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July 19, 2007 Three standing out for Jackson? Franklin (Ga.) Heard County tailback Dontavius Jackson remains one of the premier players in the southeast that has yet to commit to a school. The nation's No. 7-rated running back has remained fairly quiet during the summer, instead opting to prepare for his senior season. Jackson has said that his top five schools are Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Clemson and Georgia, but Heard County head coach Tim Barron believes that three are standing out to him at this time. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial

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Friday, August 3, 2012 APR Motorsport Audi R8 GRAND-AM at Indy By Tarek Ramchani APR Motorsport entered the inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix at the world famous Indianapolis Motorsport Speedway last weekend, the first ever sports car race at Indy. Round 9 of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series and also round three of the North American Endurance Championship, after the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 6 Hours of the Glen. It was a very rainy and hard three hour event, with a lot of contact on track. The #51 machine shared by Dion von Moltke and Dr. Jim Norman finished 18th in the demanding GT class. The car has shown again a very good pace in hand of Dion von Moltke, but again bad luck hit the APR team when they made contact with an RX8 Mazda in the infield. Here is a brilliant video made in house by the APR media guys. APR Motorsport official website APR official Facebook

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Interview with Scott Pagano | Career Outcomes Scott Pagano is a digital artist, filmmaker and motion graphics designer from Los Angeles. He works at the intersection of high technology and creates vivid, beautiful and memorable works by mixing different media types, like video, audio, photography and CG graphics. Pagano is known for collaborations with many artists in various genres, from Michael Jackson to Kid606 and Kronos Quartet. In this video he shared his creative experience with us and showed his most interesting works.

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Ethiopian kids hack Zoom tablets in five months. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project recently tried a new approach to distributing computers to developing countries, by leaving boxes of tablets in remote Ethiopian villages with no instructions. The Motorola Zoom tablets had a custom English language OS, a solar charger, and tracking software to monitor how they were used. To the surprise of the organization, not only could the kids who started using the tablets easily figure out how to switch on and use them, but they also learnt to hack into the OS and enable features - amazing especially seeing as most of the kids had never seen a printed word before, let alone in English. “We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.” OLPC used the experiment to see whether kids can teach themselves to read and write English. Research shows that 100,000,000 kids worldwide don’t even make to to first grade, often because there are no schools or teachers available. For the cost of a tablet, that could all change. Previous OLPC studies have also shown that the kids will also teach their parents to read and write as well.

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May 7, 2012 § 2 Comments The Last of a Half-breed / on The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch Welch’s sad book is set in mid-70’s rural Montana somewhere on the outskirts of the Fort Belknap Indian reservation. In this tragic story, cheap alcohol fuels a prevailing sense of alienation and longing for an imagined elsewhere—life should be better somewhere else. A perennial overgrowth of American Indian under-education, alcoholism and infighting captures the reader in a depressive continuity of life’s potential for hopelessness. Welch gives us a masterful retelling of boredom amidst the desolation of failed dreams. This is an American Indian story of existential angst that goes far beyond a clichéd and ghettoized other. Welch leaves us with a narrative that calls into question the very real confrontation with Jim Loney’s identity as a so-called half breed (Gros Ventre/Anglo), his broken family, his restless love life, and his hard-to-place value as a fallible man. James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney soberly regards the plight of the American Indian, troubled personal identity, and the existential problems that arise from filial neglect and societal estrangement. We always have to be cautious when confronting racial issues and how they are addressed, especially with regard to the personal bias we bring to such matters. Although Welch does write about an American-Indian, he tells the story from the uneasy perspective of Jim Loney and his immediate relationships. This story is one of human identity, an identity that’s become displaced, and then broken. We already come to the novel knowing that American-Indians have been displaced in their own land, but in The Death of Jim Loney existential problems of belonging lie underneath the poverty of Loney’s day to day circumstances. If any American-Indian issues are politicized in the book, they are carefully implied and are not overt. In fact, such issues of displaced identity are suggested by Welch with graceful subtlety. For example, when Welch writes about Loney’s half-breed status, he has Loney’s girlfriend Rhea suggest to him that to be a half-breed is to be lucky to choose from one set of ancestors or the other: “Oh, you’re so lucky to have two sets of ancestors. Just think, you can be Indian on one day and white the next. Whichever suits you” (2008, p. 13). The naïve irony of his girlfriend’s comment does little to comfort us (and him) since we know that society doesn’t give us this choice. Here in America, if you are born half white and your other ethnic half is a minority group, you must identify as that minority group, if you don’t, you’re flatly dismissed as being in a state of self-hating denial. If you happen to belong to a minority group, any resulting problems of racial and personal identity are left for you to sort through openly, or not. If you don’t have the tenacity to deal with it, this can lead to strong feelings of displacement and a general sense of not belonging. But is this is somehow a uniquely American-Indian dilemma? We already know that it’s not; we don’t have to be American-Indian to question our place in the world. One doesn’t need to be a minority to contemplate one’s existence. However, with this said, we’ll have to acknowledge that a minority status can lead to feelings of alienation. Displacement from the larger group can lead one to feel like an outsider. This takes us to the philosophy of Existentialism. The general focus of Existentialism is on the existence of the individual and the choices he makes from there, if he is able to recognize that his existence relies on his own self-determinism and not on an external morality, or objective standards of living. In the strictest sense, he always has the freedom to choose one way or another. Let us be sure to make the point that Welch’s Loney never tries to philosophically solve his existential dilemma, we’re only left with his broken family life, his semi-romantic love life, his tenuous friendships, his alcoholism, his violence, and his eventual demise. We are matter-of-factly presented with all these unresolved problems of his existence that lead Loney to a self manipulated death. In Colin Wilson’s first book The Outsider he covers the Existentialism of the alienated outsider from the philosophical perspective of many authors and thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche wrote at length about overcoming the status quo, about questioning existence and the power of the individual to forge a new path above and beyond the prevailing norms. Welch’s Jim Loney is precariously at the precipice of this kind of rejection of the way things are—he is on the very edge of transcendence—yet he never gets there, he just doesn’t know how. “He [Loney] tried to think of all the little things that added up to a man sitting at a table drinking wine. […] all the people and events were hopelessly tangled as a bird’s nest is his mind” (Welch, 2008, p. 18). Loney inadvertently shows us that personal growth can’t flourish if we absent-mindedly drink away our thoughts. In The Outsider, Wilson speaks of the way Nietzsche had to reject the complacency of traditional values in a society that stifles free thinking: “Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus, for he will always be an outcast and a misfit” (1956, p.142). Loney never gets to a higher purpose. His goal is not to challenge tradition. Loney’s choices are (self) limited. Loney’s existence awkwardly stares at him, and by extension we try to think of how this reflects our own lives. It’s only by his inability to squarely lift himself up from his plight, do we confront a desire to do this for ourselves. This problem of Loney’s is carefully expressed by Welch when Loney watches a neighbor hanging her laundry. He does this while contemplating where his life should lead from here. “He wasn’t ready to do anything but sit on his step and think, and so he watched the two shirts twist and knot around each other and he thought, not of Seattle, but of the blue veins on the backs of his neighbor’s legs” (2008, p.42). This kind of contemplation with the bare facts of reality recall Jean Paul Sartre’s character Antoine Roquentin in the book Nausea, and his famous existential epiphany with a chestnut tree, yet with one critical distinction: Loney can’t see a way to transcend his basic choices. He can’t grasp his own basic existential freedom. In Nausea Sartre writes: “Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of at a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all” (1964, p. 177). For Sartre man’s very confrontation with nothing and of existence impels him to grow into what he wants to be. Loney doesn’t know he can change, therefore Sartre would say he was acting in ‘bad faith.’ When we’re acting in bad faith we are not acknowledging our freedom to choose another way, we’ve blindly accepted our so-called fate. In bad faith we are the victims of circumstantial fatalism. Welch’s Loney is opaque and inaccessible to himself, he “…couldn’t sleep because if he slept he would dream, so he stared into the blackness of the small bedroom” (2008, p. 94). A few lines later, Loney thinks of the next day where he’ll be hunting bear with his sometime friend Myron Pretty Weasel, where he blankly thinks: “After tomorrow’s slim purpose I will simply exist” (Welch, 2008, p. 95). These are frightening thoughts when we learn later that Loney will shoot the curiously named Pretty Weasel, presumably mistaking him for a bear in the cattails. In Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic/philosohical work Strangers to Ourselves, she details the complex ways an outsider is perceived and how they perceive themselves. It’s made clear that the foreigner internalizes much of their perceived self-identity and hatred, as much as society imposes these insecurities onto the other. We’ll be safe to suggest that American-Indians have been a kind of native foreigner, sadly thought of as foreigners on their own homeland. This becomes a kind of self-exile enacted by Loney’s futile escape from belonging to his family or anywhere else as he eventually runs headlong unto his death at Mission Canyon. Kristeva writes: “…according to the utmost logic of exile, all aims should waste away and self-destruct in the wonderer’s insane stride toward an elsewhere that is always pushed back, unfulfilled, out of reach” (1991, p. 6). Although Kristeva is not an Existentialist, her views on foreigners, the stranger, the other do coincide with Loney’s lack of belonging that leads to a feeling of being exiled within his own family and community. Loney is never ‘at home’ in the world. We never really understand where Loney’s going except down. The rambling intensity of his actions are magnified by the coldness of his estranged father Ike, especially when Loney suggests that their situation could’ve been better. Ike ignorantly questions this: “Shit, what would we have done but drink ourselves to death?” (Welch, 2008, p. 132). After this, Loney walks away from his dad’s trailer and shoots into one of the windows with the shotgun his dad gave him minutes earlier. If we return to the very first page of the story, we find Loney recounting an odd Biblical passage that sticks itself in us because of its bald pessimism. “Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?” (Welch, 2008, p. 1). We’re not told that this is from Isaiah 2:22, but that doesn’t matter when we think of what it means, and what it might mean for Loney. Turn away from a breathing man, because there is not accounting for him because he’s mortal. This has to be a Biblical way to emphasize the fallibility of man against an all perfect God. Yet, for our secular use here, the haunting phrase speaks to a darker message: no one living is to be trusted. Loney came from the chaos of a broken home. As we witness his confused adult life, his options are few. Loney in his depressive complacency barely trusts anyone. Midway in the book, a little boy named Amos After Buffalo watches Loney cut his dead dog from the frozen mud on Thanksgiving day—a day that’s not really an American-Indian holiday. This little boy is recalled before Loney dies where Loney talks to a stray black dog in Mission Canyon. “You tell Amos that Jim Loney passed through town while he was dreaming. Don’t tell him you saw me with a bottle and a gun. That wouldn’t do. Tell him you saw me carrying a dog and that I was taking that dog to higher ground. He will know” (Welch, 2008, p. 147). James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney carries us over to a deep sense of sadness. This in-depth sadness is brought about by Loney’s inability to maneuver his circumstance to even a slightly better place. His displaced existence glares at him and it hurts us to have read about it. It is in this liquor-fuelled alienation that we can learn to empathize with people, as we can recognize such tendencies in ourselves. It is as the philosophers show us, that it is our choice to blindly accept fatalism, the status quo, the norms, the way-it-should-be, or not. If we can’t do this hard work of liberating ourselves nobody else can do it for us. This ultimately reveals how James Welch has helped us, by showing what life looks like when we refuse to see ourselves as full of potential, and when we fail to see ourselves as living with pure possibility. Kristeva, Julia. (1991). Strangers to ourselves (Leon Roudiez, trans.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Sartre, Jean-Paul. (1964). Nausea (Lloyd Alexanader, trans.). New York, NY: New Directions. Welch, James. (2008). The death of Jim Loney. New York, NY: Penquin Classics. Wilson, Colin. (1956). The outsider. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.

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Date: 22 June 2012 References: ESB-2012.0027 ESB-2012.0074 ESB-2012.0269 ESB-2012.0480 ESB-2013.0537 Click here for printable version Click here for PGP verifiable version -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution SSRT100891 rev.1 - HP OpenVMS running SSL, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Unauthorized Access 22 June 2012 AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary Product: HP OpenVMS Operating System: OpenVMS Impact/Access: Access Privileged Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Unauthorised Access -- Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2012-2131 CVE-2012-2110 CVE-2012-1165 CVE-2012-0884 CVE-2012-0050 CVE-2011-4619 CVE-2011-4577 CVE-2011-4576 CVE-2011-4109 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Note: the current version of the following document is available here: SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c03383940 HPSBOV02793 SSRT100891 rev.1 - HP OpenVMS running SSL, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Unauthorized Access NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. 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These wise words from Tolstoy seem even more relevant 100 years on. Matt Ridley has published a great essay in WIRED SCIENCE today. Ridley nails an issue that has plagued humanity since time immemorial. Some supposedly intelligent human beings become so convinced that Doomsday is upon them that nothing will persuade them to the contrary. Ridley’s essay is a must read for everyone interested in Doomsday predictions that have failed to materialise and why we should dump the Climate Scare in the same basket. When the sun rises on December 22, as it surely will, do not expect apologies or even a rethink. No matter how often apocalyptic predictions fail to come true, another one soon arrives. And the prophets of apocalypse always draw a following—from the 100,000 Millerites who took to the hills in 1843, awaiting the end of the world, to the thousands who believed in Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who forecast the final rapture in both 1994 and 2011. Religious zealots hardly have a monopoly on apocalyptic thinking. Consider some of the environmental cataclysms that so many experts promised were inevitable. Best-selling economist Robert Heilbroner in 1974: “The outlook for man, I believe, is painful, difficult, perhaps desperate, and the hope that can be held out for his future prospects seem to be very slim indeed.” Or best-selling ecologist Paul Ehrlich in 1968: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s ["and 1980s" was added in a later edition] the world will undergo famines—hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked on now … nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.” Or Jimmy Carter in a televised speech in 1977: “We could use up all of the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.” Predictions of global famine and the end of oil in the 1970s proved just as wrong as end-of-the-world forecasts from millennialist priests. Yet there is no sign that experts are becoming more cautious about apocalyptic promises. If anything, the rhetoric has ramped up in recent years. Echoing the Mayan calendar folk, theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight at the start of 2012, commenting: “The global community may be near a point of no return in efforts to prevent catastrophe from changes in Earth’s atmosphere.” APOCOHOLISM IS GROWING Over the five decades since the success of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 and the four decades since the success of the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth in 1972, prophecies of doom on a colossal scale have become routine. Indeed, we seem to crave ever-more-frightening predictions—we are now, in writer Gary Alexander’s word, apocaholic. The past half century has brought us warnings of population explosions, global famines, plagues, water wars, oil exhaustion, mineral shortages, falling sperm counts, thinning ozone, acidifying rain, nuclear winters, Y2K bugs, mad cow epidemics, killer bees, sex-change fish, cell-phone-induced brain-cancer epidemics, and climate catastrophes. So far all of these specters have turned out to be exaggerated. True, we have encountered obstacles, public-health emergencies, and even mass tragedies. But the promised Armageddons—the thresholds that cannot be uncrossed, the tipping points that cannot be untipped, the existential threats to Life as We Know It—have consistently failed to materialize. To see the full depth of our apocaholism, and to understand why we keep getting it so wrong, we need to consult the past 50 years of history. Ridley takes the reader through a modern day analogy of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The classic apocalypse has four horsemen, and our modern version follows that pattern, with the four riders being chemicals (DDT, CFCs, acid rain), diseases (bird flu, swine flu, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, mad cow disease), people (population, famine), and resources (oil, metals). Let’s visit them each in turn.Read it all here

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The Independent Jane For all the love, romance and scandal in Jane Austen’s books, what they are really about is freedom and independence. Independence of thought and the freedom to choose. Elizabeth’s refusal of Mr. Collins offer of marriage showed an independence seldom seen in heroines of the day. Her refusal of Mr. Darcy while triggered by anger showed a level of independence that left him shocked and stunned. The freedom she exhibited in finally accepting him in direct defiance of Lady Catherine and knowing her father would disapprove was unusual even for Austen. In her last book Anne Elliot is persuaded to refuse Captain Wentworth at Lady Russel’s insistence. Although Jane played by the rules of the day, all of her writing is infused with how she wanted life to be. She ‘screams’ her outrage at the limitations for women in Emma. When accosted by Mrs. Elton, Jane Fairfax says, “Excuse me, ma’am, but this is by no means my intention; I make no inquiry myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There are places in town, offices, where inquiry would soon produce something — offices for the sale, not quite of human flesh, but of human intellect.” “Oh! my dear, human flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.” “I did not mean, I was not thinking of the slave-trade,” replied Jane; “governess-trade, I assure you, was all that I had in view; widely different certainly, as to the guilt of those who carry it on; but as to the greater misery of the victims, I do not know where it lies.” That same sentiment is emphasized in Emma’s shock when Mrs. Weston tells her of Frank Churchill’s secret engagement to Jane. “Good God!” cried Emma, “Jane actually on the point of going as governess! What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy? To suffer her to engage herself — to suffer her even to think of such a measure!” I find it interesting that at the moment of Austen’s birth or there about, John Adams left his farm in Massachusetts for the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Doesn’t sound particularly interesting, I know but consider this. John Adams left his home in mid-December 1775 to attend an unprecedented meeting of colonial representatives to consider severing ties with their mother country and her monarch; a decision that culminated in a document unlike any ever written. In the mother country, one day in that same cold December a baby girl was born at Steventon Rectory. Her cry was heard by only the people in the house but the years to come would see her pen create works unlike any the world had ever seen. Comparing Austen’s words with Thomas Jefferson’s may seem a trivialization but I believe that Austen’s impact on the world is no less important than Jefferson’s. The effect of Jane’s writing maybe more subtle than that of the Virginian but it is no less influential. Jefferson’s words instigated and promoted a revolution, a war of independence. Jane’s words had no such excessive consequence. Still in her own quiet, genteel yet powerful way she declared and promoted the same principles of freedom and self-regulated independence as our American forefathers. In all her novels Jane advocates independence of person and thought, the rights of all and acceptance of responsibility for those rights. Jane may not have incited military action as Jefferson did but even as an avowed royalist, I doubt not that Jane Austen firmly believed in his declaration of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Computex Taipei 2009: One of our next stops out at Nangang was SilverStone who was showing off its Raven 2 case as its highlight product of the show for 2009. It is the newer version of the popular Raven case, also with its unique 90 degree motherboard mounting, but sees some advancements and changes. Check it out below: With so many good case designs on the market now, it is becoming harder and harder to stand out from the pack, but SilverStone continues to impressive with the Raven 2. Further Reading: Read and find more news at our news index page.

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Bohn, M. S. (1977) Response of a subsonic nozzle to acoustic and entropy disturbances. Journal of Sound and Vibration , 52 (2). pp. 283-297. ISSN 0022-460X http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20101213-104516314 - Published Version Restricted to Caltech community only See Usage Policy. Use this Persistent URL to link to this item: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20101213-104516314 The one-dimensional response of a subsonic nozzle flow to small pressure and entropy disturbances is calculated. The response is expressed in terms of transmitted acoustic waves (which propagate from the nozzle in the same direction as the disturbance wave) and reflected acoustic waves (which propagate from the nozzle in the direction opposite to that of the disturbance wave) for three independent disturbances: a downstreampropagating acoustic wave impinging upon the nozzle inlet, an upstream-propagating wave impinging upon the nozzle exit, and an entropy wave convecting through the nozzle. The solution for high frequency disturbances is discussed and used with the compact (long wavelength disturbance) solution to normalize several numerical calculations. The normalization shows that the transmitted waves created by the two acoustic disturbances may be represented by the same function offrequency for a given inlet and exit nozzle Mach number. The same is seen to be true for the reflected waves created by the two acoustic disturbances. The normalization allows results for a wide range of nozzle Mach number distributions and disturbance frequencies to be presented concisely. |Additional Information:||© 1977 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Received 22 June 1976, and in revised form 13 January 1977. Available online 29 July 2003. The author wishes to express his appreciation to Dr N. Cumpsty of Cambridge University for suggesting this problem, and to Professor F. E. Marble of the California Institute of Technology for his many helpful discussions of the problem.| |Group:||Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center| |Other Numbering System:| |Official Citation:||Bohn, M. S. (1977). "Response of a subsonic nozzle to acoustic and entropy disturbances." Journal of Sound and Vibration 52(2): 283-297.| |Usage Policy:||No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.| |Deposited By:||Ruth Sustaita| |Deposited On:||14 Dec 2010 17:15| |Last Modified:||26 Dec 2012 12:45| Repository Staff Only: item control page

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Thomas, J. and Vogel, P. (1990) Testing the inverse-square law of gravity in boreholes at the Nevada Test Site. Physical Review Letters, 65 (10). pp. 1173-1176. ISSN 0031-9007 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:THOprl90 See Usage Policy. See Usage Policy. Use this Persistent URL to link to this item: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:THOprl90 Stacey et al. have reported evidence for a breakdown of Newton’s law based on measurements in a deep mine. We have tested the reproducibility of this result by analyzing gravity data from boreholes in Nevada. One interpretation of our resuls suggests a breakdown of the Newtonian theory which is much larger than the effect previously reported. But the lack of consistency between the results suggests that it is not fundamental physics that has failed, but rather the experiments are subject to large systematic uncertainties which are caused by mass anomalies at intermediate distances from the holes. |Additional Information:||©1990 The American Physical Society Received 26 September 1989 This work was supported in part by grants from the Department of Energy (No. DEAC-0381-ER40050) and by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Individual Research and Development fund. We acknowledge stimulating discussions with Eric Adelberger, Richard Feynman, and Val Telegdi. And, in particular, we thank Paul Kasameyer, Frank Stacey, and Gary Tuck who were instrumental in guiding us through the analysis of these data. Erratum: J. Thomas and P. Vogel, Testing the inverse-square law of gravity in boreholes at the Nevada Test Site, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2478 (1990).| |Usage Policy:||No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.| |Deposited By:||Archive Administrator| |Deposited On:||04 Dec 2006| |Last Modified:||26 Dec 2012 09:20| Repository Staff Only: item control page

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ITEM: One author signed copy of the junior fiction novel ‘The Hidden Monastery’ by Gabrielle Wang. DETAILS: Like a whisper from the edge of the world he heard the creature calling… The Abbot said, ‘Peng is so powerful he can fill up the whole sky, and yet shrink so small he can sit on a blade of grass without it bending under his weight.’ ‘No creature on earth can do that!’ said Jax. ‘But Peng is not from this world,’ the Abbot replied. From the moment Peng fell from the stars as a tiny young creature, he and Jax have been connected. But it is not until twelve years later, when Jax stumbles across a mysterious monastery hidden deep in an ancient rainforest park, that he begins to discover his destiny – and what it means to be a Peng Master… CV: Gabrielle Wang is an author and illustrator born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her great grandfather came to Victoria during the Gold Rush. In her twenties she went in search of her roots, living in both China and Taiwan where she studied Chinese language and painting. Her stories are a blend of Chinese and Western culture with a touch of fantasy. Gabrielle’s novel The Garden of Empress Cassia won the 2002 Aurealis Award, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and was a CBC Notable Book. The Pearl of Tiger Bay was shortlisted for the 2004 Aurealis Award and The Lion Drummer was named a Notable Book in the 2009 CBC Book of the Year Awards. Please bid in the comments box below.

