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Employee Reasonable Accommodation Policy
|Office of the President, Affirmative Action Office
|Affirmative Action Officer
Effective Date:
Review Date:
Implementation History:
|Revised on 01/01/2012; 07/15/2015 Created 04/21/2010
|ADA, Disabilities, Accommodation
Background Information:
SUNY Empire State College is committed to providing equal access to individuals with disabilities, including physical access to programs and reasonable accommodations for members of the college community.
SUNY Empire State College is committed to providing equal employment opportunity, educational opportunity, and equal access to services, programs, and activities for persons with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified employees with disabilities to enable performance of the essential functions of the positions for which they are applying and in which they are employed. Academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids will be provided to qualified students with disabilities when necessary to ensure equality of opportunity to complete academic requirements. The college's programs and activities will be accessible to all individuals, including both physical access and access to electronic media, such as software and Web-based applications.
This policy applies to all employment and educational practices and actions. It includes, but is not limited to, recruitment, application, examination and testing, hiring, training, grading, rates of pay or other compensation, advancement, discharge, and all other terms and conditions of employment and educational status. It also includes access to programs, services, and activities which may occur outside the classroom or office environment but which are an integral part of the college experience. This policy also applies to public access to college programs, services, and other offerings.
Legal Background
This policy is based on:
- New York State (NYS) Human Rights Law
- Section 503/504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended
- Americans with Disability Act (ADA), as amended
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 2008 (ADAAA)
- Executive Order 6
- Executive Chamber Memorandum, entitled equal Access to State Agency Employment, Programs and Services for Individuals with Disabilities, 1996
- Executive Chamber Memorandum Technology Policy 96-13 – Accessibility to Technology, 1996
- Technology Policy 99-3: Universal Accessibility for New York State Web Sites, 1999
Academic Adjustments
Modifications to academic requirements made to ensure that requirements do not discriminate or have the effect of discriminating, on the basis of disability, against a qualified applicant or student with a disability. Academic requirements that are essential to the instruction being pursued by the student or to any directly related licensing requirement will not be subject to modification. Modifications may include changes in the length of time permitted for the completion of degree requirements, substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements, and adaptation of the manner in which specific courses are conducted.
Auxiliary Aids
Actions taken or materials provided to ensure that qualified students with disabilities can receive the benefits of the educational program, regardless of impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills. Auxiliary aids may include audio or described taped texts, sign or oral interpreters, captioning or other effective methods of making orally delivered materials available to students with hearing impairments, readers for students with visual impairments, classroom equipment adapted for use by students with manual impairments, and other similar services and actions. Auxiliary aids do not include personal services or equipment, such as attendants, readers for personal use, or individually prescribed devices unrelated to the course of study.
Under the ADA law, a disability is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity (i.e. hearing, speaking, seeing, and walking) or a record of substantially limiting impairment, or someone regarded as having a substantially limiting impairment.
Under the NYSDHR, a disability is a physical, mental, or medical impairment resulting from anatomical, physiological, genetic or neurological conditions that prevents the exercise of normal bodily function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or laboratory diagnostic techniques, or a record of such impairment, or a condition regarded by others as such impairment.
Essential Job Function
Essential job functions include the fundamental duties of a position. A duty may be considered an essential function if:
- The position exists to perform that function
- There are a limited number of employees available who could fulfill that function and/or
- The function is highly specialized.
In determining whether a duty is essential, it is also relevant to consider that amount of time spent performing the function, consequences of not allowing someone to perform the function, written job description, work experience of people who are performing the job or who have performed the job in the past, and terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Interactive Process
This is a method by which and employee and employer explore whether reasonable accommodations can enable the employee to perform the essential functions of a position. The interactive process should involve open dialogue that allows for full participation by both employer and employee, in consultation with the Director of Collegewide Disabilities Services as requested by any involved party.
Qualified Employee with a Disability
An individual with a disability who can perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Qualified Student with a Disability
A student with a disability who meets the academic and technical standards requisite to admission or participation in the education program or activity, with or without the provision of academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids.
Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodations includes actions taken which permit an employee or applicant with a disability to perform the activities involved in the position held or sought in a reasonable manner provided that such actions do not impose an undue hardship or eliminate essential functions of the job. These include, but are not limited to, provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification or equipment, support services for persons with impaired hearing or vision, job restructuring and modified work schedules.
Undue Hardship
An undue hardship may include a significant disruption, expense and/or difficulty posed by an accommodation. The issue of whether a requested accommodation poses an undue hardship is based upon an individualized assessment of current circumstances regarding the position and accommodation. When a center/department is concerned that a requested accommodation will pose an undue hardship, it must proceed according to the procedure in this policy.
President, provost, vice presidents, deans, directors, department heads, and supervisors
- Provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to fully participate in employment and academic life.
- Provide reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and auxiliary aids as necessary and appropriate.
- Refer individual employees to the affirmative action officer or to the office of collegewide disability services, as appropriate, to address concerns regarding discrimination, harassment, accommodations, and other related matters.
- Ensure that websites, electronic media, online learning courses, and other electronic information and communications are accessible to individuals with disabilities.
- The cost of reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids is primarily the responsibility of the center/department in which the accommodation must be made. If cost considerations pose a hardship for a department, consult with the affirmative action officer to identify additional sources of funding.
Students, employees, applicants, and members of the public who require reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, or auxiliary aids
- Provide timely notification when a reasonable accommodation, academic adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid is required, according to the process in this policy.
Department Head and Supervisors
- Provide reasonable accommodations when requested; if there is a concern as to the appropriateness of an accommodation, refer the employee to the affirmative action officer.
- Consult with the affirmative action officer when there are questions about reasonable accommodations for an employee with a disability and/or when an employee is experiencing performance difficulties resulting from a possible disability.
- Implement the recommendations provided by the affirmative action officer when questions arise about implementation.
- Provide academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids upon request; if there is a concern regarding the appropriateness of the request, refer the student to the office of collegewide disability services.
- Implement the recommendations provided by the office of collegewide disability services once the student has provided appropriate documentation regarding their accommodation request and approval is received from that office.
- Consult with the office of collegewide disability services when there are questions about reasonable accommodations for a student with a disability and/or when a student is evidencing problems with meeting course requirements resulting from a possible disability.
- Consult with the office of collegewide disability services if there are concerns about implementing the accommodation memorandum
Members of search committees or other individuals involved in the hiring process
- Ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to interviews, and are referred to the affirmative action officer when they request accommodations during the interview process, in accordance with the procedures in this policy.
- Applicants may self-identify their disability status during the pre-employment stage, otherwise committee members should not ask about their disability status.
Members of admissions committees or other individuals involved in admissions
- Ensure that applicants with disabilities have equal access to the process and accommodations pursuant to the procedures in this policy.
- Ensure that individuals are not asked about their disability status during the pre-admission stage unless they self-identify and request reasonable accommodations.
Affirmative Action Office
- Administer this policy.
- Investigate allegations of discrimination and harassment.
- Coordinate reasonable accommodations for applicants for employment.
- Assist in handling complaints, including resolving conflicts or issues about the implementation of reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and auxiliary aids.
Office for Collegewide Disability Services
- Assist students with disabilities in identifying appropriate academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or reasonable accommodations.
- Coordinate services for individuals with disabilities, as described in the procedures in this policy.
- Develop and communicate accommodation recommendations.
- Facilitate the interactive process as necessary.
- Works closely with the affirmative action officer, when necessary, in identifying auxiliary aids and reasonable accommodations.
Procedure for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation
Application for Employment Process
- Individuals with disabilities (and disabled veterans) are invited to self-identify by indicating such during the application process, or later by completing a Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability. Submission of this information is voluntary. Refusal to provide it will not result in any adverse treatment.
- Applicants who require reasonable accommodations with respect to applying and interviewing, or any aspect of the hiring process, should contact the affirmative action officer to make arrangements.
- The affirmative action officer will not disclose confidential information regarding the applicant's disability and will only share information necessary to implement the request.
- The responsibility for requesting or initiating an accommodation request lies with the applicant. Upon receipt of the accommodation request, the Affirmative Action Officer will determine if an accommodation is appropriate, and if so, what the accommodation will be.
- It is normally incumbent upon the hiring center/department to cover the expenses related to an accommodation but options can be explored for other funding sources when resources are unavailable.
- Interviews and/or other steps in the application process that require and applicant's physical presence should be held at locations that are accessible to individuals with mobility impairments.
- Interviewers may not ask questions or make comments related to an applicant's disability. Interviewers may ask if or how applicants can perform the essential functions of a position with or without reasonable accommodations. If the applicant mentions during the interview that he or she has a disability that requires accommodation, the interview should state that the college provided reasonable accommodations, but should not inquire further as to the applicant's disability.
