military committetes which like Soviets in 1917 seek to impose themselves on legitimate institutions through violence.
Ambassadress Lino voiced her full support for all what Mr Arbnori told her and added that especially in the present situation, the respect for the institutions was very important. She also voiced her support for the Parliament.
"We," she said, "in all our declarations have been against violence and violent imposition on legitimate institutions, always insisting in political solutions. In our line we have backed up the Government of National Reconciliation and its platform. Today, more than ever, all the parties should contribute to the realisation of this platform. To this end would also serve the participation of all political forces in the sessions of the Parliament. The Parliament is an important institution which must be protected in this difficult period," said Mrs Lino.
TIRANA, MARCH 21 (ATA) - Albanian President Sali Berisha today had a meeting with the Ambassador of Germany in Tirana, Hans Peter Disdorn and talked with him on the developments in Albania.
Ambassador Disdorn said to President Berisha that in case Germany would not take part with troops or police units in Albania, it will not oppose such an act by other European Union member countries.
TIRANA, MARCH 21 (ATA) - The deputy Foreign Minister of Greece Janos Kranidhiotis had today a telephone talk with Albanian Premier Bashkim Fino, says a report of the information office of the Greek Foreign Ministry. The talk was very friendly and both agreed that the latest little diplomatic misunderstanding was considered closed by the two sides.
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Are you looking for a project to use up all those leftover and odd sized bits of fabric in your stash?
Do you need to sew up a pile of handmade gifts in the next few weeks?!
Looking for the perfect project where you don’t have to worry about sizing and that works for men and women?
In the past I’ve answered yes to all those questions and over time the Rutland Collection has evolved!
The Rutland Collection E-book is available to download now for just £3.50. Get yours here.
Look at these beauties that have been made at my recent scarf making classes!
Perfect for chilly walks or if you don’t like big bulky scarves.
Make it plain or with a twist, which as you can see, works really well in a stripe!
I’ve included instructions for how to adjust the cutting sizes for the Alice band to make them for kids.
These wrist warmers and the Alice band / headband project will make swift work of using up your odd little scraps of jersey. I’m planning loads more of these in multiple fabric leftovers.
In this project I’ve also included instructions for how and where to adjust the cutting sizes to make wrist warmers for kids too.
May your kidneys never be chilled again!! Perfect if you need that little bit of extra length adding to a top or extra bit of cosy warmth around your lower back. Like the Alice band you can make this one plain or with a twist.
I’ve really enjoyed putting the Rutland Collection together, I love a thrifty project that makes good use of my fabrics and is also a really functional make. I hope it helps you out this festive season and I hope you find time to make a few treats for yourself too!!
This entry was posted in Rutland Collection (accessories), Sewing Patterns by Wendy and tagged alice band, christmas sewing, gift sewing, handmade christmas gifts, headband, how to make a snood, how to make an alice band, how to make an infinity scarf, how to make wrist warmers, infinity scarf, rutland collection, seasonal sewing, sewing e-book, snood, stash busing projects, stash busting, use your stash, Wendy Ward, wrist warmers. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-21T05:29:57Z
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https://wendyward.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/the-rutland-collection-make-your-own-infinity-scarves-alice-bands-more/
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Alleged victim Ahmed Darwish appears to await instruction before turning to address the camera.
According to Pannell’s narration in Saving Syria’s Children: “Thirteen year old Ahmed Darwish was described as a hard-working student with a smiley face. He did survive. We found him a few weeks after the attack in hospital in Turkey, with 40% burns to his body”.
Dr Saleyha Ahsan, one of the British doctors featured in Saving Syria’s Children, says of Darwish’s hands “the skin was falling off as if he had been peeled”. However a practicing medical doctor consulted privately has stated of the victims in Saving Syria’s Children “Some are shown with skin hanging off but the flesh beneath is not that convincing it actually looks like more skin.” (See also images of Lutfi Arsi).
In my initial letter to the BBC I noted that, while in the images from “a few weeks after the attack in hospital in Turkey” (Figs 3 & 4) Darwish has black scabs on his lips, no burns to his lips are in evidence in the scenes from the day of the alleged attack (Figs 1 & 2). In my second letter (section 8) I further noted that medics at the scene had presumably shared my view that Darwish had no burns to his mouth as this area appears to be free of the white cream that had been applied to much of the rest of the boy’s body.
In response, BBC Audience Services (in a letter authored by Ian Pannell) provided Fig 5 below, stating “Ahmed does have burns above his lip. Here is another screen-grab where you can just about detect that”. Note, however, that while the object which Pannell identifies is above Darwish’s top lip, the prominent black scab in Figs 3 & 4 is on it.
Here (24 seconds, Figs 8 & 9) he is seated in the hospital corridor as in Figs 1 & 2.
In Figs 6 & 7 the object noted by Ian Pannell above Darwish’s upper lip (Fig 5) may just be discernible. In Figs 8 – 11 (with 10 & 11 presumably representing the latest images of Darwish on 26 August 2013) the boy’s lips appear unscathed. My view is that the object which Pannell identifies above Darwish’s top lip in Fig 5 is a portion of the translucent substance that is visible on much of the rest of the boy’s face in that image (as well as in Figs 1 & 2) and which is possibly a different substance to the more visible white cream applied to the rest of his body.
In the BBC 10 O’Clock News report of 29 August 2013 Pannell states that Darwish is 15 years old.
“Cold-water therapy was being applied to all the patients but there were no adequate facilities to stop them becoming too cold with the application of cold water and they were shivering. Bags of saline solution were being ripped open and poured onto the casualties as they sat on the floor of the hospital reception room”.
Presumably, therefore, Darwish’s shivering is a result of the “cold-water therapy” administered after his arrival at the hospital, as opposed to his condition “When he arrived”.
Strikingly, at 2:46 in the report Darwish appears to nod in communication to someone off-screen before turning to speak to the camera. (See sequence below).
In the BBC Senior Editorial Complaints Adviser’s decision of 26 September 2014 Ian Pannell identifies the hospital as “Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital in Antakya – home to one of the country’s specialist burns units”.
This video is notable for the appearance (at 1:05 in this version) of the Dutch-Armenian woman who contacted me on Facebook in June 2014, stating that she did “not want others to see” images of her at Atareb Hospital.
Darwish’s account of the alleged attack (“First the plane dropped the bomb then flew away. Then we only felt another bomb hitting near”) echoes those offered by the alleged teacher and the younger “black dress woman” in their respective, highly unpersuasive, You Tube video performances here and here (partial translation of latter here).
Also visible in the ambulance are Ridwan Qambari and another presumed relative (in the green shirt) of Siham Kanbari.
Do you think this could also be the same actor?
No, it’s a different child. All the VICE footage appears genuine.
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2019-04-24T17:52:50Z
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https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/ahmed-darwish/
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Moderation assists teachers to make judgments about individual assessments and collections of evidence or folios of student work.
For the purposes of reporting, moderation procedures ensure that teacher judgments of standards achieved by students are consistent and comparable.
Consistency of teacher judgments is important both within schools and between schools.
Making consistent judgments about students’ achievements within and between schools occurs when teachers develop shared understandings of the curriculum content and achievement standards.
Moderation provides students and their parents/carers with confidence that the awarded grades are an accurate judgment of achievement and that the report is meaningful, professional and consistent.
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https://moorookass.eq.edu.au/Curriculum/Testingandassessment/Pages/Moderation.aspx
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For the past 11 years, each Martin Luther King Jr. Day the nonprofit organization United for a Fair Economy releases its State of the Dream report. This year’s report is titled “Healthcare for Whom?” It addresses the status of health in the United States along racial and socioeconomic lines (often one and the same), and it looks at states’ implementation (or nonimplementation) of the Affordable Care Act.
The status of health is not measured only by access to health care services but the availability of healthy food and green spaces, exposure to toxins and pollutants, and physical and mental stresses based on quality of life measures such as crime, poverty and racism, according to the report.
25 states are not planning to expand Medicaid programs in 2014. (Two of those 25 states are planning to expand after 2014. Of the 10 million people who would have received health care under the expanded Medicaid program, 5 million will now fall through the new coverage gap—a group that is made up disproportionately of people of color.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) will, if fully implemented, extend health care coverage to roughly half of the 50 million uninsured individuals in the nation by 2016. This includes 14.7 million people who will get their insurance through the new health insurance exchanges and another 10 million people who will get health insurance through the expansion of the Medicaid program in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Whites represent 65 percent of the nation’s population but account for just 47 percent of those who will fall through the coverage gap. Blacks make up only 13 percent of the nation’s population but represent 27 percent of those who will fall through the coverage gap. Latinos represent 15 percent of the nation’s population but represent 21 percent of those who will now fall through the coverage gap.
United Methodists believe that basic health care is a right, not a privilege. We support health care reform on the governmental level so that quality health care – and not just sick care – is available to all. We are a nation of abundance, where no one should be made destitute because of hospital bills, medication or necessary care.
State of the Dream 2014: Healthcare for Whom [PDF] reports on this political, economic and moral crisis, this crisis of faith. It also includes action ideas.
Martin Luther King Jr. knew the worth of the poor. Jesus declared the poor blessed. United Methodist Women believes all should – and can – live a life of safety and happiness. Let’s keep working.
This entry was posted in News, Racial justice and tagged health care, I have a dream, Martin Luther King, racial justice, State of the Dream. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-19T03:20:55Z
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https://responsemagazine.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/the-state-of-the-dream/
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Traunsee is the deepest lake in Austria, going down to a cool 192m. The eastern flank is dominated by rocky crags, the tallest of which is the imposing Traunstein (1691m).
Ready to go? Get to the heart of Traunsee with one of Lonely Planet's in-depth, award-winning guidebooks.
The meeting point for this tour is at Vienna State Opera and starts at 7:15 am. First, you will visit Gmunden, where the well-known Orth castle is located on a small island in Traunsee. The castle was founded around 1080. Subsequently, the bus ride continues until you reach Hallstatt, the World Heritage town with its idyllic location next to Hallstätter See. Hallstatt is a village on Lake Hallstatt's western shore in Austria's mountainous Salzkammergut region. Learn more with help of a guide about the town’s development, its salt deposits and the unique collection of hand-painted skulls, which you can see during a visit to the ossuary. Walk through 7000-year-old Hallstatt and Its 16th-century Alpine houses. The tour continues with a 20 minutes boat ride and after it, you will have some free time to spend independently. Take a ride with the funicular Salzbergbahn up to the “Skywalk” platform, from where you can enjoy an impressive view of the lake and town of Hallstatt. The tour ends in Vienna.
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https://www.lonelyplanet.com/austria/traunsee
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MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Monterrey coach Victor Vucetich said on Sunday he was dropping his national team candidacy, leaving Toluca trainer Jose Manuel de la Torre as the sole official candidate for the vacancy.
Vucetich, speaking after his side maintained the Mexican Championship's only unbeaten record with a 2-0 win over Torre's Toluca, told reporters: "Late (Friday) night was when I decided definitely to step aside.
"The motives for taking this action are personal and more than anything family."
Toluca's De la Torre is now expected to be announced as Mexico coach on Monday with the remit of steering his country to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil amid a conflict between national team players and the Mexico Football Federation (FMF) management.
"I think he is the strongest candidate there is, I wish him the best of success, I think he will fit perfectly in the national team," Vucetich told Televisa.
De la Torre's brother Nestor resigned in midweek from the job of national teams director after players revolted against sanctions he imposed on team members who held an unauthorised late-night party following a September friendly.
Mexico have been under interim coaches for friendlies since the World Cup in South Africa where they were eliminated in the second round by Argentina and Javier Aguirre quit more than three months ago.
Speaking ahead of Monday's decision, De la Torre told reporters: "If I was not ready I'd have quit (the race) already but let's wait for the federation to make it official."
The victory by Vucetich's Monterrey left them four points clear at the top of Group One of the Apertura championship with 26 points from 12 matches. Santos Laguna, beaten 3-0 at home by runaway Group Three leaders Cruz Azul, are second.
The 18 teams play each other once in the round-robin phase of the championship regardless of which of the three groups they are in. The top two in each group plus the next two best-placed teams go into the knockout phase.
Group Two is led by San Luis, who have 19 points after their 3-2 win over Queretaro, with Toluca two points behind in second place and America hovering a point further back before their visit to Puebla on Sunday.
Cruz Azul, with 28 points in Group Three, are 12 clear of second-placed Chiapas, who were away to Pumas UNAM on Sunday.
Concacaf Champions League title holders Pachuca, fourth in Group Two, were held 1-1 at home by Morelia, whose defender Juan Carlos Reyes saved a penalty after taking over in goal following the dismissal of their Colombian keeper Miguel Calero.
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2019-04-26T00:18:51Z
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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/de-la-torre-sole-runner-mexico-job
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Mechanism: the fundamental physical or chemical processes involved in or responsible for an action, reaction or other natural phenomenon.
Machine: an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion and energy in a predetermined manner.
Simple Machine: any of various elementary mechanisms having the elements of which all machines are composed. Included in this category are the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and the screw.
The word mechanism has many meanings. In kinematics, a mechanism is a means of transmitting, controlling, or constraining relative movement (Hunt 78). Movements which are electrically, magnetically, pneumatically operated are excluded from the concept of mechanism. The central theme for mechanisms is rigid bodies connected together by joints.
A machine is a combination of rigid or resistant bodies, formed and connected so that they move with definite relative motions and transmit force from the source of power to the resistance to be overcome. A machine has two functions: transmitting definite relative motion and transmitting force. These functions require strength and rigidity to transmit the forces.
The term mechanism is applied to the combination of geometrical bodies which constitute a machine or part of a machine. A mechanism may therefore be defined as a combination of rigid or resistant bodies, formed and connected so that they move with definite relative motions with respect to one another (Ham et al. 58).
Although a truly rigid body does not exist, many engineering components are rigid because their deformations and distortions are negligible in comparison with their relative movements.
the relative motion among the rigid bodies are definite.
The difference between machine and mechanism is that machines transform energy to do work, while mechanisms so not necessarily perform this function. The term machinery generally means machines and mechanisms. Figure 2-1 shows a picture of the main part of a diesel engine. The mechanism of its cylinder-link-crank parts is a slider-crank mechanism, as shown in Figure 2-2.
Figure 2-3a shows an inclined plane, AB is the base, BC is the height and AC the inclined plane. With the use of the inclined plane a given resistance can be overcome with a smaller force than if the plane is not used. For example, in Figure 2-3b, suppose we wish to raise a weight of 1000 lb. through the vertical distance BC = 2 ft. If this weight were raised vertically and without the use of the inclined plane the force 1000 lb. would have to be exerted through the distance BC. If, however, the inclined plane is used and the weight is moved over its inclined plane AC, a force of only 2/3 of 1000 lb. or 667 lb. is necessary, although this force is exerted through a distance AC which is greater than distance BC.
Using an inclined plane requires a smaller force exerted through a greater distance to do a certain amount of work.
One of the most common application of the principle of the inclined plane is in the screw jack which is used to overcome a heavy pressure or raise a heavy weight of W by a much smaller force F applied at the handle. R represents the length of the handle and P the pitch of the screw, or the distance advances in one complete turn.
Neglecting the friction the following rule is used: The force F multiplied by the distance through which it moves in one complete turn is equal to the weight lifted times the distance through which it is lifted in the same time. In one complete turn the end of the handle describes a circle of circumference 2 R. This is the distance through which the force F is exerted.
Suppose R equals 18 in., P equals 1/8 in. and the weight to be lifted equals 100,000 lb., then the force required at F is then 110 lb. This means that, neglecting friction, 110 lb. at F will raise 100,000 lb. at W, but the weight lifted moves much slower than the force applied at F.
A gear, or toothed wheel, when in operation, may actually be considered as a lever with the additional feature that it can be rotated continuously, instead of rocking back and forth through a short distance. One of the basic relationships for a gear is the number of teeth, the diameter, and the rotary velocity of gears. Figure 2-5 shows the ends of two shafts A and B connected by 2 gears of 24 and 48 teeth respectively. Notice that the larger gear will make only one-half turn while the smaller makes a complete turn. That is, the ratio of speeds (velocity ratio) of the large to the smaller is as 1 to 2.
The gear that is closer to the source of power is called the driver, and the gear that receives power from the driver is called the driven gear.
A gear train may have several drivers and several driven gears.
When gear A turns once clockwise, gear B turns 4 times counter-clockwise and gear C turns once clockwise. Hence gear B does not change the speed of C from what it would have been if geared directly to gear A, but it changes its direction from counterclockwise to clockwise.
The velocity ratio of the first and last gears in a train of simple gears dose not changed by putting any number of gears between them.
Figure 2-7 shows compound gears in which two gears are on the middle shaft. Gears B and D rotate at the same speed since they are keyed (fixed) to the same shaft. The number of teeth on each gear is given in the figure. Given these numbers, if gear A rotates at 100 r.p.m. clockwise, gear B turns 400 r.p.m. (rotations per minute) counterclockwise and gear C turns 1200 r.p.m. clockwise.
It is important when working with gears to know what number of teeth the gears should have so that they can mesh properly in a gear train. The size of the teeth for connecting gears must be match properly.
Belts and pulleys are an important part of most machines. Pulleys are nothing but gears without teeth and instead of running together directly they are made to drive one another by cords, ropes, cables, or belting of some kinds.
As with gears, the velocities of pulleys are inversely proportional to their diameters.
Pulleys can also be arranged as a block and tackle.
Wout = the output work of a machine.
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rapidproto/mechanisms/chpt2.html
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Abstract: We present a new calibration of the Stroemgren metallicity index m1 using red giant (RG) stars in 4 globular clusters (GCs:M92,M13,NGC1851,47Tuc) with metallicity ranging from [Fe/H]=-2.2 to -0.7, marginally affected by reddening (E(B-V)<0.04) and with accurate u,v,b,y photometry.The main difference between the new metallicity-index-color (MIC) relations and similar relations available in the literature is that we adopted the u-y/v-y colors instead of the b-y.These colors present a stronger sensitivity to effective temperature, and the MIC relations show a linear slope. The difference between photometric estimates and spectroscopic measurements for RGs in M71,NGC288,NGC362,NGC6397, and NGC6752 is 0.04+/-0.03dex (sigma=0.11dex). We also apply the MIC relations to 85 field RGs with metallicity raning from [Fe/H]=-2.4 to -0.5 and accurate reddening estimates. We find that the difference between photometric estimates and spectroscopic measurements is-0.14+/-0.01dex (sig=0.17dex). We also provide two sets of MIC relations based on evolutionary models that have been transformed into the observational plane by adopting either semi-empirical or theoretical color-temperature relations. We apply the semi-empirical relations to the 9 GCs and find that the difference between photometric and spectroscopic metallicities is 0.04+/-0.03dex (sig=0.10dex).A similar agreement is found for the sample of field RGs, with a difference of -0.09+/-0.03dex (sig=0.19dex).The difference between metallicity estimates based on theoretical relations and spectroscopic measurements is -0.11+/-0.03dex (sig=0.14dex) for the 9 GGCs and -0.24+/-0.03dex (sig=0.15dex) for the field RGs. Current evidence indicates that new MIC relations provide metallicities with an intrinsic accuracy better than 0.2dex.
This entry was posted in astro-ph on July 17, 2007 by Marco.
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https://globularclusters.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/stroemgren-photometry-of-galactic-globular-clusters-i/
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Learning to love what I have, bounce and all.
What’s up with waking up before 7am on a Sunday? Oh well, naps are always welcome in this house. Coffee first. Maybe then a run.
I am not a fan of running on roads or pavement. Cars, other people, movement, etc. Boring, old roads. Growing up in NYC, that’s all I knew for running. In the eighties, I’m sure there were plenty of folks trail running, I simply hadn’t checked it out yet. Upon moving to Vermont, i did my first trail run in ’90, It felt slow and awkward. I raced (or something that looked like it) for a season in high school. I get a chuckle thinking about my coach’s face when he would see me run. Thank God I wasn’t one of the scorers for the team. The fastest cross country 5k I ran, I think, was something like 24 minutes.
Fast forward two decades (how did that happen, seriously?). And I am walking, then trotting, now running, trails where my Aggie girl can run off-leash. No cars, no lights, no noise, no other people. Well, mostly. There is the occasional other runner and dog walker. I LOVE it. Just me.
Know what I love most about trail running? THERE IS ALWAYS A DOWNHILL! I love feeling like I am actually running like a champ on those downhills. And the pace is ALWAYS changing. I have to pay attention to my next step so I can block out my brain which is always telling me I can stop if I want.
Today’s run was a new route for me. Two miles out on flat, boring old asphalt. Cars, staring people (that’s what it feels like sometimes), flat. Flat. Hips hurt. Brain says I hate this, let’s stop. Where are my roots? Wet grass? Fallen trees? My God, I forgot what the sun feels like cooking me. Too hot. I know, its only two miles, but I’m so spoiled. Okay, I’m at some new to me trails. New trails!!! Smiling, silly big smile. Shade, big hill, pine needle coated trails. Big bouldered stream. Perfect. Peaceful, beautiful trails. So many trails here I haven’t investigated yet. But, it’s time to head home.
Aggie is back on-leash. And we push the last two road miles back home. I don’t own a GPS, so I map out my runs online. I go mostly by feel. If I push home, I’ll be that much closer to my second morning coffee! 6ish miles, and I’m back.
Maybe next time I do this route, I’ll drive to the trails. It wasn’t so bad, though. That running on the road business. Whatever.
This race hurt more than it looks here. But I did it!
I still owe for use of this photo, so, hence the adopttwins tag. Thank you, but, I already have my own.
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2019-04-18T17:13:26Z
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The trajectory of Guillaume Apollinaire from an unknown and socially marginal immigrant to one of France's most cherished poets is astounding. His metamorphosis has fascinated me both as a master's student and as an American, in a country defined by a melding of a multitude of national identities. Apollinaire's transformation was linked to and accomplished through his writing, which received a particular coloring due to his enlistment during World War I. My curiosity was piqued by this mélange of violence and literature, by Mars as a muse to the Muses, as well as by an identity created and considered an aesthetic event in itself. This research project is the result of my investigation into how these elements of war and identity intersect in the life of a poet eventually consumed by the maelstrom that gave him an adoptive nationality.
Among the authors that served as guideposts in my research were Anne Clancier and Annette Becker. In her work, Guillaume Apollinaire: Les incertitudes de l’identité, Clancier brings her background as a psychologist to Apollinaire's story, emphasizing the myth-based and oedipal aspects of his quest for identity in the absence of his presupposed father. She implies that this quest, expressed in a "pulsion to find, equal, go further than his father" had a role in his war injury and eventual death. Although a psychoanalytic viewpoint such as Clancier's has plausibility, other scholars such as Annette Beck point towards a primordial search for a national identity as a more central element of Apollinaire's quest, couching her writing in a more historical light. Over the course of my research, the emphasis kept returning to Becker's line of thought, which I endeavored to extend further, particularly since Apollinaire's efforts to obtain an officer's commission in World War I were linked to an accelerated path to naturalization.
My daily workload of research alternated between the collections at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP) and the Manuscript Department of the Bibiothèque Nationale de France at the Richelieu location. Actually, the timing of my research was fortuitous, since the Richelieu location will be soon under renovation and inaccessible to the public for an extended period.
There were two catalysts in the evolution of my project: the visual aspects of Apollinaire's identity presented through the artistic works of his friends, and the interior expression of that same identity by Apollinaire himself. The first took place when I visited the exposition on Apollinaire at the Musée d'Orsay (Orangerie), emphasizing the formation and reflection of identity from the exterior; the second occurred while researching the connection between Pierre Reverdy and Apollinaire in the development of Surrealist artistic theory, orienting towards an identity expressed from within.
In the course of my research, a name that kept recurring was that of Pierre Reverdy. I found that his short-lived artistic publication, Nord-Sud, delivered a powerful coup de main to the nascent Surrealist movement that was searching for its theoretical foundations and boundaries. He selflessly hailed Apollinaire as a genius of the movement. His close friendship with Apollinaire gave him a particular insight in verbalizing the tenants of Surrealism, all the while managing to publish during wartime. I discovered that the library of Sablé-sur-Sarthe houses a complete and unique edition of Nord-Sud, with abundant unpublished annotations by Reverdy himself. Thanks to my economies, I was able to consult this collection in person. This Apollinaire-Reverdy connection proved very fruitful, pointing me further towards the visual side of this research project.
Among the extensive documents that I was able to consult and/or reproduce, two were particularly relevant to this project and insufficiently incorporated into the existing research on the subject of Apollinaire's identity. The first was a mysterious photo at the end of one of the folios, representing Apollinaire in the trenches in silhouette, surrounded by shells and ammunition on shelves, which he is consulting as if they were books in a library. The second is the short work entitled Du coton dans les oreilles, which was written in an artillery notebook using a mix of calligramme style and free verse. Both of these documents demonstrate a unique combination of literature and litigation, words and war; they illustrate the unique form of Apollinaire's identity, forged in both fires. I find these underrepresented visual and literary elements are solid bases for expanding the scholarly conversation on the identity formation of one of France's premier poets.
Although I had my first short experience researching in Paris during spring break, this research trip (which included a conference presentation in Genoa) brought a significant depth to my professional development. To tackle a larger research project increased my continuity in objective and flexibility based on my findings, as well as stamina in navigating the restrictions of French copyright law (in addition to the vagaries of national strikes which caused delays in public transport and library services!). Besides the joy of discovery (handling so many of Apollinaire's manuscripts was breathtaking), working in such beautiful surroundings - the reading room of the BHVP, the Oval Room and the Manuscript Room at the Richelieu site – was a privilege I do not take lightly. Some special moments stand out: at the BHVP, the customary silence was occasionally broken with sounds as varied as a lone violinist serenading from the adjoining street, to the prolonged shouts over the loudspeakers of passionate protesters. I recall looking around me more than once and being so glad to be among the mental hum of all the researchers around me. I extend my gratitude to the entire Nanovic Institute team for believing in this research project and for making this dream possible. I am both energized and motivated to pursue this line of research under the guidance of my graduate advisor as I prepare my findings to share with a wider public.
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2019-04-21T06:11:35Z
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Students may register online for these courses, they are listed in the course schedule under “Professional Development”. Course numbers are listed below.
The courses are 0 credits and do not appear on student transcripts; they are free of charge and open to all matriculated Graduate Center students.
This course is designed to help students improve their spoken English in a variety of academic and casual settings through guided instruction of American-style conversation and direct instruction of spoken English fluency and pronunciation skills. Additionally, students will be instructed in the standard methods and style of teaching and presenting for the American university classroom. Students will also be discussing and learning about American culture via themes and topics that are relevant to the students’ interests.
This course is designed to provide students with practical advice and hands-on exercises to help them design future courses and prepare for classroom teaching. It is grounded in an understanding of the social context of teaching at CUNY as well as providing some theoretical discussion of what makes for good pedagogical practice. This course will be especially valuable for graduate students who will soon be teaching undergraduate courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
GC: Thursday, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 0 credits, Prof. Jerskey, Section for native English speakers.
This course is designed to help students improve their academic writing. This section is meant for native English speakers who want to address issues in their writing and overcome particular writing hurdles.
GC: Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 0 credits, Prof. Parmegiani Section for non-native English speakers.
This workshop course intends to help students improve their academic writing skills. The section is restricted to students who speak English as a foreign language and will address common issues and problems that they may face when writing. All students are required to share with the class a draft of their own academic writing in progress.
I give Film Studies permission to collect and use my data submitted in this form.
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Remote sensing techniques provide valuable tools for assessing a wide variety of environmental phenomena. They have been used for monitoring and assessment of various types of geologic and environmental hazards occurring on land, in the air, or in oceans. I present results from two studies, the first of which examines the spatial and temporal distribution of algal blooms in the Great Lakes; the second measures subsidence in the Nile Delta.
In the first study, methodologies to investigate the extent and distribution (temporally and spatially) of algal blooms in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are studied. Millions of people in the U.S and Canada rely on the Great Lakes for drinking water, food, work, and recreation. Toxic algal blooms present a hazard to the substantial number of communities that draw water from the Great Lakes. Visible and infra red MODIS satellite data are used to map the extent of algal blooms in these lakes. Existing algorithms to retrieve chlorophyll concentrations are successfully tested against in situ measurements from sampling cruises. Algorithms are developed to identify the potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms.
The second study examines subsidence in the Nile Delta. The modern Nile Delta is the major agricultural production area for Egypt and was formed from sediments supplied by at least 10 distinct distributary channels throughout the Holocene. With an average elevation around a meter above sea level and with a predicted rise in sea level of 1.8-5.9 mm/year the subsidence of the northern 30 km of the delta is a topic of major concern to the Egyptian population and government. Ongoing subsidence rates in the northeastern Nile Delta were estimated using persistent scatterer radar interferometry techniques. The highest rates ( ~8 mm/yr; twice average Holocene rates) correlate with the distribution of the youngest deposition, with older depositional centers subsiding at slower rates of 2-6 mm/yr. Results are interpreted to indicate that: (1) modern subsidence in the Delta is heavily influenced by the compaction of the most recent sediments, and (2) the highly threatened areas are at the terminus of the Damietta, where the most recent deposition has occurred.
Becker, Richard H., "Remote Sensing Studies for the Assessment of Geohazards: Toxic Algal Blooms in the Lower Great Lakes, and the Land Subsidence in the Nile Delta" (2008). Dissertations. 3382.
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https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/3382/
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Following up on Wednesday’s release on ratings for Gov. Chris Christie, today we look more closely at this year’s election for governor. NJ state Sen. Barbara Buono is the presumed Democratic challenger, so we look at head-to-head matches between her and Christie. We also asked voters to name the most important problem facing the state and to tell us how closely they are following the race.
