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Justin Kemp, owner of Kemp Vallie Contracting of Vancouver, is not afraid to get his hands dirty – and he's been doing just that with Takeuchi equipment since he started the company over a decade ago. Since 1997, his company has found its niche in focusing on underground parkades for apartment complexes and townhomes. When Kemp first started the company, he had guys operating his equipment, but nowadays, he runs every facet of the company, from scheduling and logistics to operating the equipment on the jobsite, and that's the way he likes it.
This isn't Doug Mottin's first rodeo. For 16 years, he has been in the business of renovating golf courses, and four years ago, he decided it was time to start his own company. Since then, Mottin Golf Course Renovations has made a name for themselves on projects in the Northeast from their Philadelphia headquarters.
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A Colloquium on the Possibilities for Chant at Mass and other Occasions
Led by László Dobszay, Liturgist, Musicologist, and Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Sponsored by the Society of St. Catherine of Siena and the London Oratory School.
The colloquium will be held in London on Monday, 1 June 2009 from 1.45pm–6.30pm. Places are limited so if you would like an invitation, please email Dr Laurence Hemming for further information.
Some further information from the Society of St Catherine of Siena:
The colloquium will examine a variety of possibilities for reintroducing Gregorian chant into the life of ordinary Catholic Parishes, in all forms of the Roman rite.
In the first session Prof. Dobszay will give a presentation drawing on his experience over two decades of fostering and developing traditional chant in the vernacular and in Latin, at all forms of the Roman rite (old and new), at parish celebrations of Mass and Vespers with several kinds of adult choirs, a student schola, and scholas from Catholic parochial schools.
In the second session Prof. Dobszay will illustrate future possibilities in the form of an initial proposal for a 'Graduale Parvum' for parish use, in English and Latin, based on a return to practices widespread at an earlier stage of the development of chant, practices that were – somewhat unsuccessfully – adapted to the 'Graduale Simplex' published by the Vatican in 1967, and republished in 1970 in a version arranged for the 1970 Missal.
There will be ample opportunity in each session for wide-ranging discussion, covering everything from the experience of directing professional choirs to managing a small number of parish singers, and encompassing experience of all forms of the Roman Rite. The day will end with a brief reception to give participants a chance to talk to Prof. Dobszay in person.

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text: Today's show features Beethoven's works that, to Dr. Paul's ears, are some of the most beautiful, lyrical, and moving pieces he wrote. There are works for piano solo, violin/piano duets, a violin concerto, and even a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano! Check out the playlist (http://kdrt.org/node/10923), if you want to preview before listening; but, by all means, please listen.


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January new-car deliveries surged 108.6% to 59,872 units, while commercial vehicles jumped 36.5% to 65,945, including 1-ton pickups that were up 29.9% to 55,618.
Chevy sales up 59%, led by Colorado pickup.
Thailand begins 2013 where it left off last year, in record territory, as January vehicle deliveries soar 63.4% to 125,817 units, according to Toyota Motor Thailand, which collates sales data for the Thai industry.
Toyota says the sales increase is a continuation from last year's tax-friendly, first-car-buyers scheme and pent-up demand caused by the historic flooding of 2011 that left a dearth of vehicle and parts inventories.
January new-car deliveries surged 108.6% to 59,872 units, while commercial vehicles jumped 36.5% to 65,945, including 1-ton pickups that were up 29.9% to 55,618, Toyota Thailand Executive Vice President Wutthikorn Suriyachantanano says in a statement.
Toyota says the market will continue to grow as sales under the first-buyer scheme continue. Liquidity in the Thai market also is relatively high, which is positive for the domestic auto industry and its on-going promotional activities.
Toyota maintained its market dominance in January with deliveries rising 12.5% to 40,663 units, for a 32.3% market share. Isuzu was a distant second, up 80.8% to 19,858, ahead of Honda, up 14.6% to 18,389.
In the car segment, Toyota sales climbed 32.4% to 18,436 units, ahead of Honda, up 25.9% to 15,513, and Nissan, up 49.4% to 8,243.
The still important 1-ton pickup segment saw Toyota in a rare decline, off 0.4% to 20,676 units. Isuzu deliveries soared 75.9% to 17,974 units, followed by Mitsubishi, up 6.5% to 7,318.
Chevrolet Thailand began the year up 59%, for a January record of 6,039 sales. The Colorado led with 2,476 units, ahead of the Sonic (1,689), Trailblazer (694), Captiva (618) Cruze (504) and Aveo (58).
"It certainly is a good start for a new sales year, especially on the back of a record-breaking 2012," says Gustavo Colossi, new vice president-marketing and aftersales for Chevrolet Sales Thailand and GM Southeast Asia Operations.
"We still have a lot of work to do, not just in Thailand but across the Southeast Asian region, to ensure we maximize our continued growth."
Ford Thailand followed up its record December and 2012 sales performances with its best January ever, as it boosted deliveries 74% to 5,648 units.
"We have a tremendous amount of confidence in our One Ford plan and product-led transformation, which is continuing to attract many new-to-Ford customers," newly promoted Managing Director Yukontorn 'Vickie' Wisadkosin says in a statement.
"There is certainly a strong understanding in the market now that we are introducing segment-leading vehicles, and we intend to continue building on this throughout the year."
The Ford Fiesta, which retained its place as the Thai subsidiary's best-selling nameplate in 2012, continued to lead the way in January, with deliveries climbing 29% from year-ago to 2,801 units.
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Heinz had officially learn to roll over!
He's 13 weeks and I've already tought him; sit, lay down, shake, and now roll over. He so smart but then again I remember German Shepherds are one of the most intelligent dogs :) Any other good puppy tricks I can teach? Any recommended would be awesome
My grandpa always teaches his labs to pray.
Or you could go for the more useful ones. Go to place. Out. Recall. Heel. Etc.
How exactly do you teach to stay?
There are plenty of resources on youtube for teaching specific commands, you can google youtube videos all day and you can find the methods which match your preferred training style. I like clicker/marker training for the young pup.
Great job! Leerburg.com has lots of videos and articles on games. You might want to limit the rolling over because of torsion and bloat- something gsds are prone to
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I just want people to know i know very little about body work or suspension,and I know a little about older chevy engines. But I do know alot about detailing cars and trucks, and all of the good stuff about cleaning a car. so if you have a qeustion about that just ask. my job consist of detailing and all that other junk. i really do appriciate all of you guys helping me out,and taking your time just to help me. when i get older and have kids, ill tell them about this website, and ill tell them what fun it is here, and that there are very helpful people here. thatnks again.
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What is your favorite way of protecting alloy wheels, especially real magnesium?
My heater core leaked antifreeze onto my brand new carpet. I'm going to remove it and take my garden hose and wash it down. What about drying it? Will it shrink if I put it in a dryer?
willys: i have heard of people cleaning up there wheels, and spraying on a clear coat, i never thought this could be done, but i saw it, and it looked pretty good,"it shinned". but when i detail cars, i spray it with degresser, then i quikly take the pressure washer and wash them of, then after the whole car is clean I spray some wheel cleaner from "armorall" and spray that on there, it says to keep on there for 30 seconds but i keep it on there for about a minute so it gets into the groves more as in runs into the metal, then aftar that spray it off, then dry. "works great"
benji: i have done what you have done before, it depends on the type of carpet you have, if you have the really good carpet, then it will only shrink around the edges, but if is cheap and old then it will defintly shrink. here is what i done when we get a car in. i take out all the seatsand objects in my way, then i use cleans all from car brite and spray it on the carpey, "make sure the cap is on spray" then sray a lite coat on the whole carpet, then take a lite-brissled brush and go all over the carpet, "i do this twice, but you don't have to", and then i take a waterproof shop vac, and vacum everything up, what i do to let it dry is roll the windows down on a nice day and park it out side for an hour, then it should be safe, "make sure you have no mats on the carpet for awhile, so it can dry all the way" you can just take a hand towel to lay on the floor while your driving, and when your not just take it off. but if you can get ahold of a carpet cleaner, do it. " don't dry it in a dryer or anything, let it air dry"
hope this help, if you need anymore details just ask.
