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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Colorado Springs boy is trying to win a new set of wheels. Taylor Grout, a fourth-grader at Audubon Elementary, has Spastic Quadriplegia Cerebral Palsy and is wheelchair bound.
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This will extend the drying time several days in my case.
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I just finished my first piece that I made on my own and now don't quite know the best way to dry it so it doesn't crack. In class at the end of the day the teacher asks us if we are done and if we are he covers it in plastic and sets it on a shelf. When we come back to class the next week they are all miraculously drying or dried and ready for the next step. I have noticed that the plastic seems to be in a different positions or state when we get to the next class so he must be doing something to help them dry properly yes? Soooo what magic is he doing while we are not looking? I finished a large cooking utensil holder here at home and it is currently sitting on and wrapped in plastic in preparation for drying. Do I just leave it wrapped up? If so for how long? Do I slowly remove the plastic over so many days? I have attached a picture so you can see what the item looks like since I know that may help in any suggestions given.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I never use plastic unless its really thin or if there is a possibility of warping. though sometimes the room is a little too dry and i one will crack.
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Thank you for the suggestions I really appreciate you taking the time to help a beginning potter.
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Also used a bunch of the thin plastic from store Banana boxes as it has some small holes so it slows but does not stop the drying process.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Southern California men charged this week with plotting to kill Americans and bomb U.S. military bases overseas spent months preparing for a trip to Afghanistan where, authorities say, they hoped to join the Taliban and eventually graduate to the ranks of al-Qaida.
They seemed determined to reach their goal — even excited about the prospects of being terrorists — and weren't dissuaded when at least one of them suspected someone might be following them.
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Among those arrested last week were 34-year-old American Sohiel Omar Kabir, who was captured over the weekend in Afghanistan, Ralph Deleon, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales and Arifeen David Gojali. All four men are facing charges of providing material support to terrorists, which can carry a maximum 15-year prison sentence.
Authorities said the men had bought tickets for a plane bound for Istanbul this past Sunday after Kabir, in video calls from Afghanistan, told the trio he would arrange their meetings with terrorists.
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Kabir, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, served in the Air Force from 2000 to 2001. He was administratively separated for unknown reasons and was given an honorable discharge but not for reasons of misconduct, the military said.
Stateside, Deleon and Santana were eager about the prospects of being terrorists. When asked by the FBI informant if both men had thought about how it would feel to kill someone, Santana responded, "The more I think about it, the more it excites me."
Santana, who claimed he went to Mexico to learn how to shoot different kinds of guns and how to make explosives, wanted to be a sniper. Deleon said he hoped he could be on the front lines or use C-4, an explosive, in an attack.
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Spiders are certain invertebrate animals that produce silk, have eight legs and no wings. More precisely, a spider is any member of the arachnid order Araneae, an order divided into three sub-orders in newer systems: the Mygalomorphae (the primitive spiders), the Araneomorphae (the modern spiders) and the Mesothelae, which contains the Family Liphistiidae, rarely seen burrowing spiders from Asia. The study of spiders is known as arachnology, although it is often grouped under the more general area of entomology.
Many spiders hunt by building webs to trap insects. These webs are made of spider silk, a thin, strong protein strand extruded by the spider from spinnerets on the end of the abdomen. All spiders produce silk, although not all use it to spin elaborate traps. Silk can be used to aid in climbing, forming smooth walls for burrows, cocooning prey, and for many other applications.
Spiders, unlike insects, have their bodies divided in only two segments: prosoma or cephalothorax (a fused head and thorax) and opisthosoma or abdomen. New World tarantulas, have a patch of urticating hairs on their abdomens, while these are lacking in Old World species. Spiders have eight legs compared to the insects' six, and their eyes (usually eight) are single lenses rather than compound eyes like those of most insects.
Eyes can be arranged differently in different species. Sometimes one pair is better developed than the rest. Some species have a pair less or are even without eyes. While several families of hunting spiders have good to excellent vision (Lycosidae and Salticidae), the members of most families of hunting spiders, most of the web weavers and the spiders that lurk on flowers and other fixed locations waiting for some insect to come their way have very poor eyesight. Instead, these spiders hunt using their extreme sensitivity to vibrations.
Unlike insects, spiders have no feelers. Instead, they have pedipalps, sometimes just called palps, which are two additional appendages next to their mouth parts that, besides having other functions, they use to help themselves manipulate the food that they eat.
Spider haemolymph (the equivalent of blood) does not circulate through vessels, but just fills the body of the spider. This is called an open circulatory system. The spider's respiratory anatomy is based on a tracheal system, with each opening to the trachea as an extension of an outer pore reaching from the spider abdomen, protected by spiracles which are pores in the spider exoskeleton, composed of chitin.
Book lungs alone, respiratory organs with openings on the ventral surface of the abdomen, enrich the blood of primitive mygalomorph spiders with oxygen, and araneomorph spiders use spiracles as well. The latter are much more efficient and allow more advanced characteristics to be displayed, such as cursorial hunting (hunting involving rapid pursuit).
The spider life cycle progresses through three stages: the embryonic, the larval, and the nympho-imaginal (Foelix, 1996).
