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PetSmart® Helps Teachers Find the Perfect Pet07:00 EST Tuesday, January 24, 2012 PHOENIX (Business Wire) -- Teachers looking for just the right pet for their classroom just got a big helping hand from the Pets in the Classroom grant program, created by the Pet Care Trust. The grant provides eligible teachers with funds to use at their local PetSmart store towards the purchase of a classroom pet and the essentials needed to care for that pet, from habitat to accessories and food. Beginning today, the grant program is now open to elementary and middle school teachers, pre-kindergarten to 8th grade. They now have more choices when it comes to pets, and the newly added animals were specifically requested by teachers who are currently participating in the grant program. Teachers can access the grant application at www.petsmart.com/teachers. Once approved, the teacher should consult with a PetSmart pet care expert to determine which one of the following pets will best fit with their individual classroom setting. New pets available through the program include: Rats are smart and trainable, enabling children to learn how to teach tricks to a pet. Snakes are docile animals who do not mind being handled. Their habitat and nutrition needs are a little more involved, which means they are better pet options for older children. Turtleslike to spend time on land and in the water and eat a varied diet, which can help children learn the importance of well-rounded nutrition. Other pets from PetSmart also available through the Pets in the Classroom Program: Hamstersmake fun classroom pets because they are active and teach children the importance of schedules and responsibilities.Guinea Pigsare easily handled and encourage children to follow a regimented routine. Fishare a great way to illustrate basic chemistry and biology principles while students follow regularly scheduled water changes. Bearded Dragons depend on their environment for heating and cooling and are a great way to teach students about geography and the environment. Leopard Geckosare docile in nature and teach children about different nocturnal behaviors. "Our associates are trained to help teachers find a pet that fits their classroom, depending on the environment, the age of the children and student involvement in the care of the pets," said Dr. Kemba Marshall, veterinarian and specialty pets expert at PetSmart. "Caring for pets at school provides kids with a unique opportunity to bond with animals and expand their knowledge about the natural world." To apply for the "Pets in the Classroom" grant and learn more about choosing the right pet for a specific classroom, teachers can visit www.petsmart.com/teachers. PetSmart also provides access to lesson plans, care guides and video "how-to" habitat set-ups. About PetSmart PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) is the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. The company employs approximately 50,000 associates and operates more than 1,210 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, over 189 in-store PetSmart® PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities and is a leading online provider of pet supplies and pet care information (http://www.petsmart.com). PetSmart provides a broad range of competitively priced pet food and pet products; and offers dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day CampSM day care services and pet adoption services. Since 1994, PetSmart Charities, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization and the largest funder of animal welfare efforts in North America, has provided more than $134 million in grants and programs benefiting animal welfare organizations. Through its in-store pet adoption partnership with PetSmart Charities®, PetSmart has helped save the lives of more than 4.7 million pets. Follow PetSmart on Twitter @PetSmartFind PetSmart on Facebook www.facebook.com/PetSmartSee PetSmart on YouTube: www.YouTube.com/PetSmart About The Pet Care Trust The Pet Care Trust is a non-profit, charitable, public foundation that is instrumental in the sponsorship of programs supporting companion animal welfare and the benefits of owning companion pets as well as the development of educational programs demonstrating the importance of responsible companion animal ownership. The Pet Care Trust funds deserving programs through supporting grants awarded annually to non-profit organizations. In addition, through their Pets in the Classroom program, the Trust has awarded more than 7,000 grants to public and private school teachers in grades Pre-K through 6th grade to support pets in the learning environment. GolinHarris for PetSmartAnuradha Koli, firstname.lastname@example.com Media email@example.com


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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the famous Nobel Peace laureate, and one of the world's most respected church leaders, was a central figure in ensuring an end to white minority rule in South Africa.
He was instrumental in the struggle against apartheid, also acting as chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He has since gone on to play a role as one of Nelson Mandela's handpicked 'Elders' along with others like former US President Jimmy Carter.
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As a defiant campaigner against apartheid, Tutu is one of the world's most prominent defenders of human rights.
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"We still have children learning under trees. Now that is quite unconscionable really, to have people going to bed hungry in South Africa. Our economy is not madly prosperous, but then it is also not one of the worst .... But we seem to have lost the plot to some extent."
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"And she said, 'But there all the children playing', and it was incredibly difficult. It really just made you feel, 'I wish the ground could open and swallow me up'. How do I tell my child that, yes you are a child, but you're not a child like those other children who are on the swings?"
The archbishop recalls how the injustices he saw under apartheid tested his Christian faith:
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But he later says: "Someone up there must really have been on our side or batting for us .... After [Nelson Mandela's] release and the build-up to our first democratic election, it was one of the roughest, one of the bloodiest, periods in our history."
Tutu hails Mandela as an "incredible guy!" - after all Mandela was a prominent participant in the negotiations that led to South Africa's peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy.
