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Census Bureau News -- Computer World Honors Census Bureau for API
Apr 03, 2013, 11:37 ET
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following tip sheet was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau:
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Computerworld has named the U.S. Census Bureau as a 2013 Honors Laureate for the development of its open data API, an application programming interface that allows developers to take data sets and reuse them to create online and mobile apps. The magazine recognizes the Census Bureau for its "visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change."
"Technology continues to play a pivotal role in transforming how business and society functions," said John Amato, vice president and publisher of Computerworld. "These projects demonstrate how IT can advance an organization's ability to compete, innovate, communicate and prosper."
The Census Bureau implemented the open data API in July 2012. It has incorporated continuous updates and enhancements as suggested by developers.
"The Census Bureau open data API is considered a notable advancement that could be adopted by or tailored for other organizations, especially smaller federal agencies that may not have the resources or funding to establish the necessary infrastructure to fully support the potential users of their data," said Avi Bender, the Census Bureau's chief technology officer. "The open data API is an integral part of the Census Bureau's response to the comprehensive federal Digital Government Strategy, of providing data and services that are available 'anywhere, anytime, on any device.'"
The Honors Laureates will be featured in the June 3 edition of Computerworld.
Visit http://www.census.gov/developers/ for more information on the Census Bureau's APIs.
No news release associated with this product. Tip Sheet only.
Contact: Public Information Office
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I was a very energetic kid, from biking, tree climbing, and mud-wrestling with my brothers, sewing became a way for me to focus my abundant energy. My mother taught me how to sew and my step-mom was also an amazing seamstress and botanist. She helped me with my rose garden and taught me how to make homemade popurri. By the time I was 12 I was selling popurri pillows at the local farmer's market. It was very exciting for me to make my first 20 dollars from something I had made with my own two hands.
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The bus was driven to the Volunteers of America Sultan location which services north Snohomish County. It took a half-dozen Community Transit employee volunteers and 20 VOA volunteers a solid hour to unload the bus. Everyone was surprised and delighted at just how very kind and charitable our community is. Donations far surpassed what Volunteers of America had hoped for. In one weekend, we helped to collect 3,000 lbs of food and over $6,000 in toys, as well as clothing, cash, and baby items. The diapers that were collected meet the agency's need for an entire year!
Community Transit employees were so moved by the outpouring of support from the community for the Stuff a Bus program. From single bags of rice to entire shopping carts filled with food and necessities, it was a privilege to witness the holiday spirit as those that could give, gave what they could. Volunteers of America is using these donations to stock its food banks to fill holiday food baskets distributed by the agency to those families in Snohomish County who are in desperate need. Toys will be distributed through the agency's holiday program, where families are invited to choose a gift for their children so that every child has something to open during the holidays.


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This morning Jan and I walked to Range, Maplin and Tesco. The purchase from Maplin was a small plastic box for a planned project. Range supplied a number of household items and whilst Jan was wandering around I bumped into Angie & Dave the crew of nb Lady Esther. Angie is the clever lady who crochets mooring pin covers from Sainsbury's plastic shopping bags. A great way to recycle them. We have two of her mooring pin covers and always use them when moored on pins. After a brief chat (toilets not discussed) I had to dash off to look for the chief financial controller. Hopefully we'll catch up with Dave & Angie before leaving the area.
On the way back to Waiouru we stopped at Tesco for the bulk supplies. A box of milk and several of cola (both on special). I'm not sure how long this cheap shopping trolley is going to last with the amount of weight she has to carry back to the boat. The wheels are starting to get slightly wobbly!
In the afternoon I walked up to the Aldi at Central Park for the items we like, but only they stock.
Back at Waiouru I rummaged through the storage lockers looking for components to use on the latest project. Two years ago I made a 12V power supply for the laptop. It converted 12V to 19.2V which enabled me to recharge the laptop without running the inverter. When we purchased the 28" TV I ensured it had an external power converter. The TV has a 240V AC input but actually runs on 14V DC. So I modified the laptop converter and used it to run the TV. Now I need another voltage converter for the laptop. You can purchase them for approximately £30+ but I want to do it cheaper.
The plastic box from Maplin cost £4 and will contain the circuit board and electronic components. I'm going to use the 12V extension lead we had previously purchased to operate the map gps on the back of the boat. It's now surplus because I fitted a 12V water resistant socket in the semi trad area. I also have a surplus lead and power plug for the laptop.
£4 of components
I could make the converter but it's actually cheaper to purchase one off eBay. The manufacturer in China can sell them for approx £2.50 including free postage. Unfortunately we don't have a postal address. However youngest son came to my rescue pointing out eBay has a "click & collect" option where the purchased item can be collected from Argos.
This is the DC – DC converter which we are now waiting to be received by Argos.
When it arrives I'll probably write a short description on how I assembled the converter.


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The qqqq's help represent where risk is headed. The qqqq's are also a public favorite. When Joe Q. Public is enticed back into the stock market and is convinced by the likes of Cramer, he often sticks with familiar popular stocks such as Apple, Google and Rim (or gets sucked into highly speculative stocks like First Solar). He uses their devices everyday and if "he" uses them and thinks they are wonderful than the logic is everyone else must be. And that is true to an extent. These companies have piles of cash and are successful and in no danger of going bankrupt.
But P/E's are a finicky thing. Apple is a great company at 20 P/E as much as at 30 P/E yes?
Anyways, looking at the qqqq's daily chart, it shows great signs of weakness in my opinion. Negative divergences everywhere particularly the Money Flow. The daily shows that the qqqq's broke under the great rising bear wedgeline and recovered for now. Also of great note are the volume candles both up and down. Volume never lies.
The qqqq's weekly also shows that they managed to close their big gap down from 2008. They may keep chugging for a bit, but they aren't likely to make great advances from here on out til the end of P2 (if it has further to run). Also notice how last June 2008 they had an intraday "recovery" high a few weeks after the SPX and DOW had topped. This pattern also occurred in November 2007 after the DOW and SPX topped in October.
But this pattern of topping after the DOW and SPX is not always assured. Notice in August 2008 that qqqq's topped out early in August and when the September early surge of the indexes attempted to make a new recovery high the first trading day after Labor day, the qqqq's were already well off their August high.
The bottom line is risk vs reward. The charts seem to indicate that there is a great deal more risk on starting a long side swing trade of the qqqq's trade than the short. There is a lot of money being taken off the table. The qqqq's are being transferred from strong hands to weak. Distribution.
As far as Primary wave 2's topping process - it is likely to get more muddied. Some indexes may make new recovery highs, others may not.


