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Additional Information: Coton De Tulears The Coton De Tulear originates from the island of Madagascar. Their name is derived the the texture of their coat, which is cotton-like, and from the city of Tulear, which is a port city on the southwester coast of Madagascar. For many years only royality of the region were permitted to own one of these outstanding little dogs. Found to be an extremely healthy breed, with no known health issues, and an average life span of 15 to 19 yrs. old, some of these dogs were taken back to Europe to breed with their Bichons, hoping to make the Bichon breed more durable. It is speculated that this is the reason that most European Cotons are all predominately white. The native Coton however is either white, black & white, or...
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Wayfarer Cotons
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Palmetto Cotons
Additional Information: My dogs are family first and live in our home. I only breed health tested dogs and strive to produce extraordinary puppies with wonderful temperaments that are available to pet homes. We do not ship.
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Additional Information: We are dedicated to the preservation and well being of this charming and wonderful breed, the Coton de Tulear. Health, temperament and socialization emphasized. NACA (UKC Code of Ethics Breeder.
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Cotons of Cape Cod
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Showboat Kennels
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Sunny Brook Cotons
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Creme de la Creme Coton de Tulear & Havanese
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Please email us direct at : cotondetulear@sbcglobal with your Coton de Tulear or Havanese interest. Current availability: Cole: Male 1yr... ...
My Darling Dogs
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I looked at these for a long time. I just can't remember a time when the joint could have been so far out from the acorn and still be useful. It would have to be out in the ratchet, then the flex would give me a chance. I'll pass
I have this set in Metric. There are times that the flex is useful, and a U-Joint on a socket won't do.
I will agree, it would be more useful if the flex joint was closer to the ratcheted box end.
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Al Zaccario has been promoted to director of hotel technology for New Castle Hotels, a Shelton, Conn. — based hotel ownership and management company. Zaccario will oversee information technology operations at New Castle's corporate headquarters and will manage IT development and operations at all properties.
Carlos Souza has been named director of sales for Hotel Inter-Continental Hong Kong. Souza was director of sales and marketing at the Peninsula Hotel in Bangkok.
Mark Swetman has joined the sales team at Hilton Short Hills (N.J.) as director of sales and marketing. Swetman was director of sales for the executive conference center at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York City.
Helene Cage has been promoted to sales manager at The Homestead, in Hot Springs, Va. She will be returning to Virginia after a stint as Northeast regional sales manager.
Suzie Murley has been promoted to director of conference services for the Monarch Hotel in Washington, D.C.'s West End. Murley joined the Monarch staff as conference services manager in 1999.
Barry Anderson, vice president of marketing for Peabody Hotel Group, has been named vice president of sales and marketing for all PHG's sales and services. He will continue to be based at the Peabody Orlando. PHG oversees 11 properties, including The Peabody Memphis, The Peabody Orlando, and the soon-to-be rechristened Peabody Little Rock, Arkansas.
At the Rosen Plaza Hotel, adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Robert Naylor has been named sales manager. Naylor, who was previously conference center manager for The Rosen Plaza, will handle western region sales.
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Angie Gadwood has joined the Radisson Hotel Dallas North at Richardson (Texas) as director of sales. She was regional director of sales and marketing and corporate sales trainer for Sunburst Hospitality Corp., Silver Spring, Md.
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Joni Simpkins has been named director of sales and marketing for The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles, where she will oversee a staff of 40. Simpkins comes to the hotel from Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort, Dana Point, Calif., where she was director of hotel sales.
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The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles, completed a $3.8 million ballroom enhancement project. The 1,354-room property renovated its California Ballroom (6,108 square feet) and its Catalina Ballroom (8,190 square feet), and added a third ballroom (4,750 square feet). The hotel offers 110,000 square feet of meeting and function space, with the California Ballroom seating 3,000 people theater-style or 2,350 banquet-style. www.westin.com
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The new Hotel Monaco New Orleans, La., just steps from the French Quarter, was built as a Masonic Hall in 1926. The hotel offers 6,000 square feet of meeting space in two ballrooms and three boardrooms, and can accommodate up to 190 people banquet-style. Services include full AV capabilities. The hotel has 250 guest rooms and suites. www.monaco-neworleans.com
On the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., overlooking the Hudson River, the Hotel Thayer recently underwent a $26 million restoration that includes reconstruction and enlargement of its 150 guest rooms, the addition of meeting rooms, and the upgrade of existing ones. The property can accommodate meetings of 10 to 300 people in its 10 conference rooms, which total 18,250 square feet. A wing slated to open in 2003 will feature 128 guest rooms, a two-tiered dining room, a health club, and 25,000 square feet of meeting space including a 5,000-square-foot grand ballroom. www.hotelthayer.com
On the former site of John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, the completely remodeled Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, Paradise Valley, Ariz., is set on 53 mountainous acres. The property offers 74 luxury casitas and 24 luxury spa villas. Set to open in December, the spa will include 10 treatment rooms and a lap pool. The 9,000 square feet of meeting facilities include a dedicated meeting building with more than 3,500 square feet of space, private lobby, breakout area, and balconies, as well as a ballroom that can accommodate 200 banquet-style. An additional 5,000 square feet of outdoor meeting space is available. www.sanctuaryoncamelback.com


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This newb is getting too close to the truth. He needs to be taken out back and "informed" of what he can and cannot say.
