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Posted February 28, 2003; 10:57 a.m.
Seniors Jessica Munitz and Daniel Stover have been awarded 2003 ReachOut 56 Fellowships, which provide each winner with a $25,000 grant to undertake a yearlong public service project after graduation.
ReachOut 56 is an effort by Princeton's class of 1956 to help nonprofit organizations perform valuable public service. More than 100 members of the class have contributed funds to the program, which is involved with a number of other public service activities in addition to granting the fellowships.
Candidates for these fellowships perform their own research to find a suitable public service organization in the United States that will agree in advance to make a position available. The candidate and the organization together devise a significant project or function for the year of the award.
Munitz plans to work on expanding the University's Sustained Dialogue program to other college campuses. Stover will work with Trenton, N.J.-based Isles Inc., a community development organization. The two winners were chosen from among seven applicants this year.
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Faced with this, we want to clarify: The Mexican Anarchist Black Cross is a libertarian initiative, our work is aimed to extend solidarity with prisoners, both the so-called ordinary ones and those imprisoned for their ideas and political actions and anarchists, supporting them in their legal processes, distributing their letters and doing outreach events to publicise their situation: we organise anti-repression workshops, promote self-organization in our neighborhoods and communities, as well as knowledge of legal defense strategies, based on the idea that repression is a mechanism inherent to Capital and the State, which does not hesitate to use it to maintain the domination and exploitation which sustains this system; we also disseminate anti-prison ideas and thinking, to prompt debate on the social control nature of the prison, and its function in maintaining the capitalist system. As an initiative, our efforts are aimed at these tasks, which have always been done in the open. All the activities that we organise and participate in are called for via our webpage or by email, and are signed. In the mass media, it has been mentioned that amongst the detained were persons belonging to anarchist groups. Faced with these assertions it is necessary to declare that none of those detained belonged to the Mexican Anarchist Black Cross. Nonetheless we declare our absolute solidarity with all the people detained and demand they be freed immediately. We understand that these declarations, along with the allegations of instigating the events that occurred during the demonstrations, are part of a campaign of criminalisation and persecution against anarchist groups and individuals. Marcelo Ebrard has distinguished himself by the targeting and criminalisation of anarchist groups, during his tenure as Secretary of Public Safety of the City, so this campaign is no surprise to us and we see in these statements a revenge against us because of the work we have carried out, principally in solidarity with the young anarchists that the Government of the Federal District has confined in its prisons in recent years. We have given solidarity to these, as well as with different cases at a national level of political prisoners, and in that context we have made several reports showing the intrinsically repressive character of Federal District government, who has subverted its own laws in using them in a biased way to create and stage accusations and trials riddled with irregularities. We denounce this campaign of persecution, that began in 2003 with accusations against anarchist groups following the October 2 commemoration march and in the last year has worsened, (not to mention that a call has been circulating in recent days from an apocryphal group for an activity in solidarity with prisoners), and continues with the administration of Miguel Ángel Mancera, who has also had no hesitation in making incriminating statements against anarchist groups active in the "City of Despair". What happened on December 1st is the product of social discontent. The investiture of Enrique Peña Nieto is only one part, we can not fail to see that there is a growing outrage at the current social, economic and political climate, in which the concentration of power in a narrow group of people and companies are bringing grave consequences for the vast majority of people. The police, federal and local, displayed their usual brutality against all the protesters; against anyone they found in their path, making arbitrary and indiscriminate arrests. This, coupled with the news of comrades wounded around San Lazaro, further enraged the protesters. For us, violence originates in the political system and the state, which intends to subdue us by means of its instruments of social control, and the economic system that deprives us of the ability to have a dignified life and exploits us through appropriation of our labour. This is the originating violence and faced with it it will always be legitimate to organise. The real terrorists are those who by their actions or their silent complicity, have plunged the country into a senseless war, filling the cities of fear and death, persecuting and criminalizing poverty and assassinating whoever organises themselves and dares to stand up against it. Through this communiqué we thus denounce the growing campaign of criminalisation of social protest, and especially against anarchist groups and individuals. Those responsible for this are the Government of the Federal District. We demand the immediate liberation of each and every one of the persons detained. Down with the prison walls! Freedom for all! Anarchist Black Cross Mexico
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Bill Buford is a Staff Writer and European Correspondent for The New Yorker. He was the Fiction Editor of the magazine for eight years, from April 1995 to December 2002. Before that he edited Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He has edited three anthologies: The Best of Granta Travel, The Best of Granta Reportage, and The Granta Book of the Family.
Bill is also the author of Among the Thugs (Norton, 1992), a highly personal nonfiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism. For The New Yorker, he has written about sweatshops, the singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, and chef Mario Batali.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1954, Bill Buford grew up in California and was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons.


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Homemade bread is all the rage. And why not? Few foods are as satisfying to make and eat. Let this be the year you finally get into the habit of baking bread from scratch. You will be so happy you did.
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True brioche—the classic French yeast bread that's rich and golden with butter and eggs, boasting a paper-thin crust and a silky, tender crumb—is a rare and wonderful thing. But as special as it is, brioche isn't difficult to make.
This authentic Irish soda bread uses just four ingredients you likely have on hand: flour, salt, baking soda, and buttermilk (raisins and caraway seeds are an American addition). It's a simple loaf with a beautifully browned, craggy crust and a nice chew.
Soft, rich, and worlds better than store-bought, these gorgeous, buttery dinner rolls also make a most excellent sandwich.
If you're new to the bread-baking scene, this is an excellent place to start. Packed with plump, juicy raisins and rich cinnamon swirls, this easy-to-make bread is guaranteed to please.
Many people associate the flavor of rye bread with caraway because loaves of it often feature the seeds. This lighter, airier rye bread does not, which means you can actually taste how the rye flour affects the flavor.
A great focaccia is all about the crust, and this recipe delivers. Although the making of the bread is spread over two days, the actual hands-on time is quite short.
Like most flatbreads, pita isn't difficult to make; it just needs some time for the dough to rise. Your reward is fresh, warm pita that bears little resemblance to what you can buy at the store.
Challah is traditionally served at the Jewish Sabbath, but why limit this finely grained, tender bread, to Friday night? (Especially given that it makes such wonderful French toast?) Though it looks truly impressive, the dough is hardy and forgiving and needs very little kneading.