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What's New for 2013: - Curve Control technology debuts - Operator Assist and mobile Wi-Fi hotspot added to Sync - 22-inch polished wheels (late availability) - Four additional paint colors The 2013 Lincoln MKX can be upgraded with Premium, Elite and Limited Edition option packages. Standard equipment includes a capless fuel-filling system, power tailgate, and 18-inch aluminum wheels.Interior Features The MKX is equipped with perforated leather seats, heated and ventilated in front, as well as Sync smartphone connectivity combined with MyLincoln Touch technology. A premium sound system includes a media hub with dual USB ports, SD card reader, audio/video input jack, and a 6-month subscription to satellite radio service. Dual-zone automatic climate control, Intelligent Access keyless entry with push-button starting, tilt/telescoping steering wheel, and aluminum trim panels are also a part of the standard equipment package.Optional Features Three main option packages are offered on the 2013 MKX. The Elite package adds navigation, THX II Certified surround sound audio system, and a panoramic sunroof. The Premium package includes polished aluminum wheels, adaptive HID headlights, ambient interior lighting, and a blind-spot monitoring system with cross-traffic alert. The Limited Edition package provides 20-inch polished wheels and a unique bronze leather color. Wood interior trim, extra-cost paint choices, and 22-inch wheels are also available.Under the Hood Every 2013 Lincoln MKX is equipped with a 3.7-liter V-6 engine that generates 305 horsepower. A 6-speed automatic transmission transfers the power to the front wheels (FWD) or, optionally, all four wheels (AWD).Fuel Economy EPA fuel-economy estimates for the 2013 Lincoln MKX are: - MKX FWD: 19/26/22 mpg (city/highway/combined) - MKX AWD: 17/23/19 mpg Curve Control is a new standard feature for the 2013 MKX, added to the AdvanceTrac traction and stability control system. Curve Control helps drivers to retain vehicle control if they enter a turn going too fast. In addition to Curve Control and AdvanceTrac, the MKX is equipped with numerous safety features, including 6 air bags, anti-lock brakes, MyKey programmable vehicle features, SOS Post Crash Alert, blind-spot side mirrors, rear park-assist sensors, and Sync with Operator Assist, including 9-1-1 emergency assistance. Safety options include a reversing camera, rain-sensing wipers, and adaptive HID headlights that swivel to help the driver see around dark corners. A blind-spot monitoring system is available, and includes a cross-traffic alert system. MKX buyers can also select an adaptive cruise control system with Collision Warning and Brake Support, and trailer sway control is included in the optional Tow package. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) gives the 2013 MKX a 4-star (out of 5) overall crash-test rating, with driver and front passenger protection in a frontal-impact collision rated 3 stars. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) calls the 2013 MKX a "Top Safety Pick."

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There are no 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 reviews. However, the following might be helpful: The community thinks... Needs some refinement! by Ken, Langley, BC on 01/10/2008. Trim: 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 SXT, Owned 1 year. Pros: Power, ride height, towing/payload, 39 ft turning radius, wide opening rear doors, interior storage, pricing Cons: Steering is vague even at low city speeds. Cruise control sometimes shuts off if Accel or Deaccel is hit twice. I think there's a software bug in the PCM or ECM where Cruise gets confused if you jab either button to speed up or down constantly. Seat bottoms are a little long could use more side bolstering lumbar support would be REALLY GREAT in the 40/20/40 cloth bench w/out power driver's seat setup. Interior instrument and door material could be a WAY better still too industrial plastic looking in this price range. Engine noise - this SXT Quad 4.7L sounds like a gigantic sewing machine when you stand outside the vehicle and it's LOUD... Overall review: Choose your trim level carefully if you plan on a lot of trailer towing get the optional Stability package you won't regret it Review ID: #521464 Is this review offensive?

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There are no 2011 Mazda CX-9 reviews. However, the following might be helpful: 2011 Mazda CX-9 "With sportscar lines, crossover versatility, and brimming with standard and optional features, the… The community thinks... Awesome vehicle! by Derek Chapman on 06/30/2011. Trim: 2011 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring AWD, Owned 1 year. Pros: I have had this vehicle for 2 years and still love everything about it!!!!!!!!!! Overall review: Jenkins Mazda in Ocala made it quick and easy for me, and they really care. If you ever go there ask for Ryan. Review ID: #553217 Is this review offensive?

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just thought i should say that while i would like to stay and answer some messages, it is actually my birthday today and thus im about to go out. so apologies to people that are still waiting for me to get to their queries. unless you asked about zuko’s mom. then i just laugh humourlessly and delete the question. but apologies to everyone else.

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This page contains a list of user images about Causeway which are relevant to the point and besides images, you can also use the tabs in the bottom to browse Causeway news, videos, wiki information, tweets, documents and weblinks. Music video by Rihanna performing Take A Bow. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 66288884. (C) 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group. WATCH BLOOPERS & MORE: http://bit.ly/ZELDAxtras DOWNLOAD THE SONG: http://smo.sh/13NrBp8 DOWNLOAD UNCENSORED SONG: http://smo.sh/WMYpsf GET LEGEND OF SMOSH T... BLOOPERS: http://bit.ly/FiretruckBloopers GET THE SONG: http://smo.sh/WMZv7l MILKSHAKE MUSIC VIDEO: http://bit.ly/MilkyMilkshake CHECK OUT THIS FIRETRUCK TEE... Jimmy Kimmel Live - Celebrities Read Mean Tweets #2 Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube channel features clips and recaps of every episode from the late night TV sho... 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Mapoti See Bloopers and Behind-The-Scenes Here!: http://youtu.be/dfpo7uXwJnM Huge thank you and shout out to Dtrix: http://www.youtube... ||This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (April 2013)| The Hindenburgdamm Rail Causeway across the Wadden Sea to the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |Ancestor||None. (See Ford (crossing))| |Related||None. (See step-stone bridge)| |Descendant||None. (See viaduct)| |Material||Concrete, masonry, Earth-fill| A causeway is a road or railway route across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment. Some causeways may only be usable at low tide and the distinction between causeways and viaducts can become blurred when flood-relief culverts are incorporated in the structure; a causeway is however primarily supported on earth or stone, whereas a bridge or viaduct is mainly supported by free-standing columns or arches. When first used, the word appeared in a form such as “causey way” making clear its derivation from the earlier form “causey”. This word seems to have come from the same source by two different routes. It derives ultimately, from the Latin for heel, calx, and most likely comes from the trampling technique to consolidate earthworks. In Ancient times, the construction was trodden down, one layer at a time, often by slaves or flocks of sheep. Today, this work is done by machines. The same technique would have been used for road embankments, raised river banks, sea banks and fortification earthworks. (The layers, though not the trampling action, can be seen in the Bayeux Tapestry: Building Hastings Castle.) The second derivation route is simply the hard, trodden surface of a path. The name by this route came to be applied to a firmly surfaced road. It is now little-used except in dialect and in the names of roads which were originally notable for their solidly made surface. The word is comparable in both meanings with the French chaussée, from a form of which it reached English by way of Norman French. The French adjective, chaussée, carries the meaning of having been given a hardened surface, and is used to mean either paved or shod. As a noun chaussée is used on the one hand for a metalled carriageway, and on the other for an embankment with or without a road. Other languages have a noun with similar dual meaning. In Welsh, it is sarn. The Welsh is relevant here, as it also has a verb, sarnu, meaning to trample. The trampling and ramming technique for consolidating earthworks was used in fortifications and there is a comparable, outmoded form of wall construction technique, used in such work and known as pisé, a word derived not from trampling but from ramming or tamping. The modern embankment may be constructed within a cofferdam: two parallel steel sheet pile or concrete retaining walls, anchored to each other with steel cables or rods. This construction may also serve as a dyke that keeps two bodies of water apart, such as bodies with a different water level on each side, or with salt water on one side and fresh water on the other. This may also be the primary purpose of a structure, the road providing a hardened crest for the dike, slowing erosion in the event of an overflow. It also provides access for maintenance as well perhaps, as a public service. Notable causeways include those that connect Singapore and Malaysia (the Johor–Singapore Causeway), Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (25-km long King Fahd Causeway) and Venice to the mainland, all of which carry roadways and railways. In the Netherlands there are a number of prominent dykes which also double as causeways, including the Afsluitdijk, Brouwersdam, and Markerwaarddijk. In Louisiana, two very long bridges, called the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, stretch across Lake Pontchartrain for almost 38 km, making them the world's longest bridges (if total length is considered instead of span length). They are also the oldest causeways on the Gulf Coast that have never been put out of commission for an extended period of time following a hurricane. In the Republic of Panama a causeway connects the islands of Perico, Flamenco, and Naos to Panama City on the mainland. It also serves as a breakwater for ships entering the Panama Canal. Its English name causeway is sometimes confused with "Coastway", name of a touristic zone in Panama city. The Aztec city-state of Tenochtitlan had causeways supporting roads and aqueducts. The oldest engineered road yet discovered is the Sweet Track in England, dating from the 3800s BC. Causeways are also common in Florida, where low bridges may connect several man-made islands, often with a much higher bridge (or part of a single bridge) in the middle so that taller boats may pass underneath safely. Causeways are most often used to connect the barrier islands with the mainland. The Churchill Barriers in Orkney are of the most notable sets of causeways in Europe. Constructed in waters up to 18 metres deep, the four barriers link five islands on the eastern side of the natural harbour at Scapa Flow. They were built during World War II as military defences for the harbour, on the orders of Winston Churchill. The Estrada do Istmo connecting the islands of Taipa and Coloane in Macau was initially built as a causeway. The sea on both sides of the causeway had become shallower as a result of silting, and mangroves had conquer the area. Later on land reclamation took place on both sides of the road and the area has subsequently be named Cotai and become home of several casino complexes. In Okinawa, Japan, connected by the Mid-Sea Road are the Katsuren Peninsula, Henza Island, Miyagi Island, Ikei Island and Hamahiga-Island. Specific causeways around the world |This section requires expansion. (April 2009)| Various causeways in the world: - Canso Causeway, Nova Scotia, Canada ( ) - Hindenburgdamm, Germany ( ) - Johor-Singapore Causeway ( ) - Lake Ponchartrain Causeway, Louisiana ( ) - King Fahd Causeway, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia ( ) - Venice ( ) - Mahim Causeway, Mumbai, India - Swarkestone causeway, Derby, England, United Kingdom - Causeway across Haraldssund, Faroe Islands - Causeway across Hvannasund, Faroe Islands - Rømødæmningen, Denmark, connecting Rømø (island) with the mainland across the wadden sea - MacArthur Causeway, Florida, United States Causeways affect currents and may therefore be involved in beach erosion or changed deposition patterns; this effect has been a problem at the Hindenburgdamm in northern Germany. During hurricane seasons, the winds and rains of approaching tropical storms--as well as waves generated by the storm in the surrounding bodies of water—make traversing causeways problematic at best and impossibly dangerous during the fiercest parts of the storms. For this reason (and related reasons, such as the need to minimize traffic jams on both the roads approaching the causeway and the causeway itself), emergency evacuation of island residents is a high priority for local, regional, and even national authorities. See also - The Causeway, Western Australia - Causey Arch, County Durham, England - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Metairie, Louisiana, Southern; Mandeville, Louisiana, Northern. - Pulaski Skyway - Oxford English Dictionary. 1971. ISBN 0-19-861212-5. - Collins Robert French Dictionary, 5th edn. 1998. ISBN 0-00-470526-2. - Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré, Paris. 1934. - Grape, W. The Bayeux Tapestry. Prestel, Munich and New York. 1994. ISBN 3-7913-1365-7. - Evans, H.M. and Thomas, W.O. The New Welsh Dictionary (Y Geiriadur Newydd). Llyfrau'r Dryw, Llandybie. 1953.

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Great news for pilots: After at least 10 very slow years, the aviation industry is in a period of growth. Experts predict that we'll encounter a drastic pilot shortage in the coming years, which means that your dream job may not be as far away as you thought! If you're looking for a flying job, here are a few links to check out: If you're a low-time pilot, then US Pilot is a great site to start with. It is updated constantly with flight instruction, banner towing, aerial mapping, part 135 and corporate pilot jobs. Membership is free. Popular among defense companies, AviationEmployment.com typically has a lot of job postings for test pilots and military veterans. This widely-used website has been around since 1988, and according to their website, is the leading site for aviation and airline jobs. On Avjobs.com, you can learn about and search for pilot jobs, read articles, browse through tips and advice, search for an aviation school, subscribe to newsletters, and even get help with your resume. All of these services come with a charge, though. There are different payment plans for different services, with discounts for students and military members. Aviation Week reaches over 185 countries, so their job board includes job openings from around the world. You'll see a variety of jobs here, but it's another hot spot for defense jobs and government contract jobs at places like Boeing, Northrup-Grumman, Sikorsky, and the military. There are a few corporate and flight instructor jobs openings listed here, as well. The FAA hires pilots to create and inspect operations, both in the air and on the ground. Pilots for the FAA can inspect airways, test and identify problems with terminal and enroute procedures, etc. The FAA will surely be hiring more pilots to assist with the implementation of NextGen, so check out the FAA jobs website for updates. Avianation.com is another job site that charges monthly or yearly fees to search and apply for jobs. The website boasts that they offer the most variety of job postings for low-time to high-time pilots. It's good for pilots looking for a global career, as well as cargo operations. The site does seem to incorporate information from a variety of sources. As with any site that charges, be careful you aren't paying for information you could be getting for free (such as job postings from the FAA and NTSB, which can always be found on the respective individual websites). The monster of all job search sites, Monster.com is always a good place to look. It's a little light on the aviation jobs, especially flying jobs, and you might have to weed through the ads and irrelevant work-at-home jobs to find what you need. But Monster is a good tool for those of you that can relocate. There are a lot of postings for metropolitan areas, but you may notice that there are few listings for smaller cities and towns. Similar to Monster.com, you may get lucky and find a few pilot postings here if you can get through the ads and unrelated postings. Be aware of the many pilot jobs for military careers (unless that's what you're looking for). The posts rarely disclose the military commitment required up front, and it can be a time-waster if you don't actually desire (or qualify for) a flying career in the military.

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Petition Against Pioneer Posted 02 March 2012 - 06:56 PM I need your helpto signa petition againstPioneer ! Since 8 monthsPioneerhas neverimproved ourAppradio,therefore itmust change !!!!!!! If you alsowanthismovespleasehelp us. Posted 03 March 2012 - 11:06 AM 1000 signatures? Ok but did Pioneer sell more than 1000 units ? I guess the text should be translate in English otherwise you won't get the target number. Posted 03 March 2012 - 06:04 PM Posted 03 March 2012 - 07:34 PM 2010 SCION TC, iPhone 5, SPH-DA100 APPRADIO 2, APPRADIO EXTENSIONS, ROCKFORD FOSGATE 3SIXTY.2 PROCESSOR, POLK DXI 6500 COMPONENTS IN FRONT, JL AUDIO SEALED POWER WEDGE 12" SUB, SMITH & WESSON. Posted 04 March 2012 - 02:34 AM Posted 04 March 2012 - 11:06 AM Posted 11 March 2012 - 12:02 PM If you take a look at their other product lines such as the X series some of them barely look like an upgrade.. and they are still selling it for more or the same price as x920. Technology advances and the new will come in. That is how the electronic world works. I see Pioneer updating the AppRadio on 1/2012 with fixes so I'm not sure what you are stating "not improving".. unless you are looking for some sort of "special features" that you think Pioneer owes. Posted 14 March 2012 - 11:45 PM Fortunatly this forum, exist !! 0 user(s) are reading this topic 0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users

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See this related question - it's about the video production's vibe that Sony Vegas in "unprofessional" compared to Avid (who make ProTools) and Final Cut. Let's start with this: FLStudio it's a tool with which you're familiar. That's a huge plus in terms of learning curve for getting things done. With DAWs, the output is comparable. ProTools can't make better ones or zeros than any other package. There are going to be inherent differences in the audio codecs depending on which one ships with whose products. The tool, in and of itself, it not the issue. Professionalism comes from a.) the recording quality and b.) the skill of the engineer. Record with a crappy mic that's not been properly placed in a room that's not properly soundproofed, and Bob Katz himself couldn't fix it. Conversely, mic it right and choose the right place to record, and if you know your tool, you can create awesome recordings. Should you switch? That's up to you, but here are some things to consider: 1.) Can you accomplish everything you need to record and output great audio with FLStudio? 2.) Will you ever have a need to exchange files with someone else...e.g., will you ever need to send your stubs to a mastering studio? And is the output you send them compatible with, most likely, ProTools or Live? 3.) How important is it that it's compatible with other studios' equipment? 4.) Can FLStudio output redbook compliant CD image files? 5.) How important is it that you have an image of professionalism? Will you lose business because of your software? or will you retain business, regardless of software because of your mad audio skillz? If you know how to make great audio, that's where the professionalism comes from. Not the software. Yes, there may be solid business reasons to invest in one package or another, mostly revolving around the extent to which you'll share files to collaborate. Secondary will be for marketing purposes...but honestly, with some great demos, you can overcome the second quite handily. Software is nothing more than a tool. If I can make true cuts in a piece of wood with a Craftsman saw, it doesn't matter that the saw isn't Black and Decker. If it does what you need and you're happy with the results, phtphptpht to the naysayers. :)

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"GOT NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES" It is September 19,1783. The place, Lyons, France. Preparations are being made for a journey. A journey that will eventually take man from his secure environment of terra firma, and place him in a hostile environment called the atmosphere. The vehicle to be used is a hot air balloon. The brainchild behind this trek is a wealthy paper maker named Joseph Montgolfier. There has been much speculation over just how Montgolfier made the discovery of the hot air balloon. The most commonly-believed story is that his wife was standing too close to a fire and that the smoke caused her skirt to be inflated and lifted above her knees. This caused Montgolfier to wonder-if this smoke, and its magical lifting powers, could be captured in a very large container, it might rise and lift a passenger along with it. So, Montgolfier went about building the first hot air balloon. In 1783, not much was known about the atmosphere and its effects on human beings. Upon examination of the occupants for any ill effects caused by this lofty height, it was discovered that the duck had a broken wing. Could this have been an effect of exposure to altitude? Actually, several observers noted that as the balloon left the ground, the sheep had an anxiety attack and kicked the duck. Montgolfier reasoned that it would be safe for humans to ascend to altitude. So on November 21, 1783, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier (a surgeon) became the first aeronaut and flight surgeon. Over 200 years have passed since that first flight. Technology has allowed us to ascend through the atmosphere and into space, but the hazards of high altitude flight (hypoxia, altitude-induced decompression sickness, and trapped gases) will always be present. That is because humans are best suited to live in what is known as the "physiological efficient zone". This zone extends from sea level to 12,000 feet. When humans are exposed to altitudes above this zone, they are subjected to physiological hazards beyond their natural ability to adapt. One thing to keep in mind is that everything that occupies space and exerts weight is considered to be matter. All matter is made up of atoms and molecules in varying densities. These particles within the matter are kinetic and in constant motion. The slower the motion of the particles, the more dense the matter becomes. Also, as the particles are pushed closer together, the matter also becomes more dense. The best way to slow down kinetic molecules is to cool the matter. The best way to get them to move closer together is to add pressure to the matter. Inversely, when you remove the pressure or heat any material, the molecules within the material moves faster and further apart, thus making the material less dense. The least dense form of matter is, of course, gas. If a gas is cooled and compressed, at some point it will become a liquid. If that liquid is then cooled further, then at some point it will become a solid. Also, when you take the pressure off any gas or liquid, that material will grow less dense and expand. This is essentially what happens to the gaseous molecules of our atmosphere. Our atmosphere contains approximately 79% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, a constant ratio until you reach an altitude of about 270,000 feet. So the question that always comes up is; "If I have 21% oxygen at sea level and 21% at 40,000 feet, why do I succumb to the effects of hypoxia within 20 seconds at that altitude?" The answer is, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE! If you could picture all the gaseous nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, they would stack up from the surface of the earth to the fringe of space. All these molecules stacking on top each other create a great deal of weight, or pressure. At sea level, one square-inch of any surface has about 15 pounds of air sitting on top of it. At 18,000 feet, that same square inch has only 7.5 pounds per square-inch (psi) exerted on it. What has caused this atmospheric pressure drop? The answer is simple: There is more air stacked up at sea level than above 18,000 feet, and therefore, more weight. As you recall, when molecules are subjected to this pressure, they are going to move closer together. This will make the air more dense with oxygen and nitrogen molecules. For example, if at sea level you take in a breath of air that has an atmospheric pressure of 15 psi, then that air may contain 500 billion molecules of oxygen (this a fictitious number to be used only as an example); if you go to 18,000 feet and take the same breath where atmospheric pressure is 7.5 psi, then you will pull in only 250 billion molecules of oxygen. But, you require 500 billion per breath to function normally, and you're getting only half of what you need. That's HYPOXIA! Not only do gaseous molecules in the atmosphere expand with reduced total pressure, gases in the human body are also subject to the same expansion. There are several areas in the body- ears, sinuses, lungs, gastro-intestinal tract, and teeth - where these gases can expand and cause a variety of problems. As long as the gas can expand and escape, there will be no problem. But if the gas becomes trapped, then pain will be the usual result. As we have discussed earlier, the air we breathe contains about 79% nitrogen. Nitrogen is inhaled into the lungs and distributed and stored throughout the body. According to gas laws, gases of higher pressure always exert force towards areas of low pressure. When you inhale nitrogen, it will be stored at a pressure of about 12 psi (79% nitrogen) of 15 psi (total atmospheric pressure), equal to about 12 psi). When you ascend to altitude and the pressure around your body begins to drop, this creates a pressure gradient (higher nitrogen in the body than outside the body) and the nitrogen will try to equalize and escape outside the body. Sometimes this nitrogen can leave so quickly and in such quantify that it may form a bubble. If this bubble forms at a body joint, the pain it causes is know as "the bends." These are just a few of the problems that can occur when the human body is exposed to high altitude conditions. These problems will always be there for aviation. But through education and knowledge of the mechanisms that cause these problems, we can take steps toward protection and prevention so that your BLUE SKIES won't give you a case of the blues. by J.R. Brown |ŠAvStop Online Magazine Contact Us Return Home| Grab this Headline Animator

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Fudgy Chocolate Stout CakeMarch 13, 2012 at 8:17 pm | Posted in cakes & tortes, simple cakes, sweet things | 6 Comments Tags: baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, holiday Apparently I think Saint Patrick’s Day is a good excuse to drench chocolate cake in booze. OK, I would gladly do that any day of the year (as is evidenced by this and that), but last year I marked St. Paddy’s day with whiskey-soaked chocolate and now I’ve moved to stout. Chocolate stout cakes are nothing new, but I am loving the ease of this one. So easy, you can whisk this together while sipping the remainder of your can of Guinness or Murphy’s and be confident you won’t muck it up. You may notice that this cake is vegan. I’m not, but I can appreciate that the lack of eggs and dairy let the chocolate flavor of this cake shine. The stout and espresso boost that taste and temper the sweetness. There’s so much liquid in this cake that it stays moist and fudgy…improves with time even. Three days later and I think it’s better than the first. I’ll raise a pint to that! Fudgy Chocolate Stout Cake- makes an 8″ cake from mrslarkin’s recipe on food52 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar 7 tablespoons natural cocoa powder (not dutched) 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup Guinness or other stout 1/2 cup espresso or strong coffee 1/4 cup water 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon apple cider or white vinegar 1/2 cup vegetable oil -Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Set oven rack to middle. Grease an 8” round cake pan with cooking spray, then line with parchment and lightly spray the parchment. -Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. -In a measuring cup, mix together stout, coffee, water, vanilla and vinegar. Stir into the flour mixture a few turns, then add your oil and combine until you have a smooth batter (you can use a whisk for this, just be gentle). -Pour into prepared pan. Place in oven and bake for 30-35 minutes. Check with cake tester, which should come out very slightly moist. Remove from oven and let cool on rack. -Turn out onto cake plate. Peel off the parchment. Dust cake with powdered sugar, or cover with frosting. *Alternatively, this recipe makes 1 dozen cupcakes. Bake for 18 – 23 minutes. Cool cupcakes. Frost with your favorite frosting or dip tops into a simple icing made of confectioner’s sugar, cocoa powder and coffee. Decorate top with a fresh coffee bean while icing is still tacky.

