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Description: This faceplate is a perfect fit for the Arduino USB development board and Chameleon 1 enclosure.
With a Chameleon 1 enclosure, drill the designated hole patterns in the baseplate and your Arduino will line up perfectly with this faceplate. No nipping, guessing - great, professional fit for the Arduino you know and love.
Does this face plate fit the Arduino Mega2560 as well? I am building a remote rocket launch and I want to protect my Arduino from the environment around the launch pad. This looks perfect, but does it fit?
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New Zealand rugby player Willie Ripia has quit the Western Force after allegedly being caught stealing from his team-mates.
Former Taranaki, Hurricanes and New Zealand Maori first five-eighth Ripia, who has undergone counselling for a gambling problem, was reportedly caught on CCTV taking money from players' wallets and bags at the team's Perth headquarters.
Ripia, 26, offered his resignation yesterday morning when confronted with the footage, Australian media reported.
Players had complained to management previously about losing money and while Ripia had been suspected of taking cash, he had denied any involvement.
A Force statement said the club had investigated a serious breach of team protocols.
"The club wishes to stress that the matter relates to an internal incident at the club and does not involve any member of the public or public property," the statement said.
Club officials wouldn't comment further and a recorded message on Ripia's mobile phone said it had been disconnected.
A Force insider, who did not wish to be identified, told The Australian newspaper that the club deeply regretted having to sever ties with Ripia.
"But at the end of the day, a football club can only operate if there is trust," he said.
Ripia played for New Zealand Maori and played for his country at under-19 and under-21 level but struggled for regular start time with the Hurricanes.
He was recruited by the Force in 2010 as a foreign development player, which meant he could eventually qualify for Australia.
He missed much of last season with foot and calf injuries but played a solid role in the team's surge near the end of their 2011 campaign.
With James O'Connor having transferred to the Melbourne Rebels, the first five-eighth position will probably be filled by Australian sevens star James Stannard.


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Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters
Edited by Ann Charters
Viking £25, pp514
'On The Road,' William Burroughs once wrote, 'sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road.' From Easy Rider to the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen, American popular culture still stands in the shadow of Sal Paradise, this primordial literary hero.
As well as blue jeans and coffee bars, it has also been Jack Kerouac's fate to be associated with a variety of existential states, from alienation to restlessness, adolescent dissatisfaction to downright teenage revolt. His inspired exploration of these conditions has sometimes obscured the fact that Kerouac was the master of what he called 'spontaneous' American prose (it was anything but) and the author of several Beat Generation masterpieces - Big Sur, Desolation Angels, The Dharma Bums and Lonesome Traveler, of which On the Road is justly the most famous.
Kerouac was the descendant of Breton Canadians who had married with Mohawk and Caughnawaga Indians and celebrated what Hanif Kureishi has called an 'unfastidious relish for life', but he was also a highly self-conscious literary craftsman. When Anne Charters, a lifelong Kerouac scholar, was first invited by the author to inspect his archive, she did not stumble, as you might imagine, into a room full of smelly old sleeping bags, half-empty whisky bottles and cigarette butts, but was shown 'folders of letters... filed carefully away'. Later on, Kerouac, now in a terrible alcoholic decline, went through the carbons he had kept of his own typed letters to his friends and provided annotations.
Cyril Connolly, once the literary editor of The Observer, used to delight in the conundrum: 'What is the book that takes a lifetime to write and which the author will never read? His collected letters.' If ever there was a writer who put the unread book of his life into his correspondence, it was Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac.
This, the second of two indispensable volumes, opens in the year of the publication of On the Road and ends the day before his death at the age of 47. It demonstrates in pitiless detail how successful American writers can be destroyed by the evils of celebrity, how they become the dancing bears of newspaper columns and television chat shows, and how, finally, they are destroyed by creative exhaustion. More specifically, it narrates how Kerouac was literally destroyed by the hostile critical response to his work.
When this volume opens, all this is yet to come. We find the struggling writer dispatching inspired 'spontaneous' riffs to friends like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder and Laurence Ferlinghetti and debating with his literary agent whether he should not, after all, change the title of his forthcoming novel to Rock and Roll Road to 'double the sales'. He need not have worried. Like Byron, Kerouac woke up on the day after publication, 5 September 1957, to find himself famous.
He, alone, was probably not surprised. He had already written that he would 'rather die than betray my faith in my work' and elsewhere boasted that: 'Hemingway has nothing over me when it comes to pernicketiness about craft.' And, like Hemingway, he soon became 'fat, dejected, ashamed, bored, pestered and shot. I must get a cabin or die...'
Having described himself to a friend as 'the great quitter', he died of severe abdominal haemorrhaging brought on by rampant alcoholism.


