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By PAUL SIMS
Those operating a recently-opened store in Starkville will be going into its first holiday retail season hoping shoppers will keep pets in mind while community officials encourage local spending.
The owners of North Mississippi Pet Supply opened the store the last week of August in about 2,000-square-feet of retail space.
The stores co-owners are Mark Threet and Thom Gordon.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve been talking about it as many years as IŌĆÖve known Thom,ŌĆØ Threet said, adding they had nowhere nearly to go for especially after Gone FishinŌĆÖ, a pet store in downtown Starkville, closed.
They spent their spare time researching reptiles and it ŌĆ£just kind of grew from there,ŌĆØ Threet said.
Allison Matthews, vice president of membership and community development, says several new businesses have opened in Starkville throughout this year.
One of these is North Mississippi Pet Supply.
Plus, ŌĆ£weŌĆÖve had several more businesses that have had the opportunity to grow. Numerous businesses have relocated where they could expand their merchandise or be in a better location to serve their customers,ŌĆØ Matthews said.
ŌĆ£ ... Throughout the year, despite hearing news that was not as good on the national scale, Starkville businesses have really done well in 2010. Therefore, thereŌĆÖs a lot of great choices for people shopping in Starkville. ThereŌĆÖs just so many retail stores that have wonderful gift selection, whether thatŌĆÖs home decor, electronics ... thereŌĆÖs just a great variety of anything you could want available here in Starkville. Over the year in 2010 we can definitely see that the selection has grown,ŌĆØ Matthews said.
She says based on the number of ribbon cuttings and businesses ŌĆ£weŌĆÖve had the opportunity to help celebrate new locations for existing businesses or brand-new businesses,ŌĆØ there is more retail to choose from now in Starkville than there was a year ago.
ŌĆ£I certainly would encourage everyone as they do their shopping
to please shop Starkville first. This is an important time of year for retail businesses and we have so much to choose from; thereŌĆÖs no reason for us to look any further than our local merchants,ŌĆØ Matthews said.
ŌĆ£Money spent locally stays local by creating local jobs and funding community improvements through the tax revenues. So in addition to consumers saving money and gas by staying close to home, theyŌĆÖre actually doing a great community service by shopping in their home community,ŌĆØ she said.
Regarding a goal for the holiday season at North Mississippi Pet Supply, Threet said it is ŌĆ£to create a ... variety and encourageŌĆØ people to remember their pets at the holiday season. TheyŌĆÖre part of the family too.ŌĆØ
The main thing the staff at North Mississippi Pet Supply does is take special orders and requests, Threet said.
If a customer doesnŌĆÖt see what they need, chances are the staff can order the item and have it in within a week or two, he said, adding ŌĆ£this goes for pets as well as retail items.ŌĆØ
Threet said: ŌĆ£Our main goal is for people to come in and say ŌĆśWow, they have something newŌĆÖ every time they come in,ŌĆØ adding store personnel try to bring in new items as often as theyŌĆÖre able.
He also said: ŌĆ£This is the only pet store in town. We want to meet and exceed expectations for what people want.ŌĆØ Threet added that people are welcome to bring in their pets.
The store also adopts out cats for Oktibbeha County Humane Society.
Plus, Stefanie Fulgham offers full-service grooming inside the store through her business known as Pretty Paws.
Grooming is available Tuesday through Saturday ŌĆō appointments are suggested but walk-ins are welcome.
Day staff members are Heather Gilbert and Whitney Holeman, as is Stephen Austin.
Store hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It is located at 823-D Highway 12 West.
For information, call 461-7387.


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Gun-bond bill sought by mayor clears N.C. Senate
A bill that would write some of Mayor Bill Bell's ideas about the treatment of people accused of gun-related crimes into law has cleared the N.C. Senate.
The measure passed third reading in the Senate by a vote of 46-0 and now moves on to the N.C. House, said co-sponsor Sen. Floyd McKissick, D-Durham.
As work on the bill unfolded, "the hardest part was in committee," he added, referring to a preliminary review last month in the Senate's Judiciary II Committee.
The bill evolved out of the mayor's call last year for a $300,000 minimum bond in gun-related cases. After judges and local legislators balked, Bell and City Attorney Patrick Baker came up with a different proposal that gained more support locally.
It would make it more difficult for someone charged with a felony or major misdemeanor to receive bond if they've been convicted of a similar crime in the previous five years.
The measure instructs magistrates and judges to assume in such cases that no "condition of release' would suffice to assure that the accused will appear in court.
An accused person's attorney would have to convince a judge that the person will show up for court and that he or she isn't an "unreasonable risk" to public safety.
The same strictures apply to people arrested for a gun-related felony or major misdemeanor while they're already on pre-trial release in a similar case.
Judiciary committee members reviewed the proposal last Thursday and tacked on an extra requirement for people charged with a second gun-crime while they were awaiting trial on a like charge.
A judge inclined to grant bond in such cases would have to "at least double" whatever bond the defendant posted to get out of jail the first time, seeing to it the defendant pays at least $1,000.
The judge would also have to require a secured bond, the sort that requires an up-front payment.
McKissick said Sen. Warren Daniel, R-Burke, sought the amendment and that he'd accepted it because it didn't "hurt the purposes" of the measure.
Once it got to the floor, the bill encountered questions from Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover, who wanted to know whether there was any precedent for it.
McKissick assured the Wilmington senator that the state already takes a similar approach to cases involving drug trafficking and gang-related crimes.
"It's not the first time there's been this type of carve-out to give a certain group of cases a different type of treatment in setting bonds," McKissick said.
Senate vote tallies show that Daniel and Goolsby were both present for the final vote Wednesday and supported its passage.
McKissick said he's expecting state Rep. Mickey Michaux, D-Durham, to shepherd the bill through the House.

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|Designing Your Own Platform Modules
The Gadget Gangster Platform is designed to be easily expandable with the modules we've designed and with modules that you design. Below are specs and templates for common PCB Design applications.
If you've designed a module and want to share it, let us know — Just shoot us an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) - we can help you promote it or sell it for you.
Platform Modules feature dual connector rows for all pins, and each column should be interconnected. This is because the Platform Module underneath may have sockets on the outer row OR inner row.
We recommend that Platform Modules include all 40 connectors so that other modules can stack on top or below.
Propeller Platform kits use an ON MC33269T-5.0G LDO for 5v regulation @ 800mA (datasheet) and an ST LD1117V33 LDO Voltage Regulator for 3.3v regulation @ 800mA (datasheet) Both have a dropout of about 1V. Surface Mount Propeller and PICaxe Platforms use an ultra LDO, the ST LD29150DT33R (datasheet) and LD29150DT50R (datasheet). SMT regulators have a dropout of 0.1V @ 100mA, up to 0.5V @ 1.5A. All modules are rated at 12VDC max and use 2.1mm barrel jack power connectors.
The power switch on the Propeller Platform controls the flow of current through the power jack, but NOT Vin. If your Platform Module provides power through Vin, the power switch on the Propeller Platform will not turn it off, so you may want to include a power switch on your module.
Modules that provide power must provide power to both sets of power connectors. Modules that receive power can expect it at either set of power connectors.
We have suggested footprints for Platform Modules, but there are no requirements other than the positioning of pin headers. Stackable modules are limited to .310" height using 3M 2340-6211TG headers. Platform Modules that exceed that height are acceptable, but it should be noted that they are only suitable at the ends of a stack.
