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DETROIT – Several General Motors factories in three states will soon share in a $1.3 billion investment so they can make higher-quality pickup trucks and new fuel-efficient engines and transmissions.
GM says the money will go to the Flint, Mich., assembly plant; an engine plant in Romulus, Mich., near Detroit; a transmission factory in Toledo, Ohio; and a casting plant in Bedford, Ind. Most of the work will be done during the next two years.
It’s unclear how many jobs the investment will create. GM would say only that it will create or keep 1,000 positions.
Nearly half the money, $600 million, will go to the Flint factory for a new paint shop and other upgrades. The plant makes the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks.
GM also will spend $493 million at its Romulus engine plant so it can build a new V-6 engine and 10-speed automatic transmissions that will make vehicles more efficient.
Around $121 million will go to set up a manufacturing logistics center at the Detroit-Hamtramck factory, and $31 million will go to the Toledo transmission plant so it can crank out more six-speed automatic transmissions.
In addition, the Indiana plant will get $29.2 million to make parts for the 10-speed transmissions and for six-speed transmission components.
GM CEO Dan Akerson said last year that the company is behind competitors on engines and transmissions. The moves to 10-speed automatic transmissions and the new V-6 engine will help to bridge that gap. Transmissions with more gears help engines operate more efficiently at all speeds.
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2019-04-18T18:43:39Z
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/2013/12/16/gm-to-invest-13b-in-factories/4044647/
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Hi! We're in desperate need of someone who knows how to code/can make a functional website for us and may be interested in joining our non-profit venture.
Our team is Eli Pier, Daisy Banta, and Skylar Chaney, and we're working on improving the concussion-recovery experience for students at Williams and eventually across the country.
We're working with the Office of Accessible Education, the Health Center, and the Dean's Office to produce an informative resource and support community for those suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
If you're interested or would like to know more, email Skylar (snc2)! Currently an unpaid position, but we may be able to work something out with the OAE to fund your work.
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2019-04-20T22:08:30Z
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https://wso.williams.edu/jobs/2540
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I. JUST. GOT. A. LUMIA. 630.
Also, I’m going to see ‘the mouse’ (see October/November posts) and my uncle on Wednesday.
I only heard about this yesterday!!
OK, so I randomly saw a note on my dad’s desk; it actually made me cry! I don’t cry a lot, not even at sad movies. Read it for yourself and see!
Now, is that sad or WHAT?!
I. AM. LESS. THAN. FIVE. POUNDS. AWAY. FROM. A. NEW. PHONE!!
So, I was in my room crying, and my dad came in and silly me thought he was coming in to see if I was OK (my room is where I go when I’m sad, or asleep).
FOR GOODNESS SAKE MY DAD CAME IN FOR A WASHRAG.
UGH I’m really upset at him now. He KNOWS my room is my primary sad source.
Which phone is right for you? TAKE THE QUIZ!
Looking to buy a phone, but don’t know which one? Help is at hand! Take this simple 5-question quiz, find out the best phone for you!
It’s Saturday afternoon and you have 1 hour of free time. What do you do?
If you could name 1 thing you needed to have on your phone, what would it be?
On average, how much are you willing to pay each month?
Why do you need your phone?
C) I just started walking to school on my own; I’ll need it to call my mom to tell her I’m OK.
D) We don’t have much for entertainment around the house.
Would you like an old or a new model?
A) NEW. If I’m going to replace my iPod, I might as well get a new phone.
B) Dude, there’s only one model on the market.
C) Old. I won’t use it much; why waste money?
D) Doesn’t matter. As long as it’s got games, I’m fine!
You love good music – and good trends! The iphone 6 is right for you!
Online shopping is right up your street! You’re totally unpredictable; first you’re buying a t-shirt, then you’re buying a car! Welcome to the fire phone!
Addicted to games? This is the right phone for you! The Samsung Galaxy S3 mini has a low price for big entertainment!
That’s it! Have fun with you new phone!
So today a boy in my class couldn’t bother to put his glue in the drawer, so my teacher made him write an essay (title of the essay is the same as the post title) of why you should never drop glue on the floor (it’s a glue stick). OUR TEACHER ACTUALLY PHOTOCOPIED THE ESSAY!!
6) I’m fully capable of picking it up.
8) Other people get tired of picking it up.
11) If someone’s crawling, their hand could hit it.
12) It’s a trip hazard!
Never drop glue on the floor.
There we are! 25 reasons you should never drop glue on the floor. You have GOTTA show this to your friends!
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2019-04-21T21:07:21Z
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https://bloggerofthebloggish.wordpress.com/2015/07/
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As a relaxed homeschooling family, our family’s combined learning time is crucial to our everyday routine. When you’ve got multiple children learning- all at separate levels- consolidating your homeschool regimen as much as possible is an absolute must.
For us, this happens during our daily morning time.
I cannot even begin to count the number of times I have mentioned KONOS Character Curriculum on my blog. This unit study resource is not only just about my favorite tool in our homeschool, but it’s also a symbol.
You see, after I burned out, sent my kids back to school, and then withdrew them again, KONOS was the first curriculum I used after I finally decided to never replicate school again.
Today I’m back for Day 2 of my series, How to Homeschool Multiple Children Without Going Crazy. Yesterday I gave an overview of what I’ll be sharing this week, but today I’m going to get down to the nitty gritty.
When it comes to homeschooling, the absolute hardest part for me has been coming up with a suitable game plan for teaching multiple children. And I mean multiple children.
The other day I wrote about a specific day in our homeschool with the littles. Today I’m going to focus on a recent day of learning with my 9, 10, and 12 year olds.
As with my younger children, I do not consider only our structured homeschool time as our learning time because each day brings so many opportunities for natural learning experiences that I’d be remiss to not mention them.
Of all the topics I write about, the one that generates the most interest is how to homeschool multiple children. I totally get it. If you apply the methods used by traditional schools to a home learning atmosphere, this could undoubtedly prove to be a stressful and hectic situation.
Fortunately, we homeschoolers are not bound by the routines held by compulsory schools. We have the freedom to tailor what we do to fit the indiviual needs of our own families.
Today I would love for you to join me over at Busy Boys Brigade for the 20 Days of Homeschooling Encouragement Blog Party, where I’ll be tackling this very issue. While you’re there, take some time to read some of the other amazing posts in htis series. You’ll be sure to feel refreshed and energized to start your new homeschool year!
Does the prospect of homeschooling several children have you feeling a little nervous for the coming year? After seven years of homeschooling my extra-large family, I’ve finally found a plan that works for our family that keeps the kids happy and learning, and Mom calm and confident.
Today I’ll be over at my friend Jen’s blog, Practical by Default, where I’ll be discussing the 3 most important ways we’ve kept sanity in our homeschool. Additionally, I’ve given examples of what our daily homeschool routine actually looks like.
If you’re looking for advice on homeschooling your growing family, this is where to find it.
Happy Monday, everyone! This is just a quick post to let you know that I am officially a guest contributor on They Call Me Blessed! I’m so excited to be working with so many talented bloggers on the 30 Ways We Homeschool Blog Party. Today I’m inviting you to stop on over and read about our family’s homeschool routine, including how we do it, where, when, and what we’ve chosen for the upcoming year’s curriculum. While you’re there, think about looking back through the other posts in this series. It’s always so amazing to see the many faces of homeschool!
Curious as to how a super-size family manages their homeschool? Join me in an overview of our days!
Today when I was looking over the search terms that bring people to my blog, I realized something profound- I write about homeschooling a large family but have never actually written about how we break down our day.
It’s important to note that my 14 and 16-yr.-old do take turns each week watching the younger kids until it is their time for school. This is such a huge blessing for me. We actually just started doing this in November, and I wish I would have thought of it long ago because it would have prevented so many stressful days! They do get a very small stipend for doing this, but it is so worth it.
To make things as simple as possible, I’m going to break down our day by using these three groups because that is exactly how things get broken down at home, too.
Before getting started, I do want to clarify that we are fairly relaxed homeschoolers. I do not believe lessons need to take six hours a day because there are so many other things to learn about in everyday life. I try to ground my children in the basics, inspire them with a few activities, and allow them the rest of the day to explore as they choose. With that being said, here we go!
10 am- Bible time-I usually read just a verse or two, and we have a very short discussion afterwards. Sometimes this may include a Bible story or even an episode of Veggie Tales.
– Table Time- I sit down with each child individually and work on math and either phonics or reading, unless one of those subjects will be covered that day in the unit study.
– Five in a Row– (This is done every other day, and we take two weeks to complete a book instead of one.) I read aloud a selected title, and we do two activities related to the story. This week we are reading Lentil.
11(ish)am- Bible Time- I read aloud from The Children’s Adventure Bible, and we have a question and answer time.
– Read-Aloud Time- Last week we started Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
– Table Time- As with the Littles, I work with each child individually on math and either spelling or grammar, unless one of those subjects will be covered in the unit study that day. As the children wait for their turn with me, they do their silent reading.
– Konos Volume 2– (This is done every other day.) Each unit focuses on a character trait. Currently for us this is inquisitiveness, and we are studying it through a section entitled “Research and Reference.” We typically do two activities per day and will sometimes read a separate read-aloud to go with the unit.
2:30(ish)pm- I read aloud from Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human.
That is the only schoolish thing we do before dinner and evening chores. The homeschool day of my teens does not normally begin until at least 8pm. Please don’t be dismayed. They are night owls, and it works for us in this season of life.
8pm- One-on-One-Time- While my teenagers do the vast majority of their work themselves, this is the time I’ve specifically set aside to help them with anything they need me to, usually some branch of math. Sigh.
–The 14-yr.-old– She loves to read, so we’ve taken advantage of that by using a literature-based math curriculum, Life of Fred: Pre-Algebra 1 with Biology. She and my younger children have actually been working their way through this entire series. What I like the most about this book is that it includes enough biology to count towards her science credit, so, although she always has library books checked out on everything from the universe to chinchillas, if she ever runs out of things to read, her science is covered. For history we use living books. Right now she is reading The Book Thief, which is based in WWII era. Since she does so much reading, and she loves to voluntarily write reports, the only language arts she does is vocabulary, and that is because she asked for it.
–The 16-yr.-old– If you’ve ever had a child who needs to be prodded along, this is mine. Don’t get me wrong. He is brilliant with computers and can probably identify every single spider and frog on the planet, but he does not like to be bogged down with school work. After much tweaking and trial and error, we’ve found a routine that works for him. He uses a math curriculum, but I usually only assign him every other problem because he has no patience for drilling. Like his sister, at his request, he does do a vocabulary curriculum. He uses library books and documentaries for astronomy, and he uses living books, movies, and documentaries for military history. He is also working through D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths and the accompanying Student Guide.
–The almost-17-yr.-old– This is my overachiever, but she would deny it if you asked her. 😛 She also uses a math curriculum for geometry. She’s in her 3rd year of psychology, her 2nd year of Japanese with Rosetta Stone and she is learning both sets of Japanese characters through a workbook from a friend who is from Japan. While we had no plans on doing geography this year, she became interested in US geography and devised her own intricate method of studying this subject involving mapping, demographics, and interesting facts about each state. She uses A Beka for biology and has already finished her grammar workbook.
….And that’s about it. I hope I didn’t make this too confusing for those of you looking for guidance on how to handle homeschooling lots of kiddos! If anyone has any questions or would like me to clarify anything, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment. I always look forward to hearing from you!
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2019-04-21T05:09:48Z
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https://redheadmom8.wordpress.com/tag/homeschooling-multiple-children/
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There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected.
We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it – it’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs. It’s more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world.
While the above graphic is quite ominous, I thought that “The World According to Monsanto” was worth watching.
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2019-04-18T11:08:43Z
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https://angelaadkins.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/monsanto/
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With a B.S. in Biological Engineering from Cornell University and an Master of Public Health (MPH) in General Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Pritika Dasgupta has had the opportunity to explore the biological and health fields from many perspectives – from understanding how systems work to approaching public health questions through micro- and macro-level inquiry.
During her undergraduate career, Pritika completed a research internship in which she studied social media usage among students and faculty and looked at how its usage impacted academics and research. This project introduced her to informatics, as she learned about websites, content management systems and data visualization.
After entering the MPH program, Pritika joined a general epidemiology lab, where she examined genome data and correlating risk factors within a longitudinal cohort study. For her final capstone project, she used mathematical modeling to study the evolution of virus-mediated cancers, such as human papilloma viruses (HPV), while also creating her own sexual behavior questionnaire as an extension of the project.
However, upon finishing her degree she realized that the research questions and data sets that she had been working on lacked an element of immediate application. She was ultimately drawn to the field of health informatics as it allowed her to have a more direct impact on public health.
“Looking at clinical data, there’s a lot more I can extract from it that people can see, whereas with epidemiological data or biological data – something more scientific and abstract – I don’t see it having a public health impact right away,” Pritika explains.
On an internship in Bangalore, India this past summer, Pritika was able to gain first-hand experience implementing and testing health informatics solutions within an international setting. As part of UMSI’s Global Information Engagement Program (GIEP), Pritika and her team worked on developing a comprehensive web portal for connecting the elderly, their families and eldercare organizations.
Currently in her second year at UMSI, Pritika has chosen to focus on data analysis, particularly data mining and natural language processing with clinical data. She plans to pursue a PhD in Clinical Informatics and hopes to work in both academics and research during her career.
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2019-04-18T23:08:24Z
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https://www.si.umich.edu/news-events/people-profiles/faces-umsi/faces-umsi-pritika-dasgupta
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(2) Urge government to investigate the abuses and tortures of voice to skull, mind reading and mind control technologies according to evidences and facts.
Thousands of victims have been suffering horrible persecutions from abuses and tortures of remote electromagnetic mind control technologies and voice to skull technologies. Some victims were tortured to be death or driven to be crazy; some victims were controlled to be bad. Most of them could not get strong evidences to prove that they have been horrible tortured and harassed by remote electromagnetic mind control technologies. Only few victims have facts and evidences to prove that they have been tortured and harassed by remote electromagnetic mind control technologies. I am one of them.
I have collected those victims stories (even it was only a small partial among all victims), and wish everyone could remember their sufferings.
“The Struggles of an Ordinary Man - The Turbulent History of China Through a Farmer’s Eyes from 1900 to 2000,” is the true record of one hundred years of modern history in rural areas of the Eastern Shandong Peninsula, including the Anti-Japanese War (1938-1945), China’s War of Liberation (1945-1949), the development of China after liberation (1950-1957), the Great Leap Forward Movement (1958-1959), the Three-year Disaster (1960-1962), the Socialist Education Movement (1964-1965), the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the reform and opening up of China (1978-2000). This work, with the spirit of unvarnished realism and true-life style, illustrates the actual life and inner mind of an ordinary man in rural areas and through his eyes to see the significant changes of China during the past one hundred years.
Scholarly Papers Presented and Published by Soleilmavis.
7. The Nü He People were the Funders of the Earliest Neolithic Chinese Astronomy, Calendar, Maritime Culture and “He” Culture.
Soleilmavis presented this paper at E-Leader Conference held by CASA (Chinese American Scholars Association) and Kogakuin University, 1-24-2, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo in Jan 2019.
(PartII) The Nü He People were the Funders of the Earliest Neolithic Chinese Astronomy, Calendar, Maritime Culture and “He” Culture.
(Part I) The Nü He People were the Funders of the Earliest Neolithic Chinese Astronomy, Calendar, Maritime Culture and “He” Culture.
"i need help for UNITED STATES' contacts and resources-- email addresses of people who can help me start with the investigation"
" There is a petition to the European Parliament initiated by Mojmir Babacek, a mind control victim from Czech Republic. https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ben-remote-attacks-on-the-human-nervous-system?wm=3049_a111 I have created…"
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2019-04-23T08:01:19Z
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http://peacepink.ning.com/profile/1033oxmqvvrga
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The Irish Rugby Football Union would like to express their sympathies on behalf of Irish Rugby to the family of Ireland International Moss Keane, who has passed away. Second row Moss Keane began his international career against France in Paris in 1974 and continued to play at the very top level of the game for over 10 years until his final international cap against Scotland in 1984. During that time he amassed 51 caps for Ireland and was also part of the team that secured an historic Triple Crown in 1982, the first Ireland had won since 1949.
As well as serving his clubs UCC and Lansdowne with great distinction, Keane was a member of the famous Munster team that defeated the All Blacks in Thomond Park in 1978 and was a stalwart for the province during his career. Keane was also capped for the British & Irish Lions, playing twelve games including a test match on the 1977 New Zealand tour.
The Committee and staff of the Irish Rugby Football Union extend their condolences to Moss’ wife Anne, his two daughters, Sarah and Anne Marie, and his extended family and friends.
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2019-04-20T18:50:03Z
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https://www.rugbyworld.com/news/moss-keane-478
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howstuffworks
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Many outdoors lovers take snowflakes as a cue to pack away their hiking boots and start a Netflix binge that lasts until spring. But just because it's winter doesn't mean you should give up on visiting America's national parks. Some of their best nature dishes doesn't emerge until the frost sets in. And with smaller crowds, you'll be more likely to see the beauty that Mother Nature is displaying.
The first national park in the United States — and in the world — Yellowstone National Park in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, was created in 1872 when Civil War hero and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act. The act jumpstarted a trend — there are now 58 national parks (and hundreds of memorials, rivers and related sites) scattered throughout America. Visitor numbers are booming, and in 2016, the National Park Service logged 331 million recreation visits, a second straight record-breaking year for visits [source: National Park Service].
The vast majority of visitors hit the parks during the peak summer months when school is out and weather is more accommodating. Then, minivans, tour buses and RVs pack park roads and campgrounds by the millions.
But some of America's parks are just as amazing — sometimes even more incredible — in the winter months. Sure, in some places, the off season means some areas may be inaccessible due to snow. But you may find that winter unleashes an entirely new personality in the parks you love. Here are 10 worth visiting in the colder months.
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2019-04-18T18:18:22Z
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https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/10-national-parks-to-visit-in-winter.htm
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I’m moving over to twitter @skeptswedscient, which I now find more flexible & efficient for up to the minute posting of skeptical, critical & optimistic thinking about science.
Dark Energy acoustic ripples confirm Universe acceleration: new Biggest & Best 3D galaxy map. Juno spacecraft with Jupiter Orbit Insertion completed: 250 000 kmph/4200km above/48min burn WOW!
Fantastic video of Mars Curiosity rover (& Humans) exploring a planet, driving up Mt Sharp, in our local Universe. Asteroid (18587) 1997 YR5 passing in front of the Milky Way while searching for Kuiper Belt objects for New Horizons.
Into the atomic realm, particle physicists are now digging themselves up out-of-the-mud by questioning unverified supersymmetric partners for the Standard Model. Particle Physics hits-the-wall: No new particles means The Standard Model is not “natural”.
Closer to the human realm: Species extinction or Local loss? Human global warming or Natural storm surges? Oh, what a tangled web we weave. Why do some favour extinction?
Do our science mistakes start with politicized school science teaching? One way out could be to stress in classes: Science ≠ The Consensus/Pal Review; Free Speech ≠ Not Offending; Democracy ≠ Voting “Right”.
To drag ourselves out of the Political Correctness now miring The West, we can stress: The Scientific Method uses empirical tools & reason to find objective truths about reality. No other “Ways of Knowing” are better.
Next is teaching school students how to engage in civilized conversations and debates. We humans still (after 2500 years) find it hard to get past even the first step. Lets keep trying!
The days of Political Correctness silencing Science seem now to be numbered. Anglosphere values, until recently derided, are rising around the civilised world again. Nations’ growing support for Representative Parliamentary Democracy, the rule of Common Law & Individual Liberty is leading to more criticism of politicised popular pseudoscience. The fight for free speech in US & UK universities grows. Fear & gloom predictions are failing. An evidence-based amazing, fantastic world, Universe & future waits. Good!
Anglophone ascending: I’ve just climbed up active 500 000 year old 5 peaked lushly covered stratovolcano Mount Nasudake in northern Japan. Andesitic 16 000 year old Nasu peak Chausudake still steams with sulfuric fumeroles from the last 1963 eruption & its recent 1993 earthquakes spike. WOW! What an inspiring ascent.
LIGO again captures 2 huge black holes (8+14=21) exiting the Universe, giving off 1 solar mass of gravitational wave energy. Human plans on leaving for Mars gain momentum with the Moon-to-Moon-to-Mons (Deimos to Olympus Mons) stagecoaching exodus.
Down on Earth, scientific method scientists are escaping The Consensus, relying on objective checking of facts rather than politically correct popular ideologies. Good!
Reef Wars: Govt-Green scientivist saviours vs scientific method scientists – more facts please! Polar Bear “scientists” – promoting fear instead of facts? Blonde not Polar-Grizzly hybrid.
The battle for university students to admit opposing viewpoints and critical thinking into their courses continues apace. Professors & parents push against SJWs (social justice warriors) for the education, not indoctrination, of their children. Profs censured by Bias Response Team: “Don’t teach alternate viewpoints!”. Unbelievable! Free Speech in Science – evidence (not offence) should be questioned. Even the scientific method “in practice” is escaping its traditional shackles of non-admittance of negative results: Scientific Egos stop publishing of their Scientific Failures so blocking Scientific Progress. British Brexit: “democracy in all its beauty and glory“. 7-to-1 UK scientists fearful & voted stay, worried about jobs & funding. But EU not needed for EU science funding & 97% of European R+D not financed by EU. Then the pound rebounds! Which EU country next?
So, its time to exit exuberantly, sailing into the Swedish Summer, reading sedicious science books & imbibing the delights of Swedish midsummer strawberries & cream sponge cake.
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2019-04-25T22:04:38Z
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https://skepticalswedishscientists.wordpress.com/
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Which control simulation (and time period) should each perturbation run be compared to?
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(c) Crown copyright 2005, Data provided by the Met Office Hadley Centre"
In first making reference to the data obtained from the CMIP3 archive, please include the phrase "the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset". Subsequent references within the same publication might refer to the data with terms such as "CMIP3 data", "the CMIP3 multi-model dataset", "the CMIP3 archive", or the "CMIP3 dataset".
"We acknowledge the modeling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the WCRP's Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset. Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy."
The errata page should be checked frequently to avoid analyzing "garbage", and to determine whether any of the files you have downloaded from the PCMDI site need to be updated or removed. If any of you find undetected errors in the data you are analyzing, please contact the responsible modeling group and copy [email protected].
One general warning concerning the global attributes in each file -- the "title" and "comment" attributes may in some cases incorrectly identify the experiment, whereas the "experiment_id" will always be correct. If there is a conflict, rely only on experiment_id.
Click here for experiments and time periods requested from modeling groups.
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To minimize confusion and maximize uniformity across analyses, authors are urged to use the official CMIP3 model "I.D.'s" when referring to individual model results. In addition it would usually be appropriate to include a table containing the names of the modeling groups along with citations to their relevant papers.
Click here for available documentation of models and their simulations, which have been contributed to the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset. Note that for most models you can find information concerning the forcing that was applied in each simulation.
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2019-04-20T12:34:29Z
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https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/info_for_analysts.html
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brewerfan
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In part 42 of our 894 part series, we take a look at the man with greatest name (as well as an impressive mustache) in franchise history, Billy Jo Robidoux.
Billy Jo Robidoux (pronounced Roe-Buh-Dough) was born in Ware, Massachusetts, in 1964. A left-handed hitting first baseman, Robidoux was a 6th round pick by the Brewers in the 1982 draft.
From the get go, it was clear that Billy Jo Robidoux could hit. His career minor league batting average would be a robust .308. And he walked more than he struck out. He hit .287 as a rookie. Then as a 19 year old at A- ball, he hit .317 wit 10 HR. But Robidoux would break out in 1985 as at AA El Paso, hitting .342 with 23 HR and 123 RBI en route to winning the Texas League MVP award.
For his efforts, Robidoux would get an 18 game trial with Milwaukee. He would hit 2 HR and drive in 4 runs in the final game of the season - a glimpse of good things to come - or so thought Brewer fans.
For many Brewer fans, Robidoux represented a chance to incorporate an exciting young hitter into an aging line up (guys like Cooper, Gantner, Yount, Oglivie, and Moore with 30 and older).
The next season, 1986, Robidoux would get a chance to play when Cecil Cooper was injured. The big 1B started out well, hitting .290 over the first six weeks of the season (although with little power). However, he would injure his knee, sidelining him for month. When he returned, he was not the same player. In a slump - and not playing full time - the Brewers sent Robidoux to the minors for two months. When he returned to the Brewers, his problems continued, and he would finish the season hitting just .227 with a single HR in 56 games.
In reality, Robidoux's chance had come and gone. Injuries would dog Robidoux and he would play in only 153 games total in 1987 and 1988 (56 of those were in Milwaukee, the rest at AAA). But the magic hitting stroke was now gone. Even at AAA he struggled to be anything more than ordinary. In Milwaukee, he struggled, hitting .194 and .253, respectively, in limited action.
Granted free agency after the 1988 season, Robidoux signed with Chicago. He would hit well at AAA, but fail to register an impact at the big league level, hitting a meager .128 in 16 games. He would move on to Boston the next season, winning the 1B job out of training camp. However, he would struggle to hit in the first month, then (again) injure his knee. His career was, essentially, over. Billy Jo Robidoux was 26.
I could not find out a lot about Robidoux's post-baseball career, other than he returned to his hometown, Ware, Massachusetts, working for the city's highway department. He has stayed involved in baseball, umpiring at the high school and college level. He remains part of the Brewer family, participating in past fantasy camps.
Billy Jo Robidoux had an unremarkable career. He hit .209 with 5 HR on 468 at bats in parts of six years - most in Milwaukee. His 13% walk rate is probably the one thing you can highlight about his time in the big leagues. Without question, his knee issues hampered his once-promising career - not unlike other baseball players, such as Mat Gamel.
However, while Robidoux never hit at the major league level, his 1985 season was one of the finest in Brewer minor league history. A 1.020 OPS, 97 BB vs only 62K, a .342 BA and 23 HR. That was stuff that made Brewer fans drool. But unlike today, those shiny numbers were masked by context. Robidoux's team, El Paso, hit .302 collectively. Yes, Robidoux had a great year. But in context of the extreme hitter's park he played in, our expectations should have been tempered.
Alas, it was not be, and Billy Jo Robidoux would go down in Milwaukee Brewer history as one of the organization's most disappointing prospects.
Still, no one could take away the man's name. When someone looks for the most unusual names in baseball history - Billy Jo Robidoux often shows up on their lists.
Feel free to share your memories of former Brewer 1B Billy Jo Robidoux.
Blast from the past. I remember reading the paper and keeping up with him at El Paso as I also did with Randy Ready earlier. I was excited about him because his stats were so good.
I was going to make a Mat Gamel reference but you were already ahead of me. I was very high on Mat’s hit tool.
I don't remember much about Billy Jo, but I do remember he was the first of those lenticular baseball cards I ever had (the kind where the image on the card shifts as you tilt it from side to side). I think he was already basically done with the team when I got it.
Yeah Sportsflics cards. He had his own and a team card with Yount/Riles/Deer and him on it. 1986 was the first year I really started collecting cards as a kid and really wanted a Robidoux card at the start of the season but none of the card companies (Topps/Fleer/Donruss) had them. By the time the update sets came out late in the year he was having a pretty bad year and the demand for his cards was way down.
As a kid, I remember Uecker doing the same over the radio. For as little as he ended up playing, his name has stuck with me all these years!
