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Karen Finney: Last week's Senate vote on a U.N. treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, shamefully made America seem small-minded and exclusive.
The Republican Proposal to Increase Abortions
Frank Dryden: Since you would assume that elected officials are neither stupid nor irrational, one can only conclude that it is their intention to raise the number of abortions in the country regardless of the cost.
The Tea Party Conservative Strategy for 2011
Robert Reich: Next week starts the new Congress, and with it the Tea Party conservatives. What are they going to do about government spending? Knowing they don't stand a chance of getting a direct repeal of the healthcare mandate, they'll try to strip the federal budget appropriation of money needed to put the healthcare mandate into effect. This could lead to a standoff with the White House over government funding in general, and a possible government shutdown.
GOP Health Care Bill Excludes All Immigrants From 'High Risk Pool' H.R. 3962
Republicans aren't just opposed to expanding access to health care for undocumented immigrants, they're against providing any assistance to all "high risk" seriously ill immigrants, regardless of their immigration status.
The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later
Let's be clear: Wall Street today is up to the same tricks it was playing before its near-death experience: Derivatives, derivatives of derivatives, fancy-dance trading schemes, high-risk bets. "Our model really never changed, we've said very consistently that our business model remained the same," says Goldman Sach's chief financial officer.
Goldman's Back, and Why We Should Be Worried
So the fact that Goldman has reverted to its old ways in the market suggests it has every reason to believe it can revert to its old ways in politics, should its market strategies backfire once again — leaving the rest of us once again to pick up the pieces.


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Our response to the Tandridge Local Plan Consultation
Collective Reg 18 Representation
OLRG Reg 18 Representation
- Tandridge GB "a national resource not a cash cow"
- New Planning Application for Moorhouse site
- Officer bars Councillor from crucial Oxted meeting
- "Wrong" Local Plan risks huge waste of public money
- Cllr Wren says follow London's lead on Green Belt
- Landslide election win for Jackie Wren and OLRG
- No deal for Council on Oxted Gasholder
- Historic Old Oxted School demolished
- The Story So Far...
We are delighted to announce that Limpsfield resident, Phil Davies, is standing for OLRG at the forthcoming by-election in Limpsfield to be held on October 13th.
To read Phil's first election leaflet click here
The by-election follows the resignation of Tandridge District Councillor, John Pannett, one of the two Limpsfield ward Councillors.
Having Phil as a Councillor will mean we can build on the work that OLRG's Oxted North and Tandridge Councillor, Jackie Wren, has begun to better represent residents and
* to fight to get the Council's flawed Local Plan proposals corrected and exercise close scrutiny of Council officers' work. Backed by legal and planning experts, OLRG is prepared to stand up and challenge the current approach to the Local Plan which expert opinion has made clear is seriously flawed.
* to protect our environment, in particular the beautiful Green Belt surrounding this area, and to prevent our infrastructure from being swamped by over-development.
* to fight the Moorhouse planning application for a super-sized parcel delivery depot which threatens to put thousands more vehicles on our roads and would mean an unacceptable increase in HGV traffic, noise and light pollution.
Phil moved to Limpsfield from Old Oxted over 20 years ago with his wife, Kay, and family. He has worked for many years with Titsey and Limpsfield Rotary Clubs. He was a local Venture Scout leader for more than 10 years and set up The Phantoms youth group in conjunction with Rotary.
If you are a Limpsfield resident and would like to contact him to discuss any concerns, please do email him at email@example.com
On Thursday, 21st July, Oxted and Limpsfield Residents Group Councillor Jackie Wren made another plea to Tandridge Councillors to correct the Local Plan documents. Her speech can be watched on this link click here
Councillor Wren said: "This Council has been given expert advice on two occasions now that its Local Plan documents are defective, but has not corrected them."
Later, Councillor Wren commented: "I made my points but they seemed to fall on deaf ears because the debate afterwards did not address any of them which was disappointing.
No-one seems willing or able to grasp what OLRG is saying which is that leading planning, legal and demographic experts have said the Planning Department's documents are badly wrong. As a result our precious Green Belt is unnecessarily threatened. Not only that, but if the documents are not corrected, the Local Plan risks being found unsound and tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money will be wasted.
It is frustrating but I'm not disheartened. We expected these setbacks and are determined to get the Plan corrected in line with national policy."
Councillor Wren also raised concerns that minutes of a Planning Policy Committee held on 28 June meeting are neither fair nor accurate.
She said: "My own speech has been inaccurately summarised and comments from other Councillors raising concerns about how the Planning Department is proceeding with the Local Plan have not been included. I have asked the Chief Executive to correct the minutes but my request has been refused. I will therefore be voting against the motion to adopt the minutes."
The next key dates in the Local Plan process are:
* 15th September - now postponed until at least 31st October: Tandridge Council due to reply to the Local Plan consultation responses including the expert opinion document, known as the Collective Regulation 18 Representation, which is supported by OLRG, 11 of the District's Parish Councils and 7 other Tandridge community groups. It can be read on the first link in the box at the top of this page
* 1st October - now postponed until at least 31st October: Tandridge Council due to publish details of the Sites Consultation - effectively a consultation on the release of Green Belt sites.
* 14th October - now postponed, new date unknown: Sites Consultation scheduled to begin and due to last 8 weeks.
On 13 June, Tandridge Council told OLRG it does not think the expert opinion document "has identified any significant flaws in the process."
The Council's Chief Executive, Louise Round, said: "OLRG Regulation 18 response (incorrect reference to the Collective Regulation 18 response) - my position and that of the Council is that of course we would not want to proceed to examination of the local plan on the basis of a document which is fundamentally flawed which is why, given the complexity of the process, we have sought external advice where that is appropriate. That external advice has supported our approach."
As a result of that statement, we asked to see a copy of the external advice the Council had received to support its view on the expert opinion document. Ms Round then said there was none and that she had been using the words "external advice" that "has supported our approach" to refer to some of the original Local Plan work done by consultants many months before the expert opinion document was submitted...
And so the Council's view on the experts' work is based solely on the opinion of its own Planning Department.
Papers from Tandridge Council's Resources Committee show that for the current financial year, the New Homes Bonus provides 16.5% of the Council's income, rising to almost 17% next year. The more houses the Council allows, the more money it gets.
London's new Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said that he will not allow building on any of the London Green Belt and that he has instructed his planning officers to ensure his view is reflected in all planning decisions made by the Greater London Authority. He said it was vitally important to protect our precious green spaces and that must include opposing building on the Green Belt.
To read the 26 May news release from the London Mayor click here
OLRG is an independent and non-political group. We stood for election because we were shocked by the poor quality of the Council's Local Plan documents which experts have made clear are seriously flawed, by the inadequate scrutiny of the planning officers' work, and by the inadequate and confusing public consultation.
