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At Truscott Street Primary School students play together at lunch time, visit the library to read or play computers, and throw the ball to their friends.
So what? For the 21 special needs students at the North Ryde school, it's their inclusion in these run-of-the-mill activities that's so important.
Some are physically impaired, others have language delays or learning difficulties. They are taught basic skills in a support unit, but they are welcomed into the wider school and mainstream classes when they are ready.
Truscott Street's integration program has five fulltime aides who also assist students in the mainstream. The unit is connected to the main school by a long covered walk-way for students with wheel chairs or walking frames to have access in all weather conditions.
There are four separate classes for the special needs students, and all children integrate with the main school at some level.
Some go for an arts lesson one day a week, others will go every day for English and Maths. The system breeds tolerance, patience and accepting students, say teachers.
"Not in every school will the children have to sit for three minutes when one student with a walker will take their time to make it up to the front of the assembly to collect an award," says principal Joanne Govorcin.
"All the children are particularly tolerant of students with many different abilities."
Often, students in the support unit can be a lot brighter than their peers and are placed in classes accordingly.
"We have some of the most gifted students in creative arts that I have ever had the opportunity to work with," Mrs Govorcin said.
"And it can be these same students who have had problems with maths or science who are topping the class in sculpture or visual arts.
"The staff are really good at seeing what the children are fabulous at."
The basic skills results of Truscott Street Primary are well above the NSW average and students with special needs work to the departmental guidelines.
Support unit executive teacher Norma Gardiner has been working in this area for 20 years and says the children see themselves as regular students in a regular environment.
"The best thing about it is they make small gains all the time," she said.
"It is just like normal teaching but more intense and you get to know the children really well - they all have great self esteem."
On top of education, children in the support unit also need help with social skills and living skills which is another advantage of spending time in the main school.
"It really gives them the best of both worlds," said Mrs Gardiner.
St Edmund's Wahroonga: A secondary school for students with sensory and intellectual disabilities that has an outreach program for the wider community called Social Justice and Disabilities Awareness. Students from other schools visit St Edmund's for social and classroom interaction with students with special needs.
Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children: As a direct sign in AUSLAN does not translate to a direct word in English, the school has a technological focus for the signing deaf educational stream. It uses a real-time captioning system where a teaching signing in AUSLAN stands in front of the class with an English translator and a computer translates written English on a television screen in front of the class. Also producing a system to transcribe braille music and write story books in both braille and English to assist parents.
Albion Park High School: Runs a retail class for students with a physical or intellectual disability as part of a Vocational Education and Training program. The class involves using cash registers, customer service techniques and selling products. The retail unit can be used as a matriculation course for the HSC and VET qualifications are recognised Australia wide. Students can also attain advanced credit for TAFE courses after completing the retail unit.
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Ireland Baldwin found herself at the center of a scandal in 2007 when an angry voice mail from her famous father was leaked to the press -- and now she's speaking out about it.
"The only problem with that voice mail was that people made it out to be a way bigger deal than it was," the 16-year-old daughter of Alec Baldwin and ex-wife Kim Basinger tells Page Six. In the voice mail, Baldwin calls his daughter a "little pig" and complains that she didn't return his calls. "He's said stuff like that before just because he's frustrated. For me it was like, 'OK, whatever.' I called him back and I was like, 'Sorry Dad, I didn't have my phone.' That was it."
Ireland says she and her dad even considered the old image-saving trick of poking fun of themselves. "We almost did something funny on YouTube, of me calling him and yelling at him. We were just talking about it the other week," she reveals.
Baldwin, who divorced Basinger in 2002, married yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, 28, in June. "I've always had a great relationship with my dad," says Ireland. "And Hilaria and I are really close. She's like a big sister to me, but I feel like I haven't spent enough time with her yet. ...We joke around and I call her 'Mom.' But I respect her, it's not like I'm Parent Trap-ping her, setting up booby traps in her room."
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Blogito, Ergo Sum
by Gregg Calkins
25 November 2008, a Tuesday
Not much new this morning, things remain about the same as they were yesterday. Market flat, no new appointments, blah blah blah.
An interesting clip from Best of the Web Today:
The Associated Press's Monika Scislowska reports from Warsaw on a new historical finding:
Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation about the exact resting spot of Copernicus, a priest and astronomer whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the universe.
Actually, I am the center of the universe, but if Monica wants to believe that the sun is, I don't mind. Actually, come to think of it, I believe that is what Copernicus thought at the time, so her statement is perfectly correct: that is what his theories identified. The fact that we now think differently doesn't change that.
Bret Stephens succinctly explains the piracy problem, and I've edited him down even more tightly:
Why? The view of senior U.S. military officials seems to be, in effect, that there is no controlling legal authority. Title 18, Chapter 81 of the United States Code establishes a sentence of life in prison for foreigners captured in the act of piracy. But, crucially, the law is only enforceable against pirates who attack U.S.-flagged vessels, of which today there are few.
What about international law? Article 110 of the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Convention -- ratified by most nations, but not by the U.S. -- enjoins naval ships from simply firing on suspected pirates. Instead, they are required first to send over a boarding party to inquire of the pirates whether they are, in fact, pirates. ...
(In) the 18th century, pirates knew exactly where they stood in relation to the law. A legal dictionary of the day spelled it out: "A piracy attempted on the Ocean, if the Pirates are overcome, the Takers may immediately inflict a Punishment by hanging them up at the Main-yard End; though this is understood where no legal judgment may be obtained." ... (And) it succeeded in mostly eliminating piracy by the late 19th century
"We're humane warriors," says one U.S. Navy officer. "When the pirates put down their RPGs and raise their hands, we take them alive. And that's a lot tougher than taking bodies."
And how simple is the solution? Simply stop accepting surrender as one of the rules of warfare, particularly with respect to piracy. If you are a pirate, you headed for a quick and abrupt death, period. End the problem the way we learned to do it several hundred years ago.
I know that I'm an old guy, and a conservative, but just the same I look around everywhere, from the banks to the Big Three, pirates and terrorists, even drug dealers and common criminals, and everywhere I look it seems I see one thing: they don't seem to think they're ever going to be caught, for one thing, and for the second they don't think they're going to be really punished, especially not severely. Even if you knew for sure you'd be caught, who wouldn't trade 5 years in a nice federal pen in return for $100 million dollars? Kill a few American infidels in a gun battle and then run out of ammunition? No problem, just surrender. Go to Guantanamo, put on some weight and get back into good fighting condition, pretty soon some judge will release you.
I can just see the scene now when the British navy arrives at the side of the suspected pirate vessel. A crewmember turns and yells up to the captain...hey Cap, guy down here wants to know if we've seen any pirates? No, the captain says, this here's a fishing charter. Tell them to come on aboard and have some of Joe Wilson's hot, sweet, mint tea, look around all they like, they won't find any skull-and-crossbones flags or cutlasses or any other pirate costumes on MY ship! Whups, time for prayer, gotta ask you infidels to leave now. Sorry, old chap, better luck next time. Hope you get the ruddy blighters, I do. Gives a bad name to us fishing charter skippers.
One of the unhappy things I see happening in America these days is the willingness, even eagerness, to find someone "wrong" for whatever they do, no matter what their intentions. It's like a giant game of gotcha, where the goal is not to avoid being got but to get someone else. From The American Spectator:
La Raza, by the way, is the same group, that, along with ACORN and the Greenlining Institute, helped to cause the subprime mortgage meltdown. After decades of demanding more loans for racial minorities, the group performed a dramatic about-face as mortgage markets collapsed, suddenly warning that lenders, realtors, and investors who bought up subprime loans could be sued under a federal law that forbids housing discrimination. It was the lenders' responsibility to "match families to the sustainable loans that they should have gotten in the first place," said Murguia.
Of course, is was a do-gooder government which forced the lenders into this position in the first place...the Clinton government, spearheaded by Barney Frank.
