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Are there any feelings or sensations in this world that can compare to what comes over you the first time your heart connects with a new band? That initial spark of love that is just as profound as romantic entanglement, but far less messy in the long run. If such a thing exists we know nothing of it, but we are certain a good portion of you will experience that aforementioned moment of emotional avalanche after hearing the latest effort from Ohio's States Away.
If you recall, the last time we featured States Away they were a baby band with only a few months of existence under their belt. Their debut boasted anxious, energetic pop punk that yearned for Summertime, and it still finds its way into rotation around the UTG offices. A lot of time has passed since then, however, and now the boys from Dayton have returned stronger and more focused than ever before. Their latest, Like The Weather, finds them taking their careers and lives into their own hands (literally). It's passionate, mature, and above all makes for a genuinely enjoyable listening experience.
You can stream Like The Weather at the end of this post. Here's what the band had to share about the release:
"We wanted to make this project as personal as we could, so we handled everything ourselves.
We recorded, mixed, and mastered the record in our basements and closets. We wanted a raw sound that would match up with our live show. There is 100% no auto tune or any vocal enhancements on this EP, we wanted the vocals to contain that emotion and realness.
The record was recorded over a span of 6+ months, trying new things until we found a sound that we all really could embrace and go forward with.
The name Like The Weather is the idea of going back and forth and constant change. Living in Ohio, the weather can be sunny and 60 one day, and then snow the next, and something as simple as that has the ability to affect peoples lives and their moods and their overall well being. These songs have that back and forth feel at times, musically we have some really fast parts, some slower parts, and some really gritty bits here and there. Lyrically it's learning to be honest with yourself, and dealing with life as it changes around you in ways you can't control, and also dealing with loss and letting go.
We're really proud of these songs, and we're actually already starting to demo new material because of how excited we are with this."
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The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions.
The new study, which entailed outfitting the cabs of long-haul trucks with video cameras over 18 months, found that when the drivers texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.
The issue has drawn attention after several recent highly publicized crashes caused by texting drivers, including an episode in May involving a trolley car driver in Boston who crashed while texting his girlfriend.
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wp home > general info > blast 2009-12-18The Weekly Blast: December 18, 2009
Final Grades: Final Grades MUST be submitted through SPIRE no later than MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. We strongly encourage you to make sure you have access to your section on SPIRE before the deadline. We also strongly encourage that you complete your final grades and submit them in advance of this deadline.
Hard copies of your grades MUST, also, be submitted to the Writing Program Office by noon, Friday, December 18. If you have trouble meeting this deadline please see Becky or Heidi.
MANDATORY MEETING FOR SPRING 2010 WRITING PROGRAM TOs: FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 11:30-2:15:
The date and time for the spring meeting of all Spring 2010 Basic and College Writing instructors has been set. We'll gather Friday, January 15, from 11:30 am to 2:15 pm. We will begin with a short general meeting of all instructors followed by a mini-conference, with break-out sessions led by TOs, on topics of interest to writing instructors and geared towards useful advice for spring teaching. Lunch will be served. This meeting is mandatory for all spring 2010 Writing Program instructors. Please note that spring classes begin Tuesday, January 19. Questions should be addressed to David Fleming at firstname.lastname@example.com.
In order to return your students' final reflections you can ask them to provide you with a self addressed stamped envelope. You can also encourage them to come by your office hours during the spring semester. We ask that you do not leave boxes of student work in the hallway. This undermines the value we have placed on their writing all semester. The majority of students do not return at the end of the semester to pick up their work and eventually we end up throwing their writing away. Student work left in the hallways is also a violation of the student's right to privacy particularly if there are grades placed on the work. We also run the risk of having student work stolen and then reappearing in other sections of 112.
On December 10 a memo was sent to all UMass employees regarding the Mandatory Ethics Requirement for Public Employees. Please review and acknowledge you received and read the summary of the conflict of interest law, either in writing or via e-mail. The Acknowledgement of Receipt can be returned directly to Human Resources, Whitmore Administration Building, room 330, or by e-mail to email@example.com. If you have any questions, please contact Heidi at 413-545-0633, or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you are not returning to the Writing Program for the spring semester please be sure to clean out your office, mailbox, and return your office key to Becky by December 18, 2008. You will receive your final paycheck on January 22, 2009.
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It has come to my attention that I may have given a number of teachers the impression that to submit a paper to the Anthology, it must be thoroughly edited by them and their students. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Once the committee finally selects essays that will be published in the book, we meticulously copyedit them on two occasions—when the publisher conveys to us the typed text that will go to the printer and also when the final page proofs come in. I am very grateful to teachers who have spent time on helping students improve and clean up their texts; that is a wonderful boon to the committee and highly instructive for the students. However, PLEASE feel welcome to submit papers with grammatical and usage problems and even papers where some sentences are problematic. As I said in my memo, we were looking for papers that were exemplary in terms of meeting the goals of a given unit, but "This [was] not to say we seek perfect papers." Confusion may have come from my expressing concern for two things: that the Release Form would be fully filled out and that if a given paper needed in-text citations and a Works Cited page, both were present and the latter was done according to MLA style. STILL, if we receive a paper with a problematic Works Cited page, and we really want to publish that paper, we will contact the student and spell out that publication is contingent on correction of any errors in citations, Works Cited pages, or a thorough rewrite of any confusing passages. So do let the texts roll in! And please keep in mind our eagerness to publish Final Reflections in the next book, as well as examples from ALL other units, including Unit 4. Thank you. –Pat Zukowski
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Celebrate the beginning of the semester, your upcoming weekend a bit early, and discuss the relevance diversity plays in our teaching, our writing, and living.
We'll just rotate the brewery every week, but Fridays. Beer. 4(pm). Diversity
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"We're obviously very pleased we were able to beat a very tough Georgia team," Chizik said. "We have our first open date we've had all year, which I think comes at a very good time. We're a little bit beat up right now. I think this rest is going to help us.
"With the Iron Bowl coming up in two weeks we've got an extremely tough task at hand. We've got to go and prepare. This week it's going to be imperative that we practice the right amount and rest the right amount and do the right things to get ready for this game because it's going to be a tough one in Tuscaloosa."
After a crazy stretch the last 10 days surrounding quarterback Cameron Newton, Chizik refused to comment on that situation again on Sunday. He did however talk about the play of the junior in the win and what he brings to the table each and every time the Tigers step on the field.
"He's rushed for over 1,000 yards in SEC games," Chizik said of Cam's value. "It's everything. Whether it's third down conversions, what he means in the red zone, he's just a big part of our offense. When the game is on the line he wants the ball in his hands. If there's ever a situation where it's a third and one or fourth and one and the game is on the line or the end of the half, he wants the ball in his hands because he's so competitive. We know that about him and we feel really good about being able to have it in his hands with the game on the line."
Saturday's game was marred by two Auburn ejections in the final minutes to senior defensive linemen Michael Goggans and Mike Blanc for throwing punches following a physical and emotional game against Georgia. Chizik said Auburn will wait to get a clarification from the SEC office because discussing the plays and what took place.
"I'm not really going to comment on that," Chizik said. "We're going to talk to the SEC tomorrow. We'll figure out exactly what the status is at that point.
"The SEC reviews every situation penalty-wise that is reviewable or brought to their attention," he added. "We haven't talked with anybody. We're going to reserve all comments until we get some clarification on exactly what the status of those guys will be. I haven't had that opportunity yet."
Auburn junior defensive lineman Nick Fairley has been called out in recent games and again on Saturday for hitting the quarterback late. Against Georgia it was a Fairley hit that sent quarterback Aaron Murray to the bench in the final minutes just before the altercations took place. It appeared that a blocked Fairley fell into Murray's knee and several times in the game he was actually the one taking some cheap shots from Georgia offensive linemen. Chizik defended Fairley and Auburn's way of playing on Sunday.
"I have seen every play and that's not what we do here," Chizik said. "Everything we're going to do is with great effort. Are we going to make a mistake here or there with intensive effort? Yes that's going to happen because it's human error. I can assure you nothing is ever done intentionally to harm another player. That's not happening."
Auburn will now get some rest time in the coming days before getting back to work on Wednesday. With a good idea of what they want to work on as well as the initial plans for Alabama getting installed later this week Chizik said at the moment all he's looking for is improvement as a team between now and next Friday in Tuscaloosa.
"We're going to go back and look at the last month of football and self exam and see where we can be better as a football team," Chizik said. "Usually bye weeks consist of both who your upcoming opponent is and making sure you go back and re-evaluate yourself. It will be a combination of those things. We're certainly going to spend a lot of time on ourselves."


