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Damien Brunner, the man without an NHL team, might be headed back to Europe.
Brunner, who rejected a contract offer from the Detroit Red Wings this summer and has yet to sign with another NHL club, might have no other option than to return to his former team in Switzerland on a game-by-game basis, according to a story on the website LuzernerZeitung.ch.
"Zuger sporting director Jakub Horak says: 'We do not plan to (sign) Brunner. But of course we would take him to kiss on the hand.' It would be conceivable an agreement from game to game, from which Brunner can get off at any time."
Brunner spent five seasons playing for EV Zug in Switzerland before joining the Red Wings this year for his first NHL campaign.
He had 10 goals in his first 19 games with the Red Wings but his production tapered off and he finished with 12 goals and 14 assists in 44 regular-season games. During the playoffs, he led the Red Wings with five goals and tied for third with nine points in 14 games.
After the season ended, Brunner rejected the Red Wings' offers of two- and three-year contracts and he hasn't signed with another NHL club.
The Red Wings currently don't have the money or a roster spot to sign Brunner.
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The magazine's website listed Corktown this week as one of "The 50 Most Stylish Neighborhoods in the World."
Corktown is ranked No. 43; No. 1 is Paris' 1st Arrondissement.
Complex's take on Corktown:
Corktown is Detroit's oldest neighborhood, and today it's become a diamond in the rough—proof that the D isn't all gloom and doom. There's a non-profit youth hostel called Hostel Detroit, where beds start at $18 and the volunteers go above and beyond to make guests feel at home.
If that isn't your scene, there's always the MGM Grand Detroit, which toes the line between Corktown and Downtown like a wide receiver (in this case, Calvin Johnson) trying to stay in bounds. Slows Bar BQ is arguably the best restaurant in the city, and you should try that Yardbird sandwich for confirmation, and you can hit up Nancy Whiskey to drink responsibly.
Vintage rules here—clothes can be found at Rachel's Place, and books at the John K. King store. The neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and things are steadily on the up and up. It's about time you heard about something good out of Detroit, right?
What do you think of Corktown's designation? Let us know in our comments section.

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 The evidence for God is only the shadow cast by those who must believe in magic and want to control others
He sacrificed himself to himself to appease himself then burned nearly all of those he did it for. Imagine No Religion

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Consider if you were in a room where a child was being raped would you attempt to stop it?
Do you think God is everywhere?
If you were not in that room isn't God watching the horrific event and doing nothing?
If God is watching and allows it then our morality is better than His.
ex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-26584935249165064022015-12-29T05:48:00.002-05:002015-12-29T05:54:04.872-05:00God's Breath Required For FrostThe Bible shows God is intimately involved in this world even down to rolling dice. The more we study nature the more that is found to be untrue. The lightening rod is exhibit A. Ancients thought God direct caused and controlled lightening. But when old Ben Franklin invented the rod we found we can control/channel this force, which if there was a personality behind it and a powerful one at that we could never do such a thing.
Adam Clarke ( 1762-1832) was an Irish theologian who wrote a full commentary on the Bible. I clip here what he said on Job 37.
Verse 10
 By the breath of God frost is given -
The freezing of water, though it is generally allowed to be the effect of cold, and has been carefully examined by the most eminent philosophers, is still involved in much mystery; and is a very proper subject to be produced among the great things which God doeth, and which we cannot comprehend, Job 37:5. Water, when frozen, becomes solid, and increases considerably in bulk. The expansive power in freezing is so great, that, if water be confined in a gun-barrel, it will split the solid metal throughout its whole length. Bombshells have been filled with water, and plugged tight, and exposed to cold air, when they have been rent, though the shell has been nearly two inches thick! Attempts have been made to account for this; but they have not, as yet, been generally successful. The breath of God freezes the waters; and that breath thaws them. It is the work of Omnipotence, and there, for the present, we must leave it.

 Now we can also control God breath using refrigerators. ex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-36258340721680200792014-12-08T09:00:00.000-05:002014-12-08T09:00:05.377-05:00Is Santa Or God Real?

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ex-minister1http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-64392007836168215842014-08-11T09:00:00.000-04:002014-08-11T09:00:03.912-04:00What Is Truthex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-29121378812662835362014-08-06T09:00:00.000-04:002014-08-06T09:00:04.014-04:00No, The Bible Made Me An AtheistRecently a knock came at my door. It was a pastor from a local church who was 105 if he was a day. He was bent over and time had not been kind to his face and hands. He handed me a tract and told me how I had a lovely house. As a former minister I recognized that pattern. Compliment first. So, he eventually got to "Are you a member of a faith based church?", thus excluding them apostate Catholic and Prevyterians who don't believe in the real god as he does. I told him straight up "I'm an atheist.". I could see his demeanor change immediately like he had some dust to shake off his feet and very soon.

Before I could say anything else he said "Oh, you believe in evolution". Hmmm.. "Well, the evidence seems pretty strong." He retorted "We got to have gotten here somehow", as if that completely destroyed the theory of evolution. He was done with me and turned to go down the steps. I was concerned he might stumble so I helped him down the steps and the he went on his way. I suspect he later prayed for my soul.

Later as I pondered this I felt he was dismissive and sized me up that I fell from grace because of evolution. I started to consider going and visited him at the church and clear up what I felt was a misconception about me. Evolution had absolutely nothing to do with my de-conversion. It never hit my radar until years later.

Why had I become an atheist?

Growing up I had been guilted into believing Fundamental Christianity, Seventh-day Adventism in particular. I don't believe anyone comes to Jesus any other way. Why would you? You are first told you are this horrible sinner and being young, especially entering puberty, this can be preyed on. Even younger you are so dependent and learning the rules you can be easily convinced you are the problem. Then when you accept this and are told now God loves you, like Santa Claus, you will get many gifts. Then you feel elation. Who came to Jesus any other way? It is strictly feelings. We are not entirely rational and most of our decisions are emotionally driven. Christianity takes advantage of that.

Life went on. I went to college, became a minister. Of course the only thing I had was Scripture. I thought the more I read it and the more I followed it the better person I would be. But I found myself reading text that made no sense or did not coincide with reality. Why did all those magical things happen then, but not now? I would sub-consciously bypass these things because I had been told more would be revealed, but within me there was a build up how many of these just won't be resolved. A perfect god, a perfect book. Why was it so much looking like humans wrote it without a whole lot of internal consistency. I start reading all the apologetic material and again found it unsatisfying. However, when I was questioned I would regurgitate the arguments pretending I believed them when I did not. Fake til you make it. I believe Lord, help my disbelief. The problem was I could not let it go. I felt it was very important to resolve this cognitive dissonance. On top of just getting why SDAs were right I had to get why the thousands of other denominations and religions were wrong. It was a house of cards, soon to fall. It would have been best if I had not studied. The foundation of guilt loaded on me and the desire to deeply understand Scripture and apologetics was the major first step to my de-conversion.

