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We're the new teachers in town! Homeschooling mothers. Real mothers. Regular moms. Out to fulfill the calling to homeschool. Even if you're brand new to homeschooling, don't worry about what kind of teacher you'll be; you've been homeschooling since day one of being a mom! Teaching at home is simply a natural extension of motherhood.
I'm always surprised when I meet moms at the grocery store or in the neighborhood who, when talking about education, say, "Oh... I could never homeschool. My kids don't listen to me." Or they might say, "I was horrible at science (or whatever subject) so I couldn't possibly teach my own kids." Some moms are afraid to homeschool thinking that the child will become a social misfit or will miss out on things. Fallacy, fallacy, fallacy!
Regarding kids not listening or obeying their moms: What better way to work on key character traits than to have children trained daily at home? Should we assume that sending a child off to school for six hours will miraculously make him or her listen and obey mom better when they get off the bus?
Regarding moms feeling inept at various subjects: The success of homeschooling doesn't hinge on the mother's educational background. We don't need to have a PhD to be successful as teachers! We don't need to be "specialists" either.
I'd like to introduce you to my neighbor and close friend Pam who started homeschooling last year. Petite, spunky, smart -- A wonderful mom who loves her family and felt that God was calling her to homeschool. Even though she's college educated, she had a few doubts about her teaching ability in math. Understandably so. She grew up in the 70's when the schools were experimenting with "open" classrooms - as in no walls! Obviously, this led to acoustic and learning challenges for the students. Classrooms were called "pods". As in pea pods. C'mon! It was noisy and the kids (or test subjects) couldn't concentrate. Hmmm....
While doing math problems, the kids were allowed and even encouraged to look in the back of the book for answers in case they got stuck! Of course, that led to Pam getting a little behind (no wonder!) -- and as an adult she felt somewhat unsure about teaching her kids math. Well, great news! Not only (with a little help from Bob Jones Univ. Press) is she doing fine with teaching math, but is an absolutely outstanding teacher all around! Her kids are thriving in homeschooling. Pam (with God's help) definitely overcame her feelings of inadequacy in teaching.
Regarding the possibility of producing social misfits: It's proven that homeschoolers have good social skills. In many cases, I think their social skills are better than their non-homeschooling peers.
The bottom line is: We are teachers. We're teaching our kids right now! I'm confident that you'll be an excellent teacher this year. Here's why: Who (besides God and your husband, of course) loves your child/children more than you? The obvious answer is that we love our children the most, therefore we have their best interests in mind, making us the most suited for the job of teaching.
Scripture shows the natural role that mothers have in teaching. Consider the following verse:
Stay faithful, and with God's help keep being the best mom you can be!


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State legislators representing the Mohawk Valley met Wednesday with representatives of Remington Arms to discuss the company's continued future in Ilion.
The meeting came days after more than 50 Remington employees joined thousands of others to protest the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Act in Albany, a law that contains a stricter definition of assault weapons and bans magazines that contain more than seven rounds. It also requires those who own weapons classified as assault weapons to register them.
The lawmakers said Wednesday's meeting was an opportunity to express their support for Remington and its employees, and to discuss prospects for future growth.
They also said they were encouraged to learn Remington is making a $20 million investment in upgrades at the Ilion plant, and added the company vowed to work with local colleges to develop a training program to meet the need for new, skilled workers.
"Remington Arms and the 1,300 outstanding and loyal workers who make up the 200 year old company's workforce symbolize the Mohawk Valley. The region's future success is closely tied to Remington's ability to thrive. New York state has partnered with Remington in the past, and I pledged to do everything in my power to ensure that partnership is maintained," said state Senator James Seward, R – Oneonta.
"Our meeting with Remington officials was very positive and we were able to lay the groundwork for further discussions on how we can work to ensure Remington's presence in the Mohawk Valley far into the future. Remington is the foundation of our local economy and we made it absolutely clear that we will work with them, help them to stay and hopefully help them to grow," said Assemblyman Marc Butler, R – Newport.
Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, R – New Hartford, said she is "dedicated to working with Remington officials to preserve and to ultimately grow its workforce in Herkimer County" and Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, D – Utica, said he was able to affirm his "very strong support" for the company during Wednesday's meeting.
"I have heard from many constituents in recent months how important this company is to them, and I will continue to take this message to legislative leaders in Albany," he said.
With state officials from Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas reaching out to Remington about a possible relocation in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act, state Senator Joseph Griffo, R – Rome, said the legislators are focused on keeping the company in Herkimer County. "Manufacturing in this state is not an easy enterprise. We need continued attention in keeping a business and regulatory environment that allows them to survive and thrive in New York," he said.
"It is crucial that we work to support this important employer and retain these jobs which are essential to the region," added state Senator Hugh Farley, R – Schenectady.
Page 2 of 2 - Otto Weigl, senior vice president of government and legislative affairs, Jonathan Sprole, general counsel, and Paul Merz, plant manager, represented Remington at the meeting.
All six of the legislators who met with Remington voted against the SAFE Act.
Founded in 1816, Remington Arms is one of the nation's oldest continuously operating manufacturers and of the largest domestic producers of shotguns and rifles. Employees at the Ilion plant earn salaries that average in excess of $42,000 annually, plus benefits.
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Last night in New York, the seasoned fashion designer scored a surprise upset when he won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, one of the industry's most prestigious awards.
"I am happy just to be a part of this," the native Southerner said from the stage, looking genuinely stunned. "I'm at a loss for words -- this is a long way from Louisiana."
He may be a little bit country, but Reid is no stranger to industry dynamics. His eponymous business launched in 1998, received the CFDA's Perry Ellis Award in 2001 and shuttered post-9/11. He has now worked his way back to the top.
Last night, he edged out two darlings of the media and celebrity worlds, Eddie Borgo and Prabal Gurung, who were each named runners-up at the awards dinner, held Monday at Skyline Studios.
"It means everything to our business really," Reid told StyleList. "We're at that point where we need the help and boost. Hopefully, this will give it to us."
