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01dB, brand of ACOEM, contributes to reducing noise and vibrations to levels complying with regulations or set out in sustainable development strategies. 01dB is aimed at the industrial sector, towns, transportation, the public works and construction sector, wind power and the leisure industry.01dB offers a complete range of products and services dedicated to noise and ...
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Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S
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Larson Davis, a division of PCB Piezotronics
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ECB Smacks Down Euro Again, Says EUR Strength Will Hurt Recovery In Crisis States
Just like yesterday, it was some anonymous Yen vigilante smacking down the USDJPY saying the initial G-7 statement was misinterpreted, so today it is the ECB's turn, which just smacked down the EUR royally, for the second time in a week following last week's Mario Draghi comments, when it said that:
And just like yesterday the refutation came via shady pathways, i.e., an anonymous leak in D.C., so today, apparently the information comes from that venerable ECB conduit: Bild. What can one say - all is fair in central bank love and currency war.
EURUSD once again slides first, asks questions next:
Unless the ECB formally denies this Bild report, it is safe to say that for Draghi 1.3500 is the key resistance level, above which GETCO's FX algos will have to find other USD carry pairs to fund their market levitation.
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A currency police action.
No US stock market rally without a strong EURO. Bummer ! :-(
The USD has to be weak for the high manipulated equities market to keep up momentum and suck in new money.
Now that the currency war is officially on, the timer has officially started on the coming hot war. Under a decade, yes. But maybe sooner.
Shore your shit up folks. The hourglass has now been flipped. Where do you want to be and how do you want to be positioned when the shooting starts and the bombs start falling? War is coming. It's what always comes "next" after currency & trade wars heat up.
But ... but ... a week dollar means the Germany export engine sputters. Can't have that
But ... but ... a strong dollar means America's exports drop.
Gosh ... what's a central banker to do? Why the answer is clear. You seesaw it. Who cares if the economy simply sucks for everybody but the elite.
I bet this goes on for a long time.
A favour to delay the unstopable collapse of USD.. i mean cmon.. its so obvious. It cant be stopped
I guess when he realizes nationalism is going to rear it's ugly head and human nature is going to rule.
What? Don't politicians in other countries have to buy votes too?
Judging by the tremor in his voice when he's talking I would guess he already is.
at what point did you think he actually gave a shit?
Oh boy here we go with more concerns about the 'recovery'. LMAO. These fuckers must've all been assistants in Dr. Frankensteins lab.
Large-scale manipulation is ok, it's small-scale which is prosecuted.
A heathly mix of Corzine and Galt.
Steal big.....and get lost.
let's play this game fair and square...
bad enought that those japs beat us already...
Bingo. Brodsky of QBAMCO said it best: these are coordinated and rotating currency devaluations. We very well could be at a USD Index of 80 in five years but a loaf of bread will cost $8.
CBs are just going to keep ratcheting down the currencies so no one notices relative to each other. It's only when people look at the currencies relative to real goods that the 'aha' moment will occur.
Unless, something breaks, of course. But, that could never happen, right? /s
clever guy Draghi; he says to the world : read my lips!
ANd, twice it was the "but, but" phrase at the end of his speech that carried the "sting".
And the sting is pleading in favour of Holande spiel; not the "official" Bundesbank/ Merkel pitch of "strong" Euro.
Subtle guy, "read my lips" is the name of the Oligarchy game as invented by Bush Senior.
MACHIAVELLI would be proud of both of them.
Now that Potus has taken his stance on State of Union and jobs creation/minimum wage AND EU/USA free market zone (this last will be awesome mayhem unleashed on CLub Med, if its rapidly installed), will "read my lips" apply to him as well?
DOes he say ONE thing and DO the opposite? We'll soon find out!
This chart below, if its true, opened my left eye on the true meaning of his official message :
Obama Wants Everyone To See One Chart By The End Of The State Of The Union - Business Insider
Nary (withstanding) the ever relevant phrase that rings a warning bell on the issue of : lies, damn lies and statistics...
Currency wars and commercial hegemony...on neighbours, like during League of Delos...we head to the Peloponnese war ...
Falak IF that that chart is true, isn't it just evidence of privatization to the private sector?
But hey fuck it, it's a nice chart....red to blue thats good right?
Potus's most clear message.. trying to link min wage to inflation is laughable (due to a bollax indexation thx SGS!...) but still a very significant admittance that prices have risen whilst incomes and opportunities haven't......the growing cashless middle class is a huge social issue.....WE HAVE INFLATION AND IT'S A PROBLEM!
Thx Big O for the confirmation :-) Precious Bitchez?
PS Peloponnesian nice!
Euro down - crisis
Euro up - hurt states
Do they even know what they want?

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Issue date: Monday, March 12, 1962
Pages available: 12
Previous edition: Saturday, March 10, 1962
Next edition: Tuesday, March 13, 1962
Publication name: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - March 12, 1962, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Forty-Eighth Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Monday, March 12, 1962 Single Copy Ten Cent! OUT OF of the city's three graders was damaged, possibly beyond repair, when it was struck by a Milwaukee Road freight engine at the Gaynor Ave. crossing this morn- ing. The grader operator was shaken up in the collision, but was apparently not seriously injured. Tribune Staff Photo Storm Closes Schools, Figures in Accidents Hazardous driving conditions again prevailed over the weekend, playing a role in almost all of the dozen accidents reported by city and county police. Of the total of more than in damage, resulted when a Milwau- kee Road treight engine struck a city grader at the Gaynor Ave. crossing at a.m. today. Leonard Henke, 36. 631 10th Ave. S., operator Of the grader, was shaken up when the train hurled the vehicle otf the tracks and into a ditch, but was released from Riverview Hospital alter an examination. Henkc told police he neither saw nor heard the engine until the grader was on the tracks. Damage to the grader was esti- Old- Man Winter, apparently refusing to believe that spring is just around that highly snow-banked corner, continued his weekend mischief by dumping an- other seven inches of snow in the area Sunday. Huge Crowd Witnesses Arrival Of President's Wife in India 'Unofficial' Nature of Visit Doesn't Dampen Enthusiasm NEW DELHI, India (AP) Indians welcomed Mrs. John F. Kennedy warnily today and watched with interest as 'she placed a wreath of white roses at the shrine of Mohandas K. Gandhi. More than turned out to witness the arrival of America's First Lady from Rome for a nine-day visit to India and other thousands showed up for a glimpse of her as she made a round of official calls. The pomp and ceremony of state occasions was lacking, for Mrs. Kennedy's visit is billed as semi- official, but the reception had the enthusiasm and color of greet- ings lor such previous visitors as President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II. Mrs. Kennedy donned a com- pletely while outfit for her round of calls. She wore a while silk rajah coat designed by Oleg Cas- sini and a broad-brimmed straw hat turned up and worn off the face. Accompanied by Sister The First Lady, her sister Princess Lee Radziwill, U.S. Am- bassador John Kenneth Galbraith and India's ambassador to Wash- ington, B. K. Nehru, stopped first i at the massive home of President mated at and City Engi- neer Alan Engler said it is doubt- ful whether it is repairable. The train engine was damaged to the extent of about G. F. L o o m i s. 54. Wausau, was the train's engineer. Other Accidents Cars driven by Larry Willis, 16, 2210 Alton St.. and Dianne Huber, 741'2 3rd Ave. N collided in the 800 block of Chase St. at a.m. Sunday, causing S625 dam- age- County police charged Neil C. Oleson, 21, Rt. 2, with failure to report an accident after the car lie was driving and one operaled by Dale Zcrby, 36. Nekoosa, col- lided at the intersection of County Trunks U and W at p.m. Friday, causing damage. Pieading no contest today be- 11 ay high damages. The laller aclion means lhat )ersons found negligent in dam- age suits will no longer have to pay "punitive as well as "compensatory damages." The court said thai if a person should >e punished, il should be done under criminal laws. The ruling was announced on Tuesday, but details were not Can't Build Missile Barriety-McNamara Says. WASHINGTON (AP) Secre- lary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namarv says no a m o u n I of money can make possible an absolule defense of lhe United States against inter-continental ballistic missiles. More than million will be spent in the next tiscal year on antimissile technology, McNa- mara said Sunday, "but we can see no reasonable prospect for successfully developing that ca- pability." SCHOOL BOARD MEETS The regular monthly meeting of the Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education will be held lonight in the Lincoln