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Ok I've looked over the code. write_full_page is modeled after block_write_full_page.
The past the end of file is the same check used in that function. Basically the offset var used to see if size of the file is part way into a page so if the size of the file lands on a page boundry offset will be 0.
I understand that the code is doing that, but I was wondering why XFS should care that write_full_page should fail if the file size is on a page boundary. If the file size is on a page boundary, shouldn't XFS be able to write the page just fine?
If you unlock it here, you must not unlock it in generic_file_write_nolock. It can only be unlocked once... So the code should pick where it shall unlock. Since it will be unlocked later in generic_file_write_nolock, I don't understand the need to unlock it in write_full_page at all. The only case I can think of unlocking the page, is when it is _not_ called from generic_file_write_nolock. Perhaps this is happening somewhere and that is the need for the unlock, but if that is the case, generic_file_write_nolock must not unlock the page a second time... Tthe error code for write_full_page is never passed up to generic_file_write_nolock, so generic_file_write_nolock is never aware that it should _not_ unlock the page because the I/O had a previous error.
The crash is not in write_full_page. write_full_page is the first caller to unlock the page. The crash occurs in generic_file_write_nolock which also calls unlock_page on the same page as write_full_page did, causing a BUG() call. The calling chain is:
First generic_file_write_nolock is entered from a system call write:
system_call sys_write linvfs_write xfs_write
Then the page is unlocked via this call chain: generic_file_write_nolock generic_commit_write __block_commit_write balance_dirty write_some_buffer write_buffer_delay linvfs_write_full_page write_full_page unlock_page
Then the page is unlocked again via this call chain: generic_file_write_nolock unlock_page
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My friend has always mentioned her brothers to me. I never really quite understood what they did until now.
I knew that they live in Washingon (I think) and they were some kind of performing arts group.
Anyway, she showed me a video of them today, and they're really quite amazing.
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Baseball Hall of Fame: Seth Livingstone
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 3 p.m. ET
Baseball's Hall of Fame inductees for 2003 are to be announced Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET. Among the more prominent candidates are Eddie Murray, Gary Carter and Jim Rice. Check baseball.usatoday.com for the first word on the winners, then talk with Sports Weekly baseball writer Seth Livingstone about the outcome.


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Three Days Grace Working on New Album, Love Poutine [Video]
The 2011 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival made a stop in Grand Rapids earlier this week and frontman Adam Gontier and bassist Brad Walst from Three Days Grace were kind enough to sit down with me before their set at Van Andel Arena. The band is still going strong with their most recent album, Life Starts Now, two years after its release. Luckily, 3DG fans can look forward to a new album in the near future. I was also happy to share my love of poutine with Adam and Brad as well.
Since the release of Three Days Grace's self-titled album back in 2003, the Ontario, Canada band has been putting out releases every three years. It's highly likely that the trend will continue according to Adam.
"It just so happen to work out that way," said the singer. "We put out a record and then we spend a certain amount of time out on the road. And then we get home, write the record, record the record and then three years go by and the next record is out."
Gontier continued: "We're working on the next record right now. Whether or not it's going to be another year until it comes out, I don't think so. It might be a shorter period. We'll see what happens."
No band can ever know what to expect when they release a new album, but Three Days Grace are happy with the results from Life Starts Now.
"We've been touring for two years on it and we're pretty happy with the record," Walst said. "You can't really expect anything when you write music. We're happy that our fans really relate to it."
We also discussed how bands survive in the music industry today, the deliciousness of poutine and I even told them I put "Lost In You" on a mix CD I made for a girl. Yeah, I'm fly like that. Watch the whole interview below.
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By Officer Ricardo J. Rodriguez and Deputy Chief Mark C. Rowley, NM Department of Public Safety/Motor Transportation Police
On Saturday, February 11, 2012, twenty Police Explorers from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, Motor Transportation Police Explorer Post #2003 competed in the Border Challenge Criminal Justice Competition, sponsored by the Horizon High School Criminal Justice program in Horizon City Texas. A total of 8 teams participated in the competition, which was judged by representatives from the El Paso County Sheriff's and Constable's Dept.
The competition consisted of six different events with participants competing in both team and individual categories. The events consisted of low risk traffic stops, high risk/felony traffic stops, fingerprint lifting and identification, obstacle course, robbery in progress response, and SWAT/Hostage resolution.
The one day competition culminated with the awards presentation, where the Motor Transportation Police Explorer Post #2003 walked away victorious by earning the highest combined score in the competition and being awarded the Championship Cup in addition to 1st place in felony traffic stops, fingerprint lifting and identification, obstacle course and SWAT/Hostage resolution and 2nd and 3rd place in the female obstacle course.
Police Explorer Post #2003 is organized under the Boy Scouts of America Learning for Life program and sponsored by the New Mexico Motor Transportation Police in conjunction with the Gadsden Independent School District's criminal justice program. Open to young men and women between the ages of 14 to 20, Police Explorers are required to attend an 85 hour police academy which challenges each cadet both academically and physically, while instilling pride, discipline and self-confidence. Upon successful completion of training, each cadet earns the title of "Police Explorer" and is awarded their badge and certificate of completion.
Police Explorer Post #2003 is now working toward raising $10,000 to sponsor 15 Explorers to participate and compete in the 2012 National Police Explorer competition which will be held in Denver, Colorado from July 16 to July 21, 2012. This conference not only allows the Explorers the opportunity to network and interact with their peers, but more importantly, it also gives them the opportunity of a week of team and individual competitions, seminars, demonstrations, exhibits, recreation and fun.


