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Captain Kidd's flagship 'found'
Three centuries after the execution of notorious pirate Captain William Kidd, a veteran American diver believes he has found the 17th Century buccaneer's flagship.
Barrie Clifford, along with a team of marine explorers, has discovered a host of tantalising clues, convincing him that a shipwreck discovered near Madagascar is Kidd's Adventure.
Captain Kidd amassed a fortune in gold, silk and jewels during his swashbuckling career, and the fate of his buried treasure has become the stuff of legend.
Pirating the pirate ship
Many have hunted for the booty in vain but Mr Clifford is not divulging whether he thinks the wreck will yield any of Kidd's stolen treasures.
He told the BBC he was concerned that foreign fortune-seekers, might rush to the area near the harbour of Ste Marie, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, and strip the vessel bare.
But, he said he is not worried about his pirate ship being rifled by the residents of the islands because they have previously shown little interest in, or knowledge of, the ship.
So far, the diver and his team have discovered the burnt-out hulk of the galley, along with bottles of rum - the tipple favoured by seamen - and pieces of Ming porcelain dating to the British scoundrel's era.
Buccaneers' haunt
Further exploration is expected to produce a wide range of artefacts such as guns, coins and tools.
The ship was located using British and American archives and modern satellite imaging.
The region was supposedly one of the chief haunts of buccaneers, who would venture out of the island's palm thickets to prey on the slow ships of the British East India Company.
Captain Kidd's fame was spread abroad by the popular ballad "My name is Captain Kidd, as I sailed, as I sailed." Many romances, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island', have been inspired by the legend.
He was hanged on 23 May, 1701 - but not easily. The first rope put around this neck broke so he had to be strung up a second time, again the rope broke but the third one held.
His body was dipped in tar and hung by chains along the River Thames, serving as a warning to would-be pirates for years to come.
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A lot has been said about the proposed rate increases for our water. I'm certain that most people would agree that it is not necessary at this time. I also understand that the increases would be helpful for the payoff of the new water plant.
Here's my point. The plant was built to cover future needs for all the new housing that isn't being built. Therefore, the citizens have to pick up the tab. That, to me, is arrogance at it's best.
We either have or will have meters installed. I fully understand the need for water conservation. Since we are each paying for the meters, they will become our property once paid off. Correct? Is there a guarantee that comes with the meter? If it breaks down, do we have to pay for a new one? I'm certain that "the city" already has all of its meters installed. We need to help "the city" conserve our water.
Finally, I'd like to address water quality. Frankly, it stinks. No, really, it stinks! Not everyone can afford bottled water. We have a right to have our water taste good and not smell!
If "the city" wants more money, I (we) insist that it provide a better product!
Doug Gerard

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J Hardie talks frustatingly slow
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A public split emerged yesterday between ACTU secretary Greg Combet and James Hardie Industries chairman Meredith Hellicar over the progress of talks on asbestos compensation.
A complaint by Mr Combet about the slow pace of the negotiations drew a warning from Ms Hellicar that a "simplistic, quick-fix solution" would not resolve the shortfall in funds for victims of asbestos diseases.
"This is a voluntary funding solution - we have to make sure we can sell it to our shareholders and that we can bank it," she said.
Mr Combet said he was concerned that the company was not serious about settling the talks which started on October 1.
If there was no progress within weeks "clearly the ACTU and the NSW Government and the victims groups are going to be thinking about an alternative course of action," he said.
One option under consideration is the launch of damages suits against the company.
This has been floated by the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation, the trust set up by James Hardie which is facing a possible $2 billion shortfall.
Yesterday the NSW Cabinet eased the way for such legal action when it approved a new law giving the foundation access to the records of the recent special commission of inquiry into the shortfall.
The legislation, expected to be introduced into Parliament today, will also supply the records to the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Premier Bob Carr said the change would ensure NSW confidentiality and professional privilege laws did not restrict the investigation into Hardie's conduct announced by ASIC on September 22.
The foundation's solicitor, Clayton Utz consultant Nancy Milne, said her client still hoped a settlement could be negotiated, "but we continue to work on fallback strategies and we welcome this legislation which will clear the path for claims to be made".


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Meals On Wheels: 1 in 20 Seniors At Risk For Hunger
Meals on Wheels Syracuse says they work every day to feed the 1 in 20 seniors who are at risk for hunger.
The group's executive director Mason Kaufman says seniors who don't eat regularly suffer a higher incidence of diabetes and heart-related problems. Kaufman says their volunteers not only provide home-bound seniors nutritious food, but are often the only in-person contact they will have each day.
He says Meals on Wheels continues to need volunteers to help package meals as well as drivers to deliver those meals. To help, visit meals.org or call them at 478-5948.


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Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Opinion: Carbon dioxide
The GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Database allows access to opinions and conclusions from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972-1980 on the safety of over 370 Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances. The GRAS ingredient reviews were conducted by the Select Committee in response to a 1969 White House directive by President Richard M. Nixon.
Carbon dioxide
- SCOGS-Report Number: 117*
- Type Of Conclusion: 1
- ID Code: 124-38-9
- Year: 1979
- 21 CFR Section: 184.1240
SCOGS Opinion:
The Select Committee could find no data relating directly to the safety of carbon dioxide as a food ingredient. However, there is substantial evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide ingested with foods is negligible compared with that produced normally by the body. Carbon dioxide also has been administered experimentally without ill effects in amount orders of magnitude greater than from possible food sources.
Under resting conditions, an average adult will produce in excess of 500 g of carbon dioxide daily, approximately 2000 times the estimated intake from foods. During moderate or heavy activity, considerably greater amounts of carbon dioxide would be produced. The official occupational standard for the workroom atmosphere is 5000 ppm, equivalent to the inhalation during an 8-hour work day of about 30 g of carbon dioxide. Human subjects have been exposed to 1.5 percent carbon dioxide (a daily inhalation of over 200 g) continually for 42 days without serious or lasting ill effects.
The amount of bicarbonate that could be produced from the ingested carbon dioxide is far less than the amounts routinely ingested in food or used without ill effects as an antacid.
The Select Committee is not aware of any study on the mutagenicity of carbon dioxide. Carcinogenic actions have been reported only after repeated application of the solid form to the skin. Teratogenic effects were produced after inhalation of carbon dioxide at levels far higher than could be obtained from foods.
In considerations of these factors, the Select Committee concludes that:
There is no evidence in the available information on carbon dioxide that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when it is used at levels that are now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future.
*Complete reports containing details of the safety studies that formed the basis of the opinions and conclusions and are available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161 (703) 605-6000.


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Once you're ready to start building your profile click the Get Started button. You have the option of signing up with your e-mail address or connecting to the site via Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Since this is job related I chose to connect via LinkedIn. You'll then provide your username, e-mail address, full name, and a headline.
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Dec. 21, 2004
Affairs Receives Grant From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To
Expand Publication Of Global Health Research And Analysis
Journal To Publish Three International Theme Issues, In Addition To Strengthening Overall Coverage Of Health Issues In Developing Countries
BETHESDA, MD — Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy, has received a $2.95 million, five-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its publication of articles on global health issues.
The bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal published by Project HOPE, a not-for-profit international health education organization, will encourage the submission of manuscripts that analyze global health issues from leaders in the field and encourage other analysts and researchers to turn their attention to these subjects as well. The grant will enable Health Affairs to expand its global portfolio to include more in-depth study of health issues facing the developing world and their implications for U.S. policymakers.
Health Affairs will publish the global health content as part of its regular print edition, which will be made available at no charge online to readers in the lowest-income nations. The journal also will publish international health policy articles as Web Exclusives (Health Affairs' weekly online-only papers that are free to all viewers) and, as part of the grant, will publish three thematic issues devoted to international health policy topics beginning in 2007.
"This project will provide an important new link between research and policy by translating research results for people who make decisions about U.S. policy—in both government and the private sector," said John Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs.
"There is little or no intellectual bridge between advances in thinking about health policy in the U.S. and other advanced economies, on the one side, and progress toward solutions to persistent problems of underfinancing, inequity, lack of risk sharing, and other issues that are common in the developing world, on the other," Iglehart said. "Because many U.S. policymakers read Health Affairs, the journal sees an important opportunity to contribute to the enrichment of discourse in international health policy circles, and to stimulate and document serious, forward-looking research on issues related to the economic, financial, political, institutional and programmatic dimensions of global health.
"We anticipate that the publication of more global health policy material will increase both the number of international readers who see the journal and visit our Web site and also the number of academic researchers and private-sector analysts who submit their work to us for our consideration."
"Health Affairs is a trusted resource for information and analysis on critical health policy issues," said Joe Cerrell, Director of Global Health Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "We're very excited that Health Affairs will be expanding its focus on the health challenges facing developing countries."
To facilitate the expanded publication of international health content, the journal will recruit an editor recognized in international health circles to oversee publication of this content and also create an international advisory board to help ensure the project's success. The journal also expects that the Center for Global Development's Global Health Policy Research Network will be a key source of international health policy material. Material considered for publication in the journal under this grant will be subjected to the same peer-review process that the journal uses with all of its content.
The Gates Foundation grant will strengthen what has already been a substantial effort in international health policy analysis by the journal. For six years, with support from the Commonwealth Fund, the journal has published an annual international issue, but this effort has focused on the problems of industrialized countries. With the help of the Gates Foundation, Health Affairs will broaden its focus more on global health issues affecting the developing world, bringing these issues and proposed solutions into sharper focus for readers in the United States and other advanced economies.
Founded in 1980, Health Affairs is read by 35,000 people in its bimonthly print edition and 600,000 times a month on the World Wide Web at www.healthaffairs.org. Health Affairs is ranked no. 1 in "impact factor" among all journals of health policy and health services research, and is the "most-read" health care journal on Capitol Hill, according to independent surveys by the Center for Studying Health System Change. The journal is read by government health leaders around the world; health industry decisionmakers at hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical, and technology firms; academics and researchers in such fields as economics, public health, medicine, nursing, political science, health administration, and more; health lawyers; investment analysts; lobbyists; reporters; and students.
Health Affairs, published by Project HOPE, is a bimonthly multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the leading edge in health policy thought and research. Additional peer-reviewed papers are published weekly online as Health Affairs Web Exclusives at www.healthaffairs.org. Health Affairs Web Exclusives are supported in part by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund.
©2004 Project HOPEThe People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.


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Membrane separation systems require no or very little chemicals compared to standard unit operations. They are also easy to scale up, energy efficient, and already widely used in various gas and liquid separation processes. Different types of membranes such as common polymers, microporous organic polymers, fixed-site-carrier membranes, mixed matrix membranes, carbon membranes as well as inorganic membranes have been investigated for CO2 capture/removal and other energy processes in the last two decades. The aim of this work is to review the membrane systems applied in different energy processes, such as post-combustion, pre-combustion, oxyfuel combustion, natural gas sweetening, biogas upgrading, hydrogen production, volatile organic compounds (VOC) recovery and pressure retarded osmosis for power generation. Although different membranes could probably be used in a specific separation process, choosing a suitable membrane material will mainly depend on the membrane permeance and selectivity, process conditions (e.g., operating pressure, temperature) and the impurities in a gas stream (such as SO2, NOx, H2S,
In the International Energy Outlook 2011 (
Membranes are becoming a competitive technology compared to the conventional separation unit operations, e.g., cryogenic distillation, chemical and physical absorption. Membrane gas separation has played an important role in various environmental and energy processes, such as CO2 capture [
An overview of membrane systems used in different energy processes.
The existing fossil fuel power plants for electricity generation without the CO2 capture process could be challenging due to the implication of anthropogenic emissions of CO2 for global warming. A potential solution to reduce CO2 emissions is to develop an efficient CO2 capture technology that can be used to retrofit the existing power plants or design a new combustion process with a high efficiency CO2 capture unit. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) could be an effective way to mitigate the emissions of CO2 into atmosphere from fossil fuel power plants, which can be classified as three different scenarios: post-combustion, pre-combustion and oxyfuel combustion as shown in
Different techniques such as chemical absorption (e.g., MEA, MDEA) and physical absorption (e.g., Selexol, Rectisol), physical adsorption (e.g., molecular sieves, metal organic frameworks) and gas separation membranes can be used for CO2 capture from flue gas in post-combustion processes. Membrane separation is energy saving, space saving, easy to scale up, and can be a promising technique for CO2 capture as suggested by Yang
Three options for CO2 capture from fossil fuel power plants [
Challenges related to standard membrane systems used in post combustion process.