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I want to start my own detailing business
I currently have a business plan but in your opinion How should I start?
The first thing I'd do before I go any further is to learn more than what you already know. You have a good start, but if you plan to be detailing others cars from everyday grocery getters to the high dollar billet barges you will need to learn much more that what you know at this point. You will need to learn about different paint types whats best for that particular finish. How to restore old paint, polished aluminum, chrome, magnesium, bare steel factory parts etc. Some products you absolutely do not use on certain paint types or colors. You have to understand the paints reaction to chemicals. The paints reaction to UV light, and of course its reaction to it own catalyst and how long you have to wait before you can detail a fresh/semi fresh skinned coos cruiser. If you don't learn these things you could potentially ruin someones pride and thats it.
Willy's, if you do use a chemical degreaser on those magnesium wheels make sure you rinse thoroughly and put some type of coating over it to protect it from corrosion. Magnesium doesn't like chemical degreasers and often 15 minutes after the application and rinsing of such degreasers they will start to develop a white dusty covering and before ou know it they will pit. Purple Power by castrol is one of the main ones that do this both to magnesium as well as aluminum. Clean those wheels once and either paint with clear or powder-coat, if your worried about them looking glossy you can tone it down with some satin powder coat or flattening agent in the clear. Do it once, clear it so you don't have to worry about it again.
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Cosmology Experiment & Observation
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Research on cosmology takes place in a number of places in the Princeton community: Physics, the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, and The Institute for Advanced Study. Theory, data analysis, and instrumentation are all vigorously pursued in an interactive and vibrant community. The experimental and observational cosmology group in the Physics Department is involved in measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), surveys of large scale cosmic structure, and observations of galactic clusters. The CMB is the after glow of the hot early stages of the expansion of our universe. In the angular distribution of its temperature and polarization is encoded the history of the evolution of the universe and the values of the cosmological parameters. Measurements have reached the stage where we now have a "standard model of cosmology" and we are exploring the details of the model. These are exciting times. Efforts are underway to find gravitational radiation from the Big Bang, to determine the sum of the neutrino masses, to search for new particle species, to map out the earliest cosmic structures, and to find the parameters of the fields that produced the Big Bang. Through comparisons with optical surveys we measure how the universe evolved and test theories of gravity. With a new balloon-borne optical telescope, we will measure the masses of dozens of galaxy clusters through their gravitational lensing effect.
Princeton is the lead partner on the ACT, SPIDER, and ABS projects currently, the U.S. lead on SUPERBIT, and closely involved with PLANCK and the Simons Observatory. Recently concluded projects include QUIET, TRUCE, and WMAP. The WMAP mission was a partnership between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Princeton University. The "W" is for Wilkinson; David Wilkinson was a faculty member in the department from 1965 until his death in 2002 and launched the group on its long mission of measuring the temperature and polarization of the CMB. Ph.D. theses generally involve building sensitive receivers and instruments, observing the cosmos from the ground, balloons, or satellites, analyzing data from those observations, or some combinations of these. Interactions and collaborations are abundant.
ACT's first array of polarized bolometers
Pictured from left to right. Emily Grace (graduate student), Suzanne Staggs (professor), Laura Newburgh (postdoc), Christine Pappas (graduate student), Sara Simon (graduate student) who also contributed is not shown.
- Jo Dunkley: Cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, cosmology, statistical analyses
- Norman Jarosik: Cosmic microwave background, WMAP, bolometer arrays, coherent receivers
- Bill Jones: Cosmic microwave background, PLANCK, CMB polarization, SPIDER, BiCEP
- Lyman Page: Cosmic microwave background anisotropy, polarization measurements
- David Spergel: Interests range from the search for planets around nearby stars to the shape of the universe
- Suzanne Staggs: Cosmic microwave background anisotropy and polarization measurements, ACT, Simons Array.
- Edward J. Groth: Galaxies, large scale structure, cosmology, Hubble Space Telescope (Emeritus)
- Joseph H. Taylor: Pulsars (Emeritus)
Postdoctoral Research Scholars
- Simone Aiola
- Steve Benton
- Aurelien Fraisse
- Maria Salatino, Experimental Cosmology, Advanced ACTPol
Graduate Students
- Stevie Bergman
- Sarah Marie Bruno
- Steve Choi
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- Anne Gambrel
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- Corwin Shiu
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Driving along dusty arrow-straight roads, passing fields of corn and soybeans that stretch brown and golden to the horizon, it's hard to imagine that a few turns will bring you to a completely different world at Iowa's Ledges State Park.
But as many Midwesterners have discovered, the landscape in the plains holds surprising hideaways. Near Ledges, suddenly the road dips and turns, and forests replace fields. Down, down, until you are at the floor of Pea's Creek Canyon, surrounded by sandstone bluffs up to 100 feet high, wooded hills and meandering creeks.
We drove to Ledges earlier this month for the third time since moving to Iowa six years ago. Each time, we've found something new—and something familiar.
We've always gone in fall, attracted by the colors of the park's oak, hickory, maple and basswood trees. My husband and I hike some of the park's 13 miles of trails, or just sit in the woods or by the creek, listening to the babble of water and the rustling of leaves, sounds we do not hear enough of in our Des Moines-area home.
The first time we visited Ledges, we loved it because it reminded us of the mountains we'd left behind when we moved to Iowa. The second time, we were fascinated by the destruction wrought by 2010 floods that left the one-way road through the park closed to cars for two years. We walked the cracked and sand-covered road, wondering if it would be fixed, feeling a bit like we'd stumbled on a ghost town.
But Ledges, one of Iowa's first state parks (opened in 1924) as well as one of its most-visited, has weathered many floods, and it recovered from the 2010 waters as well. This year, we crossed a new, sturdy bridge at one end of the canyon drive, and the areas where the stream crosses the road had been repaired up as well.
So like most people, we drove down into the canyon, parked, and hiked from there. We snapped photos both of the fall color and of new discoveries (the bridge!) and stretched our legs on our short must-do walks (Crow's Nest, Lost Lake).
I was glad to see the park as popular as ever, with its diverse mix of visitors: families with children who wade in the creek; young couples holding hands; older adults toting binoculars and hiking poles.
But I was a little sad, too, because easier road access means more noise and traffic. A few drivers clearly enjoyed trying to speed through the stream crossings and spray water. "Watch out!" one called as I stepped gingerly across stones in the stream next to the road. "You're in the splash zone!"
Still, we'll be back. It might be a little harder to find those peaceful places, but I know they're there.


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HEY! Put me one the list. I definitely want a ESB Fett Jump Suit. Was just about to order one from them.
put me on list if the maybes do not work out.
HEY! Put me one the list. I definitely want a ESB Fett Jump Suit. Was just about to order one from them.
put me on list if the maybes do not work out.
[img]images/smiles//icon4.gif[/img] hey since we doubled his minimum do we get another $10 off??? [img]images/smiles//icon4.gif[/img]
good question
I may want in on it too if I can see some pictures of the ESB suit. Give me a tenative sign up pending seeing pics of the ESB color.
No dont add me to the list yet. I'll PM you if I change my mind. Thanks...
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metallboy, do you want me to go ahead and add you to the list?
I emailed Anton again to ask about details for payment and shipping details, I'll pass the word on as soon as I know anything.
A few of us are waiting on color picts of the ESB fabric. Any luck with that ??
That would probably eliminate any of us that are " on the fence " about ordering ESB suits.
I also dont know what the measurement details needed are.
Size Chart <--Use the coverall/unitard sizing chart.
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I don't have any pictures of the ESB blue, sorry. If anyone has one or pictures of one can you pass them on here or PM me and i'll do something to make sure people can check it out. In the meantime I'll ask Anton if he has any pictures and pass on any info I get from him.
Payment and shipping details: Everyone pays me I'll turn around and send payment to SFP, 4 weeks plus 10 days shipping time and I'll receive everyone's jumpsuits with their names and turn around and ship them to you. I'm waiting to hear back on what shipping to me is going to be, please PM me your zipcodes and I'll figure up what shipping from me to you will be and try and tell everyone via PM what your individual payment will be based on shipping.
