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Posted March 24, 2003; 05:40 p.m.
Sex educator Dr. Ruth Westheimer will give the Biderman Lecture titled "Sexually Speaking: Recent Trends in Knowledge, Attitude and Practice" at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 27, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Twice named "College Lecturer of the Year," Dr. Ruth currently is teaching "The Family in Jewish Tradition" at Princeton.
As part of her presentation, Dr. Ruth will answer questions, which can be submitted anonymously to the event's sponsor, the Program in Jewish Studies , 58 Prospect Avenue, prior to March 27.
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Posted October 1, 2013; 11:16 a.m.
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This ground-floor apartment is well-equipped with Wi-Fi and plenty of storage space. It consists of a double bedroom, a single bedroom, and a sunny living room with a sofa and TV. The kitchen is fully equipped with stainless steel appliances and a formal dining area. There are 2 tiled bathrooms.
The famous Jewish Ghetto is just a 5-minute walk away, whilst Santa Lucia Train Station can be reached within 15 minutes' walk. For sports enthusiasts, the nearby Sant'Alvise Sports Centre hosts a nice swimming pool, as well as a fitness and beauty centre.
The local Vaporetto Water Taxi Stop provides direct connections to Marco Polo International Airport via the Orange Line of the Alilaguna Water Bus.
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Guests should contact the host at least one week in advance (or straight after booking confirmation for last-minute bookings) to organise check-in times and to provide a mobile phone number.
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The apartment exceeded our expectation and it was perfect for my husband's 70th birthday family celebration. It was very spacious and well equipped for 7 people. The views were incredible - it must have the best view in Venice and we enjoyed every minute of our stay.The location is perfect too, very central and yet private. Our host Barbara and her colleague Valentina were extremely helpful and nice. We shall definitely return.
What a fantastic apartment! The position overlooking the Grand Canal, with balconies looking out opposite the Rialto Market is simply sublime to watch Venice go about its business. 5 mins walk to the water taxi stops of Ca D'or or Rialto. It is also a huge apartment in size. Easily sleeps 7 comfortably (and could be 8 if the single room had a double bed in it). Fully equipped,everything we needed, also has good Wi-Fi. Booking and service by Barbara and Valentina were superb - great information prior to arrival, met on arrival and talked through everything, restaurant recommendations, location etc. As others have mentioned there is some noise from the bar below and the dock itself as its used to load/unload, but Venice is a city and this is to be expected, so bring some earplugs if you are a light sleeper and you will be fine - it didn't bother us. Again, superb location, wonderful apartment, great service - we will be back!
Lovely view and perfect position - however, very noisy, next to a bar which at the weekend played music till 3am and on other nights cleared bottles and rubbish at 5am!
Organisation on arrival was very poor - arrangements made with Barbara had not been passed on to local staff and caused unnecessary hassle.
On departure the staff member checking the apartment was very abrupt and rude, wanting to fine us for leaving bagged rubbish, stating that instructions were clear in our written guide - which was actually in Italian!
The apartment was in an excellent position, easy to walk to all districts in Venice, being situated very close to the Accademia Bridge over the Grand Canal. It was also a few doors down from an excellent restaurant; expensive but the quality of food was superb and service friendly and efficient. We enjoyed the view from the living room balcony which looked out onto a quiet canal and gave us a flavour of working Venice as opposed to Tourism. We were a bit concerned at the state of the floor in the main room which was wooden and some of the squares were collapsing which meant being very conscious of them when walking around. We were also disappointed in the lack of cooking facilities; there was only a hob with two hot plates, no grill or oven which was a pity for us as we eat a lot of fish and were looking forward to buying some from the famous fish market in Venice. However the representatives were friendly and helpful and sorted out water taxis for our return to the airport. We did enjoy our stay in Venice and couldn't have asked for a better location.
Jan Appleby September 2015
Lovely apartment. Well taken care of. Spacious rooms. Good service from Barbara and her colleagues. The location is pretty central.
Heerlijk appartement. Goed verzorgd. Ruime kamers. Goede service van Barbara en haar collega. De ligging is mooi centraal.
A very quiet location, yet centrally located apartment. The kitchen was very well equipped, only a coffee machine was missing. The two bathrooms were big enough, as were the rooms. The TV receives even ARD and ZDF. We like to stop us in the apartment and everything worked great. The owners were very nice and even gave us picked up and brought us to the apartment. The beds were comfortable and there was a lack of towels we did not (3 pieces). All in all you can really only recommend this apartment!
Eine sehr ruhig gelegene, aber dennoch zentral gelegene Wohnung. Die Küche war sehr gut ausgestattet, nur eine Kaffeemaschine fehlte. Die zwei Bäder waren ausreichend groß, genauso wie die Zimmer. Der Fernseher empfängt sogar ARD und ZDF. Wir haben uns gerne in der Wohnung aufgehalten und alles hat super funktioniert. Die Vermieter waren sehr nett und haben uns sogar abgeholt und uns zur Wohnung gebracht. Die Betten waren bequem und an Handtüchern mangelte es uns auch nicht (3 Stück). Alles in allem kann man diese Wohnung wirklich nur weiterempfehlen!
A beautifully situated house on the Grand Canal! However, only
3 right double rooms available !!. Other facilities very good. The apartment is only suitable for 3 couples. Very nice living area and a fully
equipped kitchen. The support provided by Daniela was very friendly.
Central a little hard to find location, but highly recommended.
Eine wunderschön gelegene Wohnung am Canale Grande ! Allerdings sind nur
3 richtige Doppelzimmer vorhanden !!. Sonstige Ausstattung sehr gut . Die Wohnung ist nur für 3 Paare geeignet. Sehr schöner Wohnbereich und eine voll
ausgestattete Küche. Die Betreuung durch Daniela war sehr freundlich.
Zentrale etwas schwierig zu findende Lage, aber sehr empfehlenswert.
Perfect, everything as we saw in the photos. And the superb location
Perfecto, todo tal cual habíamos visto en las fotos. Y la situacion inmejorable
Amazing location, excellent accommodation.
The flat is excellent and the view is extraordinary!
Lovely living room, comfortable rooms and good space in the kitchen.
I do recommend this property for you vacancy!
The booking worked without problems. The pick-up at the meeting point and the handover or return made on time and good.
The apartment is as described, however, acting on the photos larger than it actually is. It is nicely decorated and well ausgestattet.Leider is no coffee available but only a coffee percolator. We used the apartment to share with friends and the two bedrooms and two bathrooms are well suited to. One of the bathrooms has a shower and a (unfortunately without shower wall or shower curtain) with bath.
The location of the apartment is ideal for your stay in Venice. We liked it very much and we will definitely go again.
Die Buchung hat ohne Probleme funktioniert. Die Abholung am vereinbarten Treffpunkt sowie die Wohnungsübergabe bzw. Rückgabe erfolgten pünktlich und gut.
Die Wohnung entspricht der Beschreibung, wirkt allerdings auf den Fotos größer als sie tatsächlich ist. Sie ist nett eingerichtet und gut ausgestattet.Leider ist keine Kaffeemaschine vorhanden sondern nur ein Espressokocher. Wir haben die Wohnung gemeinsam mit Freunden genutzt und die zwei Schlafzimmer und zwei Bäder sind dafür gut geeignet. Eines der Badezimmer ist als Duschbad und eines mit Badewanne (leider ohne Duschwand bzw. Duschvorhang) ausgestattet.
