text:
As an insidious condition that does a great job of sneaking up on people over the course of time, osteoarthritis is a common ailment suffered by thousands of people across Canada. The knee seems particularly prone to developing it. Known as osteoarthritis of the knee, its the most common type of osteoarthritis. Although it is...Read more
Category Archives: Nutrition and Fitness
Need to Treat Your Running Injury? A Running Injury Clinic Can Offer Relief and Treatment With Specialized Care!
Running is a favourite activity for many who enjoy the clarity of mind, freedom and health benefits it offers. Whether you run daily to keep fit, wear off calories from delicious food you just cant give up, or are a dedicated life-long marathon runner, you know that staying in shape is important if you want...Read more
Basketball is a celebrated sport that people from all ages and walks of life enjoy. The roots of basketball hail from Canada and the small Ontario town of Almonte. Here, in 1891, the game was invented by Dr. James Naismith. Mere hours from Almonte, Toronto is filled with basketball lovers who are both die-hard Toronto...Read more


text:
Accountants in Weston, WV
Home > WV > Weston
|H&R Block
146 John St
Weston, WV 26452
|Spencer CPA & Associates
245 N River Ave
Weston, WV 26452
|Law John E CPA AC
132 E 1st St
Weston, WV 26452
Results were generated in 0.079791 seconds.
AccountantFast.com offers the largest selections of Weston Tax Accountants, Book keepers and CPAs in Weston, WV. Use our elite database search to find all of the best accountants in Weston for taxes or book keeping. We add listings to our site daily, and we are known for being the largest accounting directory listing on the internet. So begin your search now to find your tax accoutant or your CPA in Weston.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
|Where to buy:
|DVD New
|DVD Rent
� An anal squirt.
� Some technical glitches in one scene
� Not many extras, but then again I don�t care when there is so much to the feature
If nothing else, this 2 disc set serves as a great starter kit for anyone who does not have girl on girl porn in their collection. There is plenty of girl on girl action, with little filler, but even the filler adds to the quality of this title. Most scenes offer no plot other than girl fucks girl, but there are a few cases that offer a fantasy beyond just two women pleasuring each other. Sammie and Randi fulfill fantasies involving sorority girls. Anne Marie and Carmen get arrested for running a massage parlor that actually offers massages. They take advantage of their alone time in a jail cell with a strap on. Lora & Lianna play to the fantasy that one hot chick massaging another can only result in lesbian sex.
My favorite part of a scene:
Jayna Oso & Iesha provided me with something that I have been longing to see for quite some time. Their scene does include each satisfying the other, but ends with mutual masturbation. The girls sit side by side with one girl�s leg draped over the other and they both masturbate. Jayna frantically rubs her pussy while she obsessively stares at Iesha�s pussy as Iesha rubs her index finger between her pussy lips. Iesha�s visual inspiration is the look on Jayna�s face. Jayna focuses on the act of Iesha pleasuring herself. Iesha focues on the results of Jayna pleasuring herself.
My favorite scene:
The scene with Lora Black & Lianna provides massage fantasy, but offers the nice visual contrast of dark hair and bronzed skin against white surroundings. (Unfortunately, my DVD did have some technical glitches in this scene.)
The Pairings:
� Sammie Rhodes & Randi Write
� Amy Ried & Emiliana
� Paola Rey & Ariel Summers
� Julia Bond & Mikayla
� Carmen & Ann Marie
� Lora Black & Lianna
� Alexis Malone & Kaiya Lynn
� Holly Morgan& Bella Starr
� Dana & Sophie Paris
� Kylie Wild & Natasha
� Jayna Oso & Iesha
� Alexis & Dorothy Black
Bottom Line: Lezstravganza is filled with hot girl on girl action. All of the girls have great bodies that provide great visual entertainment accentuated by great shots of tongues licking pussies and asses, and wanton eyes.


text:
Lenders Bagels Coupons | Special Savings with Lenders Bagels
Lenders Bagels is the oldest bagel brand in America and a favorite of families who appreciate its authentic taste. The company started over 80 years ago by offering a crunchy-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside bagel which became popular instantly. Now Lenders carries a line of frozen, fresh and refrigerated bagels which have become a standard breakfast staple in households nationwide. These tasty bagels are healthy and satisfying and available in a variety of flavors. The Lenders Frozen Bagels are available in New York Style with flavors like: Plain, Onion, Cinnamon Raisin, Egg and 100% Whole Wheat; and in Original with flavors such as: Plain, Onion, Cinnamon, Cinnamon Swirl, Blueberry, Soft and Egg.
Lenders Refrigerated brand has delicious bagels that are the perfect size to start your day with. They remain fresh longer than those on the bread aisle and are in 3 categories – Premium, Little Lenders and Lenders 100 Calorie. The Refrigerated flavors are: Plain, Cinnamon Raisin, Onion, 100% Wheat, Blueberry and Egg. The Fresh bagels by Lenders can be enjoyed anytime – day or night, and are available in the same flavors as the Refrigerated and Frozen variety; however, they have 2 new flavors – Whole Grain Plain and Whole Grain Multi-Grain which are filled with nutritious, wholesome goodness. Stop by your local supermarket today and purchase Lenders bagels and use the coupon provided to receive a discount on your purchase


text:
Continuum (US) Season 1 Discussion Thread (Spoilers)
View Single Post
January 17 2013, 12:04 AM
Guy Gardener
Fleet Admiral
Location: In the lap of squalor I assure you.
Re: Continuum (US) Season 1 Discussion Thread (Spoilers)
cylkoth wrote:
[Donna Noble]
"Oy! SPOILERS!"
[/Donna Noble]
This is of course, the US thread for first time viewers, and this is their first viewing of the first episode.
Try and keep that in mind.
Go back and look, these are the same thoughts I had in the Canadian thread in may 2012.
Old Alec was too smug, and he was prepared for the flash of the chronal event when every one else recoiled, and the husband who works for Old Alec is a traitor.
From that alone you can piece together a hell of a lot of what is going to happen.
There is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much that I am not saying.
"Glitter is the herpes of arts and craft."
Troy Yingst. My Life as Liz
Guy Gardener
View Public Profile
Send a private message to Guy Gardener
Find More Posts by Guy Gardener


text:
The Nice Ones
"The Nice Ones" is Paper Garden's own way of saying 'thanks' to all you lovely fans. By joining #TeamPGR, you'll get all sorts of awesome stuff that isn't available anywhere else on a monthly basis, just by being a supporter of PGR and its bands! Think old-school street team or e-team, but cooler…building the community of Paper Garden and great music from the ground up! You'll be able to contribute to a quarterly zine, get paid to hook your friends up with PGR music, do some late night guerilla-style marketing and more…and oh – rewards galore! The more you do, the more free shit you'll get!
To sign up, drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com or enter your e-mail below:


text:
Fourth Echelon
this wiki
|Fourth Echelon
|Unit overview
|United States / Worldwide
|C-147B Paladin
|Sam Fisher
|Anna Grímsdóttir
Isaac Briggs
Charlie Cole
Oliver Fenton
|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series information
|Appears in
|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Fourth Echelon (also known as 4th Echelon, abbreviated as 4E) is a "blacker than black" clandestine special operations and counter-terrorism unit that answers solely to the President of the United States. Commissioned by President Patricia Caldwell, the unit is mandated to deal with terrorist threats to U.S. interests.
The unit's commander is former Third Echelon Splinter Cell Sam Fisher, who was instrumental in foiling an assassination attempt on President Caldwell orchestrated by the rogue Third Echelon director Tom Reed. Former Third Echelon chief technical advisor Anna Grímsdóttir, who previously worked closely with Fisher when he was with Third Echelon, serves as the unit's technical operations control officer. Added to the unit are former CIA agent and new 4E operative Isaac Briggs and computer hacker Charlie Cole, while Andriy Kobin becomes a source of intelligence inside holding cell. The unit has no permanent ground base. It operates out of the Paladin, a large military transport aircraft repurposed as a stealth airliner for their mobile headquarters.
Background Edit
The National Security Agency is the signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cryptologic establishment of the United States. Primarily tasked with the conduct of SIGINT in all its forms, the NSA can and does intercept and analyze every form of communication known to man, from cellphone signals and e-mail messages, to microwave emissions, to ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) burst transmissions from submarines thousands of feet beneath the surface of the ocean. It coordinates, directs and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence reports. Since it's on the edge of communications and data processing, the National Security Agency is naturally a very high-tech operation. For decades, the NSA has engaged in the 'passive' collection of moving data by intercepting communications en route.
The First Echelon was a worldwide network of international intelligence agencies and interceptors that seized communications signals and routed them back to the NSA for analysis. It was a network vital to the United States' efforts during the Cold War. As the Soviet Union disintegrated and communications evolved, high technology became the name of the game.
The National Security Agency created Second Echelon, which focused entirely on this new breed of communications technology. Unfortunately, the immense volume of information combined with the accelerated pace of developing technology and encryption overwhelmed Second Echelon. As a result, the NSA experienced its first system-wide crash.
As communications became more digital and sophisticated encryption became more expansive, passive collection simply was rendered inefficient. To address this, the NSA launched a top-secret initiative in 2003. Hoping to bridge the chasm between simply gathering actionable intelligence and acting on that intelligence, the NSA was directed by special Presidential charter to form Third Echelon, its own in-house covert operations unit created specifically to physically obtain intelligence in locations where all other means were exhausted. Third Echelon was disbanded in 2011 following the Third Echelon Conspiracy.
Fourth Echelon was formed shortly after Third Echelon was dissolved, created a brand new initiative that reports directly to the President of the United States.
Fourth Echelon's members are specialists from various backgrounds and military areas, including the CIA, civilian life, former Third Echelon members and even some who were from a PMC.
- Sam Fisher - Commander/Field Operative
- Anna Grímsdóttir - Technical Operations Officer/Second-in Command
- Charlie Cole - Computer hacker/Technology Officer
- Isaac Briggs - Field Operative
- Andriy Kobin - Captive/Source of Intelligence/Spare pilot
- Analysts
- Pilots
Base of Operations Edit
See: C-147B Paladin
2013: Blacklist AttacksEdit
Full article: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Fourth Echelon's first assignment was the disruption of a planned terrorist action of escalating attacks against United States interests, known as The Blacklist. The Blacklist was orchestrated by a newly formed terrorist group called The Engineers. The Engineers sought to not only repel the United States from foreign grounds, but to also shut down elements of Fourth Echelon by targeting them directly. During the Blacklist Attack, Fourth Echelon deployed the Spider-Bot to gather intelligence.
Post-Blacklist Edit
Full article: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath
After foiling the Blacklist attacks, the team returned to operational status. Their next mission was to hunt down rogue agents who had stolen 100 pounds of Uranium from Russia. Fisher chased their leader, who died in an accident. They were pulled from it to extract computer programmer Igor Kasperov. Next, they rescued his daughter from the "Snow Maiden" and pulled him from Peru. Fourth Echelon then stopped the Russian oligarchies' plan to blow up a Saudi oil refinery with a nuclear weapon.
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
- Splinter Cell Blacklist Spider-Bot
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath
Trivia Edit
- Fourth Echelon was formed after Third Echelon was dissolved during the Third Echelon Conspiracy; their logo remains similar to the previous but has slight changes such as the outer shape and star placement.
- Currently, the Fourth Echelon is much smaller than Third Echelon. The only known 4E Splinter Cell operatives are Sam Fisher and Isaac Briggs.