I'll pass on whatever other info I get when I get it including ESB blue pics.
here's what I think and take it what you may. For the ESB kids, I know you all want the true blue and hopefully anton can come through. But in the event it doesn't happen, 75 dollars is one heck of a price for a FULL coverall that you could dye to your specs. I mean, if you went with the dickies route, you would spend 40 dollars on TWO pieces that you would still have to cut and alter to make correct with stitching and sewing..oh, and dyeing of course !
I should know 75 is one hell of a price considering I was about to do a run of ten of them for 130 and that was the cheapest my defunct sewer would be willing to go. Take it or leave it...at that price you can't afford to miss it. You won't get anything, and I mean ANYTHING cheaper, more complete and accurate. If color's all you got to worry about RIT has a great selection for less than five dollars.
The best part about SFP is that not only do you get a jumpsuit, but you get the two ammo belt pouches + boot spats as well. Not a bad deal for the money. Yeah, the materials all match, but it's still a good deal That's what I did originally, but my jumpsuit is the dark grey color. Now that I'm in on this run, I'll be going with the lighter one. It may not be perfect for my ESB costume, but who, other than Dented Helmet members, is going to know?
John Barrows, Jr.
Very good points Got Maul and TK-1776, combine them and there you go, accurate color spats and beltbags for an extra $5 or so!
LOL slave1pilot, that's great!
Put me on the alternate list as a definite. Just let me know who to cut a check to for a grey one.
Add me to the alternate list as well please.
let's get this party going ! This money is burning a hole in my girth !
I'm calculating shipping costs for everyone, as soon as that's done, I'll let everyone know VIA PM what their total cost will be (Based on their ship to location) and we'll go from there.
I'll probably get all that done sometime tonight or tomorrow. Then I'll let everyone know how they can pay me so we can get the order sent in and the ball rollin'
Anyone who hasn't sent me their shipping address or at least zip code and the size you need please do so ASAP. I'm pricing shipping by various methods to see which is the cheapest and I'll let everyone know their total price including 1.) $75 for the jumpsuit itself 2.) share of total shipping to me and 3.) shipping from me to you
Hey. with all most another 12 on the alternates. Can't he do 24 and he has more money in his pocket and everyone is happy? that would be great.
"It's a dirty job. But, someone has to do it."
I assume the problems with prop palace didn't carry over since everyone is still ordering stuff from them??
I also noticed the picture on the site of the jumpsuit changed.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to be on the backup list for a gray suit but I wanna be sure
How about a jango suit? Can that be included in the jumsuit batch?
I don't know why a jango color couldn't be included.
as far as a second run of 12 in the same order, the problem with that is time and stress. The more jumpsuits get ordered at once, the longer it will take to get the order in. The more people are in on it, the more people I have to get organized and keep straight on who gets what and making sure everyone pays and everything. I
one here "tk-409 style " please!!
OK I figured up shipping for everyone, everyone was give or take 1-2 bucks so I'll just do the same for everyone to make it easier. $101 is the total that I'll need paypaled or otherwise payed to me
my paypal address is email@example.com
thanks, if you don't have paypal and want to make other payment, PM me.
I did want to be on the back up list ...although I'm skeptical!
So, the TK409 gray and also, I want a jango (unless people disagree on the color of it??) ... size medium for both I guess. I'm 6' , 180 lbs.
Will you keep this list for the next run or do another list then? Or leave it up to someone else to do the next list?
paid !!
Paypal sent, but I have one question. I used the exact Paypal address that you posted, yet it said that you were an Unregisted Personal Member with 0 transations. How could it be 0 if the last person who posted Paypal'd you money before me? I've accidentally sent money to the wrong e-mail addy before and I want to make sure that I didn't just send a hundred bucks to the wrong addy. Please verify that you received my payment. Thanks!
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Algebras of twisted chiral differential operators and affine localization of \({\mathfrak {g}}\) -modules
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We propose a notion of algebra of twisted chiral differential operators over algebraic manifolds with vanishing 1st Pontrjagin class. We show that such algebras possess families of modules depending on infinitely many complex parameters, which we classify in terms of the corresponding algebra of twisted differential operators. If the underlying manifold is a flag manifold, our construction recovers modules over an affine Lie algebra parameterized by opers over the Langlands dual Lie algebra. The spaces of global sections of "smallest" such modules are irreducible \({{\hat{{\mathfrak{g}}}}}\) -modules, and all irreducible \({{\mathfrak{g}}}\) -integrable \({{\hat{{\mathfrak{g}}}}}\) -modules at the critical level arise in this way.


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Make me an offer!
How many miles on the entire system, esspecially the Cat? Do you know if this will fit a 20thAE? (not including the single rear tip).
Probably about 50k (it's looks like crap since I lived in Ohio), it will fit a 20th, but it does have a turn down tip.
pics added!
Need to get this out of my hair! Make offers everyone!
I'm interested but being a college kid my budget is tight and I don't wanna low ball you. Whats the lowest you can go?
If you still have this in 2-3 weeks consider it gone
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Is bigger really better?
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This is about WK2 vs ZJ dimensions (yeah, I know, not what you thought - sorry for that)
I tried to post it as a spreadsheet but it didn't work, so posting it as a screenshot.
As you can see WK2 is 7-10% larger in all dimensions. 29% heavier (for V6).
However, it just doesn't translate to more interior space. As you can see the only real improvement is in Rear Hip/Leg space, the rest is pretty much the same.
Luggage space is 11% less, Max cargo is 14% less. Huh???
Where did all this extra space and weight go? Thicker walls?
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they added more welds, that can increase weight....maybe the higher quality materials added weight too.
just some thoughts off the top of my head as to why my current girl is fatter than my last girl. big girls need loving too, ya know.
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keyboard still good though:thumbsup:
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I agree! The sudden weight gain of vehicles is certainly counterproductive to the sales gimmick of economy! 29% heavier for the same tasks? I would hope at this point that they were equal even with the added wheelbase and rear seat room. At that point, the switch to the V6 would equal added performance, and much better economy.
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Edited original post - weight numbers are for V6 both for WK2 and ZJ
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Electronics adds a lot of weight too. TPMS, active headrests, side curtain airbags, motorized tilt/telescope wheel, all of it is weight. Doesn't seem like much, but there are a LOT of additional motors, sensors, and computers in this version.
And I understand there is considerably more weight in sound absorbing materials on the WK2 as well. Dynamat, for instance, is about .5lbs/sq. ft.
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The reason for this post is that I was thinking that WK2 is just a bit bloated. I felt that ZJ (that I owned for 10 years) was perfect size for me (I am 5'7"). If they could just fit all this new interior and engine in a smaller size/lighter weight car - wouldn't it be great for everyone?
Another line of thought: this is a 5 seater. Other cars in this size often have 7 seats. So this kind of works as disadvantage for some buyers (I personally don't need 7 seats). Considering Chrysler also has 7-seat Durango I think they should've made WK2 a bit smaller (same size as ZJ) - that would translate in lower weight, better gas mileage, acceleration and possibly price.
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I said this once before in another thread: the government is mandating stricter crash standards and rollover protection. In order to meet those standards and still have a usable vehicle (for towing, cargo, etc.) weight must be increased due to additional and thickened steel throughout. ALL manufacturers are dealing with the same thing. I would be more worried if it got lighter, all else being equal.
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I couldn't DISagree more. While I'm not asking for more weight for no reason, I'm 6'2" and coming from a 2006 WK and I see your numbers but I don't feel them in the cabin. I can feel the extra cabin space and wouldn't change a thing. If they had to use aluminum instead of carbon fiber to get me a heavier vehical that still came in under 40M, I'm fine with that. I realize it's all a matter of tradeoff's and to get this same luxury feel in a lighter vehical would increase the cost, maybe drastically (think Porsche or Landrover)
All that said I would take a few more gears.
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I am coming from ZJ and noticed during the test drive that car "fits" about the same in the driver seat, which numbers confirm.
I am still baffled by decrease in luggage/cargo capacity.
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This recent headline from the New York Times suggests the problem: "Mike Pence: A Conservative Proudly Out of Sync With His Times." What does it mean to be a "conservative" that is "out of sync with his times"?