Michael Mukasey fainted and distracted the MSM from what he had to say:
And when people denounce a purported assault on the "Geneva Conventions," you might expect some level of specificity in the charges. One cannot "assault" a treaty as an abstract concept; one can only violate the treaty by acting contrary to its words. The Geneva Conventions contain 319 articles, of which 315 are plainly addressed to armed conflicts among the nations that signed the Conventions. It is hardly surprising that the United States concluded that those provisions would not apply to the armed conflict against Al Qaeda, an international terrorist group and not, the last time I checked, a signatory to the Conventions.
I couldn't agree more!
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NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Ari
The movie begins with Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) under water, in a river at a training site in the middle of snowy mountain region. He swims to the surface, looks at a map, and moves on to his target.
At the same time, in DC, two high-ranking CIA officials are discussing about how Jason Bourne escaped and is active. Bourne has exposed their operation. They need to inform the head of the CIA about the urgency of the situation.
The next morning, they are in the meeting where they discuss that there is another program similar to Treadstone called Outcome, and they are assembling a team to assess the risks of having the program being exposed due to Jason Bourne's escape. The leader of this team is Eric Byer (Edward Norton). One of his team members is admiring Jason Bourne's profile and his ability, but is told-off by Eric, as he needs to focus on the task at hand, assessing the risk.
In the meantime, we see that Aaron has to fight off a pack of wolves on the mountain. He climbs up a very steep mountain after drawing his own blood for a lab test kit, and taking two tablets from a small metal container, one green and one blue.
We see that a similar looking metal container is being kept by another Outcome agent who is being checked up in a lab facility by Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz). Each agent is referred to by a number. This agent needs to do a full checkup as per Marta's boss' instructions. At the same time, in the headquarters, Eric is telling the CIA head that Outcome has to be shut down and to save the medicine recipe that they have, and to terminate all of the operatives before it is exposed.
The scene goes to Eric telling another military general that he needs to terminate his Outcome agents in the field. The general argues that doing that will sacrifice years worth of investigation, especially their very important progress in North Korea and in Pakistan. Eric insists that it needs to be done and gives him an order to do so. After the checkup, the soldier is given a yellow pill, instead of the usual blue and green ones. After this, we see that there are agents in various locations such as South Korea and Pakistan, taking the same yellow pill and the agents die shortly after.
Back in the mountain, Aaron has reached his next station and is met by another agent guarding the post. It turns out that Aaron beat the record by two days because he climbs the mountain instead of taking the normal route. In this post, he is supposed to send their blood work taken in specific intervals. Even though he's early, he lies to the other agent that he dropped his medicine container, in order to get more supplies. Initially the other agent doesn't believe him, but gives him the pills anyway, taken from a storage area outside the cabin. After this, they send the bloodwork via drones, to the nearest military post. Aaron and the other agent don't trust each other, but Aaron manages to find out that the other agent has to stay there as a punishment for falling in love. It is implied that Outcome's weakness is the agents' feelings that interrupt with their mission.
Aaron spends the night in the cabin and sees that there were a lot of agents who have stayed there before, including Jason Bourne.
The next morning, Aaron is supposed to continue his journey, but a bad snowstorm is coming, so he decides to stay longer. When assessing the weather, he hears an unusual noise outside. The other agent confirms that there are no drops expected, and they decide to get ready to leave. Aaron goes out first with his kit, and suddenly, the cabin is shot by a missile. The cabin explodes, killing the other agent.
Out in the military base, the soldiers suddenly detect Aaron's signal 15 minutes after the attack, and decide to send the drone back to assess the situation. Aaron quickly covers his stomach area with a metal plate, so that his implanted signaling device is not detected, and waits for the drone to be within sight of his highly enhanced rifle. He manages to shoot the drone down. Soon after that, he decides to take the detector out of his stomach. At the same time, the base gets the signal back and decides to send another missile. While Aaron his doing his mini-operation, a pack of wolves come and surround him. Aaron traps one of them, and scares the rest with his gun shots. He wrestles with the caught wolf and forces the detector into its mouth. The missile shoots the target successfully and confirms it dead, not knowing that it has shot the wolf and not Aaron. He makes his way to a small airport, steals one of the planes, and flies back to the city. However, at this point of time, he only has two blue and green pills left. He needs to get new meds; otherwise he will get the withdrawal symptoms and may not make it. Aaron has flashbacks to the time when he is in the field with Eric, where he is told that Outcome program is morally indefensible but necessary to defend the country.
In the meantime, Marta's colleague starts to behave in a weird manner. Eventually, he locks all the scientists in the lab room and shoots them one by one. Everyone is killed except Marta, but she survives by running to a room, locks herself in and stalls the killer to buy time. Eventually security guards gain access to the room, and her colleague kills himself.
Marta is very shaken, and we see her back at her home, preparing to leave the country. CIA agents visit her, claiming to be the CIA psychologist who needs to assess her state of mind before allowing her trip out of the country. Suddenly, the agents start to restrain her and try to force her kill herself with her own gun. Right at this time, Aaron appears and saves her, and helps her kill all four agents, and burn down her house to remove evidence and stall the CIA investigation.
Marta and Aaron escape together, and Aaron grills Marta on the location of the blue and green pills. From here we know that Marta only does the lab analysis and decides on the dosage, without access to the pills. She also does not know of Aaron's real name as each agent is referred to only by numbers, even though he has been going to the same lab facility for 4 years, with 13 visits in total. He finds out that all agents don't need any green pills anymore since their body has the permanent resistance already starting from 8 months back, when a live virus was injected into their bodies. Marta wants to leave, but Aaron tells her that the govt. is shutting down the program and made his colleague kill all the scientists and that she will soon be killed too if she tries to go to the media or police. So, Marta decides to help Aaron off the blue pill by injecting a live virus so that he doesn't need the blue pills at all. For this, they need to go to Manila, Philippines, where the live virus cultures are.
Marta and Aaron spend the night in a motel, where Aaron makes Marta's fake passport and identity, as Jane Monroe.
Back at Marta's home, the CIA is having a hard time putting the pieces together as the house is badly burnt and they need time to identify the burn victims. However, they found out that Marta escaped but have no idea how or who is helping her.
The next day, Marta and Aaron go separate ways in the airport towards the same flight, with Aaron giving Marta instructions on what to do, and where to go. They safely board the plane, and reach Manila without anyone detecting them. During the flight, Aaron creates a fake ID card for himself as the company employee, Dr. Karl. When they reach the lab's factory compound, nobody was informed of their visit. Luckily Marta recognizes the security guard, Joseph, and Aaron manages to convince the guards such that they are given access into the lab. While Marta is injecting Aaron with the live cultures, we see scenes of Eric and his team figuring out that Aaron has been involved in helping Marta.
They instruct the factory to be shut down, and locked down. At the same time, guards have been sent to confront Aaron. He easily subdues them and realizes that their cover is blown.
They escape by creating chaos in the factory, and running out of the factory among other hundreds of factory employees.
At this time, Eric activates another assassin stationed in Bangkok, two hours away from Manila, which is part of a new program where the assassin has a very high physical capability, without Treadstone's inconsistency and Outcome's emotional feelings. The program was started by Eric, without CIA officials' approval. They have no other options, and have to use the assassin.
In Manila, the virus is taking effect, and Aaron is too sick to walk, so they have to spend the night in a rented room in the middle of the housing area near the factory. Before passing out, Aaron asks Marta to take his money and passports, and escape, rather than risking her life staying with him, but she refuses. At night, he has nightmares from the time when he was recruited to join Outcome. At that time, he was badly injured while surviving an attack during a military mission in Iraq.
The next morning, Aaron wakes up, feeling much better than the night before. He is relieved to have survived the night and not needing the pills anymore. He hangs his metal container on the mirror side. Marta is away buying medicine to help him recuperate when she realizes that the place is surrounded by police and local army teams. She alerts Aaron by screaming from the streets, causing the police to chase her down the alleys. With Marta's warning, Aaron escapes through the roof, and he tries to track Marta down to save her from the local police.
