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By Jesse Pugh on May 13, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Guest Blog: By Keith Sims (Dolphins Guard 1990-1997, 3-time Pro Bowl selection)
These games are in random order. There are wins and losses. This was a fun exercise to think back on those games. Enjoy my list!
November 27, 1994 Fins at Jets – "The Fake Spike game"
Following back-to-back losses we were struggling. The Jets raced out to a 17-0 lead, and we were playing catch-up from there.
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Owners are now expected to be able to prove that their plans for limiting stormwater turbidity work. Though expected to reduce the amount of sediment flowing from the nation's construction sites by 4 billion pounds each year, this requirement will cost owners and contractors about $953 million.
Since 1991, construction sites have been considered industrial activity with pollutant discharges that are regulated under the Clean Water Act's NPDES stormwater permit program. Previously, permittees relied on local programs and best management practices to control sediment, nutrients, and turbidity.
EPA's recent effluent limitations guidelines (ELG) and new source performance standards (NSPS), however, require permittees to report the effectiveness of total site pollution controls. The requirements don't dictate specific technologies but instead limit the maximum daily turbidity level in discharges from sites 10 acres and larger to 280 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU).
Although EPA issued a temporary stay of the sampling and a 280-NTU numeric limit Jan. 4 while it revisits analysis of the data that led to the 280 NTU standard, the agency intends to make the revised limitation effective by June 29.
Compliance will require additional effluent sampling. For some projects, particularly those in areas with fine-grained silt and clay soils, compliance may require rethinking the overall approach to erosion and sediment control.
Owners who exceed the limit will be required to provide a detailed assessment of site conditions as well as a plan for immediate remediation. If noncompliance continues, state or local sediment control inspectors (such as the local permitting authority) will impose penalties. Fines for violation of the Clean Water Act and related environmental regulations vary by state; in Maryland penalties range from $2,500 to $25,000 per day of violation; Utah reports penalties of $32,500/day.
During the summer of 2008, our firm developed the erosion and sediment control plan for the Maryland Transportation Authority's I-95 express toll lane project, which began in 2006 and is slated to run through 2014. The agency contacted us when summer thunderstorms resulted in public outcry over sediment runoff upstream. The community assumed the project was the source, but we demonstrated that our sediment controls were functioning and were not the source of the discharge — proof that managing sediment onsite and inspecting and maintaining pollution controls is time well spent.
Using our experience with community watershed groups and large-scale public works construction projects, we've developed strategies that can help you prepare for increased community and federal attention to sediment pollution, including how to:
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The standard set by the ELG is 280 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU), a level that is very difficult to achieve in silty and clay-like soil areas. With the new effluent limitation guideline, contractors and owners face being cited for violation of the Clean Water Act, a far more costly consequence.
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Who is killing Central America's journalists?
Widespread violence and impunity leave murders unsolved
Amid the violence and instability caused by organized crime and corruption in Central America, Honduras and Guatemala have experienced an alarming rise in the number of murders of, and attacks against, journalists. Near complete impunity for these crimes means the cases go mostly unsolved and the motives unexplained. As fear grips newsrooms in both countries, critical media outlets and journalists find they are reined in by governments increasingly intolerant of dissent. A CPJ special report by Sara Rafsky.


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A place where friends can come together to share a laugh, pop a top and have something to grin about on monday. Sing a song we all know, spin around on a pole or chill like you're at home. Whatever happens there we will take it to the grave...A state of mind that has no geographic location and exist within all of us when we need to escape the everyday worries of the world.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. - Ground was broken Friday and grading began on Kingsport's newest retail shopping complex, known as 'Heritage Point Towne Center'.
"We started investing in this area 12 years ago, so we have 400 acres we have invested in," developer Stewart Taylor tells us. "The first phase of the projects going to be $8 million this year."
The complex is located off of Interstate 81 at exit 57 and will house retail stores. However, Taylor says the tenants are yet to be determined. "We have letters of intent from some retailers and hopefully we soon should be able to announce a major tenant," he said.
This development is located right off the interstate, where we've learned thousands of people drive by every day. "I-26 carries 47,000 cars a day. I-81 carries 27,000 cars. In a 20-mile radius of this site, there are over 200,000 people in our community," Taylor continues.
The project will include over one million square feet of retail, entertainment, and dining facilities.
But, the most important thing this will bring to the area is jobs. "One of our main focuses is how many jobs this project can create," Taylor says.
Sullivan County Mayor Steve Godsey adds, "this will be like pulling into Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. This place will be packed with automobiles from all across the country".
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Well if he agrees with all findings, that means HE AGREES THAT THERE WAS INTENT TO INJURE, BUT ONLY THE COACH CAN BE PUNISHED, NOT THE PLAYERS.
quote:Like Brees said before; this is all about perception for the league and not facts.
based on this entire saga, they are betting that they've gotten their message across, and it will never come up again.
quote:Shouldn't you be drinking poison JLSUX?!
Shouldn't you being writing articles Jazzy Jeff Duncan?!
quote:And it could have...dip shit
You've said a million times this could all be avoided
quote:And he is...dip shit
and CSP is an arrogant prick
quote:Bull shite...dip shit
and the players should stop fighting,
quote:Do you feel better now Breesux
Go frick yourself. I said like 2 days ago the hearing isnt over yet, so you shouldnt bash the team and you posted some facepalm gif. You are a troll. You admitted it a bunch of times, you only come on here to frick with fans of the Saints and you enjoy nothing more than trolling the board. And this season you love the entertainment you get from being a troll on purpose. You are a sad miserable old piece of shite.
Discovery in the defamation case is gonna be sick.
Do you feel better now Breesux
quote:A few post up in this very thread I made a post about fans around the league coming around to the side of the Saints concerning the Bounty issue. A very benign, non-trollish post. And what did you do? You called me a "piece of shit" And now this diatribe too?
Well JizzyJeff, if you would stop posting or atleast stop being such a trolling frickstick all of the time i might feel better. A while back you made some jokes about the whole Jeff Duncan thing and how you just went with it and everyone shite on you, so you trolled for a while. It was funny we all laughed, then for like a day you stopped being such a dingleberry. Now you are right back to trolling for the sake of trolling. Is there a reason you cant just stop fricking polluting this board with your incessant bull shite and let us just enjoy the fricking fan forum most of us come on to discuss the Saints. The season is bad enough without a-hole queers like you coming on here just to entertain yourself by fricking with an outlet for fans of a raped franchise during a bull shite season on a message board dedicated to them. And i realize the trend is to ban posters like me and keep you around, so I'm sure you'll RA and I'll get banned and you'll stay around posting only garbage and never substance and every single word you type meant only to rape the little bit of joy out of the fans here, but w/e I'm tired of reading your shite anyway. If i get banned, at least it'll be incentive to stop wasting time trying to find fun on this message board that i am so fond of only to find the unbearable smell of your shite every time on click on it.
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 99, August 9, 1996
Timing Programs on Multiple Cray Platforms
[ Thanks to Mark Dalton of CRI in Los Alamos for sending this in. I have made a few changes for the sake of the Newsletter. ]
This is the way to convert irtc to Mflops, or whatever you wish, on any of the current Crays (YMP, C90, T3D, J90, T90). The big trick is in the function 'get_cp'.
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc c Sample timing program program main implicit none integer startT,endT,diff,N,i real cp,Mflops,flops,eps,a,x integer irtc real slamch, get_cp parameter (N=1000000) eps = slamch('E') ! machine epsilon a = 1.0 - eps print*, "machine epsilon (eps): ", eps print*, "1.0 - eps: ", a x = a startT = irtc() C Insert your code here do i=1,N x = x * a enddo C End of your code to be timed endT = irtc() print*, "(1.0 - eps) ^ ", N, " = ", x print*, "" diff=endT - startT cp = get_cp() print*, "nticks: ", diff, " cp: ", cp flops = N / (cp * diff) Mflops = flops / 1e6 print *,'Mflops = ',Mflops, ' Time (seconds) = ', cp * diff end ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc Real Function get_cp() Integer mc(128) real nanoseconds call gethmc(mc) ! returns clock period in picoseconds into mc(7) clock_period = mc(7)*1.0e-12 ! convert to seconds nanoseconds = mc(7)*1.0e-3 print *,'System Clock Period (nanoseconds): ',nanoseconds print *,'System Clock Speed (Mhz): ', (1000/nanoseconds) get_cp = clock_period end ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc ###################### makefile ############################ FF=-O0 all: t3d ymp t3d: prog.f TARGET=cray-t3d MPP_NPES=1 /mpp/bin/cf77 $(FF) prog.f -o t3d.exe ymp: prog.f TARGET=target cf77 $(FF) prog.f -o ymp.exe ############################################################
For these compiles, I turned off optimization. When optimized, however, the Y-MP binary gives an apparent rate of about 150 mflop/s, and the T3D binary gives an apparent rate of about 200,000 mflop/s (teraflops!?), suggesting that the compiler figured out that I was computing a**N, and replaced the loop with a single call. (For more on machine epsilon, see Newsletter #9 and 'man slamch.')
