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Freddy Chandra was born in 1979 in Jakarta, Indonesia, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. He obtained an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College in 2004, as well as B.A. degrees in architecture and art practice from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002.
We first saw Chandra's work at the Headlands Center for the Arts Project Space in Sausalito CA. He incorporated time and light-based installation with these three-dimensional wall-based "drawings" using graphite and transparent resin. We were struck by the consistency and poignancy of his vision. In his own words,
I make site-specific installations and wall-based compositions. Each installation is an immersive environment constructed as a place that encourages sensory understanding of physical space and temporal duration. My wall-based compositions suggest a contingency in the rhythmic act of marking space and shifts that occur in our experience of time.
My work considers a viewer's movement in space, sight both peripheral and focal, and sometimes sound to construct a personal experience of place. This experience highlights the passage from a viewer's immediate and un-named sensing of a given event to the process of making sense of this encounter.
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College Ice Hockey is a sport where the popularity and the quality have improved tremendously in college athletics these past years. The universities have around 18 college hockey scholarships for their hockey team.
There are 58 D- I and 6 D-II colleges that offer college hockey scholarships for men. The total number of women's college hockey scholarships in the NCAA is 648 from 34 colleges.
Hockey requires a larger squad then most other sports so in a college hockey team you have to prove that you deserve your scholarship or others who don't have scholarships but are performing better will be rewarded with it.
To play college hockey in the U.S. is a great option for international hockey players who wants to continue playing hockey after high school while studying with college hockey scholarship.
To be recruited with a college hockey scholarship, it is important to have a good hockey recruiting video. You want to mix it up with maybe 3 minutes practice footage and 7 minutes match footage. Other countries with strong hockey tradition will have a easier time to get recruited than players from countries where hockey is not a big sport.
ICAC Sports recommends athletes to attend their university in the fall semester (august).
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Sat, Oct 13, 12 at 13:30
All grown up now,
still coming to the feed-shed, they know the oat-hay had lots of grains buried, and they scratch vigorously. If they would get upset, they could do some real damage to a person or a pet. |
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- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 13, 12 at 14:07
Have they grown! No wonder, Cafe Casa Lilo is open and has a great menue. |
Wow! Those are some big birds! Would they be "game" for anyone's Thanksgiving Dinner? I would hate to think so, but then, I eat domesticated turkey, so I better shut up. :>) |
Are these the ones who "came for dinner" last year?? |
- Posted by lilosophie none (My Page) on Sat, Oct 13, 12 at 18:55
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Oct 14, 12 at 18:22
I guess that's what the natives ate and introduced to the pilgrims. Not much meat on those bones.I wonder whose job it was to pluck those birds? I'm not up on my turkey history. |
- Posted by lilosophie none (My Page) on Sun, Oct 14, 12 at 18:38
The wild turkeys are not native Californians, according to the article in the link, they have been introduces fairly recently, though apparently in the /east they were natives when the Pilgrims showed up |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wild turkey history
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Oct 14, 12 at 19:11
After reading the history of the turkey, I can see why the "teaching" farm here in Silicon Valley introduced or reintroduced the wild turkey. It's one part of CA history. |
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How safe is your e-mail account? Would it be a relatively easy matter for devious hackers to break into your account? And what would happen if they did? Think about all the spam messages and phishing schemes hackers can launch using your e-mail account. The good news is, you can do something to safeguard your e-mail account, and a recent blog by the New York Times explains how to do this. The best news? Protecting yourself doesn't require a lot of work.
First, the Times recommends that you never disregard the updates provided for you by the makers of your computer's operating system, e-mail program and security software. Yes, updating your computer frequently can certainly be a hassle. Nevertheless these updates often contain necessary protections against hackers and cybercriminals. If you don't update, you might be sorry.
Next, the Times recommends that you protect your e-mail account with a password that is harder to hack. This suggests bypassing simple, easy-to-guess passwords such as your street address, children's names or birthdays. Instead, create passwords that contain a series of letters, symbols and numbers. The more varied your password, the better luck you will have at warding off hackers.
Doing the two-step
As the Times writes, your biggest protection against hackers would be two-step authentication. Under such a system, you'll have to provide two pieces of information to log into your e-mail account. You might first need to provide a traditional password. Then you might need to enter a secret code sent to you smartphone any time you log onto your e-mail account on a different computer. Again, this extra step will keep the hackers out of your e-mail account.
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What is Checkpointing
Checkpointing is the ability for the running job to be "snapshotted" at a scheduled interval. If the machine the job is running on were to power off unexpectedly or your job gets suspended for any reason, the job could be resumed from the "snapshot." Checkpointing is turned off by default, so you must enable a checkpointing method for it to be enabled.
DMTCP is a new method of checkpointing on Beocat.
MPI checkpointing is currently broken, we are working to resolve the issue. When we get this fixed, your mpirun command should look like this mpirun --mca btl tcp,self <app>
- Unlike the old BLCR method, there are no compilation requirements.
- Infiniband is still not supported. The DMTCP developers are working on this for an upcoming release.
Checkpoints are taken only once every 12 hours by default. As this is a blocking checkpoint, if you are using a lot of memory (>=64GB) you may want to think about increasing the checkpoint interval. This can be done via the qsub option -c <interval> i.e. qsub -ckpt dmtcp -c 36:00:00 script.qsub
Will Checkpointing work for me?
Well, it depends.
- Does your application use Infiniband? If so, none of our current checkpointing software will work.
Does your application use OpenMPI? If so, is it a multi node job? If you answered yes to both of these questions, DMTCP checkpointing may work for you.
Are you using more than one application? If so, are they running at the same time? If you answered yes to both of the questions, checkpointing MAY work for you.
- For all other use cases, checkpointing method should work.
