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Evergreen Montessori House is private kindergarten, preschool and nursery school program tailored to meet each child's individual needs. Our goal is to enable a child to develop intellectually, socially, and culturally as a critical step on the journey to becoming a happy and
capable adult. Evergreen Montessori House offers developmentally appropriate enriching play and learning experiences to enhance the child's potential for growth during the critical early childhood years.
The outcome of an authentic Montessori education is a self-confident, lifelong learner with a sense of responsibility to himself, humanity and the natural world. Montessori graduates have the skills to work, collaborate, think critically, problem solve and adapt. Evergreen Montessori House students graduate with strong academic skills. They are strong communicators, have a strong foundation in mathematics and are exposed to abstract thinking associated with the scientific method.
The goal of a Montessori education is to help students learn how to learn and enjoy the learning process. Today, information quickly becomes obsolete; the focus of education must shift from facts to process to keep up with these changes. Furthermore, it is no accident that our student makeup reflects all of the beautiful colors of our nation. It is our absolute belief that, in our modern society, our children learn not only to co-exist, but to cherish each other's differences. It is this very eclectic blending that makes us such a dynamic and successful country. We seek to develop awareness and respect of other cultures in our student.
At Evergreen Montessori House, we educate the whole child and teach your child the skills required for life long success.
Education Methods
The Montessori methodologies are tried and tested with over 100 years of development and refinement. Maria Montessori was the first woman to graduate as a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Rome. In 1907 she founded the Montessori movement with the opening of her first "Children's House" to provide preschool education to 40 children ages three to six. She pursued her belief that the early childhood years were of paramount importance in developing capable adults by spreading her concepts worldwide.
In 1929 the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) was established. AMI has developed the most rigorous andcomprehensive standards of Montessori education. Dr Montesssori and her son, Mario, spent many years in India. They trained S.R. Swamy who became the lead teacher for all Montessori courses in India. Gargi Das, EMH founder and program director, received her Montessori training under Mr. Swamy. In 1993 Mrs Das founded Evergreen Montessori House.
Standard activities are not forced upon children of a certain age group. We acknowledge that all children are different. At Evergreen Montessori House the ages of the children are mixed. This is due to the fact that children learn from each other socially and intellectually. Mixing the ages is a natural outcome of the family and environment we cultivate.
Click here to learn more about the Montessori Method.
Classroom Materials
At Evergreen Montessori House we use a variety of educational tools and materials to inspire learning.
All of our Montessori tools are Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) approved. Most of our Montessori tools are imported from Italy and India. The Montessori component is one part of our curriculum – we also utilize "traditional" classroom tools, technology, scientific instruments, arts and crafts and other tools to instill a love of learning in our students.
Fun Classroom Activities
Evergreen Montessori House has created a wondrous fun-filled learning environment for the children.
Dr. Montessori approached education as a scientist, believing that educational methodologies should be developed objectively through observing and learning from children themselves. Every method, material, lesson, and activity that Dr. Montessori developed was based on her scientific observation of children's natural and innate ability to learn. Dr. Montessori discovered that children almost effortlessly absorb knowledge from their surroundings; that they learn best through their own physical activity and senses; that they consistently strive to become ever more capable and independent; that they move through predictable planes of development while retaining their unique individuality; and that they experience "sensitive periods" for learning certain concepts.
We believe that children learn best through discovery and play. Our curriculum is carefully crafted to ensure that all areas of development are addressed each day. Each day the children learn something new - from feeling three dimensional geometrical solids, to growing tomato plants to listening to holiday arts and crafts projects.
At Evergreen Montessori House, learning is our top priority without sacrificing fun!
Classroom Guest Visits/Lecturers and Field Trips
Every year our school arranges special events - from having a live show on animals to learning about insects and much more.


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As revealed on this blog on July 15th, singer Annie Lennox is to appear in the next series of Who Do You Think You Are (see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/annie-lennox-to-appear-in-wdytya.html).
Now the Daily Mail has some more on her story at www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2183215/Annie-Lennoxs-shock-discovers-scandalous-heritage-Who-Do-You-Think-You-Are.html - sounds an interesting one for anyone with Scottish ancestry, with illegitimacy, kirk sessions and all sorts.
(With thanks to @YourFamTreemag)
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New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

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BOSTON – Graduate student Allison Letourneau (Kingston, Nova Scotia) set a school record in a runner-up finish in the mile to lead to University of New Hampshire women's indoor track & field team to a sixth-place finish at the America East Championships on Saturday at Boston University's Track & Tennis Center.
With 67 points, the Wildcats finished behind Boston University (164), Albany (159.50), UMBC (106.50), Vermont (93) and Binghamton (74.50), but ahead of Stony Brook (54), Maine (47) and Hartford (14.50).
Letourneau, who already set the school record in the mile earlier this season, broke her own record in the event in an ECAC-qualifying time of 4:42.47.
Senior Kate Early (Corning, N.Y.) claimed fourth in the pentathlon with a total of 3364 points, while junior Jacky Mendes (Dayton, Maine) finished fifth with 3298 points. Early also placed sixth in the high jump with a leap of 5-03.75.
Junior Allison Brehm (Pembroke, N.H.) finished sixth in the 60 meters in a time of 7.84.
The Wildcats' 4x800 meter team of juniors Keely Maguire (Georgetown, Mass.) and Meagan Boucher (Manchester, N.H.), freshman Caroline Hammond (Lexington, Mass.) and Letourneau placed fourth in an ECAC-qualifying time of 9:10.37.
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Police hunt Newcastle scooter thief
Posted: April 26, 2014|
POLICE are hunting a thief who took a £7,000 mobility scooter from outside a house.
The scooter, a silver Quingo Sport model, was stolen from Basford Park Road in Newcastle.
It has no mirrors and is missing the rear right side brake light and indicator. It also has welding in the footwell and holes in the glovebox.
The thief struck at about 5.45am on Tuesday.
Police want to talk to a white man, aged between 25 and 30, caught on CCTV.
He was wearing a green hooded jacket and tracksuit bottoms with stripes on the leg.
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call police on 101, quoting incident 441 of April 22.


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FEBRUARY 8, 1913, KITE AND MODEL AEROPLANE ASSOCIATION. Official Notices, British Model Records. Hand-launched ". g£~ ... A. K. Woollard ... ^gfc Off ground (Distance ... G.Rowlands 231 yards. (.Duration ... A. F. Houlberg ... 51 sees. Hydro, off ground ... Duration ... G. P. Bragg-Smith ... 25 sees. Single-tractor screw, f Distance ... F. G. Hindsley ... 173 yards, hand-launched ...IDuration ... F. G. Hindsley ... 36sees. Do., off ground ... Duration ... H.R.Weston ... at sees. Death of the President.—It is with great regret that we have to officially announce the death of our President, Col. F. C. Trollope (late Grenadier Guards), who died on Tuesday, January 28th, from pneumonia. He attended a Council Meeting of the Association on Thursday, 23rd, when the Council presented him with a small memento for the work he had done during his term of office. There is no doubt that he caught a chill on his way home from the meeting, for he never went out again. He was buried, by the wish of Lord Kesteven, in the family vault at Tallington Church, Stamford, on Saturday, February 1st. Lieut. T. O'B. Hubbard, of the Royal Flying Corps, represented the Association. Col. H. S. Massy, C.B., and Col. J. Templer, late Superin tendent Government Balloon Factory, represented the Association at a most impressive memorial service held at St. Thomas's, Orchard Street, W. He will ever be remembered for his work in connection with balloons and kites, as well as the work he has done in raising the War Kite Squadron, which he did not live to see equipped with their outfit, but it was his last wish to see the first squadron complete. It would therefore be a good memorial to him if his friends would fulfil his wish, by subscribing towards a section of the [filGMT squadron and name it after him. This is the memorial he himself would have liked. His personality will be greatly missed. The Council ami WnnWs of the Association tender their sympathy to their late President's relations and tiieiuls in the sad loss thev have sustained. Aero Show.—The entries received to dale of going to pre>s i FtMtday, 4th) show that the Model Section will be the finest model axuibtt tvm arrannd in the world. It includes French and Chinese entries, and it will Ive worth visiting the exhibition if only to see this section, which will show th-- icieati& UM m models. It is the object of the Association to prove ami educate the public of their great use besides simply beinj; a pastime or sport only. 17, Victory Road, Wimbledon, S.W. W. H. AK.EHURST, Hon. See. ® ® ® ® MODEL CLUB DIARY AND REPORTS. CLUB reports of chiei work done will be published monthly for the future. Secretaries' reports, to be included, must reach the Editor on the last Monday in each month. Sheffield Model Aero Club (35, PENRHYN KOAD, SHEFFIELD). FEB. IOTH. Special meeting, 7 p.m., at Hroomhead'-. Dining RoMM, Leopold Street. Every member should make an effort to attend. Flying every Saturday, weather permitting, at Standhousc aerodrome, Intake. S Eastern Model Ae.C (i, RAILWAY APPROACH, BROCKLEY). FEU. 8TH, at Kidbrooke, a p.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. oth, at Blackheath, 7.