Process for Employee Accommodation
- Employees with disabilities who do not require reasonable accommodations are entitled to privacy with respect to their disabilities. If a supervisor or department head suspects that an employee's disability might be the cause of work-related or behavioral issues, the employee should not be questioned with respect to a disability or possible disability. Supervisors or department heads may ask such employees, in general terms, whether measures could be taken to assist the employee; further, supervisors or department heads may inform the employee of possible avenues of support and assistance.
- An employee who requires a reasonable accommodation for a disability may make a request directly to a supervisor or department heads, or may contact the affirmative action officer to initiate the process. If a supervisor or department head is notified by an employee that a disability and/or medical condition is causing difficulties with attending or performing the job, this should be treated as a request to initiate the interactive process to determine if reasonable accommodations are warranted.
- A supervisor or department head who receives a direct or indirect request for reasonable accommodations should initiate discussions with the employee to explore whether the employee is requesting assistance. If the employee's request can be easily accommodated and the supervisor or department head determines that medical confirmation of the disability is not required, the supervisor or department head may fulfill the request on an informal basis, without consultation with or approval from the affirmative action officer.
- If the supervisor or department head believes that confirmation of the disability is required, the employee will be referred to the affirmative action officer. The supervisor or department head may not request or review the employee's medical documentation, and should forward the documentation to the affirmative action office and/or a Human Resources (HR) representative, as appropriate, to consider the accommodation request. The employee will provide the affirmative action office with appropriate documentation to establish the disability, including the functional limitations of the condition and/or a clear explanation of the need for a reasonable accommodation, and to substantiate any recommendations for accommodating the employee. The department head will provide the affirmative action officer with information concerning the essential functions of the position and other information relevant to assist in developing a recommendation. A HR representative may also review an employee's medical documentation, as necessary, to verify the need for disability-related leave.
- The affirmative action office will provide a recommendation as to reasonable accommodations for the employee based upon information provided by both the employee and the supervisor or department head.
- An alternative accommodation to the one requested by an employee can be made if it can be determined that the alternative accommodation effectively allows the employee to perform the essential functions of his/her position, and provides the same privileges and benefits as those enjoyed by other employees.
- Complaints, disagreements, or issues concerning the provision or denial of accommodations should be brought to the attention of affirmative action office. An employee who has been denied an accommodation may appeal the decision in accordance with the college's complaints procedures.
Process for Students and Applicants for Accommodation
- Applicants for admission may not be asked if they have a disability, however students may voluntarily disclose. If applicant interviews are conducted, interviewers may not ask questions or make comments related to an applicant's disability. Interviewers may describe the requirements of the academic program, including practicum or residency requirements, and may ask applicants how they would fulfill these requirements. Individuals who request accommodations in the application process should be referred to collegewide disability services.
- Interviews and/or other steps in the application process that require an applicant's physical presence should be held in locations that are accessible to individuals with mobility impairments.
- As with employees, students with disabilities are entitled to privacy with respect to their disabilities. Mentors/Instructors should not question students about a disability or possible disability, and may not request medical documentation from students. Mentors/Instructors should not attempt to diagnose students whom they teach or advise, even when an instructor is professionally qualified to do so. A mentor/instructor may ask a student who is evidencing problems, in general terms, whether measures could be taken to assist the student; the student may be referred to collegewide disability services on a confidential basis.
- A student may make a request for an academic adjustment or auxiliary aid directly to a mentor or course instructor, their dean, or to collegewide disability services. If the mentor/instructor and student agree upon an academic adjustment or auxiliary aid, the mentor/instructor may provide this without referral to collegewide disability services. Otherwise, when a student discloses the need for an academic adjustment or auxiliary aid, the mentor/instructor, center or school will refer the student to collegewide disability services. The student's request may be a direct request for an academic adjustment or auxiliary aid, or may be an indirect request[1]. In the event that a mentor/instructor receives a request from a third party, the instructor will refer the student to collegewide disability services.
- Students who contact collegewide disability services to request academic adjustments or auxiliary aids may be required to submit medical or psychological documentation as necessary to substantiate the need for the academic adjustment or auxiliary aid. This documentation will be considered private. Collegewide disability services will issue a memorandum addressed to affected mentor/instructor of the faculty or staff which outlines the academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids that are recommended after a review of the accommodation request and pertinent documentation. The academic adjustment and/or auxiliary aid that is recommended could be the one requested by the student, or an alternative that will effectively permit the student's full participation in the course. It is the student's responsibility to provide the memorandum to their mentor/instructors, as necessary, to arrange to meet with mentor/instructors regarding implementation of the recommendations. A mentor/instructor should contact collegewide disability services for consultation whenever there is a question or concern about a recommended academic adjustment or auxiliary aid, particularly if the mentor/instructor believes that a recommended academic adjustment or auxiliary aid:
- would pose an undue financial or administrative burden
- would fundamentally alter the nature or purpose of the course, assignment, or test
- is inconsistent with essential academic requirements
- would reduce or alter academic requirements
- would substantially alter the method in which the course is taught or service is provided, or
- would pose a direct threat to the health and safety of the student or others.
If, after consulting with collegewide disability services, the mentor/instructor or college staff continues to disagree, the mentor/instructor may consult with the affirmative action office or academic authorities, but a mentor/instructor or staff member may not unilaterally deny a requested academic adjustment or auxiliary aid recommended in writing by collegewide disability services.
- Whenever possible, an academic adjustment will provide an educational experience that is comparable to that of the rest of the class. Students who require extended time on examinations should be provided with the same examination as their classmates, unless it can be established that a make-up examination or exercise is of the same degree of difficulty, form, and scope as the examination or exercise provided to the students' classmates. A different examination should only be administered in situations where:
- the student requires a different form of test or examination as an academic adjustment, and this will not fundamentally alter the nature or purpose of the test or examination and/or
- a scheduling conflict precludes the possibility that the student can take the examination or test at the same time as other students in the class, and the instructor is concerned about test security.
- Students who are performing work in clinical settings are entitled to reasonable accommodations, as necessary, to perform the essential duties of the clinical site. In the event that a student requires accommodations at a clinical site, the student should notify his/her mentor/instructor, who should assist the student in engaging in the interactive process with the clinical site.
- Students must provide timely notice of the need for an academic adjustment or auxiliary aid. Absent emergency circumstances, mentors/instructors do not need to honor last-minute requests for accommodation. Mentors/Instructors should consider disability-related emergencies in the same manner as any other emergency situation that would impact a student's ability to take an examination, or otherwise complete course assignments.
- Complaints, disagreements or other issues concerning the provision or denial of academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids should be brought to the attention of the affirmative action office. A student who has been denied an academic adjustment and/or auxiliary aid may appeal the decision to the affirmative action office in accordance with the college's complaints procedures.
[1] Examples of indirect requests include a statement to the instructor that the student is having difficulty in the class due to a disability or possible disabling condition, or other statements that give notice to the instructor that a referral to AR is appropriate.
Assistance from Committee
At the discretion of the Affirmative Action Officer, a committee may be convened to review any application and make recommendations on the disposition of an application. The committee may consist of the Affirmative Action Officer, Director of Facilities, Director of Security, AVP Human Resources, Director of Collegewide Disabilities Services, and a representative from the center or school.
Technical Assistance
The college may seek technical assistance from medical professionals, State or local rehabilitation agencies, or disability services to determine how best to address an individual's accommodation request once authorization is received.
Confidentiality, Use and Storage
All documentation will be held private and kept separate from personnel records. Documents are stored in locked files in the Affirmative Action Office. Documentation and reports from medical exams will be used to assist the Affirmative Action Officer in making an informed decision about the employee's request for accommodation but may be shared with appropriate members of the Office of Human Resources in situations involving disability leaves.
After a decision is made by the Affirmative Action Officer as to what is and is not appropriate accommodation, the employee will receive a written notification. The Affirmative Action Officer will notify the employee of the disposition of the request for an accommodation within two-weeks of receiving all necessary information including medical documentation, if appropriate.
