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RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) — We first saw Michelle Rodriguez inside an ambulance being carried from a crash scene on Interstate 95 North in Hanover.
"I was playing on my Nintendo when we started spinning I'm like what happened," Rodriguez said.
We found her several hours later enjoying dinner… thankful that the crash wasn't worse.
"I know I'm lucky to be alive," Rodriguez said.
Driver El Moustadha Mohamed knows the feeling. He also wrecked on I-95 in Hanover, on his way to Washington for vacation.
"I was hitting the break…it didn't work," Mohamed said. "I spun three or four times…it was crazy,"
Now with the sun down and temps falling into the single digits, the crews plowing to make sure those crashes don't continue have their work cut out for them.
"With the sleet…it turned into a skating rink," Dorsey Wright, who owns a snow plow and is hired by hotels and apartment complexes to plow said.
Wright and his son say they will be plowing for another 24 hours, but at least they have each other.
"The way we roll it's always fun always energetic in the car," Jaylen Wright said.
Quite a different atmosphere from Rodriguez's experience…she plans on napping the rest of the drive home.
"Of course I'm falling asleep. I don't want to hit the road again," Rodriguez said.
Virginia State Police responded to 1,145 crashes and 451 disabled vehicles between 12 a.m. and 6. 30 p.m. in Central Virginia, according to Virginia State Police spokesman Corinne Geller.


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1 (14 ounce) can
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individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
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These little goof balls are delish! I was looking for something new for a charity bake sale and these worked out great. I will definately make them again. I used toothpicks to dip and coat my marshmallows. I left the toothpicks in and because it is close to Easter and I had them on hand, I topped each toothpick with one of those cute bunny shaped marshmallows. The recipe makes a lot of sauce; I stopped at 60 marshmallows and had sauce left over. Bonus- this sauce, once cooled, is perfect for apple dipping! I think I'll try crushing the rice crispies next time, my kids left a trail of crispies leading right to the tv.
Only about half the kids liked these - and I, who love condensed milk and caramel, did not like them either. :(
9 Ratings
These are always a big hit. I don't really like marshmallows but I can't resist these treats. I use crushed oreos, crushed golden grams or toasted coconut as toppings and make multiple flavors for each batch for a twist.
These are great! I make these for my family and the can hardly wait for them to cook before the start eating! (I used less butter)
These were surprisingly delicious! It does make a lot of sauce and next time I might cut back on the margarine.
Nice and gooey, yet easy to make. I used Fruity Pebbles to make them pretty, an idea I got from a reader's photo. That was my only mistake. I thought the cereal made them taste disgusting! But they did look very pretty and colorful! If I made them again I'd definitely stick with regular rice krispies.
These are so great! Especially if you have kids running around, they're easy and the kids can even help you make them. I started out making these as the recipe stated and I just wasn't happy with how they were looking, so I ended up cutting the marshmallows in half... they turned out MUCH better and tasted better than the big ones as well! I only made it through one bag of marshmallows before I ran out of caramel though!
I have to give these balls 5 stars, they are yummy.
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The House Republican leadership fails to pass emergency supplemental bill for influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America
The House Republican leadership fails to pass emergency supplemental bill for influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America
Despite the freak-out over undocumented Central American children stealing desks from Texas kids, schools say they're prepared for next school year.
Rick Perry has a plan for the thousands of refugee children streaming across the border from Mexico and Central America: Deport them at once. At a congressional hearing in McAllen, the governor did his best to sound compassionate while calling on Congress and President Obama to further militarize the border and enact mass deportations of children despite laws protecting refugees.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The wolf huffed and puffed, and couldn't blow the straw house down? That's not quite how the story goes. But this weekend, students at Cape Fear Community College proved that straw bale construction is a smart, sustainable building method.
Students investigated alternative building strategies that are better for the environment and energy efficient. They say straw bale houses meet that criteria and work well with Wilmington's climate.
"Our main goal was to build this structure to show people that for around the same cost of a traditionally built home, you can build a house with double to R-value using a waste product…straw," said graduate student Elliott Smith.
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No good reason, explanation for Boonville Bypass delay
I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I was when the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) informed me that the proposed Indiana 61 connector (the "Boonville Bypass") was going to be moved back on its schedule, delaying work on the project for another three years.
To be sure, there were other projects that faced the same knife blade, but none that had the potential to save a community from the dirt, safety and pounding of hundreds of coal trucks every hour of the day.
During debate on Gov. Mitch Daniels' "Major Moves" program in 2005, INDOT officials said there would be changes in the way that road projects were being done in Indiana. Using a point system to determine the importance of every project, INDOT would create a "real" 10-year plan. Once your project was in the plan, you had every right to expect your road would be built.
When I reviewed this new point system, I immediately noticed the Boonville Bypass was graded incorrectly. Boonville Mayor Pam Hendrickson and I met with INDOT officials. After another review of the factors surrounding the need for this project — including vehicle movement patterns on Indiana 61 and the amount of coal truck traffic the project was moved up on the schedule.