At this time, the assassin from Bangkok arrives on scene and starts chasing after Aaron, along with the police. After a rooftop chase scene, Aaron manages to shake all the police, and regroup with Marta. Shortly after, he realizes that the assassin is trying to kill both of them. Aaron steals a police motorcycle, and there is a long chase scene, along with the assassin in the police car. They try to escape in the middle of a horrible Manila traffic jam. After a while, they escape from the police and manage to shoot the assassin in the back, but Aaron got shot in the shoulder, as a result. He starts to get weaker and needs to escape, but the assassin gets back up and starts chasing them again.
During the high speed pursuit, in the middle of a deserted parking structure, Marta tries to fight back and manages to kick the assassin from the bike, killing him. They fall from the bike as a result, and they ask for help from local man who happens to be there with his son.
The CIA headquarters sees the room where Aaron and Marta spent the night, and see that Aaron wrote 'No More' on the mirror, implying that he doesn't want to be involved in the program, and he doesn't depend on the CIA to provide the pills anymore.
The last scene shows Aaron as a passenger on the local man's boat in the middle of East Asian water. Aaron is studying maps, with Marta at his side.
At the same time, we see that the CIA is trying to cover up Treadstone after Jason's exposé, and is suing Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) as the scapegoat.
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Minister pays tribute to initiative and hard work of Carrigadrohid Castle group
MINISTER for the Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, SíleDeValera, paid tribute to the initiative and hard-work of a group ofCarrigadrohid ...
The Ministerwas speaking on Thursday at the launch of the archaeological/architecturalreport on Carrigadrohid Castle which took place at Bealick Mill in Macroom.
The Minister said she was delighted to have been invited to officiallylaunch the report which outlines in considerable detail the history ofCarrigadrohid Castle, its present condition and the measures required tosafeguard the structure. She paid tribute to the Carrigadrohid CastleProject Committee which was formed on May 13, 1998, when a group of concernedlocal people met at Canovee Hall to discuss the condition of the castle.
``I think great credit is due to the Carrigadrohid Castle Project Committeeunder the chairmanship of Peter Scanlan, for their initiative incommissioning this survey with a view to preserving this castle for futuregenerations,'' Minister de Valera said.
Committee members included Paddy Ring, Ted Dunne, Paul Power, MichaelMurphy, R Browne, Con Dunne, Mary Harrington and Peter Scanlan. All membersshowed considerable determination to preserve the castle which encompassesmuch of the history and heritage of the area and now just over two yearssince that meeting, stage one of a plan to do that has been completed.
On March 21 this year, an architect, an engineer and an archaeologist beganthe survey of the castle. The following extract from page 14 of the reporthighlights the serious condition of the castle: ``Of much moresignificance on a daily basis is the loss of fabric from the walls. This notonly presents a serious safety issue from stone falls, but also reminds usthat, although these walls are massive, their continuous erosion willeventually leave us with nothing but a pile of stones.''
The report also states that ``in some instances stones have cracked butthis appears to have occurred where under significant shear loads as aresult of more structural movement. The significant erosion is hence to themortar which, once absent, leaves the stones unbedded. There are a number ofmechanisms for this erosion . . . All of the mechanisms for erosion to thewalls can be halted or significantly retarded . . . ''
In her speech, Minister de Valera said: ``The local community clearly has agreat pride in their heritage, and this is something I am anxious to fosterthroughout the country. In these times of great technological advances andhectic lifestyles, I believe that it is increasingly important that we asindividuals take the time out to reflect on our history and acknowledge itsimportance and relevance today.''
She went on to say: ``I have always said that the state heritage sectordoes not have, nor cannot expect to have all of the wisdom and expertise. Imust look to other sectors such as voluntary groups up and down the countrywho do so much to engender an appreciation and awareness of heritage.''
The survey is particularly valuable to the Carrigadrohid locals as itoutlines the methods which will prevent the castle's complete erosion. TheMinister referred to the report as a `splendid production, containing manyfine photographs and illustrations, and succinct, carefully consideredrecommendations.'. She also paid credit to Messrs. Howley HarringtonArchitects, who carried out the survey in association with Lisa Edden,Structural Engineer and Eamonn Cotter, Archaeologist.
The Minister also referred to the area of funding for the futurerestoration project. ``Thanks to the magnificent fund-raising efforts of theproject committee and the invaluable contribution from the East Cork LeaderCo-Operative, the potential difficulty of raising money to carry out thesurvey was overcome. I am sure that Leader Co-Operative will consider thatit has been money well spent,'' she said.
``I hope that I can give more tangible support to the concept of localownership of the heritage in the National Heritage Plan which I intend topublish later this year,'' said the Minister.
Carrigadrohid Castle is situated on a rock out-crop in the River Lee,approximately five miles east of the town of Macroom. The castle is a towerhouse, a type of castle built extensively throughout Ireland in the MiddleAges, from the 15th to the 16th century.


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Subject: Re: [PEART] Joseph A. PEART b. 2 Apr 1858 in IL (s/o Jacob)
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Hello to all in the Peart-Magby family. Based upon the postings of others contributing to this thread, the information of Jacob Peart's christening of 16 Feb 1823 in the village of Allenheads to the parents of John Peart and Elizabeth Watson, probably will link to our Pearts in Lanehead (Upper Weardale Valley). As we are finding out, various members of the Peart clan explored and mined various areas of the valley during the 1700's and 1800's (at least as far back as we can tell from family - church records). Allenheads is only a few miles north of Lanehead with an established road/trail (up and over the Heathery Cleugh).
The WATSON surname figured promimently during the 1700's from what I have been reading, including the Wesleyan religious movement that probably lead to the Primitive Methodist focus in the upper Weardale Valley. So I am quite certain that the Pearts from Lanehead have various family ties to the Peart of Allenheads. I have checked our family records, primarily the family charts established by Doris Walton from her published book of "Peart, A History of the Family of Joseph Peart", donated by Doris Haradon Walton, Stillwater, OK, Rush, Weardale, Durham Co., England, 1989 (about 200 pages). Unfortunately, Doris died about a year ago (in her 80's) before we (the family of Pearts) had a chance to get in touch with her. We found her work during the summer of 2005 in the Coal City Library (Grundy County, Illinois about 45 miles southwest of Chicago). After checking the charts, I did not see any John Peart m. Elizabeth Watson, although we do have John Peart [chr 1783 Cowsill - !
d 29 Feb 1856, Burtreeford] m 2 July 1803 to Sarah Watson. (Page 33). According to Doris's charts Sarah Watson [b 15 Sept 1782- d 3 Dec 1853 @ 71 yrs] was the daughter of Joshua Watson (chr 21 Apr 1743) and Mary ? [Watson?]. What's interesting is that this couple did name their youngest daughter (of 10 children) as Elizabeth (chr 23 Feb 1826).
John Peart (1783-1856) was the son of John Peart of Loning and Mary Gibson (don't have any dates) and Isabella Peart. Isabella chr 7 April 1764- d 79 yrs 30 May 1842 was the dau of Joseph Peart 1731-1791 and Sarah CAIN 1736- 1794, dau of John Cain m. 24 August 1732 to Isabel Emerson. Our Peart line came Joseph's son, Cuthbert Peart 1766-1834 who lived & died in Lanehead, raising a large family (and married twice).
There are many Pearts of record in this upper Weardale Valley. A good start is the Durham Co. records on-line that link to the various parish records available. Another excellent source is the Weardale Museum--a small family run effort. They have been working on a computerized tree and may be of help.
