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Beyond the "revisionist" information posted at their Web sites,
Holocaust deniers have demonstrated their extensive use of the Internet
in responding to two events in 1998: the trial of Roger Garaudy and the
"recantation" of David Cole.
In late 1997, a document entitled "David Cole: Monstrous Traitor"
reportedly appeared on the Web site of the Jewish Defense League (JDL),
a Jewish extremist group. The JDL's statement, attributed to Robert J.
Newman, went far beyond criticizing Cole for denying the Holocaust, asserting
in no uncertain terms that the JDL wished to "get rid" of him:
Don't you think it's time that we flush this rotten, sick individual
down the toilet, where the rest of the waste lies? One less David Cole
in the world will certainly not end Jew-hatred, but it will have removed
a dangerous parasitic, disease-ridden bacteria from infesting society...An
evil monster like this does not deserve to live on this earth.
Don't you think it's time that we flush this rotten, sick individual
down the toilet, where the rest of the waste lies? One less David Cole
in the world will certainly not end Jew-hatred, but it will have removed
a dangerous parasitic, disease-ridden bacteria from infesting society...An
evil monster like this does not deserve to live on this earth.
At the document's close, the JDL offered a "monetary reward"
for the location of David Cole, implying that it was prepared to take
immediate, possibly violent, action.
Within a few months, a "Statement of David Cole" appeared on
JDL's Web site, supposedly signed by Cole and notarized on January 5,
1998. In it, Cole renounced his Holocaust denial, explaining that he stopped
expressing such beliefs in 1994. "During my four years as a denier,
I was wracked with self-hate and loathing," he wrote. "The hate
I had for myself I took out on my people." "The Nazis intended
to kill all the Jews of Europe, and the final death toll of this attempted
genocide was six million," Cole acknowledged. At the end of his "Statement,"
Cole claimed that it was "made freely and under no duress, and is
quite willingly, even happily, given to Mr. Irv Rubin of the Jewish Defense
Unable to believe that one of their own would admit that the Holocaust
is historical fact, numerous Holocaust deniers, from Bradley Smith and
Ingrid Rimland to lesser-known figures on the Web and in Usenet newsgroups,
complained that the JDL had forced Cole to recant.
Another cause célčbre among Holocaust deniers widely discussed on the
Internet involved French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. On February 27,
1998, a French court found 84-year-old Garaudy guilty of violating a law
that prohibits the questioning of crimes "against humanity."
Also convicted for "racial defamation," he was fined 240,000
francs (roughly $40,000). These judgments stemmed from claims made in
his 1995 book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, in which
he denied that the Holocaust occurred, saying that Jews under Nazi control
died of starvation and disease, not poison gas.
Significantly, Garaudy, a convert to Islam, received support during the
trial from anti-Semitic Muslims in the Middle East. On January 19, 1998,
about 70 Palestinian professors, journalists, and religious leaders protested
in front of a French cultural center in support of Garaudy. The Islamic
Human Rights Commission, an Iranian activist group, and Al-Khaleej, a
United Arab Emirates newspaper, also defended Garaudy.
In their efforts to win support for Garaudy, both in the Middle East
and elsewhere, Holocaust deniers employed the worldwide reach of the Internet
to spread their message. During the trial, a Web site entitled Support
Garaudy was created by the "Garaudy Support Committee."
The site, which was registered in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, is
available in Arabic and French as well as English, clearly indicating
the deniers' desire to reach Arab and European readers. It portrays "Rajaa
Garaudy" as an "international French Muslim thinker" who
is "standing alone in the face of the Zionist arrogance." Support
Garaudy links to Bradley Smith's CODOH Web site, where visitors can
read the complete text of Garaudy's book.
Holocaust deniers used the Internet to update their supporters on the
Garaudy case and voice their opinions about it. Support Garaudy
and the CODOH Web site contained the text of, or links to, stories about
the trial culled from newswires, and Ingrid Rimland's "Z-Gram"
E-mail newsletter supplied breaking news on the topic. Additionally, Ernst
Zündel used Rimland's "Z-Gram" to comment on the trial. "New
inroads are being made in Revisionism in the Arab countries," he
wrote. "Garaudy and his wife had been invited by the Egyptian Minister
for Culture and Information to come to Egypt." In another "Z-Gram,"
Rimland wrote that Garaudy's conviction was "good news, because what
do we have now in the Arab world? A dozen countries being notified the
French are in the clutches of an enemy we share!"
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As the partial shutdown of the government collides with an alleged deadline for raising the debt limit, the tap dance goes something like this:
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives won't end the partial shutdown unless President Obama agrees to talk about changes in the nation's health care overhaul and steps to curb the deficit. The president will talk to Republicans on those and other topics, but only after the government is fully reopened and the debt limit has been raised. The problem is, if the GOP agrees to those terms, spending will increase, the debt will become greater than the $17 trillion it is, mortgaging the future of our children, and health care changes won't be made.
We know this is what will happen based on President Obama's five-year track record.
Also based on track record, President Obama's version of negotiating involves him getting what he wants. So the only legitimate means of getting the president to bargain is to get him in a corner, no easy task with a complicit media on his side.
Those who care about this country need to ignore the slings and arrows they will take from the media and the panicked talk that will come from the administration and president in the coming week. They need to focus on what needs to be done for the good of the country. Instead of extending the debt limit, the discussion needs to be about reducing that debt. Instead of forcefeeding a health care package clearly not ready for implementation, the discussion needs to be about delaying it and making changes in the coming year that will improve health care for all Americans.
Obama, who as a senator criticized President George W. Bush as "unpatriotic" for running up the nation's debt and voted against raising the debt ceiling, has doubled the debt as president despite policies that have resulted in a record tax revenue coming into the nation's coffers.
He has maxed out the charge card with spending that is out of control. We suspect any thorough examination of the nation's spending right now would easily uncover billions and billions of dollars in waste. There is no other way to explain a debt that has doubled in five years.
