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TORONTO (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA’s Canadian unit has been fined C$1.05 million (US$1.02 million) for a 2011 accident that killed two workers at its mine in Sudbury, Ontario.
The fine is the largest ever imposed by an Ontario court for violations of the province’s workplace safety law, the provincial government said on Tuesday.
Vale confirmed in a statement that it had agreed to plead guilty to three counts of violating the law. On top of the C$1.05 million fine, it will pay a required 25 percent surcharge into a fund that benefits victims of crime.
Jason Chenier and Jordan Fram were working the night shift at Vale’s Stobie Mine on June 8, 2011, when material that had been trapped in an ore pass burst through a gate in the underground mine. They were crushed to death by muck, sand and water.
Vale said it has devoted “significant efforts and resources” to understanding what happened and implementing recommendations made since the accident.
“Nothing we can say or do can ever turn back the clock and bring Jason and Jordan back, but we will continue to honor their memories through our unwavering focus on safety and reaching zero harm in our workplace,” it said.
The accident made headlines across Canada, and prompted an ongoing campaign, led in part by the victims’ families, for a broad inquiry into mining safety in Ontario.
Another worker was killed at Vale’s Coleman mine in Sudbury in January 2012, but investigators did not lay charges in that case.
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https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE98G17M20130917
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Professor Vuk Mandic was interviewed by Tom Crann on Minnesota Public Radio about the recent discovery of gravitational waves. Listeners can hear the audio of the recorded signal in the story.
The School's Society of Physics Students (SPS) was named Outstanding Chapter for the 2014-2015 school year. The honor was awarded by the national organization and is based on the breadth of activities offered by the group.
Staff writer, Maura Lerner wrote an article to help the Physics Force annual series of January shows.
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https://www.physics.umn.edu/about/news/general/index.html?page=9
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Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gina M. Crome, M.S., M.P.H., R.D.
What member of the rose family is a great tool in the battle of the bulge? If you guessed apples, you’d be right! Believe it or not, apples truly are a member of Rosaceae or the rose family and with the Fall season in “full bloom” it’s no wonder we turn our attention to this versatile fruit Malus domestica, otherwise known as the common apple.
They are virtually fat, cholesterol, and sodium free.
The most popular variety is the Red Delicious, followed by the Golden Delicious in second place. Both of which are available year round.
Apples are a sweet way to add fiber to your diet and help you feel full. This is important if you are trying to shed a few pounds before the holidays get into full swing. Also, pectin, a form of fiber found in apples has been shown to reduce blood cholesterol levels in many scientific studies.
There are a number of foods that pair well with apples including sharp cheeses, nuts and nut butters, or even a little dark chocolate. Here’s a simple fall recipe to get you started.
This is a super easy recipe using your microwave that quickly delivers a delicious fall treat with 5 grams of fabulous fiber for only 140 calories. Makes the house smell nice too!
Core the apple and place it in a small covered microwave safe dish. Mix the Splenda© Brown Sugar Blend, nutmeg, cinnamon and cranberries in another bowl. Spoon the mixture into the center of the apple, top with the butter and almond extract; microwave on high for about 3-4 minutes.
So enjoy the bounty that apples have to offer this fall knowing that you are eating both nutritiously as well as deliciously. Isn’t that the way it should be?
Posted on September 12, 2011 by Gina M. Crome, M.S., M.P.H., R.D.
Posted on July 21, 2011 by Gina M. Crome, M.S., M.P.H., R.D.
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Aside from the fact that the above definitions are highly misleading, the notion that the words we use can ever have an impact on what is and is not legitimate for Muslims is ludicrous: Muslims are not waiting around for Americans or their government—that is, the misguided, the deluded, in a word, the infidel—to define Islam for them. For Muslims, only Sharia determines right and wrong.
Without words related to Islam, how are analysts to make sense of the current conflict? What are the goals and motivations of the “jihadists”? What are their methods? Who might be “radicalizing” them? Whom are they affiliated to? Who supports them? These and a host of other questions are unintelligible without free use of words related to Islam.
This means U.S. intelligence analysts and policymakers need to be able to use, and fully appreciate the significance of, words related to Islam—starting with the word “Islam” itself, i.e., submission to a worldview based on Sharia, a code of law antithetical to Western common law. It means the U.S. military needs to begin expounding and studying Islamic war doctrine—without fear of reprisal, such as when counter-terrorism strategist Stephen Coughlin was fired by the Pentagon for focusing on Islamic doctrine and therefore being politically incorrect. In short, it means America’s leadership needs to take that ancient dictum—“Know thy enemy”—seriously.
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Sanjukta’s Report on Let’s Go trip in the true techie style… Twitter log.
I had pre warned all my twitter followers that I would be frantically twittering the whole trip. So here’s the summary of the trip as obtained from my twitter log. Pay attention on the time stamp, time is the essence this story 🙂 This is inspired by this post of Thejesh.
Some of the pics I have taken are on my Face Book account.
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Once you start looking for patterns, you will see them everywhere. There are patterns in colors, shapes, sounds, dances and even daily routines! Recognizing patterns is a skill that translates directly into algebraic thinking, so exploring these ideas now will set the stage for bigger math ideas later. Your child is ready for more challenging patterns at this age. Six-year-olds can often begin to represent patterns abstractly, and they can figure out what comes next or what’s missing in a pattern.
First, create a sound pattern with your child, such as clap, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp, etc.
First, create a sound pattern with your child, such as clap, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp, etc. Then show your child how you can write that pattern down using colors to represent it, such as red circle, red circle, blue circle; red circle, red circle, blue circle, etc. Once your child understands this, have her write her own sound patterns for you to try!
Curious George combines art and music in this game. Your child can change the color and size of the paint splatters to create music notes and form a painted song.
Some kids learn better using their hands.
Some kids learn better using their hands. Why not create a placemat with your child using the "over" and "under" pattern? Simply cut slits that are one inch apart on one piece of construction paper. Then use a different color to create one-inch strips. Weave each strip over and under the strips on the other paper to make a checkerboard pattern. Patterns can be beautiful and functional, too!
Your child can play Virtual Goose just like Arthur and his friends. In this fast-paced game, your child can practice matching colored shapes and patterns to their rotated matches.
Hand-clapping games (like "Miss Mary Mack," etc.) are often played on playgrounds by kids around this age.
Hand-clapping games (like "Miss Mary Mack," etc.) are often played on playgrounds by kids around this age. It may look like she is just having fun with her friends, but your child is actually using repeating and growing patterns!
Prunella loves to dance. Your child can dance with her by printing dance cards and then using the cards to choreograph new dance combinations.
Using blocks, create a two-block tower.
Using blocks, create a two-block tower. Then, next to that tower, create a three-block tower. Have your child help you continue to make a "staircase" of blocks by increasing the towers by one. Now you are creating a growing pattern! See if you can challenge your child to create staircases that grow by two — or start with a tall tower and build the staircase down instead of up.
Playing with patterns can be fun. Try these four activities with your child to practice patterning skills.
Through engaging stories and comedy, Peg + Cat encourages your child to see math as exciting, accessible, and fun. The show teaches measurement, shapes and patterns, and problem-solving skills that children can use in their everyday lives.
Odd Squad agents frequently use their knowledge of shapes to solve odd mysteries. In this activity, your child can sharpen shape skills by completing four shape challenges.
The Mathroom is one of the most important rooms at Odd Squad headquarters. Now your child can make her own Mathroom at home with this fun paper craft.
HEY YOU GUYYYYYS! Marcus and Jessica are stuck on Prankster Planet and need your help to get back to Earth! Play this fast-paced board game filled with physical challenges, silly brainstorms, and math questions.
Creature Math helps children learn valuable ecology and science concepts while practicing addition and subtraction as they create their very own animal habitat, filled with cool creature pals!
In this game, your child will transfer water from one container to another to learn about volume, addition, and subtraction.
Your child and her friends can play together in this party game. Children can advance through the board game by working together to solve math, reading, and logic problems.
Peg and Cat have 100 chickens to collect, and they count 10 chickens that they have all picked.
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The ability to successfully convey messages to your stakeholders in order to carry out important activities is critical to your organization. Doing so requires proficiency in verbal, written and/or visual communication– and often a combination of all three channels. Specifically, business communication reflects the exchange of ideas to achieve internal and external comprehension.
Recognizing the significance of establishing advanced communications skills for both leaders and individual contributors, Emory Continuing Education offers to build and grow expertise in these essential areas of professional interaction. ECE’s certificate requires candidates to complete a set of core and elective courses.
All of the courses below are required and may be taken in any order.
Click HERE to see core courses.
Click HERE to see elective courses.
Students are required to complete 12 hours of electives from the following courses.
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"Learning and discovering mathematics is all about perseverance, risk-taking, and creativity. With patience and practice, you discover beauty. My goal is to help my students cultivate these disciplines so they too can experience the wonder of mathematics."
Rachel Grotheer is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and French from Denison University, and completed her doctorate in mathematical sciences in 2016 at Clemson University. At Goucher College, she teaches a broad range of introductory and advanced courses, most related to the field of analysis and its applications. Rachel's research lies in the field of inverse problems, focusing specifically on medical image reconstruction problems and analysis of the related partial differential equations. Her research is both theoretical and computational. When she is not teaching, Rachel loves to travel, sing, play a variety of board games, and pursue her love of languages.
Currently editing a paper “Alternatives to the Greedy Approach for Generating a Basis in the Reduced Basis Method” with the next goal of writing up my results of how the reduced basis method is applied to hyperspectral diffuse optical tomography.
S.C. Gray, T. Massaro, I. Chen, C. Edholm, R. Grotheer, Y. Zheng, and H. Chang. “A county-level analysis of persons living with HIV in the southern United States.” AIDS Care, 28(2), 2016.
Grotheer and T. Khan. “Application of the reduced basis method to the forward problem of hyperspectral diffuse optical tomography.” Proceedings of the 19th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July, 2015.
Khan, J. Reneke, R. Grotheer and T. Strauss. "Decision making using a multi-criteria approach in a wholesale electrical power market." Power Systems Conference (PSC), 2015 Clemson University. IEEE, 2015.
B.H. Hokr, C.D. Clark, III, R. E. Grotheer, and R.J. Thomas. “Higher-order wide-angle split-step spectral method for non-paraxial beam propagation.” Optics Express 21, 15815-15825, 2013.
Faculty in Residence in Pagliaro Selz Hall.
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Dispute resolution plays an important role in industrial relations. This is because conflicts are an inherent part in any relationship and industrial relationships are not exempt from this. To this end it is important to have a dispute resolution system that ensures efficient and effective resolution of disputes that arise in the course of industrial relationships. Efficient and effective dispute resolution is particularly important in the industrial relations arena as industrial relations attract various stakeholders, some who may not necessarily be a part of the dispute that arises, but who might inadvertently be affected in the situation of an unresolved dispute. Traditionally litigation has been the most commonly utilized medium of resolution of industrial disputes, with disputants rather choosing to take the dispute to the courts of law for adjudication and determination. However with the advent of alternative means of dispute resolution such as negotiation, mediation and arbitration, it has become paramount that these alternative dispute resolution methods be promoted for the reasons of expediency and efficiency. Regardless of the advent of such methods of dispute resolution, courts have still exercised some form of control and oversight of the dispute processes, and such oversight can be easily misused to defeat the main intention of having the alternative dispute resolution processes in the first place. This thesis discusses reforming the approach to alternative dispute resolution in Kenyan industrial disputes, so as to achieve maximum efficiency of the system. In doing this, the thesis does a comparative analysis of the systems of South Africa and Australia respectively.
Abenga, E. 2015. Reforming the Approach to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Kenyan Industrial Disputes: A Comparative Analysis. University of Cape Town.
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Thread: All you Lidle bashers can eat Crow now.
Re: All you Lidle bashers can eat Crow now.
The Cardinals and Cubs are turning into the Yankees/Red Sox of the NL. The Cubs payroll will approach 100 million with Nomar. The Cardinals have a payroll about 82 million.
The Reds are doomed to finish behind the Cubs/Cardinals/Astros every year with a 45 million or less payroll.
The Reds are basically a team that only signs retreads. Not good.
Financially, the Reds are probably in better shape than anytime during the Marge Schott era. And they have an idea that success for the club for the longhaul can only be achieve by building a solid farm system like the Twins and Rangers. Only problem is it takes time and patience....something Reds fans are running short on.
This has been repeated several times on the board but if you buy into the idea that all improvement is going to come from an overhauled farm system, (though drafting a HS pitcher #1 was a terrible way to start) take note of Reds asst. GM Dean Taylor's fate in Milwaukee. Taylor was able to put together one of the top farm systems in baseball during his time with the Brewers; unfortunately, because the big league team stunk so badly, and he did little to improve it, he was fired after a few years. If DanO is putting all his eggs in one basket with the notion that improving the farm system is the only way to improve the major league team over time, he, like Taylor won't be around if and when those prospects are ready. As I mentioned, that isn't even taking into account his questionable methods for 'improving' the farm system to this point.
I would take the "stability" point and wonder if Allen,Naehring,Miley and Gullet are all purged after this season. Would fit the bill, if anything, Allen may have resigned after his choice for GM wasn't hired, but for the sake of stability and timing, stayed on another year.
It will be interesting to watch who is in control of the franchise and product going ahead with its future after this season.
And I don't think DanO is putting all his eggs in one basket, but he has laid down the foundation of how he plans to rebuild the Reds into a consistent top of the division legitimate contender. Maybe I am giving him too much credit, but an empty farm system and very little money to spend shouldn't lead anyone to think that they can overhaul the major league team in one or two seasons. My guess is that his gameplan is to pull weeds, plant seeds, and water even through next year so that he can shoot for it and have a dramatically improved product when his contract comes up for renewal after the 2006 season. Then he will let the chips fall where they may because he cannot control whether that will be good enough for his bosses. Now, I don't envy his job because they seem to be further away than that, but fortunes can also change pretty quickly in this game.
As far as personnel changes, I like making all the changes Aronchis suggested except Miley should be kept around. I also fire Sammy Ellis to add to the list.
Expecting anymore than what this team has rung out of the season prior to this year was an execise in futility.
I feel the organizations real goal was polishing up the brand more than the product. Lindner is getting on in years and his tax breaks are going to decrease (as far as the Reds go) it's easier to flip a healthy organization than one that is teetering.
I'll tackle the second one first. You might be right. Maybe Carl's looking to sell and put out the marching orders to stand pat as much as possible to create the seeming of stability. Yet they can't bluff forever. Sooner or later the organization has to start working its roster and addressing its core problems or the overall perception of the team will be that it's less stable than ever, utterly lacking in direction and leadership. IMO, if they field a stinker next year any brand maintenance they did this year evaporates.
On the first one, I don't buy into the rolling "well, this wasn't the time" rationale. The Reds could do that ad infinitum. In fact, it's the easy thing to do. Part of what makes Billy Beane so remarkable is that he never bought into that line of thinking. The notion of getting players to improve his club never has been perceived as an exercise in futility. So, while it certainly wasn't an expectation Reds leadership sought to address this past offseason, it remains an expectation of necessity. Either they start meeting that expectation or things don't get better. I emphasize start because obviously this isn't a simple, one-step process. The Reds may have to plod in the right direction, but, regardless of the pace, that's the direction in which they have to embark.
And if they see Cory Lidle up ahead, turn around because they're headed 180-degrees in the wrong direction.
Part of what makes Billy Beane so remarkable is that he never bought into that line of thinking. The notion of getting players to improve his club never has been perceived as an exercise in futility.
Beanes first year on the job.
You guys...I wouldn't mind if you let this thread die.
Rob Neyer: "Any writer who says he'd be a better manager than the worst manager is either 1) lying (i.e. 'using poetic license') or 2) patently delusional. Which isn't to say managers don't do stupid things that you or I wouldn't."
i guess i'm an idiot... when did Dean Taylor sign w/ the Reds? that's very good - was it before the season?
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http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?25442-All-you-Lidle-bashers-can-eat-Crow-now&s=d61551532d7bbd6bdefecb872cf2805e&p=405799
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Mr. Broad’s interesting article in the July Mind on “A General Notation for the Logic of Relations” attributes to me (for what reason I cannot guess) a number of notations employed in Principia Mathematica. As far as my memory serves me, all these were invented by Dr. Whitehead, who, in fact, is responsible for most of the notation in that work. My original notation, before he came to my assistance, may be found in Peano’s Revue de Mathématiques, vols. vii and viii.
Marsh refers the reader interested in Peano’s symbolism to Jorgen Jorgensen’s A Treatise of Formal Logic (1931), 1: 176ff.
I see, in looking through my paper in Mind N.S., No. 107, that although I at first speak of ‘Whitehead and Russell,’ I later generally refer to pieces of notation contained in Principia Mathematica as ‘Russell’s’. I did not mean by this to ascribe them to Mr. Russell rather than to Dr. Whitehead. I have no idea which of the authors is responsible for any given part of the book, and I only used ‘Russell’ as an abbreviation for ‘Russell and Whitehead’. I should be sorry indeed to appear unfair to Dr. Whitehead, and my only excuse is the extreme difficulty of putting a phrase like ‘Russell and Whitehead’ into the possessive in English. Perhaps Dr. Whitehead will provide me with a suitable notation for this purpose, and Mr. Russell will guarantee it to be ‘ethically neutral’.
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2019-04-20T02:45:55Z
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https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-broad-mind-let.html
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SAN JOSE — At first, Joe Ramos was reluctant to photograph those down-on-their luck. But, as a favor to friends, he agreed to set up a makeshift portrait studio at an event providing free services for the homeless.
Among them was an elderly man with white hair, a lined face and scruffy whiskers.
That picture is part of Ramos’ striking exhibit at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library titled “Acknowledged: Portraits of People Impacted by Homelessness and Poverty.” The 66-photo series is a powerful statement about the many faces of the homeless and the toll extracted by life on the streets.
But these are not pictures of disheveled people on the street.
Ramos has taken more than 2,000 portraits of San Francisco homeless since 2006 in a formal setting that helps people look their best — giving the subjects a sense of dignity and even raw beauty. The intent is to show that the problem of homelessness goes well beyond the common preconceptions.
His lens has captured people aged beyond their years, children, entire families and even some homeless who posed with cherished pets. What they have in common often is revealed by their eyes: an almost haunted look.
The typical reaction when encountering the homeless is to avert your eyes. Ramos, however, makes you stare. And the exhibit, said MLK Library Event Coordinator Candice McGee, strikes close to home.
Ramos didn’t set out to chronicle poverty. But as the son of field workers, he knows exactly what it’s like to be poor — and perhaps that’s why the people he photographs instinctively trust him.
But he went on to attend community college in Salinas and then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute. He was a classmate of Annie Leibovitz and studied photography under Richard Conrat, who was an assistant for the late Dorothea Lange, a legendary photojournalist best-known for her Depression-era images.
He largely put the camera away while he and wife, Barbara, ran an arts-and-crafts business and raised two children. But he drifted back to photography about 15 years ago and found a calling with his portraits of those struggling through tough times.
There are, he added, so many layers to homelessness — which is why there are no easy solutions.
“I’ve learned there are so many ways that a person can end up in this situation,” said Ramos, who has done as many as 120 portraits in a three-hour session.
Next to each photo at the library exhibit is a small card, identifying the subjects by first name and sometimes providing snippets about their lives.
There are struggles with addictions and brushes with the law as well as stories of losing jobs and personal tragedy — all serving as vivid reminders that homelessness often is a combination of some bad choices and worse luck.
McGee said the exhibit is especially timely with homelessness in San Jose receiving so much coverage recently, including last month’s closing of “the Jungle” encampment.
He heard the man died a year or two later. As Ramos said, it was a sad story.
The photography exhibit “Acknowledged: Portraits of People Impacted by Homelessness and Poverty” is on display through Feb. 26 on the second floor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/01/21/mlk-library-exhibit-puts-faces-on-the-problem-of-homelessness/
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The Salt Eaters is a 1980 novel, the first such work by Toni Cade Bambara. The novel is written in an experimental style and is explicitly political in tone, with several of the characters being veterans of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Set in the fictional town of Claybourne, Georgia, a small town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.
