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The heavens opened up on Saturday night as Northern California, including Willits received the brunt of the three storm systems that pounded the area between November 28 and December 2. Together the three storms dropped nearly a foot of rain on the Willits area causing localized flooding, downed power lines, road closures and even a bridge washout.
The most significant flooding in Willits occurred early Sunday morning as the creeks crisscrossing the city overflowed their banks after about five inches of rain fell overnight. Willits police and Little Lake firefighters were out in the storm monitoring the rising creek waters in the city. When it became clear at around 5 a.m. the floods were threatening two homes on Madden Lane, police contacted the residents and advised them to evacuate. Members of the First Baptist Church opened their doors to the evacuated families.
At 5:45 a.m. firefighters became concerned about a 98 year-old resident on Walnut Street and Poplar Avenue. The home had about six inches of water inside it when firefighters entered. The resident was sound asleep when they arrived. Within an hour or so, the water had receded in the area and firefighters helped the resident by using their portable water removal equipment to vacuum up the water still pooled inside the home.
Flooding in the city limits occurred at all the usual sites, according to seasoned observers. The normal city areas along East Commercial Street, Lenore Avenue, East Valley Street, Madden Lane, Railroad Avenue, Alder Street, Elm Street, Manor Way, Central Street, and South Main Street at Franklin Avenue were flooded leaving some motorists stranded. Of particular concern to police were the traffic and personnel hazards created by popped manhole covers hidden under the rising waters. Police were thankful the traffic volume in the area was minimal due to the early morning hours. By 8 a.m. water levels throughout the city had subsided.
While the Willits Elementary Charter School learned the consequences of building in a floodway and flood plain, the buildings were built on concrete blocks designed to keep the buildings above a 100 year flood. Water never rose high enough to enter the classrooms and school was open as usual on Monday. The play area suffered some damage but volunteers were already working to restore it to pre-flood conditions.
Willits new sewer plant kept up with the monsoon as designed, according to Willits City Manager Paul Cayler. The influx of muddy water entering the city reservoirs was a significant challenge to the city's water processing plant. Plant operators are struggling with plant operations due to the poor quality of the water coming in but have so far been able to supply potable water to its customers.
Throughout the county flooding was reported in many locations, the most significant road closures were to Russian River crossings in Ukiah and Hopland. Highway 162 was closed Sunday night due to downed trees, slides, rocks and other debris.
A bridge on Hearst Willits Road south of Reynolds Highway collapsed Saturday and Mendocino County Department of Transportation crews installed a temporary bridge in 12 hours.
MDOT and CalTrans maintenance crews were on emergency schedules throughout the region, cleaning out culverts and keeping up with falling trees and other debris. Work crews for both agencies will be conducting follow up maintenance throughout the region.


text: My gameday ritual from just a couple years ago varied markedly from what it is now. I have come to expect to lose every week and it is reflected in my gameday activites. Then: -up at 6 (and mad that the game was so far away -figure out the menu that I was making for the day and go to the store -I'd turn on the pregame show as soon as it came on (usually espn blah) -make my food during the pregame and early part of the early game -I'd watch multiple early games scouting out next few oppontnets -then I'd have all my food ready to eat during the boys game. Now: -I don't pay attention to any of the other teams or league news (just what I read on here) -I don't make any food for the gems any more, usually just some chips or something. This was one of my most favorite parts of game day but I just got sick of going throug all the effort only to be rewarded with a loss -its like because i know we don't have a chance this season i just dont put in the effort. Tune in to watch us and thats it. Sundays used to be football day but not anymore. Anyone else go through a change like this on your gameday prep?

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Government Affairs
The office of Government Affairs and Student Completion works to foster healthy relationships with the community and all levels of government. The office serves as the primary liaison between the college community and governments on all levels, connecting governments to the many services offered by the Lone Star College System and issues critical to Lone Star's strategic goals.
In addition, the office identifies leadership and scholarship opportunities for the Lone Star College students, faculty, staff and alumnae. It also facilitates policy discussion, debate, and action across the College and in partnership with the broader community.
Lone Star College Foundation
The Lone Star College Foundation's mission is to change lives through student scholarships and quality educational programs achieved by excellence in relationship building, fundraising, and investment management.
Established as a 501(c)(3) Type I corporation, the LSC Foundation secures and manages unrestricted and restricted assets to support and enrich the academic and scholarship programs of LSCS.
Resource Development and Administration
The Resource Development and Administration (RDA) Office is here to assist in grant development and management of awarded grants.
Our goal is to identify funding opportunities and develop resources to support programs through external funding.


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BepiColombo in a nutshell
A mission to Mercury
Name BepiColombo is named after Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984), a scientist who studied Mercury's orbital motion in detail as well as orbits and interplanetary travel in general.
Description Consisting of two orbiting spacecraft, BepiColombo will provide the most complete exploration yet of Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will map the planet, while the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will investigate its magnetosphere.
Launch Launch is scheduled for 2018.
Status Being built and tested.
Journey Both orbiters will be launched together on a single Ariane 5 rocket from ESA's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. To guide its journey, BepiColombo will exploit the gravity of Venus and Mercury in combination with solar-electric propulsion (SEP).
During the voyage to Mercury the two orbiters and the transfer module, consisting of electric propulsion and traditional chemical rocket units, will form one single composite spacecraft. Arrival at Mercury will be in late 2025.
Notes Most of ESA's previous interplanetary missions have been to relatively cold parts of the Solar System. BepiColombo will be the Agency's first experience of sending a planetary probe close to the Sun.
The journey from Earth to Mercury is also special because the spacecraft must brake against the Sun's gravity, which increases with proximity to the Sun. This requires a lot of energy. Most other missions must accelerate away from the Sun, as it is the case with journeys to the outer Solar System.
When approaching Mercury, the side of BepiColombo facing the Sun will have to withstand temperatures higher than 300°C, while that facing away from the Sun will experience contrasting temperatures below –200°C.
The day side of Mercury is very hot while the night side is extremely cold. BepiColombo will attempt to find out if there is water ice in permanently shadowed areas of craters in the polar regions.
BepiColombo is ESA's first mission conducted in co-operation with Japan.
Last update: 5 December 2016
- BepiColombo overview
- Cassini-Huygens factsheet
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Netflix Cracks U.S. Cable Market Signing Small ProvidersCliff Edwards
Netflix Inc. signed deals with three U.S. pay-TV operators, putting the video-streaming service on an equal footing with traditional cable networks like HBO for the first time in the domestic market.
The three small operators, RCN Telecom Services LLC, Atlantic Broadband and Grande Communications LLC, will offer Netflix on living-room TVs through set-top boxes made by TiVo Inc., according to statements from the companies yesterday.
While the three total fewer than 1 million customers, the deals mark a big step in efforts by Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings to simplify access to his service. With TiVo, consumers will be able to sign up for Netflix and search for shows without toggling between inputs on their TVs. Los Gatos, California-based Netflix has similar deals in Europe.
"What we're doing is really a watershed moment for the industry," said David Isenberg, Atlantic Broadband's chief marketing and strategy officer. "This partnership with Netflix really signals the beginning of the broadband TV era."
Financial terms weren't disclosed. In the past, Netflix has agreed to pay set-top box makers and others certain fees when subscribers sign up through their equipment.
Netflix has discussed partnerships with Comcast Corp., the biggest cable company, and other providers that don't offer TiVo boxes to their customers. Hastings said this week those talks are continuing.
New Boxes
San Jose, California-based TiVo began shipping new set-top boxes in recent months with faster processors that let users load the Netflix service more quickly. Atlantic Broadband, owned by Montreal-based Cogeco Cable Inc., was the first U.S. provider to deploy the most advanced box, called Roamio.
"Our view has long been that the marriage of linear television and streaming over-the-top TV is the future of television, and Netflix has clearly emerged as a must-have over-the-top service," TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers said in an e-mailed statement.
Sweden's Com Hem and Virgin Media, a U.K.-based unit of Liberty Media, began offering Netflix last year as part of their rollout of TiVo set-top boxes in Europe. Under those deals, people still would have to sign up for the streaming service, and Netflix would control its own billing.