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Scientology ad on DU? WTF?
Where does DU draw the line on who gets to advertise on this site? Or is money the main factor?


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In the newsroom of the Miami Herald, there is some disagreement about which of Edna Buchanan's first paragraphs stands as the classic Edna lead. I line up with the fried-chicken faction. The fried-chicken story was about a rowdy ex-con named Gary Robinson, who late one Sunday night lurched drunkenly into a Church's outlet, shoved his way to the front of the line, and ordered a three-piece box of fried chicken. Persuaded to wait his turn, he reached the counter again five or ten minutes later, only to be told that Church's had run out of fried chicken. The young woman at the counter suggested that he might like chicken nuggets instead. Robinson responded to the suggestion by slugging her in the head. That set off a chain of events that ended with Robinson's being shot dead by a security guard. Edna Buchanan covered the murder for the Herald—there are policemen in Miami who say that it wouldn't be a murder without her—and her story began with what the fried-chicken faction still regards as the classic Edna lead: "Gary Robinson died hungry."
All connoisseurs would agree, I think, that the classic Edna lead would have to include one staple of crime reporting—the simple, matter-of-fact statement that registers with a jolt. The question is where the jolt should be. There's a lot to be said for starting right out with it. I'm rather partial to the Edna lead on a story last year about a woman about to go on trial for a murder conspiracy: "Bad things happen to the husbands of Widow Elkin." On the other hand, I can understand the preference that others have for the device of beginning a crime story with a more or less conventional sentence or two, then snapping the reader back in his chair with an abbreviated sentence that is used like a blunt instrument. One student of the form at the Herald refers to that device as the Miller Chop. The reference is to Gene Miller, now a Herald editor, who, in a remarkable reporting career that concentrated on the felonious, won the Pulitzer Prize twice for stories that resulted in the release of people in prison for murder. Miller likes short sentences in general—it is sometimes said at the Herald that he writes as if he were paid by the period—and he particularly likes to use a short sentence after a couple of rather long ones. Some years ago, Gene Miller and Edna Buchanan did a story together on the murder of a high-living Miami lawyer who was shot to death on a day he had planned to while away on the golf course of La Gorce Country Club, and the lead said, ". . . he had his golf clubs in the trunk of his Cadillac. Wednesday looked like an easy day. He figured he might pick up a game later with Eddie Arcaro, the jockey. He didn't."
These days, Miller sometimes edits the longer pieces that Edna Buchanan does for the Herald, and she often uses the Miller Chop—as in a piece about a lovers' spat: "The man she loved slapped her face. Furious, she says she told him never, ever to do that again. 'What are you going to do, kill me?' he asked, and handed her a gun. 'Here, kill me,' he challenged. She did."
Now that I think of it, that may be the classic Edna lead.
There is no dispute about the classic Edna telephone call to a homicide detective or a desk sergeant she knows: "Hi. This is Edna. What's going on over there?" There are those at the Herald who like to think that Edna Buchanan knows every policeman and policewoman in the area—even though Dade County has twenty-seven separate police forces, with a total strength of more than forty-five hundred officers. "I asked her if by any chance she happened to know this sergeant," a Herald reporter once told me. "And she looked at her watch and said, 'Yeah, but he got off his shift twenty minutes ago.' " She does not in fact know all the police officers in the area, but they know her. If the desk sergeant who picks up the phone is someone Edna has never heard of, she gives her full name and the name of her paper. But even if she said, "This is Edna," there aren't many cops who would say, "Edna who?" In Miami, a few figures are regularly discussed by first name among people they have never actually met. One of them is Fidel. Another is Edna.
