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Preparations underway for Onalaska Community Thanksgiving Dinner
The Onalaska community has a chance to come together this Thanksgiving.
Preparations for the second annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner are underway. The free dinner includes all the favorites: turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and potatoes. There will also be a kids area and TV's to watch football.
The event, which is funded through donations and volunteers, fed 700 people last year and they are expecting more than a thousand this year. "You get people from all neighborhoods, from all different backgrounds, we had those that actually really needed a meal joining with military families that had people deploying overseas, just joining with other people who wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving with their friends and neighbors," said Tom Brewer from the Onalaska Enhancement Foundation.
The event is free for everyone. It's being held at the Onalaska Armory from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There is also a meal delivery if you can't leave your home.
For more information about the meal or if you would like to volunteer, you can call 797-0094 or go to octd.org.
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'Cat burglar' behind missing keys
Milo picked up 20 sets of keys with magnetic collar
A cat named Milo becomes an unwitting "cat burglar," picking up keys with her magnetic collar.
Milo's owner, 27-year-old Kirsten Alexander, told The Daily Telegraph she put the collar on her pet feline five weeks ago when she installed a magnetic cat door to keep other kitties out.
Little did she know that Milo's collar had picked up 20 sets of spare car and house keys as she roamed the neighborhood during th etime.
Alexander found 12 sets of the keys in her garden and eight around her home, but didn't connect the two until Milo walked in with a new set affixed to her neck, The Daily Mail reported.
The keys have since been returned to her neighbors, who laughed off Milo's mischief.
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Few conditions can occur as rapidly and with as devastating consequences as stroke. Data from the American Stroke Association indicate that over 700,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke each year. Of these, about 500,000 are first attacks and 100,000 are recurrent attacks.
Yet about 4.5 million stroke survivors are alive today. The innovation of diagnostic technologies, advanced treatment techniques and improved management of stroke risk factors have created new hope for persons who have had a stroke or who are at risk of having a stroke. Both of our hospitals have been designated as primary stroke centers meaning our physicians, nurses and paramedics are specially trained in stroke care and available 24/7.
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As Galatea awakens the Dragon Line, she grants Mason's request—but not exactly how he intended. Leon's not a smooth dude, but just as he gets to Priss, the Knight Sabers call her into action!
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Pumpkin Pie Pancakes
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 3 min
- Ready Time: 25 min
- Yield: 16 pancakes
- 1 cup Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup Crisco® Pure Canola Oil
- OR 1/4 cup Crisco® Canola Oil and Omega-3 DHA
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
Preparation Directions
- WHISK flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Whisk in buttermilk, pumpkin, eggs, oil and vanilla until well blended.
- SPRAY a large nonstick griddle or skillet with no-stick cooking spray. Heat over medium heat.
- POUR batter by scant 1/3 cupfuls into skillet, working in batches. Cook until bubbles form on surface of pancakes and bottoms are lightly browned, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. Repeat with remaining batter, spraying skillet with no-stick cooking spray between batches as needed.
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Serving Size (1 pancake), Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 40), Total Fat 4.5g (Saturated Fat 0.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 30mg, Sodium 240mg, Total Carbohydrate 16g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 6g), Protein 2g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 25%, Vitamin C 2%, Calcium 4%, Iron 4%.
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Bomb attacks in Syrian capital kill 8 people
DAMASCUS, Syria Suicide bombers targeted security compounds in Damascus and a car bomb exploded in a pro-regime district there Sunday, killing at least eight people, the latest in a surge of civil war violence in the capital.
In northern Syria, a car bomb killed 12 soldiers in Aleppo, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists in Syria for information. It had no other details, and the government did not comment.
The state-run news agency SANA said three suicide bombers blew themselves up while trying to break into the Rukneddine police station in northern Damascus, killing five people and wounding several others. SANA said three would-be suicide bombers also tried to break into the Criminal Security Branch in the southern Bab Mousalla area but were caught by security forces before they could detonate their explosives.
Activists confirmed the death toll.
SANA said a car bomb exploded in Mazzeh 86 district in the capital, killing three people, including a 3-year-old boy. Residents of the district are mostly Alawites, an offshoot Shiite sect that President Bashar Assads family belongs to. The opposition forces fighting against Assads regime are mostly Sunni Muslims.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the Damascus explosions, but they bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida-linked groups that have joined forces with rebels fighting to oust Assad.
The attacks in Syrias two largest cities came as government forces pressed an offensive on the outskirts of the capital.
SANA carried a statement by the Interior Ministry saying that the Damascus attacks were a new escalation by terrorist groups, a term used by the government to refer to the rebels.
More than 93,000 people have been killed in Syrian conflict that started in March 2011 as peaceful protest against Assads rule. In the past year, the war has taken on sectarian overtones.
The conflict has increasingly spilled across Syrias borders.
In neighboring Lebanon, clashes erupted between Lebanese military and supporters of hard-line Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assar. Six Lebanese soldiers were killed, according to the army.
The fighting broke out in the predominantly Sunni southern port city of Sidon after al-Assirs supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint.
The military issued a statement confirming that six soldiers died in the shooting, including three officers. It said the shooting was unprovoked.
Heavy fighting with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades caused panic in the city, which until recently had been largely spared the violence hitting other areas. Many people who were spending the day on the beach hurried home, while others living on high floors came down or fled to safer areas. Gray smoke billowed over parts of the city.MORE IN Wire NewsUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Full StoryTroubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week... Full Story
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By Karl Terry: PNT Managing Editor
The old saying goes that close only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes. A Portales couple got closer to a grenade than they wanted Saturday.
Shortly before 2 p.m. Portales Police got a 911 call from a person reporting finding a hand grenade in the yard at Eighth and Chicago streets, directly east of City Park.
Two hours later, an explosive ordnance disposal team from Cannon Air Force Base scooped the grenade up, placed it in an armored trailer and took it home.
Police responded and evacuated the residents as well as everyone else in the neighborhood, according to Portales Police Capt. Lonnie Berry. The evacuation, carried out with the help of the Portales Fire Department, displaced residents for a block on each side of the residence and cleared the park, including the baseball park, where a youth practice was going on, and the Memorial Building, where a reception was about to get under way.
Steve and Margaret Hodge said they were working in the yard, preparing to put in a new lawn for Steve's father at the residence when they found the device.
"She (Margaret Hodge) hit it with a rake," Steve Hodge said. "She picked it up and handed it to me and I said, 'Ohhhh,' and put it down by the curb."
Steve Hodge said once he looked at it he knew it was time to put it down and call 911.