Bottom line is that Christie continues to hold a very large lead – 30 points – over the nearly unknown Buono. But, this lead is down from 42 points in February, as Democrats have begun to shift to Buono after flirting with Christe, post-Hurricane Sandy. Still, unless Buono can do more than bring the Democratic base home, Christie is in good shape. But there is a lot of time until election day in November.
The text of the release follows. Click here for a PDF of the release with text, questions, and tables.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J – N.J. Governor Chris Christie maintains a dominating, yet shrinking, lead over presumed Democratic gubernatorial candidate state Senator Barbara Buono, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Christie now holds a 30 point lead among registered voters, 57 percent to 27 percent, down from his 42 point lead in a February Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Christie’s support has dropped six points, while Buono has picked up six points over the past two months, the new poll shows.
Regardless of which candidate they prefer, 8 in 10 voters believe Christie will win a second term. Even 61 percent of Buono supporters expect her to lose.
While Christie’s favorability rating has declined six points since February, Buono continues to struggle with name recognition. Just 18 percent have a favorable impression of Buono, 12 percent are unfavorable, and 70 percent have no opinion.
Nonetheless Buono has made significant inroads, but only because she is finally leading among Democratic voters along with some key constituent groups that usually lean Democratic. Independents remain overwhelmingly in Christie’s camp.
Voters say taxes and jobs are the most important problems facing New Jersey. While Christie’s overall job approval is high at 68 percent, voters are much less positive about his performance on the economy and jobs (42 percent approval) and taxes (37 percent approval). Nonetheless, Christie overwhelms Buono, even among those who are unhappy with these parts of his performance.
Results are from a poll of 923 New Jersey adults conducted statewide among both landline and cell phone households from April 3-7. The sample includes 819 registered voters reported on here, with a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percentage points.
In February Christie led Buono by four points among Democratic voters. Two months later Buono has an 18 point lead with Democrats, 49 percent to 31 percent. But nearly 20 percent of Democrats remain unsure of whom they will vote for. Buono now also holds leads among some parts of the Democratic coalition including liberals (50 percent for Buono), blacks (45 percent) and voters under 30 years old (43 percent). And while she wins a majority of voters who supported former Governor Jon Corzine , more than a quarter of them say they plan to vote for Christie.
Christie has lost few of his 2009 voters, with only about 10 percent either planning to vote for Buono or unsure. He maintains large leads among voters at all income and education levels, and even has a 53 percent to 29 percent lead among women. His margin among men is even larger at 60 percent to 24 percent. Christie’s support is also statewide, with large majorities in every region except urban counties, where voters are almost evenly split, giving Christie a small four point lead. One key to Christie’s continuing support is the 65 to 16 percent lead he holds among independent voters.
At this still-early stage of election season, about half of voters say they are following the election either “Very closely” (12 percent) or “Somewhat closely” (36 percent.) But another third are not following the campaign closely, and 19 percent are not following it at all. Christie’s lead over Buono is just as strong among those paying careful attention as those who admit they are paying little attention.
Regardless of whom they support, most think that Christie will get a second term. Even most Democrats (70 percent), those unfavorable toward Christie (64 percent), those favorable toward Buono (75 percent), and those who plan to vote for Buono (61 percent) think that the governor will win in November.
As reported earlier this week, Christie’s favorability rating is down 6 points from February, while his overall job performance approval dropped 5 points. Nonetheless, about two-thirds of voters respond positively to the Governor, and few have no opinion.
Buono, however, remains largely unknown statewide and has seen no increase in recognition or favorability since February. Even 63 percent of Democratic voters report no impression of her. Three in ten Democrats are favorable, while only seven percent have an unfavorable impression of the Democratic candidate.
Three-quarters of independents have no opinion of Buono, while 12 percent view her favorably, and 13 percent are unfavorable. Buono also remains all but unknown to 72 percent of Republicans, with just 4 percent favorable and 24 percent unfavorable. Even most typical Democratic supporters such as women (74 percent), black voters (68 percent) and voters belonging to public union households (66 percent) have no impression of Buono.
Asked to name New Jersey’s most important problem in their own words, 26 percent of voters identify taxes. Mentions of lack of jobs and unemployment follow closely behind at 24 percent. Ten percent name the economy in general, and another ten percent say education is the most important problem. The list is rounded out with crime and drugs at eight percent and government spending, waste, and corruption at six percent.
Democrats are more likely to say unemployment and jobs are most important (26 percent), followed by education and taxes, which tie for second at 16 percent. For independents, taxes are the top concern, with one-third expressing frustration with high taxes. Unemployment and jobs follows at 20 percent. Just over a third of Republicans also says taxes are most important, with another 24 percent calling jobs and unemployment the top problem.
Sixty-one percent of voters who name taxes as the most important problem believe Christie is spending too little time on the problem. Similarly, 59 percent of voters who say jobs are the key problem, express the same concern. Moreover, only a minority of all voters approve of the Governor’s performance in either of these areas. Despite this, Christie easily beats Buono among voters naming taxes or jobs as their top problem; illuminating the problem she faces in trying to unseat the Governor.
One would think that a firmly democratic state would have a greater interest in dashing the Republican governor’s presidential aspirations for 2016. No one likes to see their governor crisscrossing the country campaigning for higher office.
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2019-04-19T14:16:16Z
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https://eagletonpollblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/head-to-head-with-buono-christie-continues-a-strong-lead-but/
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Using Arbitration to Eliminate Consumer Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse?
Companies are increasingly drafting arbitration clauses worded to prevent consumers from bringing class actions against them in either litigation or arbitration. If one looks at the form contracts she receives regarding her credit card, cellular phone, land phone, insurance policies, mortgage, and so forth, most likely, the majority of those contracts include arbitration clauses, and many of those include prohibitions on class actions. Companies are seeking to use these clauses to shield themselves from class action liability, either in court or in arbitration.
This article argues that while the unconscionability doctrine offers some protections, case-by-case adjudication is a costly means of attacking class action prohibitions. Thus, this article proposes that the interests of both public policy and efficiency would be better served by federal legislation prohibiting companies from precluding consumer class actions.
This article has been cited by the Canadian Supreme Court in Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc., 2011 SCC 15 at para. 166 (Mar. 18, 2011) (LeBel & Deschamps, JJ., dissenting).
67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 75 (2004).
Sternlight, Jean R. and Jensen, Elizabeth J., "Using Arbitration to Eliminate Consumer Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse?" (2004). Scholarly Works. 277.
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https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/277/
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ERIE, MI (November 28, 2018) – The Playground of Power, Plymouth Speedway, will host Engine Pro Sprints On Dirt presented by ARP for two races in 2019. SOD will take on the 3/8 mile speedway on Saturday, July 27th and a second date to be announced later.
Under owner Ed Kennedy, dirt track racing has returned to Northern Indiana in a big way with a state-of-the-art racing entertainment facility. Opening as a paved track in 1952, the speedway started its transition to dirt with a ¼ mile dirt oval created inside the 3/8 mile paved track in 2012. The current 3/8 mile dirt track replaced the paved oval in 2013. In 2016, new seating was constructed to enhance the fan experience.
SOD raced at Plymouth from 2012 through 2015, giving SOD competitors some familiarity with the track. In addition, several Plymouth (crate) Pro Sprint drivers also raced with SOD, so they will be right at home.
More information about the 2019 Engine Pro Sprints On Dirt presented by ARP schedule will be released in upcoming announcements.
Get to know Plymouth Speedway at www.plymouthspeedway.net and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PlymouthSpeedway.
This entry was posted on November 28, 2018 at 2:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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http://www.sprintsondirt.com/2018/11/28/sod-invades-plymouth-speedway-in-2019/
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Which CLer would make the best pilot?
Anyone On Here In The Print?
Anyone on 3 network on iphone?
how low will dominoes go?
Happy with your Job? If not how would you change?
Anyone fancy taking up tropical fish keeping on the cheap?
University/Polytechnic/College/U of Life - which one?
What songs do you whistle to whilst on the toilet?
Things to do when the wife and kids are away...help needed!
Just how many old clothes do Charities think I have?
Drinking beer turns men into ladies... it's a fact.
Anyone Else In the Greenwich Wetherspoons Saturday night?
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2019-04-26T12:28:24Z
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https://forum.charltonlife.com/categories/archives/not-sports-related/2010-09
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This report presents College N-S earth current records for the month of July 1959. The scale of 1 inch per hour permits detailed scaling directly from the reproductions in the report. Scalings of hourly range in amplitude and rapid fluctuation activity are given. The amplitude scalings are also presented as curves together with average curves for a period of several years to show the relative magnitudes of the July 1959 activity. The earth current always displays much more pronounced fine structure than the corresponding geomagnetic activity.
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https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/xmlui/handle/11122/3608
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Founding a school – especially one committed to the arts – is a chore that keeps one up at night, not just dreaming, but inventing and constantly reconfiguring. Leaving aside issues like recruiting students and creating a business plan, how does one take something as complex as providing an education for children of multiple ages and keep it simple, at least to start?
On the day of my most recent visit, the morning started with a chicken. Sweetland School, which opened with 6 children in Hope, Maine in September 2014, is housed in the center of town, on an historic site. Originally envisioned as a community art center, its founder, Lindsay Pinchbeck, decided that while it would be open for business “after traditional school hours” for arts experiences, its primary purpose truly ought to be a school. Last Monday morning as one child and then another entered, she welcomed them, “I thought it might be fun to warm up with our chicken model.” Lindsay had prepared a table with individual brown papers, special white colored pencils, and in the middle of it all, a large cage housing today’s live model. Students from first through third grade were riveted – eyes glued to every detail of the specimen. They took their responsibilities seriously, chatting informally, commenting occasionally on the chicken sounds, yet driven by their assignment. After a little more than half the academic year at Sweetland School, all of the children were competently applying their observation, small motor, spatial, and design skills. Even the youngest among them were tuned into patterns (one of the hallmarks of good thinkers) and feeling empowered as young artists and scholars.
There was more in store that morning, as one looked around the classroom; children could choose drawing, printmaking, or frame making after sketching. Gathered together in a circle, their teacher demonstrated gel printing with feathers. While she modeled, each artist seemed to analyze or “take the process apart” in his or her head in order to fully understand how the elements left an image.
In an hour’s time, children whose interests and skill levels vastly differ and whose ages span a handful of years conducted one experiment after another. One child completely changed course mid-stream, feeling fully satisfied with what she’d produced. Others wondered how the materials had interacted, asking questions of themselves and their peers, curious about how, why, or if.
Baking science, math, arts, literature. writing, and history into a pie takes one remarkable master chef. That’s why Lindsay, like her students, alters the ingredients and the recipe. Doesn’t it make sense that to get it right, it’s sensible to get a bit messy in the process of getting clear?
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2019-04-19T06:37:16Z
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https://artworksmaine.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/braver-than-you-believe-sweetland-school-takes-off/
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This home has it all. Three bedroom, two full bath, vinyl sided, ranch style home on a 2+ acre professionally landscaped lot. Attached two car garage withadditional 24x32 garage. New 22 x 14 Trek deck with SunSetter awning - a great place to entertain. Central Air. All appliances included. With the right offer,this home can come completely furnished. Pond on the property! Come and tour this property....you will be impressed.
Note that total taxes without any exemptions are $ 2,058.64. The present owner has a $ 287.87 discount on the County Tax due to a Veterans plus Disabled War Vet exemption. Present owner does not have any star exemption on the school taxes. Owner has re-located !
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HARBESON, Del. — Police in Delaware say authorities shot and killed a paraplegic man who had reached for a handgun while troopers were executing a search warrant at a home.
Delaware State Police said in a news release an unidentified 50-year-old man was shot early Tuesday in Harbeson.
Authorities say the man was lying in bed and reached for a handgun while troopers were in the home.
A struggle over the weapon followed and two troopers fired their weapons at the man.
The man died at a hospital. Master Cpl. Melissa Jaffe said the man's identity is being withheld until all family members can be notified.
Police said the investigation is underway and provided no additional information, including the races of the trooper and the victim.
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2019-04-22T11:04:44Z
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http://www.startribune.com/police-troopers-killed-paraplegic-man-who-reached-for-gun/491925281/
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United States Tennis Association (USTA) Southern announced that Bonnie Vandegrift, of Asheville, N.C., has been electedto serve as USTA Southern Board of Directors President & CEO for the 2019-20 term.
Here is the text from the press released in October 2018.
Vandegrift is presently serving a two-year term as Executive Vice President. In 2015 she was elected to her second two-year term as Vice President. Previously, Vandegrift served one term as Director at Large and 12 years on the USTA Southern League Committee. She spent four years as Chairman and four years as Vice Chair. She has served as Chair of the USTA League Committee for four years and as a committee member for 10 years. Vandegrift is currently the USTA Adult Council Chair and a member of the Advisory Group on Committees and Evaluations. She also is a Past President of USTA North Carolina and the North Carolina Tennis Foundation.
Randy Jackson, of Fort Smith Ark., was nominated to the post of Executive Vice President for the 2019-20 term. He has served as a USTA Southern Board of Directors Vice President since 2013.
The members of the USTA Southern Board of Directors will be voted on by the Southern Section’s nine state associations -- Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee -- for the two-year term beginning on Jan. 1, 2019. The state associations will also vote on the candidates chosen for the USTA Southern Nominating Committee at that time. USTA Southern is the largest of the U.S. Tennis Association’s 17 sections, representing nearly 25 percent of the national membership.
USTA Southern President and CEO Derek White, of Savannah, Ga., was nominated as the USTA Delegate and Chairman of the USTA Southern Nominating Committee for the 2019-20 term.
Bonnie Vandegrift; President & CEO; Asheville, N.C.
Randy Jackson; Executive Vice Presiden; Fort Smith, Ark.
Drew Meyers; Vice President; Lafayette, La.
Ted Reese; Vice President; Cary, N.C.
Brett Schwartz; Vice President, Mandeville, La.
John Herring, Treasurer; Lexington, Ky.
Marcy Hirshberg; Secretary; Johns Creek, Ga.
Beth Hopkins; Director at Large; Advance, N.C.
Bill McGugin; Director at Large; Nashville, Tenn.
Dave Neuhart; Director at Large; Columbus, Ga.
Derek White; USTA Delegate; Savannah, Ga.
Derek White; Chairman; Savannah, Ga.
Jane Gamble; Member; Paducah, Ky.
Paula Hale; Member; Raleigh, N.C.
Bob Peiffer; Member; Charleston, S.C.
Jenifer Tucker; Member; Fayetteville, Ark.
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https://www.usta.com/en/home/stay-current/southern/2019_20_board_nominations.html
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Yes, folks, these lawsuits are real.
Seemingly frivolous lawsuits are costing us billions and changing the way Americans live and function in society, experts tell the ABC News Law & Justice Unit.
Lawsuits like the case of the $67 million "fancy pants" lost at a Washington, DC dry cleaners, have become a national punch line, but not everyone is laughing. Tort claims cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars per year, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, and they are changing our behavior and culture, says Phillip Howard, chairman of Common Good, a legal reform coalition.
The poster child of excessive lawsuits seems to be the 1992 case against McDonald's brought by a woman who burned herself when she spilled coffee on her lap. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages. But that seems quaint compared to some recent suits.
One hopeful plaintiff sued basketball star Michael Jordan and Nike co-founder Phil Knight for $862 million "for defamation and permanent injury," because he found it "distressing" to look like and be confused with the icon. He dropped the suit but won the 2006 "Stella Award" – named after the infamous McDonald's coffee case – for most ridiculous lawsuit that year.
But the competition for most outrageous lawsuit is stiff.
One woman sued an open air mall after she was "attacked" by a squirrel on the grass, claiming that the mall "failed to warn" her about these animals, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In another attempt to pass the buck, a photographer sued a waste management company for $50 million after he fell off a garbage truck that he had climbed atop in order to take better pictures, reported the New York Daily News. His lawyer said the company was negligent since his client "never thought in a million years the truck would move."
Schools and hospitals are popular targets for ruthless litigants. One student sued her school district when she received a failing grade for an assignment she turned in late, reported the Charleston Daily Mail. Also, a patient sued a hospital "for allowing a visitor to bring into the hospital the illegal drugs she used." She also blamed the hospital "for not noticing she was high and that her heroin or cocaine needle was broken and still stuck in her arm when she received an antidepressant," according to the Allentown Morning Call.
Although not always this audacious, Howard calls these types of frivolous lawsuits "legalized extortion" and says they change the way we behave. For example, after a $6 million verdict from a sledding accident in Greenwich, Conn., towns and golf courses across the Northeast banned sledding on their property. In some places, fear of lawsuits has caused schools to ban running at recess and playgrounds to get rid of swing sets, according to Howard.
And what is more alarming is that the threat of lawsuits may prevent action from being taken against real perpetrators. Charles Cullen, the nurse who pleaded guilty to killing at least 29 patients in hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was able to move from one hospital to another - 10 medical facilities in 16 years – because fear of litigation prevented the hospitals from giving him a bad reference, says Howard. In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, legal experts pointed out that the university might have faced legal challenges had they expelled Cho Seung-Hui, the future killer, before he did anything illegal.
Experts like Howard think this is growing problem. "We took a wrong turn in American justice about 40 years ago," he told ABC News, "judges have been sitting on their hands …. letting people claim anything, and the effect is not better justice, it is worse justice."
We all pay a price for frivolous lawsuits, say experts. Tort claims cost the nation about $233 billion in 2002, which is more than double the average cost of other industrialized nations, according to a study by Tillinghast Towers Perrin.
As legal threats grow, so will the uncertainty and exposure felt by individuals and businesses. "At one point in the 70's a lawsuit for a million dollars would make a headline. Now people make claims for a billion dollars," Howard told ABC News, citing the case of the $67 million fancy pants.
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https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3121086&page=1
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Eat Local KC: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and antibiotics.
Have you ever noticed that when you try cooking those nice looking, easy to cook, CHEAP, boneless skinless chicken breasts, your pan fills up with weird looking liquid? And then you end up with about 1/2 the size of meat you started with? Oh, and lest I forget, they taste like a wad of wet paper? Hence began my desire to raise chicken that tastes like chicken. Hell, pretty soon we won't even understand the old adage "tastes like chicken" because we won't even remember that chicken used to have A TASTE!
So, when we decided to buy a farm and start raising food, one of our goals that excited us the most was growing pastured broiler chickens, chickens that taste like chicken. They would be started inside, in a very controlled environment, then put outside in a bottomless pen which is moved each day, allowing the birds to supplement their diet with green grass and bugs. Most of today's chickens still need supplemental feed, so we have to purchase feed for the chicks. Here is where my issue lies.
Yesterday I had planned on buying my first chicks of the season, so my two year old and I headed to the farm store that was holding "chick days," intending to come home with our first 50 chicks of the season (we will raise an additional 200 or so throughout the spring and summer). Luckily, having had problems in the past, I decided to buy our feed prior to buying the chicks. However, after going to two feed stores and calling four others, all we could find was chicken feed medicated with antibiotics. I have raised chickens for years without medicated feed, and growing up we had chickens every year, none of which were fed any medication. In today's world however, we've apparently taken the view that without the miracle of antibiotics, we cannot even grow what nature has grown forever without us. I'm all for free markets, and if someone can find a way to build a business and make some money, go for it. But please, keep it out of my food!
Personally, I can find ways around the medicated feed. There are (thankfully) a few small custom feed mills left that will grind feed to meet my specs, and actually I am happy to support their local business instead of the agri-giants pouring medication on feed bound for food. What really struck a nerve for me was all the other folks buying a handful of chicks to raise on their own, who didn't really stop to think about the antibiotic laden feed they were purchasing for their chicks. I'm sure they are all there with good intentions, growing their own meat, "free" from all of the negatives associated with confined poultry. But there they were, nonetheless, wheeling out bags of medicated feed, medication that will remain in their birds after slaughter and be served up next to the mashed potatoes and fresh green beans. Raising these birds is a lot of work, as is growing the potatoes and green beans that go on the plate with them...too bad it is getting harder not to get a side of antibiotics along with it.
Well that stinks. Good for you for paying attention.
I live near the KC area (an hour away in KS) and I have had no issues finding antibiotic free food for fowl. Every place I shop has a medicated and non medicated version of starter feed. I am glad you found a local provider of non medicated feed and find it surprising that the bulk of your local providers don't offer a choice. I bet they would order it if you asked, however.
Definitely, THANK YOU! We eat those chickens. :) And love them, and you for being so careful what you feed them. Other not so pleasant things you can find in industrial chicken feeds can include arsenic, banned in EU, but still available here. It's getting hard to find real food, for us or for chickens.
I think choose food which can give stamina and less fat, not those which has better taste. Fried chickens and green beans are great healthy foods.
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2019-04-24T18:25:00Z
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https://eatlocalkc.typepad.com/eatlocalkc/2008/03/may-i-have-a-si.html
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Kenyan Emmanuel Korir overcame getting tripped with 200 meters left to win the 800m on the first day of the Prefontaine Classic on Friday.
Korir was leading when Botswana’s Nijel Amos‘ spike clipped his leg. Korir stumbled, took six steps inside the rail and ceded the lead to Amos, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
But Korir overtook Amos on the final straight, winning in 1:45.16, .35 ahead of Amos. The race lacked double Olympic champion and world-record holder David Rudisha, who hasn’t raced since July 4 due to injury.
Korir, 22, ran the fastest 800m in the world last year but was eliminated in the semifinals at the world championships.
In other events, world champion Sam Kendricks beat the last two Olympic champions in the pole vault, clearing 5.81 meters.
Surprise Rio Olympic gold medalist Thiago Braz of Brazil no-heighted at Pre for a second straight year in his first outdoor meet in 10 months. London Olympic champ and world-record holder Renaud Lavillenie didn’t fare much better, exiting at 5.71 meters for fifth place. Lavillenie still holds the top clearance in the world this year of 5.95 meters.
Rio gold medalist Thomas Röhler led a German javelin sweep, throwing a meet record 89.88 meters. World champion Johannes Vetter, who was second with an 89.34-meter throw, still ranks No. 1 in the world this year at 92.70.
In the two-mile, Ethiopian Selemon Barega upset Olympic 5000m silver medalist Paul Chelimo, outsprinting the American and clocking 8:20.01. Chelimo was second in 8:20.91.
The Pre Classic continues Saturday on NBC and NBC Sports Gold with streaming coverage starting at 2:50 p.m. ET.
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2019-04-19T21:02:57Z
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https://olympics.nbcsports.com/athlete/nijel-amos/
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India is looking at slashing oil imports from Iran and replacing them with more purchases from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after US re-imposed sanctions on the Persian Gulf nation, government and industry officials said on Thursday.
While a final view on US asking India and China to cut Iranian oil imports has not yet been taken, the petroleum ministry has asked refiners to tread cautiously and start looking at alternatives, they said.
Bringing down imports to zero, as desired by the US, may however not be feasible, officials said.
The ministry held discussions with oil refiners today and will follow them up with meetings with external affairs ministry next week.
"Clarity will emerge in one weeks time," an official said.
High sulphur crude from the Middle-East particularly from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can easily replace the quantities being bought from Iran, he said.
Other sources in Latin America and US are also some options, he added.
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2019-04-21T18:32:36Z
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https://www.rediff.com/money/report/trump-triumphs-india-plans-to-cut-oil-imports-from-iran/20180628.htm
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This paper presents the results of a simplified method for reconfiguring a small city and rural county to support its current population on the environmental energies available within the boundaries of the county. It is configured as a game, based on the simplifying assumption that the collection and concentration of renewable energies is almost entirely a matter of surface or land area, so that a renewable economy becomes a matter of competing land uses, of tradeoffs between land used for the production of food, fuel, electricity, and so on. E[m]ergy accounting was used to translate different forms of consumption into equivalent land areas, while the many forms of production and consumption were reduced to 29 parameters that can be varied to test alternate scenarios for the county. The results have been coded into a web site for playing the game.
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2019-04-22T15:27:35Z
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https://www.design.upenn.edu/cebd/work/new-chautauqua-game-designing-renewable-city-and-region-using-emergy-accounting
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I hate the word “sure” more than any other in the English language.
You hate more words than anyone I know.
I’m pretty sure I say it to you all the time. I ain’t stoppin’.
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2019-04-18T22:39:29Z
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https://arcanedufresne.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/2546/
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Nearly 800 faculty, students and staff poured into Turner Concourse on Jan. 6 for a reception to honor Carol Greider, who recently returned from Stockholm, where she accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Amid unrelenting camera flashes, tributes cited Greider’s humility, passion for science and camaraderie. Speakers were Edward Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine; university President Ronald J. Daniels; Thomas Kelly, director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and former Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics, who had hired Greider at Johns Hopkins; Janice Clements, professor and director of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology; and Mary Armanios, assistant professor in the Department of Oncology and the Institute for Genetic Medicine.
After expressing gratitude for the “tremendous turnout,” Greider ended the program with humorous anecdotes about Stockholm and dinner with the king of Sweden.
Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, shared the Nobel with Elizabeth Blackburn, of the University of California, San Francisco, and Jack Szostak, of Harvard Medical School, for their discovery and work with the enzyme telomerase, which protects chromosome ends. The enzyme was later found to play a major role in cancer cell growth and diseases related to aging.
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2019-04-19T22:22:27Z
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https://gazette.jhu.edu/2010/01/11/celebrating-carol-greider/
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Visit us at the Ohlone College Tri-City Street Fair from 9am-4pm! FREE Admission. $4 Parking Fee (without semester permit). At this event you'll be in for some fun marketplace shopping, delicious food, music, and games! Find out more.
The Ohlone College Foundation and Tri-Cities Career Center invites you to the 2019 Spring Career Fair. Drawing hundreds of qualified prospective employees from across the Bay Area, the Career Fair gives you the best recruitment experience and increase your branding and visibility at Ohlone College and beyond. Your sponsorship impacts student success and programs at Ohlone College.
Early Bird Discount Ends APRIL 1.
This year the Ohlone College Foundation will award many different scholarships to many different deserving Ohlone College students. These scholarships give students the financial resources to meet their educational goals, the confidence they need to succeed, and prepares them to make a difference in our communities. At our Annual Awards Reception we honor these students, their families, and the amazing donors that make this day possible.
Event Sponsorships available! Sponsoring the Ohlone College Scholarship Awards Ceremony offers your organization unique visibility and great exposure to the community. Registration form here.
Special thank you to last years Scholarship Awards Reception Sponsors!
Mark your calendars! The 3rd Annual Ohlone College Hilltop Gala is coming up on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The celebration will begin with a hosted cocktail and candy bar hour, followed by an elegant dinner, entertainment, and an exciting auction. We hope to see you there!
Thank you to last years Hilltop Gala Sponsors!
The 35th Annual Ohlone College Golf Tournament event information coming soon!
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2019-04-26T00:32:39Z
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https://www.ohlone.edu/foundation/events
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Edmonton’s smelliest neighbourhoods may be suffering for several more years as the city finalizes a plan to fix the odour problem.
Residents in Edmonton's smelliest neighbourhoods may suffer for several more years as the city inches toward a plan to fix the odour problem.
EPCOR told city council's utility committee on Thursday it could take 25 years to deal with the problem city wide, but the worst areas could see relief within nine.
The plan was presented to the committee in April, but this time councillors expressed the need for expediency.
"People cannot go in their backyards in the summertime," said Coun. Michael Walters. "We've worked on it for years and years and years, but those problems need to be addressed not over a 25-year period but today."
Coun. Aaron Paquette agreed the city should adopt a more aggressive timeline to fix the hardest hit neighbourhoods.
"They don't want to wait a decade or 25 years, like a full generation, to get this handled for them," he said. "A baby born today could be a homeowner by the time we get this done."
EPCOR presented six scenarios to committee, including 10-, 20- and 25-year timeframes based on a systematic approach that would give no preference to any particular spot in the city.
The other three scenarios would give priority to areas with concentrated odours, mainly on the south side of the city and including Bonnie Doon and Steinhauer.
Richard Brown, director of drainage planning and engineering at EPCOR, said the worst spots would still take nine to 11 years.
"That's for a complete fix," Brown said. "It's because of the complicated nature of what we're trying to fix."
Coun. Ben Henderson described Bonnie Doon as an innocent bystander impacted by sewer and water drainage problems from suburbs in the south.
"That's getting worse, not better, because more people are living upstream," Henderson said. "The thought of asking them to wait another 20 years for a problem that we probably should have dealt with 20 years ago doesn't play for me."
Brown said a number of factors contribute to odour, including old infrastructure. But gas in the pipes is the main problem.
"It's trying to escape, it's trying to get out," he said. "Hydrogen sulphide trying to get out of the system is what's causing the odour issues above ground."
He said EPCOR's mitigation plan looks at ways to reduce gas and regulate how it's released. In London, for example, vent stacks placed at certain intervals release air at higher elevations, he said.
The 25-year scenario, targeting the worst spots first, is estimated to cost $460 million.
Walters said work is ongoing to mitigate odours, such as fixing the Twin Brooks pump station, scrubbing, maintaining manholes and venting upstream.
"I talk about the Steinhauer stench — that's not $460 million and that's not 25 years," he said. "My objective is to get the people of Steinhauer and Bonnie Doon into their backyards, like I get to enjoy my backyard in the summer, as soon as possible."
The utility committee asked EPCOR to compile a detailed business plan with a priority list of the 157 neighbourhoods that need work.
EPCOR is expected to report back to city council's utility committee in the spring.
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2019-04-23T19:00:58Z
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-city-council-epcor-1.4878987
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The revelation comes a day after Martinez was fired by then-Española Valley Public Schools Superintendant Bobbie Gutierrez, who herself resigned later Wednesday after a year on the job.