Here are run outputs from the ARSC system:
denali$ t3d.exe machine epsilon (eps): 2.22044604925031308E-16 1.0 - eps: 0.99999999999999978 (1.0 - eps) ^ 1000000 = 0.99999999977795517 System Clock Period (nanoseconds): 6.6660000000000004 System Clock Speed (Mhz): 150.01500150015002 nticks: 53217067 cp: 6.66599999999999993E-9 Mflops = 2.8189265203238278 Time (seconds) = 0.354744968622 denali$ ymp.exe machine epsilon (eps): 1.4210854715202E-14 1.0 - eps: 0.9999999999999858 (1.0 - eps) ^ 1000000 = 0.9999999857891311 System Clock Period (nanoseconds): 6.000000000000028 System Clock Speed (Mhz): 166.6666666666661 nticks: 129673718 cp: 6.000000000000027E-9 Mflops = 1.285277149735656 Time (seconds) = 0.7780423080000034
Frontiers '96 Advance Program[ Note: I've shortened this quite a bit, taken out author lists, lunch menus, etc... but left the names of presentations and programs. If you want the original, let me know, and I'll e-mail it to you. ]
Frontiers '96 Advance Program
The Sixth Symposium on The Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
October 27 - 31, 1996 Annapolis, Maryland http://www.aero.hq.nasa.gov/hpcc/front96.html
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society
In cooperation with: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center USRA/CESDIS
Frontiers '96 is the sixth in a series of meetings on massively parallel computation, focusing on research related to systems scalable to many hundreds of processors. The conference will include 34 original research papers surrounding the central theme of research related to the exploitation of massive parallelism, and any aspects of the design, analysis, development, and/or use of massively parallel computers. The realm of computing considered includes general purpose, domain specific, and special purpose systems and techniques. Other highlights include two panels, invited speakers, two pre-conference workshops, and conference banquet. Of special note are two sessions discussing interim results of eight Point Design Studies of high performance computing environments - awardees of the proposals solicited by the New Technologies Program in ASC (NSF), the Microelectronics Systems Architecture Program in MIPS (NSF), the Computer Systems Program in CCR (NSF), and in collaboration with DARPA and NASA.
Frontiers '96 features two workshops in areas of rapidly growing interest to the high-performance computing community. The topics of the workshops are 1) The Petaflops Frontier, and 2) Domain Specific Systems. These day and a half workshops are organized to provide a forum for presenting the most recent advances across a broad range of related topics within these interdisciplinary fields. Mixed with the presentations are open discussions on key topics from emerging technologies that may impact future directions to the policies establishing those directions. For more information contact the Program Chair at email@example.com.
Highlghts! Invited Speakers:
- "From ASCI to Teraflops" - John Hopson, Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)
- "Parallelism in the Deep Blue Chess Automoton " - Feng-Hsiung Hsu, IBM Research, TJ Watson Laboratory
- "Independence Day" - Steven Wallach, HP-Convex
Panel Sessions:
- "How Do We Break the Barrier to the Software Frontier?" - Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory, Panel Chair
- "Petaflops Alternative Paths" - David Bailey, NASA Ames Research Center, Panel Chair
---- Workshop A: The Petaflops Frontier - Part 1 ---- George Lake, University of Washington, Chair
The second workshop in this series explores the scaling properties of application algorithms, alternative architecture models, and device technology as they contribute to the feasibility of achieving computing performance in the regime of 10^15 operations per second.
---- Workshop B: Domain Specific Systems - Part 1 --- Jose Fortes, Purdue University, Chair
This new series of workshops is intended to highlight systems architecture and software that exploit the opportunity of alternative structures and methods to achieve very high performance for possibly narrow ranges of applications.
Topics include special purpose or embedded processors, reconfigurable architectures, SIMD, digital signal processors, image processors, data compression devices, and other application-driven designs.
Technical Program:
---- Scheduling 1 ----
- Gang Scheduling for Highly Efficient Distributed Multiprocessor Systems
- Integrating Polling, Interrupts, and Thread Management
- A Practical Processor Design for Multithreading
---- Routing ----
- Deadlock-Free Path-Based Wormhole Multicasting in Meshes*
- Efficient Multicast in Wormhole-Routed 2D Mesh/Torus Multicomputers: A Network-Partitioning Approach
- Turn Grouping for Supporting Efficient Multicast in Wormhole Mesh Networks
---- Applications & Algorithms ----
- A3: A Simple and Asymptotically Accurate Model for Parallel Computation
- Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations Using Checksum and Reverse Computation
- A Parallel Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flow Solver Package with a Parallel Multigrid Elliptic Kernel
- A Statistically-Based Multi-Algorithmic Approach for Load-Balancing Sparse Matrix Computations
---- Petaflops Computing / Point Design Studies ----
- Pursuing a Petaflop: Point Designs for 100 TF Computers Using PIM Technologies
- Hybrid Technology Multi-Threaded Architecture
- Design Studies on Petaflops Special-Purpose Hardware for Astrophysical Particle Simulations
- The Illinois Aggressive Cache-Only Memory Architecture Multiprocessor - (I-ACOMA)
---- Scheduling 2 ----
- Largest-Job-First-Scan-All Scheduling Policy for 2D Mesh-Connected Systems
- Scheduling for Large-Scale Parallel Video Servers
- Effect of Variation in Compile Time Costs on Scheduling Tasks on Distributed Memory Systems
- Processor Autonomy and It's Effect on Parallel Program Execution
- Particle-Mesh Techniques on the MasPar
- Solving Irregular Problems on SIMD Architectures
---- I/O Techniques ----
- Intelligent, Adaptive File System Policy Selection
- An Abstract-Device Interface for Implementing Portable Parallel-I/O Interfaces
- PMPIO - A Portable Implementation of MPI-IO
- Disk Resident Arrays: An Array-Oriented I/O Library for Out-Of-Core Computations
---- Memory Management ----
- Hardware-Controlled Prefeching in Directory-based Cache Coherent Systems
- Preliminary Insights on Shared Memory PIC Code Performance on the Convex Exemplar SPP1000
- Scalability of Dynamic Storage Allocation Algorithms
- An Interprocedural Framework for Determining Efficient Data Redistributions in Distributed Memory Machines
---- Synchronization ----
- A Fair Fast Distributed Concurrent-Reader Exclusive-Writer
- Locks Improvement Technique for Release Consistency in Distributed Shared Memory Systems
- A Quasi-Barrier Technique to Improve Performance of An Irregular Application
---- Networks ----
- Performance Analysis and Fault Tolerance of Randomized Routing on Close Networks
- Performing BMMC Permutations in Two Passes Through the Expanded Delta Network and MasPar MP-2
- Macro-Star Networks: Efficient Low-Degree Alternatives to Star Graphs for
- Large-Scale Parallel Architectures
---- Performance Analysis ----
- Modeling and Identifying Bottlenecks in EOSDIS
- Tools-Supported HPF and MPI Parallelization of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks
- A Comparison of Workload Traces from Two Production Parallel Machines
- Morphological Image Processing on Parallel Machines
---- Petaflops Computing / Point Design Studies ----
- MORPH: A Flexible Architecture for Executing Component Software at 100 TeraOPS
- Architecture, Algorithms and Applications for Future Generation Supercomputers
- Hierarchical Processors-and-Memory Architecture for High Performance Computing
- A Scalable-Feasible Parallel Computer Implementing Electronic and Optical Interconnections for 156 TeraOPS Minimum Performance
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Chris- "Did you see that lions bloody cock?!"
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Iowa Lakes Community College
Conveniently located near: Emmetsburg, Iowa; Estherville, Iowa; Spencer, Iowa; Spirit Lake, Iowa; Okoboji, Iowa; Sheldon, Iowa; Algona, Iowa; Jackson, Minnesota; Worthington, Minnesota
Buena Vista University Spencer was established in 1976 in partnership with Iowa Lakes Community College. The partnership with Iowa Lakes Community College expanded to include programs in Estherville in 1994, Spirit Lake in 1996 and Emmetsburg in 1997. Weekend classes and summer workshops are offered at all the locations.
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Contact a personal advisor at 712.749.1960 to see how your credits will transfer.