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Does this mean we're in danger of our brains melting? No, of course not. Nevertheless, we as digital citizens must take steps to educate ourselves on media's power and influence in our lives."
26 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer
"These questions are more about the student than you, your classroom, or education.
What every student should know starts with themselves and moves outwards to your content area: self knowledge–> content knowledge.
As an educator, your job is lead students to understanding, but student self-awareness and self-knowledge should precede that. These questions hit at a range of topics, but all revolve around that idea of a learner's identity."
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Wi-Phi's mission is to introduce people to the practice of philosophy by making videos that are freely available in a form that is entertaining, interesting and accessible to people with no background in the subject.
Since our aim is for people to learn how to do philosophy rather than for them to simply learn what philosophers have thought, we see it as equally important to develop the critical thinking skills that are core to the methodology of philosophy.
We see this as a part of a larger mission: building our collective capacity to engage in rational thought and discourse. By providing the toolkit for building better minds, we hope that Wi-Phi plays some small role in realizing that goal
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"Every classroom needs a moderated, online space where students can share their ideas with others and receive feedback. While blogging has "been around" and used in classrooms all over the world for more than ten years now, classroom blogs are still rare in many schools and communities. Like other kinds of technology, blogging platforms have continued to evolve and change, but the reasons why students should regularly blog have remained consistent."
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The heart of great classrooms has always been caring, passionate adults asking compelling questions that motivate students to deeply understand important skills and ideas. But we also believe that it is increasingly difficult to prepare young people for a digital world without letting them rehearse in mobile, online spaces. We believe that learning to work with new information is essential, and it is impossible to think about learning to work with diverse sources of information without asking students to learn how to efficiently navigate the internet. The end product of solving complex problems is often a performance—some of those performances are still written documents or mathematical computations, but increasingly, students need to be able to perform their understanding in print and in person, with media and online. Even those students who are excited about a working life in the trades need to be prepared to sell their services in an online marketplace, to constantly update their skills in online learning settings, and to participate in a civic sphere conducted in a networked world.
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The SAMR Model for integrating technology into teaching, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, has gained a good deal of exposure in recent years. "SAMR" is an acronym that stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. The SAMR model provides a technique for moving through degrees of technology adoption to find more meaningful uses of technology in teaching and move away from simply using "tech for tech's sake".


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Fixing Frustration: Wall "Art"
Children's art projects can be great, if they manage to stay on paper or canvas. Once the little artist branches off to new mediums, like your walls, things rapidly become less adorable. Don't worry, here are three inexpensive, easy ways to clean up your wandering Picasso's art spree.
The first solution is very simple – bread. Yep, sometimes balling up a piece of bread and using it to scrub the crayon lines is enough to remove the stains. Another easy option is vinegar. Soak a sponge in some white vinegar and rub the crayon marks with it (watch out for dripping) – the vinegar should help lift the waxy marks off the wall. Finally, there's always mayonnaise. Put a little mayo over the crayon marks and let it sit there for a minute or two. Afterwards, wipe away the mayo and crayon marks with a damp cloth.
Be sure to test these products in an inconspicuous area first, just to make sure you won't damage your paint or wallpaper in any way. Also, be sure to wipe down these areas with a wet cloth so no bread/vinegar/mayo is left behind. If you don't do that, you may have a very unique smelling wall in your house.
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n8rs81: are you the one who told me about wilco?
n8rs81: cause i really like them
kidicarus222: no -- i can't get into wilco
kidicarus222: i know they're good but they just don't do it for me
n8rs81: huh?
kidicarus222: i try again every few months but they don't stick
n8rs81: well you know who i really like is the killers
n8rs81: have you gotten a chance to hear them
kidicarus222: i bought their album this summer, but i only halfway like them
kidicarus222: who i really like know is the scissor sisters
kidicarus222: they're awesome
kidicarus222: they're like if jamiroquai and beck had a baby and the baby was gay and raised by elton john
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Explain The Effect: Tremolo
Tremolo is one of my favorite effects. It is (a) tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone. It's so cool that it's built into the best Fender amps, like the Vibrolux and the Twin Reverb. It is clear that Leo Fender didn't have great understanding of musical terms, calling tremolo vibrato and vice versa, but that's OK with me.
My tremolo is a Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo. When I went looking for a trem, I tried a few more trems, including the EHX Stereo Pulsar, but I couldn't dial in what I considered to be a Fender tremolo on the the others, and that's what I really wanted.
You can get a generalized warble with 'em, which is where I normally go with it. You can kick the speed up to max and get a stuttering effect. All good things. But the thing I'm mostly trying to put together these days is kicking the speed back a little, hiding my fingerpicking in the quiet spots so you can't hear the attack. It can sound like an arpeggiated 70s synth a bit, although I don't know that I captured it here, with the acoustic sound of the guitar coming in too clear. I do know that I've captured the sound of my mic distorting. I was going over a couple of standard chord progressions, nothing clever, but I think I can put this into something.
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- Dave Jacoby said...
Of course, you can follow the ElectroHarmonix link and hear how a guitarist used the Pulsar to sound like Pink Floyd's "On The Run" from Dark Side, so tremolo as arpeggiator is not such a new concept.
- Thursday, 23 July, 2009
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bringing 2 U events & happenings in and around Ipoh … & beyond…
The Lunar New Year is just around the corner and Chinese people are making plans to go home for reunion with the family, marked with a scrumptious dinner.
In the old days, these meaningful dinners were taken at home but modern families opt to celebrate at restaurants and hotels to avoid the hassle of mass cooking, just like my family.
If you are in Ipoh for Chinese New Year, one good dining option would be Impiana Hotel Ipoh, where there are two different styles of dinners served on the eve of Chinese New Year: traditional course and buffet. Which do you prefer?
Photos shared with you in this post are from the Prosperity Buffet Dinner, which will also include a BBQ section (not in photos). Prosperity Buffet Dinner is only available for three days from 15th to 17th Feb, 2018 (6.30pm – 10.30pm).
Price: RM88 nett (adult), RM68 nett (senior) and RM48 nett (child).
Families who prefer traditional course dinner have two menus to choose from: 8-course set priced at RM888 and 9-course at RM1088, for ten pax per table. These CNY course dinners are available from 1st to 28th Feb, 2018.
Menu for 8-course set (RM888 nett)
Salmon Fish Yu Sheng
Braised Crab Meat Broth with Surimi
Double-Boiled Chicken with Chinese Herbs
Deep-Fried Prawns with Salted Egg
Steamed Garoupa Dragon with Special Premier Soy Sauce
Braised Mushroom with Bean Curd Root
Impiana-Style Fried Rice
Iced Longan with Fruit Cocktail
Beverages: Orange Cordial & Chinese tea
Menu for 9-course set (RM1088 nett)
Salmon Fish Yu Sheng
Braised Crab Meat Broth with Dry Scallop & Roe
Roasted Crispy Chicken with Sesame & Prawn Cracker
Fried Tiger Prawn with Portuguese Sauce
Steamed Garoupa Dragon with Special Premier Soy Sauce
Braised Mushroom with Dry Oyster & Black Muss
Fried Rice with BBQ Chicken
Chilled Mango Sago with Pomelo in Coconut Milk
Crispy Shanghai pancake
Beverages: Orange Fruit Punch & Chinese Tea
I am already drooling just looking at these luxurious menus. What about you?
Additionally, Impiana Hotel Ipoh is offering Gong Xi Fa Cai Buffet Hi-Tea on the first day of Chinese New Year (16th Feb) from 12 noon to 4pm.
Price is RM48 nett (adult), RM38 nett (senior) and RM28 nett (child).
For this Chinese New Year, the management of Impiana Hotel Ipoh would like you to join in their celebration on the first day of CNY (16th Feb) at 9am, where there will be a lion and dragon dance performances, as well as a visit by the God of Prosperity. Ong ahhhh!!!!
For enquiries or reservations (important), call +605-2555555, ext. 8009 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. You may also log on to the hotel's official Facebook Page for the latest updates.
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Yee Shang so early on! Looks like a really prosperous meal indeed
I love the buffet spread but am still very traditional at heart, so I would choose the traditional course. It has the very homey feeling to have everyone seated at the round table enjoying a meal 🙂
All the food is nicely decorated and look very delicious. Hope I won't gain weight this CNY.
Harga sangat berbaloi dengan hidangan . Nanti Sal share info dengan member area Ipoh .
yummy… so far i yet try buffet style CNY dinner… should give this a try..
All the food here is making me hungry! I love enjoy hotel buffet dishes where there's too many varieties for us to choose from!