|Flue gas characteristic
|Challenges related to membrane process
|Potential solution
|Membrane requirement
|Low CO2 concentration
|Large quantities of gas need to be treated
|Scaling up of membrane unit
|High CO2 selectivity and permeance, low cost
|Low pressure
|Low driving force
|Compression in feed or vacuum in permeate streams
|High CO2 selectivity and permeance
|High temperature
|Most polymer membrane cannot be used at >100 °C
|Cooling down 40–60 °C
|High thermal resistance
|Harmful componentsin flue gas
|SO2, NOx
|Removal of containments or developing chemically resistant membranes
|High chemical and aging resistance
|Water can pass through the membranes, corrosion of pipeline during CO2 transportation
|Drying of flue gas
|Low H2O/CO2 selectivity
A large EU project (NanoGLOWA) was launched in 2006, which mainly focused on the investigation of potential membrane materials for CO2 capture from flue gas. The project was based on the cooperation between 27 European companies, universities, institutes and power plants (
Many research activities on the investigations of different membranes for CO2 capture have been conducted, some examples are given in [
Liquid membranes have also been investigated for CO2 separation [
Pre-combustion CO2 capture is often referred to as CO2/H2 separation at high temperature and pressure. Both CO2-selective and H2-selective membranes can be used for this application. For a CO2-selective membrane, H2 will be kept in the retentate stream with high concentration and pressure, and can be directly combusted in the turbine. While for H2-selective membranes, CO2 will remain in the retentate stream with high pressure and can be conveniently compressed for transportation and storage. While a CO2-selective membrane at high temperature is rare for this gas pair, several H2-selective membranes have been widely investigated. Membrane is then usually integrated with water-gas shift (WGS) reaction as a membrane reactor for driving the production of H2. Scholes
Choosing a suitable membrane material is mainly dependent on process design, operating conditions, and the location of a membrane system in a pre-combustion process since each type of membrane material has its own optimal operating temperature range and limitations. Palladium (Pd) membrane is typically used for H2 separation and purification in combination with a reactor in water gas shift (WGS). Pd-membrane has an extremely high selectivity for H2 over the other gas molecules. However, Pd membranes may suffer poisoning problems due to interactions with sulfur compounds, CO and unsaturated hydrocarbons which are present in syngas of pre-combustion processes. Some Pd-alloys such as Pd-Au and Pd-Cu membranes have been developed and showed more resistance to sulfur poisoning [
Ceramic membranes can also be used for high temperature applications, especially in the chemically aggressive environment of a pre-combustion process. However, the main challenge of ceramic membranes is the stability of the selective layer in a hot stream. Polybenzimidazole (PBI) is a thermally stable polymer with a reported glass transition temperature of 420 °C, and PBI-based membranes can be operated at high temperature (200–400 °C). Krishnan
A highly selective CO2/H2 facilitated transport membrane in an IGCC power plant was also investigated by Grainger
Oxyfuel (oxygen-enriched) combustion technology provides a promising option based on the combustion using high purity O2 produced from an air separation unit (ASU), thus resulting in a flue gas containing mostly CO2 and water. Water can then be easily removed via condensation, thereby generating high purity CO2 for transportation and storage. One challenge for oxyfuel combustion process is the high combustion temperature with rich O2. Habib
CO2 removal from natural gas (natural gas sweetening) is mandatory to meet the specifications of a natural gas grid since CO2 reduces the heating values of natural gas, is corrosive, and easily forms hydrates to clog equipment or damage pump [
High pressure operation is the main challenge for natural gas processing with membrane systems. Plasticization is indeed always a limited factor for high pressure CO2 rich gas to be separated with membranes [
Process design for CO2 removal by membrane system from natural gas depends on the membrane permeance and selectivity, CO2 concentration in feed stream, specific separation requirement, as well as the location of the plant. Peters
Biogas is considered to be one of the most efficient means of utilizing renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The composition of biogas varies depending on the origin of the anaerobic digestion process, and the main components are methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) as shown in
Typical biogas composition from different sources [
|Composition (vol %) *
|H2S/SO2 (ppm)
|Farm biogas plant
|Sewage digester
Biogas can be used as a renewable energy source for heating, vehicle fuel, combined heat and power (CHP) generation, fuel cell and substitute natural gas. However, depending on the different end uses, specific biogas treatment should be executed. For applications such as vehicle fuel and natural gas grid injection, the acid gases of CO2 and H2S should be removed from raw biogas,
Different techniques such as pressure swing adsorption (PSA), physical absorption (e.g., water scrubbing) [
Hydrogen energy composes the promise of zero emissions as well as energy independence and safety in the transportation sector, which can be produced and recovered from different processes using membrane systems, as summarized in
Main applications of membrane system for H2 production and recovery.
|H2 production by water electrolysis
|H2 PEM electrolyzer
|PEM, FuelGen®
|Commercial production
|Wind/H2 power system
|PEM electrolyzer and fuel cells
|Pilot-scale demonstration
|Methanol steam reforming membrane reactors
|Pd and CMS membrane
|Adjustment of H2/CO ratio in syngas
|Silicon rubber, polyimide
|Plant installed
|Ammonia purge gas
|Plant installed
|H2 recovery in refineries
|Silicon rubber, polyimide
|Plant installed
|Natural gas network transportation
|Carbon molecular sieve membranes
Utsira wind/hydrogen demonstration plant based on proton-exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer [
Hydrogen can also be produced from some industrial processes using membrane systems. The first commercial application of a membrane system for gas separation is hydrogen recovery from the ammonia purge gas using Prism® system produced by Air Products [
If a hydrogen energy-based society is realized, a hydrogen distribution system must be built for hydrogen transportation which will take a long time. A feasible solution is to use the existing natural gas pipeline networks to transport a H2 and natural gas mixture, which was proposed by NaturalHy project (6th EU framework) [
Volatile organic compounds (VOC) might be recovered, instead of being released to atmosphere since some of these compounds are involved in atmospheric pollutions and are strong greenhouse gases. Different techniques such as condensation, absorption, adsorption and vapor permeation,
A schematic process flow diagram of a membrane propylene recovery system [
Gasoline vapor recovery is becoming another important business for membrane gas separation systems. Many gasoline retail stations have installed membrane systems to recover hydrocarbon vapor when it was transferred from trucks to tanks. Some representative companies such as GKSS [
Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has the potential to produce renewable energy from natural and anthropogenic salinity gradients [
A schematic diagram for pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) power generation system [
Membrane technology shows strong potentials in various energy processes including CO2 capture from flue gas in power plants, natural gas sweetening, biogas upgrading, H2 recovery, VOC recovery as well as power PRO generation. However, for any kind of suitable application, a high performance membrane material is required, while taking into consideration some key parameters such as transport properties, durability and mechanical strength. The following aspects can be further investigated to achieve a high efficiency membrane process:
Membrane transport properties (pemeance and selectivity)
Mechanical strength, chemical and thermal stability under a specific operating condition
Membrane durability over the long term by being exposed to real process conditions
Membrane module design
Process design, simulation, optimization and integration
Three specific parameters—environmental, economic and social indicators—are usually employed to compare membrane systems with the other traditional unit operations towards sustainability, and evaluate which technique could be more suitable for a specific application. However, for any specific application, process conditions need to be carefully considered before making a decision. Nevertheless, the prediction is that membrane systems, which require no or very little chemicals compared to standard unit operations, in addition to being easy to scale up and having low energy consumption, will be an environmentally friendly technology for application in energy processes in the future.
The authors want to acknowledge the various project partners in our energy related projects; the Research Council of Norway, Statoil and Petrobras for funding of this study.


text: I am certainly not going to describe this as a deliberate act of deception, however, it seems that a simple phone call to the company to clarify the name of its operating subsidiary would be easy and take only a few minutes. When I call the chairman of ONP, I can reach him on his cell phone day or night and he is always responsive. If I were too lazy to call the company directly, I would probably have referred to the 10-K, which states clearly that "Hebei Baoding Orient Paper Milling Company Limited is the Chinese operating subsidiary" of ONP. The report also goes on to compare ONP to several public companies such as Shandong Chenming (Ticker:HKG 1812), which has a market cap of over 30 times that of ONP, as well as Nine Dragons Paper (Ticker:2689), which has a market cap of more than 70 times that of ONP. The authors of the report seem shocked that ONP is not operating at the scale of these companies and that ONP seems outdated in comparison. This is like comparing Home Depot to the corner hardware store. If I wanted to buy into large-cap stocks, I would buy into large-cap stocks, but in my experience I have made more money by buying into small-cap stocks with room for growth rather than in buying the massive global-scale players who have little room for exponential expansion. The individual production lines at these companies likely cost more than the entire market cap of Orient Paper, so showing pictures of these companies for comparison strikes me as a bit silly. As a result of all of this confusion, I bought quite a few shares of ONP today. Prior to this report, the shares were consistently trading at around $9. Even with the selloff in the overall market I expect a rapid bounce in the share price back to at least $8, with the potential for more upside as ONP reports results. Today, ONP reiterated 2010 guidance of $1.21 per fully diluted share in 2010, which places them at a current multiple of around four times earnings solely due to a single report based on erroneous data. ONP shares closed at $5.09 Thursday, down $1.59, or 23.80%.


