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A Tribute to the Joloff Restaurant
A Taste Of Senegal...Made In Brooklyn
I was a big fan of Senegalese cuisine after my very first boyfriend took me to Joloff on our second date. When I went through my vegetarian stage I was still able to go to Joloff because they have lots of great tasting vegetarian dishes. In college I went straight vegan, no deviations. Joloff still offered dishes I could eat. Now I've come full circle and am eating fish and some meat. No problem, I can enjoy all that Joloff Restaurant offers from their vegetarian entrees through their fish, meat, and poultry entrees. I recommend the restaurant to friends when they visit New York City. You need to go to Brooklyn, I say and eat at least once at Joloff. If and when I get married I have always said I want them to cater the wedding dinner. So, yup, I'm a fan all right.
Now you can understand that when I was browsing online through domains that were for sale and discovered joloffrestaurant.com was available, I first freaked out thinking the restaurant had closed. But a quick search for Joloff reassured me they were alive and well. IN FACT they just celebrated their 20th year anniversary. Has it truly been that long?
They have a new website (joloffjoloff.com/) and a new location for the restaurant (1168 BEDFORD AVE. BKLYN, NY 11216) When I realized I could buy the domain of the old Joloff website I didn't hesitate. And now that I have it, I am going to create a tribute to the restaurant and its tasty food by getting content from the archives of the old site as well as from other sources.
The April 12, 2012 archives on the Joloff Restaurants home page show this headline:
Welcome to Joloff Restaurant!
Papa K. Diagne opened Joloff Restaurant in Clinton Hill, with the support of his wife, brothers and sister in 1995. Prior to that, he was running a successful catering business from his apartment in Brooklyn. Since that time, Joloff Restaurant has become well known as a the local SENEGAL, making all of our clients
In November 2006 Joloff Restaurant reopened its doors to our loyal customers after a two months of renovation and menu overhaul. Higher tin ceilings; fresh yellow, blue, and brown interiors; recently imported table cloths from Senegal; native artwork along the walls; and a new lounge area give this local favorite a special cozy ambiance. For over a decade now, Joloff Restaurant has provided a place where people from different nationalities meet over the specifics of Senegalese food and music, creating a global community in Brooklyn.
Come join us to enjoy a plethora of healthy West African food: the restaurant's famous thiebu jeun, yassa ganar, mafe tofu, bissap, ginger, thiakri, and numerous other meat or vegetarian specialties, drinks, deserts, and the pleasant company of the owner, Papa K. Diagne. Every other Friday, attend the music and artistic performances of the Joloff Lounge Series.
I can't wait to visit the next time I am on the east coast. I wish I could have made it to their Joloff Restaurant 20th Anniversary celebration.
Old Location
Joloff Restaurant
930 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
New Location
Joloff Restaurant
1168 Bedford Avenue<
Broolyn New York 11216<
718) 230-0523
Open: Mon-Wed. 1pm-10:30pm |Thurs. & Sat. Noon -11pm | Sun Noon -10pm | Fridays 1PM-11PM
If you are not familiar with the history of this West African restaurant and the founders, here is some archived content. I only wish there were archived versions of the pictures from the old site. I did notice that the artwork of the Senegalese women with the cooking pot in her hair wrap was re-imagined on the poster announcing the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Joloff Restaurant.
Customer Testimonials
"It is cozy and incredibly mellow, and the hearty food is the kind that makes you want to sit back and tell Mom your problems." Tara George, The Daily News.
Tech Talk and Outstanding Food!!
A team of us from the company I work for were in Booklyn working with a large organization helping them with their Salesforce CRM. We're all techies. Our job directive was to customize Salesforce's functionality for this company by coding new modulesfor both their business logic and other front-end components. We had just finished the initial stage of the job and wanted to celebrate. One of the company's IT guys suggested Joloff. He said "Going to Joloff is like going home -- even if you're not from Senegal" None of us had ever had Senegalese food so we were all in for the adventure. So while we ate some amazingly good food, we discussed the ins and outs of Salesforce's programming language, APEX and how with APEX we can create custom code that will perform functions to update fields, create records, perform calculations etc., as well as discuss Salesforce's front end framework, VisualForce. Did I say we are techies. Hey, the food really out shined all our talk. We'll be back when we finish up the project. You can be sure.
"If you can't travel to the motherland, Joloff Restaurant is the next best thing."
Essence Magazine
"The food here is excellent if I could could go over 5 stars I would, my first time having senegal food prices are excellent and the food was well worth it, I had the blue fish with peanut sauce. I WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK"
9/19/2015 Yelp review
"We hadn't been here since we lived in Brooklyn in the late 90's, first time at this new location. Wonderful decor, it was a perfect day & a great way to celebrate Mother's Day! We are always in NY, but hardly ever make it to Brooklyn.
We ordered fried plantains- which were cooked perfectly, the fataya djeun & legumes (fish pastels were our favorite), very flavorful & the sauce was tasty.
We all ordered a mix of sorrel & ginger- which was bangin'. It's a BYOB so we picked up a few bottles from Moore Brothers Wine. Gotta love a BYOB!
Tiebuu Jeun (snapper) was awesome, perfectly seasoned! If your feeling adventurous- ask for hot sauce or sauce pimente- the perfect accompaniment to any Senegalese food- but use sparingly! Mafe Jeun was off the hook. The creamy tomato peanut stew is to die for with cabbage, yucca, carrots and joloff rice! I'm hungry thinking about it. Yassa Jeun was very good too. We had the Mafe Yapp- lamb stew in peanut butter sauce with okra - which is pureed in the sauce! It was soooo good with brown rice.
We thoroughly enjoyed the food, service & ambience. We won't wait so long to come back!"
5/11/2015 Yelp review
About Joloff Restaurant
We are a West African restaurant that specializes in Senegalese cuisine. Our most popular dish is the Senegalese national dish called Tiebou Jeun (baked fish, joloff rice, and veggies). What makes this dish special is the way the rice is cooked: it is a "broken" rice, with a jasmin flavor, cooked into a deep tomato sauce. This is what we call the "joloff" rice, which is also the speciality of the house. All our dishes are made daily upon request. The juices are all homemade and freshly made. In order to be a cook at Joloff Restaurant, you have to love cooking. This is mostly what distinguishes our cooks from those in other restaurants.
We are also one of the few West African restaurants serving vegetarian food. Our vegetarian food is also vegan. Originally, the recipies were developed in order to feed Papa's Rastafarian friends, who were vegetarians. Later on, Papa realized that there is a huge need for vegetarian food, especially in Brooklyn.