Besides being incredibly prestigious and garnering Reid attention from Vogue editors and others, the award carries a $300,000 cash prize for the winner and $100,000 for each runner-up.
"I've never seen him this excited the entire time I've known him," Mary-Louise Parker told StyleList after her friend's win. "I thought he was going to cough up a lung, but I had a feeling this was going to happen."
Actress Carey Mulligan and Karl Lagerfeld announced the winners, after the designer gave the keynote address. He told the group of designers, industry executives and celebrities about his start.
Lagerfeld submitted six sketches to a design contest, and along with Yves Saint Laurent was chosen as a winner. "His were of a dress, and mine were of a coat. His was made by Givenchy and didn't work out," he said to a laugh, and then professed to be the first designer who freelanced for others (Fendi, Chanel, etc). "It's good to struggle, but I'm not very good at it. I like doing the job better than looking for a job. I'm happy I can do this for so many years and I wish you could all do it like me for 100 years."
Also at the party were the other finalists: Joseph Altuzarra, Christian Cota, Gregory Parkinson, Loden Dager's Oliver Helden and Paul Marlow Moss Lipow, Pamela Love and Robert Geller. Established designers in attendance included Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Bastian, Chris Benz, Tory Burch, Georgina Chapman, Francisco Costa, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Reed Krakoff, Jenna Lyons, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, David Neville, Zac Posen, Rachel Roy, Behnaz Sarafpour, Peter Som and Jason Wu.
In addition to the cash prize, offered through a partnership with J. Crew and underwritten by L'Oréal Paris, Nordstrom, Theory, American Express, Barneys New York, Coach, Juicy Couture, Appleman Foundation, Liz Claiborne, Lord & Taylor and Vogue, Reid will receive a reclining-swan sculpture by artist Rachel Feinstein, and the runners-up will receive egg sculptures. The gala dinner was underwritten by eBay.
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Rangers' young players can impress at Hampden against Queen's Park, says Andy Walker
Andy Walker expects Rangers' starlets to flourish at the iconic Hampden Park on Saturday afternoon.
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When Sir David Murray sold the club to Craig Whyte for £1, surely no one could have foreseen the carnage that was about to unfold for a mighty institution?
Whyte deliberately withheld NI and PAYE contributions, put people's jobs at risk and led the club into administration before eventually the nightmare scenario of liquidation loomed.
The bitterness and resentment that ensued between SPL and SFL clubs as to what was the best solution for all concerned still lingers to this day and will stay with us for some time.
But the reality is that Rangers are now in the bottom tier of Scottish football trying to work their way back to the top again.
After a stuttering and stumbling start to life in the Irn Bru Third Division, Ally McCoist's side are stretching away from the rest for what looks set to be a guaranteed promotion.
International-class players like Steven Naismith, Alan McGregor and Kyle Lafferty all chose to leave Ibrox over the summer.
But the one benefit for the strong army of Rangers fans who continue to follow their club is that they are now seeing a growing number of home-grown players trying to make their mark.
Barry McKay, Chris Hegarty and Lewis McLeod are just a few young players who have played more games at senior level than they would have expected had Rangers still been flying high in the SPL.
It's important that these players grasp this unexpected opportunity to play for a big club, albeit in the very modest surroundings of Third Division football.
Having said that, Queen's Park play all their games at the home of Scottish football and there will be no excuses of poor facilities when the players head to Hampden for Saturday's live clash on Sky.
In October a crowd of close to 50,000 at Ibrox - a remarkable attendance for a Third Division game - saw Rangers see of the amateurs of Queen's Park 2-0.
In recent weeks the Ibrox club have been scoring freely and it's fair to say that the change in first team personnel has brought the type of inconsistency that you often associate with young players.
But these young men are slowly feeling their way and taking their time to understand how to come to terms with the demands of playing for Rangers.
Against Elgin City in the Scottish Cup a few weeks ago, McKay was the standout player and if he can continue that vein of form, he will have a big future at the club as Rangers work their way back through the leagues.
Queen's Park are unique in Scottish football.
Their amateur status is in complete contrast to the facilities they enjoy from week to week and like Rangers, they have plenty of players looking for a career in the game.
Andrew Robertson played well at Ibrox when the clubs first met and missed a terrific chance to equalise before Lee McCulloch scored his second of the game.
McCulloch has played a captain's part this season with 20 goals already but more importantly he looks eager to pass on his vast experience to guys half his age.
I'm expecting Rangers to win comfortably and get to a level of performance that will enable McCoist to put out a side capable of taking on the experience of Dundee United in the Scottish Cup early next month.


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In its ongoing restructuring process, the New York Times Company announced Feb. 20 it will sell The Boston Globe and other assets belonging to the New England Media Group. According to analysts, the transaction could fetch $200 million.
"Our plan to sell the New England Media Group demonstrates our commitment to concentrate our strategic focus and investment on The New York Times brand and its journalism," said Mark Thompson, president and CEO of The New York Times Company.
Thompson said the move is in the best interest of shareholders.
New England Media companies include the Boston Globe, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Boston.com.
The New York Times acquired the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, but recently circulation has been declining. According to the New York Times, circulation at the Globe decreased from 438,621 in 2002 to 230,351 by September 2012. The New York Times hired investment bank Evercore partners to find a buyer for the assets.
The proposed sale continues a series of divestments in a bid to focus on core New York Times activities. IAC/InterActiveCorp bought About.com for $300 million in September. The remainder of the Fenway Sports Group, owner of the Boston Red Sox, was sold for $63 million in May 2012. In addition, the company sold 16 regional newspapers for a $143 million in 2012.
Citigroup estimates that the New England Media Group might only fetch around $200 million. "The segment generated $395 million in revenue in 2012. Assuming a 17 percent margin [and] applying a 3 times multiple—on the high end of comparable large metro newspaper sales—implies that the paper is worth ~$200 million."
