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Did some quick drive-thru thrifting, which is where we just happen to drive buy a thrift store and pull in on a whim, and am I sure glad we did!
Can you believe this Miffy clock? Israel and I were equally excited to find this on our way out, for $4. It doesn't quite work though, the second hand starts to move but then gets stuck, so the other two hands don't move either. Bummer.
It was caked with dust and though I was able to remove a lot, there's still some there that I can't quite reach.
I found the dustpan over the weekend. Says "Japan" on the back and it's just the right size for cleaning crumbs off the table. Israel is also very fond of this find, it's perfect for his little hands and you'd think we bought it just for him to pretend to sweep!
The Dansk kobenstyle pot is from my sister-in-law who knew I love these pots and was fortunate enough to find one. I am fortunate enough to be related to her!
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what a cool pot! and that clock is adorable.. hopefully you guys can fix it :)ReplyDelete
That dustpan is so cute!! Love the clock too. Nice finds : )ReplyDelete
You can try to replace the "movement" mechanism in the clock. I think they are pretty easy to swap out, and they are usually under $10. We love miffy, and I'm a little obsessed with clocks, so I'm sitting here drooling over your fantastic find!ReplyDelete
Nice pot, looks great in blue and the Miffy clock is so cute!ReplyDelete
wooo, I just found a red one!! Dansk luck all around!ReplyDelete
What great finds/gifts! Ha I want to see Israel use the broom!ReplyDelete
that blue color is just so fantastic!ReplyDelete
Oh Miffy!! That clock is brilliant! I was crazy about Miffy when I was little - I still have 5 of the original books on my book shelf! Too cute :)ReplyDelete
In Holland, Where I live, Miffy is called Nijntje and I love it! :DReplyDelete
I was lucky enough to find also a card game designed by Dick Bruna few months ago...and I love it as well ;)
Thanks for sharing!
the dustpan is so cute :)ReplyDelete
i had the same problem with a thrifted clock that i loved, so i just took the back off and removed the second hand....it's been ticking along just fine ever since. great finds!ReplyDelete
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Things in West Valley just got a little sweeter. Local bakery The Sweet Tooth Fairy has spread its sugary little wings with the opening of its eighth shop, located at the newly revamped Valley Fair Mall complex.
What started as a hobby from founder Megan Brown's kitchen has expanded from the first shop, which opened in 2009, to include doors from Layton to St. George and just about every sizeable town in between.
The Sweet Tooth Fairy Founder Megan Brown in the new West Valley location.
Treats from cupcakes (strawberry shortcake, raspberry lemonade, toasted coconut and oodles more) to gooey brownies and cake bites to gluten-free macaroons line the bright white shelves in this homey and cozy shop. And, that Brown says, is key to making her confectionery boutique a go-to spot for locals.
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Bintliff, Callahan Have Perfect Days, Though Tigers Fall In Ivy Pair
The day started with far more promise, as Princeton raced out to a 9-3 lead through the first four matches against Brown. The Bears took five of the final six to earn a 20-12 win, and Harvard used its pair of nationally ranked wrestlers to build a commanding early lead in a 27-6 win in the afternoon.
Bintliff, a two-time EIWA placewinner for Princeton, set a career high with his 18th victory of the season Saturday. After a 7-3 win over Grant Overcashier in the morning, he earned a hard-fought 7-5 victory over Harvard's Todd Preston, which got Princeton on the board against the Crimson.
Callahan had the most impressive win of the day, and it came during the afternoon showdown against Harvard. He defeated Brown's Richard McDonald 8-4 during the morning, and he came back in the afternoon for a 7-3 win over Harvard's Cameron Croy, who has 21 wins on the season. Croy was a placewinner at the 2012 EIWA Championships and one of the most experienced wrestlers in the Crimson lineup.
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After organizational meetings at Sikorsky Aircraft were initiated in January 1943, the Society was founded on February 25, 1943, and was officially recognized by the State of Connecticut as "The American Helicopter Society, Incorporated" on June 25, 1943. Read this early retrospective published in 1956 in the first issue of The Journal of the American Helicopter Society to see how it all began!
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Charles L. (Les) Morris (Sikorsky), President of AHS
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The 2013 class of Hall of Fame inductees was announced at a press conference on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Among the inductees on hand during the conference were Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, who sat down with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to share what it was like learning they were being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, their influences – including Hall of Fame inductees Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Elton John, Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon – and the importance of preserving this music at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The first biography of Bruce Springsteen in 25 years to be written with his cooperation, Bruce covers four decades of the musician and Hall of Fame inductee's career in intimate detail. With unprecedented access, biographer and journalist Peter Ames Carlin collected candid interviews with Springsteen, his family and inner circle to weave a rich narrative chronicling the life and times of the Jersey-born rock luminary.
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At a press conference today at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist and 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Flea announced the list of performer inductees and Ahmet Ertegun Award recipients for induction. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2013 are:
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· Albert King
· Randy Newman
· Public Enemy
· Rush
· Donna Summer
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Scheduled for Thursday, April 18, 2013, the 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. This marks the first time since 1993 that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on the West Coast. The ceremony will again be open to the public, as it was in 2009 and 2012 in Cleveland.
Joel Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said, "We are thrilled to announce this year's class of inductees, which again represents the broad, compelling and significant definition of rock and roll."
The induction ceremony will broadcast on HBO on Saturday, May 18 at 9pm ET/PT. Said Michael ...
