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The result ensured starting positions on the fifth and sixth rows for this afternoon's 20-lap Grand Final, and while Bickers made the better of the start to hold down 10th place in the early laps, an incident on Lap eight saw his race end against the barriers at the Druid's hairpin. Eidson, meanwhile, drove a storming race to rise from 11th on the opening lap to finish a fighting fifth.
Eidson lost a couple of positions on the opening lap, slipping but overtook teammate Bickers on Lap six, immediately after a brief full-course caution, then displaced Jonny McMullan, Stephen Daly, early race leader Noel Dunne, Joey Foster, and two-time and defending Festival champion Ivor McCullough to rise to fifth on Lap 17. At one point Eidson held the fastest lap of the race aboard his No. 22 Cliff Dempsey Racing Ray GR12. He posted his best lap on the final tour to finish just 2.610 seconds shy of the race winner, young Irishman Niall Murray, and a scant 0.678s behind second-place finisher and former UK Formula Ford champion Wayne Boyd. Englishman Oliver White took third ahead of Team Canada's Scott Hargrove, winner of this year's Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda.
"I'm pretty happy with a top-five finish," said Eidson, 18. "I think given a few more laps I could have been right there. We had the same pace as the leaders so I don't think speed was as much of a matter as not passing as many cars as I would have liked to on the start. I took too long to get past a couple of cars and I just didn't have enough laps to get right up there, but starting ninth and finishing fifth is a good result. I kind of know what to expect now for (next weekend's Walter Hayes Trophy at) Silverstone so I'm looking forward to that."
Bickers was disappointed with the result but had already made his mark on the proceedings with a stunning performance on Saturday in what was his very first standing start and first ever wet-weather race.
"The pace was pretty good in the wet but on Sunday in the dry I was struggling a little," he admitted. "It was tough out there. All the top racers, the top 10 at least, were capable of winning, and having to cope with the changing weather was kind of interesting. It's a shame it ended the way it did – I tangled with somebody and ended up going straight into the wall – but overall I learned a lot and am really grateful for the experience."


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Iota High once again has a vacancy at assistnat principal following a unanimous decision at Wednesday night's special session of the Acadia Parish School Board.
At the Board's normal June meeting the decision was made to move forward with a search for an instructional assistant. However, following rumors of "under the table" deals, the board resinded its move and once again began searching for an assistant principal.
Board Member Milton Simar began the comments by apologizing for the move. Rumors almost immediately began surfacing that Simar was trying to get one of his family members the job. Simar denied the accusation at the special session stating that he had completely removed himself from the process.
"The reason we wanted an instructional assistant was to take a better look at curriculum," explained Simar.
According to Simar, Iota High's test scores had dropped in the past few years and believed that because the Assistant Principal had so many other duties, curriculum was being put to the side.
"We'll move forward with the assistant principal search and hope that they can also give the curriculum attention," said Simar.
As the comments were drawing to a close, Board Member Gene Daigle stated that he believed it may be time for the school board to look over all the schools in the parish.
"We have a school in Mire with 500 enrollment that could probably use another administrator while schools with smaller enrollment may have too much," said Daigle. "Maybe it's time we look at all the schools."
The school board immediately opened up the applications process and will accept applications through June 30. The board will do interviews on July 1 and the new assistance principal will be named at the board's next meeting, July 5. Superintendent John E. Bourque wants to get someone in place at Iota High as soon as possible.
"We don't want to drag our feet here," said Bourque.

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Hundreds mourned World War II hero and Bayonne native Nicholas Oresko at his funeral yesterday.
The Hudson County Health and Human Services director has been put on administrative leave during a probe.
Bayonne students unleashed their creative potential Wednesday when High School Nation came to the city.
A Bayonne church is celebrating its 120th anniversary.
In Sports, the Bayonne girls soccer team received a late goal from freshman Kesi Alejandro and earned a 1-1 draw against four-time Hudson County champion Kearny. Meanwhile, the Memorial boys team knocked off St. Peter's Prep and North Bergen coach John Belluardo got his 350th win.


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Approximately 1,000 federally funded employees, including 790 federal technicians and 220 federally reimbursed state employees, are scheduled to be furloughed beginning Oct. 1 until funding is approved by Congress.
Operations and activities which are essential to the security, safety and protection of human life and property are exempted from furlough, to include emergency management and national security missions. State Active Duty is still authorized in the event of a domestic emergency.
"Public safety and security, as well as the security of military installations are the Oregon National Guard's priority and plans are in place to ensure these priorities are met," said Capt. Stephen Bomar, director of public affairs, Oregon Military Department.
According to the Department of Defense, furlough decisions are dictated solely by the law and are in no way a reflection of the importance of the work of any employee or department within the agency. Supervisors will be the immediate source of information for their employees.
Drill-weekend training scheduled for the month of October for all part-time Soldiers and Airmen may be rescheduled for a later date. The chain of command will communicate with Soldiers and Airmen to adjust drill training dates as necessary.
Approximately 965 Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) military personnel will continue to serve in a normal duty status.
In addition, another 250 Army and Air Guard military federal technicians, and 100 federally-funded state employees have been requested as exempt from furlough for fire, security, and emergency management operations.
The Oregon National Guard will continue to support the governor and State of Oregon with the Civil Support Team (CST) and a 24/7 Joint Operations Center - the conduit to emergency management, and all armories will remain open.
The Oregon Air National Guard will continue to support the Aerospace Control Alert (ACA) mission with the 142nd Fighter Wing and the 173rd Fighter Wing will continue to support the Air Force's only F15 Fighter pilot training school.