Since 1995, Joloff Restaurant has been visited regularly not only by the local community but also by a number of celebrities. Some celebrities who have been regulars at Joloff include: Eryka Badu, M1, Kevin Powel, Sizzla, AKON, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Isac Debancole.
The restaurant was featured in the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Amsterdam News, in Eat, and OCSNews.
"When I see people come and enjoy themselves eating Senagalese food, I feel very good because this shows that Senegalese food can be eaten and accepted by anybody anywhere in the world," notes Papa. "As a Senegalese food maker, I feel that I have to represent my country one way or another. The restaurant helps people discover not just the food but also our way of living, our culture. The Joloff Restaurant is also a preview before going to Senegal: my customers are not just Senegalese, they are a mix, they come from different nationalities, and so we are a melting pot on a small scale. Senegal is a very welcoming country: by coming to the restaurant you can get a taste of how welcoming my country's people are.
" I learned how to cook here because I didn't want to eat junk food," says Papa Diagne, the owner of the restaurant. He started cooking himself, for the catering business he developed, for several years. Then, he got together with several siblings, found a convenient corner location, renovated it inside and commissioned an artist to do the African mural outside, and started the Joloff Restaurant. This was back in 1995, when Biggy Smalls was on the rise and when the Clinton-Washington stop on the A and C trains was considered part of the dangerous BedSty, now the trendy Clinton Hill.
"The logo represents a lady, because we always consider Africa as the motherland," says Paga. "But, specifically, the restaurant and the logo are dedicated to my grandmother, "Mami" Diallo, who kept our family together. The cooking pot that you see on the hair wrap, which is also in the middle of the map," explains Papa, "is the traditional way of cooking: there were no stoves, just wood."
Directions by Subway
NYC Subway:
Take the A or C trains to Franklin Station or Nostrum Ave Station
Need to walk to Bedford Ave.
I am thrilled that Joloff Restaurant is still feeding people the best and most authentic Senegalese food you can get, certainly on the east coast and perhaps the best within the US. Take a trip out to Brooklyn to the Joloff Restaurant. You won't be disappointed!


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Justin popped up again in New York on Tuesday night to catch his former 'N Sync bandmate Joey Fatone's performance in Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors. Afterward he headed over to hotspot Suede for Fatone's weekly TNT Tuesday night party, arriving at 11:30 and partying till 3 a.m. (Cameron will be happy to know that although she wasn't there, Justin politely rebuffed all the female admirers who approached him.) At one point Justin was having such a great time that he stood up, grabbed the microphone and said, "This is for my friends Eytan (Suede's owner, Eytan Sugarman) and Joey," and proceeded to sing an impromptu version of his hit song "Like I Love You." With the crowd in a frenzy, Justin stayed on the mic, instructed resident DJ Quinn which songs to play and sang along to hits by Michael Jackson, Prince and Jay-Z.
Bull Artist
There was a time when NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman ran with the Bulls – of the Chicago variety, that is. This week the retired basketball star decided to play with a more dangerous breed – of the angry, behorned variety – by running with the bulls at the traditional event in Pamplona, Spain. Why? "My two kids are Taurus, I'm a Taurus and my wife's a Taurus, so it's a good mix," he told us during the weekend at a party in the hip-hop room at Miami hotspot the Mansion. At the party – also attended by fellow hoops greats Michael Jordan, Dikembe Mutombo, Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley – Rodman got up onstage and had the names of his kids tattooed on his chest while onlookers gaped. As for the run in Pamplona on Wednesday, "I wasn't afraid," Rodman told the Associated Press. "I like strong emotions."
Forever Family Man
Who says rock and roll isn't for kids? Eric Clapton's two children (with Melia McEnery), Julie Rose, 3, and Ella, 17 months, have come to hear their dad practice during his recent tour, says bandmate Doyle Bramhall II. "They'll come to rehearsals and dance onstage," he says. "Eric will play specific songs for them to dance to, and he'll request the band to turn it down for the kids, and then we'll play a short set for the kids."
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Spotted Recently:
Sharon Osbourne, at the Pout cosmetics counter in the posh Harvey Nichols store in Leeds. (Maybe it's daughter Kelly's influence?) She picked out bright, daring colors such as Miss Brazil (an eye shadow duo with an iridescent purple and gold copper shimmer), Eye Envy You (a bright emerald eyeliner) and the Carpet Burn and Hot Flush lipsticks. Our spy tells us Mama Osbourne knew exactly what she wanted and was very chatty with the staff.
By MARK DAGOSTINO, DONNIE SNOW, JON WARECH, KC BAKER and MONIQUE JESSEN

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I think the purpose of Cinquanta's communication was to alert people that some hard choices would have to be considered in the future due to financial considerations.
^ That's a good question. It would certainly be interesting if the ISU would open it's books to the public.
I actually doubt that NBC made a profit from the Olympics. They will say that they did, but such reports are self-serving and often padded.
I do not know whether the ISU gets any cash money from the IOC and its sponsors beyond reimbursement for expenses for the Olympics itself.
In the mid to late 1990s the bulk of ISU revenue came from US television contracts -- millions and millions of dollars annually for the rights to broadcast ISU events. Now that amount has dwindled to essentially zero. It is my impression that, yes, they pretty much do give away the broadcasting rights in the US for practically nothing (I don't know about other countries, such as Japan).
To me, all the signs point to a return to the model of the long past where the ISU is supported mainly by the dues of its members.


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Canadian Experience
This is the period where we
moved our site servers from Kentucky to Michigan. It was all well
organized in advance but our new ISP, Verizon, made a right hash of the
move and so instead of being down for around 12 hours while we did the
physical move of our server we were down for 3 full days and then only
one of our two T1 lines came up and it took another day for the second
line to come up. Over the first month we had several DNS issues
with them meaning some people couldn't connect to the service.
However, after all was
sorted out we got lots of emails saying how much faster the service was
and we noted a strong growth in visitor numbers. Of course we're not
sure what the future has in store for us as we see this global melt down
and entering a depression around the world.
As it happens for much of
2008 the US dollar was around parity with the Canadian dollar and as all
my income is in US dollars it meant I wasn't making as much money as I
had been. That said due to the financial melt down the US dollar
was all of a sudden trading in the 1.15 to 1.25 range meaning my US
dollars were now making me much better returns here in Canada. And
so now was the time to re-roof my house while the exchange rate was in
my favour :-)
I'd been told when I
purchased the house that I'd need to re-roof it within 4 years and as
2009 is my fourth year it made sense to get it done now.
You can see that the roof was needing
I used J & L Services,
RR% Blenheim, Ontario Tel: 519 401 0498 and they seem to have done a
good quality job although with all the snow we've been getting I haven't
yet seen the roof without snow!