In another development, Española Valley athletic director Eric Vigil confirmed that head football coach Miguel Medina handed in his resignation Thursday morning.
Vigil wouldn’t elaborate on Medina’s reasons for stepping down, but the Santa Fe New Mexican tweeted a photo of Medina at Wednesday’s school board meeting holding a sign that read, “If she goes, I go!!!,” possibly showing support for Gutierrez.
PED spokesman Robert McEntyre said Thursday that the department received complaints from Española about Martinez, but didn’t say whether they were related to his coaching job or his job as a physical education teacher at Española Valley. McEntyre said he would have more details today.
School board president Pablo Lujan confirmed Thursday that Martinez was terminated from both his coaching and teaching jobs, and said Martinez can make an administrative appeal of his firing.
Although the letter says “per the Board’s request,” Lujan said Thursday that the school board never asked for Gutierrez’s resignation, and said board members were surprised by it.
“We did not ask her to resign,” Lujan said. “We were not aware of it until last night. We were surprised by that, and it wasn’t by request.” Gutierrez couldn’t be reached for clarification Thursday.
The board voted 3-2 to accept Gutierrez’s resignation and voted 3-2 again to place her on paid leave until May 6, when her contract ends. Myra Martinez, until Wednesday an associate superintendent, was selected to be the district’s interim superintendent.
Vigil said coach Martinez had not filed an appeal as of Thursday morning, and said he doesn’t know whether Martinez plans to appeal. A person who answered a cell phone listed for Martinez hung up when a Journal reporter called. Myra Martinez wouldn’t comment Thursday, saying Martinez’s situation was a personnel matter.
Richard Martinez was put on administrative leave 10 days after leading the Sundevils to the Class 5A state championship over District 2-5A rival Capital in March.
Although administrators never said why Martinez was on leave, Martinez said it was for leading players in the Lord’s Prayer before the championship game. It’s not the first time Martinez has been under fire. He was terminated in 2012 shortly after the state tournament, but was rehired a few days later. He was suspended two years ago for allegedly bullying players, but was once again back on the job after a few days.
Medina led the Sundevils to a 9-2 mark last year and the District 2-5A championship.
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2019-04-25T00:39:23Z
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https://www.abqjournal.com/753525/ped-investigating-former-espantildeola-coach-martinez.html?utm_source=abqjournal.com&utm_medium=related+posts+-+default&utm_campaign=related+posts
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Some potential readers may bristle at some of the conclusions and suggestions in this book. They are invited to consider again the historical record and the ways it has been subject to misuse in the church—not only by this scholar but also by well-intentioned, pious folk in the past, who have been only too happy to read their own solutions to later problems into Luther’s and Melanchthon’s work (p. vii).
Indeed, it likely will. But Lutherans would be well-served by reading the conclusions and suggestions that come from the co-editor of the 2000 English edition of the Book of Concord.
Wengert’s “little book” is divided into five chapters. The first two address the concept of “spiritual priesthood” in Luther’s theology while dispelling the myth of das allgemeine Priestertum aller Gläubigen [“the common priesthood of all believers”] and its accompanying Übertragungslehre [“transference theory”: the common priesthood of all believers transfers its authority to the pastoral office]. The third chapter focuses on the end of the pastoral office in Lutheran theology, showing that the office of pastor exists to exercise the divinely-given authority of delivering the Gospel of Christ through the aural and visible Word. Chapters Four and Five take up the issue of the Evangelical form of the episcopal office, demonstrating its character as seen in the Lutheran confessional documents, as well as illustrating its necessity where the office of public ministry exists.
Readers familiar with the history of Lutheranism in America will note that Wengert’s research leaves no-one’s proverbial ox ungored, as is often the case when wrestling with what the Church of the Augsburg Confession teaches. In past and present, American Lutheran synods have engaged in heated debate about each of these topics. Wisconsin Synod Lutherans will bristle at Wengert’s conclusions about misunderstanding what Luther means by “spiritual priesthood” and that Augustana V refers to a concrete pastoral office. Those in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who object to their church-body’s agreement with the Episcopal Church–USA over bishops and ordinations will not enjoy Wengert’s highlighting Luther and Melanchthon’s writings which positively endorse an office of oversight and requisite obedience to it. And not to be left out, members of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod will have to evaluate Wengert’s conclusions about the shape of the pastoral office in light of their synod’s plan for “Specific Ministry Pastors,” as well as seriously consider the role of “bishop/district president” in discussions about restructuring the church-body.
Underlying Wengert’s work is the heart of Lutheran theology itself: the justification of sinful human beings by grace through faith on account of Christ alone. The Gospel action of being incorporated into Christ through Holy Baptism makes one part of the spiritual priesthood: it is not a matter of power or rights, but that the Christian has been given a new Stand [“walk of life”] by Christ (pp. 7-8). Christ institutes the pastoral office, so that His Gospel may be delivered to those who need it: the authority to bring that Gospel comes from Christ alone (pp. 39-40) and the ordering of such an office is less important than the existence of that office (p. 43). An Evangelical episcopal office serves the Gospel of Christ: it must always be dedicated to delivering what Christ has earned, including placing those in office who will bring that Gospel, and regulating the church so that good order exists, making such delivery of the Gospel possible (pp. 99-102).
Only by first understanding the raison d’etre of church and ministry can Lutherans put into practice Augustana XIV and XXVIII, with their implications about order and authority.
In each of these four things—one spiritual priesthood in Christ, many callings among us, the public office of the ministry, and offices of oversight—the most important thing is the word of God, that precious “good news of a great joy that shall be to all the people.” Despite having produced this little book on the subject of the public ministry, we must remember that, for Lutherans, this ministry and its ordering are always secondary subjects when compared to the angel’s message to the shepherds (p. 109).
As the Lutheran synods in the United States take up again the issue of church and ministry, this emphasis about their existing in order to deliver the merits of Christ through His chosen means of the aural and visible Word will be beneficial.
Strange as it may seem in the midst of debates about constitutional amendments or the legalese of charters and bylaws, the question about “the office of the gospel” must be asked: Does our structuring or ordering of the pastoral office and the office of oversight serve the Gospel or not?
Wengert’s book is a helpful addition to present discussions about ecclesiology in American Lutheran circles. Instead of replaying the battles of the 19th Century or looking through the prisms of Thiensville, Philadelphia, or St. Louis, readers are taken back to the actual writings of Luther and Melanchthon. Modern-day Lutherans will be better served by going back to the Church’s central task of delivering the Gospel, and then moving forward with a better understanding about the matters of the spiritual priesthood, the pastoral office and its authority, the office of oversight, and ecclesiastical order. Wengert’s work will be of assistance for doing just that.
Thanks for this very interesting book review!
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2019-04-25T02:35:24Z
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https://lutherantheology.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/%E2%80%9Cwhat-does-ecclesiology-have-to-do-with-the-office-of-the-gospel%E2%80%9D/
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"Pollination of Dalechampia Magnolifolia (Euphorbiaceae) by Male Euglos" by W. Scott Armbruster, S. Keller et al.
Flowers of Dalechampia magnoliifolia in eastern Peru were pollinated primarily by male Eulaema meriana and E. cingulata, which collected fragrance from the secretory gland borne in the staminate cymule. The fragrance contains carvone oxide, benzyl acetate, limonene, a -pinene, myrcine, B-pinene/camphene, and carvone. Trigona cf. pallens was the most abundant visitor, but was primarily a pollen thief. The rate of contact with the stigmas by Trigona, and hence the bee's efficacy as a pollinator, was highly variable and was determined by variation in the separation of anthers and stigmas. Dalechampia magnoliifolia co-occurred with a congeneric species, D. cissifolia, but did not share pollinators with it.
Armbruster, W. Scott; Keller, S.; Matsuki, M.; and Clausen, T. P., "Pollination of Dalechampia Magnolifolia (Euphorbiaceae) by Male Euglossine Bees" (1989). An. Paper 104.
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2019-04-26T02:23:29Z
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https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_an/104/
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Depletion forces were used to separate an equinumber density binary dispersion of 1.5 and 0.82 µm polystyrene sulfate (PS) particles. Experiments consisted of injecting a pulse of a binary dispersion of PS particles into the inlet of a packed bed of 0.5 mm silica collector beads. Prior to injection, a carrier fluid of either KCl and KOH electrolyte or a silica nanoparticle dispersion was flowing through the column at steady state. When the carrier fluid was a dispersion of silica nanoparticles, the ratio of PS particles in the column outlet would change from 1:1 big to small particles to slightly over 2:1. This implies that more of the smaller 0.82 µm particles were being trapped on the surface of the collector beads due to depletion forces. Experiments with a single particle type (either 1.5 or 0.82 µm PS particle) were also done and correlated with the binary dispersion measurements. Potential energy profiles between a PS particle and a flat silica plate were calculated. The secondary energy barrier for the 1.5 µm particles was two times greater than for the 0.82 µm particles. Hence, the 0.82 µm particles were more likely to overcome the energy barrier and get trapped on the surface of the collector beads. Although the potential energy profiles were calculated at equilibrium, they can be used as a tool in finding the optimal conditions for separation.
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2019-04-19T12:22:04Z
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https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/34831
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eteamz
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AYSO 1344 Brisbane is excited to announce that Challenger Sports British Soccer will be running a week-long soccer camp for all players this summer on the week of August 4-8 for boys and girls aged 3- 14 years old. Professional British coaches will work with our players to help develop foot skills, core skills and techniques in the game to improve ball control, 1v1’s, passing and shooting and defending. Over 125,000 children experienced this camp last year in the USA. All kids get a free ball and t-shirt, player evaluation and soccer poster and by signing up on-line before June 20th every player will get a FREE British Soccer Jersey! Want to host a British coach for the week of camp? Call Lee Dunne 916 596 1664.
Congratulations to the U12 Brisbane AYSO girls!!!!
The U12 team is headed to the section 2 tournament on December 14-15, 2013 in Foster City. GREAT JOB TEAM!
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2019-04-22T22:45:35Z
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http://www.eteamz.com/brisbanesoccer/news/
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The start of the short course. Long course a few minutes later.
This year, they really did a great job of having people stationed at virtually ever corner and ground markings, mixed with the occasional arrow to help you confirm that you were indeed going the correct direction. Well, that is until about the 80-something kilometer mark inside the Oly Park (as we call it). When we rounded the corner to enter the stadium there were two paths. One had a very small sign with maybe 1″ tall letters (very hard to read at 25 km/hr) which we now know led to a second round of the park. The other, the one that Justin and I (as well as seemingly many others) took went to the finish line with no way to get out to finish properly.
Therefore, I finished, didn’t finish it again this year. Didn’t make me happy, but there was nothing I could do about it once I’d crossed the line and realized what was actually going on. Oh well, hopefully SOG and I will learn from these mistakes. Hopefully.
The course led directly toward the Isar river from the park. From there we headed North for many kilometers where a lot of carnage ensued. It always amazes me how many people manage to crash on dirt/gravel roads and end up either heavily bandaged or going to the hospital. After almost reaching the airport, we crossed the river and headed back south. At one point, we went west to the windmill hill up/over and around the Alliance Arena and then started doing a long flat curve around the north end of the city. Then we started working our way back to the park were we were supposed to do two rounds and then finish.
A couple of equipment comments. I ran singlespeed at 32X17. The course was sooooo very flat. I’m not sure whether I’ll do it singlespeed again or not. If I do, I may do it 32 or 34X16. Maybe I’ll do it on a fixie next year. Anyway, close to the end I had to stand to climb and both legs simultaniously locked up. OUCH! I kind of spun that out going into the park but I attribute it to 80+ km of spinning and not enough fluids. My Ergon grips (sadly, the Euro team couldn’t gain sponsorship for ’09) really did the job. I really love their products. Also, my GEAX tires were amazing! I’ve got the Barro Race 2.0 tires on now. There’s amazingly light and definitely a race tire. I can honestly say that they probably upped my average speed by a 2-3 km/hr. They roll so smoothly and even though they have a super low profile they never once let me down in corners. Oh… FYI, I’m also running them tubeless which works very well too. Thanks GEAX!
Here’s a link to all the Sportograf.de photos that I bought. Go HERE.
Look on the right... that's where I should be. Grrr!
So, at first SOG didn’t post our results. Then, a few days later they popped up. Here they are. Keep in mind that over 2000 people participated and that people were continuing to finish over an hour after I finished. So, doing it on a singlespeed wasn’t the worst that I could have imagined.
Here’s a link to Justin Koppas post about CBM too.
We’re proud to announce a couple of new sponsors.
We’ve added Geax Tires and Crisp Titanium to our list of sponsors for ’09.
Crisp Titanium Website and Crisp Titanium Flickr page.
I have been a huge Geax fan for years. The tires just work. Their really well made, look great and I have to say they seem to be lighter than most other tires in their class.
As far as Crisp. Well, check out Darren’s work and I’m sure that you’ll be amazed at what he turns out.
I’ve updated links as best I can. Still waiting on confirmation from a couple of companies but we’re hoping to have things nailed down by early next week so that we can get the uniform design off and have uniforms in a few weeks (hopefully, in time for my first race in late March).
Thanks so much to our new and old sponsors for their support. We hope to do our best to “do them proud”!
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2019-04-23T04:29:12Z
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https://bigwheelracingeuro.wordpress.com/tag/geax/
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bard
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As a musical parallel to the journey of cloisonné from China to France, this concert features master erhu player and composer Wang Guowei, who will perform ancient Tang-dynasty selections accompanied by the yangqin, a hammered dulcimer that embodies the classical and regional music of China. The Colorado Quartet will perform Chen Yi’s Sprout and Maurice Ravel’s lyrical String Quartet. A special tour of the Cloisonné exhibition precedes the concert, and reception with the artists concludes the program.
Wang Guowei is a master erhu player and composer. He has performed internationally with the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra.
The Colorado Quartet (Julie Rosenfeld, D. Lydia Redding, Marka Gustavsson, and Katie Schlaikjer) has won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and first prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. This is the first female quartet to have performed the complete Beethoven cycle in both NorthAmerica and Europe.
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2019-04-21T06:10:47Z
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https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/308/03-apr-2011-the-sound
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The purpose of Student Legal Services, Inc. is to assist you in identifying and resolving your legal problems, so you may benefit from your educational opportunities at BGSU.
If a legal problem threatens to interfere with your effectiveness as a student, Student Legal Services, Inc. may aid in resolving or minimizing that legal complication. Click here for complete information about the services provided.
Our Goal is to provide prompt, efficient and high quality legal assistance for you. Proper attention to any legal matter- even if you may not believe it is serious -will often prevent more complex legal difficulties.
Our brochures and publications will help you with anything from housing to consumer issues.
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2019-04-26T00:07:32Z
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https://www.bgsu.edu/student-legal-services/about-us.html
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Ask a realtor professional why your house hasn’t sold and they’ll blame it on everything from fluctuating markets to nose hairs. If you give them coffee and make them comfortable, they’ll explain conflicting theories about the house market until the Butterfly Effect seems easy in comparison. Untrained and inexperienced, I have a much shorter check list to help you sell your home in a snap.
5. Don’t over-clean. Over-cleaning is a made-up word I’ve come up with to describe the frenzied, possessed-like behaviour I exhibited while trying to sell our house. Having declared war on dirt, I inspected every inch of space for dust with a magnifying glass as if the Marine Core Inspector was coming instead of potential buyers. Forget dusting and cleaning the floors, my new routine included such insane activities as scrubbing the grout between the floor tiles with a toothbrush.
How did it work? Not only did it not sell the house, viewers claimed our home smelled like dog.
4. Don’t schedule a viewing for Saturday at 8 am. No matter how reasonable that time slot sounded to me on Monday afternoon, Saturday morning I was cursing the sky pink and blue. To help things along, my dogs had a fight in the kitchen that dirtied most of the area and my hubby woke up sick. How did it work? Disaster doesn’t even cover it.
3. Don’t listen to comments from buyers who didn’t buy your house. Hearing that our house smelled of dog might have done something to my brain because I went into scent-overdrive. Never mind that it was November and snowing, I opened up every window and ventilated the entire house. I cleaned every floor twice, then the walls and added air-freshers to every plug I could find, then every corner of each room. Not to miss a single cubic millimetre of air, I also bought Febreeze sprayers and emptied two of the things in our house for each viewing.
How did it work? It got so the dogs didn’t want to come inside.
2. Don’t hire a professional decorator. Fearing our decor might be discouraging buyers, we hired one. Ours was named Pauline and her outfit alone should have been a warning sign. The woman had managed to colour coordinate her clothes not only to her earrings and her nails but also to her car. Pauline took one look at our living room, raised very thin eyebrows and told us we needed new furniture…and towels, blankets and accessories. When she told me our dogs were a problem, I opened the backdoor and let the wet hounds jump all over her dry-cleaned suit.
How did it work? Check out number one for more insight.
1. Don’t try to understand paint colour names. Following Pauline’s advice, we tried to repaint our house a neutral beige and found ourselves at the paint store staring at paint chips. Turns out, paint doesn’t have normal names like red or orange. What you get is strange things like ‘Happy Clown’, ‘Mermaid Dream’ and ‘Flamingo Sneeze’. After half an hour of eye-straining over shades of beige until even my hubby started to look that shade, I grabbed a paint chip and ran from the store.
How did it work? The chip I got was called something like ‘Crazy Monkey’ and apparently it was the wrong shade because it almost made Pauline faint when she saw it on our walls.
A drawer to dispense the soap, bleach and softener.
I really think Dr. Diane MacKinnon is onto something in her post: ‘ Stop doing List’. It’s a post on things she wants to change but, instead of saying ‘I’m going to do this’ she’s mentioning what she’s going to stop doing.
The stop-doing list comes from this post by Danielle LaPorte and the idea that what you stop doing is just as important as what you start doing. That makes sense, you can’t add, until you subtract. I need to make room in my life for chosen behaviours by taking away things that I don’t want to do.
Doesn’t it sound delicious? A worry-free life, a guilt-free day, more time to write…the possibilities are endless.
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2019-04-25T22:02:32Z
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https://taylorgraceauthor.wordpress.com/tag/tips/
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Earn credit for RN training while advancing your career with a BSN. With a blend of online and in-person classes, our flexible schedule allows you to continue working full-time.
Learn innovative methods and gain valuable field experience at any level of study. Programs include BSN, MSN in three degree focuses, two post-master’s certificates, and DNP.
Prepare for a career in the health sciences by earning your BS in one of four majors: athletic training, exercise science, health sciences, or physical education.
Hands-on education from knowledge experts.
Evidence-based strategies to promote life-long learning.
Recognized for more than 50 years of excellence, North Park’s pre-licensure nursing program is marked by hands-on experiences alongside professors with career experience in compassionate caregiving, and benefits from established partnerships with leading Chicago healthcare institutions.
Students prepare for a health-related career with a BS in health sciences, athletic training, exercise science, or physical education. Courses are offered in life and health sciences, business and management, and more.
Students benefit from North Park’s partnerships with hospitals, clinics, and other organizations throughout Chicagoland, and experience a wide range of patient-care scenarios as they practice their skills and discover the many career options available.
North Park University’s state-of-the-art nursing, health science, and STEM facilities give students access to cutting edge modern technology, instrumentation, and simulation. Facilities include a nursing simulation lab, a cadaver lab, smart classrooms, and smart labs.
The caring and dedicated faculty of the School of Nursing & Health Sciences integrate dynamic teaching and clinical best practices into the educational experience, lead by example in the classroom and clinical practice, and infuse the curriculum with a values-centered model grounded in Christian principles.
Be equipped to excel as an ethical, compassionate, and patient-centered professional.
The pre-licensure BSN program recognizes exceptional academic achievement by offering qualified incoming students Direct Admission to our well-respected, 50-years and running nursing program.
The best way to find out if North Park University is a good fit for you is to visit us and meet our people. Come visit North Park and meet nursing and health science faculty, staff, and students to learn more about our programs and more.
Take a quick look at some facts about our graduate nursing programs.
The baccalaureate degree programs in nursing, master’s degree programs in nursing and post-graduate APRN certificate programs at North Park University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (www.ccneaccreditation.org).
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2019-04-22T07:36:19Z
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https://www.northpark.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/school-of-nursing-and-health-sciences/
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mtbikewnc
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Here's our interactive GPS map of the Panthertown Valley, showing the Forest Service system trails after the changes proposed in 2004 were finally implemented in 2009. This should reflect the naming & renaming of trails that took place. It also leaves off the trails that the Forest Service decided not to name or put on the map, meaning these are the only "legal" ones in the valley.
You can zoom and scroll just like any Google Map, hover over a trail or point to see its name, and click for all the details and to download. Downloads for the entire map are below it. Hover over a feature to see its name, and click for all the details and download for Google Earth and your GPS. Downloads for the entire map are below it.
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2019-04-24T13:49:23Z
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https://www.mtbikewnc.com/maps/panthertown-valley/gps-map
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fourfourtwo
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Manchester City have delighted with their spectacular football under Pep Guardiola, but he knows it is time to add to the trophy cabinet.
Pep Guardiola knows his Manchester City revolution will be judged by the weight of silverware they win ahead of Sunday's EFL Cup final against Arsenal.
Quadruple questions have generally prompted a furrowed brow from Guardiola and, although he said he would sooner have lost Premier League matches than be humbled by Will Grigg, he conveyed a sense of relief over the prospect as chasing a tangible title against Arsenal rather than a more fantastical ambition.
An old-hand on such occasions as both a player and coach – famously at Wembley in both capacities with Barca – Guardiola is still attuned to the sense of wonder and magic around the showpiece fixtures.
"I'd like to see my team play like we were most of the season. The final does not have to be something different. It's in front of 90,000 people in a magnificent stadium in London – this is an argument to be who were are, or at least to try it.
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2019-04-18T12:41:13Z
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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/city-have-lift-titles-guardiola-focused-wembley-glory-against-arsenal
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Shrewsbury Town’s appeal against the decision to award Ben Godfrey a red card against Walsall has been unsuccessful.
Godfrey was sent off in the 75th minute of Tuesday night’s Checkatrade Trophy group game, which Town lost 1-0.
From the footage it appeared that Godfrey had won the ball, but the FA have decided to uphold Trevor Kettle’s original decision.
Chief Executive Brian Caldwell, who had help put Town’s case forward, was disappointed with the decision.
“I think we are all really disappointed with that – we’ve taken a bit of a kicking from the FA this week”, Brian told ShrewsWeb.
“When you look at the footage and slow it down to 25% you can see that Ben actually gets the ball first. The opposition player slides to ground very early, Ben gets a touch on the ball, the ball the ricochets back off the Walsall player’s foot and goes out of play.
“I can actually understand from the referees view in live action that the Walsall player got to the ball first and Ben had caught the player, but that’s actually not the case when you slow the footage down.
“We hoped common sense would prevail, but they’ve turned that down and said that they’ve upheld the referee’s decision, but to me it would seem a pretty clear cut case because he got to the ball first and it was actually his other leg that made any contact with the Walsall player.
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2019-04-26T00:38:07Z
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https://www.shrewsburytown.com/news/2017/november/godfrey-appeal-rejected/
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Sleep better. Get rid of stress. Improve brain function. Enhance overall health and well-being. These are just a few of the many incredible benefits of getting enough magnesium. Add losing belly fat and having a leaner body composition to that list and you have a nutrient that everybody needs to know about!
Certainly one of the most important nutrients for by the human body, magnesium is involved in all of these issues, as well as at least 300 essential biochemical reactions. These include protein synthesis, testosterone production, insulin sensitivity, calcium absorption, and regulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
Plus, magnesium has been shown to enable the metabolism of vitamin D, meaning it is essential for bone health and treatment of osteoporosis.
First, most Americans are deficient in magnesium and this pattern of scarcity is evident across the Western world.
Second, the standard test used by medical doctors for magnesium measures serum magnesium levels in the blood, but only about one percent of this mineral is found in the blood. Rather, about 66 percent is found in bone and 33 percent in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
In order to effectively assess magnesium levels that reflect how it works in the body you need to test content in the red blood cells. It’s very common for individuals with serum magnesium lab results in the normal range to actually be deficient in magnesium.
Third, magnesium plays a role in physical performance and muscle function, meaning that athletes and recreational trainees are commonly deficient because strength training increases magnesium requirements.
Here are the 12 most compelling reasons you should make sure your magnesium levels measure up, with detailed research and TAKEAWAYS if you just want the quick tips.
Magnesium has a calming effect on the nervous system. If you are deficient your heart rate and sympathetic nervous system will be sent into overdrive. Additionally, lack of magnesium has shown to alter electrical activity in the brain, causing agitated sleep and frequent awakenings.
A recent study of people with poor sleep quality as measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index found that taking a magnesium supplement decreased chronic inflammation and improved sleep quality.
Researchers suggest that adding magnesium to their diets decreased the participants’ sympathetic nervous activity, effectively reducing stress and allowing them to relax. In this study, lower magnesium levels were associated with a higher body mass index, indicating the connection between body fat percentage and magnesium levels.
TAKEAWAY: Take Magnesium to help you sleep restfully throughout the night and de-stress.
Magnesium is essential for a great memory. Supplementing with magnesium has been shown to increase brain function by improving brain electrical activity, allowing for improved learning and memory functions.
Research from MIT has shown that magnesium regulates a key receptor in the brain that supports memory and learning. Adequate magnesium content in the cerebrospinal fluid is essential for maintaining the plasticity of synapses. Further, magnesium is necessary for the proper activity of many enzymes within brain cells that control cellular and memory functions.
In addition, magnesium plays a major role in neurotransmitter release, which affects the discharge of brain chemicals such as serotonin that makes you feel good. This has implications for preventing depression and a chronic low mood.
TAKEAWAY: Magnesium makes your brain work better and improves memory!
Magnesium is necessary for energy metabolism and physical performance and new research shows that taking it increases testosterone levels. A 2011 study tested a group of sedentary men who received 10 mg of magnesium per kilogram of body weight a day (Group 1), a group of male tae kwon do athletes taking the same magnesium protocol daily (Group 2), and a group of tae kwon do athletes who did not take magnesium (Group 3).
Group 2 had the greatest increases in testosterone levels after tae kwon do practice, followed by Group 3, while Group 1 had the lowest levels (no practice or exercise), indicating that magnesium supplementation raises testosterone levels when combined with exercise. Scientists think this increase in testosterone has a performance-enhancing effect.
TAKEAWAY: If you’re not optimizing your magnesium stores, you’re missing out on peak performance and leaving muscle gains on the table.
Magnesium supports protein synthesis because it enables enzyme function in the body. Additionally, research shows that magnesium supplementation paired with resistance exercise can make your stronger.
This study found that a group that took 8 mg/kg of body weight a day of magnesium while strength training three times a week improved strength significantly more than a control group that only trained.
TAKEAWAY: Optimal magnesium levels are necessary for muscle development.
Inflammation is not only an obstacle to recovery from hard workouts; it also contributes to heart disease, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, and diabetes. A study by George Washington University found that magnesium deficiency led to increased inflammation in the body, affecting blood vessels, cardiovascular, and intestinal tissues.
Magnesium deficiency also decreases lipid metabolism and increases blood pressure, negatively impacting the health of the arteries and ultimately causing atherosclerosis.
Research shows that adding magnesium to the diet in the form of 365 mg magnesium twice daily for six months can reduce the likelihood of experiencing exercise-induced chest pain. Research participants had previously experienced chest pain before the study. Taking magnesium also allowed them to improve exercise duration by 14 percent over a control group.
TAKEAWAY: Magnesium is critical for cardiovascular health because it decreases inflammation.
Calcium is necessary for stronger bones, but it does nothing if you don’t have adequate levels of magnesium and vitamin D. Magnesium activates cellular enzyme activity, allowing the body to convert vitamin D into its active form to help with calcium absorption and bone building.
Magnesium leads to the release of the hormone calcitonin, which helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues and back into the bones. Plus, magnesium suppresses parathyroid hormone, which breaks bone down.
Research studies point to the importance of the calcium to magnesium ratio (ideally in the 1:1 range), and the integrated role of vitamin D and magnesium in bone health. Support for the relationship between these two minerals was from research that found that giving a vitamin D supplement to obese women who are deficient in both vitamin D and magnesium resulted in an increase in magnesium concentrations.
TAKEAWAY: A calcium supplement is useless without adequate magnesium. Combine calcium and magnesium in equal doses… and don’t forget the vitamin D.
Low magnesium levels will decrease your insulin sensitivity, making it harder for you to lose fat and get lean. It will also hamper the body’s storage of glycogen, meaning a longer recovery from workouts. Also, increased insulin resistance and poorly controlled diabetes results in more magnesium loss, magnifying the whole problem.
A review from the journal Biological Trace Element Research reports that magnesium plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism, while influencing the activity of hormones that control blood glucose levels. Low magnesium can cause insulin resistance, which may result in the kidneys being unable to retain magnesium during episodes of hyperglycemia, creating a downward spiral of magnesium deficiency and subsequently diabetes.
TAKEAWAY: Magnesium supports a lean body composition AND prevents diabetes.
Low magnesium levels are common in pregnant women and have been found to increase risk of the development of diabetes and metabolic syndrome in the child after birth. Metabolic syndrome is an inflammatory condition, and lack of magnesium results in a stress effect that activates the sympathetic nervous system, increasing oxidative stress and inflammation.
TAKEAWAY: Magnesium deficiency in pregnant women can lead to diabetes and metabolic syndrome in the child.
Remember that magnesium affects the sympathetic nervous system and norepinephrine release, which causes cortisol release as part of your stress response. Magnesium is essential for the metabolism of cortisol as well and adequate levels help return you to more relaxed state faster.