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https://genderstudies.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/2012/11/02/16716-brown-bag-book-club-november-2-2012/
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Fencing, particularly electric fencing, is widely used across South Africa for livestock and game ranching practices. Recent studies found that leopard tortoises (Stigmochelys pardalis) are more prone to dying from electrocution along electric fences than any other taxa. However, no studies have quantified tortoise mortality along non-electric fences or assessed the impact of fence structure. With South Africa being home to more tortoise species than anywhere else in the world, thus is a conservation concern. This study quantifies tortoise mortalities associated with electrified and non-electrified fences and relates these rates to fence structure (mesh or strand). Open veld transects are used as controls to estimate background mortality. This study also reports the distribution and abundance of different fence types along 2200 km of roads in the southeastern Karoo, allowing the cumulative impacts of different fence types to be estimated. All fence types had significantly higher tortoise mortalities than open veld transects. Leopard tortoise mortalities were significantly higher along electric fences than non-electric fences. Despite forming only approximately 4% of all roadside fencing, electric fences account for 56% of leopard tortoise mortalities. This study validates concern for increased electric fence use in the future and the potential impacts on leopard tortoises. When considering the current abundance of fence types and their associated mortalities, the total number of leopard tortoise mortalities along electric and non-electric fences are similar. Angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata) mortalities were significantly higher along mesh fences than strand fences, but did not differ between electric and non-electric fences. Angulate tortoises appear to wedge themselves in mesh fences and are unable to escape. This study highlights the current threat of non-electric fencing on tortoises as no similar findings have been reported. These additional tortoise mortalities should be considered alongside other emerging threats when questioning the longevity of these tortoise populations, not only in the Karoo, but globally. The implementation and practicality of previously suggested mitigation strategies are discussed and alternative mitigation strategies are suggested. This study concludes that raising of the electric strands is impractical and the implementation of rock aprons are ineffective. Live tortoises displayed active behavior when temperature was above 20 °C, thus thermostatic switches for electric fences could potentially reduce tortoise mortalities without compromising fences function.
Macray, M. 2017. Tortoise mortalities along fences in the southeastern Karoo, South Africa. University of Cape Town.
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Look up stalk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
For 'stork', see Stork (disambiguation).
For 'stock', see Stock (disambiguation).
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Stalk.
This page was last edited on 27 September 2018, at 22:55 (UTC).
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Embellishments are the finishing touch that can bring a project from mediocre to amazing in just a matter of minutes, but they also can get to be expensive, especially some of the more intricate versions available on the market today. This month I have challenged the senior design team to take the path that Michelle Wooderson has explored lately (such as demonstrated in her posts HERE and HERE) and create their own embellishments with supply basics in their stash. Not only is Michelle's whole idea fun & economical, it also allows you to customize color & style to give you coordination possibilities for nearly any type of project.
I thought I would start you off with my new little exploration, the world of crocheted flowers. There are several big-name manufacturers that carry these little homespun beauties, but they can run anywhere from 50-75 cents each and the color selection can tend to be quite limiting. I decided to go on the hunt for a crochet pattern I could use to create my own, but after hours and hours of research and trial runs, I never found anything that I was completely happy with. So I combined several aspects from different patterns that I liked and created my own method. It's quick, easy and inexpensive to build your own little stash of crocheted flowers, ready to use in your paper crafting adventures.
I have created a step by step tutorial that even a beginner could follow along with.
You will notice that I decided to use DMC embroidery floss instead of the traditional crochet thread. I chose this merely for the color availability. I was able to find the floss in all of the Papertrey colors and with that as a resource I will be able to create these flowers to coordinate with all of my projects.
If you would like to see my list of PTI/DMC numbers, you can access it HERE.
Step 1: ch 5. Join with sl st to form ring.
Step 2: Add 10 sc through ring.
Step 3: sl st to top of first sc.
Step 4: create a small petal in the first sc using the following pattern (sc, 3dc, sc).
Step 5: continue creating a small petal in every other sc with the same pattern (creating 5 petals total). sl st to join with first sc of first petal. You can stop here and fasten off for a small flower that measures approximately 1-inch in diameter. Or you can continue to create a more elaborate 2-layer flower.
Step 6: flipping to the back of the flower, sc down through base opening of small petal.
Step 7: ch 3, and sc through next petal base opening.
Step 8: repeat 4 more times in each opening. sl st through first sc, creating a series of 5 loops total.
Step 9: create a large petal in the first loop using the following pattern (sc, 5dc, sc).
step 10: continue creating a large petal in each of the remaining 4 loops with the same pattern. sl st to join with first sc of first petal. COMPLETE! These really only take a matter of minutes to put together, and once you have the hang of it, it's something you can do while watching tv or waiting in the doctor's office.
The perfect finishing touch for the center is one of our vintage buttons.
Here is a quick little card I put together using my handmade flower and a few of my favorite stamp sets: Birds of a Feather for the sentiment, Beyond Basic Borders for the border and Background Basics: Text Style to accent the leaves I cut from cardstock (inspired by a recent post by Dawn).
I'm looking forward to using these little beauties in the future. I mean, what's not to love? They are even post office friendly!
Here are some other interesting resources that I stumbled on along the way that I thought you may find of interest.
Crochet Pattern Central shares an entire library of flower patterns, all for free!
You can register to receive the Lion Brand Yarn Newsletter yourself HERE. Every week they provide a new flower pattern!
If you like to do things by the book, THIS ONE is an awesome resource.
Now for even more AMAZING, economical embellishment options, be sure to check out what the rest of the gals have done!!!
On a side note, I wanted to take a moment to thank Kelly for particpating with us for the past two months as our Distinguished Guest Designer! She has inspired me SO much in the different ways to utilize our products and she has been an absolute joy to work with. We are thrilled that she will be continuing on with us in her participation within the Timeless Template Team. Look for more of her work during the upcoming countdown week and in the future! Thank you, Kelly!!!
I hope you have all been inspired to start mass producing your own embellishments after all of the idea springboards that have been presented today! We would love o see what you do! Please feel free to leave a link in the comments section! Happy stamping!
Finished Size: 4.25 x 5.5"
I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. It's amazing how three consecutive days off can feel so much more like a vacation, rather than just a weekend! What did you do to pass the time?
David and I hosted our second annual Fireworks & Fireflies party yesterday to commemorate the holiday. Last year's party was a huge success despite the weather. This year, the day started out rainy, but cleared up just in time for the festivities to begin. I'm afraid David and I were too busy playing the roles of host & hostess to take any photos during the actual celebration, but I thought I would share some of the prep work we did around the house to prepare for our 50+ guests.
Earlier last week, we finally decided to put in the flagstone patio I have been wanting under our pergola. Owen & Hannah were real troopers and decided to pull up their sleeves (and pant legs) and *dig* in to help David with the task of removing all the sod. A special soft memory embraced my heart as I got to see the three of them working together like that. These two are developing into such thoughtful, helpful, passionate little people. Sometimes I almost feel as though I will burst with the pride I feel as they show signs of growing up. Do any of you identify with that with your own children?
After a few days of effort & hard work we had completed one more project to make our house *our* home. This pergola, complete with swing, was a little project David designed & built for me last year. Ever since I was a little girl I had dreamed of having a swing like this, dripping with lavender-colored wisteria blossoms. As you can see, the wisteria is coming along quite nicely, and now that the patio is complete, I am perfectly content with my favorite tea sipping-star gazing-slow swinging spot.
The first night it was finished, David walked out to enjoy the peacefulness of our new spot with me. The stars filled the sky in all their wonder, hundreds of lightening bugs flashed off an on throughout our yard and the forest, the crickets chirped their early summer song all while David held my hand. We were swaying in slow motion with the quiet, rhythmic creak of the swing, going back & forth, back & forth, all while barefoot and completely blissfully happy. I know I have something special when I still feel like a teenager in love even after ten years.
While David was completing his *assignment* of a shot of the pergola for this post, he took a few more shots from around the yard that I thought I would share. I am hopelessly in love with adirondack chairs. Probably because they remind me of my home state of Maine so much. We have these two sitting near the pergola garden. I love to sit here to take in some sun and still keep an eye on the kids playing in the yard. There is just something about sitting in these that instantly brings relaxation to your soul. Potted pink geraniums sit between the two, just because one can never, ever have too many flowers to surround themselves with (especially pink ones)!
And one last parting shot, our annual patriotic front porch decor. Nothing like the red, white & blue taking center stage!
Thanks for letting me share a bit of my life outside of paper crafting with you today! Once again, I hope you all had a wonderfully rejuvinating weekend!
*Official* May Release Party Contest!
I am so glad to see you here taking part in tonight's exciting festivities! Welcome!
"What would you like to see from Papertrey for the Christmas/winter holiday releases this year?"
May "I Want It All" package (a $181 value)!
The winner will be announced here shortly before midnight. Please play nice, only one comment per person.
Good luck to all of you and we look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Congratulations, Karen! Please be sure to contact Customer Service with your shipping information so we can get your prize package out to you!
A big thank you to all of you that stopped by tonight to share your suggestions for our holiday releases. We are already working behind the scenes on some exciting products for your favorite time of the year! It is going to be the best ever! Have a wonderful weekend!!!
We've heard you loud and clear over the past few months and after much anticipation, we are proud to bring you Fancy Flourishes. Not too embellished, not too whimsical, not too formal, not too doodled. Just right. Fancy Flourishes contains 11 flourish images, including one extra large version that measures 4-1/2" wide (perfect for an entire card front). Let's get right into the projects, shall we!
This is one of my favorite flourishes in the set! I paired it with one of the birds from Birds of a Feather, to represent a flight path. (It would also go well with the month's new addition, Bird Watching!) I love how the addition of a simple flourish can communicate graceful movement like that. I'm thinking it would work beautifully with butterflies and anything else that flies!
I pierced along two of the strokes that make up the flourish using my paper piercer. I tried one version piercing directly on the line, and ended up much happier when I did it slightly below, as it's shown here. Wouldn't this make a wonderful graduation card?
You can always add supporting images to a flourish too. This is the large flourish I referred to at the beginning of the post, measuring in at nearly 4.5" high! I added some stamped flowers from Honey Bees. It would be fun to go through all of Papertrey's floral sets and see which images would pair up well with this flourish too!
Tiny red rhinestones were added to the flower centers to accent the pure poppy card base. I love the way the sentiment (from Heart Prints Sentiments) overlaps the flourish. Just a perfect, simple card!
Here's a pretty little card inspired by the roses I cut from my garden today.
I love this flourish too! Don't forget that you can always stamp these images *off* the edge of your card front. I did that in my project above and it gave it a whole new look.
There are a couple of smaller flourishes in the set to allow you to *add to* the larger ones. Since the blocks and stamps are clear it is easy to place the add-on flourishes exactly where you need them.
The patterned paper I created for this project started with the rose from Garden of Life stamped in Hibiscus Burst. I then over-stamped with one of the script backgrounds from Background Basics: Text Style using vintage cream ink. I think that this helped to soften the vibrant color a bit and make it seem a bit more vintage in nature. After completing those steps, I knew a little tea dye effect would be the perfect finishing touch!
"This revolutionary antiquing ink system is a special product developed and manufactured exclusively for Papertrey Ink! In the past, whenever I want to add a vintage look to my cardstock, I would use a sponge to apply ink to the cardstock to achieve a softer look rather than harsh look that is achieved by brushing the ink pad to the paper. Until now that is!
Save yourself a step by using these specially formulated ink cubes that contain a tea dye ink perfect for antiquing almost anything! The unique sponge material that the ink pad's surface is made from allows you to achieve that soft sponged look directly to the paper with the ink pad! You can use both colors together for an even more realistic aged look. Just start with the lighter color first and follow up with a smaller layer of the darker hue. This two-toned layering provides realistic results that only take seconds to achieve!"
As you can see from the photo above, you receive two 1x1" ink cubes as part of this set. The lighter of the two is called Chamomile, while the darker is called Chai. These specific colors were designed to work best with both cream &and kraft cardstocks. But don't worry! These two tea dye inks will not be alone for long! We are already working on additional tea shades that will compliment other uses as well!
There are a few important things to remember when using these tea dye inks. You don't want to use a whole lot of pressure when applying the ink to paper. A soft easy swoop with your hand, moving towards the exterior edge of the cardstock will give you the best results. The other thing to remember is that these inks are much darker wet than they are dry! Just above, I have put together photos of before and after so you can see the change. As the ink dries it is really absorbed into the paper and achieves a softer, true vintage look.
Now you could leave this alone, with just the chamomile layer in place. But if you want to take it to the next level, adding a thinner layer of Chai will achieve just that. You can see between the first & second photo of this process that the moistness of the Chamomile layer allows the Chai to absorb nicely and get that soft variegated look. Isn't it such a great look? and easy too, might I add!
You can use just the Chai tea dye ink on kraft carstock too! It's pretty dramatic how dark it goes on and how light it ends up once it dries. Now back to the flourishes!
A few of the design team members have already laid claim to the fact that this is one of their new favorites. Did you catch these amazing projects shared earlier this week that use it?
CLICK HERE to see Dawn's full project.
CLICK HERE to see Lauren's full project.
CLICK HERE to see Lisa's full project.
a FREE Fancy Flourishes stamp set!
You have until 11:30pm EST , (today) Thursday, May 14th, to share your thoughts here. One comment will be randomly chosen to win this fun prize package. The winner will be announced HERE on our May Prize Page, shortly before the release at midnight. Please play nice, only one comment per person.
Thanks for stopping by again today! I look forward to seeing you all at the release party tonight! I think it promises to be lively and full of excitement!
Fancy Flourishes is a set right up Becky Oehler's alley! Stop by her blog today to see what she created with it!
Lauren Meader has some last looks at the two new templates for May, just to make sure that you are 100% enticed!
Lisa Johnson has compiled some additional ideas using Let Freedom Ring that you won't want to miss!
Melissa Bickford put together a few projects that will seal the deal when making your purchasing choices for tonight!
View complete supply lists for all of the above projects HERE.
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Dr. Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, associate professor of socio-political communication and rhetoric, department of communication, has been selected as the Provost Fellow for Public Affairs for 2015-2016. As Provost Fellow for Public Affairs, Dr. Dudash-Buskirk will be responsible for the Public Affairs Conference in April 2016 and promoting the Public Affairs mission of the University. The topic for the 2016 Conference will be the university-wide Public Affairs theme “Building Healthy Communities: Body, Mind and Spirit.” Dr. Dudash-Buskirk will shadow this year’s Provost Fellow for Public Affairs, Dr. Kurt Heinlein, in preparation for the work she will do in preparing for the 2016 Public Affairs Conference.
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Parts of the site may require a Flash player (free).
All photos and music by Grego except as noted. All rights to any content on this website reserved.
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2019-04-24T15:26:11Z
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Adi Godrej, who marshals his namesake $2.5 billion diversified group, believes the Indian government is “paranoid” about the possible effects of allowing more foreign investments into sectors such as airlines.
“They (the Indian government) have not allowed foreign airlines to invest in private airlines, and they cite security. I don’t see what security would be compromised,” Godrej told the Reuters India Investment Summit in Mumbai.
“If British Airways or Delta got to own part of an Indian private airline, they are worried about what would happen in times of a war, etc. You are in control of your country. What can they do in difficult times to stop it?” he said.
Godrej also said that allowing more private players into sectors such as roads and education would help lift India away from infrastructure perils plaguing the country.
It’s not hard to think of Indian government officials sitting at their gnarled desks in crumbling office buildings doing what Mel Gibson’s character did in the movie Conspiracy Theory. But as Mel Gibson discovers, the enemy probably lies within. How’s that for a conspiracy?
A bubble in the real estate market?
Security is Indian officialdom’s ‘wolf, wolf!” cry. The truth is about control. This is all that matters o the bureaucracy and the politician. If they lose control they become nothing – no one begging for favours, no nepotism, no bullying, no nothing.
Once Foreign money comes in it will also seek more freedom from the vice like grip of obstructionist rules and laws which have them camping outside government offices pleading exemptions.
Also,the current uncontrolled inflation in food prices, especially vegetables and pulses point to a very synchronised plan by the Government and Retail majors. They are trying to prove a point that FDI in retail is the only way to curb this increase.
Same approach was noticed a decade ago, when the govrnment of Maharashtra started load shedding (electricity supply in spurts) to make the lives of it’s residents miserable, and then paving the way for Enron to set in.
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2019-04-19T01:14:49Z
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Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three books were discovered when I was researching the Top 47 from the Best Books of 2017 List of Lists.
Summary: Campus-lit through the lens of a mother-daughter relationship.
I’m thinking: Yes – campus life and complicated relationships tick the boxes.
Summary: Two very different sisters leave Ireland and settle in America. A decision made together on their arrival in Boston has a lasting impact on their lives.
I’m thinking: Maybe. Good opening chapters but I have another Sullivan in the TBR stack that I should read first.
Summary: A couple agree it’s time to separate, and to keep the decision private. The guy goes missing in Greece and at the promoting of her mother-in-law, the woman goes to find him.
I’m thinking: Yes (actually intrigued that some of my blogging buddies gave it five stars and others marked it DNF).
I loved Sullivan’s Maine but have read lukewarm reports of Saints for all Seasons the premise of which sounds a bit like Alice McDermott’s wonderful Charming Billy to me. I enjoyed A Separation for its unrealiable narrator but it wasn’t a five-star read for me.
Interesting because I didn’t like Maine much at all – the whole thing felt drawn-out and lack lustre. The first chapters of this one were actually quite gripping so I was thinking it might be different to Maine. That said, I have The Engagements sitting in my TBR stack, which I really should read first.
Nearly every review I’ve read goes on and on about the writing style – seems it’s either a love it or hate it thing. I liked it and as intrigued enough to want to keep reading.
I wasn’t too keen on A Separation, but I don’t know your taste well enough yet to say whether you’ll like it or not. It was reminiscent of Rachel Cusk for me. I did finish it, but can’t say I really enjoyed it.
I also didn’t think all that much of the Sullivan — it’s so similar to all the other Irish-American immigration stories I’ve read. I preferred The Engagements, and would like to read her other books.
Motherest, though, that looks great!
I have The Engagements in my TBR stack so will start with that.
Ha, reading your summary of A Separation and I’m thinking it sounds familiar. Yep, I dnf’d it. Interested to see your take on it though! Sometimes I think I’m just not cut out for most literary fiction.
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2019-04-24T16:01:12Z
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https://booksaremyfavouriteandbest.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/sample-saturday-a-mother-sisters-and-a-husband/
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A lot of people think you need to make a big shoulder turn on the backswing to hit solid, powerful tee shots. I disagree. A big backswing is not for everyone. Many golfers' swings get out of whack when they try to increase how far they go back. They get wild with the lower body or make a big over-the-top loop on the downswing because they've lost control.
Just like when you buy a new set of clubs, the distance you take the club back should be custom-fit to your body. And here's a great way to determine it: Kneel on a couple of towels, hold your driver like you're addressing a shot, and make a backswing (above). Because your lower body can't really assist in the motion, you'll have to rely on the muscles of your mid-back to rotate your torso. Those muscles around the thoracic spine will determine your backswing length. When you can't turn back any farther from your knees, that's your new, custom-made backswing.
Remember that spot when you stand up and swing for real. Make your backswing fit your body, and you'll start hitting better drives because the motion will have synchronicity and control.
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2019-04-24T08:10:04Z
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https://www.golfdigest.com/story/hit-solid-drives-with-shorter-backswing-sean-foley
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To request a free visitor guide from Davis County, Utah Recreational Activities, please fill out the form below and click "Submit".
Looking for some of the greatest recreation the greater Davis County area has to offer? Go-Utah.com has some of the most complete travel information on hiking, biking, whitewater rafting, camping, and golf courses available in Davis County. Use the interactive navigation below to quickly jump to a specific recreational activity.
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https://www.go-utah.com/Davis-County/recreational-activities/
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You can factor to find complicated zeros using synthetic division. The degree is usually equal to the number of zeros. It does not always tell us the number of factors because factors can repeat, there can be 4 zeros but two of them are both 2 so therefore there are 3 factors.
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in paving ways for amazing talents.
David Holister, truly highlights his abilities of musical diversity as a emerging artist breaking way for himself.
ambitious artist. Get to know E Da Singer, he's out!
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After playing more than 30 matches, Bengaluru FC concluded their 2017-18 football season in style with a 4-0 victory against Abahani Dhaka in their final AFC Cup 2018 group game.
The win takes Albert Roca's well-knit team into the semifinals of the inter-zone playoffs where tougher challenges await. But for now, it's a job extremely well done.