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Anthony Martin
2719 Bird Street
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Karl Perez
Amgen Inc.
827 Hinkle Lake Road
Date: 16-11-2010
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The party also kicked against calls for Nigerians in the Diaspora to vote.
It said in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday that the amendments to the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act would enable Independent National Electoral Commission to prepare adequately for the elections.
In the statement by its National Chairman, Mr Olusegun Peters, the party said that it was time to sanitise the nation's political process and build a strong, virile, progressive and prosperous democratic nation.
It expressed opposition to the provision for independent candidacy in the amendment, adding that the nation's democratic structure could not sustain it.
It said that it was disturbing that INEC was yet to conclude some 2015 Federal and State Legislative elections in Rivers and Anambra two years and three months after the polls were conducted.
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by JUDY HODGSON
Although the Journal is 10 years old, we are celebrating our second anniversary this month as a weekly community newspaper.
In 1993 when we were still a monthly, we ran a "Best of" contest just for restaurants. We had a tremendous response, it was a lot of fun, but there was so much ballot stuffing and tampering with the vote, we vowed never to do it again. (One restaurateur, who shall remain anonymous, actually helped his customers fill out the photocopied forms and mailed them back in identical envelopes, which must have cost him quite a bit in postage. It was a place frequented by out-of-county travellers, so it was fairly easy to call a few just to check.)
So why did we bring the contest back -- and expand it?
Because, we are told by other weekly newspaper publishers, it is by far their most popular, reader-engaging edition of the year. And, we hope, we have figured out a way to keep cheating to a minimum!
(We require that all ballots be submitted with the reader's name, address and phone number. This information is not for publication and will be destroyed after the contest. But it allows us to spot-check and verify suspicious ballots like we do suspicious letters to the editor!)
This year we did disqualify a few ballots -- particularly a group postmarked in Southern Humboldt with a first name only -- "Guido from Whitethorn" -- and no phone number.
All in all, it was a great contest and we appreciate all those who took the time to respond. As you will see, there were many clear winners and we are running their names without second or third places. In other categories, there were some close races where we felt the runner-up deserved mention as well.
Yes, we will do it again next year. We plan to drop some categories and add others, and we plan to revamp the ballot to make it very clear that this is a "Humboldt County best of" contest. Jesse Ventura may be your favorite politician and Al Pacino your favorite actor, but we want to know what you think about local people.
Drop us a note to let us know how you think we should revise the ballot for next year. We certainly plan to keep the questions on, "Hot-button issue of the year," which ellicit the most interesting responses. And we already have plans to accept e-mail and fax responses as long as they contain the proper identification.
Finally, we are still receiving ballots daily even though the deadline was 5 p.m. Sept. 19. Next year we promise to advertise the contest early so your choices will be properly counted.
VERY FAVORITE POLITICIAN? OK, who was the clown who voted for former President Jimmy Carter? This was strictly a local competition. There were a number of votes for all the obvious elected officials from Rep. Mike Thompson on down, but the clear winner was: Arcata Mayor Connie Stewart.
MOST ENTERTAINING CITY COUNCIL? This was very, very close. Eureka fell just a few votes shy of: The Arcata City Council
HOT-BUTTON ISSUE OF THE YEAR? The proposed casino in Blue Lake? Water for the Eel River? Soaring gas prices? CAMP raids? Medical marijuana? Even roundabouts made the list. All the above were on the minds of our readers, but top issues getting the most votes all involve the city of Eureka: the firing of City Manager Harvey Rose, Wal-Mart (big box stores) and No. ! ... The Balloon Tract. (One reader wrote, "What happened to the $3 million gift?")
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BEST VOLUNTEER? Of the 138 ballots, there were an astounding 38 nominees. Top vote getter: Sally Arnot.
BEST TV REPORTER? Channel 3 Jim Bernard. Ok, technically he's a meterologist, but anchor Jane Rogers, also Channel 3, came in a close second.
BEST DJ? The Burlyman Dana Hall, who recently moved to Cool 105.5 on the FM dial. A close second: Gary Franklin of KHUM.
"Best Radio DJ" Dana Hall (aka "The Rock and Roll Burlyman") has been on air in Humboldt County since 1974 and on five different stations: KHSU, KATA, KRED, KXGO and most recently on KKHB, Cool 105.5 FM, where he can be heard from 6-10 a.m. weekdays.
BEST HAIRDRESSER? A ton of entries in this category, but the top vote-getter: Ric Warren, of Beau Monde, Arcata.
"Best Hairdresser" Ric Warren colors hair at Beau Monde in Arcata where he has worked for the last four years. Warren has been a stylist for 25 years and has trained in paris, New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. He moved to Humboldt county to attend HSU, where he completed a Masters in Playwriting.
BEST NAIL ARTIST? No clear winner, honest. But we promise to bring back this category next year.
BEST TEACHER? Again, there were almost as many names -- from pre-school teachers to college profs -- as there were ballots. (Next year we will separate by grade levels and let all students have their say.) The favorite teacher of Journal readers? Kathleen Nunley, Salmonberry Farm Preschool at Trinidad Elementary.
Kathleen Nunley said she had no idea she was even nominated by the parents of her preschoolers in Trinidad.
BEST MUSICIAN? Errol Previde.
"Best Musician" Errol Previde, right, plays outside of Wildwood Music where he holds down a day job. Previde leads the jazzy blues combo the Errol Previde Quartet, performs duo gigs with the group's vocalist Christina Fernandez, and is part of the recently formed electric funk/jazz quartet, Infuscious.
BEST ARTIST? Duane Flatmo.
BEST ACTOR? Joel Agnew (although he should have been disqualified for voting for himself.)
BEST BAND? A little ballot stuffing was uncovered in this category. Near as we can tell, Journal readers were about equally split -- one might say, schizophrenic -- between their two top choices: For Dancers Only and Humboldt Freestyle Kings. (See color photo at top)
BEST WAITPERSON? Again, many names, but no clear winner in this category. We'll try again next year.
... Etc.
BEST THRIFT STORE? St. Vinnie's (Arcata and Eureka) was the clear winner.
Workers Alyce Adams, left, and Nicki Winfield said St. Vinnie's is so popular because people patronize the store for its social atmosphere as well as its bargains.