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A inquiry about the nature of prints and their fleeting moments of acquirement I have a few questions about prints that I hope people will answer. No! It’s not that kind of questions! It’s just that I’m interested to hear about other people’s view on those things. (A) For people who do prints: - If you do prints, do you limit them? - If yes, why? Is there some thought behind it, a conscious decision or is it just that’s how it’s done by everyone else? - Is it worth the hassle? (B) For people who want prints: - What’s your take on limited runs? - The scarcity or the time limit, which of these are more motivational?

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In my previous post about the command pattern, I gushed about how much I loved it. That doesn’t mean that the command pattern as originally envisioned is still completely in fashion. In particular, the notion of “Undo” was one of the major features in the command pattern’s cap. Today, that is almost never the case. Sure, if you are building an application such as an editor. Something like Photoshop or a text editor would find the notion of commands with the ability to have an undo stack very compelling. Other than that, however, that is a very rare need. In most business scenarios, there really is no good way to undo things. How would you implement SendEmailCommand.Undo(), for example? But even something like PlaceOrder.Undo() is a lot more complex and hard to do than you would think. The mere notion of undoing the operation assumes that this isn’t going to have any side affects. But cancelling an order may result in cancellation fees, require you to ship back things you got back, end. It is not “Undoing PlaceOrder”, rather that is a whole different and distinct business process, usually represented by another command: CancelOrder. Another common issue that people have is the degeneration of the entire architecture to something like: To that I answer, more power to you! I love code that is composed of a lot of small classes all doing things about the same way. There is no easier way to look at a system, and that allows you to quite easily add additional functionality to the system easily. That said, mind how you handle routing in that scenario. I have seen people go into the “when a request comes to this URL, let us invoke the following commands” in XML. One of the reasons that people dislike this approach is how you actually call this. If just getting to the command executer is hard and involved, you lose a lot of the advantages. This popped up in the mailing list, and I really dislike it. The notion of Composite Command. A command that can execute multiple commands. Now, from a programming point of view, I can easily see why you would want to do that. The PlaceOrderCommand operation is composed of a lot of smaller commands. But, and this is important, the notion of Composite Commands basically mean that you get the same thing as the PlaceOrderCommand, but you just lost the name. And naming is important. Almost as important, error handling is quite different between different business scenarios, and you sometimes end up with something like: And this is simple, how do you handle an error in the ShipOrderCommand after you already charged the card, for example?

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Reaching a plea agreement for mass killer Jared Lee Loughner is one step. Today, defense attorneys and prosecutors will need to accomplish the next: convince U.S. District Court Judge Larry A. Burns that Loughner, who has been forcibly medicated at a federal prison, is no longer mentally unfit for trial. If Burns agrees, as legal experts expect, a formal change of plea hearing will follow. That's when those in the court could hear from the 23-year-old at length for the first time, as the judge questions him. Loughner, who was brought to Tucson on Monday from a federal medical facility in Missouri, will be asked to admit that he shot and killed six people, including the top federal judge in Arizona, and wounded 13 others, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He'll need to convince Burns he understands what is going on, what he's doing and what he did.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact will restore him to power in about a week, ending Honduras' isolation four months after soldiers flew the leftist leader into exile in his pajamas. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. headlined the five inductees into the first Hall of Fame class, a group that drew mixed reactions to the inclusion of France's son instead of driver

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Drew Weisholtz is an award-winning writer who has had his work published on several websites, including GuySpeed, StarCrush.com and theFW.com. Previously, he has written and served as a producer for ABC News Radio and also spent time as a stand-up comedian. He can be found rooting for his beloved Yankees and Giants and begrudgingly holds out hope his Rutgers Scarlet Knights will one day return to the NCAA Tournament. When that's not consuming him, he passes time quoting "Saved By the Bell" and making fun of his in-laws. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Delbert Shaw has filed a $25,000 (£15,625) lawsuit against the stars, claiming they hurled threats at him while he photographed them during a vacation in Hawaii in December 2010. He also alleges the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star tussled with him before throwing his iPhone in the sea. In court on Tuesday (15Jan13), Shaw's lawyer Sark Ohanian objected to the $620 (£388) financial penalty, but the judge sided with Fox and Green. According to E! News, Ohanian argued, ""They are trying to paint my client as a reckless paparazzo and none of the discovery is focused on the incident. We haven't been trying to hide the ball on anything."" The case is still being fought but the couple has asked the judge to dismiss Shaw's lawsuit, which they maintain is ""without merit and... premised on a tissue of misrepresentations and half-truths"". The paparazzo is suing for alleged assault and battery, infliction of emotional distress, conversion, false imprisonment, conspiracy and negligence.

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DVRMSToolbox is a set of tools to perform actions on DVRMS files. While DVRMSToolbox is designed to work on Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) PCs, everything but the automated commercial skipping will work on any Windows XP based machine. It will also work on DVRMS files created by Media Portal. The more useful application of DVRMSToolbox is it's automatic commercial skipping capability. Using this feature (by combining the FileWatcher and the CommercialSkip add-in), Media Center will automatically skip commercials while you are watching the show. DVRMSToolbox does many more things, like: - convert to mpeg - convert to wmv - cut out commercials - copy files to a pocket pc - copy files to a network share, or a different folder on your pc It comes with a set of default profiles, but also includes tools to create your own profiles with the included actions. Or if you are a developer, you can write your own actions. - FindCommercials has some added functionality to handle SA hangs - Only one instance of the FW or FW Service will run - Changed "Monitor Deletes" behavior. Instead of handling cleanup in realtime, it is now a scheduled process. Frequency and "Watched Folder" inclusion is configured in the settings tool. - GUI tool is now aware of Semaphore, and will cleanup the lock if DVRMStoMPEG.exe is terminated improperly - dvrmstoolbox.exe (the folder processing exe) respects /act argument - fixed a bug in the commercial skip addin that could cause unlimited number of "Cannot skip past end of show" dialogs - added a missing call to Dispose in the ConvertToWmv action (I had assumed, wrongly, that because dvr2wmv's wrapper had a method "Dispose" that it implemented IDisposable. This should fix "used by another process" issue when using the action. - renamefile action will remove invalid filename characters - ShowAnalyzer 0.7.11 included - Comskip 0.79.53 included

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I had my baby girl at 39+4days on 3rd March 2012... My husband and I did dtd on Thursday morning, straight away I had a bloody show but nothing happened until Friday evening, I wanted to dtd again, managed to persuaded my husband to do it No contractions afterward so thought maybe it not my time yet, watched television then was about to get off the sofa to go bed but I felt a pop! Yes at 10.30pm my water broke, a lot of water gushing, we was so exciting, rang the labour ward, told us to go in but there chance for us to send home as this is my first baby. Rang the taxi, my contractions began, to be frankly they do bloody hurt so much I want to cry! Arrived the labour ward just after 12am, no room was given, so we was send to waiting room with other people, I felt angry and embarrassed as I was in f**king pain, told the midwife I was really serious in pain, they moved me to other waiting room but no one here, waited for about a hour, I felt dizzy and so much pain, my husband was fuming and told someone, finally someone took me in, got given the room, luckily had really lovely midwife, checked me, already 4cm at 1.15am, my husband and I really thought we would be in for long morning, so I had gas and air, they do help but didn't take the pain away, I was out of it to notice it, I asked for epidural, they offered me wiser birth to see how it goes, I agree, went to birth centre, waited for water bath to be ready, but unfortunately I was in so much pain and started to leaking blood, they decided to cancelled the water bath and send me back to labour, checked me again I was already 10cm at 3.40am!!! Ready to push until 4.12am I had my beautiful baby girl Pollyanna Jane Tovey weighting 7lbs1oz on 3rd March! She had full dark hair, look like his daddy! No snitches nor tears, I recovered quickly, we moved to other ward, fortunately we both was allowed to send home that day. Just the kind of labour I hoped for and did successful! We both are very much in love with her and still on Will upload picture of my little Polly soon as when I'm on laptop as I am on iPad at the moment. Any opinions, advice, statements or other information expressed or made available on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com by users or third parties, including but not limited to bloggers, are solely those of the respective user or other third party. They do not reflect the opinions of BabyandBump.Momtastic.com and they have not been reviewed by a physician, psychologist or parenting expert or any member of the BabyandBump.Momtastic.com staff for accuracy, balance or objectivity. Content and other information presented on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment. Never delay or disregard seeking professional medical or mental health advice from your physician or other qualified health provider because of something you have read on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com. BabyandBump.Momtastic.com does not endorse any opinion, advice, statement, product, service or treatment made available on the website. If you think you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or emergency services immediately.

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I am wondering if I should start testing once I am a day late so I know if I am having lots of Chemicals or not as then I have something to go to the GP with or could just be my LP lengthening I guess I am fine it is DH that is getting frustrated I like to test as soon as possible and that's part of my reasoning. I had a chemical my second cycle (which was the first cycle we had got timing right) so that stuck on my mind and I wanted to know if it was happening again and again. BUT that's just me Hun. It's totally up to you xxx If it was me I would test for that reason but then I'm completely obsessive about TTC and need to know what's going on, bit of a control freak like that. But maybe just carry on your way for another couple of cycles and if you are getting these strange long LPs then maybe think about it? We're all here to support you in however you want to do it. I know we are only cycle 5 well 6 if you include NTNP and I know some have been trying a lot longer but it feels like we have been trying forever and timing it all right and nothing - sorry being a brat I know this is how DH feels Sorry having a whinge I feel fine & calm but I guess I am getting frustrated for DH and well us both really It is so hard when you're doing everything right and you've still not got your BFP, but most of us have been there or are there at the minute, to one extent or another, so don't ever feel like you can't vent how you're feeling to us. It took me 11 months to get my BFP (which I know isn't all that long in comparison to others), but I really appreciate your frustrations. It's so hard when you want something so bad, just keep the faith and it will happen for you, really hope it's soon sweetie. Thanks I know it will happen and it is all up to fate and will happen when it is meant too - I guess I am getting more incy as I worry about DH getting all taking too long can't be bothered about it IYKWIM As soon as the shows (of which there is absolutely no sign at all ) I will order my Preseed Thanks Satine - I have been on FF and looked at other charts similar to mine which ended up BFP and there are a fair few that had a similar drop and a similar time (although they had already got the BFP) so given me a little hope No sign of AF at all nothing no spotting or cramping I will test Friday morning if still no AF & temp still up not long now to wait really so may as well wait it out Any opinions, advice, statements or other information expressed or made available on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com by users or third parties, including but not limited to bloggers, are solely those of the respective user or other third party. They do not reflect the opinions of BabyandBump.Momtastic.com and they have not been reviewed by a physician, psychologist or parenting expert or any member of the BabyandBump.Momtastic.com staff for accuracy, balance or objectivity. Content and other information presented on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment. Never delay or disregard seeking professional medical or mental health advice from your physician or other qualified health provider because of something you have read on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com. BabyandBump.Momtastic.com does not endorse any opinion, advice, statement, product, service or treatment made available on the website. If you think you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or emergency services immediately.

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Ahhh!!! Could it be??? My bf and I have been trying for a little over a year now. This is my 3rd cycle on 100MG Clomid. Today is 6dpo and just a half hour ago, I went to the bathroom. After wiping... there was PINK on the toilot paper.... Just pink!!!! Could it be IB???? It's wasn't heavy or anything.. just pink when I wiped. OOh I'm soo excited - I thought I was OUT alrdy b/c at 1dpo, I wiped a bit of pink as well... I googled it, and I found that it could have been what they call Ovulation Spotting and its actually a good sign of fertility! After almost 9 years of trying - I've never had pink spotting at 6dpo... I really really hope this is it... Hi! I am not at 6 days yet but I too had light pink on the toilet paper the first day I had a positive ovulation test. Fertility friend thinks I ovulated the following day though (I honestly think I ovulated late Thursday/early Friday). It was quite alarming as I never had it before. It wasn't blood. Almost like a hue or tint. We had sex the night before so it could very well be attributed to that. We'll see!! I had blood streaks in my CM when I wiped at what MyMonthlyCycles said was 4dpo, but I'm thinking now that I might have O'd later than it said. I felt a sharp cramp like feeling on my left hand side while laying in bed in the morning, then the blood tinged CM was in the afternoon. I had some more blood streaks in my CM again 5 days later. Any opinions, advice, statements or other information expressed or made available on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com by users or third parties, including but not limited to bloggers, are solely those of the respective user or other third party. They do not reflect the opinions of BabyandBump.Momtastic.com and they have not been reviewed by a physician, psychologist or parenting expert or any member of the BabyandBump.Momtastic.com staff for accuracy, balance or objectivity. Content and other information presented on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment. Never delay or disregard seeking professional medical or mental health advice from your physician or other qualified health provider because of something you have read on BabyandBump.Momtastic.com. BabyandBump.Momtastic.com does not endorse any opinion, advice, statement, product, service or treatment made available on the website. If you think you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or emergency services immediately.

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I love Dwell Studio. And I love their kids designs even more! Aren't these towels ridiculously cute? I would love to snuggle my little ones up in these after their baths. And they would look so great hanging in the kids bathroom! Actually I think I have a modern chair fetish too so this photo combines the best of both worlds! Get the towels at Design Public.

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I joke a little that "breakfast" around here involves nuking some eggs and peeling a banana. It's not really a joke. In the morning I generally pour out some egg whites into a little dish, microwave them for about a minute and a half, peel and chop a banana and some strawberries, and maybe make up some toast if I've decided to allow bread in the house that week. Erin isn't yet at an age where she can use utensils, so I don't serve up anything like cereal. Fruit and eggs. That's what she gets. And, every once in a while I'll try to make pancakes. I want to be able to make pancakes. Ask most people who I've cooked for and they will probably say that I am a decent cook (even if I go through phases where everything has to have cinnamon or honey in it). But I don't bake. I can't handle the precision of baking. Cooking is a dance, there is a rhythm behind manic actions and the knife is shining, flickering grace. Baking feels like engineering. I realized recently that pancakes, although not involving the oven whatsoever, qualify as baked goods. This would explain why I keep screwing them up. First, there was the "baking soda or baking powder" fiasco. Which one do you add to the batter to help it puff a little while cooking? I kept forgetting, and I'd add baking soda instead of powder and I'd end up with little hockey pucks. Then there is the "eggs or no eggs" question. It seems as if adding eggs just encourages the batter to rubberize. But without eggs all I end up with is cardboard. And let's not even start on the counter-intuitiveness of the idea that getting the pancakes to cook through the middle without burning on the outside requires a high heat in the pan, and a quick turn, instead of a medium heat with a slow turn. Anything else cooked in that pan that I want to be cooked evenly requires a lower heat and a slow turn. But I have to forget all of that when I'm using a reactive batter that does weird things when heat is applied. Or else I end up with blackened discs of raw dough. Batter. That term alone should have clued me in that the normal cooking rules do not apply with pancakes. One cannot eyeball the amount of baking soda powder to be added to the flour. You can't just "feel out" how much sugar to add to the batter, or how long to whisk the batter so the eggs don't get overbeaten and rubberize the mixture. So, finally, after four unsuccessful attempts at good pancakes in four weeks, I pulled out my Cooking A-Z and looked up the blueprints for basic pancakes. I promised to follow the instructions to the letter. Except that I was so confident in the awesomeness of the pancakes that were about to be served up to my starving daughter that I got a little fancy and chopped up a banana to add. Banana pancakes. Because if her dad really loved her he'd man up and put fruit in it. Mix, chop, whisk, pour, sizzle. Oh wow. Those look amazing. They are fluffing up perfectly. I'm going to turn them now. Oh, look at that, they are perfectly golden brown. Take them from the pan. Cut one up a little for Erin. Taste. Taste. What the hell? Why do they taste so weird? Recheck the blueprints. Baking powder? Check. 1/4 cup of sugar? Che..... Oh. I don't actually keep sugar in the small white jar on the counter. I keep it in the medium white jar on the counter. I keep salt in the small white jar. Dammit. 1/4 cup of salt in my batter. I lose at baking. Emily suggests I buy the pre-mixed Bisquick jug, since I've now ruined 5 batches of batter in a little less than a month. But even though this last batch proves that the pancakes aren't to blame, that I am just completely incompetent when it comes to making pancakes, I will persevere. I will become the best damn pancake batter maker around. Because breakfast should be something more than nuked eggs and a peeled banana.

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To first make sure we're on the same page, here's how peer review works today. You write a manuscript and submit it to a journal, where it is assigned to an editor. Exactly what happens then depends somewhat on the journal. In some cases the editors sort out a lot of submissions already at this stage. At very high impact journals like Science and Nature, editors reject the vast majority of papers not because they're wrong but because they're not deemed relevant enough, but these journals are exceptions. In the general case, your manuscript will be assigned a number and be sent to one or several of your colleagues who (are thought to) work on related topics and who are asked to write a report on your paper. That's the peer review. The assignment of people to your paper doesn't always work too great, so they have a chance to decline and suggest somebody else. At least in my experience in most cases the manuscript will be sent to two people. Some journals settle on one, some do three. In some cases they might opt for an additional report later on. In any case, the reviewers are typically asked for a written assessment of the manuscript, that's the most important part. They are also asked whether the manuscript is suitable for that particular journal. And typically they'll have to judge the manuscript on a 5 point scale on how interesting the content/good the presentation is etc. Finally, they'll have to make a recommendation on whether the paper is suitable for publication in the present form, whether revisions should be done, have to be done, or whether it's not suitable for publication. The reviewer's judgement is anonymous. The author does not generally know who they are. (That's the default. There is in principle nothing prohibiting the reviewer from contacting the author directly, but few do that. And in some cases it's just easy to guess who wrote a report.) In most cases the report will say say revisions have to be done. You then revise the paper, reply to the queries and resubmit. The exchange is mediated by the editor and can go back and forth several times, though most journals keep this process to a few resubmissions only. The whole procedure can take anything between a few weeks and several years. In the end your paper might get rejected anyway. While in some cases one learns something from the reports, the process is mostly time-consuming and frustrating. The final decision on your manuscript is made by the editor. They will generally, but not always, follow the advice of the reports. On the practical side, the manuscript- and review-submission is typically done through a web interface. Every publisher has their own labyrinth of usernames, passwords, access codes, manuscript-, article tracking-, and other -numbers. The most confusing part for me is that some journals assign different author and reviewer accounts to the same person. I typically write reports on one or two papers per month. That's more than ten times the number of manuscripts I submit. There are very few journals who pay reviewers for their report. JHEP announced some while back they would. Most people do it as a community service. There are several well-known problems with this procedure. Most commonly bemoaned is that since the reviewers are anonymous they might abuse the report to their own advantage. That might be in the form of recommending the author cites the reviewer's papers (you're well advised to do that). In the worst case they might reject a paper not because they found a mistake but because it's incompatible with their own convictions. One can decline to review a paper in this case due to "conflict of interest," but well. We have all conflicting interests, otherwise we'd all be doing the same thing. What happens more often though is that the reviewer didn't read or at least not think about the paper and writes a sloppy report that might accept a wrong or decline a right paper mistakenly. I have written many times that the way to address these community-based problems - to the extend it's possible - is to make sure researchers' sole concern is the advancement of science and not other sorts of financial pressure, public pressure or time pressure that might make it seem smart to down-thumb competitors. But that's not the aspect I want to focus on here. Instead I want to focus here on the practical problems. One is that the exchange between the author and the reviewers is unnecessary slow and cumbersome. Submitting a written report and having it passed on by the editor must be a relic from the times when such a report was carved in stone and shipped across the ocean. It would be vastly preferable if journals would instead provide an online interface to communicate with the author that preserves the anonymity of the reviewer. This would allow the reviewer to ask some quick, clarifying questions and not only make their task easier, but also prevent misunderstandings. Typically, if the reviewer has misunderstood something in your manuscript you have to do a lot of tip-toeing to tell them they're wrong without telling them they're wrong because, you see, the editor is reading every word and knows who they are. The idea isn't that such a communication interface should replace the report, just that it could accompany the review process and that a written report is submitted after some determined amount of time. Another practical problem with today's peer review process is that when your paper gets rejected and you submit it to another journal, you have to start all over again. This multiplies efforts on both, the authors' and the reviewers', sides. This is one of the reasons why I'm suggesting to decouple the peer review process from the journals. The idea is simply that the author would submit their manuscript not for publication to a journal, but first to some independent agency to obtain a report (or several). This report would then be submitted with the manuscript to the journal. The journal will still have to assess whether the manuscript is suitable for this particular journal, but the point is that the author has a stamp of legitimacy independent from a journal reference. It's up to the author then what to do with the report. You could for example just use the report (in some summarized form) with an arxiv upload. There could be several of such peer review agencies, and they might operate differently. Eg some might pay the reviewer, some might not. Some might ask for a fee, some might not. One would see which works best. In the long run I would expect the reports' relevance to depend on the reputation of the agency. This would address several problems at once. One is the by the open-access movement frequently criticized "power of journals." That's because in many, if not most, fields a journal reference is still considered a sign of quality of your work. But journal subscriptions are very costly, and thus the pressure to publish in journals often means scientific studies are not freely accessible for the public. The reason is simply that today subscription journals are the main providers of peer review. But there is actually no reason for this connection. Decoupling publication from the review process would remove that problem. It would also address the above mentioned problem that when your manuscript gets rejected from one journal you have to start all over again with the peer review. Finally, it would add more diversity to the procedure in that the reviewers and authors could chose which agency suits them best. For example, some might have an anonymous, and some an open review process. Time would tell which in the end is more credible. There is the question of financing of course. Again, there could be several models for that. As I've said many times before, I think if it's a public service, it should be financed like a public service. That is to say, since peer review is so essential to scientific progress, such peer review agencies should be eligible to apply for governmental funding. One would hope though that, as today, most of the time and effort would be carried by the researchers themselves as a community service.