Politically, to be "conservative" is to believe that the established order represents the accumulation of collective wisdom over generations of incremental change, and for that reason is too precious to be sacrificed to the whims of the masses. To be "liberal," however, is to believe that no one has a greater stake in current policies than the people who are alive today, and for that reason those people should have priority, through democratic processes, over established institutions and unitary institutional leaders like monarchs.
Those are both reasonable views. And the constitution of our federal government here in the United States represents a compromise of both views, in the form of republicanism. Elections by citizens and the House of Representatives are both liberal ideas. The Senate (whose members were not elected directly until 1913 when the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified), the Electoral College, and a judiciary that is appointed not elected are all conservative ideas. That is, the institutions of our federal government were designed to accommodate change according to the will of the people, but not too quickly.
Because the conservative outlook prizes the current order as a representation of past lessons learned, many people think of conservatism as fundamentally backward looking. And because liberalism, when politically empowered, tends to result in more rapid change, many people think of it as fundamentally forward looking. But those characterizations place too much emphasis in the wrong places. Both conservative and liberal views, as political views, are focused on the present, because that is where and why political decisions are made. If conservatives seem to see the past as a guide, it is because they are searching for a ground that lends confidence to their decisions. Liberals are searching for a similar ground, but they find it in the collective voice of the people, expressed through democratic procedures. And if they seem to be oriented primarily to the future, that is only a byproduct of their focus on the present, which, because it changes constantly, seems more like the unknown future than the apparently solid past.
Mike Pence is neither conservative nor liberal. And the modern Republican Party is neither conservative nor liberal. Pence and his party represent radicalism, which is a movement to change the current order quickly, and with violence if necessary. Unlike conservatism and liberalism, radicalism is not a political outlook, or a process of sharing power through participation, but a movement to disrupt and seize power.
There are at least two kinds of radicalism. One kind of radicalism looks to the past, sees a Golden Age, and moves to disrupt the powers of the current order so that it can seize power to reestablish that Age. Another kind of radicalism looks to the future, sees the possibility of a Utopian Paradise, and moves to disrupt the powers of the current order so that it can seize power to usher in that Paradise. But those kinds of radicalism are not really looking to the past or the future; they are rooted in fantasy. There never was a Golden Age, and there never will be a Utopian Paradise. Both are illusions. (Other varieties of radicalism might include Christian Dominionism and radical Islam, neither of which is strictly about establishing a prior Golden Age or ushering in a Utopian Paradise. They might better be characterized as movements to establish the future glory of a past promise, something that never was, but ought to be.)
But because Golden Age radicalism seems to be backward looking, we tend to align it with conservatives. And because Utopian Paradise radicalism seems to be forward looking, we tend to align it with liberals. So we talk about "right-wing radicals" and "left-wing radicals." Those are terms are misleading, though, because right-wing radicalism has very little in common with conservatism, and left-wing radicalism has very little in common with liberalism. (I have sometimes used the term "retrograde radicalism" to describe the Golden Age radicals in the modern Republican Party. The comparable term, by strict opposite, would be "anterograde radicalism." But even fewer people still use "anterograde" than still use "retrograde.")
The Republican Party is transforming into a movement of Golden Age radicalism because its adherents are seeking to disrupt established institutions (for example by shutting down the government or abolishing a bevy of agencies), to seize power from others (including women, people of color, people who are not a particular kind of Christian, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), and to do so quickly by violence if necessary (for example by deporting people, building a border wall, increasing police militarization, and advocating for open and concealed carry of firearms by citizens who are sympathetic to their aims). These are not political movements because they are not about a process of sharing power through participation, either in conservative institutions or in liberal democracy.
We have no significant radical movement in the United States based on a Utopian Paradise. The people who march mostly peacefully and cluster on trendy social media hashtags might seem radical, but they are generally just demanding that the people who control established institutions use them differently, and measure the popular will through more effective democratic procedures. Those people are still just liberals who feel desperate and disenfranchised. But if they continue feeling that way for too long, they will radicalize, too. It has happened before, for example with the labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, the socialist movement of the early 20th century, and the civil rights movement of the middle 20th century.
The Golden Age radicals of the Republican Party would probably disagree. They appear to believe that they are not radicals, but late conservative defenders of a political order only recently overcome by Utopian Paradise radicals. A study of history should disabuse them of that view. The struggle to bring people of color into the circle of our politics is now centuries old. The struggle for women is about 175 years old. Even the gains of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender are not just a recent arrival, but the results of almost half a century of open efforts now—and they have tracked with popular approval. Our strong federal government dates back 150 years to the end of the Civil War. Social Security is more than 75 years old. Medicare is more than 50 years old. We have experienced many, many waves of immigration coupled with violence—going all the way back to English colonists. None of these things is new.
Mike Pence is not a "conservative proudly out of sync with his times," because being out of sync with your times is not compatible with being conservative. Only radicals are out of sync with their times. Being conservative means living deliberately in your times, as you received them from your predecessors, moving cautiously with attention to the wisdom of the past, and leaving the world a better place by whatever increment you can ethically and morally manage. The Republican Party has given up on that conservatism. The only conservative running for president in 2016 is Hillary Clinton, because she is the only one that explicitly advocates conserving the progress we have made while rejecting radical change. If you were looking for a liberal candidate, it was Bernie Sanders, who, although he advocated polices that might be characterized as "socialist," was really just expressing the complaint that our government institutions are not sufficiently democratic by highlighting the disjunction between popular opinion and actual governmental outcomes.
Donald Trump, however, is just a power-hungry demagogue who is putting on as a Golden Age radical. He recognizes that there is an enormous part of our population that feels desperate and disenfranchised, but is either unwilling to channel those feelings into political processes or recognizes that they are popularly outnumbered and will not have their way unless they exit politics and radicalize.
But even after trying to cut through that mess of categories, and recognizing that the mess might be mostly a byproduct of language change, there are still real problems. Those problems are fueling the feelings of desperation and disenfranchisement that lots of different people are feeling.
I think we can identify the root causes of those problems pretty easily: globalization and climate change, which are not disconnected phenomena. Globalization has accelerated climate change, even as it suggests, for the first time in the history of our planet, the possibility that there might be truly global problems that demand truly global solutions—and we might not be up to the task.
Interestingly, the Golden Age radicals of the Republican Party deny both globalization and climate change, although in slightly different ways. They deny that climate change is happening at all, but their denial in connection with globalization subtler. What they deny is that a globalized economy should have any noticeable effect on our local—that is, national—economy. They want the benefits of "growth" through greater consumption by imperializing resources and outsourcing labor, but without the burdens of thinking about what that might mean for a domestic economy, or about how it affects climate change. The result is a domestic economy where a few control the movement of labor and resources in and out of the country to their own enormous financial benefit, but many, many people are left behind by disappearing jobs.
What we need are new ideas, new metaphors, new narratives, new categories, and new institutions to sustain us into a more humane globalized world where we can address all of our problems, including climate change, peacefully and effectively together. That is not a call for a Utopian Paradise, but a call to live deliberately in the world that we actually have, with all its problems, without slipping into radicalism, by learning from the past while listening to the voices of the present. Each of us needs to remain political, by whatever disposition, and work to maintain the participatory circle with eyes to the present, eyes to the past, and eyes to the future.
Donald Trump would not get us there. Hillary Clinton would probably help to prevent us from losing ground. But the only way for things to get better is for all of us to decide to live right here, right now, in sync with our times and all their troubles, without being tempted by the fantasies of the Golden Age or the Utopian Paradise.


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I'm not one to mix up my seafood in one dish. If I'm gonna have shrimp in my pasta, I don't want lobster in there too. If I'm gonna have lobster newburg I only want lobster, not scallops too.
I'm crazy like that though. I know plenty of friends of mine that when we go to Passports have to get this dish every time.
