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When right and left wing activists find themselves on the same side of a controversy, it's worth probing why. Such is the case with the Common Core academic standards being implemented in Indiana and 45 other states. Conservatives and progressives alike see problems with them.
The right is concerned about imposition of a "federal curriculum" and the loss of local control. The left fears "one size fits all" instruction that will turn teachers into widget makers whose primary purpose is to prepare students for testing, not learning.
Both question who's profiting financially from this new set of national academic standards for English and math that will dictate the content of curriculum, textbooks, teacher training and testing materials.
Senate Bill 193, which would delay implementation of the standards pending further review, passed the Senate 38-11 on Feb. 21. Since then, backers have poured tens of thousands of dollars into television ads to persuade the public and lawmakers to keep the standards in place.
Lawmakers have a duty to make sure the standards are right for Indiana, especially considering the breadth of expert opposition:
? "The assumption behind national standardization is that all students, regardless of state residence, should be able to do the same things at the same time. That ignores basic reality: states have different populations and challenges. ... Having different state standards allows better tailoring to people's actual needs than nationalization." - Neal McCluskey of the libertarian Cato Institute.
? "One mandated universal curricular program for all children just does not make conceptual sense, is intuitively contradictory and has no empirical backing. ... We should be increasing curricular diversity, not seeking to constrict it. - Christopher H. Tienken, editor of the AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice (American Association of School Administrators).
? "The Common Core standards effort is fundamentally flawed by the process with which they have been foisted upon the nation. ... We are a nation of guinea pigs, almost all trying an unknown new program at the same time." - Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University and former Bush administration official.
So where's support for the standards coming from? At both local and national levels, they are touted by politically moderate school reform groups - Democratic and Republican - that are backed financially by private foundations and big business. The Chamber of Commerce is on board. So are educational testing and publishing companies that will benefit directly from their implementation.
The movement has been "propelled by private entities with a national scope," according to "The Common Core: Educational Redeemer or Rainmaker?" The study was published in the October Teachers College Record, the nation's premier education research journal.
Billed as "educational redeemer," the movement is motivated by money, the researchers said, citing the prominent role played in the process by educational publishing and consulting companies.
Examples include the College Board, which administers the SAT test that will soon be aligned with Common Core, and Pearson, a publishing company selling textbooks, teacher training and student and teacher assessments.
People's World, a media outlet of organized labor, has raised concerns about the role played in Common Core adoption by Stand for Children. Although the group began with children's rights advocacy as its focus, it now pushes a corporate education agenda focused on union-busting, People's World reports.
Stand for Children's donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Profit Inc. and the Walton Family Foundation.
In Indiana, ads promoting Common Core have been purchased by Stand for Children's state affiliate. Executive director Justin Ohlemiller said, "State chapters of Stand for Children choose what issues to focus on and our work is funded from multiple sources including member contributions and local donors."
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels and School Superintendent Tony Bennett pushed Indiana to adopt the Common Core in 2010.
There was no public discussion at the time. Since then, a host of experts have emerged to question their quality and effectiveness.
At minimum, Indiana lawmakers should ask this question: Who's running Indiana schools? Local elected boards and state policymakers? Or philanthropists, consultants, publishers and testing companies?
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Article: Ultraselective transcatheter infusion of epirubicin in water-in-oil-in-water emulsion for small hepatocellular carcinoma[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have previously reported the clinical efficacy of water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsions, particularly for non-selective transcatheter arterial infusion (TAI) therapy. W/O/W emulsions limit damage to normal hepatic parenchyma, because of their minimal embolic effect on peripheral arteries and slow release of anticancer agent. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of ultraselective TAI (UTI) of a W/O/W emulsion for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). 11 patients with Stage I-III small HCCs (<5 cm) underwent UTI with a W/O/W emulsion at our institute. Response was assessed using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors. Disease-free survival time was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. All 10 patients, excluding a patient who underwent a hepatectomy after UTI, achieved complete response. The 6, 12 and 30 month cumulative disease-free survival rates for the 10 patients were 100%, 90% and 60%, respectively. The patient who underwent hepatectomy after UTI developed complete necrosis of the HCC and peritumoral non-tumorous liver parenchyma. UTI therapy using a W/O/W emulsion for patients with small HCCs results in a good local response.The British journal of radiology 03/2012; 85(1017):e584-9. DOI:10.1259/bjr/16376960 · 2.03 Impact Factor
Article: Transcatheter Infusion of Epirubicin in Water-in-Oil-in-Water Emulsion via a Cystic Artery for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have previously reported the clinical efficacy of water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsion containing anticancer agent. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of transcatheter arterial infusion (TAI) of W/O/W emulsion via a cystic artery for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). TAI of a W/O/W emulsion was performed at our institute in five patients with Stage III or IV HCC with blood supply from the cystic artery. In all patients, 2-12 ml/O/W emulsion was infused via a cystic artery. Therapeutic effects and complications were evaluated in these patients. Of the five patients treated, one achieved a complete response and two achieved a partial response. After treatment, acute cholecystitis or gallbladder ischemia that required treatment was not encountered in any patient. W/O/W emulsion can be safely infused via a cystic artery without major complications; it is a good therapeutic option for the patients with advanced HCC fed by a cystic artery.CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology 08/2011; 34(4):802-7. DOI:10.1007/s00270-010-9988-6 · 2.07 Impact Factor
Article: Confluent Two-Balloon Technique: An Alternative Method for Subintimal Recanalization of Peripheral Arterial Occlusion[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The present report describes a technique of simultaneous confluent balloon inflation in cases in which conventional subintimal angioplasty failed. Eight patients with peripheral vascular occlusive disease (n = 4 each with iliac arterial lesions and superficial femoral arterial lesions) of clinical category 3-5 received treatment with the confluent two-balloon technique. Recanalization was successfully completed with this technique in all eight patients, without any major complications. All patients with claudication and rest pain were relieved of their symptoms, and both patients with ulcers showed improvement.Journal of vascular and interventional radiology: JVIR 08/2011; 22(8):1139-43. DOI:10.1016/j.jvir.2011.04.001 · 2.41 Impact Factor
Article: Superselective intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy for stage III/IV squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity: Midterm results[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We performed superselective intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy (SIC) according to a protocol in which drug distribution is evaluated by the use of interventional radiology (IVR)-computed tomography (CT) system, and the chemotherapy is combined with medium-dose conformal radiation therapy (CRT). We analyzed retrospectively the factors that affect the midterm survival ratio, including local response, for stage III and IV squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity. Forty consecutive patients with stage III and IV squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity and who had undergone both SIC and CRT were enrolled. A microcatheter was placed in the appropriate feeding artery of the tumor and cisplatin (50mg/body) was infused twice. CRT was administered with a dual-energy (4 and 10 MV) linear accelerator. The total and daily doses delivered were 30 and 2.0 Gy, respectively. Histopathologic effects were classified into five grades: grade 0 or 1 was defined as a poor response, and grade II or higher as a good response. Age, sex, stage, local response to treatment, mode of invasion and lymph node metastasis were analyzed, and differences in the midterm survival ratio were assessed. The 3-year survival ratio of the 40 cases was 67%. A good local response (III or IV) was achieved in 75% of the cases. The survival ratio of the good local response group was significantly better than that of the poor response group (p=0.04). Mode of invasion (p=0.03) and lymph node metastasis (p=0.01) were also predictive of survival. In the multivariable analysis of survival, however, no variables including good local response (p=0.12), were predictive. Our new protocol improved local response, but it did not contribute to the survival ratio.European Journal of Radiology 05/2008; 66(1):7-12. DOI:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.05.019 · 2.37 Impact Factor
