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The Clark's Michael Cassin to Lecture at the Albany Institute of History and Art
For Immediate Release
August 12, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA—On Thursday, August 22 at 5:30 pm, Michael Cassin, director of the Center for Education in the Visual Arts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, will present the lecture "The Wide Frontier: American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century." The free lecture will be held at the Albany Institute of History and Art, located at 125 Western Avenue in Albany, New York. Visit albanyinstitute.org for more information and directions.
Cassin will provide an overview of the history and changes in American landscape painting during the course of the nineteenth century, a time of unprecedented turmoil and growth in the nation's history. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the annexation of Hawaii in 1896, the possibilities for American landscape painters became virtually limitless. In particular, Cassin will highlight the work of Winslow Homer, Frederic Church, Albert Bierdstadt, and the Hudson River School.
"I'm particularly looking forward to this talk, as nineteenth-century American landscape painting is so well represented in the Albany Institute's collection, and the Clark's summer exhibitions celebrate the work of two of America's greatest landscape painters—Winslow Homer and George Inness," Cassin said.
About the Clark
Set amidst 140 acres in the Berkshires, the Clark is one of the few major art museums that also serves as a leading international center for research and scholarship. The Clark presents public and education programs and organizes groundbreaking exhibitions that advance new scholarship. The Clark's research and academic programs include an international fellowship program and conferences. Together with Williams College, the Clark sponsors one of the nation's leading master's programs in art history. The Clark receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open daily in July and August (open Tuesday through Sunday from September through June), 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is $15 June 1 through October 31; free November through May; and free year-round for Clark members, children 18 and younger, and students with valid ID. For more information, visit clarkart.edu or call 413 458 2303. The Clark's library is closed for renovation through September 3, 2013.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes The 2011 Chardonnay Unfiltered exhibits notes of white peaches and honeysuckle, a beautiful, medium to full-bodied texture, superb purity, good acidity and a sensual finish. This highly successful 2011 can be consumed over the next 3-4 years.
Cellar/Tasting Notes Donelan's 2011 Chardonnay Nancie is pretty and expressive. Another wine with lovely textural depth and nuance, the 2011 is laced with dried apricots, nectarines, flowers and mint, all of which come together in the glass. Though medium in body, the 2011 impresses for its soft, caressing personality..
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Against the backdrop of the fact that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks went mainstream in 2011, security vendor Radware has stated in its new Monday-released report that it is chiefly the Anonymous hacking group which popularized DDoS attacks with its widespread distribution of easy-to-use DDoS tools like low-orbit ion cannon.
With the report noting that the "turning point" which shaped the security scenario last year was essentially the 'Operation Payback' campaign during the 2010 WikiLeaks episode, it has become extremely important for businesses and government agencies to take necessary measure to defy DDoS attacks.
In order to plan their strategies to fight DDoS attacks and to lessen the impact of DDoS attacks on their websites, servers, databases, and other essential infrastructure, business and government agencies should remember that all sites are 'vulnerable' to such attacks; adequate beforehand planning to avert the risk of the attacks; and that DDoS attacks, though cheap to launch, are difficult to stop.
DDoS attacks can also be prevented by organizations by securing potential bottlenecks; actively monitoring the network; and looking beyond the seemingly large attacks, especially since Radware statistics show that 76 percent of the 40 DDoS attacks in 2011 involved less than 1Gbps of bandwidth.
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Thick Wall Cylinder Benchmark Problem
Model ID: 275
A thick wall cylinder is exposed to both internal and external pressure and thermal load.
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The Green Bay Packers have had a disappointing season after being one play away from the Super Bowl last year. It has been shown this year why we are the youngest team in the NFL, losing 7 games by 5 points or fewer. Our inexperiance is killing us late in games.
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SIDPlayer is a replayer program for C64 music (SID tunes), running under BeOS and Unix. You can think of it as being a stripped-down C64 emulator that only emulates the CPU and the sound chip of the C64. SIDPlayer can be used as a stand-alone player or, under BeOS, as a plug-in for CL-Amp and SoundPlay.
TinySID is a very small SID player. Current features include 99% 6510 CPU emulation and fat 6581 SID emulation including filters (which sound different to other players). It has nothing to do with other projects such as SIDPlay, and the 6510/6581 emulation is based on routines by Tammo Hinrichs that have been further developed.
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Elizabethton broke out the old "Ebenezer Scrooge" defense on Friday night and laid one "Bah Humbug" spanking on Unicoi County. A stingy defense limited the Blue Devils to only three dozen points in the Cyclones' 57-36 win.
The Cyclones played once again without its leading scorer Aaron Miller, who is out with a stress fracture in his foot — but they compensated well in his absence. Seven players of its nine players in uniform scored and half-dozen had six or more.