TAKEAWAY: Healthy magnesium levels lower cortisol.
There are a number of symptoms of magnesium deficiency including constipation, fatigue, irritability, insomnia, muscle tremors and twitching, and poor mental function. Studies shows that magnesium improves digestion and researchers suggest the beneficial effect of dietary fiber on a healthy gastrointestinal tract is due to its high magnesium content. An added benefit to faster transit time through the GI tract is to reduce the risk of disease including colon cancer and diabetes.
TAKEAWAY: Magnesium improves digestion and eliminates constipation. This lowers diabetes and colon cancer risk.
Studies of children with ADHD consistently point to low magnesium levels as a cause. Supplementing with magnesium has been shown to increase attention span, which researchers suggest is due both to its calming effects and the fact that it improves brain activity.
TAKEAWAY: Get adequate magnesium to improve focus and decrease ADHD.
Magnesium is particularly important in treating obesity, because extremely overweight individuals commonly have metabolic syndrome and chronic low-grade inflammation, which is magnified by typically low magnesium status. Additionally, research shows that high abdominal fat levels are related to excessive cortisol, low magnesium, and greater risk of all the related health issues listed above.
TAKEAWAY: Adequate magnesium is crucial for treating obesity and a lean body composition.
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2019-04-20T14:33:12Z
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It may be difficult to find an area student who’s enjoyed a better start to the new year than Crescenta Valley High’s Lyron Co Ting Keh.
The senior received his second distinguished recognition within two weeks by being named one of 40 national finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search on Wednesday.
“The Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists are our country’s most promising young scientists, and I’m thrilled to congratulate them on this outstanding academic achievement,” said George D. Yancopoulos, president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron and the 1976 Science Talent Search winner, in a statement.
The competition, hosted by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and the Society for Science & the Public, claims to be the “nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math contest for high school seniors” and comes with a $25,000 cash prize for all finalists.
Co Ting Keh’s award comes after he was lauded as one of five “Young Innovators to Watch” from the United States and Canada by technology and lifestyle event producers Living in Digital Times at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas on Jan. 10.
In that competition, Co Ting Keh was selected among an applicant pool of 100 candidates and received $500 cash, among other gifts.
The Regeneron Science Talent Search involves larger odds and more money.
Co Ting Keh was picked out of nearly 2,000 applicants, who all created an original research project and completed an extensive application process.
Co Ting Keh was recognized by both award competitions for his machine-learning algorithm model called HICCUP, which stands for Hierarchical Classification of Cancer of the Unknown Primary.
HICCUP was created while Co Ting Keh worked at Stanford University’s Alizadeh Lab as a more inexpensive and less invasive way to detect “cancer [that] is found in one or more metastatic sites but the primary site cannot be determined,” according to the disease’s definition by the American Cancer Society.
The teen calculated that his algorithm is roughly 18% more accurate than industry standards, such as biopsies and MRIs, in detecting cancer from an unknown primary site, while costing quite a bit less.
HICCUP utilizes a blood sample to track DNA released by a cancerous tumor into the bloodstream.
In the Regeneron competition, Co Ting Keh is in the running for top 10 grants that range from $40,000 to the grand prize of $250,000 — on top of $25,000 finalist prize.
Co Ting Keh is one of eight California residents to be named as a finalist, but the lone representative from Los Angeles County.
The Crescenta Valley High senior will find out if he’s a top 10 finisher during a black-tie award ceremony at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on March 12.
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2019-04-20T00:40:55Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-me-lyron-science-award-20190123-story.html
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To many people, particularly those interested in rational and efficient planning in local government, metropolitan Chicago's numerous and diverse governmental bodies are hampered by considerable overlap in jurisdiction and, at times, seemingly unmanageable chaos. With 269 municipal (city and village) governments, 113 township governments, 6 county governments, 558 special district authorities (including 306 public school districts ), Chicago government seems to represent an inefficient use of its taxpayers' funds. This complex web of governance, however, is not unique; major metropolitan areas across the United States have comparable structures. Furthermore, the current system has roots and reasons dating back to the city's founding, yoking the city's present to its own and the nation's past.
Each of the four general categories of government units in the Chicago metropolitan area has authority over a separate jurisdiction. Municipal governments have the widest-ranging powers, providing, among other things, law enforcement, public hospitals, and traffic supervision. Township governments provide services for small populations in unincorporated areas. The three principal functions of township governments are to maintain roads, assess property taxes, and administer general assistance programs.
The six county governments within the Chicago metropolitan area— Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will —have jurisdiction over decisions within their own county, including the upkeep of roads and the administration of budgets. As the largest county in the state, Cook County has many special powers as well as a unique form of administration, including a county board and a president with broad-ranging powers.
A multitude of special-purpose authorities deal with the issues and problems that cross city and county boundaries, such as parks, sanitation, and schools. Each district body regulates a single area of activity, such as mosquito abatement districts and airport districts. Most have the authority both to levy taxes and to disburse funds within their jurisdiction.
The metropolitan area's governing agencies owe their inception to the powers of the Illinois State Legislature, the state's principal governing body. Like other states, Illinois has followed the general rule regarding local-state relations first articulated by Iowa Supreme Court Justice John F. Dillon in 1868. Dillon argued that “municipal corporations owe their origins, and derive their powers and rights wholly from the legislature,” which means that in all matters affecting local government in Illinois, the state remains the final arbiter. In the early twentieth century, as cities grew in size, the issue of home rule became more and more contentious between states and their largest cities. Illinois state law was specifically designed to limit the flexibility that larger municipalities—particularly Chicago—could exercise in governing their own jurisdictions. Many of the battles between state and city came down to a battle between the interests of rural legislators and those of urban officials. More often than not, states won. And if their victories came before the Illinois Supreme Court—itself dominated by men of rural backgrounds—they were usually upheld.
The 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention reformed the 1870 constitution in a number of important ways. The new constitution permitted cities to exercise far more power than they had in the past, including more home rule authority. The 1970 convention also ruled that localities could join together to solve common problems, establishing a basis for metropolitan cooperation.
Although different local entities have different sources of funding (including state and federal dollars), property taxes provide the largest single funding source, particularly for counties, special-purpose districts, and school districts. Illinois ranks ninth in the country in the proportion of revenue it secures through property taxes. As of 1990, the property tax furnished 92 percent of the funding for public school districts and 63 percent of the funding for counties. Municipalities received 35 percent of their funding from property taxes and another 26 percent from local sales taxes. Accordingly, counties and school districts with large numbers of wealthy residents enjoyed more and better services than their poorer counterparts. In 1997, the extreme disparity in resources available to rich and poor school districts prompted Governor James Edgar to attempt a major reform of public-school funding patterns. He did not succeed.
Chicago governance has been influenced not only by local questions and specific personalities—especially powerful mayors —but also by the same broad influences found in virtually every American city. Though American laws and institutions borrowed liberally from English traditions, they evolved differently. The central governments of Great Britain and much of continental Europe consolidated their power over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and have come to exercise a general hegemony over local authorities. The birth of the United States and its revolutionary rupture from Great Britain, on the other hand, gave colonists a reason to distrust centralized political authority from the start. Their distrust became embodied in the U.S. Constitution's emphasis on the rights of states and the protection of individuals.
As the nation's population grew, spread out, and established new settlements in the nineteenth century, questions of legal authority arose with increasing frequency. Legal precedent permitted citizens, sometimes groups of less than a few hundred, to incorporate themselves into towns and villages to pursue common projects and their own needs. The basic framework of a municipal corporation (a sovereign body of local residents) and the municipal charter was adopted almost everywhere in the United States at different times and in slightly different ways, but state legislatures usually kept the lion's share of power for themselves.
Residents who had settled permanently in Chicago lobbied the state legislature for permission to incorporate themselves as a city in 1837. The legislature agreed, granting city dwellers a municipal charter that guaranteed them certain legal powers, including a municipal government with a mayor and common council, a municipal court, and limited taxing power over local residents. Demands for new charters arose as residents sought to exercise more power over local areas and as the city sought to extend the boundaries of its jurisdiction; additional municipal charters were granted in 1853, 1857, and 1861. But the 1870 Illinois Constitutional Convention reserved most authority over local matters to the state legislature, severely limiting what municipalities themselves could do. Chicagoans thus enjoyed fewer legal powers than city dwellers in states such as neighboring Wisconsin, whose state legislature had begun giving its larger cities more autonomy.
As the population of Chicago grew, more and more people moved from the downtown area to outlying districts. Small towns and villages, including Hyde Park and Evanston, sprung up in the 1860s and 1870s. With the inception of rail lines fanning outwards from the core city, the growth of fringe (or suburban) areas increased measurably. In the 1870s and 1880s future neighborhoods such as Ravenswood began developing along the rail lines. Some suburban areas, like Austin and Pullman, grew as a result of the industries located nearby. By 1880 there were more than 35 outlying villages and towns in Cook County alone, and another 15 were added over the next two decades. Toward the end of the nineteenth century new villages took shape along the northern border of Chicago.
As the towns and villages bordering Chicago developed, they incorporated themselves and won their own municipal charters. At the same time, growing problems involving residents across multiple towns and villages necessitated broader governing bodies. But the Illinois Constitution did not permit localities the freedom to arrange cooperative agreements with other municipal governments, leaving regional governing bodies to deal with specific issues and problems. For instance, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago was created by the state legislature in 1889, and though its purpose was to direct Chicago-area sewage from Lake Michigan and thereby protect the local water supply, it eventually came to regulate the water supply for much of the region.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Chicago's population—like that of cities across the country—exploded, growing from 112,172 people in 1860 to 1,698,575 in 1900. The city sought to annex many of its adjacent territories, sometimes because residents of the adjacent areas wanted to secure the services provided by the city, other times because annexation just seemed to make sense for the region. Between 1837 and 1869, 25 square miles of land were annexed to the city.
Increasingly, though, adjacent areas resisted annexation. Sometimes their residents had fled the city precisely because they no longer wished to be a part of it; some even viewed the city as the den of all evil—including booze and bad politics. Efforts to annex Hyde Park succeeded in 1887 only to be overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1888. A critical juncture was reached a year later when the proponents of annexation won a major victory in the state legislature. Overnight, the city of Chicago expanded from 43 square miles to 168 square miles, added 225,000 residents, and, with a population that now exceeded one million residents, became one of the largest cities in America.
Annexations continued over the next couple of decades. By 1925 the city of Chicago covered 200 square miles, with an estimated three million residents. But many suburbs continued to oppose annexation, and over the next 30 years only 20 square miles were added to the city's jurisdictional territory. The metropolitan region became dotted with more and more small municipalities. Township authorities came to govern those areas, such as Evanston, where a small number of residents had scattered across a large site.
By the 1930s, the Chicago metropolitan area was governed by more than one thousand different bodies. In addition to the governments of the city of Chicago and the nearby cities, villages, and towns, there were county governments and special-purpose districts, including park districts, forest preserve districts, and sanitary districts. To many local scholars, such as the renowned University of Chicago political scientist Charles Merriam, the increasing number of governing bodies seemed to pose a threat to order and efficiency in the region. Among other things, he observed, the population ringing Chicago was growing much faster than the city itself, making it hard to meet the needs of those residents. His suggestions for reform fell on deaf ears.
Metropolitan growth continued over the next few decades. Where railroads had once fed outward residential development and the growth of commuting between suburb and city, now the newly constructed network of streets and highways crisscrossing the region fed the process. Between 1940 and 1950, the city grew 6.6 percent, from 3,396,808 to 3,620,962, while Cook County grew by 11 percent, to 4,508,792.
The collar counties were growing even faster. With each new block of residents who settled outside the city came new needs, and with the growth of such needs, new municipalities were established along with new special-purpose districts and school districts. Nothing could stop the flow of residents, just as nothing could halt the proliferation of different governing bodies.
In the early 1950s, another effort was made in Chicago as in many American metropolitan areas to create order out of the patchwork quilt of disparate, sometimes overlapping forms of governance. Illinois State Representative Paul Randolph successfully persuaded the state legislature to create a commission, known as the Randolph Commission, to study problems of city governance. The main product of the commission was the 1957 creation of a state advisory agency for the region, the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, or NIPC. The legislature charged the commission to provide planning assistance to the six-county region of Northeastern Illinois. But the commission was handicapped from the outset. Its initial mandate from the legislature was to provide technical assistance and to furnish comprehensive planning for the metropolitan area. But in 1961 the state legislature enacted proposals that involved master drainage for the metropolitan region and for areawide distribution of water, sewage, and drainage services, rejecting an NIPC-backed proposal that would have expanded the ability of areas, such as Chicago, to annex adjacent sites.
Evidence that many Illinois citizens were concerned about comprehensive planning for the metropolitan region emerged from the work of Loyola University's newly created Center for Research in Urban Government in the mid-1960s. The center's most compelling work was done by Gilbert Y. Steiner, who identified three primary roadblocks to securing cooperation between the city and its nearby suburbs. The first was the disparity of tax revenues. Suburbs were typically flush in tax revenue to fund schools and other local needs; the city possessed few comparable resources. The second roadblock involved the growing difference in racial composition between city and suburb. Chicago was fast becoming populated by a large concentration of African Americans, many of whom did not wish to diminish their electoral strength in the form of broad metropolitan authorities. And third was the related difference in the political makeup of the city and its suburbs: Chicago was dominated by Democrats; the suburbs were a haven for more affluent Republicans. For these reasons, Steiner argued, it would be difficult to create a metropolitan authority, even for limited purposes.
Even Chicago-area businessmen got into the picture, forming the Committee on Urban Progress (COUP) in December 1963. The committee's conclusions—that “the chief obstacle to rational and farsighted control of urban expansion is political overlapping and fragmentation”—prompted Governor Kerner to propose the establishment of a commission designed solely to add structure to local politics. In 1965, the governor's proposed legislation made it through the Illinois House of Representatives. It failed to pass the Senate.
Still all was not lost. The 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention considered a wide range of issues and eventually made key decisions that would affect matters of local governance. Its most important decision was to allow localities to engage in some forms of intergovernmental cooperation, granting broader powers to municipalities, such as the city of Chicago, and permitting localities to engage in important joint efforts. But in allowing the state to retain final authority, the convention in some ways simply re-inaugurated previous disputes over the range of municipal powers. The state legislature could still preempt local decisions.
Suburban development continued unabated throughout the two decades following the constitutional convention. DuPage and Lake Counties each grew by more than one-third between 1980 and 2000. Cook County, meanwhile, continued to lose residents until the 1990s. New development in northern Lake County reached out to markets that stretched across the state line, bringing residents from Wisconsin to shop and work in Illinois. This growth enriched the population of the area while accentuating old governmental divisions, particularly by widening the gap between rich and poor municipalities. In the late 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley tried to resolve lingering conflicts by bringing together mayors from neighboring cities to discuss issues of joint concern.
Chicago might not have the most rational administrative form, but it is one tailored to the fabric of American political culture and history. In fact, much of what happened throughout the history of Chicago governance reproduced the same general patterns set elsewhere in the United States. Some parallels were indicative of national movements, such as the effort by larger places to annex smaller ones at the end of the nineteenth century. Others simply mirrored the structural character of American government, which tended to favor decentralized political authority.
There are also ways in which the evolution of governance in Chicago differs sharply, if not always substantively, from governance elsewhere. The powerful personalities of many Chicago mayors, for instance, made the state legislature reluctant to grant the city home rule powers that might otherwise have been considered appropriate. In some instances, notably during the reign of Richard J. Daley from 1955 to 1976, the mayor of Chicago possessed sufficient political acumen to circumvent the legal basis of decentralized authority in the state. By holding two crucial offices simultaneously—mayor of Chicago and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party—Daley was able to transcend the fragmentation of governance by centralizing power personally.
What gives coherence to the story of Chicago governance is its chronic incoherence. Then again, that very incoherence—that jumble of unintegrated factors and a cacophony of voices—may also be what gives the city its strength.
Keane, James F., and Gary Koch, eds. Illinois Local Government: A Handbook. 1990.
Steiner, Gilbert Y. “Metropolitan Government and the Real World: The Case of Chicago.” Center for Research in Urban Government, Loyola University. Vol. 1, no. 3 (January 1966).
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Voters have rejected Proposition 38, a tax hike to raise money for schools, according to the Associated Press.
The measure was created by Pasadena civil-rights attorney Molly Munger, daughter of Berkshire Hathaway executive Charles Munger. Her ideas on how to fund schools competed with those of Gov. Jerry Brown, who pushed his Proposition 30.
Backed by the California State PTA and financed with more than $47 million of Munger's money, Proposition 38 was drafted to raise income taxes on virtually all state taxpayers to generate an estimated $10 billion annually for schools, early childhood development programs and paying down state debt.
Many of the California’s largest education groups opted not to back Proposition 38, throwing their support behind the governor’s initiative instead. Much of the state's Democratic establishment followed suit.
Unlike Brown's proposal, Munger's initiative was designed to send money directly to individual schools, bypassing the Legislature. Her advertisements had an anti-Sacramento message that threatened to erode support for Brown’s measure.
Some education leaders, saying she was jeopardizing the chances of both measures, publicly urged her to take the ads off the air, which she did within days.
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2019-04-24T17:12:24Z
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First, we have a missed result and a correction from the Parkway Half on April 29: Blair Howard finished seventh with a time of 1:25:08. Angie Hart took second in her age group.
On Saturday, May 6, Cory Glaeser ran his first 100K at Miwok.
At the Dirty Secret trail run in Cool, David Haake won his age group in the short course, while Mike Johnson and Cathrine Lemaire each took second in their own age groups.
In Fairfield, Chris Dalton and Cristina Ramirez ran the Cinco K 5K, with Chris taking third place overall and Cristina winning the women's race. Ed Ballerini ran the 10K.
The Can Run held its second running here in Davis. Ellie Miller took second place outright in the 5K with 17:07. Mark Helmus ran a 42:47 10K, taking first in his age group. Nancy Rashid took second in the women's race at the 10K. Nicholas Pinter and Jim Samartino took second and third, respectively, in their age group. Peter Friederich took second in his age group.
Several GVHers made the trip to Fair Oaks for the Sun Run 5-Miler. John Burmester and Bob Rowden took second and first in their respective age groups. Similarly, Angie Hart and Allison Alcalay took second and first in their own respective age groups.
Up in the Redwoods, Norm Coppinger and Liz Vaage ran the Avenue of the Giants Marathon. Liz earned a substantial PR, achieving her long-sought goal of breaking 4 hours.
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Yibin Kang, left, and Mark Esposito, right, led a recent study that has discovered a factor that promotes the spread of cancers to bone, opening the way toward treatments that could mitigate cancer’s ability to metastasize.
A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered a factor that promotes the spread of cancers to bone, opening the way toward treatments that could mitigate cancer’s ability to colonize bone. The study by Mark Esposito, Yibin Kang and colleagues appears in the April 15 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
“A large majority of human cancers are carcinomas derived from epithelial cells,” said Kang, a professor of molecular biology and the corresponding author of the paper. Carcinomas grow from a single mutated cell into a tumor, a solid mass of cancerous cells. As long as it remains contained at its site of origin, a tumor may disrupt the function of its host organ, but it only indirectly affects the rest of the body. However, cancers will often metastasize — that is, spread — to colonize other, distant tissues. Breast cancers, for example, commonly metastasize to lung, liver, brain and bone. Patients whose tumors have metastasized suffer greater systemic disruption and are much less likely to achieve a successful cure. Most deaths from cancer occur after metastasis, so it is important to understand what signals control or promote this process. Kang’s team examined the motility, or ability to move, of the epithelial cells that line the surfaces within the body, including skin, organs and blood vessels.
In this microscope image, breast cancer cells (green) are invading bone. The researchers found that metastasizing breast cancer cells (green) can hijack a molecule called E-selectin (white) to make the E-selectin nurture young cancer cells. They also identified that the protein Glg1 (purple) plays a role in this process, and that it is useful as a predictor for bone metastasis.
“E-selectin binding requires special modification of its ligand by a unique type of sugar decoration catalyzed by a family of enzymatic proteins,” said Kang. Binding of E-selectin to this specially modified protein on the cancer cell is what stimulates MET and supports the cancer cell’s growth. The identity of this ligand is still unknown, so further research on this subject is needed.
To investigate this, Kang’s group used a drug called Uproleselan, a sugar-mimetic compound that blocks E-selectin binding. Experiments with Uproleselan showed that it significantly reduces bone metastasis and confers a survival advantage on mice injected with human breast cancer cells.
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A. Let us begin with two standard assumptions about voters. We will think about relaxing these in the second part of the course, but for now we will stick with them.
B. Assumption #1: Rational expectations. Voters are often wrong, but their errors balance out to zero.
C. Assumption #2: Instrumental goals. Voters care about nothing except the policies they get. They aren't interested in personalities, entertainment, impressing their friends with their social conscience, etc.
D. Neither of these require that voters be selfish. They might be rational, instrumental voters who care only about the liberalism/conservatism of policy, for example.
A. Next, let us assume that voters' preferences are "single-peaked." This means that voters have an "ideal point" (aka "bliss point"), and their utility declines monotonically as policy moves away from it.
1. A world where fewer weapons were legal (e.g. where the semi-automatic gun is the most dangerous legal weapon).
2. A world where more weapons are legal (e.g. artillery, tanks, nuclear bombs).
A. Suppose we have a two-party (or two-candidate) election. Voters care about and are perfectly informed about party positions on exactly one issue: liberalism versus conservatism.
B. The electoral rule is "winner-takes-all" - whoever gets more votes wins.
1. Picky point - ties. When in doubt, assume ties are resolving by flipping a coin.
C. Assumption about party/candidate motivation: They want to win, and care more about that than everything else put together.
D. The two parties compete in exactly one way: By taking a stand on the issue.
E. Imagine graphing the distribution of voter ideal points. (Non-normality is OK).
F. The electorate may be divided into three groups: those who definitely vote for the more liberal party, those who definitely vote for the more conservative party, and the people in the middle, who pick whichever party is closer to them.
A. Question: How can you get more votes?
B. Answer: Move to the center. You don't lose any of the extreme votes, and get more of the "swing" votes.
C. In equilibrium, parties' platforms cannot be different, because both parties gain votes by moving closer to each other. .
1. So you can't have an equilibrium where one party gets more than 50% of the votes. You can always win 50% by simply offering exactly the same platform as your competitor.
D. Thus, equilibrium platforms "converge" - both parties offer the same policy. But to what?
E. Could the equilibrium platform ever be one where both parties are above the median of the distribution of voter preferences? No. Why? Because one party would get more than 50% of the votes by moving a little closer to the median. So .
F. Could the equilibrium platform ever be one where both parties are below the median of the distribution of voter preferences? No, for the same reason. So .
G. Could the equilibrium platform be the median of the distribution? Yes! If both parties are at the median, then staying there gets you 50% of the votes, but moving a little to the left or right gets you fewer than 50%.
H. Thus, we arrive at the famous Median Voter Theorem: . Given the preceding assumptions, both parties offer platforms identical to the bliss point of the median voter.
A. There are many factors that affect participation: age, education, what's on the ballot... even the weather.
B. If proportional amounts of all political persuasions don't vote, the median stays the same, and so does the electoral outcome.
C. But if participation changes in a disproportionate way, this changes the median, and thereby changes the nature of the winning platform.
D. There are also legal restrictions on voting.
1. Non-citizens normally can't vote at all.
2. Citizens have to register in advance to vote.
3. Non-residents in a state can't vote in that state.
4. Convicted felons and children can't vote.
E. In the past, there were other legal restrictions on the franchise.
F. In the past, some countries (like Sweden) also had "plural voting," with extra votes for the aristocracy. Until 1949, Great Britain had plural votes for the well-educated.
G. Corporations have voting proportional to shares ownership, and turnout of small share-holders is typically very low. Thus, the median corporate voter is usually a large shareholder with a big stake in the company's financial success.
A. In many cases, we see people with extreme preferences deciding not to vote because "their" candidate is an unprincipled "sell-out."
C. If extremists drop out irrevocably, and no one else has a chance of joining them, this moves the median voter - and both parties - in the opposite direction! If the 5% of most-left-wing Democrats vote Green, the median of the remaining voters shifts to the right.
D. If extremists drop out conditional on "their" party's position, it induces platform divergence. Real-world parties have to trade-off extra moderate votes for foregone extremist votes.
A. With multi-peaked preferences, the analysis of elections becomes far more complicated because electoral outcomes may cease to be transitive.
B. Transitivity seems like a trivial assumption for individual choice, and for the most part it is. (Though there are many experiments that "trick" people into making intransitive choices).
C. If someone has intransitive preferences, it is unclear what they would choose. You could also become a "money pump."
D. Key conclusion: With multi-peaked preferences, electoral outcomes can be intransitive, even though no individual voter has intransitive preferences!
E. Proof by example. Going back to the school case, imagine we've got 3 voters.
I. Imagine giving this 3-person electorate two choices at a time.
J. Notice: High beats low, low beats medium, and medium beats high!
K. For many, this example shows that the "will of the people" may be meaningless. What level of education spending does "the people" "will" in this example?
A. The Median Voter Theorem only strictly holds if there is a single issue.
B. If there are two or more issues that parties take stands on, but only one election, there is no guarantee that the median voter's preference will prefer on any issue.
C. Moreover, even with single-peaked preferences, multiple voting dimensions make it possible for voting cycles to arise.
D. At this point, you might say: "But all real-world elections have multiple issues. So the Median Voter Theorem is useless."
E. Possibly so. But as we shall see, there is considerable empirical evidence that platforms empirically boil down to a single dimension - in the U.S., position on the liberal-conservative spectrum.
A. For sub-national democracies, the “median voter” may be even more endogenous than you think: People can move to the jurisdictions where they are relatively close to the median voter, mitigating many complaints about majority rule.
B. The economist Tiebout went further, suggesting that democracy at the local level is superfluous.
C. Why? Because you can think about local governments as perfectly competitive suppliers of local public goods.
1. If the benefit and tax package in a local area is unattractive, residents move away to other localities with more attractive benefit/tax packages. Thus, on the local level, politicians face economic competition from other localities, as well as political competition from other politicians.
2. If there are decreasing returns to scale, localities can sub-divide to the efficient level.
D. Upshot: So even if you have doubts about the efficiency of democracy, you might still conclude that local governments work well.
A. Within any nation, there are normally districts, states, or other "sub"-governments.
B. Definition: The more independent and powerful these sub-governments compared to the central government, the more "federalist" they are.
D. However, throughout this century the U.S. has generally moved to a lower degree of federalism – heavily encourage by a complex system of grants.
F. Classic inter-state externality argument: "The race to the bottom." States allegedly competitively cut welfare spending to encourage recipients to leave the state.
G. Then again, you might view "The race to the bottom" as a pejorative way of describing the competitive outcome, and federal grants as a grand effort to eliminate inter-state competition.
H. Application: The race to the top? The case of law enforcement.
I. Question: Why doesn’t Tiebout competition prevent redistribution from e.g. the childless to families, or from business to residential real estate owners?
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Liberty Middle School Panther Players traveled to Tarkington for the District 21-4A One Act Play competition where they won the District Runner-Up Trophy for their performance of Farewell to Galatea. Cast members and their teachers from left are Emerson Rawlinson, Gustavo Figeac, Kera Grieve, Sofia Ortega, Zak DeBerry, Ashlyn Didway, Grant Burgos, Josiah Slack, (kneeling) Ben Jenkins, Lily McNutt, Tru Heifner, Eduardo Mata, and Joe Roberts.
On Saturday, January 26, the Liberty Middle School Panther Players traveled to Tarkington for the District 21-4A One Act Play competition and garnered several awards.
Performing Ford Ainsworth's Farewell to Galatea, the Liberty Theater Program took second place, winning the District Runner-Up Trophy.
Seventh grader, Ben Jenkins, was named District 21-4A Outstanding Male Actor for his performance as Eros. This marks back to back Outstanding Male Actor awards for Liberty Middle School, with 9th grader Tucker Schilling taking the award last year.
Eighth graders Josiah Slack and Lily McNutt were named to the District 21-4A All-Star Cast, while 8th grader Tru Heifner was named to the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast.
The Panther Players also took home a tech award with seventh grader Zak DeBerry earning an award for All-Star Tech Crew for his role with stage lighting.
Rounding out the award-winning show were fellow cast mates 8th graders Kera Grieve and Sofia Ortega. Back stage included 7th graders Emerson Rawlinson, Ashlyn Didway, Eduardo Mata and Grant Burgos, along with alternate Zach Hajovsky.
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Bordeaux, the capitol of the Aquitaine Region in South Western France, has the largest area of any city in the country, but is only ninth in population with about 230,000 people within the city limits, and about a million in the metropolitan area. The city sits on the port of the Gironde Estuary along the Garrone River which leads out to the Atlantic Ocean. This sprawling city is made up of primarily 18th century architecture and doesn’t have one skyscraper to blemish its skyline. Historically, both shipping and wine production have been central to the city’s development, but it is also known for its university which hosts about 100,000 students every year. Bordeaux is easy to reach by plane with the International Aéroport de Bordeaux just 8km out of the city in the nearby suburb of Mérignac. It is also easy to take the train to Bordeaux with connections from all the major French and European cities, including Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam and London. Once in the city, the public transportation system works well, and is complete with trams, ferries, and buses. Bordeaux is a relatively flat city, making it an ideal place to bike around with over 17km of bike paths in town. The old city is easy to visit by foot, with a good part of it reserved as pedestrian zones.