Article: Combined stent placement and high dose PGE1 drip infusion for chronic occlusion of the superficial femoral artery as a modality to salvage chronic critical limb ischemia[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To assess the initial effect, short-term patency, and limb salvage rates of combined stent placement and high-dose prostaglandin E-1 (PGE1) drip infusion for chronic occlusion of the superficial femoral artery (SFA). A total of 15 arteriosclerotic occlusive lesions of the SFA were treated in 11 consecutive patients (mean age: 78.4 years old). All cases were of category 4 or 5, based on the criteria of the Society of Vascular Surgery and Intermittent Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (SVC/ISCVS). In all cases a self-expandable stainless steel stent was implanted. PGE1 treatment was started 3-5 days before stent placement and continued for 7-10 days after the intervention. The technical success, limb salvage outcomes, patency rates, and complications were examined. In all cases, the technical success rate of the procedure was 100%. After stent implantation, the clinical status of all cases was improved by at least +2, and major amputation was not required in any cases. The 12-month primary, secondary patency rates, and limb salvage rate were 57%, 100%, and 100%, respectively. Combined stent placement and high-dose PGE1 drip infusion is a treatment of choice for salvaging the lower limb of a patient with chronic critical ischemia.European Journal of Radiology 05/2008; 66(1):95-9. DOI:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.04.025 · 2.37 Impact Factor
Article: Intraarterial Infusion Chemotherapy and Conformal Radiotherapy for Cancer of the Mouth: Prediction of the Histological Response to Therapy with Magnetic Resonance Imaging[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Although intraarterial chemotherapy has been used to treat head and neck cancers, some cases have shown poor response. If we can predict the response to this therapy on MRI, individual treatment plans may be altered to the most appropriate form of treatment. To evaluate whether MRI can predict the histological response to preoperative chemoirradiation in patients with cancer of the mouth. This study comprised of 29 consecutive patients with 30 oral cancers. All patients underwent tumor resection after intraarterial infusion chemotherapy and conformal radiotherapy. We compared the margin of the tumor, the presence of bone invasion, tumor area, and volume on pre- and post-treatment MRI with histological responses. Eighteen lesions showed an excellent response, nine exhibited a good response, and three a poor response. Only the tumor area on pretreatment T1-weighted images and the tumor area and volume on pretreatment enhanced T1-weighted images were significantly correlated with the histological response (P = 0.039, 0.008, and 0.016, respectively); smaller cancers showed better responses. The other factors were not significantly correlated with the histological responses. MRI parameters, excluding initial tumor area and volume, were not predictive of the histological response of oral tumors to preoperative treatment.Acta Radiologica 11/2007; 48(8):900-6. DOI:10.1080/02841850701501741 · 1.60 Impact Factor
Article: Transarterial infusion chemotherapy with epirubicin in water-in-oil-in-water emulsion for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in the residual liver after hepatectomy[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To evaluate the midterm results of transarterial infusion (TAI) with water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsion containing an anticancer agent for patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after surgical resection. We retrospectively analyzed the results of TAI of W/O/W emulsion containing epirubicin for 18 consecutive patients with recurrent HCC after surgical resection. Fourteen patients were males and four were females; their ages ranged from 51 to 86 years (mean 69.8 years). TAI was repeated every 1-6 months based on the response of the tumor. A total of 41 TAI procedures were performed for 18 patients. Angiographically, recurrent HCC appeared a single nodule in nine patients and was multinodular in other nine patients. TAI was performed selectively in 27 procedures and non-selectively in 14 procedures. Maximum response within 3 months was rated as follows: a complete response (CR, complete disappearance of tumor and no evidence of new lesions); partial response (PR, a reduction of <50% in total volume of all tumors calculated from the two longest perpendicular diameters without a new lesion); no response (NC, a reduction of <50% in total volume or an increase of <25% without a new lesion); or progression of disease (PD, an increase of >25% in total volume or evidence of new lesions). Survival time was defined as the time from the date of first TAI to the date of death or last follow-up (median follow-up time: 17 months) and the survival curve was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. The CR rate was 33% and the effective response rate (CR rate+PR rate) was 78%. Survival from the time of initial TAI was 94% at 1 year, 76% at 2 years, and 76% at 3 years. TAI of W/O/W emulsion may be an effective treatment for patients with recurrent HCC after surgical resection.European journal of radiology 10/2007; 69(1):114-9. DOI:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.09.001 · 2.37 Impact Factor
Article: Superselective arterial infusion chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity: Histopathologic effects on metastatic neck lymph nodes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have performed superselective intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy (SIC) on carcinomas of the oral cavity according to a protocol in which the distribution of the drug was evaluated by the use of a combined CT and angiography system, and the chemotherapy was combined with medium-dose conformal radiation therapy (CRT). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pathological effect of this treatment on the metastatic neck lymph nodes (LNs). Twenty consecutive patients who had metastatic neck LNs from squamous cell carcinomas of the mouth and who underwent both SIC and CRT were included in this study, in which a total of 22 LNs were evaluated. A microcatheter was placed in the appropriate feeding artery of the tumor, such as the internal maxillary artery, facial artery, lingual artery and external carotid artery (ECA), and cisplatin (50 mg/body) was infused twice through a microcatheter. The CRT was administered with a dual-energy (4 and 10 MV) linear accelerator. The total and daily doses delivered were 30 and 2.0 Gy, respectively. Intra-arterial infusion to the LNs was divided into two groups: superselective infusion (mainly to the submandibular LNs via the facial artery, n = 10) and nonsuperselective infusion via the ECA (n = 12). The distribution of cisplatin into the LNs was confirmed by slow-infusion CT. Histopathologic effects on the LNs were evaluated on the specimens obtained during the operation and classified into five grades (0: no or minimal response: I: disappearance of less than three quarters of the tumor cells: II: disappearance of more than three quarters of the tumor cells: III: disappearance of viable tumor cells with a small amount of residual nonviable tumor cells: IV: complete disappearance of all viable and nonviable tumor cells). Grade 0 or 1 was defined as poor response and Grade II or more as good response. Twenty-three LNs from nine patients without CRT and SIC were served as control. In the superselective infusion group, all 10 LNs showed good response (response rate, 100%: grade II = 4, grade III = 3, grade IV = 3). In the non-superselective group, however, 6 of 12 LNs showed poor response (response rate, 50%: grade 0 = 2, grade I = 4, grade II = 2, grade III = 2, grade IV = 2). All 23 control LNs with no treatment showed grade 0 response. Superselective infusion seems necessary to obtain good histopathologic effects on the metastatic LNs. SIC combined with CRT can be applied to the metastatic LNs.Archiv für Klinische und Experimentelle Ohren- Nasen- und Kehlkopfheilkunde 04/2007; 264(3):269-75. DOI:10.1007/s00405-006-0183-y · 1.55 Impact Factor
Article: Intraarterial infusion chemotherapy for head and neck cancers: Evaluation of tumor perfusion with intraarterial CT during carotid arteriography[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To evaluate drug distribution in carcinomas of the head and neck region with CT during intraarterial contrast-material injection for superselective intraarterial infusion of anti-cancer agents, and to evaluate perfusion in the carcinomas with intraarterial dynamic CT, using a combined CT and angiography system. Twenty-three consecutive patients underwent conventional angiography as well as intraarterial injection CT using a combined CT and angiography system. Contrast material enhancement on intraarterial CT images was evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively with the following parameters: enhanced pattern, delineation and extent of tumor, peak CT value, peak time, maximum inclination of wash-in and washout, and transfer index (k) using a Patlak plot method. After the feeding vessels had been identified by enhancement of the tumor on CT of the selected vessel, relatively low-dose cisplatin was injected through the microcatheter placed in each artery depending on tumor location. Histopathologic effects were evaluated after surgery and compared with CT findings. In the qualitative evaluation, tumors showed early, strong enhancement as well as rapid washout compared with the adjacent normal tissues, and dynamic CT was useful for evaluation of the extent of the tumor. When multiple feeders existed, the dose of cisplatin for each feeder could be determined by the percentage of tumor enhanced with CT on each vascular injection. The mean values of quantitative parameters, however, were not significantly different between the good and poor response groups. Intraarterial CT was useful for evaluation of the arterial supply and drug distribution of the tumor. However, quantitative data did not provide additional information for prediction of the treatment effect. This might indicate that the effectiveness of intraarterial chemotherapy is not directly related to the perfusion of head and neck cancers.Radiation Medicine 07/2004; 22(4):254-9.