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The San Francisco 49ers have had an issue staying healthy throughout training camp, however, back-up is on the way. The Niners activated nose tackle Ian Williams off the physically-unable-to-perform-list on Tuesday and suited up on Wednesday.
Williams practiced for the first time this year as he has been recovering from a broken fibula. Williams is entering the fourth year of his NFL career but has only appeared in six games with one start. That one start was also the last game Williams appeared in. He broke his left fibula during last years week two matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. Since then, the Niners relied on veteran lineman Glen Dorsey to fill the nose tackle position. Dorsey performed exceptionally in his first season with Niners but sustained a torn bicep earlier in training camp this year and is out indefinitely.
It will be interesting to see how Williams progresses in his recovery from four surgeries and how he performs in practice due to his lack of experience, despite the labeled three years his stat sheet shows.
"Our last look at Ian was last camp and into the second game." noted Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio.
Time will be the biggest factor in Williams getting back up to speed, not the amount of drills he performs in practice. Getting in as many snaps as possible against real opponents will be key. According to the Mercury News, the 24-year old out of Notre Dame essentially told reporters that drills are nothing like competition.
"It's different running around, cutting, everything like that; that's the easy part," Williams explained. "Anybody can do combine drills like that. But you're pushing against somebody that's 350 pounds, that's totally different than just running the 40. I'm excited just to get back out there and just see how it feels."
Additionally, defensive lineman Justin Smith and Ray McDonald practiced on Wednesday as well.
Just like Williams, it was the first practice of the year for Smith. The Pro-Bowl defensive tackle had offseason shoulder surgery and the Niners have been careful with his recovery. Injury or not, Smith wasn't expected to play much during the remaining three exhibitions. As Smith enters into his 14th season in league, there's virtually no gain in exposing the "Cowboy" to even the slightest chance of injury. Virtually the same concept applies with McDonald as well. The eighth-year pro had bicep surgery this offseason and had been monitoring a minor leg injury for the past week.
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hi all,

so here is my shoddy offering to the advanced python class:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/py-noisebridge/
It definitely is not finished, but there is a bunch already to chew on. it requires wxPython. I threw it together yesterday after porting my python project over to IronPython and .net (ugh), and I put it up on sourceforge in hopes someone else wants to jump on it. i've gotta get ready to catcha plane and will be skyping into class tomorrow.

its an attempt at a distributed python shell. the client;/server socket part needs work, and so does the embedded interpreter. spent some time playing with os.popen2, and its replacement subprocess.Popen. both are really cool, just wanting to do something tricky, which was read in and out of another python interperter spawned by the program. but then i learned about hte code module, which is really cool.

anyway, its kinda childs play, but maybe 3-4 hours total. let me know if you have any problems installing. i packaged with distutils, so just run python setup.py install

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i meant for running our own server/client python connection to output code displays. skype does some shit to get through firewalls, so Im not worried about that.

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Bob Harper has helped countless numbers of people of the hit reality television show, The Biggest Loser. He has helped people overcome self-esteem and weight issues for years, but he has just now opened up about being gay on the show. During Tuesday night's episode, Harper came out as gay in hopes of encouraging contestant, Bobby Saleem.
Saleem came out on the show as gay, but was having a hard time coming out to his father. Harper hoped that by sharing his story, that he could positively influence him. "I haven't talked about my sexuality on this show ever," Harper said. "I really do believe this is the right time. I want to show Bobby that he doesn't have to live in shame."
Saleem said that because of his "strict Catholic background" he has had a hard time accepting that he was gay and he had an even harder time coming out. "I come from a very strict Catholic background," said Saleem, who confessed that he was gay while on the show. "Homosexuality, in a sense, was wrong, so I kind of hid it. It's just something I've kind of kept from my parents, or at least my dad. I always felt like there was something wrong with me."
THANK YOU to everyone that supported my decision to talk about being gay w/ Bobby. I felt like it was appropriate & necessary. LOVE Y'ALL!!
— Bob Harper (@MyTrainerBob) November 27, 2013
Harper could see that Saleem was struggling, so he decided to sit down with him and share his own story. "I'm gay. I knew I very long time ago that I was gay," Harper said. "When I came out -- when I was 17 years old -- it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are."
Once the show was over, Harper received hundreds of tweets from supportive fans, including Saleem.
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Thank you @MyTrainerBob for the words that have changed the path of my life. #BL15
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Poverty is becoming history: aid report
THE battle against global poverty is being won but most Australians do not realise it.
The proportion of the world's people living on less than $US1 a day has dropped from 21.4 per cent to 17.3 per cent since 2000 and the number surviving on that income has fallen by 132 million since 1990, says a report by Australia's biggest overseas aid agency, World Vision.
As the number of people living in abject poverty has fallen, child mortality has dropped, the number of children completing primary school has risen and more people have access to sanitation.
However, Australians have an overly pessimistic view of world poverty, and an overly optimistic view of their country's role in reducing it. Polling commissioned for the report showed two out of three Australians wrongly believe global poverty is getting worse or not changing. "Given this very pessimistic view of the developing world, it is remarkable that a large majority of people still support aid," says the report, Island Nation or Global Citizen?
More than 80 per cent said they supported the Government's overseas aid program. However, a majority thinks the Australian Government is a much more generous aid donor than it is.
Most people overestimated the proportion of the federal budget that is spent on aid. One in five respondents estimated that aid made up 10 per cent or more of the budget. The proportion is 1.3 per cent.
Nearly two-thirds of those polled believed Australia ranked in the top 10 aid donors in the world. In fact, Australia ranked 15th out of 22 donor countries last year when official aid was measured as a proportion of national income. In 1970 Australia ranked equal first.
Australia is one of just six donor nations that has failed to make a commitment to lift aid to the international target of 0.7 per cent of national income.
The chief executive of World Vision, Tim Costello, will launch the report at the National Press Club today and call on the Government to make a bigger contribution to poverty alleviation.
The federal budget allocated a record $3.1 billion to overseas development assistance this financial year, and the Government is on course to lift aid spending to $4.3 billion by 2010-11. But that is projected to be the equivalent of 0.34 per cent of national income, well short of the international target.
Labor has pledged to increase overseas aid spending to 0.5 per cent of national income by 2015.
World Vision says recent advances show aid has made a difference in poor countries. Since 2000 an extra 34 million children have been enrolled in school, and health programs have saved the lives of 7 million children.
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Often customers inquire about whether we offer clocks with wind up mechanical mechanisms. We used to offer them around 1996, in fact we custom made the cases. However, mechanical movements are a little touchy and for some reason it annoyed people to have them run a little fast or run a little slow. I'm not sure why that would bother anyone. The appearance and the mechanical sounds are where the value is, in my view. If I want to know the accurate time I'll look in the bottom right corner of my computer screen. That is probably why I have been moving away from music CDs and back to vinyl records. Join me!
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I was falsely accused of leaving the scene of an accident with injury to a pedestrian. The pedestrian was hit by a car that is totally different from the car I drive that was stated by eyewitnesses and I was not at the scene because, I have proof of my where abouts at the time of the accident. The police report that was written was very vague and criminal charges were never filed. The victims personal injury attorney filed a claim against my insurance company and Although, I was not at fault and told my insurance company not to pay, they decided to pay the claim to the max of my liability coverage. The PI attorney accepted the funds but, did not sign the release. The victim is going after his UM/UIM coverage on his policy for pain and suffering. Will his insurance company try to sue me ?If he gets paid by his insurance company under his UM/UIM policy how much can he get and will his insurance company try to recoup those funds by suing me personally ?
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Thanks for responding ! There is no criminal liability because, they never filed the citation and no action was taken against me. Why is it taking so long for the PI attorney from signing the release?
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He was not suited to strive with Bononcini on the ground of Italianism.
But Bononcini and Handel are the two people who really choose our society.
We have been improving since Handel and Bononcini came to London.
Bononcini gave his last piece, Kalfernia, on April 18, 1724.
He upheld Bononcini in the great madrigal controversy, and appears to have wearied Handel by his repeated visits.
It was the day of the little lieder by Bononcini or by Keiser.
All that one has heard of his meeting with Ariosti and Bononcini is somewhat legendary.
The Bononcini sonata contained in it does not give a very favourable impression of this composers talent.
Next, again, mine somedimes nodtable rival Bononcini, and old Borbora?
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text: Ah, the rules of engagement. Simple, easy standards set by men and women to promote longevity and smooth sailing in a relationship. Only problem? They're not exactly accepted mutually. Carbonated.TV was live at the Paley Center for Media honoring the cast of CBS's hit comedy "Rules of Engagement" and learning why men are really from Venus and women from Mars. Watch the video and choose your side carefully! Carbonated.TV had Oliver Hudson "Adam," Megyn Price "Audrey," David Spade "Russell," Patrick Warburton "Jeff," and Adhir Kalyan "Timmy" admitted their number one rule of engagement. David Spade says respect the girl, but only for three dates (haha!) while Oliver said, "Just love me." We expected nothing less from the guys; let's be honest. But Megyan brought balance back to the scales! She said no relationship is worth ruining by getting enraptured in caustic arguments and "tak[ing] the gloves off." And Adhir ended the night on a perfect note by adding to never leave a fellow wedding crasher behind! Classic. Be sure to grab the two-disc DVD set of "Rules of Engagement: The Complete Fourth Season" on January 11th and catch the show every Monday 7:30/8:30c on CBS!


