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Volunteer at a Center for Disabled People in Singapore
--Tutoring (English/Math/Mandarin/Computer)
--Organizing events
--Hydroponic Farming
--Showing Movies
--Food Talk Accompanying residents and Day Care clients to nature parks
--Graphic Designer
--Sharing any specialized experience/knowledge you might have, such as IT
Work at a Center for Disabled People Program Description
Program Requirements
Project Location
During your Free Time
What we provide
Start Dates
Program Costs
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What are you Paying For ?
- Pick up from the airport
- Orientation
- Accommodation
- Placement to project
- 24 hrs Assistance and support from staff
- Travel and Medical Insurance (Available at an extra cost)
What's NOT Included ?
- Return trip to Airport
- Visa Fees
- Vaccinations
- Local Transportation
- Airfare
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Does Volunteering Solutions help with Visa?
Receiving a tourist visa for tourism purpose is the volunteer's responsibility. Volunteering Solutions strongly recommends all volunteers to apply and get a tourist visa before departing for Singapore. If needed, Volunteering Solutions do provide with written document which would help volunteers in getting the Visa.
When should I apply for the volunteer programs in Singapore?
Volunteers can choose to join our program from any Monday of the month throughout the whole year and you would have to arrive on Sunday.
How long does it take to process my application?
Once you have applied, we will send you details of your placement usually within 7-10 working days.
When do I need to arrive in Singapore for my program? What will happen once I arrive in Singapore?
All volunteers need to arrive one day before their program start date. Volunteers are picked up from the Changi International Airport by the local coordinator or representative. Those volunteers who are arriving overland or are already in Singapore will be picked up from the bus station or at a meeting point decided beforehand.
How do I get to the program location?
Your country coordinator will take you to your placement and introduce you to everyone after giving you a basic orientation about the program/city/culture etc.
I want to know more about accommodation arrangements?
We provide you with accommodation from your start date to the end of the program. Volunteers will stay in the volunteer's flat and take public transportation to the home every day. This flat has shared rooms with showers and all basic amenities.
Are there any necessary requirements to participate in the Singapore-based volunteer programs?
* Volunteers must be 18 years or older at the beginning of the program
Are there more expenses once I arrive in Singapore?
Your program fee covers you for accommodation, airport pick up, Orientation and in country support staff. You will need to cover yourself for your personal expenses, such as traveling, telephone, internet, shopping, sightseeing etc. However you should carry around Singapore $100 per week for your basic personal expenses, such as water, local transport, phone etc.
What hours will I volunteer every day?
Volunteers usually work for 5 to 6 hours a day depending on their program. You will have weekend off so you can go to travel on weekends. However some organizations will need you to work on some Saturdays as well.
Where can I change my money in Singapore? Are there ATMs in Singapore?
You can change money in any bank or at the airport by showing your passport. There are ATM's located all around the Singapore.
Can couples or families join the volunteer program?
Yes, couples and families are welcome to join our programs. We make special provisions for families joining our volunteering programs; we will be able to provide them with program placements and accommodations together.
Do I need to buy health insurance?
Volunteers have the option to purchase Travel and Medical Insurance at a nominal extra cost from Volunteering Solutions. To buy insurance from Volunteering Solutions, please click here
What sorts of clothes are required for Singapore?
Lightweight clothing and rainwear is recommended as well as warmer clothing for the evenings (light jacket and/or light sweaters). A pair of walking shoes is highly recommended as well.
Do you recommend any Cheap Airline's?
We would recommend you to visit, http://www.kayak.com, http://www.orbitz.com to have more details on cheap airlines to Singapore.


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Following Anderson Silva's return to matrix- esque striking form against Vitor Belfort in the main event of UFC 126, the blogosphere is ablaze with discussion over what to call the rare kick Anderson knocked Vitor down with:
Silva has credited the strike to 7'th degree Aikido Shihan, Steven Seagal ( link )
"Steven Seagal helped me perfect that kick. That was a kick we were working on before I stepped in..." Silva said through a translator at the post-fight press conference. "This was a kick that I trained a lot."
However, from the cursory research i've done on Aikido (which is primarily a grappling art) it claims ownership to no specific strikes. Even the styles that do employ strikes only do so as a means of distraction, to facilitate the grappling techniques.
Seagal discussed the strike, and how he taught it to Anderson: ( link 2 )
"I've learned sort of a variation of that [Front Kick] in Japan, probably 30, 40 years ago, and I've been perfecting it all these years. It's not exactly cut out there, it's just something that I created that's a little bit different. I thought Anderson could learn well because he's sort-of a natural born athlete, has very quick hands and feet, and his kicks are good to begin with. So I started teaching him kicks that I thought he could really hurt people with.
"In practice, he was knocking other people out with body shots, and at that point I knew he was going to start making these kicks work.
"...Nobody knows the kick. I'm teaching it to Machida, Anderson, and a few other Brazilians, but we haven't really used it much yet. I haven't shown it to many people yet."
"Right before he walked out, I said, 'Stay away from him for the first two or three minutes. Just kind of get him frustrated and then fake low and come high and do that kick that I've been teaching you and kick him in the head or the face.' He did exactly what I said and exactly what I wanted to happen, happened, and I was very proud of him."
Now, the truth value of this is up for debate, but Anderson did say that Seagal taught him the kick. Fair enough- who, what, or where did he learn this strike from?
Anderson used a similar kick against Dan Henderson, but that seemed more akin to the traditional "pushing" motion of the Muay Thai teep
Another fighter, Cory Tait (a TKD practitioner since childhood), used the same technique (an upward, chambered front kick, that strikes with the ball of the foot) to devastating effect against Dino Gambatesa last October at Ultimate Challenge: Unbelievable in Britain:
Considering that Anderson himself is a Tae Kwon Do black belt, this doesn't seem unreasonable. Anderson also has a yellow rope in Capoeira, and the strike may or may not exist in that system.
Since the origins of this strike is debatable, and there haven't been any definitive answers confirming the name of this strike, we as Martial Arts/ Combat Sports fans have the distinct privelege of naming this strike. K-1 fans in the 1990's deemed Francisco Filho's "question mark kick" as the "Brazilian kick"; Peter Graham had his own special cartwheel kick, fondly termed "Rolling Thunder"; Muhammed Ali coined the term "Anchor Punch" to describe his lead overhand.