A combination of coarse and fine whole-wheat flours plus coarsely chopped walnuts give this bread a more interesting texture than most.
The ratio of flour to cheese seems crazy, but it works. Serve the bread hot (for a spongy texture) or warm (for a denser interior with the dough settling more and forming air pockets).
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#include <avr/sleep.h>void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600);}void loop(){ int reading; reading = analogNoiseReducedRead(0); Serial.println(); delay(500);}int analogNoiseReducedRead(int pinNumber){ int reading; ADCSRA |= _BV( ADIE ); //Set ADC interrupt set_sleep_mode(SLEEP_MODE_ADC); //Set sleep mode reading = analogRead(pinNumber); //Start reading sleep_enable(); //Enable sleep do { //Loop until reading is completed sei(); //Enable interrupts sleep_mode(); //Go to sleep cli(); //Disable interrupts } while(((ADCSRA&(1<<ADSC))!= 0)); //Loop if the interrupt that woke the cpu was something other than the ADC finishing the reading sleep_disable(); //Disable sleep ADCSRA &= ~ _BV( ADIE ); //Clear ADC interupt sei(); //Enable interrupts return(reading);}
Where is the analog pin to be read defined?
You must set ADMUX before calling this function.
Where is the call made to read it with the ADC?
This performs an A/D conversion using the current ADMUX settings.
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Figure 12.3: Latitude-month plot of radiative forcing and model equilibrium response for surface temperature. (a) Radiative forcing (Wm-2) due to increased sulphate aerosol loading at the time of CO2 doubling. (b) Change in temperature due to the increase in aerosol loading. (c) Change in temperature due to CO2 doubling. Note that the patterns of radiative forcing and temperature response are quite different in (a) and (b), but that the patterns of large-scale temperature responses to different forcings are similar in (b) and (c). The experi-ments used to compute these fields are described by Reader and Boer (1998).
The global mean change in radiative forcing (see Chapter 6) since the pre-industrial period may give an indication of the relative importance of the different external factors influencing climate over the last century. The temporal and spatial variation of the forcing from different sources may help to identify the effects of individual factors that have contributed to recent climate change.
The need for climate models
To detect the response to anthropogenic or natural climate forcing in observations, we require estimates of the expected space-time pattern of the response. The influences of natural and anthropogenic forcing on the observed climate can be separated only if the spatial and temporal variation of each component is known. These patterns cannot be determined from the observed instrumental record because variations due to different external forcings are superimposed on each other and on internal climate variations. Hence climate models are usually used to estimate the contribution from each factor. The models range from simpler energy balance models to the most complex coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models that simulate the spatial and temporal variations of many climatic parameters (Chapter 8).
The models used
Energy balance models (EBMs) simulate the effect of radiative climate forcing on surface temperature. Climate sensitivity is included as an adjustable parameter. These models are computationally inexpensive and produce noise-free estimates of the climate signal. However, EBMs cannot represent dynamical components of the climate signal, generally cannot simulate variables other than surface temperature, and may omit some of the important feedback processes that are accounted for in more complex models. Most detection and attribution approaches therefore apply signals estimated from coupled Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) or atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs) coupled to mixed-layer ocean models. Forced simulations with such models contain both the climate response to external forcing and superimposed internal climate variability. Estimates of the climate response computed from model output will necessarily contain at least some noise from this source, although this can be reduced by the use of ensemble simulations. Note that different models can produce quite different patterns of response to a given forcing due to differences in the representation of feedbacks arising from changes in cloud (in particular), sea ice and land surface processes.
The relationship between patterns of forcing and response
There are several reasons why one should not expect a simple relationship between the patterns of radiative forcing and temperature response. First, strong feedbacks such as those due to water vapour and sea ice tend to reduce the difference in the temperature response due to different forcings. This is illustrated graphically by the response to the simplified aerosol forcing used in early studies. The magnitude of the model response is largest over the Arctic in winter even though the forcing is small, largely due to ice-albedo feedback. The large-scale patterns of change and their temporal variations are similar, but of opposite sign, to that obtained in greenhouse gas experiments (Figure 12.3, see also Mitchell et al., 1995a). Second, atmospheric circulation tends to smooth out temperature gradients and reduce the differences in response patterns. Similarly, the thermal inertia of the climate system tends to reduce the amplitude of short-term fluctuations in forcing. Third, changes in radiative forcing are more effective if they act near the surface, where cooling to space is restricted, than at upper levels, and in high latitudes, where there are stronger positive feedbacks than at low latitudes (Hansen et al., 1997a).
In practice, the response of a given model to different forcing patterns can be quite similar (Hegerl et al., 1997; North and Stevens, 1998; Tett et al., 1999). Similar signal patterns (a condition often referred to as "degeneracy") can be difficult to distinguish from one another. Tett et al. (1999) find substantial degeneracy between greenhouse gas, sulphate, volcanic and solar patterns they used in their detection study using HadCM2. On the other hand, the greenhouse gas and aerosol patterns generated by ECHAM3 LSG (Hegerl et al., 2000) are more clearly separable, in part because the patterns are more distinct, and in part because the aerosol response pattern correlates less well with ECHAM3 LSG's patterns of internal variability. The vertical patterns of temperature change due to greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone forcing are less degenerate than the horizontal patterns.
Different models may give quite different patterns of response for the same forcing, but an individual model may give a surprisingly similar response for different forcings. The first point means that attribution studies may give different results when using signals generated from different models. The second point means that it may be more difficult to distinguish between the response to different factors than one might expect, given the differences in radiative forcing.
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Heat the oil in a medium sauce pan and sauté the onions for 1 to 2 minutes. Add carrot and bell pepper. Sauté 3 minutes. Add all remaining ingredients except the shoyu. Cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes. Add shoyu and simmer 5 minutes.
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Thread: Betta sick with ick
02-08-2013, 06:17 PM #11Junior Member Guppy
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Any recommendations on a model or brand of heater. I will do a quick search to see what I can find online but all the ones at the local store only have a single setting and are for use in tanks 2 gallons or larger.
Would adding salt help in this case to get rid of the ick?
adding salt is one way of treating ich but it must also be combined with heat above 82F to be successful IIRC.
