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By Starrla Cray
MEEKER, WRIGHT COUNTIES, MN The whistles and rumblings of the trains that run along the Highway 12 corridor are familiar sounds, but they sometimes leave residents with an earful of questions.
Delano resident Fran Stein, who lives near the Third Street railroad crossing, said he would like to find out how to lessen the frequency of the train whistles.
“I notice it most when I’m trying to sleep,” Stein said. “At three or four in the morning, it’s disturbing the peace.”
In general, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) requires locomotive engineers to sound train horns for 15 to 20 seconds in advance of all public crossings.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) is the railway company that has trains going through many local cities, including Delano, Montrose, Waverly, Howard Lake, Cokato, and Dassel.
“If the engineer sees someone on the track or a motorist who isn’t paying attention, he might sound the whistle longer,” said Joe Faust, director of public affairs for BNSF. “Most of our engineers have 25 to 30 years of experience, and they can tell when someone isn’t paying attention.”
Wherever feasible, train horns must be sounded in a standardized pattern of two long, one short, and one long. The horn must continue to sound until the lead locomotive or train car occupies the grade crossing.
Some crossings have been designated as “quiet zones,” however, which means that horns don’t have to be sounded on a regular basis.
In Minnesota, 42 crossings have this designation. For full quiet zones, the horn is silenced 24 hours a day. Partial quiet zones typically are silent between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
“Communities have it within their power to significantly reduce the whistles,” said Steve Forsberg of BNSF.
For a city to establish a quiet zone, officials would need to work with MnDOT and BNSF to assess the risk of collision at each crossing. This assessment determines what types of safety features are needed if the whistles are silenced.
Safety improvements might include adding medians to prevent drivers from going around a lowered gate, permanently closing the crossing to highway traffic, installing wayside horns directed at highway traffic only, or converting a two-way street into a one-way street, among other options.
“BNSF installs the equipment and maintains it, but we aren’t the ones that pay for it,” Faust said.
“Some communities decide they don’t want to invest in something like that,” Forsberg said.
In a quiet zone, engineers still sound the horn during emergency situations, such as a person or vehicle on the tracks.
According to a recent Star Tribune article, 11 people in Minnesota have been killed by trains so far this year, the highest number in a decade. This increase prompted transportation officials to issue a public safety alert, warning people to “pay increased attention to the danger of walking on or near railroad tracks.”
Sounding the train whistle is “fundamentally a safety requirement,” Forsberg said.
“Some people seem to be a lot more sensitive to the sound,” he added. “Believe it or not, I get calls from some people who say they like it.”
Jeff Farnham, whose house is about 100 yards from a railroad crossing in Delano, said he has gotten used to the sound.
Even if a quiet zone is established, he said he would still hear the rumbling of the trains.
“When it’s a still night, you can hear the trains from a couple miles away,” he said. “The train rumbling actually shakes my house.”
An average of nine to 12 trains travel from Minneapolis through Howard Lake every 24 hours, said Forsberg of BNSF. From Cokato through Grove City, the average is 10 to 13 each day.
“It fluctuates by what goes on in the economy and what season it is,” he said.
Many of the trains carry grain, while some haul coal. Others are mixed freight, meaning there is something different in each car.
“There could be lumber, steel, fertilizer, corn syrup, or ethanol,” Forsberg said.
The local train tracks are “relatively lightly traveled,” he said, adding that the busier ones have more than 50 trains passing through each day.
BNSF’s busiest segment has three parallel tracks through Chicago, with 150 trains every 24 hours.
For more information about the BNSF railroad, go to www.bnsf.com.
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Who’s Behind the Scenes?
Pepper Miller founded The Hunter-Miller Group (HMG), a consumer research, trend analysis and marketing strategy company, in 1985 and, since then, has been helping Fortune 500 companies understand how to effectively and positively market their products and messages to the African-American market. Some corporate clients include: American Airlines, American Greetings, Allstate, General Motors, General Mills, GSK, Ford Motor Company, Hallmark Cards, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Procter and Gamble and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Pepper and co-author Herb Kemp launched the landmark African-American cultural marketing book, What’s Black About It? Insights to Increase Your Share of a Changing African-American Market, in October 2005.
Pepper served as a research consultant for the largest study about African Americans to date; the Black America Today segmentation study – commissioned by Radio One and conducted by Yankelovich. The study was launched June 2008.
Additionally, Pepper served as co-research partner and consultant for the first ever segmentation study on African-American women commissioned by Essence Magazine: The 2005 WOW II (Window on Our Women) Study. …and in July 2007 Pepper received the Target Market News MAAX Award for 2007 Research Executive of the Year Pepper also established the Ruth C. Hunter Market Research Scholarship Fund to increase awareness among Black Americans and encourage Black-American students to consider market research as a career option.
Pepper has been an invited guest speaker at many corporations including Procter and Gamble, General Mills, Colgate, Coors, Home Depot, Macy’s and pharmaceutical companies that include Astra Zeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer.
Since teaming with The Hunter-Miller Group in 1995, Bud has provided strategic analysis as well as marketing and advertising insights in the form of recommendations for many Hunter-Miller clients. Additionally, Bud is well versed and experienced in numerous research techniques and is an accomplished moderator and interviewer.
Bud is an 18-year veteran of Chicago’s top advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett (10 years), J. Walter Thompson (3 years) and Ogilvy and Mather (5 years). He has directed and managed the advertising, marketing and research functions for a variety of top marketers, specifically including Quaker, Discover Card, United Airlines and Phillip Morris.
Bud has a BS from Cornell University and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Charlotte is an energetic, passionate and confident moderator. She connects well with respondents by building rapport and creating intimacy that helps them open up and speak candidly. She is RIVA trained and has been professionally moderating since 2001.
In her 20-year professional career, she has also held roles in product development, marketing strategy and marketing research for several financial services firms including Allstate, CNA and Zurich Insurance. Additionally, she has also been a guest lecturer at Columbia College and is a member of QRCA (Qualitative Research Consultants Association). Recently, she completed training for Online Focus Group Moderating. Charlotte holds a BA from Howard University and an MBA in Marketing from The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Charlotte began her relationship with The Hunter-Miller Group in 2002 and has successfully conducted HMG qualitative research projects for:
Arbitron Media Ratings
Census 2010 Advertising Campaign
Columbia Dance Theater
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Ford Motor Company
Illinois Democratic Party
Metropolitan Planning Council
Romane Fragrance Company
St. Louis Newspaper
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by Staff Writers
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 05, 2012
An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence that indicates that approximately 2 billion years ago enormous volumes of catastrophic floods discharges may have been captured by extensive systems of caverns on Mars, said PSI Research Scientist, J. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez.
Rodriguez and the research team came to this conclusion after studying the terminal regions of the Hebrus Valles, an outflow channel that extends approximately 250 kilometers downstream from two zones of surface collapse.
The Martian outflow channels comprise some of the largest known channels in the solar system.
Although it has been proposed their discharge history may have once led to the formation of oceans, the ultimate fate and nature of the fluid discharges has remained a mystery for more than 40 years, and their excavation has been attributed to surface erosion by glaciers, debris flows, catastrophic floodwaters, and perhaps even lava flows, Rodriguez said.
The PSI-led teams' work documents the geomorphology of Hebrus Valles, a Martian terrain that is unique in that it preserves pristine landforms located at the terminal reaches of a Martian outflow channel. These generally appear highly resurfaced, or buried, at other locations in the planet.
Rodriguez and his co-authors propose in an article titled "Infiltration of Martian overflow channel floodwaters into lowland cavernous systems" published in Geophysical Research Letters that large volumes of catastrophic floodwaters, which participated in the excavation of Hebrus Valles, may have encountered their ultimate fate in vast cavernous systems.
They hypothesize that evacuated subsurface space during mud volcanism was an important process in cavern development. Mud volcanism can expel vast volumes of subsurface volatiles and sediments to the surface.
But because evacuation of subsurface materials generally occurs within unconsolidated sediments resulting caverns are transient and mechanically highly unstable.
However, the investigated Martian caverns appear to have developed within permafrost, which at -65 degrees Celsius (-85 degree Fahrenheit) - a typical mean annual surface temperature for the investigated latitudes - has a mechanical strength similar to that of limestone. Limestone rocks host most of the terrestrial cavern systems.
Possible cavern have been recently identified on Mars and their existence has caught much scientific and public attention because of their potential as exobiological habitats. However, their age and dimensions remain uncertain.
The discovery of vast caverns that existed in ancient periods of Mars shows that these habitats may have in fact existed during billions of years of the planet's history, Rodriguez said.
PSI Senior Scientist Mary Bourke and Research Scientist Daniel C. Berman are co-authors on the paper.
Planetary Science Institute
Mars News and Information at MarsDaily.com
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SAG announces actors won't cross Golden Globe Awards picket line
UPI News Service, 01/04/2008
The Screen Actors Guild said Friday its members will not cross a striking writers picket line to attend the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Writers Guild of America has been on strike against producers since Nov. 5 and has vowed to picket the Golden Globes gala if it is produced by Dick Clark Productions, a struck company, and broadcast on NBC, a struck network.
The Golden Globe Awards are scheduled to be presented Jan. 13.
In a statement posted Friday on the United Hollywood Web site, SAG President Alan Rosenberg said "there appears to be unanimous agreement" among Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives that the actors will not cross picket lines, either to accept or present Golden Globe Awards.
Rosenberg also said SAG is urging its members to appear on "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," which have signed agreements with the WGA.
"However, actors who are asked to appear on the struck network talk shows will have to cross WGA picket lines," he said, "creating the same situation that has led to the consensus among actors to skip the Golden Globes."
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Astro-metrics Bundle 1.2 (Mobile)
Source: Hans Anger
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Specialized oils blended with Aswagandha and Bala root help to rejuvenate both aching muscles and tired minds.
A traditional Swedish massage with regulated pressure is excellent for releasing knots and tensions in the body. The strong, stimulating movements will effectively ease back aches and tired limbs. Almond oil increases circulation and improves over all skin tone.
This massage uses Lime and Ginger oil to create a multi sensory experience in relation. It is a complete face, scalp and body massage that focuses on vital acupressure points, strengthens the nervous system and restores vitality.
Hours seated in meetings then crammed onto an airplane can lead to stress and pain in the lower back, shoulders, neck, hands and eyes. Release the tension with a stimulating massage designed to reduce jet lag.
Relaxing sandalwood oil is used for this back treatment designed to remove all tense and sore spots on the back and shoulders.
This truly holistic experience brings true harmony to body and mind. During a full body and scalp massage, hot stones are placed on vital energy points that correspond to each chakra while a blend of Indian Rose and Geranium leaves you feeling soft and smooth.
Reflexology is an ancient oriental method of massage where pressure is applied to different points of the foot which correlates to individual body parts. This technique drains away stress and tension to restore ther natural flow of energy.
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Gum Disease is caused by a build up of the bacteria which live in the plaque and tartar on your teeth. The harmful chemicals produced by the bacteria irritate your gums causing them to bleed.
If you don't remove plaque everyday, you may find that your gums become swollen and red and that they bleed easily when you brush your teeth.
As gum disease progresses, your gums may pull away from your teeth to form pockets or gaps between your teeth and gums. We call these gaps Periodontal Pockets.
As periodontal pockets can be very difficult to clean out properly, they tend to fill up with more plaque and tartar and become infected.
If allowed to progress this infection spreads further causing your teeth to become loose. Therefore, regular removal of bacteria, plaque and tartar professionally by the hygienist & cosmetic dentist is essential to maintain healthy gums. Excellent homecare is also vital.
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“Basically the Republicans said we’ll blow up the world economy unless you give us exactly what we want, and the President said OK. That’s what happened. . . . We’re having a debate in Washington which is all about, ‘we’re going to make this economy worse, but are we going to make it worse on 90% of the Republican’s terms or 100% of the Republican’s terms?’ And the answer is 100%.”—Paul Krugman: GOP Said We’ll Blow Up Economy Unless You Do What We Want And Obama Said OK - Electzu via ABC’s ‘This Week’
- Salary of the US President…..$400,000
- Salary of retired US Presidents.…$180,000
- Salary of House/Senate….$174,000
- Salary of Speaker of the House….$223,500
- Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders….$193,400
- Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN IRAQ $38,000…
I think we found where the cuts should be made!
If you agree, REBLOG!
Clogged-up Texas education funding unclogged in budget deal
- $830 million in education funds will finally go to Texas source
» A federal vs. state fight: Last year, Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett (a Democrat) pushed through a provision effectively barring the state from receiving any federal education money unless it promised to spend all of it on education — something that didn’t happen when Obama pushed through his stimulus in 2009. The intention of the amendment was to get Texas to spend the money on education — which they’ve cut in recent years to help close a large deficit. The result of the amendment was that the money was stalled entirely, putting a stranglehold on Texas schools for nine months. Now Doggett’s amendment will go away — and the money will go to schools.
What a Deal
So the government shutdown was averted. I know it could have been averted earlier but we have hacks for politicians.
I do not want to go into much detail about the deal. Just know planned parenthood is safe and that the president is saying this is historically some of the largest cuts ever made.
What I find unsettling is that the deal “requires yearly audits of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” If you pay attention to politics (I hope you do) this may strike you as a little odd. It strikes me as odd since the job of the CFPB is to, you know, protect consumers. I guess you could argue that auditing it ensures that our money is being spent the right way to ensure we are protected as consumers. However knowing how much Republicans HATE the CFPB I see this more as a move of intimidation. The exact same way Ron Paul wants to intimidate the Federal Reserve by auditing it. So my wonder is over why can we audit something meant to protect the people but when Paul wants to audit the Federal Reserve it meats huge opposition?
At the Edge of a Cliff, Take a Bold Step Forward
Today’s column, “Feds Wreck Health Care — Quick! Call in More Feds!” is now online.
“If the lesson learned from this budget fight is that the way to go is compromise with the left, that's a disaster. The left is not going to compromise on their core beliefs. They have to be defeated politically. We're never gonna reverse this leviathan with compromise. We can only reverse it with defeat -- and by defeat I mean more and more massive shellacking election victories like we had in November.”—Rush Limbaugh
“The cuts that have been made so far don’t seem to us to have very significant consequences for short-term economic activity... so far I’ve not seen any fiscal changes that have really changed our near-term outlook.”—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke • Speaking at his press conference today, when asked by a reporter about the package of budget cuts congressional Democrats and Republicans agreed upon. Bernanke’s dim view of the package is very easy to understand, as the size of the cuts were incredibly overstated; taking the long-term value of the package (this year’s savings reportedly only amount to $353 million or so) as $38.5 billion, you’re still talking about chump change as far as the total deficit, estimated over $1.5 trillion, is concerned. Bernanke also said Standard & Poor’s downgrading America’s outlook rating isn’t surprising, because everyone knows the U.S. is on shaky fiscal ground, but that he hopes it will spur more action. source
this is how we pay for the war.
- $600 million in cuts to community health centers.
- $414 million in cuts to grants for state and local police departments.
- A whopping $1.6 billion cut in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget, of which nearly $1 billion comes from grants for clean water and other projects by local governments and Indian tribes.
- Cuts to homeland security programs for the first time ever, though much of the agency’s two percent decrease stems from a $786 million cut in first responder grants to state and local governments.
- A $7 million cut to the Bureau of Public Debt, which accounts for and provides reports on the debt.
- A $1 billion cut to HIV and disease-prevention funds.
- A $3 billion cut to agriculture programs, the biggest portion of which comes from the Women Infants and Children fund, which loses $504 million.
- A $390 million cut to low-income heating assistance; Community Development Funds are cut by $942 million.
- Contributions to the United Nations and other international institutions are cut by $377 million.
- $45 million pulled from nuclear nonproliferation funds.
- A $650 million cut to federal highway investments.
- A rider tucked in by lawmakers from Western states that allows states to remove wolves from the endangered species list.
Wow, we are really down the rabbit hole
As if the White House couldn’t get any more dense, members of President Obama’s text message feed received the following today:
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BRENDAN WIMBERLY - Sunday, August 19, 2012
Alejandro Bedoya got his first action as a Helsingborg player on a day of mixed results for Americans in Sweden.
Elfsborg IF 2 - 1 Helsingborg IF
Helsingborg travelled to take on league leaders Elfsborg. Alejandro Bedoya got the start for Helsingborg as he saw action for his new club for the first time since moving over from Rangers last week.
It took only 37 minutes for the former Boston College standout to make his first big contribution to his new team. The Elfsborg defense couldn't clear an HIF set piece, and Bedoya executed a perfect bicycle kick from close range to give the visitors the early lead.
Minutes later, Bedoya received a yellow card in the 43rd minute.
Helsingborg made it difficult for Elfsborg as they attempted to level the score, but the home side knotted the score in the 70th minute. Stefan Ishizaki sent a cross towards the far post where Andreas Augustsson was able to get on the end of it. The central defender got low to meet the set piece and bounced a header off the turf and into the net to make it 1-1.
Ishikazi provided his second assist four minutes later as substitute Viktor Claesson grabbed a 74th minute goal which put a damper on Bedoya's goal-scoring debut. After some nice team build up play from the home team, Ishikazi found Claesson striding into the box unmarked. The striker controlled the ball then unleashed a nice right footed shot into the bottom left corner to give Elfborg the lead.
Bedoya, who can be played either on the wing or up front, was dispensed as a striker in Helsingbors's standard 4-4-2 alignment. Helsingborg are next in action on Tuesday when they lineup against Celtic in a Champions League qualifier.
IK Sirius 1 - 1 Hammarby (5-4 Sirius on PK's)
Billy Schuler made a late apperance and Baggio Husidic pick up a 57th minute yellow card while playing the match in it's 120 minute entirety as Hammarby crashed out of the Svenska Cup to third tier Sirius on penalty kicks.
Sirius got off to a good start in the first half as Alagie Sosseh's 45th minute goal put the Division One leaders on top. Ian Sirelius found the striker and the Gambian burried his opportunity just before the break.
Bajen were aided in their search for a game tying goal when Sirius winger Joakim Blomqvist picked up his second yellow card in the 65th minute. Shortly after, Sinan Ayranci found the Stockholm giants the goal they needed to make the score 1-1. Eric Figueroa crossed into the box and Mattias Adel Tribe thundered a header towards net. Sirius keeper Jonas Bylund saved the shot, but the deflection came straight to Ayranci, and the striker beat his defender to the rebound before poking home.
Schuler entered in the 70th minute for Jose Monteiro.
The two teams proceeded to battle through the final twenty minutes of regulation before each side failed to score in both extra time periods, leaving the game to penalty kicks. Husidic was the first player to step to the spot, and he blasted his shot to right of Bylund for a goal.
Both teams converted their first three attempts, when Schuler took his opportunity for Hammarby. The 22 year old skied his attempt over the crossbar, and Sirius scored on their final two shots to give Sirius the win on penalties, knocking Hammarby out of the Svenska Cup.
Hammarby will refocus on their Superettan season on Tuesday when they face Landskrona.
Selanger FK 0 - 6 Ljungskile SK
Selanger fell apart late as Patrick Hopkins and Ljungskile netted six goals in the games final 20 minutes to thump SFK.
LSK were held scoreless for 71 minutes until Joakim Runnemo was able to break the deadlock.
12 minutes later it was Hopkins extended the lead for his side, scoring his first goal in an LSK uniform in the 83rd minute.
Tobias Mikaelsson scored in the 85th minute before Runnemo hit a second and third goal in the 86th and 89th minutes to complete an amazing hat trick. Robin Iglicar rounded out Ljungskile's goal rush with a 90th minute goal to cap of Ljungskile's amazing ending as they secured passage to the next round of the Svenska Cup in dramatic fashion.
Lungskile resume their Superettan campaign this week when they take on Varnamo.
Orgyte IS 3 - 0 Degerfors
It was a rough day for Brian Edwards as he and Degerfors were beaten handily by third tier side Orgyte in the second round of the Svenska Cup.
An Oskar Wallen header off of a Johan Hedman cross gave the hosts the lead in the 12th minute.
Degerfors threatened to score a goal of their own when Amadaiya Rennie found Christopher Brandeborn close to net in the 25th minute, but Orgyte keeper Fredrik Andersson made a nice save to preserve his teams lead.
In the 64th minute, another Hedman cross led to Orgyte's second goal. Tommy Lycen volleyed Hedman's cross and though Edwards was able to get a hand on the ball, however the keepers deflection couldn't keep the ball from the back of the net, making the score 2-0.
Wallen would put the game out of reach in the 70th minute. Emil Karlsson spotted the striker unmarked in the box, and Wallen did well to poke home off of the cross.
The loss takes Degerfors out of the Svenska Cup. The Red and White will continue their attempt to break out of the Superettans relegation zone this week when they take one Assyriska.
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in which i discuss girlie things
This is what's it's like the day before I get my period: I wake up with a few zits on my face. My hair - no matter how many times I wash it or what I try to do with it - looks dull and lifeless and will not behave, not even with a fire-hazard amount of hair spray. My skin looks pasty, sort of like a zombie's before they get replenished with brains. I feel bloated all over; no matter what I wear, I like fat and puffy. I feel like my boobs are going to burst out of my bra and everything is too tight. I sense that my ass is so big you could rest a tray of donuts on it. I think everyone is staring at me because I must look like the fat lady from the circus. I'm awkward and clumsy. I drop everything I pick up. I trip over my own feet. I can't type, I can't spell, I can't dial the right numbers on the phone. I think about sex every ten seconds. So basically, every 28 days I go through puberty all over again. In the span of one day. And my husband wonders why I get so cranky. Someone get me a tray of nachos and a chocolate shake, please. And a force field that keeps people at least ten feet from me at all times. And a sign to put on my steering wheel that says "Remember: Road Rage Bad." Honey, I'm on my way home. Just a warning. | <urn:uuid:a6a93c3f-36f1-48cc-ab7e-172ee4891f03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://asmallvictory.net/archives/006134.html | 2013-06-19T15:03:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971643 | 317 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
EURGBP - With an unsustained rally at the 0.8814 level seeing the cross turning lower on Monday, further price consolidation cannot be ruled out. This could force further downside towards the 0.8567 level. However, while this level caps, there is risk of an eventual return to the 0.8716 level. This if seen will leave it targeting the 0.8800 level, its psycho level and then the 0.8500 level. On the downside, EURGBP will have to break and hold below the 0.8716 level and the 0.8446 level to annul its upside and bring further declines towards the 0.8400 level and possibly the 0.8350 level. All in all, the cross remains biased to the upside medium term despite its consolidation risk.
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Originally developed alongside the Israeli armed forces, but now available for motor bikers, Dainese’s airbag vest could be just what downhillers ordered.
The report on bikebiz reveals that the vest inflates around chest, shoulders, neck and back inflates instantly on command from a collision sensing computer on the riders vehicle. The vest then stays inflated for 20 – 30 seconds to provide protection as the rider comes to a halt by bouncing off various blunt objects.
Dainese’s armoured ‘safety jacket’ suits are already extremely popular with the gravity fraternity and although cumbersome the vest could provide a whole new level of safety. Prices are £550 for the vest and £50 for the impact computer, but we reckon it’s worth considering it if it saves you from being jellified on impact. | <urn:uuid:8f8c51d7-526e-48fa-a703-4a174e58bfac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bikemagic.com/gear/blow-up-joy-for-the-downhill-dollies.html | 2013-06-19T15:05:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928047 | 169 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We will be open for one 9:00am HERO WOD on Memorial Day! Get ready to beat your time from last year!
Saturday, June 1st at 7-pm, please join us for StarLight WOD. This is going to be a fun night and a great workout, please wear long socks. Paleo potluck/ BBQ /toast followed by WOD with Zeph from Proletariat Butchery (no am classes this day).
For those interested we will also kick off our next whole food eating challenge from June 1st to July 1st. (see CFSWP food Blog for details or email email@example.com for details).
Clean eating challenge begins June 1st: (This challenge is slightly different from our January strict paleo challenge, this is not a 30 day strict paleo but it is clean paleo eating challenge). See notes below.
$10.00 buy in
June 1st – July 1st
All members that enter into this challenge and completes it will be entered into a drawing. Prizes: CFSWP t-shirt, Momentum custom jump rope, Dick’s kitchen gift certificate.
Please arrange measurements, before and after pictures with Shannon@crossfitswportland.com. Drawing/raffle prizes will be announces shortly after the end of the challenge.
Goal: hard work at the gym & good nutrition = A leaner healthier you. Get ready for summer and show off those muscles!
Keep us posted on how you are doing on our CFSWP Face Book food blog page. Search for it in your Facebook search engine. If you do not like our page, please do so to stay updated on upcoming events!
See below for list.
(There are many great cook books out there on paleo we suggest you look at some great blogs online, we also have books at the gym you can check out, please return them so others can borrow them too).
How to eat- Again we recommend reading Robb Wolf’s Paleo Diet book and 30 DAYS Total-Transformation guide e-book.
If your goal is to lose fat using the Paleo Solution, the majority of your meals should look something like this:
• 4-8 oz of lean protein such as chicken, lean beef, turkey, pork loin
• Several servings of multicolored vegetables, either raw, steamed or
• Round out the meal with good fats from avocado, olive oil or a
handful of unsalted nuts such as almonds, pecans, macadamias or
• Eat this way 3-4 times each day.
Stay away from processed foods!
Do not skip meals! Plan ahead and then plan again.
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it will give you a good idea of some
things to AVOID.
Alcohol – (3x a week red wine okay during this clean eating challenge)!
Milk- We will okay grass-fed butter and milk for this clean eating challenge! You can thank me later. ; )
Ready to sign up? Email firstname.lastname@example.org or put your name on the board at the box! | <urn:uuid:128a48fb-f7d3-4a46-95a0-ef0cc5703e57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cfswp.wordpress.com/blog/ | 2013-06-19T15:25:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90816 | 665 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
App of the Year. Any Year, in Fact.
February 2, 2013
App of the Year. I just started playing with this, but it looks like fun. Bring it with you next time you attend a creationist/climate denialist cocktail party.
Have you ever wanted to go back in time to see what the Earth looked like 400 million years ago? You can with the EarthViewer, a free, interactive app designed for the iPad, that lets users explore the Earth’s history with the touch of a finger by scrolling through 4.5 billion years of geological evolution.
The app, developed by HHMI’s BioInteractive team, tracks the planet’s continental shifts, compares changes in climate as far back as the planet’s origin, and explores the Earth’s biodiversity over the last 540 million years. It combines visual analysis with hard data, and helps students make connections between geological and biological change.
“We’re very interested in how the app can be used in formal education. Scientific concepts can be more fully appreciated when students are given a chance to explore the Earth in such a visual way,” said Dennis Liu, Ph.D., Director of Educational Resources at HHMI.
Liu said that interactive computer-based simulations are being developed and used with growing frequency in many science-education disciplines. His team previewed the app with teachers and professors during its development phase, and received a very positive response.
“The college and high school educators, as well as the geology researchers who’ve seen the beta version of EarthViewer, can’t wait to get their hands on it,” he said.