Many colleges have full articulation agreements with Buena Vista University. Students who have completed an approved associate's degree at these colleges can seamlessly move on to complete a bachelor's degree through Buena Vista University.
BVU has full articulation agreements with these colleges:
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"Hope and Success" is a motivational and inspirational song. It starts with a piano theme and soon the song exlodes into a powerful chorus with lots of strings and other orchestral instruments and the drum. After the chorus the song descend into a quite ending that is full of hope and possibilities.
The song is perfect for any uses that require a powerful song full of positive energy and hope. The song for your commercials and corporate presentation.
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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
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Rita Wood, Karen Vogel, Mihai Carlton, and Rose Paulus during Milwaukee Area Technical College lobby day
Tax Relief on the Fast Track
Wednesday, Republican Joint Finance Committee members reinforced our commitment to provide tax relief to Wisconsin's families, seniors, farmers, and job creators while securing the state's fiscal future.
We are taking the state surplus and reducing property taxes by over $400 million, lowering income taxes by nearly $100 million, and reducing the withholding for state income taxes by $322.6 million. Wisconsin, under the leadership of Governor Walker and State Legislature Republicans can and will do better than keeping your tax money in the hands of Madison bureaucrats.
Gone are the days of irresponsible and reckless budgeting, resulting in billion dollar deficits, leaving taxpayers footing the bill. Our continued disciplined fiscal management puts Wisconsin's fiscal house in order, providing a stable economic environment for growth and close to two billion dollars in tax relief this session alone.
Thank you to Governor Walker for leading the way, and thank you to my colleagues in the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly for making this happen.
Click here, to visit my website and view our improving tax climate.
Common Core Update
Some constituents express deep concern about Wisconsin state academic standards, and the process used to adopt the standards. I agree, we need to create Wisconsin-based model academic standards, and replace the federal standards adopted by State Superintendent Tony Evers during 2010. I am a sponsor of Senate Bill 619 (SB 619). The bill provides a clear path for developing standards and provides for citizen participation.
SB 619 creates a Model Academic Standards Board. The Model Academic Standards Board members will be 15 appointments from the Governor, DPI Superintendent, and Legislative Leaders. Appointments to the board include teachers, parents, principals, a superintendent, a school board member, and a teaching professor. Under SB 619, the Model Academic Standards Board will appoint subject specific subcommittees charged with developing Math, English, Science, and Social Studies standards. Before approval of the standards by the Model Academic Standards Board a public hearing must be held.
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Secretary gets 30 days to review and revise the standards and hold another public hearing. The DPI Secretary then must submit the standards to the Legislature through the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR). JCRAR would then have 30 days to review the rules and hold a public hearing. The committee would have the power to approve or object to the standards. If JCRAR objects, legislation implementing the Board's standards would be introduced and be referred to the respective committees within the two houses of the Legislature.
The State Senate this Week
The State Senate took action on forty bills during Tuesday's floor session, including several bills I both authored or sponsored. Click here, to view actions taken during Tuesday's Senate floor session.
The State Senate is scheduled to be on the floor of the State Senate March 4, 2014, for special session to take action on Governor Walker's tax cut proposal. The 2013-14 legislative session ends April 3, 2014.
Click here to view the Schedule of Committee Hearings.
Google Invests $40 Million in Wisconsin Educational Software Company
Renaissance Learning confirms Google Capitol is a minority partner after investing $40 million into the educational technology provider.
Renaissance Learning, located in Wisconsin Rapid, provides one-third of U.S. schools with cloud-based educational, assessment, teaching and learning tools for gradesK-12. Read the full story, here.
DOT Preparing for Zoo Interchange Reconstruction
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is continuing to upgrade main detour routes ahead of highway ramp closures for the Zoo Interchange Reconstruction.
Ramps carrying westbound drivers on interstate 94 to I-894 will shut down March 2015 through late 2017, sending commuters onto Greenfield Ave, National Ave, and Miller Park Way.
The DOT is upgrading 24 intersections to accommodate the influx of commuters during the two year reconstruction process. Get the full story, click here.
Milwaukee Residents Among Highest Taxed
Milwaukee ranked in USA Today's Top 10 cities with the highest tax rates. A federal report released by the Office of Revenue Analysis of the Government of the District of Columbia, reviews estimated property, sales, auto, and income tax for incomes during 2012 in each states largest city.
According to the report a Milwaukee family earning $25,000 had a tax burden of $3,245, the 26th highest in the nation. A Milwaukee family earning $150,000 had a tax burden around $26,000, the second highest in the nation. Property taxes represent the majority of Milwaukee resident's tax burden.
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An Asian-Canadian YouTuber, best known for videos such as "Canadian, Please" and "The Foreign Language Song" and VEDA. He may or may not have coined the term "cray cray".
His viewers are known as "fanarollas".
His viewers are known as "fanarollas".
Have you seen the latest gunnarolla video? Me neither.
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Such a great gal. She will change your life and consistently wears fabulous outfits. Just find her and make her your friend. You will not regret it.
See her? She is such a great example of a Lauren Elwin. Except there is only one true Lauren Elwin and she is the greatest of them all.
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If you have never been to Vegas I can honestly say I don't think there is any other place like it! We had booked Shannon and Brandon at a local wedding expo and were so excited to be able to travel with them to Las Vegas! But going to Vegas didn't really hit us until they asked us to help them design their wedding favors (a deck of customized playing cards for each guest using their favorite engagement shot.) Being that neither one of us had ever been to Vegas we had to do our homework…we took the day prior to the wedding to map out the hotel(s)…if you have been you know what we are talking about if not; each hotel is almost like a city in itself! And traffic well that is another story all together, but we got it all figured out and had a GREAT time exploring the city and working in the new environment! Would we do it again? YEAH Baby!
A quite moment with the video guy…
There is a groom under there!!!
"This kiss This kiss…" the song lyrics that come to mind when I see this picture!


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Whilst on one of what I'm sure will be many trips to the toy shop in the run up to Christmas we spotted a bumper pack of Plasticine, in all the colors of the rainbow and more, and it just happened to jump into our basket. On the way home the little lady was telling us about all the things she was going to make with it, and I had the idea to bring it to life, just like Wallace & Gromit. She found the idea amazing, "How can you do that Daddy?" she asked, "Are you magic?"
"Of course", I replied, I just need a bit of help from my trusty old iPhone to make the magic work.
Read on to find out how the magic works!
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#4321 Thu 31 Jan 13 2:15pm
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Hi, there guys. My name is Hari, just in to share some cooking ideas
And learn some fantastic recipe's. Jamie you always been great inspiration
#4322 Thu 31 Jan 13 3:23pm
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- From English immigrant in S. Wales
- Member since Fri 07 Dec 12
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Rihahari, welcome. Jamie and I are so pleased he gives you inspiration, as Jamie learned everything he knows from me!
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#4323 Sun 03 Feb 13 11:05pm
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- From Leipzig
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Hi to all there,
my name is Claudia, I'm 41 years old and live in Leipzig (Germany) with my 3 sons and our old cat :-).
We're all fans of Jamie and his kinds to cook. We find him on TV at first. Now we have also some of his cooking books and specialy the book from his wife . We tryd some of the recipes and had many fun to cook and eat ...
So, think it's enough for today. Hope you can understand me :-))
Greetings from Leipzig
#4324 Mon 04 Feb 13 3:49am
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Welcome to the forums, Claudia.
#4325 Fri 08 Feb 13 2:18am
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Hey there, I'm from Morocco on the north of Africa, you know Moroccan cuisine is well known and we have some extremely delicious and healthy meals here Welcome to Morocco and we will prepare a Tajine or Couscous for you all:)
#4326 Sun 10 Feb 13 5:25am
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hi everyone! It's nice to be a part in this forum. I'm a fan of Jamie Oliver and I watch his show when i have time to watch TV and if I'm not busy. I'm a food lover and I have been following Jamie on Twitter and like his Facebook page as well. I hope you could share more recipes for us. God bless!.
#4327 Sun 10 Feb 13 11:26pm
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Welcome people!
#4328 Tue 12 Feb 13 1:36am
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Hi everyone. I'm a new member here. Like all of you guys I'm a Jamie Oliver fan and he-he a big fan of food . I hope to enjoy my stay here. Have a great day!
#4329 Tue 12 Feb 13 1:41am
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That's an unusual name, getroofingquote. Welcome to the forums.
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from ms Onshin helo jamie and everyone else . got your book meals in minutes for christmas . trying to compleat all the meals by april , down to 11 left . im licking the plates clean.., the best meal so far was the finnin haddie chowder , wow was that goooooooood , i mean wicked good.. id love an autograph picture for my kitchen , whahoooo , ms onshin po box 3 grafton new hampshire usa 02340 . cant wait to get 15 minute meals.....


