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Top photo: A Roadrunner Cafe employee checks the salad bar,
complete with Rowdy watermelon
Second photo: UTSA juniors (from left) Cody Collins (Laurel
Village resident assistant), Chelsea Fluegel (Chaparral Village R.A.),
Brendan Flood (Chaparral Village R.A.), Monika Gutierrez (Chaparral
Village R.A.) and Amanda Larez (Laurel Village R.A.)
Third photo: UTSA employees Mimi Garza and Elizabeth Garcia at
the salad bar
Bottom photo: A student chooses an entree
(Photo by Mark McClendon)
New Roadrunner Café: 'Real Food on Campus'
By Marianne McBride Lewis
Director of Public Affairs
(June 25, 2008)--In May, UTSA entered into a five-year contract with national food service provider ARAMARK. This is the first in a series of stories highlighting some of the new food choices that students, faculty and staff will enjoy on both the 1604 and Downtown campuses, starting this summer.
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As UTSA matures from a commuter campus to a more traditional four-year university with an increasing number of students living on campus, campus administrators realized that the food choices would have to mature as well.
So, in May, armed with information culled from student surveys, the UTSA Office of Business Affairs entered into a contract with ARAMARK, after a request for proposals brought several vendor concepts to the table for review.
"For us, it is all about our students being successful in their studies and happy with the on-campus accommodations -- and for me, that means 'happy-with-their-food,'" said Jane Wilcox, UTSA director of business auxiliary services.
One part of "happy-with-their-food," said Wilcox, is a new and improved menu at the Roadrunner Café on the 1604 Campus. "The biggest change is freshness and the second biggest change is variety."
Domingo Gonzalez, district marketing manager for ARAMARK, agreed. "Everything we have in the produce market, such as the salad bar, will be cut and chopped right in front of you. Everything is fresh. We don't use pre-packaged or frozen fruit and vegetables."
Another feature Gonzalez is excited about is that all entrée offerings are fresh and cooked to order. "No mystery meat will be coming out from behind the kitchen door."
In terms of variety, Gonzalez added, "Each station will have a daily special, so no one should ever get bored. We know students are adults that have lots of choices in life from cell phone providers to course work, so we believe they should also have lots of choices when it comes to their food. Our concept includes made-to-order throughout."
To introduce faculty and staff to the new Roadrunner Café "Real Food on Campus" concept, ARAMARK is offering a summer special -- all-you-can-eat breakfast, lunch or dinner for $5 with UTSACard.
Lunch at the Roadrunner Café already is part of a regular day at work for Mimi Garza and Elizabeth Garcia, both staff members in the Office of Sponsored Programs. Garza and Garcia, who recently registered with the America on the Move 2008: UT System Ultimate Challenge, walk over from the Multidisciplinary Studies Building most days so they can exercise and eat healthily.
"It really doesn't take that long to get here walking, and there are lots of healthy choices," said Garza. "They have plenty of salads to choose from, steamed vegetables, and today we had baked chicken."
"Oh, and cookies," Garcia added with a smile.
For staffers who would rather leave their walking shoes behind, the campus shuttle runs during the summer, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday-Friday. The shuttle runs continuously with stops every 10-15 minutes in front of the Main Building, by the Tobin Lab and at West Campus/Lot 12.
The expanded café hours, which will be even longer come fall semester, will be a big hit with the students, according to a group of five resident assistants who recently gathered for lunch.
"Last year the café was only open for meals, and it closed down mid-day," said Brendan Flood, an R.A. at Chaparral Village. "So, for the dinner hours, there was already a long line by 4:30 p.m. with students just waiting to get in."
Amanda Larez, an R.A. at Laurel Village, added, "This will be much better because you can eat when you have time to eat and be able to work it in with your class schedule."
All sounds good. Just like the food.
Read more about UTSA Dining Services at the Business Auxiliary Services Web site (select "Dining").
Roadrunner Café summer hours
Breakfast: 7-9 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Dinner: 5-7 p.m.
Breakfast: 7-9 a.m.
Lunch: 11a.m.-2 p.m.
Dinner: closed
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Full disclosure - I'm not treatment free, but I applaud anyone and everyone who has established a successful treatment free apiary. Seriously I do.
But, I would suspect that everyone who has done it would agree with a few principles:
- Treatment free does not mean doing nothing and hoping for the best.
- Treatment free requires at least as much understanding of bee keeping as any other philosophy - so educate yourself.
- If you start out with a couple of generic packages from Georgia, and don't check and don't prepare for any contingencies you probably will not be successful as a treatment free bee keeper.
- If you replace your dead outs with generic packages from Georgia every spring you probably won't ever become successful as a treatment free bee keeper.
Maybe I am wrong about some of these - and I welcome constructive input. The reason I am even bringing it up is that I get quite a few contacts via our local bee keepers association from new bee keepers who of course want to be treatment free - of course they want that, who wouldn't? But they don't understand these basic points of the pursuit. That is on them of course, it should be obvious that everyone needs to educate themselves about their chosen path. But for some reason a common take away from the treatment free internet community is that all you have to do is not treat and all your dreams will come true.
I just wish that all of the proponents would make it painfully true that at least at first - treatment free is not easy.
Or am I wrong?
Again - not hacking on the whole treatment free thing. I'll probably give it a go myself one day when I think I have achieved a sufficient state of Zen.
I almost forgot - Step 1 to becoming a treatment free bee keeper - learn to be a bee keeper.


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Fifth-round pick: S Cooper Taylor, Richmond
Here's our rapid reaction on Taylor and what the Giants' brass is saying about him:
Marc Ross: Just at that point in the draft we think we got a hidden gem there. This guy is big, fast, smart, plays the game the right way. He does a lot of things for Richmond. They line him up at multiple positions. Youll see him in the box; youll see him back deep. He covers the slot. Productive there. He transferred from Georgia Tech, but we think this guy has got a lot of upside. Sent our (safeties) coach (Dave) Merritt down there to work him out-a private workout and he was really impressed by him. We had him in for a visit. The kid is really smart. Loves football, so we think he has a ton of upside.
Tom Coughlin: Young safety who has the great, great numbers - 6-4 plus, 228. Really good test score - 44.5 range. He had four interceptions, 78 tackles this past year. We are hoping that he is going to come in and apply all of the tools that he has right away there in the secondary for us. He is a safety by trade but you drop him down in that three-safety package or whatever you want to do... whether he plays an outside backer or whatever. That is all going to have to be determined when we get him in here.
Jerry Reese: Big size-speed safety that we think has a really nice upside. I can envision him honestly on special teams with that size and speed. I can envision him being that third safety in some of the three-safety looks that (defensive coordinator) Perry Fewell likes to use sometimes... (Taylor's heart condition is) nothing significant for our trainers and doctors right now. They cleared him and they dont really have any real concerns." Read more...