I’ll be looking for the “Conservapedia” version, with Noah’s Ark and the Flood. | <urn:uuid:b5ae1a8a-08ce-4dc4-b537-259c30aca82a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://climatecrocks.com/2013/02/02/app-of-the-year/comment-page-1/ | 2013-06-19T14:56:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946652 | 379 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Quoting Penises 3:Vaginas 1:" I think its adorable. I want one in my size. "Me too !
Quoting Mrs. Weasley [tech probz]:" OP, what about adding a bit if lace at the bottom?"That'd be cute! Thanks for the suggestion.
Quoting Kimberlea:" Ooo nooo. poor machines. I just fixed my serger today.. I had totally ditched my sewing room for almost a month until today. LOL!" | <urn:uuid:dd88600b-b736-4ec3-a1fc-3619049f6bcd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about2222513-1.html | 2013-06-19T14:57:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941299 | 102 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Is there some way to mogrify images so that only the y axis (height) of the image is factored?
So what I mean is if I have say 20 images and they are all like:
1.jpg = 1024 x 768
2.jpg = 568 x 337
3.jpg = 290 x 560
It's fairly easy to make all of these be 500px wide and maintain the current aspect ratio by doing this:
mogrify -resize 500 *.jpg
or if I want to make them all 500 x 468 then I can do this
mogrify -resize 500x468 *.jpg
but I can't figure out how I can reset the height of all the images to (for example) 468 and retain the same aspect ratio, where all the images are already different sizes. I'd really like to know how to do it so does anybody know if this is possible?
I don't have my hopes up, and it would be quicker for sure to do all this in GIMP rather than waiting for a reply, but y'know, for the benefit of future generations and all that... | <urn:uuid:0a47eaa2-f0cc-4962-9c43-3fc1ff471960> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=213&t=105770 | 2013-06-19T14:52:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929671 | 239 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It’s back to school time. What does that mean? New clothes! While school supplies are the must-haves, new school clothes are the got-to-haves, and that drives families to stores in search of the latest and greatest at the best prices. Sure there are catalogs and ads in abundance showing up in mailboxes across America, but research shows that mom’s are more tuned into sites like Pinterest for inspiration. According to Nielsen Wire 61% of moms are more likely to visit Pinterest than the average American http://bit.ly/NSWj7P. iQuarious Media also notes that 83% of US Pinterest users are women and fashion is one of the top audience interests http://bit.ly/PkiVhQ. Clearly this is the venue to reach mom’s at back-to-school time. Mom’s like to have a game plan and most would rather avoid the crowds. Enter Pinterest. Not only is it a source of inspiration but it’s becoming the new catalog and a destination for online shopping.
As users catalog their own fashion interests, it’s only natural that stores should do so too. Pinterest provides users with a list of “best practices” for creating catalogs and gives Target as an example of a store that utilizes catalogs on Pinterest http://bit.ly/OeHAF3. Time to compare their tips in the context of how Target does things.
1) Pinterest’s first catalog tip is to use natural setting product photography, or to show a product used with other products to create more incentive to buy. I believe that gets too overwhelming and not all viewers may gravitate towards the combinations. Target uses stand-alone images mostly (it’s about the product after all) and this seems to work well. Especially since clicking on the image opens up a new window where that product can be purchased.
2) Thoughtful product descriptions are next on their list and Pinterest allows up to 500 characters for each image, recommending keeping it clear and simple, yet creative. Their example of a company with thoughtful product descriptions is J Peterman Company. Looking at that company’s product descriptions I have to disagree. Their descriptions start out with a cute fictitious story or situation and end with basic product details. I find this rather long-winded. Instead, Target keeps it short, simple and snappy. A much better example.
3) Consistency is their next tip, pinning images that make the “who you are” message clear to your customer. Pinterest goes on to say that one way to do this is by putting your logo in the background. I disagree with this because I think it looks cheesy and unprofessional. Target images on Pinterest all have blank white backgrounds. This not only looks better, it puts the focus where it needs to be: on the product.
4) Most importantly, its last tip is categorization or organizing your product presentation. Once again Target does a great job of this. They have 11 pinboards and only two are company-geared, the rest focus on products with categories like Back to College, Target Baby, Target Home, Target Style, The Shops at Target, Living a Healthy Lifestyle, Food for Thought, Big Honkin’ Summer and Kids These Days. Catchy titles, a variety of categories, lots of products, and direct purchase links. Overall, a great presentation.
Perhaps the only problem with Pinterest catalogs like this one is that they are brand-based. Ki Mae Heussner, in discussing other apps that function like Pinterest (but more mobile-based), mentions that brand-generated content can be a turnoff because it detracts from Pinterest’s user-generated allure http://bit.ly/PexWGg. Meaning customers might be less likely to buy. Although there’re pitfalls with user-generated content too, in that a brand adding content is a better guarantee that an item is available. A brand can also remove content that’s no longer available and link item pictures to the point of purchase on their website with one click. Bizrate Insights notes that 1 in 4 people have made a purchase based off images on the site http://bit.ly/OeHQ7h. Among the reasons for not buying? Didn’t take me to retailer site, couldn’t find item, and didn’t take the time to look for the item. Hence the importance of making it convenient and that’s something a brand has the advantage of doing. Pinterest as a catalog has a lot to offer. A brand that strikes the right balance, and makes shopping convenient, stands the best chance at proving Pinterest really is “The New Catalog” and will secure its place in the virtual commerce space. | <urn:uuid:457b3c83-b075-459d-84bc-94333dc27c47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heathermeligan.wordpress.com/tag/pinterest/ | 2013-06-19T15:25:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942869 | 997 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posts tagged "silly husband"
From a wikipedia entry J emailed me today, with the subject line: “the sport for us.”
Wife carrying (Finnish: eukonkanto or akankanto, Swedish: kärringkånk, Estonian: naisekandmine) is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time. The sport was first introduced at Sonkajärvi, Finland.
(to read more) | <urn:uuid:e96f7ab1-7eb2-4116-a4c3-a8ffab9fb586> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://katherine.tumblr.com/tagged/silly-husband | 2013-06-19T14:50:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947975 | 127 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
While I spend most of my free time dreaming about JDM minivans, I often find myself wanting a sport-tuned German kid hauler. Germany seems to have an abundance of Porsche-powered VW Vanagons out there, and the Deutschlanders just love to take these hopped-up vans to the track. Here we have a vid of a blue VW T3 Vanagon tearing it up around the famed Hockenheimring.
While it’s hard to pick a favorite van, the campervan seen at the 0:40 mark is my favorite just because it’s so absurd. Anyone out there want to help my dreams come true by setting up a Vanagon vs. Estima race? | <urn:uuid:0e923a46-a83c-42da-8783-4a6920720435> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://motormavens.com/tag/t3-vanagon/ | 2013-06-19T14:51:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885656 | 149 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Most of my experience as an ex-sysadmin with web services is with SOAP. And I couldn't speak about experience; the only thing I had to do back in these days was to setup Tomcat and Axis to host mysterious "SOAP" applications.
As soon as I started reading the manuals of Tomcat and Axis at each of these installations, I quickly ran away -- not only couldn't I understand anything, but these docs all started with the idea that whoever was reading them had a strong knowledge of Web Services and/or Java. Which, of course, I didn't.
At a high level, I understand what SOAP is. But since I've jumped in system architecture, what I've been hearing recently is this:
"We're modeling our web services architecture on REST".
Oh no, not a new buzzword. Wasn't SOAP complex enough? What the heck is REST?
Fear no more. It turns out REST has been out there for a while. A long, long while. On the web before many didn't know what the web was.
Anyone who knows the basics of HTTP will understand REST quickly. REST is not a heavy, XML-based protocol as in SOAP. It's a way of doing things the simple way, using straight HTTP to transfer information in - sorry if I interpret things little too much here - an ad hoc manner. No freaking XML and standards. Thus, your web browser is a REST client. If you want to go a little more deeper, another example would be Amazon's S3 which is a more complex service based on REST. In fact, if a service doesn't use SOAP, it probably uses REST.
REST is how anyone with a good-enough basic knowledge of HTTP, but doesn't give a shit about XML and layered protocols, will natively think web services should work. The way things should be. I'm hardwired to think this way, and SOAP always had me thinking that it was way overkill for a lot of uses.
I'm currently reading the following tutorial:
Go read it, it is very well written.
Also take a look at the comment page here. Dr. Elkstein gives there a rough comparison between RPC, SOAP, REST. | <urn:uuid:6192b588-c5a3-4ea3-bbee-816cda40f8ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://omasse.blogspot.jp/2010/09/rest-understandable-web-services.html | 2013-06-19T15:25:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972434 | 465 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
My father once said that finishing in second place feels worse than finishing in last place. He was absolutely right.
When the hockey season started, nobody thought of the Tampa Bay Lightning as a Stanley Cup contender. When they qualified for the playoffs, they were only the fifth seed and most people expected them to lose in the first round. I am sometimes accused of being overly competitive, but considering that the Lightning had not made the post-season in a few years, when these playoffs began even I said that I would consider the season satisfying if they simply won a playoff series instead of getting ousted in the first round.
So what this band of diligent overachievers wound up doing -- winning the first round with an inspiring comeback, defeating the top seed in the second round, pushing one of the NHL's storied franchises to a seventh game in the conference final, and finishing a goal shy of appearing in the Stanley Cup Final -- should be looked at as a rousing success.
Instead, I felt a wave of frustration when Game Seven ended. When you get so close to a prize that you can see it and sense it within grasp, you need to seize it because you just do not know if you will have the chance again. So after the Lightning gelled in the post-season and proved themselves to be true contenders, watching them come up short by such a narrow margin left me with an initial feeling that was negative but that I can not even begin to describe.
I felt anger toward Boston fans, who spent the whole series acting superior to everyone else and acting like the Bruins are entitled to the Cup just because they are an "Original Six" franchise. I could not help but remind them that the Bruins have not won a championship in two generations, and that their best player since the early Seventies had to be traded to Colorado in his final season in order to win the Cup.
And those were just my feelings as a fan. Imagine how it felt for the players, who have been striving for all of their living memory to earn the right to have their names engraved on the Cup. Imagine how it felt for goaltender Dwayne Roloson, who is 41 years old and played spectacular last night. He stopped 37 of Boston's 38 shots, only to see his own team take 14 fewer shots and fail to score, which left me remembering that a goalie should never be forced to pitch a shutout just to earn a tie.
Fortunately for my mental state, the "morning after" brings perspective. The Lightning far exceeded expectations and they provided their fans with multiple memories of playoff success, so I am happy. My hope is that the bitter taste of disappointment stays in their mouths and they use it to push themselves all the way to the pinnacle next year.
I have many thoughts about the upcoming Stanley Cup Final between Vancouver and Boston, but will save those for another post. I will close out this one by saying that everybody who loves sports and appreciates hard work should read this article about Martin St. Louis. | <urn:uuid:66bb83ae-830d-49db-b54a-30e550ff5d48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stantonsspace.blogspot.com/2011/05/so-close-and-yet-so-far.html | 2013-06-19T14:57:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978748 | 611 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
15Sep2005: This project is being folded back into Streamcast. The code will be completely re-written to support the latest version of the Shout.pm module (version 2), as well as numerous feature requests and bugfixes. Visit the Streamcast project page for more news and information.
There's also now a Streamcast Google Group that has been created for discussing the project.
this project is graciously hosted by those nice people at Sourceforge :) | <urn:uuid:4377360b-522d-459e-bbc8-cc92c2326a0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stream-db.sourceforge.net/ | 2013-06-19T14:57:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942883 | 94 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What is it really? MAGIC. My friends, it really is. This is the answer to flat hair, day to night, helping curls, and extending your hair for days. How does it work? It's basically a steamer.
While it's tempting to describe the Q-Redew as a steamer, it really is a warmed up version of a cool mist humidifier. It is hot enough that if you held it close to your scalp and left it there for a bit you could burn yourself, but it's easy to avoid by holding about an inch away and by moving it around a bit.
Don't worry that the mist will cause crazy frizz. Instead it has just enough humidity to help reboot your hair style. It won't make your head wet, but it will make it seem like you've just finished styling your hair from start to finish.
When the mist comes out, just put the "fingers" into your hair and style your hair. I've used the Q-Redew to add volume to the crown of my head on day 2 of a shampoo, help my wavy hair get a bit wavier with scrunching, and to help set curls.
When adding volume at my roots, I just used my fingers to lift my hair a bit, swooshing them around. I moved the Q-Redew around fairly quickly, I didn't really need much help. When I was done my hair had the same volume as I do on a hair washing day, but without the feeling of dry shampoo that I usually have to use on day #2 or 3.
I've also used the Q-Redew to set curls. I've done this only with big pin curls, but I want to get a set of big velcro rollers and maybe try this with braids as well. I just set my hair, then apply the Q-Redew to each area. It takes only about 5 minutes or so to cool down completely, then I take out the curls. I did fairly big curls (my hair was wrapped around 3 fingers), so I had really pretty and soft waves afterwards. I was surprised as well how the Q-Redew had taken my hair that was frizzy when I started and it looked like it had been flat ironed and then curled. The frizz was gone, my hair was super shiny and the waves lasted almost all day.
If your hair is curly, this is a great way to reset (or just style) those curls as well. I've used the Q-Redew on my curly hair days to help clump my curls together a bit more and to defrizz them. It didn't make my bad 80's home perm curls amazing big bouncy curls (ok, that may have been hoping for too much). The Q-Redew did help make the curls come together a bit more and calmed down the frizz.
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Just two days ago, the coolest thing happened...
I got a phone call from Joann, the mother in law of my close friend Anna. Joann and her husband live a few streets over from my parents. Joann called to tell me that her husband had found a letter addressed to my parents, from my brother, postmarked February 27, 2003. Over nine years ago!! I guess their mail slot is in their garage door, and they had found the envelope stuck in the garage door header. Isn't that crazy??
I feel like our family has experienced a sweet little miracle, just in time for celebrating my brother's birthday!
My favorite part is the end. :)
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How do you stay focused? I often start on one idea and get inspired by another while I'm still working so I end up with several unfinished pieces. I just love that fire and adrenaline you get with a new idea and project. After it wears off it can become a struggle to finish and I'm often left wondering if it's good enough?...
02-25-2011, 08:10 AM
I have the same problem. I start on something, totally jazzed about a new project then after that initial anticipation wears off, I have an unfinished piece. Usually I try to think about how awesome the piece will be once it is finished, I will get to see my idea complete as the way (hopefully) I envisioned it. Pretending there is a deadline (or if there is an actual one) helps keep me motivated to finish. It is always good to take short breaks on a piece and work on something else, it can re-create that original feeling of working on something new. Hope that works for you!
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I’ve never considered myself to be a cat person.
But over the course of my life I have come to know a few of the creatures and have to say I’ve softened a bit in my outlook. Not that I want a houseful of them or would ever think seeing one lap up milk from a glass while standing on the counter is cute, but I can say I like having a cat in the home.
When I married I inherited not only a Stepdaughter but a pet cat as well. This one is low key and innocuous, takes care of her own business out of doors, and only rarely hauls in dead or dying creatures. And while she is a good cat on the whole, she has some pretty odd little quirks. Some of her behavior, some of these weird little things she does must be intentional, done for her own amusement.
We have taken to naming the ones we could categorize clearly:
“Homeless Kitty” – sits outside sliding glass door and longingly stares inside, as though wishing she were part of our family.
“Quarantined Kitty” – sits inside sliding glass door and wistfully stares outside, as though she wishes she could somehow get out there.
“Jailbreak Kitty” – lurks near the entryway, unseen, and then quickly darts out the door when you open it.
“Prodigal Kitty” – opening up the back door to step outside, kitty comes running and jumps into the open door, meowing gratefully and eagerly. Kitty has returned after her exile.
“Fickle Kitty” – Sits and waits by door, either inside or out, expecting door to be opened. When victim opens door to help kitty out, kitty turns and walks away from the door: “mmm, I changed my mind.”
“Brainless Kitty” – Sit motionless for at least ten minutes, staring at mysterious translucent rectangle embedded in the door to the garage as though she has utterly no clue that it has been her cat door for the past seven years.
“Neglected Kitty” – repeatedly paws at leg of victim seated at computer, meows for wet kitty food every morning as victim tries to catch up on email, tweets and blog posts.
“Jungle Kitty” – Only played when backyard lawn is overdue for a mowing by a couple of weeks, Kitty skulks through tall grass, low and slow until prey is sighted: moth or crane fly. Kitty then pounces on unwary pray, turns to see that humans have observed her behavior, and scampers off to climb over the fence and hide.
“Inconvenient Kitty” – stands on the stairs in exactly the spot she knows I will be walking through while I’m carrying a double load of laundry down.
“Cleaning Kitty” – waits until I am finally settled on the couch, then chooses another spot on the couch directly in my line of sight to begin loud, energetic personal hygiene.
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On Saturday, June 2nd, my daughter Kelly and I were part of an inaugural tour at the Disneyland Park called Cultivating the Magic, where cast members share their knowledge about the flowers, shrubs, trees, grasses, and other plant life at the Disneyland Park.
Guests are asked to check in 15 minutes before the tour, and when we arrived the rest of the group was waiting for the tour to begin. I was pleasantly surprised to see that fellow DISers and friends, Chris Vettel, Jill Foster, and Melody Brinkman were also taking the tour. The tour limit is ten people, so with these three, Kelly and me, plus another lady, Jennifer, who said she lurks on the DISboards, we made up the majority of guests who were on the tour. There were three others, and a cast member monitoring the tour, plus our guide, Jon, which made for a total of 11 people. This is important, as you will see later.
Currently, the tour is held in the morning, at 9am on Saturdays and Sundays, and at 10am on Mondays. I am glad that the tour starts early in the morning when the park is still fresh. Jon began our tour with a little history about the people responsible for the plants at Disneyland, Bill (Morgan) Evans and his brother Jack. They had landscaped Walt Disney’s home, including the area surrounding his personal railroad, the Carolwood Pacific in 1952. Walt Disney was so impressed by their work that in 1954 he asked them to come up with the landscaping for Disneyland. So, in one year they had to design and incorporate that design into the park, and what a wonderful job they did.
Bill Evans is a Disney Legend (inducted in 1992), and his picture can be seen on Main Street, where his specialty is Freeway Acquisition. You will have to take the tour to find out just why he was given that title.
After this introduction to the genius behind the landscaping at the park, Jon led our group to the iconic Mickey floral at the front of the park, where we took a group picture. Jon then told us about the flowers that make up the Mickey portrait, including the fun fact that 10,000 flowers are used to make Mickey’s face and the floral decoration around it, and that this is changed nine times throughout the year. For just the Mickey portrait, we’re talking about 90,000 flowers per year!
Jon then led us to Main Street, where we learned about the placement of flowers close to the ground and at eye level. The level of detail is amazing, and as we listened to our guide we also were able to appreciate the flowers in a new way. We made our way down Main Street to the Main Plaza, or hub as many of us call it, and there we were shown how the colors of the flowers are carefully picked to frame Sleeping Beauty’s castle in her colors.
We then went to Adventureland, where we learned more about Bill Evan’s touch in creating the jungle in less than a year. He had to use existing plants, along with new plants, to create this untamed look. Our group boarded the Jungle Cruise to get a closer look at the plants. Jon commandeered the boat, and not only did we not have to wait in line, we had the boat to ourselves! He pointed out some of the plants, and let’s just say that there are orange trees planted in a very unusual way along those jungle rivers. After the Jungle Cruise, we were then led around Adventureland and we learned more about the plants there.
I really enjoyed learning about the special plants at Disneyland. Not only did they pay attention to plants that would enhance the look of the park, they also put in plants that have meaning, like the one tree that greets you as you enter Adventureland. There is a special story to it, and now every time I see it I will appreciate it for its history.
Here Jon points out a certain tree that has been on the property before Disneyland grew around it.
We then headed to New Orleans Square to see the plants that really set the mood for the haunting attraction that stands there. Leaves are dark, flowers are blood red. The plants are significant, and vital in setting the tone for this attraction. We then went on the second attraction of the day. Like the Jungle Cruise we did not have to wait in line, but were able to walk right on. Although it was fun to go on the Haunted Mansion, we were left wondering why we went on this indoor attraction when we really would have preferred learning more about the foliage along the queue.
Though we didn’t go into Critter Country, we did learn some about it on the tour before heading over to Frontierland. Frontierland uses plants to represent the southwest, and use a lot of native southern Californian plants, like bougainvillea, cactus, some feather bushes, cattails, and many other plants that give this land its distinctive air.
Once again we learned about certain trees that have a special significance, including this one here that Jon is telling us about.
Our next stop was Fantasyland, which is more manicured to represent the landscaping for a lot of countries where the fairytales come from – Germany, France and England. But at the attractions the landscaping matches the tone of the story, like at Snow White.
Near the Dumbo attraction we were shown the Disneyland Rose. Disneyland wanted a special rose for the 50th anniversary, and began looking for one in 2001. Disney went to Jackson and Perkins, and found a rose in the floribunda family. You can see this rose in various areas at the park. I’ve seen it at the entrance to the park, by the Rivers of America, and now by Dumbo. Right now the rose is in full bloom and fills the air with its sweet fragrance.
Our tour then went to the Storybook Land Canal Boats. We were looking forward to this particular attraction because, darn it, we wanted to learn the secret behind growing the wonderful trees and shrubs there. Our group just fit in the little boat, which explained why the group limit was ten. Again, Jon commandeered the boat, and narrated the ride with a different perspective, with the focus on the various miniature plants. He did tell us the secret to growing the plants so tiny, and … well, you’ll just have to go on the tour to find out just how Tink uses that pixie dust.
The details to these miniature buildings and real trees is just amazing, and you cannot catch all the details in just one trip.
Our next stop was it’s a small world, where we learned just how Disney creates the beautiful topiaries that grace the grounds of the attraction. We learned that normally, topiaries take many, many years to grow, but with Disney magic, and some ingenuity, topiaries are grown much faster.
As we made our way to the entrance to Tomrrowland, Jon fed us more trivia about the various plants at the park. We stopped at the entrance to Tomorrowland, where we were told about the edible plants that are grown there. They are aesthetically pleasing, as well as being a good resource for food at the park.
By this time it was 11:00, and time for the tour to end. A cast member had come with a flower box full of treats for us, and we all received a neat commemorative pin that has a stem poking out. When you pull on the stem you see three Disneyland roses in the shape of Mickey’s head. In addition, we were all given “matchbooks” where the matches were really made of seeds of forget me not flowers, so we “wouldn’t forget the tour” that we went on. It was such a nice touch to receive the pins and flower seeds, and a nice way to end the tour.
I was surprised that the tour was actually over. It lasted two hours, and the time just flew by. We learned about some of the plants at the parks, interesting facts about the landscaping, and saw special trees that have a real significance, not only to Disney, but historically as well.
Another couple of things we learned is that there is a book at City Hall that names all of the plants at the Disneyland Resort. At the time of the tour, the book was not in City Hall because it was being updated since the landscapers had just changed out some of the plants. In my opinion, the landscaping department has to be one of the best run departments at Disneyland. They have excellent attention to detail and sense of timing to change the look of the park several times a year seemingly overnight.
Anyone who has any question regarding the landscape at the Disneyland Resort can email questions to email@example.com, and someone will respond with an answer.
After the tour, Kelly, Chris, Jill, Melody and I chatted about our experience. We all agreed that for an inaugural tour they did a good job, and that Jon was an excellent tour guide. We enjoyed going to the different lands and learning new things about the Magic Kingdom. We really thought the pin and seeds were a great gift for taking the tour.
We also discussed things that we think could be improved upon. We would have liked to have been given a paper at the beginning of the tour that we could refer to when Jon pointed out different plants. Sometimes we missed the names of the trees, or some of the details, and we would have liked to have something to refer to. We were all a little perplexed when we went on the Haunted Mansion. In retrospect we would have preferred using that time to explore Tomorrowland more in depth. There are so many plants there and we wanted to learn about them.
Despite the minor improvements we discussed, we all enjoyed taking the tour. I would recommend taking this tour, however, I do not recommend taking children, unless they are very interested in the plant life at the park. Several of us look forward to taking the tour again during the holiday season when the landscaping will drastically change.
The tour is offered on Friday and Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. and on Monday mornings at 10 a.m. The regular price is $49 with a 20% discount for any of the following: DVC, AP, AAA, or Disney Rewards Visa Card. You can book the tour by calling 714-781-8687. | <urn:uuid:a26f7363-406b-4a14-9d99-3dc4507a9dc7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.disunplugged.com/2012/06/07/cultivating-the-magic-disneylands-new-tour/ | 2013-06-19T15:03:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980401 | 2,178 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- The only way to safely bring a zombie home with you!
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The only safe way to bring a zombie home with you is with this Walking Dead Well Walker Mini-Bust! Depicting the Well Walker in all of his undead, bloated glory, this awesome bust was cast in high quality polystone and painted by hand - plus, it's a limited edition collectible mini bust that has been hand numbered and comes with a matching certificate of authenticity! Perfect for any horror fan! Just keep this one away from the water supply... Measures 6 1/2-inches tall.
In the episode "Cherokee Rose," of The Walking Dead television show on AMC, survivors Dale and T-Dog find a walker at the bottom of Hershel's well. In an attempt to salvage the water supply, they first try to lure, then drag, the walker out of it. Unfortunately, their attempts are unsuccessful, as the rotting, bloated corpse is bisected by the rope that the survivors are using to hoist it out, spilling its tainted entrails and ruining the well. | <urn:uuid:ec9ce12a-753f-4c2f-b85c-4ae40004ab11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=GE80291 | 2013-06-19T15:25:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955378 | 249 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Today, I texted my boyfriend to see if he wanted to finally have sex today. His response was "Can't, Platinum just came out." I didn't know what that meant so I searched "Platinum 3-22-2009" on Google. I found out he's talking about a new Pokémon game. FML
Today, after work I went to the parking lot to my car to go home. I found my car doors heavily scratched and all my tires cut, with a note on my windshield. The note read, "F*** you, Jackson." I'm Tyler. Jackson is my co-worker. FML
Today, I was sifting through my parents old home movies. I put in one and was horrified to see my parents having sex. I immediately ejected the tape and looked at the label. It said "Bermuda, 1989". They've told me I was conceived in Bermuda around that time. I've seen my own conception. FML
Today, I texted my college boyfriend to tell him how terrible I felt about cheating. He replied saying he was so relieved because he had been cheating on me with a girl in his dorm. I was talking about my math exam. FML
Today, my husband dropped me off at work. Ten minutes later I got a text saying "I just dropped the b*tch off I'll be there in a few baby, miss you". I asked him about it. He said, "I don't know what you're talking about, Megan". My name isn't Megan. Not even close. FML
Today, my boyfriend handcuffed me to the bed, naked. Someone pulled the fire alarm, and my boyfriend couldn't find the key. So he left me, and the Resident Advisor found me. The fireman had to cut the chain. FML
Today, well, last night, I told my girlfriend that I'm a light sleeper, and that the slightest disturbance will wake me up. As a result, this morning when I looked in the mirror I noticed a bunch of stuff written all over my body, like "You see, you didn't wake up!", "Nor now!". FML
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Independent butchers’ shops in Glossop have seen a marked increase in trade since the scandal broke last month
Butchers are urging people to shop local as the horsemeat scandal continues across Britain and Europe.