"His contribution is immeasurable; his stature," says Tutu. "I mean for someone who was the commander-in-chief of the military wing of the ANC to be at the forefront of persuading people that it would be better for us to negotiate; it is better for us to lay down our arms. And then to try to live that."
Moving forward, Tutu expresses his concerns about the direction the current government in South Africa is headed. He has also become more outspoken about his criticism of the ruling party, and the rainbow nation, of what he was once so proud.
"We are a wounded people," Tutu says, recalling the painful testimonies he heard as chairman of the TRC hearings.
"Things could have been a great deal worse but I still have this sense that they could have been a great deal better," he says of South Africa's political transition.
"I think we have let the people down, in so far as you have an elite that has done very, very well for themselves, who have got quite quite rich, and the bulk of the people are still where they were, or sometimes worse off."
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Description of the Furnace:
- Fga2 is a contaminated furnace used for the annealing of non- standard materials.
- Gases plumbed to the furnace are; N2, Ar and 4%H2 in N2 (forming gas).
- The boat is manually pushed and pulled in/out of the furnace with the use of pull rods.
- An 'elephant' (a short quartz semi-tube) holds the boat for loading and unloading. It attaches to the furnace via the ground joint.
- The temperature of the furnace is set be the user by adjusting the center position of the master/slave system. Temperature range is 350-600C. Temperature is verified by turning the multi-tube temp dial to fga2.
- Idle (stand-by) condition one liter of N2 flowing. The user must set the furnace back to idle manually.
- Enable the furnace (gaas23). Forming gas will not flow if the furnace is not enabled.
Process Capabilities
Cleanliness Standard
Fga2 is contaminated.
Performance of the Tool
What the Tool CAN do
- Forming gas, argon and nitrogen low temp anneals.
What the Tool CANNOT do
- High temp H2 anneals. Pure H2 is not plumbed to the tool and the temp controller has a maximum temp of about 600C.
- Low temp oxidations. O2 is not plumbed to the tool.
Process Monitoring
Contact List and How to Become a User
Contact List
The following people make up the Tool Quality Circle:
- Process Staff: Nancy Latta, back-up Maurice Stevens.
- Maintenance: Ray Seymour and Ted Berg.
- Super-Users:
Training to Become a Tool User
Contact the Process Staff person assigned to the furnace. Training is very quick, about 15 mins.
Operating Procedures
Cleaning procedures:
Samples must have an organic clean before going into fga2. Acceptable cleans are;
Matrix O2 plasma clean
PRS3000, 20 min at 60C at a contaminated wetbench (wbflexcorr-3and-4 or wbflexcorr-1and-2)
Solvent clean, Acetone, Methanol, Isopropanol at a solvent wetbench
Please note; materials going into the tube should not vaporize when at temp.
Setting Up to Operate the Furnace:
- Open the side doors in the back of the furnace to expose the gas flow meters. There will be one flow meter for each of the gases. Adjust the float to the 5L line mark on the N2 flow meter. This increases the flow of gas from one liter/min (idle) to five liter/min for operation.
- There
are two buttons labeled AUTO and MANUAL.
The MANUAL button should be on in the idle mode. When in AUTO the sequencer is controlling the time and which gas flows through the tube.
- You
may switch on the other gases to verify they are set to the correct flows. Make sure the MANUAL switch is on. The gas buttons are marked as follows; F1 =
Argon, F2 = Forming Gas and F3 = Nitrogen. Please note; Forming Gas will flow only when both the Ar and FGA buttons are pushed. Make sure to turn down the Ar flow to 0.5.
- Set the furnace to the desired temperature. Use the little dial to increase or decrease the idle temp (400C). The values on the dial are about 30 units off from the actual temps, for example, a reading of 376 equals 400C.
Description of the Sequencer:
(NOTE: most users do not use the sequencer. See Manual Operation.)
The sequencer allows you to change gases and time events. At the completion of the program an alarm will sound. At this point you will need to remove your wafers using the long pull rod.
The sequencer has the following buttons and switches associated with it:
- PROCESS- this is the program number.
- TIME- this is where time is programmed for a process step. The format is nnn.n minutes.
- Readout shows both the Process Step and Time Remaining.
- ALARM- three lights that indicate if there are any malfunctions or problems. ALARM 1 will light up and sound because of user input, i.e., the end of the program.
- ALARM RESET- stops the audible alarm and turns off the light.
- N2- when lit Nitrogen is flowing.
- N2/H2- when lit Forming Gas is flowing.
- AR- when lit Argon is flowing.
- PROGRAM OUT (END)- this switch is used to end a program. ALARM 1 will sound.
There are five function buttons:
- RUN- starts the sequencer program.
- STOP- freezes the sequencer in the step that this button was pushed. The timer stops, but all the programmed gases remain on. An alarm will sound when this button is pushed.
- RESET- this is the way that the program is reset. When all the gas switches are in the off position, the end switch is deactivated and the timer is set to 0000 a program step is cleared when Reset is pushed.
- STEP- advances from one program step to the next. There are a total of 15 program steps.