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Feb. 9th, at Lee aerodrome, 10.15 a.m. to II.IS p.m. Feb. 9th, at Mitcham Common, a p.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 9th, at Chislehurst (cricket ground), 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. .J. J32L jet, /TX THINGS WE SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW. Shall we one day see policemen on point duty up aloft ? A correspondent in the South Wales Daily Netvs says no airship or aeroplane ought to be allowed to fly without the consent of the police authorities. t •? *? Wouldn't it be rather sport to watch two or three police machines chasing a fast monoplane to inspect the pilot's licence. ? '! ? Is there any particular reason why a lady should not blow her nose when at an altitude of 8,000 feet, if she wants to. And why should the desire be " prosaic." 1, 1 1 Who says a lady cannot do more than one thing at a time. Miss Da vies, in her recent flight with M. Legagneux, is stated to have held a pencil in one hand, and a height indicator in the other, when writing her notes in a pocket book. Do pilots in general know just how their life insurance policies stand with regard to flying accidents. The coming action of Mrs. Mason v. The Ocean Accident Co. suggests that it would be better to get policies endorsed to cover these. ? ? ? What's in a name ? The pilot and passenger of the naval biplane which came down at Ninfield are variously stated in the lay press as, Bobbet and Lea, Tobbett and Lee, and Babbett and Leigh. ? ? V Is it necessary to have a game licence to kill partridges with a a propeller. And won't Mr. Bendall find this rather an expensive sport. ? ? ? Whether Mr. Grahame-White intends to remain long abroad, or is it iust a " flying" visit. ? r '! Whether it is not a fact that the Dep. people have got something up their sleeve to surprise us with at the Show. What is taking place at Portholme, and whether there is not quite a lot of material going up there just now. ® ® CORRESPONDENCE. The Aeros Inclinograph. [ 1717] With reference to the paragraph re our patent Inclino graph, which appears in the last issue of your interesting paper, we should like to point out that the sectors are cast in aluminium, and that as our instrument varies the pressure of the circuit by introducing a resistance into the circuit, the indicator must be similar to a voltmeter, which measures the variation in the pressure of a circuit. Trusting you can find a small space in your paper for these corrections, AEROS, LTD., E. C. MIDWINTER, Managing Director. 39, St. James's Street, S.W. Stability. [I7l8] Replying to Mr. A. R. Pearson's letter (1707) under this heading, Mr. Pearson's method of obtaining stability is so shrouded in mystery that it is difficult to form an opinion as to its possibilities. However, the right person to test the idea in its early stages is the inventor, not the N.P.L., unless he wishes to make a present of it to the public. Is it a fact that a well-known propeller expert in this tight little island of ours designed a windstick which blew the aeroplane it was fitted to backwards. '? ? ? Why did a certain pilot at Shoreham make such a magnificent pancake landing on Shrove Tuesday. ? T t The date when the ban was officially taken off monoplanes, and what has occupied the time between that date and the date ol publicity. V 7 I Whether the waiting game is only a good game when one holds trumps. ? T ? Have they a trump? ? ? ? If, as stated, our aerial fleet consists of 13 machines or there about, and 8 are going to Montrose, won't there be a scramble for the " lefi overs," and suppose anything did happen " over there." Ill • Isn't it a comfort to think it will be all right in a hundred years or so. ? ? ? Did you know ? A provincial paper says, " We are much behind in this country as regards military aviation. Other countries have given us the go by." Just fancy, now. ? ? ? A'e the collision at Farnborough, did the Hunter pitch into the Boar or the Boar into the Hunter. ? ? ? Was it the sort we shall get one day if we don't wake up? The Globe says, " America's first aerial parcel post man carried a cargo of baked beans." ! V ? Whether the newly-arrived pupil at Brooklands who was given a joy ride the other day, and who, afterwards, in fun, was sent a bill for the same, has paid his two guineas yet. " Wll.l. o'-THE-WlSP." ® ® Working models of various sizes should be made and tested either by long glides ox flights of several hundred feel. The invention can be provisionally protected for six months at a cost of 20J., which should allow ample time for approaching aero plane companies. An ounce of influence from the "authority " cited would be worth a pound of his good advice. The concluding paragraph of Mr. Pearson's letter is illogical. There is no reason why an infinite number of methods should not be " sound." " AEROLITE." Balancing a Glider. [1719] 1 am constructing a glider of my own design, and I should be pleased if any reader could settle the question whether it should be fitted with ailerons or balancers between the plan es on each side and in a line with the leading edge of the plane s, or whether it is preferable to place them at the rear edges of the planes, as in the Farman aeroplanes. Canterbury. E. SIMS. 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- Willamette
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- Integration of Sports and Law
Standen in the Media
To learn more about sports law issues, check out Standen's recent appearances in the national media:
- Standen participated in a Federalist Society podcast on the Supreme Court case American Needle v. NFL.
- A New York Times article quoted Standen on a case relating to the NFL's anti-doping policy.
- Standen discussed collective bargaining and a Major League Soccer labor dispute in a podcast for MLS Talk.
- Standen addressed lawsuits against fitness centers in a Houston Chronicle article.
- ESPN Magazine asked Standen to weigh in on the issue of sports leagues suing to block betting.
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Willamette professor engages in national conversation on sports law
If you ask the general public about the integration of sports and the law, they'll likely think of Michael Vick or steroid use.
But Willamette College of Law Professor Jeffrey Standen says sports law is a multifaceted field that goes far beyond athletes' transgressions - it uses anti-trust, labor and constitutional law to address the complex nature of leagues and their relationships with players and outside companies.
"Sports leagues are unique entities," Standen says. "They're made up of independent teams, yet those teams are always working through a joint venture with each other. The hybrid nature of leagues makes them unusual, and that presents interesting problems as the law tries to figure out how to regulate them."
A Prominent Scholar
Standen is an expert in sports and gaming law, and reporters from The New York Times, ESPN and other national publications regularly call him for comment on sports-related court cases.
He has published a book on sports law, Taking Sports Seriously: Law and Sports in Contemporary American Culture, and has two other books in the works for Oxford University Press. Industry lawyers and agents frequently read and comment on his blog, The Sports Law Professor.
In November Standen testified in Washington, D.C., before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding the National Football League's StarCaps case, which questioned whether state labor laws could protect players from drug testing by the league.
Development of the Field
Historically, sports law focused on two main areas, Standen says: safety issues and athletes' contracts.
Safety previously was regulated by consent, he says - if two people wanted to engage in bare-knuckle fighting, they could do it, and people could watch. Over time, Standen says, the law intervened to prevent certain blood sports or impose safety regulations on athletes.
In the past, athletes also had greater freedom of contract, he says. Just like any other employee, athletes could sign contracts with whatever team they liked or easily quit one team for another.
"Athletes increasingly have become regulated by status instead of contract," Standen says. "Today's athletes are not free to negotiate with any team, they're not free to sign with any team out of college and they can't negotiate their next contract while they're still under their current contract."
Leagues and Anti-Trust Law
One of the most important sports law cases today, Standen says, is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: American Needle v. the NFL.
American Needle, a headwear manufacturer, accused the NFL of violating anti-trust law after the league awarded an exclusive license to Reebok to make hats with the NFL trademark and team logos.
"An individual firm is perfectly free to contract with only one supplier for its needs," Standen says. "But multiple firms cannot come together and say they are only going to buy from one company.
"The question is whether the NFL is one firm or 32 different firms. If it's one firm, there's no problem offering the exclusive license to Reebok. If it's 32 teams conspiring to cut other manufacturers out of the market, that may violate anti-trust law.
"The Supreme Court is trying to figure out the definition of a sports league, a basic question that has not been answered conclusively in American law. Their decision could affect everything from broadcasting deals to player negotiations among teams."


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Bryan Adams' Hit-Heavy Fox Show
By Jeremy Essig
Lightning Bolt's Sharp New Sound
By Jason Robinson
Fleetwood Mac Back with Classic Lineup
By Hans Morgenstern
Here's Who's Making STL Noisy This Spring
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Beatles Sister Louise Harrison Departs the Midwest
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Working Class Dogs to Honor Rick Springfield
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Torche Gets Back Into Its Heavy Groove With Restarter
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Unfortunately, Steve and Gary never found that dedication ceremony in Chicago, and what's even more unfortunate is that when native St. Louisan Gary Mac celebrated his 30-year DJ anniversary last November (a pretty amazing accomplishment, too), this feat went completely unnoticed by the City of St. Louis and mostly unnoticed by St. Louis at large. That's a shame, because Gary's been spinning for so long, he remembers when the Vault was Jimmy's Cabaret and when west and south counties had a bunch of clubs (imagine that). Gary's been playing at the Oz since back before the club had that glass cage around the DJ booth, back when 1227 Washington used to be Evolution (and not the defunct Galaxy). In his sets through the years, he's played everything from Top 40 radio and rock music (including Aerosmith!) to "deep house right now, the jazzy, funky, soulful, sexy [music is] what's touching me," Gary says.