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I was first talked into buying Twilight by my local bookstore's friendly clerk. She assured me lots of adults were reading Twilight, and in fact, the bookstore's whole staff had read it. I trusted her and picked it up. By this time, the second book in the series, New Moon, had just hit the shelves. Like most adults, I was curious as to why this series was such a runaway hit among teenagers. I continued to read the rest of the series, but I wasn't standing at the bookstore to get it, oh no, it wasn't that amazing.
I will admit: I continued to read because I was hooked on the plot. I wanted to know what was going to happen with Bella—would she choose Edward or Jacob? Would she be turned into a vampire or a were? The writing is simple enough that you can't help but keep reading. I know a lot of people who weren't fans of the series, but read them anyway. Add to that, I always want to be kept up to date on what is trending in the genres I read. But I digress, as usual. My conclusion was meh, and by the time I got to the final book, Breaking Dawn, I had a full on what the hell was that! I disliked Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, but people, I love love loved the final book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. Why? Oh, it was full of snark-worthy goodness, like The Babysitters Club meets Stephen King. Okay, not so much, but you get what I'm trying to say. It was nothing like the rest of the books in the series, things started to get creepy and horrific.
If you haven't read the Twilight Series, step away from this article now because it's about to get ugly. (Spoilers for Breaking Dawn ahead.)
In Breaking Dawn, Bella finally gets her man...err...vampire, Edward "sparkles instead of goes up in flames" Cullen. Long story short, Edward is afraid to have sex with dear Bella because of his superhuman strength; he thinks he's going to break her. It finally happens (he might be several hundred years old, but he's still a horny teen at heart) and here's when things get beyond ridiculous: Edward...umm, does her into unconsciousness. Or at least we think that's what happened, since Bella doesn't remember it (after all, all the books are told in Bella's sole point-of-view. So if she was blacked out at the time, who knows what happened?. Although most sane women would stay away from the guy who made her see stars—literally—for some reason Bella goes back for more, and the result is Renesmee, who isn't the coolest fetus out there. Wait, let's go backwards a bit, how does Edward, an undead vampire, have viable sperm in the first place?! Who the hell knows, 'cause that alone could have me thinking way too deeply.
So now Bella is pregnant with a baby that is growing at an alarming rate and then the real drama starts! Renesmee is hurting Bella, she kicks so hard she breaks Bella's ribs and severs her spin. Okay, seriously WHY do we allow our children to read this? That alone disturbs me beyond belief. Not to mention makes me fear childbirth. Never mind that in previous books, that while Bella is sleeping, Edward sneaks in to watch her sleep. In my book that's not sweet—that's stalking and creepy.
Back to Renesmee, this baby apparently has telepathy and can hear peoples' thoughts whilst in the womb, another "huh?" moment, but the worst is yet to come. Bella is dying, the baby is killing her, and so Edward performs an emergency C-Section…with his teeth. HOLD THE PHONE, say WHAT? I have no idea what is in the writer's mind, but it's a place I would never like to be, because that's some straight-up creepy right there. Bella is still dying, though, so Edward turns her into a vampire, the baby is born and Jacob the werewolf realizes that Renesmee is the love of his life. Yes, a newborn baby. Is the love of his life.
Do parents even read this stuff before allowing their children to read it? Hell, someone could have warned me about Breaking Dawn, I would have loved a big fat disclaimer before I picked up that gem. It literally shocked me how this YA could go from Twilight (strange love) to Breaking Dawn (baby eating mommy). There was no lead up that would have warned a reader that things were about to get ridiculous.
But the point of this article is Why I hate Twilight. Let's keep in mind; this is a young adult series, not an adult series. I also understand that this is a fantasy series (albeit a very disturbing one) but it sets some unrealistic situations for young girls. For a book that has gotten the hype the series has, the writing to me isn't anything special. Bella can't seem to do anything without Edward, that doesn't set a good example for young females in my opinion as it seems to me Edward is a tad bit possesive. Her father is never around, how is that possible for a teenager? My mother was always around & if I took off across the country, you bet your ass she'd have words.
Another issue I have is with the perfection of every single character in the book! As a teenager, you have flaws, no matter what. As teens we all thought we didn't have flaws, but once you hit you mid 20's you realize every single flaw you did have. Bella doesn't have flaws at all, which is a "Mary Sue" thus making her unrealistic as a human character and impossible to replicate.
There you have it; this is why I am not a fan. I tried to like it, but you can't like everything you read! I can't have love for a vampire that can be out in the sun, hunts animals, is a teenager that will never grow up AND he sparkles.
Natasha Carty reviews Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy on her website Wicked Little Pixie and lives in Toronto, Canada, with her cat, Seamus.