Article: Abnormal perfusion of the pituitary gland secondary to dural arteriovenous fistulas in the cavernous sinus: Dynamic MR findings[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: If venous congestion is the primary cause of pituitary gland enlargement in cases of dural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), other abnormal pituitary findings may be detectable on MR images. We sought to investigate the perfusion abnormality of the pituitary gland secondary to dural AVFs in the cavernous sinus and to clarify its clinical importance. Nine consecutive patients (all female; age range, 50-77 years) with dural AVFs in the cavernous sinus underwent prospective MR examinations, including dynamic studies, before and after therapy. Their clinical signs and symptoms were recorded. Two radiologists visually evaluated the enhancement patterns of the anterior pituitary gland. Dynamic MR curves were obtained by locating regions of interest at the center and bilateral peripheral areas of the anterior pituitary gland on coronal images. MR images obtained in five healthy individuals served as controls. No patient had symptoms of hypopituitarism or other endocrine abnormalities. Asymmetric pituitary enhancement was found in five patients; the side with the dural AVF was less enhancing. This finding disappeared after therapy. Although asymmetric enhancement was not detected in the remaining four patients, statistical analysis showed significantly delayed enhancement of the pituitary gland in the patients compared with enhancement patterns in control subjects. After treatment, this delay improved significantly. The pituitary gland significantly decreased in size after treatment. Perfusion of the pituitary gland is impaired in patients with a dural AVF in the cavernous sinus. This finding is probably due to venous congestion of the pituitary gland caused by high pressure in the cavernous sinus; it is usually not related to pituitary dysfunction.American Journal of Neuroradiology 06/2003; 24(5):930-6. · 3.59 Impact Factor
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Easy Anime Eye-Colouring Tutorial by Nanami-YukariWatch
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So here's the tutorial I've been promising >u< hope it's not too confusing~
Sorry it's put together pretty badly ;_;
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!
If you try it out, please link it to me! I'll love to see it ;u;
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I just adore so much the way you color eyes on this one, it's so shiny and glossy, really loving the effect, thanks for sharing this <3
What did you use to make the tutorial?
What did you use to make the tutorial?
Thanks >u<
Paint tool Sai for the eyes, Photoshop element to assemble the tutorial, if that's what you mean~
Paint tool Sai for the eyes, Photoshop element to assemble the tutorial, if that's what you mean~
Yay! cool! thanks!...hair tutorial ?
Ah glad I could help ;u;
The way I do hair is very messy and inconsistent unfortunately.. so it wouldn't be good tutorial material
Thank you for doing a tutorial!
I think I should try this in photoshop- im too povo to buy SAI. PArents won't let me. BUT IT LOOKS SOO GOOD
Paint tool sai has a 1 month free trial! My parents are a bit uneasy about buying a drawing program that is $60, but you can always print screen!
Photoshop has slightly different features but I think you can still do this X3
ooooh very helpful! *saves*
Omigod proness overload;o;
Thanks, eye is my favorite thing to draw so this should help alot. Imma do this soon enough...until then, back to studying;^;
it looks really helpful! im gonna use it some time!
omg this helped me so much thankyou for doing this!!!!
Awwww yay!!!!! thank you for gracing us with your technique
This is really helpful!
Thank you for sharing this Nana-chan, I will be sure to try this out~
Thank you.
This is very helpful.
Especially to me who's learning how to color.
Appreciate it. ; v ;
This is very helpful.
Especially to me who's learning how to color.
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Quick has won 11 of his 12 starts this spring while leading the Los Angeles Kings within one victory of their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final since 1993. The Kings' 2-1 victory Thursday against Phoenix marked the eighth consecutive game in which Quick won without allowing more than two goals. The last goaltender to put together that kind of streak was Sawchuk, who went 8-0 while leading Detroit to a sweep in the 1952 playoffs -- a stretch of brilliance in which he allowed just five goals and posted four shutouts.
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In 721 minutes, Quick has allowed just 17 goals on 344 shots. Daymond Langkow's goal 1:03 into the second period Thursday ended Quick's shutout streak at 102:58 -- and snapped a streak that had seen the Kings go 364:05 without trailing in a game. The last team to go that long without facing a deficit on the scoreboard was the 2002 Detroit Red Wings, who went 365:41 without trailing.
Start strong, finish strong -- Another sign of the Kings' dominance: Ten of their 11 victories have come in regulation time. Though 21 of the 74 games this spring have gone into overtime, the Kings have played beyond the third period just once -- their Game 5 win in the first round against the Canucks.
One reason the Kings haven't had to work much extra time -- Jarret Stoll won their lone overtime game just 4:27 into the extra period -- is because they've outscored their opponents 13-5 in the first period in their 12 games. L.A. has been even better at closing -- the Kings have outscored the opposition 13-4 in the third period.
Rolling an 11 -- As good as the Kings have been, they're just the sixth team to start the playoffs by winning 11 of their first 12 games -- and as the last three of the five previous 11-1 teams have found out, roaring through the first three rounds is no guarantee you'll roll to the Stanley Cup.
The 1983 Edmonton Oilers, 1995 Detroit Red Wings and 2008 Pittsburgh Penguins all equaled the Kings' feat of opening the playoffs by going 11-1 -- the Oilers actually went 12-1 after completing a sweep in the conference finals. None of the three won the Cup, however, and only the '08 Penguins avoided a sweep in the Final.
The two 11-1 teams that did go on to win the Cup were the Montreal Canadiens in 1968 and 1976. But both of those teams only played three rounds; the Habs lost just once in 13 games each year on the way to the Cup.
Missing in action -- The Coyotes weren't a robust offensive team during the regular season or the first two rounds of the playoffs. But they've been as dry as the Mojave Desert in the first three games against Los Angeles, scoring just three times in 180 minutes of action while being outshot 116-70.
One Coyote who completely has been shut down is Ray Whitney, who led Phoenix with 77 points during the regular season and had six points in the Coyotes' first eight playoff games, including the overtime goal in Game 1 of the conference semifinals. But Whitney has been shut down completely by the Kings, continuing a drought that began in the previous round against Nashville.
Whitney didn't hit the score sheet Thursday, marking the sixth consecutive game in which he's failed to register a point. That's twice as long as his longest regular-season drought -- the 40-year-old didn't go longer than three games without a point while playing all 82 games.


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The B&S frames have stainless steel leaf springs and piano hinge. The springs are adjusted with a 3/8" nut. I have forgotten what this nut is called. It has a nylon insert that helps keep it from working loose. Bill Schwab used brass and the adjustment is made by a slotted head brass machine screw. In all three the springs twist around and lock in a slot in the wood frame.
Though I have arthritis in my hands I can adjust either the nut with a box wrench (spanner) or the screw with a screw driver quite easily. The elegant tensioning knob would certainly personalize your work, but IMHO be a waste of effort and expense.
What does get the arthritis calling is if the leaf spring does not slide right into the slot and you have to push it in several times to make the connection. When I complained of this problem years ago, I was told there were two solutions. Get a vacuum frame or take two aspirin and call him in the morning. The person did not say what I should call him in the morning.
I use my frames under an enlarger for silver or a uv source for platinum and have not felt the need for a stand. My first concern would be that it might be less stable than the frame itself on the table.
Good luck with your project. It is always a pleasure in this artistic pursuit to find beautiful hand made tools to accompany our hopefully beautiful hand made prints. This is one of the reasons that after selling software for twenty years it was a delight to shoot film rather than go digital and continue to work with software when I retired.


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Man Gets 5 Years for Child Porn; an Evaluation Found He Had No Photos or Contacts with His Former Students
Houghton, Shannon, The Florida Times Union
Byline: SHANNON HOUGHTON
A former Middleburg elementary school teacher who pleaded guilty to sharing child pornography will spend the next five years and three months in prison, a federal judge ruled Friday.
John E. McIntyre, 41, removed his wedding ring and belt, then wiped his eyes as deputy marshals led him from the courtroom. His mother crumpled, weeping, onto a bench, later vowing to write to officials about her frustrations with the minimum sentence requirement.
Under federal law, those convicted of transporting child pornography on the Internet must serve from five to 20 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan said the sentencing guidelines in this case were from five years and three months to six years and six months.