I followed him a lot, too -- Sporting News when they'd have minor league team stats, plus the minor league updates in the "What's Brewing" magazine -- and was so pumped when he came up. The knee injuries did him in. So disappointing -- not in him, but for him, and thus also for us as Brewers fans since we'd never get to see what he seemed certain to become -- the mid-'80s version of Mat Gamel for sure -- all he did was hit!
Agreed. I just loved that elongated ending. I was so wrong about him—thought he was going to be a 40 double 20 homer guy who hit .290 to .310. Loved his crouch too. He just hunkered down, smooth swing, man oh man I thought he was the real deal.
Had he worked out, the Brewers likely wouldn't have been in on Greg Brock and then Franklin Stubbs. That's not on him, but more a reflection on where they were financially and in talent evaluation.
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http://forum.brewerfan.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=38114
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Bees swarm in the spring to divide their colonies when they outgrow their hive. And so it happened in Maine in June that we found a swarm from Dan’s hive up in a small bush.
In a swarm, a reigning queen flies off with half the worker bees in tow. She leaves a new queen to stay behind and assume the old throne. As you can see this in the photo below, the worker bees in the swarm cluster in a tight entourage around the queen. They rest while scout bees look for a suitable place for this new colony to live. The queen considers something hollow an ideal place to start again, and the rest of the bees are attracted to the queen’s pheremones and will follow her wherever she goes, loyal subjects to the end.
Sweetheart has placed an open man-made hive with natural beeswax under the branch holding the swarm, and he will shake the branch and the bees will fall into the new hive, and voila they will have a new home. We will leave the hive under this branch until night to give the scouting bees time to smell their queen and enter that hive. Then we will move the new hive at least 5 miles away from the old hive. Bees forage 2.5 miles so moving them beyond that range reduces confusion about where to return home.
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https://hihathoney.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/swarming-in-maine-by-harriet/
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While nearly every telescope at professional astronomers' disposal observed this source, known officially as GW170817, X-rays from Chandra are critical for understanding what happened after the two neutron stars collided.
From the LIGO data astronomers have a good estimate that the mass of the object resulting from the neutron star merger is about 2.7 times the mass of the Sun. This puts it on a tightrope of identity, implying it is either the most massive neutron star ever found or the lowest mass black hole ever found. The previous record holders for the latter are no less than about four or five times the Sun's mass.
"While neutron stars and black holes are mysterious, we have studied many of them throughout the Universe using telescopes like Chandra," said Dave Pooley of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who led the study. "That means we have both data and theories on how we expect such objects to behave in X-rays."
"We may have answered one of the most basic questions about this dazzling event: what did it make?" said co-author Pawan Kumar of the University of Texas at Austin. "Astronomers have long suspected that neutron star mergers would form a black hole and produce bursts of radiation, but we lacked a strong case for it until now."
"GW170817 is the astronomical event that keeps on giving," said J. Craig Wheeler, a co-author on the study also from the University of Texas. "We are learning so much about the astrophysics of the densest known objects from this one event."
"At the beginning of my career, astronomers could only observe neutron stars and black holes in our own galaxy, and now we are observing these exotic stars across the cosmos," said co-author Bruce Grossan of the University of California at Berkeley. "What an exciting time to be alive, to see instruments like LIGO and Chandra showing us so many thrilling things nature has to offer."
A paper describing this result appears in the latest issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available online. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
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http://www.chandra.si.edu/press/18_releases/press_053118.html
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What is the Master of Arts in Patent Practice (MPP)?
Our MPP program, which is the only one of its kind in the Midwest, is designed to prepare students for careers as patent agents. Patent agents draft and prosecute patent applications before the United States Patent & Trademark Office on behalf of clients, who may be individual inventors or scientific staff working for a start-up or large corporation. The MPP degree is designed for students with a technical degree and presents a viable alternative to the full 3-year JD.
How will a Master of Arts in Patent Practice advance my career?
There is a growing demand for patent agents at law firms and corporate legal departments. The reason for this demand is that preparing and prosecuting patent applications is a highly-specialized skill requiring both (1) a technical background; and (2) a firm grasp of patent laws and patent office regulations. Students come to the MPP program well-prepared in a technical discipline, but understandably lack a deep understanding of patent law - the MPP program is designed to remedy this, immersing the student in patent law and patent office practice. Through a series of courses and experiential opportunities, the MPP student not only learns the intricacies of patent law needed to become a successful patent agent, but will also represent actual clients and prepare and file patent applications on their behalf in our IP Venture Clinic.
How many credits is the MPP?
The program is 30 credits, 15 credits in the fall and 15 in the spring. A part-time option is also available.
Courses are held at the CWRU School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio.
Not at this time. Courses are all held in-person.
What kinds of jobs do MPP graduates receive?
MPP graduates obtain jobs in law firms or corporate legal practices.
Yes! Merit scholarships are available through the Master of Patent Practice Program. Other types of aid may include federal and/or state loans, and financial assistance through the military and employers.
9 months for a full-time student. An 18-month part-time option is also available.
An undergraduate or advanced degree in engineering, physical, biological or computer science.
Aylin Drabousky. Ms. Drabousky can be reached at 216-368-1806 or [email protected] or use our contact form.
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2019-04-24T19:47:20Z
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https://law.case.edu/Academics/Degrees/Masters-in-Patent-Practice/FAQ
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This problem set deals with the internal and external angles of the polygons up to an octagon.
To what extent can the mean, median, mode and range accurately describe a set of numbers? The mean, median, mode and range will be used to analyze a variety of different number sets to better understand what each represents.
The following set of questions will introduce various methods for finding the perimeter of objects with missing side lengths. Ways to maximize and minimize perimeter will also be explored.
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2019-04-18T10:24:22Z
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http://scienceres-edcp-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/tag/elementary-math/
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In 2015 twenty percent of all employees at UiB had foreign citizenships, in 2017 the number is 23 percent with citizenship other than Norwegian.
In September 2017, the University of Bergen has 4614 people registered as employees (incl. full and part-time positions).
1047 employees, or 23 %, have a citizenship other than Norwegian.
Among PhD-candidates there are 37 % with foreign nationality.
There are 81 different nationalities among UiB staff.
Statistics of international employees working at University of Bergen show they come from all continents and 79 countries.
Germany is the dominating foreign nationalities with 137 persons, followed by Sweden with 70 persons and United Kingdom with 64.
Among the scientific staff 27 % have a foreign nationality.
Table of employees 2015 sorted by nationality and type of job.
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https://www.uib.no/en/ir/83167/international-staff-uib
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Ernst Haeckel – Evolution's controversial artist. A slide-show essay about Ernst Haeckel.
Kunstformen der Natur, Wikimedia Commons: over 100 detailed animal drawings.
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https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2
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We are proud to announce the newest addition to our staff, Dr. Daniela del Gaudio. Dr. del Gaudio received her PhD. in Clinical Molecular Biology from the University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy. Shortly after graduation, Dr. del Gaudio joined American Board of Medical Genetics training program at Baylor College of Medicine and became certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics. Prior to joining The University of Chicago Genetic Services, Dr. del Gaudio spent three years as an Assistant Director of the DNA Diagnostic Laboratory and Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. At Baylor, she participated in the development and implementation of a number of novel molecular approaches towards diagnosis of genetic diseases. One of the focuses of her work has been the development of exon-targeted oligonucleotide array platforms for the detection of copy number abnormalities in multiple genes specifically involved in neurodevelopmental disorders and genes known to infer a higher risk of inherited cancers. In addition to the development of tests for clinical application, Dr. del Gaudio has had an active interest in determining molecular mechanisms for novel mutations detected through routine testing.
Dr. del Gaudio is very excited about her new position at The University of Chicago and looks forward the implementation of novel strategies towards the diagnosis of ultra rare orphan genetic diseases as the genetic basis of more of these disorders become understood. She is enjoying her adjustment, even the almost record-breaking blizzard, which was quite different than the weather she was used to in Houston!
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2019-04-19T15:28:26Z
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https://dnatesting.uchicago.edu/news/meet-our-new-associate-director-daniela-del-gaudio
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Chase Treibt and his four brothers are changing beer pong for the better.
After his friend swallowed a hair that had been wrapped around a ping-pong ball, Chase and his bros invented Slip Cup, a product that cleans up beer pong and widens its appeal beyond college frat parties.
A Slip Cup is a mini-cup with a thin rim that catches the ping-pong ball and keeps it from contaminating your brewskie. They're made from recycled plastic and they fit into both 16- and 18-ounce disposable cups.
Flaps inside the cup prevent it from popping out — and since Slip Cups are center-weighted, you can say goodbye to spilled beer.
The brothers, who hail from Brookfield, Connecticut, launched the product on Kickstarter, where they've already exceeded their fundraising goal. We got on the phone with Chase to learn more about Slip Cup and why beer pong isn't just a college game.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Were you surprised that you surpassed your $70,000 Kickstarter goal in just 10 days?
CHASE TREIBT: Oh it's amazing. I have to be honest, it's really cool because we didn't think it was going to be this big this quickly. We thought we had a good idea, but everyone seems to just really like it — even adults, and that's why we've been able to get so much press and so many people to share it.
BI: So who exactly is the target demographic?
CT: It's definitely college students, but we believe it's like video games. Our parents played video games ... and they're not going to stop playing video games. Our generation grew up on drinking games and we're not going to stop playing drinking games.
BI: What's the story behind the name Slip Cup?
CT: [My brothers] Chad and Trevor said it at the exact same time. I know they're twins and that's weird, but I swear to God they said it at the exact same time, Slip Cup. We think it's catchy! Slip Cup is like Solo cup, flip cup, Slip Cup.
BI:Where can we expect to find these bad boys?
CT: When we did our market research, I was pretty surprised to find Walmart is the by far the number one place kids said they would expect to see this product. I'm hoping Walmart, Exxon, 7-Eleven, but I dream big.
BI: What's been your biggest success so far?
CT: Oh it has to be the viralness. We made a lot of money pretty quickly with Kickstarter, which was cool, but it's just, like, how everyone shares ... and more people seem to like it than not.
When we did the market research it was something like 91% liked the product and the other 9% said they didn't drink. It's just cool to create a product that other people like and say they need.
BI: We know Slip Cup keeps your beer clean, but are there any other unique features?
CT: The cool thing about the product is the games. It's the games that are really going to take this product to the next level. You add strategy, you add memory, you add all types of different stuff to the original game, and it just makes it a lot more fun.
BI: Where do you see this product in five years?
CT: I dream big, so I really believe it's going to be on store shelves everywhere. You're going to go to your friend's party and you're going to say, 'Let's get solo cups, Slip Cups, ping pong balls and beer.' We made everyone's favorite game better by making it clean, but now we've added 15 new games that you're not going to get bored of.
CT: For long term goals, I'm working on getting a bar code now and we're going to start contacting retailers because kids don't buy stuff online. They're on their way to a party and someone texts them and says, 'Hey, we need cups for beer pong. Can you grab them at a gas station?' That's how I played when I was growing up, and that's how I see this product — it has to be cheap and it has to be available all the time, otherwise it's not going to be a success.
BI: OK, now tell us the truth, who is the best beer pong player out of you and your brothers?
CT: Oh it's definitely me. I am good, I'm not kidding.
Watch the Treibt brothers' Kickstart video to learn more.
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2019-04-23T12:57:39Z
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https://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/21/dont-trip-up-slip-cup/21211601/
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Ch Raspberry Pi contains additional modules of GPIOviewer, Ch WiringPi Package, and Web-Based Computing. C-STEM Studio is included in C-STEMbian.
The PDF file of the textbook “Learning Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi for the Absolute Beginner” is included in C-STEM Studio.
You can get started with Barobo Raspberry Pi Starter Kit.
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2019-04-23T06:29:15Z
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http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/studio/pi/
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The mother, Analia Bouguet, tells TeleNoticias TV that the hospital still has issued her only a death certificate for the infant rather than a birth certificate. Bouguet said she is planning to pursue a medical malpractice suit.
Argentina is no stranger to "miracle baby" stories. Last December, a healthy set of dicephalic conjoined twins, aka a baby born with two heads, made international headlines.
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2019-04-22T12:01:51Z
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http://anndandridgepublicrelations.ning.com/profiles/blogs/miracle-baby-newborn-baby-found-alive-in-morgue-12-hours-after-be
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A request for a proposal is a crucial step in the sales cycle. It creates the change to get one step closer to a customer and a new project or deal. But writing a proposal is not easy.
Proposals come in many sizes and shapes, depending on the organization that asks for one. In some cases, it is better to avoid a formal proposal and opt for sending a letter outlining the products and services to be offered.
Following are some tips for writing a professional proposal.
In many cases, the customer just wants to see a short overview of deliverables with prices.
Customers are far more interested in the deliverables than in methodologies or processes. Quite bluntly, they just want the job to be done; how it is done is of secondary importance.
Customers want to cooperate with a business partner they can trust. To show that you are not only on the same wavelength, but also want to be their partner, share ideas that can help them.
As in many cases, it is the quality, not the quantity that counts. Limit the amount of pages, and make sure the proposal is about the customer. Focus on how you are going to solve the customer’s problems.
will avoid misunderstandings and future complications.
The proposal must be accurate, so make sure to validate and double-check all data before presenting it. Check every small proposal detail and watch for typos and style mistakes.
Make sure that the right people receive the proposal on time. You can submit it by email or hand it over in person. The latter guarantees you a higher change of closing the deal.
Almost every organization needs technical writing due to the need for user guides, instruction manuals, quick guides, user manuals, white papers, product documentation, training materials, etc.
Since technical writing has become essential part of today’s business and government, jobs can be found in almost any industry sector. The demand for technical writers is expected to grow, since enterprises need to communicate existing and new scientific and technical information to others.
Many technical writers prefer to specialize in a specific industry such as telecommunications, computers, bio-tech, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, health care, or manufacturing. This way, they can build expertise in e.g., software documentation, tutorials, white papers, or user guides.
Technical writing is as diverse and there is an overlap with marketing writing. Product instructions, reference and maintenance manuals, articles, project proposals, training materials, technical reports, catalogs, brochures, online documentation and help systems, Web pages, multimedia presentations, parts lists, assembly instructions, white papers, sales promotion materials, tenders, RFI and RFP, and tech blogs require the skills of technical writers.
Technical writers enable enterprises to tell their users how to use their products and services. Those users can be consumers, system integrators, resellers, scientists, engineers, plant executives, line workers, production managers, but also product reviewers, tech journalists, and tech bloggers.
Technical writing is different from marketing writing. Technical writing describes the current situation; marketing writing also covers what will be. The writing style between the two is therefore very different. Good technical writing is concise and easy-to-read. In many cases, technical writers are also expected to deal with the graphics, layout, and document design.
Thinking of becoming a technical writer? Then look for a technical writing course near you. It normally also includes an internship to get hands-on working experience.
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2019-04-20T03:20:12Z
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https://tiptopwriter.wordpress.com/2011/06/
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Tony Foulds was an 8 year old kid in 1944, playing with friends in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield, England. Overhead he saw a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft returning from a final mission in Denmark, where the Luftwaffe left it badly damaged. He witnessed the plane crash, killing all 10 on board. The plane was called Mi Amigo. Tony later learned the aircraft had been attempting a crash landing in the park – the only green space for miles – but diverted course for fear of harming him and his friends.
A memorial to the men was erected in the park and Tony has quietly tended to it ever since. Years later, a BBC journalist, Dan Walker, saw Tony one day placing flowers at the memorial. He was so impressed with this story that he began an online campaign to make Tony’s dream to properly commemorate the air crew who died with a flypast, come true.
Last Friday, British and US military aircraft were dispatched from the UK’s largest US air force base in Suffolk, before flying over Endcliffe Park in Sheffield at 8.45am. Tony and a large group, including the deceased’s relatives and U.S. military representatives were on hand for the occasion – his dream had been fulfilled. Another flypast of four F-15 jets was simultaneously conducted over the graves of three of the US aircrew who are buried in Coton, Cambridgeshire.
God bless Tony for his efforts and dedication and may the memory of the airmen be eternal.
Great story about respect and recognition and like you say especially in todays of hatred and selfishness and disrespect.
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2019-04-26T02:13:02Z
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https://arroyocitynews.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/sacrifice-and-heroism/
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American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, "AICPA professional standards: Code of professional conduct and bylaws as of June 1, 1992; Code of professional conduct as of June 1, 1992; Bylaws as of June 1, 1992" (1992). AICPA Professional Standards. 112.
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2019-04-25T18:07:19Z
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https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_prof/112/
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Beach Life – Must Haves!
We are head over heels for these Smiley beach accessories from our Benetton range. Solving problems for must-have holiday items with some positive enthusiam.
Smiley have teamed up with hip eyewear brand Nunettes to create a club worthy collection. These stylish and fun pieces are available to buy online here. A perfectly cool accessory for your holiday both day and night – these shades are sure to attract some cheerful attention.
We’re feeling all warm and loved up over in the Smiley studio today and couldn’t resist sharing our Smiley ‘Love’ bags with you. Butter soft leather contrast with a canvas back creating cool accessories with a free love hippy spirit – perfect for adding some playful updates to simple summer apparel. Check the out on our store here.
We are super excited about the launch of Benetton‘s new range of Smiley sleep, beach and underwear ranges due to hit the stores at the end of this month….watch this space for more info and product news…we can’t wait!
Cardelicious have just launched their Smiley Happy card collection with a super exciting range of greetings cards. Whether its birthday chuckles or positive encouragement – our playful range is guaranteed to make you smile! We snapped a few of our favourites to give you a sneak peak below…for the entire range please check out the Cardelicious online store here.
Shake off the day’s stresses and wind down for a relaxed and happy night’s sleep in these super soft and playful pieces from Smiley’s collaboration with Etam. Our range has been so successful that we are booming into our 7th consecutive season with the on-trend high street store. Stylish enough for Sunday lounging as well as under the covers, these cool pieces are available in 500 Etam stores across Belgium, France and Spain. Order some for yourself online here.
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2019-04-25T19:55:39Z
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https://smileyworldblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/
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As we look forward to an economic recovery in 2010, we must make plans to grow our system-level business in conjunction with our Alliance Partners. We continue to add sales resources to identify and pursue these system-level opportunities.
Delivering new products with the latest technologies along with quality technical support.
Well-integrated platforms like PXI and CompactRIO where you can pick the modules that meet the customer’s application.
We also continue to give you more ability to customize our products. Not only in software, we now let you program the hardware with FPGAs. We even let you designs your own hardware – like CompactRIO modules and the new FlexRIO front-end for PXI.
We also provide you with reference designs and architectures to help your engineers build good solutions for our customers.
We encourage you can learn more about how these products can create more opportunities for your businesses.
But, for you, it’s not just about having good technology, it’s about managing your business. It is not simply about solving the technical challenges of a particular project, but building a system integration company that can reliably deliver those solutions.
As I travel around the world, it has been a privilege to learn about your businesses. And, I try to share what I have learned in Alliance Day presentations, one-on-one business consultations …. I have even started this blog to foster best business practices.
So, when will we see an economic recovery? We believe that we have seen the worst of it. And while we must rebuild from 2006 levels, we are expect a modest recovery in the coming years. The good news is that NI is in an even stronger position as we continue to take market share.
National Instruments often refers to the PMI which has been a good indicator of how our business will perform. The PMI began to decline in 2007, the deteriorated rapidly in 2008-09 with the severity of the economic downturn. But, over the last few months, the global PMI has begin to recover – becoming positive in Q3.
We have seen our business stabilize over the last several months. We believe that we have ‘hit the bottom’ and are beginning to rebuild from that new level. We saw a return to growth in Q3 and are anticipating sequential growth in Q4 as well.
And, as the economy recovers, we believe that we will be in an even stronger market position. We’ve continued to make strategic investments through this downturn and belive that we are actually gaining market share. So, we will reap the benefits of this position as the market returns.
As our system-level business returns, we expect our Alliance Partner business rebound and continue to grow as a percentage of our overall business. Those Alliance Partners that can successfully manage their business will be in a better position for growth.
Well, here we are in December. As always it is an opportunity to review our performance over the past year as well as make adjustments and plans for next year.
It has been a challenging year for most of us, so I thought I’d offer a little humor. During my 20 year career at National Instruments, our business mostly looked like this. That was until year year – and the Great Recession.
After several years of steady growth in our revenue, we began to see the effects of the Great Recession in the 4th quarter of 2008. This trend continued into 2009. And, although the decline has stopped, our business is significantly down from where it was a year ago.
Unfortunately, this trend has also adversely affected our Alliance/VAR business. For the past several years, we not only growing revenue, but actually increased it as a percentage of our business. But, as the recession took it’s toll, particularly on our larger system-level business which is commonly channeled by our partners, we’ve seen an adverse affect on our partner business.
OK, enough bad news. Next week we’ll talk about the chances of an economic recovery and what that will mean for NI and our partner business.
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2019-04-22T06:16:44Z
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Editor’s note: Diya Nijhowne is the director of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, which was established in 2010 by groups concerned about ongoing attacks on educational institutions, their students, and staff in countries affected by conflict. The views expressed are the author’s own.
Although the girls were badly injured, all three thankfully survived. Unfortunately, Malala and her classmates were not the only Pakistani students attacked in the past year. In June, for example, 14 female university students were killed when militants blew up their bus in Quetta, Balochistan, a western province.
Pakistan’s teachers and administrators have also been targeted. Five teachers were killed in January in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. In March, another was shot and killed in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. A principal and six school children died that month during an attack at their school in Karachi.
Schools and university buildings haven’t been spared. Militants set off explosives at a girls’ school in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, also in March. And classrooms have been used for military purposes just as the Pakistani armed forces used Malala’s school during a 2009 operation to uproot the Taliban from Swat Valley.
Violence against students, educators, and educational institutions isn’t unique to Pakistan. We have documented attacks on education in about 30 countries in the last five years. On September 29, the extremist group Boko Haram killed more than 40 students asleep in their dormitories at Nigeria’s Yobe State College of Agriculture. That same day, an airstrike killed as many as 16 people, mostly students and teachers, at a secondary school in the Syrian city of Raqaa. Just this week, a dozen students were killed in an attack on a school in Iraq.
Schools are attacked because they are seen to represent the government, or the curriculum is viewed as perpetuating certain values. The Taliban, for instance, demolish schools and threaten teachers and students where they believe the education provided is “un-Islamic.” Girls schooling suffers particularly, as Malala’s story illustrates. She has been blogging and advocating for education – particularly for girls – since she was 11. The assault was a direct attack on her views, her “audacity” in publicizing them, and girls’ education.
Education is also attacked as a means of challenging the political system, or perceived ethnic or social inequality. Baloch militants have directly fired at non-Baloch educators as a tactic in their separatist struggle.
Armed groups and security forces have used classrooms as barracks, firing positions, weapons storage, and detention centers because of their thick boundary walls, which make them good tactical sites, and because they have toilets, washing facilities, and cooking spaces. These uses harm education. Armed forces and armed groups often shut schools down entirely, or they make the learning environment so difficult that students stop attending. An armed presence can also trigger attack from opposing forces, threatening the lives of those within.
In every country where education is under assault, access to and quality of schooling suffers. Parents are less likely to send their children, especially daughters, to classes, teachers flee, and schools close. Furthermore, violence and threats against education stunt long term social development and economic growth for the whole community.
Preventing violence and threats directed at students, teachers, professors, schools, and universities requires a concerted response. Governments, armed forces and groups, international organizations, and communities should all play a role.
At a minimum, countries should criminalize targeted attacks on education personnel and institutions, investigate attacks, and hold those responsible accountable.
Donors and implementing agencies, meanwhile, should support projects and programs that protect schools and universities, working with the government and with communities on prevention and response.
Armed forces and armed groups should not use schools for military purposes. Countries should endorse and implement the Draft Lucens Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict, which we developed in extensive consultation with numerous countries, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organizations. These guidelines, drawing on international humanitarian and human rights law, as well as good practice, help states and armed groups improve protection of schools and universities when planning and implementing military operations.
A year after her attack, the battle to protect education remains critical. It’s time we all joined our voices with Malala’s.
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Right to Education is a problem unique in the Islamic world. The examples quoted here are Pakistan's Taliban and Boko Haram etc. Right to Education is not a problem anywhere outside the Muslim World. People born in non-Islamic countries are so fortunate.
The common theme here is Islamo-fascism.
Why should the U.S. give ANY money to governments that don't do anything about the terrorists within their own borders?
muslims attack education because islam is a religion based on ignorance believed in large by ignorant masses. If people become educated they will see that islam is a lie so they must fight against educating the masses.
Really a shame because a lot of the things we teach in Western schoois – especially in mathematics – come from the Arabic world. We got the number zero from the Arabs. During the Crusades, the Arabs were more educated than the Europeans. I think that the only thing Islamic about these groups is their name.
Islamists love terrorism. They hate education.
In Columbia, armed civil conflict between government forces, left-wing non-state armed groups, and right wing paramilitaries has led to direct and indirect attacks on schools, a military presence around schools, and targeted attacks on teachers.
Students, teachers, and schools have also been targeted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they have been caught in conflict between the Congolese Army, the Hutu-led Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), and the Congolese Tutsi-led National Congrese for the Defense of the People (CNDP). Armed groups have occupied and damaged education facilities, and students and staff have been shot, abducted, or recruited at school.
In the Oromia region of Ethiopia, ethnic-based conflict has resulted, in a few cases, in students being shot, arrested, and beaten–particularly at the higher education levels–and in schools being targeted and used for military purposes.
Maoist groups in India have directly attacked schools, often citing use of classrooms by the Indian security forces to justify the attacks–although, fortunately, the frequency of these assaults has declined in recent years. Students and teachers have also been reported shot or abducted.
In her speech to the United Nations this past summer, Malala herself stated, "The terrorists are misusing the name of Islam and Pashtun society for their own personal benefits. Pakistan is a peace-loving democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. And Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood. Islam says that it is not only each child's right to get education, rather it is their duty and responsibility."
Across the world, non-state armed groups, and in some cases even governments, target education as a tool for achieving political, ideological, or military objectives. This is not particular to any faith, ethnicity, or region. The point of this article is that students, teachers, schools, and universities should be left out of these battles.
The Taliban and Islamist militants have no other means to make themselves heard other than violence. They have a couple of smart guys to lead them. Otherwise the rest of them are backward henchmen. So much so that they can't bear the idea of being outsmarted by educated women.
Education is under political assault in the USA. Right wing and corporate interests are undermining the public schools, with vouchers and charter schools. They want to replace the public schools with schools run for profit, and/or politicized curricula (creationism, no global warming, etc.). Read Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch.
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One of the examples of false notions and beliefs used by Francis Bacon in Novum Organum. The basic idea is that mankind falsely assumes that human sense is the measure of all things. This mistake has been made by many philosophers. Protagoras is probably the one most remembered for it.
Bacon said that all things are measured by the individual and not the measure of the universe. He also characterized human nature as "... a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
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plaza suite | one playwright. one blog.
Patricia Kennedy and Peter Lawford – April 24, 1954 Wedding (pictured below).
Jean Kennedy and Stephen Smith – 1956 Reception at the Plaza.
Singers Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence – Aug. 12, 1963 in State Suite.
Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower – 1968 Reception (along with 6 other receptions that day).
Join the cast and crew of Plaza Suite for afternoon tea at the Plaza before the show! Enjoy full tea service, including a selection of premium teas, scones and preserves. After the show, you’ll also be invited to a discussion with the artists and a private backstage tour. One of Neil Simon’s most popular and celebrated comedies, Plaza Suite details the misadventures of three very different couples – all in the same room at the world famous Plaza Hotel.
