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He's helped them learn to "enjoy the ride," to maintain just a little bit more on an even keel through the ups and downs of a long season. He's shown them that putting players first can lead to the kind of program success expected at UK.
But try as he might, Coach Cal knows there's no changing the Big Blue Nation when it comes to Louisville.
"People grieve for a year after the game," Calipari said on the eve of a Sweet 16 matchup with the Cardinals. "People celebrate for a year after the game. I've tried to not make it bigger than it is. But it doesn't work."
It doesn't work because the rivalry is too ingrained. Just ask Jarrod Polson, who grew up a UK fan before going on to a four-year career playing for his favorite team.
"I was born to hate Louisville," Jarrod Polson said, only half joking.
Those are the feelings at play on both the blue and red sides of a Sweet 16 showdown between UK (26-10) and Louisville (31-5). On Friday at 9:45 p.m., bragging rights will be decided. Coach Cal knows better than to think he can control any of that, but it's another story with his team.
"We will not make this game bigger than it is," Calipari said. "It's an NCAA Tournament game. We've gotta play a basketball game against a really good team. Every team still standing is playing a really good team. So that's my message. Don't make it bigger than it is. Just play."
To that end, Coach Cal has given very specific directions to the Wildcats.
"Don't watch any TV," Calipari said. "Watch the History Channel, watch Biography, watch the Military Channel, watch movies and don't read anything, don't look at anything. It has no bearing on this game we're about to play."
That's not a difficult message to put into practice because, really, how could there be anything bigger than playing in the NCAA Tournament? No matter the opponent, there are only two options at this stage of the season: win or go home.
"I don't want to disrespect the rivalry or anything, but we're playing for something bigger than the rivalry," Willie Cauley-Stein told reporters in UK's locker room, television tuned to CNN.
Taking his turn after Kentucky's time with the media was up, Louisville star senior Russ Smith was asked about the way Cauley-Stein views the game. Though he has a couple years and a few extra games of UK-U of L experience on most of the Cats, he agrees.
"It is a rivalry game," Smith said. "There's no way around it. But at the end of the day they're right, it's much bigger than a rivalry. It's a Sweet 16 game. They would have to play with the same enthusiasm and wake up reading the same scouting report as if they were playing a UCLA in the Sweet 16 or UConn. It's just the same game face.
"You just want to get to the next round. And that's what's most important. I feel the same way. I felt the same way the last two, three years, coming into this program, be prepared for every team the same way."
Count U of L head coach Rick Pitino -- a man intimately familiar with the rivalry -- in the same camp.
"I've been in the state 20 years, and the game to me has really only had difficult consequences for the loser twice," Pitino said. "Once was two years ago when they stopped our run in the Final Four, and the next game we play."
Polson is the only scholarship Wildcat who was in uniform for that national semifinal matchup. When he stepped into the Superdome in 2012, he remembers all thoughts about the rivalry -- long as he's been on the UK side of it -- going out the window.
"I mean, in that Final Four game, to me and our team, two years ago it didn't really seem like a rivalry at all," Polson said. "Once you get so far in the tournament there really is no rivalry games. It's just getting to the next round. That's how we saw it back then and I think that's how we're looking at it this year."
Three months ago, the Cats and Cards faced off when the rivalry was the biggest thing at play. Then, UK picked up its signature regular-season win in Rupp Arena, 73-66.
"Honestly, I don't even remember the first game, the first time we played them," Cauley-Stein said. "You know, the only thing I can really take from that is we fought for the whole 40 minutes of the game and that's what we have to do tomorrow, is just play like we played against Wichita (State), which we didn't even realize how close we were to winning or losing the game until the buzzer."
In defeating Louisville, the Cats played with the kind of 40-minute intensity that's become their hallmark in the postseason. With that, UK has improved by the day since the Southeastern Conference Tournament, making them a far different team than on Dec. 28.
"I think we just all settled down and just started thinking about having fun and it's still basketball," Aaron Harrison said, explaining UK's improvement. "We just go out there and have fun and fight for each other."
In a battle of Louisville's experience -- four starters played key roles on last year's title team -- and UK's youth, that carefree approach could work in the Cats' favor.
"The difference between freshmen is freshmen are going to play hard no matter what," Smith said. "That's what's so scary. Freshmen, regardless of how prepared they are, regardless of how trained they are, they're going to always be ready to play and they're always going to come play hard. They may not do the right things, but they're always going to be ready to play."
Differently comprised as UK and U of L may be, their goals -- and their approach to facing their archrival in the tournament -- are the same.
"The goal is to get to the Elite Eight," Smith said. "If you let the university or the other school that you're playing against get in the way of that it could potentially become a problem."
"We're playing to move on and that's the way we're coming into the game," Cauley-Stein said. "We're not thinking about, 'Oh it's Louisville so it's a must-win because it's Louisville. It's a must-win because we're trying to win a national championship."
To bring you more expansive coverage, CoachCal.com and Cat Scratches will be joining forces for the postseason. You can read the same great stories you are accustomed to from both sites at CoachCal.com and UKathletics.com/blog, but now you'll enjoy even more coverage than normal.


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Last September, I wrote about this sweet-ass new sandwich called the KFC Double Down. In lieu of buns, imagine two fried chicken breasts, straddling two slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese, two slices of bacon and a special sauce.
Well, it's here. Yesterday, April 12, will now be known as "The Day America Spoke," where we said "Screw bread, we need more meat."
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Lehigh University has received a grant from the Toyota USA Foundation to promote environmental literacy in the nation's middle schools. The funds will be used to create professional development materials for teachers, as well as to update science curriculum using a package of innovative instructional technologies.
Lehigh's WELIM initiative—Web-enhanced Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Modules—is a collaborative effort between its College of Education and the university's
Environmental Initiative
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The Environmental Initiative is a multidisciplinary effort that unites a full spectrum of scientists, engineers, social scientists and educators to respond to and prepare students for the environmental problems facing modern and future societies.
WELIM aims to bridge science education with new and innovative approaches to curriculum development.
"The Toyota USA Foundation is proud to support the WELIM initiative," said Patricia Pineda, Toyota's Group Vice President, National Philanthropy and the
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The 2005
National Academies
Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
, helped draw attention to a critical lack of focus on science education in America. Subsequent reports have prompted similar calls to action.
In order to remain globally competitive, the 2005 report calls for 16.5 percent increase in the number of American students taking advanced placement (AP) or international baccalaureate (IB) level mathematics or science exams by 2010, as well as aggressive recruitment and training program for the nation's 250,000 secondary science and math teachers.
The WELIM initiative is a pilot program that directly addresses both concerns simultaneously using GIT. The technologies, which range from handheld GPS systems to Web satellite imagery, help students explore geography and collect data while becoming more familiar with their environment.
The materials will extend beyond the comfort of their own backyards. In one possible project, for example, students may study the different set of energy mixes found throughout the country: the reliance of nuclear energy in Chicago, coal resources in Philadelphia, and hydro energy in Phoenix and the southwest.
All materials will closely align with the National Science Education Standards and will chart a course for a multi-disciplinary—and more contemporary—science curriculum.
Renewed interest in renewable energies
The program and its reliance on geospatial information technologies (GIT) will allow students to closely analyze information and data on three core topics: energy, climate change and the impact of human activity on the environment. Issues such as urban and suburban sprawl, water resource usage, pollution and ecosystem management will be included in the curriculum.
"We've gone through years—almost a full generation—without significantly changing our country's science curriculum to reflect the global issues our society is facing," says Alec Bodzin, associate professor of
teaching, learning and technology
with Lehigh's College of Education and the lead principal investigator (PI) of the grant.
"There's definitely a renewed interest in energy conservation. The challenge is incorporating these topics into our curriculum in a timely and relevant manner, while giving teachers the tools and resources in order to that effectively," he added.
Dork Sahagian and David Anatsasio, both professors of earth and environmental sciences with Lehigh's College of Arts and Sciences, are grant co-PIs. The grant will also support three doctoral candidates: Tamara Peffer and Violet Kulo from the College of Education, and Matthew Bennett from Lehigh's earth and environmental sciences program.
"There have been many obstacles preventing this country's science and environmental curricula to advance in a competitive manner," says Sahagian, who also serves as director of Lehigh's Environmental Initiative. He argues that science education is hampered by a lack of resources, effective teacher training modules and technology accessibility.