Denial of Request Options
If the Request for Reasonable Accommodation is denied the employee or applicant has the right to the following options:
- Choose to accept the college's decision and end the process; or
- File an Internal Discrimination Compliant
If an individual who is requesting an accommodation believes that a decision to deny the request was based on unlawful discrimination they may filed a complaint using the college's official complaint procedures located at esc.edu/affirmative-action-office, or
- File Outside Agency Claim with State and Federal enforcement agencies:
At any time an applicant or employee may file a complaint of unlawful discrimination with an outside compliance agency. The college should be notified at the time the claimant decides to file with an outside agency. Such agencies include:
-- New York State Division of Human Rights at 1-888-392-3644, or www.dhr.ny.gov/how-file-complaint
-- Office for Civil Rights, New York Office, United States Department of Education 32 Old Slip, 26th Floor, New York, New York 10005-2500, Phone: (646) 428-3900
-- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at http://www.eeoc.gov/employees/charge.cfm
Applicable Legislation and Regulations
Related References, Policies, Procedures, Forms and Appendices
For assistance with this policy, applications, accommodations and appeals, please contact:
Affirmative Action Officer | Title IX Coordinator
2 Union Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518-587-2100, ext 2858
Students may contact:
Director, Collegewide Disability Services
1 Union Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518-587-2100m ext 2201


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Enough Already: 4 Forms of Gender Bias and 4 Ways to Beat Them
It's not the people who need to change. It's the business processes. So get reading and start beating sexism.
It's not the people who need to change. It's the business processes. So get reading and start beating sexism.
How do you reply when someone makes insensitive or obnoxious comments? Here's one founder's suggestion.
A female developer evangelist calls out a couple of misbehaving males for making sexist jokes at a conference, getting one of them fired. All hell breaks loose online. What lesson, if any, can we learn from this unsavory incident?
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
You're minding your own business pursuing professional enlightenment at a tech conference when two dudes behind you break out the frat house humor and start making jokes about 'big dongles.' What do you do?
Ellen Pao's lawsuit allows our community to discuss these "women in tech" issues as real problems.
By Cristina Cordova (Business Development, Pulse)
TechCrunch reported that Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao sued her firm for gender and sexual discrimination. A friend immediately told me "Well that's career suicide" and I can't say I didn't think the same thing. While few can comment on whether the allegations are true, this news does highlight some of the reactions the media and tech community have had to gender issues in the past.
Over the past few months, many have been engrossed in the Valley gender gossip on "brogrammer culture", sexist comments at tech panels and the general lack of women in tech. Many
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls' Network)
I almost don't want to write this post, because it brings attention to something I'd much rather be ignored. In the frenetic lead-up to the March 23 opening of The Hunger Games, there are articles about the movie's restrictive costumes, about its "futuristic Appalachian" soundtrack, about its similarities with a Japanese film called Battle Royale. But few of them focus on one key point:
The Hunger Games is about a girl.
And not just any girl. The main character of the movie (and the novels that came before) is a badass teenager named Katniss
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
In a much discussed BBC Video about CES 2012, a booth babe tells the reporter "I don't know any women [interested in tech]. I don't know any women that would choose the tech world over shopping or cooking or taking care of kids." Wait, is this really 2012?
Here is the CES Booth Babe Problem as articulated by Violet Blue:
"CES doesn't look much like a cutting-edge convention now that problems have emerged around the hired female models dressed in provocative outfits to be "booth babes"
By Sady Doyle (Staff Writer, In These Times)
Last week, tech and feminist blogs erupted with a startling story: Siri, the iPhone 4 app that responds to voice queries with pre-programmed or search-engine-based replies, refused to direct its users to abortion clinics.
Not only that: Apple's Siri seems programmed to respond to sexual or sex-related questions almost invariably as if the user were a certain kind of cisgender man.
If you tell Siri you've been raped, she wouldn't tell you to go to a hospital, or to the police; if you tell Siri you want
By Cristina Cordova (Business Development, Pulse)
What is this? Mad Men?
Penelope Trunk wrote another
ridiculously egregious article on VentureBeat about the "Woman Problem" in tech startups. She's written similar posts on Techcrunch before like Women Don't Want to Run Tech Startups Because They'd Rather Have Children and Why Diversity is Bad for Startups.
I've always wholeheartedly disagreed with her remarks about women in technology, but she's continued to push her views as guest posts on several of the blogs I read.
By Gene Marks (Contributer, Forbes)
I run a small technology firm. We do business with a lot of larger technology companies. I meet plenty of women in senior positions. But it's rare that I come across a female CEO. Why is that?
Look, I'm not surprised. I'm a guy. I know why.
Reason 1: One Friday night I picked up my teenage son at the movies along with four of his teenage friends. The ride home was filled with laughter, profanity, burps, flatulence and a few head slaps. It took a week for the smell to dissipate.

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Well I'm not a licensed health care provider (so please speak with your provider about the incident and do not take this as medical advice), but nifedipine is a calcium channel blocker, not a beta-blocker.
It has some of the same therapeutic effects, such as reduced blood pressure, so if you used far too much, that may have caused your episode.
The common side effects are dizziness, light-headedness, and hypotension.
If you're taking a beta-blocker such as propranolol in conjunction, the effects are compounded.
So, be careful and talk to your doc.


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Environmental Groups Lose Appeal of EPA 'Gold Mine Rule'
A Sierra Club lawsuit seeking tougher Environmental Protection Agency standards on emissions associated with gold mines was rejected by a federal appeals court, which found the agency properly limited its regulation to mercury pollutants.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled today that the EPA wasn't required to set standards for so-called fugitive emissions while developing the "Gold Mine Rule."
The Sierra Club and Desert Citizens Against Pollution sued the agency last year arguing that the EPA's explanation for failing to set controls on emissions from "tailings ponds, leach fields and waste rock pile" while developing the rule was arbitrary and capricious.
"EPA reasonably concluded that the record before it provided insufficient information about the quantity of fugitive emissions or available methods of controlling them," U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams wrote in the ruling.
Seth Johnson, a lawyer for the groups with the environmental organization EarthJustice, said the ruling means that harmful pollutants from gold mining, such as arsenic, cyanide, lead and chromium, will remain unregulated.
"There are people who live next to existing and proposed gold mines and this ruling is going to hurt them," Johnson said in a telephone interview. "We hope that states take note and do something about this."
The case is Desert Citizens Against Pollution v. Environmental Protection Agency, 11-1113, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Washington).


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Windows is generic until it configures itself to each motherboard. Each installation is specific to a particular motherboard.
With harddrives so cheap these days, what I would suggest is picking up a new harddrive also. Then, slave the old drives and extract from them any pertinent data.
However, it would be an excellent idea to make backups (burn some CDs or DVDs) with all data that you cannot afford to lose. It's also a good idea to have any programs and drivers you want on disk and ready to go.


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Battle of the boroughs
When it comes to music, is Brooklyn the epicenter of the scene or is Manhattan top of the heap? Two TONY Music writers square off.
Mon Aug 23 2010
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BIG IN BILLYBURG Music Hall of Williamsburg
"Brooklyn is band central"
Where have all the artists gone? Gone to Brooklyn, every one. Well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but over the past decade, the crazy cost of living in Manhattan has driven them across the water. There's also something about Brooklyn that's, well, inspiring. There are green spaces, and for all its mismatched, chaotic architecture, room to breathe.
Creatively, Brooklyn got a huge boon at the turn of the millennium, when the Williamsburg "scene" first began to blossom. Now something of a hipster's paradise, it was an industrial, depressed area when bands like TV on the Radio started making music here. And then the music just kept coming, from Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear to MGMT and Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, the National and LCD Soundsystem. Of course, these are all big names now, and areas like Williamsburg, Fort Green and Park Slope get fancier by the week. But head a little further out to, say, Bushwick or Red Hook and you'll find a thriving DIY bluegrass scene, plus improv gatherings galore.
And Brooklyn is synonymous with hip-hop—hell, Jay-Z got his name from the subway. More recently, the likes of Kid Cudi and Charles Hamilton have honed their sounds in the borough. Away from the bright lights of Manhattan, you can do what you want: relax.—SH
Sound check
Best big venues: BAM, Music Hall of Williamsburg
Best small venues: Knitting Factory Brooklyn, Jalopy Theater, S.O.B.'s
Listen to: Dirty Projectors, Charles Hamilton, Phosphorescent, LCD Soundsystem, Woods
"Manhattan has history"
Yes, in the myopic realm of indie rock, Brooklyn is king. In the past ten years, the number of rock bands to emerge with Manhattan addresses has slowed to a trickle, while the notion of a "Williamsburg band" has cemented into archetype. Yet are Brooklyn's musicians endemic to New York City—with its wit, glamour, gabbiness, ambition and edge—or simply young America? As the Manhattan rock elder David Byrne has pointed out, the impetus behind so much historic NYC music has been the geographic proximity of the island's inhabitants. This trait, unique to the central borough, demands an exchange of ideas involving artists of different mediums and backgrounds. It has yielded pretty snazzy results too: Tin Pan Alley pop (Irving Berlin), Harlem jazz (Duke Ellington), Greenwich Village folk (Bob Dylan), Bowery punk (the Ramones), international pop (Madonna).
