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Enter Ford Fusion's Street Chic Sweepstakes and you could win a new car plus $2,000 to spend on fashion and a consultation with a stylist. The grand prize is worth $27,500. Plus, weekly winners will receive gift cards to spend on fashion. This sweepstakes has expired.
- Sweepstakes Entry Form: https://fordfusionstreetchic.com/sweeps
- Sweepstakes Rules: https://ford.promo.eprize.com/fusion/public/fulfillment/rules.pdf
- Sweepstakes Homepage: http://www.ford.com/
October 05, 2012
December 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. ET
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Grand Prize: An all-new 2013 Ford Fusion, a $2,000 gift card for designer accessories, and a stylist consultation. (ARV: $27,500)
1st Prizes (12 - 1 per week): A $400 gift card for a designer handbag. (ARV: $400)
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That’s a long title for a cookie that only has 6 ingredients. These are chocolatey and moist. The coconut makes them extra special. I used mini chocolate chips and I think they work better in this cookie than regular chocolate chips, although you can substitute if you need.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 1 box Devil’s food cake mix
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 2 eggs (I forgot to put these in the photo)
- 1 tsp. coconut extract
- 1/3 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- Mix the cake mix, butter, eggs and coconut extract in a mixing bowl.
- Add in the coconut and chocolate chips.
- Drop by teaspoons onto a baking stone or cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
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Category:ca:Units of measure
The following is a list of Catalan words that are units of measure.[edit description][edit parents]For other languages, see table at Category:Units of measure
This category has only the following subcategory.
- [×] ca:SI units (0 c, 9 e)
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With great power comes great responsibility
This great quote from the movie Spider-Man, is just as true for technology, as it is for superheroes.
Technology has made possible tremendous changes in our quality of life in the last couple of decades. Everything from surgery to transportation, education to construction, space exploration and most other fields of human endeavour now depend heavily on IT. However, these great advances in our knowledge and abilities comes at a cost.
Information Technology’s carbon footprint, estimated by Gartner to be 2% of global carbon emissions in 2007, is rapidly increasing and by some estimates may even double by 2020. This is obviously an unsustainable situation. ICT, which can help so many organisations to reduce their carbon footprint, should itself be an shining example of low emissions.
This is why the European Commission has persuaded three leading standards development organisations and a prominent greenhouse gas accounting initiative to pool their measurement efforts. Under our new initiative these organisations will examine the whole sector, the whole lifecycle and the scalability of these methods.
That means measuring everything from the supply of raw materials to their recycling. Measuring not only what it takes to make products like a laptop, but also the impact of services like hosting data in the cloud. It means that in the near future we will be able to measure the ICT environmental footprint of whole cities or countries, including the positive environmental effects that ICT enables.
Several major ICT companies and organisations from Europe, Asia and the US are now trialling such measurement solutions. And from this month onwards, nearly 30 players have joined the European Commission to broaden and speed up the effort. We call on more and more such players to get involved.
It is tremendous to see this kind of global leadership from the EU. While this only applies to the EU, it does require the development of measurement and reporting systems for whole IT ecosystems and that can only be a good thing. In time, the hope would be that these systems are used well beyond the EU and by all IT providers.
The initial participants in the organisation are some of the better known large IT companies – BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Intel, Cisco, Hitachi, Telefonica, Fujitsu, SAP, Nokia, AMD, Dell, HP, etc. However, notably absent are the major Cloud providers. Where are Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, VMWare, RackSpace, Salesforce, even Google who have gone furthest arguably in reporting and reducing their emissions, are not participants.
I have lamented many times on this blog the lack of transparency of Cloud companies and they continue to prove me correct. Unfortunately.
Transparency around energy use and emissions is coming, have no doubt. Cloud companies will eventually have to report this information. They will be dragged into it screaming and kicking, but it will happen. Then we will be able to finally decide which provider to use based not just on price, but also on their impact.
In the meantime, if you are interested in reducing the impact of your Cloud computing, you could do worse than to check out MastodonC – a company that “selects the most efficient and sustainable location for your Hadoop job” and/or Greenqloud – a company offering public compute cloud using only renewable energy to power their cloud (their data centers are based in Iceland where 100% of the electricity comes from hydro and geothermal sources). | <urn:uuid:69cae4a4-1696-4b63-8c98-943e6c918523> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greenmonk.net/2012/03/04/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/ | 2013-05-19T21:26:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955322 | 693 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has released its annual assessment of the best states for energy efficiency. Good job, Massachusetts, again.
States continue to move strongly in 2012 to advance energy efficiency initiatives regardless of which political party is in control of state legislatures and governors’ offices, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) on the release today of its sixth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
[T]he ACEEE State Scorecard shows that the top 10 energy efficiency states are Massachusetts (in its second year atop the rankings), California, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Washington, Maryland, and Minnesota.
The 10 states most in need of improvement (starting with last) are Mississippi, North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Nebraska.
The three most improved states are Oklahoma, Montana, and South Carolina. All three states significantly increased their budgets for electric efficiency programs in 2011.
Or, in map form:
And now, since it’s debate day, I’m obliged to point this out. It’s how polls suggest states are likely to vote in the presidential election, per FiveThirtyEight.com.
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Strategies For Educating Children
The preceding section describes the topics that may be included in Safe Routes to School (SRTS) education for children. This section includes ideas for:
- ways to deliver the education message
- how to support classroom-based teaching
- sources of instructors
Tam Valley School students test their bicycle and pedestrian safety knowledge by playing Jeopardy in Mill Valley, CA.
Ways to deliver education
A variety of methods are available for teaching children about safety and health. Deciding on a method (or more than one) may be influenced by:
- how much content is to be covered
- the amount of time available
- the desired outcome
For example, one-time instruction, such as an assembly, generally offers the least information and requires the least time. Skills practice, which requires more time and extensive preparation, shows the greatest promise for children to adopt safety skills.
This section will describe the following educational methods:
- One-time instruction
- Classroom or physical education lessons
- Parent involvement
- Structured skills practice
While each method is described separately, SRTS programs usually use a combination of methods. In fact a multi-pronged approach will most likely reach more children.
School assembly in Santa Ana, CA.
One-time instruction, such as an assembly, offers an opportunity to reach many children quickly. The event builds school-wide excitement about bicycling and walking while offering a way to introduce safety education in schools where competing demands for class time do not allow for more extensive instruction.
Assemblies work best when they are short, visual, focused on a single topic, age-appropriate and engage children. Educational messages may be taught through skits, songs, chants, photographic or artistic presentations, videos, guest speakers or other ways of engaging a large audience. Classes working on related topics, such as health or air quality, can share what they have learned with other children in the audience.
Children may have a hard time remembering or applying what they learn in these brief sessions. One-time methods can be made more effective by reinforcing them throughout the year by inserting messages in school-wide announcements, signs and newsletter articles.
Classroom or physical education lessons
In a classroom or physical education class, education can be provided in the following ways:
- stand-alone lessons
- lessons integrated into subjects such as language arts and math
- comprehensive curriculum delivered in every grade
Ideally, children will receive a comprehensive bicycle and pedestrian safety curriculum which includes hands-on skills practice. Many schools see bicycle and pedestrian safety, whether as part of a comprehensive curriculum or not, fitting nicely into physical education.
A student's map of barriers to walking to school from Annapolis Elementary School, Annapolis, MD.
Students at Coldfall Primary in London, UK calculated their collective miles walked and bicycled and "climbed" to the top of Mount Everest.
Lessons integrated into classroom subjects
Safety education can be integrated into traditional classroom subjects to meet education standards in many ways. Examples include:
- Calculating average walking speeds or distances.
- Walking outdoors to collect samples and observe nature.
- Learning about climate change, pollution and how walking and bicycling can play a protective role.
- Reading about nature or walking.
- Language arts
- Writing about walking or what is seen on the route to school.
- Designing posters to encourage walking.
- Tracking students' walking and bicycling mileage and plotting it on a map.
- Learning about places that the school or class "visits" as they gather miles. (See more details in Encouragement).
- Drawing a map of the route to school.
- Learning about the cardiovascular system.
- Calculating heart rate.
- Using pedometers to count steps.
Walking to Rushton Elementary School in Mission, KS.
Parents can be the best instructors for their children because:
- They can serve as role models for safe walking and bicycling behavior.
- They can observe their child's behavior and provide guidance in real-life situations.
Information about what's being taught in school can be sent home and parents can be asked to reinforce the skills with their children. Encouraging parents to take a walk with their child provides time for them to assess the child's skills, such as whether the child pays attention to traffic, chooses appropriate places to walk and has the ability to gauge gaps in traffic that allow for safe street crossing. Parents can also play a role in the school by volunteering to help with classroom and skills practice.
Structured skills practice
Skills practice gives children a safe, supervised environment in which to learn safety behaviors. Pedestrian skills practice includes where and when to cross a street and proper crossing procedure. Bicycle skills training includes bicycle handling drills and may also include a supervised group ride in a neighborhood. Simulated situations, whether on foot or bicycle, require space such as a playground or closed parking lot and more than one adult. Bicycle skills practice also usually requires cones, stop signs and other props.
Skills practice may be included in the following ways:
- Part of classroom or physical education class-based lessons
- Part of an after-school program
- A one-time event such as a bicycle rodeo
Bicycle skills practice or any on-bicycle activity is more logistically complex than pedestrian safety training and a knowledgeable instructor such as a police officer, bicycle club member or experienced physical education teacher is needed. Bicycle skills practice is generally conducted with older elementary children and may occur one-time as a bicycle rodeo, or over several sessions as a more complete bicycle safety training.
Lagunitas School students practice their bicycling skills in Marin County, CA.
A bicycle rodeo course.
Bicycle rodeos are one-time events for children to practice basic bicycling techniques and can serve as an opportunity to check children's bicycles for fit and functioning and to provide instruction on proper helmet use. Rodeos require a knowledgeable instructor and use a simulated setting for practice. Simulated settings may be playgrounds or parking lots set up with stop signs, traffic cones, and other props. Often a stop sign course is set up to teach children how to stop and look for oncoming traffic. Other activities teach balance, stopping, turning and control. Rodeos are often community-sponsored instead of solely conducted by a school.
Bicycle safety training
Bicycle safety training generally lasts five to ten hours over several sessions and includes both information and on-bicycle practice of safe ways to operate a bicycle. At the end of the course participants apply their knowledge and skills in simulated or actual on-road settings. Simulated activities are as described for a bicycle rodeo, but allow more time for practice and mastery. Knowledgeable instructors may be available from the local law enforcement agency or bicycle club. For example, the League of American Bicyclists offers trained instructors to teach their Bicycle Education program.
See Resources section for activities, lesson plans, comprehensive curricula and pedestrian and bicycle skills training programs.
The following table provides a summary of some of the key advantages and considerations of each method that has been described here.
|One-time instruction||Requires little time.
Reaches many children at once.
|Children may not retain information.
Requires activities that will engage a large audience with a range of ages and attention spans.
|Classroom or physical education lessons||Reaches all children regardless of whether they currently walk or bicycle to school or have parent instruction.
Can be part of progressive instruction year to year.
|Requires class time.
Requires instructor preparation time.
|Parent involvement||Uses opportunities to assess and teach pedestrian skills in real-life situations.
Each child receives guidance based on their individual developmental readiness.
|Children may not all equally benefit as some parents may not choose to be involved.
Parents may need guidance as to what are appropriate safety messages.
|Structured skills practice||More likely that children will retain and apply skills than education without hands-on practice.||Requires space, equipment (including helmets), and several adults.|
A police officer reviews correct street crossing procedure with children.
Sources of instructors
All of these educational strategies require at least one individual who is knowledgeable and willing to teach. A variety of people may take on this role. If instruction is to be provided at the school, teachers may cover the material themselves or they may appreciate guest instructors such as a local bicycle club member or law enforcement officer. Parents can play a central role as instructors for their own children but they may need guidance on what to teach. After-school activities are another opportunity to provide safety training and can tap into other community resources.
The following individuals can play a role in educating children:
- Physical education or classroom teacher
- Law enforcement, fire department or safety personnel
- Local bicycle club member including a League of American Bicyclists (LAB) Instructor
- School nurse
- Public health professional
- Community group such as a local Safe Kids coalition
Putting It Into Practice: Bicycle Safety Training
B.B. Harris Elementary, Duluth, GA
At B.B. Harris Elementary in Duluth, Georgia, Safe Routes to School Project staff collaborated with the school's physical education teachers to train 450 children in grades three through five in bicycle safety over one month. Using the League of American Bicyclists Kids Bicycle Education and the Basics of Bicycling curricula, the school developed a 5-session bicycle safety program to fit the physical education schedule. The course was entitled, "Safe Bicycle Driving," and the instructor (certified by the League of American Bicyclists), began each class by telling the students that this was effectively their very first driver's education class; whatever they grow up to drive — cars, trucks, motorcycles, or bicycles, the same rules of the road apply.
Through the training, the children had opportunities to fit helmets and bicycles, practice bicycle-handling skills, and learn four basic rules of the road. On the final day, the students were introduced to "Harristown, A Bicycle-Friendly City," in the gym, with simulated streets and destinations such as a store, a park, and a library. The students rode around the "city" to the Harristown destinations, some as bicycle-drivers and some as car-drivers. A few served as police officers, giving out tickets to those who violated a rule of the road. The students then received a "Safe Bicycle Drivers License" and an activity booklet by the same name.
Putting It Into Practice: Institutionalizing Safety Education
In Rockville, MD all 7000 elementary students receive bicycle and pedestrian education. Since 2004, bicycle and pedestrian safety has been a standard part of the school system's teaching curriculum. The program was initiated by City of Rockville staff and is now coordinated by physical education teachers.
Practicing bicycle skills in a simulated environment at Farmland Elementary School, Rockville, MD.
The curriculum includes a series of interactive lesson plans designed for each grade. Students in kindergarten through second grade learn basic pedestrian concepts. Older elementary school students (grades three through five) focus on bicycle safety fundamentals such as proper use of a bicycle helmet, rules of the road, laws pertaining to bicyclists and bicycle handling techniques. Students practice pedestrian and bicyclist skills through simulated scenarios using bicycles, helmets and pedestrian safety props supplied by the City. In addition, the school's safety patrol practices bicycle and pedestrian safety skills and then reinforces safety messages to students.
At Farmland Elementary school in Rockville, few students bicycled to school before the program began. Afterwards, the bicycle rack was full every day. The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has begun to extend the reach of the program into other schools in Montgomery County and Prince George's County. The Maryland Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education Program has been made available to public and private schools, law enforcement agencies and community organizations throughout Maryland as well as being available on-line for any community to use. | <urn:uuid:d346050a-02ba-436f-b9c4-9ac87a77f72c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/education/strategies_for_educating_children.cfm | 2013-05-19T21:36:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951845 | 2,477 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Please excuse the cross-post to LAU and Alsa-User.
I haven't been as involved as much here in the last year as I was
earlier, and I'm on actually leaving anytime soon. However my systems
are RME HDSP 9652 based and it appears that with new machines and the
more-or-less forced move to Windows 7 RME has required a flash
firmware update that will make my systems incompatible with Alsa going
forward. This makes me sad, but with no real continuing development
happening for these RME cards in a long, long time (at least none I
know of...) it appears that I will finally become unable to use Alsa
after the next few days.
If anyone knows a way to keep these RME-based machines compatible
with both Windows 7 64-bit as well as Gentoo AMD64/Alsa I would sure
like to hear about it as it finally seems that I no longer can live
with outdated firmware which worked as long as I was running Win XP
I hope this doesn't mean that I end up disappearing completely from
Linux Audio as I love it but without support for these cards I would
certainly be around a lot less.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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August 11, 2011
A glance at the calendar will tell you that autumn is on its way. Well before it arrives, however, one of Michigan's proudest fall traditions will begin: hunting season.
Fall hunting season begins on Sept.1 with opening day of the early Canada goose season and proceeds non-stop, picking up steam as additional seasons (small game, archery deer, etc.) open, building to a crescendo with the Nov. 15 opening day of firearms deer season. For veterans, it's just a matter of getting on the Internet or to the sporting goods store to buy licenses.
But for newcomers?
State law requires that anyone born after Jan. 1, 1960, must have taken hunter safety or shown proof of a prior hunting experience, in the form of a hunting license from another state, province or country, to purchase a hunting license.
Hunter safety education became mandatory for first-time hunters ages 12 to 16 in 1971. In 1988 the law was expanded to include anyone born after Jan. 1, 1960. (Remember that state hunter education laws vary by state and some states require that all hunters, regardless of age, successfully complete a hunter education course in order to purchase a hunting license.)
There is a provision in Michigan law, since 2006, which allows those who do not complete hunting safety education before the season to purchase an apprentice hunting license. Those hunting with an apprentice license are required to be mentored by an adult with a license for the same quarry.
New hunters who opt for apprentice licenses may buy them for two years, but must take hunter education before they can purchase a license their third year.
Hunter education covers a lot of ground beyond safety. Courses provide basic instruction in how firearms (both long guns and handguns) work, shooting skills and marksmanship, hunting techniques and game care, survival skills and tree stand safety, and basic wildlife management and hunter ethics.
Would-be hunters have three options when it comes to hunter safety training; they can take the course in a classroom, complete a home-study course or take the course online.
Traditionally, the classroom route has been the most popular option. The course includes a minimum of 10 hours of instruction (generally spread over two days) including four hours of fieldwork, which includes handling of firearms and often (but not necessarily) some shooting. Hunter education classes are typically provided by sportsmen's or service clubs and are held at club facilities, municipal buildings and schools.
Home study courses require students to fill out the reviews at the end of each chapter. Students must also arrange four hours of fieldwork with a certified instructor before commencing their studies. Home study materials are available from instructors.
Novice hunters who prefer to take an on-line course can go to www.huntered.com or www.huntercourse.com to find the course. Both courses are recognized by the Department of Natural Resources. In either case, new hunters must still complete the four-hour field-work session with a certified instructor and pass a written test to receive their certificates.
While conventional and home-study classes are often free, there may be a nominal fee, of no more than $10, to cover the cost of materials. Online classes, however, have fees associated with them that are paid directly to the provider.
All three hunter education options are outlined on the DNR website at www.www.michigan.gov/huntereducation
"Everybody takes the same final exam," said Sgt. Jon Wood of the DNR's Law Enforcement Division, who runs the hunter safety program.
"Right now we have approximately 3,000 hunter-education volunteer instructors across the state," Wood said. "Those 3,000 instructors put on somewhere from 2,000 to 2,500 classes across the state every year."
Hunter safety instructors are certified by the DNR, which holds an annual Thursday through Sunday training session at the Ralph A. MacMullen Conference Center at Higgins Lake.
"There are volunteer coordinators in each county," Wood said, "and they make sure classes are available in all communities.
"Right now we're right in the middle of the busy season. By late October things are winding down."
By then, most instructors are too busy hunting to hold hunter education classes.
Hunting has become safer in Michigan since mandatory hunter education (and mandatory hunter orange) became law. In 1970, there was an average of 17.04 accidents per 100,000 licenses sold, with 18 deaths and 212 injuries. By 1980, the accident rate had been cut by more than in half, 7.88 accidents per 100,000 licenses sold, with nine fatalities and 107 injuries. By 1990, the accident-rate per 100,000 was down to 5.88, five fatalities and 75 injuries. In 2000, the accident rate had decreased to 2.53 per 100,000 licenses, but there were seven fatalities and 32 injuries.
In 2010 there were .65 accidents per 100,000 licenses sold, a total of 14 accidents, including three fatalities.
"Last year was our safest year in our recorded history, though we did have three fatalities," Wood said. "The two years previous we had only two fatalities per year.
"You'll see significant changes in the accident rate after hunter education came on the scene, and then again as the hunter orange law came on."
Michigan's hunter safety officials won't be happy until accidents are completely eliminated, but there's no doubt that hunter education has had a decidedly positive impact on hunter safety.
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We recently posted a teaser trailer for Mad Men season 5 that featured Don Draper (Jon Hamm) coming back to the airwaves for another round of sex, swagger and salesmanship. And, while it is always good to see the captain back on deck, Mad Men is in large part successful because we love the rest of the crew just as much.
It’s only fair then that the supporting cast of AMC’s award-winning period drama get their moment to shine – so if you’ve been missing Betty (January Jones), Joan (Christina Hendricks), Roger (Jon Slattery) and the rest of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce family, today’s collection of Mad Men season 5 teasers should be satisfying.
Due to contract issues, Mad Men has been off the air for about a year and a half, but when we last saw the characters, Don was making the impetuous decision to propose to his secretary; Betty was still unhappy, even after her total life makeover (complete with new husband and home); Peggy was realizing that living in Don’s shadow wasn’t enough anymore, and Joan was wondering where her own life was headed, now that she’s pregnant (with Roger’s baby?).
Where season 5 will pick up is anyone’s guess, and unfortunately there aren’t many clues to be found in these new Mad Men teasers:
THE WHOLE GANG
Mad Men season 5 kicks off Sunday, March 25 on AMC
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|A flowering dandelion|
A dandelion (pronounced /ˈdændɨlaɪ.ən/ (DAN-dih-ly-un) is a flower. Many people call it a weed. They can be eaten by humans. They are named for their sharp leaves that look like lion's teeth. Its seeds are like little parachutes that fly away with the wind, spreading and growing more dandelions. They are used in China as medicine. Dandelion pollen can often make people have allergies.
- Diente de león (Spanish)
- "Dandelion". Gardenology.org. http://www.gardenology.org/wiki/Dandelion.
- "Wild About Dandelions". Mother Earth News. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2008-04-01/Dandelion-Recipes.aspx?page=2.
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Yore is a concept section on Dave that would take up an hour or two of the channels schedule. It would feature programmes on history presented in a witty, upbeat way. The aim of this indent was to present the idea of ‘going back in time’ i.e. people used horses before cars were invented. I wanted it to be slightly bizarre and funny to fit in with the Dave brand.
To read more about the project and see my initial test video click here.
This wonderful three part series was featured on BBC 1 at 9pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I caught a brief part of part one when I noticed my dad watching it. By episode three my whole family were hooked!
It’s a brilliant insight into family life for American Black Bears and the work that the biologists do to research them. The team have a large number of bears in the Minnesota forest ‘tagged’ with radio collars. Two of the bears, Lilly and Vivienne they particularly hone in on and you become really attached too! I like it when they do this, I can still remember all the names and stories of the lions, cheetah and leopard on Big Cat Diaries which was on years ago (sad I know). Gordon Buchanan is a really captivating, intuitive host and shows just how involved he is when he brings his own family to visit the bears.
(Also, by the end of episode two you are lead to believe that Lilly has deserted her cub and gone off with her fancy man but don’t let it put you off, keep watching)
(Again I need to work out how to properly imbed BBC videos, sorry)
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Each week, we share a collection of Verizon news and stories from your neighborhood that you may have missed in the past week. Here’s what’s new with Verizon in the Midwest from the week of June 4.
GREAT PLAINS REGION
Local Teen Fights Violence with Music – KSTP-TV – Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (June 1, 2012)
Ever since Shanell McCoy could write words, she’s been turning them into music. Now she’s turning that music into a message as one of seven young artists chosen nationally to write a song for the Pave the Way Project. Pave the Way is sponsored by Verizon and aims to reduce teen dating violence. “I feel that teen dating violence is something that is looked over and people don’t really look into it, because it’s such a hidden issue,” said Shanell.
Grandma’s Marathon notes: Cadigan to receive Marsh Nelson Media Award – Duluth News Tribune – Duluth, MN (June 7, 2012)
Grandma’s Marathon has announced a number of annual award winners leading up to race weekend June 15-16. … Runners in the 36th Grandma’s Marathon and 22nd Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon on June 16 can be tracked by family and friends through a free Runner Tracking System provided by Verizon Wireless for a fifth year.
MICHIGAN / INDIANA / KENTUCKY REGION
Verizon expanding 4G LTE network to northern Michigan – MLive – Traverse City, MI (June 5, 2012)
Verizon Wireless Tuesday announced it is launching its high-speed 4G LTE network in parts of northern Michigan on June 21. Reaching speeds around 10 megabits per second, the Verizon LTE network is the fastest wireless system operating in Michigan. The company claims the 4G network has covered more than two-thirds of the U.S. population in more than 250 markets.
Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Coming To Columbus, Seymour – News/Talk 1010 WCSI Radio – Columbus, IN (June 5, 2012)
Verizon Wireless announced Tuesday that it’s bringing the nation’s largest 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to Columbus and Seymour Thursday, June 21. Company officials say with the 4G LTE network, customers can use 4G LTE wireless devices to access the Internet faster, listen to music or watch video, take advantage of thousands of applications, and stay in touch with family and friends, all with speeds up to 10 times faster.
ILLINOIS / WISCONSIN REGION
Summer travel apps – WITI-TV – Milwaukee, WI (June 3, 2012)
Kirsten Albiero, manager of the Verizon Wireless Bayshore store, joined the morning crew at WITI-TV in Milwaukee to discuss three fun apps that will help families for their summer travel plans. Kirsten shared details for Roadside America, TripIt and TV Food Map.
Better Business Bureau Warns of Spam Text Messages – www.mystateline.com – Rockford, IL (June 6, 2012)
Cell phone providers say close to 5 billion text messages were sent in the last year, and that number is expected to grow. As well as the number of spammers working to steal every bit of your personal information for their own… Verizon Wireless East State St. Store Manager Steve McDowell has helped many Verizon customers in the past with the same issue. “Customers can come in and block up to 12 email addresses or phone numbers of their choice and they can change that as they need too,” he said.
KANSAS / MISSOURI REGION
Weinman Shelter Receives Grant for Violence Education Program – Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch & Ballwin-Ellisville Patch – Clayton-Richmond Heights and Ballwin-Ellisville, MO (June 1, 2012)
As part of the company’s national HopeLine program, Verizon Wireless announced today that it has donated $7,000 to the Kathy J. Weinman Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence. The Kathy J. Weinman Shelter, based in St. Louis County, will use the funds to conduct educational workshops and presentations on intimate partner violence throughout the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The shelter operates under the St. Louis County Department of Human Services.
Verizon 4G coming to Jeff City, Lake of the Ozarks – Columbia Tribune – Columbia, MO (June 6, 2012)
Verizon Wireless today said it is bringing its 4G LTE network to Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks in the “coming weeks.” Verizon is the second wireless carrier to announce plans to bring 4G LTE mobile broadband to central Missouri. Regional wireless carrier U.S. Cellular announced in February that it would bring 4G LTE to Mid-Missouri in the second half of the year.
OHIO / WEST VIRGINIA / PENNSYLVANIA REGION
Verizon Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Start June 6th – Gotta Be Mobile – Ohio (June 4, 2012)
The Samsung Galaxy S III is on the way to Verizon’s 4G LTE network this month. There is no official Galaxy S III release date on Verizon, but customers don’t need to wait long to pre-order the Galaxy S III. Verizon announced that the Samsung Galaxy S III pre-orders will start June 6th at 7AM eastern online.
Verizon announces Samsung Galaxy S III available for pre-order this week – Cleveland Home Technology Examiner – Cleveland, OH (June 4, 2012)
Verizon just announced that the new Samsung Galaxy S III will be available for preorder this week, beginning Wednesday — this is a hot new phone that allows wireless sharing of content with other Samsung devices including Samsung TV, plus voice response capability for dialing calls and selecting music to play. Samsung Galaxy S III looks similar to the iPhone though it’s larger. The biggest differences are inside.
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Traditional Scottish Red Stag Hunt
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In this entry, Carlotta's allegedly unfaithful fiancé disappears right after his supposed mistress turns up dead.
©2008 Linda Appelblatt Barnes; (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC
Ms. Barnes appears to be tiring of her character based on many of her recent outing. This one has some of the least fun of the Carlotta series and its tedious. Some of her best supporting characters are left out or barely mentioned with further weakens the fun. The reader is awesome like always but can't save the story. Don't recommend the book except to those who are been with Carlotta from the beginning...
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Ukrainian Cold Fruit Soup
Try this Ukrainian Cold Fruit Soup recipe, or contribute your own. "East-euro" and "Ukrainian" are two of the tags cooks chose for Ukrainian Cold Fruit Soup.
Yield: 6 Servings Ready in 1 hours
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|1 lbPears, cored, peeled, &|
|2 cWater, cold|
|1/2 lbPlums, pitted|
|1 lbApples, cored, peeled &|
|1/2 lbCheeries, pitted|
|1/2 cBread crumbs, soft & fresh|
|1/4 cRaspberry jam or preserves|
|1 cCranberry juice|
|1/2 lbPeaches, peeled, pitted, &|
|1 tbFresh Lemon Juice|
|1 1/2 tbLemon Rind; grated|
|3/4 cWhite wine, sweet|
Ukrainian Cold Fruit Soup Preparation
Put the water, cinnamon, lemon juice bread crumbs, and the lemon rind in large pot. Bring to a boil, then add the fruits, reduce heat, and simmer for 25 minutes. Puree this mixture in a blender then add the jam, wine, & cranberry juice. Mix well then refrigerate. Serve when well chilled. Note: Apple dumplings may be served in this soup.
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Musician Marcus Gray shares his story of overcoming life's obstacles and trusting God to lead the way.
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As seen on The 700 Club's nationally televised broadcast for Feb. 1, the top headlines from CBN News include -- Romney Flying High, Gingrich Says 'Never Say Die,' Komen Foundation Stops Grants to Planned Parenthood, and more.