Undercover FBI agent Timothy Adams met McIntyre in a chat room last year, and McIntyre sent a file of several young boys in sex acts with adult males. Other child pornography was later found on his computer.
"I'm sorry we're all here today, and I'm very embarrassed to be here," McIntyre's attorney, Robert Willis, told the court.
McIntyre never had contact with or photos of his students at Tynes Elementary School, a psychosexual evaluation later determined. He had been with Clay County schools since 1988.
Willis said McIntyre would have had a strong case for probation if the minimum sentencing wasn't set at five years. "He was very successful, very well thought of," Willis said. …


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Forrest Griffin: 'I walked to God'
Former UFC light heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin has become a member of the Las Vegas-based Central Christian Church, as detailed in this profile by Doug McMurdo of Nevada's Kingman Daily Miner.
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10/12/13 6:09 PM by StretchPlum
Trick or Truth, I think you realize that if everything you said or approved is true, it shows no causation. I could be smart and therefore wrongly believe I know everything--a huge factor in my opinion. I could have been conditioned a certain way due to my education, including that to call myself atheist makes me seem cooler and like a real iconoclast. Also, many of the same people who would decry IQ tests as unreliable, worthless or discriminatory would love using them for this purpose. Would this mean that if intelligence quotients for various religious groups were different, that would create a hierarchy of stupidity for believing in one religion or another? Like blowing up yourself and a bunch of kids as opposed to going to church? No one would want to go there.
10/9/13 3:53 PM by CJJScout
Good for him.
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Voted up. Not a mean bone in that guys body.Cindy
9/27/13 9:25 PM by DiscipleDojo
You and pretty much everyone who gave rise to science in the first place. People who think they are at war with one another show their ignorance of one or the other...or both.
9/27/13 8:03 PM by slowdiver
Never understood the science vs religion thing. I was raised thinking science was just the explanation of how God works.
9/27/13 6:00 PM by Qannebiss
Methinks you need to look the word up.
9/27/13 5:56 PM by RocketsRedglare
"Christian apologists"No one apologizes for being Christian. This mere statement shows the depth of one of the few acceptable prejudices.
9/27/13 3:57 PM by snookerbank
I sidestepped God but respect others who believe.
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You know, I thought I spotted him at a Home Depot buying hammers....but it was just Clay Guida. I'm still not sure it wasn't Jesus though.


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Audiolab 8200CD review
The Audiolab 8200CD is more than just a CD player - it offers a choice of digital audio inputs, including a USB port to let a PC play its sound through the Audiolab's high-spec digital-to-analogue converter
Year by year, the CD is dwindling. But right now, the compact disc is the highest-fidelity music format still readily available in the high street. You can get better sound from vinyl, SACD and DVD-Audio, but none of those media are as widely available as the thirty year-old compact disc.
So while the world goes download crazy, we shouldn't be too surprised when a specialist hi-fi company still releases new CD players. Especially when it equips its player with the necessary portage to let it work with computer audio files.
The Audiolab 8200CD has heritage in a classic 8000CD model made by the British audio specialist since the 1980s. So from the outside, the 8200CD has a no-nonsense purposeful look, fielding a tray-load slot for the disc, a two-line dot-matrix fluorescent display and six buttons to control disc transport and input selection.
It's that last button that marks the 8200CD from its ancestor – and most other traditional CD players for that matter. As well as play a disc within, you can use the player as a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) for external audio devices in the home.
There are two coaxial S/PDIF inputs, useful for connecting DVD players and many set-top boxes and games consoles. Two Toslink optical inputs help cover for most of the devices that don't offer a coaxial digital output. And then there's an USB digital audio input. Also included are digital outputs, one each, coaxial and optical.
For analogue output, as well at the usual stereo phono sockets, the Audiolab 8200CD also includes XLR balanced outputs, prized by professionals and audiophiles with fully-balanced amplifiers.
Front and rear: the Audiolab 8200CD (also available in black) is a high-quality CD player component with the versatility to accept other digital sources
The rear panel features (left to right): IEC mains inlet, well-space analogue outputs (RCA unbalanced and XLR balanced), 3.5mm remote jacks, USB Type B input, RCA and Toslink digital outputs, 2 x S/PDIF digital inputs (either coaxial or Toslink on each)
Despite the similarities in looks, there's little in common between original and new Audiolab 8200CD CD players. The Audiolab company has changed hands twice since its British founding in the early 1980s – first to TAG McLaren in the late 90s, then to Chinese-owned audio manufacturer IAG (International Audio Group) in 2004.
Of course there have been many advances in digital audio electronics since the 1980s.
We now know a lot more about the impact on sound quality of timing errors, sample-rate conversion and the game-changing effect of filters, for instance.
The Audiolab 8200CD player's designer is freelance consultant John Westlake – known for his work with Pink Triangle, Cambridge Audio and Peachtree Audio.
Instead of using a popular single-chip converter chip from the likes of Texas Instruments or Crystal, Westlake has employed a very low-noise 32-bit Sabre DAC from US specialist ESS Technology.
This is based on multiple DAC elements – 256 per channel – and like many DAC solutions now is a hybrid of multi-bit and delt-sigma conversion. It uses what ESS calls a Hyperstream modulator, said to improve dynamic deficiencies and reduce low-level noise.
Elsewhere audiophile credentials are earned with the use of high-grade, low-ESR capacitiors and high-tolerance resistors, 34 regulated DC supply rails and a custom CD servo design with its own low-noise power supply.
A philter to fit
To provide some tuning of the Audiolab 8200CD's sound overall sound, the user is offered four different digital interpolation filters to choose from.
These aren't like the analogue filters that adjust tone, bass and treble; digital filters can be responsible for a far-reaching perspective shift in the way the music is presented.
The four filters of the Audiolab 8200CD are cycled from the remote handset, and are labelled Sharp Rolloff, Slow Rolloff, Optimal Spectrum and Optimal Transient.
The first is probably closest to the type of filter (and sound) found in traditional CD players, designed to remove most of the inherent digital detritus from the music signal, with a brickwall filter around 20kHz.
Filters such as Slow Rolloff and Optimal Transient may have better time alignment (meaning a more natural temporal presentation, closer to analogue reproduction) but sometimes at the expense of sounding messier due to unwanted digital artefacts getting mixed into the music.
With more ultrasonic residue to contend with, different amplifiers may react differently to their operation. In other words, results vary depending on the rest of the hi-fi system the player is connected to.
CD player, meet computer
The USB input uses an asynchronous protocol, which in our experience has had better audio performance than earlier adaptive-mode USB operation. In short, the DAC's master clock is in charge of the timing of music data from the PC, rather than the less predictable clock timing afforded by the computer.
This USB input additionally introduces some control of software audio/video players on the playback computer.
Pressing Play on the Audiolab 8200CD's fascia or remote, for example, can start a track playing in iTunes. It can be somewhat hit-and-miss though: with both iTunes and VLC apps open on our PC, the Play button caused both programs to start playing together, with cacophonous results.
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Thanks to those four filters to choose from, the Audiolab 8200CD has a somewhat chameleon-like character, able blend into most surroundings.
'Which filter is best?' is a question best answered though your own trials and experiments, as the answer will depend on the balance of your hi-fi system, your tastes in music and the sound that you really want in your room. We conducted some double-blind listening tests to see what worked for us.
The Audiolab 8200CD's first filter, Fast Rolloff, is almost a stooge of a filter, put there to make the others look good. It made music sound overly damped, flat and uninteresting. On the plus side, if you have a particularly badly produced CD that's viciously bright when played elsewhere, try it with Fast Rolloff. Then see if you can stay awake to the end of its soporific rendering of your music.
Slow Rolloff gave a good tonal balance, certainly with a enticingly extended top end of the frequency range, yet without sounding too sharp. It also brought out the benefit of a wide and deep soundstage; we found this nicely evident in the live version of Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall Part I'. Where appropriate to the music, it will nicely separate the layers of musical lines. With some music, such as orchestral pieces with mass strings, it could get a little too husky and reedy though. And it certainly let brass sections show their mettle. Low-level bass was rendered most deeply but it could get a little wayward and underdamped at times.