Die Lage der Wohnung ist für den Aufenthalt in Venedig ideal. Uns hat es sehr gut gefallen und wir werden gerne nochmal kommen.
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When the new school ratings come out in Mississippi in the fall, many communities will probably be surprised and disappointed.
It's a pretty safe bet that the majority of top tier schools – Level 5 under the old rating system – will drop a notch or two. In fact, there may not be many schools in either of the two highest categories under the new system, Star School and High Performing.
But it's important that parents and communities realize that their schools haven't suddenly taken a nosedive. Student performance could be just as good or even a little better than in the past and still a school could fall out of the elite group or otherwise rate lower than before.
That's for a very good reason: Standards will be much tougher. It will be much harder to achieve elite status.
Let's face it: Top tier in Mississippi has not meant much in recent years. Twenty-five percent of all schools attained Level 5. Only a handful fell below Level 3, designated as successful. Not only was this out of kilter for comparisons among Mississippi schools, it provided a misleading picture of how our schools stacked up nationally.
Mississippi students aren't anywhere near where they need to be in national comparisons. State standards were far lower than they should have been. That made success or high achievement here not equate to the same in other states with more rigorous standards.
Credit state Superintendent Hank Bounds and the state Board of Education for raising the bar. The result will be a more honest assessment of where students and schools are. Higher expectations are the first necessary step toward higher achievement.
The new rating system takes into account not only test scores but how much academic growth they represent from year to year. Those tests are harder than they used to be, and the curriculum on which they're based is more demanding. Additionally, dropout rates will become an important factor in school ratings.
Schools will get one of seven ratings under the new system: Star school; high performing; successful; academic watch; low performing; at risk of failing; and failing.
Where schools fall may be a source of contention and controversy for a while, and surely there will be ways to tweak and improve the system. But this much is certain: Continuing with amp"grade inflationamp" in school ratings would have only been fooling ourselves and ill-serving our children.
The new system will be more accurate and honest, and in the long run that's good news for students, schools and communities that want to get better.
– from the Northeast
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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 , 2:08 PM GMT en Agosto 24, 2009
Hurricane Bill is no more. The hurricane swept past Canada's Nova Scotia province Sunday afternoon, then made landfall early this morning in southeastern Newfoundland as a borderline tropical storm/Category 1 hurricane. Bill's waves claimed two lives over the weekend, a 54-year old swimmer that drowned in Florida, and a 7-year old girl in Maine that got swept into the sea by a big wave. The first death of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season occurred on August 16, when a swimmer drowned in the rough surf from Tropical Storm Claudette at Pananma City Beach, FL.
Nova Scotia misses a direct hit
The center of Bill scooted parallel to the coast of Nova Scotia Sunday afternoon, and never quite came onshore. Since the storm's forward speed was so rapid--about 35 mph--this resulted in a highly asymmetric wind distribution. Since the top winds of a hurricane include the forward motion of the storm, Bill's top winds of 85 mph observed in the offshore, right front quadrant of the storm meant that the winds on the weak side of the storm, over Nova Scotia, were 85 mph minus 35 mph, or just 50 mph. Winds along most of the coast stayed below 39 mph, the borderline for tropical storm-force winds. The strongest winds measured in Canada were at Sable Island, which lies 150 miles offshore of Nova Scotia. Winds on the island hit 61 mph, gusting to 77 mph, between 4 - 5 pm ADT Sunday afternoon. A few islands along the Nova Scotia coast, such as Beaver Island and Hart Island, reported sustained winds of 39 - 40 mph. The big story for Nova Scotia was the waves from Bill. Buoy 44258 at the mouth of Halifax Harbor recorded significant wave heights of 29.5 feet and maximum wave heights of 49 feet as Bill passed 50 miles offshore. The buoy recorded top sustained winds of 35 mph, gusting to 51 mph. The waves combined with a 1.5 - 3 foot storm surge flooded many coastal roads. Buoy 44150, about 160 miles offshore of of the southwest tip of Nova Scotia, was in the east eyewall of Bill between 10 - 11 am ADT, and reported sustained winds of 62 mph, gusting to 85 mph, with significant wave heights of 44 feet. The buoy recorded a maximum wave height of 87 feet, according to Environment Canada. The highest official rain report on Nova Scotia was 2.6" (65 mm) at Yarmouth. Rainfall cause some localized flooding and road damage. Bill's winds cut power to about 40,000 people at the height of the storm. At Peggys Cove, three men were hit by a giant wave but were not hurt. A gift shop and attached home in the village were swept off of their foundation.
Newfoundland gets hit, but damage is minor
The southeast corner of Newfoundland took a direct hit from Bill. The storm made landfall early this morning as a borderline tropical storm/Category 1 hurricane. Top winds on the island were measured at Cape Race, which recorded sustained winds of 58 mph, gusting to 76 mph, between 1:30 and 2:30 am NDT. A storm surge of 1.2 meters (4 feet) was estimated by Environment Canada for Placentia Bay where Bill made landfall. Damage was minor on Newfoundland, with no major flooding reported. Bill dumped up to three inches of rain on Newfoundland.
Figure 1. The eye of Hurricane Bill on August 19 at 2157 UTC, from a NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying at 10,000 feet. Photo credit: Jack Parrish of NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center.
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability waves in the eye of Bill
Flight Director Jack Parrish of NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center snapped a cool photo in the eye of Hurricane Bill on Friday, showing the existence of a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability wave (Figure 1). The photo was taken on August 19 at 2157 UTC, from a NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying at 10,000 feet. The photo is taken looking WNW towards the eyewall. The towering clouds of the eyewall extend up to 50,000 - 55,000 feet in the photo, and the ocean surface is not visible, due to stratocumulus clouds covering the bottom of the eye. The center of the photo shows that the top of one of these stratocumulus clouds has a feature that looks like a breaking wave in the ocean. Well, that is an example of a breaking wave in the atmosphere known as a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability wave. The atmosphere behaves as a fluid, and thus has wave-like motions. When there is a sudden change of wind speed along the top of a cloud (wind shear), the flow can become unstable and cause breaking waves to form. One can see Kelvin-Helmholtz in the sky several times per year, and several alert wunderphotographers have uploaded photos of these waves over the years. However, it is uncommon to see these waves in the stratocumulus clouds covering the eye of a hurricane.
Figure 2. Water vapor satellite image for 8:15 am EDT 8/24/09. A tropical wave is approaching the Northern Lesser Antilles Islands, but is running into high wind shear from an upper-level cold low to the west of it. Image credit: NOAA/SSD.
Tropical wave approaching Lesser Antilles becomes Invest 92
A tropical wave with a moderate amount of shower activity is moving west-northwest at 20 - 25 mph and is approaching the northern Lesser Antilles Islands. This wave was designated "Invest 92" (92L) by NHC this morning. The wave is under about 20 - 30 knots of wind shear due the strong upper-level winds from the west. These winds are being created by the counter-clockwise flow of air around an upper-level cold-cored low north of Puerto Rico (Figure 2). This low is expected to move west-southwest and slowly weaken over the next two days, allowing shear to drop to the moderate 10 - 20 knot range beginning Tuesday night, according to the SHIPS model. By Wednesday, the upper low is predicted to be weak enough and far enough away from 92L that it will have a chance to develop. Most of the models show some degree of development of 92L by Thursday, when it is expected to be a few hundred miles off the coast of South Carolina. This wave could turn northward and give a wet weekend to New England, though it is too early to be confident of this. NHC is giving 92L a low (less than 30% chance) of developing into a tropical depression by Wednesday morning. The upper-level low will create plenty of wind shear and dump cold, dry air into 92L over the next two days, so Wednesday is probably the earliest we can expect the system to begin organizing into a tropical depression.
