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After sweeping titles at three straight meets, the Pequot Lakes Patriots boys' and girls' cross country teams faced one of their most competitive fields this season at the Crosby-Ironton Invitational on Thursday, Oct. 3, at Ruttger's Resort in Deerwood.
The Pequot Lakes boys were third behind Brainerd and Crosby-Ironton while the Patriot girls finished fourth behind Brainerd, C-I and South Ridge.
"The C-I and Brainerd boys were both really good," said Pequot Lakes coach Jon Dale. "It was good competition, but you run better against good competition. And our boys ran well."
Seth Golden led the Patriots with an 11th place finish. The top Pequot Lakes girl was Caitie Ryan, who was 15th overall. Coach Dale said the Patriot girls also competed well despite missing two of its top three runners.
"We were missing Jackie Brine-Doyle, who was on a trip, and Leric Larson, who was sick," Dale said. "So we only had one (Ryan) of our top three runners at the meet. But the team did well."
The Pine River-Backus Tigers also competed at the meet. The PR-B boys were fifth while the girls finished seventh. T.J. Lukenan was 22nd for the top finish by a Tiger while Liz Downie was 46th to lead the PR-B girls.
PR-B will run in the Ottertail Central Invitational at Henning at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10. Also on Oct. 10, Pequot Lakes in scheduled to compete in the Mid-State Conference meet at Emily Greens Golf Course at 3 p.m.
"The Mid-State meet will also have tough competition with Detroit Lakes, Park Rapids and C-I," Dale said. "It's a high-caliber meet for the boys and girls that will prepare us ready for sections."
Dale is also looking forward to competing at the Birch Tree Conference meet on Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Menahga.
"It will be fun for our boys to go against Ottertail Central again," said Dale, whose squad edged OTC by one point to claim the title at last month's Pillager Invitational at Madden's Resort.
Boys team scores: 1-Crosby-Ironton 22; 2-Brainerd 36; 3-Pequot Lakes 74; 4-South Ridge 112; 5-Pine River-Backus 132
Individual winner (5,000 meters) 1-Will Goodwin - C-I - 17:10
PR-B results: 22-TJ Lukanen 19:43; 31-Luke Downie 20:08; 42-Zack Tulenchik 20:48; 46-Troy Fetter 20:57; 57-Josh Sechser 22:36; 67-Jacob Riley 24:14; 70-Kyle Tschida 24:48; 71-Lucas McCoy 24:49
Pequot Lakes results: 11-Seth Golden 18:30, 13-Reid Pierzinski 18:33, 15-Tony Fitzer 18:55, 18-Connor Dale 19:24, 19-Karl Brine-Doyle 19:26, 20-Isaac Allen 19:32, 23-Jacob Tschida 19:47
Girls' team scores: 1-Brainerd 23; 2-Crosby-Ironton 66; 3-South Ridge 76; 4-Pequot Lakes 107; 5-Mille Lacs 121; 6- Northland-DR 132; 7-Pine River-Backus 191
Individual winner (4,000 meters): 1-Margaret Stockman (C-I) 16:04
PR-B results: 46-Liz Downie 20:24; 47-Cheyenne Swenson 20:25 50-Laura Oats 20:41; 51-Madison Welte 20:47; 57-Misato Marcum 21:35
Pequot Lakes results: 15-Caitie Ryan 17:53, 23-Elsa Headlee 18:33, 27-Sarah Rudlang 18:55, 32-Jessica Faacks 19:06, 37-Colleen Tschida 19:33, 39-Rachel Friberg 19:43, 43-Megan Glover 20:00
Jim Machacek Invitational
Pequot Lakes swept the boys' and girls' titles at the Jim Machacek Invitaional on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Black Bear Golf Course north of Pine River.
Tony Fitzer ran a 17:53 to win his first varsity race, and help Pequot Lakes win the boys' title with a score of 17. Seth Golden, Reid Pierzinski and Isaac Allen each finished in the top five for the Patriots. Luke Downie paced the Tigers by finishing 13th.
The Pequot Lakes girls, led by Ryan's second-place finish in 17:22, captured the team with 28. Cheyanne Swenson led PR-B with a ninth-place finish in 18:38.
"Our kids all ran well," Dale said. "We had runners step up for us, like Sarah Rudlang and Elsa Headlee. Everyone keeps improving their times with each meet."
Boys team scores: 1-PL 17; 2-PR-Backus 113; 3-Pillager 114, Northland-DR, incomplete
Individual winner (5,000 meters): 1- Tony Fitzer (Pequot Lakes) 17:53
Pequot Lakes results: 2-Seth Golden 17:56, 3-Reid Pierzinski 18:03, 5-Isaac Allen 18:32, 6-Connor Dale 18:34, 7-Carl Brine-Doyle 18:35; 8-Jacob Tschida 18:36; 9-Dalton Engholm 18:47; 15-Cam Boller 19:18; 16. Cody Huss 19:24; 17-Austin Anderson 19:33; 20-Marty Fitzer 20:08; 21-Brett Peterson 20:12; 23-Levi Palmer 20:35; 24-Dillon Myer 20:53; 25-Sean Gerdes 21:18; 26-Hunter Larson 21:24; 29-Joe Najjar 21:40; 30-Josh Buell 21:47; 32-Chris Haman 21:51; 36-Grant Moe 22:35
PR-B results: 13-Luke Downie 19:00, 18-Troy Fetter 19:36, 22-Zack Tulenchik 20:20, 27-Josh Sechser 21:25, 33-Jake Riley 21:56, 35-Kyle Tschida 22:31, 37-Lucas McCoy 23:18, 39-Dallin Sonenstahl 26:15
Girls' team scores: 1-Pequot Lakes 28; 2-Northland-DR 43; 3-PR-B and Pillager, incomplete
Individual winner (4,000 meters): 1. Hannah Myers (N-DR) 16:42
Pequot Lakes results: 2-Catie Ryan 17:22, 3-Elsa Headlee 17:27, 5-Marie Larson 17:43, 8-Sarah Rudlang 18:09, 10-Colleen Tschida 18:55; 11-Megan Glover 18:56; 12-Jessica Fraacks 18:57; 13-Alysa Young 19:24; 16-Macy Dotty 19:53; 18-Katie Casanova 20:58
PR-B results: 9-Cheyanne Swenson 18:38, 20-Madison Welte 21:32


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Shop for Education
Every year, Foodland awards $200,000 in college scholarships to 100 Hawaii high school seniors through its Shop for Higher Education program. The annual statewide program runs during six weeks in February and March at all Foodland and Sack N Save stores. Since Shop for Higher Education began in 2006, more than 1080 scholarships have been awarded to college-bound seniors across the state, totaling more than $2.3 million.
Shop for Higher Education replaces Foodland's annual Shop for Better Education program which awarded computers and supplies to Hawaii's schools for 19 years since 1988. The new program addresses the need for higher education funding in our community, and helps make a positive impact on the lives of college-bound students in Hawaii.
How It Works:
Customers are encouraged to select their favorite Hawaii high school among the list of participating schools when they check out at any Foodland, Sack N Save or Foodland Farms store.
Then, every time they shop through the end of the program, they earn Maika`i Points for themselves and their designated school. The more Maika`i Points a school earns, the more scholarships it receives.
Scholarships are awarded based on the number of Maika`i Points schools earn in the program: The top 5 schools earning the most points receive (5) $2,000 scholarships each; the next 10 schools earning the most points receive (3) $2,000 scholarships each; the next 10 schools receive (2) $2,000 scholarships each; the next 25 schools receive (1) $2,000 scholarships each.
A total of one hundred $2,000 scholarships are given to deserving high school seniors across the state each year.
To see a list of Shop for Higher Education Participating Schools Click here
To view the Final 2017 Results for School Rankings Click here
If you have questions about the Shop For Higher Education program, please see our Shop For Higher Education FAQs.
For information, call Community Relations at (808) 732-0791 or email shopforhighereducation [at] foodland [dot] com.

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Favorite security book?
I'm hoping to stimulate a little discussion here. I see pretty frequent suggestions on this site for various penetration testing and hacking books, but not for many other security books. I'm guessing that the members here read other security books too, so I ask:
What is your favorite non-hacking security book?
My favorite security book is Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World by Charlie Kaufman et. al. The book focuses on network security protocols and has very lucid explanations of the cryptography involved, how the protocols work and what their shortcomings are. It doesn't have a lot of practical advice for system admins, but it really helped me to understand Kerberos, IPSec, SSL, etc.


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Survey: Census 1990
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|U.S. Census Bureau
Data set: Summary Tape File 3 (STF3)
|P90. Wage Or Salary Income In 1989 [3]
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|Wage Or Salary Income In 1989
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|Summary Tape File 3 -> Appendix B. Definitions of Subject Characteristics -> Population Characteristics -> Income in 1989 -> Income Type in 1989 -> Wage or Salary Income
Includes total money earnings received for work performed as an employee during the calendar year 1989. It includes wages, salary, Armed Forces pay, commissions, tips, piece-rate payments, and cash bonuses earned before deductions were made for taxes, bonds, pensions, union dues, etc.