Cable companies are beginning to embrace Netflix as an adjunct to their live TV and on-demand services. The subscription service's library of past seasons of television shows complements cable's lineup, Isenberg said.
Expanded Rights
Until recently, Netflix couldn't offer its service through cable set-top box providers because it hadn't obtained rights from content owners. The three cable providers say that, with those now secure, they will promote Netflix by adding a dedicated channel on their program guides to access the service.
"This is all part of continuing to improve and enrich our customers' viewing experience," said Jim Holanda, CEO at RCN and Grande Communications.
Customers of Atlantic Broadband, Grande or RCN who want Netflix under the new arrangement will pay separately for the service, in addition to their usual cable package.
The companies provide TV services in the eastern U.S., Chicago and Texas.
Netflix fell 6.4 percent to $322.08 at the close in New York and has declined 13 percent this year.


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Andrews, Max. "Robert Smithson." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
Part postmodern cynic, part Beat wanderer, Robert Smithson attempted to comprehend the world in geological time, as a system verging on dissolution, dereliction, and decay and over which man seeks sovereignty in vain. Through his engagement with maps and minerals, prehistory and archaeology, and culminating in his most iconic work, Spiral Jetty (1970), in the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Smithson's art unfolds like the fascinated narrative of a shamanic journey. Coming to prominence in the mid-1960s, the artist produced a uniquely influential body of work and writings that elucidate an art strategy straddling both Conceptual and environmental, Minimalist and activist concerns while becoming increasingly hostile to curators and museums' "cultural confinement" of his art.1 Smithson was killed in a plane crash while surveying the site for his posthumously completed Amarillo Ramp in 1973; yet he still looms over the field of contemporary art with a charismatic presence.
A major piece by the artist in the Walker Art Center's collection, Leaning Strata (1968), dates from an early phase in his mature work when he was still producing what has often been characterized as self-contained geometric sculptures.2 As evidenced by correspondence and works on paper in the collection, Smithson's inclusion in the Walker exhibition 6 artists 6 exhibitions came at a pivotal point in the development of his practice, as he was departing from Minimalist-looking series toward "indoor earthworks" that included actual rocks and minerals.
Two months before the Walker show, Smithson had held his second solo exhibition at the Dwan Gallery in New York, showing a series of affiliated sculptures, including Leaning Strata, executed in white metal, fiberglass, or plastic.3 Oriented around invisible points in space, each is made up of compound geometric wedges that are stacked into structures resembling immaculate fun-house staircases or crystalline geological formations. Leaning Strata was planned out in a series of working drawings that conflate two schematic systems of spatial representation—a cartographic projection and a perspectival grid. Smithson mentioned Leaning Strata in a letter to then–Walker Director Martin Friedman on May 30, 1968: "I plan to travel throughout the west this summer looking for sites with interesting rock and mineral deposits, such as volcanic cinders, fragments from lava flows, obsidian (black volcanic glass), broken granite, different types of sandstone, fossil agglomerates, shale, limestone, all kinds of pulverized rock. This geologic or anti-geologic sense has always been in my work to a certain degree. From the 'Tar pit and gravel' model of 1966 [Tar Pool and Gravel Pit, 1966] to the stratigraphic Leaning Strata. Geologic time has a way of diminishing 'art history' to a mere trace."4
Though Leaning Strata was not included in 6 artists 6 exhibitions, works on paper in the collection reveal that Smithson had considered a number of different options for the installation. In what would have been an elaboration on Pointless Vanishing Point (1968), he had contemplated the fabrication of a series of sequentially smaller three-dimensional works painted in progressively lighter shades of "an evanescent greenish-blue." However, on a picture-postcard of the moon from the Hayden Planetarium, New York City, he wrote that he had "decided to make only the largest unit of the 5 units (the 8-foot one), and it will be white."5
Smithson did create his second "non-site," Non-Site #2, for the Walker presentation, though this piece was later destroyed at the artist's suggestion.6 As in related work, a dialogue was activated between an outdoor location many miles away (the Site, on this occasion an area close to the Lincoln Tunnel exit near Weehawken, New Jersey) and an "artificial topographical structure" in a gallery (the Non-Site).7 Smithson drew on top of a map of the area, dividing it into twelve pie-slice segments that themselves corresponded to a flattened-out projection of the Earth's hemisphere. This companion map (Entropic Pole, 1967) was reflected in the three-dimensional iteration: nine feet in diameter, Non-Site #2 was specially fabricated by Walker staff and took the form of twelve analogous white wedges with mirror strips that indicated lines of longitude.
Robert Smithson, "Cultural Confinement" (1972), in Jack Flam, ed., Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), 154–156. ↩
Smithson would, however, retroactively dispute that works from this period were self-contained, commenting of a related work, Gyrostasis (1968), "GYROSTAsIS is relational, and should not be considered as an isolated object." Robert Smithson, "Gyrostasis" (1970), in Flam, Collected Writings, 136. ↩
The Walker's 6 artists 6 exhibitions included one piece from the March 1968 Dwan Gallery show, Pointless Vanishing Point (1968), as well as Vortex (1967), Alogon #2 (1966), Mirage #1 (1967), and Non-Site #2 (1968). The other artists in the show were Larry Bell, Chryssa, Will Insley, Robert Irwin, and Robert Whitman. See 6 artists 6 exhibitions, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1968). The main space at the Dwan Gallery show included Leaning Strata, Shift, Sinistral Spiral, Gyrostasis, and Pointless Vanishing Point. See Ann Reynolds, Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003), 125–127. ↩
Letter from Robert Smithson to Martin Friedman, May 30, 1968 (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Postcard from Robert Smithson to Martin Friedman, n.d., postmarked February 1968 (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Robert Hobbs speculates that "probably the reason he had this piece destroyed is that it appeared too decorative and abstract and was not a totally satisfactory mirroring of the site." Robert Hobbs, Robert Smithson: Sculpture, exh. cat. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1981), 104. However, in subsequent correspondence with Martin Friedman, Smithson only mentions that Non-Site #2 could be destroyed, as he agreed it was not needed for the tour of 6 artists 6 exhibitions to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in September 1968. Letter from Martin Friedman to Robert Smithson, May 24, 1968; letter from Robert Smithson to Martin Friedman, May 30, 1968 (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Letter from Robert Smithson to Martin Friedman, May 30, 1968 (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Andrews, Max. "Robert Smithson." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Perhaps not everyone north of the border is altogether enamoured with the return of hockey. Some Canadian fans will surely refuse to forgive the league and the players for the absurd, avaricious four-month disruption to their puck fix. But I suppose we rejoice. Hockey's back. With a brand-new season. Sweet -- and short.
In an irony as ripe as weird Uncle Willard's bedside denture jar and nuttier than old Auntie Jean's inedible fruitcake, there are whispers that the National Hockey League and its players union are inching toward an agreement to truncate their age-old lockout, and allow a new season to finally begin... right around the time the world is scheduled to end.


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How can I get a copy of my transcript or other academic records?
Students and Alumni must request records in writing including their signature authorizing the release of academic information. The CHS campus does not currently support electronic request; any requests utilizing the electronic request system will be sent to the Stillwater campus and will be delayed or possibly not fulfilled. Requestors may fax or scan in and e-mail records requests. E-mail requests MUST include a written signature either scanned in as an attachment or done on a tablet computer. A records request form can be found on the Registrar Records website.
How long does it take to get my records?
Records requests are generally fulfilled within one to two business days. Requests requiring retrieval of records from storage (ie, copies of diplomas for Alumni of the College) take two to three business days. If there is a Bursar or other hold on the account, the request will not be fulfilled until the hold has been removed, so it is important to include up-to-date contact information on any records request.
How can I get my class rank?
MS III and MS IV students may request their rank at any time. Because third and fourth year students receive grades on a monthly, rather than semester, basis, a new rank is rolled approximately every 6 to 8 weeks. MS I and II students may request rank only during "official rank" periods, which are announced via e-mail by the Registrar's office. Official rank is available during a three week period at the end of each semester of MS I and MS II years.
Please note that spring rank is usually not available until August due to students remediating courses over the summer. The exception to this policy is if rank is needed for scholarship or other official purposes. In these cases, the Registrar's office will be happy to mail a rank letter directly to an institution.
