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Good Morning Wishes Wallpapers,Quotes, Pic,Images
Here we will discuss good morning wishes, wallpapers, quotes, pic, images. When person wake up early in the morning he is completely relaxed and happy. The mind of a person is fresh. It looks nice that a person should say good morning to his dear ones. Because it shows that how much person love them. Now the question is that how to say good morning? Well, we would like to mention that mobile phone is considered to be the best way to say good morning to others. By using mobile phone, person can easily wish good morning to his loved ones and dear ones. Well, we would like to highlight for our readers that are thousands of quotes and wishes are available in the world of internet. These days, young boys and girls would love to send good morning wishes to their friends and relatives.
Good Morning Wishes Wallpapers,Quotes, Pic,Images
In this post, we will share best quotes and wishes for our readers who wants to read best quotes and wishes. In other words, this post, has been specially written for those readers who wants to send interesting quotes and wishes regarding good morning to their friends. We are completely sure that readers will definitely like these wishes and quotes of good morning and they will definitely send these quotes and wishes to their friends. Firstly, we would like to discuss or share best good morning wishes. The best and popular good morning wishes are as follows:
- A smile is a way of writing your thoughts on your face, telling others that they are accepted, liked and appreciated.So here's a big smile just for you. Good morning!
- Smile! Because you have just received a text message from someone hoping you are fine. Good Morning!
- A new sun
A fresh day
A cool greetings
asking u to
forget all you worries sorrows & tears for someone
who wants to see you happy
Good Morning!!!
- Morning greetings doesn't only mean
saying GOOD Morning,
it has a silent message saying:
I remember you when i wake up!!
- Eyes r not meant for tears i heart is not meant for fear,
Never get upset, always cheer as u r the one
who can make me smile for years.
Good morning Dear!!
- Good morning Means
G-get up
O-Open you eyes
O-out of your bed
D-Day has risen
M-merry life
O-old dreams come true
R-rise and shine
N=new friends
I – ideas of life
N-mice future
G-Good day for you.
- Tree leaves do not look green forever,
Roses do not look fresh forever,
But i pray to God that smile on your lips stay forever…
"GOOD Morning"
- Birth was not our choice,
Death is also not our choice,
But the way we live our life is absolutely our choice.
Enjoy it and make each day
GOOD Morning..
- Treat every one with love,
even those who are rude to you,
Not because of they are not nice
because you are nice
GOOD Morning!!
- Get up from your soft soft be
Open ur teeny weeny eyes.
Wear that jolly wolly smile
& say to urself
a Gud morning from my side.
Hav a wonderful day!
- Fresh " morning."fresh " hopes
Fresh" plans."fresh" efforts
Fresh" success."fresh" felings
And also "FRESH" years to go I wish
U a Fresh & Succesful day and Good Morning
- You have to have a dream so u can get up in the morning.
Get up now and turn ur dream into reality.
Good Morning!!
- An excellent saying…… ….
"The Dream is not what you see in sleep..,
Dream is the thing which does not let you sleep.
"Gud morning…
- Every beautiful is not always good, but every good is always beautiful.
Being important is not always good, but being good is always important.
Now we would like to discuss or share best good morning quotes. The best and popular good morning quotes are as follows:
- · You are the reason why I feel like jumping for joy every morning.
Mornings used to be a drag before,
but now each day is filled with love and excitement.
Have a lovely day!" By Arwein.
- · "I feel so loved when you say something sweet to me.
Even a whisper from your sweet lips can make me have a really wonderful day,
You are the one I saw in my dreams and I´m glad you are a reality."By Arwein
- · I want to be the reason why you smile every morning,
I want to be the reason for the happiness in your heart, the spring in your step and the song on your lips. Have a great day." By Arwein
- · "Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is mistery,
today is a gift.
Have a great day."
- · "From morning´s first light,
to evening´s last star,
always remember,
how special you are.
Have a nice day."
- · Thank you Lord for another beautiful day. For opening up my eyes & ears, to see and hear the goodness you have left here for us. Teach me more."
- · I wonder what you look like when you wake up early in the morning with the sun shining on your face, your silky smooth hair flowing. I wish I could get a cup of coffee for you by the bed and wish you good morning.~ Betsy Runes
- · The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.
~ Joseph Moran
- · Say goodbye to the stars of the night and let the moon pass away. Welcome the bright sunshine and let the rays of the sun brighten you up all over. Enjoy a good morning.
~ Baron Ally
- · From that morning I met you until this morning, I always cherish the fact that I received the chance to meet a wonderful person like you. I have so many beautiful memories with you and I want to create many more.~ Aston Royce
On the whole after discussing Good morning wishes and quotes it is easy to conclude that if you want to wish your friend early in the morning then you should send these wishes or quotes to him or her. We hope that your friend will definitely get happy after seeing your best wishes regarding the day.


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Gravity Octopus Furnace Removal & Replacement – Minneapolis St. Paul, MN
If you're one of the thousands of Twin Cities homeowners whose home was built long ago, you may have an antiquated gravity furnace in your basement. Also called octopus furnaces for their multi-duct appearance, these old home-heating systems are extremely inefficient, and cost homeowners up to 50% more in energy costs. They were originally designed to burn coal, but most have been converted to natural gas operation. What wasn't changed, though, is their low-efficiency and poor heat distribution within your home.
Replacing your gravity furnace will instantly produce dramatic savings, and those savings will add up, year after year, to repay the cost of the removal and replacement many times over. Some of the other drawbacks of these antique octopus furnaces include:
- Asbestos Danger – All gravity furnaces contain asbestos, which was used as insulation. The hazards of asbestos to your family's health can't be underestimated.
- Lack of Filtration – Gravity gas furnaces have no good means of filtering the air they circulate. That means that dust, fibers, mold spores, pollen and other contaminants continuously circulate in your home, complicating your cleaning chores and increasing allergy symptoms.
- Uneven Heating – Without forced air circulation through a ductwork system, an HVAC system almost always cause uneven heating or cooling in your home. Your family's comfort suffers during our harsh Minnesota winters and hot humid summers.
- Incompatibility with Central Air Conditioning – Unlike today's modern forced-air heating, which is designed to handle the addition of central air conditioning, you simply can't add a central air conditioner to without the necessary ductwork.
The service technicians pulled out two old gravity furnace units and dealt with the existing asbestos issues. They also put in two new furnace units complete with ducts and central AC for each side of a duplex residence. The job estimator Chris was easy to work with and straightforward. He told us what the home required, laid out several possibilities, and gave a personal recommendation as to what would likely be the most beneficial system for us. The installation crew was on time and did everything promised in a workmanlike manner. There are plenty of things I'd rather use my cash for than heating and air conditioning, but this heating company made me feel a lot better about it. I feel confident I got my money's worth and dealt with some real pros who take pride in doing a good job. – Todd from Minneapolis, MN
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Having served the Twin Cities for over two decades, we have replaced thousands of obsolete gravity furnaces throughout the metro area. We understand the problems with these antiquated heating systems, and have installed high-efficiency replacement furnaces for many homeowners. Most heating contractors won't even do these jobs, but we specialize in them. It can be a complex job, for many reasons, but we understand how to do the replacement in the most efficient affordable way possible. Most replacements take about a week to complete. Here's what a typical gravity furnace removal and replacement job includes:
- Permit Arrangements – Our fully licensed heating company will handle all required permits for the job and will schedule inspections. There's nothing you need to do.