High School cafeleria, convening at 7 o'clock. Reports will be presenled on school dis- trict reorganization and the pro- gress of addition. "SJ cificalions for furniture required in the addition are lo be prepared. Embassy chancery. Galbrailh inviled American Annexation, Incorporation Groups Active in Township Suspect Salt Was Killer of 7 Infants BULLETIN BLVGHAMTON, N. Y. (AP) A seventh baby died today, apparently of poisoning from salt placed in a sugar can in a city-owned hospital. Ten other infants were stricken, three critically. Death claimed Michcle Dawn Bowser, 4 days old, of Binghamton, as investi- gators sought to pinpoint the cause of the other deaths. !amilies to a lawn party there .o see the First Lady. The sizable crowd along Mrs. Kennedy's seven-mile route from the airport was not the only sur- prise. She provided one of her own by departing from her sched- uled program to see the pageantry Prasad's drive home from the formal open- ing of Parliament. From a rarn- part overlooking Parliament she saw his shiny black horse-drawn carriage pass below escorted by mounted lancers in scarlet tunics. After an overnight flight from Rome, Mrs Kennedy was wel- comed at New Delhi Airport by Prime Minister Nehru, his daugh- ter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and his sister, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pand- it. Mrs. Kennedy got only five hours sleep as her special Air India jet airliner flew from rainy Rome into the rising sun. Pope John XXIII granted her one of the longest private audi ences he has ever held Sunday minutes. They usually run only 15 to 20. The pontiff and the President's -wife, a Roman Catholic, con- versed privately in French in the Vatican library. :nd. The decision .came in an Bay 2 Milwaukee Less suit brought by Carl Biclski of F. for Kcnosha who sued Edwin Schulze of Pleasant Prairie than one inch was recorded at Madison, Bcloit, Racine and Lone Rock. injuries received by Bielski's j Snow depths now ranged from ivifc, Elnora, in an auto crash. J2fi inches in the .Superior region A jury awarded Mrs. Biclski damages and said Schul- ordcr of business a.m., the hoard's higher education commit tec will make a report on the proposal, and is expected to in- troduce a resolution seeking es- tablishment of centers at both ends of the county. Higher education committees of the South Wood County Commun- ity Council and Wisconsin Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a resolution asking the supervisors to offer the Wood County Teachers College building as tho site for the center. The sheriff and traffic commit- too will introduce an ordinance regulating tho activities of itiner- ant salesmen in the county. ze was 95 per cent responsible for 1 Wau.sau 23. the accident and Bielski 5 per! cent responsible. Because both men were found negligent to a degree, the insur- ance companies of each had to pay damages under the equal contribution rule even though Bielski was only 5 per cent responsible. Bielski's insurance company ap- pealed, asking the high court to find Schulze 100 per cent negli- gent. Instead, the court decided on a full review of the doctrine. Justice E. Harold Hallows, who wrote the decision, said: "...There is no reason in logic or in natural justice why the shares of common liability should not be translated into the per- centage of the casual ncgligcncy which contributed to the injury." Several legal groups filed briefs, one contending the doc- trine should be retained simply because it was a well tstablished to 2 inches at Bcloil. Ban Claire has 25 inches on the ground and Girl, in Coma, Relives Horror of Plane Crash NEW ORLEANS, La. 7-year-old girl, only survivor of a family of five whose home was deslroycd in the crash of a mili- tary plane, is reliving the tragedy in a coma. "I sec il Janice Lcv- ron mumbles over and over, her doctors reported. "I see it com- ing." She apparently is referring lo a crippled C119 which wrecked her family's six-room farm house Saturday night in Kenilworth, 22 miles southeast of New Orleans. Janice's father Lubel Levron, 33. her mother and two Kirby, 10, and a year-old .were killed. All six plane crew- men parachuted to safely. Dr. Lawrence Hill said he be- lieved Janice, found outside the ruined home, had a skull frac- lure. The Air Force said lhe lumber- ing plane developed trouble after refueling minules earlier al New Orleans' Callcnder Field. The plane headed back but dicln'l make it. The Levron home is about nine miles from the air- field. Air Force officials declined comment on details of the crash. They said the crewmen, all un- injured, were held for medical observation at Callcnder pending an official crash probe. A total of signatures have been obtained on peti- tions requesting annexation to "Wisconsin Rapids of an area in the town of Grand Rapids lying south of the city and encompassing near- ly all of Sanitary District No. 1. This was reported Satur- day night at a meeting of the citizens' committee sponsor- ing lhe annexation move. Anthony E. Fail, commillce chairman, said lhe petilions prob- ably will be filed with lhe city clerk next week. Until thai lime, persons in lhe area who have not been contacted may still have an opportunity to sign, simply by calling any member of the com miltec, he added. Committcemen, in addilion lo Fail, are Ben Hanneman, John H. Johnson, Arbie Skerven, John Zalabsky, Joe Kosck, John E. Sweeney, Robert E. Knutcson, Victor Turner, Donald Engcl, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Walker, and Arthur Neitzcl. 75% Signed Up Signatures thus far obtained represent approximately 75 per cent of the electors residing in the area, according lo Fail. At Saturday's meeting, the com- millce adopled lhe following state- ment: "Knowing thai we have a ma- jority of the people behind us, we should proceed with the urgent mailers al hand, rather than en- gaging in further discussion on subjects lhat have been thorough- ly aired. The committee intends lo demonstrate by action rather than words thai we have the best interests of the people at heart." Cite Previous Actions II was poinled out thai resi- dents in that area of lhe township have had three opportunities to express their desires, once by sample poll and twice by referen- dum vote, and in each instance annexation was favored. Further, il was noted by committee mem- bers, that electors attending a special town meeting voted by a! most a 2 to 1 margin against fur- ther expenditure of lown funds lo oppose annexalion. The commillee deplored aclion 11 Predict Only Minor Floods In Wisconsin MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Only minor flooding and some relative- ly high water have been forecast lor western Wisconsin when win- ter's thick snow cover begins to melt late this month or early in April. The prediction was made Sun- day by Joseph H. SLrub, Jr., who heads the U.S. Weather Bureau river forecast center here. Strub tempered his optimism with a warning for residents ol the flood plains, h o w e v e r saying: "Remain alert for a rapid rise in nearby streams and creeks The trouble could start with the fir.st breath of real spring, when the temperatures top the 60 de mark and the south wind )losv." Mississippi Prediction The Mississippi River, Strul 3aicl, is likely to get out of hanc rom the mouth of the Minnesota River at Minneapolis-St. Paul to he dam just north of Cassville BINGHAMTON, N. Y. (AP) Salt in a sugar can was the possible killer of six babies in a city-owned hos- pital, and 10 others were made ill bv a salt-saturated Distribution of material j formula) a hospital spokes- imed at influencing town f Grand Rapids residents gainst annexation to Wis- onsin Rapids began Satur- lay, it was reported by Gil- bert D. Endrizzi, chairman of a committee seeking in- corporation of the township as a village. One of the "information sheets" discusses installa- .ion of a municipal water distri- bution system in Sanitary District 1, and the olher lists a group of questions, suggesting thai resi- dents ask them of circulators of annexation petitions. "Gross misrepresentations are icing circulated regarding the water and sewer proposal tor Sanitary District No. Kn- drizzi asserts in one of the sheets. "In line with our aim to present all the available factual informa- tion relative to our we man said today. Doctors worked to save four who were in critical condition. The hospital spokesman said salt was a definite possibility as the cause of lhe six dealhs. Slate and local officials were in- vestigating. The salt apparently was used by mistake in place of sugar In the infants' feeding formula at Binghamton General Hospital. Nurse Suspended A licensed practical nurse, Lillie Colvin, 29, who refilled the sugar container last Tuesday for the formula room was suspended by lhe hospital and questioned by Disl. Ally. Stephen Smyk. No charge was placed against her, however, and she was not held. She said she was positive herewith submit a summary i she had fillcd the can the proposal made in the preluni-' ar container. from a She had been nary report by the Engi- with lhe hospital as a neering Co." Attached to this sheet is a map showing water and sewer pipes which would serve the sanitary district. According to the map, every residence seeking such service would receive it. Compare Policies The following comparison of current rates and policies in Wis- consin Rapids with those posed for San. Dist. No nurse for about three months. Another nurse who made her- self a cup of instant coffee dis- covered table salt in the can in the formula room. Pediatricians said an overdose of salt could upset the balance in the body and cause heart fail- ure in a very young child. The babies who died ranged sc from 3 days to 8 months. 