How is my class rank calculated?
Unlike your GPA, class rank is based on the percentage grade received in each class. A 6 hour class will be weighted higher than a 2 hour course. If two students have a 3.0 GPA, one may have an actual percentage average of 80, while the other could have an 89. The difference will be reflected in the class ranking.
Students who do not have to take previously completed coursework during their MS I year or who have had previous exposure to the materials because they are repeating the year are considered "Five Year Students." All other students are considered "Four Year Students" for purposes of class rank. If there are 115 students in the class, Five Year Students receive a class ranking including all 115 students in the class. The rank is then re-calculated excluding all students in this population, and the rank that the Four Year Students receive is calculated excluding any Five Year Students.
For example, if there are 95 Four Year Students, their rank would be calculated out of 95 students rather than the full class of 115. If students have not taken a particular course with the rest of the class, then the percentage grade used to calculate class rank will be input using the score they received while completing the course as a Bridge or M.S. student.
I'd like to take the USMLE. What do I do?
Students are responsible for registering for the USMLE. Visit nbme.org for more information. There is a paper form which you will print out, complete, and bring to the Registrar's office for completion. Please note that you cannot access the form until you have set up your account and paid for the exam. A passport-sized photo must be affixed to your form in order for us to sign it. Forms without a photo attached will not be signed.
Once you have submitted the completed form, NBME will contact the school and request an electronic verification of your enrollment. If this is not completed on your behalf, please call or e-mail the Registrar's office and someone will log in and complete this process for you. Please note that the USMLE is an elective test and Student Affairs does not receive copies of your scores. If you need scores sent to an elective rotation site or residency program, please be sure that you furnish a copy of them.
How do I register for the COMLEX exams?
Approval for COMLEX is processed automatically by the Registrar's Office prior to each level of the exam. If you are having problems scheduling your exam or you are not approved to take it, please contact the Registrar's office for help. Level 3 approval generally is processed within the first month after graduation.
How do I enroll at OSU-CHS?
Medical students are automatically enrolled at each step of their education. Graduate student enrollment and most services are handled through the Graduate College on main campus. Graduate students have the ability to self-enroll online in most cases. Prospective or current graduate students should contact Patrick Anderson or Bavette Miller.
I'm having trouble with my D2L access. Does Student Affairs handle that?
Once the Registrar's Office has enrolled you in a course, D2L access should happen automatically. If you log into your O-Key account and confirm that you are enrolled in a class, then any problems you are having will need to be directed to the D2L Administrator at 918-561-8473. If your name is showing up incorrectly, you may need to submit a copy of your social security card to Student Affairs. Please see Amanda Sumner for assistance.
How do I change my name?
Students who need to process a name change should turn in the relevant paperwork to the Registrar's Office. Photocopies will be made of all sealed official documents and returned to the student. Please include a written statement telling us exactly how you want your name to appear in your records (ie, middle initial, full middle name included, maiden name hyphenated with married name, etc). Marriage Licenses, Driver's Licenses, Divorce Decrees and Social Security cards are all acceptable name change documentation.
If you have ever done work study, received a stipend or received other money from OSU, you may need to submit a copy of your new social security card so that your name can be changed in the Human Resources system before your I.D. badge and D2L accounts will be updated. Please contact the Registrar's Office to complete the appropriate form. Students can change their email address via the student self-service system; students with questions should contact the Tulsa Helpdesk.
I'm eligible for Veteran's Benefits – what do I do?
Please see the V.A. section of the Registrar's website.
I'm classified as an out of state resident. I'd like to change to in-state. How can I do that?
Students seeking in-state residency should complete a petition for in-state residency. To download the petition and form more information about what constitutes an in-state resident, please see the OSU-CHS Registrar Oklahoma Residency website.
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Department of English
Believing that active, engaged learning enriches a love of reading and writing, Wittenberg's Department of English fosters strong readers and writers who consistently push themselves to pursue truth and seek meaning with integrity, compassion and creativity through critical and creative thinking, analysis, research, and intensive writing opportunities.
Students whose interests vary from literature to creative writing or journalism and publishing find the flexibility to choose courses, internships and study abroad programs that match their personal interests and academic and professional goals.
Through close interaction with faculty and numerous engagement opportunities including the Journalism Institute; the student-run newspaper, The Torch; campus journals such as Spectrum and the Wittenberg Review of Literature and Art; The List; and the Student Advisory Group to the English Department, students studying English develop essential literacy, analysis, and communication skills for any career.
Students in the department graduate prepared for pre-professional programs such as the Denver Publishing Institute and have gone on to careers in public relations, teaching, journalism, business and finance as well as writing—from screenwriting and fashion writing to editing and publishing works of various genres.
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Software: On-demand WMS gives 3PL visibility
GMI Distribution implements a robust, on-demand warehouse management system to track inventory and provide its 3PL customers with 24/7 visibility into inventory and transactions.
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If you think keeping a retail customer happy is a big job, try keeping the retailer happy.
GMI Distribution, a third-party logistics provider (3PL) based in New Jersey, has been doing just that since 1978 and knows firsthand how demanding they can be.
So when its retail customers started demanding more visibility into inventory and transactions, GMI began shopping for a more robust warehouse management system (WMS). Customers wanted the ability to connect directly to the system to exchange sales orders and shipment data. Internally, GMI wanted a more flexible system of tracking inventory items, date codes and warehouse locations as well as a more precise system to track lot, batch and date codes on products.
GMI put together a wish list for the new WMS solution that included an on-demand solution that could be up and running quickly with little capital expense. GMI also wanted the system to be easy for staff to learn, for new clients to be set up simply, and for existing customers to easily use the system.
After shopping around, GMI chose an on-demand, SaaS-based WMS (RedPrairie, redprairie.com) that integrates inventory and warehouse management processes through one centralized system. The solution also automates manually based processes from purchasing to shipping, with complete visibility for trading partners.
All of GMI's customers ship directly to retailers and individual consumers, so the system offers complex services like complete electronic data interchange (EDI) capabilities serving every retail trading partner in North America and direct delivery for Internet and catalog customers.
In addition to enhanced real-time inventory accuracy, the system provides 24/7 access from anywhere in the world.
"Results were immediate," says GMI president Keith Gordon. "Right away we were able to provide inventory visibility to clients, including complete date and lot code tracking. Deploying the system was not difficult at all, and end user training was simple. This on-demand solution has really given us a competitive edge in the market."
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RE: st: Loess confidence bands
"Nick Cox" <email@example.com>
RE: st: Loess confidence bands
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Under that heading also come, already canned,
stuff like -running-, -mrunning- and -mvrs-.
Use -search- for locations. The last two
support multiple predictors.
Stas Kolenikov
> If you are not terribly committed to -lowess- per se, but want to get
> a non-parametric smooth curve with nice confidence bands, you could
> look into spline regression. The idea is that you create splines that
> look like local bumps, pretty much like a kernel, and you run a
> -regress-ion on those bumps. As is always the case with -regress-, you
> can then -predict- the point esimates and standard errors, and plot
> them however you like.
> This is quick and dirty, and it uses my version of B-splines routine
> -- there is a more official one by Roger Newson; mine is available off
> my webpage.
> sysuse auto
> bspl weight, knots(7) out prefix(_B)
> regress price weight _B*
> predict yfit , xb
> predict sefit, stdp
> gen y_hi = yfit + 1.96*sefit
> gen y_lo = yfit - 1.96*sefit
> twoway rarea y_lo y_hi weight, sort || line yfit weight, sort ||
> scatter price weight
> No need to bootstap, fast and handy :)). You can improve the look
> somewhat by taking a grid of points rather than available points.
> On 3/7/07, Paswel Phiri Marenya <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> > Dear all:
> > How do I get confidence bands around my loess graphs? i.e
> >
> > loess y x (what else do I need to do to show confidence
> band on the plot?)
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RINDGE, NH -- Franklin Pierce University students will be among the literally thousands of news media covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co., from August 25-28 and the Republican National Convention from September 1-4 in Minneapolis, Minn.. The University's Fitzwater Center for Communication received credentialing as a media organization recently.
Dr. Kristen Nevious, director of the Center, will accompany the students to both conventions. Paul Bush, assistant professor of mass communications, will join the group in Denver.