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Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud?
posted at 8:48 am on November 20, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line. The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed that the e-mails are genuine — and Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun report that those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming (via Watt's Up With That):
The internet is on fire this morning with confirmation computers at one of the world's leading climate research centres were hacked, and the information released on the internet.
A 62 megabyte zip file, containing around 160 megabytes of emails, pdfs and other documents, has been confirmed as genuine by the head of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, Dr Phil Jones.
In an exclusive interview with Investigate magazine's TGIF Edition, Jones confirms his organization has been hacked, and the data flying all over the internet appears to have come from his organisation.
"It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."
One of the most damning e-mails published comes from Dr. Jones himself. In an e-mail from almost exactly ten years ago, Jones appears to discuss a method of overlaying data of temperature declines with repetitive, false data of higher temperatures:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@[snipped], mhughes@
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@[snipped],t.osborn@[snipped]
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers, Phil
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
Jones told Investigate that he couldn't remember the context of "hide the decline," and that the process was a way to fill data gaps rather than mislead. But when scientists talk about "tricks" in the context of hiding data, it certainly seems suspicious.
Andrew Bolt points to a couple of other suspicious entries in the database as well for the Herald-Sun. For instance, here we have scientists discussing how to delete inconvenient data in order to emphasize other data that supports their conclusions:
From: Tom Wigley […]
To: Phil Jones […]
Subject: 1940s
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:38 -0600
Cc: Ben Santer […]
Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that theland also shows the 1940s blip (as I'm sure you know).
So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean – but we'd still have to explain the land blip. I've chosen 0.15 here deliberately. This still leaves an ocean blip, and i think one needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these). When you look at other blips, the land blips are 1.5 to 2 times (roughly) the ocean blips—higher sensitivity plus thermal inertia effects. My 0.15 adjustment leaves things consistent with this, so you can see where I am coming from.
Removing ENSO does not affect this.
It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with "why the blip".
Let me go further. If you look at NH vs SH and the aerosol effect (qualitatively or with MAGICC) then with a reduced ocean blip we get continuous warming in the SH, and a cooling in the NH—just as one would expect with mainly NH aerosols.
The other interesting thing is (as Foukal et al. note – from MAGICC) that the 1910-40 warming cannot be solar. The Sun can get at most 10% of this with Wang et al solar, less with Foukal solar. So this may well be NADW, as Sarah and I noted in 1987 (and also Schlesinger later). A reduced SST blip in the 1940s makes the 1910-40 warming larger than the SH (which it currently is not)—but not really enough.
So … why was the SH so cold around 1910? Another SST problem? (SH/NH data also attached.)
This stuff is in a report I am writing for EPRI, so I'd appreciate any comments you (and Ben) might have.
Hmmm. Sounds like "hid[ing] the data" once again. And here we have them privately admitting that they can't find the global warming that they've been predicting:
From: Kevin Trenberth
To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600
Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , "Philip D. Jones" , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer
Hi all
Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming ? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low.
This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).
Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [1][PDF] (A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.)
The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.***
Do scientists use data to test theories, or do they use theories to test data? Scientists will claim the former, but here we have scientists who cling to the theory so tightly that they reject the data. That's not science; it's religious belief.
Dr. Jones has confirmed that these e-mails are genuine. Whether the work represented by these scientists is as genuine seems to be under serious question. Tim Blair says, "The fun is officially underway."
Update: These e-mails may explain this:
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Or maybe it didn't exist at all, except when scientists at Hadley were "hid[ing] the decline[s]."
Update II: This follows on a more mundane controversy over competence at Hadley that erupted in September:
A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent peer-reviewed climate papers.
At least eight papers purporting to reconstruct the historical temperature record times may need to be revisited, with significant implications for contemporary climate studies, the basis of the IPCC's assessments. A number of these involve senior climatologists at the British climate research centre CRU at the University East Anglia. In every case, peer review failed to pick up the errors.
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Things are gonna change, I can feel it.
It's been a long time coming.
This blog is going to go through a pretty major change in the next two months. It's not going away, it's just going to kick 126% more ass.
And I might tie one-million balloons to it and fly it away to another location.
And it will be different. And better. And probably a little bigger.
And there might be some other stuff that I can't talk about right now.
I'll know a little bit more about it later this month and I'll probably send a note out to my contact list well in advance of any type of public announcement. I'd really like to make sure that you can follow me wherever I end up so, if you haven't already, and you're inclined to, take a minute to sign up for the list.
Dude. I hate SPAM way more than you do, so rest assured I'm not going to assault you with crap or sell your personal electronic location in the world. In fact, I think the last time I sent out an email was in June of 2008. I just want you to sign my yearbook so we can K.I.T., ok?
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Seriously – thanks for being here and hanging out and reading. Thanks for all the cool emails. Thanks for the comments. Thanks for being rad.
Without kickass people like you, blogs are just really sad online diaries. Sad online diaries cry a lot – and I am fresh outa tissues so let's not even go there, ok?
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I've been out of it for awhile. Have missed you and Sal. Have even missed the mud though only a little bit :) This sounds interesting….please keep me updated, OK?
A few years ago, I was running an errand downtown. I parked and realized I didn't have any change, but I just needed to run in real quick and drop something off. I got out of the car, sprinted in, got 'er done, and sprinted back out to my car, which had a parking ticket waiting on it. Seriously, I was only gone a few minutes, tops. It all goes to show, change is good.
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Being the lone English-speaker on the tour bus (the others were from Russia and Ukraine), it felt a bit odd getting the English commentary, as if the tour guide was overcompensating, leaving me feeling a bit awkward. Don't get me wrong - he was an excellent guide, and gave some great insight into the Balkan culture. He mentioned something very profound about the breakup of the former Yugoslavia - that wars should be fought to protect your culture, your religion, your way of life, and your people, and that this last war was simply done for all the wrong reasons, and was a gargantuan mistake. If only those in power during the war could have admitted these things at the time, the world may not have witnessed such countless atrocities take place.
Nowadays, Cetinje is probably most famous for its Monastery, which houses two important relics - a shard of Christ's cross, and the mummified hand of St. John the Baptist. Somewhat gruesome as it's all dried and shriveled up, it looks like something you might find in a Chinatown medicinal store, something that an herbalist might recommend be used to make soup for alleviation of arthritic pain. Think I'm joking? Not fully ... us Chinese have some mighty bizarre medicinal uses for even more bizarre items.
A number of visitors brought items like bracelets and pictures of religious icons to place on the Plexiglas that topped the casket which contained the relics, as if hoping that somehow magic powers would be bestowed upon the items. Feeling especially sacrilegious today, I thought to myself that if for some strange reason my mummified hand would be so venerated by people after my death, I hoped that before being encased in Plexiglas, all the fingers of my hand would be bent inward to the palm, with the exception of the middle finger, which would forever remain raised, in a final eternal flip of the bird to the world. I have no idea why I say such terrible things ... but for some reason, saying such terrible things always makes me chuckle inside :)
cappuccino on the main pedestrian street? A no brainer for me - all these years of visiting Spain have made me care less and less about seeing the sights, and more and more about chilling and watching the world (and Spanish ladies) go by. It's a process I've dubbed Spanification. I continue to explore and research this most beautiful and fascinating of processes :)
Had a funny Chino moment at some of the vendor stalls that greet the tour buses as they arrive in Cetinje - one of the ladies nearly tripped over herself trying to greet me, as her eyes lit up. The thing about being a tourist is that locals always see bags of money when you arrive, and when you're an Asian tourist, they see bags of GOLD!
The final stop of the tour was Mt. Lovcen, one of Montenegro's four national parks - I visited Lake Skadar national park the other day, but won't have the chance to visit Durmitor (famous for white water rafting on the Tara River and its canyon, which is the second-deepest in the world) and Biogradska Gora (famous for Lake Biograd). No matter, after my third day in Montenegro I already knew I would one day return - a place so surreal in its beauty, how could I not?
Situated atop the second-highest peak in Lovcen National Park, Jezerski Vrh, is the Njegos Mausoleum, which houses the remains of Petar II Petrovic Njegos, a former ruler of Montenegro. The views from here are incredible - apparently, after witnessing the views for himself, George Bernard Shaw once posed the question "Am I in paradise or on the moon?" My answer - paradise. I simply sat and relaxed for quite some time, soaking it all in, and listening to some fresh tunes on the trusty ol' iPod. Definitely one of those "wow" moments during traveling which you never want to forget.
Like I said, the guide was great and gave me the story of how Montenegro was actually named by Italian explorers, who had sailed past and noticed some of the mountains lined with black pine trees, and dubbed it "Black Mountain" - or Montenegro, in Italian. Montenegrins ended up calling it the same, though in the local language it's Crna Gora. The guide mentioned that before this, Montenegro was known as Zeta, as in Catherine Zeta-Jones, he explained. I laughed and asked how he came up with that analogy - "I LIKE her ...", he replied, with a smile. If I ever get the chance to name a country, it'll be something like Claudia, Elena, or Eva, after a beautiful Spanish woman. Once again, it's that whole process of Spanification!
Joined a couple of peeps from the hostel, two childhood friends from a little village just north of London, for the evening. Stari Ribar was a restaurant recommended by the guidebook, and highly recommended by a the London girls from a couple of nights earlier, so that's where we ended up. Good sign - no English translations on the menu, and no other tourists were to be found. We struggled with the menu, with the girls asking the waitresses to explain what each of the 10 or so items in the meat section were - the first was described as "Uh ... grilled meat." The second was also described as "Uh ... grilled meat.", as was the third, fourth, fifth items ... ad infinitum ...
The meal was excellent - the girls split a mixed grill, of which I sampled some of their cevapcici, little minced-meat and casing-less sausages. The Montenegrins have made an art of grilled minced meat, as both these sausages and their pljeskavica (hamburger patty), are so much more delicious than their simple description sounds. Being on the Adriatic, it was about time I had some seafood.
Down to Stari Grad via the boardwalk, the girls commented how having just come from Belgrade, they still couldn't believe how incredibly beautiful and statuesque the Serbian girls are. Mental note - move Serbia to the top of my travel list. Of course, this shouldn't be surprising since most Balkans are South Slavs, and descendants of the same ancestors. The different ethnic groups here are divided mostly along the lines of religion and geography, so if Serbian women are in any way related to Croatian or Montenegrin women, without doubt they would have to be as beautiful, as well.
The girls have an insanely ambitious travel plan - they started with three days in Istanbul, followed by three days in Thessaloniki, then three days in Belgrade, before arriving here. They've got a week coming up in Croatia, which I figure is about two or three days short of what they need to actually see what they are planning on seeing.
Stari Grad - phenomenal vibe, it's shocking to think this all shuts down at 1 AM due to a curfew in the walled town. I told the girls if they like this, they'll love Split, which is even more vibrant. The music was great, as was the people-watching, but the problem was the price of drinks - 6-7 Euros for cocktails. At least the beer was relatively cheap, at 2-3 Euros for local brews. We only stayed for a bit, in search of cheaper options, thinking the bars on the harbour just outside the walls would be cheaper, but that wasn't the case. Too bad, because there was an incredible saxophone player doing his thing at one place - I would've loved to have stayed and enjoyed the moment, but the girls were on a more restricted budget than I, so we headed down to the super loud and trashy open-air discos on the beach.
We didn't stay long, as there was a very plastic vibe, and the girls were getting annoyed by a couple of guys at one place - at first we thought they were hitting on them or trying to buy them a drink, but it turns out they were waiters and trying to pressure the girls into buying drinks from them, since they must get some type of commission. Budva can be pretty tacky ... but it definitely has its charms and fun moments.
Balkan Chino Count: 4. I saw another three at the hostel today, but aren't sure if they were the same ones as yesterday - we all look the same, after all!