Engineering and public hearings were to be completed in 2009, followed by right-of-way transactions and a construction start date in 2013.
Now the Boonville Bypass has been bypassed again. Our new start date is 2017, assuming no other delays. This is clearly unacceptable for our community, particularly in light of the point system that was etched in stone only a few short years ago.
And now, with a new coal mine opening near Lynnville, Ind., there will be hundreds of additional coal trucks coming through Boonville.
How did this happen? You be the judge.
After filing a public records request, INDOT sent me a copy of the 10-year transportation plan for its Vincennes District, the point system used to determine the priority of the projects in this district, and the scores for each project.
During the 2005-066 evaluations, the Boonville Bypass had a score of 44.3 which, under INDOT guidelines, should have placed this project at a start date of 2013.
Now we are told that the bypass score is 62. Even though that figure is higher than the score from three years ago, we are told that the project must wait another four years.
What caused this change? I requested a meeting with the INDOT commissioner several weeks ago, shortly after the announcement of the bypass delay. I am still waiting for that meeting.
The fact is that INDOT needs to provide all of us with a better explanation — preferably one in language we all can understand — about why this project is being delayed again.
It does not make sense to me that our community now wait additional years to see completion of a project that was needed decades ago and — up until recently — had a project start date that was supposedly firm.
Let INDOT know your thoughts. I know that I have given them mine.
Russ Stilwell, D-Boonville, is state representative in House District 74.
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But so far, there are no answers…But before we get into that, let's discuss the rest of this week's Love & Hip Hop episode.
Even though she only just hooked up with Peter recently, Tara now seems officially done with the old Gunz and she's moving on. When she meets with Yandy and K.Michelle, she tells them she has a date with one of the men she met at Yandy's audition last week. "Tara! You dirty dog," Yandy says. K and Yandy want to give Tara a super-sexy makeover (in the style of "trashy Heidi Klum") to celebrate her newfound liberation as a single woman and she's totally down. The end result:
Since Tara's date, Aaron, has a twin brother named Andrew, she invites K.Michelle to join her as a wing-woman and help make the situation less awkward. The date is a stunt class, so like, falling and jumping from great heights onto rubber mats. K's reaction? "Oh, hell, no." But when it's Andrew's turn to take a fall, she does get into the spirit, telling him "You should do it with no shirt on." She likes what she sees and explains "He got all that up there — I wonder how that sausage looking."
While K sizes up her date, it turns out that Tara's date is actually going well, and she and Aaron hit it off. They snuggle and plan a second date.


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A 2nd annual jump-a-thon with proceeds going to the fight of multiple sclerosis will take place October 26-29 on the campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members will be jumping on a trampoline for 77 straight hours starting Tuesday, October 26, at 12 noon through 5 p.m. on Friday, October 29, in front of the Memorial Student Center on the SWOSU campus.
TKE member Joseph Dube said all proceeds from the jump-a-thon will go to the MS Bridge of Oklahoma, which uses donations for families in serious need throughout the state of Oklahoma. The MS Bridge is a project of the Mercy Foundation.
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MMA News
Rashad Evans Plans on "Getting 50 Takedowns" Against Dan Henderson
By JAKE CHASTAIN
| UFC 161 has experienced a lot of changes over this past week. Fighters have gotten hurt, replacements have been set, and the main event was even changed. With all of that said and done it's now time to focus on the important stuff…the fights that ARE happening.
Rashad Evan vs. Dan Henderson was promoted to the card's main event of the evening when Renan Barao had to withdraw from his title fight against Eddie Wineland due to a foot injury. Many fans, myself included, were already considering the light heavyweight scrap between Evans and Henderson to be the most highly anticipated bout on the card. Now, with the main-event booking, the fight will start receiving main-event hype.
Rashad Evans is heading into the fight following the first ever back-to-back losses of his career (Jon Jones and Lil Nog) and is not getting any sympathy from his longtime employers at the UFC as he is now booked opposite one of the most fear strikers in the sport in Dan Hendo. Aside from that Henderson is a former Olympic caliber wrestler which makes his game that much more dangerous. Still, Evans said that he would rather take the fight to the ground then stand and bang with the former PRIDE Champ. Avoiding that "H-Bomb" is going to be key if Evans wants to right his ship and get back into the win column at UFC 161. His game plan: take Henderson down over and over again. That's easier said than done, obviously, but Rashad is a former All-American wrestler from Michigan State University and that strategy, if it works, is probably his best bet in winning the fight. The blueprint was already set by Jake Shields, who beat Henderson in Strikeforce by using his takedowns. So Rashad seems to be tapping into that vein for this fight. Here is what Rashad had to say about his plan:
"I had a chance to compete against some of the best mixed martial artists of all-time: Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, Machida, Rampage Jackson,Tito Ortiz, Jon Jones, now Dan Henderson. I'm excited about the opportunity to fight Dan Henderson. He's definitely on the top of that list of some of the best and some of the hall-of-famers I've competed against. I know what I want to do to get the results that I want to get: Trust in myself and gettin' it done. Takedown, ground and pound, roll up our sleeves and get dirty and go to work. I'm gonna try to get 50 takedowns this fight. 50. If get him down on the ground, I want to ground and pound him until he's done. Dan's right hand is very dangerous. He knocks everybody out with it, hard. He just knocks them the hell out and they sleep for a long time. I don't think it'll be a mistake to trade with him, I've got some power too. Let's not confuse this whole situation. I'm not going to go in there and stand in front of him and try to bang it out and hope to God I don't get hit with that big right hand. I'm going to be smart. He's gonna want to knock me out. It's not gonna happen. He's not knocking me out. I'm not going anywhere. I may have stumbled a little bit, fell down, but I get myself back up, dust myself off. I'm a top competitor. I deserve a chance to fight for the belt."