Between the time an egg is fertilized and the spider begins to take the shape of a spider is referred to as the embryonic stage (Foelix, 1996). As the spider begins to look more like a spider it enters the larval stage (Foelix, 1996). It enters the larval stage as a prelarva and, through subsequent molts, it reaches its larval form, a spider-looking, non self-sufficient animal feeding off its yolk supply (Foelix, 1996). After a few more molts, body structures become differentiated; all organ systems are complete and the animal begins to hunt on its own; it has reached the nympho-imaginal stage (Foelix, 1996). This stage is differentiated by two sub-stages: the nymph, or juvenile stage and the imago, or adult stage (Foelix, 1996). A spider does not transition from the nymph to the imago until it has become sexually mature (Foelix, 1996). Once a spider has reached the imago stage, it will remain here until its death.
Spiders have a great range of variation and lifestyle, although all are predatory.
While spiders are generalist predators, in actuality their different methods of prey capture often limits the type of prey taken. Thus web-building spiders rarely capture caterpillars and crab spiders that ambush prey in flowers capture more bees, butterflies and some flies than other insects. Groups of families that tend to take certain types of prey because of their prey capture methods are often called guilds. A few spiders are more specialized in their prey capture. Dysdera captures and eats sowbugs, pillbugs and beetles, while pirate spiders eat only other spiders. Bolas spiders in the family Araneidae use sex pheromone analogs to capture only the males of certain moth species! Despite their generally broad prey ranges spiders are one of the most important links in the regulation of the populations of insects. Every day on a meadow they devour over 10 g/m˛ of insects and other arthropods.
There are many families of spiders, and the ways that they catch prey are diverse. But whether they catch insects, fish, small mammals, small birds, or some other small form of life, as soon as a spider makes contact with its prey it will attempt to bite.
Spiders bite their prey, and occasionally animals that cause them pain or threaten them, to do two things. First, they inflict mechanical damage, which, in the case of a spider that is as large or larger than its prey, can be severe. Second, they can choose to inject venom through their hollow fangs. Many genera, such as the widow spiders, inject neurotoxins that can spread through the prey's entire body and interfere with vital body functions. Other genera inject venom that operates to produce tissue damage at the site of the bite. Genera such as that of the brown recluse spider produce a necrotoxin. The necrotoxin is injected into prey where it causes the degradation of cell membranes. In the larger victims that do not die from these attacks, painful lesions over a fairly wide area of the body can remain active for fairly long periods of time.
Digestion is carried out internally and externally. The spiders secrete digestive fluids into their prey from a series of ducts perforating their jaws, These digestive fluids dissolve the prey's internal tissues.Then, the spider feeds by sucking the partially digested fluids out. Spiders consume only liquid food. Many spiders will store prey temporarily while this process of external digestion is going on. The prey of web weaving spiders that have made a shroud of silk to quiet their struggles while they are dying from envenomation will generally leave the prey in these shrouds and then consume them at their leisure.
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Some spiders spin funnel-shaped webs, others make irregular webs, and still others make the spiral "orb" webs which are most commonly associated with the order.
The spider, after spinning its web, will then wait (often, but not always, at the center of the web) for a prey animal to become trapped. They sense the impact and struggle of a prey animal by vibrations transmitted along the web lines.
Other species of spiders do not use webs for capturing prey directly, instead pouncing from concealment (e.g. Trapdoor spiders) or running them down in open chase (e.g. Wolf spiders). Spiders do not usually adhere to their own webs. However, they are not immune to their own glue. Some of the strands of the web are sticky, and others are not. The spiders have to be careful to only climb on the non-sticky strands.
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: arachnida
Order: araneae
Family: Mesothelae
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Organizations want to move forward with big data now. Our research shows that the industry can help by continuing to innovate around the Apache Hadoop* framework, including developing solutions for specific applications, such as real-time analytics, visualization, and sensor and device data management. This and work on standards and best practices for security, privacy, and interoperability will help organizations to take best advantage of infrastructure for big data analytics at both the hardware and software levels.


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Thoughts on BZPower in the Modern Day
Second thought. It is the year 2013. Actually, it's the year 2013 and one month. Cool stuff bro. If my memory serves me correct, though quite honestly I can barely remember what I had for lunch so who knows how valid it is, Bionicle ended in the summer of 2011. Because of Greg Farshtey's private life the updates to the story have been stretched thin at the best of times. Bionicle is dead, and we've had two years of little snacks of information.
And then there was that whole Forum Upgrade fiasco which took the site down for almost half a year and really threw a wrench into the works.
But here we are, today. BZP isn't nearly as active as it was in the olden days (it probably peaked before I even joined, honestly), but it's still a pretty big place. We have stories and Lego and RPGs and contests and all sorts of fun stuff. The community is smaller and many have left but we're still here.
And I mean, with the new tracker system, the site really is really on the road for getting much better. With new forum features coming in, rule updates (though the tracker about the advertising policy has mysteriously vanished...), all that jazz, it's looking good for the site as a whole. People continue to join and while I have to say I miss some of the old crowd, life continues on.
