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i would cry lol i would dance and smile. i woundnt faint because i want to see every min of Trey!!!!!
definiately not faint and not go ..............i'll dance, sing, smiling from ear to ear OMG i would hope that the moment be geartfully remembered
I would be in a daze, Start crying & Def Go up there with him . Mostly i would show him all the love i have for him ! Tremaine Neverson Def Got ME Addicted !
i would enjoy it omg i can picture it now oooh just seein his sexy ass im not go lie we leavin together lol
Hey guys join the page for Trey on FB "Sometimes she call me Trey, Sometimes she say Tremaine"!!!
actually i would be shy at first but then ill sing along with him and dance with him,then afterwards ill cry because ill be real happy and satisfied
i would honestly say no at first then say yes and go up there and dance on him (grind) oh ya.... LOL and i would sing along wit him
I would enjoy the moment-I was just at his concert tonite and he pulled some female on stage and gave her a back massage. I was wishing I was that person because I would have forgot I was at a concert. lol
Well I was at trey concert last night in Memphis,TN and actually got backstage to meet him in person before the show.. And I absolutely adore him, he is very sweet and kind person. I took pictures with him with my cousins and we all took pictures by our self with him and I was so happy to finally meet him. When he hugged me i didnt want him to let me go, I really wanted a kiss but was to shy to ask...I love trey as a person, Im not like most ppl who will say they in love and never meet him before, because to feel that kind of love from a person you will have to be around them and spend time together to let that kind of love grow for one another, but as most women I will love to be the woman on his arms.. But i do think he is so dang sexy I just love his smile that is what attracts me the most then his sexy body..
Of course i would sing and dance with i would enjoy the moment of being with him....yes i know its trey we talking about but i dont want to ruin the moment by looking like a groupie....im a true fan a ride or die
Quay ... would play it off cool . There's a big difference between a " groupie " & a " fan " . And Im a FAN :) I would help him sing the song & enjoy being on stage w| Trey . Becauuse that's a once in a lifetime opportunity . So I wouldn't make myself look dumb .
i wuld be crazy not to go up there wit him! ill be dancing, singing, but i wuldnt faint cuz i might miss sumthin.teehee. i mean i wuldnt be ghetto ima hav sum class about myself tho.
I would dance with him, jus be all on him! Slip him ma business card so he can kall me! Jus sing every song wit him word for word, act like nobdy else is there but me and Trey!!!!!
Shoot if I got on stage with Trigga I would dance with/all on him him while he sings in my ear! talk about bumb and grind!!!
I am going to be at his concert on Aug. 21st in Milwaukee and My name is Jennifer and I'm brining my step daughter Hannah for her 17th Birthday. We will be sitting in row n seat 5 and 6. Please if you read these emails Trey call our names to join you on stage. You are truely amazing, not only do I love your music, I love you for being soooo real. Keep doing what your doing. Hope to meet you on the 21st. Grace and Peace.


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Well, Mr. Jeans (or may I call you Green?), I commented simply to make sure actual facts were stated about deconstruction and salvage in Buffalo, that's all. We started working together in 2006 to create an alternative to wasteful traditional demolition. Sometimes a reorganization, if you want to call it that, is necessary to continue doing the work we started out doing. We are doing exactly that.
If you think Buffalo ReUse, ReUse Action and PUSH are cults of personality, I'm afraid I'm wasting my time explaining these simple facts to you.
Am I correct in understanding that the participants in "Buffalo ReUse" have withdrawn, reorganized, and renamed themselves as "ReUse Action" ? Forgive me if I have trouble keeping track of the various "cults of personality" - which both Buffalo ReUse and (much MORE so) Aaron Bartley/PUSH appear to be.
Douglas>"Cuomo and the others will never bring Buffalo back to its glory days, … Perhaps the solution firstly rests within the voting booths,"
I voted against all of Spitzer/Paterson, Cuomo, and Brown (when he had an opponent) - but I'm under no illusion that if Governor Faso and Mayor Helfer had both won and were now in their 2nd terms that the biggest problems facing Buffalo would be noticeably much less than now. Some things would likely be better for both state & city, but not dramatically different.
Btw - I'd ask the following, but someone who comments here doesn't like it when I ask anyone for specifics. It's unfair somehow. So feel free to ignore questions.
I'm curious, who would you prefer be elected as gov (since you criticized the voters and Cuomo by name), and what big problems of Buffalo's would improve if that person was gov?
Would you have preferred for Buffalo's sake if voters elected Faso instead of Spitzer in 2006? Or would you like for Spitzer to get another chance as gov? Or Golisano? Bloomberg? Rudy? Lazio? How about Chuck Schumer as gov instead of senator?
(or do you include Spitzer & Schumer as among officials who don't understand how deep Buffalo's problems are?)
