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Four UT architecture professors helped transform an old rural West Tennessee homestead into a modern family oasis that communicates its owners' commitment to sustainable farming practices.
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Architectural Record: Old Briar
Four UT architecture professors are featured in premier magazine Architectural Record for designing and constructing Old Briar, a farm in rural western Tennessee that fits seamlessly into its natural surroundings. The architecture magazine highlighted the work of Applied Research, the firm under which the professors worked. The professors are Brian Ambroziak, Tricia Stuth, Ted Shelton, and Katherine Ambroziak.
UT Architecture Professor Named Fellow of Institute for Urban Design
An assistant professor of architecture at UT has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. Ted Shelton joins a list of about 180 fellows appointed in the institute's thirty-three-year history. His research explores the relationship between the US interstate highway system and American cities. He has analyzed the social, structural, and environmental impacts of highways in 200 US cities.
UT Professors' Design, Preservation of Homes Featured in International Magazine
The design of two homes and the preservation of another in Old North Knoxville by two UT professors have drawn the attention of an international architecture and design publication. The houses are featured in the March edition of "Dwell," which hit newsstands February 1, and are the work of Ted Shelton and Tricia Stuth, from the College of Architecture and Design.
UT Professors' Preservation of Historic Knox Homes Featured in National Magazine
The work of UT architecture professors Tricia Stuth and Ted Shelton is featured in the March edition of Dwell Magazine, a national publication for architecture and design, which hit newsstands Wednesday. The faculty members' project, The Ghost Houses, is a preservation and reconceptualization of three homes in historic North Knoxville.


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Priorities for sidewalk reconstruction along the Old King's Highway in Barnstable Village will be on the agenda of the 6A Committee when it meets Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. at the Sturgis Library.
Councilor Ann Canedy says the committee is getting ready also to review NStar's anticipated application to the Barnstable Old King's Highway Historic District Committee to remove trees. She says the 6A Committee plans to do an independent survey of the plan and give a report to the OKH.
Although there are plans to work with the utility to see that as few trees as possible are taken and that there's a replanting plan, Canedy noted that "NStar has marked many, many trees and the loss of these trees will likely be dramatic."
On the other side of the ledger, Canedy noted that Ryan Jones of Earthday Landscaping will be planting three trees at various locations on 6A.
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Jackson Bird's unerring consistency may have placed him at top of queue for third Test spot, writes Richard Hinds
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- July 28, 2013
IN his still brief first class and Test career, all Jackson Bird has done is take wickets and maintain intense pressure on batsmen by bowling with immaculate line and length and subtle variation.
Otherwise, nothing much.
Facetious, yes. But it seems to sum up the attitude some have taken to the Sydney-born Tasmanian paceman. Bird has done so well, so simply, that his doubters look for reasons why he should not have.
A yard too slow. Controlled rather than curvaceous swing. Lacking the killer ball of James Pattinson or Mitchell Starc. Without the red-faced aggression of Peter Siddle.
All theories, together with a back injury diagnosed during the tour of India , that might have justified Bird's exclusion from the first two Tests. But selectorial alibis contradicted by Bird's unerringly consistent performance.
Instant success upon moving to Tasmania, where he took 53 wickets at 16 in his first Shield Season. An excellent start to Test cricket – albeit against poor Sri Lankan batting – in which he took 11 wickets in two Tests, including a man of the match performance at the SCG.
Now, more modestly, a return of 2/33 in 14 typically tight, testing overs on the second day of Australia's tour game against Sussex. A performance that might well see Bird jump Starc in the queue to replace the injured Pattinson for the third Test at Old Trafford.
Bird's figures would have been even better had Steve Smith clung to a low catch at second slip from James Taylor, the batsman earmarked to take Kevin Pietersen's place at Old Trafford if the South Engfrican fails to recover from a calf strain.
The dismissal of the tiny Taylor – he could be the first batsman concussed by a yorker – might have landed a small psychological blow for the Australians. Instead, Bird merely proved, yet again, he knows how to find the edge.
In English conditions, that might be the result of a disappointing tour with Australia A last year when – uncharacteristically – he tried to do too much with the ball on unresponsive wickets.
This time, as Starc ripped the ball in short and stared down the batsmen, Bird was at his controlled best.
Accordingly, Bird can sound more like a penny-pinching accountant than the traditional hairy-chested paceman when he talks about his craft.
"Diligent on my lines and lengths", "build pressure", "try not to get carried away", "just stand the seam up and hit the right length" is his unintimidating self-assessment.
Similarly, Bird deflects a flattering comparison with England's ultra-consistent James Anderson: "I don't swing ball as much as him, I just try to bash a length, and try and be as tight as possible."
If Bird plays in Manchester, he will join the two players who had beaten him to a place in past two Tests teams – Siddle at Trent Bridge, and Ryan Harris at Lord's. If a Siddle-Bird-Harris attack might lack brilliance, it will make the English work hard for their runs.
Of course, it is been wretched batting rather than poor bowling that has been Australia's major problem. Bird is a genuine No.11 who, unlike the Trent Bridge imposter Ashton Agar, will not solve that problem.
But if Australia wants some whose only virtue is to keep the screws tightened, and take wickets, Bird might be the man.


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Islam, A, Wang, L, Smith, C, Reddy, S, Lewis, A, Smith, A (2007). "Evaluation of satellite remote sensing for operational monitoring of sediment plumes produced by dredging at Hay Point, Queensland, Australia". JOURNAL OF APPLIED REMOTE SENSING, 1, 11506.