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Here to There: A History of Mapping From the 16th to 18th centuries, many European mapmakers were convinced that California was an island — an Edenic paradise populated by black Amazons. The error persisted for over a hundred years after expeditions had proven that California was, in fact, firmly attached to the mainland. The idea of California as a fierce paradise appealed to Europeans, who were reluctant to let the mundane reality interfere with their vision of the world. So in that spirit, we’re devoting this episode of BackStory to maps — asking what they show us about who we are and and where we want to go. How do maps shape the way we see our communities and our world? What do they tell us about the kind of information we value? And what do they distort, or ignore? Please help us shape this show! Share your questions, ideas and stories below. Have opinions on New York vs. D.C. subway maps? On the merits or shortcomings of Google Maps? And do you even still use old-fashioned, ink-and-paper maps? Leave us a comment!

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Welcome to Plant Buddy the Plant Finder Our goal is to assist you in finding a plant. Enclosed is a list of online plants with links to 1450 Nurseries World wide. We offer this service for free and hope others will want to participate. To find the plant quicker, you will need to use the search feature below. If you're a Nursery, submitting your plants is open to any nursery in the World. All we require is botanical list of names. Why is this important to you? Its search engine algorithm visibility. Read more if you want your plants listed. NOTE: Use the Search feature to find a plant. You'll be surprised!

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It was - it is - a positive screen for Down's Syndrome. It's a risk-assessment screen, not a diagnostic screen, so it's not conclusive - and I know that I need to focus on the fact that it's just about odds, that false positives happen all the time, that further testing isn't as scary as it seems, that it could all be fine - but still, it's not a happy thing. Not a happy thing at all. It's a dark cloud hanging over my head now, and even though I know that dark clouds don't always end up dumping buckets of rain or hurling thunderbolts upon your head, I still don't like them. They block the sun. I need the sun. So badly right now, I need the sun. I need to crawl under the blankets for a while to process this. Thank you all so much - from the bottom of my heart so much - for the endless waves of love and support.

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Sunday, October 9, 2011 Green Hills Pediatrics Catered Event Green Hills Pediatrics celebrated 50 years. Here's some of the delicious desserts I provided for the event. BAKED by Ash Post a Comment Post Comments (Atom)

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|Commissioners put off decision on sand mines| |The Press - News| |Written by Mike Anderson| |Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:11| A jam-packed Baker County Commission meeting room on the evening of June 18 left no doubt where the vast majority of people in attendance stood on two proposed sand mining proposals. They wanted them buried and gone. It didn’t seem to matter how safe or harmless to the environment the applicants promised the mining would be, nor that the mined areas eventually would be reclaimed. It also didn’t matter how much of an economic impact they claimed the operation would have in the county. Most of the approximately 80 people, many of whom had to stand during the proceedings because there were only 45 chairs in the room, were against the mining plans and urged county commissioners to side with them. “What is the actual benefit to the county?” asked Macclenny resident Pat Shannon, adding that the mining companies would use billions of gallons of water while only employing a handful of workers and adding a negligible amount to the county’s coffers in taxes. “It just doesn’t add up,” he said. “I’m concerned about whether my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have enough water to drink. Water is a precious commodity and we can’t give that up.” After more than three hours of testimony from mining company officials and hearing from a parade of homeowners on the opposite side of the issue, county commissioners rejected a motion to deny the mining requests and postponed a final decision for two months. Old Castle Southern Group, a Tampa-based company, plans to mine 193 acres of a 437-acre tract it leases from DuPont east of SR 228 about two miles south of Interstate 10. The firm, which owns a road-paving company and a concrete plant, also has a contract to buy another 700 acres, which could extend the life of the proposed mine to 50 years. E.R. Jahna Industries Inc., a family-owned business in the Central Florida town of Lake Wales, leases 960 acres owned by TerraPoint LLC, a subsidiary of Rayonier, just north of three residential subdivisions off US 90 at Trailridge. There, Jahna plans to mine coarse sand used to make siding, concrete blocks, stucco and other products. During a public hearing that began about 6:30 pm and didn’t end until just after 10 pm, others expressed similar views that the proposed deal would be slanted too much in favor of the mining companies. “The return is not there for the people of Baker County,” said Kirk Schiner of Shelly Lane, adding that drinking water is “not a never-ending supply.” “We need good air and good water to survive,” Richard Cooper of Elvin Starling Road said. “If you want to pass this, how about a tax per ton of sand that they want to take out of here?” Then, turning his attention to a group of Old Castle representatives seated in the audience, Mr. Cooper said, “You can’t reclaim the land because you’ve hauled it all off.” Another critic was Allison Broughton, a former member of the county’s Land Planning Agency, which recently recommended approval of the two mining applications. She spoke against the measures as zealously as she fought a recent attempt by another company to obtain a zoning exception to build a medical waste incinerator north of the Walmart Distribution Center. “It has a negative impact on our entire county,” Mrs. Broughton said of the proposed mining plan. “I don’t think there‘s any doubt about that. A handful of jobs is not worth the depletion of our natural resources. We gain almost nothing by allowing these mines to come in.” She said she had nothing personal against any of the company officials or representatives present at the hearing, whom she looked at when she described them as “out-of-town business people.” “They don’t live here,” said Mrs. Broughton. Plans submitted by the two mining companies assert the sites will not produce any air pollution and they will be buffered by trees and vegetation to minimize noise and keep their operations out of sight. They also said the mines, which use floating electric-powered hydraulic dredges, extract water from deep in the Floridan Aquifer and would have no impact on private wells, which draw water from shallower portions of the aquifer that are not affected by water withdrawals from deeper levels. “We’re willing to spend more money to go to an aquifer that is not used in this county,” said Old Castle consultant Mark Stephens, a geologist and engineer from Lakeland. He said the company plans to drill 1,200 feet deep to draw water from the lower aquifer. During the first five years, Mr. Stephens said, about 3.5 billion gallons of water would be extracted from the aquifer, after which the amount of water withdrawn from underground would drop sharply because by that time the previously withdrawn water can be reused to continue daily operations. Nonetheless, Macclenny City Manager Gerald Dopson urged commissioners to proceed cautiously. “We feel these mining proposals will be in the area of influence of our well fields,” he said of the municipal water supply of drinking water to thousands of city residents and dozens of businesses. Mr. Dopson echoed the comments of many others who spoke during the hearing when he stressed his “real concerns” about the Floridan Aquifer and how the underground water supply might be adversely impacted by the mining operations. “We want to be very protective of our water supply,” Mr. Dopson said. “They (mining companies) want to make money, and there’s nothing wrong with making money. But are they making money at the expense of the rest of the county?” The city pumps about 1 million gallons of water per day and distributes it to residential and commercial customers. As the city grows in the decades ahead, Mr. Dopson said, it wants to be able to continue meeting the drinking water needs of its citizens. Manager Dopson then read a prepared statement into the record: “The special exceptions, if granted, should be issued for a maximum of … two years subject to the facilities providing site specific lithological and hydro geologic data including aquifer performance testing for review. “The special exception should also include specific language allowing the county to terminate the special exception in the event that mining operations result in adverse impacts to the city’s well fields and other existing infrastructure or the environment.” Wyman Duggan, a Jacksonville attorney representing Old Castle Southern Group, said engineering models indicate the mining operation after 20 years would only cause a “total drawdown of one-third of an inch” at the nearest city well about 2.5 miles away. He further said sand mining has been done successfully for many years with no problems and did not anticipate any problems here. “Sand mining is well established in Florida,” Mr. Duggan said. “It’s not a new industry. Mining and mineral extraction are encouraged by your (county) comprehensive plan. Mining is not new to the county and not new to this property.” Indeed, DuPont has been mining on hundreds of acres in the southeastern portion of Baker County for many years. Describing Old Castle’s request for a special zoning exception as a “housekeeping matter,” Mr. Duggan said it should be approved as a routine measure. “Mining and mineral extraction are encouraged by your (county) comprehensive plan,” he told commissioners. Mr. Duggan asked commissioners to not be swayed by the emotional arguments critics made, but to consider the scientific evidence that shows no adverse impact on the environment from sand mining. He also pointed out that the company’s plans meet all the requirements needed in the county’s land development and zoning code to seek a special exception permit for a mine. “They’re speaking from the heart,” he said about the residents voicing their fears and concerns. “They care about their community. But you’re not here to do the will of the people. You’re here to apply the law.” If the county approves the mining proposals they will be contingent on the owners’ obtaining permits from federal and state agencies, including the US Army Corps of Engineers, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Wildlife Commission and St. Johns River Water Management District, which controls water withdrawals. The water management district is presently reviewing the mining plans and is expected to release its findings in the next couple of months. Without the agency‘s approval, the mining plans would go no further. “This boils down to whether we can trust the water management district to do their job,” Commissioner Adam Giddens said. “I’d like to think we can.” Commissioner Mark Hartley, however, expressed concerns about how the proposed mining operations might affect nearby wetlands and the Floridan Aquifer. He said he didn’t see an upside to the equation. “I don’t think it can have a positive effect on the county,” Mr. Hartley said. A few minutes later he made a motion to deny the mining petition and after a pause of several seconds Commissioner Giddens seconded the motion. But when Chairman Gordon Crews called for a vote, Mr. Hartley was the only one who voted in favor of his own motion, which failed 4-1. Shortly afterward, commissioners voted to continue the hearing on August 20, or possibly earlier if the water management district renders its decision before then. Meanwhile, mining company officials agreed to pay for the county to hire an independent hydro geologist to review the plans and render an unbiased opinion as to whether the scientific data furnished by the applicants is accurate and reliable. |Last Updated on Friday, 20 July 2012 12:48|

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Sometimes, peanut butter cookies just need to step up their game. I mean, I like them and all, but they are rather plain. Good, but plain. My grandmother liked raw peanut butter cookie dough- she didn’t too much care for the baked cookie. On the other hand, peanut butter cookies were one of my grandfather’s favorites (not sure if he liked the dough though). Sorry- I kinda got off track there. So, I was starting to make peanut butter cookie dough, and opened my pantry for some inspiration. There, in front of me, was an unopened jar of chunky peanut butter. And next to that- chocolate chips! (ok, not really- they are in 2 separate cupboards, but it made the story sound good-right?!) Chocolate and peanut butter- I think most of us would agree that they are a good combination. I know I would! So, my plain peanut butter cookie dough got jazzed up a bit. I think you’ll like it! CHUNKY PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES Prep time: 10 minutes Bake time: 10-13 minutes 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup crunchy/chunky peanut butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 2 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In large mixing bowl combine butter, sugars, and peanut butter. Mix until well combined. Add in eggs and stir. Add salt, baking powder, and baking soda and mix well. Stir in flour till just combined. Gently stir in chocolate chips. Using a large ice cream scoop, scoop dough onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 13 minutes, or until lightly golden brown and set. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and place on cooling racks to cool completely. Enjoy with a glass of cold milk! Made with love, not calories!

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Much like gingerbread shouldn’t be restricted to the Christmas season, pumpkin shouldn’t be utilized solely in the fall. Liberate the pumpkins, I say! I’m a sucker for any baked good that contains the sweet/savory taste of pumpkin. Wanting to give doughnut holes a try, I followed Caroline Clunk’s recipe for pumpkin spice doughnut holes. I liked the fact that they were baked (not fried), and contained a bit of whole wheat flour. Health food, people. Health food. Lacking mini-muffin tins, I used my regular sized muffin tins. As a result, these little gems turned into pretty large doughnut holes. Let’s be honest–they’re just squat muffins. But are they tasty? Oh yes! They turned out just fine. In order to use this recipe in normal sized muffin tins, make these alterations: - scoop with a greased ice cream scoop. It’s the perfect size! - bake for 15 minutes - instead of immersing in butter, use a basting brush and coat the tops. You’ll need 4 Tbs of butter (not 6). Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve warm with a tall glass of milk. For full recipe and instructions, see Caroline’s post.

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Baldies' Blog began originally in the UK by a 26 year old journalist with a blood cancer on a mission to inform the world about bone marrow donation. He has since died, and I took on the cause of making cancer care more transparent for everybody. Cancer is a disease that will touch everybody through diagnosis or affiliation: 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed and 1 in 3 woman will hear those words, "You Have Cancer." I invite you to read how I feel along my journey and how I am continuing to live a full life alongside my Hodgkin's lymphoma, with me controlling my cancer, not my cancer controlling me. I hope that "Baldies' Blog" will prepare you to handle whatever life sends you, but especially if it's the message, "You Have Cancer."

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What do you REALLY think about Benno? Posted 23 June 2001 - 07:35 PM Some companies still keep a character named Benno, but have him dance in the pas de trois. (WRONG. Benno is a seconde danseur noble and does not dance. The male role in the pas de trois is classique.) And, of course, some companies junk him altogether and replace him with a Jester. (Not the place to bash Jesters; he'll get his own thread later.) Who is Benno? Why was he there? Is there any way for him to be brought into the 21st century, or will he fade off into the mists? Posted 23 June 2001 - 09:01 PM Posted 24 June 2001 - 01:27 AM Several writers have pointed out that Benno's presence in the pas de trois is a structural parallel with the "black swan" pas de trois -- where Von Rothbart once had a major role. More of what Petipa's ballets used to look like, when they all looked slightly different. Posted 24 June 2001 - 07:17 AM Posted 27 June 2001 - 06:01 AM Posted 27 June 2001 - 08:23 AM I think I remember seeing or reading that in the original Swan Lake, the hunters partnered the swans during the second act. (Presumably dropped in the early English productions because of lack of men.) Having real men, in real shoes--not the fake ballet boots--contrasted with the swans in point shoes would make them look more magical, I should think. It certianly worked in the Kirov new/old Sleeping Beauty, when Desiree was wondering around the vision scene in heeled boots. Posted 27 June 2001 - 09:56 AM Posted 27 June 2001 - 11:23 AM Doug, I can't remember huntsmen in Balanchine's, but I may just not be remembering correctly. New Yorkers who see it regularly will know (I just didn't want to ignore your question ) Posted 27 June 2001 - 11:28 AM Posted 30 June 2001 - 12:50 PM As for who Benno is: Siegfried's best friend? assigned companion (spy for the QM)? just another high-born guy who's grown up around the palace? My secret theory is that Siegfried and Benno are "friends" in the intimate sense of the word, and that's why Siegfried is so dismayed at being told he has to get married - or else Benno is his partner in extra-curricular escapades outside the palace walls, and Siegfried doesn't want to give up his freedom. :rolleyes: Posted 30 June 2001 - 03:55 PM In my own 'harmless modifications' production, Benno would be Siegfried's younger brother - the extrovert one, who does all the things that Siegfried (introverted, serious, conscious of his future responsibilities) doesn't dare. Posted 30 June 2001 - 05:35 PM Posted 11 July 2005 - 12:59 PM Posted 11 July 2005 - 01:14 PM 0 user(s) are reading this topic members, guests, anonymous users Help support Ballet Alert! and Ballet Talk for Dancers year round by using this search box for your amazon.com purchases:

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Fisheries regulators voted Wednesday to reduce by more than one-third the harvest of menhaden, a small fish that plays a big ecological role in the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the fish that swim in its waters. Meeting in Boston, the menhaden board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted to cut the annual harvest by 37 percent, according to calculations by the Pew Environmental Group. The new harvest limit, which is subject to a vote by the full commission in one year, would be effective in 2013. Approximately 460 million pounds of Atlantic menhaden were caught in 2010, primarily by trawlers that scoop up the fish in nets in the bay and along portions of the coast. Lobstermen in Maine and Massachusetts and bay crabbers also use the oily fish to bait their traps. Environmentalists, scientists and sports fishermen have lobbied for years for the more stringent catch limits. The forage species is eaten by prized game fish such as striped bass, or rock fish, and filters the Chesapeake Bay, improving its water quality. “They did the right thing today,” said Peter Baker of the Pew Group. “I think they heard the public loud and clear.” The commission held 13 public hearings on menhaden and received nearly 92,000 comments, the vast majority seeking to limit the harvest. The reduced catch is intended to allow menhaden stocks to rebound. The lower catch limit could be felt the hardest in Reedville, Va., home to a menhaden fleet that has made the tiny bay town the No. 2 fishing port by weight in the U.S. More than 400 million pounds of the menhaden were hauled in last year by Omega Protein Inc. trawlers. Omega processes the catch into Omega-3 capsules popular among Americans for the fish oil’s vaunted health benefits. It is also used in an array of food and commercial products, from feed for swine, poultry and cattle and to meal for fish farms. Omega spokesman Ben Landry said a new stock assessment was due within the next year. “There’ll be a lot of new data presented to the board over the next year and hopefully the population will improve,” he said. Omega, a Houston company that also operates a menhaden fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, employs about 300 people at its Reedville plant during the May-to-December season. The company has said limits could trigger job reductions. “I think we’re going to have to take a real close look at our current operations to see how it’s going to be affected,” Landry said, stopping short of saying there would be job cuts. Menhaden, pudgy fish that typically are less than 1-foot in length, have no value as a food fish. But the fish so coveted by Americans as a dietary supplement is also a primary source of nourishment for sea life and birds. “That same Omega-3 fatty acid is really important for fish that eat menhaden and the other animals that eat menhaden,” said Baker, director of Pew’s northeast fisheries. “It’s the most nutritious food that they can eat.” Scientists have linked lower weights in stripers to declines in menhaden. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation called the vote a victory for the coastal ecosystem and the fish that feast on menhaden. “This is great news for jobs, for our economy and for a society that values wildlife,” said Will Baker, president of the Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley praised fisheries regulators for their actions. “The new, more conservative fishing threshold and target are significant steps in ensuring a sustainable future for menhaden, an essential food source for striped bass, bluefish, dolphins, osprey and bald eagles and other fish and wildlife species,” he said in a statement. Vast schools of menhaden used to range from Maine to Florida, supporting a thriving fishery along the coast. Omega is the last so-called “reduction” fishery along the Atlantic. “The abundance of menhaden and the number of menhaden in the water, over the last 30 years, has been reduced by more than 80 percent,” Baker said. He called the vote a “watershed moment.” (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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The fourth season of the Banach Prize has commenced The fourth season of the International Banach Prize is underway. The competition is open to PhD students from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and Hungary. The prize is 20 000 PLN (5 000 euro) and is one of the highest sums of money awarded in mathematics in Poland. Works for the fourth edition can be submitted until 31 January 2012. For the Prize can be submitted a doctoral dissertation, based on which a given author was granted a degree at a university located in one of the countries covered by the competition during the year of competition announcement and two years preceding the competition. Only doctoral dissertations originally written in Polish or English, or such whose results were published or approved for publication in English, can be submitted for the Prize. The jury will announce the winner by the end of May 2012, and the award ceremony will take place in Krakow, on the 2nd-7th of July, 2012, during the 6th European Congress of Mathematics. BanachPrize was founded in 2008 by the Polish Mathematical Association and Ericpol Telecom, a Polish IT company. For the third edition 14 dissertations were submitted: 9 from Poland and the rest from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, Sweden and Ukraine. The submitted papers represented a number of branches of mathematics, such as the theory of numbers, functional analysis, the set theory, differential equations, the complex analysis, or differential geometry. The winner was doctor Łukasz Pańkowski of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The awarded dissertation, Joint universality theorems vs. Kronecker’s diophantine approximation theorem, was written under the supervision of Professor Jerzy Kaczorowski, PhD. The Jury also nominated four others for the Prize: Mr Łukasz Kosiński (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science), Ms Olena Naboka (National Technical University “Kharkov Polytechnical Institute”, Department of Higher Mathematics), Mr Tomasz Piasecki (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics) and Mr Marcin Sabok (University of Wrocław, Institute of Mathematics). The prize-giving ceremony of the fourth edition will coincide with the European Congress of Mathematics, which will be held in Kraków, on July 2-7, 2012. The programme of the Congress maintains between lectures giving a broad overview of active mathematical disciplines and more specialized talks on recent results. During the Congress several prestigious prizes established by the EMS will be awarded. The Congress will also include round table discussions, poster sessions, and a cultural and social programme. To see more, visit: http://www.6ecm.pl/ This is an open invitation to all those who are interested in making a difference!