Optimal Spectrum was for most music our preferred choice. It could bring an immediacy to music unheard elsewhere. Stereo placement of instruments in classical pieces was the most precise; and with this filter, we found it easiest to mentally separate music from extraneous off-stage noises in a live recording of Shostakovich 8th Symphony. This filter could at times be almost too revealing, too intimate, and may be a little wearing in the high frequencies in systems that already lean in that direction. But in sheer revelation and the dragging out of low-level detail, this is the filter that came closest to the sound of our reference dCS three-box CD player.
Optimal Transient had great focus, like the Optimal Spectrum, but lacked some of the colour and enthusiasm for showing-off we heard of that filter. Bass could sometimes be quite enveloping here, almost to a fault. This was certainly one dynamic-sounding filter that will appeal to musicians' ears. More so than even the Optimal Spectrum, beware of a little too much effervescence on treble-centric recordings. Otherwise, this filter was judged accurate in timing and quite compelling in its articulacy and musical expression.
A sin crown us audio
We then compared the sound of the Audiolab 8200CD playing CDs from its own disc drive, versus the same tracks ripped as AIFF files and played directly from the computer via the USB connection.
While a similar essential character was heard, the USB version had less of the silk and sophistication of the Audiolab 8200CD playing a compact disc directly.
The soundstage width seemed conrived, with loudspeakers staking out the boundaries of sound yet without filling the space between them so seamlessly. This was the gauche country-cousin coming to visit, carrying just as much dynamism and energy but somehow a little misplaced in its direction. Overall, subtly but simply cruder sounding.
The USB input is a most useful option, and while its presence is very welcome, it also served to show that computer audio does not automatically equal 'CD sound', even when the source files are of the same uncompressed format as the original CD.
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Audiolab 8200CD: Specs
- CD player with digital inputs
- 2 x RCA coaxial S/PDIF, 2 x Toslink optical, 1 x USB inputs
- coaxial and Toslink digital outputs
- stereo RCA and XLR balanced analogue outputs
- ESS9019 Sabre32 DAC
- four digital filters
- infrared remote control handset
- 3.5mm in/out jacks for remote control
- CD player with digital inputs
- 2 x RCA coaxial S/PDIF, 2 x Toslink optical, 1 x USB inputs
- coaxial and Toslink digital outputs
- stereo RCA and XLR balanced analogue outputs
- ESS9019 Sabre32 DAC
- four digital filters
- infrared remote control handset
- 3.5mm in/out jacks for remote control
The Audiolab 8200CD is a most versatile CD player, and ideal as a primary digital source component in a modern hi-fi system. The extra inputs extend the player's span to take in almost any other digital product you may have in your living room too. A quartet of digital filters means the player or converter's sound can be tweaked to taste, although the core sound remains incisive and supremely detailed, particularly from the primary CD drive. If sound quality is more important to you than convenience, the Audiolab 8200CD works at its very best as a CD player.


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One of our key design goals is to reduce coupling between objects and classes. By keeping coupling to a minimum a design is more resilient to change imposed by new feature requests or missing requirements[1].
An Interface represents an abstract service. That is, it is the specification of a set of behaviours (operations) that represent a problem that needs to be solved.
An Interface is more than a set of cohesive operations. The Interface can be thought of as a contract between two objects – the client of the interface and the provider of the interface implementation.
The implementer of the Interface guarantees to fulfil the specifications of the Interface. That is, given that operation pre-conditions are met the implementer will fulfil any behavioural requirements, post-conditions, invariants and quality-of-services requirements.
From the client's perspective it must conform to the operation specifications and fulfil any pre-conditions required by the Interface. Failure to comply on either side may cause a failure of the software.


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2001 Volkswagen Beetle • 140,000 miles
My vw was used to jump a ford f150. The nex day my vw would not start and the battery had to be charged. When it started the light came on for electrical problems. What could this be?
January 5, 2013.
January 5, 2013.
What light for "electrical problems"?
The red "battery light" or the yellow "check engine light"?
The red "battery light" or the yellow "check engine light"?
Jan 5, 2013.
Jan 5, 2013.
I would have the alternator and battery tested one of them may be bad.
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How do I replace a battery in a 2009 Chevy Equinox LS with a 3.4L V6. Most cars are straight forward, this looks difficult. Shame on GM. Thanks.
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George Guhl was born on September 27, 1875 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder by Invitation (1941), Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939) and Torchy Gets Her Man (1938). He died on June 27, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. See full bio »
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Euchre Tournament is a desktop application used for hosting a euchre tournament. The software manages scoring and creates schedules for each player so that each player plays with every other player exactly once.
Setting up a tournament is very simple. Simply select the number of players and enter their names and the name of the tournament.
Euchre Buddy is an euchre auto card counting program developed for the benefit of the players of the card game Euchre. It's programmed with an advanced function to keep track of all cards that are played by all members of the table. Furthermore, players looking for an Euchre Pogo cheat or Yahoo Euchre cheat can use Euchre Buddy to play the game automatically.
Bid Euchre is a variation on the classic card game Euchre.The main difference is that you bid for the number of tricks you think you can take and the trump suit. The Bid Euchre program is designed for all platforms, and should compile for Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X, and many others.
Discover world-class card playing action anytime, anywhere, on any device! Simple to learn, yet challenging to master, Championship Euchre Pro offers a fun and exciting gaming experience for casual and hardcore fans alike. Now you can challenge our playful computer champions, engage your friends over a local network, or compete in our free global Internet GameSpy lobby. Play at your desk or on-the-go using GPRS, Bluetooth (r) and other wireless technologies. If you are new to the game, take advantage of the interactive tutorial to show you how to play. Other practice features such as hint, undo, and replay will help build your confidence. If you are a seasoned pro, try to corner one of our eight animated opponents who adapt to your play style and use advanced strategies with a humorous twist. Detailed statistics will help you track your success and optimize your strategy. You are in control - play the most popular variations including Partners, Cutthroat, Bid Euchre, British, and Call for Best your way by customizing hundreds of game and scoring options. Create your own player personality for online play. Five skill levels provide everything from a relaxing game to challenging tournament-style action. Never play the same game twice - make each game distinctive by selecting from over 200 colorful deck and table combinations, enhanced by dozens of player taunts, game sounds, and soundtracks. Custom skins allow players to share their favorite themes and characters with their friends. Invite Championship Euchre Pro into your home for a free 10-game trial. DreamQuest Software's signature cross-platform technology allows you to play it on Windows, MacOS 9.x or 10, PalmOS, and PocketPC. Also available for Symbian cell phones by Sony Ericsson and Nokia and Microsoft Smartphones by Orange, Sendo, Samsung, and others.
The Team Sports Scheduling System has been designed to help you quickly create league schedules for your sport organization. With it you can create tournament, round-robin, official, and practice schedules for nearly any sport. Some features you will find in this version of the program include internet integration,customizable website or report,practice scheduling,official scheduling and more.
Swiss-Chess is a chess tournament administration program which at first glance might seem complicated to use, but once you read a bit through its help section, everything will seem a lot easier. It can be used to create tournaments for up to over 900 players and 25 rounds. The program also has many different tournament types which you can choose from.
Euchre Baron is the ultimate Euchre game.
Main Features:
- 16 adjustable partnership agreements for each side
- Powerful computer players
- Play to 10, 11, or 15.
- Optional "stick the dealer".
- Option for whether dealer's partner may order up (Canadian rule).
- Get a hint at any time.
This program is recognised as playing the best game of the popular card game of EUCHRE with the benefits of playing through WINDOWS.
Tournament Indicator is an officially approved Poker Calculator that works with Bovada/Bodog anonymous tables. This program supports more than 300 online poker sites and is specifically designed for Texas Holdem online tournament play. The indicators used in the software are the same you would use in a real tournament situation, but are quite different from a ring or cash game.
Enter the world of Unreal where teams compete for the most kills, racing through wild 3D worlds and collecting some of the heaviest weapons ever seen in a first person shooter.
The Tournament Director is a poker tournament manager program. It can be used to run limit, pot-limit, and no-limit games, and game change can be done during a tournament. It can do the chip and prize calculation. The database will store all the players, leagues, seasons, etc.