Like much of France, the area of Bordeaux was inhabited first by prehistoric man, then Celtic tribes, and after that the Romans. Bordeaux was the capitol of the Gallo-Roman Region of Aquitaine from 60 BC until it fell in 276. It was then held by different tribes and families until it was taken by the Dukes of Gascony in the late 10th century. As a result of the marriage of the Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine to Count Henri Plantagenet of Le Mans, soon to become King Henry II of England, Bordeaux became part of the Kingdom England in 1137. English rule continued until 1453, and the Battle of Castillion when French rulers once again took the city, although the area was not officially part of the Kingdom of France until Louis XIV annexed it in 1653. Bordeaux gained new wealth in the 16th century when its port was filled with imported slaves and sugar from the West Indies, but the city’s true Golden Age is considered the 18th century. With foreign visitors such as Victor Hugo living in the city and enormous new wealth, much of the old Medieval city was destroyed at this time to make way for more than 5,000 new buildings, giving the city a more modern and grandiose image. Even today, the 18th century architecture is what defines the landscape of Bordeaux, and it is worth seeing.
Wine has been produced in Bordeaux since the Roman times, and today it continues to be the world’s capitol of wine production, with over 700 million bottles of wine produced annually here at the over 9,000 wine producing châteaux in the area. Visitors can enjoy the many opportunities to taste and learn about the importance and history of wine at the many festivals, museums and wineries in the area. Bordeaux is also a lively city filled with art, culture, and music, and it offers countless things to do. There are museums to visit as well as historic monuments to see. With the Grand Théâtre and the Casino de Bordeaux, not to mention the many great restaurants, bars and discos, Bordeaux boasts a lively night life. In addition, boat trips along the river can offer a relaxing way to see not only the port, but up the river to the surrounding countryside. Get out and explore the city and its neighborhoods, and be sure to enjoy the local cuisine as well.
This cathedral was consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096, but little of the original Romanesque structure remains. The Royal Gate dates from the 13th century while most of the existing building dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was here that Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to the future King Henry II of England in 1137. If you’re up to climbing the 50 meter tall Bell tower, you will enjoy a great view.
Although begun in the 6th century in the Romanesque tradition, this basilica had many additions, giving it a very Gothic aspect now. Within one finds Romanesque capitols and the Southern Portal which is known for its depiction of the Last Judgment. The Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-le-Rose has some amazing Gothic ornamentation, while in the crypt, the oldest part of the church, one finds some marble Merovingian sarcophagi. Legend says that it was in this basilica that Charlemagne laid down Roland’s ivory horn after the battle of Ronceveaux.
This gothic church was built from 1472-1492. The most famous feature here is the bell tower, which was struck by lightening twice, in 1574 and 1608, then finally destroyed by a hurricane in 1768. It was rebuilt in 1865, and today the bell tower stands at 374ft high and offers a great view of the city. Tours of the church include a visit to the top of the tower.
This museum covers the history of Bordeaux over the last 25,000 years, from prehistoric times through the 19th century. There are ancient stone carvings of women from the stone-age, and a great bronze statue of Hercules that was believed to have protected the port in Gallo-Roman times that was unearthed in 1832 in the Saint-Pierre Quarter of Old Bordeaux. The collection also includes the Medieval and Modern Periods, with displays that look at agriculture, commerce and shipping in Bordeaux.
Housed in the 1770s Hôtel de Ville near the public gardens, the Jardin de la Marie, is a fine arts museum. Founded by Napoleon in 1801, the museum’s collection is made up of more than 100 European paintings and sculptures from the 16th to 18th centuries. Of special note are the 17th century Dutch, Flemish and Italian collections, and an exceptional painting by Delacroix.
This museum of Contemporary art is considered one of Frances best museums. It displays many temporary exhibits of international artists. The museum is housed in the Entrepôts Lainé, a warehouse built in 1824 to store the exotic imports such as coffee, cocoa, vanilla and peanuts that were shipped to Bordeaux from France’s many colonies.
The Hôtel de Lalande was built in 1779 as a private home and is now the Museum of Decorative Arts. The rooms in the museum have been restored to how they would have been when it was a private mansion, with décor of the Louis XV and XVI periods. Within one finds an amazing collection of period glasswork, silver, porcelain, furniture, and weapons. Touring the museum gives a great impression of how they rich lived in France at that time. There is also a tea room and restaurant on the premises.
Also known as the Place Royal, this beautiful square is enclosed by the Garrone River and 18th facades which are typical of Bordeaux’s architecture of the period. Built in the mid-1700s, the square includes landscaping, statues and fountains. The square is a pleasure to visit in the day time, or even at night when its fountains are illuminated.
Built from 1773-1780, Bordeaux’ Grand Theater is one of the last remaining 18th century theaters to survive in the world. Outside it has 12 columns with goddesses and muses on top, while the interior is opulently decorated. It is possible to tour the building, but better yet, try to see one of its many operas or plays, and appreciate it as one should.
This museum, housed in a 18th century nobleman’s home, is dedicated to the importance of Bordeaux’s wine culture and industry. The tour includes the vaulted wine cellars and the storehouse as well as an introduction to wine tasting. If you like this, be sure also visit the Vinorama de Bordeaux, another wine museum which looks at the production of wine in the region from the Roman times to the 19th century. Its display includes 75 wax figures and an audiovisual presentation. They also offer a one hour wine tasting, in which visitors sample unusual varieties such as the Roman Honey Wine.
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Ron Coomer went 3 for 5 with a homer and LaTroy Hawkins earned his first victoryof the year last night as the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Boston Red Sox, 8-7, at Fenway Park.
Rick Aguilera relieved to start the ninth with an 8-4 lead. Reggie Jefferson and Troy O'Leary hit consecutive doubles. Two outs later, Aguilera hit the pinch-hitter Jim Leyritz with a pitch, then gave up a two-run double to the pinch-hitter Midre Cummings.
With the tying run on second, Nomar Garciaparra hit a game-ending grounder to second.
Boston had won 18 of its previous 22 games, while the Twins had lost 6 of 8. But Minnesota jumped to an early lead against Robinson Checo (0-2) and then added to it against the Boston bullpen.
Todd Walker led off the game with a double, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Paul Molitor's groundout. Matt Lawton singled, but he was caught trying to steal.
Ron Coomer followed with a looping fly ball down the right-field line that hit the foul pole about 3 feet above the fence that is 302 feet from home plate. The first base umpire, Ed Hickox, first ruled it a double before he corrected himself and signaled home run.
At Oakland, Bobby Higginson's two-run homer capped a three-run eighth inning as Detroit rallied to victory on a rainy afternoon.
The start of the game, played before 5,335 fans, was delayed 35 minutes and a steady rain fell throughout the contest. Tuesday night's game between the two teams was postponed because of a wet field.
A run-scoring double by Joe Randa off reliever Mike Fetters pulled the Tigers within a run with two outs in the eighth. Higginson then hit the second pitch from Buddy Groom (1-1) over the wall in left-center field. It was his fifth homer of the season.
The Tigers added four runs in the ninth on run-scoring singles by Frank Catalanotto and Brian Hunter and a two-run double by Randa.
The Baltimore Orioles' Jacobs Field jinx did not go away overnight.
Jim Thome homered and drove in five runs as Cleveland scored seven runs against Scott Erickson in a victory over the sputtering Orioles.
The Orioles, who have the highest payroll in baseball history at $69 million, lost for the 14th time in 20 games and fell to .500 at 16-16. They dropped to 7-19 at Jacobs Field, including two losses in the American League Championship Series last fall.
Erickson (3-3) tied his career high with three homers allowed, giving up seven runs and eight hits in three and a third innings. Kenny Lofton and Brian Giles also homered off Erickson, with all the shots estimated at more than 400 feet.
The right-hander is 0-5 with an 8.92 earned run average in seven career starts at Jacobs Field.
The Indians tied a season high with 14 runs and had a season-best 17 hits one night after beating Baltimore, 6-5, on Omar Vizquel's ninth-inning single off Armando Benitez.
Thome had a run-scoring double in the first, a 411-foot, three-run homer in the fourth and a run-scoring double in the fifth to raise his average to .388.
His second run-scoring double came during a three-run inning against Norm Charlton. Giles, who hit a 434-foot homer off Erickson in the third, drove in two with a broken-bat, bloop single to right making it 11-2.
Dave Burba (3-3) allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings, including solo homers by Eric Davis and Jeffrey Hammonds. The right-hander could have used some of this run support in his previous six starts, when the Indians scored only 20 for an average of 3.3 per game.
Travis Fryman, who was 3 for 4, had a bases-loaded single in the seventh off Sidney Ponson. David Bell followed with a two-run single to make it 14-3.
Davis hit his second homer of the game in the eighth, a solo shot off Eric Plunk that made the score 14-4.
Rolando Arrojo pitched a three-hitter for his second consecutive shutout and Tampa Bay stopped a four-game losing streak with a victory over host Kansas City.
The 29-year-old rookie (4-2), who shut out Minnesota on three hits in his previous start, allowed an opposite-field double to Jose Offerman in the fourth and leadoff singles to Hal Morris in the seventh and Larry Sutton in the eighth.
Arrojo, who defected from Cuba in 1996, walked two and tied his career best with six strikeouts. Over his last 18 innings, he has allowed only 2 runners past first base and has retired 23 right-handers in a row.
Kevin Stocker and Miguel Cairo each had two runs batted in during a five-run fifth inning for the Devil Rays, who won for just the third time in 15 games. The losing pitcher was Glendon Rusch (3-4), who gave up 5 runs in 5 innings.
Fred McGriff's r.b.i. single got the Devil Rays started in the fifth. With two out, Stocker doubled home two runs and Cairo followed with a two-run single. Cairo was caught in a rundown between first and second for the third out.
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2019-04-25T05:25:31Z
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Section 3 of the Western Express Route begins in Cedar City, Utah, and ends in Dolores, Colorado. You'll see some of the most spectacular scenery in America along paved roads, and the route provides access to a large number of national parks, monuments and state parks. Take some extra time to explore and do some hiking and biking into the off-route parks. This section is considered very difficult due not only to terrain (grades from 6% to 14% in Utah), but also due to lack of water, temperature extremes, and long mileages without services. In most cases there are no homes or ranches between services. Carrying a water purifier is stongly advised for water access at Lake Powell and for miscellaneous reservoirs, creeks and lakes at primitive campsites. Utah is extremely dry and most of the route has only rocks for shade.
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2019-04-26T10:25:20Z
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Say you are walking out to your car at 9:17 pm to get some groceries only to find the front passenger side tire completely flat. Your car, which you and only you consider to be far superior to all other automobiles, a super-mobile, if you will, now looks like it lost its footing at a ditch, which sits at the parking lot slumped forward with a right-side tilt. You need to get groceries and more importantly, you need to drive to work tomorrow morning. What do you do? You man up, and fix it.
Spare tire, the Jack and the tire iron. In most modern cars, the tire iron does double duty as the wrench for the wheel lugs (fancy name for the large bolts that secure the wheel to the plate) and the handle for the jack. You will find all three of them in your trunk.
The barely noticeable black metal objects are the Jack and the double action tire iron.
Assemble your tools near the flat tire. Let it know what’s about to happen.
Make sure your car gear is set to “Park” and is actually parked on flat ground. Don’t jack up the car yet, since you can use the car’s weight to loosen the tire lugs. When the car is jacked up, the wheel can move a bit, which makes turning the tight lugs a tricky affair. Using the wrench side of the tire iron, loosen the deflated tire’s lugs. For the first turn or two, you may have to step on the iron to unscrew the lugs. They are, as the saying goes, tough nuts.
Once they are loose enough that you can turn them without much effort, its time to jack up the car. With your hand, feel the underside of your car just behind the mud flap of the tire. What we are trying to find is the metal frame which can support the jack. Mounting your jack to any place other than the main frame of the car can cause serious damage to that part. It should be easy to find the frame, so once you locate it, slide in the jack right under it and start raising the jack using the dual-purpose iron.
Now, we are ready to remove the tire and put on the spare. Since you had already loosened up the lugs, they should be easy to come off. Once all the lugs are taken out, stow them safely and then remove the flat tire from the plate by sliding it off the grooves. Without the air, the tire won’t be that heavy, but be careful to not hurt your back.
Now grab the nearby spare tire (You did keep it nearby right?). Mount the wheel by lining up the lug grooves with the holes on the wheel and slide the wheel in. Personally, this was the toughest part about changing tires in dark. There was no light on this side of the car, and it was impossible to see the bolt grooves so I had to go by the sound and feel of the metal groves against the wheel. It took me about 15 minutes to line up the five grooves with the holes on the wheel.
Still have those lugs? Now is the time to screw them in. Here is a pro tip – Don’t tighten the screws individually. Instead, place all the lugs in their respective grooves first and then tighten them by alternating between opposite lugs. You tighten the top one first and then switch to the bottom one – the one that is directionally opposite to the top one. Then you do the left most one and the right most (opposite) one. Keep alternating between the lugs this way and you will end up with a wheel that is perfectly lined up against the plate, and you will feel no wobble while driving.
Since the car is jacked up, the wheel will move around a bit. So you won’t be able to tighten the lugs completely. Screw them as tight as you can and then unjack (is that an actual word?) the car.
Now that all four wheels are back on the ground, get back to tightening (this is a kid friendly blog, so I am not using the word ‘screwing’) the lugs as tight as you can. Again, don’t get too excited and hurt yourself. Once they are all tight, you are done. Stow the Jack and tire iron back where they belong and secure the old tire in the vacant place previously occupied by the spare tire.
You are now ready to roll. Remember that the spare tire is intentionally smaller than the standard tires and it is not safe for regular driving. With the spare tire it is ok to drive around a bit, just enough to get your car to a workshop, but fix your regular tire and put it back to work at the earliest.
Now go get that grocery.
After the external build of my desktop computer, today the time arrived for completing the build by assembling all the hardware into the computer case and installing the OS.
All clean and empty ready to be filled with hardware. Notice all the mesh? its for air flow.
This case has bunch of brackets for HDD and optical drives I won’t be needing, but comes in handy for future expansion.
First to go in- Hitachi SATA 500 GB 3.5 inch hard disk drive. This case is pretty awesome since there is no need for screws to attach the hard disk. Just add the plastic sliders and insert the bracket and you are done.
Screw in the power supply unit.
The big cheese! Motherboard, with CPU cooler and RAM go in as a single unit. Had a bit of hard time with putting in all the metal standoffs to support the board but everything else went pretty smoothly.
Make sure to line up the out-ports with the sockets.
Now the easiest part. Untangling the wires, connecting them to correct sockets and hoping the static from my hands don’t fry the ports!
The other side is even messier!
All connected up and everything looks nice and dandy. Word of advise to fellow builders – make sure to use the manuals provided with the mother board and CPU case. Trial and error is not a strategy for this step.
Arrange the wires with some tie-downs and it almost looks professional.
And here is our final setup. Its strange that all the work done for the past hour or so is hidden completely away. The case looks exactly as before I assembled the hardware inside it. Time to fire it up.
Moment of truth – connect to power and push the button. Red light, that’s good.
Fans are running and the blue LED is lit up. It’s looking good.
Ahh, the familiar BIOS error. Its the same error we saw when we did the external build. Fortunately I have a hard disk connected so its time to do some BIOS setup and OS installation.
I have to say, of all the OS I have installed on any machine, installing Ubuntu was the easiest and most hassle free. 20 minutes later, we have OS.
10 minutes later, there is a computer in the living room! Brilliant.
My friend S said this to me just a few weeks ago during the final days of Dec 2011. We were watching back to back episodes of ‘The Big Bang Theory‘ on TBS and while lounging in our mutual friend K’s apartment in New Jersey he nonchalantly said that we should build a computer. It’s not so much that he said it, but he said with that voice, the one that seems like it’s the most sensible thing in the world. It’s the same voice God used when speaking to Moses and more recently to Tebow. Its the voice that often flicks a switch in one’s head that one never knew existed. There is no defense against that voice!.
As soon as he said it, I said ‘Yeah, Let’s build a computer!‘. The exclamation point at the end signifies the level of excitement I registered with my own voice at that moment. After coming back to Arizona the material procurement began. There is a bit of research involved but with help from couple of my office colleagues, it wasn’t as troublesome as I thought. Here is the external build (meaning, connecting the units outside the CPU case) I did to check if everything is working.
They look much prettier out of box. The processor is under the smaller fan.
MSI P67 Board. NewEgg website says this board is a winner of customer choice award, but I didn’t get to vote. Note: Make sure you don’t have static on you. Static discharge will fry your board easily.
And this tiny little thing is where the magic happens. Looks far too small for a 3.3 GHz processor with built in GPU.
Fits nice and snug. Seriously, don’t try to push it down. Just settle it over the socket and clamp it.
Time to attach the CPU cooler. Now it may seem like I miscalculated how big the CPU fan actually was before ordering it. I want to assure you that its true. It’s freakishly massive for a device that sits on top of a tiny processor.
The best thing about this CPU fan unit is that the package included everything from hex-screw heads to heat paste which is not commonly included with many coolers. Installation was a bit tricky since the cooler was awkwardly heavy for the board. And the printed circuit meant that there were sharp soldering points at the underside of the board which made holding the board mildly painful.
Pop in the brilliant blue RAM modules. You can see that the first RAM socket is unreachable because of the bulky fan.
The video card (not pictured in the materials pic shown above) came in late – it’s a funny story, for another day – and it’s the last part to go in. This one is 1GB PCI-Express- Express meaning its faster than the PCI-normal type. FYI, there is no PCI-normal type, they are called just PCI.
Moment of truth. Time to connect the power supply and switch it on. This motherboard comes with a sweet little power button which many other boards ignore. Let’s see, blue LED is ON and both fans are spinning joyously. We’re in business. Just one more thing to confirm.
Awesome!! Just to be sure, yeah, its an error message and it is totally expected. The BIOS is complaining that stuff have not been initialized properly yet. We don’t have an OS yet and that’s only because we don’t have a Hard Disk connected!! I’ll set them up once these guys are safely setup inside a CPU case.
Next up, disconnecting these units, attaching them inside the CPU case and then connecting them back. Then the Hard disk will go in and then the new OS. Just for fun I am planning to go with Linux. I know there are multiple flavors of Linux out there. I am looking at Ubuntu now, but does any one have suggestions/advise for total Linux newbie?
T’is the season to make resolutions and goals. Here are ten quotes to inspire you.
Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us and sometimes they win.
I am on a blog-a-day-for-a-year crusade. Keep me motivated with your comments. Or tell me how to speak really slow.
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2019-04-21T16:44:11Z
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Hey everyone! Here is our first official blog post and it's going to be a good one!
I had the opportunity to speak with the one and only Lynda Erkiletian! Before I get into the details of our talk let me say that Lynda is one of the nicest people I have ever spoken with! For the little interaction I have had with her over twitter, when she was on the other end of a phone with me it felt like I had known her for years! This was my first "interview" of any sort and my nerves were on edge but within the first 5 minutes I had calmed down. Her energy, even brought through the phone, was amazing.
I had emailed with her publicist Michelle to set everything up and she was a blessing to work with as well!
ON TO THE JUICY JUNK!!
I called Lynda at her office in Georgetown, Washington D.C., and was promptly transferred to Lynda. We had planned to talk for only about 30-minutes but it ended up being more like 50. She had Mary Amons, District Sample Sale to attend later in the evening so we spoke about that among other things.
Here's my interview with Lynda Erkiletian!
Q: What have you heard from Bravo regarding a season 2?
A: "What we have heard is that, basically there are negotiations that are taking place and when they have finalized their decisions they will be in touch!" Lynda also made a point to point out the way Bravo does their business stating "they (Bravo) have a unique way of doing business, and as a business woman I have come to really respect the decisions that they make and how they make them"
Q: What do you think about all the blogs reporting that they have "inside information" regarding the second season, or should we say lack of a second season?
A: "I think that what some bloggers tend to do is print rumors, print what they hear then check for facts and retract what they said after the fact." Lynda went on to say "I would like to see everyone adhere to the laws of journalism and check facts before posting an article. Some bloggers are only after ratings."
Q: If there were a second season would you return, even if the Salahi's were to return?
Q: What if the Salahi's were NOT to return, would you!
A: “Yes, I loved being a DC housewife and representing Washington, DC, and my industry, and the charities I am involved in. It was an incredible learning experience, it showed me a whole new world out there that I was not familiar with!" Lynda added, "I feel a second season would continue to enrich my life, I could be cast along with Cat (Ommanney), Mary (Amons), and Stacie (Turner) as well as other fabulous DC women!"
Q: If there is a second season what can we look forward to from you?
A: “Every day my calendar changes but it's always full and depending on when they began filming I have so much going on I could show! Of course my work is all year round, I also work with a non-profit foundation in LA, which keeps me busy. My son Aaron who is in a band called "Square Trio" who is releasing their 4th CD and this is really my life! I think it's interesting and it's wonderful because it is my real life but I look forward to those boring days when I have nothing to do."
Q: "Are your children involved in THE Artist Agency in any way?"
A: “No, my daughter worked here for a short time and learned that she wanted to return to college! And I'm not suggesting they go into my business, I feel it was my passion and my love but I want them to embrace their own passions! I have always supported what my children have wanted to do as long as it's not detrimental. To their health!"
Q: What was one "like" and one "dislike" about being on the Real Housewives of Washington DC?
*Like- learning the whole process or filming and directing and being a character on a reality television show. I also enjoyed becoming friends with Cat and Stacie and getting to know Mary better.
*Dislike-Being thrown under the bus by bloggers who didn't check their facts.
Q: Do you watch any of the other RHW franchise?
OC: "I have really only seen one season of OC but I enjoyed it and have been watching this season as well! They are certainly intertwining."
NY: "I watched Bethenny Ever After just last night but I watched the twitters going crazy about how she was mean, but then I watched the show and didn't see it!" Lynda then added "I am happy for Bethenny and happy she left the housewives because I think it was getting uncomfortable to watch her and Jill."
Beverly Hills: "I really really enjoyed Beverly Hills!"
Miami: "I have not watched Miami. I tried to watch an episode or two and then thought, you know what I'm going to go open my mail!"
Q: You being from the south, what do you think of Phaedra claiming to be the "Ultimate Southern Belle"?
A: "Well I think she sounds southern!" Lynda then added, "I think she is hilarious! I mean that baby shower could not have been more hilarious! She's funny, I really enjoy watching her!"
Q: Do you think the Salahi's involvement with the show is to blame for the critics and bloggers not caring much for DC? In other words do you think if there is a season two and the Salahi's are not on it the viewers will receive the show better?
A: "Yeah. I think given an opportunity to follow our day-to-day life and give us a second go ahead people would watch. I think Washington could be an incredible show. The District of Columbia is the nations Capitol; it is where the president resides. I think it's an interesting place where interesting things go on. They call it Hollywood on the Potomac because constantly we have celebs coming in and out that have something to say, they are here to take part in a wonderful city that does make changes possible."
Q: Speaking of President Obama it is true you voted for him, correct?
A: "Even though I am a republican!"
Q: What do you think of his (President Obama) performance thus far?
A: "I still support President Obama, I feel that I vote for the person and not for the party and I still believe in him as a person. I would like to see the rest of congress and the senate and the unions across the US get it together and take care of waste and greed and get us back on track!"
Q: Was there anything edited out of the show, which was filmed, that you wish had been featured?
A: "Too many things for me to ever be able to give you a list of. In any film project due to editing they cut certain content."
Q: Do you prefer to cook, or eat out?
A: "I like both! I really enjoy cooking. When I cook I like to cook for more than 10 people. I like to piddle in the kitchen and cook up little things for my kids but if I'm actually going to cook I like to cook for an army!"
Q: What is something you want your fans to know about you that were either not shown or that was misconstrued on the show?
A: "I think that I'm a lot more light-hearted and funny and ditsy, which sometimes that word can come off in a negative way but I think Lucille Ball will live so long as I'm alive! I think that if you sat down with me in a casual setting you would probably have a little giggle or two!"
Q: What is one of your favorite childhood memories?
A: "My father was military and traveled a lot and when he would come home and walk through the door with his uniform on we (3 brothers and 2 sister plus Lynda) would be jumping all over him. It was such a joy for him to be home. That was a big highlight in my life."
Q: what is one of your favorite things to do on a rainy day?
A: "Read my magazines and watch old movies"
Q: The scene when Stacie (Turner) insinuated that Cat (Ommanney) may be a racist because she doesn't care much for Tyra (Banks) or President Obama do you feel Cat is a racist and how did Ebong feel regarding that statement?
A: "Ebong never thought twice about the statement. And no Cat is in no way racist!"
Lynda then chimes in "Don't ask me to marry you!"
No, not that! But it does have to do with Marriage! Is there a wedding in you and Ebongs future?
A: "That’s a secret. You know Ebong and I are very happy and we have a beautiful relationship. In our hearts we are as close as any two people can get"
Lynda and I then chatted about cooking, family, DC and some other fun stuff!
I would like to thank Lynda for taking the time to talk with me as well as Michelle for everything she has done!
I was also able to speak with Lynda after the announcement was made that DC was canceled so look for that to be posted soon!
Love your interview with Lynda. You did an amazing job. Fantastic!
Great job!! I'm looking forward to reading the next one.
Awesome interview! Nice to feel such positive energy from our area!
Came here from Lynn, ROH, and PYHU's twitter posts.
Great interview - really enjoyed it! I came here also from Lynn, ROH and PYHU.
Great interview. Whaen will you post more interviews with the other DC Gales?
Reality_Buzz- I agree completely! To know this is where I call home is awesome!
Cat will be back in town soon and I will have a chance to connect with her!
Hopefully after Mary's event on May 4th ( http://bit.ly/Labels4LoveEvents ) I will have a chance to talk with her!
And then of course the second part of my interview with Lynda will be coming soon!
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2019-04-20T14:11:31Z
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There would be tougher penalties for people repeatedly caught illegally crossing the border and millions of dollars less in federal funds for so-called sanctuary jurisdictions such as Los Angeles under two House immigration bills approved Thursday.
Both bills would fulfill President Trump's campaign promises if they became law, but the Senate has killed similar legislation and is unlikely to be able to reach the 60-vote requirement to pass the bills.
The House voted 257 to 167, with 24 Democrats crossing party lines, to pass "Kate's Law," which would create harsher mandatory minimum prison sentences for people who repeatedly enter the U.S. illegally.
It is named after Kathryn Steinle, who allegedly was shot and killed in San Francisco in 2015 by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant who had repeatedly entered the country illegally and was released from jail by sheriff's officials despite a request by immigration officials to keep him behind bars.
Two California Democrats, Reps. Jackie Speier (D- Hillsborough) and Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin), joined Republicans in voting for the bill.
Swalwell grew up with Steinle and is still in touch with her family, he said.
"This bill is not perfect, and it's shameful that the Republicans did not allow any debate…. But it does improve our ability to punish individuals who repeatedly break the law and to deter those who may do so," Swalwell said in a statement.
The House also voted 228 to 195, largely along party lines, to pass the "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act," which would bar cities and states that don't cooperate with immigration authorities from getting certain Department of Justice and Homeland Security grants, including some related to combating gangs, preventing drug crimes and stopping terrorism.
Several California cities and counties refuse to honor requests from immigration authorities to detain prisoners so they can be picked up for deportation after they have served their sentences.
California lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal immigration laws, and several cities have created funds to pay for lawyers for those facing deportation. San Francisco and other California communities have already gone to court to challenge Trump's executive order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and attorneys general from 10 other states filed a supportive brief Wednesday.
Republicans say sanctuary cities shelter people in the country illegally, violating federal immigration law and promoting crime.
"Is the purpose of our government to protect the American people first? Or is the purpose of our government to protect felons who have entered our country illegally, broken our laws and threatened our people?" House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) said. "I wish this was an exaggeration. But American citizens have died because some local governments have refused to uphold our laws."
Democrats say that the bills paint all immigrants as criminals and scapegoats, and that immigrants here illegally would refuse to report crimes or cooperate with police if they feared deportation.
"It's a dog whistle against Latinos; I think everyone understands that," Rep. Juan Vargas (D-San Diego) said. "We look at these people and see them as good citizens, see them at Little League and the soccer games. We don't want to see them in prison; this is ridiculous. That's not the kind of state we are. We're going to push back."
Similar legislation passed the House under President Obama but died repeatedly in the Senate. It's not clear having a president friendly to the issue will help this time around.
Trump has embraced families of people killed by immigrants in the country illegally. He mentioned Steinle in a speech, and anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric was a hallmark of Trump's 2016 campaign.
"We're calling on all members of Congress to honor grieving American families by passing these lifesaving measures in the House, in the Senate, and then sending them to my desk for a very rapid signature," Trump said during a White House meeting with crime victims Wednesday.
Times staff writer Lauren Rosenblatt contributed to this report.
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2019-04-19T19:13:59Z
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I got my Master’s degree in Physics/Mathematics. In fact, from the beginning of my undergraduate study, my passion for learning the mathematical language of physics as well as computer programming was to such an extent that I was at the top of my class in most of the pertinent courses, was granted special training in physics, and got third place in a competition on the subject of quantum mechanics. I also published two research papers. I benefited much from the strong and open academic environment where I was studying, and consequently, I gained a deeper insight of the beauty of science and mathematics. But after some self-scrutiny, I found my deepest interest is in the mathematical and logical language employed to describe the systems I was studying. Unfortunately, my graduation coincided with a serious disaster my family, when we lost my mother to cancer. I started teaching at some universities as a lecturer and tutor in physics and mathematics, and I taught most of the theoretical undergraduate courses in addition to medical Physics and physics Laboratories. Through my teaching experience, I understood the value of diligent research and its direct impact on the way the subjects are being taught. Thus I decided to pursue a PhD in Mathematics at WSU. I found Bala Krishnamoorthy’s research in computational biology, algebraic topology, and optimization fascinating, and decided to work with him. I am eager to make important contributions to advance the state-of-the-art in problems related to these areas.