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The Hague is an historic and world-class international center for justice and human rights. Building on Brandeis' strong relationships in the city and with international law networks, you will gain a global perspective while interacting with criminal tribunals in The Hague and working on projects that address major global issues. Academic coursework is enhanced with frequent visits to the tribunals, workshops, and experiential practicums.
Culturally, the Netherlands attracts students from around the world who come to explore its beautiful cobblestone streets, canals, windmills, shops and restaurants, and vibrant student culture. The combination of immersion in international law, experiential learning, and academic courses taught by professors from Brandeis University and the nearby Leiden University, promises you a world-class experience full of professional opportunities, personal growth, and European memories.
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Leiden University is the oldest university in the Netherlands. It was founded in February 1575, as a gift from William of Orange to the citizens of Leiden after they had withstood a long siege by the Spanish. It was the first university in the Netherlands to practice freedom of belief and religion, as reflected in the university's motto, Praesidium Libertatis, Bastion of Liberty. It was this atmosphere of freedom of speech that provided the right environment for philosophers such as Spinoza and Descartes to develop their ideas.
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The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is a centre of Leiden University, focusing on public international law. The Grotius Centre is based both in Leiden and in The Hague. In The Hague, the Grotius Centre is is one of the integral centres of Campus Den Haag. It is located at the Lange Voorhout 44, near the Houses of Parliament. At the Grotius Centre in The Hague, the expertise of Leiden University's Faculty of Law is combined with the position of The Hague as the City of Peace and Justice. The academic expertise of Leiden University is paired to the everyday practice of the various international legal organizations in The Hague, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).
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The battle was as bitter and passionate as any Cup final. After a flurry of promises, denials and backroom deals, Spanish football club Real Madrid recently snatched star Portuguese player Luis Filipe Madeira-better known to soccer fans as plain Figo-from its archrival Barcelona, releasing a torrent of wrath from the Barca faithful. Newly elected Barca president Joan Gaspart thundered that the deal was "immoral." But if the accusations of treason and the veiled threats of revenge that followed Figo's defection seemed excessive, they were trifling compared to the price Real Madrid paid for him: a world record $56 million.
In an increasingly commercialized game, it is not only player salaries that are soaring. In Europe's wealthier leagues, particularly in Spain, Italy and England, fees for transfers are also soaring, fueled by clubs flush with broadcasting fees and other revenues. Since 1999, 11 players have moved between clubs for price tags of $23 million or more. Just two weeks before Figo flew the Barca coop, Italian club Lazio forked out $55 million to sister Italian side Parma for Argentine striker Hernan Crespo. AC Milan's reported $60 million offer for Manchester United's David Beckham earlier this month may have been turned down, but two weeks ago the Italian side managed to snap up Real Madrid midfielder Fernando Redondo for $20 million. And Barca-its coffers full from the Figo transfer-paid $32 million in total for Arsenal's Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars.
How can such prices be justified?
"A lot of it is what somebody else is willing to pay," says Jason Zillwood, a senior manager at accountants Deloitte & Touche, which publish financial analyses of the English and European leagues. "When you get into the realms of Figo and Crespo you think of a number and multiply by 10." Performance is vital, of course, but players may also be sought for their ability to generate revenue by boosting ticketsales and TV audiences. But paying players high fees doesn't guarantee their loyalty: included in Figo's six-year, $4 million-a-year contract is a $165 million buyout clause-a price calculated to keep most suitors at bay.
Buying proven talent can seem easier than growing it at home. In 1998-1999, English Premier League clubs spent $410 million in player trading, half of it on players from abroad. Such statistics have helped spur the U.K. government into launching a $243 million plan to boost grassroots football.
Still, while locally cultivated talent is cheaper in theory, not everybody gets the equation right all the time. French club Paris Saint-Germain sold home-grown striker Nicolas Anelka to English side Arsenal for about $700,000 three years ago. Now, PSG has brought Anelka home-for $34 million. Getting your own back might be nice, but it can sure be expensive.
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LEOPOLD – Stepping Stones Preschool is accepting registrations for students in the 3-year-old preschool class for the 2015-16 school year beginning Monday, Aug. 31.
Students 3 years old have an option of attending classes from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Monday and Wednesday for $65 per month or Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for $80 per month. Children must be 3 years old by December 2015 and must be fully potty trained. Extended childcare hours, from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m., will be available for an additional fee.
PERRY COUNTY – Un-ited Way of Perry County will again sponsor its annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive for area students in need.
United Way, Wal-Mart and local businesses, organizations, retailers and area volunteers are partnering to collect donations of much-needed school supplies for all Perry County school corporations, Perry County Head Start and North Spencer Schools. Last year's two-day event gathered more than 4,000 items valued at approximately $3,145.
EVANSVILLE – In collaboration with area homeless-youth-education programs, Old National Bank has launched a corporate-wide annual "Tools for Schools" campaign as a community-wide collection drive of school supplies for disadvantaged youth in grades kindergarten through 12.
This campaign will help ensure all children will have basic supplies during the upcoming school year.
The campaign will run through Friday, July 24, and donations can be left at any of Old National's banking centers during normal business hours.
No Trapper Keepers or wheels on backpacks will be allowed.
• One backpack, one roll of paper towels, one two-pocket folder, 2 boxes Crayola brand markers, one box of Crayola crayons, one box of quart or gallon resealable bags, one supply box or bag, a change of clothes in a resealable bag, one hardback 3-ring binder, one pack assorted-color construction paper, a two-pack of glue sticks, one set of washable paints in a hard case and one pair of Fiskars brand children's scissors.
CANNELTON – Registration for Cannelton Elementary students for grades prekindergarten through fifth grade will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3 and from 1 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Myers Grade School cafeteria.
A back-to-school kids' fest for students entering prekindergarten to fifth grade only will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, in the William Bennett Early Learning Center at 411 Washington St. in Cannelton.
A parent or guardian is required to accompany any student registering. Students do not need to be present to register.
INDIANAPOLIS – Students entering prekindergarten must have: 3 Hepatitis B; 4 DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis); 3 Polio (IPV or OPV); 1 MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) and 1 Varicella (chickenpox).
Students entering kindergarten must have 3 Hepatitis B; 5 DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis); 4 Polio (IPV or OPV); 2 MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) and 2 Varicella (chickenpox).
TELL CITY – The following students have been named to the William Tell Elementary honor roll for the last quarter of the 2014-15 academic year:
LEOPOLD - Perry Central Elementary has named the following students to the honor roll for the last nine weeks of the 2014-2015 school year.
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Java applications have been given a bounty of CPU cycles on modern multi-core servers, but their ability to use random access memory has not kept up. In fact, the aging language has developed a memory problem.
A Java Virtual Machine in which an application runs is most proficient at using just 1-2 GB of RAM, but applications' needs have stretched far beyond that limit. By tinkering with Java's garbage collection function, developers can build applications that work with 2-4 GB or even 6 GB, but that's a shadow of what's available now on the most powerful servers. Cisco launched its Unified Computing System servers last year with up to 384 GB of random access memory on them. Dell recently came out with a PowerEdge M910 blade with 512 GB.
Java applications can't really take advantage of even a sizeable fraction of the total. Once the primary RAM an application is using (referred to in Java lingo as "heap") passes 4 GB, the latencies caused by garbage collection start to rise steeply, points out Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta, a supplier of a Java cache management system. The heap is the primary RAM assigned to a Java Virtual Machine, he said in a recent interview. If you make the heap really big, say 100 GB, the garbage collection takes minutes, not seconds, and end users will fiddle while Java busily sweeps up the used bits around the very large chunk of RAM.
The bigger an enterprise or e-commerce application gets, the more short-term software objects (modules of code built for a specific purpose, such as a customer transaction, then throws away) it uses -- and the longer it will spend on garbage collection. Without periodic sweeps, the amount of discarded code grows until it's choking the available RAM and threatening to crash the app. Garbage collection is a necessary principle of memory management.
At the same time this garbage collection leads to unexpected latencies in a running application, delays that seem interminable when they occur during the most customer-facing parts of the application.
Terracotta has come up with a way to build a large secondary cache that serves the Java Virtual Machine from nearby random access memory without requiring it to be part of the JVM's defined heap. Garbage collection only applies to the heap, not to Terracotta's BigMemory cache, but BigMemory can load data into the heap at a pace that's close to the speed of light. BigMemory can be 100 GB or more; think of a terabyte of RAM available to your application, suggests Pandey.


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Oh, woe is us. Microsoft just dispatched (and then pulled) a press release boasting about the imminent arrival of Banjo-Kazooie on Xbox Live Arcade, describing the game as an XBLA "exclusive." We can safely assume this means the bird and bear won't be made available on the Virtual Console, news that conclusively crushes whatever slim hopes we had for the game appearing on Nintendo's service. We suppose $540 million buys you these kind of perks, eh?
To rub salt in our open wounds, Microsoft also disclosed that sequel Banjo-Tooie would be made available on XBLA early next year, "making Xbox 360 the new home of the beloved Banjo-Kazooie franchise." We think we're going to sigh sadly now, reader. Feel free to join us.
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Today's Lady News: You Mean Everyone Can't Afford To Be A Stay-At-Home Mom?
- While cutting funding for a Head Start program for disadvantaged preschoolers, elected officials in Frederick County, Maryland, made appallingly ignorant comments about how their own wives took time off of work to stay home with their kids when they were young, so why can't other moms? [TDB.com]
- A subcommittee of Iowa's state House of Representatives approved a bill that would define life as beginning at conception and ban all abortions, including in cases of rape or incest. [Chicago Tribune]
- Double X argues that the lack of female engineers cannot be attributed to sexism. I know we have some lady engineers who read The Frisky, so I'd love to hear what you have to say about this post in the comments. [Slate]
- Is it possible to celebrate Valentine's Day in a — dare I say it? — feminist way? [Ms. Magazine]
- The FDA has approved the first three-dimensional X-ray mammogram device. [Business Week]
- About 100 people showed up for a protest at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. on Saturday after a nursing mother was told last month to go breastfeed her baby in the bathroom. [Washington Post]
- "Miss Representation," the new documentary about how women are portrayed in the media, has been picked up by OWN, Oprah's new network. Oprah is apparently stockpiling female-focused docs for the Oprah Winfrey Network Documentary Film Club on her channel. [Indie Wire]
- PBS's Frontline documentary series will air "Sex Slaves," a program about sex trafficking, at 9 p.m. EST
tonighttomorrow. You can watch a clip on the PBS web site. [PBS.org]
- Tura Satana, actress in the cult classic "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", passed away last week at the age of 72. [Bust Magazine]
- UPDATE: This story is from 2008. Thanks to commenter @Reading Is Fundamental for pointing that out. Critics say a billboard in Newmarket, Australia, featuring a whip-wielding woman with an exposed butt is "sexist" and doesn't appropriately advertise a gym. [City North News]
- A Polish prime minister has apologized for saying (joking?) when asked about his view on civil partnerships among same-sex couples, that "we can forget about gay men but I would gladly watch lesbians." [Pink News UK]
- Britain's highest court has rejected a request by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to allow women to take the second dosage of the abortion pill at home. Women will still have to come into a clinic for two visits. [Sky News]


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Coimbatore: Anna University will organise an off-campus recruitment programme at Dindigul for graduates who have passed out from its affiliated colleges in May 2007.
According to a release from P. Mannar Jawahar, Director, Anna University, Chennai, the Tamil Nadu State Level Placement Programme will take place on October 16 (written test and group discussion) and 17 (interview) at the P.S.N.A. College of Engineering and Technology, Muthanampatti, Dindigul.
All graduates from the affiliated colleges of the Anna University, who have secured 60 per cent and above in the X, Plus Two and qualifying degrees, will be eligible to attend the recruitment drive. The drive is to identify graduates for the post of Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET).