In their first-ever Indian Super League (ISL) season, Bengaluru topped the league standings and lost to Chennaiyin FC in the final. A month later, they made it to the final in the Super Cup. Only this time, they weren't ready to return without a trophy. They comfortably defeated East Bengal in the final to clinch the inaugural Super Cup. Since their inception in 2013, the Blues have won at least one trophy every season.
Albert Roca and the coaching staff deserve a lot of credit for managing the fixtures extremely well. Even when his colleagues complained about fixture congestion, Roca focused on utilizing his full squad and getting the best out of every player. His side has played 14 matches in the Asian tournament since May 2017 - that's at least 14 fixtures more than every other Indian club except Aizawl FC.
To tackle the fixture list, Roca made full use of his squad, especially during the ISL season. AFC Cup teamsheets did not have Sunil Chhetri, Miku or Gurpreet Singh in the early round of fixtures. Instead, players such as Boithang Haokip, Thongkhosiem Haokip, Malsawmzuala, Lalthuammawia Ralte continued to start in the AFC Cup games. Bengaluru FC were effectively able to use two different lineups in the league and Asian competition.
Goalkeeper Ralte and full-back Nishu Kumar have started every single AFC Cup game for the club this year. Both these players had considerably fewer first-team minutes in ISL (180 and 338 minutes respectively) and they have both delivered. Seven of Ralte's 10 starts this year have resulted in clean sheets. Nishu Kumar picked up three goals, two of which came on Wednesday against Abahani Dhaka to seal the team's qualification to the knockouts.
Sunil Chhetri has ended the season as Bengaluru's top goalscorer for the fifth consecutive time. The Blues are yet to see someone else score as many goals as Chhetri ever since the club came into existence. While the skipper has largely made way for youngsters in AFC Cup this year, he still has two goals and six assists to his name in just four appearances (of which one was as a second-half substitute).
On Wednesday, the Indian national team striker served three goals on a plate for his teammates. He then scored the fourth and the game ended 4-0. The Abahani defence had no answer to the 33-year-old striker's sheer urge to make every minute count on the football field. And even in his absence during most part of the AFC Cup campaign, the attitude and mentality have clearly rubbed off on the rest of the squad.
Yes, Bengaluru needed a favour from Aizawl in the final round of fixtures in Group E. And they did get the result they wanted. But what will always matter is that the Asian dream has not ended for Bengaluru FC.
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2019-04-23T01:58:43Z
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https://www.goal.com/en-om/news/afc-cup-2018-bengaluru-fc-india-isl/tezix0pajwdk11cboxlcfue9h
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Since 1994, Jonesboro United Methodist Church has been providing Methodist Church from Jonesboro.
Jonesboro United Methodist Church can be found at 4th St 402. The following is offered: Churches. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Jonesboro there are 20 other Churches. An overview can be found here.
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2019-04-20T04:46:51Z
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https://businessfinder.nola.com/jonesboro-united-methodist-church-jonesboro-la-1.html
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Since last semester was my first one here, I was required to take INT 105, Culture and the Common Good, which introduced me specifically to Fontbonne’s mission statement, vision, values, statement of Catholic identity, and what they want from me as a student during my four years here…and how I take what I learn into the world. I didn’t know what to expect in this class, but I can honestly say it was one of the best experiences of the semester. I was blessed to have the sweetest teacher ever; a very intimate, small class of students with a wide variety of majors; and a large amount of personal growth and development. Over four months, we had conversations about everything from religion and Fontbonne’s academic convocation to transportation and vocations. The thread holding all those topics together was the common good, which is clearly stated in the mission statement. I really enjoyed digging deep into what it means and how it affects practically every aspect of our lives — healthcare, transportation, religion, education, relationships, careers, etc. The discussions we had were respectful, diverse, and educational. It was so inspiring to see and be a part of young adults maturely engaging in conversations about sometimes-controversial topics!
I emerged from this class with a much broader view of the world and the people around me — a global citizen. I now understood and could explain what Fontbonne’s values and mission meant, and I had been encouraged to form my own opinions and thoughts — think critically — while also respecting the people who I did not agree with — act ethically. Ultimately, I found myself embodying Fontbonne’s mission statement in my everyday life, whether I was studying, going to class, eating lunch, working, spending time with family and friends, or interacting with the cashier in a store. It enshrouded me completely, not just while I was on campus, but everywhere.
I sincerely hope the same thing happened or is happening for you. You don’t have to agree with everyone 100% of the time. You don’t have to spend 24 hours a day volunteering. You don’t have to analyze every world event that happens. But you can certainly aspire and work to be a respectful listener, volunteer, and global citizen. Let’s all try to do that a bit more in the coming months.
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http://blog.fontbonne.edu/2017/02/mission-fontbonne/
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Heidi Latsky, Artistic Director of Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD), and company member Tiffany Geigel, will guide participants through Latsky’s inclusive movement practice designed to enhance and deepen performance as a task-based experience.
After a warm-up, Latsky and Geigel will move into a structured improvisation that is the foundation of Latsky’s choreography for ON DISPLAY, a series of movement installations that have been disrupting the urban landscape worldwide since 2015. This workshop will give participants an opportunity to experience the techniques and intentions behind ON DISPLAY as well as an opportunity to perform ON DISPLAY GLOBAL at Harvard on December 3, 2018.
This class is open to adults 18 years and over with and without disabilities. No prior dance or performance experience necessary. Due to limited class capacity, online registration is required to reserve your spot. We are not receiving observers for this class; full participation is encouraged.
This master class is supported by the Office for the Arts; Theater, Dance & Media; Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities at Harvard University.
Please also join us for Accessibility & Art-Making: A Talk on Inclusivity in the Arts with Heidi Latsky, Tiffany Geigel, Professor Michael Stein, Dr. Debra Levine, and Dr. Andrew Clark on Friday, November 16, 12pm, at Harvard Dance Center, in partnership with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. Please RSVP!
Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) is a New York-based modern dance company dedicated to redefining beauty and virtuosity through provocative and innovative performance and discourse, using performers with unique attributes to bring rigorous, passionate and provocative contemporary dance to diverse audiences. Since its inception in 2001, the company has received numerous awards, commissions and residencies. HLD premiered in 2001 with a Joyce Theater Residency and a sold-out run of JUST WATCH!, presented by Danspace Project in New York City. A variety of work followed, at venues around the world including American Dance Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Kennedy Center, Scripps College Humanities Institute, DaDaFest Liverpool, Chicago Humanities Festival, CREA Conference Kathmandu, Crossing Borders Festival Dusseldorf, Jacob’s Pillow, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Lincoln Center.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, HLD partnered with the NYC Mayor’s Office to present guerilla human sculpture courts in Chinatown, Times Square, High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park. The culmination of these became ON DISPLAY and premiered at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on October 1 as well as NYU/Skirball Center, November 15th. For International Day for Persons with Disabilities, December 3, HLD performed ON DISPLAY at the United Nations; at NYU the company performed and simulcast with a company in Hobart, Australia. This was the catalyst for an annual initiative to insert the sculpture court in cities across the world, ON DISPLAY GLOBAL. Read more about HLD at heidilatskydance.org.
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2019-04-23T13:21:11Z
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https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/event/master-class-heidi-latsky-dance
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Without a first-round selection in today’s MLS SuperDraft, the Red Bulls’ best-case scenario was probably securing some much-needed depth. And they seemingly did just that, grabbing Georgetown’s Ian Christianson 22nd overall to provide cover to their paper-thin midfield.
The 5-foot-11 Christianson boosted his stock immensely in the recent MLS Combine, and came into today regarded as the best pure defensive midfielder available. He’s not only good at sitting deep and winning second balls, but at quickly switching fields and changing the point of attack, an MLS skill.
He started all 26 games for Georgetown this past season, contributed two goals and two assist to help the Hoyas reach the College Cup final. Christianson was named the TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Team of the Year, and will provide valuable cover for starter Dax McCarty.
With the trade of stalwart Joel Lindpere to Chicago, the Red Bulls have just four midfielders on their roster: Tim Cahill, Juninho, McCarty and Lloyd Sam. The newly-acquired Juninho hasn’t practiced with the team yet and will turn 38 this month, and Sam is coming off a season-ending injury.
It should be noted the Red Bulls/MetroStars have had success drafting in the second-round, with Jozy Altidore, Tim Ream and Ryan Meara.
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2019-04-20T11:29:22Z
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https://nypost.com/2013/01/17/red-bulls-take-georgetown-midfielder-ian-christianson-no-22/
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For the college students and grads buried under more than $1 trillion dollars in loan debt, another sobering reality: You may have to take a job that makes little use of your expensive, four-year education.
In her article, Rampell says jobs that didn’t used to require a college degree—positions such as receptionists, dental hygienists, clerks and claims adjusters—are increasingly requiring one.
Rampell says this recent development has some risks for employers. Hiring overqualified workers could lead to rapid turnover, with workers heading for the exit when a better offer comes along.
But Rampell says many college grads are happy to take one of these lower-skilled jobs if it gets their foot in the door of the firm and can lead to quick promotion.
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Peru's president has announced he has granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads.
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski released a statement saying he had decided to free Fujimori for "humanitarian reasons".
His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, narrowly lost Peru's last presidential election to Kuczynski, and her party dominates congress.
Kuczynski's statement said a medical board had evaluated Fujimori and determined that "he suffers from a progressive, degenerative and incurable disease and that prison conditions mean a serious risk to his life, health and well-being".
After briefly shutting down congress and putting himself into a third term, Fujimori fled the country in disgrace in 2000 after leaked videotapes showed his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing politicians. Fujimori went to Japan, his parents' homeland, and famously sent in his resignation by fax.
Five years later, he stunned supporters and enemies alike when he flew to neighbouring Chile, where he was arrested and extradited to Peru. Fujimori's goal was run for Peru's presidency again in 2006, but instead he went to trial and was convicted of abuse of power.
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https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/perus-president-grants-medical-pardon-for-jailed-fujimori-36435873.html
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2015 is ‘The Year of Manifestation.’ It has been more than 70 years since the potential for physical manifestation has been as strong as it is this year. We are ready and supported by the cosmos to move into our power as Creators — designing our life free from the limitations of the collective and our own past. We are asked to make the most of our life NOW!
This spring has an important energetic gateway — the equinox on March 20th is also a total solar eclipse. It is rare indeed to have these two celestial events coincide. The last time there was something similar was on December 21, 2010 when a total lunar eclipse occurred on the solstice. At that time I was guided to take a group into the Great Pyramid to meditate at dawn and dusk. The integration between heaven and earth that day opened up an immense diamond matrix, bringing unheard of Light and potential to Earth. Note the flower of life pattern and the diamond matrix of the tube torus or toric field. It was interesting that the Arab Spring started in Egypt just 10 days after our huge work in the Great Pyramid.
To support the quest in all of us to make the most of ourselves and these powerful times I have two new workshops for 2015. These courses will also be taught in Europe this year. The launch will be in Denver beginning on the equinox – Friday, March 20 – Sunday, March 22. Friday will be: The Year of Manifestation: Making the Most of Your Life NOW! Click here for details about this course.
This is followed by a brand new weekend MARK course: The Space Beyond…. Using Multi-Dimensional Awareness to Claim Your Mastery. Click here for details about this course.
I haven’t taught a major workshop in Colorado for years so I invite you all to come!
Don’t miss this exciting episode of “Journeys with Jonette” on the Awakening Zone Internet Radio!
Jonette’s special guest will be Vanda Osmon. Vanda is spiritual sacred site historian, researcher, and co-founder of Quest for Atlantis on Bimini. She created Joy Travel specializing in sacred journeys for soul, providing opportunities to see, feel and explore Earth mysteries. Her extraordinary knowledge of ancient secrets allows her to ‘connect the dots’ giving a global perspective for the meaning and purpose of sacred sites. She helps Jonette create journeys to Egypt, Malta, Greece, Transylvania and Turkey. www.joytravelonline.com.
Vanda and Jonette will discuss using the new possibilities of 2013 to work with the Earth’s Grid Keepers and unlocking energies that have been blocked for thousands of years. One very important interdimensional portal can be accessed in Crete. It is a place where knotted energy meridians and timelines can be released and the stargate reversed.
The same blockage nearly caused the ruin of Earth during the destruction of Atlantis. This will free up a blast of power to be used for peace and good throughout the world.
White Eagle’s channeled perspective on this will be explained.
This all ties in with the Three Part Global Spiritual Mission that begins in Greece/Crete in April and continues in Turkey and Israel. For related Post click here.
There are still a few spaces available on the fantastic ten day sacred journey led by Jonette and Vanda to Greece and Crete in just a few weeks. Hurry!
Email [email protected] or call 303 689-9318 for more details.
MARK: When You Are Not Who You Think You Are.
“Your self is becoming more a collection of impressions, of portals, of gateways, of wormholes, of geometries, of spaces. What you think is you, is changing its definition. It can’t be placed in time or space, but is a continual active interaction with the cosmos. In the past you had to see yourself as fairly static in order to see yourself, but with these changes in consciousness that are being imbued into you now, you’ll know yourself without the requirement of stasis, or of being static. You’re moving to a dimension where there’s much more movement that you can follow and know; yet you’re still calm. In the past this would be chaotic, but now it’s just different.
This Monday in our weekly class, something happened beyond words and explanation. It was a pivotal breakthrough in our very essence. Mark first worked with our personality, helping us be more fluid and less rigid in who we think we are. Then, during a meditation he suggested we imagine a laser going into our 3rd eye, piercing and resetting our pineal gland. This resulted in a cascading of hormonal, cellular and electromagnetic changes throughout our body. One person said, “The electricity in my body was so intense that I could taste the fillings in my teeth.” I felt as though I had been flipped into another intense yet peaceful reality, where I was a different being … a golden transcendence. The best description I could come up with was ‘exquisite’… me, the space, reality. The experience was of being released from the confines of this world and given an energetic body that fit the new reality. What is most spectacular is that it didn’t seem like a one-time experience, but rather entering the threshold of a permanent new way of being.
In the past I have been hesitant to write too much about Mark because his style of experiential consciousness exploration is quite advanced and didn’t always appeal to beginners on the spiritual path. I just hoped that the people who were drawn to this accelerated work would feel it and come along and listen to the on-going Mark. And they have. There are groups all over the world who meet and listen to the Mark courses together on a regular basis.
But with the openings of 2012 I see that the entire game has changed. How Mark teaches — by guiding you … even if you have never meditated before … on journeys that actually take you to expanded states of consciousness and higher dimensions, is exactly what we need right now. We can no longer just talk or think our way into higher states. We need to be taken there, having our own experience, and then have it explained. That is how Mark teaches. You don’t have to study what he says … in fact you can’t. You feel it and you change. Right then and there.
Q: In what dimension do the Incas, Atlantians, and Lemurians reside, and are we able to meet them on this planet when we have elevated ourselves?
A: When you are elevated enough, you can meet anyone anywhere, and it doesn’t have to be this planet. When you move to these higher dimensions, all the lower ones get bigger, too, so you can be higher, and you are more grounded than ever before. So as you expand your potential, you can say, “I would like to meet an Inca,” and you can follow the vibrations of your intention to meet an Inca. Will the Inca come into your bedroom? Maybe not. Can the Inca come into your bedroom? Yes, if they’re also following the intention. All of the Lemurians and Atlantians reside in parallel universes, as do you, that are accessible through the “Akashic” internet. Only some have stayed in the astral plane, which is the fourth dimension, so that you could actually contact them. The fourth dimension isn’t as high. That would mean they are connected to Earth as ghosts. If they were to manifest, it probably means they are still in the fourth dimension. All of you can find anything anywhere. The reason Jonette can channel is she has somehow learned or remembered to go to a place of empty possibilities and to see what draws her, what has an attractiveness. Go into that attractiveness like you open a door and you see what’s there. That’s how this channel channels. When you are looking for wisdom, you scan space until something like an FM radio frequency finds a door, and when you find that door, the frequencies get bigger, and more knowledge of it pours in. You all can do it, and your intuition, your synchronicity, your connection with all things, grows as you do these kinds of exercises that open consciousness. You are bigger than you used to be, but you are smaller than you can be.
Remember the lyrics to the song, “Looks like we made it …”? This week will be our 15th wedding anniversary. As in any relationship, Ed and I have had our ups and downs. Can I confess that last year I was about done with it? I loved so much about Ed … who he is, what he does, that he is committed to learning and spiritual growth …. BUT … the way we were together had me confused. At times I didn’t even like him, and I’m sure he felt the same about me. I told the Universe that I wanted a kind and considerate husband. I hoped it was Ed, but I tried to be unattached to the outcome. In my mind I gave myself from March 2010 to March 2011 to get clear what to do.
Then a minor miracle happened. In late January Ed started working with a personal coach and an inner spiritual “team” from the White Brotherhood. I was teaching in Europe all of February, but could sense the change in him. His emails and texts to me were warm and even romantic! I loved it and told him so! After receiving a particularly loving text from Ed, I texted him back: “To whomever stole Ed Oakley’s cell phone and is sending romantic messages … keep it up! PS. Are you married?” I came back home to the husband I had married 15 years ago. Our relationship is stronger and each of us is growing and laughing. We are both kinder and more forgiving. The miracle is that I had given the issue up to the Universe and gave the Universe a year to let me know what to do. My deadline was March. The huge changes began in February. I am so grateful to have the husband I have and the marriage we are creating. Guess we’ll sign on for another 15 years … for starters.
How did Governance Become so Binary?
I close the newspaper with disgust: one political party stonewalling another–both parties equally guilty–better to have a colossal failure to blame on the other guys, than a workable solution. Good guys and bad guys. Complex issues boiled down to rhetoric in black and white sound bites. In the world of polarity, the center is never the goal. The dance becomes one of counter balancing extremes. Where are the reasonable men and women when we need them? If I stake out the position of saint, you must be the sinner in this binary game. In fact, being the saint requires the position of sinner be filled. From the extremities our brethren lob rocks at the other–saints and sinners both with equally deadly throws. From where I sit in the middle (maybe you’re there too?), I can only duck.
I don’t know how to fix government, except to be a reasonable voice for leadership. Guess we have to look at ourselves, our relationships, our viewpoints. Have we slid into binary beliefs ourselves? Do we insist on the simplification of issues into right and wrong? Us versus them? Black and white? Or are we prepared to wade into the middle where things may not be as neatly defined, but there are infinitely more possibilities?
Walking on a white sand Florida beach this week, I smiled at other walkers…adults, every one… stopping mid-stride to pick up sea shells glinting in the sun. A black haired woman with a beach bag comes over to ask earnestly: “Have you found any starfish yet?” Another woman cradles a fragile but remarkably whole sand dollar in her palm. As she hands the treasure to her husband, her excitement at the find imbues the shell with value. It becomes a precious gift because it is appreciated. Their shared joy creates an exchange of positive energy, escalating the sand dollar’s worth.
A paper dollar–you know, the one that will buy you a third of a cup of coffee– might not be as positively valued as the sand dollar made of shell. When we hand it over in payment– in any denomination, we might feel begrudging, angry or victimized, rather than the emotion of joy. I ponder how the exchange might be improved if both the giving and receiving of the money were acts of gratitude?
One of my favorite sayings from White Eagle is, “ What you use to get there is what you get once you’re there.” In other words: the currency of the journey is the currency of the outcome. I read this to mean that if I make my way to my goal with anxiety and overwork, once I “make it,” I’ll still have anxiety and overwork. If I constantly have the feeling of lack as I travel along life’s path, the outcome…no matter how much money I have…will continue the feeling of lack. Conversely, if joy kindness and generosity are the qualities of my journey, the outcome will surely contain joy, kindness and generosity.
So next time you hand over a dollar bill, feel that it’s a treasure you are sharing. Sand dollar or paper dollar. You choose.
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2019-04-19T10:49:51Z
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https://jonettecrowley.wordpress.com/tag/possibilities/
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Need help with secondary metering rods. I need to know where to order?? I think I am looking for the dr rods.? For racing.I just order the edl 1950 and the edl 1951 from summit racing will be here in two days. Where can a man find the dr rods? Salvage yards around don't have too many quads. Thanks I am running a pure stock 350 3 speed flat tops, 481xheads,or 441x heads ??,410 lift cam, 308 rear gear, on a medium banked oil-packed dirt 1/2 mile track. I had AN rods in the carb, But tried to file them down and messed up ! Car was fluttering at the end of straights. Seemed to be running out of gas. Thanks. I have DD rods in there now but got rained out sat noght so didn't get to try them.DD was the only ones I could find on short notice. Running a B Hanger. Thanks soo much.