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2019-04-25T09:54:51Z
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I learned fear the year I turned fourteen.
When I came out of the bathroom at school, a boy would knock my purse just hard enough to empty its contents. When I approached a classroom, another boy would ambush me with a homemade rubber band gun.
“She flinched!” he would crow, chortling with laughter until my so-called friends joined in.
It became a game to see how far they could push without getting caught. I carried all of my possessions with me so I wouldn’t have to stop by a locker. I mastered changing into and out of my gym uniform fast enough to prevent salacious comments or ransacking of my bag while my back was turned. I learned to remain as still as stone, never giving away my feelings.
Who am I kidding? My feelings were easy to read as the tears escaped. Gym class and bus rides were the worst. I counted each day as I went to bed. One week. Two months. Four months. I knew I would be told to “ignore” or that I was making a big deal out of nothing, so I told no one.
I became labeled a “c*nt,” and I was too naive to know it was an insult until someone told me.
At the end of the day, however, it’s not the boys I remember. I remember my so-called friends, laughing as they joined in. I remember my father asking, “What did you do to provoke them?” I remember my mother saying, “It’s your fault for not telling anyone.” Boys would be boys, and girls were to blame for fighting back or not fighting back.
Bullying. It’s a popular word these days, as parents, teachers, and officials scramble to find a solution to a complicated problem. What is bullying, what does it look like, and what can we do to help? Specifically, what does bullying mean for the LGBT community?
Welcome to the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT)! I’m thrilled to join the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia (HAHAT), a collective effort from authors, publishers, reviewers, cover artists, and others involved in LGBT fiction. IDAHOT has been supported by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as well as many, many others. The aim of IDAHOT is to encourage local efforts, and as an author of F/F fiction I’m grateful for the chance to participate.
Homophobia, domestic violence, and bullying all stem from the same fear.
What fear might that be?
Fear of the unknown. Fear of the “different.” Fear, coupled with a desire to control others.
But mostly, fear of ourselves.
That’s right, ourselves. When we are secure in our own identity, confident and happy to be who we are, we have no need to knock anyone else down (physically or emotionally). The comments people have given me about F/F fiction reveal much about their insecurities and nothing about the love between two women.
Domestic violence in lesbian relationships is as common or more common (1 in 4 or 1 in 3) as domestic violence in heterosexual relationships.
A homophobic environment allows a woman to threaten her partner with forced outing (to family, work, etc.). This also means a woman who is abused cannot seek help from the police.
According to a study by Little and Terrance (2010), gender stereotypes make it difficult for lesbian women to “prove” that they were the victim of domestic violence. Men tend to dismiss all violence perpetrated by a female to a female, and women tend to blame a female victim if she did not conform with stereotypically feminine traits.
Perhaps most shocking of all, many domestic violence shelters refuse to take lesbian women. That’s right. For the 16% of lesbian domestic violence victims who seek official help, they are then re-victimized with denial of legal protection and shelter.
Do we hear about this in the LGBT news? Nope. We hear about people outraged that someone won’t make them a wedding cake.
I understand that discrimination of any type is wrong, but what is more important? A wedding cake or protecting lives?
Let’s focus our energies on where it matters, not on trivial issues.
How do I focus my energies? I write stories of women who love women, and I use opposite worlds to help people understand what it would be like to live in a society that blames us for our identity.
What if heterosexuality were a crime?
Betrothed at birth to the daughter of one of the most prominent Houses in the totalitarian theocracy of Bastia, soon-to-be-college-graduate Clissa isn’t sure whether she is ready to undergo the Mar. Once she becomes the Nur, or the submissive partner, to her betrothed she will have to submit all major decisions of her life to the beautiful Helaine whom she has only met once. She must marry a woman, according to the decrees of Bastian law.
Caught between his desire to “get along” and the growing awareness that he is “het” and is attracted to Clissa, Destral kisses her one day as they study in their college library. Shocked at the feelings the kiss awakens, Clissa begins to question everything she has been taught. Did Basti, their deity, really decree that it was sinful for a man to be with a woman? Will her growing feelings for Destral cost her everything that her parents have worked hard to give her?
In a mad attempt to subvert Bastian authority, Clissa and Destral run away to find the Het Pride, a group that preaches tolerance, equality, and peace. Z, their leader, promises that one day hets will achieve equality and freedom. When the Bastian police capture or kills most of the Het Pride, however, Clissa is assigned to new parents for “reeducation” in the doctrine of Bastia. Her new parents are given one mandate: Bring her back to rightness with Basti.
Clissa, lost in a system that is threatened by her very identity, must make her choice. Will she be broken by Bastian authority, or will she find a way to break free? Can true love overcome a harsh regime?
An ARC (advance review copy) of Freiya’s Stand, my next book about two women who teach at a private Catholic school, fall in love, and get slapped with a morality clause that requires them to renounce homosexuality or lose their jobs.
What about this post surprised you or was new to you?
Please share any personal experience and/or wisdom to share regarding any of the points made in this article.
How could we make more resources available for lesbian women who have experienced bullying and/or domestic violence?
Winners will be announced on May 25th here on the blog (governingana.wordpress.com), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/anastasiapvitsky), and Twitter (@AnastasiaVitsky). Winners must claim their prizes within 24 hours, or I will re-draw for a new winner.
Extra prize entries! If you leave a new review on Amazon and/or Blushing Books for any of my F/F books (The Way Home, Lighting the Way, Editorial Board, Simple Gifts, Desire in Any Language, Mira’s Miracle, and Becoming Clissine), you will receive an extra prize entry for each book you review! All of my books are available on Amazon and Blushing, and you will receive a prize entry for every review (two per book, if you post both on Amazon and Blushing). Please leave a note in the comments telling me which book you reviewed and where.
Best of luck, and happy International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia!
Are you ready for the magnificent fun that will be known as Ana’s Advent Calendar 2013? We are certainly lucky this year! New prizes and authors join each day, and we can’t wait!
You might be an old hand from Ana’s Advent Calendar 2012. Or you might be new this year, but either way you might have questions. Ready? Let’s go!
Click here for the main page, read it, and come back. Yep, really!
Sign up. Then visit every day December 1st-24th and leave a comment answering a question or responding to a post.
I will post a sign-up sheet on Monday, November 25th. Sign up by leaving your name (whatever name you will use throughout December) and your email address. You may also need to answer a question about book preferences.
When is the deadline for signing up?
December 24th. Yes, that is correct. You can sign up any time during the month! However, there will be an incentive for signing up before December 1st.
Why does Ana’s Advent Calendar start on December 1st when Advent begins on December 2nd?
I contributed a prize (book, gift certificate, or physical gift) toward the Advent Calendar. Can I still sign up to play?
YES! Please do! I would love to have you participate. It’s a great way to meet other authors and readers. You are eligible to win every prize except the one you contributed.
I’m an author. Is it too late for me to join?
Absolutely not! I will take author contributions until December 24th. Please send me your name, title(s) of the book(s) you want to donate (or name of the gift you wish to donate), a public email address (it will be posted here so prize winners can contact you), and your blog or website address if you have one.
I’m not an author, but I would like to donate a prize.
Please do! We have two readers (Ami Starsong and Katie), a book reviewer (Fallen Over Book Reviews), and two publishers (Blushing Books and Loose Id) contributing prizes. Leave a comment here, email me, or find me on Facebook or Twitter.
Why does my email address need to be posted publicly?
Nearly 80 people have contributed a book or other prize to Ana’s Advent Calendar so far. Much as I would like to, I won’t be able to email everyone individually about prize winners. Because you are busy people and may not be able to check every post each day, giving prize winners your email address allows them to contact you to receive the prize.
Prize announcements will be posted right here on governingana.wordpress.com.
I won a prize. Now what do I do?
My prize donor doesn’t have an email address listed.
Two authors, Ann Mayburn and Sharon Buchbinder, have requested to contact the prize winner directly. Wait 2–3 days, and if you hear nothing let me know.
Publishers and other non-author prize donors will be contacted on your behalf.
I contacted the prize donor, but I haven’t gotten a response.
Wait 2-3 days and then leave a comment on your prize announcement post. I will message the donor and see if the email got lost.
I’m an author, but I haven’t heard from the winner. What should I do?
Winners have four days to contact you. If you have not gotten an email by then, let me know and I will choose another winner for your prize.
Why do some prizes say US or US and Europe?
Some prizes are physical (a tangible item rather than an e-book), and the donor has set restrictions on shipping areas. In order to receive this prize, you will need to give your mailing address. If you are not comfortable doing so, you are free to refuse the prize. Let your prize donor know, and I will reassign the prize to a new winner.
Do I get to choose which book(s) I receive as a prize?
No. While I will make the effort to match winners with authors they have not read before (a goal of this event), I will not be able to take into account reading preferences for every single winner. If you receive a book that you have already read or do not wish to read, let your prize donor know so the book can be awarded to someone else.
Where do I go for the daily Advent Calendar posts?
The entire Advent Calendar will be right here at governingana.wordpress.com. Stop by each day for the posts, and check back for prize announcements.
I don’t have a Kindle, Nook, or other ereader. Can I still play?
Yes! Amazon has a downloadable Kindle application that you can use on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. You can also download a free conversion program, such as Calibre, that will allow you to read epub files (a format for ebooks) right on your computer.
In addition to my surprise checks (random prize awardings throughout the month), a few authors and contributors will put up a guest post and award prizes on certain days throughout the month. Look for some fantastic posts!
Can I become a surprise day sponsor?
I am currently searching for guest posts from people who celebrate a major, historical, non-Christmas holiday in December, such as Hanukkah, Diwali, or Kwanzaa. If this fits you, please message me and we can talk about details.
I don’t celebrate Christmas, or I don’t feel like celebrating Christmas. Can I still play?
YES!!! Everyone is welcome. EVERYONE (except trolls and spammers). Don’t tell Mrs. Claus, but “Christmas” is simply an excuse to come together as a community and enjoy each others’ company.
Who made your artwork for the Advent Calendar?
The amazingly talented team of Minelle and Katie produced the art and graphics. Thank you!
Where can I find Ana’s Advent Calendar 2013 on social media?
I’m so glad you asked! Like the Facebook page and follow @MistressClaus on Twitter.
I really, really want to win. Is there any way I can ingratiate myself with Mrs. Claus?
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The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) offers the following Windows site licensed software and public domain programs to members of The Ohio State University community. Please refer to the Software Life-cycle Management Guidelines for general policy guidelines and an explanation of certain restrictions that may apply to usage on regional campuses.
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff departmental use via IT Service Desk; Student and faculty/staff personal use available via Tech Hub.
Cost: No cost for departmental use.
Adobe Acrobat Pro software lets you deliver highly professional PDF communications. Create and edit PDF files with rich media included, share information more securely, and gather team feedback more efficiently.
The Office of the Chief Information Officer has reached an agreement with Adobe to provide unlimited use of the Acrobat Professional product on all OSU campuses for faculty and staff. This Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) permits a broad installation of the software, and allows us to deepen our relationship with Adobe. Available to faculty, staff, and GRA/GTA's, this software may be used on OSU-owned machines, or on home machines for University business. Available on main and regional campuses and all extension offices.
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff departmental use via CLP (see below); Student and fac/staff personal use available via Tech Hub.
Ohio State University has entered into a Contract License Program (CLP) with Adobe. This contract provides for discounts up to 65% off of educational boxed product. This software may be obtained at Tech Hub. Personal use for faculty, staff, and students may also be obtained at Tech Hub at significant discount. Site License Coordinators may obtain installation codes for departmental use. SLSC's may request the codes for all Adobe products through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students; personal and OSU use permitted.
PC with Pentium or higher processor.
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 or later/XP/Vista/7.
128 MB RAM, 90 MB hard disk space.
Adobe Reader allows you to view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files with the original graphics and layout intact. It is available to faculty, staff and students for use on campus and on home computers. This version now also includes Document Rights which provides features when you open a PDF document with additional usage rights. These features include Save Document, Advanced Form features, Comments, and Digital Signatures. You may order the software from the Adobe website.
This is a geographic information system (GIS) product from Environmental Systems Research Institute. ArcGIS offers advanced modeling, mapping and analysis capabilities for the desktop. ArcGIS Desktop runs on Windows platforms. ArcGIS incorporates the capabilities of Arc/View and Arc/Info and replaces those products. For information regarding setup for renewal of an existing license, see OCIO Knowledgebase Article KB04502. New media for this software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Autodesk has discontinued the availability of Educational licenses for use by staff for facilities or administrative functions. OSU must now buy government rate licenses, which are approximately 90% the cost of a commercial license.
If Autodesk software is being used for purely educational use (see https://www.autodesk.com/education/about-autodesk-education for more information), then the software is free and can be downloaded from https://www.autodesk.com/education/home.
If being uses for facilities or administrative use, please note the following.
Licenses only need to be purchased if users plan to edit drawings. Free viewers will be made available for AutoCAD, Revit, and other Autodesk file formats.
Depending on the software chosen, floating licenses are used to limit the cost. The software can be installed on an unlimited number of machines, and only when being used will the license be consumed.
Sharing floating licenses with other departments will further reduce the overall number of licenses needed.
If editing of DWG (AutoCAD) or RVT (Revit) files is needed, purchasing an Autodesk collection license is required. While packages are available currently through OCIO, they will not function without first being purchased. Please contact Joe Porostosky, Porostosky.1@osu.edu to arrange purchase of licenses.
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff; Main and regional use permitted; OSU-owned, on-campus machines only.
64 MB RAM, 1 MB free disk space.
BadCopy Pro is a data recovery tool for floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R/W, digital media and other storage media, including hard drives. It can recover corrupted or lost data from damaged, unreadable or defective disks. Available to faculty and staff for on-campus machines only. No home use is allowed. This is for use for university business only. When you are no longer affiliated with OSU you must return the software to your department or OCIO. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, and Students; Main and regional use permitted; OSU-owned and personal machines permitted.
512 MB RAM, 5 MB free disk space.
OSUnet VPN service is designed as a solution for faculty, staff and students to be able to have remote usage to the OSUnet network that is authenticated and secure. This authentication is accomplished by a "client" VPN program which communicates with a server located at OSU. Available to faculty, staff and students at main and regional campuses and on your home computer. It is for university-related business only and must be left with your department and removed from your home computer when you leave OSU. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Supported Versions: Current version provided by company.
FileZilla is a free, open source FTP client. It provides a reliable way to maintain web pages and perform file transfers on the Internet. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). Available to faculty, staff and students for main and regional campus use and home use. You may order the software from the FileZilla download page.
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, and Students; Main and Regional campuses; OSU-owned and personal machine use permitted. Use is limited to instruction, academic research, and coursework.
Pentium 4 PC or higher.
Windows XP (SP2), Vista (Home Basic Edition not supported). 7/8/10 (Starter and Home Basic Editions not supported).
1 GB of RAM, 500 MB free disk space.
True (24 bit+) color with resolution at 1024 X 768 or greater.
JMP is an interactive software tool designed for statistical visualization and exploratory data analysis. This is available to faculty, staff and students located on main campus only. It can be used for classroom instruction, academic research and course work only. Home use is allowed for a holder of the license on campus. The right-to-use license is no charge. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Option: JMP Genomics: JMP Genomics software combines interactive JMP graphics and SAS Analytics, allowing researchers to see and explore genomic data from every angle, understand it and share analysis with colleagues. Available only to Faculty and Staff for classroom instruction, academic research and course work only. Home use is permitted. The right-to-use license is no charge (OSU Pediatrics provided a cost share for this license). This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service, and it is a separate download from JMP. Note: JMP Genomics is a very large program (approx. 11.2GB in size). Check file size after downloading to ensure you have received the entire program. JMP Genomics Version 10 is the only version of this software available at this time.
Supported Versions: Current release supported; "Mid-year Upgrade Protection" ensures releases stay current.
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff; Main and branch campus usey permitted; OSU-managed machines only (including contractors).
Cost: Based on an FTE model. Obtain quote per below description.
LANDesk Software provides systems management, security management, service management, asset management, and process management solutions to organizations. Available to OSU faculty and staff for use on all OSU-owned machines and any machines that require management by OSU staff. OCIO Site Licensing and OCIO Security, with help from CFAES and other offices at OSU, have partnered to negotiate a three-year contract with LANDesk for departments to purchase a variety of their software from GovConnection. Pricing is based on a per-FTE basis, as calculated by Site Licensing based on departmental Microsoft FTE counts, and all departments receive the same price, regardless of size. Site Licensing recommends the Management Suite and Mid-year Upgrade Protection. To obtain copies of this software, request a quote from Pete Kelley, (800) 800-0019 ext. 76160 or pkelley@govconnection.com. OSU's pricing is guaranteed through June 2014.
PC with a Pentium 1 GHz or higher processor.
Win XP/Vista/7/8, 2008R2/2012; 2 GB RAM, 2 GB of free hard disk space.
Graphics adapter capable of 1024 x 768 resolution or better.
A powerful and comprehensive interactive symbolic algebra system used for engineering and mathematical instruction and research. Available to faculty and staff for use on campus or in their homes for university-related business. Available to students who are employed as a teaching or research assistant/associate for use on computers on campus only for university-related business. Software must be returned when leaving OSU. This program comes in a desktop version and a server version. The server version may be used to run Maple in a LAN environment. Maple contains extensive Help documentation after installation. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty, Academic Staff, Students. No third parties.
PC with a Pentium 4 or higher processor; Intel Xeon/Core/Celeron, or AMD Athlon/Opteron/Sempron processor; AMD 64 processors.
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10; Windows Server 2008 (SP2, or R2); Windows Server 2008.
1 GB of RAM, 512 MB of swap space, 625 MB of hard disk space (MATLAB only with Help).
Access to the C++ and FORTRAN compilers if building your own MEX files.
See http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/windows.html for supported compilers.
* Only available for Windows 32-bit.
Available to faculty and academic staff for teaching and research on OSU owned or controlled computers and campus computer labs. It is also available to faculty, academic staff and students for use on personally owned computers. Student use is limited to use in meeting classroom requirements and courses of study offered by OSU. Commercial use is prohibited. Additional toolboxes may be ordered. Please contact Cathy Mertz of The Mathworks at 248-675-3310, (cathy.mertz@mathworks.com) to inquire about quotations and orders for additional toolboxes. In this case The Mathworks will generate any additional license codes for add-on toolboxes (Child Licenses) for you to combine during installation with your Standard Configuration license codes.
The MATLAB TAH Install Guide provides details on how to install additional toolbox licenses NOT in the OSU Standard Configuration along with the TAH license for the Standard OSU license configuration. If you are purchasing additional toolboxes not in the Standard OSU configuration, you may want to read this guide.
PC with a Pentium 3 processor or equivalent.
1 GB of RAM, 3 GB of hard disk space.
This is a technical computing system used by science, industry and academia. It combines high-precision numeric and symbolic computation with data visualization and programming capabilities. This license was obtained by the College of Math and Physical Sciences. This version is licensed to currently employed faculty and staff. This software may be used on OSU-owned machines or personal machines in support of instruction of academic research. Research laboratories are not eligible unless their primary mission is the direct teaching of students. The software is licensed annually at no charge, currently. The license runs from September to September of each year. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Students on Main and Regional campuses. No use on OSU-owned machines.
This is a technical computing system used by science, industry and academia. It combines high-precision numeric and symbolic computation with data visualization and programming capabilities. This license was obtained by the College of Math and Physical Sciences. This version available via electronic download through OCIO is "Mathematica for Students" and is licensed to currently enrolled students only. It is for use only on student-owned computers for instruction and research activities. The software is licensed annually at no charge, currently. The license runs from September to September of each year. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff and students on personally-owned machines only. No OSU-use is permitted.
An anti-malware (anti-virus and anti-spyware) product available to faculty, staff, and students for use on personally-owned machines (no institutional [OSU] use is permitted; Forefront is the enterprise solution for all OSU-owned machines). You may obtain the software from the Microsoft download pages.
Eligibilty: Faculty and Staff on OSU-owned machines on Main and Regional campuses.
Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3); Windows Vista (Gold, Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2); Windows 7. Systems should meet minimum system requirements for their operating system.
An anti-malware (anti-virus and anti-spyware) product available to faculty and regular staff for use on campus and in student labs. There is a client only solution (for unmanaged deployments and stand-alone installations) and an enterprise-level solution (for managed deployments or departmental distribution). This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on OSU's Main and Regional campuses only.
A statistical analysis software package available to faculty and regular staff for use on campus and in student labs, on OSU owned machines for university-related business. Installation on a personal machine is permitted, but you will need to VPN in to obtain a license from our on-campus server. This is a right-to-use copy only that must be returned to OCIO or left with your department when you leave OSU. Please note that MINITAB no longer uses an authorization code in release 16. It uses a concurrent licensing model and clients "check out" licenses from a license server. Instructions on setting up your copy to access the license server are contained in the install tip sheet when you get your copy of the software. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Minitab Express is now available as well: if you are unsure what version you need, please discuss with an instructor.
NVivo is a package used in Qualitative Data Analysis. This tool allows fine-detail analysis, fluid exploration and interpretation, integrating the processes of interpretation and questioning. NVivio has many ways of recording the links between data and ideas that go beyond coding. This is available to faculty and staff on the main and regional campuses and in student labs. Home use is allowed for OSU business purposes only. It is available to you while you are affiliated with OSU and must be left with your department and deleted from your home computer when you leave OSU. The cost is $50 for the license. The purchase year runs from July 1 - July 1 of each year, and each copy installed requires the fee. Existing users may upgrade to this version at no charge. Existing users must also renew before July 1 of each year to continue to receive current license codes. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students on OSU-owned computers on Main and Regional campuses only. Not avaiable for non-medical functions at OSUMC.
This is available to faculty, staff and students on main and regional campuses for administrative, teaching, research, or community service functions. Commercial use is prohibited. It may not be used on your home computer or for personal use. It is not available for use in the OSU Medical Center for non-medical functions such as patient management and billing. It is available to you while you are affiliated with OSU and must be left with your department or OCIO when you leave OSU. You will order software CDs directly from an Oracle MetaLink web site. For authorization to access this site to order CDs you will need OSU's Oracle Customer Support Identifier (CSI). A file containing this number and additional instructions, the Oracle CSI file, may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on personally- and OSU-owned machiens on Main and Regional campuses only.
This is a terminal emulator. It supports IBM 3270 emulation and other terminals such as Digital, Wyse, Data General and others. Host support includes the IBM mainframe, AS/400, Unix and other. This product is able to interact with document imaging systems through the Dynamic Data Exchange protocol. It is also able to establish a secure session with SSH and SSL protocols and it supports secure FTP. Available to faculty, staff and students on the main and regional campuses and for use on your home computer. It is available to you while you are affiliated with OSU and must be left with your department and deleted from your home computer when you leave OSU.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff and students on OSU- and personally-owned machines on Main and Regional campuses. University and personal use permitted.
This provides users with a secure terminal connection over untrusted networks. The PuTTY client replaces other insecure terminal applications such as TELNET and FTP. Available to faculty, staff, and students for use on computers on campus or at home for university-related business or leisure. Regional campuses are included. Full license terms are packaged with the product. This is available via electronic download only. You may obtain the software from the PuTTY download page.
Eligibilty: Students, faculty and staff on OSU's Main and Regional campuses only. Installation available on OSU-owned and personally-owned machines.
Read and Write is a support program to help people with reading and writing difficulties when using their computer. It can use a sound card to read aloud and help you construct words using word prediction. This software was obtained by the Office for Disability Services and is distributed by OCIO at their request. Available to faculty and staff and students on OSU-owned and personally-owned machines.
Supported Versions: Web-based; current version provided by company.
Eligibilty: Faculty and Staff for use on OSU webpages on Main and Regional campuses.
This is obtained directly from the company, RealNetworks, Inc. The Office of Information Technology does not have a license to distribute this within OSU. You can obtain it directly from RealNetworks, Inc. if you agree to their license agreement. You may obtain the software from the RealPlayer download site.
Supported Versions: Web-based; most recent version.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff and students on Main and Regional campuses.
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. RefWorks is a web-based application and hence is available to users on Windows, Macintosh and Unix, etc. No downloading or installation is needed since you use your web browser to access this application from a server. Write-n-Cite is a feature which allows you to access your references in RefWorks while working within Microsoft Word. RefWorks has been acquired through the efforts of The Ohio State University Libraries in conjunction with other OhioLink member schools, and more information, including login processes, is available on the OSU Library's website. This application is available to faculty, staff and students on the main and regional campuses. To access the RefWorks web-based application, proceed to the OSU Libraries Research Databases web site.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, on OSU- and personally-owned machines. Student use is available on home computers for coursework and research only.
Cost: Faculty/Staff: No cost. Students: order "SAS" instead of "SAS Teaching & Research".
x32/x64 supported for Windows XP Pro, Vista, and 7/8/10 Business-class OS support.
"Business-class" includes Vista/7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only.
Students, faculty, and staff may upgrade to a Business-class Windows OS at Tech Hub for a substantial discount.
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later is required for viewing the online HELP.
512 MB RAM, 512 MB swapfile space; Service Pack 2 Win XP Pro.
The following products are included: Base, AF, ASSIST, CONNECT, EIS, ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT, Integration Technologies, LAB, OR, QC, SECURE, SHARE, STAT, SAS/Bridge for ESRI, and ACCESS Interface to ORACLE, SYBASE, DB2 and ODBC. Each copy for Windows desktop use is designated for teaching/research use only. For each site license copy purchased you may use a copy on one home computer; software must be returned when you leave OSU. Enterprise Guide is an interface to SAS targeted to non-technical users. It reduces traditionally complex operations to a few simple point-and-click and drag-and-drop actions. SAS Genetics is an option for teaching/research use only and. All SAS software is renewable each September. This is a Teaching and Research license.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, on OSU- and personally-owned machines. No student use.
Cost: $33; each copy purchased allows an installation at work and at home. Enterprise Miner is now available on all versions.
x32/x64 supported for Windows XP Pro, Vista, and 7 Business-class O/S support. Windows 10 is not currently supported by SAS.
"Business-class" includes Vista/7/8/10 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only.
The following products are included: Base, AF, ASSIST, CONNECT, EIS, ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT, Integration Technologies, LAB, OR, QC, SECURE, SHARE, STAT, SAS/Bridge for ESRI, and ACCESS Interface to ORACLE, SYBASE, DB2 and ODBC. Each copy for Windows desktop use is designated for administrative use only. For each site license copy purchased you may use a copy on one home computer; software must be returned when you leave OSU. Enterprise Miner is available to faculty and staff for administrative use only. All SAS software is renewable each September. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service. This is a Administrative license.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses. Student lab use only.
Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server: 256 MB RAM, 256 MB swapfile space, Service Pack 6a for NT Server; Service Pack 3 for Win 2K.
Internet Explorer 5.0 or later is required for viewing the new online HELP.
1 GB hard disk space for the entire system and all optional files; additional 430 MB for Census Tract Maps.
The product options contained in this are as described for SAS for Windows workstations, EXCEPT for Enterprise Miner and Genetics which are not on the server platform. The server version is available to faculty and staff for use on OSU owned machines located on campus for academic instruction, research and administrative use OR for administrative use and must be returned when you leave OSU. You must state your intended use (Administrative or Teaching/Research) when you order the software. SAS Windows Server is available on a per-processor basis. A CPU processor is a single integrated circuit on the motherboard with one or more cores. So, a dual core CPU counts as one CPU. This software is renewable annually each September. You must choose between a Teaching and Research or Administrative license.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students on Main and Regional campuses.
SciFinder is a web-based application which accesses a server at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in Columbus, Ohio. The application provides easy, natural language searching of the "Chemical Abstracts" database by subject, author and chemical substance. To receive use the software please download the instruction document. For issues with this software, email the university contact, Belinda Hurley.
Eligibilty: CSI Dashboard: Secuirty Liaisons; CSI Agent: any machine managed by the University.
The Secunia CSI is an authenticated patch scanner, designed to be non-intrusive and easy on the hosts and network being scanned, thus causing a minimal impact while pinpointing vulnerable programs across your network. The product is in two parts: a central management dashboard that is an automated patch manager and security scanner that integrates with Microsoft WSUS & SCCM for easy deployment of security updates and adheres to Patch Management best practices; and an agent that runs on client machines for deeper information about those machines. Agentless scanning is also possible. Secunia agents are small and have little (if any) impact on performance, and they report software inventories as well as security vulnerabilities and allowing patching. Secunia CSI agents may be installed on any machine managed by the University, including personally-owned machines; the PSI (see below) should be installed on unmanaged machines not owned by the University, however. Thanks to OCIO Security and the OSU Medical Center, there is no cost for the use of this softare through November 2015. Secunia is currently in testing preparing for deployment to the entire university. Contact software@osu.edu to request use of this software. It is available only to OCIO Security Liaisons.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students for home and personal use.
The Secunia PSI is patch scanner, designed to scan personal computers for vulnerabilities caused by unpatched software. The PSI may be installed on any OSU Faculty, Staff or Student machine, and you may link the copy of Secunia PSI that you download from Secunia with the university's main account by entering "buckeyes" under the Link ID under "Configuration" and "Integrate with Secunia CSI" on the left sidebar of the PSI program.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines. Student use in labs only.
SigmaPlot is a technical graphing program. It is specifically designed to aid in documenting and publishing research, specializing in the graphical presentation of data. This is available to faculty and staff. It may be used on OSU and personally owned PCs for research, education and OSU administrative use. It is available to the main and regional campuses. This is a right-to-use license that must be returned when you leave OSU. New users must purchase an annual subscription for use. The annual subscription runs from November 1 to November 1. If you have purchased SigmaPlot since September 1 of the year you will be covered for the year. Each copy for new users requires the fee. To continue use beyond November of each year you must renew your subscription to obtain updated license codes. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, for use on OSU-owned machines only.