"I thought it was a pine cone from the tree," said Margaret Hodge, motioning toward a big pine.
Berry said police initially inspected the grenade and could not tell if it was live or a dummy practice grenade. He said most dummy grenades are painted blue or have a blue top, and are usually hollow on the bottom.
Berry said since the bottom appeared to be solid and no blue paint was apparent, police decided to err on the side of caution and contact Cannon EOD.
"It looks like it's probably been in the ground for years," Berry said of the grenade.
Once Cannon crews left with the grenade, police swept the yard with a metal detector and reopened streets and City Park shortly before 4 p.m.


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Tiger Beat: No. 18 Princeton Pounds No. 6 PSU
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PRINCETON, N.J. – The No. 18-ranked Princeton women's lacrosse team knocked off No. 6 Penn State, 14-8, in the regular-season finale Saturday, April 27. The Tigers complete their seventh perfect home season, going 7-0 at Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium.
A 13-save performance by junior Caroline Franke was key to Princeton's win. Those 13 saves match her career-high. Offensively, senior Sam Ellis had a career-game with four goals and two assists. SophomoreErin McMunn also had a six-point game with three goals and three helpers, while classmate Erin Slifer had three goals and two assists. Senior Jaci Gassaway reached a milestone in the game, scoring her 100th career goal.The Tigers jumped out to a 4-0 lead with Ellis scoring the first two goals and Slifer putting away the next two.
Princeton would never relinquish the lead and led by as many as six goals. Penn State could only get within two goals.
Ally Heavens put the Nittany Lions on the board at 16:25 to briefly halt the Tigers' run. McMunn scored her first of three and Ellis scored her third goal of the game to put Princeton up 6-1 with 11:11 remaining in the first half.
PSU would get one more goal, by Maggie McCormick, with less than four minutes to play to end the half 6-2 in favor of Princeton.
Princeton went on a 4-2 run to open the second and take a 10-4 lead. During that run was Gassaway's 100th goal as she put away a pass from McMunn at 22:39. Slifer, junior Sarah Lloyd and freshman Anya Gersoffalso scored.
The Nittany Lions mounted a comeback as they went on a four-goal run to cut their deficit to just two, 10-8 with 6:50 to play in regulation.
The Tigers weren't having it. After a timeout they rattled off four straight in a span of 4:03 to regain the six-goal lead, 14-8. Lloyd provided the spark while McMunn scored twice and Ellis tallied her fourth of the game. Two of those four goals were scored man-down after Princeton received a yellow card at 4:58.
Haley Ford mustered a man-down goal for PSU with seven seconds left but the game belonged to the Tigers.
Emi Smith started the game in net but after allowing six goals she was replaced by Alya Halus. Halus finished off the first half allowing just one. Smith went back in goal to start the second but was taken out again less than nine minutes in as Halus got another crack at it. In the end, Smith made three saves and allowed nine while Halus made one stop on six shots. Kelly Lechner had a hat trick and McCormick had three points on one goal and two helpers.
PSU outshot Princeton 29-21 and won one more draw, 13-12 and one more ground ball, 15-14.
Princeton will be the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League Tournament and will face No. 3 seed Dartmouth on Friday, May 3 at 4 p.m. The winner advances the championship game, against either Penn/Cornell, on Sunday at noon.
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Budget analysis and discussions continued to dominate our activities this week, and we continue to work to comply with the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).
This message contains information on the following issues:
· Announcement of the May State Board meeting
· An update on the FY04 budget
A summary of the proposed
· Two notices of completed rulemaking, one regarding certification and one regarding special education
· Information about a tool kit for school boards to support efforts to prevent HIV infection
May Meeting of the State Board of Education
The May meeting of the State Board of Education is
scheduled for Monday and
Update on the FY04 Budget
The budget process continued to pick up steam this week, highlighted Tuesday by a rare session of the House meeting as a Committee of the Whole to discuss the proposed education budget. State Budget Director John Filan and I testified and answered members' questions for more than four hours, and that was followed by several more hours of testimony from the public.
At the session, I reiterated the budget position taken
last week by the State Board, which advocates directing more resources to the
mandated categoricals, keeping some functions at ISBE that the Governor has
proposed to transfer, and fully funding some programs he has proposed to
eliminate, principally the ROE functions and the Truant Alternative Program.
(For full details of the State Board's position, see the
Several representatives asked me about disparities between our agency's estimates of the impact of the Governor's budget and the estimates that superintendents have made in their own districts. I told them – as I have told you – that the process of analyzing these numbers is complex and that some districts may be using premises to reach their conclusions that are different from the premises we used. I told the representatives that my staff will make every attempt to reconcile differing estimates with any local superintendent who wishes to discuss them.
On Wednesday, I spent several more hours meeting with
both Senate caucuses to discuss budget issues further. Yesterday I was the
luncheon speaker at the IASA meeting in
Next week, in addition to the continuing budget
discussions and the monthly State Board meeting, I will participate in a P-16
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If you have comments, you may submit them to me by e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.com). Keep in mind that the State Board is required to develop criteria for highly qualified teachers and we have made every effort to meet, but not exceed, the NCLB requirements.
Some highlights of the DRAFT proposal:
For NCLB purposes new teachers are defined as
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· Current teachers have seven options by which to be considered highly qualified. These options are broad and should encompass most current teachers in their primary assignment and many in their second and even third assignments.
· New Elementary Certificate holders are considered highly qualified if they pass the Elementary/Middle Grades Test (The test is being renamed to reflect the range of content knowledge; there is no change in the test.)
· Current special education teachers are considered highly qualified if they hold one of four special education certification options and pass the tests for those certificates and endorsements. New special education teachers are considered highly qualified if they hold one of the special education certification options and pass the Elementary/Middle Grades Test. Alternatively, new special educators can be considered highly qualified if they pass subject-area tests specific to the subject area of their teaching responsibility or meet other identified options. Special educators who serve as consultants for other teachers and are not the "teacher of record" are not required to meet the requirements for "highly qualified."
· Provisional certificate holders based on an out-of-state certificate will be considered to be highly qualified.
· Holders of Transitional Bilingual Certificates (Type 29) are considered to be highly qualified if they meet certain specifications and are participating in an "alternative program" that meets the federal definition. This requires support and continuing professional development for the teacher as he or she moves toward full certification in three years.
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Notice of Completed Rulemaking: Certification and Special Education
Two rulemaking items recently adopted by the State Board of Education are now in effect. Both these sets of rules have been posted on the agency's Web site at www.isbe.net/rules; choose "Rules Currently in Effect" and scroll to the relevant Part number. (If you print only the affected Sections, remember to include the table of contents for the Part, which changes every time the Part is amended.)