Securing 50 takedowns is reaching quite a bit but we get the idea. Rashad is going to try to avoid Henderson's right hand and try to wear him down with grappling and constant pressure. It seems like the right idea and Rashad is going to need that plan to work if he wants to come away from UFC 161 with a "W". Both men are highly-skilled MMA fighters and are right on the cusp of light-heavyweight contention. However, with Rashad dropping his last two I would say that he is in more dire need of the win than Hendo is. That's not to say that Henderson, who is also coming off of a close decision loss to Machida, doesn't need the win as well.
So what do you think? Is Rashad putting together the right game plan to come away with the win on June 15th or is he just brewing up the makings of another boring main-event. Let's hear some thoughts on the fight, Penn Nation! Sound off!
-Jake Chastain
21 Responses to "Rashad Evans Plans on "Getting 50 Takedowns" Against Dan Henderson"
Ya rashad Cuz that would be just awesome u couldn't finish half a pizza ya lame … overrated hype train since day 1
i agree that he is over rated but he can finish fights and has done so in the past… but if he fights Hendo like he fought Machida and little Nog he will lose. as far as wrestling goes, I think Hendo has the advantage BUT who knows? I will be rooting for Hendo!
"i want to get 50 takedowns"…"i want to beat dan henderson via points"…nice job rashad we see where u went
Not sure…actually Shogun put Hendo on his back several times and held him there. Shields completely out wrestled Hendo in their fight…and way back in their fight Rampage out wrestled him too. I know he is world class skills and is a total beast but he has been out wrestled before and Rashad does have strong wrestling pedigree. It should be fun I think it will be a good one to watch.
Just because Hendo got taken down in previous fights doesn't mean his wrestling is inferior. Its because Hendo prefers to H-bomb his opponents and to do this you have to come forward. Coming forward and throwing strikes leave you open for take downs. If you trained at all you would know this.
Agreed, and Hendo does have the big power that's always a factor.
Evans saying this BS is making me not want to buy that card. Sounds like he's gonna try to stall and hump the shit out of him like he did Rampage and Thiago Silva fight.Just when I was starting to like Evans he says this crap to remind me of those fights.
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Estuary in Peril
Senate Committee Hosts Water Hearing
Mayor Mandel Urges Estuary Protection
Several hundred citizens turned out last Thursday to hear from water and environmental experts and share their concerns with water releases from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River and St. Lucie Estuary.
Chaired by State Senator Joe Negron of Stuart, the Select Committee on Indian River Lagoon and Lake Okeechobee Basin includes eight other Senators, including Lizbeth Benacquisto of Southwest Florida.
The panel heard from Secretary Herschel Vinyard of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Ernie Barnett, Interim Executive Director of the South Florida Water Management District and Colonel Alan Dodd, District Commander for the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Doing the heavy lifting for environmental concerns were representatives from the Everglades Foundation, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute of Florida Atlantic University, Audubon Florida and Florida Oceanographic Society. Supporting them with testimony from the floor were representatives of the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Society, Conservancy of SWFL, Sierra Club and River Kids, a youth group in Stuart focused on St. Lucie River issues and a host of other concerned citizens.
During Fort Myers Beach Mayor Alan Mandel's testimony, coming over six hours into the hearing, he urged lawmakers to recognize the short and long term economic damage of the releases, citing the preliminary results of a Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce survey that showed that over 90% of accommodation members have had guests say they are not coming back; 70% have had cancellations.
"This is just a few weeks into the economic recovery," he said. "When we had the BP spill, we didn't have anything to see. Now you can see the water. We have to allocate some funds to help promote the areas hard hit by the releases. I hope that you'll take some of these ideas today and find a place to store water, but we're going to have to counter the impact of what's going on, not just on our island, but the whole area."
Negron interjected that the state has had some good news. The first six months of 2013 were the best six months ever, even better than '05-'06.