It's an old-fashioned name. Whoever picks up the phone at homicide when Edna Buchanan calls probably doesn't know any Ednas he might confuse her with. Edna is, as it happens, a rather old-fashioned person. "She should have been working in the twenties or thirties," a detective who has known her for years told me. "She'd have been happy if she had a little press card in her hat." She sometimes says the same sort of thing about herself. She laments the replacement of typewriters at the Herald with word processors. She would like to think of her clips stored in a place called a morgue rather than a place called an editorial reference library. She's nostalgic about old-fashioned criminals. As a girl growing up around Paterson, New Jersey, she used to read the New York tabloids out loud to her grandmother—a Polish grandmother, who didn't read English—and she still likes to roll out the names of the memorable felons in those stories: names like George Metesky, the Mad Bomber, and Willie Sutton, the man who robbed banks because that's where the money was. She even has a period look about her—something that recalls the period around 1961. She is a very thin woman in her forties who tends to dress in slacks and silk shirts and high heels. She wears her hair in a heavy blond shoulder-length fall. Her eyes are wide, and her brow is often furrowed in concern. She seems almost permanently anxious about one thing or another. Did she neglect to try the one final approach that would have persuaded the suspect's mother to open the door and have a chat? Will a stray cat that she spotted in the neighborhood meet an unpleasant end? Did she forget to put a quarter in the meter? Despite many years spent among people who often find themselves resorting to rough language—hookers, cocaine cowboys, policemen, newspaper reporters—her own conversation tends to sound like that of a rather demure secretary circa 1952. Her own cats—she has five of them—have names like Misty Blue Eyes and Baby Dear. When she is particularly impressed by a bit of news, she is likely to describe it as "real neat." When she discovers, say, a gruesome turn in a tale that might be pretty gruesome already, she may say, "That's interesting as heck!"


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Install it vertically. When installed horizontally and the bladder fails the tank fills with water and becomes to heavy to support itself.
Well, I live in a neighborhood about 15 years old. My next door neighbor's gas water heater just failed, as well as my neighbor across the street. Of course the builder didn't spend the extra nickel to put a pan and drain pipe under water heater so I am scared mine failing and damaging all kinds of stuff I have. I know how to sweat pipes and have actually installed a water heater in my old house, but haven't had to deal with expansion tanks, as they are new code requirement. So, I took a look at how my next door neighbor's water heater was installed by professional plumber. The plumber installed the expansion tank horizontally(tank horizontal attached to vertical pipe) which Watts literature says is okay - http://media.wattswater.com/2915054.pdf but only if you support the tank. He didn't, it is just hanging there screwed into T-fitting. I have 2 options to install expansion tank when I buy new water heater next week. If I install the expansion tank vertically, I would have to extend the cold water supply a few feet on the ceiling, and then drop it straight down and back to the water heater. Would that be the best way to install the expansion tank, or should I just install it horizontally? If I do install it horizontally, what is the proper way to brace the expansion tank, given that the support would have to come from the ceiling? The closest wall is a foot or so away and is concrete that I'd rather not tap into.
Install it vertically. When installed horizontally and the bladder fails the tank fills with water and becomes to heavy to support itself.
If you, or anyone else, installs an expansion tank horizontally, it MUST have a support of some kind fastened to the ceiling. The ONLY way to install it safely without a support is hanging downward from the pipe in a vertical orientation. If it is "upward" gravity will still try to break it off once it fills with water.
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Thanks for the replies. I had another thought on installing the expansion tank. Is there any reason why I shouldn't install it in the supply line strapped to the ceiling, like just before the elbow that brings the supply line down to the hot water heater? I don't see anything that says how near the water heater the expansion tank needs to be, so if I installed in the supply line on ceiling it would be probably 5-6 feet from the water tank connection.
That is fine as long as it between the valve and the heater. You don't want to be able to isolate the tank from the heater by turning off the valve.
You could strap it (the easier way normally), or build a shelf to set it on. Water weighs about 8#/gallon, so when it eventually fails, that's probably in the order of 25# or so hanging there. If it is hanging down, you won't spill much when you unscrew it. Sitting horizontal, it will dump some water when you unscrew it.
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If your pipes are a the ceiling and run across the floor joints, center the tank between joints and strap it to the joints on each side. Somewhat like your Plan B drawing except the tank would be at ceiling height. Plan A would require designing a platform or some kind of support to the tank. No point in doing that.
Technically, the tank can be installed anywhere in the house, but ideally it should be connected between the heater's water valve and the heater.