Although guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Devon Allman shares a surname that will ring familiar to rock and roll fans, Devon has cultivated a sound all his own. He's mindful of his family's storied musical legacy and the contributions of other venerable rock pioneers, but also has an ear for what's next. The son of Allman Brothers Band founding member, vocalist and key player Gregg Allman, and nephew of virtuoso guitarist Duane Allman, Devon records and performs in blues-rock outfits Honeytribe and Royal Southern Brotherhood. Earlier this year, Devon wrapped recording sessions for his solo debut, Turquoise, scheduled for release in February 2013, and is currently on tour in the United States. Recently, Devon visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and took time to share his thoughts on being an Allman, his influences both old and new (and familial), making music on his own terms, highlights of the Museum's collection and seeing the instruments played by Gregg and Duane Allman.
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Between 1979 and 1986, the 2-Tone label released 28 singles – 20 of which charted in the U.K. – including hits by the Specials, the Selecter, Madness, the Bodysnatchers and the Beat (known as the English Beat outside of the U.K.). Although only the English Beat –and to a lesser extent, Madness – ever had much success outside of the U.K., the 2-Tone movement combined infectious dance music and progressive ideals to confront the status quo. 2-Tone laid the groundwork for the success of such American artists as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Toasters, Fishbone, Smash Mouth, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, the Pietasters and the multi-platinum selling No Doubt.
2-Tone was a group of black and white kids from Coventry, Birmingham and London, England – white punk rockers and black rude-boys and -girls who stood against the economic policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government and the Neo-Nazi National Front, promoted racial harmony through the irresistible and exuberant rhythm of ska music and revolutionized ...
"As a musician and historian, I'm thrilled to see a friend, Greg Harris, named as President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," said Roots drummer, DJ, producer and journalist Questlove. "His store, the Philadelphia Record Exchange, was my home away from home, and most of my 70,000 plus vinyl records came from there."
On Monday, December 3, 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum announced that Gregory S. Harris, the Museum's VP of development since 2008, would be the organization's next president and CEO, successor to current Rock Hall president and CEO Terry Stewart. The transition will be effective January 1, 2013.
"I'm honored to be entrusted to lead the organization that preserves and presents this amazing art form for future generations," said Harris. "Rock and roll is deeply rooted in our culture and when interpreted through a museum, provides a powerful forum to teach and inspire. Through Terry Stewart's leadership, the staff has put this institution on solid ground. The Rock Hall is in the best shape ever, and I'm looking forward to a tremendous future."
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HNN122 - Quality and Safety: Nursing Practice 2
Unit details
|2016 unit information
|Enrolment modes:
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD*, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong)
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne) - only available for commencing students with credit for prior learning for the pre-requisite units
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|Cohort rule:
Must be enrolled in course D355, D381, D387, H326, H329 or be an Enrolled Nurse undertaking a single unit enrolment
|Unit chair:
Trimester 2: Jennifer Hosking
Trimester 3: Linda Rhodes
|Campus contact:
Burwood (Melbourne): Elyse Coffey
Warrnambool: Sue Ireland
IKE: Gill Rea
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|Contact hours:
2 Cloud (online) hours, 1 x 2 hour seminar, 1 x 2 hour simulation session per week
*CBD refers to Institute of Koorie Education – Community Based Delivery
This unit is the second unit in the Clinical Studies Cluster: Year 1. In this unit nursing knowledge and skills introduced in previous units are further developed in the provision of person-centred care. Within the context of pre and post procedural care students will develop an understanding of symptom management: pain, nausea and vomiting, altered fluid and electrolytes, infection, constipation, dyspnoea, fatigue, anxiety, and grief. Symptom management will be presented in the context of comprehensive and focused assessment, implementation of appropriate evidence-based interventions, and evaluation of outcomes. The principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics will be introduced as the foundation for therapeutic use of medicines. During a two (2) week clinical placement students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply knowledge and skills learned in this unit and previous units.
Assessment task 1: Online tests 4 x 30 minutes (equivalent 2000 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Examination (2 hours) 60%
Assessment task 3: Skills (equivalent 1500 words) hurdle requirement
Assessment task 4: Clinical assessment pass/fail (equivalent 1000 words)
Department of Human Services policy and Working with Children Act
In accordance with Department of Human Services policy*, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Working with Children Act 2005**, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at commencement of the course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course. Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student's immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
* Department of Human Services 2007, Service agreement information kit for funded organisations 2006–2009, State Government of Victoria, Melbourne, retrieved 1 July 2007.
** Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, Victoria, Australia retrieved April 2012
Prescribed texts
Berman, A, Snyder, S, Levett-Jones, T, Dwyer, T, Hales, T, Harvey, N, Luxford, Y, Moxham, L, Park, T, Parker, B, Reid-Searl, K & Stanley, D 2012, Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing, 2nd edn, Pearson, Frenchs Forest, NSW.
Tollefson, J. & Hillman, E. (2016) Clinical psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nurses, 6th edn, South Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
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ZF-4902: Cannot add 'id' attribute to a link when using the HeadLink helper
The tag is allowing to use "id" attribute but HeadLink() does not.
There is no way to add the "id" attribute using the HeadLink() helper which make is not usable if i need it.
It may be related to issue http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-3111
According the the HTML Spec for the link tag id is not a valid attribute http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_link.asp Can i ask why you need an id on a link tag?
Ignore my last comment I type before reading the whole page. It's linked to ZF-3111 as the same issue.
w3schools is a great site, but for (rea) formal specs I think we should use w3.org: http://w3.org/TR/REC-html40/… the specific reason I need id on a link tag is for dynamic changing the css file that i'm using.
BTW, at the w3schools link, at the bottom, it indicate that LINK tag has the "Standard Attributes", which include id.
I agree. I'll run this by Matthew and/or Ralph and see what they say. If they give me the approval to go ahead with the patch i'll work on something.