"With a new emphasis on science proficiency and environmental literacy, our WELIM project can really help transform science instruction and shape how we approach these issues in just a few years," he says.
The program will be first piloted by Nitschmann and Broughal Middle Schools in Bethlehem, Pa., the latter of which is a NASA Explorer School.
The Toyota USA Foundation is a $100 million charitable endowment created to support education programs serving kindergarten through 12th-grade students and their teachers in the United States, with an emphasis on mathematics, science and environmental science.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- A body spotted by joggers in the Tempe Canal earlier this month finally has been identified.
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Algeria—Two Views
To the Editor:
It is easy to understand Maurice Carr's sympathy with Charles de Gaulle's effort to find a way out of the Algerian war ("Algeria After the Referendum," December 1958). But I do not think that an Algerian solution is in any way aided by the propagation of misinformation on essential aspects of the question. And Mr. Carr's article, unfortunately, is a mine of such misinformation. However, I must necessarily confine myself to pointing out but a few of his most important errors. Mr. Carr says: "Until the end of the First World War Algerian nationalism was virtually non-existent." Actually, Algerians united under the Emir Abd-el-Kader to resist France's invasion so effectively that the conquest of the country took the French seventeen years of warfare, carried out by means of ruthless massacres of Algerian civilians and punctuated by a series of French defeats, followed by treaties which the French broke as soon as it suited their convenience. Thereafter, there were bloody uprisings followed by much bloodier repressions at five- to ten-year intervals throughout the 19th century. (Nor were similar events unknown in the present century, prior to the FLN. In 1945, a number of Frenchmen were killed at Setif; several thousand Arabs died in reprisal.) Mr. Carr says: "Yet the communities coexisted quietly enough for more than a century under the old colonial system, which was not unduly harsh." Actually, the "not unduly harsh" colonial system involved a series of confiscations which robbed the Algerian Moslems of all the best land in their country for the benefit of the European colonists, whose serfs they in effect became. At the same time, the European colonists of Algeria became the most dependable clientele of French anti-Semitism. (This was the basis for their overwhelming support of the Pétain regime.) European expropriation and massacre of the Moslems and agitation and discrimination against the Jews are not, I think, properly to be described by the phrase "the communities coexisted quietly enough."
Mr. Carr attempts to show that the Moslems have received substantial economic benefits from the French occupation, and cites population statistics as proof of a rising standard of living. But in fact the population explosion which has resulted from the impact of certain modern technical advances—and which has been paralleled in underdeveloped countries which have not had the benefit of foreign occupation—does not indicate a rising standard of living. Quite the contrary. As Gunnar Myrdal points out: "The recent explosive development of medical science, making the prevention of death even at exceedingly low standards of living a rather easy and inexpensive matter, has tended to weaken the population checks and thus has moved the stagnation equilibrium to a much more depressed level of human misery." The actual decline in the standard of living of most Algerian Arabs is shown by the fact, cited by André Philip, that there has been a steady decline in the per capita production of grain during the period of French rule. In part, this reflects the rise in population; in part it is due to the diversion of land from grain to wine grapes. Wine is more profitable than bread to the European landowner; the Moslem peasant would still be forbidden by his religion to drink it even if he could afford to buy it. The real meaning of the growth of Algeria's population is to be sought in the unemployment statistics. Approximately half of the Moslem population are permanently or seasonally employed; another fifth of the adult males find work in France, where they live for years on end, separated from their families and in conditions of utter squalor. It is the earnings of these sub-proletarians which support the Algerian Moslem economy on its subsistence level. (Incidentally, Mr. Carr need not worry that "France, to make room for the refugees from Algeria . . . would repatriate the 400,000 Moslems whose earnings keep 2,000,000 relatives in Algeria alive today." One may be sure that the colons, even if repatriated, would neither replace the Algerians as the coolie labor of the French economy nor move into the slums and bidonvilles in which the Algerian workers are housed.)
Mr. Carr makes a great deal of the results of the constitutional referendum in Algeria to prove that the people do not support the National Liberation Front. Although Tennyson said that simple faith is more than Norman blood, it seems to me that there is such a thing as overdoing it. I wonder whether Mr. Carr really believes that the even more overwhelming election victory which Kadar has just won in Hungary proves that the people of that country repudiate the freedom fighters of 1956. Yet Kadar did not even have to round the voters up and transport them to the polls in military trucks, as the French Army did in Algeria. The touching scenes described by Mr. Carr of Moslems demanding the right to vote, although their names had been left off the registers by accident, indicate only that they had good reason to fear the consequences of not being able to prove that they had voted. Yet there was one aspect of the referendum which did have significance—the almost total abstention of the Algerian workers in France, who were not directly in front of the guns of the paratroopers.
But perhaps the most serious departure from fact in Mr. Carr's article is his misrepresentation of the character of the FLN. By the use of phony quotation marks, he attributes to it doctrines which are in major respects almost the exact opposite of those it actually holds. Far from urging a single Arab empire, expanding from the present Arab lands to conquer Asia and Africa, the FLN advocates a Maghrebian federation of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. Nor does it propose to expel Europeans; rather, it offers them the right to remain—but not as rulers or possessors of special privileges. And politically, it is allied in a joint committee with Habib Bourguiba's Neo-Destour and the Moroccan Istiqlal; one would never guess it from Mr. Carr's article, but Bourguiba has consistently supported the FLN as against the Algerian National Movement of Messali Hadj, and the FLN has designated Tunisia to speak for it in the United Nations.
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Mr. Carr writes:
- On the subject of Algerian nationalism, I would refer Mr. Goldbloom to a public statement which Ferhat Abbas made some years before he became head of the "Free Algerian Government": "I have spoken with the living, I have even been to the cemeteries to interrogate the dead, but none could furnish any evidence that there has ever existed an Algerian State." The Encyclopedia Britannica in its article on Algeria notes that no Algerian nation existed before or after the French conquest. Mr. Goldbloom singularly weakens the case of FLN when he denies the demonstrable truth that "until the end of the First World War Algerian nationalism was virtually non-existent." He would do better to plead that some Algerians now want to constitute themselves into a nation.
- The rising of Abd-el-Kader was not nationalist, but (again I would refer Mr. Goldbloom to the Britannica) a religious war of Islam against the "infidel." Abd-el-Kader was a pious Moslem, a man of great culture and ability and a clean and generous warrior. The Britannica points out that his ultimate failure was largely due to the refusal of the Kabyles (Berber mountain tribes whose Mohammedanism was not too strongly held) to make common cause with the Arabs against the French. After his defeat Abd-el-Kader declared, "It is the will of Allah!" and became a devoted friend of France. During the Syrian massacres of 1860, Abd-el-Kader saved the lives of many Christians attacked by Moslems in Damascus, where he was then living, and was decorated by Napoleon III with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. In 1871, when a revolt broke out in Algeria after France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian war, Abd-el-Kader appealed to his co-religionists to lay down their arms.
- Mr. Goldbloom is perpetuating a myth when he alleges that after the surrender of Abd-el-Kader "there were bloody uprisings followed by much bloodier repressions at five- to ten-year intervals throughout." In the course of a century, serious troubles broke out in Algeria on three occasions; but they were no more nationalist than is the present outbreak of dissidence among the Riff tribesmen of Morocco. The Maghreb peoples have a long tradition of hostility to any central authority. Under the French colonial system, which has now outlived its raison d'être, Algeria enjoyed what was relatively by far the quietest period in its turbulent history of internecine warfare.
- Far be it from me to defend the European land speculators who bought up (but did not, as Mr. Goldbloom asserts, confiscate) Moslem farmlands. On the other hand, by draining swamps and providing irrigation, the colonists created much new arable soil, so that on balance the Moslems today own a far greater acreage of productive land than ever before. The production of cereals rose from 19,794 quintals (hundredweights) in 1948-9 to 24,532 quintals in 1954-5 and has steadily increased since, despite the systematic burning down of farms by the guerrilla forces. The Algerian Moslem farm laborers are underpaid and underemployed; but even so their standard of living is incomparably higher than that of the Egyptian fellahim. Already one in every six Moslem Algerians is economically, socially, and culturally on a par with the European settlers, and the task which the Gaullist regime has now undertaken—without prejudice to the future political status of Algeria—is simply to emancipate the still backward masses in the shortest possible time. The greater part of Algeria is a natural desert, and the future prosperity of the country lies in industrialization and universal education. The colonists may be blamed for many things, but it is to their eternal credit that by the introduction of sanitation they enabled the Moslem population to multiply fivefold. The natives were not massacred; nor were they at any time subject to segregation. Both the Moslem and Christian communities of Algeria have benefited greatly from their past coexistence. Algeria can flourish only if they continue to coexist, no longer after the colonial fashion, but as absolute equals in every way.