BEST VINTAGE CLOTHING? Vintage Avenger, Arcata.
"Best Vintage Clothing" Nancy Tobin is living her dream. "I love treasure hunting and arranging things. It's a hobby that I turned into a full-time job." Tobin moved to the area 12 years ago, graduated from HSU with an art degree and started Vintage Avenger in Arcata 1 1/2 years ago.
BEST BICYCLE TRAIL? Hammond Trail (No duh! This category will be retired next year.)
BEST BOOKSTORE? Northtown Books in Arcata followed by the Booklegger in Old Town Eureka.
BEST WEBSITE? Humboldtbuzz.com.
BEST BIRD-WATCHING? Arcata Marsh (*See comment under best bicycle trail.)
... and Food!
BEST ASIAN? A clear winner -- Tomo's -- followed by Kyoto in second place.
"Best Asian Dining" Sushi chef Cheiko Wilson assembles a California roll at Tomo in Hotel Arcata. Tomo's head chef Stan Snyder says people like the food there because it shows, "a mix of healthy food and aesthetics."
BEST MEXICAN? Luzmila's in Arcata and Valley West (although most of our readers had trouble spelling it), followed by Rita's in Eureka.
"Best Mexican Dining" waitress Irma Sierra, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, has been in Humboldt County 6 years. Luzmilla's operated in Valley West since 1989 and moved in 1996 to H Street in Arcata. Luzmilla's recipes? They came from her mother, who was from Jalisco.
BEST ITALIAN? Wow. A close race. The winners: Mazzotti's (Eureka) in first, Abruzzi (Arcata) second.
BEST SEAFOOD? A home run. Nobody close. Sea Grill, Eureka.
Holly Blackwood and Keith Sleby were waitress and chef before they decided to open their own establishment, the Sea Grill, in 1988. The secret to their long-lived success in the restaurant biz? Top quality and consistency.
BEST BURGER? Although 24 burger joints were nominated, including one vote each for McDonald's and Burger King, this category, too, is no contest. Stars.
"Best Burger" Stars hamburger chef Trevor Adkins has been working for owners Christine and Joe Dunn for 2 1/2 years. (Adkins had his star tattoos before he took the job.) The dunns operate two burger shops in Eureka and one in Arcata's Northtown.
BEST PIZZA? Live from New York (Arcata and McKinleyville). (Hey, some of the votes came from Eureka and SoHum! That's a long way to drive for a pizza!)
"Best Pizza" man Paul Amato makes a Godfather at Live from New York in McKinleyville. Amato, who really is from New York -- born in the Bronx -- moved to Humboldt five years ago and took up a decidedly West Coast sport -- surfing.
BEST CUP OF COFFEE? Although there was some confusion here between roasters and brewers, the winner is both: Muddy Waters, Arcata.
BEST LOCAL BREW? The top beer vote-getter was Mad River Brewing Co.'s Steelhead Pale Ale. The top brewery was Lost Coast with many votes for its Downtown Brown and Great White.
BEST BAKERY? Wow. Couldn't have been closer, but Ramone's, the perennial favorite, just edged out Brio.
BEST LUNCH SPOT? This category wins for the most entries -- 37 different nominations. The top vote getter -- a shocker -- was a brand-new spot chosen for good food and especially good prices: Arcata Pizza and Deli. Second place went to a cluster of favorites, all worth mentioning: Hurricane Kate's (Old Town Eureka), Rico's Taco's (Arcata), Hole in the Wall (Eureka and Arcata) and Japhy's Soup and Noodles (Northtown Arcata).
BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH SPOT? The only absolute tie in the contest. Crosswind's (Arcata) and Waterfront Cafe (Eureka).
BEST ELEGANT DINING? (where $$ is no object). This is boring. We ran a "favorite restaurant" contest in 1993 -- with the exact same results. Larrapin' Cafe, with a very strong second place finish Carter House Restaurant 301. (Larrupin' owner Dixie Gorrell's comment at the time was, "Larrupin' really isn't elegant dining!")
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Dr. Tobias Ide
Tobias Ide has been the coordinator of the research field Peace and Conflict at Georg Eckert Institute since May 2015. His research focuses on the depiction in international textbooks of relationships between environment and conflict and of threats to peace and security. He also works on the impact of environmental stress and climate change on the dynamics of peace and conflict, for instance in the context of the project Environmental Change, Peace and Education. Further he is interested in the relevance to conflict of identities and histories as they are portrayed in textbooks.
Tobias Ide holds an MA in political science (Leipzig, 2011) and a PhD in geography (Hamburg, 2015). In his doctoral thesis he investigated the links between climate change, (violent) conflict and cooperation, focussing particularly on the methodological aspects of the research field. In order to do so, he applied the methods of discourse analysis, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and GIS-based risk analysis to the Middle East and eastern Africa.
The results of Tobias Ide's research have been published in the journals Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Political Geography, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly and Earth System Dynamics, among others. He is also the editor of an anthology on peace and conflict studies and another on social science research on climate change. He received grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Environmental Foundation (DBU), among others, and recently visitied at the University of Melbourne and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Most publications of Tobias Ide are available free of charge via ResearchGate. More information about his work can also be found at Google Scholar.
Selected Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Ide, Tobias and Amit Tubi (2019):Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, online first.
- Ide, Tobias, Anna-Katharina Thiel and Itay Fischhendler (2019): The Critical Geopolitics of Water Conflicts in School Textbooks: The Case of Germany. Water Alternatives 12 (1), 304-321.
- Hermans, Kathleen and Tobias Ide (2019): Advancing research on climate change, conflict and migration. Die Erde - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 150 (1), 40-44.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): Does Environmental Peacemaking between States Work? Insights on Cooperative Environmental Agreements and Reconciliation in International Rivalries. Journal of Peace Research 55 (3), 351-365.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence. International Studies Review, online ahead of print.
- Ide, Tobias/Barnett, Jon/Detges, Adrien/Adams, Courtland (2018): Reply to 'Sampling Bias Does Not Exaggerate Climate–Conflict Claims'. Nature Climate Change 8 (6), 442-443.
- Adams, Courtland/Ide, Tobias/Barnett, Jon/Detges, Adrien (2018): Sampling Bias in Climate-Conflict Research. Nature Climate Change 8 (3), 200-203.
- Ide, Tobias/Kirchheimer, Jakob/Bentrovato, Denise (2018): School Textbooks, Peace and Conflict: An Introduction. Global Change, Peace & Security 30 (3), 287-294.