- Asbestos Removal – A licensed asbestos abatement contractor will remove all asbestos and test your home to make sure it's all gone.
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- Ductwork Installation – A new, unified ductwork system will be installed, usually connecting to your existing registers. Our well-trained, experienced technicians will solve all problems and route the newly installed air ducts to all your rooms.
- New Installation – We will install the high-efficiency furnace of your choice. The better fuel efficiency will cut your heating bills in half. During the installation, your heat will only be off for a few hours, in most cases. We can add central air conditioning at the same time, if you like, for even more home comfort.
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|Phenotypic and genetic effects on feed intake of laying hens in different years.
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|PMID: 2047336 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Feed intake from 21 to 40 wk and from 41 to 60 wk of age of brown egg layers was analyzed. The full model contained BW, egg mass (EM) output, BW change (BWCH), and age at first egg as covariates in addition to effects of plumage condition class, sire, and dam. A reduced model contained the covariates only. Between 905 and 1,161, and 880 and 1,119 hens were available in the first and second periods, respectively. Averaged over 6 yr the full model explained 84 and 77%, the reduced model 73 and 63%, respectively, of the variance in feed consumption in the two periods. Regression coefficients for BW showed only a small variation between years as well as between periods. Variation was larger for the coefficients of EM and of BWCH. Larger coefficients were observed in the first period for both traits. The sequence of entering the reduced equation in a stepwise procedure was always BW, EM output, then BWCH. Averaged over 6 yr, the relative contribution of BW by its own to the accuracy of the regression model, was 68 and 60% in the two periods. Egg mass output then added 25 and 39%, and BWCH 7 and 2% in the first and second periods, respectively. The predictive value of the covariates changed with increasing age of the hens. A high average heritability of .48 could be estimated for the residual feed intake in both periods. This suggested enhanced selection response for efficiency.
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For one thing, you shouldn't enroll your child for credit monitoring, ID fraud experts say.
Debix aims to stop fraud the moment someone attempts to open a new account in your name. The advantage? Debix can help out when the case is still hot, says CEO.
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Tucked along the back edge of the E-Plex, Gerald Capps' mint-colored malt mixers drew the eye of garage sale attendees on Saturday morning.
"They're just part of history," Capps said of the Hamilton Beach mixers, which were once a fixture at soda fountains across the country. He restores the mixers and sells about 200 of them a year as a post-retirement hobby.
Thousands packed the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds for the 20th annual garage sale. Event organizer Ron Carlson said just about anything could be found at the sale, which took up both sides and the common area of the E-Plex on the fairgrounds. ...


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I don't really know what to say about Old Orchard Beach.. other than the fact that this was probably the last time going there. It's great for people watching, but sometimes it just gets to be too much. We had a great time and great weather, we just had to leave a night early.
Thursday we stopped at Kittery and did a little shopping.. for a storz connection?! haha-of course JB finds an American Fire Hose one! woot woot!
Thursday night after arriving to our hotel we went out to grab a bite to eat at Hoss and Mary's. It got great reviews on YELP so we checked it out:
I went for the turkey BLT.. and yes- it was delicious.
Later we just walked around, and hung out for the Thursday night fireworks. It was rather cloudy but we still had a pretty good view:
Friday morning I got up early and went for a run on the beach... where there were already a ton of people setting up their spot! We headed over there for a few hours- it was so, so hot and got really crowded! Thankfully the water was cool- and huge waves too. I felt like a little kid playing in the water. And the sand chair was a hit!
Next time we'll actually bring real chairs.. oh and an umbrella.
Friday night we decided on pizza for dinner. Duhhhhh- Pizza night is a staple in our diet when vacationing, don't you know that already? We headed over to Roma Pizza. It was some of THE BEST pizza I have had in a long time. Thin crust, not too saucy- just perfect. The owner was wicked nice too :)
Before going for ice cream we went to this place called Soho Square. It's a little pub with pool, darts and foosball! We didn't stay too long as the bathrooms were a little scary, along with the locals.
Saturday was low key.. Yelped breakfast and decided on Beach Bagels then we
waddled walked around a little more. ;)
Then after all this decided to call it a trip. Why? Here's just A FEW of the reasons..
- A mom blasting Tupac in her car down the strip with her teenage son and 8 year old daughter in the back seat.
- Pay to pee on The Pier and main strip.
- White pants.
- Elvis?
- Kids running amok with no parents in sight.
- Speedo's. a lot of speedo's.
- Adult twins.
- mullets, no teeth, and cutoff shirts.
- revving motorcycle engines.. over and over. The Lamborghini can do it, not your Honda.
Don't get me wrong- it's a cool place to go, just not our scene... anymore. Maybe we are getting old? Who knows, but I'd rather be in the mountains hiking and biking or on a secluded island with palm tree's and blue water.. perhaps our next real vacation ;)
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and thanks to Ninja Monkey for finding the stockist :nw:
Just to let you UK guys know that this company has these in stock but don't know how many. I ordered one Thursday pm and got it this morning. Bit expensive at £19.75 inc postage but probably still...
just checked this web site - not in stock :mad:
cheers gambit32 - just checking it out
Thanks muldrick, thats very good of you :)
Reading through this post the following have said they want to buy this keyboard
Dreamgear emailed me to say they would sell carton of 24 @ $14 each + approx $40 shipping = £185 + import tax. Don't think we need that many?
This could be a non starter.
EBgames emailed me to say they do not ship to the UK
Gameexpress emailed me to say I need to place an order first, they do not accept payment by credit card for...
I agree. I've just emailed EBgames and gameexpress to ask how much it would cost to order 12 of these to be shipped to the UK
Me too
Hi sniz55
have sent you the pdf to your email
You'll probably ask for the log file - so here it is :D
Solved the problem with PhoneCtl.Config.xml. Type a capital O instead of o. Didn't realise XML was so fussy!
Additional Phonebooks now show up. 'Friends' shows those is seperate...
I agree :D
Yes! Although Stop, then Play, will achieve the same.
Zorro - am I doing something stupid?
Downloaded the binaries for the latest release. Overwrote files in Phonecontrol directory. Started Phonecontrol - worked OK.
Amended PhoneCtl.Config.xml...
SA - I have now tested the new version quite a bit and apart from the other points already mentioned in various posts I would make the following comments:-
GPS - motorway reroute 'bug' still...
@SA On a very, very, very, very minor point. Should 'Equilizer' not read 'Equalizer' ? (mixer screen). ;)
SA has included the resumer plugin in the winamp.exe included with the program. You will need to start winamp on its own and configure this plugin to your requirements (or amend winamp.ini directly)...
they were sent to your email address, but have attached now as zip file.
Car pc now working ok too. Mixer & play mp3 screen fine, although I did notice that dir's are not sorted alphabetically on select band/playlist screen. Is that my computer settings fault or voices?
2 home pc's (XP pro) have now corrected themselves somehow on this screen! Not tried again today on carpc (W2K), will let you know. I did send you winamp.ini yesterday - are you wanting a new...