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One of the most disappointing things about fine dining is that though restaurants turn cartwheels over their entrees, presenting you with exciting concoctions that thrill from eye to tastebuds, they then revert to dull with their main courses.
There it is, the slab of grain-fed steak, piece of expensive fish or bleeding duck breast, served with a smear or a sauce if you're lucky.
Not so at Clooney. My Wakanui beef fillet arrived sliced into sections and piled with tasty mushrooms and other vegetables, including a generous piece of marrow, all coated with truffle sauce and adorned with waves of foam that tasted piquant without taking over. It looked spectacular, cut like butter and tasted fabulous.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. We arrived at 7.30 and were taken to one of Clooney's round tables. Our companions were already on the banquette, so we took the leather chairs, expertly swivelled by attentive maitre d', Tony Stewart.
Things take a while at Clooney, but that's part of the experience: this is destination dining. Our entrees arrived after 30 minutes and they were well worth waiting for. My crab was a delicate fluff of lightest rice crumbs, crunchy shaved spring onions and morsels of crab. The crayfish entree was similarly melt-in-the-mouth. The summer vegetable option, with its smoked milk curd, pulses, nuts and grains was similarly enticing, as was the crispy pork and scallops.
Although this was definitely our richest choice, it came in a light, lemony sauce which worked wonders on the flavour combination.
Clooney was filling fast, but the clever black bead curtains between tables gave us the feeling that we were in our own private (and relatively quiet) cocoon. Only Brian noticed it was 45 minutes before our main courses arrived.
Again, it was well worth the wait. The John Dory was a masterpiece of flavours. It came with shaved paua that could have been raw it was so fresh, plus the asparagus, lemon and nasturtium mentioned on the menu - and several tastes and foams that weren't. It looked pretty on the plate, too.
There was my beef, and Brian was well-pleased with his pork.
Our desserts were also exciting. The roquefort papillon, honeycomb and madeleines was exquisite, Brian's Valrhona chocolate textures included a creme caramel, and Oliver's licorice with wild sorrel, white chocolate and blackberry came in the form of a creme brulee.
Even I, on my frustrating dairy-free diet, fared well. Our waiter organised a fruit compote, served around an egg of fabulous chocolate ganache. I didn't have the heart to tell him that chocolate contains dairy too.
The meals were generous as well as creative and beautifully presented and cooked, the service was impeccable, the atmosphere lively and sophisticated. Auckland at its show-offy best.
Rating out of 10
Food: 10
Service: 9
Value: 8
Ambience: 9
Our meal: $498.50 for five glasses of wine, four entrees, four mains, two sides and four desserts.
Wine list: Tony Stewart chooses interesting and classy wines from here and the world. And he knows them all. Let him guide you.
Verdict: Clooney gives you a night out to remember, a meal you'll savour and fabulous wine. Save up and go.


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SCAD to host national foundations in art conference
/Tim Rollins, center, with members of the Kids of Survival art collective, is set to address the SCAD-hosted FATE conference April 5./
Savannah College of Art and Design is proud to announce it will host "postHaus," the national conference of the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education association, FATE, April 3-6, at the Hyatt Regency, 2 W. Bay St.
The biennial event brings together more than 400 educators, artists, historians and designers to discuss new teaching models and possibilities available as education evolves. Tim Rollins, visionary behind the acclaimed Kids of Survival, K.O.S., art collective, is slated to deliver the conference's keynote address at 7 p.m., Friday, April 5, at the Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. The keynote address is free and open to the public.
An educator and artist, Rollins' transformative work introducing at-risk students to fine art has earned him the reputation as a leading advocate for youth and the arts. After graduate studies in art education and philosophy, Rollins began teaching art to middle school students in the South Bronx, New York. In 1984, he launched the "Art and Knowledge Workshop" with a group of students who called themselves Kids of Survival. Since then, their works employing literature as canvas and inspiration have become part of the permanent collections at more than 90 museums worldwide.
"This conference aims to help emerging educators come away with deliverables for their classrooms," said Chris Kienke, SCAD foundation studies professor and FATE's vice president for biennial conference. "Tim Rollins models best practices for teaching by acting as a mentor, an approach that reflects a marked shift in art education."
Rollins' keynote at FATE anchors 100 sessions exploring the conference theme, "Instructing, Constructing and Connecting with Students in the 21st Century."
Throughout the conference, SCAD professors and their peers from universities representing six countries and all 50 U.S. states will present their ideas on educating the next generation of artists and designers. Panelists and attendees will discuss cutting-edge methods for instruction, such as using smart phones, social media, reality television and other contemporary tools to convey the bedrock principles behind drawing, design, art history, color theory and more.
Conference participants will also be able to tour SCAD's major programs and the School of Foundation Studies, the only dedicated school of foundation studies in the United States.
"Foundation Studies at SCAD provides a studio experience that builds visual, conceptual and creative abilities essential to a student's development as a professional," said Maureen Garvin, SCAD foundation studies dean. "Once students begin their major, this broad-based studio experience informs and complements the specific focus of their major discipline."
Visit the conference website for a complete program of events and register to attend.
About FATE
FATE is a national association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio and art history. FATE members represent independent colleges of art and design, university art departments and community colleges throughout the United States and is represented at most major education conferences to promote the goals of the organization.
SCAD: The University for Creative Careers
The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution conferring bachelor's and master's degrees at distinctive locations and online to prepare talented students for professional careers. SCAD offers degrees in more than 40 majors.
For more SCAD news, follow #SCAD • @scaddotedu on Twitter • @scaddotedu on Instagram • youtube.com/aboutscad • facebook.com/scad.edu


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The app space is filled with alphabet apps and basic math apps, but history is one topic that is often neglected. There are a few good ones out there, such as the The Civil War Today, but it's rare that one is designed for kids.
Cognitive Kid, maker of the other award-winning Ansel and Clair apps on dinosaurs and geography, now brings us Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere's Ride, a look at Paul Revere and the American Revolution with alien and robotic guides, Ansel and Clair. Continue Reading "Ansel and Clair Tackle the American Revolution With Paul Revere's Ride" »


text: Ok, so someone asked me this recently. The goal is pretty simple, we want ONE review thread for every single Chevrolet (and eventually all GM) Dealerships in North America. HOW TO REVIEW YOUR CHEVY DEALER Search the "Car Dealer Reviews" sub-forum for a matching review. To do this, make sure you're in this forum and click on "Search Forum" in the middle-upper-right navigation bar. If you find a match, then please REPLY to that thread with your own review of the dealership. This can be GOOD, BAD or INDIFFERENT. Use your own words, be brief and to the point. If you do NOT find a match, then click on the "Post New Thread" button and start a thread using the same format for all other review in the system. Title Examples {Dealer Name} Reviews - City, State Friendly Chevrolet Reviews - Dallas, Texas Bill Pierre Chevrolet Review - Seattle, WA Body Review Examples I visited {dealership name} on 1/2/2011 and met with a salesperson named John. He was the (best/worst) example of professionalism that I have ever seen at a car dealership. I went in to see a {vehicle type} with 50,000 miles on it and .... That's it. You have now reviewed your dealership and have HELPED your fellow GM buyers. Plus, you have helped the dealership as well, now that sites like this exist, dealers know they have to clean up their acts or they will be held accountable for their actions.


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Build the boot scraper
Ordinary doormats simply can't handle serious muck, but you can clean out packed dirt from even the deepest boot treads with this boot scraper made from 2x4s.
- Screw the base pieces (A and B) together upside down so that the screw heads are hidden.
- Fasten the uprights (C) to the sides (D), then screw the side brushes on with 2-in. screws.
- Screw the bottom brushes to the base with 2-in. screws.
- Space the side pieces so that the bristles are roughly 4-1/2 in. apart.
- Add a piece of aluminum angle to the front edge so you can scrape boots before brushing them.
Use stiff-bristle brushes—either "bilevel" brushes or deck scrub brushes. You may need to cut off part of the handle so the brush will lie flat.


text: Yeah you just unscrew the nuts. My new headlights didn't come with new nuts but when you put the corner lights on you can use the same ones and they're cut to dig into the corner lights.. post thing. Lol sorry I don't know any of the terms, but when you get your corner lights they're the legs sticking out are smooth right? Those bolts that you unscrew from your old corner lights will cut into the new ones, making it look as if they are screws.. That's the best way I can explain it, sorry I replied late I haven't been on here in a while.