text:
December 1, 2015
CORBIN, Ky. (AP) - A southern Kentucky woman has taken up the plight of hungry children by starting a backpack program at an elementary school.
Melinda Moses told The Times-Tribune that the initiative sends a backpack full of food home with needy children when they leave the classroom of Boston Elementary in Whitley County on Friday afternoon. Moses says the food - mostly items that are packaged and ready to eat - ensures children have enough food don't go hungry while their out of school on weekends.
She said she worked with Denise McKeehan to get the program started in January at one school. Eventually, she said she like to see it spread to all schools in Whitley County.
Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File
Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or email@example.com.


text:
If you don't neutralise the developer carry over that will help take the fixer more alkali and effectively you'll have a more than a trace of development taking place as the fixer's beginning it's task of dissolving unexposed and undeveloped silver halides. This can result in dichroic fogging - a patchy stain.
It's even more likely to happen with prints with no stop bath whether acid or alkali/neutral fixers but at least with a print you can make another once a neg is ruined it's gone
Then there's the ammonia smell as well


text:
Welcome back to Stockhouse Member Sign In
Sign in with one of the following accounts.
Send my password
« back
Become a member today, It's free!
We will not release or resell your information to third parties without your permission.
Use one of the following accounts.
Go Back...
Personally, I doubt it..
Fiscal cliff is more like a fiscal slope, as some one defined it.. For a project that is supposed to take 1 year + to build and provide steady and guaranteed supply to IMC for a generation or two, I don't think for a minute that these guys will be worred about the games that are being played in Congress.. And we have not even talked about China's grip on Tungsten in the equation..
Let's face it.. If the budget issues are not sorted out within some reason and certain time frame, losers will be Americans and Congress so it is in their interest to make a deal..


text:
External Relations
For access to content available only to the St. Catherine University community please log in using your Kateway portal login.
New Vice President of External Relations, Bea Abdallah, adds vibrant energy and a wealth of ideas to the St. Kate's community.
Bea Abdallah comes to St. Kate's with decades of experience as a development director and vice president at institutions such as Mount Mercy University and the University of North Dakota, where she ran advancement, alumni relations and marketing for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, among other roles. Most recently she was senior major gifts officer at Fairview Foundation in Minneapolis.
"Bea is a leader of significant talent and experience," said President Andrea Lee, IHM, upon Abdallah's appointment in July. "Her broad-based experience in healthcare, education and business will help extend the reach and visibility of the University and attract new resources to support our 2020 Vision strategic plan."
As vice president for external relations, a cabinet-level position, Abdallah oversees alumnae relations, development, and marketing and communications. "I feel deeply privileged to have the opportunity to serve the mission of St. Catherine," she says. "What we do here at St. Kate's is so influential in fields like healthcare, education and leadership development. We have an opportunity to affect the future of our country."
Contact Information
St. Paul Campus
St. Paul, MN 55105 | Mailbox# F-12651.690.6516 | 800.945.4599 x6516 | FAX 651.690.6918


text:
Swansea Council workers 'locked out of the recovery', say unions
Posted: August 20, 2014|
UNIONS are pressing employers today for a £1.20 per hour rise for many council workers, saying they have been "locked out of the recovery".
A demonstration was due to take place at lunchtime at Swansea's Civic Centre as three unions – Unison, GMB and Unite – met the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) to urge the representative body to negotiate a pay award.
Unison organiser Chris Long said pay was increasing in the private sector by two to three per cent, which compared very favourably to the one per cent offered to workers in councils, schools and academies whose pay was set at a national level under the so-called national joint council (NJC) arrangement.
He added that local Government pay had been frozen in 2010, 2011 and 2012, but that non-NJC council workers received a £250 increase in 2011 and again in 2012. This was at a time when inflation was climbing higher and higher, further eroding take-home pay across the board.
Related content
Unison chiefs have claimed that the WLGA was not negotiating.
Swansea Unison branch secretary Mike Davies said: "Our members' wages have fallen behind inflation to the tune of nearly 20 per cent over the last five years.
"They cannot understand why our employers will neither discuss the issue nor refer it for arbitration.
"They feel that they are being taken advantage of and feel completely undervalued by the national Government."
Inflation is falling at present and is currently around 1.6 per cent. Expert group the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted that wage growth will finally start to outpace inflation this year.
Unison said the cost of increasing NJC workers' pay by £1.20 per hour would cost £1.7 billion across the UK, but that the Treasury would benefit from bigger tax revenues and reduced benefits and tax credits.
Unison Cymru's head of local Government, Dominic MacAskill, said: "School and council workers are tired of being treated like they are at the bottom of the pile.
"They are tired of going that extra mile for worse than nothing. In the wake of cuts and over 10,000 job losses in Welsh councils alone, they continue to educate and support children in schools, maintain crucial local services, keep our communities clean and safe places to live and protect the homeless and vulnerable.
"It is time that one million local Government and school support workers are lifted out of poverty and given the £1.20 an hour increase we are calling for."
The WLGA has been very vocal on the severe cuts facing Welsh authorities. The Post asked it to comment on Unison's concerns over the NJC pay negotiations, but it did not comment at the time of going to press.
A Swansea Council spokesman said it could not implement a pay award for 2014 locally until the WLGA and unions had "reached a formal agreement".


text:
Governor General's Performing Arts Awards is a re-design project for a high-profiled art event host in Ottawa. The new site helps client to manage yearly photos, videos in a central place.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
Summer Infant is a major baby products brand. The project is to upgrade old Kentico CMS to latest version with a completed new designed UI.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
Born Free is a re-design project for a major baby products brand.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
Julian Ho is a redesign project for a personal trainer. He needs the new site to promote his philosophy on personal training and his services. This is collabration work with a creative director Marc Tavas.
Brown Junior Public School is a redesign project for a local public school. School wanted to transform the old site from static content site to a better communication channel to parents. This is collabration work with CCDesign.
Personal Tax Advisors is a redesign project for a local accountant. She wanted to face-lift her ages old site with latest style and easy to updates. So Wordpress is the nature choice for this project.
Simplicity is a re-design project for a private resort in a Caribbean island. The brochure type of design emphasis on openness, relaxation and privacy. The message is present by Gallery, which serves as virtual tour to the house and surroundings.
Play, Live, Be Tobacco-Free is a re-design project for Cancer Care Ontario. This Kentico base, bilingual web site helps clients to easily update promotion content and materials for target groups.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
The Power Plant is a gallery located at Harbourfront Centre in downtown of Toronto. The re-design web site project was part of its initiative to re-brand visual identity of The Power Plant. The newly designed site is backed by Kentico CMS, which allow clients to update exhibitions and programs information, along with multimedia content such as image gallery slide show and video posting. The site has won Kentico Site of Month in March 2011.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
OPPA Honour Roll is a micro site for police memebers who gave their lives in the services as early as 1800's. This is a part re-design project for OPPA.
( Contract works with Ecentric Arts )
Indigo re-design project helped this No.1 Canadian online book store simplified layout of the content, therefor easy for customers to follow the flow of the information. The new design also make the site load faster and looks trendy. In the first month after the new site was launched, the sales over 15% compare the same period of previous year.
Arrival Aeroplan is the online version of Arrival magazine. This Ektron based site gives editors easy access to CMS for updating content in regular basis. It also provide more interactive communication with target readers such as "Like" button in each article, to track favors of readers. In additional, the site can also help sponsors to track likeness of particular products.
CAA Magazine is the online version of CAA Magazine. This Ektron based site gives editors easy access to CMS for updating content in regular basis. A contest engine and poll also help to promote sponsors' products and services, and track users feedbacks.
I started my first job at Virtual University Design & Technology of Michigan State University as a web project developer. After working at VUDAT for almost two years, I moved to New York to pursue a master degree while continuing working as an independent consultant for ad agencies, design boutique shops and local business firms, including GlobalWorks, Syrup NYC, Leadership Directories, Career Corner TV Corp, and Group IV Graphics. After my graduation, I got an offer at Ilions Partner, a financial services firm, as a front-end developer in 2005. Two years later, I moved to Toronto and kept working as a front end developer at Infinite Media and Totem (formly Redwoord Custom Communication). In summer of 2009, I joined re-design project for Indigo Books online store, the No.1 online book sttore in Canada. After the project was launched, I moved to Ecentric Arts to develop web sites backed by a .NET based CMS called Kentico. One of the sited I helped to developed, The Power Plant, won Kentico Site of The Month in March.
If you'd like to get in touch with me for a job opportunity, or web project development, or just simply want to drop a line to me, feel free to fill out the contact form below.