I wish I had of thought faster when the pastor came to my door. This is what I would have told him among many other things. My expectation would be he would have pulled out the pat answers and since he was 105 any honest thought would have been crushed. It was very painful for me to come out of the crushing guilt, but I am now very comfortable in my own skin. Be yourself!

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Action speak louder than words.ex-minister1http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-70088806641014318222014-07-24T07:23:00.001-04:002014-07-24T07:27:15.740-04:00Christianity - You Cannot Escape EasilyYou cannot escape until you realize you are a prisoner. Christianity taught me I was a prisoner in sin. They shamed me and feigned love. They took advantage of my naivete. It took most of my life to understand I had become a prisoner. But the key was simply there around my neck once I woke up. Once I realized the problem the solution was inevitable while painful.
Some of us have had bad religion soaked childhoods, but most of us had long ones. None of us can help the things life has done to us, and once they are done they make us do other things until at last everything comes between us and what we would like to be and we have lost our original self. A paraphrase from Eugene O'Neill. You are not lost forever, you can free yourself from these things. Have patience, care for yourself, giving yourself a break.
When I was child I spoke as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away childish ways. I no longer believe in shame from the book of or believers in myths. I had been shamed to believe I would be this immoral child of hell if I gave up Christianity and became an atheist. My big surprise was my morals did not change and in fact I was now more honest, which if there is a good god he would honor that the most. Put my experience in their prophecy fail category.
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We all have met those kind of people. Religion, fundamental Christianity in particular, attracts those who are insecure and need a stick to punish others ("you are going to hell") and need a skirt to hide behind ("It is not me saying it, it is God").
As Dylan wrote
You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

...

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

 Song: Positively 4th Street

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertran Russell. ex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-3980947377040668682014-06-23T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-23T09:00:03.218-04:00How Embarrassing Is Religious TV? ex-minister1http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-68878102245072272832014-06-22T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-22T09:00:00.119-04:00The Terrifying Truth About Bananas - Not By Kirk Cameron This Timeex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-22411574977630753832014-06-11T07:58:00.003-04:002014-06-11T07:58:41.710-04:00Tower Of Babel - Scientific Ilteracy Or Was God Truly Afraid Of Men?
Can't we just agree the Bible gets a failing grade in science? This really would be a story of self correcting errors if God had just let it go. Why didn't God stop men from landing on the moon or sending the Voyager satellites past our Solar System? How is it different today than thousands of years ago? Oh yeah, science.ex-minister1http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-91801412006947263422014-05-15T06:56:00.000-04:002014-05-15T06:56:30.431-04:00Alex, Quotes for $1000 pleaseAlex Trebek: "Everybody else is wrong and I am the only one who is right."
Contestant: "What do fundamentalists and alcoholics say?"
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When confronted with the human fossil record why do creation scientist not agree on which fossil is an ape and which is human? See Jerry Coyne's book for more info

Humans came from an common ancestor, we are apes. However, Christian "scientists" cannot agree on the fossil record on is it human or is it ape. How interesting.ex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-66117497939417639952014-04-15T09:00:00.000-04:002014-04-15T09:00:08.978-04:00The Underwhelming Evidence For Christianity ex-minister1http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737216112485129669.post-73862427578498105142014-04-13T09:00:00.000-04:002014-04-13T09:00:00.968-04:00By The Blood Of Jesus

A lot of times I talk about the immorality of Christianity. Most of the time, Christians and even a few atheists jump to defend Christianity by talking about various good deeds particular Christians have done and continue to do. But I wasn't talking about Christians being immoral; I was talking about Christianity being immoral. What can be more immoral then the vicarious redemption of sin?

The whole idea that I can go and murder someone or work on Saturday and have my sins forgiven vicariously by someone else is a license for crime. Christians often use the analogy of some small offense like a drunk driving charge (which for the record isn't really a small offense) and they talk about how Judge God lets the offender off the hook because Jesus paid his or her fine. But that isn't how the world works.

If someone went and murdered someone else and was found guilty, no one would be able to pay the fine of prison time except that person who was found guilty. There is an old expression, "If you do the crime, you will do the time."

But that isn't the worst part of the Christian redemption system. The way Jesus allegedly pays for your sins is through blood sacrifice. It is funny that when most Americans hear about some cult sacrificing an animal to the Gods they laugh and think such a ritual is absurd and yet 80% or more believe the same thing.

The whole Christian belief system centers around the idea of blood sacrifice. Back before Jesus allegedly came, the Abrahamic God wanted people to sacrifice goats to him so that he could forgive them for their sins. This is where the term scapegoat comes from. Everyone in the village puts all their sins on to the goat and kills the goat as a sacrifice to God. But God wanted more than just a goat.

Lambs were more desirable to God apparently, because he wanted the people to sacrifice an innocent lamb to show how much they care instead. Let me repeat that last part. God wanted people to sacrifice an Innocent Lamb.

Now of course there is no need to sacrifice an Innocent Lamb or any other lamb for that matter because Jesus is the "Lamb of God." In other words, he is the innocent blood sacrifice that God needs for the redemption of sin.

Some people will say that not all Christians believe this and that I am generalizing. But the fact is that this whole blood sacrifice thing is a pretty central point the Christian belief system. I really don't think one could seriously be considered a Christian if they don't buy into the idea that the death of Jesus was a necessary sacrifice to God for their sins. That is pretty much the whole grounding of the religion. God forgives those who have accepted the sacrifice of Jesus for payment of their sins.

In reality, there is no vicarious redemption for sin. God can't forgive you for your wrongs. Only those who you have wronged can forgive you. Next time you lie to a friend or family member about something, instead of asking Jesus for forgiveness, try slaughtering an innocent lamb instead. Let me know if that works out for ya.

http://freethoughtsociety.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/vicarious-redemption-of-sin/