Several models predict the development of a tropical wave coming off the coast of Africa late this week.
I'll have an update Tuesday.
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.
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I can understand the fighting purrs to a certain extent as last week I witnessed the best Gobbler fight I have ever seen.
Three birds were involved and were still fighting when they went out of sight,I couldn't move on them as I was in a clear cut.
The birds in this area are starting to use the fields again and since tomorrow is the last day I'am going
to give the decoys a try.
Seems to me that it is late in the season for turkey fights, I guess since more hens are going to nest
and a lot of gobblers left this could trigger this type of behavior.
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Learn about Atlantic Cape's Nursing Program at Nov. 30 Information Session
November 17, 2011
Atlantic Cape Community College is planning an information session for those interested in learning about careers in health care and nursing.
The Nursing Program Information Session will take place 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Walter Edge Theater at the Mays Landing Campus, 5100 Black Horse Pike. The session focuses on Atlantic Cape's registered nurse program, including the selection process and methods to prepare for the entrance exam. It will include a question and answer period.
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Video conferencing has many benefits, not the least of which is economical. As travel costs rise and travel budgets tighten, many in business have moved toward online, real-time communication tools. According to The Business of Federal Technology, it appears that the U.S. government may be following suit. This July, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation that would potentially cut $15 billion in travel expenses incurred annually by federal agencies through the increased use of videoconferencing.
The bill, titled "Cut the Waste, Stay in Place Act of 2013," and introduced by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, (R-Pa.), would call on the director of the Office of Management and Budget to develop a plan to reduce the federal government's travel expenditures by as much as 50 percent by 2017.
Specifically, the bill calls on the use of video conferencing to achieve a significant budget cut. Writers of the bill claim the following three benefits to adopting this new measure:
- Video conferencing has been under-utilized thus far, and therefore its full potential has not been completely realized.
- The move from hardware-based software to browser-based software makes video conferencing technology less expensive and more accessible to more parties.
- Video conferencing enhances communication, improves problem-solving, reduces carbon footprints, facilitates better collaboration, and shortens project time periods, among many other benefits.
This new bill builds on previous orders issued via the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, which already calls for agencies to reduce travel expenditures by 30 percent compared to 2010 levels. Under the umbrella of previous initiatives, many agencies have already made motions toward collaborative technology.
NASA is one such agency. It saved $21 million in fiscal 2012 by replacing travel with video conferencing when it was possible. The Naval Safety & Environmental Training Center has successfully used video conferencing for better training programs--providing video-based education to over 10,000 government civilians and Navy personnel all over the world. The Center also adapted its mission-critical U.S. Navy Safety Professional Development, replacing its San Diego conference with a video broadcast. This adaptation reduced a potential $1.5 million travel tab to less than $100,000.
The budget saving advantages of video conferencing are undeniable, and the U.S. government agrees. Real-time communication benefits are realized while maintaining a responsible hold on expenditures.


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9.6: Factoring Special Products
When we learned how to multiply binomials, we talked about two special products: the Sum and Difference Formula and the Square of a Binomial Formula. In this lesson, we will learn how to recognize and factor these special products.
Factoring the Difference of Two Squares
We use the Sum and Difference Formula to factor a difference of two squares. A difference of two squares can be a quadratic polynomial in this form: . Both terms in the polynomial are perfect squares. In a case like this, the polynomial factors into the sum and difference of the square root of each term.
In these problems, the key is figuring out what the and terms are. Let's do some examples of this type.
Example 1: Factor the difference of squares.
(a) Rewrite as as . Now it is obvious that it is a difference of squares.
We substitute the values of and for the Sum and Difference Formula:
The answer is .
(b) Rewrite as as . This factors as .
Factoring Perfect Square Trinomials
A perfect square trinomial has the form
The factored form of a perfect square trinomial has the form
In these problems, the key is figuring out what the and terms are. Let's do some examples of this type.
Solution: Check that the first term and the last term are perfect squares.
Check that the middle term is twice the product of the square roots of the first and the last terms. This is true also since we can rewrite them.
This means we can factor as .
Example 2: Factor .
Solution: Rewrite as .
We notice that this is a perfect square trinomial and we can factor it as: .
Solving Polynomial Equations Involving Special Products
We have learned how to factor quadratic polynomials that are helpful in solving polynomial equations like . Remember that to solve polynomials in expanded form, we use the following steps:
Step 1: Rewrite the equation in standard form such that: Polynomial expression = 0.
Step 2: Factor the polynomial completely.
Step 3: Use the Zero Product Property to set each factor equal to zero.
Step 4: Solve each equation from step 3.
Step 5: Check your answers by substituting your solutions into the original equation.
Example 3: Solve the following polynomial equations.
Solution: No need to rewrite because it is already in the correct form.
Factor: We write 6 as a product of the following numbers:
Set each factor equal to zero:
Check: Substitute each solution back into the original equation.
Practice Set
Sample explanations for some of the practice exercises below are available by viewing the following video. Note that there is not always a match between the number of the practice exercise in the video and the number of the practice exercise listed in the following exercise set. However, the practice exercise is the same in both.
CK-12 Basic Algebra: Factoring Special Products (10:08)
Factor the following perfect square trinomials.
Factor the following difference of squares.
Solve the following quadratic equations using factoring.
Mixed Review
- Find the value for that creates an infinite number of solutions to the system .
- A restaurant has two kinds of rice, three choices of mein, and four kinds of sauce. How many plate combinations can be created if you choose one of each?
- Graph . Identify its slope.
- $600 was deposited into an account earning 8% interest compounded annually.
- Write the exponential model to represent this situation.
- How much money will be in the account after six years?
- Divide .
- Identify an integer than is even and not a natural number.
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That's my boy "Blue"!!!! Flyin High in the Passenger Side x Katie May of Belgrade
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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I know in Philadelphia they have BOOED Santa Claus, but this is the first time I have ever heard people BOO God!!!
You "secular progressives" must be very proud!!!
Stan b & Elvis
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That's my boy "Blue"!!!! Flyin High in the Passenger Side x Katie May of Belgrade
I think both the sides got screwed the same in one week.
The Ron Paul rule change was voted on and sounded just like this Dem Debacle vote.
Neither should have gone through.
Paul should have been allowed to speak, and the DEM's should have kept their change.


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Guild meets the second Tuesday of each month, September through May, from 7-9 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Bring your knitting and join us for an evening — we're sure you'll want to become part of the flock!
LOCATION: Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2225 East Fourteen Mile Road, Birmingham, Michigan. see a map »
Bring your knitting and join us for an evening — we're sure you'll want to become part of the flock!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
we are soooo talented!
Charli had an amazing *trunk show*. She has done it all from socks to sweaters to shawls/wraps/ponchos and more! The yarns she uses cover a wide spectrum and she's not afraid to experiment.
Other Black Sheep showed off some of their recently finished items, too.