- Ide, Tobias/Abdulkhaleq, Alwan/Bader, Khalil/Dougui, Noureddine/Husseini, Maysoun/Imad, Elarbi/Marzouk, Farouk Gaafar Abdel Hakim/Moustafa, Amany M. Taha/Spielhaus, Riem (2018): The Geopolitics of Environmental Education: An Analysis of School Textbooks in the MENA Region. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society 10 (2), 64-83.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): Climate War in the Middle East? Drought, the Syrian Civil War and the State of Climate-Conflict Research. Current Climate Change Reports 4 (4), 347-354.
- Ide, Tobias/Detges, Adrien (2018): International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking. Global Environmental Politics 18 (4), 63-84.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): On the Appropriate Use of QCA in Environmental Management
Research: A comment on Hossu et al. Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 47 (4), 831-832.
- Ide, Tobias/Detges, Adrien/Leimeister, Timo (2017): Securitisation through the Schoolbook? On Facilitating Conditions for and Audience Dispositions towards the Securitisation of Climate Change. Journal of International Relations & Development, online ahead of print.
- Ide, Tobias (2017): Terrorism in the Textbook: A Comparative Analysis of Terrorism Discourses in Germany, India, Kenya and the United States Based on School Textbooks. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 30 (1), 44-66.
- Ide, Tobias (2017): Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 8 (3), 1-14.
- Ide, Tobias (2017): Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding. Third World Quarterly 38 (3), 544-562.
- Schilling, Janpeter/Nash, Sarah Luise/Ide, Tobias/Scheffran, Jürgen/Froese, Rebecca/von Prondzinski, Pina (2017): Resilience and Environmental Security: Towards Joint Application in Peacebuilding. Global Change, Peace & Security 29 (2),107-127.
- Ide, Tobias (2016): Critical Geopolitics and School Textbooks: The Case of Environment-Conflict Links in Germany. Political Geography 55 (1), 61-70.
- Ide, Tobias (2016): Toward a Constructivist Understanding of Socio-environmental Conflicts. Civil Wars 18 (1), 69-90.
- Link, P. Michael/Scheffran, Jürgen/Ide, Tobias (2016): Conflict and Cooperation in the Water-security Nexus: A Global Comparative Analysis of River Basins under Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water 3 (3), 495-515.
- Ide, Tobias (2015): Why Do Conflicts over Scarce Renewable Resources Turn Violent? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Global Environmental Change 33 (1), 61-70.
- Ide, Tobias/Fröhlich, Christiane (2015): Socio-environmental Cooperation and Conflict? A Discursive Understanding and its Application to the Case of Israel and Palestine. Earth System Dynamics 6 (2), 659-671.
- Selbmann, Kirsten/Ide, Tobias (2015): Between Redeemer and Work of the Devil: The Transnational Brazilian Biofuel Discourse. Energy for Sustainable Development 29 (1), 118-126.
- Ide, Tobias/Schilling, Janpeter/Link, Jasmin S.A./Scheffran, Jürgen/Ngaruiya, Grace/Weinzierl, Thomas (2014): On Exposure, Vulnerability and Violence: Spatial Distribution of Risk Factors for Climate Change and Violent Conflict Across Kenya and Uganda. Political Geography 43 (1), 68-81.
- Ide, Tobias/Scheffran, Jürgen (2014): On Climate, Conflict and Cumulation: Suggestions for Integrative Cumulation of Knowledge in the Research on Climate Change and Violent Conflict. Global Change, Peace & Security 26 (3), 263-279.
- Scheffran, Jürgen/Ide, Tobias/Schilling, Janpeter (2014): Violent Climate or Climate of Violence? Concepts and Relations with Focus on Kenya and Sudan. International Journal of Human Rights 18 (3), 369-390.
- Ide, Tobias (2015): Towards Methodological Pluralism: An Empirical Evaluation of Research Methods for Assessing the Link Between Climate Change and Violent Conflict. Hamburg: State and University Library Hamburg.
Edited volumes
- Ide, Tobias (ed.) (2017): Peace and Conflict Research. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, in German.
- Christ, Tamina/Gellrich, Angelika/Ide, Tobias (ed.) (2012): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, in German.
Chapters in edited volumes
- Ide, Tobias/Sümer, Vakur/Aldehoff, Larissa M. (2018): Environmental Peacebuilding in the Middle East. In: Swain, Ashok/Öjendal, Joakim (eds.): Routledge Handbook on Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding. London: Routledge, 175-187.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): The Environment. In: Fuchs, Eckhardt/Bock, Annekatrin (eds.): Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 357-366.
- Ide, Tobias (2018): Using SKAD to Investigate Cooperation and Conflict Over Water Resources. In:Keller, Reiner/Schünemann, Wolf J./Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (eds.): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. London: Sage, 237-253.
- Ide, Tobias (2017): A Climate of Violence? The Debate on Climate Change and Violent Conflicts. In: Ide, Tobias (ed.): Peace and Conflict Studies.Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 193-226, in German.
- Ide, Tobias (2017): Introduction: Issues, Concepts and Trends in Peace and Conflict Studies. In: Ide, Tobias (ed.): Peace and Conflict Studies. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 7-32, in German.
- Ide, Tobias/Selbmann, Kirsten (2016): Climate Change, Biofuels and Conflict. In: Singh, Ram Sarup/Pandey, Ashok/Gnansounou, Edgard (eds.): Biofuels: Production and Future Perspectives. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 25-40.
- Ide, Tobias/Link, P. Michael/Scheffran, Jürgen/Schilling, Janpeter (2015): The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links and Case Studies. In: Brauch, Hans Günter/Oswald Spring, Úrsula/Grin, John/Scheffran, Jürgen (ed.): Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace. Dordrecht: Springer, 285-304.
- Ide, Tobias (2015): The Resource Curse as a Security Threat: On the Link Between Resource Abundance and Intrastate Violent Conflict. In: Jäger, Thomas (ed.): Handbook Security Threats. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 43-52, in German.
- Scheffran, Jürgen/Ide, Tobias/Schilling, Janpeter (2015): Violent Climate or Climate of Violence? Concepts and Relations with Focus on Kenya and Sudan. In: Zimmerer, Jürgen (ed.): Climate Change and Genocide: Environmental Violence in the 21st century. London: Routledge, 107-126.
- Ide, Tobias (2012): Wars and Violent Conflict as a Consequence of Climate Change? In: Christ, Tamina/Gellrich, Angelika/Ide, Tobias (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 169-196, in German.
- Ide, Tobias (2012): A Short Story of Failure, or: Why We Know That It Will Be Bad and Change (Almost) Nothing. In: Christ, Tamina/Gellrich, Angelika/Ide, Tobias (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 57-84, in German.
- Ide, Tobias/Gellrich, Angelika/Christ, Tamina (2012): Introduction: Climate Change as an Area of Contention Between Society, Politics and Economy. In: Christ, Tamina/Gellrich, Angelika/Ide, Tobias (eds.): Perspectives on the Climate Debate in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. Marburg: Metropolis, 11-45, in German.
- Ide, Tobias (2010): The "True" Causes of Climate Change. In: Aufenanger, Vanessa/Friedrichsen, Nele/Koch, Stephan (eds.): Justice and Responsibility in Climate and Energy Politics. Münster: Monsenstein & Vanderat, 14-24.