The analysts think that the transaction is a positive overall, but hurts cash flow, which makes it harder to pay a dividend. The New York Times has not paid an annual dividend since 2008. Shares in the New York Times Group jumped 28 percent to $9.19 in late New York trading Feb. 20 but pulled back to $9.03 in after hours trading.


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Orozco's masterpiece is a scathing critique of humanity, which led to much controversy when it was unveiled in 1934. It feels just as bold today. The artist used the symmetry of the space to devote panels of the West Wing to Mesoamerican themes and the East Wing to the growing European power. The paintings jump from discordant concepts such as human sacrifice to harmonious ideals such as the pre-Columbian golden age of agriculture, arts, and sciences. No subject was spared Orozco's scorn, from nationalism to religion to education. One panel in particular, Gods of the Modern World, must have had Dartmouth professors up in arms: Skeletons dressed in academic garb look on indifferently as another skeleton gives birth to "useless knowledge." "This panel, in particular," Powers notes, "had tremendous impact on Jackson Pollock when he came to look at the murals in 1936, shaping the course of modern American art." hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections
New London Post Office:
New London, Connecticut
Upon entering the New London post office, you might feel that it's an odd endeavor to peer at art while other folks are standing in line to send off packages. Bring in a letter if you have to, but don't let that dissuade you from visiting this cavernous edifice, almost a block long in the heart of downtown. Look up: Below the crown molding are six panels of a mural completed by Thomas La Farge in 1938. At the height of the Great Depression, La Farge won a competition and became one of the growing number of New Deal muralists hired by the federal government "to provide work for all Americans, including artists." La Farge's winning theme, whaling, was perfectly suited to a community that was built on the bounty of baleen.
Above the P.O. boxes, you'll find the two panels of Aloft. (All six panels have exactly the same dimensions: 3 feet wide by 14.5 feet long.) A shirtless sailor, strapping and as formidable as this building, climbs the mainsail. On the adjacent mural, Early Morning, a long line of men work in tandem to hoist a sail, offering Americans an uplifting message: We're going to get through these hard times by toiling together.
La Farge was an avid sailor, but whaling was not his area of expertise. Several "old salts" still living in New London when he made his preliminary sketches questioned the anatomy of his whale. He left the large mammal out of the two panels titled Cutting-In, depicting another brawny sailor digging his harpoon into the water. The artist–a grandson of John La Farge, creator of some of the exquisite stained-glass windows of Boston's Trinity Church–would soon commandeer his own ship, a Coast Guard cutter, during World War II. In 1942, it went down off the coast of Newfoundland, and La Farge perished at the age of 38, leaving these murals as his legacy. usps.com, lymanallyn.org
Weir Farm National Historic Site:
Branchville, Connecticut
When New York City collector Erwin Davis became obsessed with a painting owned by artist Julian Alden Weir, he made him an offer that was hard to refuse: In exchange for the painting and $10, Davis would transfer the deed to a 153-acre farm in the southern Connecticut countryside, near the hamlet of Branchville, on the Ridgefield/Wilton line. Weir arrived in the summer of 1882, was immediately enamored of the sylvan setting, and painted the first of the hundreds of works that he and his friends would create here over the next nearly 40 years.
To this day, the property remains a rural retreat that continues to inspire; it's the only site in the National Park Service system dedicated to American painting. Walk first inside the Burlingham House Visitor Center (open two to four days per week year-round) to see a short film on the life of J. Alden Weir, considered one of the fathers of American Impressionism. That's not to say he wasn't disgusted with this type of painting when he first encountered it in Paris, calling an exhibition of Monet, Manet, and Degas works "worse than the Chamber of Horrors." Yet soon enough, he was utilizing the loose brushstrokes and plein air setting that would become the trademarks of Impressionist style.
Don't miss the evocative photos of Weir with John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam, just two of the many celebrated artists who enjoyed visiting Weir at his country home, and see the lone original Weir work in the building, The Truants (1896). Then immerse yourself in the same natural setting that inspired Weir. Trails lead to a pond, barns, old stone walls, a sunken garden, and his house and studio, which will be open to the public for the first time later this year. (Grounds are open every day, year-round.) Better yet, bring a sketchbook. nps.gov/wefa/index.htm


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AboutcueB Gallery is proud to present 'Beauté Sous le Pied', a captivating new series of prints by photographer Peter Cain. In a departure from Cain's usual landscape images, this collection focuses on the finer details of the world around us. It invites the viewer to take the time to discover the beauty that lies, often unnoticed, beneath our feet. At first glance the viewer is transported through time and space, presented with alien-like landscapes which enthral and intrigue. It is only upon closer inspection, when one engages with the subtle nuances of the images, it becomes apparent that these spectacular, and seemingly vast, 'landscapes' are in fact closer than we think. It is Cain's suggestive approach to this series that allows the viewer to question their own perceptions of the environment they inhabit when confronted with the mystifying images. The inspiration for this series comes from Cain's relationship with a familiar landscape; a collection of rock pools visited every summer throughout his childhood. What is addressed through his photographs is how although the ancient rock formations have changed little in what seems like a lifetime for Cain, his own awareness of the world around him has altered with time and growth. The artist and the viewer are reminded of the infinitude of the planet we live on, often overlooked and yet, at times, the most constant and durable element in our own personal histories. Cain's progression within this environment from mischievous child to grown artist has allowed him to create a world where memories of childhood and a sense of adventure and discovery come together with a sophisticated element of contemplation, allowing for a journey into the inner soul of our planet and ourselves. For more information and images, please contact Franco La Russa at firstname.lastname@example.com
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On Monday citizens went to the polls in municipalities across Ontario to elect new
representatives to their city councils. In Toronto, the result was a new mayor and changes to city council. This early on, the only thing we know for sure is Toronto wanted something different for the next four years.
Toronto journalist Patrick Cain posted some informative maps on his blog illustrating the vote breakdown Monday. I've reposted one of this maps, but you should visit his site to see the rest!