"We got off to a great start in the first quarter and we've told our kids how important that was," said Elizabethton coach Lucas Honeycutt. "We came out ready to play and I liked that. We're playing well in practice and it's starting to translate over into games. These guys are starting to understand what it takes for us to be a good basketball team."
The score was tied at 4 when 'Betsy took the lead for good. Will Robinson got free for a deuce on the inside, then Hunter Combs tickled the twine for three from the outside. The Cyclones got a huge boost from their sixth man Alex Baughman, who nailed a pair of jumpers when his services were summonsed.


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It is the year 1843. A villager was walking home from a long days work. The full moon rose. An anguished howl ripped through the small town of Northmoore. The villager looked up, and saw a neighbour of his, writhing with pain in an alley nearby. "Hey- are you faring alright there?" The villager asked, walking slowly closer. The neighbour whipped around, neither man nor beast anymore. The villager screamed and ran, but was pinned to the ground by the pursuing monster. "NO- PLEASE- AAAAUGH!"
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Alright, this is a sort of Mafia-like game thing. I joined a simular one two years ago as my first RP. It died, but I'd like to see if I can do better.
There are a number of jobs for different villagers. They all wish to find the Werewolf and have it killed. Each night, everyone votes on who they would kill if they were the wolf. The player controling the Wolf's vote is the killing vote. The killing vote, as implied, kills the person who is voted for. If the wolf drops out of the RP, a new one is selected.
So who will win? Man... or beast?
Ghost (The spirit of the murdered person. If contacted by Medium, he/she will frame who he/she thinks was the killer)
Medium (can contact ghosts.)
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The box office is only open on show nights and matinee days. We strongly encourage you to purchase or reserve your seats ahead of time in case we sell out.
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We only accept cash, checks and money orders at the venue.
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- Ticket sales for each performance close a few hours before the performance begins (6PM on Fridays and Saturdays, 12PM on Sundays).
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All group sales must be purchased in advance and cannot be purchased at the door. Groups of 10 or more will receive a discount of 20%, so each ticket is only $12.00. The recommended method is to purchase them with a credit card using the module above (Powered by BrownPaperTickets) by selecting the date you wish to attend and choosing a number of tickets next to the admission level marked "Group Tickets." This method is instantaneous and ensures you payment is received before the show! If you would prefer to pay via check or money order, please send it to PO Box 444, Hatboro, PA 19040. Please include:
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- The date in which you wish to attend
- An evening telephone number
The reservation line is available 24 hours a day but you MUST call before 5:30pm on the night you wish to reserve for. We cannot guarantee reservations left after 5:30pm on show nights. Your tickets will be held at the door, unless you are notified otherwise.
Season Tickets
Season tickets get you a ticket into all four regular season productions for the price of three. They are sold in our lobby during performances of our June productions only. Or if you'd prefer, you may download & print this form (.PDF format) to mail in with your payment. We also have a pile of these forms in the lobby which you may pick up during your next visit to the theater. Season tickets guarantee you the same seat, which you pick when you buy the tickets, for one performance of each of the 4 plays for the season. Buying season tickets also allows you to avoid waiting in line to buy tickets on show night, but rather walk right in and look around the lobby or get comfortable in your seat.
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Question types: Pattern match
Maintained by Tim Hunt, Jamie Pratt, Phil Butcher
Allows a short response of one or a few sentences that is graded by comparing against various model answers, which are described using the OU's pattern match syntax.
Moodle 2.3, 2.4
This plugin is part of set Open University. Plugins from the set work the best when installed together.
There are working examples in eAssessment with Moodle on our OpenLearn site.
The documentation is in How to create questions in Moodle on that site.
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- Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 1:02 AMI am using vesion 2.21+ and when i attempt to save a question the page goes blank page, any thoughts on why this could be?
- Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 2:49 AMi'm receiving the message 'unrecognised expression' above any possible answers I type. What am I doing wrong?
- Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 12:23 PM@tim please could you turn on debugging mode ie. turn on the display of errors and set the debugging level to developer as described here : http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Debugging
Then report the error you see here and we can look into what might cause it.
- Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 12:25 PM@llywelyn do you see this error when trying to save a new question as a teacher or when attempting the question??
If you see it when you are creating a new question as a teacher then I expect it is because the pmatch expression you have written has errors.
- Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 3:23 PMHi Jamie. It''s when I save a question. An example of an answer I used to test was 'They were Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer'
I've tried looking for tutorials on the OU site but can't find any.
- Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 3:29 PM@llywelyn see the syntax description here http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=470268§ion=5.3.1
- Thu, Oct 4, 2012, 5:04 AMthanks jamie. will take a look.
- Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 2:51 PMSeem to be getting an error during installation. We are using xampp for windows with php 5.3.5 and Pspell is missing in the latest php versions. Any suggestions?
- Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 3:36 PMWhat error message?
- Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:53 AMThis looks amazing, are there any language specific algorithms, or should it work in most languages?
- Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:54 PMIt should work in most languages where writing is made up of words separated by sentences. It is actually a feature that it is a pretty 'dumb' text-matching algorithm, that does not try to do anything too sophisticated with grammar or linguistics. If you look at the published research (Google scholar search for Sally Jordan and Phil Butcher) then you will see that we found that approach more effective.
Actually, we should add the links to the published papers here when we get a moment.
- Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:58 PMThe reference is already in the documentation on labspace.
- Wed, Jan 8, 2014, 9:43 PMThis Moodle 2.5 version worked fine in Moodle 2.6. However, as N. Hari spotted above, pspell is no longer available everywhere. PHP is moving in the direction of the 'enchant' spell-checking library, and I have just released a new version (for Moodle 2.5 and 2.6) where you can choose in the admin screens whether this qtype should use pspell or enchant.
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Ceramic Coating. These Shorty Headers are completed in Ford Racing's Jet-Hot ceramic coating that not only looks great, but reduce under hood temperatures to help increase horsepower and extend the life of the headers. Ceramic Coated headers will long out last both chrome plated and polished headers.
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Why No XJs?
I was just wondering, after looking through your project builds, why don't you have any of the most popular, most commonly used off-road vehicles? I just got back into the off-road scene and subscribed, and I looked at your site. No XJs? It is the most commonly used and upgraded 4x4 out there. I am so hooked; I bought my first one three weeks ago instead of buying a side-by-side. In the last three weeks I bought two more. My wife has her own now and loves it. I was disappointed to see you don't have any XJ projects.
Superior, WY
We have had plenty of XJ projects in the past, and will have more of them in the future. The idea isn't to build a killer ride the first time out, but to do it like most of our readers and gradually improve upon the base vehicle. Here is a shot of our next XJ project (we hope). It's a '90 and bone stock, with about 150K on her. It needs a fuel sending unit and a rear main, and then it can hit the dirt.
Readers, how about an idea list of sensible upgrades so we can get it going?
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Hey guys, love the magazine. I just wanted to comment on Fred Williams' cross-country trip in the CJ-5 (Apr. and May '12 ). Great article, and it sounds like a lot of fun traveling across the country in an old open-top Jeep. Awesome adventure. But I was disappointed to see that Fred didn't get to make it onto the beach in his Jeep. He was just at the wrong beach!
About 25 miles north of Long Beach Island is another barrier island where you can drive on the beach. Just south of Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, New Jersey, is a great state park where you can drive onto the beach. Island Beach State Park is a wonderful park full of great scenery and history, definitely worth the trip if you happen to be in the area again. Most locals have a pass that needs to be renewed once a year, but visitors can be issued a single day or weekend pass to the park.
There are some requirements if you wish to be issued a pass. Four-wheel drive is a must (obviously), but vehicles must also be equipped with a fire extinguisher and recovery equipment such as towstraps and chains, shovels, and at least a 1-foot by 1-foot by 1-inch piece of plywood with a bottle jack so that you have a sturdy place for the base of the jack so that it does not sink in the sand, as well as a first aid kit.
Once in the park and on the beach you can drive all the way to the Barnegat Inlet, which separates Island Beach State Park from Long Beach Island. On the other side of the inlet is the old Barnegat Light House, which is cool to see. If parked for an extended period of time, you are supposed to have fishing poles in the ocean and in pole holders in the sand. You can go surfing if you like to, or camp overnight on the beach. It is a great place to have fun with the whole family.
I live in the very small town of Beachwood, very close to the beach. So here in Ocean County I think we have a lot to offer. The beach is about 15 minutes east of where I live, and then we have tons of woods and great places to go wheeling in the Pine Barrens 10 minutes west and southwest. So if you happen to be traveling back this way anytime, there is a lot more to see, and Island Beach State Park is a must.
I also included a picture of my Jeep, a '90 XJ two-door, about 11-inch custom lift, Rusty's long arms with 9-inch coils, and adjustable spacers in the front, 61⁄2-inch leaf springs with 13⁄4-inch shackles and 2-inch blocks (a little bit hack, I know) in the rear, Dana 44 high-pinion with 5.38s and welded diff (not for much longer) and Warn premium hubs and hydro-assist and high steer in the front, Ford 9-inch with 5.38s and welded diff not for much longer) and disc brakes in the rear, 38x16.5x15 TSLs, and a 4.0 H.O. from a '95 Grand Cherokee with an AX-15 tranny with a Centerforce Dual Friction Stage 3. She's almost done—just gotta do brake lines and fab up some shock mounts. Keep up the great work, guys!
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That sounds like a killer trip. Driving on the beach is something every wheeler should do at least once. Thanks for the update on coastal cruising!