The Military Funeral Honors program, Sexual Harassment/Assault programs, and Recruiting and Retention force will remain functional and the Oregon Military Department will continue the responsible close-out of 2013 fiscal responsibilities.
"Half of our full-time force is affected," said Bomar. "The longer the shutdown, the more likely there will be serious long-term effects. However, we will do everything we can to assist employees who find themselves in serious financial trouble due to furlough."
Service members are scheduled to continue receiving education benefits and Veterans Affairs medical facilities will remain open. For more information visit the VA website at http://www.va.gov/opa/appropriations_lapse_plan.asp. Furloughed employees may also be eligible for unemployment compensation.


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And this feat, according to the 2004 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, is accomplished by almost 12 million Canadians. That's 45 per cent of the Canadian population 15 years of age and over.
Imagine, one million full-time jobs.
That's volunteer firefighters. Palliative care workers. Minor hockey coaches. The people who deliver Meals-on-Wheels. Girl Guide leaders. The men and women who drive cancer patients to chemotherapy. Big Brothers. The kind voice on the end of the distress hotline. The accountant who prepares free of charge income tax forms for low-income seniors. The people who stock cans at the food bank. The thousands of Canadians who fund-raise to buy computers for after-school programs and wheelchairs for seniors.
Without a doubt, it's volunteers who keep our communities running. Imagine what could be accomplished if the other 55 per cent of the population that currently doesn't volunteer did so.
Tanya Thompson can imagine. What she sees is a kinder, gentler community in which everyone does his or her share, instead of the same handful of people giving and giving and giving until they're burned out, disillusioned, or both. A community in which neighbours look out for each other instead of looking the other way.
The key to making it happen, she says, is family and Ms. Thompson has made volunteering an integral part of her family.
The mother of three, whose concern for her community led her to run for a council seat in the new ward of Gloucester-South Nepean in last November's municipal election, is credited with saving the Southpointe Community Association from certain death five years ago, when, as a newcomer to the neighbourhood, she volunteered to serve as president. Since then, much of her time is spent organizing community events on behalf of the association, which represents the "new" Barrhaven.
Ms. Thompson's experience in sports fundraising (now a hockey team manager, she has coached softball and T-ball teams) has helped raise thousands of dollars for charity. For example, the association's fall fair event raised $6,000. And beyond the association, she recently was honoured with a $1,000 bursary for her service in co-ordinating Ross's Independent CHEO Day event. Her four-year-old son, Zachary, donated the bursary on her behalf to the eye unit at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
"To actually get in there and make a difference is something we like doing as a family," she says, pointing out that her husband, Shawn, who works with OC Transpo, spends many a cold night flooding the outdoor rink at Stonecrest Park when he's not volunteering as a coach. Zachary and his eight-year-old brother, Tyler, are often at the rink lending a hand. The youngsters were also put to work at the association's recent winter carnival. Their two-year-old sister, Abbey, will be following in their footsteps soon.
Ms. Thompson, who has served as a member of the parent-school council at St. Andrew's elementary, has also been instrumental in lobbying for new schools and for a youth centre in her growing part of town. But she is quick to point out that the community association's recent successes are the result of "a team effort."
However, she admits that were it not for the "five phenomenal women" who are the association's backbone, the group would be back on death's doorstep. Apathy is rampant. For example, while 3,500 people attended the association's last fall fair, no one signed up to help with the next event. And recent attempts to start a Neighbourhood Watch program failed. No one, it seems, can be bothered.


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Two men were taken into custody Tuesday as a high school student is in the hospital after being shot during a fight.
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Wade Wolfe, winery manager for Hogue and owner of Thurston-Wolfe, arrived in Southeast Washington in 1978 with a doctorate in viticulture from UC Davis. At the time, Clore was a consultant for Chateau Ste. Michelle, for whom Wolfe was working.
"I spent a large part of my first summer wandering around looking at vineyards, getting a feel for the terrain here with Walt," he says. "He showed me a lot of vineyards, the history behind them, why people did certain things, what they were doing right and wrong.
"We are a young industry," says Wolfe. "We're still learning our potential. But we've learned a lot, through the University and research, from the groundbreaking work by Clore and Nagel—and the subsequent work on the cultural level, by Sara Spayd and Bob Wample." Wample, Clore's successor, was the viticulturist at Prosser, until he took a position in California.
Clore turned 90 July 1. After his wife Irene died, he moved to a retirement home in Prosser. The food's good, he says, and they let him drink wine. He still consults with Stimson Lane, the parent company of Columbia Crest and Chateau Ste. Michelle.
"Walt was out scratching around in the 50s, in areas that became our vineyards, looking for perfect sites for classic European grape varieties," says Ted Baseler, president of Stimson Lane, owner of Chateau Ste. Michelle, Domaine Ste. Michelle, and Columbia Crest. Clore's work is not done.
In recognition of that work, says Baseler, Columbia Crest's 1999 Reserve will be named the Walter Clore Private Reserve Red.
If Clore has any regrets, it is that one of his favored grapes never caught on in Washington. Recent figures from the Washington Wine Commission indicate 29,000 acres in Washington planted to Vitis vinifera varieties, and growers continue to experiment with new varieties.
Lemberger Grape Thrives in Washington and Oregon
Limberger, re-spelled "Lemberger" by the marketing folks in an attempt to disassociate the grape from the cheese, caught the affection of Clore. It also caught the interest of Julio Gallo, who spent considerable time in Washington evaluating its young grapes and wine. In fact, he preferred it to Washington's Cabernet. During one visit, Clore asked him if he'd be interested in the variety.