- STORE- saves the user set parameters in a program step.
Programming the Sequencer:
Make sure the system is in AUTO.
- To program the sequencer turn the key to PROG.
- Select a number (0-3) at the PROCESS switch. This will be your program number.
- Push RESET to begin at Step 00.
- Position all gas toggle switches to off (not lit) and End to the center position.
- Change the time switches to the time desired for Step 01 (nnn.n minutes).
- Press STORE. This will advance to Step 01.
- Toggle on (lit) the gas and or END switches desired for Step 01. Please note; Ar must be selected for Forming Gas to flow. Make sure the flow meter is set to 0 (zero) on Ar.
- Enter the time for Step 02.
- Press STORE to program the parameters for Step 01 and advance to Step 02.
- Continue to program all steps. Make sure that the last step has END chosen. This will sound an alarm at the end of the program.
- Review the program you just created by pressing RESET to return to Step00. Press STEP repeatedly to advance to the next steps.
- Turn the key back to RUN.
Please note; the sequencer may be a bit baffling to set up, so most labmembers chose not to use it and instead change the gases manually using their own timers.
Manual Operation:
- Set the desired temperature.
- Increase the N2 flow from 1lpm to 5lpm and wait about 5 minutes.
- Load wafers.
- Wait for temperature to stabilize at the desired temp.
- Switch to desired gas. For Ar anneals push N2 to off and Ar to on. To run Forming Gas push N2 off and push both Ar and FGA on. Make sure that the Ar flow is at zero and FGA flow is at 5lpm.
- Start timing.
- At the end of the anneal time turn Ar and FGA off and N2 on.
- Unload wafers.
- Turn N2 down to 1lpm, the stand-by condition.
Loading the Wafers into the Furnace
Just inside the mouth of the tube there is a boat with a four-inch cassette and a six-inch cassette.
- Enable the furnace.
- Remove the end cap.
- Attach the elephant to the end of the tube. Be careful as the ground joint may stick together.
- Use the pull rod to slide the boat into the elephant.
- Let the boat cool for a few minutes and load wafers.
- Use the pull rod to push the boat back into the tube.
- Remove the elephant.
- Use push rod to slide the boat into the hot zone of the furnace. The push rod is marked.
- Replace both the push rod and the end cap.
- Push the run button on the sequencer.
When the Program has Completed
- Push ALARM RESET to silence the alarm.
- Remove the end cap.
- Use the push rod to slide the boat to the mouth of the tube.
- Attach the elephant to the end of the tube. Be careful as the ground joint may stick together.
- Use the pull rod to slide the boat into the elephant.
- Let the boat cool for a few minutes and unload wafers.
- Use the pull rod to push the boat back into the tube.
- Remove the elephant.
- Replace the end cap.
- Turn the gas flow meters at the back of the furnace down to the 1 liter/min mark.
- Disable the furnace.
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Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Designhttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTCVA/browse/?sort=title&fq=untl_collection:TXFC&fq=untl_decade:1970-1979&start=102015-05-06T16:58:37-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + DesignCape2015-03-16T14:32:52-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501308/

Cape of tan cashmere knit with mink border. About waist/hip length at front and sides, with triangular point reaching almost to knee at back. Unlined. Designer's label at center back neckline: "Halston"
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Choker of satin and feathers. Neck band of 1 1/2" double faced black satin ribbon with double hooks at ends. At center is rosette of hackle and guinea feathers in black, brownish, and white spots. Tag sewn to one end of ribbon stating "Made in France", Style/model "Uo 28", color "Black, and other notes that are illegible. Made to go with an evening dress by Ungaro.
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Cloche of brown/rust/beige crochet. The cloche is of openwork crochet, with a high, domed crown, having a wide band at lower edge that is solid crochet. Unlined.
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Coat of silk gazar with a printed pattern of red and white polka dots on a black background. The mid-length to below-knee length coat has a rolled collar and short sleeves with princess seaming. There is a center-front opening with 5 circular buttons covered with black gazar, and with piped buttonholes. At some seams are applied whole red or white polka dots where the seams had "cut" printed polka dots. Coat has designer's label at inside back, below collar: "Givenchy", folded over and sewn in a way that obscures the rest of the label: "Made In / France". This coat is part of an ensemble that includes a dress of black gazar, and has matching shoes of same fabric made by Roger Vivier of Paris (1979.011.076) Donor notes: "This is the fabric that was invented for Balenciaga and now only Givenchy can have it .... [the coat] is made so that if a dot had to be cut in half at a noticeable place, Givenchy had a whole dot appliqued over it. Monsieur Givenchy does not do this tedious handwork for all clients."