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I like the idea of just strapping it all to the ceiling joists. I'll put new shutoff valve just upstream of it too. I know it will be a bit awkward to get at the shutoff valve in this setup, but not like I need to get at the shutoff a bunch of times every year anyway! My wife thinks I am over engineering this and installing the expansion tank horizontally even if it failed and filled with water would be no big deal. That's probably true, but there must be a good reason why the manufacturer says don't do this unless supported properly.
The tanks are made of a light weight steel and can sear off at the point of connection when the bladder fails and the tank fills with water.
New water heater in including expansion tank. Expansion tank seems to have resolved our issue when we initially turned on shower would be a big rush of water, and then it would settle down to static pressure. Thanks all!


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Q: I am wondering if there are places in Naples that sell fresh boiled peanuts? This delicacy seems to be widely available as you venture north in our state (especially from someone that just sells them on the side of the road), but I have yet to find a retailer that sells them here in Naples.
I know you can buy canned boiled peanuts in the grocery store, but it's just not the same.
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A: You're in luck, Fred. I stumbled across the real thing in Golden Gate Estates.
Estates resident Dan Rickard sells fresh Cajun and regular boiled peanuts, which he calls Gator Nuts, every Saturday afternoon from a brick-paved picnic area outside GC Grocery, the former Farmer Jack Supermarket. It's in Wilson Plaza at 50 Wilson Blvd. S. on the southeast corner of Wilson and Golden Gate boulevards.
"Nobody had them and I knew there was a market for them," Rickard said. "We used to drive way over to Lake Okeechobee to get peanuts. It just wasn't right."
Basically, boiled peanuts are raw, unroasted peanuts boiled in their shells in salty water for a long time. They are a Southern specialty and a common snack in the Deep South, including northern Florida, according to boiledpeanuts.com.
Boiled peanuts are available locally at some area grocery and convenience stores, but they are not the same as his fresh ones, Rickard said.
"They're not good at all," he said about the boiled peanuts available at some gas stations. "They are soggy or uncooked."
Rickard, nicknamed "Diesel Dan" from when he used to race swamp buggies competitively and had his own diesel shop, gets his handpicked peanuts from Georgia. He uses a 30-year-old recipe and takes 12 to 14 hours to cook them overnight in a large, stainless steel pot. He nurses them, using an alarm clock, and cooks them all night, he said.
"Timing is everything," Rickard said. "You want peanuts done right. It's not easy."
Gator Nuts, served warm in their wet hulls, are $2 for a small cup and $5 for a large one. I found the Cajun boiled peanuts a bit addicting, but not overly spicy.
The texture and taste are different from the more common roasted peanuts, but they are supposed to be healthier. Boiled peanuts have four times the antioxidants of raw or roasted peanuts, according to a study by the Department of Food and Animal Sciences at Alabama A&M University.
I also found boiled peanuts are served at Fancy's Southern Café, which opened at the end of September in the Bella Villa Shops, 8890 Salrose Lane, off Daniels Parkway in south Fort Myers.
But because Fancy's specializes in Southern staples with a twist, their goobers are gussied up a bit. Both lunch and dinner menus of the new restaurant feature hot-boiled peanuts with sweet onions and jalapenos for $4.95.
■ Mon"Key" Bread Factory is opening its second location in downtown Naples. The new store is expected to open early next week in Tin City, said Karen Haupt, who co-owns the sweet shop with her husband, Jeff. Their first local shop opened about three years ago in Abbott's Frozen Custard on Fifth Avenue South.
Mon"Key" Bread Factory creates individual servings of the classic monkey bread — gooey, pull-apart sticky buns with cinnamon and caramel.
"We wanted to do something different. We went back to childhood things we loved and we perfected monkey bread," Karen Haupt said. "People love it."
In addition to the traditional cinnamon, the more than 10 flavors include banana, coconut, pecan pie, pina colada and maple bacon.
"We actually started the whole idea with tropical flavors," Haupt said. "We started playing around with key lime. That was our first flavor."
With the new store comes something new: a full-blown coffee bar with flavored espresso and cappuccino. The French press coffees include flavors such as Macadamia nut and coconut to complement the Mon"Key" Bread, Haupt said.
Also available are chocolate confections, Naples Amazing Applez and Island Gold toffee-glazed puffed corn.
The new store is open daily, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 239-793-6203.
■ Brunina's Pizza & Pasta is expected to double in size by the end of the week in East Naples.