So sure, there was a celebratory shindig at the Oz back in December, but the RFT didn't think that was nearly enough congratulations for such a storied musical career. So instead of changing Big Mac's stretch of I-70 to "Gary Mac Highway," the RFT is hosting a mini-commemoration for the celebrated DJ in our pages.
Kelly Clarkson, Joss Stone, Gavin DeGraw, Better Than Ezra and Michael Tolcher at Gateway One Plaza, Seventh & Market streets. Noon-7 p.m. Sunday, April 3. Admission is free; see www.dasanifest.com for more information.
Nelly and the St. Lunatics with T.I. and Fat Joe at the Savvis Center, 14th & Clark streets. 7 p.m. Sunday, April 3. Tickets are $25.50-$45.50; call 314- 241-1888 for more information.
Relatively recent Chicagoan and DJ Marc Buxton -- who's also a former St. Louisan and self-described "record whore" -- has known Gary for more than two decades. Despite self-censoring any "incriminating" stories, Buxton says that Gary worked hard on his hair in the '80s -- so hard, in fact, that he had to hang upside down to achieve his multicolored, gravity-defying hairstyles. But hair sculpture aside, Buxton says, "Gary's most amazing attributes are his perseverance and his positive energy."
Now on to local spinstress and winner of the RFT's own DJ-to-WMC competition: Amy Unland (better known as Kid Delicious). She's a newbie on the scene compared to Gary and Buxton, so she really looks up to the "G-Macaroni," as she calls him. She gushes, "He, to me, is more than just a DJ, because he's an entertainer and he always has really good crowd interaction" (which sometimes includes holding his slip mats up as Mickey Mouse ears. Awesome!).
And last but not least, Steve-O has stories aplenty about his longtime friend Gary, a couple of which involve multiple injuries -- even still, Steve can't tell those stories without laughing hysterically. But in all seriousness Steve says that Gary is irreplaceable and that sadly, a lot of cities and DJ communities don't have someone like him around: "We're fortunate to have that sort of education and knowledge and background."
And it's not just Gary Mac's friends who think he's a great guy and DJ: He's in the top 600 of more than 50,000 DJs on www.thedjlist.com, an obviously enormous directory of DJs that allows fans to vote for their favorites. But would you expect any less from someone who's played at 35 local clubs in his tenure? From Gualdoni's (his very first club) to Miso on Meramec, Gary says it's been a wonderful career, and he feels lucky to be able to do something he loves so much. He says, "So I can still hear, and I still like it, so I'm going to still do it." Good enough.
Hear Gary Mac -- the man, the legend, avid hand-sanitizer and Heat Miser look-alike (at least according to DJ Scott McMurray) -- every week at Miso on Meramec on Thursday, Rue 13 early on Friday, the Oz VIP room later on Friday (and also on Saturday and Sunday), and almost everywhere else, too. Lucky for him, he's used to staying up late now. He says, "I get a second wind, you know, and the music keeps you going." And it'll probably keep Gary Mac going for many more years to come. -- Alison Sieloff
Music of the Spheres
Lest our minds be completely ruled by college basketball this weekend, we turn our attention to more important matters: Huey, Kelly and Nelly.
Show me the man whose life was not changed by Huey Lewis' "The Power of Love," and I'll show you someone with an underdeveloped appreciation for the Back to the Future soundtrack. Bob Costas snagged Lewis & Co. to headline his annual charity benefit this Sunday at the Fox Theatre. Thanks to this booking coup, we have the pleasure of reflecting on a decade of Huey hits, beginning with the chorus from "If This Is It":
"If this is it, please let me know/If this ain't love, you'd better let me know/If this is it, I want to know/If this ain't love baby, just say so."
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Day 02 → Something you love about yourself.
Day 03 → Something you have to forgive yourself for.
Day 04 → Something you have to forgive someone for.
Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.
Day 06 → Something you hope you never have to do.
Day 07 → Someone who has made your life worth living for.
Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.
Day 09 → Someone you didn't want to let go, but just drifted.
Day 10 → Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn't know.
Day 11 → Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
Day 12 → Something you never get compliments on.
Day 13 → A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)
Day 14 → A hero that has let you down. (letter)
Day 15 → Something or someone you couldn't live without, because you've tried living without it.
Day 16 → Someone or something you definitely could live without.
Day 17 → A book you've read that changed your views on something.
Day 18 → Your views on gay marriage.
Day 19 → What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?
Day 20 → Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 21 → (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
Day 22 → Something you wish you hadn't done in your life.
Day 23 → Something you wish you had done in your life.
Day 24 → Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25 → The reason you believe you're still alive today.
Day 26 → Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27 → What's the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28 → What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29 → Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30 → A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.
I dislike snow in the worst way. I honestly don't know what I'm doing in this area because I dislike snow so much.
Why, you ask, do I hate it? Well...
- It's cold
- You can't wear cute shoes in it
- It makes for less than satisfactory driving conditions
- We have already gotten way too much this year and it's only early January
- It only looks pretty for so long, then the dirt sets in
- Shoveling it is horrible work
- Snow plows
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NAB Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada – April 18, 2005 – Mackie is using the NAB Convention in Las Vegas this week to introduce the broadcast and post–production markets to several innovative new recording and live sound products.
Tracktion 2
Mackie's easy to use, ultra–intuitive, recording and MIDI production software gets a feature–rich update.
Mackie's Tracktion Music Production Software has been a runaway success with professionals that are more interested in creating music than learning complicated software platforms. And the version 2 release that's being shown for the very first time to the post production market at the NAB show this week, adds numerous new capabilities and features, while still maintaining the core qualities that makes Tracktion truly unique among competition.
Tracktion 2's distinctive clutter–free, single–screen design and intuitive user interface still offers unparalleled productivity, combining multi–track digital audio, MIDI programming and automated mix down into a simple yet powerful package. The latest version continues to offer full VST instrument and plug–in support, import and export compatibility with all major audio file formats, and cross–platform Mac and PC compatibility.
New for Tracktion 2 is an enhanced, more powerful MIDI editor, more comprehensive keyboard control and the ability to map hardware MIDI controllers to filter parameters. Tracktion 2 also brings a new high–definition 64–bit mix engine, improved external synchronization support, Apple QuickTime™ video support, and full integration for Mackie Control Universal and C4 controllers.
Among the most exciting news for the Tracktion 2 update is the inclusion of a full suite of high–quality plug–ins from some of the industry's most respected names. The collection includes a full range of high–end effects plug–ins from reFX, Acuma Labs, mda and Raw Materials Software, as well as IK Multimedia's popular AmpliTube LE guitar amp modeler. T2's bundled virtual instruments include IK Multimedia's Sampletank SE and the LinPlug RM–IV drum machine to name just a few. Also included is a massive assortment of MIDI drum loops and instrument samples. Tracktion 2 has a manufacturer's suggested retail value of $199.00 and will be available exclusively through authorized Mackie retailers in May 2005.
Onyx 400F Studio Recording Preamp with 192kHz FireWire Output
Perfect for anyone looking to easily add high quality microphone preamps to a DAW–studio or live recording system, Mackie's Onyx 400F is a 10–channel, 192kHz–capable FireWire audio interface that features Mackie's flagship Onyx microphone preamps, as well as on–board DSP matrix mixing. And because it's 192kHz capable, all of the detail and clarity of the highly–acclaimed Onyx mic pre is sure to be preserved in the final recording.
In addition, the Onyx 400F's unique on–board DSP matrix mixer allows latency free headphone mixing and routing independent of the DAW software. This is a particularly useful feature for those operating older DAW–based systems where processing power is limited.
Front panel controls on the Onyx 400F include control–room output level, dual independent headphone outputs with dedicated level control, dual instrument inputs, and four–segment LED metering for the mic inputs. The rear panel includes four combo mic/line inputs, TRS inserts for the mic input channels, four line inputs, eight line outputs, control room outputs, Word Clock I/O, MIDI I/O, SPDIF I/O and two FireWire ports.
The Onyx 400F is bundled with a complete software package which includes Mackie Tracktion, as well as the Mackie Final Mix mastering toolkit. This bundle ensures that Onyx 400F customers will have a complete recording/mixing/mastering solution right out of the box. The Onyx 400F will be available Q2, 2005 with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $899.00.