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Sleeveless coat of navy on white zebra printed wool. The street-length coat is of slight A-line, widening to hem. It has wide straps, no collar, and center front opening with 5 circular dark blue plastic buttons. At each hip is a patch pocket with simulated flap, the fabric of the pockets chosen to match the placement on the print. The coat is fully lined in navy fabric. Inside neckline at back is designer's label "Givenchy", folded so that "Made In / France" is not visible. This coat is part of an ensemble that includes a blue wool jersey knit top and slacks. Donor noted that it was "Made for Monte Carlo for day wear". There is also a hat that was worn with the ensemble (1978.013.062)
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Coat of brown camel's hair. Street length with wide, flat collar and lapels. Two patch pockets with flaps on front. Double breasted with four buttons (two and two) closure and attached matching belt. Belt is in three segments, with non-functional buttons "attaching" the segments at back. Lined in brown silk. Designer's label at center back neckline: "Automne-Hiver 1970 / Christian Dior / Paris" Stamped on label: "152510"
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Day dress of yellow linen. Sleeveless with V neck. Knee length. Princess seaming on front panel with sides and back skirt pleated. Center back zipper with hook & eye. Unlined. Designer's label at left of zipper: "Teal Traina / New York" Retailer's label at right of zipper: "Silver Key / Neiman-Marcus"


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This Is Not a Mixtape
By Marc Hogan , February 22, 2010
In an exhaustive 2007 essay, "The Hallucinatory Life of Tape", music critic Paul Hegarty presents a compelling aesthetic case for cassettes. "Within the dying of media comes the passing or slow dying of individual units-- tapes, records, cylinders, cartridges-- all of which decay, and in so doing, seem to take on characteristics of having lived," Hegarty contends. "Once digital media arrive as 'other', as cyborg sound, the analogue seems to breathe, however rasping the sound." Hegarty exalts the unique properties tape takes on when transferred to another medium-- specifically, the reel-to-reel tape-to-digital decay of avant-garde composer William Basinski's 2002 album The Disintegration Loops. But many people who release music on cassette itself are also drawn to the format's almost-human imperfections.
Take Super Furry Animals and Neon Neon frontman Gruff Rhys, who issued Welsh singer-songwriter Cate LeBon's Me Oh My on cassette last year as the first release for his own Irony Bored imprint. "Listening to a cassette tape is not an exact science," says Rhys. "Some cassette players play them a little faster. Others distort and phrase the music, changing the sound on the cassette forever. My first introduction to U2 was listening to a cassette that had at some point been chewed up by a dog. It sounded like a recording of a My Bloody Valentine rehearsal or something, full of incredible whooshing noises and vibrato. Imagine my disappointment on hearing the correct version a few years later."
Ultimately, the worst thing about mp3s isn't their quality, but that they lend themselves to "knee-jerk reactions," says Mike Sniper, who runs Brooklyn-based Captured Tracks and records as Blank Dogs. "You don't have to buy something and give it a shot-- you can just flip through and think it's boring or not your thing," Sniper says. "Which is really sad, because when I got into music as a kid, I had to at least try everything out for a while and I never liked most of it at first."
Unlike vinyl purists, cassette listeners can't jump to a particular track, only rewind or fast-forward. "A strong personal connection can be formed because it's not an easy format to dump onto an mp3 player," says Kevin Greenspon, who runs Southern California-based Bridgetown Records. "You can't skip around through the tracklisting, so the actual tape and the album become one and the same." A few years ago, during the most recent outpourings of nostalgia for cassettes, writers focused on the mixtape: Moore's Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, Nick Hornby's Songbook, Rob Sheffield's heartbreaking Love Is a Mixtape. In an age of total customizability, the new cassette culture looks to tapes for their lack of it.
Perhaps because cassette culture makes it so easy for fans to participate, tapes' appeal for listeners is similar what attracts creators. "I think there's a group of people-- fans and artists alike-- out there to whom music is more than just a file on your computer, more than just a folder of mp3s," says Brad Rose of Tulsa, Okla., label Digitalis. "It's something more tangible."
Hearing music on cassette for the first time is a different experience, too. For one thing, limited-edition tapes aren't likely to leak months in advance. Oneida's Kid Millions draws a loose connection to the handmade or craft movement going on outside the music world. He also recalls the sense of intimacy he got from a Daniel Higgs tape called Devotional Songs, which is basically just the former Lungfish frontman singing into a 90-minute cassette. "Though it's clearly an illusion, the gap between the creator and listener felt smaller," Millions notes.
Critics of today's cassette revival accuse tape fetishists of backwardness and nostalgia. They're right. "My attraction to tapes probably stems from my age," says Alex Davis, whose Leftist Nautical Antiques has just sold out an extended cassette version of Austin lo-fi group Pure Ecstasy's excellent Future Nostalgia 7". "Being 20 years old, I'm among the youngest people who remember a time before the iPod, where it was a really big deal to get a new CD/tape and rush home and put it in that little boombox everybody had. You told your friends, you played it for your friends, and you fell in love and cherished that small collection of records. It doesn't matter that it was Will Smith's Big Willie Style or your parents' Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits. When mp3s hit I was like, 'Who needs CDs or tapes?', but the further and further I got away from the experience of listening to full albums, going to the record store, and sharing what you found with friends, the more I realized I was just becoming a pretentious fuck with a full iPod, not somebody cherishing a collection of albums I was in love with. When I started listening to albums just to find out my favorite three tracks so I could make raging mixes or blog about them, I realized my complete lack of soul."