Artist Jason Gray joins Interactive, sharing about his journey and his music.
On Friday's CBN Newswatch with Wendy Griffith: Christian singer Amy Grant asks for 'holiday mail' for troops, How shoppers can make the most of Black Friday, and more.
Major League pitcher Curt Schilling and his wife Shonda found their greatest challenge raising their son who has Asperger's Syndrome.
Feature: Singer Natalie Grant shares her testimony.
Amy Grant is the best-selling Contemporary Christian music singer of all time, having sold over 30 million units worldwide. In her debut appearance on The 700 Club, Amy sang "Sing Your Praise to the Lord".
In his first appearance on The 700 Club, the Christian singer-songwriter shares with Scott Ross how he would describe his music and the creative presence of the Holy Spirit in his songwriting.
A childhood is ruined by the Ayatollah and strict Islamic law. See how one little girl fought back.
Due to his advanced stage of lung cancer, doctors gave Greg Anderson 30 days to live. That was over 20 years ago, and Greg is alive and well. Hear how he beat the odds.
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Lucille O'Neal is much more than just NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal's mom. She's a philanthropist and strong woman of faith who believes that God has a great plan in store for all of us.
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This is a lovely video from Protein OS interviewing Stefanie Posavec about her work creating infographics. We love her “hand made” approach to dealing with patterns in numbers. Read the feature on Stefanie here and watch the interview below. “Everything I have done so far has revolved around things that I love – books [...]
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over a commutative ring with an identity
A homogeneous polynomial
in variables with coefficients . Usually is the field , or , or else the ring , the ring of integer elements of an algebraic number field or the ring of integers of the completion of an algebraic number field with respect to a non-Archimedian norm.
The symmetric square matrix of order , where , , , is called the Kronecker matrix of the quadratic form ; in Siegel's notation: . If the discriminant of the quadratic form is non-zero, then is said to be a non-degenerate quadratic form, while if it is zero, is called degenerate.
A quadratic form is called Gaussian if it can be expressed in symmetric notation:
that is, there exist for which , . The symmetric square matrix is called the matrix (or Gaussian matrix) of the quadratic form . The quantity is called the determinant of ; in this connection,
If is a field of characteristic distinct from 2, then every quadratic form over is Gaussian. If is imbeddable in a field of characteristic distinct from 2, then a quadratic form over can be regarded as Gaussian, but with matrix over and .
Two quadratic forms and are equivalent over ( ) if one can be obtained from the other by an invertible (with respect to ) linear homogeneous change of variables, that is, if there exists an invertible square matrix over such that . The collection of quadratic forms over equivalent over to a given one is called the class of that quadratic form. The discriminant of the quadratic form is, up to the square of an invertible element in , an invariant of the class.
Another way of looking at quadratic forms is the following. Let be a unital -module; a mapping is called a quadratic mapping (or a quadratic form) on the module if 1) , , ; and 2) the mapping given by
is a bilinear form on . The pair is called a quadratic module. The form is always symmetric.
To each bilinear form on corresponds the quadratic form ; here .
If in the ring the element 2 has an inverse, then is a one-to-one correspondence between the quadratic and symmetric forms on . If is a free -module of rank and is a quadratic form on , then to each basis of corresponds a quadratic form in the classical sense,
where , , . Every quadratic form over is obtained in this way from some quadratic module , and conversely. Under a change of basis the quadratic form is converted to an equivalent one.
An element is said to be representable by the quadratic form (or one says that the form represents ) if is the value of this form for certain values of the variables. Equivalent quadratic forms represent the same elements. A quadratic form over an ordered field is called indefinite if it represents both positive and negative elements, and positive (negative) definite if (respectively ) for all . A non-degenerate quadratic form which represents 0 non-trivially is called isotropic, otherwise it is called anisotropic. Similarly, a quadratic form is called representable by a quadratic form if can be converted to by a substitution of certain linear forms in for the variables in ; that is, if there is a rectangular matrix over such that (there denotes transposition).
Algebraic theory of quadratic forms.
This is the theory of quadratic forms over fields.
Let be an arbitrary field of characteristic distinct from 2. The problem of representing a form by a form over reduces to the problem of equivalence of forms, because (Pall's theorem) in order that a non-degenerate quadratic form be representable by a non-degenerate quadratic form over , it is necessary and sufficient that there exist a form such that and are equivalent over . Here is the orthogonal direct sum of forms, that is, and have no variables in common.
Witt's cancellation theorem. If , then .
Every quadratic form over is equivalent to a diagonal one:
It will be assumed that and . The number is called the rank of , which is the same as the rank of the matrix . If every element of has a square root, then a quadratic form over is equivalent to the form (the normal form of a quadratic form).
Every non-degenerate quadratic form is equivalent to a form
where is anisotropic; here uniquely determines and the class of the form over , called the anisotropic kernel of (see also Witt decomposition). Two forms and having the same anisotropic kernel are called similar in the sense of Witt. A ring structure can be defined on the classes of similar forms (see Witt ring).
Let be an ordered field (in particular the field ) and suppose that every positive element of is a square. Then every quadratic form is reducible to the form
Here the numbers and (the positive and negative indices of inertia) are uniquely determined by the form (see Law of inertia). Thus, for these fields the problem of equivalence of quadratic forms is solved.
The problem of equivalence over the field reduces to the analogous problem for -adic number fields: In order that and be equivalent over , it is necessary and sufficient that and be equivalent over for all primes and over (the Minkowski–Hasse theorem). A similar assertion holds for -fields — algebraic number fields and fields of algebraic functions in one variable over a finite field of constants. This is a particular case of the Hasse principle. In the field () the problem of equivalence is solved by means of the Hasse invariant.
A quadratic form over a field is called multiplicative over if
where the are rational functions of , over . If, in addition, the are bilinear functions, then the form is said to have a composition. Composition is possible only for the cases (Hurwitz's theorem). There is a simple description of multiplicative forms .
The algebraic theory of quadratic forms has been generalized to the case of a field of characteristic 2.
Arithmetic theory of quadratic forms.
This is the theory of quadratic forms over rings.
This theory arose in connection with problems of solving Diophantine equations of the second degree. The question of solving such equations reduces to the problem of representing integers by an integral quadratic form , that is, the problem of solving the equation in . Algorithms are known which reduce the determination (description) of all solutions of this equation to the problem of equivalence of quadratic forms over , that is, the problem of finding for given quadratic forms and invertible matrices over such that . For such algorithms were constructed by J.L. Lagrange and C.F. Gauss, who created the general theory of binary quadratic forms (cf. Binary quadratic form). They were generalized to arbitrary by H. Smith and H. Minkowski.
One of the central problems of the arithmetic theory is that of finding simple criteria for the existence of representations of a form by a form , that is, criteria for the solutions of the matrix equation
and also the problem of constructing a formula for the number of such representations. In this connection, if the number of representations is infinite, then it becomes a question of the number of "essentially different" representations. (Two representations and are identified if , where is an integral automorphism of , that is, .) A necessary condition for the existence of representations is the solvability of (1) over and the solvability over of the matrix congruence
for any . (For the solvability of all congruences (2) it is sufficient that (2) be solvable for .) These necessary conditions, called "generic conditions for the solvability of a matrix equationgeneric" , are equivalent to the solvability of (1) over for every prime and over . They are also equivalent to the solvability of (1) over the field of rationals "without an essential denominator" , that is, the existence of a rational solution with common denominator coprime to any pre-assigned integer (it being sufficient to confine oneself to ). The solvability conditions of (2) can be expressed in terms of generic invariants of and . The number of solutions of (2) is found by means of Gauss sums.
The genus of a quadratic form over is the set of quadratic forms over equivalent to one another over for all primes , including . The genus of a quadratic form consists of a finite number of classes with the same discriminant. The genus of a quadratic form can be given by a finite number of generic invariants — order invariants expressed in terms of the elementary divisors of A — and characters of the form . The genus can also be given by the values of Gauss sums. An important role in the theory of quadratic forms is also played by the notion of a spinor genus, a more delicate notion than that of a genus.
The number of essentially different representations of the form by the form is in a simple way related to the number of essentially different primitive representations, that is, representations such that the greatest common divisor of the -th order minors (cf. Minor) of the matrix is 1. For the quantity
(the averaging function of over the genus of ), where are representatives of all classes of the genus of (one from each class), there are formulas (see , ) expressing in terms of the number of solutions of certain congruences. In case the genus of consists of a single class, these formulas completely solve the question of the number of representations. In the case of genera having several classes, only asymptotic formulas are known for , as well as "precise" formulas for certain concrete quadratic forms.
Analytic theory of quadratic forms.
Analytic methods were brought into the theory of quadratic forms by P.G.L. Dirichlet. Developing these methods, C.L. Siegel arrived at general formulas for the number of representations of a form by genera of forms.
Let and be positive-definite quadratic forms over .
is called the Siegel mean with respect to the genus for the number of representations of the form by the form . Here is the number of automorphisms of and
is the weight of the genus of . Let
where is a neighbourhood of in the -dimensional space of -ary quadratic forms over , is the corresponding domain of solutions of the matrix equation (1) over , and and are their volumes.
Siegel's formula for the quadratic forms and is
where if or , and otherwise. Here
where the limit is taken over those sequences of 's for which any natural number is a divisor of almost-all terms of , is the number of distinct prime divisors of , if , and is the number of representations of by , that is, the number of solutions of the matrix congruence
The following formula holds:
There are a number of equivalent definitions for and an expression (see ) in terms of generalized Gauss sums. Formula (3) includes as a special case Minkowski's formula for the weight of the genus:
For the case the latter gives the Dirichlet formula for the number of classes.
An application of the theory of the number of representations of numbers by positive quadratic forms in an even number of variables has been given by E. Hecke . The theory of modular forms (cf. Modular form) enables one to obtain formulas for (see the survey ).
The circle method (see ) has been applied to the question of the representation of numbers by quadratic forms in four or more variables. If is a positive-definite quadratic form over , then for an application of the circle method leads to the asymptotic formula
Similar asymptotic formulas can also be obtained by the circle method for indefinite quadratic forms with .
For the investigation of in the case , Linnik's discrete ergodic method (cf. Linnik discrete ergodic method) has been applied (see , ). It is based on the fact that on some set of representations of numbers by ternary quadratic forms, an ergodic flow of the representations can be constructed which is regulated by an operator connected with the problem of the representation of numbers by quaternary quadratic forms. The ergodic method leads (under certain necessary conditions) to an estimate of the type
and in a number of cases asymptotic formulas have also been obtained.
where is square-free (or where the square-free part of is bounded). This formula is non-trivial already for . This formula provides an approach to a conjecture of H. Petersson. (Petersson's conjecture has already been proved by P. Deligne for even, see .)
Geometric theory of quadratic forms.
For the study of such questions in the theory of quadratic forms as reduction theory, automorphisms and arithmetic minima of quadratic forms, the method of continuous parameters was developed by Ch. Hermite, which thereupon became an extensive branch of the theory of quadratic forms, namely the geometric theory of quadratic forms, or the geometry of quadratic forms (which can also be regarded as part of the geometry of numbers). The idea of the method consists in the following. With a given -dimensional point lattice some kind of arithmetical quantity is associated and the behaviour of the function is considered under small changes of the parameters of . A characteristic feature of the geometry of quadratic forms is the systematic use of the -dimensional coefficient (parameter) space, in which the lattice is represented by a point. Let
be a quadratic form with real coefficients (). Associated with is the point in -dimensional Euclidean space (where ), called the coefficient space. Then corresponding to the positive-definite form is an open convex cone with vertex at the origin, called the cone of positivity. The lattice is related to the class of equivalent -ary positive-definite quadratic forms; by means of a basis of , the form
is associated with it. Thus, an infinite discrete set of points of has been associated with . If one chooses the correct domain of reduction of positive-definite quadratic forms, then each lattice is uniquely associated with a point of the coefficient space. Small changes in the point correspond to small changes in the parameters of .
The geometric theory of quadratic forms divides up into a number of fairly independent theories related by a single method of investigation. At its foundation is the reduction theory of positive quadratic forms, which, by studying the domains of reduction , solves the problem of the equivalence of positive quadratic forms, one of the central problems in the arithmetical theory of quadratic forms (see Quadratic forms, reduction of).
An essential role is played by the theory of Voronoi lattice types. It has important applications in the theory of parallelohedra. The theory of types has found application in the solution of problems on the most economic lattice covering of an -dimensional space by balls.
Another traditional branch of the geometric theory of quadratic forms is the theory of perfect forms, also created by G.F. Voronoi. This theory allows one to solve the Hermite problem on the arithmetical minima of positive quadratic forms; this is equivalent to the problem on the densest lattice packing of balls in an -dimensional space. The problem on the densest lattice packing of balls and that of the most economic lattice covering by balls are the best known examples of the extremal problems which constitute a significant part of the geometry of quadratic forms.
Also related to the geometric theory of quadratic forms are certain generalizations of the continued fractions algorithm; for example, the algorithm of Voronoi for calculating the units of a cubic field, and the theory of fundamental domains of automorphisms of indefinite quadratic forms.
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This series originally aired on In the Trenches. It is a series of short presentations on various technology professional associations. Good for furthering your IT career.
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Before you head straight to your plan of Isagenixs cleansing, know the details first. So whatever you are planning to do, pause for a while. But don’t worry because we’ll cover that topic for today listing all the side effect you may experience. For now, you have to listen and read first.
Since the whole point of Isagenixs is body cleansing, headaches are expected. Your body releases all the bad toxins at a faster rate signalling that your body is undergoing withdrawal. Because anything that you stop putting in that your body is used to, it reacts in a totally opposite way.
On the other hand, dehydration triggers headache easily. To prevent this, stop taking medications such as pain relievers since they let the body release toxins again making no sense at all. Also rehydrate, rehydrate and rehydrate. But make sure to choose only purified spring water or any alternative or equivalent. Because the other water products still are either loaded with toxins or lack the needed nutrients. Teas can also be another choice.
The other thing about Isagenixs body cleansing is heat. It needs heat and energy to be able to release the toxins. For them to achieve that, they need to get heat from a particular area in the body which is your extremities. So, don’t even wonder anymore when your hands and feet feel cold. What you need to do is just put some extra clothing to lessen the cold feeling.
Now that the toxins are all released, expect it to go directly to your colon together with the rest of your body toxins. As a result, you feel bloated and constipated because more toxins can block your colon. What you need to do is establish first a regular bowel movement pattern before starting the whole cleansing. The best way is to add a magnesium supplement in your diet or mix some ground flax seed in some of your food. Prunes can also help.
Nausea, Dizzy or Upset Stomach
A normal body is always in a neutral balance. Anything that goes up or down and anything that is acidic or alkaline, your body naturally finds a way to balance it or else it cause upset. So if ever you feel there is something going on or different, your body is not in a neutral balance and must still be in a process of balancing it. Examples that cause the body to be more acidic are caffeine, soda, alcohol and dairy. Take fibers instead that are found in fruits and vegetables as well as alkaline water.
Another technique is to taking a glass of water after a snack of Isagenix to help ease the nausea. If you are still nauseated while drinking the Isagenixs juice, add more water.
Side effects are actually not something to worry about. Though, not everyone experiences those, still they are expected. Anyway, you already got the list of the right things to do which is the importing thing. But the most important side effect of Isagenixs is Weight Loss. I know right!
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Burleigh Terraces Apartments features 1 & 2 bedroom self contained apartments catering for singles and families wishing to rest well and wake up fresh to experience the thrills of Dreamworld, Movie World and Sea World. For those travellers who have left their hectic life behind and simply want to unwind and relax, the resort offers a range of wonderful facilities to ensure this. | <urn:uuid:4471e574-a091-44ee-b6ae-d65193176368> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.informationcentres.com.au/stayat/BurleighTerracesLuxury/ | 2013-05-19T21:50:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894759 | 235 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Itís that most wonderful time of the year, filled with holiday parties, shopping, and baking, all the while juggling work and family life.
If youíre feeling overwhelmed by it all, you may be experiencing stress. Stress is the bodyís response to all the demands made upon it and is unique to each individual.
Everyone experiences stress from time to time, but if your feelings are putting a damper on your holiday spirit, it may be a good idea to think of ways to more effectively manage your stress. Dr. Teresa Gevedan from the University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry says there are several reasons why the holidays produce stress in some people:
- Expectations of a perfect hallmark holiday
- Extra activities added to your already busy calendar
- Everybody elseís stress, which can increase your own
- Time constraints
- Financial constraints
- Feeling like you have to do it all
- Relationships: if stress already exists in a relationship, it may become amplified during the holidays
- Loss and grief: itís important to acknowledge and respect your sadness
You may not be able to control all the demands life places on you at holiday time, but here are some helpful ways to manage stress in your life.
Reasonable expectations: Lose the notion that the holidays are going to be perfect. In fact, itís some of those things that arenít exactly perfect that make the holidays memorable. When you get too focused on perfection, you put a lot of unnecessary pressure on yourself.
Plan early: Plan early and budget your time, money, and interests. Find the traditions and activities that you really want to focus on that you and your family enjoy, and spend your time with those. Realize that as families grow and change, traditions will need to grow and change. Traditions can be very simpleóthey donít have to be elaborate or expensive.
Learn to say no: You canít do it all and you canít do it all at once. If you try, youíre going to feel overwhelmed and resentful. Itís okay to say no.
Delegate responsibilities: Who says you have to do everything on your own? Family members who are staying with you or kids who are home for the holidays may really enjoy helping, and feel more a part of things when you allow them to help you. Do some things with them instead of for them.
Budget: Develop a holiday budget and stick to it. Itís very tempting during the holidays to want to buy more, or make up for whatever we feel is lacking by buying a more expensive gift, which ends up creating more financial strain.
Relax: Take time out each day for yourself for relaxation. You may not get a ďsilent nightĒ every night, but it's important to have some time to retreat and regroup.
Maintain routines: Maintain your sleeping and eating habits as closely as possible. Getting out of your regular routine is a big stressor during the holidays. If you are tired or hungry, youíre not going to function well, which increases stress. Be reasonable about dieting and drinking during the holidays.
For more information on the treatment of stress, call the University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry at (859) 323-6032.
EFFECTS OF STRESS
On your body
High blood pressure
Shortness of breath
Muscle aches, such as back/neck pain
Tight, dry throat
Constipation or diarrhea
Increased perspiration, often causing cold, sweaty hands
Diminished sex drive
Skin problems, such as hives
On your thoughts and feelings
Feeling of insecurity
Lack of concentration
Tendency to see only the negative aspects of people and situations
On your behavior
Overeating or loss of appetite
Decreased anger control, marked by sudden outbursts with little provocation
Increased use of alcohol and drugs
Withdrawal or isolation
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Construction on a $58 million new bridge over the Tennessee River near the Fort Loudoun Dam could begin as early as spring 2011, according to Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely.
Local officials say the project will improve safety and traffic flow, as well as create a "more welcoming entrance" to Lenoir City.
Nicely joined other state and local officials in Lenoir City last Friday to describe the project and offer a tentative schedule for construction. The project will go to bid in December, and once started, the bridge will take about three years to complete, he said.
The new bridge has been a county-wide priority for at least 10 years, said Lenoir City Mayor Matt Brookshire.
The new span will replace the current 50-year-old two-lane bridge running along the top of the Fort Loudon Dam with a new four-lane bridge a few hundred yards down river, he said.
The Tennessee Valley Authority currently has responsibility for maintaining the bridge over the dam but will not be responsible for maintaining the new bridge, he said.
The location of the new bridge will also improve traffic flow and safety by creating a more direct route onto and off of the bridge, Brookshire said.
"It will cut down on some of the curves that slow traffic," he said.
The project will also upgrade the entrance to Lenoir City with new landscaping and other improvements leading to the intersection of Highways 321 and 11.
"The state is calling this a 'signature intersection,' " he said. "I think it will be a more welcoming entrance to the city."
The bridge project offers economic and safety benefits to Loudon and Blount counties, according to Pat Phillips, president of the Loudon County Economic Development Agency. The increased safety and traffic flow will boost the new residential development around Tellico Lake and could help industrial development on the Blount side of the bridge, he said.
The project came together with the strong support of state, local and federal leaders, including U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., state Sen. Randy McNally and state Reps. Dennis Ferguson and Jimmy Matlock, Phillips said.
Matlock said he was involved in passing legislation in 2009 for the state bridge bond fund that will pay for the project. But the credit for driving the project goes back several generations in local politics, including the work of previous county Mayor George Miller and current county Mayor Doyle Arp, he said.
However, funding does not appear available for a related project to reconstruct the intersection of Highways 321 and 11, Brookshire said. That project would have cost about $34 million, he said.
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Limit Point Software produces Blue Crab, a "high-performance crawler for intranets and the Internet" that allows you to index Web content in a manner similar to the way the big search engines do it.
Version 4.9.38 includes the following enhancements:
A Lite version of the software (part of Limit Point's all-in-one utility pack) is also available. This is essentially a stripped down version of Blue Crab that you use to download websites. It was created for those who don't need all the bells and whistles of Blue Crab, derived from its "Quick Grabber" feature.
Version 1.0.5 "Lite" includes the following enhancements:
Camino (formerly Chimera) is an interesting beast. Basically, it's a streamlined version of the Mozilla web browser for Mac OS X, but with a twist: the back-end of the program utilizes Mac OS X's UNIX layer (including the Berkeley Standard Distribution networking stack) for speed and stability, and the front end (the user interface) is programmed using Cocoa, Mac OS X's object oriented programming interface.
What's the point? Speed - blazing speed. Camino is generally as fast as any Windows browser at loading individual pages - and that's a real treat. Camino is only a browser (no mail and news capabilities), yet that adds to its elegance and efficiency. Because the core code is based upon Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, it behaves smoothly and maturely. As of version 1.0 and many, many years of development and "pre-1.0" status, it also has finally gained most of the preference-setting capabilities that users expect from a mature web browser (with some hidden preferences, to boot).
Version 2.0.3 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later, making many enhancements, including:
(Version 1.0.4 remains available for Mac OS X 10.2, and other older versions remain available as well.)
Camino was the first Gecko-based browser to run natively on Intel-based Macs, and I recommend that users of these Macs take the program out for a spin to see how it performs.
Why don't I make Camino a Drew's Pick? Well, principally because I think it's still lacking in some of Firefox's key configurability and extensibility, and I feel that there are still a few rough edges in its performance (for instance, Camino sometimes slows down when loading multiple tabs at once, and at least some key speed optimizations that have made it into Firefox - such as smoother support for the "general.smoothScroll" preference - remain to be optimized in Camino). Additionally, Camino is usually a bit behind in implementing the latest improvements in the Gecko rendering engine, although as of version 2, it's finally close to being on par with Firefox 3.5.
"I have just started using Chimera 0.4 on OS 10.1.5. So far it is great. A very nice, clean, quick interface that is also intuitive, which are all the pluses that we as Mac users are looking for in every app that we use. Importing bookmarks was quick and simple once I could find them on the new OS X file heirarchy. To tell the truth, this browser is amazing for a sub 1.0 release. Some nifty features: multiple web sites in the same window, using a tab set up; and automatically detecting ad pop ups and eliminating them. No, it does not have all the features packed into Explorer and Netscape, but with the advent of Apple creating web apps right into OS X like Mail, and the upcoming iChat, I want my browser to be as simple as possible. Chimera fits the bill perfectly. For now it will be my primary browser."
"I discovered Chimera through checking Mozilla from a MacAddict magazine and gave it a try. It is truly an amazing and simple Mac OS browser! I am using version 0.5 now, and eagerly looking forward to updates. Pages load quickly and I have even removed the Internet Explorer alias from my dock and primarily use Chimera now. This program does OS X justice."
"In my opinion, Camino is without a doubt and hands down *THE* best browser to date! I've used the IEs, the Netscapes, Opera 6, iCab, Mozilla and OmniWeb and Camino. No contest: Camino leaves the others in the dust! It's categorically and conclusively my favorite browser. Can't beat it for speed and ease of navigation. No "portion" pages; no "missing pieces" (images, text, etc.). Camino doesn't leave you guessing, and it gets you there with unbeatable speed!"
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Changes Meter is a free application that checks web pages or local files for changes, notifying you with a pie chart icon on the menu bar, and (optionally) with sounds and Growl notifications.
Version 1.7.4 adds/changes the following:
Intego, Inc. produces the ContentBarrier Internet content filtering software for parents. The "Classic" Mac OS version is no longer available for purchase, although updaters are still available for download (see below).
Version "X5" (10.5) introduced the following new features:
Version 10.5.5 adds/changes the following:
DansGuardian is an award winning web content filtering proxy for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods. These methods include URL and domain filtering, content phrase filtering, PICS filtering, MIME filtering, file extension filtering, POST limiting. The content phrase filtering will check for pages that contain profanities and phrases often associated with pornography and other undesirable content. The POST filtering allows you to block or limit web upload. The URL and domain filtering is able to handle huge lists and is significantly faster than squidGuard. The filtering has configurable domain, user and source ip exception lists. SSL Tunneling is supported. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format which has the option to only log the text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information such as every image on a page. Pretty much all parts of DansGuardian are configurable thus giving the end administrator user total control over what is filtered and not some third-party company.
DansGuardian 2 is:
Version 2.10 is the first new "stable" release since August 2005, and includes a host of changes from the 2.8 series. Here are the highlights:
Version 126.96.36.199 is a bugfix release that makes the following additional changes:
Daydreamer is a useful Webcam application that allows you to continuously display pictures stored at a particular web address and track them for updates.
Daydreamer author Donald E. Carlile puts it best: "Perhaps you want to keep track of the weather or freeway conditions. Or maybe you just like satellite pictures. There are many changing pictures that are pointed to by unchanging URLs on the Internet. Of course, you can use a web browser to view the pictures, but it's a pain to keep refreshing the picture, and it's overkill to use a big footprint web browser to view a little picture. That's where Daydreamer comes in. Daydreamer will display a picture pointed to by a URL and update it as often as you like. Daydreamer will handle several pictures at once. What's more, you can have Daydreamer make time lapse movies of the URL picture, adding a new frame to a movie each time the picture is refreshed. Daydreamer is AppleScript-able, which adds to its versatility. With sample scripts provided with the distribution, you can view slide shows of picture folders on your computer, or even make those slide shows into QuickTime movies."
Daydreamer 2.1.2 adds/changes the following:
Firefox is a pretty simple product: a simple, standalone web browser from the same team of engineers who brought you the old Netscape and Mozilla "all-in-one" browser/email products. It's a perfect complement to the Thunderbird standalone email client / Usenet newsreader.
Firefox is not merely the original Mozilla browser with some user interface tweaks. Many hundreds of thousands of lines of code were added or changed from the Mozilla base. For instance, preferences are handled quite differently, in a much more user-friendly manner. As with Mozilla, Firefox's interface can be changed using themes, but Firefox - unlike Mozilla - allows you to go even further by customizing many other aspects of the user interface, including the toolbar, and much more.
Most importantly, a huge variety of Firefox Extensions enable various enhancements to the browsing experience. These are essentially small programs (or add-ons) that add new functionality to Firefox. Extensions enable Firefox to stay small and unbloated, while still enabling a great deal of customization (and additional features) to those who are more demanding. My particular favorite is the brilliant Web Developer toolbar, which adds a host of features that enable you to view and test various technical aspects of a web site, in surprisingly powerful ways.
The next natural question is: why not use Camino, which (like Firefox) has all of the great browsing characteristics of Mozilla, but with a "native" Mac OS X interface? That's a good question, but one answer lies in the fact that Firefox - being a multiplatform project - seems to be along a much more comprehensive track of improvement and fine tuning, while Camino sees much less substantial enhancement on a regular basis. More tellingly, Firefox's remarkable extensions are not supported in Camino.
Firefox is speedy, extensible, renders web pages exceptionally well, and has a highly evolved tabbed browsing interface. As of June 2008, it still clearly provides the fastest, smoothest browsing experience yet on the Mac platform. Safari has caught up to Firefox in many respects, but since Firefox is used by Windows and Linux users as well, it has undergone incredibly exhaustive testing, and has become an indisputable standard in the web browsing arena. It is critical for Mac users to take notice of such an important, widely-supported application that happens to run very well on the Macintosh platform. By using and supporting Firefox, you actually help foster a more egalitarian, platform-agnostic take on the Web - and that's what the Web is really all about.
Version 3.6 is a must-download release that aims to substantially refine version 3.5's already-polished browsing experience. Highlights include:
Version 3.6.7 makes the following additional changes:
Fluid is a new category of application that enables you to create what are known as Site Specific Browsers (SSBs).
From the Fluid home page: "Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.
"Fluid itself is a very small application. When launched, Fluid displays a little tiny window where you specify the URL of a WebApp you'd like to run in a Site Specific Browser. Provide an application name, specify a Location and an Icon, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created. Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.
"Fluid was inspired by the excellent Prism (formerly WebRunner) project by Mozilla Labs. Check out Prism for much more information about SSBs and the benefits they provide to WebApp lovers. Fluid is very similar in nature to Prism, but is based on Safari's WebKit rendering engine. And SSBs created by Fluid are true, native Cocoa OS X applications offering seamless integration into the Mac OS."
Version 0.9.6 adds/changes the following:
Google Chrome - available for some time for Microsoft Windows - is at long last available for the Mac.