I would also guess that the temperature drop is what caused the ich. Just like humans are constantly surrounded by viruses but we don't often get sick, fish will live surrounded by disease generally will stay healthy until something happens to weaken them, and in your case it was probably the temperature that did it.
I keep my bettas at about 78F (25.5C) and that seems to suit them, although higher would be okay as well. I don't know that you're going to find adjustable ones for a tank that small, most of the smaller ones are permanently set at 78 or a similar temperature. This may not be ideal but it would still be much improved over no heater at all. The trick is going to be finding one sized small enough. You don't want an overpowered one that can cook your tank in the blink of an eye.300 gallon mega tank: sailfin pleco, clown loaches, silver dollars, roseline sharks, congo tetras, new world cichlids
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Yes, it could but you would need to pair the salt with a heater to get the temp up - salt plus heat slows down or stops the ick from multiplying in the substrate. I'm not sure how much salt you would use because I used meds when I treated my tank - there is probably an article here on the forum about this.
Really - all the heaters are preset in your store? Honestly, I'm not familiar with all the brands except Marineland or Tetra. You could look for a heater good for up to 10gal and that would do fine - you would just need to monitor the temp so it doesn't go too high (a thermometer would also be needed) and keep up with water changes (like 2-3 times a day) because the heat decreases the oxygen level in the water - water changes break the surface of the water to add oxygen.
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All of the adjustable heaters are rated for 2-10 gallons. If I got the smallest wattage one available do you think it would be ok? Or should I just get one of the non-adjustable ones that are designed for 1.5 gallon betta tanks like the "Betta Stick" or Hycor 7.5 (for .5 to 3 gallon)?
Any chance you could purchase a stand to go with a 5g tank? That would help solve your problems, and not take away any of your current counter top/table space. Heck even build one! :) 5g's are extremely small, and you can put one just about anywhere. It just depends on your determination! If you want it to work, you'll find a way to make it work.
Then you'll have no problems finding a heater, and will be on your way to treating the ick.
I know what it's like to live in a small place. My husband, son, and I just moved from a 900sq ft home. In it was a 55g, and a 10g. Sure it was cramped, but we made it work because we wanted it to. Best of luck to you!130g: 4 Angelfish, 2 Roseline Sharks, 12 Conga Tetras, 5 Kuhli Loaches, 1 Otocinslus, 1 Corydora
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I wasn't referring to actual counter space but floor space along a wall. Aside from placing directly in the middle of the kitchen or living room there is just no place to put it. We are planning a move within the next 6 months and hopefully will have more room then.
I agree with what everyone has said.
In the meantime, until you can get a larger tank and an appropriate filter, keep him in the largest tank you have and change his water a min of 2 X a week. See if you can find a small heater as constant heat is a critical factor in getting him better and then avoiding future illness. It won't be very costly and you can transfer it to the 5 gallon when you find space for it.
You asked about salt for treating ich. If you are already treating him with ich medication, then I'd stay the course. Do not mix salt and medication. The meds should take care of the problem IF you can also stabilize his tank temp.
Good luck30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
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I realize, most of the fish keeping mistakes you have made, are just that. Simply not knowing, which is how many start out unaware. Many stores sell these small tanks for Betta, and so the consumer thinks, well, they make them, so they must know its okay. You aren't alone, and many children, like your son end up mourning ill and dying fish due to poor housing arrangements. I feel for your situation, I really do.
You might consider a hexagon tank, which will give more gallons while taking up a small footprint on a surface. This may not be possible however, so, until you move, here is what I would suggest.
Betta need a particular husbandry to thrive. Though the current tank is too small, you can do much to improve the current situation.
Get a different filter. At most pet stores in the aquarium department are sponge filters, there are many types, but they are small (like a block behind plastic) that run via an air pump. You may have to purchase the air pump separately. These filters work well for small spaces, and do not cause the suction and flow of other filters. Keep this running at all times. A sponge filter will also have the benefit of oxygenating the water, so you will have no need for an extra air stone during any treatment.
Heater. There are several types, but make SURE you get one rated for a very small tank. Though i always recommend one with an adjustable dial, those are meant for bigger tanks. Betta require 82 degrees, but that in so small a tank will be impossible. A heater that can do that would likely overwhelm the tank, and cook the fish. I suggest the smallest pre-set 78 degree heater you can get your hands on. They are submersible, and you will need a thermometer, but not a "stick on" type that goes on the outside. Get one that goes on the inside and monitor the temperature.
Add salt. Aquarium salt is cheap, and use the dose per gallon on the back of the package. When you do water changes, only add the amount of salt equal to the water you removed. Treat with salt until at least ten days after the last ich spot is seen. To remove salt, don't do anything special except regular weekly water changes and adding no more salt.
Since your tank is so small and uncycled, change 50 percent of the water, every day. Since there is so little water, there is not enough to dillute the wastes from the excretion and aspiration of the fish, therefore you need to do it manually. Since the water is of low volume, this should be a quick and easy thing to do daily taking a few minutes. Make sure to use dechlorinator, such as Prime with all water going into the tank.
Make sure substrate is clean, or better yet, remove it. If you have gravel on the bottom, take it out, it will only serve as an area for debris to build up.
Heat + salt + daily water changes, should improve the health of your fish and keep him well, until you are able to give him larger accomodations.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
Tiara said: "Add salt. Aquarium salt is cheap, and use the dose per gallon on the back of the package. When you do water changes, only add the amount of salt equal to the water you removed. Treat with salt until at least ten days after the last ich spot is seen. To remove salt, don't do anything special except regular weekly water changes and adding no more salt."
this is an effective ich treatment. If you do go the salt route, make certain you discontinue the medication you are using.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
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Anyone Hear Low Flying Jet Engines at Full Power Tonight?
Original post made by Midtown Man, Midtown, on Sep 6, 2013
Lasted 30-45 seconds, very low and close. Lowest I have ever felt a Jet over my house. I ran outside. Time: 6:40 tonight (Friday). Area: Midtown. I thought we were all going to get one (a crash). I ran outside and could not see it, but I have never heard a jet so close! Scary. Didn't sound like a Moffett Field jet, more commercial and big and lumbering full blast to get aloft, to get some height.
