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The UK's leading international arts centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time and rectangular ponds of friendly resident ducks. The lakeside terrace and adjoining café are good spots to take a rest from visiting the art gallery, cinema, theatre, concert hall or library within the complex. The art gallery on the third floor stages exhibitions on design, architecture and pop culture, while on the ground floor, the Curve is a free exhibition space for specially commissioned works and contemporary art. At the core of the music roster, performing 90 concerts a year, is the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). The annual BITE season (Barbican International Theatre Events) continues to cherry-pick exciting and eclectic theatre companies from around the globe. The Barbican regularly attracts and nurtures experimental dance, and the Pit Theatre is a perfectly intimate space.
Find out more about the past, present and future of the Barbican with our complete guide to the Barbican Centre.
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|Centre Mon-Sat 9am-11pm; Sun noon-11pm. Art Gallery Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 10am-6pm; Thu, Fri 10am–9pm. The Curve Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 11am–8pm; Thu, Fri 11am–9pm
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Imran Qureshi: Where the Shadows Are So Deep
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Love this building. Plenty of exhibitions plus concerts and cinemas. Many places to have food so you can spend all day there. Nice terrace to have lunch in a sunny day
The Barbican is always worth a visit if you are in the area, regardless of what's on. It's a beautiful complex which has so much to see, both inside and outside. I always wonder who lives around the Barbican as I understand the apartments / flats that surround it are housing designers / artists / locals which adds to its community feel.
Check out my review of the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition at The Barbican Centre: http://eatwearwander.com/2014/06/30/sidewalk-to-catwalk/
I would love to do a gig here as this is London's answer to Carnegie hall on 7th Avenue. It is however sad to read the comments from the dissatisfied bride below. So anyone getting married in London should have a look at recommended venues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIB4nvvLkNk Notwitstanding, the Barbican does other things very well and is worth a visit.
I love going to shows, the art gallery and cinema here. Really cool 60s building.
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I had a lovely wedding, the location was spectacular and I had a fantastic day as did all my guests. It ended rather abruptly though with the music being turned off at 11 on the dot. I can hardly complain, but I do have some serious complaints regarding the service. The food at the wedding was a much lower quality than what I was served at my tasting. The appetiser, which had been lovely at the tasting, held no resemblance to what I was served at my wedding and the creme brulée instead of being luscious and creamy as it had been at the tasting, was a stiff gelatine. After the wedding the staff didn't pack up my crockery hire correctly which made me lose my deposit and they were completely unremorseful about it, ignoring my emails and not helpful at all. The cherry on top of the cake, 2 months after the wedding, after we had settle all accounts the wedding planner started bothering us for another 600 pounds. We had spent the budget, the invoices had all been settled and he was haggling us for more money. Quite unprofessional.
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Margaret Thatcher Death: Tony Blair lauds former PM as 'towering political figure'
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One of the most effusive tributes to Margaret Thatcher today came from Labour former prime minister Tony Blair.
While the former Conservative leader was a hate figure to many on the left, Mr Blair lauded her as a "towering political figure" who would be "sadly missed".
Baroness Thatcher apparently once joked that her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and Labour's longest serving PM acknowledged how he retained some of the changes she had made in Britain.
But not only did he talk glowingly of her political legacy, Mr Blair also praised her "kind and generous" spirit.
"Margaret Thatcher was a towering political figure," he said. "Very few leaders get to change not only the political landscape of their country but of the world.
"Margaret was such a leader. Her global impact was vast. And some of the changes she made in Britain were, in certain respects at least, retained by the 1997 Labour Government, and came to be implemented by governments around the world.
"As a person she was kind and generous spirited and was always immensely supportive to me as Prime Minister although we came from opposite sides of politics.
"Even if you disagreed with her as I did on certain issues and occasionally strongly, you could not disrespect her character or her contribution to Britain's national life. She will be sadly missed."
David Blunkett's assessment of Baroness Thatcher's legacy, however, is more likely to chime with the feelings of many in his party.
The former home secretary acknowledged that the former Tory leader had been a "formidable opponent" but said he could "never forgive" the damage she did to the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, where her policies left a trail of unemployment.
"Margaret Thatcher was a most formidable opponent, undoubtedly an outstanding leader and, as the first woman prime minister in the United Kingdom, a groundbreaking politician," the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP said.
"I have to acknowledge her deep commitment to her own values and her determination, although, with Bernard Ingham at her side, she was the first modern exponent of carefully worked spin, which allowed her to present compromise as merely delay, and deep irritation with opponents in her own party as principled stance.
"She said she could not forgive the leadership of her own party for her downfall, and I have to say that I cannot forgive her for what she did to my city of Sheffield, the mass redundancies, the damage to productive industry and the use of incapacity benefit as a tool to avoid internal social breakdown."
Former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said the former Tory PM was responsible for "every real problem" the UK faces today.
He told Sky News: "She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed and the legacy of that, the benefits bill that we are still struggling with today.
"In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact she was fundamentally wrong."
Labour leader Ed Miliband conceded Thatcher "stirs up deep feelings" but insisted today was not a time for party politics.
He said: "The Labour Party disagreed with much of what she did and she will always remain a controversial figure. But we can disagree and also greatly respect her political achievements and her personal strength.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown, who famously invited Thatcher to No 10 for private talks, said: "Even those who disagreed with her never doubted the strength of her convictions and her unwavering belief in Britain's destiny in the world."

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With 14 car dealerships and employing over 900 employees from the Atlanta area, the Jim Ellis Automotive Group is known for it's fair prices and customer service all over the Atlanta Metro area.
The Jim Ellis group is Atlanta's largest family owned automotive group and they need to have their 14 locations connected.
So looking to the future, this past week, they replaced its T1 lines with Comcast's Ethernet services.
It was a big undertaking, but a necessary one for Jim Ellis.
"Whether it is allowing customers to view our available inventory, purchase a car online, schedule service appointments or take advantage of our Wi-Fi service, the Internet drives virtually all aspects of our business," said Eddie Gonzalez, IT Systems Director, Jim Ellis Automotive Group. "Comcast Business was uniquely able to provide a comprehensive network solution that touches every part of our organization across all of our locations, and gives us the performance and bandwidth required to support our digital initiatives."
With the economy improving, the car business is getting busy.
The Jim Ellis group sells both new and used vehicles in brands like Audi, Buick, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Maserati, Mazda, Porsche, Volvo and Volkswagen. The company also services each of the brands and has a collision center.
Once linked by T1 connections that were expensive and difficult to manage across various service providers, the Jim Ellis Automotive Group found it increasingly slow to support its growing digital business requirements.
They needed faster Internet speeds to support their online sales and also Wi-Fi for customers to use.
It was time to turn to Comcast.
It will help manage finance, sales, parts, inventory and administration- linking all of its dealerships.
Jim Ellis should be an example to other growing companies.
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The Brown Foundation Fellows Program, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, provides residencies of one to three months for midcareer professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise.
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15 MayWed / 2013For the Dora Maar House salon in April, Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets talked about "We'll Not Die in Paris." This poem, sung by the rock group Dead Rooster, became the hymn of the post-Chernobyl generation of young Ukrainians that helped bring down the Soviet Union.
17 JanThu / 2013Announcing the Brown Foundation Fellows for Spring 2013
05 MarMon / 2012Spring is in the air because today we welcomed our first fellows of the year, Brian Chikwava and Andria Derstine to the artist's residency program Brian Chikwava is an African writer from Zimbabwe, currently living in London and Andria Derstine is curator at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio. For the lucky few who have been Brown Foundation Fellows in the past, you will surely remember the thrill...


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Tala Icing syringe set, contains original Tala icing syringe with 6 nozzles and 'How to decorate a cake' icing booklet.
Selection of 6 original chrome plated brass icing nozzles to create different decorative designs. Nozzles included in set are
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|Associate Head Coach
Roberto Aspillaga enters his first season with the University of Colorado women's tennis program as the Associate Head Coach.
Aspillaga (pronounced ahs-P-a-ga) comes to Boulder after serving the 2010-2012 seasons as an assistant coach (2010-2012) at Purdue University.
"I am really excited to work with Coach Kenneally and to be part of Colorado Athletics," Aspillaga said. "I believe Boulder is one of the premier locations in collegiate sports and there is no doubt we will take the program to new heights. I'm also very impressed on how supportive and involved the community is, and I can't wait to get started."