The Local Plan documents claim 9,400 new houses are needed for massive and sustained inward migration from Croydon and other London boroughs that would require building on large swathes of the Tandridge Green Belt.
This is 470 new houses every year, almost 4 times the current housing target. It would mean a likely increase of a third in the District's population and approximately one new house built for every four existing.
Experts have shown that this need figure is inflated, unreliable and contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework and National Planning Practice Guidance.
In putting it forward, the Council has contradicted its own evidence given to the Planning Inspectorate at a recent Public Inquiry.
The Council has listed "deliverable and developable" sites for more than 1200 new houses around Oxted, Limpsfield and Hurst Green - 980 of them are on our local Green Belt.
The documents have provoked a storm of criticism from across Tandridge District for their poor quality, their misrepresentation of the District and the issues it faces, and their failure to give any information about how infrastructure would be provided to support the massive amount of new development proposed or to meet the existing infrastructure deficit caused by the massive amount of new development that has already taken place - for many years, Tandridge Council has been building roughly double its housing target.
This scale of building is putting intolerable and unsustainable pressure on infrastructure such as schools, health services, roads, rail services and parking which are struggling to cope with the existing demand. Other services, such as water, landfill and cemeteries are also at full capacity.
OLRG commissioned legal, planning and demographic experts to review the Council's documents. The result can be read on the first link in the box at the top of this page - see Collective Reg 18 Representation.
It is more than 90 pages of expert evidence. As well as OLRG, it is supported by 11 of Tandridge District's Parish Councils, 7 other community groups and the Tandridge branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
It explains why the Council's work does not comply with national policy and unnecessarily puts our precious Green Belt, and our infrastructure, at serious risk.
It makes clear that the evidence base is flawed and contradictory, the housing need figure is inflated, and the Green Belt assessments have not been carried out properly. In short, the Local Plan documents are not fit for purpose for developing a sound Local Plan.
One of the many errors in the Local Plan documents is that no account was taken - when it should have been - of the existing strains on infrastructure or of how it would cope with such a significant increase in population.
In its documents, the Council stated that it had written to all 10 surgeries in the District to ask for comments but received "no responses" and so had concluded "there is no indication of any specific requirements at this present time."
Oxted Health Centre then made clear it never received any letter from the Council's Planning Department. Therefore its views were not taken into account in preparing the Local Plan documents.
The Health Centre has now highlighted how stretched resources are, with more than 2,000 patients per full time partner. The Oxted Health Centre Patients Participation Group (PPG), which represents the 17,000 patients, has also now submitted a response to the Local Plan consultation which says health services in the area are under significant strain with the present population.
None of the Council's options (Delivery Strategies) is compliant with national planning policy.
Options 3-6 propose large amounts of building on the Green Belt as well as open spaces and recreation grounds and require the Green Belt boundaries to be changed. These options are based on an unreliable needs figure which includes unrealistic economic assumptions that are being used to justify extensive release of Green Belt for inherently unsustainable development.
Option 2a requires building on open spaces/recreation grounds and 2b does this too, as well as relying on a blanket density of 70 dwellings per hectare with no regard for local character which in many areas is much lower than that.
Soon after submitting our representation, the Council's Chief Planning Officer insisted the Local Plan is not flawed despite saying that it will take five months to consider the comments submitted to its consultation. This appears to make a mockery of the consultation process.
The Council has carried on just as before, commissioning new work based on its flawed site assessments and employing consultants to carry out "capacity" assessments to work out how many houses can be built on each site. All the many Green Belt sites together with recreation grounds and open spaces have been assessed to see how much development they can take.
The second link in the box at the top of this page has a separate representation solely from OLRG, called OLRG Reg 18 Representation. It deals with the flaws in the settlement hierarchy assessment for Oxted, inadequate infrastructure assessment, procedural deficiencies, and the problems Tandridge residents have had with the consultation process.
There is widespread concern that the consultation was inadequately publicised and that the little publicity there was failed to make clear the contents of the Plan. The documents are opaque and confusing, at times misleading, with important facts buried in footnotes.
In particular, many residents are concerned about the Council's incorrect paraphrasing of the requirement to meet housing need which has misled some into thinking the housing need figure has to be met even if that means building on the Green Belt. That is not correct, Green Belt is specifically mentioned in national planning policy as a reason for not meeting a need figure.
The OLRG representation also includes a section on the Settlement Hierarchy document which persistently attempts to portray Tandridge's small settlements as larger and better resourced than they actually are. Efforts are made to equate them to large towns like Crawley, Redhill and East Grinstead. The larger and more sustainable they are made out to be, the more development will be directed towards them.
In another of the Council's Local Plan documents, Oxted, Limpsfield and Hurst Green are frequently erroneously described as an "urban conurbation." The definition of the word conurbation is 'an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of a central city.'
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who kindly donated money to pay for the experts' input. Thanks also to everyone who has copied us their emails and letters to Tandridge Council expressing their views on the Plan which have been invaluable in making our response.
There are a vast number of Green Belt sites across the District together with open spaces and recreation grounds that the Council has listed as deliverable and developable. To see the sites near you click here and open "HELAA Appendix 3".
The sites include:
OXT 006 Chichele field, Oxted (150 houses)
OXT 007 Stoney field beside St Mary's Church, Oxted (250 houses)
OXT 025 Holland Road, Hurst Green (165 houses)
In addition, "Green Belt areas for further investigation" have been identified - to see the map of where, click here and open "Green Belt Assessment Appendix F". It is unclear what this means or why these areas are being investigated but residents will get no opportunity to comment on the findings of the further investigation. As the OLRG response to the consultation makes clear, this is unreasonable and does not meet the requirements for community consultation.
The Green Belt assessments have not been carried out in accordance with national guidance. In addition, there are numerous factual errors and inconsistencies in them.
Fears have been expressed that because the Council is so short of money, building on the Green Belt is welcomed in order to keep itself going as this Surrey Mirror article explains click here
The Local Plan documents were approved for public consultation on 10 December 2015 by all but one of the Councillors on the Planning Policy Committee despite widespread criticism from residents and some other Councillors.
Caterham Councillor, Clive Manley, the only member of the Planning Policy Committee to vote against the documents being put out for consultation, said they were "seriously flawed." He said the housing need figure (OAN) was "inflated" and it was "wrong" to put it before the public.
OLRG is taking part in the Local Plan process with the aim of protecting the local environment, of protecting local infrastructure from being swamped by overdevelopment, of meeting local need rather than London's need, and of achieving a reasonable and proportionate outcome for Tandridge District.
Membership is free. Join now by emailing email@example.com
OLRG has 2,500 members - the larger it is, the stronger our voice. Please do join and encourage others to join. All you need to do is email firstname.lastname@example.com or write to: Oxted & Limpsfield Residents Group, PO Box 233, Oxted Post Office, Station Road West, Oxted, RH8 9EH.