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Advertising photographer Duncan Davis along with his wife Diane have created a pub in the North Pennines which mirrors themselves.
No compromises, eccentric, welcoming and quirky with a capital K.
What else would you expect from a man who plays drums for the Three Steps to Hebburn.
It is a gathering place for artists, musicians, actors, eccentrics and all who appreciate individuality.
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How about Mastrionni in centre-field? He hit .301 last year in New Hampshire, with a .390 obp and 46 steals. So far in the winter leagues he has hit a modest .581(18-31), with a .639 Obp. You have to get excited about that even though the sample size is small enough to make it meaningless. I see him as a Gardner/Ellsbury type and I think given the Jays need for both speed and OBP, he should be given every chance to earn the job at some point next year, the sooner the better as far as I am concerned. (http://mlb.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l135&t=p_pbp&pid=518991)
I also think Emaus should be given a legitimate chance to DH (If Mastrionni's in cf and Bautista is at third) or play third (If Mastrionni's in triple A). He hit .290 with a .397 obp last year with 13 sb(only 2 cs) with 15 home runs. We have lots of power but I want to see some speed, but especially obp in the 1,2, and 9 spots in the order. I think both Emaus and Mastrionni should be given serious looks next year. (http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=458587)


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To evaluate how efficient the Brewers organization has been in the past three years, we can compare what they paid each player to what the player's production would have been worth on the free...
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Root Call Blocker
100,000 - 500,000 downloadsAdd this app to your lists
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Unlike other call filters, Root Call Blocker silently blocks calls at a system level. You need not even know its working and can choose to be notified only if specific numbers are blocked.
Supported languages: English, Español, Português, Français, Italiano, Català, Deutsch, Suomi, Nederlands, Čeština, Svenska, Magyar, Polski, Român, Русский, Türkçe, 简体中文, 繁體字.
Other languages are incomplete. If you want to help with a translation, visit http://crowdin.net/project/root-call-blocker-pro to get started.
Unique features:
• Your phone never rings and the screen never turns on
• In call widgets allow you to ignore/block calls on the fly
• Customize notifications with vibration, ringtone and LED colors
• Completely ignore spam calls and messages
• Import large lists of numbers from files, including CSV
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• Block area codes or countries
• Native Tasker plugin
• Silent/hidden operating mode
• Cloud backup to Google Drive and Dropbox
• Google Groups integration
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Trial restriction:
• No more than 5 items per list
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WARNING - app generally only supports devices commonly available in the West. We will ignore requests for compatibility with random knockoffs and no name provider phones.
WARNING - multi-sim devices are not fully supported, though after version 184.108.40.206 Qualcomm and MTK chipsets should work.
If you need help, use "Write to us" in the app's settings or visit the website: http://fahrbot.co.uk/feedback
This app does not control your voicemail service. If your blocked calls are being sent to voice mail, try another blocking method or use Google Voice. You can simulate a disconnected message by forwarding busy calls to a number that doesn't exist.
OUTGOING CALL permissions are needed for hidden mode, using the dialer to enter a password.
ACCOUNTS are needed for Google Contact Groups.
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• Multi-SIM support (alpha, more features to come)
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Most of the 1* ratings come as retaliation from haters and trolls because they can't afford the paid version.
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In a small section of the mind of Steve Nash where P-N-R's and mind-boggling passes intersect, lies a foundation so incongruous that people see it over and over every game--but are blind to the immutable power before their eyes. The etching all over this foundation is a somewhat bizarre catchphrase: "Stay Thirsty." This inscription might inspire funky thoughts of commercials with a 60 something playboy who is incapable of doing anything but alighting the world wherever his feet tread—but it is so much more than this….! "Stay Thirsty" is the guiding tenet behind the mind and wizardry of one Steven J. Nash.
"Stay Thirsty" decries a man driven by unquenchable passion and a thirst for point guard excellence. It allows a point guard to lead teams to the WCF (2006, 2010) that the pundits said would be lucky to win 45 games. It permits a man to will his teams to wins, whether his eye is closed, his nose busted, playing on one leg, with Marcus Banks as the backup, and yes....it can also carry this current squad to the playoffs. ""Stay Thirsty" carries a torch for a much more profound reason than just a simple desire to be good….it demands excellence above mere mortal excellence. It cries out for a special mission to carry out a great legacy; to cherish the opportunities of a basketball season and triumph over its ebbs and flows.
What I am alluding to is that "Stay Thirsty" is so more than an idea… It is a call to arms for all BSOTS. Founded on the minds, legs, and passing excellence of Steve Nash, this team is capable of greatness…It is just a matter of "staying thirsty". I call for BSOTS to "Stay Thirsty" as well. Yes, our team allowed 123 points to an offensively inept 76'ers team….Yes, our team lost a home game to the Clippers….Yes, our team is one of the worse defensive teams of all time… Yes, our team is 13-17 and not looking good…. I am not blind and I recognize all of this--but with Steve Nash, all that can change in a moment. I have seen it before, and I shall see it again.
We can complain till 2012 but as long as "Stay Thirsty" is there, there is always, always a chance. Always hope. Always potential. Always an oppportunity. We at BSOTS must be the beacon of light that others can latch onto to help "Stay Thirsty" find a way to the rest of the team. We must align ourselves "Stay Thirsty" to shine a spotlight on excellence in all things BSOTS around the world. I believe that this team has put itself in a position where it must operate from here on out on the truly virtuoso platform that is Steve Nash. "Stay Thirsty" will pull the potential out, and draws upon the insights, talents, skills, and expertise of the other members of the Phoenix Suns. Things will change.
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"The defendant shot that rifle. He shot that rifle into a crowd of people as they were retreating up to the house to get away from him and his brothers, and that Karla Gonzalez was shot and killed by one of the bullets the defendant fired," Campbell said.
The attorney for the defense, Mike Williams, declined to make an opening statement to the jury, but did not give a reason why.
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---- — GOSHEN — Goshen College men's basketball coach Neal Young will step away from the program briefly to focus on his battle with cancer.
Young will take a temporary medical leave of absence from his duties, the Goshen athletic department announced. Second-year assistant Brandon Lokken will take over as acting head coach.
Goshen College assistant athletic director for communications Josh Gleason said the move is open-ended for now.
"There's no timetable," Gleason said. "We want Coach Young to focus on his health."
Young was hired as the 14th head coach of the Maple Leafs last April, just two years removed from a three-year stint as an assistant with the program. Just three months later, he was suddenly diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma.
Since that summer diagnosis, Young has been undergoing a series of rigorous treatments. At the advice of his doctors, Young has decided that his best next step in the healing process will be to take some time to recover.
After six years on the staff at Lake Superior State University (NCAA DII) in Michigan, Lokken is in his second year at Goshen College. He assumed the head coaching duties for the Leafs beginning with Wednesday night's contest against NAIA DII No. 13 Indiana Wesleyan University.
Geason added that Goshen College officials have full confidence in Lokken's ability to manage the program in Young's absence. Lokken has been doing some of that already, Gleason said, managing practices when Young was away for treatments. Lokken also coached a game earlier this season when Young had to sit out after getting ejected from a game against Judson College.
In a November interview with the Goshen News, Young said he has been working hard to turn his illness into a positive.
"At first, I thought it was going to be a huge burden," Young said. "It's turned out to be more of a blessing. Everything happens for a reason. So much good has come out of this and will continue to come out of it."