As you can see from these pictures from my
house and of my porch
The cost of the
re-roofing was CAN$5,600 + tax and that was for 50 year shingles and I
finally got a chance to get photos of the new roof :-)
And this is my completed new roof
and note that I now have new neighbours
I did manage to get to a
Scottish Studies Foundation meeting in December at the RCMI in Toronto
and I spent the Christmas period with Nola and Harold in Toronto. Got
back for New Year in Chatham and then just after that came down with a
heavy cold which I very rarely get so a wee bit miserable for a week or
two in January.
I applied for Canadian
Citizenship on 1st October and according to the web site I should get an
acknowledgement letter around 2 months from them receiving my
application. As at end of February I still haven't heard
anything and so that's over 3 months now.
The above is my receipt for the processing
fee dated 1st October 2008
It's interesting to note
that the citizen process is likely to take some 28 months despite the
fact that they don't require nearly the information they required for
Permanent Landed Status which in my case took just 13 months.
On 20th January a new USA
President got sworn in...
I attended a couple of meetings at the RCMI
(Royal Canadian Military Institute) and got talking to one of the
Directors. He told me that since Toronto put in a non smoking ban
they have lost 30% of their members. Apparently a lot of their old
soldiers used to pop in for coffee and a cigarette and to talk with
friends and then had a bar lunch and headed home. As a high number
were smokers they used to enjoy the club facilities but now they have to
go out into the street to have a cigarette. I can't help thinking
that this non smoking ban is going a little too far. I mean a lot
of these soldiers fought so we could have freedom to do as we wish and
that's how people treat them in their latter years. I just don't
think that is right and there should be some allowance made for special
cases. Also as a lot of these soldiers are older folk it can't be
good for their health to have to go out into the street.
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The Northbridge Youth Soccer Association (NYSA) is dedicated to providing a fun, safe, healthy and competitive soccer environment in which the youth of Northbridge may participate in and develop their soccer skills, to learn proper attitudes towards competition and sportsmanship, to learn the values of teamwork and respect for the rules, self discipline, and the gaining of self confidence gained through trial and error.
The Northbridge Youth Soccer Association (NYSA) is dedicated to providing a fun, safe, healthy and competitive soccer environment in which the youth of Northbridge may participate in and develop their soccer skills, to learn proper attitudes towards competition and sportsmanship, to learn the values of teamwork and respect for the rules, self discipline, and the gaining of self confidence gained through trial and error.
In order to fulfill our mission we provide the following objectives and philosophy:
Northbridge Youth Soccer Association is proud to announce our Corporal John M Dawson Memorial 3v3 Soccer Tournament will be held on
August 13th & 14th, 2016
at the Northbridge High School athletic complex:
427 Linwood Avenue
Whitinsville, MA 01588
Please visit our tournament page on this site.
Questions can be sent to the tournament director
The term "Corporation", shall mean the Northbridge Youth Soccer Association Inc.
I. Board of Directors
The Corporation's Board of Directors shall consist of the 8 Officers of the Corporation: The President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Registrar, Secretary, Town Rep, Director of Player and Coach Development, and Immediate Past President. The specific duties of the Officers are outlined below.
II. Duties of Officers
President — The President is responsible for implementing the policies set forth in the Corporation's Articles of Organization and its By-Laws. The President is also responsible for implementing policies set forth by a majority vote of the Corporation's Board of Directors, but only to the extent that the Board's policies do not conflict with the policies set forth in the Corporation's Articles of Organization or By-Laws.
The President is also responsible for implementing any other policies of the Corporation which have not been specifically set forth by a majority vote of the Corporation's Board of Directors. The President is responsible for all decisions regarding issues that pertain to the day to day operations of the Corporation that have not been specifically set forth in the Corporation's Articles of Organization or By –Laws or which have not been addressed by a majority vote of the Corporation's Board of Directors. Specific duties of the President include, but are not limited to, assisting the Vice-President in recruiting, selecting, and assigning coaches; and personal for responsibilities affecting the operation of the Corporation, i.e. League Coordinators, Equipment Manager, Uniform Manager and Sponsor Manager, assigning representatives to the leagues in which the Corporation participates and any other positions that are deemed necessary for the effective operation of the Corporation. The President shall also have the authority to act on any other issue not specifically set forth in the Corporation's Articles of Organization or By-Laws, or specifically addressed by a majority vote of the Corporation's Board of Directors, if such action is in the best interest of the Corporation.
Vice-President - The Vice-President is responsible for assisting the President in recruiting, selecting, and assigning coaches and personnel for responsibilities affecting the operation of the Corporation, i.e. League Coordinators, Equipment Manager, Uniform Manager and Sponsor Manager, assigning representatives to the leagues in which the Corporation participates; and, any other positions that are deemed necessary for the effective operation of the Corporation.
The Vice-President shall take over the duties of the President when the President is unable to perform those duties.
Treasurer - The Treasurer has general charge of the financial affairs of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall keep, or cause to be kept, an accurate accounting record of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall submit a financial statement at the Corporation's Annual Meeting using generally accepted accounting principles. The Treasurer shall have custody of all funds and valuable documents of the Corporation and perform all duties incident to the office of Treasurer.
Registrar - The Registrar performs all duties incident to the office of Registrar and shall act as Registrar for the Corporation and carry out all related tasks in regard to the Corporation and the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association. These duties include, but are not limited to, registration of participants (players) each fall and spring season, submission of all applicable forms to the leagues in which the Corporation participates, and development of team rosters by age group.
Secretary - The Secretary performs all duties incident to the office of Secretary. These duties include. but are not limited to, recording of minutes from all meetings of the Corporation's Board of Directors, recording of minutes from the Annual Meeting of the Corporation, notification of the Corporation's Annual Meeting through use of broadcast, print, and internet based media, anti submitting all appropriate updates with the approval of the President, to the internet web site of the Corporation.
The Secretary shall distribute a copy of each meeting's minutes to all meeting attendees within 15 business days after said meeting, and maintain a copy of all minutes recorded for future reference.
Town Rep – Responsibilities include the primary contact between MAYS, Mass Youth Soccer and Northbridge Youth Soccer. All coach inquiries need to be forwarded to the Town Rep for escalation if needed. The Town Rep will respond to all inquires and send a detailed follow-up to all impacted parties as soon as administratively possible. The Town Rep will also attend town or league meetings as needed which may included by not limited to Park and Recreation meetings, Board of Selectmen meetings, MAYS meeting and Mass Youth Soccer meetings. Other Board positions may also attend these meeting along with the Town Rep or in the Town Reps place if needed. Town Rep will also have voting league rights as needed.