Independent butchers’ shops in Glossop have seen a marked increase in trade since news broke last month that some processed beef products in supermarkets had been contaminated with horse meat.
Now butchers are urging shoppers to make the switch to local shopping a permanent one - highlighting how they favour local farms and abattoirs, short supply chains and high welfare standards for the animals.
Butcher Roy Green, who runs a shop on High Street West, said: “Since this happened I’ve seen quite a lot of new faces in the shop which is encouraging. The first week the news broke we had a few more people come in but last week was a really good week for us.
“The customers feel let down by the supermarkets especially as this seems to have been going on for a while. We use one supplier who buys from farms mostly within 20 to 30 miles of here. We make a big thing about the short supply chain and people are more aware of it than ever before.”
John Mettrick - a fifth generation butcher whose family firm runs a shop on High Street West and one in Hadfield as well as an abattoir - saw a 30 per cent increase in sales of burgers when the scandal first broke in January and even greater sales of mince in the past week.
John said: “The whole thing is very sad for the industry and it doesn’t give meat a good name, but I have to say it doesn’t come as a surprise.
“With some products in the supermarket I believe there are 457 steps on the supply chain between the animal leaving the farm and the food ending up on a shelf. With us it’s three. We also see how the animals are kept – my brother visits the farmers and the farmer who supplies us with beef has done so for three generations.
“We just hope that people making the switch to local butchers will keep coming back.”
Meanwhile parents have been reassured that school meals are free from horsemeat.
Derbyshire county council says that its meals use meat produced on two local organic farms and that no ready meals are used by the service.
Coun Mike Longden, cabinet member for education, said: “I’m keen to pre-empt any worries parents might have by making it clear that our school meals meet the very highest standards.
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Hello everybody! I am currently working on trying to find plans for building a motorcycle. It is going to be my final project for welding/machining school, and I havent had much luck finding plans, etc so far. So if anyone has plans/websites they would like to share, that would be great! Thanks for the help in advance
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Drug users in Greece find rehabilitation programmes waning in light of the economic crisis.
By Andy Dabilis for Southeast European Times in Athens -- 09/08/12
Counseling and therapy have helped (from left) Eli Pandi, Constantina Veli and Alexandra Marcouti recover from drug addiction, but they worry about cutbacks at their centre. [Andy Dabilis/SETimes]
Eli Pandi, 38, started using drugs when she was 14 to escape the pain of family issues. "There was a lot of pain and misery," she told SETimes. But through an Athens drug rehabilitation centre called Over 18, Pandi's life was turned around by counseling and therapy programmes.
"I lost 24 years of my life," she said, to drugs and alcohol, surviving on the kind of odd jobs that are the litany of an addict's life -- stealing and prostitution to get the money to feed their habit.
In crisis-torn Greece, where workers' pay has been cut, taxes raised, pensions slashed, the minimum wage reduced to poverty level, there is little sympathy for people like Pandi.
"People are very seriously prejudiced [toward addicts]," Ioanna Rakla, 37, a clinical psychologist at Over 18, which treats a range of disorders, told SETimes.
However, whether the facility will survive another 11 billion euros in cutbacks that the new coalition government has been ordered to make by the EU-IMF-ECB Troika in return for a second bailout of 130 billion euros, is in question.
The crisis has already cut deeply into state-subsidised programmes for drug addicts, a report by the country's largest rehabilitation network, the Therapy Centre for Dependent Individuals stated.
The report said life will get worse for many addicts, and projected that growing poverty will drive more people to drugs and alcohol and to the streets if centres aren’t available to help them.
Over 18 President Gerasimos Notaras said the centre is "close to being unable to function," and accused the government of "destructive policies ridden with contradictions." Notaras said subsidies were cut by 21 percent between 2009, when it received 24 million euros. Last year, under the pressure of additional cuts, 31 workers were let go.
The eight counselors at Over 18 have taken deep pay cuts. Rakla's salary has gone from 1,040 euros to 700 a month. She said it's been hard to make a living, but she persists. "I believe in this," she told SETimes.
With cuts up to 50 percent in some drug programmes, many addicts are returning to their old haunts and habits, but Rakla said more are coming to one of the 32 centres in Athens like hers, seeking help before their lives are gone for good.
"If Over 18 closes, what will become of us?" Constantina Veli, 32, told SETimes. She said she started using heroin at 18 as well as drinking heavily but came to the centre because, "I felt I couldn't live with myself anymore … I wanted to have dreams and set targets," adding that it was counseling and therapy that saved her.
Rakla though said she fears that programmes such as Over 18, that don't use drug substitutes such as methadone, will lose a lobbying war between centres to keep government funding. Over 18 is subsidised by a major psychiatric hospital that she said has had its budget cut nearly in half.
"It's a constant struggle," she said. "Some of these people will return to drugs, and fatally so," she said.
The centre helped George Mihalopoulos, 40, to go from being an addict to a worker there after getting a degree in dietary nutrition. He said he thought his life was over before he came there.
"My life was just me and my drugs." he said. "[The counselors] have a real approach, they see each person who's asking for help as an individual, and all of us as one." He said he's worried because "the government wants to let a lot of workers go."
Athens Mayor George Kaminis, who is readying a 10-year plan to renovate parts of the city, said one of his priorities is an induction centre for addicts to provide support before admittance to rehabilitation facilities. | <urn:uuid:5b45872f-11eb-4c39-a574-c527cc08ad16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/08/09/feature-04 | 2013-06-19T15:04:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980909 | 891 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Loveless Shack; Kitchen: Sawyer pours generous shots for himself and his uninvited guest, before he plops on his couch. He's only wearing boxers and a completely unnecessary tank, which just feels like it ought to be noted, yeah? He raises his glass to Faucke. "Here's to being dead." Faucke seems surprised that Sawyer isn't freaked out by his presence. Sawyer laughs bitterly. "I don't give a damn if you're dead, or time traveling, or the Ghost of Christmas Past. All I care about is this whisky, so bottoms up...." He raises his glass, and then, "Get the hell out of my house." Faucke argues that it isn't Sawyer's house, but what he's missing is that it's his home. Sawyer changes the subject and asks who he is. "'Cause you sure as hell ain't John Locke. [...] Locke was scared, even when he was pretending he wasn't. But you -- you ain't scared." Faucke implies he's the person who can answer the most important question in the world. Oh, oh! 42! Faucke clarifies: "Why are you on this island?" Sawyer points out three reasons: his plane crashed; his raft was blown up; and he had to bail from the helicopter. Faucke tells him that's not why he's there, "And I can prove it." Sawyer, ever the pragmatist, says, "Well, I guess I'd better put some pants on." Damn it.
L.A. Reality; Box Company Parking Lot: When leaving work, Live Locke can't get into his van, because Hurley's Hummer is parked next to it. People more observant than I have noted that Hurley probably couldn't get out of the driver's side, either. Anyhow, Live Locke fusses and grumbles, and then bangs on the back of the SUV until the alarm sounds. This summons Hurley, who looks dapper in his Captain of Industry sports coat and ponytail. He points out that if Live Locke had parked in the empty handicapped spot, he wouldn't have this problem. Live Locke adds a new refrain to his old Don't tell me what I can't do! standard. Just because he can park in the handicapped spot doesn't mean he has to. Hurley is gracious and apologetic, which seems to calm Locke a little. He laughs when Hurley admits he owns the company and introduces himself. Hurley takes pity on Live Locke when he learns he was fired and offers to intervene with Randy Nations the "huge douche." Live Locke declines the offer, but does take the phone number for a temp agency Hurley owns. Hurley tells Live Locke to tell them Hugo Reyes said to hook him up with a new job. "And chin up. Things are going to work out." When he says that, I can't help but believe. Don't let me down, new, lucky Hugo. | <urn:uuid:d757174b-a283-4771-b072-a8235aa800da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lost/substitute-1.php?page=4 | 2013-06-19T15:06:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984712 | 619 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
He might not officially be a birther, but Mitt Romney knows how to play into that crowd's conspiracies, as he showed at a rally in Michigan on Friday. Romney, standing alongside his wife Ann at campaign stop in Commerce, joked: "No one asked to see my birth certificate. They know this is the place that we were born and raised."
Actually, somebody did ask to see Romney's birth certificate. Remember back in May when the candidate released it? The release was meant as another of these not-quite-birther-but-kind-of moves, playing on the sympathies of those who doubt President Barack Obama was born in the United States. But at least one prominent Obama birther, Jerome R. Corsi, had previously suggested Romney wasn't a natural born citizen as well. If he even remembers it, Romney didn't seem too worried about his own birther contingent on Friday. His crowd didn't, either, greetig his "joke" with much more full-throated cheering than laughter. His spokespeople quickly walked it back with "Governor Romney was just illustrating that he was born and raised here in Michigan." | <urn:uuid:62da56b7-17c5-46db-aa8b-7a2d0b6ba607> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/romney-michigan-nobody-asked-see-my-birth-certificate/56171/ | 2013-06-19T15:12:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993864 | 236 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Lightning acquired 41-year-old goalie Dwayne Roloson from the New York Islanders shortly after beating the New York Rangers on Saturday night.
The Lightning, who earned a 2-1 overtime win on Saturday, sent minor league defenceman Ty Wishart to the Islanders.
Roloson is 6-13-1 this season with a 2.64 goals-against average and .916 save percentage in 20 games. He is in the final year of a two-year contract and can become a free agent on July 1. In 532 NHL games, Roloson is 196-229-42-33 with a 2.66 GAA.
"In this trade we give up a promising, former first-round pick. We wish him luck in the Islanders organization," Lightning GM Steve Yzerman said in a statement. "In Roloson we have acquired a proven, veteran goaltender who will provide stability in net."
The 22-year-old Wishart has four goals and 14 assists in 31 games this season with Norfolk of the AHL. He was chosen by San Jose with the 16th pick in the 2006 draft.
Wishart, a six-foot-four, 222-pound native of Belleville, Ont., played five NHL games with the Lightning during the 2008-09 season.
Roloson is one of 11 NHL goalies to play after turning 41.
"He's a goalie that battles hard," Lightning coach Guy Boucher said. "He's done really well this year."
The move by Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman means the Lightning will have three goalies, including Dan Ellis and Mike Smith, who is expected back soon from a left knee injury.
The surprising Lightning, currently leading the Southeast Division, have missed the playoffs the past three seasons.
"It's an opportunity we wanted to jump on," Boucher said. "It's an opportunity Steve felt you didn't want to miss."
Wishart will report to Bridgeport of the AHL.
Boucher said rookie goalie Cedrick Desjardins, who earned the win over the Rangers on Saturday night, will be sent back to Norfolk. Desjardins also beat Montreal 4-1 in his NHL debut on Thursday night. | <urn:uuid:c4e31710-94f4-4e74-bee5-79b5ed6698fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=347691 | 2013-06-19T15:17:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708808767/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125328-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967152 | 478 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I welcome recommendations of other sites with satellite views showing the lights, or lack thereof, on the Gulf Coast.
The weather update for Northern Illinois University provided links to before and after views of the Gulf Coast. Lake Pontchartrain is much more full of water after the storm than before the storm; as news reports are indicating the water levels are equal on the lake side and on the city side, the challenge to closing the levees will be in dealing with the general return of the lake level to mean sea level. To the east, there is a temporary Firth of Tombigbee that will also drain, but not before revealing a mess between the riverbank and the high water mark.
A nearby talk radio host was this morning soliciting comments about the wisdom of rebuilding New Orleans in place, some feet below sea level in a swamp. After the cleanup, the recriminations promise to be nasty.
France, long one of Europe’s holdouts in using only state-run trains, reports long-time railroad writer Don Phillips, has finally allowed a private train to operate between Germany and France – but the impact of that single daily train may pale compared with the big plans of the English, Welsh & Scottish Ry., which has been operating freight trains in Britain since the British Ry. privatization of 1995-96.Names are about to be taken, and butts kicked.
The Canadian [chief of English Welsh] has let it be known that he is training locomotive engineers to operate on six routes of the French railroads. On May 31, he filed the proper safety documents with the French railroads. Next comes permission to operate huge Class 66 freight diesel locomotives in France, locomotives that are already certified to operate in almost every country in Europe – except France."Huge," here, is a relative term. Put a Class 66 alongside an SD90MAC or a Dash-9 and it looks like a toy. But the Class 66 might accomplish in peacetime what the S-160 G.I. Consolidation did in wartime, namely be positioned to move freight from the Atlantic (as a British "Yankee") to the Pacific (as a Soviet "Shch.") In the Superintendent's opinion, the Polish came up with the best designation for the G.I.s, classifying them "Tr" for "Truman."
Here's what anchored the corridor before 1965. (Two photos by John Karlson.)
This is the east throat of the station in the fall of 1952. The railroad discovered some weaknesses in the clock tower and is removing the top. The clocks will be moved to the decorative arches lower in the tower. The diesels are a pair of Erie-Builts (available in O Scale from Atlas) and the pair of DL-109s, 14A and 14B.
And here is the west throat in the fall of 1940. Immediately behind the F-7 Baltic are several coaches, suggesting this is a corridor train, not a Hiawatha which would have a baggage car or one of the tap cars immediately behind the tender. This station was condemned for expansion of Milwaukee's freeways, but only the land behind the photographer was taken for a new roadway. The station site itself is now occupied by Wisconsin Electric's general offices, and the east throat remains vacant land.
Lisa Duggan's The Twilight of Equality? is less satisfying than most efforts on that score. The publisher let me buy it for five bucks, which I'll sometimes drop on a flavored ice coffee, and I get Book Review No. 37 out of it.
Professor Duggan finished high school about the same time I did, and her autobiographical opening promises much.
Richard Nixon was president, the U.S. was embroiled in an unjust imperialist war in Vietnam, the limitations of 1960s civil rights legislation appeared in the form of persistent, entrenched racial inequality, the worlds of work and home were sharply segmented by gender hierarchies. But in 1972, I nonetheless had reason to be optimistic. Active and expanding social movements seemed capable of ameliorating conditions of injustice and inequality, poverty, war, and imperialism. In fact, social movements were producing innovative critiques of a widening variety of constraints on human possibility -- the women's liberation movement, gay liberation, lesbian feminism, black feminism, and other thriving or emerging formations joined radical labor activism, civil rights and black nationalist insurgencies, antiracist and anti-imperialist mobilizations.Optimistic might be an understatement. These were precisely the years of affirmative action, environmental protection, no-fault divorce, and legal abortion becoming national policy. The U.S. wound up its work in Vietnam in such a way as to ensure Vietcong and Khmer Rouge victories. First Vice President Agnew, and then President Nixon, self-destructed. The Equal Rights Amendment appeared on its way to ratification. But what impressed me in those days was how unhappy the Movement (always pronounced Mewve-ment) people remained despite all that. So, too, Professor Duggan.
I had no idea I was not perched at a great beginning, but rather at a denouement, as the possibilities for progressive social change encountered daunting historical setbacks beginning in 1972. From the perspective of more than three decades later, it is apparent that a great sea change begun in the early 1970s led us all in directions we simply could not have imagined then. From the early 1970s, global competition and falling profit rates stirred U.S. corporate interests to mount a counter-movement.We will be spared an expose of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy in the pages that follow. We will also be spared rationalizations for the boat people, the killing fields, herpes and AIDS, or Thirteenth Generation crudeness (and for all the noble talk of rapeincestlifeofthemother that generation correctly understood abortion to be the backstop technology when the latex or the pill failed and reacted to the next-elders and to their parents accordingly.) For all the talk of inequality, the failings of the common schools are absent from the discussion.
What, then, went wrong? According to Professor Dugger, there has been a failure at the cutting edge of feminist and queer theory. I cannot make up stuff like this. Read the book. (Get it on interlibrary loan; it's remaindered at about ten bucks too much.) The Right's circumscription of public opinion is epitomized by -- a kerfuffle over a sex-toy session in a broader conference at SUNY New Paltz. Multiculturalism and diversity have been coopted by -- the horror -- corporations -- with Andrew Sullivan getting a very public platform for advocating a relatively tame form of same-sex marriage. (No doubt Professor Dugger would get the vapors contemplating Virginia Postrel's suggestion that as stuff can be produced more cheaply its aesthetics can be improved, buying off the Queer Eye.) But she's not done reading the false progressives out of area studies; the concluding chapter has all of The Communist Manifesto's consideration of false ideologies but without the passion.
A former Category 5 hurricane, however, is no match for the Lake Michigan high. There has been a high near Chicago most of the summer that has made for fine weather (unless you're a farmer hoping for some rain) and lousy sailing conditions, and that high has shouldered tropical depression Katrina, now just another continental low, off toward Buffalo and the Maritimes .
I think the issue, really, is that faculty often see the output of administrative decisions, but not the inputs. They see the shrinkage of a department, or an unpleasant new policy on office hours or copier use, but they don’t see the budget numbers that lead to those decisions.I know not what changes have taken place in the size of the counseling office at Anonymous Junior at the same time that the faculty has been shrinking, with adjunct substitution accompanying tenure-track attrition. I do know that at the midwestern flagships and mid-majors, we can see the corporate-style perks for senior administrators who continue to hold academic-style protection against changes in management philosophy (the backup jobs) and the prettying up of spaces occupied by presidents, provosts, and deans while the faculty members are moved to smaller quarters and asked to teach more, larger classes. University Diaries has been following the suspension of American University president Benjamin Ladner, who has been indulging himself like a medieval archbishop. Such developments make department chairmen and search committees skeptical of pleas of poverty from the college or university offices.
Instead, students are encouraged to take a Huskie Line bus to the Campus Cinemas parking lot, 1015 Blackhawk Drive, for a barbecue-style dinner, carnival games, live music and information on NIU’s Greek chapters.The transaction is Pareto-improving to some parties.
That explains the proliferation of red-and-black t-shirts with assorted Greek letters on campus today. Not everybody is impressed.
"The university gets to give a great gift to all the Greeks for their hard work and cooperation.
The Greek system in general gets publicized to the university and the community, which has not happened in the past.
The individual chapters themselves get to go out and wear their letters. And students get to see that the Greek system is actually very different from the movie ‘Animal House.’
"The aim of the carnival is to let new students find out for themselves what the Greek system is all about, said Craig Marcus, program assistant for Greek Affairs.
[One dorm resident suggests]that while closing the Grant dining hall would be understandable, closing down three dining halls puts unfair pressure on freshmen to attend, even if they are not interested in going Greek.Looks like I get to continue this theme all semester.
Soon after, the brewery adopted something called ABF, accelerated batch fermentation, which allowed them to brew more beer more quickly and which soon enough would be adopted by all other giant breweries. But it turned out that the Schlitz faithful didn't like the change in taste ...And a friend of the family with a Ph.D. in biochemistry was instrumental in fostering [groan] this technological blind alley.
One hopes the essayist knows more about art than he does about business.
Worse, Schlitz appeared to be compromising quality in order to increase profits.The market grades on a somewhat more stringent curve than I do. Schlitz sold out to Stroh in the middle 1980s, one of the few corporate expansions in Detroit in the past quarter century.
(Northern Illinois requires most frosh to live in the dorms, er, residence halls.) Their take:
What is it about the last two days of summer that makes people lose their minds?
One of the most disturbing aspects of these surreal two days is the majority of the absurd actions occurred away from the residence halls.
Instead it was a sad group of NIU’s student body that did nothing but further a crippling stereotype of college students.Good point.
Some of the responsibility rests with the miscreants. I do not hold the upper administration harmless in this behavior. University publicity has made much of the football team's recent success, including raising money for a new weight room and study center to keep the athletes eligibile, and the space-grabbing deans asked faculty participating in their pointless "Meet the Professor" gathering on the Friday of move-in weekend to wear red and black, if possible. Sell the university as if it is a party school, don't be surprised if some people buy the pitch.
Both locomotives involve major rebuilds from their as-delivered condition. The F10 is a re-engining and electrical system upgrade of a chicken-wire F3 off the Gulf Mobile and Ohio, and the FL9s that remain in revenue service have new engines and electrical systems. But it is difficult to imagine a prettier package for the innards, even with those art-school paint jobs.
In other rail news, Ponchatoula, Louisiana is closing some level crossings to reduce train-vehicle fatalities. The Louisiana Patrol have been staking out level crossings and ticketing drivers who run around the gates. A recent stakeout nabbed several school buses. Perhaps Louisiana has a higher rate of train-vehicle fatalities than several more populated and more rail-served states because the young are being socialized into taking the wrong kind of risks.
The summer drought was a consequence of a high pressure cell that prevented any kind of wind from blowing in these parts. Today, however, was different. Cool northwests in the 10-20 range made for a bit of Laser practice. Always good to start the school year (shed no tears for our early start: one of my classes will be finished by November's end, with exams finished very early in November [make that December, let's not do the Time Warp]) with a screaming reach in recent memory!
The book's treatment of children from comparable intact families is interesting. The authors suggest such children have an easier time making the transition to adulthood and to establishing families of their own. Whether that is because those children had an easier time completing college (child support ends at 18) or because those children saw just enough tension in their parents' marriages as to be alert to the possibility that there are some truly messed up people on the mating market the authors don't tell us. The policy suggestions are a bit anticlimactic. After a thrill ride through substance abuse, infidelity, and business failure, we get ... a suggestion that public policy provide support for a parent to stay home with the young children ...??? The authors provide no elaboration on how to implement such policies without fostering resentment in the childless who might be called upon to pick up the slack, or who might voluntarily pick up the slack so as to get a leg up on the promotion ladder. Neither do they think throught the implications of the Say Aggregation Principle on the effect of higher female labor force participation on the price of goods used in households.
At the rear of this train is what the British would call a "driving van trailer" and what we call a "cabbage" car (because it provides a cab for the train crew and space for checked baggage.) Its number is 90218. It began its service to Amtrak as one of the first head-end power equipped F40PH diesels, No. 218, designed to work with the new Amfleet coaches. The first of these diesels, including No. 218, went into service in 1976, about when the first Space Shuttles were being erected in California. Unlike the Space Shuttle, No. 218 was taken out of service in the middle 1990s, its engine and generator removed to make space for baggage.
Mr Goldberg's main gripe is with the consequences of judging "judgmental" a gaffe greater than hollering some obscenity at a sports event, or televising the unraveling of a love triangle among the less fortunate as entertainment for the groundlings, or otherwise carrying on in ways that might be hurtful to others. (Those who would go out of their way to prevent anything that might be hurtful to selected others also merit mention.) These are serious points, worthy of consideration, and his assessment that the common culture was once upon a time better because it marginalized the coarse rather than reveling in it is one that I share.
What was that about contemplating changes to student housing?
The $286.5 billion transportation bill signed into law by President Bush last week in Aurora includes $8.32 million to plan, design and build new roads on the west side of campus.
“We are very grateful to Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, and his staff, for their assistance in securing this funding,” NIU President John Peters said. “At a time when there is little or no money available from the state to help us plan and build for the needs of the future, this is most welcome.”
The money will be used specifically to design and build a road network and the accompanying infrastructure improvements – water lines and sewers, for example – that will allow the university to begin development of about 230 acres at the western edge of campus.
That land was purchased by the NIU Board of Trustees in 1997. Plans are to develop it for a variety of uses including expanded research capabilities and student life improvements. No specific plans have yet been made, and no construction is imminent.
Now focus on that "little or no money from the state." Illinois residents pay taxes to the Treasury in Washington, D.C., and to the State Treasurer in Springfield. Is it really free money if it's coming in a federal transportation bill, or is it Illinoisans' money with additional handling charges, such as Congressional directives about
A new study has been released ranking the top liberal cities in the country. Where do you think Madison falls? In the top 10? Nope. Top 20? No. Top 30? Nada. The city that local liberals like to pretend is as left as Berkeley doesn't even clock in until number 34.The study perhaps conflates "voting Democratic" with "tending liberal" (in the sense of Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson?) There is, however, the possibility that high-status voters and middling-status white voters are less prone to vote against their own interests than the remaining residents of Detroit and Gary, coming in at 1 and 2 in the study, rendered unemployable by the minimum wage and weak schools, which Republican strategists have rightly or not pinned on the Democrats, and isolated by zoning codes. Some Madisonians are coming to grips with that possibility, as well as with their excessive comfort with their own prejudices, in this forum.
Nice to know the specifics. Does all my work with overseas graduate students satisfy the preferred property 3? For that matter do my efforts to explain the American idiom to some of my colleagues qualify?
- A definition/description of what your program will consider to be an “extensive and substantive” experience applying learning about diversity (ethnicity, socio-economic status, limited English proficiency, and disability).Example of acceptable definition: Our program will count as a diversity experience any clinical or student teaching placement in which at least one of the following criteria is met:
Example of unacceptable definition: Our program will count as a diversity experience any clinical or student teaching placement in which there is more than one P-12 student who meets any one of the following criteria:
- the candidate delivers a lesson to a group of students at least 20% of whom are members of ethnic minority groups, are from low socio-economic status households, have limited English proficiency, or have a disability.
- the candidate delivers a lesson appropriately modified in content or methodology in order to address ethnicity, low socio-economic status, limited English proficiency or disability.
- the candidate interacts one-on-one in a tutoring relationship or other educational setting with a student who is a member of an ethnic group or socio-economic status different from their own or with a student who has limited English proficiency or a disability.
- is a member of a minority ethnic group
- is from a low socio-economic status household
- has limited English proficiency
- has a disability.
Now to the carping. Today I focus on "appropriately modified in content or methodology." I think that last word refers to the method of teaching ... the methodolgy goes on in a rigorous study of teaching practice, if there is in fact any of that in the curriculum. The "content" part has potential for all sorts of abuse. To some extent the language sounds patronizing, and there is at least a hint of dumbing down. Am I being excessively pessimistic? Perhaps not. On the stack of books to review is J. Martin Rochester's Class Warfare, the recollections of a parent frustrated by the efforts of his St. Louis area common schools to deprive his kides of the education he and his wife wanted them to have. His frustration begins as he sees the missives from school referring less and less to "rigor," "homework," "standards," or "merit" whilst adding "equity," "diversity," "inclusion," and "multicuturalism." King at SCSU Scholars has elected to keep his daughter in the Lutheran schools to avoid the St. Cloud middle schools, which might be bringing off the Lake Wobegon effect by taking out the content. (And where is the equity in compelling a decent academician to take on the additional responsibilities of department chairman in order to pay the Lutheran school tuition as well as the property tax for inadequate common schools? Or for that matter compelling anyone with a young family to pick up and move house to a more expensive neighborhood to find a common school that works, as Professor Rochester did?) Professor Banian also recommends The War Against Excellence, which I may have to purchase and add to the review stack.
Perhaps that will be my misssion on that committee. It does no good to have "appropriate modifications " that leave the audience unprepared for success in the United States. Yes, at one time, the common schools used tracking and ability grouping to deprive some people of a shot at living up to their potential (please, let us not hear any talk of "maximizing" potential; think of your gym teacher asking you to do as many chin-ups as you could plus one.) At the same time, those schools, with dress and discipline codes and coat-and-tie teachers, attempted to socialize the young into the middle class.