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Multimedia Central:
Welcome to our school--by the boys in 5th Grade cluster
Switch Stories: in Art with Mr. Olson, students designed a switch. They are everywhere in the Montview building. Some examples are a switch for hairy or bald or Hope to Despair. In technology, students are creating a what if the switch is engaged? What would happen? They have many mediums to choose from--creating a newscast (video or audio), a short story, a text message conversation between friends, a public service announcement, etc. Here are some of the audio samples:


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Teamwork in the enterprise: past, present and future
Teamwork defines the success of an organization, but how teams work is continually changing. In this webinar, you'll learn how to address these trends and unleash the full potential of your teams to help scale your organization.


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We installed new speakers into this massive GMC Sierra 1500. This was a huge upgrade to his old speakers. The customer came to us looking for a little more boom to his truck and we gave it to him by putting in a JL Audio JX500/1D 500RMS JX series mono amplifier and a JL Audio CP108LG-W3V3 loaded sub enclosure and a JL Audio microsub single 8 inch W3 ported. The upgrade was a terrific addition to his truck. Professional installation of this GMC Sierra 1500 Speakers upgrade done by the tech crew at Quality Auto Sound 3621 W. 10th St, Greeley, CO 80634 (970) 356-1588 your car audio installation experts. We can recommend and install car speakers in your vehicle to fit your budget.


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No Human Is Illegal (2018)
Completed in 2018 and filmed entirely on the Greek island of Lesvos, NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL is a documentary about what is perhaps one of the darkest and most seminal political historical events of the start of the 21st century: the founding of a zone of exclusion within the Eurozone. The spring of 2018 marked the second anniversary of the European Commission, the ruling body of the Eurozone, radically revising its policy regarding undocumented migrants arriving on the Aegean islands of Greece. At that time the European Commission declared undocumented migrants arriving on the Aegean islands would be sent back to Turkey. Filmmaker Richard C. Ledes and his small crew arrived a few weeks later on the island of Lesvos—the main point of entry from Turkey into Europe. They began interviewing asylum seekers, mainly from Syria but from elsewhere as well, experiencing for the first time being detained indefinitely in Europe, many of them in horrendous conditions of overcrowding. The filmmaker connects his own family's experience as Pontian Greeks who left Turkey for the United States as refugees in the 1920s to the current situation of asylum seekers on the island. Through stunning cinematography of the island's natural beauty and archaeological ruins shot by Italian cinematographer Valentina Caniglia, Ledes connects the island's literary and historical importance in ancient Greece to the current conditions of refugees and the importance to Europe of what is happening to these people detained on its borders. These poetic and political leaps combined the compassion of the volunteers, the conflicting responses of the people living on the island and the testimony of the refugees themselves create a vital record of this major confrontation between Europe's ideals and its current choices.
Director of Photography: Valentina Caniglia, AIC
Director: Richard C. Ledes
Type & Genre: Feature Documentary
Trailer: https://youtu.be/U3veXg5YL8g
Website: nohumanisillegalfilm.com


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Seeing as I have recently moved and the seasons are changing, what better time to have a spring cleaning!
After moving, I realized that I have a lot of stuff -stuff which is mostly comprised of books. I had about 5-6 tubs full of books to lug home. Talk about bad gas mileage. But as many of you know and can identify with, you can't live without your books, and for me, it's just comforting to see them on my shelves.