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Why hello there,
I am mostly known for my knowledge of all things junk food based.
I accept the fact I am the most clumsy person on earth.
I'm always told that I am either Usagi from Sailor Moon or Nana Osaki from NANA.
How I Met Your Mother, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Scrubs, Terminator, Russell Howard, and Eddie Izzard own my life.
Currently working towards a career in make-up and all things bootiful! I have wonderful friends and a bootiful boyfriend <333
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I've been properly cosplaying since 2008.
My favourite all time characters are: Nana Osaki from Nana & Usagi from Sailor Moon and so you will probably find many incarnations of these costumes ;D
I just generally love having fun and annoying my friends and boyfriend <3333
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NEW ORLEANS -- Joe Montana expects the 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, and he'll be there to see it, only the second Super Bowl he will have attended as a fan.
Montana spoke to KNBR 680-AM on Monday, exactly 23 years ago to the day when he won his fourth and final Super Bowl ring via the 49ers' 55-10 rout of the Denver Broncos at the Superdome.
"I think the 49ers are going to win, but it's going to be fun," Montana told the "Murph and Mac" show. "Both quarterbacks are playing well, both defenses are playing well."
Colin Kaepernick will be making only his 10th start as the 49ers' quarterback since replacing Alex Smith. That switch was the biggest since Montana and Steve Young set the standard for quarterback controversies 25 years ago.
"I've been in that situation, and I missed a lot longer time," Montana said in reference to his 1991 elbow injury. "After (Smith) missing one game, I thought he'd be back in.
"No question, looking back on it, that was the right thing. Back then, I thought they should at least let (Smith) lose the job. It's tough. But it worked out well for them."
Kaepernick is 25, the same age Montana was when he played (and won) his first Super Bowl with the 1981 team. Montana said his age never factored into his mentality, nor does he expect it to influence Kaepernick's.
"It's a chance of a lifetime. You may never get back to a Super Bowl," Montana said. "How many people ever thought Dan Marino would never get back."
Montana and the 49ers defeated Marino's Miami Dolphins in the Super Bowl to cap the 1984 season. Both quarterbacks are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as is Young.
When the 49ers return to the Super Bowl stage Sunday, Montana doesn't want to see them fall behind early like they did in their other two playoff games, when they overcame a 7-0 deficit to beat the Green Bay Packers 45-31 and a 17-0 margin to rally past the Atlanta Falcons 28-24.
"It's hard to get behind this game," Montana said. "Hopefully they get on the scoreboard first and stay in front. I'd hate to see them fall behind like they have in past couple games."
In analyzing the 49ers' offense, Montana said Kaepernick "can throw the ball with the best of them" and that his running ability helps receivers break open, such as tight end Vernon Davis in the NFC Championship game.
"Defenses fear him being able to run the ball, so you get guys who squeeze open a little more," Montana said. "When he's had to throw into tight situations, he's been able to do so on occasion. You can't question how he's playing."
Montana plans on flying to New Orleans on Thursday with his wife, Jennifer. Rather than fly home to watch the game on television -- per his usual routine during Super Bowl week -- Montana is going to stick around and attend the game, something he has done out of uniform only one other time because of an endorsement commitment.
"We're going to go to this one," Montana said.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program's Beginnings
The national Upward Bound Programs were first created in 1965 through Congressional Legislation as a response to the civil rights movement. Funded under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, Upward Bound has survived through the years and is now one of the two most senior educational programs sponsored by the federal government. Following the success of the pilot projects, the number of Upward Bound programs expanded from 18 to 220 in 1966. Currently, more than 750 projects exist in the country.
Rhode Island College was one of the first public institutions of higher education to receive funding in 1966 to establish an Upward Bound program. The philosophy of the College's Upward Bound Program was first conceived by Dr. John A. Finger, an educator who believed that the nation should education "all of the children of all of the people." Three others joined Dr. Finger to create and administer the initial program offered at the College: Dr. Raymond W. Houghton, Dr. Maureen T. Lapan, and Dr. Thomas Lavery. They possessed the force of intellect, the professional integrity, the requisite perspiration, dedication, and most importantly, the compassion to see that ideal through to fruition. Thus, 52 students who "were not succeeding, had no seeming hope of going on, and whose parents met the poverty criteria" were enrolled into the first Upward Bound Class.
Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program – Summer 1968
From that first year to the present, Upward Bound has been a continuous presence on the campus of Rhode Island College, and while there have been changes made in the program, it has remained remarkably steady in funding and it has preserved the spirit of the "founders of the Program." It continues to be the only Upward Bound Program in the State, and currently 150 students participate each year.
Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program's Future
Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program – Summer 2008 – 40 year later
RIC receives four-year grant from U.S. Dept. of Education to continue Upward Bound (June 2007)
The United States Department of Education has selected Rhode Island College to receive a four-year grant to continue its Upward Bound program. Upward Bound has been a staple at RIC for 41 years.
The program had been a possible target for recent federal educational budget cuts.
The grant will provide $592,382 for the first year and will fund 150 students.
Upward Bound was created to help at-risk students from low-income families graduate from high school and become the first in their families to pursue higher education. RIC was among the first institutions in the country to host an Upward Bound program. There are now more than 750 in the United States. RIC's program is the only one in Rhode Island.
"I speak for all of Rhode Island College's past, present and future participants of Upward Bound in saying that we are most grateful to the U.S. Department of Education for extending the funds for the program for an additional four years." said RIC President John Nazarian.
Since 1966, more than 2,000 students from high schools with the highest dropout rates in the state have successfully completed the program and gone on to matriculate at some of the finest colleges and universities in the country.
"We are so pleased that this legacy of success will continue in Rhode Island," said Nazarian.
The high schools served by RIC's Upward Bound are Providence's Central, Hope, and Mt. Pleasant, as well as Shea in Pawtucket, Central Falls and East Providence.
Upward Bound offers students instruction in fundamental and advanced level courses, counseling, tutoring, academic support workshops, career development, work-study placement, student support services, and multi-cultural and social activities.
Students work cooperatively to improve critical thinking skills and become better learners. They are afforded ample assistance and guidance to meet the challenges of a high school curriculum.
The 12-month program runs September through June, and conducts a six-week academic/residential program on the RIC campus during the summer.
A recent study of Upward Bound graduates of the last seven years showed that 99 percent are accepted into programs of post-secondary education, 97 percent enroll, and 76 percent graduate.
"I am certain that the program will continue to be successful in its work with students who otherwise would have little or no hope of pursuing an education beyond the secondary level," said Mariam Z. Boyajian, director of RIC's Upward Bound program. "It is encouraging and gratifying to challenge students, hold them to high expectations, and prepare them for the higher educational opportunities that are possible for them."


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Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love (Isa Machine and Lexxx Remixxx)
Cosmic Love is the seventh and final single to be taken from Florence and the Machine's critically acclaimed debut album, Lungs. Due to strong digital sales of the track, the song charted almost a year before even being released as an official single after it was featured in an advertisement
The song sees an official release next week. It will be out digitally on July 4 and on 7" vinyl the following day. Track listing for each is as follows...
A. Cosmic Love
B. Cosmic Love (Isa Machine and Lexxx Remixxx)
Digital bundle
1. Cosmic Love
2. Cosmic Love (Short Club Remix)
3. Cosmic Love (Isa Machine and Lexxx Remixxx)
If the name Isa Machine looks familiar, that's because it might be to Flo-purists. An original member of Florence's "machine", and co-conspirator on the tracks Dog Days and Cosmic Love, Isabella Summers turned her hand to remix duties, turning out an eerie reinterpretation of the song. (Other sources note a contributing hand from Russ Fawcus on this mix, but the official track listing leaves him off, which is why I do too.)
Pre-order Florence and the Machine's Cosmic Love here.
mp3: Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love (Isa Machine and Lexxx Remixxx)


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CPTS Certificate
They mentioned that there had been a problem with the original design they've choosen so that they had to redesign it what delayed the delivery.
It is obvious that this certification is still in it's infancy, you just get the certificate without any additional goodies, it's not a "Welcome Kit" like the one from M$ or comptia. The link on their site where you are supposed to find the Certified Professional Logo Guidelines still says 'Content in Development'.
BTW, my certificate says 'Graduate No.: 5240'. I would be curious to know if there has really been that much people taking the beta exam ?? Or is it just a randomly choosen number to give you the impression that there are more people having achieved that certification.
Don, perhaps you have a contact to find out more about that ?
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Biologists awaken dormant eggs to observe life from the past and tease out how it differs from what lives today
Catherine Clabby
Scientists always seek new peepholes into the past. Astronomers chase light, the more dated and distant the better. Geologists hunt for ever-older rock. Paleontologists will work with nearly any trace of what's gone extinct.
To get deeper into this game, some biologists and ecologists are now embracing life delayed.
Calling themselves resurrection ecologists, many revive so-called resting eggs, some a century old, produced by small aquatic organisms. Once hatched, these organic time capsules produce living examples of what a species used to be like, allowing ready comparisons to what exists today.
"Being able to go back in time and sort out how evolution actually happened, rather than inferring how it might have happened, is really cool stuff," says Nelson Hairston, Jr., a Cornell University ecologist and pioneer in the field.
With these eggs, Hairston and others capture changes prompted by competition between organisms, exposure to human-made pollution and other environmental pressures. Some researchers also have big hopes of tracking climate change effects.
For the first time, an international meeting devoted to resurrection ecology will convene in September in Switzerland. There, scientists will compare lab results, brainstorm about methodology and, it's hoped, launch new research partnerships.
This line of research owes much to diapausing eggs, produced by plankton, microparasites and some other tiny aquatic organisms. These specialized eggs are programmed not to hatch immediately. Instead they drop to the bottom of lakes or ponds and wait until local conditions improve—say, a dry spell passes, warmer water temperatures arrive or a predator's active seasons ends.
Each year some get buried in sediments before they receive the signal—often simply the right light—to stir from metabolic resting states. Year after year, burials repeat until the sediment holds layer upon layer of dormant eggs, stacked older to younger from bottom to top.
Scientists retrieve samples of these natural egg banks from sediment cores, which they date at multiple spots using radioactive isotopes and other methods. Eggs that won't hatch sometimes yield a different sort of experimental booty. Full genome sequences have been retrieved from eggs more than 200 years old.
"There is the promise of going even further back in time with genomic studies," says W. Charles Kerfoot, a Michigan Technological University ecologist who coined the phrase resurrection biology about a decade ago.
Because these organisms are short-lived, the time needed to observe their adaptation is relatively brief. As many as 3,000 generations could stand between a normally hatched zooplankton and a diapausing egg of the same species trapped in sediments a century before, Kerfoot says.
Still, the pace of change can be startling. For example, Hairston and collaborators in a 1999 Nature paper demonstrated how tiny crustaceans called Daphnia rapidly adapted to higher levels of toxic cyanobacteria in central Europe's Lake Constance. Pollution increased phosphorus levels in the lake, which increased the population of cyanobacteria, better known as blue-green algae. Filter-feeding Daphnia hatched from eggs dating from the 1960s could extract very little nutrition from the algae. But Daphnia hatched from eggs dated to the 1970s had adapted to extract more.
In 2007, Ellen Decaestecker of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and colleagues reported, also in Nature, evidence for the so-called Red Queen hypothesis after studying diapausing eggs of both Daphnia and a parasite in European lakes. Proposed by evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen in 1973, the theory was named for a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, where Alice, on the queen's orders, has to run as fast as she can just to remain in place. Organisms interacting with other living things sometimes have to change simply to hold their ground, Van Valen postulated.
By testing both organisms, Decaestecker found that in as little as two to four years Daphnia species could improve at fending off invasion by a bacterial endoparasite called Pasteuria ramosa. In turn, the parasite would become more virulent, prompting Daphnia to step up its defenses again.
There is also evidence that some relatively quick changes cannot be reversed, potentially raising the stakes when it comes to the topic of human-made pollution. Nora Brede of Goethe University in Frankfurt published findings in March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. detailing changes in three Daphnia species in two European lakes. Both lakes were polluted with phosphorus from human sewage and detergents in the 1960s and 1970s but were cleaned up by the 1990s with pollution controls.
By hatching diapausing eggs dating back 100 years, Brede observed that during periods of peak pollution, two species of Daphnia interbred, creating hybrids. Because of the evolutionary trajectory each started following, she saw little chance for the previous species to re-emerge.
Some plant scientists want to expand the focus of resurrection ecology with what they call Project Baseline. At the Switzerland meeting, they will describe efforts to create plant seed banks superior to what nature produces. The scientists are looking for funding to collect seeds today—so-called "ancestral material"—rather than wait and look later. That would increase the chances of capturing wide samples of precisely dated plant seeds. Comparing plants grown from stored seeds to those that develop in natural environments could show ways climate change influences evolution, supporters say.
"People traditionally thought evolution took a really long time. But evolution can happen really fast, in just a few generations," says Steven J. Franks of Fordham University, who is active in Project Baseline. "In a few years or so, you can start to see changes."
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text: Hello all, Well what would a Fett Forum be without Fett's Bounty? I finally was able to get an Illusive (Artists Proof) Han in Carbonite. Yes, the this is the one that started it all and I consider myself luckly to have gotten him while I was up in San Fran this weekend. Enjoy the Pics C