AbstractThis study describes the potential of multi-temporal Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for the operational monitoring of sediment plume produced by dredging between 8 May and 31 October 2006 at Hay Point, Northern Queensland, Australia. The methodology involved atmospheric correction of the TM, ETM+ and MODIS images, the development and verification of a Total Suspended Sediment (TSS) model, and the evaluation of the image derived TSS maps for tracking sediment plume movements and its influence on the fringing coral environment. TSS empirical models are developed from TM/ETM+ Band 3 with R-2 = 0.92 and from MODIS Band 12 with R-2 = 0.61. The accuracy of the TSS model for TM/ETM+ is +/- 3.2 (mg l(-1)) and for MODIS is +/- 16.0 (mg l(-1)). The estimated sediment plume displacement and rate of dispersion show high correlation with the tidal amplitude. Wind speed greater than 6 m s(-1) increases the sediment plume movements during the ebb tide. The frequency of the plume extending beyond the fringing coral islands during dredging operations is in agreement with the field observed coral mortality due to sediment accumulation.
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Hands-On Centre
The Dr. Mariano Elia Hands-On Centre is located on the concourse level of the Gallery in the Weston Family Learning Centre.
You'll find art-making and creative play activities for the whole family, from our youngest learner on up!
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Friday Play Dates: Creative Story Time
We always have fun in the Hands-On Centre - art-making, constructing, storytelling, costume play, making new friends and exploring. Now there is another reason to visit! Join us on Friday morning for a creative story time just for little ones.
*Programs change frequently and are exhibition based.
Start time is 11 am – somewhat flexible depending on numbers; if necessary we might start a bit late.
Listen to a story, dress up and act out the story, play a game or make a little storybook...we tell stories in the most creative and playful ways.
Admission to the Centre included in General Admission ticket, or free unlimited admission with your family membership.
Generously supported by:
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Please note: as of November 3, 2015, the AGO hours of operation are changing. The Hands-On Centre will open at 10:30 a.m. daily, to align with these new gallery hours.
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Is there any proof that kids do this? If so where? What purpose does it serve? I did find this which might explain the proporties of camel manure.Either David likes to show off strange facts, maybe he inspired Stephen Fry. Or he has social awareness or he just likes the sound of the line. Unless of course what he means is they put "camel shit" on the walls, as a form of protest. Like we would write "bull shit" TWAT.
I have properly trained my camel to hold his shits until I'm home from work and can let him out. zigbot
could be poverty leaves this as their finger painting for lack of anything else to do. they don't have no stinking x box or any electricity to run it .I have seen photos of dolls made from rail road spikes and yarn from Americas 19th century.
Maybe if Bowie ever appears on QI he will tell us.
making carpets while on a treadmill or picking through garbage gives some indication of the childrens lives,it is no game to them.


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It is raw passion for our cause that keeps us fighting for the rights of animals. So few have this passion --a passion born from a broken and bleeding heart. A passion that makes it possible for us to become the "voice" of those who would otherwise never be heard. A passion that enables us to "feel" at a deeper level--a level which unites our pain with the pain of millions of animals who are suffering. It is this unity that allows our hearts to reside in a place that is sad yet insightful ; dark but truthful. Our inspiration is conceived from feeling pain. Our actions born from consuming this pain. Our only relief is our constant plea to the world to end the pain and suffering needlessly inflicted on our non-human friends. Friends who silently beg our heart and soul every minute of every day.
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Yesterday and today JMP has been hosting meetings in the midwest for Institutional investors and Astex management . Could be patially responsible for todays action. Guess they havent been reading Bucketsht's post. Love the one where he said S110 works in some patients and not in others. Deep thinker no ? When a drug works in some when no other drug works its usually a very good thing. LMAO
You do understand that patients that get no benefits will drag down statistically those that do. You keep dreaming. We're all laughing at the immaturity. See if you can hold onto a retracement today. Daytraders will be exiting around 3pm.
Sentiment: Sell
The understanding that few patients will respond to this drug is part of the equation.
When a baseball player succeeds on only 30% of his at bats he is considered among the best. He is expected to fail 70% of the time.
Like ASTX has said before, if a patient achieves 10% demethylation, then SGI-110 works great. I'm not a medical doctor so I don't know how long it takes to see if a patient achieves 10%, but if there is a way, then I'm sure they can focus on treating that segment of the patient population. Does anyone on the board know the process for determining a prospective patient's demethylation level?
As buckethead says, the 10% population. I'll bet they consider that.
As for the meetings with management, as SGI-110 ph II progresses, its time to start talking with suitors about having someone else pay for ph III. If that happens, we get a big chunk of money up front (over $50mil), lessen the burn to a range where we remain profitable off Dacogen as EU sales ramp up and offset any potential generic dilution, and see milestones at each juncture of the ph III.
Do You Think We Are Close To A Buy Out Or A New Major Partner? Thanks.
A buy out is at least a year away. It won't happen without something good coming in a P3. The price is also too low. The board will not entertain below the mid teens and the buyout premium would have to be 200% to get there.


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Background behind the mother of all mismatches
Rangers FC - or The Rangers FC depending on your preference - play their first home league match of the season in the Scottish Third Division against part-time minnows East Stirlingshire at Ibrox. It is the first league match the newco Rangers will play at home since HM Revenue and Customs rejected a CVA plan worth £8.5 million in June that would have enabled the famous Glasgow club to trade their way out of administration. The 'oldco' is in the death throes of being liquidated with the fall-out seeing the 'newco' Rangers beginning life all over again in Scotland's football's lowest league, a semi-professional scene in all but name.The old Rangers had gone into administration in February over non-payment of tax worth around £14 million. They were also being pursued by HMRC for another £75 million in unpaid bills, penalties and interest relating to the deployment of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs), a contentious tax avoidance scheme that enabled the club to sign dozens of starry names in the 2000s including Ronald de Boer, Frank de Boer, Giovanni van Bronkhorst and Claudio Caniggia without paying tax on their salaries over the past decade.