If you still have problems with checkpointing, e-mail the administrator (firstname.lastname@example.com), and he should be able to help you.
To enable DMTCP checkpointing for your application, add the -ckpt dmtcp option to your job submission script:
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Finally, a real boiling water faucet: 100° C/212° F!
Recently a friend "boiled" water for my tea in the microwave so it never reached a rolling boil – bleeccch. At my house, the trusty Braun water kettle is my favorite go-to appliance for morning coffee and my green-tea nightcap. So I was instantly drawn to the Quooker boiling water tap the moment I stumbled across this "quooky" video promo. I found (quieter) additional videos on using the faucet even more seductive. It's expensive, of course. And oh, to be in England where it might be possible to give the latest object of my kitchen obsession a test pour.


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standing in 5 acres of grounds, Salville house sits on a hilltop, surrounded by mature trees, overlooking the River Slaney valley; a few miles from the cathedral town of enniscorthy, on Ireland's south east coast. 'Gordon & Jane have created a hilltop haven' writes Fodor's guide to Ireland.....' food and relaxation are the order of the day'. An ideal location for the independent minded traveller ; for those seeking a relaxed ambience off the well beaten track. We are close to the port of Rosslare and a comfortable base for exploring the county of Wexford and beyond. Here at the house facilities include croquet, badminton and boules For diners, 'bring the best wine you can afford' writes a guest in this year's Good hotel Guide.
We've won a Cesar award - Irish country house of the year.
Salville House has been named Irish country house of the year in the 2013 edition of the prestigous Good Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland.
Just 10 cesars - named after celebrated hotelier cesar Ritz - are awarded each year by this leading independent guide and we are delighted to have been chosen in this category.
John Dory on Potatoes Rosti with Medley of Mediterranean Roast vegetables. "Salville House is one of the great country house addresses. It's bohemian, it's unique, and Gordon Parker's cooking is brilliant.... This is as good as country house cooking gets and it makes Salville a true icon address." |
Chargrilled Monkfish Kebabs on a Bed of Rocket with a Zingy Cucumber and Dill Sauce "The principal memory of our first dinner at Salville is that of an aroma banquet.... After the first mouthful we knew that this was going to be one of those meals that is marred only by the realisation that it will be over all too soon." |
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While I'm asking about the Mugo pine vs Little Giant cedar, shall we add Hetz Midget cedar to the mix?
It was suggested I plant these at the front of the house also, ( on the opposite side of the front entrance from the Mugo pine vs. Little Giant cedar area) with some of the daylilies I bought, plus the mock orange I bought. Aren't the Hetz Midget almost exactly like the Little Giant?? Any comments or experience with these? ( I hope the expert isn't reading these posts. If so, I don't mean to undermine your expertise, I just want more info and opinions from my main source of information - awesome people on this forum ) |
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I'm definitely not an expert but, I think they are very similar. Not to get too technical, but the botanical name is thuja occidentalis and among it are many cultivars of varying shape and forms. Monrovia.com said Hetz midget is "Small evergreen shrub has dense, globe shaped growth habit. Rich green needles are arranged in flat layered sprays. grows 3 to 4 feet high and wide" The same site mentioned about Little Giant: "Small, globe-shaped evergreen shrub. A very versatile and useful plant." and also said up to 4 feet high. I believe I have hetz Midget at the side of the house and it's grows slow but steady, more like 2 feet high after 10 years. Another sort of neat one is 'rheingold' which has golden foliage. It gets a bit bigger, according to one site anyway, up to 5 feet (though could be maintained at a certain height with annual trimming). Where it mentions heights I would take that with a grain of salt - or research multiple sites to get a better idea (average) of the height/width. Glen |
- Posted by nutsaboutflowers 2b/3a (My Page) on Thu, Jun 3, 10 at 10:17
Thanks Glen. I guess if you've had them for 10 years, there can't be much of a problem with them or you would have gotten rid of them. I'll have to look for larger ones though. I don't want to wait 10 years =:) |
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The steepest challenge faced by every pioneering auto builder was finding a suitable source of power. Petroleum-fueled internal combustion (IC) powerplants, steam engines, and electric motors all energized the drive to replace horses with horsepower. When one contraption lacked the gumption to climb hills, resourceful horseless-carriage constructors simply added a second powerplant as if they were harnessing another mare to the team. Later, we dubbed these concoctions hybrids.
1894: Italian textile manufacturer Count Felix Carli added a box of tensioned rubber bands to double the power available in his electric tricycle.
1897: Justus Entz, chief engineer at a Philadelphia battery company, built the first carriage powered by an IC engine assisted by an electric motor. Sluggish performance was reported. Worse, the experiment was destroyed when a rogue electrical spark ignited the fuel tank.
1899: Two hybrids appeared at the Paris Salon. One from a Belgian firm featured parallel IC and electric propulsion using a system similar to Honda's Integrated Motor Assist. A French design employed a series configuration; here, an IC engine powered a generator which supplied current to two electric motors driving the wheels. In the decade that followed, several other makers touted series hybrids at the Paris Salon.
1900: Like Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche's first career stop was in the electrical field. He earned two related patents in 1897: one for a motorized wheel hub, the second for a series-hybrid propulsion system. While employed by Jacob Lohner, Austria's leading vehicle manufacturer, Porsche brought these concepts to fruition. After a front-drive Lohner-Porsche carriage sparked interest at the 1900 Paris Salon, a four-wheel-drive version was built. The latter model's storage battery weighed nearly two tons so Porsche added a pair of generators driven by 2.5-hp Daimler IC engines to extend operating range. What Porsche called "mixte" (mixed) propulsion successfully powered military vehicles, fire-fighting equipment, and Mercedes automobiles.