Just an hour before, I was in the back yard, and two otherjets, one small and fast going to SF ybe a commuter from LA , and another,
big jumbo size, slowly turning towards SF over PA, both seemed to be at the same elevation or nearly so. I wondered if the air traffic
controllers started a weekend shift short handed. They didn't look well-placed. Just imagine.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 6, 2013 at 7:31 pm
Yes, saw one as I was outside Piazzas. It seemed quite high to me, but noisy. Looked like it was heading away from SFO towards Santa Cruz area, didn't appear to be head towards or away from Moffett so it did seem strange.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Sep 6, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Ditto here. There was one that was very loud this week, too. Maybe it was yesterday? At first I thought it was a medical chopper - it may have been, but the sound was much smoother & it sounded more like the jet tonight. Very strange.
a resident of Barron Park
on Sep 6, 2013 at 8:58 pm
There was an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter that flew over, flying slowly but engine running quite loud, at around that time. It doesn't show up on FlightRadar24.com, but if you want to see the commercial traffic that's the place to go and look. You can use the "playback" feature to see historical data (time in UTC, we're currently -7h from UTC)
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Sep 6, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Urr, do you mean the plane tonight, or the other night this week? Regardless, thanks for the info!
a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 6, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Exciting to have so many aviation enthusiasts! We'll see how many show up at Palo Alto Airport Day later this month.
I saw that jet this evening climbing westward about 3000 feet directly over Zot's, apparently just out of Moffett. I wasn't positive on the ID but others in my group agreed it was an F-18. There was a time when kids would look up at that and dream of becoming a pilot. Such freedom and romance!
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Sep 13, 2013 at 10:49 am
The late night/early morning, low flying private aircraft heading to our airport are additional noise-polluters.
It seems to be getting worse all the way around in terms of noisy planes. Was standing in my garage last night (all doors/windows closed) and couldn't believe the engine noise of a commercial craft overhead (around 10-11pm). Flight patterns clearly vary -- noise-free for hours and then a barrage of low-flying planes. When you look at the radar map, some drop to ~5000ft crossing over Palo Alto on their way to SFO. Seems they could wait until they are over the bay.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Nov 5, 2013 at 10:26 pm
If you think commercial aircraft noise over Palo Alto has increased in the last few months... you are correct. In August 2013 the South China Morning Post reported that the FAA, in response to the Asiana crash at SFO, had begun advising Foreign Airlines to stop using the 5,000' visual approach to SFO, and to only fly 3,000' GPS final approach routes. These overseas flights, which typically use larger four engined craft, are the jets rattling your windows, and vibrating your walls.
The smaller craft that emit a high pitched whistle are flying a new approach to SFO known as "NextGen" which the FAA began to roll-out at Bay Area airports in January 2013. Under "NextGen", aircraft "coast" down from altitude at high speed along several precisely navigated approaches. If you live under one of the "NextGen" approach routes, you better get used to it. The precision navigation used in the "Nextgen" system will channel air traffic into several narrow flight paths, and allow air traffic control to use much smaller aircraft-to-aircraft spacing.
Under the prevailing westerly winds, there are five basic approach routes to SFO. Three of the five routes fly directly over Palo Alto. "NextGen" approach routes typically overlay existing conventional approach routes.
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Diabetes level issues
Question: Is there a certain safe level for blood sugar for a person that has diabetes?
I know a high blood sugar level affects being able to drive safely. Is there a certain level where a ticket will be written if known by the State Patrol?
Answer: There is no level where a ticket would be written by the Minnesota State Patrol.
Of course, I am not a doctor, but I do know that the blood sugar concentration or blood glucose level is the amount of glucose (sugar) present in the blood.
Blood glucose monitoring is the main tool you have to check your diabetes control. This check tells you your blood glucose level at any one time.
Even though there is no blood sugar level where a ticket would be written, if an incident or a crash occurs involving a diabetic loss of consciousness or voluntary control and a trooper or any law enforcement officer investigates, a request for an examination of the driver can be submitted to the Driver and Vehicle Services – Driver Evaluation Unit.
This can be a very serious matter, and the best advice is to ask your healthcare provider what your blood sugar levels should be. Some other reasons for a driver's re-examination can include:
• General physical/health problems.
• Vision problems.
• Lack of physical driving skills.
• Mental or emotional problems (road rage, memory loss, etc.).
• Loss of consciousness (seizures).
• Lack of knowledge of traffic laws.
• And others.
Thanks for asking, and let's all work together to create a traffic safety culture in Minnesota.
Remember also to slow down, buckle up, drive sober and pay attention!
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ISP shooting suspect kidnapped Rathdrum woman
RATHDRUM, Idaho - Kootenai County Sheriff's deputies say the man suspected of shooting at an ISP trooper in Rathdrum Saturday morning later kidnapped a woman.
On Saturday, Mitchell Lee Walck, 57, ran a stop sign on Highway 41 in a stolen truck. He led troopers on a chase, ending on Bingham Street in Rathdrum.
Walck ditched the truck, ran up an embankment, firing several shots at a pursuing Idaho State Police officer, as he ran away from the scene.
"We are just out far away, maybe that's not as safe as being in town. I don't know," Rathdrum resident Brenda Galbraith said. She heard the helicopter and saw the police cars during the pursuit this weekend.Walck manhunt
"The sheriff's office called and said there was an armed fugitive in your neighborhood so keep your doors locked and don't go outside," she added.
Galbraith was wary enough to have deputies check out the buildings in her backyard. Everything was safe, but she didn't know the terror that was going to unfold next door.
A woman called 9-1-1 on Sunday night to report that her sister-in-law, a 62-year-old Rathdrum resident, called her to say she was kidnapped by Walck.
"Yesterday we got a phone call from a lady saying her sister in law was kidnapped by him. She lives in the area," Lieutenant Stu Miller with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department said.
According to the woman, Walck hid in her home after the pursuit. Neighbors say the woman is retired and lives by herself. At some point Walck forced her into her car at gunpoint and kidnapped her. She was later let out of the car, unharmed, in Glendive, MT., 11 hours away from Rathdrum.
"He probably hunkered in her house or on her property for some time Saturday," Miller said.
"She's only one house down from me. I could have been the next person," Galbraith said.
Deputies said Walck also stole two rifles from the woman's house, a 30-30 Winchester Rifle and a Mossberg .22 caliber rifle.
The victim is being escorted by deputies back to North Idaho.