I have started work on this and I should have something up by EOD tomorrow. I need to finish testing and update the docs to reflect these changes.
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Hi. Thanks for all the replies and ideas.
I plan to work on the bike this weekend and will take some pictures of the holes in the lifter body tops and try and post them here.
During the last time I changed the pushrod corks, we found that the front exhaust lifter top had come loose in the body.
At first I didn't know why the top of the lifter was wobbling around when I was lowering the adjuster.
When the pushrod had been removed I pulled the lifter up as far as I could in the body to try and see what I could.
The adjusting top of the body came out in my fingers.
Since I did not know about any other problems with the Eastern lifters, I just assumed it was a fluke anomaly.
I removed the lifter block from the engine case and had a look at the lifter body.
Although the lifters were still nicely fitted in the lifter blocks, the top of the lifter had become a loose fit in the body. Also the top was not concentric with the body. If the top had vibrated around in the body, it would have jammed under the vacuum port in the side of the lifter block with some disastrous results.
I actualy know this could happen because I put it back in and gently rolled the engine over with the back wheel to back the next lifter down so i could take out the pushrod. At first I could not work out why the engine would not go through a revolution so I backed the wheel back a bit and gently came forward again and it came to a gentle solid stop. I rolled the wheel backwards and pulled the top of the lifter out and then rolled the engine through.
I cleaned up the loose lifter with acetone and used a loctight product that fills a gap of a few thousandths and lightly nipped it between the soft jaws of the vice for 24 hrs. It ran marvelous during a recent ride, but ,I am now feeling I might look for another set of lifter blocks and move to another brand of lifter. Iwill let you all know how it goes.
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SEATTLE, Wash. – The Duck track and field teams added two members to the men's 4:00 mile club Saturday at the Husky Classic, while Arthur Delaney ripped off the second-fastest 200 meters in school history at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark.
Chad Noelle and Brett Johnson became the eighth and ninth members of Oregon's indoor 4:00 mile club in Seattle. Noelle, a freshman from Greene, N.Y., won the collegiate section in 3:59.57, while Johnson, a junior from Ocean City, N.J., was sixth in the invitational section in 3:58.62. Johnson's time was the sixth-best in school history, while Noelle's ranked ninth.
In women's action in Seattle, Sammie Clark tied an indoor personal best to win the pole vault at 13-4.25/4.07m. The junior from North Bend, Ore., had two perfect clearances before she needed a second jump to get over the bar at 13-4.25.
Sophomores Lauren Crockett and Chancey Summers tied for first in the women's high jump with clearances at 5-10/1.78m.
Jillian Weir followed up her big day in the weight throw on Friday with another personal best in the shot put on Saturday. She had a top throw of 49-2.25/14.99m to finish second overall. That was also the fourth best shot put in school history.
Alyssa Monteverde had a pair of personal bests in the women's 60 meter hurdles. After winning her preliminary heat in 8.58, the freshman from Clovis, Calif., took third in the finals in 8.51. That represented the third-fastest time in school history.
Football's B.J. Kelley ran to a personal best 6.82 seconds to win his preliminary heat of the men's 60 meters. Kelley was seventh in the final in 6.86.
Freshman Chris Brewer won his section of the men's 3,000 meters in 8:11.63.
Meanwhile at the Tyson Invitational, Delaney impressed by delivering the second-fastest indoor men's 200 meters in school history, 21.26. That was the seventh-best time at the Tyson meet (and No. 4 among collegians). The sophomore from Greshman, Ore., tied with Pat Johnson's 1996 mark, and trailed only Kedar Inico's school record 21.10 from 2005.
Delaney was also on the men's 4x400 meter relay that placed third overall. The quartet of Jack Galpin, Arthur Delaney, Elijah Greer and Mike Berry finished in 3:09.25.
English Gardner and Jenna Pradini both opened up in the women's 200 meters in Arkansas. In her first race of 2013, Gardner ran 23.50, while Prandini timed 23.70. Gardner had the fifth fastest time overall at the Tyson meet and was just shy of her PR, 23.34. Prandini's time was seventh overall and was also a PR that moved her to No. 3 on the UO indoor list.
Later in the day, Gardner anchored the Ducks to a fourth place finish in the 4x400 meter relay. The squad of Chizoba Okodogbe, Phyllis Francis, Laura Roesler and Gardner rallied from deep in the field to cross the line in 3:34.63, which was the third-fastest indoor time in school history.
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Want to Guess What Will Win World Press Photo of the Year?
The announcement of the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 winner is now less than 24 hours away. Speculation is ripe: Which international news story will be depicted in the photo that wins the top prize? The conflict in Mali, or Syria? Protests against austerity measures in Greece? Political unrest in Egypt? Hurricane Sandy?
The other question is: How will the news story be depicted? Since 1955, most of the World Press Photo winners have shown lone individuals who symbolize a larger story: a single grieving or injured or dead individual standing in for many who were left grieving, injured or dead by a conflict or natural disaster. Only twice have the winning images shown groups of people in danger. The number of winning images that depict women in moments of grave danger, distress or overwhelming grief have far outnumbered the number of photos that show men in similar situations. Women, alone or in groups, are usually shown as the passive bystanders to conflict or disaster.
That trend shifted in the past three years. The women subjects of the last three World Press Photo winners are depicted not as victims but as survivors. Take for example, photographer Jodi Bieber's 2010 World Press Photo of the Year, the portrait of Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off as retribution for fleeing her husband's home. Aisha looks calmly into the camera lens. In the 2009 World Press Photo of the Year, taken by Pietro Masturzo of AP, a woman shouts from a rooftop in Tehran, Iran, after the results of her country's disputed election results were announced. This defiant woman is a stand-in for the many citizens from all walks of life who took to the streets to protest the election. Last year's winning image, by Samuel Aranda, shows a woman in a hospital – not an uncommon motif among World Press Photo winners – but the Pieta-like composition shows a woman, her face covered by a veil, giving comfort to a family member injured in the violence in Yemen.