Rangers have changed their name to The Rangers. The newco is debt-free with new owner Charles Green having bought the assets of the club, including Ibrox Stadium and the Murray Park training ground. Owing to the sins of the oldco, Rangers were banished from the Scottish Premier League for being liquidated and forced to start of life at the bottom rung of Scottish football after various meetings and votes of the SPL and the Scottish Football League decided integrity was paramount to protect the sport in Scotland.
Over 40,000 fans are expected at Ibrox on Saturday for a match against East Stirlingshire that is likely to create a world record attendance for a match in the bottom tier of any league in world football. It is the ultimate act of defiance by a support more used to winning titles and competing at the highest levels of European football. The match against East Stirlingshire comes only four years after Rangers lost 2-0 Zenit Saint Petersburg in the UEFA Cup final.
Rangers will be banned from signing new players by the Scottish Football Association for a year when the new transfer window ends at the end of August as a consequence of bringing the game into disrepute. They have been busy signing several new faces as they seek to make their way through the country's lower leagues back to the SPL. With the old club yet to be officially liquidated, Rangers hang on to their history from yesteryear, but some commentators will argue that the history belongs to the old club. What cannot be debated is that "The Rangers" continue to carry one of British football's largest supports.
In contrast, East Stirlingshire finished bottom of the Scottish Third Division last season and are suddenly facing a club who have won more domestic titles than any other in world football. There are fears a record scoreline could accompany the record crowd with "The Shire" being nothing more than cannon fodder.
Respective histories
Rangers FC or The Rangers FC
Nickname: The Gers
Founded: 1872
Ground: Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Capacity: 51,082
Manager: Ally McCoist
Record attendance: 118,567 v Celtic in 1939
Biggest win: 10-0 v Hibernian 1898
Biggest defeat: 2-10 v Airdrieonians 1886
Honours: Won 1972 European Cup Winners's Cup, 2008 UEFA Cup runners-up
54 Scottish League titles, 33 Scottish Cups, 27 Scottish League Cups
Most appearances: John Greig 775 (1960-1978)
Most capped player: Frank de Boer, 112 caps for the Netherlands
Goals in a season: 57 - Jim Forrest in 1964/65. (Sam English scored 44 league goals in 1931/32)
Average home attendance 2011/2012: 46,324 (880,160 fans watched Rangers at Ibrox last season)
Star men: USA captain Carlos Bocanegra, Scotland players Lee Wallace, Neil Alexander, Lee McCulloch and Ian Black
Price of season ticket: £258, concessions £179, under 16s - £65
Record fee paid for a player: £12 million to Chelsea for Tore Andre Flo in 2000
Record fee received for a player: £9 million from Tottenham Hotspur for Alan Hutton in 2008
Average wages paid (estimated): £10,000 per week
East Stirlingshire
Nickname: The Shire
Founded: 1881
Ground: Ochilview Park, Larbert (formerly Firs Park, Falkirk until 2008)
Capacity: 3,746 (Firs Park had a capacity of 1,880)
Manager: John Coughlin
Record attendance: 12,000 against Partick Thistle in 1921
Biggest win: 11-2 against Vale of Bannock in 1888
Biggest defeat: 1-12 against Dundee United in 1936
Honours: Scottish Division Two in 1936
Most appearances: Gordon Russell 445 (1986-2002)
Most capped player: Humphrey Jones, 14 caps for Wales. Five while playing for East Stirlingshire
Goals in a season: 36 - Malcolm Morrison in 1938 and Henry Morris 1947/48
Average home attendance 2011/2012: 321 (6,027 fans watched East Stirlingshire at Ochilview last season)
Star man: Captain Kevin Turner. A former Rangers youth forward who now drives a van as his other job
Price of season ticket: £120, concessions £40, under 16s - £10
Record fee paid for a player: £6,000 to Falkirk for Colin McKinnon in 1991
Record fee received for a player: £35,000 from Chelsea for Jim Docherty in 1979
Average wages paid (estimated): £30 per week
What are they making of it all?
John Coughlin (East Stirlingshire manager): "Rangers have been admitted to the Third Division and we will have to get on with it. But there is no doubt that their presence will have an impact of the competition. For a club like ourselves it almost certainly means that there will be twelve points fewer for us to go and win. That's not being defeatist, just realistic. We are effectively playing in a nine team league because Rangers are so far ahead of everyone else that they are not going to drop too many points, which will be more of a concern for the other sides who perhaps have spent money in a bid to win promotion than ourselves."
Other things you need to know about The ShireReached the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup in 1888. Lost to Celtic
Won Scottish Division Two in 1931-32 - their only title
The club almost went out of existence in 1964 when the chairman forced an amalgamation with Clydebank Juniors and moved to Clydebank
The newly-formed ES Clydebank won a court case to remain as East Stirlingshire and remain at Firs Park
East Stirlingshire have only competed in the top flight of the Scottish football for three years in their 132-year history
East Stirlingshire were promoted to Division One as runners-up behind Falkirk in 1980
East Stirlingshire appointed their first manager Lawrence Binnie in 1966. Before that point, the directors had chosen the team
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, then only 32, began his coaching career as manager of East Stirlingshire in 1974. He was manager for 117 days before joining St Mirren
East Stirlingshire collected 59 points in 1994/95 - their highest points total in Scottish football - but finished fourth in the table
And don't call them East Stirling. Their fans demand they are called East Stirlingshire
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A Sales Rep from Vericomm came into my small business and promised me that the credit card machines and services he had to offer would save me "bundles" of money. I liked the wireless machine he had; we travel around and needed that type of credit card machine. Before I agreed to anything I asked if I could get out of the contract if I had to close my business. He gave me a signed statement saying with a 30 day notice I could get out of the contract.