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Bakers have their dozen of thirteen goods and R&D centers--at least NCRVE--has its R&D decade of eleven years. As we enter this unique year of our decade of work, I believe an overview of what the Dissemination Program will be up to is in order.
NCRVE is a consortium comprised of research and development professionals at eight sites throughout the country. Headquarters are located at UC Berkeley. The Dissemination Program, situated in the headquarters offices, is responsible for publishing the research results from all Center sites and programs; running a brokering service; maintaining nationwide electronic services; and marketing both Center publications and the Center itself.
The Dissemination Program is, in short, an integral part of the Center's infrastructure. It accomplishes its tasks by striking a balance between user-driven responsiveness, targeted dissemination, and social networking. We use a variety of approaches including database development, information brokering, publications, marketing/promotion, direct interpersonal contacts, and electronic communications.
The Dissemination Program has the task of marketing both the Center's publications and the Center, itself. Dissemination's public information office issues press releases targeted to specific areas; pitch letters and news briefs targeted to specific areas and/or issues; and product and institutional advertisements in professional journals.
Information about Center products and events is also disseminated through the electronic services managed by NCRVE as well as to other electronic listservs and discussion groups. We reach more than 10,000 people through these electronic strategies.
Center products are also advertised through direct mail campaigns, conference display booths, and a complete Products Catalog, available in both printed and electronic formats.
In addition to the institutional advertisements mentioned above, the Dissemination Program provides publicity for the entire Center by publishing a brochure, a yearly Agenda and an annual NCRVE Personnel Directory. The last two respectively describe the Center's mission and areas of work, and the Center's personnel. Our newsletter, CenterWork, carries news from all Center sites and programs.
NCRVE provides a wide range of publications and publicity materials, from short syntheses of research to newsletter articles to lengthy reports. In doing so, we aim to provide knowledge of various kinds--practitioner-based, service-based, policy-based--which will be useful to our various constituents. In 1998, NCRVE anticipates producing between 30 and 40 written materials. Some of these directly result from the Center's R&D as well as service projects. Other publications are derived either as a planned spin-off from a more formal product (e.g., topical brief) or as a secondary material developed by a project (e.g., a conference paper).
NCRVE will be engaged in ten research and development projects and three Dissemination and Training initiatives, of which the Dissemination Program is one. These activities will produce approximately 20 new manuscripts--monographs, training manuals, briefs, executive summaries, workshop materials and so on--which Dissemination's materials review, production, printing and distribution system will nurture into publications. Subjects covered will include information technology education, minority workers mobility, work performance, and performance-based college admissions.[*]
Among these derived materials, the Dissemination Program intends to produce:
The Reprint Series.--This series will include previously published journal articles, book/monograph chapters, op/ed pieces and so on. These materials describe NCRVE contracted-for activities.
The Working Papers Series.--This series includes materials such as papers presented by Center staff or presentations made at Center-sponsored meetings.
CenterWork: NCRVE's Newsletter.--The Center will publish a quarterly newsletter. In 1998, the "New Products" section of previous years will be replaced with a pull-out insert announcing new publications, able to be shared independent of the newsletter itself. We anticipate each of the four issues containing a special "decade of work" section which highlights popular pre-'98 publications.
CenterFocus: NCRVE's Series of Knowledge Synthesis Papers.--The Dissemination Program plans to distribute four syntheses. These papers will be brief but thorough distillations of research, development, evaluation, and practice knowledge on a specific topic. One (possibly two) of the four documents will be new. The remaining issues will be "decade of work" reissues or compilations of past issues.
CenterPoint: NCRVE's Series of Topical Reflective Papers--As David Stern, NCRVE's director wrote in the last CenterWork, "As we head into 1998, we know there is still much to be done toward improving students' preparation for the challenges which await them. Looking back on what has been accomplished, we renew our confidence that progress is possible." This attitude, a combination of reflection and planning for the future, is much in evidence at NCRVE at present, and will find expression in a new publication, CenterPoint. Each issue will recapitulate, update, and synthesize a major research area NCRVE has investigated over its past decade of work. Papers to be on the alert for (beginning this summer ) include:
The Center tries to help its clients find information by operating an information brokering service. You can call our 800 number, write to us, or send email toAskNCRVE. We will try to help you by referring you to appropriate books or professionals, such as researchers, policymakers, and experts in labor, industry, ore business.
We also run a listserv, VOCNET, as well participating in other electronic discussion groups. For the first time in the Center's decade of work, in 1997, electronic channels were used more than the telephone by both us and our clients. Electronic channels carried 58 percent of the Center's brokering communications , compared to 36 percent over the phone.
A unique element of the Dissemination Program's information brokering function is the "Net Gain" column written by myself and David Carlson, Dissemination's electronic communications manager. The column is published in each issue of AVA's Techniques journal; it discusses electronic resources of interest to the vocational education community.
The Center's electronic communications program falls into two broad categories: information servers and electronic mail.
The cornerstone of the Center's electronic services is its World Wide Web server, which was launched in April 1995 and has grown steadily in both scope and usage. The Web server is one-stop electronic shopping for information by and about NCRVE. The Web server provides among its components, basic contact information for all ongoing projects and personnel, a complete Products Catalog searchable by keyword, an email link to the AskNCRVE email information brokering service, full text of many NCRVE publications , a link to the Student Services Resource Database, a searchable calendar of events, links to information on skill standards, and a set of links to other useful vocational education-related sites.
The VOCNET moderated email discussion list continues to be a major feature of NCRVE's electronic offerings, globally connecting vocational educators. Usage stood above 1,600 subscribers in February 1998, with about 125 messages posted per month.
The DISSMN8 email discussion list has been in existence since August 1995. Its focus is educational dissemination. Although usage is much smaller than VOCNET (185 at February's beginning), DISSMN8 is in the words of a subscriber, "[DISSMN8] is doing more than [anything] else at the moment to keep the notion of a dissemination community alive."
Thus, as the Center enters the eleventh year of its "R&D decade,"it is poised to promote vocational education, workforce development and all the major attendant issues through a solid dissemination infrastructure. The Dissemination Program's mandate--to enable the Center to both distribute and market it's ideas, and to be a hub through which people are connected to resources that will help them resolve their pressing educational issues--will continue through 1998.
I remember when my son was a child, and his utter delight in discovering the 13th doughnut in the baker's dozen. I sincerely hope that the Center--in the 11th year of it's decade of work--will be as fruitful in providing you with that extra boost in accomplishing your professional endeavors.
Peter F. Seidman is the director of the NCRVE Dissemination Program.
[*] A complete description of all of NCRVE's 1998 activities will be in The 1998 Agenda for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, which will be published this spring through the NCRVE Materials Distribution Service.