text:
Sunday, August 26, 2012
WALLA WALLA — Results from the 2012 state standards exams are due out next week, and with them will come new, more realistic goals for measuring and improving student achievement.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn will announce results from the exams Wednesday, along with releasing data specific to schools and districts. The results are due after Washington became one of the latest states to be granted a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Thanks to the waiver from the federal education law, Washington state schools and districts are no longer expected to have all students meeting standards in reading and math by 2014, a controversial goal that was among the biggest criticisms of the law.
Also gone is a requirement for state schools in steps of improvement, or those not reaching yearly goals, to set aside a portion of their federal dollars for third-party tutoring services.
Instead, Washington schools have committed to reaching Annual Measurable Outcomes, said Walla Walla Public Schools assessment coordinator Maria Garcia.
Under AMO's, schools are to cut in half the achievement gap for particular subgroups by 2017, starting with test results from 2011. So if 40 percent of low-income fourth-graders were meeting math standards in 2011, the goal is for 70 percent to be meeting the standard by 2017, because 70 percent is half way between 40 percent and 100 percent.
The change is a more fair and more realistic target for helping students, Garcia said, in particular for those who live in poverty or face academic challenges in other ways, like English language learners or special education students.
By working to narrow the gap over time, and no longer facing sanctions for missing goals, schools have more flexibility and guidance toward helping students achieve. A new and more detailed evaluation system for principals and teachers is also being developed as a way to help instructors improve.
"In the old system, there was a demand that every single child be at proficiency. That we reach 100 percent proficiency on these exams by 2014, or else," Garcia said. "From the beginning, there was an understanding on the part of the education system that that was not realistic. Could we make improvements? Yes. But that's not realistic. It's not real world. It has felt really imposing and unfair and bad for kids."
Our federal education laws were drafted specifically to serve disadvantaged students and help them succeed. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was enacted in 1965 to address the educational achievement gap between affluent and low-income students. The law's Title I provision sets federal dollars aside for low-income schools.
The No Child Left Behind Act, enacted in 2001, is the most recent and most comprehensive reauthorization of ESEA. NCLB required states to measure student achievement through standards-based exams. The law looked to ensure "no child is left behind," and set a target of 2014 for all students in the U.S. to meet or exceed standards in reading and math.
It was those "all-or-nothing" targets, combined with strict sanctions, that lead to the Obama administration granting waivers from the law if states outlined new, more realistic goals for achievement that were still in line with ESEA.
Through the waiver, schools that received Title I funds in Washington state will no longer be required to set a percentage aside for Supplemental Educational Services, the third-party tutoring option that was another controversial part of the NCLB law.
Although offered as free tutoring to students, the SES provision took a percentage of Title I funds from schools to cover the cost of tutoring. It ultimately diverted funds from in-classroom support, like teachers' assistants and resources.
"On the face of it it's hard for someone to say, 'what's bad about extra tutoring, or what's bad about professional development for staff? Who can argue with that, why is that a bad thing?' It isn't on the surface. It was in the details," Garcia said.
Garcia said the money went to tutoring services often unaffiliated to school districts, with no accountability and at a higher cost than to pay for in-class support.
"This will be more fair, and gives us more flexibility with our dollars to do what we know works with our kids in the community," Garcia said of the waiver.
Schools are still required to use results from the state's standards exams to measure achievement. In Washington, those are the Measurements of Student Progress exam taken in third through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Exam taken in the 10th grade. High school students must also pass an end-of-course exam in first- or second-year algebra. There is now also an end-of-course exam in biology that will be a graduation requirement starting with the class of 2015. The EOC exams can be taken starting in middle school if a student is enrolled in the relevant class.
The waiver is not a free pass from meeting targets for improvements. A new system is also in place in the state that groups schools as either in need of improvement or exceeding standards.
The system classifies qualifying schools in the state as priority, focus or reward schools. Priority schools are in the lowest five percent of schools based on state assessment scores over three years, or low graduation rates for high schools. Focus schools are in the lower 10 percent, while reward schools are among the top in the state.
The classifications will help districts learn from strategies implemented at its top performing schools and offer support to priority and focus schools. The categories are for schools that receive, or qualify to receive, Title I funds.
In Walla Walla, Lincoln High School and Garrison Middle School have scores placing them as focus schools, Garcia said. Lincoln was chosen for its graduation rate, and Garrison for its special education and English language learners scores. As focus schools, they'll go through an evaluation process that will help them develop a plan to reach targets.


text:
We are working on a new all in one topoguide for Baška, that would also include some new rocks. This is planned to be done by the beginning of the year 2011, ready for new season. Until than, we extracted the part about Portafortuna, so you can already download and use it. Note that this is still the working version and there may be some mistakes and layout will probably change a bit, but now all new routes are included and graded. Check it out in our topo section!
New topo for Portafortuna!23rd October 2010 by Tomaž K in In General, On The Rocks
Looking for a climbing partner at our crags?4th September 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
Take a look at our Facebook discussion board! At the moment Martin is looking for a buddy on a rope and is waiting for him/her, fully equipped with climbing gear, in Baška until September 12th.
Portafortuna, sector C update4th September 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
As we already reported, sector C in Portafortuna is again richer for some new routes and projects, bolted by Betka Galičič. One project is of closed and two of open type, while other new routes and variations were climbed and graded already. Until we are able to update our TOPO with all news, please refer to the attached sketch of sector C, so you will have the latest info.
More news from Portafortuna26th August 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
Portafortuna C sector seems to be very popular these days. There are again some new projects in the central part of the crag and some are already climbed. We also opened the longtime closed route #8 (Needles and Pins) as we realized that big block that is moving inside of crack just doesn't want to come out, no mather how hard we try, so it should be safe to climb there. The grade is 6a+ and route is nice.
Trpimir Jakovina climbed project #910th August 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
Trpimir reported that he had climbed the route #9 and the grade would be 6b+ for first part and 6a for second. He also reported that the second part of the route would need some more cleaning, so please be aware of possible falling stones when climbing it (alert people below)! The route is long and has an intermediate belay. The first part also shares some bolts and holds with route #16 (Pika Poka, 6b).
List of new routes in Portafortuna27th July 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
Betka Galičič spent another couple of days on Krk and as she promised, she finished her projects at Portafortuna crag. The result now lies in a bunch of new routes on the attractive yellow/gray part of the wall of sector C. This time she was accompanied with Marko Lukič, top climber that raised levels of difficult wall climbing some years ago with extraordinary climbs all over the world and also a multiple winner of Paklenica Big Wall competitions. The difficulty of new routes spans from 6b to 7a+ and you can see more on the attached image … Topo will… Climb more …
Andreas sent Minime direct in Bunculuka27th July 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
Andreas Bstieler from Austria visited Baška again for his vacations and along climbed one of the open problems in Bunculuka crag. Here is what he wrote: "Hi! Last week I was for "chilling for a few days on the beach" with my family in Baška again. I had also a few hours for climbing reserved. These hours I spent with "Minime direct". And now the route isn`t longer a project. I started direct at the writing "Minime" and climbed the route without any contact to the rock on the left site. I think the difficulty is 7b/b+. In spite of… Climb more …
New routes in Portafortuna5th July 2010 by Tomaž K in On The Rocks
Our friend Betka Galičič spent some days in Portafortuna again. She finished, cleaned and climbed her left project (No.10 in topo), started last year and gave it a grade of 6c. She also worked on project right of it (No. 11) and thinks she will open it soon (grade will go around 7b). Anyway this project is still closed! While she was on Krk, she also bolted two new projects. The first one shares first 7 bolts with open project No.9 and than turns to the right. The second one is bolted left of the route Joke about summer. Both… Climb more …
Web cams not working :(20th June 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
We noticed that webcams from Baška are offline at the moment! We hope BSwireless will be able to put them up soon.
Opened project @ Portafortuna19th June 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
For those that did not check our latest topo update: The project #9 at Portafortuna C sector is now open project and anyone can climb it. The route is long and spans two pitches. It follows a big crack left of the yellowish wall with holes. The hardest would be the first part but it is not expected that route would be very hard. The first, intermediate belay is placed on a small resting place, so climbing the route in one go or in two pitches doesn't really make a difference. Enjoy and please let us know the name… Climb more …
Climbers, please help Zaliya!2nd June 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
This has nothing to do with Baška, but if we can help we should! Zaliya (5 years old), the daughter of well known climber Salavat Rakhmetov, was deeply injured by a rockfall at the base of a climbing area in Turkey! She is still in a coma and her family have launched a call for donations to help them pay for the huge hospital costs and a transfer to Russia. Special website was launched to collect some funds and some more than 12.000 $ was collected so far. Click here to visit the website and help if you can!
More weather forecasts!31st May 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
Due to everyday weather surprises we can not go and climb just as we want (ok, being at work is also the factor), so we stick to these boring computers. The result: special weather forecasts dedicated sub-page that will serve all your weather related needs … Well, almost all! It lacks one function and that is REPAIR. The damn thing can not repair our weather! Who needs it than … find (weather image) link @ the left column or simply check here >>
Facebook.com/climbinbaska31st May 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
Just a short notice. We fixed our Facebook address to http://www.facebook.com/climbinbaska. You can find a full time link to this FB page also on the left bottom corner of this website … Go there and connect with us. Cheers …
News for our classic friends!27th May 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
After Mr. Tone Golnar collected and prepared materials in order to present his classic climbing routes around Baška, we finally put it all together in a simple topo guide. This should help those that seek for different type of climbing and adventures on the rocky landscape of Baška. It is quite self explanatory with images and sketches of routes. Sport climbers beware!!! This routes are easy, though not equipped, cleaned or anyhow prepared for you! Mr. Golnar climbed all of them solo. To download a topo, go to our classic climbs page.
Updated TOPO for Portafortuna26th May 2010 by Tomaž K in In General
We've updated the old TOPO for Portafortuna. This now includes all new routes in sectors A, C & D. Also worth mentioning is that we rebolted old routes in sector C that had several corroded bolts … Ah yes … while updating we forgot to change the date of issue, so don't bother about it. If you have 16 routes in sector D, than you have the newest one . Download from our TOPO section …


text: « BACK | PRINT RS FRONT PAGE CONTRIBUTOR Put your war paint back on, people. By: Moe Lane (Diary) | October 2nd, 2008 at 09:34 PM | RESIZE: AAA Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES e have an election to win. Tags: Hockey Mom, moose-huntin' awesome, Sarah Palin Get Alerts


text:
- Filed Under
Audrianna Walker scored 17 second-half points to help Valley take down Sylacauga 68-66 on Thursday in the Class 5A Central Regional finals.
Breyunna Bussey finished with 18 points and Alexia Huguley 12 for the Rams, who won their second straight regional championship. Walker was scoreless at halftime.
Valley (29-2) will play in the state semifinals at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Birmingham.
Junior Shakayla Thomas poured in 43 points for the Aggies (28-4). She was 17-of-27 from the field.
Demetria Mitchell added 14 points for Sylacauga, which last won a regional in 1998.