- The Jews, who were locked up in ghettos and oppressed under Turkish rule, welcomed the French as liberators. Naturalized French citizens en bloc in 1870, Algerian Jewry emerged from the Dark Ages to a new status of human dignity. That there are anti-Semites and fascists among the European settlers is incontestable. Mr. Goldbloom may have noticed that in my article I vehemently denounced the European ultras as fascists. But does Mr. Goldbloom know, or care, that the FLN terrorists have perpetrated anti-Semitic pogroms, and have killed proportionately three times as many Jews as Christians in Algeria?
- If Mr. Goldbloom had been in Algeria at the time of the referendum, he would have seen for himself—as I did—that the Moslems voted of their own volition. The men did so because they are war-weary and have faith in General de Gaulle's willingness and ability to bring peace with justice to Algeria. The women did so with an added motive: they yearn to free themselves from their millennial slavery. Scores of foreign newspapermen will corroborate that the inhabitants of the Casbah flocked to the polling stations entirely of their own accord, defying the FLN threats of bloody reprisals. The many Moslems who chose to abstain came to no harm at the hands of the French.
- The FLN draws its inspiration as well as the bulk of its funds from Nasser and his Arab League, which seek to establish a united Arab Empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean to the heart of Black Africa. Not all the leaders, and certainly not the rank and file of the FLN, wish to be Nasser's catspaws. Ferhat Abbas, who is according to his lights an Algerian patriot, was anxious to accept General de Gaulle's recent peace offer, but was prevented from doing so under pressure of the Nasserist elements of the FLN. An FLN victory would certainly lead to the immediate departure of virtually all the 1,200,000 Algerians of European origin. Even in moderate Tunisia, 130,000 out of a total of 190,000 Europeans have been forced to leave since the country became independent. Mr. Bourguiba is loathed, but utilized, by the FLN, whose 8,000 well-trained troops hold the whip-hand in Tunisia. The FLN actively sympathizes with Bourguiba's arch-enemy, Salah ben Youssef, who is a refugee in Cairo. The Tunisian president is fortunate to have escaped assassination.
In conclusion, I would like to express the hope that the more liberal, humane elements among the FLN will finally triumph over the pro-Nasser pan-Arab fascists, and will help bring peace with justice to stricken Algeria. Their First duty as Algerians surely should be to help General de Gaulle to educate and emancipate the Algerian masses. When that is done, no force on earth will be able to thwart their legitimate political aspirations. Justice demands that in the ultimate settlement the European minority community in Algeria shall not be persecuted by the Moslem majority any more than that the majority should now be illtreated by the minority.


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As parts of the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare went live other parts of the federal government went dark as the first federal government shutdown in 17 years started today. Right before the shutdown began House GOP leaders sought a conference with the Senate. Whether it was a stunt, an indication of unease with their position, or both is unknown. What is known is the Senate Democrats rejected the proposal.
House Republican leaders late Monday night sought a conference committee with Senate Democrats, who responded that they would only accept a funding resolution that leaves ObamaCare untouched…
A conference committee would give a members of both chambers to meet face to face to decide how to move forward on a spending bill. But the House request to meet will be based on the latest GOP bill, which delays the individual health insurance mandate under ObamaCare, language hotly opposed by Senate Democrats.
As the shutdown starts the Senate Democrats seem united in demanding that the House pass a "clean CR" which means passing a continuing resolution to fund the government that does not exclude funding for Obamacare.The House GOP's Tea Party faction seem united in refusing to do that.
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Pandigital to release new 6" eInk eBook reader
The eBook reader from Pandigital, pictured above, made an appearance on the FCC today. The device, known as the AW-NU706, features a 6" eInk screen and support for the Barnes and Nobile eBookstore. The device also features a music player, email client, contact manager, calendar and web browser.
The AW-NU706 is similar in appearance to Pandigital's existing 6" Novel Personal eBook reader, although the AW-NU706 has a slightly different button layout. No word on pricing or availability.


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I am always looking for new ways to prepare vegetables for dinner, especially since I am cooking dinner for my one year old these days. My goal is to get him to not only try the vegetables but to eat them as well and that has been a little challenging thus far. This recipe for Skinny Glazed Carrots proved to be a success last night as he enjoyed several as did mama. This recipe is really simple and it turned out delicious. I used sugar-free honey for the glaze but feel free to use regular honey and you could add additional butter to the carrots, I just opted to use butter spray to save on calories. Enjoy!
- 12 oz bag frozen carrots
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp light butter
- In a medium size bowl, empty carrots and add ½ cup of water.
- Microwave on high for 6-8 minutes or until carrots are soft and tender.
- Drain carrots and while hot, add honey, rosemary, salt, pepper and butter.
- Serve immediately and enjoy.


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Gear Review
Ed Kessler
Shoulda stuck with the usual
I bought these because I was trying to "save weight" and also because I got a killer deal, but ultimately I should have stuck with the usual full base skin (save weight? My skis are 120 under ft, I don' think it matters at that point...stupid choice). On low angle terrain, with decent snow depth these skins did great, but once I got onto steeper slopes i definitely had to edge in uphill to keep enough skin on the track keep from sliding backwards. There is a caveat to this of course...if you buy these skins, it's for fat skis, so hopefully you are using those skis for what they were engineered for...DEEP SNOW. The same goes for this skin. These are not your ski mountaineering skins that will get you super fast to the top of any peak.
These skins are fat, heavy, and designed to save even the smallest possible weight from you fat skis, burly bindings and tired legs. Also, I've only used them twice, but even after one ski I found that if I didn't put them in the bag, they were almost worthless on the 2nd lap. Still working out the kinks I guess.
Bottom Line: Use them in Deep snow. Use them on all but the steepest terrain. Unless you are OCD about it, expect them to get iced up and worthless by round 2 or 3.
I've had great experiences with skins from "Climbing Skins Direct." He used to be the designer for BD and moved on to better things. I really like their setup. Less expensive, easy to use, and they just work damn well. www.climbingskinsdirect.com
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A 23-story, 297-room hotel owned by the Halekulani Group that's meant to be the younger, cheaper sidekick to the decadent grande dame across Kalia Road.
With a connection to the ultra-luxe Halekulani across the street, and a Hawaiian outpost of fabulous haute Japanese eatery Nobu in its funky lobby, the Waikiki Parc is one of Waikiki's more intriguing boutique properties. Yet the staff has little attitude, and rates can be very attractive -- not bad for a quiet location across the street from the beach, where semi-stylish rooms are decked out with high-def, flat-screen TVs and MP3 players.
At times the decor seems random, even bizarre, as if the owners imagined that this is how a hip boutique hotel should look. The main entrance leads to a trippy hallway illuminated in shades of blue and green, while the lobby features geometric furniture and icicle-shaped lights. At least the faded wood elevators, room doors, and the white-shutter window blinds evoke a retro, beachy feel (though keycard access for the elevators seems a touch too citified).
The majority of the hotel's guests are Japanese families, with a smattering of American couples and singles and other international travelers, who seem more interested in the convenient location and amenities here than its avant garde touches. For instance, the hotel touts its "urban chic" pool (named "Parc Blue"), a detail lost on the kids doing cannonballs into it.
Some may find rooms to be a bit tired, but overall the hotel is a convenient, quiet, affordable alternative for those aspiring to the much pricier Halekulani, even offering charging privileges there (but forbidding access to its beach and pools). Although this hotel is mellower and perhaps hipper than most in Waikiki's comparably priced Aqua boutique chain, its rooms aren't any nicer -- and at least Aqua has free Internet. But the Waikiki Parc is closer to the beach and great shopping on the Waikiki Beach Walk. It's probably best for those who aspire to $300-a-night rooms yet can't quite afford them, while Aqua is for those who want low rates and don't care who knows it.
Friendly and mostly solid service, with a few glitches
As expected, service isn't nearly as fawning here as at its much higher-priced big sister property Halekulani across the street, but the friendly staff, including an extremely helpful concierge, makes a mostly solid effort, with just a few missteps.
