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You can see the store owner first appears to go for his gun, then either looses his balance or goes for the bad guy. When he pulls the gun from his holster it looks like he ejected the magazine while pulling the slide to chamber a round. Because of the video edit we don't see him re-insert the magazine but it looks like he pulls the trigger, then racks the slide to chamber a round before he begins shooting like a madman.
Having never gone through something like this myself, I can't say I'd do any better under the circumstances, except that I always have a round chambered.
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Why shouldnt you comb your hair out the shower
So once you get out the shower, and the hair is wet, why is it so bad to put in product and comb it through with wide tooth? Does it make the curl pattern looser? If so, I WANT this. Does it make it tighter? Does it get rid of clumps? Does it cause frizz? What? Please answer, thanksssss
Since you're coming out of the shower with already detangled hair, it's fine to add a leave in conditioner and/or gel and use a wide tooth comb (gently) to distribute product. What causes damage is combing dry, with no added product to provide slip.
On my hair, using a wide tooth comb to distribute product after a shower promotes clumps (which my hair tends to do on its own somewhat) but does pull out some curl. My 3a pieces look more 2c, for instance. Since I usually want curl, I scrunch to reform curl pattern on days I use a wide tooth comb. I've never had it cause frizz on soaking wet hair. It does tend to smooth out any existing wet frizz I might have and corral any shorter hairs into clumps where they should be.
For my hair it is best if I de-tangle and comb when I am in the shower using a conditioner, this method causes the least amount of damage for me. For curly hair combing while your hair is wet is fine, combing while dry tends to cause damage.
I think how your hair reacts to combing through the curls depends on the curl pattern and hair type. I can comb as much as I want and not loosen my curls at all, my curls actually separate from their clumps when I comb through them and it helps me get more separated spirals which I prefer. If you comb your hair wet you shouldn't get too much frizz but if you try to do it when your hair is slightly damp or dry then you can cause frizz.
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Mary Lou Whitney has donated an additional $50,000 to help fund the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's Secretariat Center at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Mary Lou Whitney has donated an additional $50,000 to help fund the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's Secretariat Center at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Birdstone was declared out of Saturday's Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) after tests showed an elevated white cell count.
Marylou Whitney's Birdstone was installed the even-money favorite against 10 rivals for Saturday's Lane's End Stakes (gr. II) at Turfway Park. The 3-year-old son of Grindstone drew post one for the 1 1/8-mile race.
There are eight firm candidates for Saturday's Lane's End Stakes (gr. II), according to the racing office at Turfway Park, with as many as four others riding the fence.
Marylou Whitney's homebred Eclipse Award contender Bird Town (by Cape Town) is booked to another champion contender, Empire Maker (by Unbridled).
Bird Town, a candidate for champion 3-year-old filly, has been retired from racing.
Medaglia d'Oro and Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Volponi are among a contentious field of eight older horses entered for Saturday's $750,000 Whitney Handicap (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course.
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas is ready for the relaxed atmosphere at Saratoga, while trainers Nick Zito and P. G. Johnson prepare Bird Town and Volponi for their major tasks ahead.
Bird Town made the lead as they came out of the turn, and then held off a late charge from Lady Tak to win the Acorn Stakes (gr. I) Friday at Belmont Park. It was the second straight grade I win for Bird Town, who won the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) the day before the Kentucky Derby (gr. I).
Amerman Racing Stables' Lido Palace, a millionaire twice over and two-time champion colt in his native Chile, has been retired from racing due to a wrenched ankle that has not sufficiently responded to rest.
The surprise entry of Saint Verre changed the complexion of the Whitney, as the number of horses in the race Saturday expands the number of wagering options. Meanwhile, impressive winner Make Out is Spinaway bound, steeplechasing's spills continued, there was a deluge of rain Thursday, and Bailey was shut out.
Street Cry, who ranks as the top Thoroughbred in training on the NTRA poll, drew the outside post as a field of six was entered today for Saturday's grade I Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. Street Cry will carry highweight of 123 pounds including Jerry Bailey.
Pat Day gets Macho Uno mount for Whitney...Left Bank among the expected entrants...Street Cry and Unshaded have final preps.
Riding a two-race win streak, Western Pride entered the $300,000 Ohio Derby (gr. II) Sept. 29 at Thistledown with his guns blazing. It was to be his biggest battle to date, facing 1-5 favorite and last year's 2-year-old juvenile male champion, Macho Uno, and four other rivals.
Jeanne Vance's Lemon Drop Kid won his third consecutive race since adding blinkers after a third-place finish in the Pimlico Special (gr. I), winning the $1,042,000 Whitney Handicap (gr. I) by two lengths over Cat Thief Sunday at Saratoga.
Suburban Handicap (gr. II) winner Lemon Drop Kid and Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. II) winner Golden Missile were on the track at Saratoga Thursday morning preparing for Sunday's $750,000 Whitney Handicap (gr. I).
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West make this year's endangered buildings list. The 2010 World Monuments Watch, announced Oct. 6, 2009, by the World Monuments Fund (WMF), comprises 93 cultural heritage sites across 47 countries, including nine within the continental United States and 15 that were built during the 20th century. Through the Watch, which is issued every two years, WMF advocates for the protection and preservation of monuments to human culture around the globe that are threatened by war, natural disasters, human encroachment, vandalism, or neglect. Of 630-plus sites included on Watch lists through 2008, nearly half have received WMF funding and support.
In the 21st century, sustainable stewardship has become critical and organizations like WMF should collaborate with local partners in their efforts to preserve heritage sites, according to Bonnie Burnham, WMF president. "The sites on the 2010 Watch list make a dramatic case for the need to bring together a variety of sectors—economic, environmental, heritage preservation, and social—when we are making plans that will affect us all. Greater cooperation among these sectors would benefit humanity today, while ensuring our place as stewards of the Earth for the next generation," she said during a press conference announcing the 2010 Watch.
The sites included on the 2010 Watch highlight the need to balance heritage concerns with the social, economic, and environmental interests of the communities in which they exist. Many are not in imminent danger, but will face challenges in the future that will threaten their existence, noted Erica Avrami, WMF's research and education director. Listing such sites now can launch dialogues that may help divert potential threats.
The nine sites in the United States included on the 2010 Watch are:
Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library, Atlanta
Commodore Ralph Middleton Munroe Miami Marine Station, Miami
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans
St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis.
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Taos Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, N.M.
The Bridges of the Merritt Parkway, Connecticut To read more about the U.S. sites click here; view the complete 2010 Watch list here or view a Google map of the sites.


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Clay Hillyer is a freelance contributor for Inside Lacrosse and ILGear. He's a '12 graduate of Connecticut College and a USILA All-American defenseman. This is his introduction to a weekly ILGear column that'll hit on all things lacrosse outside the lines. You can follow him on Twitter @SwankLax.
A part of me hates lacrosse.
Lacrosse has taken its toll on my body. College lacrosse ended months ago but even now I can't run at full speed thanks to a torn hamstring suffered the day before an NCAA Tournament game. After hurting my shoulder, I can't shoot a basketball or lift a weight. The ligaments in my ankle are so loose that I can roll it walking up and down the stairs. I am a 22-year old college graduate who cannot run a mile or bench 135 lbs. It's safe to say four years of college lacrosse exacted a stiff physical price.