Immediate Past President – The Immediate Past President shall be a member of the Board of Directors and may also be elected and serve in any other position after his/her term as President. In the event that the positions of President and Vice President are both vacant, the Immediate Past President shall assume the leadership of Northbridge Youth Soccer until such time as an Annual Meeting of the membership shall elect a new President and/or Vice President. The Immediate Past President shall have such duties as may be assigned to him/her from time to time by the President or by vote of an Annual Meeting. The term of the sitting Immediate Past President shall continue only so long as his/her immediate successor occupies the position of President.
Director of Player and Coach Development - Duties would include organizing member clinics, camps, and instructional programs as needed along with implementing an on-going player developmental process and placement program. This position would be responsible for coordinating coach license courses along with on-going developmental clinics as needed. This position would also include coach recruitment and annual assessments.
Directors/Officers-Term of Office
The Board of Directors of NYSA will be elected annually by the members of the Corporation as stated at its annual meeting in June of each year. Each Officer will serve two year terms alternating positions each annual meeting. The President, Secretary, Town Rep and Director of Player and Coach Development will be up for election in one year then, the Registrar, Treasurer, and Vice President the following year. This process will ensure the Association has ample time to transition Corporation knowledge, duties, and responsibilities.
Annual meeting:
Prior to the annual meeting a notification of not less than 30 days will be given to all Corporation members along with postings to the local newspapers and cable access channels of the Annual meeting and any open items to be discussed including but not limited to: vacant board positions or positions at the end of their term, applicable voting amendments, and open issues items. The annual meeting will be held at the end of the Spring season but before June fifteen of that year.
Election process:
Board of Directors elections will be held annually for applicable positions by the process of completing and submitting a nomination election form (can consist of a letter of intent or qualifications document) to the Corporation's Secretary (paper or email version will be accepted) seven days prior to the Annual Meeting. Any Corporation member can nominate either himself/herself or another member of the Corporation. If the Board position is uncontested, then a motion by the Corporation's President or Vice President in attendance with a majority vote of the board will elect the board nominee to the Corporation. If two or more nominees are up for the same position, a ballot election will take place to all members in attendance at the Annual Meeting and submitted in a predetermined container and counted by the Corporation's Secretary or officer that is not up for election. Members consist of those registered as coaches, Board members, and parents or legal guardian (all of age 18 years or older) of a child that was registered with the Association during one or both of the past two seasons (previous Fall and current Spring season – this constitutes a full Soccer season). Members will be checked in at the start of the meeting and handed a ballot form during the election process to submit. All non-members will not be able to vote but are more than welcome to attend the annual meeting. A majority vote will be counted that day and motion to elect will be granted by the Corporation's President or Vice President. A visual recount can be requested by any nominee before meeting end (a request for an independent review of the recount can also be requested).
Resignation of Board Member(s)
If at any time a Board of Director wishes to resign for any reason their request must be submitted in writing or via an approved electronic format (E-mail / faxed request) to the Corporation's Board of Directors. The Corporation's Board of Directors will then nominate with a two an interim replacement with a majority vote and a permanent replacement elected during the Annual meeting in June of that year. A Board member may be removed for the following reasons but not limited to: excess absences from board meetings, conduct that the Board deems to be inappropriate to either Corporation members, sponsors, or the community, conducting their duties outside the bylaws of the league after given appropriate feedback, and other instances that the board agrees upon with receiving a majority Board vote.
If a Board member is requested to step down from their position by a majority vote, the Corporation's Board will provide a formal resignation / removal letter or through an acceptable communication format (E-mail or Fax) that their resignation or removal has been approved and finalized. The Board member that has been requested to be removed may request a Board appeal meeting where he/she can state their objection to be duly noted in the Board's meeting notes and if approved by the Corporation's President another motion to vote can be heard for the removal to be finalized.
Duties if a Board of Director resigns or is removed:
President resigns or is removed – Vice President takes on duties until the Annual Meeting election
Vice President resigns, or is removed –President takes on duties until the Annual Meeting election.
Registrar resigns or is removed – Secretary takes on duties until the Annual Meeting election.
Secretary resigns or is removed – Registrar takes on duties until the Annual Meeting election.
Treasurer resigns or is removed – Registrar or takes on duties until the Annual Meeting election.
III. League Play
The Corporation will field teams in both the fall and spring soccer seasons. In both of aforementioned seasons, the Corporation will participate in the Midland Area Youth Soccer League. The Corporation will follow all rules as presented by each of these leagues. The Board of Directors, by majority vote, will determine the playing environment for participants in the Mighty Mites program, the Pee-Wee program, and players under the age of 8.
IV. Age Groupings
The Corporation will follow the age guidelines accepted by the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association. In addition, the Corporation will form teams within single age groupings whenever the number of participants allows such a grouping. Exceptions to the rules set forth in the preceding two sentences of this Article may be allowed by the Corporation's President, subject to approval by a majority of the Board of Directors. However, any exceptions to age placement is subject to the provisions set forth in Article VII of these By—Laws.
V. Gender Grouping
When participating in a League which provides for team breakdown by gender. The Corporation will place players by gender except in the case when there are not enough players of any one gender group to form a team.
VI. Minimum Age
Players can start the Mighty Mites Program at a pre-school age with Parent's permission during registration.
VII. Player Placement
At the end of each registration deadline, players shall be placed in the appropriate age groupings as defined by Mass Youth Soccer and the guidelines set forth by MAYSL. Players will be placed according to ability, coaches' recommendation as determined from their evaluation, and space on a roster. Any player who signs up late will be placed according to skill level and space needs. No player shall be placed on a team above their age grouping without the written request from their parent or coach and the approval of the Board.
VIII. Coaches
VIII.a Behavior
Coaches are expected to follow the behavioral guidelines outlined in the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association's Code of conduct. Coaches are also expected to follow the behavioral guidelines mandated by the various leagues in which the Corporation participates and to follow the general expectations society places on a person working with youth in the community. The Board of Directors will review all incidents involving coaches. Any decision by the Corporation concerning a coach must be made by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. The Board can then direct the President of the Corporation to take whatever action the Board deems necessary. If the President refuses to act, then any other Officer of the Corporation i.e. the Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Registrar, or the Secretary will have the authority to implement the action mandated by the majority of the Board of Directors.
VIII.b Licenses
Coach licenses (payment for all license levels will be reimbursed by the league) are either recommended or required for the following age groups:
· Mighty Mites: G License recommended but not required
· Pee-wee: G License recommended but not required
· U8 and U10: G License is required and F License is recommended
· U12 up to U14: G and F license are required and E License is recommended
· U16 and above: G, F, E Licenses are required
The NYSA Board has the discretion to make an exception as to coaching positions based on the need, timing, and situation as needed.