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Get down and dirty in the garden
by Taylor Miller
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Herbs, essential oils and aromatherapies seem to have endless benefits. And just when you think they've thought of everything, someone comes out with a product that, well, knocks your pants off.
I've discovered, since I've worked here, that certain issues or subjects are difficult to discuss while maintaining a preferred level of professional decorum. Among these are the issues of the digestive tract. We're conditioned to shy away from this subject, to become uncomfortable by it. Even in early childhood, we're encouraged to call them, "Number 1" and "Number 2."
But, what I have noticed is that the older I get, the more comfortable the people around me feel discussing their … bathroom situations. I'm not sure what I do to encourage this toilet talk, perhaps it's just the most notable news of the day, but for whatever reason, eventually, someone brings it up.
This is especially true of my parents, so I'm sure you can imagine the delight on my mother's face when she presented me with her newest find: Poo~Pourri.
"Spritz the bowl before you go, and no one else will ever know!" she read from the label before she handed it to me, darting a glance in my father's uninterested direction. "It really works, too!"
These kinds of gifts are typical of my mother, and while at first I might seem unenthused or, in this case, slightly embarrassed, ultimately the reward has … a much sweeter smell.
Reading the label, you'll discover that the formula is a blend of citrusy essential oils that when sprayed on the surface of the water, create a barrier to trap out the odor. And, to anyone concerned with such things, they have blends that are more manly and blends that are more feminine.
Oh, and for the record, it really works.
From the website:
"Poo~Pourri bathroom spray deodorizer does more than eliminate bathroom odors - it is forever changing the bathroom experience. Just picture this...Last night's buffet was the best you ever had, but today at the office, all that eating is catching up to you. As you walk out from your second visit to the restroom, you nearly collide with the handsome lad from two offices down. You both pause, staring at each other. Just then, the door shuts behind you. A rush of bathroom air fans past. "Mmmm, citrusy," he says and walks away. You pat your purse and smile -- Poo~Pourri bathroom spray deodorizer, it keeps your dirty little secret."
While we're on the subject, here's one of my favorite comedy routines from Ellen DeGeneres and her experiences with airplane lavatories.
"You go to the bathroom and constantly lit [is] 'Return to Seat' or 'Return to Cabin'. … Why do they think that needs to be lit? Like, if it wasn't lit we'd relax in there for a little while? …
'Miss, bring my peanuts in here please!' (to herself) This is beauuuutiful.
I don't even wanna go. I could be the only one to get up out my seat to go to the bathroom—everyone else is sound asleep when I go. I've been in there for what I think is 30 seconds. — you have no concept of time when you're in there; it's like a casino, there's no windows, no clocks, you don't know how long you've spent in there. Now, I open the door, everyone on the plane is lined up, looking at their watches, making me feel like I've been in there forever.
Now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. …
Has that ever happened to you? It's not your fault, you've held your breath, you just want to get out, you just wanna leave, and now you open the door …. Oh! (nervous giggle)
(uncomfortable pause, eyes darting from impatient passenger to impatient passenger)
Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad. … You might want to sprinkle some club soda."
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And everybody knows that you are supposed to strike while the iron is hot. In terms of convincing the Government to come to the negotiating table, it's hard to imagine the iron ever being hotter for the PCS union than on the day before the Olympics open.
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And what is that cause? To put it simply, he is trying to protect his members' jobs and pay. So ask yourself this: if you had been told that you had a, say, one in five chance of losing your job next year - at a time, of course, of epic unemployment and dismal prospects - and your union leader said that striking (or threatening to strike) would give him a proper chance to possibly save your job, what would you do?
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The historic farming community of Chester is still going strong. Scots-Irish settlers harvested cotton here in the early nineteenth century, and the Upstate has been a major textile producer ever since. Though the silo below may no longer be in use, the farmland surrounding it is alive and well.
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Wine Village project returns to Highland
For months, representatives of the Hudson Valley Wine Village project have compiled additional data and refined the design of a project they have proposed for a 432-acre parcel at the end of Blue Point Road on the south side of Highland.
At the end of September they appeared before members of the Town, Zoning and Planning boards to speak on the current status of the project.
Supervisor Paul Hansut called the proposed project "very exciting for the Town of Lloyd moving forward as far as economic development."
The developer will be seeking zoning changes for the property from the Town Board but the wording is presently being developed.
Andrew Maxon, executive director of the project, started by thanking the members of the Lloyd boards.
"It's been a wonderful experience as we've gone the last 2 1/2 years," he said. "All you saw in the beginning is where we were at, which was a conference center and 1,200 units of housing. We heard the town. We heard the people. It was too dense, too much housing and we listened." He said they intend to fully cooperate with the town, the school board and the community on issues surrounding the project.
Maxon said it is important to note that their primary aim is to create jobs first, not only in the light industrial phase but also at the hotel/conference center and at the Wine Village. He said success in the light industrial portion will later provide a market for the proposed housing.
Architect Steven Tinkelman said recent design revisions have made for a "balanced, interesting and more sensitive" project than what existed just several months ago. He said his client, Herb Feinberg, has been willing to make changes and adjustments to the project that ultimately will meet the needs of the community.
Tinkelman said they continue to consult with professionals about the project, which he characterized as a work in progress. He highlighted several notable aspects of their proposal: the parcel runs from Route 9W to the Hudson River and has 1.5 miles of undisturbed river frontage; construction will be done in phases over a 20-year period; access to the property will be by a newly constructed horseshoe-shaped roadway, which will have a jogging/bicycle path running alongside of it; a 60,000-square-foot conference center with a 100-room hotel just southeast of the old winery buildings – many of which will be readapted in a Tuscan Village setting of approximately 50,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space.