Investigating the maps reveals a number of interesting trends in the election. Although Rob Ford won the mayoral race with a plurality of votes, his margin of victory was larger in some wards over others. In fact, in at least 13 wards, the mayoral runner-up, George Smitherman, received more votes.
It may seem obvious that different people support different candidates, but have you ever considered why?
Choosing who to vote for is a complicated decision-making process, which involves balancing many conscious and subconscious perspectives within the minds of each voter.
A study performed after the 2000 federal election yielded an informative breakdown of the choices we all make internally when selecting our favoured candidate.
You might be surprised to discover that a lot of that process isn't actually up to you. We make a lot of choices without even realizing it.
The base-level evaluation of who you'll vote for is described as sociodemographic characteristics. That's a big word that refers to where you were born, where you live, and even the background of your family. These are factors that shape who you are, even if you don't realize it. They play a large role in the next category, your personal beliefs and values.
Some people support the same political party their whole life, often that of their parents. That's because the positions of political parties in this province are mostly built around underlying values and beliefs. While the political parties aren't officially involved in municipal politics, mayors and councilors are often closely connected to the parties that share their values and beliefs.
Sometimes very closely connected: Ward 19 (Trinity-Spadina) in Toronto elected Mike Layton to be their councillor. He's the son of federal NDP leader Jack Layton. Olivia Chow, the elder Layton's wife, and the younger Layton's step-mom, is the federal MP for the very same riding.
Consider how the sociodemographic breakdown of Trinity-Spadina, an urban, middle-class, and ethnically diverse neighbourhood, might share the same values as the Layton-Chow family.
From here on in, however, the reasons behind choosing a candidate become more likely to change from year to year. Economic perceptions are very subjective to your own personal financial situation, and very influenced by the state of the economy at the time of election. But the overall tendency is to re-elect an incumbent government in economic good times and give them the boot during recessions. As the current deputy mayor, mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone was the closest we had to an incumbent, and he fared quite poorly at the polls city-wide.
Sometimes a single major issue will be the focus of an election race. Your opinion on that issue, again the result of your underlying beliefs and sociodemographic background, will influence your selection of a candidate. While no single issue dominated the candidate rhetoric during the election race, perceptions of the current mayor's performance was often front and center to the debate.
That brings us to the leaders, the mayoral candidates themselves. The media tends to focus on public perceptions of candidates, often embellishing their personalities into caricatures. In fact, the study revealed that the likability of candidates mattered less than the needs and opinions of the voter.
The final factor in voter's minds on election day is the hotly debated issue of strategic voting. You may realize that your preferred candidate is unlikely to win, but if you vote for them anyways you're hurting the chances of another acceptable candidate winning. This is called a vote-split, where a number of candidates with similar platforms receive only a portion of the votes that could have gone to a single candidate. When this happens, a candidate can win an election even if the majority of voters do not share their positions or values: They simply had less competition for potential voters.
What do you do? The choice is yours. There's no right or wrong way to vote.
Expect post-election analysis by the media to debate whether or not a vote split occurred between the second and third runners-up in the Toronto mayoral election. If you add up the total votes that George Smitherman and Joe Pantalone received, it's greater than the votes mayor-elect Rob Ford received by just 1,800 votes, or less than half of one per cent of the total votes cast.
But really, that's a meaningless fact. There's no way to know for certain who Torontonians would have voted for had either candidates dropped out of the race prior to election day. It's entirely possible that Pantalone fared so poorly because Torontonians chose to vote strategically for Smitherman. Or it's entirely possible that, because of all the various factors we've discussed above, many Pantalone voters found Smitherman to be an unacceptable choice.
Whatever the case, 53 per cent of the eligible voters showed up at the polls on Monday. In the 2006 municipal election in Toronto, only 39 per cent voted. That's good news for democracy!


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Volume 170 / Number 3 / June 2010 / Pages 460-464
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The aim of this study was to validate a Monte Carlo-based model of the Greek Research Reactor-1 (GRR-1) developed with the MCNP5 code. The GRR-1 core was modeled in detail using the exact geometry without approximations. The inventory of the core was derived using the WIMS-ANL code, taking into account the different 235U burnup of each fuel assembly. The model was validated against experimentally determined control rod reactivity worth and neutron flux measurements performed in various irradiation positions. The ratio of the calculated-to-measured integral reactivity of each of the five control rods was found to be 0.972 ± 0.151, 1.083 ± 0.168, 1.156 ± 0.179, 0.874 ± 0.137, and 1.097 ± 0.170. The calculated-to-measured thermal neutron flux ratios ranged from 0.83 ± 0.04 to 1.22 ± 0.07. Therefore, good agreement between MCNP calculated and experimental values was observed. The GRR-1 core model will be fully implemented in the design of material irradiation experiments along with reactor safety and fuel management studies.
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Jodi Arias, come on down!
The actual cost of your murder trial, along with the penalty phase, as of this week is $2,150,536 and 42 cents, and since Arizona taxpayers will be footing that bill, can we all agree that the "price is wrong"?
Oh, the numbers are correct, but for a trial to cost that much and for the expenses to continue with no end in sight -- that's wrong!
The trial was held and a verdict was handed down by the jury: Guilty of first degree murder, which seemed right at the time, considering the fact that the victim's throat was slit and he was shot in the head, in addition to some 30 knife wounds.
That's about as "first degree" as you can get.
That jury, however, was not able to agree on her sentence: Death, life or incarceration for some other period of time, so in order to get a death penalty verdict, a new jury will convene March 17th.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
That's right, folks! We all begin paying for a new trial -- an issue that could have been resolved if everyone had simply agreed not to seek the death penalty.
I don't know where you stand on capital punishment, but as costs head toward $3 million, this whole trial is killing me.
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Well then, about me... How do you describe yourself in a single paragraph? Let's just list some stuff about me to start with: I'm a very casual person, and prefer an evening at home (or with friends) to going to the symphony and being fancy. This means I enjoy grabbing sushi on happy hour, hiking when it's warm out, watching a good movie, and am (admittedly) a gamer when I run out of other stuff to do. I've also got a very sarcastic personality and tend to make jokes almost everywhere I go. And they're hilarious. Stuff I'm in to: Well I'm big into history (especially ancient history). There's also learning cool sciency facts, eating foods I've never eaten before... You know, stuff that's fun. Other stuff about me: Well, if you're curious then message me and we'll start a conversation!