"Tourism is still very important to Florida. We are still a tourist state…I wouldn't want to pay $200/night for the water I've been seeing…we have to let people know, 'give us another chance'."
A host of citizens spoke about the effects the lake releases have had on their lives and businesses. None more memorable than Native American Bobby Billie.
"I'm not here for the Miccosukee or Seminoles, I'm independent – here for nature and the environment," he said. "We have survived for millions and millions of years. Newcomers came to our land and changed it, drained it, killing it. You need to wake up right now. We're over the edge."
Negron pushed presenters and speakers to focus on short-term solutions, assuring the crowd that the committee is capable of acting before next March when the Florida Legislature convenes for the 2014 session.
Some ideas that came from several speakers:
• Declare a State of Emergency that could allow the governor to force the federal government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to alter the water release schedule dictated by the 2008 Lake Okeechobee Water Release Schedule (LORS).
• Expand water storage and treatment north of the lake.
• Broaden septic tank rules to prevent leakage into ground water. Encourage municipal sewer system use near bays and rivers.
• Expand water treatment and storage south of the lake, ensuring that before water is released into the Everglades, it is treated to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus levels.
• Raise water levels in the Everglades Agriculture Areas (EAA) a few inches to store more water.
• Encourage local fertilizer ordinances that ban fertilizer use during rainy season.
• Get federal and state funding for projects approved years ago to store water and restore the Everglades.
• Restore the water district budgets to allow completion of approved projects.
Colonel Dodd explained the basic issue related to concern over failure of the Herbert Hoover dike.
"The Corps manages Lake Okeechobee through a systemic approach that balances several competing needs but protection of lives and preventing catastrophic failure is our top priority. Currently releases east and west are our only choices."
Under questioning from Negron, Dodd consistently defended the LORS plan, noting that not enough progress has been made on lake projects yet to warrant a revision of the plan.
Negron pushed for a fresh look and questioned the priorities on the 2008 schedule.
"Do you take into account the catastrophic effect of what's being done, the hundred of millions of dollars in loss to our communities? It seems the Corps is fixated on the dike to the exclusion of these other issues."
Dodd defended the Corps' plan, "It's a balancing act we are doing, and we're doing it according to LORS."
He brushed aside questions about water quality, noting that, "Water quality is a state issue. We convey water from one location to another."
Dr. Tom Van Lent, Senior Scientist of The Everglades Foundation, summed up the water release issue as being primarily of two problems: 1) water quantity and 2) water quality.
He explained that the nitrogen and phosphorous is not just a Lake O problem, but come from watershed run-off, septic tanks and fertilizer use.
"We need to focus on water quality in the local (watershed) basin in addition to the lake water. The local basin provides 58% of the water flowing into the estuaries and more than half of the nutrients in that water come from the local (watershed) basin."
Sanibel Mayor Kevin Ruane encouraged the committee to use balance in considering the water release problem, noting that there is a real economic effect caused by the water releases. Tourism, construction, real estate values are all affected. He echoed a request by Fort Myers Beach Mayor Mandel, inviting the committee to the west coast.
Senior Vice-President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for United States Sugar, Bubba Wade, encouraged treatment of water north of the lake along with immediate construction of the C-43 reservoir. He also urged those who feel they are not being heard by federal agencies to address those agencies directly.
After six hours of testimony, Negron announced four action items the committee will focus on as it works on recommendations for the full Senate:
1. Reevaluate the 2008 LORS to be sure it balances the risk of overflow with the damage done by lake releases.
2. Find additional water storage.
3. Evaluate whether a state of emergency declaration would impact the state's ability to work with the federal government to address the releases.
4. Investigate how septic tanks may be contributing to the problem and how the problem can be addressed while protecting private property rights.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
NORFOLK, June 19, 2003 "Haul up the Allied Command Transformation flag," Secretary General Lord George Robertson said during the ceremony here today. "Allied Command Transformation is now established."
With that, one of the more "daring" experiments in NATO's history began. Robertson oversaw the decommissioning of Allied Command Atlantic and the establishment of the new command under a driving rain.
U.S. Navy Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. assumed the position of Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. Marine Gen. James Jones assumed the area responsibilities formerly held by Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. Giambastiani is also commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, the command charged with transforming the U.S. military. Jones heads the European Command.
ACLANT, decommissioned after 51 years of existence, was established at the beginning of the Cold War to ensure troops and supplies from the United States and Canada could reach Western Europe through growing Soviet naval power. Allied Command Transformation will specialize in dealing with unconventional, unpredictable threats of the future, Robertson said.
The new command is part of a huge restructuring of NATO commands agreed to by heads of state at NATO's Prague Summit in November. Robertson said the changes mean a "retooled, reengineered, reinvented NATO ready to deal with the threats that are out there" and also ready to deal with threats "we don't know are out there."
The decommissioning of Allied Command Atlantic and establishment of Allied Command Transformation is more than a reflagging action. "We are changing fundamentally the very nature and purpose of this strategic headquarters," Robertson said.