We still have our arguments and our disagreements and our nasty tempers, but the site is and will continue to live. Many people said that BZPower was dead the moment Bionicle ended. Yet, I think they ignored what in my opinion BZPower has really done. My interest in Bionicle waned back in 2010-ish; I bought a grand total of one set in 2011. I haven't bought any Legos since Christmas of 2011. Yet here I am, on a redubbed Lego fansite? Why?
Because I have friends here, and for all the ups and downs of the community, it is a good one. Annoying at times, aye, capable of ripping out people's throats, aye, but it's a love-hate relationship. I've never been able to get the same sort of community on other sites, so I stick around here because of the people. Not because of the occasional story addition or Legos or what those in charge deem is right and what isn't.
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"And another one's down, and another one's down, and another one bites the dust!" Great finish AUQuilter!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
"And another one's down, and another one's down, and another one bites the dust!" Great finish AUQuilter!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
You will Anna, you will.
Life is short, live it while you still can. QuilterMomma
Include me. I just finished quilting my first of several UFO's I want to get done this year. Got more to go & a new one in mind that I am trying to work out all the details. Can't hardly wait to get to it.
wonderfully and beautifully made, even if you can't see it on the outside
oh DING DING guys!!! These are lovely!!!!
Welcome DebJ. We would love ta see your picts o' your UFO's here. We can celebrate tagether.
Here is our "sister" thread & we post what we are tryin' ta finish. Come & post so as ta encourage yourself & all o' us on our journy ta finish our UFO''s
2013 UFO Therapy Thread - Sister Thread to 2013 UFO Challenge of the Month
I personally have found that puttin' those picts o' my UFO really got my rear in gear. I wish I had posted it earlier.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Giving Bev, dublb, the award for best cheerleader ever!!!!!!!!!!! huggggs and smilesssss
Linda Wedge White
I believe UFOs are like scraps, ferns and dust bunnies. Once you get two, they send spores out into the air and more just happen anywhere the spores meet.
Awh Shucks.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
I agree Dublb is a great encourager.
I finished my January UFO...it was a BOTW from last year, so not too old, but still one I wanted to get done before it sat too long. Don't want to post it every where so here is the link to the original thread... Quilts for Rosie - Weekly Paper Pieced Sampler Quilt Along
@carriem: toot toot, beep beep, ring ring and ding dong! Congratulations.
February UFOs here we come!
"I don't buy vintage quilts. By the time I finish the quilts I've started they've already become antiques." ~ Mark Lipinski
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Cops: Unwise man busted with frankincense, myrrh, pot
South Carolina man earns himself a spot on Santa's naughty list
He's certainly not one of the wise men.
A South Carolina man earned himself a spot on Santa's naughty list when he was allegedly found with frankincense, myrrh and marijuana during a traffic stop Monday night.
Officers detected a "strong odor of marijuana" emitting from 19-year-old Alain Cassagnol when they stopped him in Myrtle Beach and asked him to step out of his Mercedes-Benz sedan, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Cassagnol confessed to having marijuana "in his pants by his groin," according to the police report.
Police also found a bottle of frankincense and myrrh incense spray in the vehicle.
Known as "Blunt Block," the product is usually used to mask the odor of burnt marijuana, according to The Smoking Gun.
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Located in Kansas City, Research Medical Center is a Kansas City cancer center accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as a Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program with commendation for exceeding three national standards. Our quality measures are exceeding the national average, too.
Building on the strengths of the hospital's existing program, Sarah Cannon at Research Medical Center offers each patient a full range of screening, diagnosis, cancer treatment options and services including a state-of-the-art outpatient facility, a dedicated inpatient oncology unit and unparalleled specialized expertise.
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I've always had a lot of respect for Mc Lyte because she's always so chill, down to earth and she's intelligent. Here's her speaking VERY high of Nicki at Millersville University. " My view on Nicki Minaj is that she is a smart, business woman. I feel like creatively, she is a mesh, a sweet tea of Mc Lyte, of Salt n Pepa, of Eve, of Kim, of Foxy, of everyone that has...


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The bottom line in dealing with our earth's warming during this period of time is simple.
Nature goes through cycles of warming and cooling. The increased warming will indeed cause many weather- and ocean- related problems such as we may never have seen before.
We can't do a great deal about what nature will bring to us, but the answers to what we as a nation can do are: Do those things that reduce man's effect of the weather, or do nothing.
It is a test of what we are as a nation, as yes, many other nation's will do ? nothing. It's like the "dare you" games of our youth. The fact is that our nation is a leader in putting harmful things into our atmosphere, so we should take greater responsibility for those actions and what they are doing to add to nature's role in harming our earth's warming climate.
The level of destruction the warming will do, the harm and sorrow of millions of various people, point to the necessity to help where we can to lessen this problem.
We have a choice to be leaders in doing so. Do we as a people want to be on the side of right of wrong in dealing with this issue?
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Neighborhood makes boy's early Christmas wish come true
CHUBBUCK, Idaho - More than 50 neighbors pulled together to help one local boy receive his early Christmas wish.
Since Sunday, the video of the neighbors decorating the Longs' home has reached more than 5,000 hits on YouTube.23002942
The neighbors donated hundreds of lights and decorations, while spending the evening decorating their home while the Long's were coaxed out of town for the night by one of their friends.