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Oh, I just voted. So excited for all the entries. They are awesome. Great Works of art.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Oh, I just voted. So excited for all the entries. They are awesome. Great Works of art.
Life is short, live it while you still can. QuilterMomma
Good Luck Ladies. You all have inspired me with your creations. I have enjoyed seeing all of your blocks. I voted. I hope I did it right. (my first time voting) Again, best of luck to you all.
My little shinning stars. Brantley, Kaylynn, and Emmalee
It's such fun to see the variety of entries and how skillful and creative everyone is. Good luck to everyone and there definitely are no losers in this group!!!
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I believe UFOs are like scraps, ferns and dust bunnies. Once you get two, they send spores out into the air and more just happen anywhere the spores meet.
Those are some gorgeous blocks ! Good Luck everyone
To keep your mind fresh- learn one new thing a day !
I'm glad I'm not allowed to vote. What a batch of beauties! I could never pick. LOL
I Quilt, I Nap, I Quilt Some More ... Aaaaah, The Good Life!
I also have an eddres you can use if you need to contact me with questions or suggestions that relate to our community: firstname.lastname@example.com
What I think is cool is the variety of techniques used. Quilters are SUCH a talented bunch!!!
Wow! Terrific assortment of blocks!
Be a blessing to others, as you may entertain angels unaware!
Congratulations to all of you!!! You are all winners by the looks of these blocks. Love all the different ideas.
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"The Best" The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)
Another WOW to add to the listing. I can vote, but it will be very difficult. Some of the blocks I REALLY likes the fabric colors and others I REALLY liked the finished block. Is this an Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Moe? On my way to look them over again and vote. Good luck to everyone who entered.
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Most people on the forum actually think the thread was dumb.
Most people on the forum actually think the thread was dumb.
Misleading thread title. Fans in that thread are bashing the OP.
I Hate The Philadelphia Eagles.
New York Giants Superbowl XXI, XXV, XLII, XLVI Champions!!!!!
If they want to be happy about the Giants missing the playoffs, Im happy they (Eagles) missed the playoffs.
New York Giants Superbowl XXI, XXV, XLII, XLVI Champions!!!!!
Stupid Eagles fans, they barely won one game against this year because of a stupid PI call, then we crushed them the second game. Their superbowl appearance is best known for McNabb throwing up on the field.. lol. Yeah a lot to be proud about in that franchise...
What do you expect from eagles fans?
They are the new basement team of the east, with the emergance of Washington; although the verdict on the redakins is still to be determined, it probably hurts to think that this self proclaimed dynasty dream team is going to have to postpone its pre celebrations another couple years. It must suck to be a eagles fan, cause here you have all these big name marquee players and consistent failure for 50+years? Tsk tsk. I would rather be a browns fan, cause at least i know the talent is not there to do much and can forecast a ****ty season, the eagles should of won at least 2 by now.
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The annual "Miracle Auction" coordinated by Dance Marathon of Hope College has been scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, as part of the student organization's effort to raise support for Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
The auction will take place in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall, and will begin at 7:30 p.m. It will feature a variety of items contributed by local businesses and organizations, and artists and other individuals, including hand-crafted artwork, sporting and recreational equipment, tickets to cultural and sporting events, and gift certificates to local restaurants.
The Hope College Dance Marathon, which will be held on Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, is a philanthropic event that benefits the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids. Dedicated to providing comprehensive care to children, the hospital serves as a referral center for newborns, infants, children, and adolescents throughout the state. More than 150 physicians in 40 pediatric specialties care for more than 7,600 inpatients and more than 190,000 outpatients every year at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
In order to help support the vast number of ailing children that visit the hospital each year, all proceeds from the auction will go directly towards the funding of special programs that are designed to make the young patients' visits to the hospital more bearable while also helping the families of the children to deal with their illnesses.
Since beginning in 2000, Dance Marathon has raised more than $780,000 for Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, including $60,715.25 last year.
Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.