The pizzeria at 4330 Thomasson Drive in the Hammock Cove shopping center is expanding into the former bicycle store next door, increasing its restaurant space from 1,200 square feet to 2,400 square feet, said Giuseppe Carvelli. His mother, owner Brunina Carvelli, opened her self-named local restaurant in the spring of 2004.
Although the restaurant will double in size, the dining room will triple in size because the kitchen is not being enlarged, Giuseppe Carvelli said. A beer and wine bar with about a dozen bar stools is part of the addition, he said.
Pizza is Brunina's top-selling item, but the Italian restaurant has a full menu that includes homemade pasta, chicken, seafood and veal dishes. The eatery is open weekdays for lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and dinner weekends, 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 239-530-0084
■ Fifth Avenue Coffee Company has added the Sixth Street Diner to its business at 599 Fifth Ave. S. in Naples after undergoing a complete renovation, which began in April 2012.
Throughout the renovation, which included knocking out walls and adding a full kitchen, owners Frederik and Karen Overdijking were successful in maintaining the building's 1950s art deco façade and salvaging the interior floors that were part of the original 1954 building.
"We wanted to keep the Floridian feel of the structure," Frederik Overdijking said in a news release.
In addition to more space, the restaurant expanded its food options. The local business offers breakfast selections, salads, soups, sandwiches, paninis, wraps, hamburgers, hot dogs, fries, ice cream, milkshakes, and beer and wine.
Fifth Avenue Coffee Company & Sixth Street Diner also has more than 70 seats on its wraparound, outdoor patio. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 239-261-5757
■ Arbon's Diner is the new name for Silver Diner, which opened Nov. 5 in the former location of Talk of the Town and Mel's Diner on U.S. 41 in San Carlos Park. Owner Franke Zulbeari recently renamed his business after his young son.
Zulbeari, who formerly owned Franke's Family Restaurant in Fort Myers, opened his new diner in the freestanding building in Grand Bay Plaza, 19050 U.S. 41 S. 239-689-1570.
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Of all the bumper stickers that kept the fender of my old VW bug from falling off when I was in college, my favorite was one that read "Question Authority." To this day, it's something I live by — don't accept anything just because someone says, "This is the way it is." Probe it, dig into it, rip it apart and put it back together if that's what you have to do to get beyond the surface to the real deal.
It's actually fun, in a strange kind of way, to live life as a professional skeptic. But it's different when the authority I'm questioning is my own cultural baggage as a middle-class, middle-aged, liberal-leaning white American woman, as I found myself doing while researching this issue's cover series on how diversity issues play out at meetings. The more I dug in, the more I began questioning my own biases, both conscious and unconscious.
For example, by seeking out people of different races, ethnicities, and religions to interview about what makes them feel excluded at meetings, was I creating a magazine version of what one person called the "panel of marginalized people" who are only asked to participate when it comes time to talk about their particular culture, race, physical disability, or religion? After all, I normally don't give a thought to the cultural or religious background of the people I talk to for a story, nor do I have a clue what it might be in most cases. Should I be actively looking for nonmajority folks in other articles as well? Am I guilty of asking a select few people to speak for their entire race, religion, sexual orientation, or culture?
And where are all the people who think this diversity stuff is a bunch of bleeding-heart, politically correct hooey? I know that they must exist, but I couldn't find any who were willing to speak either on or off the record; Google wasn't much help with that one, nor was cold-calling a bunch of association meeting planners.
But the biggest question I was left with was whether all this emphasis on accommodating the differences between us, rather than the humanity we share, serves to pull us together or push us further apart. I'd bet every human on the planet has felt excluded, denigrated, alienated, or just "other," at some point. We all know how that feels, and it isn't good.
That's why, ultimately, I don't think embracing diversity means embracing religions, or races, or cultures. It means embracing each person for who and what they are. It means taking a long hard look at where we come from and how it affects our world views. It means learning, learning, learning about people who are different from ourselves. It means pulling everyone into the circle of your meeting and making them feel that they belong.
What do you think? Do you have an opposing view? Let's talk. Drop me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, or log on to blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face.


