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Sewn with plush velvet on one side, smooth silk on the reverse, our quilted bedding doubles the comfort and style of your bed. The all-cotton velvet is enzyme washed for a matte texture and supremely soft hand. The sateen reverse is made from a blend of silk and cotton for breathability that's comfortable year-round.
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Chuck Schumer to Beyonce: How about apologizing for lip-syncing at the inauguration?
The New York senator angrily admitted yesterday that the pop queen has not called him to say sorry after she turned last week's inaugural bash into an unexpected Milli Vanilli concert by lip-syncing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
"I have not heard from her before, during or after," a testy Schumer told The Post after he was asked if Beyoncé had called him to give a musical mea culpa. "She did not talk to me at all. I didn't say any words to her, period."…
"Sen. Schumer promised Beyoncé, but he delivered Milli Vanilli instead," quipped one Republican congressional aide last week.


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger is not concerned about Manchester City's reported interest in Cesc Fabregas - or their spending power.
Roberto Mancini is expected to use some of the Abu Dhabi United Group's considerable funds to reinforce his squad this summer after City booked their place in the Champions League with a 1-0 win over Tottenham in midweek.
The rumour mill is already cranking into gear ahead of the summer transfer window and Fabregas has been linked with a move to Eastlands. Wenger gave the reports short shrift at his pre-match press conference.
"No [I am not worried]," he said. "I haven't heard that and I have not seen that anywhere. If they [Man City] want to buy a player, the best way is to call me.
"The first target is not to weaken our team but to strengthen it."
In recent years Wenger has admitted that he is often tempted to give up on transfer targets who are already being pursued by clubs with the financial resources of Man City and Chelsea. But he has a slightly different take this year.
"I hope that the financial fair play rules will come in and, because I know Chelsea and Man City has voted for it, I hope as well they will respect it," said the Frenchman. "We will always have to respect our wages schedule."
Predictably, Wenger was asked about potential targets and the names of David Beckham and Scott Parker, the Footballer of the Year, cropped up. Equally predictably, the Arsenal manager is playing his cards close to his chest.
"I will not give you any names," he said. "We are not specially buying on the flank. We have Walcott, we have Nasri, Arshavin and Bendtner."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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It was so upsetting to watch this former practice star of the Giants, catch in a really nice pass from Glennon. This guy is going to be a really good wideout for the Bucs. He gets open deep! and has great hands. Why they let him go, i'll never know. lol
P.S: Bucs got Revis and a really good secondary. I think they're going to be very good this year.


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Welcome to the Geocaching Ireland website. Here you'll find an introduction to what Geocaching is all about, the do's and don'ts for placing your own cache, news, events and much more. We are also delighted to provide help and support to those planning a caching trip to Ireland, from where to go, and how to get there.
The site is currently undergoing redevelopment with additional content being added over time. If there is specific information that you require, please use the Contact page to submit a query
Geocaching Ireland was established on August 9th 2003 on Yahoo Groups and the aim was to establish an active geocaching community in Ireland, North and South through the group, which was successfully achieved. The Geocaching Ireland website was then born on the 24th May 2004 in an effort to provide easy to access information on Geocaching in Ireland. On the 20th January 2005 the group started to move over to the more user friendly Geocaching Ireland Forums, where today you'll find a highly active community discussing a broad range of topics.


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So, I obviously never got around to posting any research papers (blame my boss, apparently there are patents in them thar papers).
Anyhow, playing on a personal project (calendar and project management system for GTK on BSD) I realized one of my bad habits might have applicability to a wider audience. During the development stage, a required file in my world is called "developer.notes". The point is pretty straight forward, it's a repository of my thoughts, rants, comments, etc about the code I'm working on. I never allow it to leave the project (i.e. no one who hasn't worked on the software will see my notes). It captures almost everything, since it's convenient, it's a great way to think with my keyboard and I know it won't ship as part of the final package. It is, however, exceptionally useful as a reminder, developer documentation, whatever.
Some sample paragraph openings (I see no need to share the entire note set):
Thoughts for evolution...apparently MySQL can dump as XML, so...
Look! I documented the data structures.
Next up, start building even more happy little dialog boxen.
This is horrifying, I'm not even half way to alpha and...
You get the idea, I hope. If you find this a useful idea, please use it and share. If you've already been doing this, well done. Otherwise, have a great week-end.


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On this page, you will find the official link to download Samsung Galaxy Pocket Duos GT-S5302 Stock Firmware ROM (flash file) from GoogleDrive. Firmware contains Flash File Only.
Country: India
Android Version: 2.3.6
Product code: INS
Country: India
Android Version: 2.3.6
Product code: INU
How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.
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Klun and Radinovich partners for five years
Kinship Partners recognizes and honors the partnership of adult mentor Joe Radinovich and his junior partner, Richard Klun, both of Crosby.
Joe and Richard have been matched for five years.
Joe feels like Richard is part of his family, sharing holidays together in addition to their other activities. They especially enjoy hunting and Richard was thrilled to shoot his first duck last fall with Joe.
Richard's mom says Joe has been a positive influence on her son. Richard is always eager to spend time with him.
Joe's advice to folks thinking about mentoring is, "Don't wait. Make a difference in a young person's life today."
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They were popular before the bending jig was developed. Don't know anyone who's used them in years. Dimensions are a bit off on the outside, regular pins don't work.
I found a website that sells 3 piece "flats". Instead of being bent in a jig, these are welding together where the bends would be.
AK-47 receiver FLAT - 3-piece - fixed stock - Jack Squat's Flat Spot
Seems like a good way to make a receiver, but I can't see it being strong enough. Does anyone have any experience with this method?
They were popular before the bending jig was developed. Don't know anyone who's used them in years. Dimensions are a bit off on the outside, regular pins don't work.
JackSquat has great products. The old three piece weld packs did not have top rails.I still have a few sets I bought from Sangrunhunter. I think Jacks have them pre bent allready. You should see his new layer sandwich AR lowers!
BTW: the weld up AK receivers are VERY stout. Go ahead & try one . Nice to have something different than the rest of the Crowd.
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
His Suomi magwell's are the cat's a$$.
I used one in a rewelded Galil receiver to make a 9mm bullpup.
Very thick and sturdy peices that snap together like Lego's.
He's also got some other cool stuff, well worth it for what he charges.
I just looked at his site, come payday I found a few things that I can use and the prices are great...Doc
this concept was pre-internet the early ones the axis pins were standard, some guys even build aks with erector set type panals, long before flats that were bent early M-11 receivers came this way
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
It's still in the concept phase. No word yet as to when it will be released.
Looks heavy, as long as you don't mind the weight.
Jack Squat makes great products. Quick and reasonable shipping. I used one of his 3 piece flats to build a Bulgarian kit. I was really pleased with the results.