My professors can tell you something about what lacrosse demanded from me. They could show you the rushed papers handed in, the classes I showed up late to, or just didn't show up at all. Better yet, they could show you a transcript that reads like the opening line of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The good student of the fall gave way every spring to the full-time lacrosse player and part-time student who always turned on film before he cracked his books. Every time lacrosse called, I answered. She was my whiskey woman.
There were definitely days when I wondered why I kept coming back for more. What was so irresistible about being a player for coaches who yelled at you, a captain to teammates who didn't always do the right thing, and a coach to players who don't all care? Hell, why did I spend so much time trying to craft this introduction to my weekly column? I ran way past my initial deadline because I felt this compulsion to explain myself. I had to tell you why lacrosse matters so much to me, why anyone in their right mind would post nearly 2000 times on Laxpower, and why you should listen to what I have to say about the game.
Then I woke up, opened up my computer to finish this column, and saw Quint Kessenich's column about Team Reebok Blacks Out Cancer winning the Powerball Tournament. Now, with all due apologies to my editors, I am neither a big fan of Quint nor one to use this space to parrot the company line. I could have done without the made-for-TV sports movie description of Team Reebok playing every shift like it was the most important shift they had ever played or about them picturing Chris and Kyle when they got tired on the field. Sports clichés aside, Quint's column can hardly be called a lacrosse story. Sure, lacrosse existed on the periphery, but the core of the story was about people. It was a group of men putting in some sweat equity just for a chance to do something in honor of their friends and teammates. That's not a lacrosse story. It's a people story. Lacrosse was but the means to an ends.
I guess I owe Quint a thank you of sorts for his inadvertent contribution to this effort. Quint, I'll have my secretary/mother send you something. An Edible Arrangement perhaps? But I digress. The clarity that Quint's story gave me was that this is only partially going to be a column about lacrosse. Oh yes, I will still step onto my soapbox and pontificate about how we develop players, why zone defense is the future of lacrosse, and the MLL. But in between the scorched-earth rants and the passing potshots at #ROACHOKE (That's Roanoke for the Twitterless and/or uninitiated people out there), I hope I can write something that matters to you not just as a member of the lacrosse community, but as a person. Because when you're a twenty-two year old unemployed college graduate writing freelance columns for Inside Lacrosse from his pool, the moments you reflect on from your playing career aren't actual plays
I'll be back next week with something more about lacrosse and less about me, but I would be remiss to write this column without telling you about the most powerful moment from my time as a player. It's a story that encapsulates everything that I love about lacrosse and the message I want to permeate my writing here. After losing our NCAA Tournament game against Western New England in overtime, all of us seniors had a chance to say something to the team. We were all pretty torn up about the loss. Some guys couldn't muster much more than a few inaudible words. When my turn came, it was all I could do just to explain why eight grown men were so upset.
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Well thanks to you guys for the paint booth ideas I bit the bullet. The car is primered and wetsanded and just waiting for Mother Nature to cooperate. (Which looks like maybe Friday)
Here are a couple pics of the primer job.
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Hey it looks very nice and clean for paint. I noticed the paint can in the back of the 3rd picture, are you using Martin Senour autopaint? If so what type of primer or,sealer is that? Im all done with the body-work on my blazer and would like to spray one last coat of some sealer. Just curious Thanks, Chris
Yeah its martin senour stuff. I used the crossfore line of primer/sealer in acrylic enamel.
That looks great. I'm about 2-3 days behind you on my 74 Vette project. Man what a job!! The factory primer/sealer was bad (cracked like a dried up lake ) and ruined the factory paint job, then someone primed and painted lacquer over that. Iv'e got it down to the fiberglass about 90% done, just some detail areas left. I'm a mechanic not a painter so I went to my local auto body supply store (Wesco) and told them "I'm a dummy tell me how to do it right the first time as I don't ever want to do this again" $280.00 later I got PPG K36-Q primer/cat/reducer, tape, paper, and a bunch of freebies (graduated buckets, strainers, sticks, ect). Iv'e read my books, got my guns, masks and portable paint booth. NOW I'm armed and dangerous!! This ought to be an experience. You go First. and share with us how it goes.:thumbup:
p.s. I'm gonna see if I can trade my last teenager that's at home for the Paint..:D
looks very nice there thrown :thumbup:
Also in your corner! Nice..:thumbup:
Slick as a babys but.
Just a tip from an old painter. As soon as the primer or sealer or the paint drys to where it will not finger print, you should remove the masking tape and paper. If you don't, especially if the sun is on it for just a little while, even if it sets for a couple of days, you will have a heck of a time getting the tape and the residue of. Good Luck
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It's becoming common to see behavioral cues in everyday web applications. Designers are looking to encourage certain actions, and are turning to the principles of behavioral psychology to achieve their goals. No longer solely the domain of social and gaming apps, you can leverage many of these in your daily work.
Stephen Anderson is the first person we think of when it comes to these kinds of interactions. Stephen is an independent consultant and creator of the Mental Notes, a set of reference cards with design insights from the world of psychology.
Stephen is one of the most popular speakers at the Web App Masters Tour and we want to share a sample of his talk, Designing Seductive Business Apps. In this portion of his talk, he presents three concepts: Scarcity, Set Completion and the Feedback Loop.
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Scarcity is a concept we're all familiar with. When something desirable is rare—like gold—the more valuable it is. When someone is considering the purchase of something, its availability is an important factor in the decision.
Set Completion
Set Completion is something we see all around us. When was the last time you saw a fast food ad where the restaurant was offering a give away? Collectible glasses and kids meal toys are two common ones. Usually there are several different version of the giveaway, and you're encouraged to "Collect all five!" The closer we are to having a full set, the stronger the urge to complete the set.
The Feedback Loop
The Feedback Loop is essentially "cause and effect." When we see our actions have an immediate effect on a situation, we are likely to become engaged. Have you ever walked in front of a TV display at a retail store and noticed you were on the TV? It probably stopped you in your tracks. In web apps, the more immediate the effects of our actions are seen, the more engaging the interaction can be.Tweet


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The people have spoken and Cage Warriors have claimed another two awards this week, as the growing UK MMA fansite MMAHitPit.com released the results of its 2008 awards (which had been voted on by MMA fans around the Country).
Once again the hard work and determination of the Cage Warriors team has paid off and has been noticed by the people that matter, as the Midlands based organisation won both the "UK Promotion of the Year" Award and the "UK event of the Year" Award for their epic "Enter The Rough House 7" event, which saw the likes of Paul "Semtex" Daley, Jim Wallhead, Simeon Thoresen and many more top rated European stars in action.
When hearing the news Andy Lillis (Warrior Promotions/Cage Warriors Director) posted on the Cagewarriors.com forums and said "Thanks everyone who voted for these awards, (we are) really pleased that the fans thought so much about what Cage Warriors achieved last year. Thanks to MMAHitPit.com for putting these awards together."
Again everybody at Cage Warriors and Warrior Promotions would like to thank those fans that voted for us and for the good people at www.mmahitpit.com for taking time out to acknowledge the people who are working hard to promote MMA here in the UK and we hope to continue the good work in 2009.
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Apparently the name isn't quite as flattering though, 肥佬田鸡粥 is translated to Fatty Man Frog Porridge stall.
PS: Its cheap and affordable especially since it is after all the economic downturn despite the good rebounding news.
After reading Food-4-Thot and subsequently how TheStar picked it up, one rainy Saturday evening, we decided to go find the porridge stall. At the same row as Stevens Corner, the coffee shop is at the "real corner" of the street.