Sure, said Gallo, "But I want a whole trainload. I have to have a million gallons to put anything on the market." At the time, the only Limberger vines in the state were at the experimental vineyard in Prosser. So much for Gallo of Washington. Even now, with proven potential and with fine Limbergers produced by Hogue, Thurston-Wolf, and Kiona, the Limberger grape remains confined to a mere 100 acres in the whole state. Still, Clore has not relinquished hope.
"Push the Limberger," he says as I leave his apartment.
The Future of Washington Wine
In his preface to The Wine Project, Clore writes of his growing up in a teetotalling Methodist household and of his gradual understanding of wine not only as a horticultural challenge, but as a civilizing influence.
Following his lead, Vicki Gordon wants to change our culture. This desire, which many Washington wine people seem to share, has to do, it seems, with the social and cultural meanings of terroir.
"We need more wineries," she says as we drive from the Gordon Brothers vineyard to the tasting room on the outskirts of Pasco. "We want one on every corner out here." This is not a sentiment you would hear from a shoe merchant or a grocer. Neither would you hear it from a wheat farmer. More shoes, more groceries, more wheat simply mean lower prices. And more wine?
To Vicki Gordon it means a change in how we think. A change in how we live. A change in how we do business.
"From vineyard to bottle to table," she says, "you maintain a sense of place with wine. When you go to the dinner table, the only thing you know where it came from is the wine."
Even though many of the grapes in Washington are being grown by former, or current, wheat farmers, there is a dramatic difference in how their product reaches the consumer.
Himself a former wheat farmer, Rick Small says he knew he would need to be more vertically integrated to make it in farming. "We produce wonderful wheat in Washington, but it's all com- mingled. You don't get anything extra. You don't get the recognition. No one comes up to you and says, gee, I just had the bushel of wheat that you guys grew over on that hill. And I realize this wheat doesn't make bread. It's too bad."
Small, the Gordons, and others I talked with want to see Washington agriculture further explore that vertical integration, the direct marketing, the connection to the consumer that Washington wine has accomplished. Not only do they like to know where their wines are going, they like to know where their food's coming from.
The model, however, is valid only to a point. Ted Baseler of Chateau Ste. Michelle observes that wine grapes are different from other crops. They are not commodities, he says, and they have tremendous differentiation.
The first distinction is price variability. "If you go into a grocery store and look at apples, there might be some minor price variation," says Baseler, "but it's a small percentage difference. But if you look at wine, you find a product with dramatic variation. A wine list can include an $18 bottle and a $1,000 bottle."
Those variations are dictated by quality, scarcity, and image, says Baseler. He calls wine a "cultural crop."
Admittedly, no one envisions an end product for wheat, or even apples, that could result in such variation. However, says Small, "I've always argued that other guys in the Walla Walla Valley should do more of the same. I think the guys who grow onions could do it.
"Our way of doing ag in the United States is to just produce the raw product, with value stuck on by big corporations; and agriculturists—the people with dirt under their nails—are just getting screwed."
Small praises the new White House-Crawford restaurant in Walla Walla for giving credit to individual farmers for the local food that they serve. Producing local food for local markets and drawing in outside visitors to enjoy those local flavors is the direction many desire.
And wine provides the lead. Tourism and hospitality are not a panacea and are not without associated problems, but they can help effect a change toward making agriculture more diverse, more consumer oriented, more cultural.
There are 200 commercially grown crops in
Washington, says Jeff Gordon. Let's explore the sense of place
expressed by those diverse crops.
"The neat thing about Washington right now," says Gordon, "it's all frontier.
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CHICAGO - A few miles south and west of all the hoopla around the NATO summit here Lamont Newsome stands his ground at a battle post he and his loyal canine partner have maintained every day for a year and three months now - his front porch.
Newsome owned his house on Loomis near 53rd for six years when the bank foreclosed on his mortgage. He was willing to pay rent for the right to stay in his home but the bank is not interested. Bank of America says it will get around to getting him out but in the meantime, with the help of his neighbors he and his dog are holding out on the first floor of the wood-framed house, now in bad need of repair. He is able to pay the electric bill but the city has threatened to shut off the water.
"We need him to stay there and guard his own house," said Charles Brown, a retired Chicago cop who lives two doors down from Newsome on a street lined with vacant lots and abandoned homes. "If Lamont gets kicked out there will be eleven abandoned houses between here and the next corner," said Brown, who walked this reporter across the street to one of those abandoned buildings, surrounded by piles of rubble that included broken tables and sofas.
Brown, who purchased his home in Englewood 40 years ago, explained that all of the homes became vacant since 2008, the year the banks crashed the entire U.S. economy. " People lost their jobs and this is what it meant for us," Brown said. "The drug dealers come in here, operate out of these buildings. The gangs break into other houses, still occupied, and they hide what they steal in these abandoned properties until things cool down. Then they fence the stuff wherever they can.
"If you were a regular person you would get a fine for leaving your property like this," he said as he walked around to the back of the house where the pies of rubble were 20 feet high. "But even when they do come and issue a fine the Bank of America ignores it - they never pay and there is never a penalty. They foreclose, they hold a mortgage but they take no responsibility."
His voice trembling and fighting back tears, Brown looked at the pile of rubble and said, "She was only a child, coming home from school and they dragged her in there last month and raped her."