Investigators say Walck is a transient going back and forth between Idaho and Montana and has ties to Pennsylvania. There are also reports that Walck has ties to the Aryan Nation and follows the Sovereign Citizen movement, which is a loose-knit group that believes they're no subject to state or federal laws.
Local law enforcement officials say he may follow some of that ideology but there is no definitive proof of his ties to those groups.
Monday afternoon, the FBI field office in Seattle reported its Salt Lake City Division was assisting the Post Falls Police Department and Kootenai County Sheriff's Department in the search for Walck. Meanwhile, the sheriff's department obtained a warrant for Walck's arrest with a $1 million bond.
Walck was last seen driving the kidnapping victim's silver 2005 Subaru Forester, with Idaho license plate K230050. He was wearing jeans, two-tone cowboy boots, a long sleeve shirt under a blue or black jacket. Walck has also changed his appearance, shaving everything but his mustache and dying it and his hair black.
The Montana Department of Corrections reports that Walck was convicted of assaulting a police officer in Powell County and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He started his sentence on May 17, 2002 and was released on Oct. 31, 2011.
Deputies say Walck is armed and extremely dangerous. If you see him, call 9-1-1 and do not approach him.
The FBI is offering $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Walck.
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:14 PM GMT on August 26, 2011
Satellite data and measurements from the Hurricane Hunters show that Irene is weakening. A 9:21 am EDT center fix by an Air Force Reserve aircraft found that Irene's eyewall had collapsed, and the central pressure had risen to 946 mb from a low of 942 mb this morning. The highest winds measured at their flight level of 10,000 feet were 125 mph, which would normally support classifying Irene as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds. However, these winds were not mixing down to the surface in the way we typically see with hurricanes, and the strongest surface winds seen by the aircraft with their SFMR instrument were just 90 mph in the storm's northeast eyewall. Assuming the aircraft missed sampling the strongest winds of the hurricane, it's a good guess that Irene is a mid-strength Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds. Satellite imagery shows a distinctly lopsided appearance to Irene's cloud pattern, with not much heavy thunderstorm activity on the southwest side. This is due to moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots due to upper-level winds out of the southwest. This shear is disrupting Irene's circulation and has cut off upper-level outflow along the south side of the hurricane. No eye is visible in satellite loops, but the storm's size is certainly impressive. Long range radar out of Wlimington, North Carolina, shows that the outermost spiral bands from Irene are now beginning to come ashore along the South Carolina/North Carolina border. Winds at buoy 41004 100 miles offshore from Charleston, SC increased to 36 mph as of 10 am, with significant wave heights of 18 feet.
Figure 1. Distribution of Irene's wind field at 9:30 am EDT Friday August 26, 2011, as observed by the Hurricane Hunters and buoys. The right front quadrant of the hurricane had about 90% of the storm's hurricane-force winds (yellow and warmer colors, bounded by the heavy black line between the "50" and "60" knot thin black lines.) Tropical storm-force winds (heavy black like bounding the light blue area) extended out 290 miles from the center of Irene. Image credit: NOAA/AOML/HRD.
Forecast and storm surge potential for Irene
With its eyewall collapsed and just 24 more hours over water before landfall, it is unlikely Irene will have time to build a new eyewall and intensify. The storm is too large to weaken quickly, and the best forecast is that Irene will be a Category 2 hurricane at landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, and a rapidly weakening Category 1 hurricane at its second landfall in New England on Sunday. However, since Irene is such a huge storm--tropical storm force winds extend out up to 290 miles from the center--it has set a massive amount of the ocean's surface in motion, which will cause a much larger storm surge than the winds would suggest. At 9:30am EDT this morning, a wind analysis from NOAA/HRD (Figure 1) indicated that the potential storm surge damage from Irene rated a 5.1 on a scale of 0 to 6. This is equivalent to the storm surge a typical Category 4 hurricane would have. While this damage potential should gradually decline as Irene moves northwards and weakens, we can still expect a storm surge one full Saffir-Simpson Category higher than Irene's winds. Since tides are at their highest levels of the month this weekend due to the new moon, storm surge flooding will be at a maximum during the high tidal cycles that will occur at 8 pm Saturday night and 8 am Sunday morning. Wherever Irene happens to be at those times the storm surge damage potential will be maximized. A surge rivaling that experienced during Hurricane Isabel in 2003 is likely in northern NC, southern Maryland, and up Chesapeake Bay on Saturday night. Coastal New England from New York City to Massachusetts may also see storm surges characteristic of a Category 1 hurricane during Sunday morning's high tide, even if Irene has weakened to a tropical storm. I continue to give a 20% chance that a storm surge high enough to over-top the Manhattan flood walls and swamp the New York City subway system will occur on Sunday.
Wind damage
I don't think Irene is going to do a lot of wind damage to the mid-Atlantic states, since the eye of the storm will be just offshore, and the I-95 corridor from Virginia to New Jersey will be on the weak (left) side of the hurricane. The current wind distribution of Irene (Figure 1) shows almost all of the hurricane's winds are on the right side of the storm, and by the time the storm reaches Virginia, there will be likely be no hurricane-force winds on the left side of Irene. Sustained winds should stay below 74 mph (hurricane force), and wind damage will be similar to that wrought be some of the strongest Nor'easters of the past 20 years, from Virginia northwards to New York City. Since Irene will be steadily weakening as it approaches its second landfall on Long Island, I give a 50% chance that no mainland U.S. surface station in New England will record sustained hurricane-force winds. I do think it likely that one or more of the offshore islands--Block Island, Nantucket, and Marthas Vinyard--will get Category 1 hurricane winds. Though the wind damage to buildings will be similar to what the Northeast has seen during some of the more severe nor'easters of the past 20 years, tree damage will be much worse. The trees are in full leaf during hurricane season, and catch the wind much more readily than during the winter. Tree damage will very heavy, and we can expect trees in regions with saturated soils will fall over in high winds onto power lines. Irene is likely to cause one of the top-five most widespread power outages in American history from a storm. The record power outage from a Northeast storm was probably the ten million people that lost power during the great Blizzard of 1993. I don't think Irene's power outages will be quite that extensive, but several million people will likely lose power.