Who'd be better than Cuomo, and in what ways? It isn't meant as a gotcha question - it's just that you pointed to the voting booth as the root cause, and yet I don't know which different approach you think the voters who you criticized should prefer.
If Buffalo and NYS officials are truly in denial, can you point to any positive examples where some other place's officials got real results by better admitting problems? What are real signs of success in those places? I think the frequent praise for Youngstown, OH is more for creativity and good intentions than for any real results so far. Same for Detroit, to some extent.
Douglas>"I encourage you to … analyze your city from beyond the confines of an online forum."
And I encourage you to not be so snotty and condescending as to assume I don't. Then again, my first comment to you was rude too, so maybe we're even that way. Fair enough.
Douglas>"If Buffalo's elected officials truly understood the state of their city, wouldn't their efforts be more effective?"
Nope, not necessarily. Many factors can affect the degree of effectiveness.
Sometimes officials might truly understand the state of their city and honestly predict some efforts will be effective to improve it, but results of their efforts don't turn out that way. I think this is probably what's most common - well meaning mistakes or cluelessness or positives outweighed by unintended negatives. The "$1 billion" plan will likely turn out some example of this, but we'll see what happens with that.
Other times, they might truly understand the state of their city, but prioritize interests of themselves, their party, or friends ahead of what's most effective. ("Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.", as Homer would say.)
Beyond those, there's also times when Buffalo's elected officials don't have the power to change some things even if they really knew what was best. For example, NY state-level decisions/laws that can do more harm than good, or private sector decisions of businesses & individuals - like those who choose burbs or another state for reasons sometimes nothing to do with City Hall, or decide to drop out of school, or to have multiple babies before age 20, or to close down a steel plant, or to not put some new factory here, or… on and on).
Sure, some govt policies can affect those, but not always. Even when so, often it isn't unanimous which policies will have desired effects. That doesn't necessarily mean the officials are in denial about the problems. Just look at how many conflicting views are often expressed on this blog if you read it, or if not in the Buffalo News comments.
Douglas>"neither will the cynicism that saturates attitudes such as yours"
You sound as cynically saturated too, just in different ways, when saying none of them "understand" the state of the city as well as you do.
Dear Whatever,
I encourage you to step back from the misgivings of the region's failing officials, and analyze your city from beyond the confines of an online forum.
If Buffalo's elected officials truly understood the state of their city, wouldn't their efforts be more effective? Like countless other city governments, Buffalo's municipality has failed to find an alternative solution for the problems that have plagued its urban landscape all these years. Cuomo and the others will never bring Buffalo back to its glory days, and neither will the cynicism that saturates attitudes such as yours.
Perhaps the solution firstly rests within the voting booths, and electing an administration that is constructive in both its actions and words. Something you could take a lesson in, no?
Douglas>"unfit for a city that has failed to recognize the declining of its own population and economy"
Huh? "failed to recognize"? Are you new around here?
The decline is endlessly "recognized" and frequently discussed-debated-anaylyzed, not only here in blogs but also in local MSM, national MSM, by city and state govts, in people's conversations all over the place, every day, been going on many years. Even Gov Cuomo is going around recently to other Upstate NY cities telling them how worse off Buffalo is than they are. (That part is arguable, IMO, but anyhow he's been saying that.)
If you really think you're among an elite few who recognize the declining, then you're failing to recognize how much you're stating the obvious.
Douglas>"Buffalo has devolved into a shrinking city, waiting for a reawakening that may never come."
What's internet for "Stop the presses!"? Maybe Garfield can help.
However abstract this diagram may be, it emphasizes a history of socio-economic mistakes that were made on a range of national, state, and municipal levels. As a result, cities like Buffalo (Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Rochester, etc.) are living within a structural terrain no longer fit for its own surroundings.
Little evidence points to potential re-growth, leaving in question the welfare of structural and infrastructural remains. While preservation and conservation efforts present an idealized solution for the city's existing fabric, these efforts are unfit for a city that has failed to recognize the declining of its own population and economy. Those who left Buffalo now reside either in fully autonomous townships or in states which encourage business growth through tax incentives, as a redevelopment of existing structures for re-inhabitance will likely never occur. As a result, Buffalo has devolved into a shrinking city, waiting for a reawakening that may never come.
Waiting for state and federal legislation to right Buffalo's ship is not only naive, but also fails to find a solution within the city's existing conditions. Because these cities exist within a larger paradigm of financial transition, one in which shrinking municipal economies are rarely included, Buffalo's greatest potential therefore rests within a re-use and recycling of its own resources (e.g. structural deconstruction, secondary usage of existing housing, or temporary use of unused property parcels).
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Let's see, try a visually attractive and new display of information, or just whine and complain that anything new and different is stupid and wrong... what to do, what to do...