Onyx 80 Series
The new Onyx 80 Series Large–Format Live Sound Consoles benefit from much of the technology developed for Mackie's successful Onyx small–format analog mixers introduced in 2004. As such, the Onyx 80 Series consoles feature rugged construction, all–new analog circuitry with a full compliment of Mackie's flagship Onyx microphone preamps and the renowned "British–voiced" four–band Perkins EQ.
The Onyx 80 Series consoles are offered in four sizes: the 24–channel Onyx 2480, 32–channel Onyx 3280, 40–channel Onyx 4080, and the 48–channel Onyx 4880. All four models incorporate features that any hardcore live engineer will appreciate including eight Aux Sends with Stereo Link function for up to four IEM mixes; an Aux/Group Flip function; a 10x2 Matrix; four Mute Groups; eight full–featured stereo Aux Input channels, and an optional rack–mountable redundant power supply. The master section and channel strip configuration are the same across the line; the mixers differ only by channel count and footprint.
The Onyx 80 Series will be available Q2 2005. Pro User Net pricing for the Onyx 80 Series models is as follows: Onyx 2480–$3999; Onyx 3280–$4799; Onyx 4080–$5499; and Onyx 4880–$6199.
All Mackie products are currently on display at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 18–21, 2005, booth SL 254.
About Mackie
Mackie, a LOUD Technologies Inc. brand, is known worldwide as a leading developer and marketer of high–quality, affordable professional audio systems. Mackie products can be found in professional and project recording studios, video and broadcast suites, post production facilities, sound reinforcement applications including churches and nightclubs, retail locations and on major musical tours. For more information visit: www.mackie.com.
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Hi all, I'm just a few months away from a trip to Tokyo Disney Resort!
One of my friends is not the biggest fan of roller coasters. He really likes Big Thunder Mountain, but hates Space Mountain (mostly because it's in the dark) and Expedition Everest (mostly the backwards part).
What is the intensity of rides at DisneySea? Which are the most intense? I think he'd be most hesitant about Journey to the Center of the Earth and Raging Spirits. I understand we could watch videos online, but we don't want to spoil the surprise of the theme, story,etc.
For Journey to the Center of the Earth, how does it compare to other Disney rides in the states? How dark is it inside? How big are the drops? (Comparable to Splash Mountain? More or less?) Are the drops straight (Splash Mountain) or more curved/corkscrewed? (He's fine with the curves, but not the straight.) Are the big drops more at the beginning, end, or throughout? I'm pretty sure I'm going to convince/force him to go on this ride :), but I think he'll do better if he knows more what to expect.
I have similar questions regarding Raging Spirits. Also, I understand it's similar to the Indiana Jones ride in Paris, but how similar is it? Near identical, or just similar design, etc.?
Are there other "intense" rides at DisneySea you think he might chicken out?


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OWENTON — A Martin woman is dead after police say she was accidentally shot with a crossbow.
Yvetta Reffitt, 59, was hunting with a group Sunday at a farm in Owen County. Police say she was dropped off by herself at 6:45 a.m. When she did not show up for lunch, members of her hunting party began looking for her.
Reffitt was already dead when she was found at 11:30 a.m.
A preliminary police investigation points to the crossbow shot, along with a pre-existing medical condition, as being responsible for Reffitt's death.
Det. Kurt Buhts, with Kentucky State Police Post 5, in Campbellsburg, is investigating the incident.
Buhts was assisted at the scene by the Owen County Sheriff's Department, Owen County EMS, Owen County Rescue and the Monterey Fire Department.


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A wall-mounted medications cabinet has at least one, and preferably up to four locking drawers, each with a removable bin holding the medications for a given patient. The drawers are each independently openable electronically. This can be accomplished using an incorporated PC with a touch screen monitor, or authorized access can be obtained via a network. The cabinet may be connected using USB or ethernet interface. A key lock can provide access in the event of a power failure.
1. A method of dispensing medication when needed to patients in respective patient rooms at a health care facility in which medications are kept at a pharmacy and when needed are brought to respective patient rooms within the facility, comprising:
a. providing each of said patient rooms with a medications cabinet, and mounting each said cabinet upon a wall of the respective patient room, wherein each said medications cabinet includes
an enclosure that is adapted to be mounted on a wall of a patient room and supported at an elevated position above a floor of the room, the enclosure having a back adapted to be affixed to said wall of the patient room, a front wall, a bottom wall, a left side wall and a right side wall;
one or more locking drawers in said enclosure, each drawer being adapted to hold patient-specific medication for the respective patient in the room, the one or more drawers each having a proximal-distal axis extending along a lateral axis defined between said left and right side walls, and each said drawer including
an elongated slide-out removeable medications bin having an open top permitting access to contents of the bin only when the drawer is pulled out to an open position, and having a proximal end disposed, when said bin is in a closed position, at one of said left and right side walls and a distal end situated within said enclosure;
respective slide means supporting each said bin when the latter is in its open position and in its closed position, and permitting the bin to be pulled out laterally along its proximal-distal axis to an open position to allow access to the bin and permitting the bin to be pushed back in to its closed position; and
respective releasable latch means within said enclosure for releasably engaging a respective member on each said bin in its closed position to lock the drawer, and being movable between a locked position and an unlocked position in which the latch means releases said member; and
for each said drawer a proximity sensor positioned at or near a distal portion of the associated drawer to detect if the drawer is pushed back in to its closed position and to indicate an open/closed status of the associated drawer; and
automatic access means permitting an authorized person to actuate the releasable latch means to its unlocked condition to permit access to said drawer and automatically returning said latch means to its locked position to secure the drawer bin when pushed in and returned to its closed position, wherein the access means is operable to actuate said latch means open only if each said proximity sensor detects that its respective drawer is in its closed position;
b. filling a plurality of said medications bins at said pharmacy with the medications for the respective patients in said patient rooms;
c. bringing said medications bins from the pharmacy to the respective patient rooms;
d. loading each said medications bin into an associated one of the locking drawers of the medications cabinet in the associated patient room;
e. providing an authorized health care professional with means to achieve access to the drawers in the respective cabinet;
f. accessing said drawers in said medications cabinets to provide the medications therein to the associated patient in the patient room; and
g. replacing said bin in the drawer and securing the drawer to its closed position.
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This is a Division of my U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/403,064, filed Apr. 12, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,668,620.
This invention relates to cabinets or storage facilities for keeping supply articles, and is more particularly directed to a system to modernize supply chain management and track inventory items. The invention is more specifically directed to a cabinet suitable for use in a hospital or health care facility, for providing controlled access to a stock of supply items such as dressings, tape, IV bags, infusion kits, gloves, masks, tissues, and personal items, and more specifically to a controlled access cabinet that facilitates keeping an audit trail of access to the various supply items stored in the cabinet.
In general, pharmaceuticals are delivered to patients when needed, and this typically involves use of a medications cart containing the prescription medications for all the patients on a given floor of the hospital or health care center. This means that the cart is typically loaded in a pharmacy department and then is brought to the particular hospital floor. The cart is wheeled from room to room to deliver each patient his or her drugs at the time that the nurse or other practitioner is to administer them. The use of a cart has been more convenient and more efficient than obtaining each patient's medications individually. However, the current system of using a cart to transport medications room to room is inefficient and awkward. Typically, the nurse has to push or pull the cart, and the cart, being bulky and heavy (typically 125 pounds) can be unwieldy where the floors are out of level or where there is carpet. The medications cart is large and obtrusive, and takes up valuable space in the hallway and corridors. Administration of drugs from the cart involves bending and stooping to obtain the drugs from lower drawers. If the nurse needs a particular drug for one of her patients when another nurse has the cart for her medication rounds, then the first nurse has to spend time hunting the cart down and often it is difficult to find the cart. Also, when the pharmacy staff comes to the floor to restock the cart, the cart is often in use and difficult to find, resulting in wasted time for the pharmacy staff. Often, the cart does not fit into the patient's room. In addition, the portable cart requires periodic charging of its batteries, and this task is often overlooked and forgotten until a failure occurs.
It is more convenient and better use of the nurse's time and efforts to keep the pharmaceuticals at the patient locations, i.e., in the patient's room or ward, or in the cluster of rooms where the patient is located. These medications need to be secured, that is, kept locked with a key lock or other mechanism, with access limited only to persons in the nursing staff and pharmacy staff. A record of access to the pharmaceuticals needs to be maintained, but this currently requires making pen-and-ink entries on a paper record, or separately keying in information on separate computer work station.
It would be desirable to employ pharmacy cabinet at the patient location in which medications that have been prescribed for a patient can be loaded by pharmacy staff and stored securely until administered to the patient, which will automatically keep track of access to the cabinet, and which can be accessed by the nurse staff electronically (e.g., using a passcode, a barcode reader, RFID device, fingerprint scanner or wireless means). It is also desirable to ensure that the medications cabinet is kept secure, and with means to ensure that its drawers are closed and locked after each use. However, no measure exists, up to the present, to carry this out.