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There are four seasons on Mars and about 144 million square kilometers of surface land — almost exactly the same amount that the Earth has above sea level. The planet tilts at an angle of around 23 degrees, like the Earth, and its days are 24 hours and 40 minutes long.
As he ticks off these facts, Brown University geological sciences professor John Mustard pauses and breaks into the soft, eerie wail of a familiar TV theme song. "It's kind of like a Twilight Zone episode," he says. The show was famous for placing its characters in familiar situations where a certain element in the environment was askew. Mars is kind of like that. "It's like Earth, it's just a little off," he says.
Mustard would know. While, of course, he hasn't been to the Red Planet (no human has), in January of 2013, when NASA appointed a "Science Definition Team" to brainstorm objectives for their Mars 2020 rover mission, Mustard was named the chair.
"The successful landing of the Curiosity science rover on August 6, 2012 was the latest in a series of technological and scientific triumphs of NASA's Mars Exploration Program," begins the report that the team — which included scientists from Princeton University, the Carnegie Institute in Washington, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory — released in July. "The prime focus of the exploration of Mars in the coming decade is to assess if life is or was present on Mars."
The report sat on a desk on a recent afternoon in Mustard's office on the first floor of Brown's Lincoln Field Building. That building — a nondescript brick structure overlooking a grassy quad, just a few minutes' walk from the bookstores and hookah lounges of Thayer Street — is perhaps the closest thing Providence has to a portal to outer space. On the second floor is the NASA-affiliated Northeast Planetary Data Center: a repository of maps; photographs; documents from NASA missions with names like Magellan, Viking 2, and Lunar Orbiter IV; and stacks of other extraterrestrial browsing material, all of it free and open to the public. On the first floor, through a hallway lined with "MARS OR BUST" bumper stickers and blown-up images of the surfaces of planets, is the room where Professor Mustard contemplates Earth's curious next door neighbor.
The Phoenix chatted with him there recently while he awaits an announcement from NASA, in response to his team's report, soliciting proposals for the scientific instruments that will equip the Mars 2020 rover. The announcement is expected to come later this month, Mustard says.
Our conversation has been edited and condensed.
I THINK THE TWO MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS MOST PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT MARS ARE: WILL HUMANS GO THERE? AND, IF SO, WHEN? There's a really strong drive to have people go to Mars. And that could be in the next 15 years, something might happen. That's an optimistic number. Or it might not happen.
And the fascinating thing is: will it be national governments that do that? Or will it be the private sector? Ten years ago I would have scoffed at the private sector, maybe even two years ago. But I think [tech billionaire and space enthusiast/entrepreneur] Elon Musk has shown enough chutzpah to actually commercialize that part of it. And, you know, maybe there's something there. Maybe they could do it cheaper.
[NASA is] really kind of sketchy about what they're doing with their human flight. I'd say that's a big deal problem with NASA at the moment: what are you doing with your human flight? You sent people to the moon in the '60s and you haven't really sent anyone anywhere since. You've had a space station and then you had a shuttle program and you retired it. Can you actually launch humans into orbit? No, actually the Russians do that. What are you doing?
IS THE U.S. STILL THE WORLD POWER OF SPACE EXPLORATION? The US is the world's foremost space-faring nation, but many nations are catching up in one area or another. Right now the US does more in more areas than anyone. But there are niche areas or targeted areas where the rest of the world has made huge strides forward. For example, it used to be that the US and Russia were the only countries who could send spacecraft to other planets. Russia, in the '90s, pretty much pulled back from space exploration — couldn't afford it. But Europe [the European Space Agency, which includes 20 participating nations] has since demonstrated that it can launch spacecraft to other planets and get into orbit. And just a couple years ago, India launched a spacecraft to the moon [that] went into orbit, spent a couple years there, and actually got some really high-quality data.
WHAT WILL THE MARS 2020 MISSION DO THAT THE CURRENT CURIOSITY ROVER ISN'T DOING? First of all, it's going to collect rocks that we can bring home.
Why would be bother doing that? Because we want to answer the question, "Does life exist elsewhere in the solar system or in the universe?" We want to start in the solar system [and] Mars is the first place I can think of to go, because it's been an Earth-like planet, it's had all the right ingredients . . . for life to have gotten started and evolve, and we want to go see if the signs of life are left in any way shape or form.
I, personally, do not believe that there is viable life on the surface of Mars today. Some people do; I don't. I think we're going to be looking for the geologic record. We're going to be looking for the fossil life.
In [this report are] our recommendations to what NASA should do for that. So what you want to do is send a rover that can do fundamental science. It'll be like the Curiosity rover — basically the same chassis — but we would instrument it differently and we would ask it to do something different as the core [mission]. And that core is to collect rock samples . . . and fill a cache — a collection, a canister — with about 30 of these and get it ready to bring home. So we collect it and then prepare this package for return by a future spacecraft.
You look skeptical.
I'M NOT SKEPTICAL. IT'S INTERESTING. BUT IT'S A PLAN THAT I WOULDN'T SAY IS "DANGLING," BUT . . . . There's no closure. Right. And I think that's the really important initial perception. It's like, "Great! You made a cache. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to return it?"
And this gets into the complications to do science this big. I mean, this would be a $1.5 billion mission. To build the spacecraft, to launch it, to put it on the surface of Mars for a year, and to create the cache would be about $1.5 billion.
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From top, Mark Leung, C. Mauli Agrawal,
Felix D. Almaraz Jr., Guy Bailey, Mark H. Bernstein
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Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award and Peter T. Flawn Professorships
(May 9, 2005)--UTSA President Ricardo Romo and Provost and Executive Vice President Guy Bailey hosted the 2005 Faculty Honors Convocation Wednesday, May 4 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04).
The ceremony honored recipients of the 2005 President's Distinguished Achievement Awards, the 2005 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teacher Award and the Peter T. Flawn Professors for 2004-2005, acknowledged service awards and recognized faculty retirees.
Below, read profiles of the honorees for the 2005 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award and the Peter T. Flawn Professorships 2004-2005.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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2005 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award
Mark Leung
This award is for tenured or tenure-track faculty and recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level. This year's winner, Mark Leung, is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Statistics in the College of Busines. Since joining UTSA in 1999, Leung has helped develop and refine courses in the statistics core. He earned the college's Col. Jean Migliorino and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Faculty Award for Research Excellence in 2001 and the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teacher Award in 2002… a repeat winner. Leung has received research grants for transportation and logistics studies as well as neural network studies. He was nominated for a Minnie Stevens Piper Professorship in 2004 and earned Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards at the Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Ind., prior to joining UTSA.
Peter T. Flawn Professors 2004-2005
C. Mauli Agrawal
C. Mauli Agrawal, Peter Flawn Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is the associate dean of the UTSA College of Engineering graduate studies and research area and director of the biomedical engineering graduate program, a joint program of UTSA and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Additionally, he serves as director of the newly created UTSA Institute for Bioengineering and Translational Research. Prior to starting the UTHSCSA orthopaedic biomaterials program in 1991, he served on the faculty in the Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Agrawal has received numerous honors and awards and has authored more than 220 scientific publications and established 18 patents. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering -- an honor reserved for those representing the top 2 percent of the profession. He was elected president of the Society for Biomaterials for 2006 and acted as program chair for the 2001 annual meeting. Agrawal serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research (Applied Biomaterials), Tissue Engineering, and Journal of ASTM International. He is the founder of Xilas Medical Inc., a San Antonio-based medical device company working in the area of diabetic foot problems.
Felix D. Almaraz Jr.
Felix D. Almaraz Jr. is a professor in the UTSA Department of History. Over the course of a four-decade career, Almaraz has received numerous awards including the UTSA Piper Professor of 2003 and the Medal of the Order of Civil Merit, bestowed by Spanish Ambassador Javier Ruperez on behalf of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Other awards include the 2002 UTSA Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2002 induction into the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2001 Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History. Almaraz was honored earlier this year at the 109th annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) for his outstanding service on behalf of Texas history and, in particular, the Hispanic heritage of the state.
"Tejano Epic," a collection of essays written by well-known scholars in Tejano history who studied under the professor, was published earlier this year as a tribute to Almaraz, a longtime member of TSHA. Almaraz is author of "Tragic Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, 1808-1813," "The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure," "Cisneros 2000: Faces of the Borderlands" and "Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958." He has lectured at many regional, national and international conferences on the Spanish borderlands of North America, the San Antonio missions, and historical and modern Spain.