1 are _ made in the sheet. In each case, the city rate or policy is given first, followed by those proposed 4 Remain Critical The four infants in critical con- dition were under tho care of a for the sanitary district: learn of specialists. Six others Water, per front foot and 'who. Ulc hospital said, had been sewer per front water, fed a salt-saturated formula were per front foot and sewer >3 under close observation. per front foot. Tap charge from water main to lot line: Water, and sower of the dead infants indicated a The hospital said a preliminary post-mortem examination of two water, (includes high sodium content in their I'.itfe 11 'bodies. La Crosse and Prairie du Chien can expect some flooding, Strul said, although the crest is ex )ected to be about 13 feet, or a oo I. below flood stage, at L Crosse, and 18 feet at Prairie d Chicn. The deep and fast St. Croi River, the boundary between Wis consin and Minnesota north o Pre.scott in Pierce County, w i approach the 87-foot flood stage but is expected to remain below. The Cliippuwa River is expect- ed to crest at 12 feet, a foot above flood stage, at Durand in Pepin County but remain in its banks elsewhere. The Trempcaleau River is ex- pected lo slay in its banks ex- cept at Dodge where it probably will go a foot over flood stage. Wisconsin Tamed not sefk reelection to a third Trouble along the Wisconsin I term as Governor of Wisconsin, River is expected only at Merrill I The Democratic chief executive' and Portage where the river goes j told a news conference he had to seek a third term. "One of the over its banks almost, annually, j reached his decision "quite some (significant ones, I think, stemmed Predicted crests of 12 feet at time ago." And, he added, he told, from my views that four years of Merrill would put water in the Nelson Won't Seek Third Term; Doesn't Tell Plans MADISON announce his own candl- Nelson announced today that he dacy "at a later date." Nelson said a "lot of factors" had entered into his decision not FOUR DIE AS PLANE HITS Air Force Boxcar slammed into tho home nf Lnhrl Levron late Saturday killing tho construction worker, his wifo and two sons. A seven- year-old daughter is in n hospital with a probable sknH fracture. All crewmen lhe plane parachuted to Tttt plowed open ffeM opposite house, lumped 15-foot bayou, sheared a utility pole off at its base, jumped the. highway and ripped LevrmTt home, 22 miles southeast oC New Orleani, La. city park and 17 feel al Porlagc would spread the river inlo low- lands. The Kickapoo. which owccps through a troublesome narrow valley, is expcclcd lo remain be- low flood except at Slcuben in Crawford County where it proba- bly will pour out of its course. The river forecast center at St. Louis has estimated there is 60 billion gallons of waler in Wiscon- sin's snow cover, ranging from a Ally. Gen. John W. Reynolds his 1 conslantly speaking all over lhe plans. state and spending weekends Reynolds has said he will an-j away from home are as much an, nounce his political plans Wodncs-, imposition on my wife and chil- day in Green Bay Tho A.ssocial-idren as I could ha ed Press reported several weeks I added, ago that Reynolds and Nelson had j Nelson said he thought much of reached agreement and lhat Rcy- i nolds would announce for Gover- nor while Nelson bids for lhe U.S. Senate. "I told Mr. Reynolds quite some time ago that I did not under any circumstances intend to seek foot in the southeast to nearly reelection as Nelson lhe difficullics of the Governor's office involved the two year terms. "That's antiquated, inefficient and a handicap for any Governor in his duties." the chief execulive said, adding that he was hopeful that the Legislature "will at three tcct in tho northeast. How fast that water is released will determine state (loading this spring. said. "He has discussed with me i very earnest session pass a reso- his intentions and he will an-jlution to amend the Constitution nounce thorn Wednesday." land extend term to fouf Governor that ;


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Country singer Lee Brice drives career to new heights
The title to Lee Brice's sophomore album seems increasingly inaccurate.
The country singer-songwriter's 2012 release, "Hard 2 Love," has scored two straight platinum-certified No. 1 hits, and the third single, the heartrending "I Drive Your Truck," is speeding along as the fastest-rising single of his career.
The South Carolina native also is planning his April wedding, working on his third album and warming up crowds on Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley's co-headlining "Locked & Reloaded Tour." The tour rolls into Chesapeake Energy Arena Friday night.
"I think people are going home, like, rocked, they're like 'Yeah!' Miranda really brings the house down at the end of the night," Brice said of the superstar who makes her home in Tishomingo.
"Miranda and Dierks, first of all, both of them are like two of my favorite live performers, so the shows are just awesome. And then they're just real people too, and that just makes it so cool, to be out with a bunch of real folks."
For the former college football player, the tour offers an entertaining education.
"If it's a Brad Paisley show or a Miranda Lambert show or Dierks — for a long time I was out on the road doing some shows with him — they've been doing it a long time on those big stages. You kind of get to take in how a real show really goes down, not like an old bar or a club. I really get to see where their experience comes in and take notes, man, and that's kind of what I do. It kind of teaches you to be patient on those big stages and soak the moment in," Brice said in an interview last week from Nashville, Tenn.
Best known for his ballads like "Hard to Love," "A Woman Like You" and "Love Like Crazy," Brice now is riding "I Drive Your Truck" up the country charts. Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington and Jimmy Yeary penned the emotional story-song, which Brice belts from the point of a view of a grieving man who finds comfort behind the wheel of the pickup that belonged to his brother, a soldier who died in action.
"I try to write as much as I can, but every now and then I hear a song that just blows me away. And that song just put me on the floor the first time I heard it. And I felt like since it did that to me — and my ears are a little numb 'cause there's so much music around me all the time — that it would really hit most people. And it is. I'm getting so many tweets and Facebooks and emails and messages about stories about how this song is completely impacting people in a big, big way. It's so cool to be a part of that," Brice said, adding he thinks about his late grandfather when he hears it.
Preparing for next steps
Although "Hard 2 Love" only debuted about 10 months ago, Brice is hard at work on the follow-up. He has a tentative title — "I Don't Dance" — although he doesn't expect to release it until at least a year from now.
"I'm already deep into it ... writing, putting songs together and figuring out an album to make it a full album and then dwindling down songs 'cause I've already got too many," he said.
"I'm a little more patient in the recording process. ... I've really gone in and even made work tapes for building tracks around and, like then going in and putting a band on it and then going back. I mean, just really taking the time to not just settle with a part that's kind of cool, like really think about it and dig in and have an open mind to change anything and try anything. And it's really making a difference, I think."
The right woman also makes a difference. In April, Brice plans to marry his fiancee, Sara Reevely, with whom he has a son, Takoda, 4, and take some time off with his family. He included both their voices on "Hard 2 Love," with his bride-to-be featured on "See About a Girl" and their boy on album closer "One More Day."
"Takoda, you know, he's my whole life, and I can't wait to get home to him. You know, it's like I used to get on the road and I loved being on the road, I didn't care if I came home, but now I can't wait to get home," he said. "I'm just looking forward to having that month kind of off. It's exciting. I wish I was married already. I'm ready. ... Once you're ready, you're ready."
The hit-making balladeer expects his upcoming nuptials and honeymoon to provide ample material for future love songs.
"Oh, don't you worry. They're coming," he said with a laugh.


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Im having a 404 not found error when I try this and hit save.
Any suggestions?.. the "Are you lost" really serves no purpose and will just confuse our sales reps when they go to log in.
Thank you :)
Actually I figured it out by removing the following code from the wp-login.php file...

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Thought I would post my solution in hopes it helps someone else.
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Olympic diver Tom Daley recently visited at Discovery Cove and SeaWorld whilst on holiday in Orlando. Hopefully, Tom can use the diving pointers given to him by the dolphins for the 2012 Olympics.
Leon (6 month old King Penguin chick) at SeaWorld Orlando's Penguin Experience but sometimes he can be such a show off in front of the guests. Tom politely declined Leons challenge of who could swim in the 45-degree water the longest smart move Tom.
As an Olympic diver, being under water is usually not a problem unless you are at Discovery Coves latest attraction SeaVenture and coming eye-to-eye with sharks through a full, 8-foot-tall, 21-foot long panoramic window. I dont think anyone has ever seen Tom swim so fast!
Tom ended his trip at SeaWorld Olrando with a visit to a couple of his One Ocean diving idols. Good thing they will not be at the 2012 Olympics or he wouldnt stand a chance but we can guarantee you they will be cheering for him.