At Purdue, Aspillaga helped the Boilermakers have a season to remember during the 2012 spring, earning their first Big Ten Tournament Championship and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. At the conference tournament, Purdue performed its best three match stretch in school history defeating a trio of nationally ranked top-20 teams en route to the championship (No. 17 Nebraska; No. 11 and 13-time defending champion Northwestern; No. 15 Michigan).
Prior to the conference tournament the Boilermakers had never defeated a top-20 opponent. They finished the season with a school record 18 wins (7 losses) and their highest national ranking in program history at No. 22.
"Roberto is definitely one of the best young college coaches in the country right now and I believe he will bring a lot to the program," Kenneally said. "The Purdue program had a lot of success over those two years in which Roberto was an integral part of and that experience will benefit our program."
Aspillaga also helped Purdue bring in its highest nationally ranked recruiting class (No. 8) in history during the 2011 fall. For his efforts, Aspillaga was named 2012 Wilson/ITA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year last spring. Ironically, Purdue head coach Laura Glitz and freshman Lynda Xepoleas were named Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year and Rookie of the Year, respectively.
In two seasons with the Boilermakers, Aspillaga helped Purdue to 31 overall wins and 13 regular season victories.
Aspillaga has also produced a number of recognized instructional tennis videos focusing on player development (specific workouts, instruction, technique, and similar tennis skill), which has been released on his public YouTube channel. His videos have received hundreds of thousands of total views.
His work has been used to help teach tennis across the country and has been used on multiple tennis websites including the tennis coach network.com and Workoutmatrix.com. Aspillaga also has received an offer from "Championship Productions" to produce a series of coaching DVDs. The company has produced DVDs from the nation's best coaches including three-time national champion coach Peter Smith of USC among other nationally acclaimed coaches.
Aspillaga is the second assistant or associate head coach to ever produce a line of DVDs for the prestigious company. He successfully shot these DVDs at CU during the summer of 2012.
Aspillaga has also spent the last four summers as a staff professional at the Top Gun Academy in Louisville, Ky., coaching junior players (ages 8 to 18) helping them prepare for local tournaments, but also assisted with strength and conditioning for other high-performance groups.
A native of Santiago, Chile, Aspillaga graduated from Georgetown College (Ky.) in 2009 with a bachelor of science degree in sports administration. At Georgetown, he climbed as high as 33rd in the NAIA singles rankings and was an All-Mid-South player in 2008. He also played soccer for the Tigers during his time on campus.
Aspillaga is no stranger to tennis excellence, as his father, Eduardo, was a Federation Cup captain and Davis Cup conditioning coach for Chile. The elder Aspillaga also was a speaker for the International Tennis Federation.
Aspillaga is a certified professional by the United States Professional Tennis Registry. His wife, Mo, also graduated from Georgetown.


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On the evening of Monday, March 31, 2014, I made my way to Fall River's Narrows Center for the Arts for the first time in roughly seven years. What got me there after so long? The Carolina Chocolate Drops. This quartet blew me away a couple years ago opening for the Dave Matthews Band, and since then I've found myself wandering back to their music; a folky, old-timey blend of strings and vocals that's filled with as much history as it is soul.
What I found so amazing this time around was how much more their show is than just music. They take the history within their songs and turn their set into a full-on musical lecture filled with story-telling, lessons on song-writing and instruments, and plenty of personal touches throughout. But however informative their show ends up becoming, it's still the music itself that's most important... and the Carolina Chocolate Drops sure know it. Between the plethora of instruments (several different fiddles and banjos, and the should-definitely-be-more-well-known bones among them), the masterful playing of said instruments, and Rhiannon Giddens' breathtaking pipes, the Carolina Chocolate Drops become a wholly authentic and entertaining live show.


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Agape Fellowship
Sunday, Pastor Chuck Nichols. 9 a.m., morning worship. Call for meeting place. (559) 760-5913
Believers Assembly
Sunday, Pastor Brian Cunnings. 10 a.m., morning worship. Hwy. 41 at Pony Express, Coarsegold. (559) 683-6677 (24 hour prayer line); email@example.com
Calvary Baptist
Sunday, Pastor Bob Wilson. 11 a.m., morning worship. 10 a.m., Bible classes. Sierra Lodge 788, 40216 Hwy. 49 at Redbud, Oakhurst. (559) 641-7984
Calvary Chapel of the Sierra
Sunday, Pastor Sam Tallmon. 10 a.m., morning worship.Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m. Thursday youth group 7 p.m. 31907 Oak Junction Lane, North Fork. (559) 877-4917; calvarychapelsierra.com
Christ Church - Anglican
Sunday, Father Gordon Kamai. 8 and 10 a.m., morning worship. 43140 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. (559) 683-7374; christchurchoakhurst.com; email@example.com
Christian Science
Sunday. 10 a.m., morning worship.7 p.m. Wednesday Bible readings and testimony meeting. One block below Hwy. 49 on Redbud Dr, Oakhurst. (559) 683-7447
Coarsegold Church of Christ
Sunday. 11 a.m., morning worship. 5 p.m., evening service.Sunday class 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m. 35534 Hwy. 41. (559) 683-2646
Coarsegold Community Bible Church
Sunday, Pastor Craig Chaney. 11 a.m., morning worship. 5 p.m., evening prayer service. Non-denominational church. Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. 44934 Raymond Road (415). (559) 683-7415 Thursday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - noon; firstname.lastname@example.com
First Baptist Church - Oakhurst
Sunday, Pastor Marc Unger, ThB, ThM, DD, ThD. 9:30 a.m., Sunday School, 10:45 Worship. 6 p.m., Interactive Bible Study, child care available. The Bible: No Excuses! No Apologies! The Answer: Jesus! 49547 School Road (427). (559) 683-6101; sierratel.com/1baptist; firstname.lastname@example.com
Grace Community, United Church of Christ
Sunday, Reverend David Brown. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. 56442 Road 200, North Fork. (559) 877-4342; email@example.com
Hillside Baptist
Sunday, Pastor Steve Crotinger. 9 a.m., Sunday School. 10:30 a.m., morning worship.Every Wednesday KClub 3:15 to 5 p.m. 55238 Road 200 at Wyle Ranch Rd., North Fork. (559) 877-7771; www.hbcnf.org; email@example.com
Journey Vineyard
Sunday, Pastor Rick Mazaira. 10 a.m., morning worship.Midweek small groups, times and locations call (559) 683-5800. Old Barn Way, Hwy. 41. Oakhurst. (559) 683-0911; thejourneyawaits.org
Landmark Missionary Baptist
Sunday, Pastor Larry Crouch. 11 a.m., morning worship. 5 p.m., Discovery Club.Sunday school for all ages 9:45 a.m. Wednesday evening Bible series 7 p.m. Crane Valley Road (426) at Spook Lane, Oakhurst. (559) 683-3707; http://www.olmbc.org; email@example.com
Lighthouse Assembly of God
Sunday, Pastor Steve Conner. 10 a.m., morning worship.Sunday school 9 a.m., Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m. 45543 Road 415, Coarsegold. (559) 683-8056; www.lighthousecg.org
Living Way Foursquare
Sunday, Pastor Steven Myers. 10 a.m., morning worship.Adventure Zone for Kids, Wednesday 7 p.m. Life Groups, Thursday 7 p.m. "Changed 180" Youth Service. Saturday 7 p.m. "The Way" cutting edge worship. 50089 School Road, Oakhurst. (559) 901-6778; firstname.lastname@example.com
Mountain Christian Center
Sunday, Pastor Terry Cederblom. 9 a.m., Small groups. 10:15 a.m., Celebration Service "Christ Has Come to Bring Light!" - Children's church "Faith Case.".Check our website for more information on small groups during the week, Youth, Royal Rangers, Boys club, Mpact Girls club. 40299 Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. (559) 683-7332; mccoakhurst.org; email@example.com
New Community United Methodist