Most members are from Oxted & Limpsfield, but there are others from across Tandridge and anyone in the district is welcome to join. OLRG is a member of the National Organisation of Residents Associations.
NB: This picture shows one of the trees on the Chichele field in Oxted that was deliberately destroyed by developers. Ten large old trees, including a number of mature oaks, were ring barked. Men with chainsaws cut away the bark ensuring that the trees would slowly die. Very many people expressed their disgust at this behaviour.
For more details see the headline "The Story So Far". No planning application has yet been submitted for the Chichele Green Belt field but one is expected at any time.


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A high-speed wireless broadband network using Alvarion Ltd. gear and technology is being rolled out in Wisconsin by TDS Metrocom, as the two firms begin eyeing wide regions underserved or not served at all by broadband.
The TDS application, initially rolling out from the Madison state capital, uses Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL solution. It operates in the 5.8 GHz band, can reach up to 12.5 miles and can deliver wireless Internet services at symmetric speeds of up to 4Mbps, according to the firms' announcement this week.
Carlton O'Neal, Alvarion's vice president of marketing, said the TDS network is an example of the general type of wireless broadband network that could be used to address 20 percent of the nation that is underserved by Internet services, particularly in rural areas.
"There are still tens of millions of potential customers who aren't hooked up to (high speed) Internet service," said O'Neal. "We see many other TDSes out there."
The Wisconsin service has successfully passed field trials in Appleton, Wisconsin, about 100 miles north of Madison.
"We have adopted broadband wireless in our network strategy to allow us to completely eliminate our reliance on the incumbent local exchange carrier (< a href=http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=ILEC&x=17&y=11 target=_blank>ILEC)," said Ben Goth, TDS Metrocom product manager, in a statement. BreezeACCESS VL also offers OFDM non-line-of-sight connections, as well as encryption and support of 10 and 20 MHz channels and automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) via a built-in spectrum analyzer.
In noting that Alvarion has a broad offering of wireless broadband solutions ranging from non-WiMAX and pre-WiMAX to WiMAX, O'Neal said the range isn't as important as capacity in setting up wireless broadband networks.
"The user doesn't know the difference," he said, noting that users are just looking for a high-speed connection for Web surfing.


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Robot, Heal Thyself
A robot with a broken leg learns to walk again.
Juárez Correa felt a chill. He'd never encountered a student with so much innate ability. He squatted next to her and asked why she hadn't expressed much interest in math in the past, since she was clearly good at it. "Because no one made it this interesting," she said. -- Wired reports on a teaching method finding success in Mexico
Auto-Didacts Will Rule the World
Everything you need to know about web development. Neatly packaged. "Beginners, start by clicking the html box and the next lessons you should learn will get highlighted." [via reddit]
Creating the Future of Education and Work
In February 2011, every teacher in Providence, Rhode Island was pink slipped. Not all 1,926 of them got fired, of course, but with the district facing a $40 million deficit, anything is possible. The district says it needs flexibility, just in case. Every school district in the United States faces its own version of what's happening in Providence. However, "IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education and Work" is focused not on how we got here but rather how we can move forward from here immediately even as the education system continues to struggle. [more inside]
if (ourChildren.learning == true)
Why Johnny can't code - David Brin asks how to get kids hooked on programming.
Technology and Education
Three columns on technology and eduction by Robert Cringely: the clash between those who grew up with computers and those who didn't in War of the Worlds, Amish Paradise looks for learning models in unexpected places and Ozzy knows best talks about how important digital games, not video games, could be to education. [more inside]
Two months from illiterate to MP3 trading hax0rz.
Two months from illiterate to MP3 trading hax0rz. Very cool social experiment showing how easy today's GUIs are to use, especially for kids.
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While we work on building a better online experience to help you connect to Max's work, please check out his archived work at Max Hayslette Retrospective.
Born in Rupert, West Virginia in 1929, Max Hayslette is a 1951 graduate of the American Academy of Art in Chicago and also in the fall of that year studied briefly with Egon Weiner and Alexander Archipenko at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Hayslette says this brief period changed the way he viewed art and his own perception of how he would eventually fit into a life of design and painting. This is when and where he began to appreciate the modernist way of looking at life and painting. At the end of 1951 Mr. Hayslette was granted an internship with Kenneth Olson, one of the original Chicago Seven, composed of leading artists and designers. This was a period when remnants of the Bauhaus movement listed Chicago as its home. Mr. Hayslette remained on the Olson staff for 10 years.
In early 1962 Hayslette relocated to Seattle, WA and was a principal at Berg, Hayslette, Dupar design firm. In 1973 Hayslette founded Olympus Graphics, Inc. and Olympus Atelier on Bainbridge Island, WA. He now lives and works on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. Mr. Hayslette lists Alexander Archipenko and Man Ray as two artists he greatly admires and from whom he has learned much. The artist has studied great works of Asian masters in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Kyoto. He has traveled Europe studying and painting and often paints in southern France and northern Italy as well as the Greek Islands and western Turkey. The artist has been greatly influenced by these travels.
Mr. Hayslette is represented in over 350 private, corporate and public collections, most notably the Max Hayslette Archives Collection at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; the Rockefeller Foundation; Stanford University; Shoenbaum Library at the University of Charleston; Easley Library at Bluefield College, Bluefield, VA; West Virginia State Museum of Art at Cultural Center, Charleston; North House Museum, Greenbrier Historical Society, Lewisburg, WV; The Jerry West Collection; Department of Fine Arts, Seattle University; Bainbridge Art Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA: Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Galerie Jacquin d' Art Paris, Paris, France; American Medical Association; Wells Fargo Bank; Bank of America; IBM; Ford Motor Company; The Smithsonian; and US Embassies around the world. An abridged list of his showings past and present include Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Annual Exhibitions, Art Institute of Chicago; Northwest Watercolor Society Annual Exhibitions, Seattle Art Museum; 2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy; Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental 1952, Art Institute of Chicago; Artists of the Mississippi Valley Annual Exhibitions, State Art Museum, Springfield, IL; Allied Artists of West Virginia Annual Exhibitions, Galleries of Morris Harvey College, Charleston, WV; Feragil Gallery, New York City; Findlay Gallery, Chicago; Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, NC; Cooper Gallery, Lewisburg, WV; Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, WA; Christopher Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Hanson Gallery of Carmel, CA; Dick Kleinman Fine Arts, Cleveland; Nese Galleries of California; and Kevin Barry Fine Arts, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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Tom Grainger is a proud Yorkshireman, fanatical Leeds United supporter and general rate grumpy bastard. Following a long-awaited move to the capital (in pursuit of a glamorous career in the music industry) he's been quick to make a name for himself on the London club scene, holding down a Saturday night residency at Dalston's The Nest—in addition to regular slots at Leeds' Canal Mills and Croatia's Hideout Festival.