text: The super-heroes split as the CIVIL WAR heats up! Registration has become law, household names have gone rogue and a Marvel legend makes a decision that will change a life forever. Featuring the NEW AVENGERS, the FANTASTIC FOUR, the YOUNG AVENGERS and pretty much everybody else! And, no fooling, true believer...this issue features one of the most shocking climaxes in Marvel Comics history. Miss THIS one and you might just regret it for the rest of your life! 1 in 75 variant


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June 2007
The Authorizers Profiled in This Guide
The sites profiled in this guide include two public school districts—Chicago Public Schools and New York City Public Schools. In 2006, each had authorized more than 20 charter schools. A very different kind of locally based authorizer also is included: the mayor of Indianapolis. As the only mayor in the country with authority to authorize charter schools, Mayor Bart Peterson had authorized 16 charter schools as of the 2006–07 school year.
Examples of successful charter authorizing offices that operate within institutions of higher education are the Ferris State University (FSU) Charter Schools office and the State University of New York (SUNY) Charter Schools Institute. The guide profiles the Minneapolis-based volunteers of America of Minnesota (VOA of MN) Charter School Sponsorship Program to provide examples of successful practices from a small authorizing office that is part of a much larger nonprofit.
To provide examples of state-level authorizers, the guide profiles practices from two states with very different charter school laws and contexts. The Massachusetts Department of Education is the sole authorizer of charter schools in its state, whereas the California Department of Education fills a discreet role in a state that has over 250 different authorizers.
The guide also includes discussion of successful practices developed by one other authorizer— the Charter Schools Office at Central Michigan University (CMU). Because Michigan state law provides each authorizer with per-pupil funding for every school the authorizer charters, CMU maintains an unusually large and well-resourced authorizing office. As a result, CMU has been able to invest in several key systems that most of the country's other authorizing offices could not afford to create from scratch. Because CMU has made this investment, many of these systems are now available for other authorizers to learn from and reproduce. For example, CMU has created an NCLB Charter Schools Leaders' Guide,2 which translates federal guidelines into an accessible and practical format. CMU provides this guide to other authorizers who request it. The office also has developed an Individualized Performance Review Assessment3 that enables authorizers to evaluate schools on a set of core competencies. Among CMU's most-requested resources is its guide to Educational Service Provider Policies,4 a framework for establishing agreements between charter school boards and charter management companies, which are for-profit and nonprofit companies that manage multiple charter schools. CMU also initiated the development of an electronic Authorizer Oversight Information System (AOIS),5 an online compliance and document management system. other authorizers, such as FSU, have adapted this system and have come to rely on the program to monitor compliance. These resources are described in greater detail in Appendix B: Resources, and other information from CMU that is pertinent to readers is referenced throughout this guide.
Researchers visited each of the profiled sites and conducted interviews in person and by phone with representatives from the offices and a selection of schools that they have authorized. The methodology also included the collection and analysis of numerous documents and extensive data related to the sites' charter authorizing.


text: Monday I grafted 10 cells as my first attempt at grafting. I had a starter ready for them. I was hoping to get at least 1 cell started but they started 6 out of 10. All 6 are really good size. I know the 4 that were not started were questionable when I put them in the cups. I think I damaged them removing them from the cells but was trying to use only the tinyest larvae. I was using a chinese grating tool and had trouble telling when I had scooped the larvae just right or went too far and maybe sqaushed them against the far cell wall. I'm guessing more practice will help.


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YINQE Seminar
Friday- December 6, 2013
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Becton Seminar Room
Light lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m.
Rebecca Milot
Department of Chemistry, Yale University
"Using Terahertz Spectroscopy to Study Systems with Solar Energy Applications"
Bioinspired solar water oxidation systems are being developed in the context of renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. One possible design incorporates thin-film dye-sensitized nanoparticle photoanodes to capture and convert visible light to charge carriers. Because the operation of these systems requires rapid and efficient charge separation and storage, time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy (TRTS), an optical pump/THz probe technique, is ideally suited for studying them due to its femtosecond time resolution and high sensitivity to the conductivity of nanoparticulate semiconductors. Using TRTS, the efficiency and dynamics of electron injection from a series of tris-pentafluorophenyl porphyrin sensitizers into TiO2 and SnO2 nanoparticles was investigated. Electron injection from the dyes to TiO2 was only observed when the energy level of the dye excited state was higher than that of the conduction band. When injection was possible, it was completed within 500 fs after photoexcitation. With SnO2, electron injection was slower, and the rate depended strongly on the identity of the metal ion coordinated to the center of the porphyrin ring. Additionally, the injection kinetics were multiexponential, which suggests that electron injection occurs from multiple excited states of the porphyrin molecule.
Brian Vlastakis
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
"Encoding quantum information in 100-photon Schrödinger cat states"
In many implementations, the superposition of a two-level system, or qubit, has been the basic element towards realizing a quantum computer. Alternatively, we explore encoding quantum information in a superposition of coherent states. Unlike two-level systems, coherent states mimic the classical, macroscopic behavior of an oscillator. These coherent state superpositions are known as cat states due to their resemblance to the thought experiment by Schrödinger which illustrates the counterintuitive nature of the superposition principle when applied to everyday, macroscopic objects. Here, we map an arbitrary state of a superconducting transmon qubit to a cat state in a cavity resonator. We create cat states as large as 111 photons and extend this protocol to create superpositions of up to four coherent states. These superposition states could have a wide array of applications which include redundant encoding for quantum error correction as well as increased phase sensitivity for precision quantum measurement.


text: If you have ancestors who were members of the Salvation Army or who were helped by this organisation then this website is for you. Details of the history & people are on the website plus information on how to research personnel further. There are online catalogues to help with your research.


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Improv Boston just completed their fourth annual Geek Week, a series of comedy nights for those of us who prefer to hear jokes about Game of Thrones and Doctor Who. Improv Boston has a small theatre and a much larger theatre side by side, and each night had back-to-back events in both spaces. I attended the Friday and Saturday night shows.
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FDA Okays Third, Gentler Form of Tenofovir for HIV »
"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the third version of an HIV drug from Gilead Sciences (Descovy) based on a new form of the antiretroviral tenofovir that is gentler than its predecessor, the manufacturer announced yes"...
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(indinavir sulfate) Capsules
CRIXIVAN® (indinavir sulfate) is an inhibitor of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease. CRIXIVAN Capsules are formulated as a sulfate salt and are available for oral administration in strengths of 200 and 400 mg of indinavir (corresponding to 250 and 500 mg indinavir sulfate, respectively). Each capsule also contains the inactive ingredients anhydrous lactose and magnesium stearate. The capsule shell has the following inactive ingredients and dyes: gelatin and titanium dioxide.
The chemical name for indinavir sulfate is [1(1S,2R),5(S)]-2,3,5-trideoxy-N-(2,3-dihydro-2-hydroxy-1Hinden-
1-yl)-5-[2-[[(1,1-dimethylethyl)amino]carbonyl]-4-(3-pyridinylmethyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2-(phenylmethyl)-D-erythro-pentonamide sulfate (1:1) salt. Indinavir sulfate has the following structural formula:
Indinavir sulfate is a white to off-white, hygroscopic, crystalline powder with the molecular formula C36H47N5O4 • H2SO4 and a molecular weight of 711.88. It is very soluble in water and in methanol.
What are the possible side effects of indinavir (Crixivan)?
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Before taking indinavir, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: high blood fat levels (cholesterol/triglycerides), diabetes, hemophilia, kidney problems (including kidney stones), heart problems (coronary artery disease, heart attack), liver problems.
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What's Really Going on with the Economy?
Since the economic collapse in 2008, premature cries of "recovery and mission accomplished" have repeatedly marred understanding of how the economy continues to struggle and under-perform for all but the very richest Americans. This week, the news has been good, but that news is being used by the "usual suspects" to argue for applying the economic brakes when we still have a long way to get back to full employment.