The state of art of a portable medications cart can be seen with reference to Shoenfeld U.S. Pat. No. 6,775,591, in which the medications cart can be either a wheeled cabinet or a stationary hallway device.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a medications cabinet with secure locking arrangement that avoids the drawbacks of the prior art.
It is another object to provide a medications cabinet and keeps track of the identity or persons accessing the cabinet and times of such access, for each of a number of similar medications cabinets throughout a facility.
It is still another object to provide a medication cabinet that is adapted to be mounted on a wall of a patient room or in some cases a wall at a convenient location in a cluster of patient rooms. The medications cabinet has an enclosure with a front wall and at least one side wall. There are one or more locking drawers in the enclosure, with each drawer including a medications bin that can be pulled out after access is granted to an authorized person, e.g., a nurse. The medications bins each have a proximal end that is disposed at the side wall of the cabinet when the bin is in a closed position. The distal end of the bin is situated within the enclosure. Each drawer has a slide mechanism that permits the medications bin to be pulled out to an open position to allow access to the bin and then to be pushed back in to its closed position. For each drawer there is a releasable latch mechanism inside the enclosure that engages a member that is affixed onto the associated medications bin when the latter is in its closed position. The latch mechanism serves to lock the drawer, but is movable between its locked position and an unlocked position. In the latter position, the latch means releases the associated latching member on the medications bin to release or unlock it.
The cabinet also comprises a microprocessor or computer based automatic access facility, such that a nurse or other authorized person to actuate the releasable latch mechanism (for a given patient's medications drawer) to its unlocked condition so the nurse can access that drawer. The automatic access facility then returns said latch mechanism to its locked position to secure the drawer bin when returned to its closed position.
In one favorable implementation, the latch mechanism can have a latch member that is pivotally supported on a horizontal pivot, and associated latching member on the bin can be formed of a transverse strike plate formed on the distal end of the bin.
In an embodiment of the medications cabinet, the latch member is a bar or lever with a hook member formed at its end and with a slanting surface that engages the transverse strike plate to rise over it and with a blocking surface that engages behind the strike plate to hold the bin against being pulled out. The latch mechanism can further include a servo motor associated with the latch member for lifting same from its locked to its unlocked position.
In some embodiments, the cabinet may have only a single drawer, but in others there can be two, three, or more medications drawers. Where the cabinet has a plurality of drawers, these may be superposed one above another. Each drawer has its own respective latch mechanism, and said latch mechanisms are each independently actuable. The automatic access facility of the medications cabinet ensures that only one of the drawers is unlocked and opened at a time.
Each of the bins can be removed and replaced, so that the pharmacy staff can restock the medications cabinet by replacing the entire bin of the medications drawer. These can be plastic 5-inch medical cart drawer bins, as discussed in my U.S. Pat. No. 6,775,591. This simplifies and speeds the pharmacy operation and also eliminates a source of possible errors.
The cabinet may employ a touch screen computer monitor mounted, e.g., in a VESA mount incorporated into the front wall of the cabinet enclosure to serve as automatic access facility. The nurse or other authorized person can enter a pass code and identification onto soft keys on the touch screen, or through other means such as a card swipe card reader, an RFID receiver, fingerprint scanner or other similar means for identifying the care giver for access. The touch screen computer monitor may be part of a PC computer or may connect with a unit inside the cabinet. Alternatively, the cabinet may have a small touchscreen display. The PC may employ a network interface for connecting with a hospital computer network, so that the locked drawers can be opened remotely via the hospital computer network. Also the touch screen computer can include DVD player means for providing visual program material to a patient. This may be for patient entertainment purposes, or it may be used for providing educational or instructional material concerning therapy for that patient. The video material can also be supplied to each individual cabinet computer via the hospital network, and each can have different independent material. Access to the cabinet drawers can be achieved using a wireless hand-held device, e.g., a wireless Palm Pilot. This can employ Wi-Fi, infrared, or blue tooth technology.
Each medications drawer may have a sensor coupled directly or indirectly to the touch screen computer or automatic access provision detecting if the drawer bin is in its closed position. If the drawer has been left open for more than some programmed threshold time, a local alarm, i.e., buzzer, can be sounded, and the open status is also transmitted to the main hospital computer. As aforesaid, automatic access can be gained, using a network interface and cable (either wire or wireless) connecting the network interface to the hospital computer network. This may involve a USB interface. The drawers can be opened electronically using a USB or ethernet cable (or similar serial cable device). Software, which may be installed in the cabinet on-board computer, the remote computer system, or both, keeps an audit trail of when each cabinet was opened, and who opened it. The same software and network can control multiple locks on different cabinets throughout a facility, i.e., nursing home, hospital, or other health care facility. The software may also provide an audit trail for remotely unlocked refrigerators in which some medications are stored.
The medications cabinet may additionally have a key lock cylinder mechanism for emergency access to the medications in the drawers, e.g., for access in the event of power failure or computer outage.
The remote hospital computer system can includes software assigning a respective serial number code to each individual medications cabinet, permitting the remote computer system to lock and unlock independently each of a plurality of door locks similarly connected with the hospital computer system.
The pharmacy staff can distribute the various patient prescription orders at convenient times, e.g., during non-busy hours, supplying a replacement patient bin in the cabinet, and removing the empty bin to return to the pharmacy. At the same time, the pharmacy staff can deposit the temperature sensitive medications into the patient refrigerator. Then the medications are ready for the nurse or other care giver to administer on schedule, without having to bring a cart from room to room.
Similar cabinets may be used in the various laboratories or clinics for controlled storage of items, where access needs to be limited, and it is desirable to create an audit trail.
There are several clear advantages that attend the wall mounted cabinet of this invention: As the unit is mounted in the wall in the patient room, there is no heavy cart to push around. Patient-specific medications are always in the patient room, not in a cart which may be somewhere far down the hall. Pharmacy can restock the patient medication drawers without having to hunt for the cart. The cabinet remains in the same place from each day to the next. The nurse spends less time in the hallway, and more time in the room with the patient. With much less professional time being spent in the hallway with the cart, the nurse and doctor spend more time with the patient. More professional time spent in the patient room translates into more time being spent checking on the patient. The wall mounted dispensing cabinet brings the electronic record keeping right to the patient's bedside. There is more accurate record keeping, and the audit trail notes each time a nurse is actually present in the room at the time of medication dispensing.
The above and many other objects, features, and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the ensuing description of a selected preferred embodiment, which is to be considered in connection with the accompanying Drawing.
With reference to the Drawing, and initially to
Also shown here is a wall mounted medications cabinet 30 that embodies an aspect of this invention. The cabinet 30 may be mounted on the wall of the patient room, and also is or may be coupled electronically with the hospital LAN 22. The purpose of the wall mounted cabinet 30 is to provide controlled access in the patient's room to normal prescriptive medications in one of several (here, three or four) computer locked drawers 36.
In this embodiment, the wall-mounted medications cabinet 30 has an enclosure or housing, with an associated touch-screen computer 32 mounted on a front wall or panel 34. The touch-screen computer serves as a facility on which nurse or other authorized health care provider can enter an authorization code to achieve access to a patient's medications that are stored in one of the pull-out cabinet drawer(s) 36, which open at a side wall 38 of the cabinet, here the left wall. The same touch screen computer 32 may be used via the LAN 18 to release the lock mechanism on an refrigerator lock. Alternatively, the health care provider may employ a wireless hand-held device 100 that communicates with one of the computer work stations 22 to access the patient's medications drawer 36.
In an alternative embodiment, e.g., in a physician's office, the wall mounted cabinet 30 may be free standing, and may be used for controlled access to certain items. The on-board computer 32 contains programming and memory to keep an audit trail of the times of opening and closing of each drawer and the person accessing the drawer.
With reference now to
To the right of the touch screen 32 is an LCD display 40 and a card reader or badge reader 42. The latter can be a bar-code reader, magnetic stripe reader, configured as a card-swipe mechanism, or may employ an RFID reader, smart-card reader, or fingerprint scanner.
The cabinet 30 also has a USB cable 44, or alternatively an ethernet cable or equivalent connection, extending from a USB interface, ethernet interface, or the like within the cabinet. This connection is employed to connect, either by wire or wirelessly, with the computer network or LAN 18.
Now with reference to
For each drawer 36 there is an associated latch mechanism 60 mounted within the cabinet. Each latch mechanism employs a latch lever or bar 62 that is mounted on a transverse pivot pin 64, with the pivot pins for the four drawers being supported one above the other on a pair of vertical rails 66, 66.