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So many people played important roles during Monday's search for escaped convict, Michael Elliot.
One of them is the dispatcher who took the call from the woman who says she was being held hostage by Elliot.
The dispatcher says the woman being held hostage, Cheryl Van Wormer, called 911 from a gas station on State Road 13 and County Road 2 in Middlebury, around 11:45 Sunday night.
She stayed on the phone with her until police came to her rescue.
The call started like this: Dispatcher: "911." Van Wormer, "Yes, I'm at a Gallops station in Indiana getting gas. I'm hostage to an escaped convict." Heather Lock has been a 911 Communications Dispatcher for three years, but she's never received a call like this.
"This phone call came in, she was talking completely calm, until she told me exactly what was going on. She caught me off guard," says Lock.
Lock says the caller, Cheryl Van Wormer, was being held against her will in her Jeep Cherokee at the Gallops gas station in Middlebury.
That's where escaped convict, Michael Elliot stopped for gas. He was inside pre-paying, while Van Wormer secretly called 911.
Lock says her main priority was getting the hostage inside the gas station while they tried to pin-point her location.
"You need to figure out somehow, how to get into the gas station. I said, 'Go tell him you need to go to the restroom or something,'" said Lock, recalling the 911 call. "'Do not hang up the phone with me. Keep an open phone somehow. Get into the bathroom somehow and make contact with me again.'"
Lock says Van Wormer went inside and asked the clerk for the address. The clerk gave her the address, but he couldn't tell anything was wrong. Van Wormer then locked herself in the restroom while she waited on the phone with 911.
During the 911 call, Lock said, "As long as you're in there, you're safe. So don't open up the door. I promise I have help coming your way."
Lock stayed on the phone with Van Wormer until she saw that promise fulfilled.
When officers arrived, Elliot had already taken off, but Van Wormer was safe.
Lock says it was an emotional day at work, but in the end, she was just doing her job.
"Every day you have someone's life in your hands, one way or another. But this one, takes the cake," says Lock.
Lock says Van Wormer's calmness helped her to remain calm while help was on the way.
She says looking back, the call seemed to last forever, but at the same time, was over in an instant.
She believes they were on the phone for about 30 minutes.
You can listened to more of the 911 call here.
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Full 20-Page Kovalchuk Decision
SB Nation got its hands on Richard Bloch's 20-page tribute to fans everywhere who have been screwed by Lou Lamoriello. Feel free to peruse the full decision and come to silly conclusions like a Devils' fan would. Also, say things like "bank on it" and "I'm certain" when coming to those silly conclusions.


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How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
Empathizing vs. Objectifying
Explanations > Preferences > Empathizing vs. Objectifying
Empathizing | Objectifying | So what?
People who have a lot of empathy for others and hence experience their emotions will tend to be caring and sympathetic. They see and experience other people as themselves and hence see the world either as a vast human net or connections or even a single overlapping humanity.
Empathy helps people connect with one another and hence allows us to live in our social and tribal ways. At the very least, it prevents our worst excesses against one another.
We do not empathize with all people equally; almost by definition, we connect more fully with those who are close to us.
People who prefer to empathize will approach others sympathetically and will often seek company with others. In connecting with them they encourage others to also empathize with them.
We can even empathize with situations, such as the marketplace or even a storm. Extending our emotions we create feelings that we experience as connected with that situation.
Companies and cultures can have empathetic or objectifying cultures. Empathetic cultures are very people-oriented. Those who tend to be more objective may be driven by professions such as engineering, where people are not normally a part of their attention. We thus may be very empathetic at home but very objectifying at work or when out with a group of friends.
At the other end of the spectrum, are people who do not empathize. In order to protect themselves from others they put them at a distance from them. This allows them to see the other people as things or objects that can be treated without having to consider their feelings (if I empathize with you and hurt you, I also hurt myself).
When we objectify others, we strip them of their humanity and their individuality, hence objectification is also called depersonification. (we are using the word 'objectifying' here to emphasize not only the turning of people into objects but also the viewpoint of the world as 'things').
Many of us use objectification at some time or another. Objectifying other people deliberately is a convenient method of avoiding the discomfort of empathy and helps us avoid feelings of guilt or shame when we do things that break our values.
When we see people who we dislike, by objectifying them, we can then be unkind to them without suffering the repercussions of an empathetic connection.
When we see people who are disadvantaged in comparison to us, we distance ourselves, both to protect ourselves from empathetic feelings and also to avoid the guilt of not helping them.
When we associate ourselves with others in a group, we treat others in the out-group as being 'all the same' so we can stereotype them.
It is often convenient to have a scapegoat, on whom we can blame our problems or even the ills of the world.
Misogynists, men who dislike women, objectify them, as do rapists. Prison warders can easily fall into objectifying prisoners. Slave owners objectified their charges. If you listen into many management or trade union meetings, you will hear much objectification of the other side.
So what?
Find out where the other person normally sits on this spectrum and the situations where they may change and appeal first to their preference.
See also
Empathy, Objectivity preferences, Deindividuation, Objectification
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Congrats Ron!
I hate reading manuals...but i did find some good info on YouTube.
I would go there first. I would try to stick with Primes but you have a nice
24-70 and decent 50. Adjusting from the AF and system on the T2i to 5D takes getting used to but i don't
have a prob with it. Just takes a little time and practice. Even the heavier weight of the body.
Thanks! Starting to realize what other photographers were saying on this site regarding the poor AF function in low light now....
just stick with the center point only and only use f2.8 or faster lenses, and don't use AI servo...
The centre point is OK with f/4 lens, although f/2.8 lens are better
in decent light f4 is ok but i find the 24-105 really struggles in poor or very low light but the f2.8 lenses and fast primes can get focus lock ok.
The AF needs good contrast to focus in low light - no good pointing it at a plain dark wall. The centre point is more sensitive at F4 and even more at F2.8 - the 5DII is the best of all at focussing in low light. Also see this posting by neuro


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Weather Averages for Carcassonne in May
Averages for Carcassonne in May
May is the official start of the tourist season so the days are warm and incredibly long, making time for all that the resort has to offer. For the first time all year, the ocean is warm enough for swimming. This opens up a range of summertime activities on the lovely beaches for all types of visitors.
The Lac de la Cavayere will now be available. A stroll around the lake takes about an hour, in which time you can take in the carefully maintained habitats. There is an island in the middle of the lake specially designed for the indigenous aquatic birds.
When it comes to eating out during May try Auberge de Dam Carcas, a very traditional French dining experience. This restaurant features a ground level that allows patrons to watch chefs as they work. The top level is a slightly more formal restaurant. Alternatively, subject to weather, you may choose to dine outside on the lovely terrace.
The average temperature in May is a warming 59°F (15°C).
The average low temperature is 60°F (10°C).
The average high temperature is 69°F (20.6°C), positively summertime weather.
The average precipitation is 51 mm.
The average days of rainfall number 14 during this month.
The average hours of sunlight are plentiful: 15 hours of daylight, with 10 hours of full sun.