Certification (Part 25)
The amendments contained in this set of rules implement two major aspects of P.A 92‑796 (HB 1436).
New requirements for the renewal of
administrative certificates take effect beginning
The legislation provides for congruence among the periods of validity of each individual's administrative certificate and teaching certificate(s). Therefore, in 2003 some individuals will receive administrative certificates that have fewer than five years of validity, and the requirements for continuing professional development will be reduced accordingly during that first renewal cycle. The rules also describe several other circumstances in which reductions in the requirements will apply.
Requirements for the standard teaching certificate are presented in a series of new Sections describing six potential alternatives from which individuals may choose. (See Sections 25.900 through 25.945.)
The revisions to Sections 25.720 and 25.725 are technical in nature and are needed for further clarification of the applicability of testing requirements to certified individuals seeking additional certificates.
Affected Sections: 25.11, 25.35, 25.315, 25.720, 25.725, 25.900, 25.905, 25.910, 25.915, 25.920, 25.925, 25.930, 25.940, and 25.945
Special Education (Part 226)
These amendments have three purposes:
They include a number of wording
changes required by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special
Programs (OSEP).
· They include revisions to the rule on parental consent (Section 226.540) that respond both to OSEP and to recent litigation.
· The amendments to Section 226.800 explain how the current system of issuing state approval for individuals to serve as directors of special education will be closed out in favor of a standards-based endorsement. These changes complement recent amendments to Part 29 (Standards for Administrative Certification).
Affected Sections: 226.75, 226.100, 226.240, 226.250, 226.350, 226.530, 226.540, 226.605, 226.610, 226.625, 226.690, 226.740, 226.770, and 226.800
HIV Prevention in Schools: A Tool Kit for School Board Members
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA) have been working with education policymakers since 1987 to strengthen the role of schools in the prevention of HIV infections. Much progress has been made, but 25 percent of all new HIV infections still occur in the 13- to 21-year-old age group.
With that in mind NASBE and NSBA, in partnership with the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have developed a tool kit that state and local board of education members may use in their efforts to enhance the ability of schools to prevent the spread of HIV infection among young people. The kit contains a wide range of useful information for both educators and community members.
For further information on the kit or any questions about issues related to HIV/AIDS and the schools, contact Jim Bogden at NASBE (703/684-4000) or Brenda Z. Greene at NSBA (703/838-6756).
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Wow!!!! Gallo!!
Wow. What a pretty drive and off-balance left-hand hook from Gallo.
We need Gallo to turn this **** on to Boston's heads now.
1pt game in the 3rd. BOS adjusted to us, on their defense especially. Gallo can turn their heads in their asses.
Wow!!!! Gallo!!
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That dunk was nuts!!! That is what I am saying. We have a had a nice lead this entire game but in order to pile on the points we need a guy like gallo to be draining threes. He has hesitated all game (as he nails an open three).
speak of the devil...
Then the power from-behind dunk and knock down 3.
That dunk was highlight reel worthy.
When Gallo plays well, we just look that much better.
Amazing 3rd quarter by Danilo
Gallo didn't need to do much since Amare was dominating and Felton and Chandler was putting in work.
Whenever Amare needs to take the workload off his back, Gallo is there for scoring to back him up.
Hating on Gallo is 100% unnecessary and premature. He's been a HUGE part of our success.
When a **** wants in, it goes in. And Gallo is laying the pipe down hard on the Boston Cripples now.
But make sure not to incorrectly pidgin hole is game and contributions just bc he has elite, rare range and shooting ability.
His resurrection this game -- and our team's -- was off two drives/slashes. One with a perfectly delicate off-balance left-hand hook; the other a behind the back power dunk.
If you can't see that Gallo has rare, all-star game and want to treat him like some journeyman bench player specialist you are just blind. By choice or whatever.
Some of us saw this during his first year.....
loving this game....wat it do hommies?


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Sister Bernadette BruleFebruary 13,2014
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BURLINGTON Sister Bernadette Brule, RSM (Sister M. Luke), 86, of the Sisters of Mercy Northeast Community, Vermont, died at Burlington Health and Rehab in Burlington on Feb. 11, 2014, in her 68th year of religious life.
Sister Bernadette was born in Barre, Vt., Dec. 3, 1927, the daughter of Eva (Chouinard) and Deneri Brule. She attended St. Monica Grade School and Spaulding High School and Mount St. Mary Academy, Burlington. Sister Bernadette received her bachelors degree from Trinity College, Burlington.
Sister taught in parochial schools in Burlington, Barre, Montpelier and Middlebury, and served in numerous parishes throughout the Diocese of Burlington teaching religious education.
Sister Bernadette entered the Sisters of Mercy on Feb. 2, 1946, and was professed on Aug. 19, 1948.
Sister was a lover of music and a wonderful musician. She played the violin, guitar, piano and autoharp. She was a member of the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra for 18 years and played violin with the musicians and choir at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, was choir directress in Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Middlebury for 11 years. I will play before the Lord, I will sing to Him my melody ... These are words to a song written by Bob Dufford, SJ, that speak so well of Sister Bernadette. Her musical contribution to liturgy made participation a prayer to the Lord.
She is survived by her sisters Noela Ducharme, of Asheville, N.C., Laurette Knight, of Albuquerque, N.M., and Cecile Hogan, of Upper Marlboro, Md.; her nieces and nephews; and also by her sisters in religion, the Sisters of Mercy. She was predeceased by her parents, Eva (Chouinard) and Deneri Brule; and her sister Rita Routhier.
Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at Mount St. Mary Chapel at 10:30 a.m. Visiting hours will be Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m. with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Mount St. Marys.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Sisters of Mercy in support of their ministerial works, in care of the life and ministry administrator, 100 Mansfield Ave., Burlington, VT 05401.
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T.J. MannixInstructor, Performer
T.J. Mannix has been a professional actor, voice over artist, teacher, and acting coach in NYC for 15 years. He has appeared in more than 80 TV and radio commercials - along with roles on Law and Order: SVU", "Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, and numerous appearances on Late Night with Conan OBrien.
He fell hard for improv after studying with Amy Poehler and Armando Diaz, and since then has studied with everyone from Ed Herbstman and Matt Walsh to Tara Copeland. He has toured with The Second City under the direction of Mick Napier, Anne Libera, and Matt Hovde.