So will the winner announced tomorrow depict conflict, disaster or triumph, through a single person – maybe a man? –or a group? What's your guess for what story – and what kind of symbol – will win?
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OK, maybe it's the woman's oh-so-perfect diction. Or her Monty Pythonesque accent. But this answering machine message, attributed to a high school in Queensland, Australia, is just too funny. "To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1. To make excuses for why your child did not do his homework – Press 2. To complain about what we do – Press 3." And it just keeps getting wilder from there as the options escalate. Alas, when we called the school (because we are, after all, investigative journalists), the outgoing message was plain vanilla. Turns out this voice mailbox message has been debunked at Snopes as an urban legend that has also made the rounds as the purported answering machine message of a high school in California. But that won't stop us from listening, laughing and sharing. Have fun!
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Companies Are 'Just Getting Started' With Social Business
Most companies have moved beyond experimenting with social media, but few companies are experts at integrating the media into all aspects of the business.
"Managing a Facebook page to promote the latest campaign isn't really social business, it's just social added to existing interactive marketing," writes Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Altimeter Group.
Many companies aren't integrating social media across the enterprise. The rollout generally starts in marketing, specifically corporate communications; followed by customer support, which uses social media to respond to angry customers; followed by product teams and then connectivity with partners and the supply chain, Owyang writes.
"Companies barely even have a full view of their customers" in social media, because the customer data is locked up in silos in brand monitoring and Facebook apps and spread out across the company.
Owyang describes three criteria that determine whether a company is an advanced social business. First, he looks at whether all employees using social media "in a safe and organized way." Then he looks for data aggregated from multiple locations and for the company to be able to predict and anticipate what customers are going to do. Third, "they stop using the terms 'social business' and just use the term 'business' as this integrates into their normal digital communications."
Ad Age's Maureen Morrison says one obstacle to creating advanced social businesses is that marketers are having a tough time integrating social media and CRM. Marketers have robust CRM databases they use to target direct mail and email offers, and a growing number have strong Facebook or Twitter followings. "But few marketers have figured out how to marry the two," Morrison writes.
The idea of one grand database of consumer information, interests and intentions is the holy grail for managing marketer-customer relationships, and the idea of using social data from a network like Facebook to get there is hugely appealing. But when it comes to integrating this kind of social data, it's easier said than done.
My take: Social and CRM information need to go in two directions. If a consumer describes interactions with a brand on social media, that information needs to be recorded in the CRM database, so customer representatives are aware of the comments when they interact with the customer. If a customer declares on Twitter, "I just had a lousy flight on Pan Am," that comment will be taken into account the next time that customer interacts with Pan Am. Brands are already taking baby steps in that direction by having customer service reps monitor Twitter and other social media for customer complaints and deal with them.
Of course, monitoring customer interactions with social media is stepping into a privacy minefield. But the rewards are big for both brands and consumers.
It would be even more rewarding if the interaction went the other way -- from a brand's CRM system out to social media. Imagine a consumer who owns 10 pairs of Levi's 501 jeans. He walks into an outlet of The Gap and instantly receives push notifications letting him know about shirts and belts on sale that would go nicely with those jeans. Again, the privacy implications -- as well as the risk of alienating customers by being plain annoying -- are huge, but so are the potential rewards.
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Tyndall Air Force Base - Algae, it grows fast and it grows just about anywhere. That's just one of the reasons the Air Force is trying to figure out how to use it as a fuel source. Researchers at Tyndall Air Force Base began exploring the possibilities of algae-based biofuel three years ago, and it looks promising.
Bubbling green goo. It looks like something out of a mad scientist movie. But in fact it's part of a multi-million dollar research project being conducted at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Tyndall. "We are trying to find ways to produce on site power. In this case, algae-based power. We digest it, just like a waste water treatment plant, we make methane that we can burn as a fuel or a substitute in gas and diesel engines," said research engineer Bobby Diltz.
The goal: to reduce the Air Force's reliance on foreign fossil fuels. "When oil really spiked to $140 a barrel the DOD's budget hit 7 or 8 billion dollars. The budget became nearly impossible to predict. This is a way to streamline the process of getting the cost more under control so we don't rely solely on someone else to bring it in," said Diltz.
This specific project focuses on producing algae-based biofuel on deployed bases, which are bases that are temporarily set up overseas, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. "To get gas to the tip of the spear, as we call it, it becomes much more expensive. If you can produce on site you don't have to worry about the people needed to protect the fuel convoy. You can reduce the hundreds it costs to transport the fuel," said Diltz.
So why is all this happening at Tyndall? "A lot of people call the southeast the OPEC of biofuel because we have a lot of sunshine, and a lot of rain, we grow a lot of trees and algae, a lot of biomass for biofuel." Diltz says military bases in the U.S. could start using algae fuel in the next 4 or 5 years, it will likely be a few more years before deployed bases start implementing it.