IX. Fees
Fees for registration and uniforms shall be set by a majority vote of the Board of Directors before the sun or me Tall registrations in any particular soccer year. The soccer year begins at the start of the fall season and ends at the conclusion of the following spring season. The Board of Directors reserves the right to set registration cutoff date and may assess a late fee of $15.00 per registration until the rosters are formed. Once the rosters have been formed and submitted to the league, a $30.00 late fee per registration will be assessed Registrations received after the cut-off date are not guaranteed placement and turn be placed on a waiting list. No full refunds will be given after the 3rd week before the start date of any season. A refund requests after this time must be approved by the Board of Directors and will be refunded at 50% of the collected registration fee, minus late fees.
X. Amendments to Articles of Organization or By-Laws
Except as provided for in paragraph 4(e) on Continuation Sheet #4A of the Corporation's Articles of the Organization, any amendment to the Corporation's Articles of Incorporation which affect the Corporation's tax exempt status (but only to the extent that the Corporation is actually granted tax exempt status by the proper authorities) shall be made only after such amendment has been approved by a majority vote of the Corporation's members during an annual meeting of the Corporation. All other amendments of the Corporation's Articles of Organization may be
made by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. However, the Board may, by majority vote, decide to submit any proposed amendments to the Corporation's Articles of Organization to the Corporation's members, at the Corporations annual meet in the members of the Corporation shall then be allowed, by majority vote to either approve or not approve the proposed amendment, and this vote will be binding upon the Corporation and its
Directors unless overturned by the members of the Corporation at a subsequent annual meeting.
The By-Laws of the Corporation can be amended as provided for in paragraph 4(b) Sheet #4A of the Corporation's Articles of Organization.
These By-Laws have hereby been adopted as the By-Laws of the Northbridge Youth Soccer Association; Inc.
Corporation's Board of Directors as evidenced by the signatures below and in accordance with 1(b) on Continuation Sheet f4A of the Corporation's Articles for Organization.
XI. League Sponsors
League Sponsors will be sent an invoice for Sponsor Payment (payments determined by the Board on a discretionary basis prior to the fall season invoices) by June 15th of each year. Sponsors will be given a 30 day turn-around time as fall uniforms will be ordered by August 1 of each year. Sponsors that have returned payment will be given team sponsor priority for both the fall and spring seasons. All residual sponsors that do not have either a Pee-wee or U8 team to sponsor will be posted on the back of the Mighty Mite team shirts for both the fall and spring seasons.
XII. Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI)
Northbridge Youth Soccer Association will follow the Cori/KidSafe rules of Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association for all leadership positions which include but not limited to coaches, assistant coaches, team bench parents, league directors, league board members, and any other position that has direct contact with Soccer members on a regular basis as determined by the Board. See the specific Cori rules on the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association's website or contact a Board member for a written version. All Cori checks will be reviewed by the Director of MAYS on an annual basis and will not expire until notified by a MAYS league official. Cori checks given by another entity will not be sufficient as a Cori check with Mass Youth Soccer is needed for participation. Northbridge Youth Soccer Board will mandate the Cori check before participation for any Soccer leadership position.
XIII. League Uniform
All players will be expected to wear entire uniform for games this includes the following: Northbridge shirt, shorts, and socks. Required equipment will include shin guards and soccer cleats (no toe cleat). Please note: no jewelry is allowed (i.e. earrings, necklace, rings) eye glasses should utilize a strap, goggles would be recommended but not required.
XIV. Tournament Play – Financial Support
NYSA would like to encourage Northbridge soccer teams to participate in tournaments and will provide financial support to offset the tournament fees. NYSA will provide up to $250 per team over the course of the annual soccer season (Fall/Spring). The team must consist of a majority of players registered with NYSA. A proportionate share of the financial support will be provided in the event that a roster includes players not registered with NYSA. To receive this benefit, the coach must provide the Treasurer with a copy of a completed tournament application and a roster accepted by the tournament organizers. Funding for such tournaments may be altered or even eliminated at any time per the Board's discretion based on the financial stability of the league.
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WASHINGTON -- The so-called "Arab Spring" spreading through the Middle East could have unintended consequences that some fear the U.S. is ill prepared for.
Specifically, analysts are concerned the following scenarios could unfold in the not-so-distant future:
- A nuclear armed Iran dominating its neighbors.
- Egypt controlled by the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
- Al Qaeda terrorists roaming free near Yemen's Aden coast, where 40 percent of the world's oil supplies pass through.
Edwin Black, author of the book British Petroleum and The Redline Agreement: The West's Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil, warns the devastating effects of such occurrences could reach far beyond that troubled region.
"We are teetering on the brink of an oil interruption, and the United States has no plan for an oil interruption," Black told CBN News.
"If the oil is cut off and interrupted, as it is being threatened by Iran and its surrogates each and every hour of every day, we only have a month of two of a supply," he continued.
"The government has modeled this, and if we lose 10 percent of our oil -- not 20 percent but 10 percent -- for a protracted period of time, say 6 to 10 weeks, the country will devolve into chaos," Black predicted.
Al Qaeda has long threatened to attack oil tankers and facilities as a way to create economic chaos. There are also fears that Iran could provoke a global crisis by shutting down the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
"If oil is cut off at the Strait of Hormuz, immediately, 20 percent of American oil will be cut off, 20 percent of global oil will be cut off, and 20 percent of the seaborne oil will be cut off," Black said.
Oil prices jumped earlier this month after an OPEC meeting ended in disarray due to disagreements among the oil powers over production levels.
Ret. Marine Corps Gen. James Conway says events like this should encourage the U.S. to seek alternatives to oil. He supports an increase in the production of electric cars.
"If you look at the existing infrastructure throughout the country, it would simply be a more simplified shift through existing infrastructure via electrification than any other means--natural gas hydrogen, coal--some other means of powering or vehicles and our commercial fleets,' Conway told CBN News
With many analysts forecasting a return to higher gas prices later this year and beyond, the hunt for viable alternatives to oil produced by rogue states is sure to continue.
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Lillian May Clapper of Allegheny Lutheran Home, Hollidaysburg, formerly of Duncansville, will celebrate her 100th birthday with an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. April 23 in the Community Room of the home.
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I'd like to say the breathtaking - and bank-breaking - signing of shortstop Alex Rodriguez will do the trick.
I'd like to say the signings of proven veterans Andres Galarraga, Ken Caminiti and Randy Velarde will give Texas enough stability, experience and defense to make up for several shortcomings in 2000.
I'd like to say the return of budding star Ruben Mateo from a freak broken leg last June will be one of those overlooked returns that will be huge.
I'd like to say the maturing of young pitchers Doug Davis and Ryan Glynn will be one of the pleasant surprises in helping send the Rangers to a champagne-showering celebration in October.