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Donald Trump, Jerry Seinfeld Feud Donald Trump is super pissed at Jerry Seinfeld for withdrawing from a charity event Trump’s son, Eric organized to benefit St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital. Word is, Seinfeld withdrew from the event because of “The Donald’s” constant questioning of President Barack Obama’s citizenship. The Trumpster is not taking this lying down. He fired back saying, Jerry Seinfeld should be ashamed of himself for canceling on a chartiy and even went personal calling Seinfeld’s show “The Marriage Ref”, quote, “a failed show’. What do you think? Should Donald worry less about President Obama’s citizenship and more about his own hair? Or is he right on in your opinion? Do you think Seinfeld was wrong to cancel? Or do you think he made the right decision?

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Sometimes, we at the Band know that part of owning who you are is admitting it to the world. It's one reason why we at The Band work tirelessly to break down stigmas and find the ties that connect us all, the ties that remind us that we are none of us alone. Please join us in standing tall and proud as we tell the world who we are. What are you, The Band, The Face Of? I am fairly open, I am aware that the only way people are going to understand various things is to have people speak out about them to be the face of them. I am fine being the face of things; I proudly wear my labels as an ACOA, rape/incest survivor, special needs parent, non-traditional student, and self-injurer. But, I have spent years hiding, pretty well denying, a label that I should be wearing. It's a label that gives me butterflies as I sit here getting ready to type it. I am, in no uncertain terms, an addict. Yet, when asked what I am the face of or talking about me and my past I never use that term. In fact, I often comment on how my family has history (a strong history of) addiction, I just fail to mention I am part of that history. But, I can't hide it any longer. And I am not even sure why I hide it; I mean I know why, I am scared of what people will think and say. But, why? I am not ashamed or worried about anything else in my past, though a lot of the dumb things I chose to do occurred or were a result of not being sober. I spent much of my youth from about 14-15 using pain medication and alcohol. I mean pain medication was easy to get because I was an active kid who was prone to injury. I often went to the doc for an injury and they would write me a script. While I took them "as prescribed" I would take them too long when I actually no longer needed them. I would find a way to get different medication so I could "alternate" and maintain the high longer. I would toss in alcohol when I could because my parents were open about alcohol, that it wasn't taboo. My parents didn't know about a lot of the drinking that occurred nor the extent to which it happened. It made me numb, I made dumb decisions on it. I hurt myself and others, but I still doubt that many people of my youth realize what I was doing. After all most addicts are good at manipulating the situation. Yet, still this label has been one I denied and disowned which in the long run did as much harm to me and my psyche as if I had denied my own left arm. Because this label, being an addict, is as much a part of me as my left arm. What baffles me is when a friend slips or enters recovery I am the first to be there. Never saying a word about my issues, I offer to go to meetings and have a "safe space" at my home. All the while biting my tongue and not finding the camaraderie I could have, should have. So, what brought me to the point of revealing this layer? Well, I slipped and fell HARD this week. We have been having lots of struggles, mostly financial, and this isn't an excuse just a telling of the events. I ran out of coping skills, ultimately that is what happened, I ran out of fucking coping skills. I started popping again, finding a way to take the pain medication every hour. Never letting my feet touch the ground, so to speak, for about a week. I would pull into work and start calculating when I could leave and get home to take another pill. I would take a pill and immediately look at the clock and figure out when I could take another. This whole time rationalizing that I was "taking it as prescribed." Technically I wasn't taking any more pills than what the bottle said, never mind I wasn't in pain. I finally told hubby two nights ago that I snuck a pill in yesterday morning, then he made them disappear (honestly, I wasn't here so I have no idea about the disappearance--other than I asked him to get them someplace I don't know of) and bought me pomegranate juice, which I love. I still have been holding close to my secret. Ultimately I chose to peel open this layer because I can no longer be silent, because the silence is killing me. It's allowing my illness to fester and then allows it to be fed. And I know that's not okay. I need a support network more now then ever, one that I know "in person" doesn't exist but one that I know I have here "online" and far away. I know many of my friends will recoil, wondering how it could be. I don't know how or why, I just know it is. I just know I can't go on denying such a huge part of me. I need to find the fellowship, I need to be able to reach out when I am falling down that black hole. I need help figuring out what this means for me, my life, and how this slip is going to color my world from now on. I have a friend with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). My mom has it too. RA is an invisible illness. People with invisible illnesses have no visible symptoms, so many folks don't understand why they can't do all the things that most people can do. There is some sort of spoon theory that they use to try to explain it; long story short, people with these invisible illnesses only have so many spoons to get through each day. They have to think about how they are going to use each spoon because they can't go get more spoons at the spoon store, and I can't give my mom or my friend some of my spoons to get through the day. I found out my friend was thinking of a project involving spoons; she's real crafty and creative like that. I made it my mission in life to go find my friend lots of random spoons. I went to the local flea market hoping to find some spoons. I found a bunch of random spoons and bought lots of them for my friend's project. This made me happy. Then, I got sad. I was sad because I can't give my friend any of my metaphysical spoons, even though I often have more than I need to get through my day. I would gladly give up some of my spoons for my friend or my mom, but I can't. That isn't how spoon theory works. Maybe some day, science will have the answer to that conundrum, but right now that is still "fringe science"; I get enough fringe science from my Sunshine, as he studies the neurophysiology of addiction. I sat and thought about spoons, and I was sad that I can't give my spoons to those who need them. Then I had a moment of extreme giddiness over the saying we have in recovery about how "spoons are for stirring coffee." This is especially funny to addicts, because we have some insane uses for spoons. Then I remembered that movie The Matrix. There is no spoon. This has the potential to take me down the paths of fringe science, but I get enough of that from Sunshine. So rather than be sad about not being able to share my metaphysical spoons, or travel down the path of fringe science, I went shopping. I went to an antique shop, and I bought some spoons. I bought some really neat, rather fancy, really random spoons. They are my gift to my friend. See, I sat in a meeting last night with other recovering addicts, and I realized that the fellowship is all about the therapeutic value of one addict helping another. We addicts share our experience, strength, and hope with one another. We share our metaphysical spoons. While I may not have an invisible illness that leaves me debilitated on some days, I do have a disease that can't exactly be seen. The treatment for my disease involves sitting around with other recovering addicts and sharing our spoons with one another. While it may not help my friend get through her day better (physically) for me to send her some fancy antique spoons, I know that it will make her heart smile, and that's what helps her get through the bad days - just like another addict's experience, strength, and hope helped me get clean. Today, y'all are part of my circle of recovery. Y'all share y'all's spoons with me, and that's some awesome shit. And until fringe science catches up with us, we'll keep stumbling along the best we can. And I'll keep buying up random spoons for my friend. I spent a lot of years in active addiction, wearing yesterday's clothes and grime. When I first got clean, I did a lot of dressing up so that the outside looked good, in hopes that you wouldn't see past the facade to realize that the inside was a fucked-up, shitty mess. Today my outside is more of a reflection of what's going on inside. I feel whole, I feel worthwhile, and I feel good, therefore I try to look good. There's something to be said about the feel of a well-made cashmere sweater or pair of silk sweatpants, or even an uber-comfortable cotton t-shirt that fits like it was made for me. There's just something nice about wearing fancy pants and fancy shoes to go grocery shopping. I lived too long in the filth and desperation of addiction to deny myself some little luxuries today. Now, looking good doesn't have to be expensive. Yes, I wear a lot of high-end brands because I'm worth it, but here's a secret--I never pay full price. There is something thrilling about finding a pair of Armani pants on a clearance rack for $25 (yes, it happens). Must be endorphins, because it's quite pleasant like a good buzz. Well, today I am riding one serious endorphin-based high. I got new shoes. Not just any new shoes. Jimmy Choo shoes. Nude patent leather sandals on cork platform wedges. Brand New In Box. For $85. And? They feel really good on my feet--great arch support, heel and ball of foot cushioning, and light as feathers. My first pair of Jimmy Choo shoes! Tell me that's not a dose of happy. Here at The Band, we believe in kicking stigmas to the curb, flinging glitter, and shining a light into the dark. And now? Your bandmate needs a sounding board. It's time to Ask The Band! I quit drinking seven months ago. Actually, it was 217 days ago if you want to get specific. I wasn't a fall down drunk all the time. I reserved my drinking for the evenings and the weekends. I usually waited until my child was in bed. I usually drank with other people. I graduated both high school and college with honors, all while drinking. People knew I attended classes hungover but no one ever said I had a problem. I have successfully held down jobs all while drinking. I had more than my fair share of liquid lunches and still managed to not get fired. My happy hours after work went on too long and by sheer luck I never hurt myself or someone else or had a run in with the law. I stopped drinking when I found out I was pregnant. As soon as I was done nursing I started drinking again. I was sober for about a year. Aside of that year, I hadn't been sober that long since I was 14 years old. Last summer, I made a complete ass of myself with my drinking. I took risks I shouldn't have. I drank alone often. Most mornings I'd think about how long it would be until I could drink again. I'd wonder if I could drink during the day and be okay to pick my son up from day care. I came dangerously close to drinking at lunch. I arranged sitters so that I could drink to excess and not have to worry about parenting getting in the way. I started to scare myself. I thought about drinking and wanted to be drunk all the time. The only thing that stopped me is the shame of everyone finding out that I'm an alcoholic. I can barely type those words; I have yet to say them out loud to anyone. But it is who I am and it was getting really hard to keep hiding it. So I quit drinking. Cold turkey. Just like that. But I miss it. I miss being drunk. I don't know if I can do this for the rest of my life. I want to drink so badly tonight it hurts. I don't know how to live sober. I'm afraid to tell people just how bad my drinking was because they will think I'm a bad mother, a bad person. Or they won't believe me because I seem put together. Or I'll be held accountable and be judged if I slip. And I really, really feel like I'm going to slip. I thought I'd be less scared of myself if I got sober. Why am I still so scared? When is this going to get easier? Alcoholism can completely change a loved one's personality and put stress on the entire family as a result. This is her story. Life's not fair, I know that. I don't expect fairness from the world at large. But I feel like - and maybe this is me being a spoiled only child - we should try to be fair to those we supposedly love. He's an alcoholic, I know that too. He tells me so all the time, whenever I complain about his behavior or his attitude. Or whenever he feels bad. He's trying to fight his demons, he says. But I'm angry. I'm supposed to be the bigger person and I am so fucking angry. We made a decision about today's schedule last night. Last night when he was perfectly sober, I must add. Today I followed that schedule and it turns out he is mad that I did. He feels like I left him out, even though that's what we decided last night. But I'm the bitch. I'm starting the fight, because I wanted to know why he'd called me so angry. He is mad that his family wasn't there when he woke up. The decision wasn't even 12 hours old, but he changed his mind and is resentful that I didn't know that, that I didn't follow his new wishes. I fucking hate that. I hate not being able to make plans, not even 12 hours in advance, because he doesn't know what kind of mood he'll be in. He might change his mind and he will be a resentful fucking child if he's committed to something and then changed his mind about it. Or he'll be mad at us if we've gone somewhere without him, because he told me he wanted to sleep late. I don't feel like I have a partner, I feel like I'm being bossed around by a petulant child. I know that he is hurting. I know that he is trying to get better. I know that in a few hours, he will be my real husband for a while - the one who doesn't act like a petulant child. But then nighttime will come, he will have his five drinks after the kids go to bed - and he will be perfectly nice at that time too - and then in the morning he will be an asshole. It's like I live with two people and one of them is a total dick. We can't afford counseling, rehab, or to live apart, really. I don't even know what's actually wrong with us. Are other men so resentful if they don't get to wake up whenever they choose? I know he has insomnia, which is his reason for drinking, but it just seems weird for someone in his thirties. He gets resentful if I'm not available for sex whenever he wakes up, but he's also resentful if I wake him up early to have sex before I have stuff to do. He's resentful whenever I'm on the computer, but that's a big source of our income right now. It's like he doesn't know how to be a grownup anymore. Page 1 of 24

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Muang Gudi Resort is truly a piece of great collaboration between Thailand prominent architects. A blend between Ayudhaya and Sukhothai period architecture, all the rooms are decorated with comfort of modern living with a flare of ancient Ayudhaya and Sukhothai charm. This magnificent piece of architecture situated on a secluded part of well-known Doi Mae Rim, the famous place for tourist attraction such as Butterfly Farm, Snake Farm, Elephant Camp, and of course Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden to name |Building with 3 storey, 26 guestrooms RESTAURANT & BAR |Our restaurant serves Oriental and European cuisine that will cater to your taste. An open-air restaurant serve Traditional Northern Thai and International dishes with daily special menu on dining tables, seating capacities for 50 persons. Operating hours : FACILITIES & SERVICES |Your day can be spent on a mountain bike checking out all interesting site, hiking around the beautiful tropical jungle in the area, or negotiating the slope on the famous 18 holes at Green Valley Country Club, which is only a few kilometers away from the hotel. After a long hot day, you can take a dip in our private swimming pool treat yourself to a Thai massage, or sample our full course spa. |The resort is located on the North of Thailand 700 km. North West of Bangkok and 21 km. from Chiang Mai International Airport. The accommodation surrounded by the natural gardens and pool.|

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HOWLAND, Maine — Foxcroft Academy crowned eight individual champions to pull away to victory Saturday at the Eastern Maine Class C wrestling championships held at Penobscot Valley High School. The defending state champion Ponies totaled 249.5 points to best runner-up Dexter (195). Fort Kent was third with 85.5 points, with Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln (69) and Piscataquis of Guilford (60) rounding out the top five. Foxcroft qualified wrestlers in all 14 weight classes for next Saturday’s state championship meet to be held at Fryeburg Academy, while Dexter advanced 13 qualifiers. Foxcroft — which edged Dexter by a single point to win last week’s Penobscot Valley Conference meet — led Dexter by 23 points entering the championship finals, with the Ponies still having 11 wrestlers alive while the Tigers had 10. “It felt like a dual meet out there with all the Foxcroft wrestlers on one side and all the Dexter wrestlers on the other side,” said Foxcroft coach Luis Ayala, who teaches at Dexter. “Dexter and Foxcroft have always had a great rivalry, and you could really feel it out there. Every match was hard fought, and the crowd was going wild.” Dexter immediately narrowed the gap with championship-match victories by Dylan Hanscom at 106 pounds, Tyler Salsbury at 113 and Aaron Webber at 126 — with two of those victories coming against opponents from Foxcroft. Six other head-to-head matchups remained, and Foxcroft won all of them. Trevor Weymouth (132), Forrest Law (138), Wesley Stinson (145), Corey Bjornson (182), Corbyn Bruce (195) and Alex Sedore (285) all won their individual regional titles by defeating Dexter rivals in the finals. Todd Francis (152) and Zac Smith (170) also won championships for the Ponies. Foxcroft got second-place efforts from Brooks Law (113), Isaac Whittemore (126) and Damien Small (220), thirds from Eli Olson (106) and Mark Smith (120) and a fourth from Dylan Bruce at 160. Dexter crowned four champions in Hanscom, Salsbury, Webber and Jon Gudroe (160). Runners-up for the Tigers were Seth Blais (132), Andrew Adams (138), Andrew Levensalor (145), Anthony McLaughlin (182), Josh Haskell (195) and Kyle Lockhart (285), while Vincent Malinauskas (152) and Carl Snow (170) each placed third and Devan Gudroe (120) finished fourth. Other Eastern Maine champions were Sam Thomas of Piscataquis of Guilford and Zac Ragot of Washington Academy of East Machias. Thomas avenged a loss to WA’s Chris Weiss in their PVC final with a 6-5 victory in the 120-pound final, while Ragot won the 220-pound crown. Fort Kent was led by second-place finishes from Joshua Pelletier (152) and Brandon Hartt (170). Dirigo captures ‘C’ West At Bucksport, Dirigo of Dixfield qualified 13 of its 14 wrestlers for the state meet, including four first-place finishers, to win the Western C regional for the first time in four years. Dirigo scored 194.5 points to best host Bucksport, which amassed 157.5 points in its debut season as a Western Maine program. Another new Western C team, Winslow, finished third with 122 points, while Madison (100) and Mount View of Thorndike (82) rounded out the top five. Caleb Hall (132), Brett Whittemore (138), Jesse Hutchinson (145) and Gavin Sanders (182) all won individual titles for Dirigo, which also had four second-place finishers, two thirds and three fourths on the day. Bucksport, coming off a third-place finish at last weekend’s PVC championships, had the most individual champions with six. Freshman Matthew Stewart was the 106-pound champion, while Jacob Stewart (152), Jordan Fogg (160), Nic Bishop (170), Chris Powell (195) and Damon Klinedinst (285) also won their weight classes for coach Larry Clement’s Golden Bucks. Five of the six Bucksport champions were top-seeded in their weight classes, while Bishop was a third seed in his return from a recent knee injury that had sidelined him for last week’s PVC meet. Senior Alex Brown, seeded second at 120 pounds, finished second in that weight class to give Bucksport a seventh qualifier for the state meet. Mt. Blue prevails in EM ‘A’ At Westbrook, Mt. Blue won its second straight Eastern A championship, avenging a loss to Cony of Augusta in last week’s KVAC Class A meet to defeat the second-place Rams 168.5 to 138. Skowhegan was third with 135.5 points, with Westbrook (96), Windham (92) and Brewer (87) rounding out the top six teams. Brewer’s effort featured a victory in the 285-pound class by Marcus Eaton. Eaton, second in his weight class at last year’s state championship meet, won his second straight Eastern A title by pinning Cony’s Steven Morse at 1:39 of the final. The Witches also got second-place finishes from Mark Smith (120 pounds), Anthony Sprigg (132) and Victor Irwin (195) and a fourth from Robbie Kiah at 145.

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AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Labor Relations Board on Wednesday dismissed the latest complaint filed by the state’s largest public employees union against Gov. Paul LePage’s administration related to bitter contract negotiations dating to last year. The Maine State Employees Association filed the complaint Tuesday requesting that the LePage administration stop hiring private contractors to do work typically handled by the union. The 16-page document alleges that the state is bound by contract to negotiate with the union before it hires nonmembers. The union said in its complaint that the practice deprives “bargaining unit members of that work, as well as the pay and benefits that come with that work.” Maine law requires the state to maintain the status quo after a contract expires, which is currently the case with the MSEA. That effectively means that the state can continue to contract out or reorganize its work force to make government more efficient and effective, according to the board. The complaint was dismissed because it failed to state a valid claim under the State Employees Labor Relations Act. “Once again, the Maine Labor Relations Board has thrown out an unfounded complaint by this union,” John McGough, LePage’s chief of staff, said in a statement. “MSEA is desperate to find an issue to fight Governor LePage on, and this is another failed attempt to find one with any legal footing.” The LePage administration and the MSEA, Local 1989 of the Service Employees International Union, have been embroiled in contract negotiations that date to early last year. Still pending before the Maine Labor Relations Board is a complaint by the MSEA that the administration has acted in bad faith during negotiations, which still have not resulted in a new collective bargaining agreement. MSEA staff said in a statement Wednesday that the state board’s dismissal of the most recent complaint was expected but it should help expedite resolution of their pending complaint. LePage and some allies have targeted unions — both public sector and private sector — since the Republican governor has taken office. Although unsuccessful so far on measures that would prohibit unions from requiring dues to be collected from nonunion members, the administration has made some progress on labor issues. The House and Senate recently approved a bill from the governor’s office that would strip the ability of independent child care providers to unionize and collectively bargain. Another bill that bans workers at the former Decoster Farm in Turner from unionizing also has won legislative approval. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Friends and Resources: LINKS for FRIENDS and RESOURCES is Barbara's way of sharing her highly talented friends and amazing world with those who visit her website. It is a piece of the path to the creation of a Great Network of Beauty, Peace, Light, Love and Consciousness on this Planet.

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Most of you, especially those from the midwestern United States, may be familiar with mazes cut from corn fields. But have you seen one with a QR code? For a family in Canada, it's business as usual, as they create their annual summer corn field design. And courtesy of the Kraay Family Farm, located south of Edmonton, Alberta, we may be seeing the largest QR code in the world. (They've submitted the corn field QR code design to the Guiness Book of World Records for consideration.) This forward-thinking group saw the growing popularity of QR codes in the marketing world and decided to increase the level of difficulty of their yearly project. But it didn't work perfectly the first time. Rachel Kraay admitted the QR code didn't scan properly the first time, but she and her family were undaunted. Finding that the contrast between light and dark was not quite right, they went back in with a rototiller and made the paths cut through the field much darker. When you scan the QR code from above, you'll be taken to the Kraay family's website. Planning to see this massive QR code for yourself? Don't forget your smart phone, as once you get inside the maze, you can scan 2D code landmarks within the structure, helping you find your way and find out more about the farm. Have you seen anything like this in your neck of the woods? Tell us more by leaving a comment below (and sending pictures, if you can). It appears that bar codes have become an instrument for social change in a new and dramatic way. A new app for iPhone and Android helps you more effectively boycott companies b... Looking for help getting your warehouse, delivery business or supply chain service automated? Or perhaps upgrading your current system to the latest techno... Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Miles Technologies, Inc., in order to increase its presence in the central ...