Game playing cards hoe / 'drink' that is popular in Indonesia. You participate in a tournament against hero-handsome hero and beautiful. Model students from Untar, Binus, IKJ. Can you fight the boss Reiza?
Magical Cangkul Tournament is a game developed by David setiabudi
Spreadsheet Compare (Excel compare) is a Microsoft Excel Add-In, written in VBA, that performs a cell-by-cell comparison of Worksheets within the same or different Workbooks. The program works with Microsoft Excel 2000 or later. You can perform a database style compare (named columns), generate a merged differences workbook in the original workbook format and a report of changes.
Tournament Bracket Builder is a simple, free program that builds single or double elimination tournament brackets for up to 32 players/teams. The brackets are created in HTML format so can be printed or modified very easily. The program is a single exe file and no install is required. Just download the file, unzip it, and run it.
Tournament Games is a program that will let you download and play games. This program will let you access to the Tournament Games site, where, after creating a free account, you will be able to select between the games that the site offers. You can play games such as FastMatch, JackBlack, make13, MegaStars, Mental Blocks, Pinball Bingo, Pseudo-Ku, Tournament Solitaire, TG Pool and Triple Stars.
Know your opponents with player ranking and tournament results with Tournament Shark.Tournament Shark attaches automatically to any tournament ,sit and go or heads up table. Tournament Shark has two heads up displays that can automatically populate player names, rankings information and much more when you join a new table.
Astral Tournament is a round-based card game where strategy plays a very important role. The game is based on duels, where two opponents compete to become the best mage on earth. Opponents may be another human player, or the computer. Astral Tournament is thrilling and entertaining, requiring a careful analysis before casting a new spell.
Play this online version of the popular game Euchre. Try to take at least three tricks if you are the maker, or try to prevent the maker from taking three tricks. Be careful not to get euchred!


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It is not very recommended to swim in the sea. Only ever seen kids playing close to the edge. Otherwise around Nouakchott and Nouadhibou it seems to be too dangerous. In the N.P. Banc d'Arguin may be possible as the beaches are less steeply shelved.
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Minnesota State FairgroundsAugust 29, 2014Fair • Falcon Heights, United States
At The Int'l Bazaar.. Ticket to Brasil... in the rain:-)
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At The Int'l Bazaar.. Ticket to Brasil... in the rain:-)
Stayed as part of Honeymoon week in Maine/Mass. 7th floor suite...very nice furnishings. Killer breakfast in the hotel...comped. Great service and location. Walking distance to great eats and PMA...
Come for Jake Rudh's DJ set on Yacht Rock night or any other time he spins. He is one " righteous dude"!
bring a windbreaker... even in late July!
Spinach/feta scramble with potatoes & sour dough toast... perfect!
The spinach/feta egg scramble with tomatoes... kills.
Flatbread BBQ Chicken pizza was good...ask for "Slim"
Lot's of chill seating; great natural morning light... nice window view to Lake Street traffic...
Best service by Doah...ask for her.Great dinners!
Eating a cheesy pepperoni Pizza & watching NBA "playas" ...very nice!
Rare to find BBQ chicken pizza w/ peppers.... my fav!
No kissing the volunteers ...but huggin' it out seems to work for everyone....
Voted #1 world music venue by about.com. That's right... world domination!
Try the Alt Bier... hoppy with a bitter finish( like my last breakup!)
First Tuesday of each month belongs to Dj Jake Rudh... different spinning theme each month!
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High school notebook: Sunday slate a special one at PBC Classic
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Sunday high school basketball games are rare in Western Pennsylvania, but today's slate makes it worth breaking the norm on a typical day of rest.
The Pittsburgh Basketball Club Classic at La Roche College will begin at 11 a.m. with a schedule of games featuring some of the WPIAL's top teams, regardless of class.
Seven ranked teams will be part of the six-game lineup: Aliquippa vs. West Allegheny, 11 a.m.; Ambridge vs. Seton-La Salle, 1:30 p.m.; Sto-Rox vs. Chartiers Valley, 3 p.m.; Upper St. Clair vs. Gateway, 4:30 p.m.; Seneca Valley vs. Lincoln Park, 6 p.m.; Shaler vs. Montour, 7:30 p.m.
The mid-afternoon game between Class AAAA No. 4 USC and Class AAAA No. 3 Gateway could prove to be a playoff primer, as the two-time defending WPIAL champion Gators face a Panthers team that has won nine in a row.
In the next game, Lincoln Park, the top ranked team in Class A, will take on Seneca Valley, which reeled off seven wins in a row after falling to No. 1 New Castle on Jan. 4.
Make that 11
Baldwin senior running back Dorian Brown has been added to the Pennsylvania roster for the Big 33 Classic on June 15 at HersheyPark Stadium.
That makes 11 WPIAL players who will compete, including Clairton's Tyler Boyd and Titus Howard, Belle Vernon's Dorian Johnson, North Allegheny's Mack Leftwich, Seneca Valley's Forrest Barnes and Dean Ketterer, Woodland Hills' Alex Beasley, Gateway's Todd Jeter, Washington's Jaylin Kelly and West Mifflin's Marcus Martin.
Postseason wrestling
The WPIAL team wrestling tournament gets under way Monday with preliminary-round matches in Class AAA. Chartiers Valley will host four matches, two starting at 6 p.m. and the others immediately after. The winners will advance to the first round to meet the top four seeds — Canon-McMillan, Franklin Regional, North Allegheny and Connellsville, which also will be hosting the first round and quarterfinals Wednesday.
Fifteen teams qualified for the WPIAL Class AA tournament, which will begin Wednesday. Top-seeded Burrell received a first-round bye but will be one of the host sites for the first-round/quarterfinal matches. South Fayette, Jefferson-Morgan and Chartiers-Houston also will host.
Weather bummer
The PIHL just can't buy an outdoor break this season.
A pair of hockey games at North Park ice rink Friday night were postponed after a daylong snowfall. Last month, two games at South Park ice rink had to be postponed because the ice was melting under unseasonably warm temperatures.
And in late November, construction was delayed on the Penguins Pond at Station Square, which forced the PIHL to postpone several games. The games at South Park are planned for Feb. 22. PIHL commissioner Ed Sam said the league is working to reschedule Friday's games at North Park.
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Norman S. Weir School is located in Paterson, NJ and is one of 45 schools in Paterson School District. It is a public school that serves 264 students in grades K-8. See Norman S. Weir School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Norman S. Weir School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The New Jersey average is 13 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
In 2011, Norman S. Weir School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The New Jersey average is 13 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Hollywood's largest fellowship of conservatives and right-of-center independents, Friends of Abe, has kept a low profile, driven by the desire to network with like-minded showbiz figures in a left-leaning industry.
But the org has been engaged in an effort of almost three years to establish 501(c)3 non-profit status that has posed a challenge to its ability to stay under the radar yet obtain a common non-profit status that has been given to other Hollywood-connected non-profits and charities. That has drawn the scrutiny of the Internal Revenue Service.
At one point, according to sources familiar with the IRS review, the agency inquired about obtaining access to a portion of its website that would allow it to view a list of members, which Friends of Abe did not provide, although that was not in the most recent list of questions that the agency sent to the group last week.
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In the most recent inquiry, the IRS asked for information such as the nature of events they have held featuring speakers Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain, and whether they were candidates for office at the time, sources said. They also asked for information about how speakers were selected, and why a speech introducing Cain could not be considered campaigning.
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The IRS's guidelines for 501(c)3 organizations, set up so charities and educational entities can have tax exempt status, say that it cannot be an "action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates."
The organization is not exactly secret, as the press has reported such figures as Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Miller, Gary Sinise, Lionel Chetwynd and Jon Voight as FOA members, and many of those celebrities have been public about their political opinions. After launching almost 10 years ago, its regular functions have drawn an array of national political figures, like House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and then-Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, with larger annual gatherings of about 1,500 people at David Murdock's Ventura Farms.
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Villa Chez Max
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Villa / 4 bedrooms / sleeps 8 Home 143575
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Villa / 4 bedrooms / sleeps 8
|Key Info
This property has been appointed to a very high standard. It has solid marble floors on the ground floor and lower level with a hardwood stairscase to the first floor where the bedrooms all have solid wood floors. The property is on 3 floors taking advantage of its position on the hillside having fantastic views from all levels.