"I remember a cassette cathedral," Deerhunter's Bradford Cox murmured two years ago, on his band's Weird Era Cont. bonus album. Memory believes before knowing remembers. For younger cassette adherents, "nostalgia" is barely the right word. In many ways, the next generation's discovery of tape parallels a slightly older demographic's discovery of vinyl. "Most actual baby boomers still think that vinyl is obsolete and don't listen to records," Mirror Universe's Ellenburg says. "And I guess the way they think about records is the way a lot of people my age and maybe a little younger would think about cassette tapes. My girlfriend just turned 21, and I don't think she ever owned a tape deck."
According to Captured Tracks' Sniper, kids about 16 to 23 didn't buy cassettes when they were a popular format, so they "don't have an inherit hatred" of tapes that people in their late 20s or older might. "That's who I notice buys cassettes most at merch tables," Sniper says. "Whenever Blank Dogs goes on tour, we run out of tapes first."
Come the apocalypse, it may be tapes that outlast their digital brethren. Old CDs wind up skipping, anyway-- "perfect sound forever" was a lie. Cassettes have their own problems, from unruly tape that you may need to tape together to inevitable disintegration, but there are certainly worse offenders. "Cassettes and vinyl are the analogue cockroaches to the nuclear Armageddon that is digital formats," Super Furry Animals' Rhys proclaims. "Back in the 90s when Super Furry Animals were starting out, we used to master tunes to digital DAT tapes if we didn't have the budget for reel to reel tapes. Most of these are unplayable today. The sound from them has seemingly vanished to thin air. I have had to remaster some back catalogue stuff from cassette copies-- which sounds great. It's unclear how long information will actually last in hard drives. In that sense it's always worth keeping a vinyl or cassette copy of a piece of music you truly cherish."
Nobody is calling for us to give up online music entirely. The cassette revival is neither all analogue nor all digital-- it's both. "It has been a slow progression that began with noise music and people who specifically chose the format for its lack of modernity and as an attempt to be willfully obscure," says Steve Rosborough of Minneapolis label Moon Glyph. "But now I don't see the format as an act of alienating subversion, but rather as a means of coming to terms with mass digitization and the loss of the physical format." Nor is music the only aspect of life becoming increasingly digitized. Does anybody really need a Foursquare notification that I'm having dinner at a Thai restaurant? Or am I simply reducing my existence to fit the presumed desires of some yet-to-materialize advertisers? Cassettes give us a cheap, romantic, pre-digital means of engaging with music, but they don't require us to give up our Internet addictions-- in fact, the two work hand in hand.
As trends change and a new technological status quo emerges, the success or failure of the cassette format will ultimately depend on the music. If artists with exciting ideas continue to put out their recordings on tapes, an audience will follow; if and when cassettes are again seen as yesterday's news, music fans will move on to other mediums-- old or new. In the meantime, Hometapes founder Sara Padgett Heathcott shares a story that could soon become all too familiar. "Our intern Lyndsey works at Music Millennium here in Portland," she says. "A teenage boy came in a couple weeks ago, looking for tapes for his new girlfriend who said she liked them. The store's tape stock has dwindled over the years, so Lyndsey suggested he make a mixtape. He then said, 'But I don't have a tape burner.'"
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A thunderstorm that passed through the San Mateo Mountains over the weekend has sparked a fire in the Magdalena Ranger District. According to a press release from the Cibola National…[Read more]
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his year has already become the worst year since 1945 for children who have been displaced and forced to flee as refugees, and for children who had their schools attacked and destroyed. Canadians should know about these crises, their impacts on children, and how youth can be better protected and educated in emergency situations.
UNICEF recently released a report card ranking child well-being in the 29 richest countries on earth. Canada came 17th, placing us in the bottom half of the pack on factors such as child poverty, emotional well-being and life satisfaction. It's time to have a frank conversation about how our country approaches early childhood.
On September 13, 1976, I became one of the "Disappeared" in Argentina's Dirty War and I became a witness and a voice for those who could no longer speak. The search for truth, justice and memory can be a painful one and it is never easy work but I have seen the rewards. This is why I passionately believe in the work of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The reparations of relations between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples need allies. Allies that support and respect differing worldviews. This is about nation building.
Developing independence is part of growing up, and it's something that young people should be encouraged to develop at every age. Safety should always be a priority for parents, but kids' maturity should also be taken into consideration as well. When you show young people that you trust them, it helps kids to trust themselves.
B.C.'s Charter for Public Education is a public owned document, which stands as a testament to everything we as a community want and expect from our public school system. It is a document long forgotten somewhere between the never ending war against our public schools, funding cuts and dragged out court cases.
If there was ever a time to educate our children, outside of the classroom, now is the time. Our earth is in crisis, the global population is expanding by approximately 80 million people a year, poverty is increasing dramatically, and we don't have enough fresh water for about 20 per cent of the population.