The Fitzwater Center started the credentialing process in February, after the Franklin Pierce students' success in covering the New Hampshire primaries, Nevious explains. It included filling out numerous forms, passing security clearances and submitting samples of the students' work.
"This seemed like a natural extension of our success in covering New Hampshire's First- in-the-Nation presidential primaries," Nevious says.
Franklin Pierce students were heavily involved in covering the events leading up the Presidential Primary on January 8. They participated in political polling and captured hundreds of hours of video and audio coverage of candidates as they followed them around the state. On the day of the Primary, they created a news headquarters in Manchester. They had already obtained press credentials and fanned into the streets, talking to candidates and citizens alike, and covered the winners' and losers' speeches to their supporters. Their work paid off with several news media using their reports including New Hampshire Public Television; WMUR-TV, New Hampshire's ABC affiliate; and YouTube.
"It was a spine-tingling moment," Nevious says, "when we clicked onto our WMUR/YouTube coverage and realized that students of Franklin Pierce University, in rural Rindge, New Hampshire, were being heard and seen around the world."
Franklin Pierce students who were instrumental in organizing the 2008 Primary coverage will take the lead for the national conventions. Some will remain on campus and coordinate the coverage the students send from the conventions while a team of about six students will go to each convention.
The reports from the students will be broadcast on Franklin Pierce's television station, will be available at www.piercemediagrouponline.com and will be made available to other media outlets. New Hampshire Public Radio has already agreed to use reports from the students and New Hampshire Public Television will do a show on the students' experiences following the conventions.
"The Fitzwater Center is dedicated to fostering the robust debate that is essential to a healthy democracy," Nevious says. "It is arguable that no debate is more important to our country than that which surrounds the election of a president. We are excited and proud that Franklin Pierce students will have the opportunity to play a vital role in reporting on that debate."


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What do you want for Christmas ?
"What do you want for Christmas ?"
my young freind (who is almost 7 years old I think ) was asked by her Grandmother
with very little thought this young person guickly said ....
' I'd like the biggest ever pile of lasagnes !'
and went on to add ...
that the lasagnes in boxes could be put into a pile and wrapped up then put under the tree !!
sometimes its so funny what children really like and want
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Re: What do you want for Christmas ?
too cute.
I want a deep red cherry rug for my new living room, hubby fell in love with it recently and said that it will be our christams present to us
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--Vote for your top 10. Pitchers not eligible. Votes will be counted MVP style; 12, 9,8,7,etc. Poll will last til a week from today.
--Vote for your top 10. Pitchers not eligible. Votes will be counted MVP style; 12, 9,8,7,etc. Poll will last til a week from today.
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1) Joe Morgan, 2B: 3 time MVP, outstanding most the decade and starter throughout. Key player on great teams for the Legends and Knights.
2) Johnny Bench, C: 2 time MVP and easily the best catcher in CKL history. 12 years and counting as leader of the Gold Sox.
3) Reggie Jackson, RF: never won the MVP, but finished 2nd twice and 4th another time. Led the decade in Runs Created while playing generally good defense, including an All Star season in CF.
4) Willie Stargell, DH: 2 time MVP and consistently amoung the top hitter in the league.
5) Fred Lynn, CF: only played half the decade but put up rates to match anyone, while playing a VG CF. Fueled the Corsairs rise to relevence.
6) Rod Carew, 2B/1B: mainstay of some great Skipjacks ballclubs
7) Ted Simmons, C: steady performer and workhorse behind the dish all decade
8) Ken Singleton, OF/DH: one of the league's top hitter most of the decade
9) Reggie Smith, RF/CF: missed too much time to be higher
10) Pete Rose, Of/3B: seldom amoung the very best, but solid year afer year
1. Johnny Bench - Not quite as impressive a resume as Morgan, but played a much tougher position. Also displayed great defense throughout the decade, whereas Morgan was a bit shaky three years or so. Probably a coin flip between the two, actually, but I go with Bench because of position importance.
2. Joe Morgan - What Mark said, and he also became the CKL all time stolen base leader this decade.
3. Reggie Jackson - Displayed power and (surprisingly) a decent glove for the entire decade.
4. Fred Lynn - Has had an unconscious first five years in the league. I put him ahead of Stargell because he also had a Gold Glove in center field, as opposed to Stargell's DH position.
5. Willie Stargell - Monster numbers most seasons during the decade. Almost broke the CKL single season homer record, and no one else has come even close to that total in any season that wasn't 1961.
6. Ken Singleton - A real on base machine most of the decade and an MVP winner for the Knights.
7. Reggie Smith - Agree with Mark about the missed playing time. Had he played more,he would likely jump ahead of Singleton, Stargell and maybe Lynn on this list.
8. Toby Harrah - Several seasons as a key component to the Knights juggernaut. Solid bat from the shortstop slot, and although not a gold glover played the position well enough.
9. Rod Carew - Key component of several winning teams. Another on base machine.
10. Ted Simmons - Powerful bat and good defense put him just a step behind Bench.
You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton
1) Morgan
2) Bench
3) Stargell
4) Jackson
5) Singleton
6) Lynn
7) Carew
8) Simmons
9) Rose
10) Harrah
"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa
"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)
1. Bench
2. Morgan
3. Jackson
4. Singleton
5. Simmons
6. Stargell
7. Harrah
8. Carew
9. Lynn
10. Cey
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah
1. Morgan
2. Bench
3. Jackson
4. Stargell
5. Singleton
6. Smith
7. Simmons
8. Lynn
9. Carew
10. Harrah
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Police have named a teenager who was killed in a crash in Auckland overnight.
Passenger David Sionepulu, 19, of Panmure died when the car he was in slammed into a steel fence on Ngapipi Rd at Orakei after 2.20am.
Police are continuing their search for the driver, who seen fleeng the scene.
The crash was one of two in the same area overnight.
At 12.30am emergency services were called to a crash in Tamaki Drive in which a vehicle hit trees at Okahu Bay.
Two middle-aged men were critically injured and were in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
District road policing manager inspector Gavin McDonald said it was likely that speed and alcohol played a role in both accidents.
"It's frustrating for police and the public that some drivers continue to ignore the proliferation of messages and warnings about the dangers of driving too quickly and/or drinking and driving.
"As long as people continue to do this, families will be torn apart by road fatalities and long term injuries."
Witnesses of the Ngapipi Rd crash are urged to contact detective sergeant Kathy Bostock on (09) 524 1920 and anyone with information about the Tamaki Drive crash is urged to call Auckland's Serious Crash Unit on (09) 359 3111.
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'Twas the thud heard round the world. In the penultimate episode of the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones, our hero Ned Stark (Sean Bean), after a brief, fraught tenure as the King's Hand, discovered the Lannisters' incestuous affair, was falsely declared traitor to the realm, and was beheaded in front of a frothing horde in the town square at King's Landing.
Much like the Brotherhood of the Night's Watch, who alone stand between civilization and an undead race of murderous ghouls, Game of Thrones writers face a daunting obstacle: how to follow up a season filled with scintillating treachery, triple-X incest, child defenestration, dragon birth, and more gruesome slayings than you can shake a scepter at. Well, they do. Lucky for them, they have for their source material George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings, the riveting (and thrillingly gory) second novel of the epic fantasy series upon which the show is based.
Please don't bother trying to watch the second season without having watched the first (beginning Sunday at 9 pm). In fact, unless you took notes or spent your summer growing pasty while plowing through Martin's 5000-page series — not that I'd know anything about that — it's probably necessary to watch the last season again, or at least consult Wiki. Don't feel dumb: Martin's plot is so Byzantine that each book contains a map of the realm and a list of characters, organized by house, followed by a short description of their tangled affiliations.
And so we return to Westeros to find King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) celebrating his Name Day by watching knights fight to the death. The scene — and Gleeson's curled upper lip and odiously petulant high-pitched voice — evokes enough righteous anger to drive an entire season. Ned lost his head because of this brat? Could they have found a more perfect actor to play the deranged, malevolent spawn of brother-sister incest? The problem with Gleeson is that he is so good at his role that he makes most of the cast look amateur in comparison.