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A. Coursework: Candidates complete courses in the following three areas:
- General education courses (see college catalog or adviser)
- Courses in the major (see college catalog or adviser)
- Education Courses:
ED/EL 220, Introduction to Teaching
EL 416, Teaching Reading in the Secondary School
SD 550, Survey of Exceptionality
The PHASE I SEMESTER (9 credit hours)
ED 334, Classroom Management
ED 333, Principles of Secondary Education
ED 332, Educational Psychology
The PHASE II SEMESTER (14 credit hours)
ED 431, Professional Relations of Teachers
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- Meet the minimum scores on either the Pre-Professional Skills Tests (PPST): (Writing 172; Reading 173; Math 172); or Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP): Reading 57; Math 55; Writing score equivalent to PPST. All teacher education candidates (including those with degrees) must take these exams, meet these scores, and have them in hand by the Phase I semester's start.
- Complete 100 hours of supervised child advocacy service, Form A and B
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MA110, College Algebra (or equivalent)
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Drywall is an industry approved method according the the TCNA when used underneath Kerdi. You do NOT want them to mud and tape the seams where you are going to install the membrane, the thinset and membrane will provide that function. When installed properly no moisture from the shower will get beneath the membrane and the drywall stays dry, retaining all strength it had upon installation.
Installing cbu, and I'd guess (haven't looked recently) the fiberglass faced backer boards, are also one of the listed approved backers. Because you have a lot of area to spread the thinset on, if you use cbu, you want to wipe it down with a wet sponge to do two things: remove any dust and to provide some moisture so it doesn't suck it all from the thinset, making it dry, which is then hard to embed the membrane's fleece into properly.
Schluter has decades of history of using drywall, but they also list other materials that are suitable...go with the one you prefer, but in any case, done right, none of them are a problem waiting to happen. If you had a leak from say the plumbing, cbu would likely survive, drywall might not depending on how bad and how long it went before discovery, so that is a strike against that...but, consider all other areas in the house where there's drywall and plumbing behind it...do you worry about that, too? Plumbing does not magically leak. Obviously, it can, but it's not all that common unless disturbed or incorrectly installed (same with the membrane). Do it right, do it once, and don't worry.


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Arco Arena in Sacramento, California July 7th, 2007 UFC 73 was called Stacked because the fight card was so stacked that MMA legend Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, lightweight champ Sean Sherk and UFC headliner Tito Ortiz were all fighting on the undercard! Unfortunately, the only matchup on the fight card that wasnt impressive was the main event. With all the talent in the middleweight division, one could imagine a more challenging fight for the champ than Nate Marquardt, whose four wins in the UFC have come over opponents with a combined UFC record of 6 wins and 8 losses.
NATE MARQUARDT vs. ANDERSON SILVA MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE
On the face of it, it didnt look like the unheralded Nate Marquardt had much of a chance against a monster like Anderson Silva, who has destroyed everyone put in front of him. But the exiting thing about the UFC is that there are so many ways to win a fight that anything can happen. Boxers only have the knockout punch to fall back on while an MMA fighter can also pull off a knockout leg kick, a knee to the head or catch his opponent in a submission hold and tap him out. Nate has good hands and is also effective on the ground. This is an area he hopes will give him the edge over Silva.
That being said, Anderson Silva can flat put your lights out. His smothering Muay Thai practically re-arranged the face of then champion Rich Franklin, causing him to undergo reconstructive surgery after the fight. Silva knocked Chris Leben loopy, a man known to have one of the toughest chins in the UFC. His last fight in March, Silva gamely dispatched Travis Lutter and answered critics who felt a jiu-jitsu fighter would be Silvas weakness. This is officially Silvas first title defense since Lutter didnt make weight and thus, was not a title fight.
For those that still think Silvas weakness is on the ground, Silva showed he is not afraid to be taken down by leading off the fight with a flying knee kick. It missed and ended up with Silva on his back. From there, much like the Lutter fight, Silva seemed perfectly at home trying submissions and tying up his opponent. After the ref stood them up, Silva eventually landed a big left hand. Later Anderson pulled a nice switch and ended up on top throwing bombs. Still standing over Marquardt and taking his time, he landed a big blow to the face and Nate curled up in a defensive position. Silva then reigned down several uncontested blows and the ref stopped the fight with 10 seconds left in the first round.
Silva remains the middleweight champ and improves his MMA record to 19-4. Marquardt drops to 28-7-1. Those who still think Silva cant handle a jiu-jitsu fighter should take a few jiu-jitsu lessons and jump into the Octagon with him. For right now, Silva looks unbeatable. Hell, maybe the UFC cant find anybody willing to fight Anderson Silva. But Marquardt did. So give him credit for being a fearless and courageous individual and doing what nobody else wants to do; fight Silva.