Before The Gloucester Seafood Display Auction came along and we were handling fish we would handle tons of monkfish. The boats would sometimes sell them whole and sometimes cut the tails. When cutting off the heads they lose over half the weight of the fish but the price would go up a ton. Some people say that monkfish tastes like lobster. I think that's a bunch of bull but hey they gotta sell this ugly sucker somehow. they have it listed as goosefish on the tag at the aquarium but as long as I've been in the fish business I've never hearda single person in the industry ever refer to it as a goosefish, even the government reports we had to fill out listed them as monkfish. Here's the wikipedia page for monkfish
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Pella Looks Back At a Decade of Lean
A continuous-improvement program implemented by the window and door manufacturer in 1993 laid the groundwork for expansion in recent years
By William Schwartz, TBM Consulting Group
October 15, 2003
FEATURE ARTICLE | Operations, Close-Ups
October 15, 2003
FEATURE ARTICLE | Operations, Close-Ups
According to some observers, Pella Corp. was on the verge of being sidelined in its industry a decade ago. Instead, the shared vision of three men and the trust of an entire workforce remade the 65-year-old company into a lean pioneer. Mel Haught, Herb Lienenbrugger and Gene De Boef didn't know this when they put on jeans and flannel shirts and went to the shop floor to conduct their first kaizen 10 years ago. But that first kaizen marked a week that would permanently change this venerable maker of high-quality windows.
The Pella, IA, manufacturer adopted LeanSigma in 1993. Developed by TBM Consulting Group of Durham, NC, LeanSigma represents a fusion of best-practice methods, creating a lean business culture that embraces Kaizen Breakthrough events and Six Sigma measurement and quality tools. Now, Pella has attained what few other companies have even attempted: 10 years of experience with a lean manufacturing and business system and a decade's worth of continuous improvement and kaizen events. Pella's journey has been unique.
It is also a template for what can happen to a business that embraces continuous improvement over time, allowing change to build upon change until transformation becomes a habit. By replacing its big equipment with smaller, smarter solutions, Pella realized a 50 percent reduction in operational lead time and product-development time. The formation of employee teams and the development of programs to identify and streamline key processes have helped Pella's sales more than double and profits increase five-fold since 1993.
As Pella insiders can attest, opening to change did not come easily at first. As the vice presidents of manufacturing, finance and engineering, respectively, Haught, Lienenbrugger and De Boef had the muscle to bring in fresh ideas and make the kinds of immediate changes that Pella needed to spur growth.
Beginning the Change
Moving around machines, people and job descriptions while the plant was running was not the kind of thing Pella typically did. Until January 1993, the company underwent big changes just twice a year, during plant-wide shutdowns during the weeks of Christmas and Independence Day. In fact, Pella had experimented with a lean transformation once before. In 1992, six highly paid consultants from a national firm moved in for nine months, studying the company and preparing for a lean conversion.
With virtually no input from operators or supervisors, the changes were implemented during Christmas break. When employees returned, they were handed a single-spaced typed sheet of paper explaining their new jobs. "It was a bust," recalls Denny Van Zanten, now the vice president of manufacturing. What Haught, Lienenbrugger and De Boef saw in the lean principles as practiced by TBM was a chance to leverage their hardworking, committed employees—to include everyone in the journey. They just had to get everyone on board.
"After the first events, I was exhausted. I would come home at 11 p.m. and stay awake all night, wondering how the new process would work and how people who were being moved out would feel," says Van Zanten. "People thought we were creating chaos. And we were."
In one early event, a team working on a sash line found that its next-generation, highly automated, 6-month-old production line was too unreliable for a lean plant. Designed to make 600 units a shift, the line never produced more than 300. It took a lot of courage—and a commitment to lean from the accounting office—to "go out and shoot it," recalls Haught, now president and chief executive officer, "because we had a big investment there. But it was the right thing to do."
Preparing for Growth
It wasn't always easy to see, but Pella was creating the capacity for growth. With each kaizen, inventory, time and people were taken out of the process and redeployed to new areas. Inventory became cash to fund new products.
Time was pushed downstream to the customer in shorter lead times, and people were put to work on building new products, fortifying the new in-house machine-build department or accelerating the continuous-improvement effort.
After grounding itself in serious shop-floor improvements, Pella built on its foundation in the 1990s by moving lean into the business processes, product launch, distribution and supply chain. In 1995, Pella inaugurated its Business Process Improvement office and began running kaizen events in order entry, customer service, engineering and materials. The group conducted numerous events at Pella sales offices and in the field.
Finally, in 2001, Pella began a concentrated LeanSigma program to attack quality issues with Six Sigma tools, within a lean framework. Along the way, teams created Total Productive Maintenance programs, and found new ways to use the tools of daily improvement and value-stream mapping (see sidebar, p. 42). Each step cleared the way for new opportunities, creating internal capabilities that allowed the organization to open the next window.
Throughout the 1990s, Pella executives like Haught and Gary Christensen, the former chief executive officer who retired in 2002, were also pushing the company into new markets with new products. After 65 years of defining itself as a high-end wood-window company marketed under a single brand, Pella introduced in quick succession the Architect Series, Designer Series and ProLine window lines. Each differentiated sub-brand offered specific features for targeted market segments. Pella also bought storm-door and entry-door companies and a vinyl window and door manufacturing company, and opened new plants inside and outside Iowa.
For instance, Pella's newest facility recently opened in a former Mattel plant in Murray, KY, where the company expects to hire 500 people to produce its Impervia line. Made from its exclusive Duracast fiberglass composite material, producing a durable, attractive window with a slimmer profile, the windows are targeted at rapidly expanding markets in the South and West.
Through the years, each move has been part of Pella's growth strategy, transforming the privately held company into a total fenestration company, providing Pella-branded solutions for every opening in a house or building and leaving behind its niche-player status.
Employee Involvement
In the course of 10 years, 4,580 teams at Pella have tackled trouble spots in kaizen events ranging from two to five days. Today, Pella employs about 6,900 people. Since 1993, 4,840 different people have participated on teams, including 1,285 outsiders. In the meantime, Pella has appeared on Fortune magazine's list of "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the past four consecutive years and has steadily moved up the list, earning the number-12 spot in 2003.
Coincidence? Pella doesn't think so. "We did a cultural survey in 2002 that showed a 13.5 percent higher rating of job satisfaction by employees if they'd been on a kaizen team in the past 12 months," reports George Santiago, the current corporate continuous-improvement manager. "And you know what's funny? In this office, we're not 'C.I.' (continuous improvement) anymore. Out there in the company, they are all C.I. and we're just the facilitators."
Earl Ratcliff, a former operator and early adopter of lean who has been described as a Pella C.I. role model, has been a part of the C.I. office since nearly the beginning. Once, he was a lone believer, arguing with operators, clerks, managers and executives about lean principles and how quickly changes could be made. Now, C.I. has become an establishment. "We don't have to debate the principles of lean anymore, and let me tell you, that's pretty nice," Ratcliff says. "People are generally happier, too. Our people want to know that their opinions matter; they want to act, not just stand in front of a machine all day.
"It didn't used to enter your mind that you could change things, or even make suggestions. It's a lot more fun to work in this environment because anyone can be creative. We can make anything we can dream up. Here, there is a culture of 'yes.' "
Ask anyone at Pella what has made the C.I. initiative so successful over a decade, while worthy C.I. efforts at other companies have failed, and the answers may sound different at first. Brian Giddings, the first corporate continuous-improvement manager, credits his former boss, Van Zanten, with quantifying and reporting the financial results of the kaizen work in the critical first years, keeping lean improvements on everyone's radar. Van Zanten cites Giddings' high energy and commitment. Haught says the company's transformation would have been infinitely more difficult without the initial high-level enthusiastic involvement of finance, engineering and manufacturing. Others cite the teamwork and training inherent in a kaizen event. Really, they are all talking about the same thing.
At Pella, they are saying, everyone came along on the same ride. Continuous improvement and kaizen knitted together people, processes and business functions, across the natural divides of a company. Working together, they are open to the future and focused on satisfying their customers better than the competition, thanks to a dedication to continuous improvement.


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Since Sony revealed that the NGP would be known as the PlayStation Vita and cost €249 at E3 in June, we've been waiting for a launch date to be announced and we could now have inadvertently got it.