"Allied Command Transformation will shape the future of combined and joint operations and will identify new concepts and bring them to maturity, and turn then these transformational concepts into reality - a reality shared by the whole NATO alliance."
The new functional command is "theory put in practice," Robertson said during an interview following the ceremony. "Every day there are people in uniform out there doing a remarkable job of work. This command is going to help them to make sure they do it well in the future."
Giambastiani and Jones said that their relationship will be key to success. Jones, now the chief of NATO's Operations, will need military capabilities.
Giambastiani will be the man tasked with finding new ways, methods and doctrines to provide those capabilities. "My job is frankly to support the operational command, just as (U.S.) Joint Forces Command supports the other (American) combatant commanders," Giambastiani said in the interview following the ceremony.
Allied Command Transformation will do that under direction of the NATO Atlantic Council through the NATO military council. "The bottom line day to day is to support the operations of Allied Command Operations," he said.
Jones pointed out his command has been working to define the relationship between the commands for quite a few months. "It really is going to be a strong and robust and cohesive relationship that will enable us to continue the transformation of the military that we all know we need for the 21st century challenges," he said.
The immediate challenge is to establish the NATO Response Force. "That's about as important as you can get," Giambastiani said. The force is scheduled to have an early operations capability at the end of this year, with an initial operations capability set for fall 2004.
Ultimately the force could number 20,000 and be able to deploy in days out of the NATO area. The force would also be sustained for up to a year.
The NATO Response Force is "really the prime vehicle for transformation as well," Jones said. "It not only generates a capability, but it is the vehicle by which we achieve that transformation." He said anything that can be done to "hasten the delivery of the NATO Response Force" will be appreciated.
NATO is entering new areas. The alliance will support Poland as it puts together a division that will participate in stabilizing Iraqi. NATO is also readying a force that will maintain peace and security in Afghanistan. NATO forces are also in the Balkans.
Robertson said that linking the new command so clearly with the U.S. Joint Forces Command "means that the United States will never be alone in the future and that the allies will always know that in times of trouble they'll be able to act with the United States in the interests of international law and order."


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Automaker BMW is temporarily transporting export vehicles to the Port of Charleston by truck after a train derailment at its Upstate manufacturing plant this morning, a spokeswoman said.
A part of a train transporting BMW X5 and X6 sport utility vehicles jumped the tracks at BMW's facility in Greer just before 6 a.m. today, according to BMW spokeswoman Sky Foster.
She added that nobody was injured in the incident and none of the vehicles were damaged.
She said distribution was not halted, but the company has turned to alternative transportation, such as trucks, to send the vehicles to Columbus Street Terminal in Charleston for shipping overseas.
Foster said it was not immediately known what caused the derailment, but Norfolk Southern is in the process of repairing the damage to the rail line.
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Publisher: CRC Pre
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Featuring hundreds of illustrations and references, this volume in the third edition of the Circuits and Filters Handbook, provides the latest information on analog and VLSI circuits, omitting extensive theory and proofs in favor of numerous examples throughout each chapter. The first part of the text focuses on analog integrated circuits, presenting up-to-date knowledge on monolithic device models, analog circuit cells, high performance analog circuits, RF communication circuits, and PLL circuits. In the second half of the book, well-known contributors offer the latest findings on VLSI circui
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Neuron Circuits, Electronic Circuits and Self-Consciousness, by Masakazu Shoji, is a unique and fascinating scientific detective story that traces the origins as well as the complex mechanisms of human self-consciousness. The author writes in a straightforward and expert manner from the perspective of a longtime microprocessor designer to explore and explain a hardware functional model that satisfies the introspective observations of the human mind. Born into a Buddhist family in the 1930s, Mr. Shoji has long been interested in "looking into his own mind." From the study discussed in his new b
Author: Wai-Kai Chen
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Upon its initial publication, the Handbook of Circuits and Filters broke new ground. It quickly became the resource for comprehensive coverage of issues and practical information that can be put to immediate use. Not content to rest on his laurels, editor Wai-kai Chen divided the second edition into volumes, making the information easily accessible and digestible. In the third edition, these volumes have been revised, updated, and expanded so that they continue to provide solid coverage of standard practices and enlightened perspectives on new and emerging techniques. Feedback, Nonlinear, and
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This series of circuits provides designers with a quick source for oscillator circuits. Why waste time paging through huge encyclopedias when you can choose the topic you need and select any of the specialized circuits sorted by application? This book in the series has 250-300 practical, ready-to-use circuit designs, with schematics and brief explanations of circuit operation. The original source for each circuit is listed in an appendix, making it easy to obtain additional information. Ready-to-use circuits.Grouped by application for easy look-up.Circu
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Designing Asynchronous Circuits using NULL Convention Logic (NCL) begins with an introduction to asynchronous (clockless) logic in general, and then focuses on delay-insensitive asynchronous logic design using the NCL paradigm. The book details design of input-complete and observable dual-rail and quad-rail combinational circuits, and then discusses implementation of sequential circuits, which require datapath feedback. Next, throughput optimization techniques are presented, including pipelining, embedding registration, early completion, and NULL cycle reduction. Subsequently, low-power design
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Pragmatic Circuits: DC and Time Domain deals primarily with circuits and how they function, beginning with a review of Kirchhoff's and Ohm's Laws analysis of d-c circuits and op-amps, and the sinusoidal steady state. The author then looks at formal circuit analysis through nodal and mesh equations. Useful theorems like Thevenin are added to the circuits toolbox. This first of three volumes ends with a chapter on design. The two follow-up volumes in the Pragmatic Circuits series include titles on Frequency Domain and Signals and Filters. These short lecture books will be of use t
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This new book demonstrates the usefulness of the switching function in analysing power electronic circuits in the steady state. It includes analysis of generic circuits of power electronics using the switching function, and derives compact expressions for output voltage and current and input current. Further coverage includes frequency spectrums and distortion figures together with the power factor where appropriate, and switching function algebra. The application of the Kirchoff's laws and the superposition theorem in switched circuits are also discussed.Also available:VLSI Testing: dig


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Buoyed by high hopes but possessing little in the way of actual memorabilia, Ed Shirak is opening a Frank Sinatra museum in Ol' Blue Eyes' hometown of Hoboken this weekend.