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Historic Delatite Station located in the heart of the High Country is a unique holiday experience. Located only ten minutes from Mansfield, approximately 50 minutes to Mount Buller and 10 minutes to Lake Eildon, they are close to all the adventure activities this region has to offer. They can accommodate you in one of two private well equipped farm cottages.Bob's cottage has been recently renovated and redecorated and offers a very high standard of accommodation. It has spectacular views up the Delatite river valley to the mountains and is surrounded by a large mature garden.Inside the cottage there are high timber ceilings and polished timber floors with double glass doors opening out onto a large deck. The main bedroom has a queen size bed and full ensuite whilst the second bedroom has two single beds and an ensuite shower and basin.There is a fully equipped laundry, which also has the toilet for the second bedroom. The kitchen is fully equipped and includes a dishwasher. There is a quality television, DVD surround sound system in the sitting room as well as a wood heater and split system reverse cycle air conditioner outside there is a large umbrella, table and chairs and a large barbecue.Situated in a large mature garden with the Delatite River only a stones throw from the house, Chris' has an open fireplace in the kitchen, wood heater in the sitting room and one large old fashioned bathroom with claw foot bath and shower.The cottage has three bedrooms accessed from the verandas, one double and two twins. Other features include reverse cycle split air conditioning, dishwasher, television, DVD and CD player, gas barbecue and outdoor furniture.Both cottages are provided with all linen, tea and coffee. A full breakfast hamper is available for $40.
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Back when I was in high school, the usage of the word "derive" to mean "take the derivative of" was really widespread. It always bothered me because I felt that the proper verb should be "differentiate." I wondering if this use of "derive" is acceptable or not. Has anyone else heard the word "derive" used in this way?
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I say "not acceptable".
I don't recall the grammatical/linguistic term, but it seems like "derive" in that sense needs a "from" somewhere: "This theorem can be derived from blah blah."
"Differentiate", on the other hand, can be used directly with its object: "let's differentiate $f$" and so on.
Here is an illuminating xkcd forum thread on the topic. People (myself included) seem to agree that the word 'derive' is incorrect.
dirive musn't be used instead of differentiate...........but that what teachers at High schools do, of which is wrong because at Universities you can't say e.g f(x)=3x^2 f(x)=6x the process is diriving, instead of differentiating.


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Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news: it's Chuck Berry's birthday.
Let's hear it for the man who taught us about everything from cooling off your car's engine with rain water blowin' all under the hood, to all we needed to know about girls named "Carol" and "Nadine." In fact, the Shakespeare of rock and roll informed us about most the things we needed to know in those nascent days of the music that's become the soundtrack of our lives.
Imagine what it meant to me when he referred to my hometown of Mobile in "Let It Rock." It was great being with you recently, Mr. Berry, and it thrills me that you are still knockin' 'em out like Johnny B. Goode.
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While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, "Maybellene." Combined with quick-witted, rapid-fire lyrics full of sly insinuations about cars and girls, Berry laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance. The song included a brief but scorching guitar solo built around his trademark double-string licks. Accompanied by long-time piano player Johnnie Johnson and members of the Chess Records house band, including Willie Dixon, Berry wrote and performed rock and roll for the ages. To this day, the cream of Berry's repertoire—which includes "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Rock and Roll Music" and "Roll Over Beethoven"—is required listening for any serious rock fan and required learning for any serious rock musician. Read Berry's full bio here...


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everyone who likes slowpoke say me!
He will be pleased
everyone who likes slowpoke say me!
He will be pleased
I like slowpoke. ^^' =D
The Cure
Putting You Out Of Bed...
And On The Couch.
*Forks Slowpoke*
New Claimed Character: Onikami O'Donnel Son of Wolf O'Donnel
Awesome!! The spirituous Soulhaven Town Come join the club Cyndaquils, get'm now!
Albums wanting:
Slipknot - Vol. 3 (The subliminal Verses)
White Stripes - Eephant
Halo 2 Soundtrack 1
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Slowpoke... the name says it all. Though I guess you are entitled to your opinion, however crappy it may be. Personally, I prefer Dunsparce... still don't know why he never evolved.
I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [points to head] and here [points to heart] and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not.
Uh yeah soz but slowpoke just doesn't do it for me...
But Leafeon, THAT IS A F'n AWSOME POKEMON ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!
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I began the practice of hot yoga six months prior to my mom's lung cancer diagnosis. It may sound odd to some, but I did this at the instruction of Angel Healing cards my aunt sent me which kept suggesting I do more yoga and meditation. The deck of cards has over 60 cards and no matter how many times I shuffled them, the same two cards appeared about yoga and meditation. In hindsight, I can clearly see that I was being guided to a practice that would help we weather some of life's roughest seas.
I remember sitting bedside to my mother in the emergency room after she was rushed to the hospital post chemotherapy for her cancer. She developed a rare condition called Rhabdomyolysis which is a breakdown of muscle tissue releasing damaging protein in the blood. She could barely speak and I could see the fear and confusion in her eyes. My mother is a very strong woman and seeing this in her brought me to my knees.
If it wasn't for the yoga, I think I might just collapse right now. My core was already strengthened from daily participation in my recovery program and now, the yoga strengthened me further. Some might look at hot yoga merely as a form of great exercise. For me, it is a teacher given to me at exactly the right time to teach me how to suit up and show up when I would normally collapse and fall down. The messages of yoga, spoken by my teacher in class, are always exactly what I need to hear and remember....


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Here's something we should have on hand that I don't know much about.
Anyone familiar with the different brands and the pros/cons of some of them?
Can they be left in a vehicle summer and winter or do they need to be stored indoors?
I was in a situation recently and found myself unprepared for what might have needed to be done.
Thankfully the local VOLUNTEER EMS guys were close by and came over to help.
It was a freak chance that those guys happened to there at the time otherwise it would have taken them at least 30 minutes from dispatch to arrival.