Guy Bailey
Guy Bailey, UTSA provost and executive vice president, and professor of English, classics and philosophy, has had his research on Texas English featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, PBS, CNN Headline News, BBC Radio, Texas Monthly and the San Antonio Express News. During his tenure at UTSA, 10 doctoral programs have been created, external funding for research has more than doubled, total enrollment has increased by more than one third and graduate enrollment has risen by nearly 50 percent. Bailey continues research on language variation and change with special emphasis on the English of Texas and the American South. Since 1984, he has brought nearly $1 million in external funding for his research.
Mark H. Bernstein
Mark H. Bernstein received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. After teaching one year at Wesleyan University, he began a 22-year stint at UTSA, becoming the Peter T. Flawn Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in 2004. During his tenure at UTSA, Bernstein published three books on fatalism, moral considerability and our relationships with animals. His numerous publications concern the metaphysics of free will and fatalism as well as the proper moral relationship between human and nonhuman animals. He has served as director of the Campus Cat Coalition for many years and has tried to rationally argue for a far more just treatment of all sentient creatures. Bernstein begins his appointment as the Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University in 2005.
Lynda de la Vina
Lynda de la Vina was named interim dean and the Peter Flawn Professor of Economics in the UTSA College of Business in fall 2004. Last week she was named College of Business dean. She is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as UTSA College of Business dean and the only female Hispanic business dean in the UT System. De la Vina received master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Rice University and a baccalaureate degree in government and economics from UT Pan American. She is the first Mexican-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States. Returning home following six years on the East Coast, de la Vina previously served as associate dean of the Graduate Division of Business and Management and chair of the Department of Finance and International Business at Johns Hopkins University. The M.B.A. program at Johns Hopkins was ranked the fourth largest in the nation.
In 1998, she was a presidential appointee to the U.S. Department of Treasury and served as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy until 2001. Prior to her career in Washington, D.C., de la Vina served 19 years at UTSA, serving as assistant director of the human resources management and development program, a faculty member in the Department of Economics, executive director of the Institute for Studies in Business and associate dean of graduate studies and research.


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Is there scientific proof that bleach won't kill AFB spores?
I'm not arguing this point I'm just asking the question - is this just conventional wisdom or has someone somewhere actually done scientific research that shows that there is no practical way to sanitize used equipment?
The reason I ask is that after winter losses I found myself with an excess of comb for the first time ever, and have been taking action to carefully store it away long term. Some of it I was going to toss (none is very old) because I just didn't like it's looks, but as an experiment I put some in a big (clean) trash can with a gallon of clorox and enough water to cover for a few days - you have to weigh it down a lot by the way - and it looks great coming out. I've never had AFB, and since comb is hard come by - I'm gonnna dry it out good and carefully put a little of it in a test hive just to see what the bees think.
I know you can't see disease pathogens, but conventional wisdom in swimming pool maintenance is that a good strong chlorine shock is the nuclear option - it kills everything. And we all know for a fact that bees don't mind chlorinated pool water.


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Secretary Duncan Holds Town Hall at Wake Tech
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan held a town hall meeting with nearly 300 students, faculty, employers and state officials at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C., on Oct. 25, 2011. He congratulated Wake Tech for being "a shining example of how community colleges are partnering with local and regional employers to meet the workforce needs of Raleigh." Biotechnology, health care, and information technology companies described how they are partnering with Wake Tech, hiring its graduates and contracting with it for employee training.
Duncan spoke about the American Jobs Act and the $5 billion it would provide to support the modernization of classrooms and labs at colleges like Wake Tech. The college currently has a waiting list of over 5,000 students and, according to its president, Stephen Scott, 30,000 square feet of unfinished instructional facilities that could be completed with the act's funds. Duncan said the college is an example of the many community colleges overflowing with students due to record increases in recent enrollment.
Duncan directed his closing remarks to the students in the audience, stating that the best way to succeed in the knowledge economy—and the only way America will prosper in the decades to come—is through student dedication to learning and to degree completion. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges Frank Chong and Department teaching fellows held a roundtable discussion with faculty on strategies for encouraging students to finish their degrees. A second roundtable featured student suggestions for increasing college completion rates.
Colorado Steps Up to Meet the President's 2020 College Completion Goal
The Colorado Community College System and the Colorado Department of Higher Education sponsored the first-ever Colorado Community College Summit, Pathways to College and Beyond, on Oct. 24, 2011, in Denver. The two-day summit brought together teams from all fifteen of Colorado's community colleges. In addition to college administrators, faculty, staff and students, leaders from K–12, four- year universities, and business, along with local and state elected officials participated in the event.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges Frank Chong provided the opening keynote address. He applauded Colorado for its efforts toward meeting the president's 2020 College Completion Goal. He added that Colorado's strategic plan for higher education, The Degree Dividend, is a straightforward assessment of both Colorado's higher education system and the adjustments required to meet the needs of a rapidly growing and changing state. Chong outlined the administration's support for community colleges as evidenced by the $17.3 million Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant that Colorado recently was awarded. He also noted that Colorado is part of the Complete College America initiative.
Postsecondary Institutions Encouraged to Apply for Student Aid Experiments
The U.S. Department of Education has invited postsecondary institutions participating in Higher Education Act (HEA)-authorized student aid programs to apply for Experimental Sites Initiative grants. Under HEA waiver authority, each grantee will test whether proposed changes to current requirements improve federal student aid program administration. Substantiated improvements would provide ED with a rationale to consider changing statutory or regulatory provisions.
OVAE encourages adult education and CTE programs in postsecondary institutions to develop experiments. Of interest to underserved learners:
Experiment 1–Pell Grant program eligibility of students with bachelor's degrees who enroll in career programs. HEA provides that students who have a bachelor's degree are not eligible for federal Pell grants, so they may not benefit from short-term vocational training when they are underemployed or unemployed. Experiment 1 provides a limited eligibility waiver for such students. The Department is interested in applications that include legal U.S. immigrant students who were trained as professionals and are seeking credentials to fill skilled positions in the U.S.
Experiment 2–Pell Grant program eligibility of students enrolled in certain short-term training programs (e.g., career pathway programs). HEA provides eligibility to academic programs of a specific duration as eligible Federal Pell Grant Programs. Eligibility for short-term training programs would allow under- and unemployed individuals to obtain industry relevant training. Experiment 2 waives the program eligibility requirement.
Letters of application from eligible institutions must be submitted to: email@example.com by Dec. 12, 2011. Questions may be addressed to Warren Farr at 202-377-4380 or email@example.com.
Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV or Perkins Act), the Department intends to award a new contract to an institution of higher education, a public or private nonprofit organization or agency, or a consortium of such institutions, organizations, or agencies to establish a national research center for career and technical education. Section 114(d) (4)(5) of Perkins IV authorizes the secretary of education, after consulting with the states, to establish a center to carry out scientifically based research and evaluation, and to conduct dissemination and training activities consistent with the purpose of the act. ED is currently engaged in market research to identify potential offerors, clarify OVAE's requirements, and remove barriers to maximize competition. Interested parties are invited to participate in a webinar on Dec. 1, 2011, at 1 p.m. ET, when ED will share its vision and goals for the procurement. A draft Performance-Work Statement will be available shortly.


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Delivering Solar Power to the Vung Vieng Village!
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In Vietnam, the New Year's Holiday is celebrated at the Lunar New Year, for "Tet," the same time as the Chinese New Year. In the Vung Vieng Village, 2010 will begin with the installation of a solar power system which will hopefully provide the electricity needed to charge the XOs.
The components of a small off grid solar power system are not readily available for purchase in Halong City. I brought the Solar Charge Controller from Thailand. See the December 14, 2009 A Productive OLPC Workday! blog entry. Mr. Peter "Hung" Tran, from Hong Gai and Vancouver, BC, Canada agreed to sell us the components of his small "home system", and to donate his expertise and labor to move it to the VVV school.
I plan to post an equipment inventory on the OLPC Project page in the wiki, at:
You can see photos of the components below
We moved the 13 Solar panels, two (2) 200 ah, 12 volt batteries, and an Inverter by station wagon to the boat dock. Then we traveled by small boat, 45 kilometers to the Vung Vieng Fishing Village. Mr. Phien and Ms. Hang, leaders representing the Floating Village Government Cooperative joined us for the trip. We arrived and my village host family, Huong, Nam and little Mai greeted us. Huong cooked a delicious feast enjoyed by all. I have been thanked profusely, over and over again. I try to explain that it is a bigger gift for me, to be able to be here and do this.