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Going Through Hell For The Dead
Natan Koenig was blotting up blood from the floor of the cafeteria named for Frank Sinatra at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Koenig worked for two hours on that 95-degree afternoon on July 31, arriving soon after a Hamas-made bomb exploded under a table, killing nine people, including two Americans, wounding some 90 others and shattering the lunchroom.
Koenig handed sheets of blood-drenched absorbent paper to a co-worker, who placed them in a plastic bag. The bag would be buried in the grave of one of the victims. According to Jewish tradition, a person's soul resides in his blood.
An ambitious caterer, Koenig, 25, is also a volunteer with ZAKA, the Hebrew acronym for Israel's Disaster Victims Identification team. Members are best-known for showing up in their black skullcaps and yellow reflector vests at the scene of terror bombings to gather up body parts and blood for burial. Of the 604 volunteers — all Jewish men — 570 are Orthodox religious. "Only those with faith can cope with this work," said Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, ZAKA's peripatetic guiding spirit.
Most ZAKA members are also volunteer ambulance medics; upon arriving at terror scenes, the first thing they do is treat survivors. They also go on search parties for missing persons. Much, if not most, of their time is spent helping the living. But ZAKA's signature Jewish mitzvah is in showing "respect for the dead" — going to hellish lengths so people can be buried in a condition recalling, as much as possible, that they were "created in God's image."
Yitzhak Shalita, a computer programmer, saved lives as an ambulance volunteer, but he felt this was a matter-of-fact sort of mitzvah, "nothing heroic." He wanted a more challenging test of faith and dedication, so he joined ZAKA. Now he climbs ladders to scrape bits of human flesh off walls. "With every scrape of the plasterer's knife, you feel a sense of satisfaction," he said.
Shalita was sitting with Koenig and Shlomo Bloch, an Orthodox religious student, one recent night in ZAKA's low-ceilinged, underground bomb shelter in Jerusalem that is its combination equipment room and clubhouse. It's where local volunteers go after a terror attack to evaluate their performance, swap stories, argue, laugh — there's a lot of black humor in ZAKA — and vent about the stresses of their day or night.
Shalita is the soft-eyed rookie of the trio (each is age 25), having joined ZAKA only this year. The first terror bombing he worked was the night of March 9, when a terrorist blew himself up at Jerusalem's Moment cafe, killing 11 people. He got there a few minutes after the explosion, before survivors could even begin to wail. "I went inside, and everything was quiet except for all the cellular phones ringing," he said. "The walls were covered with blood. There were broken tables, plates, salads all over the floor — total chaos. People were lying in a pile, one on top of the other, in a pool of blood."
He saw a woman seated on a chair at the bar, elbow on the counter, head resting in her palm. A man sat next to her with his hand on the bar as if holding a glass. Their eyes were open. "They were both dead, but they looked as if nothing was wrong with them. It was the force of the blast that killed them — internal injuries," Shalita said.
He worked five hours at Moment, well into the middle of the night. He doesn't remember thinking or feeling anything, just mechanically doing one task after another.
"First, we took the corpses that were more or less whole, put them on stretchers, covered them with black plastic bags, and took them out to the tent that the police ID unit had set up," he said. "Then we did the same thing with the large body parts. Then we went back to get the smaller body parts and put them in bags. Then we scraped off the little pieces of flesh that had stuck to the walls and surfaces. The street outside was just covered with them. Then we blotted up the blood with absorbent paper and put that in a bag."
In the identification tent, police and ZAKA volunteers try their best to "piece together the puzzles" of the corpses, as Shalita put it. They take into account where the body parts were found, their appearance and any clothing that might be on them. The final, decisive "piecing together" is done with DNA tests by forensic pathologists at a Tel Aviv laboratory. Bags of blood, flesh and tiny body parts that cannot be identified are buried with the dead.
Needing to talk to a psychologist is not something that strictly Orthodox Israeli men are going to admit, and it was especially hard for the men of ZAKA. "We're the machos of the community," noted Bloch. (As a rule, the strictly Orthodox, or haredim, do not serve in the Israeli Army, seeing it as a corrupter of morals. The "modern Orthodox" do serve, and both volunteer in ZAKA.) But after the wives of several volunteers began complaining that their husbands had grown emotionally flat, detached from their families and normal pursuits, including marital sex, Meshi-Zahav compelled volunteers to go to group therapy at least once a year. In their ZAKA kit is the business card of a psychologist available for counseling 24 hours a day.
"When I went to group therapy I didn't open my mouth to talk, but I listened, and it helped," Bloch said. "I found that I wasn't the only one who had these reactions." Asked what sort, he replied, "If I smell cooked meat a day or two after a terror bombing, I run out of the house."
There have been no suicides or nervous breakdowns among volunteers, Meshi-Zahav said, but recently, an elementary school teacher in ZAKA — members come from various professions — took his class on a field trip to a cemetery. "He's off duty with ZAKA now," Meshi-Zahav noted.
Bloch compares ZAKA to an "elite army unit," and it does have many of the trappings. Volunteers know they are the chosen few; not many people have the fortitude to perform this deed, and consequently they are greatly admired in the haredi community. ZAKA is also respected by mainstream secular Israelis, who tend to resent haredim for the draft deferments and welfare checks many receive for studying full-time in religious schools.
"Most haredim don't go to the army, and they see soldiers and civilians being killed, and they want to do something to help," said Bloch, noting another motivation for joining ZAKA. Haredim are virtually all hardliners about fighting the Palestinian intifada, and when they are literally picking up the pieces of terror victims, they can be in a dilemma over what attitude to take towards a suicide bomber's remains. "You see his body in a thousand pieces, and you want to tear it into a million pieces, but you don't. You're not God, and even the terrorist was created in God's image, so you treat him just like anybody else," Bloch said.
The remains of suicide terrorists are given to the Palestinian Authority for burial, Meshi-Zahav said.
In the cafeteria at Hebrew University, there had been no suicide bomber, just a bomb in a bag; this was why the incident was so "clean," pointed out a ZAKA volunteer. "When there's a suicide bomber, the body parts fly in every direction," he noted. The scores of wounded people had been evacuated, the seven people killed had been taken in plastic bags to the forensic lab, the blood had been soaked up. Koenig's work was finished.
Getting into his car, he noticed traces of drops of blood on his forearms. "I thought I'd washed it all off," he said. "What I want now more than anything else is to go home and take a good, long shower."


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Education Minister announces $2.7 million to lift achievement of at-risk students
Education Minister Hekia Parata has announced that $2.7 million will be invested in new teaching hubs for at-risk students who are enrolled in Te Kura – the Correspondence School.
Ms Parata told TVNZ's Q+A programme that the four year initiative will focus on up to 80 Year 9-11 students already enrolled at Te Kura and who don't currently have face-to-face support.
The programme has been designed by Te Kura and will also offer work-placement opportunities.
"We are going to have four places in South Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Christchurch and New Plymouth where there will be a physical hub where the young people who are on correspondence school can go to."
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Our first cruise: Norwegian Jade Cruise Review by theinternationals
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Our first cruise
Destination: Europe - Eastern Mediterranean
Embarkation: Venice
The ship is a nice size and our room was at mid ship so we were close to everything. The decor was also really nice.
The ship offered non-stop activities for every age and the daily shows were great.
Service was great and the crew was very nice and helpful also everybody spoke English.