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U.S. Truck Tonnage Near Record High
ARLINGTON, VA — The weight of the loads U.S. truckers haul is getting heavier, according to the American Trucking Associations' (ATA).
The ATA's advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.3 percent in July, following a decrease of 0.8 percent the previous month.
In July, the index was130.2, compared to 128.6 in June and is off just 0.6 percent from the all-time high in November 2013 of 131.
"After a surprising decrease in June, tonnage really snapped back in July," said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. "This gain fits more with the anecdotal reports we are hearing from motor carriers that freight volumes are good."
Compared with July 2013, the seasonally adjusted index increased 3.6 percent, the largest year-over-year increase in three months, up from June's 2.3 percent year-over-year gain. Year-to-date, compared with the same period last year, tonnage is up 2.9 percent.
Costello said he expects moderate, but good tonnage growth for the rest of 2014.
The ATA has been calculating tonnage index based on surveys from its membership since the 1970s.


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FSN 2012 Football Recap: Top 10 Moment No. 8
As the Flames Sports Network continues to recap the 2012 football season, FSN looks back at the Top 10 moments of the year, continuing today with moment No. 8.
The next moment in the Top 10 series happened when the Flames made their longest trip west since 1998 to face two-time national champion Montana at Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Sept. 15.
Nick Sigmon, who earned All-Big South second-team honors as a redshirt freshman in 2011, left Liberty's season-opener against Wake Forest after suffering a concussion and missed the following week against Norfolk State.
However, Liberty's starting middle linebacker returned to the Flames' defensive unit against the Grizzlies and the Roanoke, Va., native made it perfectly clear he was completely healthy in the Montana contest. Sigmon finished the game with a season-high 11 tackles, including four solo stops and 1.5 tackles for a loss (four total yards).
Sigmon finished the season third on Liberty's roster with 52 tackles (32 solo, 20 assisted), giving him 112 stops (62 solo, 50 assisted) and 18.5 career tackles for a loss midway through his Liberty playing career. Sigmon was one of two All-Big South first-team honorees for the Flames in 2012.
Be sure to check back each weekday during the next two weeks, as the Flames Sports Network and LibertyFlames.com continue to reveal the Top 10 moments of the 2012 football season. The No. 1 moment will be revealed on Dec. 28.


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It used to be one of each, but now, he goes three or four times every time he goes into the back yard.
Its handle, she notes, was made from a mesquite tree in her back yard.
But insults are a very different proposition when they are coming from a foreigner standing in your back yard.
He heard Binks barking in the back yard and he went down to him.
He was out in the back yard now, fixing—but there, that was to be a surprise.
His wife had made a nice place for it in the back yard as a domicile.
We were in the middle of a potato patch, in somebody's back yard.
"Men all about the back yard," whispered Jones down the hall.
"Now if we were in the back yard we could all sing," rejoined Josie.
Maybe once in a while our dog Peanut would get over in their back yard and scratch up their pansies.


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Technique and Conservation
As Vermeer left behind no drawings or preliminary studies, our information about his artistic process can only be gleaned from the paintings themselves. In this regard, The Art of Painting is particularly valuable for it depicts an artist at work. Not only does it demonstrate that an artist sat rather than stood at his easel, it also shows that he used his mahlstick to steady his hand while painting. Having already covered his canvas with a light gray ground and indicated his composition with white lines, probably chalk, the artist applies flat, unmodulated strokes of color as the underlying tones for the laurel wreath crowning his model's head. At a later stage a variety of glazes and small highlights would model the form.
Technical examinations of Vermeer's paintings have, indeed, shown that he often followed this procedure. Sometimes it appears that he changed his mind during the painting process and made adjustments even after he had blocked in compositional elements, including figures, maps, chairs, and musical instruments. Surprisingly, however, in this large and complex scene not a single compositional change has been discovered, either through microscopic analysis, infrared photography, or x-radiography. Such compositional assurance seems to indicate that Vermeer had worked out his composition beforehand, perhaps with a careful preliminary drawing that he transferred onto his large canvas.
Whether or not he was inspired by the optical and spatial effects of the camera obscura, he organized and structured his painting with careful attention to the laws of linear perspective. As seems to have been his standard process, he marked his vanishing point, which is just below the black finial of the pole weighting the map, with a pin. Evidence of the pinhole is still visible on the painting. Strings would then have been attached to the pin to mark the orthogonals of the tiles and table edge. Despite these careful preparations, Vermeer adapted his perspective to enhance the dramatic impact of the scene. To emphasize the artist's central importance within the allegory, Vermeer painted him at a disproportionately large scale: standing, the artist would tower over his model. Even though the artist's face is not visible, the viewer senses both the forcefulness of his personality and the intensity of his gaze.
The artist at his easel is executed with broad strokes that match the boldness of the image. The patterns of the black jacket, red hose, white boot hose, and black slippers are almost abstract in their crisp renderings of light and shadow. At the rear of the room, however, Vermeer has described forms with more attention to light and textural effects. The nuances of light falling across Clio's hands, face, and robe convey the softness of her skin, the smoothness of the leather-bound folio she holds, and the sheen of the blue fabric. Vermeer similarly recorded the worn surface of the wall map as light models its form and reflects its aged appearance. Finally, in one of the most striking passages found in any of his works, he captured the brilliance of sunlight reflecting off the polished surface of the brass chandelier. With sure strokes that range from thick impastos of lead-tin yellow in the highlights to darker and thinner strokes of ocher in the shadows, Vermeer created the illusion of an object that seems almost tangible.
These qualities of light and color are far more vivid today than before the recent conservation efforts undertaken by Hubert Dietrich at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The motivation for the conservation, however, was not primarily aesthetic. Careful examination of the painting prior to the Vermeer exhibition in 1995 revealed severe weaknesses in the paint structure, which could only be corrected by painstakingly cautious treatment over the course of a number of years.
The structural problems apparently arose because of certain peculiarities in the binding medium that Vermeer used when mixing his paints. Analytical examinations determined that the medium was a mixture of oil and protein, often in different concentrations. Perhaps because of this mixed medium, changes in temperature and humidity, as well as earlier restorations in which harsh, alkaline solvents were used, helped create a network of fine cracks throughout the upper paint layers, particularly in the whites. Oil varnishes applied over the years had seeped into these cracks, and, in some instances, had loosened the paint when they expanded upon drying.
Due to the instability of the paint surface, conservation work had to be carried out slowly, with the help of a stereomicroscope. Indeed, a special pliable membrane was devised by Werner Jütte of Vienna to hold the paint layer in place under light suction while the painting was being consolidated. Also, as the old (but not original) stretcher had warped slightly, it was adapted to bring the painting back into plane. The yellowed varnish was reduced and the discolored inpainting that had disfigured the surface removed. As a result of this treatment, the painting is not only secure but also luminous, glowing again with the special light that Vermeer infused into his scenes.
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The Princeton School District will now pay a flat $250 rate per family per year if a family is in the Princeton district and is transporting a student to a public school outside the district.
The new contract, which the School Board approved in a split vote on Nov. 26, replaces the old one in which the district had to determine the mileage and reimburse on the federal mileage rate. The transportation reimbursement is only for transporting the student to the boundary of the Princeton School District. There is no reimbursement for the transport beyond the boundary to get to and from the other public school the student is attending.
During the vote, Board Members Craig Johnson, Eric Minks, Deb Ulm and Howard Vaillancourt voted yes and members Jeremy Miller and Chuck Nagle voted no. Member Chad Young was absent.
Nagle said afterward that he voted no because a Princeton School District consulting attorney had not signed off on the new contract. Miller said he voted no because he felt there should have been more clarification on the matter.
Johnson, appearing to speak for the majority of the board members, said he felt comfortable with approving the new contract because it is based on the same contract that the Big Lake has for its schools and its attorney approved that contract.
Nagle said he wanted to make sure the district doesn't end up with some liability problem later.
Princeton School District Director of Business Services Michelle Czech told the board members that under the old system of reimbursing for mileage the district had to make inquiries to check on the attendance of the student in the other school district.
Czech noted that last year the district spent more than $4,000 to reimburse the mileage for this transport. She estimated that under the new contract, it should go down to $3,500.