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Interpretation of Vital Signs - What is Normal?
From the General Assessment series
This Video Learning Activity (VLA) provides a practical and easy to understand discussion about the assessment of vital signs and explores the issue of the interpretation of vital signs relative to the circumstances under which the assessment occurs.
Topics include:
- A critical discussion on the concept of 'normal' and 'normal ranges'
- Sensitivity and specificity: why these matter
- Why a misunderstanding of 'normal' can generate unwarranted interventions
- The importance of understanding the relationship between assessment findings and the context of interpretation
- Correct measurement, ranges, variations and abnormalities of heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate
Target audience:
This VLA will be of interest to nurses and midwifes working in all ares of clinical practice.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this VLA you will be able to:
- Explain what is meant by a normal vital sign and how this can relate to a range of values depending on circumstances
- Describe the different ways in which heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate can be measured and explain the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques
- Identify key nursing interventions for certain abnormalities in vital signs
The aim of this VLA is to provide an update on the correct interpretation of vital signs, with a particular emphasis on the concept of normal ranges and the context of interpretation.
The assessment of vital signs is an integral component of nursing practice and requires a high degree of knowledge and skill to perform properly. Additionally, the interpretation of the results of the assessment will be directly influenced by individual interpretations of what 'normal' vital signs are and how these relate to the context of the assessment. There is a clear need to establish a consistency of understanding regarding this nursing activity and to clarify the statistical concept of normality. Given the short length of stay that clients generally undergo within the health environment today, nurses and midwives are increasingly required to make accurate and reliable vital sign assessment in order to facilitate effective decision making by the appropriate health professionals.
Nurses in Australia, are required to obtain a minimum of 20 continuing professional development (CPD) hours each year that relates to their context of practice in order to comply with mandatory regulatory requirements.
Citing this Video Learning Activity
- Using Harvard referencing style:
Wake, D. & Alterman, D.M., 2014. Clinical Topics: Interpretation of Vital Signs - What is Normal? (2nd ed.) Ausmed Education. Available at: https://www.ausmed.com.au/learning-centre/interpretation-of-vital-signs-what-is-normal-description#content [Accessed 20 August, 2014].
- Using American Psychological Association (APA) 6th Edition referencing style:
Wake, D., & Alterman, D. M. (2014). Clinical Topics: Interpretation of Vital Signs - What is Normal? 2nd ed. Ausmed Education. Retrieved from https://www.ausmed.com.au/learning-centre/interpretation-of-vital-signs-what-is-normal-description#content