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Five active days in the City of Brotherly Love(5)
Trip Start Jan 01, 2014
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INTRO: This is one of the few trips my wife joined me in travel. Our round-trip flight from SFO to Philly cost me only $10, because I used frequent flier miles on United. I will also include some recommendations as well as describing some of our activities for those planning their first trip to Philly. I also welcome comments and questions. Seniors can ride free on Philly's SEPTA buses by showing your red, white, and blue, Medicare card. Otherwise, adult fare is $2.
First Day: We arrived in Philly in the wee hours of the morning, because we took the red-eye. We checked into our hotel after our shuttle from the airport to the Omni hotel located just one block away from Independence Hall. We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that the street where our hotel is located on Chestnut Street has many good restaurants
Our first activity for the day was the double-decker bus tour to get a very good orientation for the city and most of its important sites. It's a 90-minute tour that passes by 21-sites where one can get off and on the bus, and the senior tickets costs $27.50 pp, and the bus pass is good for 24-hours. Don't lose your bus pass, because they won't let you on the bus without it. The starting point is from across the street from the Independence Visitor's Center on Market Street.
My wife and I and several others just stayed on the bus for the 90-minutes, then got off at the Reading Terminal (stop 5) to visit the markets and eateries at the refurbished terminal with lots of people, ambiance, and good food. It's one of those "do not miss" places in Philly.
Second Day: We rented a car for two days from Enterprise (cost about $40/day), because we wanted to visit Gettysburg and the Amish country on one day, and another destination that required a car. We decided to visit Chadds Ford where the Wyeth family has an art museum at the Brandywine River Museum about 40-miles from downtown Philly. The museum houses paintings by the Wyeth family members, Howard Pyle, Frederick Church, Alice Stphens, Remington, and Rockwell Kent who did the art work for Moby Dick
Third Day: Today was our day trip to Gettysburg and Strasburg. We started early in the morning, but hit into commuter traffic in King of Prussia that delayed our arrival in Gettysburg by over one hour. We took the bus tour that provides a park docent who describes the battlefields, the battles, and the famous buildings and other sites in the village. Many of the sites of the battles have monuments, and have the opportunity to see the building where Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, the church, and train station that survive to this day. As a matter of fact, the majority of buildings in Gettysburg remain from that period. After the bus tour, we attended the theater at the visitor's center to see a short film about the war, and the Cyclorama, a painting 42 ft high and 365 ft wide, in a huge circular room that was painted by a French artist, Paul Philippoteaux. I saw a similar Cyclorama in Atlanta some years ago on the Atlanta civil war.
We visited Strasburg rather than Lancaster for the Amish experience, because it was recommended by a friend, Vladzu, who live in central Pennsylvania. We were able to see the horse and buggy of the Amish as well as the arts and crafts at several shops
Fourth Day: After returning our rental car, we were dropped off at the Independence Visitor's Center to get our free tickets to visit Independence Hall. Our 9AM tour had only six people, because it was raining. After a short orientation by the docent, we were taken to the supreme court chamber, then to the assembly room where the delegates of the thirteen colonies assembled and adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. One of the most important artifact from that period is the chair that George Washington sat on.
After Independence Hall, we took a taxi to the Philadelphia Museum of Art where they have a treasure trove of art works, antiques, and replicas of famous rooms and building facades from all over the world. I especially enjoyed their large collection of impressionist arts that includes van Gogh, Renoir, Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Miro, and O"keefe.
From there we took a taxi to the Mutter Museum where they have a large collection of fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, items of memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians, and from medical schools
We had dinner at Zento Japanese restaurant, because the chef here has trained at Iron Chef Morimoto's restaurant. I had the Kobe beef dish. The presentation and flavors were excellent!
Fifth Day (our last): We took the SEPTA 124 bus at 13th and Market (south-east corner; look for the bus sign) to King of Prussia shopping mall. To go directly to Valley Forge, you can take the SEPTA 125 bus from the same location. At the shopping center, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that they had a special exhibit of Norman Rockwell's Post magazine covers that spans 40-years, and three-dimensional replicas of his paintings on display.
We took the SEPTA 125 bus next to JCPenny's bus station to Valley Forge. Since the park at Valley Forge doesn't have bus tours during the winter months, it's a good idea to take a car.
Otherwise, it's about a five mile walk to see the important sites at the park.
Vladzu drove from his home to Valley Forge to take us to the Legal Seafood restaurant where we met with Thomas for dinner, and Vladzu was generous in taking us back to our hotel in downtown Philly.
At 5:30 AM the following morning, we took a taxi to the Philly airport for our flight home.