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France 1848 – French Polynesia 1903
Seascape with cow (At the edge of the cliff)
[Marine avec vache (Au bord du gouffre)] 1888
oil on canvas
canvas 72.5 (h) x 61.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of Countess Vitali in memory of her brother Viscount Guy de Cholet 1923
Photograph: Jean Tholance All rights reserved
When Gauguin returned to Brittany in February 1888, it was for most of the year, until autumn, when he left on an ill-fated trip to Arles to join van Gogh. In Brittany he stayed at the Pension Gloanec in the small fishing village of Pont-Aven. During late summer or early autumn (August or September 1888) the artist made a trip to the cliffs overlooking the little Porsac'h creek, sited three kilometres west of Le Pouldu. In a letter to his friend Emile Schuffenecker, written in September 1888, Gauguin philosophised on aesthetic matters:
In the absence of religious painting, what beautiful thoughts can be evoked with form and colour. How prosaic they are, those naturalist painters, with their trompe-l'oeil rendering of nature. We alone sail on our phantom vessels, with all our fanciful imperfection.1
Seascape with cow was made around the time that Gauguin gave Sérusier his lesson in intensifying pure colour, which resulted in Sérusier's The talisman. Gauguin's dramatic composition is strengthened by arbitrary colouring and his application of bright complementary colours, orange and green. As we look down the cliff, the creek rushes to meet the dark sea, with white surf crashing against the rocks. We catch a glimpse of a red-sailed Breton fishing boat. On land, a black-and-white cow almost leaves the painting. The animal stands near the brightest of haystacks, which are opposed by similar shapes of brown rocks on the left, echoed at the right. The central path of light green water meets a viridian meadow across the front left.
Gauguin wrote to van Gogh on about 10 September 1888 that 'Forms and colours brought into harmony produce poetry by themselves.'2 He produces harmonies here by four pairs of repetitions with variations: opposing brown-purple rocks, two mounds of orange, bright green field versus light green water, and below, a black-and-white cow, while, above, the black sea breaks into white waves. Seascape with cow is an extraordinarily abstract painting for the late nineteenth century. Its artificial planes sweep across the canvas like theatre curtains drawing back one after another.
At the edge of the cliff was valued by Boussod et Valadon at 300 francs in an inventory of 1890. It was among the thirty paintings Gauguin offered for sale at Drouot's auction house on 23 February 1891 to finance his trip to Tahiti. Now titled Seascape with cow, it sold for 230 francs at the auction.3
Christine Dixon
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- Quoted in Belinda Thomson (ed.), Gauguin by himself, Boston: Little, Brown 1993, p. 90.
- Quoted in Thomson, p. 90.
- Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: a savage in the making, catalogue raisonné of the paintings (1873–1888), vol. 2, Milan: Skira; Paris: Wildenstein Institute 2002, p. 488.


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This book takes the reader through the history of audiology in the schools, focusing on legislation that has shaped the face of school-based audiology. Core concepts involving academic achievement in students who are deaf/hard-of-hearing, classroom acoustics, hearing screening programs, hearing loss prevention programs, diagnostic evaluation protocols, hearing aid and FM system verification procedures, and classroom amplification are covered. Concepts regarding collaboration with other school-based professionals and classroom accommodations and modifications are outlined and provide examples for real-life application.The varied and ever-changing roles of audiologists in the educational setting are described and highlighted with "vignettes," or short personal statements describing real practitioners' degree and training information, work settings, job descriptions within their school districts, and day-to-day responsibilities.
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Teacher candidates learn to develop instruction based on observable learning objectives aligned with curriculum guides. Emphasis will be given to instructional models most appropriate for middle school students including the use of instructional technology. The course examines the developmental periods of later childhood and early adolescence from a psychological and sociological perspective and how school programs can be designed and implemented to deal with the unique aspects of these developmental periods. This course includes the application of grade-appropriate principles of assessment (including value-added). Prerequisites admission to the Teacher Education Program. Corequisite: other courses in the M.C. Methods I block. (Fee: $20)


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11 Perfect Pedi And Sandal Combos!
If you're going to wear only one color, black is by far the easiest one to pull off! To keep the look from feeling dreary, Zendaya mixes in leather details and, of course, an awesome pair of kicks.
While we're used to seeing jumpsuits dressed up for the red carpet, Selena proves they can totally work for daytime, too. A leather moto jacket and flats give her printed one-piece a cool, low-key vibe for a cute alternative to a dress that's perf for spring!
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Private Master bedroom in Great Location
מספר אנשים מקסימלי2
חדרי שינה1
גודל215 ft²
Floor No.(with elevator)
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- מיזוג אוויר
- מכונת כביסה / מייבש
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|River Road, 10044 New York, ארצות הברית
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I'm renting a furnished master bedroom (one of three bedrooms) with own private bathroom, free TV, cable and WiFi Internet, microwave, mini-fridge , drawers , table, two chairs, lamps, walk in closet, etc.. Our apartment is located in one of the Manhattan Park buildings which have many amenities such as gym, laundry, doorman-concierge, renovated elevators, parks, soccer field, among other things.
Roosevelt Island is the most beautiful , safe and relaxing place in NYC area, with beautiful views. It is located in the center of Upper East Side and is 5 minutes away from Manhattan and within walking distance to Queens. The nearest transportation services are the F train and the Roosevelt Island Tram.
As a side note, we also have a very quiet Siamese cat, which won't be interfering with your stay at all. If you have any allergies or concerns message me in advance and I will address your concern.
כללי הביתNo smoking, no pets, no parties at night, no mess.
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Tom & his family are very nice and helpful hosts with a lot of good recommendations what to do and where to go in NYC. They offer a very spacious well equipped room. Roosevelt Island is a quiet and safe neighborhood and with the F-train, the tram and the bus well connected to Manhattan and Queens. On Roosevelt Island is a complimentary (red) bus available. Enjoyed our stay very much.
First of all: good located on Roosevelt Island - close to Manhattan and Central Park, but quiet and without any masses of people. The room was convenient with all sufficient necessities. The supermarket is 50m near the appartement (but rather expensive). The most important advantage: Tomislav and his wife are very, very friendly and helpful - without any complications.
"Nice Place to stay" We stayed their for 1 week Thomas and Emily were so accomodating same as well with their children and the cat. We had our own privacy, the room is big with rest room, mini fridge and wifi. You can take the Train and tram using Metro card. We had fun taking the tram over and back since you will have great view of river, park, city view and Manhattan Skyline. Its like a suburb in the city. We definitely recommend this place.
We had a wonderful time on Roosevelt Island in New York at Tomislav's flat. The room is really nice. Tomislav's wife is so nice and and we enjoyed our stay in New York. It is really close to Manhattaen. Subway station Rockefeller Center is only 6 minutes away with the subway. We can highly recommend Tomislav's guest room.
Location is great, a relatively quiet part of the city but still central. The room is fine. Good value compared to other NYC locations,
I say thanks to tomislav and his wife for hospitality and kindness. Room was charming and well equipped.
The room was great! It was spacious, lots of natural light, big private bathroom with bath, air conditioning, a microwave and small fridge. The wifi was fast. The room is just of the living room, but a couple of screens make sure everybody has their privacy. The family was always available if I needed them, but gave me my privacy when I wanted it. They were very helpful with showing me the laundry room in the building and giving me some washing liquids.
Roosevelt island felt really safe. The tram (10 minutes by foot) to Manhattan is great and mostly more reliable than the subway (which didn't run to Manhattan on weekends due to maintenance). There's a supermarket just across the street.
I would definitely recommend this place!
I really enjoyed my stay in this apartment. The family is very friendly and they helped us with everything we needed.
you have privacy because the room is too close to the main door. It has also an attached bathroom, an enormous closet, tv, a small fridge and microware. The only problem is that in the morning there is too much light for sleeping.
Roosvelt island is a nice place to stay. It is quiet and safe. It is to close to Manhattan by subway or by tram. There is a free shuttle between the subway station and the island and It stops in front of the apartment! There is also a grocery store so close.
So don't hesitate to choose this apartment because it is a nice place to stay.
Great place to stay at. Tomislav and his wife was very friendly and answer our questions When we arrived. The Room was bigger than we except. Rosevelt Island is à great place to stay at. 8 minutes Walk to the Metro and the cabinlift or take the free bus. The Metro takes 7 minutes to the SW corner to Central park and only 15 minutes with the express Metro to downtown. Perfect location to stay at in new york.
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Contact: Gregg Ochoa (573) 522-2760
JEFFERSON CITY---Liberty Energy (Midstates) Corp., d/b/a Liberty Utilities, has filed an application with the Missouri Public Service Commission to change its Infrastructure System Replacement Surcharge (ISRS).
The current ISRS for residential customers is $0.68 a month. Liberty proposes to increase that to $1.69 a month.
Applications to intervene and participate in this case must be filed no later than August 29, 2012, with the Secretary of the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0360.
Liberty Utilities (formerly Atmos Energy) serves approximately 56,300 natural gas customers in Missouri.