1902: A series-hybrid runabout constructed by Knight Neftel competed successfully against steam and gas-powered buggies in the New York to Boston Reliability Test.
1915: The Owen Magnetic used a conventional IC engine powering a generator supplying electricity to a drive motor, thereby eliminating gear changes.
1916: Two prominent electric-vehicle makers - Baker of Cleveland, Woods of Chicago - both offered hybrid propulsion. The latter could be driven using gasoline, electric, or both motors. Performance claims for the Woods Dual Power were a top speed of 35 mph and 48 mpg fuel efficiency. Since it cost as much as a Cadillac V-8 with electric starting and twice as much power, few were sold.
1938: GM's Electro-motive Corporation began supplanting steam locomotives with diesel-electric hybrids. A large IC engine driving a generator supplies power to electric motors which drive the engine's wheels. No electrical energy is stored on-board.
1939: Electrogear buses manufactured and operated in Philadelphia used a differential transmission capable of blending IC and electric power for heightened efficiency.
1944: P.M. Heldt's Torque Converters or Transmissions for Use with Combustion Engines in Road and Rail Vehicles, Tractors and Locomotives was published. This handy reference soon became the preferred source of inspiration for hybrid engineers the world over.
1969: GM engineers in England constructed a two-seat minicar with a parallel-hybrid drive, a 35 mph top speed, and a 150-mile range.


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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Snow, Byron firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-12012011-102918 Document Title Finding the Maputo Central Market (Mercardo Central de Maputo) : seeing the informal economy in formal architecture Degree MArch(Prof) Department Architecture Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Mr K Bakker Committee Chair Keywords
- building for flux
- Baixa
- micro-enterprise
- vending
- Maputo
- Mercado Central de Maputo
- Mercado
- urban regeneration
- urban renewal
- Informal
- informal economy
- architecture
- Maputo Central Market
- market
- informal trade
Date 2012-04-23 Availability unrestricted Abstract The low-lying Baixa area of Maputo, is the historic and current city centre of Maputo. The district is an important transport hub, and business centre of Mozambique. The Mercado Central de Maputo (Maputo Central Market), is the only infrastructure provided in support of the micro-enterprisers and traders of the city. The Central Market has reached capacity, and informal street markets have developed to the north. These have become fractured and disconnected from facilities that allow for clean, comfortable, hygienic trade, and a healthier business environment. The architectural proposal offers a solution to the current inadequate trader infrastructure, while also recognizing the area's heritage and economic significance. The fluxing character of the market is also important in the design. Promotion of micro-enterprise and consequent economic growth will be achieved through an upgrade and expansion of market related facilities. This will allow a greater number of marginalised vendors formal recognition and legitimacy. The intervention will act as a catalyst project in the urban regeneration, through the consolidation of the fractured market areas. Increasing the market's drawing power on potential customers will promote the Central Market as a destination within its own right. Copyright © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of PretoriaPlease cite as follows:
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So, something has been having its way with my garden. Lots of pepper and tomato plants being gobbled up.
I found 2 of these (see photo below)a few days ago and killed them. This morning I found this guy. Am I correct that they are eating my plants? WHat is it? How do i keep them from coming back? Is ther are trick to finding him. It was sheer luck I saw this guy this morning.
This is one of the plants.
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That is a Tomato Hornworm and they can be very destructive. They take on the color of the plant they are eating which can make them hard to see when they are hiding. I remember searching a plant and not finding the worm. Then I saw these large green turds dropping on the soil one after another. My eyes followed them up and found the critter hiding in plain sight. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Hornworm Control
That is a hornworm worm. It will eat peppers and tomato plants down to nothing if not controlled. If you just find a few, pick and squish. For many you can dust the plants with BT, a natural bacterial control. The trick to finding them is getting up close and personal with the plants, they blend right in and can be hard to spot. Don't know of any way of keeping them out,these are from eggs of large moths. Good luck. |
thanks, would this worm alos eat my pepper buds as I have notice many are missing? do any of you know an good organic ways to kill/repell other criters. when i go out to my garden i night with a flash light its scarry to see whats there. |
They will eat everything on a pepper or tomato plant. Even the peppers themselves. Some people spray their plants with seaweed extract to both feed their plants and repel insects. Its not foolproof but it helps. Too high a dose and you can do more harm than good. In the fruit and Orchard Forum Spectracide Once and Done is mentioned all the time. Its not organic but it is supposed to be safe. Another one used is Bonide Horticultural Oil. If you are only dealing with small things like aphids and whiteflies a few drops of Ivory Soap in a spray bottle will do the trick. But you have to spray each time you see them and then spray it off with water before it dries. I just carry around the spray bottle and drag a garden hose around set to a fine mist to wash it off. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Spectracide
these are devastating pick them off anf squash them asap look under leaves for the orange pearly eggs but you can control them by going out everynight and everymorning and looking for them but miss a day and you could come back to a bunch of stems my tomato plants are huge so the damage is local but a small plant like the one in that pic could be devastated they also like eggplant too as for the blossom i've got little birds eating mine and since it's to hot to leave my trusty garden dog out there to scare them off theres really nothing i can do |
Aphids can be removed by spraying them off with the garden hose. Whitefly populations can be kept in check with yellow sticky traps. It's best to put these out early in the season but they will work anytime. Hornworms are actually a caterpillar and are the larval form of the Sphinx moth. The moth is nocturnal and is an important pollinator and bat food source. The safest way to control the caterpillars is by handpicking. If you know anyone who has chickens you can make the birds very happy by giving them the caterpillars. |
Be careful when hand picking tomato horn worms. They can give you a nasty bite. I always use gloves. |
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What I've Been Drinkin'
February 28, 2013
Following a short break from tea drinking for various reasons, I'm back into the game, sort of.