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Langley Middle School students mail letters to President Obama
LANGLEY — Banning guns, allowing same-sex marriage, protecting the environment, drilling for domestic oil and walling out immigrants were all on the minds of seventh graders.
Students in Rachel Kizer's social studies/language arts class wrote letters to President Barack Obama after his inauguration in late January. The assignment was to tell Mr. Obama their hopes and dreams for the future of America and include issues that mattered to the students.
"It's important what our input is because we're going to be the future of this country," said student Fiona Roberts.
The letters are one of those multi-faceted lessons that teachers love. Related to language arts, the process reinforces writing skills and introduces a new type of writing (it was a formal letter, after all). As for social studies, it builds an identity as a citizen, informs students of national issues and gets them thinking about something beyond themselves.
"It's developing citizenship," Kizer said.
"That's the best part of seventh graders, they're moving away from themselves and gaining a world view."
And what world view they have. A selection of five letters — out of 22 — spans the current events gamut. Students wrote about gun control, marriage equality, employment, Afghanistan, the cost of education and immigration. These students are between 12 and 13 years old.
With the December shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School still on their minds, two students held opposing views of gun safety. Andrew Baesler, 12, expressed his concern with restricting guns, which would take them away from "the good guys."
"If the person has a gun, the only thing that will stop him is a good guy with a gun," said Andrew of a hypothetical home invasion. "If they banned guns like that, you'd be defenseless."
Having fired pistols and rifles with family, firearms did not intimidate Andrew. And he wrote his letter in response to what he heard in the news about Congress looking at new gun regulation.
"Even if we ban guns, there will be someone who really wants one can get one."
As Andrew shared his opinion with the other students, they began to fidget and whisper to each other until finally one asked, "Can we debate him?"
There, in that moment, Kizer's aim to teach a civics lesson was apparent. These kids, most not even teenagers, were ready to argue for and against hot-topic issues.
Opposing Andrew's view was Alex Low, who shared his parent's wish to, "outlaw guns in America."
"I think the people who say, 'it's not the gun it's the person,' is ridiculous," Alex wrote. "We are one of the only countries where citizens are allowed to have firearms and I think you should do something to restrict that. The catastrophes in America are getting worse. I think you are the president who will help this issue."
And though Andrew backed away from his emphatic writings during an interview, he maintained that, "They have to do something."
Fiona asked Mr. Obama to support marriage rights for homosexuals, as was approved in Washington. In the letter, she wrote, "I believe that marriage is a wonderful thing and should be treated as so even if it is between a man and a man. If they love each other than it should be celebrated, not discouraged."
The letter had a personal angle for Fiona, who has a relative who was recently able to marry because of the marriage equality law in Washington.
"If the law hadn't been changed, he would've had to go to Spain," Fiona said.
Looking ahead, Lila Stach wanted college tuition to be lower. Lila, 13, had designs to be a restaurant owner some day, and even picked the location — the dilapidated seafood shack in Freeland next to the shuttered Gay '90s. Her passions are mostly in baking and she'd like to open her shop named Pastry Passions, and she wants to attend a culinary arts school. A bachelor's of science in culinary arts management costs about $140,000 for tuition, room and board, books and other fees at the Art Institute of Seattle.
"I don't understand the point of having to pay so much to get more education," Lila lamented. "It's a big part of people's lives."
In her letter Lila suggested supplementing the cost of college tuition for students because, "then more people will be able to go to college and therefore more people will be able to get better jobs,"
Then there was Joe "Happy Joe Lucky" Davies, who was not concerned with plights like war, famine or disease. No, Joe wanted to see more interesting architecture in big cities. He was frustrated by the lone man-made landmark in Seattle (the Space Needle), and wanted the president to encourage "cool looking" buildings to attract people to the United States.
Not all was skyscrapers and design for Joe. He slipped in a plug to protect the environment by enforcing a lower building-to-park ratio, especially in New York City, where Joe wrote, "there's hardly any grass or trees so, I would like it if you could plant some there."
Kizer graded the letters for conventions, but did not alter the iPad-typed notes before sending them to the White House.
"It needed to have their voice," Kizer said.
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100k for cat even if she loses
65k for ronda if she takes the L
arianny probably making more for being a ring girl
Ronda gets a share of the ppv buys while Cat doesn't. Like Silva getting $800k for the Diaz fight but then getting over $4M extra for ppv buys.
UFC won't let her lose, you can be sure of that.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding sections 11 and 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the licensing authority of the town of Topsfield may grant to the Alfalfa Farm Winery at 267 Rowley Bridge road a license for the sale of wine to be drunk on the premises if Alfalfa Farm Winery meets all other requirements for the issuance of the license and holds a farmer-winery license issued pursuant to section 19B of said chapter 138. Upon issuance of the license authorized in this act, Alfalfa Farm Winery may sell wine produced by or for the winery and sold under the winery brand name, poured by the glass, to be drunk on the premises. The license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except as provided in this act. The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of the license to any other applicant or location.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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Michigan's statewide composite average of 18.8 on the ACT test seems impressive when you consider that all 11th graders, regardless of whether they had any intention of going to college or even were on track to graduate, took the test. The results were released Wednesday.
Kathy Orscheln, interim admissions director at Eastern Michigan University, said, "I'm not dismayed at all" by the state's ACT scores because it includes all students. The average ACT score for admitted freshmen at EMU is 21, Orscheln said. Students with lower ACT scores, including in the 18-19 range, could be admitted if their GPA was strong. The school balances standardized test scores against GPA, Orscheln said.
The national average composite score for the ACT in 2007 is 21.2, said Ed Colby, senior communications associate for ACT. This includes 1.3 million students, most of whom took the test voluntarily and are college-bound, Colby said. In addition to Michigan, only the states of Colorado and Illinois require all students take the ACT.
In Colorado, the composite score for this year's juniors was 19.8. In Illinois, the composite score was 20.5.
This is the first year that all students had to take the ACT, which is part of the Michigan Merit Exam. The MME replaced the Michigan Education Assessment Program standardized test.