There are currently 2 Platform Module footprints:
Dimensions 3.8"x2.5", same dimensions as ExpressPCB's Miniboard service
Dimensions 2.8"x2.5"
No logic voltage level is specified. The Propeller Platform operates at CMOS (3.3v) logic voltage levels and is not 5V tolerant. Series resistors in the 1k-100k range are suggested on input pins interfacing with 5V logic voltage levels. PICaxe Platforms operate at 5v logic levels.
The Propeller Platform kit includes one 10k? pullup on P29 (SDA) and space for a 1/4W pullup on P28 (SCL). SMT Propeller Platforms have 10k pullups on P0..P3, P29 (SDA) and P28 (SCL). All other pins are floating. Pullups on P0..P3 are for the onboard microSD card slot. Modules that require a pullup on SCL should include an extra 1/4W 10k? resistor in packaging for kit users. The Propeller Platform USB also has a TX / RX connection to an FTDI FT232R USB interface IC on P31 & P30.
These specifications & templates are made available under the terms of the MIT License. Do not include Gadget Gangster Trade Dress or logos on your design without our permission, but you are free to describe your product as "For the Propeller Platform", "For the Gadget Gangster Platform", "Propeller Platform Compatible", or "Gadget Gangster Platform Compatible".
H/T to Tim Swieter, E.I., of Brilldea for providing feedback on these specifications and donating Eagle templates. Thanks Tim!!!


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TG rides along with the Carabinieri
A 172mph Lotus. Blues and twos. Armed policemen. And a fridge. Organ delivery just got faster
Posted: 02 Dec 2011
Behind the driver's seat of each car lurks a refrigerated compartment for keeping lungs, livers and pancreases tasty-fresh. You're looking at a pair of 345bhp, 172mph, organ delivery vans. Today, mercifully, the Lung Fridge is empty. But, though this is a mere warm-up for the carabinieri, it is still, unquestionably, the fastest method of making progress through Rome in a midweek rush hour.
This traffic is pure, unadulterated, gridlocked carnage. The recognised method for calculating journey times in Rome is as follows: plug your start point and destination into a route finder, multiply its result by 15, add a few hours and then cancel anything you were planning on doing until next week.


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…the party when you wear this officially licensed Walking Dead Bunny Slipper Girl Child Costume. Blood-stained robe comes complete with attached shirt, shorts,character wig and slippers with a plastic bottom to run after your victims faster. Add your own teddy bear and makeup to complete the look!
Bewilder everyone in this spooky Midnight Spirit girls costume. No one will know who lurks beneath the long gray and white wig - plus, you can hide beneath the hooded cloak and perfect your spectral skills. Wig and hooded cloak come complete with black dress.
Conduct an awesome Halloween experiment when you don this Mad Scientist child costume. The long white lab coat comes complete with a brain headpiece with attached wig along with a pair of gloves. Freak out the neighborhood in this wild outfit!
Kids love Halloween, but they might not like it as much with you wearing the officially licensed It Pennywise Adult Costume. This yellow, red, green and purple jumpsuit features neck ruffles and comes complete with white gloves and a character mask with an attached red wig. Freak out the children…
Celebrate your 118th birthday with this officially licensed Hotel Transylvania Mavis Child Costume. Travel in style in this black dress with a dramatic high neckline and spooky bat graphic and matching striped tights. The accompanying wig ensures you'll cause many zings this Halloween.
Rise up and feast on the living when you wear this Zombie Classic boys costume. The top and pants of this zombie costume features sewn-in body parts and comes complete with a mask and attached wig along with a pair of gloves.
Celebrate your own version of The Nightmare Before Christmas in this unique twist on a classic costume. The officially licensed deluxe Nightmare Before Christmas Sally tween costume includes the signature red yarn wig, clever glovettes and sassy character dress along with a petticoat.
Clown around after dark on Halloween when you wear this creepily crafty Evil Clown boys costume. The black and red top of this clown costume comes complete with matching pants, a collar, spiked cuffs and a mask with wig.


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The debate over faith-based school funding has come to dominate the Ontario election campaign.
But it is not a new debate.
In 1984, shortly before he retired as premier, Bill Davis announced his government was reversing a long-standing policy, and would extend full funding to separate Roman Catholic schools, which - at that point - were only funded up until grade 10.
It was a controversial decision. Some say it may have cost Davis's successor, Frank Miller, the 1985 election.
At the time of the announcement, Davis appointed Bernard Shapiro - then director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - as a one-man Royal Commission to investigate private schools in Ontario.
Shapiro's final report came out the following year, when David Peterson's Liberals were in power. He recommended that if Catholic schools were funded, other private schools should be funded, too.
Sound familiar?
The report was shelved. Our political party leaders are debating the issue anew in 2007.
Shapiro went on to become Ontario's Deputy Minister of Education, the Principal of McGill University and, most recently, federal ethics commissioner.
He will appear on the program tonight to offer his historical perspective on an issue that has become so prominent in the current election campaign.
For even more historical perspective, please click on the Video button below to view a documentary on the history of full-funding for Catholic education in Ontario. The documentary was put together by TVO producer Erica Balch and first aired on Studio 2 in 2004, on the 20th anniversary of Bill Davis's announcement.


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On September 1, 1989, OSHA issued a
final rule on the Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) of Title 29 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR) Part 1910.147. This standard, which went into effect on January 2, 1990,
helps safeguard employees from the unexpected startup of machines or equipment
or release of hazardous energy while they are performing servicing or
maintenance. The standard
identifies the practices and procedures necessary to shut down and lock out or
tag out machines and equipment, requires that employees receive training in
their role in the lockout/tagout program, and mandates that periodic inspections
be conducted to maintain or enhance the energy control program.
This rule requires that, in general, before service or maintenance is
performed on machines or equipment, the machines or equipment must be turned off
and disconnected from the energy source, and the energy-isolating device must be
either locked or tagged out. OSHA
has determined that lockout is a more reliable means of deenergizing equipment
than tagout and that it should always be the preferred method used by employees.
OSHA believes that, except for limited situations, the use of lockout
devices will provide a more secure and effective means of protecting employees
from the unexpected release of hazardous energy or startup of machines and
Scope and Application
lockout/tagout standard applies to general industry employment and covers the
servicing and maintenance of machines and equipment in which the unexpected
startup or the release of stored energy could cause injury to employees.
The standard applies to any source of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic,
chemical, thermal, or other energy, but does not cover electrical hazards.
Subpart S of 29 CFR Part 1910 covers electrical hazards, and 29 CFR Part
1910.333 contains specific lockout/tagout provisions for electrical hazards. The standard does not apply in the following
While servicing or maintaining cord and plug connected electrical equipment, provided that the equipment is unplugged from the energy source and the plug remains under the exclusive control of the employee performing the servicing.
During hot tap operations that involve
transmission and distribution systems for gas, steam, water, or petroleum
products when they are performed on pressurized pipelines.
This applies when continuity of service is essential, shutdown of the
system is impractical, and employees are provided with alternative
protection that is equally effective.
Servicing and/or Maintenance Operations
If a
servicing activity such as lubricating, cleaning, or unjamming the production
equipment takes place during production, the employee performing the
servicing may be subjected to hazards that are not encountered as part of the
production operation itself. Workers
engaged in these operations are covered by lockout/tagout when any of the
following conditions occur:
The employee must either remove or bypass machine guards or other safety devices, resulting in exposure to hazards at the point of operation.
The employee is required to place any
part of his/her body in contact with the point of operation of the
operational machine or piece of equipment.