Back across the street, meanwhile, Newsome's dog started barking. "It's the car that just went by," he said. "It has a bad muffler and that sets him off. I see you're talking to Charles - he knows what's going on," said Newsome. "You can't have a viable city," he said, when he was asked to comment on Chicago having been selected as the host city for the NATO conference. "You can't have a viable city unless you keep the neighborhoods viable. If you don't, Chicago will die. We'll die here first but then the city will die everywhere else."
"I came here 43 years ago and this was a beautiful neighborhood," said Brown. "Now I am ashamed, ashamed for a people who could let this happen but those banks who are responsible - they have no shame.
"They are worried about law and order downtown, at the NATO meeting but every day someone is shot here. Last week there was a dead body in this pile of garbage. Young boys have been killed."
Brown said that despite the tragedy, he and his neighbors say they are not about to give up on the neighborhood they love.
Brown is an active leader in Action Now, a group that has sprung up to fight the effects of the bank foreclosures. The group has joined labor and other groups at demonstrations against the banks.
"We are going after the banks for their predatory lending," said Eileen Kelleher, a lead organizer for the group, "and we fight on every level of government for the funding we need to rebuild. We will be relentless in going after these banks and it's a victory even if we force one mortgage holder of one abandoned property to pay for a guard on that property. 'You foreclosed on a property,' we tell them, 'and now you need to take care of it.'"
"Until they treat us the way they treat NATO," said Brown, "we won't even think about giving up."
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Correct "Macro Object" for D series neutrik connectors?
Hi, Could you please tell me the correct macro object for a D series neutrik connector punch out with countersunk M3 machine screws.
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Can't install on an ipad
Trying to install on an iPad running os10.01 which is the most current OS that will install. The iPad is brand new. When I download the file simply won't open. I've got an unzip program which supports any file including this one.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'll go grab a laptop!
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Thanks Fabian My marco tool bar is only
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Tapped holes
I have ordered presently and in the past several panels with tapped holes in the 6-32, 8-32, and 10-32 range. I have noticed that I have consistently had to run my own tap through the holes to get the screws to go in without extra force. I specify the hole as the instructions say by selecting the screw size. Am I missing something? I have used both stainless steel and aluminum hardware.
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Hi Robert.
If you would like increase the diameter opening of the thread so it isn't as tight click on the 'manual thread parameters' in the bottom of the properties window and increase the diameter by .1mm or .004"
This should give you enough tolerance so you can insert your screws.
Posted By: Adrian on Aug 09, 2016 08:43PMReply
Well, my argument to that solution is
1) Why does the program not select the proper drill size?
2) Why would the tap used not clean out the and the re-tap I used did?
Posted By: Robert on Aug 09, 2016 09:06PMReply
We use routers with threaded end mills so the tolerances are on the low end to prevent screw loosening over time and this doesn't seem to be a problem with the majority of our customers. We do not hand thread these and we use a plug thread go/no-go gauge to double check the threads as well. If you need more clarification let us know.
Posted By: Adrian on Aug 10, 2016 01:54AMReply
Importing DXF drops small holes
DXF has 0.067" (#51 drill) in it but importing drops those holes.
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How create a new macro objets
Hi, some one can tell me how I can create a macro objets of mini-USB and micro-USB connector?
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We have instructions on 'how to create a macro' in our HELP page from the Front Panel Designer. Just click on Help in the Menu Bar of the Front Panel Designer then click on Help... again.
This will bring up the attached dialogue box. Enter 'macro object' in the search bar and the topics on macros will populate. Under 'creating macros' you will find instructions on how to create a macro.
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The act of eating out a girl while she's on her period so you get your face all red
Nothing much, I just got my Redwing.
بواسطة Mr nick123 يوليو/تمُّوز 21, 2010
When a man really loves a woman, all 31 days of the month, he will stimulate her orally down there and get red-wings, i.e. blood on the ears.
Also considered a rite of passage among lesbians.
Also considered a rite of passage among lesbians.
بواسطة Count Montaponsetto إبريل/نَيْسان 9, 2009
making fuck with a chick who's on her rag.
i earned my redwing with your girlfriend last night!
بواسطة truthish مايو/أيار 15, 2008
When someone most likely hells angel cuts a hole into someone and fucks the hole.
"You know that guys mom we destroyed," "Yeah we earned our red wings on her"
بواسطة dareylrasberry نوفمبر/تشرين الثّاني 13, 2014
red wings is a biker term for oral sex with a menstruating vagina. Similar to brown wings earned by eating a feces filled anus.
I got my red wings and brown wings the same night at the same party!
بواسطة Estaben Reyes يناير/كانون الثّاني 9, 2006
When a man is about to perform oral sex on a woman and she is on the rag,he goes down on her and grabs the tampon string with his teeth,pull it out and swings it from side to side slapping his cheeks with the tampon giving himself red wings.
Monica was on the rag last week so I got my red wings.
بواسطة Carlos lobos أغسطس/آب 30, 2010
Refer to the blood spatters on your cheeks after pulling a bloody tampon out with your teeth and shaking your head from side-to-side like a dog.
Look honey! I look like the Joker after I gave myself Red Wings with your tampon!
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Medical Negligence Dispute Resolution: A Role for Facilitative Mediation and Principled Negotiation?