Our Pearts immigrated to the US in 1853. Some of the children migrated from Zanesville, Ohio to ag-coal lands of Grundy and Will County, south of Chicago. Why they moved there (?), my guess was word of mouth of coal resources. So far we have not linked any of the Pearts one can find in the Pennsylvannia area, but there were a number of Pearts and Waltons that went to Canada around Montreal area and then some moved to the US (Webster Co., Iowa--Higbee area). During the late 1800's some of our Pearts stayed in the Zanesville area, some stayed in the Grundy and Will County area, some went to Iowa, and my family migrated to Moody County, South Dakota (about 40 miles north of Sioux Falls--becoming farmers).
So yes, I am very interested in linking up with the Village of Allenheads Peart clan. You can get in touch with me at . I have also posted on Genforum. Also check the Peart family tree information prepared by S. Foster (Doris Walton's family tree material was converted into a family treemaker format, with some corrections, thanks to some recommendations from the Weardale Museum). Note: the US Census records also showed a number of Pearts in LaSalle County, just northwest of Grundy County. So far, we have not been able to link to them. If anyone is real computer savy, it would really be neat to establish a Peart website. The next question about Pearts is where did they come from? One cousin thinks they came from France. I think before Henry the 8th (mid 1500's), the Peart clan may have been aligned with Scottish Catholics. However, when the catholics were basically assumed by the church of England in the 1500's in Durham county, I think they !
sort of kept to themselves in the dales above the city and eeked out a living of squatting on the king's land (near his hunting grounds) and mining lead with consent of the local bishop. The survey of 1799 under King George III identified the allotments of a number of Pearts in Lanhead
(see: "Plan of Burtree Moor and Pudding Thorn Moor, in the Park and Forest of Weardale, and County of Durham, as the same were divided and alloted, in pursuance of an Act of Parliment, passed in the 39th Year of his Majesty, King George III, 1799, John Hall, Surveyor--Page 168-169 of Doris Walton's book, 1989)
Then came the Weselyan movement and then Primitive Methodism (which became the apparent religion of choice for many in Upper Weardale Valley). I don't know how much this religion got to the Allenheads. One of the Peart families was a leader in such a congregation in Shawnee, Perry County, Ohio (just south of Zanesville) during the 1880's.
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Galaxy PGC0661467, also known as The One Right In The Middle Of The Other Ones, is a distant galaxy in the constellation Fornax, I think. An apparently small galaxy, it is potentially home to many varieties of flora, fauna and fungi. However, since I accidentally clicked off of its position on the chart, and can't find the damn thing again, we may never know for sure. Why the hell do I have to be so damn clumsy? I'm always doing shit like clicking the wrong buttons, bumping into things, knocking shit over. I'm fucking sick of this! Anywho, PGC0661467 lies in a cluster of many other galaxies, some larger, some smaller, some closer, some even inside others.
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I'm sure it was catalogued by one of those automated sky-sweeper telescopes in an observatory deep in the remote mountains. Then a computer probably assigned it some arbitrary number like PGC0661467 or something. Or maybe 42. Now wouldn't that be something? Figures I'd fucking click off the chart. I'll always kick myself for that.
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The dimensions of PGC0661467 are 0.4/ 0.2'. It has a blue magnitude of 17.08 and a surface brightness of magnitude 13.99. Its radial velocity is 37444.
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Thevenin Equivalent Circuits - Why Are They Used?
What Does A TEC Explain?
What Is A TEC?
Finding A TEC
You are at: Elements - Sources - Thevinin EquivalentsWhat Is A Norton Equivalent Circuit?The Maximum Power TheoremProblems
Whenever you need to predict how something is going to behave you don't need to analyze things down to the lowest possible level. For example, when current flows in a resistor, you don't need to know what happens to every atom in the resistor. That ability to describe what happens to a large number of atoms in the resistor by using a macromodel for the resistor is convenient. Electrical engineers often think at different levels of complexity.
What do you want to know about Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits.
When you want to use different components you often need to use macromodels of the components you use. You do that because you don't always need to have totally detailed knowledge of what goes on inside the component.
Equivalent Circuits - or TECs - are macromodels that are used to
model electrical sources. Those sources are as diverse as batteries, stereo
amplifiers and microwave transmitters. In this lesson we will develop TEC
models of sources and learn how to use them in larger circuits.
What Phenomena Does A TEC Explain?
A Thevenin Equivalent Circuit is used to explain some of the things that happen when you use sources. One good example is what happens if you start a car with your headlights on. If you have ever done that you probably noticed that the lights of the car dim when you start the car with them on.
Obviously, something happens that causes the voltage across the headlights to change. The battery is not an ideal voltage source since that dimming occurs whenever the starter motor draws a lot of current from the battery. If the battery were an ideal source, the voltage would never change and the headlights would never dim. In this lesson, we will examine Thevenin Equivalent Circuit - TEC - models for nonideal sources. Those models can be used to predict the sort of voltage decrease that the battery exhibits under heavy load current.
Does a TEC explain this phenomenon? Actually, nothing can explain this phenomenon because it doesn't exist. It violates the laws of physics - i.e. light travels in a straight line. However, although the light beam doesn't droop, the voltage of a nonideal source, like a battery, often droops when current is drawn - the car lights don't droop! They just get dimmer!
The Thevenin Equivalent Circuit is an electrical model composed of two components shown below.
Another important feature of the TEC is that is can explain a drooping terminal voltage. That's inherent in the electrical model itself.
We can write equations that describe the behavior of the TEC when it interacts with other components. First, let us define some variables. If we have a load attached to the terminals some load current will flow. We'll define a load current and a terminal voltage for the TEC as shown below.
Now, write the equation for the circuit. Notice that there will be a voltage across the internal resistance if load current flows.
Using the expression for the terminal voltage, we can get the plot of terminal voltage against load current.
The first interesting property is that the source, Vo, is the voltage that is measured when no load is attached. That's called the open circuit voltage. If you just attach a voltmeter to the output terminals - and didn't attach anything else, the voltmeter woud read the value of Vo.
Another interesting property is that the there is a definite limit to how much current this source can supply to a load. If we short the terminals - something you can do in your mind, but not often in practice - the current that will flow is given by:
Short circuit current = Vo/Ro= Io.
Notice the interesting relationship between open circuit votlage, Vo,
internal resistance, Ro,
and the short circuit current, Io.
It looks like Ohm's Law but it really isn't! It doesn't relate current
through a resistor to voltage across a resistor.
Problems & Questions
source has an open circuit voltage of 24 volts and an internal resistance
of 600 W.
Determine the voltage at the terminals of this source when a 1200 W
load resistor is attached to the source.
Q1 If you attach a resistor to a source with a TEC, will the voltage drop below the open-circuit voltage or can it rise above the open-circuit voltage?
A source has a terminal voltage of 10 v when 20 A is drawn from the source.
The open circuit voltage is 12 v. What is the internal resistance
of the source?
The TEC is a useful way of reducing complexity. If you have a complex circuit interacting with other circuits you don't want to look at all of the details of what is taking place inside the complex circuit - at least you don't often want that.
To illustrate some of the power of the TEC we'll get the TEC for a voltage divider.
The voltage divider isn't a very complex circuit, but it is more complex than the TEC. It can be represented with a TEC, and wherever you find a voltage divider you can replace it with the equivalent TEC. We need to establish values and/or formulas for two items in the voltage divider. Basically, we need two of the following:
Next, focus on theShort Circuit Current. Short circuit current, Io is the current that would flow if the output of the circuit is short circuited. We can imagine shorting the Voltage Divider and shorting the TEC. Wires that short them are shown below and the short circuit current, Isc, is indicated.
For the TEC you should be able to see quickly that the short circuit current is just
Vo / Ro . For the voltage divider it's not any more difficult. There the short circuit current is just Vs / Rb. We can use both of these observations to compute the internal resistance of the voltage divider TEC.
Calculate the Short Circuit Current.
Io = Vo / Ro
Io = Vs / Rb
Combining we have
Continuing, we find:
Ro= Vo / (Vs / Rb ) = [ Vs ( Ra/( Rb + Ra))] / (Vs / Rb )
= RaRb /( Rb + Ra)
So, we have the internal resistance, and it looks like the parallel formula. (But it really isn't!)