Plaza Suite opens tonight – we’ve had a run of great previews, giving us a chance to get used to the timing of the show with an audience laughing, and now we’re ready to do it for real.
This has been a fun trip for me as an actor (that’s me on the right, playing hot-shot Hollywood producer Jesse Kiplinger, pining for my high school sweetheart Muriel Tate, played by ensemble member Frances Wilkerson) and as a producer. Everybody in the cast is feeling good and having fun, and we’ve got six more weeks to play with this after tonight.
7:04 – I arrived at the theater about fifteen minutes ago, after an early dinner with some great friends who stopped by Chicago on their way from New York to a new home in San Francisco. They’ll be in the audience tonight, along with hopefully lots more great people.
All of the actors are here now, and we’re just starting to get ready – putting on makeup, checking props, wandering about aimlessly with the energy of a new show in front of an audience.
I’m off to get ready myself – since my character starts off by emerging from the bathroom where he’s just finished shaving, that’s part of my preparation for this show. I’ll go do that, and get into costume, and then I’ll be back.
This is my first time live blogging – I don’t know quite where this will go. If anyone is reading this in real time and has any questions about what really happens backstage during a performance, leave a comment below.
7:34 – Just got the call from the stage manager – the house is now open. I’m freshly shaved and in costume – well, part of my costume, anyway. I don’t actually go on stage until after intermission (around 9:00), so I’ve got some time.
8:01 – I can hear the murmur of the crowd over the monitors (they’re designed to let us hear the show from the dressing room so we know when our cue is coming up, but they’re good for listening to the audience too, although I can’t make out what anyone is saying). The play should be starting any second now – we must be holding for the audience to make their way in from the lobby. I’ll go check.
8:09 – The show just started. CeCe and JP are on stage now, Ted is waiting for his entrance, and the rest of us are in the dressing room, quietly running lines, doing crossword puzzles, and putting the final touches on makeup. I’m getting used to my new John Lennon sunglasses, which I’ll be using on stage for the first time tonight.
8:14 – The Cubs are up 1-0 in the fifth.
8:26 – Going well so far – the first act is getting some good laughs from the audience, and the energy sounds good. I’m still waiting – in full costume now – for my entrance. I’ll go over the script one more time before I go on, checking some of the lines that I’ve struggled to remember in the last few performances. They’re all in my head somewhere, but it always helps me to look over everything a few minutes before walking out onto the stage.
8:49 – It’s amazing how much this show is still funny for us in the dressing room – we’ve seen it almost every day for the last six weeks, and we can only hear the dialogue over the monitors (no video back here in the dressing room), but we still laugh a lot as we’re listening to the actors on stage.
8:58 – Intermission. I need to go get ready to go on.
9:12 – Wally the bellhop here; Nat and Frances have just started the second act, and the belly laughs are rolling into the aisles. The show tonight is moving along wonderfully, a big, lively house. Just listening to the show from the dressing room, is pure pleasure. This troupe of actors have such a grasp on Simon’s language and an awesome ability to improvise on the words; curving, toying, bouncing the words off the walls. The bellhop duties are large and complicated. Dressing and presenting the room to our lovely guests, seeing to their every whim and need, to anticipate those needs and desires before they even know they want them. For instance, for the Visitor from Hollywood, the room is decorated in divine flowers and fully stocked with the very best liquors we provide. This is to make the guest, the famous Hollywood produce Jesse, with the illusion that he is our finest guest we have ever had here at the Plaza. The truth is most of the vodka, scotch and bourbon that I have supplied him with is from the Truman Capote costume party, reused, but presented with the elegance and professionalism that is the standard here at the Plaza.
9:44 – It’s Nat again – Frances and I just finished our act, and I just learned that the bellhop’s name is Wally. Tonight’s run felt great – the audience seemed to be “delighted,” as one of my fellow cast members described it backstage, and Frances and I both felt good when we got backstage. Our energy was good, our timing was on, and we had a lot of fun. And we still get one more crack at it before we open on Sunday. Act three has started now – Jon and Cheri are just beginning their half-hour journey of frantic absurdity as they try to get their daughter to come out of a locked bathroom on her wedding day.
9:53 – Cubs lost 2-1. The Astros picked up back to back doubles off Bobby Howry in the ninth.
10:02 – We share our dressing room / backstage area with Woody Guthrie’s American Song, and their music filters through (not into the theater itself, thankfully). They’re ripping through This Land is Your Land right now, and it sounds like a real hoe-down back here. They close on Sunday – I hope whoever comes into the studio theater next is as much fun.
10:08 – The stage manager is about to call places for the curtain call – time to go get some love.
10:14 – And that’s our show. Have a good night, everyone. Maybe we’ll try this again later in the run.
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I really liked it. It looked like the shirt I bought awhile back.
I was thinking it was a necklace and pendent. Must have read it wrong.
the rey mysterio necklace pendant is made of plastic.
all other wwe superstar necklace pendants I've purchased were made of solid heavy metal, very well made.
sadly this rey mysterio necklace pendant is plastic, poor quality, looks, and feels cheap.
avoid this product, returning for a refund.
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Never meet a bad boxer love the breed however don't they have a short life span.
I've had four Labs. All love kids and know how to act around them.
Adopt a young shelter dog. I have two pit mixes that I adopted at 1yr of age and they love people (especially children), other dogs, and even other animals. Proper socialization is more important than breed, IMO.
Any young shelter dog. There are too many dogs now, shelter pets have so much to offer. We have adopted 4 over the last 20 years, all have been great additions to our family.
We currently have 2 daughters and 2 dogs with a 3rd dog likely getting adopted in a week.
"My" dog is a 15 year old mixed breed rescue (Australian Cattle dog possibly). He's self feeding and has never had an accident in the house. If I could get him to comb out his undercoat, he'd be basically perfect. He was almost two when we got him and has been there since each of my daughters were born. He's always been their protector. He greets each one of us when we get home and won't eat or sleep in the evening until both of my daughters are in the house.
The 2nd dog is my wife's 10 year old dachshund which is essentially useless other than for cuddling.
The upcoming third dog is a 1 year old bull terrier / lab mix rescue that is finishing some vet treatment and will hopefully be the new eyes and ears for the house. If she's half as good as "my" dog, she'll be an awesome addition to the family.
Labs are a close second but nothing beats a GOLDEN - particularly when it comes to kids.
No, this is not something I'd recommend allowing or encouraging. The little one climbed on while we were getting ready for a outing and of course we had to take a pic before taking him off.
It's also interesting to note that this is my dog when she was 3 years old and that she was not raised with a child in the house (he's my god son) nor did she have a lot of exposure to kids this young in general. This is the first day that these two actually meet each other.
We have a Cocker Spaniel, she is great with the kids, very sociable.
Years ago I got a blue heeler male from a rescue. By far, the finest dog I've ever known. Today I met the border collie that is a member of our staff at the golf club - hounding the geese, etc. Very nice dog. For families I do like golden retrievers. I don't think you'll find any in a rescue/shelter. I do recommend adopting vs buying from a breeder. A couple I know love heelers too. The one I got from a rescue lasted as long as three they got from breeders (heart problems, etc). Breeders, almost across the board seemed to be really doing some harm - to many breeds. Just my opinion.
Young dogs 1 - 2 yrs old and even puppies can be found at shelters, you just have to do some legwork. I strongly urge anyone looking for a new dog to do the right thing and get a rescue/shelter animal.
Our Vizsla just turned 6. She’s awesome, they’re nicknamed the Velcro dog. She’s has a ton of energy but she snuggles more than any dog I’ve had. I think they’re great dogs for a family but you have to be active. They won’t exercise themselves so you gotta put in the work haha.
If you're looking for a new family member you can't go wrong with a Jindo. These dogs are extremely loyal to their family and are extremely smart. Our girl lived 16+ years until she fell ill from a stroke.
While expensive, I recommend an English Bulldog. I look at it as an investment in the happiness of my wife and kids. Our Stella is so even tempered, it's ridiculous. We got her when my youngest was 4. Like any rambunctious 4 year old, she would fall on her, hug her as hard as she could, and just generally be in the dogs business all the time. Not once has she nipped, growled, or barked at our kids. Plus since she's so short and round, she can't really get on any of the furniture to spread her fur around. I couldn't imagine our house without her in it.
I love English bully’s. And will consider getting one once we our daughter gets a little older.
Our Vizsla just turned 6. She's awesome, they're nicknamed the Velcro dog. She's has a ton of energy but she snuggles more than any dog I've had. I think they're great dogs for a family but you have to be active. They won't exercise themselves so you gotta put in the work haha.
Will test your sanity first 10 yrs then its down hill.
Wouldent trade my boy's for anything great dog's.
After our son isn’t born in a month or so, we’re going to start looking for another puppy. Probably another V but I like the liver GSP’s but they’re not as cozy as V’s.
another vote for labs - we have one from the rescue....and he is awesome.
My Border Collie has been awesome, great with kids. Incredibly smart, loves to play, liked to herd the kids when they were little, can probably do long division, and doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Borders are special dogs with only one negative, a lot of fur.
I used to have an Australian Cattle Dog, and he was awesome with my daughters. He was very different than the Border. Cattle Dogs are ultra protective, and he would absolutely die trying to protect his family from a threat. I love ACDs, but they are for the 1% of dog people.
I'm in the same boat as a lot of people, any type of dog is the right dog, its all about how they're raised.
With that said, I do have a GSD that is the best dog ever. She is so mild mannered and smart, has energy but not limitless energy. The one thing I wasn't prepared for was the shedding. There is so much hair all over the place. But when she goes on her way, I'll almost promise the Mrs and I will get another one.
Had a Golden Retriever for 13 years and loved him. He literally was my best friend and one of the worse days in my life was when I put him down. I promised myself that was my last dog.
Fast forward 25 years, divorced, re-married and now we're both retired. Wife finally wore me down saying "let's just get a little dog, he won't be much trouble" I now have Max, a Morkie (Yorkshire and Maltese mix) He's 9 pounds of chaos but I can't believe how attached I am to him. He is my shadow when I'm home, sits in my lap while I watch TV, and you can't believe how he greets me when I get home.
I purchase him from a family who's female is his mother. They have 3 young ones and the Morkies are great with kids.
So, if you have room and a big yard I'd recommend the Golden. If you want something smaller that doesn't shed, you can't go wrong with the Morkie.
We had a basset hound that was wonderful. He would let little kids do pretty much anything. We recently adopted a tree walking coonhound and he is fun too.
If you love dogs than you must see this. Exposes the pet food industry, why pets shed hair, have cancer tumors, age earlier, etc. Just FYI . . .
Thanks for all the suggestions. We are going to adopt a dog soon.
For a family dog, you absolutely cannot go wrong with a Golden Retriever. They're very even tempered, affectionate, easy to train, and not aggressive. They are a pretty active breed and require a good bit of exercise, they are prone to weight gain if not exercised enough or over fed (and trust me, they will sniff out food, so keep secured) and they shed. Everywhere. A lot. Brushing at least three times a week is a must.
English Bulldog. Ours is AWESOME with our 3 and 1 year olds. He is going to be 7 this year and since bulldogs have a VERY high pain tolerance and are beyond laid back. He never cares when one of the kids are using him as a trampoline or pulling his face wrinkles to see how far they can stretch. It also helps that his top speed is about that of a 3 year old too so when they are playing in the yard is an even playing field speed wise.
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2019-04-25T08:36:25Z
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Last night was very cool/strange/draining/fun/ anything else I can throw in there. After the screenings, which my soon to be in-laws attended (Thanks for the support Montie, Pinkie and Eric, Love you!) along with the Team, we bumbled our way over to the DIA to figure out who was or wasn't going to go in for the awards.
There was some confusion. I won't go into it.
Anyhow, A.E.G., Shirley, Blake and myself all got in ... eventually. Starving and crabby as all get out from lack of food, sleep and water (we shot a music video all day Saturday) They could not keep me off of the hors d'oeuvres for the next hour (or possibly longer, I had no concept of time) I eventually planted myself right next to the door the waiters were flowing out of and flagged them down enthusiastically, giggling like a little school girl and exclaiming things like "My mouth has never been so happy" and "Oh my God this is the best thing I've ever had ever."
Seriously, I don't know if it was because I was so hungry or that these little morsels were really THAT good.... I was eating braised beef on mushroom caps and freaking out about the yumminess and I don't even like mushrooms.
All in all it was good times. I met a ton of great people and sat in one of the coolest rooms I ever did see. Horrible for showing films due to the roof being entirely glass and it was not yet dark, but still.... cool.
Stay tuned for the online debut of "The Aftermath"
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As February comes to a close and Spring gives way to Winter, I can’t help but notice that I am STILL stitching CHRISTMAS things! What is wrong with me!? I don’t know if it’s because I love Christmas so much, or I just can’t work up the energy to go through the stash box and sort out something a little more appropriate for the time of year. Looking back though, I was stitching Summer holiday things in December, so maybe as a stitcher I am destined to always be working on unseasonable things!
I hope for my next update to have done something more substantial, now that I am fully back in good health, and my Postgrad courses are coming to a close. I would love love love to be able to get back to working on my Magnum Opus, so please be patient with me while I write up my final essay- I can’t wait!
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Yesterday David and I thrashed through a lot of the detail for the relaunch of East Lothian's online service, from new name to, well, what on earth wasw going to mark it out from other Local Authority work.
Today couldn't be more different. I'm up early and off to London to speak at The Language Show in Olympia. It's a great event and a tricky one to present to since the audience is teachers, parents and learners of all ages. I'm hoping they won't be disappointed with my Live Web contributions.
I take it you posted this from some airport then?
sure did. great for getting things done, as long as you're not in a train tunnel!
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In May 2017, Seema Verma, the Trump-appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, issued a letter to governors calling for “innovations” to the healthcare programs in order to enhance “human dignity.” But as studies have shown, the type of work requirements encouraged by the agency are ineffective in reducing poverty, and create barriers to life-saving services.
On Friday, Kentucky received approval from the Trump administration to enforce Medicaid work requirements, the first among at least 10 states currently seeking to enact the change. These mostly Republican-led states include Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin.
Tajah McQueen is a parent and a member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, an organization fighting for tax reform to fund education and healthy communities. McQueen recently enrolled in Medicaid after being laid off from her full-time catering job.
Beginning in July, Kentucky will require recipients of Medicaid to work or volunteer 20 hours a week and pay a premium to continue to receive benefits. Though some recipients will be exempt from the work requirements, including pregnant women, primary caregivers of a dependent, full-time students and the disabled, Miranda Brown, outreach coordinator at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, argues that the changes will create barriers for many who would otherwise qualify and who have no other means of obtaining coverage. “So many people who access Medicaid live in rural areas where jobs and training programs are scarce and public transportation is non-existent,” says Brown.
Darrion Smith is a member of Black Workers for Justice, a statewide organization of Black workers in North Carolina, as well as a regional Vice President of the UE Local 150, the North Carolina public service workers union. Both organizations are active in the Moral Mondays movement, which has vocally resisted North Carolina’s refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Smith believes that North Carolina’s proposal to further restrict Medicaid is directly connected to the GOP’s recently passed tax bill.
Bill Higgins, an advocate with Homeless Voices for Justice in Maine, points to the impact of work requirements on the SNAP food assistance program in the state, which led to more than 9,000 people losing benefits when the requirements went into effect in 2015. While rates of food insecurity are falling in most states, in Maine those rates are rising, and currently sit higher than the national average.
Homeless Voices for Justice has rallied against other proposed changes to Medicaid in Maine, including mandatory premiums and co-pays. Higgins says the organization is committed to fighting the new work requirements as well.
Many supporters of these new work requirements, including Kentucky’s Republican Governor Matt Bevin, admit that such changes will result in people losing benefits. Bevin’s administration estimates that nearly 100,000 people will lose access to Medicaid in the five years after the requirement goes into effect. This willingness to throw people off of coverage demonstrates that supporters of the work requirement are more interested in gutting Medicaid than in increasing either employment or healthcare access.
The Trump administration, for its part, appears willing to ignore studies showing that individuals thrown off of Medicaid will have no other access to care, and as a result could face serious illness and premature death. After pushing through a tax bill that will throw 13 million Americans off of healthcare, these new changes to Medicaid are further proof that the administration is willing to pursue an agenda of tax cuts for the rich while low-income Americans are forced to pay the price.
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Phil is all in on project hatch-the-duck-eggs, even building a whole habitat for them -- no one else is as enthused about this project and Lily is the only one suckered into helping him. Claire, meanwhile, is nervous about pitching her new closet ideas to Jay and his creative team, and for good reason it seems. And, Gloria and Manny help each other out with their respective “crushes,” while Cameron develops an unhealthy attachment to the frat guys renting their upstairs unit.
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The evocative ruin of the late 13th-century castle of Castell Dinas Brân has been the subject of posts before on Archaeodeath here and here. The site is key to my ongoing collaborative work with Patricia Murrieta-Flores regarding the landscape context of the Pillar of Eliseg, and my work on Project Eliseg. Hence, the hill is worthy of another post.
The hillfort and later castle is positioned to dominate the Vale of Llangollen’s easterly end and exit into the Cheshire plain, as well as the ford at Llangollen itself and westwards along the Vale towards Corwen. It is unproven but possible that the hilltop was occupied/utilised intermittently throughout the first millennium and early second millennium AD before it enters the historical record before its destruction and abandonment during Edward I’s conquest of Wales.
From the castle, the dramatic limestone outcrops of Creigiau Eglwyseg and Trevor Rocks block views to the north and north-east. This is not, however, in any regard a ‘blindspot’ for the castle’s which dominates the landscape in this direction too, including parts of the Eglwyseg valley to the north-west.
Previously, however, I have not seen the castle specifically from the north-north-west: from high up in the Eglwyseg valley, although I have previous viewed it from Fron Fawr to the east of the Pillar of Eliseg.
Here is a view I recently took from higher up the side-valley to the north: close to the Clwydian Way to the east of Pentre-dwfr. I hope you like it.
From this perspective, the castle is viewed from the north with the Vale of Llangollen behind it. The valley you are looking down likes between the Trevor Rocks and Fron Fawr, i.e. the valley heading north from the Vale of Llangollen parallel to the Nant Eglwyseg along which Valle Crucis and the Pillar of Eliseg are situated.
More than like it, I think it is key to an important argument I would make about the significance of the hilltop in the first millennium AD and the approaches to the Pillar of Eliseg that Paty and I will be outlining in a research paper forthcoming in the journal Medieval Archaeology. Namely, we suggest that the site of the later castle might be part of a visual control network guarding approaches to the area of the Pillar of Eliseg and the later monastic house of Valle Crucis. In the forthcoming paper, we hope to demonstrate this in greater detail.
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2019-04-22T14:53:56Z
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https://projecteliseg.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/castell-dinas-bran-from-the-north-north-west/
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Man am I sorry that I haven’t been able to write my blog much recently, but I have been crazy busy at the shop. July was a record-setting month and I haven’t had a day off in a long time now. When is low season coming????
I have been so busy with booking divers, try dives and courses that I haven’t even been able to go on the boat and get some diving in.
Hopefully when the new boat finally comes I can finally get out and dive. On that note, we are just waiting for some paperwork from the Thai government so we can get my ship in the water.
Today was a great day with Ben and Jacob finishing their PADI open water and junior open water courses with Claudio. Also Gaetano finished his open water course with Joe. Stella, Tao and Bruce all had fun divers to Koh Tao and Sail Rock and Axel had discover scuba divers to Koh Tao. Nicola was starting some open water divers at our shop. Tao and his divers even saw some bull sharks today at Sail Rock. Wait till the bull sharks see me. they’ll go running away like girls.
Tomorrow is another crazy one as we have 5 boats going out tomorrow. We got Stella, Axel, Joe, Claudio, Nicola, Tao and Bruce all on he boats tomorrow and the conditions are looking great.
The weather is also starting to calm down now and the winds are going to start dropping down more and more everyday. We haven’t had much rain at all, but it also hasn’t been to hot either.
Well, I got to get going and chase some of these neighborhood cats a little. I don’t want them getting too overconfident about roaming in my neighborhood after not seeing me for a few days.
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2019-04-23T16:42:19Z
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https://discoverydivers.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/
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A coma is the fuzzy-looking glow that can be seen around the head of a comet.
Many comets pass close enough to Earth to be visible to the eye, but most small or distant comets can only be seen with a telescope.
A comet's tail can be very long and beautiful. It sometimes stretches for millions of miles.
Leave your spaceship on the launch pad for this mission. If there's any heavenly body that’s best seen from Earth’s surface, it’s a comet. These leftovers from the formation of our solar system aren’t much to look at up close. Each is an irregular ball of icy slush, frozen gases, and dark minerals just a few miles or kilometers wide. Comets originate far out in the solar system—some from the so-called Kuiper Belt of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, and others from a more distant region known as the Oort Cloud. Why journey for years in a cramped spaceship to see a dirty snowball—especially when some comets come to visit us? And when they do, it’s one of the greatest shows on Earth.
Like planets, some comets orbit the sun on a predictable schedule. Halley's Comet, the most famous of these weird wanderers, drops by Earth every 75 years or so (it’s not due for its next visit until July 2061). As a comet nears the sun, ice and dust boil from its slushy center—called a nucleus—to form an atmosphere known as a coma. Sunlight “blows” gas and dust from this coma to create a spectacular tail. Some tails reach 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) long and can be seen from Earth, the comfiest seat in the solar system for comet spotting.
• NASA launched several unmanned missions to study comets. A paparazzi of sensor-laden craft buzzed Halley’s during its last approach in 1986. Another probe actually collided with a comet in 2005.
• Halley’s peanut-shaped nucleus is barely 9 miles (15 kilometers) long by 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide. Its gravitational pull is so slight that you could leap off its surface into space—another reason not to visit!
• For much of human history, comets were not welcome visitors. They were thought to symbolize times of disaster and doom.
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2019-04-24T12:46:51Z
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https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/space/comets/
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HUMBOLDT, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined religious and community leaders at an emotional vigil on Sunday night to honor the 15 members of a junior ice hockey team killed in a bus crash that shocked the hockey-loving nation.
“Today and for every day forward we are all humble Broncos and we will be forever humble Broncos strong,” Broncos President Kevin Geringer told the members attending the vigil.
For the prairies community of Humboldt, population about 6,000, ice hockey is a sport that unifies the town and gives it its identity, bringing home two national championships.
Townspeople and team supporters gathered at the local Uniplex sports and education complex to comfort each other. An online fund-raising initiative to help the victims’ families has raised C$3.7 million ($2.9 million).
He estimated 300 to 400 people had gathered at the complex on Friday evening. Grief counselors were on hand and the Red Cross was providing support to players’ families as well as the families who billet players.
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2019-04-21T01:43:47Z
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https://in.reuters.com/article/canada-crash/trudeau-attends-emotional-vigil-for-canada-bus-crash-victims-idINKBN1HG0GD
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Kaspersky's Russian Roots Come Under Scrutiny The Pentagon may soon be prohibited from using anti-virus software and other products from Kaspersky Lab. The Moscow-based company is alleged to have ties to the Kremlin, which Kaspersky denies.
The Pentagon may soon be prohibited from using anti-virus software and other products from Kaspersky Lab. The Moscow-based company is alleged to have ties to the Kremlin, which Kaspersky denies.
Other than vodka, the Russian product most familiar to Americans is probably the antivirus software made by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. And the Pentagon might soon be prohibited from using any Kaspersky products. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have both just approved such a ban for the military. They cite ties to the Kremlin, which Kaspersky denies. NPR's David Welna has our story.
DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: Things began to look bad for Kaspersky Lab in the middle of a hearing that the Senate intelligence committee held in mid-May. Six intelligence agency chiefs sat at the witness table, and Florida Republican Marco Rubio had a question for all of them.
MARCO RUBIO: Kaspersky Lab software is used by, if not hundreds of thousands, millions of Americans. To each of our witnesses, I would just ask, would any of you be comfortable with Kaspersky Lab software on your computers?
WELNA: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was the first to answer.
DAN COATS: A resounding no for me.
WELNA: Then National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.
WELNA: One by one, all six said no. For James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the chorus of no's came as no surprise, given that the firm's owner, Eugene Kaspersky, studied at a KGB cryptography institute.
JAMES LEWIS: And he still has a company that operates out of Moscow. So for an intelligence agency, those are going to be red flags.
WELNA: Lewis says his own suspicions about Kaspersky were piqued by a conversation with Russia's ambassador to the U.N.
LEWIS: One day, he came up to me and he said, in Russia, we have saying that once you are a member of security service, you never leave. And I said, well, that's not true in the U.S. And he said, well, it should be. And then he walked off. And as he was walking away from me, I thought, what did he just tell me about Eugene Kaspersky?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Please put your hands together for Kaspersky Lab's very own chairman and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky.
WELNA: A video that Kaspersky Lab posted last year on YouTube shows the company's owner striding onto a stage in front of employees with its North American division. Kaspersky's message to them was the world needs our products.
EUGENE KASPERSKY: The world is vulnerable. It's a dark age of the cybersecurity.
WELNA: Kaspersky Labs said its CEO was not available to talk to NPR, but his firm did issue a statement saying, quote, "it is completely unacceptable that the company is being unjustly accused without any hard evidence to back up these false allegations." Over the weekend, Kaspersky told the Associated Press that reports were true that FBI agents had recently visited at least a dozen Kaspersky employees in the U.S. And while Kaspersky also acknowledged having former Russian spies on his staff to the AP, he denied any wrongdoing.
KASPERSKY: The company stays on the bright side of the cybersecurities. So we do all the best to protect our customs. We stay in the bright side and never, never, never go to that dark side.
WELNA: Some who know the firm well hold it in high regard.
RICK HOLLAND: Kaspersky in the cybersecurity community has a very good name.
WELNA: That's Rick Holland at Forrester Research. He tracked Kaspersky Lab for years.
HOLLAND: I know many people that work there. I know many Americans that work there, so they're thought very highly of. But given the political climate, it's kind of not surprising that you would see this come up again.
WELNA: And despite doubts about Eugene Kaspersky, cybersecurity expert Lewis has praise for his firm.
LEWIS: They make a good product. They do good research. I use some of their research myself. So there's no question about the company or what it makes. There's questions about where it happens to be headquartered.
WELNA: Do you use Kaspersky to safeguard your computer?
WELNA: The Pentagon has not said whether it uses Kaspersky products, but the threat of a ban clearly has Eugene Kaspersky worried. He's now offering to move more of his company's research to the U.S. and even make its source code available for American officials to inspect. David Welna, NPR News, Washington.
MCEVERS: We should say Kaspersky Lab is among NPR's financial supporters.
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2019-04-25T19:05:39Z
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https://www.npr.org/2017/07/04/535530381/kasperskys-russian-roots-come-under-scrutiny
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The latest teaser trailer for "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1" has an important message for the citizens of Panem: unity.
While President Snow's (Donald Sutherland) latest propaganda campaign -- which features captured victors Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) -- is again meant to instill conformity for fear of retaliation, it doesn't go as well as his first. Instead, the rebels of District 13 break through the telecast to give the citizens a dose of what is perhaps Snow's biggest fear: hope.
The first half of the "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" premieres November 21 and is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig. Jennifer Lawrence stars as the fearless Katniss Everdeen in the story based on the popular Suzanne Collins novels.
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2019-04-20T15:47:53Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2014-07-09-sns-201407091300reedbusivarietyn1201259783-20140709-story.html
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My brain is really squishy but it’s how I do my thinking.