Especially Daenerys. Poor Emilia Clarke! To play the exiled Targaryen heiress, she must deliver her lines in the inane language of the Dothraki horse people, a grating mélange of Klingon, Pig Latin, and the sound my cat makes when coughing up a hairball. Another of the season's important threads finds her plotting to return to Westeros while wandering through the Red Waste, streaked in dirt, clad only in a skimpy, ragged burlap tunic. At any moment, one expects Charlton Heston and Dr. Zaius to spring out from behind a boulder.
The thrill of watching Game of Thrones — and believe me, it is thrilling — is due in no small part to the frisson created by actors of such varying talent delivering lines with the utmost sincerity. Peter Dinklage is the only playful one of the lot. As Tyrion Lannister, he is superb. He also has all the good lines, and channels both Kenneth Branagh's Iago and John Cleese's Sir Lancelot. This season, he is tasked with keeping hideous Circe and King Joffrey in line, and lucky for us: any other character slapping down those shits wouldn't be nearly as rewarding.
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Amy Lambert said that Holiday in Essex derived from a family holiday at Mersea Island, Essex, nine miles south-east of Colchester, where sailing, fishing, bathing and walking were the family's chief amusements (Lambert 1938, pp.45–7).
Lambert painted this work in the studio using his wife and children as his models, posed on a high platform which he took three weeks to construct. A local milkman lent his pony as a model, but it took some time to train the animal to stand still. As in The holiday group (The bathers) (cat.35), Lambert depicted two figures in parallel poses, stepping onto one leg and with the other stretched behind, suggestive of forward movement. And as in Portrait group (cat.39), he arranged the boy on the horse so that the curve of his back followed the arch of his mother's and brother's.
Using large brushes and fluid paint, Lambert painted this last and largest of his Velázquez-inspired images of women and children in the grand manner of earlier artists. He suggested that he took the woman's tawny russet drapery from a painting by seventeenth-century British painter Peter Lely, the fish-carrying boy's face from the work of an unknown Spanish painter formerly in the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, and the pony from Velázquez's Philip IV on horseback 1635–6 (Prado, Madrid). He claimed that 'the light was so polarised as to give me a chiaroscuro as near as possible to that used by the traditional painters of Velasquez's time' (ML MSS A1811, pp.70–1).
Generally, this painting was praised by contemporary critics, but on 16 May 1910 The Times's reviewer suggested that Lambert was repeating himself, commenting that 'we have had this lady, these children, and this pony before; and he is allowing this type of face, with the over-ripe lips, to become stereotyped'. Lambert, nonetheless, received a prize of 1600 francs from the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (New Salon) for this painting when he exhibited it in Paris in 1911.


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Impeachment Not Appeasement
Original post made by Carol Brouillet, Barron Park, on May 30, 2007
Activists wrote books, staged demonstrations and rallies, spelled out "IMPEACH" upon beach after beach to pressure the media into covering the issue and members of Congress into upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution against all enemies- foreign and domestic. Representative Cynthia McKinney, who courageously introduced the first articles of impeachment before leaving office last year, was crucified by the press and by her own Democratic Party for daring to champion truth and justice and failing to toe the "party line."
Last month during the national shopping boycott for Impeachment for Peace, prior to the national day of action for impeachment, Dennis Kucinich introduced HR 333 ( Web Link) which would launch impeachment proceedings against Vice President Richard Cheney. The grounds are basically- 1) actively and systemically misleading citizens and Congress about the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq undermining the genuine security interests of the United States, 2) manipulating public opinion about the relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq in order to gain support for a war, 3) threatening aggression against Iran in violation of international law, in a manner that destabilizes the region and harms the genuine national security interests of the United States.
Many who would otherwise join in the widespread calls for impeachment fear that removing Bush is pointless because we would only be stuck with Cheney. Kucinich's resolution reflects the concern that there might be another false flag event or fabricated incident or manipulation of intelligence to justify an expansion of the war into Iran. Kucinich has only three co-sponsors at the moment. Just in the past week, large "Impeachment Rallies" were held when Bush spoke at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, hundreds representing an array of impeachment, ant-war groups rallied to protest Cheney's address at West Point last Saturday, in Maine a hundred citizens rallied to present over 11,000 signatures to Maine's Senate and their Congressmen to urge them to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Resolutions for impeachment have already been passed by the Green Party, but are now being passed by the Democratic Parties in various States- California and Massachusetts, as well as by numerous cities, most recently Detroit, the mayor of which is married to Rep. John Conyers, chair of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
In Palo Alto, we demanded pre-emptive impeachment of Bush in January 2003 (as well as investigations back in 2002), in hopes of exposing "the fraudulent (and irrationally named) 'War on Terror,'" preventing the Iraq War, and reversing the disastrous policies bulldozed through Congress. Public awareness of these issues is much elevated since then, the ripening fruit of the grassroots efforts to demand justice and accountability from our government. We will continue our monthly impeachment rallies and marches in downtown Palo Alto until Congress moves forward with the impeachment process.
Our next Impeachment Rally will be on June 13, 2007, beginning at 1:00 pm in Lytton Plaza with KPFA's Flashpoints News magazine host, investigative journalist, Dennis Bernstein. 2007 Heroic Citizens' Awards will be presented. Superheroes- Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman and Yoda will lead a 2:00 pm march up and down University to Congresswoman Eshoo's office, encouraging her to support HR 333 and impeachment.
Carol Brouillet
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a resident of Greenmeadow
on May 31, 2007 at 7:05 am
I loathe President Bush and he must be impeached and jailed, but he is the epitome of America: tyrannical, morally hysterical, anti-intellectual, bigoted, wealthy, powerful, self-absorbed, and violent.
Look at our popular culture with its mainstay of celebrating violence as the only "masculine" option in resolving male emotional stress; mainstream rap that ruthlessly condemns women, girls, and homosexuals for their inherent "immorality," justifying brutal oppression; "torture porn" in film that glorifies, essentially, gruesome misogynistic killings of young women; and our love affair with "shock jocks" whose sole "entertainment" value is callous hate.
Mind you, our popular culture refuses to even be bothered with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our nation is not distressed by the wars but horribly bored by them, as we casually dismiss the rising death toll of our soldiers (never do we concern ourselves with Iraqi civilians).
Bush is the first president to make us pay for our national sins, by embodying them to the extreme. Not until we do a major overhaul of who we are as a people will we recapture the moral authority necessary to lead the world.
a resident of Los Altos Hills
on May 31, 2007 at 7:10 am
The most frightening characteristic of the current administration is not its incompetence, but rather their methodical dismantling and recasting of the U.S. Constitution. When third-world strongmen, such as Chavez or Mugabe, rewrite their constitutions to give themselves more power, there is public outcry and condemnation in this country. Why, then, can we not recognize that a similar Constitutional coup is taking place here? Why do we so readily accept into our vocabulary such terms as the "unitary executive," as if we all learned about it back in high school but just forgot? Why do we sit back and accept as standard operating procedure the president's grotesque use of "presidential signing statements" that place him above any law passed by Congress? The public, aided by the media, act as if these kinds of actions are normal in American governance.
My father, an arch conservative all his life, shuddered at the election of Bush in 2000. He told me at that time that the United States was witnessing the rise of its first American emperor. I'm glad he's not around to see this.
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2007 at 7:20 am
I do believe that we, as citizens are complicit in how we are viewed in the world.
Yes, most of the nation supported the war, but it was under false pretenses, under the great duress of a country that was attacked in the heart of our greatest city. This was a sleeping nation shaken awake from a deep sleep. The animals in the White House knew only too well how to use this against the people of America and Iraq.
There is a solution. It is, us, the people. We have to rid ourselves of the thugs in the White House. Bush and Cheney must be led out of the building by the will of the American people. The trick is how to get our cowardly and now complicit politicians to stand up and do the job.
We recognize the fatal error. We must fix it if we are ever to gain respect in the world again. Without our input are we much different than Hitler's Germany?