T.J. was on one of the first Harold teams at UCB (The Bureau), Magnet House teams Pax Romana & Viceroy, and co-hosts both the Wednesday night Magnet Mixer and the Magnet Musical Mixer. He is the founder of the New York Musical Improv Festival www.NYMIF.com and has performed with The Made-Up Musical, The Program, FACE, and Magnet Musical House Teams Atticus, Rosencrantz,Rebound & Miracle Baby.
He admits to spending a very dark year working as a Mouseketeer - until a growth spurt left him taller than Goofy. T.J. has learned that some people are extra nice to him because they think he knows Dave. T.J. is a huge fan of the Magnet community, where it's safe to perform smart and honest scene work without getting yelled at.


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Sheboygan Coca-Cola plant to close by end of March
About 40 people will lose jobs
Published On: Jan 30 2013 09:37:10 PM CST
Coca-Cola plans to close its Sheboygan production plant by the end of March, putting about 40 people out of work.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced the closing Wednesday.
According to a letter from Coca-Cola Refreshments USA Inc., the company is offering workers a severance package.
The positions being eliminated include merchandisers, drivers and managers.
No reason was given for the closing. The Sheboygan Press reported Coca-Cola officials could not be reached for comment.
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The kids call it beanbag, you call it cornhole. Once the tots have gone to sleep, you and friends can enjoy a modified version of the classic lawn game.
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This Barbie is definitely one of those look-don't-touch gifts. Packaged with two miniaturized looks from Hérvé Leger, the collectible doll is something that your little one will appreciate when she's older, but that you can appreciate now.
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Just like the famous Bertoia chairs (only smaller), these adorable seats (available in silver, pink and blue) give any kid's room a little mid-century modern style.
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Instead of getting your 10 year old the latest video game, introduce him to marble solitaire, a timeless game of strategy. When not in use, the mahogany board and hand-blown glass marbles will make an eye-catching statement on your end table.
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Much has been said this election year on the Republican "War on Women." Some believe it exists while others doubt it.
I have believed for some time that it exists, beginning with Rush Limbaugh's "slut" comment. There are local examples as well. Just the past week, N.C. Sen. Jim Davis (R-Franklin) was quoted in an article regarding funding cuts for pre-K programs for low income children as saying that the government shouldn't be in the business of "making up for poor parenting." Sen. Davis was also quoted as saying "I think the greatest gift a father can give his kids is their mother at home."
Well Sen. Davis, as a single parent, I find your comments personally insulting and really believe you live in some sort of alternate universe. Just because parents are low-income and in some cases single doesn't mean they are bad parents. I have seen good and bad parenting among all income levels and marital statuses. The low income children need the Pre-K program because their parents can't afford an expensive pre-school where their higher income peers have the advantage of getting ready for public school. Our world is much more complex these days and kids need to be ready at an earlier age.
As for the comment about the kid's mother at home, haven't you realized that the "Leave it to Beaver" show hasn't been produced for some time? In most instances, it takes both parents working just to make ends meet, much less pay for pre-school. Even if the mother – or father for that matter – is at home, there's no guarantee they are educating their child or have the ability to do so.
As for the Pre-K programs being "free babysitting services" that simply isn't the case. The workers are well-trained professionals who engage the child in meaningful activities throughout the day. They aren't just plopped down in the front of a television screen.
I share your belief that the government can't solve all of society's ills, but this is one program that will give future generations a head start and enable them to become productive members of society rather than living off the welfare dole. It's not hard for me to decide who I'll vote for in this election.
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Oh Holy Night. 🙂ReplyCancel
I'm a sucker for Mariah Carey's
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I also really enjoy "Charlie Brown Christmas" by Vince Guaraldi. It brings me back to my childhood!ReplyCancel
Last Christmas by WHAMReplyCancel
1.Mariah Carey: All I want for Xmas is Yuuuuuuu!
2. Nat King Cole: Merry Christmas to you.
3. Sleigh Ride
I love all the Xmas songs and sing them all through the season to the point of other people around me ask me to give it a rest. I'm one of those annoyingly happy perky positive people. Most of the time. " Our cheeks are niiice and ROsy and COMfy cozy are weeeeeee! We're snuggled UP TOgether like TWO birds of a feather are weeeee!" Probably not the right lyrics, but that makes it more fun anyways.
Last Christmas by Wham and What
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Oh and the theme from Christmas Vacation for fun!
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Domenic the italian Xmas Donkey 🙂ReplyCancel
I can tell you my least favorite–the new rendition of "baby it's cold outside" by Colbie Caillat and Gavin Degraw. Their voices don't mesh well…kinda like nails on a chalkboard. Unfortunately, it appears they're knocking boots, so we'll have to endure more of this in the future.ReplyCancel
I love Carol of the Bells too. While I enjoy the contemporary Christmas music (White Christmas, Let it Snow, All I need for Christmas is You) I really love the old carols like Joy to the World, O Little Town of Bethlehem, etc. Brings back my childhood, especially being in Christmas pageants in Catholic school. Good times.ReplyCancel
And is it just me, or is Gavin DeGraw really skeezy? He comes across so fake and disingenuous to me. Can't believe she dumped her boyfriend for him. But I digress… 😉ReplyCancel
"Last Christmas" by Wham! *L* Must be with the video though, it is deliciously cheesy and awesome. I am a lifelong choir geek and a general holiday enthusiast, so I kind of love all Christmas songs. And also, Adam Sandler's Hannukah song. I am an equal opportunity nerd.ReplyCancel
This Christmas ….Donny HathawayReplyCancel
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses!!!!!
RIP, Patty Donahue
What song is she talking about? The punky one that goes…
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
That one. You now have the song in your head all day. You're welcome.ReplyCancel
Judy Garland "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".ReplyCancel
Also, Jon Bon Jovi- Please Come Home For Christmas is my other favorite.ReplyCancel
Jingle Bell Rock.
Giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet…ReplyCancel
Pretenders – 2000 Miles
Joan Jett – Little Drummer Boy
Feels like Christmas – Cyndi Lauper
Merry Christmas – John Williams
Cold, Cold Christmas – Stephen Colbert
And Brenda Lee Christmas songs.ReplyCancel
Best by far:
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Little Drummer Boy-Bowie/Crosby version
Last Christmas by Wham,as Maja mentioned for the video alone! 🙂
Winter Wonderland by Annie LennoxReplyCancel
Fairytale of New York, without a doubt!ReplyCancel
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Beach Boys "Little Saint Nick!"
I still have my Mom's old Christmas records and bring them out every year. My favorite one is an all-orchestral one (Andre Kostelantz(sp?).