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The Chiefs and Titans have been the NFL's biggest surprises through four weeks, and a commonality has set up both teams for continued success
No one foresaw the Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans entering October with a combined record of 7-1. There is a common thread hallmarking these early success stories, who also happen to square off Sunday in Nashville. It's defensive play that is both vigorous and well-styled for today's NFL.
Each defense is under new leadership. Andy Reid, shortly after being hired by Kansas City, wisely chose to keep the defense's 3-4 foundation intact, tapping longtime New York Jets assistant Bob Sutton as his coordinator. In Tennessee, defensive coordinator Jerry Gray was retained despite the Titans allowing the most points in football last season. But some of Gray's duties were shifted when the team hired former Saints coordinator Gregg Williams, fresh off his Bountygate suspension, as a senior defensive assistant.
Sutton and Williams inherited two of the league's more vanilla defenses and have seasoned them for a flavor that even Emeril Lagasse would envy. Let's examine four key ingredients.
1. Solid bases
Great defense in today's NFL is about forcing turnovers and winning on third down. (The Chiefs rank first in the AFC in both categories; the Titans rank third and second, respectively.) You can't do either of those if your base defenese fails to hold serve on first and second down. The Chiefs' base 3-4 and the Titans' base 4-3 have been stingy enough to create third-and-long situations; that's where these creative coordinators thrive.
The credit starts up front. For Kansas City, athletic second-year force Dontari Poe has been the NFL's best nose tackle through four weeks. His lateral agility, amplified by his raw strength, has allowed the Chiefs to play true two-gap football up front. This has enabled underrated ends Tyson Jackson and Mike DeVito to be more proactive in their gap assignments, and it has kept swift, agile linebackers Derrick Johnson and Akeem Jordan free to run and chase.
The Titans have an equally athletic pair of linebackers in Akeem Ayers and bourgeoning 2012 second-round pick Zach Brown, a track star from North Carolina. Playing in a true 4-3, the Titans' defensive line aims to penetrate gaps rather than clog them. The superb play here of third-year defensive tackle Jurrell Casey has made life easy on the rest of the rotating D-linemen.
Worth noting is that both defenses also have a formidable run-stopping safety: Eric Berry (Chiefs) and Bernard Pollard (Titans). Both are fast enough to make plays coming from the third level, physical enough to play in traffic, savvy enough to identify potential running lanes and athletic enough to operate in space, whether it's short-area pass defense (Berry's specialty) or downfield tackling (Pollard's forte).
2. Man stoppers on the back end
Ten years ago, a sturdy run-stopping front seven was all a defense needed in order to create third-and-long. Nowadays, with so many dynamic tight ends, versatile running backs and smart-audibling quarterbacks, winning on first and second down requires stopping the pass. The athleticism at linebacker and strong safety enable the Chiefs and Titans to do this. But more than that, there are the adept cornerbacks.
Quality man-to-man corners are mandatory. For one, defensive coaches know that nothing disrupts the timing of route combinations like a corner's stout jam at the line of scrimmage and stride-for-stride joyride in a receiver's hip pocket. For two, with more offenses playing up-tempo, a defense almost has to play man because there's not enough time before the snap to communicate zone responsibilities. (It's much easier for defenders to just say, "I've got him!")
Under former coach Romeo Crennel, the Chiefs played a lot of man coverage, which is why they signed Brandon Flowers to a six-year, $49 million contract in 2011. Wanting to maintain this approach, Reid and Sutton this past spring signed the most expensive free agent corner on the market, Sean Smith (three years, $18 million). The lanky ex-Dolphin has been outstanding, matching up primarily on the outside against No. 2 receivers. The unheralded Flowers, who has long been one of the league's finest boundary man-defenders, has drawn the No. 1 assignments, often without safety help. He played Dez Bryant very tough in Week 2 but fell victim to some of Bryant's insane circus catches. Five days later, fighting a bum knee, Flowers held DeSean Jackson to three catches for 42 yards on seven targets. (Flowers' status for Week 5 is in question; he's dealing with knee inflammation.)
For Tennessee, Jason McCourty and Alterraun Verner spent the past few years predominantly playing conservative off-coverage concepts in zone-heavy game plans. Naturally, they were presumed to be so-so corners. But with Williams now mixing a lot of man coverages in with the zones, McCourty and Verner have, by necessity, become more assertive. The results have been spectacular. Verner has a league-leading four interceptions, mostly great individual plays. McCourty has barely seen the quarterback glance his way.
3. Sub-package coverage
Just having good No. 1 and 2 corners is not enough anymore. The influx of three-receiver sets, dynamic tight ends and versatile running backs demands that a defense have at least four, and preferably five, abled man-to-man defenders. An athletic linebacker can suffice, even in nickel and dime situations (Kansas City's Derrick Johnson and Tennessee's Zach Brown are both very fluid here). And a starting safety who can play solo man against tight ends brings a significant boost. Berry, after struggling mightily in man coverage at times last season, has emerged in 2013 as one of the best cover safeties in football. For Tennessee, Pollard is less reliable, though he has done better in recent weeks.
Then, of course, there's the increasingly significant nickel back position. More spread offensive sets means more defensive backs getting major playing time. The more those defensive backs play, the more multidimensional they have to be. Offenses that spread out 30 times a game aren't using the passing designs 30 times over. There are occasions where nickel backs, particularly those who specialize in playing the slot (like Tennessee's Coty Sensabaugh), must be force run defenders.
In fact, because offenses are expanding their run concepts out of spread sets, we're seeing more defenses use surer-tackling safeties in sub-packages. Essentially, the No. 3 safety is replacing the No. 2 linebacker. Or, he's replacing the No. 4 cornerback, which is how the Titans use veteran George Wilson. There are also occasions where Wilson replaces a linebacker in the base D to form a "big nickel" package.
The Chiefs have a hard-hitting nickel corner in Dunta Robinson and behind him an intriguing first-year corner in Marcus Cooper. But in dime situations, it's not Cooper getting the nod, but rather, Quintin Demps or Husain Abdullah. Thanks to various cornerback injuries, both of these backup safeties have actually seen time in nickel, too, where they are serviceable in man coverage. Which brings us back to the main point: the more quality man-defenders a defense has, the better. Tennessee and Kanas City have plenty.
4. The blitzes
Having trustworthy man defenders emboldens Sutton and Williams to dial up more blitzes. And because Sutton and Williams can put so many athletic linebackers and extra defensive backs on the field, they have a lot of speed to work with in their pressure designs. This expands the blitzing capabilities—and, inherently, the blitz disguises—as deeper second-level defenders and corners are threats to rush the passer.
We've especially seen this in Kansas City.
A defensive coordinator does not always have to call blitzes in order to be aggressive. Instead, he can instruct his players to have an attack mindset in man coverage concepts. This creates pressure opportunities because anytime the offense keeps a tight end or running back in to help with pass protection, they're inviting a blitz from whichever defender has that player in coverage. This is known as a "green dog blitz." It's a staple of Gregg Williams' system and common throughout the league.
One reason Gregg Williams' defenses are always good at green dog blitzing is his aggressive presnap looks compel the offense to make cautious adjustments in protection. In the example above, Foster did not have to stay in and block—there were five offensive linemen to combat four pass-rushers. But prior to the snap, the Texans could not possibly know—or assume—that the Titans would only send four of seven possible rushers. Even if they did know that, they couldn't know who the four rushers would be.
In response to this look, Houston's zone-blocking line slid left, away from Foster's help protection on the right. This made Foster solely responsible for 280-pound defensive end Derrick Morgan. Right tackle Derek Newton was unable to double back and help Foster because he had to pick up Brown's green dog blitz. Morgan easily dismantled the overmatched Foster, forcing Matt Schaub to step into a Kameron Wimbley sack. These are the types of opportunities Gregg Williams' tactics create.
With Tennessee's and Kansas City's offenses having conservative passing games that are essentially aimed at hiding their quarterbacks, you can bet these defenses will be in full attack mode Sunday.
Continue to Page 2 for my Thursday night preview.
Browns offense vs. Bills defense
After getting torched deep by the New York Jets in Week 3, Buffalo's secondary—which has been without top three corners Stephon Gilmore, Leodis McKelvin and Ron Brooks, as well as franchise safety Jairus Byrd—rebounded with stifling man coverage against Baltimore's downfield play-action game in Week 4. Safety Aaron Williams, starting at his former cornerback spot, had one of the best individual performances of any player this season.
Williams and his colleagues can expect to be attacked deep for a third straight game Thursday night. Since Josh Gordon's return from suspension, the Browns have been more comfortable with the vertically stretched passing designs in Norv Turner's system. Brian Hoyer has been very stellar staying in the pocket and efficiently working through progressions. He has benefited from tremendous pass-blocking, particularly by left tackle Joe Thomas, who has been almost flawless playing on an island.
Despite what Mario Williams' sack numbers suggest, the Bills don't have a prominent pass-rusher to challenge Thomas. They do, however, have an excellent interior blitzing threat in supple rookie middle linebacker Kiko Alonso, and they have a schemer in coordinator Mike Pettine who does great work with hybrid fronts and disguises. The Browns' rushing attack last week looked the best it has all season, so Cleveland would be wise to stay true to the run and make this Bills front seven prove that its stellar gap discipline against the Ravens was not an aberration.
Bills offense vs. Browns defense
Speaking of running the ball, that's what the Bills did last Sunday. Fifty-five times. Fullback Frank Summers played 42 of the offense's 84 snaps, performing admirably as a classic black-and-blue lead-blocker. It was a great strategic adjustment by Doug Marrone, who likely realized after losing to the Jets that EJ Manuel isn't ready to have so much on his plate just yet. By going back to basics —like two-back or two-tight end personnel and a between-the-tackles rushing attack—Marrone was able to create a defined, one-read passing game for his rookie quarterback, leaning heavily on play-action.
Interestingly, most of those one-man reads were directed for rookie wideout Robert Woods, not sixth-year star Stevie Johnson. Don't be surprised if Woods fully supplants Johnson atop the pecking order. He has better speed and quickness than Johnson and is virtually the same size (6-1 or 6-2, 200 or so pounds). We'll know which receiver Cleveland believes is Buffalo's No. 1 by who Joe Haden defends. The fourth-year pro has been a shutdown corner through four games.
Against A.J. Green and the Bengals last week, the Browns predominantly used matchup zone concepts out of two-deep coverages. Safeties T.J. Ward and Tashaun Gipson gave outstanding help downfield. This week, the Browns likely will play more man-to-man, with one of the safeties dropping into the box. They'll want to make the Bills reluctant to run.


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Not only are young people our future, they are also one of the groups that are most at risk from air pollution. That is why we are getting them involved in ClairCity.
We are available to run workshops for 11-18 year olds in schools, colleges or youth groups in the Bristol region. We have interactive activities to help young people understand more about the risks and health impacts of air pollution, and a set of challenges for them to decide how they would improve their area and city. We can also talk about STEM, social science and geography careers related to our work, fit into a wider activity day for the school, work with a science or environment club or other extra-curricular activity.
Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
We had extra funding from UWE Bristol to create activities for primary schools. We have run sessions with over 800 children around Bristol to pilot the activities. These materials are now shared for free for all schools to access.
"The children learnt so much – they particularly enjoyed getting to do a science experiment in a 'real lab' and wearing the coats, goggles and gloves. The Top Trumps session was also enjoyed by all. From our point of view, writing and sending the Mayor letters made the learning purposeful and very real for the children." Teacher, Year 5
"Great stuff!" Darren Jones MP
See below for some examples of the fantastic work that children have produced so far.