Tinkelman said they are proposing 450,000 square feet of light industrial space on the southwestern portion of the property and near Rt. 9W for easy access.
Tinkelman said there will be between 700 to 800 of mostly multi-family housing units on the site, designed in "pod" areas with different levels and types and will have screening to provide separation and privacy. He said their new housing calculation is a reduction from the original 1,200 proposed and is also less than the 900 figure in the last configuration.
Tinkelman said the project will develop 173 acres of the overall parcel and leave 259 acres green. He stressed they will not disturb the bluff facing the Hudson River and will leave undeveloped 100-foot buffers in this area as well as at the northern and southern borders of the property. He added that Blue Point, a scenic perch on the southern part of the property, will remain untouched allowing public access to panoramic views of the Hudson River. The attorney for the project, Ken Stenger, called this a major concession by the owner – "Its importance cannot be understated and he made this a priority."
Tinkelman said he hopes to tie all of this together via walking trails with the Franny Reese State Park, just to the north. He said very little of the entire project will be visible from Route 9W except approximately 50,000 square feet of retail/commercial space off Sam Williams Road. Maxson added that this part of the project was originally slated for housing but was changed for commercial usage to align with the town's zoning intentions for the entire Route 9W corridor.
Tinkelman said some traffic improvements will be made to the Rt. 9W area near the project but the Department of Transportation projects that the roadway will be able to handle the vehicle estimates generated by the development.
The project will use public water from the town but sewage will be handled by an on-site modular based wastewater treatment system. Discussions are ongoing on who will pay for the pipe infrastructure along Route 9W for the water.
Tinkelman said no significant caches of archeological materials were found on the site and through the use of radar, no body appears to be buried in the alleged revolutionary grave on the property. He said there are only three small vernal pools and they will stay 100 feet back from them.
Tinkelman said they are presenting their project to the town in clear and understandable portions, rather than in a dense compilation containing thousands of pages. He said their consultants have kept in mind the sensitive nature of the environment of the property to ensure that "what we're doing is thoughtful and appropriate based upon what we've learned about the site."
"We think we have a more holistic approach to a sound economic development that benefits the community in the area in a stronger way and is also defensible to the developer who will have enormous upfront costs to make this project work," he said.
Tinkelman said there are ongoing traffic, noise and environmental studies as well as plans for community gardens, an archeology and wine industry museum and additional open spaces on the site. He is hoping to present the town with an even more complete plan by Thanksgiving.
Planning Board Chairman Scott Sasso offered a few comments.
"I definitely would like to thank you guys for coming and giving us a great presentation and an idea of what is going to be a fantastic project," with Supervisor Hansut complimenting the representatives for listening to the people and making significant adjustments to the project along the way.
"I think it's a great plan, myself," he said. "I think as a community we're going to pull this together."
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In the Shingles Prevention Study, half of the participants were assigned a single injection of the zoster vaccine and the other half a placebo vaccine. Neither the researchers nor the participants knew who received vaccine and who received placebo until after the study was over. During an average of more than three years of follow-up, the vaccine reduced the incidence of shingles by 51 percent: 642 cases of shingles occurred among those in the placebo group compared with only 315 in the vaccinated group. Among all vaccine recipients, the total burden of pain and discomfort due to shingles was 61 percent lower than in placebo recipients.
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May 1, a day of worker celebration, began in the United States around the struggle for the eight-hour day. Now it is honored across the world, but largely ignored in the United States. How fitting then that this year, immigrant workers from across the world have revived the day, marching to defend their dignity — and energizing an entire movement for social justice.
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During all these FTC rumblings, PR Blackouts, and ridiculous bullshit that really makes the blogosphere look more like a soap opera that a community, I've kept my mouth shut.
Well, mostly.
But I can only be inundated with articles on mommy blogger money making schemes for so long before I have to say something.
I started this blog back in November 2005 as a way to tell stories about my own experiences with motherhood. It's actually evolved into more of a "mom blog" over the years, much to my own surprise, but never did I ever plan on it being a money maker.
And guess what. It's really not.
For the few early months with BlogHerAds, I could pay my car payment. But aside from that, the ads that you see on this site pay for a week's worth of groceries. I rarely write up any products, and if I do, I filter them over into my review blog. And while I can't complain about some of the freebies I've received, I never really write about them here.
This blog is like my Ketel One martini that shall not be tainted by the cheap crap no matter how much you try to bribe me with it or send me cases for free.
No, no, HELL NO.
What this blog has done is provide a springboard for other projects, like Cool Mom Picks, and Parent Bloggers Network, and the Mominatrix, so I'm afforded the luxury of separating professional from personal, for the most part.
But with all the FTC and the blackouts and brownouts and everything else that sounds oddly close to people having shit issues, I've felt the need to disclose that the things I talk about (unless otherwise specified) are not paid for. That when I link to a product, I really do like it. And if I don't like it, then I make fun of it and drink out of it.
And honestly, I think that sucks.
It sucks that you can't go to a blog and know automatically whether the person is legitimately loving something or whether they got paid to love it.
That doesn't mean I'm hating on all the people that write sponsored posts or PR regurgitations or whatever other things people do to make money from their blog.
But when the lines get blurry, it bothers me. When I see people swipe stuff from another blogger and change one word without giving so much as a credit or a link, it pisses me off. Whether it's a line from their "submit" page or a part of an entire post or a blog name that someone already came up with in a post and you decide "Hey, I think that would make a great blog," it still matters.
No, there are no laws that state that you can't do that. But it takes away the community. And it's disrespectful.