And the Vince Guaraldi "Charlie Brown Christmas" is timeless…it's usually on repeat.ReplyCancel
Oh, and "Run, Run Rudolph" by Chuck BerryReplyCancel
My all time fave is "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid. Cheesy but I love it.ReplyCancel
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses. They knew what boys liked.ReplyCancel
Oh yeah, Fairytale of New York by the Pogues. Dark but funny. "You scumbag you maggot.." not your usual Christmas song lyrics.
"I could have been someone!"
"Well so could anyone."
Thanks, @Terri, I really enjoyed that.ReplyCancel
White Christmas Makes Me Blue, Randy Travis
Snoopy's Christmas, The Royal Guardsmen
Aspenglow and Coventry Carol, John Denver
Mary, Did You Know?, Kathy Mattea
Every single song Clint Black has on his Christmas CD
FruFru… Saw Robert Earl Keene in concert in Charlotte, and he sang that song. It was too cool!ReplyCancel
I am so glad you love it too!!! I was thinking I was the only one.ReplyCancel
The whole New Kids on the Block Christmas album OBVIOUSLY.
Also, Mariah, the Phil Spector album, Fairytale of New York, Hark! The Herald Angel, Once in Royal David's City, O Little Town of Bethlehem. I also really like Lindsay Lohan's version of Jingle Bell Rock (I know, I know).ReplyCancel
Any christmas-y song being sung by Nat King Cole or Bing.ReplyCancel
Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd – Mary, did you know?
I heard it last year for the first time, and as corny as it sounds, the lyrics made me think of what a beautiful story the birth of Christ is. I'm not religious at all, so that was kind of a "moment" for me. Doesn't need to be a true story to be enjoyed. It's just beautiful.
Seriously? It's a tossup between "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" and Gilda Radner's "I want an Alligator for Christmas".ReplyCancel
I want to thank everyone for this fabulous holiday playlist!
Im surprised no one mentioned Burl Ives!ReplyCancel
Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby. I've loved it since I was a kid.
White Christmas by Bing Crosby
The 12 Pains of Christmas – It reminds me of my dad having problems with the decorations & lights.
Donde Esta Santa Claus? – Augie Rios
Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day – Brenda Lee
Christmas By The Phone – Good CharlotteReplyCancel
Tossup between Elvis' version of "Another Blue Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland" as sung by Johnny Mathis. Reminds me of the rare moments when my family got along in the 1970s.ReplyCancel
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" makes me really happy.
"O Holy Night" makes me a little weepy.
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I am not sure if I belong in the *relactating* side anymore, but this is where I want to update!
I have been getting about 12 oz of BM a day with Hand expression. But I couldn't get him to eat it from me.
for 5 days he refused me
So Today I started a sort of nursing marathon I am calling it. NO bottles at all.
He had a bottle at 3 am this morning but that was it. this morning I nursed him.
then expressed 2.5 oz. (usually I get at least 5.5 oz in the morning so I know he ate good)
then we napped and that is when i decided to do this
he had ate off of me all day, at first he struggled a bit but now is doing great at accepting me. even taking my right breast with the capsular contraction that is harder to latch too. I just want to get this to work. and it's been 2 months now, so i figure i need to just go for it . so we are !
just at 4:30 this afternoon I gave him about an oz from a dropper. It was MUCH easier then I thought that would be! but it worked!
he has still been a happy smily boy all day!
I really hope this helps either a. build my supply up enough
but MAINLY i want him to nurse from me and so far so good!
any other advice? the only dificult part is keeping my almost 2 year old busy while we are stuck inside but he is doing well as well!
where is everyone else at as well? any updates?
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The Institute of Business and Medical Careers, a local training institution, promoted Melissa Whitten to regional director of the career services department for all area IBMC campuses in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Cheyenne, Wyo. Whitten has more than seven years of customer service and professional career development experience. She has worked for IBMC in the roles of associate director of career services, externship coordinator and career services assistant for the last six years. IBMC also announced the hiring of Jill Cherubin and Heather Gaglio as career services coordinators at the Fort Collins campus. The two will partner with local employers to place students into externships and graduates in career positions.
Bartels & Co. LLC Certified Public Accountants of Greeley announced that Rick Abundis joined the firm as a tax accountant. Abundis graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2008 and is a CPA candidate. He has four years of public accounting experience preparing individual and business income tax returns.
Patrick Varney has been named as one of Bank Investment Consultant Magazine's Top 50 Bank Advisors for 2012, making this the second time he has been recognized on this list. Varney is a Raymond James financial advisor located at Bank of Colorado in Windsor, and is affiliated with the Financial Institutions Division of Raymond James Financial Services Inc. The magazine evaluated the honorees on assets under management, production, asset growth, percentage of fee business, growth in production and production-per-assets.
Banner Health announced three new practitioners: Dr. Phillip Rhoads will see patients at three Loveland locations, and specializes in internal medicine and pediatrics. He completed medical school at the University of Arkansas and speaks both English and Spanish. Dr. Jessica Guiroy will practice in Fort Collins and specializes in family practice. She received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota. Azure Zeigler, a family nurse practitioner, will see patients at Banner Health Center in Loveland. She emphasizes wellness, prevention and chronic disease management to help ensure lifelong health.
Otis, Coan & Peters LLC announced the addition of attorney Jenna H. Keller to the firm. Keller has been practicing law in the real estate and natural resources areas since 2006. Keller has experience in assisting land and mineral owners with oil and gas rights and development issues, water rights and water court applications, estate planning and probate matters.
Employment Solutions, a Colorado staffing agency with offices in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Denver, announced that Sarah DeBuse Nelson has been promoted to recruiting manager. Nelson manages the recruiting team and oversees recruiting efforts in the Fort Collins region. Additionally, Crystal DeNoncourt has been promoted to recruiting manager for the Greeley region and Rory Geisler was promoted to vice president of operations. He manages business operations, recruiting operations, customer service programs and recruiting staff.
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text: On the heels of the NFL Network's ranking of the Top 100 NFL players, Erik Frenz of the Boston Globe is currently posting a ranking of his top 25 players in the AFC East. Just making the cut at number 25 is Patriot RB Stevan Ridley. AFC East top 25, No. 25: Patriots RB Stevan Ridley - Going Deep - Boston.com Traditional stats don't quite do Ridley justice. He ranked seventh in rushing yards, but only 15th in yards per attempt. Thankfully, Football Outsiders weights their stats based on opponent, and in those marks, Ridley ranked in the top 10 runners in defense-adjusted value on average, yards above replacement, and success rate. As we all know in New England, though, a running back's duties go far beyond running the football. No one is going to confuse Ridley for Patriots legend Kevin Faulk, but according to Pro Football Focus, Ridley allowed just two pressures on 47 snaps in pass protection. He wasn't used in that role very often in 2012, but that could change now that Danny Woodhead is gone (43 snaps in pass protection, three pressures allowed). On that note, Ridley could rank higher if he were more involved in the passing game. That's where Shane Vereen comes in. The Patriots have always run a backfield by committee, and Ridley does more than his share. On a side note, congrats to Frenz for landing his new gig at the Globe.