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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- In my 47 years I have never fallen across a company that truly will bend over backwards and go to major lengths to assist their customers. Where else can you find a family-owned company that consistently provides the most current technology, local customer service and 24/7 tech support? Here is a company with integrity that will not stoop to the level of AT&T by taking specific pot shots at their competitors!
That in and of itself speaks volumes! I don't get it?? Cox has been in the cable business since 1960. AT&T....less than a year. First they took over DISH Network and now it appears they will be kicking them to the curb so they can do their own cable; which is laughable considering they are CLUELESS as to what they are doing. Cox's prices are actually less expensive overall. They INVENTED the BUNDLE which has been ripped off by everyone and their mother.
People balk at prices without doing ANY research! Just inquire with DISH, DirecTV or AT&T what kind of contract you have to have. Cox......NO CONTRACTS! Or check with the above-mentioned how much they charge for HBO or any other premium channel. At least 20-30 percent more than Cox!! And if like me, you bundle your services, they do give a substantial discount. Have you called AT&T's customer service lately? Inept, uncaring, and useless!
There will always be people that feel the need to complain month after month after month about prices and bills, etc. These are the people who do not know the meaning of the word accountable. The ones that don't take the time to read their bills or ask the appropriate questions when purchasing services. The ones who blame Cox that their service is interrupted because their bill is 4 months past due and they say "I never got a bill" or "Nobody told me". PAHLEESEEE! I know for a fact that if a person needs some help paying their bill and they call, Cox is not judgmental, will set up payment arrangements and assist as much as humanly possible.
The only catch....if you're the customer, you NEED TO CALL! I'm sure no one is thinking "Oh 4 months passed by, my cable, internet and phone is free because I didn't get a bill". LOL. Did you know on their website you can view up to 18 months of your billing? Sure they're not perfect and mistakes are made. But I can tell you from personal experience, they will NOT let anyone fall through the cracks. They have an acronym (FOAV) Focus on Added Value and they mean it! For over 5 years they have won JD Powers Customer Service Awards and get this, for the last 4 years they beat out AT&T, winning JD Powers best phone service awards!!
For those who have legitimate issues (as some of us do with any company) they will work with you until its resolved. For the rest of you who whine, complain, threaten to go elsewhere, don't take responsibility for your bills and just want to badmouth someone, take a good look in the mirror because wherever you go, you will blame the next company and the next until no one will have you. I have never done this before on a website but in a world where people have no problem complaining, I wanted to say something nice for a change. I only wish they had cell phone service so I could get rid of the WORST company I've ever dealt with (Sprint).
Thanks Cox for being a local trusted provider, for going the extra mile for your customers, for contributing so much to the community and our kids (Cox Kids Foundation), caring about San Diego teachers and continuing to provide the most current great entertainment!
TUCSON, ARIZONA -- Signed up for a bundle with Cox to do Internet, TV and Phone. TV is just so-so, the internet service is great, but I'm dropping them ALL because of the horrid service on the telephone service! When I signed up I told the representative I wanted just basic phone service with no long distance, no added features, only the ability to make local calls. They SAID that's what they had set up for me. My first bill comes in with long distance charges, so I called them. The CSR said that they would put a block on all long distance, all operated assist calls, and all collect calls. They did issue a credit for the calls billed.
My next bill comes in and again, charges for long distance and collect calls (that none of us accepted!) Called them again, was told that they would ensure the block was working and again got a credit for the long distance calls. Next bill: $500 dollars in long distance and collect calls! Called them again, the customer service representative said she's going to contact tech support and find out why the block isn't working and that she would transfer me to billing to get the calls credited. The billing CSR replied with "we don't block calls and we don't credit for them."
I called corporate headquarters in Atlanta. Once again they promised that they'll get the block working, they also promised that the calls would be credited. They also said that the CSR who told me that they can't block calls, and don't credit for them was in error, but she also explained something else that I was not aware of: the way their system is set up, if you have an answering machine and it picks up, you WILL be charged for the collect calls placed to your number!
PHOENIX, ARIZONA -- Sure, it sounds like a good idea. Switch to Cox Digital Telephone and save tons of money on your phone bills each month. They don't tell you even 1/3 of the story during the sales pitch. I ended up having to buy all the services I needed one by one, and at the end of the day, I saved only about $20 per month. If you take into account the time and aggravation of dealing with their deceptive sales pitches, I actually lost money. I agreed to switch to Cox after months of calls. I told the sales representative that I currently had 3-way calling, call forwarding, voice mail; the whole works for $52-ish per month. He told me that Cox could give me excellent service for $12 ish per month.
I agreed, the installation guy arrived, installed the phone, and left me materials on how to set up voice mail, call forwarding, etc. I tried and couldn't do it. I called Cox for help--turns out, all I received for $12 per month is a phone line. No voice mail, no call waiting, no 3-way calling, even though Cox gave me instructions on how to set up all of these services. To upgrade cost $20 per month. Still less than my former provider, so I agreed. Then I tried to make a long-distance call, with no luck. I called Cox again. Turns out that to have a phone line that will permit long distance calls, at $.5 per minute, costs another $1.99 per month.
Still less, so I agreed and the call was disconnected twice during the call. The time I have spent messing with this isn't worth the $275 I would save by switching or the aggravation of dealing with Cox on this. I would have purchased the whole package right up front if the salesperson had offered it to me. I asked Cox if there was something in writing where I could see what I was getting for the cost. The customer service representative said, "Yes, your bill." So, only after you purchase the service can you actually find out, in writing, what is included. Absolutely ridiculous, and, in my opinion, deceptive. DON'T BUY THIS.
PHOENX, ARIZONA -- My Oct. 2007 Cox Communications telephone bill listed ZPDI toll charges. $50+ dollars total. The number I was supposed to have called was a LOCAL number for me. I called ZPDI (Google them for many ripoff reports) and they told me they had NO record of my number or the called number. I then called Cox and they said there was nothing they could do as the charges came from ZPDI and I should contact them.
I called ZPDI again and they said it was a problem with Cox and not them. I called Cox again and told them since I spent $160 a month with them (ISP, TV, Telephone) they should reverse the ZPDI charges. They refused to do so and told me I needed to contact ZPDI to straighten it out and HAD to pay the full amount of my bill. I asked to speak to a supervisor and got nowhere. I then asked to speak to the supervisor of the supervisor and told him I was a good customer and Cox should reverse the charges.
This last person said they would issue a "form" to ZPDI and ask about the charges. I asked why Cox didn't just do that in the first place and save me hours of aggravation; he didn't answer me. He said Cox would not reverse the ZPDI charges but since my bill wasn't due for three weeks, the problem should be corrected before I paid.
I called Cox two days before my bill was due and they said they had received word that there was some kind of computer glitch and hundreds of people receive false ZPDI charges so I would receive a reversal of the $50+ false telephone toll charges. I assumed the matter was closed so paid my normal amount of $160. Several days later I receive a call from Cox telling me I was late and to immediately pay the balance.
I asked what happened to the ZPDI charges and they said it might take a couple of months for a credit to show up on my bill. If I didn't pay the false charges then my telephone service would be cutoff. I paid so now we will see if the credit shows up in the next two months. Cox says they are "Your friend in the digital age." What a joke!!!
Just wanted to inform as many people as possible as to some of the problems that Cox Communication does not disclose to you when selling you digital phone service. (1) Originally I paid to have one digital phone line installed and paid additional monies for this service "distinct ring/tone fax"...a service they continued to charge me for although I informed them I did not work and it never did. Their answer was to blame HP for its distinct ring software etc...the typical pass the buck once you are on the hook for the service.
(2) Since I could not receive faxes, I was forced to pay for what I thought was a dedicated second line and also pay to install a second RJ11 outlet, despite paying for a second line. Cox Communication really only ran it off one line (I am not a computer expert but I assume it must be to save bandwidth and be lazy about running a true second line) even though the modem is set up for a second line 3.
Unfortunately I value safety and I wanted to have home security installed and now found out that Cox Communication will just run it all to the modem through one line although the modem can handle 1/2 or 2 lines separate. When I complained that had Cox Communication run the second line as the modem is also set up to do, I was met with nothing but resistance. I told that nothing was wrong with their service, and I would likely have to pay for a service tech to come out. Read this!!!
Most importantly...I would gladly opt to discontinue my service with Cox Communications. But I was also informed that I would not be able "port" or keep either my phone number or my fax number if I switch to analog phone service. So if you are running a home business or would like to keep your number, I would suggest getting phone service elsewhere or you will be trapped like me!!!!
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- Cox Communications keeps raising its prices every month. I called them & removed a service to save a couple of dollars. When I checked my bill a couple of months later they had raised the fee on phone to make up for what I had reduced. I called again & they agreed to drop the price for a few months, when the regular price was reinstated, they just upped the price by quite a bit more again to make up for what little I had saved. They are so unfair and unwilling to work with you. I have been with them for 19 years, I think my only alternative now is to switch.
Somehow a couple of criminals obtained my phone number; one of them is identifiable as a scammer on Google by searching his phone number (yes, they were dumb enough to give their numbers to me). One caller - this one from Los Angeles - claimed to be from Publishers Clearing House, informing me that I had won over $700,000. The other caller - Washington, DC - stated that I "had been trying to claim" an award for $700,000 and he wanted to help me receive it. Apparently $700,000 is the minimum that you win these days.
I reported this duo to the FCC, but they kept calling; I understand that the FCC can take up to a month to handle any reported issues. I called Cox and asked them to block these two numbers, and was informed that I could do that for a fee of somewhat over $3/month. I asked the Cox representative which other unlawful nuisances I had the privilege of stopping for a fee. Cox then stated that I could pay for the number block for a month, and then drop it; however, if the Feds still hadn't acted, the calls would resume. I was further told that this was all that Cox could do for me.
A third caller contacted me, and he hung up after I told him that I was reporting all such calls to the Federal Government. Hopefully that approach will work, because Cox won't help you at all with nuisance or harassing calls unless you open up your wallet. Pros: excellent cable and phone service quality. Cons: don't ever become a victim; Cox will make you a poorer one; hidden fees a specialty!
Upon requesting a bundled package with Cox, we were quoted a price per month. However, once the products had been installed, our bill was higher than what was quoted. When I called about the higher charges, I was told that what we had originally received a quote on, was no longer available. When I questioned a recent ad that I had seen with a bundled package for a lower price, I was told that if I got that it would take away my discounts and so it goes....with the price being still higher than we had quoted.
Cox and all communication companies should be held to stricter policies regarding their quoted prices and be made to provide a written quote. I did mention that I would be making a complaint to a state commission in the hopes of getting this unfair practice changed.
QUEEN CREEK, ARIZONA -- How is it Cox can spend millions on advertising and cannot even add new service with any level of confidence? After my first attempt to add new service failed (the technician did not meet our "appointment window"), customer service contacted me to try to make amends. Second try...customer service stated I needed to redo the phone switch over request. I called to do so, and was told I did not need to redo the phone request. Two days later, another email I do need to re-complete the request... and am told at that time, my 3rd or 4th contact that the phone cannot be switched over on Saturday anyway. Told them to cancel the order.
How is it Cox can become a monopoly? Even going to the FCC website to complain about their monopoly is not effective, they direct you back to Cox's franchising authority (whoever that is). The only alternative in my area is DirecTV - costly and you need a ton of additional equipment. There must be a lot of money going between Cox and the politicians to keep this one up... whatever happened to Cable America... good service, reasonable price? Oh yea, Cox bought them, too bad.
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- A Cox employee used my phone line to call Mexico. The calls to Mexico were never itemized on my phone bill (i.e:. never showed up on my bill) but the costs were included in the total amount owed. I only discovered the fraudulent calls after I received an extremely high bill and called Cox to question it. Calling Cox is a nightmare in itself. Their phone tree / menu takes forever to navigate and the Cox employees I spoke with were rude, unsympathetic, and incompetent. When I asked them to fax proof of the charges to me, I was told I'd be charged $5 for the fax.
This saga has gone on for months. I filed a police report and complaints with the BBB and the VA state Consumer Affairs. These efforts were futile. After I refused to pay these fraudulent charges, Cox turned my account over for collection and trashed my credit rating. I took them to Small Claims Court on 4/27/07 (Fairfax County, case # **) and the judge ruled that I owed Cox nothing. She also ordered them to pay me the amount in dispute plus interest plus court costs. To-date, Cox has refused to comply with the judge's orders.