It has the lofty name of "From Here to Eternity: The Museum," and it's the first building of its kind to open since Sinatra's death last year. But it's a modest tribute to one of this century's most towering cultural figures. This is a one-room, 600-square-foot museum that still has room for a stage where Shirak will present his own musical, "Welcome Home Francis," and a bar that's meant to evoke the ambiance of old Hoboken.
The room is filled with photos and letters, plus a few other items like a handkerchief Sinatra once gave a fan during a show, and a menu from the Rustic Cabin in Englewood, where Sinatra began his storied career. A painting of Oscar, a.k.a. the Academy Award (which Sinatra won twice), adorns the front door.
"It's uplifting when you go in there. It's spiritually uplifting. I call it Frank's Sistine Chapel," says Shirak, 54. The co-owner of the Hoboken chocolate store Lepore's, Shirak has written and self-published a book on Sinatra called "Our Way," and run unsuccessfully for mayor and councilman positions in Hoboken.
Sinatra's relatives are not as enthusiastic.
The Hoboken newspaper the Hoboken Reporter has published excerpts from a letter sent to Shirak by Robert Finkelstein, lawyer for Sinatra's children. "Demand is made that you immediately cease and desist from any unauthorized exploitation of Frank Sinatra's name and likeness," it read in part, though no specific legal action was threatened, according to the newspaper.
Shirak refuses to comment on the letter, but says he hasn't changed his plans to open the museum tomorrow, on the 84th anniversary of Sinatra's birth. Finkelstein was unavailable for comment.
Sinatra's widow, Barbara, is aware of the museum, said her spokeswoman, Susan Reynolds. However, she would not comment on Barbara Sinatra's feelings about the museum, noncommittally describing it as one of "many hundreds of projects throughout the world people who want to give tribute to, or in some way acknowledge Frank Sinatra."
Sinatra's cousin, Frank Monaco, who lives in Weehawken, says "I like Eddie Shirak, he worships Frankie. What he's doing is all right, I guess."
But Monaco also believes that Hoboken isn't the right place for a Sinatra museum, despite the crooner's roots there. "It should be in New York City or Washington D.C.," he says. "Hoboken is a quiet area, a small area. Frankie became world renown."
The museum is located in a red- brick building that used to house a knick-knack store that "sold everything from Sinatra memorabilia to toothpaste and baby carriages," says Shirak. It's at 417 Monroe St., next door to the empty lot that now sits at 415 Monroe St. -- Sinatra grew up at 415 Monroe, though the actual building burned down years ago.
In one of the photos Shirak is displaying, a young Sinatra stands on Monroe Street. Some of the buildings that still exist are visible in the background. Shirak feels that Sinatra must have spent some time at 417 Monroe St., even though he's not sure what kind of store it was in Sinatra's youth.
In 1996, Shirak paid to have a bronze star embedded in the sidewalk at 415 Monroe St. He has also put $18,000 into the museum, he says. The room has new carpet, and its walls gleam with a fresh coat of red paint. Shirak also invested in the bar, chairs and tables, and a sound system that will play non-stop Sinatra hits.
Hours for the museum, which officially opens tomorrow, are from noon to 7 or 8 p.m. daily with no admission charge, though volunteers from the neighborhood will be on hand to accept the suggested $5 donation. The money will go to Shirak's non-profit Our Way Foundation, and after the $18,000 is recouped, he says, proceeds will go to the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and the Hoboken Historical Museum.
''That's in honor of Frank, because he was such a great philanthropist," says Shirak.