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Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 77-87, 2009
This article critically examines the potential of using facilitative mediation and principled negotiation to resolve medical negligence disputes. It argues that such methods of dispute resolution are a better means of resolving these complex disputes, in contrast to the conventional use of settlement negotiations, positional bargaining and litigation, since they are inherently capable of addressing the non-financial needs and interests of the parties directly involved in the dispute. However, the article also recognizes there can be problems with using these methods of dispute resolution due to the complex power relations between the parties involved. Nevertheless, it ultimately concludes that the benefits of using facilitative mediation and principled negotiation outweigh their possible limitations in the medical negligence arena.
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Eta: I mean curvy as in like Kim Kardashian. The waist doesn't have to be as small, of course. I am talking big butt/boobs even with a thicker waist.
Another eta: I am aware that not all men like the same body types, duh, that is obvious. I mean women like to say "well men like curves" but it doesn't make it true. What I am getting at is do you think a man would take a curvy woman over a model (like vs secret) who doesn't have much for curves if given the chance? Men are visual (I think more so than women).
my man LOVES my curves. he loves all the soft fleshiness of me.
every man is different there isnt just one mold of man
I think different men like different body types.
Some men like very thin women. Some men like athletic women. Some men like curvy women. Some men like overweight women. There are all different tastes out there.
Some women also use the word curvy to describe them when they are obese. When someone is obese, you might not be able to tell whether or not they are curvy. Curvy is a body type, not a weight.
I'm curvy. When I was younger and thinner, I stopped traffic. When I was overweight, didn't get hit on as much. Now I'm losing weight and I get hit on more and more all the time.


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When my husband and I purchased land and moved out here, people thought we were moving to the dark side of the moon. There was nothing here but four-legged wildlife. That's what we wanted. We were sick of the two-legged wildlife of the city where, if it wasn't pinned down or locked up, things had a habit of "walking" away. We even had a padlock stolen off the garage.
Times have certainly changed. It seems there are a "multitude" of people who want to live with us on "the dark side of the moon." It's too bad that they want to move to the country and then retrofit it into the big city they came from. Who says people are the smarter of God's creatures?
Mr. Haley and his "multitude" want the state paved over to make way for cars and people who don't want to carpool. He says, "If we don't build it, they won't come." Seems to me they already have come. And they came without there being six-lane boulevards. So begins the real problem. Paving is often the only knee-jerk response narrow-minded thinkers can come up with in response to people already having moved here. Seems people move and then think.
When we moved out here, we scoped out everything to make sure this is where we really wanted to be. That included how far to work (at that time, we worked in Bellevue) and the routes to get there. We even checked out the weather, river floodings, seismic fault lines, and any coal deposits that could affect our well water.
I know what it feels like to get up at 4:30 in the morning to beat traffic getting to work. It wasn't one of the drawbacks I thought I would have to deal with. After all, who would have thought that so many people would want to live on the dark side of the moon? But I still wanted to live here and not in Bellevue, so I set the alarm clock and dealt with it.
Mr. Haley speaks of light rail being pie-in-the-sky. Sometimes real progress is just that: pie-in-the-sky. The most unprogressive part of Washington's politicians is their propensity to study everything to death and never JUST DO IT! While Washington studied light rail, Oregon built theirs. While Washington studied light rail, Oregon expanded theirs. While Washington studies light rail, Oregon is planning ahead with theirs.
It sounds like Mr. Haley has found a spot on this earth for him: Phoenix, with its six-lane boulevards and 6-8 lane freeways. If he ever gets tired of there, he might try Los Angeles. Last time we were there, they also had boulevards and wide freeways--and traffic jams like you wouldn't believe. After all, if you build it, they will come.
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This is where the ship really shines. Everyone enjoyed Blue Man Group - so good, and so funny! Best show I've ever seen at sea. My wife and I also enjoyed the other Las Vegas quality show "Legends in Concert". We had Janet Jackson, Neil Diamond, and Aretha Franklin for our show and the impersonators all did a great job. Another good show was the Cirque Dreams & Dinner. At times it was a bit cheesy, but it had some great acts (how did that couple do those costume changes so quickly?!). The kids were thoroughly entertained by it. There was a plenty of good music to be found every night. We really enjoyed Kurt Hunter in the Maltese Whisky Bar. He played great cover songs and he threw in some of his own music which we enjoyed too. The dueling pianos in "Howling at the Moon" were very entertaining, as was the Jazz/Blues band at Fat Cats. There was still more evening activities, including a visit to the Ice Bar, pool and bowling at O'Sheehans Pub, and karaoke at Bliss. My favorite evening activity was the two ship-sponsored pub crawls. Eddie "Spaghetti" was a great host, and we met so many wonderful people during our pub tour around the ship. This was a big highlight and something unique that NCL does. Oh, and the kids really liked the kids club on this ship. There were lots of fun games and activities and plenty of video games to go around.
Lots of family fun to be had in the daytime as well. The water slides were a big hit. During sea days the lines were a bit long (the Epic Plunge always had the longest line), but during port time, it was only minutes between rides down the purple and green slides. They were quite fast - it took my 6 year old 3 days to work up the courage to try them, but once he did, he loved them! We did the slides on 4 days of our 7 day cruise. I appreciated that the slides were open for much of the day (11am-7pm port days, 9am-7pm sea days). They also had a kids aqua zone that my younger son enjoyed. Only negative was that the 2 pools were very small, especially considering the size of the ship. Other things we did with the kids during the days were bowling in Bliss, the Eurojumper trampoline, the spider web climbing cage, the rock wall, the repelling wall, board games in the library, and the large chess board. Additionally, we went to the Nickelodeon Slime Time Live show which was very good and had lots of audience participation. Normally, I don't like 7 day cruises that have 3 sea days, but with this ship, we needed the 3 sea days to do everything that we wanted.