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Our members are major providers of supported housing and care and support. Reforms in these areas should build on the great success of Supporting People in providing preventative housing support services. New approaches require proper funding and proportionate regulation to succeed.
For a more practical, in depth look at the care and support work currently being carried out by our members, watch this short film about the partnership between Helm Housing Association and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust outlining the outcomes delivered for people with dementia in Hemsworth Court, Belfast.Consultation Responses
- DSD 2015-16 draft budget consultation
- Future of Adult Care and Support March 13
- Supporting People Guidance Framework 'Principles of a Person's Own Home'
- NIFHA written evidence to Committee for Health, Social Services & Public Safety Review of supported living for older people in the context of Transforming Your Care


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Shavata Singh boasts over 20 Brow Studios nationwide and has earned a reputation as the ultimate brow guru. Now you can buy Shavata products to keep up the good brow grooming at home. The range is fairly extensive considering it's a range just for brows, including various types of tweezers, tamers, stencils and so on.
Today I'm showing you the Double-Ended Pencil (£8.50). Now I don't know if the pro's tend to use more than one colour on brows when filling them in, but for me I only ever use one colour, and in the case of this particular pencil, one of the two shades is completely wrong for me.
The right hand, lighter more red-based shade is far too red for me so for me the double ended-ness of the pencil is wasted, I did try it out, and indoors it wasn't too bad but hello! orange brows! when I went outside. So for me, I prefer to not have a double-ended pencil.
The other shade however is perfect for my colouring and allows me to fill in my brows without obvious pencil lines. The pencil itself is soft but not too soft, it just needs a light touch and you're done, its great. It doesn't budge at all and adds a subtle and gentle bit of definition.
Since I started using this pencil I've had my HD Brows done and I'm finding the darker end of the pencil isn't giving me quite the definition I'm after any more, HD Brows are more in your face and so I'm using the HD Brows powders, but if a more natural brow is your thing this is well worth checking out as it is really perfection for that. As I say though, the two shades is a bit of a waste for me, and I only end up with half a pencil that is any good.
That said, I absolutely would shell out the £8.50 for half a pencil because the job it does is perfect.
The Shavata range can be bought from www.shavata.co.uk
*Disclosure – PR Sample*
I'm not familiar with the brand but I do like a good eye pencil, I love the idea of two colours as I prefer a more subtle look for day time and more dramatic colour for an evening.
Thats handy, in that case I'd recommend checking it out!
If I am being ever so about my brows I use a darker pencil on the edges where there is less natural brow and a lighter one where there are brows so that the overall affect is balanced. However it is most unlikely I would draw my inner and outer edges in using an orange pencil and then complete with the more appropriate darker colour, so whilst the theory is sound the pairing is way off! was meaning to ask and am guessing you did reading this – you purchased the HD brow powders?? I have found a salon 2 mins down the road that does HD brows and am thinking that after running the GH this week whilst he has been on holiday the OH rather owes me….!
I didn't purchase the HD powders BUT I do have two palettes, one came as a PR sample a long time ago and one came in a glossybox, I do use them both although I have the blonde one which isn't perfect but does have ashy colours so I there are two I can use and two I can't.
I think you are definitely owed! x


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|Tue 3 Nov 2015, 8:00pm
Born in the streets, underground clubs and bohemian weddings of Prague and Europe, Pragmatique play an eclectic mix of whatever takes their fancy - from ska, Balkan and European folk to gypsy swing, Latin, pop, jazz and funk.
The band formed on the streets of Prague back in 2012. They've been together ever since (with the addition of a couple of players) and are now a popular feature at festivals and weddings in The Czech Republic as well as touring in Europe regularly.
Founding member Craig Denham is a well respected New Zealand musician now based in Prague. Having toured NZ six times with his local band Beyondsemble, Denham thought it would be great to show his Czech band mates his native country this Spring.
This bodacious busking ensemble are embarking on an extensive 30 date tour of New Zealand including headlining the Tauranga Arts Festival at the end of October.
Pragmatique will also be busking up a storm on the streets on their days off.
Praguematique are:
Craig Denham – Accordion – Vocals (New Zealand)
Nina Marinova – Violin – Vocals (Slovakia)
Vladamir Hajek – Guitar – Vocals (Czech Republic)
Libor Vanek – Cajon (Czech Republic)
Dan Panchartek – Bass (Czech Republic)
Praguematique Tour Dates:
Friday 2nd October – The Vic Devonport
Saturday 3rd October – Swamp Palace – Oruru
Sunday 4th October – Opua Community Hall
Tuesday 6th October – Llama Lounge – Whangarei Heads
Wednesday 7th October – Absurdistan Community – Kaiwaka
Thursday 8th October – Nikau Cave Café – Waikaretu
Friday 9th October – Kuaotunu Hall – Kuaotunu
Saturday 10th October – Kauaerangi Valley Hall – Thames
Sunday 11th October – Tulip Festival - Rotorua
Friday 16th October – RSA Taumarunui
Saturday 17th October – New Plymouth – Pop Up Gig Network
Sunday 18th October- Whanganui – TBC
Friday 23rd Ocober – Bar Bodega with Niko Ne Zna – Wellington
Saturday 24th October – The Mussel Inn – Onekaka
Sunday 25th October – Pelorus Bridge Circus Festival
Friday 30th October – Fairfield House – Nelson
Saturday 31st October – Tauranga Arts Festival
Tuesday 3rd November – The Boathouse – Nelson
Friday 6th November – Marahau Park Café
Saturday 7th November – Barrytown Hall
Sunday 8th November – Old Lodge Theatre – Hokitika
Monday 9th November – Donovans Store – Okarito
Wednesday 11th November – Horse and Trap – Arrowtown
Thursday 12th November – Alexandra
Saturday 14th November – Stewart Island
Monday 16th November – Riverton
Thursday 19th November – Historic Hotel - Careys Bay
Saturday 21st November – Hill Top Tavern – Akaroa
Sunday 22nd November – Christchurch Folk Club
Tuesday 24th November – Le Café Picton
Thursday 26th November – Cabana – Napier
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What Happens if You Drink Vitamin-Enriched Water Beverages After the Expiration?
Vitamin-enriched waters don't have an expiration date, but you'll often see a "use by" or "best by" date on the packaging. These dates are designed to let you know the time frame in which your drink will be the most effective and offer the most nutrients. While they won't go bad, vitamin waters may not have the same perks if you drink them after the dates on the bottles.
What Can Happen
Most vitamins lose potency over time, especially when stored under certain conditions. Some brands of vitamin-enriched water come in clear plastic bottles. This exposes the vitamin-filled drink to light, which gradually degrades vitamins. Plus when vitamin-containing waters are stored in warm facilities or sitting out under a light for a long period, the products can heat up. Heat exposure further degrades vitamins, ultimately making them not as effective. If you drink vitamin water beverages after the "use by" or "best by" date, they generally shouldn't make you sick, but you probably won't get the same level of vitamins as you would from a fresher bottle.
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