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Pulaski Technical College students, faculty and staff can meet some of central Arkansas legislators and learn about critical higher education issues during this legislative session at "Meet Our Legislators" day on Monday, Jan. 22.
The event is sponsored by Pulaski Technical College's Student Government Association.
Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Grand Hall, located on the first floor of the Campus Center followed by the legislative panel discussion from 12-1 p.m.
Panelists include Senators Mary Anne Salmon (D-North Little Rock) and Shane Broadway (D-Bryant), and Reps. Sid Rosenbaum (R-Little Rock), Barry Hyde (D-North Little Rock), and Dan Greenberg (R-Little Rock).
All students, faculty and staff at Pulaski Tech are invited to attend.
Please RSVP by Thursday, Jan. 18, by calling Summer Tumbleson at 812-2750 or e-mailing her at email@example.com
Pulaski Technical College


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Bargaining for better pay and improved working conditions is a key part of the worker's annual review.
And for many employees, it's the only chance for meaningful feedback or to make their case for more money.
But employees reluctant to raise these topics will likely miss out, as will those who are too demanding over negotiations.
Teuila Fuatai reports on how workers can make the most of their yearly catch-up with the boss - and the best way to approach tentative topics such as a pay rise.
Do your prep
Before tabling their dream pay packet or promotion desires, workers need to understand what a review meeting is about.
John McGill, managing director of remuneration and performance solution company Strategic Pay, advises workers to familiarise themselves with their company review process.
"The annual wrap-up would review your performance for the year just gone, but it may also look at setting the targets for next year and the bit in between."
All employees should know what the company targets and personal performance measures are before coming armed with a list of their achievements and approaching topics such as pay rises and further training, McGill says.
Make a to-do list
Human resources management expert Dr Keith Macky says too many employees rely on their bosses to run review meetings.
Often, employers are unsure of requirements in a review meeting, the Auckland University of Technology associate professor warns.
If both parties are unprepared, the meeting is more likely to deteriorate into a "defensive" conversation.
"However, if the employee goes in prepared with their own agenda, it sets a positive and constructive tone to the meeting," he says.
"Basically, you will help your boss by thinking these things through and being clear in what you want."
Be realistic about pay rises
Pay rises are a big topic at review meetings and workers should consider several things at the negotiating table, McGill says.
Labour market activity, average salary and wage rates, as well as personal achievement all relate to potential pay rises.
Those in high-demand jobs will inevitably be better placed to ask for a pay rise.
For example, building firms in Christchurch are probably paying builders more than in previous years due to the rebuild, McGill says.
Pay relativity with colleagues is also important. People working in similar jobs should be on similar pay packets, McGill says.
"Even if you're paid relatively low and that's comparable to your colleagues, it's probably not an issue. But if you're paid relatively low and you believe your colleagues are paid more, you're not going to be happy."
Macky says worker contribution is also important.
"It's about showing how much you've contributed to the company and justifying why you deserve a rise or how ongoing training would help."
Company positionWhen negotiating a pay review, an important underlying factor will be the financial situation of the business.
McGill warns that not all employers are in a position to offer pay increases at the levels workers expect, particularly given the global downturn.
Many have had pay freezes, while others have been offering rises only in line with inflation.
"Some organisations, particularly in the public sector, don't have a lot of cash at the moment."
Workers need to consider current company performance and future expectations when negotiating for a pay rise.
The role of inflationMany people use changes in the consumer price index (CPI) as a benchmark for pay rises.
"But that's the broader basket of goods and services, and it may not be reflecting what's happening in the labour market," McGill says.
Sometimes, CPI movements and changes in wages and salaries track at similar levels.
"At the moment, with the CPI being fairly low, pay movements are generally higher than that."
In the 12 months to December, the CPI increased 0.9 per cent, according to Statistics New Zealand.
However, a Strategic Pay survey found wages and salaries increased at an average rate of 2 to 3 per cent for the year.
"We predict similar movements for the next year," McGill says.


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Are you guys saying not to use excluders for a honey crop? Then why are they selling them?
And should I collect the honey every 2 weeks?
I am a newbee at all this so you will have to excuse all the questions.
I am just a thick headed flatfooted hillbilly from Arkansas


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Planned burn gets out of control
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. - A red flag warning in Pueblo County and an illegal burn spells trouble.
It began Monday afternoon in eastern Pueblo County as a controlled burn. A farmer was burning yard debris and didn't realize Pueblo County was under a red flag warning because of the fire danger. The burn got out of control and spread across 15 acres. During the peak of the fire, six homes were threatened. No one was asked to evacuate. The fire is now 80 percent contained.
Most of the firefighters who were at the scene have left. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office says it's not safe for firefighters to be fighting it at night. Overnight, four to five crews will be there monitoring any hotspots. The wind dying down overnight is expected to help firefighters start up again Tuesday.
The sheriff's office says the farmer could face charges for arson. So far, no property has been damaged.
Firefighters say they plan to be out there through at least Wednesday morning to ensure all hot spots are put out.


