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Having car problems is just a fact of owning a car. When the inevitable happens though we owners have two real options on getting our cars repaired. We can take our vehicle to the corner garage, or back to the dealership. While taking your car to the local mechanic can have certain advantages, utilizing your dealer's service center is usually the better choice. While you may have a personal relationship with the local mechanic around the corner, the dealership has ASE certified specialists that have been trained to work on the types of vehicles sold at their dealership. Here are 5 reasons why you should consider taking your car into your dealership the next time you need service.
Technical Staff
The staff at a dealership service centers are manufacturer trained specialists. They also have specialist equipment which can be used to more accurately diagnose a vehicles problem.
Guarantee on the work
When it comes to a warranty on the work done to your car the dealership wins out over the local shop. Dealers will do repairs for free if your car is under warranty, and dealers are paid by the manufacturers to verify any potential service problems.
Parts Availability
In general parts are not that hard to get. However, the dealers have direct pipeline access to the exact parts needed and not just approximations. They will also generally have specialty parts in stock that local shops may have to order.
Recalls and Service Bulletins
Dealers have access to all the technical and service related data put out by the manufacturers, and customers of the dealer's service center have access to these technicians who generally keep their customers informed about all recalls.
Dealers are setup by the manufacturers to have the best and most state of the art facilities possible. Dealers also usually have larger facilities which means more service bays and faster service. Many of them will even wash and detail your car before its done.
There are advantages to taking your car to the local mechanic, but in many instances especially when you are concerned about a guarantee on your work and fast service that the dealership is the way to go.


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"Absolutely outstanding. We had a family occasion and had a memorable and truly special meal. Amazing and imaginative food, and wonderful warm service. We can't wait to return."
-John & Ellis Moriarty
"The nicest steak I have ever tasted. I felt like I was dining in a scene from The Great Gatsby. Beautiful evening fueled by incredible attentive & friendly service"
-Fiona Hoare
"I had a fabulous evening at Wilde. The service was fantastic and could not be faulted. The meal was delicious, and beautifully presented. I would thoroughly recommend this restaurant to a friend and look forward to dining again in future"
"Perfect evening from start to finish. Lovely relaxing atmosphere, beautiful décor and very warm and welcoming staff. Food was delicious, best fillet steak I have had in a long time. Our waiter Conor could not have been nicer or more helpful, really appreciated his tip to try the cauliflower with Indian spices, it was delicious. Will definitely be back"
-Lucie O'Driscoll
"Very relaxed enjoyable evening. Our waiters on the evening couldnt have been anymore helpful, Food was amazing"

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Carlisle has had it with his children's constant bickering, so he sends the Cullens to Family therapy. Suicidal Edward, Bella's fear of committment, Alice addicted to shopping, Rosalie's hostility, emmett and Jasper's gambling... who will survive?
This story is a Midnight Sun-type one-shot, that is, Edward's POV of Twilight.
It takes place at between TW14 (Mind over Matter) and TW15 (The Cullens) while Bella sleeps – a peek into Edward's infatuation, and how he reacts to hearing Bella say 'I love you" for the first time.
Edward/Bella. Post Eclipse, mild spoilers for up to that point. Bella's POV. Edward plots a special wedding gift for Bella.
Disclaimer: Twilight and all associated characters and concepts are the property of Stephenie Meyer. I'm just borrowing them and wreaking mild havoc~
Bella's POV. The Cullen girls help Bella get ready for her big day and invite her to join them in a special sisterhood.
Disclaimer: Twilight and all associated characters and concepts are the property of Stephenie Meyer. I'm just borrowing them and wreaking mild havoc~
Jessica decides to make a play for Edward. Thanks to Jasper, the way she behaves surprises even her. For eternitys charm's fanfic challenge. Challenge Topic: Jessica Stanley, flirting with Edward... Genre: Romance or Humor, or both.
Emmett gets a little star stuck and accidentally dazzles a beautiful blonde -- who isn't Rosalie. --- For the ff.net President's Day Twilight Challenge. "Write a story about a Cullen 'rubbing elbows' with a famous historical figure."
All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the intellectual property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of Stephenie Meyer. No copyright infringement is intended.


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If they made a movie of your life, which actor should play you? In this old game it's almost obligatory to say: "Brad Pitt" while friends offer less flattering suggestions. Not so long ago a chap might have suggested: "Robert Redford", and received an equally derisive response.
Travel writer, Bill Bryson, is in the flattering position of being portrayed by Robert Redford in A Walk in the Woods, but somehow it's not the same. Bryson's best-selling book about hiking the Appalachian Trail came out in 1998, and it was soon suggested that the author and his walking companion, Stephen Katz should be played by Redford and Paul Newman, reuniting for the first time since The Sting (1973). The years ticked by and Newman died of cancer in 2008. Redford just got older.
When Bryson undertook his big hike he was 44, but when they eventually made the movie, Redford was 78 – which necessitated a slightly different approach. The comic premiss of the book concerns two unfit middle-aged guys setting out for the ordeal of their lives. The movie tells the story of two unfit, elderly guys trying to defy encroaching mortality. In the early part of the film Bryson goes to a funeral service, which makes him feel he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life sitting around in New Hampshire, waiting for death.
Nick Nolte, drafted in to play Katz, is probably a better fit for the role than Paul Newman. Nolte, who is 74 this year, is every bit as gross, eccentric and overweight as Katz was in the book. Newman couldn't have degenerated that fast.
Bill Bryson owes his popularity to a droll sense of humour, and a writing style that mixes self-deprecation with a keen eye for human stupidity. He also has the remarkable ability to cram his books with useful information without ever becoming dull. A Walk in the Woods is chockablock with stories and statistics relating to a trail that stretches from Georgia to Maine, a total distance of more than 3,500 kilometres. It encompasses extremes of heat and cold; steep mountains, dense forests, and rivers. The entire walk should take between five and seven months, but only a small percentage of hikers manage to make it past the first week. It sounds hellish.
The AT is not quite as long as the Pacific Crest Trail, recently traversed by Reese Witherspoon in the film, Wild (2014), but it may be even more forbidding. Wild was treated as a rite of self-discovery, a penance imposed on herself by a woman trying to reclaim her life. In comparison, A Walk in the Woods is a comic ramble by two curmudgeons who in real life would be lucky to make it up the first slope.
My guilty admission is that I much preferred watching the old-timers stumbling around in the woods, instead of one woman's march towards self-actualisation. A Walk in the Woods is devoid of overheated introspection and flashbacks, although there isn't much more to the story than a series of mildly funny episodes on the long trek from Georgia to wherever.
Director, Ken Kwapis, follows Bryson's tale with reasonable accuracy, allowing for the usual embellishments, additions and condensations. He leaves out the historical profile of the AT, and the author's anthologies of interesting facts. What remains is a script with a propensity to plunge into storylines that simply fizzle out. Kristen Schaal makes a brief but memorable appearance as Mary Ellen, a loudmouth hiker who attaches herself to Bryson and Katz early in the walk. Mary Steenburgen appears for about two minutes in the role of an inn-keeper who has a mild flirtation with Bryson.
The episodic style of the narrative may be an attempt to capture the fleeting nature of human contacts that occur along the trail, with the overwhelming priority being the need to keep pushing on. On the other hand, it may reflect the scriptwriters' difficulty in making dramatic sense of the author's conversational approach.
One of Bryson's repeated themes is the disappearance of the distinctive fauna and flora of the American wilderness, partly as a result of the destructive mismanagement practised by the National Park Service. None of this makes it into the movie.
A Walk in the Woods is ultimately an unambitious film that will draw most of its audience from the ranks of Bill Bryson's loyal readers, and those attracted by the star appeal of Redford and Nolte. It's mildly amusing and always watchable, but doesn't begin to capture the sheer agony that the Appalachian Trail represents to everyone who attempts this epic hike. By all accounts it is a life-changing experience, which is more than one could say about the movie.
A Walk in the Woods
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Rick Kerb & William Holderman, after the book by Bill Bryson
Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Kristen Schaal, Mary Steenburgen
USA, rated M, 104 mins
Published in the Australian Financial Review, Saturday 5th September, 2015.
If they made a movie of your life, which actor should play you? In this old game it's almost obligatory to say: "Brad Pitt" while friends offer less flattering suggestions. Not so long ago a chap might have suggested: "Robert Redford", and received an equally derisive response.