"We came around the corner and then all of a sudden - you're not expecting Christmas lights and then as we got closer we were just like, 'OK, that is our house,'" Kim said, laughing. "We weren't gone for that long and to leave with (the house) being totally normal and to come back to that was amazing."
The Longs have four children, the youngest two have muscular dystrophy: Jackson, age 10, and Konner, who is 15 years old.
When Konner told his father his one wish this year is to put Christmas lights up, the neighbors responded.
"We actually went out and got some lights because we were planning to do it, and then this just happened," Kim said.
Konner was in his room, watching out of his window when the excitement began.
"I thought it was a joke at first because my dad usually plays jokes on other people," Konner recounted. "But then I figured out it was because I wanted Christmas lights."
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Palit GTX 760 JetStream 2GB Video Card Review
Summer is upon us, and for a lot of people, particularly those taking a break from studies, it is time to head back home, dust out the old gaming PC, and check out some of the new games on offer. Given that game studios finally put their money on DirectX 11 and cutting-edge visual technologies, it could prompt graphics upgrades. $200 to $300 is what an ideal graphics upgrade should cost. It's either that or wait until the winter holiday for next-gen consoles. NVIDIA sensed this potential rush for summertime graphics upgrades and pulled out an ace from up its sleeves, the GeForce GTX 760. We take a look at its hand.
The GeForce GTX 760 is a bit of a strangelet when it comes to market positioning. It's designed to succeed the GeForce GTX 660, but actually displaces the GeForce GTX 660 Ti from the product stack. With $249.99, it's priced bang in the middle of the price / performance sweet-spot segment. The product-stack roadmap given to us by NVIDIA confirms just that… at techPowerUp!


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Baby It's Cold Outside
Hey everybody...what are you doing tonight? Hiding out in your room from the cold? That's a shame. You should all come to Java's for another acoustic night sponsored by RITSMA (RIT Student Music Association). Java's will be warm and they serve warm coffee and other assorted warm drinks so you should totally be there. Oh and I promise not to break any tables this time.
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Emily OkeyI'll be there! :) Isn't there one next Wednesday too? This thing never accepts my comments, I wonder if it's because i'm too lazy to log in.
Amanda LasickiYeah if you have a username they go right through.
JPThere is a new comment system now. But you should still login in if you have an account. This way it will have your avatar (I believe).
Emily OkeyI'm logged in and my little picture still isn't showing up :( Oh well. I like hte new comment system now though!
JPIm working on the avatars now, will be up soon. I had to temporally hide the smiley emoticons too. Darn Internet Explorer
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Newtown group says public supports gun control
NEWTOWN, Conn. - A nonprofit group in Newtown that has worked with families who lost relatives in the school shooting last year on tougher gun laws says the recall of two lawmakers in Colorado does not diminish public support for such measures.
Two Democratic state lawmakers who backed tighter gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings have been kicked out of office.
Sandy Hook Promise says the recall does not change Colorado's newly strengthened gun laws or diminish broad public support for gun safety and responsibility. The group says an overwhelming majority of Americans, including a large majority of gun owners, support measures to keep guns away from convicted criminals.
The National Rifle Association says the election sent a clear message to lawmakers that they should protect gun rights.


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As the first anniversary of Occupy approached, many journalists wrote its obituary, and some called it a failure. But Occupy Augusta is alive and kicking the One Percent. A September 12 protest by the group at Colby College in Waterville — the second there on the same theme — challenged a rarely challenged practice: accepting money from rich people for a good cause.
Colby's response showed how deeply dependent good causes are — in this case, a highly-respected liberal-arts college — on the generosity of the rich.
Even when the rich may have obtained their money corruptly.
The occasion for the protest was a speech, "Will there be an Occupy 2.0?," by Columbia University sociology and journalism professor Todd Gitlin, author of the new book Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street.
Gitlin said he didn't presume to know the future of Occupy. But between his spoken lines it was clear he agreed with Augusta occupier Lew Kingsbury, who told the Phoenix: "Encampments are a thing of the past. Issue-specific protests are the future."
Indeed, notwithstanding first-anniversary street protests in New York, many occupiers already are turning from headline-grabbing confrontations to strengthening reformist politics — joining efforts to forgive student debt, halt home foreclosures, or reduce corporate money flowing to politicians.
But for a couple of hours before Gitlin's speech, a more original and, therefore, more typically Occupy action was on display in Waterville. It wasn't original in tactics — picketing and leafleting — but in target: the deep penetration of the corrupt rich into philanthropy.
Twenty Occupy Augusta veterans stood with their signs (e.g., "Colby College — a Neo-Liberal Education") outside the campus's sparkling new Diamond Building, which contains the economics and other social-science departments. They were demonstrating against Colby's intimacy with the building's funder, Bob Diamond, the extremely wealthy, disgraced former CEO of the giant British bank Barclays and chairman of the Colby board of trustees.
Until he was forced to resign this summer, Diamond, an American whom news reports identify as a top fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, took home pay and bonuses in the tens of millions annually while he led Barclays as it helped rig the most important bank interest rate in the world, called LIBOR. Meanwhile, he gave millions to Colby.
The protesters — organized by Kingsbury, who graduated from Colby in 1977, four years after Diamond — demanded the college remove his name from the building, stop taking his money, and remove him from the board.