Congress needs to freeze the use of that charge card President Obama has been using and instead start paying it off. Caving in to the likes of Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, who incredibly said two weeks ago "there is nothing left to be cut," won't solve the problem.
Just the tax revenues that come in each month to our federal government are more than enough to make the nation's debt service payments.
The nation's debt won't be turned around and its health care system won't be improved in a practical way unless all parties talk with legitimate purpose and practical consensus in mind. Five years of the Obama administration and his Senate spinmeister, Majority Leader Harry Reid, tell us that simply raising the debt ceiling will accomplish nothing but a continuation of policies currently endangering the country's future.
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A girl so physically revolting that in order to keep from vomiting in her presence, you need to put a bag over her head and your head.
That chick you screwed last night was a double bagger.
by Gieb Daddy March 09, 2003
when a girl is so ugly that you put and bag on her head and your head incase the bag on her head breaks or falls off.
damn your mom is so ugly i had to pull a double bagger on her last night.
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a person so ugly that in order to have sex with them you have to put two bags over their head incase the first one rips.
She's a doublebagger
by Lawgiver January 24, 2004
(n) A guy's term to describe a girl who's so ugly that she needs a brown paper bag over her head and one for him, too, in case her's falls off. A really ugly chick. 80's Slang.
Dude, that chick is such a double-bagger! Good thing that thetre was dark, or you'da been blinded!
by Borden May 25, 2004
a person so ugly that in order to have sex with them you have to put a bag ove their head and a bag over your head in case theirs falls off.
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This year marked SXSW Film's 20th edition and my first time attending. I was warned by many of SXSW's chaotic nature because Austin converts into a hub of thousands of people in search of the latest innovations in music, technology, and of course film. The weather was nice, the food was awesome, and the lines were surprisingly easy to master – only requires a little bit of discipline to wake up early and obtain a Festival Exxpress pass for entrance priority. And I even got to see Green Day at the world premiere of their pair of documentaries, Broadway Idiot and ¡Cuatro! I was able to catch so many amazing films including some that will be screening next week at the XPN Music Festival. Some of my (and SXSW audiences) favorites included Good Ol' Freda, a portrait of Beatles fandom through their longtime secretary, Twenty Feet From Stardom, an inspiring portrait that shines a spotlight on backup singers, Muscle Shoals, an insightful look at one of music history's most iconic studio, and Los Wild Ones, an intimate look at Mexican rock-a-billys in Los Angeles. An emotional moment of SXSW was seeing 2012 XPN Music Film Fest Alumni Destin Daniel Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster) take the Grand Jury Prize for his new film Short Term 12, his heart warming speech left no dry eye in the theatre. Additionally, I will never forget meeting Kathleen Hanna post The Punk Singer screening – the film strengthened my admiration for such a great artist and I'm excited to bring it to Philadelphia. I hope you can take advantage of the great programming of fresh, new films straight out of their world premieres at SXSW next week at the XPN Music Film Festival. In SXSW spirit, the festival will offer great performances, moving films, and conversations with great artists from all over the world.


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"I'm was really disappointed that these guys came with their, their Eurotrash game," Milbury said, referring to the Russians. "It was just no heart, no guts, no nothing there to back it up."
"Did you really say Eurotrash? Did that come out of your mouth?" NBC hockey host Bill Patrick asked, as former NHL star Jeremy Roenick sat stunned between the two men with his mouth open.
"I heard it, I heard it," Roenick replied, attempting to bail out the situation by agreeing with Milbury's overall analysis that the Russian team lacked effort in the one-sided loss.
The comment came after a feisty ending to a physical hockey game between the heavily favored Canadian team and the Russians.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Stetson men's basketball team will return to the court on Sunday for the second of two road contests against ACC foes to start the season, playing at #21 Notre Dame at 1:00 p.m. on ESPN3.
The Hatters (0-1) dropped their season opener at Clemson by a score of 71-51 on Friday night. Seniors Aaron Graham and Raymone Andrews led Stetson with 11 and 10 points, respectively, against the Tigers.
In just the second ever meeting between Stetson and Notre Dame, the Hatters will aim to even the all-time series at 1-1 on Sunday afternoon.
It will be a difficult job against a Fighting Irish (1-0) team that is ranked 21st in the nation. Notre Dame won its opener on Friday night, defeating Miami (Ohio) by a score of 74-62 at Purcell Pavilion. Senior Jerian Grant led the Fighting Irish with a career high 26 points against the Red Hawks.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
A little more than a month remains until 2013 preseason football practice begins and the Berkeley Stags are beginning to come together.
"We're in full gear and getting them out there, and we're real excited about where we are," said BHS Head Coach Jeff Cruce. "We're a hundred times farther out there than we were last year. We're real excited about the kids' attitudes. They're becoming real leaders and we're developing good leaders."
This year the Stags will field a team stocked with more than 30 seniors, many with three years playing experience on the gridiron. It will be these players Cruce counts on to provide leadership between the hash marks.
"It is a privilege to play Berkeley Stags football, not a right," he said. "We hold our players to a high standard both on and off the field. They are role models to those kids coming up behind them."
The Stags have participated in various camps, scrimmages and passing leagues since school let out for the summer, but their big push has been in the weight room. "We're getting in shape," the coach said.
Coach Barry Avant conducted an offensive line camp in June that included 38 athletes, a mix of varsity, JV and B-team players, Cruce added. Senior center Sterling Fiddie has impressed area coaches to the point he has the opportunity to qualify to play in the Shrine Bowl at season's end.
"Sterling has been really impressive this summer," Cruce said. "He's quick on his feet and has attracted some attention. He has the chance to be a legitimate prospect this year."
Linebacker and safety Josh Simmons has also blossomed as his senior year approaches. "Josh is a legitimate D-1 candidate," Cruce said.