In 2010, our five-year-old daughter, Lily, was diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Whenever Lily was released from the hospital, and the weather cooperated, we headed outside. We really started to depend on these adventures, these outdoor excursions, to get us through the bad days and help Lily along her road to recovery. According to the National Environmental Educational Foundation, exposure to nature can reduce stress levels by as much as 28 per cent in children. Health benefits of nature may include reduced anxiety and depression, increased energy and immunity, decreased stress and improved mental health.
With a federal election on the horizon, certain high level policy topics are bound to make the headlines beyond the personalities of the political leaders: the economy, energy prices, jobs prospects even climate change. But what seems surprisingly absent from the political hustings so far has been a fulsome discussion of the health of everyday Canadians.
I don't want to read any more arguments about who has it harder, whose work is "real work," who is contributing more to society, or who is doing a better job ensuring her kids become stable, non-homicidal adults. I'm proposing a new form of Internet literature, where one group of moms singles out another group of moms for a job well done.
What I do not regret is this: my struggle shaped me, and changed me, and helped me become the person I am now. That is, a woman that seeks progress, not perfection. A woman who knows that no matter how far down you go, you can come back, a mother that has earned her way back into this precious boy's life, and learns every day how to parent better.
Selfish is the ultimate insult you could call a mother. It cuts to the very core of what being a mother is, which is about giving. We give our bodies, we give our hearts, we give up careers, we lose friendships, we retire goals. We do this because the moment a baby is placed in our arms nothing else matters but the health and happiness of that little soul. We would sacrifice our own lives for our children. But who is looking out for the mother's soul?
The Syrian conflict is entering its fifth horrific year of escalating violence, with little sign of ending. More than 200,000 people have been killed, 10,000 of them children. Today over 12.2 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 5.6 million children. Almost 11 million Syrians have been displaced within and outside Syria, including 3.3 million refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. More than half of the refugee population are children, and 114,000 children have been born as refugees.
"Stop the car!" My son's shout panicked both my friend, driving, and I, fearful we were about to collide with something or someone. Liam pointed out the window at a women who had just walked past us, struggling to carry a laughably insurmountable load of grocery bags and boxes. "I need to help her," said Liam. And he did.
I don't want to tell you the story of my drunkenness. You've heard it before, or seen it before, or a version of it. It is not unique. I don't have a tale to weave for you of bizarre miracles and angels and heavenly choirs. I want to tell you of simple amazement. I fell, upwards. I fell into a life, once I stopped shaking and twitching and seeing things and vomiting. This has not just been a sobriety lesson, but a life one. At school, with loved ones, even (perhaps especially and most simply) on my writing journey -- honesty, being open and willing to accept some guidance goes a long way.
WHO recommends vitamin A supplements to improve child survival. Vitamin A supplements have been shown to reduce the number of deaths from measles by 50 per cent, in populations with vitamin A deficiency. For children who are vitamin A deficient or undernourished, it would seem a simple solution -- immunization against measles and better nutrition -- to save lives.
You're finally out the newborn stage, adjusting to your new normal (and maybe even fitting into your pre-pregnancy jeans). Then, seemingly out of nowhere, your sleepy, somewhat predictable little one turns into a fussy, four-month-old all-night party animal. Welcome to the infamous four month sleep regression.
There are no polarities when it comes to twins. No "good" one vs. "bad one;" no angelic child versus evil spawn, no duelling forces, vying for the top spot in their respective categories. There are just kids, warts, scabbed knees and all. Though the mythology and expectation of opposite-minded twin siblings is appealing to some, it is, fortunately, untrue.
Allow your children time to grieve and remain open to ongoing conversations after the big announcement. If your children are asking you questions, this is positive. Encourage further conversations and be open to their questions, thoughts, and feelings. You may want to consider setting up a time for the children to talk with a therapist at some point.
Something is amiss in Canada. A 2014 UNICEF report compared the health and development of children in Canada with 28 other wealthy nations. In spite of being a G8 country, Canada's children rank number 17th, a status that has not budged in the last 10 years. The question is, why are these problems still so widespread?


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Last week I've started to play with javascripts so my knowledge is... very limited. Please be patient with me :-)
I'm writing a simple booking system that stores in MySql the dates and user IDs. It checks if given day is already booked (if yes than isTicket.php returns UserId, if it's still free than returns 0). As it's possible to select a range of days and I wouldn't like to sent multiple warnings I set variable otherEventFound to false if on any of selected days an other user is already booked.
As shown below I've tried to use this variable "out-side" of post-function and there are two possibilities:
1) If my script contains the line >> alert ("otherEventFound... << it works.
2) If I remove this line, it doesn't.
I'm a little disorientated. Can somebody explain why this additional alert-line is so important, and more generally is it possible to overwrite the variables in parent function from post.success function?