We shouldn't need buttons or badges to tell people we've got integrity. And many bloggers, particularly those who absolutely don't do any posts about products or reviews or giveaways or all of that stuff and who treat people, bloggers, and their writing with respect, probably don't.
But since I've got my foot in a few places, I want people to be perfectly clear that when they come here, they know what they're getting.
Whether you happened to find my blog on a random google search for "Tuna Helper" or whether you've been reading this blog since I first started writing.
Which is to say I talk about unabashedly about vaginas, cock rings,and ass issues, almost as much as I talk about my three beautiful children.
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Last weekend has been played the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland. The annual event did not feature that many Europeans this year because some major prospects had to decline their invitation for different reasons. We took a quick look at the most interesting players in the World Team.
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Today, the Nike Hoop Summit World Team has been announced. The team will compete against a US selection in Portland on the 10th of April. The World team is this time a real worldwide selection as it features only 3 players currently being active in Europe and members from 4 different continents.
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Finland's OMNIUM GATHERUM have signed a deal with Britain's Rage Of Achilles Records and will issue their debut mini-CD, entitled A Man Has Naught, this spring.
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| centralised public service management towards the user and the skilled
| service provider. It is also a tool for shifting co-ordination between
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| application first. Microsoft's domination in the office and now
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Henderson/Castle: voyager
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February 26-March 1, 8PM
February 23, 2PM pwyc
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Few Toronto-based dance artists are held in such high esteem or have such an international reach as the young choreographer Ame Henderson. Part poet, part scientist, she draws the audience into her fascinating work through her infectious spirit of inquiry. In this premiere for TDT, Henderson collaborates with acclaimed singer/songwriter Jennifer Castle and nine wonderful dancers to craft a work that explores continuous movement as a state of being, and the ways in which never stopping affects our bodies and our relationships.
Read an interview with Ame Henderson about the creation of voyager in the TDT winter newsletter.
Listen to music by Jennifer Castle on CBC Music
Download Henderson/Castle: voyager TOURING information
Ame Henderson is known for her cross disciplinary work with Public Recordings, established in 2003, which explores and shares choreographic experimentation through artistic research and performance creation. In Henderson/Castle: voyager, Henderson proposes the question "What would happen if you never stopped moving?" The performance invites the audience to witness the unfolding of ongoing movement, and the transformation of the individuals on stage as they work.
Toronto-based singer/songwriter Jennifer Castle lends her unmistakable voice to the performance. Following the same principle of "never stopping" Castle provides the score for Henderson/Castle: voyager, a song partly composed and partly improvised, live for the duration of each performance.
Other collaborators on Henderson/Castle: voyager include lighting designer Kimberly Purtell, set and costume designer Bojana Stancic, the critical eye of New York dance artist Jeanine Durning, and Montreal-based guest dancer Marie Claire Forté. The TDT company members in collaboration include: Alana Elmer, Mairi Greig, Christopher House, Yuichiro Inoue, Pulga Muchuchoma, Jarrett Siddall, Kaitlin Standeven, and Naishi Wang.
Nonconformist Experimentation
A choreographer and performer who grew up on Vancouver Island, Ame Henderson studied at Concordia University in Montreal before moving to Toronto in 2003 where she founded Public Recordings. Using research and spontaneous improvisation as her basic artistic tools, she pursues an interest in intimacy and the limits of the body in a process of co-creation, working with artists from various cultures and disciplines. Seeking a balance between conventional form and openness, and between the known and the unknown, she creates choreographic structures where performers are able to allow inherent movements to freely take shape in response to clear intentions. Her works are atypical, often presented in non-traditional spaces. They are characterized by the performers' naturalistic style and their intense commitment to both the movement and the moment.
Far from offering facile, ready-made responses, in each of her pieces Ame Henderson engages the audience and the performers in a shared discovery of unknown territory, where each person is free to take whatever meaning is conveyed therein. In the concert piece /Dance/Songs/ (FTA, 2009), song was replaced by dance. Her interest in language is at the heart of Manual for Incidence (2005) and 300 TAPES (2010), where performers and spectators shared the same space and explored common linguistic conventions. In her more recent Relay (2010), Henderson used the body in a search for spontaneous unison, an approach further pursued with voice in What we are saying.
MEET JENNIFER CASTLE – an interview from Toro Magazine, April 2011 by Jesse Skinner
A lack of musical infrastructure plagues Toronto. We exist without a defined sound, or scene, and most folk/roots artists struggle endlessly to write tunes removed from urban sprawl.
Few have done that as successfully as Jennifer Castle, whose newest album Castlemusic feels homeless in the best way possible. By abandoning folk music pretensions and cliches, while still sounding like a woman alone with a guitar, the album shows a wonderful range, moving between classical balladry ("Neverride") to rustic laments ("You Don't Have to Be") and experimental hymns ("Misguided"). It's a worldly collection of tunes.
We sat down with Castle to talk about her origins, motivations, and plans for a long career…
There's a lot of nuance and detail in the recording, kind of rare for more traditional folk music.
I was up for the challenge of filling up space. And because I felt a lot of the lyrics were fairly sad, I didn't want it to be a bummer. It's like, while I'm saying this sad line, I'm also going to play this really delightful guitar lick. And it felt like those (oppositions) married themselves.
The songs seem to work together, thematically, as odes to domesticity, and learning to live with the people around you. Would you agree?
I think there's a real over-imagining, like out of my own shoes. I do live a really domestic lifestyle, I have a small son, I am grounded that way. But I over-imagine things to keep my life and my environment big. The questions that can't be answered keep me up at night.
That's not such a bad thing. Lyricists can get away with being very obscure.