It's time someone praised and defended reckless teenage girls and young women who behave badly, dress provocatively, engage in risky sex, and get pregnant. They are the normal ones. The rest of us are the deviants. They are behaving in the most natural way. The rest of us are mutants.Really? Where did that "nature" get us? There's a reason schools teach Romeo and Juliet to eighth and ninth graders. The protagonists are about the same age as the readers. Why a teenage romance with such weighty content? Because that same nature Mr Sheehan celebrates endowed us with high infant mortality rates, as well as high rates of women dying in childbirth. (There might have been reason for men and women alike to restrict their lovemaking if the consequence of the act was death in nine months for one participant.) So fast-forward 700 years and consider West Side Story. Although the setting of the story is now the poorer quarters of New York, the protagonists now enjoy a standard of living that is opulent by 13th century Veronese standards, although shabby by Central Park West standards. And what is the lot of the residents of the poorer quarters where the women are defying the "collective weight of traditions?" Yup. Higher rates of infant mortality and social disease.
There is nothing wrong with pelvic display, push-up bras, Gosford miniskirts, spray-on jeans, low-cut tops, bare legs, bare arms, bare ankles, G-strings or even buttock cleavage, providing the displayer is young enough to get away with it. A woman's body is at its fertility peak between the ages of 17 and 23. So when young women advertise or flaunt their sexuality they are being driven by a force far stronger than the Judeo-Christian ethic. They are driven by the power of peak fertility and a million years of evolutionary biology. Nature has programmed them for pregnancy, genetic diversity and keeping the species going. A big job.
Sexually active teenage girls, and sexually promiscuous women of any age, carry the greatest social burden of judgements, punishments, restrictions and risks because we haven't got the child-care equation right. These women are just doing their job. They are real, while the rest of the equation is artificial. Society is the collective weight of traditions, conventions, laws, habits, fears, tribes, taboos and technologies, permeated by a Judeo-Christian ethic dominated by men and designed to curb female sexual power. Our norms are also dominated by the ideology of materialism that is moving women further and further towards unnatural behaviour, pressuring them to have babies later rather than sooner.
This is society's real problem. Teenage pregnancy is trivial by comparison to suppressed pregnancy.
Granted, my biases as economist and curmudgeon are showing. But I must protest in the strongest possible terms Mr Sheehan's characterization of a "tension between fertility and materialism." It is the materialism that makes freer expressions of sexuality possible, by obtaining the means to prevent or terminate pregnancies or to understand and cope with the complications of childbirth. Nature, on the other hand, responds to the successes of materialism by accelerating puberty. And that's totally logical. A living thing that has an easier time maintaining itself develops more quickly the ability to reproduce itself. Any gardener worth his Miracle-Gro is exploiting that tendency. But harvesting a tomato early is a very different proposition from preparing a nine year old -- or a nineteen year old -- to raise a baby, precisely because mastering materialism takes a lot of thought and preparation. As well as making it possible for thirty- and forty-somethings to have babies.
1)You need to know that, in mythology, Cupid symbolizes loveHis point:
2)And that Cupid's chosen instrument is the bow and arrow
3)Also that there was a singer/songwriter named Sam Cooke
4)And that he had a song called which included the lines "Cupid, draw back your bow."
"Progressive" educators, loudly and in large numbers, insist that students should be taught "thinking skills" as opposed to memorization. But consider: If it's not possible to understand a couple of lines from a popular song without knowing by heart the references to which it alludes--without memorizing them--what chance is there for understanding medieval history, or modern physics, without having a ready grasp of the topics which these disciplines reference?Quite so. My limited reading of the important regulatory and antitrust decisions turns up a rich harvest of classical allusions. Quick quiz: who wrote, "neither the wit of man nor the wealth of Midas can restore a natural gas field?" What was the context?
Six years ago, Al Quada parked a boatful of explosives next to the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors. The suicide boat, like the suicide car and the bomb vest and the Kamikaze plane, is a pinpoint-accurate but supremely wasteful weapon.
The Katyusha rocket, on the other hand, is about as accurate as a Jeff Fecke election prediction; they're built to be ripple-fired by the thousands to inundate an area with explosives.
Three of them. Lobbed from way inland. At a target the size of a Navy amphibious assault ship...
Let's not succumb to victory disease here. The title of my post excerpts from a quip making the rounds in the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force preparing for Midway after the Second Carrier Striking Force reported that it had sunk Lexington, Yorktown, and some support ships in exchange for Shoho in the Coral Sea. We know how that ended. It is probably not the case that the mainstream press is playing along with some too-clever-by-half Karl Rove rope-a-dope to lull the bad guys into thinking that they are winning.
They're not trying to win a war anymore. They're playing to the headlines.
Which only matters as seriously as we take the headlines.
And there will be no defeatism around these parts. Don't even think of offering the hypothesis that if a bad guy gets a shot off at a U.S. warship in a previously peaceful port that is somehow a strategic defeat for our armed forces.
What's a car got to do with a drunken sailor, car got to do with a drunken sailor, car got to do with a drunken sailor - on a Toyota commercial?I have heard the commercial in question, and the background music. The voice-over is something about breaking through or running downfield or some FOOTBALL metaphor. Mr Cuprisin's sparring partner Charlie Sykes is old enough to remember.
All certification programs at Northern Illinois University are based on the shared vision and goals of a community of learners. Our unique governance structure provides for responsive and reflective change in educator preparation programs by incorporating diverse perspectives and respect for the expertise of a variety of individuals, while maintaining a focus on the preparation of exemplary educators who demonstrate the necessary knowledge, practice, reflection and dispositions. Each of these areas draws upon the strength of essential aspects of a community of learners in which educational practice and reflection are based upon a broad general education and a sound disciplinary base of knowledge. The community of learners is enriched and strengthened by the interaction of its core elements: knowledge, practice and reflection.The point of expanding the committee is to "obtain the perspectives" of each department. What effect that will have on "shared vision" remains to be seen.
The goal of individual programs is to develop exemplary educators who have a broad general education, relevant disciplinary knowledge, and experience in and knowledge of contemporary best practices. The continuing professional effectiveness of our graduates is rooted in their life-long learning and reflective practice. This cornerstone of NIU's conceptual framework prepares students to deal with the diverse interests of the communities in which they will serve based on the understanding that as a professional educator, he/she is part of that community of learners. NIU is committed to lifelong learning and to the effective use of creative and critical thinking skills in diverse and collaborative settings.
What I am is a neo-feminist. Definition: “One who respects her body so much that she won't allow it to be used as someone's playground.”Go, and read the rest.
And no, calling a large office that will accommodate two instructors the "Instructor Suite" does not make the outcome any less obnoxious.
This gesture is symbolically wrong in two ways. First, it sends the message that participants have nothing better to do than help move boxes at this time of the year (although administrators occupied moving boxes are not up to more damaging stuff) and second it sends the wrong message about the proper social distance between students and faculty.
But it is not to that aspect that I wish to speak. Rather, I want to focus on what is being moved in. Michael Lopez, covering for Joanne Jacobs, reflects on computer-shopping.
I'm not saying that we should go back to the days when going to college meant packing a briefcase and a suitcase full of clothes... but frankly even my low-budget college assembly of STUFF was obscene... and it was dwarfed -- DWARFED -- by every single other person on my hall. Refrigerators, full stereo systems, top of the line computers, more clothes than Jesus (actually, Jesus probably didn't have a lot of clothes but it's an expression), cases of CD's (now obviated by digital media), televisions, VCR's (back in the days of VHS), dishes, knick knacks, stuffed animals, tanning lights, heaters, portable airEnough stuff to make a senior administrator's cardiologist cringe?
Don at Cafe Hayek finds a Christian Science Monitor article that quotes one of our own housing managers contemplating future changes to student housing. And if some of our charges are dropping $2-3K on dorm furnishings and bringing a new car, I have to agree with the Cafe Hayek assessment that there is an element of special pleading in gripes about rising tuitions.
It also transpires that all this stuff has to be moved again at the end of the school year, or perhaps at the end of summer sublet. In Madison, that gives rise to Hippie Christmas, and there's a LOT of stuff available for the taking.
What was that about a research paper on the contents of college-town dumpsters?
SECOND SECTION: Arnold at Econ Log has additional thoughts on the student cargo cult.
Here's the Visalia (California) Times-Delta.
And here the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal.
Washington talks about energy all the time, and rarely does anything about it. This nation has been undergoing an energy crisis for almost 40 years, yet not a single president in that time has proposed the kind of energy program that, say, Kennedy declared for space, Johnson declared for racial equality or Reagan declared for defeating communism in Europe.
The energy bill President Bush signed last week increased subsidies for energy companies and fiddled with Daylight Savings Time. Not exactly a call to arms for a national war on energy dependence. Where were the visionary strategies like the hydrogen highway or photo-voltaic cells?
Next week I begin teaching a principles of microeconomics course and a sophomore-junior level public policy course. It will be very difficult for me to not make it all about the oiiiiillllll.
Everyone is fed up with the record prices -- that is, everyone except the oil companies raking in those profits. So it's puzzling that Congress would pass an energy bill that befriends those companies while doing little to encourage energy conservation.
Other than screaming out the window, which might provide momentary satisfaction, most of us can do little about our nation's misguided energy policies. There also may be little that some farms, airlines and other businesses can do to reduce their fuel consumption.
With the new semester starting, it is time to review some fundamentals of policy making and argumentation. The extremists of any stripe (and I apologize for the excessive abstraction of "Left" and "Right;" nativists are not necessarily royalists or capitalists, and pacifists and war resisters not necessarily republicans or socialists) do not affect public policy unless they are able to move the marginal decision maker. And that marginal decision maker is somewhere in the middle. Why? Review the median voter theorem and the principle of minimum differentiation. (The closing paragraph of Harold Hotelling's "Stability in Competition" notes that Democrats and Republicans, or Methodists and Episcopalians, are quite similar.)
So, should prospective students be reading these pages, kindly be advised that discredit-by-appeal-to- argmin[Michael Moore, Rush Limbaugh] will not fly. Evaluate immigration policy, or war, or gasoline prices on the merits, and be particularly sensitive to those arguments attempted to move the median rather than to shore up the base.
King at SCSU Scholars links to news (link appears to have been retired) that Russia, a major exporter of oil, is taxing those exports heavily.
The persistently high oil prices reflect a large risk premium (security, change of regime in Saudi Arabia, etc.) interacting with the stubbornly high Chinese demand for oil due to their growing economy. Don't forget that in real terms, the price of a barrel of oil would have to be $90 today to be as high as it was at its highest in the 1970s; today oil is about $66/barrel.
The array of factors influencing gasoline prices is much more complex. First you've got constraints on refining capacity; the last refinery built in the US was in 1976, and refiners have been squeezing more blood out of the stone ever since, but it's increasingly difficult and we're operating very close to capacity. Then add in the demand for other petroleum products, like jet fuel and the build-up of home heating oil for the upcoming winter, and there are a lot of different things competing for the scarce refining capacity. Add to that the season: two weeks before Labor Day, and we're taking driving vacations.
Then there's the regional fuel market balkanization due to the wide range of fuel formulas to meet the federal fuel oxygenate requirement. While the recently-signed energy bill promises to streamline the formulae and reduce the fuel market balkanization, it hasn't kicked in yet, and won't until next spring.
For some perspective on the usefulness of oil in transportation, Phil at Market Power has some reflections on the difficulties of developing steam automobiles (which might also be oil burners.) Sure, one can raise steam by burning a number of fuels, but that has the effect of producing carbon dioxide and a number of annoying combustion byproducts. Visualize eating lunch on a railroad dining car on a hot summer day in the Age of Steam. Do you really want to open the window for some ventilation?
But under the new flight deck (the railroader in me wants to say "cab") security rules, a heroic passenger that managed to get on oxygen would not be able to get to the cockpit to assist an incapacitated pilot. Here's a challenging uncertainty problem. There is some positive probability that bad guys will get on the flight deck and fly the plane into a building. There is also some positive probability that the pilots will be incapacitated by an in-flight mechanical failure. What is the best balance of those two risks?
The introduction proposes a serious purpose: to offer an alternative to Marxian and Whiggish approaches to doing history that view past events through a lens of class struggle or greater enlightenment. Their approach is the construction of counterfactuals to illustrate the path-dependency or state-contingency of pivotal events, primarily battles and elections. That is serious work but it requires serious and careful execution. Unfortunately, proposing that Napoleon's republic becomes an 1840s version of the 2003 European Union, Lenin is shot by a Balt called Lev Harveivic Osvalt who is himself murdered two days later by someone with mob ties, Stalin is betrayed by his bodyguard Tengiz Fiktionashvili, and following all that by asking President Bush's speechwriter David Frum to envision President Gore holding a September 11 crisis session with National Security Advisor Leon Fuerth and Secretary of Defense Wesley Clark, an exercise that plays on the fears many red-state voters have about the Democrats has its entertainment value at the expense of serious considerations of counterfactuals.
And yes, there really is a Johnsonville. And I remember when the only outlet for Johnsonville bratwursts was a butcher shop on the main drag of ... Schnapsville?? (That I like as a chaser.) Two taverns, a church, a bridge over a small stream, the meat market.
The World War II memorial - a circle of pylons around a sterile central fountain - encouraged no such involvement. The garish wreaths, and the martial eagles holding the banners at the entrances, left me imagining how Leni Riefenstahl would have photographed them. I can't imagine another response to this kind of iconic imagery.Yes, that occurred to me, also, when the memorial opened.
(To be polite, the monument does capture some of the Roosevelt Gothic of such buildings as the Milwaukee County Court House and the University of Michigan central campus, which might have been on the designer's mind.)
There's a harder question: to what extent will business interests (the automobile lobby, mall and tract housing developers primarily) make common cause with more populist interests (should real gasoline prices rise further; right now there is a summer peak approximately equal to early 1981 levels just before domestic price controls and international collusion came to an end) who face large capital losses as house prices adjust and job losses? There's also the possible reaction of urban interests. Will they continue to push their thickly-settled, rail-structured view of work and shopping, rather than, for instance, allowing local bus authorities or bus entrepreneurs greater freedom of action?
In the bigger picture, what worries me is that we'll get policies that take the organization of suburban sprawl life as immutable consequences of primal human desires, rather than as an adaptation to cheap private transportation that may be abandoned as quickly as it was thrown up when market forces turn on it. (Policies that seek to promote low gas prices versus low fuel consumption may have this effect.) Human life has been successfully lived without big-box stores, even in my lifetime, if you can imagine that. This is not to say that I disagree at all with Prof. Hoch's conclusion that the transition will be hard, especially as it implies that the values of today's half-megabuck McMansionettes are no more privileged than those of the once-grand houses owned by the elites of small (and not-so-small) towns along, say, the route of the Erie Canal.
But I think an underappreciated feature of neoclassical microeconomics is that while consumers may in principle want everything, what they actually choose to have is regulated by relative and absolute prices. So when self-mobile freedom is sufficiently expensive, sooner or later other forms of consumption will be substituted for it. The question is whether the corporate welfare state will allow this to happen.
But think about how populations with similar genetic codes and different resource endowments might reward mutations differently. That's the main story of the book. Consider foragers. A mother nursing a child is less effective as a forager. An enzyme that turns off a baby's desire to suckle favors faster weaning, and greater fertility in the mother, something else that might be favored with lots of infant mortality and short life expectancies. Now consider herders. That enzyme will not be as favored in a population that has learned to make yogurt and cheese and later used the milk directly. On the other hand, herders might learn to develop substitutes for water, particularly water downstream from the pasture. Here another enzyme that aids the digestion of fermented liquids might be favorably selected. Over the years, a population with a longer history of foraging might be more lactose-intolerant and alcohol-intolerant than a population with a longer history of herding.
There are several other case studies in this vein that, taken together, suggest proposing a single dietary fix for all earthlings subject to obesity or heart disease or cancers is nearly impossible. But for a population with common traditions and less intermarriage outside the extended family, there are health gains to respecting the ancient traditions. Mr Nabhan has an intriguing way of summarizing it.
When the persistence of traditional foods is more widely recognized as a source of both cultural pride and as an aid to physical survival and well-being, I doubt that many Native American communities will abandon what many of them feel to be a true gift from their Creator.I also discovered that my willingness to help out my younger siblings with their brussels sprouts and cauliflower and my later affinity for hot peppers are connected.
Laura at 11-D wrote a post on public and private virtue that linked here; that post mentioned The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce. The expansion on that subject attracted an Instalanche from designated poster Megan; some of those readers headed over here. The comments at 11-D provide several brief reviews of Unexpected Legacy for your perusal; I have moved that book up in the stack of 50 and hope to post a review before classes begin.
Scott at The Valve linked here to lead readers to a criticism of criticism on Opinion Journal. Perhaps my guests can help me make sense of this passage.
Why should that suppress internal criticism of theoretical within or across academic disciplines? Those who would so appropriate these arguments would have found grounds for criticism elsewhere because they actively seek them out. As I tell my students: If you go fishing in a novel you can almost always find the claims that you need to support the argument you were determined to make. The difference between a fisher and a scholar is that a scholar takes seriously what the novel takes seriously and analyses in accordance with its logic.To my limited knowledge, that's thinking about the plot and the symbolism and the intent of the author, and it might add to the enjoyment of a novel or a poem. That, however, doesn't really bring the Journal columnist up short: what purpose does the notion of a sexed equation or a privileged velocity serve, in a close reading of a hypothesis about the way light propagates, and its implications for the rest, inertial, and relativistic masses of moving bodies? If anything, the misuse of techniques of reading fiction to obtain some sort of insight into the symbolism of theoretical or empirical investigation of physical phenomena and human action leads precisely to the pass Mr Kaufman reaches.
How has it continued to thrive in a political environs vastly different from the one in which it first evolved? From the perspective of those who would think Theory a bulwark against political conservativism, how are we to account to the vast rightward drift of the country when many of them would’ve taken their required English and/or Composition courses with instructors radicalized during the culture wars of the ‘80s and ‘90s?I pose the Carrie explanation. They're all going to laugh at you. Experimental scientists have called out the junk science hidden in much application of critical techniques to their work much more effectively than I ever could. There's also a simple corrective for the introduction of primitive Marxian notions such as "exploitation" and "alienation" and "immiserisation." One simply has to pick up Marx's Economic Predictions and keep score of how many testable implications of Capital and other works have been falsified.
The greatest thing I feel for the pre-meds is pity. Too soon it becomes all too apparent that these kids, for all their thoroughness and regaled smarts, have never thought of what they wanted to do with their lives for a second. They just "want money" and heard they were "good at science," so why not be a doctor? These are the kids who end up drinking in excessive amounts because they hate who they have become but lack the clarity to see a way out.We've recognized that phenomenon here for some time; noted more generally.
There is nothing quite so miserable as the middle-aged partner in a law firm, ostensibly prosperous, who is there primarily because his (or her, parental programming is ubiquitous) parents aspired to have a lawyer in the family. There's a particularly nasty parody of the phenomenon, John Hersey's Child Buyer (details or compare prices,) that ought to be required reading for any parent that wants to program a kid in that way.
There is something seriously wrong with American high schools if [two-thirds] of the students don't think that their school set high academic expectations. Kids know when things are dumbed down for them. I have found that if you set high standards, all but a very few students will rise to the challenge. And they'll be grateful for it later And that small minority are the same ones who don't do the work when it's easy either. Schools and teachers should set those high standards and then make it clear that they're willing to work just as hard as they're asking students to work.Karlson is ready; prepare the sophomores.
Bear in mind that the Crystal Beach Cyclone and Comet are also hybrid coasters, with much of the Cyclone's steel, including the lift hill, serving the Comet at its new location in New York.
But I digress. What's neat about Hades? It features the steepest drop of any wooden-tracked roller coaster in the States. But that comes later. Mt. Olympus is located in a valley. The roller coasters take advantage of the terrain, although riders sometimes have to climb a lot of steps and ramps to board the trains. (Pittsburgh's Kennywood does a better job of siting the stations such that riders can board from midway level, and then exploit the terrain, although, to be fair, Kennywood was conceived as an amusement park from the beginning, and the Monongahela River bluffs are pretty much perfect for gully roller coasters and not much else.)
Hades offers the rider a figure-eight experience that would be creditable on a small amusement park's junior coaster. But that's out of the station, into the gully, BEFORE it hits the lift hill. Off the lift hill, there are some extremely fast but smooth elements in a tunnel that ducks under the parking lot, more air time in the turnaround, back into the tunnel, and more air-time and another figure-eight experience before it hits the brake run.
And I might have just created a monster ... this evening I mentioned to my eight year old nephew that he was big enough for some of the coasters at the Dells...
The irony of this situation from a FIRE perspective is hard to miss. The NCAA, whose Executive Committee is made up of university administrators (presidents and chancellors), is ordering other university administrators (at the eighteen blacklisted schools) to abide by a ill-defined speech code or face a severe penalty (being locked out of NCAA tournaments). Those who dissent from the decision are expected to sue. This is no different from hundreds of FIRE cases in which students who run afoul of administrative speech restrictions are threatened with severe punishment—and are given no recourse except an appeal to the public or a lawsuit. It’s a very uncomfortable position in which to find oneself. If nothing else comes of this controversy, we can at least hope that being subjected to a vaguely defined and therefore unreasonable speech code will give college administrators some sympathy for the students they regularly torment with similar policies.Inside Higher Ed offers a history of the mascots most likely to be viewed as hostile or abusive (that sneer on Wisconsin's Bucky Badger is apparently safe for the moment) as well as news reporting that recognizes potential ambiguities in applying the policy. Marquette Warrior sees lawsuits on the horizon, and King at SCSU Scholars sees inconsistency in naming names. The Education Wonks toss a challenge toward the NCAA's inquisitors. Scrapple Face proposes the limiting case of mascot nomenclature. Or does he? Suppose a school receives 27 consecutive digits of e. Would that not suggest the school transcends others?
Trent at Winds of Change is hosting a lively bull session; organizing theme "The serious intellectual backlash against 'Multi-cult' has begun."
Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places -- mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe.
In America, as in Britain, multiculturalism has become the fashion in large swathes of our society. So the Founding Fathers are presented only as slaveholders, World War II is limited to the internment of Japanese-Americans and the bombing of Hiroshima. Slavery is identified with America, though it has existed in every society and the antislavery movement arose first among English-speaking evangelical Christians.
But most Americans know there is something special about our cultural heritage. While Harvard and Brown are replacing scholars of the founding period with those studying other things, book-buyers are snapping up first-rate histories of the Founders by David McCullough, Joseph Ellis and Ron Chernow.
Multiculturalist intellectuals do not think our kind of society is worth defending. But millions here and increasing numbers in Britain and other countries know better.
Lest readers propose that Mr Barone is a bit overwrought, withhold judgement until you've visited Coach Brown, who posted the questions put to him in a cultural competence audit, including these gems:
Note the use of "appreciation." There is a continuum of ways of dealing with people who do things differently, ranging from tolerance to acceptance to affirmation to celebration, and I've probably missed a few buzzwords. I'm not sure where "appreciation" goes on that continuum. Where to stop? Some food? A concert? Great literature? A ritual sacrifice?
6. Does the curriculum foster appreciation of cultural diversity?
7. Are experiences and activities, other than those common to middle class/European American culture, included?
Though better-targeted aid and conditional debt forgiveness have a continued role in African relief, they're no panacea. The spread of commerce, trade and the rule of law sharply reduced poverty in the West and would do the same in Africa--if we allow it.Just read it.
Mr Brooks does point to a 1994 federal criminalization of violence against women as a potential contributing influence, a point that arises in the comments. There is likely to be a research article or four attempting to tease out such effects. There are also likely to be what the statisticians call "confounding factors," something that Mr Brooks noted in his column.
What David Brooks is really saying is that America is doing swimmingly for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with government. American youth are pulling themselves up by their bootstraps with the help of family and church groups. Our Republican government has sensibly not devoted one cent to these efforts. Just set a good example. (Eyes rolling.)
Brooks wisely sets up his essay by pointing to the drop in the levels of domestic violence, which takes the steam out of any liberal counterargument. Who wants to play down that important development? If it is true that fewer women are getting thumped, then great. But to attribute that change to an underfunded church group and an army of well scrubbed teenagers is bizarre.
The decline in family violence is part of a whole web of positive, mutually reinforcing social trends.For some of these, identifying the effect of government policies will be difficult. Tighter standards for drunken driving, more driving, fewer drunken driving fatalities. (Did I mention cheaper gas providing an incentive to buy more crashworthy cars, federally mandated airbags notwithstanding?) For others, well, maybe we're observing better behavior on average because better people are choosing to be parents. (That's one of the more frequently cited bits of Freakonomics, which I reviewed, focusing on the econometrics, to the exclusion of the selectivity effect of abortions, which everybody else goes directly to.)
And then, there are those people doing the relatively obscure work, such as a Chicago Tribune columnist who wants to say "Enough" to hip-hop-pimp.
Read the column and note the absence of a call for government action. Then read her follow-up column, culled from reader mail.
Maybe I'm just sick and tired of the whole pimp lifestyle and rap music's glorification of it all. And "Hustle & Flow," albeit well-done, is just an extension of that.
Maybe I'm just frustrated by how rap fits into a broader culture that continues to objectify women, and the movie, which for an independent film is doing well at the box office, is just an extension of that too.
These days, when you have a young daughter, as I have, it's constant and steady work to dispel the negative images out there of women and navigate around rap music's influences.
Suggestive lyrics go beyond rap music, says John J. of Chicago: I could go on about the garbage sold by a lot of the white bands. Ever listen to a country/western song? Drinking and sleeping around are still very prevalent there, too. I'm beginning to think that our music says a lot about us as a civilization and it ain't good."I don't know if that writer read Black Rednecks and White Liberals, but that connection is in that book, and I will be offering a review of it as part of a late summer doubleheader.
Pier S. of Chicago writes: I am entering my senior year as a Comparative Women's Studies major at Spelman College. Rapper Nelly's foundation approached Spelman with putting together a bone marrow drive, and when a few students saw one of his recent videos with him swiping a credit card down the backside of a woman, we told him not to come to our school.And such support encouraged the columnist, who will probably stay on this message as a consequence. It is by small steps such as these that the great leaders and the great speeches will emerge.
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Cool, I have no opinion what so ever on a possible name for it! :-P
Anyhoo, is there an English version of this page?
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When I first became interested in the history of the Joneses and my German and Irish lines, I had a couple of things going for me. First of all, my mother gave me a folder of family information she had collected over the years. A lot of her notes were the result of conversations she had had with Margaret Ann Scardina, my Dad's sister. (A few years back, Patty and I compared notes and found out that she had the same record -- her mother must have shared the information with mine). In the folder was a copy of a letter from Lillian Mears to Edith Breving.
As I was new to all of this, I called Rosemary Kramer and asked her to explain what she knew about the letter. Much to my surprise Rosemary told me all about Lillian, who was our grandfather's first cousin. She told me she lived in Harrison and was about 95 years old.