Google Chrome sets itself apart form the competition with the following key features:
This release is solid, but lacks a few features from its Windows sibling for the time being. This includes the ability to launch a folder of bookmarks in a set of tabs (although you can open them in a new window), and you can't customize font display.
The Google release blog has more information about what's new in this release, but the thrust of version 5.0.375.99 is:
GrandReporter lets you automate web-based searches. You create a query, and it will scan for new web information periodically. As soon as a new page on one of the subjects is detected, you will be alerted, you can view and classify it, and save interesting pages in bookmarks. Features include:
A trial version is available for evaluation. The trial version is fully functional and has these limitations:
Version 1.2.2 makes the following enhancements:
Quicomm produces GURL Watcher, a system that can be used by parents to monitor the web pages that their children have visited.
Version 1.0.1 - the latest release for "Classic" Mac OS - Added seconds to URL capture time and made a Preferences file (for easier updating).
Version 2.1.1 - the latest release for Mac OS X - is a bug fix release; GURL Watcher can now be force quit from the GURL Watcher Setup application by simply turning it off once, then again using the "Turn Off" button (that is click the "Turn Off" button twice, with a slight pause between clicks). This will eliminate some "hanging" problems which can be experienced if a SMTP server is not currently available and you want to immediately terminate the background application.
iCab is a feature-packed browser that does just about everything that Netscape Communicator and MSIE do (except for email and Usenet news), while offering a legion of features that aren't supported by many other browsers, such as:
iCab 4 was completely rewritten and is now based on Cocoa instead of Carbon. It is much faster than iCab 3, has a polished user interface, and includes some new features. iCab 4 is available as Universal Binary for all PowerPC and Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer.
Version 4.8a makes the following additional changes:
iCab 3.0.5 is only recommended if you're still using an older version of Mac OS X (older than 10.3.9) or if your still using the "Classic" Mac OS. When using a Mac with G4, G5 or Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.3.x or newer, the Universal Binary version should be used instead of the PowerPC version.
(Version 3.0 beta) "Lovely browser that is years ahead of every other Mac browser when it comes to config options and functionality. Also iCab is a lot more attractive these days in how it displays pages, and faster too! I also love the little RSS button that you can click on in the latest versions to choose from the page's RSS feeds and add them to your favourite RSS reader. iCab's come a long way in terms of speed, stability (I hardly ever experience crashes with the latest beta) and page rendering since version 2, and is now a serious competitor to Safari, Firefox and Camino IMHO."
—Jamie Kahn Genet
(Version 4.1.1) "iCab 4.1.1 uses the same webkit as Safari, and updates more frequently, if you use the fully functional betas. It compares with Safari on every level, speed, rendering etcetera, but have more nice functions, for instance a very easy click the link download of YouTube movies, either in Flash or the more useful MPEG4, so you actually can use FrontRow to watch the movies and edit them on a Mac. Besides it has a build-in filter for anything, very useful for ads, not only links but whole div sections! Ah, what a relief - and with no system ad-ons, like PithHelmet, which renders Safari unuseable when it has not been updated to the latest Safari version. The developer is very, very responsive, I asked for the snapback function like in Safari, and got it. The only thing he won't change is the look of the tabs, but you can opt for if you want a close button on the tabs or not. ;) And the width of them! And the yellow iCab design is more warm and Mac friendly than the Safari metal look. I can highly recommend this browser, and I am using it making this review."
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the "Classic" version for Mac OS X 8.5 to 9.2.2 (3.0.5).
the Mac OS X 10.1.5+ (Carbon / PowerPC) version (3.0.5).
the Mac OS X 10.3.9+ (Carbon / Universal) version (3.0.5).
the Mac OS X 10.3.9+ (Cocoa / Universal) 32-bit version (4.8).
the Mac OS X 10.5+ (Cocoa / Universal) 64-bit version (4.8a).
to the Download page to download non-English releases, as well as older versions that will work on 680x0-based Macs.
Webcams are fun, but they can get cumbersome and dreary if viewed from a regular web browser. iCamMaster is a very nice program that has been specially designed to browse Web cams all over the world from an easy-to-browse and attractive, flexible interface. Included are addresses to over 1000 Web cams; you can add as many of your own as you like, and it automatically alerts you whenever new cams are available (nice). iCamMaster requires OS 8 or later, and only runs on Power Macintoshes.
Version 1.9.5 - the latest version for "Classic" Mac OS - adds/changes the following:
Version 2.0 - the latest version for Mac OS X, and the first new non-beta release in over two and a half years - adds/changes the following:
"This is so cool . . . this doesn't use a web browser, it shows the picture in its own window, web cam, sattelite images, financial graphs (?!), weather forecasts - fabulous."
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Lynx is a text-based Web browser that has its origins in the UNIX and DOS command-line worlds. Unlike the "Classic" Mac OS port MacLynx, this implementation of Lynx is kept relatively current, as it's simply a straight port to OS X's UNIX layer ("Darwin"). If you're a Web site developer, you should download this now so that you can dee how effectively your site designs "degrade" in the absence of imagery, styled text, scripting, and all of the other window dressing that graphical browsers bring to the table. But even mere mortals should have a copy of Lynx at hand to do no-nonsense browsing when time is of the essence.
Version 2.8.5 is the latest pre-built command line version of Lynx for Mac OS X that is available with built-in SSL support.
Version 2.8.7d13 is the latest "double-clickable" version of Lynx available for Mac OS X, but it doesn't provide SSL support.
Note: In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates. Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Microsoft. Microsoft recommendeds that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 had the distinction of being the most important piece of Macintosh Internet software that went nearly two years without an update. The good part was that it also shared the distinction of being the only piece of Macintosh Internet software that didn't need an update. IE 5 was quite thoroughly tested and tweaked before it was released, and while not completely perfect (what browser is?), it has worked remarkably smoothly since its release in March 2000.
The focus of the onslaught of recent (early to mid 2002) releases has been to make IE "much lighter on its feet, with plenty of bug fixes and impressive new stability and versatility," according to Microsoft. The most noticeable changes have been subtle:
Versions 5.1.7 (for "Classic" Mac OS) and 5.2.3 (for Mac OS X) provide all the latest security and performance enhancements (including the above) for Internet Explorer. These versions also enhance browser compatibility for users who work on a network with secure authentication or with proxy servers, and they will be the final versions of Internet Explorer for Mac OS and Mac OS X, respectively.
Most everything else is as it should be: left well-enough alone. The browser works quite smoothly, and the best features remain intact:
Interesting historical tidbit: with all the bells and whistles in version 5.x, version 4.5 was actually in some ways a more significant release. The features it added (Print Preview, Forms Auto Fill, self-repairing install) were ground-breaking, and - although they are tweaked in 5.x - they owe their true heritage to version 4.5. The version 5.x series has been a highly successful exercise in refinement, which is refreshing in a world of daily bugfix updates.
IE's offline browsing and page saving capabilities are considerably more sophisticated than anything Netscape has ever offered. The ability to email links to friends or co-workers with a simple click of the mouse is a feature I once used several times a day.
But while IE was once "the browser of choice" on the Macintosh platform, it is no longer. As of mid 2003, Microsoft has pulled the plug on future development of this once- groundbreaking product. In the face of great browsers such as Mozilla (including Camino and Firefox) and Safari, that's not the awful news that it once would have been.
Mozilla was the original name for Netscape Navigator, back when it was first being developed in 1994 by Marc Andreesen and his friends from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA - the people who developed Mosaic, the world's first graphical web browser). The name was supposed to imply a supercharged, "Godzilla" version of Mosaic; Mozilla was forced to change its name to Netscape when the people at NCSA threatened to sue over trademark infringement. Behind the scenes, though, Netscape Navigator and Communicator have always been known as Mozilla; type "about:mozilla" into the "Location" field of any version of those browsers and you'll see evidence of that.
In the early 21st century, with the "Mosaic"-inspired name no longer an issue, Mozilla became the name of the open source project upon which the Netscape series of browsers was based. Continuously developed by programmers around the world rather than by just a handful at a large corporation, it changed constantly, and improved all the time.
Today, however, Mozilla is no longer under development, at least under the "Mozilla" moniker. The primary components of Mozilla - its web browser and email/Usenet client - were broken off into separate, optimized development efforts, known respectively as Firefox and Thunderbird. The combined application suite has, as of early 2006, been reincarnated as SeaMonkey, which I will be adding to the Orchard soon.
Nonetheless, I include Mozilla here for historic purposes, since people will still find it useful and functional for some time, and it represents one of the only opportunities for users of "Classic" Mac OS to access a more modern browser that is largely compatible with today's more advanced web standards.
While Mozilla 1.7.13 was a minor update to Mozilla 1.7 that added some security and stability fixes, version 1.7 made a huge number of feature and performance enhancements. The online release notes have the whole picture.
Mozilla is fast (once it's loaded, which can still take a while) at rendering web pages. Mozilla is a breath of fresh air, and while the interface elements seem a little slow compared to other browsers, pages render remarkably quickly. This latest release is more than worthy of your daily use. Two of my many criteria for determining a browser's usefulness are: 1) how long I keep it open for browsing before quitting out in frustration; and 2) how long it keeps itself open before crashing. Mozilla wins on both fronts. Download it and try it for yourself; I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised.
FYI: If you use OS X and like Mozilla - but don't like the way it looks - you should proceed, posthaste, to download the Pinstripe Theme for Mozilla, which lets the browser breathe through a beautiful Aqua interface, just like all of your favorite OS X apps. Mozilla's just not complete without it.
Mozilla 1.7 requires a Mac OS X later to run (version 1.2.1 was the last "official" release for OS 9, although the Web and Mail Communicator Project has a modified, unofficial release of version 1.3.1 available for OS 9), and it comes with optionally-installable news, email, and IRC (yes, IRC; Mozilla includes an incomplete IRC client called "Chatzilla" rather than AOL Instant Messenger) components. The mail and news clients are surprisingly well thought-out and pleasant to use, although I will probably always maintain that it is better to use separate, dedicated email and newsreading software rather than taking a "swiss army knife" approach; the separate tools are still superior at what they do. (Personal note: this is why I actually use Firefox for my regular browsing rather than the combined Mozilla suite...for email, I use Eudora.)
"I used to be a big Netscape fan until version 6. Mac Orchard reviewed NS6 correctly - big and clunky! While IE5 will probably remain my default browser, I am highly impressed with Mozilla. I am a web designer and need to see my pages in all the various browsers. Many times when I would attempt to view a page in NS6, it would quit even before it opened! Finally Mozilla will end that frustration for me."
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Version 1.8 beta 1 is also available for Mac OS X (Carbon), making many enhancements; however, it was announced in March 2005 that this version will not see a final release, as the Mozilla organization instead focuses its efforts on the development of the independent Firefox and Thinderbird programs. The SeaMonkey project is Mozilla's heir apparent. See the online release notes for more details.
Muffin is an interesting beast. It's one of the few Java applications that I list on the Orchard (if I were to include every Java application that had useful Internet capability, I would never have time to maintain this site), and while its functionality is useful for users of all levels, installing and getting it up and running - while not difficult for experienced Mac users - is not for the faint of heart.
Basically, though, I include it here because it provides incredibly useful functionality that is not really provided by any other free Macintosh software.
Briefly, Muffin is a World Wide Web "filtering system" that acts as a proxy server to filter out content to your own specifications. It can be used to filter any or all of the following:
. . . and a whole lot more. Its core features include:
Figuring out how to run Muffin on Classic Mac OS from the instructions on its Web site is needlessly intimidating. To save you the trouble, I've written a simplified set of instructions here:
To use Muffin, you'll need the following downloads (all free):
Once you have the two Apple MRJ products installed, you'll need to:
By the way: you'll never have to do this again; now, you'll be able to double-click on the applet whenever you want to use Muffin (but you'll have to be online for it to run).
In order to use Muffin, you'll have to configure your Web browser's proxy settings (dig around your browser's preferences to find this) to point to Muffin so that it can intervene between you and the Web (which is exactly what a proxy server does). This is accomplished by setting your proxy server address to 127.0.0.1 (the magic "loopback" IP address that points to your own machine) and using port 51966.
Sit back, configure Muffin from its "Edit" menu, and you'll be ready to roll! It uses about 6-7 MB of RAM when running, and has excellent performance under MRJ 2.2.
For more information on Muffin, including documentation, visit the Muffin Web site.
Please note: As of February, 2008, Netscape will once again be discontinued. This time, however, it will be discontinued for all platforms, and support for all versions, past and present, will be discontinued as well. See Tom Drapeau's blog post for more information.
Once the universal choice for browsing the web, Netscape's presence today has been marginalized by many other browsers, largely due to the stagnant 4.x series that introduced little innovation, and to the 6.x series, which merely showed amateurish promise.
Netscape 9 is a bundled Web browser / authoring environment / email / newsreader / instant messenger offering based upon the Mozilla project's browser and renderer work.
The primary components of Netscape and Mozilla - both the web browser and email/Usenet client - were broken off into separate, optimized development efforts, known respectively as Firefox and Thunderbird. The combined application suite has, as of early 2006, been reincarnated as SeaMonkey, which I will be adding to the Orchard soon.
In its older (7.x) incarnations, Netscape represents one of the few remaining opportunities for users of "Classic" Mac OS to access a more modern browser that is largely compatible with today's more advanced web standards. Version 7.02 was the final release for "Classic" Mac OS, and it remains available, below.
Version 9 is available for Mac OS X 10.2 and later, represents the first new release of Netscape for the Mac in over three years. It's a universal binary, and it offers the following:
Version 188.8.131.52 adds/changes the following:
Netscape 9 is as fast at loading and viewing/navigating pages than just about any browser available for the Mac - even though the interface elements are somewhat clunkier. Even so, Netscape Communicator 4 (updated on 8/20/2002 to version 4.8) is still available (see below) for those who might prefer its quirks.
I have chosen not to review the non-browser components of this release, but I generally recommend people use separate, dedicated email and newsreading software (although the email component has gotten rave reviews in many publications). The Swiss army knife approach just doesn't cut it for me (pun very much intended) when it's not a matter of my pockets feeling bulky.
"Impressive, this new Netscape version (7.0). I was still using 4.76, seeing that version 6 was not well reviewed. This new version draws fast and does not redraw (so far). I like the look and feel of it. After only about an hour with it, I can say I will adopt it. I'm using a PowerBook G3 (Firewire) with OS 9.1 and 384MB of memory. Consider this browser."
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the version 184.108.40.206 full installer for Mac OS X 10.2+ (Carbon / Universal; ~17 MB).
the version 7.2 full installer for Mac OS X (Carbon; ~17.5 MB).
the version 7.02 smart installer ("Classic" - Power Macs only; ~156K).
the version 7.02 full installer ("Classic" - Power Macs only; ~20.2 MB).
to the Communicator 4.8 FTP site to select a version for downloading ("Classic" - Power Macs only).
to the Communicator 4.08 FTP site to select a version for downloading (680x0 Macs).
OmniWeb was the first Web browser for Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server. It's fully-featured, with a gorgeous interface. Recent versions of OmniWeb (4.5 and later) employ Safari's HTML rendering engine for improved rendering performance and functionality.
Version 5.10/5.10.1 added/changed the following:
Despite rave reviews in other places, all I can say is: even given all the new features, I find OmniWeb slightly underwhelming. Site-by-site preferences - which may be OmniWeb 5's most useful feature - really demonstrate that serious problems with the Web itself are the larger issue . . . in short, if one site behaves so profoundly differently from other sites that my browser settings need changing, there's no good reason for me to visit that site. Since most of OmniWeb 5's other new features exist in (or are capable of being closely or completely emulated with) other browsers, it is hard to recommend OmniWeb despite the fact that it's an otherwise unobjectionable - and attractive-looking - piece of software.
That aside, if there is one single feature that makes OmniWeb worth the download, it has to be its genuine (yet still a bit buggy) ability to check web sites for updates, on both a scheduled and manually-instantiated basis. (As a matter of fact, OmniWeb is the key tool I use to check for software updates on The Mac Orchard!) Other software claims to do this, but OmniWeb just does a better job of it.
—Gardner D. Underhill III
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Opera, the browser that has been a favorite of PC users for years, has finally arrived on the Macintosh in recent years. Similar in scope to Mozilla, Opera includes not just a web browser, but an email client and Usenet newsreader as well. Both of these are quite capable, and worth a look if you prefer an all-in-one application to suit the bulk of your Internet communication needs.
Version 10.60 makes the following enhancements from version 10.54:
The online release notes have much more detail about these new features. I would daresay that, as of the 9.0 release, Opera became a browser that is worthy of attention on the Mac once and for all. It's quite stable, capable and customizable, and it renders pages very well - on a par with Safari and Firefox. Its breakthrough feature remains its ability to magnify and reduce pages (graphics and all) to just about any size of your choice, which is a real boon for those with disabilities. Its RSS reader is much more thoroughly developed than that in Safari and Firefox as well.
Opera is entirely free, eschewing the built-in advertising that was once its hallmark. Competition in the browser space is a good thing for Mac users. Let's hope that Opera can shake up the Mac browser world in a big way.
[9.0.1] "I've been using Opera 9.01 for just over an hour and I'm already certain there won't be a second hour of testing. In this short space of time I've found the delete button in the download prefs does nothing (I wanted to delete the application/zip prefs to force Opera to ask for new settings), when I set zip files to be opened after downloading, nothing happens, and Opera corrupted all the zip archives I was downloading from a sound clip site. Camino downloaded them fine. Something else that bugged me, yet wasn't an actual bug - when I went Opera->About Opera to get double-check the program version before posting this review, Opera opened the about page IN PLACE of the MacOrchard submit a review page :-( Not good behavior. Opera also touts itself as the fastest browser ever - not in my testing! Camino and even Shiira are faster loading pages. These bugs and annoyances (and this is just what I've encountered in an hour... I wonder what I'd find if I stuck with Opera longer?) are nothing compared to how un-maclike the UI is. If only because Opera uses non-standard and un-maclike UI elements and practises, I will not continue using this program."
—Jamie Kahn Genet, August 12, 2006
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PageSucker is a small utility written in Java that allows entire Web page hierarchies to be downloaded automatically. The pages will thereby be modified in such a way that they can then be viewed off-line (even after copying them to a CD-ROM or the like). Mac OS X users can download the archive below and execute the "PageSuckerClasses.jar" file directly from the command line (see the "Read Me"file included in the download for more information).
Version 3.2 adds CSS stylesheet support, options to delete empty or incompletely downloaded files, and makes lots of bug fixes.
Site licenses are available for $300.
"I have found PageSucker incredibly valuable for downloading entire web sites. Sometimes, I do this just to be able to find something I know is on the site, somewhere, but more often I use it to back up friends' sites when I know they don't do backups themselves. It is also great for capturing sites that are about to be censored, so you can mirror them with a minimum of effort. PS does a funny thing with the "index.html" file, but if you have a site management tool (such as Adobe GoLive) you can easily fix this, and then you have the whole site in working form."
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Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of entire web pages without the need to scroll and take multiple screenshots that need to be pasted together. This is especially useful for web developers and for artists who need to create graphical representations of web pages when a printed version of a web page won't do.
Version 0.4.3 adds/changes the following:
0.5 beta 6 is now available (January 25, 2009), adding/changing the following:
Pop-Up Zapper is a shareware application from none other than the famed Ricardo Batista, author of the freeware "Extensions Manager" that eventually found its way into the official Mac OS releases. Pop-Up Zapper helps you by "zapping" away annoying pop-up windows as you surf the web with Internet Explorer (sorry, Netscape users). Pop-Up Zapper is available in two versions: Pop-Up Zapper for Mac OS X and Pop-Up Zapper Lite for Mac OS 8.5 - 9.
Pop-Up Zapper watches the work of your web browser. When the program identifies a pop-up window, it closes it - just as you would - except quite a bit faster. Using Pop-Up Zapper for OS X, most of the time you will see a window flash open and then close on your screen. It moves quickly, however, so may not notice it at all. You can look at Pop-Up Zapper's counter on its Dock icon to see that it is working. With Pop-Up Zapper Lite for OS 8.5 - 9, the process is completely transparent. You will never even see the pop-up window.
You can run Pop-Up Zapper in evaluation mode for 5 days only, at which point it requires a license to continue working. For registered users, Pop-Up Zapper can also update its own data automatically and can notify you when the application has been updated with new features.
From the Privoxy web site: "Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks." Privoxy is freeware, released under the GNU General Public License.
Version 3.0.10-1 (the latest Mac OS X release) is a bugfix release; version 3.0.11 (the latest source release) adds/changes the following:
The online release notes have more details.
Safari is a browser developed by Apple, and is the default browser for Mac OS X. It is based upon the KHTML rendering engine used in the Konqueror web browser for UNIX systems.
Safari is simple but stable, and its speed and simplicity make it fun to use. Like other modern browsers, it is capable of blocking popup advertisements and it supports "tabbed" browsing that allows you to neatly organize multiple open pages in a single browser window. Apple has created a page of useful AppleScripts that demonstrate the care that Apple is putting into this browser's design.
Safari's interface is not terribly attractive, but it is functional. My biggest gripe about the user interface still involves tabbed browsing: prior to version 1.2, when closing the last browser tab, the window would shrink in height; all other browsers with tabbed browsing typically increase the page viewing area (back to its prior state) in this instance. In 1.2 and later, while this quirk has been fixed, a new annoyance has cropped up: when you open your first tab, Safari increases the height of your browser window if there is room below it. It's (still) an unpleasant thing to have to keep resizing a browser all day, and I wish Apple would control the window sizing behavior once and for all for everyday browsing.
While power users will still probably prefer Firefox for their browsing needs because of its extensibility, Safari is more than good enough for the average user, easily meriting a "Drew's Pick" rating in the Mac web browser category.
See the development group's weblog for more information.
Safari 5 introduces the following new features:
Version 3.2.1 (available for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS 10.5 Leopard) features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses, and includes security updates and stability improvements.
Version 1.3.2 (for Panther) "improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications," according to Apple. This version is available through the Software Update feature.
Version 1.0.3 (for Jaguar) "improves the Safari rendering engine to expand third party application support and includes the latest security enhancements." This version is available through the Software Update feature.
(Version 1.3.2) "Sadly Safari's usefulness is hampered by updates being tied to Mac OS X updates (i.e., you can't get a newer version of Safari without purchasing the next major version of Mac OS X). As I run a lot of older Macs with Panther (I typically stay a version behind with my main OS) Safari will never be as current as Camino or iCab for me. Regardless, iCab has far more functionality and Camino is faster. Still, Safari isn't a bad browser. It's just a bit limited and the Panther version is buggy by comparison, IME."
—Jamie Kahn Genet
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Shiira, like OmniWeb, is a web browser based on Apple's "Web Kit" and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. Shiira has some beautiful and truly unique user interface features; pictures tell the story better than words do. All source code used is publicly available.
Version 2.3 adds the following:
Previous version 1.2.2 remains available.
"Shiira is a lovely browser, and a refreshing change from the Mozilla based bunch and Safari. I especially love that the tab's widths are proportional to their title, plus - unlike Camino - you can drag tabs to rearrange their order - excellent! :-) Also, providing you've a large enough display, the sidebar for viewing and editing bookmarks, history and downloads is great - much better than taking over the active tab! Now if only Shiira saved the open window/tab state like Opera and was a tad faster, it would be the perfect browser for me. But as it stands it's still a hell of good browser, given how recently it arrived at v1. Try it today! You'll be happy you did."
—Jamie Kahn Genet
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Dejal Systems, LLC produces Simon, a web site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks sites for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important site goes down or recovers.
Version 2.5.7 makes the following changes:
Simon is available in a number of configurations, ranging in price from $29.95 ("Basic" license allowing up to 7 tests) to $195 ("Enterprise" license allowing unlimited tests). The online store offers full details.
Like Muffin, above, SpeedManiac is a World Wide Web "filtering system" that acts as a proxy server to filter out content to your own specifications. However, it's not written in Java; it's a native Mac OS X application that is much easier to set up and use. While it cannot filter the variety of things that Muffin can, it is capable of filtering graphics, selected sites, and Flash animations, which is good enough for mere mortals who might not have the time to master Muffin.
In order to use SpeedManiac, you'll have to configure your Web browser's proxy settings (dig around your browser's preferences to find this) to point to the program so that it can intervene between you and the Web (which is exactly what a proxy server does). Here's how you do that:
Version 1.7.1 adds/changes the following:
SpeedManiac - which is written by Ricardo Batista, celebrated author of the Extensions Manager for the "Classic" Mac OS - is shareware, and works as a trial version for 15 days.
Subscriber is a relatively sophisiticated web page update checking utility that enables granularized checking of portions of web pages in a manner that most web browsers' built-in "subscribe" capabilities cannot. Subscriber allows you to disregard items of your choosing, such as dates, advertisements, and other items. It's probably the most sophisticated web page update checking software available for the Macintosh, and if you're serious about keeping on top of web site updates, you'll want to include this on your list of software to check out.
Version 1.2b2 adds/changes the following:
Subscriber is shareware, and runs as fully-functional software for 30 days before requiring purchase.
If you frequent web sites that have thumbnail pictures that are links to images or movies and have a penchant for quickly collecting the whole bunch, Suck It Down! will grab all of those images and put them into a folder of your choice. If you want it to, Suck It Down! will even perform its magic without you actually visiting the page.
Suck It Down! will also display JPEG and GIF images as they are downloading, giving you a mini slide show. And after the download is complete you can click or key through the images and throw away any you don't like. You can also open them in their native application.
Personally, I think that thumbnails exist for a reason: they make applications like this largely unnecessary because you can preview the pictures and choose the ones you actually want to download in full. That said, there are people who like collecting everything, and this application is surely designed with them in mind.
Version 1.8 - the first release in almost 5 (!) years - adds/changes the following:
Suck It Down! requires Mac OS X. You will be able to download 750 images without paying the fee. After the first 500, the About box will appear after each URL Suck you do.
From the Tor home page: "Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the Internet's TCP protocol."
Tor is based on Privoxy, a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Tor requires more than just the software; it involves some behavioral changes as well, which are documented nicely on the Tor website.
Tor 0.2.1.26 fixes the following bugs:
Web Confidential is a central repository for the legions of those Web site passwords that you have scribbled on napkins and tissues but never got around to organizing. It works with Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Eudora.
Version 3.8 - the latest version for Mac OS X - addresses the following:
Web Devil, like Web Retriever, below, works with your web browser to enable you to save a Web page--graphics and all--in one fell swoop rather than saving the HTML and each image separately. Very useful!
Version 6.0 was a major rewrite of the software for Mac OS X; version 6.5 adds/changes the following:
"My [money] is in the mail for this shareware gem, a brilliant implementation of the old WebWhacker idea. Where the commercial product WebWhacker 1.0 failed (all files downloaded into the same folder) and 2.0 completely blew it (all files also completely renamed!), Web Devil does it. Small, sweet, and perfect "whacking" of Web sites with all files properly named and directory-sorted. Voila . . . the entire site downloaded to your local hard drive. You can practically hear the files being sucked across the wires!"
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From the Web Dumper home page: "With Web Dumper you can download entire websites off of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. Downloaded Web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact. Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies and so on, while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents. Web Dumper lets you select: which kinds of file you want to be dumped (more than 60 available standard types); the folder depth level; how links must be processed; and if it must re-link your HTML documents for offline browsing."
Version 3.2 makes the following changes:
WebGrabber, from the author of Fire, is a free utility that you can use to mirror, copy, synchronize, download, scrub or "steal" a web site. WebGrabber is a simple wrapper around the "Pavuk" project (see http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/), a web grabber/spider. This UI is very "unfinished," and not all Pavuk command line options are yet supported, but the author has wrapped the most useful and most common options first, and is willing to add more. WebGrabber can be used to download entire web sites, download an entire directory of images without being able to see them, and for ftp downloads; it'll even split downloads across sessions and resume them. Version 0.7 changes the download directory to be ~/Desktop instead of /tmp.
"WebDevil might work a bit better, but WebGrabber has two things going for it: it's free and the source is available. Very stable, you can feel the UNIX behind it. Downloads other media types, Flash, etc."
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Limit Point Software produces WebSentinel (not to be confused with the now-defunct software of the same name by Purity Software), a "utility for monitoring the content of web pages for search terms at a scheduled time, optionally on a periodic basis." WebSentinel logs its results to its own console log file named "WebSentinel.log" in your Logs directory of your Library. Open the console log using either the "Console" button in the list window, or by selecting "Open Console..." from the File menu.
Version 1.0.3 adds/changes the following:
One donation, in the amount of your choice, unlocks all of Limit Point's utility software, and upgrades to all of these utilities are free.
Web Watcher is another terrific application from Chaotic Software, the same people who brought us such classic titles as Web Devil and MP3 Rage. Web Watcher helps inform you of changes to web sites you are interested in so you don't have to repeatedly check them yourself. The program can notify you of changes in a variety of ways: email, visual and audible alerts, and showing the changed URL in your web browser. "File" URLs (file://) can be also be watched to inform you of changes. Web Watcher works well and has a simple-to-understand interface, but I would find a bulk importer (or, at the very least, a bookmark import utility) quite useful, as the current interface only allows sites to be added one at a time, which can become quite tedious. Version 1.3 adds/changes the following:
Can't find what you're looking for? Try a search:
Also, if you have an older Mac, be sure to check out the "Classic" applications page for more options.