This software is used for hard drive disk care, maintenance and data recovery. It is available to faculty and staff; however, the company strongly recommends use only by trained IT support staff. This is a right-to-use license that must be returned when you leave OSU. It is for use on OSU main and regional campuses, on OSU-owned equipment only. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines. Amos is not available for home use or student use.
A comprehensive statistical analysis package. Available to faculty and staff for use on the main and regional campuses and at home for university-related business, including teaching and academic research. Available to students for use on their personally-owned computer. This is a Teaching and Research license.
The license also includes Amos (Analysis of MOment Structures) which implements the general approach to data analysis known as structural equation modeling. The software license code must be renewed on an annual basis. The IT Service Desk will provide license codes. Software must be returned to OCIO or left with your department when you leave OSU.
SPSS Amos is available only to Faculty and Staff, and requires a separate Authorization Codes and is only available to faculty and staff or student lab use.
This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service. SPSS and SPSS Amos are separate, stand-alone products, and are requested separately.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
STATA is an environment for manipulating and analyzing data using statistical and graphical methods. It is an integrated package, not a collection of separate modules. This is available as part of the StataCorp Grad Plan. Available to faculty, staff, and students on main and regional campuses and on home computers. If you purchase with your own funds you own the software license. Licenses purchased with OSU funds remain with OSU. To purchase, call 800-782-8272 or go to the StataCorp site.
The software is ordered either as a download from STATA or as media shipped directly to you. It is no longer picked up at the Buckeye Bar on campus (this is due to a distribution change by STATA).
A comprehensive statistical analysis package that includes graphics and data management. Provides a point-and-click statistical analysis through a series of icons and pull-down menus; the ability to open multiple windows on the desktop to be able to view data, results, and graphics at the same time; and a large array of scientific and technical graphs. Available to faculty, staff and students for use on computers on campus or at home for university-related business. Software must be returned and deleted from your home PC when you leave OSU.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. It has many features for the power user. It includes these features: edit very large files (up to the limits of virtual memory), a spelling checker, unlimited undo/redo capability, block mode, sorting using up to 3 keys and a power search/replace engine using Unix-style regular expressions. Available to faculty and staff for main and regional campuses and home computers. It can be used only for OSU business purposes. It is for use while you are affiliated with OSU and must be left with your department and removed from your home computer when leaving OSU. This software may be requested through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
A Digital Music Repository software package offered by the Ohio State University Music and Dance Library. It is a tool to assist instructors in demonstrating musical concepts by annotating musical scores and audio files and sharing them with students. It allows students to study these compositions outside of the classroom at most web-enabled personal computers. This is all done while unobtrusively enforcing the rights of the works' copyright holders based on the students' course enrollment. Available to faculty, staff, and students. This software may be requested from the OSU Library's Variations User Guide.
Supported Versions: Varies, see order form.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, for use on OSU-owned machines.
Cost: Varies; see order form.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- and OSU-owned machines.
X-Win32 is a X Windows server which runs on the PC platform. X Windows provides for a Graphical User Interface for Unix systems. X-Win32 also integrates support for OpenGL-based X Windows applications. It also provides an integrated SSH connection to Unix systems and a new "LIVE" session mode which allows for suspending and resuming sessions. Available to faculty, staff and students on the main and regional campuses and on your home computer. This software is for use only for university-related business. It is for use while you are affiliated with OSU and it must be left with your department and/or removed from your home computer when leaving OSU.
FastX is a simple PC X server solution. FastX allows you to connect over the Internet and work with even the most demanding remote hosted Linux and Unix applications at LAN speed. FastX sessions are persistent (you can reconnect after a network interruption) and secure.
Both xWin32 and FastX software are available by requesting xWin32 through the Order Services link of OCIO Self Service.
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The tech industry's bans of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over repeated allegations of hate speech have left intact key elements of his money-making machinery -- digital storefronts that sell apparel, survivalist gear and nutritional supplements.
And business, so far at least, appears to be booming.
The sites, called Infowars stores after Jones' main conspiracy-themed brand, continue to operate on Twitter and Facebook, both of which have closed other accounts affiliated with Jones.
Digital storefronts on these and other digital platforms funnel traffic to a website, Infowarsstore.com, that has not been affected by the industry crackdown on Jones. It had 1.15 million visits in August, up 55 per cent compared to June, the last month before the recent controversy started, according to SimilarWeb, an analytics tool.
The digital storefronts offer t-shirts picturing Jones with a piece of tape over his mouth saying "CENSORED," as well as dozens of other InfoWars-branded products, such as Super Male Vitality and Survival Shield supplements. Jones regularly touts these in his radio broadcasts and videos, and much of the advertising on his remaining online sites direct traffic to Infowars product offerings.
Jones' ability to keep digital commerce flowing even as he rails against "Big Tech" also shows how adept he has been at using the industry's tools, including web hosting services, payment systems and digital advertising networks.
His sprawling network that recently included more than 90 digital accounts that bear his name or Infowars' exploits the inconsistencies in how technology companies police users of its platforms -- potentially exposing the companies to further criticism from congressional Republicans that they unfairly silence conservative voices such as Jones.
"Bans of Alex Jones and his affiliated network of Infowars accounts have yet to affect the brand's main revenue generator -- the storefront and e-commerce operations," said Jonathan Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, who has studied traffic to Infowars Store online accounts. "When Jones makes the headlines, there is a distinct pattern of traffic surges to Infowars properties, including the store website."
Albright found that traffic to Infowarsstore.com spiked on Aug. 7, the day after several tech companies banned him and removed large amounts of videos and other content for what they said were violations of hate speech, according to several analytics tools. There is not yet enough data to analyze visitor flows in September, he said.
Albright also found that, in August, more than 60 percent of visitors to Infowarsstore.com next visited PayPal, suggesting a high rate of sales. He also measured the effectiveness of several targeted Facebook ads, touting such products as fluoride-free toothpaste and camping gear pitched to survivalists, and found more than 1.5 million clicks that took users to Infowarsstore.com.
Jones, in an audio text responding to requests for comment from The Post, didn't address questions about his online retail sales or his clashes with technology companies. Instead he said, "I know you're going to try to continue on trying to shut down commerce in America and terrorise people and bully people. . . So make up whatever you're going to make up. Don't pretend that you're journalists."
Jones, however, defended InfoWars' nutritional supplements, which range in price from about $20 to more than $60 per bottle, depending on the product. "Our supplements have been tested all over the country and are amongst the safest and best out there," he said in his audio message. "They're high quality."
Their value has been called into question by a series of lab tests. San Francisco-based testing firm Labdoor reported testing six of the InfoWars supplements last year, finding them not dangerous but scientifically "questionable" in their value, with low doses of easily available ingredients, according to a post on its website. Buzzfeed first reported on these findings.
The Center for Environmental Health, a non-profit group based in Oakland, also tested several Infowars supplements and found that two of them, Caveman Paleo Formula and Myco-ZX, had levels of lead that exceeded California standards. The non-profit group initiated legal action in October, and a representative for the group said it is negotiating with InfoWars to have the lead levels reduced.
Jones and Infowars, based in Austin, once sprawled across nearly every major digital platform, touting conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate and allegations that the U.S. government had a role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and that notorious school shootings were staged by actors. Parents of two children killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012 have sued Jones for intense emotional distress for claiming that the mass killing was a hoax.
Albright found that of more than 90 digital accounts affiliated with Jones, 16 were Infowars stores or other commercial accounts. As he was assembling the list last week, all of these commercial accounts were still active -- even in cases where the same company had closed other accounts Jones controlled.
Since then, Apple on Friday removed the "Infowars Official" app from its App Store. The app had a shopping tab that linked back to the Infowarsstore.com website. Apple said in a statement that the app, which also carried videos that Apple had removed from other services, was "in violation of App Store guidelines."
YouTube, which last month closed several channels related to Jones and Infowars, closed the Infowars store over the weekend. YouTube issued a statement saying, "When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts."
Twitter has left open an Infowars Store account that offers apparel and nutritional supplements despite banning Jones and several of his accounts. The company said in a tweet last week, "We will continue to evaluate reports we receive regarding other accounts potentially associated with @realalexjones or @infowars and will take action if content that violates our rules is reported or if other accounts are utilised in an attempt to circumvent their ban."
Facebook removed several Alex Jones and Infowars pages for violating hate speech guidelines last month. Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said that the Infowars stores on the platforms has not violated any policies and remain open.
Both Amazon and eBay have Infowars storefronts on their sites. An eBay spokesperson said that the store does not violate company policies. Amazon did not respond to queries seeking comment on its handling of Infowars.
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2019-04-18T12:55:39Z
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The news of the restoration of Wied il-Qlejgħa, alias Chadwick lakes, is good news. Not least because the ‘cleaning of valleys’ has been put to bed.
The measures highlighted in the media for such restoration are also something to look forward to, namely: restoration of dilapidated rubble walls; removal of the playing area; removal of invasive alien species of flora and fauna; removal of accumulated sediment behind dams; restoration and utilisation of the Fiddien pumping station; and the planning of walking trails.
Valleys in the Maltese islands are a sensitive ecological areas – much ignored, unappreciated and abused. These have been abandoned and mismanaged for years, making their restoration more delicate. They are dried river beds, once adorned with dwarf hippopotamus and endemic swan. Climate change reduced these rich fresh water habitats to what they are today.
30+ year old gabbjuni still uncolonised by indigenous flora.
Dilapidated rubble walls is the first item that should be addressed, thus stopping soil erosion, one of the main culprits for the filling up of the dams.
The use of gabbjuni (big cages) to repair/replace rubble walls should not even be considered. A look at the 30-year-old gabbjuni installed along the valley, shows how barren they are. Not even the tenacious invasive cape sorell (l-ingliża) has managed to colonise any of them.
The play area in the midst of willow trees. Now who would have thought of this?
The removal of the playing area in the midst of the valley is a sine qua non. I wonder who was the architect who conceived this idea in the middle of one of the largest valley in the Maltese Islands!
Alien invasive eucalyptus trees dominate the valley. One might have to tread careful here because these can be protected by the latest tree protection regulations issued by ERA.
The removal of invasive alien species of flora and fauna is another step in the right direction.
No need to say that this is a sensitive and delicate endeavour. It is not just bulldozing them on the lines of how the Ministry of Transport bulldozes trees. The invasive species of flora have to be gradually removed in some areas, while being replaced by indigenous species.
Invasive species growing in Wied il-Qlejgħa include: she oak (less than a dozen), castor oil trees (less than 100), acacias and eucalyptus (more than a score and twenty of each species).
Their removal has to be professional so as not to contribute further to their dispersal. This applies mainly to the castor oil tree which has to be uprooted, and burned on site thus eliminating the possibility of giving it a free ride and opportunity to its seeds to germinate on new reclaimed grounds.
Furthermore, indigenous species which grow in the valley, such as poplar trees, willows, almond trees, lentisks, olive trees, chaste trees, should not be mistaken for invasive species and removed. Not a far-fetched concern.
On the other hand, the notorious lately introduced red swamp crayfish also abounds in the valley, detrimental to any fresh aquatic life such as indigenous painted frog and its tadpole, dragonflies and water beetles larvae. The person who introduced such alien species, should be chained to a poplar tree until the last crayfish is collected.
The indigenous poplar tree – adorns its natural habitat. No it is not dead.
On the other hand indigenous trees adapted to such a riverine habitat include the poplar tree, already established in the valley, willow (two species also established), chaste tree (of which there is half a dozen) and rare species of ash and elm.
AmbjentMalta can start propagating them immediately so that they will be readily available for planting as standard trees as soon as a parcel of the valley has been restored.
There are also a number of indigenous flora, some rare and scarce aquatic species, such as water cress, sanicle-leaved water crowfoot, and bulbous buttercup. Others not so rare are greater plantain, creeping cinquefoil, rushes and sedges.
Rare and scarce aquatic plants whose seeds aestivate in the sediment. (Photos by Stephen Mifsud).
Another delicate exercise is the removal of debris, and sediment accumulated behind the two main water dams. Presumably, one would think, this would be undertaken during the hot summer months when the cisterns are dry. This means that the top layer of the sediment will be full of seeds and ova of species frequenting the aquatic habitat. The collecting of approximately 15 cm of scraped surface sediment to be redeposited in the restored parts, would contribute to the survival of these rare species.
The valley bottom is constantly being abused by off-roading motorbikes as one can see from the erosion of footpaths and fresh tyre marks.
One of the shallow dams closest to Fiddien has also been damaged to make easier access.
So the suggestions for walking trails is another positive approach, especially if these are somewhat raised from the ground, for the convenience of wild fauna.
Furthermore, public access gates can be installed along the way, as a measure for controlling bikes – motor or manual.
I know that if Dr Daniel Micallef, one of the few politicians with environment at heart, could see this, I am sure he would send some people to hell.
The Fiddien box, which was restored during the time when Daniel Micallef was Minister for Education and Environment, has long been vandalised and the heavy water pump has seemingly disappeared – hopefully taken by the Water Services Corporation for safe keeping?
The plans for their restoration and educational use is also another positive step.
The second dam, needing some structural repairs, still contributes its best for the storage of water, before it passes it to Wied tal-Isperanza.
Once restoration works are completed, the valley has to be monitored and managed. Traffic management tops the list.
This will ensure that the number of vehicles frequently jamming the area on public holidays and Sundays will not bring such restoration to naught by their haphazard parking. So it would be beneficial to one and all if the road through the valley is made one way: from Imtarfa to Mosta.
The farming community can have an identification permit displayed on car windscreens, to allow them to use it both ways during working days.
The proof of this EU funded pudding is in the eating.
I will be watching grastis et amoris patria, naturally.
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2019-04-18T10:19:05Z
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt supports lifelong learning. It is an organization that provides adults with educational programs, stimulating tours and trips, and a variety of social events. The program reflects the high academic standards espoused by the university on all levels. By offering non-credit courses, students benefit from the stimulus of lectures and discussions in an informal and relaxed environment. The student body is a cohesive group that projects a true sense of community, always welcoming new members.
Produced by Vanderbilt University Creative Services, 2007.
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2019-04-18T18:58:44Z
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Dear friends, camels on the streets of Madrid… carrying presents! upside down umbrellas for catching candy! a high-school marching band from Kansas (go Huskies!) five pianists playing five-part harmony upside down. The cabalgata was a mind-bending, magical, experience.
We stood for hours, whined a bit, caught candy, stared at the shepherds herding ducks (!) and had an absolutely phenomenal time. Walked back up a cordoned-off Alcala (for those of you who have any experience with Madrid was surreal! ) with thousands of others, and staggered exhausted into our hotel. Good news – 18 of the 19 people arrived on Monday, the fifth. Bad news – one of us was not allowed to leave the country because her passport would expire too soon after the trip. She’ll be here on Friday. Other bad news… Although Anna and Jade made it from Austin Straubel to O’Hare with *whew* five minutes to spare, their luggage did not. Nor did it arrive in Madrid later on Monday. Or on Tuesday.
A día festivo in Spain- The Three Kings. Stores are all closed (including the Corte Inglés), and museums have limited hours. People sleeping in late before heading out with family for chocolate y churros. We’d set the morning aside for the Prado, and we walked from the hotel down to the Neptune fountain and over to the museum where we spent time studying “The Second of May” and “The Third of May” by Goya, and “Las Meninas” (“The Ladies in Waiting”) by Velasquez. On the brochure of the floor plan of the Prado, there are has thumbnail pictures of the most famous works housed in the museum along with the location: brilliant. Students could wander purposefully (I don’t think that’s an oxymoron). We’d hoped to get down to the Reina Sofía to see Picasso’s Guernika, but by the time we left the Prado, we were too close to the closing time to make it.
We split up, grabbed some food, some went to see Bernabeu Stadium, where Real Madrid plays, and some wandered. At four, we met Mercedes – an official Madrid guide, for a walking tour of the Madrid of the Austrias (the Hapsburg monarchs who ruled Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries). Highlights? Madrid was originally an outpost constructed to protect the capital city of Toledo from invaders. Its name, “Madrid,” means “the mother of waters” in Arabic – not because of the Manzanares River ( mere dribble by Wisconsin standards) – but because the water-table is so close to the surface. The symbol of Madrid is a bear standing at a “modroño” tree. Why? When a king fell ill with malaria, his doctors had no answer, but the locals knew to make an infusion with the modroño berries – small, red fruits that contain quinine.
Bad “highlight”? Our guide warned us that she’d just noticed two young women who appeared to be pickpockets – but the warning came too late for Alex, who had her wallet expertly extracted from her zipped purse. Hugely distressing for all, but we’ve already had cards cancelled and are making arrangements. We will carry on.
Off to Toledo tomorrow morning – still no sign of the missing luggage.
The metro to Atocha (the main train station of Madrid), the fast train to Toledo, a bus up the hill to the plaza (the “Zocodover”), and a long walk over stone streets to San Juan de la Penitencia, the center for the Fundación Ortega y Gasett. St. Norbert students have studied abroad at the Fundación for decades, and this modest building at the end of a tiny alleyway off a small plaza named San Justo is my safe place in Spain. Good friends, endless support, profound knowledge, and – of course – coffee. Today we needed all of that, and we weren’t disappointed. The radical hospitality shown us here is beyond description.
Paco and Carlos at the front desk immediately began calling different airports and airlines, trying to track down the missing luggage, José Luis took charge of getting money from home into Alex’s wallet, Mila got the students settled in their rooms, and Yuki walked Steve and Stacey and me to our “hospedería” – a tiny rooming house next to the Cathedral. We ate, we rested, we made plans. Stacey and Steve and I admired our quarters: the first floor of the building was built in the 11th century and the second floor (our rooms) from the 16th century. Cardinal Cisneros lived in this building, and his name is still by the door to his bedroom.
Toledo: the city-musuem. Rosa Almoguera, the director of the Fundación and a dear personal friend, had arranged for our tour in Madrid as well as our walking tour of Toledo. Our guide was Juanjo (Juan José), and he was marvelous. He took us to the usual highlights of the town: San Juan de los Reyes, the synagogues, the cathedral, and Santo Tomé; but he also took us to the Church of San Román and the Roman baths. In San Román we saw the amazing synthesis of Muslim and Christian art. The altar – pure Baroque. But on the walls were the remains of romanesque frescos, along the columns and around the windows were lines from the psalms – in Arabic, and the arches were all key-hole arches. My favorite? Tombs on the floor were positioned so that the bodies would face the east when the last trumpets sounded, and frescoes on the walls above them showed the people pushing up the lids of the coffins.
We walked for a good four hours with Juanjo – ended our tour at San Tomé – a small church with an incredible piece of art: El Greco painted “The Burial of Conde Orgaz” specifically for this church. Conde Orgaz is buried at the base of the painting, fresh flowers on his tomb today.
And more good news! Luggage has been found, and Paco has ordered it sent to our hotel in Granada. And even better news! Beth will meet us tomorrow morning in Atocha, where we will catch the train to Granada.
Early, early morning; the train for Madrid was scheduled for 9:00, so we caught the train from Toledo at 7:20. Met Beth in Atocha! She had navigated Madrid, the hotel, the metro, and the train station by herself with grace and good humor.
Four hours to Granada, but no one was complaining; most were sleeping. Those who stayed awake could see miles and miles of olive orchards and then, as we neared Granada, the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Luggage waiting at the hotel!
I studied in Granada, but it’s been (many) years since I spent time in this city. Motor memory? I found myself moving around easily between the Plaza Nueva, the cathedral, and the Albaicin – the old Muslim city. Tomorrow we’ll visit the Alhambra, but today we spend time walking, working our way up the hill to the Albaicin and admiring the views from the Mirador San Nicolás.
Highlights? The ancient walkway along the Darro; the convent of the cloistered nuns sell sweets (wooden revolving window allows the exchange of money and candy without revealing faces), the 60-ish feel of the Mirador de San Nicolas (dread-locked couples selling jewelry and clothing while their kids dance and skip around the plaza), tourists waited for the sun to set – turning the walls of the Alhambra a ruddy terracotta red, and the cheerful bantering between old friends. As the lights turned on, we wandered a bit further into the Albaicín, into a store that sold loose tea, cheeses, dried fruit, and other treats. We gathered together a picnic that we’d later enjoy at the hotel.
Up and out, into a bus and up to the Alhambra. Nothing can prepare you for this Moorish palace.
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2019-04-20T20:29:37Z
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And here we have the penultimate installment of the Hanging Gardens Freehold – some additional styled Waypoints and the City Treasures of the Ring.
The Temple District: Here, surrounded by trickling streams, tiny waterfalls, and fountains splashing into reflecting pools, a hundred modest shrines and temples are scattered along the winding forest paths. For those who wish to retreat for a time there are even a few monasteries and hermitages mixed in – although there really isn’t space for all that many supplicants at any one time. Still, the beauty and serenity of the place is incredibly soothing – and there are always a few people scattered about who feel a call to serve as priests of one faith or another for a time. Their task is substantially eased thanks to the fact that the Temple District – like so many of the other waypoints in the Hanging Gardens – has a fantasy laid over it, providing a +1d bonus on all attempts to provide wise council, conduct religious ceremonies, pray, meditate, seek inner peace, and so on.
The Hanging Gardens provides appropriate fantasies for most of the areas within itself; the Kitchens are overlaid with fantasies about how anyone can cook, how only the most marvelous food comes out of them, and so on – providing a +1d bonus on such activities. The workshops promote craftsmanship and productivity, the poor quarters promote good communications, happy family life, and ignoring noisy neighbors, etc, etc, etc. When you can easily give everyone who’s doing something useful a free boost, there’s no reason not to.
The Library: Sometimes illusions are just as good as reality. A good illusion of a book is every bit as useful – or more so given that it can’t be damaged – as the real thing. A play presented as an illusion or a piece of artwork can be quite indistinguishable from reality – and in a Freehold with internet access it is remarkably easy to provide. Sure, there are quite a lot of genuine books, films and other media in the library, and that number is growing – but why worry about it when you can simply project a quasi-real illusion from an electronic file or stored original? While such “books” cannot readily leave the Freehold, you can loan out any number of copies without worrying about their return. This does mean that Authors would have a hard time getting paid, but they can easily submit their works to the Library in exchange for a basic stipend (over and above the freebies that come with residence in the Hanging Gardens) and royalty payments based on how often their work is requested. Similar arrangements apply to other artists… And yes, the place is wrapped in a fantasy that provides a +1d bonus to research, composing, writing, and similar activities.
The Shipyards: These four waypoints are always bustling, busily assembling ships of the sea, of the air, and of space out of gossamer, wood, and lesser magical materials. Despite the helpful fantasies wound about the place the production isn’t actually that high; there aren’t actually all THAT many orders to fill – but the background fantasy is bustling, whether or not there’s really much of any work to be done. The master workmen here are always happy to discuss a special order with you though – or to build a ship that’s mostly technological rather than magical. If you wish to be driven out of your mind with discussions of thrust-to-weight ratios, where it’s best to use a little magic to augment the technology, and aerodynamic qualities, they masters are willing and eager to oblige you – and are some of the few Raksha about the freehold who have no trouble at all in dealing with electronics, rocketry, orbital mechanics, relativity theory, and other esoteric scientific subjects.
The Hedge Maze: This is – despite the obvious possibilities – more or less just a park. The winding paths meander through woods, hedgerows, and small pavilions, with quiet picnic areas, game courts and fields, and occasional vendors selling refreshments. The central pool (actually one of several “centers”) is actually a well-maintained (if quite natural seeming) and very pure swimming pool, with several lifeguards lurking around.
The Stables: This area mostly contains what Raksha consider to be “exotic steeds” – creatures other than the Behemoths and sword-shaping weapons that you simply stow Elsewhere until you want to pull them out. So yes, there are a fair number of conventional horses about. Of course, there are also griffons, unicorns, riding lizards, small dragons, and even odder creatures – but they are all cared for similarly; housed in elegant barns, stalls, lairs, or nests (as appropriate), well-fed and groomed, and with plenty of room to roam the fields, light woods, and various tracks of the waypoint. There are some basic veterinary facilities as well, but nothing too complicated; after all, the healing power of the Hanging Gardens makes that sort of thing pretty much unnecessary. Not surprisingly, the area offers a +1d bonus to animal handling, riding, and similar occupations.
The Fountain Of A Thousand Dreams (Treasure *****): This mighty treasure allows the one using it to touch the sleeping essence of mortals within sixty waypoints, either en mass or focusing in on smaller areas. The user can send fantasies into their minds or – if they wish – use charms of dream-entry or thaumaturgy on them.
Manifest Destiny Totem (***): This Freehold artifact helps bolster the magical geometry of the Freehold against the pressure of Creation; each waypoint inside covers roughly one square mile instead of fifty acres. As a side effect, the user may opt to thin the geomantic veil that wraps itself around the Freehold, allowing the inside to become visible – and for Thaumaturgy to be projected outwards with relative ease.
Leon hasn’t actually activated the Manifest Destiny Totem as of yet; for the moment, there’s enough room in the Hanging Gardens already. If the population starts going up however… then it may well be of great service!
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2019-04-22T08:21:00Z
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Firefighters are keeping a "watching brief" after a blaze on the largest national nature reserve in the south-east of England.
The fire at Chobham Common in Surrey was discovered and reported by wildlife workers at about 11:30 GMT on Monday.
Crews from multiple counties joined forces to battle the flames but it quickly spread to about 30 hectares.
Surrey Fire & Rescue said officers remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, damping down hotspots.
A spokesperson said the cause of the fire was unknown but was not believed to be deliberate.
He said off-road specialist vehicles would remain on the common for at least a few hours to ensure it was in a safe condition.
All roads are now open but the fire service urged members of the public who may be thinking of visiting any area of outstanding natural beauty to be vigilant and careful about any actions that could cause fire.
As crews tackled the blaze on Monday, a yellow wildfire alert was issued for the UK, denoting a moderate risk of wildfires.
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2019-04-25T15:55:39Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-47705627
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On January 17, 1781, four companies of the Royal Fuziliers surrendered at the Battle of Cowpens. Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton attempted to lay partial blame for his failure upon the regiment by claiming it was composed entirely of recruits. Sadly, many historians have chosen to blindly follow this tale without ever consulting the Muster Rolls of the Royal Fuziliers (WO 12/2474 and WO12/2475), which survive in the Public Records Office, England. The Rolls shed a great deal of light on the composition of the regiment on that fateful morning. When combined with other sources such as the Papers of Lord Cornwallis and George Washington's Papers, a very different picture emerges.
Historians have claimed anywhere from 150 to 200 as the number of Fuziliers in the field on January 17th, 1781. The following is taken directly from the Muster Rolls of the 7th Regiment. The rolls from 1772 through 1784 have been examined in an attempt to discover if any type of service record could be established for each individual.
The story of the Royal Fuziliers did not end at the Cowpens. History has long been ignorant of the Royal Fuziliers who were present with Cornwallis's army as it made its way through North Carolina and into Yorktown, as well as the Light Infantrymen who served in the Chesapeake with the 1st Light Infantry Battalion. In addition to the casualties of Cowpens, the casualties suffered by the Royal Fuziliers at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and the Siege of Yorktown have been compiled as well.
A very special thanks to Don Hagist for his assistance with obtaining copies of the Rolls.
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2019-04-25T00:19:52Z
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eBook piracy and plagiarism are two of the worst fears of authors and publishers. Just like with music and movies, there are now websites that offer many pirated ebook downloads. Plagiarism has been happening for ages and it’s only become easier with books in digital format.
This article on The Guardian paints a new picture for plagiarists, though. Even though it’s easier to copy the contents of an ebook, it’s also easier to get caught now that everything can be scrutinized online. This article is about an author who discovered someone ripping off many of her romance books, only changing major details like names and places. After one instance was discovered, others joined the author in researching the plagiarist’s work, and more and more cases were quickly found. The plagiarist was outed online and forced to pull her stolen work.
In this age of blogs and Twitter, a reputation can be ruined pretty easily. It seems to me like all the trouble of trying to plagiarize isn’t even worth it. If you’re interested in being an author, write your own stuff. If you don’t have any talent for writing then find something else to do.
An Australian group-buying site owned by Microsoft and Nine sold e-book readers bundled with a treasure trove of thousands of pirated books including the full Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series.
The matter has prompted a rebuke from the NSW Fair Trading Minister, Anthony Roberts, who claims group-buying sites cannot simply blame vendors when they are caught running dodgy deals.The book industry has reacted angrily and HarperCollins, publisher of some of the major titles contained on the CD including those by J.R.R Tolkien, said its corporate solicitor ”will be ringing them today”.
The site, Cudo.com.au, this week advertised a $99 e-book reader that came with ”4000 e-books you can load from a CD”. Thousands of people signed up for the deal, but the company claims it discovered the books were pirated before orders were shipped.
Cudo’s advertisement originally linked directly to a list of books that came on the bonus CD, and the list contained thousands of books that were still under copyright and available in stores. The site later removed this link from the advertisement, but the original ad is still visible in Google’s cache.
”It’s extraordinary … there’s piracy taking place on a grand scale,” said Australian Booksellers Association chief executive Joel Becker when shown the list of books.
Whether you hate or just tolerate DRM, most publishers will continue to require it as long as they feel that their ebooks will be pirated without it. It’s unfortunate that the average law-abiding user is the one who gets punished by having to deal with DRM restrictions. Authors deserve to get paid for their work just like everyone else, though, so what are they supposed to do? And this time there won’t be another iTunes that comes along and sort-of-transforms the situation like they did with MP3s, because we already have Kindle software and iBooks and other paid ebook services. Unless all of humanity suddenly comes to a state of enlightenment where nobody wants to steal anymore, I don’t know how pirating will ever stop.