The employee is required to place any
part of his/her body into a danger zone associated with a machine operating
In the above situations, the equipment must be deenergized, and locks or tags must be applied to the energy isolation devices. In addition, when other servicing tasks occur such as setting up equipment or making significant adjustments to machines, employees performing such tasks are required to lock out or tag out if they can be injured by unexpected energization or startup of the equipment. OSHA also recognizes that some servicing operations must be performed with the power on. Making many types of fine adjustments, such as centering the belt on conveyors, is one example. Certain aspects of troubleshooting, such as identifying the source of the problem as well as checking to ensure that it has been corrected, is another. OSHA requires the employer to provide effective protection when employees perform such operations.
performing minor tool changes and adjustments and/or other minor servicing
activities that are routine, repetitive, and integral to the use of the
production equipment and that occur during normal production operations are not
covered by the lockout/tagout standard.
The work must be performed using alternative measures that provide
effective protection.
Provisions of the Standard
The standard requires employers to establish procedures for isolating machines or equipment from their source of energy and affixing appropriate locks or tags to energy isolating devices to prevent any unexpected energization, startup, or release of stored energy that could injure workers. When tags are used on energy isolating devices capable of being locked out, the employer must provide additional means to assure a level of protection equivalent to that of locks. The standard also requires the training of employees and periodic inspections of the procedures to maintain or improve their effectiveness.
The lockout/tagout rule requires that the employer establish an energy control program that includes (1) documented energy control procedures, (2) an employee training program, and (3) periodic inspections of the use of the procedures. The purpose of the energy control program is to ensure that the equipment is isolated from its energy source and rendered inoperative prior to servicing or maintenance whenever the possibility of unexpected machine or equipment startup exists. Employers have the flexibility to develop programs and procedures that meet the needs of their particular workplace and the particular types of machines and equipment being maintained or serviced.
The energy
control procedures must outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and
techniques that will be used to control hazardous energy sources as well as the
means that will be used to enforce compliance.
At a minimum they should include, but not be limited, to the following
A statement on how the procedures will
be used.
The procedural steps needed to shut
down, isolate, block, and secure machines or equipment.
The steps designating the safe
placement, removal, and transfer of lockout/tagout devices and who has the
responsibility for them.
The specific requirements for testing
machines or equipment to determine and verify the effectiveness of locks, tags,
and other energy control measures.
The employer or an authorized employee must notify affected employees before lockout or tagout devices are applied and after they are removed from the machine or equipment.
The procedures must include the following:
steps: (1) preparing for shutdown, (2) shutting down the machine or equipment, (3) isolating the machine or equipment from the energy source, (4) applying the lockout or tagout devices to the energy isolating devices, (5) safely releasing all potentially hazardous stored or residual energy, and (6) verifying the isolation of the machine or equipment prior to the start of servicing or maintenance work.
In addition,
before lockout or tagout devices are removed and energy is restored to the
machines or equipment, certain steps must be taken to reenergize equipment after
servicing is completed. This
includes (1) ensuring that machines or equipment components are operationally
intact, (2) ensuring that all employees are safely positioned or removed from
equipment, and (3) ensuring that lockout or tagout devices are removed from each
energy-isolating device by the employee who applied the device.
Energy-Isolating Devices
employer's primary tool for providing protection under the standard is the
energy-isolating device, which is the mechanism that prevents the transmission
or release of energy and to which locks or tags are attached.
There are two types of energy isolating devices: those capable of being
locked and those that are not. If
the energy-isolating device is lockable, the employer must use locks unless he
or she can demonstrate that the use of tags would provide protection at least as
effective as locks and would assure "full employee protection."
Full employee protection includes complying with all tagout related
provisions plus implementing additional safety measures that can provide the
level of safety equivalent to that obtained by using lockout.
This might include removing and isolating a circuit element, blocking a
controlling switch, opening an extra disconnecting device, or removing a valve
handle to reduce the potential for any inadvertent energization while tags are
Although OSHA acknowledges the existence of energy-isolating devices that
cannot be locked out, the standard clearly states that whenever major
replacement, repair, renovation, or modification of machines or equipment is
performed, the employer must ensure that the energy-isolating devices for such
machines or equipment are lockable. All newly purchased equipment must be
Requirements for Lockout/Tagout Devices
attached to an energy-isolating device, both lockout and tagout devices used in
accordance with the requirements of the standard help protect employees from
hazardous energy. A lockout device
provides protection by preventing the machine or equipment from becoming
energized. A tagout device does so
by identifying the energy-isolating device as a source of potential danger. It
indicates that the energy-isolating device and the equipment being controlled
may not be operated while the tagout device is in place.
Whichever devices are used, they must be singularly identified, must be
the only devices used for controlling hazardous energy, and must meet the
following requirements:
Lockout and tagout devices must withstand the environment to which they are
exposed for the maximum duration of the expected exposure.
Tagout devices must be constructed and printed so that they do not
deteriorate or become illegible, especially when used in corrosive or wet
Both lockout and tagout devices must be standardized according to color, shape,
or size. Tagout devices must also
be standardized according to print and format.
Lockout and tagout devices must be substantial enough to minimize early or
accidental removal. Locks must be
substantial enough to prevent removal except by excessive force of special tools
such as bolt cutters or other metal cutting tools.
Tag means of attachment must be nonreusable, attachable by hand,
self-locking, and nonreleasable, with a minimum unlocking strength of no less
than 50 pounds.
Locks and tags must clearly identify the employee who applies them.
Tags also must warn against hazardous conditions if the machine or
equipment is energized and must include a legend such as the following: DO NOT
Application of Lockout/Tagout Devices
established procedure of applying energy controls includes the specific elements
and actions that must be implemented in sequence.
These are briefly identified as follows:
Removal of Locks and Tags
Before lockout or tagout devices are removed and energy is restored to the machine or equipment, the authorized employee(s) must take the following actions or observe the following procedures:
Employee Training
employer must provide effective initial training and retraining as necessary and
must certify that such training has been given to all employees covered by the
standard. The certification must
contain each employee's name and dates of training. For the purposes of the
standard, there are three types of employees—authorized, affected,
and other. The amount and
kind of training that each employee receives is based upon (1) the relationship
of that employee's job to the machine or equipment being locked or tagged out
and (2) the degree of knowledge relevant to hazardous energy that he or she must
possess. For example, the
employer's training program for authorized employees (those who are
charged with the responsibility for implementing the energy control procedures
and performing the servicing or maintenance) must cover, at a minimum, the
following areas:
details about the type and magnitude of
the hazardous energy sources present in the workplace, and
the methods and means necessary to
isolate and control those energy sources.
By contrast, affected employees (usually the machine operators or users) and all other employees need only be able to (1) recognize when the control procedure is being used and (2) understand the purpose of the procedure and the importance of not attempting to start up or use the equipment that has been locked or tagged out. Because an "affected" or "other" employee is not performing the servicing or maintenance, that employee's responsibilities under the energy control program are simple. Whenever there is a lockout or tagout device in place on an energy-isolating device, the affected or other employee must leave it alone and not attempt to energize or operate the equipment. Every employee training program must ensure that all employees understand the purpose, function, and restrictions of the energy control program and that authorized employees possess the knowledge and skills necessary for the safe application, use, and removal of energy controls.
Training programs for authorized employees to comply with this standard, which is performance oriented, should deal with the equipment, type(s) of energy, and hazard(s) specific to the workplace being covered. Retraining must be provided, as required, whenever there is a change in job assignments, a change in machines, equipment, or processes that present a new hazard or a change in energy control procedures. Additional retraining must be conducted whenever a periodic inspection reveals, or whenever the employer has reason to believe, that there are deviations from or inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use of the energy control procedures.