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I need help. My son is ten weeks old and I hate breastfeeding. I have had mastitis three times in the same breast, intense burning, stinging nipple pain nearly every feed, and feel so discouraged. I have tried three antibiotics, grapefruit seed extract, lecithin, vitamin c, castor oil warm compresses, cool compresses, cabbage, two kinds of lanolin, a cocoa butter based nipple cream, coconut oil, hot showers, and alternating feeding positions. My left nipple is scabbed over and my little snapping turtle has to crack the scab to feed every time. I've tried expressing milk and rubbing it on. My nipple is too swollen to even get it in the pump. I blister. He spits up bloody milk. I am exhausted and feel lied to; everyone said how easy this is, how it gets better after this week, or that week. But it just gets worse. I am in extreme pain—stinging, shooting pain before, during, and after a feed. My nipples harden and get white and pinched. I don't know what else I can do!
Oh, and on top of this joyride, my son has decided it's totally awesome to bite and yank on me, pinch and claw on my breast during a feed. Joy.
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Two months ago, the Fairtrade Fund launched Slavery Footprint, a web- and mobile-based application that allows users to understand how their lives intersect with modern slavery. Through a grant from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, the Fairtrade Fund developed this tool to help more people understand the way their lifestyles and consumption habits fuel the demand for forced labor and sex trafficking.
The app works by asking users to complete a quick survey about where they live and what they buy and eat. That information is processed in an algorithm that analyzes the 400 most common consumer items and determines the likelihood that those items were tainted by modern slavery somewhere along the supply chain.
The goal announced at the time of the launch was to register 150,000 people having taken the survey by September 22, 2012, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelve months to get 150,000 people engaged. What's been revealed instead in the last two months is that people care about this issue, and aren't going to wait on our timetable to join the modern abolitionist movement. On November 11 , only six weeks after the site launched, the millionth Slavery Footprint survey was completed. And it's not just Americans -- people from a hundred different countries have taken the quiz.
As I travel around the world, it's becoming clear that the fight against modern slavery has moved beyond an annual report to become a vibrant global movement. More and more governments are taking steps to fight modern slavery, from the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal . Law enforcement and NGOs are coming together in places as diverse as Moscow and Memphis, and the press and the public are recognizing this crime and the heroism of the survivors both on the local and global levels.
Most telling of the direction this movement is taking is that one million people in over 100 countries have taken the time to assess their own impact. For these million people, it wasn't enough to simply say "I'm not a trafficker" or "I don't buy sex or have a maid locked up in my house." By taking the survey, they have learned that human trafficking doesn't just affect people in faraway parts of the world. We touch this crime in the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the technology upon which we rely -- and we can do something about it. Slavery Footprint and its partners like MTV have made it possible to take action by letting companies and universities know that you care about modern slavery and that you hope they do as well.
The road to freedom is long and hard, but there are now millions of footprints on that path. I encourage you to visit www.slaveryfootprint.org, take the survey yourself, and join us as we seek to deliver on the promise of Emancipation.
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I am very glad to see such a device coming to fruition. Modern slavery is a serious and widespread issue impacting several aspects of the global economy. However, most people only think of sex slavery when they think of modern slavery, and thus do not generally consider how their actions are contributing to the modern slave trade. This tool will allow consumers to understand how their habits impact modern slavery and will give them advocacy in the fight against it by allowing them to make more informed choices in the market place. Widespread and effective use of such a tool could provide a means to economically "starve" the modern slave trade by reducing demand for goods and services produced through slavery with more informed consumer decision making.


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UMass Defense Dominates in Win Over Brown
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The No. 13/13 UMass men's lacrosse team held Brown to just a pair of goals while 11 Minutemen notched at least one point to secure a 15-2 victory over the Bears at Stevenson Field in Providence, R.I., on Saturday afternoon.
Nick Mariano led all scorers with six points on five goals and an assist. Through four games played as a freshman he leads the team with 15 points on 14 goals and one assist.
The game marks the first since the 2001 season that the Minutemen limited an opponent to just two goals. UMass last accomplished the feat against Boston College on March 21, 2001 in a 23-2 win.
The Minutemen improved to 4-0 with the win, the 12th time UMass has started a season with four consecutive victories and third instance in the previous four seasons. Brown dropped to 1-1 with the loss.
Jeff George followed four points, including three earned on assists, while Sean Clearyand Grant Whiteway added two goals and one helper apiece.
Connor Mooney, Andrew Sokol and Matt Whippen also recorded multi-point performances for the Minutemen. Mooney finished with a pair of assists while Sokol scored twice. Whippen earned one goal to go with facilitating another.
Joe Calvello led UMass with six groundballs while he won 8-of-18 faceoffs. Kyle Karaska followed with four groundballs to go with a pair of caused turnovers. Zach Oliveri started in goal and made 10 saves against only one goal allowed in 51 minutes, 34 seconds in the cage. Reed Goodhue replaced Oliveri with 8:26 left and stopped one shot while allowing the second Brown tally.
Four additional Minutemen notched one point each. Chas Robino and Brendan Schroeder notched one goal apiece while Grant Consoletti and Karaska each had one assist.Massachusetts recorded four consecutive goals to open the game and took a 4-0 lead into the final minute of the first quarter.
Cleary tallied back-to-back goals in the span of 98 seconds to put the Minutemen up by two. He scored unassisted at the 12-minute, 33-second mark for his first goal of the season and followed with another with 10:55 left on a feed from George.
Karaska earned his first point facilitating Schroeder's goal with 8:42 remaining in the frame before George helped out Whippen at the 4:30 mark to make it 4-0 UMass.
The Bears registered their first tally with 47 seconds left in the first on a Bellistri extra-man chance, but the Minutemen scored the next 11 goals to turn a 4-1 lead at the end of the first into a 15-1 advantage in the fourth.
Whippen dished it to Whiteway and the Billerica, Mass., native found the back of the net with 10:32 to play in the second to start the streak while Mariano earned his 10th tally of the year on a shot at the 3:05 mark to push the lead to five goals.
Following halftime, Sokol restarted the attack with a pass from Consoletti 2:42 into the third quarter. Mariano added three of the following four UMass tallies - broken up only by Whiteway's second of the day - to extend the advantage to 11-1 entering the final stanza.