RASHAD EVANS vs. TITO ORTIZ
The Ultimate Fighter 1 (TUF1) winner Rashad Evans will face his biggest challenge against UFC legend Tito Ortiz. The undefeated Evans can answer the question once and for all, do these reality show winners have what it takes to beat the top ranked fighters of the UFC? Both of these guys are great wrestlers. Tito refuses to be a stepping stone and he is angry. He doesnt think this fight is befitting someone of his caliber.
The first round saw Ortiz controlling the fight, taking it to the ground and neutralizing Evans. Ortiz was stifling Evans and preventing him from mounting any kind of attack of his own. The lone exception being when Ortiz, facing the fence, got popped with a looping right hook from behind that opened up a cut under Ortiz right eye. But mostly, Evans was either hitting air or defending takedowns.
Evans came out dancing and bobbing for the second but both fighters seemed tentative being on their feet and not much happened over the next four minutes. Then, with a minute left, Tito took Rashad down and they took turns defending and grappling against the fence. Suddenly, the referee took a point from Tito for repeatedly holding onto the fence to avoid a takedown. Tito immediately cinched a very tight guillotine chokehold on Evans but time ran out.
Ortiz continued to neutralize Evans on the ground in the third and final round. Rashad was unable to mount an attack even when it was clear that Ortiz was moving sluggishly in the final two minutes. Rashad was finally able to get a takedown in the closing seconds but squandered the opportunity as time ran out.
All three judges scored this a 28-28 draw. Evans just did not do enough to win this fight. The point taken away from Tito was a gift for Evans as it kept the fight out of the win column for Tito. They both wanted a rematch and will probably get it, but that doesnt mean I will watch it. Titos record is now 16-5-1 while Evan is technically still undefeated at 15-0-1.
HERMES FRANCA vs. SEAN SHERK LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE
Brazilian Hermes Franca earned this title shot against American lightweight champion Sean Sherk by beating fan favorite and lightweight dynamo, Spencer Fisher in UFC Fight Night 8 in January. That and publicly begging UFC President Dana White in his post fight interview. Oh yeah, and Franca has also won 8 straight fights, all by stoppage. Sherk is making his first title defense since winning the vacant lightweight belt against Kenny Florian last October. Sherk is known for his inhuman training regiment and superhuman strength. Sherk had quit fighting at one point for financial reasons but came back after a more successful UFC reinstated the 155lb division.
Sherk controlled the entire first round on the ground, trying for submissions and twice getting full mount. Franca stayed calm and didnt sustain too much damage but definitely lost the round. To start the second, Sherk shot in for the takedown and received a knee in the face for his troubles. The knee from Hermes was right on the button and wouldve put any ordinary fighter to sleep. Sherk crumbled to the canvas and Hermes jumped on him. Sherk struggled to his feet right into a guillotine choke. Sherk escaped, took time to clear the cobwebs, and then continued his domination of Franca on the ground until the round ended. Round 2 probably went to Hermes but Sherk made it a close call. In the third, Sherk continued his dominating ground game, passing guard and trying submissions. Hermes kept escaping but wasnt scoring any points.
Hermes corner urged him to throw some leg kicks in the fourth and Hermes responded by landing another knee flush on Sherks face. Sherk somehow grabbed Franca, took him down and continued pounding like nothing happened. Sherk showed why he is champion, relentlessly going after Franca the entire round. The frustration and exhaustion showed on Francas face each time Sherk took him down. Round four went to Sherk and now its desperation time for Franca. For the fifth and final round, Sherk looked fresh while Hermes was breathing hard. More ground and pound from Sherk. Hermes was bleeding from the nose. This one was clearly over.
Franca was just overwhelmed by a better-conditioned athlete. Sean Sherk was simply too powerful and too strong. Sherk sent a message to all UFC lightweights. If you want his belt, you better be able to deal five full rounds of 100% domination. Sherk retains his belt and improves his MMA record to 36-2-1. Franca drops to 19-6 and didnt even look like he belonged in the same league as Sherk.
HEATH HERRING vs. ANTONIO RODRIGO NOGUEIRA
UFC President Dana Whites promise to bring the very best fighters in the world to the UFC results in this tune-up fight for Pride veteran and MMA legend, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Nogueira is a former heavyweight champion in the PRIDE fighting organization. He has beaten such celebrated fighters as Dan Henderson, Mirko Cro Cop and Bob Sapp. Tonight he is making his UFC debut against free-agent underachiever, Heath Herring, a man Nogueira has already defeated twice. Herring, a K1 and Pride veteran, was brought in to shake up the UFC heavyweight division but after a disappointing loss to Jake OBrien, he was demoted to the prelims of UFC 69 where he saved himself by beating up TUF 2 runner-up Brad Imes.