Finally, take a look at ALEMIA if you think you know that name of an application, but aren't quite sure.
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ROCK THE BOAT! Mattapan Community Health Center's Annual Awards Gala takes place in Saturday, April 27, 2013 · 6:00pm - 11:00pm, at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel at 606 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts. This Annual event honors Leaders of our community and supporters of MCHC who have made remarkable contributions. Proceeds from the event go to support the Mattapan Community Health Center's development and program initiatives. Click the link to go to our Rock the Boat page.
HEALTH CARE REVIVAL! Since 1997, Mattapan Community Health Center has sought to engage the Mattapan community in dialogue about its health -- particularly the health of women, infants and their families. The Health Care Revival Initiative also brings to life our philosophy that a "Healthy Community begins with a Healthy You." Our last Health Care Revival was held on Saturday, September 8, 2012 on the grounds of the Foley Campus Center, 249 River Street, Mattapan, Massachusetts. Highlights are featured on our website! Click here to go to HCR online: | <urn:uuid:ed24adaa-8500-4916-a4a7-cd4f46d3919d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mattapanchc.org/calendar.html | 2013-05-19T21:51:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920482 | 267 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This poem is written by a good friend of mine – Howard Wright from Nottingham in the UK. Howard is an authentic man seeking to get to grips with his emotional wounds and he finds poetry to be a great outlet. I was brought up to believe that I couldn’t So when push came to shove I didn’t It’s not that I couldn’t, but I believed that my lot Was to aim a little lower, than the talent I’d got I got stuck in a rut I believed I wasn’t good enough as me That somehow, I needed another personality But acting is false, not being true And how long can you hide what’s essentially you You always peep through I believed that God was my foe I believed that love was a no-no If my mother didn’t love me, then why would they? But that need for love wouldn’t go away It’s a yearning, a burning, that still pervades I believed I was out of kilter My mother once said, “I should have killed you!” I believed her No wonder it’s hard to form relationships When your own mother holds views like this! She ‘slit my throat’, that’s what she did She might as well, have slit my wrists! I believed all those labels they put on me I was angry, aggressive, all kinds of things I knew I was hurting, I knew I was lost And what do they do? Stick their dirty labels on us! Those trained to care, were totally careless Did I say care? They were anything but! Yet I believed, I received their wicked lies And my heart, my soul, became the sacrifice I believed in lies! | <urn:uuid:11f4661b-8234-42cf-baba-70eeb80b3a57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oneminuteman.co.uk/2012/07/omm-poetry-i-believed-in-lies/ | 2013-05-19T21:51:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986792 | 363 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra
The Palácio Nacional de Sintra, or Paço Real, is the ancestral seat of the House of Avis. It appears that there was definitely a Moorish castle on this site in the 10th C., and its walls served as the foundations for the summer palace built there by King Joao I (1385 to 1433). This was extended and altered during the reign of Manuel I (1495-1521). Its most characteristic, and prominent, features are the two tall conical chimneys added in the 18th C. Completely restored and refurnished under Maria II, the palace was then chosen by Luís I as his favorite residence, and it became the dower house of his widow Maria Pia.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra Map
Address: Largo Rainha D. Amélia, 2710-616 Sintra, Portugal
Opening hours: 10am-1pm, 2pm-5:30pm; Closed: Wed
Always closed on: New Year's Day (Jan 1), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), Christmas - Christian (Dec 25)
Entrance fee in EUR: Adult €3.00, Concession or reduced rate €1.50
Useful tips: Last admission half hour before closing.
Guides: Guided tour included with admission.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra Highlights
Palacio Nacional de Sintra - Hall of the Arabs
The tour of the Palácio Nacional de Sintra usually begins in the Guardroom, then passes through the enormous kitchen into the Hall of the Arabs, furnished like an old Moorish palace.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra - Hall of the Stags
After the Hall of the Arabs comes the Hall of the Stags, or Armorial Hall, which has an octagonal wooden domed ceiling embellished with the coats of arms and heraldic devices of 72 Portuguese noble families; that of King Manuel, who had the room built, is in the center of the dome, and those of his eight children are grouped around it. The walls of the room are covered with azulejo murals of hunting scenes.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra - Hall of the Magpies
The Hall of the Magpies owes its name to the 136 magpies painted on the ceiling, each one holding in its beak the motto of King Joao I, "por bem", i.e. for the best. The story goes that Joao I's Queen caught him kissing a lady in waiting, and his cool response was "Foi por bem", i.e. "I did it for the best". Since the ladies in waiting delighted in repeating this ever afterwards on every possible occasion, their chatter goaded Joao I into commissioning the ceiling. The 16th C. Carrara marble fireplace is by Nicolas Chanterène.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra - Hall of Swans
Through a courtyard is the Hall of Swans, the largest room in the palace, its doors and windows embellished in the 16th C. in a sumptuous Moorish-Manueline style. This former banqueting hall is still used today on festive occasions.
Palacio Nacional de Sintra - Afonso VI Room
Another of the palace rooms was where Afonso VI was imprisoned for nine years until his death in 1683, following his exclusion from affairs of state by his brother, Pedro II, who had him declared insane.
Map - Palacio Nacional de Sintra
Palacio Nacional de Sintra Pictures
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Happy with my Results! - Honolulu, HI
- posted 5 months ago
- updated 5 months ago
- Worth It
- Cost: $3,000
- Shim Ching, MD (Honolulu, HI)
Review for: Photo-facial, Skin-tightening and...
- 3 Dec 2012
Review for: Photo-facial, Skin-tightening and Laser Skin resurfacing (Palomar Lux 2940):
I'm a 47 year old local Caucasian woman who saw Dr. Ching for treatment of wrinkles and basic skin appearance.
First, I received a series of "photo-facials" from the aesthetician that really worked! My freckles spots turned very dark immediately afterward for approx. 5 days. After that, my skin looked GREAT! I received many positive comments from both friends and strangers. I rec'd a total of 3, spaced 4-6 weeks apart, and am very mindful to stay out of the sun/use 30+ sun block.
Next, the skin tightening. Both the this and the photo-facial are VERY tolerable - minor stinging/warmth. The aestheticianis very conscientious, going at a pace that suits you. The results are subtle, but I did receive immediate positive feedback from friends.
Lastly, the skin resurfacing. This was to address fine lines, wrinkles and overall appearance. A numbing ointment was applied liberally over my face and allowed to work. Then I simply laid down for approx. 2 hours as the nurse paced the laser over my skin (Palomar fractional 2940 and 1540). Afterward, I drove myself home and rested as much as possible for 3 days. I did not want to take the narcotics , and was able to EASILY manage the post-procedure with plain Tylenol. At 8 days, my skin looked great! It's been one month and a day doesn't go by without a friend or stranger commenting on how great my skin looks.
I think it helped that i followed all of the post-operative instructions to a tee, and asked questions. The office is lovely and the staff is warm and knowledgeable.
I recommend whole heatedly any/all of these procedures
My Doctor: Shim Ching, MD
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This blu-ray dvd burner is amazing! After both my mac desktop disc drive stopped working and our home dvd player stopped working, my family was left with no way to put photos onto discs or to watch movies from anywhere but our Wii by using Instant Netflix. So, when I was contacted by a store I love, Staples to see if I would like to participate in a review through Staples and could choose any item I’d like, I knew exactly what Iwould choose that would make everyone in our family happy.
I can’t even begin to tell you how frustrating it was for me to be working with photography clients and needing to produce discs for them without a working disc drive on my mac. Yes, I have my little man to blame – although the apple store happily removed a foreign object from the drive last year, it has never worked the same since. So, each time I did photography work, I was going through a very long, aggravating process to get the photos to disc via another computer after editing them on my mac. I could not be happier with how this drive performs and how easy it is to use. It is so easy, that I thought for sure there must be more steps as I was setting it up and using it the first time.
As for my kids, they can now watch their DVDs again and couldn’t be happier about that. We do love instant Netflix, but it was frustrating to have stashes of DVDs that we couldn’t do anything with before. The blu-ray DVD player/burner is the perfect solution for our family when we are plugged in at work or play. Now we can add watching new movies on DVD to our Friday night pizza and wii night.
My daughter can pop a new CD in (Taylor Swift anyone?) and load her music to Itunes in a heartbeat. I love that it’s simple enough for ALL of us to use and that it has given us more options when it comes to both music and movies.
We haven’t even begun to touch the options we have with this DVD burner and love it!! I am not sure I even know how (or why?) I’d burn a DVD but I love that I can if I have to and in the meantime, my family can do all the things they love and that I can continue my photography business with much more ease than before. It has been completely wonderful for all of us.
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RALPH R. SAFFORD (“Randy”) is a founding member of Safford & Baker. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Randy has been practicing law in Michigan since 1974 after receiving his undergrad degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Harvard University. Randy practices in the areas of general business law and commercial transactions with a focus on representing the owners of small to medium-sized companies. An experienced commercial litigator, Randy has successfully handled hundreds of disputes in state and federal courts, administrative agencies and private arbitration.
DONALD H. BAKER JR. is a founding member of Safford & Baker. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Don has been practicing law in North Carolina and Michigan since 1983 and 1987 respectively. After receiving his undergrad degree from the University of North Carolina and his law degree from the University of Michigan, Don began his legal career as a law clerk to Honorable James Dickson Phillips, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Don practices in the areas of general business law, commercial transactions, and taxation, with a focus on venture capital/capital formation, publishing, copyright, and computer law. Don has been an Adjunct Professor of Taxation at Walsh College in Troy, Michigan since 1989.
GEORGE H. MEYER is the newest addition to Safford & Baker, serving as Of counsel to the firm. A distinguished graduate of the University of Michigan, the Harvard Law School and Wayne State University Law School where he obtained a Masters in tax and labor law, George after service as an Air Force JAG officer, began his practice with the Detroit firm of Fischer, Franklin & Ford. In 1974, George founded what is now known as Meyer & Kirk, PLLC, concentrating primarily in the areas of business law for corporations, the owners of small-medium-sized businesses and professionals and in estate planning. A published author on tax equalization in Michigan and a nationally known lecturer and author on American folk art, George has served on the boards of numerous civic and non-profit organizations, including the Detroit Science Center, the Cranbrook Writer’s Guild, the Detroit Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
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(PORT HURON) -- Port Huron Police have arrested a 29-year old Marysville resident for his alleged involvement in a drive by shooting that took place on October 1, 2011 in the 1600 block of Gordon Street. Authorities say the suspect, Jeremiah Thomas Arnold, allegedly drove by an occupied residence and fired shots in retaliation for an altercation that occurred earlier in the evening. No one was injured in the shooting. An extensive investigation led police to Arnold's whereabout and his capture. Arnold was arraigned Thursday on firearm-discharging in or at a building and felony firearm charges. Bond was set at $10,000. Arnold is set to appear for a preliminary examination on December 11 at 1:30 p.m. in St. Clair County District Court. | <urn:uuid:b2b8b193-85d1-422b-9fb8-9e8956785060> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sanilacbroadcasting.com/component/k2/item/734-drive-by-shooting-suspect-captured | 2013-05-19T22:09:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982086 | 156 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Avocado Security's business intelligence optimization platform help clients reach new untapped potential. To enable security + business intelligence information sharing across the organization, Avocado Security provides a web based On-Demand platform. This, along with a pioneering video mining and a state-of-the art data center, helps increase productivity, security and business intelligence across our clients' enterprise.
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Avocado Security helps corporations transform their security, Business Intelligence and operational data into actionable intelligence. Our Security + Business Intelligence platform, Avocado 2.0, gives businesses solutions to all of their query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes insight to security personnel, Sales & Marketing team, and executive management team via web and wireless. With many satisfied customers and technology and integration partners, Avocado 2.0 has been proven the World's first and most complete BI & Security Platform as service.
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Following the lead of more than 100 members of the US House of Representatives, a half-dozen senators are to announce the formation of the Senate Taiwan Caucus to promote Taiwan's interest in the upper house of the US Congress.
The senators are expected to announce shortly -- perhaps on Sept. 17 -- the formation of the caucus, according to Taiwan and congressional officials.
While the exact date has not been set, a group of Legislative Yuan members, led by DPP Senior Legislator Trong Chai (
The development will be a major step in the recognition by Congress of the special relationship between the US and Taiwan, and is expected to raise Taiwan's visibility in a legislative body that has been loath to form such caucuses easily, and which has shown itself far less willing than the House to advance legislation favorable to Taiwan.
The bipartisan caucus is being spearheaded by Virginia Republican George Allen, who is a long-standing supporter of Taiwan. He is the senator who wrote the bill approved by Congress and signed by US President George W. Bush in May that supported Taiwan's participation in the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva.
"We feel that Taiwan rates as one of a number of important issues, and we feel that for the world's leading democracy, it is important to have a voice for democracies such as Taiwan in the United States Congress, and we can work to continue to build the partnership that we have with Taiwan," said Allen's spokesman, Mike Waldron.
"We will advocate on key issues, such as WHO [World Health Organization] membership, intellectual property rights, and so on," Waldron said.
Taiwan's chief representative in Washington, Chen Chien-jen (程建人), described the formation of the caucus as "very important."
"I think it could be, to a certain extent, like the House Taiwan caucus," Chen said. "Whatever issues relate to Taiwan and the United States, they will be interested in. If they feel that they can help, they will likely get involved.
"I think basically they want to promote better ties between the United States and Taiwan. They consider Taiwan their friend, and they're willing to support Taiwan in various areas -- in security, in political stability, in trade -- you name it," he said.
The caucus will be joined by people like Allen, who is "very friendly to Taiwan, very supportive of the causes Taiwan abides by, and is willing to render additional support to be sure that Taiwan's security, democracy, freedom, and human rights can be preserved and helped," Chen said.
In addition to Allen, other senators who have said they will join the caucus are Illinois Republican Tim Johnson, North Dakota Democrat Bryan Dorgan, Illinois Democrat Richard Durban, and Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson.
Chen said that he expected "at least six or seven" senators to join the caucus by the time it is officially formed. In contrast, the House caucus, formed in April last year, has 119 members, more than a quarter of the total membership.
The House's Congressional Taiwan Caucus has been very active over the past year on several key Taiwan issues.
They have been writing letters to Bush administration officials complaining of policies they regarded as hurtful to Taiwan and trying to rouse fellow lawmakers to take stands favorable to Taiwan. They have also increased exchanges between members of Congress and officials and legislators from Taiwan. | <urn:uuid:e3168485-e89a-4f53-8ec3-d909c37dff25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/09/04/2003066405 | 2013-05-19T21:27:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698090094/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095450-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974521 | 693 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Education push applauded
Published: Friday, October 8, 2010 at 2:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 8, 2010 at 2:50 p.m.
Editor: There are exciting things happening in education today. One of the prime movers on this is President Obama’s administration spurred on by his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. Their program, Race to the Top, has brought new motivation to many now working toward improving our weakened education system.
Focusing on students and their performance and on how teachers and schools are doing in educating our young people is essential to raising our standards. In 1970, the U.S. ranked No. 1 in the world in many education measures, and now we rank anywhere from 10 to 25 or lower. How did this happen? Certainly lack of attention toward our failures was a factor, and if Race to the Top and other similar efforts do nothing else, they will have brought increased attention to this problem and have begun work toward its solution.
Thank you, Mr. President, for bringing so much attention to this subject.
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This group is dedicated to the Think Atheist group that meets in Baltimore, MD once a month. Here we will be able to stay in touch, give updates, plan, and throw out ideas between meetings.
Hello all! Here is a map to the parking lot we'll be meeting at before the Reason Rally. We're going to be there at 7:30am to be sure we get a good spot on the Mall. It's possible no one else will be there that early, but it's also possible we'll be glad we were early because we secured a spot close to the stage.
My number is 305-588-6124 if anyone has questions.
Here's the link to the location we're meeting: 4500 Paint Branch Pkwy College Park, MD
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I require a circular fan oven element for a Whirlpool double oven. Un fortunately there are no markings on the oven to tell me model or serial number. The element has the following markings on: 1284 396 IRCA R 230V1500W RL6
There are only about 5 or 6 different types fan elements fitted in Whirlpool ovens over the years. To narrow it down how old is the oven?
Is it a built under oven? and have you a picture of the control panel?
The model number on these ovens is either on the profile at the r/h side of the main oven door or in older ones it is in the centre of the frame at the bottom of the oven door.
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From: Cliff Lamere <>
Subject: [NYCOLUMB] BIG DETOUR IN ALBANY, NY
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:09:05 -0500
Many people visit Albany, NY in order to do genealogical research at the huge genealogy section in the NYS Library. In the same building can be found the NYS Archives and the NYS Museum. The following message was sent to me by Ruth Ann Messick who can be found at the library at least four days a week. She kindly asked me to distribute it to alert potential visitors about the impending construction.
I should also mention that a nearby parking area is being replaced with a parking garage. As a result, during the construction the two parking lots beside the library are full of displaced state workers every day. Parking on the street can be quite difficult to find and could mean a walk of several blocks. Underground parking is often full also. It is very complicated to access this parking. Half of it can be reached from the library, the other half not very easily.
The only advantage to coming here to do research at this time is that very few people are using the facilities. If you do come, a bus seems to be the most reasonable way of getting to the library, even if you just parked five blocks away (west). And it would be cheaper because parking is about $7 per day at the library.
BIG DETOUR IN ALBANY, NY NEAR EMPIRE PLAZA BEGINNING 01 APR 2000 - 04 JUL 2000
If you think the problem of driving in Albany near the Empire Plaza couldn't get worse, IT WILL effective 01 Apr 2000. Please post to genealogy lists to help people avoid the problems in trying to get to the NYS Library, Archives, Museum, Albany Co. Hall of Records and any other place in downtown Albany. This involves the EXIT RAMP COMING OUT OF THE UNDERGROUND PARKING AREA of EMPIRE PLAZA to RT I-787 NORTH AND SOUTH.
To accommodate the additional traffic anticipated (from soon-to-open new parking ramps) to access I-787, certain portions of the current ramps must be widened. The DOT is constructing a project that is running concurrently with the Offices of General Services' garage construction so that work on the ramp widening project will conclude on or about 01 AUG 2000.
It will be necessary to CLOSE the ramp from the garage exit that leads to I-787 NORTH and SOUTHBOUND. The ramp will be closed for a maximum of 90 days. During this time, all the remaining work that affects traffic will be completed. It is expected that work will begin on 01 Apr 2000 and will be completed prior to 04 Jul weekend.
To ensure safe lane changes to and from the underground garages, new overhead signs will be placed. Motorist traveling through the Mall or exiting the Empire State Plaza north and south (underground) parking facilities will encounter a divided roadway after leaving the Plaza tunnels.
As you exit, YOU WILL NOT be able to take the usual ramp which takes you directly to I-787 north and south. Signs will take you on a 2 (two) mile route which will take you out over I-787 (below you) and ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER. On the other side of the river, you will do a right loop, turn right, go a short distance straight ahead, take a right and COME BACK ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER. As you return to the Albany side of the Hudson River, THEN
you may TAKE RT I-787 North or South. This is an expected 4 (four) minute additional time DURING NON-PEAK HOURS.
TO AVOID THIS DETOUR. It is suggested if leaving the NYS Library, Archives, Museum, Albany Co. Hall of Records - Take Madison Ave (the street that runs in front of the Museum) downhill and when you are at the bottom, take the road to the right that directs you to I-787. (You will be driving under the raised roads of I-787). To go NORTH on I-787 - From the bottom of Madison Ave, it curves to the right and then to the left (stay in the left lane). At the light *, you will turn left and stay to the left going up the ramp to join the Northbound I-787 traffic. * At this light, you will be looking at the Hudson River (USS SLater and Dutch Apple Boat are right there).
If you are familiar with downtown Albany, you may enter I-787 from the ramp entrance near Fleet Bank. This ramp will be open as usual.
A great idea to avoid the traffic and parking problems at any time (year round) near the Museum and Capital area is to check out the locations, especially from Malls, that you could take a CDTA bus in to Madison Ave. There are commuter bus services from all surrounding counties also. These opportunities should be considered in booking motel accommodations in the areas outside of downtown Albany which are often considerably lower in price.
For further information call:
Wendy Gibson - Information officer of the Office of General
Services 518-474-5987 or
Tim Conway, Department of Transportation at 518-474-6285.
Tune into AM 830 on our radio for project information.
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This is for when you have uploaded your slides and a pre-recorded video, and you want to add the slide timings manually.
Here’s the how to video:
And here is a written explanation:
Click on the ‘Manual Sync’ button as opposed to the ‘Visual Sync’ button so you arrive at this page.
For using the manual sync, you need to know the timings of when the slides change.
The first slide is always set to zero and you can’t change that but from slide 2 you can enter in your slide queues in minutes and seconds. When you’ve finished, click preview. It’s good to check it through before you publish. If all the timings are present and correct, click save timings and you’re done, if not go back and adjust until you’re happy. | <urn:uuid:3668d133-88e8-4f18-a9a1-563e624845d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.present.me/how-tos/how-to-add-slide-timings-manually/ | 2013-05-22T17:34:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90671 | 185 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Went to lunch with some friends today and this gorgeous cake was a present I received from my good buddy Min. I love oval cakes!!! It's a banana cake with cream cheese filling, covered in fondant, with hand made gumpaste tulips,and a fondant bow. It has a really cute button at the back too, forgot to take a picture of it. The lady with the tulip is me, it's so funny because it's such a good representation of me decorating, with hair tied up and bits of hair sticking up in every direction. | <urn:uuid:c9aabf99-ecb2-4158-a5a1-0a55ce9545fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cakecentral.com/g/i/25997/tag/bow/sort/display_order/ | 2013-05-22T17:21:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979561 | 116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Aurora Christian is headed back to its third state semifinal football game in the last five years after the top-seeded Eagles dominated Winnebago Saturday night in a 48-13 victory.
Western Michigan-bound Aurora Christian quarterback Anthony Maddie could not have had a more different game.
The Eagles' senior quarterback threw for 211 yards and a trio of scores to three different receivers in the opening half, only to completely put the game out of a reach in the second half with two scoring runs in excess of 63 yards in a three-play sequence.
With its one-sided triumph in Aurora, the Eagles (11-1) will meet Tolono Unity, the No. 1 seed from the Class 3A southern bracket, at home on Saturday for a berth in the state championship.
Third-seeded Winnebago, making its first quarterfinal appearance, had its season close at 9-3.
With Aurora Christian leading 21-6 at the break, the Eagles' defense handed the ball over to the offense with a three-and-out on the opening possession of the second half.
Two plays later, Aurora Christian, which had a mere 5 yards rushing in the opening half, was the on the way to cruise control when Maddie broke through the line and cut against the grain for a 74-yard romp.
"It was a halftime adjustment," said Maddie, who ended with 397 combined yards through the air (235) and on the ground (162). "Coach (Don) Beebe is great at seeing things. The offensive line blocked incredibly."
Winnebago, which was denied on fourth down on four separate occasions, then had yet another long drive stall in Eagles' territory.
Maddie busted free once again down the left sideline to give Aurora Christian a commanding 35-6 lead in the third quarter.
Maddie, who connected with Chad Beebe, Ryan Suttle and Grayson Roberts on first-half scoring strikes, credited brilliant downfield blocking by Beebe and Noah Roberts for springing him.
The second running score came from 63 yards away.
"That was the difference in the game," Maddie said of his back-to-back runs.
The Eagles would amass an astonishing 247 yards on the ground on only 9 attempts in pulling away in the second half.
Brandon Mayes' burst from 45 yards away in the opening minute of the fourth was later augmented by Suttle rounding out the Eagles' second-half rushing outburst with a 22-yard run.
The second Suttle score initiated a running clock with six-plus minutes remaining.
"The second half we wanted to establish a ground game," coach Beebe said. "If nothing else to chew some clock. All week we heard that they were the physical team, and we were a finesse team. This is a game of emotion."
The other main storyline for Aurora Christian was its defense.
Winnebago managed only 4 yards of offense on its opening five possessions, not recording a first down until Kolton Kuczynski spearheaded a late first-half scoring drive.
"We're a run-dominant team from a run-dominant league (Big Northern)," Kuczynski said. "They're a great team."
"They're not used to passing," said Aurora Christian defensive lineman Josh Kok. "They tried doing some different stuff in their run game. Our backers were great." | <urn:uuid:ee8fad6e-ae78-4c5a-b874-59fc0f174a66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://football.dailyherald.com/story/?id=429315 | 2013-05-22T17:18:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978913 | 708 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The holidays are almost upon us, which means it's time for you to take a careful look at your neighbor and report any and all suspicious activity to your immediate supervisor. At least it is at the New York Times, which just sent a memo to all staffers urging them snitch on any co-worker who may have engaged in any "potential ethical or legal violations." IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING. David Pogue, your ears are burning! Memo after the jump.
The Company's excellent reputation depends on the honesty, integrity and good judgment of all of us. Our Business Ethics Policy and the Policy on Ethics in Journalism, along with the Core Purpose, Core Values and Rules of the Road, provide the standards by which all employees are expected to conduct themselves day to day. Adhering to these standards and achieving our financial and journalistic goals ensures the Company's long-term success.
If you become aware of any potential ethical or legal violations, we encourage you to report them. There are a number of ways this can be done. You can bring the matter to the attention of a supervisor or the legal department. You can also make a confidential call to the Company's Corporate Financial Ethics Hotline at (888) 270-5933, or (770) 582-5225 (collect) if outside North America. The Company prohibits any form of retaliation against an employee who reports a violation or participates in an investigation. More information about the hotline is available here.
Supervisors who receive a report of a potential ethical or legal violation should notify their manager or department head, who are responsible for elevating it as appropriate. Personnel matters are to be directed to the appropriate HR representative. Reports of accounting, internal control or auditing matters, or any potential securities law violation, should be directed to Phil Ciuffo, Vice President, Internal Audit, at (212) 556-8830 or Kenneth Richieri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, at (212) 556-1995.
Our Core Purpose of enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment requires each one of us to demonstrate the highest standards of journalism and ethical business conduct.
Arthur & Janet
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The National Mall is the large rectangle between the Lincoln Memorial, the U.S. Capitol Building, and around the Tidal Basin. It is located at the center of Washington DC. The National Mall is where you will find the Smithsonian museums and art galleries, National Archives, and the Reflecting Pool. Most of Washington DC's must-see monuments are clustered on the western end of the National Mall, so it is possible to see them all in one day.
To download a printable version of the map, right-click on one of the links below and depending on your browser, click on "Save Target As" or "Save Link As". One of the documents are in PDF format requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.
National Mall Map - Image Format
National Mall Map - PDF Format
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In an increasingly complex world, the issues to be addressed require new, innovative and increasingly sophisticated solutions. This issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel includes a discussion of two subjects that, at first blush, are separate and distinct from one another: Scandinavia and diversity.There is a connection: we all live in one world.
Our Special Section on Scandinavia is introduced by an interview of Johan Løvald, Norway's Ambassador to the United Nations. His comments on multilateralism in the international arena and the pressing need for greater participation in the discussion of globalization have their origin in his country's past as a trading nation.Norway's - and Scandinavia's - economy is based upon interacting with others.On its own, Scandinavia is a small market, and as a consequence international shipping and trade have been crucial to the peace and prosperity of the region. That fact has informed Scandinavia's perception of the world for centuries. If globalization is irreversible at this point, Ambassador Løvald says, we nevertheless need to achieve a worldwide meeting of the minds on its meaning for those who have not shared, to date, in its benefits.
All of our articles and interviews on diversity this month stress diversity as a resource.Inclusion, among many other things, is a way of enhancing expertise; it enables a law firm or a legal department to look at, and address, issues in ways that may not have been available in the past. It is no surprise that this is a theme discussed with considerable knowledge by Ingar Skaug, the head of the Norwegian corporation Wilh. Wilhelmsen, the largest shipping enterprise in the world.With operations in some 60 countries and more than 17,000 employees across the enterprise - of whom a mere 850 are Norwegian - this is an organization of astonishing diversity. It has developed a system of strong corporate values to utilize its diverse workforce. Em-powerment, mutual respect, a collaborative work ethic and cross-cultural teams as a primary vehicle to accomplish the work of the organization are goals that are actively pursued, and not merely platitudes to be invoked and forgotten.
As one of our interviewees this month makes abundantly clear, diversity is the right thing to do.He goes on to point out that it also makes good business sense. It is an intriguing proposition: that diversity enables a law firm or a legal department, or, indeed, any organization comprised of people from different backgrounds, to analyze and deal with the issues before it in new and different ways. Diversity simply taps into a multitude of potential responses to those issues. Achieving the goals of diversity enables a diverse group of people to work together in a collegial spirit and to bring to the resolution of the problems they faceall of the varied resources that people who come from different backgrounds possess. It is both means and ends. Diversity in a law firm's ranks, for example, enables the firm to operate in a diverse marketplace, on behalf of diverse clients and on increasingly complex issues. It makes for a better work product. Or, in Ambassador Løvald's words, achieving a common meeting ground in which diverse nations with seemingly different interests can work together and in a spirit of good will makes it at least possible to contemplate the resolution of the global issues before all of us.
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UPDATE at 5:17 a.m. PST: Comments added from the company's conference call.
There was good news and bad news in Sprint Nextel's fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday. But mostly it was bad.