Tonight, Shirak will present his musical, "Welcome Home Francis," at the museum for the first time, to a sold-out crowd of about 45. It's a three-person play, with Shirak himself playing Sinatra.
Among the Sinatra quotes Shirak lists in the program are: "Dare to wear the foolish clown face," "Live every day like it's your last," and "I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know."
If there is enough demand, he says, "the play will be ongoing, like The Fantasticks in New York."
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Five Reasons Arts Education Is Essential to Sustainability
Five Reasons Arts Education Is Essential to Sustainability
Thoreau wrote, "Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect miracles."
For me, the Seed Division, <www.schoolgardenproject.com> a student-run business at Troy Howard Middle School, a public school in Belfast, Maine, is one such miracle. Troy Howard has become a national exemplar for school agriculture programs, featured in presentations around the country from Cornell University to the Philadelphia Flower Show and the National USDA Conference.
At a time when arts programs across the country are being slashed or eliminated, the Seed Division is thriving, due in large part to a creative approach for marketing the open-pollinated, organic, heirloom seeds that students grow and harvest themselves from their own school garden.
At Troy Howard, students design and produce hand-printed seed packets using environmentally friendly linoleum cuts, resulting in a product that is so charming, useful, and unique that it sells out to parents, at bookstores, and through other venues in the local community, while providing funding for their Garden Project.
So what do students learn from this engagement in the arts and how does this learning connect to sustainability? From my perspective, there are at least five good reasons this and many other art projects contribute to skills needed for sustainable living. By designing and producing seed packets:
1. Students learn to work on multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams. To produce packaging for their seeds, Troy Howard students cooperate with teachers, Garden Project team members, student printmakers, fellow artists, suppliers, and local retail stores. Through experiencing this rich variety of roles and functions through the iterative process of design, team members acquire understanding and skills from the one another, triggering even more ideas and insights. As creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson has said <www.ted.com>, "creativity…more often than not, comes about from the interaction of different disciplinary ways of looking at things." Such cultures of creative collaboration can be key to the development of innovative solutions to meet future challenges, especially on a local level.
2. Students learn about materials. Manufacturing a seed packet requires linoleum, ink, and seed envelopes made of paper and adhesive. The process of selecting these materials opens an inquiry into sustainable choices: What are these materials made of? How were they obtained? Which materials are recycled or recyclable? What do they cost, both in dollars and environmental impacts? Which were produced locally? Which have long-term, short-term or one-time uses? Which are derived from petroleum? Are alternatives available? And so on.
3. Students learn to "think backwards." To make a linoleum block that successfully prints a seed packet, students must learn to "think backwards," that is, to cut a mirror image of the illustration and lettering so that it reads "right" when reversed onto the paper. Follow? In fact, most forms of fabrication require the capacity to think spatially and work backwards, inside out, upside down, or in the negative, inviting perspectives that are new, challenging, and often downright beguiling. If students want seeds to be available for a holiday sale, they need to plan backwards with the end in mind – from the date of the sale to the point in time when packages must be designed, printed, filled, and delivered, to the moment in the garden when seeds must be harvested and sorted.
4. Students learn how to contribute to the life of their community. Through their seed and produce sales, students of the Seed Division enjoy the opportunities and sense of security that come from deriving their livelihood from participation in their community. While earning enough to cover their program's operating expenses, the students also make a valuable contribution to fellow gardeners and their local food system by saving and propagating precious heirloom varieties that are adapted to local soils and climate. And they experience perhaps the greatest joy known to all makers-of-things: the exhilaration of moving an intangible idea – step-by-step – into the reality of three dimensions, so that it can be shared and enjoyed by others.
5. Students learn the role of beauty and wit in everyday life. Nineteenth-century architect and designer William Morris wrote, "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." A lot us (starting with me) fail at this in the current consumer culture. But an arts project like this one at Troy Howard can demonstrate to students that by shifting from consumer to producer they become the source of the beauty, values, and character that they believe products can and should embody. They begin to understand that they can become the change they want to see in the world, in part through the power of their talents, skills, and aesthetic choices.
What would Socrates do?
Inquiry for the classroom using Socratic dialogues
- Part of the reason seeds from the Troy Howard Seed Division sell so well is the popular package design. What are ways that packaging might influence your purchase decisions?
- How many things do you make in a day, month, or year? Do you feel or think differently about things that you make or that are made by people you know personally, compared to things you buy ready-made? In general, which do you prefer: handmade things, or manufactured things?
- Students at Troy Howard Middle School are encouraged to grow their own food. How would growing your own food year-round affect what or how you eat? How would your schedule be affected if you needed to spend time each day growing a lot of the food you ate?