I called Lillian and despite macular degeneration and being somewhat frail, she invited Patty Volz and me to lunch at the home she shared with her daughter in Harrison, Ohio. She could practically quote all of the details in the letter, which had been written in 1978.
With a name like Jones, you need all of the clues you can get, and Lillian had a lot of them. Lillian was a retired school teacher who had graduated from Miami University. She had great stories about the lengths her parents went to to fund her education -- now I wish I had written them down. A lot of the things in her letter have now been documented. There were a few inaccuracies, but they were largely based on the recollections of her mother whose father (Alexander) died when she was only two years old.
As I write this history as I know it, I will often include quotes from her letter. Thank goodness that Edith Jones Breving asked Lillian to write down what she knew and my mother was given a copy. When Patty and I visited her she also gave us a photocopy of the Jones Family in 1916. Despite it's poor quality, it's one of my favorite items.
This picture was taken at Lillian's home in Harrison in 1916. The adults from left to right were:
John Lewis Amiss (husband of Elizabeth Jones Amiss)
Elizabeth Jones Amiss (daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth)
Melissa Jones (wife of Leo)
Norine Jones (wife of Charles Fred - our grandfather)
Ella Jones (wife of Tom)
Margaret Jones (wife of Harley)
Fred Jones (our grandfather)
The children from left to right were:
Lillian Amiss Mears - daughter of John and Elizabeth
Edith Jones Breving - my aunt
Charles Jones - my uncle
Irma Jones - daughter of Margaret and Harley Jones
At least I had the good sense to have Lillian identify the people in the picture.
Lillian died just short of the age of 100 after suffering a fall in her home. She, too, is buried at New Haven Cemetery near Harrison.
More pictures from the luncheon:
Lillian, Patty Volz and Laura (Lillian's daughter)
Laura, Rosemary, Sue, Jeanne,
Patty, Lillian, Nan
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- 1 nearly sleepless night +
- 1 not-so-great day +
- 1 cup of decaf coffee (ugh) +
- 1 husband working late +
- 1 face with yesterday’s makeup remnants still visible…
= Me tonight.
I’m feeling better tonight than I did this morning, but I’m lonely and tired and just feeling off all around.
I hope tomorrow’s better. If you need me, I’ll be watching bad TV with a big, relaxing glass of…OJ. :)
P.S. I made some little changes to the blog, so check it out if you’ve got a sec!
Baby girl….I’ll come get you tomorrow if you want…..make sure you come this weekend….let me know…..I really will….xoxo
In honor of today being the first day of school.
Blast from the past! I posted this waaay back in the day.
In the reblogs, the link to the downloadable PDF poster I included (that doesn’t have the spellcheck redlines in the bit.ly link in the bottom right corner) got lost. It’s right here for those of you who are interested: http://bit.ly/kqVPMW (don’t let the grainy browser preview mislead you when you click through; it looks just fine once you download it).
PS: It was inspired by this post.
Lol…a teachers worst nightmare….dirty hands!!!!
Crazy Saturday! Hurricane is approaching (we have high winds, lots of rain here in MD), but we’re okay right now.
I just realized that the baby has already lived through an earthquake and a hurricane. Both are supposed to be once-in-a-lifetime things for this area, so maybe we got everything out the way early on.
I’ve been taking it easy today, napping and reading a book. I’m 20 weeks along now, and starting to get more achy, painy. Shoes are getting more uncomfortable and my jeggings are getting a little ridiculous. You don’t know muffin top until you’ve got it in reverse—baby top.
I hope everyone stays safe through tonight and tomorrow. Thoughts and prayers with you and your family if you’re set to be affected (or already have been) by the hurricane.
My Little Nugget….is growing a lot!
Once you’re married, it may be stupid to keep tabs on the day you first started dating, but we do it anyway. Today marks six years together and the best part about it? We have an ultrasound to go to later today so the whole family can spend some quality time together.
I’ll toast with some juice, but here’s to the best six years of my life…so far!
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First, Open House was great! I had 16 of 20 families come! I love seeing how excited the kids are to show off all their work! They were so proud of themselves, and rightfully so!
Second, a few months ago I found a great landform dinosaur on Pinterest. Have you seen it? The original comes from Ms. Jennifer’s Second Grade Class. I thought the idea was brilliant. My kiddos love anything visual.
We did this little landform review in time to hang up the cute dinos for open house. The kids had a good time, and they looked great. Check it out:
Cute, right? The only problem, is Ms. Jennifer didn’t share a file to download so we wouldn’t have to make our own dinosaur. I do not like drawing in general, and it took me MANY tries before my dinosaur was presentable. I’ve since made a freebie for you so you don’t have to draw your own dinosaur. I’ve also made a checklist for students to refer to so they know exactly what landforms to look for on the dinosaur sheet. This is in English or Spanish for all the dual and bilingual classrooms out there.
PLEASE NOTE, I am not trying to take any credit for this great idea, it’s all Ms. Jennifer’s! She’s the creative one who deserves all the credit. I just wanted to help you out so you don’t have to waste time drawing the dinosaur, since I’ve already made one.
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New York Chamber Music Festival 2010
New York Philharmonic Principal winds
Liang Wang, oboe
Pascual Martinez Forteza, clarinet
Judith LeClair, bassoon
Philip Myers, horn
Shai Wosner, Piano
Beethoven Piano & Woondwinds quintet
Live from Symphony Space
September 16th, 2010
Say you play the oboe. Say you’re a regular oboe master and have designs on tooting your oboe in an orchestra. Your tryout will probably involve your plopping down behind a screen, so you’re unseen as you puff through a Mozart concerto: That’s because conductors aren’t supposed to care about their instrumentalists’ gender or color or warty faces, so long as the music’s sweet.
The article has absolutely nothing to do with oboe. Or oboists. Or even music. Really.
A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas (1990), traditional carol arr. by Craig Courtney
1. A Partridge from 6th Century Rome
2. Two Turtle Doves from 15th Century France
3. Three French Hens from 16th Century Italy
4. Four Calling Birds from 17th Century Italy
5. Five Gold Rings from 18th Century Germany
6. Six Geese a-Laying from 18th Century Austria
7. Seven Swans a-Swimming from 19th Century France
8. Eight Maids a-Milking from 19th Century Germany
9. Nine Ladies Dancing from 19th Century Austria
10. Ten Lords a-Leaping from 19th Century Italy
11. Eleven Pipers Piping from 19th Century Russia
12. Twelve Drummers Drumming from 20th Century United States
“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth starts with a clarinet solo accompanied by a string quartet,” the conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra says in his dressing room at Roy Thomson Hall.
Yep … you read the above correctly. And then there’s this:
For one soprano recitative (And Suddenly There Was With The Angel) Davis has summoned a marimba, harp, celesta, suspended cymbal and cellos playing on the bridge, all to imitate angels beating their wings. And He Trusted in God, a chorus that mockingly calls on God to deliver Christ from his sufferings, will sport snarling trombones. “One of the nastiest numbers I know,” Davis calls it.
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From Online Dictionary of Crystallography
Méthode du remplacement moléculaire (Fr).
An approach to solving the phase problem by concentrating on phase relationships that arise through X-ray diffraction from similar molecular components. The components can be molecular fragments related through noncrystallographic symmetry (e.g. icosahedral subunits of a virus) or a similar molecule such as a homologous protein with high sequence identity.
The technique is most commonly used in biological crystallography. Typically, an attempt is made to fit the structure under investigation (the 'target' structure) to a previously solved ('probe') structure. The probe may be a different crystal form of the same protein; or it may be a different protein with a high level of sequence identity, which correlates well with structural resemblance. As a rule of thumb, molecular replacement is often straightforward if the probe is well characterised and shares at least 40% sequence identity with the target.
Figure 1 illustrates schematically the process of repositioning the probe structure (the solid motif) in the new unit cell to coincide with the target structure (red outline motif). Rotation and transformation matrices must be applied. Patterson methods are suitable for determining the rotation function R, since intramolecular vectors are all shifted to the origin of a Patterson map. The orientational fit (i.e. the quality of the calculated rotation function) has usually been assessed by monitoring R factors or real-space correlation coefficients. Increasingly, modern programs use maximum likelihood based algorthms.
The translation function T is then determined to shift the now correctly orientated probe model to the correct coordinates within the asymmetric unit. Space-group symmetries can be used to help reduce the computationally intense calculations required.
Early applications of the technique concentrated on large virus structures with icosahedral symmetry. [Rossmann, M. G. & Blow, D. M. (1962). Acta Cryst. 15, 24–31. The detection of sub-units within the crystallographic asymmetric unit.] In the 1960s the early development of the molecular replacement technique was aimed primarily at ab initio phase determination. It was only in the 1970s, when more structures became available, that it was possible to use the technique to solve homologous structures with suitable search models.
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Cold Lithuanian Borscht Soup from Kaunas
(Preparation time 20 minutes, makes 2 quarts of soup)
2 lbs. of pickled beets, coarsely chopped with about 24 oz. of their pickling marinade.
1 cucumber, peeled and chopped
4 scallions, cleaned and chopped, both white and green parts
2 tbsp. of chopped fresh dill
Fresh ground black pepper
1 quart of plain Kefir
1 & 1/4 cups of sour cream
1. Combine the beets, cucumber,scallions, dill and black pepper in large bowl and mix well.
2. Add the beet pickling marinade and the Kefir and stir well
3. Add sour cream to thicken soup and keep stirring until the sour cream is fully mixed in.
Serve soup cold. In Lithuania it is served with sides dishes of boiled potatoes topped with dill and/or hard boiled eggs.
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The United States ups the ante, again.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that her country believes al Qaeda kingpin Ayman al Zawahiri is hiding somewhere in Pakistan.
“The US will go after militant groups in Pakistan,” the top US diplomat told an interactive session at the La Martiniere School for Girls in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal on the second day of her three-day tour.
“We want to disable al Qaeda. We have made lots of progress,” she added.
Al Zawahiri’s predecessor Osama bin Laden was killed in a top-secret raid by US special forces in a compound in Abbottabad in May, last year. The unilateral raid brought to the fore the mistrust that exists between the two allies in the global war against terrorism.
Secretary Clinton said it was believed that al Zawahiri, an Egyptian cleric, was in Pakistan. “There are several significant leaders still on the run. Al Zawahiri, who inherited the (al Qaeda) leadership from Bin Laden, is somewhere, we believe, in Pakistan. We want to go after them,” he added.
In a move that was likely to sour already fraught Pakistan-US tensions, Clinton said Islamabad was not doing enough to tackle terrorism. She added that Washington was keeping up pressure on Islamabad to crack down on the main accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
“Pakistan has lost far more people than India and the US (due to terrorism). Thirty thousand lives have been lost in Pakistan in terrorist attacks. It is in their interest that Pakistan should deal with the problem of terrorism,” she said.
Clinton said she had personally authorised a $10 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Hafiz Saeed.
Saeed’s militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, is accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people. Earlier, confusion had reigned over the bounty when US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter insisted that the United States was not offering it.
Clinton said she was “well aware that there have not yet been steps taken by the Pakistani government” that could help in securing Hafiz Saeed’s conviction.
“We’re going to be pushing that point. So it’s a way of raising the visibility and pointing out to those who are associated with him that there is a cost for that,” Clinton said referring to the bounty. “You have to go after those who are trying to kill you. You have to be focused on that … We want everybody who is associated with that (Mumbai attack) brought to justice. And it may take longer than any one of us like. But we are going to be standing with you and trying to make that happen,” Clinton said to applause. “We are all aware that Pakistan has not done as much as the US and India wanted to fight terrorism,” she added.
Oil imports from Iran
Secretary Clinton also leaned on India to cut its imports of Iranian oil further, and said Washington may not make a decision on whether to exempt New Delhi from financial sanctions for another two months. She said the United States was encouraged by the steps its ally had taken to reduce its reliance on Iranian oil, but that ‘even more’ was needed. New Delhi does not want to be seen to be caving in to US pressure and also has to satisfy the fast-growing energy demands of its economy, Asia’s third-largest, and look after its own strategic interests: Iran provides it with access to Afghanistan. Clinton’s trip coincided with a visit by an Iranian trade delegation, which was in Delhi to discuss trade via a rupee mechanism set up to skirt sanctions. US officials played down the timing.
(WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM REUTERS)
Published in The Express Tribune, May 8th, 2012.
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He was a contestant on Season 9 of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," but since then champion snowboarder Louie Vito has competed in the Olympics, took home the gold at the European Winter X-Games, and even bared it all in ESPN Magazine's "The Body Issue."
In this interview we give you an update on Louie Vito -- and what he really thinks about the upcoming "DWTS" All-Stars season.
You competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. With the 2012 Olympic trials going on right now, how stressful is that process for an athlete?
LV: It can be an extremely stressful process, especially for the athletes who haven't been through an Olympic trials before. You have the pressure of the media, sponsors, family, friends, and most of all yourself. The people who are a favorite for the Olympics have the pressure that they are suppose to make the team and do well. Of course you can also see the athletes who strive under pressure and live for it. They are elite athletes and know how to deal with the pressure, especially if they have been through the process before.
Do you hope to compete at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia? If so, how will you train?
LV: I like to never say I hope to make the next Olympics, if I make the Olympic team. You have to be positive, and with that being said, I am already preparing myself. Luckily for me, we always have big contests year in and year out, that so I set goals each year to do well and keep progressing that way when the Olympics come around, I am where I want to be. Off the hill I changed up my program from the last Olympics, changed the way I eat and train. I started working out with John Schaeffer at Winning Factor, who I met through Apolo Ohno, and he literally changed my life in the sense of how I prepare off the snow.
You came in sixth place on Season 9 of "Dancing With the Stars." With the "DWTS" All Stars season coming up, would you compete again if they asked?
LV: "DWTS" was a great experience. I was so far out of my comfort zone that it actually made my snowboarding easy. If I could go out and dance in front of 22 million plus people every week, doing something I didn't have much confidence in, live audience, live judges, and wearing clothes I wouldn't even wear on Halloween, how wouldn't it help my snowboarding, which I am confident doing, know what the judges want to see, and wear what I want to wear? I would love to do it again especially since I am a little older now -- I just turned 21 when I was on last time -- and know how to deal with the pressure a little better.
So what's harder -- the slopes or the Salsa?
LV: Salsa for sure. These hips are as loose as they need to be to get down with the Salsa. At least if you mess up doing the Salsa, there is no slam or pain!
Besides yourself, who else would you like to see have another shot at the mirror ball trophy?
LV: If I am competing, I, of course, would only want to see me win. Haha. I never really watched the show until I was on it and after, but I did watch Floyd Mayweather on, and then people on my season were amazing to be with. Chuck Liddell, Joanna Krupa, Kelly Osbourne, Michael Irvin, they were some people I really got close with.
You were the commencement speaker at The Art Institute of Salt Lake City this year, speaking on the topic "Taking Your Place in Challenging Times." Any words of wisdom you can share with us from your speech?
LV: You always have to push yourself. Don't settle for mediocracy. My Dad gives me quotes for any situation I am in. Winning, losing, highs and lows of life in general, and two quotes that I will never forget and live firmly by are, "If you're good enough, they can't ignore you" - Lou Vito. "Be happy, don't be satisfied." As soon as you are satisfied you stop moving forward and start to plateau.
"Dancing With the Stars" All-Star premieres this fall on ABC.
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The Creighton volleyball team took another step in building their resume with a thrilling five-set win over Wichita State on Friday night. Wichita State took the first set 25-19, which usually spells trouble for Creighton. In the previous 41 of 43 matches overall and in 38 of the last 39 against MVC competition, the team that won the first set wins the match.
However, Creighton stormed back to take the second set 25-23 only to lose game three 25-13. After the break Creighton again took a set 25-23 and then pulled away in set five to win that one 15-10. The victory improved the Jays to 4-0 all-time in five-set matches at D.J. Sokol Arena, and was the second straight year the Jays won a five-setter in Omaha over the Shockers.
Megan Bober tied an MVC record with her seventh triple-double of the season (10 kills, 27 assists, 18 digs), Natalie Hackbarth had a double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs and Julianne Mandolfo continued her stellar play at the libero position handling 30 digs.
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Romania’s Environment Ministry started an “emergency” investigation of an environmental permit issued by a regional authority for a gold mine project majority owned by Canada’s Eldorado Gold Corp. (ELD)
Environment Minister Rovana Plumb asked Romania’s National Agency for Environmental Protection and the Environment Clearance Authority to check whether the local agency for environmental protection in the western Timisoara county followed the law when it issued a permit for the Certej mining project, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement today.
The ministry will cancel the permit should it fail to respect the country’s regulations, according to the statement. Plumb also asked for the head of the local environmental agency to be fired because he failed to inform the ministry about the issuance of a permit for a project of “national and international interest.”
Non-profit organizations, including Alburnus Maior, issued a statement today challenging the permit for the Certej mining project, citing “an extremely dangerous precedent for Romania,” because of environmental issues caused by the use of cyanide in extracting the gold.
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I thought it was confirmed to be their lack of resources as well as the results of the Core War and Shattering. Their water pretty much drained away into the two giant craters as I understand it (the ocean having been blasted away to Aqua Magna), and they also lost most of their trees to Bota Magna. They were left with a vast desert for the most part. They were just trying to survive -- it was much like on Mata Nui Island, versus Metru Nui.
Plus, the GBs seem to have basically abandoned them, but prior to that they were ruling the planet (officially anyways), and their creative nature probably had a profound influence on the Agori. But when the Agori saw what that led to, they were undoubtedly horrified and tried to live a simpler life.
It also seems reasonable to me that during the Core War, the most inventive types may have been slaughtered by opponents to try to prevent them from gaining control of the EP first, etc.
So in short, I see no need to appeal to some kind of a mind-altering agent to explain it. It's the expected result as-is.
Personnaly, I would be inclined to think this come from the creation of the Mask of Creation. Since it was forged when MN was still on SM, it could also be linked to it, and its absence would also prevent any kind of creativity there.
That's not how it works, but nice try. Creativity never flowed from a source in an object like that.
There's countless ways to disprove this. Try this one; the Vahi didn't exist until near the end of history, yet Time obviously existed before it. Even more obviously, the Ignika also went as far away from Bara Magna as the Mask of Creation, yet Life obviously continued.
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In US, Ramadan gets an American twist
Muslims celebrate the holy month with interfaith iftars, blogs, and fasts even during competition.
Aaliyah Turner used to light up the scoreboards for the Emmanuel College women's basketball team – even while observing the Islamic month of Ramadan. She would go all day without food and water until half time, when the sun set. So during this year's observance, playing a pickup game of basketball with a youth team organized through her mosque seemed to be no big deal.Skip to next paragraph
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"If I weren't fasting, I'd feel like I'd probably miss more shots because I'm out of sync," Ms. Turner says.
Muslims in the United States face special challenges in celebrating their holy month, which this year began Sept. 23 and ends Oct. 22. While Muslims in the Islamic world revive the daily rhythms of Ramadan – streets empty at sunset, families congregating for Ramadan dinners, or iftars, and later heading to the markets to drink tea until the wee hours of the morning, comfortable in the knowledge that they can sleep late because others will, too – Muslim-Americans have to adjust Ramadan to the beat of American life.
In the process, they're creating Ramadan traditions with a distinct American flavor – whether it's fasting in the heat of competition, eating takeout for iftar, or breaking fast with Christians and Jews.
"The Muslim experience in America is one of trying to conform to the way society around us runs," says Shahed Amanullah, who runs zabihah.com, an online guide of restaurants that conform to Islamic dietary restrictions. "In a Muslim country, everybody breaks their fast at the same time, so business conforms to that. But in America, we have to conform to a different schedule."
Omar Ahmad, for example, a technology worker in Silicon Valley, is often still at work at sunset. So he drives to the nearby Yaseen Center mosque in Belmont, where iftar is served, and gets his meal to go. He eats it at his office – a ritual performed by dozens of Muslims who work in Silicon Valley.
"That's when you can tell who all the bachelors are," he jokes, adding that mosque officials don't mind the eat-and-run.
Saira Sufi grew up in Topeka, Kan., accustomed to home-cooked iftars with family, but had little trouble adjusting to breaking her fast when she took a job on Capitol Hill, mainly because she could share the experience with Muslim colleagues. But since taking a job two years ago with the Civil War Preservation Trust, where she is the only Muslim, Ms. Sufi confesses to missing the sense of community. "I love breaking fast with other Muslims, but if you can't, you just accept it."
Rather than lamenting, however, Sufi has turned her solitude into an opportunity to contemplate God – another practice encouraged during Ramadan. "When you're on your own, you reflect a little more," she says.
While Muslim-Americans like Sufi have adjusted Ramadan to American life, more Americans have also become increasingly aware of Ramadan, and have sought to accommodate Muslims. For example, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., the prayer hall stays open late to accommodate students praying Taraweeh, special prayers performed only during Ramadan. And many employers are letting Muslim employees slip out at sunset so they can break their fast.
Many Muslim-Americans, meanwhile, are using Ramadan as a chance to reach out to the larger community. Since the 1990s, Sufi's father, Ashraf Sufi, has frequently invited non-Muslim neighbors to his home for iftar. After the 9/11 attacks, the need for interfaith dialogue became more urgent, and Dr. Sufi and his colleagues expanded the iftars through the Islamic Center of Topeka. The interfaith iftars have since become "like a tradition," Sufi says, drawing about 70 people, including Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Bahais.
"If you don't meet people, you stay in your own shell, and that just breeds suspicion," he says.
Indeed, according to the "Fatwa Bank" at IslamOnline.net, a conservative website, Muslims are encouraged to share iftar with non-Muslims. In response to a question from Pakistan, the Fatwa Bank said: "It is an intelligent and impressive idea to organize iftar with non-Muslims."
Along with diversity, the nation's penchants for volunteering and technology have also influenced the way Muslim-Americans observe Ramadan. For example, Nabila Mango, a San Francisco social worker, says the annual iftar she has organized for the past six years for the city's Tenderloin district, draws some 100 volunteers. "The volunteers are really a picture of the Bay area: Muslims, Jews, Christians, straight, gay, everybody," Ms. Mango says.
And Omar Mozaffar, an Islamic studies student at the University of Chicago, has taken up blogging to reflect on the meaning of Ramadan. It also helps overcome a typically American dilemma: "In our society, Muslim or not, we are alienated from each other, and blogging helps people connect and share ideas," he says.
Jamil Abdullah, who coaches a basketball team sponsored by Masjid Al-Quran, a Boston mosque, believes Ramadan in America is too diverse to be labeled an American Ramadan.
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Ask a Fool: 3 Great Bank Stocks
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MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus Aureus, otherwise known as the "superbug" because the infections it causes resist treatment with some of the most common antibiotics. MRSA is now believed to have caused infections responsible for the deaths of nearly 19,000 hospital and nursing home patients in 2005. That number, from a study published in the October 17, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that MRSA infections may be twice as common as previously believed and that deaths due to the superbug would exceed those due to HIV-AIDS, Parkinson's disease, emphysema or homicide for each year since 2005. The study, by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimated that in 2005 more than 94,000 patients were infected with MRSA and that nearly one in five of them died. (The investigators noted, however, that it isn't always possible to determine whether a death is caused directly by MRSA or simply accelerated by it.) The study found that 85 percent of MRSA infections are associated with treatment in hospitals and nursing homes.
This new estimate of the unexpectedly high prevalence of MRSA infections is truly alarming and presents a major challenge to the medical community. The question is what to do about it. Should all hospital and nursing home patients be tested for MRSA when they're admitted? Or should all hospitals isolate infected patients, as some now do, and require healthcare workers to wear gloves and gowns every time they come into contact with the patients? Some hospitals that have been screening patients have dramatically cut their rate of MRSA infections and some have reduced infection rates by isolating patients, but there's ongoing debate as to whether these measures may adversely affect the medical care of infected patients.
The superbug can cause very serious skin infections, pneumonia, and infections of surgical wounds and of the bloodstream, especially in people with weakened immune systems. Risk of infection is also associated with skin-to-skin contact between an infected individual and others. This is particularly risky with cuts, abrasions or other openings in the skin, contact with contaminated items or surfaces, crowded living conditions, and poor hygiene.
To protect yourself, the CDC recommends keeping your hands clean (wash frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer). Be sure to keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until they heal. Avoid contact with other people's wounds or bandages, and don't share such personal items as towels and razors.
Despite their resistance to common antibiotics including methicillin, penicillin and amoxicillin, MRSA infections can be successfully treated with other antibiotics, often with Bactrim DS (double-strength sulfamethoxazole trimethoprim). If you are being treated for MRSA, or any infection for that matter, be sure to take all of the doses of your prescribed medication - don't share the drug with others and don't stop taking it just because you begin to feel better. Sometimes, staph infections of the skin produce abscesses or boils. These should only be drained by a trained healthcare provider under sanitary conditions to minimize the risk of MRSA spreading. If you don't begin to feel better after starting treatment, be sure to contact your physician.
In addition to antibiotic therapy, I would recommend taking astragalus, a Chinese herb that supports immune function. You should also add raw garlic to your diet (one to two cloves a day, minced and mixed with food). Garlic is a powerful infection-fighter with natural antibiotic properties. Finally, remember to take a good probiotic supplement during and after any course of antibiotics.
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Play With Me Sesame: Let's Play Games (2008)
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Interactive play date focuses on fun and games.
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The outermost layer of the Earth consists of different materials, comprising rock, soil, organic matter, and other earth materials that together are called regolith. This regolith forms by the breakdown of solid bedrock, through processes of chemical, biological, and mechanical weathering. In rare and dramatic instances, large sections of regolith and even bedrock may suddenly collapse and race downhill, in what is known as a landslide. Landslides examines the physical characteristics of the regolith, as well as the consequences when regolith moves either slowly or more suddenly in landslides and avalanches. This comprehensive resource also examines the formation of soil from regolith and underlying bedrock and discusses some of the hazardous elements that are concentrated in soils. With black and white photographs, a glossary, tables, and further reading, this helpful reference is an essential tool for middle and high school students.
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♥ Dollight Collection - Purple & Aqua Blend ♥
PLEASE NOTE: We reversed the colors on this cycle and now the darker cobalt blue is now on top. The wig is not the same as worn by our model Alexa (the colors are reversed)
This fun collection is our answer to numerous requests to bring back our Curly & Short "Miwako" series - there was something about it that felt a little off to us, so we began reworking the series to make it something even better. This new design is more flattering and easy to wear; the base has two spiral curls framing the face and blending into the ponys to give the overall look extra volume and a smooth transition into one another. The back also tapers at the bottom and covers the whole neck.
Posted by Makoto 1joG on 5th Mar 2013
I get a lot of compliments on the color of this wig. I bought it for everyday wear. :)
Usually I can get 3 styles out of the pigtail wigs: Withoug tails, with 1 tail, and with both. But I found this wig doesn't look quite right without both tails in.
I would consider my forehead to be of average height maybe a little small and thus I struggle with the length of the bangs (Honestly, I could cut them but I'm being willful and lazy. Not the wigs fault.)
Posted by Abby on 28th Dec 2012
I love the colors of this wig!! It's one of my favorite combos!! I'll be wearing it for my next convention for sure!