First, the good news: Sprint narrowed its losses considerably, compared with a year earlier. For the fourth quarter, Sprint lost $1.62 billion, or 57 cents a share. This is certainly better than the $29.45 billion, or a whopping $10.36 a share, it lost during the fourth quarter of 2007. The previous year's losses were due to some large write-downs the company was forced to take related to its merger with Nextel. This time around, Sprint only had about $1 billion in write-downs.
Now for the bad news: Sprint is still losing customers. And as a result, its quarterly revenue declined about 14 percent to $8.43 billion.
Sprint, the third-largest wireless operator in the U.S., said it lost about 1.3 million subscribers during the fourth quarter. It now has about 49.3 million subscribers. The majority of the losses came from the highly coveted contract-customers, of which Sprint lost about 1.1 million.
Sprint's continued customer loss comes as bigger rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless add customers. AT&T reported last month that it added 2.1 million subscribers during the fourth quarter, while Verizon Wireless added 1.4 million.
It should come as little surprise that Sprint's churn rate, or the rate at which customers ditch its service, was up slightly to 2.16 percent. The previous quarter it had been about 2.15 percent, much higher than its competitors.
Sprint has steadily been losing customers for the past several quarters as many former customers complain of poor customer service. Dan Hesse, who took over as CEO in 2007, has made big efforts to improve the company's image. He has even appeared in several of the company's TV commercials and in marketing materials. But the efforts seem to be making little difference as the company continues to shed subscribers.
Hesse said during the company's conference call with analysts and investors that the company's messages will take time to resonate with customers.
"Subscriber losses and revenue declines are still unacceptably high," he said. "But it takes time for perceptions about our customer care and financial stability to catch up to the reality."
And with the U.S. recession, there is even more pressure on Sprint to maintain its current customers and grow its base. The company's strategy right now seems to be to compete on value. Last year, it started offering a $99 Simply Everything plan that includes national calling, unlimited SMS/MMS, data, text, e-mail, and Web surfing. This week, it announced it is adding laptop 3G data service to the plan for an extra $50 a month.
The company's prepaid brand, Boost Mobile, has also been trying to win over customers who are looking to lower their cell phone bills. It recently started offering a $50 a month flat rate plan.
While AT&T and Verizon Wireless appear to be weathering the economic storm rather well, Sprint and T-Mobile USA, are struggling to win new customers and keep old ones from leaving.
Sprint has already said it will cut about 8,000 jobs. But the CEO has said the company will not lose workers who deal directly with customers since he is determined to improve the company's customer service.
Overall, Hesse said he is pleased with the company's progress as he and his team work toward improving the company's financial fundamentals and subscriber losses. He added that the economic downturn hasn't made his job of turning around Sprint any easier, but said the company is in a good position to weather the storm.
"In 2009, we expect both both post-paid and total subscriber losses to improve," he said. "And we will continue to generate free cash flow. I still believe the wireless industry is relatively well positioned in this weak economy." | <urn:uuid:c59072bd-e5c7-4319-8e17-709007ffe24a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10167421-94.html | 2013-05-22T17:39:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979071 | 835 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Christopher Derek Bruno wants you to think about relationships. His paintings force you to consider at least two. The first is a physical one, and it’s between the viewer and the painting. He builds three-dimensional shapes to manipulate the image the viewer sees depending on where they are standing in relation to the painting in a gallery. He considers the slow walk we all do at shows, and allows the three-dimensional structures to manipulate his painted forms as we leave a work.
The second relationship is between the enamel colors he paints onto those three-dimensional forms. He uses very transparent colors, and layers geometric shapes to achieve a similar effect to overprinting, most commonly seen in silkscreen printed work. We think his work is meant to be seen in motion [via booooom].
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Penguin UK has published a series of paperbacks related to various stops on the venerable Tube. While we're considering taking home a stack on our next trip to the Big Smoke, there's one in particular that caught our eye right away. Fantastic Man's Buttoned-Up devles into the question of why East London men tend to button their shirts all the way up. It features Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys and other notorious buttoners from the East End pondering the question.
Buttoned-Up is available via Penguin in the UK.
YOY, the Tokyo based design firm, unveiled its latest creation at the 2013 Milan Design Festival: canvas furniture. Not to be confused with furniture that is simply just made out of canvas, this furniture is actually a piece of canvas art that can be hung. Made from a frame of wood and aluminum with an elastic fabric stretched across it, each of the pieces appear to be two-dimensional from a distance. Come closer and you’ll discover that the chairs are actually functional, somewhat three-dimensional objects that can be sat on—although we wouldn't quite describe them as furniture.
The negative space in Anna Peaker's record covers, tape packages, and posters has a more active role than expected. For her Hookworms single cover for "Too Pure" (top of the post), the isolation of each image makes the collection of objects look more like a series of important symbols instead of a narrative image. Her Risograph posters show a similar restraint, while incorporating elements of collage.
As a way to welcome visitors to his much larger thesis project examining the world of elaborately decorated Indian truck art, Shantanu Suman created a series of music boxes that recreate the variety of musical horns truck drivers use in India.
The unique horns aren't just a vanity addition to vehicles. In India, nearly every truck bears a form of the message "Horn Please" to ask other drivers to extend a courtesy honk before passing. After realizing the custom led to hundreds of trucks beeping at once, drivers began to modulate horns to sound more pleasing when heard together. The result is a kind of random mobile sound installation composed of many horns of different tones.
To create the music box introduction to his project, Suman first laser cut the typography and ornamentation, then painted each box by hand. [via UnderConsideration]
Check out more of Suman's "Project Horn Please" online. Watch the trailer for his documentary of the same name and a clip of the horns in action below. | <urn:uuid:f132068b-9f7b-4bfd-ac21-b4a899122cb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nothingmajor.com/journal/50-christopher-derek-bruno/ | 2013-05-22T17:39:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952548 | 694 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
facing weapons, explosives and intimidation-related charges in connection with the G20 summit had hoped to turn the surveillance tables on summit security forces, monitor police chatter and broadcast it on Twitter, says a man involved with the University of Toronto’s Surveillance Club.
Byron Sonne showed up at a Surveillance Club meeting on May 5, said Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto broadcaster and Internet activist. The academic group had gathered in a basement at Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue to discuss G20 surveillance. Mr. Sonne, who is not a member but heard about the meeting through HackLab TO, came to give a presentation, Mr. Hirsh said.But wait, it gets nuttier. It seems Sonne belonged to
HackLabTO [which] calls itself “Toronto’s hacker collective” and says it is “inspired by the philosophies of the global hackerspaces movement.”Hey, aren't we all? And now for my favorite part of the story:
Mr. Sonne’s LinkedIn profile says he specializes in computer and network security. In addition, he is a licenced private investigator and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
He used to work as a senior systems specialist at Webkinz...You mean the "hacktivist" facing weapons charges used to work for a company that makes cuddly stuffed critters?
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This website is one guy’s effort to achieve immortality through means other than not dying. Consequently, it is a monument to narcissism, or at least a pretty good example of it. If one can’t be an inspiring leader, he or she might as well serve as a cautionary tale.
In my case, I figure persistence will pay off one of these days. How can the world not soon notice that I am my generation’s Fibber McGee? | <urn:uuid:de14224b-06d6-4c84-af56-00d19d06ff3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scottpearce.com/about/ | 2013-05-22T17:33:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962554 | 98 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Multi-rater feedback expands beyond the limited viewpoints of a supervisor telling an employee that she’s excelling, failing, or somewhere in between. It allows for a wider spectrum of perspectives and provides a clearer, more in-depth picture of an employee’s performance. And the execution of the review is key to making it effective.
The multi-rater feedback process serves as a perfect companion to your performance review system. Performance reviews give you a look backward at what employees have accomplished during the past year. Multi-rater feedback will give you a look forward toward what they can improve on to be even more productive in the year ahead | <urn:uuid:95ea21e0-6776-484e-b93e-73ab52cbe458> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.blr.com/getting-the-most-out-of-employee-reviews | 2013-05-22T17:19:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926647 | 132 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Boston Terrier Windchime
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AGES 2 ½ TO 4 – Children’s Group Ski Lessons
Cubs on Skis at Snowmass and Buttermilk is for children who may or may not be potty trained and who are not ready to spend most of the day outside. This safe, fun and nurturing program is staffed with experienced professionals specializing in early childhood education as well as ski instruction. Indoors or outdoors, kids will love all the new, stimulating experiences. Cubs on Skis have their own private learning area right outside of the Treehouse at Snowmass or at the Panda House at Buttermilk. When indoors, your child will enjoy age-specific rooms with unique attributes with low child-to-Pro ratio.
Snowmass Bears and Buttermilk Pandas is the program for children ages 3 and 4 who are and ready to spend most of their day outside! Our specially trained pros love working with younger, potty trained kids while using games and play to encourage learning including the Skier Responsibility Code. In Snowmass the kids are in the Bear program, and at Buttermilk they are in the Panda program. Bears & Pandas are often seen cruising the slopes!
- Full day 9:30 m - 3:00pm
- Morning Half day 9:30am – 12:30 pm
Drop your child off ready to go no later than 9:15am and please plan on arriving early on the FIRST day to fill out required paperwork.
Cost: Full day: $199 Full day with 7-day advance purchase: $189 Morning half day :$169
Includes: childcare, lesson, lift, and equipment, lunch and snacks
Reservations are required. Reservations cancelled within 48 hrs. of program start date will be charged the full amount of that day’s childcare. To cancel when in resort, please call 970-923-0563 for Snowmass or 970-920-0935 for Buttermilk.
Rentals: Equipment can be picked up at the Treehouse Kids’ Adventure Center in Snowmass Base Village or at the Panda House located at the base of Buttermilk.
- Snowmass Ages 2 ½ - 4 years and not potty trained check in at the Treehouse Kids’ Adventure Center on level 1 (street level) for the Cubs on Skis Program. 3-4 years old and potty trained check in inside the Treehouse Kids’ Adventure Center on level 2 for the Bears Program.
- Buttermilk Ages 2 ½ - 4 years and not potty trained check in at the Panda House for the Cubs on Skis Program. 3-4 years old and potty trained check in at the Panda House for the Panda Program.
What to bring: Please label all items. We are not responsible for lost or stolen items.
- Waterproof coat, snow pants, boots, hat, mittens, goggles or sunglasses
- Change of clothes (extra underwear, pull-ups, or diapers)
- Sunscreen and lip protection
Special Concerns: Please note that young children occasionally experience separation problems. Here are some suggestions to help your child adjust to the experience.
- Avoid letting this be your child’s first experience away from you.
- It is helpful if the child has learned to trust other adults (babysitters or caregivers)
- Talk to your child about how much fun he or she will have in the program before your arrival.
- Tell your child where you will be and when you will return.
- If possible, come for a short visit the day before your reservation.
- Our goal is for your child to have a wonderful experience! If your child has a difficult time adjusting, you will be contacted so together we can decide what is best for your child.
Health: Your child’s health is important to us. Please notify us of any health problems or medication requirements. We reserve the right to refuse any child due to illness to ensure the health of the other children.
Medication: If medication is to be administered, parents must sign a medical release instructing us how and when the medication is got be given to the child. All medication must be in the original container with the written instructions from the physician clearly marked. We are not allowed to dispense over the counter medicine without a written physician order.
Extended childcare is available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; reservations must be made directly with the program at the desired mountain. Please call 970-923-0563 for Snowmass or 970-920-0935 for Buttermilk.
Also, check out our Kids' Safety section. Remember, an important part of enjoying your experience on the mountain is KNOWING THE CODE and skiing and riding with care!
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|1 pounds||White chocolate; coarsely chopped|
|2 tablespoons||Unsalted butter at room temperature|
|⅔ cup||Heavy cream|
From: Karen.Mintzias@... (Karen Mintzias) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 22:09:38 -0800 In a double boiler or microwave oven, melt the chocolate with the butter until smooth. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
In a double boiler or large bowl over simmering water, beat together the egg yolks and the sugar with an electric hand mixer until thickened, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and continue to beat until cooled and very thick and pale, about 5 minutes.
Beat the cream until stiff. Add the egg yolk mixture to the chocolate and stir until blended. Fold in the whipped cream until lightened and smooth.
Spoon the mousse into stemmed glasses and chill until firm before serving.
Recipe by Diana Sturgis in "Great Desserts". ISBN: 0-916103-04-8 Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
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Abusive Student Sections Drawing Attention from Outside the Arena
Two conference rivals. A national TV audience. The intriguing subplot of a coveted recruit reneging on his commitment to one school to play for the other. The Feb. 7 men's basketball game between the University of Illinois and the visiting Indiana Hoosiers — star freshman guard Eric Gordon among them — had it all. But it proved to be a volatile mix. Thirty minutes prior to tip-off, Illinois students chanted "F--- you, Gordon!" Then, late in the game (which Indiana won in double overtime), one of the Illini faithful hit Gordon's mother in the head with a cup of ice, despite the fact that a private security detail had accompanied the Gordon family to the game.
Kent Brown, Illinois' assistant athletics director for public relations, isn't kidding when he calls Assembly Hall — site of 60 consecutive sellouts — one of the toughest places to play in the country. "We're very proud of the enthusiastic support that our crowds have given us," Brown says. "Are we proud that somebody threw ice or chanted obscenities? Absolutely not. But we do feel that was more of an anomaly than a common occurrence."
Such behavior among student cheering sections became all too common to college athletics this academic year. UCLA's Kevin Love endured pre-game death threats and homophobic chants as he took the floor for a Jan. 23 basketball game at Oregon, where his father still ranks sixth on the Ducks' all-time scoring list. The elder Love and other family members weathered obscenity-laced taunts, gestures and signage throughout the game (a UCLA victory). After the University of Memphis snatched its 25th straight victory of the season Feb. 16 at upset-minded Alabama-Birmingham, UAB students rained cups, water bottles and pompons onto Tigers players as they left the court. At Baylor University, one game was interrupted and another prematurely ended with 1.8 seconds left after fans threw soda bottles and other debris onto the home court, prompting athletic director Ian McCaw to make an online plea to fans — particularly BU students — to "represent the athletics program and university in a first-class manner at all times."
But the madness wasn't limited to basketball. During a Sept. 7 football game against visiting Navy, Rutgers students dropped verbal F-bombs on Midshipmen on the field and those in uniform in the stands. "This is how you treat people who may die for this country?" Annapolis graduate Bill Squires, who attended the game, asked Newark Star-Ledger columnist and Rutgers grad Mark Dilonno, himself a Navy veteran. "It was the most classless thing I've seen."
Over the past five-plus years, the NCAA has made repeated attempts to get a handle on a phenomenon that appears increasingly out of control. The association's Sportsmanship and Fan Behavior Summit in February 2003 was followed in 2006 by separate sportsmanship and crowd-control gatherings. NCAA president Myles Brand has addressed the issue in state-of-the-association speeches and podcasts. In March, the association's Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct, which offers institutions and conference offices an online toolkit for developing on-campus sportsmanship initiatives, surveyed fans via phone in an attempt to better focus its efforts. "What rights do fans have once they purchase that ticket? They can cheer and boo, but what is over the top? That's the question that we're trying to address," says NCAA vice president for education services Robert Vowels.
"Fans are pushing the envelope as far as they can, and they'll keep pushing until someone says, 'Okay, that's too far,' " says Murray State University professor Daniel Wann, a fan behavior expert who has presented at NCAA meetings. "The reality is the athletic departments want wins, and the home field advantage is a function of the fans. Unfortunately, I think schools sometimes look the other way more than they should."
Today's student sections are seen as bankable assets, complete with marketable nicknames. At Oregon, students form the Pit Crew. At Illinois, they're the Orange Krush, a members-only group with its own preferred-seating plan and community-outreach mission (see "Charity Stripes," May 2005, p. 24). Brown contends that the Krush at large wasn't the problem against Indiana. "We have a close relationship with the Orange Krush, and we made it clear to them before that game that we would not tolerate obscenities, we would not tolerate actions that were detrimental, and that if something happened they would lose their Orange Krush member privileges," he says. "It's our understanding that the obscenities came from the students who were not Orange Krush members. We're certainly not proud of that either, but what we were most disappointed in was that our own fans didn't point out who threw ice at the Indiana section."
Wann is a proponent of video technology as an identification tool and deterrent. "It doesn't take that many cameras to film close enough to see who did what," he says. "If a fan cares enough about an event to throw something, then he or she probably is a repeat fan. That person is going to be coming back for the next game, and then you just don't let him or her in. You hope eventually the word gets out that if you do that you're going to get caught."
Targeting individuals with taunts is nothing new; it's just that modern technology has made the practice a lot easier. "With the Internet, it seems like you can dig up whatever you want. And if you can find out about it, people evidently are willing to chant about it," Wann says. "Sometimes it's cute and inventive, and sometimes it's vulgar and abusive."
To its credit, the Big Ten Conference has had in place since 2003 a policy that explicitly discourages student sections from singling out opposing players with inappropriate chants. Under the policy's penalty structure, student-sponsored sections cited with a third offense can be subjected to termination at the discretion of the conference commissioner.
"There's so much more access to information about people, and it does become personal," says Vowels, a former commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. "It's just a different world out there."
Some coaches whose players have been on the receiving end of such abuse have voiced indifference. University of Southern California men's basketball coach Tim Floyd had this to say after one of his players was hit in the foot by a water bottle tossed from the Arizona student section as time ran out on a 12-point Trojan win Feb. 28: "We are not upset about it or bothered by it. This is one of the great environments in basketball." And here's Memphis coach John Calipari, on UAB fans' treatment of his players: "Students do that. They were into it. You think they're going to kiss you on the lips?"
For his part, Oregon coach Ernie Kent confronted his team's fans two days after the UCLA game, as the Ducks prepared to tip off against USC. "He took the microphone and addressed the crowd, reiterating that we can have an effective home court advantage without being derogatory," says Dave Williford, Oregon's assistant athletic director for media services. That little bit of behavior coaching went a long way. "All the games after that were exemplary," Williford adds. "There was not a problem at all."
"You have to buy in as an athletic department that you're not going to sell your soul for the home court advantage, that you're not going to go to any length — including the point at which the other team's players, fans and family members fear for their safety — to gain that," says Wann, who admits he won't take his sons to certain Murray State men's basketball games. "And this is the Ohio Valley Conference. This isn't the ACC."
While the NCAA remains committed to fostering greater respect among students for the college game and the competitive environment, Vowels still expects an enduring battle against bad behavior. "Is it going to go away completely? I doubt it," he says. "But can we manage it better? Yes."
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Include Your Child in Holiday Preparations
Jennifer James of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has a beautifully illustrated holiday cookbook. She sits down with her girls, Annlyel, six, and Aila, three, and they pick out what they want to eat for Christmas dinner—chosen solely on how good the food looks in the photos. "I do this early so the girls can look forward to it as Christmas nears," Jennifer says. She also bought Christmas decorated recipe cards so that her older daughter could copy the recipes out of the cookbook. "She loves to remind me, often, what we are having for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Christmas by reading from the cards," laughs Jennifer.
Build Holiday Fun into Your Normal Routine
Many parents spend at least some time reading to their children every day. Holiday time is a wonderful occasion for adding a little flair to this tradition that will bring even greater meaning to the time you already share together. Lisa Kaeser of Garrett Park, Maryland, has a special shelf on her bookcase reserved just for holiday books. "I don't get them out until a few weeks before the holidays, and the kids love it every year," Lisa explains. Some of the books were given to her by her own mom, which makes them even more special to Lisa and her children.
Ask Your Family What's Important to Them
One of the mistakes people frequently make is assuming that the way they spend their time is appreciated by others. One woman I know used to think that her family appreciated the way she wrapped gifts. She would spend hours wrapping presents so that the patterns matched up perfectly at the seams and she'd adorn them with beautiful handmade bows. After one particularly stressful holiday, she asked her family about the gift wrapping. She found out that not only did they not care how their gifts were wrapped, but they actually resented the time she spent doing it. | <urn:uuid:38525e7d-05c3-4d4c-bdfe-c9ed10b7ab75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.babyzone.com/showers-and-parties/holidays/christmas-hanukkah-kwanzaa/manage-holiday-madness_73468-page-2 | 2013-05-22T17:15:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984015 | 390 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Recently, I looked at the relative value of the different positions in the NFL (http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2012/5/9/3010133/relative-values-to-improvement). I updated that post by dividing the positions further to 3-4 defensive positions, 4-3 defensive positions, and top positional players where more than one player per position generally plays. In other words, I separated how much the first receiver was paid in comparison to the second highest paid receiver per team (e.g., highest paid safety v second highest paid safety, highest paid guard v second highest paid guard, and so forth).
Using the new table (which I will publish in the future), I analyzed the top players in the NFC East 25 years of age and younger from a post from One Cool Customer. The relative value of the player in regards to their position is in the appropriately labeled column.
|Rank||Player||POS||Relative Value||Player||POS||Relative Value||Player||POS||Relative Value||Player||POS||Relative Value|
|1||Tyron Smith||LT||4.82%||LeSean McCoy||RB||3.85%||Jason Pierre-Paul||DE||6.20%||Robert Griffin III||QB||7.24%|
|2||Dez Bryant||WR||5.35%||Jeremy Maclin||WR||5.35%||Hakeem Nicks||WR||5.35%||Ryan Kerrigan||OLB||4.56%|
|3||DeMarco Murray||RB||3.85%||Jason Kelce||OC||1.93%||Linval Joseph||DT||3.67%||Trent Williams||LT||4.82%|
|4||Morris Claiborne||CB||4.62%||Nate Allen||S||3.97%||Prince Amukamara||CB||4.62%||Roy Helu||RB||3.85%|
|5||Bruce Carter||LB||4.67%||Brian Rolle||LB||2.65%||David Wilson||RB||3.85%||Leonard Hankerson||WR||5.35%|
|6||Tyrone Crawford||DE||3.65%||Brandon Graham||DE||2.06%||Jacquian Williams||LB||2.65%||Perry Riley||LB||2.65%|
|7||Sean Lissemore||DE||0.93%||Kurt Coleman||S||1.76%||Reuben Randle||WR||2.58%||Jarvis Jenkins||DE||3.65%|
|8||Victor Butler||OLB||1.50%||Fletcher Cox||DT||3.67%||Henry Hynoski||FB||1.03%||Josh LeRibeus||OG||3.40%|
|9||Josh Brent||NT||3.62%||Mychal Kendricks||LB||1.78%||Marvin Austin||DT||1.44%||Keenan Robinson||LB||1.78%|
|10||Phil Costa||OC||1.93%||Vinny Curry||DE||2.06%||Mark Herzlich||LB||1.78%||DeJon Gomes||S||3.97%|
If the selected players develop as expected with their respective teams, the Redskins have improved their team the most over the last few years. The two things working against the Redskins, however, is that their team is significantly worse than the other three teams in the NFC East, and Washington will not be able to make noticeable improvements though free agency (due to a $36 million cap hit from Mara), and the loss of their first round draft choice in 2013 (used to trade up for Robert Griffin III).
Eliminating rookies and players such as Austin (NYG) and Jenkins (WAS) that did not play NFL football last season, the Cowboys relative value drops to 26.66% for the positions boasting talented players that are not older than 25. That number, however, leads the NFC East, as the Giants remain behind the Cowboys with a relative value score of 25.31% and Washington's score drops to 25.20%. Philadelphia remains in the cellar with a relative value score of 21.57%.
As a reminder, the relative value in regards to the positions on an NFL football team is an average of the amount paid to the top 5 players per position. Quarterback has the highest relative value, with the top 4-3 defensive end having the second highest value as determined through the owners and General Managers in the NFL. The position with the least relative value is the long snapper.
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Unique Morning Workout
Sara D. Roosevelt Park during the morning rush is an interesting scene. Stay long enough and you will eventually encounter a haphazard collection of sleeping bench beggars, laborers eating breakfast (and peeing in the bushes), and self-absorbed pedestrian commuters. Stay even longer, and you will witness a trio of sword-wielding Chinese men in the sunken court on Broome Street, between Forsyth and Chrystie. It is undoubtedly a unique morning workout. As such, I was quite intrigued by their graceful movement to the accompanying traditional music. Something like this would definitely not fly up in Midtown.
I asked a woman sitting nearby what was happening. In very broken English, she explained that the troupe was practicing a Kung Fu ritual. She also mentioned that the aging man in the white t-shirt and blue warm-up pants was the teacher. I thanked her, and then tried asking other residents circling the pit for more information; most could not understand me. | <urn:uuid:2ec4d296-52b4-46b6-b35e-8945fe133bf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.boweryboogie.com/2008/08/unique-morning-workout/ | 2013-05-22T17:19:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971467 | 206 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The Glory of Living
When all the elements
come together--a powerful play; sensitive, theatrically savvy direction; strong acting all
the way down to the small roles; sets that fulfill perfectly their role of providing a
believable world for the play; and costumes and lights that support that world--theatre
going can be an absolute joy. All these elements do indeed come together in Rebecca
Gilman's The Glory of Living, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring
Anna Paquin, the Academy Award winning child actor of 1993 (The Piano), and Jeffrey Donovan.
The play tells the chilling, eerily moving story of a lost waif
girl-woman and her serial-killer boyfriend, then husband, and their odyssey of rape and
murder. They pick up young girls alongside the American strip-mall road, bored young
girls, girls who are prime prey for manipulative predators like Lisa and Clint. They
sweet-talk them, give them a ride down the road, treat them to a soda and a bag of chips,
and a little more sweet talk before the handcuffs, the rape, and the bullet to the brain
out in the woods.
Gilman shocks the audience because much of the sweet-talking, much of
the manipulating, and all of the actual killing is performed by Lisa. Clint owns her,
controls her, and he does this mostly by parceling out what passes for love in their bleak
two-person universe much as he parcels out one potato chip at a time from the bag.
Jeffrey Donovan plays Clint, a murderously mercurial character,
physically dangerous, with a wheedling, cajoling little-boy charm that turns in a flash to
violent sexuality. Watching Donovan as Clint gives a terrifying glimpse into how Charles
Manson must have operated. It is Anna Paquin as Lisa who provides the fascinating,
beautifully realized character study of Lisa, at one moment the little-girl-lost, then
morphing into a stone cold killer in the name of her dark version of love. Her performance
is a breathtaking demonstration of the actor's craft with no blunders, no false steps.
Paquin seems to have all the potential to grow into the great roles. Is there a Hedda in
her future? A Lady Macbeth? A Medea?
If the play itself has a flaw, it is that Clint, with the exception of
one short scene, drops out of sight in Act II. But another character-David Aaron Baker as
Lisa's court-appointed attorney, takes over in trying to think for Lisa, to mold her to
his version of reality. Baker is excellent, capturing the second-string, harried attorney
in a pitch-perfect performance. In a horrifying-to-watch scene with her attorney, Lisa
justifies the murders-these were just throw-away girls; something terrible was bound to
happen to them, if not at the hands of Lisa and Clint, then by the assorted abusers in
their own families. She considers herself one of them, and accepts her fate.
The ensemble--three of the actors play multiple roles--has been
perfectly cast by director Hoffman, and he has helped them prove Stanislavsky's dictum
that there are no small roles, only small actors. None of these performers are small
The MCC Theater has a stage that seems to have little wing space. Set
designer Michelle Malavet has adapted perfectly to the limitations of the theater and the
multi-set requirements of the play. Her sets, mostly downscale digs and scruffy motel
rooms, look desperately lived in, and the scene shifts are brief and smooth. It is a
compliment to the lighting by James Vermeulen and the costumes by Mimi O'Donnell to say
that neither stands out; they support the play. Original music by David Van Tieghem is
haunting and often emotionally jarring, just as it should be.
Actors sometimes speak of a character's subtext, the unspoken thoughts
behind the words and actions. But audiences have subtexts too, and too often it is
"When will this thing be over? Why didn't the playwright cut half an hour?" In The
Glory of Living, Gilman, Seymour, Paquin, Donovan, Baker and the others give the
audience a rare gift: here the subtext is "I wish this could go on for another
New York, December 2, 2001
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MANAGERS routinely try to lead us up the garden path at post-match press conferences but it doesn't wash.
IF the Leveson Inquiry is going to remind the Press about its manners and practices then maybe it’s time the sports desk got the chance to come back at his lordship with an equaliser.
And that concerns the way in which we are routinely led up the garden path by managers who believe we’re there to take dictation and have no right to exercise the freedom to interpret their words as we see fit.
That is to say, separating fact from fiction for the benefit of a public who only want an accurate account of what’s going on.
For instance, it will be a pleasure to be at Easter Road today to witness what will surely be a characteristically volcanic Scottish Cup tie between Hibs and Hearts.
Last season’s final was an embarrassment for Hibs that was compounded by the fact Pat Fenlon was sent to the stand for making a rude gesture towards the Hearts fans.
The Easter Road boss then attempted to pass the offending incident off as some sort of instruction to his own players when he was asked about it by the press afterwards.
This is what’s known as being economical with the truth – or attempting to deceive you into believing that black is really white.
Or, to put it even more plainly, this was a deliberate ploy to mislead the press while assuming that they were as daft as the manager clearly thought they were.
Which leads us to Neil Lennon. Shellsuit Bob and one or two hyperactive pals jumped out of their seats and had a go at Celtic’s manager during the loss to Inverness last week.
Dropping points at home has been a defining characteristic of Lennon’s team this season and that charity continued in the Scottish Cup yesterday when they were held to a shock draw by Arbroath.