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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Gone with the Wind, Nikki at The Scarlett Rose Garden is hosting a "ball" for fans of the movie. As a fan of GWTW myself, I wanted to play along, so I thought it would be fun to show you this 1833 Greek Revival in Covington, Georgia, which was the original model for Twelve Oaks.
GWTW fans are excited because the house is on the market for $1.4 million (maybe a few of us could go in on it together?). It sits on nearly 4 acres and has 8 bedrooms and 6 baths.
Here's what Twelve Oaks looks like in the movie:
The exterior was actually a matte painting in the movie, which is why the people look almost ghostlike when I snapped this photo of them riding horses down the long lane toward it. (You may recall that this long, tree-lined drive was inspired by the "Avenue of Oaks" at Boone Plantation that I showed you in my post about The Notebook.)
They did create a real front porch for the close-up scenes of Twelve Oaks, however, and you can see how they replicated the big pillars:
When Scarlett sees Twelve Oaks on the day of the barbecue in the novel, it's described this way:
"They topped the rise and the white house reared its perfect symmetry before her, tall of columns, wide of verandas, flat of roof, beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous and gracious to all. Scarlett loved Twelve Oaks even more than Tara, for it had a stately beauty, a mellowed dignity that Gerald's house did not possess."
The interiors of the actual home were not as large or as formal as those created as sets for the movie. Here is the actual staircase that climbs three stories in the Greek Revival today:
And here is the staircase used in the movie (everything's always bigger in Hollywood!):
A pretty blue bedroom in the real home:
A bedroom where the women had their naps in the middle of the party:
The home has 10 fireplaces. Here's one in the actual home:
And the much grander version in "Gone with the Wind:"
The real dining room:
A dining room large enough for the men to meet to discuss the impending war in:
Thanks to Old House Dreamer for posting the link to this house and bringing it to my attention. You can see more photos and get more information from the listing.
See my Gone with the Wind post for more photos of Twelve Oaks from the film, along with Tara and Aunt Pittypat's house–or visit my post about The Notebook to see the original Avenue of Oaks.
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good times, for a change
Over the last eight years, I have always looked for ways to connect with the boys. It's a delicate dance that I have to do, respecting their limits while pushing them to give new and different things a try. It's made even harder by my position in their lives as a Stepparent. Most of the things I love are rejected out of hand, because to embrace those things would be to wholly embrace me, which (in their minds) would be to somehow betray their father. I have shared my interests and passions with them, but beyond poker, and Ryan's limited affection for 80s alternative music, we have little in common at this point in their lives. It makes me sad from time to time, but it's something I have to accept; they're just not interested in geeky things like comics and RPGs. I'm sure that part of it is their age, and the differences in our generations. There are times when we make wonderful connections, but I still lay awake some nights and wonder if I'll ever be able to fully close the gap that currently exists between us.
I'm not a car nut, by any means. I think American muscle cars from about 1960-1974 are pretty damn cool, but I could care less about today's expensive sportscars . . . Nolan, on the other hand, positively loves them, and while we were at the car show, he made an effort to share that love with me, the same way I've attempted to share my love of science fiction with him. On the surface, this is just a car show . . . but it's much, much more to me . . .
Over the next hour or so, we slowly moved from one booth to the next across the West Hall. I watched Nolan as he sat in several cars that he likes to drive in various Xbox games. I could see the far away look in his eyes while he was in the Audi TT, gripping the wheel tightly as he pulled through turns across Trafalgar Square in Project Gotham Racing, and I smiled. He finished his race (in first place, no doubt) and got out of the car.
"Nice driving," I said. "Ready for the South Hall?"
"You know it," he said, and took my hand.
We left the hall, and headed down a long corridor. Our walk was uneventful, until we neared a small chamber called the Concourse Hall. Nolan looked in as we passed, and stopped abruptly.
"Oh my god, Wil! We have to go in there! I just unlocked a Lotus in PGR2, and they're totallygoing to have the real one here!" He said, "Can we? I've never seen one in real life."
"Of course!" I said, "That's why we're here."
We walked into a room that was packed (well above its capacity) with hundreds of exotic sportscar enthusiasts. In addition to the Lotuses, this hall contained the Bentleys, the Ferraris, the Lamborghinis, and the Saleens.
"Man, this room is really full. Should we come back later?" Nolan said.
I looked around the room. It was hot, and a faint reek of greasy hair and sweat hung in the air, like an elementary school hallway after lunch recess. Several people pushed their way past me, one of them knocking me off balance. Nolan squeezed my hand and steadied me.
"I think the Lotus booth is just to the right," I said, "I think we can at least see that, and if it's too crowded, we can come back later on."
"Are you sure?"
In the far corner of the room, a group of men cheered, and I saw several arms reach into the air.
"Yeah. I think there's just some sort of giveaway happening over there."
"Maybe it's a free whack at the GTO," Nolan offered.
"Oh! Where can I sign up?" I said.
We giggled and slowly wove our way through the teeming masses yearning to win prizes, until we were pressed right up against the rail in front of the Lotus booth.
We hadn't even stopped moving when Nolan went off on this car. He was like an audio version of Car and Driver.
"Can I take pictures?" He asked.
I handed him the camera and told him to go nuts.
A few minutes and about a thousand pictures later, we squeezed out of the suffocating room.
While we walked past a booth selling Auto Show T-Shirts, Nolan said, "Wil, I can get so many Kudos with that car in PGR 2 --" He stopped, and turned to face me.
"Is this boring for you?"
It was a very unexpected question, and caught me completely off guard.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because I keep stopping you to look at cars."
"Nolan, it's a car show. What else are we going to do?"
"Okay, I'm just checking." He looked away, then back to me. "Are you sure you're not bored?"
"Nolan, I'm really happy to just be hanging out together, and I think it's totally cool that you're into these cars. I'm having a fantastic time."
"Okay," he said.
We walked another fifteen feet or so before he stopped again.
"Thanks for bringing me here, Wil." He hugged me, right there by the Los Angeles Times booth.
I hugged him back, tightly, in spite of myself. "You're welcome, Nolan. Thank you for telling me that." I smiled. I've spent most of the last eight years teaching both kids to be compassionate and appreciative. I love it when I see a little glimpse of my parenting in action.
"I'm really glad we did this today," he said.
"Me too."
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Mount Allison University has taken eating local to a whole new level.
This year the university turned some previously unused land into a farm in a pilot project with bountiful results. Between 30,000-35,000 pounds of potatoes and other vegetables were harvested from the farm and are being served in the university's dining hall.
Mount Allison marked this occasion with Local Food Day on Tuesday, Oct. 4. All food at Jennings Hall was local (Maritime region) and marked accordingly.
The event also included information displays from many of Mount Allison's local food providers including Belliveau Orchards and ADL Cheese of PEI. Approximately 40 per cent of food served on the Mount Allison campus is purchased from suppliers in the Maritime region.
"We are so pleased with the results from the Mount Allison Farm project in its pilot year," says Michelle Strain, the university's director of administrative services.
Heidi Goodine, a Mount Allison student who worked on the farm this past summer says, "Working on the Mount Allison Farm has been a rewarding experience. Working literally from the ground-up with limited start-up materials, we have managed to create an admirable crop. Weather has been the biggest challenge. However, in terms of education, it has been a great season for the farm where we now know what crops will work best for next year."
The Mount Allison Farm, located just four blocks from campus, is on a 24-acre plot of previously unused land. Two acres were farmed in the first year with plans to expand in coming years. Crops included five varieties of potatoes, turnips and lettuce, as well a separate organic garden and herb garden.