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GREENSBORO, NC (ACC news release) — Florida State and Miami led all Atlantic Coast Conference schools each with four players selected to the 2011 Preseason All-ACC Football team in voting conducted by the media at the annual ACC Football Kickoff, which was held Monday and Tuesday at the Pinehurst Resort. The Preseason All-ACC team was announced Wednesday.
In all, 15 of the 25 honorees on the team earned first or second-team All-ACC honors last fall, with nine having been selected to the All-ACC first team. Three of the selections are returning first-team 2011 All-Americas.
The Seminoles, tabbed by the media at the ACC Football Kickoff to win their first ACC Football title since 2005, had quarterback E.J. Manuel (Virginia Beach, VA) and offensive tackle Andrew Datko (Weston, FL) chosen on offense; defensive end Brandon Jenkins (Tallahassee, FL) selected on offense; and cornerback Greg Reid (Valdosta, GA) named as the specialist for his abilities as a punt and kickoff returner.
Miami, beginning its first season under new head coach Al Golden, also had four players selected in guard Brandon Washington (Miami), center Tyler Horn (Memphis), outside linebacker Sean Spence (Miami) and safety Ray-Ray Armstrong (Sanford, FL).
Virginia Tech, Clemson and North Carolina all had three selections apiece. Named for the Hokies, who were tabbed by the media to win the Coastal Division, were cornerback Jayron Hosley (Delray Beach, FL), who led the nation in pass interceptions in 2010, safety Eddie Whitley (Charlotte) and offensive tackle Blake DeChristopher (Midlothian, VA). Clemson's honorees included running back Andre Ellington (Moncks Corner, SC), defensive tackle Brandon Thompson (Thomasville, GA) and punter Dawson Zimmerman (Lawrenceville, GA). Tabbed for the Tar Heels were wide receiver Dwight Jones (Burlington), defensive end Quinton Coples (Kinston) and defensive tackle Tydreke Powell (Ahoksie).
Boston College and Duke each had two players chosen. BC was led by preseason player of the year tailback Montel Harris (Jacksonville, FL) who enters the season needing 1,002 rushing yards to break the 33-year-old ACC career record set in 1978 by former NC State All-America Ted Brown, and 2010 unanimous All-America linebacker Luke Kuechly, who led the nation in tackles per game in 2010 and is the NCAA's leading career returning tackler in tackles per game. Harris and Kuechly tied for the highest amount of votes received as each were named on 49 ballots. Duke was represented by All-America placekicker Will Snyderwine (Potomac, MD) and wide receiver Conner Vernon (Miami, FL), who led the ACC in 2010 in receptions per game.
Georgia Tech, Maryland, NC State and Virginia were represented on the team by one player each: Georgia Tech offensive guard Omoregie Uzzi (Lithonia, GA), who helped the Jackets lead the nation in rushing offense last year; Maryland linebacker Kenny Tate (Forestville, MD), who moved from safety to linebacker this year and was named to the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award; NC State tight end George Bryan (Castle Hayne), a 2010 John Mackey Award semifinalist; and Virginia cornerback Chase Minnifield (Lexington, KY), who has been named to the preseason watch list for the Thorpe, Nagurski, and Bednarik Awards.
Those who were chosen first-team All-ACC last fall included Montel Harris and Luke Kuechly of Boston College, Brandon Jenkins of Florida State, Kenny Tate of Maryland (though selected at safety last year), Brandon Washington of Miami, Quinton Coples of North Carolina, George Bryan of NC State, Chase Minnifield of Virginia, and Jayron Hosley of Virginia Tech.
The six selections who were named to the second team 2010 All-ACC squad were Conner Vernon and Will Snyderwine of Duke, Sean Spence and Ray-Ray Armstrong of Miami, Omoregie Uzzi of Georgia Tech and Blake DeChristopher of Virginia Tech.
Three members of the 2011 preseason team were repeaters from 2010 preseason squad in Montel Harris and Luke Kuechly of Boston College and George Bryan of NC State.
The three All-Americas were Boston College's Luke Kuechly, who was a 2011 unanimous first-team choice, Duke's Will Snyderwine (AFCA) and Virginia Tech's Jayron Hosley (Walter Camp, Scout.com).
In all, eleven of the 12 ACC schools were represented on the preseason All-ACC team. A total of 51 ballots were turned in from the more than 290 media members in attendance at the 2011 ACC Football Kickoff.
The closest position vote turned out to be the center position where Miami's Tyler Horn edged out Clemson's Dalton Freeman (Pelion, S.C.), by one vote, 18 to 17.
2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Preseason Team
Pos. Name (Votes) Ht Wt Class Hometown
WR Conner Vernon, Duke (20) 6-2 195 Junior Miami
WR Dwight Jones, North Carolina (26) 6-4 225 Senior Burlington
TE George Bryan, NC State (40) 6-5 265 Senior Castle Hayne
T Blake DeChristopher, Virginia Tech (30) 6-5 312 Senior Midlothian, VA
T Andrew Datko, Florida State (29) 6-6 321 Senior Weston, FL
G Brandon Washington, Miami (28) 6-4 320 Senior Miami
G Omoregie Uzzi, Georgia Tech (21) 6-3 300 Junior Lithonia, GA
C Tyler Horn, Miami (18) 6-4 305 Senior Memphis
QB EJ Manuel, Florida State (23) 6-5 245 Junior Virginia Beach, VA
RB Montel Harris, Boston College (49) 5-10 200 Senior Jacksonville, FL
RB Andre Ellington, Clemson (19) 5-10 190 Junior Moncks Corner, SC
Pos. Name (Votes) Ht Wt Class Hometown
DE Brandon Jenkins, Florida State (44) 6-3 265 Junior Tallahassee, FL
DE Quinton Coples, North Carolina (38) 6-6 285 Senior Kinston
DT Tydreke Powell, North Carolina (21) 6-3 310 Senior Ahoskie
DT Brandon Thompson, Clemson (21) 6-2 310 Senior Thomasville, GA
LB Luke Kuechly, Boston College (49) 6-3 235 Junior Cincinnati
LB Sean Spence, Miami (35) 6-0 224 Senior Miami
LB Kenny Tate, Maryland (23) 6-4 220 Senior Forestville, MD
CB Chase Minnifield, Virginia (38) 6-0 185 Senior Lexington, KY
CB Jayron Hosely, Virginia Tech (32) 5-10 170 Junior Delray Beach, FL
S Ray-Ray Armstrong, Miami (36) 6-4 215 Junior Sanford, FL
S Eddie Whitley, Virginia Tech (17) 6-1 187 Senior Charlotte
Pos. Name (Votes) Ht Wt Class Hometown
PK Will Snyderwine, Duke (18) 5-11 190 Senior Potomac, MD
P Dawson Zimmerman, Clemson (21) 6-0 205 Senior Lawrenceville, GA
SP Greg Reid, Florida State (22) 5-8 186 Junior Valdosta, GA