At this point you can compute both the open circuit voltge and the internal
resistance for the voltage divider, so you have a TEC for the voltage divider.
You can use that TEC any place you find the voltage divider. It doesn't
matter where you find the voltage divider, you can replace it with its
TEC, just like you can replace two parallel resistors by their parallel
P3 A thirty (30) volt source experiences a .5 volt drop when a load drawing 0.9 amperes is attached to the source. Determine the Thevenin equivalent model of the source.
First determine the open circuit voltage, Vo, in this TEC representation.
P4 Next,
determine the internal resistance, Ro, in the TEC representation.
P5 A source has a Thevenin equivalent circuit with:
Q2 You have a battery with an open-circuit voltage of 12.6 volts, and an internal resistance of .05 W. Is there a .05 W resistor inside the battery?
P6 When 200 amperes is drawn from Bob White's car battery (when he uses the starter), the headlights dim and the voltage across the battery drops from 12 volts to 10 volts. Determine the Thevenin equivalent model of Bob's battery.
First determine the open circuit voltage, Vo, in this TEC representation.
P7 Next, determine the internal resistance, Ro, in the TEC representation.
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In electrical engineering there is a recurring duality. Voltage and current are duals, and where we find one variable appearing in an expression or a theorem, we usually find the other appearing in a dual expression or theorem. The dual of the Thevenin equivalent model is the Norton equivalent model, a sample of which is given in the figure below.
The relation between terminal voltage and load current for this circuit is interesting because it is indistinguishable from that of the Thevenin Circuit, and the two are electrically equivalent. Write KirchHoff's Current Law for the Norton circuit with a load attached. The result is:
Vterminal/Ro + Iload = Io
So, we find:
If we identify RoIo with the Vo that appears in the Thevenin model, this is, as claimed, equivalent to the Thevenin model.
Note the following relations between the Thevenin and Norton equivalents.
P8 A thirty (30) volt source experiences a .5 volt drop when a load drawing 0.9 amperes is attached to the source. Determine the Thevenin equivalent model of the source.
First determine the short circuit voltage, Io, in this NEC representation.
P9 Next,
determine the internal resistance, Ro, in the NEC representation.
Whenever we have a source of electrical energy we might pose the question of what circumstances produce maximum load power.
Consider a load connected to a source, and consider that the source is well represented by a Thevenin equivalent model. Then the situation is the one shown in the figure below.
The question we want to answer is:
The maximum power for positive load resistance occurs when:
When the load resistance is equal to the internal resistance of the source, the load voltage is exactly half of the open circuit voltage, so the maximum power delivered to the load is:
Pmax = (Vo )2/(4Ro)
Whenever a load resistance is equal to the internal resistance of a source, the two (source and resistance) are said to be matched.
Above we have derived the maximum power theorem as it is usually presented. However, it gives the impression that maximum power is delivered only when a resistive load equal to the internal impedance is attached. That is not the case!
The load power is given by:
Pload = VloadIload = (Vo - IloadRo)Iload.
Now, differentiate with respect to Iload.
dPload/Iload = Vo - 2IloadRo.
Now solve for the load current that maximizes load power, and we get:
Iload = Vo/2Ro
That's half the short circuit current, and if you put that value back into the equation for terminal voltage, the terminal voltage at max power is half of the open circuit voltage.
To give another perspective, consider that the power to the load - VloadIload- can be thought of as the area of a rectangle at a point on the load curve for the source. At any point on the plot of terminal voltage against load current, the product of the terminal voltage and the load current is the power delivered. That's also the area of a rectangle with a height equal to the terminal voltage and a width equal to the load current. Thus, we can look at the rectangle under the load curve for a series of points and the point with the rectangle with the largest area is the point which delivers the most power to the load.
To try to determine the maximum power that can be extracted from this solar cell is more difficult than when the load curve is a straight line. However, some of the ideas we have used so far may also be used here. For example, the power supplied by this source may still be viewed as the area of a rectangle at a point on the curve. You can check that below.
Here's the solar cell load curve again. Here you can click to see three different operatin point, and you can determine which operating point provides the most load power. Remember, the power supplied will be the product of load voltage and load current, so it is the area under the rectangle that shows. Click each button to see a point on the load line and a rectangle whose area is the power supplied when the solar cell at that point.
Here are a few points to note
A DC source has an open circuit voltage of 9.6 volts and an internal resistance of 8.0 ohms.
P10 What
resistance will dissipate maximum power when attached to the source?
P11 How much power will be dissipated for the resistance that dissipates maximum power?
Your grade is:
What load resistance dissipates maximum power?
Your grade is:
What is the load voltage and load power for the load resistance found above?
One common circuit is a voltage divider. Here is a voltage divider.
Consider the voltage divider circuit shown below. We have considered this circuit earlier in this lesson. Now that we know about TECs, we can see that there is a TEC inside this voltage divider. Click the button below to outline that TEC.
Now, any time we have a Thevenin equivalent circuit we can replace it with a Norton equivalent. That's what we will do below. Recall:
Now, if your expert genes are still working you will recognize a combination
in the Norton circuit.
Q4 Do you see two resistors in series or in parallel?
Now, the two resistors, Raand Rb, are in parallel, and they can be combined to give the circuit below.
Notice the equivalent circuit has the following properties.
In this voltage divider,
P15 Next,
determine the internal resistance, Ro, in the TEC representation.
If you can't calculate the TEC, there is always the possibility of measuring the TEC. To measure the TEC you can often measure the open circuit voltage pretty easily. Measuring the internal resistance is a different problem. To do that you almost certainly have to attach a load to the source to cause the terminal voltage to drop. That might be a problem with a source like the plug on the wall, for example. You might not want to draw enough current from the wall plug to drop the voltage enought to measure the difference. Spots in the wiring inside the wall could get hot - possibly enough to start a fire.
What If You Need To Know About Things Inside The Source?
Sometimes you need to know about variables inside a source. For example, in the voltage divider, you might want to know how much power is consumed in the resistors in the voltage divider. You can't tell anything about that from the TEC. You have to go back to the actual circuit in that case.
The TEC can't do everything. What it does is enable you to use a
simple model to predict how a real source - no matter how complex - interacts
with the rest of the world. But it doesn't tell you about what goes
on inside the source itself!


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Perfect weather favoured the 14th New Zealand Antique and Classic Boat Show at Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park at the weekend, with over 130 boats on the lake.
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That being said, it's not really fair to say that the FO has not tried to address the O-line. As much as the line play is critical to success, every front office in professional sports believes you sign your skill players. And you get them first. Most believe that you develop your "grunts" and try to hang on to the good ones. No, the Ravens front office has not spent quarterback money on a guard or center that their own contending teams even let go. But they did try to sign one of the best right tackles in the league in 2001 and got burned badly when he was injured and out for the season.
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As to FA lineman, the young ones are almost always overpaid and the old ones are well... old. Had for a bargain but their productivity is limited.
Maybe our FO has done a poor job of evaluating OL talent but I don't think it's fair to say that they have done nothing to try to improve the line. The choices are rather stark and simple. Rolle or a top FA guard? Mason or a 2nd string center that couldn't beat out Mike Flynn? Bentley/Hutchinson or McNair?


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Lots of bad news about Teflon lately. By 2015, DuPont and a handful of other companies will eliminate a harmful chemical in Teflon called PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), which has recently been classified as a likely carcinogen by the EPA. No one will straight up admit Teflon is the next asbestos. But does it really matter? Hot pans kill birds.
Why restaurants never used Teflon anyway
- Restaurants cook on high. To a restaurant cook, stoves have only two settings: off and high. And Teflon burns too easily on high.
- It's easy to scratch, so forget about using metal tongs, spatulas, whisks, or spoons with your pan anymore. What a great way to get people buying more cheap plastic tongs, spatulas, whisks, and spoons, right?