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Today we have another giveaway with Pistachio Hair Goods! She makes these pretty hair ties and head bands and I LOVE them! The good thing about them is they don’t crease your hair, they look much cuter than a regular hair band, and since I always have a hair tie on my wrist, this looks a lot better! TO ENTER TO WIN A PACKAGE OF HAIR TIES/BOWS/HEADBANDS OF YOUR CHOICE: *must be a follower of Barefoot Blonde to enter FOR ONE ENTRY: -go to Pistachio Hair Goods and comment what your favorite package is! FOR AN ADDITIONAL ENTRY: -follow Amber Fillerup on pinterest and instagram (amberfillerup) -like Pistachio Hair Goods on Facebook: here

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|Home > Cell Phone Accessories > Kyocera > SE47 SE44 V5 > Charger > USB Home Travel AC Charger - Black| USB Home Travel AC Charger - Black - SKU 6U81030100304 - Status Units in Stock *Limit to One per transaction USB Home Travel AC Charger - Black For the professional executive on the go, this charger is a must! The USB travel charger is lightweight and easy to carry while traveling. USB Home Travel AC Charger - Black Features - Input: 100V - 240V (U.S. & World Standard) - Output: 5V / 700mA - LED light power indicator. - Best replacement for original MP3 player travel charger. - Intelligent IC chip inside recognizes a fully charged battery and automatically switches to a saver mode to prevent overcharging and short circuit. - You must have a USB charging cable (sold separately) in order to charge your MP3 player with this charger. USB Home Travel AC Charger - Black Compatible with - Apple iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPod Nano 7th Generation, iPhone 4 (CDMA), iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPhone 4 (GSM), , - Barnes & Noble Nook Touch, - Cisco UltraHD 3rd Generation(8GB/2 hr), SlideHD, MinoHD, Mino, UltraHD 4GB/1hr, Ultra, - Coby MP823,MP800, MP820, MP977, - Creative Zen Touch 2, Zen X-Fi3, Zen Style M300, Zen Style M100, HD 3rd Gen Pocket Video Cam, Zen X-Fi Style, - HTC EVO View 4G, FLYER, Evo 4G, - JVC GC-FM2, GC-WP10, GC-FM1, - Kodak PLAYFULL Dual Camera, PLAYFULL Waterproof Video Camera, BURTON Edition / Zx5, PLAYFULL Video Camera, Zx5, Mini HD Video Camera, Mini Video Camera, - Kyocera Echo M9300, - LG Optimus V VM670, - Motorola Droid A855, - Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0,GALAXY Player 4.2,Galaxy Note N7000, Galaxy 4.0 Android MP3 Player, Galaxy 5.0 Android MP3 Player, Epic Touch 4G D710, W200, Factor, Droid Charge SCH i510/i520, Epic 4G, - SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip, - Sony Walkman 4GB 8GB 16GB E Series Video MP3 E463 E464 E465, Walkman 8GB 16GB A Series Walkman® Video MP3 A865 A865, Walkman 8GB S Series Walkman Video MP3 S764, PSP 2, MHS-TS10, MHS-TS20, MHS-PM5, MHS-CM5, - Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, - Amazon Kindle Paperwhite / Paperwhite 3G, Rate this product and share your comment with other customers. Joyce Evans : (February 12, 2010) There was a late delivery of this product. Megan Wolfarth : (September 14, 2009) It's great for charging my mp3 player and I use it every evening for a full 8 hour charge the next day. Well worth the money. Teresa Gonzales : (August 24, 2009) I use this for my Archos 605, and it works great! I haven't tried it with anything else. Saves $$ so I don't have to charge it on my Laptop, plus it is faster too. Sokhan Ket : (July 16, 2009) This product is great! It's exactly what I was looking for. It works with every usb charged item. I use it for everything from a sony prs-505 e-reader to a blue tooth to a sony psp down to my iPod. It works with everything. And the prongs are non polarized so you won't be limited to only certain outlets.It's the perfect universal usb charger, as long as you have the wires, of course. Angela : (August 10, 2009) This product worked great for the Cingular 8525. All you need to do is make sure you have a USB chord...Then it's all good. I am actually searching the net for an adapter like this for my cell, too. Don Henderson : (February 2, 2010) This Rapid Charger for Microsoft Zune products is awesome because it has a built in sensor that eliminates over-charging the battery, which, we all know, leads to a shortened battery life. I can plug this in and leave it to freely charge my Zune 120GB, without being overconcerned, if I am detained somewhere, that my Zune has been on the charger too long. R. A. Bockholt : (June 3, 2009) "After receiving a new iPod for Christmas, I soon got tired of hauling out the laptop computer just to charge it up. So I bought one of these things. I plugged this unit into the wall, plugged my USB cable into it, then attached my iPod Nano. A little while later my iPod was completely charged. For quite a while now I've left the unit plugged into the wall with the USB cable attached, and have just attached the iPod to the cable every now and then to charge it up. Much more convenient than finding a computer with a free USB port. Neither the wall unit nor the iPod have ever become warm, either when idling or charging. It simply works." - Joyce Evans : (February 12, 2010)

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9 Ways to Use Patch During Storm We’ve got Barrington covered … with your help. With the Blizzard of 2013 whacking Barrington this weekend, the need for up-to-the minute information is important. At Patch, we'll be working to cover the storm. But the more interaction we get from users, the more comprehensive the coverage will be. Hey, Barrington Patch is your site after all. So, here’s how you can use Patch: 1. Get the news. When we know about storm-related news, so will you. From important town announcements, damages, power outages and floods, we’ll have all the news covered as much as we can. Check out our information center article for all the latest news and updates. 2. Comment. Have relevant information to add to the information center or to an article? Jump in and make a comment. Or post photos. These storm stories will continue to evolve as we speak to more officials and locals. You can be a real-time source by commenting and sharing what you're seeing. 3. Connect with the editor. Email Editor William Rupp at [email protected] if you don't want to post directly to the site. If you have tips, call, email or text to conserve cell phone power. 4. Get the iPhone app. If the power goes out, your smartphone may end up being your only tool for getting the info on what’s going on in your community. Click here to get the Patch app for free on iTunes. Not only can you read news on it, but post photos and videos as well. Show us what you are seeing. 5. Take photos. Please, stay safe during the storm. But any photos you take of the aftermath we will prominently display on Patch. Email them or upload them directly to articles. 6. Shoot videos. Same goes for video. Our smartphones have put high-powered video cameras in our pockets. Send clips our way to help us report on the effect of the blizzard in your backyards. 7. Ask a question. If trees are down in your neighborhood but you want to know if your neighbors a few blocks away have the same damage, or if you want to ask someone in a flood-prone area how they waterproofed their house, post the question to our information center article. Questions normally surround natural events like a blizzard. You can look to your community for answers. 8. Ask for Volunteers. Our Announcements section lets readers post requests for volunteers. Use it. Depending on the scope of the blizzard, volunteers could be crucial to the community. Any announcements posted on the site asking for volunteers will be featured on the home page. 9. Blog about it. When the snow stops, scores of your fellow community members will have “I was there” stories to share. Don’t keep them to yourself. Sign up to be a blogger and let your neighbors know how you fared during the storm.

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Effective leaders pay attention to structure and organization to insure the structure continues to benefit the organization’s mission. Read Deuteronomy 1:1-15. The universe has overwhelming evidence of God’s use of structure and organization in the intelligent design of creation. Even the simplest living organism is more complex and subtle than the most sophisticated computer. The Bible gives insight into God’s instructions concerning structure and organization to Moses, the leader He chose to lead His people from a time of slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land. When carrying total responsibility for leadership of the people of Israel overwhelmed Moses, God encouraged him to change the organizational structure so as to channel more of Israel’s human resources to fulfill the leadership needs. Wisely Moses accepted God’s counsel. Effective leaders create structure that addresses the methods by which resources flow through the organization to accomplish work. Read Numbers 11:1-35. When Moses couldn’t handle all of the responsibilities of leading Israel, God told him to enlist seventy qualified persons, empower them and allow them to help to carry the burden. Moses was overwhelmed and the people under-served so God took action. The existing system wasn’t working so He changed it. It wasn’t about “who’s the boss”, it was about who would serve the people. Structure and organization has a way of turning chaos into an effective use of resources. Read 1 Corinthians 14:40. This verse, in a chapter on worship structure, furnishes a valuable glimpse into the public worship of the first-century churches. It stresses that order, structure, form, unity, like mindedness and mutual regard should prevail when believers gather together. Well-led organizations can accomplish more than any individual can hope to accomplish. Read Exodus 18:1-27. Moses was overwhelmed by the problems of leading a large number of people. Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, helped Moses to see that organization and structure are essential to effective operation. Not only is work accomplished more efficiently, but people are better served and supported in doing the work. Effective Christian leaders make long range plans and give God room to actively direct or change those plans. Read Romans 15:22-29. In today’s verses the Apostle Paul is in process of taking a love offering from the churches in Macedonia to the church in Jerusalem that had fallen on hard times. While on his way to Jerusalem, Paul is writing to the Christians in Rome discussing some long range plans to visit their church on his way to preach the Gospel in Spain.

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Nursing a critically ill state back to health |Indranill Basu Ray highlights the core problems that afflict Bengal's health sector and suggests a few ways to improve the situation| Despite many technological and other achievements that have propelled India from being a developing nation to one of the top economies of the world, one field that India continues to lag behind in is health. This is why stories of babies dying in large numbers haunt newspaper headlines. India is behind Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in life expectancy at birth or under-five mortality level. India accounts for about 17 per cent of the world population, but it contribute to a fifth of the world's share of diseases. A third of all diarrhoeal diseases in the world occurs in India. The country has the second largest number of HIV/AIDS cases after South Africa. It is home to one-fifth of the world's population afflicted with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. A common excuse that I often hear is that we have limited resources to tackle the huge and burgeoning health problems. But even the richest country on earth, the United States of America, has failed to provide appropriate health services to a large section of the populace. The problem in India is quite different. Apart from being a poor nation with limited resources, it also has a sizeable population in need of basic health services. Furthermore, the lack of appropriate sanitary measures and education ensures an ever increasing presence of communicable disease that have been controlled and even eradicated in the developed nations. India's list of woes does not stop here. Lack of foresight on the part of successive governments and selective and fragmented strategies to counter daily problems without a definite public health goal have been the mainstay of India's health policies. Resource allocation to this sector is influenced by the prevailing fiscal situation as well as by the priorities of the reigning government. Unfortunately, in Bengal — a state that faces a dismal fiscal situation — the government's priorities have been skewed as a result of political necessities. Although we have a new government at the helm, it is important to realize that gross changes at the practical level cannot be initiated without having a team with experience and knowledge define a well-thought-out strategy. It is also essential to have a government that is willing to fulfil the financial needs necessary for the strategy to work. It is difficult, if not impossible, to paint a picture of the present state of public health in West Bengal and to suggest measures to rectify the same in a short article like this. My intention is to highlight the core problems plaguing the system and to suggest solutions based on accepted principles of public health and healthcare management. The steps that need to be taken are as follows: reducing disease burden, including infectious diseases as well as non-communicable epidemics like diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease; restructuring the existing primary healthcare system to make it more accountable; creating a skilled and professional workforce which is quality driven; financial planning to bring more investment to the health sector. Reducing disease burden is the cornerstone of any good health policy. The factors that help reduce communicable diseases are clean drinking water, improved sanitation and an effective vaccination programme. A paradigm shift, from the prevalent curative approach to a preventive approach, including health promotion by inculcating behavioural changes, is imperative to reduce disease burden. West Bengal is one of four states that urgently needs high investment in safe drinking water and toilet facilities. It is estimated that Rs 18,000 crore is required to provide effective drinking water and sanitation facilities for the entire country. Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Odisha would account for more than 60 per cent of the total outlay. Similarly, a huge investment is required to provide nutritional supplements to malnourished children and pregnant and lactating mothers living below the poverty line. According to a report by the national commission on macroeconomics and health, West Bengal would need to harness an additional resource requirement of rupees (in crore) 1,286, 2,459, 4,693, 13,811 and 8,485 in sectors such as health, water and sanitation, nutrition, primary schooling and roads. It has been projected that in the next five years West Bengal will spend a large portion of its revenues on wages and salaries, interest payments and pensions, leaving very little for discretionary expenditure in the field of health. It is imperative that the present government rethink and strategize in collaboration with the Centre to ensure the appropriate funding necessary to make the state healthy. Restructuring the present healthcare delivery system is also equally important. Most primary healthcare centres are old, dilapidated buildings with few or no facilities. Some do not even have basic resources like healthcare workers or pharmacists. What is required is a radical overhaul of the existing system. There are differences in health systems of different countries. A State-run health system, such as the one in Canada, suffers from delayed medical care. A privately-run health system like the one in the US provides only limited health services to its poor. India's healthcare should carve out the best of both systems. Private healthcare is thriving in India. It is uncontrolled and aimed at profit-making. Government-run hospitals are poorly managed, providing few or no facilities to those living below the poverty line. Different models have been suggested to take care of this disparity. While private investment will always be geared towards profit-making, it is mandatory to rein in these bodies under well-defined rules. Large private hospitals in the US are non-profit bodies, which have to follow stringent rules in patient care. At the other end of the spectrum is the National Health Service in Britain in which small, medium and even a few large hospitals are making way for a more competent and accountable government-controlled health system with fewer hospitals. Human resource management is very important in running an effective health system. One of the biggest lacunae of government health service is its poor human-resource management. Many physicians are not paid appropriate salaries or are posted in places that are not of their choice. Political intervention and favouritism play a big role in posting physicians. Consequently, dedicated physicians who want to serve the public or work in the academic setting found in government hospitals are forced to remain in private hospitals. To boost morale and efficacy, discipline needs to be instituted in the system and a transparent posting policy adopted. The doctor-population ratio needs to be improved by filling up vacancies in the West Bengal health service. It is important to free postings from the grip of bureaucrats to ensure the registration of quality candidates. Physicians failing to report to duty or indulging in indiscipline must be punished. Doctors who do sign up need to provide relevant and quality medical care. This can only be done if some form of recertification of doctors is made mandatory once every 10 years. Physicians' salaries in the state health service must be made on a par with those of the Central government to make sure that it remains a lucrative option. Senior physicians providing exemplary public service must be rewarded for the same. A commonly-held notion is that most physicians run after the lucrative salaries that are offered in private hospitals. Hence it is difficult to retain them in the government sector. This, however, is true of a minority. The majority of physicians are willing to work in a healthy, progressive and academic environment if there are appropriate non-financial incentives. Let us take the example of Christian Medical College, Vellore. Most of the faculty there are paid salaries that are much lower than those of the private sector. However, physicians are provided with other facilities such as good housing, free schools, free-to-highly-subsidized college education and, most importantly, a progressive and research oriented work environment. West Bengal lags behind many other states when it comes to medical education. There is an urgent need to increase the number of medical colleges in the state. Private investment for the same should be welcomed but appropriate laws must be instituted so that huge capitation fees are not charged for seats. Furthermore, selection should be made through competitive examinations. A certain percentage of seats can be reserved for the economically weaker sections. Students passing out of such medical colleges must be given postings in rural hospitals. This has been true on paper for many decades now, but the rule has been poorly implemented even in government-run medical colleges. Innovative schemes ought to be thought of to involve the cash-rich private sector to service the medical needs of the state. Private institutions using government money or land must be asked to provide free service to 20 per cent of their capacity. Appropriate punitive measures — such as temporarily withholding or cancelling licences — can be taken when a private institution fails to honour this commitment. Institutions willing to set up large hospitals, particularly around Calcutta, must be helped through the provision of low-cost land. But in return, promises to set up satellite hospitals in far-flung district headquarters have to be met. The biggest challenge to the rejuvenation of the healthcare system is the garnering of funds. West Bengal is financially broke, thanks to the misrule of the communists. Unlike most other communist rulers, our home-grown variants failed to provide basic sanitation, good roads, a working healthcare system and appropriate nutritional supplements to women and children. The lack of social services resulted in poor health and in increased mortality among the vulnerable sections of society. Government efforts to improve basic health services must fund programmes that provide sanitation, nutritional supplements, and daily meals for school-going children. Substantial investments in these sectors can reduce mortality in children. It is popular to blame doctors for not being able to save severely ill, malnourished children. But things won't change unless determined steps are taken to root out the problems, such as poor funds, minimal resources and an incompetent workforce, that affect the West Bengal health service. In the next five years, in collaboration with the Centre and the non-government organizations involved in public health, the state government must chalk out a definitive strategy to improve the supply of clean drinking water, provide better sanitation and one full meal to school-going children and arrange for nutritional supplements to pregnant women. Private investment should be wooed in the health sector to set up hospitals in large metropolitan areas as well as in small district towns. While government land is needed at an appropriate price to help investors build hospitals, steps must be taken to bring about the inclusion of the deprived sections in their service plans. Strong regulatory bodies that can monitor private hospitals and nursing homes must be instituted. Many of the profiteering health institutions do not provide basic facilities, lack trained nurses and paramedical staff, and some are even run by quacks without medical degrees. It is of utmost importance that a regulatory body conducts surprise checks on these institutions, registers complaints and takes remedial steps. Many NGOs have been able to set up large projects benefiting thousands of people. They have also succeeded in bringing foreign aid to tackle malaria and HIV. The state government should help these NGOs achieve their goals while exercising control to prevent financial irregularities. Their services ought to be applauded and single-window processing of applications instituted to help them tackle bureaucratic delays. Health is a service industry and not a lucrative business. Unfortunately, in Bengal, most large hospitals are owned by corporates. Only a few are owned or run by doctors. There is thus a sustained effort to make profit. Poor consumer protection makes the man on the street vulnerable to substandard service at high prices. These are trying times for Bengal, after years of mismanagement in the health sector. It is important for the present rulers to rectify the situation by laying down the stepping stones for a better tomorrow. Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Nursing a critically ill state back to health Indranill Basu Ray highlights the core problems that afflict Bengal’s health sector and suggests a few ways to improve the situation

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In the AFL the Peoria Javelinas lost to the Surprise Rafters 9-6: Box Score - Recap - Game Story Phil Hughes started for the Javelinas and continued his inconsistent winter. After having a great outing his last time out he followed it with a very unimpressive 2.1 innings today. He allowed 2 runs on 4 hits, walked 4 and struck out 3. He threw 72 pitches, 40 for strikes. Kevin Whelan pitched 1.2 innings in relief. He didn't allow a run, he walked 2 and struck out 2. He threw 32 pitches, 15 for strikes. Humberto Sanchez pitched one third of an inning and gave up 2 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks. He threw 23 pitches, 11 for strikes. Kevin Russo went 1-for-5 with a double and a run scored. Austin Jackson went 3-for-4, with a double and three runs scored. He was also hit by a pitch. In HWB the Waikiki BeachBoys lost to the Honolulu Sharks 4-1: Box Score - Recap Austin Romine went 1-for-4 with a double and a run scored. Damon Sublett went 0-for-3 with a walk. Other Yankees are playing in the Venezuelan, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Dominican winter leagues. Here's a run down of the players in each league: Venezuelan League: Francisco Cervelli is playing for Cardenales de Lara. Reegie Corona is on Navegantes del Magallanes. Puerto Rican League: Ian Kennedy and Jonathan Albaladejo are on Indios de Mayaguez. Jose Molina is on Leones de Ponce. Dominican League: Matt Carson and Wilkins Arias are playing for Aguilas Cibaenas. And Jhonny Nunez and Amaury Sanit are playing for Tigres del Licey. Mexican League: Justin Christian is playing for Caneros de los Mochis. And Walter Ibarra is on Naranjeros de Hermosillo. You can check out all of their Winter Ball stats here. Last week the Yankees cut these players from their minor league rosters: RHP: Oneli Perez (AAA), Scott Strickland (AAA), Jose Valdez (AA), Victor Zambrano (AAA) LHP: Eric Milton (AAA), Edgar Soto (Hi A) C: Ben Blumenthal (Lo A), Jason Brown (AAA), Chris Stewart (AAA) 1B: Ben Broussard (AAA), Josh Kreuzer (Hi A) 2B: Bernie Castro (AAA), Nick Green (AAA) 3B: Carlos Mendoza (AA) SS: Chris Basak (AAA) OF: Matt Carson (AAA), Edwar Gonzalez (AA), , C.J. Henry (Hi A) The first full week of baseball's off-season is in the books and to say the Hot Stove is in full swing would be an understatement. Players that have filed for free agency have until Thursday at midnight eastern to resign with their current organization, so at 12:01am on Friday, an already busy rumor mill should kick into overdrive. Jim Hendry spent his week on the West Coast in discussion with the Padres over Jake Peavy as well as gauging what dollar figure it will take to resign both Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood....but was that all? Here is the rest on Jake Peavy along with other rumors, plus....a possible, realistic number for the Cubs' payroll in 2009, Wood doubled his 2008 base salary, Nate McLouth, Jeremy Hermida and Scott Olsen and is Derrek Lee staying put? Manager of the Year Rookie of the Year <GreekHouse>The Wolves kinda sucked last night, losing in a blowout to the Kings. However, I'm not quite as down about it as a lot of the other Wolves fans. Yeah, the Wolves defense wasn't great and there were quite a few easy baskets, but there were also tons of difficult jumpers that kept [...] Read The Full Article: If I keep hearing rumors like this, I am going to have no choice but to come out of retirement. There are three main reasons that I'm against signing Casey Blake as a free agent.1) Blake is barely better than a platoon of Harris and Buscher would be, and might be worse.2) The Twins [...] Read The Full Article: From Steve Lombardi who received the print edition of the Nov 17th-30th issue of Baseball America today: 1. Austin Jackson OF 2. Jesus Montero, C 3. Andrew Brackman, RHP 4. Austin Romine, C 5. Dellin Betances, RHP 6. Zach McAllister, RHP 7. Alfredo Aceves, RHP 8. Phil Coke, LHP 9. Mark Melancon, RHP 10. Bradley Suttle, 3B You could make arguments that some people should have cracked the list, but all in all I don't have a problem with the list as it is. Do you? Today Paul O'Neill, David Cone, Scott Brosius, Jeff Nelson, Jennifer Steinbrenner Swindal, and nearly 60 local high school kids helped move home plate, the pitchers mound, along with some dirt, from the old Yankee Stadium to the new stadium. Here's more from MLB.com: Paul O'Neill strode down a flight of concourse stairs at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday, set his feet on the warning track -- a rough, dirt expanse, still studded with rocks and a few small puddles -- and took an exhaustive look around. "Look at this joint, huh?" he said. Out before him lay a baseball field, albeit an incomplete one, properly proportioned to match the dimensions of the old Yankee Stadium. Sod, with seams still showing, filled much of the area, and a large blue sign shouted the words "YANKEE STADIUM" from above center field. Waves of dark blue seats down the left-field line dumped into a still-unfinished section behind home plate, where metal supports hinted at where more seats are still to come. And on the mound, roughly 60 area children helped cram some dirt from the old Yankee Stadium into the new one. "You know that the Yankees are going to do everything in a first-class manner, and this is a pretty impressive place," said former third baseman Scott Brosius. "It's kind of cool to see it now, and it will be really cool to see it when it's all completed and ready to go." That, of course, coming from a man who had already soaked in some of the best of what the old Yankee Stadium had to offer. So imagine how the children of local youth groups in the Bronx felt when the Yankees invited them to a symbolic ceremony on Saturday to transfer home plate, the pitching rubber and buckets of dirt from the old Yankee Stadium to the new one. Brosius, O'Neill, David Cone and Jeff Nelson joined members of Youth Force 2020 and the ACE Mentor Program in the ceremony, using shovels to dig up dirt and then set it back down across the street -- all in the midst of a driving rain. "It means a lot," Cone said. "It's a great symbolic gesture to be able to take the actual home plate and pitcher's rubber from the old Yankee Stadium and bring it over here. It was a great gesture, and to actually get kids in the Bronx involved with it, I thought was a really good thing to do." Cone, like Brosius, spent a fair amount of time gazing up at the new stadium, which at once looks quite similar to and strikingly different from the old one. Set to open when the new baseball season begins in April, the structure has been rising up in the shadow of its predecessor for more than two years. "There's a little twinge of jealousy, that's for sure, when you see this facility and how beautiful it's going to be," Cone said. "But then again, I was at the right place at the right time." "This new Yankee Stadium has got a lot to live up to," Cone said, lounging in a concrete lean-to that will soon become the home dugout. "There are so many great memories, so many championships across the street, that anything you can bring over here -- any sort of memories you can bring with you -- it's a good thing to do to get this place off to the right start."And here are some pictures of the ceremony from MLB.com: Torre said he had been invited by the Yankees to a Saturday event at which Bronx high schoolers and a few members of the '98 team will transfer dirt from the home plate area at the old Yankee Stadium to the new Yankee Stadium. He's not going to make it due to a scheduling conflict with a brunch for his foundation, but it seemed like an olive branch of sorts.Nice of the Yanks to at least invite Torre to help with the ceremony, and like O'Brien says, it does seem like an olive branch. It's a shame he couldn't make it. The third position presented in this year's Probabilistic Model of Range study belongs to centerfielders. First, the overall team numbers: Team Centerfielders PMR, 2008, Visit Smooth Distance Model, 2008 data only Team In Play Actual Outs Predicted Outs DER Predicted... Read The Full Article: From Ed Price: Derek Jeter Friday revealed he had spoken to Sabathia -- the Yankees' top target in free agency -- in recent weeks about playing in pinstripes. Many believe Sabathia prefers to stay in the National League, where he helped pitch the Milwaukee Brewers into the playoffs after being traded from the Cleveland Indians. But the fact that Sabathia picked Jeter's brain should give the Yankees hope of landing the ace lefty. "He's asked questions, yeah, about it," said Jeter, who got to know Sabathia as an opponent and All-Star Game teammate. "I'll leave it at that. "I'm not trying to sell anyone on New York. I don't think you have to sell people on playing in this organization. People have questions, but it's not like I have a sales pitch."Tim Dierkes of MLBTradeRumors.com told SNY.tv today that Sabathia will likely been signed quickly, and could be the first big name to be signed. Sabathia apparently doesn't want this process to be dragged out.