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An increasing number of women have become victims of sexual harassment and assault at protests in Egypt over recent weeks. While some claim the attacks have been organised by the military and police to intimidate female protesters, others blame it on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. International female reporters have also been among those targeted, with French correspondent Caroline Sinz assaulted for 45 minutes in Tahrir Square by youths on November 24. One website has started mapping reports of sexual harassment around Cairo and is calling for women to step forward and tell their story.
The events of recent days, in which both activist and journalist Mona El-Tahawy and Sinz were sexually assaulted, have prompted women to speak out about endemic sexual harassment in Egypt.
On Thursday Sinz and her cameraman were reportedly mobbed by youths, as they walked down Mohammed Mahmoud street. They were dragged to Tahrir Square, where they were separated, and she was assaulted. Afterwards Sinz recalled: "Some people tried to help me but failed. I was lynched. It lasted three quarters of an hour before I was taken out. I thought I was going to die." A local media report showed the mobbing:
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The feminist activist, journalist and blogger El-Tahawy claimed she was beaten and sexually assaulted by police officers on Thursday, after she was arrested on Tahrir Square. After her release she tweeted details of her assault on Twitter. Read our story here.
Mona Eltahawy 5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.
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What happened to @monaeltahawy is an example of the humiliation Egyptian women face daily &how they're viewed as sexual objects. #ENDSH
On Friday, one female Reuters reporter in Cairo tweeted:
A third female reporter has been sexually assaulted in #Tahrir.
Alia Mahdi, the Egyptian blogger who stirred up a storm after posting a nude photo of herself last month to protest about freedom of expression, was also attacked and thrown out of Tahrir Square on Thursday, according to local media reports. You can read our story about the blogger here.
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@Zeinobia sexual harassment caught on cam yesterday , some say its alia mahdi , will send you link
Some concerned women have been warning other women to be cautious when they join the protests and to draw attention to themselves if they are being harassed or assaulted.
girls be careful,my friends reported alot of "groping" is happening in #tahrir today,don't let it slide!if it happened,shout&yell
Laila Hossam @cairowire if u go to #Tahrir and see the amount of boob grabbing and butt groping ull know why its not a bad idea to have segregated lines
Nov 25 via Twitter for BlackBerry®FavoriteRetweetReply
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Compared to the scenes of protests in January, current protests are being attended by an overwhelming majority of males. This video was taken on Thursday in Tahrir Square.
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On Friday, one female activist claimed she was harassed by a group of men in Tahrir Square.
Havnt felt this unsafe on my own in the square before. Harassment today is almost organized.
Many have blamed the military for instigating the assaults:
Ladies be ready to slap the next bastard that grabs u. Pls do it w/all the aggression u can muster. The MoI dogs r organising this. #tahrir
One website is compiling a map showing the date, location and details of sexual harassment in Cairo. However, according to the site's statistics the majority of reports date back to the start of the year, at the time of the revolution.
HarassMap امسك متحرش report sexual harassment in #Tahrir by texting us on 6069 or //t.co/rsqnzF8X or here on twitter or our FB //t.co/bQec3Wsf#endsh
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A Norwegian woman living in Cairo, however, countered reports of increasing harassments:
Regarding reports of sexual harassment in #Tahrir, personally I've been harassed much less in the last 7 days than on any normal day there.
In light of recent events Reporters without Borders have called on news organisation to stop sending female journalists to cover the protests in Cairo, saying that they are more vulnerable than men.
"We urge the media to take great care and to make the security of their reporters and local correspondents their priority," Reporters Without Borders said. "It is more dangerous for a woman than a man to cover the demonstrations in Tahrir Square. That is the reality and the media must face it. It is the first time that there have been repeated sexual assaults against women reporters in the same place. The media must keep this in mind when sending staff there and must take special safety measures.
Source: Reporters without Borders
However, some feel that this is the wrong way to tackle the problem:
Telling women correspondents to stay at home is not a way to combat sexual abuse/harassment! @RSF_RWB


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Quality player for the Giants to grab. He is another JPP, where he is considered a supreme athlete.
A sexier choice would have been Fleener, Still or David. But, look at the quality of depth in this draft at other positions. RB is thin and for an "athlete" like Wilson to drop in our laps, makes logical sense to pick him.
If they want to address TE, LB or DT in round two or three, there will be plenty of talent on the board. Just look at the surprises already.


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Checked my hives this morning. Noticed about a half dozen small, I mean tiny wax moths flying around in front of the hive.
Should I be concerned? If so, what is the best course of action?
I hate those things... Last time I was in the hive I did not see any worms. That was about two weeks ago.


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My Urban Sky is among the winners of NYC's urbancanvas Design Competition.
Construction sites may be "a
reality of a healthy, growing city," as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
puts it, but not many people would call them an attractive reality. In an effort to put a better face on the mesh
screens, fencing and scaffolding that seem to be everywhere in Manhattan, the
city sponsored an open design contest to make these temporary structures "more
exciting, attractive and informative." Jen Magathan MFA 09 GD created one of four winning designs in the
urbancanvas Design Competition, and in December 2010 saw her work unveiled on a
grand scale.
"It's obviously the biggest thing I've ever done,"
Magathan says in a bit of an understatement. My Urban Sky, a modular collection of vignettes of blue and cloudy
skies, stretches over a 100-foot construction fence and a 100-foot sidewalk
shed at the City University of New York – Hunter College School of Social Work
in East Harlem. "A road trip from Michigan to Virginia inspired me to bring the
Midwestern sky to the urban context," she explains, wanting to know "what it would feel like to
walk down a crowded street and find yourself next to an open sky."
New Yorkers found the idea very appealing: after a jury of
artists, curators and city officials evaluated all the entries on the basis of
artistic merit and adaptability, online voters chose My Urban Sky to grace their
sidewalks. The Rockefeller Foundation supported the competition, awarding each winner a $7,500 prize, while the installations themselves are funded
privately by property owners. As her work was about to be unveiled, Magathan – who
lives in Cambridge, MA, where she works at Tank Design Inc. – had yet to see it
at full size in its urban context. But in anticipation of finally seeing her big Midwestern sky at street level in NYC, she concluded: "It all seems too good to be true."
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A surety bond is a type of insurance that guarantees performance of a contract. An obligee (or business) seeks a principal (or contractor) to fulfill a contract. To insure the obligee a successful delivery, the principal buys a surety bond so the surety company becomes responsible for its obligations. If the principal defaults, the surety company can either find another principal to fulfill the contract or compensate the obligee's financial losses. In other words, the surety assures a successful contract because it assumes all financial obligations if the principal does not deliver. There are three types of surety bonds: Bid Bonds which guarantee that the bidder on a contract will enter into the contract and furnish the required payment and performance bonds if awarded the contract; Payment bonds which guarantee that suppliers and subcontractors will be paid for work performed under the contract; and Performance Bonds which guarantee that the contractor will perform the contract in accordance with its terms and conditions. Any Federal Construction contract valued at $100,000 or more requires a surety bond as a condition of contract award. Most State and municipal governments have similar requirements, as well as private entities. Many service contracts, and occasionally, supply contracts, also require surety bonds. The SBA does not issue surety bonds directly, but does work with agents to provide a guarantee for bid, performance, and payment bonds issued by participating surety companies.
Eligibility: To be eligible for a surety bond guarantee, your business must fall within the size standards set by SBA and be unable to obtain a bond without an SBA guarantee. The credit and character evaluations of the company's Principal must support issuance of a bond guaranteed by the SBA. The contract must require a bond to be eligible and the size of the contract or subcontract cannot exceed $2 million.
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text: After seeing all these transmission problems lately on this site resently I will help with what I know. I was talking with a local transmission shop owner last year sometime who has been in business in the area for over forty years. He had to rebuild the tranny in my Grandfathers F**d Escape.He filled me in on the in's and out's of maintaining your tranny. First off he said if maintained properly your tranny should last a long time. When backing or going forward then shifting into the other direction come to a complete stop before moving gear selector handle. When at a stop accelerate normally, try to avoid aggressive starts. When driving try to avoid flooring the throttle unless nessasary. In other words try to avoid the tranny shifting down when passing. If you tow a trailer or haul heavy loads reagularly, your fluid will need changed every 12,000 miles or sooner depending on the severity. The maximum milage anyone should go is 25 to 30,000 miles without a change of fluid. When hauling trailers or heavy loads put transmisson in the next lower gear, in otherwords do not put in overdrive. Use the tow/haul feature as well if you have it. Keep in mind this is one persons opinions, professional or not. Ultimitly heat is the number one killer of transmissions. He also said you can do nothing and replace the tranny when it goes and probably have as much in it as you do a rebuild or remanufactured transmission as you would with all the fluid changes if done at his suggested intervals of course depending on if you do it yourself or a shop, and type of tranny you have to rebuild.