Suzanne Jones, Joan Koelsch, Sharon Hagen, City Knits and Chris Hamel provided raffle item. The lucky winners were: Linda Francisco - a basketful of sweater yarn & pattern, Marie Woodcox - bag of cotton yarn & pattern, new member Denise Rubenstein - a year of Interweave Knits, Kim Whelan - blue sock yarn & pattern, Harriet Atlas - Autumn sock yarn & pattern, Laurie Goodman - knitting needle case, Mary Moylan - sterling silver earrings, Katie Race - the BSKG thong, Marcia Kaline - purse kit, Tanya Thomann - gift bag & City Knits coupon book, and Kathleen Hearne - Christmas cookbook.
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Good God...how old is that thing!?
Good God...how old is that thing!?
Mad, human interaction is more important than electronics. Electronics can be purchased again. They'll always be around. They don't have feelings. People on the other hand... Come on man.
Hey, btw, so, if one is using a receiver, then how shall I do the mixing of the chat and what not? I'm thinking the Steelseries is the only way?
Stupid question, but you're not plugging the ps3 into the output are you?
Have you got a Logitec remote? Chances are they'll have the commands for the receiver that you can program online
Lol - nah, just the only thing I could think of that "could" cause the issue.
All this audio and no RCA leads? Hope the OSD gives some hints.
Convert is needed for the receiver to process the audio, with this setting on through you are basically using the receiver as an HDMI switch. What brand of TV do you have again? I saw another thread of someone having an issue with the SR5002 and the PS3 with one TV, while it worked with their old TV.
Edit: Just saw your last post, guess I should have refreshed, lol. In regards to the DH sounding less processed, I believe if you would have kept the Mixamp, you would actually prefer the receiver during an A/B test. My roommate and I both preferred the receiver, and thought it was slightly more spacious. What do you mean by room? Do you mean version 1 vs version 2 of DH?
Ahhh, I see now. Maybe that is why the Monoprice amp sounded so bad in comparison to the Mixamp. Room 3 pretty much describes how their amp sounded.
Back to the PS3 issue, have you tried this yet? Have you tried a different hdmi cable as well? My roommates GT30 wouldn't even work with the PS3 directly until we switched to a different cable when he first bought his TV.


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Faculty Transitions
A number of faculty have been appointed to new positions at Southwestern for the 2013-14 academic year:
Writing Center
Professor Christine Chorba will return to the full-time LAWS faculty as Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills after having served as Director of the Writing Center for five years. She originally joined the Southwestern legal writing faculty in 2004 and moved to the Writing Center four years later. She received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011.
Professor Alexandra D'Italia has been appointed as Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor of Law. She was most recently Assistant Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Professor of Law. She originally joined Southwestern's LAWS faculty in 2006 and later became an adjunct faculty member teaching the Advanced Legal Writing elective. She was recognized in 2012 and 2013 with the Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award.
Academic Support and Bar-Related Programs
Professor John Heilman and Professor Natalie Rodriguez have been appointed as Co-directors of Southwestern's Academic Support and Bar-Related Programs and will oversee the design and implementation of innovative academic support programs, courses and individual and small group counseling sessions, and bar exam preparation classes, workshops and events.
Professor John Heilman came to Southwestern in 2012 after almost two decades on the Whittier Law School faculty, where among other courses, he developed and implemented exam writing and bar examination preparation programs. This past year, he taught Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence and courses in the Academic Support Program and was honored with Southwestern's Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor Natalie Rodriguez, who served this past year as the Academic Support and Bar-Related Programs Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, graduated at the top of her class at Southwestern, where she was a Dean's Fellow and Teaching Assistant and served in the Children's Rights Clinic and several judicial externships.
Professor Elizabeth Mackey-Sall will work closely with Professors Heilman and Rodriguez as the Academic Support and Bar-Related Programs Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. A 2013 graduate of Southwestern, she served in the clinic and in externships with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the San Bernardino County Superior Court and the L.A. City Attorney's Office. She was a Teaching Assistant for Associate Dean Arthur McEvoy and helped develop a pilot program providing specialized writing practice and feedback for students.
Professor Andrea Ramos
Professor Andrea Ramos, the founding Director of Southwestern's Immigration Law Clinic, has been promoted to Clinical Professor of Law. Prior to joining the law school in 2008, she was Director of the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel, supervising more than 700 volunteers assisting over 6,000 children and youth annually. She also served as a co-teacher of USC's Children and the Law course as a member of their adjunct faculty.
Professor Dov Waisman
Professor Dov Waisman, who has served on Southwestern's LAWS faculty since 2007, has been appointed as Associate Professor of Law and will teach Community Property in both the traditional and SCALE programs, as well as Contracts. Prior to joining Southwestern, Professor Waisman was a litigation associate representing corporate clients for the firm of Sidley Austin, and practiced family law with the firm of Harris-Ginsberg.


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Weekend Top 10
By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 09/14/12
The Friday Night Fun Club for ages 50+ will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Hidden Creek Recreation Center, 2417 Brockway Ln. Socialize with friends while playing card and board games. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite game and a snack. Admission is free. For details, call Aaron Reidmiller at 290-0305 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com.
The Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond will present Jessica Lang Dance at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Jepson Theatre. Lang is a graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School and has created more than 75 works for ballet companies such as Joffrey Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and Ailey II. A Q&A session with members of Jessica Lang Dance will follow the performance. Tickets are $36. For details, call 289-8980 or visit http://www.modlin.richmond.edu.
The Junior League of Richmond will hold its 7th annual Touch a Truck from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Richmond International Raceway. Touch a Truck offers children a hands-on opportunity to explore their favorite trucks and professional vehicles and to meet the people who build, protect and serve the community. Featured vehicles include police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, bulldozers, dump trucks and tractor trailers. There will also be snack bars, bounce houses, games, crafts, vendors and more. Admission is $5. Family four packs are $15. VIP tickets are $10 each or four for $35. Proceeds benefit the Junior League of Richmond. For details, call 643-4887 or visit http://www.jlrichmond.org.
Join St. Mary's Hospital in celebrating the soon-to-open Bon Secours Pediatric Emergency Department from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 5801 Bremo Rd. There will be free entertainment by the Diggity Dudes, carnival-themed kids' activities, safety demonstrations and more. Children are invited to bring their favorite stuffed toy to the Teddy Bear Clinic. For details, call 281-8184 or visit http://www.bonsecours.com.
The Glen Allen Ruritan Club, in association with the County of Henrico Division of Recreation and Parks, will host Glen Allen Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Meadow Farm Museum/Crump Park, 2880 Mountain Rd. The festivities will kick-off with a parade beginning at the intersection of John Cussons Road and Mountain Road and continuing to Meadow Farm. Children's activities will include Miss Sheri the Clown, arts and crafts, vendors, a custom and classic car show and live entertainment. Rain date is Sept. 22. For details, call 257-9605 or visit http://www.glenallenday.org.
Internationally recognized artist and Virginia resident P. (Pat) Buckley Moss will speak during a luncheon at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen. Moss has been able to overcome a life-long learning disability and achieve incredible success as a renowned artist. The luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are $50. Following the luncheon, Moss will be signing books and prints in the Gumenick Family Gallery from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the signing event is free. The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen is located at 2880 Mountain Rd. For more information or to order tickets, call 261-ARTS or visit http://www.artsglenallen.com.
The Friends of the Sandston Library will hold its annual book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sandston Library, 23 E. Williamsburg Rd. For details, call 290-9900.