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Human behavior, wildfire behavior
Protect the house. Photo by Tom Iraci.
Decades of aggressive wildfire exclusion have left dry forests in the Western United States at high risk for future severe fires. At the same time, fire-prone forest lands continue to be a magnet for residential development. These trends set up competing demands. Some people want fire protection, while others argue for forest restoration that will allow fire to be reintroduced as a natural process. In the past, research has focused on these goals through the separate disciplines of social science and wildfire ecology. But failing to understand the interconnections between people's motivations and the ecological role of fire in wildlands can lead to policies that may not work as intended. PNW researchers and partners are integrating social and ecological lines of study in the Forests, People, Fire project, revealing helpful information on how humans adapt (or do not) to living in fire-prone forests. They are focusing their work on central and southern Oregon, where some popular recreation-based towns like Bend and Sisters saw a 271 percent increase in population in the last few decades. The project uses a variety of research approaches, including integrative landscape modeling, surveys, and workshops to capture and explore some of the consequences of how people perceive and manage fire-prone landscapes. Preliminary results include the finding that property owners seem to understand the wildfire risks they face in the fire-prone forests of central Oregon, and that people with past wildfire experiences appear to perceive greater risk and are more likely to take actions to mitigate that risk. The study also reveals some of the tradeoffs between managing for fire protection and managing for the production of forest values including wildlife habitat and wood.
Contact: Tom Spies, firstname.lastname@example.com
More information: http://fpf.forestry.oregonstate.edu/home
Carbon and wildfire
Smoke plume from Oregon wildfire. Photo by Tom Iraci.
Trees play a big role in global carbon dynamics. Each year in the United States alone, forests sequester an amount of carbon equal to 10 to 20 percent of the Nation's fossil fuel emissions. However, with hazardous wildfire conditions across much of the West expected to continue or worsen, these forests are at risk of burning up. Managing them to reduce the risk of fire seems like a good strategy for maintaining their carbon sequestration function. But what if reducing fire risk involves thinning treatments that remove the very forest vegetation that helps sequester carbon? PNW scientist David L. Peterson has co-written a definitive review paper that thoroughly explores how different types of fuel treatments affect carbon dynamics across a broad range of forest ecosystems. The effects of fuel treatments (forest thinning plus removal of surface vegetation) on carbon dynamics in dry western forests range from positive to negative changes in carbon storage. In general, periodic (every 20 to 40 years) fuel treatments result in lower forest carbon storage compared to no treatment. However, a regular treatment schedule ensures that carbon emissions over time are small and predictable compared to emissions caused by wildfire. All studies reviewed in this paper agree unequivocally that untreated stands release more emissions to the atmosphere during wildfire than treated stands, and that emissions increase consistently as burn severity increases. Tree mortality from wildfire is also consistently reduced by the presence of fuel treatments.
Contact: David L. Peterson, email@example.com
More information: Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the Western United States.
Wildfire risk reduction triage
Burn probabilities.
Huge amounts of federal money have been spent on thinning dense forest vegetation (or "fuels") to reduce the risk of wildfire. Yet the threat posed by wildfire, particularly in the West, continues to grow and the urgency to do something about it increases with every large fire that overwhelms suppression efforts. But predicting the location of the next fire is impossible, which makes it tricky to decide where to place fuel treatments. Previous efforts to prioritize investments in fuel management have been hampered by the lack of a broad assessment of wildfire risk within and among the national forests. At the request of Forest Service leadership looking to focus limited resources, operations research analyst Alan Ager and his colleagues recently addressed this information need. Their study provides the first comprehensive examination (at the national forest scale) of potential future wildfire activity. They used simulation models and data on past wildfire activity and fuel treatment investments to understand the relationship between fuel management budgets and historical and predicted wildfire risk. The result is a systematic ranking of each of the 82 western national forests in terms of several important measures of potential wildfire activity. These include the potential for wildfires ignited on national forests to spread to surrounding urban areas, and the probability of a mega-fire event (large, difficult to control fire with long-lasting social, economic, and environmental consequences). For project planners and decisionmakers who allocate federal funding for fuel treatments to reduce fire risk, this information is a gold mine. This study paves the way for improving federal fire management policy based on an understanding of current wildfire risk.
Contact: Alan Ager, firstname.lastname@example.com
More information: Wildfire exposure and fuel management on Western U.S. national forests
A clearer picture of fire
Laurel James. Photo by Jill Logeman.
Graduate student Laurel James (University of Washington) could tell the dots were not connecting. Her research in collaboration with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of Montana revealed that the national interagency mapping program LANDFIRE was not giving an accurate assessment of conditions on tribal land. LANDFIRE models fire regimes and fuel (flammable forest or rangeland vegetation) at the landscape scale, and was never intended to "zoom in" to the local scale. James solved this problem by developing a method to incorporate local information into the LANDFIRE database, and chose to use the PNW-developed Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) data layer. This made a big difference for CSKT, as fire is a critical component of their land management. The updated FCCS data layers can now be used by the tribes for their fire and fuels reduction management planning, and open a new window of opportunities for other forestry operations including wildlife habitat and air quality. Without her detailed comparison of the differences in the estimated fuel loading of various forest types on the lands of the Salish-Kootenai Tribes, proposed federal funds allocated to support fuel management on tribal lands would have fallen far short. Further, James's methodology and data layers have been reviewed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and can be implemented on all reservations.
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Managing forests for a multitude of sometimes competing objectives makes for some complicated decisionmaking. Enter Alan Ager. He is an operations research analyst, which means he uses advanced analytical methods like statistical modeling and spatial optimization to help land managers better understand the tradeoffs inherent in managing for threats like wildfire. He received bachelor's degrees in forest science and forest management from the University of Washington, an M.S. in plant genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in forest genetics at the University of Washington. Ager's work often places him at the interface between landscape planning, fire science, and ecology, where he has helped tackle projects on a range of issues since starting with the Forest Service in 1987. His work helps planners and managers develop strategies that account for multiple constraints such as budget and workload capacity, as well as multiple goals like reducing fire risk and maintaining wildlife habitat. A tool he developed, the Landscape Treatment Designer, is a good example of this. It helps fuel treatment planners design and quickly test different approaches in terms of management priorities, tolerance of fire risk, implementation timeframes, and budget limitations. His 2010 paper
A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure is one of the most cited Forest Ecology and Management articles since 2009. Stationed on the Umatilla National Forest, Ager works for the Pacific Northwest Research Station's Western Wildland Threat Assessment Center, where he is currently pursuing a range of resource management issues including stress detection in forest trees, spatial modeling of wildfire, and risk analysis.
What's New
Workshop previews east-side science synthesis
The east-side science synthesis The Ecology and Management of Moist Mixed-Conifer Forests in Eastern Oregon and Washington: a Synthesis of the Relevant Biophysical Science and Implications for Future Land Management is nearing publication. The PNW Research Station undertook the synthesis at the request of land management partners in Region 6, who have been hindered in managing moist mixed-conifer forests in eastern Oregon and Washington by a lack of up-to-date management guidelines and consensus among stakeholders. A team of scientists compiled existing research and prepared the synthesis to address a broad range of natural resource issues important to this region. To spread the word and encourage discussion about how the synthesis can be useful to land managers and planners, a workshop was held in Pendleton, Oregon, on July 1-2, 2014. The science synthesis team presented key findings and management implications to local practitioners, and a field trip provided further opportunity for open discussion.
For more information: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/draft-manuscript.shtml
Contact: Becky Gravenmier, email@example.com
Wildfire News Explorer
Wildland fires can change course overnight, and news about them can be scattered and hard to find. How can you find the latest updates? Alan Ager, an operations research analyst at PNW's Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center, came up with the idea for an online tool that mines and maps news stories on wildland fire and other forest threats. The Wildfire News Explorer compiles news reports, blog posts, even the latest tweets. The Twitter component was requested by Forest Service leadership to potentially alert them to rapidly unfolding fire events as they happen, rather than through traditional information channels. A large map displays the locations mentioned in the articles listed. In addition to links to each article, users can track the number of articles popping up per day in an interactive line chart. The news mapper also tracks information on climate change, invasive species, forest diseases and insects, and political issues related to endangered species and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Ager and collaborators also created a companion application, the Geospatial Search Engine. It uses a novel Web crawler that mines the vast amounts of spatial data served up by the global geographic information system community on thousands of servers and summarizes their content. Users can use search keywords to locate specific kinds of data, view maps online, and also read the metadata. The system is described in an upcoming article in the International Journal of Digital Earth.
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Caton is the second person to file for that 2012 race. The seat is currently held by Commissioner Ann Lininger, who previously said that she will not run for re-election.
He serves on the budget committee of Clackamas County Service District No. 1, a wastewater service provider. He was also an independent nominee for House District 48 in 2010 and the Republican nominee for State Treasurer in 2004.
Caton is a change management consultant to Bonneville Power Administration and also a self-employed license tax consultant, according to his candidacy statement.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts and MBA, both in management, from George Fox University.
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This fantastically located apartment sleeps 6 people in 2 bedrooms with double beds and one foldable sofa bed in living room can sleep other 2 people. Fully equipped kitchen and two bathrooms makes your stay in London more convenient. Apartment located on the 4th floor in the building with elevator.
The nearest tube station is Aldgate East or Shoreditch High Street.
Check in office is located just few minutes walking.
Iron & Ironing Board, Hair Dryer, Bed Linen & Towels, Washing Machine, DVD, TV, cooking hob, vacuum cleaner, internet connection, heating, dining table, chairs
Drying Rack, Hair Dryer, toilet, shower, washbasin , bathtub, Heated towel bar, mirror
Bed Linen & Towels, double bed, night tables, 2 x reading lamps, chest of drawers, lamp, shelves, wardrobe, mirror
Bed Linen & Towels, double bed, night tables, reading lamps, chest of drawers, shelves, wardrobe, mirror
Cookware & Kitchen Utensils, Crockery & Cutlery, Washing Machine, Dishwasher, DVD, TV, cooking hob, oven, electric kettle, microwave, toaster, plates, pans, fridge / freezer, coffee maker, coffee table, table and chairs, double sofa bed, Complimentary Tea & Coffee, cupboards
Security deposit will be requested during the checkin. Groups of 6 or more will be charged a security deposit of 50 GBP/person.
Baby cot and a high chair available upon request (extra fee)
Check-in DOES NOT take place at the apartment itself but at Adler Street, London, E1. Please call our office phone 60 min. before your arrival at the office and in case of any delay. Exact address and contact details are provided upon reservation completion.
Upon check-in, guests must show a valid, government issued photo ID and a valid credit / debit card issued in their name.
Arrivals between 21:00 and midnight will be subject to a late check-in fee of 20 GBP and 30 GBP from 00:00
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Unser 4 Tage Trip mit Kleinkind(4 Erwachsene plus Kind) war durch die Ferienwohnung sehr entspannt. Babybett wurde zur Verfügung gestellt. Schlüsselübergabe im Büro lief reibungslos, Service vom Personal war super. Wohnung war sauber, ordentlich und ausreichend ausgestattet. In der Umgebung viele Geschäfte und Restaurants, auch U-Bahn und Busse sind nach kurzem Fußweg schnell erreichbar. Wir konnten den Urlaub genießen! DAUMEN HOCH
Tolle großzügige Wohnung in einem tollen Viertel mitten in der Stadt. Super Busverbindung bzw. der gesamte Nahverkehr ist um die Ecke. Kneipen, Einkaufsmöglichkeiten und Restaurants vor der Haustür. Jederzeit zu empfehlen, natürlich nicht gerade billig. Aber was ist das schon in London.
Perfect location! And the front door was fixed immediately when I called and told them it was almost falling out of the frame. This is clearly an appartment if you don't care if things look worn down, and are not very picky about how the shower looks. In other words; To be used for sleeping and luggage storage.
Great apartment with lots of spare. Placed just 5 minutes from Undergrund Aldgate East. Tesco Express next to underground and very nice restaurant Old Moe's.
Nice and quiet area with nearly No traffic.
Checking in was easy and Illona at the office was very helpful.
We will be back for sure and give this place our best recommandations.
Laila, Jens, Per and Gitte , Denmark
It was an awesome weekend in Prague and so was the appartment too!!! We got exactly that what we booked and what we saw on the pictures. The communication was kindly and we got answer within one day. I can just recommend this appartment and the team around of Katarina.
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Apartment and location were pretty good. Wifi is horrible, there are couple of stairs and specially getting the keys is very complicated. Is not that easy for someone who arrives the first time to get them in a place far from the apartment. Plus flat wasnt B21, was B12 so its kind of confusing.
The apartment was perfect! It was clean, big and very closed to the city centre and to the San Venceslao square. We were in 7 adults and there was enough space for all of us. Nothing negative to say. I will return in this apartment during my next trip in Prague.
The apartment was perfect! It was clean, big and very closed to the city centre and to the San Venceslao square.
We were in 7 adults and there was enough space for all of us.
Nothing negative to say.
I will return in this apartment during my next trip in Prague.
It was a lovely apartment with plenty of space. It was also situated in a very quiet area close to old town square. It couldn't be better.
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"Kinder Morgan's terminal would have exported up to 30 million tons of Wyoming and Montana coal a year to Asia. The company projected its investment at $150 million to $200 million with 80 permanent jobs at the terminal," The Oregonian's Scott Learn reports.