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Miami Marlins Wiretap Plans for a new ballpark for the Marlins are still on but have been pushed back another year. According to Marlins president David Samson, the team's new home will open in 2012, rather than 2011 as hoped. The delay is a result of a lawsuit brought on by South Florida auto dealer Norman Braman, who unsuccessfully challenged the public funding portion of the project. The Cubs have acquired Marlins reliever Kevin Gregg, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney on Thursday. The Marlins received right-hander Jose Ceda in return, according to sources. The Marlins on Monday agreed to trade lefthander Scott Olsen and left fielder Josh Willingham to the Nationals, according to a report by ESPN. Florida will gain the services of second baseman Emilio Bonifacio, pitcher P.J. Dean, and shortstop Jake Smolinski in the deal. Left-handed pitcher Dan Meyer was claimed off waivers Monday by the Marlins after going 0-4 with an ERA of 7.48 in 11 games this year with the A's, according to an Associated Press report. Relief pitcher Justin Miller has reached agreement on a Minor League contract with the Giants. Miller spent the last two years in the bullpen of the Marlins. According to an industry source, Miller will be a non-roster Spring Training invitee with the Giants. Marlins Nov 2008 Archive

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When games slow and defenses tighten, grabbing offensive rebounds and making putbacks would seem to be a logical way to score, anyway. The data--albeit, extremely limited data--supports that theory. Based on Synergy's information about scoring immediately after offensive rebounds, there was no statistically significant correlation between percentage of misses converted into putbacks and Offensive Rating last regular season. There was, however, a positive, statistically significant correlation between percentage of misses converted into putbacks and Offensive Rating* in the playoffs. *Because the quality of the defenses a team faces in the playoffs varies so much, I adjusted Offensive Rating. I determined a team's expected Offensive Rating by averaging its regular-season Offensive Rating with its opponents' regular-season Defensive Rating (weighted by number of games against each opponent). I subtracted the expected Offensive Rating from a team's actual playoff Offensive Rating. That said, here's a huge caveat--those putback numbers are still from the regular season, because Synergy doesn't provide full data for the playoffs. Do teams that put back a large portion of their misses in the regular season continue to do so in the playoffs, and vice versa? I don't know. It's important to note the importance of using putback data rather than relying on offensive-rebounding numbers to draw a similar conclusion. When a team grabs an offensive rebound and doesn't immediately shoot again, it faces a similar defensive challenge as it did for its first shot. Like I wrote above, logically, putbacks would increase in value when scoring in other ways becomes more difficult. As an expanded focus in advanced stats makes more numbers available in the mainstream, we'll learn whether the results match the logic. For now, consider this nothing more than a working theory. If accurate, let's look at what the theory indicates about this year's playoffs. Teams in the upper two quadrants have above-average Offensive Ratings, and teams in the lower two quadrants have below-average Offensive Ratings. Teams in the right two quadrants convert an above average number of their misses into putbacks (indicating increased offensive success in the playoffs), and teams in the left two quadrants convert a below average number of their misses into putbacks (indicating decreased offensive success in the playoffs). I included teams that most likely will not make the playoffs, so you can see which teams' offenses might fit best in the playoffs if they improve overall in coming seasons (and keep the same style).

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If you want to really enjoy your fly fishing experience then you must consider river fly fishing. It is a great way to angle and your time by the banks of a river can be made more enjoyable if you ensure using the right kind of river fly fishing tackle. This means that you must [...]Read More... Bass Fishing and Fishing - Looking For Some Fun Fishing Tips? Check These Out! - Tips on Fly Fishing - The Basics of Fly Fishing Tackle - The Basics of Fly Fishing Rods - Practical Tips: Fly Fishing for Beginners - How to Fly Fish Tips - Fly Fishing Vacation Spots - Fly Fishing on Saltwaters . - Finding the Right Fly Fishing Store - Familiarize yourself with Fly Fishing Equipments . - Different Fly Fishing Techniques - Buying Your Tuna Fishing Gear - Choosing Tuna Fishing Lures - Finding Tuna Fishing Charters - How to Get a Permit for Tuna Fishing

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Of the six hitters who began Saturday tied for the most strikeouts in the National League, only one seems like he does not belong. Cameron Maybin and Jordan Schafer are both talented rookies getting acclimated to major league pitching. Prince Fielder is a slugger who struck out 135 times last season. Lance Berkman was bothered early by shoulder soreness. Mark Reynolds set a single-season record in 2008 by striking out 204 times. That leaves David Wright, who has 19 strikeouts in 63 at-bats (73 plate appearances) this season – or one every 3.84 times up. Since 2006, Wright has gradually struck out less often – once every 5.85 plate appearances in 2006 to 6.18 in 2007 to 6.24 in 2008. But Manager Jerry Manuel and the hitting coach Howard Johnson have noticed that Wright has not looked quite right at the plate. Manuel said that Wright’s swing had gotten long and that he was “traveling” – or drifting – into the pitch rather than standing back and hitting it. “That’s an adjustment I think he can make because he’s done it before,” Manuel said. “In his best years, it didn’t look like he went anywhere, and there is the ball, right there. It’s almost – not quite – like Barry Bonds. David has to do the same thing.” Whenever Wright tends to scuffle, as he calls it, his hands tend to take a slow, circuitous path during his swing. With a longer swing, he is vulnerable to outside pitches, and he has struck out looking at his fair share. When Wright was off to a slow start in April 2007, Keith Hernandez told me that “a pitch on the outside corner is a pitch that most hitters love, but whenever anyone slumps, it looks like it’s third down and 40. It’s so far away.” Before Saturday’s game against the Nationals, Manuel said: “It’s difficult to get to that pitch if you’re traveling, if you know what I’m saying. You can’t put a good swing on it.” Still, Wright began the day batting .302, so it is not as if he is at the Mendoza Line or anything, which Manuel has also noticed. “Right now, he’s just moving slightly,” Manuel said. “That’s hitting. That’s part of the art of hitting. And the thing about it, he’s still somewhat surviving. Shows just how good he can really be.”

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http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/david-wright-and-the-case-of-the-frequent-strikeout/

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Last Saturday, dozens of BAUDL youth participated in the March Madness Tournament at the June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco. The tournament served as an opportunity for the BAUDL youth to practice their debate skills and hone their arguments in preparation for the State Qualifying Tournament, which will be on March 17 at Santa Rosa High School. Our debaters learned a lot at the tournament and had a lot of fun! The debates were marked by intensity and the rounds were close, but all the winning teams went undefeated in their divisions. The Varsity rounds were extremely competitive, but Greg Belvin and Zach Seidl of Skyline High School out-debated their competition and went undefeated, winning the Varsity Division. Also, Kim Mejia-Cuellar of Fremont High School won top speaker in the Varsity Division for her excellent debates. The JV rounds also saw their share of intensity as well. Shah Turner and Neil Wessling of Skyline High School went undefeated and won the division; Shah Turner won top speaker for his stellar performance. In the Novice rounds, Bobbie Mille and Michelle Thomas of Castlemont High School swept their competitors and, after going undefeated, won their division as well. However, Kenneth Chappell of the June Jordan School for Equity won top speaker. Congratulations to all our winners and everyone who debated on Saturday! You all rocked it! Thank you to everyone who came out and devoted their time to make this tournament possible — we appreciate you more than you know! The BAUDL would like to give a special thanks to June Jordan School for Equity and City Arts and Technology for being so generous with providing us the space to debate. Without your generosity, none of this would have been possible. The tournament was amazing! We can’t wait to see how our debaters do at the State Qualifying Tournament next weekend!

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Daily Postings Exchange | Browse the latest ads listed in Bay Area, merchandise, jewelry-watches category or to find use the search box. Tuesday , March 26 1 Carat T WDiamond Three Stone Ring in 14kt Yellow Goldhttp://www.tqads.com/Jewelry.html Wednesday , March 20 Quality replica watches (Rolex , , Ferrari, Bvlgari etc) With Christmas just around the corner, it is already a perfect time to start your early Christmas shopping in order to avoid the holiday rush... Tuesday , March 19 Online UK costume and fashion jewellery shop with 2000+ unusual jewelry and gift items including Jewellery made with Swarovski Crystals and Freshwater Saturday , March 16 Tuesday , March 12 We make your Passion more Profitable! Vision Magazine would love to assist you with your Online Marketing, Video, Print, & Web Design needs. We offer various packages including: Best Quality Magnetic Jewelry and Magnet Therapy Products for Health & BeautyLarge Selection of Magnetic Therapy and Magnetic ProductsMagnetic Jewelry!!Many websites sale similar items but they are...

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Here are the next photos from Album 1. Could this next image also be from Red Bridge Park? It doesn’t have any writing on the back unfortunately: The next image is a funny one, with the two women posed among the reeds: This photo doesn’t have any writing on the back either. I think I recognize the girl who featured in many of the earlier photos on the right with the bow on the side of her head.

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Harry Jerome Awards On October 21, 1982, a meeting was held where a decision was made to form an association and a steering committee including Al Hamilton, publisher of Contrast Newspaper, Denham Jolly and Bromley Armstrong. Incorporated in July 1983, the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) is a non-profit charitable organization that serves to address equity and opportunity for the Black community in business, employment, education and economic development. Following the October 1982 meeting, it was decided to honour the six Black Canadian athletes who excelled at that year’s Commonwealth Games: Angela Taylor-Issanjenko, Ben Johnson, Mark McKoy, Milt Ottey, Tony Sharpe and Desai Williams. A dinner was suggested at which Harry Jerome, Canada’s premiere track and field athlete of the 1960s would be invited to be the keynote speaker. However, before he could be invited, Harry Jerome died suddenly in December 1982. The group then decided to turn the celebration into a tribute to Harry Jerome and an awards ceremony to honour the six athletes. The name “Harry Jerome Awards” was proposed by Hamlin Grange and so the first Harry Jerome Awards was held on March 5, 1983. The Harry Jerome Awards is now a national event that recognizes and honours excellence in African Canadian achievement. In addition to the Harry Jerome Awards, the BBPA sponsors the Harry Jerome Scholarship Fund, providing financial support to African Canadian youth pursuing higher education. The idea for the Harry Jerome Scholarship Fund was provided by Hamlin Grange and realized through the efforts of Kamala-Jean Gopie, Pamela Appelt, Sheila Simpson and Beverly Mascoll. Journalist Cynthia Reyes was the BBPA’s president at the time. Under the leadership of Verlyn Francis, in 1996 the scholarship fund established an endowment fund and attracted corporate sponsorship. Today the Fund awards some thirty scholarships each year. For more information, please visit our website at The Harry Jerome Awards Website

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- Skip to: Automatic Plugin Installation - Open your WordPress Admin Dashboard and go to Plugins > Add New. - Under Search, type in bbPress into the search form and click the Search Plugins button to the right, bbPress should be the first result in the returned list. - Click Details for to confirm the author is listed as ‘The bbPress Community‘ and links back to http://bbpress.org - Click Install Now to install the bbPress Plugin. - A popup window will ask you to confirm your wish to install the Plugin. - Click Proceed to continue with the installation. The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install. - If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate bbPress. Manual Plugin Installation - Download the current version .zip of bbPress and extract the contents to a folder on your PC. - With your FTP program upload the extracted ‘bbpress‘ folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ folder. - From your WordPress Admin Dashboard and go to Plugins and Activate the bbPress Plugin.

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Tag restrictions via user roles. It would be useful if the use of certain tags could be restricted based on user roles. So, for example, I just added a “todo” tag to a suggestion I received on my site; then realized that since anyone can add that it’s meaning might be lost. A similar goal might be achieved if the tags page could optionally separate “my tags” from everybody’s tags. You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

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Innovative products for fun in the sun! Simplify your days at the beach with Beach-USA products. Whether you are carrying beach paraphernalia, taking a leisurely walk, or just sitting under your umbrella for a restful day at the beach, we have a product to make your day more enjoyable. Although the idea for each of our products was conceived at the beach, they can be used all year long for outdoor festivals, sporting events, hiking, and family outings. So, read about our products, place your order, and take them along on your next trip to the beach. See details on strap-along, beach-belt, add-a-shade, sandgrabber, and beach posters. No Frames Version

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Beach Paradise Hotel The Beach Paradise Hotel in Miami Beach is located directly on Ocean Drive in the heart of South Beach’s famous Art Deco District, just steps from the white sandy beach. You will be surrounded by an exciting blend of fashionable Miami Beach shops, eclectic Ocean Drive restaurants, some of the hippest lounges, and the hottest South Beach nightclubs that make Miami Beach a favorite party destination. Originally built in 1929 by famed Mediterranean-style architect William Brown, this 52-room boutique Miami Beach hotel is one of the original members of the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District, and a proud winner of the “Barbara Baer Capitman Award” in Art Deco architecture. It has since been lovingly restored and updated to offer contemporary furnishings in its spacious accommodations complete with in-room amenities and beautiful views of the Atlantic Ocean and the world-renowened cityscape of Miami Beach. We promise a stylish haven to see and be seen and a home away from home as you enjoy your South Beach vacation. Make your reservation today and experience Miami Beach at a level you’ve never experienced before! Premier Accommodations among Miami Beach Hotels

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2013-05-18T06:19:55Z

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A “magic” herb, Carissa Edulis, that drew thousands of people to a remote Loliondo village in Tanzania was identified by Kenyan scientists a few years ago as a cure for a drug-resistant strain of a sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea. This herb also is believed to cure many other diseases besides gonorrhoea. The Kamba refer to as mukawa or mutote and use it for chest pains, while the Nandi boil the leaves and bark to treat breast cancer, headache and chest pains. Researchers discovered the plant could be used for the treatment of the herpes virus. Led by Dr Festus M Tolo of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), the team from the University of Nairobi and the National Museums of Kenya found the herb could provide an alternative remedy for herpes infections. “An extract preparation from the roots of Carissa edulis, a medicinal plant locally growing in Kenya, has exhibited remarkable anti-herpes virus activity for both wild type and drug resistant strains,” they reported in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

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I’m so sorry I missed this lovely day and didn’t manage to post 10 pictures (a difficult task in itself!!), but thank you so much to everyone who posted that glorious face to celebrate 10 years of bean_daily , not least govi20 for the lovely themed posts. So, better late than never … please join Sean and I in a smile!

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We are getting closer to the July 16th deadline for Matt Forte and the Bears to reach a long term agreement. Which got me thinking who needs who more? Does Forte mean more to the Bears or is it the other…Read More It was a bizarre week in the NFL and Fantasy World for me. First of all, if you subscribed to my BOA picks last week, I apologize as I was proven wrong on all 3 picks. Further evidence to the bizzare…Read More So the Bears held serve with a solid win that they needed to keep their division title and playoff hopes alive. Meanwhile, the Vikings squeaked one out over the hopeless Lions to stay a game in front…Read More The FanSided.com Sports Network dishes out non-stop sports news and views on your favorite teams and topics. This isn't your granddaddy's sports news either -- it's the up-to-the-minute, unfiltered sports content the modern sports fan demands. For more information visit FanSided.com The Fansided Network is part of Sports Illustrated Sites. This site is strictly for informational and entertainment purposes, and is in no way affiliated with the Chicago Bears or the National Football League. It also claims no rights to the trademarks of either the Bears or the NFL.

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2013-05-18T05:18:17Z

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Washington U. Baseball Picks Up 20th Win of the Season, 25-13, Over St. Norbert St. Louis, Mo., April 1, 2012 – The Washington University in St. Louis baseball team recorded 24 hits, including 10 for extra bases, as the Bears earned their 20th win of the season with a 25-13 victory over St. Norbert College on Sunday afternoon at Kelly Field. The teams combined for 41 hits and 15 errors in the game that lasted more than three hours. Washington U. took a 10-1 lead after three innings with seven unearned runs on 10 hits and five errors by St. Norbert. The Green Knights plated three runs in the top of the fourth to cut the deficit to 10-4, but Washington U. answered with five runs on three hits and three errors in the bottom of the inning to extend the lead back to 15-4. After St. Norbert made it 15-6 in the top of the fifth, Washington U. plated five runs on six hits in the bottom of the inning to score 20 runs (20-6) for the second time this season. The Green Knights scored the next seven runs of the game to get to within 20-13, but Washington U. added two runs in the seventh and three in the eighth to finish with the 25-13 win. Twelve different players recorded hits in the game for the Bears, led by sophomore Kyle Billig (4-for-5, five runs, two RBIs) and senior Brandon Rogalski (3-for-5, two runs, four RBIs). Both Billig and Rogalski hit two doubles in the game. Freshman Chris Lowery also had three hits (3-for-7, two runs). Junior David Madson hit a pair of RBI triples in the game to finish 2-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs. Junior Max Gordon picked up his fourth win of the season (4-1) pitching five innings and allowing six runs, just two earned. Washington U. (20-6) continues its 12-game homestand on Wednesday, April 4, against Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Kelly Field. Bear Notebook: The win was the eighth in a row for Washington U. … Rogalski has now recorded 17 multiple-hit games this season … Lowery extended his team-leading hitting streak to 10 games … Rogalski’s two runs scored in the game moved him into a tie for 10th on the Washington U. all-time career list (114) … He also moved into fourth for RBIs (128) and a tie for fourth in doubles (41).

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2013-05-18T06:21:04Z

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I liked The Root so much better when they put this out back in the day … Dice Raw rips it on this track. Leave a Comment Filed under Hip Hop, Remixes Tagged as Black Thought, Dice Raw, JChan, Questlove, The Roots, You Don't See Us Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

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2013-05-18T06:51:36Z

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What is BehindTheBeat?Music lovers need music. But there's more to music than just hearing and feeling it. Artists want to touch their audience, and fans want to get closer to the artists. BehindTheBeat presents the voices of the artists themselves, speaking about their music, their inspiration, and their creative lives. Listen and discover. Tag Archives: MCA Nashville David Nail is a young country singer whose recording, "The Sound Of A Million Dreams", brings an earthy soulful voice to songs that look at some challenging moments. Backed by a stellar band with country rock roots, Nail delivers with … Continue reading Buck Howdy’s "Skidaddle!" is the farmer-cowboy-singer-songwriter’s major label debut of western swing-inspired songs for families with young children. Buck sings about cowboys, cowgirls and life on the range. His songs have plenty of silly lines for kids – and just … Continue reading

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An amateur newspaper, done in manuscript, from 1882. The authors, Guy and Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, recount the social and sporting goings-on in their neighborhoods in Eccleston Square, London, and in West Sussex. Included are drawings, puzzles, and rhymes. Sir Thomas Cusack-Smith was later Consul General for Samoa. Due to commencement activities, the Beinecke Library will open at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 20. Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 7 pm Friday: 9 am to 5 pm Saturday: 12 pm to 5 pm Reading Room Hours Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6:45 pm Friday: 9 am to 4:45 pm

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2013-05-18T06:26:35Z

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I liked the mixed vegetable side dish that was offered at Texas Roadhouse. It was really simple and crunchy. So, I tried to create it at home using the microwave. You can steam yours if you like but for me microwave is easier in this easy dish. You can omit the salt if you use salted butter and also you can replace the butter with extra virgin olive oil. When you use olive oil, just make sure you stir and mix the broccoli well with your hands before you put it in the microwave. This is one easy side dish to serve with your American dinner. I served with my Chinese dinner with no problem too. One healthy meal can be grilled chicken with this broccoli, baked sweet potato wedges and a piece of toasted whole wheat bread. - Broccoli crowns, washed and cut, about 3-4 cups - 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter, cut into thin slices (you can add more if you like) - Sprinkle of sea salt/ kosher salt - Touch of black pepper - Dashes of dried thyme - Dashes of garlic powder 1. In a microwave safe plate or dinner plate, place the broccoli on top. Add slices of butter all over it. Sprinkle with some salt to taste, touch of black pepper and some dried thyme and garlic powder. 2. Microwave for 4-5 minutes or according to microwave direction or until the butter is melted and the broccoli is soften but still crunchy. 3. When you take out of the microwave, give it a quick stir to mix well with the butter sauce. Season to taste with salt if needed. Note: If you use salted butter, you can probably omit the salt or cut down on the salt.

