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Grade 4-8-McGraw provides directions for 14 inexpensive gifts that children can make from easily obtainable materials. A bunny made from a facecloth, a cotton sock doll, homemade dog biscuits, and a hobby horse are among the projects included. Many can be found in other handicraft books, such as Juliet Bawden's Making Presents (Random, 1994), but von Tiedemann has provided full-color photos of multicultural youth demonstrating McGraw's easy-to-folow directions. The approximate completion time is given for each activity. Cautions are supplied for handling tools such as hand saws, and advice is given for choosing the age-appropriate gifts (baby presents should not have loose parts). The book also has sections on creating attractive wrapping. Ideas such as embossing gift wrap with interesting designs using wet bond paper, a sponge, and any textured medallion or flat object will spark creative imaginations, yet take some patience. Other ideas, such as making a gift box out of old calendar photographs, are more quickly accomplished. A fine supplement to collections needing more craft books.
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Date:Wednesday September 12 2007
Time: 5:14PM
Liberty Stadium
15th September
Swansea City return to competitive action after nearly two weeks lay-off.
Roberto Martinez activated a League ruling that if 3 or more players were on International duty then he could request that the game be postponed. Warren Feeney , Joe Allen and Shaun McDonald were called up to their respective national sides.
Roberto Martinez did use the time constructively and took in 3 games over the course of the season break.
On his list of games was the League One match Carlisle United vs Tranmere Rovers at Brunton Park on saturday.
Martinez saw The Cumbrian's lose 1-0 to a 42nd minute strike by Rovers striker Craig Curran.
Roberto Martinez:
|''You have to watch games because for all the reports and information you can get off others, there's nothing like seeing things with your own eyes.'
We played Carlisle right at the end of last season and, although the manager has changed and they have some new personnel, they have not changed a lot as a team.'
What they are is very, very solid and very difficult to break down. They are well organised, their work-rate is fantastic and they have a couple of new boys up front who will score goals.'
They lost for the first time against Tranmere, but there was nothing in the game and it could easily have gone their way.'
|"We need to score more goals and put teams under a bit more pressure. But I'm not going to be knee-jerk and make any silly decisions off the back of one defeat."
"Not many teams go to South Wales and get a result without being at their top level,"
"I will remind the players of that. We are going to believe in our ability and we are going there to win the game.
"We've watched them three times and hopefully we'll be able to deal with what they've got."
Swansea have been handed a piece of good news following Marcos Painter's return to training this week.
The Birmingham born defender has been out for 3 weeks with a foot injury sustained before the away game at the Banks Stadium vs Walsall.
Painter has trained all week and is eager to get playing again and has told Martinez he'll be fit for Friday's game.
Ferrie Bodde is ruled out and still has a two match suspension to serve after an off the ball incident with Doncaster midfeilder Brian Stock.
Darren Way and Owain Tudur Jones are still on Richie Evans treatment table.
There is also doubts over new boys Warren Feeney and Andrea Orlandi. Feeney who has been on International Duty with Northern Ireland could be rested. Former Depotivio Alaves midfeilder Andrea Orlandi managed to play the full 90 minutes in a reserve match against Swindon is unlikely to make the bench.
Jason Scotland has been in good form and is the Leagues Joint Goal Scorer along with Bournemouth's Lee Bradbury.
The former St Johnston Striker has been in good form since joining Swansea City in the summer.
The Trinidad and Tobago International is a true match winner and his power and strength will cause problems for the Carlisle defence.
Manager Greg Abbott is set to name an unchanged side from the one that lost 1-0 to Tranmere last week.
He has no new injury worries since last weekend and could have Irish defender Peter Murphy back after he played an hour in a Reserves game this week.
Chelsea loanee Harry Worley also travels with the squad.
Despite concerns of their fitness following the Bristol Rovers game, goalkeeper Keiren Westwood and defender Danny Raven should retain their places tonight.