Ultimate Adventure Orange JK
I'm asking about that new orange Jeep of yours. It seems everything you did to it has turned it yellow. At least that's how it appears in your Nov. '12 issue. I know you do some weird and cool vehicles for the Ultimate Adventure, but that is the first one I've seen so scared that it turned another color! Seriously, there was no mention in the continuing article about the new paint. Perhaps it is in the last installment?
I wish you would have covered a little history of rear steer with this Jeep. A lot of people will think this is really something new. In jeep-type vehicles, both the Bantam BRC and the Ford GP were made, albeit in limited numbers, with rear-wheel steer. However, the intended user didn't want it for two reasons. One, it was more complicated, adding to supply headaches; and two, they were very unstable at anything other than low speed.
Also, in the mid 1930s, Daimler Benz made a little convertible that the German Military purchased called the 170 V and the 170 VL. The VL was all-wheel drive, and some had rear-wheel steer. The all-wheel steers were found to be unstable deathtraps. Mind you, this was a small four-door vehicle with as much horsepower as an early VW Bug. So how do you keep from killing yourselves with the new UA vehicle? I guess I'll have to stay tuned, eh?
And Rick, welding in sandals is really cool. Who needs toes or feet anyway? Great magazine y'all have!
Jake Hice
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Actually, Jake, the color is orange, and so is the wrap! The color differences you see are from the printing inks and the lights in your home, even the light on the day the photo was taken—everything affects the color reproduction. When the DVD comes out you will see the same thing.
As for rear steer, yes, I have investigated the old jeeps with that feature, and they are cool but indeed complicated. For us, a simple lockout mechanism for the rear-steer feature is engaged so our UAJK tracks straight and true at highway speeds.


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Learn how to sculpt an alternate 3-D universe out of fabric, from vines and flower to outrageous animals. We will make a complete three-dimensional landscape by combining our individual class samples to make a collective jungle scene. Explore the use of color, value, and scale to enhance the depth of a piece, as well as learning to create gesture, form, and movement in fabric. Intermediate sewing skills are required.*
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Supplies: Bring your own sewing machine with zig-zag capability. If you do not own a machine, call (916) 808-1182 to inquire about borrowing a machine. The Crocker has a limited number of machines available.
Instructor: Susan Else
*You should be familiar with running your sewing machine and have completed at least two simple projects (such as a bag, pillow, baby quilt, or simple garment). This class should not be your first exposure to sewing.
This class is currently full. To have your name added to the waiting list, please call 916.808.1182.
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Susan Else grew up in a family of artists, but spent the first 20 years of her working life in other fields. She turned to art-making in her forties, pursuing a long-term interest in textiles. Her work has developed in tandem with the art quilt movement, but she is one of the few artists exploring the sculptural, as opposed to painterly, qualities of the quilt medium. Her sculpture has been widely exhibited and collected, and she teaches her 3-D sewing techniques at fiber guilds, art centers, and museums across the country and abroad.


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Oppose the Frederick/Carroll County Waste to Energy Facility
We the undersigned hereby affirm our opposition to the Frederick /Carroll County Waste-to-Energy Incinerator located at the McKinney Industrial Park in Frederick, MD. This project, if completed, will not only dirty the air, soil, and water that serve as the backbone for our highly productive farmland, pastures, and waterways, but also will cause irreversible impacts to the health of our growing community.
This incinerator will not only cost the taxpayers of Frederick County 100's of millions annually over the next 30 years, but it will also have a negative impact on housing prices, local markets and restaurants that rely on "organic" farming, and businesses that depend on tourism driven by Frederick County's vibrant outdoor natural resources and the deep history of the Monocacy National Battlefield.
We urge Frederick County to pursue cleaner alternatives that prevent waste and create local jobs and revenues through reuse, recycling, composting and other strategies.
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Keep the incinerator out of Frederick, MD. Protect the health of our children. It is too close to public schools.
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Dear County Commissioners of Frederick County,
Please reconsider and do not sign financial agreements to proceed with building an incinerator in Frederick County. A large problem such as the amount of garbage we generate will not be solved through one pathway. Also, it is counter-intuitive to believe that starting a business that relies on lots of trash to keep solvent financially will enhance our community.
Please take the opportunity of Carroll County backing out of their financial commitment to pause and focus on other ways that can add up to reducing our landfill needs.
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If the incinerator is built, I am absolutely positive that more and more people will move out of Fredrick county.
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September and October are always busy months around here.
The girls head back to school and in addition to all of the new
routines with bus stops, homework, and packing lunches my inbox gets
flooded with requests for volunteer opportunities at school.
It's also the time of year when all of the school fundraisers start or get planned.
Word gets out that I'm artsy and crafty and before you know it I'm being
recruited to make posters, flyers, silent auction class project items, etc. !