While most of the harvest is being used in Jennings Dining Hall, the Mount Allison Farm will be holding potato u-picks for the public at the farm throughout the fall.
The u-picks will be open on Saturdays (Oct. 1 and Oct. 15) from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The farm is located at 149 York Street in Sackville.


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UTSA Campus Technology Store hosts Faculty-Staff Appreciation Day Dec. 7
(Dec. 3, 2009)--Just in time for holiday shopping, the UTSA Campus Technology Store will host a Faculty-Staff Appreciation Day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Dec. 7. The store is in the University Center on the Main Campus adjacent to Starbucks.
The daylong event will feature product discounts, a drawing for an iPod Nano and light refreshments. Doughnuts and coffee will be available from 9 to 11 a.m., and coupons will be handed out while they last. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., every hour on the hour, the store will give away flash drives, cups and pens.
The Campus Tech store offers one-stop shopping for a variety of top brands including Adobe, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. The store carries computers, software, peripherals and other IT supplies. Notably, there is a wide selection of Apple products including the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Air, Time Capsule and Airport. The store also offers the iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle in a variety of colors and storage capacities.
Faculty-Staff Appreciation Day is the first day of the three-day "Tech the Halls" holiday sale. During the sale running Dec. 7-9, faculty and staff will receive an additional $25 off its education pricing for MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
For more information, visit the UTSA Campus Technology Store Web site or call 210-458-7866.


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CEDAR RAPIDS - Coaches at Coe College did some solid work during the week to prepare their team on both sides of the football.
The Kohawks did well defensively against a unique triple-option attack and scored 21 unanswered points in the second half on offense for a 31-14 win Saturday afternoon over Luther at Clark Field.
But when it came to dialing up a great game plan and implementing it, Gage Mohs was the one who stole the day. The senior running back made his final game at Clark Field memorable in more ways than one by shocking his girlfriend, Abby Lantzky, postgame with an engagement ring and marriage proposal.
She said yes.
"I'm overwhelmed," Lantzky said. "I had no idea. I've probably been bugging him a lot lately (about getting engaged). But I never thought it'd be like this."
Mohs is Coe's leading rusher, a guy who always has used quick feet to succeed. But quick hands in this case produced an off-field touchdown.
As usual, the Sumner-Fredericksburg graduate gathered with family outside the Coe locker room after Coach Steve Staker's postgame chat, giving his sister a hug. She slipped him the ring during the hug.
"Had it all planned," Mohs said. "Walked off, had my sister give me a hug and pass me the ring. Put it in my helmet, walked up to Abby, gave her a hug and told her 'I've got to ask you something.' That was it."
Everyone around them cheered. High-school sweethearts promised for life.
"I've been kind of scheming this all year," Mohs said.
You wonder if he would have popped the question had Coe lost. No worries, as it turned out, with the Kohawks (7-2) getting two long touchdown passes and a 1-yard scoring sneak from quarterback Josh Rekers to turn around a 14-10 third-quarter deficit.
Luther (2-7) went ahead late in frame on a 1-yard Dylan Smallwood sneak. Rekers found receiver Dominik Lensing for a 57-yard touchdown just 36 seconds later.
Lensing had no one within 15 yards of him when he hauled in the pass.
"I think they had a blown coverage or something," said Rekers, who completed 19 of 29 passes for 286 yards and three scores. "I saw him wide open. I just didn't want to miss him. He made a good play dealing with the wind."
That wind was a bear all day, with the aforementioned play the only time either team scored into it. Not that it bothered Luther (2-7) much.
The Norse are a running team, with all but 29 of their 239 yards coming on the ground. Jeremy Redmond had 105 yards and a touchdown out of a full-house backfield, a la Air Force and Navy.
It's a tough preparation defensively.
"They block it well on the perimeter, and that's what was frustrating us," Staker said. "We weren't able to get off our blocks. They're a ball-control team, and that's what worried us. They get ahead and start controlling the football, you just don't get it back. But Josh came through, threw some really nice balls."
Coe is in a second-place tie with Dubuque and Simpson at 4-2 in the Iowa Conference. Wartburg eked out a 16-14 win over Central and is 5-1 in the league, with only last-place Loras remaining on the schedule.
Coe finishes the regular season at Central. Luther hosts Simpson.
"We wanted to win this for our seniors, send them out the right way," Reker said. "They've been such a big part of our program the last four years. I've had a really great chance to learn from those guys. I've learned how to do it the right way."
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While I was searching for Henry Waxman's comments about Anna Eshoo's PhRMA boondoggle which will leave cancer patients in financial ruin just to pay for lifesaving biologic drugs, I came across a bizarre claim from her cosponsor Jay Inslee. He seems to believe that these companies need to be granted a monopoly on these drugs so that investors can recoup the money the risk for developing them:
A fellow named Eric Limburgh, he's Limburgh's grandson of fame. He's in Snoquamish Washington who was bedridden due to rheumatoid arthritis til these guys invested about a billion dollars to build a product called "Enbrel."
He's now up walking around, he's a successful artist whose life has been restored because we have laws that allowed investors to put a billion dollar investment that eventually, through luck and incredible creativity, built this drug to save his life.
That's the guy I'm thinking of when I'm voting on this, that does create the appropriate balance of protecting investors' investment and moving forward, and I think that's the right balance.
But an analysis by Knowledge Ecology International shows that it is doubtful that Amgen spend more than $400 million on clinical development of the drug before approval, and that more than half of the early Phase I and II clinical trials on this drug were funded by the government through NIH or by universities. Amgen invested money, but invested most of its money late, when the risks were low. And, on top of this, some of the Amgen outlays on clinical trials qualified for the orphan drug tax credit, which means that U.S. taxpayers pick up half the costs of those trials.
Moreover, even if Amgen had spent $1 billion developing Enbrel, they've been more than amply awarded given that Enbrel is the top-selling biologic drug with reported sales of $5.29 billion in 2007 alone. (PDF)
I was with a young person recently who has rheumatoid arthritis. Fully insured, they're paying $1900 a month for Enbrel. They are afraid to tell anyone about it for fear it will make them unemployable.
The public already has significant investment in these drugs, at the most risky stage. Apparently Inslee believes that is appropriately compensated by allowing drug manufacturers to reap huge profits on blockbuster drugs with protected monopolies. The public is invited to go into hock paying for them as they try to stay alive.


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Microsoft System Configuration Overview:
The Microsoft utility MSCONFIG is a tool available in most currentWindows versions (XP, Vista and Windows 7) which is very helpful to maintain, troubleshoot and most importantly limit Windows startup programs. MSCONFIG provides a handful maintenance tasks, but the most common one is the ability to control programs that automatically start up when you boot your PC
How is the Microsoft system configuration utility useful?
As a Windows user you will install many programs over time. Some of these applications set themselves to automatically start up each time you boot your computer. Some of them are obvious but many of them will be hidden as background processes. Although many programs are necessary to be running at startup, many of them are not and just waste your computer's resources. Loading unnecessary programs at the startup can lead to various problems such as:
- Taking unnecessary space of the computer memory.
- Slow down startup process
- Slow down the computer speed.
- Startup problems due to corrupted files.
- System crash.
Using the MSCONFIG utility for computer maintenance and troubleshooting
- Click Start button and select "Run"
- Then type MSCONFIG.
It should open a screen similar to below depending on your Windows version. I am using screens from Windows XP.