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Biking at Night
Visibility should be your chief concern when riding at night. Like all states, Minnesota State Law requires night cyclists to be equipped with a headlamp in front and a red light or red reflector in back (flashing is often better for visibility. Carry extra batteries or a spare headlamp in case yours breaks down.
On your bike, make sure to angle your rear reflectors and lights so cars can see them. Place reflectors and reflective tape on the frame and any moving parts of the bike. Also wear light or brightly color clothing, put reflective tape on your helmet, and don't hesitate to wear some on yourself!
Confirm your visibility before you take off. Ask a friend to turn on a set of car headlights while you ride your bike around in the light. You and your friend can see just how visible your bicycle may or may not be. Do the same for them, and you will both be much safer when you ride at night.


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Interviewed on The Politics Show, David Cameron warned that it 'will be tough' to commit to tax cuts at the next election.
Mr Cameron continued: There is no doubt when it comes to the economy that we are badly prepared, you know we have the highest tax burden in our history.
We've got one the highest levels of budget deficit of any developed country. We've got one the highest inflation rates in the G7, we're not well prepared and I wouldn't be doing anyone a service if I pretended that the garden was rosy.
Specifically what I said about saying no rather than yes is we have to recognise, as an Opposition, that if we win the next election, it will be tough and there will not be some large kitty of money to spend and we will have to say no a lot as well as hopefully, being able to say yes to some of the things we want to do."
No 'Punch and Judy'
When asked about his comment when he became Conservative Party leader that he wanted an end to 'Punch and Judy' politics, there was the following exchange:
JON SOPEL: And of the things, other things you said when you started, which was aside from Let the Sun Shine In, was about ending the Punch & Judy politics and you've kind of - this is the way you talk now about this government and the kind of weak man, the strange man in Downing Street, what a phoney he now looks, you're weak. How does that square up with... (interjection)
DAVID CAMERON: Well I feel incredibly frustrated for the country with this government that it's just sort of limping on. So I sometimes maybe let that frustration show too much and I do accept in the House of Commons, you know, Prime Minister's questions is quite, what's the word... (interjection)
JON SOPEL: Confrontational.
DAVID CAMERON: Confrontational. It is and you, you can't really get away from that. And maybe it was, you know, I think maybe it was a mistake to say that you can. You just - the point is... (interjection)
JON SOPEL: Do you regret saying that you can get away from Punch & Judy politics.
DAVID CAMERON: I think - no. What you can do is when the government do something right, like renewing Trident, when they introduce Academy Schools, you can back them and you can be - I actually got my MPs to vote for their legislation that otherwise wouldn't have gone through. So ending Punch & Judy politics in that way, I'm completely committed to.
When asked about comparisons between himself and Barack Obama, he said:
JON SOPEL: Do you see any similarities between yourself and Barack Obama.
DAVID CAMERON: Not really no because I think American politics and British politics are quite different. He's a Democrat, I'm a Conservative. I mean I suppose we're both trying to, you know, kind of overturn the government and win. I enjoy watching him and he's a great speaker.
But I'm also a big John McCain fan.
I think the plain speaking of this man who just, you know, he goes to Michigan and says look, I know we've lost a lot of jobs here but I've got to tell you they're not coming back.
You know, it's so frank and refreshing to see somebody who really tells it how it is.
Talking to terrorists?
The Security Minister, Admiral Lord West, also came on the programme to confirm that the Prime Minister will unveil the Government's National Security Strategy on Wednesday.
On talking to terrorists, he told Jon Sopel:
JON SOPEL: And very briefly, we've heard Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff say that what you need to do is you need to start talking to the leaders of Hamas, al Qaeda and other groups if you want to deal with these problems. Do you agree with that?
ADMIRAL, LORD WEST: I think one has got to be quite careful there. To say that there should be no link at all through any strange back source, back route in to anywhere, would be silly but that's done on a very careful, secret level, really to find out what they're up to.
I think to actually get in to dialogue with people, who at the moment don't seem to have any aim other than causing mass casualties, no clear way ahead, I think would be wrong and I don't believe we're doing that at the moment, to the best of my knowledge. I don't believe we're doing it.
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To me it's a truism, but one that few people grasp: Both major US political parties are the same. To watch excitement over the midterm elections as a chance to "throw the bums out" in favor of the other party, when the bums are Democrats and the saviors are Republicans, is to watch irrationality in full bloom.
Don't get me wrong. I share the frustration of those who desperately want real leadership in Washington. I knew early on that President Obama's hope and change shtick was a load of bull, and hardly original. That "change" continues working as a campaign theme shows mostly the unchanging landscape of politics. It always stinks, which is why we always want change. It would be great if things went well so the campaign slogans could become "keep it like this forever," but instead we're constantly desperate for change. Now that Obama's performance in the White House has confirmed him to be like his predecessors — even down to continuing the same useless wars he once vociferously opposed — it would be nice to see people reassess their view of politics. A simple acknowledgment of the following would be encouraging:
No matter how interesting the new package, no matter how silver the talking tongue, no matter how different from the status quo the candidate appears to be, if he or she is backed by the same money bags that backed the previous politicians who made our current mess, we'll be no better off.
Instead of placing that view front and center, we transformed in just 18 months from a nation of voters excited to end the awful Bush era with the fresh new hope of Obama, to a nation of voters excited to end the awful trends of the Obama era with the fresh new hope of the Tea Party Republicans.
Maybe stepping away from the emotion-packed labels of Democrat and Republican will help make the irrationality of this behavior more clear.
Pretend we're remodeling our kitchen and have two carpenters at our disposal: Deemsel and Ruprit. We go with Deemsel for the first phase, and boy does he screw it up. The cabinets are crooked, the floor is sloped, and none of the outlets work.
We promptly fire Deemsel and put Ruprit on the job. A week later, the cabinets look worse, the floor now contains holes in addition to being sloped, and the outlets are visibly smoking. Ack! What to do?
If you're the American electorate, you get excited about the chance to replace Ruprit with Deemsel — again. Deemsel gets back in there, rips the cabinets from the wall and starts filling the floor holes with toxic chemicals. You can scarcely believe your eyes, so you throw Deemsel out the front door and quickly whistle to Ruprit. He rushes back in and starts sledge hammering the outlets. Ack! Repeat.
Get it? Deemsel and Ruprit are our only choices. They both "trained" at the same school of crooked carpentry. In the case of politicians, both Democrats and Republicans get their funding from the same special interest groups that have leeched the US Treasury dry. Just as the solution to Deemsel screwing up the kitchen was not to hire Ruprit, nor is the solution to Democrats screwing up America's finances to elect Republicans.
They're both the same, and they both stink.
Blogger Jeff at All Financial Matters tackled this issue last weekend. He assembled an economic history of the United States for himself because he's "tired of the rhetoric." He identified himself as a Republican, but believes that if "Republicans are responsible for our current mess, then I think the American people have a right to know."
In a two-page PDF, Jeff presented the economic results and S&P 500 performance for each administration from Roosevelt to the second Bush. Some highlights:
There you have it: Deemsel and Ruprit hard at work bankrupting your nation. Despite the trend going back as long as almost any of us have been eligible to vote, we still think the answer to Deemsel screwing it up is to send Ruprit back in, or vice versa. The following 1934 editorial cartoon from the Chicago Tribune shows that the troubles we face today are not new (click to enlarge):
The only real solution is to elect a third party that swears off financing from the same gang of special interests that control the purse and puppet strings of the two major parties. That won't happen, because without that big funding no third party stands a chance of winning elections. That leaves only campaign finance reform as a possible solution, but that will never fly because the people who would plan and enact it are the ones who are in power because of the current system of campaign finance — and their backers aren't eager to give up influence for the good of the people.
That's why we'll just keep screaming for change while choosing the same people to give us the same garbage that makes us scream for change again. Deemsel's in the White House, and some people are excited to send Ruprit in his new Tea Party hat to Washington to shake things up.
Let's see if we can get this more accurate than Bush got it: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. My fellow American voters, how many times will we get fooled before we feel a sense of shame and finally ask why we bother to choose between Deemsel and Ruprit every couple of years?
Perhaps abstaining from voting would send the clearest message that none of the usual suspects boasts a mandate.
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Lots of interesting comments so far. I might as well throw in my two cents worth.
I didn't vote in 2008. I live in Michigan. McCain had no chance of winning here and I live in a republican district. Local republicans always get elected in my district. Besides, I'm not a republican or a democrat. I'm not sure I will vote this year either. I know, shame on me…blah..blah…blah.
I've come to realize that the whole thing is broken. In fact it's so broken that it's not repairable. From the lowest level of government to the highest, the corruption, stupidity and out right incompetence is staggering. Society as a whole is completely bankrupt of morals and most everyone has one basic goal. It's bringing pleasure to me, myself and I. Yes, the American empire or the great experiment in democracy is doomed.
Before the ink was dry on our constitution there was someone in that body of patriots who was trying to figure out a way to use the system to his benefit. Politicians have become so good at it over the last 200 plus years that now we have what we have. They love it so much that now they brag about being a full time life long politician. And we are such stupid sheeple that… just think about it…we actually choose these same people, election after election, to bend us over and continually rape us in the a**. And to add insult to injury we even let them decide how much they get paid for doing it. Is that insane or what?
So what happens from here? Nothing very good. What happened the last time citizens tried to throw off the yoke of the Federal Government? Civil War. You can be naive and think that Beck and his merry band of tea men/women when elected will save the country or you can begin to prepare for the inevitable. It could take a year, five years or even ten.