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The 24th Billboard Latin Music Conference kicked off Monday in Miami with the presence of some of the industry's biggest stars and producers. continue reading »
Argentine director Daniel Burman praised the work of Jorge Drexler in his film "La Suerte en Tus Manos" (All In), which he said was so good he quite forgot that the Uruguayan singer-songwriter had never acted before. continue reading » | <urn:uuid:b2ab9fdb-b5aa-433b-b5b3-ad5539fb770c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/archives/tags/tag/jorge+drexler/ | 2013-05-20T05:43:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957538 | 99 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
§8-27-27. Employees to be covered by workers' compensation.
All eligible employees of any authority shall be considered to
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premiums on their compensation shall be paid by the authority as
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Look at the ump. Haha. I really, really love this play. ”You’re Out! – Crap, You’re SAFE! So are YOU! – You Win!” Even Dodgers fans, although sad when it happened, have to appreciate how awesome this is. 2 strikes, 2 … Continue reading
Hey Forbes, I got an idea… stick to business and money or whatever the hell you do. Clearly, you don’t know squat about sports. Here’s the Forbes List of the Top 10 Most Influential Athletes: Hey Forbes, I put together … Continue reading
Man, ball players will do anything to get inside the head of their opponent. San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey’s little sister, Samantha Posey, a college softball player at Valdosta State, hit for the Home Run Cycle. Heh? The Home … Continue reading
Padres Win! Padres Win! It’s the 2011 Major League Baseball season and the San Diego Padres are in First Place in the NL West and on pace for a decent 162-0 season. Hope springs eternal, bitches! This game was sick. … Continue reading | <urn:uuid:34024599-eb07-4cda-8612-2e151d779a0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lobshots.com/tag/jr/ | 2013-05-20T05:13:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885125 | 342 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Katja Kassin And Sandra Romain Take On Three Stiff Dicks
Katja Kassin that hot red head warms you up with her dance moves showing off her fabulous tits. She teams up with Sandra Romain to suck some serious cock and take it in the ass. Lots of fucking and sucking and ass pounding with three big dicks to go around and plenty of cum to eat.
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Jarek Czechowski known as Angelo Mike is one of the leadings Polish DJ and Producer.
Winning titles of the Best DJ in Poland and other awards in electronic music, for many years he provides us with wonderful music experiences not only as a DJ, but also as a promoter. He was responsible for bringing for the first time to Poland most of the leading world's club scene artists and a well-known events.
Now he is focused mainly on producing his own music, which lately has been released by Sentence Records.
Recently, he's also presented his own radio broadcasts. "Connect with Angelo Mike" can be heard every week on the radio Planeta FM (Poland), and the second show, "Sentence Sessions" aired on international Frisky Radio. | <urn:uuid:f9171e1f-c314-42fe-9255-b7f0cd037cc4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mixcloud.com/angelomike/ | 2013-05-20T05:22:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987284 | 158 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Cafe Cito Bogota
Affordable Housing In Greenpoint
A number of you who live south of the BQE are undoubtedly familiar with this building. It is the former station house for the 87th Precinct. What you may not know is it is slated to become affordable housing! When I walked by this —one of the most beautiful edifices the Garden Spot has to offer— this week I made a joyous discovery: it already has its first tenant!
One of the purposes of providing affordable housing is to give people of more modest means a nice place to live without having to sell the shirt of their back.
Or would that be pants? The more eagle-eyed among probably spy a bottle of vodka in the background. This is what I call living large!
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz had it right when she said:
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13th Armored Division Reunion
After Action Report
13th Armored Division reunion was a huge success!
The Patton’s Third Army Living Historians has never been so well received as we were for the 13th Armored Division reunion held in Dallas at Sheraton Grand DFW Hotel 4440 W. John Carpenter Frwy. Irving, TX 75063 www.sheratongranddfwairport.com. The display, historical slide presentation and our Patton Show received two standing ovations by the 13th AD on two separate occasions on Saturday October 15 2011.
The appearance of General Patton was to be a complete surprise to the 13th Armored Division and they were told only that we were a group of historians invited to tell the history of the 13th Armored division and their part in Patton’s Third Army. 3rd Army’s members in attendance were Texas contingent, M.Sgt. Michael Maloney, TSgt. Bill White, Cpl. Dan Vreeland, Pvt. Michael Ditto, and wife Lynn, Chaplain Kenneth Stewart and Lt. Francine Stewart and General Patton (Denny Hair) drove in. Col Ray Marino flew in from Chicago.
1 pm to 3 pm 13th Armored Division Historical Presentation
The 3rd Army Living Historians were asked to keep the Patton Show a secret for this part of the event and give a historical overview of the 13th AD and 3rd Army. The historical presentation was part display, part lecture, part power point slide show and part show in tell. The combination was so well done it captivated the well over 100 plus in attendance and brought back great memories of World War II. So not to give anything away we all dressed with no rank and gave the presentation free of any trappings of General Patton.
There were many kids and grand kids of the veterans who attended and all said they learned a lot and had a great time. The veterans went by the displays and told their loved ones how they remembered many of the things in the display. Cpl. Dan Vreeland reproduced post cards of the period telling about the 13th Armored “Blackcats” Div. They were so popular that he gave all he had made away to them.
He also gave an impromptu talk on the GI footlocker that was well received and got both applause and laughter as he explain briefly about GI briefs.
MSgt Michael Maloney gave several great talks on several aspects of the M1 Garand and the 30 Cal. Water Cooled Browning MG.
Chaplain Stewart explained the history of the Patton prayer and prayer of the 3rd Army during Bastogne and before. TSgt Bill White helped with the displays and power point display while Pvt. Ditto, this his first event, wore a period tanker uniform and helped with the displays.
Denny Hair did the historical power point presentation as Ray Marino help. Lt. Francine Stewart and Lynn Ditto were pressed into service as Third Army Photographers. It is these “volunteered” ladies’ photographs that are attached to this AAR of the event. They did a magnificent job!
The 13th AD event coordination and President of the 13AD Association said that we presented the finest history of their unit that had ever been given and even they learned a great deal they did not know.
The Patton Show at the 13th AD Banquette
This was a complete surprise. There were close to 200 in attendance and they had no idea that General Patton and his 3rd Army would be coming to the banquette. Just after the serving of the main dish, the lights dimmed and a siren began to howl. This was our cue to enter. We want to thank Lt. Stewart and Lynn Ditto for pulling off the entrance for us with the lights and siren. It went letter perfect. The audience looked around and had no idea what was going on. The door burst open, M.Sgt. Maloney called the room to attention and in walked the 3rd Army MP Honor Guard and General Patton. Immediately an applause went out, salutes were exchanged and the Patton Show began. The MP’s milled throughout the crown with their Thompson Sub machine guns and M1 Garands affixed with bayonets. The 13th AD were mesmerized, as we were told later. Parts of the Famous Speech were given and then the veterans were addressed as the 13AD had honored as the true heroes they really are.
After the Third Army Show and speech presentation, the 13th Armored had the award and recognition ceremonies. Then General Patton was asked up again for a question and answer period. Many questions and answers were exchanged, much to the veteran and loved ones liking. The entire audience stood and gave a stirring standing ovation to the 3rd Army and the Patton Living Historians. Afterward the 13th AD Event Chairwoman Jo Ellen Bender, addressed the 13th AD and said she had search far and wide to find a proper and historical General Patton and presentation and believed that they had been fortunate enough to find the finest one in the world. The entire 13AD and families again erupted into applause.
13th Armored Division "Black Cats" and Third Army Living Historians
Afterwards we all posed for photographs. This lasted quite awhile as everyone wanted their pictures taken with the 3rd Army Historians. When the veteran group shot was taken, the veterans asked us to be in their picture. This was a high honor for us to be included in this photograph.
A Special Commendation goes out to Col Ray Marino had worked tirelessly on getting us this opportunity for over a year and his efforts paid off. When he was able to explain to Jo Ellen Bender what we were all about, she saw the web site and talked with the General, no other would have done. Her parting words to us was to please use her name and recommendation and that she would spread the word that we were the ones to call for anything to do with General Patton and his Third Army.
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Steve Lawler, Smokin' Jo, Appleblim and Groove Armada all tell tales of their beginnings in music, although the real gem on the latest We Love video is DJ History's Bill Brewster talking about the cyclical nature of music and club culture.More ›
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Nigel Peter Brewster
Fat Camp, World Discothéque Movement
One minute he’s rocking the roof off at Fabric with his tough and funky big-room underground house; the next he’s charming the pants off a more intimate crowd with everything from dubby disco, funk and hip-hop to trip hop and Latin batucadas. Armed with a sensitivity and sense of occasion that few DJs possess Bill Brewster knows how to work a crowd in the best possible sense.
Originally a chef, a football pundit (co-editor of fanzine When Saturday
Comes) and record collector, Bill began DJing in in the late 80s, but he cut his teeth playing ‘Low Life’ warehouse parties in Harlem and the Ea.. | <urn:uuid:1894a605-55d1-4e0d-839a-77fb6e0665b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/billbrewster | 2013-05-20T05:33:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890731 | 222 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Your mother was a geniune, sweet, kind and thoughtful person. She and I PM'd (private messaged) each other on Splitcoast frequently. She and I shared a lot - about stamping, family and faith. Although I never met her face to face, I know one day I will. She loved her family, her church and Jesus - she was an example for us all.
I am so happy that you reached out to us on Splitcoast. You obviously inherited Beverly's caring spirit. Your post on this thread has certainly helped me in my grieving process for your mother. She touched our lives and she will be forever in my heart. I will continue to keep you and your family in my prayers. There are several prayer warriors on this site for we are more than just stampers. | <urn:uuid:e8895f10-ec24-4d33-a48a-721717346059> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/19822736-post646.html | 2013-05-20T05:14:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982447 | 166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Tunisian political leaders tapped a new prime minister Friday, choosing the head of a crucial and controversial ministry to form a new government for the divided North African nation. Ali Larayedh steps into the role at a tense time for Tunisia....
Algerian forces claimed a decisive victory this weekend over al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist militants who took over a giant natural gas plant near the country's border with Mali last week and threatened to kill hostages and blow up the facility. But the...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Al-Qaeda, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, Algeria
Nearly a year after a Moroccan teen took her life after being wed to her rapist, the country is poised to change a law allowing "seducers" to escape prosecution by marrying their victims. Rights activists were heartened by Justice Minister Mustapha...
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I was shocked and saddened to learn that two homeless people died alone on a frigid night last week in Costa Mesa ("2 homeless people found dead," Jan. 16). Every person deserves dignity. Every person deserves help. It prompted me to research Costa Mesa'...
Morocco dropped by. I wasn't expecting a North African kingdom, but company is always welcome. Especially such charming company — those cinnamon-warm spices, those lush stews and that habit of pressing savory against sweet. Intoxicating. And no...
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A deadly hostage-taking at an Algerian gas complex and an armed international confrontation in Mali herald the opening of another front in the global war on terrorism and serve as stark reminders that Al Qaeda retains the power to inflict death and...
SLS Las Vegas, a trendy resort to be built on the grounds of the former Sahara, is scheduled to open in fall 2014 and promises to bring several Southern California clubs and restaurants to the Nevada desert. The former Sahara has been surrounded by...
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No teen is immune to the pressures of growing up or dealing with issues at home. Some teens may become too overwhelmed with problems and may feel that running away is their only way to escape them. The number of child runaways is quite staggering. According to the National Runaway Switchboard, "Every day between 1.3 and 2.8 million runaway and homeless youth live on the streets of America. One out of every seven children will run away from home before the age of 18."1
Why do teens run away?
Some 2005 statistics from the National Runaway Switchboard show that the top three reasons callers gave for running away were family dynamics (35%), peer/social issues (12%) and youth services (10%). Family dynamics may involve not wanting to obey house rules or not getting along with relatives. Some other reasons your teen might feel the need to runaway are:
- School problems - for example, bullying
- Substance abuse - either by themselves or other relatives at home
- Abuse - including physical, verbal, sexual & mental abuse
- Mental health issues
- Need to seek attention
- Questions about sexual orientation
- Following a friend who has run away
How long do they go for?
Most of the teenagers who run away from home are usually only gone for a couple of days. They realize very quickly how hard it is to survive by themselves and return back home. Others, find ways to cope out on the street and will leave for extended periods of time. They may find that running away only compounds their situation since toughing it out on the street can put them in very dangerous situations, from violence and substance abuse to pregnancy and health problems/illnesses. Still, these situations may seem better to them than returning to their former problems at home.
The 2005 National Runaway Switchboard statistics showed the following percentages of runaways and the time they spent living away from home:
- 50% (1-3 days)
- 20% (4-7 days)
- 13% (1-4 weeks)
- 8% ( 1-2 months)
- 4% (2-6 months)
- 5% (6+ months)
Where do they go?
Where a teenager ends up when they run away depends on their situation and how long they are gone for. For those who leave for short periods of time, they will usually end up with friends or relatives.
Other teenagers who feel that they must run farther from home may end up in either shelters or in the worst possible scenario, living on the street. Preferably a troubled teen will end up at a shelter as they help provide food and clothing. Some shelters also provide counseling or help them to find better living arrangements. Teens who end up homeless on the street will usually band together with other teens in their same situation and help each other to survive.
How do they survive?
Survival while running away, really depends on where they end up living. If teens run away to friends, relatives or shelters, their basic needs are met. Teens who end up on the streets must learn to become independent very quickly. Usually, this independence comes at a price, since this type of survival is very hard. Methods for survival may include:
- Selling drugs
- Dumpster diving
Prevention and what you should do if your teen runs away?
First and foremost, the most important and effective way to stop your teen from running away is keeping an open and stable relationship with your teen. If you notice any problems that they might be having, talk to your child before the situation gets out of control. For those teens who cannot be stopped, there is help for them. Teens who run away frequently, might benefit from Residential Treatment Centers (RTC's) or Specialty Boarding Schools where they will be monitored 24 hours a day.
If your teen does run away:
- Notify the police - fill out missing persons report
- Call a national hotline such as the National Runaway Switchboard (1-800- Runaway)
- Notify relatives and friends
- Check your teen's items for any clues to their whereabouts
Teen Runaways Sources:
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KTVT-TV (Ch. 11) recently featured Dr. Noushin Firouzbakht, OB/GYN on the medical staff of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, on its morning news program. Firouzbakht discussed the importance of flu vaccine and shared tips on flu prevention.
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The Fort Worth Business Press featured Ramona Osburn’s designation as a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Osburn is administrative director of Texas Health Springwood Hospital and Seay Behavioral Health Center at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano.
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NeighborsGo.com featured Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano for earning CleanZone certification. Richard Murdock, director of environmental services, and hospital president Dr. Jeffrey Canose were quoted.
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Nobody blames the chickens to be omnivores, but the humans are blamed! Moral - Only those who understand Karma feel the burden/ease of it.
There is no cookbook; Life is a recipe and every lesson is an ingredient for the perfect dish.
Money exchanges hands; it travels from the deceitful to the nobler.
In a war of words; the less painful are the insured ones.
I am a glutton; I want unending happiness.
I can touch the feet of my parents; but would that be enough.
Forward thinkers have the ability to tinker what the forefathers renounced impossible in the past.
In a sigh of a second, life can change many folds; try and liven each second between the sighs.
I look up and pray; In blessing or in greed- it rains heavily.
God is found in practical, nice, absurd places and everywhere.
A disgraced soul can only find God by doing the right thing and not the selfish thing.
I can look into hateful eyes and make you talk.
I was born to turn to ashes but the warmth would keep them cosy for long.
Humans are generally quite reasonable till they flirt with their limits.
Spend as much and worry too much.
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To erase all the data from your device or restore it to factory settings, you have several options:
Option 1: Simple hard reset
This can be performed on the Palm Pre by going into Device Info --> Phone Reset Options and tapping the "Full Erase" option. You may want to do this if, for example, you are giving your phone to someone else. Step-by-step:
- Open Device Info
- Tap Phone Reset Options
- Tap Full Erase twice (NOTE: You must still manually delete installed apps, as they reappear after a full erase)
- If desired, sign back into your Palm profile on the phone to restore your Palm profile data.
Option 2: Remote hard reset
This can be performed from your Palm profile online and clicking the option to "wipe device". You may need to do this if, for instance, you forgot your password to unlock the screen. Step-by-step:
- On your computer, go to palm.com/support
- Enter your Palm profile email address and password.
- Click Wipe Device to remotely reset your phone.
- Turn on your phone and sign into your existing Palm profile to restore backed-up data, applications, and online accounts (e.g. Google, MS Exchange).
Option 3: The webOS Doctor
This is a special recovery tool (software) to restore your Sprint Palm Pre to factory specifications, for example in more serious cases where your phone is unresponsive or frozen. Step-by-step:
- Download the latest webOS Doctor here
- Start the webOS Doctor; it will now guide you through the recovery process*
- When the Reset Complete screen appears, click "Done".
- Wait a few minutes for your phone to reset. You may now log into your Palm profile to restore backed-up information.
*It is recommended to charge your battery before attempting, use the official USB cable and do not disconnect during the procedure.
If you only want to soft reset your device (keep your data), you have the following options:
- Tap the "Restart" button in Device Info --> Phone Reset Options.
- Slide out the keyboard and hold the "Orange", "Sym", and "R" keys for several seconds to reboot the Palm Pre. This is similar to CTRL + ALT + DEL on a PC.
- Hold the power button and cycle the ringer button on/off several times.
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|Krug, Carrie Jo
|Carrie Jo Krug, 55, 13 Ashley Lane Champaign, IL formerly of Galesburg died at 9:39 PM Sunday November 29, 2009 in Carle Hospital Champaign, IL.
She was born June 3, 1954 in Galesburg the daughter of Chauncey P. and Joyce Alberta Witherell Kenney.
She is survived by a son Kevin Joseph Krug of Dekalb, IL; two daughters Kristin Joyce Krug of Galesburg and Amy Elizabeth (John) Brannon of Clinton, IL and a brother Jeff P. Kenney of Champaign, IL. She is preceded in death by her parents.
She lived in Galesburg her entire life. She graduated from Galesburg High School in 1972 and Illinois State University in 1976 with a BS in Education. She was active with the local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She was a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Galesburg.
Funeral services are scheduled for 1:00 PM Saturday at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Galesburg Chapel. The Rev. Msgr. Ernest Pizzamiglio will officiate. Visitation will be 5:00-7:00 PM Friday and 12:30-1:00 PM Saturday at the chapel. Burial will be in Wataga Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. Online condolences may be made at www.h-p-w.com.
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BlizzCon 2007 took place at the Anaheim Convention Center California, August 3rd and 4th 2007.
BlizzCon 2007 Lineup
- StarCraft 2 Gaming
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Gaming
- Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Concert
- Sound Alike, Dance and Costume Contests.
- World of Warcraft
- Class Discussion
- Dungeons & Raids
- Lore & Quests
- Professions & Items
- Live Demo
- Careers in Gaming
- Expanded Universe
- Legendary Pictures & WoW Film
- World of Warcraft TCG
All BlizzCon attendees had received their share of free Blizzard swag. As at the first BlizzCon, they had also been providing a beta key for an upcoming Blizzard game (StarCraft 2 or perhaps a second World of Warcraft Expansion). Also an in-game murloc suit, an item that can be redeemed and given to your favorite World of Warcraft character and a special murloc ally card, Mrglrglmrglmrrrlggg.
- ^ BlizzCon 2007 goodies page: http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcon07/goodies.shtml
- ^ UDE announcement: http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/en/news/article.aspx?aid=2750
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Then, on occasion, they adjourn to the roof for a round of golf.
Amid the flood of news about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Ryan's diary offers a glimpse of both the work of civilian contract interrogators in Iraq and their incongruous attempts to stay comfortable and to amuse themselves. It sheds little light on the treatment of prisoners but does make clear that the growing bloodshed outside put intense pressure on intelligence officers in the prison.
Ryan describes sandstorms that blot out the sun, the bane of flies and "camel spiders," and mortar rounds that hit the prison while he is in the shower. He tells of making a run to Baghdad International Airport past burning fuel tankers hit by insurgent fire and returning with a bag of Whoppers to treat his co-workers. He seems to believe strongly in the cause of the Iraq war but admits that Americans get a skeptical welcome: "We are an 'occupying force' in the eyes of the Iraqi people and you cannot tell them otherwise."
An employee of the Virginia-based defense and intelligence contractor CACI International, Ryan is one of dozens of contract interrogators working in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, in a role some legal experts believe is inappropriate for civilians not subject to military law and discipline.
Job openings on CACI's Web site yesterday included "interrogator" - two years of law enforcement experience and a top-secret clearance required - as well as other jobs that in an earlier era might have been limited to the CIA: "senior counterintelligence agent" and "senior intelligence analyst." All the jobs are in Baghdad.
Though the Pentagon appears to have begun hiring contract interrogators in the mid-1990s, the practice has greatly expanded during the Bush administration's war on terrorism.
It was hardly noticed by the public until an Army report on the Abu Ghraib abuses strongly criticized one of Ryan's CACI colleagues at the prison, Steven Stefanowicz. The report by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba accuses Stefanowicz of encouraging military police guarding the prisoners to use physical abuse and of lying to investigators.
Stefanowicz could not be located for comment, but a CACI official in a conference call Wednesday described him as "by all accounts doing a damn fine job."
A few weeks before his name would surface in the prison scandal, Stefanowicz was one of the CACI workers who joined Ryan in the rooftop golf.
Three other CACI employees, "Steve Stefanowicz and I all took turns trying to hit balls over the back wall and onto the highway," Ryan wrote in his blog, posted on the Web site of a Minnesota talk radio station on which he has appeared as a guest. "Since the club is a left handed 3 iron, I had an unfair advantage and missed a dump truck by only about ten feet. Not bad since the highway is about 220 yards. We do what we can to make it fun here."
Ryan, who is from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, had called radio station KSTP regularly after the 9/11 attacks and was a guest on a talk show before heading to Iraq early this year, said Ron Rosenbaum, co-host of a morning show. Ryan's e-mails to friends proved so interesting that the station asked permission to post them on the Web.
"I think he was doing the patriot thing to go over and help with what he considered a good cause," Rosenbaum said of Ryan's decision to take the job. According to a biography Ryan provided to the station, he trained in Swahili language and interrogation techniques and served in Army Special Forces in 10 African countries, South Korea and Haiti. Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
Ryan's diary was taken off the KSTP Web site at Ryan's request after the scandal broke, but two weeks of entries from April remain in the Google search engine's cache, or temporary storage. They describe an intensive effort to glean intelligence from captured Iraqi and foreign fighters, with special emphasis on those who have infiltrated from adjoining countries to fight Americans.
"I was at work until 3:30 in the morning because we got hold of some intelligence to directly support the Marines in Al Fallujah," Ryan wrote last month, referring to the city in the Sunni Triangle where U.S. troops have faced off with militants. "The Marines wanted to hit one of the houses I had reported on, but wanted more information. I went back in on the [detainee] who gave me the initial information and he pinpointed the spot for me on a map."
On another occasion, he writes: "Work is fast and furious, but we are more productive right now than we have been since I have been here. Some intelligence things are really coming together that could shift a few things to our advantage. ... We are making progress on rooting out those foreign fighters as well as those individuals who are helping/hiding them."
Ryan describes at length his questioning of an Iraqi "smuggler extraordinaire": "I have received information regarding the entire network from start to finish on how foreign fighters are coming into Iraq; who is paying for it; how they communicate; how they get their weapons once here; and how they move to their target locations."
A few times Ryan refers to the danger posed by insurgents, brushing it off with bravado: "We received some incoming weapons fire tonight, but since these people shooting at us are not very good at math, they could not figure out that if you shoot up to clear an 18-foot wall, the bullets will not fall inside the compound. The towers fired back and it was all over in about a minute. It was kind of cool to see the red tracers about 100 feet in the air. I guess it was an early 4th of July."
In an e-mail this week to Ethan MacIntosh, a KSTP producer, Ryan said some of those implicated in the prison scandal are victims of "uninformed, incorrect allegations."
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Since the DISC agency began, a number of key achievements have been completed.
All Young Advisors have completed a minimum of 30 hours training and those from the DISC Agency have also received extensive training in the other aspects needed to run their business and complete all of their work to a high level.
The DISC Agency has facilitated a number of workshops at conferences, including:
How to ... workshops for ENCAMS in Taunton
Toward Participation workshops for Bristol City Council Young Peoples Services
Bristol Old and Young - the generation divide for VOSCUR
Young Advisors and Sustainable communities for Creating Excellence
All of these workshops were written by the YAs especially for these conferences to be tailored to the needs of the employer.
Two of our young advisors delivered the keynote speech at a Bristol Young People's Services conference.
The DISC Agency was employed to evaluate a city-wide youth matters conference for Connexions.
The DISC Agency was employed by the local sports team to consult with 8 - 14 year olds on their thoughts about local football, this consultation has fed into the development of a local football club.
The DISC Agency was employed by Avon and Somerset Police to complete 100 questionnaires around young people's impression of the Police.
The DISC Agency secured the backing of local MP Kerry McCarthy as their champion in Parliament.
The DISC Agency was employed by Baroness Andrews to discuss young people's issues around participation, with Chief Executives from local authorities across the country, at the QE2 Centre in London.
The DISC Agency were also employed to deliver a presentation, run workshops and take part in discussions at a conference for Local Councillors in Birmingham for ENCAMS.
The DISC Agency were commissioned to lead on a holiday activity evaluation of 2006-2008. To achieve this, they attended activities, wrote questionnaires and consulted with up to 100 young people and other local residents.
The DISC Agency devised and facilitated a series of sessions to young people on how to become confident participators. This piece of work was commissioned to be carried out in Knowle West by Youth Moves.
The DISC Agency were successful in putting together a funding bid to the Youth Opportunities fund to help them buy office equipment and get set up in their own rights.
The DISC Agency have now been asked to carry out a consultation in their local area to look at community cohesion issues.
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We hope that you have a rewarding and stimulating experience at Stevens. You have the opportunity to discuss any problems that you might run into with your Faculty Advisor and/or with your Peer Mentor. In the event that neither of these resources is successful, an additional route is through the Office of Undergraduate Academics or through the School of Engineering Deanís Office.
|Looking Toward an Engineering Future|
Not too long from now you will be looking for a job, it helps to have some knowledge of what engineers actually do in the discipline that interests you? Maybe you have not made a choice yet, you do not have to declare an engineering concentration until towards the end of your third semester. In making up your mind it helps to have researched the engineering professions that are on your short list as to types of industry where this work is done, job functions, professional advancement paths, etc. An engineering degree is also a very good foundation for advancement into non-engineering careers such as in medicine, law, military and other government service. If that is of interest you should explore the requirements that may be needed that can be met within the engineering program and what additional preparation is required.
To help you succeed in obtaining a good job, pre-professional experience is extremely valuable. This can be obtained in various ways, through Cooperative Education assignments, through summer jobs in technical positions and through senior design projects conducted under industrial sponsorship. These experiences can help you more clearly define your interests, provide connections to potential employers as well as help create an attractive resume that extends beyond the academic into the world of work.