The Stags performed well in this summer's passing league according to Cruce, with D.J. Witherspoon, Matthew Harkness and Dylan Baker having "a real good camp," and quarterback Joseph Dress improving.
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When a homeless person(Hobo) pops through a classroom vent, door, window,any kind of opening, no matter how big or small or small beware...and instead of Code Red or Yellow or something, you standd up and yell "CODE HOBO" and everyone quickly gets up, digs into their pockets and offers spare change.
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As the harsh reality of colder weather, school and work begin to settle in after the summer months, the Altoona Symphony Orchestra welcomes patrons to get lost in a night of fairy tales with its first performance of the season.
The ASO will present its "1,001 Nights" concert program at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mishler Theatre in Altoona, and have invited familiar names like Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast to join them through the music.
"I built the entire season-opening concert on fairy tales," ASO maestra Teresa Cheung wrote in an email. "The audience will be treated to an evening of storytelling through music. There won't be any narrations or acting, but one will be amazed at how various orchestra members will be taking part in the telling of the stories."
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Maestra Teresa Cheung will conduct the Altoona Symphony Orchestra during its "1,001 Nights" performance on?Saturday at the Mishler Theatre in downtown Altoona.
Those stories will be contained in such classical masterpieces as Maurice Ravel's "Ma Mere L'oye," or Mother Goose Suite, Mikhail Glinka's "Russlan and Ludmilla Overture" and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade, Op. 35." Select movements in the works bear mythical names like "Conversations of Beauty and the Beast," "The Tale of Prince Kalendar" and "The Enchanted Garden."
"The deeper hidden secret of this concert is the display of superb skills of the composers," Cheung wrote. "Both Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov are considerd as some of the best orchestrators of classical music."
With the light music and whimsical nature of the performance, ASO executive director Pamela J. Snyder Etters said this first concert of the season will be one the whole family can enjoy.
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What: Altoona Symphony Orchestra presents "1,001 Nights"
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Mishler Theatre, 1208 12th Ave., Altoona
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"The symphony is such a universal language, and kids respond to music," she said. "This first performance will really be one that they can relate to."
Snyder Etters added that if people aren't sure if the orchestra will be "their thing," this first performance is a great one to test the waters. The rest of the season boasts diverse offerings, including the ASO's first performance of sacred music in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona and the production of their first opera.
"It's a really great variety of music that we're offering this year," she said. "You're not going to feel like you're witnessing the same thing each time."
Cheung would also encourage young people to attend because classical music is "ageless," and something powerful and rich enough to not get tired of like the trendy pop music of today.
"There is no wrong age for experiencing this music," she said. "It is one-size-fits-all."
Cheung added that she and the musicians are excited to see returning subscribers and always enjoy meeting audiences after their performances.
"The Altoona Symphony has been serving the area for 84 years," she said. "We are so proud to be a part of this community."
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by wendi from Boston, Ma | November 12, 2013
I just purchased a used 2001 Acura TL with 170,000 miles and just took it to & from Boston to Disney World. BEST RIDE EVER and NO PROBLEMS at ALL!!
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Transporting family
Does recommend this car
Golden 3.2TL
by Greek Sspeeder from New Jersey | June 19, 2013
This is by far the best car I've ever owned and I've owned plenty. With 197,000 miles on it, I wouldn't hesitate to drive it cross country to California from NJ where I live. Almost thirteen years old and the paint still shines and doesn't look more than a three or four year old car. The mechanic who services my car offered me nearly 40% over book value to buy it. Now that is a confidence builder.
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does recommend this car
Acura Tl my best car ever
by hag from mansfield TX | April 11, 2012
this is by far the most relaible car i ever own, i had a 2005 honda accord ex prior to buting this car, however, this car has performed better in terms of reliability etc.
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Just getting around
Does recommend this car
Transmission went at 133K miles
by Sue from Framingham, MA | February 25, 2011
Just out of extended warranty...known transmission issues with the '01. Beware...costs $3500+ to fix. I am getting a new car, and my '01, which was a great car, is now worthless.
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does not recommend this car
Most Reliable Car I've Owned
by bitfiend from Huntsville, AL | June 18, 2008
What a great car! I've had this car for almost six years and have never had a problem with it. It's super reliable, comfortable, and fun to drive. My next car will probably also be an Acura.
Purchased a new car
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Best Car Ever
by onebrother from Indianapolis, In | April 18, 2007
My TL was extremely reliable and I never had a serious issue with it. It maintained a very high value and I even liked the classy design.
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Most wonderful handling car I have ever owned
by pleased acura owner from California | October 5, 2006
My Husband bought me the Acura 3.2TL (2001) for my birhtday. I could not have been more happy. And still feel that way 5 years later!! It has been the best car I have ever owned! It is a luxurious ride, handles like a dream, has power to boot, and looks great... I have had NO problems with the car. The only thing we have doen in 5 years of owning it is to replace the battery about 3 months ago... 5 out of 5--- no doubt!!
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Humanity has wondered about the heavens above since before recorded history. Recently, the discovery of hundred of planets in other star systems has sparked extraordinary interest in determining the odds of extraterrestrial life.
The Kepler mission will seek to explain one part of the puzzle by observing the brightness of over 100,000 stars over the next forty-two months. In doing so, it will be able to track earth-sized planets, generating future targets of interest for more advanced future space observatories like the Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
Nearly all of the extrasolar planets detected thus far are giant planets the size of Jupiter or larger. Kepler will look for planets 30 to 600 times less massive, closer to the size of Earth and more likely to support life.
All planets in stable orbits transit across their star during their own unique annual cycle. This causes a dip in the star's apparent magnitude for an observer in the same plane. By timing these transits, the orbit and length of year can be calculated. The orbit of a planet can be used to determine if it lies within the "zone of life", where it is close enough to the sun to support liquid water, yet far enough that potential life is not destroyed by it.