SA: Yep, now works perfectly. Very impressed by the mixer screen also :D
SA: Is this what you're after? :confused:
Output from mixercontrols app not saved to log files and can't copy it. Started Voices with mixercontrols.exe running, selected mixer in voices, app...
Yes - that now works fine thanks.
yes this plugin is present. The 2 files have been sent to you as requested.
Thank you for an excellent program :)


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Southern Mac and Cheese
Homemade mac and cheese is often prepared with a flour-based sauce. This Southern version uses a base of eggs and half-and-half for a tasty, custardy alternative.
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- Servings: 4
Source: Everyday Food, 2009
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted, plus more for ramekins
- 1/2 pound elbow macaroni
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar (8 ounces)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1 small garlic clove, minced
- 2 slices white sandwich bread, torn
Set a large pot of salted water to boil. Preheat oven to 350. Butter four 10-ounce ramekins. Cook pasta 3 minutes short of al dente; drain.
In a large bowl, whisk together 1 1/2 cups cheddar, eggs, half-and-half, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Add pasta, and stir to combine; divide among ramekins.
In a food processor, pulse bread and melted butter until coarse crumbs form; season with salt and pepper. Dividing evenly, top pasta mixture with 1/2 cup cheddar, then sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place ramekins on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until mac and cheese is golden and bubbling, about 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.
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Reviews (16)
piasta 19 Apr, 2012
I would prefer that the nutritional info be included with recipes. At the very least, the calorie count should be listed.
BoopaCA 17 Jan, 2011
deecop = At the top of the page, above the photo of the dish and below the name of the dish, there (usually) is a RATINGS and COMMENTS with (SEE ALL) next to it. If you click on SEE ALL next to "Comments" you'll see all the comments. Cheers!
deecop 17 Jan, 2011
It would have been nice to see all 13 comments instead of just 6 of them. I think this page needs a little tweaking.
jazzbaby49 10 Jun, 2010
Half and half is a light cream (the consistency of half cream and half milk) or use evaporated milk as a substitute.
tuppa 14 Apr, 2010
Please could someone tell me what half and half is as I don't live in America
AllisonLongenbaugh 23 Mar, 2009
My family did not care for this. The garlic was overpowering and the texture didn't lend itself well to mac
EWjunk 17 Mar, 2009
I didn't care for this. I baked it for 20 mins in one casserole and it was just too dry for my taste. I prefer homemade mac with a traditional, creamy cheese sauce. Also, I thought the garlic was a "flavor bully" - it overwhelmed the delicate flavors of the eggs and cheddar. Besides, as a proud North Carolinian, I can tell you garlic is not a traditional ingredient in "southern" mac and cheese. Maybe it's "southern NY Mac
prweiss65 10 Mar, 2009
Another winner! Just finished eating this for dinner with the cheddar topped Classic Meatloaf, and it was delicious. We loved the thicker texture. The garlic amount tasted just right, too, not so garlicky that my kids noticed, but zippy enough that my husband and I did.
The only think I will change for next time -- It needed more salt to bring out the cheesy taste. I would use 1-1/2 tsp of salt in this recipe next time.
PansyT 7 Mar, 2009
Yes! Mea culpa. I had the wrong number in my head, and should have looked it up. Thanks for the correction.
TGRAHAM31 4 Mar, 2009
I beg to differ. Half and Half is only 10% cream.
PansyT 3 Mar, 2009
"Half and half" is half milk/half cream, usually used for coffee, about 16% fat content.
sweetietreatie 3 Mar, 2009
What is "half and half" ?
vic17wi 3 Mar, 2009
A ramekin is a small baking cup mostly used for cooking custard or souffle. See link: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/d080/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1|16|||0|||||||ramekin
lavmac56 3 Mar, 2009
what is a ramekin?
QueenFrostine 3 Mar, 2009
It says 350 degrees.
littlebluebird 2 Mar, 2009
How hot should this be baked at. The recipe doesn't say.


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I am a single mom of a young son at Margaret Mace School. I was wondering why there is only one male teacher in the K-5 grades? I can't understand why there isn't a man that maybe my son and others like him could have as a role model. Many of our young males are without a father or role model. If possible, I would like to see this changed. Boys need the influence of male teachers.
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That's your fault, not the school district's, grow up.
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wow..Tracy little rough there. Not every mom asks to be a single parent. You comment right there sounds more childish then anything.
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Burton demo weekend at creek
Burton mountain festival at creek this Friday - Sunday. Has anyone ever gone to a creek demo day? Is it busy? Long lines? Debating on going Friday.
They open at 9:00 and I usually get there at ~8:15. It's a small place that I wouldn't dare going to on a weekend, that's why I'm curious about how many people show up.
god i could go to this but it's on a freaking friday, people have jobs they should freaking know this it will be good just before I am about to purchase my first board.
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Variation of parameters
In mathematics, variation of parameters, also known as variation of constants, is a general method to solve inhomogeneous linear ordinary differential equations.
For first-order inhomogeneous linear differential equations it is usually possible to find solutions via integrating factors or undetermined coefficients with considerably less effort, although those methods leverage heuristics that involve guessing and don't work for all inhomogeneous linear differential equations.
Variation of parameters extends to linear partial differential equations as well, specifically to inhomogeneous problems for linear evolution equations like the heat equation, wave equation, and vibrating plate equation. In this setting, the method is more often known as Duhamel's principle, named after Jean-Marie Duhamel who first applied the method to solve the inhomogeneous heat equation. Sometimes variation of parameters itself is called Duhamel's principle and vice versa.
The method of variation of parameters was introduced by the Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) and completed by the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813).[1] A forerunner of the method of variation of a celestial body's orbital elements appeared in Euler's work in 1748, while he was studying the mutual perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn.[2] In his 1749 study of the motions of the earth, Euler obtained differential equations for the orbital elements;[3] and in 1753 he applied the method to his study of the motions of the moon.[4] Lagrange first used the method in 1766.[5] Between 1778 and 1783, Lagrange further developed the method both in a series of memoirs on variations in the motions of the planets[6] and in another series of memoirs on determining the orbit of a comet from three observations.[7] (It should be noted that Euler and Lagrange applied this method to nonlinear differential equations and that, instead of varying the coefficients of linear combinations of solutions to homogeneous equations, they varied the constants of the unperturbed motions of the celestial bodies.[8]) During 1808-1810, Lagrange gave the method of variation of parameters its final form in a series of papers.[9] The central result of his study was the system of planetary equations in the form of Lagrange, which described the evolution of the Keplerian parameters (orbital elements) of a perturbed orbit.