The North Airport Drive Civic Association will celebrate the opening of Fire Station #3 at its new location, 1310 E. Washington St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tour the fire station, meet your local firefighters and grab a bite to eat with your neighbors. Admission is free. For details, visit http://www.nadca.net.
Henricus Historical Park will celebrate Publick Days, an annual event which commemorates the establishment of the second successful English settlement in the "New World," from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, Sept. 15-16. Activities include living history reenactments, weapon demonstrations and skirmishes, craftsmen and blacksmiths, medical demonstrations, children's activities and crafts, storytelling and more. Admission is free; parking is $5 per vehicle. For details, visit http://www.henricus.org.
The Philip Glass Festival at the University of Richmond will open with the film "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts" at 3 p.m. in the Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music. To celebrate the 70th birthday of Philip Glass, filmmaker Scott Hicks began an 18-month journey filming Glass as he toured across three continents. Audience members are invited to a post-show Q&A session hosted by eighth blackbird. Admission is $5. For details, call 289-8980 or visit http://www.modlin.richmond.edu.
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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For our Top 10 calendar events this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Henrico to begin update of zoning, subdivision ordinances April 26
HCPS to present three-day ARTS Festival, beginning April 21
Henrico Police apprehend shooting suspect
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Princeton emeritus professors receive Mellon fellowships
Posted May 7, 2004; 03:28 p.m.
Princeton emeritus professors have been awarded three of 16 fellowships through a program inaugurated this year by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The faculty members receiving the Mellon Emeritus Fellowships are: Wen Fong, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Art History Emeritus and professor of art and archaeology emeritus; Elaine Showalter, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities Emerita and professor of English emerita; and Theodore Ziolkowski, the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus and professor of Germanic languages and literatures and comparative literature emeritus.
The fellowship provides support for research by outstanding scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who remain active and productive in their fields after retirement. Each Mellon Emeritus Fellow will receive $35,000 for research and other related expenses, with an additional $20,000 going to the recipient's home institution to support access to resources and facilities.
"Many Princeton faculty members continue to engage in active research and make important contributions to their fields after retirement," said University President Shirley M. Tilghman. "With the Mellon Foundation's support, the extraordinary work of these three scholars will be significantly enhanced, benefiting them, their disciplines and the University."
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13:38 12th October 2013
Head Coach explains Elokobi switch
Kenny Jackett has admitted he is in a "chicken and egg" situation with George Elokobi who needs games to get back to his best but has found it difficult to break into the Wolves' back-line.
Wolves' Head Coach has explained his decision to withdraw Elokobi at half time during Tuesday's Johnstone's Paint Trophy game with Notts County as he wanted to use Scott Golbourne's more attacking threat from the left back position after a poor first half from the team.
Elokobi missed almost all of last season with a serious ankle injury and had suffered minor hamstring problems in his two previous outings this season.
Mindful of Elokobi's positive attitude and influence in the dressing room, as well as his potential when fully fit, Jackett is keeping an open mind as to whether to consider a loan move given he may need him for Wolves.
"George has had a tough time with injury," said Jackett, who has seen his defence maintain an impressive consistency in goals conceded so far.
"Before Tuesday night he had played two first team games and unfortunately picked up an injury in both.
"He does need games and unfortunately it's a chicken and egg situation at the moment.
"He's been trying to find that fitness to get a run and get into form and that's where he's been for a little while.
"The other night we desperately needed our full backs to come out of their slots and Golbourne is very good and that and did it in the second half.
"He engineered a better – but not great – second half for the team with a little bit more fluency where we did look a bit more of a threat and a danger down the left hand side.
"In the first half our full backs had been pinned back and we didn't have any movement and Golbourne is particularly good at doing that from left back.
"That was what was needed and unfortunately it was George who had to be sacrificed to get a better performance.
"It wasn't something I wanted to do in terms of him individually but trying to win the game and improving from a poor first half was what we were trying to do."
On how Elokobi can return back to the sort of form which saw him enjoy a sustained run in Wolves' Premier League team, Jackett added: "George has to keep working as hard as he does because he's a very diligent professional.
"He has to keep training and can play as many Under-21 games as he possibly can and wait and see what happens in the future.
"As well as looking at any one individual player we also have to protect the club and look after the club in terms of what's a very important season.
"We need a squad of players ready and available and working towards those first team games.
"It's always a balance between the two – what the individual needs and the cover and competition for the club in a very important season.
"It is a frustrating period for George because in his two previous games this campaign so far he's picked up injuries.
"He needs games and to get going to produce his best form but unfortunately injuries have stopped him doing that.
"When that builds up as it did for up to two seasons you do have sympathy for someone who's a very decent guy and a very good professional."
Elokobi meanwhile is one of several Wolves player who have been spotted wearing special tape whilst warming up for matches.
Head of the Medical Department Phil Hayward reveals all!
He said: "A few players have been wearing the tape that runs down the hamstring – James Henry and George Elokobi are just two.
"It's Kinesio tape just to help with muscle firing really.
"From our screenings, some of the lads have maybe been identified as having muscles that maybe don't fire as well as others.
"So we can use the tape to almost facilitate the muscle activities and make sure it's firing as well as it can do.
"There are probably about eight of the lads who use it.
"It's just preventative really to make sure everything is working properly.
"It's kind of elasticated tape and when you stick it on, it almost pulls the layers of skin together overlying the muscles so there's tension and it helps the muscle fibre underneath that.
"It's used quite a lot – I saw quite a few athletes at the Olympics use it last year.
"It's not suddenly come into football – it's been around for maybe five years and if you watch Match of the Day, you'll see a lot of players in the Premier League using it, so it's not just us.
"Danny Batth is another example who wears tape on his knee.
"He had a knock on his knee a few weeks ago, and we put some tape on the front of his knee to try to affect the position of the kneecap.
"It's the same sort of situation in that we're trying to use the tension and it can be used to affect the alignment of the kneecap so wherever the tape is, it pulls the kneecap one way or the other, depending on what you think the issue is that's causing the discomfort.
"So you can use it for a variety of different things but we're using it more than we have done previously."
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You know your business has a good future when your capital-raising attracts new shareholders of the calibre of former Kiwibank head and Xero chairman Sam Knowles - and he agrees to be the chairman of the board.
ON-Brand, a business consultancy that helps companies with employee engagement, led by former ANZ chief economist Paul Stewart, finished raising funds two months early, selling 20 per cent of the business to four shareholders. Stewart was looking for leaders who had experience in "taking an emerging company and growing it quickly on the international stage".
"The capital-raising affirmed the value of the business. Reputed business people looked at it and said, 'We are prepared to pay into the business and we think it is worth a lot more'," says Stewart.
Konnect Net director Hamish McLachlin has also joined the ON-Brand board, representing three other new shareholders.
What Stewart and co-founder Leah Fisher believe they have done at ON-Brand is show is that their TakeON! brand is internationally scalable.
Launched three years after ON-Brand started, TakeON! is described as a system for connecting people and a strategy for better performance. It is designed to be led by a company's executives rather than consultants and delivered on the job.
It consists of up to 30 tool kits. One finance company used the tools to help it with the structural change caused by an acquisition. The Briscoe Group has been using the tools for 12 months to help improve the customer experience at Briscoes and Rebel Sports stores.