Only 56 seconds into the fourth Sokol sent a shot in before George added his only goal of the game to make it 13-1 Minutemen with 12:56 to play. Mariano netted his fifth tally exactly one minute later while Robino rounded out scoring for UMass with 7:07 remaining.
The final score was reached when Lucchese scored on a Molloy assist with 6:17 left in the game.
The Minutemen led in shots, 39-28, on-target attempts, 25-13 and groundballs, 26-22. UMass finished 1-of-4 on extra-man opportunities while holding Brown to just one goal in eight EMO chances.
The Minutemen return to Garber Field in Amherst, Mass., for their next contest, a Saturday, March 8 meeting with No. 18/17 Albany at 1 p.m.
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- The great divide : immigration politics in Australia
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
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- This is the first book to describe those Australians known as the new class. They work in knowledge industries, which have expanded rapidly in recent decades: universities, the media, publishing, public policy, schools and the arts. In a society where knowledge is increasingly important, the opinion-formers of the new class now have an immense influence on government and form a power base that rivals the traditional establishment. Betts explores the growth of the new class and examines, using immigration and race as examples, how it came to adopt values that conflict with those held by most Australians. [Book jacket]
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Publication year
- 1999
- Keyword(s)
- Attitudes; Australia; Bipartisanship; Government policy; History; Howard, John, 1939-; Immigration; Multiculturalism; Politics; Population growth; Race relations; Racial discrimination; Social class
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- Duffy and Snellgrove
- 1875989471
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- Copyright © Katharine Betts 1999.
- Additional information
- 'The great divide : immigration politics in Australia' was first published in 1988 by Melbourne University Press under the title 'Ideology and immigration : Australia 1976 to 1987'. See http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/24840.


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Issue 3, 2011
Technology UpdateSignoff-Driven ECO Guidance for Faster Timing Closure
ECO Guidance technology is a new enhancement to Synopsys' PrimeTime static timing analysis (STA) solution, which helps design teams to deal more efficiently with timing signoff engineering change orders (ECOs). Bernadette Mortell, senior product marketing manager for the PrimeTime Suite at Synopsys, explains how the new technology works.
As design teams migrate to smaller and smaller process geometries, they face a growing number of design challenges to maintain timing accuracy as new process effects come into play, and to manage design complexity as they integrate more functionality into a single chip. Achieving timing closure for chip signoff is one such challenge.
Static timing analysis tools, such as Synopsys' PrimeTime, provide signoff-quality timing information. PrimeTime reports enable design teams to identify the ECOs required to fix timing violations identified by signoff timing analysis. In the past, designers have created Tcl scripts to make simple netlist changes to move the design to timing closure (Figure 1).
This approach worked well when design teams had just a few signoff violations to fix and only a handful of scenarios for signoff. As the number of scenarios has grown and the practice of design reuse has become more prevalent, creating custom Tcl scripts to manage change orders has become unsustainable.
Figure 1: Script-based signoff-driven timing closure flow
Figure 2: Timing closure methodology
Whatever the reason for the remaining violations, since timing closure happens at the eleventh hour of the schedule, design teams need to be able to perform fast and efficient final-stage timing closure between place and route and signoff.
Limited Scalability for Scripts Design teams that develop their own scripts to perform signoff-driven ECO using PrimeTime's basic netlist editing capabilities are finding it increasingly difficult to scale their scripts to cope with large designs and dozens of signoff scenarios.
Design teams can write scripts to deal with a few hundred timing closure violations for functional signoff and test scenarios for designs up to about 5 million instances. Scripts can add buffers or upsize cells to achieve timing closure. Sophisticated scripts can even check if a fix suggested in one scenario will create new violations in the other as long as the scenarios and their associated timing information can all be held in active memory during the ECO process. If a few of the suggested fixes create new violations, the problem can still be easily managed in the final semi-manual ECO fixing phase. This is the point at the end of the design process when design teams want to strictly control the final changes before tapeout and will often make the final ECOs by hand.
However, today's designs of 20-50m instances increase the scale of the ECO timing closure problem by almost exponential proportions. As the number of signoff scenarios have increased anywhere between 20 and 100, there is the danger of a ping-pong effect, where fixing one set of violations creates hundreds of new violations. This lack of predictability is impossible to account for in the project schedule. Additional iterations thorough place and route, extraction and timing would be required. This is a significant drain on personnel and computing at a time when resources are stretched to the limit.
* Assuming ~200 timing violations per 1 million instances in the design** Assuming all scenarios need to be available in active memory on a single large machineFigure 3: Estimate of runtimes and machine resources required to complete ECOs as chip size increases and number of scenarios grows
PrimeTime Signoff-Driven ECO Guidance PrimeTime's new ECO Guidance technology addresses two of the problems that the use of scripts cannot – scalability and predictability.
The new technology provides a scalable approach to implementing ECOs across a growing number of scenarios without an unmanageable increase in runtime or memory usage. ECO Guidance creates a timing violation view across all scenarios, which is used to analyze any proposed changes in one scenario for their impact on the other scenarios. Sub-processes representing the individual scenarios validate the proposed changes using this new composite view of the violations. This eliminates the requirement to maintain the STA runs and reports for all scenarios in active memory in the master process, which is a significant peak memory saving. Additionally, the proposed changes in the local sub-processes are faster than having to transfer information to the master process to validate the scenarios.
Figure 4: Scalable all-scenario view used by ECO Guidance technology
Another innovation is calibrated estimation, which can quickly evaluate all the available fixing options for a given timing violation. This new approach estimates the outcomes for all options, without requiring a full timing analysis. It then calibrates the results with the available (accurate) timing data from the "all scenario" timing view. This is significantly faster than full analysis and improves the turnaround time per cell operation. Because calibrated estimation considers all scenarios and evaluates all possible fixing options, it delivers results that are more predictable and achieves better results with fewer changes to the netlist.
Figure 5: Calibrated estimation
Predictable Results For setup and hold timing violations after IC Compiler implementation, design teams are seeing guidance success rates of 90-95% – even for designs with high placement and routing utilizations. The number of changes that ECO Guidance recommends is kept to a minimum, which avoids creating unnecessary congestion for placement and routing, and contributes to the improved timing closure predictability.
Figure 6: ECO Guidance success rates reported post IC Compiler place and route
Design teams are taping out 45-nanometer (nm) and 28nm designs using ECO Guidance technology and seeing runtime improvements of 5-10 times compared with their previous script-based ECO solutions. They are getting results in a single pass which previously took several iterations to achieve. This means they require fewer loops through place and route and extraction to get to timing closure. Quality of results is better too, as ECO Guidance technology fixes violations using fewer buffers, which results in less area.