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Hi P&T world.
I reset up the fantasy basketball league we had last year. All those that played were reinvied, I think. I assume it worked because one person already rejoined.
If you were in the league last year and didnt get an invite, let me know here. If you were not in the league last year and want to play... its a first come first serve starting.... now! Let me know in the comments that you wanna join, and will be into it.
Changed the settings around a bit. We will let in 20 teams again, cause its silly fun. But it will be set up into 4 divisions, and the top team of each division automatically gets in. Then the next 4 best records complete the playoffs. So it should be a little more exciting this year. You can name the divisions whatever we want, so I am open to all suggestions on division names. Since I am commissioner, I will just pick what I like (POWER!!!).
We had talked about keepers, but since we didnt start or end last season with any rules established, we wont do it this year. After we get all 20 teams set up we can discuss if we wanna make it a keeper league moving forward.
If you were in the league last year, please try to either let me know that you dont wanna join or are interested in joining but didnt get the email asap. If you didnt get the email just go to yahoo fantasy basketball and sign in. Figure it out, you are not an idiot.
The draft is set up for Oct 27th now. We can edit that when we get all teams in.
People should rec this shit so it stays at the top.
I didnt discuss this with Seth first. I hope this is ok.
I am changing my team name to "The Tears of Paul Pierce"


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Those who don the uniform of our U.S. military sacrifice to guard not just the people, but America the nation--our sovereignty and our liberty, and they allow us the freedom to grow "in order to form a more perfect Union." I'm proud to have served with so many patriots during my military career--they are the best of the best-- and I just hope we as a nation can maintain the ideals of the Constitution that make this country great! Tell us about Military City USA Radio and how can alumni tune in? Military City USA radio is about all things military in San Antonio, Texas and is intended to inform and educate the program listeners about the diversity and importance of the over 200 military missions and the men and women who command them. Mark Frye (OSU alumni) interviews key representatives of the military, the surrounding community, and the civic organizations that support the military in San Antonio. Some of the programs focus on specific events--for example, the 100th Anniversary of Military Aviation or the 40th Annual Celebrate America's Military. In addition to mission-focused programs, they produce shows featuring military history or military career fields (fighter pilots, doctors, historians and intelligence gatherers for instance). While the radio program is broadcast live in San Antonio, it can be listened to online at www.militarycityusaradio.com. You worked in the Clinton White House as Presidential Response Officer. What was that experience like? Many people don't know that the White House Communications Agency, a DoD organization, provides nearly all of the communications and audiovisual support to the President, the White House Staff, and the Secret Service. Like any other job, it had its ups and downs. I was able to meet people in Hollywood, DC, or overseas that others normally don't meet, and watch national events unfold from a unique perspective. On the other hand, as one might surmise, there were additional issues to deal with during that Administration. But all in all, I wouldn't trade the experience and all the funny stories for anything. What is the value of freedom in your view? Freedom is the foundation of American success. Nations around the world try but may never be able to emulate what we have here. Our combination of natural resources, independence, diversity, entrepreneurial spirit, the liberty to seek all possible opportunities and the willingness of our people, through our military, to fight for our freedom is unique. What does Ohio State mean to you? Because I moved so much as a kid and as a Serviceman (17 different states, 24 moves), I've considered Ohio State to be my one constant. OSU has been a home away from home, providing stability and a sense of belonging no matter where life took me. 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Russian Press at a Glance, Monday, April 23, 2012
The first round of presidential elections was held in France on Friday. There was little doubt that incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Francois Hollande will have to face each other in the runoff
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
The UN Security Council unanimously voted for resolution 2043, increasing the number of international observers in Syria tenfold, from 30 to 300. Four Russians will be included in the 90-day mission to oversee the implementation of special envoy Kofi Annan's six-point plan
(Kommersant, Moskovskie Novosti)
The 2012 Russian presidential elections candidate Mikhail Prokhorov may establish a public movement instead of a political party
(Kommersant, Izvestia)
The EU Council will debate the human rights situation in Belarus. The discussions are likely to focus on economic sanctions against Minsk, apparently in retaliation for President Alexander Lukashenko's decision not to free political prisoners. The Belarusian leader, who recently pardoned two opposition leaders, vowed no more concessions to the EU
Large-scale rallies by the Shia opposition were held in Bahrain on Sunday, on the day of the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix
G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank chiefs agreed to increase the International Monetary Fund's reserves by $430 billion. The largest contributions will be made by the Eurozone states and Japan
(Moskovskie Novosti, The Moscow Times)
MegaFon, one of Russia's top three mobile operators, will become the second company to offer 4G services in Russia, after WiMAX operator Scartel. The company will start selling 4G modems in Novosibirsk on Monday and in Moscow on May 14.
(Kommersant, Vedomosti)
Russian milk industry lobbyists are set to continue the "milk wars" with manufacturers of so-called "milk drinks." They are to put forward a proposal to the Russian agriculture ministry to make violation of production standards for milk products a criminal offense and restrict the import of tropical oils widely used to make reconstituted milk products
STX France has allowed Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation to build hulls for Mistral helicopter carriers at the Baltic Plant. Analysts say this is the only production facility in Russia capable of fulfilling the task
Testing on the first Russian attack drone will not take place at the end of this year as previously planned but in 2014, a top defense official said
(The Moscow Times)
Following a series of scandalous incidents in Russian churches, a series of events directed against "anti-church forces" was held in Moscow over the weekend, including a rally by Members of Russia's Night Wolves bikers movement and a mass prayer near the Christ the Savior Cathedral
(Kommersant, Moskovskie Novosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Izvestia)
Firefighters are trying to extinguish wildfires in Russia's Far East and Siberia. The Amur Region saw its biggest wildfire in decade, which destroyed 83 houses, left two people dead and 350 homeless. Meanwhile, Russian deputy premier Viktor Zubkov said people who burn dry grass should face a criminal penalty
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Russia's national development bank Vnesheconombank froze its 107-billion-ruble investment in the construction of Olympic facilities in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi
The Russian natural resources ministry plans to announce an Arctic cleanup tender in early May
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The LSU governing board backed a plan Thursday to deepen cuts to $152 million for the university-run public hospitals that care for the poor and uninsured, eliminating dozens of inpatient beds, clinic services and nearly 1,500 jobs.
The cuts could threaten access to health care for some uninsured people in the high-poverty state.