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what is algae control philosophy, with empirical support?
They used to say that limiting one nutrient, like phosphate, could keep algae in check vs plants. Now the norm seems to be EI, providing all nutrients plants need without limits. Is the philosophy then that, when plants have everything they need, they successfully out-compete algae? In other words, what keeps algae (but not plants) in check in a healthy planted tank? And do we have experimental evidence to support our answers?
thanks for enlightening me!
A healthy planted tank will keep algae in check. Healthy plants growing well along with some algae crew and good maintenance.
So limiting nutrients can only hurt plants not algae in my personal, newbie, opinion.
I keep 1ppm phosphates now in my tank, plants are fine, no algae invasion.
Yes, do not limit your nutrients. However, lets say you have a low light tank, decent bioload, no CO2, few plants. Do you need EI? Most probably not. I wouldn't dose EI for that setup. The waste from fish will be enough to supply the plants. In fact, i would think that EI would just build nutrients over time to a very toxic level since they arent being consumed and even teh 50% WC wont reset the tank enough such that the buildup is being managed.
EI is a waste of dry fert. My tank got massive algae when I was dosing with EI. I switched to PPS-Pro a week ago and most algae are gone. At least they don't grow on my glass.
Sorry to hear issues with EI. I been dosing EI for 4 months, never had algae blooms that weren't due to other issues like CO2 or rescaping the tank without doing a water change. I have had over 100ppm of nitrates as well as i was dosing 2x EI on accident. Still no bloom. Its really dependednt on CO2, flow, and plant biosmass. If you dont have many plants or they arent that large, or have low light, EI might give you issues as youre just dumping tons of nutrients in. But seriously to get to that point, you would have little adding to that kind of tank in teh first place.
So we can't claim competition, unless it's for something else that we're not adding - which the algae needs, and the plants do not yet will still use and eliminate. Possible, but not proven, and certainly not the only possibility.
To tell the truth no one really knows why it's possible to grow plants without algae. There is little scientific or empirical evidence that directly applies, and likely not to be any for a long time, as there's just no environmental or economical reason to perform such research.
However, that's a very limited view. Instead view every planted tank hobbyist as a researcher, and every tank as an experiment. Now you have thousands of long-term studies in progress, and though individually they aren't as controlled or in agreement as some would like, together their scope greatly exceeds that of any traditional scientific study.
But it is of course up to you to interpret the results. ;)
To sum up my interpretation:
1) Provide all the plants can actually use, and little more. If there's any question, always err on the side of excess, which is tolerated far better than deficiency.
2) Algae is initially caused by poor plant health or conditions, but once present, it seems to create conditions favorable for itself. Use its presence as a sign that you may not have fulfilled #1, but if you're certain you have and the algae still persists, attack the algae directly.
How about a Video of another?
I can also find nice examples of bad algae for every single method of dosing.
So clearly and without any doubt, there are no issues with my own tanks and those of many many other people using EI. If you had an issue with CO2, or light or both prior...........then EI will only highlight those management issues, since a non limiting potentially limiting nutient is removed.
So nutrients are no longer DEPENDENT.
This helps teach people to manage their CO2 and light.
Which are far larger players in making the long term management of the aquarium much simpler and easier to reach the hobbyists goal.
Balance includes Light and CO2 also, not JUST nutrients alone. If EI causes problems or algae, it's not EI's fault, its yours, mine, or whoever is using it.
Do not blame nutrients because you have not mastered light or CO2 or both.
It's not the nutrient's fault, if it was, my aquariums would not be possible, but clearly, they are.
So this suggest it MUST be some other cause other than excess nutrients if you failed. Same logic applies equally to me or anyone.
I think we can say some about what causes specific species of algae to bloom.
There is strong correlation for some possible reasons, many of which are indirectly linked to poor plant growth, or lack of maintenance and trimming, general care.
Also, if we find one likely cause for algae, say low NO3= BGA.........this does not imply all other possible reasons might not be true, or not, there may be multiple reasons for algae.
Setting up controls for an experiment for algae and/or plant growth implies that the aquarist has complete mastery of light, CO2 and ferts, as well as good horticultural skills, that's a tall order for a newbie to acquire. Even an intermediate hobbyists. They try, but it's very hard for them to isolate and figure out things step wise.
And without a control for the test, they cannot isolate much independently. Some will have good light and CO2 balance, and thus do well with EI, others, not so well, the same can be said for ADA, PPS, PMDD etc, we can find nice algae ridden tanks for any method of dosing.
This is not surprising since algae are not limited in all cases, only the plants are. So there's strong empirical support, but it's falsification, not causation.
Thanks so much everyone for your thoughts. Maybe EI is not universal, but lots of people seem to be using it with great results. So my question is not whether it works, but why. When CO2, light, and ferts are within certain parameters (for which we seem to now have a pretty good feel), one starts with lots of healthy plants, water is changed regularly and organics are low, plants thrive and algae all but disappears. Why? It's not for lack of space—algae could grow on the glass, wood, leaves, water column, etc., but it doesn't. Why? Raising NO3 and seeing BGA disappear is correlation, not causation. NO3 is not toxic to BGA, right, I mean, it needs N too right? Same for PO4 and GSA, e.g. I'm sure GSA likes PO4, and if we were trying to raise GSA we would need some P in the mix somewhere, right? Adding these 'algae foods' will not in itself make algae go away. So what is it about these 'magical' parameters we use that favors plants over algae? I can only imagine 2 explanations--either:
(1) abundant healthy happy plants under ideal parameters outcompete algae for a particular nutrient that it needs, e.g., given everything else it needs in unlimited amounts, plants are better than algae at capturing PO4. but as dark cobra says, if PO4 is not really limited either under EI, how can there be competition?
(2) abundant healthy happy plants under ideal parameters release some sort of allelopathic chemical that inhibits algae. Identify that and you stand to make some money!
or something else we have not yet imagined..intervention from Poseidon?
Thanks for amusing me here; I'm just the sort of person who wants to know why.
There is also evidence, scientific evidence that healthy plants produce substances that inhibit the growth of other plants and algae. Although the research on this matter is far from being complete.
Aquatic plants are known to to do this, not just the emersed ones.
Maybe I begin to be off-topic.
what is algae control philosophy, with empirical support?
I've found that since I've been keeping only shrimp planted tanks this my temperatures are not tropical (65-72F) algae is not a problem. Co2 and ph seem easier to keep stable.
Changing water or not, didn't make much difference. (Again, there is no fish in this tanks)
Dosing didn't make much difference as long as there was no limiting factor.
Imo, given that there is enough plant mass... Light is the key to the rate of growth or metabolism of the tank, thus dictating the need for more or less nutrients including CO2.
And temperature dictates how stable it is.
I compare algae with cancer. We all have cancer cells in our bodies. We need to NOT be a good host for them to thrive.
what is algae control philosophy, with empirical support?
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text: 9to5Mac are reporting that Apple has released the third iPhone OS 4 SDK BETA and is available to developers in the iPhone Developer Center. The previous Beta caused some problems for developers with camera functionality and file handling. Hopes are high that not only will those issues be fixed, but perhaps developers might get to peek at some new features … Read More