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|December 1, 2015, 10:39 am
As a quiet misanthropic person I always found it kinda peculiar that I never really took into reading books as some people with similar traits do. It seems like the type of things most people like me get into, but many of my experiences with books often ended pretty quickly with the author writing too heavily into detail about seemingly innocuous things without really developing the plot. Or if the plot was developing, it must have been going over my head. For that reason, I find it kinda weird that novelists are celebrated so much as I get much more entertainment value from short stories and poetry. Maybe it's just a great accomplishment, but for what its worth, I feel a similar and more effective way of telling stories can be accomplished in less paper.
Still yet, I've never really picked up many books. While I really like the idea of having shelves loaded with books and an endless supply of reading material, Books always seem like commitments. Like TV series, sometimes a show can grab you with a colorful plot and interesting characters, then towards the later seasons, the plots don't seem to be going anywhere and there are filler episodes to take up time before the next set of events occurs. I don't want to feel like my time is wasted.
However, my time spent in my college classes helped me to discover a newfound love for writing -- more specifically, taking notes. I managed to find some effective tips at taking notes and outlining your notes in a neat legible format. I've used this as an opportunity to learn and have recently become engrossed in watching documentaries with a composition book and pencil in hand, and jotting down things I found interesting as if I were studying it for a quiz. In the end, the writing helps me retain the information better, even without any intention of reading and studying the notes later. It just helps me feel more worldly and understanding of different viewpoints about controversial issues and history and science that I didn't understand before. Youtube has been a surprisingly thorough and bountiful resource for this. Tomorrow I'll be buying a fat stack of composition books and a pack of freshly sharpened Ticonderoga pencils from the dollar store to fill with notes from all the documentaries I recently added to my list.
I believe this somehow fueled my interest in reading lately. A recent epiphany reminded me that with the internet, you can pretty much learn anything in the world as long as you know what questions to ask (and can identify a biased source when you see it!). Now I've been dedicating a couple hours each day to actively fill my brain with things I didn't know the day before, and spending other time throughout the day listening around for things I don't understand, and embracing the fact that I really don't have a thorough understanding of it and that I should educate myself about it. Recently I've thoroughly studied how the economy is powered, the biography of Donald Trump so I can have a better understanding of whether or not he would be a good president other than looking like a moron, how a car engine works so I can understand what the fuck is going on under the hood of my car that makes it go, statistics related to climate change over the last century and natural disasters that might await us in the future, etc.
The thing about the internet is that it can sometimes be hard to find reputable sources of information. But if you're a writer and you can get your book published, then you're probably more credible than the average blogger. Websites like gutenberg.org is loaded with digital texts from political figures, scientists, and other reputable writers. And for fictional stories with strong ethical and moral messages involved, sparknotes.com has many thorough chapter summaries to breeze through and understand the underlying message being communicated. And if I really like a book, I might purchase it, or better yet, listen to the audiobook on Youtube or Audible while playing Doom.
Listening to audiobooks is hardly reading, but I've found that turning off the sound and music in Doom along with the focused actions of dodging fireballs and killing monsters has a really strong symbiotic relationship with listening and retaining information from an audiobook than I would if I were to sit in a chair and listen to the audiobook alone. So now I'm subconsciously learning things while doing what I love to do. I've also embraced some pretty noble writers such as Dickens, Frost, Vonnegut and Orwell, as the stories they tell through their writing provides a lot to learn about the types of people you might meet in real life.
Anyway, for anyone who has always been a reader, good on you. You probably know a lot more than I do. And for those who don't, I'd recommend it :)
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|Car Stolen
|August 30, 2015, 7:20 am
Last night, up till 10pm watching music videos on YouTube.
Go to bed, wife locks doors and joins me shortly after returning from the King of Prussia Mall. She came home in her friends car.
Forgot to change the alarm so I wake up at 3:30am, an hour earlier than intended.
Walk the dog at 3:30am, observe my car still in front of house. Observe nothing unusual. Very quiet Sunday morning.
Return home at 4am, car still parked in front of house.
Feed dog, eat a banana, observe car keys sitting on kitchen counter.
Go up stairs to bed, nap for an hour because I don't have work until 6:00am (didn't lock front door, didn't think id need to for only an hour -- and after walking up and down the neighborhood without seeing anything suspicious,)
Wake up at 5:00, brush my teeth, change clothes, put on deodorant, come down stairs, look at phone for a few minutes to kill some time, then go to kitchen.
Can't find keys.
Retrace steps around the house, thinking if I moved the keys to a location where they'd be easier to notice for about 15 minutes, its now 5:50am
Look out the window -- CAR IS MISSING.
Call police. Officer on the way.
Call work, tell them I cant come in, car is stolen, work uniform in the car.
Officer arrives at 6:10am gets some information. Asks if we were drunk last night, if the car could possibly have been repossessed, if we have any friends who might have believed it was okay to borrow, if there's something of value in the car, if we have enemies (crazy ex girlfriend, crazy relatives) that might want to get revenge for something, but we answered no to all the questions.
My wife and I are the only ones who live in the house. We haven't had any guests at the house for weeks, we don't have any enemies (afaik) that would want to do something to us, our crazy schizophrenic next door neighbor doesn't drive and has been in the hospital for the past five days. And my car isn't really worth anything or has anything of value in it.
The crazy thing is that someone entered my house WHILE I was in the house, with my wife and my dog. I don't know how they got in without alerting my dog, or me, or anyone. The keys were not in a very obvious place, I don't think, at least not more obvious than other things such as an iPad that was sitting on the living room couch, a Nintendo Wii, a bluray player, expensive makeup my wife came home with, an engagement ring that was in the bathroom(!!)
I don't know who could have done it. I honestly dont have any friends who know me so personally to know my morning routine, so I can only imagine it was some stranger stalker in the neighborhood who saw an opportunity (not even a good opportunity either, we were all in the house!) couldn't find anything else out of place or unusual with the house. This person was really inconspicuous for someone who would commit such a risky crime for a relatively little reward.
I am however, relieved no one was hurt and other than my missing car, nothing was damaged or destroyed.
I know statistically that most people that steal (or get caught stealing) vehicles often take them for a joy ride and dump them off somewhere else usually pretty far away and that most people who do often get away with it. Most of them usually aren't even recovered. The officer said this is a very strange and unusual case that we don't know anyone or can suspect anyone who would have done it, to freely enter our house, take the keys and leave with the car. Its a super ballsy thing to do.
If anyone has had any experience with having a stolen car, or has any advice they heard from someone who had their car stolen, I could really use it. At the moment im changing the locks on all my doors and waiting to get a call from the police to tell me they found it.
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|My Doom Presentation
|March 11, 2015, 11:45 am
I'm taking a public speaking course, and one of the assignments was to prepare a speech about a hobby. So naturally I chose to talk about Doom. I presented it this morning and did so pretty successfully. Many of my other classmates were nervous wrecks and were very unprepared. So I sort of over-performed for the expectations of the class. I think I sold the game really well!
First I want to apologize in advance to TimeOfDeath, as I used screenshots of some of his weirder maps as examples of "bad maps" but only because they were very obviously weird just from looking at the pictures. I don't actually feel that way towards his maps. Most screenshots of 1994 maps I found were mostly just bland, had a slime trail here and there, and didn't appear to look far from what you would see in the IWADs. Some of the screenshots I chose for the presentation don't necessarily or accurately represent the points I wanted to make, I just thought that they would be the most visually appealing, obvious, and communicative of the particular point I was making.
Second, a good bit of the information in my presentation was a bit over-simplified. My original presentation was loaded with statistics and technical explanations. Even though I was sure I was clear, my wife said it was way too complicated for a presentation and no one was going to get it. My wife helped me simplify it (against my will) to break it down so that it was much easier to understand. I think it came out much better that way in the end.
Another thing I want to mention is that while some information is mostly pretty accurate, some of it is pretty embellished, and in some cases is downright wrong. I only did this because I was sure no one would call me out on it, and that it helped the presentation seem a bit more interesting.
There are plenty other points I wanted to talk about, such as what a wad file actually is, the differences between IWADs and PWADs, random level generators, source ports, capture the flag, TC's like Aliens, Batman Doom, Ghostbusters Doom, Simpsons Doom, demo recordning and speedrunning, but it was a lot to squeeze in a presentation that was assigned to be 3-4 minutes long.
Anyway here you are. The gif animations only appear correctly through google slides. If you view it in powerpoint, the animations choke up. Not sure why.
Below is the script I made for my presentation. Each greater than symbol (>) represents a point where I'm supposed to click to change slide or move on with the presentation.