The bell stand is located on the Helumoa Road side of the building, so guests entering on Kalia Road risk losing out on bell services. After checking in three hours early with no problems (thumbs up for that), I received no offer of assistance with bags. At checkout, however, two staffers were more than happy to stow them in the luggage room. The welcome booklet does a nice job listing all of the hotel's services; among them, it touts the availability of items such a "toothbrush kits, sewing kits, and slippers." Around 11 p.m., I called to request toothpaste. "We don't have that here," the person at the front desk said curtly. Even stranger, someone knocked on my door five minutes later and presented me with two toothbrush/toothpaste kits.
In central Waikiki, just across from the beach but blocked off at street level by sister hotel Halekulani, and the Sheraton Waikiki
Waikiki Parc has a convenient location that's slightly quieter than at larger resorts fronting the ocean. Beach access is two minutes away via a public path that runs between Halekulani and Outrigger Reef. The shops and restaurants of Waikiki Beachwalk are just around the corner.
Two blocks away is Waikiki's main drag, Kalakaua Avenue, a touristy milelong stretch of shops, restaurants, and high-rise hotels that runs along Oahu's southeast coast. Waikiki offers a curious blend of mainland creature comforts and local flavor. On the sidewalks, Japanese tourists intermingle with tanned locals, surfboards under their arms, on their way to the beach to catch a few waves after work. On both sides of the street, high-end retailers -- Tiffany, Cartier, and yes, even an Apple store -- are interspersed with indoor malls and streetside vendors hawking cheap seashell jewelry and "Hawaii 09" T-shirts. Seemingly every midmarket chain restaurant can be found here -- Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Tony Roma's -- along with more than a handful of Starbucks and fast-food joints. And towering above it all: 40-story, thousand-room hotels, dotting the landscape like pins in a cushion.
Across the street from the heart of the action on one of the world's most famous beaches
To get to the beach, guests must use the public right-of-way path down the block between the Halekulani and the Outrigger Reef. While Waikiki Parc guests do not have access to Halekulani's beach facilities directly across the street, umbrellas and water-sports equipment are available for rental in the small space between the Halekulani and the Outrigger Reef.
Loosely speaking, the entire 1.5-mile stretch of sand alongside Kalakaua Avenue is known as Waikiki Beach. In reality, it's more like three separate beaches, the borders of which vary depending on whom you ask. The Parc is located a few minutes' walk from the section called Queen's Beach, which is the part you see on postcards of Waikiki: manicured, palm tree-dotted lawns leading to a sunny white-sand beach. Children splash about in the shallow water near the shore, while surfers and standup paddle-boarders (the rad new thing to do) patrol the outer waters.
To summarize Queen's Beach in one word: packed. Packed with energy, packed with activity, packed -- most significantly -- with people. Towels carpet the sand like blankets at a sold-out concert. Families with small children, honeymooning couples, even locals taking lunch breaks -- they all merge here, sunning, swimming, and sandcastle-building, all the while doing their best not to kick sand in each other's faces.
Lackluster decor, though spacious for rooms this close to the beach
Although standard rooms are of decent size (315 square feet), and feature some cool high-tech amenities and a luxurious, microfiber duvet, the faded green carpet, boring off-white tile floors, and plain white walls are borderline tired. However, ocean view rooms offer stunning views of the water. You can find larger, more modern, standard rooms elsewhere at the same price level, but they wouldn't be as close to the beach. (The Best Western on Ala Wai Canal boasts 400-square-foot standards, for instance, and the Aqua Palm's are 325 square feet). But you'd be hard-pressed to find rooms this close to the ocean in such a prime part of Waikiki for the same price.
Still, you won't necessarily know you're on the ocean if you're in a standard room on the 8th to 10th floors -- generically called "Parc Rooms"; the same inland-facing rooms on floors 11 to 23 are euphemistically called "Mountain View". Both more accurately should be labeled "Garage View." My 10th-floor abode overlooked a parking deck, and the delightful sound of car alarms broke out no less than three times during the stay. A word to the wise: spring for an ocean view room, or request a high floor.
An impressive number of unique features, though a few are disappointing
For a small hotel that's quite literally in the shadow of its grander, much more expensive Halekulani sibling, the Waikiki Parc has an impressive number of unique features. True, the pool isn't that exciting, and the gym is disappointing, but the hotel organizes events to get guests socializing, it's the only place on the island where you can rent a Lotus sports car, and it offers access to the Halekulani's spa.
The rectangular, 8th-floor pool, dubbed with a cooler-than-cool name, ("Parc Blue" ), sets the tone with funky furniture and mellow pop music blaring from Bose speakers. But with lots of little kids splashing about, teenagers doing handstands, and older Japanese couples lounging, it doesn't exactly scream "hip." The pool deck has views of the ocean, the city, and the Sheraton Waikiki next door and offers an abundance of lounge chairs. Even if it's not the most exciting, it's better than some other pools at this price level. The bar area was stocked only with towels during my stay, but it plays host to Friday-night, bi-weekly wine socials.
The vibe feels grown-up, but it's decent for families.
Waikiki Parc seems to emphasize coolness via its trippy lobby, fancy electronics, and rental partnership with Lotus, but it's also fine for kids.
Public spaces are clean, but some rooms feel worn.
Though all public spaces are well kept, rooms could be cleaner. A few of the issues in my standard room:
Nobu in the lobby -- at a discount! -- and a free continental breakfast
Though eating options are plentiful for just about any hotel in Waikiki, the Parc might have the best in-hotel dining of any budget boutique on the island, given there's an outpost of the world-famous haute Japanese restaurant Nobu in the lobby. Better yet, Waikiki Parc patrons get a 10 percent discount off dinner, and the front desk can make dinner reservations at check-in. For a full menu, click here.
With a branch of Nobu in the lobby, a beach across the street, and signing privileges at its adjacent high-end sister Halekulani, this well-priced boutique hotel appeals to foodies and families. The fairly simple rooms have high-def, flat-panel TVs (some have spectacular views) and the service is friendly, if far less doting, than at its sibling.
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So Strava is kind of a hot topic in biking, especially for those jerks who blow past people on a trail simply yelling "Strava!" on the way by, desperately searching for that KOH title to make their wee-wee feel better.... but I digress.
Am I the only one who is incorporate this into daily life? A car cut my girlfriend and I off in traffic this morning on the highway and I just yelled out "Strava!" She had NO idea what happened as I went into a fit of laughter.
I tend to do this at very inopportune times, whenever someone cuts in front of someone in line at the coffee shop, traffic, when people rush before you to get through the revolving door at Macy's.... "STRAVA!"


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Toshiba LCD issue
Could any of you guys help me?
I have a toshiba Satellite 1415 with a nVidia GeForce4 420 video card. Thanks to this forum I was able to install the nVidia linux drives.
My problem is that I'm only able to get
800x600 resolution. Whenever I try 1024x768 I get errors.
I think the problem is in the monitor section's HorizSync and VertRefresh settings.
I've also set UseEdidFreqs to true.
I have no clue as to what to set HoriZSync and VertRefresh to. And from everything I've read It can be dangerous to play with these values.
Try these settings (in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4):
HorizSync 31.5-100
VertRefresh 50-100
Modeline "1024x768" 110.16 1024 1056 1168 1360 768 772 776 810
Option "ddc" "off"
Also, in the "Screen" section, add:
Modes "1024x768"
Virtual 1024 768
I do not promise it will work on your machine (mine is a Tosh SatPro 6100) but it's worth a try.
If you get a white screen or sync loss kill the X-server immediately (Ctrl-Alt-BkSp) and revert to your old XF86Config-4 file.
Let me know how you get on!
This is what I did, and seems to work.
In XF86Config added.
Option "NoDDC" "true"
In NVIDIA_kernel package edited os-registry.c
static int NVreg_SoftEDIDs = 0;
static int NVreg_Mobile = 4;
make install
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Heidi Klum Is Hollywoods Hottest Soccer Mom (Photos)
Heidi Klum is one very hot soccer mom! The supermodel and supermom was spotted supporting her kids at the soccer field along with her boyfriend and bodyguard Martin Kristen in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday afternoon.
But seriously, doesn't Heidi have the BEST soccer mom style? Everything from the button-down shirt to the jeans to the platform sneakers says CHIC without trying.