Right in front of the coffee shop, you will be greeted by the stall, pots of porridge and frog legs cooked to order. Just the thought makes me drool eventhough porridge is about the most basic food one can find, heck its even known as the poor man meal.
The porridge is done just the way i like it. Thick and gooey from the hours of cooking, unlike the Teo Chew version where their porridge looks like a bowl of rice and water. The chunks of fish was fresh, de-boned and had a meaty texture. Century egg is optional but advised. In addition to their fish porridge, there is also the lean pork (tenderised) with salted and century egg, oyster, prawns and frog legs too.
Their Kung Pou Frog Legs appear to be their signature dish and after all the rounds of TV shows praising this dish in Singapore, i finally got to taste the idea and eureka! The sauce mixed brilliantly with the porridge and frog legs? Well, extra protein going into the meal is always welcomed. I spied many tables ordering this to go with rice too (i mean why not, unless you have banned rice from your diet like garlic and vampires)
A pot of fish porridge with century egg and a pot of kung pou frog legs (both for 1 pax) for RM24.
I also read that the fish head was another awesome catch. The tricky thing though is that theres a stall that just sell fish head in front of the coffee shop (next to the porridge stall) but if you are seated inside, theres also a "dai chow" that coincidentally sold fish head when i asked.
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On the same row as Steven's Corner
Verdict: 4 stars out of 5 stars (I have been hitting the jackpot with good food recently). On days when you just want to dig into some really comforting carbs i.e rice, try it with porridge. The filling bowl of porridge with a variety of ingredients and the frog legs definitely makes me want to go back again, and this time try the apparently original fish head stall. I hope this place closes late because it would be a great spot for supper too!


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See updated death toll of 9 below. Earlier posting: At least three people are dead in a workplace shooting today in Manchester, Conn., The Hartford Courant reports.
The newspaper says at least three people were injured in the shooting at a beer distributorship.
The paper quotes state police as saying the suspect, Omar Thomas, an employee, shot and killed himself as officers approached. Correction: The suspect's last name was later identified as Thornton.
The paper quotes a firefighter as saying at least three people were killed in the incident.
Update at 11:39 a.m. ET: The Manchester Journal Inquirer, quoting police and hospital officials, reports that six people were killed in the shooting. The newspaper quotes "a police official at the scene" for the death toll and says the sixth person died at Hartford Hospital, according to Lenworth Jacobs. The newspaper quotes Jacobs as saying the person had been resuscitated but later died.
Update at 11:45 a.m. ET: There are conflicting reports on the death toll. WVIT says there are at least two dead,while the Associated Press puts the toll at three. The Manchester Journal Inquirer, quoting a police official at the scene and a hospital official, says six are dead. The AP reports that the suspect had been called in and asked to resign and allegedly responded by opening fire.
Update at 11:54 a.m. ET: The AP, quoting John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters, says the gunman was a warehouse driver who had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and was called in for a disciplinary hearing. The scene was particularly chaotic because the shooting occurred during a shift change, and 50 to 70 people were in the building.
Update at 11:58 a.m. ET: The death toll remains unclear. The Journal Inquirer reports six dead, attributing that to a police official at the scene. The newspaper quotes Jacobs as saying one person who had been resuscitated died at the hospital. Earlier, the paper indicated that Jacobs was referring to a "sixth" person in reporting that death.
Update at 12:05 p.m. ET: The Hartford Courant reports "at least three' dead in the shooting.
Update at 12:34 p.m. ET:The Hartford Courant puts the death toll at eight, quoting state police sources.
Update at 1:01 p.m. ET: The Associated Press quotes a Connecticut official as saying nine people, including the gunman, died in the shootings. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP only on the condition of anonymity about the shootings.
Update at 1:18 p.m. ET: The Courant, which now also reports nine deaths, quotes John Hollis, the Teamsters official, as saying the gunman faced some disciplinary issues. "The union was bringing him in to meet with the company to remedy the problem," Hollis says. "He started shooting."
Correction 8/4/10: The suspect was identified as Omar Thornton, not Thomas, as initially reported
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A fourth year, 6-2, combo guard whose role emerged as a backup to Scott Machado in 2010-11... Will continue to compete for action at both point guard and shooting guard as a senior... Appeared in 33 games as a junior, all off the bench... A scorer that can beat you from the outside or off a dribble-drive... Has the ability to control the game on both the offensive and defensive ends of the ball... Averaged 2.6 points per game in 7.0 minutes... Had two games with 10 or more points including a career-high 16 at Valparaiso on Mar. 16... Connected on 10 three-point field goal attempts... As a sophomore in 2009-10, converted 46.9% three-point attempts, the highest single-season effort for those with a minimum of 15 attempts... Slashing guard with good speed and a quick first step.
Appeared in nine minutes off the bench vs. Kent State, Cleveland State and Bryant at the World Vision Classic from Nov. 12-14... Appeared in 11 minutes with a rebound in double OT win over Richmond at home on Nov. 18... Tallied his first field goal of the season vs. Vermont on Dec. 22... Played 12 minutes vs. Hofstra and while not registering a point, was instrumental in keeping leading scorer Charles Jenkins off the scoreboard as well on Dec. 29... Recorded a season-high nine points and four assists in win over Marist in 20 minutes off the bench on Jan. 16... Had four points and two rebounds in 10 minutes at Fairfield on Feb. 4... Had six points and three assists vs. Manhattan on Feb. 7... Came off the bench to help slow down Marist leading scorer Sam Prescott and held him scoreless during the Gaels decisive 12-0 run in the second half at Marist on Feb. 13... Enjoyed his best game of the season with 12 points and four assists in 16 minutes of play while helping to keep Manhattan's leading scorer George Beamon in check on Feb. 16... Scored eight points with two more three-pointers at Liberty on Feb. 19... Had a career-high 16 points in 20 minutes off the bench, shooting 4-for-7 from the field with two three-pointers and a 6-for-7 performance from the free throw line in win at Valparaiso in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament on Mar. 16... Also matched his season-high with two steals in the win... Had seven points and hit the game sealing free throws with less than five seconds remaining in a CIT semifinal victory at East Tennessee State on Mar. 26... Posted seven points vs. Santa Clara in the CIT Championship Game on Mar. 30.
Appearied in 28 games as a sophomore, all off the bench... Averaged 3.3 points per game in 11.8 minutes... Had two games with 10 or more points including a season-high 12 vs. Rider on Jan. 18... 3.3 points and 0.9 rebounds... Connected on 15-of-32 three-point field goal attempts... The 46.9% conversion rate was the highest single-season effort for those with a minimum of 15 attempts... Had five points including a key second-half three pointer in win over Hampton on Nov. 17... Netted three points off the bench vs. Norfolk State on Nov. 21... Posted five points on 2-of-3 shooting from the field and had two assists in win over Creighton on Nov. 29... Followed it up with eight points and a team-high three assists vs. Saint Peter's on Dec. 4... Did not play vs. Fairleigh Dickinson and UConn due to injury... Returned to the lineup and played six minutes off the bench at Niagara on Jan. 2... Had six points with two assists and no turnovers off the bench at Rider on Jan. 9... Had a season-best 12 points, two shy of his career-best, in a win over Rider at home on Jan. 18... Had five points with three assists and no turnovers in win over Canisius on Feb. 1... Netted 10 points with two three-point field goals and shot 4-of-4 from the free throw line in win over Loyola on Feb. 14... Scored all six points from the free throw line, a career-high in makes in win over William & Mary on Feb. 19.