"The management tools can be used by small companies that would not be able to use consultants and is also being used by larger companies such as NZ Post," says Stewart.
TakeON! brings in 35 per cent of the firm's business and is where the growth is, Stewart says. Before long it will be providing 80-90 per cent of revenue, he expects.
ON-Brand's new funds will go on implementation of a network of about 40 new TakeON! organisational development consultant partners.
In the past six months, the Mt Eden-based consultancy has brought in five TakeON! partners in Australia, one in the US and one in the UK. "We are hoping to have about 40 in place in three years as a minimum," says Stewart.
The plan is to establish three hubs - in the UK, North America and Asia.
TakeON! was originally developed with NZ consultancy Blacksmith, with which ON-Brand has an ongoing relationship.
ON-Brand has 15 people in New Zealand and two in the UK and expects to have 40 to 50 staff within three years.
"We expect revenue to be $4 million to $5 million this year. We are targeting revenue to grow to over $15 million within three to four years," says Stewart.
The plan is for the New Zealand market to act as a development site for new ON-Brand products.
Top tip
When looking for new board members, find people who balance good governance with an entrepreneurial view of the business.
Best business achievement
Developing TakeON!. It makes our business model much more scalable and enables organisations to do things for themselves.


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I was watching a movie last night that ended at about 8:45p. I left the TV on Fox since I wanted to see 24. Skating with Celeb's was on, and Debbie Gibson (I think it was her) was on and she looked Utt Bugly!!! She looked Terrible!
Another thing I was amused by was that the 2 couples that I saw had celeb females and regular skating males. The males seemed to have a little difficulty lifting the women, who are larger then regular female skaters.


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June 2012 — GAO's Comments on the Latest Round of Recipient Reporting
What GAO Found
To meet our mandate to comment on reports made by direct recipients of Recovery Act funding, we continued to monitor data that recipients reported from February 2009 through December 31, 2011. For this report, we focused our review on the quality of FTE data reported on FederalReporting.gov by PHAs, which were the prime recipients of the Public Housing Capital Fund formula and competitive grant programs, and HFAs, which were the prime recipients of TCAP. Following Office of Management and Budget guidance, recipients reported on FTEs directly paid for with Recovery Act funding and not the employment impact on suppliers of materials (indirect jobs) or on the local communities (induced jobs). In those circumstances where Recovery Act dollars are blended with funds from other sources, Office of Management and Budget also provided instructions on how to calculate FTEs. Recipients are generally required to file reports after each quarter until they complete expenditure of Recovery Act funds, are no longer counting FTEs, and have met all of HUD's requirements.
According to information provided by HUD officials, the quality of jobs data submitted by HUD for the Public Housing Capital fund formula and competitive grants and TCAP has improved over time. Each quarter, HUD officials continue to perform quality assurance steps on the data that recipients submit to FederalReporting.gov to identify potential reporting errors, such as overcounts of FTEs, before the data are publicly posted on Recovery.gov . Officials also told us that their data quality reviews of recipient reports continued to include automated data checks to flag values in specific fields that were incorrect or that fell outside of parameters that HUD had defined as reasonable and to generate comments notifying housing agencies of the potential errors and work with them to make corrections. The HUD staff member responsible for assessing TCAP data quality did note that for TCAP recipient reporting differs from that for the Public Housing Capital Fund formula and competitive programs because the grant recipients (the HFAs) rely on information submitted to them by the grant subawardees (i.e., the project developers). According to the HUD TCAP reviewer, these grant recipients have to gather data and payroll information from each subawardee, and calculate the total number of FTEs. Assessment of TCAP data quality includes quarterly reviews of over 800 subawardee reports, each of which has a varying number of projects. According to HUD staff, the time period available for agency review before the data are posted on Recovery.gov was too short to fully review the sub-awardee reporting and some errors in reporting may not have been detected in time for correction.
Based on our analyses and interviews with agency officials, we determined that the recipient reported data appeared to be sufficiently reliable for the purpose of providing summary, descriptive information about FTEs and other information submitted on grantees' recipient reports. HUD officials for the Recovery Act Public Housing Capital Fund grants also noted that their reporting rate for the tenth reporting period (from October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011) was high and there have been no significant changes in data quality.
As shown in the figure below, the FTEs funded by the formula grant program and TCAP peaked in 2010. The number of funded FTEs by competitive grant peaked later, in 2011 because the Recovery Act required that nearly $1 billion in funds be awarded to PHAs based on a competitive for priority investments. Accordingly, HUD obligated the formula grants in March 2009 and the competitive grants in September 2009. Also, HUD was able to award the formula grants quickly using the formula that it typically uses to award Public Housing Capital Funds and PHAs generally selected projects that were already in their planning documents.
FTEs That Recipients Reported for Recovery Act Housing Funds, October 2009 through December 2011
Note: We did not include FTE data for the quarter ending September 2009 because of concerns about comparability with subsequent quarters of FTE reporting.
All of the PHAs responding to our question on quality procedures that they were able to describe procedures and controls that they had in place to help ensure the timely reporting, accuracy, and completeness of FTEs. For example, several PHAs reported that they had processes in place to help ensure that contractors and subcontractors were in compliance with reporting requirements in submitting data on hours worked. In addition, 6 of the 11 PHAs we interviewed specifically said that they used HUD's "job calculator" to help calculate FTEs. HUD made this calculator available to PHAs during the first round of Recovery Act reporting and later updated it to conform with OMB guidance. To help ensure that housing agencies used the revised jobs calculator, we recommended that HUD tell housing agencies to discontinue using the outdated jobs calculator for subsequent rounds of reporting.
According to HUD officials, they were not aware of any plans that the agency has to use recipient-reported data internally. However, HUD converted a system it developed to track Recovery Act accomplishments—RAMPS—into a permanent system known as the Energy and Performance Information Center (EPIC) that it deployed in March 2012. This system would allow HUD to collect, aggregate, and report results of its capital investments made through the Public Housing Capital fund program and its two largest Native American programs. According to a HUD official, EPIC essentially replicates the key RAMPS function of collecting high-level information about Public Housing Capital Fund activity (for example, the numbers of units rehabilitated or developed with capital funds) and specific data about the installation of certain energy conservation measures. In addition, to leverage HUD's investment in RAMPS, EPIC also carries over RAMPS infrastructure, such as login identification number and password, and system administration.
HUD officials recommended that any system similar to that implemented at FederalReporting.gov that is required in the future should be prepopulated with existing data from agency databases to reduce errors caused when recipients enter data. A HUD official estimated that HUD already collected much of the information that recipients entered into FederalReporting.gov. For example, HUD already tracks grant identification numbers and amounts of money awarded and disbursed in its Line of Credit Control System (LOCCS). He said that asking recipients to reenter data already tracked in HUD data systems resulted in many typographical errors that HUD then had to track and correct. Early on in the program, for instance, many PHAs entered incorrect grant identification numbers, putting in a "dash" before the last two numbers of the grant that signified the grant year. HUD officials made a great effort to correct these errors because, for the first several quarters, RATB could not cross check the recipient reported data with masters lists of Recovery Act awards provided by the agencies. HUD officials said that the system would have been more manageable if the fields had been prepopulated with data they had replaced or the number of parking lots it may have repaved.