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2013-05-18T07:24:46Z

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Stephen Thompson has been the minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Montague for the last 6 years. When Stephen was 16 years old, he lived on the streets of Toronto as a homeless youth. At that time he was a drug addicted "street kid" whose life was going nowhere, until he had an encounter with God that completely changed him and sent him on a different path. Stephen has now been married to his wife, Carolyn, for 22 years and together they have four children, Mark (18), Sarah (16), David (13) and Jason (10). Stephen loves sharing his story with others and speaking of the incredible manner of which God can transform one’s life. Andrew and Shirley Bryce have been in ministry together in Summerside, now in their 27th year.They have three adult children living in different parts of N. America and three grandchildren close by in St. John. N.B. and a daughter who graduates this year from high school. Shirley is in her second year of nursing at U.P.E.I. Her first 'patient' was her husband as Shirley suspended her studies to care for Andrew who went through two emergency brain surgeries due to a rogue sinus infection that put him off work for 8 months. Andrew will be speaking about a two year season of brokenness he now jokingly states as 'my broken head' season and the lessons of provision and blessing that came out of this time. David MacKenzie is married to Cathy(30 yrs), and they have three daughters, Kara(26), Krista(24), and Katelyn(22). He has twenty years of pastoral experience and for the last four years has been serving as an elder at Long Creek Baptist Church. David and Cathy also owned and operated a successful chicken farm for 22 yrs giving David the opportunity to serve as a director for the Chicken Farmers of Canada for 16 yrs. Since selling the farm the MacKenzie's helped found an industrial door business with partners and are both financial coaches. David holds a Master's degree from Acadia Divinity College. Cheryl Millman is the Executive Director of Open Door Ministries. She has been leading ODM through all of its various changes since 1998. Cheryl found her heart for ministry to the poor and marginalized through her volunteer work at The CoffeeHouse in the mid 90's and left the church pastoral setting in an effort to "go to them." She is a graduate of Charlottetown Rural High school, Tyndale College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Cheryl is an ordained deacon with the Church of the Nazarene. She and her husband Neal Live in Clyde River, PEI. Ryan Barnhart: “Well I am 27 years old, wife of Ginger father of Evelyn, Henry and ? (July baby). I graduated Moody Bible Institute 2010 w/ B.A. Historical Theology, I am on the board of the Gospel Coalition Atlantic Canada as well as the Chaplain to the PEI Rocket. I enjoy wilderness canoeing and hiking, reading theology and the I am passionate about the Gospel.” Abbie McCann and her husband, Andy, have recently moved from Belfast, Northern Ireland to Belfast, PEI. Having completed her Bachelor of Divinity in Northern Ireland she is set begin her Masters of Divinity course this June at Acadia University, NS. In the meantime, she has been stepping out in pastoral ministry here on the Island.

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This user hasn't shared any biographical information Posts by Mrs. Hembree It’s November! That also means that it’s time for your nominations for the 2012 Edublog Awards! This is the time when educational bloggers can recognize the incredible work of other bloggers around the world. It’s not easy narrowing the choices to one nominee. Our blog has been greatly influenced by the work of many amazing librarians, teachers and bloggers. It’s our turn to say, “Thank you!” in nominating them for an award! Have a favorite blog? You can nominate until November 26th. You can find more information here. Here are my nominees for 2012 Best Library Blog: Watch. Connect. Read – I discovered book trailers because of Mr. Schu’s use of them in his incredible blog. That single discovery has certainly influenced the course of my career in the last year. There would be no One and Only Ivan video or Kid Lit Movie project if I hadn’t discovered this incredible blog. Best Video/podcast: Mr. Avery’s Classroom Blog math videos. This 6th grade teacher knows how to take math, add a little fun, and create videos that teach other kids hard mathematical concepts. Best Classroom Blog: 4KM and 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School - This blog was one of the first I ever discovered on the web. Last summer I met Mrs. Morris, one part of this team blog. These teachers never stop reaching for new and innovative ways to share what they are doing in the classroom. Best Student Blog: BB’s Awesome Blog There aren’t enough fabulous words to describe BB’s student blog. For two years BB has kept her blog going with charming and original weekly posts, with the help and support of her mom AA. Someday I am going to fly to Australia and meet this incredible family. Lifetime Achievement Award: Sue Wyatt This Australian teacher retired last year, yet she continues to help students and teachers with the Student Blogging Challenges. Retired, but still working…a lot…for free? Who does that anymore? Sue does! Influential Blog Post: Linda Yollis- November is Family Blogging Month Linda charted the course for hundreds of teachers on how to involve families in blogging. Individual Tweeter: @JoAnnJacobs68- During the depths of the dark, dank and dreary Seattle winter months, JoAnn brought sunshine into my life with her thoughtful tweets and Hawaiian flower photos. Best Twitter Hashtag: #choose2matter – Angela Maiers started this movement. She has a great passion for helping students understand what they do really does matter and make a difference in our world beyond the 4 walls of the classroom. Best Group Blog: Nerdy Book Club – No other group blog supports the love of reading like the Nerdy Book Club. Add it to your daily reading for a dose of literary bliss. EdTech Blog - Cool Cat Teacher Blog - I can always count on learning something new about educational technology when I read one of Vicki Davis’ blog posts! Best Teacher Blog: Finding Ways for All Kids to Flourish - Joan Young – Joan writes from her heart. She really does believe that everyone has a place and can show their best. Best Individual Blog - Tracy Watanabe Tracy knows how to bring her knowledge of teaching, technology and resources together in a great blog. Now it’s your turn! I hope you will nominate someone who has helped you! Last month Pete the Cat left on a trip to Australia! He arrived safely and has been having heaps of fun! The word “heaps” is used in Australia when we say “lots”, such as lots of fun. Check him out in the Bird of Paradise plant in BB’s backyard! BB has been writing about his adventures and I hope you will visit her blog to find out all the details. Please leave her a comment and let her know you visited. Here is the direct link to her blog. What do you think Pete should do while he is “down under” What season is it in Australia now? Do you think Bird of Paradise plants would grow in Seattle? Why designate a month to picture books? Don’t we all love picture books already? The answer is simple. With the birth of eBooks, iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other online reading devices, many feel traditional printed picture books may be on the way out. This is the 2nd annual celebration of Picture Book Month. Founder Dianne de Las Casa decided it was time to celebrate picture books in their printed format so she created an initiative to designate November as “Picture Book Month”. We always celebrate picture books in our library. However, we have also added some art to the mix in our lessons. Here are the highlights of our week. What says Thanksgiving Day more than turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie? The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! For more than eighty-years, children young and old, have been delighted by the bobbing and swaying gigantic balloons that float down the streets of New York City in the parade. Melissa Sweet tells the true story of Tony Sarg, the puppeteer who was the inventor of the Macy’s parade balloons. After we read this book, some of the classes also made Balloons Over Broadway mini-boxes and finger puppets. You can get this activity and more at the Houghton-Mifflin website here. Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and say thank you. While this book is not a traditional Thankgiving Day book talking about the Mayflower and pilgrims, it is a book about the importance of thanking friends for all the things they do for each of us. In first grade, we used the Splat the Cat Activity Kit and added a fall leaf. Students wrote what they are thankful for during this holiday season. If you want to read a funny chapter book to entertain you during the Thanksgiving holiday week, pick up a copy of Junie B., First Grader: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff). Find out how cranberry sauce in a can, exploding biscuits and rainbow sprinkles relate to Thankgiving and first graders. I guarantee this book will have you laughing in minutes! The last book I want to include this week is Hello, Hello by Matthew Cordell. I think every family needs to add this book to their collection. In fact, Matthew has a blogpost listing 26 reasons why every family needs to read this book. You can read that post here. It’s a story of what we really need to remember as we move forward into a very connected, very digital age. Using simple text, charming watercolor illustrations, and animals in unusual places (flying fish and whales in the sky?), Cordell tells the story of Lydia, who helps her family remember that there is a time and place for electronics. For a few minutes in the upcoming days, I hope you will set your gadget aside, and go outside to jump in those leaves and have some silly, crazy, outside fun! What is your favorite balloon in the Macy’s Day parade? What friend would you by thankful for this month? What gadget could you give up for a day? We have a new President! Yesterday the American voters re-elected Barack Obama to serve as our President for another four years. Our blog poll had the same results! If you would like to read more about President Obama or his family, we have three biographies available in the library. They are located on the biography (921 OBA) shelf. Given the chance to meet any of the First Family face to face, what question would you ask? (President Obama, Michelle Obama, Malia or Sasha) Today is Tuesday, November 6, 2012. In the USA, that means it’s also our election day! Every four years, voters have the opportunity to cast their ballot and vote for who they want to be president on our country. Registered voters choose the person who best matches their beliefs. They can either vote in person or by mail. In our area of Washington state, voters can only vote by mail. Voters receive a special ballot in the mail, fill it out and send it back. We have two main candidates running for President of the United States. This year we have an incumbent, President Barack Obama, who is a democrat.The word incumbent in politics refers to the person who already holds this office. If re-elected, President Obama will serve for another four years and then he will not be able to run again. We have a time limit of eight years as president in our country. President Obama is running against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who is a Republican. If Mr. Romney is elected, he will serve for four years and then have the chance to be re-elected in 2016. To vote, you must be a US citizen, at least 18 years old and be a registered voter. You can watch a short Scholastic video here that explains more about the candidates and the election. A great book called, So You Want to Be President by Judith St. George describes the some of the lesser known facts about the men who have been our Presidents. For example, did you know that six Presidents were named James? Or that Benjamin Harrison had eleven brothers and sisters? This book is available in our library. It won the Caldecott award in 2001 for its illustrations by David Small. The call number is 973.09 If you want to keep up with the news of the election, you can visit most any of the news websites, such as CNN. We will also have our own poll on our library blog. It will be open until midnight on election day. I wonder how our results will compare to the official results! Do you love to play dominoes? Do you enjoy the clink, clink, clink as dominoes topple in black and white lines? If so, pick up a copy of Toppling by Sally Murphy. Josa donated a copy for our library and wrote the following book review! John is the main character of this book. He is a boy with an unusual hobby–he likes to set up dominoes and tip th first one and watch them topple in complicated patterns. John’s goal is to win the world record of toppling. then something happens to make John’s world start to topple. His best friend Dominic gets very, very sick. This is a one-of-a-kind story about change, coping and friendship. This is a book for ages 8+ or anyone who wants a good read. It is illustrated very nicely. You can find Toppling by Sally Murphy in the realistic section of our library! Here is the call number: F MUR Realistic Have you every played the game dominoes? What have you built using dominoes? Skyping! Skyping! I’m SO glad someone invented Skyping! Today Ms. Holder’s library class skyped with author Stephen McCranie. Stephen is the author of the Mal and Chad graphic novel series. Instead of having the author come to our school, we visited with him virtually. A few weeks ago Mrs. Hembree found out on Twitter that Stephen was offering to skype with teachers and librarians. She signed up and our school is one of over 70 schools Stephen will “virtually” visit this fall. During the call we watched him draw on his computer. First he taught us that comics are stories + pictures. Then to develop our own story, he had us answer two questions: - What does my character want? - What is preventing my character from getting what he or she wants? We decided that our character, Tara, wanted to own a bakery, but her family wasn’t very supportive of that idea. She ran away, met a baker and learned how to become the baker she always wanted to be. After that we had a quick demonstration on how to draw a picture. We learned it’s easy if you use shapes like circles, squares or triangles. As Stephen drew on his computer, we tried to guess what famous characters he was drawing! In the last portion of our visit, Stephen asked us to start a story. Then before our eyes, he drew a scene from our story. While he was drawing, he also answered our questions. We found out that he has loved comics since he was about 5 years old. He drew his first comic strip for a school newspaper in college. He likes comics because they are a great way to express yourself. They are an artform with a lot of potential. He reads lots and lots of books and really enjoys the Bone series by Jeff Smith. Stephen said he believes that creativity is like a muscle in your head. When you practice you get better over time. If you want to get better at drawing , you need to draw and practice every single day. The tools for drawing don’t really matter. Pencils, crayons, pens – use whatever you want and draw, draw, draw. We will be sure to buy a few copies for the library! After about 30 minutes, our time was up! It was a great first Author Skype experience! Thank you Stephen for visiting the Bulldog Readers! If you are looking for Stephen’s books, here they are. We have both available for check out in the library. You can also link to his Mal and Chad website here. What do you think our story was about? Have you ever skyped with anyone? Do you like it? What is your favorite graphic novel or comic series? Pete the Cat is a good friend of Mrs. Hembree. This weekend he came home with her so he wouldn’t be lonely sitting in the library all weekend. On Saturday morning, Mrs. Hembree got up and walked into the dining room. What did she see? Pete the Cat was stuffing himself into a really big envelope! “What are you doing Pete?” she asked. Pete started singing! “Where are you traveling to Pete? I see there are some letters on the envelope. Does that say Australia?” Mrs. Hembree asked Pete. “YES! Australia!” Pete exclaimed! “I’m going to Australia and I’m singing this song!” “Pete, won’t you be scared? Australia is a long way from Seattle! It’s not even in North America!” said Mrs. Hembree. “NO!” he shouted! “I won’t be scared! I’m going to see my friend and I’ll be singing my song!” “Tell me Pete, how did you decide to go to Australia? Do you know someone there?” asked Mrs. Hembree. Pete said, “Do you know BB our Blogging Buddy? She asked me if I could come visit! So I decided since it started raining here, that I would visit her in Australia. Did you know Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere? When it’s fall here, it’s sunny and warm there because it’s springtime! I’m going to have fun and I’m going to be singing my song!” “Ok Pete. It sounds like you know what you want to do and who you want to see! Let’s go to the post office and get you on the road!” Mrs. Hembree said. “Thanks Mrs. Hembree! Don’t forget! I’m going to see BB and I’ll be singing my song!” Pete waved goodbye and was gone in a flash. She could hear in the background faint sounds of his song….. Oh no! Australia is a long way from here! Do you think he will get lost? Will he have fun? Will he get back in time to go to Prague? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think! It’s mid-October. The leaves are turning. The days are getting shorter and the nights colder. Are you looking for a new book? Check out what Angela drew for the library yesterday! Maybe you are thinking that it’s getting close to Halloween and you want a spooky book to thrill your reading time! Spooky stories are always popular with some students (not me – I get nightmares). This past weekend when I was in Yakima at Washington librarian conference I had the opportunity to listen to the author Royce Buckingham talk about his love of scary books and movies! Royce shared how the movie Jaws was particularly scary when he was a kid! I remember seeing it too and I didn’t swim in the ocean for a month afterward! However, he loves scary monsters and books like that, which is why he now is both an attorney and a writer of spooky stories. Do you remember seeing the photos from when Hitu visited the Jaws set last summer and did a little reading in Jaws! This is the movie Royce is talking about! Yikes! That is a scary photo! If you love this kind of book come in soon and check out the new books by Royce Buckingham. You don’t have to like monsters to like all the new books in the library! Look at this selection available! From graphics to humor to fantasy or mystery we have something new for you! Visiting Yakima was a lot of fun! I had a chance to talk with lots of other librarians and share ideas with them. If you are a teacher librarian looking for a link to my slides, here you go! Do you like to read spooky stories? Have you seen Jaws at Universal Studios? What new book will you want to read? Congratulations and thank you everyone who made our annual bookfair a screaming success! Also, between sales at the fair and sales online, we are at 103% of our fundraising goal! That means that I will be book shopping in the upcoming weeks for new books to add to our library. This is the stack I already purchased from the fair. If there is a book you absolutely must check out, leave me a reserve copy slip and I will get it to you as quickly as I can. Many, many thanks to our bookfair volunteers! Without their help, our fair would not have been such a great success! Here is our STAR CAST of volunteers! Mr. Fornia’s kindergarten class also deserves a Super Special Shout-out! His class had the most online sales of any teacher at our school! Way to go Mr. Fornia’s class! Everyone is getting a SUPER STAR bookmark! Woo-hoo! When I named this post Thank You Near and Far, it’s because of our blogging friends thousands of miles away from here. I want to give a terrific thank you to BB and her mom AA in Australia! On Friday when I got home from school, I found this in my mailbox! Inside was this….. I love my new Geelong Cats hat. This is an Australian “football” team. In the US, we call it “rugby” and in Australia, they call it football! Talk about confusing! Somehow BB found out that I love jewelry too, because she sent this beautiful bracelet. Somehow the words thank you don’t seem like enough for such a special package of gifts! The blogging friendship we have developed across the miles is dear to my heart. I hope someday we will meet in person! In the mean time, I have some new decorations in the library! And, last, but not least is a present I received from Penny! We have been reading Pete the Cat books and singing his songs in kindergarten. One morning Penny walked into the library before school started with this picture. “Do you know who this is?” she asked me. “It’s Pete the Cat and his SEVEN groovy buttons!” I replied. Thank you Penny for taking the time to make this drawing! It’s hanging in a special spot on our library wall! What books or series do we need to add to the library? Tell me about a special package you got in the mail! What should Pete the Cat do next?

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What Will “Post-Artifact Books” Mean For the Library?Posted: 14 Jun 2011 This is the post-artifact system. A system of unlocking. A system concerned with engagement. Sharing. Marginalia. Ownership. Community. And, of course, reading. - Craig Mod This morning Craig Mod published another beautiful and thought-provoking essay called Post-Artifact Books and Publishing: Digital’s effect on how we produce, distribute and consume content. Like his other writings, this essay examines the future of the book vis-a-vis traditional and new publishing models. The essay addresses ideas about social reading, where and how books will live and the best format for digital books. All said, it is a sprawling but inclusive essay that, I think, all librarians need to read. Now. In the opening Mod quotes Matthew Battles Library: An Unquiet History. After that little is expressly mentioned about libraries, forgivable since Mod, primarily a writer, publisher and designer, is not a librarian nor writing about what role they should play in shaping the future of books. However, the essay contains concepts that libraries are going to struggle with in the near future (if they are not already struggling with them now). A few questions: Libraries have always been somewhat social but what happens when the social is moved to the digital realm? How can libraries be a part of this. More importantly, how can libraries shape and connect this? Mod points to several examples of how books are being created and published by alternative publishing formats largely through reader interaction. How can libraries be sure that these important books that are either POD or produced by smaller publishers are made available? What are libraries doing to help shape the new systems in which books and ideas will be distributed? Working for rather than reacting to (or against)? How can libraries promote the de-emphasis of authority surrounding access to information and materials?

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Ben's Bargains Exclusive. Through August 27th, Ewatches is offering up to 90% off select watches. Shipping is free on all orders. Plus, get an extra $5 off order $50 or more or $10 off $250 or more when you use Google Checkout. The pictured Red Line 50027VD-BB-01W RPM Chronograph Watch is on sale for $60 - $5 off at checkout = $55 with free shipping.

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Brenda Richter, CPA is not your average advisory firm. Far from it. This firm does so much more than just “keep the score.” The firm will work with businesses to identify areas in the business that are not realizing their full potential and help improve them to build a stronger and more profitable future. The firm’s membership in the Principa Alliance means that customers have access to the collective knowledge and expertise of an international network made up of hundreds of professionals who specialize in consulting to small and medium-sized businesses by providing strategic planning services including creating an Outsourced Financial Management Team. Strategic planning can help you build a clear vision for your business so you can plan—and achieve—the success you deserve. The Outsourced Financial Management Team combined with Delta4 Advisory services provides a business with a structured approach to developing a strategic plan as well as a regular review of financial information as it relates to that plan.

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Timothy Hart remembers being curious about local history even as a youngster growing up in Stafford. "I grew up near an old railroad right-of-way, and I always wondered what had been there," said Hart, who graduated from Southern Regional in 1972. In those days, Ocean County was only beginning to feel the impact of the Garden State Parkway. And that right-of-way? That's where Route 72 is now, Hart said. Hart's love of history has now landed him in a role he could only dream of: That of county historian for Ocean County. Hart, who serves as the director of the county's Cultural and Heritage Commission, was appointed county historian by the Ocean County Board of Freeholders on Wednesday afternoon. Hart succeeds Pauline S. Miller, who has been the county's only historian previously. She died in December at age 93. "His love for the history of this great county makes him the perfect choice for county historian," Freeholder John C. Bartlett said. "Tim has extensive knowledge of the county's history. He is an expert when it comes to the role Barnegat Bay plays in county history, in addition to how historical events like the Civil War had an impact on this county." The title carries no salary, but Hart said he is very happy to be chosen for the post. "It's quite an honor," said Hart, who also serves as deputy director of the Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen's Museum in Little Egg Harbor. Hart, who serves as Stafford Township's historian, has been a member of the Stafford Township Historical Society since his childhood. His Linked-in profile lists historical organization after historical organization, going back to high school. A theology major at Georgetown, he minored in history, while majoring in theology at Georgetown. He later attended law school and passed the bar in the early 2000s. Hart not only studies history, however; he participates yearly in the reenactment of the battle at Cedar Bridge Tavern, site of an important Revolutionary War skirmish. Hart said he does not see himself as the kind of historian Miller was. "I don't know everything," he said, but instead he knows who to ask for the answers. That includes a vast wealth of town historians throughout Ocean County, whom Hart intends to get to know in the coming weeks and months. "It's my fantasy to tour each of the towns with their historians and have them point out, 'This used to such-and-such,' " Hart said. "We live in such a homogenized society, with all the McDonald's and Walmarts and such," Hart said. "When you know about the local history, it makes it kind of a special place." And that right-of-way that Hart grew up near? That's better known today as Route 72.

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