One of five players to appear in all 31 games while starting 16 of them in 2008-09... Team held an 8-8 record in games that he started... Played all three guard positions this season... Averaged 4.4 points and 1.6 rebounds... Tallied four games with double-digit points including a career-high 13 at South Florida on Dec. 27... Led the team with a 79.6% free throw percentage (39-49)... Converted his first 16 free throw attempts of the season... Tallied seven points in win over Valparaiso on Nov. 22... Posted 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the field while knocking down his first collegiate three-point field goal vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) on Dec. 14.. Posted seven points at Western Michigan on Dec. 18... Recorded nine points and stuck a key three-pointer in the second half of the Hofstra win on Dec. 23... Followed it up with a career-high 13 points along with four rebounds at South Florida on Dec. 27... Tallied eight points and drained a three-pointer for the seventh straight game in win over Fairfield on Jan. 4... Hit his first 19 collegiate free throw attempts before a miss against the Stags... Posted his third game with double-digit points with 10 vs. Canisius on Jan. 9... Had a second straight double-digit point effort with 10 points and hit two 3-pt field goals for the first time in his career at Rider on Jan. 11... Snapped a nine-game skid with a three-pointer with none in the Niagara win on Jan. 15... Posted eight points in win at Canisius on Jan. 17... Recorded a career-high six rebounds in win over Manhattan at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24... Had seven points and four rebounds including a key three-pointer from the corner towards the end of regulation in the overtime win vs. Marist on Feb. 7... Snapped out of a three-game scoreless skid with six points on two three-point field goals at Boston University on Feb. 21.
Played for head coach Ron Naclerio at Cardozo High School in Queens... Was won of the top players in the PSAL as a senior... Named New York Public School Athletic League (PSAL) All-Queens Player of the Year by the Queens Times Ledger... Led the Judges to a 21-5 season and the Queens Borough Championship as a senior... PSAL Queens AA scoring leader averaging 23 points per contest along with six assists and five rebounds a game... Represented the New York City Team in the 2008 Jordan Brand Classic Regional Game at Madison Square Garden... As a junior led the Judges to an 18-0 regular season record to top the Queens AA standings.
2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12
Year GP-GS Min FG Pct 3FG Pct FT Pct Reb Avg A TO Bk St Pts/Avg 2008-09 31-16 573 41 .277 15 .246 39 .796 51 1.6 28 37 0 15 136/4.4 2009-10 28-0 329 29 .403 15 .469 18 .720 25 0.9 28 28 2 12 91/3.3 2010-11 33-0 232 28 .491 10 .345 19 .905 25 0.8 23 17 0 11 85/2.6 TOTAL 92-16 1134 98 .354 40 .328 76 .800 101 1.1 79 82 2 38 312/3.4
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Asustek Computer recently introduced the Asustek EN8600GT/HTDI/256M graphics card that feature bundled high-quality HDMI adaptors certified by HDMI Licensing.
The card utilizes specially designed cooling fans and heatsinks to dissipate heat efficiently for better cooling in comparison to reference design boards, noted the company.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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The Wreckage of Hurricane Sandy, One Year LaterBy
When Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast a year ago, it swept away homes and left neighborhoods in ruin. It destroyed roads and flooded subways tunnels. It sank boats and damaged cars. It drenched paintings and shuttered museums. It left millions without power, disrupting hospitals and schools. When it was all over, Sandy had done $68 billion worth of damage.
Government agencies and private contractors have repaired much of the damage in the last year, but some of the storm's handiwork is still visible. On Staten Island, the houses of Oakwood Beach are being bought out and abandoned. Along the Jersey Shore and the Rockaway Peninsula, families are still waiting to move into permanent homes. In Manhattan, businesses are still displaced, and subway service isn't quite the same. Here's a closer look at some of the outstanding damage left by the storm:
Oakwood Beach, Staten Island: Many homes remain severely damaged or abandoned. The state plans to spend $160 million on a program to buy as many as 418 private properties in the area in order to create a buffer zone to guard against future storms. Most homeowners have applied to participate.
Breezy Point, Queens: About 350 homes were destroyed by the storm, including 130 which burned in a fire. As of August, fewer than 10 units were under construction, but many residents had filed plans to rebuild.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority: New York's public transit system sustained $4.8 billion in damages. Although transit service has been restored, New York City Transit (city buses and subways) and Metro-North and Long Island Railroad (suburban commuter railroads) will continue to make Sandy-related repairs for years to come.
The G Train: The subway tunnels of the G line, which connects Brooklyn and Queens, were flooded during the storm. Salt water corroded rails and power cables, and critical systems for ventilation and signal communication were ruined. Service has been restored, but continuing repairs will cause intermittent service interruptions into next year.
South Ferry Terminal: The four-year-old transit terminal, which was funded as part of the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, remains closed because of extensive structural and electrical damage. The old South Ferry Station has been reopened to restore train service to Manhattan's southern tip.
South Street Seaport Museum: The maritime museum, which was on shaky financial footing before the storm, remains closed for repairs. Its shops on Water Street are open.
The New York Daily News: The storm forced the newspaper's editorial staff to evacuate its main office in Lower Manhattan. The paper operated out of its printing facility in Jersey City until February, when it moved to a temporary location in Midtown Manhattan near Rockefeller Center. The staff expects to return to the downtown office later this year.
Ocean County, New Jersey: As of September, thousands of households remained displaced, according to the county planning board.
South River & Sayreville, N.J.: Roughly 1,000 homeowners have been targeted for voluntary buyouts because their properties are in areas prone to flooding. About 300 have started moving out.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: At Palisades Interstate Park, repairs to the Kearney House museum and other facilities are still underway.
Fortescue, N.J.: The historic Charlesworth Hotel and restaurant remains in disrepair and is still not taking guests.
Road to the Shore: Sections of Route 35, a highway used to access parts of the Jersey Shore, were wiped out by the storm, along with the highway's drainage system. The state broke ground on a reconstruction project in July.
Ellis Island: The main areas of the building reopened on Monday, with several floors still sealed off from the public. Some exhibits have been taken down and moved to a climate-controlled facility in Landover, Md. The National Parks Service says the museum aims to reopen fully by spring 2014.
Statue of Liberty: The statue was not damaged, but Liberty Island's buildings and docks took a beating. Boilers and electrical systems were flooded. The monument reopened to the public on July 4, but the main visitor dock is still being repaired.


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Kapampangan/A Little Bit More Vocabulary
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text: When you visit a museum, don't just gaze at the art on the walls. Take a good look at the guards posted in the rooms and doorways, especially their line of sight to the exhibits. Then check out the blinking cameras in the ceiling, the bolted-to-the-wall frames of the paintings and the shatterproof non-reflective casings on the statuary. And be aware that others, less reputable than you, are doing the same thing. The recent art theft at the Kunsthal gallery in the Netherlands shows that art thieves also know their way around a museum. And they like Impressionist paintings. These thieves stole two Monets, a Matisse, and a Gauguin, as well as a Picasso. And all in the five minutes before a "state of the art" (no pun intended) alarm alerted the police, who arrived within five minutes. 'Museum of the Missing' These paintings now belong to the " Museum of the Missing," as one book on the subject describes it, which currently includes 340,000 art objects, according to the Art Loss Register. The "missing" collection also has five Rembrandts. The paintings removed from the Kunsthal are from the private collection of multimillionaire Willem Cordia, whose family expressed "shock." Which leads us to ask: Why do wealthy collectors lend their artwork to museums and galleries when they risk losing their prized possessions? Not nailed down More wealthy people than ever are collecting art. In uncertain times, classic art is a certainty. Auction houses such as Christie's saw art sales soar 200-fold in recent years. And this year when Sotheby's auctioned off Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," the selling price was a record $120 million. Incidentally, two versions of "The Scream" have already been stolen, with only one recovered. "The recovery rate for stolen art is minimal," says a study in the Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, at least in the short term. Prev 0 of 3 Next


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Texas State - Attorney General- Child Support Enforcement telephone number is (254) 778-1841.