None of that would have been considered sufficient grounds for the manager deciding to fall on his sword. But Lennon felt compelled to say that if the hecklers represented the will of the people who support Celtic then he would do the “honourable” thing and quit.
Who’s kidding who? This is a manager who doesn’t have supporters. He has disciples. There was as much chance of rounding up a posse to run him out of town as there was of Georgios Samaras getting a shave and haircut.
They hold candlelight vigils for Lennon in the car park outside the ground for heaven’s sake. There were hardly likely to be calls for the manager’s dismissal because Caley Thistle won at Celtic Park for the first time ever in a league match.
That didn’t happen when Kilmarnock won there for the first time in 57 years. And it never will happen to someone who was affectionately referred to as “Lenny” by chairman Ian Bankier at the last AGM.
If the head of the board is in awe of you there’s not much chance of the manager having to go while his team sits at the top of the league. So why say you might?
Supposing, just supposing, a gaffer was one game away from reaching the Champions League last 16. And supposing he had registered on football’s version of the Richter Scale by beating the diamond-encrusted Barcelona?
What if, in the midst of this euphoria, some ungrateful supporter got to his feet to stage a pitifully low-key demonstration of anger?
If the manager in question aired his views on that subject in public it would cause a ripple effect beyond the borders of the country his team plays in, would it not?
It might even alert chairmen of other clubs that one day you could be tempted away. After all, nothing lasts for ever and there’s nothing like a place in the latter stages of the Champions League for heightening your profile.
That could be entirely speculative, of course. Then again, Hibs’ manager may have been putting his left arm underneath his right arm in order to send a tactical signal that would rearrange his team at Hampden.
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On May 1st, the registration for the 12th Würzburger Improtheaterfestival will start! The festival will take place from the 24th till the 27th of October 2013 and is going to offer seven workshops this year!
We will announce our festival-workshops here on the 1st of May and by that time you can also find the application form online. After the great amount of applications within the last years, we decided to change our registration process. This year you'll have two weeks till the 15th of May to fill out the registration form for the workshops. On the 15th we will hold a lottery and draw who gets a workshop spot! So, chances for everyone who has registered by that time!
We have great international guests coming with a very nice variety of workshops, we already received a number of very interesting show submissions... and yes, we can't wait to get this started!!!
... will take place from the 17th till the 27th of October 2013!
We are happy to announce that we will bring the ITI-Conference on Theatresports™ and Improvisation to Europe! It will take place from the 17th till the 24th of October 2013 in Würzburg! There will be workshops, panels, discussions, shows and many other things. We are planning right now how the conference will look like, so if you have any wishes what should be covered in the program, please let us know!
When the Conference will end on the 24th of October, our 12th International Improvisation Festival will start right away. Dealing with the huge amount of registrations and some technical problems that have shown up during the last years, this year we will let a lottery decide about who will get a spot in one of our workshops at the festival. We are curious if this will take away a lot of stress and actually leave everyone more satisfied... The festival will take place from the 24th till the 27th of October 2013.
The ITI-Conference on Theatresports™ and Improvisation and the 12th International Improvisation Festival together will form "The International Würzburg Improvisation Summit 2013". We are hoping that this event of 10 days of improvisation will create a good opportunity for even more international guests to come. More information on the program, registration process and more can soon be found here!
Ab sofort gibt es auch keine Karten mehr für die Auftakt-Show des Festivals am Dienstag, dem 23.10.2012 im Cairo! Damit ist der Theatersport™-Wettkampf um den Goldenen Kaktus komplett ausverkauft!
Auch für "Place the Person" am Freitag sind leider keine Karten mehr erhältlich. Jetzt geht es um die Wurst... Restkarten über www.improtheaterfestival.de.
The first festival-shows are sold out! Sorry folks, but there are no more tickets for the Festival-Gala "Maestro"(on Thursday), for the children-show "Ra-Bu-Ki", for the "4TRACK"-show, for "Shawn and Dennis learn German", for "Ein Leben in Schwarz-Weiß" (all on Friday night) and for "The Golden Cactus" (on Sunday night) left. But you can still buy tickets for all the other shows... at least now... so get the tickets for all the shows you want to see before it will be too late...
Our Ticket-Sale has started... and some shows are already selling very fast, so get your tickets fast here!
Unser Vorverkauf hat begonnen und da sich einige Shows bereits großer Nachfrage erfreuen, ist es empfehenswert, sich jetzt schon hier Karten zum günstigen Vorverkaufspreis zu sichern.
Unfortunately Taylor White won't be able to attent this year's festival. His workshop "The World is Your Playground" will be taught instead by the the wonderful Jacob Banigan from Canada, now living in Austria! We are super-excited about such a wonderful "replacement"!
Das Festival war in diesem Jahr im Minutentakt ausgebucht. Daher haben wir uns entschieden, im nächsten Jahr unser Anmeldesystem nicht mehr über den Faktor Zeit zu steuern, sondern wahrscheinlich ein komplettes Verlosungs-System einzuführen.
All festival workshops have been fully booked within minutes. That's why we decided to change our registration process for next year and not have time being the determinant factor anymore but probably set up a big lottery for all the workshop spots.
Für alle, die keinen Platz ergattern konnten: Wir würden uns natürlich freuen, wenn ihr trotzdem Lust habt, beim Festival vorbei zu schauen und können aktuell auch noch über einige Übernachtungsplätze in der Jugendherberge verfügen. Auch gibt es eine Warteliste!
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:53:45PM -0400, David Gray wrote:
I've (sort of) made it work by doing:
# strip BOM and trailing nulls and carriage returns
s/^..// if $. == 1 and s/\0//g;
Are you working with UTF-16, or Microsoftish UTF8+BOM? I'm not
aware that 5.6.1 supports either of them.
Anyway, according to 5.6.1's perlunicode.pod:
The existing regular expression compiler does not pro-
duce polymorphic opcodes. This means that the deter-
mination on whether to match Unicode characters is
made when the pattern is compiled, based on whether
the pattern contains Unicode characters, and not when
the matching happens at run time. This needs to be
changed to adaptively match Unicode if the string to
be matched is Unicode.
So maybe you need to arbitarily insert unicode characters in your
regex, or upgrade to 5.8.
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Green Standard Scoring Tool Now Available for Multifamily Buildings
The National Green Building Standard scoring tool for new multifamily buildings is now available and online at www.nahbgreen.org, the home of NAHBGreen, the NAHB National Green Building Program.
The multifamily tool is the second part of the standard to be made available for scoring projects online. The single-family standard tool was launched on Feb. 3. Tools for remodelers and developers will go online in the coming weeks.
The NAHB Research Center, the certifying body for the National Green Building Standard as a rating system of NAHBGreen, has set a fee of $200 for a green multifamily building plus an additional $20 per unit in the building. Verification services are negotiated between builders and verifiers directly and will vary based on the region and types of services provided.
National Green Building Certification must be used to certify an entire multifamily building; individual units within the building are not eligible on their own unless all the other units in the building are certified.
Builders interested in certification through NAHBGreen can find a Research Center-accredited local verifier on the “Find a Verifier” page at www.nahbgreen.org. The builder can work with the verifier to review the score sheet, schedule a rough-in inspection and then schedule a second inspection when the project is finished so the building can be submitted for national certification.
All accredited verifiers listed at www.nahbgreen.org are being given additional mandatory training so that they are ready to verify a multifamily building to the new standard. This training will be completed by March 31.
For additional information, call the National Green Building Program Hotline at 877-NAHB-GRN, or click here for the "Contact Us" page at www.nahbgreen.org.
‘National Green Building Standard’ Available at BuilderBooks.com
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A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. A preposition also shows the location of a noun, pronoun or phrase in time and space.
A noun is a word used to name a person, place, thing, animal or an abstract idea.
Example sentences for using prepositions:
About: I read something about cars at the library.
In this sentence the word “cars” is a common noun because it refers to a thing. The preposition word “about” introduces both the common noun “cars” and its location word “library”.
Above: The frisbee flew above the trees and got stuck in the branches.
The word “above” is the preposition because it shows the location of the common noun “frisbee”.
Across: Across In June, you might come across baby ducklings, but you are not to disturb them.
In this sentence the word “across” is the preposition because it shows the location of the common noun “lake”. Where is the lake? It is across the bridge.
After: After I brushed my teeth, I put the dog outside and then went to bed.
In this sentence the preposition “after” tells us the timeframe for a series of events that occurred before I went to bed. In this case “I” is a personal pronoun.
Against: The book leant against the shelf.
The word “against” is the preposition because it shows where the book was being leant, in this case the shelf. Here “shelf” is a common noun.
Along: Should we walk along the beach until sunset, or until we can't walk any further?
In this sentence the preposition “along” tells us the location of the common noun “beach”.
Amid: Our tent was set amid the dry rocks of the desert.
The word “amid” is the preposition which shows where the tent was located, in the desert. The common noun here is desert.
At: At the back of the class, Jack could be heard laughing.
In this sentence the preposition “at” shows the location for the proper noun “Jack”.
Among: Jenny said, “don't worry, you are among my friends.”
The word “among” is the preposition which shows the location of the countable noun “friends”.
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Gehlot's 'culture' lesson leaves Congress red-faced
Renu Mittal | January 29, 2009 00:42 IST
There were red faces in the congress party on Wednesday after the huge embarrassment caused by Rajasthan chief Minister Ashok Gehlot who appeared to be in competition with the sangh parivar and its regressive sister organizations on the issue of moral policing, a phenomena so far confined to the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Shiv Sena.
No senior leader in the party wanted to react to Ashok Gehlot's comment that he would stop the culture of girls and boys going hand in hand to pubs and malls. The party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed when asked said that he did not know in what context the statement had been made and he would first have to find out.
Ashok Gehlot who is expected in delhi on Thursday morning to attend the meeting of the Congress working committee slated to begin at 1030 hrs is expected to be asked for a clarification by the AICC general secretary in charge of Rajasthan with sources saying that the party has taken a poor view of his comments.
A senior leader said that on the one hand the party is talking about wooing the youth and projecting younger people and on the other its chief ministers are making statements which show a regressive mind set.
Interestingly, the congress chief minister's statement follows closely on the heels of the Sri Ram Sena and its chief attacking young girls in Bangalore who had just come out of a pub. The Congress has been blaming the BJP government in Karnataka of inaction on the Mangalore pub attack case, but now, a Congress chief minister himself has made a statement that smacks of the same biases that provoked the pub attacks by Sri Ram Sene activists.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said, "We don't want to promote the liquor culture and decisions we take will be to see that the culture of boys and girls going hand-in-hand to pubs and malls for drinking is stopped."
The Rajasthan government announced the cancellation of license of 800 liquor shops in the first round. The Cabinet decided on Wednesday to reduce the number of liquor shops in urban areas in the state to 1,000. After the meeting, a government spokesperson said that number of India-made foreign liquor shops in urban areas will be brought down from present 1,800 to 1,000.
The Rajasthan government also decided to hike the license fee of bars and raise VAT to 20 per cent on country-made-foreign liquor and beer. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Gehlot.
The Cabinet also approved the proposal of spending 1 per cent of the excise revenue on poor people's free medical care and rehabilitation of makers of country made liquor, officials said. However, the new rate of the license fee is yet to be decided.
The Cabinet said that January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi [Images], would be included in the list of dry days in the state. Besides this, the Cabinet has also decided to enforce several other curbs and regulations on present set up of sale of liquor and other excise items.
The Gehlot government, since its installation on December 13, has already ordered closure of 156 shops and reduced timings of the sale of liquor through the existing shops by four hours.
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Check out the neighborhoods. ...
Check out the neighborhoods. St. Paul is flooded with neighborhood parks, trails, resteraunts, colleges, bars, and shops. In the summer take a trip to Como Park or a walk along Summit Ave. Check out the bar scene along Grand Ave, or catch a concert and a pint at O'Garas. In the winter throw on some scates and try your luck on a neighborhood ice rink. Make it a point to see the Winter Carnival parade, but avoid being kissed by a Vulcan. Try your luck at finding the Medalion also. I miss getting an ice cream cone at Nelson's Cheese Factory. I miss the onion rings at Porkies. I also miss the many parks and trails of the city. I also miss not having to deal with traffic like I do in other cities.
Minnesota Korean War Memorial
Dedicated in 1998, designed by Art Norby, Bob Kost, and Dean Olson. The silhouette stands for those killed and missing in action; the standing soldier realizes he can not fill in the "gap" left by those who are gone.
On the grounds of the state capitol.
Minneapolis, where's that?
Local custom number 1, disregard your larger neighbor to the west.
The monument in this picture, by the way, is in honor of the men and women of St. Paul and Ramsey County who lost their lives in World War I.
Historic Fort Snelling
Historic Fort Snelling is an 1820's military outpost around which the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have developed. When the fort was built it was a lonely outpost in the wilderness, on the far northwestern edge of United States Territory. Today it is bordered by freeways full of rushing traffic in the center of of a bustling urban area.
In this restored stone fortress the history of frontier life is celebrated. A full living history program is presented by costumed guides, daily during the summer, and on weekends in May, September and October. The first European settlers to this area came up the Mississippi River by steamboat. Today the fort is reached by modern highways and is approximately half way between Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Outside of the walls of the fort there are other interesting things to see, including a museum, a chapel, monuments and beautiful views of the river, with the Minneapolis skyline in the distance.
Fort Snelling is at the junction of Highways 5 and 55, near the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport.
The Gateway Trail
The Gateway trail is a well paved trail that runs from downtown St. Paul, 18.3 miles to Pine Point county park, which is north of Stillwater. It was created over old railroad tracks, so it is fairly level. For over half of the trail, there is a dirt trail that runs parallel to it for horseback riding. It is well maintained, and is perfect for biking, jogging, walking or rollerblading. Not to mention it has some great leave color in the fall.
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Alicia Keys plans honour for Oprah
The Daily NewsPublished: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Alicia Keys announced Tuesday that her organization Keep a Child Alive will honour Oprah Winfrey at its Black Ball event on Nov. 1. Key says in a statement that the media mogul is "a personal inspiration to me because her philanthropic work truly comes from the heart." Winfrey's humanitarian efforts include building schools in South Africa. Keep a Child Alive was founded in 2003 and assists HIV/ AIDS victims in Africa and India. | <urn:uuid:26d0b19d-d9e9-41a3-ae71-7951f6436007> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/story.html?id=68c05aa5-f5a0-4376-93cf-9708e268f785 | 2013-05-22T17:41:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951433 | 107 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A total of 10,115 votes were cast in the election that was held through online voting, according to The Crimson White student newspaper.
Calderone received 6,404 votes to defeat challengers David Wilson II, a junior from Tuscaloosa majoring in Finance and Shea Stripling, a junior majoring in English from Decatur.
Other executive officers chosen in the vote included:
Executive vice president: Matt Harris of Jacksonville, Fla.
Vice president for academic affairs: Denzel Evans-Bell of Birmingham.
Vice president for external affairs: Jimmy Taylor of Fairhope.
Vice president for financial affairs: Andy Koonce of Knoxville, Tenn.
Vice president for student affairs: Will Pylant of Hampton Cove
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Happy Father’s Day
Senior Catering Manager Rebecca Stern plans to do something very special this Father’s Day. She was excited to share her story and recipe.
So for Father’s Day this year, I’m going to make my Dad the Spanakopita his Mom and Grandmother used to make for him all of the time. My Aunt Robin (my Dad’s sister) sent this to me and I thought I’d share the recipe! This is a traditional Greek Spinach Pie-better than what you would have at a restaurant! My Nana Anita (my Dad’s mom) learned from her mom Nana Peggy (my Great Grandmother who I’m named after – her real name was Rebecca) who learned from her Mom (my Great-Great Grandmother – Lula). Lula and Nana Peggy were born in northwestern Greece near the Albanian border. Hence my ability to get an amazing tan.
I have so many memories of watching my Nana Nita prepare this meal in her kitchen. I sat at the kitchen table while she cooked and watched ABC soaps from the tiny TV on the kitchen counter and alternating between glasses of Diet Pepsi and iced coffee. This is really the one main recipe that has been carried down from my Dad’s side of the family.
Today, I’m serving this with marinated beef and shrimp skewers on the grill and a big Greek salad Happy cooking and I hope you love this as much as my family does!
- 1 stick butter
- I pkg. phyllo dough (Damp towel to keep dough moist while working)
- 4 pkgs. frozen chopped spinach, thawed
- 16 oz. Farmer Cheese (I use ricotta cheese)
- 16 oz. Cream Cheese
- 6 Eggs
- 1 large bunch dill, chopped
**Mom never used Feta cheese but I add it in.
Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter and set aside. Beat eggs. Add spinach, cheeses and dill and mix together. Butter bottom and sides of pan. Line bottom and sides with several layers of phyllo. Moisten with butter as you go. I have lots hanging over the side, place dough on top, I roll the sides into the top layer. Fill with spinach and cheese mixture. Cover with several layers of dough. Cover all dough-especially corners-with butter. Mom used several pats on top but I don’t. Bake 45 minutes on middle rack. Lower to bottom rack for an additional 20 minutes.
Serve with sour cream.
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A Friday release with a newcomer is always exciting. They have the energy to conquer the world and you the audience are eagerly waiting to judge just how they fare. I caught up with the debutant of the moment, Puja Gupta, who is all set to flaunt her talent in Remo D’Souza’s directorial debut, Faltu. The actress is full of energy, wit and charm! Both excited and nervous about her debut film, Puja is a ball of fun to chat with. Speaking to impress is second nature to this ex Miss India finalist who exuberates such positive energy. This Bollyspice exclusive is a must read interview as Puja chats to me about her struggling days, the making of Faltu and life here onwards!
It’s not everyday you see the portfolio of a newcomer who is successful as a model, has represented India internationally, contributed to major social causes and now is aspiring to act. So would you say you’re ambitious no matter what the field?
Yes you can say that. I also would like to ad that acting was always on my mind. After Miss India there were a lot of opportunities that presented itself of representing my country. After working for a cause like Aids Awareness and travelling when I was presented with the chance to enter the film industry it was something that I simply had to do. The pageant and modelling happened and I enjoyed it but acting was always on my mind before any of this happened.
So you’ve always worked towards acting?
I always wanted to act. Sridevi was my primary source of inspiration and what I aspired to be. My mother often said that I was often caught standing in front of the mirror imitating Sridevi from Chaalbaaz. Growing up I idolised her and would dream of falling in love with a Kuarji kind of a guy that I saw in Lamhe, which till date remains to be a dream role and my favourite film. So yes without a doubt acting was always on my mind. It just so happened that after Miss India I was given various opportunities and finally today I am doing what I always wanted to do. I don’t think I could ever want to do anything else.
Coming now to the practical and day-to-day side of the industry, you’ve mentioned many times that breaking into the industry was somewhat tough, so how did you handle disappointments and power on through it all?
Honestly, it was a very difficult time. I don’t know anyone in Mumbai, not even a distant relative! The days of Miss India was fabulous because the organisation truly takes such good care of me, leaving me nothing to worry about. However, when it
all wrapped up and I returned from the States to Mumbai I didn’t know anyone. I eventually found my own apartment and then commenced going to auditions. Whilst auditioning I got a range of negative feedback, ranging from “you’re too fair” to “you have an accent”. So naturally I used to return home rather depressed and often questioning why on earth I’m subjecting myself to all this! It is all thanks to my mother that I persevered through it all. She’s such a positive lady and reminded me always that I’d come so far without any backing and absolutely on my own so I should continue to give it a bit more time. So I continued the struggle with this in mind. There were times when I’d be sitting in front of a production house office for hours on end, eventually leading to no meeting at all with director or producer. Finally today my time has come and I couldn’t have asked for a better debut than one with Puja Films. I’ll forever be grateful to Vashu sir for giving me this chance. Ultimately the lesson to be learnt is that if you really want it bad enough you simply have to continue to wait, do the hard work and it’ll happen!
So after all the struggling and waiting, how was your reaction when Puja Films gave you not a one but a three film contract?
I couldn’t have asked for a better debut than with Puja Films. Although even this came after a lot of struggle. I attended total of five auditions for the role in Faltu. After the first one I was a bit nervous and didn’t know what to expect when they called me back. My manager Atul Kasbekar convinced me that it must be leading to something because of the mere fact that they’re calling me back. Although eventually when I did get the role Remo told me that he knew it was me the moment I came in for the audition and that the multiple auditions were simply for technical matters like seeing how I look on camera, how I look with make up etc. I was over the moon when I got the offer and called my mother in tears screaming, “Mum I finally have a film!”
Of course now that you have the film tell us why you think it makes for such an ideal debut?
Faltu is the ideal debut for me for many reasons. A, I’m the only female protagonist in the film. B, It’s a youth orientated film with a strong message. C. Puja Films is such a reputable production house to start your career with and D why not Faltu? It is such a beautiful script with a director who’s already won a National Award for his work in Bengali cinema. So the question is not why is Faltu ideal but rather why not! It’s without a doubt the most ideal thing that a newcomer like me could have asked for.
Now tell us a bit about the character you’re playing and if there’s any similarities between her and yourself?
A lot actually! This girl is a little rebellious! Which is a bit like me because I’m the youngest in the family and have been quite pampered growing up. My character is a like that too. She speaks her mind, dominates her father and knows what she wants. She may be a bit confused at times but ultimately she knows that she wants, to make her Dad proud. This is similar to how I am as a person. My mother had insisted on me going to NYU and doing my degree in Psychiatry however I chose to make her proud by going into Miss India and now films because those were my dreams. In this way there’s the rebellion in me as well as a girl who knows exactly what she wants.
And now the million-dollar question about the experience of working with an icon of a director! Remo is without a doubt the biggest name attached to the film thanks to his growing popularity with Dance India Dance and now Jhalak. So how was the experience?
Oh yes an icon he definitely is! Firstly and fore mostly, Remo sir is a beautiful human being. Personally I think his strongest trait is his patience. I often heard horror stories from actresses about tension filled sets where they cried and were in constant panic and under a lot of pressure. However, it was nothing like that for me. Remo Sir never yelled at me and was forever so patient with me. He’d take the time out to sit down and explain things. He’s patient, has such a beautiful heart, always is smiling and ensuring that everyone is comfortable. This was especially so important for us, the cast, because we’re all new. Even when we’re having a bit too much fun he’d come up to us very sweetly and tell us its time to work.
And what about the dancing? Did you focus on your dancing any more considering your director is a choreographer?
Well actually contrary to popular opinion the film is not dance centric at all! We only have a couple of song with dance. But yes it was a little bit difficult for me mainly because Jackky is such a brilliant dancer, Remo sir is obviously a dancing Guru, Arshad is an ex dancer and then Ritiesh who’s just a great dancer naturally. So amongst all these experts I tried my best and I guess you’ll have to decide how I did when you see the film.
Since you mention you array of co-stars, how was the experience of working with 3 newcomers and 2 senior actors? Was there an obvious different in the experiences?
There was an obvious difference because I’m quite comfortable with Jackky who’s perhaps the only friend I have in Mumbai. So I was naturally very comfortable with him as oppose to doing scenes with Arshad and Ritiesh with whom I was initially quite nervous. Although very soon I found out that in actuality they’re more fun to work with! They literally eased out the situation for me. It definitely helps to work with seniors because they have experience on their side. There were times when I would get stuck with a scene and either Arshad or Ritiesh would very kindly offer some form of advice to make it easier for me. So at the end of the day I got to learn so much with them, which was magnificent for a newcomer like me and has made me forever grateful to them.
And what about the experience of working with a co-star who’s the son of the producer?
Honestly I never felt that he was the son of the producer because Vashuji was quite obviously bias towards me as I was the only girl on the set. I was more pampered and most taken care off. In addition Jackky never threw his weight around, he shared a vanity with us and basically nothing ever happened to remind us he was the producers son. In fact I ended up getting a lot of flak from all the boys for the special treatment I got!
Coming to the music of the film now, do you think the unconventional release of MP3s online will have an effect in battling piracy?
I think it’s a fabulous idea that Vashuji came up with. I think it will work in battling piracy because the CDs aren’t released to outside sources. There’s no chance for anyone to get their hands on a CD, copy it and then sell. Honestly such a great amount of hard work goes into music making so I think this form of a release can go a long way and make quite a big impact if taken on board seriously.
I guess that leads me into the obvious question, your favourite track and why?
You know what, its my first film so I can’t choose! The party song is so ideal for get together with friends and then there’s Atif’s ‘Leja Tu’, which is a fabulous song to relax with. So in this way every song has its own charm and I truly can’t choose a favourite. Every time I listen to the tracks I get so excited and touched that its my first film with such great music!
Now coming to Puja offscreen, you’ve barely entered and we’re asking you “are you single” so you think you’re ready to take on the ups and downs of showbiz such as controversies, linkups etc?
Well I will be taking it all in quite comfortably as it comes because it’s a part and parcel of the industry that I’ve chosen to enter. At the end of the as long as my close friends and family know what is true and what is not, I really don’t care.
Did it surprise you at all when the media came up with the Jackky linkup so quickly before you’d barely had a promo out?
Nowadays it happens with everyone that enters the industry. It becomes a new fashion statement; you do a film with someone you’re hooked up. It’s a bit stupid, if you ask me, to link people up who’re naturally going to be quite close because they’re doing a film together which requires you to spend quite a bit of time with each other. As far as Jackky is concerned, he’s my first friend in Mumbai, my first co-star and we gel so well together. So I cannot let these rumours affect us and Jackky has a similar approach. Our friends and family know what’s the truth and so we truly don’t care about what is written or what is said.
Sound like a perfect mantra! Since we’re coming to an end of this interview tell us about your plans after Faltu?
I think I have my hands quite full with Faltu and my contract with Puja Films. At present all my energy is invested in Faltu!
Last but not the least, why should audiences not miss out on Faltu?
A. It’s a fun movie. B. It’s a youth orientated film but one that everyone will be able to relate to at some level. C. You’re bound to leave the cinema hall with a smile! It’s a fun loving film with a strong message at the end. Its been so lovingly made with not hint of forcefulness or pretentiousness and is bound to not disappoint!
Quick to impress, Puja has given us more than enough reasons to not miss out on her debut film. Faltu is releasing in cinemas this April Fools Day and in addition is releasing online for viewers outside of India. If you’re outside India and are eager to check out the youth entertainer of the year on release then simply log on to http://www.zeetv.com/faltu/ on the 1st of April at 4pm GMT and catch the film
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eliminating farm subsidies is a scary idea. how many people have to go hungry before the folly becomes apparent?
Not that this is a NY State issue, but...
People won't go hungry. We grow too much corn, which is why so much of it gets turned into corn syrup in soft drinks, or goes to feed cattle instead of people, or gets turned into inefficient ethanol. We could grow far less corn and still have plenty to feed people at the same price if we reduced these other uses. And fewer subsidies means more money available for food stamps and other support for people who really need it. So getting rid of subsidies could result in fewer hungry people.
And we won't have so much in taxpayer dollars going to Archer Daniels Midland, which really doesn't need our support. And higher prices for sweeteners (to return tangentially to the op) may lead to a price rise and a reduction in consumption in items which use it, which may reduce the incidence of diabetes, the treatment of which also costs us money (not to mention the burden on those with diabetes). | <urn:uuid:cee653b9-6146-4723-a71e-5728d480e5f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gunks.com/ubbthreads7/ubbthreads.php/topics/42393/2/Go_F_Yourself_Governor_Patters | 2013-05-25T01:31:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705310619/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115510-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975792 | 221 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The clock clock white, 2011
Re-contextualizes time in a mix of old and new, analogue and digital. The clock is made of 24 two-handed analogue clocks. Six clocks make up a number, each of them displaying either one of its corners or one of its sides. All 24 clocks create one giant display similar to that of a digital watch. This work is notable for its digital/analogue format and the choreography that takes place between the minutes.
See the clock in action: https://vimeo.com/52798481
Screen printed dials in powder coated aluminium housing
electrical & mechanical components
Humans since 1982 cooperated with Australian engineer David Cox to accomplish the complex technology.
Edition: 8 + 3 AP, price on request
email@example.com, +46 739 839 085
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06-29-2008, 08:17 AM
We use a true start assists at my work place Beenthere
You outta see some of our installations because they are ultra perfect
I run a static pressure test on every system i work on and document it...
06-29-2008, 06:39 AM
2 wire superboost start assists are crap
06-28-2008, 05:50 PM
You also should have your ac tech ck the overall static pressure
If he doesnt have a magahelic on his truck he is not a very good technician
What is the sq ft of the area being cooled?
A 17 degree split is good and you arent undercharged by much with those system pressures
Probably had some left over from the `80s;)
What are your systems pressures?
sounds like you are low on refrigerant
06-26-2008, 06:27 AM
I went on a call the other day and the complaint was the upstairs system was not cooling as well as the old unit did.
It was a new install and i could not get more than 12 degrees split
06-25-2008, 11:34 PM
Nope i quit and got a dollar raise:D
I didnt read anything but good info from your posts
06-25-2008, 11:26 PM
Ok everybody join hands because we are gonna sing Kumbah Ya and feel some love in here:D
Nobody mentioned the whirlybird turbine vents, They have sealed bearings in them now days so you dont have to grease them;)
I dont know because ive never had to replace one
Later i am off to work, have a good one
oopsie, sorry dude
I remember seeing you as a kid when i was a fixing your mamas ac system
She was pretty hot back in the day:D
Tell her i said hi
Hell no i dont regret my mistakes, thats how you learn
I just wished we had the internet back in those days:p
**** a 4.0 engineering degree is admirable:eek:, you will do just fine
I got my first ac license back in 1983 and made a lot of mistakes but i was always honest with my customers.