Check out our photos below and let us know what you think!
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Heidi Klum watches her children's soccer game practice with boyfriend Martin Kristen in Los Angeles.
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It looks like Martin is getting in on all of the action, too!
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Heidi has always supported her family on the field!
Soccer Team 4 of 5
Go team, go!
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What do you think of Heidi's soccer mom style?
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Unlocking the Key to Deep Sleep
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Making the Ferguson Commission Matter
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My Fake Boyfriend Became a Real-Life Crush
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Rep. Jeffrey Pogue Bill Would Ban Unisex Bathrooms
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Hall, who is 59 and toils as the school's associate vice provost for research, is one of only a handful of forensic entomologists nationwide whom law enforcement calls on to confirm how long a corpse has been a corpse. The American Academy of Forensic Sciences made Hall a fellow in March, and Unreal caught up with him via telephone last week.
Just to, you know, bug him.
Unreal: How long have you been a forensic entomologist?
Robert Hall: I grew up in this field. My father was an entomologist. He worked on blowflies. So I grew up collecting blowflies.
And those are...?
Decomposer flies that every child is familiar with. They're blue and green and aggregate around a dead animal on the side of the road. Without blowflies, we'd be up to our armpits in dead squirrels and raccoons and other animals.
You grew up where?
Washington, D.C.
Bet there was some good road kill around there!
There is.
Do you show up at a crime scene?
You can, and I have occasionally. Typically the evidence is collected by the crime-scene technicians, then they will preserve it for you.
Then what?
Well, the female [fly] is going to do everything she can to deposit her eggs in a spot that will give those eggs the best chance to survive. The warmer the temperature gets, the faster the insects develop. Once you know the species of fly involved and the temperature that prevailed during the period of time the fly developed, you can figure out how long it could have taken for the fly to develop from the egg to the stage collected by the crime-scene technician. And that would be the minimum period of time that the individual would have been dead.
The bugs always pretty much look normal?
They do. By the way, the whole medical-criminal aspect is only a fraction of what the forensic entomologist does. Most of what I'm involved with are civil cases. It may be a spider bite somebody sues their landlord, say. And you wouldn't believe how much fraud there is in fast food, where somebody will come back an hour later and tell the manager, "Look what you sold me," and the hamburger is full of maggots. We get cases all the time dealing with nursing-home neglect a person who has gangrenous ulcers from advanced diabetes; it's almost impossible to keep the flies off them. Or when a relative discovers Grandpa with a diaper full of maggots, somebody is going to be sued. That happens on a more frequent basis than you would think.
What's your time worth?
A couple hundred dollars an hour.
Do you keep any of the bugs, or do they go to loved ones?
Well, a family has never requested any.
No kidding?
Wired Science
Observation: In sixth grade Unreal was introduced to that centerpiece of Western knowledge, the scientific method, and it's stayed with us although we tend to forget the finer points the morning after a bender.
We're not alone in our fog of incompetence, according to the manufacturers of a hangover remedy called PartySmart, who write in a press release: "In the US, 148 billion dollars is lost each year because of work missed or decreased productivity due to hangovers."
Question: So, when PartySmart invited us to decide which worked better their pill or the remedy offered by the competition, a company called Chaser we put a little method to the madness.
Hypothesis: PartySmart lists a "proprietary herbal blend" as its ingredient; Chaser relies upon a "patent-pending formula of activated calcium carbonate and vegetable carbon (activated charcoal)." We predict constipation.
Experiment: Evening one finds us violating PartySmart's protocol by swallowing the blue inch-long horse pill after downing several Bud Lights, Fat Tires and Incredible Hulks. (You're supposed to pop it a half-hour before the first drink.) Home and drunk, we discover that PartySmart's Makali, Bangalore manufacturers' "clinically proven" claim that its pill "protects your liver" has "not been evaluated by the FDA." Is it by coincidence we awaken the following morning in a fit of sneezing, with a slight stomachache?
On evening two we do things in the proper order: a couple of Chasers chased with Irish beers. On this night we slumber, blissfully and hangover-free, right through our alarm and don't make it to the office until noon.
Analysis: We need to get some work done.
Decision: Hangover relief is bullshit. Just like folks in San Diego don't appreciate spring days because it never rains, you can't appreciate booze without hangovers. Ben Franklin should have said: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy, and hangovers are proof that God wants us to enjoy fast-food croissandwiches and be unproductive at work."
Item: Boat dock
Condition: Fair
Price: Free
Name/Age: Tom/40
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
Phone: 314-703-1557
Issue: May 24
Unreal: Why are you getting rid of your boat dock?
Tom: The lake is requiring that all docks have encapsulated foam floats. I was going to retrofit it but someone talked me into buying a new dock. I wish I hadn't. It would have been cheaper to keep the old dock.
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Substitute educators, a crucial resource
Substitute educators face one of the most challenging jobs in education today. As a substitute, you are expected to step into an unknown class, often in an unknown building, at a moment's notice, and pick up ongoing lessons without the benefit of knowing exactly where a teacher left off or what material students already have covered.
Districts expect you to arrive prepared and professional. Students hope that lessons will be interesting and fun. And as an outsider to this particular class, you'll need savvy classroom management skills to successfully motivate students who may have a history of behavioral issues of which you are unaware.
It's a tall order, and often you're expected to deliver without the professional support given to full-time teachers through district programs and courses. As a result, substitute educators face key issues that include:
- Professional wages, including increases to offset inflation
- Due process for substitute educators involving workplace discipline and personnel decisions.
- Improved training and professional development.
- Adequate health insurance for substitute educators who work a long-term or high-frequency schedule.
- Better communication between substitute educators and a school's permanent staff.
Note: Substitute teachers employed in public education in Washington state are eligible for full, Active membership in the WEA. Details
Rick Harlan, a longtime substitute teacher in the Seattle Education Association, has worked to improve the professional status and job satisfaction of substitutes on several fronts, including promoting the launch of a national Substitute Educators Week. more
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- Substitute teaching resource list. more
- "The toughest job I ever had! more
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- National Substitute Teachers Alliance. more
- Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University. Offers occasional seminars, online and CD-ROM tutorials, and resource books such as The Substitute Teacher Handbook. more
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I hate to say it but I think Gloria's Mother, Doris is going to die. Her health is deteriorating more and more with each episode.
I agree, and whose going to take care of Gloria's son if Gloria is found as an accessory to Michelle's murder? Even though Gloria's son is also Eddie's, I kind of hoped for her sake that he was Michael's. She then would not have to stoop so low. Hopefully Eddie will realize why Gloria wants Michelle out of the picture and will call off the hit since he is so madly attracted to her.
I agree and I am really afraid of what Gloria will do then. Right now I think her Mother and Son are the only two she tries to be good for. With Mom gone she may go even more crazy than she is now and become more dangerous. I hope she does not mess around and let that sweet child lose his Grandmother and his Mother. She NEEDS to be with Eddie and forget about Lance and Michelle and Luke needs to accept more help from his brother so he can get his life in order and tell his Mother where to go. Maria will end up taking him down with her otherwise.
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Jay-Z Launches A New Line Of T-Shirts Inspired By Occupy Wall Street
Rapper Jay-Z is about to launch a line of t-shirts inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. The t-shirts are emblazoned with the slogan "Occupy All Streets," however, Jay-Z has yet to pledge any of the proceeds to the cause. [Huffington Post]
The Big Four In The Music Industry Are Now Just The Big Three
After being on the block for nine months, it was announced today by Citibank that EMI, one of the last four of the "major labels" in the music industry, is being sold off. In a confusing twist, the recorded music division of EMI will soon become a part of the Universal Music Group, while the publishing arm will become part of Sony. [NPR]
Kylie Minogue Announces The Release Of A New Album In 2012
The pop-veteran that just wont quit, Kylie Minogue, has announced that she will be releasing an album in 2012 to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the release of "Locomotion." Move over Madonna! [NME]
50 Cent Promotes His New Book On Rachel Ray, Wears Suit
50 Cent looks weird on Rachel Ray wearing a suit. He's promoting his new book, Playground, and apparently flaunting his impeccable business acumen. [Popdust]
The most awesome new Tumblr we've seen all week, Watch the Cradle is a hilarious and timely parody of Watch The Throne. Pairing pictures of adorable babies with inappropriate lyrics from the album, this is the perfect meme to send you giggling into the weekend. Happy Friday! [Watch The Cradle]
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An inmate who escaped Oct. 18 from a federal prison in Florence was captured on Thursday.