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ObamaCare's rollout has been a disaster. For most trying to enroll, the website crashed. For many who did enroll, their information was mangled. Insurance companies are reporting receiving the wrong data on enrollees.
So over the weekend, Healthcare.gov got an overhaul. Not to how you enroll to fix the bugs. Not to keep your data secure or to ensure enrollees' data gets to the insurance company. But to the homepage.
That's right ObamaCare got a facelift. So I went to healthcare.gov to see one of the new features. What I found was disturbing.
One of the changes was to allow anyone to see plans available in your area without having to give your personal information to the government. See one of the biggest problems of the last few weeks was that after your personal information was received by the government the website crashed. So the government got your information, but you didn't get health insurance.
Here's what I found when I tried this new feature. I entered in my city, state and number of people in my family to see what health plans are available to me and my family.
First, I decided to look at the low-tier, catastrophic coverage, under ObamaCare. This should typically be the cheapest plan per month. Yet one option would have cost my family over $50,000 a year in premiums.
My first thought was maybe this was just a mistake, another technical "glitch" in the website. So I kept looking.
Here are a few more of the plans I found, costing as much a $4,910 a MONTH in premiums. That's nearly $58,920 a year for a family of five.
That's what a train wreck looks like. The American people clearly can't afford ObamaCare. And ObamaCare clearly isn't ready for America.
Sign the petition to hold those responsible for this utter failure accountable.
One of Justice Scalia's most memorable moments came in a compelling dissent to one of the recent ObamaCare cases. He cut through the majority opinion's ambiguous, contorted, and complex legal justification for upholding the "SCOTUScare" exchanges in just two words: " Pure applesauce. " Pondering...
Thanks to two decisions of a federal court of appeals handed down today ( here and here ), it is now almost certain that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide next term whether the Obama administration can force religious entities, institutions, and groups -- under pain of severe financial penalties...
Just over one year ago, the Supreme Court held in the Hobby Lobby decision that the HHS Mandate, a federal regulation requiring non-exempt employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs and services to its employees, violated the religious rights of closely held corporations and their owners. It was...
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A prefix-free encoding of a finite alphabet Γ assigns each symbol in Γ a binary codeword, such that no codeword is a prefix of another codeword. A prefix-free encoding is minimal if it is not possible to arrive at another prefix-free encoding (of the same symbols) by contracting some of the keywords. For instance, the encoding {0, 101} is not minimal since the codeword 101 can be contracted to 1 while still maintaining the prefix-free property.
Show that a minimal prefix-free encoding can be represented by a full binary tree in which each leaf corresponds to a unique element of Γ, whose codeword is generated by the path from the root to that leaf (interpreting a left branch as 0 and a right branch as 1).


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Curriculum Materials
Telescopes: Super Views from Space
It probably comes as no surprise that telescopes do a better job of collecting light and observing outer space than your eyes. But do you know why? (Hint: the answer is NOT magnification!)
Let's Talk With Melanie Stiassny About the Oceans
Living on land as we do, it's easy to forget this is a water planet. Yet life appeared about 3.5 billion years ago in the ocean, and instead of leaving, most things stayed there.
Let's Talk with Ian Harrison about How Marine Animals Breathe
When in comes to breathing under water, marine organisms breathe in different ways. Some absorb oxygen through their skin, some rely on gills, and others gulp air into their gas bladders.
Hands-on Activity, Classroom Activity
Natural selection plays a large role in the evolution of a species. The following activity demonstrates this concept.
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What is a Dinosaur
It's not what they ate or when they lived that distinguishes dinosaurs from other reptiles. It's the hole in their hip socket. Find out how this feature affected the way dinosaurs walk.
Classroom Activity
What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur
Can you walk like a dinosaur? Hint: The movement is not like lizards, crocodiles, and other reptiles; instead, it's more like birds. Investigate what else birds and dinosaurs have in common.
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Body and Trace Fossils
What kind of fossil is a tooth—body or trace? How about a nest of eggs? Or a skin impression? Examine the differences between body and trace fossils with these eight high-quality photographs.
Make Your Own Liaoning Diorama
Re-create the 130-million-year-old forest in what is now China to understand why this fossil site is of such vast scientific importance.
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Climate Change Circles of Consequences
"Greenhouse effect" and "global warming" are becoming household phrases but how, exactly, are they linked? Explore the interconnections and consequences of climate change.
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Understanding Cladistics
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With the win tonight, Colorado completed non-conference play perfect at home at 9-0.
"We weren't ready to play," coach Tad Boyle pointed out.
He knew it and he let his team know it. Boyle pulled all five starters less than two minutes into the game. Alec Burks got the message from his coach. He came out and scored 12 points in his limited action in the first half.
Burks led five Buffs in double figures with 20 points, he also had eight rebounds.
Cory Higgins contributed 15 points, while Levi Knutson and Marcus Relphorde each added 13.
Andre Roberson came off the bench and gave his third double-double of the year with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
"For that kid to have three doubles-doubles in his first 15 games, he has exceeded my expectations," coach Boyle said about his freshman forward. "You look around our league tonight, everyone had a tune-up game."
Colorado used tonight as a tune-up game for Big 12 play, which begins Saturday when the ninth-ranked Missouri Tigers make a visit to Boulder. Missouri is ranked No. 8 in the USA Today coaches'poll.
"We're turning our attention to Missouri," Boyle said focusing on the future and his players know that Big 12 play is important.
"It's not for kids. It's a grown-man league and I learned that last year," Burks said. "We have a chance to beat a ranked team this Saturday. Come out and play with energy and see if we can pull it off."
The Buffs finished 8th last year in the Big 12, but they are looking to do better than that this year. The Buffs can make an impression on the Big 12 with a win Saturday.


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Is David Cameron right about gay marriage?
The Telegraph reports on the growing number of voices within the church opposed to Cameron's attempts to legalise gay marriage.
'Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it' – What motivated Steve Jobs
With the sad news of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs quite a number of people are quoting from his commencement speech given at Stanford in 2005.
Here's a sample (full text available here)
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.'
For any Christian reading what stands out is that what motivated Jobs, at least in part, is the shortness of life and the inevitability of his own death.
Apart from the events of Easter day Jobs is surely right to say 'death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.' But Christ's resurrection changes everything. Because of him we can truly 'think different'.
Jesus not only escaped death, but defeated death and transcended death. What a tragedy that it appears that Jobs never came to that understanding.
More drama from Rob Bell
Some would say that Rob Bell has been writing fiction for some time now (yes, I know, only a joke). But this is an interesting development.
The Christians who hit hard and then thank God
Of the numerous articles, publications and pictures about the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand here are three of interest and inspiration to Christians.