Sunday, Rev. Helen Mansfield. 9 and 11 a.m., morning worship. 49223 Crane Valley Road (426), Oakhurst. (559) 683-2652; newcommunityumc.net; email@example.com
North Fork Christian Center
Sunday, Pastor Chuck Rich. 10:30 a.m., morning worship.9:30 a.m. Bible study. 57044 Rd. 225 Main Street. (559) 877-4251; email@example.com
Oakhurst Church of Christ
Sunday, Minister Steve Foster. 11 a.m., morning worship. 6 p.m., evening service.Sunday school at 10 a.m. Communion every Sunday. 50887 Sky Ranch Road (632), 4 miles north of Oakhurst, half mile east of Hwy. 41. (559) 683-2569; www.cofcoakhurst.org
Oakhurst Evangelical Free
Sunday, Pastor Bob Johnson. 10 a.m., "The Great White Throne Judgment".Sunday school all ages 8:45 a.m. Children's church 10 a.m. Communion first Sunday of the month. 50443 School Road (427). (559) 683-2254; www.oakhurstevfree.org; email@example.com
Oakhurst Lutheran
Sunday, Rev. David A. Sebastian. 8 and 10 a.m., morning worship. 4 p.m., Cowboy Gospel Services. Free of charge. Fiddler Tim Johnson and pianist Cliff Neufield with supporting and guest musicians. .Children's church 10 a.m., mixer fellowship 9 a.m., Confirmation 11:30 a.m. Crane Valley Road (426), 1.5 miles. from Hwy. 41. (559) 683-HOPE; oakhurstlutheranchurch.org; email@example.com
Oakhurst Seventh-day Adventist
Saturday, Pastor Steve Hamilton. 9:15 and 10:50 a.m., morning worship. 50690 Crane Valley Road (426). (559) 683-7312; firstname.lastname@example.com
Our Lady of the Sierra
Father Joel Davidilla. Saturday Mass 4 p.m. and Sunday Mass 11:30 a.m., The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronal Feastday fo the United States of America. 40180 Indian Springs Road (418), Oakhurst. (559) 642-3452; www.olscatholic.org; firstname.lastname@example.com
Positive Living Center
Co-pastors Rev. Sandy West and Rev. Linda Angel. Sunday 10 a.m., Speaker: Reverend Bob Hand. 492690 Golden Oak Dr., Oakhurst. (559) 642-4616; plcoakhurst.org; email@example.com
Raymond Community
Sunday, Pastor Richard Hayes. 10 a.m., morning worship.Weekly programs: Awana Club for children, teen ministries, Sunday School, Celebrate recovery, Men's and Women's Bible studies, camp ministries, family ministry. 32505 Road 600. (559) 689-3200; raymondchurch.org; firstname.lastname@example.com
Rushing Wind Ministries of Yosemite
Sunday, Pastor Bill Rice. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. 6 p.m., evening service.Thursday night Bible study 6:30 p.m. Sunday Adult Bible school 9 a.m. bring KJV Bible. 40396 Hwy. 41, Suite I, Oakhurst. (559) 641-7737; www.rushingwindministries.org
Shepherd of the Sierra Lutheran, LCMS
Sunday. 1:30 p.m., worship service.Sunday school and Bible class 2:30 p.m. Holy Communion second and fourth Sundays. 28420 Yosemite Springs Parkway, Hillside Shopping Center, Coarsegold. (559) 676-9357; email@example.com
Sierra Baptist Church of Ahwahnee
Sunday, Pastor Bob Dickson, Jr. 10:45 a.m., morning worship.Bible study and Sunday school 9:45 a.m. 41808 Grub Gulch Road (600), in former VFW Hall, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 49. (559) 641-2333
Sierra Pines
Sunday, Pastor Bruce Newton. 8, 9:30, 11:15 a.m., morning worship.Sunday school: "KIDMO," all services. Junior high "Aftershock," second, third service. Holy Communion: first Sunday. 40855 Covey Court at Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. (559) 683-2882, M-F, 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.; email@example.com
Sierra Springs
Sunday. 10 a.m., Speaker: Dan Hammerling.Celebrating the Lord's Supper every Sunday. 32019 Meadowridge Rd. (417) and Hwy. 41 Coarsegold. (559) 641-5673; www.sierraspringschurch.com; email@example.com
Sierra Vista Presbyterian
Sunday, Pastor Rick Lemberg. 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m. in the Sanctuary, Children's Musical "Snapshots of Christmas".Nursery care is offered during morning worship service. 39696 Hwy. 41, .5 mile south of Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. (559) 683-6742; sierravistachurch.org; email@example.com
St. Anne's Catholic Chapel
Sunday. 9 a.m. Mass, The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronal Feastday fo the United States of America.Confessions prior to Mass 8:30 a.m. Holy Communion services 9 a.m.,Tuesdays and Friday. Information or transportation (559) 642-6230 or (559) 658-7308. Hwy. 41 west 10 miles on Raymond Road (415), left on Knowles Rd. (606) 3 miles, Raymond.
St. Dominic Savio
Sunday, Father Joel Davidilla. 9:30 a.m., The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronal Feastday fo the United States of America. 40077 Bass Lake Road (222), Bass Lake. (559) 642-3452; www.olscatholic.org; email@example.com
St. Joseph the Worker
Sunday, Father Joel Davidilla. Mass 8 a.m., The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronal Feastday fo the United States of America. 56522 North Fork Road (200), North Fork. (559) 642-3452; www.olscatholic.org; firstname.lastname@example.com
St. Raphael's Episcopal
Sunday, Rev. Paul Colbert Vicar. 9 a.m., morning worship with brunch and fellowship following.. Fresno Flats Historical Park, 49777 School Road (427), Oakhurst. (559) 683-4023; www.SaintRaphaelsEpiscopal.org; email@example.com
Stoney Creek Baptist
Sunday, Pastor Carlos Ortiz. 9:30 a.m., morning worship. 11 a.m., Sunday School. CCBC, 44934 Road 415, Coarsegold. (559) 676-2012
The Grove Ahwahnee Foursquare
Sunday, Pastor Marc Phillips. 9:30 a.m., Coffee Connections. 10 a.m., morning worship.Children's church and nursery. 42461 Hwy. 49. (559) 683-7911; www.thegrovefc.org; firstname.lastname@example.com
The Little Church in the Pines
Sunday, Pastor Tracy Hearnsberger. 10 a.m., Blessings of the Season.Children's Church, Grades 6 and under. Discipleship Seminar Wednesday 7 p.m. Small groups meet weekly. 39446 Road 434, overlooking the Pines Village, Bass Lake. (559) 642-3243; http://tlcip/multiply.com; email@example.com
Yosemite Lakes Community
Sunday, Pastor Cody E. Gunderson. 9 & 11 a.m., morning worship.Communion first Sunday of the month. Sunday school, both services. 43840 Patrick Ave. off Yosemite Springs Parkway. (559) 658-7447; ylccots.org; firstname.lastname@example.com
Yosemite New Life Church of the Nazarene
Sunday, Pastor Bill Rushing. 10:30 a.m., morning worship.9:30 a.m.Bible study, 5 p.m. youth group. 40390 Junction Dr., Oakhurst. (559) 683-3950; www.yosemitenewlife.com
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Reminder: New literary agents are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list. This spotlight features agent Jennifer Udden of Donald Maass Literary.
About Jennifer: Jennifer Udden joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2010. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and previously worked in nonprofit arts fundraising. She's also on Twitter: @suddenlyjen.
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She is seeking: science fiction, fantasy (find more fantasy agents), and mysteries — and is particularly interested in finding works that creatively combine aspects of all three genres.
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College Hockey:MIAC announces rule changes to both men's and women's conferences
The MIAC has announced several changes that will take effect starting with the 2013-14 season in both its men's and women's ranks.
The MIAC men will be the first conference in NCAA Division III to adopt the shootout for conference games. In addition, the MIAC men's standings will change to a three-point system, with three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime or shootout win, one for an overtime or shootout loss and zero points for a regulation loss.
"The addition of the shootout and the modified points system add to the anticipation of the 2013-14 MIAC men's hockey season," said MIAC executive director Dan McKane in a news release. "The shootout will be an exciting feature for our student-athletes and fans and it will give all the hard-fought overtime games a thrilling conclusion. Also, it will give our teams a better chance to determine the order of the standings in competition, rather than tiebreakers."
The shootout will follow NCAA protocol with each team selecting three players to take the shots. If there is still a tie following three attempts for each team, one player from each team will shoot until a winner is decided.
On the women's side, the MIAC is moving to a four-official system, mirroring a change the MIAC men made a year ago.