We discussed the appropriate location for the solar system. We have been charging the laptops in the "Pearl Shop" (where I also sleep,) off of the generator power. The generator only operates 2-3 hours a day. It is noisy and very smelly, burning the cheapest oil available. With solar to supplement the generator power, the hope is that the children and even the adult residents of the VVV can use the community space outside of the Pearl Shop at night for informal classes to learn on the XOs.
Mr. Peter indeed installed the Solar panels onto the roof of the floating "building" between the two small shops. He "stuck" the panels onto the roof and secured them with nylon ropes. He hooked everything up and it was indeed working. Although there was no apparent sun at all on this dreary winter Halong Bay day, we had a reading of 0.9 amps of ambient power on the new Charge Controller.
Mr. Peter kept telling me how good his system is, and I hope that it will work
In retrospect, Peter was over enthusiastic about selling his system too me. He charged me a lot for the goods and he has not delivered the inverter we bought. This is upsetting especially because I am skeptical uncomfortable with the hasty installation. I am staying over in the village and after Mr. Peter leaves, I will check everything over and make some decisions about what we should do to strengthen the installation.
Postscript (PS) added January 5, 2010:
There are two major problems with the installation. I will include the details here, to perhaps help other deployments installing solar power.
1. The mounting brackets are angled and I am certain that one strong wind will get underneath the panels and tear them off the roof. This could possibly damage the roof of the building, an adjacent building, and/or cause us to lose the expensive panels in the sea too
2. Peter installed the wiring incorrectly. It worked because he correctly wired positive to positive and negative to negative to/from the panels and battery and charge controller. But he used the black wire for the positives and the grey-white wire for the negatives. It is industry standard in Vietnam to use the grey or white wires only
for positive. Our wiring is opposite the industry standards. I knew it was wrong and am afraid that if someone disconnects the wires from the battery for any reason, it could be reconnected positive to negative by mistake and damage the equipment. It is likely that no one would think to check the color of the connections originating from the panels on the roof. As a future equipment preserving installation tip, whenever reconnecting the solar panels and battery bank to the charge controller, as a matter of practice, all of the connections should be checked and double-checked before switching the breakers on.
Luckily our equipment is intact. In a meeting in Hong Gai with the leadership of the Floating Village Cooperatives, I explained my concerns and Tuyen translated. I asked that Nam and his father disassemble the system and take the panels down from the roof for safekeeping. We agreed that the redesign and connection be will be done with advice from an electrician or some engineers from the boat company
For now, the 12 laptops are still being charged with the generator power. I believe that the solar power system and components will ultimately work to charge the laptops and bring supplemental power to the VVV community space. I hope that the hands on opportunity to work with solar power will bring skills to the village adults and children that will be useful in many ways, in the future.


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We're going to lose Manningham because somebody is going to pay him.
[/quote]If Manningham leaves, I want JReese throwing bags of money at this f'n d-bag
Im tired of him singlehandedly beating us over and over
You can't be serious Kase?
This is the last guy I would ever want in Giants blue on the planet.
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Former US Women's National Team member Megan Schnur has verbally committed to play with the Colorado Rush Women for the 2014 W-League season!
Schnur, a member of the USWNT and of both the Sky Blue FC and MagicJack of the former WPS league, has recently moved to Colorado where she is assisting with the U13 Colorado Rush girls.
Skyler Menke, a midfielder for the Colorado Rush U13 Azul girls recently had the chance to interview Megan on a multitude of topics.
Quick Facts
Name: Meghan Schnur
Current Professions: Physical Therapist, Colorado Rush Soccer Coach, SoccerProfessional
Age: 29
Height: 5'6
Weight: 135
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
College: University of Connecticut Center-Midfielder/Captain
College Degree: Master's of Science in Physical Therapy
Highest Level Played: U.S. Women's National Team
Professional Teams Played For: Sky Blue FC and MagicJack
Favorite Soccer Athlete: (of all time) Kristine Lilly; Steven Gerrard. (now) Christine Sinclair; Marco Reus
Favorite Professional Soccer Team: Manchester United
Favorite Non-Soccer Athlete: Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Favorite Animal: my dog, Rooney
Favorite Music: too many choices
Favorite Movie: Miracle or Dirty Dancing
What age did you start playing soccer?
Picked up a ball around the age of 5
Did you play any other sports growing up?
I was a member of a swim team early on, but then focused mostly on soccer and track for middle school and high school.
What age did you specialize and start playing soccer only?
I was lucky to have a very supportive track coach during high school that allowed me to make sacrifices for soccer but remain competitive in both sports. It was ultimately my decision when I specialized at the end of my sophomore year. (15 years old)
When did you know that you really wanted to play for the Women's National Team?
I always "wanted" to play for the BEST TEAM in the world, but for the longest time my role models were the boys of Manchester United. It was not until the gold medal success of the USWNT at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games that I realized who the best team in the world was and what it meant to represent your country. That was when it began.
Who are some of the greatest positive influences on your life both on and off the soccerfield?Hmmm. Its so many people. I have been blessed to meet some of the most amazing influences along this journey and each one of them has played their role in developing me as both a soccer player and person. From my youth it would be my family, and not just my immediate family- but the entire Schnur and Hamilton clan. No one has ever cheered more or supported me throughout my successes and hardships than them. Throughout college its was not only teammates but my extended family. From the "tough talks" with my assistant coach Sarah Barnes about anything and everything on and off the field to my head coach Len Tsantiras for putting up with my stubborn naivety and challenging me to excel as not only a top-level futbol player but even more so, a leader.
Who do you consider your best mentor or mentors out of your teammates on the National Team?Best mentor: hands down, Christie Rampone (at right with Megan and the U13 CO Rush Girls). I was lucky enough to build many friendship with my teammates through the years, but to me a true mentor is someone who teaches you without even knowingly doing so. Christie is an exemplary professional with boundless experience and the chance to practice day in and day out with her during my first Sky Blue FC season, proved a defining moment in the growth of me as a player. She was there to help me out learning a brand new position (left back). I had never played defense in my life and now I was facing Marta in one-v-one situations. The moments playing alongside her have been invaluable, and I am grateful for her friendship to this day.
Do you have any siblings and if so what are they doing now?
I have a younger brother, Andrew. And, he has definitely surpassed me on the "cool" spectrum. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2012 and is preparing to receive his wings as a Navy Pilot this May.
What do your parents do for a living?
I come from a family of academics. My mother has been an elementary teacher over the years, both first and third grade. My dad is presently the head administrator at Butler High School. (Andrew, dad, and I were all graduates of Butler High)
What is the best your U. Conn. college team ever finished?
In 2003 (my freshman year) we finished second-best to UNC in the NCAA final game. Following that, my senior year (2007) we lost in overtime to FSU during the NCAA elite-8.
At what point in your career did you have the most pure fun playing soccer?
The entire time. Of course their were good times and tough times throughout my career, but all the while it was the "fun" and "joy" for the game which kept me stepping back on the field. I had the opportunity to play in massive stadiums, in foreign countries, with some of the most talented players the world has to offer, and all the while it was because of a game I learned to love when I was 5—- how else would you define fun?
What do you believe is the biggest key to keeping soccer FUN playing at a very high level?
The key is to remember why you began playing in the first place. You can have self and team expectations, it is nearly impossible to reach the highest level without holding yourself to a higher standard than others might even hold for you. But it's important to keep perspective and remember what "FUN" stood for on that first day. One of the greatest all time said it best, "Somewhere between the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back—- play for her." -Mia Hamm
What have been some of your biggest frustrations during your soccer-playing career?
Falling short. Whether it was the state cup game final I lost as a teenager, the high school state final game we lost to Downington 2-0, the missing out on an NCAA championship, or the feeling that if not for an injury maybe I could have battled for the opportunity to represent my country in that childhood dream of an Olympics; Sometimes I mull over the "almosts" instead of being content with just having gotten the chance, but to me contentment leads to mediocrity- and I never wanted to be mediocre.
Would you have done anything different during your career or life in general if you "knew then what you know now?"
I would have become a forward! They have the life… run now and again, pretend to defend, and score goals for a living. Yep, sounds good to me.
Rumor has it that you are the only member of the National Team to earn your Master's Degree while playing. How in the world did you balance the academic rigors of physical therapy school with the demands of playing soccer at the highest level?
Oddly enough, I did not know any other way. Being in a house of academics, the balance of sport and school was not just a suggestion it was a demand. I always knew that one day soccer would no longer be my identity and that it was important to prepare myself for that next step. Safe to say during the process many a soccer trip (be it Portugal, Sweden, or every month to California) was filled with all day training followed by a late night research paper. I became a regular at the nearby coffee shops on road trips and when back at UCONN it helped that my teammate and best friend was a preMed major. We might as well have had a reserved table in the student-athlete center.