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Inspector Gadget theme song performed by Tesla coils
A group of scientists and Tesla coil enthusiast put together an impressive video. They've managed to excite the coils in a way that makes them appear to sing. In this video, the coils are "singing" the theme song to an animated children's show, Inspector Gadget.


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New students will not be accepted into the program at this time. Contact the department for more information.
Introduces students to the aging process, concerns of older adults and the service delivery system. Students interested in this minor should declare it by the second semester of their junior year, have a plan of study approved by the gerontology program coordinator, and have it forwarded to the Registrar's Office. For additional information about this minor, contact the department.
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Trends and action steps on internet rights: GISWatch special edition 2
By APC for APCNews
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 30 October 2012
This second special edition is a follow-up to the 2011 Global Information Society Watch publication. It specifically maps themes and trends that emerged in the 2011 edition, and also follows up on the action steps suggested in the country reports to see how relevant they still are one year later. The publication is available for download.Full article at https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/giswatch-2011-special-edition-2


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Supervisory employees vote 5-3 to join union
Nisswa city department heads voted 5-3 last week to join the Minnesota Public Employees Association (MNPEA) of Roseville.
Voting were the city clerk, police chief, fire chief, planning and zoning administrator, Spirits manager, Pickle Factory manager, parks director and public works director.
The eight mail ballots had to be returned by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, and were tabulated at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the BMS.
According to the Bureau of Mediation Services (BMS) in St. Paul, the status quo order it issued Aug. 19 that prevented the city council from making any staffing changes has been lifted.
That order resulted when some city supervisory employees filed a petition with the BMS to form a collective bargaining unit after the city council suspended police chief Craig Taylor and offered him a resignation settlement a day later. The council indicated it would terminate Taylor if he didn't accept that resignation settlement.
The council reinstated Taylor nearly a week later after learning the council couldn't make any staffing changes until the petition for unionization was settled.
The vote means MNPEA will be recognized as the supervisory employees' representative to form the collective bargaining unit that will negotiate contracts.
According to the MNPEA website, that group was established to provide public employees in Minnesota with an alternative to the standard national and international unions. While most groups MNPEA represents are from law enforcement or corrections, it does represent the city of East Bethel and the city of Jordan clerical workers.


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Dan Marrs
Dan Marrs, a longtime Key West resident, passed away peacefully, with his wife by his side, early Wednesday morning, Dec. 5, 2012. Dan was a good, kind, honest man who loved life and fought a tough and courageous battle to the end. One of seven children, he was born in Detroit, Mich., on Nov. 28, 1947. He is survived by his beloved wife of 10 years, Cindy Morris, and daughters Carrie and Jenean Marrs. He is also survived by brothers Terry (Laurie) and David Marrs and sisters Cathy (Mark) Yarde and Theresa (Mike) Vandenbussche, who reside in Michigan, and many dear friends.
Dan grew up in Michigan, where he attended Catholic grade school, served as an altar boy and graduated from St. Ambrose High School in 1965. A star football player and one of the "Goodfellows" with the St. Ambrose Cavaliers, Dan went on to attend college in Colorado on a football scholarship before being called up to serve his country during the Vietnam War. He was fortunate enough to be stationed in Hawaii, where he met and married his first wife, Estella, mother of his two daughters. After his discharge, they moved to the Florida Keys and built one of the first homes on Azalea Drive in Key Haven. Dan was a store and then regional manager for several years for Zayre Department Stores before they went out of business, and most recently, for the last six years, helped manage the liquor store at Dons' Place. He loved sports of all types, particularly football, and his sports trivia knowledge was amazing. He was also a great animal lover who spoiled the family cats, Tigger, Dylan, Diesel, VanGogh and Cody, and always had treats ready and waiting for the many dogs who stopped by to visit him at the liquor store.
His wife, Cindy, extends a very special thanks to the owners of Dons' Place for all their generosity, kindness and help since Dan was diagnosed in August. The family also wishes to thank Drs. Harrell, Ahamad, Oldham and their staff for their care and compassion, the Rev. Stephen Braddock and the staff of VNA/Hospice for helping make Dan's last days as peaceful and comfortable as possible.
A local memorial service will be held sometime after the new year, and a family service will also be held in Michigan in June of next year.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations in the name of Dan Marrs to the Florida Keys SPCA, 5230 College Road, Key West, FL 33040. The Dean-Lopez Funeral Home is entrusted with all funeral arrangements.