I don't have anything new to review or talk about, but here's what I've been drinking…
Huanghsan Maofeng from PeonyTS: Really good green (no duh!) tea that evolves over the infusions from titillatingly bitter in the first to juicy sweet in the fourth. A fine example of Maofeng.
Jun Chiyabari Himalayan Spring Evergreen: I'm getting down to my last little bit of this wonderful stuff. If anybody knows where I can score more from this year or last year, drop me a line. Please?
Tieguanyin from PeonyTS: Another good tea, sweet as all get out, and very long lived.
Jaksul Gamnong: Oh Korean green tea, I love you so. But…well, this one isn't very good. It's by Hankook, and I bought it from TeaTrekker. Normally TeaTrekker tea is pretty good, but this one is 30 bucks and is probably worth, in terms of quality, half that. It has good qualities, but the leaves are pretty broken up and thus the overall mouthfull is less full and more chalky and it just doesn't last through as many infusions as I'd like and it's not that sweet and yadda yadda blah blah, you get it. A big let down, really.
So that's it, really. Check out PeonyTS run by Derek Chew; he knows what he's doing and his prices are pretty fair. Tell 'em Happy Gaiwan sent ya.
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Bottoms Up is a weekly feature on Backhand Shelf that admits that sometimes the underdog doesn't win; sometimes they just lose and lose and lose some more. But take heart losers: Switchfoot says that "only the losers win." So you've got that going for you.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have started the 2011-12 season in the worst way possible. They are currently the only team left in the NHL without a win, starting the season 0-6-1. Their longest streak without a win last season was also 7 games, but in that stretch in March they managed to at least pick up 3 points by losing in overtime or the shootout.
Speaking of last season, the Blue Jackets are actually on a much longer winless streak. They finished out the 2010-11 season with an 0-4-2 record in their final 6 games, which stretches their current streak of futility to 13 games without a win.
While the general rule of thumb is to wait until 10 games to start making judgements and pronouncements, the Blue Jackets could win their next three games and still be three games below .500. The thing is, this team can't possibly be as terrible as their record would indicate, right? Will the Blue Jackets go 82 games without a win? Are they bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness?
Of course not. They couldn't possibly be. That doesn't mean they're good; they're just not this bad.
The Blue Jackets have been outscored 25 to 14 to start the year, but have actually outshot their opponents.* A few bounces going their way and their four games that they lost by one goal could have had a different result. Their powerplay was 0-for-20 through their first 4 games, but have scored powerplay goals in three straight. With James Wisniewski returning in 2 games from his preseason suspension, their powerplay should turn around.
But the main two points of concern have to be the penalty kill and the play of Steve Mason. The Blue Jackets currently boast the second-worst penalty kill in the league, just barely better than that of the Senators. One of the reasons for their shorthanded struggles is Mason's terrible .795 shorthanded save percentage, a number that is unlikely to remain that low. Until the penalty kill gets sorted out, however, they'll need to stay out of the box. In their latest game against the Red Wings, the Blue Jackets gave up 3 powerplay goals in a game they lost by 3 goals.
As for Steve Mason, it's been made eminently clear that he is extremely unlikely to repeat his numbers from his Calder Trophy-winning rookie season. After putting up a .916 save percentage in 2008-09, he recorded two straight seasons with a .901 save percentage: unsurprisingly, the Blue Jackets missed the playoffs both those years. So it's not too surprising to see him struggling, but his save percentage is currently sitting at .881. It's not just that his statistics have to improve or he'll lose his job; his statistics will improve once we have a large enough sample size to draw from.
It might help build up Mason's confidence if the team in front of him could score a few more goals. It's one thing to be consistent offensively; it's quite another to score exactly 2 goals every game. When your goaltender has to let in one goal or less for your team to get a win, you've got a problem.
A goal from RJ Umberger or Antoine Vermette would be nice and it would help if their prized off-season acquisition Jeff Carter recovered quickly from his fractured foot. Meanwhile, 2010 first round draft pick Ryan Johansen has no points in limited ice time in 4 games and has been a healthy scratch. The Blue Jackets need to decide whether to keep the talented 19-year-old in Columbus or send him back to Junior: if this season continues to slide out of control, it simply isn't worth burning a year on his contract.
If Mason defies the probabilities and truly crashes and burns, the Blue Jackets will be looking to another off-season acquisition to right the sinking ship: former Nashville Predators prospect Mark Dekanich, who has spent the last three seasons putting up fantastic numbers in the AHL. The NHL-ready netminder is currently recovering from a high ankle sprain, but will push Mason for playing time once he returns.
The Winnipeg Jets have been joined by an unlikely companion in the Eastern Conference cellar: the Montreal Canadiens currently have a matching 1-4-1 record with the Jets and have been outscored 19-13. The main reason for their struggles is their awful powerplay, currently converting at an 8% clip.
It also doesn't help that the player leading the Canadiens in ice time, PK Subban, also has the team's second-worst PDO. Subban currently has just one assist and is minus-6, but his awful PDO is making him look a lot worse than he actually is.
Here's the issue: the Canadiens have enough offensive depth to make up, defensive acumen, and solid goaltending to recover from this foray into the basement and be a playoff team. The Jets don't.
On the plus side for the Jets, Alexander Burmistrov is awesome. The 20-year-old has 5 points in 6 games and has a plus-3 rating. He carries the puck with a metric tonne of confidence and is developing some chemistry with Nik Antropov. If the Jets' first line could get things together, they might be able to ice two reasonable scoring lines. Key word: "might."