Our cities are a tinder box. When the match lights it watch out. Special interests have divided us into groups of people. One color of people against another and the rich against the poor. It's all about power and money. They will tell us it's because they care about injustice (liar, liar, pants on fire) but their bank accounts tell the real story.
So, my advice…don't believe anything you hear coming from Washington D.C…move out of the large urban areas if you can…stock up some food and water for a just in case scenario…buy a gun and some ammo (just for protection of your family, and learn how to use it) and begin paying off as much of your debts that you can.
Or, just do nothing except vote in November trusting the next bunch of drunken sailors sent to Washington will miraculously fix it all.
Enjoy the rest of the summer and thanks for the opportunity to share.
A nicely worded vent, Doug. The following two videos provide more depth to your prediction that "nothing very good" happens from here.
If you wait for the election to make your impact, then it is too late. I attended the caucus in the 4th most populus county in Colorado, this spring. There were <100 people in attendance. If you want to make an impact, get involved early and vocally. A group of 10 motivated people in a county caucus will have an impact. A similar group in each county will alter the political spectrum for an entire state. That, in turn, will impact the nation. We get the government we deserve, and if you sit on your butt until election day, then our fate is already sealed. You want to see things change? I'll see you at the next county party meeting.
Thanks, Charlie. You're right that getting involved early in the process increases the odds of getting the candidate you want on the ballot. However, how does it get around the special-interest chokehold on the elected politician?
You write that we "get the government we deserve," but those who supported Obama because they believed he would turn out differently than his predecessors didn't get who they thought they elected. Even if a person had helped steward Obama from his early days in that infamous community he organized to the Senate to the White House, they still ended up with a president who campaigned on limiting the influence of lobbyists and then expanded the lobby corps once in office.
I think real change isn't possible until we (A) reform campaign financing to limit the influence of special interests either through federal financing or another method and, (B) implement instant runoff voting so we give third parties a genuine chance at winning because voters know they're not throwing away their vote by supporting the third party.
See comments above for more on those two ideas.
Special interest groups are the symptom, not the disease. The disease is a federal gov't that has the power (extra-constitutional) to pick winners and losers. It manipulates the system through un-equal tax laws, subsidies, grants and "entitlements," so the only way to win is to get the gov't on your side through lobbying and donations. Unfortunately, I don't see any way to go back to a constitutional gov't without bloodshed.
Jason, I know how you feel, and believe me, I get frustrated with politics also. This notion that "ALL politicians are crooks, and that is the one, big problem we have to solve" is popular but does not hold water for a couple of reasons. First, when constructing a logical argument, one must be very careful when using the words "all" or "none". I do grant you that many or even most politicians are probably deceitful, dishonorable, etc, but I would not level those accusations at any specific politician until I had proof. Let's say, for arguments sake you were elected to congress. How would you feel if everywhere you went, people accused you of being a crooked politician even though you know that you were serving your country with the utmost respect and honor? I'd bet you would be even more frustrated than you are now!
The second reason that this theory has some weakness is found in the very nature of crooks. A crook will double cross you, but he will also double cross other crooks. I think you are failing to consider that all of those "big money, greedy corporations" that fund the campaigns, are often completely swindled by the politicians they sponsored. A shrewd politician may not fear losing funding as much as we might assume. In some cases, any funding put in jeapordy from a double cross has already been replaced by new sponsors in support of the new position. Sometimes the previously betrayed special interest is forced to once again support that crook just to prevent the nightmare of his opponent from the other party getting in there. In summary, buying a politician is not easy, straightforward, and never permanent.
I apologize for not offering any solutions, but this post is getting longer than I wanted so I will leave it at that.
Thanks, Eric.
It would actually be easier to solve the problem if politicians were all crooks. Notice that the discussion here didn't make that case. We just noted the history of Ds and Rs walking the nation down the same road to financial ruin. We can grant that individuals show up to their political posts with the best of intentions, but they get waylaid by a system that has transferred leadership pressure from the voters to the funders. That's why campaigns focus on the voters, but politicians focus on the funders. Hence Obama's campaign promise to change the way Washington works, then his expansion of the lobbying corps once in office. Even Obama must take care of his backers.
Also, please note that the article did not single out "big money, greedy corporations." Those were your words. I used "special interests" because that includes such corporations but also includes unions and other groups responsible for sucking the Treasury dry.
From Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere:
"In these pages, you and I are not concerned with whether Republicans or Democrats are better, or with our own opinions on issues like health care, oil, and military spending. We're not really even looking at whether politicians are good or bad people. We can grant that presidents try to improve life for Americans. Let's say they set out with the best of intentions and work as hard as they can in the best ways they know how. Fine, but nothing changes. Before new presidents know which number to dial for the White House kitchen, their glorious campaign vision is hog-tied by special interest groups who know their way around Washington better than any politician. Want to know a great place to eat or get free tickets to a concert in Washington? Ask a lobbyist, not a leader.
"The salient point for us is that the political system was built for and is run by people whose interests are not necessarily aligned with ours."
Finally, don't feel bad for not offering solutions. There aren't any this side of a reset, violent or otherwise. The solution is campaign finance reform combined with instant runoff voting (see above for more on each), but neither will ever get enacted from within the current system because the people who would enact them are controlled by interests that don't want them. Why? Because campaign finance reform and instant runoff voting would loosen the grip of special interests.
I can't believe the psycho worship of Instant Runoff Voting by a bunch of imbeciles who are completely oblivious to the massive corruption it invites. I just witnessed a revolting nutjob get elected because she and her best friend invited 5 other friends to all run in an election against a pretty popular and more experienced candidate. The 2 women who started the collusion – and that's what it is – are well-known businesswoman plus one is a minority, and very active in community affairs that support her particular minority group. Between the 2 of them with business and ethnic support, it was assumed they'd do ok in the election but not win. However, when they got their 5 friends in, the ballgame changed. Each of the friends had a certain amount of influence in a sector of their city. Again, none was hugely popular but enough that they'd get decent amount of votes. But the arrangement they made was simple, and they were very public about it – each of these 7 candidates asked their supporters to vote for them, of course. But then they chose one woman – the businesswoman – to be the designated recipient of each candidate's #2 choice. While no one, or even two, candidates would ever have received enough votes to beat the popular & experienced candidated, having the ability to lump all 7 candidates' votes into one box was enough to beat him by about 100 votes.
This lesson in collusion didn't go unnoticed by my Tea Party cousin. She's prepping for the next election with a full scale plan of attack: She's so far wrangled 19 people to run for mayor in a small city that uses rank. They are deliberately lining up people in a wide range of occupations – one is a teacher, one owns a restaurant, one's an attorney, and so on. But the real estate agent that used to be a beauty queen is the one they've selected to actually win. Though they have 19 people already, the plan is to have at least 30 people run. If each can get 500- 1000 friends and family to vote for them, ranking Miss Real Estate USA as their #2 gives her 15,000 – 30,000 votes. Of course the Green Party will be aghast at this idea; after all, it's THEIR idea and I bet it never occurred to them anyone else would've been smart enough to steal it. The Green Party has been shoving this easily manipulated, unconstitutional form of extortion down the throats of the US since Steven Hill bought voting machine stock a decade ago. Your a bunch of idiots for supporting it. I'm livid that majority rule has been so easily stolen from the United States and its citizens, all becuase a bunch of idiots disguised as liberals thought it'd be really cool – idiots.
I think this country ought to get rid of both parties and get 2 new ones. Just because they have both been around since the 1800's doesn't mean that we should keep them. Extreme liberalism and extreme conservatism are both like extreme cold and extreme heat – niether one of them is good. Democrats let people abuse welfare which is stupid and Republicans are against all taxes which is stupid too. People wonder why I never vote for either one of them. Well, this is why. Maybe we should fill up the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House with cats and dogs because at this point, I don't think cats and dogs could mess up the country any worse than the people we have in both parties. What the Dems and Reps did a few weeks ago with the debt ceiling argument was the ultimate worst. I'm glad to know that there are other people who feel the same way about both parties as I do. Just remember, there is strength in numbers and the moderates of this country need to get together and demand a more middle of the road philosophy. The moderates are the only ones who have any sense at all.
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Should ICC adopt the "30 percent solution" as part of the 2009 codes?
September 17, 2008
In its latest e-newsletter, NAHB is voicing its opposition to the "30 percent" solution that will be the focus of much discussion at next week's International Code Council hearings. They are referring to proposed energy code changes designed to increase the efficiency of new homes by 30 percent more than those currently built.
What interested me is that NAHB sees window manufacturers as part of the "coalition of advocates" promoting the 30 percent solution. From what I've heard, our industry looks at these proposals with a great deal of caution. Some no doubt favor the changes, but others see the proposed code requirements adding too much cost to windows in general.
So I thought I'd use this week's poll to see where the industry really stands. I'm asking a simple yes/no question, but I'd love your input also. Email me and let me know what you think about the proposed energy code changes, and what they could mean for homebuyers, the industry, etc.