What GAO DidBack to top
The recipient reporting section of this report responds to the Recovery Act's mandate that GAO comment on the estimates of jobs created or retained by direct recipients of Recovery Act funds. For our review of the tenth submission of recipient reports which covers the period from October 1, 2011, through December 31, 2011, we built on findings from our nine prior reviews of these reports, which covered the period from February 2009 through September 31, 2011. To understand the quality of jobs data reported by housing program recipients, we compared the 10 quarters of recipient reporting data that were publicly available at Recovery.gov as of January 31, 2012; performed edit checks; and conducted other analyses on housing recipients' reports for the Recovery Act. Our reliability assessment included interviewing HUD program officials and funding recipients and conducting logic tests for key variables. Our matches showed a high degree of agreement between HUD's assessments of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions reported and our analyses of information recipients reported directly to FederalReporting.gov. In general, the recipient data used in this report appears to be sufficiently reliable for the purposes of providing summary descriptive information about FTEs or other information submitted on grantees' recipient reports for the three housing programs—Public Housing Capital Fund formula and competitive grants, and TCAP.


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Change in U.S. Cuba Travel Policy Offers New Opportunities for Citizen Education, Diplomacy
(San Francisco, Jan. 20) — The Obama administration's January 14 announcement that it is lifting some government-imposed restrictions on travel to Cuba for several categories of U.S. citizens —including college students, people engaged in journalism, and those sponsored by religious organizations — represents a new opportunity for a wider segment of Americans to learn about Cuba firsthand.
Under the new policy, which is still being finalized, students from accredited colleges and universities may now travel to Cuba on what is known as a "general" license, meaning they don't have to seek individual permission from the government as long as they meet certain criteria. This also applies to Americans traveling there for "journalistic activities" or under the auspices of religious groups.
In addition, non-profit organizations such as Global Exchange will once again be able to apply to the Treasury Department for a license to arrange "people to people" travel to Cuba, which it did through its Reality Tours program from 2000 to 2004. Beginning in 2004, however, the Bush administration restricted the number of Americans allowed to travel to Cuba to a handful of specific professions, such as full-time journalists and academics.
Despite various government restrictions, more than 15,000 people have traveled to Cuba as part of a Reality Tour in the past 22 years. "About half of the roughly 90 trips we arrange each year are to Cuba, including our most popular series called 'Cuba at the Crossroads', which allowed Americans who wouldn't have qualified to travel there under a 'professional' license to see the country for themselves," said Malia Everette, director of the Reality Tours program. "Those trips enabled them to experience everyday life in Cuba under the ef-fects of the U.S. embargo, and see how it is transitioning into a more dynamic and sustainable society."
The Bush administration's 2004 policy prohibited undergraduate students from traveling to Cuba unless they were participating in one of a handful of college-administered programs that lasted an entire semester. Under the new policy, they will have the ability to travel on school-sponsored trips as short as a week. Similarly, graduate students will no longer have to wait months to obtain a "specific" license for travel related to their masters thesis or doctoral dissertation — a request that was sometimes denied.
The U.S. remains the only nation in the world that denies its citizens the right to travel freely to Cuba. It has no similar restrictions on travel to any other countries — including Iran and North Korea, members of President Bush's so-called "axis of evil" to which Reality Tours also organizes delegations. "The new regulations give our Reality Tours participants new options for much-needed exchange between the people of the U.S. and Cuba," said Walter Turner, president of Global Exchange's board of directors. "But while we appreciate this opening, it still doesn't fully recognize the right of ordinary U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba freely, as they can do to any other nation, to learn about the world. If we're going to promote human rights abroad, we need to respect the rights of our own citizens here at home."
For more information about traveling to Cuba, including the resumption of the popular "Cuba at the Crossroads" series, or trips to more than 30 other countries around the world, visit www.realitytours.org. For information on Global Exchange's other programs and activities, visit www.globalexchange.org.


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Talking with a friend today we talked a little on spur lengths.
What the main focus was and I am not to sure myself but the length of Gould's and Merriam's turkey's and why they seem shorter and not as long and developed as other species. Now I have only killed one Gould's and a few Merriam's but, none although mature birds seemed to have that needle sharp point ( the Gould's was 7/8" on one but rounded the other one was 1/2", a little more streching the tape), a couple of the Merriam's were 3/4" give or take and broke or rounded), now I have seen others taken by hunters with nice hooks. (my luck, if it was not for bad luck, you know)
I thought maybe some of you who hunt these two species could give some insight.
We both sort of agreed, but weather genetics or terrain or what may cause it or I could be all wet and there is nothing to it.


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Here is my nearly completed Ocellated turkey mount. I did a lot of research thanks to Lovett Williams book "The Ocellated Turkey in the Land of the Maya" and his DVD "Meet the Ocellated Turkey" to come up with this pose. This bird is the New Atypical World Record so I wanted a unique pose. The bird is going into what I call a singing tiptoe strut.
I also suggest anyone interested in hunting these birds read the aforementioned dvd and book a few times prior to going I learned a lot from them each time I read them and watched them.


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It is not even 9 pm and we're beat and ready for bed. Kara had initiative, though, and is folding clothes she took to the drier. Here at Grand Cayman, there is very high humidity and there really is no good air flow in our room for drying any of our wet clothes and we do seem to create a lot of wet clothes. We think the hotel should provide some clothes racks to help dry the clothes. And there was something else we wanted that I have now forgotten.
We were trying for an early morning, but only managed to get out by 9:30 am. I think I slowed us down by eating breakfast too slowly and then we took a long time organizing for our Turtle Farm trip since we planned to try to go snorkeling somewhere around the West End where the Turtle Farm is located. It was difficult to decide how to deal with our valuables if we were both going snorkeling in some place where there most likely would be nowhere to put our packs and things
We got a bus to the Turtle Farm. It looked as if it weren't open yet, but then a man popped up and opened the door for us, told us his name was Benny and we could ask him any questions. We opted for the full package of looking at the turtle tanks and going swimming/snorkeling in the turtle lagoon. There were various tanks with various sizes of turtles: breeding tanks with adults, some teenager types in other tanks, and some little baby turtles in some other tanks. The majority of the turtles are green sea turtles with a few loggerheads interspersed and a tank with some other rare kind of sea turtle. This place bills itself as the only turtle farm in the world because they have produced at least a second generation of turtles since they began in 1968. As well as breeding and resettling 31,000 turtles, they also raise turtles to sell for meat. I had read in a guidebook that they sell all kinds of turtle souvenirs that people cannot take home because of the turtles' protected status, but I didn't see anything like that in the gift shop. There was turtle meat on the restaurant menu though.
At the turtle farm, in addition to turtles, we got to see lizards and Cayman birds, including a red ibis and a special Cayman parrot. There was also an island in the lagoon with peafowl
After touring the whole grounds, we went for our snorkel. This was Kara's first time and she got my rudimentary and not very helpful instructions. Unfortunately, after her first attempt, she kept getting water in his mask - the mask I got her as her Christmas present. She kept trying for awhile and then I lent her my mask and that worked better for her. So we switched masks and hers seemed to work OK for me. The lagoon had some nice fish...I didn't see them at first and began to think what a dud this snorkel experience was going to be, but the water was very clear and there were actually quite a few fish around and even some little turtles. My photos don't reflect the variety of fish at all.
By the time we finished, I was hungry. Kara said she wasn't that hungry but we ended up getting a regular kind of lunch with some conch fritters and a mango smoothie. I was most impressed with the mango hot sauces and the mango smoothie.