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The glorious red cliffs at Gantheaume Point contrast starkly with the bright blue water to create a spectacular scene, especially at sunset as the rock ... Read more
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Named after John Wodehouse, the first Earl of Kimberley, this red desert region takes up the northern part of Western Australia. Immigrants arrived here more ... Read more
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Ian Brandt is the unchallenged veggie king of Salt Lake City. His restaurants, Sage's Cafe, Vertical Diner and Cafe SuperNatural, are the tops when it comes to natural, vegetarian and vegan fare. His grocery, Cali's, is a prime source for organic and locally grown produce. He's a practicing vegan. So is his wife. So are his kids, for the most part. Needless to say, turkey left the Brandt's Thanksgiving table a long time ago. Still, the fourth Thursday of November marks a major feast day, and while their table may be lacking a big bird, some dishes are even more critical to America's menu. "Stuffing," says Brandt. "We always have stuffing and gravy." Brandt's stuffing, like many, aren't actually stuffed into anything but a pan. And your belly. Here are his recipes.
Chef Ian Brandt's Holiday Stuffing Recipe
(Makes 9x13 pan)
1 full loaf Vosen's 7 grain baguette
3 cups sliced mushrooms
2 cups chopped walnuts
½ cup dried fruit (small pieces)
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced carrots
1 cup diced celery
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup white wine
2 Tbsp. fresh minced sage
2 Tbsp. minced garlic
2 Tbsp. Real Salt
1 tsp. black pepper
2 cups water
Heat oven to 375. Cube the baguette into ½-inch-by-½-inch cubes and toast on a cookie sheet until light brown.
Sauté mushrooms, onions, carrots, celery and garlic in the olive oil and Real Salt in a medium sauce pan. Halfway through cooking, add the walnuts. When these ingredients are cooked thoroughly and the walnuts are brown, deglaze with white wine.
Add dried fruit, fresh sage, water and fresh ground black pepper. (Green apple and/or Anjou pear can also be used instead of dried fruit. If you use fresh fruit then use 1 to 1 ½ cups and a half of a cup less water). When the dried fruit has plumped up, add the toasted bread pieces and stir well.
Place the stuffing into a 9x13-inch casserole dish and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until the top is lightly browned and the stuffing is hot all the way through.
Serve with gravy.
Chef Ian Brandt's Holiday Gravy
Makes 6 cups or 8 servings
¼ cup diced onion
2 tsp. minced garlic
1/3 cup nutritional yeast
1 Tbsp. fresh minced thyme
1 Tbsp. fresh minced rosemary
1 Tbsp. fresh minced sage
1–2 tsp. salt
½ tsp. salt-free chili powder
2 Tbsp. whole wheat flour
3 Tbsp. unbleached flour
¼ cup olive oil
½ cup white wine
3 cups soup stock or water
3 Tbsp. tamari or soy sauce
2 Tbsp. tahini
Sauté onions with olive oil, salt and chili powder in a medium sauce pan. When the onions are half cooked, add garlic, flour and nutritional yeast. Stir well as the ingredients may stick to the bottom of pan. When the ingredients are well mixed and lightly browned, deglaze the pan with white wine. After the pan has been deglazed, add the fresh herbs, soup stock, tamari and tahini. Slowly bring the gravy up to a simmer while whisking.
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Inductee: Bob Marley (vocals, guitar; born February 6, 1945, died May 11, 1981) Bob Marley was reggae's foremost practitioner and emissary, embodying its spirit and spreading its gospel to all corners of the globe. His extraordinary body of work embraces ...full bio
"Rock and roll loves its juvenilia, its caricatures, its cartoons - the protest singer, the gospel singer, the popstar, the sex god, your more mature messiah-types. We love the extremes, and we're expected to choose. The mud of the blues or the oxygen of gospel, the hell hound on our trail or the band of angels. Well, Bob Marley didn't choose or walk down the middle. He raced to the edges, embracing a oneness. His oneness."


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The core of one band with two names
For one raucous decade, from roughly 1965 to 1975, the Small Faces/Faces evolved from a group of mod rockers with an affinity for American soul and R&B, and penchant for psychedelic pop to a highly combustible, rowdy band of roots rockers deeply entrenched in the blues. Although the band embraced various tonal shifts – as all dynamic acts do – and varied the lineup mid-career, the Small Faces/Faces were anchored by key figures who were instrumental in defining the essential elements of both incarnations of the band: Kenney Jones, the only drummer the band ever had; Ronnie Lane, the chief songwriter who supplied a folk undercurrent to most of the group's catalog; and Ian McLagan, whose organ playing featured nearly as prominently on recordings as vocals by original frontman Steve Marriott and his replacement, Rod Stewart.
Despite the name change, the Small Faces' and Faces' lineups represent as much personnel continuity as the Rolling Stones or the Yardbirds ever had, though such concordance often goes overlooked as people focus on the switch from Marriott to Stewart – the lead vocalists.
Emerging in 1965 from the same scene that spawned the likes of the Who, the Small Faces included Jones on drums; bassist, songwriter and vocalist Lane; Marriott on guitar and lead vox; and McLagan on keys. While the band's sole stateside hit (Number 16 on Billboard 200) came with the indelible folk-cum-psych-pop lilt and overt drug references (What will we do there? / We'll get high / What will we touch there? / We'll touch the sky) was the Lane-penned "Itchycoo Park" in 1968, the Small Faces were fixtures on the UK music charts during the mid to late Sixties. "All Or Nothing" was released as a single in 1966 and reached Number One on the UK singles chart. Written by Lane and Marriott, the song's restrained verses gave way to bombastic choruses, as McLagan's organ playing provided deft nuance amid the mix's peaks and valleys. McLagan's inspired riffing on the keys and Jones' galvanic percussion also helped give "Tin Soldier" its propulsive rock groove. From the Small Faces' debut single, "What'cha Gonna Do About It," to the band's last single "Afterglow Of Your Love" with b-side "Wham Bam, Thank You Man" in 1969, Marriott's diminutive frame belied a booming, hardened, soulful voice. Compare that delivery with tracks from the Faces' oeuvre, such as "Stay With Me," and there is a distinct narrowing of a single sensibility, rather than a huge difference in the vocal presences of Marriott and Stewart.