I was recently reading a (very timely) article over at Mom's Homeroom website
written by the Scholastic Staff about "Putting the 'Fun' in Fundraising."
They did a really great job about how to break down
school fundraising projects into manageable chunks.
I have always found the pressure of school fundraising
to be very stressful and intimidating!
You want the fundraiser to do well so your kids can experience great opportunities
for their schools like scholarships and cultural events but I am never
comfortable asking people to donate money.
The Mom's Homeroom article is written like a "how-to manual"
on how to run a successful school fundraiser.
I wish had this article a few years ago when I was being recruited
by our daughter's preschool to help with their annual silent auction!
Projects like that always stress me out.
for my daughter's schools over the past few years.
When I was working on these projects,
I couldn't find a lot of examples online
with ideas for things like Silent Auction Class Projects.
My original post about some of the Silent Auction Projects from 2010 can be found here.
For the Silent Auction projects for my daughter's preschool, I had a very small budget.
I saved up my Michaels and JoAnnes craft store coupons and
purchased unfinished wood projects, tun lunch boxes, and picture frames.
The kids were very young so I had to keep the projects simple enough
for them but cute enough to get their parents to bid some money on them!
I primed and painted the wood projects with simple colors at home.
I came up with a theme for each class's project.
Themes included things like:
Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar
Frogs in Space (for the "Frog's Class")
Woodland Animals for the "Cardinal" and "Bear" classes
Flower Garden for the "Bee" and "Dragon Fly" classes
Then scheduled time to visit each classroom and sit in the back
to collect finger prints from each of the students.
Helpful Tips: I set up a little station with washable acrylic paint and baby wipes
to clean fingers. I also had a chart/sketch of the project that I wrote each child's name on
so I could label the project at home with sharpie after the paint dried.
I added details to the finger prints to transform them into things like
bugs, critters, frogs, flowers, etc.
This is the finished Woodland Animals child-size chair.
Each child's fingerprint was turned into a critter and I
labeled their names with sharpie. After everything dried, I sealed the projects
with clear acrylic sealant.
This was a tea tray garden scene with each child's fingerprint
transformed into an insect - we also painted a "Hand Wash Only"
glass flower vase this way!
For this Eric Carle Hungry Caterpillar Collage, I cut out the fruit
with paper and used each child's fingerprint as the holes from the caterpillar!
This was probably my favorite project. With the 4 and 5 year olds,
I gave each child a paper house shape and asked them to decorate them
with oil pastels. I assembled them all into a big framed collage with an
"It takes a village" quote in the bottom corner. I can't take credit for this
awesome idea, I found it on the Laugh, Paint, Create blog.
Check out her post here to see the wonderful collages she made with her students!
This year, the elementary school is taking a break from the usual
wrapping paper, cookie-dough, etc type sales and doing a
"Plain Vanilla" fundraiser. No frills.
Just asking every family to donate $20 per kid in the school.
We're having some ice cream themed socials (think: ice cream parties
and root beer floats for participation) It's super easy and I think everyone
appreciates it's simplicity this year. I made the giant ice cream cone with scoops
for the front lobby -- we're coloring it in as we reach our fundraising goal.
Whatever kind of fundraising project you do for your kids,
remember that it is for a good cause and volunteering your time
and talent to your child's school helps -- every little bit does make a difference!
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What if you couldn't practice clinical dentistry anymore?
The possibility of ever having a disability no doubt seems at best a remote possibility to most dental students, new dentists and even practicing dentists. But, disability happens—not often, but if you are the one it happens to, it can be devastating.
Clinical dentistry is physically demanding in some very specific ways. Backs, necks, shoulders, wrists and hands that for some reason are vulnerable to injury may be challenged by a combination of position, repetitive motion, stress, and even leisure activities. Some impairments—a fine tremor, for example—would not be disabling for another kind of work, but may prove to be that for a dentist.
Some disabilities are temporary, and others permanent. The challenge for dentists who find themselves in this situation is to look for the possibilities in what may seem to be impossible circumstances. The ADA can help you with this!
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- Some dentists have formed 'co-ops' to cover each other's practices if the worst should happen. The ADA offers "Guidelines for the Development of Mutual Aid Agreements in Dentistry", included in a booklet of practice management materials that can be ordered by calling 312-440-2895 or ext. 2895 on the ADA member toll-free number ($10 members, $15 non-members).
- Your state dental society may have information about dentists who are available to do short-term practice coverage in your area.
Who might be able to help you think creatively about ways to reshape your career so as to capitalize on your internal resources and the rich experiences you've had?
- Does your dental school have a career placement service available to alumni that could be a resource?
- What about calling your state dental society to see if they can help you network with another dentist with a disability?
- Would you be interested in combining your dental background with other expertise you may have, such as in research and teaching, dental consulting for an insurance company or a dental manufacturer, or public policy development and administration on oral health care?