We went ashore in Dubrovnik, Athens, Izmir and Split. We loved all the locations though I think a sailing earlier in the year would be better because all the locations were extremely hot already in June.
We didn't take any of the excursions offered by the ship because for a family of four and our 15 year old counting as an adult it was simply to expensive. We took the More local buses and at one location a taxi and it was just fine and much cheaper. Though make sure that your taxi driver actually speaks English because our driver in Izmir didn't at all. Thankfully I speak German and he did a little bit as well. The problem is that the people that approach you at the port are not the drivers but representatives of the taxi companies.
We had a stateroom with balcony and it was an OK size because you don't want to be in the room for most of the day anyways but I was glad to have opted for a balcony because the views were incredible and it gave us a bit of privacy from the kids when we needed it.
Speaking of children it was a mess getting our 8 year old checked into the club every day. Not all of the childcare providers spoke English and long lines formed. The program was good and our son always had fun. The same goes for the teens even though most of them just hung out in groups on board. We received a great tip from someone on cruise critic and that was to make sure your teen doesn't miss the first activity because this is the time the groups form and you'll never see these teens in the teen club again...
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N aashon Hughes was out to prove a point.
After several University of Texas coaches essentially informed him he wasn't good enough to be included in this year's class, the Harker Heights 6-foot-4, 215-pound senior linebacker went into the 2012 season with a major chip on his shoulder. He was going to show everyone he could go one-on-one with the opposition's best and shut them down.
"Defensively, as a leader on the team, you can't go tell your guys to go make a play when you can't make one," Hughes said. "So I tried to put myself against the best player for the other team and make a play."
It was that tenacity to go against the best that made Hughes an obvious choice to be the 2012 Killeen Daily Herald All-Area Defensive Most Valuable Player.
The list of players Hughes negated this season reads like a who's who of area Division I prospects: Belton tight end Durham Smythe (uncommitted), Temple quarterback Zach Allen (signed with Syracuse), Shoemaker tailback Johnny Jefferson (committed to Baylor), and Ellison tailback Isiah Cowan.
"I definitely take challenges (to heart). Johnny, Durham, all those guys are great players and I like to think of myself as a great player and I'm always up to that challenge," Hughes said, limiting Smythe to zero catches in a 7-0 upset of Belton and holding Jefferson to just 3.8 yards per touch in a 28-12 win over Shoemaker.
Hughes captained a senior-laden Harker Heights defense that finished second in District 8-5A and helped carry the injury-plagued Knights (4-7, 4-3 8-5A) to the program's first playoff appearance since 2006. Hughes finished with 74 tackles (36 solo), 19 for loss, two fumble recoveries and a single-season school-record 7 sacks.
Although the year ended on a sour note with a 62-15 bi-district loss to No. 2 DeSoto, Hughes' best memories outweigh the losses, including his game-winning tackle of Cowan in a 25-22 double-overtime win, or outjumping Smythe and knocking down a potential game-tying touchdown pass late in Heights' first victory of the season.
"Maybe that Durham play, that was pretty nice because we were both committed to Texas at the time, so got to pat him on the butt a little bit and say 'See you again,'" Hughes said.
All-Area First-Team Defense
DL: Billy Hatten, Copperas Cove, Sr. — En route to a unanimous selection to the District 8-5A All-District First Team, the defensive tackle accounted for 54 total tackles, including 40 solo and 17 for a loss, while leading the Bulldawgs with seven sacks.
DL: Joe Guthrie, Belton, Sr. — The first-team All-District 8-5A selection, the 6-foot, 210-pound end lead Belton with six sacks on 54 tackles (19 for loss) and 24 quarterback hurries despite missing the final three games.
DL: Peyton Searcy, Killeen, So. — The District 8-5A newcomer of the year had 45 tackles, 21 solo, with three sacks, three tackle for losses and five quarterback pressures.
DL: Nate Leota, Harker Heights, Sr. — The 6-foot, 300-pound senior road grater solidified the Knights defensive line after two-way starter Darius James went down, with seven tackles for loss, one interception, one forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
LB: Jonathan Massey, Shoemaker, Sr. — The second-team All-District 8-5A pick and team defensive captain led the Grey Wolves with 64 tackles, six sacks and 21 tackle for losses.
LB: Brantley Cole, Gatesville, Sr. — No Hornet recorded more solo tackles (79), tackles for a loss (10) or sacks (4) than Cole, who was an all-district first team member and finished the season with 176 total tackles, broke up four passes and recovered a fumble.
LB: Elijah Crosby, Gatesville, Sr. (Not Pictured) — Named the District 8-3A Defensive Player of the Year, Crosby led Gatesville in assists (126) and total tackles (190), while delivering four tackles for loss, breaking up 10 passes, causing a pair of fumbles and recovering another.
DB: Tyrel Stokes, Harker Heights, Sr. — The Class 5A second-team all-state selection racked up a team-high 140 tackles (just four shy of the single-season school record), with 87 solo tackles (21 for loss), four sacks, three interceptions, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
DB: Kyle Battle, Belton, Sr. — The 8-5A first-team all-district pick had 57 solo tackles and three interceptions, combining on a district-leading 115 return yards, including a 95-yard pick-6 in a 49-14 win over Shoemaker.
DB: Deric Robertson, Killeen, Sr. — The Oklahoma State-pledge posted 50 tackles, 34 solo, to go along with seven batted passes, two interceptions — one he returned for a 43-yard touchdown — and four forced fumbles.
DB: J.D. Nolte, Gatesville, Sr. (Not pictured) — A constant threat in the secondary, Nolte intercepted a pair of passes, recovered two fumbles and posted 92 total tackles (46 solo, 46 assists) as the Hornets held opponents to 132.1 passing yards and 22.0 points per game.
P: Keith Herbert, Harker Heights, Sr., P — Keith Herbert, Harker Heights: The District 8-5A second-team punter led the district with 1,433 punting yards on 36 attempts and was second in the district with a 39.81 yards-per-punt average.


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Volume 13, Issue 2: Presbyterion
Douglas Wilson
Decades ago when the fundamentalists attacked Billy Graham for his willingness to share his platform with theological liberals, it was easy to dismiss their concerns with a roll of the eyes. At that time, modern evangelicalism still had a doctrinal backbone, and it was possible to see the whole effort as a form of strategic evangelism. But since that time, in what he is willing to bless, not only has Billy Graham capitulated both to Roman Catholicism and liberalism, it is also clear he has become a liberal himself. Far from winning liberals with the gospel, the liberals tragically won him. And, so as far as this issue goes, the fundamentalists were demonstrably right.
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2011 NCAA College Football – Week 13 Preview
For many schools across the country, this is rivalry week: the game that determines bragging rights and, in many cases, a coach's future employment. But after last week's chaotic BCS shakeup, a slew of one-loss teams are suddenly back in the national title mix, anxiously hoping for some SEC upsets to give them a shot. Combine that intrigue with a slew of heated rivalries and teams jockeying for conference championships and bowl positions, and it should be another exciting week in college football. Here are all the highlights from this week in the AP Top 25.