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2007 at 11:23 am
Put up or shut up.
a resident of Barron Park
on May 31, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Rebuilding the reputation of the US means rediscovering real morality, real principle. It means judging people by what they do, it means politicians who when asked in a debate about their religious faith have the nerve to tell the reporter "that's none of your damn business." It means being again a country that can prosecute an amoral SOB like Nixon, and George Walker Bush. It means electing a President again that the French might name a Paris Metro station after, like FDR. Americans traveling abroad now often identify themselves as Canadians, lest they be linked in any way with the dumb criminal in the White House.
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Sure, rebuild the reputation of the United States to shut up and write a check. I can't wait for President Bolton to square the vultures away.
a resident of Portola Valley
on May 31, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Lets face it, george bush is the perfect example of what happens when parents who have outrageous amounts of money can create turn their purse strings loose, with no limit, on their spoiled little brats. The result is the creation of a dangerous and heartless heathen who really believes he can rule the world without any consequence or accountability for his actions. (criminal or otherwise). Well guess what? There are consequences as well as accountability and it is going to take those individuals who uphold our Founding Father's ideals to stop this mad boy.
If we look back at our history, Benedict Arnold was executed for much less than george has done. For Gods sake, Bill Clinton was impeached for getting a blowjob that did not kill anyone at all! How many more lives must this country give up just to satisfy this monster's insatiable thirst for blood.
George and Barbara, shame on you for your sick creation.
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Someone needs to check the Bush fortune against the Kerry or the Gore money. And someone needs to read the articles of impeachment on Clinton. The Monica was not mentoned, only the perjury uder oath. And a quick trip to Wikipedia will tell JR that Benedict Arnold was not executed. Amazing what one can write that just isn't so.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 1, 2007 at 7:02 am
Who shot JR's thesis?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 1, 2007 at 8:29 am
It will never happen! Two years left in the White House- he will be gone before this congress could get a backbone!! Look what happen with the vote on more funding for the war- not even a timetable was given. The Dems cave in.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 1, 2007 at 8:29 am
It will never happen! Two years left in the White House- he will be gone before this congress could get a backbone!! Look what happen with the vote on more funding for the war- not even a timetable was given. The Dems cave in.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 1, 2007 at 10:20 am
Why not argue policies instead of personalities?
This "and the horse you rode in on" debate kills objectivity. The fools who burned the flags and posted the swastikas at the Washington cemetery were just carrying this philosophy of hate to its' ultimate extreme.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 1, 2007 at 11:12 am
Carl includes being wealthy with sin. JR implies having money to educate your children is bad. I don't listen to morality from these types. Wealth is created by productive people. Those who envy it are usually parasites.


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Most of your 1911 questions can be answered by a little Googling, but basically, most people, when they say 1911, are talking about a pistol based on the original John Moses Browning government model, that the military used as their main sidearm for several decades. They were made by a variety of manufacturers, but the parts were all interchangeable. That is also true of many of the 'improved' clones of the 1911 design, that are also manufactured by a variety of gun makers.
I, personally, like Springfields, because they are well made and the parts are interchangeable with the government model, making them easier to obtain, and maybe cheaper. Mine is a 'Commander' sized (Colt nomenclature), which simply means full size, but with a 4" barrel, instead of the standard 5." There is also an 'Officers Model' size (again, Colt nomenclature), made by various manufacturers, that is even smaller...probably what your friend is offering.
When buying a compact sized 1911 clone, be aware that the reduced length of the slide is a departure from the original design, and is less reliable, generally speaking. The shorter springs have to be just right or they can have feed problems. I'm not saying that they don't work...just that their design is less forgiving than the full sized models.
Of the off-the-shelf 1911's, Springfield, Colt, and Kimber are probably the most popular, although there are many other good ones.


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Mosey on Down to the Wild West - Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Howdy pardners! Grab your Stetsons and mosey on down to the Royal Armouries in Leeds this February half-term to witness the fascinating world of the Wild West.
Discover the Magnificent Seven – the most iconic cowboy guns in the Royal Armouries' national collection – plus the latest Living History Days, daily "shoot outs", weapon-handling sessions, children's activities, films, talks and lots more.
The Magnificent Seven includes weapons of a type used in a variety of top films and TV shows – including Django Unchained; BBC drama Ripper Street; plus the famous 'Tunstall' revolver that belonged to rancher John Tunstall, whose murder Billy the Kid set out to avenge in 1878.
Other half-term highlights include:
- Saturday and Sunday (February 16 and 17) – Immerse yourself in the life of 19th century Western America, for a rootin' tootin' Wild West Adventure with Lonestar. This enthusiastic re-enactment group brings history to life with demonstrations, performances, gunfights and all sorts of authentic props, including a real Western chuck wagon and bivouacs.
- Saturday, February 16 to Sunday, February 23 – Discover tough times and tough characters; including bandits, desperadoes, rustlers and thieves. Don't miss the daily showdown between our hotshot gunfighters, as they shoot it out.
- Most wanted! – Keep an eye out for shady characters including Kid Carlson, Hot Foot Holly, Kit Ducklin aka The Duck of Death, Lisa – the Scourge of the Prairies, and Showtime Shona.
- Handle weapons used by the Native Americans. Visitor experience staff will be on hand to explore how the weaponry and tactics, introduced by European settlers, impacted on native Americans on the battlefield.
- Enjoy story-telling sessions – including the tale of Davy Crockett, plus how buffalo were hunted to near extinction.
- Family activities – including throwing the snake in the boot and crafts. Also try your hand at gold panning (£2 charge) or lasso throwing and horseshoe throwing (free).
Royal Armouries is home to the national collection of arms and armour – including some of the most fascinating exhibits in the world.
Museum director Peter Armstrong said, "Our new Outlaws event gives a fascinating insight into the world of the Wild West and links to the iconic exhibits in our national collection. This offers a low-cost day out, with something for everyone – from Wild West aficionados to families looking for a fun but educational day out."
Museum admission, including the Living History Days, is free. A small charge may apply to some activities. For times and more details of all events, including the Magnificent Seven guns visit the Royal Armouries website
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- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
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The Indiana Attorney General's Office has a long standing record of supporting programs that promote responsible alcohol consumption and combat underage drinking. Although the Attorney General's Office can't provide legal advice or representation to the public concerning drunk driving and underage drinking, it is dedicated to preventing it.
Research shows vehicle crashes continue to be a leading cause of death for teens. Of the 319 alcohol-related fatalities that occurred in Indiana in 2006, nearly 15% (46) of the Hoosiers were under the age of 21.
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration reported the following:
The incidence of underage drinking is extremely high among Indiana's youth. Results from the 2007 Indiana Youth Risk Behavior Survey reveal:
Even more alarming, statistics show that while the prevalence of current alcohol use increases with age, the first use of alcohol typically begins around age 12. Age at onset of drinking strongly predicts development of alcohol dependence over the course of the lifespan. About 40% of those who start drinking at age 14 years or under develop alcohol dependence at some point in their lives (Healthy People 2010: Substance Abuse).
It's crucial we continue to reach out to our youth and educate them about this issue. The Attorney General's Office is collaborating with The Century Council on the Indiana Safe Students Initiative to offer material and resources to help fight the battle against underage drinking and drunk driving.
The Council develops and implements innovative programs and public awareness campaigns and promotes action through strategic partnerships. The Century Council promotes responsible decision-making regarding drinking or non-drinking of beverage alcohol and discourages all forms of irresponsible consumption through education, communications, research, law enforcement, and other programs.
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The practice of stretching and deepening the navel, creating an artificial pouch (a vuckle) for purposes of storage, smuggling, and sexual gratification.
Often, artists licensed in pandoto have even stricter standards than states or cities, requiring at least one sexual partner to be present to verify correct omphalometrics.
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Centerpoint Energy has cut off natural gas service at the Little Rock - South site because of a problem with an exterior gas line. Service is estimated to be interrupted until at least noon Tuesday, March 27.
Utility personnel will fix the problem with no danger or further inconvenience to college operations, but biology and culinary labs will not be able to utilize gas appliances. The Finish Line Caf?ill remain open, serving sandwiches and other foods not requiring gas appliances.
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I lost track of the Rockies' roster moves sometime in January. So, that being said, I have no idea how the team is going to do this year.
They seem to have gotten a whole lot of young pitchers. If they can come up with a good starting rotation out of all of them, they should be fine. If not, then it's going to be a long season.