"Kepler's mission is to determine whether Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of other stars are frequent or rare; whether life in our Milky Way galaxy is likely to be frequent or rare", said William Borucki, NASA's Principal Investigator on the Kepler Mission.
While Kepler will only focus on a small area of the sky, its results will be enough to enable accurate estimates of the number of earth-sized planets in our galaxy.
Kepler will use an array of 42 CCD (charge-coupled device) cameras, each measuring 50x25 mm. With a resolution of 1024x2200 each, Kepler has a total resolution of approximately 95 megapixels.
CCD cameras are used in most digital cameras and optical scanners. They are also used in astronomy and in night-vision devices due to their sensitivity to the ultraviolet and infrared ranges of light.
Mission operations will be conducted by NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and are included as part of the $600 million total mission cost. Ames will contact the Kepler spacecraft twice a week using the X-band for command updates as well as system status updates. Scientific data is only downloaded once a month using the Ka-band, at a data rate of up to 4.33 Mb/s. To conserve bandwidth, Kepler will conduct partial analysis on board and only transmit data of interest to researchers.
The Kepler spacecraft will be launched at 2250 Eastern Standard Time from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It will use the Delta II multi-stage rocket, which has flown 140 missions while achieving a success rate of almost 99 percent.
Instead of a typical earth orbit, it will launch Kepler into an earth trailing orbit in order to block light from the sun and the moon. This orbit also avoids gravitational perturbations inherent in an Earth orbit, thus allowing for additional platform stability.
The Kepler Mission is named for Johannes Kepler, best known for his Laws of Planetary Motion.
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The Kepler spacecraft was launched successfully aboard a Delta II rocket in the D2925-10L launch configuration from pad 17B at 22:49:57 EST on Friday March 6th. The three-stage launch vehicle had nine additional solid rocket boosters, six for the first stage and three for the second stage. The third stage boosted the Kepler payload to its heliocentric orbit trailing Earth. Two months of testing and systems verification will occur for the next two months before Kepler begins its inspiring mission.
quote: point of view 1:Hold on, who says they'll want to leave the space ship. i mean that is their home now, not earth or the new planet.
quote: Point of view 2: we could just use psychology to trick 'em all into wanting to go to the new planet. hehe
quote: Point of view 3: why the hell WOULDN'T we go colinize another planet in this way. at the moment it is the only possible way to do it.
quote: But personaly: i really beleive that our way of colinizing anything in space, will be very much dependant on how quickly we can get there. Our propulsion technology MUST be able to get us to a new planet by getting us there "same day" type effort. only then can we really have people going to a planet to colinize.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Charlie Kent, director of golf at the Incline Village Championship and Mountain courses, recently was named the PGA of Northern California's Merchandiser of the Year for golf resorts.The annual awards are handed out to PGA professionals and industry leaders who have excelled in the game and business of golf. The course earned the award, in part, for the placement of signage around the course that provides golf tips such as how to navigate bunkers, and avoid trees on the courses' tightly lined fairways.Kent joined the Incline Village General Improvement District in 2011 after seven years as Director of Golf at the May River Golf Club at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina. While at May River, the course was ranked as the No. 2 "Golf Community in the U.S." by Travel + Leisure Golf and as the No. 4 "Top Golf Resort in the Southern United" States by Cond Nast Traveler.Under Kent's leadership, May River's golf shops were recognized four times among the "Top 100 Shops," something he hopes to bring to the Incline Village courses in the coming years."The Golf Courses at Incline Village are truly top notch and I look forward to continuing to enhance the array of amenities available to players," Kent said. "Lake Tahoe is known around the world for its recreational offerings, and it is my goal to put the Incline Village courses at the top of that list."The top merchandiser award places Kent and the Golf Courses at Incline Village alongside eminent resorts such as the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, the largest and most popular golf resort in Tucson, Ariz.; and Indian Wells, home of the LG Skins Game and the only 36-hole facility in California, with both courses ranked in the Top 20 "Best Courses You Can Play" in California by Golf Week magazine.Other winning merchandiser clubs include the Bel-Air Country Club, the Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the 80-year-old La Rinconada Country Club in Los Gatos, Calif. Awards are given out for the Northern California, Southern California and Southwest regions of the United States. Northern Nevada is included in the Northern California category.The Championship Course was named among the top 10 best golf courses in the state by both Golfweek and Golf Digest in 2012.The 2013 golf season at the courses at Incline Village is anticipated to begin in late May, weather permitting. For information about the Golf Courses at Incline Village, visit www.GolfIncline.com or call 775-832-1100.
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on August 3, 2013 - 7:36 AM
Karen and Eric Johnson learned the hard way that their son, Owen, had a food allergy.
When Owen was 15 months old, the family pediatrician suggested the Town of Tonawanda couple add peanut butter to their son's diet for protein, even though the toddler had a history of eczema – a red flag that allergies might be lurking.
Owen's first taste, though small, was almost deadly.
"He blew up like a balloon," his mother said. "His eyes swelled shut." He had to be taken to the hospital.
"Thus began our life of food allergies," Karen Johnson said.
The Johnsons are not alone. Such allergies affect up to 15 million Americans, including one in 13 children – roughly two in every classroom – according to the Food Allergy Research & Education, or FARE, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure the safety and inclusion in society of those with food allergies, and to seek a cure.
A local effort to raise awareness about food allergies will take place next Saturday, when people with food allergies, their families, friends and the public are invited to participate in a FARE Walk for Food Allergy. It starts at 9 a.m. at Parkside Lodge in Delaware Park and runs until noon.
The walk starts after a 10 a.m. opening ceremony. Also part of the event this year will be a bounce house, Zoomobile, face painting, a fire truck, photo booth, manicures and pedicures, an obstacle course, karate and dance show, craft tables and Buster Bison.