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Similarities and Differences Between the Slavic Languages
One of the great things about learning languages is that it's a way of discovering the world. Of course, we create our own language worlds and we do that by finding things of interest, at least I do, whether it be in libraries on the internet or elsewhere. Through our own language world we discover things about the wider world. When I wrote my book on language learning, I referenced Zhuangzi and Taoist philosophy, and it was Laozi who said: 'Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window, One can see the way of heaven." We have this tremendous ability to learn about so many things today without going very far.
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Another thing that I firmly believe is that culture or language is not in any way associated with our genes or DNA, so language doesn't equal some kind of ethnic division necessarily. Often it matches, but it doesn't have to match.
If we look at a map of the world we see this area north of the Black Sea, this vast area of steppe land where the Proto-Slavic people apparently originated from. Today, we have a variety of Slavic languages and they differ from each other because of the different historical influences that affected their development.
The most popularly spoken Slavic languages are Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian in the east, Polish, Czech and Slovakian in the west and then the the languages of the former Yugoslavia in the south: Serbo-Croat, Slovenian, Macedonian, and also Bulgarian.
I studied Russian first and I would recommend that because Slavic language speakers are a large group of people, and the Russian speakers are the largest group. Geographically, they inhabit most of Russia, and it's not just the ethnic Russians who are Russian speakers. Russian is sort of a lingua franca in Central Asia and other countries of the former Tsarist Empire or the Soviet Union. So it covers all of that area and even right into Eastern Europe.
I started learning Russian 10 years ago because that was the most popular of the Slavic languages. I had also been exposed to Russian literature as a teenager and wanted to read those books in the original language. Then with the development of the Ukrainian crisis, I started watching Ukrainian television and couldn't understand what the Ukrainians were saying, only what the Russians were saying. Yet, it sounded so similar I felt as if I should understand it. There were words there that were similar, but I just didn't quite get the gist of what they were saying.
This gets back to this idea that you can't just have a few words. Some people say if you have a thousand words you understand 70% of any context. But, in fact, that is never true. Very often the key words are just those words that you don't understand, so I started learning Ukrainian. I actually learned Czech before Ukrainian because my parents were born in what became Czechoslovakia. I never understood any of it and I figured with Russian it would be easier. Well, it is easier. In fact the grammar of the Slavic languages that I have studied is remarkably similar.
There are minor differences between Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and so forth, but they are remarkably similar in terms of grammar. Their grammars are at least as similar as the grammars of French, Spanish and Italian. So they're grammatically very similar; however, quite different when it comes to vocabulary; more different than Spanish is from Italian or from French. In a way, in terms of vocabulary, the sort of outlier, the one with the largest lexical difference or distance seems to be Russian. In other words, I found that Czech, Polish and Ukrainian in terms of their vocabulary were closer together. Although perhaps grammatically Ukrainian is closer to Russian, and certainly in the writing system they use. It is, in fact, a form of Cyrillic.
The reasons for this, of course, are all historical. There was nothing that said over a thousand years ago when the early Slavs were breaking up wherever they were that there would be these divisions that we have today. There were influences like the Orthodox Church and Church Slavonic. There was the impact of the Mongol invasions, which meant that the original eastern Slavic nation built around Kiev, Kievan Rus', split up and so you had Muscovy up north. Then the southern part of the Kievan Rus' was increasingly under the influence of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and so they developed more as part of that political entity. In fact, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had a lot more Ukrainians and Belarusians in it than Lithuanians. The Lithuanians were not numerous and the Lithuanian leadership gradually spoke more and more Polish as it became the dominant language.
The Poles, as is often the case with societies where you have more than one language group, became quite intolerant in their approach to the Orthodox Ukrainians. That's why at some point a portion of the Ukrainian Cossacks under the leadership of Khmelnitsky, I believe, broke away and went off to seek help from the Russians.
Over time, as part of the Ukraine came under Russian control, of course, now the Russians were less tolerant of the Ukrainians so they tried to suppress the Ukrainian language. Similarly, between the Czechs and the Poles there were a lot of kings that were common to Poland, Czech Lands and Moravia. In fact, going back a thousand years there was even a greater Moravia. Then in those lands you had the German immigrants. So lots of different influences, including the influence of the Catholic Church as the Poles and the Czechs became part of the Catholic world.
All of these things influenced the language. However, as a learner, if I were to learn those languages I would go in the following order: I would learn Russian first because it's the biggest, biggest in terms of number of speakers, biggest in terms of, rightly or wrongly, the extent to which their writers are celebrated around the world. They're more famous than Polish, Czech or Ukrainian writers. This might be a prejudice on my part, but I would start with Russian. With that, you'll get the basics of how the grammar works. Although, certain minor things are different and, of course, the endings are completely different, but the principles under which these languages operate are more or less the same. Then with each language you have to learn the vocabulary of that language.
Fortunately, for each one of those four languages I have found ample resources via the internet, whether it be audiobooks and eBooks for Russian. There's an abundance of books that you can download and import into LingQ. As I've said many times, I've found Ekho Moskvy a phenomenal resource because every day there are interviews with transcripts put up. With Czech I've found this history series Toulky českou minulostí and the political podcast Jak to vidí. Unfortunately, they no longer publish the transcripts for that, but that was very helpful to me. You can find eBooks and audiobooks for Czech. Similarly, with Polish I was able to find eBooks and audiobooks.
I haven't had the same success with finding Ukrainian eBooks and audiobooks because wherever you search it's all basically this is free, that is free. I'm not that interested in free, I'm happy to pay for a decent eBook or audiobook. So with Ukrainian I rely largely on Hromadske Radio, which is a very interesting source of podcasts daily on events in Ukraine, both in Russian and Ukrainian, and Radio Svoboda where often they will have texts with audio.
So there are resources on the internet for those languages, and as you discover them you discover this Slavic world and there are certain characteristics in common. I was asked whether I found that there were these similarities between Slavic peoples and I must say that I find that there are some, but more than that it depends on individual people. There are the sort of intellectuals who are more worldly. There are those that are more stridently "we are the best". There's a whole range and I think that's probably true for most cultures.
So I am very happy that I went after four languages within the Slavic collection of languages and I may go after Serbo-Croatian, particularly if I decide to go there on holiday. Similarly, I have my group of romance languages and it's fun to explore the differences between Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and so forth. Of course Romanian as a bit of an outlier. The Germanic languages, between my Swedish, my English, my German and from the little bit of Dutch that I've looked at I don't think it would be difficult to learn.
All I can say is it's fun to explore these different language families. Over the course of history, different people who spoke one language were converted into speakers of another language. So there's really no connection between genetics, genetic code or anything in language. It's more a matter of circumstance in history, and exploring these languages is a great way to explore what we are as human beings.
I should say, also, on my Asian-language side obviously Chinese, or Mandarin, was a good base for Japanese and Korean, even though those languages – though they borrowed a lot of vocabulary from Chinese – are part of a different language family.
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The map is slightly misleading. In Byelorussia and Ukraine the Russian is more spoken as shown. In Crimea or Odessa is dominating in practical use, Kashubian in Poland is seldom heard. It is similar as with use of Irish and English in Ireland.
I'd like to recommend a series of books on Russian history written by Boris Akunin, contemporary russian author. As for now, the series consists of 3 books:
1. The Part of Europe. History of Russian State. From the beginning until Mongolian Invasion.
2. The Part of Asia. History of Russian State. Mongol Yoke.
3. Between Asia and Europe. History of Russian State. From Ivan III to Boris Godunov.
All books are available in paper, ebook and audio versions. The books are quite easy to read (and listen) – they are intended not for historians but for history enthusiasts.
It is not my intent to advertize; I just think it might be useful in learning both Russian language and Russian history.
I am a Croatian and I've never heard about the existence of Serbo-Croatian language. It is like saying that American, Canadian and British English are completely on every level the same.
P.S. I usually have to ask my friends from Serbia to translate Serbian words for me because I do not have a clue their meaning and vice versa.
Well, Lucie, I am 1/2 Croatian, 1/2 Montenegrin, who grew up in Belgrade. Yes, there are a few words different, but you also have a situation where someone from Zagorje will not understand a person from Dalmatia. And then what?
Nobody is saying that American English is identical to Australian English, and yet nobody says they speak "Australian" or "Canadian" or "New Zelandese". All of them speak ENGLISH, with different accent and somewhat different dialect.
Ideally, Serbo-Croatian should have been called Yugoslavian, as it is the language of Southern Slavs (Jugo-slavs), exactly as shown on the map. People from Serbia, Croatian, Bosnia & Montenegro speak one language with local variety. But, of course, no one will admit that. The reason is POLITICAL. You and I both know that.
It's true that sometimes Serbian and Croatian are more similar than the standard language and it's dialect BUT there is no such thing as Serbo-Croatian language.
Whatever the reason, the fact is they are all quite similar but completly individual languages with it's own grammar and vocabulary. Because of this similiraties they all belong to same group of Southern Slavic languages, therefore there is no need to confuse people with what should have been and make up names – that was non-existing even during Yugoslavia.
'…eBooks and audiobooks because wherever you search it's all basically this is free, that is free. I'm not that interested in free, I'm happy to pay for a decent…'
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The thing is why russian is good. It's so easy on the learner. Eaiser than english and much easier than all other languages in terms of finding content you like. And if you cannot afford it or dont feel like paing you don't have to. Maybe you are happy to pay but young people or more poor cannot afford it and russian provides the most adavantages opportunity. It should lure learners away from other languages that are more "greedy".
Why you've deleted my comment? What's wrong with it? Lol you don't like that some language has more content than another. That makes me never write comments again. So lifeless
Hi there,
Your comment wasn't deleted. The blog switched servers and so some comments had to be approved again. We only delete spam and comments with profanities. All opinions are welcome and Steve is always interested in a good discussion on language learning topics.
Have a great weekend 🙂
Ukrainian and Belorussian are languages closer to each other than Russian. Check it out. Thanks for thoughtful article.


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UMTS is not compatible with GSM, but UMTS phones which are currently sold are dual mode, which means they can't work on GSM as well as UMTS. If a user wants to make a call, but is out of a UMTS area, the device can use GSM. Even if this happens while on a call, the phone can be switched over to the GSM network, completely uninterrupted, transparently to the end user. Although the newer wave of 3G phones can be used on both networks, GSM phones can't be used on UMTS networks.