We can still supply 3 sizes of PRIMARY rods but our source for secondary rods has dried up.
You might try doing an internet search for something like "carb connection" or something like that. They used to sell them but not sure they still do.
dr,cp,ba,ee,ed,dh,these are the best from what i read,had a mild 350 with dh rods worked great after a lot other tunning,dont forget about powerpiston spring,and secondary spring, there has to be alot of things working together right for a q-jet to perform.
will the secondary rods from and edlebrock Q-jet work? or be made to work?
Thanks, Avila. That's the place I was trying to remember (but couldn't). If they still sell them, they're one of the few who do.
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2019-04-23T02:42:45Z
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http://www.thedirtforum.com/technical/Purestock/000946.html
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The gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, though less than a decade old, is nearly a household term. Today, it can swap, silence and activate the DNA of plants, animals and even humans.
But for every offense there is a defense, and in recent years a handful of scientists have started researching "anti-CRISPR" approaches, which protect DNA from CRISPR-induced edits.
The CRISPR system is derived from bacteria's natural defense system; the tiny microbes wield a DNA-cutting molecule (Cas9) against viral invaders, or bacteriophages, slicing them into dysfunctional bits. "But bacteriophages have evolved their own defenses," said Stanley Qi, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering.
Some of those defenses take the form of an anti-CRISPR, of which there are several different types. While there’s been some work to elucidate how anti-CRISPRs inhibit CRISPR’s trademark gene-editing, there’s still more to understand. It's thought that most of them work by binding to the part of Cas9 (the scissors) that typically attaches to DNA, thereby blocking its ability to latch.
And, anti-CRISPRs are not all equal, Qi told me. Recently, his team set out to see which were most potent in blocking CRISPR in yeast and human cells.
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Qi and colleagues have explored the function of several varieties of "Acrs" (or anti-CRISPRs) that can imbue a cell with resistance. Muneaki Nakamura, PhD, postdoctoral researcher in Qi's lab, is the first author of the paper.
"We tested the efficiency of a panel of Acrs and found that there's one in particular that conveys the most protection — AcrIIA4," said Qi. By administering AcrIIA4 before any CRISPR editing, the scientists saw that AcrIIA4 could not only protect against gene editing, it could protect genes from CRISPR activation or silencing, in which genes are turned off or on entirely.
Qi and Nakamura also demonstrated that this Acr can create "gene circuits" to program, or set, the silencing and re-activation of specific genes to occur at a certain time, which could be used to alter the timing of certain activities in a cell.
So far, Qi’s team has shown that AcrIIA4 can protect both yeast and human cells from edits, a trait that he thinks could one day be developed to help guide and in some cases, rein in, CRISPR-based therapies. While anti-CRISPR research has yet to break the confines of a dish, Nakamura and Qi are excited about its applications in the future.
Some researchers see anti-CRISPR as a way to keep CRISPR-Cas9 editing more targeted, as CRISPR-Cas9 can produce unforeseen "side edits." Others think of anti-CRISPR as a protection mechanism, which, when used to its full potential can render an entire cell or potentially even an organism impervious to CRISPR-Cas9.
Nakamura said that he could see anti-CRISPRs refining gene drives, which consist of genetic edits made in sexually reproducing species that alter the genome for multiple generations. It’s possible, he speculates, that some populations could be rendered un-editable as a safeguard against changing an entire species. Such populations, he said, would theoretically only be introduced if the gene drive needed to be stopped or reversed.
But while applying brakes to CRISPR is thought-provoking, Qi and Nakamura caution that the science of anti-CRISPRs still requires major development and is at an early stage — especially in a living organism, although that is something they plan to pursue.
"I'm hoping that anti-CRISPR technology can be part of a solution that balances and refines the power of gene editing," Qi said.
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2019-04-23T02:01:30Z
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https://chemh.stanford.edu/news/superior-technique-identified-can-block-crispr-gene-editing
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Having completed Eduard’s stunning Messerschmitt, Me109G-6, I thought I would also complete their earlier kit of the ‘109E. This was a kit that was 2/3rds built when it first came out in 2012, but a mixture of apathy, time and the loss of a bunch of parts, forced it up into the room of doom – or loft, as I also call it – and so having survived being smashed (which is almost always the fate of unfinished work), I dragged it out and completed it! It’s not perfect, but I think it makes a cool counterpoint to the later kit and at least now means that I finally(!) have an earlier variant of what is rapidly becoming my favourite WWII aircraft.
Love this build mate, how’d you get the feathered straight edge?
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2019-04-19T05:05:14Z
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https://thekitbox.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/eduards-other-148-me109/
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This paper considers the problem of human evacuation assistance. We discuss how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue tasks, and the resulting implications on the design of assistive evacuation systems. We describe the implementation and evaluation of an algorithm for deploying audio navigational cues throughout an office building with a team of mobile robots. A review of evacuation dynamics methods is presented and particular methods are applied on-line during deployment. We use a pedestrian simulation and a simple model of audio-evacuee interaction to show the effects of beacon deployment; the results indicate that even a small number of beacons can significantly decrease the mean and variance of egress time and distance. We also advance uses for human motion-based measures of environment complexity for general mobile robotics.
Assistive Disaster Response, Evacuation Dynamics.
<span class="author">Dylan A. Shell and Maja J. Matarić</span>. "<span class="title">Insights Toward Robot-Assisted Evacuation</span>". <span class="pub_status">In</span> <span class="journal">Advanced Robotics, The International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan</span>, <span class="volume">19</span><span class="number">(8)</span>:<span class="pages">797-818</span>, <span class="month"></span> <span class="year">2005</span>.
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http://robotics.usc.edu/publications/448/
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Demonstrate a range of verbal and nonverbal communication strategies to support student engagement.
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in identifying professional learning needs.
Understand the role of external professionals and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.
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http://19frets.weebly.com/nsw-teaching-standards-policy-links.html
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81 year old female with a thyroid nodule.
Diff-Quik and Papanicolau-stained aspirate slides show a diffuse population of cells present both singly and in clusters/sheets as well as a microfollicular pattern in a bloody background. These cells are a good example of Hurthle cells with ample, eccentric, somewhat granular-appearing cytoplasm and predominately round nuclei with nucleoli. The granularity of the cytoplasm is better visualized on Pap-stained sections, with reddish-colored granules visible within pale blue cytoplasm. Also notable in this case is the lack of normal follicular cells and lack of colloid.
The presence of abundant Hurthle cells on cytologic preparations raises a broad differential diagnosis. Hurthle cell change can be seen as a reactive process in conditions such as Hashimoto thyroiditis. However, in Hashimoto thyroiditis, a background of increased lymphocytes with potential lymphoid follicles and lymphocytes interspersed amongst the epithelial cells would be expected; those features are absent in this case. Hurthle cell change may also be seen as a metaplastic-type change in benign adenomatoid (colloid) nodules; however, in this case the specimen is composed nearly exclusively of Hurthle cells, without follicular cells or background colloid to suggest an adenomatoid nodule. A cellular specimen with exclusively or nearly exclusively composed of Hurthle cells is suggestive of a Hurthle cell neoplasm – either Hurthle cell adenoma or Hurthle cell carcinoma. The difference between a benign and malignant Hurthle cell neoplasm requires assessment of the lesional border to look for capsular or vascular invasion, which is not possible with FNA specimens. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) would show enlarged nuclei with nuclear grooves and scattered nuclear pseudoinclusions. PTC cells typically have less cytoplasm than seen in Hurthle cells also. An oncocytic variant of PTC is recognized. Those cases show PTC-like nuclei within cytoplasm resembling Hurthle cells, whereas in this case the nuclei were round and without grooves or pseudoinclusions. While in this case, the patient has a history of a prior carcinosarcoma of the uterus, the morphology and uniformity of the cells in this case are more consistent with Hurthle cells than metastasis.
Ali, SZ and Cibas, ES (eds). The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. Springer Science+Business Media. 2010.
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http://apps.pathology.jhu.edu/cyto/case-36/
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Item Reports - what do you think about them?
12 Sep 2016 06:50 Jump!
creating something akin to what's on the Foundation's page.
05 Dec 2018 21:16 Jump!
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http://ci-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/c-1972500/items
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Betty Ford dies at 93.
Former US First Lady Betty Ford has died at the age of 93. She will be remembered for her work in raising breast cancer awareness and founding the Betty Ford Center. A rehabilitation clinic. Overcoming her own alcohol and prescription drug addictions that it helped found the center in 1982. Wife of late president Gerald Ford she was one stop the fighting First Lady by time magazine teacher her outspoken views. During her husband's time in office she strongly supportive of women's rights and worked in -- to pass the equal rights amendment. Which sought to give women and men equality under the -- America fantasy Richards.
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https://uk.reuters.com/video/2011/07/08/betty-ford-dies-at-93?videoId=216922200
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"Measuring and Analysing the Effect of Openings and Vibration on Reusab" by Péter Böröcz, Ákos Mojzes et al.
To control the climate when temperature sensitive drugs are delivered is an essential consideration of shippers and freight forwarders. It is common practice to utilize insulated boxes. A survey was conducted to determine the properties of these daily deliveries and factors were observed that influence the climate environment of drugs during travel. These factors included opening intervals, number of openings, trip times and distances. Then the results of the survey were used to perform the recorded circumstances of distribution in laboratory tests as close to reality as possible and analyse the effect of the above-mentioned factors. During real distribution the temperature range from 2°C – 8°C was targeted. For the comparison of profiles, the static temperature profiles were also measured in the laboratory. One objective of this paper was to do a comparative performance analysis for the velocity changes of temperature between opened and not-opened procedures. A second objective was to show how to effect the vibration of temperature affects different parts of the box. The final objective was to provide packaging engineers with new information to design cost-efficient and practical reusable transportation solutions for these drugs on daily deliveries with more stopovers and openings.
Böröcz, Péter; Mojzes, Ákos; and Csavajda, Péter (2015) "Measuring and Analysing the Effect of Openings and Vibration on Reusable Pharmaceutical Insulated Boxes with Daily Distribution," Journal of Applied Packaging Research: Vol. 7 : No. 2 , Article 2.
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https://scholarworks.rit.edu/japr/vol7/iss2/2/
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Ever since I started watching The Good Place, the NBC sitcom where characters navigate an afterlife in which a Good, Bad, and even Medium Place exists, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the NBA in the context of the show’s premise.
The other day, Google accidentally listed LaVar Ball as the NBA’s founder. Everyone had a laugh at the gaffe, but I immediately thought this was what the NBA would look like in the Bad Place, where everyone would have to wear Big Baller Brand shoes and LaVar would be the announcer, play-by-play guy, color commentator, sideline reporter, studio show host, studio show analyst and head coach of every team in the league.
Think long and hard enough ,and you can start categorizing everything in the NBA into the Good, Medium and Bad Places. This is why whenever I hear the name of Raptors forward Bruno Caboclo, the guy who is forever two years away from being two years away, I think of him as the Bad Place version of Giannis Antetokounmpo.
What else would you find in the NBA version of the Good, Medium and Bad place? Here are some ideas.
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2019-04-21T16:14:30Z
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https://uproxx.com/dimemag/nba-version-the-good-place-lebron-james/
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wordpress
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i live In Life A short documentary about Mom, Alzheimer's, and loss.
The Cordoba International Film Festival has accepted i live In Life for it’s 2016 edition! If you’re in Columbia this August, go check it out!
If you’re in Atlanta on Saturday Dec. 13, come to DocuFest! The film screens at 6:30pm, together with the feature doc “GreasePaint“!
i live In Life has been accepted to screen in the Starz Denver Film Festival as part of our First Look Student Film Program! Watch this space for details of when and where.
i live In Life played to a packed house at the 2013 Katra Film Series Grand Finale at Indie Screen in Williamsburg on Jan. 25, 2014. Thanks to all who braved the heavy snowstorm to come to the event!
The Katra Film Series played i live In Life at it’s Special Edition Screening, Saturday August 24, 2013 in New York City. The audience voted after the screening, and picked the film as the best of the seven films of the evening!
i live In Life screened at the Cityvisions MFA Showcase in New York City on June 1, 2013, at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, 1871 Broadway @61st, New York, NY 10023.
Visit the event website here.
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2019-04-20T06:31:50Z
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https://iliveinlife.wordpress.com/screenings/
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On his way into the Rapids locker room on Thursday, striker Kevin Doyle rolled up the leg of his pants, pulled down his sock and proudly showed off the healing wound on his shin.
“It’s actually healing quite nicely,” he told reporters, showing off the layer of tape that covered his surgically repaired shin. Doyle sustained the gruesome gash March 25 while playing for the Republic of Ireland in an international friendly against Switzerland.
Mastroeni said Doyle’s timeline for return — up to five weeks — remained unchanged.
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2019-04-19T20:19:26Z
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/rapids/2016/04/08/
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Mrs. Cepero serves as the Senior Administrative Assistant at FIU’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy (JGI). She has a long-standing career at FIU spanning over 12 years having spent the first 10 years at the Applied Research Center where she handled the day-to-day activities of purchasing, property management and meeting planning. In addition, Mrs. Cepero coordinated the execution of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management Fellows induction ceremony for nine consecutive years. In her current position at JGI, she is responsible for budgeting, financials, purchasing and travel for the staff and students within the Institute.
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2019-04-26T16:42:56Z
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http://gordoninstitute.fiu.edu/about/people/patty-cepero/
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ucla
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This seminar focuses on public interest lawyering through a close analysis of case studies and the discussion of recurring issues in public interest practice. In this course we explore social problems from number of different perspectives, highlighting the many different ways of solving problems of the sort public interest lawyers confront. The seminar covers questions of how public interest problems come to be framed; how clients, lawyers, and their allies think about problem-solving strategies; and how public interest lawyers use different modes of advocacy to address problems. Students in this seminar will complete an individual or group paper project that addresses a real world problem and incorporates the modes of advocacy studied in the course. Enrollment in this seminar is limited to students enrolled in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
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2019-04-23T22:57:15Z
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https://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ingrid-v-eagly/law-541/
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ATLANTA (AP) — A comeback not even Tiger Woods saw coming a year ago.
A chaotic celebration that golf hasn’t seen even in the best of times.
Woods delivered the perfect ending to his amazing return from four back surgeries on Sunday with a performance that felt like the old days. He left the competition feeling hopeless as he built a five-shot lead early and hung on to win the Tour Championship.
Woods raised both arms over his head after he tapped in for par and a 1-over 71 for a two-shot victory over Billy Horschel, the 80th victory of his PGA Tour career and his first in more than five years.
It felt like a coronation coming down the 18th green after he hit his second shot to the par 5 safely in a bunker in front of the green. The crowd came through the ropes and walked behind him, just like that walk from the left side of the 18th fairway when he won the Masters in 1997, and when the enormous gallery of Chicago followed after him when he won the Western Open that summer.
They chased after any inch of grass they could find to watch the ending.
Woods brought it all to life over four days at East Lake, and the players who have taken turns at No. 1 during his absence caught the full brunt of it. McIlroy faded early. Justin Rose faded late.
All that was left was the 42-year-old Woods in that Sunday red shirt blazing brighter than ever and a smile he couldn’t shake walking up to collect another trophy.
He’s back again. This victory, his first since the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone in August 2013 — 1,876 days, to be exact — brought him to No. 13 in the world. Not bad for a 42-year-old with four back surgeries who returned to competition in December at No. 1,199.
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2019-04-25T23:55:39Z
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https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/09/23/tiger-woods-wins-tour-championship-for-first-victory-since-2013/
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pbs
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All Posts Tagged With: "Transportation Bill"
The Monday Metro accident in Washington, D.C., when a train car rear-ended another killing nine people, involved some of the oldest cars in the city’s young subway system. The cars had already been said to have vulnerabilities. Washington, however, is not the exception for using equipment that is outdated.
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2019-04-25T07:21:48Z
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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/tag/transportation-bill/
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Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) was a professor of chemistry and a provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He built the library that forms the nucleus of the collection named in honor of him and endowed by his widow.
The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection is devoted to the history of chemistry and collects broadly in that field, emphasizing periods prior to 1900. The collection includes early and modern works on chemistry, alchemy, early medicine and pharmacology, dyeing, metallurgy, mineralogy, and pyrotechnics; biographies of chemists; works on the chemical industry; and the history of chemical education.
First and early editions of Robert Boyle and Joseph Priestley are heavily represented in the Smith Collection, which also has more than fifty bound manuscripts from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, many of which have been digitized; lecture notes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chemists; correspondence of important chemists; and numerous recipe books, both household and industrial.
The collection also has a large image component, some of which has been digitized and is available online. There is also some chemical laboratory equipment and a number of medals and medallions in the collection.
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2019-04-21T07:25:41Z
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https://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/special/groups/edgar-fahs-smith-memorial-collection
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NASA prepares and rehearses contingency response plans for every launch that it conducts. Ensuring the safety of launch-site workers and the general public in the communities surrounding the launch area is the primary consideration in this planning. No member of the public has ever been injured during a NASA launch.
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2019-04-20T16:30:32Z
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https://rps.nasa.gov/resources/63/mars-science-laboratory-launch-contingency-planning/
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nypost
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Lightning struck two men in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens on Tuesday — leaving one in critical condition — as a brief but powerful storm pounded the area, law enforcement sources said.
The two victims, 30 and 42, were playing soccer at the sprawling park at 7:30 p.m. when the wild weather struck.
Both men were rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with the 30-year-old in critical condition, police said.
Another man was hit by lightning in Queens a short time later, at 7:55 p.m. near Baisley Boulevard and 155th Street before he was taken to Jamaica Hospital, officials said. The 31-year-old was expected to survive his injuries.
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2019-04-21T01:49:08Z
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https://nypost.com/2018/08/07/multiple-people-struck-by-lightning-in-queens/
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On February 10, 2017 the Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) at Carencro High School, an LPSS Schools of Choice program, was awarded 114 Samsung Galaxy Tablets through a grant from National Academy Foundation NAF), corporate partner JP Morgan Chase Foundation. NAF academies all over the United States competed for the grant award, with a total of 750 tablets awarded. AOIT demonstrated how students would use the technology to complete a project that will improve their College and Career Readiness (CCR) skills, during the 2016-2017 school year. The NAF College & Career Readiness (CCR) Skills are embedded in the NAF curriculum and work-based learning resources. Additionally, students will complete a brief project report by June 2, 2017. Select academies will receive a discount on their NAF Next 2017 registration and will present their projects with the technology at the education nonprofit’s annual conference, hosted this July in Dallas.
NAF works with high need communities to transform the high school experience through an educational design that includes industry-specific curricula, work-based learning experiences, and building relationships with business professionals, culminating in a paid internship. NAF academies fit within and enhance school systems, allowing NAF to become an integral part of a plan for higher achievement at a low cost. NAF academies focus on one of five career themes: finance, hospitality & tourism, information technology, engineering, and health sciences. During the 2016-17 school year more than 96,000 students attended 675 NAF academies across 36 states, including D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2016, NAF academies reported 96% of seniors graduated with 92% of graduates with post-secondary intentions.
Congratulations to the Academy of Information Technology!
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2019-04-22T02:25:58Z
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https://www.lpssonline.com/site.php?pageID=39&newsID=1237
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Jean-Pierre Brun, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Technologies and Economies at the Collège de France (Paris), will be giving four seminars on technology and the Roman economy in Oxford this term. All lectures will take place in the Institute of Archaeology Lecture Room. Two are special lectures, on Tuesdays of weeks 1 and 3; and two are inserted in the regular seminar programme of the Roman Discussion Forum. All are welcome.
The Roman harbour of Telo Martius (Var): urbanism and economic activities.
JP Brun: The Roman harbour of Telo Martius (Var).
School of Archaeology, Lecture Room. All Welcome.
JP Brun: Roman water-mills in Tres Galliae and in Germania Superior.
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2019-04-24T01:48:44Z
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http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/news/special_lectures_jeanpierre_brun/
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azcentral
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Although krill oil and salmon oil are good sources of the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, krill oil does seem to possess other beneficial ingredients such as antioxidants and phospolipids.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids that are not produced by our bodies and therefore need to be supplied by the diet. Health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids include decreasing LDLs (the bad cholesterol), increasing HDLs (the good cholesterol), decreasing triglyceride levels, decreasing blood sugar levels, decreasing symptoms of PMS and dysmenorrhea, increased focus and concentration and decreasing pain and inflammation from rheumatoid arthritis and other aches and pains.