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Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (Mediated Youth)
- Binding: Paperback
- Author: Ruth Nicole Brown
- Publish Date: 2008-11-06
This book passionately illustrates why the celebration of Black girlhood is essential. Based on the principles and practices of a Black girl-centered program, it examines how performances of everyday Black girlhood are mediated by popular culture, personal truths, and lived experiences, and how the discussion and critique of these factors can be a great asset in the celebration of Black girls. Drawing on scholarship from womenâs studies, African American studies, and education, the book skillfully joins poetry, autobiographical vignettes, and keen observations into a wholehearted, participatory celebration of Black girls in a context of hip-hop feminism and critical pedagogy. Through humor, honesty, and disciplined research it argues that hip-hop is not only music, but also an effective way of working with Black girls. Black Girlhood Celebration recognizes the everyday work many young women of color are doing, outside of mainstream categories, to create social change by painting an unconventional picture of how complex â and necessary â the goal of Black girl celebration can be.


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One thing you can say about Nexsan: this is not a shy company. Naming products ATAbeast, ATAboy and SATAbeast shows a relish for putting your best foot forward and then some. The new SATRAbeast array uses .... wait for it ..... serial ATA drives. There, wasn't that a surprise?
You get a beastly 21TB in 4U of rackspace.
How much?
Twenty one terabytes, using 42 spindles.
Wow! That is a beast of an array.
You can have the spindles in multiple RAID sets or in one large virtual disk.
Nexsan SEVC Diamond Lauffin - the SEVC stands for Senior Executive Vice President by the way - my, how these titles get embellished. Presumably a mere VP moniker is the title for the sales reps these days. Anyway he reckons: The combination of price, performance and built-in safety features makes the SATABeast a force to be reckoned with. Well he would, wouldn't he. He's an SEVPbeast.
And if he's an executive VP what's a non-executive VP? Similar to a non-executive director perhaps.
SATAbeast uses MAID concepts, first introduced by Copan, to cram many more disks into such a space than normal. The bulk of them hold data but are not spinning. They only power up when data on them is needed to be read or written. This radically reduces the heat generated and the cooling needed by such a number of drives.
Nexsan states its drives are idle but active - paradoxical this - presumably like non-executive VPs? When a disk is spun up does it become actively active or just more active?
Stop it. You're a responsible jourmalist. Enough of this mockery - and so 'AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID without the limitation of slow access times and special host software. Nexsans AutoMAID is granular to the individual drive level and enables users to determine access times and the level of energy savings desired. AutoMAID automatically monitors and performs regular integrity checks of all idle drives in the array.'
Nexsan also says, hopefully, that its SATABeast is 'ideal' for 'primary and near-line storage, disk-to-disk backup, secondary storage and fixed content archive applications.' Hmmm. I think that really means it's okay for everything but primary storage. SATA drives are generally reckoned not reliable enough for primary storage uses. That requires Fibre Channel, SCSI or SAS drives. No doubt the nifty Nexsan people will soon bring out a SASbeast to get over that minor problem.
In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if they bring out a SAS/SATAbeast and provide a multiply-tiered array, an ILMbeast. Add in iSCSI access and they have a SANbeast too. Attaboy Nexsan.
Poking fun aside the technology is impressive; 'there are triple intake fans paired with two redundant 760-watt power supplies with tachometer-monitored blowers.' I'm sorry, let the fun poking resume. 'Tachometer-measured blowers'? Is this a new way of measuring marketing people, by the speed of the hot air coming out of their mouths?
Seriously now
Copan has established the market for this kind of product. It radically pushes back the boundary of disk storage technology into the tape library space. You get tape library-like information density and near-disk restore speeds.
Copan's Roger Archibald, VP of Marketing and Biz. Dev. says: "We are pleased to see that another vendor in the storage industry has recognized the potential of MAID."
Copan by the way is set to announce a major strategic alliance with a large and leading storage supplier. Who can that be? Sun perhaps? The UK's Met Office uses a Copan system to front end a large StorageTek library. ADIC maybe?
Copan's products are used by ten of the Fortune 500. Capacities range from 28 to 224TB with 250GB SATA drives and throughput can reach 5.2TB per hour. That's unprecedented I think. You can get a Fred Moore white paper on the Copan kit here, after filling in a few details.
I mentally position Copan's MAID products in the enterprise space and Nexsan's in a rung below that. The technology looks impressive. Information density is simply unparalleled. Restore time is quicker than from a tape library. If you have a need to access archive data regularly and consistently then both Nexsan and Copan should be on your supplier radar screen.


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Vegetables contain a number of essential nutrients and vitamins to keep seniors physically fit and boost their memory. If you're a family caregiver for a senior, here is a list of a few vegetables, provided by Milwaukee senior home care experts, you may want to consider adding to his or her diet.
1. Beets
Beets can be prepared in different ways, including pickled and roasted. Eating beets is a great way to increase blood flow to the brain. When blood flow to the brain increases, your loved one may have more energy, as beets are rich in potassium.
2. Broccoli
Vitamin K is essential to keep nerves in the brain connected at top speed. A great place to get this vitamin is in broccoli. You can serve it in a salad or as a delicious side dish.
3. Spinach
Almost everyone remembers being encouraged to eat spinach as a child so they would grow up to become strong. It turns out those people were right. Spinach helps the brain, along with other muscles in the body, stay strong.
4. Beans
Mung beans, kidney beans, black beans, and chickpeas are all delicious meals to feed the brain. Eating beans on a regular basis helps stabilize blood sugar, which prevents seniors from having a crash later.
5. Yams
Baked or boiled yams are a beautiful side dish, which not only tastes great but is also healthy for the brain. They are loaded with vitamin B-6, carbohydrates, and antioxidants.
6. Cauliflower
The beautiful white cauliflower is loaded with vitamin A and K, which can help your loved one stay mentally sharp. This vegetable also helps stabilize blood sugar. Instead of mashed potatoes, try serving your loved one some mashed cauliflower.
7. Asparagus
The prebiotic fiber found in asparagus helps keep the brain extra sharp. While many people forget about this vegetable, it can be fixed on the grill or in the oven.
8. Romaine Lettuce
There are so many different ways romaine lettuce can be fixed. Serve it in a beautiful salad filled with other healthy ingredients. Wrap it around your loved one's favorite lunchmeat for a quick snack, or load the lettuce up on a sandwich.
9. Brussels Sprouts
The brain needs potassium to keep memory sharp. A great way to help your loved one get potassium is serving Brussels sprouts, which can go with any meal.
10. Cabbage
Scientists believe cabbage stops plaque from clogging blood vessels in the brain. Experts suggest this plaque is the cause of Alzheimer's. Eating cabbage can help stop the plaque from forming.
As a family caregiver, you may not always have the time to fix a healthy vegetable diet for your senior loved one. Home Care Assistance offers professional Milwaukee hourly care and live-in care services, including healthy meal preparation for seniors, to help boost their overall health and wellbeing. To learn more about our customized senior care programs, contact one of our experienced Care Managers today at (262) 782-3383.