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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote: > Hi Marcin, > > Sounds rather unlikely to me. Its likely handled at an upper layer (vfs in linux' case) and only overloaded when an optimized implementation is available. > Which os do you see implementing that only on a part of the filesystems? > I have a Windows XP dev machine, which runs virtualbox, which runs ubuntu, which mounts a windows directory through vboxfs fsync does error out on directories inside that mount. btw: 8.4.2 initdb won`t work there too, So this is not a regression. The error is: DEBUG: creating and filling new WAL file LOG: could not link file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.2367" to "pg_xlog/000000010000000000000000" (initialization of log file 0, segment 0): Operation not permitted FATAL: could not open file "pg_xlog/000000010000000000000000" (log file 0, segment 0): No such file or directory But I would not be that sure that eg. NFS or something like that won`t complain. Ignoring the return code seems the right choice. Greetings Marcin Mańk
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Since Bill and I are now actively working on some of the wedding planning, I figured I would share!
Date: September 9, 2009
Colors: Black, White, Pink
Flowers "motif": Cherry blossoms. My bouquet will most likely be silk Calla lilies, cherry blossoms, and I am having 2 yellow roses and a daffodil added in to it. The two yellow roses stand for my maternal grandmother, and my Aunt Paulie, and the daffodil is for my Mom.
Wedding Party: My best friend Rachel, Bills ex and friend Rachel, Bills brother Dustin, and his best friend Robert. We decided to break it down as a maid and matron of honor since my best friend is married, and have two best men.
Cake: Bill's Mom is a baker and works for an amazing bakery in Cleveland. We're getting a 4 or 5 tier cake from them with a beautiful white star pattern that sweeps up the front with most likely alternating pink and black icing per tier.
Food: This comes down to what time we set. If we go for noon or one we are doing simple finger foods. If we do it around 3 we're going to do it BBQ/picnic style. We're asking guests that in lieu of a gift they bring their favorite dish, depending on the meal we choose. Bill is pushing for actual food no matter the time though so that's most likely what we'll do. If that's the case, we are providing meats, and drinks, and what not. Guests bring covered dishes.
This is what we have so far. Cake tasting is this weekend, as well as scoping out a couple locations in Brecksville for the ceremony. Time will have alot to do with location I'm sure.


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The NSW Coalition government will pursue Sydney's Cross City Tunnel for $60 million in stamp duty, making it more likely the troubled infrastructure project will be tipped into receivership.
Finance and Services Minister
"The chief commissioner of state revenue has a responsibility to administer taxation law in NSW and collect all tax considered to be payable," Mr Constance said. "The NSW government strongly believes that every business should pay its taxes."
The Australian Financial Review revealed on Tuesday that the tunnel was on the brink of receivership for the second time in seven years as its owners struggled to meet a September 31 deadline to refinance $79 million in debt. A $60 million tax bill, or the possibility to face the tax bill, has made the financing highly unlikely.
Bankers said the tunnel could avoid paying the stamp duty by going into receivership before the appeal takes place because senior creditors would rank above the tax claim.
The Office of State Revenue lodged an intention to appeal the Supreme Court decision revoking the tax bill on Monday.
The tunnel's owners – Royal Bank of Scotland,
Land-rich landholder
The Office of State Revenue charged the new owners a so-called land-rich acquisition duty on the transaction in December 2011. The tax is payable when a person acquires a "significant interest" in a "land-rich landholder", including a property trust.
A landholder is land-rich if it meets certain statutory criteria, including that its unencumbered land holdings in NSW are worth at least $2 million.
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The tunnel first fell into receivership in 2006 due to poor traffic flows. Although traffic has since improved, it does not generate enough income to pay the stamp duty bill as well as refinance the tunnel's debt.
Cross City Tunnel said it remained in talks with banks with the aim of refinancing its debt by the end of the month.
Restructuring specialists who have worked on toll roads say the buyers of Cross City Tunnel appeared to have erred in not anticipating the potential tax liability. "Obviously the tax consequences of your purchasing structure is crucial; you need to make sure there is some certainty around that," one specialist said. Cash was typically not left on hand for unforeseen events like a $60 million tax liability when roads come out of receivership.
"It would never have been structured from a debt and equity perspective and from a cash flow perspective to be able to withstand a $60 million hit. If they had $60 million sitting there in cash I'd imagine both the debt and equity holders would say, 'I'll have a little bit of that, thanks.'"
The Victorian government said on Tuesday it was undeterred by the Cross City Tunnel example and would push ahead with a plan to build the $8 billion East-West Link toll road as a public-private partnership. Under the availability PPP model adopted, the state will assume initial traffic risk and retain tolling revenue.
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The government has not released the toll road's business case, nor has it revealed its traffic forecasts.
"It [the East-West Link] doesn't stack up," Mr Andrews said. "It's the wrong project, and what's more . . . it knocks off for decades all the other public transport projects and all the road projects that are far more important and have perhaps [a] much better evidence base."
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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904.
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|Chap. 474
|Purchase of lieu lands for Mdewakanton band of Sioux Indians, Redwood County, Minn., authorized.
1876, c. 289, note, ante, p. 166.
|Chap. 474
|Proviso. Consent of Indians.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized to sell, dispose of, and convey the north fractional half of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section one, township one hundred and twelve, range thirty-five, in Redwood County, Minnesota, purchased in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine for the use of the Medawakanton band of Sioux Indians, residing in Redwood County, for cash at the best obtainable price not less than thirteen dollars per acre, and that her is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase other lands in said county for said Indians with the proceeds arising from such sale: Provided, That the written consent of the adult Indians residing in Redwood County, Minnesota, shall first be given.
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When it comes to math the one area where our kids always seem to struggle the most is when they are faced with solving a word problem. Last year we jumped on the math journaling bandwagon in early December and we really noticed some improvement throughout the year in this area. Not only did we have kids work to solve word problems . . . but we also gave them time to "talk" about math and show their neighbors how they solved the problem. We taught them how to look for keywords and how to use a variety of manipulatives to solve their problem. We also encouraged them to be independent thinkers and that it was ok if they didn't get the correct answer on their own the first time.
A few weeks ago I (Kelly) had the opportunity to attend a week long numeracy workshop presented by Dr. Chris Cain. He firmly believes that "math IS sexy" . . . and let me tell you, after spending five days with him and doing higher level math problems with confidence I was beginning to think it was kind of sexy myself. So sexy in fact, that I rushed home and got started on a problem solving unit to use in my classroom this year. I knew I wanted to continue doing daily math journals so I was anxious to get started!!!
During the course of the workshop Dr. Cain presented information about the basic addition and subtraction problem solving structures. These structures make up the majority of word problems we expect our young learners to solve. The trick is often in the language. We spend so much time teaching students to look for keywords, and come to find out, we are doing it all wrong!!! Sometimes finding keywords can help students solve a word problem, but the majority of the time they just confuse students. Instead, if we teach students how to identify which structure the problem fits into they will be more successful.
So . . .we just added a new Back to Basics Problem Solving unit to our TpT store that is based on the problem solving structures mentioned above. It includes (6) colorful posters that can be displayed in your classroom that illustrate each addition/subtraction structure and a total of 60 generic story problems that can be used throughout the year in math journals. There are 10 to go with each structure.