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|I have a professor who doesn't believe in evolution
|February 24, 2015, 2:04 pm
I have a professor who teaches my Exercise, Nutrition, and Wellness class who has hinted on more than one occasion that the theory of evolution can't be true.
He thinks the claim that human beings evolved from primates, and by extension microorganisms is totally bogus. Human beings, particularly how the body works internally, are far too complex, mysterious, and perfect to have possibly evolved from things that are so simple and vulnerable.
Having been in his class, he's highly educated, enthusiastic about the subject, and far from stubborn. I trust his judgment on a lot of things and he's by far more involved with the class than any of my other instructors. I don't know for sure if he believes in creationism, but I've overheard him telling a story to someone about some people he met at a church, so he may be an active church goer. He researches nutrition and physical exercises daily on the internet and on youtube and has something new to tell us every class, often finding out interesting stuff, and even finding articles claiming some human body functions that scientists have yet to have clear explanations for.
I'm not necessarily saying I agree or disagree with him, but I find it interesting to hear someone like him who is well educated and otherwise very open-minded make the claim that evolution can't be real. I haven't yet picked his brain about it, as I'd rather complete the semester and get my final grade before possibly offending him if I sound too contrarian to his beliefs.
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|Online Classes Suck
|January 27, 2015, 12:55 pm
I just started taking my first internet class at community college, and it blows.
I thought it would be kinda cool since it's set up like an internet forum like doomworld is, but getting work done for it is the most time consuming thing I've ever endured, and I just started. It's a computer information systems and technology class, and many of the points are involved in class participation, so the teacher will post a list of questions that are required to be answered in the form of a new thread. Most of the questions require you to click links and read a long article, or browse through a website and pick your favorite page and write a summary about it or something. In addition to that, part of the points involved are to visit other student's threads and respond to their answers in some way or another.
I'm a pretty self-motivating guy in most conditions, but I'm having a really hard time already keeping composed, mannerful, and polite to talk about something so hideously boring. It doesn't help that my teacher is flooding the announcements page with 10-15 minute long youtube videos related to the subject, links to other uninteresting websites, and isn't clear whether or not it's required or optional to view.
I feel like I'm going to be spending 20 hours a week of my own personal time just to keep up, while my classes on campus are a fucking piece of cake. I literally just show up, take some notes here and there through the lecture, and complete the assignments the instructor hands out in class, or immediately after class, and my mind is free for the rest of the week, while this online class has so much reading material drilled into that I feel like I'm neck deep in quicksand already. Anyone have any tips on how to get through this?
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|My dog owns me
|November 14, 2014, 4:28 am
I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I've never really been a dog person until I met my wife. I've grown up with cats for most of my life and she's infatuated with puppies, so when we moved in together I became part owner of her dog. Until I've gotten more accustomed to her dog, I was always bothered by the way dogs bark and shout and jump all over you the instant you walk into a dog owners home. I'e grown to be more accepting of it as time passes, and to my surprise most people who've owned dogs or are best friends with a dog owner are too. But sometimes it makes guests uncomfortable.
Speaking of making people uncomfortable, my dog tends to make excessive eye contact as a way of getting attention. Naturally she follows me anywhere in the house I go. I think in part due to her separation anxiety, she needs to constantly be informed where I am at all times. I've kinda just adapted to it, but lately I'm beginning to suspect that she is learning that this is a tactic she can use to get what she wants.
I walk my dog every morning at 5:30am. It's the first thing I do when I wake up besides put on pants and shoes. It chills her out for most of the day and keeps her from doing things like peeing in the house or digging in the trash when my wife and I are out of the house. At 5:30am, It's dark and quiet and free from distractions and beats the neighbors who walk their dogs in the morning too, so my dog doesn't get all riled up and start yanking on the leash and trying to pull me around. I don't have any tolerance for that shit so I usually shorten the length of her walks if she starts acting up to keep her in line. After about the usual 45 minutes of walking her, I get home and take a shower, get dressed, then drive my wife to work, then I drive to my college classes. That's my morning routine almost every morning.
One morning I didn't have to go to school or work and chose to sleep in. At the time I woke up, around 9:00am or so, I went downstairs to watch some TV. As I was laying on the couch my dog, simply walking around in circles around the house as she usually does sits right in front of me on the couch and just looks at me. Unsure, I started petting her head, scratching her back, playing with one of her toys, but these only seem to distract her for a minute and the instant I stop she's back to sitting 6 inches away from my face staring at me with her big ol eyes wide open, occasionally making a quiet drone or moaning sound or something. This is annoying evil cat behavior except with the way my dog is, I find her exhibiting this kinda behavior to be much more noticeable and awkward. I think because cats have a way of acting where sometimes you're not even sure they are aware you exist, while my dog is always constantly alert of my whereabouts and responds to everything I do. I can't focus on the TV show and she continues making me uncomfortable, so against my will I take her outside for a walk in the afternoon in the hopes it would calm her down.
It works and she chills out for most of the day. At least until the next morning. I guess in excitement for going on these morning walks, she's awake earlier than I am. Sometimes I will wake up before my alarm goes off with my dog apparently staring directly into my eyes while I'm sleeping. Only inches away from my face, occasionally making that stupid moan noise, I accept the fact that with my dog's eyes fixated on me the entire time, and sitting invasively in my personal space, close enough that I can almost feel her breath when she exhales from her nostrils, that I'm not going to feel anymore refreshed trying to sleep during the remaining hour before my alarm goes off than if I just wake up now. This is becoming a daily affair and I'm beginning to suspect she's learning to do this conciously as a way to make me nervous and uncomfortable and give in to any of her demands.
Today I woke up at 3:30am. What do?
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|trash picker trash picker
|September 8, 2014, 8:50 am
A couple nights ago I started watching a TLC 'reality documentary' series on netflix called extreme cheapskates. I'm a bit of a stickler at times in regards to spending money, and it was a bit relieving to see people so radically in that direction.
On the first episode, first guy they interview, out of all the episodes on netflix I watched, was the worst. He air dries his paper towels on a clothesline so that he can use to dry is hands or clean up a mess as much as five times. He puts a brick in the back of the toilet tank to displace the water so it uses less per flush, sharpens his disposable razors, picks up any amount of loose change, buys expired foods from the liquidation store, even asks people at restaurants for their leftover foods when they're done eating!
The worst of it though was, that his wife and him were talking about their wedding day, and how he had orthodontic surgery the very next day with no insurance. She had a job and insurance, which was the reason he married her.
The episode continued, and it's the morning before their 25th wedding anniversary dinner. And he had to get her a gift. She said she's given up expecting any sort of jewelry or fancy restaurant or whatever. The self-proclaimed extreme cheapskate spends the day seeking a variety of gifts to get for her wife for their 25th anniversary dinner -- starting with the dumpster. In his searches, he finds four wilted roses, to which he proudly states "nothing says romance like flowers" and a teapot, which he defended his finding by saying she's always drinking tea.
Later on he moves on to the discount food store, purchases a bottled water for $0.15, and a miniature box of animal crackers for $0.30. "Not even expired!" he exclaims. Then he 'splurges a little' this year by buying her a skull shaped stress ball for $0.99. When he gets home, he finds an old greeting card his sister in law gave to his wife when she was ill. He crosses her name out on the card and writes his own, and paperclips a piece of paper reading "Happy Anniversary" over the message in the card!
When they go out to dinner that night to the local diner, she begs him, for this one day a year, not to take other people's leftovers. They bicker about it back and forth on the ride there. When they get there, he says he needs go to the restroom, but instead gives the $0.15 water to the diner staff and asks them to refrigerate it for him, so that they can serve it to his wife in lieu of paying for a normal beverage.
The night proceeds with him giving her the garbage he collected for her. While not ungrateful, she's obviously not impressed. He later starts scavenging tables where the guests left their leftover food for the wait staff to collect, embarrassing her like no other. The episode ends with her consolidating herself by saying these things happen, but she gets over them in time. I thought to myself I would never be like him.
The very next morning I go out to walk my dog just before sunrise. As were walking, my eyes fall upon a trash can. Perched directly on top, is a 21 in flatscreen LCD computer monitor in great condition. Much bigger than my current monitor. It wasn't even in the trash, but sitting on top of an old beanbag, filling up the can. I stared at it for a while, but it was still dark out, no one was around. I hesitated. Started to walk away, then turned around and yanked it out of the can. I took it home, tested it, and it works fine! Much larger than my current monitor which i paid over $100 for, and the colors really pop. It's not in my interest to pick from the trash, but I can't help but feel like I really scored big.
I hate myself.