1) Euan Murray, who plays for Scotland on his decision not to play on Sundays.
2) 'Godzone': Rugby-themed Gospel produced by TSCF
A gospel of Luke, 'interspersed within the book are a ten testimonies of high profile rugby players from around the world – Brad Thorn (current All Black), Deacon Manu (current Fiji Captain), Euan Murray (current Scotland player), Jason Robinson & Nick Farr-Jones (World Cup winners), Doris Taufateau (NZ Black Ferns World Cup winner), David Pocock & Sekope Kepu (current Australia players), Pierre Spies & Tendai 'Beast' Mtawarira (current SA players)'.
3) A photo (courtesy of England's Andy Gomarsall) of Fijian and Somoan players huddling together for prayer after their match.
Independent reviews Dawkins new book – 'untrue, absurd and dangerous'
Did you witness Jeremy Paxman's sycophantic interview with Richard Dawkins about his new book 'The Magic of Reality' on Newsnight a week or so ago?
If you did might well have shared a general and growing frustration that Dawkins keeps getting away with writing bad books and making quite a bit of money from it in the process (including another £10 from me for this new book).
In one sense, Dawkins is a great help in the Christian cause because he helps to ensure that 'God' and 'religion' are centre-stage. Having said that I did enjoy this review in the Independent which does a good demolition job of the weak arguments presented in the book.
What if all your dreams come true? If you're Michael Stipe, the answer is disillusionment
After yesterday's announcement that REM were splitting after 31 years my mind was taken back to this quote. In September 1996 NME published a review of REM's New Adventures in Hi-Fi. In what must be one of the most extraordinary cd reviews NME wrote;
What if all your dreams come true?
If you're Michael Stipe, the answer is disillusionment. Of all the maladies that can strike you down, disillusionment is the darkest. Disillusionment is neither trust betrayed, nor hopes shattered. Disillusionment is far worst. It is all of your goals attained, all of your ambitions achieved, all your hopes fulfilled and yet there is no satisfaction. No peace. Disillusionment is the hollow realization that the fault resides within yourself, that even with everything you've ever wanted you are an incurable emotional vacuum.
Most of us will never get to be where Michael Stipe is, will never find our dreams fulfilled only to discover it means f- all.
Anything else you worship will eat you alive – what David Foster Wallace came to see
The Guardian described David Foster Wallace as 'the most brilliant American writer of his generation.' Novelist, essayist and Professor of Literature at Pomona College, Claremont California he tragically committed suicide after struggles with depression in 2008.
He is most famous for a commencement speech given to graduation students at Kenyon College, Ohio in which, as you will see below, he describes the reality of idolatry in the lives of all of us and their devastating impact.
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — the trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.
Recognise that as a reality in your own life? If you want to explore the dangers of idolatry then 'Counterfeit Gods; When the Empty Promises of Love, Money, and Power Let You Down' by Tim Keller and Idols by Julian Hardyman are both well worth a read.
Frank Skinner's advice to preachers after having heard a 1000 sermons
Comedian Frank Skinner in conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury is entertaining and suprising!
Listen in to part 1 at around the 15 minute mark for a fascinating perspective on preaching.
'I never hear an atheist give me any answers' – Piers Morgan takes on atheism on CNN last night
Piers Morgan gives Penn Jillette a run for his money on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight as they discuss God, atheism and the question of origins alongside Penn's new book God, No!
Why soul-survivor should be banned!
Thomas Prosser has written in last week's Guardian on the sinister under-belly of the Church – the Christian teen camp!
In his article Christian teen camps are wicked, innit he writes of how 'Tens of thousands of British teens flock to such festivals and they have become an established fixture of the ecclesiastical calendar'
And what disturbs him is that 'the Christian teen camp also aims to bring them to the Lord. This it does in industrial numbers according to the camps. Thousands are said to make decisions for Christ every year. Our prodigal island is slowly brought back to God as he transforms our teens' lives one by one.'
So why is he so trubled? He give two reasons.
Firstly that 'the evangelical tactics used at such camps are on occasions manipulative'
He describes how 'Sermons at such camps often take the form of wild orations that aim to wear down the resistance of the audience to the message.'
'After having their emotions softened, hypnotic music typically sounds out in subdued lighting as youngsters are urged to come to the front and give their lives to Christ.'
'None of any of this is fair to teens: young people have a right to choose their religious beliefs without being subjected to strategies that emotionally exploit them.'
So his concern is the emotional exploitation of teenagers. Well even if it were true that there is some level of emotional exploitation at these week long events why single out Christianity as evil in this regard. What about the emotional exploitation of teenagers that takes place 52 weeks of the year on our TV screens and in the media? Don't 'young people have a right to choose' there too?
Are we going to ban X-Factor or Britain's got talent because it deludes teenagers in droves into thinking that they will one day be famous and that the dream of making it big will come true? Are we going to ban TV programmes such as Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper because it sells the myth that selling sex is a positive career choice?
Are we planning to ban under-18's from going on Haj or fasting during Ramadan?
I don't hear Prosser calling for the banning of Internet pornography that has caused immense damage to teenagers of both sexes. Natasha Walter wrote Living Dolls' in 2010 in which she interviews Jim who describes his addiction to porn
'I was about 14 and I would find them and wathc them when I was alone in the house. Constantly. I was unable to think of women except as potential pornography.' Now an adult he comments that pornography 'has destroyed my ability to have intimate relationships.'
She cites one recent study in Canada in which it was revealed that '90% of boys aged 13 and 14 and 70% of girls the same age had viewed pornography.'
We could take about under-age sex that has led to an alarming rise in STD's amongst teenagers, binge-drinking, anorexia, and so on all of which are fuelled by images in the media. We could ban Hollyoaks and Bratz Dolls and lads mags and risqué pop videos, all of which exploit children and teenagers in unacceptable ways and all in the name of making money.
People choose to go on Christian teen-camps and it's pretty obvious to children and parents alike what you're going to get. If only the media offered the same choice, sadly not.
But it is Prosser's second point that is truly alarming.
The real reason he dislikes these camps is that he is intolerant of Christianity. His problem with Christian camps is that they teach orthodox Christianity – shock, horror!
'The second objection we should have to the Christian teen camp is that the youth lingo and guitar riffs conceal messages that could be damaging to young people.'
'Could the real "wicked" in Christian teen camps actually be their effects on teens' emotional wellbeing?'
So at the end of the day Prosser's argument is essentially 'I don't like Christianity' because of what it teaches and that's about it. It's striking that the only aspect of the Christian message he chooses to mention is that one day we will be judged for our actions, which is of course an aspect of Christianity. But that is not at the heart of these camps. The good news of Christianity is that at the heart of the universe is not the cruel indifference proposed by Dawkin's atheism but a God of incredible love who has loved us in Christ. I wonder what Prosser makes of the sermon on the mount that so inspired Martin Luther King? I wonder whether he thinks it's damaging to teenagers to hear of a God who because he loved and served us in the death of his son now sends us out into the world to love and serve our communities? Surely there is no more appropriate message for teenagers this summer!