Keep your integrity intact, work hard and everything will be okay
Good luck :)
Increasing your return will lessen the noise factor
Variable speed airhandlers are very quiet until they ramp up on the high speed for cooling.
Relocating to your attic is worth considering...
I generally dont like attic ventilators because most of them employ a shaded pole motor which has the least efficiency of any electric motor.
Usually they dont last for more than a summer of two.
Less than 8 minutes probably
Man you guys are harsh to the newwbies
We have a few of the new 10 yr carrier coils in the field and havent had any leakers yet.
The new Carriers are pretty nice and i would definatley chose them over anything American Std/Trane related.
Ive never cared for Carrier as a residential ac system but the new line is high quality...
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In the list of software downloads, find VPN Client. Click on the appropriate version (e.g., XP or Vista), accept the usage agreement, and continue. For more information about using VPN, see http://www.fas-it.fas.harvard.edu/node/79
Step 2: Installing the KeyServer
If you have already installed the KeyServer, go to step 3. If not, go to http://downloads.fas.harvard.edu/download?action=;group=keyaccess and click on KeyAccess. Accept the usage agreement, and continue.
The KeyServer will download an installer package to your computer desktop. Double-click on the installer icon to complete the installation.
Step 3: Installing EndNote
Go to http://downloads.fas.harvard.edu/download (you will need to enter your HUID and PIN).
In the list of software downloads, find EndNote. Click on it, and an installer package will be downloaded to your computer desktop. Double-click on the installer icon to continue with the installation.
Step 4: Using EndNote
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My daughter, Sofia, still walks around unaware of her beauty. She is at that age where she thinks in fairy tale, yet, is on the cusp of walking through the playground of childlike consciousness… slipping gradually into her awareness of self.
I watch her as she absent mindedly smears on her sunscreen and note her creamy, unblemished skin.
I also can’t help but notice the difference of the texture as we, mother and daughter, stand side by side.
Since chemo, my skin surface is different…dryer and in need of constant lotion applications. The radiation has made changes to my neck as well. I tease myself out loud that I now know where the phrase “turtle neck” comes from. Oddly enough, it does not hurt my spirit to make fun. It actually makes me feel more powerful having the ability to see the humor. To own it.
Sofia, does not see my changes and retorts protectively that there is nothing turtle-like about me. I tease back and tell her that she is the turtle and to hurry up and get ready so we can get going and get her to her summer activity on time. We both return to the task of getting ready and the fleeting moment of self reflection goes as fast as it came. That is how it is for me, moments that come and go but do not weigh too heavily on me.
Other notable changes are that my skin burns more readily from the sun’s rays and thirsts for good quality moisturizing sunscreen. When taking my daily walks, if I forget to use sunscreen, my skin feels extra hot, sensitive and itchy. You can visibly see the blotchy dryness. All of which are new body changes this year.
It would be the honest thing to admit that my age feels like it has caught up with the numbers my birth has naturally assigned me to…those dates that I casually disregarded, denouncing their relevance with almost an arrogant dismissal for much of my adulthood. I now halfheartedly tell my friends, those that are my senior, I have earned my stripes early because my aging process was accelerated from the treatments I underwent and the circumstances forced me to think about things that I would have normally considered later in life. I say halfheartedly because, on one hand I mean it with my shifted mindset after the course of the last few years. Yet, on the other hand, I inately possess a youthful spirit that remains resilient and still shines bright! Thank God.
I am not ready to become an old woman at 45 years young. No, I am not. I shall buy vats of lotion and slather it on with wild abandon! That is, after checking there is no parabens! Okay, so cautious wild abandon – an oxymoron – yes, I know. Having/having had cancer creates that element of tension in the plot.
I think about my mother and the pills she had to take to help her fight off her mental captors that being bi-polar came with. She too underwent body and skin change, in her case, exacerbated by the meds. Although her physical changes kicked in more so when she was in her late 50′s and early 60′s. She would tell me she knew she had to take her pills, but confided in the next breath how she hated them all the same!
There is this internal tug-a-war on taking medication to combat your ailments and then there is the knowledge of the side effects. You have to make a choice and the choice that ultimately wins is the one that will keep you on the healthier side of the pendulum and/or the ones that simply extend your life.
All in all, I embrace my new body’s exterior – I don’t miss anything to the point of living in a void or harboring bitterness. I feel like I spent many years past feeling comfortable in my own skin and accept moving to the next level of maturity which focuses less on the exterior shell and more on the internal parts of life’s journey.
I know this will sound really odd, but… in the strangest of most wonderful ways, it’s quite freeing. Like a lizard shedding its skin.
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” ~Maurice Chevalier
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Clarkstown Town Attorney Amy Mele said the town is in contract and expects to close on the former Traphagen property in West Nyack in mid July. The 9.23-acre parcel is being purchased by the town for $900,000.
Since the property includes a house and a historic building that may be one of the oldest structures in the county, the town board is considering the possibility of subdividing the parcel. Mele explained Tuesday night that the thought is the town would keep and preserve seven acres as open space while the two remaining acres with the buildings on it could be sold as a subdivision.
Mele said the proposal for the subdivision could include a restrictive covenant that the owner would have to restore and maintain the historic building and could not develop the property but would have to keep it as open space. A stream runs through the acreage and there are some stone walls behind the house otherwise the property appears undeveloped.
Clarkstown Principal Town Planner Joe Simoes told the board members that a subdivision would have to go before the planning board.
The owner of the property on Germonds Road, , had given the town the right of first refusal to purchase the property after his death. He passed away in December 2010. The town exercised its right to purchase the land earlier this year.
The town board previously authorized the issuing bonds for $925,000 to cover the property purchase and financing fees.
After the passage of Clarktown's Open Space Referendum in 2000, the Open Space Committee had identified the Traphagen property as first on its acquisition list.
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'NEW URBANISM' GOING MAINSTREAM: New Urbanism, the now-aging approach to development that favors high-density walkable spaces where a variety of land uses - residential, business, commercial, etc. - are arrayed in close proximity, might finally be going mainstream.
According to the National Association of Realtors, the group's 2011 Community Preference Survey found that "most Americans would like to live in walkable communities where shops, restaurants, and local business are within an easy walk from their homes."
But there's a catch: People like that vision only "as long as those communities can provide detached single-family homes." Still, the survey "also shows that most Americans would choose a smaller home and smaller lot if it would keep their commute time to 20 minutes or less."
For a deeper look at the survey results, visit the NAR website at bit.ly/hHTMQK.
► RECOMMENDED READING: Keeping with a development-related theme, today's Recommended Reading come from Urbanophile, a blog by respected urban analysts Aaron Renn.
A blog post authored by Rod Stevens, a business consultant in the state of Washington, suggests that Portland, Ore. - an "aspirational city," if you will, for many people in Athens-Clarke County - has been successful with redevelopment due to "crises and political turnover that opened the community up to questioning and new leadership; a growing facility with problem definition and problem solving; and the attraction of 'outsiders' who joined the community and brought fresh new approaches and energy."
See the full blog post at bit.ly/gp8YDw.
► TINA'S ON YOUTUBE, Y'ALL!: Liberal syndicated columnist Tina Dupuy, whose column is on the verge of claiming a regular spot on the Banner-Herald's Saturday editorial page, has fast become a favorite among readers. The tagline at the end of her column mentions that she's a fill-in host for "The Young Turks," an online political show with - surprise - a liberal perspective. If you'd like to see her work on the show, a YouTube clip from November of last year is available at bit.ly/igpVjC.
► EXTRA CREDIT: Using President Jimmy Carter's recent trip to Cuba as a starting point, Miami Herald columnist Marifeli Perez-Stable says the U.S. government should look for more ways to engage the Cuban government and its citizens. Read her commentary, today's online-only offering.
► TWITTER: Follow me @Jim__Thompson for updates as I assemble the editorial page each day. Most days, it's a lot more exciting than watching paint dry.
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Senator: Merger block threatens Alaska economy
ANCHORAGE -- The Federal Trade Commission's decision to block BP Amoco's proposed buyout of Atlantic Richfield Co. threatens to destroy Alaska's economy, Sen. Ted Stevens said Wednesday.
Lawmakers oppose merger
JUNEAU -- The Legislature's special committee on BP Amoco's proposed takeover of Atlantic Richfield Co. decided to oppose the deal Tuesday, nearly a week after the Federal Trade Commission voted to block it.
Co-workers help lost musher back to desk
FAIRBANKS (AP) -- Co-workers of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner City Editor Rod Boyce took no chances on the returning musher finding his desk Tuesday.
Flowers dropped in ocean off San Francisco beach
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Coast Guard dropped white carnations into the Pacific Ocean Tuesday in tribute to the victims of the Alaska Airlines crash last week.
Knowles introduces new subsistence bill
JUNEAU -- Senators who rejected a proposed subsistence constitutional amendment in September say nothing has changed since that vote, but Gov. Tony Knowles announced Wednesday he will again introduce and push for the measure.
Search on for part that may have broken off plane
PORT HUENEME, Calif. -- The Navy has been asked to search for a piece of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 that investigators believe may have broken off as the jetliner began its fatal plunge into the Pacific Ocean, the NTSB chief said Tuesday.
State child protection advocates say more resources needed
JUNEAU -- Two years ago, slides of bruised children removed from abusive Alaska homes helped convince legislators to spend more money for child protection.
Municipalities may see more cash
JUNEAU -- A tax windfall the state stands to receive if voters approve a cap on local property taxes would be earmarked for aid to local governments under a bill sponsored by Sen. Dave Donley.
Skyview students medal in Scholastic Art contest
A pair of students from Skyview High School swept the gold medals in photography at the Alaska Scholastic Art and Writing Awards recently.
Homer Winter Carnival this weekend
Plow funds spent
It does not matter where the money comes from, said Bill Dunn, roads director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
Zoning board seat now filled
It didn't take a year this time.
Troopers respond to several accidents
Alaska State Troopers responded to the scene of a single-vehicle rollover near Mile 18 of Kalifornsky Beach Road shortly after 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Aviation manufacturing deal stalls again
Kinetic Aviation Inc.'s attempt to open a manufacturing facility in Alaska has failed again.
School lunch price up
Next school year, school lunches will cost a nickel more.
Ninilchik drug bust nets 4.5 pounds of pot
Alaska State Troopers served a search warrant on the residence of Donald and Denise Caulkins at Silver Lane in Ninilchik Jan. 1 and seized 1.2 pounds of processed marijuana.
Bill for extra state expenses comes in just under budget
JUNEAU -- As the House worked on setting limits on how much it wants to spend in the next fiscal year, Gov. Tony Knowles submitted the bill for unexpected expenses and underfunded programs.
Showin' Off the Kids deadline extended
The Showin' Off the Kids a
Local aid, university not among cut targets
JUNEAU -- House budget leaders outlined $16 million in cuts to state departments Tuesday, but left two major areas -- the University of Alaska and state aid to local governments -- off the table for subcommittee hearings.
Carrier pulls out of Kodiak
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Peninsula Airways Inc. said Tuesday it is ceasing operations in Kodiak.
Picking up on scams
Without caller ID, t
Financially strapped district searches for way to fill $3 million budget gap
The mood was grim Tuesday at the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District's first public hearing on the budget for the next school year.
Morris Communications buys Homer newspaper
Morris Communications Corp. has announced the purchase of the Homer News, a community newspaper with a weekly circulation of about 3,800.
Robert J. Mackey
Kenai Peninsula Online - Obituaries 02/09/00
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Citizen involvement important in shaping school district budget
Faced with the double whammy of declining state revenue and declining enrollment, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is looking at deep budget cuts for next year.
Past and present
Computers sit in one corner of Judy Shields' classroom at Nikiski Elementary School. In the opposite corner sits a wooden water bucket with a carved dipper.
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Sony highlights digital imaging strategy at PMA:
Ultra-compact new camera with interchangeable lenses, APS-size sensor and AVCHD; more additions to α DSLR line-up
• Ultra-compact new α camera with interchangeable lenses in development for launch 2010
• Additions to mainstream α family and mid-range successor to α700
• New lenses in development including Distagon T* 24mm f/2 ZA SSM 24mm, new Carl Zeiss wide angle lens and Super Telephoto 500mm f/4 G Lens
At PMA this year, Sony confirms plans to further expand the appeal of its digital imaging range. Additions to the α (”alpha”) range of DSLR cameras will be joined by a new product concept that makes high-quality imaging accessible to an even wider audience of photographers.
Ultra-compact camera with interchangeable lenses and APS-C sensor
In 2010 Sony will introduce a new ultra-compact camera with interchangeable lenses that teams “any time, anywhere” convenience with DSLR picture quality. Exhibited in early concept mock-up form at PMA, the camera features a newly-developed Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor. It will also support HD video recording using the efficient AVCHD format. Shown in mock-up form alongside the compact, easy-to-use new camera is a selection of compatible interchangeable lenses.
Mainstream DSLR range to grow further
Sony also confirms that the current α range will continue to grow with the introduction of further new mainstream DSLR models using the newly-developed Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor and integrating HD video function with AVCHD format.
New DSLR lenses from Sony
The α family of over 30 interchangeable lenses and teleconverters is set to grow with the addition of exciting new models. Shown in advanced pre-production form at PMA is the Distagon T* 24mm f/2 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss wide angle lens. Scheduled for launch in 2010, this bright, wide angle prime is an ideal choice for reportage, naturally lit interiors and other quality-critical handheld shooting applications.
Displayed as a mock-up on the Sony booth, the newest lens to carry the G Lens name is a bright, high-power Super Telephoto 500mm f/4 G with class-leading optical performance.
Offering an integrated entertainment experience through its electronics, mobile, music, pictures, game and the Sony Entertainment Network, Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the world's leading consumer brands. Sony is renowned for its audio-visual products in both the consumer and professional markets, such as the BRAVIA™ LCD high-definition (HD) television, Cyber-shot™ digital camera, Handycam® camcorder, “α” (pronounced Alpha) digital SLR camera, Xperia™ Tablet and Walkman® MP3 player as well as its VAIO™ personal computers and 3D HD professional broadcast equipment.
For more information on Sony Europe, please visit www.sony-europe.com. For more information on Sony Corporation please visit www.sony.net
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The Star, (2008) Food Fair. (Call Number: UNSPECIFIED)
Universiti Putra Malaysia's Student Representatives Council is Organising a food exhibition-cum-fair at the Food Service Complex (near the Banquet Hall) in its campus in Serdang, Selangor,today at 8am. There will also be a career talk about the food industry at 10am.
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Undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering
Materials science helps shape the world around us. It's vital to aerospace, energy, construction, healthcare – even information technology. It has the power to improve lives and protect the environment.
So as a materials science engineer you'll have the chance to make a real difference to our world. Developing lightweight alloys for aircraft. Reducing the environmental impact of materials and waste. Generating more powerful processors for PCs. Engineering bandages to heal skin or implants for human body repairs. The possibilities are endless.
Our courses – do it your own way
Our courses help you develop as a scientist and engineer. You'll learn about the science of materials, and how to develop new materials and technologies for industry and manufacturing.
You can keep your study broad for the whole course or focus on a particular material after the second year. Or you might decide to follow a specialism right from the beginning – for example metals, aerospace materials and mechanical design, or materials engineering.
Your career starts here
Most of our MEng degrees include a paid, five-month industrial placement in the third year. Your placement could take you anywhere in the world – we have links with an impressive range of companies, including major employers like Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Sheffield Forgemasters. We'll help you find work in a field that you're passionate about and get the kind of experience that will give your CV the edge.
Many of our students also go on summer placements – another chance to broaden your experiences and work on the latest challenges in industry.
Expect the best
As a student with us you'll be stretched and challenged. In return, we put our all into making this the best learning experience for you.
You'll be taught by inspirational tutors and lecturers who are working at the very forefront of their field, with specialisms ranging from materials and chemistry to biochemistry and physics.
And you'll benefit from world-class facilities. We've recently refurbished a large section of our laboratory space, and invested over £300,000 in equipment for our teaching labs. Our state-of-the-art facilities include labs for cell and tissue culture and equipment for measuring electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties. The final-year project is your chance to carry out research in some of our internationally renowned research centres.
Our standing as one of the top materials departments in the country is recognised by every major league table. The Times, Guardian and Complete 2012 university guides place us among the UK top five.
Be the best
Getting to know our students and nurturing their talents is what we do best. Our staff are approachable and supportive – you can ask for help whenever you need it. Throughout, your personal tutor will be your first port of call for any queries at all. Your tutor will help you capitalise on your strengths and make the best choices for your future.
And as a student here you'll be part of a lively and creative community. Our Turner Museum of Glass – with collections from major European and American glassmakers – doubles up as a social space and café with computers and wi-fi. You'll find staff and students mingling here over coffee and teacakes. The student-run Materials Society is another opportunity to meet people and take time out.
So study with us and you'll be challenged. But even more, you'll be inspired. You'll join a welcoming community where you'll have all the support you need to reach the top of your game.
Our courses are about preparing you for the professional world. They're based on the very latest developments in industry. Throughout, we use real situations to give you a good understanding of practical applications.
As well as lectures and tutorials, you'll learn through case studies, design projects, group industrial projects, lab work and manufacturing and plant visits. It's varied and hands-on.
Alongside your technical expertise, you'll develop invaluable skills in teamwork, logical reasoning, project management and problem solving.
We'll also challenge you to think about engineering issues from a global perspective. So wherever your future lies, you'll be in demand.
Not sure how you'll find that first job? From day one until three years after you graduate, you'll have support from experts in our University Careers Service.
A valued graduate
Our graduates work for international companies in a variety of sectors – from aerospace, construction and the automotive industry to health care, sports and energy.
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Aichtal is a town and municipality in the district of Esslingen in the center of Baden-Württemberg. It is located just 18 km south of the city of Stuttgart, the state capital.
Official Municipal Website: http://www.aichtal.de/
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Jan. 8, 2013
San Diego Notes in PDF Format BYU Notes in PDF Format
TIP OFF: The University of San Diego women's basketball team (9-5, 1-1 WCC) will return home on Thursday to host Brigham Young University in a 7 p.m. WCC game. The Toreros will then remain at home on Saturday and take on Loyola Marymount University in a 2 p.m. game.
LAST TIME OUT: The Toreros began West Coast Conference action this past week, as they dropped a 77-57 decision to defending WCC regular-season champion Gonzaga University, who is ranked No. 1 in the CollegeInsider.com's mid-major top-25 poll. The Toreros then rallied back and picked up as huge 69-63 road WCC win over Portland this past Saturday. In Thursday's loss to the Bulldogs, Amy Kame led the team's offense, as she scored a team-best 14 points on 4-for-8 shooting from the field, while also pulling down five rebounds. Katelyn McDaniel was the second leading scorer with 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting, while Brooke Jelniker recorded a career-high nine points on 3-of-5 shooting from the field. As a team, USD shot .447 from the field, and was out rebounded 41-32. In Saturday's win over Portland, McDaniel recorded a double-double with 15 points on 6-of-16 shooting from the field, and she pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds. Kame led all scorers with 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field, while also going a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe. Klara Wischer had a near double-double, as she recorded 16 points and pulled down nine boards, while Maya Hood recorded 10 points on 3-of-7 shooting from the field. As a team, USD shot .435, and out rebounded the Pilots 44-32.
A LOOK AHEAD: San Diego will hit the road next Thursday as they head to Moraga, Calif. to take on Saint Mary's in a 7 p.m. WCC game. USD then returns home to host Gonzaga on Jan. 19 for a 2 p.m. game inside the friendly confines of the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
SCOUTING THE COUGARS: BYU enters the contest with an overall record of 10-4, and that are 1-0 in the WCC after defeating the University of San Francisco in their WCC opener on Jan. 5 in Provo, Utah. The Cougars lead the all-time series at 4-0. The Cougars are led offensively by Kim Beeston, who is averaging 10.3 ppg, while shooting .404 from the floor. The floor leader for BYU is Haley Steed, who is averaging 7.6 assist per game, and scoring 8.6 ppg. BYU is under the direction of 11th year head coach Jeff Judkins.
SCOUTING THE LIONS: Loyola Marymount enters the week with an overall record of 7-8, and they are 1-1 in the WCC after splitting their first two WCC games, defeating Pepperdine on Jan. 3, 65-47, then falling in overtime to Saint Mary's, 84-77, on Jan. 5. USD leads the all-time series at 36-24, including winning the last four straight. LMU is paced by Alex Cowling, who scores a team-best 15.7 ppg, and pulls down 7.2 boards-per-game. Hazel Ramirez is the only other Lion to average double figures, as she is scoring 12.1 ppg.
THE POLLS: The University of San Diego moved up one spot to No. 19 in the latest CollegeInsider.com's mid-major top-25 poll. BYU checks in at No. 13 on this poll, and LMU is not ranked in any of the top-25 polls.
K-MAC'S DOUBLE-DOUBLE: Sophomore forward Katelyn McDaniel recorded her first double-double of her career in Saturday's win over Portland. McDaniel, in her first start of the season, recorded a double-double with 15 points on 6-of-16 shooting from the field, and she pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds. The 15 points, also marked her second consecutive double-digit performance, as she scored 11 points in the loss to Gonzaga. On the season, McDaniel is averaging 8.5 ppg, while shooting an impressive .816 from the charity stripe.
KAME HAS ANOTHER GREAT WEEK: Junior guard Amy Kame helped USD open conference play at 1-1, after pacing the team's offense with an average of 16.5 ppg, while shooting an impressive .556 from the field. Kame also averaged 3.5 rebounds-per-game as well. Kame began the week with a 14-point output against defending WCC champion Gonzaga, then followed that up with an impressive 19-point outburst against Portland in the lone win of the week. Kame lead USD's offense on the season, as she averages 16.6 ppg.
KLARA HEATING UP: Senior forward Klara Wischer was the third Torero to average double figures this past week, as she averaged 11.5 ppg, while pulling down 12 total rebounds and shooting .550 from the field. Wischer began the week with a seven-point outing against Gonzaga, then followed that up with a 16-point and nine rebound effort in the win over Portland. On the season, Wischer is averaging 7.0 ppg, while leading the team in rebounds with an average of 7.9 rpg.
JELNIKER SCORES A CAREER-HIGH: Sophomore guard Brooke Jelniker had the best game of her Torero career in the WCC opening loss to Gonzaga. Jelniker recorded nine points on 3-of-5 shooting from the field.
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE: The Toreros have made the Jenny Craig Pavilion a very tough place for opponents play, as USD is bolstering a 6-2 record on their home floor. While playing in San Diego, the Toreros are averaging 79.3 ppg, while holding opponents to just 57.2 ppg...USD is shooting .450 from the field, while holding opponents to .358 field goal percentage...Amy Kame is averaging 18.5 ppg at the JCP, Maya Hood is averaging 9.5 ppg, and Klara Wischer is averaging 9.0 rebounds-per-game.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS: San Diego leads, or is near the lead, in several statistical categories. As a team, USD leads the WCC in field goal percentage at .440...is second in the WCC in scoring defense at 60.9....and leads in blocked shots at 5.5 bpg... Amy Kame is second in ppg at 16.6...Klara Wischer is third in rebounding at 7.9 rpg...Katelyn McDaniel is leading the WCC in field goal percentage at .603...and Sophia Ederaine continues to lead the WCC in blocked shots at 2.0 per-game.
KAME NAMED PRESEASON ALL-WCC: The Toreros welcome back one All-WCC performer from a year ago in the form of Amy Kame. Kame, a 6-0 junior guard from Grand Junction, Colo., made a splash in her second season with the team, as she took home All-WCC honorable mention accolades for the first time last season. Kame was USD's third leading scorer on the season, as she scored an average of 11.4 ppg. In WCC games, Kame averaged 11.0 ppg, while shooting .424 from the field in conference games. Kame managed to score in double figures in 15 of the 22 games she played in. Kame scored a career-high of 24 points against Portland on Mar. 2, 2012.
TOREROS TABBED TO FINISH FOURTH IN PRESEASON POLL: The University of San Diego women's basketball team was tabbed to finish fourth in the West Coast Conference preseason coaches poll. Brigham Young University has been selected to win the WCC women's basketball championship in a preseason poll of the WCC's nine head coaches. The Cougars received five out of a possible eight first-place votes (coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team), just one more first-place vote than second-place Gonzaga. This is the first time in five years that a team other than Gonzaga has selected by the coaches to win the WCC (San Diego, 2007-08).
GAMETRACKER AVAILABLE: All San Diego women's basketball home and select road games can be followed live via Gametracker on the Toreros athletic web site at www.usdtoreros.com. Gametracker is a service of CBS College Sports, the official web provider for San Diego athletics, and is a real time update of the action.
CAN YOU SEE ME?: All USD home games, as well as select road games, will be streamed live via video on the athletics department website. Fans can watch all the action live from the comfort of their home by logging onto usdtoreros.com. Former USD basketball standout Paula Bott provides all the live play-by-play this season. This service a free of charge for all who wish to watch the broadcast.
MEET THE COACH: Head coach Cindy Fisher is entering her eighth season at the helm of the Toreros program. She was named the program's third head coach on April 19, 2005. The 2012-13 season was a historical one for the Toreros, as it is now the greatest season in program history. Under Fisher's tutelage, the Toreros soared to new heights, and were in uncharted waters. USD posted a program best 26-9 overall record, posted a 12-4 mark in WCC play (the most wins in WCC play in program history) and they recorded the program's first ever post season win. Not only was the first ever post season win, but the Toreros advanced all the way to the Final Four of the WNIT, before falling to eventual WNIT champions Oklahoma State. In 2008, Fisher led USD to the WCC Tournament championship and back into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in eight seasons. In only her second season at the helm of the program, Fisher orchestrated the biggest turn around in school history, a 12-game improvement from 9-19 in the 2005-06 season to a 21-9 record in 2006-07 season. The turn around was the fourth best in the nation. Under her tutelage, the Toreros placed three players on the All-WCC lists highlighted by Amanda Rego being named the WCC Co-Player of the Year. For her efforts, Fisher was named the 2007 WCC Co-Coach of the Year. | <urn:uuid:d653f212-ff0d-4176-b215-89235e524414> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://usdtoreros.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/010813aae.html | 2013-05-25T01:52:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705310619/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115510-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962944 | 2,337 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Wenatchee is known to be the largest city and county seat of Chelan County, Washington, USA. The city is located in the North Central part of Washington.
As of 2009 census, the estimated population was around 30,229 consisting of 14,774 Males and 15,455 Females. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.3 square miles (19.0 km²), of which, 6.9 square miles (17.8 km²) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.2 km²) of it (6.14%) is water.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,897, and the median income for a family was $45,982. Males had a median income of $35,245 versus $26,062 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,498. About 10.6% of families and 15.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.7% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those ages 65 or over.
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On the Nightmare
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ON THE NIGHTMARE by ERNEST JONES. Originally published in 1931. PREFACE: THE history of this book is as follows. Only Part I. I has appeared hitherto ... Show synopsis ON THE NIGHTMARE by ERNEST JONES. Originally published in 1931. PREFACE: THE history of this book is as follows. Only Part I. I has appeared hitherto in English, in the A merican Journal of Insanity, January 1910. Part II. is a translation from a booklet entitled Der Alptraum in seiner Beziehung zu gewissen Formen des mittelalterlichen Aberglaubens, which was published in 1912 as Heft XIV. of the Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde. Part III. was being prepared for publication when the War broke out, and pressure of other work has laid it aside till now. Part IV., now marked off separately, was the Conclusion to Der Alptraum. Most of the book was thus written in the years 1909 and 1910. In revising it for English publi cation I have freely re-arranged the material, especially in Part III. Some confirmatory material of which I have jotted down notes from time to time has been added, but anything substantially post-dating the original is enclosed in square brackets. Professor Priebsch has read through the chapter on etymology Part III. Chapter V., but while grateful to him for his kindly criticism I do not wish to hold him responsible for the views there expressed. To the courtesy of Professor Ganz of Basle I owe both the permission to reproduce the plate of Fuselis celebrated picture and also practical assistance in making this possible. To my wife, Dr. Katherine Jones, I am deeply indebted for much expert criticism and suggestion and for unfailing encouragement and help in what in the circumstances of my life was an arduous labour. The question may naturally arise why, in a study ad vancing so rapidly as psycho-analysis is, one should think it worth while to publish work done more than twenty years ago. The answer lies only partly in the numerous requests that it should be made accessible. A more compelling reason will be discovered in the fol lowing considerations. For the true significance of the Nightmare to be pro perly appreciated, first by the learned professions and then by the general public, would in my opinion entail consequences, both scientific and social, to which the term momentous might well be applied. What is at issue is nothing less than the very meaning of religion itself. In this book I have, brought forward reasons why an intensive study of the Nightmare and the beliefs held about it makes it hard to avoid the conclusion that re ligion is in its essence one of the means hitherto per haps the most valuable of helping mankind to cope with the burden of guilt and fear everyone inherits in his unconscious from the deepest stirrings of mental life, the primordial conflict over incest. Other workers, notably Freud and Reik, have confirmed and amplified this con clusion, which the world will one day have seriously to take into its reckoning. January 1931. | <urn:uuid:f50527db-7be3-485e-943a-288a49d73955> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=4842697&matches=40&qsort=p&cm_sp=1rec-_-RHS-_-p1-0 | 2013-05-25T01:32:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705310619/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115510-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954247 | 652 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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06-14-2010, 03:48 AM
i have a 2001 honda civic dx 2 dr. i swapped the alternator and checked the battery it checked out. the car turns on normally nd runs great. but i remove the negative and the car dies. something is not letting the battery charge. can someone please help me out!!!!