The women's coaches also elected to adjust the schedule of the MIAC women's playoffs to mirror the men's format. Instead of playing all three rounds in a five-day stretch, the women will now have the lone quarterfinal game between the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds on the Friday following the regular season, with the two semifinal games to follow on that Saturday. The championship will remain on the following Saturday.
"Adding a fourth official to women's hockey in the MIAC is a positive change that will help keep our student-athletes safe on the ice and will allow our officials to maximize their potential as well," McKane added. "The women's change in playoff format will also be a benefit to the conference, with an exciting weekend of quarterfinal and semifinal play and the two finalists having additional time to prepare and recuperate for the postseason championship game."
The final change has Nov. 1 as the official start date for men's and women's D-III games. If Nov. 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, teams may begin competing that Friday.
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Tom Limoncelli's LISA 2009 Training: "Design Patterns for System Administrators"
Tom Limoncelli is one of the preeminent system administrators in the world right now. He is the co-author of "The Practice of System and Network Administration", what is considered by many to be something akin to a religious tome, and he has presented training sessions at LISA for several years on the subject of his second book, "Time Management for System Administrators". This year, he is offering a new training course, titled "Design Patterns for System Administrators". Tom and I sat down and discussed design patterns, and how they can help system administrators become better and more efficient in their positions.
Q: What exactly is a 'design pattern' and what will it do for us?
Tom Limoncelli: "design pattern" is a little bit of knowledge that is worth sharing, and useful for repeating. For example, the design pattern of "a network" or "active-active redundancy" or "RAID-0" or "helpdesk". Ever visit an IT shop where there was no way for people to get help? I have. So I explained the design pattern of a "helpdesk" and without having to re-invent the wheel, they were able to implement one.
There are things that we do that are hard to explain all the benefits. Maybe there are a few obvious benefits but there are plenty benefits that can't be explained. They can only understood through experience. That's called "tacit knowledge". In an effort to record "tacit knowledge" researchers developed the concept of recording "design patterns": the things that experts do, recorded in a way that others can replicate. They don't have to know 100% of why this is "the right way to do something", they just have to know that in a certain situation with a certain problem, experts solve it a particular way most of the time. It doesn't prevent you from doing it your own way, but gives a guide or instruction book.
For example, in architecture there is a design pattern of putting the men's room and women's room back-to-back. It makes the plumbing less expensive to install, obviously, but think about the other benefits that one might not readily see until after the building is built: putting signs in the building to lead people to the bathrooms becomes easier, men waiting outside the bathroom for women (and vice versa) have an obvious place to stand, etc. When you hear someone say "it just works better", they are describing tacit knowledge.
In software engineering an example design pattern is "the iterator". When you make a data structure that stores multiple things people need a way to iterate over those things. If you don't provide it, people will make their own iterators constantly reinventing the wheel, usually badly.
In system administration we have design patterns such as, "automate what you do often" and "multiple machines with the same purpose should have one configuration". These things seem obvious to experienced sysadmins, but are flashes of brilliance to new people. A friend tells me the story of mentoring a new sysadmin who had to set up a package on 5 machines. On each machine she (the new sysadmin) downloaded the source to a different place, ran ./configure, and installed the software. Obviously one improvement would be to download it to the same place on each machine ("do the same thing the same way on multiple machines"). If each machine was a different operating system this would have been less confusing and eased the installation. However, the machines were all the same architecture, so a better pattern would have been to make a binary package and install it on all the machines. The concept of making and using packages is a design pattern.
Design patterns don't just help new sysadmins. They help experienced sysadmins too. I'm an experienced sysadmin and yet I've never directly had to configure a SAN myself. If at my next job I had to build a SAN from scratch I could guess my way through it based on my understanding of RAID and general storage know-how. However, my hope is that I'm able to find a series of SAN patterns that I can use to guide me.
Q: What do you think is the best way to guard against "Design Patterns" becoming "Cargo Cult Administration"?
Tom Limoncelli: Cargo Cult refers to doing something because you've seen other people do it, even though you don't know why. This can lead to disasters, or at least wasted time.
Design Patterns prevent "cargo cult system administration" because it explains why and when to use a pattern. I'm sure there will come a day when design patterns are so pervasive that we find someone using them blindly. I look forward to that kind of problem. In the meanwhile, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
(See Cargo Cult programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming) if you've never heard of this term.)
Q: What was it that first made you aware that there were patterns in administration that seemed consistent across a range of disciplines?
Tom Limoncelli: I think I've always known it but I didn't have the words for it. Unix/Linux is great because you can configure things any way you want. You have tons of choices. The negative side of this is there are so many decisions to make. Nobody knows enough to get all those decisions right. What I soon learned that there is a difference between having the ability to do things a million different ways and deciding that only certain ways are worth doing. If you look closely at most vendor-based certifications they're really teaching you the 2-5 configurations that they want to see when you call their tech-support phone line. They've taken a product that can be configured a zillion ways (it's just simple combinatorics), figured out the best configuration for certain situations (usually "small, medium, and large"), and are encouraging people to use those patterns.
In the open source world we're proud of the flexibility we have. It is part of the freedom we want. However, it gets us in trouble. Instead we should be proud of the fact that we have openly shared our experience and and helped other people benefit. The analogy I make is: What would you do if a stranger asked you, "Can I drink this?" and you knew it was poison. Would you say, "Yes" and be satisfied that you are technically correct (there is no law of physics preventing the person from drinking it, the ramifications are terrible but he can do what he wants) or would you say "No, it is poison. Don't do it!". In real life, no sane person would recommend that a person drink poison. In system administration our tools permit us to construct configurations that will come back to bite us. I would rather live in a world where we pride ourselves in sharing our tacit knowledge and experience as freely as we share our source code.
I wish I had understood the power of design patterns when Christine and I wrote The Practice of System and Network Administration. If you read the book, each section describes what we would now call a design pattern, but without the formalism of patterns. A friend recently pointed out that most pattern systems use a template with up to 10 items. He quoted Chin-Hsiang Chang et al., 2008's list of: (a) name, (b) problem, (c) context, (d) solution, (e) forces, (f) rationale, (g) resulting context, (h) relative pattern, (i) examples, (j) and known use. When you have all that data, the decisions become more scientific. (I have to admit that in the tutorial I usually provide only 2-3 of those elements.)
Q: Do you have a favorite pattern that you'd like to share?
Tom Limoncelli: The checklist is my favorite pattern. I find that repetition is the source of all operational efficiency. If we do something over and over, it can be improved a little each time. It can be taught to others. It can be practiced and we can get better at doing it. A checklist is a simple tool that helps us do all that. It helps us record the right way to do something, improve how we do it over time (by updating the checklist), and helps us convey knowledge (teach a person each item in the checklist, now they can do the task). They are portable: You can keep checklists on a wiki page, in a book, or even put one in your wallet. I have a checklist of who to call and what to do in case of certain major outages. I have a wiki page that is a checklist of the training new co-workers receive. In The Practice of System and Network Administration we include dozens of checklists for various situations (the "Look Inside" text on Amazon includes a chapter that is nothing but checklists http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0321492668/tomontime-20)
Using a checklist it reduces errors and conserves brainpower for more important things. Also, once a checklist exists, delegating to junior people becomes easier taking it off their plate entirely (w00t!). Automation becomes easier. You don't have to automate the entire process, just the most painful steps!
Sometimes we don't see the opportunities for repetition because we are too close to the situation. Even smart people miss these opportunities. When we turn chaos into repetition everyone benefits. At a previous company I had a team of highly experienced people that spent half of each meeting deciding when the next meeting would be. They "wanted to be flexible". I put my foot down and demanded that we set aside 10am each Wednesday and cancel if there was nothing to talk about. It saved us 30 minutes each week (multiplied by 15 people) and the people that "valued their flexibility" (whatever the hell that meant) found they could plan better because they always knew when the next meeting would be. They could save their seemingly biological need for "flexibility" for when they did something important (like write code) instead of when they met to talk about writing code.
Q: Are smaller infrastructures going to be able to take advantage of these techniques, too?
Tom Limoncelli: There are patterns that only work in small companies. Then again, most big companies that I've visited are really the amalgamation of many small entities.