I thought the dining was very good. Because there was so much to do each night, along with different show times, I really enjoyed the flexibility of any time dining. The best part was that we never had to wait to get seated during any of meals (amazing with a ship with 4000+ passengers!). I thought the food was much improved in the main dining rooms compared to what we had on the NCL Pearl last year. Our dinner in Cagney's Steakhouse was wonderful. My wife enjoyed her lobster tails and I enjoyed the Alaskan king crab legs and fillet mignon. The Cirque Dreams food was good but not great. We had a few lunches in O'Sheehans and those were good too, as were the buffet breakfasts at the Great Outdoors. Really, the only area of dining that was disappointing to me was the room service menu. They were missing the snacks/appetizers from the Pearl that we liked to order for evening sailaways. Also, the breakfast items were skimpy for room service too - not as good as other cruise lines for sure!
We had a family balcony stateroom, cabin 11076 to be specific. This particular cabin had a very large balcony, with 4 chairs and room for lounger which our cabin steward gracefully brought down for us. Now what I really liked about this balcony is how it is angled. This allowed me to sit along the railing, toward the back, and look completely forward towards the bridge. I LOVED this because I could feel the warm breeze on me while sitting there. As for the cabin itself, the dEcor was very nice and a nice large TV screen. However, it was too narrow! It was very difficult for the 4 of us to move around the cabin. Once the Pullman bed was pulled down, it got really difficult to get out to the balcony. Plus, the bathroom design is very poor, as many people have commented on. So overall, great balcony but disappointing cabin.
Service was very good, as has been the case on all my cruises. We only had a couple of servers who disappointed us, mostly because they were not friendly and were more focused on just being efficient. It's a small thing, but I do enjoy the little chit-chat that you get on cruise ship restaurants that is different from land-based restaurants. Cabin steward was great and was always quick to make up our stateroom.
The itinerary was rather poor, as we visited Costa Maya, Roatan, and Cozumel. With only 3 ports, I don't expect 2 of them to visit the same country (Mexico). I wish NCL had more diversity here; perhaps Cozumel should be substituted with Belize City or Grand Cayman for some variety. With that said, we did enjoy our time in each of the 3 ports.
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Speakers from a range of backgrounds sought to inspire an audience of 100 at the second TEDxBuffalo conference at Canisius College on Tuesday.
They included:
• A "citizen astronomer" whose photo of the sun taken through a telescope in an Elmwood Village backyard won him unexpected attention across cyberspace.
• A landscape architect who encouraged a group of children to build a temporary playground on a rainy afternoon.
• A blogger and IT professional who came up with the idea of supporting small businesses through "cash mob" events and watched the concept spread internationally.
"It's inspiring to me that one guy can make a difference in that way, and I think you can, too," said Chris Smith, credited as the originator of the "cash mob" concept. It uses social media to convince as many people as possible to shop at a designated locally owned business on a designated day.
TEDxBuffalo boasted multimedia presentations, artistic performances and videos from previous TED and TEDx events.
Tuesday's event in the Carol and Carl Montante Cultural Center was a local version of those national TED confabs, which are meant to spread ideas and spur innovation in business, technology, culture and various other fields.
"It's a conference about what we want to tell each other, what we want to get each other excited about," Kevin Purdy, the main TEDxBuffalo organizer and a freelance technology writer, said in an interview.
TEDxBuffalo is licensed by the nonprofit TED – the name stands for Technology Entertainment Design.
Purdy and the other organizers spent months finding the mix of speakers, performers and audience members, who were encouraged during the breaks in the program to converse and network.
The TEDx license required the organizers to limit attendance to 100 people, but the speeches were streamed online.
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does kh7 help black ?
I think this must have been covered already but here it is again...
1... Kh7 2. g6#
Nice One!
mate in 5 alternative :)
also could be Qg8#
You are right,Qg8 is a mate to.Good find
No, 4.Qg8+ is answered by 4. ... Ng7
And then it is too late for Nf4 to be checkmate because black King can then escape to f5.
Thank's I missed the Ng7
Another mate in 5 alternative :) Also shows why Qg8 is not a checkmate
in posting #56 achintya4003 posed a mate-in-4 problem that was (for me) more difficult than today's daily puzzle. I had a hard time getting the third move.
It should be noted thatin this puzzle the only worry was putting the black king in stalemate - otherwise eventual checkmate was inevitable. But getting it in 4 moves was quite a challlenge.
very nice
white to move and mate in 4...
achintya4003, I think there's an alternative solution to your puzzle...
1. Ne5+ Kd2 2. Re3 Kd1 3. Nc3+ Kd2 4. Nc4#
And this one...
1. Nf4+ Kc3 2. Rd4 Kb3 3. Bc2+ Kc3 ( 3... Ka3 4. Ra4# ) 4. Ne2#
There's a problem with the 'proper' solution though because 3... Kc3 leaves White unable to mate in 4 moves !Also in your alternative mate, 3... Ka4 means the king escapes via a4 !
not bad,
4. Nf4#
easy and interesting.......
Easy but different.
Agreed Qg8 is not mate becuase of the knight!
another day, another puzzle
Knightmare !
totally agree
4.Qg8+,Ng7... so 4.Nf4#. Good day; bonne journée.
Like the sequence of moves here. Good puzzle!
Why does black play Bf8 after white plays Qe8+? Why not Kh7?