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WASHINGTON -- American Eagle Outfitters has expanded its partnership with the Student Conservation Association to engage students in service to America's national parks. The partnership will, for the first time, involve in-store promotion of Student Conservation Association activities in more than 800 AEO stores in the United States and Canada; visibility on AEO's 25-story-high digital billboard in New York City's Times Square, and an online contest enabling the public to determine which national park will benefit from the next collaborative project stemming from this partnership. These components are in addition to AEO's sponsorship (since 2007) of SCA's Alternative Spring Break program and other general support.
This expanded partnership will heighten awareness of SCA with AEO's coveted customers and encourage youth to explore volunteer and job opportunities in conservation and the growing "green" economy. SCA develops conservation leaders by providing college and high school students with service opportunities in all 50 states, from urban communities to national parks and forests. The National Park Service, for example, states up to 12% of its workforce started with SCA.
Highlights of the new campaign, which will run from February 15 to March 11, include:
In-store promotions in more than 800 AEO stores will include window signage highlighting SCA, video displays containing footage from an SCA project in the Santa Monica Mountains, and customer point-of-purchase materials.
The video footage will be featured on AEO's 25-story-high digital billboard in New York City's Times Square, atop AEO's 25,000-square-foot flagship store. The billboard will provide SCA with prominent visibility in one of the world's best-known pieces of real estate.
An online contest – called "We donate. You decide." – will enable the public to determine which national park will benefit from the next collaborative AEO-SCA project. Participants can vote at www.thesca.org/aevote for one of three parks:
National Parks of New York Harbor (NY and NJ), including Gateway National Recreation Area, much of which was heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy, such as Sandy Hook (NJ) and Breezy Point (NY);
Olympic National Park (WA), one of the most ecologically diverse conservation areas in the nation;
Yosemite National Park (CA), which was central to the idea of creating a national park system and is visited by nearly 4 million people each year.
The winning national park will benefit from a crew of 12 college students working for one week during the summer to help improve the park. Individuals may apply to participate in that crew and earn an all-expenses-paid, week-long, volunteer trip to the selected park.
Another highlight of the expanded partnership is continued AEO support for SCA's Alternative Spring Break initiative, which has grown to include 120 college students from around the country who will work at Big Cypress National Preserve (FL) and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (CA) during the month of March.
"American Eagle Outfitters is pleased to grow our partnership with SCA and foster an initiative close to our hearts," said American Eagle Outfitters Foundation director Marcie Eberhart. "It is important to us to encourage the ideals of conservation and activism and to share our love of the outdoors with current and future generations. We're honored to be a part of the greater program with SCA and to bring awareness to what is a passion project for us."


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Posted by Stephanie Balaouras on April 29, 2009
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed 64 cases of swine flu in the United States and as other countries including Canada (6), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (2), Israel (2), Spain (2), and now Germany have confirmed cases, the World Health Organization has raised the worldwide pandemic threat level to Phase 4. This means health officials have confirmed that the disease can spread person-to-person and has the potential to cause "community-level" outbreaks. The CDC recommends avoiding travel to Mexico and if you get sick, to stay home from work. Large numbers of employees out sick will impact the business (revenue) and cost your company a lot of money in productivity loss (you still pay employees their salary when they're out).
Stopping the spread of the disease and treating those infected is obviously a health issue, but the swine flu outbreak does have implications for IT professionals in both the short term and the long term. First, if you haven't done so already, you need find a copy of the bird flu business continuity plan (BCP) that your company developed in 2006 and call a walk through exercise immediately. And if your responsibility is IT disaster recovery and not necessarily business continuity, don't wait around for someone else to dust of the plan and call the exercise - this is too important to wait. Call your CIO, CISO, COO, and CEO and tell them it needs to be done now. There's a good chance that the plan is out of date and that it hasn't been exercised in a long time.