Probably the worst example of data presentation ever. There is a reason why this is probably the last time you'll see something like this and what is has never caught on:
It's called a divided bar graph. One of the main rules when producing graphs and charts and maps is not how cool it looks or what its telling the reader, it's cognition and comprehension and this fails miserably. Anything that can't be understood almost instanteously is useless. Looks cool, sure, but cognitively it's trash. Epic fail.
A divided bar graph with time in decades on the x-axis and population on the y-axis with the bars properly divided and labeled can tell the same story, even the infrastructure info.
no, just spiraling out of control as usual.
The best reuse of building parts is to leave them intact and rehabilitate the building. Dismantlement and reuse is a poor second.
And, by the way, Buffalo ReUse is no longer doing deconstruction and not, to my knowledge, doing any salvage either. All founding employees and the entire team of skilled green demo'ers left Buffalo ReUse by May 2011. That team, the people who performed the Extreme Makeover demolition in 2009, is now working at ReUse Action, which is the only green demolition contractor in WNY.
Douglas - a provocative and thoughtful post. Thanks.
To your question regarding the quarrying of stuff from the Brecker Building at 630 High Street. Your question is spot on. Unfortunately the answer is no. The prismatic panes in the Brecker's transom windows are exquisite. The railing systems adorning the sweeping staircases, sublime. The Brecker's south facing fenestration - off the hook, gorgeous.
Why is the answer still, no - after years of Buffalo ReUse raising the bar and increasing awareness about the reuse of these architectural treasures.
Are there answers? Anyone?
Shut down and returned to forest, eh. That's a rather radical statement, even on this site.
Where is your 60% vacant land figure coming from?
Buffalo is 60% vacant land and growing with continued demolitions (even though some buildings are getting saved.
The city needs to invest money in relocating buildings.
The most intact area of Buffalo is between Niagara and Main, though one could add Hamlin, Humboldt and Masten which are east of Main. These areas can be preserved by moving buildings from the eastside to the westside achieving infill.
The eastside than then be converted to park, farm, warehouse/industry or shut down and returned to forest.
I think you left out 4 lane expressway development - usually through minority neighborhoods - and the subsequent movement of those minority populations into new neighborhoods that then caused white flight by the old neighborhood residents and redlining for the new neighborhood residents. I believe that was the way it played out in the Fruit Belt, Cold Springs, Masten Park and Hamlin Park.
I think you left out 4 lane expressway development - usually through minority neighborhoods - and the subsequent movement of those minority populations into new neighborhoods that then caused white flight by the old neighborhood residents and redlining for the new neighborhood residents. I believe that was the way it played out in the Fruit Belt, Cold Springs, Masten Park and Hamlin Park.
If ever this site needed to caption in order to... Who is the artist that created that ingeniously contrived and visually gorgeous pie chart???
so the picture says we're going down the drain?


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What to Expect From a Wide Format Training Program.
Knowledge is power, as Francis Bacon famously observed. In wide format digital printing, knowledge is not only power, but profits. Digital printing is a complex enterprise and those who know more tend to earn more.
The question is, where to acquire such knowledge? Wide format manufacturers and dealers offer a variety of training options for new and existing customers�anything from a six-hour set-up and product run-through, to more intensive hands-on courses taught on-site or at the manufacturer�s facilities. The intensity, scope, duration, location, and cost of training varies widely among manufacturers and their reseller partners. For businesses considering their first wide format printer, it�s especially important to consider how much�and what kind�of hand holding comes with the price of the printer and what you might need to pay extra for. It�s also important to size up ancillary help�particularly online and phone support�that will be available to you when your personal training ends.
Most printer makers note that their customers typically desire hands-on RIP, profile, and color management training. As such, vendors devote the bulk of their training resources to addressing these issues, alongside the more routine topics of printer maintenance and basic operation. But many businesses are also interested in learning how to accomplish specific applications�like vehicle wraps or fine art reproductions�and so vendors, dealers, and media manufacturers will offer training programs to meet these needs as well.
While you can�t put an exact dollar figure on knowledge, consider the following. If you know the proper operation and maintenance of your printer, you�re likely to avoid incorrectly loading media, and risk jamming the machine and incurring production delays. You�ll suffer less downtime from preventable breakdowns.
"In some sense it�s like a car," says Richard Codos, executive director, North American Development for Leggett & Platt Digital Technologies, Inc. "If you change the oil and give it a tune-up, you�ll avoid a lot of preventable problems down the road."
More importantly, a higher level understanding of RIP software and color management will boost the quality of your output, reduce the number of re-dos, and give you a competitive edge.
"It�s the difference between just using the same settings for everything and really making these machines sing," says Gil Richardson, manager of VUTEk training and documentation, EFI, Inc.
Purchasing a wide format printer is a substantial investment, and should be matched by an investment in human capital, states Frank Tueckmantel, director, VUTEk training, education, and events services, EFI, Inc. "You�ve spent a lot of money on the printer, you shouldn�t try to save it on the personnel side."