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Vackra rum i centrum av Zagreb
Storlek18 m²
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- Familje-/barnvänligt
- Internet/WiFi
- Luftkonditionering
- Tvättmaskin/torktumlare
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Översikt av fastigheten
|Jurja Žerjavića, 10000 Zagreb, Kroatien
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|Privat rum
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Andra natten vi tillbringade i Ivans rum.
Mycket snabba att välkomna oss, mycket vänliga och trevliga människor.
Rummet är perfekt, mynta och ren.
Tack Ivan. Tack vare din mamma liksom :)
Ta hand och jag önskar er båda lycka till.
Second night we spent in Ivan's room.
Very fast to welcome us, very kind and pleasant people.
Room is perfect, mint and clean.
Thank you Ivan. Thanks to your mom as well :)
Take care and I wish you two all the best.
We came to Zagreb only for one night. We were welcomed by a lovely lady (Ivan's mother). She told us all we needed to know about Zagreb. The room itself was very nice. We had a private bathrrom. The room and the bathrrom were very clean. The place is situated very close to the town centre (about 10 min walk). If we ever come back to Zagreb, we will stay there again.
Beautiful clean room and well located. We were welcomed by Ivan's mother. She is very kind and provided us with a lot of information. She even helped us on our departure day by arriving at 4am to call a taxi for us and ensuring we safely boarded the right taxi. We really enjoyed our stay and highly recommend this lovely room!
We had such a great time during our stay in Zagreb thanks to Ivan and his mother! They are the best hosts we have met so far - really helpful and friendly. They gave us all the information we needed about directions, public transport, sightseeing and other useful tips. The place itself is very clean, very well equipped and nice plus the price is great. On top of that it is on an awesome location - about 10 minutes walk to the main square. There are many shops, restaurants and parks nearby. The tram stop is close as well.
I highly recommend this place and will book it again on our next trip to Zagreb for sure :)
good stay at Ivan's place. the room was very clean, quiet and well equiped; very close to the city centre. Ivan was always available to answer to our questions.
We were received very kindly by Ivan's mother. I do recommand this place to anyone.
The room was very nice and cozy. I think Ivan should change a photo of room since the real room was much better than the photo in webpage. All facilities were very clean and new.
My stay in Zagreb was just awesome. Ivan and her Mother treat every of their guests like their family member, give them the best attention and hospitality. The apartment is very clean, well organised, situated in the center of zagreb, noiseless, the rooms are well equipped. During my stay in this apartment, l feld like l am in five stars hotel because there no different. l will lodge in this apartment 100 times again if l visit Zagreb 100 times. The service render by Ivan and his mother is incomparable. l was certified during my stay in the apartment and l will recommend it to everyone who want to visit Zagreb to try this apartment.
We mostly talked to Ivans mother, who was a very nice lady and a great host. She shared with us places to see, nice restaurants to visit and was overall a nice person, who was very concerned with making our stay a perfect one. If I ever go back to Zagreb, I will most definitely stay with Ivan and his Mother. Recommendable host!
Ivan and his mother were both wonderful person!
They are very helpful and so kind.
For example, they showed me how to get to Pritvice in detail and so on.
Thanks to them, I had a relly nice time in Zagreb.
And the room was very clean and well equipped to stay in.
I don't have big suitecase this time, but it's enough huge if you travel with big one.
If I have a chance to come to Zagreb, I'm sure to stay here again!
I really recommend to stay at Ivan's place!!
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Another wookiee build, this time the mighty Tarf!
Using NFT fur again, this stuff is amazing.
Muscle suit made from a zentai suit with foam muscles covered in spandex.
Top half complete with mock up bandolier!
Clay sculpts and RTV moulds of the armour parts!
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Feet complete!
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As a successful business we have a responsibility to give back. It is both our joy and privilege to do so. We give what we can in all sorts of ways - we donate diapers and other baby products as well as money. We sponsor all sorts of good causes community events and organizations, etc. In our retail stores we hold informational seminars on alternative health care, breastfeeding, babywearing, etc. The concept of community is vitally important to us both in a local and in a global sense.
For a family struggling to make ends meet, the cost of disposable diapers is catastrophic. A little bit every week adds up to a lot! In Canada we estimate the cost of using disposable diapers at $2500-3000 per baby. Imagine what a young family can do with an amount like that to improve their standard of living?
So we supply local families with cloth diapers, either free of charge, or at cost. They are referred to us through clinics and public health nurses, and through organizations working with needy families many of whom are recent immigrants or refugees. The parents are provided with a letter which they bring to one of our stores. There they are instructed on how to use and wash their cloth diapers, and sent home with 24 diapers, 4 diaper covers and washing information. When the baby is ready to move up into the next size of diapers and covers, parents who purchased the diapers at cost can exchange the newborn set to one of our stores, for a larger set of diapers and covers free of charge.
We also donate diapers and/or diaper covers to various organizations and orphanages internationally.
Foibe (left) and Praygod (right) at Nkoaranga Orphanage sporting their Bummis diaper covers (thanks to Amy Summers for the photos!)
We donate all sorts of products for door prizes or raffles on a regular basis to non profit organizations in Canada and the USA for their fundraising and community events.
We are also proud to have been the sponsors of the Montreal screening of The Business of Being Born in April 2008 and the Montreal screening of Orgasmic Birth in May, 2009!
In addition, Shirley and Betsy give of their time and energy by serving on various boards and committees. Shirley serves on the board of the Reusable Diaper Industry Association and Betsy on the Retail Council of Canadas Independent Retailer Task Force. And we have recently initiated discussions with one of our favourite community organizations regarding corporate volunteerism a very exciting concept!


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French businesses keen on Viet Nam
Frederic Sanchez, President of the Vietnamese sub-committee of the MEDEF, is leading a delegation of 20 businesses in transportation, industry, finance, energy, oil and gas, banking and automobile which started a four-day investment fact-finding tour of Viet Nam on June 25.
Sanchez said the tour is aimed at gaining insights into reform projects and the process of privatisation and equitisation in Viet Nam, as well as projects to build a metro in Ha Noi and express railway routes in Ha Noi and the central province of Nghe An.
"Study into the Vietnamese market will help French businesses understand to what extent they can meet development requirements in Viet Nam," he said.
While in Viet Nam, the MEDEF delegation is slated to meet with the Vietnamese Prime Minister; the Ministers of Planning and Investment, Industry, Transport and Communication, and Construction; and the Chairmen of the Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City Peoples Committees.
According to Sanchez, Viet Nam is a dynamic market, with economic growth rates consistently hovering between 8-10 percent, a young population and the formation of a new middle class will drive up the demand for consumer goods in the country.
"There will be opportunities for French businesses," he said.
Sanchez said over the last 15 years he had visited Viet Nam between 2-3 times a year on average.
"Viet Nam is changing every day and we can see this change with our own eyes. Modernisation and industrialisation are taking place rapidly in the country," he said.
However, the French representative said some regulations and laws are no longer suitable for the development in the country. He suggested that they be adjusted to fall into line with international rules and norms as Viet Nam has already been admitted to the World Trade Organisation.
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, France has invested in 326 projects in Viet Nam to the tune of 2.29 billion USD and now sits at 9th on the 77 strong list of foreign investors in Viet Nam.
Since 2004, the French Government has also provided Viet Nam with 400 million USD a year in aid and is the second largest bilateral donor to the country after Japan.(VNA)
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Roaster Restoration – Part 3
Faversham & Felixstowe, Oh My!
When I was hired by Coffee Bean International in 1982, my first job was as a brand manager for 'Jericho America', our line of imported coffee and tea equipment – both commercial (we directly imported and distributed commercial coffee grinders) and household (similarly, we directly imported and distributed container-loads of French presses, airpots, filter-papers, brew cones, and so forth). As a small Pacific Northwest specialty roaster in those very early years, we were chronically rich in great ideas but short of money, so I wound up learning to do most of the complicated work of running an import business on the fly, and on a shoestring – I think I could have written 'Managing Letters of Credit, CIF Price Quotes, Freight Consolidators, and Customs Brokers for Dummies'!
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Bishops' Hats and Scally Caps
For over twenty years, I've longed to get my hands on a Whitmee coffee roaster. Due to their extreme scarcity and cost - whenever one did come onto the market in the UK, it carried a price beyond my means - the dream eluded me. I contented myself instead by diligently researching and collecting heavy-duty 'Monitor' roasters built here in the U.S. and amazing open-drum and open-flame 'Uno' roasters manufactured in England.
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I'm the first to admit that I'm passionate about coffee – and in particular, coffee roasters. That probably explains why I decided years ago to collect coffee roasters, and now find myself owning seven of them (not counting my three sample roasters, of course…they're so petite!) in sizes ranging from a husky half-bagger all the way down to a diminutive three-pound countertop beauty.
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UTSA Spotlight: Craig Stinson joins Institute of Texan Cultures as director of advancement
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(July 21, 2009)--Craig Stinson joined the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) on June 22 as director of advancement. He will oversee the institute's fundraising efforts and membership services.
"We are pleased that Craig Stinson joins the Institute of Texan Cultures at this exciting point in our own history," said Tim Gette, ITC executive director. "Craig will help us to become a tier-one museum by directing our fundraising and membership programs, which will allow us to further the institute's mission of understanding and celebrating our cultural heritage."
Stinson has ties to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, after which the Texas Folklife Festival was modeled. He served in various capacities with the festival between 1990 and 1996. From 1999 to 2006, he was director of folklife, traditional arts and diversity issues at the South Carolina Arts Commission. Stinson comes to the Institute of Texan Cultures after two years at the Alamo, where he was the shrine's marketing and development manager.
"Craig has an excellent skill set for working with a museum's constituency and pursuing UTSA's mandate of serving the public by preserving and presenting our history and cultures," Gette said.
Stinson's work with various museums and cultural entities made him a strong candidate for this position. His background includes grant writing, fundraising, marketing, volunteer management and museum membership services. Stinson serves on the board of directors of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation.
"Texas has great pride in its cultural identity," said Stinson. "It's an honor to be affiliated with an institution that tells the story of who we are and where we came from. I'm thrilled to continue this mission. The institute has a distinguished history and a great potential for growth."
The Institute of Texan Cultures is on the UTSA HemisFair Park Campus, 851 E. Durango Blvd., a short distance from the Alamo and the River Walk. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday. Admission is $8 for adults (ages 12-64); $7 for seniors (ages 65+); $6 for children (ages 3-11); free with membership, UTSA or Alamo Colleges identification.
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I used Apivar in my hives this fall, and it worked very well. Knocked the mites quick and hard, and easy on the bees, as far as I can tell to this point.
I went into one of my beeyards a couple of weeks after the treatment and the hives were dusting the mites out the enterence of the hive. I was running between 2-5% fall infestation, with a few yards around 10%.