Such articles are well worth reading to Christian teenagers in our churches. It's good to discuss the strengths and obvious weaknesses of such journalism. The patronizing, condescending tone and the suggestion that the teaching of Christianity should be banned to under-18's will create a few laughs as well as demonstrating the thinly veiled contempt for a life-changing and community-transforming message.
Like Richard Dawkins such journalism is a great asset to Christians the world over.
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Wisconsin gets poor ranking in Kauffman Foundation entrepreneurial activity report
Wisconsin ranks among the worst-performing states in terms of its rate of entrepreneurial activity and the size of its decline in entrepreneurial activity over the last decade, according to a report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Nationally, the number of new businesses declined in 2012 as the unemployment rate fell, said the Kansas City, Mo. foundation, which focuses on entrepreneurship.
New business creation rates were highest in the West and lowest in the Midwest. And Wisconsin was among the worst, the report said.
The states with the highest rates of entrepreneurial activity were Montana, Vermont, New Mexico, Alaska and Mississippi, the report said. The states with the lowest rates of entrepreneurial activity were Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio.
The states that had the largest increases in entrepreneurial activity rates over the last decade were Nevada, Georgia, Vermont, California, Louisiana and Massachusetts. States that had the largest decreases in entrepreneurial activity rates were Wisconsin, Wyoming and South Dakota.
An "enduring lack of capital" might partly explain Wisconsin's dismal showing, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. Although angel investing has been strong in the state, there has been a pervasive shortage of venture capital to help grow young companies, he said.
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As I'm sure all of you know, defragging your PC is a maintenance procedure that can vastly improve you system's efficiency performance. As I'm also sure most of you know by now, defragging your system is a long uneventful procedure that can tie up you PC for three to four hours, easily. I believe that it is for this reason that a lot of people (myself… Continue reading


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Well, tomorrow night the NFL is back, and so are office spread pick-'em pools.
Every week millions of people agonize over their pool looking for the slightest advantage that will bring the pot home to them. There's plenty of ways to go about doing this, but if you're smart about it, you can find yourself in contention every week.
To help you out, I've put together a list of 10 things to consider when you're putting your office pool together this season.
If you've got your own tips or disagree with mine, feel free to air it out in the comments.


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in something's way
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in something's way (not comparable)
- obstructing, blocking, or impeding movement or line of sight.
- I couldn't get to the door because there were too many people in my way.
- The tent was unfortunately in the moose's way.
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Date of birth : 30th March 1986
Hometown : Innsbruck, Austria
Biking, skiing, fitness, dancing (hip-hop and modern-jazz)
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I am 26 years old and I come from Sleidinge, a small village in the north of Belgium, near Gent. Better said: right in the middle of Flatland! Until I moved to Innsbruck with my boyfriend, I had only known road biking. Strangely enough, the wind in Belgium always blows against you (is this only my opinion?), which made the whole thing particularly boring to me!
My motto? "Go with the flow and smile". I was really enthusiastic as I discovered mountain biking in Innsbruck. I have been riding for 5 years now and my passion for this sport keeps growing every day. The SCOTT Contessa Team as well as the Flow Sister crew surely played an important part in this love story… It is so great to ride with girls!
Sport has always been very important in my family and I grew up with this spirit and value. I used to spend a lot of time in nature with my 4 sisters and at the age of 6 I started skiing. Later, I focused on rope skipping and dancing, which I still practice regularly in winter, when not big powder skiing! For me it is very important to compensate the job with physical activity. As a matter of fact, I work as an interior designer and therefore am sitting 40 hours a week in front of my PC. So I really need this work-life balance.
I feel very honored to be part of the SCOTT Contessa Team, especially because we all share the same values in life. It is always a pleasure for me to transmit a little bit of SCOTT wherever I go, may it be in Germany, in Switzerland or in Austria of course!
I discovered mountain biking when I arrived in Innsbruck in 2008.
My idols are all my friends that made and still make me love mountain biking!
As an interior designer, I am constantly thinking about my job, whether planning a new project or simply entering a room and spotting an interesting material or piece of furniture. But once I am in nature, I can disconnect completely. I like the effort it takes you to ride to the top of a mountain so that you can fully enjoy the ride down. For me, it is the perfect balance. Mountain biking gives me a lot of strength and makes me feel alive.
I love discovering new trails and being able to ride tricky sections. This is also why I bought a mountain bike, back in the days. But the best feeling for me is to arrive at the top of a mountain and contemplate the landscape around me.
To be honest, I have no idea. But when you do what you love, it is possible to combine many things in life.


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"Remember when you were a kid and you got your first big hunk of bubblegum? 'Course after the first fif-teen seconds the stuff always tastes like rubber tires. But what kid could care? Nah, you were hoping to get a hugeass bubble going - something with a real sense of distention - that would plaster itself pink all over your hair and your clothes when it finally blew out. Dylan & Karen use tapes & toys & their mouths to bring you creaking doors, aviaries, doddering old ladies, a troupe of muppets grunting & puking their guts out, some old drunk sailor squeezing a harmonium, etc. But what's important here is the overall bulge & slump as their record breathes, now bigger. now smaller. now bigger. and a little bigger still. Lately they've been taking advantage of improved sound quality, but it seems to be in the interest of making things more slippery rather than less so (and if you listen to a lot of records, you know what a fucking blue moon that is). So go ahead & let them get a little bit of their saliva on you. It's the only way to find out whether they pop one off this time." (liner notes by Angela Sawyer of Weirdo Records) Edition of 300 copies.
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LAKELAND, Fla. - Todd Bentley said he believes God acts through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead.
So do hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his raucous revival meeting, now in its third month and broadcast nightly from a huge tent in the middle of Florida.
The 32-year-old Canadian, tattooed to the fingers and neck, puts a palm to the forehead of the sick, desperate and faithful. Bentley yells "Bam!" they collapse and he proclaims them cured. Attendees dance in the aisles, shout to Heaven, laugh, shake violently and cry.
Such revivals aren't new, but Bentley's stage show has become a phenomenon in the religious world - for both its pull and the criticism it has attracted - in just a few months.
He claims to have medical proof of mass healings, but has not produced widely convincing evidence.
His tactics, sometimes violent, have made skeptics even of Pentecostals who believe in concepts that aren't accepted by all branches of Christianity such as speaking in tongues, miraculous healing and spontaneous twitching from the Holy Spirit.
"Some of the language used during the Lakeland Revival has created an almost sideshow atmosphere," wrote J. Lee Grady, editor of the Pentecostal magazine Charisma, in an online column. "People are invited to 'Come and get some.' Miracles are supposedly 'popping like popcorn.' ... Such brash statements cheapen what the Holy Spirit is doing."