I'd like to, but I can't.
Too many things working against them - starting with the young Oakland A's and their excellent starting pitching. It was Oakland, remember, which came within a hair of knocking the Yankees out of the playoffs last year.
Then there's last year's pitching staff with its American League-worst 5.52 ERA. Is it that much better? And what of those 27 blown saves.
Applaud GM Doug Melvin and owner Tom Hicks for trying to improve the team, and it will be improved. But it wasn't like the Rangers finished five games behind Oakland last year. They were 71-91, 20 1/2 games behind.
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Due to the overwhelming response to youth programs at The Art Outreach Gallery, the gallery is expanding its summer workshops and children's programs this year.
Area youth are invited to participate in the summer workshops scheduled from June 20 to July 15 at the gallery, located along the concourse between Macy's and Sears at the Eastwood Mall.
The education program is sponsored by Cafaro Foundation, Warren Area Chamber of Commerce Education, Civic & Cultural Foundation and the Eastwood Mall Complex and consists of 57 workshops.
Workshops are designed for students ages 3 to 18. Classes are conducted by area artists, art educators and art education students from Kent State University, Youngstown State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Slippery Rock University and Trumbull Career and Technical Center.
Donations from Cafaro Foundation, Warren Area Chamber of Commerce Education, Civic & Cultural Foundation, Office Max, Sherwin Williams, TCTC and community volunteers, will enable students to enter the classes with only a donation of a non-perishable food item to Second Harvest Food Bank.
''The Education Committee feels it is important to give all students an opportunity to participate in the summer workshops while teaching children the importance of giving back to the community,'' said Gail Stark, director of Art Outreach Gallery.
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C. J. Clegg wrote:
> On my Fedora Core 2 server, I call up system-config-securitylevels (the
> GUI configuration tool for iptables) and I tell it to disallow telnet.
> That works ... no one can telnet in any longer. So far so good.
> But, isn't that supposed to disable telnet'ing out, as well?
> That doesn't seem to be working.
> (In general it seems the iptables configuration GUI is MIGHTY limited in
> the things that it can do, and yet the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file,
> that gets generated by system-config-securitylevels, has tbis big caveat
> at the top: "Firewall configuration written by
> system-config-securitylevel ... Manual customization of this file is not
> recommended".)
> I would like to be able to limit all outgoing traffic to http, ssh, and
> email, nothing else.
chkconfig gives the option to determine what gets started when your system
starts. If you are trying to stop telnet into your machine, you should
use this to prevent telnet from listening (starting), in addition to the
To prevent outgoing telnet, disable (rename or remove) telnet on all your
machines. That's a start, but doesn't prevent users or processes from
installing or starting their own telnet clients. You can allow or deny
service (incoming or outgoing) to or from any port with iptables (more
below), but it is much more difficult if even possible to allow or deny
any particular protocol (http, ssh, pop3, imap, etc.).
Work out the iptables rules you think you need to allow or block whatever
traffic to or from whatever ports you are interested in, and put them into
a separate shell script with an
"iptables -I ..."
command in the script, which places these rules at the start of the
rulesets in memory. Run this script manually at startup, or automatically
after everything else has started, possibly from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
I do not believe there is any particular or easy specific way to allow or
deny any particular protocol, in or out, using iptables alone. The rules
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By Catherine Liedke, Army Contracting Command-Warren, Mich.February 25, 2014
Daniel Eaton, U.S. figure skater and son of Army Contracting Command-Warren's Dennis Eaton, credits his father for getting him interested in skating.
"My dad originally was a figure skater and he really had a passion for the sport and all it had to offer," said Eaton.
Eaton, 21, and his partner Alexandra Aldridge, 19, were one of only eighteen ice dance teams in the country to qualify for the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championship held in Boston, January 10th. The pair finished in fifth place making them second alternates for the U.S. Olympic Team to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Eaton said he and Aldridge are proud of their accomplishments and already look forward to their chance for a spot on the next Olympic Team.
"We plan to compete for years to come," Eaton said." It's only a bright and positive future ahead. We are very excited for our future and to one day be Olympic contenders.
"It was amazing to see myself on NBC and watch my program performed on national television. It's quite rewarding knowing that you've worked your entire life for this moment and you're on your way to the ultimate goal."
Eaton said he and Aldridge are dedicated to their goal, training at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., four-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week. In addition to ice time, they work out at the gym three days a week as well as take weekly stretch and ballet classes.
"A lot of off-ice work goes into figure skating. We work on lifts off-ice and we train our programs off-ice every day," he said.
Eaton said he carries a special good luck charm wherever he goes.
"I have a good-luck coin in my skate bag that I got from Col. Tim McKernan back in 2009. Col. McKernan was in Iraq and I used to practice with his son and daughter who were also ice dancers. Col. McKernan and his troops wished all the skaters at U.S. Nationals good luck from Iraq on the arena's big screen TV. It was pretty cool," he said.
Eaton and Alexandra qualified to compete in the Four Continents Championships held in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 20-26, where they finished third.
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Sunny Leone in Ragini MMS 2
Indian-Canadian sex siren Sunny Leone is playing her cards right. She entered Bollywood with last year's erotic thriller Jism 2 and wowed the audiences. Post that, she's been working hard at her Hindi diction and has now successfully completed Ragini MMS 2. "You will really get scared, and jump off your seats," she says. This film is likely to have her in a completely Indian avatar, a departure from her earlier image.
Like all successful actresses, she has taken up a pet cause, literally. She has turned poster girl for PETA and is their brand ambassador. She exhorts people to protect their pets and said, "I want all of you to cuddle and love the dogs and cats."
She has now signed on another project, Tina and Lolo loosely based on Thelma and Louise. She plays a dark character and has plenty of action in this Devang Dholakia film. Now we'll have to wait and see if Ragini MMS 2 will catapult her into the big league.


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Ahead of a Food and Drug Administration expert panel review in May, AIDS advocacy groups are weighing in on Gilead Sciences' request that its HIV drug Truvada (emtricitabine and tenofovir) be approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against the virus.
The Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation has petitioned FDA on the grounds that studies show Truvada is only partially effective at PrEP. Since the combination drug must be taken every day, protection will diminish if -- as is common in everyday life -- a dose is missed, said AHF. "People who take PrEP even haphazardly will consider themselves protected" and could forgo preventive measures like condoms, said Tom Myers, the group's general counsel.View Full Article
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Santa Barbara high school has welcomed a new running back to their offense this season. His name is Ramon Harper and he's here to stay.
Harper played his freshman year at St. Bonaventure, then played varsity as a sophomore for the Westlake Warriors. Tragedy struck the Harper family during his Junior year. In the summer of 2012, Ramon's mother past away after a year long battle with cancer.