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Video games
Martial arts, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 1-2 times per week.
I don't believe in astrology
I like Dogs
I actually don't have any pets, but I'm personally fond of large dogs (like labradors). The small ones annoy me, so I avoid those like the plague.....
Well I visited Washington DC for about a week, which was incredible and I've always wanted to go back. Also a trip to Rome at some point in my life would be pretty amazing...
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Favorite shows: The Office, Spartacus, Frasier, Futurama, The Simpsons, etc. Will come back to list more favorites later.....
I enjoy learning about new things, hiking when it's warm out, watching a good movie, and am (admittedly) a gamer when I run out of other stuff to do. Also there's wine tasting and brewery tours, going out for an evening....that sort of stuff.
Last read: Emperor: The Gates of Rome (Conn Iggulden) Currently reading: Emperor: The Death of Kings (Conn Iggulden again) == Part 2 in a four-part series on the life of Gaius Julius Caesar....who's basically awesome.
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Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen is continuing to investigate an apparent suicide early Monday morning.
Bowen said that at 11:49 p.m. on Sunday, authorities received a report of an individual with a firearm threatening to harm himself at the Carlyle Lake Patoka access area.
Fayette County sheriff's deputies and the Illinois State Police responded to the call and located that individual's vehicle.
Asked multiple times to exit his vehicle, Bowen said, the individual did not respond. Officers at the scene then heard a single gunshot.
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… flavored also with good memories, was enjoyed by the human inhabitants of the homestead (namely Bill and Panzi) as we took a car ride down in the Shobonier/Southern Vandalia countryside one day last week.
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After nine events and thousands of miles throughout North America, championships in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón come down to one last race. The 15th annual Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda stands to be a winner-take-all affair in the ALMS P1 and P2 classes. It makes the 1,000-mile/10-hour classic at Road Atlanta that much more critical for a quartet of teams: Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, Dyson Racing, Level 5 Motorsports and Conquest Endurance.
Driver and team championships in GT, Prototype Challenge and GT Challenge were sewn up in previous ALMS rounds. Winners next week at Road Atlanta receive 24 points with four-point intervals for each position down to fourth place.
As the championship leaders, Muscle Milk and Level 5 are in the proverbial driver's seats. To claim titles they only need to complete 70 percent of the distance of the class-winning car in their respective classes to claim titles.
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Dyson's gap to Muscle Milk is just nine points thanks to a class victory at Baltimore for Dyson's No. 20 sister car of Eric Lux and Michael Marsal. Dyson will field two cars at Petit Le Mans as well.
Level 5's Christophe Bouchut and Scott Tucker are on the doorstep of their second-straight P2 title with a 16-point lead in the driver standings. The team won seven times in nine events, including the overall win at Baltimore, leading up to Petit Le Mans with six for the Bouchut/Tucker tandem.
Two of Level 5's HPD ARX-03b prototypes — including one featuring IndyCar and Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti and his brother Marino — give the team strength in numbers against Conquest Endurance's Morgan-Nissan pairing of Martin Plowman and David Heinemeier-Hansson.
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We touched on this topic last week, but the clothing industry - and, specifically, where our clothes actually come from - is still in the news. For decades, we've all enjoyed affordable fashions, and very few of us have given a second thought to the source of the cheap clothes we buy, or the conditions under which they are produced.
But that has been changing over the past few years. The idea of fair trade, ethically sourced goods is really taking hold with many consumers, and supermarkets in particular are starting to add more and more fair trade lines to their shelves.
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Poco Leok.
The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Poco Leok.
The Global Volcanism Program has no Bulletin Reports available for Poco Leok.
Poco Leok volcano in western Flores Island was constructed with an irregular 7-km-wide caldera of uncertain origin. No pyroclastic-flow deposits are associated with the "caldera," which is poorly known geologically (Casadevall, 1989, pers. comm.). Poco Leok volcano was constructed within the caldera, culminating in the eruption of an andesite lava within the crater area. Volcanism is of Quaternary age (van Bemmelen, 1949b), and four fumarole fields are located at elevations of 825-1200 m within the depression. The Ulumbu geothermal field is located on the flank of Poco Leok at 650 m elevation and includes hot springs, fumaroles, mud pots, and steaming ground.
The Global Volcanism Program is not aware of any Holocene eruptions from Poco Leok. If this volcano has had large eruptions (VEI >= 4) prior to 10,000 years ago, information might be found on the Poco Leok page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).
This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.
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The Global Volcanism Program has no photographs available for Poco Leok.
The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.
Casadevall T J, 1989. . (pers. comm.).
Kasbani, Browne P R L, Johnstone R D, Kahsai K, Utami P, Wangge A, 1997. Subsurface hydrothermal alteration in the Ulumbu geothermal field, Flores, Indonesia. Proc 22nd Workshop Geotherm Res Eng, Stanford Univ, 1997, 7 p.
Kemmerling G L L, 1929. Vulkanen van Flores. Vulk Seism Meded Dienst Mijnw Ned-Indie, 10: 1-138.
Neumann van Padang M, 1951. Indonesia. Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields, Rome: IAVCEI, 1: 1-271.
Sulasdi D, 1996. Exploration of Ulumbu geothermal field, Flores-East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia. Proc 21st Workshop Geotherm Res Eng, Stanford Univ, Jan 22-24, 1996, SGP-TR-151: 51-54.
van Bemmelen R W, 1949b. The Geology of Indonesia. The Hague: Government Printing Office, v 1, 732 p.


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Tuaw was lucky enough to put its hands on the new SSD Thunderbolt from Elgato.