- The Council on Access, Prevention and Interprofessional Relations (CAPIR) offers alternate dental careers information for dentists looking for careers outside of private practice. For additional information, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com; an ADA representative will contact you within 24 hours.
- Would additional education open some doors for you?
- No-interest retraining loans are available through the ADA Foundation. Get more information online or by calling 312-440-2763 or ext. 2763 on the ADA member toll-free number.
Could you continue dental practice by using adaptive equipment or adapt physically through retraining?
- Have a professional evaluation of your functional capacity or activities of daily living, and learn skills for adapting. Large medical centers have such resources or your physician can provide a referral.
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- Valuing a Practice: A Guide for Dentists and Associateships: A Guide for Owners and Prospective Associates are two publications available from the ADA Catalog or call 800-947-4746.
- A Directory of Dental Practice Appraisers and Brokers is available online.
- Closing A Dental Practice: A Guide for the Retiring Dentist or Surviving Spouse contains information on closing a practice at retirement, on account of a disability that prohibits practice or as the surviving spouse.
- Download: Closing a Dental Practice: A Guide for the Retiring Dentist or Surviving Spouse (PDF)
- To order a printed copy of the guide through the Council on Dental Practice, please call 312-440-2895, or ask for ext. 2895 through the ADA member toll-free number
Staying Connected
Becoming disabled, even if you have to leave clinical practice, doesn't mean you're no longer a dentist! The ADA offers a Dues Waiver Form for continued membership to eligible disabled dentists. Completed forms go first to the local dental society for review and approval. Approved applications are sent to the state society. The state society then sends it for final processing by the ADA. Information on how to apply is available from your state association. Or you may obtain online the Dues Waiver form needed by your local society to determine your eligibility.
For information on a variety of insurance issues, see the resources available from the Insurance Matters section of this site. You may also call the Council on Members Insurance and Retirement Programs at 312-440-2885.
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National Library of Medicine
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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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For the third straight year, Bright House Networks came out on top of a survey that was based on customer experience. On the other hand, Comcast finished at the bottom of the 2014 Temkin Experience Ratings, which was conducted for the fourth year by the Temkin Group.
Report: Dish, DirecTV engage in merger talksMarch 27, 2014 11:57 am | by Associated Press | Comments
Shares of satellite TV companies Dish and DirecTV surged in midday trading Wednesday after a report said that Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen had contacted DirecTV CEO Mike White about merging. Bloomberg News reported Ergen initiated the discussion in response to Comcast Corp.'s pending $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc., which was announced last month. The news service cited several unnamed sources.
Astro taps S3 for test automationMarch 26, 2014 1:26 pm | by Brian Santo | Comments
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TiVo locks up deal with WaveDivisionMarch 26, 2014 12:54 pm | by Mike Robuck | Comments
TiVo has notched another customer win by announcing a deal with WaveDivision Holdings, which offers triple play services through its Wave Broadband and Astound brands. WaveDivision is going all in with TiVo on a co-branded version of its whole-home DVR platform, which is slated to go live mid-year.
Nagra/Kudelski buying ConaxMarch 26, 2014 12:50 pm | by CED | Comments
The Swiss group is buying Conax for roughly $256 million. Nagra/Kudelski said Conax will fit in with the company's portfolio of products for service providers, including its OpenTV5 middleware, multiscreen/OTT solutions and SmarDTV's advanced conditional access modules.
Cox Media takes geographic-based ads for a trial spinMarch 26, 2014 12:46 pm | by Mike Robuck | Comments
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Facebook buying virtual-reality company for $2BMarch 26, 2014 12:39 pm | by Associated Press | Comments
Facebook is buying virtual reality company Oculus, betting $2 billion that its technology will become a new way for people to communicate, learn or be entertained. Irvine, California-based Oculus VR Inc. makes the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that's received a lot of attention from video game developers.
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Liberty Global's Bill Warga will add an international flavor to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' board of directors when he joins in September. Warga, vice president, technology and a member of the chief architecture group for Liberty Global, will replace Time Warner Cable's Mike LaJoie.
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Disney said Monday that it is buying YouTube channel operator Maker Studios for $500 million as the family entertainment giant seeks to stay in front of younger viewers who are increasingly watching short videos online. It's the latest and largest acquisition of a YouTube channel network by a major Hollywood studio and represents another vote of confidence in the video service as an incubator of talent.
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After months of open suspicion that Huawei is party to Chinese espionage, press reports allege that the U.S. has hacked Huawei equipment. The report alleges the U.S. spying activity began around the time that concerns were growing in Washington that the telecommunications equipment manufacturer was a threat to U.S. national security.