I'm into BS-ing. There's lots of big things to think about. For years and years, I would bring my songs down to the lowest common denominator, like I don't need this word here or there — the point can get across as minimally as possible. I think about what songs mean after they've been released. Then they can resonate in my life, eerily.
How does writing and playing music help you, in your life?
I find it really soothing to sing. And I think I write songs that I'll want to hear, and those help me in particular situations. Like "Poor as Him", which is really a rock song, is about my dad, and was written about a year before he died, which is crazy … listening to it now, I'm glad I had that song to sing. I had already written it.Read the complete article
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Are expired posts archived or simply deleted to never be seen or heard from again? One problem with implimenting this will be to go back through all the threads that exist to save valuable ones that haven't been seen in some time, like this (last posted 10/24/03), just to mention one. Anyway, there are years worth of threads that are worth saving, but it would take almost just as long to go through and sift out the valuable ones before innitiating the auto-expire sequence.Perhaps a select retiring of old picture threads and the like?I'll be seeing YOU in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Washington DC, Moline, Columbus, Wantagh, and Holmdel. So dress sharp.
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Picture(s) And Video A Day – 23 July 2010
Blogging – it's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry for that, but work this past week was anything but relaxing or invigorating. We had a few outages which meant I was busier than a bartender in Vegas on New Years Eve. After work I just want to go home, decompress, and get some sleep.
OK, enough of that – here's the pics
I headed on over to New Frontier Armory / Infinite Arms after work after not darkening their doorway for two whole weeks Well, Guido who owns New Frontier Armory just got a new toy and I couldn't pass up getting a pic of it These trucks don't get the greatest gas mileage as you can imagine but I still want one in a big way – they're just cool Of course, the fact that you can get one for between $1,500 and $2,000 might have something to do with it, too
I haven't been geocaching in quite a while, but I still recognized this for what it is – a travel bug decal on a vehicle
If you haven't heard of geocaching, check out geocaching.com and see if it's something you might like. All you need is a GPS receiver and a computer, but a pencil helps as well sometimes Basically, people hide geocaches, record the GPS coordinates, post them on geocaching.com, and then you go find them and log your finds on geocaching.com. A geocache is basically some sort of container with a log inside that you sign. Many of them also contain a pencil to sign the log with and a few trade items like key chains and small compasses. You're always supposed to trade up – leave something nicer than you took for others to trade. It's a fun way to get out and do something
It will likely come as no surprise that it's been HOT lately here in Las Vegas I took this picture while heading home from NFA/IA when it was about 114° or so and yes, it's just as hot as you'd imagine. At least the humidity's down near 10% so it's pretty livable
Last, but not least I have a video for a change I set up my Nikon Coolpix S220 in interval mode to take 1 picture per minute looking out from my desk at work when I saw a thunderstorm building. Once I had all the pictures, I put 'em into Windows Movie Maker and made a time lapse movie The music comes from YouTube's "audio swap" feature and I think it works rather well
That's it for now Here's hoping you have a great Sunday
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Romney Focuses on Economy, Not Limbaugh
CLEVELAND—Mitt Romney's staying out of the Rush Limbaugh dust-up.
Mr. Limbaugh, a conservative talk radio host, sent Democrats into a fury after making derogatory comments earlier this week about a female Georgetown law student who advocated for insurance coverage for birth control.
"I'll just say this, which is it's not the language I would have used," Mr. Romney said, when asked about it on the rope line during a campaign stop here. "I'm focusing on the issues I think are significant in the country today and that's why I'm here talking about jobs."
Indeed, Mr. Romney has stuck to his economic turnaround message since his double win in Arizona and Michigan, vowing to cut government spending and take a harder line with China on currency manipulation and intellectual property issues.
The candidate's Cleveland stop lacked some of the star power that had been planned: Boisterous New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was scheduled to attend but had to cancel due to tornadoes across the region.
"I am so sorry not to have Chris Christie here," Mr. Romney told the crowd at Cleveland State University.
"It is fun to have Chris Christie there. What you hope for, is someone to heckle him," Mr. Romney joked, imitating Mr. Christie staring down protesters. "He tells them what-to."
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Dallas Crime Watch: Tuesday, Aug. 16
A sampling of crime and public safety news in and around Dallas:
• A man was charged with sex trafficking Monday after being accused of luring three North Texas teens to California where he intended to have them work as prostitutes.
• Johnnie Lindsey, who was cleared in a rape after spending decades in prison, is suing the state comptrollers office after being denied compensation.
• A magistrate has rejected a charge of assault against a Dallas police officer involved in an off duty chase Sunday.
• Another case of animal mutilation occurred Sunday when two severed cat legs were found in a the front yard of a northwest Dallas home.
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RedGirlSays: 2010′s Top 9 Blacklisted Websites
"So, what websites do governments and the people hate and fear the most? Porn sites? Social media sites that spread news, rumor, and misinformation like wildfire? Websites that support file sharing or piracy?"
24/7 Wall Street: Apple Loses Market Share in Tablets, Nokia in Smartphones
"The iPad from Apple Inc. lost nearly 20% of its 96% share of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2010 to tablets using the Android operating system from Google Inc. Nokia Corp. shipped more than 100 million smartphones in 2010, but it, too, lost share to Android-based devices. Have the mighty, at last, fallen?"
Both Sides of the Table: How to use PR Firms at Startups
"One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm."
GigaOM: The Race to Create a Web of Reputation
"One of the big issues with the ongoing explosion of social media, whether it's blogging or Twitter or Facebook, is a lack of effective ways to filter the signal from the noise — in other words, to figure out who we should pay attention to."
CNet: Facebook's next big media move: Comments
"Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs and other digital publications very soon."