Nogueira came out and quickly took the fight to the ground. After a minute Heath squirmed free and the two stood and traded shots for the next 2 minutes. With Nogueira pressing the attack, he staggered Heath with a left jab and seconds later landed another jabby that bloodied Heaths nose. With 36 seconds left in the round, Herring landed a left kick right on the jaw that sent Nogueira to the canvas. Herring jumped on him and began landing the customary hammer throws that usually end the fight. So many times weve seen refs stop the fight but this ref wasnt going to have another high priced disappointment on his hands and he let the fight continue. Herring them jumped up and urged Nogueira to stand with him. With Nogueira woozy and wobbly, Herring couldnt land the knockout blow on a staggering target and the round ended. Missed opportunity. What a mistake!
In the second, Nogueira came out sluggish and still woozy. Instead of jumping all over him, Herring came out cautiously giving Nogueira precious time to recover. After a minute and a half of circling, Nogueira seemed like his old self and started to attack. Nogueira took him down and quickly got full mount but Heath escaped and stood up. Nogueira continue to press the attack, landing left jabs while Heath kept trying more left leg kicks.
Herring ate more left jabs in the third. Nogueira then easily took him down and Herring rolled onto his back. Nogueira sunk in a rear naked choke but Herring escaped. Back on their feet, Nogueira bullied Herring to cinch the unanimous decision.
Heath is going to have plenty of time to kick himself watching the replay as his 1-2 UFC record should keep him on the un-televised prelim fights. As for Nogueira, he looked very average and very beatable. His UFC debut was less than spectacular but he certainly gets points for coming back from a devastating knockdown to get the win.
ALVIN ROBINSON vs. KENNY FLORIAN
Alvin Robinson is going to have his hands full making his UFC debut against highly regarded Muay Thai specialist Kenny Florian. Florian suffered a minor setback in his rising career when he lost his shot at the vacant lightweight title to Sean Sherk in UFC 64. Florian responded by beating another fighter on the rise, Dokonjonosuke Mishima, on UFC Fight Night 9.
Florian was extremely busy tonight taking Robinson to the mat at will and keeping him there. With 47 seconds left in the first round, Kenny got full mount and pounded out a beating for 17 seconds before the ref stopped the fight.
Kenny improves to 9-3, Robinson loses his UFC debut and drops to 9-2. In his post fight comments with Joe Rogan, Kenny said he wants another crack at lightweight champion Sean Sherk and hinted that unlike Sherk, he (Florian) finishes fights (early and doesnt let them go to the judges scorecards).
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Two Fords that Run Fast and Slow
The Herman brothers love to hit the dirt whenever they can. They grew up exploring the desert in their mom's '79 Scout. From there, a love of off-roading led them to other 4WDs and at one point they each had lifted fullsize trucks for trail and backcountry exploring. However, they soon realized that they needed vehicles other than their daily drivers if they wanted to pursue more aggressive play in the dirt.
Both agreed on getting early Broncos and they soon had two of the classics in hand. From there, they've built on the Broncos over the years to get them to what you see today. The brothers also like to mix up their wheeling from running on the Baja Peninsula to crawling some of the rock canyons near Phoenix, Arizona, or the slickrock of Moab, Utah. They've chosen their powerplants to produce copious amounts of ponies but maintain good low end torque as well. They've also combined it with the gearing to go slow or fast, getting results that speak more of versatility than of compromise.
Both rigs have morphed from steel-body-on-frame classics to more skins-on-tubular-chassis, although underneath these hybrids is still some considerable Bronco heritage. The front of the bodies have been narrowed for visibility and clearance, and the back ends have been dove-tailed as well. The two Broncos are quite similar in many proven aspects but do differ where each brother expressed some specific preference.
Much of the chassis and suspension fabrication was left to master fabricator Rob Bonney at 4Wheelers Supply in Phoenix. The Hermans wanted Rob to fashion suspensions that could soak up some serious terrain and handle at speed, but also be predictable and stable when boulder crawling in washes. Rob brought his rock racing background to bear when doing the designs, and the results are impressive. Both Broncos are linked front and rear. They are set up with coilovers, bypass shocks and air bumps to manage spring and damping chores over a wide range of conditions.
We've run the desert and wheeled with George and Paul, and seen the Broncos in action. They've now got rigs built to go fast, and to go slow.


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