It is important for engineers in the future to have a more entrepreneurial outlook. Many of you will become independant professionals or start businesses, other will have to function in small companies where enterpreneurial skills are prized. Even large corporations have had to become more agile in a very competitive global economy and foster intrapreneurship. This is addressed at Stevens through the Technogenesis environment. Some of the rationale and approach is described in Powerpoint slides accessed from the right panel.
Professional licensure ( i.e. becoming a Professional Engineer or P.E.) is an important step that anchors your credibility as a practicising engineer. In some fields where the safety of the public is at stake it is essential. The first step on the path to licensure is the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (F.E.). This is taken by graduating seniors during their last semester. It is followed by the P.E. examination after some years in suitable practice. It is a good idea to take the F.E exam even if you do not know whether you will go on to take the P.E. later. This is because as a senior the required knowledge is fresh and it is much tougher to come back to it later.
A useful exercise is to do an approximate inventory of the time you spend on various activities. Once you have completed the exercise you can assess how well you are meeting your goals, especially your ability to provide for adequate study time. The latter is an important success factor. Of course how you use the study time effectively is also important.
Create a Weekly Schedule
The next step is to create a detailed schedule for a week and try to use the knowledge from the inventory to adjust the time spent on various activities to obtain the correct balance that you need. You could do this on a piece of paper. The disadvantage is that it is then not easy to change it in response to the inevitable things that pop up during the week to knock your schedule off track. Flexibility to re-arrange the schedule to compensate for the unforseen is a major benefit to maintaining effective time management. Software that allows scheduling can be a major asset in this regard.
Some of you may already use Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) that allow you to carry your schedule around in your pocket. However, you all have notebook computers that are loaded with Microsoft Outlook. Outlook has a number of functions such as email, exchanging information etc., which you might choose to use, but for our purpose the key ones are the Calendar and the Task List functionalities. You are strongly urged to use Outlook to create a schedule if you do not use another tool.
Using Microsoft Outlook
If you have not used Outlook before, open it from the Start menu by going to Programs and clicking on Outlook in the program list. The start-up wizard will ask you about configuring communications, if you use (and wish to keep) another email tool such as in Netscape, then choose the "No Email" option. Alternately you can configure it to be your default email tool. Apparently the latter was recommended by the Information Systems staff at Freshman orientation, so many of you may be using Outlook already for email. You will then be asked about making Outlook the default for news etc. Again your choice.
Once the Outlook program opens, click on Calendar. It is pretty self explanatory. You can choose to display one day, a week, a month. You can schedule an activity by clicking "New" on the tool bar and filling in the details. Alternately, hold down the left mouse key and drag to highlight the time period you wish to schedule and then right click on this to enter the info. You can create repeat items so they do not need re-entering for every day or week. You can even set an alarm to warn you ahead of an appointment. It is recommended that you print your schedule so it is always handy.
The Task list is another valuable personal management tool. It is your to-do list and can be displayed along side your Calendar. Double click on the Task Pad where it says "Click here to add task". The template that pops up allows details to be added, including priority and an alarm if desired. You can check off tasks that are completed.
Listing tasks and assigning priorities each day to the outstanding ones is a way to get the important things done, not just the urgent ones!!
|Effective Use of the Library|
The S. C. Williams Library is a valuable resource and you should ensure that you know how to effectively use its services. Knowledge of sophisticated research sources will give you a competitive advantage when you graduate from Stevens. The library staff is always ready to help you if you run into difficulties finding information.
The library provides access to trustworthy and diverse scholarly and professional research resources and databases, which you will need to use when you are doing research for your projects and papers. Offering access to academic journal articles, conference proceedings, online handbooks and encyclopedias, online books, patents, standards, magazine articles, and newspaper articles, the online resources will be a tremendous help to you during your college experience and beyond when you enter the professional world or graduate school. If the library does not have something you need, they will get it for you within just a few days through the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Service.
When you have questions about your research or about any of the libraryís services, the librarians are available in the library at the reference desk or through email, telephone, and IM reference.
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Success involves a number of components that we have control over (and usually some that we do not).
It is essential to set goals in order to define our direction, both short term and long term, professional and personal. To be successful we need to have this direction.
We need motivation to strive towards our goals, without it the goals are empty and are unlikely to be achieved, we will just drift on a day to day basis, doing whatever we have to do to get by in the short term.
Motivation also is the thing that will allow us to do the other important component, perhaps the hardest, to take action. Goals are just dreams until we take action, even if only in small ways day by day, to achieve the goals.
In order to take action, it is very helpful to structure our efforts through effective time management and to do this in concert with creating a task list with priorities. The task lists allows the short and long term goals to be addressed as specific action items to be built into our schedule. It is also imperative that we differentiate urgent from important when defining task priorities.
Understanding yourself can play a valuable role in achieving your goals. We are each different, no one approach fits all. For example we have different personalities. This influences how we deal with interpersonal situations, stress, problem solving etc. Also people display a number of different learning styles. One person may learn effectively by just listening to a lecture, another, only through doing something physical such as writing out notes. Some are comfortable with learning theory for its own sake, others will only learn it if they can make the connection to a practical application. Understanding yourself can help you find the most effective approaches to success. If your learning style does not fit how a particular Professor teaches, then you can recognize what you need to do to compensate, as even the best professors may not address all learning styles or not all the time. | <urn:uuid:a2243dcf-9fc6-414a-b32e-05317480547d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archive.stevens.edu/ses/academics/undergraduate/advising/index.html | 2013-05-23T00:41:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950297 | 1,850 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
One thing about life is that everyone needs motivation to do certain things: the motivation may come from what we love doing in our quiet time, or experiences we’ve had in the past, but the best way to get motivated in the direct path is to get motivation from highly inspirational people that have once lived and their deeds live to tell generations to come about them.
While easy access to these clip of words that are full of inspiration might not look flexible, has using your smartphone to keep them with you ever occurred to you? More than any library can contain, you can get apps that will give you a daily dose of these inspirational messages on your smartphone device.
I’ve researched for some of the best of these apps, and I’m sharing them with you in this blog post today.
This is indeed an awesome app not only for the average iPhone users, but also to the users who are always in the public giving speech. If you want to make your audience pay rapt attention to your message, you need to drive out quotes from famous people. Quotationary truly is the perfect tool at this point.
This app features over 32,000 quotes from famous people in various areas of life. It also has a button search that lets you search for quotes by their authors or category such as business, money or funeral.
This app is just $1.99 on the Apple itunes.
Jedrzej Jakubowski’s Quote Portal is the perfect choice for anyone looking for inspiration or wisdom. The app has 13 categories, and this is a promise that you’ll find a quote for almost every situation, ranging from art to travel.
Use your category options and choose which category you want to view, then swipe your way through the quotes that regards that category.
One great advantage you get from having this $0.99 worth of app is that all the quotes it has are in the app and so the need to always connect to the internet whenever you need a quote is eliminated.
23,000 Great Quotes
This awesome app is a steal at $0.99. The app has lots of inspirational quotes for users, and the ability to share directly from the app to Facebook is a great deal. It also has the ability to search by authors featured in the “browse for authors” category. You can also search by keywords, which is a very smart way for users that are lost in the list of quotes to find something they are really looking for.
Cramzy did a great job creating this 17.0 MB app for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone users.
As expected you can purchase and download this app from the Apple itunes store.
For users to be able to use this app, they can use it on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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On the eve of the Red River Shootout, a conversation about the dynamic between the two programs, the keys to the game and where the rivalry goes from here.
** An IM conversation between two crack members of the SBN Dallas news team.
Ian Boyd: I was going to do an Athens-Sparta parallel to preview the Texas-OU game, but it would have taken too many words and not really contributed.
Jonathan Tjarks: It's about of equal importance in terms of historical significance.
Boyd: Agreed. In looking at the preview I wrote, anything stand out to you?
Tjarks: The part about whether the field has caught up to the two schools is very interesting. I was at UT from 05-09 and there weren't many home games that had the feel of the West VA game. Not very many big games in Austin with the rest of the conference so down and the OU game in Dallas every year.
Boyd: Yeah, I was there in that same period.
Tjarks: How many top 10 teams even went to Austin in that span? Ohio State in '07 and Missouri in '08?
Boyd: We were crazy loud for the Mizzou game. OSU -- there just weren't many chances to impact the game. The 12-7 defeat to A&M was another loud, semi-big game me.
Tjarks: I really would have liked to watch Johnny Football play in the Big 12; it's too bad A&M left just as they got interesting. I still don't know that any of these other Big 12 programs have the recruiting base to stay with the Longhorns and Sooners though. How much talent is in the West VA area? Everyone else is pretty much fighting for scraps in Texas.
Boyd: I think the opportunity for Texas and OU is on the lines. No matter how much the spread takes hold, it's still really useful to have athletic 300 pounders and there are only so many to go around, athletic 250 pounders too. Texas yielded that advantage until last year.
Tjarks: Watching Jeffcoat and Okafor last week was pretty instructive.
Boyd: We're wasting our crazy talented DL now with our embarrassing LB play.
Tjarks: I watch Demarcus Ware a lot on the Cowboys and it's absurd; there's no way to really block that type of thing. Sometimes he'll just bull-rush dudes and knock an NFL LT to the ground in 1-2 seconds.
Boyd: Yeah, Ware is crazy good. OU doesn't have anyone like that right now. Thank God those guys are rare too.
Tjarks: Is Jordan Hicks coming back for this game?
Boyd: Maybe, groin pull though, so who knows? And if he does play, will he be able to change direction?
Tjarks: How much does he help if healthy?
Boyd: A ton. He knows how to take on blocks; the others are not very good even at that. It's disturbing; you get the sense that Diaz doesn't know how to coach linebackers, and I'm reminded that his last 2 years he's had seniors trained by other guys.
Tjarks: That is interesting. He certainly didn't need to coach up Keenan Robinson and Manny Acho too much. Has Hicks lived up to being a 5-star recruit?
Boyd: I think he will if he stays healthy. I really like him; I think he shows a lot of impressive things. Edmond needs serious seasoning, but he played like 2A ball vs 150 pound white kids so that's to be expected. Cobbs has every athletic skill you would want, but he plays like a powerfully built 2-guard unleashed on a field.
Tjarks: If I'm OU, I'd think about using the Belldozer a lot. He was apparently a pro-style QB in high school, which is a fairly mind-boggling idea.
Boyd: Pro-style? I wouldn't have guessed that. I just assumed they ran spread option. He is willing in contact; he just doesn't know what he's doing
Tjarks: 3rd and less than 5, I have a hard time seeing the Texas defense holding up against a 6'6 250 running QB.
Boyd: I anticipate defeat because I think our run defense is so bad that it trumps every other factor, but that will be an interesting storyline to watch.
Tjarks: How is OU's defense this year? They've had a pretty soft schedule so far.
Boyd: Really solid. I'm curious to see how they handle our balance though; they usually gang up on what you do best with their secondary, which is where most of the best players are. As I talked about in my preview, I think we try and spread them out and run from 4 WR formations, with Ash as a runner.
Tjarks: Interesting. I'd like to see Johnathan Gray and Daje Johnson get the ball. Those guys are playmakers. Texas has got a ridiculous amount of weapons either way. It feels like this offense can average 35+ a game for the season. It's hard to see anyone else on this schedule giving them much trouble before Kansas State.
Boyd: If we get over 30, I think we have a great chance as far as the conference schedule. We should beat all but the Wildcats, but our atrocious run D means we're vulnerable every week. We have to find some answers there or we'll drop one to Iowa State or something.
Tjarks: The road games worked out very well this year. You don't want to waste conference home games on Texas Tech and Kansas when you can beat them anywhere. Though, at the same time, the schedule is always going to be a little easier than it appears on paper because TCU and Baylor are undercover home games anyway.
Boyd: What do you mean? If we had played them in Waco or Ft. Worth it wouldn't have hurt us?
Tjarks: I'd assume those stadiums would be 50/50. TCU for sure.
Boyd: Yeah, that's probably another reason the Frogs as the Thanksgiving Day game just isn't that satisfying.
Tjarks: A&M has got to happen eventually. If it takes the state government to do it, so be it. That's how they did it in South Carolina so that they would play Clemson every year even though they were in the SEC.
Boyd: At first, I was on board with "yeah screw them, we don't need them", now I realize that's dumb. As much as they measure themselves up to us, our identity is similarly based in looking down on them. All the people that say we don't need them still can't help but laugh at their misfortunes and pay attention to their gaffes. You can't replace the regional and cultural rivalry they offer.
Tjarks: I don't think it's a question of "need". Both schools would survive without the other, but why make the attempt? It's just an ego thing right now.
Tjarks: There's a lot of hurt feelings, but cultural rivalries are what make college sports great and ending one of your oldest rivalries hurts your program. At the same time, I'd be shocked if we don't see them in the Cotton/Champions Bowl set-up in Dallas at some point in the next few years. That would be pretty epic. | <urn:uuid:d8410b0d-df8f-4799-9eec-e228a96ee429> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/10/12/3492642/texas-vs-ou-mack-brown-bob-stoops/in/3241473 | 2013-05-23T00:41:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984322 | 1,578 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Comments:David Tennant announces exit from Doctor Who
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Who should portray the next Doctor?
- Eddie Izzard. He would be fantastic. --Riche (talk) 11:13, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
- Honestly...I don't know...I am trying to think of an American actor, and off the top of my head, cannot think of someone. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 11:21, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
How about...
I'd quite like paterson Joseph as the doctor if it weren't for the fact he's already appeared in the series. Personally I think the morrissey 'next doctor' storyline will be exactly that:- moffat has apparently had input on the specials and the idea of having the doctor meet his future self before he actually regenerates into him in a later special seems like a very moffatish move. 184.108.40.206 —Preceding comment was added at 17:32, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Personally, I'm Ready For The 11th Doctor
...because the 10th Doctor has been an annoying, sermonizing git for too long. I mean really, what he did to Hand Doctor/10.5/Clone Doctor was just terrible. There was a point that I loved 10, but certain writers have just ruined him on me.
I also second the suggestion of Eddie Izzard as the 11th.
Why not Who?
I personally, and I'm sure others will, want to know why David Tennant has decided to leave the role of Doctor Who? Would have liked to see Tennant play the Doctor for several more seasons/series. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 12:28, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
- If you read the article, you will know why Tennant decided to leave. --18.104.22.168 13:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
the "Doctor Who" show opinion about "David Tennant
I hate that the fact the David has to leave the [Dotor Who] show. It sad, so sad he was an AMAZING actor and a Wonderful person. He fits the PERFECT ROLE FOR THE DOCTOR. I cant beleve it.
Why!WHY! WHY! did he had to leave, His the perfect doctor- the good actor-the soul of the show-
the perfect man for the job! It's not fair! NOT FAIR! I'm a major fan of "Doctor Who" I watch all the seasons and episodes. The show was number 1 with him, his the only perfect doctor in the whole world!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22.214.171.124 (talk) 04:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC) david is an actor born to play the role of the DOCTOR: it not fair hes leaving it like that- it's just.
If you actually are that big a fan and have watched all the episodes, you would know that this is part of the show. The only permanent aspect of the show is the TARDIS. Three seasons isn't even less than average. It is exactly average. Admitedly, I would have liked Tennant around for another season or two. He was a good Doctor, but, assuming we get someone else that's good, the show will go on, and it'll still be good. The only thing I'm concerned about is that it'll move the doctor closer to the end of the thirteenth incarnation (which, if the show still wants to go on, they'll find a way to work around, but still...)
David Who?
David Who? [pun intended] Is he known outside of UK and BBC-fanboys? --126.96.36.199 16:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
this is ridiculous. ya know in the special where the tennant get's to meet davison's doctor and he says,"you were my favorite doctor"; i have seen almost 30 yrs of doctor who, just in the last 2 because of tennant's portrayal. He IS my doctor and honestly, he's not that good of an actor. He's adequate, but not great, and he'll never find a better role. None of the previous ones did, minus pertwee who had done most of it before he got there. bottom line, bad move for all of us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 07:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
program airing dates
I have read that the first of the four specials for 2009 was to be aired on April 11, 2009. Is this the scheduled time for airing the Easter Special in the UK or is this the time that Planet of the Dead was to air in the United States? I watched the program on April 11 and it was a different program. The Sontaran Stratage was the show that was aired. I am concerned because I don't want to miss any of the specials.
It is almost breaking my heart that David Tennant is leaving the show. He is by far the best actor yet for the character of the Doctor. It is going to be almost impossible to fill David's shoes. I wish the next Doctor all the luck possible-184.108.40.206 17:03, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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- The UK-aired special yesterday was Planet of the Dead. Fun with a cat burgalar and a London bus. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:11, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
I've been a fan of The Doctor for as many years as I can remember. Simply put he is the best Sci-Fi Character to ever bless us on TV. A leading charater who doesn't always have the answer but some how finds a solution. David was by far the best of The Doctors and unfortunatly I don't see how the 11th Doctor can even imagine to live up to what David has given us over the few years that he did as The Doctor. I will always remember The Doctor (David) traveling the universe with Rose as they made a perfect pair for Doctor Who! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 03:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
David Tennant: Leaving Doctor Who
I'm an American fan who watches old doctor whos on the internet and the new show on SyFy. Its so sad, I love him, in Doctor Who and on Harry Potter. We will all miss him. David, I LOVE U!!! GOOD LUCK IN HAMLET
also, hamlet is my favorite shakespear play, so i am happy for you! I hope you play Hamlet, you would be perfect for that role
"...because the 10th Doctor has been an annoying, sermonizing git for too long. I mean really, what he did to Hand Doctor/10.5/Clone Doctor was just terrible. There was a point that I loved 10, but certain writers have just ruined him on me. I also second the suggestion of Eddie Izzard as the 11th."
Okay, A, Izzard would be horrible for that role. And B, how can you call david annoying, he is hilarious, hot, and a great actor. Trust me, i am the biggest fan in america, and would be the biggest in UK if i lived there
dont leave!
david, you are so awsome you should never leave the show. you are the best doctor since the guy with the celery on his breast pocket. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 21:25, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I hate the new doctor Matt Smith. He is so full of himself and doesn't care about what David Tennant has to say. Matt Smith is also too young for the role of the doctor I think. Next they will be having an 8 year old play the doctor, seeing as the actors get younger as the doctor gets older. David Tennant, was really upset when he was talking to Matt. Matt didn't give a Damn.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs)
Miss You
We will miss you so much on Dr. Who, you are a wonderful actor and the best Dr. around I hope you are happy in all you do. Shannon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shannon B (talk • contribs) 21:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Comments from feedback form - "Why would he quit a big chance..."
Why would he quit a big chance to be immortalized as Dr. Who?He could have done many other series.I wish he comes back in a small series playing his clone in another reality or another universe.Lets not forget about his daughter whom is presumed to be dead but he don't know.There are so many unfinished gaps that I want to see the end or possibly an ongoing continuation.I love Dr, Who series.I got used to David Tennant from the first time I saw him.I have to get used to this new Dr who and it has not been easy.I try to forget that it is not David Tennant playing himself and just watch it for the love of the series.I heard he was the voice in that animated cartoon he did some time ago.If he can't be Dr who he could at least do many more 3D animated cartoons. I really liked it and hope he makes many more. —126.96.36.199 (talk) 04:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Just one question...
Doesn't the Doctor only get 14 incarnations? They're up to 11. What are they going to do in 15 years, because obviously, people will care.
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Epson’s version of Confuse-A-Cat:
This article is intended to present you with basic information about various Epson inkjet cartridges you may need for your specific printer. In this article, we will look at the T068, T069, T088 series inks. They all look like the same cartridge, but hidden underneath are different ink volumes that can save you money.
When Epson releases new printers, they usually do so in bunches, and in those bunches Epson likes to use the same ink cartridge series. The T068, T069, and even the T088 (to some extent) series inkjet cartridges, all work in the same printer bunch. That bunch includes:
the Epson Stylus CX4400, CX4450, CX5000, CX6000, CX7000F, CX7400, CX7450, CX8400, CX9400Fax, CX9475Fax, NX100, NX300, NX400, C120, WorkForce 500, WorkForce 600, WorkForce 30, and WorkForce 40 inkjet printers.
These cartridges all share the same physical shape, but carry varying amounts of ink.
Your Cartridge Choices:
What? Did not know you had choices?
T068 series cartridges 11ml ink:
Price: $15-$20 per cartridge.
The T068120 ink cartridge is what Epson refers to as the “heavy user” cartridge, or high capacity. This T068120 does contain more ink than it’s sister cartridges like the T069/T088 series. However, Epson says you will get 50% more prints with this cartridge vs. the less full T069120 black cartridge. Nowhere does Epson mention the amount of ink their cartridges contain, which makes it harder to compare the cartridges that are offered. We wanted to know exactly how much in was present, so we sucked it out with a syringe. 11ml of ink folks, that’s it. That works out to $1.81 per ml, or $6850.85 a gallon. or The T068 cartridge series comes in black T068120, cyan T068220, magenta T068320, yellow T068420.
T068120 will work in the following printers: C120 MUST use 2 of these cartridges, Stylus CX5000, CX6000, CX7000F, CX8400, CX9400Fax, CX9475Fax, NX300, NX400, WorkForce 500, WorkForce 600, WorkForce 30, WorkForce 40 inkjet printers.
The T069 series cartridges 7ml ink:
Price: $10-$12 per cartridge
The T069120 ink cartridge is what Epson ships you with the printer (in most cases). Epson refers to it as the “moderate use” inkjet cartridge. You may have seen this as an option on the sticker inside the printer that tells you what cartridges to use in your printer. It is important to note that if you can find these cartridges for half what the T068 series cartridges cost, buy two (2) of these and you get more ink for your money. Comes in black T069120, cyan T069220, magenta T069320, and yellow T069420.
T069 series will work in the following printers: Epson Stylus CX5000, CX6000, CX7000F, CX8400, CX9400Fax, CX9475Fax, NX300, NX400, C120**, WorkForce 500, WorkForce 600, WorkForce 30, WorkForce 40 inkjet printers. ** C120 CANNOT use the T069120 black. Can use the color T069 series.
The T088 series cartridges 3ml ink:
Price: $8-$13 per cartridge
The T088 series of cartridges are a joke. They are the same shape and size as the above mentioned cartridges, but they contain a measly 3ml of ink. If you own a printer that uses these cartridges exclusively, get rid of it (CX4400, CX4450). If you don’t have to purchase these cartridges, don’t.
Designed for the low end consumer models Epson Stylus CX4400, CX4450**, CX7400, CX7450**. ** Sold exclusively through big box retail.
The image below was obtained by (1) cracking open the cartridge case, (2) removing the black tape that covered the viewable clear plastic coating. This procedure turned out to be very difficult; it took us several tries. These cartridges do not use a sponge to distribute the ink. Rather, Epson uses a multi-chambered system that sends ink to the nozzle from two different chambers, and as you will notice not all the chambers contain ink. This makes refilling almost impossible, and not very desirable. Notice all the air-space you also pay for with the cartridge.
T088320 Cracked Open Ink Cartridge:
T088 Series ink cartridges. There is a ton of empty space in this T088 series cartridge. This cartridge is a joke! Look at all the empty space you are paying for! This cartridge registered as empty on the Epson print monitor.
T069420 Cracked Open Ink Cartridge:
Again, rough to get the black tape off so we could take pictures of the inside of the Epson ink cartridge. Notice all the air-space. This cartridge could hold more ink in that large empty chamber right? This cartridge had a very small amount of ink left.
T068120 Cracked Open Ink Cartridge:
Only the T068 series puts ink in every available space, with the exception of one, but that space is not filled on any of the cartridges. This cartridge was about half full of ink when we cracked it open.
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Sweet tooths line up for ice cream concoctions made on a granite slab..
Crowds of couples, teenagers and parents with toddlers press up against the long refrigerated display case at this dessert chain, where a variety of ice creams, frozen yogurts and sorbets are made in-store daily. Customers choose flavors like sweet cream, cake batter or banana, add mix-ins--ranging from candy bar chunks and Gummi bears to hot fudge and peanut butter--then servers mash it all together on a frozen slab of granite.
20.00 for ice cream?!?!?!?!. 4 ice creams should not = 20.00!!!! The ice cream was really good, but not 20.00 good! Another think that got on my nerves, is every time they bring out a batch of ice cream they scream the name out- and more than once! If you want to try Cold Stone, the best thing to do is go to tehir website & sign up for the birthday club. You'll get a free one on your birthday & be able to avoid spending big bucks!
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One of the best ways to conduct business in the United States of America is by using a Corporation. A Corporation provides you with asset protection so that if your business fails, or if you experience any lawsuits as a result of operating your business, you and your personal assets will be protected. To operate your corporation you will have to file an annual tax return and pay a fee to the State of California each year. Your corporation name can be reserved immediately, if available, and the finished documents can generally be completed in a couple of weeks. This is the quickest way to incorporate your business.
Creating a Corporation.
When you Incorporate through Irvine Virtual Office you will receive the following professional legal services:
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- Documents will be prepared by U.S. Attorney.
- Personal consultation with U.S. Attorney who is experienced in Corporation law. Consultation will be in person, via Skype or by telephone.
- Corporate Tax Identification Number
- Corporation Name Reservation
Corporation formation package:
- Name Reservation
- Corporate Book
- Articles of Incorporation
- Organizational Minutes
- Corporate Seal
- Printed Stock Certificates
- Stock Transfer Ledger
- Federal Tax ID number
All procedures can be completed online, via email, or through our website, Skype and phone calls, or you can come in to our office. When all documents are ready we will mail them to you anywhere in the world.
Steps to Incorporate:
- Fill out the Form then you will need to register on our website and purchase Create Corporation package
- After we process your Order and your filled Form, we will start work on all the documents for your Corporation. If we will have any questions to you we will Call or Email, using information we have on file after your Registration on our web site.
- If you will have any questions or need a consultation, you can schedule an appointment or call us on Phone or Skype, Email.
- It takes 2-3 weeks to finalize this whole procedure .
- We will mail all documents to you.
Executive Corporate Kit includes:
- Beautiful binder it is made with heavier materials for added durability and extended service life.
- Your personalized corporate seal: This seal is custom finished to include your company name, state and year of incorporation .
- Transfer ledger.
- Personalized certificates.
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We are celebrating Christmas in July On Blog Hoppin! On July 25th I will be celebrating Christmas by
having a 20% off sale on all of my Holiday TPT items. I will also be asking
Santa for some cooler weather I hope he is listening.
Go the Blog Hoppin the find all of the fabulous teachers
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It’s probably time to kick yourself for not dealing with it sooner [because of busyness or budget] and just call in the repairman…
That is, unless you’re renting…
If the latter is your misfortune, then you contact the owner, inform them of the danger to their property and let them deal with it as every good owner would, since this is pretty serious.
Unless you don’t have any contact info, have never meet the person and have been working through a manager… then you opt for just contacting them. Once you’ve done that, hopefully they’ll jump on it… or you’ll be stuck waiting. Maybe three months have passed or more like five and if they haven’t done anything, your floor might look like this:
In that case, most people would be probably be promptly exiting their contract and the premises.