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Here are some Photo Modified Honda Vario of modifikasi-motor-oke.blogspot.com. Hope can be an inspiration for all of you that will modify your motorcycle.
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Hello bro it all: D, this time the fireworks will discuss modifications nih, again sourced from Thai Honda, Thai Honda mulu why? honestly, yes,,, compared to Yamaha Suzuki ama Thai, Thai Honda References from more easily, so the easiest yes it is mejeng, hehe, this time cool you know, liveri world country flags, rata2 from Europe ...
Again, suitable deh want to be a material modification if, to the builders experienced sticker for example, staying in print potonya, trus tunjukin deh to the builders sticker "mas, bikinin like this", if indeed a great and advanced, would result tuh cool: mrgreen: okeh, so wrote,,, hope useful ...
Here is a review of the modification of a modification yamaha Z is very similar to Suzuki GSX, All the way from North Sumatra, Bendry send Yamaha Scorpio Z for modified. The choice fell on Dave Motor Concept workshop recently moved into Rangkepan Jaya, Depok, West Java.
Similar Yamah Modification Concept Suzuki GSX Scorpio
Of Bendry have a special reason. "Because the modified Motor Concept Dave had a special feature, the motor dimension so slim and fit daily use," said Bendry who lives in Duri, Riau it.
Relying on the body design Suzuki GSX-R750, 2009, the entire body of the standard Yamaha Scorpio Z uninstalled. "Frame is left only the front of the binding machine. Sub frame also has changed completely, "explains Wanto, builder Dave Motor Concept.
Similar Yamah Modification Concept Suzuki GSX Scorpio
Although the basic use Yamaha, but deliberately choose Bendry body concept from Suzuki. "Pull the line in the body implies a dynamic sport and made the headlights a futuristic model," continued Bendry reasoned.
Body formation process takes slightly longer, the article Dave Motorcycle Concept is a specialist rely on an iron plate. "It took two months for this process to be used made by riding," honest Wanto original Tegal wong it.
Similar Yamah Modification Concept Suzuki GSX Scorpio
This is because the area of the body include the fairing, tank and bending of the central part of the full details. Need more meticulous craftsmanship to create grooves ngemalnya body right and left alike. Fortunately Wanto already trained and skilled metal plate buckling about science.
Rear body made similar model GSX-R750, the details are made tapered and slightly flattened. For single seat upholstery rely sitter. "Request from the owner for his own use. So baseball needs boncenger seat, "explained Wanto.
Let the front of the fairing similar to GSX, head lamp rely copotan new Suzuki Satria FU. "Design and the model is similar to the GSX-R750, 2009," explains builder of this slender.
While the curve of the front fairing made a little bit different to have a GSX. No not equipped airscoop hole on the right and left side head lamp. To pursue the front fairing is not made wide, the dimensions would not fairing too gambot.Pemilihan color certainly greatly affect the performance of the modifications made by this outcome. Elegant style deliberately chosen to rely on white color. The more fit after Silverstone color that blends with the body mounted on the center.
For the legs right choice fell on a gold curtain that covered both the rim. Gold color is also aligned with the detail upside down front that still rely on the product variations.
"I want to wear baseball striping. Fearing the future even too crowded," lid Wanto originally based in Sawangan, Depok, West Java.
Front tire: 90/70-17 FDR
Rear tire: 120/70-17 FDR
Exhaust: Custom G2C
Rear rim: Variations 4.5 x17
source: motorplus.otomotifnet.com
Theme modification of the stretcher on honda absolute revo is owned Kirmanto Revolver Red Monster. Um rada dizziness also kana name british english. Honda absolute revo was made in 2009. Only that in doing Kirmanto on honda absolute revo 2009, what purpose dart red monster modification these revolvers penjelesanya us refer to the following.
Honda Absolute Revo monster red revolver
Revo face red color is changed drastically. Anto familiar call this monster bike called Red Revolver.Ubahan done Anto not just playing on the display, but also functional. "It seems much has changed. No more Underbone impression on this Revo. So far the journey will feel more comfortable, "explained the former head of Tangerang Revo Club (TREC) is.
Honda Absolute Revo monster red revolver
Change the display process performed by the help of friends seklub, Anjas. This modifier retains Underbone order. There was no change. It's just adding a center Anto congenital Tiger bone is welded directly right at the top of the chassis Underbone. "Center for the holder tank Tiger bone," said Anto, the owner of this registration number 001.
Still on the front, he changed the front tomorrow with the adoption rooster model of the Honda GL-Pro. "Komstir original will be retained, but the lower triangular instead oakai already belong GL-Pro, as tailor-made komstir komstir original hole and hole triangles komstir take GL-Pro. For the upper triangular punyaan variation, "said Anto.
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Revo engine condition deleted, or edited to compensate for the weight of the motor that has been increased. Standard valve replaced with a Honda Sonic belongs dikecilin umbrella so 27mm to 22mm in and out. While the possessive pronoun aftermarket piston with a diameter of 56mm.
"I do not know how much capacity right now. In the space fuel setup also re-adjust the diameter of the piston which has also been follow-up swell, "he described.
To supply fuel, Anto also apply carburetor Yamaha's RX-King. Little change but the means on this machine quite able to offset the weight of Monster Red Revolver when I have traveled hundreds of kilometers.
HONDA DATA ABSOLUTE MONSTER RED Revo Revolver
Front tire: 110/70-17 Unilla
Rear tire: Swallow 130/70-17
Chain: Mega Pro
Arm swing: Aprilia 125
Monosok: Honda 120


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Wise, Old Poker Chip NecklaceAugust 15th, 2011 in member junk
scrpiogirl88, member
I bought a box of old poker chips at a yard sale and made cute necklaces out of them, this one is my favorite
Pattern or design used: My own design
posted in: member junk, vintage, whimsical, jewelry, necklace, owl, poker chip, game piece
Comments (5)
writes: How did you drill the hole? I have a one-of-a kind chip that I want to make into a necklace for my sister and I thought that I would be able to find a silver bail to go around it but the chip is too big and my jeweler is afraid to drill it. I was really hooing to give this to my sister for Christmas. Thanks! Posted: 3:39 pm on December 3rd
CottageElements writes: Lovely is a perfect word for this!
Lani Posted: 7:50 am on August 24th
Lani Posted: 7:50 am on August 24th
scrpiogirl88 writes: Yes, the owl pic is decoupaged onto the poker chip. I have a couple more necklaces that I have made from those chips, I will put them up soon. Thanks for nice comments!
Posted: 1:23 pm on August 19th
Posted: 1:23 pm on August 19th
MakinItHappen writes: It's lovely! Is the owl pic decoupaged on? Posted: 10:31 am on August 19th
Bons writes: What a sharp piece you have made. A poker chip, you say? One can learn something everyday. Love this owl piece.
Posted: 1:32 pm on August 17th
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Interested in a field trip or event? Select the event's name to learn more.
- This event has passed.
January 6, 2018
Rain Date: Sunday, January 7, 2018
The twelfth annual Esopus Bend Nature Preserve Winter Bird Count (WBC) is scheduled for Saturday, January 6, 2018. Participants will census the winter bird community inhabiting the 160-acre Preserve, recording numbers of individuals and species diversity. WBC results will become part of the Preserve's biodiversity database, and will help provide future guidance for land management and stewardship decisions.
Meet at the Shady Lane main entrance parking lot at 5:30 a.m. for pre-dawn owling, or later at approximately 7:00 a.m. for the diurnal part of the survey. Esopus Bend Nature Preserve is located on the banks of the Esopus Creek in the Village and Town of Saugerties, in northern Ulster County. Previous counts conducted during early January have recorded a cumulative total of 55 species, and a single year high count of 966 individuals. Previous highlights include Bohemian Waxwing, White-winged Crossbill, Gray Catbird, Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Winter Wrens, six species of woodpeckers, and double-digit numbers of Hermit Thrushes.
The WBC is a great way for birders and naturalists to start off the New Year and contribute to our knowledge of the wintering bird population inhabiting Esopus Bend Nature Preserve. Additional field observers are always welcome, and full day participation is not required, but you should be prepared to invest several hours out in the field under cold winter conditions. Please contact Steve Chorvas (email@example.com or 845-246-5900) to register, or for additional information, no later than 12:00 noon, Friday, January 5th.
For information about additional upcoming ECC Environmental Education Nature Walks and Paddles, please visit www.esopuscreekconservancy.org.
The field trips of JBNHS are oriented to nature study. They are free and open to the public. We do, however, sometimes visit sites that charge admission fees, which are the responsibility of the participants. Children are very welcome on field trips, but pets are not. Although there is a brief courtesy waiting period for latecomers, the meeting times are important: please arrive in time to sign up with the leader.


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Working groups
WG1 – Sewage biomarkers analysis: methods and technology
Will focus on the methods and technology required to deliver high quality quantitative data.
WG2 – Innovative techniques for community health assessment
The main aim of WG2 is to verify the potential of sewage analysis for (i) the assessment of community health and health risk prediction through the analysis of health biomarkers (e.g. protein and DNA biomarkers of cancer) (ii) nutritional biomarkers and (iii) the assessment of collective exposure to environmental stressors such as environmental and food toxicants.
WG3 – Integration with epidemiology and social sciences
WG3 will integrate sewage data with other available metrics. There is huge potential for sewage to provide the answers to many as yet unanswered questions and a key objective of this WG will be to bring the necessary scientists together.