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AUSTIN -- As the first Republican Speaker of the U.S. House in 40 years, Newt Gingrich led a Republican House under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
Despite heated disagreement which led to a temporary government shutdown, the president and legislature nevertheless managed to cut taxes, pass sweeping welfare reform and the first balanced budget in nearly three decades.
Scheduled to speak to students Thursday at the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, the legislator-turned conservative pundit sat down with KVUE to discuss the state of political discourse then and now.
"I worked with President Reagan at a time when the Democrats controlled the house," said Gingrich. "We had to get one out of every three Democrats to vote with us in order to get the Reagan tax program through in order to grow the economy. I worked with President Bill Clinton. You had a Republican Speaker of the House who was a solid conservative. You had a moderate liberal Democrat in the White House. We had to look beyond our partisan and our ideological views to get anything done."
Redistricting efforts in states such as Texas have created voting districts virtually guaranteed to elect one party or the other, shifting the battle for office from the general election to the party primary. As a result, lawmakers may face the decision between achieving workable compromise or alienating hard-line partisans who vote in the primary elections. Asked which choice is more important, Gingrich argued it's not that simple.
"Leadership can bring people to accomplish things without an automatic, 'I've got to vote my base or I've got to vote my primary,' but I think it does take real work. There's no question the American system has always been the most complicated system in the world. It's probably why we've remained as free as we have. It's virtually impossible for a dictator to make it work."
The idea of compromise may seem nostalgic to many today. Hyper-partisan politics driven by the extremists in either party has approval for the current congress barely above single digits. Even as Texas Republicans during the primary season fought to out-flank opponents on the right, Gingrich dismisses the idea that moderate conservatives have outlived their usefulness.
"I don't know that I'd say it that way. First of all, you have a very wide range of people in the U.S. Senate and in the U.S. House, and I think we're clearly the conservative party just as the Democrats are clearly the liberal party," said Gingrich.
"I do think we have polarized more as a country over the last 30 years, but I think that's real," Gingrich said. "I don't think that's just the parties. I think the country, if you look at how the country's evolved, there are probably bigger gaps than there were 30 years ago."
Gingrich concedes that addressing the growing gap is a difficult enterprise.
"I think you have to have leadership that paints a vivid image of the future and that convinces people that there is something worth working for that is so important that it transcends our partisanship," said Gingrich. "I think Governor Romney understands this. He worked with an 85 percent Democratic legislature in Massachusetts. I think he has a plan to actually reach out to Democrats from day one, and I think that's a very important part of this."
With most recent polling showing the presidential race within the margin of error, buzz has begun over whether the 2012 election could result in a scenario similar to that of 2000 in which Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote and Republican George W. Bush won the electoral vote, handing Bush the victory in a split result.
"Well it technically could happen, but I think that it's very likely that one or the other will actually win both the popular vote and the electoral vote," said Gingrich. "I think the momentum seems to be with Romney, and if you look at the track of the last three weeks or four weeks, I would say right now he's moving towards a decisive victory and one which could well put him above 300 electoral votes."
Aside from jobs and the economy, Gingrich said President Obama or President Romney will face a host of immediate and significant challenges to begin 2013.
"I think they're going to face a huge problem in Europe with the collapse of the Euro Zone," said Gingrich. "They're going to face a continuing problem in the Middle East with the radicalization of Islamists in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan. These are big challenges. They're going to face the continued rise of China. Frankly they're going to face a pure fiscal crisis in the first 90 days that they're going to have to find some way to muddle through and probably buy time to spend a year or more solving."
As a contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Gingrich shared the debate stage with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Each saw his own presidential fortunes rise and fall before leaving the race and Perry's political aspirations beyond Texas have continued to be a subject of speculation despite his conspicuous exit.
"I think if Governor Romney wins, obviously he's going to run for reelection in 2016, and at that point I suspect Governor Perry will be supporting him," said Gingrich. "On the other hand Rick Perry is one of the most talented and competent people I know. I think that he has great potential, and I think if there is an opening that he would certainly be one of the people on the short list of who could run."
A lightning rod in the political world, Gingrich has earned his share of controversy. As speaker, many criticized Gingrich for implying he was willing to shut down the federal government over a personal slight by then President Clinton.
Gingrich took heat from Republicans before resigning from the position as speaker, and has continued to irk many within his own party by refusing to toe the line on issues such as climate change. More recently, a promise during his 2012 presidential campaign turned heads nationwide.
"We will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American," Gingrich told a crowd of supporters in Florida while running for the GOP nomination in January of 2012. It was a goal he promised to accomplish within two presidential terms, or eight years.
"I think if we restructured NASA, move to a prize-oriented, incentivized private sector approach, we could get back to the moon for about ten percent of what NASA thinks it would cost and we could do it probably within seven to ten years," Gingrich said Thursday.