Extremely small sites benefit from patterns because it gives them access to knowledge that is otherwise sequestered outside the company. Wouldn't we all work together better if we had a common language for describing what we are doing? In server architecture we have terms like "active-active", "load balancer", and "RAID". Imagine if we didn't have those patterns and had to re-explain RAID every time we used multiple disks to simulate a larger volume in a way that increases capacity, reliability, or both? How powerful it will be to expand our vocabulary to other things like helpdesk management, monitoring, and user-notification!
Q: What would you say is the biggest mistake that admins make in their designs?
Tom Limoncelli: I hope that some day the biggest problem is that people are re-inventing the wheel instead of paying attention to the libraries of patterns that are already available. Sadly, first we need to build those libraries.
Q: In what ways, if any, does "Design Patterns..." tie in with your other training session, "Time Management for System Administrators"?
Tom Limoncelli: Time Management is taught in the morning session and Design Patterns is in the afternoon. That's because one builds on the next. There is a lot of new material in my newly revised Time Management tutorial. The overflow moved into the Patterns tutorial. You'll see a lot of patterns related to checklists, for example, in the afternoon session.
Each tutorial stands alone. You don't have to attend one to understand the other.
Q: How do you decide what topics to cover when you only have half a day to present them?
Tom Limoncelli: I carefully study hundreds of IT shops, lovingly hand-picking patterns by hand based on utility, understandability, ripeness, color, texture, shape and flavor.
I spent 5 years writing down patterns when I saw them. My biggest fear is that I won't be able to get through all the examples. (in that case, people can read the slides)
Q: When we leave the "Design Patterns for System Administrators" training, what new skills and knowledge will we be bringing back to our jobs in the real world?
Tom Limoncelli: Hopefully everyone will have a bunch of new things to try, a dozen new ways to work, and a entirely new way to think about how they do system administration. Most of all, I hope everyone starts recording their own patterns and sharing them.
Tom Limoncelli Blog: Everything Sysadmin
Tom Limoncelli LISA Profile: http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa09/training/tutinstructors.html#limoncelli
Design Patterns for System Administrators Training Program: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/training/tutonefile.html#t11
Register for LISA'09: http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa09/registration/
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Podcast: Steve Ballmer's $2 Billion Gamble
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's $2 billion pact for the LA Clippers is a hefty price to pay, but one that should reap substantial long-term benefits.
In the latest installment of MoneyBeat Week, our Friday podcast, the crew looks at Mr. Ballmer's deal and how it stacks up against agreements for other NBA franchises.
Mr. Ballmer bid $2 billion for a franchise Forbes estimated was worth $575 million. That's roughly a 248% premium, and nearly quadruple the $550 million the Milwaukee Bucks fetched in April, the previous record deal for an NBA franchise.
Was it a smart move by Mr. Ballmer?
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Welcome Back Khadr
They finally got their favorite terrorist back. As he'll be on the street in the near future, let's look at his loving family that will be waiting to bring him gracefully back into society.
– Dad Ahmed Said Khadr – al Qaeda financier and friend of Osama bin Laden. A founding member/financial backer of al Qaeda. Khadr was arrested in connection with the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan, but was released a year later with the help of Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Khadr was killed in a gun battle with Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border in 2003.
– Mom Maha Elsamnah – When the Khadr family moved to Afghanistan in the 1980s, Elsamnah and her husband reportedly enrolled their sons in an al Qaeda training camp.
– Abdullah Khadr – The eldest brother – accused of running an al Qaeda training camp in the 1990s.
– Abdurahman Khadr, the second oldest Khadr son, admitted to spending much of his childhood attending an al Qaeda training camp.
– Abdul Karim Khadr – youngest Khadr son. Paralyzed during a gun battle in Pakistan in which his father died.
The good news is when Omar gets out, house arrest will look at lot like Gitmo. Wonder when they return the favor to all the Canadians that helped bring him home.


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Vice President Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, will hold their only debate in Danville, Ky. Both foreign and domestic issues are on the agenda for discussion.
The watch party will be from 7-10 p.m. at party headquarters at 2835 North Memorial Parkway. The debate begins at 8 p.m.
Preceding the watch party, Madison County District Judge Lynn Sherrod, who is running for circuit court, will speak at the Democratic Party and executive committee meeting at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend.
For more information, call 256-534-1776 or visit www.madisoncountydemocrats.com.
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Wow! Thank you for all this helpful info! We really need about as much protection as we can get from people who try to steal our hard work and expect to do so without any later consequences! Its a sad state of affairs when a hometown blog tries to benefit off of another hometown blog and in such insane magnitudes, but thankfully this site will serve as a lesson to those who try and attempt the same acts of thievery in the future. You will get caught and we will fry you!
And, if you're interested in actually seeing some of the stolen blog posts, I made a post on my blog about this incident and provided a few screenshots as evidence. So they're there for your viewing pleasure :p (link: http://wp.me/p1HHz4-nI)
Very well said! Plus I want those tools added to my list as well :P
And this is one way to deter people, if that doesn't work you got my way which also works! lol :P
Hahaha I'm making demands these days! Seriously you write wonderful and very well broken down posts!
Jojo, try and right click on any of my pictures now ;)
Hi, i just thought i would give you a heads up that there is a work around for this copying images thing. I was reading Danderma's post on the subject and i thought i would try it on my google reader and i am sorry to say i was able to copy her image. I just wanted you to know, in case someone figures it out. I don't know how you can stop that, but consider this a warning on future attempts at copying. You don't have to post this comment so that people don't find out but you might want to spread the word around to the people thinking of using this plug-in.
Disabling right click is not a good solution! I can't open in a new tab :(
And I can copy the content by simply doing CTRL+C or EDit > Copy from the menu.
this is one cool anti plagiarize post.. i would like to whip some ass too :)
I wouldn't mind joinin ;)
Hehehehe how cute…
Copy & Paste = Easy Way :)


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J.G.: Three times! I told them, "You're making me out to be a total drunk!" But
that was a family tradition. Every evening we would gather with my mother and her sister and drink a tot. We called it a tot, you call it a shot. So it's a tradition wherever I was in the world between 7 and 8 p.m., I would raise a glass and Mum would do the same. Just one little tot a day.
More: You have so much energy. What is your typical diet?
J.G: I became a vegetarian at the end of the '60s or early '70s. I read Animal Liberation and I learned about intensive farming. I was horrified, shocked; I'm even more shocked now. But I don't really think about what I eat. I just eat what's available. When I'm home, my sister cooks nice veggies for lunch and I have an egg in the evening and half a bit of toast in the morning. When I'm on the road, I take what I can get. People know I'm a vegetarian, so they don't offer me a huge chunk of meat. My son is almost a vegetarian, but he eats fish. One of my grandsons became a vegetarian at 4. He announced he wasn't going to eat meat anymore and he hasn't since.
More: What do you think is your greatest achievement?
J.G.: Two things, really—I can't choose one above the other. One is that through chimps I have been able to help people understand more clearly what animals are, that they do have personalities, minds and feelings. But it was the chimps who enabled me to do that. I first learned it from my dog, but people wouldn't listen
The second thing is starting Roots & Shoots. It's in 131 countries now, with about 16-17,000 active groups and it's growing all the time. We can save forests and chimps, but if we're not being better stewards than we've been, there's no point. This is the only program I've heard of that is completely holistic: animals, nature, humans, peace and harmony.
More: What is your top priority now?
J.G.: Raising money. We don't have enough money for our programs. That's distressing. There are 28 Jane Goodall Institutes around the world. I'm trying to help them raise money. Africa and Roots & Shoots, keeping the programs means raising money. I raise awareness and create opportunities.
More: How can our readers help you?
J.G: Definitely through donations to the Jane Goodall Institute. But other than money, two things. One is practical: Try to set up a Roots & Shoots group, get one going if you can. Second, if every single person on the planet spent a little bit of time thinking of the consequences of his actions, of your choices, like what you buy. Sometimes that's easy, sometimes it's not. So the more knowledgeable you are about food and where it comes from, how it's grown, the more you know about pesticides, child slave labor, about what you wear, the better choices you can make. If you meet an animal in distress, do you leave it there or try to do something to help? Do you know how to help?
Then there are choices like public transportation, walking, bicycling, even the way you interact with people, the effect you might have on them. We don't do enough smiling.