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Speaker Frank McNulty jokes it's not his fault if Coffman can't beat Perlmutter
Democrat Ed Perlmutter and Republican Mike Coffman would be in the same congressional district under a new map the GOP introduced this afternoon in Denver District Court.
The new map was created with the goal of "keeping Aurora whole," but if approved it would pit two of the most effective congressional campaigners in Colorado. And who would prevail if the two congressman had to take each other on?
House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, met with the Denver Post's editorial board before the 2011 legislative session started. He talked about the bipartisan redistricting panel that had been appointed to draw a new congressional map and about possible boundaries. (The panel couldn't reach an agreement, which is why redistricting now is in court.)
At the time, McNulty said it wasn't his fault that Coffman couldn't beat Perlmutter.
McNulty laughed today when reminded about his quote in January. "I made it clear that I was joking," he said.
Both Coffman and Perlmutter represent Aurora. Perlmutter, of Golden, represents the northern portion, along with portions of Adams and Jefferson counties. Coffman, of Aurora, represents the southern half of the city, along with all of Douglas and Elbert and portions of Arapahoe, Jeffco and Park counties.
GOP attorney Alan Hale said Republicans drew a new map over the weekend because Chief Judge Robert Hyatt indicated in his questioning that he wondered why Aurora had to be split. In fact today, when GOP attorney Richard Westfall criticized Democrats for splitting Windsor, the judge raised that very point. That's when Republicans said they had a new map.


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Next step in reputation management for professionals20/11/2014
Creating, maintaining and continuously enhancing the reputation is a challenge for all professionals. The traditional tools such as which college, which company and the projects form a significant part of our reputation. However, they are seldom sufficient. A vast majority has taken to writing (blogs, research papers, books etc). Most of us are now active on more than few social media sites to grow our network.
Teaching is one more tool that many have employed through traditional Brick and Mortar universities. The opportunity is limited to those with access and willing ness to commit significant time. These strategies are time tested and effective but they are not be all when it come to managing our professional reputation.
Consider growing your repertoire to include teaching online. You develop a course in your area of expertise and disseminate worldwide using platforms like Classle. The magnifying effect of internet has the potential of taking your name and reputation to unchartered territories and of course the familiar ones. You could be earning a recurring side income (not unlike book royalties) while establishing yourself as an expert in your field.


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Making Editable Charts in PowerPoint
By: Jennifer Rotondo
Date Created:
Last Updated: March 2nd 2009
Jennifer is a Microsoft certified "PowerPoint Expert" who
utilizes her abundance of knowledge in her Advanced PowerPoint
Seminar and in several publications including Presentation
Skills for Managers (McGraw-Hill), Point, Click & Wow! -
(book with CDROM), PowerPoint 2000: Getting Professional
Results (Microsoft) and Understanding Computers.
For Presentations magazine, she critiques subscribers'
presentations and writes a creative techniques column. Her
media design company, Creative Minds, Inc. specializes
in presentation, multimedia design, website and print design.
Creative Minds also designs PowerPoint presentation tools
and add-ins to help users maximize the application.
Creative Minds
We all get frustrated with the limitations we have with the look of charts creating using PowerPoint's charting tool. They tend to be flat and dull. That's why we started creating robust charts in Photoshop. Photoshop gives us the ability to manipulate and create the chart with minimal limitations. We can make them any color, shape, size & opacity. We can also use Photoshop's layers to give depth to our charts and we can fill our charts with any images we want. This gave us the ability to create gorgeous charts for our clients. But what began to happen is the client would need to edit the data in the chart. So, we would have to recreate the chart each time they needed to update the data. This became very time consuming and cumbersome. We decided we needed to come up with a happy medium between the creative flexibility that Photoshop provides and the functional flexibility that PowerPoint provides.
We decided that we needed to explore two avenues:
- We would look at 3rd party charting tools for PowerPoint, and
- We would determine the maximum capabilities of PowerPoint's charting tool.
We found several 3rd party charting tools. Most would allow you to create a good-looking chart in PowerPoint. You could also edit the data, so this was a big plus. Then, once we distributed the presentation for others to use, we found the major downfall. The person had to have the software on their computer in order to edit the new chart that we thought was editable! So, this option was no better than Photoshop. We were not going to give up the ability to create great charts for the limited flexibility these pieces of software offered.
Our final resort was to really dig into PowerPoint's charting capability and see what we could come up with. Here's what we found:
The charting tool uses the Fill Effects option in PowerPoint. So, you can fill a chart just like you can fill a symbol, with a color, gradient, pattern, texture or picture. Most people just simply use the color or maybe gradient option. This is why charts look dull and flat. The pattern and texture options usually never come out very well so these options rarely ever get used. But the picture option is the key to our findings.
By filling your chart with a picture, you can get a similar effect as a Photoshop-created chart. You still have a little pixelation on pie charts, but you have to sacrifice this for the ability to edit your data.
There are two different ways you can fill your charts. You can fill your whole chart with one image or you can fill each individual piece with its own image. No matter which option you choose, the key is the image you use. You cannot use an image of an object, person, place or anything that is recognizable. You must use some sort of a unique texture. Something that has no repeat pattern and can be scaled or skewed.
Filling Your Charts
Let's start with filling a pie chart.
- Double-click to add a chart to go into PowerPoint
chart mode.
- Once in chart mode, double-click the pie
itself and the Format Data Series pop-up window appears. Select
Fill | Effects, then the Picture tab.
- Click Select Picture and located the picture on your hard drive. Click Insert, OK and OK again. What this does is fill each piece of our pie chart with the same image.
In our first example, the image we filled our pie with is on the left and it is 400 x 400 pixels. The image itself can be smaller or larger, but the graphic will scale to fit in each piece of the pie. So, the whole pie isn't filled with one image, each piece is filled with that same image.
Our second example shows how to fill each piece with a different image. The images on the left are the three images we used to fill each of the three pieces of the pie. Follow the same directions as above to get into edit mode. Instead of just double-clicking the whole pie chart, continue to single-click on one of your pieces of the pie until you see the selection only around that one piece. Then, double-click to get your Format Data Point pop-up window. Select Fill Effects>Picture>Select Picture and locate your image. Click Insert< OK and OK again. Then, only that one piece of your pie is filled with the image. Follow the same steps to fill each piece of your pie.
Our third example shows you why you shouldn't fill your chart with a recognizable image. Plus, it shows you how the image is scaled to fit into the piece of the pie. We created the tiny image on the left to fill the largest piece of the pie. As you can see, it scales the image size to make it fit the entire area and it also skews the image so it is not very recognizable. This is what you don't want your charts to look like!
Our fourth example is of a bar chart. We filled the bars with the same image, just like we did with pie #1. Look at the image on the right of the slide. This is what the bars were filled with. Notice the pattern in this image. Now compare it to the way the three bars look. Each of the bars is filled with the entire image, but based upon the value of the bar, the image is scaled to fit in the bar. Bar 1 is the closest to the original image. That's because it's the closest to being a square. If we would have created our image as more of a rectangle, then there would be less need to scale the image to fit the bars. Either way, the bars still look better than filling them with normal PowerPoint fills. Plus, you still keep the benefit of the data being editable.
The fifth example shows you how the chart will look if you fill each bar with a different image. You do this by taking the same steps as our pie #2.
Our sixth slide shows you more details of the options you have to fill your bars. This gives you a little more control over how the image is displayed within the bar. You can tell it to stretch the image, stack the images on top of one another or you can specify how many images you may want to stack. The third option actually uses a combination of stretching and stacking.
Finally, our seventh slide displays the three options on slide 6. The red bar on the left shows Stack and Scale to and we entered 0.70. You can see that the image is actually squeezed and stacked because our value is less than 1. The two bars under stack show you an effective stack vs. a non-effective stack. The image of our texture doesn't work when you want to stack, but the dollar bags do! The final bar is stretch. This is the most effective use of our textured image.
2D vs. 3D
We've only discussed filling 2D charts in this article. But, you also have the option of filling your 3D charts with an image. We do not recommend this! Generally, it doesn't look good!
Do the Test
You can test the scaling of your image by changing the values in your Datasheet. This will show you that your image scales within each of the pie pieces so the chart is beautiful and editable!