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A visit to Málaga's city centre is a 'must do' for anyone visiting the Costa del Sol for a holiday. You'll want to do the whole cultural tour of the city taking in its famous museums and iconic landmarks such as the Cathedral or the Alcazaba; however, there's a new attraction in town and it's well worth a visit: Muelle Uno (Pier One).
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BMARYSVILLE — Marysville musician Bradford Loomis has lived the adage that it can take years to become an overnight success.
Loomis recently celebrated the release of his new album, "Into the Great Unknown," with a series of shows in Wenatchee, Snohomish and Seattle, but his music career would never have been promoted from being a lifelong hobby if he hadn't gotten laid off from Verizon.
"I backed into doing music as a career," Loomis said. "I went the responsible route and got a 9-to-5 job to pay for a house and support a wife and three kids, but when I lost the job, I went into hustler mode. I needed to provide for my family, I'd always wanted to be a musician, and now, I had nothing left to lose by giving it a try. I just wish I'd been more attentive in my business classes," he laughed.
Although Loomis developed an appreciation for music through choir, band and orchestra as he was growing up, he credits former Marysville school music teacher Stuart Hunt with helping him connect to it, beyond just emulating the singers that he heard on the radio.
"Mr. Hunt was a phenomenal teacher," said Loomis, whose preferred flavor of sound has become what he regards as the roots of American folk music. "I've always been fascinated by our nation's history, and the stories that are rooted in it. Songs like 'On the Banks of the Ohio' are about real-life events in American history. I sing songs about slavery and the other things that this country has gone through. It's a way to inform people of our history while expressing my emotions about it through a narrative. If we forget our history, we're doomed to repeat it."
With his long, thick beard and his quiet speaking voice, Loomis himself admits that his personality might have been better-suited to those past eras, as he waxes rhapsodic about what his life would have been like in the 19th century as a Midwestern settler, a Texas ranch-hand or a drifter on the railroads or the Mississippi River.
In the real world of the modern day, he hopes to develop his career as much as he has his skills, and he invites his fellow Marysville residents to check out his upcoming performance at the Wintercourt Coffeehouse, located at 7314 44th Ave. NE, on Friday, June 14, starting at 7 p.m. For ticket prices, music samples and more information, log onto www.bradfordloomis.com.
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Paul Krugman
Why publish Paul Krugman?
First, his column about the lack of inflation ("The right's obsession with nonexistent inflation," July 20) — bought a tank of gasoline lately? — and today his Oregonian e-edition column about the fallacy of a debt problem ("We don't have a debt crisis — and we never did," July 24).
Living in his parallel universe, Krugman can spin deficit numbers as a percentage of GDP until everyone's eyes glaze over but ... the national debt has risen from $9 trillion to well over $17 trillion in less than six years.
Divide $17 trillion by the population of the U.S. and you have every man, woman and child owing about $55,000 and growing.
No debt problem? It is exactly that type of reasoning that got us into this position — that gives us a $330 million bill for the failed Cover Oregon and a $175 million bill for "planning" to replace the Interstate Bridge.
It's all federal money wasted, so it's not our problem, right?
Do your readers an educational favor and drop Paul Krugman — at least until he enters rehab.
Larry Sitter
Northwest Portland
I can only come to one conclusion after reading Paul Krugman's column on "the right's obsession with nonexistent inflation" — Krugman has not been to the grocery store lately, filled his car with gas, paid a utility bill or bought new shoes/clothes.
The costs of everyday necessities have increased significantly this last year — whether you are on the right, left, or stuck in the middle.
Diane Hall
Lake Oswego
Regarding Elizabeth Erickson's tirade over Paul Krugman's column (Letters to the Editor, July 24): Paul Krugman clearly stated there has been low inflation since 2009. There was no mention of a time period before 2009 in his column.
Tom Mihelich
Southeast Portland
Gun deaths
Regarding "2011 Oregon gun deaths top motor vehicle deaths," July 16: In 2011 there were 420 gun-related deaths and 371 motor vehicle-related deaths. This is unacceptable. We regulate motor vehicles, requiring them to be registered and insured, and requiring users to be licensed. The same requirements of registration and licensure should be required of gun users. Perhaps gun owners should possess insurance as well, so when shootings do occur, the victim (if still alive) can afford medical care and damages. Registration and licensure is not an infringement on Second Amendment rights; it is simple common sense.
Kate Farrell
Northeast Portland
Vic Atiyeh
I was tall and skinny. The eight-foot handle of the U.S. flag I was supporting in front of me as I marched down the isle was cumbersome. And everyone, silently, was watching each step I took.
It was the ceremony each morning that marked the opening of the Oregon State Senate — parading the U.S. and Oregon flags from the rear of the senate chamber to their stands on the podium at the front of the chamber. I was 17. As one of the senate pages that session, I'd been assigned the task of delivering the U.S. flag. Another senate page simultaneously delivered the Oregon flag.
But that particular morning, as I recall, I was tired and had not carried the flag at the correct tilted angle. After the ceremony, the secretary of the senate, Cecil Edwards, called me into his office and handed me a note. It was written on a small piece of white paper with the state seal printed at the top. The type of notepaper which senate pages normally delivered from senator to senator on the senate floor. The handwriting on the note carried the signature of "Vic." It asked Cecil to instruct "the six-footer" on carrying the flag at its proper angle.
Forty-plus years later, I recall this with a deep and abiding respect for the state senator who sought not to embarrass me but, instead, to simply remind me of the importance behind the nation's symbol. He knew and valued that importance first hand.
Senator Atiyeh, as I'll always remember him, was a genuinely kind, forthright and politically transparent individual who taught us that simplicity often produces respectfulness. I, too, will be among those who will very much miss that special twinkle in his eyes.
Les Ruark
Monica Wehby
If Monica Wehby's platitudinal responses ("On Bush-era tax cuts, plus estate taxes," July 21) were unattributed and I had been asked to guess who made the comments, I would have said Sarah Palin — with the only concession being that Sarah Palin has a sense of humor.
William Hatcher
Lake Oswego
I have been following the coverage of Jeff Merkley and Monica Wehby's positions on various senate votes. While Merkley's responses appear cogent, complex and informed, Wehby's responses seem like they came out of a GOP "Response-a-matic" machine. She repeatedly spouts the same tired rhetoric that we hear from the Republican leadership day in and day out about how the country is going to hell in a handbasket because of the policies of President Barack Obama and the Democrats. Furthermore, she accuses Merkley of being a career politician, when in fact he has been serving as a publicly elected official for 15 years, working his way up from the Oregon state legislature after an impressive career in both the public and private sector before entering politics. Wehby's political experience to this point: none. I'm sure Wehby is an outstanding neurosurgeon; she should continue on that career path. The only place for her in the senate is in the spectator's gallery.
Michael Port
Southeast Portland
Kids in poverty
David Sarasohn ("Report paints bleak picture for kids in 'Poverty, Oregon,'" July 23) states that the state of Oregon is producing poverty.
This misguided columnist might benefit from a "birds and bees" lecture. Poor children, unlike rain, do not drop from our grey skies. They are produced by men and women lacking maturity, stable partners, financial readiness, and reliable birth control.
Jane Maynard
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Pennsylvania state police are investigating the Saturday night theft of 180 gallons of diesel fuel from a tractor-trailer parked at the Hollywood Casino in East Hanover Township.
The theft occurred between 6:30 and 11:45 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the casino at Penn National Race Course, troopers said.
They said that someone removed diesel fuel from the parked tractor-trailer, then fled.
Anyone with any information is asked to call state police at 717-671-7500.