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You can reach 222 MB/s in reading and 112.7 MB/S in writing mode. If this is less that what we could have expected, due the Thunderbolt interface (theoretical speed: 1 GB/s), or from current performance from high-end SSD today (around 2-3 times faster than those figures). IT could be useful to be able to test the enclosure with another SSD, as it could provide hints and indicate if there are limitations with the SATA-Thunderbolt converter or with the controller.
We will perform such test as soon as we will have the opportunity to get a sample, as one should not reduce the advantages of SSD to the pure transfer speed, or for sequential backup.
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RALEIGH - Acting United States Attorney John S. Bruce announced that in federal court, yesterday, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced RONALD DUANE WHITE, 46, of Littleton, North Carolina, to two years' imprisonment for bank fraud. A Criminal Information was filed on December 3, 2007 and on January 14, 2008, WHITE entered his guilty plea. This case relates to false and fraudulent representations made to BB&T by WHITE, acting as President of Eaton Ferry Sales and Services, Inc., a marina and boat dealership operating primarily in Littleton, North Carolina. The Court found that WHITE falsely represented to BB&T in documents pertaining to both a March, 2005, $1.8 million line of credit expansion with BB&T and an October, 2005, $600,000 loan from BB&T that the inventory used as collateral for these agreements was free of all adverse claims or interests. In fact, WHITE had previously pledged this same inventory as collateral to another lending institution in January of 2005. The Court also found that WHITE's criminal activities were responsible for $2,442,048.63 in losses.
In commenting on this case, Mr. Bruce stated: "This type of fraudulent behavior puts the financial institutions and lending markets that so many of our citizens depend on at risk, and it is imperative that this type of criminal conduct be deterred."
Robert Trumbo, Resident Agent in Charge of the Raleigh Resident Office of the United States Secret Service noted: "Regardless of how elaborate a scheme, the United States Secret Service will continue to aggressively pursue those who prey on financial institutions and ultimately the public's trust."
Investigation of the case was conducted by the United States Secret Service. Assistant United States Attorney Jason H. Cowley served as prosecutor for the government.
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Playing World of Tanks is fun, and I also enjoy watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. What if I wanted to do both? One option would be playing on the laptop while the show is on the TV. Thanks to modder RelicShadow on the World of Tanks forums, I can now do both on one screen! RelicShadow has taken various My Little Pony mods for World of Tanks and combined them into one megamod!
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We love jetting off to faraway beaches, and the occasional business junket or foreign city break is hard to resist. Sure, we fret about the greenhouse gases and other pollutants these flights generate, but we quickly put it to the back of our minds. After all, politicians round the world seem to say that it's OK to fly.
In a television interview in January, for instance, UK prime minister Tony Blair suggested we don't need to give up flying since scientists and engineers are developing new fuels, engines and airframes to mitigate its impact. "What we need to do is look at how you make air travel more energy-efficient," he said. "If you use the science and technology constructively, your economy can grow, people can have a good time but do so more responsibly."
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The Knicks win 100-98 for their 5th straight game over the Timberwolves and 5th with Jeremy Lin commanding the point. Though he struggled during the second half when visibly tired, Jeremy was still able to draw the foul for the game winning free throw with 4 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter. Jeremy finished the game with 20 points, 8 assists, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals.
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(born Oct. 24, 1954, Mianyang, Sichuan province, China), In September 2013 Chinese businessman Wang Jianlin—chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, one of China's largest commercial real estate developers—was identified by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest person in China, with an estimated net worth of $14 billion. Wang's wealth soared in the wake of several high-profile moves during the year by Dalian Wanda, including the company's purchase of a 65% stake in Hong Kong-listed Hengli Commercial Properties in April and its $470 million acquisition of British yacht manufacturer Sunseeker International in August. Wang also raised his international profile with his company's 2012 purchase of the U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion; the deal made Dalian Wanda, which already owned some 6,000 movie screens in China, the largest cinema operator in the world.
Wang's rise to prominence was a quintessential rags-to-riches story. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1970 after having completed only middle school. He served with the Shenyang Military stationed in the northeast for the next 16 years, during which time he completed his schooling through correspondence courses and managed to graduate (1986) from Liaoning University. After leaving the military, he worked as a local government official in the port city of Dalian until 1988, when he borrowed $80,000 to launch the business that would become Dalian Wanda Group. Wang held the title of chairman of Dalian Wanda from 1989.
Under Wang's leadership, the company quickly expanded beyond its initial focus on residential development in and around Dalian and in the 1990s completed projects in such cities as Chengdu and Changchun. In 2000 the company moved aggressively into commercial real estate, and the scale of its projects became increasingly ambitious. By 2013 the company had developed nearly 80 urban complexes known as Wanda Plazas that offered both commercial and residential spaces. In addition, it operated 45 five-star hotels and 68 department stores across China and had an estimated 17 million sq m (183 million sq ft) of land under management or development.
Outside China, Wang was best known for his entertainment ventures. Although some industry observers questioned whether AMC Entertainment—a debt-laden company with seemingly limited growth prospects—was worth the $2.6 billion price tag, Wang remained upbeat about the deal, which represented the largest purchase of an American firm by a private Chinese company. He described the acquisition as part of a broader strategy to develop close business ties with Hollywood filmmakers and studios, whose involvement he sought in his company's plans to build a Hollywood-style film and entertainment district in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. In 2013 Dalian Wanda also donated $20 million to the film museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles. The academy in turn pledged its support for a proposed international film festival in Qingdao, which Wang hoped would one day rival the Cannes Festival.


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Guest of Superyacht Australia and AIMEX, hosts of this year's ASMEX conference, 22 & 23 May, Erwin Bamps, COO of Gulf Craft, is staying on for the Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, announcing today a formal agreement with Richard Morris to be the brand's distributor in this region.
Erwin Bamps (COO of Gulf Craft) and Mohammed Hussain Alshaali (Chairman of Gulf Craft)
Gulf Craft, a United Arab Emirates' company with 30 years experience in semi-custom manufacturing of boats 26ft to 135ft, has carved a reputation for 'boutique' boats, producing 400 per year for global markets that Bamps said are roughly '30% Arab Emirates, 30% Europe and 30% divided between the US, Asia and Australia'.