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Jakaranda Time: An Investigator's View of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Zenzile Khoisan (South Africa: Garib Communications, 2001)
Jakaranda Time is an inside story on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission with an original view of the political machinations before, during and after the TRC hearings. This intelligent, fast paced book takes us on a journey through the drama of actual investigations, going behind the scenes to show how cases were solved. The author interrogates mass murderers and other perpetrators, fearlessly exploring evil. Containing personal insights into victims and perpetrators, Jakaranda Time exposed complicity and cover-ups to the highest level concerning human rights violations in the apartheid era.
No Future Without Forgiveness
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Doubleday, 1999)
A look at the TRC and the need of forgiveness for a people to continue to exist as a nation. A beautiful and sad look at the heartbreak and pain experienced by the people of SA.
Unfinished Business - South Africa, Apartheid and Truth
Terry Bell with Dumisa Ntsebeza (New York: Verso, 2003)
A look at the failures and successes of the TRC. Dumisa was one of the chief investigators involved with the TRC. Much talks to his own personal experience with his involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. It is ultimately a critical look at the shortcomings of the TRC in dealing with the past, and the political compromises.
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
Noel Mostert (New York: Knopf, 1992)
The story of the wars between the Xhosa and White's in the 18th and 19th century.
A Concise History of South Africa
Robert Ross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
A History of South Africa
Frank Welsh (New York: Harpers, 1998)
A very detailed look at the history of South Africa.
The Scramble for Africa
Thomas Pakenham (New York: Harpers, 1998)
A well written, and meticulously researched book on the rush by the Europeans to colonize Africa around the end of the 19th century.
Election '99: South Africa from Mandela to Mbeki
Andrew Reynolds, ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)
I Write What I Like
Steve Biko (San Francisco: Harper and Row Publishers, 1986)
This is the first collection of the writings of the martyred hero of the South African liberation movement. Steve Biko was one of the foremost figures in South Africa's struggle for liberation from the apartheid regime. Murdered by the police when he was only 30, he had already established himself as a leader through his work as a political activist and his writings on Black Consciousness. I Write What I Like was first published in 1978 shortly after his brutal murder in detention.
Donald Woods (New York: H. Holt, 1987)
This is the story of white journalist Donald Woods' friendship with Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. It captures the story of Steve Biko as a resistance leader and the complications of a friendship across race lines during the Apartheid years. Donald Woods takes the reader through his understanding of Black Consciousness and his family's struggle with the Apartheid government.
Long Walk to Freedom; The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela (Boston: Bay Back Books, 1995)
This is an account of Nelson Mandela's life from his 'country childhood' following his birth on July 18, 1918 to his inauguration as president of South Africa on May 10, 1994. Mandela traces the growth of his understanding of the oppression of black South Africans; his conviction that there was no alternative to armed struggle; his developing belief that all people, black and white, must be free for true freedom; and the effect that his commitment to overthrowing Apartheid had on his family.
Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography
Joe Slovo (New York: Ocean Press, 1997)
A revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the key figures of South Africa's African National Congress. As an immigrant, a Jew, a communist, a guerrilla fighter and political strategist - and white - few public figures in South Africa were as demonized by the apartheid government as Joe Slovo.
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
The author "has written a companion piece to his earlier work, White Supremacy. While the latter compared and contrasted elements of white racism in the United States and South Africa, this work is a comparative analysis of black responses to that racism."
The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa
Julie Frederikse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991)
The Atlas of African Affairs
L.L. Ieuan Griffiths (New York: Rutledge Press, 1995)
2nd Edition.
Faultlines, Journeys Into the New South Africa
David Goodman (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999)
A compelling account of South Africa's effort to reinvent itself after the fall of Apartheid, told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide.
Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights Project Violence Against Women in South Africa
(New York: Human Rights Watch Africa, 1995)
Apartheid: A History
Brian Lapping (George Braziller, Inc. Publisher, 1987)
The Afrikaners: An Historical Interpretation
G.H.L. LeMay (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1995)
Rainbow People of God
Desmond TuTu (New York: Doubleday, 1994)
Desmond Tutu, the leader of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Archbishop of Cape Town, gives readers the historical highlights of his extraordinary leadership in the anti-apartheid movement.
Outcast Cape Town
John Western (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966)
Social geographer John Western analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950 Group Areas Act that achieved the racial separatism of apartheid. His new prologue for the paperback edition assesses the changes to be expected from the new government and the obstacles to significant change.
Vanishing Cultures of South Africa
Peter Magubane (Rizoli, 1998)
Black Lawyers, White Courts: The Soul of South African Law
Kenneth S. Broun, Julius Chambers (Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1999)
Citizen and Subject
Mahmood Mamdani (Princeton University Press, 1996)
Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation, and Apartheid
Nigel Worden (Blackwell Publishers, 1995: 2nd edition)
This book examines the major issues in South Africa's history, from the colonial conquest of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the establishment of racism, segregation and Apartheid, to the spirit of reform, resistance and repression of the 1980s and, now, in this new edition, the first democratic elections in April 1994.
Crossing The Line: A Year In The Land Of Apartheid
William Finnegan (University of California Press, 1994)
This is a deeply personal look at the politics of Apartheid in South Africa by a young white American schoolteacher, who in 1980 landed a job teaching in a high school of "coloured" students on the Cape Flats, outside Cape Town.
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
William Finnegan (University of California Press, 1993)
This is an account of the brutal civil war in Mozambique, resulting in the death of one million Mozambicans, which was instigated by the South African Apartheid regime.
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
William Finnegan (University of California Press, 1995)
Dateline Soweto follows the working lives of a small group of black South African reporters caught in the crossfire between their communities, the police, and their white editors during the great anti-apartheid uprising of the late 1980s.
Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya
The Women Writing Africa Series, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Liz Gunner, Marcia Wright (Feminist Press, 1999)
Economic Analyses
South Africa Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transformation (Revised Edition)
Hein Marais
Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Gillian Hart
Fiction and Historical Fiction
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
"In Kaffir Boy I have re-created, as best as I can remember, all these experiences. I have sought to paint a portrait of my childhood and youth in Alexandra, a black ghetto of Johannesburg, where I was born and lived for eighteen years, with the hope that the rest of the world will finally understand why apartheid cannot be reformed: it has to be abolished."
Miriam's Song: A Memoir
Mark Mathabane
My Traitors Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face his Country, his Tribe & his Conscience
Rian Malan
A deeply compelling story of the experience and horror of South Africa shared by all of its citizens.
A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee (winner of the 1999 Booker Prize)
Set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape, this is a novel about a man and his personal journeys of love, grace, and disgrace in the new South Africa.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head
The poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, offers a haven to the exiles gathered there. Makhaya, a political refugee from South Africa, becomes involved with an English agricultural expert and the villagers as they struggle to modify their traditional farming methods. This piece explores the pressures of modernization and tradition, somehow finding hope for this community's future.
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Alex Laguma
Too Late the Phalarope
Alan Paton
Letters to Martha and Other Stories
Dennis Brutus
Black South African Women Writers in Exile
Lindiwe Mabiza
Will to Die
Can Themba
Country of my Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog, Random House, 1999
Established in 1995 and headed by the renowned cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission faced the awesome task of hearing the testimony of the victims and perpetrators of apartheid. In this book, Antjie Krog, a South African journalist and poet who has covered the work of the commission, recounts the drama, the horrors, the wrenching personal stories of the victims and their families.
The Mind of South Africa
Allister Sparks
Out of print, but available in used bookstores and libraries.
Etienne van Heerden
This is the story of a boy's life on an Afrikaner farm in the Karoo desert. As a fictional representation, it offers fascinating insight into the struggle of an Afrikaner boy as he grows up during the Apartheid years.
Forced to Grow; Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night; Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona
The World of Can Themba:Selected Writings
Essop Patel
She Plays With the Darkness
Zakes Mda
Entertaining Angels
Marita Van Der Vyver with Catherine Knox (translator)
A telling story of women and white women in the New South Africa.
Renewal Time
Ezekiel Mphahlele
The House Gun
Nadine Gordimer
The story of a privileged white couple as they come to terms with the prospect of their son as a murderer.