Adults who sign up for the walk and raise $100 receive a T-shirt, as do all children who participate in the walk. Walkers can sign up online or in person at the park next Saturday. Participants can walk individually or as part of a team. For more info, to volunteer or to register, visit foodallergywalk.org/buffalo.
"We're having a very large raffle. We've gotten lots and lots of donations, about 50 items," said Johnson, who is among the volunteers helping with the event.
She and her husband plan to attend with Owen, now 5, and son, Charlie, who is almost 3.
Karen Johnson said living with a son who has peanut and tree nut allergies has been a family "game changer."
"These kinds of food allergies aren't to be mistaken with intolerances where you may have gastrointestinal upset," she said. "These allergic reactions, anaphylaxis, cause your body to shut down, cause your airway to close. All we're looking for from the community is that people be aware that this is serious. All we ask is for you to keep our children safe, as we would yours."
Owen loves to play outside. He adores his toy cars, trucks and Hot Wheels. He likes to draw and color, read books and watch documentaries about animals. He's fascinated about how things work. Maybe he'll become a scientist or an engineer someday.
That will take vigilance from those around him, his mother said.
"I don't ever want to see him look the way he looked when I took him to Children's" Hospital when he was 15 months old, she said. "With my son, it can take something simple, like cross-contamination of something with nuts."
The Johnsons were relieved that Owen's preschool prohibited baked goods for birthday parties, and that his new school, where he will start kindergarten in the fall, has the same guidelines, which address obesity and food allergies.
Karen Johnson won't buy any baked goods. She makes them herself. And that's just the starting point of grocery shopping.
"I have to read the label on every single thing I buy, even if I buy it every week," she said. "They can change their manufacturing at any time."
A pack that contains two EpiPens and Benadryl goes with Owen, wherever he goes.
"We still have fun, we still go places," Karen Johnson said, "but we do it with his allergies in mind."
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We carried out frequent project reviews, keeping the client up to date at every stage of the build process, thus ensuring the project satisfied Sellick Partnership's usability requirements and was capable of performing well in search engines, on mobile devices and tablets. We then produced a detailed digital marketing strategy designed to deliver on pre-defined objectives.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The Boeing Company, and all the Mount Pleasant Elementary schools have come together to promote reading and literacy in our community.
About four years ago, Art Collins, member of board of directors of The Boeing Company, began writing a nine-book series of adventure books for kids entitled; The Adventures of Archibald & Jockabeb. Target age range for the books is between about 8 and 12 years old, although older kids and parents enjoy them also.
Collins has donated over $5,000 in books from the series to elementary schools in Mount Pleasant (Pinckney, Belle Hall, Jennie Moore, Whitesides, Mt. Pleasant Academy, James B. Edwards, Sullivan Island, and Trident Academy), as well as several CCSD Title I schools. All of the Mount Pleasant schools have included the books in their reading curriculum. All of the books have free professional study guides.
He is committed to helping to promote reading and literacy. The books are also part of Charleston's Reading Partners program. This program buys books and supplies volunteer tutors for struggling readers in the Charleston Country School District.
Visit www.theajadventures.com to learn more.
He is also scheduled to be at the Mt. Pleasant Barnes & Noble store on December 7th for a Meet the Author book signing.
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on December 28, 2012 - 1:53 AM
By Jessica Bauer Walker
Nelson Mandela said: "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
If this is true, then the soul of the City of Buffalo is in peril. Almost half our children live in poverty, with more than 20 percent experiencing "extreme poverty." Buffalo Public School graduation rates have hovered around 50 percent, with rates for black males in some schools in the 20 percent range. Buffalo students exhibit multiple risk factors, including high rates of sexual activity, exposure to violence and lack of a stable home environment.
The District Parent Coordinating Council is an association of parents in the Buffalo Public Schools who are fighting to change these statistics. The DPCC's primary objectives are focused on building partnerships and parent capacity, and making sure the district is accountable to its mission: "Putting children and families first to ensure high academic achievement for all."
The parents in the DPCC are diverse in demographics, circumstances and matters of opinion, but we have one thing in common: We are committed to all of our children. It is deeply troubling to us that some of our students are doing remarkably well in a small cohort of "good" schools, while the vast majority faces extreme adversity in the rest of them.
Despite the magnitude of our challenges, the DPCC operates from a place of strength. We believe that we as parents have much to offer our children and our schools. We provide critical information to parents about programs, services, rights and responsibilities; and we also advocate on a policy level to create change. The DPCC works actively with our teachers, administrators and the Board of Education. We have parent representatives serving in each school and on many committees and task forces throughout the district on issues such as health, special education, multilingual education and school budgeting.
While the DPCC prefers a partnership model, partnership requires various parties willing to work with each other in a spirit of cooperation. Too often, the Buffalo Teachers Federation, district administration and the Board of Education have placed blame on each other, and even on parents and students. In doing so, they have failed to fulfill their mission to put students and families first. In the process, tens of millions of dollars have been lost or squandered, creating a highly divisive environment in which our children continue to suffer.
As we enter the new year, the DPCC renews its commitment to work closely with students, parents, teachers and administrators to improve our schools. We urge everyone who cares about education to speak up, assume responsibility and demand accountability for the sake of the future of our children and of our city.
Jessica Bauer Walker is second vice president of the District Parent Coordinating Council in Buffalo.


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Dow Chemical Wants its Software to Work in the Field, Literally
By Jacob Bunge
Dow Chemical is betting that databases can help U.S. corn crops grow nearly as well as fertilizer.
The 116-year-old mainstay of U.S. industry is the latest company planning a push into so-called "precision agriculture" – a budding business that analyzes soil conditions, seed types and weather data to provide acre-by-acre instructions to farmers on what to plant where.
Dow, which sells seeds and insecticides through its AgroSciences division, is planning a pilot program for 2014 centered on a partnership with farm machinery maker Deere & Co., announced Wednesday. The idea is to incorporate crop data collected by participating farmers' Deere combines and send it to Dow, where analysts will match it up against seed types to suggest planting tactics.