Meanwhile, the Senators are heading down the stairs to the basement looking to set up a cot and stay for a while. They've given up a league-worst 31 goals and look to be as bad as advertised
While the Blue Jackets are in sole possession of the Western Conference basement and are currently outfitting it with a dartboard and a mini-fridge, two perennial playoff teams are currently picking up pizzas and beer and looking to join them. The San Jose Sharks have a 2-3-0 record but there are plenty of indications that they're on the right track. The team I'm concerned about is the Nashville Predators.
The Predators have long been known as a hard-working, blue-collar, lunch-bucket kind of team, built on solid goaltending, great defence, and finely-tuned systems. So far this season, things have gone wonky. The Predators have been outscored 20 to 13 to start the season and have not looked like the confident team that consistently shut down their opposition all last season.
The Predators' special teams haven't been the issue; instead, it's their play at even-strength. This is extremely unusual for the Predators, who pride themselves on their play at 5-on-5. Shea Weber attributes their struggles to a lack of effort and work ethic. With Barry Trotz at the helm, however, this should just be a momentary dip for the Predators, who will look to get at least one win on their road trip today against the Flames.
* Of course, another reason bad teams outshoot their opponents is because teams attempting to come back from a deficit tend to push harder and throw more shots on net. But probability would still suggest that some of those shots might go in once in a while.


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The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act") was enacted on April 5, 2012. Section 201(a)(1) of the JOBS Act directs the Commission, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment, to amend Rule 506 of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") to permit general solicitation or general advertising in offerings made under Rule 506, provided that all purchasers of the securities are accredited investors.
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After the tremendously destructive floods of 1929 and 1935, Harris County citizens clamored for solutions. Cumulative flood losses had reached a staggering sum. If ever there was a county in need of flood assistance, this was it.
On April 23, 1937, after local leaders petitioned the State of Texas, the 45th Texas Legislature unanimously passed the bill that created the Harris County Flood Control District and established the Harris County Commissioners Court as the District's governing body.
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Originally, the District was given the responsibility of overseeing rivers, streams, tributaries and flood waters "for domestic, municipal, flood control, irrigation and other useful purposes." Although our primary function was to serve as the local partner for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the District gradually took on a much more complex role. As the population of Harris County doubled to 600,000 by mid-century, and the number of plants and factories tripled, managing the problems of flooding became even more urgent. Costly floods were almost an annual event. More homes and businesses were built in improvident locations, prior to establishing the standard of the
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Every year, new flood damage reduction projects were proposed and others were completed. Major projects, such as the enlargement of a 25.4-mile stretch of Brays Bayou in 1968, and 10.7 miles of White Oak Bayou in 1971, were big steps. Despite the progress, however, flooding problems continued, with 21 damaging storms from 1950-1980. It became apparent that additional
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A More Efficient District
New technologies have also influenced the evolution of flood damage reduction by allowing a better understanding of the flooding potential and in providing the means to design and build more efficient and effective projects. Additionally, floodplain regulations and stringent environmental codes have played an increasingly important role. Efficiency of District operations has also improved through the years: a streamlining of the organization in the 1990s reduced the staff by two-thirds, while engineering, construction and maintenance duties were privatized.
In 2001, an innovative approach to funding the District's future capital project needs was adopted by the Harris County Commissioners Court that provides funding at levels four to five times higher than any time in the past. This new funding approach enables an even more aggressive implementation of flood damage reduction projects across Harris County.
Although our operations have become more complex through the years, our mission remains simple: Provide flood damage reduction projects that work, with appropriate regard for community and natural values.
Whether it's managing multi-million dollar projects, the maintenance of channels and stormwater detention basins, or detailed attention to improving the local environment, we will continue to hold true to our mission.
For a more thorough look into the history of the District, download the Acrobat PDF of our
60-Year History
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Shortly after the Allen brothers chose to establish Houston at the confluence of Buffalo and White Oak Bayous, virtually every structure in the new settlement flooded. Although it was quickly realized that our area is naturally flood prone, it took the devastating floods of 1929 and 1935 to bring about serious action for major flood relief.
The Harris County Flood Control District was created by the Texas Legislature in 1937, and originally served as the local partner for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control projects. Since its creation, the District has successfully partnered with the Corps on many projects, and through this time our roles, additional partnerships and capabilities have grown significantly.


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Totem Talk: Resto questing {WoW}
May 1st 2008 2:51PM I recently faced this quandary on my resto druid. I leveled feral and went resto to check the tree out and PvP and ended up loving it. However, as resto, I found throwing on feral gear and trying to grind mobs was painful and terrible.
So I went 19/0/42 and found a good balance for raid healing and soloing. I throw on DPS gear (healing gear has some damage, but really I wanted a little hit and definitely crit since my 19 points deal more in crit magnitude). I imagine this could be the same for resto shamans.
However, what I'd LOVE to see is a guide to resto shaman leveling from low levels (I confess, I haven't checked for one and will make sure to do it). I love my 38 resto shaman but don't want to respec and be another DPS trying to find low level groups for instances. Sometimes it is painful leveling though and would love some tips on it.
15 Minutes of Fame: Disabled mom finds outlet in WoW {WoW}
Apr 29th 2008 3:54PM I enjoy reading about the feel good human interest stories here.
But, Catten, tell your son to tweak his shadow priest! With 5/5 shadow affinity he only needs 76 hit rating to be capped! Not really sure why he gems for intellect since his mana pool scales with his spell damage. Not sure why he gems for stamina either. I run pure 9 spell damage gems on my priest. With all that hit he can replace his scryer's bloogem with a pure damage trinket (like Icon of the Silver Crescent) and replace his off hand with the badge shadow damage offhand.
Best of luck with your raiding and WoW playing!
The post-game analysis {WoW}
Apr 28th 2008 3:12PM I rarely like it when people post comments like this, but I have to beg the question: How does this post serve WoW Insider readers?