text:
Friday 12/7/12 PSN-Hot Pot & Karaoke
November 24, 2012
Let's get together to celebrate the holidays by having our PSN hot pot in Flushing!!!
After dinner, we can go to karaoke to sing our hearts out!
Date: Friday, December 7th at 6:30 PM
Location: New Shanghai Tan Restaurant
135-20 46th Road, Flushing, NY 11354
Price: $25.95 per person including tax + tips
Hot pot buffet
Transportation: Get off the last stop of 7 train in Flushing and walk toward the 46th Road.
If you are going to join us, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com before December 1st so I can make a group reservation.
Hope to see you there!
The main concept of Professionals Social Network (PSN) is to provide a monthly social networking event on Fridays for Qwave professionals. We want to make our social meetup as welcoming as possible. We would like to invite all Qwavers to stay connected. While making new friends and having fun, we also try to help job seekers or give advice for recent graduates if there is any. We share our coming out experience in
the work force if there is any.
Currently, we have met people from different lines of work including design (apparel/graphic/interior/web), lawyer, education, finance (accounting/real estate management), publishing, sport (bike technician), science (pharmacy/health/medical), travel, and web technology backgrounds.
Does it sound interesting to you? Let's meetup this Friday!


text:
The dawn of e-learning in Malta
I have just published an interview with the Minister for IT Austin Gatt on e-learning. This is the full text of the interview. An abridged version was published on i-Tech, the IT supplement of The Times.
The interview:
1. First we heard a lot about learning ICT skills in view of SmartCity, and now we have started to hear a lot about learning through ICT. What's the difference?
If you want to earn your living in the ICT business you need to learn the trade. But technologies can help you learn anything else in the way books, maps and a good teacher can.
SmartCity – and not SmartCity alone – will generate thousands of ICT-related jobs and therefore will demand a significant number of ICT professionals who are skilled and qualified in different technologies.
Promoting learning through ICTs is a distinct effort from the promotion of professional ICT skills. Since the 1990s, we introduced in schools computers, projectors, digital cameras, electronic white boards to help teachers help our students learn. ICT is already used across the curriculum.
We now want to gear up all our efforts to maximize the use of technology by promoting a more blended approach to learning by complementing traditional classroom-based training with e-learning. ICT is already integrated in the teaching of most subjects at primary and secondary level, however, a concerted drive to increase the availability and application of e-learning technologies will be made across all of our schools.
2. Does learning through ICT simply mean giving a computer with internet connection?
"Giving a DECENT computer with a good broadband connection" is where you start.
I emphasise the word 'decent' because today our students are hampered by the quality of the computers they are using. Whilst Maltese schools now have some 5,000 computers for teaching and have internet access in clasrroms, less than 15% of these are Pentium 4s or beyond! It suffics to say that 31% of the computers are 486s and Pentium 1s. This is why we're making a bold move and, whilst increasing the number of PCs in schools and classrooms we are also upgrading them to the latest high quality technologies.
Now, hopefully, all this will be in place in the coming months, allowing us to go to the next step: helping teachers find good learning resources on the web, and being able to design learning with a combination of use of technology, activities and support. Promoting the use of ICTs for learning is not merely about giving the technology, but empowering teachers and pupils to use it when it is most appropriate to meet the different needs of learners and reduce the risk of exclusion for hard-to-reach groups.
This is the vision which Louis Galea and I share and are keen to deploy.
3. On the other hand, how important is the human factor in education through ICT?
Completely. Students cannot learn with books alone. And students cannot learn with computers alone. Teachers are and will always remain the locus of learning. The transfer of knowledge relies on their sense of mission, their charisma, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new things and pass them on to their students. ICTs can only help them do this and cannot replace them at it.
ICTs can also create more room for collaborative and group work between students. We can offer a connected classroom that has a more inclusive environment, where teachers are leaders, helpers, partners and evaluators. In addition to the traditional role of subject experts, teachers become facilitators of learning and managers of their own digital classrooms.
4. MIIIT was successful in promoting more ICT education, the most recent example is the edition of myPotential. Is something similar being considered to promote the use of ICT in private learning establishments?
In fact, myPotential is entirely delivered through private learning establishments. It is the first measure of the sort and we shall strive to learn further from this programme.
The e-learning strategy will promote the adoption of e-learning technologies and blended learning amongst diverse learners ranging from primary school students to adults. We want to have as many stakeholders who have target audiences who are learners including training organizations, non-government organizations, and enterprises, amongst others. Therefore, in a way with the e-learning project we will be facilitating the use of ICT in private learning establishments.
5. MIIIT has promised to give refurbished computers formerly used in the civil service to persons with disabilities, persons with special social needs etc. Did the ministry consider giving some of these computers to organisations/establishments which have education as part of their mission statement?
Yes. In fact in the coming days we shall be launching a call for expression for interest for NGOs, clubs and churches to apply for the provision of the fully functional PCs at token prices. I believe that these associations are king-pins in our social ecosystem and hence deserve to benefit from this programme directly.
6. A national e-learning strategy is being drafted and consultation exercise with stakeholders and interested parties is being undertaken right now. Why have a national e-learning strategy?
Because that is the link between having a vision (which we have) and realising it. There are some scatterred e-learning efforts undertaken by some local stakeholders that are early adopters, however the efforts are fuelled by enthusiasm and risk falling through if they are not backed up by a coherent strategy. We need to define our strategic thrust with regards to e-learning and drive this project on a national scale.
You speak of the success of myPotential and other projects. Really the key there was to go beyond having an ambitious vision (which is of course where one must start) but to have a coherent, thought out plan to execute it.
7. What is the first feedback gathered from this consultation exercise?
Early days yet. The challenge I see ahead of us is to identify the best way to work together to build on the good will that everyone has. But speaking already of what the consultation exercise is telling us would not give enough time for people who are still digesting the vision we have expressed and who still need to articulate their thoughts. A consultation exercise is a process that needs its own time and I don't want to emaciate it by jumping the gun too soon.
8. Why do you think e-learning in Malta is still in its very early stages when you take into account that we have very good broadband take-up rate and our schools are all equipped with internet access?
e-Learning is not all that new in Malta. There are some good, but independent, examples of good practice in e-learning in Malta. For instance, the University of Malta is working on a project with schools, teachers and pupils as part of a European project that will examine the use of Personal Digital Assistants in learning; and the Institute of Tourism has set up an e-learning centre that offers on-line support for its students.
There is lots of work to do to promote a concerted effort to increase the use of e-learning. Our focus in this area will be primary and secondary schools. Technology is not just about the cables and boxes, but it is about people. There is much more we can do to support teachers develop the necessary pedagogical skills to use ICT across the curriculum, whilst ensuring that we enhance the link between them, students and parents. We are focusing on this strongly now.
9. What do you think will be the main benefits of having the Maltese educational system with a strong e-learning component?
Brighter, savvier, more articulate children for whom technology is a fact of life they know how to exploit to live full lives.
When used well, e-learning can be particularly motivational and engaging for all learners including the more challenging pupils. Everyone learns in different ways and at different rates. Through e-learning, teachers can develop pedagogies that personalize learning to reflect these differences and give greater opportunities of success in e-learning. Though we do not suffer distance problems, e-learning overcomes distance and builds links between learners and teachers that go beyond the classroom and school hours, and our shores.
Moreover, the e-learning deployment will drive technologies further into homes and will facilitate the e-engagement of parents into the information society. Essentially, it is the fulfillment of our vision throughout these last six years.
10. Is it true that MIIIT and the Ministry for Education will provide a national e-learning platform and all primary/secondary school teachers will have to provide notes and courseware on this platform?
That is only the basic proposition of what we have in mind. Although we are still at the strategy development stage, we are after integrating the full educational cycle involving parents, students and teachers into a single cutting-edge virtual educational space. This means that students will be able to access resources from multiple schools and colleges, teachers will be able to share courseware and collaborate in its development whilst parents can monitor the educational progress of their sons and daughters in real time.
11. Students have been eagerly waiting to collect the third Microsoft package of software at a nominal price. While Vista and Office 2007 were officially launched in late January 2007, these students have not yet got this package. Why?
Maltese students are among the first in the world to be using Vista. They are certainly among the first in Malta. The package is available for collection as we speak. The product for the home user was launched after that of the business users and our delivery depended entirely on Microsoft's.
12. When the government started to install PCs in public primary schools in 1995/1996, over the years there was regular criticism of the fact that primary teachers were given a laptop computer each and classes equipped with PCs but this hardware was not utilised very well in some cases, and in other cases they remained switched off almost all the time. How this can be avoided with the installation of new PCs to be leased?
The laptop for primary school teachers initiative was a one-off initiative that was necessary but was not planned to keep up with changing technologies. The leasing of PCs for schools will enable schools, teachers and students to have the latest technologies available at school at all times and therefore the problem of outdated technology will be solved.
Of course we can provide the equipment, finance its maintenance, train people to use it, and create the framework to make it useful. Teachers will have to want to use it though. Many do. But it is not the onset of technologies that has distinguished enthusiastic teachers who use all tools available to them to teach their students from others less so.
Having said that, the decisions taken way back in this sector are the primary driver for the success story we are reaping today.
13. Which e-government services are currently being offered in the educational sector? Are you satisfied with their use? Are there any new e-government services in the educational sector planned for the future?
There are quite a few. To mention some, there are the application for part time courses with the University and the examination results. Application for exams and the notification of Matsec results this year rose above 90% take-up. A 90% take up is not only encouraging but should be the benchmark for all e-government and m-government services. This figure also indicates the way in which the coming generation is technologically savvy, an important change from the present generation.
There are new e-government services in the educational sector that will be rolled out, these are currently being identified in the context of our drive for a new wave of services. I can tell you that we will be very shortly launching the application to join MCAST full-time courses on line.
14. You said "If we want ICT and eLearning to be ubiquitous in our schools we have to push for content in Maltese". What will be done to push for content in Maltese in the ICT sphere?
This objective, along with all others, is being developed in the strategy. Current policies in education have spaces for English and Maltese. Our bilungualism (as well as our comfort with English) is an important aspect of the nature of our education and the preparation of our young. That reality should be reflected in our eLearning processes too.
15. Anything else you would like to add?
eLearning is a tool. The end we want is to equip our young with all the tools they need to live a full, prosperous life in the future; to be prepared with the skills and resources the information society and economy of the future requires of them. We can get there. We will get there.