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Senator Wants to Ban Asking for Students' Social Media User ID, Password
Now Senator Ron Young wants to make sure schools, college, and universities can't ask for students' Facebook or Twitter user IDs and passwords.
"It's a part of the Constitution. You have a right to privacy," says Young, (D) - Frederick and Washington Counties.
Young says a school asking for students' user ID and password is like going to their house and reading their mail.
"I think a lot of older people don't look at the technology of what the youth are doing today," Young says. "We can't ask to come into your house and listen to your phone calls or read your mail. We shouldn't have the right to read your private conversations on a computer either."
Young is sponsoring the bill in the Maryland Senate, which prohibits institutions from requiring, requesting, or suggesting a student or prospective student give over the information.
That's something those at Frederick Community College say they support.
"It may be a temptation for them to certainly want to know more about a student, but those types of things I feel an institution can interview a student on and find out that same information," says Laura Mears, associate vice president of enrollment management at Frederick Community College.
"I like it because it keeps people's information safe and that Facebook and Twitter are for your own personal messages with each other, with friends and family," says Savanna Moler, a FCC student.
"I don't think that teachers or anyone other than the person who feels it's okay to allow that privacy to be opened up to someone else should try to get into that," says Anastasia Lloyd, a FCC student.
Young hopes to keep the students' privacy more than a click away.
Frederick Community College, Hood College, and Mount Saint Mary's University all say they never ask for a student's social media user ID and password.
Young says he became concerned after learning schools in other states asked for student's log-in information.


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No firm date, AFAIK "sometime in June" is merely an estimate based on previous case decision times.
Does anyone know the date they are supposed to pass desision on this I know its this month but did they set a date???
No firm date, AFAIK "sometime in June" is merely an estimate based on previous case decision times.
Thanks Kirnal I thought there was a date set OK will keep my eyes & ears open till they do make a desision
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That was an enlightened thought! I had not stumbled over that one in my little pea brain!
It just goes to show that no matter how smart I think I am, there will be a Kernel Krink, a 555th, or an Sjohnson to keep me in line....
Please keep this kind of thread (these kinds of threads?) going. This is the 2nd biggest reason that I love Gunco!
When are we supposed to hear their ruling?
Would be real cool if we can apply to build a machine gun from our old demilled kits again!
But, I do have another transferable STEN MKV in the works right now. Not too many of them left around.
There went another $200.00!!!
Personally, I would like to see the 1986 Ban on producing new machine guns repealed. They could leave the tax payment in place, I think the majority of people would be happy to pay the tax in order to buy a brand new gun. Example: A brand new select fire AKM can be produced for around 125.00 (before the kits started drying up). Now, IF you can find a registered, transferable AKM, you are gonna pay around 12 Grand for a low end AKM. It simply isn't worth it. I have seen a pristine, registered, Chinese Type 56 Milled receiver AK47 that was a Vietnam bring back sell for 30 Grand. That is a new car, or home (if you like modular types). NO WAY is a friggen gun that cost MAYBE 200 dollars to produce back in the late 50's worth that. Will the 86 Ruling be reversed? I doubt it. So maybe we can all hope that the ban on imports will be lifted.
If it is repealed and the tax remains in place, expect the tax to go up, adjusted for inflation to probably $10,000.....
Just repeal the 86 ban and allow the importation of kits. I wonder how many Class 2 manufacturers licenses will be applied for then?
If you look at the cases that were being decided in the 30s and 40s,you will see a pattern that is still visable.The Interstate traffic section as it involves intrAstate traffic is a very convoluted one,and the government used every trick in the book in those cases.I don't have the case access right now,but one of the famous ones involved a wheat farmer that was growing wheat for his own consumption.The government case tying it to interstate commerce was hinged on the fact that if he raised and ate his own wheat,it would affect growers and sellers in other states as those loaves were then not needed,thus affecting their business.So you see,funny business in the Supreme court is nothing new,they were used to make social change back then.Answer to thread question-no,I don't think it will lead to that big of a change.But we can always hope and fight for it. ---bil


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The drama was reduced, but the game in New England was much like that in Denver.
The Ravens controlled the run effectively, holding the Pats to 3.9 YPC and no run longer than 9 yards (Denver 3.2 YPC, long 11). They did it despite playing nickel for 77 of the 80 contested snaps (Denver 80 of 86).
The Ravens faced a pair of drop back QBs who were both affected by the weather. Manning attempted just 1 pass of 20+ yards in the Denver cold and Brady completed just 1 of 5 such throws with the Foxborough wind. Meanwhile, Flacco was effective in both environs.
The Ravens rushed the passer patiently, but with some effect. The Ravens rushed more than 4 on just 8 of 52 drop backs. In the second half, Brady dropped back 28 times, the Ravens rushed 4 on 27 occasions, and they only had players drop from the line to coverage on 2 of those 27 snaps. The Ravens effectively showed Brady exactly what they would do defensively and Brady was able to complete only 2 passes for more than 13 yards en route to a 21-0 2nd-half shutout. While Manning made 2 mistakes as a direct result of pressure (the sack/fumble on the tuck and Grahams 2nd INT), the Ravens would all but seal the game on Ellerbes interception off McPhees late tip (Q4, 6:57).
Both opposing QBs made frequent use of WR screens and short crosses to exploit the Ravens perceived coverage weaknesses.
The Ravens played very punishing physical football with each opponent and left each game largely unscathed despite some key opponent injuries that included the starting RB for each team. Personally, both Brady and Manning make every attempt to avoid big hits. In each case, that led to some sub-optimal throws. I think one could make the argument the Patriots receivers were also tentative given the big hits dished out by the Ravens defense.
And, of course, both QBs ran up gaudy offensive snap totals which have rarely resulted in losses in playoff history.
I am sure you can come up with many more similarities.
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I'm sure Flacco can play great in a dome, but it's also a benefit to the opposing QB. I wish Super Bowls were played outside in the colder stadiums. Flacco is amazing in the elements while the cold and strong wind can totally deflate most other QBs.
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AAPL: Low iPhone Numbers 'Embedded' in Shares, Says Wells
Wells Fargo's Maynard Um today reiterates an Outperform rating on shares of Apple (AAPL), and a $600 to $630 "valuation range," writing that depressed sales of the iPhone last quarter and this quarter may already be baked into the shares, and that estimates may rise as investors focus on a forthcoming refresh of the phone.
Um is modeling $43.6 billion in revenue and $11.02 per share in earnings for the fiscal Q2 that ended last month, above the average $42.7 billion and $10.12 per share estimate of analysts, though he thinks there is "potentially some risk" to his own numbers.
His gross margin estimate is 40.3% for last quarter, above the company's forecast of 37.5% to 38.5%, which he thinks may be helped by one-time items:
Deferred margin on component sales has increased in the last two quarters, which is unusual, in our view, because it typically declines following sell-through of new products. Additionally, reversal of warranty accruals ($1.2Bn over-accrual in the last 7 quarters) could benefit gross margins by about 280bps.
He anticipates sales of 38.7 million iPhones last quarter, and 35 million in the June quarter, but thinks those numbers may be too optimistic. His main contention is that even worse numbers are "embedded in investor expectations" and sentiment should pick up after the April 23rd report:
We believe June qtr guidance could be dependent on the timing of a new iPhone – rather than add fuel to the fire on the speculation (which the Street has not been very accurate on), suffice it to say that our forward ests imply a Sept. launch (though admittedly, believe our June unit forecast could be at risk) and does not implicitly include a television or watch launch. All else equal, we believe FQ3 gross margin guidance could be around 36%. We believe sentiment should improve post-earnings into a new iPhone launch, improving gross margins particularly with easing yr/yr compares in the back half and, with any luck, reset Street estimates.
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More than $300,000 raised to revitalize Lakewood Care Center
With the generosity, support and caring of community members, businesses and Lakewood Health System staff, $312,594 was raised during Lakewood Foundation's "Capital Campaign" to revitalize the Lakewood Care Center.
The goal of the Capital Campaign was to enhance the lives of residents by revitalizing various elements and features of the care center. Renovations have been under way since this fall, and the whole project is expected to be completed Jan. 11, 2013.