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So his frikkin heart doctor is a psychologist now huh? It is sad day in america.
The 'pre-crime' division is hard at work.
According to gov. documents, the cashiers at stores are supposed to be reporting people who buy too much stuff to the local fusion centers. That way the gangs with badges(and machine guns), can come and steal it all from them.
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As our readers know, Sightings intends to bring attention to the power of visually communicating ideas. Although I do not pretend to completely comprehend all of the thinking represented in physicist Richard Feynman's diagrams, I continue to be fascinated by his attempts to find the essential visual representations of complicated ideas. I've asked David Kaiser to help us understand Feynman's thinking. David is the Leo Marx Assistant Professor of the History of Science in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a lecturer in the Department of Physics. He completed doctoral degrees in theoretical physics and the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of two dozen research articles and editor or co-editor of six books on the history of modern physics. His book Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
F. F. Can you give us a historical perspective on when and why Feynman began his drawings?
D. K. In the early days of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the 1920s and 1930s, calculations were notoriously convoluted, the algebra often spilling over seven and eight lines just to calculate a single quantity. Worse, these nasty calculations almost always returned infinity, even when physicists asked straightforward questions. After the war, a new crop of young theoretical physicists, including Feynman, returned to QED and its problems. He decided first to try to take charge of the algebraic morass, streamlining the laborious algebraic manipulations, before worrying about the mysteries of the infinities. And so he began his doodlings in the late 1940s.
F. F. Would you say that Feynman was a visual thinker? Do you think his visual approach to these diagrams gave him insight into thinking about these invisible worlds different from his colleagues who worked only with numbers?
D. K. Feynman was definitely a visual thinker—no question about it. In most of his articles during this period, he made it clear that he was introducing handy calculational approaches rather than rigorously derived results. In fact, he often emphasized up front that many of the results he was reporting had not yet been rigorously derived, and that perhaps they couldn't be (at least not by himself). Yet he hardly had less faith in them for all that—he had other reasons for finding his results "physically plausible," and often those plausibility arguments hung on his intuitions and imagery. Not all physicists thought the same way then, nor do they today. Many physicists who were active during the 1940s and 1950s report having great difficulty following Feynman's papers, precisely because they tended to think in terms of starting principles followed by derived consequences, whereas Feynman almost never organized his papers that way. Others found his intuitive explanations, which usually relied on visual imagery (whether pictured or described in words), to be much easier to follow than the more abstruse mathematical deductions of other physicists like Julian Schwinger.
F. F. How was Feynman's view of his drawings different from his colleagues'?
D. K. To Feynman, the diagrams showed what really happened in the quantum-mechanical world. Beyond a mere calculating trick, he came to see in the lines of his diagrams a patchwork of comings and goings on the microlevel, particles careening to and fro as they marched through space and time. Other physicists developed different interpretations. Freeman Dyson, who did more than anyone to promote the use of the diagrams, always emphasized their quantitative features. Schwinger avoided the diagrams altogether, sniffing later that Feynman's stick-figures had brought "computation to the masses." Yet Feynman's diagrams have flourished among physicists for all kinds of uses in the last half-century.
F. F. There seems to be suggestion of symmetry in the diagram at left. Am I reading too deeply into the forms, or do you think the symmetry is important?
D. K. Symmetry was an important element in using the diagrams, but, perhaps ironically, Feynman and others had to use many words to explain some of the relevant symmetries that might be obscured by this diagram. One big point was that the order of events could occur differently than pictured, and all of these possibilities had to be included on an equal footing. So in fact the equation that this diagram stood in for had more symmetries built into it than the diagram itself seemed to portray. Feynman, Dyson and others worked hard to make sure physicists understood that feature.
F. F. The elements seem to be lying in a particular two-dimensional space. But electron scattering occurs in three dimensions and over time. What do you think?
D. K. Of course trying to draw events unfolding in four dimensions (one temporal and three spatial) would be impossible on a sheet of paper, and even incorporating one additional spatial dimension in the line drawings would make them much more cumbersome to draw or to read. In drawing their Feynman diagrams, physicists followed the pictorial conventions that had been worked out decades earlier by people like Hermann Minkowski, who had similarly struggled to work out convenient two-dimensional line drawings to aid in making calculations with Einstein's special relativity.
F. F. Would you say that diagrammatical thinking is unusual in the physics community?
D. K. I don't think that it's unusual, but neither is it universal. For example, some cosmologists rely on two-dimensional line drawings (such as Penrose diagrams) to sketch out the causal structures of exotic spacetimes; others eschew these pictures and work more exclusively with the equations of Einstein's general relativity. Some physicists find Roger Penrose's diagrams "intuitive," familiar and helpful, whereas others see only criss-crossing diagonal lines whose physical "meaning" seems too difficult to extract, and so they rarely bother with them. Physicists employ many different types of thinking when broaching research questions.
Full caption: An electron has a certain likelihood of traveling from one place—call it x1—to another—say, x2. Richard Feynman introduced a handy abbreviation for this process: K+(2,1). Similarly, a photon, or quantum of light, has a certain likelihood to travel from one place to another, which Feynman abbreviated δ+(s2), where s represents the distance traveled in space and time. Finally, electrons have a certain probability of emitting or absorbing a photon, which Feynman could write down as eγμ (where e is the electron's charge). He conceived this diagram to illustrate what might happen when one electron approaches from the bottom left, the other from bottom right. The electron on the right could shoot out a photon. Having given up some of its energy and momentum, that electron would recoil. Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left. This series of events corresponded to a specific element in Feynman's calculation:
Yet as Feynman knew well, this was only the start of his work. The power of his diagrammatic technique came in the imagining of other permutations of the process. Even at the next-simplest level, there are nine distinct ways in which the electrons could fire two photons back and forth, each corresponding to several lines of algebra yet each also reducible to a modification of the simple diagram. This diagram first appeared in Feynman, R. P. 1949. Space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics. Physical Review 76:769–789.—David Kaiser
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000 WTNT42 KNHC 251434 TCDAT2 POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE KARL DISCUSSION NUMBER 45 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL122016 1100 AM AST SUN SEP 25 2016 While Karl was producing a large shield of deep convection earlier, the convective tops have since warmed substantially and decreased in coverage. The cyclone's cloud pattern resembles a baroclinic leaf, which is the typical satellite signature of a system that has become a frontal wave. The leading edge of a stratocumulus cloud deck, indicative of cold-air advection, is also encroaching on the low-level center. Based on these developments and FSU Phase Space diagrams that already show the cyclone as cold core, Karl is being declared an extratropical cyclone. The initial intensity estimate is held at 60 kt in agreement with earlier Global Hawk sonde data and the cyclone's rapid translational speed. Global models show Post- Tropical Karl being absorbed by a larger extratropical storm over the North Atlantic after about 24 hours. A series of earlier microwave images showed that the center was rapidly becoming deformed due to nearly 50 kt of southwesterly shear. Since this has made finding the location of the low-level center difficult, the initial motion estimate is a rather uncertain 055/42. The post-tropical cyclone is expected to accelerate a bit further toward the northeast and then turn north-northeast before losing its identity. FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INIT 25/1500Z 39.9N 47.9W 60 KT 70 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP 12H 26/0000Z 45.0N 39.7W 55 KT 65 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP 24H 26/1200Z 52.5N 31.5W 50 KT 60 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP 36H 27/0000Z...ABSORBED $$ Forecaster Kimberlain


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The fledgling Shopping Channel has sacked presenters and slashed its advertising rates to the extent that advertisers can "name their price".
But the channel's public relations consultants say they are just teething problems, and the channel is in good health.
One source said Sally Ridge, Anna Jobsz and food presenter Luca Villari had not had their contracts renewed.
Another presenter, Candy Lane, said she had taken leave to direct the dance routines on New Zealand's Got Talent and did not know whether she would be returning to the Shopping Channel in January. "Hopefully the cuts will help them with the cost so they can bring the team back together in the new year," Lane said.
Ridge declined to comment yesterday.
Jobsz said: "While I'm disappointed that I'm not on air, I can understand the need to create a model that works for them and I've been assured they will use me again once their filming days increase, which they hope will be soon.
"I really enjoyed my time learning with all the presenters and production team - a truly great bunch of people. So I hope the Shopping Channel is able to ramp things back up soon."
Presenter Mike Puru said his position was not affected.
"I'm sweet as," he said. "There have been some slight tweaks and that's all about making sure the channel's working for everyone.
"It's been good fun for me - I love chatting to people."
The channel launched in a flurry of publicity two months ago, and brought out Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria for a press conference and on-screen slot. But the channel has now reduced filming from six days to two.
An advertising source said: "I have heard things aren't going well, and only a handful of advertisers have done anything on the channel.
"It's the issue of ever-tightening budgets and the fear of putting money behind something that's new, unproven and hard to measure in terms of who and how many people are watching," the source said.
"They are offering really cheap rates to get on air, and this will be in part to get advertisers on board and also, possibly, because they're really struggling so have to offer crazy rates in the hope some people will take them up on it.
"I would say you could almost name your price at the moment."
The Shopping Channel's spokeswoman, Bullet PR's Megan Stuart, said it would be naive to expect that the model first taken to market would require no adjustment.
"The strengths of The Shopping Channel's operating model is that it is extremely flexible and enables them to constantly try different ways of doings things."
She said The Shopping Channel now required presenters to adopt a more powerful selling style on air.