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The Rangers have obviously clinched a playoff spot, but there are a number of seeding scenarios still in play for the Blueshirts, who are currently the #2 seed in the Metropolitan Division, tonight.
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– A Rangers regulation or overtime win combined with a Flyers regulation loss in Tampa will clinch the #2 seed in the Metropolitan Division and home ice in the first round.
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The PIAA requires its officials to read a statement on sportsmanship to team captains and coaches before each event, and many schools have taken that a step further, offering an announcement to the crowd reminding them that each person present has a job, and that those in the seats are to be supportive, not critical.
Sometimes, being a good sport is easy. Sometimes, it means a sacrifice. But the lesson of sportsmanship is worth it.
Twice in a matter of days, two Indian Valley athletes and their coaches made that ultimate sacrifice. On the basketball court, a player was taken out of a game because he lost his cool and acted in a way that coach Bob Sealy considered inappropriate. Some have attacked Sealy, claiming it cost his team a victory, perhaps a trip to the state tournament.
I can't say what would have happened in what everyone knew was going to be a close game. But I can tell you this: Sealy's action, in my opinion, deserves acclaim rather than derision. He obviously is the kind of man who will do what is right with the young charges who have been placed in his care, and teach them what it means to be responsible as well as productive.
In that same boat is Joe Daubert, the Warrior wrestling coach. When weather forced the District 6 Class AAA tournament to a single day, a situation was created whereby a State College wrestler would be in violation of PIAA rules had he tangled with Indian Valley's Mason Grove in a consolation final match, as it would have been the sixth of the day for the Little Lion.
Grove, and by extension, Daubert and Indian Valley, could have forced the opponent to forfeit, guaranteeing Grove a slot in the Northwest regional tournament. Daubert put the shoe on the other foot, so to speak, asking what he would have wanted had his wrestler been in that difficult spot.
The choice was easy. They Warriors loaded up a van and went down to Penn State the next day - where the State High grappler won a one-bout tournament.
Was it hard to give up that automatic chance? No doubt. But Grove and company did unto others, and the long-term good will far outweigh the pain of that single loss.
I don't care what subject they teach in the classroom. Here's two guys who are giving Grade A lessons in life.
The next topic is: Will Juniata be part of District 6 next winter?
I was told that District 3, where the Indians compete now, has voted to release the school. Most likely, District 6 will accept the petition to join, and the Big Red will be in the west next fall.
I suspect that, like Lewistown, Bald Eagle Area and Philipsburg-Osceola, the Indians will opt to wrestle in Class AAA if they can, rather than in the crowded Class AA field. The big division already is gaining one team next season - Westmont Hilltop is going up due to population growth.
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Women With Chest Pain and no Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis; A Study on Microvascular Resistance
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Female patients presenting with persistent chest pain despite no obstructive coronary artery disease have impaired prognosis. Stress tests are often positive or inconclusive. As much as 20% of women with chest pain and minimal angiographic CAD have evidence of myocardial ischemia, suggesting impaired coronary microcirculation. The index of microvascular resistance (IMR) is a method for indirectly investigating microvascular function in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
66 female patients, age 30-70 years, with chest pain and "normal" or near normal coronary angiograms will be included. After coronary physiologic evaluation, patients will be randomized in a double blind study to rosuvastatin 20 mg/day or matching placebo tablets for altogether 6 months.
The investigators hypothesize that:
- A substantial number of women with chest pain and normal or minimal pathology on angiograms have microvascular dysfunction defined by a raised IMR.
- Statins, based on its pleiotropic action will improve endothelial function and thereby IMR.
Angina Pectoris
Drug: Rosuvastatin
Drug: Placebo.
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Microvascular Resistance in Women With Chest Pain and no or Minimal Coronary Artery Disease
- Temporal changes in microvascular perfusion indices (Index of Microvascular Function (IMR) and Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR)). [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]During a left heart catheterization IMR and CFR are measured at baseline and at 6 months. Patients are randomized to rosuvastatin vs placebo. The objectives are to determine whether women with chest pain with no or minimal angiographic coronary artery disease, have a raised index of microvascular resistance and to determine whether high-dose statin treatment will modify microvascular perfusion indices in these patients.
- Angina pectoris classification (CCS). [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Women with chest pain are randomized to rosuvastatin vs placebo. Angina pectoris (CCS classification) will be compared in the two arms.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Angina. IMR. Statin.
Drug: Rosuvastatin
Rosuvastatin 20 mg once daily vs placebo for 6 months
|Placebo Comparator: Angina. IMR. Placebo.
Drug: Placebo.