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In Pervomayskoye village, eight men from a crimean "self-defense" squad intimidated local Tatar activist Ilyas Ibrahimov.
"We are going home," declared crimean Parliament Speaker Vladimir Konstantinov in the capital Simferopol on Sunday night.
Three other mules from the crimean city of Sevastopol were detained at a road checkpoint with $400,000 in cash on them.
All the staff have gathered together at the crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, hundreds of others have come.
"Most people are scared and lost," says Vilora, a 20-year-old economics student, whose family is mixed Russian and crimean Tatar.
The only gun in place at the castle was an obsolete piece that had seen service in the crimean War.
The crimean Sonnets, however, rank among the famous sequences.
It was a crimean war medal which its owner was once proud to wear.
It was for this idea that she allied with England and Turkey in the crimean war.
The naval review at Spithead, upon the close of the crimean war in 1856, was the greatest up to that time.
Peninsula in the extreme southern Ukraine, bordered by the Black Sea to the east, south, and west.
Note: As a former part of the Russian empire, Crimea was one of the strongholds of opposition to the Soviet government after the Russian Revolution.
Note: It was occupied by German troops from 1941 to 1945.
Note: The Crimean War of the 1850s, fought between Russian forces and the allied armies of Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia, was the scene of the battle described in "The Charge of the Light Brigade."


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Gizmodo reports that a new open source application called Popcorn Time lets you stream movies via torrents in Linux, as well as Windows and OS X. This is the first time I've ever heard of an application that could actually stream movies from torrents, I'm sure the movie industry isn't going to be happy about it.
Too impatient to wait for a torrent to download? Then maybe you should check out Popcorn Time—an app that lets you stream torrents to your computer.
Currently in beta, the app lets you search the web's torrents to watch 'em immediately. It chooses the best version, and there are no usage restrictions at all.More at Gizmodo
I suspect that Popcorn Time is going to be a very popular desktop movie application. Like it or not, there are a lot of people out there who get movies from torrents, and they are bound to find Popcorn Time at some point or another.
You should know a few things about it before downloading it, however. The Popcorn Time FAQ points out that there might be legal issues with watching movies via streaming torrents. That is something to be aware of before using Popcorn Time since the movie industry takes a dim view of anyone who views its content without paying for it.
The FAQ also notes that you are seeding movies while watching them. So bear that in mind as you consider the possible legal ramifications of watching copyrighted movie content. You aren't just leeching, you are actively sharing the film as you watch it. This may also have bandwidth ramifications if you are using a metered Internet connection.
One truly odd part of the FAQ was the part about what happens to movies after the user is done watching them. Apparently they are "buried in a secret folder somewhere on your drive until you restart your computer. Then it will be gone for good." I'm not sure how happy that will make Popcorn Time users, their movies vanish when they restart their computers.
Then again the whole point of Popcorn Time is to stream movies, not build a downloaded collection of them. So maybe it won't matter to Popcorn Time users if their movies disappear after a computer reboot. They can also just stream the movie again later if they want.
If you're hoping that you can get Popcorn Time for Android, iOS or other platforms then you'll be disappointed to find out that the developers have no plans to make the app for anything but the desktop.
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As NewsBusters reported earlier (here and here), the New York Times is likely to soon abandon its TimesSelect pay-subscription online service. That's hardly a surprise when you look at the numbers writes Brett Arends:
The New York Times Web site is extremely popular. According to figures tracked by Nielsen/NetRatings, nytimes.com attracted about 12.5 million readers worldwide in June, the month with the most recent data. That's a huge global audience for news, and a large multiple of the Times' print circulation.
The number willing to pay extra for access to TimesSelect?
Just 29% -- a mere 221,000. That figure has risen a miserable 8,000 since the start of the year.
Or, to put it simply, of the 12.5 million who read The New York Times online, fewer than one person in 57 has so far been willing to pay extra to read the Times' big-name columnists online. Let's allow that some of those print subscribers would pay for the service if they stopped getting the paper each morning.
The numbers still aren't very impressive.
What must make this especially galling for the newspaper establishment is that Sulzberger really isn't charging very much for access to TimesSelect. The fee, in fact, is almost insultingly low: $50 a year, or less than $1 a week.
For that you get all the editorials, guest columns and, of course, the latest musings of Dowd, Rich and the gang.
We're talking a few cents a column. Less than a stick of gum.
It isn't a lot.
But still it's finding few takers.


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Published : Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012, 11:07 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The award goes to: Andrea Vellinga.
The survivor of the stage collapse at last summer's State Fair was among 27 honored by Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana as patient of the year. RHI is the acute care rehabilitation hospital where Andrea spent the early phase of her recovery after the stage rigging collapse Aug. 13 that killed seven and injured dozens.
"Just being honored as patient of the year, it is such a genuine, wonderful thing for me to earn that," Vellinga said.
In September, she was on a stretcher when she was first admitted to the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. But this time around, she walked in and left with a big honor.
"It seems every few years we have a patient who essentially becomes what I call the sweetheart of RHI," said RHI's Executive Director Jim Graham. "Behind that smile was what one of her therapists called the most incredible spirit of determination she's seen in 26 years of professional work. Having already defied the odds by surviving, Andrea came to RHI unable to talk and having lost most of her function."
In Vellinga's honor, a brick bearing her name will be placed on the pathway to independence in the garden of the facility where her rehab started
During Wednesday's award ceremony, Andrea wiped away tears as she reflected on her journey.
"It has been life-changing, not just for me but my family as well," Vellinga said. "If I would have given up, it would have never gotten as good for me as it has."
She said "it's amazing" to see home videos documenting her early stages of recovery. She was in a coma for six weeks.
She's still missing a portion of her skull, so she has to wear a helmet for protection. Fittingly, the 30-year-old on Wednesday wore a T-shirt with the message: "Life is tough. I recommend getting a manicure and cute helmet." Vellinga and her mom snagged the shirt from a store in Michigan, where she is finishing up her final weeks of rehab.
Vellinga is home for good in two weeks. Back just in time for her birthday. On that day – May 19 – she plans to walk in a 5k in her hometown of Pendleton.
But before that, she has a list of things to do when she returns home.
"I have 6,000 AOL and 7,000 Gmail messages I need to check," she said. "I need to get on Facebook and make friends with all my therapists."
For more information on Vellinga's birthday celebration visit fortheloveofandrea.com.
The oldest receiving an award Wednesday was an 80-year-old everyone called Mighty Mable. The youngest was a 17-year-old from Franklin. RHI treated about 5,000 patients in 2011 but only 27 were nominated for the honor.


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The U.S. military isn't skeptical about climate change's dangers. Adm. Samuel Locklear III, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, stated that climate change was a bigger security threat than China or North Korea.
Yet Rep. Chris Stewart is skeptical that man-made climate change and its dangers are real or worth remedying ("Utah's Stewart skeptical about climate change threat," Tribune, March 20). He asserts that campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests don't affect his judgment.
What does this say about Stewart's values? To me, it says humility is not one of his values.
Stewart admits he is not a climate change expert, yet he rejects the advice of U.S. military experts and NASA scientific experts. His admission that he is not an expert seems to be false modesty.
Stewart takes huge donations from oil and gas interests, but he avers donations don't affect his policy decisions. Only lack of humility could make him think he is immune to the enticing power of money, although many fine leaders before him have succumbed.
In this holiday season of renewal, I pray Stewart allows his humility to be reborn and guide him as our nation confronts the dangers of climate change.
Rabbi Judy Weiss
Brookline, Mass.