NCAA College Football – Week 12 Recap
The day started with Lee Corso letting loose an expletive on 'College Gameday,' and things just got crazier from there. The BCS was officially thrown into chaos as three of the nation's top five teams all went down to defeat. #1 LSU remained in the driver's seat for the title game with another dominating win, but any number of one-loss schools are now back in the mix for the title game. The biggest beneficiary of this week's upsets will likely be #6 Arkansas, who could move as high as #3 when the new polls come out and still have to play LSU, meaning the Razorbacks could control their own destiny for a spot in the national championship game (but, oddly, not for the SEC title game).
Here are all the highlights from this week in the Top 25.
Joe Paterno Afflicted With Lung Cancer After Firing From Penn State
Less than 10 days after being fired from a job he held for nearly 46 years, former Penn State coach Joe Paterno revealed Friday he has lung cancer. A statement delivered by son Scott Paterno said the cancer is treatable and doctors expect the coaching legend to make a full recovery.
Missouri Coach Gary Pinkel Arrested for DWI
Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel was arrested late Wednesday night for driving while intoxicated..
Former Notre Dame Coach Bob Davie Hired at New Mexico
ESPN commentator and former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie has been named the new head coach at the University of New Mexico. Davie was 35-25 in five years at Notre Dame, but hasn't coached since 2001.
2011 NCAA College Football – Week 12 Preview
With the season winding down, things are really starting to get tight for a lot of teams. LSU and Oklahoma State control their own destinies in the national title hunt, but there is still a lot of movement that could occur if one of those two loses. Several teams are still trying to lock up spots in their respective conference championship games while others are just trying to improve their bowl resumes.
We've had plenty of upsets in college football this year, and this week has all the signs of some more coming soon. Nine ranked teams, including five of the top 10, are going on the road against teams with .500 or better records and three ranked teams are in action Thursday or Friday night to whet your appetite for another big weekend of college football. Here are all the highlights to look for this week in the AP Top 25.
Yale Quarterback Turns Down Shot at Rhodes Scholarship to Play Harvard
Yale officials announced Sunday that quarterback Patrick Witt withdrew his application for the Rhodes Scholarship so that he will be able to play against archrival Harvard this weekend.
Big Ten Removes Joe Paterno's Name From Championship Trophy
In the wake of the ongoing child sex abuse scandal that rocked the Penn State campus, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany announced Monday that the trophy given to the winner of the first-ever Big Ten championship game will no longer bear the name of legendary coach Joe Paterno.
NCAA College Football – Week 11 Recap
After all the disgusting headlines out of Penn State dominating the sports world this past week, it was good to return to the field with some actual football. And the Top 25 gave us plenty of excitement to discuss.
Seven ranked teams, including two in the Top Five, went down to defeat. Boise State saw its BCS hopes die on a missed field goal as time expired (again). Oregon downed Stanford in a wild Pac-12 shootout. Oklahoma State looked every bit the part of a title contender. And Penn State hit the field without Joe Paterno at the helm for the first time in 46 years. Here are all the highlights from this week in the AP Top 25.
2011 NCAA College Football – Week 11 Preview
While we may not have the marquee appeal of another #1 vs. #2 matchup this week, there are still plenty of huge games in college football this week. Third-ranked Stanford must face #6 Oregon to keep its national title hopes alive, while #12 Penn State will look to escape all its controversy with a big game against #19 Nebraska in its first game since Joe Paterno was relieved of his duties. And, to whet your appetite for another big Saturday, three top 25 teams are in action this Thursday night. Here's what you should look for in this week's games involving teams from the AP Top 25.


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Brooks & Dunn, Red Dirt Road (***½ out of four) Three years ago, Brooks & Dunn seemed stuck in a steady decline, creatively and commercially. But Red Dirt Road completes an impressive career turnaround that began with 2001's Steers & Stripes. Drawing for the first time on personal experience as much as songwriting craft, the duo lines Red Dirt Road with evocative songs such as the coming-of-age title cut, When We Were Kings and Holy War, a hidden track that mocks religious militarism while declaring with Pentecostal fervor that "righteousness will have its day." And where many country albums aspire to classic rock's emotional resonance, Red Dirt Road is one of the few that actually succeeds, and on its own terms, with slide guitars and gospel vocals powerfully accenting Brooks & Dunn's cranked-up honky-tonk. —Brian Mansfield
Brad Paisley, Mud on the Tires (***½) If anybody could benefit from country's old policy of releasing a new album every nine months, it's Brad Paisley. At the point most country discs start to wrap things up, Paisley's third album takes off in every direction at once, with a gospel tune, a Vern Gosdin cover, a shaggy-dog tale about cigars and an instrumental-cum-radio-drama featuring the talents of Bill Anderson, George Jones, Little Jimmy Dickens and guitarist Redd Volkaert. Paisley could have spun all those ideas into separate albums and still have been left with one of the year's best country releases. Highlights include Celebrity, the genre's finest bit of social satire since Alan Jackson's Gone Country, and Whiskey Lullaby, a duet with Alison Krauss that one-ups He Stopped Loving Her Today by turning the tale into a double suicide. (Related item: Hear a clip of Celebrity. )—Mansfield
Mya, Moodring (***) If you believe, you know mood rings change color to reflect the wearer's emotional state. On her third album, Mya shows off a broad spectrum of colors, though deep blue (passionate on the mood-ring chart) predominates. First single My LoveIs Like ... Wo and the steamy Anatomy One-on-One hark to late-night booty calls. Why You Gotta Look So Good? finds her in angst over a bad relationship, while on Late she's stressing her boyfriend because a certain time of the month has passed. She shows her sweet side on ballads such as Fallen and You, but haters (Whatever Bitch), rivals (Step) and lame lovers (Taste This) had better duck for cover. The 22-year-old Mya, whose profile has been raised greatly by the Lady Marmalade remake on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack and her appearance in the film Chicago, has matured nicely since her debut nearly five years ago. She shows no fear of flying off in new, creative directions. (Related item:Hear a clip of My Love is Like ... Wo) —Steve Jones
Macy Gray, The Trouble With Being Myself (***) The trouble with — and charm of — Macy is that her quirky voice and off-kilter takes on life and love usually take some getting used to. At least nobody can accuse her of being formulaic. On Screamin' she sings of the joys of sex, while the percolating She Don't Write Songs About You finds her warning a lover off another woman. Jesus for a Day muses about changing the world, and the guitar-fueled When I See You has her anticipating a makeup after a breakup. Of course, you can count on at least one murderous song on the set, and she doesn't disappoint with My Fondest Childhood Memories. In the song, she rescues her happy home by offing the extramarital lovers of each of her parents, thus preventing a divorce. It's a bit warped, but there is a logic to it. (Related item: Hear a clip of When I See You.)—Jones