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Biz owner? Moderate reviews or edit listing.
Search entire category for Human Services Organizations
Human Service Organizations, in Temple, work for the benefit, interests, and empowerment of the needy sections of the society at large. They may provide comprehensive or specialized services. Their services are mostly oriented toward protecting and promoting physical, mental, social and environmental health of individuals.


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Charm City Craft Mafia's Holiday Heap will be held Saturday, December 1rd from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 2640 St. Paul Street (St. John's Church), Baltimore, MD 21218.
Some vendors include:
Merry Mart is a unique craft show featuring a diverse mix of art and craft from Baltimore and beyond. As always, it will be held at the Creative Alliance at the Pattersonon December 2 from 11a.m. to 5 p.m.
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LifeCare Hospice, formerly known as Hospice & Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County, would like to extend a heart-felt thank you to all the members of the community who supported our recent Have a Heart for Hospice fundraiser held at Greenbriar Conference & Party Centre.
For the last 32 years, LifeCare Hospice has been providing quality end of life care for individuals and families. We are a nonprofit agency and all proceeds from our fundraisers go to our Community Care Fund, which provides for patients who have no source of reimbursement for their care.
Through the generous donations of our supporters, we were able to raise over $25,500 that will be directed for patient care. We are grateful to our community for their support that allows us to continue to fulfill our mission to enhance the quality of life for patients and their families by providing them with compassionate care, support and grief resources during times of serious illness and loss.
Again, thank for your continued support.
Colleen A. Nettleton RN, CTCA
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Knowing hospice's track record on this job it's probably gross. They probably raised $25k but spent more than $25k on the fundraiser between greenbrian, catering, etc. That would be par for the course for them. Losing money on a fundraiser...can't hardly believe it. lol.
I wonder if that $ 25,500 is gross or net.
So much hatred in return for offering thanks. No wonder the subscription numbers for the DR have fallen off the charts.
Amoeba, that is an excellent comment. You captured so many of our feelings in that one comment. I agree wholeheartedly with it, and I hope that Ms. Nettleton gets a wakeup call soon.
I wonder how much they could have raised from this event if it hadn't been for this building disaster? $25k seems awefully low for their major event fundraiser of the year.
Yes, another $25k they can squander on some lawyers and hiring a new architect. How many lawyers and architects have they hired now?
Like most Wooster small business owner, I personally think that you could of raised more funds for the great work that Hospice does for those that need Hospice service. However, Hospice has damaged small business in Wooster. For instantce your failure to pay a fine General Contractor that has a proven track record for excellance. Its like the trickle down effect, the subs that are not paid because of Hospice failure to conclude in a timely manner the payment to the General Contractor so that they can pay the subs, continue business, and pay employees, suppliers, taxes and such. I believe Hospice does great work, but the new construction project, the failure to conclude your differences and make payment to those who worked hard with hospice has a damaging affect on our community. It is your responsibility Colleen and in the best interest for Hospice and our community to step up to the plate and resolve this issue quickly. You have smeared the good name and intentions of many good companies here in our fine city. Its time to make amends and show your true colors and do whats right. It seems to me Hospice has done everthing in its power to hinder proper payment to include payment and resolution for our fine businesses here in Wooster. I have heard the effects you have caused many people first hand and It sadens me to see such a good cause be damaged by your intent and actions. This may not be the forum to respond in this nature but the truth is the truth and resolution of this issue will only strengthen our community and start the healing process and views of Hospice.


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Porsche 911 Recall 13V058000
The Exhaust Tail Pipe May Fall Off
Certain 2012-2013 Carrera and Carrera 4 models equipped with a standard exhaust system are being recalled because the tail pipe may separate from the rear muffler unexpectedly.
If you have an affected vehicle, Porsche will notify you. If you believe your car is affected or are experiencing any abnormal noises or vibrations from the exhaust system, you should contact your Porsche dealer. They may ask for your vehicle identification number (VIN), so please have it handy when you call. The Porsche recall number is AD01.
This condition affects only certain Carrera and Carrera 4 models equipped with a standard, non-sport exhaust system. The exhaust tail pipe may fall off the rear muffler, causing a hazard to other vehicles and increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will replace the rear muffler on affected vehicles to correct this concern.
February 22, 2013
Porsche is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 911 Carrera and Carrera 4 vehicles manufactured from March 7, 2012, through November 12, 2012, and equipped with a standard (not sport) exhaust system. The exhaust tail pipe may fracture and separate from the rear muffler.
If the exhaust tail pipe separates from the muffler it may become a hazard for other vehicles on the road, increasing the risk of a crash.
Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear mufflers free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule. Owners may contact Porsche at 1-800-767-7243.
Porsche's safety recall number is AD01. Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
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Gang, today was really really cool. I wanted to have a Bucks County meat-then-drive-then-eat&drink for a long time and you guys came through like no others! You guys are the reason why the Subaru family is what it is today. I need to thank a few people for this meat:
Jackie (my fiancee/co-driver-in-life): We wouldn't have been able to make it through the drive without your directions and organization. I'd have been all messed up when the popo crapped on us without you. Your coming out and driving the route with me late on Wed. after taking the bar exam speaks volumes about how good you are to me. 143
Andrew & Jess: Thanks for driving from Dayton NJ to go to a Subie meet in a base trim Cobalt. You guys rock. Seriously. Rock like Sepultura's "Beneath the Remains."
JR: Thanks for manning the radio, bringing up the rear, and looking so damn cute in those Pilotis!
Tristan: Thanks for giving us this forum to do start things like this and thank you for keeping my car running at a good price. You're the shiz.
Bill: Thanks for sleeping in today and not coming out. You have now made it my life's work to get your car as dirty as I possible can, forever. And ever. I will introduce botulism into your engine bay. xoxoxo.
Tinicum Township Poilce: Thanks for not being really crappy towards my friends and ticketing them. That would have ruined my day.
I'm glad that from what I can tell, you guys didn't think my ride sucked. I hope you all had fun. Here are my pix (I'm hoping you all took a lot of pix, I didn't AT ALL):
The most notorious wing in Bucks County!
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P.S. Wanna do it again sometime?


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Need I say it would be a HUGE upset for the 0-11 Lions to beat the 10-1 Titans? Still, I have to meyowl for the pussycats, if only because of the undercat factor.
Dallas 7-4 has the edge in this game over the 2-9 Seahawks, as long as they play smart and don't make any really stupid mistakes. During this game we will be serving Seahawks sandwiches instead of the the tradition turkey sandwich. We also have a variety of fish flavored treats to help us support the 'boys.