The ground floor has a large open plan living room with dining kitchen, the living room having a spectacular floor to ceiling window giving fantastic unimpeded views towards the sea. The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, washing machine, fridge-freezer, hob and oven, all surrounded by a solid granite worktop, with additional microwave and toaster. There is also a double bedroom on this floor along with a bathroom.
The first floor has 3 bedrooms, one of which is the master bedroom with double bed, and the other two are twin rooms. They all have ensuite facilities and again great views out to sea.
The Lower level has the 5th bedroom ( twin) and shower room with loo, where you also find a large games room with table tennis table, a snooker table and table football which is great for kids and adults alike.
You enter the property on the ground level, from the rear of the property and can park your car either on the drive or outside the property. The pool, terrace and garden area are situated on the 'sea view' side of the house with all the fantastic views. The pool is kidney shaped around 8m by 4m in size. The garden area is planted out with palms and shrubs, and the terraces with pots. We also have a covered soft seating area as well as a covered dining area. On the Pool side we have showering facilities. All bedrooms have fitted wardrobes.
Wifi/internet access is provided along with pool/beach towels for your convenience.
|Sleeps up to 8, 4 bedrooms
|4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms, 3 En suites and 1 Shower rooms
|Nearest beach
|Coral Bay 5 km
|Will consider
|Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Paphos International Airport 30 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player, Sea view
|Private outdoor pool (unheated)
|Air conditioning, TV, CD player, Pool or snooker table, Table tennis, Games room, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|Double beds (2), Single beds (6), Cots (1), Dining seats for 8, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Private outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ
|Parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details outdoors
The pool is cleaned weekly by our professional managers. The pool area has lighting with the pool having internal lights on timers. It also has an outside shower, poolside. A barbecue is also provided.Central heating can be accessed and available in the cooler periods for a set charge, please ask for information.For stays of 2 weeks a mid stay clean is provided.We also provide pool towels.
|Further details
We take a £250.00 security deposit which will be returned to you within approximately 5 days once the Villa has been inspected. Final Balance Payments are due 2 months prior to arrival. We also offer Welcome Packs to set you up, upon your arrival. They are non profit making and cost between £20 and £30 depending on the number of clients please ask for information.Cots and high chairs can be provided please ask.
The Paphos District
A great area to visit as a whole and you are perfectly positioned to take advantage of all the tourist attractions around the Paphos area. You are close to the historic sites including the Roman mosaics, and the famous Tombs of the Kings. Both Paphos and Coral bay have many watersports activities available, as well as some great beaches. To the north - a short 25 min drive will take you to the Polis area. Latchi ( Latsi) is particularly worth visiting if you are interested in hiring boats, waterskiing etc- and also has a pretty harbour
Peyia is a pretty village located on the hill above Coral Bay and has a real village vibe. Not overdeveloped, you are able to enjoy great traditional food in local tavernas. Peyia Tavern is particularly good. You can get everything in Peyia at local shops or supermarkets, and Peyia even has a local gym which you can use for a small fee ( on the main road down to Coral Bay on the right hand side)
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8 Oct 2015
"Enjoyed it so much we returned for a second year.."
Chez Max is a superb villa located up the side of a rather large hill overlooking Peyia.. Being on the western end of the island it is well positioned for those wanting to explore the national park including turtle bay. This is our second time back with the same set of friends and our small cluster of children. We all wanted to return to Chez Max for a number of reasons; the accommodation is to a high standard and the pictures really do provide an honest reflection of what it's like. The view from the pool and house is captivating both day and night. There are three master bedrooms with on suite on the top floor all of which are kitted out well. And a further double room on the main floor with a bathroom next door. The entire house has air conditioning (vital!). Jo, who manages the villa, has always been helpful and welcomed feedback. The first time we went the wifi was down, when we advised her it was sorted straight away, thus enabling us to stream SoundCloud to our (own) blue tooth speaks outside.. both times we stayed a chap came to clean the pool and we were also visited by a lovely lady who cares for the villa and made sure we we were all ok. Whilst there are other villas around we were never aware of any noise.. In fact the most striking memory was at night, sitting outside, looking at the enormous view and twinkling lights stretching off in the vista below with a complete absence of sound.
16 Oct 2014
"Idylically positioned villa"
Have just spent a very enjoyable week at Chez Max with friends. Would thoroughly recommend this villa to anyone who wants a peaceful relaxing holiday. The villa is very well equipped, spacious and the setting is stunning, with panoramic views to the sea. Ample space around the pool, with comfortable sun loungers, together with outside shaded sitting and eating areas. The nearby village of Peyia offers excellent facilities for food shopping. We ate at the Peyia Tavern which was excellent, and also enjoyed other nearby restaurants. Would definitely recommend this villa if you want a relaxing holiday in Cyprus away from the busy tourist areas.
30 Jan 2014
This villa certainly has the wow factor. As has been said many times - the views over Peyia and Coral Bay are absolutely amazing, not least through the massive floor to ceiling lounge window. It is very spacious and well-designed on three levels with marble floors and certainly has that luxury feel. The location was perfect – high up above the tourist areas away from it all, and yet minutes away by car from local restaurants. It's perfect to use as a base to explore the island or just to relax. We stayed with our 2 young children and our friend's family - there was plenty of room for all. Some attention has to be paid to very young children near the 'designer' stairs – but this is a very minor point. The games room with table tennis and pool table was a special attraction for the kids. Highly recommended and would stay again when next visiting Cyprus.
5 Sep 2012
"Fantastic villa, with great view."
We stayed in this villa for two weeks,( two family's with 4 teenagers) , and had a really great time ...the villa is very spacious, clean and modern. We have stayed in a few villas and this has been the best. The view at night is lovely ....sitting on the balcony seating ,area,overlooking paphos and coral bay area. Peyia is a good base for the sights of this side of Cyprus.the villa is peaceful and quiet ...but then it's not far by car to coral bay or paphos.we would love to return again as soon as possible! .
2 May 2012
We have stayed in a few villas in the local area, this property is one of the better. The views are fantastic. Suitated in a mainly residential area it's everything you require for a relaxing holiday. Very spacious and comfortable with all bedrooms having a bathroom and comfortable beds. There are several areas around the pool for sunbathing and a covered terrace to chill out of the heat of the day. Altogether just what you need for a wonderful holiday. Would advise car hire is necessary.
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Out of all the gift giving posts I've done so far this is the first one on a product that I actually own. I'm talking about the Apple MacBook Air. I remember the excitement and trepidation I had when I unpacked it. Excitement because it was the laptop I've ever owned, not to mention the first Apple Mac computer. Trepidation because I didn't know if it would do all that I expected it to.
As you can see from my review that was nearly two years ago and it's still going strong. As for the trepidation, it was totally uncalled for. To date it's done everything I have asked it to. It even runs Market Samurai, and a whole lot quicker than my PC version, although in defence of the PC I have to add that I'm still running XP
I remember well that I was tossing up between the Apple MacBook Air and the Apple iPad. I am so happy that I bought the MacBook Air, especially when I see people trying to type crap on the iPad's touch screen. It might be OK for small messages but it must be bloody annoying when doing long blog posts.
If there is one thing that I found annoying about the MacBook Air it's that we don't have all that many places where I live that offer free WiFi. But now that I own a SmartPhone that's no longer a problem because I can now access the Internet using my mobile as a hotspot.
If you can't decide between a laptop or a tablet, take my advice and go for the laptop and the laptop I'd go for is definitely the MacBook Air.
Unfortunately at the time of writing this post Amazon is out of stock on this particular model, Apple MacBook Air MD232LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION). Even though you can place an order I though I would have a quick look around to see who had one available.
- eBay: Good old faithful ebay, you can always rely on them having what you want
- Sears: As you would expect from a store of this size they had a variety of MacBook Airs as well as heaps of accessories.