The latch lever 62 has a normal locked position, as shown in solid line in
A circuit board 76, here positioned below the drawer latch mechanisms, can be controlled by the computer 32 (or by the card reader or other devices) to provide drive current to the servo motors 68 when the authorized person is granted access to the medications drawer. An interface device, for either the USB or ethernet cable, may be located on the circuit board 76. A serial-ethernet bridge interface may be used here. The host computer, e.g. hospital server 20, may use a Window, UNIX, LINUX or other suitable system. The system can employ a card reader, e.g., bar code or magnetic stripe, RFID, smart-card reader, or fingerprint scanner to provide access and unlock the respective medications drawer, in which case access may be by means of a card or badge carried by the health care provider.
The power for the computer 32 and for the latching mechanism in the cabinet 30 may be provided by local AC power, by DC power over the network connection or otherwise, and backup batteries may favorably be included so that access to the medications drawers is possible during a power or computer network failure.
A magnetic or mechanical proximity sensor 77 may be situated at or near the distal or inner end 54 of each tray or bin 50, and is coupled to the circuit board 76 to provide an indication of the open/closed status of each drawer 36. This status can then be communicated via the cable 44 and LAN 18 to the hospital computer system. The system can be programmed to alert the pharmacy personnel if one of the drawers in any of the cabinets has been left open for longer than a pre-selected programmed time limit. Also, while not shown here, the cabinet 30 may have one or more LED lock/unlock status indicators. There may be one indicator for each drawer 36. These may be adapted to glow red when the drawer is locked, and to glow green when the particular medications drawer is unlocked. A no-glow or dark indication then indicates a fault or possible system failure. Flashing on-off intermittently can be used to indicate an emergency condition.
An audible sounder may be incorporated within the cabinet enclosure which emits a tone or buzz if one of the medications drawers remains open for a time that exceeds the programmed time limit. The sounder alerts the nurse or other authorized attendant to close the medications drawer, if the drawer has been inadvertently left open.
While not shown here in detail, the cabinet can favorably be provided with a key lock cylinder which can be rotated for mechanically lifting one or all of the latch levers 62. This arrangement permits authorized personnel to open the cabinet 30 manually (with a key) in the event a power failure, network outage, or other event that might preclude obtaining electronic access.
In a preferred embodiment, the hospital computer system keeps track of the times each medications drawer is unlocked, and the of identities of authorized personnel who obtain (or attempt to obtain) access, i.e., the system creates an audit trail of health providers who request access.
While the invention has been described hereinabove with reference to selected preferred embodiments, it should be recognized that the invention is not limited to those precise embodiments. Rather, many modification and variations would present themselves to persons skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of this invention, as defined in the appended claims.
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6 Mistakes That Keep You Fat
By: Lisa Jones
More Weight Loss Lists
We're not suggesting "The Situation" as a role model. But there is one hard-body lesson you can take from MTV's Jersey Shore loudmouth: The less body fat you carry, the better your abs will show.
Start by performing triage on the six eating habits listed here. But don't try to banish them all at once. "Target just one or two behaviors at first—ones that you can make the most difference by changing," says Jennifer McDaniel, R.D., of St. Louis University.
The reason: Recent studies show that we have only so much willpower. That's why trying to break several bad habits at once can be overwhelming. But if you follow the slow and steady approach, you'll increase your odds of sculpting a thinner, fitter physique—and keeping it for life.
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Investing In Our Children, Investing In Our Future
The Foundation of Monroe County Community is dedicated to providing resources to improve and enhance the educational development of all MCCSC Students. This year marks 40 years of service to the educators and students of MCCSC.
Served in 2012-2013:
- 10,800 students benefited from 61 grant projects totaling $63,376
- 1,384 students were impacted by a grant used to purchase to books for use in classroom libraries and books that were given to students for home libraries
- 10,800 students benefited through Funding for Literacy Cohort Training
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- 33 upperclassmen were awarded with scholarships and awards totaling $13,230
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"feminism traces its roots back to Karl Marx, George Engels, and Vladimir Lenin"
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Once upon a time, feminism stood for fairness, equality, and possibility. But feminism traces its roots back to Karl Marx, George Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. That fact alone should make us think twice before acquiescing to the insistent demands of the women's libbers.
George W Bush Has Plans For Air Strike On Iran By August
George W Bush Has Plans For Air Strike On Iran By AugustTuesday, May 27, 2008 12:22:31 · by Fennie · 1+ viewsPakistan Daily ^ | May 27, 2008The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tell, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.
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"Two of the most repressive regimes on the planet —China and Burma—struggle to respond to devastating disasters: the Sichuan earthquake and Cyclone Nargis. In both cases, the disasters have exposed grave political weaknesses within the regimes—and both crises have the potential to ignite levels of public rage that would be difficult to control." —Naomi Klein, The Nation., May 15, 2008, "Regime-Quakes in China and Burma,"
On Mayday, the Bush administration began its National Level Exercise 2-08, in which it simulated a category four storm. On the same day Cyclone Nargis, supposed to be heading for India, abruptly became a category-four storm and turned east for Myanmar (Burma). It made landfall on May 2, and wreaked such damage that it has been rated the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. The Myanmar government, distrustful of the Bush administration, refused relief efforts—until international reports began to suggest that another freak storm was going to hit the country. The ruling junta soon thereafter agreed to be "assisted"—and the next storm never materialized.
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Wolfpack Women Remain Ranked in USA Today Poll for Third Straight Week
Jan. 21, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. – For the third straight week, the NC State women's basketball team (16-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) remains ranked in the USA Today top-25 poll. In the latest edition of the poll released on Tuesday afternoon, NC State was ranked No. 24 in the country with 89 votes.
This news comes one day after State remained in the top 25 of the Associated Press poll at No. 23.
The Wolfpack recently completed a 1-1 week in ACC play, handily defeating then No. 17 Florida State (80-57) on Jan. 16 before falling on the road at Miami (80-71) on Jan. 19.
NC State will next be in action at home on Thursday, Jan. 23 vs. Boston College. The Wolfpack and Eagles will tip off from Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m.


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United States Patent 3,397,979 PROCESS FOR KNCORPORATING ALUM INTO DISPERSION-MODIFIED METALS Richard F. Regester, Havertown, Pa., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation, a
corporation of New York 'No Drawing. Filed Jan. 10, 1966, Ser. No. 519,442
2 Claims. (Cl. 75206) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Aluminum is alloyed with a dispersion-modified irongroup metal or alloy having dispersed uniformly therein a particulate metal oxide having a free energy of formation (AF) at 1000 C., of at least 104 kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen and an average particle size in the range of 5 to 100 millimicrons. About 0.05 to by volume of a particulate metal oxide having a AP at '1000 C. of at least 104 kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen is dispersed in particulate aluminum. A minor proportion of said oxide-containing aluminum is mixed with a major proportion of particulate dispersion-modified iron-group metal or alloy and the mixture is alloyed.
In describing this invention the term iron-group metals is intended to include the metals iron, cobalt and nickel. The term alloys of iron group metals is intended to include alloys .inwhich one of the-iron-group metals comprises at least 50%-by weight of the alloy. 1
Heretofore, alloys comprising-a matrix of nickel and at least one otheralloying metal, in which alloys there is dispersed a refractory oxide, have, in general, been prepared by blending powders of the alloying metal with the dispersion-modified nickel or nickel-base alloy, and there after cnnsolidating and working the 'blendedrnetal powders to effect alloyingand to'produce a consolidated billet to be subsequently further-worked. Withsome metals, this method has given reasonably satisfactory results; in other cases a high degree of porosity develops when the compacted powder billet is heat-treated prior to hot or cold working. This porosity has been especially evident where nickel-base dispersion-modified metal powders have been combined with powdered aluminum with the object of preparing a dispersion-modified nickel-aluminum alloy metal product. In these particular alloys the high degree of porosity develops due to interdiifusion of nickel and aluminum at different rates. Where aluminum powder has been blended with a dispersion-modified nickel alloy, and the blended powders are compacted and subsequently heattreated for hot or cold working, non-thoriated areas appear in the areas where the original aluminum powder particles were present in the powder mix.
An object of this invention is to provide a process for producing an alloy comprising aluminum and iron, cobalt or nickel, in which alloy there is present a uniform dispersion of a refractory metal oxide, and which alloy after Working shows substantially no porosity in the finished work-piece. Another object is to produce intermediate metal work-pieces consisting of dispersion-modified nickelaluminum alloys, said intermediate products being suitable for further hot or cold-working steps to produce dispersion-modified aluminum-bearing mill products which exhi'bit little or no porosity due to interdifl'usion. Further objects will appear hereinbelow.