I began reading it because I am a casual arena player always looking to get better. My arena ratings are NOT good, but my teams are generally full of people with so-so gear and are not true PvPers. When we win it is rarely because we were clever, but more because we screwed up less than the opposing team. We can generally go 5-5 or better in our matches.
So when I see a post like this, I feel that I'm going to get a compelling anecdotal story that will eventually transition into an informative couple of paragraphs. Instead, you described your night and bailed yourself out with asking us a question.
I would have loved it if you could describe more about your positioning. About tactics. Don't tell me that you talked for an hour about what you did wrong. Illustrate what you did wrong and what your solutions were. It felt like you got tired of writing the blog and just tried to end it as quickly as possible.
There are rarely good posts on WoW Insider about PvP. And although I am not a great PvPer, I always want to get better and love reading about tactics.
Officers' Quarters: Zero-pressure raiding? {WoW}
Nov 19th 2007 12:35PM As many have stated, figuring out what your GUILD wants is paramount. I've run a casual raiding guild for over a year now. Again, like others have said, we are not a fast progressing guild, we're a guild that moves into content as we can. We don't use DKP and we don't have a mandatory attendance level. We raid three times a week at most and only for four hours a night (unless the raid wishes to continue).
This formula has worked very well for us. However, in order to achieve some success (Karazhan on farm, working on 25-man content) we did establish guild raiding guidelines.
1. Do research on Karazhan and establish minimum stat requirements for raiders. There are many informative guides out there and the requirements are very easy to achieve by simply running normal 5-man content. Encourage class leaders to compile gear guides of non-raid, non-heroic loot so guild members know where to go and what to get. This benefits the guild, because in a 10-man, every has to pull their weight.
2. Research numerous specs appropriate for raiding. Sure no one likes to force people to spec a certain way, but if a person wants to raid, they should be raid spec'd. If they can't afford to switch between a PvP and a raid spec, they make a choice. No one forces them to raid, but they should be ready to contribute. There are very few specs that are absolutely terribly for Karazhan (in addition, just because someone is, let's say, prot spec'd, doesn't mean they chose their talents wisely... members should be prepared to tweak specs).
3. Make a transparent loot system. If it is a council, explain to your guild how it will work. If it is /roll with class priority, explain it. If it is DKP, make sure everyone knows rules and totals. We use a /roll with class priority. We're also very in tune with our guild members needs, so if T4 drops for a mage and one is a tailor and one isn't, the non-tailor is usually given priority.
4. Be a research fiend. As a guild leader (or raid leader) read up on all boss strategies. I create a spreadsheet of trash mob stats so I know what to do when we're there. I post very simple strategies on the Web site. Everyone reads them and knows the encounters (roughly).
Most people think casual raiding means no rules. I disagree. If people are going to do something as organized as raiding, there must be rules. These don't have to be hardcore, but it can be simple: come prepared (consumables, reagents), come on time and if you sign up, be there.
We don't force anyone of our members to actually raid, but when we recruit, we expect those people to make a raid at least one out of every six. If I recruit someone who NEVER gets into a raid, I cut em. Why? Well, because that was the entire point of bringing them into the guild. If you don't require raiding attendance, prepare to recruit well over the number needed to do a raid.
Lastly, when I set Karazhan rosters, it isn't first come, first served. Everyone signs up and I put groups together based off what is the best for the given situation. As you progress, you can divide Kara up into Attumen-Curator and Aran-Prince. Put the lower geared people in the first end, the better geared toward the latter end and keep rotating as people get geared.
If you get enough people, run two groups!
Good luck with the guild!
The Art Design of WoW {WoW}
Oct 31st 2007 3:17PM I play both WoW and LOTRO and I have to say one thing that blows me away in LOTRO is the landscapes. You feel a greater connection with the game when you're standing in one zone looking into the distance and seeing a landmark such as Weathertop (a zone away) on the horizon. It would be like seeing Blackrock Mountain looming over Elwynn forest.
It is the one thing I think WoW is missing. I like a lot of the other crazier and more fantastical elements of WoW, but I wish the environments were a bit more lively.
Officers' Quarters: Loot whores -- Are you their pimp? {WoW}
Oct 30th 2007 3:38PM @20
Not sure which class priority you were saying was bad. If it was the balance druid, I can agree with you, I probably should have let him roll on the loot since we have decided to allow a raiding spot for a class that doesn't really have the itemization support yet.
However, if it's on the drops themselves, I will disagree. That would be like saying the bow dropped off of Prince and anyone who can use a bow can /roll on it. We enhance our system by allowing a class-specific purple roll and a cross-class roll. So far, we don't run into problems and we keep the loot as fair as possible. Our raid members are pretty intelligent when it comes to loot, so I haven't seen many issues.
Officers' Quarters: Loot whores -- Are you their pimp? {WoW}
Oct 29th 2007 12:36PM I'm a bit surprised it isn't *obvious* practice that people aren't supposed to /roll on items that aren't meant for their spec unless no one else needs them.
We are probably in the minority of guilds that use /roll and have ALWAYS used /roll since before BC. We're not a deep endgame guild, but we've been together over a year and we understand certain principles.
First, simply have the raid leader (or someone with loot intelligence) call out a class priority and then let them /roll. Frequently in our guild, people will step aside for others who need the upgrades more. Even as the guild leader, I stepped aside constantly for our main tank when I OT'd to let him get the gear he needed to help us progress.
So a shadow priest rolling on healing cloth if a resto shaman needed and wanted the piece is just silly. Same with just about any healer taking a damage and healing piece as a "healing" upgrade when DPS needs it. I wouldn't even acknowledge that person's request to roll on it.