When Bentley performs healings, often wearing jeans and a T-shirt, aides bring the sick up both sides of an elaborate stage. The preacher's assistants tell the audience each person's condition and how far they came to be cured: from Europe, the West Coast, up to the Northeast and beyond. Like a psychic, he will proclaim someone in the crowd has a particular kind of tumor, growth or affliction.
"Someone's getting a new spinal cord tonight!" Bentley yelled in one service.
Bentley gives the credit to God, but Christian critics say he rarely opens a Bible or sermonizes about Jesus Christ. They worry he is too little about conversion, too heavy on his own hype and too focused on self-proclaimed miracles.
"How can you be too focused on miracles?" Bentley shouted to another packed house.
The revival sprung from Bentley's April visit to a Lakeland church for a speaking engagement. He has traveled the world as head of Fresh Fire Ministries, based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, but never received a fraction of this exposure.
Thanks to Internet streaming and live broadcasts on the satellite channel GodTV, Bentley's revival has outgrown four venues in Lakeland and drawn more than 400,000 in-person from around the country and world, promoters say.
GodTV estimated its viewership has more than doubled since it began televising the event each night, and Web hits have risen from 25,000 to 200,000 weekly.
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Watching the USA lose to Mexico in Los Angeles was very hard, but it was even harder watching how the U.S. was treated while they were there. I watched a water balloon sail pass Eric Wynalda's head and saw trash and other objects thrown at the the U.S. team as they left ... »0 Comments MLS: Rapids Fall to Atlas 3-2 in Mexican Finale Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 26, 12:00 a.m. Colorado ended its preseason training in Mexico with a tough 3-2 loss to Atlas of the Mexican First Division on Feb. 25 The Rapids were playing their fifth game in nine days and their second in fourteen hours, but still battled to a 2-0 lead on a pair of goals by first-round draft pick Tyrone Marshall. However, Atlas rallied to ... »0 Comments MLS: Tim Hankinson to Coach U.S. Pro 40 Select Team Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 26, 12:00 a.m. MLS Director of Player Development Tim Hankinson has been named the first head coach of the U.S. Pro 40 Select team, and longtime MLS consultant Jan Osborne will oversee the team's logistics as GM. The Pro 40 Select team will consist of players from Project-40, the joint venture between MLS and U.S. Soccer designed to develop America's best youth players ... »0 Comments Starting Lineups for USA-Belgium Friendly Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m. Here are the starting lineups for the USA vs. Belgium friendly in Brussels: USA --Keller, Burns, Lalas, Balboa, Agoos, Jones, Reyna, Harkes, Stewart, Lassiter, Wynalda. Belgium --De Wilde, Boffin, Deflandre, Staelens, Vidovic, Leonard, Van Der Elst, Van Kerckhoven, Wilmots, Mpenza, Nilis. »0 Comments USA Game Summary: Belgium 2 USA 0 Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m. Feb. 25 in Brussels Belgium 2 USA 0. Goals: Van Kerckhoven 23, 60. Belgium --De Wilde, Boffin, Deflandre, Staelens, Vidovic, Leonard (Borkelmans, 68), Van Der Elst (Karagiannis, 55), Van Kerckhoven, Wilmots (Walem, 46), Mpenza (Verheyen, 55), Nilis (Peeters, 85). USA --Keller, Burns, Lalas, Balboa, Agoos, Jones (Henderson, 64), Reyna, Harkes, Stewart, Lassiter (Radosavljevic, 57), Wynalda (McBride, 64). Yellow ... »0 Comments USA Game Update: Belgium 2 USA 0 (Final) Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m. Belgium has defeated the USA 2-0 in their friendly match in Brussels. Nico Van Kerckhoven struck again for the Belgians in the 59th minute. Luc Nilis took a 30-yard free kick that deflected off of the American wall and bounced off of the crossbar near the far post. Jeff Agoos was unable to clear the ball, which bounced to Van ... »0 Comments USA Game Update: Belgium 1 USA 0 (Halftime) Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m. Belgium leads the USA 1-0 at halftime of their friendly match in Brussels. The Belgian goal was scored by Nico Van Kerckhoven in the 23rd minute. The Lierse midfielder took the ball on the left wing, pushed the ball past Mike Burns and ran around the U.S. defender. He eluded Alexi Lalas and his soft shot from a narrow angle ... »0 Comments African Nations Cup: Semifinal Results (Feb. 25) Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m. Feb. 25 in Ouagadougou South Africa 2 DR Congo 1 (OT). Goals: McCarthy 60, 112; Bembuana 48. South Africa --Baloyi, Nyathi (Fortune, 46), Jackson, Fish, Moshoeu, Ndlanya, Moeti, Radebe (Ngobe, 120), Silent (Mooki, 77), Mnguni, McCarthy. DR Congo --Mayala, Kimoto, Makenga (Mungongo, 58), Mutamba, Hitoto, Selenge, Simba, Bazamba (1Mbayo, 91), Emeka, Tondelwa (Bembuana, 46), Kanokene. Att.:n/a. Feb. ... »0 Comments Contents: Soccer America March 9, 1998 issue Posted by Soccer America on Feb. 25, 12:00 a.m.
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Wilbur A. Stockstill, 83, of Amarillo and formerly of California, died Sunday, Dec. 24, 2000.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church at Rancho Cordova, Calif. Local arrangements and cremation were by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell St.
A longtime resident of California, Mr. Stockstill worked as a brick mason and masonry contractor.
His wife, Ruth, died in 1997.
Survivors include two sons, Austin Stockstill and Lewis Stockstill; a stepson, Alex Stuckert Sr.; four stepdaughters, Grace Earl, Elsie Plaskett, Sandra Morrison and Sharon Stagner; 15 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
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Quad-core PC with plenty of storage but weak graphics
- Quad-core CPU, 2TB storage space, small size, wireless media-centre-style keyboard, hybrid TV tuner
- No HDMI, relatively old graphics card, no FireWire, limited expansion options
Bottom Line
This PC is certainly worthy of consideration if you're after a powerful and well-featured PC that can also be used as a media centre. Users who want to edit high-definition movies will appreciate the 2TB of hard drive space and the inclusion of a Blu-ray writer.
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Don't be fooled by the NEC POWERMATE X9320's short stature: inside it's packed with features that make it perfect for all home computing endeavours — except for high-end gaming. It's equipped with a quad-core CPU, a four-drive RAID 0 array and 3GB of RAM, not to mention a Blu-ray writer.
With these components, it's definitely a machine for the modern user, but we can't help but notice the lack of processing power in its graphics department. It ships with an NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-based card, which is a capable card for playing many games at mid-range detail settings, but for the PC's $3000 price tag, we would've liked an 8800-based card to be installed, at least. Nevertheless, it scored 4094 in 3DMark06, which shows that it will do a good job with older games, but not necessarily newer ones.