Sony told us the PS Vita would be released "towards the end of 2011" and a leaked flyer from Blockbuster has put the date as Friday, 28 October. Both the WiFi and 3G models of the PS Vita will go on sale on that date according to a flyer purporting to be from the retailer. A leaked copy (below) of the flyer was sent into IGN by a reader, but obviously its veracity has yet to be confirmed.
Blockbuster is saying nothing about the flyer but a date at the end of October as people are beginning to gear up for the Christmas season would seem like a very plausible launch date for the handheld console. The flyer also lists the prices of the two Vita models at £229.99 and £279.99, which is in line with what Sony has been saying about pricing.
We are anxiously waiting to get our hands on this next-generation handheld console and see how it stacks up against the likes of the 3DS. Let us know if you think this flyer looks like the real thing to you in the comments section below.
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Medussa, you can DT with OneC; just put gobs on, cover with a plastic bag, and apply the heat. It works fantastically.
I have to say, though, after 1.5 years of CG, I can't DT with heat because I get overconditioned. I just put the gobs in, put the plastic bag on, and rinse through 30-45 minutes later.
When I do oil treatments, I leave it on overnight. But any heat and I'll be a soft poofy puff ball the next several days.
There's also Jessicurl's weekly DT, which is very powerful and CG friendly. It's definitely too much for my hair at this point, I don't ever really use it anymore, because even without heat it's too much.
Actually, now that I think of it, if you PM me I can send you some if you want. Jessicurl also does samples, so you can get a sample from them directly.


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Mike from Nebraska writes:
I have too many icons in my system tray. How can I get rid of the ones I do not want or need?
Hey Mike, I don't blame you for trying to get rid of icons from the System Tray. It can be quite distracting to see the notifications pop up. Let me show you how to unclutter the System Tray.
Since, you haven't specified the Windows operating system you are using, I'll provide the steps using the Windows XP operating system. The steps for other Windows versions are similar, though the screen shots may differ. Let's jump right into it by accessing the Taskbar and Start Menu dialog box.
To access the Taskbar and Start Menu dialog box, either right-click the task bar and click Properties, as shown below, or go to the Start > Control Panel > Taskbar and Start Menu.
Click the Customize button under the Notification area heading.
The Customize Notifications dialog box appears. The list of items in your System Tray are listed under the Current Items heading. Next to each item, is a drop-down list box. The default option for these boxes is Hide when inactive. Since you want to permanently hide the icons on your Systems Tray, go to the drop-down list box next to each item and select the Always hide option.
After you've selected the Always hide option for the items you don't want to see in your System Tray, click OK to save and close the Customize Notifications dialog box.
Click OK to close the Taskbar and Start Menu dialog box.
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The form requires the following information:
- Date and time requested. Be very specific and make sure to include AM and PM on your times.
- Cost Center and Fund (budget codes). Requests without this information are not honored. If you are not sure of this information, please see the financial administrator or treasurer for your group.
- Your name, local phone number, title or position and email address.
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History and Underlying Principles
The Inner Resilience Program's mission is to cultivate the inner lives of students, teachers and schools by integrating social and emotional learning with contemplative practice. IRP was founded by Director Linda Lantieri in the spring of 2002. Originally, the aim was to equip school staff and parents in schools in lower Manhattan in and around Ground Zero with the skills necessary to rebuild their inner strength and resilience after the events of September 11th, 2001, and to model this way of being for the children in their care. It soon became clear that the work being implemented in schools in lower Manhattan had broader implications to the field of education in general. So many teachers are overstressed and close to burnout and they need help to manage the new challenges facing them inside the classroom and out. Children's lives are also much more stressful today.
When IRP began in the spring of 2002, over 40 NYC elementary, middle, and high schools, mostly in Manhattan, were involved in the program. Today there are nine model elementary schools in lower Manhattan and East Harlem that are implementing the program in NYC. IRP began implementation in the South Burlington School District in Vermont in the spring semester of 2008-2009 school year. It is also being integrated in the Warren and Youngstown City School Districts in Ohio and in six elementary schools in Madrid, Spain in spring 2010. Since IRP began, 6,000 school staff, 3,000 parents and 12,000 students have been served. Adults and students alike are helping to reclaim their schools as caring and mindful communities of learning.
The mindfulness-based approaches used in IRP help create healthy environments for teaching and learning by assisting both teachers and students to hone the skills of self-regulation, attention, and caring for others. The underlying principle of teaching specific skills to teachers and students through sustained practice and the development of a mindful classroom environment may provide value-added benefits because of the emphasis on repeated practice of skills over time in the context of a caring learning community.
Specific mindfulness practices taught include:
Focus and Methods
The implementation of IRP includes weekend residential retreats for school staff, professional development workshops, individual stress reduction sessions and parent workshops at school sites. The program also includes opportunities for teachers to nurture their inner lives through weekly yoga classes and monthly sessions in which school staff are introduced to many self-care strategies including a variety of contemplative practices. IRP has also developed a k-8 curriculum: Building Resilience from the Inside Out. The curriculum involves a 10-hour training and follow up staff development visits to each individual classroom of the teachers trained.
The IRP framework has the following essential ingredients: regular classroom instruction to develop students' social, emotional and inner life skills; a more mindful approach to behavior and classroom management aligned with Inner Resilience methods; a safe, orderly and peaceful classroom climate which values reflection; mindfulness based practices integrated throughout the curriculum; Inner Resilience workshops that inform and engage parents; professional development for staff on their personal learning of these skills as well as support for implementing this work in the classroom.
The focus of mindfulness educational practices is grounded in contemplative neuroscience including the concept of neuroplasticity - the notion that the brain is the key organ in the body that is designed to change in response to experience and training of various kinds. Marrying the idea of neuroplasticity with the kinds of mental training offered by contemplative practices, educators are learning just how much we can train the mind and change our brains/bodies in the directions of greater attentional focus, emotional calm, awareness and insight, and caring for others.
When is the program offered?
The professional development for teachers is offered either after school or during school time with funds to either reimburse for substitute coverage for teachers or provide stipends to teachers who attend training after school. The Building Resilience from the Inside Out curriculum is taught by trained teachers as discrete lessons that are part of the regular school day. It is also integrated into other curriculum areas throughout the day. IRP is also supported by the creation of a "peace corner" in each classroom. The peace corner is a special place that is set aside where children can go whenever they need calm and stillness in order to regain their inner balance.
Challenges Encountered/Proposed Solutions
Signs are promising in terms of student acceptance of these practices, but the research base still suffers from too few peer-reviewed papers that employ rigorous research methodologies. Also there is still a general lack of agreement on the active ingredients of programs and ways to measure their effectiveness. A key hypothesis behind a lot of this work still needs testing and that is whether developmentally appropriate practices will promote the development of executive cognitive and emotional control. Also, more research is needed to better understand the developmental issues involved in teaching children contemplative practices. However, in the meantime, we can apply our current understanding of children's development to the advancement of evidence-based practices.
In spring 2006, IRP received generous funding from the Fetzer Institute for Metis Associates to conduct rigorous research using a randomized control trial to examine the impact of the program on the well-being of teachers and students as well as on the climate of their classrooms. A total of 57 teachers of Grades 3–5 (including 855 students) from NYC public schools participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. Teachers in the treatment group participated in the IRP during the 2007–2008 school year. Activities, which were intended to reduce teacher stress and increase their concentration, attention, job satisfaction, and relations with their colleagues, included a series of weekly yoga classes, monthly Nurturing the Inner Life meetings, a weekend residential retreat, and training and support in the use of a curriculum module for students. It was theorized that changes in the teachers would have a positive influence on the climate of their classrooms, which in turn would affect students' wellness with regard to stress and frustration levels, attention, and acting out behaviors. In addition, the program was intended to reach students directly through curriculum activities. Teachers from the treatment and control groups completed a battery of surveys in the fall and spring of the 2007–2008 school year. Between-group analyses indicated several interesting and notable results with regard to teacher wellness, including reduced stress levels (as measured by one scale), increased levels of attention and mindfulness, and greater perceived relational trust among treatment teachers. Additionally, 3rd-gradestudents of treatment teachers perceived that they had significantly more autonomy and influence in their classes at the end of the school year than at the beginning, and analyses of student wellness indicated that the program had a significant, positive impact on reducing 3rd- and 4th-grade students' frustration levels.