'Asia is becoming a very important market,' he continued, adding that Gulf Craft has been in Australia for 10 years and the market is 'growing in size and diversity'.
'The upturn in demand for boats 25m+ motivated us to look to work with somebody who has the credentials and experience in the region and the superyacht industry to suit our 'boutique orientation'.'
Morris, a Captain and stalwart of the superyacht industry, operates Australian Superyacht Charters and is a Director of AIMEX. Bamps praised Morris's extensive industry knowledge and expertise in the 'complete superyacht experience, from crewing to charter, legislation and branding'.
This is Bamps' first trip to Australia and the Gold Coast has impressed with its passion for boating. A keynote speaker at ASMEX, Bamps spoke about the importance of brand values and differentiation in a competitive market.
Referring to the GFC, Bamps pointed out that for the Arab countries, 'crisis is normal'. 'They are extremely pragmatic people. Crisis is a part of life in the UAE - every six months there seems to be a challenge, whether that's political, economic or social. Our global thinking has allowed us to weather any economic downturn.'
In 1982, Gulf Craft began operations building 'functional transport boats, Coast Guard and fishing boats', according to Bamps. 'Then we realised that there was a demand for boats as entertainment and we entered the more luxurious end of the market. In 1990, we began building yachts to 86ft, then by 1999 to 118ft. Our thinking became global and that is what has sustained and grown the brand.'
'We have 1500 staff over four shipyards, three in the Emirates and one in the Maldives, but management is extremely hands on. Boats are built to order and we work closely with all our customers.'


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Delicate threads of spider's silk are about to solve a major problem in photonics: how to make hollow optical fibres narrow enough to carry light beams around the fastest nanoscale optical circuits.
To make the fibres, Yushan Yan and a team of engineers from the University of California at Riverside give the silk thread a glassy coating, and then extract the silk by baking. They soon expect to be able to make hollow fibres with cores just two nanometres wide - or 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
In addition to photonics, the spider silk-based fibres could also be used to boost the resolution of optical microscopes. Or they could be turned into nanoscale test tubes in a new breed of sensors that can suck up single molecules of a particular chemical, say.
The hollow fibres are produced in a beguilingly simple process, similar to the way candles are made by dipping a wick in wax. The team took one-centimetre-long lengths of spider silk from Nephila madagascariensis, the giant orb-weaving spider of Madagascar.
They glued the ends to a piece of card and repeatedly dipped the silk into a solution of tetraethyl orthosilicate. They then left the coated fibres to dry and baked them at 420 °C to burn away the silk. The coating shrinks fivefold in the oven, leaving hollow silica tubes with a diameter of just one micrometre.
Tiny sensors
The next step will be to produce even finer fibres, using the thinnest known silk with a diameter of only 10 nanometres from the spider Stegodyphus pacificus, a native of the Middle East and South Asia.
Allowing for shrinkage, that means silk from S. pacificus should produce fibres with a diameter of around two nanometres. The thinnest hollow fibre cores produced by conventional methods are around 25 nanometres wide.
Philip Russell, a physicist at Bath University in Britain, who pioneered hollow optical fibres for the telecommunications industry, is impressed by the cheapness and simplicity of Yan's technique. He believes the technique, which will be described in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, will be useful for building tiny sensors that exploit the strange "supramolecular" chemistry that occurs when substances are confined in very small spaces.
In these circumstances, rates of reaction speed up significantly and completely different reactions happen. Carbon nanotubes are often used in this field, but they only come in a relatively narrow range of shapes, sizes and textures. The spider fibres offer a wider range of structures that can be more easily fine-tuned.
Christopher Viney, a chemist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, says that the new fibres could also be turned into finer fibre-optic probes for near-field microscopes. These are used by biologists who want to look at features smaller than the wavelengths of light without damaging the sample as an electron microscope does.
At present, such microscopes rely on "lenses" made from optical fibres drawn-out from ultra-thin glass tubes - but these are relatively wide at around 100 nanometres. "These new fibres will open up whole new vistas for biologists," Viney predicts.
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Global Strategic Branding Firm Siegel+Gale Uses Neural Predictors to Obtain Customer Insights that Drive Brand Effectiveness
Differentiates Qualitative Research Capabilities with Cutting-Edge Approach
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 – To uncover insights into what consumers truly believe and feel about brands, global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale and NeuroCompass examined several large consumer retail brands under a pilot study research project, using cutting-edge magnetic resonance imaging technology (fMRI) to generate remarkable consumer insights.
Insights drawn from the fMRI technology help brands understand how strongly consumers associate their brand with key emotional and functional attributes, as well as how much affinity consumers have for one brand relative to its competitors. When used in conjunction with other quantitative and qualitative data, the fMRI data can lead to a better understanding of customer needs and preferences.
"Organizations today need to understand how their customers genuinely perceive their brands," says Lisa Bertelsen, global director, Research Insights. "What's great about the fMRI technology is that it reveals the consumer associations that are more deeply-rooted versus those that are more superficial in nature. Marketers can then understand the strength of the associations and develop an effective strategy that reinforces strong brand messages—an objective we seek for our clients everyday."
Siegel+Gale and NeuroCompass showed 25 volunteers a series of brand attributes describing several consumer retailers. Meanwhile, the fMRI captured 2,400 measurements of blood flow into various areas of the brain to create a detailed picture of emotions that were triggered, the strength of each emotion and the level of desire associated with each brand. NeuroCompass' neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians and psychologists then recorded these impressions.
"The fMRI technology allows us to see activity in the limbic brain," says Gaurav Suri of NeuroCompass. "Traditional market research methodologies focus almost exclusively on the rational brain, even though decision-making is often a 'discussion' between the limbic and rational brain. Therefore, the rational brain, or cortex, may not always be aware of decision-making in the moment those decisions are made, but may create rationalizations for them later."