So, how does my squishy brain actually do the thinking? I get how a computer can process things but how does my brain do it? And especially how does my brain enable me to contemplate the fact that I can even contemplate this?
Supplementary question: does my brain work in binary?
Another supplementary question: why is this question so mind-weirding that I almost don’t want to know the answer to it?
Two things: one, I have been wondering the same question my whole life and 2, remember me, Daniel! 😀 its me carter from 2nd or 3rd grade when you were in the U.S I was that guy that loved Doctor Who like you did.
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2019-04-20T19:06:32Z
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https://wisdomofdaniel.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/question-of-the-day-brains/
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A call for research proposals to improve the provision of sanitation services in Kisumu, Kenya with a view to local private sector involvement.
This research project is commissioned under the Urban Sanitation Research Initiative, which is a 2017−2020 research programme core-funded by UK aid from the UK government, and managed by Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP).
the identification of priority policy measures and/or public private arrangements for enhanced private sector targeting of low-income customers, based on negotiated consensus between the private sector and institutional stakeholders.
The research aims to identify specific policy measures which are both potentially impactful and viable prospects for implementation: as such, we will strongly favour approaches which set out a clear path towards securing institutional commitment to trialling candidate measures.
GBP 100,000 inclusive of VAT.
For further details please see the WSUP call document.
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2019-04-24T12:26:03Z
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https://www.gci.cam.ac.uk/funding/funding-archive/wsup-ukaid-call-incentivising-private-sector-provision-of-faecal-waste-emptying-services-to-low-income-customers-in-kisumu-kenya-deadline-23rd-july-2018
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It was the purpose of this study to explore if there is a more effective way to practice aural skills, one that could be individualized as well as computer based: a method of practice that would enhance what the instructor does in the classroom and help the student reinforce their recognition of the basic elements of aural skills and dictation. Concept mapping, which has been beneficial in other educational settings, especially math and science, might be such a way. The goal of this study was to examine if this procedure could be applied to aural stimuli in the same way it has been applied to verbal information.Sixty-four students in a first year college aural skills class were randomly assigned to two groups. Following a pretest of twenty-five chords randomly chosen from a pool of fifty, one group was presented with a lesson on concept mapping while listening to the chords and the other group received a distractor task. The results of these tests showed a higher gain score for the treatment group, M = 5.33, than for the control group, M = 1.25. An Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), showed a moderately significant gain of p = .030 (one-tailed) for the treatment group. Overall, the test results indicated a positive effect of the treatment on the ability of the participants to recognize chords in the posttest. Due to the limitations in the present study, more research is suggested to determine the effectiveness of the process.
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2019-04-21T22:14:27Z
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/6943/
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On November 28, 2018, Indiana University will celebrate GIS Day with a host of informational booths and activities to showcase the exciting work that the Indiana community is doing with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Students - come meet GIS professionals from government, academia, and the private sector.
Training will be provided throughout the day on GIS tools and topics.
You will find 3D visualizations, earthquake models and interactive maps.
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2019-04-25T21:58:14Z
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http://www.indiana.edu/~gis/gisday/
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Do wars drive technological advancement?
Technologies like radar were developed during war.
According to the late Edwin Starr, war is good for absolutely nothing. But how much of the technology we depend upon today began as a kind of military technology? Is it possible that if we were a peaceful species we wouldn't have developed technologies like microwave ovens or the Internet?
Wars put an enormous demand upon a nation's resources. Those resources include everything from materials to military personnel. It's expensive to wage war. And war places a burden upon a nation's citizens. As soldiers march off to battle, the people left behind must work even harder to keep the nation's infrastructure from collapsing.
But wars can also have beneficial effects on economic and technological development. In general, wars tend to accelerate technological development to adapt tools for the purpose of solving specific military needs. Later, these military tools may evolve into non-military devices.
A relatively recent example of this is radar. While scientists around the world worked on using radio antennae to detect distant objects during the early part of the 20th century, we credit Sir Robert Watson-Watt with building the first practical radar set in 1935. The British Air Ministry adopted his design and used it to detect aggressors during the early days of World War II [source: Wired].
Radar became an important tool in militaries around the world. In turn, radar's adoption required countries to adapt to new warfare strategies. It also prompted the United States to invest in research and development for new ways to confound radar. The result was stealth aircraft technology.
On the civilian front, radar played a different role. A scientist by the name of Percy L. Spencer made an interesting discovery while standing near a magnetron -- a device that powers radar sets. Spencer had a chocolate bar in his pocket. The bar began to melt when Spencer stood near the magnetron. This piqued Spencer's curiosity and he began to examine what was going on. This led to the invention of the microwave oven.
Next, we'll take a look at how the threat of war indirectly aided in the creation of the Internet.
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2019-04-23T10:53:29Z
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https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-advancement.htm
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The fund will provide permanent support for five students enrolled in the Stanford Biosciences.
The Blavatnik Family Foundation has pledged $10 million to Stanford Medicine for the training of graduate students in the biomedical sciences, powering the innovation and independence of talented young researchers. The Blavatnik Family Fellowship Fund at the Stanford University School of Medicine will support PhD fellowships that allow young scientists enrolled in the Stanford Biosciences to pursue investigative directions that inspire their creativity and passion.
In the conventional funding model for bioscience graduate education, students often must join the laboratories that have funding – not necessarily labs that are pursuing research that speaks to their own investigative interests. To combat the dampening effect this has on the innovation and independence of talented young scientists, Stanford Medicine, through its Biomedical Innovation Initiative, guarantees a full four years of funding to every incoming biomedical graduate student.
This commitment has yielded demonstrable benefits at Stanford Medicine. The number of incoming students who accept admission has risen from around 50 percent to the mid-60s range, and the initiative also has aided the School of Medicine’s goal of diversifying the student body. The Blavatnik Family Fellowship Fund will build on these successes and, as the first endowment funds raised for the program, secure financial support for five fellowships permanently.
The Blavatnik Family Foundation is an active supporter of leading and transformative educational, scientific, cultural and charitable institutions worldwide. Among the foundation’s programs are the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists that support early career scientists and engineers in the U.S., U.K. and Israel. To date, the foundation has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to more than 250 institutions worldwide. The foundation was established by Len Blavatnik, a global industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Access Industries.
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2019-04-23T21:57:25Z
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https://news.stanford.edu/2018/08/07/10-million-pledge-supports-bioscience-students/
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yahoo
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While Congress continues to wrangle over student loan interest rates, one company is quietly helping borrowers lower their interest rates, and also trying to make sure they will be able to pay them back.
SoFi is a social lending platform that brings together student loan borrowers, alumni and institutional investors. What makes it unique is that it doesn’t simply make loans. It also helps borrowers connect with alumni and other advisors who can help them succeed financially, increasing the chances that the loan will be successfully repaid.
Take Jose Guzman, for example, who graduated from The Wharton School of Business with an MBA in 2011. He had a combination of private and federal student loans, and as a result was making five payments a month. “It was a hassle,” he says. He was looking for a way to consolidate his loans when he received an email from his alma mater that talked about how SoFi may be able to help.
He was told that this was more than a loan program; borrowers would become part of a community of investors that also included alumni from a number of prestigious schools.
He refinanced his loans into a single loan at 5.99% for ten years, but he talks of that as if it’s just a side benefit. More important were the connections he’s made as he has tried to switch careers.
“That was the main selling point — the community,” he says. “I wanted to have access to alumni from several sources, not just one.” And he says the company has delivered with all kinds of networking opportunities. “I have attended investor lunches (and) have helped them with conferences where I serve as a borrower for the panel,” he notes.
This unique lending model is gaining traction with schools, investors and borrowers. In 2012, it made $100 million in loans to students from 78 schools. “Now we’re aiming to fund $750 million in loans for students and recent graduates,” says SoFi founder and CEO Mike Cagney.
Interest rates run as low as 5.49% for a five-year loan, 6.125% for a ten-year loan and 6.625% for a 15-year loan. “Our borrowers are saving an average of $5,600,” says Cagney.
Last fall, borrower Benny Joseph, a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business MBA program, noticed that mortgage rates were at all-time lows. “They were about half the rate that my student loans were at,” he says. But when he looked into refinancing, he bumped up against a wall. Since he had already consolidated his student loans using the federal student loan consolidation program, he was ineligible to do it again.
When he came across SoFi, he became intrigued by their mission. “I found them because I was looking for a lower interest rate but I joined them because of their mission to build a vibrant community,” he says. He refinanced his Grad Plus loans from a rate of 7.5% to 5.99%, but he kept his payment the same and, as a result, expects to pay his loan off a year faster.
But that wasn’t the biggest benefit.
Three months after he joined, SoFi announced the SoFi Entrepreneur program which provides big idea entrepreneurs with six months of loan forbearance, mentoring, networking opportunities and resources to help them raise capital and build their companies.
Joseph is the cofounder of GoodApril.com, a website that automates tax planning. It helps taxpayers avoid underpaying or overpaying and uncover tax saving strategies they can take advantage of. He entered the contest, and was selected to be SoFi’s first entrepreneur to go through the program.
Both Guzman and Joseph plan to become investors someday and give back to the next generation of borrowers.
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2019-04-22T01:03:16Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/way-crowdsource-student-loans-103002769.html
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warwick
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This week, NYC Swim published a "Swimmer of the week" feature in their newsletter, focusing on me! The journalist, Elaine Kornbau Howley, was great fun to talk to over Skype, and I think she did a great job in the article, which you can find here. Thanks Elaine!
This issue included two articles which involved input from the research. The first is entitled "Going the Distance" (by Jonathon Knott) and involves comment from the research on a number of issues to do with motivation (plus my favourite post-Catalina swim picture). You can download screen shots here of page 1 and page 2.
The second article is called "Reveal yourself" (by H2Open editor, Simon Griffiths), and is a lighthearted look at the debates around what constitute appropriate swimwear for men. I had never really thought about the before, but I was able to contribute some of the observational data about how people behave on the beach. You can download the screenshots here of page 1 and page 2.
Following a talk at the Wellcome Collection event, Human Limits, my talk was featured in this Guardian Comment piece. I really like the article, but am appalled by the title - I'm hoping that they're going to change it shortly (and I know that the journalist has made the same request).
Listen here for a brief local radio interview with Annie Oaten about my successful Catalina Channel swim in July 2011.
The nice people at H2Open magazine - a new publication specialising in open water swimming - included a nice feature on the research. Click here for a pdf of the article.
Listen to a podcast interview with Mark Carrigan, editor of Sociological Imagination - an online magazine exploring the possibilities of politically engaged social science.
Listen to an interview on Women and Endurance Sports by Jenni Murray with professional Ironman triathlete, Cat Morrison, and me.
Click on the picture for a pdf of the article.
You can also find the online version of the article here - and check out the comments from all the angry people who don't seem to like sociologists....or feminists....or swimmers very much!
You can find the pdf of a short article on my research project here.
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2019-04-23T02:16:28Z
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https://text.www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/archive/research-archive/channelswimmer/research/media/?external=true
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washingtonpost
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Kathy Birjandi was heading out the door with her two sons on a sweltering morning when she encountered a politely smiling duo from the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity on her porch.
“Ma’am, do you have time for a quick survey about the economy?” asked Carlos Muhletaler, a senior field director for AFP. Ninety seconds later, he had logged key details about the 45-year-old mom into an iPad app, including the fact that she considers herself a political moderate and has mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act.
The information gathered by Muhletaler and a dozen AFP volunteers who knocked on more than 400 doors in Boca Raton on Tuesday instantly flowed back to the eighth floor of an office building in Arlington, Va., where a team of 80 engineers, analysts and data scientists is working to refine a massive voter database.
The summer canvassing is part of a mission that consumes the political network backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, which plans to spend $889 million in the run-up to the 2016 elections. The network’s resources are financing a host of activities, including a campaign to derail the Export-Import Bank and efforts to reform the criminal-justice system.
But one of the prime objectives could have a direct impact on Election Day 2016: to create a permanent ground force powered by a vast trove of data, replicating the kind of infrastructure that helped President Obama win reelection.
Already, roughly 1,000 full-time staffers are working for Koch network organizations such as AFP, Concerned Veterans for America and the Libre Initiative — more than double the number four years ago, according to officials.
“One of the biggest things we learned and shared with our investors is that we can’t parachute in the last couple months of an election cycle with a bunch of activists into a new state and expect to have the same impact that President Obama had by staying in those states for four years and being invested in the community,” said Marc Short, president of Freedom Partners, the nonprofit business chamber that serves as the funding arm of the network.
If the ground expansion works the way officials hope it will, it could prove to be the network’s most potent weapon in 2016, helping the right deploy the kind of precise, tech-driven field operation that Democrats harnessed in the last two presidential contests.
But there are big question marks hanging over the well-funded push. One of the biggest: whether Freedom Partners can mobilize a broad grass-roots movement now that the controversial health-care overhaul has faded from the political front lines, and without the kind of galvanizing figure that the left had in Obama.
No matter the outcome, the ambitious undertaking spotlights how the Kochs and their allies have built a quasi-political party outside the traditional infrastructure, one made up of nonprofit groups financed with secret donations, free of campaign finance limits.
The libertarian-oriented network serves both as a valuable GOP ally and a rival power center to the Republican National Committee. In recent months, the two operations have clashed over their separate data efforts, with party officials warning that the Koch-backed project could silo off information that should be part of the master RNC voter file.
The scope of Freedom Partners’ intertwined field and data operations will be laid out this weekend for hundreds of its donors who are set to gather at a luxury resort in Southern California for one of the group’s twice-a-year seminars. Attendees will get access to question-and-answer sessions with five GOP White House contenders, as well as debriefings from network officials on new investments and tactics.
The bulk of the work on the ground is being done by AFP, the Virginia-based nonprofit that now has nearly 500 paid staffers in 35 states. Its ranks are expected to swell to 750 by the end of the year. Through its charitable arm, AFP is offering a six-week training program for volunteers on how to organize, use social media and produce events.
“Our goal is to keep our highest-performing folks on the ground from year to year, because a key aspect of building an effective ground game is time, and there is no way to speed it up,” said Tim Phillips, the group’s national president.
The organization has sought to deepen its local presence this year through state campaigns, leading fights against expanding Medicaid and challenging GOP leaders such as Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam in the process.
In Florida, where AFP has its largest footprint, the group’s leaders have gone even more local and jumped into municipal skirmishes. In Jacksonville, activists spotlighted the spiraling costs of city pensions for firefighters and police officers. In Panama City, local field organizers have rallied against efforts to regulate scooter rentals. Over in Pinellas County, the group fought an effort to provide tax credits to a Tim Burton film production.
“People care about their back yard,” said state director Chris Hudson, who oversees 13 field offices and nearly 50 staffers, including a large number fluent in Spanish.
The group is keeping its activists mobilized through this summer’s quiet political season. The goal for veteran field directors such as Muhletaler, who oversees Broward and Palm Beach counties, is to get the troops to knock on 500 doors a week.
On Tuesday, he and volunteer Kristin Matheny spent nearly three hours working their way through a neighborhood of Spanish-tile-roofed homes in Boca Raton, upbeat as they marched through the steamy South Florida air.
Every voter contact they made was punched into a canvassing app designed by i360, a private company funded by Freedom Partners. The data was transmitted back to the firm’s massive database, further refining its individual profiles of 191 million voters.
“The more information we can get on voters and potential voters out there, on how they think and feel about issues, the stronger the database is and the stronger the modeling is,” said i360 President Michael Palmer.
The company integrates details about an individual’s consumer purchases, voter registration and Twitter activity with field data collected by network groups and political clients who have agreed to share their data.
The operation is similar to one run by Data Trust, a private data company that has an exclusive list-sharing agreement with the RNC and provides data to independent groups.
The parallel efforts have created tension between the Koch network and party officials, who have worried that the RNC will lose valuable voter information when campaigns decide to work exclusively with i360.
Since then, the rhetoric has ratcheted down. Last week, i360 and Data Trust signed a deal to share data for the 2016 cycle.
But Freedom Partners is focused on expanding its own reach, and one of the top priorities is to improve data analytics and field tactics. This cycle, the network plans to continue a series of experiments it began in 2014 in which it tested how different combinations of voter-outreach methods — door-knocking, phone calls and television ads — swayed voters.
Short said it could take a few more elections before strategists can draw strong conclusions from those experiments and apply them to their work in the field. Creating a powerful ground force will be a long-term project, he noted, one that extends far beyond the 2016 election.
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2019-04-22T06:59:02Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-koch-networks-plan-to-create-a-permanent-ground-force/2015/07/29/712eb650-35ec-11e5-b673-1df005a0fb28_story.html
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A white ox with a leather cord tether lying in the foreground with other cattle nearby. Its left horn has been trained to grow across the muzzle (ma gut) by making a cut on the horn against which it will grow. This training is mirrored in the male practice of binding the left arm with metal bands called thiau, both of which are often done soon after initiation.
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 212 "
Morton, Chris. "Nuer ox with trained horn" Southern Sudan Project (in development). 03 Jan. 2006. Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/details/1998.346.212.2/>.
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http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/details/1998.346.212.2/index.html
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Class: Senior Hometown: Tucker, Ga.
NOTES: Three-year letterwinner... All-PAC honoree... 2015: Ran in all seven regular-season races ... Season-best 25:00.4 at the Gettysburg Invite ... Finished 25th at the PAC Championships in 26:04.0 ... 2014: Competed in six races... Improved as the season progressed to become a constant member of the top-seven... Earned All-PAC Honorable Mention after finishing 17th at the PAC Championships in 24:46.7... Ran a career-best 24:21.1 to finish 101st at the NCAA Mideast Regional and help the Wolverines to a ninth-place team finish... 2013: Competed in seven meets during first year with the team... Took a minute and a half off her previous best to run a season-best 25:07.70 at the PAC Championships, good for 32nd place.
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2019-04-24T06:23:01Z
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http://www2.gcc.edu/sports/W-X%20Country/Profiles/16/emilytownsend.htm
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This wiki was created so that all players of Pawn Tactics would have a one-stop resource for everything they needed to know about Pawn Tactics. If you have a question that cannot be answered by this wiki then please go here for help.
If some of you visitors just stumbled upon this website using a search engine or a URL on another site, you might wonder what is "Pawn Tactics". Well to start off, Pawn Tactics is a 2D top-down shooter powered by Adobe Flash. It was created and is maintained, patched, and updated by a two-man crew known as "Blank101" and "JP". When you enter a game in Pawn Tactics, you will notice how you can choose between five different classes, just like in Call of Duty. You'll also notice that the other players aren't robots but that they are human! The best thing about Pawn Tactics is that it is completely free, and multiplayer.
So if you want to give a spin, then click this link. (At the moment it is an open beta).
Editing and adding to this wiki is almost self-explanatory but we will keep a few articles piled just in case. You might also want to read the wiki syntax so that you can create great articles instead of unorganized and plain articles. Don't worry if you can't learn all of it, you'll only need some and experienced wiki editors can clean up after you.
First of all, we don't need your arguments on this wiki. If you think that this and that is "n00by" then you need to keep that to yourself. This wiki was made to help, not so it could turn into a huge editing war.
If you want to correct an answer, please make sure you have read the previous answer to make sure the answer really needs to be corrected. Failure to comply will result in an unexpected ban.
You're free to spell everything however you like (unless you're in school) but this is a wiki that will help others. People are going to be confused if you can't use correct English. If you need help on spelling, then you can put your incorrect spelling into Google and it will fix it for you.
This wiki is a wiki, not a burnbook. Do not EVER insult others using this wiki.
Everything and anything you contribute to this wiki is provided free of charge and can be used in anyway as long as it is done on this wiki or on http://www.pawnstudios.com. This license does not apply outside of the specified locations.
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2019-04-19T00:41:17Z
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http://pawn-tactics.wikidot.com/
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Nice! I like your pops of color! And my favorite block is E!
Your blocks look great! I’d love to join the sew along but I have too many UFO’s. There’s so many great quilt alongs on at the moment and not enough time.
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2019-04-26T15:46:05Z
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https://feelincrafty.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/modern-sampler-quilt-along/
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Keys to success: Health. There is a lack of depth within Groom, so if it can stay healthy it will compete.
Returning experience: Nine returning letterman, three offensive and four defensive starters.
Outside the lines: The Groom S&H Grocery was featured on a Blake Shelton album cover.
What Coach Holloway says: "We should be good, and we should compete for the district title. We've had a good summer. If we stay healthy, we will be really good."
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2019-04-21T06:58:52Z
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https://www.amarillo.com/sports/high-school-sports/2013-08-26-5
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Wednesday November 9- 1932. Late getting up. Mary took me up town to pay light bill. I wrote LeGrand and Mrs [Greenholgh] before dinner Spent all after noon over at The Legion bld, sewing. after supper wrote Ida Lois Simpson and Birdie. Rob looked at my savings he had charge of and reported $284.25 The returns from election largely democratic. Hoover defeated. Thursday November 10- 1932. Mrs Thomas called this morning to invite me to come to her home today to The Red luncheon. Cora came for me. Such a good time. Hattie stopped here and Mary came to take us to The Church. Ott & William already there An enjoyable evening. Wrote Winnie later "Armistice Day" Friday November 11- 1932. I was up at Hatties most of the forenoon with Mary The word came as I finished my dinner that Anna Denton had just died. I wrote Ida & Grace Taylor Mrs Gay took the letters to the PO. Letter from Mattie Stitt I wrote her in evening and talked to Laura Mason she could not come over. Saturday November 12- 1932. Hattie here for dinner. Later Mollie Stevens came Ott took Hattie & me out to Aunt Emmas. In evening wrote letters to Grace Mc. Alice Condon Laura & Edith a card to Winnie Sunday November 13- 1932. To SS & Church with Ott. Had dinner here. Ott came with Jeff & Julia to go to Anna Dentons funeral. So many there I went home with Ott and stayed till nearly ten oclock William brought me home Weather very nice.
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2019-04-21T00:50:00Z
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http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/transcribe/150/11126
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Rick Barnes says he didn't like how his players celebrated their victory at Florida on Saturday.
As soon as the final horn sounded in the third-ranked Volunteers' 78-67 triumph, all five Tennessee players on the floor performed a "Gator chomp" with their arms in a mock version of a Florida cheer.
"When someone told me that happened, that's the first thing I addressed after the game," Barnes said Monday. "I don't like it simply because I want total focus on the main thing. I think when those things happen, it's going to be talked about."
Video of Tennessee's postgame celebration circulated on social media late Saturday night.
"I thought it was kind of low, but whatever," Florida's Kevarrius Hayes said after the game.
Tennessee forward Admiral Schofield said the Vols performed the Gator chomp in response to what he termed as "disrespectful" and "inhumane" comments from Florida fans.
"It was one of those things where it just kept building up over the game," Schofield said. "Their fans were chirping a lot, even behind the bench."
Barnes said Monday that he still would like his players to refrain from these types of postgame outbursts.
"I also understand that I'm not out there an hour before the game with the student body," Barnes said. "I'm sure there are some things that are being said, but we tell our guys we need them to control their emotions throughout the game. I think they did that. Sometimes when the game's over like that, you let it out.
"It happens, but do I like that? When I was a kid, I probably would have, but I'm not a kid anymore. As a coach, I'm older now. I just want to play the game. I want our guys to learn from it."
Tennessee (14-1, 3-0 SEC) carries a 10-game winning streak into a home game Tuesday with Arkansas (10-5, 1-2).
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2019-04-23T04:51:12Z
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https://collegebasketball.ap.org/bowlinggreentimes/article/vols-barnes-unhappy-his-teams-postgame-gator-chomp
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A) If the pipe in the street (header pipe) DOES NOT have lead, the lead in your tap water may be coming from fixtures, pipes, or elsewhere inside your home.
B) If the pipe at the street (header pipe) DOES contain lead, lead in the tap water may be coming from that pipe or connected pipes (it may also be coming from sources inside your home).
Blood Lead Levels in Residents of Homes with Elevated Lead in Tap Water---District of Columbia, 2004. MMWR. April 2, 2004; 53(12):268-270.
Addendum: After release of the MMWR article titled "Blood Lead Levels in Residents of Homes with Elevated Lead in Tap Water -- District of Columbia, 2004," some reports have suggested erroneously that CDC determined that lead in residential tap water at concentrations as high as 300 parts per billion is ‘safe.’ CDC reiterates the key message from the 2004 article: because no safe blood level has been identified for young children, all sources of lead exposure for children should be controlled or eliminated. Lead concentrations in drinking water should be below the EPA action level of 15 parts per billion.
EPA - Drinking Water Requirements for States and Public Water Systems and information on chemical and microbial contaminants. Safe Drinking Water Hotline: 1-800-426-4791.
Water Fluoridation: CDC - Community Water Fluoridation fact sheets, frequently asked questions, and publications.
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2019-04-26T10:40:34Z
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https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm
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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — The NBA Finals tip-off in a couple of hours, and the reigning MVP has introduced a new way for Golden State Warriors fans to fully enjoy the run. Yesterday, Steph Curry tweeted out a link to his own emoji keyboard app, that you can download and use on your phone for when you’re texting with friends. From the looks of this trailer, if you’re a Curry fan, everything you could want is in this keyboard, from the Curry family to Steph’s signature shot celebrations.
ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — We’ve enjoyed the work of artist Patrick Truby over the years, as he creates animated versions of great NBA moments. His latest project is a series to honor the newly crowned MVP, Stephen Curry, as Patrick animated Steph’s top ten plays of the year for ESPN.
Hello "Maestro" @stephencurry30, well as I told you, here I’m sending you my jersey with the number 10. It’s an honour that you have my jersey and it’s a pleasure to see you playing. I hope to see you playing for a many more years and I wish you all the success. Big hug! Hola @stephencurry30, como te prometí, acá te mando mi camiseta para celebrar tus 10 millones de seguidores en Instagram. ¡Un abrazo y muchos éxitos!
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2019-04-19T01:30:34Z
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http://allball.blogs.nba.com/tag/stephen-curry/page/2/
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Byron Webster bagged a brace and Shane Ferguson another as Millwall cemented their place in the League One Play-Offs with a comfortable 3-0 victory against Oldham Athletic at The Den on Saturday afternoon.
Neil Harris' charges were 1-0 up with less than five minutes on the clock when centre-half Webster thundered home a header from Chris Taylor's corner.
Ferguson marked his return from injury with goal number two on 39 minutes, thumping home from close range after Aiden O'Brien's back heel from a Steve Morison centre had played him in at the back post.
Webster put the seal on a sixth straight home win for The Lions nine minutes into the second-half with another textbook header for his first ever senior brace in a Millwall shirt.
He so nearly completed his hat-trick late on, but steered the ball over the bar from close range.
The best of Saturday's match action is captured here in our special photo gallery, which also includes the pre-match Player of the Year presentations to Jordan Archer (Millwall 2015/16 Player of the Year), Lee Gregory (Junior Lions POTY and runner-up POTY), Ben Thompson (Young Player of the Year and third place in POTY).
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2019-04-19T14:15:23Z
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https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/2016/april/gallery--millwall-3-0-oldham-athletic/
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California Attorney General Vows To 'Defend' State's Residents Against Trump Policies Steve Inskeep talks with California's new Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who says he plans to defend the state's liberal immigration and environmental policies against the Trump administration.
Steve Inskeep talks with California's new Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who says he plans to defend the state's liberal immigration and environmental policies against the Trump administration.
That wall that President Trump wants on the U.S.-Mexico border is meant as just a start. The president, yesterday, ordered a series of acts on immigration.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals - they will take them back - cracks down on sanctuary cities.