"The end goal is to help the grower improve their yield," says Larry Robertson, global corn project leader for Dow AgroSciences. Mr. Roberson says Dow eventually may provide its recommendations through its salesmen or by beaming instructions automatically back to the farmers' machinery.
Seed and farm-technology companies are racing to roll out such data tools. DuPont, which has for years offered field-mapping services to farmers, last month struck its own partnership with Deere to bulk up its precision-agriculture offering, and Land O'Lakes Inc. earlier this month bought Geosys, a specialist in remote sensing and agricultural research, to expand its own seed and herbicide division.
Monsanto, the world's biggest seed company, made one of the sector's biggest bets on the idea in October with a $930 million deal to buy the Climate Corp., a San Francisco-based company that scours weather data to help farmers manage their fields. Monsanto already had been testing a service called FieldScripts, which uses soil-condition analysis to suggest how and where to plant seeds.
Farmers testing some of the new systems say the ability to do pinpoint planting has let them harvest more bushels of corn per acre, though industry experts say the services are still in their infancy.
"The ability to take data and information and transform it into insights has been pretty impactful in other industries," says Mike Boehlje, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "We're at the early stages now of putting that in place [in agriculture]."


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Ben Feinberg, Interim Deputy Director for Science
Although officially retired, in May I agreed to help the ALS part-time in light of Bob Schoenlein's new role helping to plan for a next generation light source at Berkeley Lab. As the ALS Interim Deputy Director for Science, I now have the opportunity to work with a different part of the ALS organization than I did previously: the ALS Scientific program. As many of you know, I have been with the ALS since its first day as an operating program, April 1, 1993. Over a 15-year period I have primarily played three roles: Head of (Division Deputy for) Operations, Deputy Division Director, and Division Deputy for Planning and Administration.
I am pleased to be working, once again, with the beamline scientists and the management of the Experimental Systems and Scientific Support Groups, and am happy to be working directly, for the first time, with the ALS User Services Group and with the many scientists who form our User Community. My primary goal is to help ensure that the research program at the ALS has the highest scientific impact, working with beamline scientists and user groups to achieve this goal.
In brief, this activity involves the work of many people – both within the ALS and from the two primary ALS scientific committees: the Proposal Study Panel (PSP) and the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The scientific vitality of the ALS is only maintained through the use of the peer review process of proposal evaluation and recommendations. I work with the User Services Office to organize external peer review and PSP evaluations of the ~300 new proposals that are submitted in each six month cycle, along with the Approved Program (AP) proposals. The PSP and the SAC meet twice each year, with the PSP focusing on General User (GU) and AP proposals, and the SAC providing important strategic advice and recommendations on the ALS scientific programs. Complementing GU access, I allocate Director's Discretionary time to provide limited access to beamlines in order to initiate new research directions or for compelling experiments that warrant rapid access. Please see Bob Schoenlein's Ring Leader column from June 2010 for further details on peer review at the ALS.
The SAC met this month, providing advice on the plans for beamline renewal – continuing the replacement of beamlines as part of our strategic plan. There was also a lively exchange of ideas regarding the microscopy review with strong interest in maintaining ALS leadership with soft x-ray spectromicroscopy. Among other items, the SAC received reports on our ongoing accelerator and beamline projects, and was pleased to hear from several beamline scientists on LDRD projects related to the Lab's Carbon Capture 2.0 initiative. The increasing need for computational support in data analysis due to the huge quantities of data generated by the newest, high-capacity detectors was also discussed.
Since I am officially retired, I try to spend most of my time doing research. I am working with a research program to measure the Electric Dipole Moment of the electron. This program currently has a discovery LDRD, headed by David Kilcoyne, in collaboration with Harvey Gould, Charles Munger, and George Kalnins, along with Hiroshi Nishimura. We are presently developing the technology to make the experiment feasible. In the actual experiment we plan to launch cold (micro-Kelvin) radioactive francium atoms in an atomic fountain through a strong electric field and look for changes in the atomic state of the outer electron as we reverse the field. The experiment builds upon the strengths of LBNL, since we plan to make use of expertise with permanent magnet devices (to efficiently slow and trap the francium), accelerator optics (to focus the francium beam), cold atom traps, and project management to keep track of the various activities as the collaboration grows.


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Outdoor recreation is a way of life in the western United States. Our newest Public Lands Report examines various approaches to recreation taken by public land agencies across the West and explores the ability of these different agencies to resolve competing recreational demands.
Terry Anderson
Tue, 12/15/2015
Analyzing nature and economies as static systems distracts our attention from the dynamic forces in both.
Shawn Regan
Tue, 12/15/2015
New paper in the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy explores the linkages between ecology and economics through the lens of Austrian economics.
Gregg Simonds
Tue, 11/24/2015
Ranchers navigate ecosystems of perpetual change.
Timothy Taylor
Thu, 07/10/2014
President Obama recently proposed a federal strategy to promote honey bee health. But an economic perspective may provide some lessons for the government task force.
Steven F. Hayward
Thu, 06/27/2013
President Obama unveiled drastic new regulations on Tuesday to curb greenhouse gas emissions. PERC board member Steve Hayward previewed the president's speech earlier this week on The Kudlow Report.
Wed, 05/08/2013
Spots versus stripes? Which do you prefer? Our federal government prefers spots and is moving forward with a million-dollar-a-year plan to remove 9,000 striped owls from western forests.
Matt Ridley
Thu, 02/07/2013
Paradoxically, economics has done more for nature than ecology has.
Ronald Bailey
Thu, 02/07/2013
Assessing humans' role in nature and the reality of wilderness
Roger Meiners, Pierre Desrochers, Andrew Morriss
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent...