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In a world where the ready lure of advertising dollars competes for empty space on everything from sports stadiums to city halls to diapers, it's hard to fault school districts for thinking about milking that cash cow.
A recent law allows New Jersey school districts to use their bus fleets as advertising space. Ads promoting alcohol or tobacco as well as political advocacy are prohibited, and districts are able to regulate the advertising on any buses they own or lease.
In South Jersey, school buses in the Medford district are now sporting the ads as moving billboards, targeting motorists and not the kids aboard.
Medford officials also wish to "monetize" their schools by selling ads at the middle school track or naming rights to libraries, cafeterias and classrooms, according to "asset partnership opportunities" posted on the district website.
That, we believe, goes too far.
As a Star-Ledger report points out, some forms of advertising have always been around in schools, from booster ads in the high school yearbook to signs around the sports fields.
Those ventures, however, are discrete from the actual classroom experience. There is no promise of placement in gymnasiums and hallways or upon the doors of the library "used daily by all students," as Medford has offered.
Opening up schools to a clutter of mixed messages – for instance, an energy-drink sponsor in a classroom where health is taught – seems like a slippery slope.
It's true that children are bombarded from all sides by advertisements both blatant and subtle. By the time toddlers can speak, many are ready to take their place among U.S. consumers.
Schools, however, should be off limits to those pitching products or services to students.
The initiative of school districts to find unconventional funding for programs threatened by budget cuts is admirable. But, practically and philosophically, this "monetization" is not a good move.
First, schools are getting little in return. School ads provide less than half of 1 percent of school revenues, and "middleman" firms take a big chunk of profits, says the consumer group Public Citizen.
Secondly, schools risk selling more than advertising space. Imagine walking down a hall, seeing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a bust of Albert Einstein, a print of "Starry Night" — and a line of logos for a brand of sneakers. For kids, it's a convoluted signal that these icons are on par and, what's worse, that everything is for sale.
So put the ads on the buses, but keep them out of the hallways. Schools are for learning, not marketing.