If it's pure luck than it works with alert-line, what is a proper way of doing it in javascript?
parent function
var otherEventFound = new Boolean();
var do_the_booking = new Boolean();
otherEventFound = false;
do_the_booking = false;
for ( var i = myStart.getDfJ(); i <= myEnd.getDfJ(); i++)
// conver i to MySQL format yyyy-mm-dd
var milliseconds = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 *i;
var j = new Date(milliseconds);
var strID = j.toYMD();
// and ask server if there is other event on this day
$.post("isTicket.php", { theDay: strID },
if ( parseInt(answ) == 0 ){
do_the_booking = true;
else {
if ( !(parseInt(answ) == currentUserId) ){
otherEventFound = true;
alert ("otherEventFound " + otherEventFound + " do_the_booking " + do_the_booking);
if (otherEventFound==true) {
alert ("There is not yours event booked on this day.");
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var x=window.confirm("Do you want to book on this/these day/s?")
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Virginia Scores Poorly in National Rankings of Nursing Home Quality
Virginia Beach, VA (Law Firm Newswire) September 2, 2014 – A report from the Nursing Home Report Card, a Families for Better Care project, ranked Virginia poorly on nursing home quality measures. The state received a grade of "D," with an overall ranking of 33rd out of 50 states.
"The fact that there are many nursing homes in Virginia that have problems means that it is that much more important for seniors and their families to engage in proper planning and research before choosing a nursing facility," said Andrew Hook, a Virginia elder law attorney with the Hook Law Center.
Virginia scored especially poorly in staffing measures. Patients received only 0.66 hours, or less than 40 minutes, of registered nurse (RN) care and less than 2.30 hours of direct care per day, and most facilities did not have above-average RN staffing.
Overall, more than 90 percent of facilities were cited for a deficiency for violation of state or federal law. Around 16 percent had severe deficiencies.
To grade states, the Nursing Home Report Card draws on data from the Kaiser Health Foundation, performance measures from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare, and the Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman complaint data.
Grading categories included the average number of RN hours per resident per day and the average certified nursing assistant hours per resident per day. The report also examined the percentage of facilities with above-average RN staffing, direct care staffing and health inspections, as well as the percentage of facilities with deficiencies and the percentage of verified ombundsman complaints.
Each state received a letter grade on each category based on the state's ranking in comparison to other states. To calculate the final grade, the average of these scores was taken.
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Hundreds of New York employers provide back-up elder care, designed to help employees stay at work when an unexpected problem arises with elder care. Employees who have registered for back-up elder care can call a care organization when they face an unexpected interruption in elder care. Within hours, the organization will send a home health […]
- How your life insurance policy can pay for long-term care expenses
A number of companies, such as Life Care Funding, will purchase a senior's life insurance policy from him or her. In exchange, the company provides a portion of the face value of the policy to individuals facing high long-term care costs. These "life settlement" companies purchase the policy from the policyholder, then continue to pay […]
- Study supports doctor-led approach to end-of-life care planning
The end of a person's life is a time of intense transition and difficult choices. Although nothing can fully prepare an individual or a family for the gravity of the decisions that need to be made, end-of-life care planning can help ensure that a dying individual's wishes about his or her care are followed. Traditionally, […]
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The Strokes to Play First U.S. Show in Three Years
By Jenn Pelly on May 13, 2014 at 2:15 p.m. EDT
The Strokes are headlining one day of the New York City fest Governors Ball, which takes place June 6-8 on Randall's Island. Now they have announced a pre-Gov Ball gig—the band's first U.S. show in three years. The Strokes will play the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y. (Westchester County) on May 31.
Check Out the Strokes' B Movie-Style Lyric Poster for "One Way Trigger"
By Laura Snapes on January 30, 2013 at 7:30 a.m. EST
There's quite a game of internet cat-and-mouse going on with the Strokes at the moment, as various bloggers and messageboard users claim to have unearthed details of their new record hidden in less-than-secure parts of the band's website. In terms of concrete information, however: Last week they released "One Way Trigger", for which a pretty great B movie-style lyrics poster has now appeared on Julian Casablancas' solo website, which you can view below. That's the artwork for the single above.
The Strokes Not at Work on New Album
By Carrie Battan and Amy Phillips on June 12, 2012 at 5:09 p.m. EDT
According to Billboard, the Strokes are working on a new album to follow up last year's Angles (their first record since 2006's First Impressions of Earth). Billboard reports that they've been recording at New York's famed Electric Lady Studios alongside producer Gus Oberg. However, according to the band's management, this is not true. The band are not working on a new album, and have not been recording at Electric Lady with Oberg.
The Strokes at Work on New Music
By Tom Breihan on April 27, 2011 at 4:05 p.m. EDT
Photo by Ryan Dombal
Last month, the Strokes returned from a years-long absence with the new album Angles. It wasn't exactly their best work. The band-- who recorded much of the album without singer Julian Casablancas-- didn't necessarily seem too happy with the process behind the new one; guitarist Nick Valensi told Pitchfork, "I won't do the next album we make like this. No way. It was awful-- just awful... The best thing we can do right now is put out another one really quick." And that next album might be coming quicker than anyone thought.