Now, I also have to admit I haven't been terribly fair on one regard and maybe I should rethink it. We raid with a balance druid sometimes and I've always made him wait for cloth DPS gear until after the mages/locks/shadow priests get the items. While Moonkins are supposed to get some gear itemization issues addressed, I suppose until he can get real leather caster gear I should let him compete with the others.
Do you have roots in World of WarCraft? {WoW}
Oct 22nd 2007 12:55PM WoW is the first MMO I've ever vested serious time in and I've been running a guild ever since I joined the game. We've always been pretty casual, relatively small (not enough for 25-man content, barely able to pull off pre-BC 20-man) but we've bonded very closely.
Many of the core people in the guild have been around since Clarion Call became a "raiding" guild in Oct. 2006. Even as the pressures of graduate school, jobs, etc got to me and I thought I'd have to quit the game, I received a lot of support from guild members who said Clarion Call was their home and they would keep the guild going until I could come back.
The kind of support we've found in each other and in this guild has far surpassed the need to get purps, to see all the content, and to feel on par with the rest of the Skullcrusher Alliance/Horde guilds.
So, I would say I do have roots here and while I may not play nearly as much as I used to, I can never truly abandon WoW or these people.
PTR Notes: Pet in position {WoW}
Oct 17th 2007 4:32PM @2 and on that note, I don't care where I "see" the rogue, all I need to know is I'm screwed :D
In all seriousness, I love the idea. Playing a raid tank as one of my 70s, the less chances of parries = happy and alive.
Also, it gives BM hunters even MORE credibility.
The race to 70: Why the rush? {WoW}
Oct 16th 2007 1:11PM I've got 2 level 70s and a 69 (which was my pre-BC main).
My two newer 70s I leveled in about 2 months overall time and about 6-7 days game time. It is slower than some of the leveling guides, but decently quick for someone who doesn't use guides and can waste a lot of time (and who likes to instance a lot).
My reason for getting to 70 as fast as I can: Pre-BC content is boring. The gear is terrible (unless you incessantly farm for it or spend the gold) and the levels take waaaay too long to get through. All I want to do whenever I play an alt is get to the Outlands where Blizzard has finally created gear that lets me truly enjoy my spec.
Case in point: my latest 70 is a shadow priest. Prior to BC I had two choices: obscene mana pool or about 100 spell dmg. I chose the mana pool because it still let me heal effectively and I didn't care about the pitiful spell damage when I was losing out on the stats. It was still boring not being able to fully realize my potential until the last 10 levels.
On top of that, I was in my 50s still wearing some gear from SFK and the lavishly jeweled ring (or whatever its called) from VC just because I hadn't come across better.
Once you finally hit the Outlands, the content gets really bland until you can hit 70 and run the top instances and work your way into raids, arenas, daily's, etc...
So that is why I level as fast as I can... it just isn't fun in between after I've already done it once.


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The Rubin Nick Flynn + William Hirst
Nick Flynn + William Hirst
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Ticket includes:
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Program in the theater
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Book signing of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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Mnemonic Art Tour in the galleries
Presented in association with Urban Zen
Nick Flynn's memoir about his encounter with his absentee father in a Boston homeless shelter, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir in 2006. On March 3 it takes the form of a new film Being Flynn, starring Robert DeNiro as the wayward father Jonathan and Paul Dano as his son Nick. Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Little Fockers), the film also features Julianne Moore and Lili Taylor. With psychologist William Hirst, an expert in trauma and collective and autobiographical memory, Flynn explores the degrees of truth in a memoir remembered.
"Every week, it seems, scientists discover a new gene to explain why we act as we do, why we feel sad or why we get fat. Genes, it's now clear, are a mark on the blood, and the mark can be read and the life plotted. Easy as reading a map. This red mark is your father, across a vast sea from you. The scientists say that one day I could stand in the exact spot my father once stood in, hold my body as he did. I could open my mouth and his words would come out. They say it is only a ''tendency toward,'' a warning. They say it is not the future, but a possible future." - Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, and has been translated into ten languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002). He has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Amy Lowell Trust, and The Fine Arts Work Center. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life," and The New York Times Book Review. He worked as a "field poet" and as an artistic collaborator on the documentary film Darwin's Nightmare, which won an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
William Hirst is Professor of Psychology at the New School, whose focus is on social aspects of cognition and memory. He has contributed to the following publications: "Memory in the Circumstances in Which One Learned of a Death from AIDS: The Effects of Repeated Exposure," Memory and Cognition (2003); "Social Influences on Remembering," in D. Rubin (ed.), Autobiographical Memory (coauthor, 1996); "Cognitive Aspects of Consciousness," in M. Gazzaniga (ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (1995).
About the Mnemonic Art Tour
Take advantage of a short tour of some paintings in the collection that function as mnemonic devices. The iconography in these paintings serve to reference specific passages in the sutras. That is why most of these works were not meant to be revealed to those who were not already initiates. The tour will include two types of paintings: narratives such as the life of the Buddha, and mandalas which are complex two-dimensional diagrams of one's multi-dimensional state of mind.
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Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012
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Learn about bats from around the world up close and personal at this special public event brought to you by the North Museum of Natural History & Science. As a TV personality, conservation biologist, bat expert, author and Director of the Organization for Bat Conservation, Rob Mies participates in outreach across the country. At the event on November 17, he will speak about the benefits of bats, the need for conservation and what people can do to help these unique mammals. His message includes an invitation to step into the mysterious world of bats and explore their benefits, habitats, and nocturnal strategies. He will also debunk many of the myths surrounding these creatures, which often contribute to their less-than-popular reputation. His presentation includes viewing several different kinds of bats including a Big Brown Bat from North America and a demonstration of its high-pitched echolocation with a �bat detector� device. Audience members will also meet fruit bats from Africa and Asia as well as the largest bat in the world � the Gigantic Flying Fox Bat from Malaysia with a wingspan of six feet.