text:
Go Eat! Not just steak and potatoes
The Yarrow Bay Grill in Kirkland has been around since the 80's. Its chef has been manning the kitchens for almost as long.
"So, I haven't been one of those chefs whose moved around a lot and sometimes I regret that but I think it's just my personality."
What keeps Vicky McCaffree motivated?
"It changes throughout the years. For awhile it was just the passion of cooking every day and just being involved with food was enough. And as I get older, what keeps me is all the people I feel like I'm teaching."
Those people are her young cooks, many of whom are looking to open restaurants of their own.
"I kind of wish there were more chef-owned places (on the Eastside). I have a few people in my kitchen now that that's their goal -- they want to have their own restaurants and the Eastside is okay with them. There's a real stigma with being on the Eastside."
It's an area she's seen change a lot since joining Yarrow Bay Grill in 1991.
"You know, just with Microsoft being on the eastside we get a really international clientele here, so that's pretty nice. I like that. And just seeing the eastside grow to be kind of this monster," she laughs.
What has also changed is her approach to cooking.
"My style in general has, I think, gotten simpler. I just try to go for really simple flavors but whatever goes on the plate is made very well."
Her technique is reflected in her dishes, all of which have an international flare.
"So, I don't just do steak and potatoes. We do a lot of Asian, Mexican, Latin flavors and I've sort of trained my cooks to make things fresh and light."
It's a way to spice up the standard dishes her customers have come to expect.
"We sell a ton of meat. You'd think sometimes we were a steakhouse," she laughs.
"Seafood, you know, we sell a lot of fish. A lot of (restaurants) have given up selling Copper River (salmon) when it's in season just out of principle, but we still have people who want it, so, we sort of have to listen to what our guests are asking for."
Places chef McCaffree likes to Go Eat!: Monsoon, Brasa, Flying Fish
For more information:


text:
A scene from last year's Plymouth Acoustic Open Mic event. The Plymouth Arts Center will hold another event like it on Friday night.
- Filed Under
The Plymouth Arts Center, 520 E. Mill St., Plymouth, will host the Plymouth Acoustic Open Mic event from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.
People are invited to bring an instrument and take part or listen. The event is free and ...


text:
WaterWalker from used utility poles and big buoys
Home › Forums › Archive › Structure Designs › WaterWalker from used utility poles and big buoys
This topic contains 65 replies, has 12 voices, and was last updated by Dil 6 years, 9 months ago.
November 9, 2008 at 11:39 pm #4215
In a production WaterWalker style seastead, I think aluminum would be the material chosen for the legs. Not sure if a truss, I-beam, box-beam, or circular tube, or something else would be the best choice. Things like making steps up the legs, wind resistance, cost, strength, corrosion resistance would all have to be taken into account. You would really like it wider in the middle and thinner at the edges. With a truss that is easy to do. Could also have two sort of cone shapes half the length with the bases bolted together. Maybe each 50 feet long and 3 feet wide at the base and foot wide at the thin end. This is my best guess.
For a prototype that I am paying for on my own, cost is very important. I am just going to be using this 1:5 scale model a few times, my guess is 1 to 5 trips. So optimizing weight, reducing maintenance, increasing load capacity, etc all take a back seat to lowering cost. There was a steel 3-inch pipe that seemed strong enough but it was probably nearly twice the weight of the square tube I bought and almost 3 times the price. I really have a somewhat limited selection of materials here.
My guess has been that either I can not find a reasonable aluminum tube/pipe/beam on this island or that it would cost more than I want to spend. But it is worth at least a few phone calls, so I will do that. But at 48 lbs my 20 foot steel box beam for $53 is not too bad. Aluminum might beat it by making 30 or 40 foot legs possible, but probably not at a price I want to pay on my own. Because of shipping, duty, and limited competition, prices here are usually nearly double what you can get in the US.November 10, 2008 at 8:24 pm #4221
Good points. Using a custom tapering/conical beams or tubes would probably be the very best solution. You might have to produce a large number of sesteads for this to make economical sense though. I don´t think wind resistance etc will be that important. Steps and stuff can always be arranged somehow. Strength per cost is the big issue I´d guess.
4 OD x .125 wall x 3.75 ID 6061 Aluminum Round Tube 24ft was $233 at metalsdepot.com. Pricier than I would have thought… Haven´t really researched that much though.
The above is mostly about making a usable full size seastead, by the way. I realise prototype making has different constraints such as availability.November 26, 2008 at 1:02 pm #4350
I can vouch $200 for funding this.
Remarks on the physics: having a low net positive buoyancy is a good thing, because it dampens the heave and stresses from waves a lot. Ideally we should use a lot of cheap, inefficient floatation material.
Remark on the design: why not suspend the "habitation" to the top of the tripod instead of fixing it on top of it ? It's probably cheaper to make the legs a tiny bit longer and save a lot on the connection solution.November 27, 2008 at 2:15 am #4355
>I can vouch $200 for funding this.
Thanks! Joep has vouched for $300 (an earlier estimate) but really a total of $500 looks more reasonable now.
>Remark on the design: why not suspend the "habitation" to the top of the tripod instead of fixing it on top of it ?
>It's probably cheaper to make the legs a tiny bit longer and save a lot on the connection solution.
Yes. My current plan is to hang two lawn chairs from the center. I also think I will have 4 legs instead of the 3 in the 1:25 scale model. Makes it easier to carry 2 people with the 4 barrels.
The top will have pairs of legs joined with a gate hing and then rope between the two pairs and down to the lawn chairs. Also some ropes to the sides. I will have ropes making a cross near the bottom as well as ropes going around the 4 legs.
Not sure yet if I will just strap one barrel to each leg or if the leg will go below the barrel and a rope go up to the barrel. Also not decided if the ropes near the bottom are underwatter at the ends of the legs. I am going to measure the force needed to move one barrel in the pool and the force from my kite. If making 1 MPH looks easy then ropes probably will be under water. If not then barrels tied to the legs and ropes just above them.
Will have it built and probably a maiden voyage in the next couple months.
— VinceDecember 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm #4611
I bought the rest of the stuff for my 1:5 scale model today and should put things together in the next day or two. Also put up couple sketch-up images of the model. Drawing is not exactly right (center column will go down to platform) but close.
http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/User:Vincecate/WaterWalker2December 31, 2008 at 8:12 pm #4612
Just 5 of these and we're finished Happy building in 2009!December 31, 2008 at 10:10 pm #4614
That looks good.
You might consider filling the steel beams with concrete or something to make them even more rigid.December 31, 2008 at 11:05 pm #4616
I thought some of filling them with foam. This would provide a little extra flotation. It would also mean that if everything fell apart nothing sank to the bottom.
I have a Ford Explorer. The 4 empty metal beams are a lot of weight for the roof rack. I am sure I would break something if they were full of concrete.
— VinceJanuary 3, 2009 at 1:38 pm #4626
We got rain Thursday and then power went out Friday. So construction of my seastead to ride on has been delayed a bit. I wrote up a section on my design decisions (some of which have changed in the last 2 days). I would appreciate any last minute advice on these that anyone has.
http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/User:Vincecate/WaterWalker2#Design_DecisionsJanuary 4, 2009 at 9:50 am #4627
Going from 3 legs to 4. I did this because it gives me a wider base and lets me use 4 of the cheap barrels I have available. With this I am sure I can carry 2 people and maybe more. Makes structure a bit more complex.
With four legs one could end up out of the water on occasion. This might result in shock loads. Perhaps a remote possibility only in extreme conditions but worth mentioning at least. Three legs is a more stable layout.
How to join the legs together at the top. With 4 legs the 4 hinge method on a central column seems good.
If you make something like a four-pronged (or three depending on the number of legs) grappling hook you could just hang your "habitat" from that. This gives movement in both axes as well, not just one like a hinge.
I contemplated just welding them together but that would probably put bending forces on the legs which also would deviate from tensegrity. Probably not good.
With 4 legs it makes sense to have diagonal ropes between the legs but I think this is not really needed. Without the diagonals opposite sides can move in or out while other pair does opposite. Should be limited range though as weight is transfered to legs coming together. Might reduce passenger motion. A WaterWalker with moving legs seems fun to try. Makes tying the platform not so easy, but might be OK without ties.
Possible drawback four the four-legged version again…
Ropes out of the water or at ends of legs? If the ropes are out of the water there is less drag for the structure moving through the water; however, the stress on the leg is more. If the ropes are in the water they can help to attract fish. Can also use the same attachment point used to tie barrels. Expect to tie at ends of legs.
Ropes at ends. If not you are deviating from the lovely tensegrity philosophy. I don´t think drag is such a big issue at the speeds you are planning on traveling. And whenever you are not trying to travel anywhere drag is good.
Height/width ratio. If the structure is wider it is more stable, but there is more stress on the beams and ropes. With ropes at ends there is less stress on beams and I can make structure wider before breaking anything. I also think there is less risk of trouble from leaving off the diagonal ropes if the structure is very wide.
Seems to me like this will be decided by other factors like the space you want for occupants or available material more than any optimized structural strengths. If not just go with a nice even number like 90 degrees on the summit. That seems to work for a lot of pyramids anyway…
How to make platform for people. Don't want it to be too heavy but people need to be able to hang out for the whole trip. Decided on a small seat at the very top and a 4′ by 4′ platform about 4 feet down from joint. Can lean on the legs while standing. Attaching both with L brackets.
Use many ropes from the top to spread the weight around. Some kind of steel truss structure with plywood for a floor probably could be strong and pretty lightweight.
How to attach the barrels
Strap barrels along end of the leg – no movement or danger of hitting leg but bigger waterline area
Probably more difficult to get a good fastening solution. Waterline area doesn´t seem like a big deal to me. You mean this could change the bobbiness factor (for lack of a better term) of the barrels?
Tie them so they float horizontally with tail fin so line up in direction of movement – could reduce drag when moving through the water. Complicated with what I have.
Sound totally ridiculous. Demands more rope to barrels to keep distance to legs which will make structure sit lower in water.
Tie them so they float in normal barrel orientation (vertical) – minimizes waterline area – some danger of barrel hitting leg. With ropes and legs in the water heave should not be too much of a problem. Choice I made.
As long as the barrels are decently loaded they shouldn´t move about too much. I guess the question is exactly how much rope there needs to be to the barrels to keep them away from the leg. Perhaps you could use a pulley to get the rope up to the platform to fine tune this enroute. A simple winch perhaps could be used for this.
Make sure you have some kind of emergency stop knot on that rope though. It would suck to lose a barrel…January 5, 2009 at 3:10 am #4628
With four legs one could end up out of the water on occasion. This might result in shock loads. Perhaps a remote possibility only in extreme conditions but worth mentioning at least. Three legs is a more stable layout.
The momentum from a wave will not throw a barrel on its own out of the water. Without the diagonal ropes the rope around the outside will have about the same tension everywhere. With the angle of the beam the tension on the rope will push the end down. The structure is not rigid, so I really think there is no way it could lift any part out of the water. Without the diagonals it is hard to even see a shock load possibility. It is like we have 4 triangles connected at the edges and it can wobble some. But the lowest energy state is with the bottom like a square.
Ropes at ends. If not you are deviating from the lovely tensegrity philosophy. I don´t think drag is such a big issue at the speeds you are planning on traveling.
Yes. It is fun to be able to stay a tensegrity structure.
Seems to me like this will be decided by other factors like the space you want for occupants or available material more than any optimized structural strengths. If not just go with a nice even number like 90 degrees on the summit. That seems to work for a lot of pyramids anyway…
I think I will have a wider angle at the top than 90 degrees.
Tie them so they float horizontally with tail fin so line up in direction of movement – could reduce drag when moving through the water. Complicated with what I have.
Sound totally ridiculous. Demands more rope to barrels to keep distance to legs which will make structure sit lower in water.
I think a production version could be made with basically a boat at the end of each leg. Then it could move easily through the water. The leg could attach with a hinge that let the boat rock front to back but not sideways. This would not put much torque on the leg.
As long as the barrels are decently loaded they shouldn´t move about too much.
The worry is just that a wave hitting one barrel moves it into the leg. Originally I was going to use ship buoys that were nice and soft. If one of those hit a leg I would not worry. These barrels are hard but so much cheaper that I am using them.
— VinceJanuary 6, 2009 at 12:03 am #4630
I put up some pictures showing how construction is coming along for my ride-on seastead. Some bolts were a bit long and we needed extra padding washers, so we ran out of washers. We would have had it up in the yard today if not for that. Should have it together in the yard tomorrow (Tuesday) and hope to have it in the ocean Wednesday.
I changed things a bit again (even since one of these pictures). Going to just suspend the platform by ropes so as not to risk putting too much torque on the hinges. This is how the sketch-up drawing had it.
http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/User:Vincecate/WaterWalker2#Construction_ProgressJanuary 6, 2009 at 11:48 pm #4636
We raised the seastead model up. You can see a picture of me on it in my yard. Am I the first human on a seastead? We also practiced with 3 kites today. Two of my kites had not been used in 10 years but they still flew fine. I still think we are launching tomorrow, assuming winds are normal.
— VinceJanuary 7, 2009 at 12:53 am #4637
Is that cool or what?? Can't wait for your trial..
Aren't you going to attach the platform to all the legs? Also, in the things to bring on maiden voyage, maybe you should include helmets, since you're going to be quite close to a few hard objects?January 7, 2009 at 1:19 am #4638
>Aren't you going to attach the platform to all the legs?
Yes. Truth is I ran out of rope. Will have it though before we leave the beach for the open ocean.
>Also, in the things to bring on maiden voyage, maybe you should include helmets, since you're going to be quite close to a few hard objects?
I think I will put on a safety rope connecting the beams at the top in case a hinge fails.
The forum 'Structure Designs' is closed to new topics and replies.
Posted on at