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Beginning in November 2007 Governor John Baldacci and David Lemoine, the state treasurer, allowed the beleaguered, deficit-ridden Dirigo Health program to borrow up to $20 million from the state treasury. They kept the public and legislators — in whose hands theoretically rests the power to spend taxpayer money — in the dark.
Members of the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, who are supposed to control the state's purse strings, only learned about the borrowing late this past summer, when their nonpartisan analysts in the Office of Fiscal and Program Review checked into why the state had much less cash on hand than usual. Some committee members are now questioning the legality of the borrowing, especially when Dirigo doesn't have a sure plan of paying the money back.
Baldacci, a Democrat, may also have misled the public at a State House news conference on December 18, 2007. A month after Dirigo began dipping into the state's unspent money "cash pool" to keep afloat — in effect, overdrafting its checking account — he said Dirigo was not running out of money. "There's at least another year" of funding for the program, the governor said, in response to this reporter's question. (Baldacci did not respond by deadline to a request for comment on what he had said last December.)
Dirigo provides subsidized health insurance called DirigoChoice to about 11,500 Mainers. It has been bleeding red ink, losing $28 million in the last state fiscal year.
GOP lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee are upset about the borrowing.
"Questions of appropriateness, if not outright illegality, need to be addressed," says Representative Sawin Millet, of Waterford, the committee's ranking House Republican and a former state finance commissioner.
The committee's ranking Senate Republican, Karl Turner, of Cumberland, says he may ask the panel at its October 16 meeting to request a written opinion from Attorney General Steven Rowe on the legality of the administration's use of state funds for the program.
The committee's chairwoman, Senator Margaret Rotundo, of Lewiston, a Democrat and a Dirigo supporter, says she is not opposed to asking for an opinion from the attorney general. But, she adds, "It does not appear that the administration has done anything illegal."A stop-gap
The administration intended the borrowing as a stop-gap until new taxes on beer, wine, soft drinks, and health-insurance claims could kick in to fund Dirigo. Baldacci and the Legislature's majority Democrats — controversially, without a public hearing — pushed through these taxes in the final hours of last spring's legislative session. The state's business community cried foul and easily collected tens of thousands of signatures to force a "people's veto" referendum on the taxes, preventing them from taking effect until the issue is decided at the November election. Business groups are running an expensive advertising campaign to make sure the people's veto succeeds and the taxes defeated.
Most political observers expect the people's veto to be successful. If it is, and no other Dirigo funding source is developed, state controller Edward Karass, the state's chief accountant, says the program as it is now set up won't be able to return the borrowed money to the treasury by the end of the fiscal year — June 30, 2009.
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Sitting here, listening to music streamed through the internet, enjoying a quiet Sunday morning, a funny thought struck me. Was music important to my ancestors? From many of the stories I've read, it was an important part of their life, just not as easily accessed as today. One of the book's I've read, "Memories of Elsie, 1887-1987" pointed out in the memories of individual families, that enjoying music was a regular thing. Granted they had to go somewhere to do so, unless they were lucky enough to have a family member graced with the gift of music.
Mothers own memoirs mention the music she enjoyed while in Central America. She stated how beautiful and captivating it was, and how it had given her an appreciation of music she still holds to this day. Music played on guitar, with someone singing along to add the melody of life. A little thing that was as common to her as turning on the radio is to me.
In the early days, they had to wait for a dance or party to enjoy the soothing benefits of music. I suppose many of them learned to play an instrument for that reason, so they could entertain the family on cold nights. Of course there was always some music at church, and perhaps that is one reason church was so important to them back then.
I wonder just how many of my ancestors possesed the gift of music, and became one who entertained others on weekends? I can assure you they didn't pass it down to me, I have tried different interment, but never been able to master any. You certainly wouldn't want to hear me sing, unless maybe you were trying to scare someone off.
It's the little questions like this, that intrigue me, and start me thinking. Things that I take for granted, until I realize that they were not exactly common in the old days. I suppose that is one reason I enjoy reading old memoirs, or diaries. I love to learn the little things, the stuff that made life interesting and fun.
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This is the companion site for my book, Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, in the Oxford University Press Global Music series. It's intended for students and teachers who are using the book as well as general readers and Brazilian music fans. That's me in the photo, at left, sitting in with Arlindo dos Oito Baixos (him: cool and relaxed; me: concentrating like crazy in order to avoid pushing when I should pull and vice versa), my teacher of accordion during 2000-2001.
This site is actively maintained. It was last updated on 2016-06-03.
My current Brazil-related project is preparing the English subtitles for a new documentary on cavalo-marinho Mestre Biu Alexandre. I'll post details about the film when it's complete.
Arlindo died on Oct. 23, 2013, after a long struggle with diabetes. Here are two videos I made that document an evening at the forró club he ran on Sundays at his house. Your browser may tell you that the video file won't play because it's corrupt. If you download the file, it plays with no problem. This was tested most recently on 2015-02-20.
Arlindo's obituary in the Diario de Pernambuco.
Here you will find text, audio, and video resources to supplement the book and my blog with news of current events in Brazilian music.
This site is not to be confused with the official Oxford University Press Global Music Series companion site. Don't have a copy yet? Try the Oxford University Press catalog or amazon.
I'll be glad to respond to comments or questions.
Here's how to reach me:
(940) 565-4344
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University of North Texas College of Music
1155 Union Circle #305040
Denton TX 76203-5017
Last updated: 2016-06-03