Meanwhile, Brooklyn is essentially a driving town, with isolated pockets of artists marooned in unattached neighborhoods. Increasingly, its celebrated sounds are created by the young, the middle-class, the straight and, sadly, the sane. Besides, regardless of where musicians rest their heads, Manhattan remains the place to hear music, from downtown's weirdo dives and jazz haunts to uptown's iconic theaters.—JR
Sound check
Best big venues: Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall
Best small venues: (Le) Poisson Rouge, Village Vanguard, Bowery Ballroom, Cake Shop
Listen to: Nellie McKay, Adam Green, Regina Spektor, Marnie Stern, Justin Bond


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About Me:
Wife, daughter, Auntie, student, security guard
The goals I'm working toward:
- Losing around 115 lbs all together
- in school to become a Registered Dietetian
- Becoming a stronger, more confident me!
I haven't felt comfortable with my weight since:
I was about 9 or 10
My favorite healthy food:
Quinoa, apples, greek yogurt, edamame, carrots, hummus, chicken, fish, most fruits and veggies
My guiltiest pleasure:
chocolate! Trying to be choosy and only go for the good stuff :)
I'm inspired to live a healthy life because:
I want to grow old with my husband, be a healthy mom someday, and help others meet their goals.
Healthy habits that work for me:
- Eating lots of protein throughout the day
- drinking lots of water and hot tea
- taking a boot camp class at school so I have to work out at last 2x a week!
My favorite activity at the gym is:
Elliptical, but I also like doing yoga and DVDs at home, and I can't forget a good outdoor walk/run/bike ride!
The accomplishments I'm most proud of:
- completing a half marathon
- successfully becoming a grown up
- Going back to school for good


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Who do you cheer for now?
Posted 18 May 2010 - 11:45 PM
in that order, looks like the Habs and Shorks are done, but anything is possible as we have seen in these playoffs.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:41 AM
That's probably my order too. And I hate the current Flyers.
in that order, looks like the Habs and Shorks are done, but anything is possible as we have seen in these playoffs.
But I'd rather they win than the Hawks, at least as long as Kane is in the lineup. Though honestly I could live with the Sharks winning it all. It would suck at that moment, but I'd get over it pretty quick and I bet they wouldn't make it near the finals next year.
Plus it would be a California team winning, so the hype would die out pretty fast.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 09:56 AM
That's probably my order too. And I hate the current Flyers.
But I'd rather they win than the Hawks, at least as long as Kane is in the lineup. Though honestly I could live with the Sharks winning it all. It would suck at that moment, but I'd get over it pretty quick and I bet they wouldn't make it near the finals next year.
Plus it would be a California team winning, so the hype would die out pretty fast.
As opposed to Montreal....
"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings." - Steve Yzerman
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 10:06 AM
Haha I'm not sure what a crumb packer is but I generally agree. The fanbase seems to lack any rational perspective about themselves and the team. They aren't the greatest team to step on ice, the league didn't begin with the drafting on Jonathan Toews and you can't act like arrogant pricks and expect fans of other teams to show you support during the playoffs. I hope that if they win, they celebrate with dignity (just do the opposite of whatever Montreal would do) and realize you're now only 7 Cups behind the Wings instead of 8.
THISSSSSS. Went to a road Chicago game last year and psshhh you would have thought from a regular season win they just beat us for the Cup. Horrendous bunch of crumb packers. You just cannot talk rational hockey with them.
So hate on but guess what, I feel like I can't miss,
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 10:23 AM
Basically anyone but the Hawks. Since the Sharks have decided not to show up in the conf finals I'm hoping the Hawks implode in the finals and get swept by either Philly or Montreal.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 01:40 PM
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 01:44 PM
i'll probably just find something else to do
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 01:50 PM
if the finals end up being blackhawks vs. flyers
i'll probably just find something else to do
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:50 PM
I would just like to see chicago lose in the finals, For Hossa that would be 3 cup appearances in 3 years with 3 different teams and nothing to show for it!
This is all there is to root for at this point.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:35 PM
Edited by Electrophile, 19 May 2010 - 08:44 PM.
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:49 PM
Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:53 PM
But the diving really soured me on that.
Regardless, I would still prefer San Jose to win, and will continue to do so if they have yet another disappointment.
Screw the Hawks and their idiotic fanbase -the Flyers and Canadiens fans might actually be worse - but at least those teams are not composed almost solely of bandwagoners.
Honestly, as a fan, I do not think I would have appreciated those wins (finally) as much if they had come only a year after the Wings started to get good - say in 93 or 94.
In fact, I'm sure I would have been a hell of a lot more cocky and annoying to fans of other teams as well. I now appreciate the empire building that goes into a long, sustained franchise that has a chance each and every year.
"For my game, I don't need to score the goal," Konstantinov once explained. "I need someone to start thinking about me and forgetting about scoring goals."
Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:57 PM
I hate the Flyers, but I think they have the best chance of beating the Western team and they have less of really a "big story" I would be opposed to. My hate for them is more bland.
As for the Habs, I actually find myself oddly liking the team they have assembled starting with Cammelieri. Unfortunately, the worst thing about the Habs has been and always will be their fans. Absolute zealous morons with the booing of USA anthem and riots after WINS. Plus, they already have 23 cups, no need to add to that pomp.
The Sharks really rubbed me the wrong way with the diving all series. Thornton is still pathetic, only getting physical when his team is being blown out and he is throwing a Crosby (aka tantrum). Heatley just makes me sick as a hockey fan, imagine if he was touted as the missing piece (even though he has done jack these playoffs).
And finally, the Blackhawks would be the worst. Their fans have already crawled out from under their rock to all act like they never left the miserable franchise. I can't hate Toews, as much as I try. But the rest of the team is easy to hate. Byfuglien gets away with so much in the crease, Homer must just be just beside himself watching at home. Kane is a pathetic little worm and Quenneville should never win a Cup. Then we come to Hossa. Oh Marian, the third time is the charm, lost twice as a rental and picks a team to call home and wins it the very first year... Blackhawks
Edited by b.shanafan14, 19 May 2010 - 08:57 PM.
Posted 19 May 2010 - 10:19 PM
Babcock is lazy and he sucks!
Posted 20 May 2010 - 07:51 AM
Anybody except Chicago, honestly. I don't really wanna see Montreal win it just because of their annoying rabid fans up here but if it were Montreal vs. Chicago in the finals, I still wouldn't root for Chicago.
If it were Montreal and Chicago, I'd have to root for the Habs. Rather see them win it than the Hawks.
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 09:19 AM
I would have said I wanted the sharks to win but their series against the wings left a bitter taste in my mouth after all their diving and the lopsided penalties so I would hate to see the sharks win it. I ain't too fond of the hawks either so one of the 2 from the east would be preferable - probably the habs as they beat the pens and don't have pronger.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 09:27 AM
Edited by Chelichic, 20 May 2010 - 09:34 AM.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 09:55 AM
Never thought I would want a team with Pronger to win but considering whats left...
Flyers- Fans may be idiots but I respect them for supporting their team year after year regardless of how good they are or how bad they suck, and whats there to hate about the hockey they been playing this post season. Plus it would crush all the Penguins slappys if they won the cup
Sharks- IDK for some reason I just never liked them.
Habs- Their fans are arrogant douchebags that taunt their own players when they dont play well and the boo the US nation anthem, and they already have 20+ cups .Its basically like rooting for the Yankees to win the world series.
Hawks- Biggest bandwagon fans base in all of sports (Even bigger than Pittsburgh). Tend to be ignorant of the game, obnoxious and talk massive amounts of s*** without winning anything in half a century.
Edited by Original-Six, 20 May 2010 - 09:58 AM.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:23 AM
San Jose
Anyone but Hossa holding the Cup.
Ken Holland: Hes (Mursak) a young guy, provides energy, can skate, hes a puck hound.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 08:55 PM
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Different UniformsAlthough a vintage telephone booth is not involved with their transformation, in a classic Clark-Kent fashion, the U.S. Men's National Team keeps two very different uniforms hanging in their wardrobe.
An itinerary choke-full of games, conditioning, weights and practices is pivotal in training and competing at the national level. The constant thirst to rank among the world's best field hockey teams leaves only a few minutes on the clock for anything off of the turf. Despite the time constraints, members of the U.S. Men's National Team make sure they have just as much of a presence on a corner as they do in a cubicle. Their chosen career paths outside of field hockey keep their schedule anything less than easy.
"While I do everything I can to try and improve my game on the field and acquire once in a lifetime opportunities and experiences through hockey, I equally strive to complete my studies in a timely manner," U.S. Men's National Team member, Will Holt says. 'Whether that's studying for my classes on the plane or in the hotel room, my dedication to receive a degree from a major university is very high."