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Global Gender Gaps
By Nicole Speulda and Mary McIntosh
Additional Findings and Analyses
U.S. Image Still Poor America's image abroad remains negative in most nations, though it has improved somewhat in Russia, Turkey, and Pakistan. Vast majorities in predominantly Muslim countries continue to hold unfavorable opinions of the U.S, though the intensity of anti-American views has moderated. Opinion of the U.S. in Russia is now about evenly divided, […]


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Today, February 10, Wizards of the Coast announced on their website a new "From the Vault" set called "Annihilation" for "Magic: The Gathering."
Here is more information according to the website,
Harness the savage power of fifteen of the most brutal Magic cards ever unleashed. These limited-edition, black-bordered superweapons are legal in many tournament formats. Sweep the battlefield clean with this powerful arsenal and blast the opposition into oblivion.
The set will contain the following:
- 15 premium foil cards, including 6 with new art.
- An exclusive spindown life counter.
- A collector's guide.
- It will have an extremely limited print run, and will only be in English.
- Each card has been printed using a unique foiling process only used in the "From the Vault" series.
All cards will be black bordered and tournament legal; meaning these cards are legal for use in any tournament where the original printings are still legal.
The product concept and development leads are Gavin Verhey and Jeremy Jarvis. The scheduled release date is August 22, 2014. It will carry an MSRP of $34.99.
As of right now, nothing has been spoiled. The only thing known is a piece of art and the expansion symbol. As more information about the set comes out, it may or may not affect the price. It all depends on what is in it. Any guesses out there?
That's it for now. If you have something to say, then sound off below in the comment section. If you'd like, you can e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com with any direct questions. Also, if you like what you're reading and want more then click on the "like" and subscribe button. Finally, don't forget to follow me on Twitter @simeoncortezano, and check out my Facebook page as well. Thanks for reading!


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Taser International (TASR) has zapped up about 30% in two weeks in the latest push to new multiyear highs.
TASR stock — which banks largely on the stun guns of the same name, such as the Taser X26 or Taser C2 — is typically a sleepy stock with a market capitalization of about $500 million. But after staying rangebound for almost four years, TASR stock began to break out around Thanksgiving 2012 and has doubled in less than a year.
So can Taser keep this up?
Maybe. Taser continues to see large orders for new weapons and upgrades, mostly from law enforcement departments that view the device as a non-lethal tool for police. Recent orders, according to Taser itself via a press release, include:
- Fayetteville Police Department, North Carolina: 200 X2s
- Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina: 100 X2s, 100 Taser Cam HD recorders
- Las Vegas Metro Police, Nevada: 174 X26P upgrades
- Manatee County Sheriff's Office, Florida: 100 X26P upgrades
- Margate Police Department, Florida: 103 X2s upgrade
- Rhode Island State Police, Rhode Island: 170 X26Ps
- USDA Forest Service: 200 X26Ps upgrade
- Unnamed U.S. law enforcement: 837 X2s (across two orders)
But it's not just law enforcement buying Taser guns. In fact, personal sales of all self-defense gear, from stun guns to handguns, have been doing quite well in the last few years as consumers stock up. As a result, Sturm, Ruger & Co. (RGR) is up more than 600% in the past five years, and Smith & Wesson (SWHC) has tripled since 2010.
Whether it's economic uncertainty or fear of stricter regulations in the wake of recent mass shootings is anybody's guess as to why folks are buying more self-defense gear like Taser guns. But it's certainly noteworthy, especially to TASR investors.
The million-dollar question, of course, is whether TASR stock can keep this up. It might be able to, in part because of products beyond simply TASR stun guns.
The company's camera segment, for instance, continues to be undervalued and overlooked by investors. These wearable cameras, sold under the Axon brand, have big potential both as a way to keep police officers honest and to faithfully document honest law enforcement to prevent frivolous lawsuits. Most recently, the NYPD was ordered to employ wearable cameras after the controversial "stop and frisk" law was struck down.
It remains to be seen if this alone can lift Taser, but it's worth watching TASR after this big run and the potential of its camera business.
Related Reading
- A press release from TASR about recent orders. (Investor.Taser.com)
- Taser stock is on a stunning tear. (CNNMoney)
- Oh yeah … Remember this guy? (YouTube)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks. Write him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.


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Classes are held on the campus of the College of Southern Idaho (Twin Falls, Idaho), West Minico Jr. High (Mini-Cassia), and CSI Campus. The work experiences are at various job sites for the practical portion of the training.
To have the classes count toward the State of Idaho's Requirements for Apprenticeship training, you must meet the following requirements:
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Delmar's Standard Textbook of Electricity, 6th Edition
IllustratedGuide to the National Electrical Code, 6th Edition
NFPA 70: National Electric Code 2014
Ugly's Electrical Safety and NFPA 70E
Mike Holt's Illustrated Guide to Electrical Exam Preparation, 2014 edition
Mike Holt's Illustrated Guide to Understanding the NEC Requirements for Grounding vs. Bonding, 2014 edition
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NFPA 70: National Electric Code 2014
Ugly's Electrical Safety and NFPA 70E & Ugly's Electrical Reference
Mike Holt's Illustrated Guide to Electrical Exam Preparation, 2011 Edition, ISBN 978-1-932685-63-3
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NFPA 70: National Electric Code 2014
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NOAA designed AVHRR for the following tasks: Channels 1 and 2 were to be used to discern clouds, land-water boundaries, extend of snow and ice, and the inception of snow/ice melting, and to monitor terrestrial vegetation employing the computation of the NDVI; Channels 3, 4, and 5 were to be used to measure the temperature of clouds and the sea surface, and for nighttime cloud mapping. Applications have extended far beyond these original objectives. Discussion of current applications is too extensive to be adequately covered in this brief review. Good compendia can be found in the proceedings of regional symposia on AVHRR imagery. Such compendia include Prata (1986), Hastings et al. (1987), Thomas et al. (1989), and Gagliardini (1989). In addition, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, and professional meetings of conferences in meteorology, (especially in Europe) and oceanography are excellent sources of research papers on current applications.
Simple mapping of cloud patterns is still an important application of AVHRR data, especially at high latitudes where data from geostationary satellites are severely distorted (due to Earth curvature). Meteorologists in northern Europe, for example, use AVHRR much more extensively than do those in the southern United States. Such meteorological applications include interpreting cloud top temperatures and heights for predicting and monitoring storms (Saunders, 1988); differentiating ice, water, shadow, and other aspects of clouds (Scorer, 1989; Karlsson, 1989); deriving information about winds at high latitudes from monitoring cloud motions (Turner and Warren, 1989); boundary layer airflow patterns (Winiger et al., 1989); water vapor content of the lower atmosphere (Schluessel, 1989); and the study of tropical cyclones (Hille et al., 1986).
It should be acknowledged that the AVHRR does not fly alone on the TIROS-N satellites but rather flies jointly with the TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS). The TOVS is really not a single instrument but rather a combination of the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS, now the HIRS-2), the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), and the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU). Together, these systems provide a suite of infrared and microwave channels that can be used to profile atmospheric temperature and, to a lesser degree, atmospheric moisture. The TOVS is presently the mission-critical sensor for meteorological applications. Climatology is also studied. Typical applications include the extend of snow cover, vegetation conditions, the advance/recession of shorelines, and relations between sea surface temperature and Sahelian drought (represented by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index). Many of these applications remain in the research domain, and have not yet matured into products that can be routinely marketed.
It was recognized early-on in the NOAA satellite program that one of the environmental variables easiest to compute from the operational infrared (IR) imagers was sea surface temperature (SST). The VHRR and its immediate successor, the AVHRR-1, used a single thermal infrared channel in the 10- micrometre window, to measure (SST). It was realized that by adding an 11-micrometre channel, the difference in the values of the two thermal IR channels would help to correct for the atmospheric attenuation of the SST signal due to the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere. This then gave rise to the Multi-Channel SST (MCSST) which is computed from channels 4 and 5 of the AVHRR.
One of the problems of computing SST from the infrared AVHRR channels is that, even though the IR channels are calibrated onboard the satellite (with both internal hot and external cold loads), the SST must be compensated for intervening atmospheric effects and the drifts of the internal calibration sources. At present, the MCSST is calibrated against SST values measured in situ by satellite tracked, drifting buoys. These buoys are constrained to measure SST at anywhere from 0.5 to 1.0 m below the surface while the IR satellite sensor receives energy emitted from the mm thin skin layer of the ocean (Schluessel et al., 1987; Emery and Schluessel, 1989; Schluessel et al., 1990). An alternative is to calibrate the AVHRR derived SST with skin SST reference measurements made by a radiometer mounted on a ship.