The reductions, devised with Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration, will fall across seven south Louisiana hospitals, carving out 19 percent of the spending that had been planned for those facilities run through LSU's Health Care Services Division.
University officials say they hope that services being eliminated at the public hospitals will be picked up by private health care facilities, and that those private facilities will provide training sites for the medical students who currently work in LSU hospitals.
But few of those agreements are in place.
It's unclear where some uninsured patients will receive care when services disappear at the LSU centers in the coming weeks. House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, said he's worried about gaps in critical services.
"We would hope that there's not, but these could be complex agreements that we have to walk though," said hospital system leader Frank Opelka. He added, "We would like to know that we can actually close these gaps as fast as possible and do these partnerships as soon as possible."
He acknowledged in questioning from lawmakers that if LSU and the Jindal administration can't get a "partner" in an area, the uninsured will have less access to medical care and difficulty getting services.
The budget slashing is in response to Jindal's decision to levy most of a federal Medicaid funding drop on the LSU health care system rather than on private providers. More cuts are expected next year.
Opelka, LSU's executive vice president for health care and medical education redesign, said the budget cuts were developed with Jindal health secretary Bruce Greenstein. The LSU Board of Supervisors approved the plans without objection. Opelka then presented them to the House and Senate health care committees.
In Baton Rouge, intensive care unit beds will be shuttered. In New Orleans, a woman's health clinic and two mobile health care units will close and surgery hours will shrink. An arthritis clinic in Lake Charles, the dermatology and neurology clinics in Houma, the ICU in Independence and the mental health clinic in Lafayette all will shut down.
Inpatient beds will shrink at every facility. At LSU's hospitals in Lake Charles, Lafayette and Tangipahoa Parish, inpatient beds will drop to 10 each, the minimum needed to keep the university's outpatient clinics open.
Opelka said some of the cuts will take effect within weeks and the layoffs will begin in January.
"Where are these people going to go?" said Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa. "I am asking who is going to provide the services? Until you can tell me that, I'm not going to be able to rest."
Opelka replied, "We wish we didn't have to cut any of the care that we have."
He repeatedly told concerned lawmakers that university leaders and Greenstein were pushing to increase access for LSU's patients at private hospitals.
"You're dismantling what you have before you have something to transition to. That concerns me greatly," said Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite. "I wish we weren't doing it this way."
Two New Orleans residents who said they rely on the public hospital system for care criticized the additional cuts, saying they will harm patient care and limit access for the poor and uninsured.
"Society is judged by how they treat their least-advantaged, and this board will be judged accordingly," Janet Hayes told board members before they voted on the plans. Hayes said she recently lost her job and her health insurance.
The LSU board, packed with Jindal appointees, gave Opelka and LSU System President William Jenkins the ability to make changes to the reduction plans as needed.
The plans approved Thursday don't include the LSU-run hospitals in Shreveport, Monroe and Pineville, which operate under different leadership and participated in a previous round of reductions earlier this year tied to the Jindal administration cuts.
Here are the reductions per hospital, according to the plan approved Thursday:
-LSU Interim Hospital in New Orleans: $49.1 million, 423 jobs cut.
-Earl K. Long Medical Center in Baton Rouge: $38.7 million, 341 jobs cut.
-W.O. Moss Regional Medical Center in Lake Charles: $10.9 million, 64 jobs cut.
-Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma: $14.4 million, 245 jobs cut.
-Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center in Independence: $5.2 million, 95 jobs cut.
-University Medical Center in Lafayette: $22.4 million, 173 jobs cut.
-Bogalusa Medical Center: $11.1 million, 146 jobs cut.
-$151.8 million out of $801.5 million budget, a 19 percent reduction.
-1,487 jobs out of 6,140, a 24 percent reduction.
Source: LSU Health Care Services
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In between routes 9 and 10, directly up the dark slab, Original Sin climbs up very small edges and fingertip-to-fingernail nubbins to the anchors for the first pitch of Moby Grape (listed as route "Unknown" in this database). There are around 9 good bolts protecting the route, but they're difficult to see until you're on top of them (accounting for this route not getting much traffic).
A dozen QDs will be plenty, but you'll need a 70m rope or the ability to pass a knot through multiple belay devices to lower from the anchors - see unknown (Moby Grape) for further information.


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Randolph, Edmund [6 subentries]
Randolph, Elizabeth Nicholas (Mrs. Edmund Randolph) [1 reference]
Randolph, Ellen Wayles, II (TJ's granddaughter) [7 subentries]
Randolph, John (d. 1784) [1 reference]
Randolph, John (of Roanoke) [1 reference]
Randolph, Martha Jefferson (Patsy, Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph, TJ's daughter) [22 subentries]
Randolph, Mary Skipwith [1 reference]
Randolph, Richard (d. 1786) [1 reference]
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ's grandson) [10 subentries]
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Randolph, Thomas, Sr. (of Dungeness) [1 reference]
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Richard, John, Jr. [2 references]
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Richardson, Richard [14 subentries]
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Campaign for Domestic WorkersNov 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Campaigns, Domestic workers, Domestic workers are workers, Informal Economy Email This Post
Campaign for Domestic Workers
There are more than 100 million domestic workers worldwide. They are also known as 'servants', 'domestic helpers', 'nannies', 'cooks', 'housekeepers', 'cleaners', among other names. They work more than 10 hours a day in poor or slavelike conditions; most are abused, underpaid, underfed and overworked. They have no opportunities to study or develop professional skills. Domestic workers are isolated in homes of their employers and could not organise towards improving their situation. It is time the law recognise them as workers so they may enjoy labour rights such as weekly days off, fair wages, paid leaves and holidays, right to organise, occupational health and safety, social insurance.
Domestic workers are workers.
Domestic work is decent work.
Labour rights for all!
The Committee for Asian Women, Asian Domestic Workers Network and Homenet Thailand coorganised a regional conference on "Domestic Workers are Workers: Decent Work for All" on August 26-27, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. As part of the conference's campaign launching, the participants joined labour activists, NGO supporters and domestic workers in Thailand in a public action to raise the voice of domestic workers in Asia. We collected supportors' sigitures during the public action.
If you would like to support this campaign:
1) Leave your support message below this post.
2) Or sign up to Domestic Workers are Workers campaign website to support.
3) If you use Facebook, you can also join our facebook group "domestic workers are workers" to support and receive updates.
—- We will compile the signitories collected from both internet campaign and onsite public actions. The sigitories will be presented with appeal letters by the end of 2008 to governments in 7 countries/areas in Asia* to advocate legistration to protect domestic workers' rights.
* 7 countries/areas in Asia: Thailand, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal.