But not us… not us. I don’t want to move. I confess, it’s partly because we just have too much stuff. Maybe God is using this to help encourage us to let go of some stuff. And maybe He wants us to move, but we felt guided to this house and we have been helping people in the area. The house is older, but we’ve put up with a lot and like the four bedrooms. Legally we can’t do anything about this and particularly with the kids it is a health issue too. So, shut the door and don’t go in that room … tried that. Honest. That may have just made it worse. You see, three or so months ago we noticed the damage was getting worse and I found that a bunch of my belongs had gotten ruined from it. The ceiling is in what we call the “craftroom” but it’s as much a storage room as anything. Or it was before the damage spread.
Then, it has been raining a lot lately, but we assumed that the damage was contained. Take another look at that floor picture. The craftroom is upstairs. That floor is downstairs, in what some might call the familyroom. I use it for my office and homeschooling. We didn’t realize the damage until yesterday. The marks on the floor are from bookcases, where we had been keeping more than a hundred books – paperbacks, hardbacks, novels, cookbooks, parenting, classics … the list goes on. Last night we moved all those books into plastic bins and are stacking them in the living room. Not all of them have found a temporary home yet – they’re still on the couch. One of the bookshelves is already out at the curb for trash pickup – or scroungers. Two more are out on the porch until we can evaluate and see if we can clean them up. Fortunately, the books were alright. I did lose a few books upstairs in the craftroom – sewing and craft books where the pages are glued together now. I lost one zip-up binder. It was totaled with mold throughout. That binder had been with me since jr. high school. I had my sorrow session of flipping through it. It had old class handouts and bunches of story notes that I had held onto. Then I closed it and threw it all in the garbage.
That corner of the downstairs had a persistent latent odor when we moved in so it makes me wonder if the water damage started before we moved in. Now that the area is exposed, the smell is pretty bad. We are combating the mold and odor with air purifiers. They are top of the line and good machines from Vollara. That should keep us from getting sick, otherwise we would be moving out ASAP.
Meanwhile, on the other side of that wall is a garage where the water has also seeped down to and pooled on the concrete. *Sigh* More damage control.
In trying to get the managers to deal with it, we photographed everything and e-mailed them to the managers. We hope that they will understand the urgency of this. Otherwise moving is probably inevitable.
I keep thinking of the scripture:
I know that we need to dejunk. I’m a rather sentimental packrat and information gatherer. My Husband is the last child in his family so we have stocked a fair amount of hand-me-downs that have helped us through the lean years of college. Add to that that both of our Mothers horded things… and, well, we’re trying to kick a habit that was well trained into us.
It’s funny really. Most of our ancestors had very little stuff – it could be fitted into perhaps one truck. Now, the average person I know has far more. It’s so easy to collect stuff. Some I know horde stuff because they fear not having it later – whether because it’s out of fashion or because of calamities. Other people stash all their sentimental memorabilia – I know I have lots – and it all seems to add up.
Then we spend so much time on the stuff – moving it around, storing it, sorting through it, cleaning it. Then when things like this happen, we spend a ton more time trying to salvage and protect it. But in the end, things do happen, and stuff is not only vulnerable, but temporal. We cannot safeguard them. Nor can they safeguard us. But they can sure ground us if we’re not careful. With all the best of reasons and justifications, we keep ourselves from flying (can you tell I’m on FlyLady’s mailing list? Lol). But I think the saddest is when we hold on in fear – fear of an uncertain future or fear of losing/repeating the past. Preparing is one thing but it should be done with faith and hope, trusting your future to God. Yet, if God said today “Leave your house straight away and go up into the mountains”, how many of us would fear? How many of us would not want to leave the safeties and securities we surround ourselves with? How many of us would go, but look back, sorrowing at what we feel we have lost?
In all honesty, I’m not sure if I would. I want to believe that I would follow in faith, but … do I know for sure?
Meanwhile, the rain keeps coming… scattered storms tonight and who knows what tomorrow will bring. Somehow though, I can manage a smile and perhaps view it as a trial run for that test and even if I struggle now, I know I can grow and learn to let go. I can learn each day to sharpen my focus on things of eternal value. Things far beyond rust and thieves. So that when that call truly does come, I will not hesitate. | <urn:uuid:a02da7b9-d6cd-4bdb-a47a-922afd918dfc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/where-mold-rust-doth-corrupt/ | 2013-05-23T00:26:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975746 | 1,422 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Alan and Marilyn Bergman are recognized as one of the very few and certainly the most successful lyric writing teams in history.
The Bergmans were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1980, and this year, join the select company of composers and lyricists who enjoy a second citation from the organization, the coveted Johnny Mercer Award, named in memory of the Hall of Fame's founding president. They have enjoyed multi songwriting accolades, including Emmys, Grammys and three separate Oscars, for "The Windmills of Your Mind" (1968); "The Way We Were" (1975); and for the score of "Yentl" (1984).
Their lyrics also have received l6 nominations, for such songs as "It Might Be You," from "Tootsie;" "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from "Best Friends;" "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel," from "Yentl;" and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from "The Happy Ending." More recently, the Bergmans received both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for "Moonlight," performed by Sting in the Sydney Pollack film, "Sabrina."
Marilyn Keith was a music major at New York's High School of Music and Art and later studied psychology and English at New York University. After college she moved to Los Angeles and again picked up the musical thread of her life. In California, she met, collaborated with and then married Alan Bergman. In 1985, Marilyn became the first woman to be elected to the board of directors of ASCAP and in February 1994, after serving five terms on the board, was elected president and chairman of the board of the organization. She was just… | <urn:uuid:227c5997-5acd-45f5-846d-cded11d6da69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C2 | 2013-05-23T00:33:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983481 | 363 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On Tuesday evening, the motion I put forward regarding reviewing the school closure process and imposing a moratorium on school closures was debated. Prior to the debate, we discussed a very comprehensive report which provided a historical overview of Edmonton Public School Board's work in this area.
The debate was extensive and revealed the complexity of the issue. Many different points of view were articulated by the Board. As well, seven members of the public voiced their opinions and concerns (there is a Board policy which allows anyone to speak to a topic on the agenda for two minutes, providing they advise the Board Secretary of their desire to speak previous to the day).
Achieving consensus was challenging work and many amendments were proposed to the motion. In the end, the motion was split into two parts: (1) the Ad Hoc Committee to review the process and (2) the moratorium. As well, specific details about what the committee would address were removed and the language of the motion was modified to address various concerns expressed by the trustees.
The final result, after the lengthy debate, was the Review Committee passed and the moratorium was defeated. Both votes were very close.
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Eventhough summer school just started this week at Conestoga High School, one local charity is seeking your help to get T/E School District kids ready for September.
T&E Care, which tries to meet needs as they arise and runs an annual school supply drive, is trying to get the word out ahead of the summer vacation season when many people head to the shore or oher parts unkown.
T&E Care has put out a call for help with its annual school supply drive to help families facing difficult times equip their T/E school students for the fall.
Here's the call for volunteer help sent via email Wednesday.
It's only June, but we're in the final stages of preparing for the 2012-2013 T&E Care School Supply Drive. Julia Fisher, Eileen Ryle, Barbara McConnell, Rita Gosnear and Amy Ard are working hard to confirm all the requests, and put together the specific list of needs.
We'll be running the collection drive from JULY 16 through JULY 30. It's a week shorter this year (vacations got in the way for a few of them) so keep that in mind if you want to help. The website already has the basic info and the list of drop-off locations. (Thanks to those agreeing to be drop-off locations!) \
On JULY 16 we'll load up the list of specific donations needed. Please make note of this date on your calendars. There are already over 150 local kids that we KNOW will need help this year with supplies and gift cards - so we'll need all the help we can get!!! NOTE: If you know you'll be gone during those 2 weeks (or even if you are going to be around but don't like to shop) but want to help out - you can offer donations or gift cards now as per the directions on the website. The sooner we get the gift card donations - the more helpful that is in our planning. http://www.tecare.org/tecareevents/schoolsupplydrive2012.html
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The Disappearing Neutrino? By Dr. Joshua Spitz
His lecutre notes:More than 80 years after its proposed existence, the neutrino remains mysterious and enigmatic. We don't know the mass of the neutrino, how many neutrinos there are, if neutrinos are different than anti-neutrinos, and more. I will describe one of the neutrino's most interesting properties, referred to as "oscillation" or "mixing," and our attempts to understand it. Specifically, I will discuss Double Chooz, a nuclear reactor-based neutrino oscillation experiment and its pursuit of the last mixing angle.
Josh grew up in Denver, Colorado, and graduated summa cum laude in physics (with a double major in astronomy) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation with Prof. Bonnie Fleming at Yale University. Currently, Josh is involved in carefully measuring the properties of the neutrino, one of nature's fundamental particles, and trying to understand the role of the neutrino in the evolution of the universe.
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The mother of slain Auckland teenager Christie Marceau has made a tearful appeal on the steps of Parliament for stricter bail laws.
Akshay Chand allegedly murdered the 18 year-old, who died in her mother's arms, in her Auckland home last November and will stand trial in October.
At the time Chand was on bail on charges of kidnapping and assaulting her two months earlier.
He had been released by a judge to a property within 1km of the Marceau home, despite opposition from police.
Furious at what they perceive as a failure of the justice system, the Marceau family joined with the Sensible Sentencing Trust to form the group "Christie's Law" with the goal of ensuring what happened to Christie does not happen again.
The group want tougher bail laws and stricter sanctions on judges.
Their first step has been getting support for the changes and 58,000 signatures have been collected and were presented at Parliament today.
In tears as she addressed the crowd, Christie's mother Tracey Marceau said the death of her daughter had ruined her life.
"The pain we endure every day is horrible and almost unbearable, a true life sentence.
"For me it's just getting out of bed in the morning, I haven't been back to work since it happened and it's completely destroyed my life."
She had angry words for the judge who had granted Chand bail and demanded to know why her daughter's right to lead a full life had not been taken into account.
The Government has already moved to tighten rules around bail and The Bail Amendment Bill goes to select committee in July.
It proposes to reverse the burden of proof for offenders with a criminal record charged with certain offences, meaning they will have to prove they are not a danger to the public before being granted bail.
Currently it is up to the prosecutor to prove to the court that the offender would pose a risk.
But these changes are not enough for Marceau, who says the law change would likely not have kept the accused, Chand, in jail as he had no previous convictions.
Bail needed to be considered on a case by case basis, not as a right, she said.
National MP Jacqui Dean, who will chair the select committee, was presented with the signatures and promised a full and fair hearing for all submitters. | <urn:uuid:09aad9e9-a0a6-4989-b6a8-e2c9d1e216b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/s-completely-destroyed-my-life-christie-marceau-mum-4903463 | 2013-05-23T00:42:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983751 | 483 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Xiaoliang “David” Wei is a research scientist at Facebook, where he works on front-end performance. He focuses on user latency measurement, end user latency optimization, and best practices for maintaining long-term web performance. Prior to Facebook, David worked on network simulation, TCP enhancement, QoS, and peer-to-peer file sharing systems at Google and two startups. David holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, China, and a PhD in computer science from Caltech, where he co-invented FastTCP, a new Internet congestion control algorithm that led to the startup FastSoft Inc.
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Serving with my unit 2nd battalion 16th infantry in New Baghdad Iraq, I vividly remember the moment in 2007, when our Battalion Commander walked into the room and announced our new rules of engagement:
“Listen up, new battalion SOP (standing operating procedure) from now on: Anytime your convoy gets hit by an IED, I want 360 degree rotational fire. You kill every [expletive] in the street!”
We weren’t trained extensively to recognize an unlawful order, or how to report one. But many of us could not believe what we had just been told to do. Those of us who knew it was morally wrong struggled to figure out a way to avoid shooting innocent civilians, while also dodging repercussions from the non-commissioned officers who enforced the policy. In such situations, we determined to fire our weapons, but into rooftops or abandoned vehicles, giving the impression that we were following procedure.
On April 5, 2010 American citizens and people around the world got a taste of the fruits of this standing operating procedure when WikiLeaks released the now-famous Collateral Murder video. This video showed the horrific and wholly unnecessary killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians and Reuters journalists.
I was part of the unit that was responsible for this atrocity. In the video, I can be seen attempting to carry wounded children to safety in the aftermath.
The video released by WikiLeaks belongs in the public record. Covering up this incident is a matter deserving of criminal inquiry. Whoever revealed it is an American hero in my book.
Private First Class Bradley Manning has been confined for over a year on the government’s accusation that he released this video and volumes of other classified documents to WikiLeaks — an organization that has been selectively publishing portions of this information in collaboration with other news outlets.
If PFC Bradley Manning did what he is accused of doing, then it is clear — from chat logs that have been attributed to him — that his decision was motivated by conscience and political agency. These chat logs allegedly describe how PFC Manning hopes these revelations will result in “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms.”
Unfortunately, Steve Fishman’s article Bradley Manning’s Army of One in New York Magazine (July 3, 2011) erases Manning’s political agency. By focusing so heavily on Manning’s personal life, Fishman removes politics from a story that has everything to do with politics. The important public issues wrapped up with PFC Manning’s case include: transparency in government; the Obama Administration’s unprecedented pursuit of whistle-blowers; accountability of government and military in shaping and carrying out foreign policy; war crimes revealed in the WikiLeaks documents; the catalyzing role these revelations played in democratic movements across the Middle East; and more. | <urn:uuid:29fb1be5-35c3-45b3-8473-6c16186741af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://vruz.tumblr.com/tagged/Obama-administration | 2013-05-23T00:19:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957553 | 574 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Thomas Kent, Father of Two
Jenkins Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements
Thomas Kent, 63, of Westlake, died Jan. 5
He was born Sept. 17, 1949, in Cleveland.
Kent is survived by his wife Beverly (Kish) Kent; children Devin (Natalie) and Courtney (Liz); and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at Westlake Christian Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Alcoholics Anonymous Cleveland, 1701 E 12th St., Reserve Square Box 20, Cleveland, OH, 44114. | <urn:uuid:a5a86d67-87af-49cb-9800-a5b6b7769de0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://westlake.patch.com/articles/thomas-kent-father-of-two | 2013-05-23T00:26:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927214 | 136 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
March 19, 2012
Signed LHP Andy Pettitte to a minor-league deal worth $2.5 million. [3/16]
Meet a late entrant for the most surprising deal of the offseason. Few forecasted Albert Pujols signing with the Angels or Prince Fielder joining the Tigers, but everyone knew those two players were free agents seeking new jobs. With Pettitte, next to no one knew he had the itch to play again thanks to a non-existent advertising campaign to find a home. Yet here he is, back for a third tour of duty in the Bronx.
Get used to hearing about Pettitte’s 40th birthday party set to take place in mid-June. Pettitte would become the league’s oldest starting pitcher should he succeed in his comeback bid and Jamie Moyer fail in his. The last time we saw Pettitte on a major-league mound came in 2010. Back then, he earned an All-Star bid thanks to a 2.88 earned run average and an 11-2 won-lost record through mid-July. Pettitte suffered a groin injury, missed two months, and returned in time to make five more starts (including two in the postseason) before riding off into the sunset.
Over his most recent three big-league campaigns, Pettitte holds a 4.09 earned run average and a 2.37 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Normally, those numbers would serve as a starting point in a projection, and true, PECOTA forecasts Pettitte to hold a 4.40 earned run average this season. But a year spent on the sidelines raises many questions: how quickly can Pettitte get in shape and recover his stuff, can he get back his stuff, when will the Yankees need him, do the Yankees even need him, and so on. All are legitimate queries. Just know that the Yankees appear to be the team best suited for this situation. Not only is New York’s familiarity and pre-existing relationship with Pettitte unrivaled, but they have six other major-league quality starters at their disposal—and that ignores any minor-league prospects. Brian Cashman may choose to trade one of his more disposal starters—likely Phil Hughes or Freddy Garcia—in the time it takes for Pettitte to regain his sea legs, and the Yankees would still feature enough depth to feel comfortable with or without Pettitte.
Beyond the familiarity with Pettitte and the pre-established depth, the Yankees have another attribute on their side: a history of coaxing solid performances from other geriatric starting pitchers. Cashman took over as general manager in 1998, and since then the Yankees have had 13 pitchers who were at least 35 years old start a game for them. Of those, 10 started 25 or more games for the Yankees. A 77 percent survival rate is impressive given the cutthroat standards held by New York’s media and fan base, and the raw numbers support the idea that the Yankees get solid production out of their older starters—solid enough, even, to compare favorably to the rest of the league:
New York’s edge is not borne from a trade secret, market inefficiency, or anti-aging elixir. No, the explanation is as simple as pointing to the identities of the old pitchers. More often than not, the Yankees’ old starting pitchers are veterans nearing the end of storied careers. Consider that 93.5 percent of the Yankees’ 849 starts were taken by pitchers who either won a Cy Young award or made an All-Star team. In total, the Yankees’ older pitchers won 15 Cy Young awards and made 53 All-Star teams during their careers. This includes Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, David Wells, Kevin Brown, Bartolo Colon, and Pettitte himself. The only two pitchers of the 13 who failed to capture either honor at one point or another were Donovan Osborne and Orlando Hernandez—and the latter lives on in Yankees folklore.
Whether Pettitte’s third and likely final voyage in the Bronx will be as successful as his first two is anyone’s guess. He may reach the majors not through his own doings but because the Yankees’ brass feels it owes him one final standing ovation and roll call. Alternatively, Pettitte might get his stuff back and help the Yankees win another World Series. The beauty for New York is the patience they can employ with this situation. Pettitte will need time to work his way back into game shape, and it could be May or June before that happens, giving the Yankees plenty of time to work through the public relations aspect of this deal.
While success is not a given, no team is as likely to massage a good season from Pettitte as the Yankees are. New York’s experience with Pettitte, rotation depth, and willingness to roll with talented veterans creates the perfect storm for a successful return. If Pettitte crashes, it will not be because he chose a bad situation. And should Pettitte succeed, the question will then become whether he wants to pitch through his 41st birthday and chase 50 career postseason appearances. Would such a decision be any more surprising than this? | <urn:uuid:d17cd3cd-b6fe-429a-a7e9-3c01a3b1185d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16244 | 2013-05-23T00:41:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702652631/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111052-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966701 | 1,060 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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...Sanford and Son (1972–77). One of the most acclaimed weekly shows ever produced was The Cosby Show (1984–92), starring comedian Bill Cosby. Keenen Ivory Wayans, star of the long-running satirical sketch comedy show In Living Color, won an Emmy Award for his work in 1990. The Bernie Mac...
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Crafting an effective guerilla-marketing campaign requires reaching out to three critical targets and carefully allocating the proper amount of marketing resources to each.
Your first target market is your universe — everybody in your geographic area, regardless of how well they fit your customer profile. Though it’s largest of the three, it will generate the least profits for your company. If you’re thinking sanely, you will invest 10% of your marketing budget communicating your message to these people. Despite the low return, they’re too important to overlook, regardless of what’s happening right now. Things and people change, and marketing messages grow stronger when nurtured over time.
Your second target market are those potential customers within your universe who fit your customer profile. They have the right demographics, psychographics, income, and proclivity to buy. And they have the kind of problems you can solve — or the kind of goals you can help them achieve. This market will generate substantial, though not gold-medal, profits. Thinking clearly, you should be investing 30% of your marketing budget talking to these people — those on the threshold of purchasing who need you to nudge them a little, or maybe even a lot.
Your third target market is your current customer base. Though it’s the teeny-tiniest of your markets, it can and should generate by far the highest profits for your company. Guerrilla marketers happily invest 60% of their marketing budget talking to these wonderful, special, tasteful, discriminating people.
Jay Conrad Levinson
Author, Guerilla Marketing
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Email FAFSA renewal reminder notices are sent out by the Federal Processor to students with valid email addresses who completed the FAFSA for the previous year.
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He took a break to recuperate from a long 2011 season... but Howard Mudd is back in Philly for mandatory minicamp this week...
He's 70 years old, in his fourth decade as an assistant coach after being talked out of retirement last season, and anxious to get back at it after taking some time off.
Howard Mudd returned Tuesday for the start of a three-day minicamp that concludes the Philadelphia Eagles offseason program, working with his guys on the offensive line and feeling renewed as he begins his 46th NFL season as a player or coach.
Mudd, who underwent hip surgery during the 2011 season and was given the time off by head coach Andy Reid this spring to recharge for the six-to-seven month grind that is an NFL season, said the move was needed and beneficial.
"You don't have the same energy when you're older--- I just don't," said Mudd. "So I think it's important. I've got to be honest--- I feel very rejuvenated. I feel vital when I get around here."
Reid is certainly glad to have Mudd, whom he talked out of retirement to coach a team with Super Bowl hopes. While that didn't come close to happening, the offensive line's development under Mudd's unique system was one of the positives for a disappointing team.
While giving credit to former No. 1 draft pick and Mudd assistant Eugene Chung for coaching the line this spring, Reid said he's glad to have Mudd back at practice.
"You're talking about the finest offensive line coach to have coached the game," said Reid. "That's how he's respected in this league and for him to be back is a good thing."
A three-time Pro Bowl guard during a nine-year career, Mudd has coached offensive line in the NFL for 37 seasons. In his first season in Philadelphia following a 12-year run in Indianapolis and his abbreviated retirement, he put two rookies into starting roles (C Jason Kelce and RG Danny Watkins), moved steady guard Todd Herremans to tackle and gave a journeyman guard (LG Evan Mathis) a starting spot. He wound up with a group that gave up the fourth-fewest sacks in the league with 32 --- that is, 17 fewer than a year earlier.
But the line took a huge hit in March, when Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters ruptured his Achilles tendon at home in Texas. Unlikely to play at that point, Peters suffered a setback following surgery and seems almost certain to miss the entire season.
The team moved aggressively to address the loss, signing free agent Demetress Bell, who had replaced Peters as a starter in Buffalo.
While Mudd termed Peters a one-of-a-kind player, comparing him to former Seattle star and nine-time Pro Bowl pick Walter Jones, he said Bell has outstanding potential.
"The truth of the matter is, I think that Demetress has an unusual amount of athleticism, which we like here," said Mudd. "We can do a lot with that, and his mental toughness and the eagerness to get the thing right. This guy is going to help us win games."
Mudd also expects continued improvement from center Jason Kelce and right guard Danny Watkins, both of whom started as rookies, in what he hopes will be an extended season.
"I was sitting around with Eugene Chung this morning watching some video of the past practices, and I said, 'Do you realize how much I like this?,' and he laughed," said Mudd. "A lot of this has to do with just your attitude about it. I feel very fortunate that Andy let me do what I did because there's still some gas in the tank. I want to drive fast, too, and I want to go a long way."
[Thanks to Steve Patton of readingeagle.com for his research and quotes in this story...]
Even while he was resting and relaxing at his houses in Arizona and Seattle, Howard Mudd never truly felt at home until he was back on the field at the NovaCare Complex Tuesday.
"You don't have the same energy when you get older," Mudd said after a minicamp workout inside the bubble. "You just don't. But honestly, I feel rejuvenated and vital again. Besides, you coach with your brain. My wife may disagree, but I'm still pretty sharp mentally."
Mudd coached most of last season in considerable pain because of hip problems. He also endured one of the more challenging seasons of his 37-year NFL coaching career.
After sitting out the 2010 season, he rejoined the Eagles and was promptly asked to rebuild the offensive line on the fly because of the lockout. Of the five starters who finished last season, only tackles Todd Herremans and Jason Peters had been with the team a year earlier and Herremans had played guard. Center Jason Kelce and guard Danny Watkins were rookies. Guard Evan Mathis had signed as a free agent.
But the unit got better as the year progressed. The Eagles allowed 32 sacks after surrendering 50 in 2010 and paved the way for running back LeSean McCoy to rush for a career-best 1,309 yards and score a league-high 20 touchdowns.
Afterward, Reid insisted he take some time off. "I told him to go practice retirement," Reid said with a smile Tuesday. "The last time he tried it (after the 2010 season with Indianapolis), he didn't do so well. That was the same thing this time. He wasn't home for more than three days and he was ready to come back."
Mudd, who also played in the NFL for eight seasons (1964-71), couldn't wait to get back.
Rookie DT Fletcher Cox was excused from practice because of a death in his family. ... Three players — LB Ryan Rau, DE Frank Trotter and WR Raymond Webber — are in on a tryout basis. ... This three-day minicamp is mandatory, unlike the previous OTAs. Another practice is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, followed by a final practice on Thursday morning.
Here - go tap your foot..
@Palm Feathers i dont even need to click on it to know its rob zombie.....i listen to that....good music to listen to while your dirtbiking...
see - music today is still good
ours was better
I should play this in the shop - make em work faster
You know who your $$ is on literally, for the rest of your life. Married or divorced, she'll be gettin' yur money one way or the other...
@PPW its kinda like a cleveland steamer but worse....
@PPW dont image search it.....i could explain but its really gross...
@PPW google it.....now thats one you should image search hahahaha
TBT,..I may fornicate wiff dis grill!!!...hey Wifey,...how you liking dem apples?...btw,..thanks ferda early fodder's day present,...woman knows what to do,...sumptimes!!!!..hahahaha!!
wait for it to cool a bit - hot pockets
Have you ever had the Hot Pocket Hot Pocket? It's Hot Pocket inside a Hot Pocket. Tastes just like a Hot Pocket.
@Palm Feathers I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.
the Cake one?
@Palm Feathers Jim Gaffigan is the bomb!
@Palm Feathers : I was looking at a box of hot pockets and they have a warning on the side. It's like 'Warning! You just bought Hot Pockets! Hope you're drunk or heading home to a trailer! You hillbilly enjoy the next NASCAR event!'
@Palm Feathers Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!
But NEVER a Rocket in your pocket
@Dr Funt There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.
@Jerky have you ever had an alabama hot pocket?
@briview for some reason i feel like i should blame you for being banned at PE.com
@Dr Funt Nice,....I would!
It builds character. Besides, you'll eventually get reinstated over there and when that time comes you will have already forgotten about OTI ~AKA~ Da Dump.
@Palm Feathers no email which is weak....and im unimpressed....i tried to sign in and it said suspended until some date...then i tried another user i have and it said i dont have permission....im pretty sure my IP is blocked and my computer shouldnt be sending out any info anymore hahaha.
ahh - better here anyway.
I'm just gonna run around every Thursday and hand out the Ivory Soap Breath mints..........!!
Seriously - how does one get informed they are Banned? Do they send you an email or something?
You may wanna wear that banning as a Badge of Honor.
I think a lot of the folks here wear it.
Not me - I'm ALWAYS pleasant, polite and pleasing
@Palm Feathers yes but not the worst....if they wanna ban me they shoulda banned 10 other people....egypt goes on there and tell dave he sucks and his article are crap, i go on there and defend it...and i get banned....until end of june...
@briview i could go spam them if i really want to but screw it, im insulted dave would ban me during trainning camp....pretty lame...
@briview my ip is blocked now.....
i got lucky today....turns out the work they wanted me to do was supposed to take like 10 hours.....the person before me was obviously lazy....it took me 3 hours...
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