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Taylor Swift's second ad for Apple Music dropped today and instead of falling off a treadmill while running to Drake and Future's Jumpman, the singer thankfully remained standing for the duration of the ad.
In addition to music to work out to, Swift's latest Apple Music ad shows that the streaming system provides music to get ready to. Because you know, why work out if you're not gonna go out, right? If you flex your arm in am empty living room, does anyone know you went to the gym?
Swift's new Apple Music ad is set to Jimmy Eat World's The Middle, which may seem like a surprising choice for a country-turned-pop star, but let's not forget; Taylor Swift is super emo. Here are five examples.
1. One Word: Myspace
Before she was the queen of Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter, Taylor Swift was cruising Myspace like the rest of us emo kids, listening to heartbreak anthems by bands with three words in their name.
2. I Knew You Were Trouble
The eyeliner. The haircut. The skinny jeans. The emotionally-wrought spoken word poetry. The *feels*.
3. Dashboard-Freaking-Confessional
Hands down this is the best birthday present one emo girl could give to her emo bestie.
4. The Tears
Emo music was the soundtrack to many teen's formative years, which is a time of high emotions and trying to figure WTF is going on ALL THE TIME. Want some emotional lyrics? Listen to one Swift song. Any song. The woman is an emo scholar.
5. The Apple Music Ad
Swift should be wearing white underwear and a tank top or at least some wide-legged Modrobes pants for this bit, but we still appreciate how hard she's rocking to the godfathers of emo. Also, anyone else not at all surprised that Swift's bathroom is as big as most people's first apartment? Us neither.
Getting ready to go out… @AppleMusic @JimmyEatWorldhttps://t.co/vq8LCFOuCO
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 18, 2016


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Things have been a little hectic lately.
I won't go into it.
Nobody wants that.
Least of all me.
But I at least managed to get over to the beach, the other day...for the first time...in a long while.
So things have changed a bit.
It's warmer, for one.
Less ice to navigate.
But other than that, not much has changed from where the beach left off last fall.
Most of the regulars are still occupying their same spots.
Unless the cleanup crew placed a garbage can on it.
In that case you likely found a confused person, scratching their head, standing with their arms full of blankets and towels, not knowing what to do.
But, eventually, they adapt; slide over a few feet to the north or south of the can and drop their stuff...whether there's another beach goer sitting there or not.
Hey...it's the beach...no worries, Mon...we share and share alike.
At least that's what I told the security guard.
That..and it takes a little bit, every new beach season to get back into the beach groove...like remembering to bring everything you're gonna need to enjoy a typical day...like a blanket and a towel...lunch...a chair...a bathing suit...and the fact that the tide comes in—after it goes out—it come back...so don't fall asleep down by the water's edge....
Here's a little refresher course from a few years ago...because most things never change.
Especially at the beach....
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"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
If I had to answer the question a year ago, it would be that I've loved horribly. I hadn't been in love in 10 years. I love friends who have come into my life and my family, but I haven't loved a man in 10 years. I've been trying to figure out what love meansto me. Is it this unexplainable emotion that takes over? Is it what we create? Is it that thing they tell us about in the movies?
We're all a little scared of love, but I explicitly tried to avoid it for so long, that when I got back in the datinggame, I had no idea how it felt or what it meant.
Last year I dated a man that if it weren't for him, I probably would not be where I am today. He was patient, understanding, honest and vulnerable. He opened up to me in a way that most men don't do now a days in a really short amount of time. In return I trusted him and opened back. I allowed him to take the lead in our relationship and for the first time in a really long time, felt something for someone else.
It didn't work out for us romantically, though we tried a few times, but we stayed in touch and became friends. Even though we were friends, I still felt something for him that I couldn't understand. A year after we initially dated, I called him to catch up for dinner because I wanted to share something with him. We went through dinner and I couldn't get myself to say it. I started physically shaking and feeling ill, and as we waited for the vale to pull up his car I blurrted out, I fell in love with you.
He was in shock. He didn't say it back. I didn't need him to. I decided that I was going to love and accept love into my life in a way I hadn't done before. Even if I wasn't sure what love really was, I appreciated this man's role in my life, cared deeply about him and I didn't want to go on not admitting it to him or I.
There was no pressure to get back into a relationship, no pressure for him to tell me how he felt about me. I purely did it for myself. If I can't love openly and honestly, then what's the point in everything I was doing? Even if he wasn't the one (and he's not), I wanted to be able to tell anyone I cared about that I do.
Do we love to be loved back? If we do, we're selfish, are looking for validation, and do not love for the right reason. If you don't consider yourself to be any of these things, then there's no need to hear it back.
It doesn't mean it's easy to do. Loving freely without having it reciprocated is hard. It's selfless and there are days you can feel outright stupid about it, but in the end how well did you love?
Today, I love very well.
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RSVP Bhangra
Exam Level Bhangra…
After last years brilliant dance session we are delighted to have Judge and the Guys back to get the party "Bhanging" on Saturday Night at this years Rugfest. Firm favourites RSVP are becoming an established part of Rugfest, who can forget last years Blue Line Dance off.
RSVP are spearheading the renaissance of live Bhangra in the UK, opening doors for other artists and introducing Bhangra to mainstream audiences for the first time. From massive stages at Glastonbury (over 10 years) and Womad, to concert venues across the UK and Europe, they're always guaranteed to get even the most reluctant on their feet, and leave audiences breathless with excitement.
RSVP Bhangra's unique blending of Punjabi Indian music with dance beats and mainstream pop has created a new and irresistible sound that audiences everywhere love and keep on coming back for. Is it Dildar's melodious voice and charismatic stage-presence, Judge's deliciously engaging interactive involvement with the audience or perhaps Jeevan's insistent dhol drumbeats - or even Cris and Puggy's sharp rhythmic underscore that does it? Who knows? The resulting effect, however achieved, is immediately involving, compulsive and extremely addictive!
Every show comes with an introduction to Bhangra dance - everyone's included with RSVP's emphasis on partying Punjabi style. With musicians wholly rooted in an authentic living tradition, yet unafraid to innovate, this is the ultimate celebratory Indian music.
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You're about to take a holiday or be far away from your home for a reasonable period, say, a month or more. What's the one thing you're likely to miss most? Everyone is different but let's say you own a horse and ride it whenever you can back home. Suddenly being far from home will almost certainly mean being separated from your equine pal. But all is not lost if you land in Sydney.
And remember that the Centennial Parklands Equestrian Centre is a mere canter from the heart of Sydney. If you're a tourist and fancy a ride or any close-to-the-city resident who would enjoy learning to ride or someone in town who doesn't want to be separated from their horse, everything is fixed.
Age and experience is not important when it comes to lessons. You can be a child or a senior and the expert tuition will have you ambling, even trotting around and through one the most spacious and green parks in Australia. And the CBD is just over the hill.
New York and London have great parks with bridle paths but Centennial Park offers glorious sunshine all year round and hundreds of hectares in which to indulge your passion for horses and the great outdoors. Centennial Park may not get the fanfare the Bridge and Opera House attract but its location and facilities are superb. And speaking of facilities, the Equestrian Centre has not one but five riding schools with some of the world's best riding instructors. There's a veterinary service as well.
If you wish to introduce young children to riding, the ponies are a perfect starting point. The children can watch the animals being fed and groomed, pat them and of course have a supervised ride. This could be the start of a lifelong love for horses. And all of this is situated in Centennial Park in the heart of Sydney. If you're planning a picnic, you could add a visit to the historic buildings in the world class equestrian centre and go horse riding in town.


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I've been handling DMV cases for over two decades. The biggest mistake I see people make is not reading the pink form that was given to them by the police officer when he took their license. This is your new temporary license. This is extremely important because it's a temporary license, and it tells you that you have 10 days from the date of your arrest to request the DMV hearing. If you do not do this within the 10 days, your license will automatically go into suspension for four months. The problem is that most people don't read this and because they don't read it they don't make the request timely, or they call the wrong place, or the call-in and don't get the name of the person that they're to talking with to set up their hearing, and then the DMV says they never properly requested a hearing and deny it to them. If you call my office, we will set up your DMV hearing for you at no charge just to make sure that it's done properly and on time. But, you must contact us before the 10 days is up, and when they say 10 days they mean 10 calendar days not 10 business days so do it immediately by calling me at (510) 346-6666.
The DMV cases are handled geographically in the Bay Area. All Alameda County cases are handled out of the Oakland office. Contra Costa is handled in Contra Costa and sometimes out of the Albany office or the Pittsburgh office, but those two offices are assigned out of the Oakland office. If they are full your case will come out of the Oakland office.
DMV cases for arrests made in San Mateo County are handled out of the San Francisco office. Some of these are handled in San Francisco while others are referred to the Redwood City office.
DMV cases for arrests made in Santa Clara County are all held out of the Santa Clara County office in San Jose. They do have satellite offices as well, such as, the office in Cupertino, Santa Cruz.
The San Francisco DMV office is the largest in Northern California. It handles all San Francisco cases, and goes north through Marin County, Sonoma County. Santa Rosa County, and all the way up to the Oregon border.
Of course, there are other areas such as Sacramento, and Stockton which all have their own offices and satellite offices. We handle all of these cases because we handle all of the nine Bay Area counties.
Again, the most important thing that you can do after having been arrested for DUI as it pertains to your driving privilege, is to contact my office the day you get out of jail and have us request a DMV hearing for you. This way there'll be a receipt that the request was made just in case they said they never got it and want to take your license we will be able to get that back for you, and there is no charge for us requesting the hearing for you. So call 510 346-6666 and have all of your information ready so that we can handle setting up this DMV hearing for you absolutely free. Remember, you must contact us before the 10 days is up, and the 10 days includes Saturdays and Sundays. It's calendar days not business days.
Another very important issue that may pertain to you is the type of test you took. If you took a blood test you have a very good chance of winning your case with the DMV. My office is one of only two offices in Northern California that has the new technology that can show multiple errors in blood testing. This puts the burden back on the Department of Motor Vehicles to show those errors didn't occur when in fact in most cases they have. The Chromatograms, pictures, that we are able to obtain from your toxicologist that came from the original digital data from the lab doing the reporting is where this evidence is obtained. Other DUI offices want to retest the blood, and that is the worst thing you can do because contaminated blood out of two vials will be almost always identical. The key word here was contaminated. This happens before they do the analysis, and the only way to show this is to take the digital data that is recorded during the analysis, open it up, and print a copy of that to show the contamination. Again, I am one of only two offices in Northern California with the software to be able to do this 21st century reporting for blood tests.