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Rudy (mad-Machinist) made me the gun we mentioned and it is a gas operated ar that runs perfectly on all brands of ammo ive tried in it so far...
and ive got a thread here on it that was hit today...
at this link:
Hate takes LESS energy & thought... Dont be so Lazy.
Building or Bitching? which are you here to do?
YES, i work for TEC Tactical. 02/07 SOT
Unfortunately it isn't one of mine.....LOL......
I'll extend the same $50 discount to Gunco members off the $850 retail for a complete tested upper with magwell adaptor that is available to members of the weaponsguild. One added benefit of my design is NO modifications to the PPS43 magazine is required...just stick'em in and shoot..........let me know if I can help any one......
hey Mad tell me more about your 7.62x25 DI AR setup?
what's different about it from other rigs like the Ron Williams upper at RMW Xtreme?
Dont want to put down another mans product...
but i will "put up" Rudy's..
not only is Rudy a stand up guy, he makes a fantastic product and stands behind it in everyway..
love mine and shoot it all the time. ...
Hate takes LESS energy & thought... Dont be so Lazy.
Building or Bitching? which are you here to do?
YES, i work for TEC Tactical. 02/07 SOT
It's all good duti I just wanted to know what differences if any there are between the 2 uppers.
I am sure that both are fine.I have personal Xperience with the RMW upper
all cool bud...
i'll put it this way:
theres not a "tool mark" on Rudy's anywhere.. its very very high quality and you can tell he takes his time and hand fits it all together.
ive not handled the RMW versions so couldnt give you an honest input on those.
Hate takes LESS energy & thought... Dont be so Lazy.
Building or Bitching? which are you here to do?
YES, i work for TEC Tactical. 02/07 SOT
What would you like to know?.....I build each one basically to customer specs...my base model with a flat top upper, rail handguard (midlegnth with a custom vented endcap) , and a 16 inch barrel runs $850.00 It includes a mag well adaptor for PPS43 magazines that uses the original mag release from the AR and requires no modification to the magazine....no slots...no mods...just stick it in and shoot.
My gas blocks are made from steel and honed to fit the barrel and are a split clamp design and my gas tubes are hand made from stainless tubing and removable from the block. I prefer the split clam design as it completely removable on the 16 inch barrel standard uppers, and I am working on a two piece block that is removable on the CAR style uppers without removing the frontsight base....Dutigaf has the prototype of that one on his TOK 15.
If you want an A2 upper, or a carbine legnth handguard with a standard FSB all is doable....just need to send me an email with your preferences of what you want and we can get started. Also...if you have parts like an upper, bolt carrier and bolt, charging handle....I'll be happy to use them and deduct my cost of those parts from the cost of the build.
I'll try and get a pic of my personal later today...it is the standard model.
They shoot phenomally...I have upwards of 6000 rounds through mine and it just runs better every day. When it was developed...I had occasional jams resulting from failures to eject...but they went away after I shot up all the 1950's bulgarian ammo I had....with the current czech and romanian stuff it runs 100%
Additionally....my magwell feeds from the forward position in the magwell, so no auxillary feed ramps are necessary....the feed ramp is a minor modification to the barrel extension, but it dosent eliminate any of the locking lugs like some pistol caliber conversions I have seen ...plus, closer the mag is to the chamber...better it feeds....
feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with any other questions. Hope to be opening the doors under a new name in the next 6 months, I'll be doing complete pistol caliber conversions,(complete guns) primarily gas but will be doing blowback too as Macon Armory. Hopefully in the fiuture we can occupy the actual grounds of the old Macon Armory (CSA) within the next two years. (I like to metal detect too) If someone would like a complete gun now...it is not a problem...a local 07 is a friend and as we help each other out, he will be happy to process and complete gun transactions for me...I build the uppers and then assemble and test at his place and he does the transfer for now.
Sorry I have't been around too much as of late...but been trying to stay in the shop...got a couple of prototypes in the works and about 10 customer builds going right now ranging from a 40 S&W AR pistol to a 10mm on an AR45 lower with grease gun mags with a heap o TOK15's and AR45 in between. Also working on a 5.56 pistol with a 4 inch buffer that actually runs.....and I can do pistol uppers or SBR on request
Ya'll holler if I can help ya....
Here's a quick video of mine runnin with the old bulgy ammo
VERY nice MAD!
I am interested in learning more about your mag adapter.
If you post pix of your upper post some pix of the mag adapter also.
I have bought some tools from you so I know your quality is good.


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Man's pothole damage claim denied by Colorado Springs
Prior knowledge of pothole location required, city says
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Colorado Springs man said the city won't compensate him for pothole damage to his vehicle because the city had no prior knowledge of the pothole.
Oldan Jones contacted KRDO NewsChannel 13 after his Nissan Altima was damaged three weeks ago by a pothole on Northpark Drive.
"(The pothole) dented my rim and knocked my wheel bearings out of place," he said. "It's going to (cost) at least $2,000 (to repair the damage). I'm very mad, actually. I thought my city would do a better job of helping me."
In a letter to Jones last week, the city's Risk Management office cited the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act, under which the city "is entitled to have prior notice of a condition and a reasonable opportunity to remedy it before being liable for damages."
KRDO NewsChannel 13 first reported on the Northpark potholes last weekend. The area has two large potholes and numerous smaller ones. Many drivers said water draining through the area worsens the situation.
Al Trujillo works in the surrounding industrial area and said Northpark has been a problem long enough for the city to know about it.
"I've been driving across the same spot for the last seven years, and they do come out and fill it every now and then," he said. "(But) filling it up with asphalt every couple of months isn't working."
Corey Farkas, manager of the city's Streets Division, said his department was unaware of the Northpark situation until KRDO NewsChannel 13 asked about it.
"It could be that people saw the potholes and complained about them but never reported them to us," he said. "We run into that all the time. We depend on citizens telling us where the potholes are -- especially the worst potholes."
Farkas said the city has eight full-time crews dedicated to filling potholes. On some occasions, he said, workers are pulled from other jobs and assigned to pickup trucks filled with asphalt to increase the number of crews.
A crew was assigned to Northpark late Thursday afternoon, Farkas said.
City residents who want to report potholes can call the Streets Division at 719-385-ROAD (7623). Residents also can download the "GoCoSprings"app from the city's website, springsgov.com.
To file a claim for damage from a pothole, call the city's Risk Management office at 719-385-5960.


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A smidgen slimmer and perhaps a tad less flirtatious, Tiger the cat still commanded a wealth of attention Friday as he strutted across the lawn of his Vacaville home and plopped on the grass to lick a paw.
It was good to see the 12-year-old cheerful, his family said, being that it was nearly three weeks since he was cat-napped from the Notre Dame Drive home and less than two weeks since he was recovered.
"We're just so happy," exclaimed Karen Dawson, running her fingers down the orange-and-white tabby's furry backside and receiving a rolling purr in response.
To explain: Tiger has lived on Notre Dame Drive since 2004, when the Dawsons transferred to Travis Air Force Base from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Cute, personable and prone to beg for belly rubs, Tiger is well-known to neighbors and neighborhood students -- Cooper Elementary School is right around the corner.
The feline hates being cooped up inside and is allowed to roam outdoors, often sunning himself on neighbors' lawns, basking in the love of passersby or investigating newcomers, both people and their vehicles.
"He goes from one buffet to another," joked Dawson's husband, Scott.
On the morning of March 7, Dawson returned home from dropping a daughter off at school to find Tiger in the arms of a stranger. The man and his companion, a woman seated inside a silver sedan, insisted the cat was theirs, a missing feline named "Tyrone." Persuaded otherwise, the man released Tiger, who was spooked, Dawson said, and ran inside their house.
The following morning, Tiger was gone. Dawson later learned from a passing motorist that a man matching the stranger's description had been seen snatching the cat at 7:50 a.m.
Frantic, the family, their friends and all manner of community members got busy putting up fliers all over town.
Dozens of calls came in following a story in The Reporter. Half were sightings and the others were offers of support. Then there was nothing, just days of silence. And waiting. Lots and lots of waiting.
"We'd done all we could do," Dawson remembered. "There was nothing else."
Her 15-year-old daughter, Sierra, agreed.
"I didn't think someone would find him," she said of the cat she'd plucked from a Santa Barbara County shelter in 2001 and practically grown up with. "But you always have hope."
That changed on March 19, when fellow Vacaville resident Nicole Faenzi made a fateful call.
Faenzi, en route to work, spotted the cat around 9:30 a.m. in the Foxboro area about 4 miles away. He looked hungry, she later informed Dawson, so she fed him and put him in the garage. She then called Dawson, who arrived about five minutes later.
"She told me he heard my car and started meowing," Dawson said, remembering the tears that fell upon their reunion.
"He came right to me," she said. "He doesn't like to be held a lot but he let me pick him up."
A vet check revealed a few scratches, a near three-pound weight loss and damaged paw pads. Street tar, tree sap and dirt scuffed his fur. Skin was missing from the back of one leg and he had a gash in his striped tail. The vet apparently believed that Tiger jumped out of his abductor's car or escaped from the home and, due to the condition of his paw pads, walked several miles.
Tiger, now microchipped, was spooked for a week following his return, Scott said, staying close to home until recently.
The community has rallied around the family, Scott added, coming over to visit Tiger and express their happiness at having him back home.
"It helped us to know that other residents of Vacaville, not just our neighborhood, shared in our sadness that Tiger was abducted," Dawson said. "So many people were looking for Tiger; that was a comfort to my family and especially my daughter ... We never gave up hope that Tiger would be with us again."
The family gives their thanks to the community for helping to bring Tiger home.
Follow Staff Writer Kimberly K. Fu at Twitter.com/ReporterKimFu.


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Inmates fight fires to serve communities
RUSSELL COUNTY, Va. - When a wildfire breaks out in Southwest Virginia, it's not airplanes and helicopters filled with water that bring things under control -- it's firefighters on the ground, doing the nitty-gritty work of constructing fire lines up and down our steep mountains.
Since 1996, some crews on the front lines are low-risk, nonviolent offenders from the Commonwealth's Corrections Department.
It's a dirty, difficult job to clear a fire line by hand. The idea is to clear all leaves and vegetation to keep the fire contained.
Some of those out there on the line are not a normal firefighting crew, but inmates from the Appalachian Corrections Facility in Russell County. They're part of a force of about 160 low-risk, nonviolent offenders who are out there saving homes and forests, and maybe saving themselves. "It's a very, very strict program that we're in. Most of us are some type of drug offender, first-time offenders. It really beats sitting back in, when I say the facility," inmate Reginald Lambright said.
It's back-breaking work, but when successful, there's a since of accomplishment for the inmates. "You know there's a feeling that you get when you help out somebody else that you can't duplicate anywhere else. It's something that makes you feel better about yourself and it gives you a good feeling," facility superintendent Berk Artrip says.
"These offenders learn a sense of public service that they may not have had in the past. What we've found here when we bring them out, construct fire lines, and they protect a structure, somebody's home or the forestland, they get a real sense of accomplishment about that," Steve Counts with the Department of Forestry adds.
A sense that they can make a difference not just in our communities, but a difference in themselves at the same time. "They can look at your record and see that you're trying to change your ways and the way you think," inmate Harley Taylor said.
The inmates from the facility give about a thousand hours of community service back to the community each week. We learned that the majority will not become repeat offenders, but good citizens.