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|Teaching my wife to map
|August 22, 2014, 9:21 pm
During one of our random uplifting chats, the topic of holidays came up and we agreed to spend all the major holidays away from family and only with each other this year. Out of curiosity my wife asked me what I would like to get from her for christmas, and the only thing I could think of wanting for christmas was more Doom maps to play! So I told her I want her to make me a map! She could tell how enthusiastic I was about it, and it wasn't the first time I attempted to show her how to make Doom maps, so she happily agreed if I can give her lessons.
So naturally, I went right to work writing up some sort of a lesson plan on how to teach someone who doesn't know anything but the general gist of Doom how to create a map. I thought something like this might be helpful in case anyone here wants to teach someone how to map.
Hopefully, if I've done a good job, she might complete making a decent short episode for Doom 2 on her own time for me to play on Christmas, and I can share with you guys :)
I've only worked on the first lesson so far; more lessons to come. Could probably use more Doom Wiki and Unnofficial Wad Designer's Handbook reference, but this is basically what I intend to go over with her to get started. I'm thinking Lesson 2 will be placing things, Lesson 3 will be editing sector properties, like light values, sector effects, and floor/ceiling heights. Lesson 4 will be understanding Upper, Middle, and Lower textures, front and back sides, and picking and choosing textures, Lesson 5 would be basic Linedef types (like doors, switch operated doors, lifts, moving floors, etc. Lesson 7 will probably be going over using the F_SKY flat to create skies. I haven't thought too far ahead, but I do hope to eventually go over the basics of texture alignment, trapping the player, difficulty progression, health/ammo balance, skill level implementation, consistent texture themes, layout flow, detailing, and some special editing tricks like instantly raising floors. There's a lot to go over, but I think if I keep it brief and easy to learn, she'll make progress quickly and get a lot of positive feedback.
Here's the first lesson I intend to go over with her tomorrow:
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|itchy nose
|August 1, 2014, 9:54 pm
Here's an award winning thread:
almost every day I go into work, my nose starts to get itchy. I feel it on the tip of my nose and the outer parts of the inside of my nostrils. Its a lot like when you visit someone who owns a hundred cats and there's a thin coat of fur on every surface of their house and they just turned on an oscillating can. Its an infuriatingly annoying feeling and I only feel at work. As soon as I go home the feeling is gone. Theres no furry things where I work. I work in food service and the air isn't stuffy or anything, and I don't have any allergies, or a cold or anything. My nose just gets super itchy.
anybody have any idea what's up?
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|On The Fence
|February 17, 2014, 4:55 pm
I think I'd truly regret calling this an announcement of my official retirement from Doom mapping, but I think I may be coming to the conclusion that it's time to quit kidding myself.
With certain circumstances in my life sucking up my time and negating my ability to pursue Doom mapping as a legitimate hobby, I've been balancing a weight on my shoulders with rather small unfinished projects that I'm struggling to bring to completion. Things are moving at a glacial pace and my future only looks to incorporate more extra-curricular activities in my daily routine, making my absolute favorite pastime look more and more like something that's only fit to be put in the attic and left alone as a distant memory.
A few years ago, mapping seemed to flow naturally out of me, which is where the majority of my body of work came from. I began to concentrate on more complex design strategies in order to construct more unique looking and replayable doom levels. Unfortunately this started shortly before I bought a house and got married and such. If the kind of levels I really want to make were a piece of jewelry at the bottom of the swimming pool, my responsibilities are the air-inflated floaties pulling me up to the surface. My wife would be offended if she saw me describing things that way but it's about time to admit that Doom mapping wasn't much more than a timesink to get myself to the point in life that I am at now. Now that I'm living it, there isn't much room to squeeze it back in. There really hasn't been much room this whole time and anything I've released since shows it.
While reverting to my older mapping style would probably be much more productive, I'd still have the reminder that "I can do better than this" lingering over me as I play through them. I think there are enough mappers here who can create similar enough maps. I'm not really interested in being a part of that category of mappers.
But anyway, it hurts my ego every time I come back to mapping after a long unavoidable hiatus with an intention to create a design that I feel has finally manifested in my mind after many weeks. The lack of regular practice with Doombuilder 2 is clear in my attempt to rectify it when the design comes out sloppy and inconsistent. I begrudgingly close the laptop lid and go do something else. If I find myself a career path that pays much better and has an unusual amount of downtime and low-stress, I may be able to get back into the groove and nullify everything this blog stands to declare. Until then, I feel as though the only other appropriate time to get back into mapping is when I retire and wait to pass away.
What does this mean for UAC Ultra 2? Not sure. For a long time I've been epitomizing UU2 as a way to "go out with a bang" and encapsulate as many of my ideas as humanly possible into a single megawad and live the rest of my life comfortably with the satisfaction that I've exhausted as much of my potential as I could into a final product. Then I'd leave everyone in the community with a sick megawad to play in many different styles with hundreds of hours of gameplay depending on how one chooses to play it. I'd also hope it would stand as a model for what I'd like to see more mappers do with their maps. I can't say I'm pulling the plug on it, but the rate of its progress is mirrored by my motivation to complete it without an optimistic partner or small team to share it with. I hope I can garner enough strength to make my ideas come to fruition, but until then, I've put a pin in it until things change.
In the meantime, I have no trouble checking on Doomworld and posting every now and again. I still have an insatiable urge to kill monsters and fortunately, playing the game and all the new wads that come out for it is significantly less taxing than editing it is. At best, I think tabling my mapping career may be excusable in exchange for offering myself as a mentor for any interested mappers (PM me!) or volunteering myself for a rather minor role in a major project. It breaks my heart to tell myself that it's time to call it quits, and I'll fight with every fiber in my body to keep the candle lit, but I just wanted you guys to know where I'm at.
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The Contribution of Open- Loop and Closed-Loop Control Modes in Prehension Movements
M. Jeannerod Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Expérimentale INSERM - Unité 94 Bron - France
Prehension movements directed at visual objects were studied by means of a film technique in normal subjects and in a patient with a lesion in her left parietal lobe, which had resulted in disrupting proprioceptive control of her right arm. In the normal subjects, prehension was broken down into two segmental components dealing respectively with approaching the hand from the target (transportation component), and posturing the fingers in anticipation of the grasp (manipulation component). It was found that the two components had remarkably stable temporal patterns. The transportation component had an invariant duration when the distance of the target-object was changed. A secondary acceleration of this component was consistently observed in the late part of its trajectory. The time of occurence of this acceleration corresponded to about 75% of total movement duration. The manipulation component was marked by an anticipatory closure of the fingers which began also within 75% to 80% of total movement duration. The time occurrences of reacceleration of transportation and onset of finger closure for each movement were found to be linearly correlated. Prehension movements were unaffected by whether visual feedback from the moving limb was available or not. In the patient, however, the pattern of prehension was found to depend on the possibility to control the movement directly by vision. When visual control was possible, the patient succeeded in grasping the object though total movement duration was increased and fingers were uncompletely postured. When visual control was prevented, only the initial part of the transportation component was normal. Reacceleration was also present but its coordination with finger closure was lacking. Instead the hand remained widely open and no grasp occurred. It was concluded that proprioceptive feedback generated by movement is necessary for achieving coordination in plurisegmental movements like prehension. Vision is not needed as an ongoing feed


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How Practical is Green Motoring Where You Live?
Given that the average mileage of an alternative energy vehicle is around 60 miles, are electric vehicles a reasonable choice for the average person? This infographic by Sixt draws attention to some of the practical aspects of green motoring in the U.S. based
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WASHINGTON — Andrew Carroll gingerly opened the FedEx box that arrived at his Washington, D.C., apartment on a recent morning and carefully pulled out a letter, written in beautiful cursive script on paper browned by nearly a century of age.
"Chère Madame," begins the letter, which is in French. "It is a mother who is writing to you, a mother who has been with your dear child in his last days; and it had seemed to me that to tell you a little of his last acts and gestures may soften the bitterness of your grief."
A French woman had written the letter in 1919 to the mother of Carl Saunders, a 22-year-old from upstate New York who died in France during service with the American Expeditionary Forces after the end of World War I.
For 15 years, Carroll has been collecting war letters as part of the Legacy Project, an effort to preserve the correspondence of Americans serving during war. Some of the letters have been published in anthologies or featured in documentaries, but the great majority of them have been sitting in a nondescript storage facility on Washington's U Street.
Now Carroll is giving the collection, numbering around 100,000 letters, to Chapman University in California to establish the Center for American War Letters, which will be officially launched on Veterans Day. Carroll believes the transfer is the largest donation of war letters in the nation's history.