text:
Santa arrives in a horse drawn carriage to greet children at the Colony Square Mall. The annual Holiday Parade was held Saturday around the mall grounds.
- Filed Under
Arriving in a horse drawn carriage Saturday morning, Santa was the hit of the Colony Square Mall's annual Holiday Parade.
Stacey Small, 4, of Rushville, came prepared to gather candy but was anxious to see Santa. Attending the parade has become an annual tradition for the Small family.
Josh Small, Stacey's father, schedules time away from his job to spend with his family. ...


text:
View the embedded image gallery online at:
Image Gallery
Derek Woods: Beauty and PoloroidsErotica // Wednesday, 06 Feb 2013
Derek Woods is a Los Angeles based photographer and filmmaker who's work leans towards the alluring seduction and beauty of feminine erotica. His photography is all shot on film, with minimal digital influence and contains a certain dark presence that adds to the provocative nature of his works. Love this shot. Hypnotizing.


text:
grey and white cashmere striped pattern long sleeve peplum sweater
designer's notes
A super soft, striped cashmere peplum sweater? Autumn Cashmere thought it up, and it's about to make a splash in your closet, year-round.
color: Grey / White Lightweight cashmere knit Crewneck Decorative button down back; ribbed neck, cuffs, and hem Three quarter sleeve Contemporary fit 100% Pure Cashmere; Dry Clean; Imported; style# 332958801


text:
A Focus On Bible Reading & Scripture Memorization
A tool to help you begin your Bible reading for the new year. A copy of that card is available, here, for viewing and printing.
This collection of verses is called "Fighter Verses" in recognition of the spiritual battle every follower of Jesus is called to fight, and reflects the following four convictions:
The Fighter Verses are available in several formats; one sure to suit everyone.
1. You will find the Fighter Verse Packets (a two-ring binder with verses printed on notecards) at our Resource Table or Book Nook for purchase.
2. At FighterVerses.com you can find information on purchasing an app for your smartphone, as well as other great tools available to help you in your scripture memorization. *Note - we will begin with Set 3.
3. We have also prepared for you a schedule of verses that you can print and use to follow along, looking up verses on your own.
4. Fighter Verses are posted on the Home-page rotator each week, on the Fighter Verse webpage, and printed in your Sunday program with the following week's memory verse.