Optimizing Performance We have recently enhanced ECO Guidance technology to enable it to run efficiently even when there are fewer processor cores available to run on than the number of timing scenarios. In PrimeTime releases prior to 2011.06, to check if an ECO change was valid across all possible scenarios, all the scenarios needed to be available in active memory. It was necessary to run every scenario on a separate process or core simultaneously to get a good guidance success rate. If fewer processes or cores were used, then the resulting change list was likely to produce invalid fixing recommendations, including some that created new violations in other scenarios.
The new ECO Guidance technology, which uses the "all scenario" view of timing violations, can be run on up to 4 times fewer processes or cores than the number of scenarios, with minimal degradation in the guidance success rates. This is a major benefit to customers who are resource-constrained and can afford to take a little longer to generate the ECO change list while using fewer machines and PrimeTime licenses.
What's Next for ECO Guidance? Because of the success of the new ECO Guidance technology, we are seeing customer demand for a similar approach to help guide design rule checking (DRC). This extends our support to timing-aware maximum capacitance, maximum transition and maximum fanout ECO guidance generation. We are currently offering this in limited availability in the 2011.06 service pack releases, although we anticipate it being generally available in the 2011.12 release.
As we work with customers on other PrimeTime technologies, such as HyperScale, we are seeing the benefits of closely integrating the two technologies with the aim of reducing the time to timing closure for hierarchical designs.
The Synopsys PrimeTime suite has been the golden signoff STA solution for over 15 years. Over that period, we have focused on delivering highly accurate timing analysis reports for the purpose of timing signoff. PrimeTime provides a single trusted signoff solution for timing, signal integrity, power and variation-aware analysis.
We will continue to respond to emerging design and process challenges by adding new timing analysis features to improve designer productivity and by improving PrimeTime's runtime and capacity performance. ECO Guidance is the latest example of our development effort, which complements other recent enhancements, such as variation-aware advanced on-chip variation (OCV), statistical analysis and multicore capabilities.
About the Author
Bernie MortellBernadette (Bernie) Mortell is senior product marketing manager for the PrimeTime Suite at Synopsys and drives the development and deployment of Timing and Constraint Analysis products. Prior to Synopsys, she was in the applications and marketing team at Compass Design Automation working on Place and Route and Floorplanning tools, and worked for 10 years as a Physical Design Manager on Data Converter, Amplifier and Linear products and DSP Processors at Analog Devices in Ireland.
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This time of year, you hear a lot about holiday travel along with tips and tricks for making these trips smooth and efficient. However, more often than not, business travel tips are neglected from mention. We're here to remedy that.
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Blenders can do a lot more these days than just blend. Some chop and grate food; others make juice … or even 'blend and cook soup.'
Consumer Reports tested nearly 50 blenders to find the best. Included in the tests - one from Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck, and this infomercial product … "The powerful Ninja instantly blasts solid ice into creamy snow." Testers crush ice … grate cheese … and purée soup to see how well each blender performs.
To size up how well a blender makes iced drinks, Consumer Reports mixes up piña coladas -- no alcohol, of course. Sensory panelists evaluate the drinks for smoothness and texture. Ice is also used to see how durable a blender is. Testers place ice cubes without any liquid into a blender and run it on high for one minute. They shut it off for seven minutes, then repeat the test. They do that 45 times.
"This test proved especially tough for several of the blenders, including the lowest-rated Wolfgang Puck," says Consumer Reports.
Two samples of the Wolfgang Puck failed during the ice durability test. When all the tests were done, Consumer Reports recommends several blenders, including this 100-dollar KitchenAid. It whipped up smooth, icy drinks and scored excellent for grating and puréeing.
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First offered in 1911—discontinued in 1952
A hundred years ago, being able to track animals was very important in order to put food on the table.How many animals will you be able to follow?Think of how many animals you will see.
These are the original requirements as written in 1911. Think about how times have changed as you complete the requirements a Scout your age would have done a hundred years ago.
In 1910 many boys probably had farm animals or lived close to farm animals so they frequently saw tracks. Also, many people hunted for food and trapped for extra income. Can you imagine running a trap-line before going to school?
NOTE:This merit badge was originally entitled Stalking. Because of what the term stalking means in today's language, the original name has been changed to Tracking.
However, the ability to find a person is a very important skill still used by Search and Rescue teams all over the United States.
At the start of Scouting, Baden Powell wrote about the importance of the skill of tracking. He invented many games to help boys learn this skill. In general, these games consisted of a Scout leaving tracks, signs, and other objects that other boys would try to follow. Sometimes the person setting the trail went to such detail as to create shoes that make animal tracks. What kind of games can you invent to help others in your patrol learn the skill of tracking?
For this requirement it is really good to have an expert as a counselor. There is nothing better than having someone who knows how to identify tracks teach you how to do this.
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Rebecca is a 2004 graduate of Karnes City High School and a 2010 graduate of Sul Ross University where she earned her Master's degree in Animal Science. Rebecca is currently working at McCoy Lumber in Alpine as contractor sales representative and special orders. She is the granddaughter of Charlene Anderson and the late R.J. Anderson of Karnes City and the late Newt and Janice Porter of Kenedy.
Fernando is a 1995 graduate of Odessa High School and a 2001 graduate of Sul Ross University where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Animal Science. He is currently working as a groundsman for Rio Grande Electric Co-op in Alpine. Fernando is the son of Refugio and Carmen Villalobos of Odessa.
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The composite image at left, taken in visible and near-infrared light, reveals the location of five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. The circles pinpoint the galaxies.
The sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spied the galaxies in a random sky survey. The developing cluster is the most distant ever observed. The young galaxies lived just 600 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang.
The average distance between them is comparable to that of the galaxies in the Local Group, consisting of two large spiral galaxies, the Milky Way and Andromeda, and a few dozen small dwarf galaxies.
The close-up images at right, taken in near-infrared light, show the puny galaxies. The letters "a" through "e" correspond to the galaxies' location in the wide-field view at left. Simulations show that the galaxies will eventually merge and form the brightest central galaxy in the cluster, a giant elliptical similar to the Virgo cluster's M87.
Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe, comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. The developing cluster presumably will grow into a massive galactic city, similar in size to the nearby Virgo cluster, a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies.
Object Name: BoRG 58
Image Type: Astronomical/Annotated
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Trenti (University of Colorado, Boulder, and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK), L. Bradley (STScI), and the BoRG team
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