In his description of evolving orbits, Lagrange set a reduced two-body problem as an unperturbed solution, and presumed that all perturbations come from the gravitational pull which the bodies other than the primary exert at the secondary (orbiting) body. Accordingly, his method implied that the perturbations depend solely on the position of the secondary, but not on its velocity. In the 20th century, celestial mechanics began to consider interactions which depend on both positions and velocities (relativistic corrections, atmospheric drag, inertial forces). Therefore, the method of variation of parameters used by Lagrange was extended to the situation with velocity-dependent forces.[10]
Description of method[edit]
Given an ordinary non-homogeneous linear differential equation of order n
let be a fundamental system of solutions of the corresponding homogeneous equation
Then a particular solution to the non-homogeneous equation is given by
where the are differentiable functions which are assumed to satisfy the conditions
Starting with (iii), repeated differentiation combined with repeated use of (iv) gives
One last differentiation gives
By substituting (iii) into (i) and applying (v) and (vi) it follows that
The linear system (iv and vii) of n equations can then be solved using Cramer's rule yielding
where is the Wronskian determinant of the fundamental system and is the Wronskian determinant of the fundamental system with the i-th column replaced by
The particular solution to the non-homogeneous equation can then be written as
First order equation[edit]
Solve the corresponding homogeneous equation to find the general solution:
- .
This homogeneous differential equation can be solved by different methods, for example separation of variables:
The general solution is therefore:
Now we have to solve the non-homogeneous equation:
Using the method variation of parameters, we get the particular solution from the general solution as:
By substituting the particular solution into the non-homogeneous equation, we can find C(x):
Therefore the particular solution is:
The final solution of the differential equation is:
Specific second order equation[edit]
Let us solve
We want to find the general solution to the differential equation, that is, we want to find solutions to the homogeneous differential equation
From the characteristic equation
Since we have a repeated root, we have to introduce a factor of x for one solution to ensure linear independence.
So, we obtain u1 = e−2x, and u2 = xe−2x. The Wronskian of these two functions is
Because the Wronskian is non-zero, the two functions are linearly independent, so this is in fact the general solution for the homogeneous differential equation (and not a mere subset of it).
We seek functions A(x) and B(x) so A(x)u1 + B(x)u2 is a general solution of the non-homogeneous equation. We need only calculate the integrals
Recall that that for this example
That is,
where and are constants of integration.
General second order equation[edit]
We have a differential equation of the form
and we define the linear operator
where D represents the differential operator. We therefore have to solve the equation for , where and are known.
We must solve first the corresponding homogeneous equation:
by the technique of our choice. Once we've obtained two linearly independent solutions to this homogeneous differential equation (because this ODE is second-order) — call them u1 and u2 — we can proceed with variation of parameters.
Now, we seek the general solution to the differential equation which we assume to be of the form
Here, and are unknown and and are the solutions to the homogeneous equation. (Observe that if and are constants, then .) Since the above is only one equation and we have two unknown functions, it is reasonable to impose a second condition. We choose the following:
and since we have required the above condition, then we have
Differentiating again (omitting intermediary steps)
Now we can write the action of L upon uG as
Since u1 and u2 are solutions, then
We have the system of equations
So the above system determines precisely the conditions
We seek A(x) and B(x) from these conditions, so, given
we can solve for (A′(x), B′(x))T, so
where W denotes the Wronskian of u1 and u2. (We know that W is nonzero, from the assumption that u1 and u2 are linearly independent.)
While homogeneous equations are relatively easy to solve, this method allows the calculation of the coefficients of the general solution of the inhomogeneous equation, and thus the complete general solution of the inhomogeneous equation can be determined.
Note that and are each determined only up to an arbitrary additive constant (the constant of integration). Adding a constant to or does not change the value of because the extra term is just a linear combination of u1 and u2, which is a solution of by definition.
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- Forest Ray Moulton, An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, 2nd ed. (first published by the Macmillan Company in 1914; reprinted in 1970 by Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York), page 431.
- Edgar Odell Lovett (1899) "The theory of perturbations and Lie's theory of contact transformations," The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 30, pages 47-149; see especially pages 48-61.
- ^ Euler, L. (1748) "Recherches sur la question des inégalités du mouvement de Saturne et de Jupiter, sujet proposé pour le prix de l'année 1748, par l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris" [Investigations on the question of the differences in the movement of Saturn and Jupiter; this subject proposed for the prize of 1748 by the Royal Academy of Sciences (Paris)] (Paris, France: G. Martin, J.B. Coignard, & H.L. Guerin, 1749).
- ^ Euler, L. (1749) "Recherches sur la précession des équinoxes, et sur la nutation de l'axe de la terre," Histoire [or Mémoires ] de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 289-325 [published in 1751].
- ^ Euler, L. (1753) Theoria motus lunae: exhibens omnes ejus inaequalitates ... [The theory of the motion of the moon: demonstrating all of its inequalities ... ] (Saint Petersburg, Russia: Academia Imperialis Scientiarum Petropolitanae [Imperial Academy of Science (St. Petersburg)], 1753).
- ^ Lagrange, J.-L. (1766) "Solution de différens problèmes du calcul integral," Mélanges de philosophie et de mathématique de la Société royale de Turin, vol. 3, pages 179-380.
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- Lagrange, J.-L. (1781) "Théorie des variations séculaires des élémens des Planetes. Premiere partie, ... ," Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 199-276.
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1782) "Théorie des variations séculaires des élémens des Planetes. Seconde partie, ... ," Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 169-292.
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1783) "Théorie des variations périodiques des mouvemens des Planetes. Premiere partie, ... ," Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 161-190.
- ^ See:
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1778) "Sur le probleme de la détermination des orbites des cometes d'après trois observations, premier mémoire" (On the problem of determining the orbits of comets from three observations, first memoir), Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 111-123 [published in 1780].
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1778) "Sur le probleme de la détermination des orbites des cometes d'après trois observations, second mémoire", Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 124-161 [published in 1780].
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1783) "Sur le probleme de la détermination des orbites des cometes d'après trois observations. Troisième mémoire, dans lequel on donne une solution directe et générale du problème.", Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres (Berlin), pages 296-332 [published in 1785].
- ^ Michael Efroimsky (2002) "Implicit gauge symmetry emerging in the N-body problem of celestial mechanics," page 3.
- ^ See:
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1808) "Sur la théorie des variations des éléments des planètes et en particulier des variations des grands axes de leurs orbites," Mémoires de la première Classe de l'Institut de France. Reprinted in: Joseph-Louis Lagrange with Joseph-Alfred Serret, ed., Oeuvres de Lagrange (Paris, France: Gauthier-Villars, 1873), vol. 6, pages 713-768.
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1809) "Sur la théorie générale de la variation des constantes arbitraires dans tous les problèmes de la méchanique," Mémoires de la première Classe de l'Institut de France. Reprinted in: Joseph-Louis Lagrange with Joseph-Alfred Serret, ed., Oeuvres de Lagrange (Paris, France: Gauthier-Villars, 1873), vol. 6, pages 771-805.
- Lagrange, J.-L. (1810) "Second mémoire sur la théorie générale de la variation des constantes arbitraires dans tous les problèmes de la méchanique, ... ," Mémoires de la première Classe de l'Institut de France. Reprinted in: Joseph-Louis Lagrange with Joseph-Alfred Serret, ed., Oeuvres de Lagrange (Paris, France: Gauthier-Villars, 1873), vol. 6, pages 809-816.