This is when Harper made the move up the coast to suit up for the Dons.
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Dimmable: Lutron® CL or Leviton® LED Dimmer
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Awesome post Rach!
I can't wait until these things are in stores!
Okay today I've found like two more wiimote chargers and I'll probably find some more while browsing today so.. I'm just gonna post all the ones I find in here
Okay Most of you have probably seen me posting this around, it's made by Joytech and is available on Amazon right here
Okay the next one I stumbled across is this one here
I found this one Right here
I just heard that 3.5 hours of charge will give you 25 hours of playtime with that one.
And last but not least is this one
Also found this on Amazon
Okay newest addition to the clan, the 'penguin United Wiimote charger'
The included rechargeable battery will provide you with 38 hours of game playing time. Wii remote will be charged from USB cable using modified battery cover provided. Wont be in store until Apirl BUT YOU CAN BUY IT HERE NOW
Hope this is useful to everyone and I'll keep this updated and post when I find some more
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Awesome post Rach!
I can't wait until these things are in stores!
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They should have made it with a charger =/
Would have made alot more money for Nintendo xD
But good finds I must say
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Just wanted to let y'all know that the list has been updated.
i shouldent have bought a stand, i should have waited for this...o well i have rechargeable batterys
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Originally Posted by Darkprinny
only 29.99, its a must-have wii accessory
Nice finds. I was looking at the Nyko model, but here in the States, the release date seems to keep getting pushed back. I broke down and just bought rechargeable batteries and charger.
I like the "http://www.thanko.jp/wiirech/" and the 'penguin United Wiimote charger'... Both seem to have a long battery life for a short charge. It's also nice that it connects to the USB port which eliminates a need for another outlet.
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Suburban Scrawl
After the deserved success of her debut collection The Safety of Objects, A.M. Homes found herself riding the rapids of a confluence of transgressive fiction and Gen-X Downtownism. Somehow the tributaries which floated '80s axioms Catherine Texier and Tama Janowitz, Dennis Cooper, Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis, ran together into a main stream. And Homes rode it clear to the sea, where strange triumph The End of Alice was marketed as if it were beach reading, despite an art house style and a topic of pedophilia. Seen through a voomy headshot splattered with credits from Artforum, George, and every other überglossy under the halogen, she could almost be the Queen of America.
But she's a brilliant mistake. Neither a boffo bestseller writer nor a superfreak, Homes is instead a talented and conventional investigatrix of middle-class mores who caught a current. As if to remedy the misprisions of marketing and the vagaries of buzz, she's returned with Music for Torching, a novel exclusively dedicated to the form of the suburban roman à gin'n'tonic.
The events attend well to the dialectic rule of the genre: Nothing Ever Happens In The Suburbs vs. Anything Goes Behind Closed Doors. Paul and Elaine Weiss, having arrived at the dream kids, cars, house, all nice find it's marked by ennui and despair. They want to "make things good again," a phrase that runs like a mantra through the book. So, by way of waking from the dream and braking the downhill slide, they burn their house accidentally on purpose. Not to the ground, but enough to throw them out of their rut and into the arms of their rutting friends and neighbors. Paul's been having an affair and has another; Elaine has one of her own, with a neighbor lady (this may be the transgressive part). The boys, Daniel and Sammy, are mostly flat screens on which Paul and Elaine project parental-type feelings (it's hard to make out whether this is incisive commentary on bourgeois family dynamics or simply failed characterization). Eventually the story arrives at an arbitrarily violent climax, both relief from the dullness and guarantor of the EdginessTM seal.
Paul and Elaine seem the types to have read Cheever and Updike; somewhere they learned that folks like them are duty-bound to sublimate their existential voids beneath a slough of materialism. Desperate to buy the delusion, they imagine that mending their semitorched house promises a fresh start. They can rebuild it; they can make it better than it was. But you've read those authors, too: no amount of stuff will repair the humming vacancy of the characters' inner lives, just as no fountain of intoxicants can drown the fire of malaise.
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If Homes is an heir, it is to the legacy of exactly those suburban scribes, but with the drugs updated. Indeed, Torching is a long appendix to a 1990 story in which Paul and Elaine having packed the kids off to Disney World give crack a whirl and have a whizbang time. "Adults Alone" is a vivid triumph, one of the two best pieces in Objects (along with the disturbing boy-meets-Barbie love story "A Real Doll"); Homes has a gift for the set piece which begs the short form. What she can't conjure are any of the things that might hold her set pieces in a larger shape: plot or complex characters or a social idea. When she wants the reader to know how things are with Paul and Elaine, she just tells us:
it's every man for himself, each hoarding what little he has, each wanting his own, each wanting something different. They speak in the defensive. They wait for disappointment. They constantly accumulate proof of having been let down, misunderstood, unappreciated. They are a tense and bitter lot.
All this in the context of imagining that the neighbors have perfect lives and only they are troubled and impure.
Such recitations reproduce the psychological conventions of the genre so hilariously that the book threatens to become metafiction. But then one realizes Homes just likes to explain; when Sammy overturns a glass during a parental spat, Elaine must immediately think, "The kid had to spill his milk to create a distraction." And when s'mores are mentioned, we need wait only an em dash before the narrator clarifies, "sandwiches of chocolate, toasted marshmallows, and graham crackers."
Periodically the books tries to wriggle out of its constraints, as with the various DeLillo-esque moves (none more direct that the unpatented spiritual meds provided by a stranger à la White Noise's Dylar). But Homes, committed to some vision of accuracy, pulls up short of the absurd or even the bizarre. There is a whiff of the genuine to this decision, a renunciation of easy humors and distancing mechanisms.
In the backwash of postmodernism and experimentation, realism has again become an issue for the current generation of significant American writers, from David Foster Wallace's rants against irony to the triumph of the memoir form. And the disaffected suburbanite has in turn become the ultimate sign of the American real, just as the noble peasant once stood in for reality itself in European art. Yet the real, that traditional value, is too easily comprised of things we already know we know, and the nostalgia attendant. On the occasions in Music for Torching when Paul and Elaine reminisce about the events from "Adults Alone" sometimes in the same words found in that story one suspects it's not the characters flashing back to their high-water mark but the author trying to recapture her own.
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T/F: CompactFlash NICs are most frequently used to connect devices too small to handle PCMCIA slots.
data transreceiver
Nearly all NICs contain a(n) ____, the device that transmits and receives data signals.
___ is a set of data or instructions that has been saved to a ROM (read-only memory) chip (which is on the NIC).
Each time a computer starts up, the device drivers for all its connected peripherals are loaded into ____.
A(n) ____ is the circuit board wire over which a device issues voltage to signal this request.