When Marriott left the Small Faces to join Humble Pie with Peter Frampton in '69, Jones, Lane and McLagan brought vocalist Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood – both coming off a stint in the Jeff Beck Group – into the fold, releasing the aptly titled First Steps in 1970. Although the record was originally pressed with the band billed as "The Small Faces," the adjectival qualifier was dropped and the group was rechristened simply as "Faces." The album included the stirringly tender Lane composition "Devotion," where McLagan's organ lines provided the track with its haunting undertone and Stewart's vocals echoed the blue-eyed soul of former frontman Marriott; while "Stone" reflected Lane's folk leanings with a stricter interpretation of the genre than anything he'd done in the mid Sixties.
On the 1971 follow-up to First Steps, Long Player, the country-blues motif of "Richmond," sung and written by Lane, was bolstered by the slide work of Wood, while McLagan's presence on the keys alongside Stewart's gravelly delivery – again echoing the gritty emoting of Marriott – gave "Had Me A Real Good Time" its brash brio and barrelhouse feel. Lyrically, the latter treaded similar territory to the mind-altered state of mind championed in "Itchycoo Park" years earlier: (Dancing madly round the room / singing loudly and sorta out of tune / was escorted by a friendly slag / 'round the bedroom and back) Also released in 1971, A Nod is as Good as a Wink… To a Blind Horse produced the band's biggest hit, "Stay With Me," a revved-up number led by McLagan's distorted organ phrasing, Wood's muscular riffing, the rhythmic punch of Lane and Jones, and Stewart's raspy singing. Still, Lane's gift for melody and more introspective narrative guided comparatively subdued numbers, including "Debris" from A Nod, and the title track of the Faces' final album in 1973, Ooh La La.
Despite a revised moniker and major personnel shift, the group's core – Jones, Lane and McLagan – meant that the Small Faces/Faces evolved with an unbroken continuity that flows naturally through some of rock and roll's strongest recordings of the Sixties and Seventies.


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Environment statistics are cross-cutting and are at the core of sustainable development objectives, through their contribution to monitoring, assessment and policy making. These statistics form the basic building blocks to facilitate harmonization and coordination of quantifiable environment-related information at the national, regional and global levels. They can ensure measurement of different aspects of the environment through commonly agreed concepts, methods and definitions.
Progress in environment statistics has been evident in the world in the last 20 years, but in a very heterogeneous way. While economic and social (including demographic) statistics are more advanced due to their longer history and established methods, environment statistics remains the weaker domain due to several factors. These factors include: insufficient data; insufficient human, technical and financial resources; a lack of adequate coordination; inadequate data quality; and general invisibility.
Environment statistics are needed for the production of environmental and sustainable development indicators, as well as for the system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA). Environment statistics are also required for other uses, such as to substantiate reporting to Multilateral Environmental Agreements, to inform about national environmental policies and agreed sustainable development targets, as well as to populate databases, producing yearbooks and compendia including or consisting of environment statistics series. Indicators and accounting have been widely referred to over the past two decades, starting in Agenda 21 (Chapters 40 and 8 respectively) while the precondition for their development, the underlying environment statistics have not gained the kind of attention in countries.
The need for evidence-based decision making cannot be overstated. Given the uneven level of the development of environment statistics and noting the obstacles to further development in many countries, it is evident that the capacities of countries to engage in monitoring what is going on in the environmental pillar of sustainable development and to produce proper evidence-based assessment for policy making need to be strengthened.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the global body responsible for the development of statistical methodologies, is currently revising the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) and developing a Core Set of Environment Statistics, whose fundamental objectives are to improve the quality and availability of environment statistics. The FDES is a multi-purpose and flexible tool to serve different users and different needs (see Annex A below).
It is recommended that United Nations member States agree to:
1. Acknowledge the need for and commit to the task of improving environment statistics distinguishing them as the substantive mechanism through which the databases, compendia, indicators, accounts and different kinds of reports on the environment are organized and produced for enabling assessment and policy making on the environment at the national, regional and global levels.
2. Recognize that more rapid development in environment statistics, particularly in developing countries, is fundamental to providing information about the environmental pillar of sustainable development and to enabling integration into sustainable development assessment, monitoring and policy making.
3. Urge countries to use the FDES and the Core Set of Environment Statistics and other internationally agreed tools to improve the quality and availability of environment statistics at the national level.
4. Advocate for strong political commitment and national engagement to enable more rapid and sustained development and implementation of programmes on environment statistics, particularly in developing countries.
5. Facilitate the development and consolidation of inter-institutional collaboration platforms that are a sine qua non in the cross cutting domain of environment statistics, for national statistical offices, environmental and other relevant line Ministries, and related institutions.
6. Call upon the United Nations, its Funds, and the donor communities to mobilize more resources to devote for environment statistics, to provide the necessary support for technical assistance, and capacity building and strengthening, particularly for assistance to developing countries.
Annex A. Environment Statistics tools: The revised Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the Core Set of Environment Statistics
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the global body responsible for the development of international statistical methodologies, is currently revising the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) and developing a Core Set of Environment Statistics expected to be adopted by the 43rd session of the Statistical Commission in February 2012. The FDES is a multi-purpose and flexible tool to serve different users and different needs.