- ^ See:
- Michael Efroimsky (2005) "Gauge Freedom in Orbital Mechanics." ANYAS, Vol. 1065, pp. 346–374 (2005)
- Michael Efroimsky and Peter Goldreich (2004) "Gauge symmetry of the N-body problem of Celestial Mechanics." Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 415, pp. 1187–1199. (2004)
- Michael Efroimsky and Peter Goldreich (2003) "Gauge symmetry of the N-body problem in the Hamilton-Jacobi approach." Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 44, pp. 5958–5977. (2003)
- Coddington, Earl A.; Levinson, Norman (1955). Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Boyce, W. E.; DiPrima, R. C. (1965). Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems 8th Edition. Wiley Interscience., pages 186-192, 237-241
- Teschl, Gerald. Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems. Providence: American Mathematical Society.


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Once students start ninth grade, the Public Education Department would be prohibited from changing their high school graduation requirements.
Senators approved the measure on a 28-0 vote. Senate Bill 307 next goes to the House of Representatives for consideration.
The sponsor, Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, said he was optimistic that the bill would clear the House as well.
Cervantes said he was personally motivated to introduce the bill because of troubles that a change in graduation requirements caused his daughter, Jules.
A freshman at Las Cruces High School, Jules recently learned that a dance class would no longer count toward her physical education requirement to graduate. Cervantes said this was significant because she had to reconfigure an academic schedule that was carefully mapped out to include Advanced Placement courses.
"The rules should not change in the middle of the game," he said.
For Jules, a varsity tennis player, altering her academic schedule to meet a PE requirement was especially frustrating, Cervantes said.
Hundreds or thousands of other high school students across the state have faced disruptions similar to his daughter's, he said.
Another bill, SB 122, broadens what counts toward PE requirements to include cheerleading, marching band and other activities that meet state performance standards.
Cervantes' bill goes a step further. It would prevent changes in any academic requirements for graduation once a student reaches his or her freshman year.
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One summer during my childhood, I wanted nothing more than five copies of X-Force number one. I must have spent a solid two months harassing my mother and, when she finally had had enough, she relented, saying she'd buy the comic book for me if I hit a home run in my next little league game. She could have just said no. Because I didn't stand a chance that summer. I was afraid of the ball and would flinch ever-so-gently as soon as the ball was pitched towards the plate. I'd try to catch up to its trajectory, but I was toast every single time. When the next game arrived, I had forgotten about my mom's promise. And, in my last at-bat, I flinched, closed my eyes, and then swung at what I could only hope was the ball. Home run. My only home run. My sweetest accomplishment ever in baseball. My only accomplishment, really. As we walked into the house after the game, I loudly reminded my mom of her promise. She shrugged and continued inside. And that's when my sister asked me one seemingly innocuous question. "What's that on your pants?" Do I have to tell you, dear readers? Do I have to confess to you that there was urine on my otherwise clean and unfortunately bright white pants, a memento left in loving memory of my fear or my relief or my pride?
Fact is, I can't really remember why I peed a little. LET'S TALK SPORTS!
The Olympics are probably the finest collection of sports I don't care about ever assembled. From running to swimming to judo to badminton, every four years provides a feast for the senses and, most importantly, a time to learn something. For instance, did you know that trolling is illegal in the United Kingdom? Just this week, a man was arrested for being cybermean to a British diver:
Police arrested a 17-year-old man on suspicion of malicious communication after British diver Tom Daley received tweets saying he had let down his deceased father by finishing fourth and failing to win a medal.
Now, I have no idea about the veracity of this poor troll's claims. If anything, the dead dad was likely waaay more pissed when his son chose a weird sport like diving over soccer (sorry, football). At any rate, the fact that the UK outlaws trolling is a fascinating reminder that Mitt Romney was right when he said Great Britain was a disgusting little island overrun by cretins and werewolves. Lawyer Trevor Watkins explains the queer British statute:
"The rules are very clear on what you can and cannot do and say," Watkins said. "But we are now living in a different world from before where we are dealing with instant communication and anything said is repeated again and again and around the world. There needs to be flexibility and adaptability to handle this."
Britain's Malicious Communications Act makes it illegal to send or deliver letters or other articles to cause "distress or anxiety." This also applies to electronic communications.
The article ends without mentioning once whether the mens rea of "wanting lulz" factors into sentencing.
Marc Edelman addressed the last interesting thing about the Sandusky fallout at Penn State yesterday. While L'Affaire Sandusky swallowed up all the oxygen in the sports and child molestation media universe, another case of assistant coach misbehavior got comparatively little attention. But what attention it did get is now the basis of a lawsuit. If you're not familiar with the Bernie Fine case, go here. The investigation is ongoing and, due to unreliable accusers and statutes of limitation, it's unclear what the result of it all will be. Save for sadness. Plenty of sad people saying really sad things and behaving sadly. The latest sad person is Bernie's wife, Laurie, who is suing ESPN for their reporting on the case. A libel suit is difficult to win in this country and ESPN moved just last week to dismiss part of Laurie Fine's lawsuit:
In the motion, ESPN stands by its reporting of the telephone conversation taped by Davis. Fine and her lawyer, Lawrence Fisher, have said that the full 47-minute conversation would show that Fine was defending her husband, not incriminating him.
ESPN argues that the additional excerpts from the full conversation are even more damning of Laurie Fine than the excerpts published. The motion includes several sections of the transcript — sections in which Davis claims to descibe how Bernie Fine molested him and Laurie Fine does not protest that contention.
Like I said, sad. Now, I would like nothing more than for ESPN to be burned down to the cold Bristol ground for an offense like this. The network has been the most terrifying, homogenizing and fascistic creation in the entire sports world, rivaled only by your typical high school football coach. As far as I can tell, the only difference between the two is that ESPN would never suspect you of selling weed to its players. But I digress. ESPN's motion is scheduled to be heard on September 7th. On the 8th, Penn State squares off against Virginia. Not that they're related or anything.
The NCAA is a crooked, morally bankrupt institution run by fools and hypocrites. Anyone who comes into contact with the organization inevitably comes out smelling like Andy Dufresne after his escape from Shawshank. And the legal profession is no exception. All the great work Jerry Maguire did in rehabilitating this profession's image has been eroded by the slow and steady drip of news stories about sports agents. This week, it was Central Florida that got hammered for allowing the ideal of amateurism to be sullied. CBSSports.com has a useful summary of the charges and they're pretty much what you'd expect. Some broke-ass kids got a little money and now Michael Jordan's son can transfer to another school. Typical stuff. Less typical is the video Deadspin unearthed yesterday, showing the runner at the center of the UCF scandal practicing his mad vlogging skills. Put yourself in professional reading room and watch the whole thing. And if you're considering dipping your toe into the sports agent pool, don't hire this guy:
* Arizona Cardinals defensive end Ronald Talley stands accused of beating a man with a champagne bottle. The man's well-spoken attorney had this to say, "The scalp has healed but the insides of his head will never be the same." Hahahahaha. The insides.
* Former running back Jamal Lewis was arrested this week for failure to pay child support. Lewis chalks it up to a misunderstanding. He thought she was on the pill.
* This happened last week, but it's still worth noting. Oklahoma State basketball player Darrell Williams was convicted of something called rape by instrumentation. I don't have a joke here.