In 2009-2010 school year, the New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services also conducted an evaluation in the South Burlington School District. The evaluation methodology relied on both quantitative and qualitative data using validated measures that were completed at the beginning and end of the intervention. Forty-one teachers participated including five teachers in targeted classrooms whose 84 children also participated. At the end of the program 16% of teachers said that IRP had a significant positive effect on students and 40% said it had a moderately positive effect. About half of the students said that Inner Resilience helped them focus "a little better" in class and made them "a little more" ready to learn. Over 75% of the students said such activities could benefit at least some children and that they should therefore be introduced more widely in the school.
The Inner Resilience Program receives generous support from the NoVo Foundation, The Kalliopeia Foundation, the Fetzer institute, The Philanthropic Collaborative and individual donors.
More information
For more information on The Inner Resilience Program please visit our website www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org. For more information about Director Linda Lantieri see www.lindalantieri.org. For more information about the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), one of our partner organizations, see www.CASEL.org.


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GK:...after a word from the Ketchup Advisory Board.
TR: These are the good years for me and Barb. She thinks I should say "Barb and me" but I'm the one who put in the air conditioners. And she's the one who sat in front of the TV watching the World Cup.
TR: I didn't know you cared for soccer, Barb.
SS: Well I don't. But I'm just excited that everybody else is excited, you know? And I just think it's fair. After all these years, Europe has never won a World Series or a Super Bowl. Neither has Asia or Africa. So I think we should watch other countries win, even if it is intensely boring.
TR: I can't stand soccer.
SS: Look, Jim---- the fans ---- they're all excited and blowing on their little vuvuzelas.
TR: What a horrible sound.
TR: It's like goats being castrated.
SS: The players don't seem to mind it-----
TR: They hate it. They just don't say anything.
SS: That seems odd, doesn't it?
TR: Not when you've been married for 45 years.
SS: What does that mean?
TR: And the field is too big. It's like watching antelope running around on the open plain. It'd be more exciting to watch cars going in and out of a parking lot.
SS: Oh Jim-----
TR: It's like watching marbles roll around in a baking dish. Random motion. I like baseball. First, second, and third base. And home. You always know where you are.
SS: You know, Jim, maybe you're not getting enough ketchup.
TR: Oh?
SS: Ketchup contains natural mellowing agents that help us accept other cultures' strange rituals, even if they are irritating to us and seem pointless and absurd.
TR: I don't think they use much ketchup in Europe.
SS: It's like New Year's.
These are the good times
Summer is a ballad
A time of relaxation
Makes everyone feel valid.
Life is flowing
Like ketchup on a salad.
GK: Ketchup, for the good times.RD: Ketchup, ketchup.
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Going shopping is like going to heaven, but without the wearisome spiritual aspect. In fact, shopping is the closest many people come to a religious experience. In shops, you can take time for reflection in a full-length mirror and then receive absolution in the form of branded goods. Shops are the only places in society where people ask you if you need help. They'll then treat you like the attractive and interesting person you could become, if only you'd part with most of your cash.
Shopping is not the same as buying; women shop, men buy. Women can enjoy shopping without buying something. They can even go shopping, take stuff back and still have fun. Men go to the shops when they need something. They find this thing and then they buy it. If it's not right, they don't take it back, because this would imply some error of judgment on their part. Taking things back is a form of retreat.
Women like to go shopping with friends. This means you have someone to hold the size 16 dress you'll be buying while you try on the size 12 you can hardly get over your head. Men go shopping with other men only if they're exploring the furthest limits of their sexuality.
The golden rule of shopping is that the posher the bag, the better you will feel. A bag with little ropes instead of handles is almost worth buying on its own. Once you have about five bags, put some of the bags in the other bags. Remember, rather than putting small into big, you should put cheap into expensive. If in doubt, make sure you end up carrying the ropes.
On the other hand, bargains can also be an exciting part of shopping. Women enjoy bargain-hunting, and will often finish a shopping trip claiming to have saved more money than they've spent. It's best for men not to ask to see this saved money. You'll have enough to worry about feigning excitement/interest/approval for the mountain of rubbish that's been dragged out of the city centre.
Men and women should never shop together. If by some accident they find themselves together in a shopping situation, the correct position for the man is just outside the door of the shop, watching other women shopping. The woman then positions herself right at the back of the shop, in order to summon the man to look at something she has no intention of buying. This is repeated in every shop on the high street, except the one with interesting gadgets for men.


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- 1For the special uses of out in phrasal verbs, look at the entries for the verbs. For example, burst out is in the phrasal verb section at burst. out (of something) away from the inside of a place or thing She ran out into the corridor. She shook the bag and some coins fell out. I got out of bed. He opened the box and out jumped a frog. Out you go! (= used to order someone to leave a room) (informal) He ran out the door.
- 2out (of something) (of people) away from or not at home or their place of work I called Liz but she was out. Let's go out this evening (= for example to a restaurant or club). We haven't had a night out for weeks. Mr. Green is out of town this week.
- 3out (of something) away from the edge of a place The boy dashed out into the road. Don't lean out of the window.
- 4out (of something) a long or a particular distance away from a place or from land She's working out in Australia. He lives right out in the country. The boats are all out at sea. The ship sank ten miles out of Stockholm.
- 5out (of something) used to show that something or someone is removed from a place, job, etc. This detergent is good for getting stains out. We want this government out. He got thrown out of the restaurant.
- 6out of something/somebody used to show that something comes from or is obtained from something or someone He drank his beer out of the bottle. a statue made out of bronze a romance straight out of a fairy tale I paid for the damage out of my savings. We'll get the truth out of her.
- 7out of something used to show that someone or something does not have any of something We're out of milk. He's been out of work for six months. You're out of luck—she left ten minutes ago.
- 8out of something used to show that someone or something is not or no longer in a particular state or condition Try and stay out of trouble. I watched the car until it was out of sight.
- 9out (of something) used to show that someone is no longer involved in something It was an awful job and I'm glad to be out of it. He gets out of the army in a few weeks. They'll be out (= of prison) on bail in no time. Brown goes on to the semifinals but Lee is out.
- 10out of something used to show the reason why something is done I asked out of curiosity. She did it out of spite.
- 11out of something from a particular number or set You scored six out of ten. Two out of three people think the President should resign.
- 12(of a book, etc.) not in the library; borrowed by someone else The book you wanted is out.
- 13(of the tide) at or toward its lowest point on land I like walking on the wet sand when the tide is out.
- 14if the sun, moon, or stars are or come out, they can be seen from the earth and are not hidden by clouds
- 15(of flowers) fully open There should be some snowdrops out by now.
- 16available to everyone; known to everyone When does her new book come out? Word always gets out (= people find out about things) no matter how careful you are. Out with it! (= say what you know)
- 17clearly and loudly so that people can hear to call/cry/shout out Read it out loud. Nobody spoke out in his defense.
- 18(informal) having told other people that you are homosexual I had been out since I was 17.
- 19(in baseball) if a team or team member is out, it is no longer their turn with the bat note at baseball
- 20(in tennis, etc.) if the ball is out, it landed outside the line The umpire said the ball was out.
- 21not possible or not allowed Swimming is out until the weather gets warmer.
- 22not fashionable Black is out this year.
- 23(of fire, lights, or burning materials) not or no longer burning or lit Suddenly all the lights went out. The fire had burned itself out.
- 24at an end It was summer and school was out. She was to regret her words before the day was out.
- 25unconscious He was out for more than an hour and came around in the hospital. She was knocked out cold.
- 26to the end; completely Hear me out before you say anything. We left them to fight it out (= settle a disagreement by fighting or arguing). see also all-out Idioms
- 1able to go outside again after an illness
- 2traveling around a place We've been out and about talking to people all over the country.
- 1sad because you are not included in something We've only just moved here so we feel a little out of it.