What made you want to become a physical therapist?
In high school I suffered a knee injury that introduced me to my first physical therapist, Ron Klingensmith. He not only dealt with getting me back on the field but continued to follow my career, show up at games, check in on me when I went away to university, and became a mentor as I contemplated pursuing physical therapy.
What do you believe is the best thing a serious young soccer player can do to improve their skills on their own time?
This may sound too simplistic, but find a soccer ball and get creative. Young players do not need extravagantly outlined drills, they simply need a ball and the freedom to play. For me, its about promoting comfort with the ball at your feet (both feet!), using every surface, trying the new move you saw on TV, and play, play, play. As a kid, I used to make games up using trees as defenders or walls as teammates (they make perfect passers, just double check before using mom and dad's garage doors. take my advice).
We know that soccer players and especially female players are highly susceptible to knee ACL injuries. What can they do to help mitigate the risk of a catastrophic knee injury?
Injuries will happen, that is a fact of sport, but if we can do a better job as coaches and healthcare professionals to identify players who may have an increased risk of injury due to weakness, incoordination, or imbalances then just maybe we can reduce the likelihood of seeing them in our therapy clinics.
What are your current hobbies to help fill the void of no longer playing the game of soccer at the highest level?
I am not sure the void will ever be filled completely, but the ability to remain engaged in the game via coaching has helped immensely. I have gotten the chance to help out with an incredibly talented and driven group of young ladies this Spring. The love and excitement they exude for the game and hearing their own aspirations merely reminds me all over again of why "the beautiful game" has been such a pillar in my life. Beyond coaching, I enjoy snowboarding, camping, hiking, and virtually any outdoor adventure. Next hobby to learn- ice hockey.
What are you most grateful about what "The World's Greatest Game" has given to you?
So much of who I have become and the route I have taken to reach this waypoint has been because of my experiences through soccer. It is hard to encapsulate that gratitude into one message. Soccer has provided me with challenges, leadership, triumph, failure, joy, sadness, direction and love - it has been a journey shaped by little moments routed in constant personal growth, for which I am forever indebted.


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Original post made by Looking for the value, Duveneck/St. Francis, on Aug 12, 2012
I understand an increased presence might deter burglaries, but that doesn't seem to be their focus and they are not in locations to spot the fake solicitors who are sizing up our homes.
I know someone is going to say that residents need to stop endangering others and they will not get tickets, but frankly those I see getting pulled over don't look reckless or dangerous.
If there is a problem that needs to be addressed than the police should declare it is a problem and say this is the action that is being taken to address it. Ticketing residents- including an old man on a bike - by hiding and looking for minor infractions will not change behaviors.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 12, 2012 at 11:48 am
The goal is revenue and then justification. From a statistic standpoint it will show up as an increase in traffic tickets which someone will use to suggest the need for an increase in PAPD budget to address a "growing" problem.
Perhaps the city should publish frequency and locations of tickets. This will show patterns of police activity and promote awareness and maybe in safety in the community.
We already list burglaries which increases awareness.
a resident of Downtown North
on Aug 12, 2012 at 11:56 am
Everyone knows where the speeders are: Middlefield, Embarcadero, Arastradero, Alma, El Camino. We really need to beef up traffic enforcement on these streets, especially now that the school year is starting again. There are schools located along most of these streets, with lots of kids in the crosswalks.
a resident of Community Center
on Aug 12, 2012 at 12:41 pm
This thread is not about speeders which you are correct should be controlled especially around schools.
The motorcycle police are not hiding on the streets you listed.
There was another burglary on Walter Hayes -smashed window- last night and police on patrol for criminals and not residents could deter these.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 12, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Due to budget cutbacks there is only one Officer who uses a motor cycle sometimes. Patrol Officers use patrol cars.
Speeders: the roads you quote are subject to the 85th percentile. You must be exceeding the 85th percent of the average speed on that particular street to be considered exceeding the speed limit.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Aug 14, 2012 at 8:56 am
One traffic officer left? Did the council make this known to us and I missed it? Kind of makes the whole post irrelevant, but an interesting fact to know. No more 35 on Alma!
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Aug 25, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Why do PAPD cops use these forums to justify themselves?
Really, one traffic officer left? Sometimes? False statement...
What if the PAPD had to exceed 85% of effectiveness to stop pay cuts. Crime goes up and their pay goes down.
The city needs to be clear that there is no need to increase payroll until PAPD focuses on crime not quotas.


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Thomas Fox Averill, writer-in-residence and professor, English, Washburn University, will deliver the 2013-2014 iRead Lecture, featuring "rode," at 7 p.m. tonight in White Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center.
Only a few tickets remain. Tickets are free and available at Washburn's Mabee Library and the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library. Following the lecture, Averill will be available for a book signing in the lobby, White Concert Hall and "rode" will be available for purchase.
"rode" features Averill's story behind the folk ballad "Tennessee Stud" and has been named Outstanding Western Novel of 2011 as part of the Western Heritage Awards given each year in Oklahoma City, home of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. "rode" also was named a Spur Award Finalist by the Western Writers of America.
Alan Bearman, dean of libraries, said feedback has been positive from students in WU101, the required first year experience course.
"Our students are enamored by the book because they report seeing themselves in the story," he said.
WU101 students are expected to attend tonight's event.
Established in 2007, the Washburn iRead program gives students the opportunity to participate in a common reading experience intended to expand their critical thinking, discussion and reading skills, while also fostering campus involvement and enhancement of the campus community.
All incoming first-year Washburn students are introduced to the book at summer orientation events and are encouraged to read the book over the summer. During the fall 2013 semester, students read this book in disciplines ranging from English to research strategies to WU101.
The iREAD program encourages learning for a lifetime and creates partnerships across campus and in the community. For more information, visit Washburn.edu/iread.


text: I have to give Joe an A. I mean it was dumb luck that Drummond fell (thank God for the stupidity of the Bobcats and Cavs) but Joe STILL had to take him. The two 2nd rounders, AWESOME! Reminds me of when we picked Jonas and Summers, one of these guys will be a solid Piston in our rotation.


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Hi Guys,
The August '04 edition of the American Bee Journal has an interesting article on page 637 entitled "Tools of the Trade" by Gene Kritsky.
He has been writing a series of articles which focus on historical beekeeping. This series of articles has detailed some interesting concepts and equipment that could be useful to a top bar hive beekeeper.
I wonder how effective the 'Swiss engraved wax pressing roller' was? It took me a minute to realize that it creates horizontal foundation. I guess I've worked in the vertical too long :> ) Could beekeepers in the past have solved the comb centering problem?
Looks like I will have to create another little mold for my top bars.


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Internships Ideas (GEND 300)
The choice of the internship site is made by the student in consultation with an adviser. Here are a few options to consider.
Day One, the Sexual Assault and Trauma Resource Center of Rhode Island, deals with issues of sexual assault as a community concern. Its mission is to address the issues of sexual assault and trauma through a comprehensive range of services, including intervention, treatment, education and prevention. Helpline Advocates are volunteers that provide support, information, referrals and safety planning to victims at hospitals and police departments throughout Rhode Island. Helpline Advocates receive over 30 hours of training that provides skills, knowledge, and confidence to enable them to work with victims of all ages. There is particular need for volunteers who are bilingual and able to work with diverse populations. http://www.dayoneri.org
The mission of Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island (DIIRI) is to empower individuals and families, especially the underserved, immigrants, and refugees, to become self-sufficient and fully participating members of the diverse community through innovative programs and advocacy that promote education, training, and cultural understanding. Interns play a critical role providing the individual attention the program participants require to succeed. They work as tutors, class room aides, immigration and citizenship interns, and refugee mentors. http://www.diiri.org
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Learning for Life (L4L) Navigators are a team of peer mentors and advocates who join with the students served through L4L, called L4L Scholars, to assist them to successful college completion. The Navigator position at L4L is a great junior or senior year internship placement for students across many majors. Students studying Social Work, Education, Youth Development, Gender and Women's Studies, or other human service related fields might benefit from serving as an L4L Navigator. Navigators will have a week-long orientation to the position, giving them all the necessary information and skills on how to be successful in this role. Navigators will learn how to help other students "navigate" campus, link to needed resources, and overcome obstacles to their success at RIC. This internship will teach students many different skills that can be transferrable to many careers and future endeavors, such as professional ethics, confidentiality and informed consent, interpersonal communication, record-keeping, team-building, and meeting planning and facilitation.