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Drilling into a tile is one of those jobs that is both crunchy and chewy. Crunchy in that you are attritionally degenerating ceramic with a grinding bit while generating horrendous amounts of noise and dust; chewy because you definitely have something to chew over if you are going to get it right.
I find it hard to be careful and precise with something that is making such a horrendous noise - instinctively, I want to scream and hit it with a hammer until it stops. But that is not the way. Earplugs and goggles provide some insulation from the experience, though you are still vulnerable to the odd flying shard of ceramic in the lip area.
Mark out carefully, and position things such as towel rails in line with the existing grout lines, rather than using a spirit level. The most common mistake is the drill bit skidding across the tile so that the whole tile has to be replaced. Very amusing.
Mark out an X with strips of gaffer tape where you want to drill. Then, with your grinding bit fitted into your variable-speed drill, start drilling slowly. Gradually increase the speed as the bit catches the ceramic, clench your lips against splinters, and hold it steady.
Top tip: if you have young children, think about the height of your towel rail very carefully. Mine was up for about 30 seconds when I heard a joyous cry of 'Monkey!' followed by the thud of a small child clutching a towel rail, falling to the floor. Something to chew on, anyway.


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New and improved scanning probe microscope
Probe upgraded in preparation for use in conjunction with the vapor deposition system | January 28, 2003
In 1997, the physics department purchased a Scanning Probe Microscope (AutoProbe CP). The microscope was upgraded in early 2003 for $67,000, or which $33,000 went towards electrochemistry features.
The microscope is capable of atomic force microscopy, non-contact a.f.m., scanning tunneling m., magnetic f.m., and a few others. A small tip approximately 200 microns wide is attached to the end of a triangular cantilever. A laser is reflected off the back of the cantilever and into a photodiode, which tracks its vertical motion. In this way, a 3D map of the sample surface is created.
Past work has been done on carbon nanotubes and anaylsis of impurities in steel. Current work is being done in conjunction with the department's new vapor deposition system, specifically in analyzing the deposited material.