Carlisle's 6ft2 defender Danny Livesey has been in fine form for The Cumbrians. He is the clubs leading goalscorer with 2 goals. The Form Book based on the last 4 results: Refferee:C Penton(Sussex) A very tight contest is expected and a 2-2 draw is my prediction. Cheltenham Town vs Swansea City
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Carlisle United :
Last Two Meetings between Swansea and Carlisle:
16th December 2006 Liberty Stadium 5-0 Swansea Win
28th April 2007 Brunton Park 2-1 Swansea City win.
Ref Watch:
Linesmen : P J Grove and S P Snartt
Fourth Official : S C Knapp
Mr Penton has officiated 4 games and has given 11 yellow cards.
Match Prediction:
Next Fixtures:
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Tuesday 18th September
Whaddon Road
Kick Off: 7.45PM
The Form Book based on the last 4 results:
Refferee:C Penton(Sussex)
A very tight contest is expected and a 2-2 draw is my prediction.
Cheltenham Town vs Swansea City
Date:Wednesday September 12 2007
Time: 5:14PM
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Congratulations Team Northern Ontario!!
FWCC's Doug Dean team brought home silver medals from the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship!
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Skip Doug Dean, Third Gino Sonego, Second Chris Provenzano, Lead Lola Graham
Alternate Rick Bell, Coaches Doug Gelmich and Mike Bergquist
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The name may have different number of characters, but I want the strings to end at the same place.
I am able to provide correct number of spaces and the strings are equal in character lengths but the characters take uneven space and ruin the symmetry of the strings.
Is there any work around for this?
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String text="";
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String name=(splittedRawText)[0];
String points=(splittedRawText)[1];
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February 9, 2010
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This morning's announcement of Toyota's recall of 437,000 hybrid vehicles seems to have brought the automaker's woes to a whole new level. Judging by the media coverage, these events are epic.
Want to understand the media circus around the Toyota recall? Here's a little something John Updike wrote about Toyota salesman Rabbit Angstrom to open the novel
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"President and CEO Akio Toyoda was nowhere to be found until a Japanese TV crew caught up him at the glitzy World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Toyoda made brief, unsatisfying remarks and then left in—an Audi."
Of course, Toyota has always struck a nerve, particularly in the U.S. In the 1970s, Updike's novel captured the emotion of an American public embracing and despising (often at the same time) the rise of foreign automakers. In recent years that emotion has subdued. Many readers of this blog and the magazine have made money thanks to Toyota's presence in the U.S. (Last year I visited a sheet metal prototype shop in Detroit, and the owner said, "We love Toyota.")
On Sunday Segal captured our current emotion about Toyota in a word: schadenfreude—the joy in the misery of others.
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There's plenty of schadenfreude when it comes to Toyota these days, and you can read a lot of it between the lines amid all the media coverage. It's a human tendency. We're personifying Toyota, and we're not spending enough time covering how the company is identifying the problem, measuring data, and coming up with corrective action. As Toyota engineers go about their business to get the job done, media and politicians alike are laying blame.
This has led to a lot of statements that are a bit off the mark. For instance, did Toyota grow too quickly? Plenty say it did, but I haven't seen the data yet, and I can't draw a straight line between recent mistakes and Toyota's overall business strategy, so I really don't know. Did they withhold information about safety problems? Who knew what and when? Is Toyota's image permanently damaged? The who-done-it mystery continues, and customers and investors alike are jittery as all get-out.
At the same time, you hear the occasional pundit calling these mishaps part of a rare, big mistake made by an otherwise strong company. Some have said the number of crashes associated with the accelerator problems isn't statistically significant. Still, I understand why people would be upset by this. Calling the number of crashes from accelerator flaws "statistically insignificant" is a bit like the airline industry's statistically correct claim that air travel is much safer than driving. The acceleration flaw takes away our control of the vehicle; and we have no control to prevent a crash when riding an airplane. No matter how rare either kind of crash might be, they still scare the bejesus out of us.