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To achieve real-time control of fusion plasmas, the flux distribution and derived quantities have to be calculated within the time of the machine control cycle, which in the case of the ASDEX-Upgrade experiment can be as small as 1 ms. To this end we have developed a fast numerical solver for the Grad-Shafranov equation, which allows exploitation of the parallel capabilities of modern multicore processors. Our implementation, termed GPEC (Garching parallel equilibrium code), is based entirely on open-source software components. For a numerical grid of size 32 × 64, our new code requires only 0.04 ms (0.11 ms for 64 × 128) for a single call of the Grad-Shafranov solver using a standard Intel Xeon quad-core CPU (3.2 GHz). We also show the first GPEC benchmark results obtained on the Intel Sandy Bridge eight-core server processor and demonstrate the relevance of the new solver for application in plasma equilibrium codes.
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|Joyce Kaser
|Susan Mundry
|Katherine E. Stiles
|Susan Loucks-Horsley
|© 2013
|288 pages
A Joint Publication With WestEd
|Complimentary Review Copy
|Individual Purchasers
|Book One: Leadership Every Day
|Day 1: We Are All Leaders
|Day 2: Effective Leadership Practices
|Day 3: Making Conscious Choices
|Day 4: Committing to a Moral Imperative
|Day 5: Using Power Appropriately
|Day 6: Building Shared Vision
|Day 7: Promoting Diversity
|Day 8: Leading For Results
|Day 9: Using Habits to Our Advantage
|Day 10: Generating and Sharing Knowledge
|Day 11: Keeping a Client-Centered Focus
|Day 12: Recognizing and Celebrating Success
|Day 13: Networking
|Day 14: Embracing Innovative Thinking
|Day 15: Aligning Actions and Beliefs
|Day 16: Examining Your Culture
|Day 17: Building a Trusting Climate
|Day 18: Collaborative Leadership
|Day 19: Building Relationships
|Day 20: Trying Something New
|Day 21: Coping with Ambiguity, Change, and Confusion
|Day 22: Leading Through Crisis
|Day 23: Balancing Leadership and Management
|Day 24: Living with Paradox
|Day 25: Paying Attention to Leadership Actions and Traits
|Day 26: Getting Support
|Day 27: Asking Good Questions
|Day 28: Finding Win/Win Solutions
|Day 29: Modeling Leadership
|Day 30: Ethical Leadership
|Day 31: Doing the Right Thing
|Book Two: Leading Change
|Day 1: Change as a Process
|Day 2: Change Happens in People First
|Day 3: The Impact of Change
|Day 4: Moving through the Stages of Change-Concerns
|Day 5: Moving through the Stages of Change-Behavior
|Day 6: Change as Continuous Improvement
|Day 7: Speed of Change
|Day 8: The Missing Piece in Change
|Day 9: Balancing Constants and Change
|Day 10: Recognizing Assumptions
|Day 11: Crafting a Shared Vision
|Day 12: Mission and Goals
|Day 13: Motivating Others
|Day 14: Planning for Change
|Day 15: Origins of Change
|Day 16: Accepting Loss
|Day 17: Dealing with Disappointment
|Day 18: Change and Resilience
|Day 19: Facing Problems
|Day 20: Neutralizing Resistance
|Day 21: Capitalizing on Resistance
|Day 22: Knowing Your Constituents
|Day 23: Managing Multiple Change Efforts
|Day 24: Systems Thinking
|Day 25: Examining Change History
|Day 26: The Downside of Change
|Day 27: Building Ownership for Change
|Day 28: Individuals as Agents of Change
|Day 29: Self-Assessment as a Change Leader
|Day 30: Sustaining Individual Leadership
|Day 31: Initiating, Implementing, and Institutionalizing Change
|Book Three: Leading Learning Communities
|Day 1: Leading Communities of Learning
|Day 2: Leading Learning in Organizations
|Day 3: Building Cultural Proficiency
|Day 4: Powerful Learning Experiences
|Day 5: How People Learn
|Day 6: Transformative Learning
|Day 7: Transforming Situational Learning
|Day 8: Defining Expertise
|Day 9: Characteristics of Effective Professional Learning
|Day 10: Aligning Beliefs and Behaviors
|Day 11: Designing Professional Development
|Day 12: Committing to Vision and Standards
|Day 13: Using Data to Guide Professional Development Designs
|Day 14: Inputs into Professional Development Design
|Day 15: Knowledge and Beliefs in Science and Mathematics
|Day 16: Professional Development in Context
|Day 17: Critical Issues to Consider
|Day 18: Ensuring Equity
|Day 19: Strategies for Professional Learning
|Day 20: Selecting and Combining Strategies
|Day 21: Professional Development for Student Impact
|Day 22: Balancing Philosophy and Pragmatism
|Day 23: Incorporating Reflexive Practice
|Day 24: Reaching Everyone or Scaling Up
|Day 25: Team Learning
|Day 26: Sharing Knowledge and Capturing Lessons Learned
|Day 27: Using Program Logic Models
|Day 28: Achieving Realistic Outcomes
|Day 29: Gathering Evaluation Data
|Day 30: Leading Learning by Example
|Day 31: Taking Responsibility for Learning
|Book Four: Leading Effective Groups
|Day 1: Leading Groups
|Day 2: Four Roles of Group Leaders
|Day 3: Group Norms of Collaboration
|Day 4: Group Norm #1—Pausing
|Day 5: Group Norm #2—Paraphrasing
|Day 6: Group Norm #3—Posing Questions
|Day 7: Group Norm #4—Putting Ideas on the Table
|Day 8: Group Norm #5—Providing Data
|Day 9: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Verbal Communication
|Day 10: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Nonverbal Communication
|Day 11: Group Norm #7—Presuming Positive Intentions
|Day 12: Dialogue Versus Discussion
|Day 13: Dialogue as Reflective Learning Process
|Day 14: Eliciting Participation From Everyone
|Day 15: Cultural Proficiency
|Day 16: Establishing Clear Roles and Functions
|Day 17: Structuring an Effective Meeting
|Day 18: Providing Logistical Supports
|Day 19: Setting Up the Meeting Room
|Day 20: Group Decision Making
|Day 21: Reaching Consensus
|Day 22: Giving Feedback
|Day 23: Receiving Feedback
|Day 24: Handling Problems
|Day 25: Options for Resolving Conflict
|Day 26: Conflict as Opportunity
|Day 27: Facilitating Conflict
|Day 28: Resolving Value Conflicts
|Day 29: Dealing with Disruptive People
|Day 30: Beginnings and Endings
|Day 31: Six Domains of Group Development
|Book Five: Leadership for Results
|Day 1: Results-Based Leadership
|Day 2: Role of Leader to Achieve Results
|Day 3: Using Rigorous Evidence
|Day 4: Being an Accountable Leader
|Day 5: Role of Policy in Achieving Results
|Day 6: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
|Day 7: Equitable Access to Data
|Day 8: Purposeful Use of Data
|Day 9: The Power of Data
|Day 10: Collaborative Inquiry
|Day 11: Engaging Everyone with Data
|Day 12: Data-Driven Dialogue
|Day 13: Root Cause Analysis
|Day 14: Cause and Effect
|Day 15: Cause and Effect Analysis: The Fishbone
|Day 16: Identifying Problems
|Day 17: Communicating about Problems
|Day 18: Criteria for Selecting Outcomes
|Day 19: Selecting the Right Intervention
|Day 20: Rapid Prototyping
|Day 21: Assessing Evaluation
|Day 22: Reflecting on Results
|Day 23: Planning for Success
|Day 24: Components of Trust
|Day 25: Keeping the Trust
|Day 26: Time Required for Results
|Day 27: Getting Better Results
|Day 28: Seeking Collective Impact
|Day 29: Sustaining a Focus on Continuous Improvement
|Day 30: Results Over Time
|Day 31: Continuing to Learn
|Joyce Kaser
|Susan Mundry
|Katherine E. Stiles
|Susan Loucks-Horsley
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|288 pages
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The major change that we suggest for Leading Every Day is adding a fifth book on achieving results. We believe that with the growing emphasis on accountability, this book should add more about how leaders create a culture of success and commitment to results. We realize, however, that adding a fifth book creates a problem with length. To accommodate that, we propose dropping the notes section and running straight text. In the introduction we will suggest that readers keep a journal to accompany their use of the book. The theme of Book Five will focus on the use of the logic model approach to achieving results whereby leaders will help others establish a common understanding of the goals and outcomes and the inputs and strategies for achieving them. Topics for the contemplations may include the following:
· Role of leader in achieving results, including ethical leadership
· Using data effectively
· Problem resolution (Distinguishing between actual problems and symptoms of problems; problem triage; linking cause and effect: an inexact science; and the changing context: how solving one problem often creates a new one)
· Determining outcomes
· Benchmarking as well as sustainability and rapid prototyping
· Evaluating progress and achievement of outcomes
In writing Book 5, we will pull out related contemplations from the other four books (e.g., Book 1, Days 8 & 9) and move them to Book 5.