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Merryl Birdcage Table Lamp Base
- Overview
An antique birdcage was the prototype for this bronze lamp, crafted from forged iron and detailed with carrying loops and a functioning door.
- Crafted of forged iron that's pierced and cut to create the look of a basket weave then hand finished in Dark Bronze.
- Features a functioning hinged door in the base.
- On/off switch on socket.
- Pair with any of our extra-large Mix & Match® shades (sold separately).
- UL-listed.
- Title 20 compliant lamps will be shipped to CA addresses.
- Dimensions & Care
- Overall: 12.75" diameter, 31.25" high
- Harp: 9.5" high
- Finial: 0.5" diameter
- Cord: 10' long
- Bulbs: 100 watts, type A (not included); CFL Bulbs included for Title 20 compliant lamps
- Weight: 10 pounds
- Dust with a soft, dry cloth.
- To protect the finish, do not apply abrasives or household cleaners.
- Do not exceed specified wattage.
- Shipping & Return Info
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Photographer: Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn, Writer: Perry Del Favero
Shabby-Chic Living Room
Lacy curtains, fresh florals, and plenty of monogrammed pillows are just a few of the feminine touches that give this room its calming and sweet mood. Pieces scored at thrift stores and flea markets were refreshed with paint, then artfully applied to achieve the shabby-chic distressed look.
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Kick Up Your Heels in the Great Smokies
The Foxtrot Bed & Breakfast • Gatlinburg, TN
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Deluxe King Room on Sundays through Thursdays
- Breakfast and Afternoon Lunch for Two
- 1.5-Hour Whitewater Rafting Trip for Two on the Big Pigeon River
- Two Embroidered Foxtrot Baseball Hats
Get those toes tapping and find your rhythm on the thrilling whitewater rapids with an Escape to The Foxtrot Bed & Breakfast, home to one of the best views in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Promenade with a partner to the magnificent Smoky Mountains for an overnight getaway in a Deluxe King room ($212). Admire the expanse of woods outside your window, and then two-step over to your cozy king bed to enjoy free Wi-Fi and movies.
Fill up on a decadent three-course breakfast before sashaying down the Big Pigeon River on a 1.5-hour whitewater rafting trip for two.
"Starting at the Waterville Power Plant, a five-mile stretch of the Pigeon River has ten rapids and offers some of the most challenging whitewater rafting in the South," Frommer's says.
When it's time for lunch, you'll be treated to a gourmet meal that'll earn high marks from the judges. If you still have energy, let your feet find a new beat on the beautiful hiking trails of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Stroll around town; experience panoramic sunset views atop Clingmans Dome; or dine on chicken fried with a layer of crunchy pecans or fresh rainbow trout at the Park Grill Steakhouse.
Dance cheek to cheek with this Escape, and you—and your dancing shoes—will reach new heights.
"The home is nestled at the end of a quiet street so there's no traffic or street noise like you would find on the Gatlinburg strip, and the view from the back porch... breathtaking. The three-course breakfast was amazing."-- BedandBreakfast.com
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September 2008
Models of Success
This guide focuses on developing and sustaining successful magnet schools. It tells the stories of Combs and five other elementary and middle school magnets and the distinct challenges each has faced. It also analyzes the strategies they used in the planning and implementation phases of their development and identifies some potential factors that allow them to keep the school doors open as magnet schools that are built to last. Finally, the guide addresses a core question for educators at these schools: how to sustain the integrity of their vision and mission as they face challenges common to many districts and schools in our nation today.
The schools profiled in this guide were selected with input from a group of advisors that included researchers, district-level practitioners, principals, and the executive director of Magnet Schools of America (MSA), a national association that helps schools, districts, and states to implement magnet programs. The selection criteria focused on identifying schools that have demonstrated strong achievement results; reduced minority group isolation; and sustained success over time.
Suggestions were culled from districts with large numbers of magnet schools, specifically those with well-established magnet programs. The advisory group and regional boards of MSA also nominated schools with the aim of finding a range of locations and conditions, reflecting the diverse contexts and challenges facing magnets (for a detailed description of the site selection process, see appendix A).
Each school faced distinct challenges and drew from a variety of resources to sustain its growth and success (see table 1 on p. 6). Combs, the K-5 magnet, had the problem of needing to quickly choose and implement a new theme that could attract a broader enrollment base. FAIR (Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resource School), a grades 4-8 magnet school in suburban Crystal, Minn., operates through an interdistrict consortium, with 45 percent of its student population coming from Minneapolis. Although it benefited from a new school building, it needed to develop an effective interdistrict infrastructure. In Las Vegas, the Mabel Hoggard Math and Science Magnet had to develop theme-related expertise among its elementary teachers through training and ongoing support.
Facing different challenges in their planning and implementation phases, all the profiled magnets are models of sustained success. Normal Park Museum Magnet School in Chattanooga, Tenn., was created in a district with a history of low-performing schools and clusters of minority-isolated schools. By developing strong partnerships with local cultural institutions, it developed a museum theme and was able to reverse the district's declining trends and patterns of segregation. Normal Park educators also successfully tackled the achievement gap, particularly for its economically disadvantaged and African-American student subgroups, as evidenced by comparing 2003 to 2007 results on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP). For economically disadvantaged students, proficiency rates in reading rose from 64 percent to 93 percent; and, in math, from 62 percent to 98 percent. For African-American students, proficiency rates in reading rose from 60 percent to 96 percent; and, in math, from 53 percent to 96 percent.
Raymond Academy for Engineering in Houston is a K-4 Title I6 magnet school with the largest student population (846) among the six profiled schools. The school's innovative curriculum, infused with real-world, project-based learning experiences, was instrumental in earning Raymond's "Exemplary School" status from the Texas Education Agency. Since the implementation of NCLB, student performance at Raymond has increased each year and now surpasses district and state levels; Raymond's test scores for 2006-07 indicate almost universal proficiency in reading and math among all subgroups, including Hispanic, low income, English as a second language (ESL), and special education (see table 2 on p. 35).
In San Jose, Calif., the River Glen Elementary & Middle School is a K-8 dual language immersion school that has celebrated its 20th anniversary. What began in 1986 as an alternative strand in a local K-5 elementary school, eventually expanded to its own dedicated magnet school. Years later, due to parental demand, River Glen grew to include grades 6-8. Its academic success earned it a California Distinguished School award in 2000, and, in a district that is not making adequate yearly progress (AYP), River Glen has done so five years in a row. Today, River Glen's success reaches beyond the school walls, and the school serves as a pioneer and model for dual immersion programs across the district, state, and country since receiving the National Title VII Academic Excellence Award7 in 1995. Its track record for developing bilingual and biliterate students from white, native English speakers as well as Hispanic, native Spanish speakers spans more than two decades. (For selected characteristics of each featured school, see table 1 on p. 6.)
|1. Planning: Before the Doors Open
|2. Implementing: After the Doors Open
|3. Sustaining Success: Keeping the Doors Open
Develop a Viable Theme & Mission
Establish a Rigorous & Relevant
Attract Quality Leaders & Staff
Maintain the Theme With Integrity
Establish Equitable Practices for a
Diverse Student Body
Develop a Culture of Empowerment
Provide Ongoing Professional
Build Leadership Capacity
Adopt a Continuous Improvement
Build Win-Win Partnerships
Develop Community Outreach
Align With a District Vision
This guide describes the challenges faced by each of these schools and the various strategies used to address them. It is intended for district-level leaders and school staff interested in applying or adapting promising practices for developing and sustaining magnet schools. It defines and explores strategies through two frames. In Part I, a cross-site analysis provides examples of common practices in three phases of a magnet school's general development: before the doors open, after the doors open, and keeping the doors open (see above). In Part II, each school is profiled in a narrative that highlights its specific contexts and challenges. The profiles are structured to describe the founding and early challenges of each school; how each went about implementing its magnet program; and how each school established systems for sustaining success.
Table 1. Selected Characteristics of Profiled K-8 Magnet School Sites
From the beginning, these magnet schools were planned and created—or, in the case of Combs, re-created—with sustainability in mind. Their founders have attended to the practical demands of the start-up phase, as well as to the forwardthinking design of supports and infrastructure. And following their early years, these schools have demonstrated adaptability in the face of new challenges. In the text box on p. 5, each column identifies a particular phase in a school's development and describes, in general, the common approaches shared by the featured schools. Part I of the guide follows the same outline.
The guide is based on case study research, which involved a visit by researchers to each site, interviews with district and school staff, focus groups with members of the school community, and a review of school- and district-related documents. Thus, the guide is based, in part, on documented information about a school and its outcomes, in part, on researcher observation, and, in part, on the perceptions of those interviewed, including staff, parents, and students. Because it is not based on experimental research that can yield valid causal claims about what works, readers should judge for themselves the merits of these practices, based on their understanding of why they should work, how they fit the local context, and what happens when they actually try them. Also, readers should understand that these descriptions do not constitute an endorsement of specific practices or products.