Like millions of Americans, Gingrich said he watched skydiver Felix Baumgartner's 128,000 foot jump from the "edge of space" as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. Asked whether he envisions the future of spaceflight to consist of similar commercial endeavors, Gingrich embraced the idea.
"Take a look at your Android or your iPhone and then look at the post office," said Gingrich. "It just strikes me you want the kind of innovation and daring and risk-taking you see with Google and Apple, not the kind of bureaucracy you see in the government."
A government where compromise, like the moon, for now seems just out of reach.


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LONG ISLAND, NY -- Update, 6:20 p.m.: The second whale — a live baby — that washed ashore on a local beach Sunday afternoon was euthanized, in large because of the lack of resources to handle stranded, wild whales.
Kim Durham, the rescue program coordinator at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, said the male pygmy sperm whale was still breathing when discovered in the surf on Napeague, about one mile down from where a dead finback whale washed ashore earlier on Sunday.
Marine biologists decided to euthanize the young whale for several reasons.
"It showed signs of illness," Durham said, adding that the Riverhead Foundation had no tank available to rehabilitate it. "It was a very sad afternoon," she said.
The whale, which was about 5 feet long and 150 pounds and believed to be a yearling, showed poor body condition. Durham said its body was "sunken in behind the neck," a place biologists assess whales. It also had skin legions, which can indicate infection, she said.
Pygmy sperm whales, young or old, are off-shore species and found in warmer waters. "They are not supposed to be this close to shore," she said. "It is rare to have a pygmy sperm whale beached, whether it was dead or alive."
An adult pygmy sperm whale was discovered dead on the shore in West Hampton Dunes in May 2012. The 9-foot whale was underweight at about 800 pounds.
A big part of the decision to euthanize instead of rehabilitate, Durham said, is that Riverhead Foundation only has one 30-foot diameter tank at its facility at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, which is currently being inhabited by a harbor porpoise. "We don't have the resources for it," Durham said. "We can't put two species together in one tank and also we can't admit a new species into a tank with another that is already being rehabilitated."
Had it been another harbor porpoise, as was initially reported, they may have been able to rescue it and house it in a smaller tank, Durham said.
The harbor porpoise the foundation is currently rehabilitating was rescued from Maine. The Riverhead Foundation is the only tank for such mammals from Maine to Florida. It was transported to the Riverhead Foundation on Oct. 25, and is doing "remarkably well." It's release is expected within the month.
Sunday's occurances left many asking: Is it too much of a coincidence that two whales washed up in the same area?
"It really probably is," Durham said. While it is rare, Durham said it may be explained by the currents. Based on decomposition, the finback has been dead in the ocean one to two weeks, coming ashore where the current left it, she said. "The same could be said for the pygmy, if it was weakened, it's going to go where the current is going to take it."
The pygmy whale was euthanized in the "dolphin ambulance" that responded. A necropsy will be performed on Tuesday, as biologists will be performing a necropsy of the finback on Monday.
Previously: While examining the dead whale that washed ashore on Napeague, the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation received another call about a live mammal that washed up nearby.
It was reported that a harbor porpoise had washed up at about 3 p.m., but it turned out to be a very young whale — possibly a dwarf sperm or pygmy whale — about a mile or so west down the beach from where the dead finback whale is located.
The baby whale was still breathing.
Durham was not immediately available to comment on the baby whale's condition or the foundation's plan of action.
A rescue team from the Riverhead Foundation was dispatched with its "dolphin ambulance," so that it could transport what it thought was going to be a harbor porpoise. It was unclear what the foundation would do with the baby whale.
Harbor porpoises, which are typically three to four feet in length and look like a dolphin except for a blunt beak, are found in the cold waters. The foundation is currently rehabilitating one in its tanks in Riverhead, Durham said.
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 01:56 AM
Leichtman Research Group's survey of 1,300 households found that 52 percent of the ones that have pay-TV service also have a DVR. That translates to about 45 percent of all households and is up from 13.5 percent of all households surveyed five years ago by another firm, Nielsen.
The first DVRs came out in 1999, from TiVo Inc. and ReplayTV. Later, they were built into cable set-top boxes. The latest trend is "whole-home" DVRs that can distribute recorded shows to several sets.
Even with the spread of DVRs, live TV rules. Nielsen found last year that DVRs accounted for 8 percent of TV watching.
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I find it very surprising that "DVRs account for 8 percent of TV watching", if in fact they are in 52% of homes. That means most people with a DVR don't use it and just watch live.
Doesn't surprise me all that much. People buy stuff all the time and don't have a clue how to use them. I don't know how many times I tried to show people how to program VCRs but even setting the clock seemed to be beyond them. Most of them recorded shows just as they came on, couldn't grasp how easy it was to program a VCR using VCR+.
But, you're right. That is a big differential in stats. Kinda sad if it's true.