The best sources of the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, are from fatty fishes like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon. Since the average person does not consume fish on a daily basis, many people use fish oil supplements. Krill oil, a relatively new supplement, is gaining in popularity.
Krill oil differs from salmon oil in the following ways: krill oil contains both omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA and also contains Vitamins E, A and D; krill oil contains the potent antioxidants astaxanthin and canthaxanthin; krill oil is more easily absorbed, so you do not need as much and you do not get the fishy aftertaste; krill oil has a longer shelf life; and krill oil is more expensive.
What little research that is out there regarding krill oil tends to show that it is superior to salmon oil, but not enough studies have been done to give a definitive answer as of now, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Both seem to be excellent sources of DHA and EPA. While salmon oil contains the same amount of these essential fatty acids as the krill oil, krill oil does seem to possess other helpful ingredients.
Krill oil should be avoided if you are allergic to shrimp or shellfish until more research is done on its safety.
Before you take any medications or nutritional supplements your physician should be consulted.
2. Bunea R et al. Evaluation of the effects of Neptune Krill Oil on the clinical couse of hyperlipidemia. Altern Med Rev. 2004 Dec;9(4):420-8.
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2019-04-20T10:27:04Z
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https://healthyliving.azcentral.com/difference-between-krill-oil-salmon-oil-12224733.html
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wordpress
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Bringing research-informed practice to the whole school.
2. When you’ve done 1, talk about what you’re doing to anyone who will listen – try to get other people excited, or at least interested, in some of these ideas. This could just be through informal conversations or you could ask to present your ideas to the whole school in a training session.
3. Put out some feelers and see how much enthusiasm there is for a research group in your school – I was blown away by how many teachers were keen to be involved. This was partly due to the USP that the meetings would lead to more efficiency in the long term, even if at first it required people to give up some of their time.
4. Talk to people about the areas they want to improve and then find the research that will help address this.
5. When you’ve chosen your research area, try to find bloggers who have already read around the subject and have helpfully extracted the key information and have come up with practical advice for the classroom – you’ll be surprised by just how many generous people there are that have done just this – Greg Ashman’s blog on cognitive load is an excellent example.
7 . Don’t try to do too many things at once. Last year we focused on two key pieces of research – Daisy Christodoulou’s Making Good Progress and two blogs based on cognitive load. From these, we chose 3-4 key methods to trial in the classroom over several months.
8. Give enough time between meetings for teachers to experiment and start to properly embed some of the methods into their classroom practice. Having a go at one method once is inefficient in terms of the time invested in researching that method and isn’t enough to see if it will work for you and your students.
9. ‘Show and tell’ – this is my favourite bit! Make time in your meetings just to share resources, compare different approaches, and to look at some students’ work to see if there’s been a positive impact. This is the perfect opportunity for efficiency as it’s a time to ‘magpie’ other people’s ideas and resources and to really talk about what the research looks like in action to give you ideas for your lessons and your delivery.
Okay #SLT what's one thing you'll pledge to do to reduce your teachers' workload in the coming new year?
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2019-04-23T00:43:37Z
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https://aclassroomofonesownsite.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/sharing-the-research-love/
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Bec bagged the bronze medal on the final day of the England Korfball League season as they saw off a spirited challenge from Kingfisher.
Joe Bedford scored five for the South London side as they earned a 15-8 victory.
It brought the weekend to a happy close for them after they suffered a defeat against Norwich Knights in the semi-finals yesterday, meaning they missed out on a fourth consecutive final.
Kingfisher put in a good performance themselves, but they seemed to lack the stamina to match their rivals towards the end of the match.
The early exchanges were evenly split between the teams as they both came close to scoring, but neither were able to make their shots count.
Six minutes had passed before the deadlock was broken as Sara Roberts was called for an out-of-hand foul by the post and Ryan Medhurst stepped up and converted the chance.
Kingfisher had been defending well, but Bec skipper Davesh Patel did manage to shake-off his man to get under the basket, only to throw a weak shot, but his division colleague Bedford did make it 1-1 not long after.
A minute later Kingfisher were back in front as Liam Kirby got a big step away from Patel and fired home, although this was cancelled out by Caitlin Fitzgerald as she found the target from the back of the court.
Proceedings became somewhat cagey with no score for more than seven minutes as the defences from both sides took control, although they also squandered chances.
It was Bec’s Helen West who ended the mini drought, but Liam Geddes soon found an equaliser.
Bec put together another good move in attack as they looked to start applying pressure and this gave Blake Palfreyman room to score.
Despite looking to in charge, Bec could not stretch their lead and with four minutes left in the half, Kingfisher moved the ball round their division and opened a gap for Shannon Jones to run in and equalise.
They should have gone into half-time with the lead, but decent chances for Lauren Hall and Geddes were missed.
The opening eight minutes of the second half saw the sides being a lot more prolific than they had in the early exchanges of the first with Kenzie Baldock and Hall hitting the target for Kingfisher and Bedford, Fitzgerald and Palfreyman scoring for Bec.
Ho Yei Knauss should have made it 8-6 to Bec as she found space under the post, only to miss, but her team-mates Bedford and Palfreyman helped extend their lead.
Kingfisher were not being overawed and good work collecting while in attack led to Rachel Turner getting on the scoresheet.
But although they were staying in the game, the Kent-based outfit were unable to find what they needed to get on level terms as Bec kept them at arm’s length with goals from Ben King and Bedford making it 11-7 with 12 minutes left.
And when Roberts and Andrew Hall scored for Bec to open up a six point gap, the game was in affect over for Kingfisher with seven-and-a-half minutes left.
Jones gave Kingfisher’s support something to cheer with a goal with just under three minutes to go, but before the finish, Bedford and Palfreyman found the mark again.
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2019-04-25T22:03:20Z
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https://www.englandkorfball.co.uk/bec-win-bronze-15-8-victory-kingfisher/
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The Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA), also known as the Las Piñas - Parañaque Wetland Park, is a protected area at the coasts of the cities of Las Piñas and Parañaque in Metro Manila, Philippines. The entire wetland is a declared Ramsar site under the Ramsar Convention of UNESCO.
In November 1973, the Construction Development Corporation of the Philippines (now Philippine National Construction Corporation) secured a government contract for the Manila–Cavite Coastal Road and Reclamation Project. The project to extend Roxas Boulevard south to Cavite province required reclamation of foreshore lands in Parañaque and Las Piñas. Construction of the 6.6 km-long coastal road started during the term of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and was completed and opened to traffic in September 1985. The island was formed during construction with plans to expand the island and continue reclamation of the coastal area from Bay City to Las Piñas following Philippine Reclamation Authority's masterplan for the Southern Reclamation Project.
The islands were proclaimed as a Critical Habitat by the Philippine government through Presidential Proclamation No. 1412 on 22 April 2007. It covered 175 hectares covering the two interconnected islands where important bird habitats such as mangroves, beach forests, lagoons, and mudflats are found. It was listed as a Ramsar wetland of international importance on 15 March 2013. Upon the enactment of the Republic Act No. 11038 (Expanded National Integrated Protected Area Act) on 22 June 2018, the LPPCHEA was legislated as a National Protected Area covering 181 hectares.
In February 12, 2019, approximately 22 Manila Bay land reclamation projects were announced by the government, sparking criticism. Among those to be affected by the Chinese-led reclamation projects is the Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area.
The Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) are composed of two primary islands; Freedom Island and Long Island. The area is covered with mangroves, ponds and lagoons, mudflats, salt marshes, and mixed beach forests. The entire LPPCHEA covers an area of 175 hectares (430 acres); about 114 hectares (280 acres) of which are by tidal mudflats, and 30 hectares (74 acres) of which are by its mangrove forest.
Freedom Island located in the northern portion of the LPPCHEA in Parañaque is an artificial island formed between 1973 and 1985 during the construction of the Manila–Cavite Coastal Road.
Freedom Island covers an area of about 74 acres (0.30 km2) with an elevation of between 0 and 7 meters above sea level. It is a barrier island located across from the Manila–Cavite Expressway just south of another reclaimed site called Asiaworld City, a residential waterfront community that is part of the bigger Bay City development. The island runs along the coast from barangay La Huerta at its north end near the mouth of Parañaque River into barangay San Dionisio right at the border with Las Piñas. A narrow landfill connects its southern tip to the mainland and Long Island near the expressway toll barrier.
Freedom Island consists primarily of loam and dredged material pulled from the bay and nearby lands.
Long Island and another smaller island also formed by land reclamation are situated south of Freedom Island and is under the jurisdiction of the city of Las Piñas.
A white egret at the LPPCHEA.
The LPPCHEA contains a mangrove forest and swamps providing a habitat for many migratory bird species which devises the East Asian–Australasian Migratory Flyway. There are at least 41 recorded migratory birds coming from as far as China, Japan, and Siberia in the protected area. The migration season is every August to April and there could be 5,000 individual birds daily. Among these birds are the Little Egret, Black-Crowned Night Heron, and the Common Moorhen.
Among the endemic species in the area is the Philippine Duck. The LPPCHEA is the only known breeding ground for the ducks in Metro Manila. During the low tide, small invertebrates and macrobenthic species are exposed to the air which are consumed by birds and other small animals in the area. The area is also a spawning ground, nursery and sanctuary for fishes.
The LPPCHEA hosts one of the few remaining mangrove forests in Metro Manila. There are 11 mangrove species in the area. These are locally known as the Bungalon, Bakauan Babae, Bakauan Bato, Pototan, Kolasi, Pagatpat, Banalo, Tabigi, Saging-saging, Buta-buta and Nilad. Nilad is a species introduced to the area by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-National Capital Region (DENR-NCR).
Only a select few salt-tolerant species of herbs, grasses, and shrubs grow in the LPPCHEA's salt marshes due to the high saline content in the area's soil.
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2019-04-25T14:27:38Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Island
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Information submitted in a nomination letter to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame by Doug Pfeiffer.
It would seem natural that Brooks Dodge would ski. He grew up in the Pinkham Notch section of New Hampshire where his father was manager of the Appalachian Mountain Hut System. He got his first skis at the age of two, soon after he had learned to walk.
During childhood, skiing and mountain climbing were natural pursuits for Brooks Dodge as his family lived eleven miles from the nearest town. A patient mother took both him and his sister skiing each day after school and attempted to teach them as much as possible.
Remarkably enough, there were few formal ski lessons in Dodge’s entire career and these were taken as a young child at the Hannes Schneider Ski School just behind the village store in Jackson, New Hampshire. He credits Johnny Reid as being the first person to help him with his racing. Dodge’s very first race was at the age of seven on the Sherburn rail that ran from Tuckerman Ravine to Pinkham’s Notch.
It should be obvious beyond doubt that Brooks Dodge was not only able to ski the European terrain but could also do it with the best of the Europeans.
Although Dodge stopped skiing the international circuit in 1956, his interest in the sport remained keen. Along with three others, he planned and developed Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire.
Dodge organized and conducted charter flights to Europe from 1960 to 1972 and was one of the pioneers in organizing flights to the Bugaboos starting as early as 1965 and running through to 1973.
Although it had been many years since those halcyon days of the 1956 Olympics, Dodge raced in the senior veterans’ class and raced well. In 1976, he won the slalom and giant slalom at the National Vets Championships held at Crystal Mountain against all classes. His wife was a non-skier when they married but raced with him.
Lastly, consider this: since Dodge ran that first race from Tuckerman to Pinkham’s Notch at the age of seven, he competed in a grand total of 423 races of which he won 107. Quite a skier – that man Dodge.
Brooks Dodge was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1978.
If you notice any errors or inconsistencies in Brooks Dodge's bio, click here to let us know.
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2019-04-20T16:30:22Z
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https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/brooks-dodge/
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wordpress
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Thanks to all of our sponsors, volunteers, and participants this year! We had another great day for cycling, and were able to showcase Dayton neighborhoods while giving away a lot of cool cycling-related gear and gifts. Thanks for making each year a memorable, fun, and truly unique experience in Dayton!
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2019-04-24T03:57:03Z
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https://tourdedayton.wordpress.com/past-event-photos/2014-tour-de-dayton-photos/
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tripod
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There are two important factors in getting your first legal job. One is how well you do in law school -- grades are important. However, where you go to school is equally important. Certain schools are generally considered better by the legal community, and tend to get their students better jobs, even when their grades are modest.
For this reason, you should generally attend the best school possible, if only so you won't have to worry as much about your grades. (Law school can be stressful enough.) Better schools will also give you more national options in terms of where you can work upon graduation. The better a school's reputation, the more national your job opportunities will be.
There are a handful of schools that are considered truly "national", in that they usually send graduates all around the country. The very best schools, in terms of reputation over the last few decades, are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, and Michigan. These are also the top schools in terms of national elite-firm placement, Supreme Court Clerkships, and legal academia (teaching positions). Schools like NYU, Virginia, and Berkeley (Boalt Hall) also excel comparably in the above categories, and have similar reputations. Penn is not far behind, and is generally felt to round out the top 10 in the eyes of most attorneys, judges, and academics. These schools are generally considered the very best in the country.
There many other excellent programs, especially Texas, UCLA, Vanderbilt, and USC, which also have fairly national reputations. However, most of these programs have their strongest reputations in their respective regions. Therefore, if you can't get into one of the 15 or so "national" programs, you should strive to attend the best school possible in your desired city or region.
Of course, which school is "best" for any individual can also depend on their specific goals and personality. For example, if you want to open your own practice, or work in public interest, you may choose a scholarship at a slightly lower-ranked school over an offer at a higher-ranked program. And since all schools have somewhat different personalities, different people will be more comfortable at different programs, even if they're comparably ranked. Consider what's important to you before deciding on schools, and be sure to actually visit each program before making a final decision. Often, purely subjective elements of environment, location, and attitude can make one school a much better fit than another.
A note on rankings: there are various rankings of law schools, the most well-known being U.S. News and World Report. However, there is also a good deal of discrepancy between various rankings, and even between different years of the same ranking. The methodology in U.S. News is subject to manipulation by schools to some degree, and shifts can also occur due to simple changes in methodology.
Therefore, it's probably better to think of schools in groups or tiers, and to ignore minor ranking differences (especially several points or less). This is especially true when thinking in terms of desired regions. For example, Fordham is not ranked as highly as Minnesota or Iowa, but would probably be better for getting a job in New York. The same would apply to George Washington University, and perhaps even American or George Mason, in Washington, D.C. Again, outside of the most national programs, most schools have relatively regional reputations. This is because lawyers will naturally know more about local programs, and also because local alumni networks are very important in terms of finding jobs.
The LSAC is an organization of law schools that oversees the LSAT. Their official site, however, also includes a great deal of information about law schools, including a page providing your estimated likelihood of admission to schools when you input your LSAT/GPA information.
The U.S. News and World Report probably has the best-known rankings of graduate programs, including law school rankings based on specific criteria, admissions numbers, and campus statistics. We have therefore provided a link to their Law School Rankings website. Basic information is provided for all accredited law schools in the country. However, in addition to basic information, the site also contains direct links to official websites for many of the schools. This is therefore an excellent starting point for researching potential law schools and requesting application materials.
U.S. News and World Report Law School Website.
Certain judicial clerkships are very prestigious, and can help clerks later get the best jobs in the country, including top firm positions (with bonuses) and teaching positions at top law schools. Even after being hired, having a prestigious clerkship on your resume will get you more respect and deference within a firm, enhancing your partnership prospects and making it easier to move to other firms or government positions.
For this reason, getting such clerkships is very competitive. The degree to which a school can place students in such positions is a fairly good measure of the esteem the school enjoys within the legal community.
For many law students, this is therefore an ideal job. For the same reason, however, these jobs are also extremely competitive. Getting them usually requires going to a top school, doing well, making Law Review, and/or getting a prestigious clerkship. Going to the right school probably matters more for these jobs than any other.
Jd2b.com is a law school blog that contains a great deal of information for pre-law students, including links to complete U.S. News Rankings info, faculty quality rankings, Supreme Court Clerkship rankings, and other law school information. It also contains articles about law schools and legal practice, as well as links to other blogs created by current law students.
Vault.com is a site that contains information about law firms, legal practice, and law schools. The link below goes directly to the law school page.
This site contains rankings of schools by actual students, as well as information for future students like course outlines, case briefs, and bar resources. It also contains application information and tips.
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2019-04-26T04:54:26Z
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http://members.tripod.com/john_lesko/id35_m.htm
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livejournal
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My fandoms are BtVS, Ats (my favourite is Spike, and a big fan of James Marsters), Supernatural (big fan of Sam and Jared Padalecki) Doctor Who (who is asexual, I do not ship him), Torchwood (do ship Janto) and Leverage, listed in order of preference Eliot, Hardison (tough chioce with those two) Parker, Nate and Sophie.
Have to thank zoesmith for my banner/header and matching icon and kunzite1 at component_help for helping me get my layout just how I want it and how to do it, including the code. Wonderful people.
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2019-04-23T23:52:48Z
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https://users.livejournal.com/woman-of-/profile
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Florence June Daniel Renoudet — a longtime employee of the Walt Disney Co. and Burbank resident — has died. She was 81.
Born in Joliet, Ill., on March 23, 1929, Renoudet went on to become an accomplished singer and was a competitive and synchronized swimmer on Chicago’s famed Town Club Swim Team. She died on Feb. 18.
In 1957, she moved to California where she began a 35-year career in the music department at Disney. She was executive secretary to Robert Jackman and, later, Jay Lawton, was a part of the scoring for the films “Pollyanna,” “Mary Poppins,” “The Love Bug,” and “The Parent Trap,” among others.
She is survived by her husband, Pierre ‘Pete’ Renoudet; sister, Dorothy Zachary; two nieces and a nephew.
She was preceded in death by her parents and by her stepmother, Helen Kramer White Daniel, and brother-in-law, Richard Zachary.
A memorial service was held Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in Burbank.
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2019-04-22T10:25:08Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-xpm-2011-03-01-tn-blr-0302-obit-story.html
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 036 Page 0613 Chapter XXXVI. BATTLE OF PORT GIBSON, MISS.
of the infantry. At about 7. 30 a. m. we were ordered to the left and front, to support the First Missouri Battery, Captain Schofield, which position, upon the height to the left of the road leading to Port Gibson, and about 1 mile in advance of our first line of battle, we occupied for more than two and a half hours, where we delivered three effective volleys at the enemy maneuvering upon our right. In this position the enemy's bullets fell among us thick and fast, but as we were well sheltered under the brow of the hill, we only lost 1 man from Company B and 1 man belonging to the ambulance corps of the FIFTY-sixth Ohio Volunteers, both killed.
At about 11 o'clock we were ordered to the front. We then proceeded to the Port Gibson road, up which, toward Port Gibson, we advanced about 2 miles, and crossed to the right of said road, and formed in line of battle upon the crest of the hills. Here we ordered forward Company D, of the Forty-seventh, as skirmishers, and advanced to the extreme front over a ridge and across Willow Creek, and to the top of the hill beyond, where we formed in line of battle in the open field, our skirmishers being engaged in front with the THIRD and FIFTH Missouri (rebel) Regiments, a rebel battery playing upon us at the same time. We here engaged the enemy, who opposed us hotly for half an hour. We were holding our own to good purpose, when we discovered that the rebels were advancing in line at double-quick at our right, and in a position favorable to taking us upon the right flank and in our rear. As we were a long way in advance of our main body when we took this position, and supposing ourselves entirely unsupported at our rear, we changed position, retiring by the left flank along the ravine through which we had gained the summit of the hill, and formed in line of battle at right angles with our former position, our lift resting upon it, and immediately opened a brisk fire upon the enemy's lines. which were in full charge upon us. Here the battle raged furiously for over two hours, during, which time the pieces of our men became so heated from rapid, continuous firing as to make in impossible for them to continue firing longer with safety to themselves. We were relived at this position by the Nineteenth Kentucky, the Forty-seventh retiring a few paces to the gully formed by Willow Creek.
The firing having entirely ceased, and the enemy routed at this point, the Forty-Seventh stacked arms in the hollow a few paces to the rear of Willow Creek, and, being exhausted by the previous night's march and the heat and fatigues of the day, was resting, when suddenly a well directed volley from the enemy, who had skulked up under cover of the bushes upon the crest of the hill, informed us that the battle was not yet over. We immediately formed a few paces to the rear, under cover of the ravine. We were then ordered to advance to the same position (the bed of the stream), which position we held for the remainder of the day without hearing further from the enemy.