Irene likely to bring destructive fresh water flooding
In addition to storm surge, flash flooding and river flooding from Irene's torrential rains are the main threats. The hurricane is expected to bring rains in excess of 8" to a 100-mile-wide swath from Eastern North Carolina northwards along the coast, through New York City. The danger of fresh water flooding is greatest in northern New Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, and Southeast New York, where the soils are saturated from heavy August rains that were among the heaviest on record. New Jersey has had its 6th wettest August on record, with most of that rain falling in the past two weeks. Expect major river flooding throughout New Jersey the Delmarva Peninsula, and regions near New York City, as Irene's rains run off the saturated soils directly into the rivers. In general, the heaviest rains will fall along the west side of the hurricane's track, and the greatest wind damage will occur on the east side. I don't think flooding from heavy rains will be a huge concern in North Carolina, which is under moderate to severe drought. Irene's rains are likely to do some good in Southeast Virginia, where a fire triggered by lightning from a thunderstorm on August 4 sparked a fire in the Dismal Swamp that is burning out of control. Right now, it does not appear that tornadoes will be a major concern, but there will probably be a few weak tornadoes. Hurricane Bob of 1991, the last hurricane to affect New England, spawned six tornadoes, most of them weak F-0 and F-1 twisters.
Figure 2. Predicted rainfall for the 5-day period ending at 8 am EDT Wednesday August 31, as issued by NOAA/HPC.
For those of you wanting to know your odds of receiving hurricane force or tropical storm force winds, I recommend the NHC wind probability product.
Wunderground has detailed storm surge maps for the U.S. coast.
The National Hurricane Center's Interactive Storm Surge RIsk Map, which allows one to pick a particular Category hurricane and zoom in, is a good source of storm surge risk information.
Wunderblogger Mike Theiss is in Nassau, documenting the storm's impact on the Bahamas.
Internet radio show on Irene at 4:30pm EDT
Wunderground meteorologists will be discussing Hurricane Irene on a special edition of our Internet radio show, the Daily Downpour, today (Friday) at 4:30pm EDT. Shaun Tanner , Tim Roche, Angela Fritz, and Rob Carver will there, and I will be available if my schedule permits. Listeners can email in or call in questions. The email address to ask questions is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Portlight mobilizes for Irene
The Bahamas have been hit hard by Irene, and unfortunately, it appears that the Northeast U.S. may have its share of hurricane victims before Irene finally dissipates. My favorite disaster relief charity, Portlight.org, is mobilizing to help, and has sent out their relief trailer and crew to North Carolina. Check out this blog to see what they're up to; donations are always needed.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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On November 29th the Icelandic parliament voted to recognize Palestine as a state. Yesterday, a ceremony was held in Reykjavik in the presence of the Icelandic and PLO foreign ministers.
Here is the text of the resolution adopted by Althingi, the Icelandic parliament:
Althingi resolves to entrust the government to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 Six Day War borders. Also, Althingi urges Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile through the means of peace agreements on the basis of international law and resolutions of the United Nations, including the mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine.
Althingi reaffirms that the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization, is the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and also recalls the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in accordance with resolutions reaffirmed by the United Nations.
Althingi demands that the conflicting parties in the Arab-Israeli Conflict cease warfare and acts of violence forthwith and respect human rights and humanitarian law.


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- a2b is an abstract train game where you guide trains to their destination without letting them collide with each other. Each game is played on a set of tracks on which trains run at regular intervals. You pick a train and accelerate, brake, or stop as necessary to safely guide it to its destination. Since trains are continously being launched, more than 1 train will want to use the same section of a track, potentially leading to a collision. You must resolve this by making a train wait while you rush another train. As a last resort, you can send a train back to its base.
- ATC-pie
- ATC-pie is an air traffic control simulation program for solo training sessions or multi-player games connected to the FlightGear MP network. It is essentially designed for realism, and simulates many features of real-life ATC tasks such as strip rack and sequence management, handovers to/from neighbouring controllers, transponder identification, flight plan filing, ATIS recording.
- Acm
- GNU ACM is a distributed aerial combat simulator that runs on the X Windows System. Players engage in air to air combat against one another using heat seeking missiles and cannons. The program has support for 16, 24, and 32 bit graphics cards.
- AirTraffic
- AirTraffic is a game that puts you into an air traffic controller's hotseat. Planes come into your airspace from various directions; you guide them safely to their final destinations. While not yet complete, the program is under active development; it currently consists of various server programs and a GTK/Gnome client. The client uses GTK/Gnome as its UI. The author welcomes contributions from UI designers and coders as well as individuals with air traffic experience.
- Antimicro
- antimicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support. However, you can use this program to control any desktop application with a gamepad; on GNU/Linux, this means that your system has to be running an X environment in order to run this program.
- Avaneya: Viking Lander Remastered DVD
- Whether you are a fan of science fiction, a space–science enthusiast, hobbyist, photographer, gamer or a patron of grass–roots libre arts and technology, you are sure to find the first successful images from the surface of Mars highly captivating. These mind blowing images were taken by NASA's Viking landers during the highly ambitious, billion–dollar mission first launched in 1975. However, many images were nearly lost to history due to magnetic tape deterioration and archaic proprietary technology.
With NASA's blessing, our team developed the technology to recover many of these images. This research tool was part of the design phase of our parent project, Avaneya — our upcoming libre cerebral science fiction game for the GNU operating system set on Mars, described in the words of Richard Stallman as an exciting, pioneering project.
Originally an internal research tool, overwhelming public interest compelled us to release the technology on this DVD for all. Now everyone can relive the original breathtaking experience that captured the world's attention and marked the first successful moment in history that humanity saw Mars — not as a distant, impersonal, celestial body, beheld through a telescope for centuries, but as a tangible and alien world well within its reach.
- Bitlife
- 'bitlife' implements Conway's Game of Life using boolean logic operations (and, or, not, xor). It does so by blits, thus running a Life game in every bitplane in parallel. Two implementations are available: a proof-of-concept one in Python and a useful one in C.
- Civil
- Civil is a cross-platform, turnbased, networked strategy game that allows players to take part in scenarios set during the American Civil war. It simulates battles on a company level (roughly 100 men).
- Dynpet
- Dynpet is a game that is similar to the Tamagotchi. It is a game in which you take care of a pet.
- Empire
- Empire is a strategy wargame played by a number of people (usually between 4 and 100) on the internet connected to an Empire Server. It combines strategy, tactics as well as economics and diplomacy.