Arizona has a chance of beating the Eagle, but Philly is a respectable 5-5 in a the tough NFC-EAst. This is probably the best match of the day. The Cards are 7-4 in the NFC West, but given the other teams in their division, that's not necessarily a recommendation. However, after the Phillies defeated my Rays I cannot possibly meyowl for ANY team from Philly, so...
Mr. Hendrix who are your picks for today?


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It started with a Google Alert. Yes, the one I have set up for my own name. For the most part I like to think of myself as someone who leads by example. Who stops at traffic lights. Who would never eat foul-smelling food on public transportation. But by the end of this piece I'm going to have exposed a great deal of truth about my character, so I might as well admit it: unbeknownst to those closest to me (well, except my mum; she also has a Google Alert set up for my name, which she sometimes like to alert me about) I am one of those self-searching people.
I'm not proud that I use a tool for automatic approbation. But it does come in handy sometimes. Times like that late-spring day this year when my Google Alert dropped me a line to let me know that it was possible to purchase an essay responding to an article that I wrote some years ago, about Britney Spears.
To be clearer: if my article on Britney Spears was part of your school curriculum in your English-language class, which it might be if you were a Danish student in the latter years of your education, and if the thought of writing a response to it felt like a daunting intellectual challenge, you could log on to a website called studienet.dk and download one for the affordable price of £79 for a one-month subscription.
Fellow writers might understand why this felt like the greatest moment of my literary career; the pinnacle of all of those years of pitching and typing and striving. No, the essay-for-hire is not a work of genius: users gave it two three-star ratings, and one four-star. 'Fin nok, ku være bedre' says the most recent one, which Google Translate told me means 'Fine enough, could be better'.
I didn't care. I just felt legit. Scanning the rest of the site, I was amazed that I now stood alongside many of my literary heroes – Woolf, Mantel, McEwan. I had become a writer who caused strife to young people who didn't like to do their homework.
But I also felt unsettled. Was this essay marketplace ethical? Or should I take it upon myself to track down the perpetrators and alert the people of Denmark? Should I tell them that their education system was being undermined by the public circulation of an essay that was being promoted as 'Lidt rodet, men ellers gode pointer', which is to say, 'A little messy, but otherwise good points', in which the author (a Year 11 student in a Copenhagen school) consistently misspelt 'career'?
I thought, perhaps, I should.
You may wonder how I, an obscure freelance journalist (it's cool: I know that you're reading this and don't know who I am, unless you're my mum or a student in a Danish school) became the kind of writer whose work young people would strive to avoid reading.
I share your wonder. The chapter my essay appears in includes a few other writers of note: Walt Whitman, ZZ Packer, Barack Obama. But here's the thing: when it comes to Britney Spears Studies, they've got nothing on me. Excuse my immodesty, but I think I might even be a pioneer of the field.
It was back in 2004 that I wrote my first paper on Ms Spears, for a module on celebrity narrative, an assignment for my MSc course. In the paper, I sought to achieve a qualitative analysis of the, ahem, media narratives around Britney's sexuality, with a particular focus on their development and structure in the context of puritanical American mores. I also sought to justify the many hours I'd spend skulking around WH Smith, reading issues of OK! Magazine that I was too ashamed to buy.
"You're a great writer. Very entertaining," my distinguished professor scrawled across the marking form a few months later after I handed it in, "Poor analysis. 58%".
I decided not to ask him to supervise a PhD.
I revisited Britney four years later. By then, I was working on a magazine called Bad Idea and Britney was doing things – shaving her head, whacking a photographer's car with an umbrella – that were worse ideas. In the piece, I mused on whether the tide of our respective fortunes had turned. Instead of me regarding Britney's enviable life, might the Britney of 2008 have sighed and wished that she was me? My editors titled it 'I Killed Britney Spears' and they published it with some unsettling illustrations, because that was the kind of magazine that Bad Idea was. I was pleased, though they didn't pay me. That seemed too much to expect.
What makes anyone a writer? There must be a line to cross, one that lies between being a person who can pound out sentences on a keyboard and being Joyce Carol Oates. But without a formal licensing body, an exam board, any diktat based on divine right, the marker of a person's passage from 'non-writer' to 'writer' is unclear.
Are you a writer the first time you call yourself a writer in response to a stranger at a party who asks you what you do for a living? The first time you get paid some money for something you've written? The first time you write it on an NHS form when you've come to your GP to seek treatment for the anxiety induced by your chronic underemployment?
Or do you become a writer when you get an email from a Danish publisher asking to buy the rights to extract your article on Britney Spears in a textbook that they are compiling for Danish school students learning English as a second language?
You do: you raise your fists in a silent celebration of victory. Of arrival. You have never before imagined that you could achieve such heights of authorial legitimacy in Scandinavia.
Legitimacy you may find yourself feeling compelled to uphold.
I wasn't a plagiarist in school. But I did look for ways to cut corners. We were underachievers in PE, but my friends and I made a sport of competing to see who could get away with doing the least amount of required reading ("I only read one chapter!" "Chapter? I only read two pages!").
So my first thought upon seeing the essay was of its potential utility for cheating. Do you spend £79 a month for access to a database of material to inspire your 16-year-old self? Or do you do it because writing an essay about an essay about Britney Spears is not the best use of your 16-year-old time?
I examined the website. The proprietors had clearly given thought to this possibility. There's a disclaimer about plagiarism on the website: they don't approve of it. "Do not cheat and plagiarise," it reads, translated from Danish. "Get inspired and get better grades… In 2011 we carried out a study which showed that many students do not know what the difference between plagiarism and inspiration. Therefore, our editorial written e-book How to use Studienets tasks and guides, a guide that teaches students to draw inspiration properly and avoid plagiarism/cheating."
Fair enough, I think, but I am still suspicious. I will contact them, I decide, and ask for answers: is the market for 'inspiration' bigger than the market for 'essays that you can repackage and disguise as your own'? An email to their contact form goes unanswered. I call the helpline, open for only and exactly one hour every day. I imagine a man sitting by a mobile phone, perhaps in a shed.
"Hello," I say, when he answers, at last. "Do you speak English?"
"Yes," he says.
"I am calling because I found on your website an essay that is in response to an essay that I wrote in a Danish textbook and I want to talk to, uh, the person responsible for that," I say. "Is there someone I can talk to?"
"Yes," he says. I am struck by his tone of remarkable disinterest. "His name is Lars Bo," he says, dictating an email address. I ask him to repeat it.
"Thank you!" I say, in the clipped tones of a truth-seeker.
I email him, asking pressing questions: can he explain how the essay was sourced, and how he regards the plagiarism risk? For three days I receive no answer.
Well, I think to myself. They are afraid of me and my truth-telling campaign to expose their questionable business practices.
I am disappointed, then, when Lars Bo Thomsen writes back. At first, he is reluctant to participate. "I'm very busy for the time being," he says. I press him. What is the company's view on plagiarism, I ask.
"Plagiarism is not as big as an issue now as it has been historical [sic]," he responds. "We have removed around 100,000 essays from our website during the last two years and now aim for only having one or two essays about a given subject or work."
Oh, I think. This sounds somewhat earnest.
"We have written an e-book about how to use Studienet.dk properly, avoiding plagiarism and how to make correct references. We have given teachers the right to copy it and hand it out to their students," he explains, reasonably enough.
I am a little crushed, but not daunted.