The collection includes letters from every American war. A Civil War letter from Gen. William T. Sherman warns that the South had "laid open her fair country to the tread of devastating war." A doughboy in France writes of village church bells "ringing out the news of Peace, Peace, Peace" upon the armistice ending World War I.
A GI in Berlin writes a letter on Adolf Hitler's stationery and includes a sliver of wood from the Führer's desk. A mother writes in 2004 to her son, a Marine killed in Fallujah, Iraq: "There are so many things that spark a memory of you — a song, a boy in a baseball cap and baggy pants, a skateboarder."
Carroll and Chapman officials say the center is intended to be a resource for students, scholars and the general public.
Carroll traces his quest to 1989, his sophomore year at Columbia University, when his father called shortly before Christmas to report that the family's home in Washington had been gutted by fire. Sifting through the ashes a few days later, Carroll was shocked at all the family memories lost.
As consolation, James Carroll Jordan, a distant relative who served in World War II, sent the family a letter he had written to his wife in April 1945.
"I saw something today that makes me realize why we're fighting this war," wrote Jordan, then a 23-year-old B-51 pilot from St. Paul, Minn.
Members of his squadron had visited Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp liberated two days earlier. "When we first walked in we saw all these creatures that were supposed to be men," Jordan wrote. "They were dressed in black and white suits, heads shaved and starving to death."
When Carroll tried to return the letter to Jordan, the World War II veteran told him to keep it. It probably would have been tossed anyway.
For Carroll, the letter sparked what has become a lifelong passion to preserve such accounts. To him, the letters are literature of the first order, stripping away war's romanticism.
"War's brutality is the secret that civilized societies keep from themselves," he has written.
On Veterans Day 1998, Carroll launched the Legacy Project, and later that year his request for war letters was published in a Dear Abby column. Within days, letters began to pour into his apartment.
The letters spawned several well-regarded anthologies and documentaries, all of which brought in more letters.
"My biggest fear in donating the entire war letters collection to any institution was that it would be locked up in a facility somewhere, never to be seen again," Carroll said.
Chapman's proposes to incorporate letters into lesson plans and classroom discussions, and to use them as the basis for films and plays.
The university intends to digitize much of the correspondence, beginning with letters from World War I, and eventually make it available to the public. Carroll will oversee the collection as director of the center.


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May 30, 2016
Some of the Laredo Community College's best and brightest students were recognized and rewarded for their academic accomplishments on Wednesday night.
New and returning students received more than $250,000 in funds as part of the 2014 LCC Scholarship and Awards Night.
The awards were made on the basis of academic performance, student leadership, and a dedication to community service.
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In 2003 Volunteers of America Chesapeake began operating the Loudoun Emergency Homeless Shelter. This is a 44-bed shelter with an 89-day program offering intensive case management, life-skills classes and children's services, as well as providing basic necessities like food and shelter.
In 2014 the emergency shelter program provided more than 230 individuals and families with food shelter and service as they worked to escape the grips of homelessness.
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The Department of Family and Support Services, Children Services Division is dedicated to helping Chicago's youngest residents make the most of their lives and potential. We manage Head Start, Early Head Start, child care and youth programs throughout Chicago. We work on behalf of families to ensure they receive quality programming.
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Professional Development Scholarship Information
In order to assist Delegate Agency Staff in meeting their educational goals, the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) is offering virtually full coverage of tuition and possibly books and fees (some institutions may require a minor charge). In order to take advantage of these opportunities, please review the general requirements listed below before you apply.
1. Applicants must be a current employee in a DFSS Funded Head Start, Early Head Start, Family Child Care Home, Child Care, or Child Care Collaboration program.
2. Applicants must be in good standing at their current place of employment.
3. Upon completion of their chosen educational program, applicants must commit to maintaining employment for 3 years in a DFSS funded HS, EHS, or FCCH program.
4. Applicants must submit a completed DFSS Scholarship Application form along with a letter of recommendation from the Agency, Program or Site Director. Letters of recommendation for Partner Sites must be certified and completed by DA. These materials should be mailed to:
City of Chicago - Department of Family and Support Services
1615 W Chicago Ave - 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
5. DFSS will maximize additional resources in conjunction with the scholarship including Gateway to Learning, Pell Grants, etc.
6. Acceptance of application is contingent upon verification of educational data in COPA.
Scholarship Application | Professional Development Opportunities Booklet
Reggio Bootcamp
Starting April, Chicago Commons will be hosting monthly Reggio training sessions. Every second Wednesday of April, May, and June, participants will meet for a half day to engage in dialogue and activities. These activities/exercises will give participants foundational principles that are designed to reconstruct and enhance their practice as a professional educator.
Session One: Wednesday April 13, 2016
Session Two: Wednesday May 11, 2016
Session Three: Wednesday June 8, 2016
* Two staff members from any DFSS Head Start or Early Head Start agency can attend free.
For more information or to register: firstname.lastname@example.com–312.690.5236
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Gateways Webinars
INCCRRA will be hosting a series of webinars for Program Administrators/Directors.
How to Access and Maximize the Gateways Director Portal
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Registration deadline: January 12, 2016
Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3614085196283474178
Understanding Credentials and How to Support your Staff Through the Process
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Registration deadline: January 26, 2016
Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4577967666726861314
Participants are encouraged to register for both webinars.
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Aim4Excellence Opportunity for Administrators of DFSS Programs
Aim4Excellence™ is an online national director credential for early childhood administrators. The credential focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed to deliver high-quality programming for young children. The Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) and McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership are pleased to offer a full scholarship Aim4Excellence opportunity to administrators of DFSS programs.
Online Learning through the Aim4Excellence Modules
Over the course of 10 months, participants will complete the nine Aim4Excellence online modules to earn the Aim4Excellence National Director Credential.
Face-to-Face Learning Community
Participants will move through the Aim4Excellence modules in a community of practice supported by a facilitator. Participants will meet monthly for face-to-face meetings at the Chicago campus of National Louis University. The model is designed to help participants reflect, process, and implement the information from each module.
College Credit
Participants will receive a total of 15 quarter hours (the equivalent of 9 semester hours) of undergraduate college credit from National Louis University.
Points Toward the Illinois Director Credential
Beginning in July of 2016, Illinois directors will need the Illinois Director Credential to meet the Director Qualifications standards for the Silver or Gold Circles of Quality in ExceleRate Illinois. The Aim4Excellence modules help meet the Education and Training in Early Care & Education Administration component of the Illinois Director Credential. Points will be notated on participants' Certificate of Completion for each Aim4Excellence module. View details.
This project is funded by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) and is offered at no cost to participants.
DATES: Limited slots are available to start in early November.
As interest builds for the DFSS Aim4Excellence program, new cohorts may be announced, along with corresponding schedules. Participants will attend monthly face-to-face meetings and complete the online modules independently between meetings. See the "to apply" instructions below to add your name to the list.
REQUIREMENTS: Participants will be required to:
- Attend the welcome meeting and 80% of monthly meetings;
- Submit each module within the 30-day required turnaround;
- Actively participate in the monthly meetings;
- Successfully complete all modules with a 70% or above; and
- Adhere to the Aim4Excellence Terms and Conditions.
TO APPLY: Contact Isolda Davida at email@example.com or 312.743.1647
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2015 Center for Family & Community Leadership (CFCL) Workshops
The Center for Family and Community Leadership is hosting a series of workshops for Head Start and Early Head Start Family Support Workers and Social Service Staff. These workshops will provide information on engaging families, building a volunteer program, and strengthening program planning strategies, and more.
Engaging Families from the Start
Date: October 27, 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: 4314 S. Cottage Grove, Room 106, Chicago, IL 60653
Resource and Volunteer Promotion Program: Volunteer Management
Date: November 3, 2015
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: 1640 W. Roosevelt Road, Room 166, Chicago, IL 60608
Growing Your Parent, Family, & Community Engagement (PFCE)
Date: November 18, 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: 1640 W. Roosevelt Road, Room 166, Chicago, IL 60608
Click here for more information.
Free parking is available for all workshops. To Register, Please Log In to COPA
Young Children as Powerful Learners: Breaking the Standards Barrier
In celebration of Head Start's 50th Anniversary, Columbia College Chicago's Education Department and Crossroads for Learning invite you to attend a three-day seminar with keynote speakers Tiziana Filippini from Reggio Emilia, Italy and Teresa Acevedo from Child Parent Centers Inc., Tucson, Arizona.