Here are some of the changes we propose to the other four books:
Book One: We want to incorporate the latest research on effective leadership practices (e.g., http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/school-leadership/effective-principal-leadership/Pages/The-School-Principal-as-Leader-Guiding-Schools-to-Better-Teaching-and-Learning.aspx). The article identifies the following key leadership practices: shaping a vision of academic success for all students; creating a climate hospitable to education; cultivating leadership in others; improving instruction; and managing people, data and processes to foster school improvement. We address vision quite well in the book, but not as much the other four. We'll add contemplations on climate and especially on building a trusting climate (see Bryk/Schneider et al., 2004) as distrust overpowers attempts at reform. We'll also add ones on innovative thinking, new forms of partnerships (e.g., collective impact), and summaries of the new elements in principal evaluation systems.
Book Two: An addition to Book 2 will be contemplations on what we've learned about the speed of change, that it does not necessary take years to implement a change. We'll also discuss the value of "quick wins." Reports coming from the School Improvement Grants (SIG) across the country will be helpful.
Book Three: Learning communities were just getting a good start when the 2nd edition of Leading Every Day came out, and much has happened in the intervening years. We'll incorporate the most current information on Learning Communities (Fulton, 2011), including best practices. We'll also draw from Learning Forward's new standards for professional development and from the Chung Wei et al. (2009) study on the relationship between teacher professional development and student achievement.
Additionally, since the publication of the second edition of Leading Every Day, we completed the third edition of Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics (2010). We will revise and update all of the contemplations that reference the third edition of the Designing PD book.
Book Four: Although we do not have a revision "theme" for Book Four, we have discussed, for example, eliminating Day 19 on setting up the room. We need a more upbeat ending than Day 31 provides. We also plan to include contemplations focused on "non-verbal" facilitation and the essential abilities of effective presenters (Zoller & Landry, 2010) as well as update the contemplations focused on the norms of collaboration based on Garmston and Wellman's book, which they have updated (2009). Perhaps other "themes" will emerge as we review the feedback and get into the writing.
In all of the books we will search for better quotes, edit remaining contemplations for clarity, and update those that are no longer current. As previously, there will be some hard choices on what goes and what stays. We hope feedback from the reviewers gives us guidance.
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Brandon Leyh, shown above looking for a receiver during last season's Uteck Bowl in Sackville, is eager to hit the field this fall.
He was a unanimous choice by coaches in the Atlantic Universities Football Conferences for All-Conference honours and down the backstretch he was ranked near the top among quarterbacks in Canadian college football.
And Brandon Leyh feels he was really just beginning to improve a year ago and is confident that time spent at the training camp of the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders will make him a much better player this time around.
And coach Kelly Jeffrey can barely hide a smile, thinking the game should really be slowed down for his young signal caller.
The native of New Westminister, B.C., has two more seasons of eligibility and there are those in the football community who are predicting he may become All-Canadian caliber, with the possibility of moving on to the professional ranks.
Possessed of an especially powerful arm – described as "a rifle" – Leyh recovered from a mid schedule hiccup when he flamed out at St. F.X. He says Jeffrey took him aside and asked him if he was having fun playing the game.
"Coach J is the best I ever had," Leyh said following his return this past weekend. "He showed me how the game should be played and after that things seemed to fall into place."
It was this turnaround that resulted in the Mounties winning their first conference crown in 15 years as he took charge of the airways, consistently hitting his receivers for huge games and touchdowns. It was during the second half when his team rebounded from a 1-4 record to finish 4-4 and then advance along the trail with playoff victories over Acadia, then St. Mary's in a scintillating Loney Bowl and, finally, a losing effort against Laval in the Uteck Bowl here in Sackville.
The Mounties bounced back from a seven-point deficit in the final minute as Leyh hit receiver Josh Blanchard for seven and after an interception Kyle McLean connected on a field goal for the three-point victory.
And even in defeat Leyh gained national attention for his efforts, which netted 273 yards and a trio of touchdowns against a team nobody could beat.
The 6'2", 220-pound pivot earned an invitation to the professional camp on the basis of seven games down the stretch in 2013. He says the speed of the CFL game is unbelievable and, due to this, he believes he will be able to better deal with situations in the local conference.
"I went through the drills in every single practice," he says, "and learned to stay more calm in tough situations and move around a little more."
Leyh is eagerly awaiting the opening and especially now that Quinn Everett has returned from the CFL and will be offering protection from the line as he is being moved over from defense.
He is one of the team captains running the "captain's practices" that began two days ago on the soccer field. Other captains like Te Nguyen and Everett are leading the workouts until the coaches are permitted on the field this Friday.
While fans will be looking for the Mounties to fill the air with footballs due to the moving on of All-Canadian tailback Jordan Botel, Leyh believes the running game will be successful but in a different form. But he is looking to the long ball when he says, "We have six receivers who could each be the number one on most teams."
He also welcomes the fact other teams will be zeroing in on the Mounties believing he has too much support to be overly concerned. And he quickly points out that in backup quarterback Alex Field the team has a player capable of stepping in and taking over at any time.


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President Mohamed Morsi instructed on Tuesday 13/11/2012 the government under Prime Minister Hisham Qandil to work on five axes, which complement the government policy statement. This came during Qandil's statement before the president.
Presidential Spokesman Yasser Ali said the President instructed the government to draw up a clear cut timetable as regards the government plan until the year 2014.
Ali stressed that Morsi asked the government to set legislative priorities on national security, safeguarding the Revolution, recovering smuggled funds, eliminating trespassing on the State land, putting an end to lawlessness, and prohibiting attacks on public and private freedoms.
The President also asked the government to set guarantees for securing success of the plan and explaining it to the people, stressing the importance of developing Sinai, providing a sum of one billion pounds needed for its development.
Moreover, the Prime Minister presented the government's economic plan during a meeting that was held at the Presidential palace.
The plan consists of three phases; a short term plan from 2012 to 2014 for social prosperity, a medium term plan from 2012 to 2017 for strengthening the economic structure and a long term plan from 2017 to 2022 for advancing the country.
Qandil said the plan aims at making Egypt a democratic, civil country, a regional pioneer and an influential international player.