A graphics card with an HDMI output would also be of benefit, considering this PC ships with a Blu-ray burner. We played Blu-ray titles on the machine without any problems, using an HDCP-capable 22in ASUS monitor, and Cyberlink's BD Advisor utility also passed the machine in every area for Blu-ray playback.
There is a heavy focus on entertainment with this PC: it ships with Windows Vista Home Premium, which includes the media centre component, you also get a media centre remote and a keyboard with a built-in mouse. Transceivers for the remote control and keyboard aren't built-in to the chassis — instead, they need to be plugged in to the PC's USB 2.0 ports. This will leave you with only three USB 2.0 ports free (two at the front and one at the back) if you also plug in the supplied mouse, which is corded.
A hybrid TV tuner allows you to watch either analogue or digital TV stations. This worked fine in Windows Vista Media Centre; however, it doesn't have support for FM radio. DVDs also play within Media Centre without any problems, but if you want to watch Blu-ray, you'll have to launch the supplied Cyberlink software by using the keyboard or mouse instead of the remote control.
We're pleased that the PC ships with an 802.11b/g wireless networking card, so you can get online without any further money outlay if you already have a wireless router, or you can use its Gigabit Ethernet connection to directly attach it to a router. The built-in wireless card means you won't have to waste another USB port on an external Wi-Fi adapter, nor will you have to venture inside the machine to install an add-in card yourself.
If you ever do pop the cover off the X9320, you'll be greeted by four 500GB hard drives, which face the side panel and are configured in a RAID 0 array. This isn't ideal as there is no fault tolerance in this array should one of the drives die; you will need to implement a backup solution as soon as possible. On the plus side, the array is quick — copying files from one location to another averaged a rate of 62.7MBps, which is more than double the rate achieved by most single hard drive configurations.
The RAID 0 array, along with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz) CPU and 3GB of DDR2 RAM, helped propel the system to a score of 122 in our WorldBench 6 benchmark, which indicates that it will handle pretty much any task you throw its way. Its DDR2 modules are slower than we'd like — 667MHz instead of 800MHz — and the machine could have possibly gone even faster if it had newer modules. It supports a maximum memory capacity of 8GB (although you'll have to use a 64-bit operating system to take advantage of that much memory) and the motherboard has four DIMM slots.
The motherboard itself is based on the micro-ATX form factor, so it's small compared to most boards found in PCs of the quad-core ilk and it has limited expansion possibilities: there is only one free PCI Express x1 slot, and there aren't any free SATA ports. This isn't a problem if the machine has all the components that you're likely to need now, but it will become a hindrance if you plan to upgrade or expand the system in the future.
The system has analogue video input ports (composite and S-Video) as well as a memory card reader, and you also get a free 160GB external drive (through a redemption), which fits into the PC-Dock slot that resides on the front panel, in between the memory card reader and the Blu-ray writer.
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Atrex Inventory Control
Atrex is an inventory control/point-of-sale (POS) package for the business that desires complete control over stock levels and inventory tracking. Designed for the Microsoft Windows environment, Atrex is comprehensive, intuitive, and easy to use.
Rather than being designed for any one specific industry, Atrex is designed to be usable by most retail or wholesale operations. Current Atrex installations include computer retailers, pet stores, crafters, motorcycle dealers, automotive repair shops, locksmiths, and government agencies.
If you're tired of running your business by hand, computerization is one of the quickest and most efficient ways to increase the profits of your business. Computerization allows you to quickly determine how much stock you have on hand, see when you are running low on certain items without having to do a physical inventory, create and generate a mailing list of customers to promote repeat business, and keep a history of your sales. Simply put, we are in the business of making your business run smoother.
If your business is already computerized and you're looking for a new inventory/point-of-sale control program, Atrex has import capabilities for customers, stock codes and vendors.
Atrex Features
Point-of-sale invoicing, order entry, and quotations
Recurring invoicing
Purchase orders
Vendor and Customer RMAs
Multi-job service orders and service quotes
Available Add-On for importing and exporting to the Zen Cart shopping cart
Support for temporary "Show" locations
Simple receivables, payables, and bank account tracking
20 character alphanumeric stock codes
Handles serialized, non-serialized, container (kits), and assembly items
Add customers, vendors, and stock codes during a transaction
Multiple pricing levels (5), unlimited pricing categories, and automatic price adjustments
90+ standard reports
Built in report designer for report customization or creation of new reports
Uses a high speed embedded database engine with Client/Server capabilities*
Available ODBC driver allows for external reporting
Import capabilities for stock codes, customers, and vendors
Store notes on individual customers, stock codes, or transactions
Bad check/debt indicators
Barcode reader support
Prints stock code labels with bar codes
Menu level security
Cash drawer support
Built in database backup capabilities
All transactions are real time to allow up-to-the minute reporting
Support for multiple date formats, open phone number fields, and alphanumeric postal codes
Network and multi-user ready
Supports add on tax rates
Secure credit card processing available through Mercury Payment Systems.
*Please note that Client/Server capabilities are available only for multi-user licenses.
Atrex Pricing
Atrex is available as a subscription with the price varying based upon the terms of the subscription:
Quarterly Subscription: $20.00 USD/month per concurrent user (paid quarterly).
Semi-Annual Subscription: $15.00 USD/month per concurrent user (paid semi-annually).
Annual Subscription: $12.50 USD/month per concurrent user (paid annually).
- License expires at the end of the subscription unless renewed. Data entered is still accessible after expiration, but the program will not allow new data to be created.
- Includes ALL updates or upgrades released while your subscription is current.
- Standard support is included for the duration of your subscription. First license includes 2 phone or remote connection support incidents per month.
- Each additional license includes an additional phone or remote connection support incident.
- Unlimited email or fax support for the duration of your subscription.
- Additional support beyond the included support for the product is available on a pay as you go basis at the current support rates at the time of service.
The above prices are for electronic delivery of the product, registration key, and electronic documentation.
* A support incident is defined as voice/phone support required for a single issue or task (excluding customization) up to 30 minutes of support time. Issues or tasks that require more than the allotted time may require multiple support incidents.
System Requirements:
- Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 2008, 2012
- 60 Meg hard drive space
- 250MB Free RAM after loading OS
- Minimum Mid Range Dual Core CPU is recommended
- Inkjet or Laserjet Printer Recommended
Atrex is designed for use at 1024x768 or higher screen resolution.


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Bisping vs Miller the gifs
I quick recap of the fight
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I honestly don't care what anyone says. Bisbing is a joke in the sport. No one respects him. I wish miller was actually a better striker so he could have actually done something that fight. Also was pretty sad how he gassed that quickly.
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