Infrared AVHRR imagery has also proven very useful in mapping mesoscale ocean features in terms of their SST signatures (Evans et al., 1984; Cornillon et al., 1987). Major ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, are readily visible by their marked SST gradients. Techniques have been developed for mapping ocean current variability from their signatures in the AVHRR SST imagery (Cornillon et al., 1987, Emery et al., 1986).
Another oceanographic application of AVHRR data is in the study of sea ice. Properly filtered for clouds over ice, AVHRR imagery can be used to compute sea ice concentration and ice edge location (Emery et al., 1991b). Also, a sequence of AVHRR images, either visible or thermal infrared for polar winters, can be used to compute ice motion (Ninnis et al., 1986; Emery et al., 1991a).
The AVHRR has evolved into an invaluable resource for studying the land surface. AVHRR's frequent day/night synoptic coverage (morning and afternoon views give it twice the chance to have cloud-free coverage), its ability to see huge areas in stereo, its IR calibration, and the ability to be rigorously reprojected, are features unavailable in any other system.
While many geologists are concentrating on very small areas, with systems carrying anywhere from 7 to 256 spectral channels, AVHRR offers almost unused stereoscopic views of entire structural provinces and their surroundings - offering the opportunity to guide previously unattainable regional geological syntheses (Hastings, 1988), e.g., Monitoring of volcanic eruptions (and their effects on climate and safety of aircraft movements) (Matson, 1984; Prata, 1989).
In the area of monitoring terrestrial vegetation, the AVHRR-derived NDVI has proven to be a very robust and useful quantity. There is considerable discussion on how to interpret the NDVI, and how to relate the satellite-derived model to climate and terrestrial phenomena (Tucker et al., 1981; Tucker and Sellers, 1986). However, there is little doubt that the NDVI provides a useful space perspective monitor of vegetation, land-cover, and climate, if used carefully. The index has been produced and utilized globally (Kidwell, 1990) and regionally (Tucker et al, 1985,86; Goward et al., 1987; 1991; Sakamoto et al., 1987).
Multi-channel imagery from the AVHRR has also proven to be useful in snow cover mapping. The frequent coverage of the AVHRR is again the prime advantage in being able to distinguish clouds from snow cover with their similar albedo signature. Methods have been developed for routinely computing snow cover from AVHRR imagery (Dozier et al., 1981; Carroll et al., 1989). Combined with topographic relief information, snow cover from AVHRR can be converted to snow-water equivalent to give an estimate of the amount of water reserve represented by the winter snowpack. Again the primary limitation is cloud cover blocking the signature of the snow cover, but the frequent coverage of the AVHRR helps to lessen the impact of cloudiness.
Another use of AVHRR data lies in monitoring forest fires in terms of their IR signature. Because forest fires are intensely hot, the thermal IR signature can be spotted in the AVHRR as soon as the fire size becomes large enough to dominate the 1-km pixel of the AVHRR. In addition, the visible and IR channels will clearly reflect the smoke plume associated with the forest fire, which assists in mapping the fire location and estimating its progress in time. NDVI is also a good estimator of the damage done to vegetation after the fire, and can be used to map the burnout made before the fire.
Finally, the AVHRR can be used to assist in mapping forest fire fuel potential. Again, a vegetative index, such as the NDVI, is the primary indicator of where dead trees are abundant. Because the NDVI only responds to healthy, growing vegetation (it really indicates the health of the growth), those areas densely populated with dead or dying trees will show a decrease in NDVI. While it may take a few in situ samples to verify the patterns suggested by the NDVI mapping, the satellite perspective provides a unique way to survey the distribution of dead trees that make up the forest fire fuel potential.
Note that the statement, "sun synchronous", used to describe the TIROS-N orbit is an approximation. In reality, the orbit precesses in an effort to maintain the same local time. Thus, over a 14-day cycle the actual local time varies slightly. Besides the variation in nominal equatorial crossing times and the annual variation in sunrise and sunset, there is a tendency for actual equatorial crossings to occur somewhat later during the lifetime of any given satellite. This change is several minutes monthly, amounting to as much as two hours over the lifetime of a satellite.
Also, is should be observed that the polar orbit of the satellite, combined with the 3000-km swath of the AVHRR, leads to considerable overlap of the satellite imagery at polar latitudes. At equatorial latitudes the orbit is designed so that only a few kms overlap on adjacent orbits, but at 80 degrees N/S the sequential AVHRR swaths overlap by about one-third. This greatly increases the coverage at polar latitudes which is important for the removal of clouds in this persistently cloudy region of the world.
Several additional "departures from perfection" of the AVHRR system are discussed in the
references. One should not think, however, that the AVHRR sensor is inferior or superior to other
systems currently in orbit. Scientists use AVHRR for such a wide variety of applications that one
naturally expects this system to be short of perfection for any single application.
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GROUNDHOG DAY: Just eight days away from their Cactus League opener against the D-backs at Salt River Fields - Talking Stick, the Dodgers took to the fields at Camelback Ranch for the fifth full-squad workout of 2014.
Another round of live batting practice took place today to close out the day's workout, as Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp faced off against left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu and right-hander Matt Magill on Field 1. On Field 2, Yasiel Puig, Carl Crawford, Juan Uribe, Chone Figgins and Justin Turner took their cuts against left-handed pitcher Jarret Martin, right-handed pitcher Pedro Baez and right-handed pitcher Carlos Frias.
A WARM WELCOME: There has been a steady stream of familiar faces to arrive at Camelback Ranch – Glendale in the last few days, including the likes of Sandy Koufax, Orel Hershiser and Tommy Davis. Another Dodger great to arrive in camp today was Eric Karros, whose name is etched atop the LA Dodgers career home run list with 270, 42 ahead of Ron Cey. In Karros' 14-year career, he was honored with the 1992 NL Rookie of the Year Award and the 1995 Silver Slugger Award for first basemen, the year in which he also finished fifth in the NL MVP voting. Karros will serve as a guest instructor while in camp.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: Assistant Hitting Coach John Valentin and Coach/Spanish TV Broadcaster Manny Mota both celebrated their birthdays today at Camelback Ranch – Glendale.
Valentin enters his second season as the assistant hitting coach after serving as a minor league coach in the Dodgers' organization since 2008, following an 11-year Major League career with Boston (1992-2001) and New York-NL (2002). Valentin posted a career .279 batting average and was honored with the Silver Slugger Award with the Red Sox in 1995.
Mota enters his 35th season as a coach with the Dodgers and 2014 will mark his 46th year with Los Angeles after a playing career that spanned parts of 13 seasons from 1969-1980 and 1982. During his 20-year-career, Mota hit .304 with San Francisco (1962), Pittsburgh (1963-68), Montreal (1969) and the Dodgers (1969-80, 82) while becoming baseball's all-time pinch-hit leader with 150, a mark since broken by Lenny Harris and Mark Sweeney.
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What's behind the changing number of "moderates" and "independents" within the Republican coalition between 2006 and 2010?
In his latest analysis of the 2010 polling Ruy Teixeira points out that the shifts in the numbers of "independents" and "moderates" between 2006 and 2010 is actually an internal process occurring within the Republican coalition. As he says:
"We're shifting Republicans around between straight identifiers and leaners and both straight Republican identifiers and leaners have become more conservative over time...there is no big ideological shift here viewed across registered voters as a whole. It's overwhelmingly an intra-Republican story."
Both of these intra-Republican groups identified in Ruy Teixeira's latest analysis -- the increasing number of conservatives who now call themselves "independents" rather than Republicans and the increasing number of Republicans who now call themselves "conservatives" rather than moderates -- are actually familiar to journalists and other social scientists who do ethnographic field research and actively and systematically listen to what people say in everyday conversation. Let's look at these two groups in turn.