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Support Grows for 'Multiple Measures' in NCLB
Support for using better ways to measure student achievement and school performance in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law got a new boost from 117 leading education leaders, scholars, researchers, and reformers.
Their Aug. 13 letter to the U.S. House and Senate education committees, which are considering the reauthorization of NCLB, called on the lawmakers to include "multiple assessments of learning and multiple indicators of school performance" in any new version of the law.
This latest call for "multiple measures" in NCLB requirements supports an earlier letter signed and sent to the same committees by nearly two dozen major civil rights and disability advocacy groups, who wrote, "If education is to improve in the United States, schools must be assessed in ways that produce high-quality learning and that create incentives to keep students in school."
Both letters are backed up by a report of the Expert Panel on Assessment convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability. For more information on the panel's report, see its letter to the House and Senate education committees.
Among the 117 singers of the Aug. 13 letter are leading measurement and evaluation experts, including Gene Glass and Eva Baker; educational researchers Linda Darling-Hammond and Howard Gardner, and leaders in school renewal including Ted Sizer, Pedro Noguera, John Goodlad and Public Education Network (PEN) Director Wendy Puriefoy.
Their letter emphasized that using multiple sources of evidence, including performance and locally-based assessments, provides many benefits to education and accountability:
The use of an index of measures of school performance provides a better picture of overall school performance;
Multiple measures supports a balanced approach to school improvement, insuring that a single-minded focus on standardized tests does not lead to narrowing the curriculum or to inappropriate practices such as keeping out or pushing out students who do not test well;
A range of assessment types is the only means for assessing a comprehensive range of content and skills;
Performance assessments provide for a focus on higher-order thinking skills.
George Wood, Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy, and a school principal, praised the focus on higher-level thinking skills.
"Many of us in the field know that the reliance on standardized test scores as the only measure of school success is narrowing the school curriculum, particularly for our most school-dependent children," said Wood. "This is a crucial civil rights issue; denying our children access to the skills and content which make democratic citizenship possible consigns them to second class citizenship and economic hardship."
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Art Classic to showcase high caliber local artwork
In the past week, the Santa Clarita Artists' Association was kept busy as more than 50 artists submitted their best works of art for exhibit in the 18th Annual Art Classic, which will be held at the Art Gallery of the College of the Canyons.
The show will be open to the public for free viewing starting this Saturday, October 6th and will culminate with the Association's gala fundraiser on October 13th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. This fundraiser aims to bring together fine art, musical entertainment, hors d'oeuvres, decadent desserts, and fabulous wine in grand style. A live and silent art auction of over 50 art works will allow every art lover the opportunity to own an original piece of art.
Mayor Pro Tem, Bob Kellar will be on hand to present awards to the artists and Don Fleming of Valencia Acura will act as auctioneer and keep the evening moving in his usual style.
Based on the works submitted, this promises to be the premier community art show with something that's sure to delight every type of art lover. Of note are a 6 foot metal dragon sculpture, a flying fairy, over-sized abstracts perfect for large spaces and corporate offices, colorfully rendered landscapes, florals, and still lifes, contemporary collages, realistically drawn graphic pieces, flowing watercolors, and artful photographs.
Tickets to the Art Classic are priced at $25. Black tie optional. For more information or to purchase tickets please visit www.santaclaritaartists.org or call (661) 618.-0939.
The SCAA is a California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation (I.R.C. §501(c)(3)), and donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.


text: 2011 New York Auto Show Preview Every April, the decidedly car-unfriendly Big Apple hosts the last major auto show before the summer. We'll provide all the new car reveals as they unfold, but in the meantime, here's a snippet of the information that has already leaked. By Michael Frank Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery 4 of 8 Lexus LF-Gh Hybrid Concept The LF-Gh heralds the next-gen GS sedanand just in time. The current model is in its sixth year of production and on pace to sell barely 5,000 units this year. When you consider Infiniti will sell about 13,000 M sedans this year and BMW may get to 50,000 in 5 series sales, the GS' low number shows just how far off the mark Lexus' sportier editions are (unless you count the LFA, and Lexus is on target to sell about 60 of those in the U.S. in 2011). The new model will debut as a hybrid, breaking the typical pattern of conventional-drive coming first, followed by a hybrid in a later model year. Styling-wise, the LF-Gh is a welcome switch to the creased-metal look of the LFA. One thing's for certain: This concept isn't a mild-mannered, "champagne"-hued sedan. It's downright menacing, with a muscular stance, wheel-well-filling 20-inch rims and performance-minded cues rather than excessive brightwork. Perhaps the open-maw grille is derivative of the latest vogue in front-end design, but concepts always push the margins. Speaking of which, the huge front brake rotor vents are accented with LED fog lamps which might not see production (LED tail lamps are shown here and more likely; the concept also gets LED headlamps, by the way), and this concept features grossly minimized sideview mirrors and door handles. Doors can be activated in other ways, and there are ideas of using cameras and monitors to reduce the profile (and wind resistance) of sideview mirrors, but that probably won't come on the new GS. The concept is almost exactly the same size as the GS450h, and though the concept looks a little more muscular, it's actually slightly narrower than the 2011 model. While Lexus has revealed very little about the drivetrain, save to say that it's a hybrid system, it will be interesting to see how the carmaker manages the dance between robust output (the current hybrid generates a total equivalent of 340 hp) and the need to improve fuel economy, as the GS450h gets 22 city and 25 highway EPA mileage, which is good but not breathtaking. Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery 0 SHARES 0 TWEET Return to Gallery Back Next Return to Gallery Return to Slideshow Related News Return to Slideshow