When it comes to problem-solving, the less negative emotion the better. This kind of emotion dilutes focus and prevents an organization from moving forward. Toyota's customers and investors are emotional enough; to get the job done and gain back their confidence, workers need to hunker down, analyze the data, and fix the problem.
That hasn't stopped media pundits, politicians, and bureaucrats from spouting off emotionally charged conjecture. It all makes for good sound bites, but the truth is we really won't know what to make of this debacle until long after the issues are solved.
Of course, "I don't know yet" has never made a good sound bite.
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I've been a stockholder the last 3 years. In addition, I am a Correspondent (I own a company that originates loans for) with the MultiFamily division and know the management. I have a substantial long position (around 9000sh)in the stock. This is a great company with talented management, a good business model and is in an excellent segment of the market (Alt-A loans). The stock is underpriced due to a couple of factors (review previous posts) and thus the low PPS and high yield. A great way to get a thumbnail presentation on the company's future prospects is to visit the company's website and pull up the pdf file on the recent FBR slide show presentation. After you do that, several of us here on the board can answer questions related to the company.
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LifeWay Christian Resources announced Wednesday that the removal of a large bronze statue of the Rev. Billy Graham from its Tennessee headquarters to its new home at Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center in North Carolina has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Who attracts more TV sets in football and basketball, BYU or Utah?
Which brand is the one that a majority of eyeballs in this market follow on the tube?
These are questions often debated and frequently guessed at, as many people suppose they know the answer.
It is assumed that the Utah Jazz dominate the local market sports brand.
I've spoken to a few TV eggheads who confirm that. BYU has always drawn numbers, challenging the Jazz locally, but research shows Utah has closed the gap in TV ratings, especially during this decade after Urban Meyer came along and the Utes started making BCS bowl appearances.
It is difficult to say how BYU and Utah stack up to a national audience because their games are primarily on the league's network, The mtn., which is available nationwide, but not on all basic cable and satellite packages.
This network often requires an upgrade to a higher-priced TV service but is available on local cable and DirecTV in Utah.
It would be fun to pin this down on a national ratings race if both Utah and BYU played a regular diet of games on ESPN, which most cable and dish subscribers can see. But with the help of The mtn., we can peek at the niche Utah and BYU have carved out in the Salt Lake City market.
If you go by the latest ESPN appearances, the 2009-10 bowl games, Utah's 2.4 rating in the Poinsettia Bowl against California was better than BYU's in the Las Vegas Bowl (2.2) against Oregon State, although the Poinsettia's rating was down 25 percent from the previous year.
In the '90s, BYU regularly appeared on ESPN and, according to associate athletic director Duff Tittle, the Cougars had five of the top 10 highest-rated football telecasts in ESPN history at that time.
Because this is a complicated issue, I asked Hayne Ellis of The mtn. to help research some numbers for the past two seasons, and I credit his research for some engaging data.
The mtn. is the best source I know to provide a true look at the TV trends of the Utes and Cougars in the realm they play inside the Utah market.
First, here are some definitions:
A "rating" is the estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
A "share" is the percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time.
Here's the breakdown of the two major sports and how BYU and Utah fared with TV audiences the past two seasons.
In 2008 and 2009 (using those two years so that satellite can be included), BYU and Utah averaged just more than a one rating point difference, with BYU seeing more viewership on average.
In 2008 and 2009, the highest average rated football game for both teams was the BYU/Utah game — a 12.8 in 2009 and a 10.0 in 2008.
Both BYU and Utah saw increased viewership for football in 2009 over the prior year, with both gaining an average of just more than one rating point (10,000 households).
A good comparison may be this past season when both BYU and Utah played Utah State: BYU vs. Utah State drew a 7.5 average rating while Utah vs. Utah State was a 6.9 average.
Football sees better ratings than basketball for both institutions; there is about a four rating point difference over the course of the respective seasons.
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