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Five ingredients--including white cake mix--get these cinnamon-sugar cookies in the oven in just 20 minutes!
French vanilla cake mix is a great stand-in for the white cake mix.
For Super Snickerdoodles, shape dough into 1 1/2-inch balls and place them 3 inches apart on the cookie sheet; bake 12 to 14 minutes. You'll get about 26 large cookies.
This sweet little cookie with the whimsical name originated in 19th-century New England and has become an American classic. In this recipe, cake mix provides convenience to the traditional version, but the method of rolling the dough in sugar and cinnamon before baking has been kept.
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Black Swan - really enjoyed this movie (and not just because of a certain scene between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis). I haven't seen a good psychological drama in a while and I thought this one was pretty well done. I'll probably end up buying this one when the price goes down.
Kick *** - finally got around to seeing this one. I'm getting slightly burned out on superhero movies so this didn't really interest me when it came out in theaters. Although if I had known it was a superhero movie made for people who are starting to get tired of superhero movies, then I probably would have watched it earlier. This is another one I'll probably buy, despite the fact that it has Nicolas Cage in it.
127 Hours - Awesome movie! I actually watched it one morning after an all-night shift at work and I was initially a bit worried that the film would put me to sleep because I had read that so much of the story takes place with him trapped under the rock. However, I can say that was definitely not the case. Really an amazing story and just seeing everything that he had to do to keep himself alive, while his mental state continued to deteriorate kept my interest throughout the film. This is definitely a movie that I will buy.
Skyline - this movie was okay, although I think the last scene of the film should have been the first scene (instead of the "flash-forward" scene that they used for the beginning of the film). The characters were a bit 1-dimensional and not very well written. Plus there were several major plot developments that were NEVER explained and it seemed like they were trying really hard to set up a sequel. Considering how the movie seemed to generate no buzz whatsoever during it's theatrical and DVD releases, I don't think that's likely at all. If a direct to DVD sequel shows up and the story pays off in a satisfactory way, then I might pick up a multipack of this someday.
The Social Network - Probably one of the best movies that I've seen in the last few years. I've been a big fan of Jesse Eisenberg ever since Zombieland and it's great to see him play a similar type of character, but a little darker and much more nuanced. I liked everything about this movie and there wasn't a single moment that seemed to drag on. I love the way it came full circle in the end and I didn't mind at all that it left a big question mark as the credits rolled (although I wouldn't mind knowing if his friend request was ever accepted). I was actually going to buy this on DVD yesterday, but Walmart was sold out, so I'll have to wait. I did buy the soundtrack off of iTunes and have listened to it almost nonstop since then. The music was amazing as well!


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SuperKombat's third World Grand Prix event of this year is taking place today and we've got you fully covered with live results.
The card features a four man tournameant with Benny Adegbuyi fighting Mladen Brestovac on one side and Tsotne Rogava fighting Kostadin Kostov on the other. Ismael Londt fights Freddy Kemayo for the new and vacant SuperKombat Heavyweight title. Also, the usual SuperKombat stars are back with Andrei Stoica, Raul Catinas and Catalin Morosanu all in action.
The event starts at 21:00 CET in Europe and in North America it's at 3PM ET/12PM PT. It's airing live on Eurosport. I'll be providing live results on Twitter, on @rianscalia. For the full fight card, click here.
HW Semi-Final: Benny Adegbuyi def. Mladen Brestovac by unanimous decision.
HW Semi-Final: Kostadin Kostov def. Tsotne Rogava by split decision.
-95kg: Andrei Stoica def. Hakan Aksoy by TKO (3 Knockdowns).
HW: Raul Catinas def. Domogoj Ostojic by TKO (Referee Stoppage).
HW: Alexey Ignashov def. Corneliu Rus by unanimous decision.
HW: Catalin Morosanu def. Rick Cheek by TKO in Round 2.
SuperKombat HW Title: Ismael Londt def. Freddy Kemayo by split decision.
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OPENINGAFTER THE QUAKE | Company One presents Tony-winning adapter (for The Grapes of Wrath, in 1990) and director Frank Galati's play, which is adapted from two stories from Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection set in Japan in 1995 between the Kobe earthquake and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. In one of those stories, "Honey Pie," a shy man whose would-be sweetheart was swept away by his best friend (but they're now divorced) regales her daughter with the tale of a six-foot frog who's out to save Tokyo. Shawn LaCount directs. | Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont St, Boston | 617.933.8600 | July 17–August 15 | Curtain 7:30 pm Wed-Thurs | 8 pm Fri-Sat | 2 pm Sun | $30-$38; $30 seniors; $15 students; $18 Wed; pay-what-you-can [minimum $6] Sun
AURELIA'S ORATORIO | The cirque nouveau pioneer and Charlie Chaplin's daughter, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, directs her daughter, Aurélia Thierrée, in a 70-minute dream scenario that has its rough-hewn and magical sequences, among them an opener in which Thierrée emerges limb by lissome limb from a chest of drawers. At its best, the show recalls the ones on which Thierrée cut her teeth, her parents' (dad is French clown Jean-Baptiste Thierrée) Le Cirque Imaginaire and Le Cirque Invisible. But the performer (who is abetted by dancer Jaime Martinez) lacks her mother's prodigious circus skills, and it is the most imaginative of the illusions that stick with you in this whimsical offering for the whole family. | Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | 617.547.8300 | July 22–August 2 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues-Thurs | 8 pm Fri-Sat | 3 + 7:30 pm Sun | $25-$75; 10 percent discount seniors
BLAME THE WOLF | Hailing from the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, the Al-Rowwad Theatre Troupe, which recently performed for Pope Benedict XVI, brings to Cambridge this original play "adapted from a familiar children's fairy tale to reveal the experiences and lessons of Palestinian life." Howard Zinn introduces the performance. | Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 617.576.9278 | July 17 | Curtain 7:30 pm Fri | $10, doors only
THE BREATH OF LIFE | Gloucester Stage artistic director Eric C. Engel helms this 2002 David Hare play about two women who once shared the same man and are now trying to reconcile. Local luminaries Nancy E. Carroll and Paula Plum play the roles originated by Judi Dench and Maggie Smith at the Theatre Royal in London. | Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main St, Gloucester | 978.281.4433 | July 23–August 2 | Curtain 8 pm Wed-Fri | 3 + 8 pm Sat | 4 pm Sun | $32-$37
CREATING CLAIRE | Cape Cod Theatre Project continues its season of summer staged readings with Joe DiPietro's "exploration of the supernova that results when science, faith, and politics collide." Oscar nominee Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away, Suddenly Susan), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Tony for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Johanna Day (Tony nominee for Proof) and Matthew Arkin (Drama Desk nominee for Dinner with Friends) star; Christopher Ashley (artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse and director of Xanadu, All Shook Up, and Memphis on Broadway) directs. | Falmouth Academy, 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth | 508.457.4242 | July 16-18 | Curtain 8 pm Thurs-Sat | $20; $10 students