- 2not aware of what is happening, usually because of drinking too much alcohol or taking drugs He looks completely out of it.
adverb, prepositionjump to other results
to be trying to get or do something I'm not out for revenge. She's out for what she can get (= trying to get something for herself). The company is out to capture the Canadian market.
be out for something/to do somethingjump to other results
out and aboutjump to other results
going or leaving As soon as I get my money I'm out of here!
out of here (informal)jump to other results
out of it (informal)jump to other results
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2011 OEA Building A Better World Scholarship
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Thank you to all who have donated through the years to our Scholarship. Look here to find 2009 Scholarship donors.
We are now taking donations for the 2010 Building A Better World Scholarship. Please contact Mr. Wood at 616-402-8668 or firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like to donate. Your contribution will be divided up among three 2010 OHS Seniors. Thank you to all who donated to the 2009 Scholarship. We were able to award three $1000 scholarships for the second straight year. In seven years Building A Better World Scholarship has awarded 18 scholarships and raised over $13,000.
Congratulations to the 2009 OEA Building A Better World Scholarship Winners – Tyler Darnell, Sam Ferrier, Corey Swanson. Please read and listen to the winning essays.
The 2009 OEA Building A Better World Scholarship provided us our most ever student essay entries and some of our finest winning essays in the six year history of this scholarship. Thank you to all OHS Seniors who participated. We wish you the best in your travels and studies down the road. Please read and listen to our 2009 winners below, as they express their thoughts on how to help Build a Better World. The podcasts do not always work in Firebox browser.
$1000 Global Awareness Winner – Corey Swanson
- Corey's winning essay – PDF form – look here
- Corey reads his winning essay – listen here
…will attend Northern Michigan University in the Fall of 2009. He plans to major in English and minor in Musical Theory. Corey intends on working towards a PhD with the ultimate goal of becoming a University professor. For the past two years at Oakridge he was active in all forms of political involvement. In the 2008 presidential election Corey was a student organizer for the Obama campaign and volunteered over 110 hours. In 2008 he chaired the OHS Super Duper Club, which took on the Democratic Party practice of the use of Super Delegates. He spoke before Congressional representatives in Lansing challenging the practice. In the Spring of 2009 he traveled to Selma, Alabama with Oakridge students for the Bridge Crossing Jubilee. On May 29, 2009 Corey helped to organize a Die In to bring awareness to genocide unfolding in Sudan. He works at McDonalds and can't wait for college to start this Fall.
$1000 Independent Travel Winner – Sam Ferrier
- Sam's winning essay – PDF form – look here
- Sam reads her winning essay – listen here
…is taking one year off from formal study in an effort to save money and move to Portland, Oregon in August of 2010. Sam is already a seasoned traveler, having participated in the Oakridge Close Up Program, the Selma Bridge Crossing tour in the Spring of 09, as well as numerous trips to Chicago in and out of school. She has participated in civic activism in Washington D.C and in the Muskegon area. She's not quite sure what she will do with her life, but the West Coast of the United States is definitely calling. She's thoroughly researched Portland, Oregon and colleges in the near vicinity. She plans to travel there with this scholarship, in March of 2010, in order to lay the foundation for a move next summer. She may also stop over in Seattle for a couple of days on the trip. Meanwhile she's working fifty hours a week at K-Mart and banking her paychecks in order to become a future Oregonian. She promises us lots of photos from Pacific Northwest on her return.
$1000 Community Involvement Winner – Tyler Darnell
- Tyler's winning essay – PDF form – look here
- Tyler reads his winning essay – listen here
..will attend Muskegon Community College in the Fall of 2009. His long term goals revolve around studies in physics, however along the way he's dedicated himself to volunteering in his community. In the past four years Tyler has volunteered over 300 hours primarily in the Egleston community doing everything from tutoring, campaigning, working with the disabled, bringing awareness to homelessness, painting to prevent graffiti, and entertaining the elderly. He also is a member of the Muskegon Conservation Corps which spends an extensive amount of time and effort in protecting and preserving the Muskegon area environment. Tyler recently traveled to Washington D.C. with Close Up where he further strengthened bonds with the national volunteer organization AmeriCorps. Tyler will continue to volunteer as he makes his way through college, and is considering a tour in AmeriCorps somewhere along the way.
Read about the Building A Better World Scholarship.
OEA Building A Better World Scholarship is a grassroots locally funded scholarship for Oakridge graduating seniors. The Oakridge Education Association has recently joined with us to co-sponsor the scholarship, as has the Oakridge Alumni Association. We thank both groups for their generosity and consideration. In seven years Building A Better World has provided 18 graduating Oakridge seniors with scholarships totaling over $13,000.
The three categories of scholarships are 1 – Global Awareness 2 – Community Involvement 3 – Independent Travel
All graduating Oakridge Seniors are eligible to apply for the 2010 Building A Better World Scholarship. If you are interested please download the Scholarship Application form below and turn your completed essay (s) into the OHS Counseling office by May 1, 2010. Students may apply for one, two, or all three scholarships. If you would like to learn more or join with us and donate to Building A Better World Scholarship, check here..
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Aadesh Bandekar is a popular host on Marathi Television having hosted shows like 'Wow', 'DNA', 'High Tension', etc on ETV Marathi. Now he helms another show for ETV called 'Divided' starting July 30, Monday-Tuesday at 9.30 pm. Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to the ever smiling dynamic Aadesh about his new role. Here is what he said.
This is your third show for ETV Marathi.
Yes .We share a good working relationship and I am looking forward to host this unique show 'Divided'.
What is the format of the show?
Having acquired the format from Talpa Distribution, Endemol India has adapted this globally successful innovative game show format in Marathi reinstating their versatility as a production house. With interesting twists and turns outlined by the Creative Director, Atul Ketkar, each episode will see three contestants come together in a race against time to win upto lakhs of rupees! Each episode will unveil a set of 13 questions that increase in value but are bound by time. With every second that ticks away, a part of the available cash prize is lost!
Please explain.
Woven together in a never seen before concept, the contestants, instead of playing against each other will have to arrive at common consensus within a stipulated time frame to accumulate the cash prize. To win 'Divided', the contestants must make a unified decision at all times!
Reportedly this show is an international show.
This game show has been running successfully in UK, Slovenia, Estonia, Korea, Italy, Chile, Netherlands, Turkey and Malta and we are happy that the Indian audiences will now get to experience this exciting and nerve-wracking game show.
What else is happening on your career front?
My crime-based show 'Lakshya' on Star Pravah produced by me is a super-hit show with the viewers. I am getting a role in a major Hindi serial which will be announced soon. I am also starting a Marathi film which is in the scripting stage. It's about a small girl and her relationship with her father.
What's happening with your public life?
I am a staunch follower of Balasaheb Thackeray and the Shiv Sena and I am an active follower of the party and whatever work is assigned to me I do it with complete honesty.
You have become every housewife's lovable 'Bhauji'?
Yes. Thanks to the popular show 'Home Minister' I have gained immense popularity all over Maharashtra and I am thankful to God who has showered me with so much name and fame.
To whom would you credit your success to?
To my Family. That's how 'Aadesh' is, a complete family man.


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Remembering Meagan Toothman, Class of 2009
"All of us in the Wittenberg family are deeply saddened to learn that Meagan is no longer with us. Meagan represented the best of Wittenberg as both a scholar-athlete, beloved sister in her sorority and a friend to many. Wittenberg's motto is 'having light we pass it on to others.' Meagan found her calling in supporting others and was actually pursuing a graduate degree in school psychology to pass on her light. Even in her final hours, Meagan ensured that her light continues through her precious gifts of sight, health and life. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time."
Dr. Sarah M. Kelly, Wittenberg University Dean of Students
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Bernard Tomic progressed to the third round with a straight sets win over James Blake, despite the continued absence of his father and coach John.
Australian Tomic beat James Blake 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 on Court 18.
The 20-year-old has urged Wimbledon and the ATP to lift the ban on his father, who faces an assault charge for allegedly headbutting his son's former training partner.
John Tomic has denied attacking Thomas Drouet but Tomic senior has been banned from attending tournaments as his son's coach, while Wimbledon have prevented him from buying a ticket to watch.
Tomic will play ninth seed Richard Gasquet or Go Soeda in the next round.