Now according to the present invention it has been found that the above-described difliculties of the prior methods for alloying aluminum with dispersion-modified metals of the iron group can be overcome, and non-porous mill products can be produced by powder blending the dispersion-modified iron-group metal or alloy with pow- 3,397,979 Patented Aug. 20, 1968 dered aluminum, if there is dispersed in the aluminum powder prior to or during the powder-blending step, about from 0.05 to 10% by volume of a particulate metal oxide having a AP at 1000 C. of at least 104 kilocalories per gram of oxygen and an average particle size in the range of 5 to millimicrons, compacting the mixture to a compact, sintering the compact, and hot or cold working the sintered compact.
The refractory oxides which are useful in the alloys of this invention will be those having free energy of formation (AF at 1000 C.) of at least 104 kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen. A typical group of suitable oxides, and their free energies of formation in kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen are shown in the following table:
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, fine particles of thoria are dispersed in elemental aluminum, and this dispersion-modified aluminum is alloyed with previously prepared dispersion-modified nickel.
The following example will illustrate the process of this invention:
Example A dispersion-modified nickel powder, known commer cially as TD nickel, produced by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, having a particle size of '325 mesh, was blended with high purity (99.95%) aluminum powder and thoria'powder in the proportion of 93.6 wt. percent Ni alloy to 6 wt. percent Al to 0.4 wt. percent ThO The TD nickel powder was made by coprecipitating thoria particles and basic nickel carbonate, calcining the carbonate to hydrous nickel oxide, and reducing this oxide with hydrogen. The powder contained about 2% thoria as uniformly dispersed particles having an average size of about 25 millimicrons.
The three powders were blended in a double cone blender for 2 hours and the mixture then placed in a nickel ball mill with nickel balls and milled for approximately 8 hours. The powder mixture thus formed was compacted hydrostatically at 60,000 psi. The green compact was machined and canned in a mild steel container.
The canned compact was evacuated to a pressure of 5 microns to remove adsorbed air. During this evacuation, the compact was heated to approximately 200 F. The billet was then heated in hydrogen according to the following schedule:
2 hours at 600 F. 20 hours at 1150 F. 2 hours at 1650" F.
Following this heating, the billet was cooled in an atmosphere of hydrogen.
This sintered compact was extruded at a ratio of 8:1 at 1700 F. It was then subjected to a heat treatment at 2200 F. to homogenize it. During this heat treatment, gross porosity developed throughout the billet. The pores developed at the interface between the original TD nickel particles and the original aluminum particle due to interdifiusion of the nickel and aluminum particles. The diameter of the pores resulting from this interdiffusion varied from 1 to 25 microns and many times were interconnected so as to form cracks in the billet.
The extruded and heat-treated rod was hot swaged 30% at a temperature of 2000 F., and then was annealed at 2200 F. for two hours and water quenched. This hot-working step tended to make uniform the grain structure, since large grains occurred where the original aluminium particles were located, and fine grains occurred where the original TD nickel particles were located.
The annealed product was cold swaged 70% and following this cold-working step, the voids which had appeared in the billet prior to this step appeared to have collapsed and closed as was evidenced by fine dark lines in the microstructure.
The billet was heat-treated at 1850 F. for 2 hours. The effect of this heat treatment was to sinter the walls of the collapsed pores so that a metallurgical bond formed between the walls which had defined the void, and porosity in the rod was almost completely eliminated.
In the process described in the example, the ball-milling of the thoria powder, elemental aluminum powder, and dispersion-modified nickel powder results in the embedding of the thoria in the aluminum powder, and this dispersion-modified aluminum powder is concurrently and thoroughly mixed with the particles of diepersion-modified nickel. It is essential that the thoria be dispersed in the aluminum before the aluminum is alloyed with the dispersion-modified nickel by the steps of compaction, heating, and working; however, the example illustrates only one method by which this dispersion of the thoria in the aluminum can be accomplished, and other procedures can be used. For example, elemental aluminum powder and thoria can be ball-milled in a separate operation, and the resulting dispersion-modified aluminum thoroughly blended with dispersion-modified nickel before compacting, heating, and working to effect complete alloying.
Although in the example the dispersion-modified nickel alloy used was that known commercially as TD nickel, it is not intended that the claims be limited to the use of dispersion-modified iron, cobalt or nickel, or their alloys made by any particular process. The invention is conceived broadly to apply to the production of non-porous aluminum-bearing dispersion-modified iron group metals and alloys regardless of the process by which the oxide strengthening-agent is dispersed in the iron, cobalt, or nickel, or alloys; and also regardless of the particular method by which the strengthening refractory-metal oxide is incorporated in the elemental aluminum prior to the alloying step.
I claim:
1. In a process for alloying with aluminum an irongroup metal selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel and alloys comprising these, said iron-group metal or alloy having dispersed substantially uniformly therein about from 0.05 to 10% by volume of a particulate metal oxide having a free energy of formation (AF) at 1000 C. of at least 104 kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen and an average particle size in the range of 5 to 100 millimicrons, the improvement which comprises the steps of (1) dispersing in particulate aluminum about from 0.05 to 10% by volume of a particulate metal oxide have a AF at 1000 C. of at least 104 kilocalories per gram atom of oxygen, (2) mixing a minor proportion of said oxide-containing aluminum with a major proportion of said dispersion-modified iron-group metal or alloy in particulate form, and (3) thereafter alloying the mixture by compacting, sintering and working.
2. A process of claim 1 in which the iron-group metal is nickel, the refractory oxide dispersed therein is thoria, and the oxide dispersed in the aluminum is also thoria.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,755,184 7/1956 Turner et a1. 170 2,973,570 3/1961 Nachturan 29182.5 3,087,234 4/1963 Alexander et a1. 29-182.5 3,150,443 9/1964 Alexander et a1 29-1825 3,180,727 4/ 1965 Alexander et al. 75-170 FOREIGN PATENTS 941,886 11/ 1963 Great Britain.
CARL D. QUARFORTH, Primary Examiner.
R. L. GRUDZIECKI, Assistant Examiner.
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It's the dog days of summer for the NHL. The draft has passed, free agency is slow and there haven't been many blockbuster trades. That, however, doesn't mean that GMs aren't talking. Many players' names have become commonplace in the rumor mill, and it's only a matter of time before we see some action. Here are 10 trades I have worked on; all of which I feel can benefit both teams involved. I leave it to you, the reader, to tell me which team would say no in which deals. Please keep in mind that if somehow 1 out of these 10 trades actually happens, I will immediately have a better success rate at 10% than HockeyBuzz.
Edmonton Oilers receive: Jarret Stoll
Los Angeles Kings receive: Sheldon Souray, Andrew Cogliano
The Oilers make this trade because they want to get rid of Sheldon Souray, and they could use a #2/#3 center. Even though he is expensive at $3.6 million, Stoll fills an immediate need in Edmonton. The Kings make this trade because they are desperate for a defenseman, and they address that with Souray. Imagine a PP with Souray and Doughty. Souray is signed for 2 seasons at $5.4 million, but the Kings can afford the cap hit and by giving up Stoll, they enter the upcoming season with Kopitar-Schenn-Handzus down the middle. To those who will point to Handzus and say "wouldn't the Kings rather give him up than Stoll?", I will respond "you are right, but Handzus has a NMC, and good luck getting him to waive it to Edmonton."
Tampa Bay Lightning receive: Kevin Bieksa, Shane O'Brien
Vancouver Canucks receive: Ryan Malone, Mike Lundin
A perfect match! Canucks acquire a winger who adds some piss and vinegar, who can score 20-25 goals and who can play anywhere in the top 3 lines and be effective. The Lightning get Bieksa; who if signed longer term and was coming off a better year, would never get traded straight up for Ryan Malone. He's a quality top 4 D who is both an above average defender and a very good puck mover. O'Brien goes to Tampa in the deal as a salary dump ($1.6 mil), Canucks get Mike Lundin in return who comes with a digestible cap hit of 750k and can be a very good 3rd pairing defenseman.
San Jose Sharks receive: Brent Burns, James Sheppard
Minnesota Wild receive: Ryan Clowe, Nick Petrecki
The Sharks get the player with the most potential in the trade in Brent Burns. Burns has dealt with injuries over the past few years and with several good prospects almost ready to step into the Wild lineup, it's the right time for Minnesota to deal him. On the other hand, the Wild get a very good winger in Ryan Clowe who would see an increased role and increased production as a result. Clowe for Burns straight up favors the Sharks, so Minnesota gets to force San Jose to take James Sheppard, and they acquire the Sharks' top shutdown D prospect in Nick Petrecki.