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Thus far in the math/science subjects:
- Math/Science Overview
- Basic Types of Numbers
- The Atom and Quantum Physics
- The Periodic Table
- Molecules and Ions
- Chemical Reactions
Solving for x
1. It is hard to convey how much math lept forward and the greatest developments in science became possible when algebra really began to develop in the late 1500s. Algebra is basically the use of letters to stand for unknown qualities that can change (called variables because they can vary in what number they stand for). For example, x + 6 = 10. If I need 10 apples and I already have 6, how many more do I need? [1]
But this area of math did not have its greatest impact until René Descartes (1596-1650) developed it, coming up with a way to graph equations (the "Cartesian coordinate system, to the right). It was Descartes who designated the x as the unknown it has come to be.
Algebraic equations are used to express real world situations using symbols. Simple unknowns, like the one above, are often easy enough for us to solve without using algebra. But algebra lets us express much more difficult situations, often with more than one unknown, and then to solve them.
2. Perhaps the first key to solving for x is knowing that 1) you can add or subtract any amount as long as you do it to both sides of the equation and 2) you can multiply or divide any amount as long as you do it to both sides of the equation.
So in the example above, x + 6 = 10, I can subtract 6 from both sides and the equation remains the same basic situation. So x + 6 - 6 = 10 - 6. I can simplify this to x = 4, and I have my answer.
As another example, let's say I have 33 dollars to spend and I want to bring as many friends as I can to a play where the tickets are 5 dollars a piece. I also have to pay 8 dollars for a taxi ride to get there. How many friends can I invite? I might express this situation by the equation 5x + 8 = 33.
First I subtract 8 from each side, giving me 5x = 25. Then I divide both sides by 5, giving me x=5. So I can bring 5 friends.
The very simple equations above could be expressed as a point on a number line, x = 5.
3. The equations above are "equalities." This equals that. There are also "inequalities." So x can be anything "greater than" 5: x > 5. And y can be anything "less than or equal to 6": y ≤ 6.
Another kind of equation is the "absolute value." The absolute value of a number is its positive value. For 5, it's easy. 5 is already positive. But for -5, it's absolute value is 5. The absolute value is usually written between two up and down lines.
Linear Equations
4. Sometimes there is more than one unknown. x + y = 10. An equation of this sort, where two variables (to the first power, as here) are in play, is called a linear equation because it graphs as a line. As the x changes, the y changes accordingly.
So let's say that you want to build a device that requires 6 of x for every 2 of y and costs $12. So we have an equation in two variables: 6x + 2y = 12. Or a simplified version would be 3x + y = 6.
A nice way to put the formula so it can be graphed is y = -3x + 6. This is the "slope-intercept" form or the y = mx + b form. B here tells us where this line hits the up and down line, usually called the y axis. So b is the "y-intercept." In this case, the line will cross the y axis at 6.
M is then the "slope," that is how the line "rises" for every bit the line goes to the right or left. So if the slope is -3, then the line goes down three units for every one unit that it goes to the right.
To the right is what that graph would look like. The horizontal line is often called the x-axis. As I already said, the vertical line is often called the y-axis. So in this graph, the point 6 on the y axis is the y-intercept, where this line crosses the y-axis. Then the slope is negative three. The line goes down three (-3) for every 1 that x increases.
The slope is the "rise over the run," the amount it goes up or down for every one it goes right.
5. We locate points by using the format of (x, y), where x is the location of the point along the x-axis and y is the point along the y-axis. So the y-intercept is at (0, 6). If you look, the x-intercept (where it crosses the x axis) is at (2, 0). If you plug these numbers into the original formula, y = -3x + 6, you'll find that the numbers work. In fact, the line is all the sets of x's and y's that make the formula come out right. So (1, 3) works. (-1, 9) works. An infinite number of points work--the points on this line.
6. Sometimes you can have two equations that apply to a certain situation. Let's say you have 16 seats at a dinner, but for some reason you need to have 3 women for every one man. So f + m = 16 (the total number of women and men). At the same time, there are going to be three times as many women as men (f = 3m).
We can solve this situation in a couple of ways. For this one, substitution is the easiest. So we know that f = 3m, so we can plug this in for f in the other equation: (3m) + m = 16. So 4m = 16 and m = 4.
Now we can plug this value for 4 back into one of the original equations: f + 4 = 16, f = 12. So we should invite 12 women and 4 men. [2]
Quadratic Equations
7. There are equations where the variable is raised to a power more than 1. "Quadratic" equations are equations where the highest variable is squared. d = t2 - 4t - 12. This is the kind of equation that would be in play if you were tracking the motion of a baseball you hit into left field.
So we solve an equation like this one by factoring it. So t2 - 4t - 12 can be factored into (t - 6)(t + 2). We know this because if you multiply the material in these two parentheses together you get the other. The way you multiply something of this sort is by using the FOIL method (first, outside, inside, last).
So when does this equation work? For example, if t is time and d is the distance from the ground, then the baseball is at zero when t - 6 = 0 and when t + 2 = 0. The second one doesn't make sense because it is t = -2. But the second one makes sense t = 6. So the ball will return to the ground in six seconds.
8. Some quadratic equations are hard to factor. In such cases, the quadratic equation is used.
Other Equations
9. Of course there can be equations of higher powers than these. There are cubic equations (raised to a third power). And there can be equations raised to even higher powers. These are "polynomial" equations, where the "poly" means powers more than one.
There are inverse functions (1/x). There are equations for circles, ellipses, hyperbolas. There are trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, tangent). We we will consider in our post on Geometry and Trigonometry yet to come.
Next Week: Math/Science 8: Thermodynamics
[1] A Greek named Diophantus (200s AD) has often been called the father of algebra, but the name "algebra" comes from the medieval Persian al-Khwarizmi (ca. 780-850).
[2] You could also find the solution by graphing both of these line equations and then finding the intersection point on a graph. In this case, the intersection would be (12, 4), if the we were graphing points as (m, f).