06-14-2010, 11:38 AM
If you removed the cable while the car was running - bad news! You could have killed the ECU.
If the car was running why did you remove the cable?
Here is the simple procedure to test your charging system:
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For more sophisticated test go to Autozone. They test your system for free.
06-14-2010, 12:54 PM
i removed the wire to chack the alternator. i was told thats how u can check it. thnx i will try that procedure out today and just to be sure ill also take it to autozone. do u think it will be something with the fuse box if it isnt the ecu??
06-15-2010, 10:45 AM
I would pull out fuses one by one and check them for the continuity. Fuse may look fine but still be bad.
06-19-2010, 01:24 AM
the charge was fine it turned out being a problem with the fuse box. thnx for the help.
i still need some more help. i want to start working on my car performance wise.
is there anything i can do to improve the torque of my honda?
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In the elevator this morning with my neighbor, Bee. She’s a nurse and we sometimes meet on our way to work. She is a zaftig Puerto Rican with a big smile. Got an easy laugh. Bee’s also a huge movie fan so I mention the upcoming George Harrison documentary by Martin Scorsese.
“Oh, I love Rock n Roll,” Bee said. “I was one of the only Latina’s that did back then. You don’t believe me? Inagaddadavida, baby!”
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The Department of Defense (DOD) is at the genesis of large-scale integration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) into its non-tactical ground fleet as part of federal government efforts toward expanding usage of alternative fuel vehicles.
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Students from Virginia Tech University learned June 16, 2011 that their teamwork, perseverance and hard work have led to top honors when they were named the overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an exceptional extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol).
A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid. The technology could even make “refueling” such batteries as quick and easy as pumping gas into a conventional car.
via Organic Connections Magazine, Near the end of Chris Paine’s razor-sharp 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? we witnessed hundreds of electric cars—fast, almost silent-running vehicles with zero emissions that were in demand by consumers—being taken right out of the hands of drivers, hauled away, crushed and shredded. After…
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One of the main drawbacks in selling the idea of an electric vehicle to the buying public is the time it takes to recharge the batteries. Of course, if you are just using the car for commuting every day, then you can get away with recharging on cheaper, off-peak power…
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/Opinion No. 209 (1999)/
Commission on Political Affairs
Reporter: Terry Davis (United Kingdom)
1. Georgia applied to join the Council of Europe on 14 July 1996. By Resolution (96) 33 of 11 September 1996, the Committee of Ministers invited the Parliamentary Assembly to give an opinion on this application, in accordance with Statutory Resolution 51 (30A).
2. The Parliament of Georgia applied for Special Guest status with the Parliamentary Assembly on 4 March 1993 and obtained it on 28 May 1996. Examination of this application was linked to the adoption of Recommendation 1247 (1994) on the enlargement of the Council of Europe, in which the Assembly stated that "in view of their cultural links with Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia would have the possibility of applying for membership provided they clearly indicated their will to be considered as part of Europe".
3. An ad hoc committee of the Assembly observed the parliamentary elections held in Georgia on 5 November 1995 and noted that, in spite of what they considered to be some minor irregularities, "the election had proceeded calmly and apparently in acceptably normal and lawful conditions".
4. Since 1996, Georgia has been participating in various Council of Europe activities under the intergovernmental co-operation and assistance programmes, and in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly and its committees through its delegation of Special Guests.
5. Georgia has ratified the European Cultural Convention and the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, and signed the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region.
6. The Assembly considers that Georgia is a pluralist democratic society, respectful of human rights and the rule of law, and is able and willing, in the sense of Article 4 of the Statute, to continue the democratic reforms in progress in order to bring all the country’s legislation and practice into line with the principles and standards of the Council of Europe.
7. Georgia has experienced two armed conflicts, in Abkhazia (1992-94) and in South Ossetia (1990-93). The Assembly believes that the country has demonstrated its resolve to settle conflicts by peaceful means, as is well illustrated by the substantial improvement in relations with South Ossetia.
8. The Assembly considers that the adoption of a declaration of friendship with the Abkhaz and Ossetian peoples, as well as increased contact at every level, would help to establish and consolidate a climate of confidence in relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
9. The Assembly calls on Georgian and Abkhaz leaders to accelerate talks on the status of Abkhazia within the internationally recognised borders of Georgia and on the return of all displaced persons to Abkhazia.
The Parliamentary Assembly expects Georgia to undertake:
I. With regard to conventions
a. To sign the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as amended by its Protocols Nos. 2 and 11, at the time of accession;
b. To ratify the ECHR and Protocols Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 7 thereto within a year after its accession;
c. To sign and ratify, within a year after its accession, the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its protocols;
d. To sign and ratify, within a year after its accession, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
e. To sign and ratify, within three years after its accession, the European Charter of Local Self-Government, the European Outline Convention on Trans-frontier Co-operation and its additional protocols and the Council of Europe conventions on extradition, on mutual assistance in criminal matters, and on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime, and in the meantime to apply the fundamental principles of these instruments;
f. To sign and ratify the Council of Europe’s Social Charter within three years after its accession and, in the meantime, to endeavour to implement a policy in accordance with the principles it contains;
g. To sign and ratify the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Council of Europe and the protocols thereto within a year after its accession;
h. To sign and ratify the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto within two years after its accession;
II. With regard to domestic legislation
a. To create, within four years after its accession, the legal framework for the establishment of a second parliamentary chamber, in conformity with the constitutional requirements;
b. To enact, within two years after its accession, a legal framework determining the status of the autonomous territories and guaranteeing them broad autonomy, the exact terms of which are to be negotiated with the representatives of the territories concerned;
c. To adopt a law on the electronic media within a year after its accession;
d. To adopt a law on attorneys within a year after its accession;
e. To adopt, within two years after its accession, a legal framework permitting repatriation and integration, including the right to Georgian nationality, for the Meskhetian population deported by the Soviet regime, to consult the Council of Europe about this legal framework before its adoption, to begin the process of repatriation and integration within three years after its accession and complete the process of repatriation of the Meskhetian population within twelve years after its accession;
f. To amend the law on the Ombudsman within six months after its accession, so that a report on the Ombudsman’s activities shall be presented to Parliament and made public every six months;
g. To take the necessary legislative measures within two years after its accession and administrative measures within three years after its accession in order to permit the restitution of ownership and tenancy rights or the payment of compensation for the property lost by people forced to abandon their homes during the 1990-94 conflicts;
h. To amend, within three years after its accession, the law on autonomy and local government to enable all the heads of councils to be elected instead of being appointed;
i. To adopt, within two years after its accession, a law on minorities based on the principles of Assembly Recommendation 1201 (1993);
III. With regard to the implementation of reforms
a. To maintain and continue the reforms of the judicial system, the public prosecutor’s office and the police force;
b. To continue and reinforce the fight against corruption in the judiciary, the public prosecutor’s office and the police force;
c. To adopt the law concerning the transfer of responsibility for the prison system from the Ministry of the Interior to the Ministry of Justice within three months after its accession and to ensure the effective implementation of this law within six months after it has been adopted;
d. To review the scale of sanctions with a view to the reduction of the length of detention and to foresee alternative sentences to prison sentences;
IV. With regard to human rights
a. To ensure strict observance of the human rights of detainees, to abolish within six months after its accession the existing prison system, which puts prisoners with prior political activities in the same cells as other prisoners, and to continue to improve conditions of detention in prisons and pre-trial detention centres;
b. To give human rights training to prison staff and to the police, with the assistance of the Council of Europe;
c. To respect the maximum length of preventive detention;
d. To implement within six months after its accession the right of a detainee to choose his (own) lawyer;
e. To review the cases of persons convicted or detained for their part in the political upheavals of 1991-92 within two years after its accession;
f. To prosecute resolutely and impartially the perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, even within its own armed forces;
V. With regard to the conflict in Abkhazia
a. To continue the efforts to settle the conflict by peaceful means and do everything in its power to put a stop to the activities of all irregular armed groups in the conflict zone and to guarantee the safety of the collective peace-keeping forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the United Nations Observer Mission (UNOMIG) and representatives of all international organisations involved;
b. To facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable groups of the population affected by the consequences of the conflict;
VI. With regard to the monitoring of commitments:
10. to co-operate fully with the implementation of the Assembly’s Resolution 1115 (1997) on the setting up of an Assembly committee on honouring of obligations and commitments by member states of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee), as well as with the monitoring process set up under the Declaration of the Committee of Ministers dated 10 November 1994 (95th session).
11. On the basis of these commitments the Assembly believes that Georgia is able and willing, in accordance with Article 4 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, to fulfil the conditions of membership of the Council of Europe as set forth in Article 3 of the Statute in the following terms: "Every member of the Council of Europe must accept the principles of the rule of law and of the enjoyment by all persons within its jurisdiction of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and collaborate sincerely and effectively in the realisation of the aim of the Council (of Europe)";
12. With a view to ensuring compliance with these commitments, the Assembly decides, pursuant to Resolution 1115 (1997), to monitor the situation in Georgia closely as from the country’s accession;
13. On the basis of the commitments set out above, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
I. Invite Georgia to become a member of the Council of Europe;
II. Allocate five seats to Georgia in the Parliamentary Assembly.
*Assembly debate on 27 January 1999 (4th Sitting) (see Doc. 8275, report of the Political Affairs Committee, rapporteur: Mr Davis; and Doc. 8296, opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr Kelemen).
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Throughout the summer Magic Zone Youth have been raising money for the Annual Backpack Giveaway, as well as charities like Child Abuse Prevention Center, SFFD Toy Drive, Breast Cancer Support and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Next week they announce their totals and share how they chose their charities. Won't you help them reach their goals and celebrate their efforts?
$20 for lunch, panel and program all proceeds benefit aforementioned programs.
The money covers the cost of lunch helps the group collect money for school supplies for hundreds of backpacks and allows them to make donations to the organizations identified by the groups participating in the Magic Zone Summer Programming.
Kindergarten - 2nd chose to donate money to the Firefighters toy drive
3rd - 5th chose to support the Diabetes Foundation
6th - 8th chose to donate to the Child Abuse Prevention Center
Peer Leaders (9th -12th) chose to support breast cancer programming
Even you can't attend the luncheon consider making a small donation no amount to small, $1, $5 whatever you can contribute. The youth are enjoying the pleasure of giving back and helping and others and learning we can all make a difference. True empowerment comes from realization that you have something to give.
The youth have hosted a walk-a-thon, bake sale and researched their organizations. They have raised over $1,000 and are excited to make their presentations and learn more about service and philanthropy.
Magic Zone at Ella Hill Hutch Community Center serves over 100 youth Kindergarten - 12th grade, offering quality out of school time programming.
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The Ram-brand truck dates back to 1981. However, it was the drastic redesign for 1994 that put the Dodge Ram on the map. Sales tripled that year and quadrupled within two years. This second generation pickup still used the 318ci and 360ci V8s, which date back to 1967. It is quite a feat to quadruple sales with a truck powered by a 40-year-old engine.
The third generation Ram was introduced in 2002. It had a new frame, suspension, interior and exterior sheet metal. These models got the 4.7L Single Overhead Cam (SOHC) V8, which replaced the 318ci (5.2L) V8. The big news, however, came in 2003: “Yeah, it’s got a HEMI®.” The 5.7L HEMI V8 replaced the 360ci (5.9L) V8. For every two Ford or Chevy pickups sold, Dodge was selling one Ram.
For the 2009 model year, during the biggest downturn in decades in pickup sales for all makes, Dodge introduced its fourth generation Ram 1500. The 4-door cab was restyled, as were the front end fascia, headlights and grille. The fleet-oriented Ram 1500 is available as a Regular Cab, Quad Cab or Crew Cab. The only difference between the Quad Cab and Crew Cab is rear seat leg room. There is 34.7 inches of rear seat leg room in the Quad Cab (the police Heavy Service truck) and 40.3 inches in the Crew Cab. The police Charger has rear leg room measuring 40.2 inches.
The pickup is available in 5.5-foot, 6.3-foot and 8-foot bed lengths. The Ram comes standard with Electronic Stability control. This includes all-wheel ABS and all-speed traction control. All-speed traction control is part of electronic stability control, but some low speed wheelspin is allowed. The Ram has front air bags and full side curtain (front seat/rear seat) air bags.
The 2010 fleet versions of the Ram 1500
are available with a 215 hp 3.7L V6, a 310 hp 4.7L V8 and a 390 hp 5.7L V8. Like the police Charger, the Ram has a 5-year, 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. New Eagle HEMI
The new Eagle version of the HEMI now has Variable Valve Timing (VVT). This increases the peak horsepower at higher rpm and increases the peak torque at lower rpm. Importantly, this also “flattens” the torque curve, resulting in more usable power than the peak horsepower and torque would suggest. The horsepower was bumped from 345 hp to 390 hp, a 13 percent increase. The torque was increased to 407 lb-ft, a 9 percent increase. The 5.7L HEMI runs on 87 octane unleaded regular gas.
The new version of the HEMI continues to use Chrysler’s Multiple Displacement System (MDS). For 2009, the parameters under which MDS would deactivate four of the cylinders were widened. Cylinder deactivation now kicks in sooner, and the cylinders remain shut down longer.
On a reasonably level road, at an approximately steady speed between 55 mph and 65 mph, the “ECO on” light is illuminated in the driver information center of the dash, showing that MDS is engaged. In fact, any light throttle acceleration while driving around town (less than 1800 rpm) also engages the MDS. Of course, the 5.7L HEMI goes from a fuel efficient V4 to a stump pulling V8 faster than the driver can press the gas pedal. Decel Fuel Shutoff
The new HEMI also uses another method to achieve better fuel economy in actual driving. Dodge calls it Interactive Deceleration Fuel Shut Off (iDFSO). With iDFSO, the engine controller shuts off the flow of fuel during vehicle deceleration. The fuel is shut off completely under two basic scenarios. First, the fuel is shut off if you lift your foot off the gas pedal while the engine is running at higher rpms, for example, 3500 rpm. The fuel is cut to prevent high catalyst temperatures, and the fuel will resume as the rpm drops to about 1200 rpm.
Second, fuel is shut off during a normal lift foot from a steady state where the transmission torque convertor is in slip control. The fuel is completely cut off after a short delay after the gas pedal is lifted. The transmission will downshift with the fuel off as the vehicle speed decreases. The fuel turns back on as the rpm approaches 950 rpm and/or the torque convertor unlocks.
In typical drive cycles, the fuel will be off approximately 5 percent to 8 percent of the time the vehicle is moving with improvements to both fuel economy and brake pad life. The vehicle may feel like it is not “coasting” as far on decel as the previous model years did because fuel is not being used to propel the vehicle at closed pedal.
As the pedal is lifted to coast to a stop on an MDS-equipped engine, the iDFSO (fuel shutoff) and the MDS (cylinder deactivation) work in combination with one another. The fuel will shut off or turn on in either MDS mode (8 cylinder or 4 cylinder). MDS may also activate during a fuel shut off, but the activations will not happen at the same time. The vehicle deceleration will be milder while in 4 cylinder mode. Light pedal tip-ins will stay in 4 cylinder mode as the fuel is turned back on. When coasting to a stop, 8 cylinder mode is re-enabled after the fuel turns on.
So, “ECO on” illuminated on the dash means either iDFSO or MDS is activated. However, the two ECO methods (MDS, iDFSO) are disabled at idle in both Park and Drive. As the truck coasts to a stop, as soon as the gas pedal is backed off, the ECO is activated. As the truck nears a full stop and as the engine speed gets below 950 rpm, the ECO is off and MDS/iDFSO are disengaged. Most V8 engines do not idle smoothly enough for cylinder deactivation at idle.
The goal for the design team with the new truck was to hit 20 mpg Highway with the 5.7L V8 2WD. Using advanced engine controllers (iDFSO), weight saving designs (rear coil springs) and materials (aluminum hood), and improved aerodynamics, that is exactly what they achieved. With the 4x4, compared to the earlier HEMI, the new 5.7L “Eagle” version has the same 13 mpg/City (4x4) but has 18 mpg/Highway versus the 17 mpg with the HEMI.
The 4.7L V8 is the only Ram engine that is E85 Flex Fuel capable. No other reason whatsoever exists to pick the smaller 4.7L V8 instead of the larger 5.7L V8. Both engines have exactly the same EPA rating: 13 mpg City, 18 mpg Highway. If you need a 4WD pickup or a 4-door pickup, the 4.7L V8 will have to work too hard to get the same job done.
Of course, if you need real performance, the 4.7L V8 is simply not capable of that. The 5.7L V8 is an extra cost option, but one every police truck should have. In the 2WD version, the 5.7L V8 even has a 1 mpg advantage over the 4.7L V8 in the Highway rating. Don’t even think about the 4.7L V8. It has no future.
The 4.7L and 5.7L V8 engines both use the bulletproof 5-speed automatic. The 545-RFE (Rear-wheel drive Full Electronic) 5-speed trans is a truck transmission. This is, of course, very different from the NAG-1 (New Automatic Gearbox) 5-speed in the police Charger—the W5A580 trans. The Ram 4x4 has electronic shift-on-the-fly part-time transfer case. The 2-speed NVG 243 Part-Time transfer case can operate in 2WD, 4WD LOCK (high) and 4WD LOW (locked). New Rear Suspension
The Ram has a totally new rear suspension. The leaf springs have been replaced with coil springs and a 5-link rear suspension. With a leaf spring suspension, the springs do two jobs: suspend the truck and position the axle. With a coil spring suspension, the springs do just one job: suspend the truck. The multi-links do the job of positioning the axle. The coil spring design is 40 pounds lighter than the leaf spring setup.
The coil spring rear suspension does not give up any haul-tow capability. In fact, the Gross Combined Weight Rating (GCWR) for the 5.7L V8, 3.92 axle, 140-inch wheelbase Ram (the test truck) has been increased from 14,000 pounds to 15,500 pounds. Fuel Economy
During the course of 1,500 miles, we drove the Ram on a wide variety of roads, from the rutted and pot-holed gravel roads of rural Indiana to the interstates in northern Illinois. We ran three days of pure traffic enforcement in the Ram in both rural and interstate scenarios. We did some routine calls-for-service driving in suburban settings. We braved Chicago’s brutal rush hour traffic from the far north side to the far south side…four times.
The combined gas mileage from the HEMI Ram was 14.9 mpg. During dedicated traffic enforcement with highway driving, acceleration past 100 mph then idling, we averaged 14.4 mpg. We averaged 14.9 mpg running between 70 and 80 mph on the interstate. However, we averaged 15.9 mpg when we were running between 55 mph and 60 mph on state highways during calls for service. The ECO light was almost never on at the higher (interstate) speeds and almost always on at the lower (highway) speeds. The lesson is that the MDS and iDFSO really do improve mileage if given a chance.
The EPA “combined” fuel economy rating for the Ram 4x4 HEMI is 15 mpg. In 1,500 miles of mixed driving, we averaged 14.9 mpg. In our experience with the Dodge Charger, which uses this same 5.7L VVT and MDS engine, expect a full 2 mpg improvement over whatever you were getting with the previous 5.7L HEMI. The Ram has an optional 32-gallon tank. For the kind of rural use that these police Rams get, the bigger tank pushes the range well past 450 miles. Performance
The 390 hp HEMI Ram is, of course, fast. The older 345 hp HEMI Ram 4x4 Quad Cab hit 60 mph in 8.1 seconds and 100 mph in 25.0 seconds. The new 390 hp HEMI Ram 4x4 Quad Cab reaches 60 mph in 7.3 seconds and 100 mph in 19.1 seconds. To put this in perspective, the Ford CVPI reaches 60 mph in 8.6 seconds and 100 mph in 23.0 seconds.
All the Ram pickups are speed limited to 108 mph. During the week of traffic enforcement in the Ram, we were constantly butting into that limiter. A top speed of 115 mph would be much more police-oriented.
In police use, the Ram had very responsive handling. In accident avoidance and evasive maneuvers, the big truck gave the driver confidence. There was a bit of understeer, of course, but it was not sluggish, and it had minimal body roll. It felt as good at 100 mph as it did at 55 mph. For a 4x4, 4-door pickup, it handled impressively well.
The Heavy Service package uses P265/ 70R17 all-season tires, while LT275/70R17 all-terrain tires are optional. We have no tolerance for poor tires on police vehicles. These standard equipment Goodyear Wrangler SR-A all-season tires are excellent. During our two weeks with the Ram, it rained every other day. Under dry conditions, traction during hard acceleration and hard braking was excellent. The tires were responsive in all aspects of cornering. Under wet conditions, the Wrangler SR-A tires also had good traction. At highway speeds, the tires were quiet.
When it came to mud, the Wrangler SR-A tires did their part. Somehow the grassy center medians became muddy and very soft. Yes, we nearly got stuck while crossing them in 2WD. But after a quick flick of the transfer box from 2WD to 4WD LOCK, we were right out of there with grass clumps and mud flinging everywhere. Interior Room
Entry into and exit from the truck was easy, even without sideboards. As a full-size pickup, the Ram has tons of headroom, shoulder room, elbow room, hip room, knee room and leg room. The Ram has maximum driver and passenger room, period. Getting out of cramped and crowded, tight-fitting little sedans and into the Ram is a dream. You can actually fasten your seat belt without disarming yourself.
The Ram also allows maximum visibility, including through the space between the A-pillars and the outside mirrors. Speaking of the mirrors, they provide excellent coverage. Dodge worked to get the mirrors aerodynamic but did not give up function. In fact, these mirrors allow a better view than earlier Rams.
Now, about the seats. Well, it is, after all, an ST level truck. Behind the driveline components, the seats are the most expensive items in the vehicle. So that is the first place to reduce costs in the low trim levels. The seats are only acceptable, only functional, but no more. The seats are manual adjust (not power), which is okay, but they at least need a lumbar adjustment. The seats are cloth, but cloth is an option. Vinyl is standard. The seats are not uncomfortable, but the 1/2-ton truck market is too competitive for “only okay” seats, even in a police truck. Lockable Storage
The number one “unmet need” of retail and commercial fleet customers with Ram pickups, and probably all pickups, is the lack of dry, lockable storage. The result is the Ram Box® storage built into the wheel well on both sides of the box. Each side is large enough to hold a golf bag for a total of 7.4 cubic feet of lockable storage. The Ram Box is only available on the Ram Crew Cab and is not available on the ST trim level. While the Ram Box is available, it is not a part of this Heavy Service package.
The new Ram is an improvement in a dozen areas over the previous generation Ram: more power, more safety features as standard equipment, more interior features as standard equipment, more refined suspension, better fuel economy, and better matched interiors. But it is still a Ram, and that is good. Three Goals for NextGen Truck
Dodge had three goals for the new generation Ram:
1) Improve the quality of the interior,
2) Improve the ride while maintaining the same haul-tow capability, and
3) Improve aerodynamics for both noise control and fuel efficiency. 1. Upgraded Interiors
The interior is the first “graduate” of Chrysler’s new Advanced Interior Design Studio. The Ram uses two-tone dash, upholstery and interior trim. As for the improvements, it is a tough call to make when you are looking at the low trim level ST work truck. All the controls for the radio, HVAC, transfer case and lights are large in diameter and use “soft-feel” materials, which really do give a better tactile feel than the earlier generation truck.
The interior panels have a tight, precise fit. The entire interior (dash, seats, door trim) consists of blends and matched combinations of gray and charcoal. Part of the improved interiors includes power windows and power locks as standard equipment on all Rams with 4 doors.
The improvements are more noticeable on the SLT, TRX, Sport and Laramie versions than the base ST trim level. Dodge gave a lot of attention to the seats, but again this is only evident on the higher trim levels. The company’s goal was to match Ford and Chevy trim level for trim level, and they did that. 2. Improved Ride
As for the ride and handling, the new multi-link coil spring rear suspension had a small effect on handling and ride comfort. It also improved Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) levels. The leaf spring to leaf spring rubbing is gone. Also, the suspension now has five grommet-softened links with the durometer specific for the function of each link, instead of the brutish grommets holding the leaves to the chassis.
We have put 80K miles on the previous generation Ram 4x4 in combinations of rural and suburban driving and a bit of off-road use. We understand the suspension geometry and handling dynamics differences that should be part of the change from leaf to coil springs. But we just can’t tell much of a difference. Sure, there is a clear technical superiority. However, when driving the new Ram and the old Ram under the same rural enforcement conditions, we just don’t see it. Possibly the stiffer suspension of all 4x4 trucks masks some of the felt improvement. In a way, the new Ram being both different and the same is good. It still has to work like a 4x4 truck. No, it doesn’t ride like a Lincoln Mark LT. It rides like a 4x4 Ram and does everything we want a 4x4 Ram to do.
After 1,500 miles in the Ram, we can best describe it as a bit more refined—improved a little bit everywhere. The new Ram crosses medians at highway speeds confidently, gets down washboard gravel roads just fine and has perfectly acceptable high-speed responsiveness during evasive maneuvers and accident avoidance drills. But it’s not like the rear suspension has gone from a live (solid) axle to fully independent in terms of ride quality and improved handling. 3. Less Air Drag, Wind Noise
The third area of focus was less aero drag and wind noise. About 60 percent of the power needed to cruise at highway speeds is used to overcome air drag. The rest is powertrain, driveline and brake pad friction and tire rolling resistance. Aerodynamics is the key to fuel economy, even in a pickup truck.
The Ram spent 200 hours in the wind tunnel working to reduce drag and wind noise. The front fascia is more aerodynamic. It was also lowered a bit for less drag. The wheel well openings were greatly tightened, and the side sill was extended to reduce drag and wind noise.
A lot of testing led to the new outside mirror design. A hood bulge that protects the windshield wipers from wind drag was added. The shape of the windshield frame leading edge was tweaked for low wind noise. The tailgate now has a bit of a built-in spoiler to smooth the airflow over the rear of the truck.
At a drag coefficient of .387 Cd, the new Ram has the sleekest front aerodynamics of any full-size truck. The new Ram also has the best rear truck (flow over tailgate) air drag of any full-size truck. As a result, the new Ram is much quieter than the earlier versions. Our test truck was a slicktop, and it was extremely quiet even at high interstate speeds. Lights and Sirens
The 160 amp alternator in the 2009 and newer Ram is a big improvement over the 136 amp alternator used in the older Rams. The 160 amp alternator is the same one used on the police Charger. The 600 CCA battery has been upgraded to 700 CCA.
The Heavy Service Ram driven for this review was upfitted by Chicagoland’s PDS Police Systems. Whelen Linz6 LEDs were used on the outside mirrors while FedSig Viper VPX LEDs were used behind the grille. A slicktop police vehicle simply must have outside mirror lights for side coverage. A Fed Sig Viper S2 dual head LED mounted in front of the inside mirror was the primary forward signal.
Whelen Vertex LEDs (one red, one blue) were mounted in the headlight lenses. Wig-wag headlights were not used because separate wiring needs to be run for wig-wags on the Ram. Given the choice of just one option, some sort of wig-wag function, even white grille LEDs, would have given a warning signal under a wider variety of conditions than the headlight LEDs.
A Code 3/PSE Light and Siren controller and FedSig Signal Master controller were mounted in a Lund Industries short console with arm rest. A FedSig Dyna Max 100 watt siren was tucked behind the grille. The primary rear signal is from a FedSig Cuda TriOpTic™ LED Signal Master bar. This was set up with red and blue LEDs on the outsides and amber directional LEDs in the center. FedSig Impaxx LEDs were used around the rear license plate. Whelen Vertex LEDs were mounted in the backup light lenses to complete the rear signal.
The interior really needs a forward-mounted overhead light. The retail-oriented center-mounted headliner light is no help at all for nighttime police use. The combination red/white oversize light, mounted as far forward as possible, will now be standard equipment on any Heavy Service package for the Ram.
MORE INFORMATION: www.policedepartmentsystems.comHeavy Service Package
Our test & evaluation truck was a Heavy Service package Ram, courtesy of Thomas Dodge. Chrysler Group is also in the process of developing such a Special Service package. The Heavy Service package is based on the 4x4 version of the 4-door Quad Cab. This Ram, with a 6-foot, 4-inch bed, is based on the base level ST trim package. The Quad Cab has the smaller 24-inch door opening.
The Heavy Service package comes standard with the 4.7L V8. The 5.7L V8 is a $1,250 option. The Heavy Service package includes front tow hooks, a transfer case skid plate and a front suspension skid plate. A Class IV receiver is an available option. The ST trim Ram uses a 3.55 axle ratio, while the Heavy Service package uses a 3.92 ratio, limited slip rear axle.
Importantly, this low trim level uses vinyl seat covering and a full rubber floor mat. Cloth seats, carpet and floor mats are an option. The chrome bumpers and chrome wheels on the test truck were also options. Importantly, the chrome package also includes 8-inch (wider) chrome wheels. The standard 7-inch argent wheels are especially plain. Expect to pay around $21,000 for the base Heavy Service package 2010 Ram Quad Cab 4x4.
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