INSKEEP: Let's talk about that last item - so-called sanctuary cities. Now, there is no place in the United States where a fugitive immigrant is entirely safe from arrest. Federal agents can go where they want. But there are cities and counties which have explicitly said it's not their job to actively help with round-ups.
The president's order threatens those cities with a loss of federal funds. It is not clear that he can legally follow through with that, but many cities and states are responding strongly. We reached California's new Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra from a state with many sanctuary cities.
XAVIER BECERRA: We're going to do everything we can to protect the citizens and residents of the state of California. We're going to do everything we can to let people who come to our state to build it know that we want to respect them and defend them. And we're going to do everything we can to make sure we abide by all the laws, starting with the U.S. Constitution.
INSKEEP: What are some things that localities in California refuse to do when it comes to immigration law?
BECERRA: Principally, what it is - is that most of the local jurisdictions and law enforcement refuse to do is to violate the U.S. Constitution by holding people that they no longer have a basis to detain simply because the federal immigration authorities say please hold on to those folks. You cannot detain people, under the Fourth Amendment, without justification to do so.
INSKEEP: Attorney General Becerra, the way that you describe a sanctuary city makes this seem like a rather narrow issue. The term sanctuary city sounds far more dramatic than the acts you're describing.
BECERRA: And that's, Steve, the issue is that some people have tried to turn the word sanctuary into something that it's not. Sanctuary doesn't mean that you're protecting violent, dangerous criminals from the hands of law enforcement, whether federal or local. It simply means that we are not going to go out there and engage in activities that go beyond what the U.S. Constitution says we should do with people who are law-abiding, working hard, improving the neighborhoods and communities where they live.
We also don't want to have people who fear talking to police officers simply because the federal immigration authorities would like our local law enforcement authorities to be aggressive beyond what legally they're supposed to do.
INSKEEP: What is the state of California going to do if cities start losing federal funding over this?
BECERRA: That's a question that has to yet be answered in a way that gives us a chance to look at the facts because the state of California, when it receives federal resources, it does so because it's sent over taxpayer dollars from the people of California. So we will do everything we can to defend our local California taxpayers from being denied the resources that they paid for.
If the federal government has a reason to block funding or deny resources to the state of California, we will certainly look at that and challenge it if it doesn't seem right. But we don't believe that we should be losing money for police officers and community policing simply because we're abiding by the U.S. Constitution when it comes to the treatment of immigrants.
INSKEEP: I think you're hinting around at a fact that California is one of the states that, when people calculate these things, tends to pay more in taxes than it receives back. Is that right - federal taxes?
BECERRA: Without a doubt. California is a donor state to the federal Treasury. We always, as taxpayers in the state of California, pay more in taxes than we get back to our state. And so we're going to fight where we need to to make sure that we get the resources that we provided to the federal Treasury. And we'll make sure that we're abiding by every law that we must, starting with the U.S. Constitution.
INSKEEP: Let me ask about another thing, attorney general. California, as some people will know, has stricter auto emission standards than the country as a whole. You had to get, as a state, a waiver from the federal government to impose those standards. President Obama granted the waiver. Now there's a new administration, and the incoming EPA administrator, the nominee, hasn't said definitively whether he would allow that waiver or not. Is that something you would be prepared to go to court to uphold - stricter emission standards for California?
BECERRA: Steve, we're not turning back when it comes to climate change and clean energy. We received a waiver from the federal government. We will do everything we can to defend our position, and we will do more if necessary. We've relied on the representations and the tools that the federal government permitted us to use. And if the federal government wants to, all of a sudden, yank those away, we will do everything we can to prove that, based on the facts and the law, that California has a right to move forward.
INSKEEP: And when you say based on the facts and the law that means that could be another lawsuit if it came to that.
BECERRA: We're going to do what we need to to move forward. We will continue with our policies. We'll continue with our actions that have made California a state where people want to live and work. We'll do whatever we need to do to continue our way of life and our way forward.
INSKEEP: One other thing, attorney general. Of course, there's been a lot of debates about state rights throughout American history. There was a time when more conservative states were asserting state rights against a powerful federal government. Do you find yourself becoming an advocate of state rights?
BECERRA: Steve, what's really interesting in that comparison of the use of states' rights is that in previous generations, some states asserted their rights under the 10th Amendment to challenge other constitutional provisions that protected the rights of individuals.
INSKEEP: Civil rights legislation, for example, right. OK.
BECERRA: Right, or just the 14th Amendment - equal protection under the law. And using the 10th Amendment to try to undermine the 14th Amendment, to me, was not what the founders of this nation meant when they enacted the 10th Amendment.
INSKEEP: We should remind people, the 10th Amendment, if I'm not mistaken, says that all powers that are not explicitly granted to the federal government are reserved to the states. Is that right?
BECERRA: That's correct. When we talk about the rights of states to move forward, whether it's on clean energy or our treatment of immigrants, it's to respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, not undermine the Bill of Rights.
INSKEEP: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, thanks very much.
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2019-04-22T15:12:41Z
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https://www.npr.org/2017/01/26/511745366/california-attorney-general-vows-to-defend-states-residents-against-trump-polici
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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between selected ice hockey skill tests and ice hockey playing ability.
MacCormack, Allan G., "The relationship of selected ice hockey skills to success in ice hockey" (1975). Ithaca College Theses. 167.
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2019-04-25T18:47:50Z
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https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ic_theses/167/
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Three weeks ago, I made a commitment to go vegan for 21 days…no meat, no dairy, and as little processed sugar and food as possible. I had no cookies, no fried chicken, no pizza, and no soda, among other things. I’m glad to say I was mostly successful. The only thing is I had a little bread that had milk in it, but that doesn’t really matter to me. Supposing I make it the next couple of hours without eating meat or dairy, I’ll consider the challenge complete.
This was more of an experiment than anything else. I watched quite a few food and health related documentaries, and seeing one of my friends and his family try their own 21 day challenge, I decided “why not?” He lost ten pounds, and at the end of my own experiment, I’m about seven pounds lighter than when I got back from Houston three weeks ago.
My diet before the challenge was basically eating whatever I wanted, usually out, and very little of that grew out of the ground. More often than not, I ate fast food. I have never been majorly overweight because I run quite a bit and rarely drink soda, but there’s always room for anyone to improve.
1. I’ve found that I like fruits and vegetables a lot more than I previously thought. There’s hardly anything I don’t like now (except raw tomato. Can’t bring myself to like that).
2. If you want to go out and eat something vegan, or even vegetarian, your options are a bit limited. Many restaurants don’t serve vegetarian or vegan options outside of the few places specifically cater to that. Even salads are loaded with ranch, meat, and cheese, and are far from healthy. For the purpose of my challenge, this meant eating in most of the time. It was an opportunity to get more comfortable in my kitchen, and I had a lot of fun learning new recipes, some of which were very different from what I was used to.
3. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting Americans eat too few fruits and vegetables. Many of our problems related to health would be solved if only shifted the balance in our diet so that most of our calories came from things that grow from the ground. It’s easy for anyone to learn a few vegan recipes to mix in with everything else. Unfortunately, we take a very nonchalant view toward what we put in our bodies, as if it doesn’t matter. But in a nation where heart disease and diabetes are chronic, nothing could be further from the truth. We are obsessed with crash diets and pills when the answer might actually be spinach and broccoli.
4. Even after 21 days, it’s hard to imagine me ever becoming a full vegan, but I definitely don’t think I’ll ever go back to how I ate before. Consistently eating trashy fast food no longer fits into my worldview. It seems nonsensical. It’s been good to fast from all that stuff, so much so that I never want to go back. If I eat fast food, it will be only rarely.
After this, I’m going to continue to learn to cook vegan food and eat that the majority of the time. My experience has been that positive, and I’d recommend for anyone to try it. For those not willing to commit to three weeks, it’s easy to learn a few vegan recipes and mix them in. There are hundreds of vegan recipes on YouTube, and all of the ones I’ve tried have been quite tasty. The hardest part about going vegan is learning those recipes, but once you have something of a repertoire down, it’s easy. Getting your vegetables doesn’t have to always mean a salad. It can be curry, masala, soup, pasta, sandwiches, even pizza. Veggies are far more versatile than I ever thought, and when prepared fresh, they are just as tasty as anything else, if not more so.
I’ll still eat cheeseburgers and pizza on occasion, but nowhere near the level I was before. As I’ve said, I enjoy eating this way and it works for me. The past three weeks have been positive, fun, and eye-opening, but tomorrow, I’ll enjoy eating my first pizza in three weeks. I’ll probably go for the vegetarian.
I recently passed the 80,000 milestone. Normally this is where I’d be wrapping up the book, except there is so much story to tell. I have no idea how this is going to work, whether I’ll just write one really long book or find a logical breaking point somewhere. I could easily see this going to 140,000 words or so. Characters are still getting introduced, and any time you add more characters, you add more problems, which makes the book even longer.
At this point, I’ve decided to let this book be just what it is instead of saying it needs to be a certain length. It makes me a little uncertain because so many readers have told me they enjoyed the fast pace of the series, but my writing style has evolved recently to take more time with things. I see it as a sign of a maturity, and it’s a far cry from a Apocalypse days when it was Alex and Makara shooting everything up. Not that there’s anything wrong with that type of fiction, but I’ve always enjoyed books that took their time with the details to paint a more realistic world.
There are a lot of complications with this story. A lot of factions, the complicated nature of the relationship between humanity and all its factions and the Elekai…and of course, the impending doom of the second Xenofall that is just years away from happening. The world is getting a lot bigger. It’s not just the American Southwest and a small part of Mexico, but the rest of the U.S. and even countriesbeyond that are getting pulled in. I almost feel like I have so many ideas I don’t know what to do with them. And any time I try to move things forward, it just gets bigger and bigger.
Overall, I think it’s a good thing, but it’s also new territory. All I can do is put in my daily work and eventually the time will come to start edits.
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2019-04-23T01:06:16Z
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https://kylewestwriter.wordpress.com/2014/11/
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If you missed Friday night's 54th Brea Lions Club Orange County North-South Prep All-Star Football Game at Orange Coast College, you can watch the contest on Time Warner Sports Channel 101 this upcoming week.
Time Warner plans to air the game on Monday at 8 p.m., Wednesday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 8 p.m., and on Sunday at 9 a.m.
The game will also air on Cox Cable Channel 3. Check your local listings for the show times on Cox.
Six Newport-Mesa players, Corona del Mar quarterback Cayman Carter, defensive end Tim Reinhardt and kicker Griff Amies, Newport Harbor tailback Talalelei Teaupa and offensive tackle Zach Cornwell, and Estancia tailback Robert Murtha, played for the South.
CdM's Scott Meyer and his assistants from CdM coached the South.
Charles Jock, an NCAA champion in the men's 800 meters while at UC Irvine in 2012, finished eighth in the 800 on June 23 at the USA Outdoor National Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
Jock's time of 1 minute, 46.42 seconds was more than three seconds off the pace of winner Duane Solomon Jr. (1:43.27).
Jock, a three-time All-American at UCI also finished eighth at the 2012 Olympic Trials.
UC Irvine's men's water polo match at UC Berkeley on Nov. 17 will be one of nine matches televised by the Pac-12 Network in 2013.
The network announced it will cover nine Mountain Pacific Sports Federation contests, all of which involved schools who compete in the Pac-12 in other sports.
Other teams in the package are UCLA, Stanford, USC, Pepperdine, Pacific, Santa Clara, UC Santa Barbara.
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2019-04-26T03:48:53Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/tn-dpt-xpm-2013-06-29-tn-dpt-sp-0630-sports-briefs-20130629-story.html
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shawguides
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Morning & afternoon speakers, marketing panel, Q&A session.
47. West Virginia Writers, Inc.
Women's retreat devoted to writing & non-writing activities.
Workshop that includes freelance writing, traditional & self-publishing, agent relationships.
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2019-04-24T10:22:54Z
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http://writing.shawguides.com/index.cfm?action=search&fSearch=Virginia&fSiteID=6&fSearchPointer=26&subaction=doSearch
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Maestro Stawicki is the former Head Coach of the Ukrainian Saber Team and served as the Head Coach of the Polish National and Olympic Teams from 1972-1990. Born in Lvov, Poland, Maestro has received many prestigious titles, including “Eminent Coach of the Republic” from the Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Poland.
In 1992, Maestro accepted an invitation to create and develop a world-class, international fencing center in Louisville, KY. Seventeen athletes from the Louisville Fencing Center have become National Champions in Youth, Cadet, Veteran and Wheelchair fencing. Currently, Maestro is the USA Head Coach for Olympic Wheelchair fencing and continues to develop and inspire the next generation of competitive fencers.
Dawn has been coaching students at the Louisville Fencing Center since 2014. She joined LFC in 2004 and joined the board of the United States Fencing Association’s Kentucky Division as secretary from 2006 to 2008 and presently serves as Kentucky Division Chair since 2013, promoting fencing through the Commonwealth.
Tom Monarch began fencing in 2003 and competed both regionally and nationally for six years in foil and saber. Tom has fenced for the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University’s collegiate teams. In 2012, Tom turned to coaching under Maestro Stawicki and led children’s groups in the local after school programs. At the Louisville Fencing Center, Tom teaches Saber and introductory Foil and Epee while also providing individual lessons in Saber and Epee. Tom Also provides armory services as needed under LFC Armorer Mike Reynolds.
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As a Union Pacific train goes by on the recently repaired railway, Centracom employee Pat Coates on Friday repairs phone and fiber-optic cables that were damaged after a truck with explosives blew up a 30-by-70-foot hole in U.S. Highway 6 on Wednesday afternoon. A Utah Department of Transportation truck dumps a load of crushed rock on a section of U.S. Highway 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon on Thursday, a day after a tractor-trailer carrying explosives overturned and exploded, tearing out a deep crater in the road.
The investigation into the tractor-trailer rollover that set off 35,500 pounds of high explosives on a stretch of U.S. 6, blasting a huge crater in the road and sending at least 20 to the hospital, is pointing directly at the truck driver, officials said Thursday.
Public safety officials are alleging Travis Stewart, 30, of Rexburg, Idaho, careened off the highway because he was going too fast. And they want his company, R&R Trucking Inc., to compensate the state of Utah for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it is costing to rebuild the destroyed road.
"This is a curve notorious for accidents. This trucker wasn't traveling at the posted speed limit," said Brent Wilhite, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Transportation. "There needs to be some accountability here."
Lt. Ken Peay, the Utah Highway Patrol commander for Utah County, said the truck was traveling east up a hill about 60 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, when the driver swerved out of control and hit the shoulder concrete barrier, which ripped open the truck's fuel tank and spilled pallets of explosives.
"They just get going up the hill too fast," Peay said. "It's posted at 40 [miles per hour] and anything much over that, the radius of the curve just takes it over the side."
Stewart and his co-driver, Troy Lysfjord, 37, of Blackfoot, Idaho, who said they had been through the canyon several times and were familiar with its dangers, were hauling 17 pallets with 40 explosive devices per pallet. Each device was a cylinder 29 1/2 inches long and 2 to 3 inches in diameter, coated in orange plastic, Peay said.
The pair were on their way from Ensign-Bickford Co. in Spanish Fork to Oklahoma when the truck tipped on its right side and tore open just before 2 p.m. The two men told investigators they saw flames coming from the rear of the tractor and ran from the truck.
They said they shouted at other travelers and bystanders to get out of the area. Three minutes after the wreck, the explosives blew all at once. The force of the blast vaporized the truck, tore chunks out of the canyon wall, set more than a dozen fires and gouged a 30-foot-deep hole in the highway.
The explosion shoved aside the Union Pacific rail line 50 feet from the highway and blew the sunglasses off bewildered landscapers working on the roadside 10 miles away, officials said.
Area hospitals confirmed 20 people were either taken to hospitals or went on their own for treatment. Some victims had shrapnel wounds or injuries resulting from the blast's concussion. Other bystanders complained of problems with their hearing. The last victims were expected to be discharged Thursday night.
Art Regoli, a trucker from West Valley City, was both a witness and victim. Regoli, 42, who spent four years as an artilleryman for the U.S. Marine Corps, said nothing he witnessed during his service compared to what he saw Wednesday.
He was driving a tractor with an empty trailer to Salt Lake City from Parachute, Colo., when the blast blew in his truck windows, pushed in his doors and covered him in blood. Just seconds earlier he was parked behind a few cars and another truck as bystanders helped pull Stewart and Lysfjord from their truck. Regoli said he saw the cars in front of him turn around. He saw the two men approach him, then felt the concussion and the heat. He woke up on the floor of his truck.
He is unsure how long he was unconscious. The blast sent slivers of glass into his head, face and body. Wildfires on the canyon walls seemed to surround him with flames and smoke. Shrapnel littered the ground.
"There were chunks as big as my hand of sharp-edged metal and steel," Regoli said. "Can you imagine one of those coming through your windshield?"
Taken by helicopter to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Regoli was discharged Wednesday night. The concussion bruised his chest and he was still having trouble breathing on Thursday, but he said he planned to return to work today.
Meanwhile, UDOT, the U.S. Forest Service and the railroads put everything back together again.
Twenty-five highway workers toiled around the clock, hauling 350 loads of road base material in snowplow trucks - minus their blades - to the site. It took 4,500 tons of material to fill and resurface the road, said UDOT spokesman Nile Easton.
The crews first had to pry several 5-foot-diameter boulders from the hillside after public safety officials gathered up unexploded ordnance that flew up the hill along with the truck. UDOT crews scoured the area for cracks and fissures. Forest Service firefighters fought stubborn brush blazes.
By 6 p.m. Thursday, road crews were pouring asphalt, Easton said. UDOT expects the road to be reopened today.
Brent Wilhite, another UDOT spokesman, said members of the Utah County Sheriff's bomb squad determined the explosives - seismic devices used in oil and gas drilling - weren't volatile.
A tanker fire in 2001 on Interstate 15 near 10600 South in Sandy melted the freeway, and earlier this year a tanker exploded near Kaysville on U.S. 89, but the only UDOT disaster that approached Wednesday's was when floods wiped out the town of Thistle and Highway 23 in the spring of 1983, Easton said.
The repair work could cost $400,000. UDOT will seek compensation from R&R Trucking's insurance company, he said. R&R officials did not return repeated telephone calls Thursday.
Union Pacific dispatched 150 people from Salt Lake City on Wednesday night and had one section of track open early Thursday morning and the second opened Thursday afternoon, said UP spokesman Mark Davis.
UP runs an average of 12 freight trains per day on the line through Spanish Fork Canyon; six trains were delayed during the repairs, he said.
The explosion shoved the tracks sideways and covered them with mud and asphalt debris, Davis said. A crane mounted on a track vehicle lifted the tracks back into place, then crews used a laser to realign them.
The company had no preliminary estimate of what the repairs cost, but wasted no time getting the trains running again, Davis said. "The rail industry practices this type of response, day in and day out. It's very important to a lot of our corridors to have minimal delay," he said. "It affects the national economy."
Marc Migliari, an Amtrak spokesman based in Chicago, said westbound passengers on the California Zephyr, which was delayed at least 19 hours, were offered the option of taking buses. The eastbound train was detoured through Wyoming. Passengers to Provo, Helper, Green River and Colorado cities between Green River and Denver were bused to their destinations.
Wilhite said UDOT has spent $100 million in the past five years to make U.S. 6 safer. "We've probably added 40 signs in that area, even adding flashing lights to the signs for night conditions," he said.
UDOT, which wants to overhaul the entire length of the highway connecting Price with Spanish Fork, has upgraded the section that passes through Spanish Fork Canyon, adding passing lanes, widening bridges and shoulders, installing center line and shoulder rumble strips and straightening curves.
"We've done everything we can short of getting in people's cars and driving them ourselves to make this section safer," Wilhite said. Still, he said, "any time there's a road that travels through mountains, there's going to be curves, that's just the nature of the roads."
Nevertheless, drivers continue to drive carelessly around mile marker 191, where Wednesday's crash occurred. Wilhite said that since 2002, at least 64 vehicles have wrecked within two miles of that curve.
Easton said he hiked 200 yards north of the wreck site and found 25-pound hunks of asphalt littering the hillside. It's amazing no one was killed, he said.
The last thing UDOT will do in the repair is replace the concrete jersey barrier on the roadside so rubberneckers trying to get a look at where the crater once was won't drive off the road.
"We're hoping people will pay attention to driving through here," Easton said.
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Pablo Szmulewicz, a Mexico City artist, remembers the pitch from the newspaper hawker who held a front page with chopped-up human bodies.
"He told me: 'Buy it — it's a good story,'" Szmulewicz said, recalling the encounter that took place three months ago in the central state of Morelos. "I'm saying, 'But … these are people.'"
Szmulewicz knew he had found a terrible inspiration. When he got home, he downloaded death-scene images from the Internet and went to work.
The result is a series of paintings depicting discarded bodies, bound and blindfolded and lying in heaps; rows of severed heads, arrayed on shelves and eerily lifelike, are based on photos of real victims, bruises and all.
The 55-year-old painter has no idea where he will exhibit his new work, a departure from his favored themes, such as migration. But he hopes to challenge what he sees as a growing societal callousness to the carnage that is Mexico's drug war.
"People are losing the ability to be shocked, and when you lose the capacity for shock, it creates an opening for worse things," Szmulewicz said. "The reality is so harsh, so heartbreaking, that people look the other way to survive."
Bodies are dangled headless from highway overpasses. Heads turn up in ice chests and trash bags. Corpses are found marked by torture wounds and taunting, hand-scrawled messages. Body parts, rearranged for humiliating effect, are left for all to see.
Mexicans have watched the carnage — at first with horror and disbelief, but increasingly with a stunned fatigue as drug-trafficking gangs try to one-up rivals or scare authorities with new heights of savagery.
Some worry that people could adapt to depravity as the new norm: The nation's health secretary, Jose Angel Cordova, said last week that, four years into the drug war, Mexico risked becoming a country where "killing someone can be seen as normal or natural."
The violence bleeds into Mexican life.
Grade-school children draw severed heads and point-blank executions of blindfolded victims. A recent billboard campaign for a life insurance company in Mexico City warned that "people are dying who weren't dying before." The new feature film "El Infierno," or "Hell," has been stirring uneasy laughter with its all-too-real depiction of small-town drug killers lopping off limbs.
"My concern is that there is no opposition to the barbarity, to the insanity," Szmulewicz said. "It can't be part of our daily landscape."
The question, printed on a snow-white banner, is plaintive and scolding at once. "If crime is organized," the banner asks, "why aren't we?"
The sign is among a series of nearly 100 anti-violence banners that have popped up, anonymously, in and around Mexico City this fall, posted by a group working in secret and the dead of night.
Taking a page from the narco-traffickers, those behind the undercover effort hang their banners from footbridges and highway overpasses for maximum effect. Last month, they placed a "Why aren't we?" banner on the same bridge in the city of Cuernavaca where hit men had hung the corpses of victims.
"How many have to die for us to get together and do something?" a person identifying himself as Arturo Calzada wrote on the group's blog. The group, which calls itself Be United Mexicans, did not respond to an interview request submitted via Twitter.
That it has to act with such stealth is a sign of how difficult the group's task is likely to be. Mexicans may be jittery, but, given their history of corrupt, top-down rule, they are also deeply distrustful of the authorities and reluctant to take a stand.
Instead, many avert their eyes and mutter, "El que nada debe, nada teme" — roughly translated, a person who doesn't get involved has nothing to fear.
When President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and announced he was going after the drug cartels with full force, extreme violence was already part of the landscape. But it was still rare.
People were aghast when gunmen dumped five human heads on the dance floor of a bar in Michoacan in 2006. Since then, more than 600 people have been beheaded as feuding among drug factions intensified in the face of the government crackdown. Now decapitations often garner little more than summary mention on the TV news or in the country's main newspapers.
"It makes me afraid for the country we are constructing," said Raul Villamil Uriarte, a social psychologist. "I feel depressed. I feel ashamed. I think the generation of my children won't have a country that is peaceful and calm."
Villamil, 53, said the drumbeat of extreme violence has paralyzed Mexico with a kind of collective post-traumatic stress.
"We haven't recovered from what happened yesterday when something even worse happens today," he said.
Villamil said he sees the mutilation of bodies as a form of social disfigurement: Mexican values get warped a bit each time a beheaded or dismembered corpse is found. The result is an "upside-down world" in which killers assert their legitimacy through awful acts and repudiate "all the rest of us mistaken idiots who want to stay on the right path," he said.
"We never imagined heads, decapitated, and then pretty soon they appeared. Then you said, 'OK, what's next?' And there are decapitated bodies, with the heads of pigs in place of their own heads," Villamil said. "It keeps going faster and faster."
As the public response gets more muted, the hit men have turned to steadily grislier methods to draw notice for their exploits.
"Organized crime — in the cruelest way it can — is sending a message," said Cuitlahuac Cardoso, director of the coroner's office in Cuernavaca, where this year bodies have been scattered in pieces and hung headless from bridges. "It is sending a message to society. It is sending a message to the authorities. It is sending a message to rivals."
Messages need a messenger, of course, and often it is Mexico's media, which offer wide, if indirect, exposure even when bodies are deposited late at night. The country has a long tradition of publishing gory photographs of killings and accidents in its crime-oriented tabloids. But the drug war has thrust equally gruesome images onto the news pages of mainstream media, stoking debate over how much is too much.
Hector Aguilar Camin, who writes a column in the daily Milenio newspaper, publicly upbraided editors in April for running a photograph of a pile of bodies on the front page. He said such displays cheapen traditional journalism and distort reality by creating the impression that the violence is more prevalent than it is.
"Violence has imposed its barbarous law and turned the media into allies of its evil message," he wrote, urging restraint.
But Aguilar conceded his cause was probably quixotic, in part because it was likely to be viewed as a call for censorship. "I understand this is a doomed argument," he said.
Still, hit men don't need newspapers or prime-time television. The violent images are increasingly showing up in newer media: on YouTube and narco-related blogs, which gangs use to threaten and taunt one another.
A video that has made the rounds by e-mail shows masked men interrogating a rival foot soldier, blindfolded and bound. At the end, with camera running and the subject alive, the questioner pulls out a knife and saws the prisoner's head off.
The reality of rampant brutality is itself an illustration of a kind of growing acceptance, at least within a segment of Mexican society. But, it turns out, even hit men need to be conditioned to new depths.
An accused former enforcer for the notorious cartel known as La Familia told police this year that he took newcomers to a far-off spot in the Michoacan hills for lessons. They learned how to behead and dismember people — using real victims.
The suspect, former state police officer Miguel Ortiz Miranda, said in a videotaped statement that peer pressure worked on reluctant trainees. After watching others cut into victims, they eventually joined in.
In a matter-of-fact tone, Ortiz said the dead were dismembered with a foot-long butcher's knife and then burned over a pit fire until no trace remained.
"It's not difficult," he explained, saying he had no qualms.
"Nothing," he said. "You don't feel anything."
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But if Dave fails to answer, send the invoices anyway. When irritated customers complain, simply pass the ball to him with another email: "Mr. Smith has informed us that you promised him a discount that was not reflected on his invoice. Since we have no record of this transaction, we are advising him to contact you directly."
Because dissatisfied customers are a sales manager's nightmare, you should copy Dave's boss on every one of these emails.
I'm not sure how to explain my recent employment history. After working as a clinical scientist in a local hospital for 14 years, I was offered a different job in a large medical center. Since this looked like an opportunity to expand my skills, I decided to accept.