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Okeechobee, Florida, may seem like a world away, but this month Louis "Woody" Larson of Family Tree Enterprises, the checkoff's 2012 Dairy Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) award winner, brings his dairy story a little closer to home by taking us on a tour of his operation in an effort to get to know his values and mission when it comes to producing safe, healthy dairy beef products. Read the full article in Progressive Dairyman magazine.
The Beef Checkoff Program was established as part of the 1985 Farm Bill. The checkoff assesses $1 per head on the sale of live domestic and imported cattle, in addition to a comparable assessment on imported beef and beef products. States retain up to 50 cents on the dollar and forward the other 50 cents per head to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board, which administers the national checkoff program, subject to USDA approval.


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Crowing about new attitude toward crows
I don't often watch nature documentaries on TV.
Watching a lion chase down his dinner puts me off mine. And even if it's a show about baby penguins, there's bound to be something snacking on a baby penguin or repeated previews for next week's dining-out-on-the-Serengeti show.
Like lions, those documentary filmmakers crave raw meat.
But for some reason, I flipped channels to PBS' "Nature" a few weeks back and wound up watching a program about crows -- sure enough including aerial combat with a cooper's hawk and more peckish hawks raiding nests. But by that time in the program, I was hooked.
These birds recognize and react to a particular person, make and use their own tools, and even reason their way through a computer program offering treats.
So where were they when my computer refused to offer me treats one quiet Saturday morning when all of the I.T. folks were flocking to the mall or the Peak?
Probably calculating how high to fly to drop a walnut onto the road so that the tennis-ball casing splits open without damaging the nut inside, according to the crow show.
And even calculating when to drop it, depending on the timing of the red, yellow and green lights on the traffic signal nearby.
Makes sense. What good is a ready-to-eat walnut if a Tim Hortons truck squashes it before you can swoop down and retrieve it?
Anyway, I'm now treating crows with respect.
I figure it pays to be nice to a bird that can do the math to drop a walnut from a sufficient height to crack my casing, or put out an ACB, or all-crows bulletin, across generations if I heckle or toss a shoe.
So now, when I walk to the car or go out for the paper or mail, I wave and say a cheery "hello" to the crows watching from a few stories up in my trees. So far, they mostly listen to my calls without comment, maybe while they consult their field guide.
Once they peg me as a North American empty-nester, I'm hoping for "hello" in return. I know that they have it in them, according to my mother, if not PBS.
A crow that used to hang around her childhood home learned to mimic "hello" and repeated it as regularly as an alarm clock outside her brother's room each morning, and kept it up until he got up and answered it.
That particular crow did other wonderful things but unfortunately met a tragic end. I'd tell you about it, but a crow might be listening.
And then it would pass the word, and there'd be hundreds of black-clad mourners in my trees, and maybe hundreds of available walnuts.
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The Depew School District had its highest graduation rate in years this June, at 87 percent, compared with the state average of 70 percent.
Of that number, 97 percent graduated with a Regents diploma including 44 percent with an advanced Regents diploma, Assistant Superintendent Susan Frey told the Board of Education on Tuesday night.
Frey and three principals gave an overview of student performance on state assessment tests this past school year and reported on new measures in 2012-13 to further improve those efforts.
These range from 90-minute daily literacy sessions at Cayuga Heights Elementary School to "My Big Campus" at the high school, an interactive program that includes teacher blogs that can be accessed by students at school and home.
The board also adopted a framework of goals for this year that includes continuing improvement of communication and partnerships with parents, residents, community agencies, businesses and town public officials. Depew includes parts of Cheektowaga and Lancaster.
The board also was updated by representatives of LP Ciminelli and Wright & Young Architects on the $15.9 million capital project.
Included is the relocation of district offices from the Terrace Education Center to the high school; an addition at Cayuga Heights; improvements to the bus garage; and renovations to music, art, science and special-education classrooms and the cafeteria at the high school and to classrooms at the middle school.
Some of the work in the two-year project is expected to be completed by November, including the new district offices.
Superintendent Jeffrey Rabey complimented both firms on their work, saying communication with the district has been excellent.
In other business:
. The board heard a presentation from Torrey Rueger, a member of Boy Scout Troop 352 of Lancaster, on the renovations to the Dream Garden at Cayuga Heights that he made this summer for an Eagle Scout project.
The junior at Depew High School said he and fellow troop members worked on the project that took about 470 hours from planning to completion.
He also said Cub Scout Pack 468 assisted with maintenance. Mulch was donated by the Lancaster Town Highway Department.
. Joseph D'Amato, principal of Depew Middle School, said an anti-bullying assembly will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday in the High School auditoirum.
The speaker is Mark O'Brien, of Marilla, a retired decorated Marine corporal who served two tours of duty in Iraq.


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Clooney is up for Best Actor for Michael Clayton, which was also nominated for its direction, screenplay and as Best Picture. Juno, meanwhile, is the little picture that could. The comedy about a pregnant teen scored a Best Actress nod for Page and is also in the running for top film, director and script.
Previous Oscar winner, for The Aviator, Cate Blanchett pulled a neat hat trick this year, earning a nod as Best Actress for Elizabeth and another as Best Supporting Actress, for I'm Not There.
Leading the pack, with eight nominations each, are Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Following, with seven nominations each, are Atonement and Michael Clayton.
Besides Clooney, the Best Actor nominees are Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah, Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood and Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises.
In the running with Blanchett and Page for Best Actress are Julie Christie for Away From Her, Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose and Laura Linney for The Savages.
Besides Clayton and Juno, the Best Picture nominees are Atonement, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
Overlooked in that top category was the Golden Globe best musical Sweeney Todd. Actresses who didn't make the cut were Helena Bonham Carter in that film, as well as Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray, Jodie Foster in The Brave One and, most glaringly, Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart.
Will There Be An Oscars?The big question, besides who will win, remains, will the Oscars even take place, or will they go the way of the low-rated Golden Globes, which on Jan. 13 replaced the glittery ceremony with a brief press conference to announce the results.