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The future was being modeled on both sides of the massive steel fence erected around the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown
Since the
The corporate agenda of NAFTA and related globalization treaties is demonstrated most famously by the case of MTBE, a gasoline additive that causes severe damage to human health and the environment. When
The FTAA, modeled after NAFTA, was originally intended to create a borderless trade zone that would encompass the whole hemisphere (except, of course, for
And it's the fact that even the richest nations — the United States and the European Union — won't live up to their own rhetoric of capitalism without borders that trips up the globalization agendas they pursue. Both maintain high agricultural subsidies that undermine the ability of poorer nations to generate export-crop income or in some cases — as with corn in
The Clinton administration genuinely believed in the corporate internationalism that the word 'globalization' stands for, and the FTAA talks were first launched by Clinton nine years ago. If there's one thing to be grateful to the Bush junta for, it's their commitment to a narrowly defined national self-interest that makes their pursuit of globalization pretty indistinguishable from old-fashioned colonialism: you open your borders to our products and principles, perhaps after a little arm-twisting, and then we'll pretty much do whatever we want. This is much the same screw-the-world-community policy that made Bush and Co. disregard the UN Security Council and world opinion to pursue the current war in
Cancun was a watershed victory because more than twenty nations in the global south, led by Brazil, stood up to the US and the EU, urged on by the activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which were part of the continuum of conversation there. In
The war at home
It's popular to say that corporate globalization is war by other means, but what went down in
For months beforehand, Police Chief John Timoney — engineer of the coup against constitutional rights at the 2000 Republican National Convention when he headed
Perhaps the silliest example of the paranoiac reaction to the arrival of protestors was the removal of all coconuts from downtown
One of the most explicit ways the FTAA policing was modeled after "the war on terror" abroad was the police decision to "embed" reporters. While a number of reporters — looking dorky in their borrowed helmets — joined the
Many activists in the streets said that one of the functions of this
The war of the possible worlds
Thursday, November 20, was like a day out of the science fiction movies I grew up on, the ones where the world we know is in ruins and guerrilla war rages in the rubble.
Thursday morning the city was abandoned but for those 2,500 cops and an approximately equivalent number of activists. We've seen the world
The police — except for a squadron of bare-kneed bicycle cops — were in full riot gear: black helmets with visors, black body armor that protected limbs, crotches and torso, combat boots. All seemed to carry long wooden clubs and many had the rifles that fire "sublethal" rubber bullets, beanbags and other projectiles capable of causing severe injury — and even death. Four years before, in
Some activists were picked off or hassled long before they got to the site of the early-morning demonstration. More police were waiting for us when we got there, ranks of cops, two or three thick, blocking off streets, clubs clutched ready for action. Periodically they would move in and herd us in yet another direction, and they never let us get near the steel fence that steelworkers shouting against the FTAA had marched past the afternoon before. Sometimes they would come out clubbing and shooting. Local television claimed that activists threw smoke bombs at the police, but what they videotaped was activists lobbing back the tear-gas canisters that had been fired at us.
At midmorning, when it looked like they might surround us and engage in wholesale arrests, I escorted a noncitizen out of the last possible exit from the scene. Another member of our group, a professor with a bandage around his head — he'd been clubbed from behind and bled profusely — joined us, and we stayed on the sidelines until the permitted march of perhaps 10,000 union members came by at noon on its way through the abandoned city and then back to the safety zone of a rented arena.
As the unions dispersed, the violence resurfaced. Puffs of tear-gas rose up from the crowd in the distance. The helicopters roared overhead, the only machine sound on that day when cars had been shut out of the central city but for the occasional police vans and buses bringing reinforcements or hauling away the arrested. What looked like an amphibious tank rolled around in front of the steel fence. Snatch squads moved into the crowd to seize individuals. A few vultures had circled the skyscrapers in the morning, and by mid-afternoon there must have been fifty of them, a flock of black carrion-eaters soaring sometimes above, sometimes below the level of the helicopters.
The police rushed the crowd again, becoming so violent that the activists splintered into small groups fleeing north into Overtown, an African-American neighborhood of lush vacant lots, boarded-up buildings, affable people out on the streets, and evident destitution. Sirens screamed past us and small groups were pounced upon or hunted further from downtown. My group was carrying a number of huge puppets that had been used in the morning's procession and, weary, we came to stop under a row of street trees where we wouldn't be so visible to the helicopters hovering low for surveillance. Just this kind of hiding and being hunted made it clear that what was going on was warfare of a sort. This day, more than a hundred would be injured, twelve hospitalized, and more than 200 arrested.
Later that night people would be pulled out of their cars at gunpoint or stopped on the street for no particular reason — not just the young but ministers, middle-aged NGO workers, anyone and everyone. And the next day, more than fifty more activists were arrested in a peaceful vigil outside the jail, where many of the previously arrested languished. "They were surrounded by riot police and ordered to disperse," reported organizers. "As they did, police opened fire and blocked the streets preventing many from leaving. We are now receiving reports from people being released or calling from jail that there is excessive brutality, sexual assault and torture going on inside. People of color, queer and transgender prisoners are particularly being targeted." Sunday many of those arrested were released.
The visionary slogan of the antiglobalization movement is "Another world is possible." This time around some of the steelworkers had the slogan emblazoned across the backs of their royal-blue union t-shirts. What we don't talk about so much is that many worlds are possible, and some of them are hell.
After the Black Bloc of young anarchist activists first made its presence known by smashing up the windows of Niketown, Starbucks and a few other downtown
Cancun was another miracle, notable for the fluid circulation of passion and politics between the developing nations that stood up to the United States and the European Union, the NGO activists who were both inside at the Ministerial and outside in the streets, and the street activists, who included Yucatan and Korean farmers and a fair representation of the rest of the world from Canada to Africa. As in
The street activists in
Uprisings, protest, civil disobedience — the stuff in the street — still matter, even though they don't change the world every time. Sometimes it's just an exercise of democracy and bravado, exercise in the sense of maintaining the strength and ability to intervene at a time when it will count. A month ago, Bolivians in the streets and roads of their own nation forced the resignation of their millionaire president, who was trying to export the impoverished nation's resources. An insurgent spirit and direct action are radicalizing
Rebecca Solnit's most recent book is River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, though her 1994 Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West has the most civil disobedience in it.
Copyright C2003 Rebecca Solnit
[This article first appeared on Tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news, and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, long time editor in publishing and author of The End of Victory Culture and The Last Days of Publishing.]