During the entire day the conduct of both officers and men under my command was most admirable; coolness and presence of mind was that of veterans.
All of which si respectfully submitted.
Lieutenant Colonel, comdg. Forty-seventh Regiment Indiana Infantry.
Comdg. SECOND Brigadier, TWELFTH Div., Thirteenth Army Corps.
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2019-04-25T15:09:17Z
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https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/036/0613
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Design and analysis of non-inferiority trials / Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens, Ivan S.F. Chan.
Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2012.
xvi, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"The increased use of non-inferiority analysis has been accompanied by a proliferation of research on the design and analysis of non-inferiority studies. Design and Analysis of Non-Inferiority Trials brings together this body of research and confronts the issues involved in the design of a non-inferiority trial. Using examples from real clinical trials, the book discusses general and regulatory issues and illustrates how they affect analysis. Each chapter begins with a non-technical introduction, so the subject is easily understood by those without prior knowledge of non-inferiority clinical trials. The book also provides detailed mathematical approaches along with their mathematical properties"--Provided by publisher.
Design and analysis of non-inferiority trials [electronic resource] / Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens, Ivan S.F. Chan.
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2019-04-18T11:13:10Z
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https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/SCSB-8878526
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Wait until the sun has gone down and then turn out all the lights in the place where you live. Look, this is the place where you live. What the electricity brings is a showbiz version – an entertainment hub – somewhere edges are more distinct and so ambiguities are less succulent. If your house is an old house, or your flat slots itself into an old building, you’ll be returning it to the years of fires gone out and candles not lit. Everything was much scarier, off the mains, before there was a mains. We are wise, and can end uncertainty with a click. The great old human occupation of cosy evenings, I wonder whatever happened to… is almost negated. We are a lot less ignorant; we are a whole lot more snug, and smug. But what about when – like in this half-light now – you really don’t know whether that is a shadow, something hiding inside a shadow, your mind hiding something inside a shadow or a shadow hiding something inside your mind. This is a light-loving age, a glance at any estate agent’s window will display our avoidance of darks or deeps. In the last of the day’s light, you are able to see a truer fragility – the air is all cracks, as are we.
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2019-04-23T02:36:27Z
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https://tobylitt.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/twil-poem/
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Jet players still were buzzing yesterday about the electric game-winning play that lifted them to the 21-17 victory over the Bucs a day earlier.
At one locker stall, Curtis Martin was recounting the moments before his halfback option TD with 52 seconds remaining.
At another, Wayne Chrebet was recounting his leaping catch of Martin’s throw.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the play marked the first time in 31 NFL seasons that a halfback option pass won a game in the fourth quarter. The last time came when Preston Ridlehuber led the Buffalo Bills to a 23-16 win over the Boston Patriots in 1969.
Yesterday, they were still laughing at Martin’s wobbly pass to Chrebet.
Martin said he struggled to get his right glove off in the huddle before the play and got it off just in time, hoping none of the Tampa Bay defenders noticed him.
“I dropped the glove on the ground and left it there,” he said yesterday. “I was easing it off. In practice [his teammates] noticed it and everyone teased me. I was hoping no one [from Tampa Bay] noticed it.
Brooks ended up hitting Martin in the mouth just as he released the ball.
Chrebet recalled running back to the huddle after Martin had just run the ball on a sweep right the play before and thinking about the trick play.
Jets are the only NFL team through four weeks of the regular season to have not lost a fumble.
More impressive than that is Martin’s streak of 517 offensive touches without losing a fumble, dating back to the 1999 opener. That includes 455 rushes and 62 catches.
The only points the Jets’ defense has allowed in a second half this season have come from two Packer FGs and one Patriot TD. The Jet defense held Tampa Bay to a mere 59 yards of total offense and three first downs.
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2019-04-22T05:31:11Z
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https://nypost.com/2000/09/26/game-winning-play-is-talk-of-the-team/
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Congratulations on your upcoming Disney Dream cruise! It's a gorgeous ship, and you're going to have a wonderful trip!
You don't need any luggage tags on your carry on bags since you'll have them with you at all times during check in. The only time you really ever let go of it is when you go through Security. The bags are placed on the belt where Security is looking at the contents through a scanner (think airport security).
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2019-04-25T07:48:28Z
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/cruise-july-disney-dream-may-thinking-cruise-ship-need-184728/
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A lifetime journey in music begins here with Kindermusik licensed instructor, Fallon Hantelman-Stewart. These courses provide a unique opportunity for you to learn and participate with your child in an unhurried and joyful manner. Bond with your little one and stimulate your child’s early development as you are guided each week through age-appropriate activities that introduce you and your child to music concepts through a combination of movement, storytelling, and imaginative play. Each session comes with a storybook, CD, instrument, and sometimes more, which you can bring home and use again and again to promote further learning.
Visit the Kindermusik Regina page for more information about Kindermusik International.
These courses are a great way to bond with your little one and other new parents in a fun, musical environment.
These are 4-week and 12-week courses that reflects the emotional foundations of school readiness and the latest research on music and early childhood development.
Imagine That! is designed for active, energetic, enthusiastic and imaginative children ages 3-4. Classes encourage socializing, sharing and participating in group activities.
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2019-04-25T12:21:46Z
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https://www.uregina.ca/cce/conservatory/group-classes/kindermusik.html
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Published: Jan. 20, 2015 at 11:32 a.m.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2015 at 05:39 p.m.
Vic Fangio is heading to the Windy City.
The Chicago Bears hired the former 49ers lieutenant to serve as John Fox's defensive coordinator, the team announced Tuesday. Fangio also interviewed with the Washington Redskins.
It's a strong hire for the Bears after Fangio helped build San Francisco's defense into a beast over the past four seasons. They tailed off this autumn, but the Niners ranked second, second and third in points allowed between 2011 and 2013.
The hiring of both Fox and Fangio addresses Chicago's greatest need: Rebuilding a defense that crumbled to pieces over the past two seasons under Marc Trestman and former defensive play-caller Mel Tucker.
Only the Oakland Raiders allowed more points per game, with Chicago also allowing the third-most yardage in the NFL in 2014. The Bears have plenty of work to do both in free agency and the draft to infuse talent into a unit that lacks playmakers and depth.
Fangio under Jim Harbaugh inherited a Niners defense with a handful of stars in the making. That won't be the case in Chicago, but this experienced assistant stands out as an impressive get for Fox.
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2019-04-21T12:46:36Z
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000461036/article/bears-hire-vic-fangio-as-defensive-coordinator
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This used to be a common sight in HSR: BBMP workers standing in knee-deep mixed waste and loading the autos even as they segregated and picked up anything recyclable. These workers’ hands and feet would often be cut by glass shards, infected by hazardous waste. This would force them to skip work often. Mounds of mixed waste filled the landfills day after day, contaminating the soil and affecting the lives of the people living nearby. Empathy towards these people brought together volunteers with a common purpose: to reduce our waste going for landfilling. Ward 174 (HSR) and Ward 173 (Jakkasandra) having active volunteer groups showed to the rest of Bangalore that with citizen participation, we can achieve the impossible.
HSR has long been the forerunner in solid waste management. Ward 174 is known all over Bengaluru for its segregation and proper handling of waste. This has been possible because of the ever-active civic volunteer groups, elected representatives, BBMP officials and contactors working towards a common goal: To make HSR Layout a model ward.
HSR Citizen Forum is a civic group, an NGO working towards keeping HSR clean and green for its residents. The volunteers have spent a lot of time explaining to the residents about segregation of domestic waste. The three-way segregation mandate from The Karnataka High Court in January 2016 gave a much-needed impetus and ammunition to talk to people and create awareness about the importance of waste segregation.
While domestic waste segregation was happening due to awareness creation, the volunteers also found that the street corners and collection points were still the dumping grounds for mixed waste. It did not take very long to figure out that some houses were not keeping any waste outside, due their apathy and laziness towards segregating waste. Evidently, these houses and commercial establishments took cover under the darkness of night to sneak out and dump waste in street corners.
Catching the culprits and educating and penalising them for this illegal dumping was the need of the hour. So some active volunteers of the Forum, under the leadership of Dr Shanthi Thummala, a member of SWMRT, started taking turns patrolling these black spots at night. They did this continuously for weeks, even during rains, to catch the people dumping their mixed waste in these black spots and transfer points. BBMP Health Inspector Vinod was relentless in his effort to keep this illegal dumping under control. He was very tough on the culprits and quickly imposed fine on the miscreants.
Visible changes started showing up in due course. People who frequented these black spots reduced in numbers. Perhaps they figured out that it was easier to segregate waste than carry it under the tight night vigil of the volunteers and officials. This change is perceptible as one walks on the lanes of HSR.
With or without BBMP officials’ help, the night vigilante group is busy patrolling the troubled spots in HSR Layout to keep them free of stinking garbage.
While HSR achieved the transformation enjoying the support from the committed health inspector, Jakkasandra ward (ward 173) volunteers had to find other ways to achieve this without the support of BBMP officials. Mohan Govindappa of this ward, committed to this cause along with a group of 15-20 dedicated volunteers, took help from the Madiwala police when the people caught for throwing mixed waste turned angry. The police were quick to reach and help the volunteers patrolling the troubled spots. The volunteers kept a tight vigil for four nights a week.
This went on week after week. They first tried to understand why people were bringing in mixed waste and asked them to segregate it and followed up to see if they changed their ways. According to Mohan, the volunteers’ relentless efforts and the citizens’ own realisation that clean ward translates to healthy living has helped sustain the cleanliness of the area. One difficult black spot in this ward which used to invite 1.5 tons of mixed waste every day, now hardly has 50 kgs of waste thrown out. Enthused by the transformation, the volunteer group is now thinking of reciprocating the Hoysala’s help by patrolling the area to reduce other crimes.
With or without BBMP support, citizens all across Bengaluru are striving to keep the city clean. All zones have night patrolling officials (health inspector and assistant engineer) who are supposed maintain night vigilance. Citizens should insist that the officials perform their duty to keep their wards clean. This is very important to see Bangalore city transform itself into evergreen Garden City.
By Jayanthi Srikanth and Dr Shanthi Thummala.
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2019-04-19T16:13:59Z
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https://wastechronicle.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/hsr-activists-turn-night-time-vigilante-groups-to-stop-garbage-dumping/
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As seen on the cover of the latest Thrasher magazine and hopefully soon on video, the largest set of stairs ever ollied in history is in the books. Aaron “Jaws” Homoki has conquered the Lyon 25 stair in France. And yes we mean the one that Ali Boulala attempted in the Flip video. I have a vivid memory of watching that for the first time and even though Ali didn’t land it the bail was epic enough to make it feel somewhat of a land if that makes any sense based on how huge it was. In the recent interview of Thrasher with Homoki he states that it is without a doubt the biggest thing he’s ever ollied and this is saying a lot coming from Jaws.
Ali Boulala was also present the multiple times that he attempted it and stated that Homoki wore pads on his elbows and knees plus thick insoles. In truth wouldn’t we all have geared up when jumping down from a skyscraper of stairs like this? Our bodies can only take so much and we DO have limits. The true point of this article is to bring up the question of what is next? Seriously though think about where skateboarding is going we all knew it was inevitable. We as skateboarders all have this drive to progress but at a certain point where do we go? When we first witnessed Ali’s attempts at the 25 stair many years ago it just seemed like that was the limit. It seemed like the human body couldn’t go beyond that much impact. Jaws just destroyed that thought or “myth”. I have always been a fan of Jaws skateboarding if you ever met him in person you would see how stoked and passionate he is about his skating. He deserves all the great things happening for him right now and I know he’s not done yet.
If the Leap Of Faith drop in San Diego was still around Jaws would get it first try probably! He also did a kick flip melon down El Toro 20 stair in Lake Forest, California. There are many rumors of other tricks having gone down that 20 stair and at the level that skateboarding is right now I know we will see a day when someone 360 flips a 20 stair. The question is who? And the question of when may come sooner than you think.
I leave you with a Aaron “Jaws” Homoki ollie compilation video! We could do a video of biggest ollies ever done by different skateboarders but lets be honest Jaws is the supreme ruler at this point and even his “smaller” ollies are bigger than what we used to think was the biggest ollie of all time a few years ago.
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2019-04-21T00:52:41Z
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https://www.goskate.com/biggest-ollie-time/
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A basic nicad battery charger using a single medium power transistor.
This simple charger uses a single transistor as a constant current source. The voltage across the pair of 1N4148 diodes biases the base of the BD140 medium power transistor. The base-emitter voltage of the transistor and the forward voltage drop across the diodes are relatively stable. The charging current is approximately 15mA or 45mA with the switch closed. This suits most 1.5V and 9V rechargeable batteries. The transformer should have a secondary rating of 12V ac at 0.5amp, the primary should be 220/240volts for Europe or 120volts ac for North America.
Please take care with this circuit. Use a voltmeter to observe correct polarity. Nicads can explode if short circuited or connected with the wrong polarity.
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2019-04-24T05:02:26Z
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http://www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Circuits/Power/nicad.htm
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Sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words. Throughout this section, you'll be pleased to watch our pupils playing tunes... and they did amazingly well!!!
"Mirandum se fui a la guerra"
SPAIN | "Al lado de mi cabaña"
"Adiós con el corazón" and "Ayer te vi que subías..."
NORWAY | "Och flickan hon gar i dansen"
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2019-04-19T18:47:05Z
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https://europeonetwinning.weebly.com/playing-together.html
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Below are answers to the most frequently asked questions about the online Master’s of Science in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics program from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. You’re encouraged to ask many more by calling 877-308-9954 to speak with an enrollment counselor or by requesting more information so we can get in touch with you.
You may apply for admission to Saint Mary’s online MS in BIDA program at any time. After you are admitted, you may begin taking online classes at the start of any semester: Spring, Summer, or Fall.
To earn your online master's degree, you will complete 36 credit hours of program work in one year.
All coursework can be completed through Saint Mary’s learning management system, Engage, but every online Saint Mary's University student is also issued his or her own iPad. You'll then have the world's most innovative online learning experience literally at your fingertips.
It’s easy! Your journey to a more rewarding career starts by calling 877-308-9954 to speak with an enrollment counselor. Or, you can request more information, and we’ll reach out to you. If you already know Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is the right place to earn your online MS in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics degree, go ahead and begin the Online Application Process.
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2019-04-24T09:49:48Z
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https://onlineprograms.smumn.edu/msbida/masters-in-business-intelligence-and-analytics/faqs
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I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Christine Schmidt has accepted an offer to become the Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Schmidt will fill the position currently held by Interim Chair, Dr. Bruce Wheeler. I would like to take this opportunity to heartily thank Dr. Wheeler for his exceptional service as Interim Chair. I would also like to thank Dr. Rich Dickinson, chair of the search committee, and all of the members of the committee for their successful efforts in recruiting our new chair.
Dr. Schmidt is a highly accomplished faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin where she currently holds the B.F. Goodrich Endowed Chair in Materials Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is one of the founding faculty members of the BME program at UT-Austin, having helped grow the department into one of the five largest biomedical engineering departments in the country. Dr. Schmidt began her career as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at UT Austin in 1996. She is an alumnus member, having graduated from UT with a Bachelor of Science in ChE with High Honors in 1988. She earned her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, and later became an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
Dr. Schmidt is a highly renowned scholar. She has authored more than 100 journal articles, refereed conference proceedings, and book chapters. She holds ten patents and licenses and currently oversees $2.5 million in external grant funding. She has won numerous awards for her scholarship including the Whitaker Young Investigator Award, and the Chairmen’s Distinguished Life Sciences Award sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the US Chamber of Commerce, Washington DC. She is a Fellow of both AIMBE and BMES and serves on the editorial boards of Nanomedicine; Acta Biomaterialia; the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research; the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition; the International Journal of Nanomedicine; and Polymers. She has served as a board member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), programming chair in biomaterials at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and chair of the external advisory panel in neuroengineering for the IGERT Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Schmidt is also noted for her outstanding contributions as a teacher: her most recent recognition includes the 2011 ING Professor of Excellence award while some of her earlier achievements include the Lockheed Martin Engineering Teaching Award which she won both in 1998 and in 2000, the College of Engineering Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor and the James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advising.
Clearly, Dr. Schmidt will bring great leadership, vision and energy to the Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. She will begin her appointment in January 2013. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Schmidt and her family to the Gator Nation!
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2019-04-24T19:18:48Z
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https://www.bme.ufl.edu/node/695
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Our physical address (for GPS and sat-nav devices and online mapping programs) is: 4902 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA.
The Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science is in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and is accessible from Interstate 376 via Exit 72A (eastbound), Exit 73B (westbound) and Exit 74.
Frequent bus service along the Forbes Avenue corridor is provided by Port Authority of Allegheny County to points in Downtown Pittsburgh and the city's East End. The 28X bus connects the Carnegie Mellon campus with Pittsburgh International Airport.
Parking is at a premium on the Carnegie Mellon University campus.
Limited on-street parking is available on Frew Street, Tech Street and Margaret Morrison Street, and adjacent to the campus in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park. Prices vary. Parking is controlled by electronic meters, which are vigorously enforced by the Pittsburgh Parking Authority. You will need cash or a Visa or Mastercard to use these meters (or you can pay using the Go Mobile PGH app!).
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2019-04-24T00:41:59Z
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https://www.cs.cmu.edu/directions-maps-parking
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It just so happens, I was kindly asked to participate in my very first Ebay boutique launch. Sweet Eva (Whom deserves an entire blog post all to herself!! Thank you Eva! I adore you!) stuck her neck out and invited a non-ebayer, ME, to dust off my trusty seller ID and whip up an offering. Aptly named, "Indelible", our focus was on Joel Dewberry's AMAZING debut fabric collection, and each of the 51 sellers has created quite the menagerie of goods. I'm honored to have one of my designs listed amongst these talented designers and friends.
OH, and the description is definitely tongue-in-cheek. I certainly don't mean to imply that you'll have men falling all over you if you're wearing one of my aprons....but I HAVE received quite a number of emails telling me that the HUSBANDS of my customers really like what I do. That always gives me a little chuckle. :) Not to mention the men at the laundromat ogling at my beautiful sister while I was snapping away. Good grief! I was laughing so hard I could barely focus the camera. HA!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I'm planning on a bit of thrifting, playing with the babies, and starting to PACK!! The new house is just almost done. YAY!!
Yes, we're alive and all doing well!! It seems another unpredicted blog hiatus has snuck (or is it sneaked? hmmmm) right up on me. Thank you for all the emails and comments asking about us. You guys sure know how to make a girl feel missed. (((Hugs to you all))) There are a zillion and one excuses I could rattle off, but when we really get right down to it, I had a bit of a slap-in-the-face wake-up call and needed to focus on my sweet babies a little more. I'll find it, that balance of feeling like I'm a good wife/mom AND fulfilling my passions and creative energy. I know I will! Just have to fumble around a little more...trying things here and there....schedules, no schedules...clean house, messy house...late nights, early mornings. Maybe no sleep at all?!! Yes, I think that one might work! :) Any suggestions from all you brilliant women who seem to do it ALL so flawlessly?
OH!!! I've been meaning to tell you all about a little package that mr postman delivered a couple weeks ago. (We all know how I feel about packages in the mail! *hehe*) The kindest woman, Lisa Leonard, makes these amazing dog-tag style necklaces, hand-stamped with anything you want on them!! And if that isn't cute enough, she adorns each one with a delicate freshwater pearl detail. Flawlessly contrasted and perfect to wear with those everyday T-shirts or the dressier duds. Thank you Lisa!!! I love my necklace so much and am already jonesin' for one of your new styles.
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2019-04-24T02:24:47Z
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https://olivejuiceco.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/index.html
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Some of the world’s top scientists in the field convened at the University of California, Irvine on Oct. 6-7 for the third “Epigenetic Control and Cellular Plasticity Symposium” to engage in discussions on the multiple facets that connect epigenetics with emerging advances for the creation of personalized medical care and therapeutics.
Organized by the UC Irvine's Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, the French scientific agency INSERM and the IPSEN Foundation, the symposium delved into epigenetics – which explores effects caused by genomic information that lies beyond the written DNA sequence of an organism – and its control of metabolism, disease, neurobiology, longevity and circadian rhythms.
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, director of the Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism and the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chemistry, said spectacular advances in recent years in the study of epigenetics is placing the field at the heart of biological and pharmaceutical research. It’s a point shared by Yves Christen, president if the IPSEN Foundation, a leading French agency that supports emerging science.