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We can't think of a person whose influence on mountain biking has been further reaching than that of Tom Ritchey. Undeniably, though, mountain bike technology has come a long way since Tom built the first production mountain bikes. However, this isn't to say that Ritchey hasn't played an integral role in this advancement. Case in point is the Ritchey WCS Trail Stem. In the past five years, handlebar width has grown dramatically. Where 28-inch wide handlebars were once considered to be acceptable only for downhill use, it's now common to find bars wider than 30-inches on trail bikes. After all, the extra control that comes with wider bars is undeniable. However, that extra leverage has a tendency to exaggerate the flex of lightweight stems. That's why Ritchey designed its 220 degree handlebar clamp. As its name implies, the stem wraps 220 degrees of the diameter of the handlebar, as opposed to the standard 180 degrees found on most other stems. This design feature highlights the WCS Trail stem's fundamental difference from others. Basically, most stems rely on the face plate to resist torsional loads. The downside to this is that the face plate is rarely as stiff as the stem body, which then leads to the stem flexing under load. But, Ritchey's 220 degree handlebar clamp allows twisting forces to be handled solely by the body of the stem, which boosts stiffness to levels rarely seen in lightweight stems -- let alone a stem that tips the scales around 115 grams. Furthering this theme of rigidity, the WCS Trail stem is 3D forged out of 2014 aluminum. And, as a result, the stem's resistance to twisting forces is thoroughly enhanced. The Ritchey WCS Trail Stem fits is only compatible with 1-1/8in steerer tubes, including tapered versions. It's available in six sizes from 60 to 110mm and in the color Matte Black. - $99.95


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What I found to be the most rewarding part of the whole experience was seeing how everyone in the office rallied around one of our co-workers in particular. She is a quiet lady who works hard and keeps busy. She hails from outside the United States, and has a lovely accent and a gentle spirit. During the office Olympics, her team needed someone to sign-up to compete in Rubber Band Archery and she agreed even though she admitted that she didn't know how to shoot a rubber band. She approached me in the hallway one day and I thanked her for volunteering and she said, she was nervous about it because she didn't know what rubber band archery was. I told her that it isn't a thing... that I just made it up as a fun activity...that nobody knows what it is. She was so relieved to hear that! Have you ever been sure that everyone else knows about something and you are the odd, clueless man out? I explained that I would be setting up some targets and that rubber bands would be given out and that the object was to shoot the rubber band with your fingers at the targets and try to hit them. Nothing to worry about!
The day of the event arrived and I set up a bunch of paper and plastic cups on the ledge of an empty cubicle and let the competitors from teams Jamaica, Fiji and Barbados have a few minutes to practice. She stepped up to the line and acted like she had been shooting rubber bands her whole life. It was like the heavens opened and shined down on her and her alone for those few moments. She knocked those cups off the ledge one right after the other like a sharp shooter, stretching each rubber band back nearly to its breaking point before letting them fly. The staff who were gathered around cheered and watched in awe, even those who weren't on her team. Turns out that someone on her team had sent her a link to a YouTube video of how to shoot rubber bands (Is there nothing you can't find on the internet these days?) and she had been practicing at home since she had signed-up! She ended up winning the gold medal without breaking a sweat and a conversation broke out around the office at how her approach to rubber band archery closely resembled her approach to everything that she does. Her colleagues raved about how if there was skill she didn't have or a program she didn't know how to use, she would pay close attention as it was taught and she would work at it diligently until she became as good or better at it than the person who taught her. Everyone in the office started seeing this quiet, sweet lady in a different light and by the time the closing ceremonies came around last week, when a photo of the rubber band archery champ came up on the screen, the whole office clapped and cheered.
It took stepping outside of the normal routine to be able to see her uniqueness for what it was. Now when we step back into the norm, we will have a new found respect and a clearer picture of who she is and what she is capable of.
How can you create opportunities in your family, your job, your church, your group of friends to shake off the old routine enough to give people a chance to let their uniqueness show and give yourself a chance to notice it? Give it a try! You'll be glad you did.


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The South Asian Students Association will present SANGAM, its annual
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The show will feature performances by Princeton groups, including Naacho, Kalaa and Princeton South Asian Theatrics, as well as individual students. It also will include a guest appearance by the acclaimed a cappella group Penn Masala and a fashion show by a New York designer.
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I have been developing web services and web applications for about 10 years now, and I do love coding for a living. Before actually landing a job in the industry I was coding only as a hobby, and hoping that I could some day trade in my retail job(s) for one in development. My first language was C++ simply because that's what was taught at my local high-school From there I toyed with VB, Java, C# and eventually ASP/PHP for web-pages. I feel I have a solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design/enterprise patterns and computer architecture. All of this I have attained with passion and seeking help from professionals in the field or related fields. I have taken a total of 5 college classes in my entire life, and while I've always considered going to college a huge benefit, I've never actually made the commitment to go.
Present day I find it very easy to land a development position in web/biz dev. and the compensation is so far fantastic. That being said, I still find an enormous amount of discrimination by engineers & co-workers who have one (or several) degrees. I'm not exactly the most secure person, and I've always had a shy personality (with a touch of social anxiety) so I don't exactly brush off co-workers jokes or remarks. Really it makes me question my situation and assess my goals.
What I want to get some feedback on is this. Would someone in my position benefit from a Computer Science degree? I don't want to ask if I would benefit from any degree, because to me this answer is almost always yes. Other then CSC I have also considered electrical engineering as I would truly want to increase my knowledge of hardware. I have also had experienced people tell me that I shouldn't worry about a degree and my experience is enough to continue to drive my career. I understand where they come from, but can this statement really be true?
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