Listen kids, I don't want this to be a one-way street. This sports law thing. I want it to be interactive and fun. I want to be like Peter King and tell you about the cup of coffee I drank at the Ramada Inn in Latrobe, PA last week and I want you to actually be able to taste that f**king cup of coffee. So in service of that goal, I'm going to end this post with a fun quiz that you can take hacks at in the comments section. This quiz is going to be real simple. Just a beginner's level test for those brave souls who made it through this godforsaken post. Okay, here goes. I'm going to list four quotes for you. A, B, C, and D. Your job is to guess whether the quote listed is from infamous superagent (and inspiration for Jerry Maguire) Leigh Steinberg, or noted Bohemian-Austrian poet and author of Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Okay, here's the quotes!
A) "I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared – it's an everyday part of life."
B) "But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
C) "Ich bin auf der Welt zu allein und doch nicht allein genug"
D) "As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here."
Cyberbullies targeting athletes told to back off [The Daily Star]
ESPN files motion to dismiss part of Laurie Fine's libel lawsuit [syracuse.com]
Central Florida hit with one-year postseason ban in both sports [cbssports.com]
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Linkfest - More Beast Hunters
More Transformers are coming, official or otherwise. For 3rd party makers, combiners seems to be the main theme while Takara has truly embraced the Masterpiece line and Hasbro is moving ahead with a full Beast Hunters line despite the short final season of Transformers Prime. Hasbro finally revealed what Masterpiece Acid Storm looks like while Takara shows off blurry images of MP Prowl and Bluestreak. Add to that lots of reviews of upcoming Beast Hunters toys, two members of TFC Toys Uranos combiner, next Throttlebot combiner member, and more.
Masterpiece Update - Hasbro MP Acid Storm | Hasbro MP Soundwave | Takara Prowl and Bluestreak
This year is just chock full of Masterpiece releases once include by the Takara and Hasbro plans. Already this year has seen the release of Takara's Soundwave toy with two of his cassettes (review below). On top of that have MP-10B Nemesis Prime 2.0 cab (March), MP-12T Tigertrack (July), MP-16 Frenzy and Rumble (April), and now a look at MP-17 Prowl (August), MP-18 Bluestreak (October) and later MP-19 Smokescreen (September). On top of that can add Hasbro's official images Masterpiece Acid Storm which is a repaint of Starscream 2.0 in a military green and black look while Soundwave is identical to the Takara release only it will come with all five cassettes instead of separate two pack releases.
Beast Hunters Galleries - Cyberverse Terrorcons | Voyager Shockwave | Voyager Ultra Magnus | Voyager Grimwing
There are more Beast Hunters coming, no clue when but figure sometime this summer. This set of galleries is for the Cyberverse Terrorcons which may or may not merge to form Abominus, a retooled version of Shockwave & Ultra Magnus and a new character Grimwing with some creature alt mode.
FansProject Intimidator Tease
Combiners is the theme this year for third party makers and Fansproject is prepping one of their versions. Coming soon is the first two not Stunticons and as the image shows, the final combiner is a sweet looking version of not Menasor that they are calling Intimidator. If the result lives up to the promise, its going to be an expensive (guessing $600 range total) but awesome addition to a collection.
Kre-O - Predaking | Checklists
One of the Kre-O sets coming out soon is the Micro Changer combiners that takes 4 Kreons and lets you "merge" (aka assemble) them into their combiner counter part. At the link above is the breakdown of the Predaking version. I think the cost is around $10 for the sets but not really sure. At the other link is a nice check list to help those with really love the Kreons and trying hard to collect them all.
Beast Hunters Video Reviews - Commander Optimus Prime | Commander Predaking | Legion Smokescreen | Legion Twinstrike | Deluxe Ripclaw | Deluxe Smokescreen | Deluxe Starscream | Deluxe Bulkhead
More Transformers Beast Hunters line toys are starting to hit shelves. Most are the Cyberverse Commander and Legion classes (smallest ones) but just a matter of time before the deluxes show up. Any case hit the links to find the review of the latest additions. Personally I think I am just going to skip the whole Beast Hunters line and focus on Generations, Masterpiece and the occasional 3rd party awesomeness.
Masterpiece Rumble & Ravage
Below is video review of the latest Masterpiece release with the cassette forms of Rumble and Ravage from Takara to go with MP-13 Soundwave. As post above indicates, Soundwave and all five cassettes are getting a stateside release so at this point the $60 (or $30 per cassette) seems beyond excessive in price but for die hard fans the review below may help decide if worth it. A gallery of images from the set can be found here.
Not Sixshot Video Review
From Mastermind Creations (makers of the Heart of Steel TF toys) comes their latest called Terminus Hexatron which is a much more details direct homage to the classic Generation 1 six-changer Sixshot. The figure is around $135 in price for an April release. Based on this early review he might just be worth ordering.
TFC Toys Uranos - not Silverbolt | not Air Raid
Below are reviews of the latest additions to the not-Arielbots set that TFC Toys is releasing. The five jet combiner will form Uranos (aka not-Superion) once its complete and be about the same size as their Hercules figure from last year. The five figures will be AV-88 Harrier II (not Slingshot), F-15 Eagle (not Air Raid), F-16 Falcon (not Skydive), F-4 Phantom (not Fireflight), SR-71 Blackbird with X-47 Phantomray (not Silverbolt). Below are the reviews of the Silverbolt and Air Raid homages. The average price is arond $100 with a release in next month or so.
Toyworld Hardbone Review
Toyworld is a new 3rd party maker, like the others, re-creates the Generation One figures with a more modern, details and articulated take. Hardbone is their G1 homage to headmaster Hardhead which did get a Generations remake a little over a year ago but without the headmaster feature (unless bought an upgrade kit). The robot mode looks pretty good but the tank makes is meh. The cost is $110 with a March release.
Toyworld Aurora Review
This is another upcoming release from Toyworld, this one is part of a Throttlebot combiner. The Throttlebots were six G1 Autobots that had a very simple transformation similar to the bot shots toys. They did not combine like this take apparently does (even though the combined form has yet to be revealed). I think Aurora is not Searchlight but not entirely sure. Any case its another modern take on old characters and looks pretty good. The cost is $70 with a release date of any day now.
Year of the Snake Omega Supreme Review
Below is the review of the currently Takara only re-release of Energon Omega Supreme in new packaging. I think this is also getting released via BigBadToyStore.com but not clear on the details. Personally it doesn't seem worth the $100 plus price tag but use the review below to help you make your own determination.


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An inmate serving a life sentence for killing three teenage girls and a Bible studies teacher in western Ohio almost 14 years ago is accused of strangling a fellow inmate at a Toledo prison.
A grand jury on Monday indicted Lawrence Michael Hensley, 43, in the death of Bradley Hamlin, who was found unresponsive in Hensley's cell in September and died two days later.
Investigators think three inmates were in or near the cell when Hamlin, 24, was assaulted, but only Hensley has been indicted, said Rob Miller, an assistant prosecutor in Lucas County. ...


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Faced with the seemingly endless growth of data in enterprises - matched by escalating storage costs - many IT leaders are turning to storage virtualization. By maximizing the use of storage resources and keeping management tasks low, storage virtualization is emerging as an effective way to deal with growing enterprise data today while also having the ability to plan for tomorrow.