Even though our feet weren't exactly jumping for joy at the thought of walking some more - after yesterday's excursion - we checked out the snorkeling area around the Turtle Farm - or at least on the other side of the road. I think we may have missed the actual snorkeling spot somewhere behind the farm since what we saw seemed to have pretty rough water with waves crashing up against some jagged rocks. Kara, quite sanely, said she didn't feel comfortable trying to snorkel there. So then we continued walking south toward our hotel hoping to find the post office in Hell. We kind of bypassed it and decided to skip it since it was Saturday and the post office might not be open anyway.
After walking what seemed like a fair distance, we saw a little cemetery, but there was no good beach access there. Kara checked the map, and the Cemetery Beach area seemed to be farther down the coast so we kept on walking. With the bus system here, the bus drivers are very considerate and always beep at us to see if we want a ride - even if they are going in the other direction. Seems odd, but there must be a reason.
When we got to the second, larger cemetery, there was a lovely beach area and some folks were snorkeling there. I needed a drink and my feet needed a bit of a rest, so I encouraged Kara to go out first. If we took turns, I didn't have to worry about losing anything. I saw her put on her fins and back into the water. She swam around close to the shore and I was worried that she hadn't seem much of anything and would be disappointed. She said she saw some fish and it was OK. I doubted it. I then went out and tried to swim farther out to see if there was anything there
After we both had a chance to snorkel, we packed up and took another bus back to the hotel, debated a bit where to eat, and ended up here at Stingers, the Comfort Suites Restaurant. They were out of the conch chowder, but did have the rum punch specials. We each had a different salad and shared some calamari for a light dinner plus had the substitute seafood chowder. There were some fireworks as we left the restaurant patio.
Oh, I see Kara is still awake. I expected her to be asleep by now - 9:21 pm.


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I'm in the process of evaluating the new JEB's 20 gauge turkey chokes for Rem-Choke and Win-Choke threaded barrels. The JEB's brand got the attention of everyone when Bobby Sears used one of their 12 gauge chokes to win the Hunter Class World Championship this year.
The 20s have just been introduced, so I thought I'd give them a try and see how they worked through a few different guns. It's been very wet and cold here in Southern Illinois but I'm getting out to my range when I can and shooting at some "big paper". I'll let you know what I find out as soon as I've been able to shoot enough shells through them to fairly evaluate this new offering.
P.S. I'll publish a full evaluation and "Product Test" article at http://www.allaboutshooting.com as well.


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As of June 12, 2010, use of wireless microphones (and similar devices certified as "low power auxiliary stations") operating in frequencies between 698 and 806 MHz (the 700 MHz Band) is prohibited. This FCC rule applies to all users of 700 MHz Band wireless microphones (and similar devices) – including theaters, churches, schools, conference centers, theme parks and musicians.
Wireless microphone operations outside of the 700 MHz Band are not affected by this action and may continue.
Prior to June 12, 2010, certain wireless microphones (and similar devices) operated in frequencies that are now reserved for public safety. When this equipment was first designed, the frequencies they used were in between the frequencies that television stations used to broadcast television programs. With the completion of the digital television (DTV) transition on June 12, 2009, television stations no longer use the frequencies between 698 and 806 MHz (the 700 MHz Band) for broadcast. These frequencies are now being used by public safety entities (such as police, fire and emergency services) and by commercial providers of wireless services (such as wireless broadband services).
The wireless microphones (and similar devices) that operate in the old TV broadcast channels can cause harmful interference to the new services on those channels. Therefore, use of wireless microphones (and similar devices) operating on any of the frequencies in the 700 MHz Band – by both licensed users (under Part 74) and unlicensed users – is prohibited.
To ensure that the new public safety and wireless broadband services can operate effectively, the Federal Communications Commission prohibited, effective January 15, 2010, the import, sale, offer for sale or shipment of wireless microphones (and similar devices) intended for use in the 700 MHz Band in the United States. The FCC has also adopted a number of consumer safeguards for the users of wireless microphones, which inform consumers of their rights and obligations in operating wireless microphones.
Manufacture, Distribution and Sale of 700 MHz Wireless Microphones Prohibited
As of January 15, 2010, the FCC prohibits the import, sale, offer for sale or shipment of wireless microphones and other low power auxiliary stations (i.e. similar devices) intended for use in the 700 MHz Band in the United States. This prohibition will help complete an important component of the DTV transition by clearing the 700 MHz band to enable the rollout of new communications services for public safety and for next generation wireless services for consumers.
The FCC permits wireless microphones and similar equipment to operate in spectrum bands outside of the 700 MHz Band, including the core TV spectrum (TV channels 2-51, except channel 37). In addition, wireless microphones and similar equipment operate at lower power levels in unlicensed bands such as the 902-928 MHz and the 2.4 GHz bands. For wireless microphones and similar equipment that operate in the core TV spectrum, the FCC requires that the following consumer disclosure be displayed at the point of sale or lease.
Most users do not need a license to operate this wireless microphone system. Nevertheless, operating this microphone system without a license is subject to certain restrictions: the system may not cause harmful interference; it must operate at a low power level (not in excess of 50 milliwatts); and it has no protection from interference received from any other device. Purchasers should also be aware that the FCC is currently evaluating use of wireless microphone systems, and these rules are subject to change. For more information, call the FCC at 1-888-CALL-FCC (TTY: 1-888-TELL-FCC) or visit the FCC's wireless microphone website.
The disclosure requirement does NOT apply to the sale of wireless microphones and similar equipment that operate outside of the core TV spectrum. For example, the disclosure requirement does not apply to wireless microphones that may operate on a licensed basis in the 169-171 MHz band (see 47 C.F.R. Section 90.265) or on an unlicensed basis in the 902-928 MHz or the 2.4 GHz bands (see 47 C.F.R. Section 15.247).
Identifying 700 MHz Wireless Microphones
The FCC's website provides information about which wireless microphones currently operate in the 700 MHz band. Consumers may look up equipment by manufacturer. The website also includes information about how to contact manufacturers for more detailed information about wireless microphone equipment. View the contact information for the equipment manufacturers.
Some wireless microphones (and similar devices) are marked with the frequency the device uses. If information on the device indicates that it operates on frequencies between 698 and 806 MHz, then the device uses 700 MHz spectrum and may not be used after June 12, 2010.
Consequences for Using a 700 MHz Band Wireless Microphone
Using the 700 MHz Band for a wireless microphone (or a similar device) after June 12, 2010 could be extremely dangerous and could even be life threatening. Police and fire departments, and other public safety groups, use frequencies in the 700 MHz Band. Interference from wireless microphones can affect the ability of public safety groups to receive information over the air and respond to emergencies. Harmful interference to these communications could put you or public safety personnel in grave danger. In addition, use of your microphone can cause unlawful interference to consumer services provided using the 700 MHz Band.
Operation of wireless microphones in violation of these rules may subject the user to substantial monetary forfeitures and/or criminal penalties, including imprisonment. Because any operation in violation of these rules creates a danger of interference to important radio communications services and may subject the operator to severe penalties, this advisory emphasizes the importance of complying strictly with these legal requirements.
Reporting Interference on Devices Operating on Licensed 700 MHz Spectrum
Public Safety Licensees: If you are a Public Safety Licensee you may report interference to your 700 MHz device by contacting the FCC Operations Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at (202) 418-1122, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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