Unfortunately, I soon learned that my new boss had been forced to hire me and was not happy about it. I chose to return to my former employer in a part-time position.
I am now looking for a full-time job in my original field.
Actually, your resume is not the place to explain or justify your employment decisions. Resumes are typically used to provide a concise summary of qualifications, so a narrative explanation might seem odd to some employers. However, you should definitely be prepared to answer these questions during interviews.
Keep the focus on your desire to return to clinical science. Fortunately, your previously stable work history should eliminate any job-hopper concerns, and your need for full-time work requires little explanation.
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Lisa Gomes, left, Gordon Freitas and Steve Hady are just "Local Folk" at Sunday's Twang Jam at Kapono's.
It's time to give local musicians such as Gordon Freitas and Lisa Gomes credit for helping keep the folk flame a-flicker here in the islands. And a tip of the hat should also go to Caroline Wright of Bluegrass Hawaii for giving those two, and others like them, a chance to showcase their stuff at this weekend's first Twang Jam.
Also: Bluegrass harmony singing workshop and beginners' jam session. Upcoming monthly events scheduled for Sept.. 19, Oct. 24 and Nov. 28.
What will be a monthly event through November at Kapono's, Twang Jam will showcase local traditional (and traditional-minded) bands, related workshops and a jam session, the common meeting point for all musicians of every skill level to play together.
Freitas, who with Todd Adamski, form one version of his Local Folk band at his regular gig at Cheeseburger in Paradise, will also include other fine "local folk" in acoustic performances at Twang Jam, including Eric Peterson, Chris Cerna and the fiddler Gomes.
"The main purpose of Twang Jam is to incite other people to jam together after our performances, which is going to be cool," he said.
An Army brat who's traveled the mainland with his family, Freitas has family here as well, and has lived in Hawaii since 1985. He has distinguished himself by writing and performing folk songs with local themes.
Performers hope Twang Jam will appeal to an audience curious to find out more about folk and bluegrass music.
"For our group," Freitas said, "we'll be dealing with songs that a wider audience can get a grasp on -- not the real, down-home bluegrass, but songs with a more folk-driven side. ... It'll be a fusion of a whole lot of things.
"Some of our friends I would term as purists, those intent on preserving the tradition, like the Squirrel Hunters (who'll be playing at a future Twang Jam) and the Wild Orchids. I commend them for that, and I'm pretty much a fan of those guys, who are part of Bluegrass Hawaii.
"Caroline's organization is a perfect example of grassroots promotion, of keeping music alive through events like these, and getting community support without help of marketing. She's keeping the vision alive, and helping find a place for people like us to converge."
Gordon Freitas, center, fiddler Lisa Gomes and banjoist Steve Hady will present their fusion blend of folk and bluegrass.
ONE THING Gomes has learned here is the ability to play with practically anybody. Formerly with the Irish Hearts, a regular at O'Toole's Pub for 6 years, she stopped playing 2 years ago due to some of the band members' moving to the mainland.
She's also played with the local Cajun band Bon Ton Roule.
"With bluegrass, and looking at other traditional music, there's always some overlap -- bluegrass was originally folk music from Ireland and Scotland that became Americanized. There's a lot of cross-influences, so it's not a great stretch for someone like me to play with Gordon. ... Each of the traditions influence and support each other."
Gomes also has high praise for Wright's work. "She's brought in all these great traditional folk musicians from the mainland to do concerts here, and here we've been stumbling around doing this on our own for 20 years," Gomes said. "The jam sessions have since become a regular thing, and it's made for a better networking system, thanks to Caroline."
Gomes, who is a clinical psychologist, says playing "music means so much to me. It's part of my life, it keeps me going, it's my soul energy."
"This is a very friendly genre of music," she said. "If you want to start to learn to play music, this is such an excellent opportunity. Everyone is very encouraging, to do the best that they can."
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Reading Week has arrived, and luckily I only have two papers to write, so I will get those done pronto and then spend the rest of the time relaxing. Just have to get a couple of family chores done and then I’ll get right to it.
Who knew chores would take up the entire weekend? I really needed to get to work today, but first I visited Peter Collins to brainstorm some ideas for a Christmas beer. Peter had some of his oh-so-good fresh-hopped pale ale on tap, but somehow the keg ran dry as we talked. Luckily I’d had the foresight to bring the last few drops of my Samuel Adams Utopias for Peter to taste. But alas, where did Monday go to?
Okay, I had every intention of spending tonight writing my papers. But when we arrived at Rohrbach’s Brewpub for dinner, behold, they were have a special tasting of eight Oktoberfest beers. Well, I could hardly pass up an opportunity for that, could I?
The plan was to drive back from Rochester fairly early so I could get to work. Then we happened to round a corner in south Rochester, and there–illuminated as if by a beam of glory from heaven itself–was a store called “Beers of the World”. I knew each of us could take 24 bottles of beer back into Canada without paying duty. But how do you choose only 48 bottles from a store filled with hundreds and hundreds of beers from across the United States and around the world? Needless to say, it took a lot longer than anticipated.
More chores. Sweep the leaves off the deck. Off to Canadian Tire for some parts. Catalogue the beer I brought home and see how much would fit in the beer fridge. Plan what beers I would taste at Cask Days. Wait, where did the day go?
Cask Days! Although nominally an outdoor event, it felt more like we were indoors, or perhaps most of the way indoors, since the new venue for this 100+ cask event was a large metal barn with one wall missing. Good thing we had a roof over our heads, since it was pouring rain–a harbinger of the oncoming Hurricane Sandy.
First up was a brewers’ breakfast–good food, and a great opportunity to meet some of the creative craft brewers of Ontario.
Last day of Reading Week. Must write papers. Taking painkillers. Going back to bed.
Brewmaster students sometimes get a chance to be a bit creative outside the college–but frequently you have to be flexible with regards to time–and sleep.
Earlier this week, I got a text message from my summertime brewery: would I be willing to come in early on Saturday morning to brew up a special beer of my choice on their pilot system for the upcoming Cask Days festival?
Saturday sunrise over Toronto: Hey, there’s no rush hour!
Well, yes I would. So it was that well before the sun arose, I was heading into Toronto, trying to get my brain going with a large double double. On the plus side: no rush-hour traffic on a Saturday morning.
Two weeks ago in Sensory Evaluation, Chef Olson had showed us a chipotle pepper that he had created by smoking/dehydrating a jalapeño pepper. Since then, the idea of brewing a spicy chipotle beer had been at the back of my mind. I was thinking of using a dark porter or stout as a base–smoked porters are all the rage in some places–but I didn’t want the roasted barley notes of the porter to overwhelm the smokiness of the chipotles. Hmmm. A black lager (known in Germany as ein schwarzbier) is noted for having no roasty notes. Hmmm. Okay, let’s go with the black lager.
So it was that I arrived at the brewery in the cold light of dawn clutching what was left of my large doube double and 500 grams of Black Prinz malt–a malted barley that is designed to add dark colour to a beer without adding any roasty, chocolate or coffee notes.
The brew went well, and boy, was it black. Dark black coffee black. Alas, the specific gravity was a bit lower than expected–I’ll have to check my recipe on Monday in Brewhouse Calculations. But it was black. Adding lager yeast to the wort made it, by definition, a black lager.
Next step while the lager is fermenting is to buy some jalapeño peppers. Oh, and find a smoker. And find out how to use the smoker. And smoke the jalapeños. And then doubtless buy a second batch of jalapeños. And then smoke them properly the second time around.
Cask Days in Toronto this past weekend was not an official part of the college curriculum, but it was all about beer and it was educational, so I considered it an optional but highly recommended extension of the course.
First up on Saturday were three lectures at bar Volo about cask-conditioned ale. Kudos to Cask Days for offering Niagara College brewmaster students a student rate on lecture tickets.
The first lecture, “Brewing Cask Ale”, was delivered by Charles MacLean, “Mr. Cask Ale” of Ontario, and the brewmaster for Wellington County Brewing back in 1985. You could spot the Brewmaster students during Charles’s lecture–they were the ones taking copious notes about temperatures, times, grains, and hops. Charles brought up the interesting fact that northern English drinkers like a bit of head on their cask ale, so the cask is often primed with a bit of fermentable sugar (so that the yeast produces more CO2), and a “sparkler” is added to the tip of the dispensing tap, acting like a tiny garden sprinkler that sprays the beer into the glass to produce more of a head. Apparently in the south of England, most drinkers believe the extra carbonation interferes with the taste of the beer, so the casks aren’t primed and a sparkler is not used to dispense the beer. Charles, being trained in the south of England, does not prime his casks.
An added bonus feature of the lecture was a glass of Charles’s British-style IPA, dry-hopped with Fuggles. I wept with joy at the taste.
Next up were George Millebrandt of C’est What and Ralph Morana of bar Volo, speaking about “Cellaring and Serving Cask Ales”. Traditionally, the brewer fills up the cask while it is standing on end, then hammers a bung, called a keystone, into the hole in the end of the cask to seal it for transportation. The casks are transported while standing upright, and then are laid on their sides behind bar and allowed to settle. When it is time to tap the cask, a tap is driven through the keystone, and beer can then flow out when the tap is opened. Alternatively, if the beer is being stored in another room, a hose is attached to the tap, and a hand pump at the bar, called a beer engine, pulls the beer out.
However, neither George and Ralph lay the casks on their sides. Instead, they leave them standing on end, although they employ different methods to get the beer out.
George (C’est What?) uses a long metal tube that is hammered through the keystone, and then slid down into the cask until it is almost at the bottom. A hose from the hand pump is attached to the projecting end of the metal tube, and the cask is ready to be served. However, the end of the metal tube is drawing beer from near the bottom of the cask, so yeast and hop sediment from the bottom of the cask can be pulled up along with the beer.
Ralph (bar Volo) uses a new device called a “Cask Widge“. This plastic device is also hammered through the keystone while the cask is still upright, but then a slim flexible plastic tube is slid through the Cask Widge and down into the beer. The plastic tube has floats at the end and mesh-covered holes just below that. When slid into the beer, the floaty-end of the tube curves up and bobs at the surface, with the mesh opening just below the surface. This way, the clearest beer at the surface is always drawn. When you start drawing sludgy beer, you know the level of beer has fallen into the sludge zone and the cask is finished. There was a lot of interest in the Cask Widge at the end of the lecture, and a lot of questions asked about it as a sample was passed around.
George trained in the north of England, and Ralph in the south, so there was a lot of “open and frank discussion” between them about the merit or heresy of using a sparkler, priming casks, and having a head on a glass of cask ale. While we were listening, we were sampling an English mild that Ralph and George has collaborated on. Yum!
Finally, Nick Pashley and Robert Hughey spoke about the history of cask ale in Ontario. Well, that was what they were supposed to talk about. Nick, being a highly entertaining raconteur, took us on a history of cask ale and Nick Pashley. Robert Hughey got us back on topic by recounting the recent history of cask ale in Ontario, starting with Charles MacLean and Wellington County back in 1985.
This lecture was accompanied by a golden ale created by Ralph Morana and Nick Pashley. Hopped with Galaxy and then dry-hopped with Galaxy, this was so citrusy, I thought at first that they had added grapefruit juice to the beer. Another beer to cry over, the moreso when it was announced that the cask was empty.
After the lectures, it was time for a bit of a social, organized by CASK!, the organization trying to raise awareness of cask ale in Toronto. However, I could only stay for a pint, I had a GO train to catch, and lecture notes to study for Kevin Somerville’s midterm exam on Monday morning (at 8:30 a.m.).
On Sunday morning, it was back on the GO train at an unseasonably early hour in order to be at the Brewer’s Breakfast at bar Volo. I met a number of brewers and beer writers, Niagara students and teachers, and also some beer enthusiasts I meet regularly at other beer events. Breakfast was delicious–Scotch eggs, sausage, bacon, fresh bread (including bread baked with dried hops–wow, that will wake you up in the morning)–and to finish, a pint of baltic porter and a toast to the success of Cask Days.
Oak-aged Cranberry (Brasserie Dunham, Quebec) — This was my first, and remained my favourite. Imagine biting raw cranberries, with their mouth-sucking tartness. Then add in a sour-milk sourness. It felt like someone had punched me in the mouth. So refreshing! And such a pretty shade of pink, with a beautiful whitest white frothy head.
Oak-Aged Baltic Porter (Les Trois Mousquetaires, Quebec) — An incredibly complex strong beer (9.2%), with its notes of chocolate, dark toast, and treacle, all mixed in with sourness, vanilla, bourbon and tannins from the oak. Wow.
Blueberry Ale (Pumphouse Brewery, New Brunswick) — Blueberries, start to finish. Not cloyingly sweet, just a refreshing summer ale.
Zeitgeist Weissenbock (Flying Monkeys, Barrie) — A fellow first-year student, Sebastian MacIntosh, works at Flying Monkeys, and brewed this up a few weeks ago, although he didn’t know it would be featured at Cask Days. Going by the taste of this dark toasty sweet brew, Sebastian has a bright future ahead of him, and I obviously need to peek over his shoulder during Kevin’s exam.
There were more, but you get the idea. Good times, good times.
I also served Niagara College beers in our booth for a while, and met several people interested in taking the Brewmaster course. It was good to be able to give them a first-hand account of what the course was like.
Eventually though, all good things must end. As much as I wanted to come back for the evening session, and then the after-party at bar Volo, Kevin’s mid-term exam tomorrow morning was ever-present (sort of like a case of athlete’s foot–perhaps not uppermost in your mind, but certainly never far from it either.) So it was one last sample and then back to the books.
Business Math test. There were a few head-scratching moments, but overall, I think I got the job done on break-even analysis and simple interest.
In Intro to Brewing, more head-scratching moments as Gordo Slater ran through the six main biochemical reactions that a yeast cell completes in order to convert glucose into CO2 and alcohol.
I should interject here that in order to be admitted to the brewery program, you need to have either OAC-level (that is, Grade 12) Chemistry or OAC Biology. I took Chemistry and Physics in high school, but not Biology. No problem, the course admission guidelines imply I should be able to get by on Chemistry, right?
Back to our story: Gordo drags us through a dense thicket of biological terms. ADP to ATP. Glyceradlehyde. Acetyl Coenzyme A. Pyruvate. Cofactor Mg++. Didn’t understand much. Looks like Biology might have been a better choice than Chemistry.
After a short break to let the words ooze through my brain in the hopes that some of the six processes would get stuck in there, we were on to aging and maturation–leaving the beer to sit for a while for a while after the end of fermentation. This clarifies, stabilizes, carbonates and standardizes what’s in the fermentation vessel.
In the final half hour, we hurried through a bit about cask-conditioned ales. I was disappointed that we didn’t spend more time on this, with perhaps more of an introduction to the subject for the students who have not yet been inducted into the brother/sisterhood of real ale. Real ale is becoming more popular in southern Ontario, and brewpubs of the future had better understand what it is and how to serve it properly, so it would seem like a good subject to spend some time exploring.
The history of cask ale in Ontario (with Nick Pashley and Robert Hughey).
A pint of cask ale is served at each lecture, so my note-taking may decline in quality as the day progresses.
And somewhere in there, I have to study for the Ingredients mid-term at–you guessed it–8:30 a.m. on Monday.
In Ingredients class today, we finished off the multi-week topic of barley by talking about types of barley (2-row versus 6-row), the various varieties of each, how new varieties are cultivated, and what aspects of barley-ness are sought by barley breeders.
Then during a break, Kevin Somerville laid a few licks on us: 1. New group assignment, due in three weeks. 2. Test next week. 3. Mid-term exam in two weeks.
Back to work, and the topic of malt competitors–that is, ingredients that can provide soluble starches, enzymes, colour and character in place of malt. We had talked about adjuncts last Friday in Intro to Brewing, but we examined them and other malt competitors a lot more closely here: flaked, flour, grits, torrified, whole cereal, glucose syrup, sucrose, invert sugar, caramel, and malt extract. Then how each of them are prepared, and what equipment we may need in order to use them. For instance, who knew that glucose syrup has to be held at a temperature of 50C or it will solidify? Or that some whole grain cereals have to be gelatinized in a cereal cooker? Or that we may have to use commercially-produced enzymes in the cereal cooker due to higher temperatures that barley’s natural enzymes can’t survive?
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LANHAM – A 17-year-old teenager is in critical condition after he was shot Monday morning while he was standing near a bus stop on Greenbelt Road near DuVal High School.
Around 8:30 a.m., fire and police units from the Prince George’s County Fire Department responded to the 9900 block of Greenbelt Road for a shooting, said Mark Brady, spokesperson for the county fire department.
The teenager was quickly transported to a trauma center in the county suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body. Paramedics said the victim went into cardiac arrest during the transport, but they were able to revive him. He remains in critical condition.
Several schools in the area, including DuVal High School, Robert Goddard Montessori, Katherine T. Reed and Magnolia Elementary Schools, were placed on lockdown during the investigation. The lockdown was lifted around 11:30 a.m.
Police says they believe the shooting was not random and are searching for two suspects.
Officials are seeking help from the community. If anyone has information regarding the incident, they are asked to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit at (301)-772-4925.
Impact of corruption On PGCPS and ongoing events.
Impact of corruption is very hard on public life not only in Prince George’s County, but many places around the world.
The effect of corruption has many dimensions related to political, economic, social and environmental effects. In political sphere, corruption impedes democracy and the rule of law. In a democratic system, public institutions and offices may lose their legitimacy when they misuse their power for private interest. Corruption may also result in negative consequences such as encoring cynicism and reducing interest of political participation , political instability , reducing political competition, reducing the transparency of political decision making, distorting political development and sustaining political activity based on patronage, clientelism and money, etc.
In our society, the impact of corruption is often manifested through political intolerance, problems of accountability and transparency to the public, low level of democratic culture, principles of consultation and participation dialogue among others.
The economic effects of corruption can be categorized as minor and major. However, both in one way or the other have serious impact on the individual community and country. First and foremost, corruption leads to the depletion of national wealth. It is often responsible for increased costs of goods and services, the funneling of scarce public resources to uneconomic high profile projects at the expense of the much needed projects such as schools, hospitals and roads, or the supply of potable water, diversion and misallocation of resources, conversion of public wealth to private and personal property, inflation, imbalanced economic development, weakling work ethics and professionalism, hindrance of the development of fair in market structures and unhealthy competition there by deterring competition. Large scale corruption hurts the economy and impoverishes entire population.
In Social sphere, corruption discourages people to work together for the common good. Frustration and general apathy among the public result in a weak civil society. Demanding and paying bribes becomes the tradition. It also results in social inequality and widened gap between the rich and poor, civil strive, increased poverty and lack of basic needs like food, water and drugs, jealousy and hatred and insecurity.
Closer home, the people involved in corruption seem to be hiding themselves by blaming others. Even they are proud of themselves as they appear to have made more money in short time.
To worsen the condition further, those involved in corruption in PGCPS are able to get better promotions and opportunities.
PGCPS Senior staff including several Board of Education members appear to have developed an opinion that, it is the only way to get their work done. If not, the work will be pending for long or even might not be done.
Below is an account by a staff member who shared her views through our blogs anonymously. We hope you will get a better picture.
In regards to Government Accountability office (GAO), Please don’t miss the big picture here. It was the GAO that discovered the fraud in PGCPS and Not the Director of Food Services, that is, Ms. Shorter or a member of her staff?? So they where totally unaware?? NOT POSSIBLE!! For anyone who has applied for this benefit, your income must be proven with documentation. Does this administration expect that we (the public) are to believe, that NO ONE on Ms. Shorter’s staff recognized Lynette Mundey name? Not even her Supervisor or Chief?? You do know, they attend Board meetings right?
Well, No, it is part of the on-going corruption that has been embedded in our Prince George’s County school system and the fear of retaliation for reporting illegal acts that did not stop her fraud by someone inside the system. People who have been with this system for a while, have witnessed the firing of whistle blowers or anyone who impacts the illegal activities which our executives and Board members are openly engaging in, every single day. When you start impacting the packing of their pockets and purses, then they make sure, you have got to go!! People, we have need to stop living in fear, as it is the destruction of our children. They are the ones that suffer!
There is absolutely “no shame in the administration’s game” as they openly participate in such crimes as, bid rigging and price fixing; extortion of funds from MBEs; black balling of vendors not willing to participate in fraud; withholding payments from vendors when they fail to comply with scope changes without compensation; sole sourcing; over ordering equipment (computers, AC Units, Fans) and supplies that accidentally on purpose disappear, then sold on the street; and how about their favorite, put bids on the street, knowing full well they have already selected their vendor.
PGCPS has become the best kept secret for Board Members and criminals needing to supplement their income through kickbacks and procurement violations; gain power of name recognition while collecting a check and destroying the future of our children.
CEO Dr. Maxwell has packed Sasscer with a bunch of heavy staff titles that fail to hold the educational qualifications to move our district forward. Yet he is consolidating schools, over packing class rooms, cutting specialist like counselors, reading specialist and teachers aides. These so called cabinet members all make over $100K per year, some have earned large bonuses, including the Chief who is responsible for the oversight of the department supervising the volunteer. For each one Sasscer staff hired by Dr Kevin Maxwell, PGCPS could have put 3 or 3 resources back at the school level. Even more concerning, not only does the Elected School Board know these positions are a waste of tax payers money, they no longer have the power to vote on these new positions. In most cases, they sit back and remain quiet, allowing the firing of those who speak out or attempt to stop illegal activities including waste and destruction at the school base level.
We are sure it will make a real difference if Dr. Charlene Dukes was out of the equation. People will speak out to help fix the problems knowing that they will be protected for exposing the illegal activities.
PGCPS management has established a culture of “be part of the corruption or ignore your lying eyes, lest you be destroyed!!” Think about it, how does the illegal activities continue through multiple Superintendents, if it is not engraved in the culture with protection from outside the system? Not to mention the Unions, we are forced to pay dues to, when they conspire with the Administration to get rid of whistle blowers and allow Human Resources and Labor Relations to ignore basic policies and guidelines.
Everyone employee that pays into a Union, should demand that they produce the number of cases brought to them over the last 3 – 5 years and how many individuals have retained their jobs! We would bet, majority of the individuals that should have never made it to HR are no longer with the system. The Administration lets our Unions know who they will screw over and they sit back and allow it. Then they say “you know its political.” Too many cases that a 1st year law student could have gotten thrown out were lost by our Unions. They are not that incompetent. Are they?
Finally, many of us believe there are some Board Members and even some Executives that have not totally sold their souls to the devil but your continued willingness to “Look the Other Way” makes you just as guilty! Speak up before it hits the media.
Please help our children in Prince George’s County by stopping Rushern Baker, Kevin Maxwell, and Dr. Eubanks. We need HB1107 declared unconstitutional.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOUR TODAY.
LAST WEEK AND YEAR AT THE BUDGET HEARINGS,I ASKED A COUPLE QUESTIONS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION. TO DATE, THERE HAS NOT ONLY BEEN NO ANSWERS, MORE IMPORTANTLY, NO CHANGES IMPLEMENTED, REPORTS GIVEN OR ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE PUBLIC, FOR HOW OUR TAX PAYERS DOLLARS ARE BEING UTILIZED. THAT IS, EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN.
AT THE BUDGET HEARING HELD ON 2/9, (WHICH THIS BOARD HAS YET TO POST), I ADDRESSED THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN CHIEFS, WITHOUT ANY INDIANS. THAT IS, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS, ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENTS, ASSOCIATES TO THE ASSOCIATES , CHIEF TO THE CHIEFS; IN OTHER WORDS THE INCREASE FROM 10 TO 29 EXECUTIVES THAT APPARENTLY HAVE NO DIRECT IMPACT ON STUDENTS.
THE AUDIT PERFORMED BY THE STATE REVEAL SEVERAL AREAS OF WASTE AND (ALTHOUGH NOT IDENTIFIED UTILIZING THESE EXACT WORD), FRAUD THAT STILL CONTINUES.
FOR EXAMPLE; HOW DID THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT PAY 3 EMPLOYEES 203.75, HOURS OF OVER TIME, WITHOUT ANY DOCUMENTATION TO SUPPORT THE HOURS WERE EVEN WORKED??
THAT BEING THE CASE, CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME, WITH 21 NEW POSITIONS AT SASSCER, HOW IS IT, WE FELL BELOW IN EVERY GRADE LEVEL FOR MSA WHEN COMPARED AT THE OVERALL STATE AVERAGES??
HOW DID SAT SCORES IN READING DROP FROM 433 IN 2013 TO 405 IN 2015?
HOW DID SAT SCORES IN MATH GO FROM 422 TO 397??
AND HOW DID WRITING SAT SCORES GO FROM 418 TO 393?
HOW DID PURCHASING SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENTS TOTALING 1 MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE WITH NO DOCUMENTATION? THE SAME THING WAS ADDRESS IN THE PREVIOUS AUDIT. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ABOUT IT?
HOW DID 2.4 MILLION DOLLARS IN EXCESS DONATIONS TO SICK LEAVE BANKS GET DISTRIBUTED?? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ABOUT IT??
HOW DID TRANSPORTATION INCREASE BY 2.6 MILLION DOLLARS IN OT AND YOU CAN’T JUSTIFY IT?? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ABOUT IT?
We need the citizens of Prince George’s County to bombard the telephones and emails of the Ways & Means and Economic Committees. Their emails are below.
After reviewing the budget, I’ve notice several things where money can be saved.
You are proposing a new position: Associate Superintendent for Special Education & Student Services. Our system use to have a division that included student services and the parent piece. The parent piece is now under the Chief, Strategic & External Affairs. You can move Family & Community Engagement under Student Services and save money.
Strategy, Planning & Performance and Strategic Resource Planning descriptions are similar enough that these departments can possibly be consolidate and may generate enough funds to keep Forestville open.
There appears to be duplicity with the Deputy Superintendent and Areas Associate Superintendents that can fund school based resources.
The CEO is paid around $100,000 more than any other leader of our school and he has only one reporting person and that position is performing duties that are outlined within the guidelines, scope and framework of ESOL. Why you would focus on one group of immigrants and setup this county up for a wreckless and costly discrimination lawsuit is beyond me. The departments that reported to former CEO/Superintendents now report to a new position – Chief of Staff. For the money that we pay the CEO, he needs to earn his pay and the Chief of Staff and Diversity Officer positions eliminated.
As for Busing: the MOU of 1998 was settlement to end busing and return children to their neighborhood schools. There is no excuse for busing children all over the county. The MOU required the system to put resources in neighborhood schools. A judges order does not expire until it has been fulfilled.
For those asking how is it that decisions are made with limited community input is because of HB1107. This law has handed our system over the county executive and Dr. Maxwell to do as they please. This people is why he can not show up for meeting and send late notices to the community on changes. We used to have 1st and 2nd readers to allow for community input. People, if we want to stop all of this, we must repeal HB1107. Please contact your state legislators and demand they repeal HB1107.
There is an agenda at play here. What is the outcome at the end?- Their TIME IS UP!
There is an agenda at play here. What is the outcome at the end after millions of dollars got embezzled?
It’s been close to three (3) years since Dr. Maxwell took over the Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) and the level of inaction is very frightening, worrying and borders incompetence in total disregard for Prince George’s County at large.
Lack of effectiveness and direction since the hiring of Dr.Maxwell in the dark by Dr. Charlene Dukes and her close friends after being awarded millions of dollars is a traction to the county schools. It does not take a rocket scientist to show that, there is a hidden agenda to derail the county in many ways for personal gain by selling off school property. We could point out a few things we could address immediately. The so called low hanging fruit. To show effectiveness and seriousness, intent and resolve in fixing many of the challenges besetting our school system.