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Westbury Oak
Our Westbury Reclaimed Oak living and dining range is hand-crafted using high-grade oak. Every piece within the Westbury Reclaimed Oak range is carefully made with dovetailed drawers and comes complete with solid oak drawer bases and cabinet backs. The Westbury range offers a unique and beautiful blend of classical, rustic styling, a crisp, clean finish and substantial build quality, meaning every piece within this chic oak range will last a lifetime.
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BROWN, WILLIAM LAUNCELOT (1873–1942). William Launcelot Brown, surgeon, was born in Coffeyville, Kansas, on September 23, 1873, the son of W. V. and Sarah Brown. He received his early education in pub lic schools in Missouri and Iowa and was granted a medical degree by Rush Medical College (Chicago) in 1896. After two years of postgraduate training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, he established a practice in Unionville, Missouri. In search of a drier climate because of impaired health, Brown moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1900. He and his brother, Dr. C. P. Brown, were employed as surgeons by the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, which managed the Copper Queen Mining Company in Bisbee, Arizona. After the corporation built a railroad between Bisbee and El Paso, Texas, the two brothers became railway surgeons and moved to El Paso, in September 1902. Brown served as chief railway surgeon until the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad was bought by the Southern Pacific. He then became consulting surgeon of the western division of the Southern Pacific, a post he retained until his death.
During his years as railway surgeon, Brown specialized in orthopedic injuries and became internationally recognized for his achievements in that specialty. He was one of a handful of surgeons west of the Mississippi River invited to present papers at the North American Congress of Surgery held in Toronto, Ontario, in 1931. He contributed more than thirty publications to the literature of surgery. He was the founder of the El Paso County Medical Society Bulletin and one of the founders of Southwestern Medicine. Brown was a member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1911 and chairman of the section on surgery of the Texas Medical Association in 1920. In 1934 he was named honorary life president of the Southwest Medical Association. He was a fellow of the Western Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Medical Association. He served for many years as a member of the board of directors of the Hotel Dieu Sisters Hospital in El Paso, and was a founder of the Associated Charities of El Paso (later named the Family Welfare Association) and of the first junior college in El Paso, which later became the College of Mines and then the University of Texas at El Paso. Brown married Katherine Murphy on June 2, 1906, and they had a daughter. He was a Presbyterian but had been converted to Catholicism by the time of his death in El Paso on December 28, 1942.
El Paso Times, December 29, 1942. Texas State Journal of Medicine, March 1943.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Chester R. Burns, "BROWN, WILLIAM LAUNCELOT," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbrcw), accessed November 29, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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The following is the third installment of a three-part editorial board project approved by Peter Meyer, publisher; Paul Pronovost, editor; and Anne Brennan, pro-tem member. It was reported and written by William Mills, editorial page editor, and edited by Julie Lipkin, copy editor.
As someone who studies aging, long-term care and national health policy, Walter Leutz thinks the Cape can do more to provide comprehensive chronic care for the elderly.
"Ideally, you need a movement to get all the players to talk to one another, and figure out practical ways for provider groups and hospitals and the home-care system to work together better," said Leutz, associate professor at Brandeis University in Waltham. "This is not rocket science."
Leutz, who teaches courses in long-term care and aging at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, is trying to help communities improve services for people with disabilities, particularly through stronger financing and better coordination of medical care and social services.
On the national level, Leutz says, health care reform includes initiatives to focus on chronic care and better coordination of services."Several are being designed and rolled out over the next two or three years,"he said.
One example is Beacon Communities, pilot projects that involve multicounty initiatives to get all the various elder care systems focusing on improving chronic care, such as heart disease and diabetes.There are 17 Beacon Communities across the nation, but none in Massachusetts.
Another initiative is a model called Medical Homes, where primary care practices take more responsibility for continuity of care and link with other providers, such as community social services and home care services. Eight states have been chosen to create the model, includingVermont, Maine and Rhode Island.
Here in Massachusetts, there is the Beacon Hill Villages model. "This is a private model, a cooperative of older people," Leutz said. "You join, pay a monthly fee, get connected to people in your community, coordinate care through case management, and receive services and discounts for in-home care."
Beacon Hill Villages also provides social activities, such as trips to museums.
"It's an aging-in-place model that focuses on middle- and upper-middle-class people who don't qualify for public services"such as Medicaid, he said.
Despite its relatively high price tag, Beacon Hill Villages is being replicated across the country, Leutz said.
Meanwhile, Brandeis University is working with a statewide coalition to promote Healthy Aging programming, an empowerment and prevention strategy for all elders, including those with at-risk chronic diseases. It's one component in a variety of healthy aging programs run out of local Council on Aging offices, with funding and support from the state Executive Office of Elder Affairs and the state Department of Public Health.
"The councils find and train the trainers,"Leutz said."Then they enroll eight to 12 people with chronic illnesses who come to the local senior center and learn to understand and own the fact that they have an illness.
They have to be part of the solution.
These services reduce costs by improving functional status of the patients and reducing trips to the ER."
Leutz said PACE, the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, and SCO, Senior Care Options, are effective, but they focus on Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries."It takes an HMO or insurance company to say we'd like to do this,"he said."That limits the number of these kinds of programs."
SCOs are essentially the same as PACE, but patients are not required to regularly visit a medical day care center.
One of the most effective PACEs in the country is based in Fort Myers, Fla. Operated by Hope Hospice and Hope Health Care, the organization has built an array of programs in the counties it serves. About 75 percent of people over 65 in the area are involved in one of these programs.
And consider that Cape Cod's demographic is older than Fort Myers'.
Leutz, however, thinks a PACE may be too ambitious for the Cape.
"The general notion that communities can be transformed to create a comprehensive system within our health care and long-term care system is very ambitious,"he said.
"What PACE does or what SCOs do is they create a comprehensive system for eligible patients, but that may be 15 percent of the total population. PACE is focused on frail, older people.These models are there if you are poor and sometimes you get poor because of the costs, but for most people, this type of system is not there."
Leslie Scheer, executive director of Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, said both PACE and SCO options have been seriously considered on the Cape.
"There appears to be too many obstacles to overcome, such as lack of eligible individuals who want to participate, easy access to some of the required medical and social services components, and our physical geography for those entities administering the programs,"she said.
As a result, Leutz said he thinks pieces of a comprehensive system that make up a whole can be more effective.
For example, new programs focusing on transitions across care settings may represent one piece of the puzzle. Older people come out of the hospital after one episode, and often are readmitted within 60 days."Sometimes, it's because they don't understand their meds, or their discharge plan, and there are few linkages to improved post-acute-care coordination,"he said.
In addition to a focus on transitions, Leutz said he thinks more affluent regions of the Cape should try the Beacon HillVillages model.
"It would be great if you could also interest one of the SCOs to come down there,"he said, referring to one of the four SCOs in Massachusetts that have signed a contract with the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services. "You need medical groups that serve low-income people, too."
Rachel Richards, director of the MassHealth Office of Long-Term Care, said she could not comment on which of its current SCO contractors might best serve the Cape region.
"In addition to census and age data, a potential contractor would consider, for example, what percentage of the population is eligible for Medicaid, what percentage is nursing-facility eligible, where elders live, what services are available in the area, etc.,"she said.
"An organization wanting to serve the area would conduct a feasibility study to answer these questions."