Among the distinguished speakers were Robert Roeder of the Rockefeller University, Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gerald Crabtree of Stanford University, Eric Verdin of UCSF, and Juleen Zierath of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.
As an organizing unit, INSERM continues its collaboration with UC Irvine, having established the INSERM-UCI unit headed by Emiliana Borrelli, professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, which allows for shared intellectual property rights on new discoveries and the exchange of students, postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical professors, giving UC Irvine more International visibility.
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2019-04-23T22:10:34Z
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http://www.som.uci.edu/news_releases/epigenetic-control-cellular-plasticity-symposium-personalized-medical-care-therapeutics.asp
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Pleasant Valley Botanicals is thrilled to announce we are a recipient of a USDA funded research grant through the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Development program! "The SARE program's mission is to advance, to the whole of American agriculture, innovations that improve profitability, stewardship, and quality of life by investing in groundbreaking research and education." This competitive grant program will allow Pleasant Valley Botanicals to conduct field trials examining the impacts of fungal incoculants on crop yield and disease resistance.
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2019-04-20T13:05:33Z
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https://pleasantvalleybotanicals.weebly.com/archives/archives/01-2017
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I am not a stranger to passion in music and worship, but I have come to be careful in my understanding of how it is balanced against self-control. In the 20+ years I have been involved in the Charismatic/Pentecostal worship movement, I have observed a disturbing trend in those who I considered ‘leaders’ of the movement, those who have focused on ‘praise and worship’ and passionate musical expression. Invariably, they either are, or have become unstable individuals, both morally, as well as emotionally. In asking myself the question why, I have come to several conclusions.
Predominantly, I believe their failures are due to an imbalance in their zeal to excel in the areas of music and worship, becoming either unaware or uncaring of the fact that they were exalting emotion over reason, worship over Bible teaching, Spirit over the Word. I have known a number of people through the years, who once were highly passionate and persuasive, but now have a trail of divorces and general emotional instability. Sadly, though they are still as talented as ever, these people will probably never fully recover the influence and leadership they once had.
I remember my African-American friend John one day teaching me the importance of putting the study of the Bible preeminently above all other Christian activities. He related to me the story of how he had grown up in a Pentecostal church in an urban American city, in which they had passionate worship on Sunday, and yet, on Monday were in fornicative and adulterous relationships.
He frequently warned me of the dangers of super-emotionalism and its negative spiritual effects, as he had seen it first-hand growing up in church.
John was a musician’s musician, who could flow with the best of them, but he chose, in his musical and worship leadership to balance passion with discipline, emotion with control. In music and worship, just as in life, imbalance ultimately leads to breakdown.
Music and worship are emotional subjects, and they deal with the emotional side of our culture and community.
In the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement, we have seen many women in leadership, noticeably more than other religious movements. Music and worship have played a large role in the Charismatic movement, as well. My point here is that I see a correlation between emotionalism, music, worship and the general historical unfolding of the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement.
If a comparison can be drawn between the ‘woman’ side of culture (which is emotional), versus the ‘man’ side of culture (which is reason and decision based), I think we could agree that the Charismatic movement has historically been leaning towards the ‘woman’ or emotional.
In the metaphor that I’m drawing, the ‘woman’ or emotion side of humanity should not have authority over the ‘man’ side of reason and decision-making. (I am not arguing against women in ministry leadership, or negating the fact that God uses women powerfully in ministry.) I am simply showing a pattern of priorities: emotion is second to the renewed mind and will; worship is second to the study of the Word; the Spirit glorifies the Word. (Jn. 16:14) Anything other than this is imbalance, ultimately producing chaos.
If we’re doing everything right in the worship music of the Charismatic/Pentecostal tradition, why is there so much failure, even in its leaders? We have exalted talent above character, emotion above reason.
When we were in the midst of the ‘Praise and Worship Movement’ twenty-some years ago, and we had a group of highly passionate, emotionally charged people in the worship team at my church, I was affronted by their little discipline and much dysfunction. Over the years, I have endeavored to cultivate a group of people who understand the ‘reason and choice’ in music/worship along with the inherent ‘emotional’ side.
No doubt, we can always grow in our expressiveness and passionate portrayal of worship and music, inspiring others to become involved, but I am aware that this must always be in relationship with emotional soundness.
I believe in passionate worship and musical production; however, only in the priority of integrity and discipline. It is only in this proper structure that there is wholeness and strength, both for the individual, as well as for the corporate worshipers. Anything else has a big WARNING sign on it!
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2019-04-22T18:30:38Z
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http://lowell-hohstadt.squarespace.com/blogs/2011/3/2/emotionalism-in-worship.html
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SWOSU Faculty Senate, "May 4, 2001 Approved Minutes" (2001). Faculty Senate Minutes. 28.
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2019-04-18T16:42:57Z
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https://dc.swosu.edu/fsminutes/28/
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– WHY STUDY WITH WORLD IN SPANISH?
You have flexibility in scheduling your private lessons as only month to month (or small package) commitments and therefore, better logistics and more chances to achieve your goal.
Individualized, one-on-one instruction: a much faster way to learn than in large groups.
Very competitive rates with discounts And… You also will know you are with A ‘Pro’ with 20+ years of teaching experience.
And you may customize your private lessons based on your schedule, budget, and goals would be glad to help you speak the language at the best at your current level and increase it also within a good period of time.
And You will Keep making progress toward your goal, no matter your level. We will make use of the latest technologies and materials in each course. Each class is customized and tailored to what you need.
My rates include tailored recordings, multimedia material (video clips, audio, movies, online material, etc.) and printed handouts as study material as the course develops. You also get your book.
You get discounts for the first month and, for private lessons, savings in the form of free extra teaching time following month 3.
With World in Spanish, you pay the same or less than a monthly course at ‘large’ bloated schools.
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2019-04-23T10:07:16Z
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https://worldinspanish.wordpress.com/advantages/
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students | Out of the Box!
This Sam student from the Alcalde in 1990 needs some coffee in his mug, stat! He looks like he has a case of the parking lot blues.
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2019-04-24T11:32:54Z
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https://nglarchivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/tag/students/
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EIIC 2012 Round 2 - world.connect.competition.
I hope next race will be better :-).
It will be tough 24 hours for as, so clean racing would be a key to success.
Dawaj Art ! Ciśniesz ! Wygrasz w tym prosiaku !
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2019-04-23T02:55:14Z
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http://worldconnectcompetition.weebly.com/news/eiic-2012-round-2
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Photo Berthold Werner on Wikimedia.
The expected colour was grey. The delivered model is bordeaux. Headlights inserted, but only silver, not transparent. Rear lights painted.
Tyres too wide. The rims should be painted and not chrome (except the hub-cap). Finally, it lacks air intakes on the rear wings.
That said, the silhouette is well rendered.
The Renault 4CV was manufactured from 1947 to 1961, in Billancourt and Flins. The grille decoration with three bars (instead of six before) dates 1954. The wheels with removable rims (“star”) as in the picture are replaced by plain wheels as on the Busch model in the fall of 1957 (source: jef.pilon.free.fr).
Features (1958 model): four-cylinder in-line engine, 747 cm³, 15.5 kW (21 hp). Tyres 135 × 400. Top speed 103 km/h.
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2019-04-23T04:51:30Z
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http://gibitrains.pagesperso-orange.fr/en/autos/renault_4cv-busch.htm
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In order for us to really start to look closer at just what makes a good batch of typography, we’re going to design the actual invites that will be going out for the Graphik Impakt Preview Event. Sounds pretty straight-forward enough right? Actually, this exercise (b/c it really isn’t in depth enough to be a project) is going to take some really detailed oriented eyes.
I am going to provide you with the text (or copy as it is sometimes known) that is absent of any grammatical structure. It will be your job to put a few of those laws into place that you read about in Meet Your Type. Let’s see what you come up with!
Many times when designing an invitation, you’ll see a designer use a program like Adobe Indesign. Because of our limited use of this program, I would suggest you use Illustrator (however if you want to give Indesign a try, it wouldn’t be a bad idea).
First create a document that measures 7 inches wide, and 5 inches tall. Using the text provided below, copy and paste it into a text box in Illustrator. Click here to download the Graphik Impakt header.
Why have I included each of these words here? Could they really ALL apply to something such as a simple invitation? The answer is yes—each one of these terms need to be addressed when creating the format, layout and look of your copy.
Look at your leading and kerning…now look back at Meet Your Type…how has your copy addressed these needs?
Take your time with this! This kind of exercise takes a very detailed eye, patience, and a solid understanding of typography and its many sides (this is what we are hoping to understand better through this exercise). In the email that you send me to turn your work in, I want you to write a fully developed paragraph explaining to me the choices that you made with the text, and why you made those choices. Fully explain ALL of the choices that you made, even if you feel it is obvious. This process will help you talk about these rules and standards that so many people let go unnoticed.
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2019-04-23T03:57:21Z
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https://mrsandersclass.weebly.com/graphik-impakt-invite.html
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The historically documented and restored Saxton McKinley House is home to the First Ladies National Historic Site. It is operated and managed by the National First Ladies' Library in a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. Formerly the family home of First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley, it was built in two segments: the first in about 1841 and the second in about 1865. The Saxton McKinley House is also the only residence with direct historical ties to President William McKinley. William and Ida McKinley resided together here longer than at any other private residence. The National First Ladies' Library is dedicated to educating the public about the contributions made by our nation's First Ladies through guided tours, educational programs, an online resource, and a research library. Find out more about the National First Ladies' Library and the Saxton McKinley House at www.firstladies.org.
Finished size 8" by 5" on 14 count Charles Craft fabric. Kit includes material, DMC floss, needle, instructions, and color photograph of finished project. Designed by Barbara Bangser for The Posy Collection.
1. Call 330-452-0876 ext. 320.
2. Ask for the First Ladies' Library Counted Cross Stitch Kit PC-1120.
In 1948, during Truman’s presidency, a balcony was added to the South Portico of the White House. At the time, it caused quite a controversy but President Truman insisted on it. Since then, members of the first family have enjoyed this outside sitting area adjacent to the second-floor Yellow Oval Study. Today it is referred to as the Truman Balcony. In 1949, a complete renovation of the White House was needed to preserve its historical significance.
Finished size 12" by 5" on 14 count Charles Craft fabric. Kit includes material, DMC floss, needle, instructions, and color photograph of finished project. Designed by Barbara Bangser for The Posy Collection.
2. Ask for the White Hosue Counted Cross Stitch Kit PC-202.
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2019-04-24T18:25:38Z
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http://posycollection.weebly.com/first-ladies-library.html
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Tom Lehman called the 18th hole at Harding Park "goofy," which is apropos, because if Goofy was a pro golfer, he'd eat this hole up.
Goofy, being long and lanky, and no wimp, would take the most courageous approach to the hole, which is to unsheathe the driver with a flourish and slam the tee shot over the chunk of lake and toward the distant treetops, then give the old Goofy yodel as the ball ricochets among the Cypress trees.
Harding's 18th is the perfect finishing hole for San Francisco's darling, re-made course.
San Francisco has a goofy street (Lombard), a goofy prison (Alcatraz) and a goofy mode of transit (cable car), so it's fitting that the city's hip sports venue has a goofy finishing hole.
Thursday, No. 18 was the toughest hole. Only three of the 71 players birdied it, including first-round leader Colin Montgomerie.
And that was on an easy day. As Montgomerie said, "We were lucky today, it was sort of downwind off the tee shot, but if it's the other way around, it can be very, very difficult."
So if the wind comes up today, we could see some genuine anguish and floundering on 18.
The goofy 18 is a 468-yard par-4, dogleg left, a test of nerve and judgment. The big boys drive straight, either straight over the first tree in a line of 10 trees, or just to the right of that big tree.
The more conservative, and the shorter hitters, hit 3-wood to the right of the mean tree. But if the wind is at the player's back, as it was a bit in the afternoon, the 3-woods tend to carry into one of two bunkers.
"If your chili is running hot, you go with the driver," is the way one golf insider put it.
The second shot -- wedge for the big boys, 5- to 7-iron for the others -- is uphill to a narrow, multi-level, multi-break, multi-heartbreak green.
Adding to the difficulty of the second shot is the looming row of corporate luxury boxes, where it's always happy hour. The gay chatter, laughter and tinkling of ice can distract the sensitive golfer. More than one competitor Thursday shouted a plea for quiet from the swells.
Six players inducted themselves into the 18th hole 300-Yard Drive Club on Thursday -- Fred Couples (344), Stuart Appleby (331), John Daly (325), Niclas Fasth (312), Nick Dougherty (307) and K.J. Choi (307). The golfers say the 18th favors the long hitters, but none of the 300-yard belters birdied the hole.
In Harding Park's extreme makeover, the 18th green was moved back, adding to the temptation to cut the corner with a driver and make the approach shot less daunting. The makeover architect, Chris Gray, admitted earlier this week, "I think 18's a little bit of an awkward hole. It has the potential for controversy."
The pros have been lavish in their praise of the new Harding, but the 71-man jury is still out on No. 18, a hole that is kind of out-of-character with the rest of the course.
"It's the only hole that's kind of goofy," Lehman said. "The tee shot is a little awkward. The hole forces you to hit a good driver, and a good iron. So at the end of the day, it is a good finishing hole."
None of the golfers fell in love with picturesque No. 18, which makes it all the more lovable to the spectator, assuming the spectator enjoys a hole that takes the world's best golfers out of their comfort zone.
Billy Mayfair calls 18 "Really severe."
"It's not my favorite hole," Jim Furyk said.
Ian Poulter said, "It's a tricky hole. You have to think about it, you have so many different options."
"It's the only quirky hole on the golf course," Luke Donald said. "I think they might reconsider it. If you take out the corner tree, I think it would be fine."
Better yet, let's give the 18th even more personality by giving a name to the big cypress that knocks down or deflects so many hearts. How about calling it Nate Thurmond?
If you come to the 18th on Sunday one shot off the lead, you're most likely going to have to put away your dinky 3-wood, pull out the driver and challenge Big Nate.
"It's certainly different," Tiger Woods said of 18. "You know, it's one of those holes if the tee was more to the right, I think it would be just a great hole. But because you've got to carry so much in the air, I don't see it being a great hole."
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2019-04-20T13:07:59Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Expect-goofy-finish-to-this-tournament-2604067.php
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A new Public Policy Poll finds that overall Fox News' credibility is on the decline, but "When it comes to asking Americans which single outlet they trust the most and least out of the ones we polled on, Fox News once again wins both honors."
According to PPP, Fox News has hit a record low in credibility, with 41 percent of voters saying they trust the network, and 46 percent saying they do not. In 2010, when PPP first started doing the poll, the results were 49 percent-37 percent.
When it comes to asking Americans which single outlet they trust the most and least out of the ones we polled on, Fox News once again wins both honors. 34% say it's the one they trust the most, compared to 13% for PBS, 12% for CNN, 11% for ABC, 8% for MSNBC, 6% for CBS, and 5% each for Comedy Central and NBC.
Even more Americans identify Fox News as the outlet they trust the least- 39% give its that designation to 14% for MSNBC, 13% for CNN, 12% for Comedy Central, 5% for ABC and CBS, 3% for NBC, and 1% for PBS.
PBS had the highest credibility, with 52 percent of voters saying they trust it, compared with 29 percent who say they do not.
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2019-04-20T12:13:57Z
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https://www.salon.com/2013/02/07/poll_fox_news_is_both_most_and_least_trusted_cable_network/
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TO THE PREVIOUS NHC WIND SPEED PREDICTION.
DECREASING FORWARD SPEED AS IT NEARS THE WEAKNESS IN THE RIDGE.
FAR FROM THE LATEST ECMWF SOLUTION.
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2019-04-25T12:02:08Z
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012/ep06/ep062012.discus.014.shtml
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^ Quickfacts.census.gov - Yell County - accessed 2011-12-06.
^ American FactFinder - Danville, Arkansas - accessed 2011-12-06.
^ American FactFinder - Dardanelle, Arkansas - accessed 2011-12-06.
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2019-04-23T09:28:29Z
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https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E9%83%A1_(%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E5%B7%9E)
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Who is Your Fandom Crush?
Would You Survive the Hunger Games?
How Bad is Your Deliria?
What District of Panem Do You Belong In?
How Well Do You Know City of Bones?
Halston Sage, Justice Smith, and Austin Abrams have been cast as Radar, Lacey, and Ben respectively in the film adaptation of John Green’s Paper Towns.
Fans of the book will know the three characters as Quentin’s friends who join him on his journey.
It has been previously reported that Nat Wolff (Quentin) and Cara Delevigne (Margo) will star in the film.
What do you think of this casting news?
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2019-04-23T22:55:14Z
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https://fandomnetnews.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/paper-towns-casts-radar-lacey-and-ben/
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Like Connor McDavid, Kane is playing for a team that is probably going to miss the playoffs, so what is his true value? We had this debate last year for the Hart, but it might be a question again now.
Last year, Edmonton’s Connor McDavid made the Hart Trophy debate very thorny. This year, he has company.
Chicago’s Patrick Kane has been terrific for the Blackhawks, who on paper, looked like one of the worst teams in the NHL heading into the season. But lo and behold, the Hawks were actually pretty scrappy and thanks to a bounty of points from Kane, Chicago was still in the playoff race until basically this weekend.
True, the Hawks are still technically alive, but it’s looking less likely that they will slip into that top eight in the Western Conference. Joining them in that category are the Oilers.
So, great: we gotta have this debate again about who deserves the Hart Trophy – and now we gotta do for two marquee players.
Before we get to Kane and McDavid, let us acknowledge that Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov is the obvious front-runner for the Hart Trophy, given the fact his 120 points and counting lead the league by a wide margin. Most major NHL awards are voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association (PHWA) and the Hart is one of them. If you hadn’t noticed, us hockey writers can be rather argumentative, so nothing is straight-forward in these matters.
There is an argument that Kucherov plays for the best team in the NHL and is ably supported by other stars such as Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point and Victor Hedman, thus lessening his MVP credentials. To me, it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg question: Is Kucherov so good because he plays for Tampa, or is Tampa so good because of Kucherov? Personally, I believe Kucherov is really, really good and to me, he’s the Hart Trophy front-runner.
But there’s something to be said about the value one has to his franchise and last season’s Hart race was the distillation of that idea. Taylor Hall carried an underdog New Jersey Devils squad into a surprise playoff berth, as did Nathan MacKinnon in Colorado. To that end, Hall won the Hart, while MacKinnon finished second in voting. McDavid, who had more points than either player, finished fifth in voting while propping up a dispirited Edmonton team as much as he could.
While Kucherov is running away with the scoring crown, the next two men in the standings are McDavid and Kane. With McDavid, the argument is the same as last year: he is far and away the best player on a team that simply doesn’t have the talent to keep up with him – it’s basically him and Leon Draisaitl. Without McDavid, the Oilers would be the worst team in the NHL and it probably isn’t very close. By not awarding him the Hart, you are essentially punishing him for being born in the wrong year and being drafted by an organization that can’t put it together.
Kane is interesting because he’s not exactly alone in Chicago, but the Hawks still needed his contributions greatly. Starting netminder Corey Crawford missing 33 games due to concussions, while the defense was not great (nor was it expected to be). The offense has been paced by Kane, Jonathan Toews, Alex DeBrincat and eventually, trade acquisition Dylan Strome.
Kane has been the biggest driver, however. He’s been in on 41.4 percent of Chicago’s goals, which is better than Kucherov on Tampa (40.6), but not as impressive as McDavid with Edmonton (51.4). As the games have gotten more crucial in Chicago, coach Jeremy Colliton has relied on Kane even more: in the past four contests (including a home-and-home against Colorado, a team Chicago was chasing in the standings), the veteran right winger was averaging nearly 24 minutes of ice time per night. Now, two of those games went into overtime, but it’s still noteworthy how much responsibility Kane was given.
And with Chicago mathematically still alive, I can’t imagine Colliton is going to curb Kane’s duties very much in the next two weeks.
But if the Hawks do miss the playoffs, why should we care about Kane’s numbers? To put it bluntly, an NHL season without playoffs has no value, so how can a player on that team be the league’s most valuable?
So, what happens if the Blackhawks pull off a miracle and end up in the playoffs? Does that incredible feat push Kane past Kucherov, or is the Tampa Bay star’s excellence just too impossible to ignore?