Holt will be attending the University of Louisville in the Fall of 2012 and is on track to earn a Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Performance with a Concentration in Exercise Science. His aspirations of becoming a Physical Therapist, Strength and Conditioning Coach for a DI program, or the field of Sports Science research, keep him focused off of the field. In addition to his studies, Holt will also be assisting the Louisville Field Hockey Team, which permits him to continue training while away at school. But achieving academic success is not a one-man team. Although U.S. Men's Field Hockey Coach Chris Clements guides the team to greatness on the pitch, the players have yet another coach in the classroom
"I have to thank almost all of my professors for being most supportive of my
field hockey aspirations," U.S. Men's National Team member, Steven Mann says. "I have been able to submit work via email from the training center or competition venue and have been exempt from attendance for several classes."
The professors even follow the team's progress online – supporting the U.S. field hockey team wherever their games may take them. And for Mann, his passion for the game and the drive to excel in the field of corporate law, especially mergers and acquisitions, has taken him around the world. Currently, Mann is studying to pass the Bar Examination in Berlin, Germany. Prior to this, he obtained his masters degree at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in Paris, France. Though the team is spread all over, the sometimes excessive transatlantic flights the athletes take don't affect the cohesiveness of the team.
"My heart is split between California (Moorpark) and Berlin, where I am currently living," Mann says. "Obviously my geographic location makes it hard to see my teammates very often, but I try to fly there as much as I can. I regard all of my teammates as friends, and I've known most of them for a while now; somehow it just feels natural when I see them again, even after a considerable time apart."
Although some members, like Mann, chose to chase after their aspirations abroad, U.S. Men's National Team member Jon Ginolfi stays closer to the training center in Chula Vista, CA. Ginolfi landed a spot on the marketing department with the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego where he goes from organizing the middle field at practice to organizing a flash mob for guests as they enter the Hilton lobby.
Pursuing an alternate career path outside of field hockey creates scheduling obstacles but the thought of future success is worth the juggling act.
"I feel that my career will always be there and if I am taking the appropriate steps to set myself up after hockey then it was all worth it in the end," say Ginolfi.
Despite the various locations and various aspirations each player has, being on the U.S. National Team has given all of the athletes an edge in pursing their desired occupations. The players already polished team-orientated mindset and mental toughness from field hockey assists the athletes to reach and exceed their different goals at work.
Even the players transportation methods to work vary. While most fight through stoplights and crowded streets to make it to the office, Ginolfi fights through the waves of the San Diego Bay to get to work. In an effort to go "green," Ginolfi bought a paddleboard to travel to work.
"People talk about their morning commute and traffic all the time," says Ginolfi. "My version of traffic is dodging a destroyer battle ship or a big tanker. I get a lot of disbelieving looks. I laugh every time I get in that water because I never know what I will go up against that day."
Not willing to sacrifice their work attire or their national uniform, the athletes are driven to uphold excellence in field hockey and at the office. Being a part of the national team is a tremendous experience worth the double-digit hours spent flying across the Atlantic and scrambling to finish essays in between tournaments.
"It doesn't look too bad on a resume either," says Holt.
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97. Mark Trumbo, DH, Angels: He's hitting his prime years.
98. Alejandro De Aza, OF, White Sox: I expect a little more pop this year.
99. Garrett Jones, 1B, Pirates: The guy gets no respect.
100. David Freese, 3B, Cardinals: Solid, but unspectacular player to draft.
101. Derek Jeter, SS, Yankees: Will he bounce back or will the injury slow him down?
102. Alfonso Soriano, OF, Cubs: Any upside in a 37-year-old with weak average? What if power drops?
103. David Ortiz, DH, Red Sox: How many at-bats do you expect? If you think he'll get 500, move him way up.
104. Coco Crisp, OF, A's: Steals, steals, steals.
105. Mike Napoli, 1B, Red Sox: Has the power, but the injury history.
106. Yonder Alonso, OF, Padres: Moved-in fences at Petco helps, and he has upside.
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108. Jayson Werth, OF, Nationals: Is he Werth it? Love that pun.
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So I planted turnip seeds in late August and they came up in a few days-very rewarding. I had empty space from harvesting potatoes so I thought I would try a cool weather crop-I think that's what turnip is. Am I likely to get turnips in fall and winter? My experience with them in the past is always that they bolt and I have never harvested a turnip. Someone told me they have a special mineral requirement but I don't remember what that was. If you have any advice for me I would love to hear from you.
I find that turnips are the last root crops that can be planted in my area (Maine) and climate (cool). Your conditions, however, are most likely different. If they've bolted on you in the past, you might try planting a few short rows staggered over three weeks and see which row, if any, works best. Take note of your results and use them in planning next year's planting schedule.
Hi, Turnips (Brassica rapa) are in the cole family & can be sown when other cole plant seeds are sown.You may have some aphid & caterpillars, checkout "Garden Pest" Group on how to stop them. The seeds should be sown in a loose friable loam. Good drainage is a must, irrigate in dry soil( should not be a problem for you). Turnips like moderate fertility for best crop. The optimum pH for turnips is 6.0-6.5. I always till the bed, then spread lime pellets, then rake the bed flat, BEFORE sowing the turnips. One year I raked after I sowed the seeds. NOT ONE came up. I though I had bad seeds untill another gardener told me that the seeds will not come up under too much soil. That is after they had a big laugh ( seems alot of people plant turnips to deep. You can stew the greens & freeze them, Pickle the roots or freeze them. Here in the south we leave them in the garden until we need them, then dig them up. I like them raw too. In zone 6 & up, I think, you will have to mulch them or put them in a root cellar.
One year I had more than enough turnips to experiment with. So I used a plastic trashcan and put a layer of hay and then a layer of turnips all the way to the top, making sure the hay was added last. Had a few air holes for ventilation and let the lid just sit on the top. Stored it in an unheated garage. Turnips lasted for months, though they did start to sprout a few leaves. I left the roots on and about 3 inches of the leaf stems. They had enough moisture to stay fresh on their own. I just took out what I needed and covered them back up !! Even had a couple of freezes and they were OK !!
Turnips like most root crops always do best when directly sown in the ground. As soon as the tap root hits the bottom of a pot or seed tray then they are likely to bolt later on.
Hi Patti It is unlikely that they did not germinate, unless your seed was old. It is more likely that they were grazed off by the slugs when they were seedlings, and you did not see them. It could be as Joel suggests that you sowed too deep. Remember seeds should only be covered by their own depth of soil, which is not a lot. I collect 2 litre fizzy pop bottles. Cut off the top and bottom to make a clear plastic cylinder [4" diameter and 10" long]. Push these into the ground vertically along the row of seed. These act like small plastic greenhouses which will keep the roving slugs at bay. Some slugs may come up out of the soil. If you have these you will have to sprinkle some organic slug killer into the cylinders. You could also buy some slug killing nematodes [Nemaslug or similar] to water on in the spring. I use these cylinders for all transplanted vegetables as well, as they keep the cold spring winds off the small tender plants. Good Luck Glenn
You said your turnips did not make, only the green parts? There are several varieties that make no roots,, only the tops ! I got those by mistake one year. I just got through sowing winter greens and if your soil is fairly loose, sprinkle them on top of the soil and water them in !! The water hitting them from the sprinkler will cover them enough !! This is what I do each year. Best type to plant are purple tops and the shogoin variety. These produce large turnips as well as greens.
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Second Annual Graduate Conference, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom - 17th May 2013
Keynote speaker: Jonathan Harris, Professor in Global Art and Design Studies and Director of Research for the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art and Design Media at the University of Southampton.
Call for Papers (Deadline: 1st March, 2013):
In the postwar period, maps have become increasingly common as an artistic medium, but this rise to prominence emerges from several distinct historical trajectories.
One important lineage is that linked to Conceptual Art and its legacy, where the map, like the diagram, has been used as a figure of social abstraction, raising questions about the space and its representation as well as art and communications technology. Elsewhere, groups such as the Situationist International and certain strands of performance art have been concerned with the production of art (or anti-art), in or as 'real space', something that pushes the boundaries of mapping and perhaps art practice to their limit. In such practices, maps have been an important means of producing, documenting and disseminating activities, whilst tactics of counter-mapping have been used to question representational hegemonies, even representation itself. Equally many artists have sought to contest what is at stake in mapping from a postcolonial standpoint – to redraw maps or to erase them altogether.
These are only some of the many engagements with map-making in postwar art. This conference will seek to both examine localised examples of such practices, but also to enquire after, and draw out, potential common threads. In more recent years, changes in technology, for example satellite navigation and locative media, and transformations in the (geo)political landscape have significantly impacted upon map-making practices. As such we are also particularly keen to consider contributions on recent and contemporary developments.