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text: The Random Encounter wiki last edited by BeachThunder on 01/21/14 02:13AM View full history OverviewAn example of a random encounter from Dragon Warrior. Random encounters can be traced back to Dungeons & Dragons tabletop games in the 1970s, when random encounters were decided with a dice roll by the game master. Since then, random encounters have been used in a wide variety of video games (especially role playing games). Popularized by games such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, random encounters are designed to increase the challenge of the game, improve players' characters, and sometimes even gain rarer items and equipment.Most random encounters are programmed to only occur in places such as forests, caves, or swamp areas, i.e. the areas where it is easier for monsters to "hide." In open areas such as plains, random encounters are much more likely to occur. These type of battles also most commonly occur between objectives, such as in the overworld map or in a dungeon. While a large majority of random encounters are negative in the sense that they trigger enemies, some games have positive random encounters (e.g. friendly characters who will possibly sell the player items).Possibility of a Random EncounterThere are a few methods to deciding a random encounter. The first is an algorithm where X is given a number between 0 and 99. If the number is less than another preset number, then a random encounter occurs. This method is typically criticized because it has a larger possibility of repeated random encounters. Another method is assigning X a number between 64 and 255 and then subtracting another preset number from X until it is less than or equal to zero (at which point, the random encounter occurs). This helps to prevent a constant flood of random encounters.CriticismDrakkhen is infamous for its increasingly difficult random encounters.Random encounters are much less popular in modern role playing games. They are seen as lazy game design, needlessly disruptive, and in many places makes the game very (arguably unfairly) difficult, or just cause the game to be irritating to play. Randomly triggered encounters also trigger load times in games that use optical disc media such as CDs and DVDs, due to the game having to load the enemies on the spot for each individual encounter. In addition, many random encounters in earlier role playing games are easily tripped up by using a trick (such as opening the pause menu, saving, etc), and random encounters can be largely avoided.Some games are infamous for their usage of random encounters. The original Mother on the Nintendo Entertainment System is the hardest in the Mother franchise due to its excessive usage of random encounters. In fact, the game is so difficult that Starmen.net, Mother series superfans, released an easytype patch designed to lessen random encounters and boost EXP and money gained from each battle. Drakkhen on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is particularly notable in its usage of random encounters. While standing still, random encounters are still possible, and as random encounters occur enemies got exceedingly difficult.Alternative MethodsChrono Trigger uses visible enemies that can be avoided, but encounters triggered this way still have load times in the Playstation and PSN versions.Since the decline in popularity, role playing games have employed a variety of other methods other than a random encounter. Many role playing games, instead of having and infinite number of random encounters, opted to have a set number of random encounters that occurs in each area. Games such as Chrono Trigger have enemies that are visible, instead of invisible, and thus can be avoided if the player so chooses.The Pokémon franchise of role playing games has a unique method of dealing with random encounters. While random encounters are also random in that which Pokémon encountered is also random, there are repelling items that allow the player to move around unheeded for a short time. The inverse is also true, with many games containing an item to boost random encounters. This serves to help players when seeking for a rare item drop or players trying to boost experience.A few lesser known independent games have a unique approach to random encounters. Breath of Death VII: The Beginning has a preset amount of random encounters per area (whereas the overworld will have hundreds of random encounters, a small cave may only have a dozen). Once this number is depleted, there are no more random encounters in that area. This is the same in its sequel, Cthulhu Saves the World. In Bonded Realities, another independent role-playing game, there is actually an ability which allows players to turn off random encounters.


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I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with TriHist? How well it worked? If you felt another type of treatment was more effective?
I'm considering putting Bailee on a preventative medication from the inside out this year. She has such a severe reaction to the bugs and I hate seeing her suffer for 6 months out of the year. (itchiness and hives that result in baldness from chest back to teets. Bald tail from rubbing. Bald spots in mane and forelock from rubbing).
We've tried being super aggressive with ointments and sprays once it starts.. (to prevent flies/knats/etc)....... but this year I'd like to attack it before it starts.


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Need proof that optimism is healthy?
The evidence can be found in a couple of recent studies. One evaluated 309 people who were having heart surgery and found that people with a positive outlook were 50 percent less likely to return to the hospital in the six months following surgery. Another, from the Women's Health Initiative, followed 97,000 post-menopausal women for more than eight years and found that those who scored highest in optimism had a significantly lower chance of developing heart disease.
How Optimism Contributes to Good Health
Just as positive thinking and good emotional health contribute to wellness, negative thinking can have adverse effects on health, such as weakening your immune system and preventing you from doing the things you need to do to take good care of yourself.
Eva Ritvo, MD, vice chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida and co-author of The Beauty Prescription, says that positive thinking improves your mental health and reduces stress. "When you are optimistic, people are attracted to you. This leads to healthier relationships, more success, and decreased emotional stress. And of course, we know that emotional stress can lead to physical illness," says Dr. Ritvo.
"Positive thinking reduces inflammation, which is a byproduct of stress. It is important to reduce inflammation because it stands at the root cause of disease and plays havoc with your thinking," adds Debbie Mandel, MA, author of Addicted to Stress and a nationally recognized stress management expert.
Positive Thinking: Tips for Maintaining Optimism
"To maintain positive thinking you need to pay attention to basic needs such as getting enough rest, proper nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, and heath care. It means keeping your life in balance," advises Ritvo. Here are some tips for keeping a positive outlook:
Positive thinking and optimism really do contribute to a longer, healthier life. Avoid the false sense of optimism offered by drugs and alcohol. These solutions to stress only cause more problems in the long run. A recently released study followed over 6,000 students who attended the University of North Carolina in the 1960s. Of the 476 students who died during the next 40 years, those students who scored lowest in optimism had a 42 percent higher rate of death than those who were the most optimistic.
Positive thinking provides its own rewards, so take responsibility for your thoughts. As the great William Shakespeare once wrote, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
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First, look at the campus calendar of events to get a sense of what else is going on the day you hope to have your event. Then, simply log into EMS to get started!
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Lumberjack Golf Receives National Academic Award
Aug. 6, 2013
NORMAN, Okla. - The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjack golf team has been named a 2013 All-Academic team announced the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Tuesday afternoon. The Lumberjacks received the honor for maintaining at least a 3.0 grade-point average in the classroom. To be eligible for the GCAA All-Academic Team honor schools must submit GPAs for every member of the official roster.
The 'Jacks are one of 79 schools to receive the honor, and one of only two Southland Conference schools to make the list (Southeastern Louisiana). A total of four schools from the state of Texas were recognized by the GCAA.
The Lumberjacks return all but one letterwinner from the 2012-13 season.


text: No recent wiki edits to this page. Persona 3The Devil ArcanaIn Persona 3, besides appearing on Sunday mornings as the host of Tanaka's Amazing Commodities, Tanaka appears every Tuesday and Saturday evening at Paulownia Mall, apparently taking a break from working hard as the CEO of his shopping network. After leveling up your Charm Skill to the rating of "Smooth" and handing over ¥40,000, Tanaka will take you under his wing and tell you several secrets including selling pills that act as placebos and give you glimpses into his past where it seems he was a poor child who got picked on in high school. By talking to Tanaka, the player also levels up the Devil Social Link.If the player manages to max out his Social Link, the player can fuse Beelzebub in the Velvet Room.Persona 4In Persona 4, Tanaka's Amazing Commodities returns, and can once again be viewed on Sunday mornings. However, he does not otherwise appear in the game as a character, and the Devil Social Link is instead with Sayoko Uehara, a nurse at the Inaba Municipal Hospital. A subtle difference can be noticed in this shopping program vs Persona 3's, in that Tanaka is no longer wearing his sleazy smile in P4.


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LETTER: Attack on Forest was unwarranted
To the Editor:
Mr. Jon Silverman's Aug. 27 letter to the editor was not "shocking" to those that understand that this trial lawyer is known for bombastic rhetoric.
Making derogatory remarks about Lt. Gov. Dan Forest shows how disgustingly angry left-wing zealots have become.
Dan Forest is one of the nicest and most cordial people that anyone can meet. He may disagree with someone on policies, but he does not demean or personally attack them.