1. A significant group of conservative Republicans has stopped calling themselves Republicans and started calling themselves independents instead
Six or eight years ago avid conservatives to a large degree defined themselves by their avid support and indeed fawning admiration for Bush and Cheney. Asked about their party affiliation six years ago, many conservative Republicans would have indignantly replied: "Of course I'm a Republican. What the hell else would I be - a god-damn Democrat for crying out loud? Jees, don't be stupid". As both domestic and foreign disasters accumulated, however, many grass-roots Republicans became alienated from the party. "I'm a conservative" they began saying "and I think that in a lot of ways the Republicans are as bad as the Democrats. I just don't trust either one of them any more". As a result, when asked on opinion surveys for their partisan affiliation, increasing numbers began to choose "independent' rather than "Republican" to reflect their frustration.
2. A significant group of moderate Republicans has begun calling themselves "conservative" rather than "moderate" on surveys
During the early, pre-9/11 era, not all of George W Bush's supporters considered themselves conservatives. Many considered themselves moderates. They would express this by saying things like "I usually vote Republican but I consider myself a political moderate and not a hard-core conservative. In 1992 I supported Bush senior, in 1996 I supported Bob Dole and In 2000 I supported George W. Bush because he seemed like a moderate too".
Since Obama's election, however, as the political debate has become deeply polarized with charges of socialism and fascism leveled against Obama, these same people can no longer accurately express their feelings about politics by calling themselves "moderate Republicans". They are now more likely to use the word conservative to describe themselves rather than moderate because the latter term does not adequately convey a clear rejection of Obama's agenda. In actual conversation this "moderate Republican now turned conservative" view is expressed in phrases like "Oh, I'm not a tea party person but I'm really a pretty conservative person in a lot of ways, you know, and I just don't support a lot of those these things Obama's doing."
In fact, their political preference for Bob Dole/George Herbert Walker Bush moderate Republicanism has not significantly changed; they are expressing the same preference in a more polarized political environment.
It is these two internal changes in how both conservative and moderate Republicans define themselves that explains the trends Ruy Teixeira detected and analyzed among "independents" and "moderates". Not only his analysis but practical ethnographic research as well confirms that the notion of a separate, moderate, independent third force that turned against Obama in 2010 is simply - as James Vega puts it -- a mirage.


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Digital Monster Card Game
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The Digital Monsters Card Game is referred to as Hyper Colosseum (ハイパーコロシアム Haipā Koroshiamu).
Rules and Regulations[edit]
The rules are simple:
You must have a deck with 30 cards, with, at least one Digimon Level III card.
Can be putted only three of the same card in a deck.
Your Digimon has 100 points gauge in a match. If it became 0, you lose.
If your Net Ocean(deck) cards are finished, you must shuffle the Dark Area and put it on Net Ocean again.
Note: If you are in an evolved form, you must discard it before shuffling the Dark Area.
Playing the Game[edit]
Game Preparation[edit]
Prepare a set of 30 cards and place them on the playing sheet, within this set there must be at least one Level III Digimon card present. Select a Level III Digimon card from the set and place it faced down in the Digimon Box - this is always the case. Shuffle the remaining 29 cards and place them in a faced down pile to form your "Net Ocean" - your deck on the playing sheet. Take a card from the top of the deck and place it reversed on the gauge next to the red 100 point mark. This is your "Point Gauge" and is used to keep a track on the score - how many points you have out of 100. Afterwards, draw six cards from your Net Ocean and place them in your hand. To decide who battles first at the beginning of the game, have a game of rock, paper, scissors - the first person who wins starts.
Preparation Phase[edit]
In this phase, you can choose which cards you want to discard, just by putting them facedown on the Dark Area.
You can also do this to cards in the Option slot. After this, you can take more cards from Net Ocean. (You can only have six cards in your hand).
If you want to change your Level III Digimon (Child Level), you must put the new Child from your hand in the Digimon Box and send the replaced Child Digimon to the Dark Area.
Right now, you can put any one of your evolved Digimon cards (that you have in your hand) into the Evolution Box. After doing this, performe the Evolution Requeriments taking a card from Net Ocean and placing it, without looking, facedown in Evolution Requeriment Box.
You can put an Option card in the Option Slot facedown. By the time both playes completed the fase, face up the Digimon cards.
Note: Once the Net Ocean is empty, you cannot refill your hand.
Evolution Phase[edit]
To evolve your Digimon, you have to fulfill its Evolution Requeriments.
Example: If you have a Terriermon card and, in the Preparation Phase, you putted a Gargomon (Gargoylemon) card in Evolution Box, you must take 2 cards from the Net Ocean and place it in Evolution Requeriment Box, without looking, in a horizontal way. Afer doing it, discard all cards used into the Dark Area.
Note: "●" and "×" are the evolution cost, and it does not affect the evolution. It is just to make a difference between "Regular Growth(●)" and "Irregular Growth(×)".
"●" means that it is in vertical way, and "×" means that it is in horizontal way.
Battle Phase[edit]
In the upper-left hand corner of every Digimon card is a letter - A, B, or C. This letter determines which type of attack your opponent must use against you. If your Digimon is an A type, the opponent must use their A attack. If you are a B type, they must use their B attack. If they are C type, then you must use your C attack. Compare of the attack types of your Digimon now.
Take into account the effects of Option cards, Special Powers, and special abilities.
The person whose attack does more damage wins.
Point Calculation Phase[edit]
The loser of the round looks at the bottom of his Digimon where the Lost Points section is located. They check the level of their opponent, and then slide the Point Gauge down to subtract the amount of points they lost according to the Lost Points section. The Digimon card is then discarded and sent to the Dark Area. If the round ended in a tie, both players lose ten points, and they keep the same Digimon.
The game ends when one player has zero points.
If the Net Ocean is out of cards, discard your Digimon and shuffle the Dark Area and move the Dark Area cards to the Net Ocean.
The winner of the round goes first in the next round.
Card Sets[edit]
See also: Full Card List
Starter Decks[edit]
- Starter Version 1
- Starter Version 2
- Starter Version 3
- Starter Version 4
- Ultimate Battle Deck - Neo Virus Busters & Neo Dark Masters
- Starter Version 5
- Ultimate Battle Deck - Digital Hazard
- Starter Version 6 - Advent of the Three Great Angels
- Ultimate Battle Deck - Legend of Dramon & Neo Metal Empire
- Starter Version 7 - The Warriors of Super Fusion
- Expansion Kit S
- Starter Version 8 - The True Legend of Unification
- Ultimate Battle Deck- Ten Warriors & Royal Knights
- Starter Version 9 - The DORUghoramon Deck of Horror & The Omegamon Deck of Purging
- Ultimate Battle Deck - Chronicle & Yggdrasil
- Starter Version 10 - X Combo Deck
Booster Series[edit]
- Booster 1
- Booster 2
- Booster 3
- Booster 4
- Booster 5
- Booster 6
- Booster 7
- Booster 8 - Awakening of the Ultimate Dragon Warriors
- Booster 9 - The Glittering Beam of the White Holy Sword
- Booster 10
- Booster 11 - The Super-Dimensional Adventurer
- Booster 12 - Assault of the Twelve Devas
- Booster 13 - The Armored Spearman of the Supreme Heavens
- Booster 14 - The Radiant Crimson Knight of Heavenly Wings
- Booster 15 - The Super Beast Warrior of Bursting Flames
- Booster 16 - The True United Warriors
- Booster 17 - The Transcendental Warrior of the Radiant Flame
- Booster 18 - The Indestructible Ultimate War God
- Booster 19 - The Dark Demon Dragon of the Apocalypse
- Booster 20 - The Pedigree of X-Evolution
- Booster 21 - Fury of the X Extermination Corps
- Booster 22 - Awakening: The Forbidden Dark Evolution
- Booster 23 - Those Who Spin the Genesis
- Booster 24 - Advent of the Seven Great Demon Lords
- Digitalize Booster Pack
- Digitalize Booster Pack 2
Jumbo Cardass Series[edit]
- Expansion Board
- Expansion Board 2
- Expansion Board 3
- Expansion Board 4
- Expansion Board 5
- Expansion Board - Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 SP
- Expansion Board 6
Limited Edition Booster Series[edit]
- Jump Festa Limited Edition Boosters
- Lotteria Limited Edition Boosters
- Digimon Music Limited Edition Boosters
Premium Bandai Series[edit]
- Digimon 15th Anniversary Box
- Premium Select File Vol.1
- Premium Select File Vol.2 - Special Anime Edition
- Digimon Adventure 15th Anniversary Set
- D-Ark ver.15th Edition