- Teflon doesn't sear food well. A restaurant kitchen must deliver beautiful food, of course, and a boiled-loking bit of chicken leg, cooked in a Teflon pan, just doesn't look very exciting.
- It isn't even non-stick! Teflon is forgiving, but you can still dork up an omelet six ways from Sunday in a Teflon pan. So what is the point?
Certainly there are restaurants that use Teflon pans, but they typically use it for a handful of specific purposes like crepes.
Your options now
- Old school cast iron pans are fantastic and cheap: $15-25 for a nice heavy skillet that fries food beautifully. But cast iron takes some care and takes an ice age to warm up. You have to season them if you don't want you food to stick. More on this later.
- There's also enameled cast iron. This is more expensive than cast iron, but it doesn't need any seasoning. I consider it somewhere in between cast iron and stainless steel: it warms up slow and holds heat forever, just as well as a heavy cast iron pan, but its surface is smooth like stainless steel. You don't have to buy an expensive Le Creuset or Staub pot; there is a German brand whose name escapes me, and they sell the same thing without the 66% marketing surcharge (but that's why the brand name escapes me…).
- But how about stainless steel? Stainless steel is a great cooking surface but a bad heat conductor, so any stainless steel pan worth its salt will have an aluminum or copper core to help distribute heat nicely. These pans are much more expensive than cast iron, but they require zero maintenance and, when used properly, they're effectively non-stick.
- Lets not forget the carbon-steel wok. Great for a stir-fry. And they are cheap: about $20. You have to season them, but it's easier than seasoning cast iron: just heat some canola oil on high and coat the inside of the pan with it for a couple minutes, until it starts to smoke. Turn if off. Clean your wok as you would a cast iron skillet (see below).
Tips for non-stickiness
OK, so you have your stainless steel or cast iron pan. The goal now is to prevent things from sticking in the first place. Here's what you need to know:
- Temperature is key. Most people do not heat their pans enough before they start to cook. When you add food to a hot pan, it will sear and release some water. That water vapor is the non-stick magic, as it will keep the food floating atop the oil. But if your pan is too cold, searing won't happen, water won't be relased, and the food will fuse to the pan. Oops. As a general rule, you need to preheat your pan in proportion to the amount that your food will cool it. If you're going to fry up four pork chops that you just took out of the fridge, your oil should almost be smoking. But if you're just frying a bit of garlic, you're better off at a lower temp—garlic bits will burn easily.
- Do not crowd the pan. Your goal is to sear. If you put 10 chicken legs into a 12 inch skillet—no matter how much you've preheated it—they will not sear. When in doubt, sear in batches.
- Take the chill off of your ingredients before cooking. Food cools the pan dramatically when you add it. You'll want to minimize the temperature differential. So get your eggs out of the fridge 10 minutes before you heat the pan, and just let them hang out on the counter. This may sound silly but I promise it makes a difference.
- Use oil. You need some, but you really don't need much. The more oil you add, though, the hotter and faster you can cook things without sticking.
Eggs fried fast and hot: Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high until tiny wisps of smoke start to rise from the pan, which happens about 30 seconds after the oil starts to shimmer. Add your eggs and spoon the oil over the top of them as they cook. They'll be ready in no time. And they'll be beautifully crispy around the edge and slightly brown on the bottom. Remove with a slotted spatula. No sticky!
- Patience. When searing meat or fish over high heat, you might notice that it sticks to the pan right away. Leave it alone, and do not be afraid. It will unstick! It just has to brown first. A hunk of salmon will come unstuck after about 2 minutes of searing over high heat, and it will be perfectly brown. Take the leap of faith and discover that this really works, or you'll lose the crispy goodness and have a tough cleaning job ahead of you.
At this moment you might be thinking, "This is really annoying. Too many rules." But if you lose the Teflon, you'll see that these techniques really become second nature.
Oops, my food stuck. Now what?
You don't have to soak the pan forever in the sink. Just put a little water in it and heat it to a simmer on the stove. Whatever was stuck to the pan will come away in short order. For anything that isn't seasoned, you can use a cleaner like Bon Ami to quickly remove a really tough fond.
Cast iron pan care
Stainless steel pans are so easy to take care of, but cast iron requires a bit more work.
- Keep it seasoned. A seasoned cast iron pan has a tiny bit of oil fused to the pan, which makes for an exceptially good non-stick surface and prevents rust. Most cast iron pans are already seasoned when you purchase them. But if you start to see rust forming, you need to reseason your pan. Seasoning a pan is easy, and it's been covered many times elsewhere.
- Barely wash it. Pour some salt in the pan and rub it around with a paper towel. Rinse. Done. It's ok if a bit of your oil from cooking remains in the pan for the next use.
- But if you have to wash it… Don't use a lot of soap, and don't let it soak. Use a tough sponge to remove the stuck bits. Dry it thoroughly, because if it gets rusty you will have to reseason it.
- The irreplaceable cast-iron skillet is a great resource from a major cast-iron enthusiast.
- Tell Wal-Mart: no nonstick chemicals in food packaging
- DuPont covered up decades of internal PFOA studies


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While the Palestine Liberation Organization reportedly decided to postpone the visit here of an envoy to discuss ramifications of the Hebron crisis, American officials continued working this week to ensure that the Middle East peace process would not be sidetracked.
The administration has been in touch with Israeli, Palestinian, Arab American, and Jewish American leaders since the massacre Friday of Palestinian worshippers by a Jewish settler.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, testifying on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, said that based on conversations with Middle Eastern officials, he was optimistic that the now-suspended peace talks would resume soon.
The secretary was referring both to the Israeli-Palestinian talks, and to related negotiations between Israel and Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Following news of the massacre, President Clinton invited the Israelis and Palestinians to Washington to resume their talks on implementing their declaration of principles.
The Israelis have accepted, while the Palestinians are debating under what conditions they would come here.
The Palestinian envoy, now scheduled to arrive here by the end of this week, will reportedly carry with him PLO demands for resumption of the talks. These will include an end to the expansion of Jewish settlements and the disarming of Jewish settlers in the territories.
Christopher, appearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that he had spoken to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat earlier Tuesday.
"He said we need a little time, there will be some delay, but there was no indication that he would not live up to the commitment that he gave me last Friday, that if the United States would take an active role and move the negotiations here, that they would not lapse," Christopher said.
Christopher voiced confidence in both Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat.
"Prime Minister Rabin is a magnificent leader of Israel in very difficult times," Christopher said.
Of Arafat, the secretary said that although the PLO leader has opponents, "he is the indispensable figure. He is a political leader but he is also the flag and the Star Spangled Banner all wrapped into one person."
Christopher said that the Israelis and Palestinians had resolved about 95 percent of the issues involved in their negotiations.
"The last 5 percent sometimes is the hardest 5 percent, and I think perhaps if they return here, the United States will do what we have not done in the past, and that is be actively involved with the parties to try to see if they cannot resolve these last issues," Christopher said.
Testifying Tuesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the new assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, Robert Pelletreau, also discussed the peace process.
"The Palestinians themselves are looking forward to resuming the negotiations, but they also tell us that they are under great pressure from Palestinians, particularly in the territories, to have a greater assurance that they will be protected, and this will create an atmosphere under which they can come back to the negotiating table," Pelletreau said.
Pelletreau said the U.S. government had "noted positively the steps which the Israeli Cabinet has announced" to deal with the situation.
These include the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the Hebron attack and new restrictions on some extremists among the settlers.
He added that he was not sure if anyone knew whether those steps would be enough to coax the Palestinians back. "That will depend in part on the rapidity and the effectiveness of the Israeli implementation of these measures. The implementation must be seen as more than tokenism," Pelletreau said.
Pelletreau said that the Israelis had initially detained five settlers, and that he had heard from Arab sources that number was "quite insufficient."