The Strokes Return to the Studio
By Tom Breihan on February 3, 2010 at 5:05 p.m. EST
The Strokes are back! Kind of! Or on their way to being back, anyway!
The early-decade New York rock kings are already set to headline two festivals this summer-- England's Isle of Wight and Scotland's RockNess. And now Spin points out an update on the band's website. According to the Strokes themselves, they've returned to the studio, where they're working on the long-awaited follow-up to 2006's First Impressions of Earth.
The band is working with producer Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Shins, My Morning Jacket) and mixer Gus Oberg. They also promise to post "video vignettes" from the sessions on their website.
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Alicia Cash
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Alicia Cash joined the UALR women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in July 2008 after a stint as head coach at Byrd Middle School in Duncanville, Texas.
Cash helped lead the Trojans to five straight Sun Belt West Division titles from 2009-13 and post-season appearances in six of the last seven years, including Sun Belt Tournament titles in 2011, 2012 and 2015.
At Byrd Middle School, Cash helped coach the eighth-grade girls' basketball team to a district championship while also assisting the varsity girls' team at Duncanville High School. Cash also served as the head coach for girls' and boys' cross country teams and as the assistant coach for the girls' track and field team.
Prior to Byrd Middle School, Cash served as Director of Basketball Operations at UALR from 2005-2007. She graduated from UALR with a bachelor's degree in health science with an emphasis in exercise science in 2004 and a master's degree in education with an emphasis in adult education in 2006.
In addition to being the longest-tenured assistant coach currently on the Trojans' staff, Cash was a program-changing player for UALR in the early-to-mid 2000s. Originally recruited to play under head coach Tracy Stewart-Lange, Cash averaged 16.7 points and and 8.7 rebounds per game in Joe Foley's first season as head coach in 2003-04. Cash scored a then-school record 451 points as a junior in the 2003-04 season. Additionally, her 236 rebounds that season were at that time the third-highest total in school history.
A native of Houston, Cash competed for the Trojans from 2000-2005 where she earned the program's first-ever All-Sun Belt Conference honor in 2004. She also helped lead UALR to the team's first-ever post-season victory over Denver in the opening round of the Sun Belt Tournament in 2005.
Cash ended her career at UALR as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,282 career points and second on the all-time rebounds list with 682 boards. Her scoring average in the 2003-04 season (16.7 points per game) still stands as the fifth-best average in school history.
One of the most versatile players in school history, Cash still sits in UALR's career top 10 in points, field goals made and attempted, three-pointers made, three-point percentage, blocks and rebounds.
Cash resides in Bryant and has one daughter, Bailey, born in 2010.


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Mart´s Bibio
Mart's Bibio
|Dry fly
|Martin Westbeek
|Year of origin
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|Brown trout
Rainbow trout (landlocked)
|dry fly, size 12
|8/0 Gudebrod black
|black superfine dubbing
|black (or brown) pheasant tail fibers
|1 mm packaging foam
|dubbed black Angel Hair
|Whiting hen, black
Tying instructions
- Take the thread to the of the hook, dub a body of about 60% of the hook shank
- Tie in two pheasant tail fibers on the left and right side of the fly. Traditionally, Bibio\'s have knotted legs, but these knots are a weak point, where the leg invariably breaks. So I don\'t bother, and tie in the fibers as is. I use two fibers left and right, and if one of these fibers breaks (these Oostvoorne rainbows can be rough on flies), I remove one of both fibers on the other side, too, in order to make the fly symmetrical again. Don\'t know if that makes any difference, but it somehow feels better.
- Clip a wing from the foam (mine are about 12 mm long and 3 mm wide, to end at the hook bend) and tie that in. Seen from below the fly looks like shown.
- Take a hen hackle, stroke the fibers back, and clip the tip off. The little triangle of fibers makes it easy to tie the hen hackle in.
- Tie the hackle in, shiny side up.
- Bibios have a relatively big thorax and head, and Angel Hair is a nice material to dub if you want to produce volume without adding much weight. and Angel Hair does not absorb water. Take 2 or 3 strands, and dub the Angel Hair to the thread.
- Build up a shaggy thorax/head area. If you dub the Angel Hair loose it will take floatant very well.
- Take the hackle, double it by folding the fibers back, and wrap it 4 to 5 times. Build a nice head and clip off the thread.
- Stroke the hackle fibers to the left and right, clip off any remaining fibers on the underside of the fly if you wish, and you\'re done.
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Osprey Publishing | Jul 23, 2003
| 96 Pages
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Osprey Publishing
| Jul 23, 2003
| 96 Pages
| 6-11/16 x 9-3/4
The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that the samurai of Japan and the Teutonic Knights of Prussia had each fought the same enemy while being unaware of each other's existence. This book provides a concise yet thorough account of the Mongol conquests, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes with up to date information on campaign logistics, tactics and horse breeding.
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