Agfa�s director of educational services, Brian Kirkham, agrees. "You have to look at training as an investment in your people and your business."
That�s why it�s important to pay attention to where you direct that investment. Training multiple employees and particularly those who are likely to stay with you for the long term will ensure that your investment is not squandered.
School�s InSince a significant chunk of wide format printers are purchased through dealers, and not direct from the manufacturer, your first point of instruction will likely be through your dealer. Manufacturers train their resellers extensively and expect that knowledge to be passed onto the customer, usually when the printer is delivered and installed. At that point, the dealer will typically go through the basics of setting up, running, cleaning, and maintaining the printer and leave instructional materials�DVDs, manuals, online resources, and phone numbers�for use. How long a dealer stays at your facility depends on how much hand-holding you require, how the dealer chooses to approach installation and setup, and whether you�ve bundled additional training into the cost of your printer. Some resellers include training fees as a line item on your purchase that can be negotiated away during bargaining.
Agfa uses its own staff of trainers and color management consultants to offer on-site training, the price of which is wrapped into the cost of the devices, Kirkham says. For those purchasing a wide format proofer, a single day will cost $1,600, with travel and lodging expenses paid by Agfa. For training in color management and device/media profiling, the cost is $2,000, although costs are variable based on the amount of training purchased, Kirkham adds.
Gandinnovations will provide a week of free on-site training for its customers with the company�s own employees, says Shamez Asaria, assistant service manager/technical trainer, Gandinnovations. The course covers printer operation, calibration, RIP training, profiling, color management, and basic technical issues.
Hewlett-Packard (HP), which sells its wide format printer through both resellers and directly, offers training through both channels. For HP direct customers, a hands-on, on-site training and installation service could last up to two days, according to Sandy Gramley, business manager, Designjet Category, HP. The price of the training is wrapped into the cost of the device and will depend on the length of the session. Users also receive a DVD video. Gramley adds that HP works closely with third party consultants and other companies who offer training as a, "core competency."
Kodak offers customers support through its resellers and more extensive one-on-one training through its own personnel, says Rod Eslinger, product application engineer/technical trainer, Kodak Graphics Communications Group. Operator training is available for $500 for two hours at the customers� location or a full day of training with RIP installation for $1,250.
Leggett & Platt Digital Technologies, Inc. (L&P) hosts a 40-hour free course in its Sunrise, FL location. Classes are held whenever registration reaches capacity, usually once a month, Codos says. Classes are broken down into four general areas�theory, hands-on operator training, RIP training, and service training. "We like to stress �the more the merrier�," Codos continues. "It�s important to have several people on a staff attend training, so it�s not just on a single person responsible for remembering everything."
Mutoh America offers two days worth of training, performed by their dealers, mostly on application issues, says Randy Rickert, director of sales and marketing, Mutoh America. For RIP help, Mutoh refers customers to the software vendor. "We�re gearing our efforts for a happier experience for newer users so training is a big part of that," Rickert adds.
Oc� North America offers an on-site program using Oc� employees to train up to four users for $1,450 a day. The company has 20 dedicated training personnel spread through the U.S. with five devoted strictly to color management issues, says Kirk Levis, director of education management, Oc�.
Outside of an initial walk-through at installation, Roland hosts several two-day Roland University courses in Irvine, CA on a quarterly basis. Costs vary by course and printer model, though the company is also breaking out courses by application as well, states Tony Miller, product manager, Technical Services, Roland.
Finally, EFI, Inc. offers three course options for their VUTEk printer customers, all of which are free of charge and hosted at the company�s Meredith, NH location. One week-long course covers the basic printer and RIP operation, the second is a three-day advanced maintenance course, and the third is a three-day advanced RIP and profile creation class. "We like to keep the class size small, no more than six or eight people," Richardson adds.
Hard SoftwareFrom file receipt, to color management and RIP software, the software side of the printing process is often the most daunting component of a user�s workflow.
"You can spend 90 percent of your time on ten percent of your job," Levis says.
"Most inkjet and solvent printers are not terribly complex devices," Gramley observes. "But taking advantage of their advanced capabilities, like ink limiting, networking, layout, etc., requires guidance."
Producing high quality digital output is all about control. The more variables you manage, the better the final print. Of course, it�s impossible to control everything which is why it�s important to ensure that, "you�re bringing good data to the printer," Miller says. "We have a closed loop system, but we can�t control where files come from. The early hiccups usually start there."
"We find that people do struggle with RIP software and we spend a lot of time on RIP training" Asaria observes "We approach the course as if people have never seen a RIP before, we cover a lot of basics."
One key, says Asaria, is understanding how the RIP and your printer work together. "There are some files that some RIPs can�t handle, and you need to know what�s going to work and what won�t."
A common mistake is simply choosing the wrong profile for certain media, Levis says. "You want to keep your profile names simple," and double check to be sure you�re using the right one.