I decide to get in touch with the publisher of the volume in question: Systime, a leading Danish educational company. I email the communications team, telling them that I am writing a piece on students and the internet. "It sounds very interesting and definitely in our area of expertise," a spokeswoman replies before ignoring all future correspondence,
Hang on, I think. The name of the school which the author of the possibly-plagiarisable paper attends is written on the front of the essay. I will send it to them! I will ask them what their policy is towards the use of their students' work in this context.
"I am curious to know if the school is aware of this practice," I write.
I wait for a response. Nothing.
Maybe, I think, I should telephone the school and ask to speak to the principal and report the fact that one of his students may have sold an essay that he wrote about my essay about Britney Spears to an essay database that is run by a man who will not answer my emails. Maybe, I think, they will see that this is a pressing issue surrounding the preservation of the integrity of the use of writers' work.
Or maybe, I think, I should fly to Denmark! I could get on an Easyjet plane and turn up at Studienet.dk's offices, pound on the door and demand answers. In person, they could not turn me away! Maybe, I think, I will make a placard.
To me, something seemed to be rotten in Denmark. But no one in Denmark seemed to care. Here I was thinking I was fighting the good fight on behalf of the academy. And they likely thought I was a strange, self-obsessed, mediocre British writer, anxious to uphold the integrity of a piece of work that is of no interest to anyone but me.
To be a writer takes immense self-belief: the kind of self-belief that you are interesting, exemplary, and that your work matters. What feels like a giant moment of success to you means nothing to everyone else.
Sometimes, the truth just stinks.
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* Outside of Denmark, there are plenty of websites offering ready-made essays to 'inspire' students looking for help with their homework; they include ultius.com and ukessays.com.
* Many offer free essays on subjects from Shakespeare to nutrition. US site Ultius's custom-essay service begins at $20 (£12.50) per page .
* Other sites, such as buyessay1.com, take into account the level of study (ie, schools, undergraduates, PhD) and charge accordingly.
* A BBC investigation in 2012 found a student who'd paid £100 for an essay which turned out to be a fail.
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My housing inspector said the water heater to a condo I bought is old, but works fine. He said I should place a leak catch under it though in case it broke so I wouldn't damage my unit, or the unit below.
However, I'm unclear on how to get the tub underneath it. In the picture you can see the heater, and the black tub with a lip next to it. I can't lift the heater though, at least I don't think I can without cracking the stiff metal tubing that runs from the top.
Does anyone know of a product or makeshift approach to me getting some kind of water catch under there? Thx.
The tubing on top is flex tubing
Myself I wouldn't touch it
I'd only put a pan in when replacing the WH
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If you want to Drain it, get 3 people to help you lift it just enough to slide the pan under
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So that small amounts of water that may leak into the pan will not rust the bottom of the tank out
drain the unit. (turn off the electric first). Then place the pan under it. The lines above will flex enough for this process.
If you put a pan under it, be sure to run a drain pipe outside for the water to go rather than fill the pan and over-flow.
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Also add longer flex lines to create heat loops, in the picture above the tank so you are not constantly heating the supply and exiting water pipes.
Notice in the code, your TPRV should be piped outside, not to the floor.
Did your inspector check for a lockable breaker to the unit since there is no switch near the unit? This would be good to know the location if every a problem and a remote switch is somewhere near the panel if not a lockable breaker.
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Monday - Thai Beef (turkey) over Rice
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Wednesday - Lasagna Soup
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Guillaume Apollinaire is considered one of the most important literary figures of the early twentieth century. His brief career influenced the development of such artistic movements as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and the legend of his personality—bohemian artist, raconteur, gourmand, soldier—became the model for avant-garde deportment. Although some critics hesitate to rank him with the greatest poets of the century, Apollinaire's legacy is claimed by such important literary innovators as Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau, and Gertrude Stein. Shortly before Apollinaire died, author Jacques Vache wrote to Andre Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement: "[Apollinaire] marks an epoch. The beautiful things we can do now!"
According to most sources, Apollinaire was born in Rome, the illegitimate son of a Polish woman and an unidentified man—there is speculation that his father may have been an Italian military officer, a prelate, or even a cardinal in the Church; his friends, Pablo Picasso in particular, liked to joke that Apollinaire was the son of the Pope himself. He spent most of his youth traveling in Europe and as a result developed a cosmopolitan outlook and a fascination with a variety of cultures and fields of study. By the age of eighteen Apollinaire had finished school and settled in Paris. After securing work as a bank clerk, he became friends with and an avid supporter of avant-garde artists, including Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, and Marcel Duchamp. Never affiliated solely with one group or school but, seemingly, a partisan of all modern artists, Apollinaire was intrigued by, and tended to associate with, those who appeared challenging or antagonistic toward bourgeois society; this inclination probably led to his six-day imprisonment in 1911 when he was wrongly suspected of being connected with the theft of the Mona Lisa. In 1914 he joined the French army, volunteering to defend his adopted country in World War I. Although initially a member of an artillery division that was relatively safe from active combat, he soon volunteered to fight at the front with the infantry. He suffered a head wound in 1916 and was sent back to Paris, where he saw the staging of his drama Les mamelles de Tiresias: Drame surrealiste (The Breasts of Tiresias). This play, the subtitle of which was later adopted by a group of artists and writers known as the Surrealists, established a model for advanced avant-garde theater and influenced such authors as Tristan Tzara, the titular leader of the Dada movement, and Andre Breton. In 1917 Apollinaire delivered the lecture "L'esprit nouveau et les poetes," a modern art manifesto in which he called for pure invention and a total surrender to inspiration. Apollinaire, weakened by the wound from which he never fully recovered, died of influenza two days before Armistice Day.
Apollinaire's earliest publications, the short story collections L'enchanteur pourrissant and L'heresiarque et cie (The Heresiarch and Co.), prefigure his subsequent work in their extravagant use of the imagination. The fantastic characters and situations depicted in these stories signal Apollinaire's repudiation of the realistic and naturalistic approaches to writing, which he believed, like the Symbolist writers before him, imposed arbitrary limitations on the writer's vision. Unlike the Symbolists, however, whose work intentionally ignored everyday reality, Apollinaire's writing demonstrates a serious attempt to confront and transform worldly experience in its diversity, from the crises and joys of personal emotional life to the advancements of technology and the tragedies of war. As Anna Balakian has observed, Apollinaire's ambition was "to change the world through language." Among his other works of fiction, the novel Le poete assassine ( The Poet Assassinated) introduces the theme of the poet as a creator of new worlds—a role that Apollinaire himself assumed in his major works, the poetry collections Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913 and Calligrammes: Poemes de la paix de la guerre (Calligrams).
Both Alcools and Calligrams are notable for their stylistic experimentation and the novelty of their themes and subjects. Many of these motifs—particularly those taken from contemporary life, including technology and the alienation of modern existence—had never been treated before in serious poetry. Moreover, in his treatment of such traditional poetic themes as war and romance, Apollinaire revealed his astonishing willingness to contemplate the severest emotions from new points of view. For example, his unique and liberating sense of humor serves to clarify—rather than diminish—the poignancy of his often tragic themes. He frequently achieved this somewhat paradoxical effect through stylistic innovations—avoiding punctuation in Alcools and shaping verse text into various objects in Calligrams —which a number of critics view as his most significant contribution to modern poetry. In addition to its technical innovations, Alcools contains what many critics regard as his most successful individual poems, "Zone" and "La chanson du mal-aime" ("Song of the Ill-Beloved"), which, with their hope and excitement in modernity, their erudite literary references, and their poignant expressions of disappointed love, embody the full range and complexity of his poetic vision. Apollinaire's works, from his visual poems to pornographic novels like Les onze mille verges ( The Debauched Hospodar), as well as his flamboyant personality, present numerous examples of those artistic traits which led the Surrealists and other literary experimentalists to claim him as one of their predecessors. Critics agree that Apollinaire's most striking qualities were his vitality and his constant readiness to take both personal and artistic risks.