text:
Franklin Regional football off to 'unreal' start
TribLIVE Sports Videos
Franklin Regional football coach Greg Botta wasn't sure what to expect when the season kicked off this fall, but he didn't exactly see a 2-0 start coming.
Two weeks into the season, however, that's precisely where the Panthers find themselves.
For the second straight week, Franklin Regional went on the road and knocked off a conference opponent, shutting down Indiana in a 31-0 victory at Andy Kuzneski Field on Friday.
"We went into the season with a lot of question marks, a lot of players who were inexperienced and untested and going with the three toughest games right in a row," Botta said. "We've had injuries during the course of the scrimmages and the first couple of games, and a number of kids have stepped it up (after) waiting for their turn and waiting for their opportunity and (have) performed quite admirably.
"I'm really thrilled with how they're playing."
The Franklin Regional defense shined against Indiana, holding the Little Indians below 100 yards until a late fourth-quarter drive when the game was well in hand.
Through two games, the Panthers have allowed just 13 points and have forced seven turnovers. Junior Brett Zanotto leads the team with 26 tackles, including five for loss, while senior Adam Mihoci has 17 tackles, five tackles for loss and two sacks. Senior Colin Jonov intercepted another pass against Indiana and has four through the first two games.
"We're blessed with kids who believe in (defense), and they take every game with personal pride," said Botta, who also credited defensive coordinator Frank Cortazzo for the defense's play through two games. "They're going to try to keep the opponent out of the end zone. They're playing well."
Against Indiana, cornerbacks Jonov and Charan Singh and safety Jordan Kestler shut down the Little Indians' passing game, as quarterback Sean Thompson completed just 2 of 14 passes. Botta said the front eight also played well.
"Our corners had zero tackles," he said. "If your corners have zero tackles and the safety has one, that means the front eight are doing their job against that veer option. I can't be more pleased with how they performed."
Offensively, the Panthers are beating teams with a committee approach in the backfield. Four different Franklin Regional players — quarterback Singh and running backs Paul Emanuele, Dominic Giannangeli and Zanotto — scored rushing touchdowns against Indiana.
Singh also completed 7 of 11 passes for 85 yards, and the Panthers also didn't commit any turnovers.
"I put Charan at quarterback for a lot of reasons, and one is he's an athlete," Botta said. "Every time he touches the ball, something good happens. He makes plays out of nothing. ... (And) the running back situation at Franklin's going to be good for a few years."
Botta also praised the work of the completely new offensive line, led by two-way lineman Nick Fazio as well as fellow seniors Mihoci, Matt Babbit and Josh Sabo-Pediconi. Sophomore Charlie Mazon stepped up in place of injured senior Sam Sedivy on the line, while sophomore Jake Lauer did the same for the injured Dylan Wallace at tight end.
"It's kind of unreal the way things are transpiring," Botta said.
While Franklin Regional started out 2-0, the Panthers will face another stiff test this week with a game against Highlands at 7 p.m. Friday at Franklin Regional Stadium. The Golden Rams defeated Hollidaysburg and Hampton to begin the season and are also playing in memory of Ryan Richards, a senior who died in a July vehicle accident.
"They're playing inspired football," Botta said. "I had to play against Knoch when they played inspired football (after the death of former player Tim McNerney last year). It's a tragedy, what happened out there. They're wearing No. 25 on their helmets, and they're on a mission right now. That's always concerning to me."
Highlands forced four turnovers in a 26-7 victory over Hampton last week, and the Golden Rams also got 91 yards rushing from Elijah Jackson.
"It's going to be smashmouth football to say the least," Botta said. "That's what I've got to prepare my kids for. They've got a huge offensive line ... but what they do have is tremendous skill at the running back position, at quarterback, (and at wideout). It's going to be a football game."
Doug Gulasy is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-388-5830, via email at email@example.com or via Twitter @dgulasy_Trib.
Show commenting policy
TribLive commenting policy
You are solely responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree to our Terms of Service.
We moderate comments. Our goal is to provide substantive commentary for a general readership. By screening submissions, we provide a space where readers can share intelligent and informed commentary that enhances the quality of our news and information.
While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. Because of the volume of reader comments, we cannot review individual moderation decisions with readers.
We value thoughtful comments representing a range of views that make their point quickly and politely. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments either by the same reader or different readers.
We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. A few things we won't tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING. Don't include URLs to Web sites.
We do not edit comments. They are either approved or deleted. We reserve the right to edit a comment that is quoted or excerpted in an article. In this case, we may fix spelling and punctuation.
We welcome strong opinions and criticism of our work, but we don't want comments to become bogged down with discussions of our policies and we will moderate accordingly.
We appreciate it when readers and people quoted in articles or blog posts point out errors of fact or emphasis and will investigate all assertions. But these suggestions should be sent via e-mail. To avoid distracting other readers, we won't publish comments that suggest a correction. Instead, corrections will be made in a blog post or in an article.
Most-Read Football
- South Fayette, Aliquippa form unique traditions for Thanksgiving Day
- Gorman: Look out for unsung hero
- HS highlight reel: Winter season set to tip off Dec. 4
- High school notebook: New classes put football finalists on the move next season
- Jeannette football prepare for Class A championship game
- Jeannette two-way star Sanders has Jayhawks back at Heinz Field
- TJ-Central Valley football powers to clash at Heinz Field
- Ligonier Valley bows out of football playoffs
- Franklin Regional football team ends its season one win short of Heinz Field
- High school notebook: Knoch CF Bucko commits to Kent State
- Alle-Kiski Valley HSFB notebook: Key moments boost Freeport


text:
December 1, 2015
A call center in Laurel County is looking for more than two hundred new employees.
Vickie Blair, the human resource director for Senture, says the company currently has nearly 300 employees.
Starting pay is $10.25 an hour and can go up to more than $14.
Blair says the company realizes people need jobs and the company would like to hire people from all surrounding counties.
A job fair is scheduled for Thursday from 3 to 6 P.M.
Senture is at 460 Industrial Boulevard off KY 80, west of London. For more information, call 606-877-6670. Applications can also be made at www.senture.com.
Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File
Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or email@example.com.


text:
Save to your scrapbook
Delia's Tortilla
This will be saved to your scrapbook
You can also add it to one of your existing cookbooks
Enter your postcode to check services in your area.
Serves: 4
1 small onion
200g small Desiree potatoes
4 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1½ tablespoons Spanish olive oil
Equipment: You will also need a Delia Online/Silverwood Little Gem Frying Pan (heavy gauge aluminium) and a lid, or similar pan with a base measurement of 17cm
First of all, peel and cut the onion in half, then thinly slice each half and separate the layers into half-moon shapes. Now thinly pare the potatoes using a potato peeler and slice them into thin rounds – you have to work pretty quickly here because you don't want the slices to brown. When they are sliced, rub them in a clean tea cloth to get them as dry as possible.
Now heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in the pan, and when it's smoking hot add the onions and potatoes. Toss them around in the oil to get a good coating and add the salt and some freshly milled black pepper.
Turn the heat down to low, put a lid on the pan and let them cook for 10 – 12 minutes or until tender. You can turn them over half way through and shake the pan from time to time. They are sort of stewing in the oil rather than browning.
Meanwhile whisk 4 large eggs very lightly in a jug, then quickly add the cooked potatoes and onions and give them a good mix to coat with the egg. Then put the pan back on the heat and add half a tablespoon of oil, turning the heat up to medium to heat the oil.
Now pour the whole lot back into the pan. Turn the heat down to low and give the tortilla 20-25 minutes without a lid, and from time to time push the edges in all round quite firmly with a palette knife in a vertical position to give it that traditional rounded edge.
When it's ready there will be virtually no liquid egg left – but you now need to turn it over or if you don't fancy that it can be finished under the grill but it's very easy to turn it. To do this use a flat lid, place it over the pan and invert to get the tortilla onto the lid. Put the pan back on the heat and use a palette knife to gently ease the tortilla back in. Give it 2 minutes, then turn the heat down and let it settle for 5 minutes.
Serve a tortilla cut into wedges, warm with a salad. It's also good served cold for a picnic or cut into cubes to serve as an appetizer.
This recipe was first published in August 2013.


text: 30-something mom of 2. I work from home and though I ran CC through high school then into my 20s, dropped off and have just picked it back up again. Getting 'into running shape' is taking a bit, but I'm plugging along, one run at a time. I love to hike, and am starting to trail run again.


text:
GREEN BAY – Sam Shields' ankle injury is worse than first thought. Whether he suffered an actual setback or not is open to debate apparently, but this much is not: The Green Bay Packers third-year cornerback will not play in Sunday night's game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy ruled Shields out Wednesday, less than a week after he returned to practice on a limited basis from the injury, which he suffered on Oct. 14 at Houston.
"Sam's had a setback and it's going be a couple weeks. So, he's not making the improvement that we hoped. It's a little more serious injury than we anticipated," McCarthy said after practice. Asked what happened to Shields, McCarthy replied, "It's a more serious injury than we anticipated with his ankle. It's still his ankle."
Last week, Shields was working with the scout team as a wide receiver and said he thought he was "a good 90" percent healthy and intimated that he'd play against the Giants.
Now, that's not happening. Shields insisted in the locker room Wednesday that he had not reinjured his ankle at any point.
"I'm still 90 percent," Shields said. "Like (McCarthy) said, it's a setback. It's still my ankle. I thought I was ready, but I'm not. I didn't do anything (to reinjure the ankle). I'm just not ready.
"Coach, he says it's a setback. I think it's the same thing. I just have to keep continuing to do rehab and keep going day-by-day."
Asked about McCarthy saying he'd be out "a couple weeks," Shields replied: "I don't know. We're just going day-by-day right now, week-by-week. I don't know."
Shields said he had no intention of seeking a second opinion or seeing a specialist about his ankle.
"It ain't that serious," Shields said when asked about consulting another doctor. "All I can do is keep doing what I've been doing."
Shields was playing extremely well at the time of his injury – he had an interception against the Texans – but since he went out, both rookie second-round pick Casey Hayward, who took over as the starter, and second-year man Davon House, who is serving as the nickel back, have played very well. Whenever Shields returns, the Packers will have a good problem to have, figuring out how to use all three of them.
"It's frustrating, but things like that I just have to keep my mind positive and keep getting rehab and try to get better, and get back out on the field, and get ready for the stretch down the road," Shields said. "Like we preach all the time, if somebody goes down, somebody else has to step up. Those guys have been doing a hell of a job. House is covering his butt off and (so is) Casey. When somebody goes down, they have to be ready and that's what they're doing.
"I don't know when I'll actually be out there, but I'm taking it one day at a time."
Return to: Jason Wilde Blog


text:
Telephones in the Virgin Valley then and now ? a crank phone in the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum contrasts with smart phones available today.
- Filed Under
A little more than 100 years have passed since Mesquite saw its first telephone. In that time, the technology has gone from wires attached to trees, fence posts or poles held up by rock cairns, to children and adults alike texting or talking on cell phones every free moment available, and then some.
Today's ease in communication is often taken for granted in these times of instant access.
"My mother was the telephone operator," said Geraldine Zarate, area historian and artist. "She had to go get people when they got a phone call." It would take more than a few minutes to retrieve the one being ...


text:
Ismail Douiri
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Attijariwafa Bank
Ismail Douiri is Co-CEO of Attijariwafa Bank, a regional financial institution based in Casablanca Morocco and serving 4.2 million clients in 22 countries in North, West and Central Africa, as well as Western Europe. He joined Attijariwafa Bank in 2004 as VP of Strategy and was promoted in 2005 to Deputy General Manager and in 2008, was appointed by the Board of Directors to Co-CEO. He started his professional career with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, then joined Casablanca Finance Group, a boutique investment bank based in Morocco. After getting his MBA, he worked for Morgan Stanley in London, for McKinsey & Co. in the North Africa Initiative and founded a mobile internet startup. He holds two engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris) and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.