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A contact of mine on Facebook, Caroline Panico, has asked for a favor and since you are all quite the well-traveled bunch I'm sure many of you have some great travel tips. Here is her question…
"Hi Holly, I am going to Paris in March with my husbands band, Montage Populaire, do you or any of your readers know of places to go/shop/eat/visit which wouldn't be in the tourist guides? I would be really grateful and I know you and your readership are just the right sort of people to ask!!!"
Well first of all Caroline, Mon Pop sounds great – I'm so glad to know of your husband's band. And secondly, I don't think that you can really go wrong in Paris no matter where you go but sure… I'll bet lots of decor8 readers can help you so I'll leave it to them. And they'll also be helping me and my husband as we plan to take the train over in the Spring.
Any good tips to share?
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Denmark Vesey was an 18th century slave who skillfully planned the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history. Unfortunately, he never saw the revolt because two other black men, George Wilson and Rolla Bennett, collectively revealed the plot to a white slavemaster. Regardless, Vesey was called a hero for his plan of the major Carolina rebellion.PLAY AUDIO
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Linda Shook, OLLI Director
Linda Shook holds a M.Ed. in Adult Education from Auburn University. She received a B.A. in public relations with a minor in human resource management from The University of Alabama. Currently, she serves as the director for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University (OLLI at Auburn). She has been affiliated with OLLI at Auburn since 2008. Prior to this, she worked for non-profit organizations and has many years of experience in volunteer management.
Barbara Daron, OLLI Coordinator
Barbara Daron holds a M.Ed. in Reading Education from Auburn University Montgomery and received a B.S. in Education from Auburn University. Currently, she serves as an OLLI at Auburn staff member. She has been employed at Auburn University since 2012 and has been affiliated with the University since 1992. Prior to working at Auburn, Barbara taught elementary school in rural Alabama and worked with many at-risk students.
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JERUSALEM (Dec. 16)
Israel faced challenges on the diplomatic, domestic and propaganda fronts this week as it tried to quell the worst outbreaks of violence in 20 years in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Friendly Western countries, including the United States, Britain and West Germany, have expressed concern and displeasure over the mounting toll of Palestinian dead and wounded in clashes with the Israel Defense Force. Similar feelings were conveyed by Mohammad Bassiouny, at peace with Israel.
Meanwhile, unrest in East Jerusalem, linked to events in the territories, has spread to Israel's normally quiescent Arab population.
Peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with their peers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were held in Nazareth, the largest Arab township in Israel, and in several Arab villages Wednesday. They were organized by the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, a front of Israel's Communist Party.
At the same time, the National Committee of Arab Mayors, considered the most influential Arab organization in Israel, has urged the government to leave the territories to put an end to the bloodshed. The mayors are considering calling a general strike in sympathy with the West Bank and Gaza Arabs.
In addition, Israel is facing an image problem that may be as serious as the one during the Lebanon war in 1982. For more than a week now, television and front-page newspaper photographs all over the world have shown IDF troops in full battle gear roughing up Palestinian rioters.
The Reagan administration has already told Israel at the highest levels that it opposes many of its actions in the territories. United States Ambassador Thomas Pickering met with Premier Yitzhak Shamir to discuss the situation.
Shamir expressed Israel's regret for the loss of lives, but he blamed the Palestine Liberation Organization and "Arab inciters" for aggravating the situation.
He stressed to the American envoy that the IDF and the police are exercising maximum restraint to avoid clashes with the local population and expressed confidence that the territories will soon be calm.
In Washington, visiting Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin made similar statements Wednesday. He insisted that Israel would not bow to pressure from hostile elements. (See related story.)
Meanwhile, Ezer Weizman, acting foreign minister in the absence of Shimon Peres, who is touring Latin America, met with Shamir for two hours Wednesday to discuss the adverse image arising from the tough presentation of events in the world news media. So far, there is no word of any immediate initiative by Israel to balance those reports.
The strict orders given soldiers, to use their weapons only in life-threatening situations and to avoid provocation to the local population in the territories, reflect Jerusalem's sensitivity to the problem. The security forces reportedly deferred such tough measures as administrative arrests and the demolition of houses belonging to terrorists.
An idea raised Monday to close the territories to the news media was reportedly dropped. It was said to have come up at a meeting between Shamir and Gen. Dan Shomron, the IDF chief of staff. Weizman said on a radio interview Tuesday that he rejected it out of hand.


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Hurricane probabilities
The table below shows the probabilities of any hurricane and of a major hurricane with winds of 111 mph or faster passing within 75 miles of the locations listed in any one year. These numbers are a measure of relative danger.
The numbers can also be read as the number of storms to be expected in an average 100-year period. For example, Biloxi, Miss. has a 10% chance of any hurricane passing within 75 miles in any one year and a 3% chance of a major hurricane. During an average century Biloxi can expect 10 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.
The list below follows the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to Key West, Fla. and then the Atlantic Coast to Portland, Maine.
This listing is from Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth by Dr. Bob Sheets and Jack Williams. The book has a more complete list.


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Mabye Allen?
"No matter how fast it flies, a paper airplane cannot break through a brick wall
Ⓢⓐⓛⓛⓨ : wooot! got me a new dragon c:
i came up with a new theory while watching the show for a second time. I think the "heart" may be a two piece thing, and both have to be destroyed for all of the innocence to be destroyed. In which case, i would say that both Allen and Lenalee have one piece. or maybe thats just me trying trying to find a way so that im not wrong either way.
Apocryphos (also known as Cardinal) Says in Chapter 213 page 7 "I understand Please Leave it to me. My lord. He who carries the "heart". Yes. I will defend you for certain." during the scene of when Allen is saved by the Noah and Link declared dead. That crosses Lenalee out of having the heart of innocence because Cardinal says he, and that also crosses out Kanda for he wasn't there at the present time and was without his innocence. It only leaves Allen. Since it is also certain that Lavi doesn't have it either because he is a bookman and is supposed to report to Bookman if enything weird is starting to happen.
So the Answer is Yes Allen has the heart of innocence.Even before chapter 213 there has been clues leading toward Allen having it.
Allen lost his arm but his innocence didn't die.
Allen was also saved by his innocence.
Allen's revived innocence can turn into the opposite colored sword of the Earl.
And also note that Allen's innocence seems to be in two pieces. The mask and the arm/sword.
Lenalee's innocence protected her with a crystal but you can also say because the innocence was ready to evolve into a crystal type innocence.
Kanda's innocence also became a crystal type innocence.
have read the manga..............
Why're you people saying that it's Lenalee...?
It's A-L-L-E-N W-A-L-K-E-R!!!!
Read it at the manga...
I think it's Allen.....
'Coz Apocryphos said he is the innocence...and in which he is after him...
Doesn't that mean that he is the heart innocence?
I think it's Timcanpy. Let face it's everyone else's golems just a communicator and Tim is so much more plus Tim loves Allen wait maybe time God? Allen is the one most loved my god is he not?
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NEW YORK (Dec. 10)
The need for Jewish communal personnel–rabbis, teachers and shochtim–in many countries of Central America was emphasized by Dr. Israel Goldstein in a report to the Western Hemisphere executive of the World Jewish Congress which was made public here today.
Dr. Goldstein, who is chairman of this WJC regional executive, made his report after recent discussions with a number of leaders from Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. All these communities, Dr. Goldstein stated, are anxious to obtain personnel from abroad–from the U.S., Israel, and the larger Latin American Jewish communities such as that in Argentina. Morocco was also mentioned as a possible source of rabbis, teachers and other communal officials.
The WJC leader voiced a plea for more extensive action to aid Latin American communities maintain their Jewish identification. Some assistance in the sphere of educational equipment has been sent in the past year by the WJC to many small communities in South and Central America. Educational aids such as those used in the United States–textbooks, readers' workbooks, alphabet blocks, coloring cards and books, films and film strips and records–have been dispatched to Barbados, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Jamaica and Surinam
A number of other small communities are scheduled to receive supplies in the near future. As far as the larger communities are concerned, supplies sent by the WJC have been in the main books for the local Jewish libraries. Some of the libraries serviced include those in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Mexico City.


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As enterprises grow to adopt OpenStack, use cases around resillient storage and the vendors they already have procurement relationships with keep popping up. There are two foundational functions that need to be supported within OpenStack in order as foundations to build a rich storage system that meets the demands of the enterprise. I'd like to focus on what the community wants to see in these features and how they should be built.
Getting Physical: Using OpenStack to Provision and Manage Physical Servers, not just VMs
Gur Saran Varma
From the Outside Looking In: The Analyst Perspective on OpenStack
Krishnan Subramanian, Stephen O\'Grady, Gary Chen, Sean Michael Kerner, Gretchen Curtis
OpenStack Distributions: How they will shape the future of OpenStack innovation
Nick Barcet, Christopher Aedo, Perry Myers, Kamesh Pemmaraju, Joseph George, Pete Chadwick
International updates from Brazil, China, Vietnam, India
Yuije Du ???, Renato Serra Armani, Trung Nguyen, Sriram Subramanian
Panel: Network Virtualization - The Next Big Thing?
Ken Pepple, Gavin Pratt, Dan Mihai Dumitriu, Mike Cohen
Achieving Visibility and Insight Across OpenStack Projects with Dashboards, Traceability, and Faceted Search
Sanjiva Nath, Stefano Maffulli
Panel: How to Establish and Sustain Successful OpenStack Meetup Groups
Sean Roberts, Kamesh Pemmaraju
Moving an Open Source Project to a Foundation ? Lessons from the OpenStack Project
Eileen Evans, Alice King
Understanding the Patent Context of Linux/OSS: Developing a Thoughtful Strategy to Ensure OpenStack's Future
Keith Bergelt
Cloudifying Virtual Desktops: How OpenStack Can Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Virtual Desktops
Ken Ringdahl