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- download tv guide info
- Keep your pc out of sight
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- Antenna *Bowtie, RadioShack- $ 3.99-? (*depending on your location you will have different needs for antennae see: www.antennaweb.org to get an idea)
- 300ohm to 75ohm transformer (gold tipped), RadioShack- $4.99
- 100ft cat6 550mhz utp cable, MonoPrice- $11.44
- RJ-45 Network cable crimper, MonoPrice- $5.36
- HDMI over Cat5e/ Cat6 extender wall plate, MonoPrice- $19.06
- RJ-45 Modular plugs 100pack, MonoPrice- $8.77
- 2- HDMI 1.3a 28AWG 1.5ft cable, MonoPrice- $6.02
- KWorld ATSC USB 2.0 Tv Stick, NewEgg- $29.99
- Ati Radeon Sapphire 4650 pci-e 2.0 x16 512mb, NewEgg- $54.99 (you can really use any graphics card that will output audio and video over hdmi)
- PC with Core 2 Duo or better and pci-e 2.0 x16 graphics capabilites ~$350-$?
- iPhone or iPod touch, Apple- $99
- Hipporemote, Appstore- $4.99
- HDTV with HDMI inputs- $350-$
Step 2: Pick the Right Antenna and Mounting Location
Now you have your antenna let's find a home for it. Ok first figure out where the cable is coming in to the house. Mine was on the side of the house and entered in the attic where the signal was split four ways (living room, 2 bedrooms, and office). I disconnected the cable coming in my house from outside in the attic and attached my 300ohm to 75ohm transformer and antenna. So now we have antenna signal to all rooms in house. You may need signal amplifier for more rooms/ longer cable runs.


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So what's next for the 2012-2013 off-season champion Dodgers? Danny Knobler says Anibal Sanchez has been discussed, but Buster Olney says the Dodgers aren't going to be signing any more pitchers. As far as Sanchez goes, I'm inclined to believe Olney, because while I believe the team's budget is comically high, I do believe they have one and that it ... Read More »
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Los Angeles Times: Steven Cohen has been implicated in an insider trading scheme. Tuesday the Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had been implicated in a massive $276-million insider trading scheme. Remember him? The guy who was once the front-runner for the Dodgers? Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that's why some of us didn't want him as owner. —– The Book: Tom Tango argues ... Read More »
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The Dodgers are the favorite to win the Zack Greinke sweepstakes, according to Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald. According to an industry insider, the Dodgers are the favorites to wind up with top free agent starter Zack Greinke, with the Angels and Rangers on the outside looking in. And no starting pitcher on the market is going to be ... Read More »
Dodgers Are Looking For A Starter, So Let's Look At Their Options
The Dodgers are still in the market for a starting pitcher, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. Source: #Dodgers not done. Looking for another starting pitcher. Nothing close. Buster Olney at ESPN hears similar chatter, so there's definitely something going on, which I suppose shouldn't surprise Dodger fans anymore. Since the Dodgers are actively looking for rotation help, it ... Read More »
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Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Even though he's away from home right now, I think Mike Petriello comes away from the trade with the right approach. So how am I feeling about it today? I think Gonzalez is going to be an incredible fit in LA, especially considering that reports of his demise in Boston seem overblown (he was outstanding last ... Read More »
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The trade deadline is now less than 48 hours away and the Dodgers are still looking for another bat and an upgrade to their rotation. An additional bat should be the priority, but the Dodgers seem intent on securing an arm instead. Either way, what are the rumors today? —– Remember that Ryan Dempster thing? Well, it's still going on. ... Read More »
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GM Ned Colletti says the Dodgers are far from done after landing Hanley Ramirez, as they still want a starter and a bat. The Dodgers landed the middle-of-the-order bat they've been looking for in Hanley Ramirez, but general manager Ned Colletti on Wednesday said he's still looking for a starting pitcher and another hitter. "We're still hunting for starting pitching. ... Read More »
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What does BIT stands for in Computers
What does BIT stands for in Computers: It's not an acronyms but we prefer to say it as World. Bit is a short for Binary DigIT. Bit is short for Binary Digit, meaning how much information is processed per clock cycle. A 64-bit computer processes 64 lots of information at one time. Each lot of information processed is made up of different combinations of 1's and 0's.


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Friday, January 18, 2013
The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, will be in Charleston, Jan. 25-26 as Episcopalians in the diocese gather to choose a new bishop and other leaders. Two public events are planned:
Friday, January 25
What: Meet and Greet the Presiding Bishop
Where: Grace Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth St., Charleston SC 29401
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 26
What: Special Meeting of the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
Where: Grace Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth St., Charleston
7:30 a.m. Registration check-in opens; breakfast available
9:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist, with Bishop Jefferts Schori as Celebrant and Preacher. All preregistered media are welcome at the service.
11:00 a.m. (approx.) Call to order. Meeting is expected to include election of a Provisional Bishop, who will be installed immediately. Lunch will be served after the meeting.
Visit episcopaldioceseofsc.org to register.
From: Holly Behre, Communications Chairman
Preregistration for all visitors at the Convention, including news media, is required by Jan. 21.
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