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---- — Wrestling, hoops scheduled for tonight
Three separate wrestling conference tournaments and a boys basketball game are on tap for tonight, weather permitting of course.
The North Central Conference, Mid-Indiana Conference and Midwest Conference have all scheduled their wrestling tournaments for tonight.
Also, Logansport is set to travel to Lewis Cass for a boys basketball game tonight.
The Logan boys are set to host South Bend Career Academy at 6 p.m. Friday, which will be followed by the Logan girls' senior night game against Twin Lakes at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Cass youth leagueresets registration
GALVESTON — Lewis Cass Youth League has rescheduled the Galveston area registration to Feb. 15.
Registration will be at the Galveston Community Center from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Bring payment and birth certificate to registration. Registration is open for any child from any area ages 4-12. For more information call 765-438-4596.
MLB OKs protectivecaps for pitchers
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers to reduce the effects of being hit in the head by line drives.
The new hat will be available for pitchers to test during spring training on a voluntary basis. Major leaguers and minor leaguers won't be required to wear it in games this year.
The safety plates are sewn into the hat and custom fitted. They weigh an extra six to seven ounces and offer increased protection to the forehead, temples and sides of the head.
Chapman, Reds agreeon 1-year, $5M deal
CINCINNATI (AP) — Closer Aroldis Chapman agreed to a $5 million, one-year contract Tuesday, leaving the Cincinnati Reds with only starting pitcher Homer Bailey left in arbitration.
Chapman and the Reds split the difference on their arbitration figures. The club had offered $4.6 million while Chapman asked for $5.4 million.
Chapman went 4-5 with 38 saves and a 2.54 ERA in 68 appearances with 112 strikeouts in 63 2/3 innings.
Ganassi has talked to Busch about Indy
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Chip Ganassi Racing has had a preliminary discussion with Kurt Busch about running the Indianapolis 500.
Ganassi team President Steve Lauletta said Tuesday he has spoken with Busch, but the organization is not sure yet if it has the ability to field a fifth car in the May race.
Busch put his chances Monday at "70 percent" at running the 500 this year. He said his options were Andretti Autosport and one other team he declined to identify. Busch said his first choice would be to partner with Andretti because he tested with the team last season.
Michigan State outlasts Iowa in overtime
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Keith Appling scored 16 points and No. 7 Michigan State outlasted No. 15 Iowa 71-69 in overtime Tuesday night, handing the Hawkeyes their first home loss of the season.
Matt Costello had 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Spartans (19-2, 8-1 Big Ten), who avoided consecutive defeats despite missing injured starters Adreian Payne and Branden Dawson.
Devyn Marble had 21 points for Iowa (16-5, 5-3), which went without a field goal for the final 10 minutes of regulation and until the final seconds of the 5-minute overtime.


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Binary Neutron Star Collision
David Bock
NCSA Visualization and Virtual Environments
August, 1998
The Science
Computation simulating the collision of binary neutron stars.
The Scientists
Doug Swesty, NCSA
Alan Calder, NCSA
Edward Wang, NCSA
The Data
Grid: structured
Dimensions: 132x132x132
Data: scalar, log of density, 218 time steps
The Visualization
David Bock, NCSA Visualization
Neutron Star Collision - MPEG movie (2 MB)
Neutron Star Collision - MPEG movie (2 MB) - gamma-boosted
Neutron Star Collision (Run 4) - MPEG movie (3.5 MB)
Neutron Star Collision w/ Gravitational Emmissivity
Stills from the movie at different time steps:
time = 1, 25
time = 50, 100
time = 150, 200
The Implementation
Original slices (shown here with various color-mappings) through this volumetric dataset, reveal a higher density region in the center of the volume surrounded by a lower density region:
In order to represent and reveal as much of the data as possible, we would like to visualize both the higher density "interior" and lower density "exterior" regions within the same representation. To accomplish this, we would like to integrate different types of visualization primitives together in one scene -- 1) an interior color-mapped slice plane, 2) an isosurface (geometric primitive) near the boundary area between the two density regions, and 3) an accurate volume rendering of the entire region.
To accomplish this type of integration, we use Blue
Moon Rendering Toolkit (BMRT) written by Larry
Gritz. We use BMRT to render all three primitives together in
one scene. We describe the various elements below. Note the
final images are NOT composites of three renderings but rather ONE render
for the entire scene.
Volume Rendering
In order to volume render a dataset within BMRT, we need to develop a shader that will take as input the dataset and trace rays through the volume, collecting data-mapped color and opacity for the final pixel color. Here we turn to the author of BMRT, Larry Gritz, who graciously provided a shader to accomplish this functionality. We extend Larry's original shader to map the data samples within the volume to an input colormap. Thanks again to Larry for his original concepts and help in this work. Below is a sample image of the volume-rendering only with the associated colormap:
We need to shade this geometric primitive so we can see it's structure and see "through" the surface. To accomplish this, we develop a shader to generate a "halo" effect on a surface by shading the surface in regions where the surface normal is perpendicular to the light direction within a given spread region about the normal. Below is a sample image of the isosurface only shaded with this "halo" shader:
Color-mapped slice plane
We generate a standard color-mapped slice plane isolating the higher density region only. Below is the slice plane only along with the associated colormap:
Volume rendering, Isosurface, Color-mapped slice plane
In order to see the interior slice plane, we ramp down the opacity value for the "hot" white color in the volume shader colormap, combine all three primitives, and render the entire scene in BMRT:


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Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz announced today that Athletic Director John Currie has signed a contract extension through the 2018 academic year, a move that recognizes the success of the department under Currie's leadership while providing continuity as K-State surges forward toward its vision of a model intercollegiate athletics program.
Do you dream of bathing in an unending wave of college football goodness? Do you ever feel like you just see too much of your girlfriend, the sun or your Jack Russell, Bo? If so, do we have...
Thanks to the generosity and leadership of K-Staters worldwide, Kansas State officially will move forward and break ground April 28 on the West Stadium Center project at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, prior the 2012 Purple-White game. The ceremonial shovel turning, featuring President Kirk Schulz, Athletic Director John Currie, head football coach Bill Snyder and other special guests, will be approximately 11:30 a.m. on the west side of the stadium.
...and Kirk Schulz is one of the nine. Very interesting reading if you have a few hours today to set aside. And is anyone even remotely surprised that Nebraska's chancellor is one of the stick-in-the-mud administrators still illogically opposed to a playoff? Can you hear us all the way back in the 50s, Harvey?
A ceremonial groundbreaking to officially kick off the construction phase of K-State's Basketball Training Facility project will be held Saturday morning, prior to the Wildcats' basketball doubleheader, athletics department officials announced Tuesday. The public ceremony, featuring President Kirk Schulz, Athletic Director John Currie, head basketball coaches Frank Martin and Deb Patterson, and lead contributors Rand Berney, Patti Berney, Jim Johnson and Laura Johnson will begin at approximately 9:05 a.m. on the east lawn of Bramlage Coliseum, following a private program for donors to the project. Both events will be streamed live at k-statesports.com as part of the K-State All-Access platform, beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Rand and Patti Berney, of Bartlesville, Okla., have made a $5 million commitment to Kansas State University to establish the Berney Family Capital Project Fund, which was presented to President Kirk Schulz and Athletic Director John Currie at Saturday's K-State-Oklahoma State football game. The fund will provide support for the two highest-priority capital projects on K-State's Manhattan campus, and will be directed by Schulz for the renovation and maintenance of the K-State Welcome Center in Memorial Stadium and the initial construction of the K-State Basketball Training Facility.
The Big 12 Conference announced it has reached an agreement with the University of Nebraska and the University of Colorado regarding their withdrawal from the conference effective June 30, 2011, subject to final approval from the member institutions' respective governing boards. K-State President Kirk Schulz, who serves as a member of the conference board of directors, and Athletic Director John Currie are pleased with the resolution and look forward to the future of the Big 12 Conference beginning in 2011-12.
I don't normally promote the K-State Sports Extras, even though I read them every day, because I'm not a huge fan of Mark Janssen's writing style or his tendency to regurgitate stuff we already know. But this entry is pure, unadulterated Kirk Schulz, and it's absolutely worth reading. Our university is in very good hands, I believe.
Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz announced today that K-State is beginning a year-long, campus-wide effort to study its athletics program as part of the regularly scheduled NCAA Division I athletic certification process. "Specific areas the study will cover are governance and commitment to rules compliance, academic integrity, gender/diversity and student-athlete well-being," Schulz said.
"Kansas State University remains firmly committed to the Big 12 and continues to believe in the long-term viability of our league," said K-State President Kirk Schulz. "We are optimistic that this process will result in our existing membership affirming our cohesive long-term future together."
"The ranking and prestige of Kansas State University is of critical importance to our graduates as they seek jobs, our students as they apply to top tier graduate programs, our doctoral students as they look for career opportunities in the research world, and our faculty members as they compete with better funded and ranked universities on a daily basis." That's what K-State President Kirk Schulz told the students, faculty and staff as he provided details on K-State 2025, an ambitious plan to take the university to greater heights within the next 15 years. More information is available online here.
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Sports symbols and news
Most of you have already seen the photo of the kid with the Yankees cap brandishing Qaddafi's gold-plated pistol (if not, scroll down to 14:48 on the BBC 'as it happened' timeline linked above), The Latin Kings street gang has established itself in Barcelona among Dominican immigrants. They wear Los Angeles Kings and Yankees gear. And, of all things, there's a Chicago street gang called the Simon City Royals that wears (or least wore) KC Royals gear. Obviously, you can't control who buys products with your logo on them, and three-quarters of this stuff is probably pirated knock-offs rather than officially licenced products. It still makes me feel a little weird to see sports gear worn by people who have no idea what the logo means. What exactly is a Libyan guerrilla fighter doing with a Yankees cap? Have the Latin Kings ever heard of hockey? I associate Yankees caps with, like, baseball games and obnoxious fans, not with the guy who dragged Qaddafi out of his hole and grabbed his pistol. Disconcerting.


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OCEAN CITY - Many towns in South Jersey with volunteers celebrating doctor martin Luther King Junior with a day of service.
Volunteers from Campbell's Soup as well as local girl scouts concentrated on the area of 51st & Haven in Ocean City, an area that had a lot of trash and debris still left from hurricane sandy.
At Richard Stockton College in Galloway, hundreds of students volunteered in over 25 service projects both on and off campus.
Organizers of the day of service at Stockton say that this is a great way to kick off the spring semester, and with President Obama's 2nd inauguration on this special holiday, there's no better day to serve their community and country.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>


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What has been an issue for every BC basketball team, good or bad, is their lack of attendance to out-of-conference home games. With BC filling up half-full (sometimes at most) to out-of-conference home games, Coach Donahue has said that he wants to make Conte Forum a far more louder place to play than it is now. Having said that, when you look at BC's basketball schedule, there are far more home out-of-conference day games listed than night games. Here's some stats to compare this year's home schedule to last year's:
2011-2012 season
OOC Home Day Games:
Boston University
Rhode Island
OOC Home Night Games:
New Hampshire
Penn State
Stony Brook
Sacred Heart
2012-2013 Season
OOC Home Day Games:
Florida International
St. Francis (NY)
New Hampshire
Holy Cross
OOC Home Night Games:
And Coach Donahue is probably right in doing this, because BC's average attendence on out-of-conference home day games is 4,374, compared to an average attenedence of 3,553 for home night games (you can take out Harvard from that number considering that 3/4 of the sellout crowd were Harvard fans).
Go Eagles!


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with the mileage of 154,00o miles it really do more damage than good In don't know if it has ever been changed can anyone answer this I would like to do the job myself it seems simple.
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2000 Lincoln Town Car Question: I would like to change my transmission filter and add new fluid but I read that
Answer #1ziptie12 June 06, 2013, 18:19Master
As long as you're not flushing the trans with a machine it should be an improvement. Use factory filter AND fluid, NOT aftermarket!Take your time after pan removal and glean gasket surfaces(both pan and trans case as well as possible. No sealant should be necessary if factory seal is with a gasket , but if a silicone type sealant is what they use , keeping it clean and dry for assembly is extremely important to prevent future leaks. Have vin# and the number of bolts in pan info handy at dealer , may help in getting the right parts. Plenty of clean shop rags and a couple of cans of brake cleaner also.(need I add -a drain pan too?......have fun. Make sure to add fluid until the 'cold' mark when checking after and then test drive at least 5 miles and re- check on LEVEL ground , it should then be at full 'hot' mark , if not add as needed.
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