Siegel+Gale and NeuroCompass conducted the study to better understand human behavior—understanding that insights from both halves of the brain will generate deeper, truer customer insights.
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About Siegel+Gale
Siegel+Gale is a global strategic branding firm committed to building world-class brands through elegantly simple, unexpectedly fresh strategies, stories and experiences. With Simple is Smart as its operating philosophy, Siegel+Gale delivers powerful services in brand development, identity design, simplification, research and analytics, and digital strategy.
Since its founding by branding pioneer Alan Siegel in 1969, Siegel+Gale has helped drive business results for brands such as Aetna, American Express, Bank of America, China Youth Development Foundation, Dell, Dow Chemical Company, The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The Internal Revenue Service, The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Microsoft, Motorola, Pfizer, SAP, Sony PlayStation, Yahoo! and the YMCA.
Siegel+Gale has offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Hamburg, Dubai, Shanghai and Beijing and strategic partnerships around the world as a member of the Omnicom Group of companies.
About NeuroCompass
Based in Palo Alto, California, NeuroCompass utilizes the most advanced fMRI technology coupled with unique proprietary analytical methodologies and algorithms to identify neural correlates to predict consumer preference. Our team is composed of world renowned neuroscience researchers, psychologists, mathematicians, market researchers, and statisticians.


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Jerusalem's Shalem Center said it has received a $12.5 million challenge grant in its effort to establish what the center is billing as Israel's first liberal arts college.
The gift, from the New York-based Tikvah Fund, will match other donations during the college's first four years up to $12.5 million.
The center, which announced the gift Tuesday, said its application to Israel's Council for Higher Education for accreditation of Shalem College is pending and that it expects the school to open in the fall of 2012.
Shalem College initially will offer two majors: an interdisciplinary program in philosophy and Jewish thought, and a course of study in Middle East and Islamic studies. Middle East scholar Martin Kramer is the college's president-designate.
Since its founding in 1994, the right-leaning Shalem Center has been a high-profile intellectual presence in Israel. It publishes a journal in English and Hebrew and translates works of Western political thought into Hebrew. Among its affiliated scholars and key staff members are a number of prominent Israeli thinkers, many of them American-born.
The Tikvah Fund has been a major funder of the center's work.
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The larger problem though is the deflection of the real story in STDs.
The alternative to sober, constructive constitutional action is denial, deflection, and death.
Over the past couple of years, as the new reality has settled in, there was a great deal of denial and deflection.
also (and with more etymological propriety) deflexion, c.1600, from Latin deflexionem, noun of action from past participle stem of deflectere (see deflect). Both forms were present 17c., but the spelling with -c- has come to predominate.
deflection de·flec·tion (dĭ-flěk'shən)
A turning aside or deviation.
The deviation of an indicator in a measuring instrument, such as an electrocardiograph, from zero or from its normal position.


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Romney wins Puerto Rico, race moves to Ill., La.
At this rate, Romney is on pace to capture the nomination in June unless Santorum or Gingrich is able to win decisively in the coming contests.
Both have said they would stay in the race and perhaps force the nomination to a fight at the GOP's convention in Tampa if Romney doesn't amass enough delegates to arrive with a mandate. That would turn the convention into an intra-party brawl for the first time since 1976.
Even as Santorum declined to commit to forcing a brokered convention, his advisers were working behind the scenes on a plan to persuade convention delegates to switch candidates if the former Pennsylvania senator fails to derail Romney before that.
Romney's aides call this a fantasy scenario even as they try to prevent delegates from defecting.
Half of the states have yet to weigh in on a race with seemingly no end in sight anytime soon. That's prompted fresh speculation within the GOP over whether a contested convention is likely.
Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus insisted that party will have a nominee sooner rather than later.
"We're only at halftime," Priebus said. "I think that this process is going to play itself out. We will have a nominee, I think, fairly soon - one, two months away."
In Puerto Rico, the race was focused on the issue of statehood, and Melendez said, "This proves Gov. Romney's electability and his ability to reach out to Hispanics and minorities."
Whether that's true or not, Romney told Puerto Ricans he would support statehood while Santorum said English would have to be the official language of the island if it were to join the United States - a statement that roiled residents.
"In Puerto Rico, we get along fine with both languages," said Francisco Rodriguez, a 76-year-old architect who supported Romney and hopes Puerto Rico becomes the nation's 51st state.
Even as Puerto Rico voted, Romney and Santorum traded barbs from afar.
"Sen. Santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has," Romney told a crowd in Moline, Ill. He went a step further in Rockford, Ill., saying, "We're not going to replace an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight."
That drew a Santorum retort: "If Mitt Romney's an economic heavyweight, we're in trouble."
Aside from a pair of TV interviews, Santorum spent the day visiting a pair of churches in Louisiana, sharing how his faith has shaped his political career and his opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage. He didn't mention Romney or any of his other Republican opponents during talks at both churches.
He made clear he didn't plan to exit the race anytime soon, saying in Bossier City, La., "One of the great blessings I've had in every political campaign is people underestimate me, people underestimate what God can do."
Yet, he was curt when asked about his odds in Illinois.
"Keep working," Santorum said after services there. "That's all we can do."
Santorum spoke with CNN's "State of the Union" and ABC's "This Week." Romney appeared on "Fox News Sunday," and Priebus was interviewed on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Elliott reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Bossier City, La., Steve Peoples in Moline, Ill., and Kasie Hunt in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report.
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Recently celebrating its 40th anniversary the San Jose Museum of Art has been a showcase for contemporary West Coast collections. Its distinct voice exhibits the unique evolution of the institution from a small Richardsonian Romanesque inspired art gallery to a museum which reflects the bay area's visual art. Not surprisingly, the museum won the prestigious MUSE award from the American Association of Museums Technology Committee in 2007 and again in 2009, but don't feel you need to be an art major to appreciate this downtown landmark, the Museum hosts an ice rink in its courtyard each winter and is available for many private and corporate events year round.
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