He said that he thought the Israeli policy was "a rolling decision" and that the Israelis had said "that detentions and disarmaments would be considered on an individual basis. And obviously that takes some investigation and some identification of dangerous elements to be put into effect."
In response to a question from committee chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), Pelletreau said the United States did not favor putting international monitors into the West Bank and Gaza at this point.
"We would look toward the question of international monitors being addressed in Israeli-Palestinian discussions and then we could address it as members of the international community," Pelletreau said.
Pelletreau said he believed the Israelis would be willing to discuss the issue of an international presence once the talks resumed, but would not be willing to discuss it as a step toward resuming the talks.
The assistant secretary also said that the key issue of Israeli settlements – a question at the heart of the current crisis – is "deferred by agreement in the declaration of principles."
But he added that the parties are already addressing questions relating to settlements even at this point in the talks.
Overall, though, he said that settlements "remain to be addressed in their final form as part of final-status negotiations."
Underscoring the administration's desire for a resumption of peace talks was Vice President Al Gore, who spoke Tuesday via "live interactive videoconference" to the Israel Forum, an international conference focusing on the peace process and related economic opportunities.
"Only through prompt agreement and rapid implementation will the hope of peaceful reconciliation be kept alive," Gore said.
Rabin also participated in the videoconference.


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Schenectady, N. Y. (Oct. 15)
Make a habit of glancing through the classified advertising columns. They may have a surprise in store for you.
The nineteenth annual convention of the New York State Federation of Y. M. H. As., Y. W. H. As. and Jewish Community Centers closed here last night after a week-end of deliberations on "New Trends in Physical and Health Education," and "Factors and Forces That Contribute Toward a United American Israel," held at the local center with a banquet at which Judge Irving Lehman of the Court of Appeals of New York State, national president of the Jewish Welfare Board, was the guest speaker.
Arthur D. Mann of Schenectady, president of the State Federation, presided. Among the speakers who took part in discussions included Shepherd Z. Baum of Albany, Rabbi Julian L. Greifer of Binghamton, Rabbi Joshua S. Kohn of Utica, George M. Hyman of Syracuse, Rabbi Myron W. Jacobs of Gloversville and Dr. Philip R. Goldstein, field secretary of the New York State Federation for Jewish Welfare Board.
The physical directors of their respective communities were Sam Phillips of Rochester, Al Solomon of Albany, Max Schneider of Syracuse, Henry H. Unterfort of Glovesville, Emil Cohen of Buffalo, Joseph Levine of Binghamton and Reuben Friedman of Troy.
Make a habit of glancing through the classified advertising columns. They may have a surprise in store for you.


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Justin Blackmon suspended for 4 games
Jaguars receiver Justin Blackmon's up and down rookie season in Jacksonville ended on a positive note with a strong statistical finish. His second season is starting off a huge down note.
The NFL announced Tuesday that Blackmon has been suspended without pay for the team's first four games of the 2013 regular season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse. Blackmon will be eligible to return to the Jaguars' active roster on Monday, September 30 following the team's September 29 game against the Indianapolis Colts.
The news is a significant blow to a moribund Jaguars offense that is trying to find new life under coach Gus Bradley. Without Blackmon in the mix, the team's top receivers are Cecil Shorts, Mohammed Massaquoi, Jordan Shipley, and rookie Ace Sanders. Perhaps the team will use draft pick Denard Robinson at receiver as well. Quarterbacks Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne aren't exactly playing with a stacked deck.
For Blackmon, this is a terrible first impression with the new Jaguars regime, including GM David Caldwell. It's possible the suspension could also jeopardize some of the guarantees in his contract.It's unclear how Blackmon violated the policy, which remains confidential. It takes repeat offenses to incur a suspension.


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A playground can be the site of a first birthday party, a first transatlantic paper-airplane flight, and a first doctoral dissertation on the geothermal impact of teeter-totters. Make a scientific breakthrough while breathlessly jumping with this Groupon.
Choose from Three Options
$17 for five open-bounce sessions (up to a $35 value)
$20 for one all-day Create and Bounce camp, valid November 19–25 and December 21–January 6 (a $40 value)
$147 for a glow-in-the-dark party package for up to 15 (a $295 value), which includes:
- Glow-in-the-dark necklace for each kid
- Two two-liters of soda
- Invitations and paper plates
- Souvenir for guest of honor

Kids aged 5–11 explore their creativity in the Create and Bounce camp, which helps them burn off both physical and mental energy with an array of arts activities and hours of nonstop bouncing from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The party package treats birthday kids to a two-hour soiree with up to nine friends who bounce amid cosmic glowing lights. A party host emcees the event, which also includes invitations, soda, paper plates, and a souvenir for the guest of honor. Open-bounce sessions allow kids to try the new Uphill Challenge, an enormous inflatable slide that youngsters race each other up to grab hard-to-reach colored tabs.

Inflated structures, slides, and games fill the climate-controlled environs of the numerous BounceU locations that speckle the nation. At each site, staff members closely monitor all activities as little ones traverse obstacle courses or pull on oversized inflatable boxing gloves. The crew also invites parents to join in on the fun, letting them bounce alongside their kids or make sweeping edicts from atop a bouncy-castle throne.
In addition to open sessions, the indoor-play haven sets the stage for Create and Bounce, which lets kids bounce and paint the day away so their parents can do grown-up things, such as eat marshmallows with a knife and fork.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignant neoplasm worldwide. Although conclusive evidence is still lacking, epidemiologic studies suggest that long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has chemopreventive properties against CRC. Similarly, regular consumption of mesalazine, a drug structurally related to NSAIDs, seems to reduce the risk of CRC in patients with ulcerative colitis. These observations are supported by a large body of experimental data showing the ability of such drugs to inhibit multiple pathways that sustain colon carcinogenesis. This review summarizes the current information on the molecular mechanisms by which NSAIDs and mesalazine could interfere with CRC cell growth and survival.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common forms of malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world [
In this article, we review the recent data on the molecular mechanisms underlying the protective effect of some commonly used NSAIDs and mesalazine in CRC.