Kodak offers basic RIP training for users of its wide format printers, "teaching what impacts what," says Eslinger. A second tier of training will bring a Kodak agent to your door for more thorough training.
Many users underestimate the capabilities of their RIP, Tueckmantel observes. "They don�t get enough productivity out of it or they don�t get enough color."
Most printer vendors offer basic RIP training when the printer is installed. Some vendors, like Roland and EFI, offer their own RIP products and can provide more in-depth training directly. Others, like HP and L&P recommend that their customers contact the RIP maker directly for more advanced training.
Making the Most of Your MediaSome manufacturers will make product recommendations during a training course, particularly if it touches on specific applications like vehicle wraps, where the vendor has a harmonious offering. Users will be trained on a printer using the vendor�s own products and given profiles for their most common media. Some third party media manufacturers provide their own training courses as well.
Regardless of how much guidance you�ll be given on specific brands, one of the most important media factors to consider�outside of basic compatibility with your printer�is whether it�s been profiled for your printer, vendors say. Manufacturers are spending increasing amounts of time generating and publishing profiles for their printers and media lines and assisting customers in creating profiles for unique media. For vendors that offer both media and printer, it�s viewed as a competitive advantage to have a tightly integrated solution with all the necessary profiles available from a single source.
If you use media from third party suppliers, often an on-site trainer can assist you in profiling your most commonly used media. Agfa�s paid training service, for instance, features a full day�s worth of profiling, Kirkham says.
If you�re struggling with color matching on a particularly unique piece of media, many vendors will offer free phone support.
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"I'm here for ya'll tonight," said Drizzy, who wore a blue Versace shirt, gold chain, and peach-colored glasses. "If you want to drink, if you want to dance, if you want to party—ladies, if you want to fuck, I'm 'bout whatever. I turned 25 and I just want to thank each and every one of you for coming out tonight. I appreciate it. Let's have some fun."
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While winter overseeding of bermudagrass putting greens, tees and fairways at courses throughout Florida has declined over the past several years, it is still a practice that is used. Overseeding with cool season turf species such as Poa trivialis and perennial ryegrasses in the mid- to late fall ensures that a green, actively growing turf cover is present during the time when peak seasonal play is being hosted and the base bermuda is in a semi- to fully dormant stage. Yet, with establishment of an overseeding cover, additional competition and stresses are exerted on the base bermudagrass. This in turn increases the potential for areas of weak and thin turf coverage to be exposed and deterioration in the overall quality of overseeded areas during the transition process that occurs in the spring to early summer. As discussed in the webcast, Winter Overseeding Transition Management, employing a proactive program during the spring is recommended to minimize the occurrence of the "transition blues." However, the weather will always be a controlling factor and to date, weather conditions in Florida have not been conducive to accomplishing a smooth and gradual transition back to a dense and healthy stand of bermudagrass.
Similar to other regions of the country, a cool and prolonged spring has been experienced in Florida during 2013. The combination of daytime temperatures staying in the low to mid-80's, low relative humidity and timely rainfall has been very favorable to cool-season turf growth. Thus, even in South Florida, it is being found that 40 to 60 percent ryegrass coverage still exists in fairways at the end of May. Typically by this time the transition out of overseeding cover has been completed in South Florida. Along with a moderate to high percentage of the overseeding cover hanging on, temperatures have not been sufficiently hot enough to support resumption of sustained active bermudagrass growth. At a couple of courses recently visited, where chemical transition aid herbicide treatments had been conducted, the base bermuda has been very slow to fill in and this has further added to the challenge of providing acceptable playing and aesthetic characteristics.
To ensure that the base bermuda of overseeded putting greens, tees and fairways is able to fully recover from the cumulative negative impacts of this practice, at least 90 to 100 days without competition is needed. Thus, completing the transition out of the overseeding cover as quickly as possible is critical over the next several weeks using a combination of mechanical and chemical treatments plus adequate fertilization and irrigation to support good bermudagrass growth. A more aggressive proactive management program may not reduce the severity of the transition blues, but will certainly shorten the time that they must be tolerated.
An additional pest concern that has been encountered over the past few weeks is bermudagrass mites. A couple of years ago it was noted that an increased incidence of bermudagrass mite damage was being observed on courses around the region. Typically, mite activity is greater during the late spring to early summer and when hot and dry conditions are prevailing. Mites are very tiny (about 1/130 of an inch long) insects that live under the leaf sheath of bermudagrass. Thus, identification in the field is quite difficult and they are also protected from contact insecticide treatments. Infested areas typically first exhibit a light green to yellow color. This is followed by a shortening of leaves and internodes that results in a tufted or witches broom appearance. Depending on the situation, it is sometimes recommended to mow as low as possible or scalp infested areas, followed by collecting and removing the grass clippings to reduce mite populations. Chemical controls recommended by the University of Florida include bifenthrin, deltamethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin. It is also recommended to include a wetting agent in the tank mix to improve application coverage. Repeat treatments can be necessary. Proper fertilization and irrigation will facilitate recovery from mite damage.