We invite abstracts of around 300 words for 20 minute papers, along with a short 50 word bio, by the deadline of 1st March 2013 to email@example.com
Submissions from graduate students and researchers working within art history and related disciplines are encouraged.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Maps and Land Art
-Maps as documentation
-Postcolonial mapping
-Maps in Conceptual and post-conceptual art
-Psychogeography and Situationist Maps
-Maps and performance
-Mapping power relations
-Exhibition maps
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-Maps in painting
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I first started CrossFit in a last ditch attempt to prepare for my first increment of USMC OCS in the summer of 2008. I was able to put a month of training with Damon before I shipped out; and I believe it was critical to making me more physically fit, flexible, and especially mentally tough to make it through the training and get through without injury. I had new found stamina in the more functional challenges such as the obstacle course, endurance course, and aptly named stamina course.
I resolved to stick with CrossFit and the next summer when I went for the second 6-week increment I completely abandoned my run heavy prep in favor of the programming at Wasatch CrossFit and cut my total mileage to a quarter of the running I did the year before (made mandatory by the recruiter).
If I had any doubts about the effectiveness of CrossFit they were quickly erased. I PR'd my 5k time when I arrived in Virginia (at sea level), beat my previous obstacle course time by 15 seconds (where you only two minutes to negotiate the course before failing), and achieved a high score on the new CrossFit inspired Combat Fitness Test. I know when I commission next summer and report to my next training course I will be physically and mentally ready.
I rely on CrossFit to keep me mentally sane, with my fulltime work and fulltime school schedule. Being able to keep fit with only 3-4 hours of training a week with great coaches and friends, and still attaining new personal records is amazing.
I keep coming back not only for the physical results, but for the mental challenge, there is something about finding out just how tough you are in the middle of a WOD, I usually tend to not like what I see, and I know I have a long way to go. There is a leadership trait that says "know yourself and seek self improvement" I am trying to do just that.
My goals are to keep attacking my weaknesses and be a better father, husband, Marine, and athlete; I believe CrossFit is helping me to obtain them.


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Skip to comments.LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)
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China will never go down, and don't think you can banish communism. Because the people won't let it. They know they are the last standing, they are the only ones left. America is in a decline while China's climaxing, America will go down. We are just done with our prime, if anything, we were going into a depression since 1992 (and don't say you don't know that year). Communism is the American's medias' worst nightmare, because of censorship. I hope we all have to read one newspaper and wipe my butt with one brand of tiolet paper. I hope we all die for our next generations to wear the red armband. We deserved 9/11, and they enjoyed it. You probably hate me now, I know, you just still think like its 1945, well too bad its 2005. We only stand to fall.
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I'm doing okay. Busy corralling noxious germs, but otherwise okay.
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Hello tulip!!
Good afternoon tulip and all!!
I have been in and out a lot! Looking for a beach house to rent for our spring vacation. It's always a puzzle! LOL
Hope everyone's having a good day!
Good luck with that. :-)
Hi, IT. How are things? :-)
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What? Are we all waiting for tomorrow? Moving Day?
Tomorrow isn't just moving day... :-)
It's not?
"A Cozy Cottage by the Sea" always sounds good until you read that it's a 2 BR with nothing bigger than a full sized bed and is really about 3 blocks from the beach. With 4 kids that ain't gonna work -- and we like to stay right ON the beach. I have learned the "Steps away from the beach" is usually more like a couple of blocks. It would be ok, except that sometimes we like to be on the beach while the youngest naps. I'm not comfortable doing that if I'm more than just a few feet from the house! :o) I've looked at more homes on the internet on more different beaches this year since our favorite place got wiped out a couple years ago by Ivan and the rebuilding got knocked out last year by Dennis.
Nope. There are other things that will be going on. :-)
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I'm good -- just doing about 14 things at once. I think I need some serious caffeine -- I am dragging! LOL
Actually, hot cocoa is better for you than coffee...as far as a "pick-me-up" is concerned.
Mmmm -- now THERE'S a thought!! :o)
You are multiplexing!!
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My chosen drink is Bigelow English Teatime. *sigh*
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You do realize you can borrow one of the Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines for a short trip, provided you have qualified as a pilot in it. (That requires a training session similar to familiarizing yourself with a new video game.)
I'm anticipating that after we arrive in Mars orbit, a small contingent will want to head further out to the asteroids to look around. We'll need a very careful flight profile listed for that, because of differential orbital speeds, but a proper plan will be authorized.
I'm assuming that not everyone will want to go down to the surface of Mars, and many will be content to remain in orbit above it.
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I've never stayed near a beach before. I'm sure it will be fun!
I wouldn't mind going to the asteroids. As long as you leave a trail of crumbs for me to find my way back...:o|
We had some property on the beach in Washington , but my late ex- sold it. (Another reason he was my ex...)
The kids and I went there every weekend, even in winter. It was a lot of fun.
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You might not envy me the pay...since it's mostly volunteer work...today I was cataloging articles from the early 70s when they were learning to do satellite analysis of environmental things, like tree health.
You could live here...105 days without rain and counting...unusual for here.
Oh my -- really?? It's not a vacation for me if I can't listen to the waves! :o)
The pay would be good, too...at least I would learn something new. *sigh*
I know!! Someone posted it to me when I had Jake and I LOVED it -- and of course stole it (with permission!) LOL!!!
The trip to the asteroids would be interesting, but rigorous. We could tether some shuttles together for artificial gravity, but chances are most of the time among the asteroids will be in zero or very low gravity.
You never know what you might find, of course, but one would most likely find just rocks.
The crew cabin on the Shuttle-Thrusters, (the Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines), is spacious and well-equipped, but some privation should be expected.
The concept of the Zero-Gravity Toilet is brought forth as a reminder.
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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has a rule in its spas: Use "our 'spa' voice," says Marcie Lieberman, Rosewood's senior director of operations. It applies to all the children who come for services including the "Lily Complexion Perfecting Facial" (For ages 9 to 13. Price tag: $60) and the mani-pedi for kids as young as five (Price: $75).
At Resorts, Catering to Young Visitors
Luxury hotels are boosting efforts to cater to their littlest guests. Hotels say they are responding to increasing demand for kid-friendly services from travelers, who are bringing their wee ones to high-price hotels in never-before seen numbers.
The rise of later-in-life childbearing—when more couples have the money to travel—is playing a role. So are baby boomers who organize, and often pay for, trips with children and grandchildren.
"Getting to the hearts of kids is the most powerful way to get to the hearts of parents," said Mark Novota, managing partner of the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club, a 120-room resort in Chatham, Mass., that opened a new children's center in 2009.
The new efforts go far beyond coloring books at check-in and teddy bears at turndown. This month, Rosewood San Miguel de Allende in Mexico launched a "Little Picassos" program that has children study the work of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso and then create their own pictures. Last year, Rosewood launched a children's program, Rose Buds, that incorporates elements of the Montessori approach to educating young children at its 17 hotels world-wide. The hotels also began stocking baby monitors and toddler bed rails.
Last week, Hyatt Hotels Corp. H 1.24 % unveiled a new children's menu, including a three-course meal developed by the chef Alice Waters. Among the new dishes: "market fish with couscous, vegetable slaw and orange-mint relish."
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- Kids can sail on a 'pirate ship' and get free twicedaily pool-side ice cream at the Wequasset Resort and Golf Club.
- Kids got their own spa menu earlier this year at many Rosewood hotels.
- Adult-style meals for kids at Hyatt hotels include one developed by Alice Waters.
- Toddlers can get a 'Princess Fizzy Pedicure' at the Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas.
- For babies, Mandarin Oriental is stocking strollers and organic crib sheets
- Kids ride in a Rolls-Royce with uniformed driver at several Peninsula hotels.
In the fall, Esperanza, an Auberge Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, will allow kids to "adopt" baby sea turtles and release them onto the beach.
Kids' clubs that aim to give parents coveted grown-up time have been features of family-friendly brands such as Club Med and many midprice hotel chains for years. Catering to children is newer for many luxury hotels, especially city ones, which focus on affluent couples and business travelers.
The efforts are also much more elaborate: The cooler the kids' club, of course, the less potential parental guilt at ditching the little ones for an adults-only lunch or snooze by the pool. And while services for infants and toddlers used to end at baby sitting in guests' rooms, the new efforts include a lot for the sippy-cup set.
Earlier this year, the Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas in the Caribbean launched a spa menu for children as young as 2. Toddlers can have the "Princess Fizzy Manicure or Pedicure" (for $35 or $45, respectively).