The Smell of Apples
Mark Behr
Set in the twilight of apartheid in South Africa, this haunting novel is narrated by a child who records the political turmoil and social injustice that threaten to destroy his life and community.
This Day and Age
Mark Nicol
To Every Birth Its Blood
Mongane Serote
"The narrator and protagonist of the first half of the novel, Tsietsi Molope, is a black journalist who is picked up at random by the police, beaten, and emotionally emasculated... The second half turns to a network of characters in Molope's life all related in some way to a resistance effort known as 'the Movement.' Their involvement leads some to accommodation or marginality, others to exile, and still others to torture and death."
Mind Your Colour
V.A. February
Advance, Retreat: Selected Short Stories
Richard Rive
This is a collection of twelve stories by the South African writer, who is a member of the so-called Cape Coloured community. Rive captures the ironies inherent in the Coloured predicament. In the title story, the quibbling of a group of high-school teachers about who will have what role in Macbeth becomes a metaphor for the inability of South African intellectuals to keep their attention fixed upon the realities of their social and political situation.
Waiting For Leila
Achmat Dangor
King Leopolds Ghost: A story of greed, terror, & heroism in colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild (Feminist Press, 1999)
A book that chills you to the bone, it is about the Congo under the brutal control of the Belgium's'. It speaks to the horrors of colonialism and the decimation that followed in its wake.


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2007 More New Details From Play (UK) Magazine - Issue 155
Grand Theft Auto IV - General News | @ 06:40 AM MDT | By Asif
Another new preview just came by with loads of new details on Grand Theft Auto IV.
Here is the summary of the 10-page preview, that we've gathered so far...
* McReary is a corrupt cop, like Officer Tenpenny in San Andreas. (We can make a guess the other guy in the artwork is the one.)
* The arms dealer called Little Jacob is a good friend of Niko's cousin, Roman.
* Rotterdam Hill is in Alderney.
* The first mission in the demo was called "Call and Collect".
* Apparently no arrowhead to guide you in the game. (Example of arrowhead from a previous GTA game)
* The HUD has been streamlined to only a few displays.
* The map remains, sensibly, as does the wanted level and the money.
* But visuals on the map in the demo are reduced to mere blips in the top corner of the impressive display.
* The default camera view when driving rests around the left-hand side of the car above the road.
* Multiplayer is accessed via your mobile phone.
* The new wanted level system system starts with the map flashing with circles of blue and red.
* The wanted level system has been completely revamped from the previous games, It's now based on vision, with each circle representing the line of sight of the police chase.
* The wanted level system has six levels as in previous games.
* Pedestrians drink while out on streets.
* When purchasing clothes, you have to choose the items from the shelf individually.
* The increased difficulty of the game could alienate some of the fans.
* When you kill Goldberg, there are at least two possible cutscenes, the first saw Goldberg crumpled down onto the floor and the second saw Goldberg fall out of the window.
* You exit Goldberg's Office and there are three security guards blocking your way.
* You can hug the wall like in Metal Gear Solid to cover yourself from fire.
* You can also strafe, which is helpful when you take on the police.
* If you escape the building, it's mission complete.
* Rockstar has added bodily damage to the proceedings, with certain actions triggerings different reactionary deaths.
o Game Example 1: Shoot a security guard in the foot at the top of the stairs and he will come tumblings down the stairs.
o Game Example 2: Shoot Goldberg, the lawyer, with a shotgun in front of a window and he'll meet his end on the streets below as he tumbles out.
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Jack Tar 207 is a business, a blog, and a conversation starter. It's not until you start perusing the beautifully sharp and well composed photos that you think to yourself, Why isn't there more of this?
The brainchild of local designer and creative director LK Weiss, Jack Tar is both a fashion and product photography business (it also offers branding and graphic-design services) and a frequently updated blog that is described by its founders as "a growing resource of images that challenge the traditional expectation of beauty." Featuring local models who exude a kind of serene confidence, Jack Tar celebrates looks that are delightfully dapper, fiercely femme, and everything in between.
We caught up with Weiss via email; here, she muses on the chemistry of her crew, the concept of authentic beauty, and Portland's stellar queer style. Check out jacktar207.com to see for yourself.
Jack Tar 207 has developed into a successful blog and business in a short amount of time. Can you describe the evolution of Jack Tar from the original concept to what it is today? Did you expect things to take off as they have?Jack Tar 207 started out as more of a hobby blog in the fall of 2012, at which time I brought on Tennyson (formerly Tee Tee) Tappan as lead photographer and Mahlia Carey as stylist. I had just joined Pinterest, and between that and all the fashion/style blogs I was already following, I saw an abundance of tall, thin, flawless white people wearing perfectly pressed and fitted outfits. It was the opposite of genuine. I wanted to start pumping new blood into the veins of style and fashion blogging by adding real people wearing what they would wear in their natural habitat; I felt compelled to put genuine imagery out there. I think once people caught on to what we were doing and were able to connect to the photographs they were seeing and the people we were portraying, it kind of took off. There's an honesty to the work we do that can't be found in studio or runway photography; people see themselves reflected in Jack Tar models, regardless of how similar or dissimilar their bodies are compared to those of the models who typically represent beauty and fashion. Jack Tar has since become a business for hire, shooting products, artist/maker studios, and events. We're now a seven-person crew, with the addition of two stylists, LuzMarina Serrano and David Timm, assistant Shana Natelson, and two new writers, Kirsten Griffith and Sarah Lynn Herklots. The quality of our shoots hinges entirely on the chemistry of this crew — it would not be possible without every bit of creativity each of us brings to the table.
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In any of the above circumstances the supervisor and the next supervisor in line must complete the "Reasonable Suspicion-Supervisor's Observation" form. This form should be submitted to the Office of Human Resources. Based on the information received Human Resources may require the employee to undergo a medical examination to determine the cause of the disability and if the employee is fit for duty. If the incident occurs after normal business hours and Human Resources is closed, the immediate supervisor must obtain authorization for a fitness for duty examination from his or her supervisor (the supervisor next in line) and have the employee transported to the appropriate facility for medical examination.
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2008 GTA IV tops the charts in Japan
Grand Theft Auto IV - General News | @ 07:10 PM MDT | By Ash_735
Even though it has been out in most other countries since April, Grand Theft Auto IV only just came out in Japan; released on the 30th of October it has shot straight to the top of the charts. The PlayStation 3 version of the game sits at the Number 1 spot whilst the Xbox 360 version of the game is resting at Number 4.
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SolarCity Jumps 14% On Plan to Fund Electric Energy Projects
SolarCity and Centrica's Direct Energy unit have joined forces to fund as much as $124 million in solar-fueled electricity projects for commercial and industrial customers.
The announcement to jumpstart solar energy work sent shares of SolarCity (SCTY) up $4.31, or 14.4%, to $34.18. Based in San Mateo, Calif., SolarCity sells, leases and installs solar systems, and is backed by celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk, the co-founder and CEO of electric car producer Tesla Motors (TSLA).
According to the announcement press release, the companies will set up
A "dedicated investment fund capable of financing up to $124 million in solar projects for Direct Energy's commercial and industrial customers, which is partially funded with up to $50 million from Direct Energy. ... Customers will be given a choice to pre-pay for their solar electricity or pay a monthly payment, with installation, insurance, repairs and monitoring service included."
SolarCity, which has been consistently unprofitable, has 68,000 residential and commercial customers across 14 states. The company was the subject of a recent story in Barron's magazine that looked skeptically at its reliance on government subsidies, and the asset value of SolarCity property on which those subsidies are based. (See "Dark Clouds Over SolarCity," Aug. 31, subscription required.)
Centrica has a much larger reach. It was formed in 1987 as a "de-merger" from British Gas, according to the company's history online. The Direct Energy unit provides electricity, natural gas and related services to six million business, residential and service customers in the U.S. and Canada. It operates a range of energy businesses, including a proprietary trading operation and three gas-fired power plants in Texas.
According to the Bloomberg news story:
"The agreement is a rare example of a renewable-energy company and a retail electricity supplier joining to fund projects. Many conventional power suppliers in the U.S. are lobbying to cut support for solar generation, arguing that it pushes up costs for customers that don't use the technology."