Webmonkey: OpenID: The Web's Most Successful Failure
"The main reason no one uses OpenID is because Facebook Connect does the same thing and does it better. Everyone knows what Facebook is and it's much easier to understand that Facebook is handling your identity than some vague, unrecognized thing called OpenID. That's why, despite the impressive sounding billion URLs and 50,000 sites supporting OpenID, it pales next to Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect has been around less than half the time of OpenID and yet it's been adopted by some 250,000 websites, is available to the hundreds of millions of Facebook users and has the advantage of Facebook's brand familiarity."
Business Week: Google Android Triumphs at Nokia's Expense
"Competition from the Apple iPhone has gotten most of the blame for Nokia's struggle in the past few years to maintain relevance and market share in smartphones. But the Android operating system backed by Google has emerged as a greater long term threat—and perhaps opportunity— for Nokia."
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Markets Could Start Looking for ECB Easing Now
If this is the point at which financial markets start expecting the Fed to tighten policy then it should also be the point at which markets start to look for the European Central Bank to ease.
Sure, this statement sounds a little contentious coming just after Germany has reported a sharp jump in business confidence that some analysts think will translate into a recovery.
"The 'Ifo-clock' suggests that it is 'boom-time' for the German economy again," said Evelyn Herrmann, European economist with BNP Paribas.
But, first we have to see this translation from hope and optimism into growth.
And second, there is absolutely no reassurance that stronger German growth will translate into a euro-zone wide recovery. As even Ms. Herrmann admits, the improvement in the German economy "will mostly be to the benefit of other core countries, rather than the periphery."
In other words, it is those euro-zone members, such as the Netherlands that export more to Germany, rather than the likes of Greece or Spain that export less, that will feel the trickle-down effect.
And that is where the problem lies.
Non-German data this week show that while there are some improvements in the weaker parts of the euro zone, a significant recovery remains elusive.
In fact, even some parts of the so-called core aren't doing well at all.
The region's second largest economy, France, isn't expected to grow at all this year, with manufacturing improving a little but still contracting overall and the index of service sector activity falling close to its all-time low.
There is also the issue of whether Germany's strong Ifo is raising expectations too high.
Steve Barrow, chief currency strategist at Standard Bank, pointed out that a similar rise in the Ifo index at this time last year failed to translate into the recovery everyone expected.
This might have been because of the tense debt negotiations that were going on among the region's debtor countries. These have since been resolved.
But, there remains little reassurance that tensions won't return if political and economic pressures on many of the region's debtor countries don't ease.
So where does this leave the ECB?
Only last month its president, Mario Draghi, was promoting the idea of positive contagion, suggesting that as bank balance sheets improved and credit conditions eased, the euro-zone economies would be more likely to recover.
This may have helped the borrowing costs of many debtor countries to continue falling at the time. But, in recent weeks, these costs have started to edge higher and there are few signs that better conditions in financial markets are feeding through to the real economies.
The ECB will also have another factor to consider when looking at the need for more monetary easing — the strength of the euro itself.
The longer it takes euro-zone economies to recover and the more other countries outside the euro zone pursue monetary easing themselves, the more the ECB will come under pressure to do likewise.
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I lay flat on my stomach on a plank at the summit of a sand dune in the heart of Moreton Island, a 75-minute boat ride from Brisbane on the east coast of Australia. The steep plunge ahead of me looked positively treacherous.
The moment of panic, however, had passed. I had already committed to the tobogganing run and focused my attention on doing it right.


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Michel Thomas - Learn French (Audiobook)
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What is the Michel Thomas method?
Over a period of more than fifty years, Michel Thomas has developed and perfected a unique method of teaching languages. His approach gives startling results within a remarkably short time, all without the need for books, memorizing, or homework.


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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)— Vonetta McGee, who costarred in 1970s blaxploitation movies such as "Blacula," has died at 65.
Family spokeswoman Kelly Nayo says McGee died Friday at a Berkeley hospital. She had been on life support for two days after going into cardiac arrest.
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McGee's heyday was in the 1970s with the wave of movies aimed at Black audiences such as "Blacula," ''Hammer," and "Shaft in Africa."
She also starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "The Eiger Sanction."
McGee didn't like the term "blaxploitation," telling the Los Angeles Times that it had racist overtones.
McGee made several other movies and in the 1980s turned mainly to television, including recurring roles on "Helltown" and "L.A. Law."


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In a chat with ET Now, Deepak Mohoni, Director, trendwatchindia.com, talks about cement counters.
ET Now: One word on whether the cement counters can go lower from the current levels?
Deepak Mohoni: Would seem that way because they have been falling now for almost a week. So there is a downtrend here. Many of the stocks while they fall, they do tend to bounce back in keeping with the slight sideways tendency that we are seeing in the market over the last week or 2 but cement has been falling. You take ACC which was doing quite well only 2 months ago, that is down to something like a 5 or 6-week low. So there is a clear intermediate downtrend than cement.


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PORTSMOUTH — Police and fire responders were called to Market Square early Sunday morning, when a man was injured during a fight and required hospitalization.
Fire Chief Steve Achilles said his department was called to the intersection of High and Congress streets at 1:24 a.m., when firefighters transported a 25-year-old male to Portsmouth Regional Hospital for injuries related to a street fight. Achilles said the man suffered non-life threatening injuries to his head and face.
Police Sgt. Richard Webb said beat officers were flagged down by witnesses who reported the man was "down" following an assault. Webb said the incident remains under investigation and no arrests had been made as of Monday.
Anyone with information about the assault is urged to leave anonymous tips with Seacoast Crime Stoppers by phone at 431-1199, online at www.seacoastcrime stoppers.org, or by SMS text to CRIMES (274637) with TIPSCS in the message. Rewards of up to $1,000 are paid for information leading to arrests and convictions.
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