Dates: October 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2015
Scholarships are available for DFSS Early Head Start and Head Start Programs. Please see the attached flyer for more information. The deadline to register for this event is September 25th.
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Chicago Public Schools Child Find Screening Program
Chicago Public Schools offers FREE early childhood developmental screenings for children birth to 5 within the boundaries of the city of Chicago. This screening includes the following components: cognitive/academic, communication, fine/gross motor, and social emotional skills.
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
This service is free and is an excellent learning check-up for young children. It can also be used to assure families that their child is developing age appropriately, as well as identify children who might benefit from early intervention services. No appointment is necessary.
'All About That Base' Head Start Parent Conference
Parents are the Base!
The Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS), in partnership with UIC Center for Literacy and the Illinois Head Start Association (IHSA) present the first annual Head Start Conference, "All About That Base."
Saturday, August 29, 2015
9am - 4pm
Special Parent meeting forum on Friday, August 28, 2015 from 9am - 12pm.
McCormick Place | 2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive, South Building
Click here for more information.
Policy Changes to the Child Care Assistance Program Effective July 1, 2015
Changes are being implemented to reduce CCAP expenditures due to significant projected FY'16 funding shortfalls. CCAP will operate under restrictive polices until sufficient resources are available to serve all eligible applicants. If additional funding is approved for CCAP, some of these changes may be repealed.
- Parent Co-payments are being increased effective to all cases processed on July 1, 2015 or after with a start date of 7/1/15 and after.
- Co-payment adjustments for existing cases will occur at the next redetermination.
- Effective for new applications received on or after July 1, 2015, the Department is imposing prioritized eligibility guidelines to all new Applications. In the event the Department must limit participation due to insufficient appropriations, applicants will be prioritized as follows:
A) Recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families as described in subsection (c)(1);B) Teen parents enrolled full-time in elementary, high school or GED classes to obtain a high school degree or its equivalent;C) Families with Special Needs children;D) Working families whose monthly incomes do not exceed 50% of the most current Federal Poverty Level for their family size.
- Exemptions for part day, transient children cared for temporarily, or special activity programs (Exemptions 6, 8 and 9) do not support a child's development or a parents need to work and will no longer receive funding through the Child Care Assistance Program.
Strengthening Outcomes for Families Through Cross Collaborations
This training will provide an opportunity for child welfare, education, and homeless service providers in Chicago to learn each other's systems. Join us to get an overview of the
homeless service system, the child welfare system, and the early education system. This training will also provide information from system experts on strategies to advocate for services. Breakout session topics include: Coordinated Access/Centralized Referral System, Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services, Statewide Provider Database, McKinney Vento, Housing Resources, Child WellBeing, Extended Family Support Program, Mandated Reporting, Harm Reduction, and more!
Free CEUs will be provided to professionals with their LSW, LCSW, LPC, or LCPC.
Date: Tuesday June 30, 2015
Time: 9am-5pm (Registration begins at 8:30am)
Location: Northwestern Law School | 375 E. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60601
To register, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KG33SGL by Friday June 26.
Measles Virus
Dear Parents and Staff of Head Start and Early Head Start Children,
As the Medical Consultant for Head Start I am encouraging all of you to check the immunization records for the children and yourselves to determine if you or your children are at risk for contracting Measles during this epidemic. Your health care provider can give your further direction. Please read the information below.
WHAT IS MEASLES? Measles is a preventable communicable disease caused by the measles virus. It is a respiratory disease that can have serious life-threatening complications. In the year 2000, measles was eliminated and declared no longer endemic (common disease) in the United States. Therefore, the recent confirmed cases of measles in the United States are considered part of an epidemic (more than usually expected). In the past week, there have been 5 confirmed cases of Measles in Palatine, IL in infants that attend the same day care center. These infants are too young to routinely receive the Measles vaccination.
ROUTINE IMMUNIZATIONS: The Measles vaccination (immunization) is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Council on Immunization Practices. The initial dose is between 12 and 15 months. The second or booster is recommended between 4 and six years of age. Children receiving the measles immunization following this schedule are 95% likely to have immunity against Measles. See http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/
IMMUNIZIING THE COMMUNITY: Infants under the age of 12 months have no significant immunity against measles. This is why it is so important that all other children and adults receive these immunizations. The reason this is effective is "Herd Immunity". This means that all others around the unvaccinated person are immune and should not catch disease. Hence the community or "herd" shelters the weakest one(s) from the disease by not exposing them. All eligible children should be vaccinated against Measles as well as adults with no history of vaccination or physician diagnosed history of Measles.
RISK COMPLICATIONS OF MEASLES: The risk of complications of Measles is highest in young infants and those over 20 years of age. The complications may be something manageable like an ear infection, suffered by one in 20 children with Measles. A more serious and life threatening complication is pneumonia. Pneumonia is the Measles complication that most often leads to death. Encephalitis (swelling of the brain) is suffered by 1 in a thousand persons with Measles and may lead to brain damage and/or death.
Written by Joyce M. Smith, M.D., MPH
DFSS Head Start Medical Consultant
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View Measles Memo: English | Spanish
View Measles Fact Sheet: English | Spanish
Head Start/Early Head Start Home Based/Home Visiting Program Guidance
The Department of Family and Support requires all HS/EHS programs operating the Head Start Home Based program option to adhere to the following guidelines based on the Head Start Performance Standards 45 CFR 1306.33 and CFR 45 1304 and Sec. 645A (i)(2)(A-G). The Head Start/Early Head Start home-based program option includes families and children from prenatal to five-years-old.
The HB program is comprehensive and addresses all service areas of the Head Start Performance Standards. The services are delivered by home visitors through parents as the first teachers of their children during the home visits and group socializations. In addition, home visitors in the Home Based programs are required to conduct one 90 minute home visit per week and two 90 minute group socializations per month each for at least 90 minutes. The caseload per home visitor is no more than 10-12 families.
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Welcome to the United States Guidebook
This COR Center publication, frequently referred to as the Welcome guide, was developed at the request of the Department of State, Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). The Welcome guide is designed to support overseas Cultural Orientation, as well as for use in initial domestic orientation or by refugees directly.
See more at: http://www.culturalorientation.net/providing-orientation/toolkit/welcome/welcome-to-the-united-states-guidebook#sthash.Qu56DzLy.dpuf
Chicago Early Childhood Program Locator
Finding quality Early Childhood Education programs for your child has never been this easy! Whether you are looking for a program near your home or near your job, the Chicago Early Childhood Program Locator can help you find what you're looking for. There are many Early Childhood Education programs for children ages 3 to 5 with varying services, hours and fees-- whether it's a half day at your neighborhood public school or a full day at your community center.
Click here to locate a Chicago Early Childhood Program
FY 2014 Office of Head Start Monitoring Protocol
Letter from Mayor Emanuel
A letter from Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the city's investments in early learning:
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Dear Parents, Guardians, and Community Members,
As Mayor of the City of Chicago, I believe the most important thing we can do for our city is set our children on a path for success. I am committed to providing every student in Chicago with a world class education - from cradle to career, from pre-kindergarten to college, regardless of where they live. There is no better foundation we can provide for our children's success and our city's future than the critical investments we are making in early childhood education.
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I dropped about $150 on a Wal-Mart bike. I know how anyone even mildly serious about bicycling will scoff; but I knew what I was getting myself into. It's an anchor, it doesn't shift, and the suspension feels like a cheap mattress. But the wheels roll, and I ride about once every year or so; so I'm not too unhappy with it.
But I'm handy and feel like changing the components on the bike. The biggest problem I have is the shifting; I've spent several weeks adjusting it, and it just doesn't shift under any load. The front derailleur is no-name DLP, the rear is also no-name Shimano Tourney. The second problem I have is the front disk brake; it's junk.
So now that I'm stuck with the bike; I'm thinking of upgrading the components. How about:
1. Putting in Deore LX/XT Front/Rear Derailleurs (~50)
2. New cables
3. Front disk brake (~30)
4. Would changing the cassettes help shifting? (the ones I have are useless with none of that hyperglide stuff)
Again, I don't really care if it's an anchor or if it's a weak frame -- I don't ride that often or hard (read: around my street). But the shifting and breaking are critical, so I'm thinking of replacing those parts.
Please don't tell me to go to a bike store (the tune ups cost more than my bike), I'm handy and have loads of free time to be miserable adjusting parts. I already bought the bike, so no buyer's remorse or I'll be sad.