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This commitment has led to the creation of extensive golf-focused STEM teaching tools, and has resulted in charitable contributions to support golf-related
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At U.S. Open Championships the Chevron STEM ZONE™ is an interactive experience highlighting the science and math behind the game of golf through a variety of hands-on exhibits and experiments.
The partnership has also produced educational materials such as the Science of Golf video series and a nationally-distributed newspaper insert which are provided to teachers as tools to enhance existing curriculum in schools. These lessons teach the science behind the USGA's equipment testing, handicapping, and agronomy efforts.
For more interactive experiences featuring golf-focused STEM lessons, visit the partnership homepage.
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IBM provides the information technology to develop and host the U.S. Open's official website, www.usopen.com, as well as the mobile apps and scoring systems for the three U.S. Open championships. These real-time technology solutions provide an enhanced experience for fans following the championship onsite and online.
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Honestly, the thought of writing about food right now is almost as unappealing as the thought of eating it, which is a slight problem when you're doing a challenge like the Whole30.
I've had several people ask if I plan to continue for the full 30 days now that I'm pregnant, and right now my answer is yes. I'm confident that the food choices I'm making are better for me and the baby than toast, oodles o' noodles and chocolate (which is what I'd probably be eating otherwise), even if I'm choosing blander meals with less variety right now.
That said, my morning sickness is increasing at an alarming rate, and the only good news is that my challenge should end before I get to the 8-week mark, which is when things typically get really bad for me.
My goal right now is to keep eating greens (for this, smoothies are a lifesaver!), to continue avoiding the "banned" ingredients (grains, legumes, dairy and sugar) and to not worry as much about whether my meals are perfectly balanced. I'm also allowing myself to eat smaller portions and then choose healthy snacks between meals to make sure I'm getting enough calories and nutrients.
To be clear, I'm not clinging to the challenge just for the sake of saying I did it, but because I really want to do this pregnancy differently and walking away now would put me right back into all of my old habits!
So with that out of the way, here's what I've eaten the past two days. Sadly, it's not all that exciting, and I often leave some of my veggies uneaten because I can only stomach so many at a time.
Monday {3/4/13}
Breakfast: Aidells chicken & apple sausage, sauteed bell pepper sticks and blueberry-cashew salad topped with coconut milk and ginger
Lunch: egg & spicy pork sausage scramble plus a spinach-pineapple smoothie.
Snack: chocolate-almond laraballs
Dinner: almond-encrusted chicken, sweet potato hashbrowns and sauteed zucchini
Tuesday {3/5/13}
Breakfast: Aidells chicken & apple sausage, sweet potato hashbrowns and blueberry-cashew salad topped with coconut milk and ginger
Lunch: egg & spicy pork sausage scramble plus a spinach-pineapple smoothie
Dinner: broiled shrimp, carrot fries and roasted brussel sprouts with onions
Snack: banana with almond butter, cacao nibs and coconut chips


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"You can see for yourselves. She is a god. A god who does not know she is a god."When some form of spiritual being, or deity, becomes encased in a mortal shell, usually causing them to have no or limited access to their powers...sometimes of their own design, sometimes forced upon them. Of course, any example of this trope would be justified in saying "A God Am I", without the usual implications of megalomania. That said, many go the other route and say "A God I Am Not" due to their new proximity to mortality and humanity. May or may not be accompanied with the loss of their memories of godly life. This is often justified as them wanting to better understand the lives of mortals, thus living a mortal life without remembering their Godhood. In that case they may simply appear as a fully grown adult with no memory or past, or they may actually be born into a human family and live a seemingly average life. As such, their human forms may often have a very different personality, and on occasion even alignment, from their True Self. For example, a villain could very well live their human life as a pure and chaste paragon of heroism, but return to villainy upon awakening. And a benevolent deity could very easily be a thuggish Jerk Ass. Although overall, it is more common for benign gods to be good people, and malevolent deities to be bad people. Killing the human form of the god, if it's possible, probably won't actually kill the god. Usually, it actually restores them to their former divine power and memories. Note that despite the title, this isn't restricted to humans, it can include aliens and the like as well. As the Greek philosopher Xenophanes said: "If horses had gods, they would look like horses!" Often referred to as an avatar, after the Hindu religious term, but the word has gotten a little bit too commonplace to use as a trope name. When the character is not a god but is merely pretending to be one, the trope is God Guise. Compare Physical God, A Form You Are Comfortable With, I Am Who?, Angel Unaware and Deity of Human Origin. Also see God Test. A Human Am I is a subtrope (related to Amnesiac God), where a character is convinced they are human as a result of the loss of memories. Its "Playing With Trope" page is currently under construction.