- Oeuvres poetiques, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1956.
- 1965-66 Oeuvres completes, edited by Michel Decaudin, four volumes.
- Oeuvres en prose, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, edited by Michel Decaudin, 1977, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 1988.
- (With Others) Allies des serbes, l Age d Homme (Lausanne, Switzerland), 1998.
- Lettres a Guillaume Apollinaire, 1904-1918, edited by Ricciotto Canudo, Klincksieck (Paris, France), 1999.
- Le Bestiaire; ou, Cortege d'Orphee, Deplanche (Paris), 1911, published in English as Le Bestiaire, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1977.
- Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913, edited by Tristan Tzara, [France], 1913, published in English as Alcools, 1964, Humanities Press International, 1975.
- Case d'armons, [France], 1915.
- Vitam impendere amori, [France], 1917.
- Calligrammes: Poemes de la paix et de la guerre, 1918, published as Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War, University of California Press, 1991.
- Le cortege priapique, [France], 1925.
- Julie; ou, La Rose, [France], 1927.
- Le condor et le morpion, [France], 1931.
- Ombre de mon amour, P. Cailler Vesenaz, 1947, revised edition published as Poemes a Lou, 1955, French and European Publications, 1969.
- Le guetteur melancolique, 1952, Gallimard, 1970.
- Tendre comme le souvenir, Gallimard, 1952.
- Selected Poems, edited by Oliver Bernard, 1956, Anvil Press Poetry (London), 1986.
- Les mamelles de Tiresias (produced in 1917 ), Editions Sic, 1918.
- Couleur du temps (produced in 1918), 1949, translated as Color of Time, Zone (New York, NY), 1980.
- Casanova, Gallimard, 1952.
- (With Andre Salmon) La temperature (produced in 1975), published in Oeuvres en prose, 1977.
- Three Pre-Surrealist Plays, translation, introduction, and notes by Maya Slater, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.
- Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan, 1907, French and European Publications, 1991.
- Les onze mille verges, 1907, published as The Debauched Hospodar, 1958, and Les onze mille verges, 1979, Dufour Editions, 1992.
- L'heresiarque et cie, P.V. Stock (Paris), 1910, issued as Contes choisis, 1922, published as The Heresiarch and Company, 1965, Exact Change, 1991.
- La fin de Babylone, Bibliotheque de Curieux, 1914.
- Les trois Don Juan, Bibliotheque de Curieux, 1915.
- Le poete assassine, 1916, published as The Poet Assassinated, Broom (New York, NY), 1923.
- L'enchanteur pourrissant, [France], 1919.
- La femme assise, 1920, revised edition, Editions de la Nouvelle revue francaise (Paris), 1928, French and European Publications, 1982.
- Les epingles: Contes, [France], 1928.
- Que faire?, Nouvelle Edition (Paris), 1950.
- The Wandering Jew and Other Stories, Hart-Davis (London), 1967.
- Meditations esthetiques: Les peintres cubistes, 1913 , published as The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations, 1913, Wittenborn (New York, NY), 1944.
- Le flaneur des deux rives suivi de Contemporains pittoresques, 1918, revised edition, Gallimard, 1975.
- Il y a, 1925, revised edition, Messein, 1949.
- Anecdotiques, 1926, revised edition, Gallimard, 1955.
- Contemporains pittoresques, [France], 1929.
- Oeuvres erotiques completes (verse and prose), three volumes, [France], 1934.
- L'esprit nouveau et les poetes, [France], 1946.
- Lettres a sa marraine, [France], 1948.
- Selected Writings, edited by Roger Shattuck, New Directions (New York, NY), 1950.
- Chroniques d'art, 1902-1918, edited by Leroy C. Breunig, 1961, published as Apollinaire On Art, Da Capo Press, 1972.
- (With Andre Level) Correspondance, edited by Brigitte Level, Lettres modernes (Paris), 1976.
- A propos d art negre, 1909-1918, new revised edition, Toguna (Toulouse, France), 1999.
Also editor of Chronique des grands siecles de la France, 1912. Some writings appear under the pseudonym Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki.
Further Readings
- Adema, Marcel, Apollinaire, Heinemann, 1954.
- Bates, Scott, Guillaume Apollinaire, edited by David O'Connell, Twayne, 1989.
- Bohn, Willard, Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde, State University of New York Press (Albany), 1997.
- Davies, Margaret, Apollinaire, Oliver &Boyd, 1964.
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, updated edition, Ungar, 1967.
- Mackworth, Cecily, Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life, Horizon, 1964.
- Mathews, Timothy, Reading Apollinaire: Theories of Poetic Language, Manchester University Press, 1987.
- Oxford Companion to French Literature, corrected edition, Clarendon, 1966.
- Peltier, Jacqueline, Apollinaire: Poet of War and Peace, Cecil Woolf (London), 2012.
- Poetry Criticism, Volume 7, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1994.
- Steegmuller, Francis, Apollinaire: Poet among Painters, Farrar, Straus, 1963.
- Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, H.W. Wilson, 1942.
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 51, Gale, 1980.
- Twentieth Century Writing: A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature, Transatlantic, 1969.
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Guillaume Apollinaire is considered one of the most important literary figures of the early twentieth century. His brief career influenced the development of such artistic movements as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and the legend of his personality—bohemian artist, raconteur, gourmand, soldier—became the model for avant-garde deportment. Although some critics hesitate to rank him with the greatest poets of the century, Apollinaire's legacy is claimed by such important literary innovators as Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau, and Gertrude Stein. Shortly before Apollinaire died, author Jacques Vache wrote to Andre Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement: "[Apollinaire] marks an epoch. The beautiful things we can do now!"
According to most sources, Apollinaire was born in Rome, the illegitimate son of a Polish woman and an unidentified man—there is speculation that his father may have been an Italian military officer, a prelate, or even a cardinal in the...


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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 192387, 6 pages
Fuzzy Adaptive Prescribed Performance Control for MIMO Uncertain Chaotic Systems in Nonstrict Feedback Form
Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Huainan Normal University, 238 Dongshan West Road, Huainan 232038, China
Received 22 January 2014; Revised 27 March 2014; Accepted 13 April 2014; Published 29 April 2014
Academic Editor: Wenwu Yu
Copyright © 2014 Yeguo Sun and Heng Liu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper presents a fuzzy adaptive control method for MIMO uncertain chaotic systems in nonstrict feedback form, which is capable of guaranteeing the prescribed performance bounds. For the prescribed performance bounds, we mean that the tracking error should converge to a predefined arbitrarily small set, with convergence rate no more than a prescribed value. A novel output error transformation is introduced to transform the original constrained system into an equivalent unconstrained one, and it is proved that the stabilization of the unconstrained system is sufficient to solve the problem. Based on the error transformation technique, a fuzzy adaptive controller is designed for the unconstrained system. For updating the parameters of the fuzzy logic systems, a proportional-integral adaptation law is proposed. Finally, an illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.