The government adopts an economic and social philosophy that differs from what was common before the Revolution, Qandil added.
When preparing the plan, the government took into consideration the nature and circumstances of the current situation in Egypt and the available chances and potentials, he underlined.
The PM said the new subsidy system aims at helping the poor to get out of the poverty cycle, meeting their needs, securing subsidy for the targeted categories and protecting the middle class and poor families. This will be done through redressing the bread distribution system, eliminating price distortions, amending the system of distributing butane gas, raising price of gas for the energy intensive industries and distributing gasoline and solar through the smart card system, he noted.
Qandil referred to a full dressed plan for developing Sinai through financial appropriations, which will be included in the budget of 2012/2013 and settling more than 1.5 million citizens there.


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I don't know if anyone else has bothered to track this down, but I finally got around to buying that Mystic Dawnstone recipe that was recently added in Halaa. There was actually a mention of it in the patch notes, I just didn't bother to pick it up since it's more of a PVP item. Then yesterday I was on the WoW forums where folks seemed pretty excited about it and I thought I probably ought to go ahead and nab one.
It's in limited supply, but I went to Halaa and was able to purchase it with no problem. It Binds on Pickup so people won't be tempted to farm them and prevent us JC folk from validly purchasing it. It cost me 12 gold, no Halaa tokens or anything. And it gives +8 resilience. It's not something I would be terribly excited about, but if you're looking for a unique item to sell it might be worth a try. I haven't noticed anyone else selling Mystic Dawnstones on the AH lately, so perhaps it would be a decent seller to the PVP crowd.
Let us know if you've already sold any of these (or made them and didn't sell any). I'm curious if this thing is worth the stones... heheh.
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Posted by Kaliope at Thursday, July 05, 2007
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Nice, good job getting that.ReplyDelete
The Allakhazam link: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=24208&locale=enUS;source=live
As someone who enjoys the financial aspect of the game, I wish it wasn't BOP, lol. This would probably do really well on the AH.
If you want something unique to sell just chain kill the engineering merchant in winterspring for the fused wiring recipe, that sells like hotcakes at 30g a pop.ReplyDelete
- HarricatNovember 7, 2007 at 4:23 AM
Sells for about 25-33g on the AH for me.ReplyDelete
Can by the Dawnstone for 15-20g on the AH.
Quick small profit.
In no time the recipe is paid for.
I usually will put about 5 Mystic Dawnstone on the AH in the morning before work.
when i come home 3 or 4 of them have sold.
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Three wolf moon t-shirt becomes "internet phenomenon"
Viral activity has seen a t-shirt shoot up the Amazon sales chart, as amusing customer "reviews" have made the tee, and its page on the site, a must-see.
The BBC reports on this "latest internet phenomenon", getting comment from an Amazon PR bod: "The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt recently moved up 2,300% in sales rank. We are grateful that our reviewers are so passionate".
Apparently, the first review gave the shirt five stars, stating it: "fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women" but "cannot see wolves with arms crossed". This then saw hundreds of others posting "frivolous reviews" with the current total at 333.
"I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather", is one, while another reviewer says: "One thing I noticed, after repeated wearing my body hair seems to have grown considerably thicker".


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Grey's Anatomy Season 9, Episode 23 Preview: A Storm's Coming (VIDEO)
Grey's Anatomy Season 9's two-part finale begins next week, with Season 9, Episode 23: "Readiness Is All" (May 9). And based on this preview, it's gonna be good.
In the preview, we see a huge storm is headed Grey Sloan Memorial's way; Alex looks ready to kick Jason's sorry butt for hitting Jo; and Meredith falls down the stairs, which we have a feeling is very, very bad news.
Here's the official synopsis:
The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital prepare for a super storm heading towards Seattle; Owen's desire to be a parent gets stronger as he becomes closer to Ethan; and one wrong move puts the lives of Meredith and her baby in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Jo looks to Alex for help in a moment of crisis, and one doctor gets the shock of her life.
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For years, doctors have been divided on how effective annual testing and screenings are for apparently healthy individuals. New research, however, shows that a simple blood test may predict who is at highest risk to develop heart problems – and how long these people may have to live.
Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, Utah, collaborated with scientists at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on the new study using the complete blood count risk score, an inexpensive tool that uses all of the information in the common blood test that includes information frequently underused.
Researchers will present this study at the 2013 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Dallas, on Nov. 19 at 5:45 pm, ET.
Physicians have used this CBC lab test for years, but they did not understand that all of its components provide information about life expectancy, according to lead researcher, Benjamin Horne, PhD, director of cardiovascular and genetic epidemiology at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute.
"Physicians can now provide better care using the CBC risk score as a standard method to assess whether patients may have future health problems that lead to death," he said.
"Among apparently healthy individuals, this risk score can help physicians identify which patients have higher risk, as well as who they should focus further time and effort. The score also gives physicians excellent confidence in identifying low-risk individuals who don't need as much attention or costly testing," said Dr. Horne.
The new study used CBC lab testing information gathered as part of the JUPITER Trial, a randomized clinical trial of a cholesterol-lowering drug, Rosuvastatin, led by Harvard cardiologist Paul M. Ridker, MD.
The JUPITER study enrolled more than 17,000 individuals in 26 countries and followed them for up to five years. Participants in JUPITER had a clean slate free of cardiovascular disease normal low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol). but elevated C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation associated with cardiovascular disease.
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Individuals in JUPITER with a lower CBC risk score were very unlikely to die, while those with CBC risk scores in the middle of the range had more than 50 percent higher risk of death. People with the highest CBC risk scores were about twice as likely to die as those with low scores, researchers found. Whether physicians use this risk score, however, is a different story.
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Other contributors to the study include: Paul M. Ridker, MD, and Nina P. Paynter, PhD, from Harvard and J. Brent Muhlestein, MD, and Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute.
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Yoshichika (Mike) Sakai, his predecessor as Managing Director, having successfully guided Bösendorfer through the difficult period of restructuring following the global financial crisis, is returning to Japan (in April) where he will be ideally positioned to empower Bösendorfer's global position as he continues his career within Yamaha piano group as well as remaining a Board Director of Bösendorfer.
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Enjoy an award winning dance and musical performance that captures the flavor and passion of San Antonio and its cultural roots in Mexico this summer during the month of July. ¡BRAVO! An Evening of Song and Dance features the Parks and Recreation Department's Fandango and Alamotion Dance Troupes performing Mexican Folkloric, tap, jazz, hip hop and Latin style dance.
The City's youth band, TAKE NOTE, will once again accompany the dance performances while showcasing the band. Local radio personality Elizabeth Ruiz will serve as emcee.
Seven performances are scheduled for 8 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday nights, July 3 through July 25, at the Arneson River Theatre in La Villita. Local guest artists are featured each week.
"¡BRAVO! is one of the best entertainment values in town for both tourists and locals alike," says Cultural Program Manager Mona Lisa Montgomery. "The audience will truly enjoy the drama of traditional folkloric numbers, passionate vocals, outstanding live music and high energy contemporary dance routines, all reflecting the rich diversity and heritage of our City. It's pure entertainment San Antonio Style!"
The Fandango and Alamotion Dance Troupes are composed of young dancers who participate in an audition held annually in August that is open to all dancers. Both troupes perform throughout the year representing the Parks and Recreation Department at various events citywide.
TAKE NOTE, a pre-professional music ensemble for youth ages 13 to 18, was recently recognized by the Texas Recreation and Park Society with an Arts and Humanities Award for outstanding programming.
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