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Nuts-and-bolts information to plan your trip, plus a checklist of essentials to include when you pack and a list of links to local media
Entry Requirements: U.S. citizens need a valid passport to enter Spain and can stay 90 days without a visa.
Security: Pickpocketing and purse snatching are persistent problems in the Ciutat Vella and L'Eixample. Leave your passport in the hotel safe and carry a copy. Take only as much cash as you'll need for the day. Don't use a fanny pack or leave a bag unsecured on the seat next to you in an outdoor café.
Time: Barcelona is six hours ahead of U.S. eastern standard time.
Money: The currency of Spain is the euro. For current conversion rates go to OANDA Currency Converter. www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Phone Calls: Landline numbers in Barcelona begin with 93 or 90, plus seven digits. For nine-digit mobile phone numbers, no prefix is needed.
When to Go: Barcelona gets mild, dry winters, with average temperatures of 48ºF (9ºC) in January and February—when there are fewer tourists and lower room rates. It almost never snows. July and August are very hot and humid. May-June and late September-October are the ideal times to visit.
Getting There: Continental, Delta, and US Airways fly nonstop to Barcelona from the U.S. Other carriers usually make a change of planes in a European hub city such as London, Amsterdam, or Frankfurt. Barcelona International Airport, six miles (ten kilometers) from the city, is served by commuter trains, shuttle buses, and metered cabs.
Getting Around: Licensed cabs are yellow and black; a green light on the hood indicates it's available. Surcharge for luggage in the trunk.
The Barcelona Card issued by the Tourism Association gives you unlimited travel on subways, buses, trams, and trains to/from the airport. Good for 2-5 days, with free or discounted admission to most museums and attractions. www.barcelonaturisme.com
Barcelona Bici lets you rent a bicycle by the hour or the day from any of three strategic stations around the city, and return it at any other. www.barcelonaturisme.com
Tips: "Remember this is a city—you're not at a beach resort. Pack to dress comfortably, but keep in mind what's appropriate for restaurants and evenings out."—Tara Stevens, writer, Barcelona Metropolitan.
Walking Shoes: Barcelona is a great city to wander in. "Just walking along the street, you find yourself constantly surprised by scenes and events which have a surreal feeling to them."—Matthew Tree, Anglo-Catalan writer. Pack sturdy, comfortable walkers.
Sunscreen: The city can be brutally hot in July and August; even in late spring, the sun is deceptively strong. Bring sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15—especially if you plan to spend any time on the beach—and a hat or a cap with visor.
Warm Gear: Chances are a cotton sweater or a light jacket will be all you need in Barcelona until late October; from November through February, you'll want a fleece pullover and/or a warm coat.
Umbrella: The "rainy season" in Barcelona is September-October. Rain is an occasional event the rest of the year; a folding umbrella might come in handy, but a plastic poncho would be less fuss.
T-shirts, Shorts, Sandals: Best gear by far for walking around Barcelona in late spring and summer. Discouraged, though not forbidden, for visiting churches.
Adaptor: If you're bringing small appliances that run on 220V, make sure you have an adaptor for the European socket.
Ear Plugs: Barcelona can be noisy. Most nights, there are people out on the streets until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., and traffic is still heavy. Double-glazed hotel windows don't help much. If you're a fitful sleeper, pack earplugs or a "white noise" machine.
Dress Clothes: People in Barcelona dress fairly informally for all but the most elegant restaurant or events like the opera. Pack something with élan for a big night out, if that's on your itinerary, but otherwise you can safely leave the pearls and the necktie home.
Web Links
Gaudí and Art Nouveau in Catalonia
Encyclopedic info on Gaudí and his fellow modernistas: architecture, painting, decorative arts, literature, and music. www.gaudiallgaudi.com
Barcelona Turisme
Official portal page for information about cultural activities and events, hotels and restaurants, tours and itineraries, and tips for navigating the city. www.barcelonaturisme.com
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
Guide to the bus, train, and subway system. Routes, timetables, maps, online sale of tickets and travel cards. www.tmb.net/en_US/home.jsp
FC Barcelona
Official site of the city's powerhouse football (soccer) club: team news, player profiles, virtual tour of the stadium. www.fcbarcelona.com
Sunday Joint
News and reviews of club nights and events in Barcelona: funk, soul, reggae, Latin, hip-hop, and more. www.myspace.com/sundayjoint
Download free audio file guide to Barcelona's top 16 tourist attractions, a track on the history of the city, and a city map of the sights listed. www.iaudioguide.com
El Celler Català
Online sales and information on the wine-producing regions around Barcelona, the top wineries, and most interesting wines. www.elcellercatala.com
Local Media
Barcelona Metropolitan
Free monthly magazine in English with articles on local culture, events, leisure, film and restaurant reviews, city living. Distributed via foreign consulates, bookshops, theaters, restaurants, bars, and Internet cafés citywide. www.barcelona-metropolitan.com
Barcelona Time Out
Weekly magazine in Catalan and monthly edition in English. A guide to the city's restaurants, bars, hotels, shops, arts, and entertainment. Barcelona Time Out is also available online. www.timeout.com/barcelona
Glossy quarterly in English and Spanish, for cutting-edge design, architecture and the arts, fashion, and trendy places to eat and drink. www.b-guided.com
Catalonia Today
English-language weekly newspaper (comes out on Thursdays), with news, political analysis, cultural features, and a detailed calendar of events. Available at kiosks and by subscription. www.cataloniatoday.cat
What's On
Quarterly Spanish/English publication of Guía del Ocio, the weekly pocket guide to concerts and performances, exhibitions and films, with restaurant and shop listings and reviews. The Guía comes out on Thursdays at kiosks and newsstands, in Spanish, but with English back pages. www.guiadelocio.com/
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