"You wouldn't put Al Capone's name on a building," said Kingsbury. He felt Colby's embrace of Diamond sends a rotten ethical message to students.
Gitlin, a veteran of '60s radicalism, allied himself with the protesters. His speech, held in the student center, drew about 100 students, faculty, and activists.
He said academia has engaged in an "exaltation of wealth." He mentioned that a hedge-fund manager (J. Ezra Merkin) connected to mega-crook Bernie Madoff had bought naming rights to a classroom Gitlin taught in at Columbia.
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Equipment Donation | Invitation to Safeco Field
Since 1977, the Seattle Mariners have carved out a fan base as unique as the Pacific Northwest itself. Fans from as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, and Japan come to watch their favorite team "play ball." The Mariners experience is for everyone, from youngsters at their first game to baseball historians. From the first pitch to the final out, game time at Safeco Field means coming together and cheering every diving catch, spectacular double play and long home run. Nikon, a global company known for its wide range of optical products such as cameras, binoculars and industrial precision equipment understands that not every Mariners fan has the chance to enjoy a day at the ballpark. As a result, in partnership with the Mariners, this season Nikon will provide selected Puget Sound area elementary schools with special opportunities in order to make a social contribution in harmony with society.
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As a memento of the occasion, the children will have a ceremonial photo taken with a Mariners player.
With the support of the Nikon Corporation up to 50 local children will be invited to attend the following 13 Mariners home games. Cheer for the Mariners!
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Frequently Asked Questions on Discretionary Grants
What is a discretionary grant?
A discretionary grant awards funds on the basis of a competitive process. The Department reviews applications in light of the legislative and regulatory requirements established for a program. This review process gives the Department discretion to determine which applications best address the program requirements and are, therefore, most worthy of funding.
How does the Department set up discretionary grant programs?
Congress establishes discretionary grant programs through authorizing legislation and appropriations legislation. The Department then usually writes program regulations based on the authorizing legislation, which describe how the programs are to be administered. After these program regulations are published in final form and Congress appropriates funds for the program, the Department can elicit applications and award grants.
How do I find out about the Department's discretionary grant programs?
There are different ways to get information about the discretionary grant programs at the Department of Education. The Department maintains a site on the World Wide Web. You can obtain information on discretionary grant funding by Principal Office and by types of programs available by logging on to the Department's Web site at: www.ed.gov.
To get a general overview of the Department's programs, you can write or phone the Department to get a copy of the Guide to U.S. Department of Education Programs, or you can acquire it through the Department's Web site. The Guide describes the various discretionary grant programs sponsored by the Department and provides a telephone number for each program to call for further information.
The Department publishes an application notice in the Federal Register to inform potential applicants of each new discretionary grant competition. An application notice invites applications for one or more competitions, gives basic program and funding information on each competition, and informs potential applicants when and where they may obtain applications. Program offices publish an application notice for each individual program.
Program Offices also include their proposed program schedules in the Department's Combined Application Notice. The Combined Application Notice is generally published once a year in the Federal Register and is posted on the Department's Web site. It lists most of the discretionary grant competitions planned for each Principal Office for the coming year, and includes anticipated application deadlines and other pertinent information.
How do I learn if I am eligible to receive a discretionary grant?
The first thing to consider before applying for a grant is to determine whether your organization is eligible under the program. If you are not sure about the grant programs under which you would be eligible, start with the Guide, discussed above. The Guide has an index to help you identify the grant program in which you might be interested. The Guide also gives the CFDA number for each grant program, a system of numbering based on the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. To receive the appropriate information, it is essential that you use this number when contacting the Department about the specific grant program of interest to you.
Once you know the number and title of the grant program under which you want to apply, you may wish to review the program regulations provided in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is updated once a year only and, therefore, might not include recent changes to program regulations. You should contact the program office listed in the Guide to verify the most recent version of the program regulations.
The application package lists the eligibility requirements, generally drawn from the legislation establishing the program. Eligibility might be limited to a particular type of organization (e.g., state education agencies), organizations that serve only a particular group (e.g., disadvantaged students), or organizations that meet some other criteria. In some cases, an organization wishing to apply under a particular program must first apply to the Department to be certified as eligible for that program.
Requirements vary from program to program, so be sure to read the application package carefully before preparing your application. Information about the specific eligibility requirements for a program also is available in the application notice or Notice Inviting Applications that the Department publishes in the Federal Register for each new competition.
How can I receive a discretionary grant application package?
There are several ways to receive an application package. You may visit the Department's Web site (http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp), click on the tab for Grants and Contracts, and then click on the link to Finding and Applying. You also may contact EDPubs, the Department's online publications ordering system, via their Web site (http://www.edpubs.ed.gov/webstore/Content/search.asp) or telephone (877) 433-7827. Lastly, you may contact the office responsible for the program that interests you and request an application package.
How do I apply for funding from a Department discretionary grant program?
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Delphi and Verizon have teamed up to offer a new Car Connect device that delivers a host of control and information options to car owners, allowing them to control, monitor and track their vehicles by remote.