Placebo once daily vs rosuvastatin for 6 months
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Female gender
- Age 30 - 70 years
- Chest pain suggestive of symptomatic coronary artery disease
- A coronary angiogram with no or minimal coronary artery disease
- Fractional flow reserve value over 0,80
Exclusion Criteria:
- Male gender
- Age under 30 years or over 70
- Coronary artery stenosis ≥ 33 % in any epicardial vessel
- Fractional flow reserve value ≤ 0,80
- Pregnant or nursing women
- Women of childbearing potential not using contraception
- Short life expectancy
- Uncontrolled endocrinological disease
- Arterial hypertension
- Structural heart disease
- Significant mental disorder, including dementia
- Inability to comply with the protocol -
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01582165
|Contact: Ole G Solberg, MD
|+47 23070000
|Oslo University Hospital, Dep of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet
|Oslo, Norway, 0380
|Principal Investigator: Ole Geir Solberg, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Lars Aaberge, MD, PhD
|Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
|Responsible Party:
|Oslo University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01582165 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|3tcAZ 2011-002630-39
|Study First Received:
|April 16, 2012
|Last Updated:
|October 14, 2015
|Health Authority:
|Norway: Norwegian Medicines Agency
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Chest Pain
Angina Pectoris
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Rosuvastatin Calcium
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Anticholesteremic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Enzyme Inhibitors
Lipid Regulating Agents
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In 1871 Mrs. Rhoda Bassett, with her friend Mrs. Susan M. Weaver interested a group of friends to form the Ladies Social Union, to establish a library in the village of Watchemocket. By 1876 their fund raising activities produced enough money to start a circulating library with 1,000 books (E.P. Post 10/30/1969)
The Library was successful but mobile, moving five times until 1938. It found a permanent home in the present building on Grove Avenue thanks to the generous bequest of Mrs. Susan Weaver. In 1963 the Children's Room was opened. A major addition in 1991, and the renovations in 2009 and 2010 have resulted in the popular resource center the library is today.
Riverside Library Branch
- A library in Riverside was established in 1881 at St Mark's Church.
- The Riverside Free Public Library Association was incorporated in 1884.
- In 1894 a library building was constructed on Lincoln Avenue.
- Riverside Library branch was later located on Pawtucket Avenue in the city's Recreation Center building at 100 Bullocks Point Ave.
- In 2005 construction was completed on a new building at 475 Bullocks Point Ave.
Our Heritage: A History of East Providence see p. 77, 126-127, p. 146
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Here is a link to a Providence Journal article (from 10/27/2005) regarding the 100th anniversary of the Rumford Library.
- The Pawtucket Avenue library building was constructed in 1905.
- The building now a private residence. Check out the 2014 transformation.
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Anne Ide Fuller Branch
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UN-HABITAT Launches "Urban Planning for City Leaders" Guide
20 September 2012: The UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has launched a guide titled "Urban Planning for City Leaders" at an inaugural conference with the same name, held in London, UK. The guide aims to support urban planning good practice among local decision makers and leaders in developing and emerging economies.
The guide includes ten practical "how to" chapters designed to offer advice and guide decisions on topics such as building resilience and reducing climate risks, creating partnerships and measuring impacts. Each chapter features city case studies describing initial challenges, adopted solutions and results. Noting that most climate change effects will be felt by urban populations, the guide recommends, inter alia: integrating resilience in urban planning and urban investment; mainstreaming adaptation in building standards and land policies; adapting infrastructure to climate variability; and mainstreaming mitigation in spatial and transport planning. The guide primarily targets urban planners in intermediate cities, those with populations between 20,000 and two million people, in developing and emerging economies where the majority of urban growth occurs.
Joan Clos, UN-HABITAT Executive Director, explained that the Guide aims "to fill the gap between the technical and the policy dimensions of urban planning and to help local leaders to better communicate with their planning departments and ask the right questions." Roland Busch, CEO, Infrastructure and Cities Sector, Siemens AG, said "good urban planning can provide the framework for making decisions that are resource effective and sustainable for all cities," contributing to sustainable urban planning and green infrastructure.
The "Urban Planning for City leaders" conference explored how spatial planning can contribute to functioning, livable cities and how to develop partnerships among all city stakeholders. Over 300 participants, including mayors, city planners and policy makers, from cities around the world, attended. Siemens AG and the Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA) provided support for the guide. [UN- HABITAT Press Release] [Publication: Urban Planning for City Leaders] [Urban Planning for City Leaders Conference]


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The Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., has a new feel this year, primarily because of the Tea Party movement spreading across the U.S.
The annual event, which kicked off Feb. 18, gives conservatives a chance to come together and discuss ideas on how to win future elections.
It didn't take long for this year's CPAC to get humming. Marco Rubio, an up-and-coming conservative prominent in the Tea Party movement, was the event's first speaker.
Rubio is running for the Florida Senate, taking on the more moderate and popular Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
Rubio was 30 points down in the polls, but has now pulled ahead. And despite Crist's attempt to question Rubio's conservative credentials, Tea Partiers see him as the genuine conservative real deal.
Rubio is part of the "new guard" at CPAC -- younger, grassroots-type conservatives trying to make their mark on the Republican party. The "old guard" is still around, but the players are changing.
"Rock stars" at the conservative concert are people like South Carolina Sen. Jim Demint, who's been extremely influential. His Senate Conservatives Fund is contributing money to conservative Republican candidates across the country who are taking on moderate Republican challengers.
A key topic at CPAC is making sure the party gets back to acting as a conservative party. That has led to a healthy, yet messy debate on whether key swing moderates and independents will buy into a party that may seem too rigid in their philosophy.
The Tea Party movement is extremely visible at this year's CPAC. The group Freedom Works held a press conference unveiling their "Contract from America" where citizens can tell politicians what they want done rather than the other way around.
There are also Tea Party seminars being held, including one called "Is it time for a Catholic Tea Party?"
The big CPAC event, however, is Saturday's keynote primetime speaker -- Fox News Tea Party hero Glenn Beck. Mitt Romney -- one of the likely 2012 presidential candidates -- also spoke Thursday. Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty will speak Friday.
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Reduce Stress with Meditation and Breathing – How to Cultivate Calm
It may seem counterintuitive, but one of the best things you can do in times of high stress is not much at all. Of course, what you're thinking about during this quiet period of reflection and breathing makes a big difference. By practicing meditation and mindful breathing, you can reduce stress levels, increase productivity, and boost your mood.
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