President Charlene Duke doesn’t have to purchase things, in her college but she can pick a sample of 3 items randomly review, and discover the massive theft from Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) using proceedings from Charter, and stop it. And she doesn’t have to do that daily, she can do it weekly. Just 3 items and audit for inflated prices to educate poor children in a community college. That’s what CEOs do.
President Charlene Duke doesn’t have to select about 100 kids to award them a college diploma as the others look as if they don’t matter due to discrimination. All children matter. They deserve support and a loving environment.
She is responsible for instituting a pilfer-proof financial control system in Board of Education for Prince County as a previous Board of Education member, but she didn’t. She has to take responsibility now and bow out. Her time is up! Charlene Duke’s position is now untenable as a “protector” with corrupt dealings. She has effectively lost the high moral ground to continue transacting business on behalf of Prince Georgians.
What she needs to do now is negotiate her exit with her appointing authority, and the 2 can agree to keep each other’s little secrets, and promise to never spill the beans of what they know about each other, in light and in darkness.
Maxwell can even do what some other “Superintendents” in the county once did, which is to contain Charlene Duke in some form and never allow her to interfere with PGCPS. She is privy to a lot of illegal board of Education secrets and her exit has to be negotiated and managed, “in the interest of Board of Education Security”. Or even give her some holiday treat to some place far away, then she can come back from “exile” after many yrs. With our understanding of statecraft, its a matter of when not if, that Charlene Duke will exit. Maxwell can choose to retain dignity, or loose his dignity in a messy Charlene Duke exit from the affairs of the county schools.
In PGCPS, the CEO is empowered to make sole decisions about the future of our school system with no legal obligation to accept counsel from the board…. he is the sole decision-maker… and the potential for further disenfranchisement is great!
In the last, two years, We have witnessed in PGCPS Extraordinarily high salaries for overhead, excessive overtime, waste and abuse, and major push back on programming intended to aide in the day-to-day development of our students, …there’s money to hire executives that doesn’t require board approval, but no money for reading and arithmetic literacy programs!
In the French Revolution, the entire lineage to the throne was beheaded, when the King failed to heed to the signs of the times. Maxwell is a good student of History, and he shouldn’t wait for PGCPS to be “beheaded” in a revolution that is fast gathering steam towards 2016. Maxwell can stop a revolution now, by the stroke of 1 o’clock news. That is how Maxwell can avert an uprising, war and escape the wrath of the masses. That is the Foxiness that perpetuates a Prince stay in power.
Insisting on keeping Charlene Duke who is accused of cover ups and fraudulent deals, is stoking the embers of anarchy, and decay in the rule of law in Prince George’s County. You intervene in a timely fashion. Rather than wait to use the county Executive to intervene on your behalf in warding off demonstrators demanding Charlene Duke and others ouster from the affairs of the county, Maxwell should just let this cancerous lesion go.
The best friend who greased his wallet in his cabinet to become a CEO has to be debrided. Vanilla chocolate may be sweet, but the presidency in the name of “CEO” of the county is sweeter when there is no organized illegal activity. If she was loyal, she would have made it easier for you, but she is not, the county needs committed leaders who will elevate this county to a new level without discrimination, make changes for the benefits of all children and families.
A Challenge for Prince George’s County citizens to wake up!
Warren Christopher, retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army and candidate for the 4th Congressional District of Maryland witnessed What would baffle the mind, any mind; sadly, he left more discouraged about our pgcps school system than ever.
Warren Christopher is a retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army and a former chief of staff in the U.S Department of interior. He is One of the Candidates running for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District in Prince Georges county. Mr.Christopher appears to have captured citizens concerns with our ailing school System after narrating his thoughts on facebook wall a day ago. What are the positions of the other Candidates running with him in regards to the affairs of Pgcps which has become a cash cow? We would love to list each candidate’s stand before the up coming primary 2016!
After Warren Christopher attended a Prince George’s County School Board Meeting this week , he shared his views on Facebook post which captured the feelings of many.
I just got in from attending another Prince George’s County School Board Meeting. Folks, Please wake up. What I witnessed would baffle the mind, any mind; sadly, I left more discouraged about our school system than ever.
Extraordinarily high salaries for overhead, excessive overtime, waste and abuse, and major push back on programming intended to aide in the day-to-day development of our students, …there’s money to hire executives that doesn’t require board approval, but no money for reading and arithmetic literacy programs!
The CEO is empowered to make sole decisions about the future of our school system with no legal obligation to accept counsel from the board…. he is the sole decision-maker… and the potential for further disenfranchisement is great!
Voting has real consequences… Please, help me get these establishment and career politicians OUT of office… they are more concerned about the example of their power rather than the power of their example to truly do what’s right for our children, who deserves the best education we can deliver… a fair shot at success.
The Same Vote, The Same Circle of Establishment Politicians… The Same Results. They are counting on you to vote base on name recognition… PROVE THEM WRONG… Take back Your Political Power and Hold US All Accountable to YOU!
What are the positions of the other Candidates running for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District in Prince Georges county in regards to the affairs of Pgcps which has become a cash cow! We would love to list each candidate’s stand before the up coming primary 2016!
UPPER MARLBORO — If the board of education meeting last night proved anything, it’s that advocacy and numbers can make an impact in any governmental body’s decision.
The Prince George’s County Board of Education voted in a 10 to one decision last night to postpone their vote on boundary changes for one year after a packed board room with nearly 80 registered speakers voiced their concerns over school consolidations and boundary changes during the scheduled board hearing.
Verjeana Jacobs, who represents District 5, made the motion to postpone the vote and said that, while she does not personally represent any of the schools affected by the proposals, she was strongly moved to take a stand by parent testimony.
“The oath that we took was to uphold what’s right for every district in this county and so, while I still want to hear from everybody, I really would like to put a motion on the floor that we postpone this decision until this time next year,” Jacobs said at the meeting.
Board member Edward Burroughs III seconded the motion and the board approved the motion, despite the fact that the meeting was supposed to be a public hearing only with no official board business. The lone dissenting vote, Board Chair Segun Eubanks, said he felt the board should wait to vote until the board meeting on Thursday, when the school administration and legal team are present. He said he felt it was inappropriate to take the vote at the time.
Although Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin Maxwell and his administration proposed the changes, only two administrators were seated at the dais during the meeting. Sherrie Johnson, a spokesperson for PGCPS, said Maxwell was at another previously scheduled event and did not have a work or legal obligation to be at the meeting, since it was a board hearing only.
Despite the motion to delay the vote on boundary changes, Maxwell, according to Maryland law, has the sole authority to make school consolidations, which in effect are closures. Jacobs suggested the board may be able to override the CEO’s decision with a two-thirds vote and said the board will consult their legal advisor on how to proceed next.
At the meeting, residents from across the county came out in droves to protest the boundary changes proposed by Maxwell and the proposed closure of Forestville High and Skyline Elementary schools. While the conversation was dominated by parents unhappy with the proposals, parents and community members also complained of a lack of communication between the school system and the community, citing that parents had not been informed that their schools were closing or that there was a board hearing until the last couple of weeks.
80 speakers registered to speak at the meeting, which was completely packed to capacity with residents pouring into the hallway.
As the role was called for the vote, Burroughs and Jacobs both celebrated the majority as Burroughs arose from his seat with his hands in the air. Residents in the room also came to their feet in excitement and loudly cheered the decision.
During the meeting numerous speakers had requested the board delay the vote on the changes until a proper conversation with the community is held. Parents and teachers alike asked the school system to open up the process so that the decision is made not by a group of officials, but by the community in general.
C. Anthony Muse, who is the state senator for District 26, spoke at the meeting and said he had numerous concerns about the proposed changes.
“Let me first start off by saying I wish that we had more community input prior to these decisions being made and letters and ‘robo’ calls being sent out to the parents and the community,” he said.
That sentiment was echoed continuously throughout the meeting.
Monique Walker has a child at Potomac Landing Elementary School, which is one of the schools affected by the proposed boundary changes. The school currently feeds into Accokeek Academy, but after boundary changes would feed into Gwynn Park Middle. Walker, who is concerned about the quality difference between the two schools, said that while she does have concerns about the changes, she is more concerned about how the process came about.
LaDonna Dingle, a parent of a child at Skyline Elementary, said she is deeply concerned about how the school system plans to integrate the autistic children at Skyline into other neighborhood schools after Skyline is closed. Although the school system has said some supports will be provided to students, she said, parents have not been given adequate information about the transition.
“The students, parents and staff have not been thoroughly or adequately informed at this time of how these services will be provided in our neighborhood schools,” she said.
Dingle also complained that the school system will not meet with parents until March, and said the families should have had an opportunity to hear from the department of special education before any decisions were made.
“This meeting should have been held prior to the public hearing and prior to the announcement of the school closure,” Dingle said.
Many parents expressed similar concerns over the closure of Skyline and expressed fear over how their students with disabilities will be treated and aided at other schools.
Aaron Barnes has a son at Skyline who he said has never been in the general education environment because it “has not been deemed appropriate.” Barnes said his son went to two different schools that did not work out for him before he started at Skyline.
At his previous schools Barnes’s son became “violent, a biter (and) he was not learning anything.” At Skyline, he said his son has thrived, and now he doesn’t know what will happen.
Walker said, overall, the complaints and concerns from families are all about their children’s safety. For Walker personally, she doesn’t want her child’s boundary school to change from Accokeek Academy to Gwynn Park because of the logistics.
“It is 13 miles away where our children have to ride on the bus. To get on the bus, they have to be at the bus stop at 6:30 in the morning, which is unreal. And, during the winter time, it’s not light outside,” she said.
Safety is also a concern for many students and parents with the suggested closure of Forestville and moving of students to Suitland High School, which many claimed has had a long-standing rivalry with Forestville.
Kenneth Smith, a parent of a student at Forestville, said the school board doesn’t hear what is going on with the students, especially in regards to fighting and other struggles.
“You don’t hear when the kids say ‘I want them to come over here, it’s going to be a fight.’ Each and every one of you that’s involved in this have an option to make this stop before it happens,” Smith said.
By moving the kids from one school to the other, he said, arguments will arise, and Bobby Fernandores, another parent of a Forestville student, agreed.
Fernandores said his concern isn’t just for his daughter’s academics but for her safety.
Gail Bingham, a parent of a Suitland student, said her son has heard “talk already” about fighting that would occur if the schools were merged. Bingham said, while her child would welcome any students, there are kids who would not welcome new students.
“We’re setting the kids up for failure,” she said.
Kimberly William, who has a student at Skyline, felt the same way about moving special needs children into the general education population. She said her understanding of Skyline is it functions as a school for children that cannot learn in a typical environment and said she cannot understand why PGCPS would close it.
“This is a recipe for a disaster and if one child fails because of this, it is on your shoulders,” she said to the board.
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Abengourou is a city in eastern Ivory Coast. It is the seat of both Comoé District and Indénié-Djuablin Region. It is also a commune and the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Abengourou Department.
Abengourou is primarily populated by the Anyi ethnic group, a branch of the Akan people who migrated to the region from Ghana. In the 2014 census, the population of Abengourou was 135,635. The city is served by Abengourou Airport. There is also the interior's largest hospital. There is an agricultural vocational training institute, along with a research station that specializes in the local crops of cocoa and coffee. These crops are then transported the 151 kilometres (94 mi) to Abidjan for export.
Within the city is the residence of the Anyi paramount chief, who is also the King of Indénié. His home was built in 1882 and is decorated with artifacts.
The name "Abengourou" stems from the Akan language expression "n'pé kro", which means "I don't like long discussions".
The city is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Abengourou, with its cathedral at the Cathédrale Sainte Thérèse de l'enfant Jésus.
^ "Côte d'Ivoire". geohive.com. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
^ a b c Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abell, A(runah) S(hepardson)". Encyclopædia Britannica. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Abengourou.
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The areas you can study in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) course stretch from Japan in the East to Morocco in the West, and from classical times to the present day. By studying an AMES language and culture, you develop a set of practical skills and knowledge that can be used in many ways and you engage with different understandings of our shared world.
As you do not have to have studied AMES subjects at school, the best preparation is for you to explore for yourself what interests you about the language and culture you choose to study (see the Faculty website for suggestions).
Our course is flexible and numerous options and combinations are available. You should indicate which language(s) you’re interested in studying in your Supplementary Application Questionnaire (SAQ).
You can study Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese or Persian.
Chinese and Japanese cannot be combined with another language. However, those studying Japanese may be able to take Korean as an option in Year 4.
You can combine Arabic, Hebrew and Persian with each other, or with a modern European language (if you have an A Level/IB Higher Level or equivalent in the European language) from Year 1. Students taking one of these languages will have the option to study Hindi from Year 2 or Sanskrit in Year 4. No more than two languages may be studied at one time..
Persian must be combined with another Middle Eastern language or a European language from the Modern and Medieval Languages course in Year 1 and 2.
Chinese gives you China in its own words. You encounter a sophisticated civilisation and the most vibrant economy in the world today. You delve into its 3,500 years of recorded history, poetry and philosophy to understand how they shaped the tumultuous changes of modern times, and to engage with contemporary society.
While rooted in a vibrant cultural history, Japan is one of the world’s most dynamic societies, a leader in industry, technology and popular culture. On our course you gain unrivalled mastery of Japanese while developing in-depth understanding of Japan’s history, literature, society and politics.
Arabic is the language of the Qur’an and of a rich literature covering fields as diverse as the sciences, history and religious studies, and poetry. It's the native language of around 200 million people in the Middle East and was the key to a medieval culture which kick-started the European Renaissance. Our course gives you access both to this heritage and to the modern societies, cultures and thought fed by it.
Persian is another great language of Islam with a world famous poetic tradition, and vibrant literary heritage. It is the language of modern Iran and variants of Persian are also spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Our course introduces you to the classical tradition and to contemporary Iranian culture.
Hebrew offers classical (Biblical) and/or modern Hebrew and its literature, and the history and culture of Israel and the modern Middle East. You can also study Aramaic.
Good knowledge of the language(s) is central to our course. Part I (Years 1 and 2) gives a strong grounding, and in Part II (Years 3 and 4) you study advanced language so that by the end of it you can speak fluently and read confidently. Alongside the language(s), there’s a wide range of topics on offer (depending on language) to choose from looking at history, literature, religion, anthropology, linguistics and film.
The third year is spent abroad – a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the culture you’re studying and improve your language skills. Various Faculty-approved institutions are available. Chinese and Japanese students study at a university in the appropriate country. Arabic, Persian and Hebrew students have some choice of which country they go to and what they do. Students generally take an approved language course or study at a local university, and some combine this with voluntary work..
Please also see the Finance pages about tuition fees during the year abroad.
It's possible to change course after Year 2 (Part I). In recent years, undergraduates have successfully changed to Modern and Medieval Languages, Law, and Human, Social, and Political Sciences.
The range of career options open to graduates is vast. Besides those who go into research, many graduates use their subject directly in subsequent employment. Examples include the media, business and commerce, tourism, teaching overseas, the Civil Service (especially the Foreign Office), NGOs, or international scientific agencies.
Even if you choose not to stay in a related field, employers are often impressed by your choice to study a difficult language. Our graduates have also gone into banking, marketing and law.
Teaching is made up of lectures, seminars, language classes and supervisions – you can generally expect 12-14 hours of teaching each week.
You are assessed at the end of each year through written and oral examinations, and coursework. Depending on your choice of language(s), you take four to six papers in Years 1, 2 and 4, including a dissertation of 12,000 words in your final year. You spend Year 3 abroad. See the website for full course details.
If you combine a Middle Eastern with a European language, you study both roughly equally in Year 1 but after that you can balance them as you wish. If you combine both to Year 4, you spend Year 3 in the Middle East.
In Year 1 (Part IA), you study your chosen language(s) intensively, in both written and spoken forms. You take introductory papers on East Asia or the Middle East, depending on the language(s) you’re studying.
In Year 3, you spend at least eight months abroad developing your language skills and your understanding of the culture you’re studying.
For further information about studying Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge see the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies website.
All Asian and Middle Eastern languages are taught from scratch, so there’s no requirement for any previous knowledge of them.
See AMES: Subject Requirements and Typical Offer by College for College-specific requirements/preferences. All undergraduate admissions decisions are the responsibility of the Cambridge Colleges, so please check College websites for further details.
All applicants are required to take the pre-interview written assessment for AMES at an authorised centre local to them (for a lot of applicants, this will be their school/college).
The pre-interview written assessment for AMES will be taken on 30 October 2019. Please check the Admissions Testing Service website for scheduled start times.
Applicants wishing to combine Asian and Middle Eastern Studies with a modern European language (from the MML course) will be required to sit the MML at-interview written assessment in addition to the AMES pre-interview written assessment.
Course website - Explore Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in more detail on the course website.
Year Abroad - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
How You Learn / How We Teach - An introduction to how the AMES course is taught and assessed.
What Our Students Say - Read the thoughts of recent students on what it’s like to study AMES at Cambridge.
Where Could it Take Me? - Career prospects of AMES graduates.
Language Centre Resources - Language-learning resources offered by the University of Cambridge Language Centre.
Course costs and funding - Details of course costs and funding available to support AMES students.
Chinese Studies at Cambridge - Explore Chinese Studies in more detail on the course website.
Year Abroad in China - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
Japanese Studies at Cambridge - Explore Japanese Studies in more detail on the course website.
Year Abroad in Japan - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
Arabic Studies - Explore Arabic Studies in more detail on the course website.
Combination with European Languages - Information on how to combine Arabic with a European language.
Arabic Studies Year Abroad - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
Persian Studies - Explore Persian Studies in more detail on the course website.
Combination with European Languages - Information on how to combine Persian with a European language.
Persian Studies Year Abroad - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
Hebrew - Explore Hebrew Studies in more detail on the course website.
Combination with European Languages - Information on how to combine Hebrew with a European language.
Hebrew Studies Year Abroad - Information about the third year of the AMES course, which is spent overseas.
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Minister for Electric Power No 1 Col Zaw Min went on an inspection tour of Shwegyin dam project near Kyauknaga village, 6 miles of Northeast of Shewgyin, Bago Division, being built by No 4 Construction Group yesterday morning. On arrival at the dam project, the minister viewed progress in building the dam from the observation deck.
Next, the project director presented reports to the minister on progress in building the dam, future tasks and stockpile of materials while the deputy director-general gave a supplementary report.
After hearing the reports, the minister attended to the needs and then gave instructions on timely completion of the construction tasks.Next, the minister inspected Ogee & Bidge work, Chute Protion work and Stilling Basin work and earth work for the dam with the use of heavy machinery, installation of gate doors of water intake structure, water diverted from the river and progress in filling the dam with earth and gravel.
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Congratulations to PhD student Marcus Colla) for winning the Royal History Society's prestigious Alexander Prize for 2018, for his article 'Prussian Palimpsests: Historic Architecture & Urban Spaces in East Germany, 1945-1961' published in Central European History.
”This was an exceptional piece of work, on an arresting topic in contemporary history, deftly and elegantly handled and showing considerable analytic subtlety. The author examines the complex interaction of architecture, history and ideology in the political culture of the emerging German Democratic Republic, and considers the ways in which the past and its physical traces proceeded in inherent union with reflections about a future socialist Germany as the new state sought self-legitimation.
The treatment of historic architecture was an inherently divisive issue, even within the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), as not even a self-professed revolutionary regime could avoid the need to deal with the symbolic urban landscape it had inherited: through a number of case studies the author shows how the treatment of sites of memory considered in any way ‘Prussian’ (and therefore regressive) in fact varied substantially over time, and just how tenuous and contingent was the reciprocity of old and new in generating political legitimacy.
This article was a distinctive and distinguished piece of historical analysis, elegantly expressed and argued throughout."
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Here is what I always say when people ask how the retreat went and to those who ask about it that have never been..."It is just so good."
While I have a hand in the planning and preparations, a family who cheers me on and easily adjusts life to my travel schedule, Meg that takes care of the menu and has created a beautiful, colorful and loved filled "landing" and friends who believe in and support my dream, we are just the hands and feet. All of the details fall right into perfect place because Jesus shows up every.single.time.
I have experienced and witnessed it over and over and over and again, it is just so good. NOTE: yes, I know this is a bendable Jesus and is just a toy. When I say Jesus shows up every time, HE does.
Saying "yes" to coming to a women's faith and art retreat is big in several ways. You have to put your every day life on pause, take time off of work, often leave your family behind, make a financial commitment and all of that leaves the door wide open for the devil to show up and attempt to derail your thoughts, plans and hopes of going. THAT happens every single time, too. I am always very honest about this to all that register and try my best to walk along with everyone through the issues. Thing is, when you align yourself and not fall into the traps of fear or doubt, again..."it is soo good."
Early morning coffee and chit chat in the kitchen, late night creative chatter and antics, fabric store field trips, antique shopping, and frequent Sonic stops with super special orders are part of our memories.
I am excited to announce the Summer and Fall Dates for 2019 at The Whatever Craft House and all of the details are listed below.
The Craft House is located in Newton, Kansas. It is a amazing 100 year old restored home that is used for retreats and sleeps 17. Upstairs there are four beautifully decorated bedrooms. Each room has between 2 – 6 twin beds. It will be hard to pick just one because they are each crazy cute. Be prepared for late night giggles and some early rising roommates. There are three full bathrooms that will be shared.
You will be picked up on Thursday afternoon at 4:30pm and dropped off on Sunday morning to Wichita Eisenhower Airport. Please arrange to arrive by 4:30 pm the day of the retreat and schedule your departure for after 12:00 pm on the last day of the retreat. If you are planning to drive to the retreat, we ask that you plan to arrive no earlier than 5:00pm on the day the retreat begins.
At the beginning of each day and at the end of each night we will have a devotional and discussion time. There will be a creative sessions on Friday & Saturday with lots of supplies to play with each evening. There will be plenty of time for naps, walks and you will even be able to schedule an in-house massage if you would like. Note: Retreat registration does not include massage fee.
To complete your reservation, a non refundable of $300.00 must be made and will apply to your total registration cost. NOTE: Returning guests will receive $100.00 of of their camp fee.
AFTER deposit has been made, if you need to make special payment arrangements or would like to pay in full, please contact me at [email protected].
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Growing numbers of children are taking “worthless” vocational courses as an alternative to GCSEs, according to a study.
Pupils can gain the equivalent of four A* to C grades by completing one qualification in subjects such as retail, hospitality, sport and travel and tourism, it emerged.
Some teachers told researchers that under-achieving children were regularly entered for the courses because they were seen as an easy way to inflate results.
But the think-tank Civitas claimed that certain courses were “practically irrelevant” and failed to properly prepare students for further education or the world of work.
It comes as 750,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were set to receive the results of GCSEs and vocational qualifications on Tuesday.
One BTEC hospitality course contains a module in “serving food and drink”, it was disclosed. Pupils are taught how to use different equipment to serve customers and learn the necessary interpersonal skills, including “being polite” to other people.
Herbert Berger, Michelin starred chef and restaurateur, told researchers that students completing the course were "not equipped to perform in the industry".
"All that time being at school is such a huge waste of resources on all sides," he said.
Another course in travel and tourism run by the OCR exam board features a unit on “investigating airports”, in which pupils are taught about the various health, safety and security issues surrounding working in the airline industry.
A BTEC certificate in children’s care, learning and development contains a mandatory unit in communicating with children and adults.
“When interacting with children, communication needs to be tailored to the age and development of the child,” the course document says.
Over the last decade, the number of entries in practical courses has soared.
One course in information and communication technology has seen candidates increase six-fold to 250,000 in just two years.
Grades obtained in practical courses sit alongside GCSEs in official school league tables published later in the year.
Anastasia de Waal, the think-tank’s head of education, said: “Criticism of vocational qualifications at GCSE is often shot down as 'elitist'.
“What in fact is elitist is a status quo in which academic subjects are reserved for the high performers and in which qualifications which bear no resemblance to true vocational training are allowed to pass as 'vocational'.
The Coalition has already pledged to ban schools from using vocational qualifications as “equivalents” in GCSE tables. A review of current league tables is expected to be set in a White Paper published in the autumn.
An OCR spokesman said: "Civitas is wrong. OCR Nationals incorporate inherently practical, applied learning - founded on a solid base of knowledge and understanding.
"OCR has never claimed they fully prepare somebody for work in that sector - any more than a GCSE in an academic subject equips you to become a university don in a discipline.
"Sector based Nationals give students an insight into work in a particular sector, and a platform on which learners can make a more informed decision about their future career."
A spokesman for Pearson, which owns Edexcel, the exam board offering BTECs, said: “We absolutely stand by the rigour of the BTEC vocational qualifications we offer, which develop not only practical skills, but knowledge that young people can apply in their future careers.
"Every major employer in the UK agrees on the importance of skills to the UK’s economy. Plenty of schools and colleges say that BTEC qualifications stretch and engage their pupils in very different ways from GCSEs."
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The 21-year-old midfielder’s impressive performances over the last three seasons have earned plenty of admirers with some going as far as to compare him to Dutch legend Johan Cruyff.
Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City are all interested in making big money moves for De Jong.
Netherlands boss Ronald Koeman even revealed that City coach Pep Guardiola is “totally wild about De Jong”.
But the Dutchman revealed that he will remain at Ajax until the end of this season at least.
“I am certainly not leaving this winter,” De Jong told Ajax’s Twitter.
“I am 100 per cent staying until the summer.
“I don’t know what other people are doing, but personally I would like it if the whole group stay together.
“We have had a fairly decent first half to the season.
De Jong’s Ajax and Holland team-mate Matthijs de Ligt announced himself that he will be remaining at the club this month as well.
Ajax are just two points adrift of Eredivisie leaders PSV Eindhoven after winning 15 of their opening 17 games.
Erik ten Hag’s side also progressed to the Champions League knockout stages, where they will meet reigning champions Real Madrid with the first leg to begin on February 13 in Amsterdam.
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We present an equilibrium analysis to predict the long-run allocational consequences and risk implications of banking deregulation. Loan demand and deposit supply functions are derived from primitive assumptions about the preferences of individuals, and banks are viewed as (differentiated) competitors in a spatial context. We find that a relaxation of entry barriers into banking improves the welfare of borrowers and savers at the expense of bank stockholders. Equilibrium loan interest rates fall and equilibrium deposit interest rates rise as banking becomes more competitive. Despite this, the equilibrium debt-equity ratios of banks increase as entry barriers are relaxed. We also examine the implications of capital standards and find that an increase in the minimum capital requirement benefits borrowers but hurts depositors.
Besanko, David, and Anjan V. Thakor. 1992. Banking Deregulation: Allocational Consequences of Relaxing Entry Barriers. Journal of Banking and Finance. 16(5): 909-932.
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Kalimpong, Sept. 15: Residents of the hill town will have to do without water for what looks like an extended period — thanks to the ongoing indefinite hunger strike of the DGHC’s contractual employees.
About 50 employees of the DGHC’s public health engineering (PHE) department, which supplies water to the Kalimpong Municipality area, are part of the 1,500 members of the Janmukti Asthai Karmachari Sangatan, who are on hunger strike demanding regularisation of jobs.
The Sangatan is affiliated to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
With things not looking impressive, the hill residents are being forced to make their own arrangements.
A container of 1,000 litres of water costs between Rs 150-300 in the market, depending on the distance between the source and the place of residence. “I will have to shell out Rs 200 on alternate days to meet my needs,” said a resident of B.L. Dixit Road.