Packed into a small, black box about the size of a pack of playing cards, Car Connect seems to emulate many of the features we see in modern telematics services. The device plugs straight into the vehicle's OBD2 port, and then all the user has to do is download an application or sign into the Delphi Car Connect web portal and they'll have access to the full range of features offered by the device.
The device is hooked up to the Verizon network via a CDMA data connection, while it also offers Bluetooth as an additional connectivity option. Delphi says that it can attach itself to any car featuring a OBD2 port, which has pretty much featured as standard on all cars built since 1996. Once connected, Car Connect can then read the vehicle codes and support some of its control features. In addition, it also comes with a GPS chip inside, so that owners can locate their vehicle over the Verizon connection.
Car Connect's smartphone app offers dozens of useful features that we're sure will appeal to cautious and careful drivers. For example, the app is capable of picking up and interpreting any error codes that might indicate a red warning light is about to come on somewhere. In addition, the app displays useful info such as the engine temperature and fuel level.
The GPS feature will no doubt appeal to cautious and/or over-protective parents. For example, Car Connect can send a warning direct to the parent's smartphone when the car goes over a specific geographical boundary, or if it exceeds specified speeds. Meanwhile, the more dedicated stalker-parent types will be glad to know that Car Connect offers instant, real-time tracking, so they can always know exactly where their kids (or their cars at least) are located. Finally, the app also offers a 911 speed dial should the worst happen and you or your kids end up getting carjacked.
For added convenience, the smartphone app also transforms your device into a key fob, allowing you to unlock the vehicle and even start the engine – even if you happen to be on the other side of the planet!
Delphi said that Car Connect is the result of a collaborative effort between them and Verizon, with the carrier designing the hardware and Delphi taking care of the app and web portal. We don't yet know how much this gizmo will cost, but Delphi assures us it will come with a guaranteed two years of data connectivity.


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Former Lighthouse Inn operator Maureen Clark has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.7 million in a scheme to build a resort and casino in Lakeshore, Miss.
U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton sentenced Clark, 58, of Stonington Friday in Bridgeport.
Clark is appealing her conviction and remains free on bond until the judge determines whether she must report to prison while the case is pending.
A jury in July 2012 found Clark guilty of 20 felony crimes, including one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 13 counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering.
Her former business partner, Christopher Plummer of Lyme, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced in October 2012 to 51 months in prison.
Government attorneys Michael S. McGarry and Richard J. Schechter had called for a prison term of 121 to 151 months as indicated in federal sentencing guidelines.
In the government's sentencing memorandum to the court, the prosecutors wrote that Clark continues to deny her guilt "in the face of overwhelming evidence."
"In short, Clark is an incorrigible con-artist who is incapable of telling the truth or accepting the jury's clear verdict," the memorandum says.
Clark had been convicted of a tax crime in 2005 but did not serve prison time in that case. She has been free on $600,000 bond while awaiting sentencing and has been monitored electronically.
Clark's attorneys, Hubert Santos and Jessica Santos, wrote in their sentencing memorandum that the only thing Clark was guilty of was trusting Plummer. The defense claims Clark attempted to repay the victims and that Plummer received the bulk of the money from the fraud.
They wrote that society and Clark's victims "would be better served by an extended period of probation which would allow her to go to work and make restitution to the victims.
"Formerly a successful businesswoman, philanthropist and matriarch of her family, Ms. Clark has lost her business, her financial resources and standing within the community," the memorandum says.
The defense submitted letters of support from family and community members and characterized Clark as a "Type A Overachiever" who started working at age 15 as the result of her father abandoning the family.
According to her attorneys, Clark has been serving as a caretaker for her husband, Robert Clark, who was stricken with Guillain-Barre syndrome during her trial, and for her 92-year-old father-in-law. Her husband, two adult sons and friends described her as a loving wife and mother — someone who took in homeless people and never allowed a friend or neighbor to be alone on a holiday.
The government's response to the defense arguments was, "These arguments amount to little more than throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall in hopes that some will stick."
According to the government, Clark and Plummer held themselves out as authorized members of New England Resorts LLC and falsely represented to investors that they owned or controlled hundreds of acres of land in a Mississippi town. They said they had invested several hundred millions of their own and would be building a 2-million-square-foot resort with a casino, hotels, condominiums and a medical facility.
In soliciting funds for the project, Clark and Plummer falsely represented that major Wall Street firms had committed to the project, according to the government. The government calculated Clark spent $900,000 of the investor funds on the financially troubled Lighthouse Inn, a New London restaurant and hotel that has since been foreclosed and is scheduled to be auctioned online later this month.