David Rehm, executive director of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, acknowledged that there may not be a large enough pool of patients to support a PACE or SCO in Barnstable County.
"One option is to expand our service area to include Plymouth and the South Shore,"Rehm said. Nevertheless, a PACE would require at least $3 million in startup costs.
Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod is investigating the possibility of creating a PACE with other health care providers in the region.
"Elsewhere, it has not been hospitaldriven," Rehm said."In Florida, hospice created it."
Rehm said it is unrealistic to expect hospitals to provide the leadership in creating an integrated approach to health care delivery."Hospitals play a vital role in our health care continuum, but the organizations best-suited to drive this process are those that are community/home-based providers.The necessary expertise lies within home care, hospice, senior care, and community health centers to name a few."
Robin Lord, a spokeswoman for Cape Cod Healthcare, said"a great opportunity"lies in working together as a community to ensure that our health care infrastructure on the Cape remains strong.
"We're deeply committed to providing highquality, efficient, safe health care close to home for seniors and everyone else, as well,"she said. "But we can't do it alone."
The Cape's demographic is different from anywhere else in the state – 24 percent of the population is over 65, about 67 percent of Cape Cod Healthcare's entire book of business is controlled by the government; so as health care reform comes into play, you're going to see more and more reimbursement reductions."
In fact, under health care reform, Lord said, Cape Cod Healthcare will see its Medicare reimbursements reduced by $106 million over the next nine years.
"So we have to work together as a community to create the access so people get the care they need wherever they are,"she said."That's why it is so important to strengthen relationships with senior groups and other community health organizations. And that's a priority for us this year and beyond."
Alisa Galazzi, executive director of Alzheimer's Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, said she doesn't know if PACE or another government program is the answer, because every program, in theory, is only as good as those implementing it.
"What I feel our families need is the same thing I feel would benefit our system overall, and that is coordinated care in the community that is flexible for disease, socioeconomic group, and individual preference,"she said."The model of having case managers who stabilize and manage chronic conditions to keep the sick person living at home, participating in the community, with full resources and support for the family caregiver is my vote."
While having one team that coordinates everything from medical care to home care for the elderly sounds good in theory, Scheer said, it's quite difficult, though not impossible, to achieve. "Perhaps these new health care reform initiatives will assist us service providers to get there quicker, and the true winner will be the elders we are here to serve,"she said.
In any case, Galazzi said, the Cape health care community needs to advocate new solutions to the problems, not the same old inadequate solutions."I don't have the answer, but coordinated resources and care in our region is where we should start,"she said.
For his part, Leutz recommends that interested parties on the Cape create a task force or convene a forum to determine the best way for the region to build a better comprehensive chronic care network for the elderly.
"It's an unaddressed need here," Galazzi said."So we think anyone who steps forward to take a leadership role is going to be, by and large, embraced." As a result, we urge Leutz to convene a meeting of officials from Cape Cod Healthcare, Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, Alzheimer's Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, Outer Cape Health Services Inc., Mid-Upper Cape Community Health Center, Helping Our Women, Elder Services of Cape Cod, the Power in Aging Collaborative, Cape volunteers, and representatives of local councils on aging.
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Everyone who is a car person probably remembers going to Epcot as a kid and riding on the Test Track sponsored by GM. However, now the ride has shifted to Test Track by Chevrolet, supposedly to connect the core consumers attending the park closer to the brand rather than the corporate mothership. But now a new dose of technology has taken the ride out of the 80s. 'Vehicle Designers' (or 12-year-olds wearing Mickey ears) have the ability to alter vehicles and see how it will effect vehicle handling, ride quality, and fuel economy.
Hat tip to Design and Trend for the rest of the story:
Test Track, one of Disney's popular attractions at Epcot in Florida, recently opened its doors to the public after a major overhaul to integrate advanced technology into the ride.
The new interactive ride called Test Track Presented by Chevrolet, designed by General Motors in association with Disney, takes guests on an excursion that details GM's procedures to evaluate its vehicles. While the earlier version allowed guests only to watch, GM and Disney 're-imagineered' the concept allowing guests to participate in the ride.
The new version now allows guests to participate in designing a virtual car during the pre-show, after which they board a six-passenger ride vehicle that helps them see how their design has fared on the driving course.
These designs are tested for how the car would handle the roughest roads or most extreme weather conditions, fuel efficiency, maneuverability through the tightest of turns and power.
The ride concludes in a renovated showroom featuring current and future Chevrolet products.
Overall, the Test Track Presented by Chevrolet creates an experience that is personal, future-focused and optimistic, and attempts to lure more youngsters into designing automobiles. GM's design manager Jeff Mylenek told Wired: "The goal is that guests have an idea of what it's like to be a designer – this is their initiation. We wanted to give the guest a feeling about how the design process works."
Meanwhile, another change has been brought into the ride is that it is now sponsored solely by Chevrolet, and not GM as a whole.
Explaining the reasons, Grace Morgan, GM's director of auto shows, exhibits and experiential marketing, told Forbes: "We go to market as individual brands, not as GM. We picked Chevy as a brand face because of what it is and means and how it has been a part of life's journey for people around the country and around the world – and how it has evolved to be modern and innovative but still fun and adventurous."
Read more at http://www.designntrend.com/articles/2799/20121214/disney-test-track-design-chevrolet-general-motors.htm#FmhurLBoOkT7mTXf.99


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In 2011, Larry A. Ryle High School had 17 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Kentucky average is 16 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Larry A. Ryle High School Reviews
Horrible can not follow the law. Teachers were wonderful but principal is another story. They put 2 of my children is special ED. becuase one can only use one hand the other is deaf (okay with hearing aid is perfectly fine) who passed GATES program which is higher than honor standards. They refused them to be enrolled in AP classes even though they met above standards. With hearing aid my son is perfectly fine my daughter lost 3 fingers in a fire. Both are not stupid!!!! Never let children go to this school!
Ryle High School is a pretty good school. It can get challenging sometimes with the amount of homework they give you, but the classes and teachers are great. I enjoy this High School so much more freedom. Lunch is another problem. There is a shortage of seats in the cafeteria so some people eat standing or sitting on the ground which stinks. But it is in a GREAT area of Kentucky I would recommend this school and area to raise your kids, I enjoy it.


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EDITOR: The Press Democrat ran a front-page article on a proposed $8 fee to be charged at 15 designated state beaches in Sonoma County ("County defends opposing state beach fees," Monday). State parks says it needs this revenue for budget purposes. The county opposes these new day-use fees.
Instead of praise for our county planners, the article is a one-sided challenge to the county's position — i.e., how can the county justify opposing these fees.
These beaches are a phenomenal blessing. They are a wonder of nature. Visiting the ocean and being in its presence is a powerfully uplifting experience.
People might argue as to whether the ocean beaches "belong" to the public, but they certainly don't belong to a California government agency.
For a whole variety of reasons our county should be encouraging greater, not restricted, access to our public beaches. In these tough economic times particularly, it is an outrage to limit public access based on a huge $8 fee for every visit to the ocean.
We all pay taxes to support state parks, and that is well and good. But don't tax us again with an outrageous plan like this just because a wiser alternative has not yet been found.
Don't give up