Mr. Silverman failed to mention that Democrat Deb McManus, who represents Chatham County and part of Lee County, was invited to Mr. Forest's town hall meeting and participated in the discussion. I don't recall Democrats inviting Republicans to participate in such meetings. This reflects upon the outstanding character of Mr. Forest.
Mr. Silverman's reference to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in his diatribe about Republicans trying to lower personal and corporate income taxes is nothing less than diabolical. It should be pointed out that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic killers' growth and violence have been greatly enhanced by Barack Obama's foreign policies during the last four-and-a-half years.
Mr. Silverman also railed about the economic conditions, and like Barack Obama blamed everyone but Obama and Democrats. However, these are Obama's unemployment numbers and his food-stamp economy.
Mr. Silverman and Mr. Obama's goal is simple. It is to shut up and shut down those who dare to criticize radical assaults on Americans' freedoms.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Onetime 007 Pierce Brosnan embraces a darker take on spycraft in Roger Donaldsons The November Man, playing a former CIA agent whose autumnal nickname acknowledges his tendency to leave few alive when he passes through a town. A familiar string of dark secrets, shifting allegiances and (wo) man-who-knew-too-much pursuit propels the storyline (adapted from one in a series of Bill Granger novels), giving Brosnan the opportunity to prove his cool remains intact, sans tux and gadgets. November Man wont do anything like Bonds box office, but will satisfy the actors fans and moviegoers biding their time until the next top-shelf le Carre-style thriller.
Here, Brosnan plays Peter Devereaux, who in his day was known for his unwillingness to form personal attachments that could compromise his duties. Like all spies, though, he had his secrets: When the woman he once loved (and who secretly bore him a daughter) dies while spying in Moscow, he becomes the enemy of her killer his old protégé David Mason (Luke Bracey), whose bosses at Langley ordered the hit lest she be captured by the Russians.
Make that one Russian in particular: Corrupt former general Arkady Federov (Lazar Ristovski), who is on track to be the next Russian president and wants to erase anyone who knows about the atrocities he committed in the Second Chechen War. Devereauxs ex was one of those secret-holders, and in following her leads, he winds up saving Alice Fournier (Olga Kurylenko) from Federovs top assassin. (Said killer is a woman, whose introductory scenes make one wonder why we so rarely meet hitmen who do balletic splits in order to limber up before a kill.)
Fournier is a social worker who has helped some of the girls Federov sold into the sex trade, including one named Mira he made his personal slave. Mira overheard a lot during those years, and powerful people around the globe want to find her before she tells anyone what she knows.
Though the films cat-and-mouse scenes hardly compare to those in a Bourne movie, theyre enjoyable and only occasionally ridiculous. (A long sequence in which Devereaux and Mason taunt each other on the phone during a chase makes little sense except for those longing to hear Youve lost your touch, old man cliches.) Brosnan, whose old franchise made a smart turn away from superspy fantasy after his departure, plays the gritty side of spookdom well, and the film offers him (sometimes puzzling) opportunities to show just how nasty he can be, even as hes risking life and limb to save a stranger.
Dont put your faith in me, Alice I promise Ill disappoint you, Peter says at one point, and Brosnans grave delivery almost makes you ignore the fact that its exactly the kind of line Pee-wee Herman ruined for troubled loners when he gave Dottie the kiss-off back in 1985s Pee-wee Hermans Big Adventure. This episode in Grangers November Man series, There Are No Spies, was published two years after that, and Michael Finch and Karl Gajduseks script does little to disguise the fact that weve seen and heard all of this many, many times since.
The November Man, a Relativity Media release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence including a sexual assault, language, sexuality/nudity and brief drug use. Running time: 108 minutes.
MPAA rating definition for R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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|Habs defenseman Raphael Diaz (left) goes for gold today at
the WHC as his Swiss team takes on Sweden.
Galchenyuk, who joined the tournament after the Habs were eliminated from the NHL playoffs, has so far notched one goal in four games and a -2 rating. Danny Kristo played in all nine games for the Americans and came into the bronze medal game with one goal, two assists and a -1 rating.
Raphael Diaz, who also joined the tournament late has one game left this afternoon as his undefeated Swiss team will take on Sweden for the gold medal. Switzerland beat Sweden 3-2 earlier in the tournament on their way to a 9-0 record leading up to this afternoon's final.
Diaz has an even plus/minus rating in his three games played and one assist.
Habs And Hockey News
- With year one in the books as the Habs new GM, Marc Bergevin looks forward to continuing his mission of turning the Montreal Canadiens into a winning team.
- Here are Eldon MacDonald of The Hockey Writers 2013 NHL Draft rankings for picks 31 through 60.
- Magnus Nygren has officially signed with the Montreal Canadiens.
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Our Mediterranean Hotspot project will provide resources that are essential for guiding decisions on the conservation and sustainable management of freshwater biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot. The project will first build on our recent assessements in the region by filling the remaining gaps in information on freshwater biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean region and will use this information, combined with the results of previous biodiversity assessments, to identify and validate Key Biodiversity Areas as a focus for conservation action throughout the Hotspot.
This will be achieved by;
- Collating data on the distribution, abundance, ecology, and utilisation by humans, for several groups of species that are reliable indicators of the biological structure and functioning of freshwater ecosystems in the eastern Mediterranean region.
- Evaluating the risk of extinction for these species according to the IUCN Red List Criteria
- Mapping geographic patterns of species richness, endemism, and existing or impending threats to the species
- Identifying and validating (through stakeholder consultations and workshops) freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas for the entire Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot region.
- Making the collated data and results for the analysis widely and freely available to conservation practitioners and developers alike via print publications, data DVD's, and the internet.
The importance and urgency of this works is evidence from the concentration of species found in the freshwater of the Mediterranean Basin, the ecosystem services that are supplied to humans communities by these freshwaters and their biodiversity and the increasing threats to these ecosystems.
The project started in June 2012 and is funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), MAVA Foundation pour la Nature (MAVA), the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperation (AECID) and the BioFresh Project.


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Fred-sizing the economy
There is an interesting video clip in the magazine section of the BBC website that puts the UK economy's current position into scalable context. The UK economy becomes Fred! Worth a watch.


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University of Kelaniya
|කැළණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලය
களனி பல்கலைக்கழகம்
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|Sinhalese: පඤ්ඤාය පරිසුජ්ඣති (Pannaya Parisujjhati)
Motto in English
|self-purification is by insight
|1959 (as Vidyalankara University)
|Ven. Welamitiyawe Dharmakirthi Sri Kusala Dhamma Thero
|Prof. Sunanda Madduma Bandara
Administrative staff
|771 academic, 637 non-academic
|Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
The University of Kelaniya (Sinhalese: කැළණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලය, Tamil: களனி பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a state university of Sri Lanka. Just outside the municipal limits of Colombo, in the city of Kelaniya, the university has two major campuses, seven locations, six faculties and four institutions.
- 1 History
- 2 Symbols
- 3 Faculties
- 3.1 Faculty of Science
- 3.2 Faculty of Medicine
- 3.3 Faculty of Social Science
- 3.4 Faculty of Humanities
- 3.5 Faculty of Commerce and Management
- 3.6 Faculty of Graduate Studies
- 3.7 Information and Communication Technology Centre
- 4 Historically Related Institutions
- 5 Faculty and alumni
- 6 External links
- 7 References
The University of Kelaniya has its origin in the historic Vidyalankara Pirivena, founded in 1875 by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks.
With the establishment of modern universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972 and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978.
The University of Kelaniya has pioneered a number of new developments in higher education. It was one of the first universities to begin teaching science in Sinhala and the first to restructure the traditional Arts Faculty into three faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Commerce and Management.
It has several departments not generally found in the Sri Lankan University system and some Kelaniya innovations have been adopted subsequently by other universities. These include the Departments of Industrial Management and Microbiology in the Faculty of Science; Departments of Linguistics, Fine Arts, Modern Languages and Hindi in the Faculty of Humanities; and Mass Communication and Library and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
In keeping with its historical root, the university is one of the national centers of excellence in Pali and Buddhist Studies and related fields. It has long-established and well-developed departments of Pali and Buddhist Studies (incorporating chairs in Buddhist Civilization and Buddhist Philosophy), Sanskrit, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sinhala, and Hindi, as well as the Postgraduate Institute of Pali & Buddhist Studies. Kelaniya maintains close links with the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka (whose vice-chancellors have often been drawn from the University of Kelaniya Faculty). Thus, the University of Kelaniya forms the centre of an academic complex, specializing in modern developments in traditional disciplines. It retains a close link with its mother institution, the Vidyalankara Pirivena, whose head is also the chancellor of the university.