There has been significant development in the field of environment statistics since the publication of the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) by the United Nations in 1984. This publication was followed by two methodological documents, Statistics of the Natural Environment and Human Settlements Statistics. Several countries have used the FDES, which is a comprehensive but flexible framework for the development of environment statistics. While these documents were state-of-the-art at the time they were published, the subsequent three decades have led to dramatic increases in human knowledge regarding the environment and the role it plays in supporting life on earth and all human activities. With an awareness of these advances, the United Nations Statistical Commission , at its 41st session (23-26 February 2010), endorsed a programme of work for the revision of the FDES. To advance the process of revision, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) convened an Expert Group that has met three times to date and has also worked remotely, providing invaluable substantive inputs to the process. Concomitantly, as requested by several countries, a Core Set of Environment Statistics is being developed to provide the required guidance to countries setting up or further developing the production of environment statistics.
The fundamental objective of the FDES is ultimately to improve the quality and availability of environment statistics. The revised FDES assists national and international coherence of policy-relevant data collection and compilation. To do this, the FDES aims at technically assisting the environmental statisticians in countries to adequately develop and broaden the production of statistical data series in this domain, by providing a general framework for guiding the process of prioritizing, collecting, structuring, describing and disseminating the variables in a progressive way.
The revised FDES is robust yet flexible enough to integrate the needs of different users and to stand the test of time as a useful, simple and applicable tool for organizing the production of environment statistics worldwide. It is scientifically based and stable over time, as well as sufficiently responsive to emerging new scientific and political agendas. It allows adjustment for different national circumstances, priorities, and for differing user needs, providing a menu approach suitable for countries at different levels of development.
Supplementary technical guidance documents will complement the FDES in subsequent years. These will include handbooks and guidelines on data collection, validation and description, addressing both the statistical know-how and the institutional arrangements that are critical to the cross-cutting field of environment statistics.
As described, UNSD, along with the Expert Group on Environment Statistics is working towards the finalization of the revised FDES and on agreement of a Core Set of Environment Statistics as central tools for assisting countries technically in the compilation and organization of environment statistics within their national official statistics programmes. Nevertheless, further efforts with the donor community will be required to provide technical assistance and capacity building based on these tools which are critical for significantly responding to the growing demand for environment statistics in developing countries.
Annex B. Rationale and assessment supporting the recommendations
Official recognition of the need for more engagement, commitment, national and donor investment in environment statistics programmes in the Rio+20 outcome document can undoubtedly help countries mobilize more resources and better be able to institutionalize the production of environment statistics within national statistical systems. The statistical know-how is increasingly available in this complex field through different methodological and networking tools, but reaching the countries in need requires considerably more financial resources than are currently available.
Member States and United Nations bodies can jointly bring the matter to the table using the opportunities posed by the Rio+20 Conference. It is imperative that no effort be spared in making the environment statistics domain more visible and advocating for stable financial and political commitment from countries, the United Nations and donors to enable this much needed development. These efforts will be best poised to yield success by a multi-pronged approach that includes ensuring political commitment and establishing institutional and financial mechanisms for successful implementation.
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What did you eat this weekend?
For food writers in Utah, the winter season kicks off with the winter menu tasting presented by Deer Valley. For last week's event, four of us carpooled up the snowy road to the resort; Bob King and Virginia Rainey reminisced about the sixteen years they've been making the seasonal trek. Read More


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Authorities arrested an Ash man on Friday evening on two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
David Raefore Tripp Jr., 41, of Russtown Road, was arrested after a joint investigation by the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office Investigative Unit, the Vice Narcotics Unit, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Tripp was previously convicted of felony child abuse resulting in serious injury in 1997.
Tripp is being held in the Brunswick County Detention Facility under a $20,000 secured bond.
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text: Idaho's first and only female NCAA track & field champion, Katja Schreiber dominated not just at the conference level, but also at the national level. After taking fourth at the 2000 NCAA Track & Field Championships in the discus throw, Schreiber stormed back in 2001 and launched the discus a school-record 197 feet, 10 inches to win the event by a 13-foot margin. The two-time All-American's 10 points at the 2001 NCAA meet helped give Idaho a 16th-place finish the highest ever for any Idaho track & field team. Schreiber's school-record throw remains today, 15 feet, 2 inches longer than the second-best throw in school history. Schreiber also sits at fifth all-time in the shot put, with a personal best of 49-3 in the event.


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Liberty Day, which observes the birthday of James Madison on March 16, was celebrated Friday as the Stuttgart Lions Club distributed booklets of the Constitution.
The Stuttgart Lions Club, who has been participating in Liberty Day for the past 12 years, distributed booklets to students at Grand Prairie Christian School, the fifth-grade class at Holy Rosary Catholic and students at Meekins Middle School.
"This is a tradition of the Stuttgart Lions Club," Dave Straus, president of the Stuttgart Lions Club, said.
North Arkansas County District Judge Jeremy Bueker was the special guest at Meekins Middle School and presented a program on the importance of the rights of citizens in the United States.
"It is important for the students to realize the rights we have in this country," Bueker said. "Everyone is presumed innocent until a person is proven guilty."
Bueker informed the students that the judicial branch of the government, which includes his court, goes up the ladder of the court system to the United States Supreme Court.
Liberty Day, which was founded by the Lions Club of Denver, Colo., began in 1996 as a tremendous need in the schools for supplemental resources regarding the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
Along with being a signer of the Constitution, Madison was Secretary of State under the administration of President Thomas Jefferson and introduced the Bill of Rights to the House of Representatives in 1789. However, he did not sign the Declaration of Independence.
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