Kara Sigler is just back from a weeklong summer vacation at the Wequassett in Cape Cod. Already, she's planning a return visit next year—and the year after that and the year after that. She's not usually such a planner. But the 8-year-old enjoyed free twice-a-day ice cream by the pool and kid-sized breakfast buffet (with eye-patch-wearing pirates).
"There's a big screen that comes down and we were playing Wii and Xbox" in the kids' club, says Kara, who lives with her parents and two brothers in Waterford, Mich.
At the Wequassett, 2- to 4-year-olds have their own abbreviated kids' camp from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. "I was kind of surprised they took him so young," says Shelly Sigler, mother of Kara and Dean Jr., 11. While her youngest son, 3-year-old Mason, attended the toddler program, Ms. Sigler slipped in a walk by herself.
With all of the focus on children, what about couples who don't have them? Or who are vacationing without them? Many resorts, of course, have adults-only pools. And even the most kid-friendly luxury places try to calm the potential chaos.
The Wequassett unveiled an elaborate kids' breakfast buffet in a walk-in pirate ship this month to "diffuse what can be a chaotic family-friendly dining room," says Mr. Novota. The ship can be set up in a room away from the main buffet.
Mr. Novota says on a handful of days when the resort has had a lot of children, it has opened a second restaurant for adults-only breakfasts. It is considering making that option permanent during the high season.
About 57% of travelers said that having a kids' club or family activities was "extremely or very desirable" in a travel destination, according to a 2011 survey of 2,539 leisure travelers by marketing and research firms MMGY Global and Harrison Group. That was up from 49% in 2010. And 45% of travelers in the 2011 survey said children were involved in planning their vacations.
Earlier this year, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group started training employees on the stages of infant and child development so staff members would know "what age do we offer a high chair," for example, says Anja Luthje, corporate director of rooms. (Hint: Not to the parents of a 3-month-old who can barely lift up her head.) Another tip: Be careful about offering a stuffed animal to a 12-year-old. "They could actually be offended," says Ms. Luthje. By next year, all Mandarin hotels will stock organic crib sheets and mattresses, as well as strollers.
Hotels may find it tough to impress children—especially those who frequent luxury hotels. "We have to offer something special," says Robert Cheng, vice president of marketing at Peninsula Hotels. "Kids today can be pretty spoiled."
Peninsula has found one thing that is sure to wow even the most jaded young guest: A spin in the house Rolls-Royce.
On a recent morning at the Wequassett, nine children ages 4 to 9 and three counselors were on board the resort's boat as part of the four-hour "Treasure Island" kids' club activity. They were looking for a treasure map floating somewhere in Pleasant Bay.
"All right, mini-crew, we're heading East," said Chris Samartino, the boat's 37-year-old captain, outfitted with an eye-patch and rope belt. "That way, that way," said Natalie Brooks, age 7, from Boxford, Mass.
Sidling up to a buoy, Mr. Samartino reeled in an inflatable box with the laminated map inside. A big X marked the goal. A little later, the kids dug in the sand on the resort's beach and found a box with faux silver and gold coins, redeemable for candy in the gift shop. The price tag for a four-hour session is $60 per child, including lunch. On some days in summer, the camp fills up and kids are turned away.
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Huda Zoghbi was enrolled in medical school at American University in Beirut when war erupted in Lebanon in 1975. When she went home after her first year, fully intending to return to school in the fall, she learned that her younger brother had been hit by shrapnel. He wasn't badly injured, but Zoghbi's parents decided to send her and her brothers to stay with relatives in the United States for the summer. The war escalated, she could not return home, and she transferred to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Zoghbi was nearing the end of her training as a pediatric neurologist when she met a young patient who changed her life. The five-year-old girl had developed normally until she was 18 months old, but now she had seizures and balance problems, constantly wrung her hands, and could not communicate. Unable to offer the girl's parents any answers, Zoghbi set out to find some. She studied molecular genetics and dedicated her career to research.
Sixteen years later, Zoghbi's team at Baylor College of Medicine identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Rett syndrome, the enigmatic disease Zoghbi first encountered in 1983. She later found that mutations in that gene, MECP2, can cause neurological problems beyond those typical of Rett syndrome and showed that the protein it produces is critical for mature neurons to function in the brain.
An HHMI investigator since 1996, Zoghbi now runs a lab that studies neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration from several different angles. Many neurodegenerative diseases – including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's – are caused by the buildup of toxic proteins in the brain. Zoghbi's lab showed that the rare disease spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA1) is caused by the toxic protein ataxin-1. That research has had broad implications for the understanding of this class of diseases as well as for neurobiology.
Drugs that clear toxic proteins from the brain might improve symptoms in patients with such diseases. So with a Hughes Collaborative Innovation Award from HHMI, Zoghbi recruited a team of scientists with genetics and neurobiology expertise to explore an ambitious new approach to discovering targets for potential drugs. The strategy led the researchers to a signaling pathway that, when blocked, prevents the buildup of ataxin-1 in nerve cells, fruit flies, and mice with SCA1 – a starting point for developing therapies.
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O'Connell Street, Ennis
John Grenham
I was recently sent a book called O'Connell Street, Ennis, written by Larry Brennan and published late last year. (Sending me books is always a good way of getting my attention, by the way). It contains some of the usual features you would expect– a chronology of the town, accounts of some of its most famous events, a collection of 19th-century photographs. But by far the biggest section is an extraordinary house-by-house account of the street itself.
The author has painstakingly reconstructed the life story of every single building on O'Connell Street, using a wonderful range of sources. He takes a description of the current physical structure, apparently from the local council planning department, matches the present O'Connell Street address to the pre-1911 Jail Street address, adds any mention of the building from historic local newspapers, lists all the inhabitants, working from the register of electors in the year 2000 back 180 years though census records, commercial directories, and valuation revisions, and then tops the entry for each building with a vintage photograph. It is obviously a labour of true love and stands as a model of genealogical and local history. For anyone who knows the present street, an entire new dimension must be made visible.
The co-publisher, the ever-energetic Clare Roots Society, is also running a conference the week after Easter, nicely titled "Gathering the Scattering", with a stellar line-up of speakers including Catriona Crowe, Steven Smyrl, Fiona Fitzsimons, Michael Gandy and Peter Higginbotham. Peter is the man who knows more about the history of workhouses than anyone on the planet (see workhouses.org.uk) and his talk on its own would make it worth attending. And if my experience of last year's conference is anything to go on, the social side of things will be also be a big attraction. The conference brochure is at tinyurl.com/b4r8t6u.
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Fiery Najwa Karam kicks Tony Anqah to the curb
Things had gotten ugly between Najwa Karam and Tony Anqah. The Lebanese diva kicked the guy heading her band to the curb, firing him after 20 years of working together.
While that may seem a bit harsh, we can kind of understand why. After returning downtrodden after a not so great performance at the Mawazine Festival, things went downhill quickly between the two.
According to Sayidaty.net, sources say that Tony began crossing the line of respect with Najwa, repeatedly using foul language, regardless of the fact that she treats him as family and not a colleague.
If he ever wants to work with her again, and we're not sure that she'll let him, he'll know where she draws the line.
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Coup De Grace
One imagines that during the end of the Russian Civil War in 1919, interpersonal relationships were probably the least of most people's worries. However, director Volker Schlondorff manages to turn one of the 20th century's most important events into a version of "Men are from Latvia, Women are from the Ukraine."
Taking the idea that women like "bad" boys a little too far, "Coup De Grace" has an aristocratic young woman (Margarethe von Trotta) falling for a Prussian soldier who has all the personality of tepid Borscht. The more this guy appears to not want to have anything to do with the woman, the more the woman wants him. To make matters worse, they're on completely opposite sides of the political spectrum, so it's kind of like watching Hillary Clinton desperately pining for Wayne LaPierre.
Whether it's to attract attention or simply to get her rocks off, the woman spirals into bouts of depression and promiscuity. Naturally, this gets the soldier to begin paying heed, and eventually he sort of blows his top and admits his love for the woman. At this point, just about everybody in the film seems pathetic.
As one might expect, the political struggle eventually comes to the forefront in a feat of coincidental timeliness. Symbolically, the State turns out to be the winner and the audience, the loser.
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lithium ion batteries for power
Hello All
Just a quick question from a noobe. Can anyone give me some info on why you shouldn't or can't use lithium ion batteries instead of lipo batteries.