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At our Dreamland Festival in May, one of the main things we're going to investigate are the mysterious sounds that are being heard all around the world. Some of them are "booms" so loud they set off car alarms (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Others sound more like groans or horns.
No one has yet figured out what is doing this, but there are lots of theories around. Physicist Jean-Pierre St. Maurice thinks it could be electromagnetic noise emitted from auroras and radiation belts. Seismologist Brian W Stump says that earthquakes can also produce sub-audible sounds (Subscribers can still lisen to this show too).
There's no question that the earth is noisy--the question is, why are so many people hearing those noises now? In the Daily Mail, Ted Thornhill writes that, according to NASA, the Earth has "natural radio emissions," but since we don't have antennas on our heads, we can't hear them. But if we could , we would hear "a remarkable symphony of strange noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them 'tweeks,' 'whistlers' and 'sferics.' Earth's natural radio emissions are real and, although we're mostly unaware of them, they are around us all the time."
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City of Cincinnati, Department of Community Development - Housing Division
The City of Cincinnati will accept applications on Monday, December 3rd for the 2012 Fall NOFA. This NOFA process will award available funds to projects that promote homeownership and mixed-use projects with a housing component. The NOFA will also fund elderly, transitional and permanent supportive housing projects that are not eligible for the Rental Rehabilitation Program.
Estimated Funds allocated for the Fall 2012 NOFA are as follows:
Community Development Block Grant- $500,000
HOME Investment Partnership Program- $1,000,000
City Capital- $1,000,000
Priority will be given to homeownership projects located in the Neighborhood Enhancement Program Areas that rehabilitate vacant buildings or produce infill units. For an application and for more information visit: www.cincinnati-oh.gov or call the Department of Community Development at (513) 352-6146.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON DECEMBER 3, 2012 at 4:00p.m.
Applications must be submitted to:
Department of Community Development
805 Central Ave., Suite 700
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Please contact the Department of Community Development with questions at 513-352-6146.
2012 NOFA Application
Note: All applications must be typed.
Announcement: 10/1/12
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Beekeeping is a challenging vocation; recognizing and diagnosing honeybee disease is important to maintaining healthy bee hives and beekeepers have a responsibility to understand basic bee biology as well as have the ability to recognize the diseases that can afflict honey bees.
For the second consecutive year, the NY Bee Wellness Workshops offered in conjunction with the Empire State Honey Producers Association (ESHPA.org) have offered intensive, two-day workshops covering basic beekeeping skills and hands-on demonstrations.
Led by a team of nine bee experts with the workshops are designed to explain how to identify and treat the diseases that most commonly afflict honey bees. Diseases such as varroa mites, a parasite; nosema — an intestinal fungal type disease and the American Foul Brood, which is a highly contagious spore forming disease, this is a reportable disease with no true cure, all threaten the wellbeing of honey bees.
The workshops are designed, "to teach beekeepers techniques in diagnosing, treating, and preventing honey bee diseases," Pat Bono, Project Director, NY Bee Wellness Workshops.
The workshops are funded in part by USDA NIFA Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development Program grant with matching funds from the Empire State Honey Producers Association. The wellness workshops are part of a three year train-the-trainer project. Continue reading
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Cap and Trade Reduces Pollution No Matter Who Gets the Permits
"Cap and Trade Reduces Pollution No Matter Who Gets the Permits"
There's a somewhat unfortunate strain of left-wing criticism of cap-and-trade that seems based largely on not understanding how cap-and-trade actually works. Paul Krugman, for example, today notes that the great climate scientist James Hansen seems to have a number of erroneous views on this subject.
One point that I think deserve special emphasis, because I've spoken to many people who are confused about it, is that the point needs to be made that in terms of environmental impact, it doesn't matter who you give carbon permits too. When the government sets a cap on carbon dioxide emissions, the overwhelming environmentally relevant issue is just "how low is the cap." Everything beyond that is about money and economics, don't environment and the atmosphere. The reason is that once you cap emissions, the right to emit becomes a valuable thing. If the government auctions off the permits, then the government gets the money and can spend it on something useful. If the government gives the permits away to me, then I'm going to sell them and get rich. If the government gives the permits away to polluters, then some polluters will keep on polluting just as they would under the auction scenario, except they'll be spared the cost of actually buying the permit. And other polluters are going to realize that the cost of reducing pollution is less than the money they can earn by selling permits.
However you do it, pollution is reduced. If the cap is aggressive, it's reduced a lot. If the cap is timid, it's reduced a little. The allocation of permits is an issue of who bears the costs of reducing pollution, it has nothing to do with the extent of the pollution reduction. In general, auctioning the permits is more economically efficient and thus a generally better idea, but it's a total wash environmentally. The fact that some politically powerful subset of polluters may reap a financial reward is unfortunate, but not actually relevant to the climate issue.