Apple MacBook Air MD232LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (OLD VERSION)
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The ultimate everyday notebook is better than ever. The Apple MacBook Air now features the latest Intel processors and graphics, faster flash storage, and a 720p FaceTime HD camera. All packed into a notebook that's incredibly thin and light. With up to 60 percent faster graphics performance, it makes everything you do feel quicker and more fluid than ever. And the latest flash storage is up to 4x faster than a traditional hard drive, making MacBook Air remarkably responsive. The MacBook Air with 13.3-inch screen (view larger). Now with two USB 3 ports, a Thunderbolt port, and an SD card slot (view larger). The MacBook Air also now includes both a high-speed Thunderbolt port and two USB 3 ports, enabling you to easily connect to external displays and a wide variety of high performance peripherals. This version of the MacBook Air (model MD232LL/A) sports a 13.3-inch high-resolution display, 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor, 256 GB of flash memory storage, 4 GB of RAM, an SD card slot, and up to 7 hours of battery life (see full specifications below). It also comes with the iLife '11 software suite, which includes the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand. Key Features Intel Core i5 Dual-Core Processing The MacBook Air packs plenty of power thanks to the latest Intel Core i5 processor, which features a faster processor, more powerful graphics, and a memory controller integrated into a single chip. The third-generation dual-core Intel Core i5 has a 1.8 GHz speed, which can dynamically accelerate up to 2.8 GHz to match your workload thanks to updated Intel Turbo Boost Technology. And with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 processor, you get up to 60 percent faster graphics. So the video you watch, the FaceTime calls you make, and pretty much everything else you do is smoother and more detailed. The spacious, full-sized keyboard (see larger image). High-speed Thunderbolt and USB 3 Ports A high-speed Thunderbolt port allows the MacBook Air to transfer data at lightning-fast speeds and connect displays like the Apple Thunderbolt Display, enabling you to turn this highly portable notebook into a highly versatile workstation. And with two USB 3 ports, you'll be able to connect the latest USB 3 devices and access a pipeline that's up to 10 times faster than USB 2. Because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, you'll be able to connect to a high-resolution display from the same port. Any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port, and you can also connect displays that use DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA connections with an existing adapter. You'll also be able to include your display into a daisy-chained set of peripherals. Flash Memory Storage By replacing the standard spinning hard drive typically found in laptops (as well as desktop PCs) with flash memory, the MacBook Air delivers an almost instantaneous boot-up when you open the display, as well as faster application launches and snappier overall performance. Additionally, Apple has shed the enclosure that typically surrounds flash memory (usually about the same size as a standard hard drive), thus giving it a smaller footprint and helping to decrease the size of the MacBook Air. Multi-Touch Trackpad The Multi-Touch gestures in OS X make everything you do on MacBook Air more intuitive, direct, and fun. You can pinch, swipe or rotate images on the display screen with the brush of two fingers, or add more digits for a four-fingered vertical swipe to open Expose and quickly glance at all of your open windows. Integrated HD FaceTime Webcam You'll be able to easily connect with friends, family, and business colleagues using the MacBook Air's HD 720p FaceTime camera, which is integrated into the thin bezel above the display and features three times the resolution of the previous FaceTime camera. And with Apple's FaceTime application, you're not limited to video chats with other Macs--you can now make video calls to iPhone and iPod touch users. Backlit Keyboard The MacBook Air manages to fit a full-size keyboard that makes typing as natural as it is comfortable. And the keyboard is backlit, so you can type with ease in even the dimmest light. A built-in ambient light sensor detects changes in lighting conditions and adjusts the display and keyboard brightness automatically. Specifications See larger image. 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with a 1440 x 900-pixel resolution Up to 7 hours of wireless productivity plus up to 30 days of standby time 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor (2.8 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology; 3 MB L3 cache) 256 GB flash memory storage 4 GB installed RAM (1600 MHz DDR3; supports up to 8 GB) Intel HD Graphics 4000 integrated graphics processor Built-in HD 720p FaceTime camera for video chatting Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on 802.11n specification; 802.11a/b/g compatible) Bluetooth 4.0 for connecting with peripherals such as keyboards, mice and cell phones Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps) with native video output support for Mini DisplayPort plus DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI (requires adapters, sold separately) Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps; backwards compatibility with USB 2) Built-in stereo speakers along with omnidirectional microphone, headphone minijack Dimensions: 12.8 x 8.94 x 0.68 inches (WxDxH) Weight: 2.96 pounds What's in the Box 13.3-inch MacBook Air, 45W MagSafe 2 power adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord, printed and electronic documentation Limited Warranty And Service The MacBook Air comes with 90 days of free telephone support and a 1-year limited warranty, which can be extended to 3 years with the AppleCare Protection Plan. Installed Software At the heart of every MacBook Air--and every Mac--is OS X Mountain Lion, the world's most advanced desktop operating system. Since the software built into every Mac is created by the same company that makes the Mac, you get a fully integrated system in which everything works together perfectly. OS X works with the processor in your Mac to deliver the best possible performance. Power Nap even takes advantage of the Mac hardware to keep the entire system up to date while it sleeps. OS X Mountain Lion (includes Mac App Store, Safari, Mail, Messages, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes, Time Machine, FaceTime, Photo Booth, Game Center, iTunes, and more) iLife helps you do more with photos, movies, and music than you ever thought possible. In iPhoto, you can browse, edit, and share your photos in stunning new full-screen views. Create epic Hollywood-style movie trailers from your home video in iMovie. And GarageBand gives you everything you need to make a great-sounding song--including tools for keeping your song in perfect rhythm and guitar and piano lessons. iLife (includes iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand) AppleCare Protection Plan Because Apple makes the hardware, the operating system, and many applications, the Mac is a truly integrated system. And only the AppleCare Protection Plan gives you one-stop service and support from Apple experts, so most issues can be resolved in a single call. Extend the complimentary service and support on your Mac to 3 years from the original Mac purchase date with the AppleCare Protection Plan. You get direct telephone access to Apple experts for technical questions, and you get global repair coverage--including both parts and labor--for your Mac and select Apple peripherals. Optional Accessories and Related Products 45W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter Need an extra adapter for home or work? The MagSafe 2 Power Adapter is held in place magnetically, so if someone trips over it, the cord disconnects harmlessly while your MacBook Pro stays put on your desk. Apple Thunderbolt Display The world's first Thunderbolt display doesn't just give you more pixels. It gives you more possibilities. Built-in Thunderbolt technology lets you connect as many as six devices through a single port and transfer data up to 20 times faster than with USB 2.0. Apple USB SuperDrive Compact and convenient, the Apple USB SuperDrive connects to your MacBook Air with a single USB cable and fits easily into a travel bag. It lets you install software and play and burn both CDs and DVDs, including double-layer DVDs. Time Capsule Time Capsule is the revolutionary backup device that works wirelessly with Time Machine in OS X Leopard or later. It automatically backs up everything, so you never have to worry about losing important files. It also doubles as a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station. Choose from 2 TB and 3 TB models. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter The Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter lets you easily connect to a high-performance Gigabit Ethernet network. Small and compact, it connects to the Thunderbolt port on your Mac computer and provides an RJ-45 port that supports 10/100/1000BASE-T networks. Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter The Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter lets you connect an advanced digital monitor, such as the Apple Cinema Display, to your MacBook Air. Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter Use the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter to connect your MacBook Air to a 30-inch display that includes a DVI connector, such as the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter The Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter lets you connect a standard analog monitor, projector, or LCD that uses a VGA connector or cable to a Mac with a Mini DisplayPort.
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- 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor
- 256 GB Flash Storage; 4 GB DDR3 RAM
- Intel HD Graphics 4000; 13.3-inch LED Display
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Former Panthers defensive lineman Damione Lewis is officially a member of the Patriots -- the team announced his signing in a release this morning. News that the two sides had reached an agreement came just over a week ago.
The 6-foot-2, 301 pound Lewis is a 10-year NFL veteran. He was drafted 12th overall by St. Lewis in 2001 after a standout career at the University of Miami and remained with the Rams through 2005. He signed with Carolina as an unrestricted free agent in 2006, and became a full-time starter there in '08 after the Panthers traded Kris Jenkins to the Jets.
Last year, Lewis started all 16 games for the Panthers, with 41 tackles, a half-sack and a fumble recovery.
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