text:
Evan Rosler
Revolving Door (0)
Who's coming and who's going. Tell us about your job move! Receive the Revolving Door Newsletter with expert analysis by email twice a week.No Revolving Door results were found.
Sightings (1)
Spotted around the media universe
Roll Call: KPMG, Mulberry Marketing, F-H, and More - Posted January 25, 2012
KPMG, the tax, audit, and consulting firm, has hired Seth Oster as chief communications officer, responsible for all corporate communications, both internal and external. Oster was most recently a member of the Obama administration, serving as a senior appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He was the agency's most senior comms... [FishbowlDC]


text:
What's On This Week
A daily updated summary of the week in TV.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
A daily updated summary of the week in TV.
From All Movie Guide: American screenwriter Bernard McConville's first known credit was 1915's Missing Links. McConville went on to script a variety of subjects, including the "Fox Kiddies" spectacular Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp (1917), the Mary Pickford vehicle Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) and the Mabel Normand comedy feature The Extra Girl (1923). One of his most interesting assignments was Charles Ray's The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921), one of the few silent films to completely dispense with subtitles. Briefly out of work at the beginning of the talkie era, Bernard McConville was back on the job in 1932, turning out western after western until 1943. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi


text:
Savvy Seniors: May Is Older Adults Month
Safe Today, Healthy Tomorrow is the theme for Older Americans Month 2014. Older adults are at a much higher risk of unintentional injury and even death than the rest of the population. Unintentional injuries to this population result in at least 6 million medically treated injuries and more than 30,000 deaths every year. Modifications to living space, a daily fitness routine, and healthy eating can help prevent injury.
AARP guide to revitalizing your home: beautiful living for the second half of life: reimagine, redesign, remodel by Rosemary Bakker
Universal design for the home: great looking, great living design for all ages, abilities, and circumstances by Wendy A. Jordan
Unassisted living: ageless homes for later life by Wid Chapman and Jeff Rosenfeld
The athlete's book of home remedies: 1,001 doctor- approved health fixes & injury-prevention secrets for a leaner, fitter, more athletic body! by Jordan Metzl, with Mike Zimmerman
May 06, 2014
- madame librarian
- Login to comment


text:
Field hockey
YORK 5, GORDON 0 >> The York College field hockey team got off to a stellar start to the 2014 season with a 5-0 win over Gordon on Friday afternoon at Kinsley Field in day one of the York College Field Hockey Classic.
Nearly 29 minutes into the first half, York (1-0) got on the board first as freshman Ali Posey tallied her first career goal in her first collegiate game.
Freshman goalkeeper Jessica Everett earned her first collegiate start as picked up her first career win and shutout with a two-save performance.
York out-shot Gordon 27-6, with a margin of 16-3 for shots on goal. The Spartans also finished with a 17-3 advantage in penalty corners.
First half — 1. YC, Ali Posey, 28:40. 2. YC, Autumn Mallory (Nancy Saylor), 34:52.
Second half — 3. YC, Mallory, 40:27. 4. Posey, 43:29. 5. Holly Martin, 65:43.
Shots on goal — G 6, YC 27
Corners — G 3, YC 17.
Goalies — G, Shannon Hicks (11 saves). YC, Jessica Everett (2 saves).
Men's soccer
YORK 0, VIRGINIA WESLEYAN 0 (2OT) >> Goalie Charlie Johnson helped save the draw for the Spartans as he was called into action three times, each time making the stop.
In the 24th minute of the first half, Chris Cooke ripped a shot that was headed for the back of the net when Johnson came sprawling across the face of the goal to make the save.
Throughout the game, the Spartans had their chances but were unable to capitalize. Late in regulation, York came up with two corner kicks and on each attempt they failed to connect as the game went to overtime.
After two scoreless overtime periods, that final whistle blew and the Spartans escaped with tie.
|Virginia Wes.
First half — No scoring.
Second half — No scoring.
Overtime — No scoring.
Shots on goal — VW 4, YC 1
Corners — VW 8, YC 10
Goalies — VW, Connor Kirkham (1 save). YC, Charlie Johnson (3 saves).
Women's volleyball
GREYHOUND PREMIERE INVITATIONAL >> The York College volleyball squad opened their 2014 season with a pair of wins on Friday during the opening rounds hosted by Moravian College.
The Spartans defeated Centenary College 25-10, 25-13, and 25-6. York then beat Emmanuel 25-20, 25-22, and 25-22.
York advances to Saturday's championship bracket courtesy of the two wins.
BATTLEFIELD CLASSIC >> Madeline Rose recorded 19 kills and seven blocks to lead McDaniel to a 2-0 start.
The Green Terror opened the night with a 3-0 win over Penn State-Harrisburg, defeating the Lions by 25-11, 25-8 and 25-16 scores, respectively. McDaniel closed the night defeating Oberlin, 3-1. The Green Terror won the opening set 25-23 before the Yeowomen evened the match with an identical 25-23 win. McDaniel closed the match with wins of 25-11 and 25-14, respectively.


text:
National Statistics
Road freight statistics: quarter 1 2011
Road freight and foreign heavy goods vehicle activity in the UK for the first quarter of 2011.
This statistical release presents quarterly information on the domestic and international road freight activity of UK hauliers and of foreign hauliers in UK.
The information is based on results from the following 3 continuous surveys administered by the Department for Transport:
- Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport Great Britain (CSRGT GB)
- Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport Northern Ireland (CSRGT NI)
- International Road Haulage Survey (IRHS)
Statistics on foreign hauliers in the UK are derived from data supplied to Eurostat by EU-27 countries.
The Q1 2011 data in this publication are provisional and will be finalised in an annual Road Freight Statistics publication in 2013.
Key points
- Between Q1 2010 and Q1 2011, goods moved by UK HGVs in the UK increased by 6% to over 37 billion tonne kilometres.
- Domestic freight activity trends for the UK in recent years broadly mirror those in three of the four other largest EU economies.
- In Q1 2011, there were 1.3 million tonnes of road freight exported from the UK by UK-registered vehicles. This was an increase of 9% compared to Q1 2010. There was a similar weight of goods imported in Q1 2011 (1.4 million tonnes).
- In 2011, there were about 1 billion tonne kilometres of cabotage by foreign hauliers in the UK. Levels of cabotage reported by EU-27 countries in the UK have declined in recent years. The level was 44% lower in 2011 than in 2005.
Technical information:
Information on road freight statistics and the 3 DfT surveys, as well as the pre-release access list, and related technical documentation can be found on GOV.UK.
Contact us
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- 020 7944 4261


text:
Who's out there? Who's interested? Wouldn't it be nice to take this faceless community into the real world somehow?A hike? A trip? A group meeting for a beer/coffee/whatever- an attempt at a local network, a group that could pitch in to buy bulk spinnaker for MYOG endeavors...whatever. Think about it. Where are the "real" (read not electronic) communities?Aside from anonymous names on this site, I do not currently know anyone into the UL thing in my area. Trail runners yes. Rock climbers. Ultra-distance athletes...but not any UL backpackers (or aspiring ones).How many are in the same boat?I know there are schedules, jobs, friends, families, all manner of commitments...but why not try starting up a "local chapter"? Shouldn't that sort of be the logical progression given the time many of us spend here?I don't want to propose dates and times, and places...First things first: Is anyone interested?
Craig, I'd be psyched to meet you and other folks in area... Beer/coffee/dayhike (all at once) sounds good. Who else interested?
I'm an aspiring lightweight backpacker. My base weight for a family trip in June was 45 pounds (with most of the kids' gear) and my pack is mostly loaded for the JMT with a 16 pound base. Definitely not SUL or UL but I'm making progress.Picking your collective brains face-to-face would be great.I'd love to join up over a coffee or a brew. Unfortunately my kids demand time so coffee in the morning, lunch, or a brew right after work is best for me.Another alternative is this evening near the Manhattan Beach or Huntington Beach REI store. You could talk me off the ledge (of buying a JetBoil)I live in Long Beach and work downtown LA. Leaving tomorrow for a weeklong road trip with the kids then heading out to do the JMT on 8/9.
Cool, let's see if a few more folks want to join up and we'll start talking place/time.I'm in Pasadena, more specifically, but willing to go wherever in LA. I leave for a trip in about 2 weeks, but before then could work.I know finding a time/place/date that works for everyone might be tough (hell, I might be the one left out), but we'll work on it.
Just throwing my geography into the mix so we can start thinking about it, live in Highland Park, work downtown.
I work in Culver City (as a teacher I'm off until end of August though!), but pass through Highland Park and Downtown all the time.Sounds like somewhere in LA might be good for the three of us.Chinatown? Noodles and beer in Little Tokyo?Keep looking here, lets see if anyone else joins in in the next day or so- if not let's go ahead and work something out.Sound ok?
I'm interested. I live in Hollywood and work downtown. My work schedule is very unpredictable, but if I can get away from the office, I'd like to join you.
Edited by Hiker816 on 07/21/2008 09:57:24 MDT.
Hello all, how about sometime this Friday in Little Tokyo? Lunch? Afternoon?
I should be able to get away for a bit over an hour for lunch in Little Tokyo this Friday. Otherwise it'd have to be evening -- after 6:30.
Lunch on Friday sounds good to me...lets wait to see if John or James chime in here.I'm open for any time/place you want to meet- let me know.If you know somewhere better/easier for you than Little Tokyo, let me know, I'm up for whatever.
I can do lunch downtown area at 1 on Friday... There's Orochon ramen in the New Otani mall, or Suehiro on 1st. Also Phillipe's French Dip, sometimes faster... Any other fairly quick places?
Friday at 1 is good for me. Christopher?
Friday at 1 sounds great. Just lemme know a place, and I'll be there. We'll have to figure out some way to recognize each other.
If everyone's a meat eater we can do Phillipes French Dip by Union Station. We could all wear backpacks and carry trekking poles...
I'm out of town till the weekend. Otherwise downtown or Little Tokyo are perfect. Maybe next time.Jim
Phillipes is fine...1:00 then on Friday, I'll plan on it. I'll probably ride my bike- I'll wait out front- I'll be wearing a grey GoLite Jam backpack.Cheers.
I'll be outside of Philippes at 1, looking for someone on a bike with a golite pack, and someone else with a pack and trekking poles. :) I'll be wearing slacks and a dress shirt. Work sucks.
did this actually happen? i was driving back from Montana last Friday. any interest in something like this happening again?
Anybody interested in tomorrow or next week? I'm right downtown near city hall so lunch would be perfect for me.Jim
i'd have to line up babysitting and catch the train into town, so next week would be way better. or is there any interest in a nighttime gathering? more time to linger and talk shop, and that way my typing-shy husband could join in the fun.
You must login to post.
MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED TO POST: You must be a Forum, Annual or Lifetime Member to post messages in the backpackinglight.com forums.