Aspirin and NSAIDs have regulatory effects on the gene transcription and protein synthesis of multiple molecules involved in several inflammatory and neoplastic pathways [
COX enzymes (
There is no doubt that the NSAID-mediated antitumor effects are not entirely dependent on COX inhibition. Indeed, not all COX-inhibiting NSAIDs possess anticancer properties, and restoring COX activity does not rescue CRC cells from NSAID-induced cell growth arrest. Moreover, NSAIDs can inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis of COX-deficient CRC cells [
NSAIDs can target the wingless and integration site growth factor (Wnt)/β-catenin pathway, which is constitutively activated in the majority of CRC cells. Wnt binds to the transmembrane Frizzled receptor, leading to activation of the cytoplasmic disheveled (Dsh) protein. Dsh associates with the β-catenin destruction complex, which consists of axin, Apc, protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) and casein kinase 1α (CK1α). In the absence of Wnt signaling, the destruction complex phosphorylates cytoplasmic β-catenin, thereby promoting its ubiquitination and degradation [
Acetylation is a phenomenon that allows for the post-translational regulation of protein functions [
The DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system is a family of enzymes that recognizes and directly repairs nucleotide base mismatches, as well as other DNA damage-specific lesions, and the disturbed function of the DNA MMR system is associated with DNA microsatellite instability (MSI) [
Some of the major molecular pathways regulated by NSAIDs in CRC cells are summarized in
Like NSAIDs, mesalazine can interfere with CRC cell growth and survival through COX-dependent and COX-independent mechanisms. Some of the major molecular pathways regulated by mesalazine in CRC cells are depicted in
Mesalazine was initially shown to downregulate the COX-2/PGE2 axis in inflammatory cells that infiltrate the colonic mucosa of UC patients, which was assumed to be the basic mechanism by which the drug may prevent UC-associated CRC [
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is highly expressed by CRC cells, and its activation triggers mitogenic and pro-survival signals [
Mesalazine (50 mM) inhibits the TNF-α-stimulated degradation of IκBα and NF-κB activation in mouse colonic epithelial cells [
Like NSAIDs, mesalazine inhibits the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. In
The inhibitory effect of mesalazine on the Wnt/β-catenin pathway has been confirmed by
The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) is a transcription factor belonging to the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily. PPAR-γ is highly expressed in the colon and is known to regulate cellular proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis [
The inhibition of CRC cell growth by mesalazine is associated with the modulation of different replication checkpoints, thus resulting in the perturbation of cell cycle progression. In this context, we have shown that mesalazine (5–30 mM) causes a progressive accumulation of CRC cells in the S phase and decreases the percentage of cells in the G2/M and G0/G1 phases [
Sporadic and UC-related CRC are characterized by very similar frequencies of the two major types of genomic instability, namely, chromosomal instability (CIN) and MSI [
Over the last few decades, a considerable amount of evidence has been accumulated to indicate that aspirin and other commonly used NSAIDs are effective in preventing CRC. The anti-neoplastic properties of these drugs are linked to their ability to inhibit the COX enzymes, as well as to modulate COX-independent pathways. However, the anticancer effects of NSAIDs often require higher concentrations (in the micromolar range) than those needed to inhibit COX (in the nanomolar range). While supporting the importance of the COX-independent mechanisms underlying NSAID anticancer activity, this discrepancy actually represents a major issue for the use of NSAIDs in CRC chemopreventive programs. Indeed, the long-term use of these drugs is associated with a relatively high risk of gastrointestinal and other side effects resulting from COX inhibition. In this context, it is worth noting that recent studies demonstrate the possibility of uncoupling the COX-inhibitory and anticancer activities of NSAIDs, thus supporting the development of new NSAID derivatives that could more safely achieve higher concentrations
Unlike NSAIDs, mesalazine-based therapy does not seem to be associated with serious adverse effects. Collectively, the available data show that this drug can directly modulate the activity of CRC cells. These observations, together with the demonstration that sporadic and colitis-associated CRC share major intracellular pathways that sustain the neoplastic process, suggest that mesalazine-based chemopreventive programs can be useful, not only in patients with longstanding and extensive UC, but also in individuals at high risk of developing sporadic CRC. Before clinical use, however, further studies will be necessary to optimize the dosage/concentration, route and delivery systems of the drug, as well as the treatment duration.
This work received support from the "Fondazione Umberto di Mario ONLUS", Rome, AIRC (MFAG-12108 to CS and IG-13049 to GM), and Giuliani SpA, Milan, Italy.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Chemical structures of common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and mesalazine.
The figure illustrates some of the major molecular pathways regulated by NSAIDs and mesalazine in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Wnt, wingless and integration site growth factor; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; PG, prostaglandin; S1-P, sphingosine-1-phosphate.


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A Time to Kill
A would read the book first but the movie is just as good.
FROM THE MASTER OF SCARE STEPHEN KING COMES "IT"! IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN AFRAID OF CLOWNS THIS MIGHT GIVE YOU A CHANGE OF HEART! SOME FEARS CAN'T BE KILLED EVEN AFTER CHILDHOOD!Added 9 Years Ago from Amazon.com


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IV. Instruction
A. Curricular Policies
2. Instructional Mandates
e. Personal Literacy Plans
In compliance with the Rhode Island Pre-K-12 Literacy Policy legislated in the Rhode Island Literacy and Dropout Prevention Act of 1987 (Title 16, Chapter 16-67-2), the Narragansett Schools have developed a comprehensive approach to literacy that addresses the needs of struggling learners through the implementation of personal literacy plans (PLP) for all students who are at risk for reading failure. A PLP is a plan of action for a teacher to use to bring a student to reading proficiency. It provides a problem-solving approach for improved student reading that is cyclical, inclusive (involving teachers, parents, administrators, etc.) and ensures that all students will become proficient readers (i.e. reads and comprehends at least at grade level). The PLP records intervention results that inform subsequent school personnel of successful instructional approaches and provides appropriate and focused instruction for struggling readers beyond the context of classroom instruction for all students.
PLP Procedure:
The implementation of personal literacy plans requires assessments and interventions over and above the execution of a strong, comprehensive literacy curriculum. In order to ensure that all students have access to literacy programs to help them achieve grade level expectations, all students are expected to participate in assessments and interventions, if deemed necessary by a team consisting of the grade level teacher, a reading specialist, and an administrator at the elementary level; or a reading specialist and administrator or designee at the middle and high school levels.
The Narragansett School System must devise an assessment plan that includes screening, monitoring, and diagnostic assessments to identify which students are reading below grade level and to determine their reading and comprehension levels. The assessment plan must include the standards which students are expected to achieve. Students not meeting these standards will need a diagnostic assessment tool or process to confirm the student's reading needs and to plan the most appropriate supports. The diagnostic assessment process will also identify which components of comprehensive reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension and/or writing) are problematic for the student. The assessment plan for each school should be made available to parents upon request.
Students identified as reading below grade level will be assigned to an appropriate intervention. Intervention at the elementary school may include a pull-out or integrated reading instruction provided by a certified reading specialist. At the middle and high school levels, students are assigned to an intensive or targeted reading group based upon their level of performance. At the middle school level, intensive reading students generally fall 2 or more years below grade level on one or more components of reading while targeted intervention students have reading difficulties that are less severe. At the high school level, intensive reading students generally fall 3 or more years below grade level.
At the middle and high school levels, students requiring personal literacy plans will be assigned to a supplemental reading course in lieu of other electives until subsequent testing reveals that they are reading at or above grade level. Participation in these supplemental reading courses is a requirement under in the Rhode Island Literacy and Dropout Prevention Act of 1987 (Title 16, Chapter 16-67-2).
Appeals Process:
A parent or guardian who wishes to appeal the decision to include or exclude their child from the supplementary literacy services described in this policy must first arrange for a meeting with the school principal and a member of the reading staff to review the child's assessments. If resolution of the matter seems unlikely at the building level, either party is encouraged to refer the matter to the Superintendent for review.
In accordance with School Committee policy #I.B.11., the Committee will consider hearing citizen complaints when they cannot be resolved by the administration. Matters referred to the School Committee must be in writing and should be specific in terms of the action desired. The School Committee will not consider or act on complaints that have not been explored at the appropriate administrative level.
1st Reading: November 14, 2007 Narragansett School System
Adopted: December
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LaFAYETTE — Mr. William Avery, 83, of LaFayette died Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, at LaFayette Extended Care in LaFayette.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 1 p.m. CDT at New Mt. Sellers Baptist Church in LaFayette with the Rev. Terry L. Avery, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at Handy Cemetery in LaFayette.
Silmon-Seroyer Funeral Home of LaFayette is handling arrangements.
WEST POINT — Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Elaine Johnson Crawley, 84, of the New Harmony Community will be held Thursday, Sept. 5 at 1 p.m. at Bethlehem Baptist Church, East 10th Street in West Point, with the Rev. John Pollard officiating. Burial will follow at the New Harmony C.M.E. Church Cemetery.
Lakes-Dunson-Robertson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
VALLEY — Mrs. Lynell Martin Hart, 80, of Valley, died Monday, Sept. 2, 2013.
Funeral services are planned for Thursday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. from the graveside at Shawmut Cemetery with the Rev. Chuck Anderson officiating.
McCarthy Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
VALLEY — Mrs. Dorothy Duncan Pickard, 83, of Valley died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, at Saint Francis Hospital in Columbus.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday, Sept. 4 at the graveside in Montgomery Memorial Cemetery with the Rev. Ian Conerly officiating.
Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home of Hogansville is in charge of arrangements.
LANETT — Mr. Larry Sorrell, 74, of Lanett died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, at his residence after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's and dementia.
A memorial service is planned for Thursday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Chuck Anderson officiating.
Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home is handling arrangements.