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Exasperated or Excellent? My Experiences in Making Experiential
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A Model for Academic/Practitioner Knowledge
Exchange Characterization Using Communities of Practice Theory. Dissertation
Defense. Texas Tech University. May 2011.
Judge, Pittsburgh PRSA Image awards,
Pittsburgh Chapter of Public Relations Society of America, June 2010.
Corporate Microblogging: A Case Study in Enterprise Social Networking. AIIM 360 Annual Conference.
Philadelphia. April 2010.
TC as Management Function: How to Survive the Challenging Times by
Thinking and Acting Like a Manager. Society for Technical Communication. Webcast (January
Mapping the Body of Knowledge: Knowledge Creation and Transfer in Technical
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PISCATAWAY -- The question of who would be Rutgers' starting quarterback for its Aug. 28 opener at Washington State was the worst-kept secret during the first six days of training camp.
But Gary Nova insists he wasn't assured that he would be the starter until Wednesday. And now that he's in the driver's seat of the Scarlet Knights' offense, Nova says his approach won't change.
"I pretty much kept the same approach since January,'' said Nova, who became the clear-cut favorite for the position thanks to a solid spring camp. "You have to prepare as if you're the starter even if you're the backup. I've been in this position before so just try to be confident and try to be a leader for these guys and try to stay hungry the whole time.''
Still, he admitted, "Definitely hearing coach say, 'You're going to be the starter'' is great.''
Nova, who has taken virtually all of the first-team snaps with the first-team offense in preseason camp, once again engineered the Scarlet Knights' attack Thursday afternoon.
"I don't know if my decision came as a surprise to (the offensive players), so I don't know if I've seen a marked difference,'' Rutgers coach Kyle Flood said following the Scarlet Knights' eighth training-camp practice. "I think Gary has done a good job. I think he's been kind of the leader in that competition the whole way.
"I said, 'If we played today, he would be the starter,' because I thought that was clear to the players. I don't know that that changed when the decision was final.''
Nova, who is looking to rebound from a season in which he was benched for the final three games, owns a 17-11 record as Rutgers' starting quarterback since first earning the plum position early in his freshman campaign.
The 6-2, 220-pounder from Elmwood Park needs just 202 yards in the opener to move past Mike McMahon and into fourth place on the school's career passing yardage list.
"Last year was definitely a humbling experience,'' said Nova, who has thrown for 6,407 passing yards, 51 touchdowns and 39 interceptions during his three-year career. "It was just taking a step back, looking at everything and evaluating myself on and off the field. And I just feel really good right now and I'm excited about the season.''
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Warner Bros. Pictures has announced they'll be offering five lucky Comic-Con fans a private screening of the upcoming Christopher Nolan threequel in their respective hometowns, in an as-yet unspecified contest/giveaway that will take place at the annual pop-culture fest. According to the official press release, "Further details regarding the fan screening program will be revealed soon, so the studio urges fans to stay tuned for their chance to see the final chapter of the Dark Knight trilogy before its official release."
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"The Dark Knight Rises" hits theaters on July 20. San Diego Comic-Con runs from Wednesday July 11-Sunday July 15.
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Caetano de Almeida
Born: 1964
Hometown: Campinas, Brazil
Lives and Works: São Paulo, Brazil
MFA Visual Poetics, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2005
Graduate School, Artistic Education Professor, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil, 1983
Caetano de Almeida Bio
About The Artist
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida's complex acrylic paintings pay homage to Op Art of the 1970s, as well as recent developments in hard edge abstraction, and to Brazilian textiles. Using thin, colorful lines woven in complicated patterns, sometimes pushed or pulled across the canvas by unseen (or even cut out) forces, they move more like thread than paint. De Almeida uses bright and unexpected color combinations, as with the red and blue of his 2013 canvas Aguados, in which colored lines run from the top to the bottom of the work. De Almeida has cut several circles out of the canvas, and when his vertical lines intersect with the circles, they bunch up as if being moved about by invisible rollers on a press. The colors overlap and form hues of purple and indigo, an additive gesture that balances the reductive role of the circles.
De Almeida has shown his work widely in Brazil and the United States. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo and has been included in shows at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, among others.
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Graco Children's Products is recalling SnugRide car seat pads.
The company says the backing of the pad may pull away from the seams, exposing the filling.
That poses a choking hazard.
The Graco seats were sold between August 2006 through the first half of November 2007.
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Last season: Immaculata went 9-2, capturing the Mid-State 39 Conference's Watchung Division championship. The Spartans defeated DePaul, 38-28, in the Non-Public, Group 3 first round before falling to St. Joseph (Mont.), 47-7, in the sectional semifinals. Immaculata began the season 9-0 and was ranked as high as No. 9 in The Star-Ledger Top 20 before falling to Westfield, 37-6, in its regular season finale. The Spartans finished the season as the top-ranked team in Somerset County.
2012 conference/sectional alignment: The Spartans remain in the Mid-State 38's Watchung Division this season and will drop down to Non-Public, Group 2.
State championship history: Immaculuta has captured four state titles in its history, the last coming in 2006 when the Spartans defeated Delbarton, 22-14, at Rutgers Stadium to win the Non-Public, Section 3 crown. Immaculata also won Non-Public, North B titles in 1984 and 1985, as well as a Non-Public, North B, Section 2 championship in 1994. Immaculata has appeared in 10 state finals, its last trip coming in 2009.
Holiday game?: No – but the Spartans do have a historic first-ever meeting with Phillipsburg, the state's all-time winningest program, scheduled for their regular season finale on Nov. 2 in Phillipsburg.Offense: Quarterback Antonio Natale is back for his third season under center and his second running a spread offense. He threw for 942 yards and 11 touchdowns and ran for 503 yards and eight touchdowns last season. Natale's understudy, Sean Palen, will likely also see some time. Sal Fama, Chris Marrie, Erik Perotta and Vin Sokalski are in the mix to be the lone back beside Natale. Trevor Socarras and twin brothers Chandler and Connor Vanderbeek will be the slotbacks. Matt Tereyk and Sebastian Hofmann lead the receivers. Junior tight end Joe Vitiello is beginning to draw Division-1 attention. Matt Cherneski, Kole Schleimer and Jake Sniscak return on the offensive line with newcomer Vitas Hrynkiewick. Matt Kassebaum will kick and punt again.
Defense: Auburn-bound defensive end Tashawn Bower will once again be a nightmare for opposing offensive coordinators both in pass rush and against the run. Vitiello will be the other end. Joe Nowitzke, Pat Rooney, Charneski, Schleimer and Sniscak will be in the mix to fill out the four-man front. Connor Mullen, Sokalski, Fama and Marrie will compete for jobs in the linebacking corps. Palen is also a possibility at linebacker. J.T. Himerlrick, Terrence Hunter and Anthony Morrison will join Socarras and the Vanderbeek brothers in the secondary.