At the same time, the University of Kelaniya has a modern and multi-cultural structure and perspective, with the Faculties of Science, Medicine, Social Sciences and Commerce & Management and a strong base in modern languages, including the teaching of Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Tamil, and Modern Linguistics. Presently engaged in extensive restructuring as it enters the 21st century, the University of Kelaniya looks forward to a new phase in its 125-year history of development.
Coat of Arms[edit]
The coat of arms of the University of Kelaniya is circular and consists of three concentric bands, the outermost of which contains the name of the University in Sinhala and English. The motto of the institution "Pannaya Parisujjhati" (self-purification is by insight) is a quotation from the Alavaka-sutta of the Samyutta Nikaya, given in Sinhala characters in the same band. The middle band containing a creeper design encloses the innermost, which shows a full-blown lotus, signifying purity. These two designs are reminiscent of those occurring in the well-known moonstones at Anuradhapura.
Faculty of Science[edit]
The Faculty of Science started functioning in October 1967 with Prof. Charles Dahanayake as the Dean of Science. The intake of the first batch of students was 57. Formal approval for the Faculty was given by the Minister of Education in 1968.
The faculty was housed in the main building known as the "Science Block". Due to the continued increase in the student intake from year to year, a new lecture theatre complex and an auditorium were constructed in 1992, which enabled the intake of students to be increased to 450 in 2003. A new laboratory complex for the Chemistry Department and three buildings for the Departments for Industrial Management, Microbiology and Zoology have now been completed.
The faculty was the first among the Sri Lankan universities to initiate the change over from the traditional three subject (General) degree with end of year examinations to a more flexible course unit system, i.e., a modularized credit-based system in a two-semester academic year with the end of semester examinations. It offers a variety of course pathways designed to provide flexibility in the choice of subjects. Under this system students have the option of reading for a traditional three subject degree or for a degree consisting of two principal subjects and a selection of course units drawn from other subject areas. The B.Sc. (Special) degree courses, begun in 1974, adopted the course unit system in 1986.
The faculty consists of eight departments.
Department of Industrial Management[edit]
The Department of Industrial Management focuses on a degree of MIT which gives knowledge of Management and Information Technology. The department is offering masters degrees which focuses on the same area. From 2014 onward it will launched one new degree program of Bsc in Software Engineering.
Faculty of Medicine[edit]
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kelaniya is on a 35-acre (140,000 m2) campus at Ragama. It is one of six medical schools in Sri Lanka. The faculty began classes with the admission of 120 students in September 1991. Before that it was called the North Colombo Medical College (NCMC). The NCMC, the first privately funded medical school in Sri Lanka started in 1980 with the admission of 100 local and 20 foreign students, who started graduating in 1990. Dr. Heenilame was its first chairman and Dr. W.D. Ratnavelle its first director. The first batch of students, under the new name, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya completed their five-year course and graduated MBBS in September 1996. Prof. Carlo Fonseka was the first dean in the renamed medical school.
The faculty has over 1000 students. This number includes international students, mainly from other South Asian countries, who have been admitted on a fee-levying basis. The faculty also welcomes students for elective appointments. Students from medical schools in Europe, USA and Australia have spent their elective periods with the university.
There is a permanent academic staff of over 90 and in addition 40 temporary academic staff and over 60 visiting staff that includes consultants who are based in the affiliated teaching hospitals.
Faculty of Social Science[edit]
The Faculty of Social Sciences, in student population, is the largest faculty in the University of Kelaniya.
Department of Library and Information Science[edit]
Faculty of Humanities[edit]
The faculty includes disciplines associated with Buddhist and Asian cultures, such as Pali and Buddhist Studies, Sinhala, Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese, while teaching courses in modern European languages such as English, French, German and Russian.
Faculty of Commerce and Management[edit]
The faculty consists of four departments:
- Department of Finance
- Department of Accountancy
- Department of Marketing Management
- Department of Human Resource Management
- Department of Commerce
Faculty of Graduate Studies[edit]
Twenty three postgraduate degree programmes and six postgraduate diploma programmes are coordinated by the Faculty of Graduates Studies.
Postgraduate diplomas[edit]
- Regional Planning
- Information Technology
- Industrial and Business Management
- Environmental Management
- Mathematics
- Human Resource Management
Postgraduate degrees[edit]
- M.A. in Sinhala
- M.A. in Linguistics
- M.A. in Drama and Theatre
- M. S. Sc. in Mass Communication
- M. S. Sc. in Sociology
- M. S. Sc. in Geography
- M. S. Sc. in Library Science
- M. S. Sc. in Economics
- M. S. Sc. in Political Science
- M. S. Sc. in History
- M. S. Sc. in Philosophy
- M. Sc. in Applied Microbiology
- M. Sc. in Food and Nutrition
- M. Sc. in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management
- M. Sc. in Biodiversity and Integrated Environmental Management
- M. Sc. in Industrial and Environment Chemistry
- M. Sc. in Management and Information Technology
- M. Sc. in Computer Science
- Master of Commerce
- Master of Business Management
- Master of Philosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctor of Medicine
Information and Communication Technology Centre[edit]
The ICT Centre provides support services in IT-related teaching, research, internet services, staff development and hardware maintenance for the entire university. It conducts computer literacy course open for all students and advanced courses in Visual Basic, web designing and hardware technology for the students who have successfully completed the computer literacy course. On-the-job training in the IT arena is provided for the young people just out of the university who work in the ICT Centre.
The maintenance unit provides network, hardware and software support to the clients in the university, and IT solutions for academic departments and administrative branches of the university. Video filming of special events of the university since 2005 is an additional
Historically Related Institutions[edit]
The Vidyodaya University was created at the same time as the Vidyalankara University. Today Vidyodaya University is known as the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Faculty and alumni[edit]
- Jagdish Kashyap
- Jayalal Rohana
- Witiyala Seewalie Thera
- Harischandra Wijayatunga
- Polwatte Buddhadatta Mahanayake Thera
- Janaka de Silva
- Saman Gunatilake
- Karunasena Kodituwakku
- Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera
- Sunanda Mahendra
- Nalin de Silva
- Jagath Weerasinghe
- Maitree Wickramasinghe
External links[edit]
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read more about Bruce County welcomes Adventure Bruce mascot!
Spring wildflowers have sprung and the Bruce is blooming! The grass is getting greener, the trees are budding, and the spring bulbs are in full colour all over the Bruce County! The hiking and walking trails are calling!


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Yo Gotti
Yo Gotti, however, isn't from the West Coast any more than he is from New Orleans; his stomping ground is Memphis, the city that gave us the Three 6 Mafia, Gangsta Blac, Eightball & MJG, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, and quite a few other Dirty South artists. When Gotti boasts that he is "straight from the North," he doesn't mean the northern part of the United States; he means the northern part of Memphis, where he lived in the infamous, crime-ridden Ridge Crest housing projects. And Memphis' more dangerous neighborhoods have inspired many of Gotti's lyrics, which often describe the dangers of life in the 'hood. Gotti, however, doesn't always rap about crime and inner-city thug life; he also raps about sex quite a bit.
After performing around Memphis in the '90s, Gotti started building a catalog in the early 2000s. His first album, From da Dope Game 2 da Rap Game, came out on the Inevitable label in 2000; His subsequent Inevitable releases included 2001's Self Explanatory and 2002's Block Burnin', Vol. 1. After that, Gotti signed with TVT and recorded Life, which came out in 2003. TVT released "Dirty South Soldiers" (a duet with Atlanta crunk star Lil' Jon) as Life's first single. After having his track "Full Time" featured in the film Hustle & Flow, he released Back 2 da Basics in 2006. A series of Cocaine Muzik mixtapes carried the rapper to 2012 when his first major-label release, Live from the Kitchen, landed on RCA. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi
Selected Discography
Track List: Live From The Kitchen (Explicit)
Track List: Cocaine Muzik 6 (Gangsta Of The Year)
Track List: Back 2 Da Basics (Explicit)
Track List: Life
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