The ____ is a simple set of instructions that enables a computer to initially recognize its hardware.
base I/O port
The ____ setting specifies, in hexadecimal notation, which area of memory will act as a channel for
____ routing is a technique in which a network administrator programs a router to use specific paths between nodes.
____ are combinations of networking hardware and software that connect two dissimilar kinds of networks.
A computer's ____________________ is the circuit, or signaling pathway, used by the motherboard to transmit data to the computer's components, including its memory, processor, hard disk, and NIC.
device driver
A(n) ____________________ is software that enables an attached device to communicate with the computer's operating system.
memory range
The ____________________ indicates, in hexadecimal notation, the area of memory that the NIC and CPU use for exchanging, or buffering, data.
A router that directs data between nodes on an autonomous LAN (or one owned and operated by a single organization) is known as a(n) ____________________ router.
cut-through mode
A switch running in this mode reads a frame's header and decides where to forward the data before it receives the entire packet.
Devices that connect two network segments by analyzing incoming frames and making decisions about where to direct them based on each frame's MAC address.
store-and-forward mode
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to be intoxicated to the point where you can't be anymore messed up without passing out. Synonyms: Drunk, fucked up, trashed, blazed, melted, stoned, malted, smashed, half dead.
me: Yo did you like drinking that steel reserve after that phattie?
josh: word man, im scorched
josh: word man, im scorched
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basically high as fuck to the point that you shit yourself and dont care
FUCK!! im scorched this is good shit
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the state of being high on marijuana
"dude you're so scorched"
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The act of being hot and thirsty at the same time.
As we walked down the avenue during the heat of the day, I shouted to my friends,"I'm so scorched." When the laughter subsided, I explained that I was so hot and thirsty, scorched, you know.
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A hot, sexy piece of ass
Wow, he must be scorched!
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Being very physical and passionate in lovemaking using multiple positions and all parts of the bed.
So it was our third date, we were both very hot, so we just sort of scorched screwing the sheets!
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|Er... I don't know that I can remember this far back. I was a fool to stop writing this journal, a fool! Brescia? Brescia? I don't fucking remember! Schio I remember.... Verona, of course.... Brescia? What happened there? Was that the place where the waitress... oh I don't know. It was the night after Genova! Who could remember a thing after Genova? We could've played the coliseum and it would slip my mind.
Oh! Brescia! Of course! We played at a club, a nice old-feeling place squat in the middle of hundreds of warehouses, right beside acres of vacant lots, what was it called? And it was run by a jubilant couple with dogs and all these kids came in.... I remember talking to the bartender, Ago and I were hoping for a late night of festivities but there seemed to be nothing to do here in Schio. We played with a band that was like a Brescia Pearl Jam maybe, lots of energy, lots of cymbals, lots of friends. Very nice, let us use their stuff - there was a piano onstage. How can this become interesting? Did I drink? Of course I did, I drank and I ran outside and pissed in the dog kennel, yes I showed it to the dogs! And they barked, they barked! And Agostino's friends came, they were very nice, warm people - it made me love the Italians more, these guys who've been in & around rock music for years & still they're warm friendly gentle people, it was like a country full of Corey Rusks. Not quite full, but you saw them there, you saw them more than usual.
What else was there? I remember not enjoying the show so much. It was an odd night.... Andy and Agostino and Matt and I stayed up late playing poker, we wanted to stay up late in the hotel bar but they wouldn't have us. We'd have been up 'til forever if they'd let us, but as it was we gambled for very small change and if I recall we slept soundly.
Please accept my apology for waiting so damned long to write this. If anyone remembers anything more, well... cherish it!
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We may find ourselves in the midst of activity for much of the day, making it difficult to separate ourselves. In that case, we can find a symbol to remind us of a peaceful place to allow our thoughts to take us there. Perhaps a flower or a stone will remind us of a garden, a shell could give us a chance to listen to the ocean, or a photograph or representation of art can take us to another place. In the space of a deep breath, we can shift our thoughts to imagine a place that brings us peace and feel it within us. However you can today, find a way to enjoy the timelessness of peace and tranquility, whether for a moment or for the day.
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Transporting children with disabilities has become an increasingly complex task for school bus fleets across the country. Fleet managers do the best they can, often with extremely limited resources in terms of time and staff. Merely keeping up with the latest developments in special-needs education and transportation presents an extraordinary challenge.
Boundless challenges
Meanwhile, advances in medical technology have made it possible for severely disabled children to survive into adulthood. Consequently, growing numbers of these youngsters are riding the school bus, requiring transportation supervisors to upgrade their driver training to include courses in how to handle medically fragile children. Some of the issues are incredibly complex, with drivers literally having to make life-or-death decisions about the handling of passengers who may have Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders on file with the school district. The cost of special-needs transportation is also a concern. Of the states that track the per-pupil cost of transporting students with disabilities, many report an expense exceeding $2,000 per year, which is more than four times the average per-pupil cost for all transported students. Why is cost so important? Because transportation funding is still tight, despite this country's long run of economic prosperity. More money spent on special-needs transportation means less money for regular-education buses. I'm not saying that's wrong; it's just a reality that we have to face. So where am I going with all this? I've provided this background to highlight the importance of the special-needs transportation survey that debuts in this issue (See feature "Nearly 40 Percent of Special-Needs Students Are Mainstreamed." Senior Editor Sandra Matke, who conducted the survey, said the questionnaire was designed to obtain benchmarks that can be compared from year to year. Repeating specific questions annually will allow us to spot trends in, say, the ratio of special-needs to regular-education passengers, the percentage of medically fragile riders and the participation of transportation providers in IEP meetings.
What we found, what we expect
One of the more interesting findings of this inaugural survey is the percentage of special-needs passengers categorized as medically fragile. According to our survey, one in 17 special-needs students, or about 6 percent, falls into that category. That means that a district transporting 500 students with special needs would handle about 30 passengers on average who are medically fragile. That's a tremendous responsibility for a transportation supervisor, as I mentioned earlier, in terms of educating drivers about the various medical conditions that comprise this category. And we can expect the percentage of medically fragile passengers to grow as medical research brings new discoveries to light. The survey turned up another interesting finding. About 25 percent of the respondents, both school districts and contractors, said they regularly use vans to transport special-needs students. As the campaign to remove vans from school service gains momentum, we would expect that number to fall. Another statistic that we'll be watching carefully is the percentage of special-needs students who are mainstreamed onto regular-route buses. According to everything I've read about the trend toward mainstreaming in the past several years, this number should go higher than its current 37 percent. But the beauty of surveys is that they don't always turn out as anticipated. You'll just have to follow along with us over the next several years to see if our survey results match our expectations.
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