Etc.: This will be head coach Pierce Frauenheim's 47th and final season at the helm for the Somerville school. Frauenheim, who has been Immaculata's coach since the program's inception in 1966, enters the fall with a career record of 322-135-2.
2012 SCHEDULE (division games in bold italics)
Sept. 7: vs. Plainfield
Sept. 14: at Ridge
Sept. 21: vs. Franklin
Sept. 28: at Watchung Hills
Oct. 5: vs. Linden
Oct. 12: at North Hunterdon
Oct. 19: at Hunterdon Central
Oct. 26: vs. Montgomery
Nov. 2: at Phillipsburg
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Hi, Brett. I think you are correct on all counts, even though I still think radials close to the ground (in terms of a wavelength) tend to as if they were actually on the ground. That sounds contradictory (and may in fact be so since I'm not an expert), but here is how I see it based upon my own experiences. 1. My friend Bob, K7ZB, and I operated several 160m contests from a cabin in northern Arizona with tall Ponderosa Pine trees all around us. Using a slingshot and a fishing reel to run a support line over a tree top, we would string up a full length wire vertical with a couple of radials about 8 feet above the ground running through the trees (using the exact same SO-239 scheme that K3LR has written about). We were definitely able to tune the feedpoint impedance by trimming the length of the radials (longer radials move the feedpoint "off center" and raises the impedance), but I still believe that for loss purposes those two radials were totally insufficient and acted more like two ground radials when there should have been many. We ran about 300 watts, worked lots of stations and twice worked all states during a weekend, but we worked almost no DX mults no matter how hard we tried. 2. Due to neighbor issues, for many years the only antenna I had was a 40m ground plane vertical on the flat roof of my one story house in Phoenix, fed with a homebrew tuner for the higher bands. My "radial system" was simply a bunch of aluminum wire strung as best I could across the roof. I had about 8 wires ... some short, some longer, several cross connected ... but changing the lengths of any of them (or even deleting one or two of them as I was once forced to do) had no effect on the tuning. So even though elevated, the radials really weren't "tuned" but the antenna worked very well for DX, at least on 40m. I'm convinced that having a clear shot over the neighboring trees and houses was the key. The mass of wires provided a current mirror but not in the manner of a tuned counterpoise. So I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to tune a large radial system on or near the ground and have much effect on the feedpoint impedance, but I would expect that it would be possible to tune a couple of radials near ground (or a lot of radials well above ground) and be able to adjust the feedpoint impedance. Having only a couple of tuned radials near ground will result in higher ground losses and poor low angle signals, though, just as if you had a vertical antenna with only two ground radials. As far as obstructions go, the modeling I've done seems to indicate that even for average ground conductivity verticals tend to work best near ground, but if you're surrounding by trees, houses, fences, and other clutter that sucks the life out your signal, it would make sense that an elevated ground plane would do a better job. So ... does any of that make sense or am I just creating more superstition here? 73, Dave AB7E VR2BrettGraham wrote: > N4UM had explained here to "Tom" that instead of using a longer > radiator for a 160m inverted-L (then tuning out the inductive > reactance with a series cap) he increases the length of the radials > instead. > > I had asked "Presumably this is with elevated radials?", to which > K9YC contributed: > > >> I don't see where what you've quoted has anything to do with whether >> the radials are elevated or not. And it is VERY tough to get radials >> high enough to have the advantage of elevated radials on 160M -- the >> literature says at least 1/8 wavelength above earth, which is 20M. >> Maybe at your QTH, but not at mine. :^) >> > > N4UM did not say whether the radials were elevated or not, which > is why I asked, stating my ignorance for all to see by saying I > thought radial length on the ground had more to do with providing > a return than establishing resonance. > > Hence the hope that N4UM might clarify his post, as what he > is saying, I suspect, one will find to contradict pretty much > all existing literature on the subject. > > As for how well verticals "play" - which is not what was being > discussed - our experience here is that 160m verticals with > elevated radials in the area of 1/20-wave up (in my case, > starting at 1/20-wave & descending to about 1/100-wave) do > quite well - the often repeated "ground-mounted verticals are > superior to elevated verticals" claim appears to completely > disregard ground clutter... which simply driving around > listening to MW tends to support. Perhaps if like those who > have more open space & buildings not made of reinforced > concrete & other far-from-RF-transparent objects are not so > prevalent, then those of us here who are active on the low bands > would not think that ground-mounted verticals are the worst > possible thing someone could use. > > Especially when you apparently have to trim all those bloody > radial wires in order to tune one. ;^) > > 73, VR2BrettGraham. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TowerTalk mailing list > email@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk > > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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"We had a bad stretch there in the first half," MSU head coach Rick Stansbury said. "We were playing some lineups there that had not been playing together. We just had a really bad stretch there and it proved too much to overcome."
The Bulldogs scored the game's first seven points and sprinted to a 9-2 advantage. MSU stretched the lead to eight points at 12-4 on a 3-point basket by Arnett Moultrie. After hitting a pair of 3's during this early stretch, the Maroon and White only hit three more the remainder of the way.
Down 16-9, Auburn scored the game's next 16 points and held a lead the remainder of the contest. A dunk by Adrian Forbes brought Auburn within two, while a follow-up layup by Varez Ward tied the contest at 16. A steal and old-fashioned 3-point play by Kenny Gabriel capped the run at 23-16 with 4:25 left in the half.
The Bulldogs went more than five minutes without scoring during the run. Auburn stretched the lead to double digits and led 35-24 at halftime.
"We fought hard in the second half and gave ourselves a chance," Stansbury said. "But, we missed too many wide-open shots. You have to make shots when you are trying to make a comeback in a game. We had chances and couldn't make shots."
The Maroon and White were back within five on a Jalen Steele jumper with 16:15 left in regulation. Auburn scored back-to-baskets before Steele connected for a 3-pointer. The Bulldogs chopped it back to five on an Arnett Moultrie dunk and later four on a 3-pointer by Dee Bost.
Two Moultrie free throws brought MSU within 53-50 with 5:02 left. Auburn responded with a 9-2 run to move back out of danger.
For the contest, the Bulldogs hit 19 of 54 shots from the field (35.2 percent), 5 of 22 shots from 3-point range (22.7 percent) and 12 of 17 shots from the foul line (70.6 percent). The Tigers hit 25 of 53 shots from the field (47.2 percent), 4 of 15 shots from 3-point range (26.7 percent) and 11 of 14 shots from the foul line (78.6 percent).
Auburn held a 36-31 rebounding advantage. The Bulldogs had nine assists and eight turnovers, while the Tigers had 13 assists and 10 turnovers.
Moultrie paced the Bulldogs with 16 points, while Bost added 11 points. Moultrie also had 11 rebounds for his 15th double-double. Renardo Sidney did not play due to back spasms.
Auburn received 16 points from Frankie Sullivan, 15 points from Kenny Gabriel and 10 points from Ward.
MSU hosts No. 1 Kentucky at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The Bulldogs and Wildcats will play as part of the prestigious "Super Tuesday" package on ESPN inside a sold-out Humphrey Coliseum.