Navigators are given a tuition stipend for working 10 hours a week each semester. Additionally, Navigators have weekly supervision with an L4L staff member, bi-weekly group support, and monthly staff meetings.
Elements of the L4L model, including the Navigators, are supported by the work of Mechur Karp (2011). She conducted a meta-analysis of 128 sources to develop practical ways by which to employ prevailing models, including Tinto's. She found the essential elements of non-academic support to ally with academic bolsters: (1) improving college know-how; (2) making attending college feasible; (3) connecting students to campus and social networks; and (4) clarifying future goals. O'Keefe (2013) found that "access points on campus…where the student is able to seek help" are critical for first generation students. Similarly, Brittenham, et al. (2003) documented the value of peer mentors in developmental education. https://www.ric.edu/learningforlife/
Literacy Volunteers of East Bay provides free, individualized student-centered instruction in basic literacy and English language skills here in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts. LVEB has many opportunities for people to become tutors and volunteers. LVEB provides professional training for tutors on techniques for both spoken English and assists tutors with materials and ongoing support to help students succeed. http://www.lveastbay.org/index.html
The Office of Women's Health (OWH) in the Rhode Island Department of Health works to eliminate health status disparities for Rhode Island women. This is achieved by promoting a gender-informed, coordinated, comprehensive, prevention focused approach to women's health across the lifespan. The OWH helps to coordinate internal and external efforts to use policy change to improve the health of women, increase public awareness of issues impacting the health of women, and to promote healthy behaviors and environments in partnership with other programs and organizations. http://www.health.ri.gov/programs/womenshealth/
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island affords high quality and confidential family planning services, as well as reproductive health care and counseling and education to women and men of all ages. Planned Parenthood of Southern New England is looking for college students with an interest and passion to advocate for reproductive justice and access to reproductive health care through its Campus Action Internship program. Campus Action is the college internship program of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England that trains students from colleges across Rhode Island and Connecticut how to be effective advocates for reproductive justice on their campuses. Interns attend monthly trainings or activities at PPSNE where they will learn about reproductive justice and other social justice issues and how to advocate and organize around those issues. Interns are then responsible for planning and organizing events or activities to advocate for and educate students about reproductive justice. A Community Organizer who both supervises and supports their advocacy and organizing efforts. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppsne/internships-20102.htm
Project Weber/RENEW
Project Weber/RENEW provides a full range of harm reduction, recovery, and basic needs services to men and women, including the transgender community. The organization is engaged in street outreach and assists with substance abuse counseling, housing and healthcare referrals, food and shelter needs and community resources. http://weberrenew.org/
Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence (RICADV) is dedicated to ending domestic violence. It supports and enhances the work of its six member agencies, and provides leadership on the issue of domestic violence. RICADV also strives to create justice for victims, and create awareness on the issue of domestic violence in RI. Internships are in communications and policy or alongside staff on initiatives and programs designed to raise awareness on the issue of domestic violence. http://www.ricadv.org
The mission of the Rhode Island Commission on Women is to advance women toward full equity. A non-partisan state agency, it works to promote rights and opportunities for all women across all arenas, including - but not limited to - education, health, economic development, employment, legal rights, political participation and the quality of individual and family life. Interns work on research and development of reports and working papers, provide support for the work of committees, and help to coordinate and implement many projects. http://www.ricw.ri.gov/about/index.php
Rhode Island Regional Adult Learning (RIRAL) Our mission is to assist adults in the process of reaching their academic, occupational, or personal goals through education, counseling, and training. RIRAL is always looking for interns interested in assisting students who are working hard to improve their circumstances with reading, writing, speaking, computer, and math skills. http://www.riral.org/about.asp
RI Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor, community, faith-based, and student groups taking concrete action to build power for poor and working class people. The organization works to re-establish justice in the workplace, while promoting social, racial, and economic justice. Jobs with Justice caters internships to the interests of students and works to identify skills that students want to develop like public speaking, grassroots communication and social media, meeting facilitation, fundraising, cyber activism, community service and more. www.rijwj.net
RI NOW seeks interns to assist us in work throughout the year. From January to May/June, interns focus on researching policy issues, tracking legislation, drafting testimony, and assisting RI NOW in engaging citizens in the legislative process. During the summer and fall, interns assist the organization with its education and outreach efforts. And, in election years, interns have the opportunity to support the electoral work of the RI NOW PAC.
Ideal candidates have an interest in women's and civil rights issues (though prior experience is not necessary), and a willingness to learn about how they can make a difference through education, outreach and policy. They must be well-organized, detail-oriented, a quick study, and able to work independently as well as collaboratively. Excellent writing and editing skills desired, and access to a personal computer is essential. http://www.rinow.org/get-involved/intern-with-ri-now
Sojourner House is an advocacy and resource center for victims of domestic violence in Rhode Island. It recognizes that a "vision of one day living in a world with the fear and threat of domestic/intimate partner violence cannot exist without the support and dedication of a strong volunteer base." Internship opportunities include direct support to clients, organization development projects, and assisting staff in the many agency programs. http://www.sojourner-house.org
Women's Fund of Rhode Island invests in women and girls through research, advocacy and strategic partnerships designed to eliminate gender inequity in our state. The organization envisions a community, nation and world that is free of gender bias and where social justice exists for all. Through internships and volunteer opportunities available year-round, we place students based on the skills they would like to develop, such as policy advocacy, research, communications, and fund development. http://www.wfri.org/
The Women's Center of Rhode Island is dedicated to ending interpersonal violence. It seeks to empower thorough culturally competent programs that provide safety, shelter and court advocacy to victims of domestic violence. It works collaboratively to prevent the occurrence of violence and to educate the community about the dynamics of violence. The Center provides a comprehensive range of services that include residential, transitional and community based programs that provide opportunities for personal transformation. Internship activities include work on the hotline, with children's enrichment programs, community education, men's initiative and outreach. http://www.womenscenterri.org/index.htm
WE LEARN promotes women's literacy as a tool for personal growth and social change through networking, education, action, and resource development. The organization understands, defines, and takes action to create meaningful responses and proactive programming to address access and equity for women's literacy and basic education. It addresses the learning differences and needs important to women's success in literacy services and understands how the gender-specific stresses on women's lives affect their success and ability to progress socially, economically, and politically. http://welearnwomen.org/
The mission of Youth Pride (YPI) is to meet the social, emotional and educational needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and their allies through empowering programs of support, education, organizing and advocacy, while working to change the homophobic, biphobic and transphobic environments in which they live. Internships at Youth Pride vary greatly depending on each student's interests/field of study and the needs of the organization. Interns have been engaged in planning and presenting workshops on a variety of topics (healthy relationships, yoga, LGBT history and gender stereotypes), greeting and socializing with youth in our drop-in center, administrative support, and planning and implementing special events. http://www.youthpride-ri.org/


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i said it was foolish for him to say it out loud because this regime does not tolerate insubordination.
growling at the master does not get you out of the doghouse.
who do you think TC will side with...Ingram or Wilson.
fair or right doesn't mean anything....this is not a democracy.
Isn't it Ingram job to teach? It the 10 week of the NFL so maybe saying this isn't the best idea. This stuff drives me nuts with TC making examples. The giants need a jolt and Wilson can be a weapon. The line doesn't make gaping holes need to hit it fast. Speed will help! To those that wondered why Wilson was picked in 1 st round it valid as he Probally wouldn't get a chance. His talent did warrant a low first high second draft pick. I believe it was something like 778 yards after contact with 4.45 speed and 205. He is tough kid and liked contact. Redone offense is a joke and something needs to happen. Is it Wilson might not but need something. It the same thing every year. Granted results have been great but why does it happen time and time again.
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Excerpt: "New York Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin will be 67 years old by the time next season comes around. Coughlin is a two-time Super Bowl champion, and even if he gave up coaching right now, he would still go down as one of the best head coaches in franchise history. For the last several seasons, Coughlin has avoided directly answering questions regarding his eventual retirement, which has fueled speculation as to when that day may finally arrive.
Although cornerback Terrell Thomas recently stated that he believes 2013 will be Coughlin's swan song, Giants President and CEO John Mara disagrees.
"No, I haven't had that discussion with him yet," said Mara. "I don't see him going to Florida to play shuffleboard any time soon. I think he's still got a lot of fire left in him and he's still a great coach. Hopefully he's going to be around for many more years."
It's hard to envision Coughlin walking away from football with a sour taste in his mouth. As a man who has achieved so much during his career, it stands to reason that he will decide leave the game on a high note. Coughlin has earned the right to tell the team when his time is up, but it's still very unclear as to when that may occur." Read more...