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KUALA LUMPUR, 7 May 2007 – Dr. Jim Goodnight, founder and CEO of SAS Institute, the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software provider, has been appointed to the International Advisory Panel (IAP) for MSC Malaysia. The MSC Malaysia IAP has been set up to provide counsel to the Malaysian Government on legislation and policies, develop MSC Malaysia-specific practices, and set breakthrough standards for multimedia operations.
Jimmy Cheah, Managing Director of SAS Malaysia, lauded this latest MSC Malaysia-IAP appointment as a synergistic catalyst for both SAS (currently the BI leader in Malaysia with 29 per cent market share for 2006 as reported by IDC Asia/Pacific Business Intelligence Software Tracker, 2H 2006), and the MSC Malaysia to achieve their objectives.
"The vision of the MSC Malaysia is to transform Malaysia into a knowledge society by 2020; and SAS' initiatives to develop local talent in ICT via SAS' accreditation programs can serve to meet this very vision. In addition, our championing of predictive analytics in Government and the private sector will see effective use of information as a competitive edge to raise the level of performances against global players."
"Indeed, the appointment of Dr. Goodnight to the MSC Malaysia-IAP is very significant for SAS Malaysia because in addition to SAS contributing towards policies and decisions concerning the development of ICT in Malaysia, SAS is able to advocate the fact that in Corporate Malaysia today business intelligence is now one of the top boardroom priorities to gain competitive edge," he adds.
Multimedia Development Corporation CEO Badlisham Ghazali said the MSC Malaysia IAP Organising Committee welcomed Goodnight's appointment as a strong addition to the already solid MSC Malaysia IAP team.
"As we progress to the next stage of development and propelling forward aggressively, I'm sure we can tap on Goodnight's experience and skills for the betterment of MSC Malaysia and ensure it continues to be the choice of investors looking at talented K-workers with balanced mix of expertise, industrial knowledge and experience," said Badlisham.
Created in 1996, the MSC Malaysia is a government-designated district comprising nearly 300 square miles of land and now home to more than 1750 multinational, foreign-owned and home-grown Malaysian companies.
The MSC Malaysia advisory panel consists of corporate leaders, scholars and top members of international think tanks who offer counsel to the Malaysian government in managing the MSC Malaysia. Members of the panel work to ensure that Malaysian officials implement policies that encourage companies from around the globe to invest in the MSC Malaysia. Thanks to the guidance of its panel members, the MSC Malaysia has grown into a hub for information and communication technology companies, regionally.
Dr Jim Goodnight will be making his inaugural visit to Malaysia on June 28th, and is expected to leverage his new MSC Malaysia-IAP council appointment as a platform to meet with key officials in government and MDeC.
Dr Jim Goodnight
Dr Jim Goodnight has been at the helm of SAS since the company's incorporation in 1976, and has overseen an unbroken chain of revenue growth – feat almost unheard of in the software industry. SAS is among the world's largest privately owned software companies. Today, SAS is best known for sifting massive mountains of data for FORTUNE 500 companies and other organizations most people have heard of; and is renowned for its corporate culture, which has made SAS a fixture on "Best Places to Work" lists – including FORTUNE's.
Dr. Goodnight is an active speaker and participant at the World Economic Forum, and was appointed to the Atlantic Council of the United States President's International Advisory Group in dedication to this excellence in Business. In 2004, Harvard Business School named Dr. Goodnight as one of the "20th Century's Great American Business Leaders" for his three decades of leading a business that has changed the way Americans have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software and services. Customers at 43,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS offers leading data integration, storage, analytics and business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. www.sas.com
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Justice Minister Petrit Vasili hosted an official meeting with the Minister of State for Security in the UK Ben Wallace.
The purpose of this visit is related with the signing of "the Extradition Agreement between the Republic of Albania and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", an act that fulfills the legal framework between the two countries in the implementation of the European Convention of Extradition of 1957.At the end of the signing ceremony of this agreement, the Minister of Justice, Petrit Vasili appreciated its importance to the further deepening of bilateral relations.
"The signing of this agreement is one more mechanism in the hands of law enforcement agencies that will enable the intensification of the fight against organized crime and bringing to justice the criminal subjects wanted for years...," Vasili said.
Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace said that "the signing of this agreement will enable the extradition of Albanian citizens from Albania to the United Kingdom.
This will ensure that those who commit serious criminal offenses in the UK and leave the country, to be brought to justice. This is further evidence of increasing our cooperation with Albania in the fight against organized crime."/Oculus News
Albania signed an extradition treaty with Britain and Ireland Wednesday, April 05, 2017 Rating:


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Chestnut Cat CollarSKU: N/A
$ 14.00
Made from high-quality Horween leather, which is both soft and stylish, this chestnut cat collar is a must have for any cat. The collar is available in 2 different sizes and a variety of thread colors, offering choice and flexibility. It comes with the stainless steel hardware, an easy to adjust buckle is smooth on the inside and won't irritate your cat.
General Features:
– Leather Type: Horween Dublin
– Leather Color: Chestnut
– Thread Color: Turquoise
– Hardware: Stainless Steel
Please note, the default thread for this collar is turquoise. But you can select any other color of thread from our list and we will stitch the collar with it.
You can add a jingle bell to the collar, it is really effective if your cat has a tendency to go out on the hunt.
Available sizes:
13" long and 12 mm wide; fits a neck from 9" to 12"
10" long and 12 mm wide; fits a neck from 8" to 10.5"
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David M. Crohn
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- Office: 2316 Geology
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Academic Degrees:
- B.S. North Carolina State University, 1986
- M.S., Cornell University, 1990
- Ph. D., Cornell University, 1992
- Environmental optimization; compost production and use; erosion control; soil nitrogen management
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- Crohn, D.M., M.C. Mathews, and D.H. Putnam. 2009. Nitrogen content curves for small grain forage crops. Transactions of the ASABE. 52(2): 459-467.
- Crohn, D. M., and Bianchi, M. L. 2008. Research priorities for coordinating management of food safety and water quality. Journal of Environmental Quality, 37(4):1411-1418.
- Downer, A. J., Crohn, D., Faber, B., Daugovish, O., Becker J. O., Menge, J. A., and Mochizuki, M. J. 2008. Survival of plant pathogens in static piles of ground green waste. Phytopathology. In Press.
- Crohn, D. M., Faber, B., Downer, A. J., and Daugovish, O. 2008. Probabilities for survival of glassy-winged sharpshooter and olive fruit fly pests in urban yard waste piles. Bioresource Technology. 99: 1425-1432.
- Crohn, D. M. 2006. Optimizing organic fertilizer applications under steady-state conditions. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35(2): 658-669.
- Valenzuela-Solano, C., and Crohn, D. M. 2006. Is the release of N from decomposing organic mulches determined mainly by their chemical composition? Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 38 (2): 377-384.
- Howell, C. J., Crohn, D. M., and Omary, M. 2005. Simulating nutrient cycling and removal through treatment wetlands in hot arid and semiarid environments. Ecological Engineering. 25(1): 25-39.
- Valenzuela-Solano, C., Crohn, D. M., and Downer, J. A. 2005. Nitrogen mineralization from eucalyptus yard waste mulch applied to young avocado trees. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 41: 38-45.
- Crohn, D. M., Ruud, N. C., Decreynaire, J. G., and Carlon, D. B. 2005. Goodness-of-Fit Test for Modeling Tracer Breakthrough Curves in Wetlands. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 131(2): 242-251.
- Crohn, D. M. and Valenzuela-Solano, C. 2003. Modeling temperature effects on decomposition. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 129(12): 1149-1156.
Courses Taught:
- ENSC 144 - Solid Waste (Fall Quarter)
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"Working Our Way Home: 'We are the people we've been waiting for'"
Getting to Oberlin
Oberlin, Ohio is 35 miles Southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and about 20 miles from Cleveland Hopkins International
Airport. The town is served by Lorain County Transit buses, and is also accessible from several major highways. For directions
to the Oberlin College campus and information on various forms of public transit, as well as interactive maps of the college
campus, you may visit the Oberlin College Visitor Information webpage, at www.oberlin.edu/visitor.
Getting to the Conference
Wilder Hall
The majority of Working Our Way Home conference activities will take place in Wilder Hall,
which houses the Student Union and the Multicultural Resource Center, as well as many meeting rooms. The registration and
information center for the conference will be located here as well, in the main lounge area on the first floor, near the information
To find Wilder Hall, begin at the intersection of College St. and Main St/Rte 58, at the center of Oberlin.
Go one block west on College St; the large park called Tappan Square will be on your right. Turn and go one block north on
Professor Street, again keeping the park on your right; the campus will be on your left. At the intersection of Professor
St and Lorain St/511, turn left and go north on Lorain St. The back of Wilder Hall will be a few hundred yards down on
your left, across from the entrance to Woodland Street. If you are driving and need parking, you may turn right onto Woodland
Street and park on the right-hand side of the street (during daytime hours only) or in the College's public parking lot at
the very end of Woodland Street, by the Philips Physical Education Center.
Other Locations
Some conference events will also be taking place in the Science Center, the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women
and Transgender People, the Cat in the Cream, and the Adam Joseph Lewis Environmental Studies Center. Below are directions
from Wilder Hall to these locations.
The Science Center
The Science Center is the large, modern building located directly north of Wilder hall, across Lorain Street.
The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People
The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People is located at 124 Woodland Street. Upon leaving
Wilder, walk north across Lorain Street to Woodland Street. Walk north on Woodland Street; the Edmonia Lewis Center is housed
in the last house on the left before the parking lot entrance, and is indicated by a maroon lawn sign bearing its name.
The Cat in the Cream
Upon leaving Wilder, walk north to Lorain Street and then turn left and walk westward along Lorain Street.
There will be a few large houses on the right and then an older gymnasium complex which houses the Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse,
as well as Oberlin's bowling lanes. The entrance to the Cat in the Cream can be accessed by entering the smaller part of the
building through the first door on the right. Once inside the building, the bowling lanes will be in front of you and the
Cat in the Cream will be through the first door on your left.
The Adam Joseph Lewis Environmental Studies Center
Upon leaving Wilder, walk south through the center of campus until you reach College Street. Turn left and
walk east along College Street for half a block until you arrive at the intersection of College St and Professor St. Turning
right, walk one block south along Professor St to the entrance to Elm Street, which will be on your right. Turn right and
walk west on Elm street, and you will quickly see the large glass atrium of the Adam J Lewis Environmental Studies Center
on your right.
Oberlin Housing for Conference Attendees
The Oberlin Inn is the only hotel in Oberlin, located at 7 N. Main St. Double rooms are approximately $100-$150
a night, and can be reserved by calling (800) 376-4173.
For a listing of motels/hotels outside Oberlin but in the Oberlin area, go to www.oberlin.edu/visitor/accomodations.html and scroll down to the "Around Oberlin" section.
Bed and Breakfasts
There are several bed and breakfasts in Oberlin as well. The two largest are the Hallauer House B&B
(www.hallauerhousebnb.com, (440) 774-3400, prices vary) and the Ivy Tree Inn and Garden (www.lanierbb.com/inns/OH/17732.html,(440) 774-4510, prices vary). There are also several smaller bed and breakfasts in Oberlin. For more information
on these or for a listing of bed and breakfasts outside Oberlin but in the Oberlin area, go to www.oberlin.edu/visitor/accomodations.html and scroll down to the "Around Oberlin" section.
Community Housing
The conference committee has also organized community housing for those who cannot afford a hotel and/or
would prefer to stay with an Oberlin student. For more information or to request community housing, email email@example.com.
The information on hotels and bed and breakfasts provided here is intended solely to assist conference attendees
in finding housing and does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of these facilities.
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June 29, 2007
Daniel Chiu receives National Fresenius Award
Professor Daniel Chiu received the 2007 National Fresenius Award from the Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society. This annual award was established in 1965 to promote "high scholarship and original investigation in all branches of pure and applied chemistry." The award recognizes outstanding chemists early in their professional careers, who have attained national recognition in the areas of research, teaching and/or administration.
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Photo Tip of the Week
Ansel Adams once said that "Sometimes I arrive just when God is ready to have someone click the shutter." But just what time is that, and how exactly are you supposed to know?
There is one simple answer of course, so long as you don't dig too far below the surface of that answer. You take the picture when you like what you see through the viewfinder. With wildlife, you want to catch them showing some form of indicative behavior. You want the moment when the flock of birds take off. You want the moment when the rutting elk has his neck stretched out bugling, not perhaps the time he's got his head down foraging for food. But no matter how long you hang around waiting for the most spectacular moment imaginable, that moment is sure to come just after you start to pack things up to call it quits for the evening. For general landscape images, you want to shoot at the peak of the golden light "magic hour" near dawn and dusk. But even stipulating this, you never really know when will be best. The scene may look gorgeous, only to look even more so ten minutes later. Or perhaps not. With wildflowers, you want the moment the wind is not blowing, a condition not easy to encounter some mornings. Just when you go to snap the shutter, a gust kicks up and blurs your shot. With shutter speeds lasting upwards of several seconds, almost anything can happen. The truth is, catching the perfect moment to click the shutter is harder than it first seems.
Here's another quote for you: "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once." This one is variously credited to American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler, or perhaps Albert Einstein, or even comedy film director Woody Allen. Its roots seem to go back further than any of these possibilities though, but the point is the same regardless of who first had the wit to say it. Every moment is unique and happens only once. There is an inherent orderliness to time that we can't circumvent. Each press of the shutter release creates an image at that precise moment. If you want an image taken at a later moment, you have to take an image at that moment. There's no going back in time either to fire off a shot at a moment you missed. Some people ponder whether it could be possible to go back in time and kill Hitler before his rise to power. Photographers ponder about the shot they were close to getting that morning but just barely missed out on. Both sorts of idle speculation can have about the same chances of impacting real world events.
And this creates an interesting dilemma. The only picture you can actually take is of the view available to you right now. If the light looks great, press the shutter release. Ten minutes later it may look even better and you can always take another shot then. But if ten minutes later the magic light has started to fade or a gentle breeze starts blowing and ruins the mountain lake's mirror surface, you're going to be glad you took that earlier shot. You did take that earlier shot, now didn't you?
Some people wait for perfection and thereby miss the whole shooting match. Things may improve or get worse, but perfection never really comes. Thankfully, with digital photography, you're not apt to run out of film or anything. And if the memory cards you have with you do all get filled with attempts to capture perfection, you can always delete some of your less successful shots to make room for new ones.
While you have that perfect shot framed in your viewfinder though, with the camera locked down on your tripod, you could easily be missing other possible shots. While you wait for the light to reach its peak, time is passing. How long do you wait? If you wait long enough, you might increase your chances of getting a better shot, but at the same time you might also be missing other good shots. If instead you switch lenses and recompose for some other shot, you might miss getting great images with even better light of your first subject.
See, timing can be quite a dilemma once you go beyond simplistic answers, with all due deference to Ansel Adam's skills as a photographer or course.
If budget and sheer weight weren't obstacles I'd carry additional camera bodies, lenses and tripods with me so I would be ready to do more than one thing at once. Not that I could actually shoot multiple cameras at the same time, but with enough equipment I could have one setup locked down and ready to go for one subject, while I had a different camera pointed the other direction for something else. At sunrise, it's not just the eastern horizon that bears keeping an eye on. But there are limits, and my back tells me my weight limit isn't quite as high as my dreams wish I were capable of. Perhaps I need a Sherpa, but I digress.
Maybe it's just me, but I find myself thinking about this sort of thing, sometimes while I'm on location and discover that I've missed great images as a result of making choices necessary for shooting other images, and sometimes just around the house while I think about how not to miss such great images next time I'm out shooting.
Ultimately, the only time we have is now. We can remember yesterday and plan for tomorrow, but when it comes down to it, you have to decide in the present tense whether to press the shutter release or not. All you can do is use your best judgement as to which of the many possible shots to focus on in any given situation. I would say to also keep your fingers crossed for good luck, but you need them to handle your camera and press the shutter release to take pictures in the first place.
The reality is that there are no easy answers. Timing is inherently tricky. My advice is to carry a lot of memory cards with you, and perhaps a tad more gear if you feel up to it. And don't get to frustrated if you do miss some good shots. Even if you don't capture them all, hopefully you at least were there to witness them. It can be awfully beautiful out there some times. Now that's timing.
Date posted: February 14, 2016
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Monday, March 21, 2011
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Iowa's not on this list, probably because the losing one state stakes are so low and the nonpartisan process is so hard to manipulate, but here's a look at the top ten states that matter in redistricting. (Tesas, gaining FOUR seats, not in top 10?)
And we haven't even figured out who's running for presidnet, but we're already playing veepstakes. Really scary, really inexperienced names on this list (Ayotte?!? Rubio?!? Ron freakin' Johnson?!?!1!)
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"POP" Chicken Rub
1Tbs. Ground Mustard
1/2 Tbs. Salt
1/2 Tbs. Chili Powder
1/4 Tbs. Ground Pepper
2 Tbs. Brown Sugar
1 Tbs. Olive Oil
*Coats about 3 chicken breasts
Rinse 3 Boneless Chicken breast and pat dry. Drizzle the olive oil anduse hands to spread around. Spinkle the rub on one side and rub in and then turn over and coat the other side and rub in. Cover and marinate for a couple of hours and then grill.
This chicken has a sweet taste with a spicy pop at the end!! Great with a ranch dip or on a garden salad with ranch dressing.
Grilled Asparagus1 bunch fresh asparagus
1Tbs. Olive Oil
kosher salt (to taste)
black pepper (to taste)
1 Tbs. Balsamic Vinegar *I used a Balsamic Vinegar infused with Pomegranit
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Guy Platten – CEO, UK Chamber of Shipping
John Mills – Founder of import-export company JML
Laura Sandys – Chair, European Movement
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The recoil spring inside the engine on a Poulan chain saw helps retract the starter rope after you've pulled it out. This recoil spring stretches out and then snaps back, pulling the rope with it. The recoil spring sits inside the pulley, which is attached to the flywheel. If you've overstretched the spring or pulled it out entirely then you will not be able to start your Poulan chain saw. The recoil spring comes inside a circular cassette like object.
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