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Maybe you've heard that carbon fiber is stronger than aluminum. But if you feel more confident with aluminum, we won't argue; we'll just show you this bar, the Deda Elementi Zero100. The Zero100 is the aluminum entry in the new Deda Rapid Hand Movement (RHM) design initiative. Deda noticed that more pro riders have been raising their saddle in relation to their bars. As a result, it seemed that riders were spending less time on their drops. So, rather than raise the bars, something a rider might be loath to do because she likes the position of the tops for climbing, they shortened both the drop and the reach of the bars. Shorter than a traditional shallow drop handlebar. The position is designed to allow for a super quick change of hand position from the tops to the drops.This bar is an iteration of RHM that appeals to traditionalists. The drop is a fairly round curve, though the radius of the curve is tighter at the top and increases as it goes down. It isn't quite a traditional even radius that you'd find on Deda's deep or shallow traditional-style drop bars, but it is still fairly round. Like all Deda road bars, the Zero100 can have aero bars mounted on the center section. Deda only recommends use of their own aero bars, but others can fit. Deda would prefer people use Deda stems with their bars, but the warranty isn't contingent on the bars and stem being from Deda. They also say that even though Deda measures clamp area of the center section of their bars as 31.7mm, it is essentially identical to other manufacturers' 31.8mm (save manufacturing tolerances). Both are 1.25", just Deda takes the metric fraction 31.75mm and rounds down, while everyone else takes the same fraction and rounds up.The Zero100 has 128mm of drop and 75mm of reach. Both are measured outside-to-outside. The bar comes in 40, 42, 44, and 46cm widths, measured outside-to-outside. The actual weight of the Deda Zero100 Alloy Handlebar: 40mm is 246g. 42mm is 254g. 44mm is 261g. 46mm is 268g. - $150.00


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Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Opinion: Citric acid, Citrates
The GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Database allows access to opinions and conclusions from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972-1980 on the safety of over 370 Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances. The GRAS ingredient reviews were conducted by the Select Committee in response to a 1969 White House directive by President Richard M. Nixon.
Ammonium citrate, calcium citrate, citric acid, isopropyl citrate, potassium citrate, sodium citrate, triethyl citrate
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The citrate ion is widely distributed in plants and animals and is a naturally occurring component of the diet. It is a common metabolite in oxidative metabolism and an important component of bone. Exogenous citrate administered to infants and adults as a component of commonly consumed diets is considered completely metabolizable. The addition of citric acid to foods is considered equivalent to adding citrate salts except in foods of very high acidity. The amount of citrate added to foods by foods processors is about 500 mg per person per day. This amount occurs naturally in 2 ounces of orange juice and does not constitute a significant addition to the total body load. Although data on acute and chronic effects of orally administered sodium citrate, calcium citrate and potassium citrate are limited, no biological effects of the citrate-containing substances evaluated in this report cause concern about the safety of these GRAS substances used in reasonable amounts and in accordance with prescribed tolerances and limitations.
In light of the foregoing, the Select Committee concludes that:
There is no evidence in the available information on citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, calcium citrate, ammonium citrate, isopropyl citrate, stearyl citrate, and triethyl citrate that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when used at levels that are now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future.
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St. Louis, May 29, 2003 -- A study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis predicts that smokers might significantly reduce the adverse health effects of their habit if they could switch from cigarettes to inhalers that deliver doses of "clean" nicotine. Cigarette-sized doses of pure nicotine could be delivered using inhalers modeled after those used by people with asthma. The study is published in the June issue of the journal Tobacco Control. Nicotine inhalers, which are not currently available, would deliver doses of nicotine deep into the lungs similar to cigarettes. Researchers expect these inhalers to have the same drug effect as cigarettes and to be just as addictive. But they also predict that inhalers would be safer than cigarettes because they would lack the chemicals in smoke that are most responsible for smoking-related deaths from cancer, emphysema and heart disease. Inhalers also would eliminate the problem of second-hand smoke.
"There seems to be no effective way to convince many smokers to quit," says principal investigator Walton Sumner II, M.D., associate professor of medicine. "If one accepts that cigarette smoking will under no circumstances disappear, then one becomes committed to considering ways to make the habit safer. I'm not ready to recommend the use of these devices. But I do recommend that we study them as an alternative to cigarette smoking."
Sumner, whose father died of smoking-related lung cancer, began studying the use of nicotine inhalers as a substitute for cigarettes after witnessing the limited success of smoking cessation and prevention programs. In addition, he says, the medical literature and historic accounts of tobacco control efforts demonstrate the difficulty, and perhaps impossibility, of significantly lowering smoking rates.
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"I seriously doubt that we will achieve that target under the present circumstances," says Sumner, who also is a member of the cancer prevention and control program at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.
His research suggests that nicotine inhalers, however, could lead to such a dramatic drop.
Sumner developed a computer program called Differences in Expected Mortality Adjusted for Nicotine Delivery Systems (DEMANDS). Using 1990 smoking patterns as a baseline, the program predicts the years of potential life gained or lost up to age 65 and up to age 85 as a consequence of changes in the safety and prevalence of nicotine use.
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I don't agree with Plushenko being superior on the second mark in this instance either. I think Plushenko's basic skating was better and I think in terms of raw performance ability he was better, but I feel that Goebel had a far better program. Goebel's movements reflected the nuances of the music better, there was more inbetween choreography, a better balance of elements throughout the performance, and the program as a whole called for a greater range of character and built to something more meaningful in the end. The whole was greater than the sum of the parts. In comparison, Plushenko's program was much more limited. He had wonderful dramatic posing, wonderful flow across the ice, and wonderful moments of explosive energy...but it didn't really come together. The best highlights were contained to the first half of the program only. If his footwork had been stronger then it would have been a somewhat different story but his footwork sequences were simplistic and lacked creativity.