Oscar's future depends on results from the bargaining table where Hollywood writers and studio heads and producers seek to resolve the Writers Guild strike that began Nov. 5 and has crippled the industry.
Should the dust in the dispute settle and the show go on, the Oscars will air live on ABC Sunday, Feb. 24, from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
The Daily Show star Jon Stewart, who emceed the awards two years ago, is slated to host again this year, though on Monday the New York Post reported the Comedy Central star has no intention of crossing a picket line, if one still exists by Oscar night. A rep for Stewart did not return a request for comment.
On Tuesday, to show support for the writers, more than 30 award winners – among them, actors Blythe Danner and Celeste Holm and writer-actor Tina Howe – plan to gather in New York City to send a message to the industry: "Awards are nice, but we'd rather the writers get a fair contract." The Writers Guild of America East is behind the demonstration.
Speaking for the Academy, a rep told the Post, "We are moving forward with our plans to do the show at the Kodak Theater on Feb. 24 with 3,300 people in the audience and many millions watching on TV."
The major nominees are ...
Best PictureAtonement
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best ActorGeorge Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Best ActressCate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting ActorCasey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Best Supporting ActressCate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best DirectorJulian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Original ScreenplayDiablo Cody, Juno
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Ratatouille (written by Brad Bird; story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird)
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Best Adapted ScreenplayChristopher Hampton, Atonement
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood


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All-Lowcountry tennis performers Joel Roberts and Adam Elliget formed quite a 1-2 punch last year for Pinewood Prep. As a result, the Panthers were one of the top teams in all of SCISA.
But half of the tandem is missing as Pinewood Prep prepares for another season. Elliget has opted for home-schooling. Only a sophomore, Elliget is a two-time All-Lowcountry selection, just like senior Roberts.
The move appears to already be working as Elliget polishes his resume for college tennis. He won the boys 16 crown in a USTA Regional in Mobile, Ala., last weekend.
Cyclones challenged
Defending Class AAA SCISA boys champion Porter-Gaud appears to have its work cut out for it this season. Perennial finalist Hilton Head Prep and 2012 runner-up Hilton Head Christian still have a direct line to the island's nationally prominent tennis academies. The two Hilton Head schools just restock from the Smith/Stearns and van Der Meer academies when their star players advance to college tennis or move back home.
Christian lost No. 1 Nick Bybel to Bucknell, but 2012 teammate Hampton Drake is the No. 1 boys 16 player in the state. Also, Hilton Head Prep senior standout Andrew Schafer already has signed with South Carolina.
But Porter-Gaud has an ace newcomer itself in left-handed seventh-grader Bryant Fenno, who styles his game after Rafa Nadal with huge topspin. Coach Tom Higgins expects Fenno to be in the starting lineup. Fenno has the potential to have an instant impact on the Cyclones' title defense.
Reigning Lowcountry player of the year Thomas Spratt leads the way for the Cyclones, who are missing only Nos. 2 and 3 Junior Duarte and Hunter Mitchell from the lineup that won the 2012 state title.
Navarro, Mendez No. 1
Earl Navarro in boys 12 and Matthew Mendez in boys 18 are the area's only top-ranked players in the final 2012 state rankings.
Also in boys 12, Brant Fenno is ranked third and Sam Kavarana is ninth. In boys 14, Jared Pratt is third and Scotty Cameron is fifth. Alex Santiago is fourth in boys 16, followed by Adam Elliget at No. 5 and Palmetto Christian star Austin Heinz at No. 9. Thomas Spratt is fifth in boys 18, while Joel Roberts is No. 8.
In the girls rankings, Emma Navarro is second in 12-and-under, followed by Lillian Conant at No. 9. Porter-Gaud standout Ann Martin Skelly is fifth in girls 14. In girls 18, area resident Anna Kate Anderson is rated second, while Ashley Hall's Lowcountry player of the year Narni Summerall is fourth, and Catherine Martin is No. 7.
In the small-court 10-and-under rankings, Zachary Dacuba is fifth in boys, followed by No. 6 Stanley Waters and No. 10 Elliott Eischeid. In girls 10, Anna Golding is No. 2, followed by No. 6 Ava Middour and No. 9 Anna Thornton.
Charleston County School District Superintendent Nancy McGinley has been named tennis advocate of the year by Racquet Sports Industry magazine.
Anna Kate Anderson, whose family resides in Wild Dunes while she trains with Wild Dunes tennis director Charly Rasheed and LTP pro Martin Zumpft, has committed to SMU. Online-schooled, she finished 2012 ranked 11th in the South and No. 2 in the state in girls 18.
Reach James Beck at email@example.com. See his columns on pro tennis at ubitennis.com/english.


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Applying the DReAMT Model Transformation Approach in Two Studies
Siikarla, Mika
Publication type: Laitosraportti - TUT Publication series
Issue date: 2010
Citation: Siikarla, M. 2010. Applying the DReAMT Model Transformation Approach in Two Studies. Tampere, Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Ohjelmistotekniikan laitos. Raportti 11. 20 p.
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University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Ohjelmistotekniikan laitos – Department of Software Systems
Decision Reusing Approach for Model Transformations (DReAMT) is a lightweight approach for developing interactive model transformations. The approach consists of an iterative model transformation development process and the use of decision modeling. There is also a proof-of-concept tool set to support the approach. In this technical report we describe two studies where the DReAMT approach and tool were used. In the first study we developed a model transformation to be used as a component in a process modeling tool. In the second study we began to develop a model transformation to support the creation of model checking rules for a flexible modeling tool. The first study was carried out with Solita Oy and the second with Trinity research team from Tampere University of Technology. Evaluation of the studies shows that (i) the DReAMT approach can be used to develop model transformations; (ii) interactive model transformations are flexible; (iii) decision modeling makes automatic decision reuse possible; and (iv) the DReAMT tool can be used by people other than its author.
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