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July 3, 2013
By Doug Carroll
GCU News Bureau
There can't be too many theologians who started out as artists, but Grand Canyon University has one in its midst.
He's Dr. Jason Hiles, the University's new dean of the College of Theology, and he says the gap between sculpture and Scripture isn't as wide as you might think.
|"I'm fascinated by how the church engages the culture," Hiles says, "and the arts are an area where ideas are exchanged constantly. A lot of communication in the culture is visual, a series of images.
"Some Christians look down on images as a portal to sin, but that's not what the Bible teaches."
Hiles arrived on campus this week to begin his new position after serving as associate dean of the Caskey School of Divinity at Louisiana College in Pineville, La. He says that if the disciples had had cameras or smartphones available, we'd have an abundance of photos of Jesus.
"We're created in the image of God," Hiles says. "We reflect something of His glory. The Bible talks about who He is, and it's woven into who we are."
Hiles, 38, grew up in small-town Missouri, working at the lumber yard his father managed and playing sports. At an early age, he took an interest in art that was nurtured by his teachers in school.
While earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts, specializing in sculpture, from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, he felt that he was being called into ministry. He has a master of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.
His doctoral dissertation focused on the use of visual images in the church.
"A conservative Christian might think of images as out of bounds," Hiles says. "But God is saying to make images. We're just not to bow down to them."
Bart Walker, senior pastor of Kingsville Baptist Church in Ball, La., has known Hiles for more than four years and describes him as "a premium find" for GCU.
"His balance of theology, administrative ability and the ability to teach is unmatched," says Walker, who has teamed up with Hiles on mission trips to Ecuador. "Few have all three of those things.
"He can think on his feet. And what he understands and has read, he can call it up and communicate it even to a 4-year-old so that they will understand it.... Students were nuts about him at Louisiana College."
Hiles and his wife, Jennifer, have three children, and the oldest two have been pestering their father to teach them to draw. His creative side comes out in various forms around their home.
"Most of the decorations in our home are things I've made," Hiles says. "I do elaborate birthday cakes. That's my outlet."
He's already working on a design for the College of Theology that he says will reach out in a big way to local churches.
"I'm still trying to wrap my mind around Grand Canyon," he says. "There's so much energy here. My heart is to serve the church. The Gospel is such a fundamental part of Christianity. We've got to get that right and be on message in order to inject health into local churches."
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By Curtis Wilson
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The Berthoud Lions evening group met on April 16 to discuss many important projects.
The Lions Highway Cleanup was accomplished on April 11. Six members cleaned approximately two miles of State Hwy. 56.
A pancake breakfast is being discussed for May 16, Berthoud Cleanup Day. Folks can come eat breakfast before or after they help clean up the town.
The club is sponsoring two children to the Woodland Park camp for the handicapped again this year. They kids have always enjoyed their week at camp.
The planning of the Lions 29th annual fundraiser was discussed. Lions Bono and Wilson reported that 10 tickets are still for sale. It's the first time in 20 years that there hasn't been a waiting list. They also reported that the response from door prize donors has been good. There is much to be done this coming week for the big night, Monday, April 27, at Grace Place Church. The doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The Noon Lions Club hosted the 9Health Fair last weekend. Much planning went into the Health Fair that served over 400 people who braved the cold rain for free and low-cost medical screenings.
Food for the volunteers, some who were there as early as 5:30 a.m., was prepared by a group of Lions ladies from the evening club headed up by Anne Talley.
If you are interested in Lions and their work, please visit at noon on the second and fourth Wednesdays or at 6:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of every month. Meeting schedules change during the summer, so please contact a Lions member or call (970) 532-2228 for exact summer meeting times. The meetings take place at the Lions Club Depot, the purple and gold building next to the railroad tracks at Third Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

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Sherman Howard - biography
Howard Lee Sherman (born June 11, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. In 1989 he appeared at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. He played the title role in Hamlet and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. His wife, Donna Bullock, played Ophelia in Hamlet and Viola in Twelfth Night. He has appeared in motion pictures such as Day of the Dead (in which he played the zombie Bub) and Lethal Weapon 2. Sherman was special guest of the 2010 Creation Entertainment Weekend of Horrors on 21 May 2010. Howard also played the voice of the evil Chief McBrusque in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island. His most well known part would probably be his appearance as Roy "the Triangle Boy" from "The Junior Mint" episode of Seinfeld. He has made appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. and Stephen King's "The Stand". He played Lex Luthor in Superboy, Derek Powers in Batman Beyond and Buzzard in Men in Black: The Series. He lent his voice to play the villain Kor in Jak II and Daxter and the Red Sage in The Precursor Legacy. Other video games he has appeared in include "Red Faction 2", "Devil May Cry 2" and,  ( Wikipedia article )
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