Hence, I would have given Goebel a 5.9/5.8 and Plushenko a 5.8/5.8


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- 07-25-13 01:30 AM #1xxxxxxxxxxPasATS Guest
Locking the rear seatbacks?
In my BMW, when I go out to dinner at a restaurant that has valet parking, I put my briefcase or other valuables in the trunk, flip the trunk lock switch in the glovebox, lock the glovebox and give the valet the fob only. You can't fold down the seats from the cabin side of the seats, only from the trunk side; so the trunk is secure. In my previous Audi, the seatbacks actually had key locks on them so you could accomplish the same.
Does the ATS offer a way to do this? (my car's on order).
Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?
I know exactly what you're talking about, if you remember (or had an old enough car) Audi even went a step further and gave you a valet key that would only start the igition and wouldn't unlock any of the 'lockable' items inside the car.
On the ATS, they don't lock.
The glove box locks, but folding seats, no.
On the topic of valet,
The car does have a valet run feature with a 4 digit pin you can enter through CUE. I presume it's a reduced speed or power tune.
- 07-26-13 10:01 AM #3xxxxxxxxxxPasATS Guest
Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?
All the Valet Mode does is disable most of the Cue functions and lock the little 'garage door' storage bin behind it. Still a nice feature but I can't exactly fit my briefcase (or golfclubs or whatever) in there!
Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?All the Valet Mode does is disable most of the Cue functions and lock the little 'garage door' storage bin behind it. Still a nice feature but I can't exactly fit my briefcase (or golfclubs or whatever) in there!
Locking Seat backs isn't really the issue here though.
There's no 'restricted use' key in the car anyway.
Sure you can take the emergency key out and lock the storage bin, but when you had the fob over he can still pop the truck, or even just hit the trunk release button. The systems in the Audi and BMW work because once locked you have a separate 'ignition only' key to use that doesn't do anything except start the car.
You could buy a dash-cam and place it on the rear-view glass. Although we're presuming here that said valet is going to rifle through the whole car looking for something to steal. Most random people are put-off by there simply not being anything in sight. Me personally, I might just suck it up and place a smidgen of faith in humanity, I say that in the least trying to slap you in the face kind of way because I'm sure you have more experience in this kind of situation than I do.
- 07-26-13 09:55 PM #5xxxxxxxxxxPasATS Guest
Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?
No, in the Beemer there's a switch inside the key-lockeable glovebox that prevents the trunk from being opened by the fob or the trunk pop button. You flip that switch, lock the glovebox and then hand the valet the fob without the key.
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Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?
My rear seats came locked from the factory...
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ATS is a drivers car, not the ultimate luxury car that has every feature, convenience, and comfort known to the auto world. All this stuff adds unnecessary weights to a drivers car. For all that stuffff, prospective Cadillac buyers should look more at CTS and XTS. For a focus on driving enjoyment, ATS is your car.
- 07-26-13 11:36 PM #9Originally Posted by General Lee 01
The extra locking systems weigh well under 2 pounds. I think Cadillac could have "splurged" for the sake of protecting the owners property.
- 07-27-13 12:25 AM #10Originally Posted by MoistCabbage
No, not a drivers car, not a luxury car, nothing special by today's standards, and that's exactly my point.
The ATS is a drivers car, fine. but owners aren't going to use them solely for driving on back roads or on track days, they're daily drivers too.
What if I want to go to a nice restaurant after hitting the driving range? Do I have to take the clubs home first?
$1,200 worth of hockey equipment with me after an out of town game. Do I need to lug it all the way up to the hotel room?
$80 set of jumper cables in the trunk, do I have to take them with me when I leave the car for service?
Not the end of the world, but it's a piece of mind/convenience thing, and obviously some people care.
I understand and respect what you are saying. It is logical, but just not for this car. This is a classic slippery slope. Where do these unnecessary additions stop? Outside of this discussion, others complain that the ATS doesn't have this, doesn't have that, etc. I for one hope that Cadillac does not listen to any of them. I love them offering a pure drivers car for once and to add all these things.... 2 lbs here, 5 there, 15 here... Where does it stop? Eventually we end up with an unexciting middle-of-the-road boring sedan that nobody gives a crap about. If buyers want all that stuff, and also want a Cadillac, why not buy the CTS instead and leave our ATS for those that want the ATS as-is? Rhetorical questions here.
Does a "pure drivers car" need active noise cancelation, a pulsating seat, radar, cameras, CUE....? 10 pounds here, 20 there... You're really putting the car in the wrong class. It's a sport/luxury sedan, not a Caterham. No need to worry if 10 pounds of convenience features were added. I'm not saying the car needs to tie your shoes and brush your teeth, but another pound to secure whatever belongings you choose to keep in the car from being tampered with by a valet or technician seems worth it to me, and many "lesser" cars have had this for years. I don't know anyone who keeps their trunk completely empty.
Cadillac offers a remote locking fuel door as an option. That seems like more of a waste of a locking mechanism to me than the ability to lock cargo.
Re: Locking the rear seatbacks?Not the end of the world, but it's a piece of mind/convenience thing, and obviously some people care.
I'm wondering if it was simply overlooked given the emphasis on chassis tuning or if it's a North America thing. Like touchscreen infotainment.
I'd bet money that it was just an oversight.


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