The water woes come at a time when the residents have been complaining about the quality of water they have been getting for the past one week. “I couldn’t even think of drinking the water even after boiling it,” said Rita Rai, a housewife, pointing finger at muddy water.
The PHE engineer admitted that the quality of water had been affected by a number of reasons, including snapping of pipelines at many places because of the recent landslides, heavy deposit of silt in the reservoirs and overloaded filter.
“Intake structures at Neora, Relli and Thukchuk have also suffered heavy damage,” he said.
Chhetri said the muddy water was the result of makeshift repairs of the pipelines. Efforts were, however, on to completely restore the snapped lines and clean up the reservoirs as well.
“We have issued a work order for the clean-up. It will take time though because it will first have to be done on a trial basis,” he added.
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Almost two months ago, Eric Schliesser generously offered me a guest post slot on his blog, Digressions & Impressions to respond to a recent piece by Joe Heath about what he called "Me studies," or people studying too closely the conditions of their own oppression.
One useful point that Moulton makes, though, is that a preoccupation with adversariality can lead someone to make worse arguments than they would if they weren't just looking for something to disagree with. Leiter approvingly quotes an email from a reader, S. Wallerstein, suggesting I should learn some history, since if I knew more history I would be more careful with my use of the terms "heterosexual" and "upper-middle-class." Setting aside the fact that it was Leiter and not me who singled out Descartes, Hume, and Kant as paradigm examples of upper-middle-class cis heterosexual white men, I'm quite unclear what this email response is intended to accomplish, besides score points against my article.
Perhaps S. Wallerstein is pointing out that there is more diversity in the historical canon than I thought, since some philosophers we study may not have been heterosexual. Great, honestly. But that point seems to have no particularly significant consequences for my argument except making it clear that I haven't read my Foucault, so might have to get rid of the "'me' studies" AOC on my CV (oh wait, I didn't put that in yet). The fact that some historical figures might not have been straight, or that "upper-middle-class" might not be an appropriate label before a certain point in time doesn't particularly take away from the claim that there's a need to diversify the discipline. At best, the former point (about heterosexuality) says that it may be slightly more diverse than otherwise thought. And the latter point (about class) says that some of the terms we use to describe philosophy's homogeneity might be anachronistic. Ok. I am perfectly happy to have these points scored against me - this isn't the first time I've been told to read Foucault. But if we don't suppose that successful point-scoring is the purpose of philosophical activity, there seems to be nothing useful to do with these claims. Surely the author of them doesn't take them to support the claim that philosophy is already sufficiently diverse. Just because some relatively wealthy white men (is that better?) didn't get married doesn't mean we shouldn't work to include philosophy done by non-white people, or women, or (etc).
And while philosophy (at least according to some people) begins with probably-not-heterosexual Plato (because nobody else in the ancient world said anything interesting?) we also have some pretty good data on how we're doing as a discipline right now. There is plenty of evidence saying that the majority of philosophy getting published and getting cited is being done by white men. We also have plenty of statistics about the extreme underrepresentation of disabled philosophers. So if I am playing identity politics, it's at least with an awareness of how underrepresented many identities are in our discipline.
Apparently the author thinks that the philosophical systems of Descartes, Hume, and Kant are usefully explained as being about their own experience as "straight, upper-middle-class, cis, heterosexual white men."
Never mind the misreading of the sarcastic opening passage that was highlighted on feminist philosophers, because Leiter does get close to one of the main points I wanted to make. Now, I don't think that Kant's social position is the best or most useful way to explain his philosophical system as a whole. It might not even be particularly useful as an explanation for plenty of aspects of his thought. Seems like quite the caricature of anti-oppression movements to say what Leiter does. Saying that social location affects one's life and one's thinking doesn't mean it's the only thing that can affect it. Similarly, saying that someone's social location affects their philosophical position doesn't mean it's the only thing that does, or even that it's the main or most important thing.
So do I think that these philosophers' social position affected their philosophical views? Absolutely, in the sense that I think it's true that everyone's social position affects their thinking. That's one of the major reasons why many of us argue for diversity and inclusiveness in the first place. I'd have to be more of an early modern scholar to say exactly how it worked in the cases of Descartes, Hume, and Kant, though. Still, it's pretty easy to find evidence of racism on the part of at least Hume and Kant, such as this article. I'd have to dig deeper to talk about the extent to which it affected their moral and political philosophies, but I'd think that the burden of proof would be on those who say that it has no effect rather than those who claim that it has some.
In any case, there is still the question of what Leiter's post actually accomplishes, besides perhaps scoring a couple of points. The latter makes it worthwhile in its own right under the adversary paradigm, I guess. But this paradigm has once again disappointed me, since it's left the real issues of the value of diversity and obstacles to inclusiveness completely untouched.
"Just because some relatively wealthy white men (is that better?) didn't get married doesn't mean we shouldn't work to include philosophy done by non-white people, or women, or (etc)."
Since it's perfectly clear that no one ever meant to say (or even inadvertently implied) that the conclusion which you state follows from the premise that you start with (or, moreover, from any other premise), your reader has to conclude that you have no actual interest in engaging anything apart from irrelevant strawmen of your own imagination.
Sure - but the claim you quote isn't actually attributed to anyone, just given as an example of an absurd claim which the people I'm talking about wouldn't want to be committed to.
So that inevitable conclusion on the part of the reader doesn't seem that inevitable.
Audrey, welcome to the blog and what a fantastic post with which to introduce yourself! I look forward to more great posts from you in the coming weeks!
Agree about the problem with point-scoring. With the growth of feminist and other identity politics philosophy there's been so much more of this stuff- just replying to people that they are white cis men, as though this is a point in a debate.
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Sometimes you never know the impact a simple act of kindness can have! For JoAnn Bowen, who works as the executive assistant to the president’s office at PUC, helping a stranger one afternoon resulted in a $1,000 donation to the college. We asked her to share about her experience, and we hope her story is a wonderful reminder that you never know how much your actions can mean to others.
A year ago, a man who I later learned to be John O. Pohlmann was biking and had a breakdown–I was on my lunch break coming up the hill to Angwin from Pope Valley. I just happened to have my bike rack on my vehicle and I just happened to go home during lunch to check on my dog! I usually don’t do this since it’s far. So, I drove John directly to Rico Mundy’s (another PUC employee) house who, as an avid biker, was able to repair his bike gear and send John on his way back to Bothe Park, where he camps every year along with his wife, Lyn.
On Tuesday last week, in walks John and Lyn with a thousand dollar check to PUC in honor of me! He said they just wanted to show their appreciation for the goodwill and helpfulness you can still find in the world today.
John is a retired adjunct history professor; he spent 53 years working in the California State Colleges through his career. The last place he worked was California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. His lovely wife is a retired piano teacher.
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Pohlmanns for their generosity to PUC.
Looking for inspiration for how you can spread everyday kindness? Read “Casual Kindness at PUC”, which has some suggestions for small acts you can incorporate in your everyday life that can help bring happiness to everyone you meet.
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2019-04-18T20:17:07Z
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https://pucadmissions.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/a-little-kindness-goes-a-long-way/
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Sports
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Society
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lonelyplanet
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Adry Hotel e Restaurante is located in Itajaí, 3.5 km from Hercílio Luz Stadium, and features barbecue facilities. Offering a terrace, the property is located within 6 km of Navegantes Beach. The hotel offers a shared lounge. Guests at the hotel can enjoy a continental breakfast. At Adry Hotel e Restaurante you will find a restaurant serving Brazilian cuisine. The accommodation can conveniently provide information at the reception to help guests to get around the area. Careca Hill is 12 km from Adry Hotel e Restaurante, while Sao Joao Church is 2 km away. The nearest airport is Ministro Victor Konder International Airport, 6 km from the property.
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2019-04-19T19:11:26Z
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https://www.lonelyplanet.com/brazil/hotels/adry-hotel-e-restaurante/a/lod/90e290d5-b5f3-4d06-ac3e-b2719167e1bb/363155
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Sports
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Recreation
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smh
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Melbourne actor Yared Scott stars in 'All These Creatures'.
Writer and director Charles Williams.
Choosing all the winners was “bloody difficult”, said Cate Blanchett at the jury press conference, but Image Book sat so far apart from the other films – “in a different time and space” - that the jury felt it couldn’t be evaluated in the same way.
Spike Lee’s explosively polemical Blackkklansman, which drew historical threads between the true story of black policeman who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and contemporary resurgence of white supremacist groups, won the festival’s Grand Prix. “I hope the film can get us all out of our mental slumber,” he said.
kid in Beirut was one of the three competition films directed by women.
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher shared the script prize for her film Happy as Lazzaro with another woman: Nader Saeivar, who wrote Three Faces with Iranian dissident film-maker Jafar Panahi.
“There were not perhaps as many female-driven narratives as I would have liked,” said Blanchett. However, there were many “powerhouse performances” by women, she pointed out; the acting prize went to Samal Yeslyamova for her harrowing performance as a homeless woman in Ayka, by Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy.
Best actor went to Marcello Fonte in Italian director Matteo Garrone’s Dogman, a film based on a real story of a meek dog groomer who takes revenge on the town bully. Dogman was another critical favourite.
The award for best direction went to Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War, about a 1950s Polish couple split traumatically when one defects to the West; the Camera D’Or for the best first film went to Lukas Dhont’s transgender drama Girl.
disappointingly light on big names, the more adventurous choices had actually made it one of the most stimulating Cannes of recent years. Events such as the women’s march on the Palais; an incendiary press conference for Blackkklansman; the European launch of Solo, the Star Wars spin-off and, of course, the inevitable scandal – Lars von Trier’s serial killer drama The House that Jack Built, which had around 250 walk-outs – also helped give the festival a greater sense of vitality than it has had in a long time.
Even the famously sour security guards seemed to have turned over a collective new leaf, greeting film-goers cheerily and smiling as they confiscated their contraband sandwiches.
Cate Blanchett was also a gracious and decisive presence, her authoritative discussions of issues such as the need to see more women’s films making her the face of the festival in a way that jury presidents rarely are.
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2019-04-24T11:13:20Z
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https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/story-of-australian-family-gets-cannes-gong-as-japanese-indie-shoplifters-wins-palme-d-or-20180520-p4zgcz.html
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Sports
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Arts
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tripod
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There are 5 dogz chip, jowels, scrappy, bootz and chi-chi. There is one toy a ball which they love to play with, when you throw it they get and bring it right back to you so you can throw it again. If you wait 7-10 minutes your dog will fall asleep when they do they start barking in there sleep and roll around.
Oddaballz was my favorite of the three it has 2 toys they are the atomic ball which they love to play with, if you hold the ball over them they will grow; also there is the transformer which changes them into different animals like Lips (one of the Oddballz) he will turn into a bull and other animals. So check it out.
Also there is Catz this is a good program for everyone even if you don't like catz. I don't like cats but computer catz is cute and funny. There are a lot of toys like a mouse that runs around the screen the tricky part of the mouse is to get him to come out of his hole, you have to plant the cheese on the screen to get him to come out. Plus you have to see what he does when you feed him.
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2019-04-24T12:18:51Z
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http://jeo.tripod.com/Free_Downloads.htm
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Sports
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Computers
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crash
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Despite a spirited battle with Fernando Alonso in the first part of the race, Carlos Sainz Jr. doubted he'd be able to hold a faster car back.
Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr. had no hard feelings after losing out to compatriot Fernando Alonso in the race for sixth in the Hungarian Grand Prix, believing McLaren to have been "in another race" on Sunday.
Sainz managed to fight with Alonso for position through the first part of the race and keep the Spaniard back, only to lose P6 soon after both pitted.
Alonso raced out of sight, making use of the McLaren chassis' strength at the Hungaroring, leaving Sainz to settle for P7 at the chequered flag.
"It was hard. Obviously when you see a McLaren finishing 21 seconds ahead, it just means they were in another race today," Sainz said.
"They had a lot more pace than us the whole weekend. We simply couldn't match them the whole weekend. Trying to hold on with a car that is half a second per lap faster is quite difficult."
Looking back on the battle with Alonso, Sainz said: "I think it was good fun. It was a great battle, I enjoyed it. It's always nice to battle with a guy like him, and today was no exception."
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2019-04-23T20:19:10Z
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https://www.crash.net/f1/news/287466/1/mclaren-in-another-race-in-hungary-sainz
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Sports
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Sports
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chalmers
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While the supervisory control (SC) problem of (maximally permissive) deadlock avoidance for sequential resource allocation systems (RASs) has been extensively studied in the literature, the corresponding results that are able to address potential resource outages are quite limited, both, in terms of their volume and their control capability. This paper leverages the recently developed SC theory for switched discrete event systems (s-DES) in order to provide a novel systematic treatment of this more complicated version of the RAS deadlock avoidance problem. Following the modeling paradigm of s-DES, both the operation of the considered RAS and the corresponding maximally permissive SC policy are decomposed over a number of operational modes that are defined by the running sets of the failing resources. In particular, the target supervisor must be decomposed to a set of “localized predicates,” where each predicate is associated with one of the operational modes. A significant part, and a primary contribution, of this paper concerns the development of these localized predicates that will enable the formal characterization and the effective computation of the sought supervisor. With these predicates available, a distributed representation for the sought supervisor that is appropriate for real-time implementation is eventually obtained through an adaptation of the relevant distributed algorithm that is provided by the current s-DES SC theory.
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2019-04-20T08:46:40Z
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/254850
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Sports
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moonfruit
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The Winter Solstice is always about looking at the light and dark in ourselves and the world, remembering that we are heading towards the light. It is about the festive season, a time to share and remember those less fortunate than ourselves. A time of sadness and joy. Some people will be celebrating with family and friends, others will be alone either by choice or circumstances. There is often a mixture of conflicting emotions.
The beginning of this Solstice has a serious feel to it – a metaphorical groan as we face some personal stock taking. There will be a tension between wanting the company of others and spending time alone to reflect on the past year, the present and the future. What were the lessons learned, what do I need to resolve then let go of, what is still a work in progress? The main focus of the Solstice is relationships starting with the relationship we have with ourselves, our self worth, personal ambitions and authenticity. How open minded are we when listening to other points of view/opinions? Do we people please avoiding conflict, are we easily influenced by others or do we go to the extreme opposite? Being resourceful and creative in resolving differences will be key as well as making decisions slowly.
There are also relationships with those close to us and the larger community. The above quote by Maya Angelou feels very apt. The emphasis for many this year is about self-care, values and respect. Two expressions come to mind: “We can’t give away what we haven’t got” and “We need to walk a 1000 miles in someone’s moccasins before we really understand a different point of view or situation”. Questioning ourselves about self care, ask where are we neglectful, where are we overindulgent, what can we do differently?
Being clear about our values can be an interesting exercise. The order of priority will differ with each individual. We can make judgments like “surely they can see ...”, “why can’t they understand”. This can become a judgment minefield so it would be wise to see if our values are flexible and where they might not be. Finally we come to respect – how well do we respect ourselves? Do we only respect like minded people? How do we balance a need for personal freedom and respecting other people’s needs? Reserving our judgment is a healthier option rather than making them based on hearsay or superficial knowledge.
Putting this Solstice in simple terms, it is about reaching a place of love for ourselves, others and the world around us resolving family feuds and wars.
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2019-04-19T05:09:07Z
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http://www.tiegsolus.moonfruit.com/winter-solstice-2017/4594497536
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Sports
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Health
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usc
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Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Swaim. Date: 1960-02-11. Reporter: Swaim. Assignment: Dr. Coles interview. 13-14: Dr. James Stacey [sic] Coles, president of Bowdoin College, Maine."
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2019-04-24T03:03:14Z
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https://usclibstore.usc.edu/Examiner/Examiner-Gallery-17/i-D7dsZ2q
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Sports
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This December we have several events coming up – 3 talks with meditation teacher Jeff Oliver, fresh off a month long tour of Malaysian dhamma centres where he’s been offering teachings and leading meditation.
On Thursday 6th, Ajahn Pasanno, head monk of the Western monastic lineage, will give a talk for us at DMG.
And on the 16th we host Kittisaro and Thanissara – they were instrumental in setting up the western temples in the Luang Phor Chah lineage. Currently they have a thriving centre in South Africa.
BUT anyway – if you are receiving this via automated email, please head over to the new website at http://www.littlebang.org – to get future updates you will have to enter your email there (see the righthand sidebar of the website). The reason for the change is we changed from the ordinary WORDPRESS blog to a self-hosted website so that we can add audio/video files, and yes, also play around geekishly with some interesting design layouts !!
This old blog http://www.littlebang.wordpress.com won’t be getting any more updates.
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2019-04-19T08:25:39Z
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https://littlebang.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/december-2012-events/
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Sports
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News
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wikidot
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You can not necessarily correlate people who like collecting stuff with individuals who like purchasing stuff," she said, adding that the development of Pinterest is nothing at all compared with that of Google+, the search engine giant's answer to Facebook and that cataloging products from across the Internet, as Pinterest customers love to do, is one of the least well-known social behaviors online. Pinterest could just be satisfying a niche behavior that hasn't been serviced truly nicely," Ms. Ahrens said.You ought to never share your debit or credit card password with any Amazon seller unless you are at the checkout web page requiring you to enter these particulars. If you cherished this short article and you would like to acquire Learn Alot more information regarding Learn Alot more kindly go to our own web-site. And besides, the only card password you are going to need are not any passwords you set up on the internet - the 3 digit pin that can Learn Alot more be identified on the front or back of the card are these digits you'll need to input for the purchase to be sent out Amazon's door.Anytime you are on the World wide web, info is getting passed between your computer and the internet sites you select to browse. When this info is of a sensitive nature, like your personal address, contact numbers and credit card particulars, you want to make positive that the Net connection in between your self and the website you are making use of is secure.Several shoppers will uncover connected or package things when acquiring an item. For instance, you are going to acquire a swimming suit but order a swimming suit, a pair of swimming glasses and a cap at a package" value. In fact, you already had a pair of glasses and a cap, and now you have two of each.The safest way to shop on the web is with a credit card. In the occasion some thing goes incorrect, you are protected beneath the federal Fair Credit Billing Act. You have the appropriate to dispute charges on your credit card, and you can withhold payments for the duration of a creditor investigation. When it has been determined that your credit was used with no authorization, you are only responsible for the 1st $50 in charges. You are rarely asked to pay this charge.For example, if you are an affiliate marketer for Musician's Pal, an on the internet musical instrument retailer, you can promote their products on your web site. If a person visits your web site, and clicks on the link that requires them to the Musician's Pal web site, and they obtain an instrument within a certain amount of time (24 hours or much Learn Alot more, normally), you get a commission on the sale.Border agents on each sides of the Canada-U.S. border are encouraging people to be ready and comprehend policy and process before cross-border shopping on Black Friday. The ABCs of an online business are the following: know your industry, have quality merchandise and service, and be consistent with social media and connect with your market.For instance, if you are an affiliate marketer for Musician's Pal, an online musical instrument retailer, you can advertise their products on your site. If a individual visits your website, and clicks on the link that takes them to the Musician's Friend web site, and they buy an instrument inside a certain amount of time (24 hours or far more, usually), you get a commission on the sale.Our Internet Wonder Woman Jamey Ordolis loves displaying us how to have exciting spending income on-line, so we asked her how to have some enjoyable saving. Here are some of the best sites, digital solutions and apps that can save you a bundle.When buying on-line it is greatest to stick to credit cards or payment solutions like Paypal. Because debit cards are linked to your bank account, you're at a lot greater danger if an individual is able to hack your details. Credit cards supply much more protection and much less liability if a card quantity gets stolen. This is one particular time when it pays to place it on plastic.Shop early. If you happen to be aiming for a holiday purchase, make certain your goods will ship in time. When it comes appropriate down to it, the ideal way to sell merchandise on the web is to attain qualified leads in any way that you can. Get the proper people coming to your shop and the sales will come.Analyze the mall. Your very first step, after you have selected a mall to sell in, is to get an idea of what sort of buyer frequents that mall and what the other shops in it sell. Visit the mall to see its foot visitors and realize its demographics. Does it sell upscale, moderate, or budget things and solutions? Your purpose ought to be to assess how well your shop concept fits inside the bounds of the present demographics of the mall.Try browsing for the product you are searching for on comparison websites such as Froogle , and , but beware that they do not check each site and will typically show you outcomes that do not in fact lead to a solution, and do not account for shipping charges, which can vary a lot among websites.An investigation in 2013 located many items in TK Maxx have been truly own-brand merchandise - utilizing a names such as Arabella and Addison, Kenar, Amaryllis Amphora and Frederik Anderson of Copenhagen. This doesn't mean it isn't a bargain, but you may possibly not be acquiring the designer item you think you are.
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2019-04-24T18:17:48Z
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http://cyrushinkler75934.wikidot.com/blog:48
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Sports
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Shopping
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wordpress
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Be yourself. Don’t try to become someone else. Drop the urge to “become” and simply “be”. That’s Buddhahood.
Gautama, the Buddha, himself has said this: “Doubt everything. Find your own light.” What this means is that you shouldn’t get carried away by others’ experiences or philosophies. You have to challenge every assumption, question every logic, convince yourself how (your) Life works and accept your own convictions and beliefs.
But this is not the way we have been raised. Everything we do is what we have been “told” to do. There’s very little scope or opportunity to make our own music, pave our own paths and to live our lives as if we were explorers and not followers. Which is why, when you fare badly in academics, you are condemned. I, for example, was thrown out of school and that led to my parents feeling “embarrassed” on my account – their feeling so changed my Life forever. Society’s expectations from us are far removed from the way the Universe works or has planned things for us. According to the Cosmic Design, everything is in its place and everything’s perfect. The Master Plan has no flaws. Society – family, friends, community – says, however, you are not good enough. You must be this way or that way or like him or her. If you succumb to this pressure, you give up being who you actually are. You get trapped in the “becoming game” – wanting to become something that you are either not capable of or interested in becoming – instead of simply being. If you accept who you are, if you stop wanting to become (something, someone) and simply be, that’s Buddhahood.
This is not at all complicated. Simply ask yourself what gives you joy and go do it. You can keep your job, do whatever else you have to do to discharge your “worldly” responsibilities, and still if you can devote some time to do what you love doing, you have made progress. Doing this, now that you have experienced inner joy, keeping doing more of that stuff. When you do more and more, and then eventually do only that which gives you joy, then you are yourself! You are not trying anymore to become someone else for society’s sake, for family’s sake or for money’s sake. When you live the Life that you enjoy living, that’s Buddhahood.
The Lotus Sutra is the most profound scripture in Mahayana Buddhism. And the defining doctrine in it is the belief that all people can reach an enlightened state. The key to this enlightenment, as I have learnt, is to drop all notions that your Life is imperfect and that you have to do something, become someone else, to make it perfect. Just accept your Life the way it is, accept yourself the way you are, don’t judge, don’t reject, don’t condemn, don’t try to become. Experience everything. Then choose what you love doing. And then keep doing that. Just being yourself.
In your acceptance of your Life the way it is and of yourself the way you are lies you Buddhahood – and your bliss!
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2019-04-19T14:51:26Z
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https://avisviswanathan.wordpress.com/category/lotus-sutra/
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Sports
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Society
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jacksonville
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The Jacksonville City Council voted against an effort to move city elections to fall 2010 to be included on the ballot with other statewide and federal races.
Supporters of consolidating elections argued it would save $3 million every four years and increase voter turnout. However, a majority of council members decided Tuesday that keeping city elections separate is more important.
Councilman Bill Bishop said city elections deserve the full attention of voters and should not be part of a much longer ballot led by the governor's race.
"People are smart enough to fill out a ballot," Bishop said. "The question is what gets the focus. The media attention is focused on big picture national or statewide issues."
The council voted 11-5 in favor of the bill after amending it to express their opposition to consolidating elections. Councilman Art Shad was among those who voted with the minority after speaking in favor of shifting elections away from spring 2011.
He said separate city elections only benefit special interest groups, such as sign makers and campaign managers. He said he believed that citizens, if asked, would want to elect local leaders at the same time they elect their representatives to state offices and Congress.
After the vote, Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said council members were putting their own interests above the needs of the voters. He said he was confident that citizens would overwhelmingly support a ballot initiative to consolidate elections.
Both Shad and Don Redman, who initially supported the bill to move elections to fall 2010, said they would like to introduce legislation to create a ballot referendum. Eleven other council members told the Times-Union they would support allowing voters to weigh in.
The city's Charter Review Commission took a formal position in favor of consolidating elections. That dismayed Councilman Ronnie Fussell, who was among those that opposed the idea.
Fussell said the Charter Review Commission should not have taken a position on the issue because its mission is to take a big-picture approach to how government operation and submit a list of recommendations to the council in February.
"I'm a little bit disappointed that this has gone down this path," Fussell said.
Commission Chairman Wyman Duggan said the committee weighed in at the request of council Vice President Jack Webb. Members voted on a position Thursday after listening to testimony from Holland, council President Richard Clark, who also supported consolidating elections, and Webb, who did not.
Duggan said the committee was trying to be responsive to a request from a council leader, but he also understood Fussell's point. He said he isn't sure whether the commission would take a position on any future issues before submitting its report to the council.
"This is a deliberative process, and we want to make sure we thoroughly explore all issues," he said.
Webb has introduced a second bill that will move local elections to fall 2011. That won't save money, but it will allow city leaders to transition earlier in the year and well before the budget process begins.
Webb's bill is scheduled to be withdrawn, not because the council doesn't support it but because members have said they want to allow voters to weigh in first via a ballot initiative. A vote on the bill was deferred Tuesday because Webb was traveling and did not attend the council meeting.
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2019-04-26T06:49:06Z
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https://www.jacksonville.com/2016-03-07/stub-351
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Sports
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News
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nswrl
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It’s unchartered territory for the Redfern All Blacks, but winger Taleena Simon is not getting ahead of herself leading into the 2017 Harvey Norman NSW Women’s Premiership Finals Series.
The Dany Allende-coached side has been a standout throughout the 14 regular rounds, averaging 38 points a game to finish as minor premiers. In a five-team finals format, that earns the team a week off before playing directly for a Grand Final spot in Finals Week 2 – a position not to be taken lightly.
“It’s pretty exciting that we won the minor premiership, but our job’s not over,” Simon tells NSWRL.com.au. “We go into the semis next weekend, so we have this week just to focus on that and just improve certain areas.
The reincarnation of the former Sydney Metropolitan Women’s Rugby League this year saw the standard of play step up a level, with just four points separating the top four sides. The biggest indication yet of Redfern’s dominance, however, came in the final round of competition; the All Blacks hosted then-second-placed Mounties in Round 14, destroying them 72-18.
Simon amassed four tries in that big win, but insists the performance won’t cause complacency among the playing group.
“Mounties didn’t really have their strong squad at that time; a lot of their players were injured,” Simon says. “At the end of the day, it’s just the best team on that day.
The Harvey Norman NSW Women’s City winger has been a welcome addition to the All Blacks in recent weeks, following a nine-week stint on the sidelines. She joins NSW representatives Nakia Davis-Welsh, Maddie Studdon, Rebecca Riley and Jasmin Allende in the Redfern side – and has been pleased with the way in which the talent has come together this season.
The All Blacks will next play on Sunday, 10 September, where they will face either Mounties or the Glenmore Park Brumbies for a place in the decider. That match will be live streamed on both NSWRL.com.au and the NSWRL Facebook page from 3pm AEST.
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2019-04-24T22:31:03Z
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https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2017/08/29/all-blacks-earn-week-off/
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Sports
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Sports
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