For me, Kucherov has been the NHL’s obvious MVP this season. But my decision will be a lot easier if the Hawks and Oilers miss the playoffs – and it will be especially easier if neither team finishes ninth in the West.
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2019-04-19T09:34:06Z
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https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/patrick-kane-is-having-an-mvp-like-season-with-an-asterisk
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On December 4th, 1969, Fred Hampton, an African American activist, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was murdered while sleeping in his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This activity was in concert by the infamous seditious FBI program known as COINTELPRO designed to eliminate activist deemed by its director as “subversive”.
Chairman Fred, as he was known, was successful and revered for organizing young African Americans for the NAACP. He was quickly attracted to the Black Panthers’ approach, which was based on a ten-point program of a mix of black designed for the survival of the black community. Chairman Fred joined the Party’s nascent Illinois chapter SNCC organizer Bob Brown in late 1967. Over the next year, Hampton and his associates made a number of significant achievements in Chicago. Perhaps his most important accomplishment was his brokering of a nonaggression pact between Chicago’s most powerful street gangs.
Emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, he strove to forge a class-conscious, multi-racial alliance between the Panther Party, the Young Patriots and the National Young Lords. Soon after the pact was formed they were joined by the Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, the Brown Berets, and the Red Guard. In May 1969, Hampton called a press conference to announce that a truce had been declared among this “rainbow coalition,” a phrase coined by Hampton and made popular later by Jesse Jackson, who eventually appropriated the name in forming his own unrelated coalition, Rainbow/Push.
This achievement marked him as a major threat in the eyes of the FBI, signaled his death. Subsequent investigations have shown that FBI chief Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive Black movement in the United States “by any means necessary. Hoover saw the Panthers, and similar radical coalitions forged by Hampton in Chicago, as a frightening stepping stone toward the creation of just such a revolutionary body that could cause a radical change in the U.S. government.
They opened a file on Hampton in 1967 that over the next two years expanded to twelve volumes and over four thousand pages. By May of that year, Chairman Fred’s name was placed on the “Agitator Index” and he would be designated a “key militant leader for Bureau reporting purposes.
In late 1968, the Racial Matters squad of the FBI’s Chicago field office brought in an individual named William O’Neal, who had recently been arrested twice, for interstate car theft and impersonating a federal officer. In exchange for dropping the felony charges and a monthly stipend, O’Neal apparently agreed to infiltrate the Black Panther Party as a counterintelligence operative. He joined the Party and quickly rose in the organization, becoming Director of Chapter Security and Hampton’s bodyguard.
By means of anonymous letters, the FBI sowed distrust and eventually instigated a split between the Panthers and the Rangers, with O’Neal himself instigating an armed clash between the two on April 2, 1969. The Panthers became effectively isolated from their power base, so the FBI went to work to undermine its ties with other radical organizations.
O’Neal was instructed to “create a rift” between the Party and Students for a Democratic Society, whose Chicago headquarters was only blocks from that of the Panthers. The Bureau released a batch of racist cartoons in the Panthers’ name, aimed at alienating white activists, and launched a disinformation program to forestall the realization of the “Rainbow Coalition.” In repeated directives, J. Edgar Hoover demanded that the COINTELPRO personnel “destroy what the Black Panther Party stands for” and “eradicate its ‘serve the people’ programs”.
In early October, Hampton and his girlfriend, Deborah Johnson, pregnant with their first child Fred Hampton, Jr., rented a four-and-a-half room apartment on 2337 West Monroe Street to be closer to Black Panther Party headquarters. O’Neal reported to his superiors that much of the Panthers’ “provocative” stockpile of arms was being stored there. None of which was true but the paid government informant played the role of Judas bringing the powers of the state to kill him.
There have been countless murders of black men, since the founding of America, but the assassination of Fred Hampton speaks loudly to the abuse and corruption of the American police departments. Since the Nat Turner Incident they, white folk, will never allow a black person to rise with suburb leadership skills. History demonstrates the penalty for such a strong black man is death!
Chairman Fred, as he was known, was successful and revered for organizing young African Americans for the NAACP. He was quickly attracted to the Black Panthers’ approach, which was based on a ten-point program of a mix of black designed for the survival of the black community. Chairman Fred joined the Party’s nascent Illinois chapter SNCC’s organizer Bob Brown in late 1967.
Over the next year, Hampton and his associates made a number of significant achievements in Chicago. Perhaps his most important accomplishment was his brokering of a nonaggression pact between Chicago’s most powerful street gangs. Emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, he strove to forge a class-conscious, multi-racial alliance between the Panther Party, the Young Patriots, and the National Young Lords. Soon after the pact was formed they were joined by the Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, the Brown Berets, and the Red Guard.
In May 1969, Hampton called a press conference to announce that a truce had been declared among this “rainbow coalition,” a phrase coined by Hampton and made popular later by Jesse Jackson. Jackson eventually appropriated the name in forming his own unrelated coalition – Rainbow/Push. This achievement marked him as a major threat in the eyes of the FBI, signaled his death.
Subsequent investigations have shown that FBI chief Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive Black movement in the United States “by any means necessary. Hoover saw the Panthers, and similar radical coalitions forged by Hampton in Chicago, as a frightening stepping stone toward the creation of just such a revolutionary body that could cause a radical change in the U.S. government. They opened a file on Hampton in 1967 that over the next two years expanded to twelve volumes and over four thousand pages.
By May of that year, Chairman Fred’s name was placed on the “Agitator Index,” and he would be designated a “key militant leader for Bureau reporting purposes. In late 1968, the Racial Matters Squad of the FBI’s Chicago field office brought in an individual named William O’Neal, who had recently been arrested twice, for interstate car theft and impersonating a federal officer.
In exchange for dropping the felony charges and a monthly stipend, O’Neal apparently agreed to infiltrate the Black Panther Party as a counterintelligence operative. He joined the Party and quickly rose in the organization, becoming Director of Chapter security and Hampton’s bodyguard.
Hoover was willing to use false claims to attack his political enemies. In one memo, he wrote: “Purpose of counterintelligence action is to disrupt the BPP, and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge.” Using anonymous letters, the FBI sowed distrust and eventually instigated a split between the Panthers and the Rangers, with O’Neal himself instigating an armed clash between the two on April 2, 1969. The Panthers became effectively isolated from their power base, so the FBI went to work to undermine its ties with other radical organizations.
In repeated directives, J. Edgar Hoover demanded that the COINTELPRO personnel “destroy what the Black Panther Party stands for” and “eradicate its “serve the people programs”. In early October, Hampton and his girlfriend, Deborah Johnson, pregnant with their first child, rented a four-and-a-half room apartment at 2337 West Monroe Street to be closer to Black Panther Party headquarters.
I can recall not too long ago, there was a tiny little place in Southeast Asia called Vietnam. When I was there we called it the land of the little people. They were not much more than poor rice farmers, not a mighty army or even a strong political force to any degree. Yet, they were able to defeat the mightiest nation on the planet. America told the American people we need to go there to support then to save democracy, because we had to fight Communism! Well, history tells us how well that worked out.
Millions of people died and were maimed; trillions of dollars were spent in this effort constructed on false pretences. They said this little nation attacked an American ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, which never happened but it was used to get America involved. This war lasted for more than a decade and left with no accolades. In fact, it was not a victory! We saw a similar action in the fifties in a little place called Korea!
Let’s look at today’s industrial military projects. Bush and company took put American in two wars about a decade or so. They told American people it was necessary to defend the “homeland” against terrorism. The Bush wars were also sold based on false pretenses, some say a downright lie. Wars have traditionally been fought for religion reasons in the name of God and of course land has been a reason. It is hard to determine if either of these reasons were the cause of these current wars. Yes, religion is part of it – land, not so much but this war is about what’s in the ground. So I suppose, it is not too far from the script.
In Vietnam, when American left; the enemy took over the entire country in about a week. In Iraq, about 800 ISIS forces took nearly half the country in a week. Not only that but these same 800 men caused 30,000 Iraqis troops to surrender and run away. Does this sound similar?
What is lost, however, is that the Politicians have yet to learn two things: you cannot impose freedom upon people who don’t want it or know what it is and they have not learned to mind their own business and stay out of the affairs of others. Particularly, when American has more than its share of problems here at home!
During the Vietnam War there was a draft, where you were force to go off to your death. This time we have what’s called an all volunteer army, which mean they convince men and women to volunteer to go off to be maimed and die. In Vietnam, most of the soldiers were black and poor. In this war, they are still poor, by and large, however, they are mostly white. Vietnam was about money and so is this war.
Bottom line is this: war is about money and has nothing to do with freedom! If you ask, what is war good for; the answer is nothing – absolutely nothing! What I think we can conclude is that these people who involve America in such conflicts cannot walk a chew gum at the same time because history has shown their way has not worked because not one war has been won in a half a century. Now, they got rich.
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2019-04-21T12:43:22Z
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added he was glad to hear the president support that policy.
...BUT LUZHKOV REACTS CAUTIOUSLY TO PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ON LAND REFORM DRAW MIXED REVIEW.
OFFICIAL VOWS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT APPEAL ON LAND CODE.
"RFE/RL Newsline," 24 September 1997).
Anatolii] Chubais, and other cabinet members fight in the Duma,"
frequently rejected laws that the Kremlin opposed.
ministers are scheduled to meet in Washington in April 1998.
international finances, and foreign currency exchanges.
discussed what precisely the Chechens mean by "independence."
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 22 September 1997).
its debts to defense enterprises by April 1998, "Nezavisimaya gazeta"
Newsline," 14 and 17 July 1997).
organized by the Academy of Sciences, "Nezavisimaya gazeta"
were unaccounted for (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 23 September 1997).
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO RESTRUCTURE DEBT TO RUSSIA.
that amount has been repaid in the first nine months of this year.
necessary, to protect human rights, democracy, and the rule of law."
"dead" but not buried (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 23 September 1997).
DISAGREEMENT OVER COST OF AZERBAIJAN/CASPIAN PIPELINE.
Chechnya is cheaper than that through Georgia, ITAR-TASS reported.
will have an annual throughput capacity of 40 million metric tons.
consortia currently operating in Azerbaijan.
stickers, according to the "Baltimore Sun" on 24 September.
the "contract of the century."
Kazakhstan are still being negotiated.
help implement the Tajik General Agreement on Peace.
Yeltsin, who is expected to sign it.
and even more restrictive ones.
Catholicism, the Baptist church, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism.
the right to continue to exist.
protections enjoyed by registered groups.
is worried about the new legislation.
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http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1997/09/970925I.html(opt,mozilla,unix,english,,new)
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Knowledge Comes Alive | American Magazine | American University, Washington, D.C.
American University is distinguished in its capacity to turn ideas into action through hands-on learning opportunities. Students are encouraged to take advantage of resources around DC, the university, and the world; of committed faculty; and of an engaged network of alumni. Yet not all are able to participate. Some internships are unpaid, others offer minimal salary. Many experiences require out-of-pocket spending for travel and other expenses. AU is gearing up to launch an ambitious initiative to ensure equity of access to all who wish to participate in internships, research, study abroad, alternative breaks, and other experiential learning opportunities.
From the moment she visited American University, Autumn Clarke, SPA/BA '16, was struck by the many experiential learning opportunities. "When I toured AU, they emphasized how many students had internships and used the city as a classroom. That appealed to me. I'm definitely a hands-on learner." Clarke studied policy making in the classroom—and applied what she learned during study abroad in Australia and internships at the US Department of Education and the Australian embassy in Washington.
"Experiential learning is learning while doing," says Gihan Fernando, executive director of AU's Career Center. "It can be on or off campus, and there are a range of things that fall under this umbrella."
After graduation, Erin McGoff, SOC/BA '17, plans to complete a documentary inspired by her AU alternative break in Laos. The trip "allowed me to foster relationships in Laos that I couldn't establish on my own, like [with] the US ambassador. I got to learn about technical and economic issues. This wider view of Laos was helpful." During the trip McGoff captured video to help jump-start funding for her documentary. She has raised more than $7,000 online and received a prestigious fellowship to help complete her film.
Ensuring access to experiential learning opportunities for all AU students is a priority. "Many students lack the social or actual capital to have this hallmark experience at AU," Fernando says. AU seeks to provide equity of access, because research indicates that students with real-world experience are better prepared, more competitive in the job market, and have better post-graduation outcomes.
The Eagle Internship Fund, which offers stipends to financially eligible students participating in unpaid government or nonprofit internships, is one means of support. "Without internship experiences, it's difficult to make the case of why an employer should hire you," says Elijah Marquez, KSB/BA '17. Those who have internships are at an advantage over those who don't, he continues. "This means that low-income students, like me, who must work 25 hours a week to pay for school, are going to have a tough time trying to also work an internship that requires 20-plus hours in the office." He believes the Eagle Internship Fund levels the playing field. "My internship allowed me to gather skills that I talked about in the interview. I was later offered a full-time position."
Current students report that experiential learning opportunities are an essential part of AU culture. Alumni echo that sentiment. In a recent survey, a majority of alumni reported that internships, study abroad, and alternative breaks had a special impact on their student experience.
Generous donors support a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities. Gifts to experiential learning programs—from the creation of the Community-Based Research Scholars program, to underwriting a global consulting practicum for MBA students to travel to Germany to develop online business strategies—are helping AU live out its mission to turn ideas into action.
For information on how you can support big ideas in creating equitable access to experiential learning at AU, contact Courtney Surls, vice president of development and alumni relations, at 202-885-5900 or [email protected].
In his 2016 commencement address to the School of International Service, Ray Chambers, the United Nations assistant secretary-general and special envoy for malaria and for health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, challenged graduates and students to promote peace and nonviolence in the DC community. The Peace, Justice, and Inclusion Program is an answer to that call.
The inaugural program, held in spring 2017, fostered mentoring relationships among 19 AU staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and 48 middle and high school students from District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). The AU group worked with the older DCPS students, who mentored their younger peers and led discussions and workshops about the dynamics of conflict and peacemaking skills.
AU experts led sessions about activism, criminal justice, human trafficking, and environmental justice, and used techniques like spoken word poetry and mindfulness to build new skills. The program culminated with a trip to the United Nations; most of the DCPS participants had never before traveled beyond the Washington region.
"I became a mentor because of the challenges that I faced as a youth," says Nicole Phillips, SIS/MA '18. "The values that I have are because of my many mentors, from my current mentor to my high school coach, who taught me resiliency and talked about politics and social change to our team. As a local mentor and mentee, I see the possibility for closing the opportunity gap between underserved youth and advantaged leaders."
"SIS is committed to our founding mission to wage peace," says Dean James Goldgeier. "Hands-on experience is paramount to educating the next generation of peacemakers as they tackle the world's complex issues—many of which exist here at home. With AU's Center for Community Engagement and Service and others, SIS is deepening our impact inthe local community, while providing our students with invaluable real-world training that transcends boundaries and borders."
The spring program was supported by Chambers, the MCJ Amelior Foundation, and the Abdul Aziz Said Fund for Peace and Conflict Resolution, established through the generosity of Jeffrey Sine, SIS/BA '76.
For more information on how to support the Peace, Justice, and Inclusion Program or global to local initiatives, contact Kristie Cole, SIS chief development officer, at 202-885-1631 or [email protected].
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Creating unity in the community by celebrating music, food and resources: This has been Good in the Hood’s mission for 26 years.
This year the Portland festival’s organizers honored the University of Oregon with the Title Sponsor Award, recognizing the five-year partnership to expand access to the community values of northeast Portland. Accepting the award for the university was Joelle Goodwin, former Mrs. Oregon and currently the UO’s senior associate director of admissions.
At the three-day event, student ambassadors welcomed community members to the UO booth, the Duck came out to play and staffers connected with families in the Portland community.
To learn more about summer events the UO is sponsoring, visit the Around the O story with links to volunteer opportunities.
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2019-04-26T06:40:44Z
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https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-honored-portlands-good-hood-cultural-festival
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For those of you who are interested, we also have ppt slides with notes (as a pdf) written by Sir Tony Hoare on using assert statements --in many programming languages. Tony is one of the significant people in CS, and if you continue with CS courses, you wiill see his name often and read some of his papers dealing with languages, concurrency, and programming. He is Professor Emeritus at Oxford and a Principal Researcher for Microsoft. He is the author of Quicksort (which you will see later in 2110) and the creator of Hoare Logic for verifying program correctness.
Assignment A4 is to implement collision detection among shapes.
Assignment A5 is to implement a treemap view of a filesystem.
Assignment A6 requires you to implement a min-heap.
Assignment A7 requires you to implement Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
ShippingGame: implement a program to move parcels on trucks efficiently. It makes use of threads.
We have noticed that some Cornell classes do a so-so job of enforcing the academic integrity policy. In CS2110, we have a solution: we use an automated system that uses sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques combined with program analysis tools to notice unusual similarities between programs turned in by different people. These tools really work and are quite hard to fool. So, while it might seem tempting to borrow a solution from a buddy, change the variable names and comments, or reorder the statements, the tools would be very likely to figure out what you did.
The tool we use, called Moss, was developed by a Cornell PhD, now a professor at Standford, over 10 years ago.
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http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2110/2015sp/assignments.html
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This summer and fall, John Bruno, Vice Provost for Information and Educational Technology (IET), and Dave Shelby, Assistant Vice Provost and Chief Operating Officer, will visit again with each dean, vice chancellor, and vice provost to review the existing lists and to discuss updates since last year. Part of an annual process, these consultations have proved very helpful in enhancing communications between IET, the campus leadership, and various campus groups.
?IT Security: IET is preparing to implement a number of additional preventive measures designed to protect the campus against increasing attacks on campus systems and to prevent the proliferation of computer viruses. Two of those measures are the filtering of unsafe attachments distributed by email and the expansion of the computer vulnerability detection and virus scanning system in place since last Fall.
?Electronic Document Management Project: This project proposes to explore a coordinated campus strategy to meet various departments? document management needs. An executive-level oversight committee has been appointed, and the OnBase prod uct has been implemented in Student Affairs? Enrollment Services unit as well as in the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost. In addition, the Office of Administration has issued a Request for Information (RFI), and the College of Letters and Science has obtained funding for a document management solution.
?Faculty Merit and Promotion Project: This project proposes to create faculty digital portfolios that can be used in support of the academic merit and promotion processes, as well as other processes. An implementation workgroup, reporting to Vice Provosts Bruno and Horwitz, has been formed (Melendy and Shelby, co-chairs). The project was discussed with campus computing advisory groups in 2003-04 (see deliberations and report at http://ac4.ucdavis.edu). A pilot project will be launched in September (see demo at http://media.ucdavis.edu:8080/ramgen/IET/MyInfoVault.rm.
?Electronic Research Administration System: Once implemented, this system will enable electronic submission, review, approval, and tracking of research grant proposals. An oversight committee has been appointed (Meyer and Bruno, co-chairs) as well as an implementation workgroup (Chronister and Hartline, co-chairs). The project was discussed with campus computing advisory groups in 2003-04 (see deliberations and report at http://ac4.ucdavis.edu). A proposal is expected in September.
?Effort Reporting Project: UC Davis has entered into a collaborative partnership with the Office of the President and several other UC campuses. The goal is to improve the current, paper-based effort reporting process. At UC Davis, this project is headed by the Office of Administration. Funding has been granted, and the project is underway.
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2019-04-25T10:39:42Z
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https://iet.ucdavis.edu/content/major-campus-it-projects-planning-underway
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Veterans Memorial outlasted Ray for the District 30-5A team tennis title on Wednesday and moves on to the Class 5A playoffs.
Veterans Memorial outlasted inter-city rival Ray to win the District 30-5A team tennis tournament and advance to the Class 5A playoffs as the district’s top seed.
The Eagles won 10-7 over Ray in the final round of the tournament on Wednesday at the H-E-B Tennis Center. Veterans Memorial will enter the Class 5A team tennis playoffs as the top seed and will take on District 29-5A fourth seed Calallen at 10 a.m. Monday at the H-E-B Tennis Center.
Ray will go in as the No. 2 seed and faces Gregory-Portland at 1 p.m. Oct. 16, also at the H-E-B Tennis Center.
Victoria West topped King 10-7 in the third place match on Wednesday. Victoria West faces Flour Bluff to open the playoffs and King will take on 29-5A champion Tuloso-Midway.
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2019-04-25T00:53:55Z
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https://www.caller.com/story/sports/high-school/tennis/2018/10/11/veterans-memorial-wins-30-5-team-tennis-title-king-ray-also-qualify-texas-high-school/1605741002/
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