I have a drill motor that uses a lithium ion battery (12V) and it just need to be plugged into the charger that came with the drill for 30 minutes to recharge it. It's seems like much less of a hassle to recharge them than it is a lipo, where you have to worry about all sorts of things like fires, overcharging, balancing, over-discharging, etc. The battery that the drill uses is 1.3Ah and is fairly light in weight at only 190 grams. It seems logical to me that if the lithium ion battery will power a large, high torque, drill motor, it should also be able to power 4 little brushless motors for a decient amount of time without all the hassle involved in maintaining and charging lipo's. I know that discharge time is involved but the drill can be used for what seems like hours before it needs to be re-charged.
Before anyone starts to talk about constant running time for the 4 motors and the on/off running time of the drill, and the voltage difference between a 3s lipo at 11.1 volts and the 12 volts of the lithium ion battery, something that a simple voltage regulator would fix, it seems to me it would balancd out. Wouldn't the high current draw rate of the the high torque drill motor each time it is started and the current draw it uses to turn a drill through a piece of wood or to drive screw be equivical to the constant current draw rate of the constantly running little motors? I may wrong and totally out of the park here but one doesn't learn by not asking questions. If anyone who may know something about this sort of thing can help out with any info I would appreciate it before I waste time and effort by trying to experiment with using one of these drill batteries to power my quad. Thanks
190 grams is too much weight for a 1300 mah pack, a lipo in that capacity would be about half the weight. And in multirotors you don't want to haul more weight than you need, it greatly affects the performance. If you're looking at something like a DJI quad or Witespy or similar, you want at least a 2100 pack, you wouldn't get much flight time on a 1300 pack.
THe problem is you don't know the C rating for the battery. Running one high amp motor is different than running 4; unless you're sure the battery can provide 40amps or so continuously (key word there) you don't know if you are going to pop the battery when you try to fly it. Drills operate in short bursts; much different than sustained flight.
There also isn't that big of a difference between lipo and lion batteries. Lipo is, after all, Lithium Ion Polymer batteries. Actually Lipo's are more dirable that lion batteries because the electrolyte is held in a solid polymer.
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The A123 or LiFe batteries are a very good alternative to power the multi rotors. The only disadvantage is weight. They are quite a bit heavier than the lipoly packs. They also have a different voltage and you need to set your charger differently. The advantage is that they are very robust and can handle a lot of abuse and are much more durable than lipoly packs.
3.3v per cell, more linear discharge (lower voltage drop), the punch is different (better, I use them in 5S).
But beware of low temperature, not the same behavior @25°C than @0°C
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Brass Bed's latest release drawing rave reviews
CROWLEY - Brass Bed's Christian Mader can remember when he played his first guitar chords. He was 11-years-old and watching as his father, Tim Mader (Crowley's city engineer) and Carey Chopin were practicing. It was then that young Christian decided that "he wanted in."
"That was around 18-years-ago," laughed Christian. "I remember learning the chords to the first song I learned to play which was 'She Came In Through the Bathroom Window' by The Beatles.
"I never did want to sing. My father always tried to get my brother and I to harmonize which we never did. Eventually, I ended up singing in a band I was in during high school just because nobody else could."
Tim Mader and Kerry Chopin — along with Crowley attorney Jack Miller, Chris Trahan and Mike Dupuis — are still playing music together, having formed The Get Back Band, which regularly plays at area events. However, it seems that when it comes to making music, the son has stepped out of his father's shadow.
And Dad wouldn't have it any other way.
"The good looks and the talent he got from his mother," laughed Tim proudly. "Any pimples or quirks he got from me."
Brass Bed's most recent release "The Secret Will Keep You" has been ranked among the top-ranked albums (out of 25) released in 2013 by the music website Buzz and Howl.
It was also listed by National Public Radio (NPR) as one of their top 10 releases for 2013.
The Buzz and Howl top ranking seems particularly impressive seeing as how Brass Bed's release beat out other, more famous artist such as David Bowie.
Pretty impressive stuff.
"It's been a great year for us critically," said Christian. "It's great when you are a band that is struggling to get notoriety. National Public Radio looks good on our resume."
"Perhaps the greatest compliment I could pay to 'The Secret Will Keep You' is that my brain did everything it could to keep from reading into these songs," stated the Buzz and Howl review. "No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't keep focused long enough to avoid letting the groove take over."
When looking at other articles, Brass Bed's music has been described as being folksy, dark and gritty. Mader had a much easier way to describe it.
"I'd call us a 'noise pop' band," he said "We've always been interested in bands from the 60s."
On Friday, Mader and his bandmates — Jonny Campos (guitar, vocals), Peter Dehart (drums) and Andrew Toups (organ, piano) — are leaving for a 10-day tour that includes stops in Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago and New York. They will also be working on a new album which Mader anticipates will be completed by the end on 2014.
If their next album receives the acclaim that "The Secret Will Keep You" does, the band that is struggling for notoriety will make a lasting impression on Acadiana's growing music scene.


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ecember 15, 1997
Caring for decorative holiday greens
Fragrance, familiarity, and festivity--all these come with the gathering and placing of greens in the house this month. How can the decorations keep their beauty through the holidays? Cut greens do best arranged in water to keep them fresh. For safety, don't arrange lit candles in the center of cut greens. This practice looks good in magazine photos but isn't appropriate for home safety. Trees, live or cut? Christmas trees grown in Washington are shipped all over the world, and we have the finest and freshest here. When buying a Christmas tree, tap it on the ground. Few needles will fall off if it's fresh (though all trees lose needles from the interior branches regularly.) If the needles feel dry or look yellowed, or fall off in quantity, find another tree.
Re-cut the trunk immediately before setting up the tree. Take off at least an inch, to allow better water uptake into the tree. Plain water is as good for holiday trees as anything with additives. Put the tree in a stand that holds at least a gallon of water. A large tree can take up a quart or more in its first days in the house, so be sure to check the water level. Don't let the water level fall below the cut end at the base of the tree. Reduce the temperature in the house at night to keep the tree as cool as possible. With all the other holiday excitement, watering the tree may be neglected, but it's essential.
Live trees take some careful thought and management. If your family plans to put the tree out in the landscape after the holiday, does the garden have enough space for its eventual growth? Douglas firs, for instance, can get to 40 feet in 20 years, and ultimately to 100 or 200 feet. My neighbor's Douglas fir, set out in 1974, now occupies all of her narrow back yard, with the tree obscuring the garage and heading for 50 feet in height. Small evergreens are darling when small, but so are Great Dane puppies. Think about the tree's eventual fate. There are smaller trees than Douglas firs, and nurseries or garden centers will help you locate them.
Try to select a live tree that has been grown in a container for several years. The root system will be intact within the container and able to take up water well. By contrast, many live holiday trees are harvested from fields and wrapped in burlap before being put into containers. The tree's roots will often be severely damaged by this process, and the tree will suffer even more damage when brought into the house.
Moving a living conifer into the warm house stresses the plant, and will increase its need for water. Good root condition is vital, because without a good root system, the tree won't take up water properly. Plan to keep the tree indoors only 7 to 10 days at the most. If exposed to warm indoor temperatures for more than about 10 days, the tree can begin growing, moving out of winter dormancy. When that happens, it's more likely to be killed by freezes when placed outside again.
Before bringing the tree indoors, soak the root ball thoroughly. Spread back the wrappings, usually burlap, at the top of the root ball. Check to feel the dampness of the root ball. When watering the plant, be sure the water penetrates into the roots. Feel the soil for moisture every day. Set the plant on a large tray or tarp to catch excess water. If possible, set up a living tree in a cool area like a glassed-in porch. Some families traditionally decorate a small tree that's kept outdoors in a container year round and brought in only briefly for the holidays. After its week indoors, acclimate the living conifer to the outdoors gradually. Move it into an unheated garage or sheltered porch for about a week, especially if the outdoor temperatures are below freezing. Help the plant move back outdoors by stages.
January in western Washington is a fine month to plant or transplant. Whenever the weather's above freezing, get planting! Prepare a hole twice as wide as the root ball, but no deeper. Cut off all the twine and loosen and remove burlap wrappings. Many tree wrappings are synthetic and won't disintegrate underground, thus keeping the roots from growing properly. Pull roots loose and clip off any that are circling the tree. It's not necessary to add compost or other soil amendments to the planting hole. The roots will grow into native soil and allow the tree to establish well. Don't sink the tree lower into the ground than it was in the container. Keep it level with the ground. Some people find that laying a shovel handle across the top of the hole and the top of the rootball helps with leveling. Water well after planting, even if rain's falling. The water helps settle the roots, and it's necessary to provide more than rain will. Add several inches of organic mulch like compost or leaves over the area after planting. Keep the plant well watered during its first two years in the ground to help it get established.
Another way to manage a living Christmas tree is to leave it outside and decorate it for birds with slices of orange, apple and popcorn strings. Children enjoy doing this, and will probably also enjoy watching the greedy squirrels this sometimes attracts!