Columbus Blue Jackets receive: Stephen Weiss, Rostislav Olesz
Florida Panthers receive: Derrick Brassard, RJ Umberger
This trade lands Columbus a #1 center in Stephen Weiss. Weiss had 28 goals and 60 points last year playing with Frolik and Horton. Those are good players, but not close to the caliber of Rick Nash. Imagine a Blue Jackets top 6 of Nash-Weiss-Huselius and Filatov-Vermette-Voracek. Florida continues to get younger with the acquisition of Derrick Brassard. Brassard is coming off a bad year, so Florida is getting an asset at arguably its lowest value. It also allows the Panthers to move Frolik back to center, they can have Brassard fill the #2 hole and Shawn Matthias can center the third line. Because Columbus is getting the better player in Weiss, in order to make the deal happen Florida will insist that Umberger for Olesz be part of the trade as well.
Toronto Maple Leafs receive: Mike Ribeiro, James Neal
Dallas Stars receive: Tomas Kaberle, Nazem Kadri
The Leafs make this trade because they add a #1 center and a top 6 LW in one transaction. Ribeiro improves any line in Toronto (NOT a cocaine joke) and James Neal gives a more instant impact than Kadri. Toronto does not want to give up Nazem Kadri, but in a trade like this they almost surely would. To make the salaries match, all they need to do is demote Jeff Finger to the minors. The Stars unload Ribeiro's $5 million cap hit and no longer have to worry about re-signing James Neal. This frees up space to re-sign Kaberle, re-sign Brad Richards and Nazem Kadri steps right in as the #2 center.
Washington Capitals receive: Marc Savard, Tim Thomas
Boston Bruins receive: Alexander Semin, Michal Neuvirth
This blockbuster makes sense for several reasons. 1 – Washington has the cap space to make this happen, and Boston needs to unload salary. 2 – Washington lands the #2 center they desperately need, and a goalie that can carry them in the playoffs. 3 – Boston unloads their backup goalie and a center they don't want or need, and acquire a scoring winger, which the Bruins are sorely lacking.
Anaheim Ducks receive: Marc Staal, Chris Kunitz
Pittsburgh Penguins receive: Bobby Ryan, Brandon Dubinsky, Ryan Callahan
New York Rangers receive: Evgeni Malkin
Take a moment to digest that. To properly analyze this trade, you have to look at it team by team, and not via the big picture. Ducks trade Bobby Ryan and get Marc Staal who becomes the Chris Pronger they've been missing, and they re-acquire Chris Kunitz who can be plugged in next to Getzlaf and Perry or Koivu and Selanne (who is likely returning according to a report in La Presse). On the surface, the Penguins look like they aren't getting fair value, but look at it this way. First they trade Malkin for Bobby Ryan. Ryan can score 50 goals with Sidney Crosby as his center, but he's still not quite as good as Malkin. The Pens compensate for that by getting 2 top 6 wingers in Dubinsky and Callahan. Both are better than Chris Kunitz, both are considerably younger and both are more affordable. The Rangers take the biggest risk in the trade. They get rid of their top defenseman and 2 good forwards, but they get the #1 center they've been looking for in Malkin, who would likely light it up playing with Marian Gaborik.
Philadelphia Flyers receive: Carey Price, Andrei Kostitsyn
Montreal Canadiens receive: Jeff Carter
The Flyers finally address their concern in goal by acquiring Carey Price. Teamed up with Leighton and with a phenomenal D in front of him, Price would be a star in Philly. The Flyers also get Andrei Kostitsyn in the trade, who gives them more options at LW in their top 3 lines. The Habs get a big body presence up front in Jeff Carter, who can score 40 goals. Plugging Carter into the spot at RW (he's secretly a much better winger than a center) alongside Cammalleri and Plekanec on Montreal's top line gives the Habs a dangerous #1 line. Yes, this leaves the Habs without a #1 goalie, but….
Montreal Canadiens receive: Antti Niemi, Brian Campbell, Tomas Kopecky
Chicago Blackhawks receive: Benoit Pouliot, Josh Gorges, Roman Hamrlik
The Habs replace the #1 goalie they traded away in TRADE #8. This is assuming Chicago accepts the $2.75 mil arbitration ruling and flips him in a trade. While this is not fair value for Chicago, there are few suitors for Niemi, and they are still acquiring a pretty good winger in Pouliot, and a young/cheap/useful #4 defenseman in Gorges. The Hamrlik for Brian Campbell part is purely a way for Chicago to get Campbell's cap hit off the books. In all, the Hawks save approximately $3 million dollars, they clear up some long term cap space and they can sign Marty Turco for just north of $1 million.
Buffalo Sabres receive: Jarome Iginla, Robyn Regehr, Mikael Backlund, Jay Bouwmeester
Calgary Flames receive: Tim Connolly, Craig Rivet, Jochen Hecht, Steve Montador, Paul Gaustad
Remember that this is Darryl Sutter we're talking about before calling this trade unrealistic!
About the Author
Written by Corey Krakower
I am the Director of NHL Content & Habs writer for ProSportsBlogging.com; I have spent 8 seasons behind the bench as a minor hockey coach; and I am the future GM of the Montreal Canadiens (according to my mom). I spend my days managing the Harrow Sports brand in my hometown of Montreal and I moonlight as a Hockey Advisor for Pi Athlete Management. Most importantly, I'll throw anyone under the bus for a laugh.


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This sequence arises in the analytically obtained strict upper bound of the set of equivalent resistances formed by any conceivable network (series/parallel or bridge, or non-planar) of n equal resistors. Consequently it provides an strict upper bound of the sequences: A048211, A153588, A174283, A174284, A174285 and A174286. This strict upper bound provided by this difficult to compute (due to computer memory) sequence is better than the easier to compute Sequence A176499.
Antoni Amengual, The intriguing properties of the equivalent resistances of n equal resistors combined in series and in parallel, American Journal of Physics, 68(2), 175-179 (February 2000). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.19396
Table of n, a(n) for n=1..18.
Sameen Ahmed Khan, The bounds of the set of equivalent resistances of n equal resistors combined in series and in parallel, arXiv:1004.3346v1 [physics.gen-ph], (20 April 2010).
Sameen Ahmed Khan, Mathematica notebook
n = 5, I = [1/5, 1], m = Fibonacci(5 + 1) = 8, Farey(8) = 23, Farey(8; I) = 19
A048211, A153588, A174283, A174284, A174285 and A174286, A176499, A176500, A176502.
Sequence in context: A000080 A153447 A076893 * A096354 A076838 A034749
Adjacent sequences: A176498 A176499 A176500 * A176502 A176503 A176504
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Curtain Up: Pair of tough ladies shine in 'Always... Patsy Cline'
This was the weekend for tough women playing tough women, singing their hearts out with passion and stamina. God love the female sex.
In "Always... Patsy Cline," presented by the Naples Players, Jessica Berent steps into some formidable shoes — not only the iconic Patsy, but women who have memorably played the singer — Beverly D'Angelo in "Coal Miner's Daughter" and Jessica Lange in "Sweet Dreams." If she does not quite make us forget her predecessors, she nevertheless is a totally appealing Cline, and her voice more than does justice to the tunes, most of them well known.
The show is essentially a revue, strung together with a story line involving Cline's true-life relationship with Louise Seeger, a fan whom she met on tour and with whom she corresponded for the rest of her short life. It is an effective device, much more successful than some of the silly filler sometimes used to provide a bridge between songs in this kind of entertainment.
Kathleen Gravatt as Louise is excellent, earthy and funny as a working-class Southern girl who is not as young as she used to be. Louise provides the comic relief and the dramatic interest. This is not deep stuff, but it works, and knowing that it is based on fact fills in the human side of the singer.
Wisely, the story does not try to tell the whole story of Patsy's life, the troubled marriage, the childhood poverty, the tragic end. Some of these are referred to but they are not actually dramatized on stage. The show practically all takes place over a night and a day in a night club and Louise's kitchen where the women get to know each other. Keeping it simple is the right idea, and allows us to see the normal Patsy with her hair down.
I love to hear women who sing low, or as a mezzo-soprano friend of mine used to say, "low women who sing." Berent conveys both. She is good in the peppy numbers like "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round," but also shows real power in the ballads, phrasing them effectively but not histrionically, and demonstrating her strengths in the long legato lines. I had forgotten just how far down in the register most of Cline's songs sit. Berent is a powerful contralto and gets all the sex appeal out of those husky notes. She sings all night and her voice never weakens, demonstrating vocal training and discipline not often seen in community theater.
The settings are just right, simple in concept but executed with care and detail. And the onstage country band is wonderful.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Opera opened this year's Live in HD series with a new production of Anna Bolena, the first production ever of this popular Donizetti opera at the Met. As always it is great fun to see a Met production live and up close, being taken backstage before the curtain rises and between the acts to see something of what goes on behind the scenes and meet the singers. Anna Netrebko is a phenomenon, performing feats of stamina in this demanding role with its long and demanding coloratura mad scene at the close. Take the opportunity to see one of the eleven Live in HD productions this year if you can still get tickets.


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