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Berlin (AP) - Police were investigating a suspicious package at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office Tuesday, hours after small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens in attacks blamed on far-left domestic extremists
Greek police destroyed at least three more suspected bombs in
No group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks, which caused no injuries. No warning was given. No link has been made with the recently discovered Yemen-based mail bomb plot, which used much more powerful devices.
In recent decades, small radical anarchist or nihilist groups have staged attacks ranging from nighttime car burnings to bomb and gunfire attacks on symbols of state power and wealth - including the
Merkel was in
"It cannot be ruled out that the package contains explosives," her spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
The attacks began Monday when a mail bomb addressed to the Mexican embassy exploded at a delivery service in central
Authorities searched surrounding streets and arrested two suspects shortly after the blast. They were carrying mail bombs addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Belgian Embassy, along with handguns and bullets in waist pouches. One wore body armor, a wig and a baseball cap.
Police detonated the bombs along with a fourth device found at a delivery company and addressed to the Dutch Embassy.
One of the suspects was wanted in connection with an investigation into a radical anarchist group known as Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, which has claimed responsibility for a spate of small bomb and arson attacks over the past two years.
The explosions in
Swiss Foreign Ministry official Georg Farago said
"The package burst into flames when the employees removed the external wrapping of the package. At the same moment, there was an explosion. No one was injured," Farago said.
Soon after, a courier heading for another embassy became suspicious about a package and stopped at Parliament, where police explosives experts detonated a bomb.
Police then found explosive devices at the Bulgarian Embassy and a central
A fifth bomb went off on the grounds of the Russian Embassy.
Authorities closed down sections of the capital and checked dozens of potential targets, while all embassies were given additional police security.
Sarkozy said his office took threat seriously and that French authorities were working with Greek police.
"The threat is very serious. We are extremely vigilant and I am following it very closely," Sarkozy said during a joint press conference in
Three people have died in hits claimed by anarchist or far-left groups in
The attacks surged after the December 2008 fatal shooting by police of an
Much of the unrest harks back to the sharp postwar divide between right and left, which led to a civil war and a seven-year military dictatorship. Although a student uprising succeeded in ending military rule in 1974, there are still tensions between
"The government condemns in the strongest possible way those who try in vain to terrorize and disturb the public tranquility," government spokesman George Petalotis said. "The police's reaction was excellent, resulting in the arrest of two suspects, and their work will continue in a vigorous manner."
Both suspects were due to appear before an
Police believe the parcels that went off Tuesday were posted the day before.
Parliament speaker Philippos Petsalnikos also condemned what he called "wretched actions."
"No one can terrorize democracy," he said.
Associated Press Writers Elena Becatoros and Derek Gatopoulos in


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Crispy Tacos Picadillo
Picadillo is a dish consisting of ground beef, onions, garlic, and tomatoes.
- Servings: 10
Source: Martha Stewart Living, June 2009
For the Picadillo
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 large white onion, finely chopped (1 1/2 cups)
- 1 pound ground chuck (80 percent lean)
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic (1 to 2 cloves)
- 2 medium tomatoes, coarsely chopped (2 3/4 cups)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon ancho chili powder or pasilla chili powder
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
For the Tacos
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 20 corn tortillas
- Shredded iceberg lettuce, for serving
- Chopped white onion, for serving
- Shredded mild cheddar cheese, preferably longhorn, for serving
- Salsa Picante, for serving
Make the picadillo: Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, and cook until just starting to turn translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Add beef, and cook, breaking up pieces with the back of a wooden spoon, until beef has browned, about 4 minutes. Spoon out excess fat so that 1 tablespoon remains. Stir in garlic, tomatoes, paprika, chili powder, oregano, salt, pepper, and cumin. Add water, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, and simmer until thick and very little liquid remains, about 18 minutes. Stir in vinegar.
Make the tacos: Heat 1 inch oil in a heavy-bottomed, high-sided skillet until a deep-fry thermometer registers 325 degrees. Fry tortillas, one at a time, by folding in half and laying one half flat in oil while holding other half with tongs, and repeating with the other half to form a half moon shell, until golden and crisp, 1 to 2 minutes per half. Meanwhile, let finished taco shells rest on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet.
Spoon picadillo into each taco shell, and garnish with lettuce, onion, shredded cheese, and salsa picante.
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erinblythe3 FEB, 2014I doubled this recipe, but for some reason the water didn't cook out. I finally had to just spoon the liquid out manually. Not sure what happened. Tasted fine, though.Reply
Neida Rivera Cruz18 MAY, 2012This was a super easy to make recipe and delicioso! The meat tasted even better the following day, along with poached eggs for brunch.Reply
andicookie13 MAR, 2012these tacos are delicious. I make a few different tacos and these happen to be a favorite. Love the vinegar that is added to meat. Yummy!!!Reply


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DAR Abayn is one of the over 500 villages whose name is remembered by Palestinians on Nakba Day 2013.
But Than DAR ignored them, intent on a traditional Buddhist funeral for her husband in Rangoon.
"My children are traumatised," Than DAR told a group of reporters in front a large reclining Buddha.
For his work, the DAR presented him with the Veteran of the Year award in 2009.
Get Involved: The Ocean Road Cancer Institute in DAR es Salam treats patients suffering from albinism.
But dat's neder hyear nor DAR; he wuz er good man, and he pray tree times eby day.
DAR ain't no Injuns 'round, and DAR won't be—gracious hebben.
Well, DAR stan's a Yankee, an' he axes Missus Mary fer de smokehouse key.
I don't reckon we will get DAR, 'coz I doesn't know de way now.
I'se been DAR, and I knows; and Massa K——'ll tell you dat dey—'most on 'em—feel mighty sorry for de brack man.'
Arabic word, literally "house," used in place names, e.g. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, literally "House of Peace."


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$ 13.00
Infusion Time: 5 mins
Caffeine Level: None
Origin: USA
DESCRIPTIONPeppermint's chopped, aromatic leaves refresh the palate with their classic aroma and flavor. They brew into a clear, coppery infusion with a full, chilled minty aroma and flavor. A gentle, underlying astringency and subtle but pervasive aftertaste make this tisane a favorite for many. Like its mellower, sweeter cousin, Spearmint, Peppermint is great hot or iced and can be blended with other tisanes or teas for a light mint flavor.
This tea is certified USDA organic.
Your tea is hand packed in a resealable pouch at no additional charge. For an additional $5 you can select our new Black Triangle Signature Canister.


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The Daily Buzz: Robert Pattinson Addresses the 'Elephant in the Room,' Plus Who'll Be Cast in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' (VIDEO)
From the epicenter of all things celebrity on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Calif., we're reporting the stories that matter most to our readers.
On Wednesday's episode: Robert Pattinson faces tough questions on Good Morning America — but what did he really mean when he told George Stephanopoulos he's "never been interested in trying to sell my personal life"?
Dr. Lillian Glass, a renowned body language expert, explains what the 26-year-old Twilight star was really thinking when he was pressed on the cheating scandal that ignited when his girlfriend Kristen Stewart was photographed locking lips with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
"It told us that he is uncomfortbale and that he is not going to say anything negative about Kristen," said Dr. Glass, author of I Know What You're Thinking.
"The truth is there is a lot of sadness that leaks out."
Plus, we investigate: Is Hollywood now turning its back on Stewart?
In our Big Story, The Daily Buzz panel turns its focus to the issue of domestic violence in Tinseltown.
With Chad Ochocinco breaking his silence on his arrest for allegedly head-butting his wife Evelyn Lozada in a Twitter message to fans and friends, thanking them "for keeping me afloat," famed Hollywood attorney and New York Times bestseller Lisa Bloom argues no one should have been surprised at the weekend's incident.
"This is exactly the kind of swagger mentality that I talk about… an attitude of arrogance, an attitude that I am above the law," said Bloom, author of Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture.
Also joining the discussion is Dr. Elizabeth Waterman of the Morningside Recovery Centers.


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