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2019-04-24T21:50:39Z
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Lawsonia inermis, Node, cauline leaves. Family Lythraceae, Subclass Rosidae. Origin: Cultivated.
Hugh D. Wilson (2011). Lawsonia inermis (Cultivated) 3. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /102639.
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https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/102639
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) John Dorsey only traded text messages during the first round of this year's NFL draft.
Cleveland's wheeling-dealing general manager, who has overturned his roster with numerous transactions over the past year, was unable to pull off a deal to get into the first round Thursday night and will start the second day still holding onto his second round pick.
It's not that he didn't try.
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2019-04-26T08:32:46Z
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http://stats.sfgate.com/fb/teamstats.asp?tm=5&type=roster
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Automation can be the answer to a whole host of manufacturing and operations questions. This webinar outlines the IfM's structured Automation Assessment Tool to support you in automation investment decision making.
Webinar: Atos, Gold for Experts - What makes the programme unique?
Dr Judith Shawcross and colleagues from Atos and Paderborn University talk about the award-winning 'Gold for Experts' talent development programme. The webinar hosted by EFMD Global Network was part of the Excellence in Practice Award Winners series.
Professor McFarlane talks about the next stage in the IoT evolution and its expansion into industry (IIoT).
Making the business case for data quality programmes.
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2019-04-23T13:09:08Z
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https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/insights/category/Webinars/
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Vinyl wall art ranges from small motifs or quotes to full size murals designed to cover an entire wall. The decals provide a durable and attractive option for decorating walls if you need a less than permanent solution, such as in an apartment or rental home. These decals don't simply stick to the wall like a standard sticker so it's important to apply them properly to avoid damage to both the wall surface and the art.
Dust the wall in the application area with a dry rag or microfiber cloth. Rub the wall to remove fingerprint oils and dust but avoid wetting the surface.
Place the wall decal on the wall in the desired location with the backing still attached. Adjust it until you are happy with the placement. Tape it to the wall with painter's tape. Mark the top edge and ends of the art on the wall lightly with a pencil to aid with placement during installation. Remove the decal from the wall.
Lay the decal on a flat, hard surface, with the wax paper-coated side facing up. Rub the surface of the wax paper with the edge of a credit card until the art begins to separate from the paper backing.
Peel the backing paper from the decal slowly. When the decal sticks to the wax paper, place the paper back in place and rub it a second time with the credit card. Continue rubbing and peeling until you are able to completely remove the paper.
Stick the decal to the wall, lining it up with your markings. Press the top corners to the wall first.
Smooth the decal onto the wall, working from the center of the art out toward the edges to keep bubbles from forming.
Rub a plastic squeegee or the edge of a credit card over the entire decal at least five times, using strong pressure, until the art is fully adhered to the wall.
Pull up one end of the clear plastic backing. Roll it back on itself with one hand, while using the other hand to ensure the vinyl decals stick to the wall. When the decals don't separate from the plastic easily, rub over them a second time with the credit card.
Rub over each portion of the vinyl with a fingertip once the backing is removed, to ensure the vinyl is fully adhered to the wall. Erase the pencil marks.
Installation can vary slightly depending on the vinyl wall art manufacturer so refer to manufacturer instructions when your decals are packaged differently.
Do not apply vinyl decals to newly painted walls; allow the paint to dry for at least two days first. The decals also may not adhere well to highly textured surfaces or wallpaper.
Harrington, Jenny. "How to Put Up Vinyl Wall Art." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/put-up-vinyl-wall-art-50325.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
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https://homeguides.sfgate.com/put-up-vinyl-wall-art-50325.html
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Hotel chains such as Hilton, Hyatt and ITC Hotels said they have adopted measures such as replacing plastic straws with paper, restricting food takeaway packaging to cardboard.
Most restaurant chains and associations sought more clarity from the govt on appropriate substitutes, and said eliminating plastic completely would take time.
The drive against plastic is gaining momentum with leading hotel chains adopting a slew of measures — from opting for paper straws and glass bottles to restricting food takeaway packaging to cardboard — to eliminate its use even as more states consider plastic ban.
Most restaurant chains and associations, however, sought more clarity from the government on appropriate substitutes, and said eliminating plastic completely would take time due to lack of commercially viable alternatives. They may not have much time going by the speed at which states are looking to control plastic waste that’s polluting land and sea at a drastic rate.
After Maharashtra imposed a ban on single use plastic, Uttar Pradesh has ordered a ban on the use of plastic cups, plastic glasses, and polythene from July 15. Odisha this week announced a complete ban on plastic use in several parts of the state starting from October 2.
Hotel chains such as Hilton, Hyatt and ITC Hotels said they have adopted measures such as replacing plastic straws with paper, restricting food takeaway packaging to cardboard, replacing inroom amenities with paper and cardboard, replacing plastic water bottles with glass, and eliminating all plastic picks and swizzle sticks, to cut plastic use. Hilton said it plans to become plastic free across all its hotels in the country by 2030. “We have already removed plastic straws from all our managed properties in India,” said Jatin Khanna, VP, operations at Hilton India. “Simultaneously, we are at different stages of the process to remove use of plastic in any form from rooms, F&B, operations, front and back of the house and other locations in our properties,” he said.
Hilton will also remove plastic water bottles from meetings and events in hotels across the country by 2020 as part of its global ‘meet with purpose’ programme to offer socially and environmentally responsible meetings, Khanna said. Hyatt properties are stopping use of all single use plastic items, and opting for cloth laundry bags and bio degradable garbage bags. It has stopped usage of water bottles below 200 ml at Hyatt Regency Pune and is using paper straws and glass water bottles at F&B venues at Andaz Delhi. At Hyatt Regency Mumbai, pet bottles used at the restaurants have been replaced with glass bottles, and plastic spoons and forks used for takeaways are replaced with those made of corn starch.
Dipak Haksar, chief executive at ITC Hotels and WelcomHotels, said his chain has been adapting sustainable practices for over two decades now. In 2012, the company replaced complimentary bottled water at its restaurants with glass bottles. All ITC luxury hotels will replace plastic straws with paper straws by October 2018 and are moving to 100% compostable garbage bags by December this year. “The initiatives we have implemented will ensure elimination of the use of plastic material at ITC Hotels by approximately 24 tons per year,” he said.
Globally, chains like Starbucks and Hyatt this week announced they are moving to eliminate plastic straws for of environment friendly alternatives. In India, though, restaurants are struggling to reduce plastic use. Dilip Datwani, president of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India, said there is no information on what substitutes could be used in place of plastic. “We will hold a seminar for our members this month and are trying to get an appointment from the municipal corporation so that they can enlighten members on what is allowed and what is not,” he said.
Jubilant FoodWorks, franchisee for international quick service restaurants such as Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts, however, said it has implemented eco-friendly measures at all its restaurants in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Chandigarh. “We do not use plastic glasses, carry bags and cutlery (spoon and fork) in these restaurants, and have shifted to biodegradable alternatives made of paper and poly lactic acid (PLA)... and we are in the process of proactively rolling most of these measures at our other restaurants across the country,” a company spokesperson said.
Roshan Banan, MD at Ocean Pearl Hotels that runs Sagar Ratna chain of restaurants, said an overhaul cannot be brought about overnight. “We were using cloth bags for our delivery anyway and we are moving to recyclable biodegradable plastics in our packaging, but it is work in progress. It has to be commercially viable. Everything cannot be done overnight,” he said. Anurag Katriar, CEO at Degustibus Hospitality that runs restaurants such as Indigo Delicatessen and Tote on the Turf, pointed out that viable alternatives for plastic are limited, and in most cases they are in trial stages.
One glass bottle saves 4 hrs of power!
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/hotels-/-restaurants/glass-bottles-paper-straws-check-in-as-hotel-chains-go-plastic-free/articleshow/64969254.cms
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The Jersey Racing Board (Northern New Jersey and South Jersey Regions) and New Jersey Motorsports Park have reached an agreement to conduct The Devil in the Dark 12 Hour endurance race on NJMP's Thunderbolt Circuit. The initial race under this agreement will be held on Saturday, 19 June 2010 and run from noon to midnight. Plans are underway to hold a family friendly spectator event at the track during the race with live entertainment, food and beverages.
This race is intended to replace the traditional 12 Hours at the Point race which has not been renewed by the Washington DC Region. It is anticipated that the schedule and rules will be very similar to the Summit Point events. The entry package will be posted on the DLB online registration system ( http://www.dlbracing.com ) by the end of the year. Registration will open in early spring 2010.
So John, we sharing a car for this one?
Terry - looking forward to it as well!
Sure, let's run yours in SSM.
12 hours!!!.....bring LOTS of tires.
John, Are you dropping me?
The assumption was that we'd have 4 drivers, JohnK. We need you as the ringer!
I got a call today about interest in running this race, I look forward to it next year.
We'll probably be fielding a few cars.
Have a guess at what the entry $ will be?
I'm so excited to run this race that I'm willing to drive for HALF PRICE!
We haven't completed a budget for the event but our target is around what was charged for last year's event.
Sorry to see the 12 hour at the point go...every time I drove it was a lot of fun....see if they will tell you why it failed to attract drivers when just a few years back there was a waiting list. Entry fee is part of the reason...but there must be more.
Hope it works for you and the region. Good luck...we marked the date.
Complete entry information for The Devil in the Dark 12 Hour Endurance Race on the NJMP Thunderbolt Course is now available online at the DLB site. Set your preferences to South Jersey Region (or Northeast Division) and Club Race All. Registration will open on 1 March.
The inaugural running The Devil in the Dark is being organized by the Jersey Racing Board (Northern New Jersey and South Jersey regions) on 18-19 June 2010. The race will run from noon to midnight on Saturday using the format of the successful Summit Point events.
Registration for The Devil in the Dark 12 Hour Endurance Race on the NJMP Thunderbolt course is now available on DLB (Set filter to South Jersey Region and Club Race All) and NESCCA . Remember that you can enter now with an Intent to Run deposit and the balance not due until 1 June.
For additional information, you can visit the event's web site - http://www.TheDevilintheDark.com . In addition to the usual Supps, schedule, etc. there is a Forum to ask questions and/or hook up with drivers or teams. Teams participating in the event can go to the Race Teams section to submit their driver and car information (including pictures).
Lets go guys, I want to see more cars in this race!
...here is one SM car that is not registered, will be within a week.
Windsor, are you coming? Planet Miata? Kellet, Wible?? Team SSM Meathead??
Come on guys, world class track in our back yard!
We'll be there - finalizing driver lineup!
Registered since registration opened on March 1 and looking for more SSM cars to race!
I've run the Last Chance enduros at Watkins Glen since 2006, and this is my first step up into the big-league enduros. With a friend, we've essentially rebuilt the car, and compiled a solid team.
I'm going to shakedown the car at Lime Rock this weekend, run the June 4 test, and then it's off to the race. Can't wait 'til June!
I'll be there for tire support. Get your orders in early. I'll have Toyo of course and also Hankook and BFG.
Could you tell me if there is going to be a test day during the day on Friday before the Enduro? I was told there was going to be but I'd like to be sure.
There is a track test day on 18 June.
Do you know whether we will be able to camp at the track overnight on Thursday for the Friday Test Day?
Anyone know how many cars are registered for this?
do unto figarsky???....gettin' philisophical on me here....?
The entry list is on DLBRacing.com.
As of now, there are 29 cars registered: SM-, SSM-, ITA-, and ITE-class Miatas; ITS-, ITR-, and ITE-class BMWs; a few Integras and RX-7s, a couple of sports racers; a CRX; a Golf; an S2000; and a Lotus Exige.
Adam, that message was from last Fall just after you won the 4 Hour at WGI.
There probably will be camping because the registration / load-in starts on Thursday evening but I'm not completely certain. It is a track test day so you will need to check with them.
Can't wait! THANK YOU to the folks putting the weekend on! ...and especially you Terry!
For those arriving Thur evening, I just got off the phone w/ NJMP and they will allow arrivals from 6pm (per Test day schedule), and you will be able to camp overnight.
Team Scuderia Zissou will be there in full force... red hats and all!
I wish i could run my SM but instead will be working as crew chief for the team running the team zissou ITS rx7.
There's camping and even nice showers there. I'll be there Friday afternoon with tire support.
Looking forward to racing in this event. I will be racing with Rossini Racing #89 Drivers: David Hsu,Manny Da Silva, and myself.
I think my team picked me because I'm consistently slow and have a huge aversion to hitting anything.
Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a lack of interest in this event from the Summit Point crowd? I heard people complain about the 12 Hour last year being neutered by the lack of night racing. When DC Region decided to drop the event the Jersey Racing Board, consisting of South Jersey and Northern New Jersey Regions, decided to pick up the ball. They have returned to the noon to midnight format. Many of the officials are the same ones who have worked the event in the past, including the Chief Steward, so competitors can expect the same consistancy and operational excellence that they have seen in previous years. The track is behind this heavily. Excellent publicity on their website and email list. One of the track owners is entered, co-driving with the track Operations Director and a two time Formula Atlantic national champion. However, the entry count is about the same as last year. As far as I can see, no cars from Meathead, RP or Windsor. I'm not trying to point fingers here, just want to know why. There is also a noticable lack of workers coming from WDCR which is kind of disappointing considering the help that they received over the years from South Jersey and Philadelphia Region members.
NASA hyperfest is this weekend as well.
And some of the quasi pro teams out at Mid Ohio with Grand Am.
Agreed with you Brian, would love to see more of the WDCR folks up here. I can't speak to the politics. Hopefully the Jersey racing board won't be too discouraged.
The date is terrible. This weekend MEATHEAD Racing has drivers competing in the NASA Hyperfest and 24 Hours of Lemons, then we race the next three weekends straight with MARRS 5, Nelson Double and Watkins Double the same weekend as the NJ/MARRS race.
Endurance races need to be either VERY early or late in the season. Unless you have a dedicated enduro car nobody wants to take their car out of service for the time needed to prep the car for an endurance race and then the time needed to refurbish it.
The economy is not the issue, the date is. We are racing more events this year than any previous year with what looks like a good contingent going to the VIR 13 hour.
MARRS 2 weeks ago, Hyperfest/ Lemons this weekend and MARRS next weekend.
I just figured the DC folks were scared off by the local New Jersey talent!
So many races, so few weekends.
Nah, they just want an excuse to wear their Meathead hats sideways.
If it had a 6 hour tied into it that would have been better $ but still around lots of events.
I think Grammer is also having entry trouble running a 6hr at SP when there is a race at NJMP.
In a perfect world all the events would be spread out. Until then, one must choose and play the lottery.
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2019-04-26T14:11:02Z
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The sleek styling along with the many convenience features will make your paddling experience comfortable and enjoyable with the Vue 120 sit-on-top recreational kayak. The deluxe adjustable seat is constructed using two types of cushions—one for support and one for comfort. The feature rich kayak includes three storage hatches, rear storage well with mesh netting, adjustable foot braces, self bailing system, carry handles, YakAttack mounts, deck lines and sealed ditty trays.
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https://www.canoekayak.com/buyers-guide/evoke-vue-120/
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A beautiful object which happens to be a very efficient kettle. This glass kettle sits on an electrified base, where it is free to rotate 360 degrees. The handle is a lovely, thick, rounded shape that feels secure in the hand. On the inside is an approximate quantity indicator, with three notches for minimum water level (0.6 l), 1.2 l and maximum (1.7 l or 3 pints).
The minimum quantity is just right for two cups. Once plugged in, the kettle beeps to indicate different conditions. One beep for power on. Another beep when the required temperature is achieved and boiling stops automatically. Another beep when you replace the kettle on its base.
This kettle has some sophisticated features. On the handle there is a LED display showing the water temperature, both programmed and actual. The default boiling temperature is 100 degrees C, but this can be changed by using the + and – buttons. The ON button starts the boiling process. Once deployed, the kettle lights up blue and the dance of the water bubbles is really a pretty sight, certainly a conversation piece. So, yes, it's only a kettle, but it's also a gorgeous object.
A perfect alternative to my trusty manual milk frother. This electric appliance offers two alternatives by means of two magnetic, removable whips: milk frothing and simple milk heating. The metal jug sits on top of a heating plate and has a see-through plastic lid with a silicone seal. You pour the milk into the jug, up to one of three levels indicated by notches inside the jug. The bottom one is for minimum quantity; the middle one is the top level for frothing; and the highest notch indicates the maximum quantity for simple milk heating (without making foam). Although the middle level appears amazingly low, you can trust it to be accurate. I have, by mistake, put too much milk and caused the froth to spill over!
Once the milk is in, operation is by simply pressing the ON button. The chosen whip whirs into action and the milk is heated to the optimum temperature, safely below boiling. Once this temperature is reached, the Soprano turns itself off. I have timed it at around 4 minutes.
There is a two-minute timed safety feature. If you try to turn it on again before this interval, the Soprano whizzes briefly and stops. If you need to make more frothed milk in a hurry, you can simply wash and dry the jug and start again.
I can't praise this appliance too highly. It is a joy to use, so easy and reliable. I use UHT milk, cold from the fridge, and the frothed milk is absolutely perfect for a cappuccino. Just be gentle with the non-stick coating because it can scratch. I use a rubber spatula to get the last of the foam. Washing and maintenance are a breeze. Just swish some soapy water inside, rinse and leave it to dry in the air. No dishwasher, please!
A beautiful multi-tasking kitchen robot that has made me want to bake again. Bread-making, in particular, becomes enjoyable when you have a capable, sturdy mixer to do all the hard work and anything requiring whipped eggs or a smooth, lower-calorie mayonnaise takes just seconds to accomplish. With three accessories, all mixing, whipping, fluffing tasks are covered. There is a bread hook, a stirring blade for cakes and a whisk for volumising eggs and cream.
Adding even more versatility, you can tap into the motor's power (800 W) by removing a section of the top and mounting a sturdy glass blender attachment. Operation is via a rotating knob with a choice of six speeds and a pulse function. Four suction cups anchor the whole thing securely to your work surface. The instructions (in English and German) are clear and comprehensive, although I think there is a small error with regard to how to release the top.
I tested this robot with several of my usual recipes which I was making by hand, lately, as my previous mixer had stopped working. What a time-saver! I was impressed by the ease with which the blending was accomplished. As it spins, the hook rotates in a small circle inside the generously large (4 litre) bowl, mixing efficiently and neatly (there is also a removable lip to keep the mixture from spilling over.
The other thing I love is how easy it is to clean. If you have limited counter-top space, you will appreciate the small footprint.
At first glance, the die-cast hooks seemed a bit light and flimsy, but they work perfectly and are easy to mount and remove for washing.
To access the hook, or to remove the mixing bowl, the top of the machine lifts and tilts backwards. Small fingers could get in the way when the top is snapped back into place, so a little supervision would be advisable when children are around. The design is by no means dangerous but it is a moving part and intended to close firmly.
I have the white model (Carina Bianca), but there is also a bright turquoise-blue, a beautiful cream shade and an edgy silver. The blender attachment is made of heavy glass, giving a very secure feel. The plastic top simply pushes into the glass rim, which is a refreshing change from my other blender where the top needs to be aligned precisely with notches to be properly sealed. It can get fussy. The Carina blender is very capable of handling fairly heavy mixtures and makes a good job of blending more liquid ones without too much splashing around.
For my needs, the Carina kitchen robot is an ideal combination of power, efficiency, ease of use and versatility. It does everything I want it to without complaining and is beautiful just sitting there. As with other Klarstein products, the price is very attractive and represents great value for money. Please note: a sample unit was kindly provided free of charge for testing and evaluation purposes; I am writing this review with no obligation to do so.
This sleek and elegant coffee grinder is remarkable for being much quieter than my previous one (Braun), and for the speed and efficiency with which it makes a fine powder of coffee beans, nuts and seeds. As I drink Italian-style espresso, it is really important for me to have the coffee beans ground to a very fine and even consistency, and this grinder does that easily.
I have tested it with different types of coffee beans, walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts and a seed mix containing sunflower, pumpkin, and linseeds. The grinder works quickly and there is an efficient rotating action that ensures that the mixture is evenly ground. All it takes is a few shakes to help the process along.
The design is clean and effective. The see-through lid slides down into place and a simple downward push on the central button starts the motor. The rubbery feet keep the appliance perfectly stable.
The power cord is a good length (26 inches), has a substantial, quality feel and ends in a solid-looking plug. I was surprised at the capacity of the bowl, it holds much more than I expected. The grinder is easy to clean, and the shiny black finish looks stylish on a countertop.
The instructions (in English) are clear and mostly state the customary safety precautions. The only consideration is to run the grinder in 30-second bursts, to avoid cooking the motor. When I was invited to try out this beautiful coffee grinder, I had not heard of VonShef, but having tested one of their products, I am really impressed. Their appliances have the look and feel of some of the top brands, but at a much lower price.
A beautiful, superbly-designed, lightweight kettle. I love the way it looks and I enjoy using it. Part of a matched set of three stylish kitchen appliances which have made my morning breakfast ritual a lot more fun, this lightweight kettle lifts clear of its electrified base, allowing me to pour still-boiling water into my teapot or mug. No more fighting to extract the plug and getting scalded in the process.
The handle is a lovely, thick, rounded shape that feels secure in the hand. The matt black finish is bisected by two see-through vertical strips, back and front, showing the water level in four increments. If your décor precludes black, there is a pristine white version also available.
The maximum capacity is 1.7 litres (3 pints) but I seldom need more than the minimum ½ litre (a bit over a pint). There are two buttons at the top of the handle: one to flip the lid open, and the other of the rocker type, to turn on the kettle and to manually switch off. Since the kettle has a safety cut-out to prevent overheating, the off switch is just an added convenience. The pouring spout is protected by a removable plastic mesh strainer to keep the liquid clear of floating debris. The top opening is a bit narrow, so a long-handled (soft!) washing brush is needed to reach the bottom plate for manual cleaning purposes, although the usual chemical descaling will be needed from time to time. The instructions (in English and German) are clear and comprehensive. If you are tempted to skip reading the manual (it's a kettle after all), you would miss the advice to run several cleaning cycles before the first use.
The best bit I have saved for last: when turned on, a beautiful blue light illuminates the water. I don't know why, but I love it! And it's lightening fast, so no more hanging about waiting for the kettle to boil. So, yes, it's only a kettle, but it's really an excellent one.
This two-slice toaster looks very smart with its sleek matt black finish and brushed metal accents. It's very lightweight but sits squarely on small, rubbery feet. The slots are 1 ½ inches wide (4 cm) so fairly thick slices can be toasted without jamming. Operation is the usual manual push-down motion, with spring-loaded ejection when the slices have reached the required toasting. A sliding tray allows easy disposal of loose crumbs.
This is a very powerful toaster. With a range of 1 to 7, I normally set it for 3, or 4 at the most, if I want really brown edges. Of course, it depends on how dry the bread is and how thick the slice.
Just above the heat dial, there are three buttons: Reheat (if your toast has gone cold); Defrost (for waffles or frozen muffins); and Cancel (to stop the toasting immediately if you see smoke rising, or for whatever reason). The Defrost cycle is longer than normal because it first defrosts, then toasts, all in one step. A removable little rack can be positioned above the slots to gently heat a pastry or anything else that would melt inside the toaster. A couple of minutes is all it takes, then hit Cancel, turn the pastry and repeat for the other side.
The instructions (in English and German) are clear and easy to understand. If you decide to skip reading the manual (how complicated can a toaster be?), remember to run it empty for a few minutes, when new, to let any manufacturing dust burn off. For my evaluation and review, I chose the black model, but it's available in white as well, also matching the other appliances in the set. So, if you are in the market for a fast, reliable and beautiful two-slice toaster, this might be a very good choice.
Lastly, the coffee maker is an imposing appliance, working on the drip system and featuring a separate water reservoir with a see-through window showing the water level. I received the sleek, black one, but there is also an immaculate white version. I love the big, rounded handle on the coffee bowl, so easy to hold for pouring. This machine holds 1.5 litres of water, which makes 12 cups of very hot coffee. There is a plastic permanent filter, which is extremely convenient as there are so many sizes of paper filters and it seems one is always out of them, when they are needed. The measuring scoop is a nice extra. This is a very fast coffee maker, and the warming plate keeps the coffee at just the right temperature without ruining the flavour, although (as we all know) the best coffee is less than twenty minutes old.
The instructions (in English and German) are clear and comprehensive. If you are tempted to skip reading the manual (it's only a kettle after all), you would miss the advice to run several cleaning cycles before the first use.
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This is the third full length CD from Los Angeles based Ninth Circle, and the first one that is put out by a label. I am not familiar with the first two CDs, but this one is pretty much melodic hard rock over all. It is labeled as power metal and I am not sure if the ones prior to it were closer to that label, but there isn't a whole lot of power metal to be found here (with the exception of maybe the title track and one or two others).
Before you stop reading though, let me add that what you do have here is some pretty slick music that is worthy of attention. Sure there are some modern elements at times (particularly in the vocals) which took a bit to get used to, but there is no denying the talent and skills involved in making this album either.
The hard rock is melodic and fluid and showcased well in such tracks as After The Rain, All Or Nothing and the majestic Arcturus Rising, Part 2. Meanwhile tracks such as The Quickening, Legions Of The Brave and Grinding The Bastards Down show the heavier elements of the band that keep Ninth Circle in the metal spectrum. Even melodic quasi-ballads such as Going Home have so much to offer. The cover of Deep Purple's Stormbringer is particularly satisfying.
Without hearing the first two albums to know for sure, I have to think this CD is a major step forward for the band both with quality and maturing of the songwriting and Ninth Circle are about to make a decent splash on the metal underground.
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Using some digital photo of a child, I create a paper doll book. With different costumes to dress and play.
Using some digital photo of a child and his/her toys, I create a personalized activity book, witch contain interactive contents like: puzzles, colouring pages, quizzes and games.
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Comments: Motoneuron hva l-type calcium channels, with parameters from v. Booth et al. 1997 with some modifications. Unknown modeldb ancestor. Animal model from experiments in this paper. Channel kientics originally come from study of motoneuron.
Temperature: Standard temperature dependence with q10=3. Experiments done at 30 deg C, no mention of simulation temperature.
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This can be a nice way to follow as you will not danger shedding actual money. After working towards, you’ll now be prepared to actually start gambling online.
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So as so that you can keep away from dropping a lot of money, you must keep in mind that you should never set objectives that are unreasonable. The truth is, you shouldn't actually set goals on the amount of wins you will need to make in each session. Instead, try to set limits on the quantity of money you might be keen to bet. The boundaries must be an quantity you can afford to lose in one day of gambling. Should you misplaced, by no means try to guess again with the hope of breaking even or win.
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To begin with, earlier than you really play on-line, you have to keep in mind that on-line playing is different from traditional gambling. The environment is totally different from going to casinos as well as the way you play the game. Here, you will not have the ability to read the facial expressions of your opponents. So, try training first. Most on-line casinos will provide free to play casino video games the place you will be able to play with no cash at all. Though the fun will not be as a lot as risking real cash and successful actual ones, you’ll see that playing the free versions first will get you familiar on the way the sport is played online.
This gives you an opportunity to get used to the software being used as well as familiarize your self on the buttons it’s important to click on on in addition to be taught about the betting rules.
Keep in mind the following tips and you can ensure that you’ll have a lot of enjoyable in online playing as well as minimize your losses and improve your probabilities of winning.
Everytime you log on gambling, you need to deal with wins as bonuses. For those who lose, cease immediately and think about it as part of the game. If you do win, deal with your winnings as a bonus and instantly cease playing.
Serving to You Avoid Shedding a Lot of Cash and Improve Your Probabilities of Winning. Gambling is fun and entertaining. With the joys and excitement that individuals feels after they gamble, you will surely want to try it out. Because of the fact that gambling provides a variety www.mindhunter9.co.kr of pleasure for individuals, it’s understandable why a lot of people from all over the world go to Las Vegas, South Korea or Atlantic Metropolis simply to gamble. Nevertheless, you don't need to travel that far simply to gamble. With online playing, you may experience the fun and thrill of gambling right in the comforts of your own home.
Nonetheless, earlier than you start, you will want a pc or a laptop with an lively web connection. To make your bets, you will need a credit score or debit card for it.
Playing is gambling. Whether it is on-line or offline, there isn’t any assure that you’ll win in every game.
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2019-04-22T17:23:43Z
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For make something big, I built a coffee table! The top surface was milled to create the effect of water ripples around my fruit bowl.
Thanks to Calvin for working overtime to help with my milling!
I first designed the table in Rhino and laid out the parts before bringing the geometries into Mastercam. I really wanted elegant, hidden connections and decided to inset the legs into the bottom side of the table top.
On to milling! Could not have done the Mastercam setup and milling without the help of Calvin who walked me through the steps of setting up a 3D file and the process for milling on the Onsrud. I learned the importance of material choice here. Though I bought a very nice white maple plywood from Boulter Plywood in Medford, layers of wood chipped off in the milling process. Next time I mill a 3D file, I'll stick to high density foam and laminated lumber.
I then spent four hours sanding my table top. There was much more post processing work than I had anticipated. Straight out of the Onsrud, there were many rough edges and chipped pieces of wood.
My assembled table! Though I was quite nervous after seeing the initial mill come off of the CNC, I'm very happy with the results. The legs and top assembled as designed in part because the connections were very minimal.
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This entry was posted on January 23, 2019 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Linux, Networking, Virtualization, VM OS Install, VMWare, Windows, Windows 2016, Windows 2016, Workstation. Tagged: Active Directory, All-In-One, Virtualization, VM Ware, vmware, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 2016. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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