Tony Rich, Resurrected (***) Back in 1996, Tony Rich was hailed as one of the new stars who would lift R&B out of its doldrums. His debut album, Words, won a Grammy in that category — even though pop radio was far more instrumental in its success — and the singer/songwriter seemed well on his way. Seven years have passed, and aside from a largely ignored second album, Rich has been off the radar. That should change with the eclectic Resurrected, on which the multi-instrumentalist weighs in with everything from free-spirited rock to acoustic ballads to bubbling funk. The easygoing Traveling Alone contrasts with the more pointed sentiments of the post-divorce Don't Call Me. Rich does that kind of gear-shifting throughout the album, offering the techno-funk Future Daze one minute and the mellow Red Wine the next. Whether the album will speak as loud as Words remains to be seen, but Rich's voice has surely been resurrected. (Related item:Hear a clip of Traveling Alone. )—Jones
Jane's Addiction, Strays (***½) Fans who have waited 13 years for a fresh fix from Jane's Addiction will find every craving satisfied by this remarkable reunion album, the L.A. quartet's first studio collection since 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual. The band's experimental zest and knack for volatile compounds remain intact, but gone are the pretensions and self-indulgence that marked early efforts (and various side projects). Strays offers compact, arena-ready songs that are simultaneously nimble and sturdy, with madcap displays of metallic crunch, funk-pop, industrial sizzle and spacey atmospherics. Perry Farrell, whose voice is less wispy but still a unique (or eunuch) instrument of otherworldly androgyny, gets on a soapbox about corporate greed, political corruption and toxic humanity, but his lyrics are so loopy that the lessons come across as cosmic poetry rather than sermons. While steered by Farrell's eccentric vision, Strays is primarily a platform for gonzo guitarist Dave Navarro, whose power-chord frenzies spiral off into dazzling fits of psychedelia, acid rock and slippery funk. The album represents a brilliant reinvention of Jane's Addiction, whose habit-forming tunes set a new high for comeback ventures. (Related item:Hear a clip of Just Because) —Edna Gundersen
American Wedding (***) Employing a familiar formula, this soundtrack peppers previously released tunes by modern-rock faves such as the Foo Fighters and American Hi-Fi with fresh material. In this case, much of the latter is worth hearing. A few of the better tracks introduce new acts: the Working Title's brisk, sunny Beloved and NU's bubbly, '80s-flavored Any Other Girl. Among more established contributors, The Wallflowers serve up a nicely understated cover of Van Morrison's Into the Mystic, and Avril Lavigne offers I Don't Give, yet another sweetly feisty showcase for the in-demand pop savvy of her collaborating writer/producers, The Matrix. —Elysa Gardner
Gavin DeGraw, Chariot (***) The young male singer/songwriter seemed an endangered species in the mid-to-late '90s, but this New York club favorite's debut adds to growing proof of a resurgence. Unlike John Mayer and David Gray, two other estrogen-challenged minstrels who have enjoyed success in recent years, DeGraw seems drawn less to modern influences than classic rock and soul. Billy Joel and Elton John are obvious references, but driving, R&B-laced numbers such as the title track and More Than Anyone also nod to Stevie Wonder and blues-based revivalists such as the Black Crowes. DeGraw's earnest traditionalism may not make him a critical darling, but his muscular, melodic tunes are likely to play as well in Peoria as they have in Manhattan. —Gardner
Pete Droge, Skywatching (**½) Take Tom Petty, dip him in caramel, roll him in sugar and you'd have Pete Droge on his fourth album, a mildly entertaining treat with more saccharine than substance. Though the Seattle-based singer dabbles with keyboard flourishes and vocal alterations, his candy-coated alternative rock is mellow to a fault, resulting in such missed opportunities as the over-sweetened soul of Train Love to Stay. There's nothing as charming as his 1994 breakthrough, If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself), yet Droge makes up for lackluster lapses with edgy flair in Things Will Change and Go My Way and Bring Up the Failure. —Gundersen
Paloalto, Heroes and Villains (***) Every now and then, a group of young musicians shows a curious capacity for world-weariness and theatrical melancholy — and usually, they're not from California. But while Paloalto may hail from sunny L.A., the lush, brooding songs on its latest album are rooted squarely in the more bittersweet tradition of post-Beatles British rock, and frontman James Grundler delivers them in a plaintive wail that combines McCartney's yearning with the moody melodrama practiced by Morrissey and his latter-day disciples. Not all of the material is supple enough to sustain the band's weighty approach, but at its peaks — the richly textured Sleeping Citizens, the haunting Hangman—Heroes achieves a radiant ruefulness that few acts on our side of the Atlantic even reach for. —Gardner


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megane 2000 1.6 16 valve Car was running perfectly until mid Dec when crank pulley inner and outer came apart causing aircon belt to snap.This resulted in belt particles getting into the cambelt gears.This caused cambelt to slip a gear resulting in bent valves. Head has been redone , valves replaced, the idle control valve as well as the ignition sensor have also been replaced. The mechanic cannot get the ideling to stabilise at correct revs, it just continues going up (2000 - 2500 revs) Its 2 months later, we cant use the car and the mechanic & auto electrician canot get it right!! PLEASE HELP!!!
How long will we wait for an answer?
I think it indicated the ECU. That was then taken out and sent to JHB for checking and has come back, been fitted and they say the readings are all correct.
Is it normal for so many things to go wrong following the aircon belt snapping?
Any idea how much longer this will be ?
Hi Mike, I certainly hope you are on line tonight!
I consulted with the mechanic and auto electrician today regarding the info you supplied. They advise that this vehicle does not have an air meter. They say their next step on Monday will be to recheck the electric circuits that control the idling and to compare it to a vehicle with a similar engine to see if they get the same readings.
I must mention that when you first start the car the idling is fine but after driving for about 10 minutes it just starts rising.
I spoke to someone today who suggested that they should replace the O ring of the throttle body where it attaches to the engine.
Can you give me any other advice? We are really desperate to get this car right now... after all its been with the Mechanic for two months!
Thanks Mike. I will discuss this with them on Monday and see how far we get now.
Hi Mike
The car is still at the auto electician who is now checking the wiring.
I have discussed your last info with the mechanic who advises us to let you know all that he has done thus far:
vacuum leak test - tested for air leaks
scoped map sensor - pass
scoped idle air control - fail
tested IAC (brand new) pins A & D 50 and pins B & C 50 (omes)
scoped pin out at ECU
Engine idling
ECM pin 41 - no signal
pin 12 - no signal
pin 42 - no signal
pin 72 - no signal
IGNITION ON ....................Book Values
ecm pin 12 - 12.46 v ..........Battery voltage
41 - 0.03 v.......................... Battery Voltage
42 - 0.03 v.......................... 0.3 v
72 - 0.03v............................ 0.27v
Two fault codes on ECM that will not clear no number for codes only description:
***idle control mal function.
If you are able to look through this info, we would appreciate any further suggestions.
Thanks so much
tested IAC (brand new) pins A & D 50 and pins B & C 50 (ohms)
Please give me more info on the company I should contact regarding the ecu.. I tried calling the number you gave me and it just said it doesnt exist.
I am in East London, South Africa.
The auto elecrician resorted to fixing the idle air control in a permanent position by glueing it.
This allows the car to idle at 1100 rpm and when the aircon is on it drops to 900rpm. This has enabled us to use the motorcarsince yesterday. I am however concerned about the long term effects on the engine. Could this have an adverse effect on the cars performance?
Kindly let me hae your view on this.
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I heard a story once about a Native American elder who was asked how she had become so wise, so happy, and so respected. She answered: "In my heart, there are two wolves: a wolf of love and a wolf of hate. It all depends on which one I feed each day."This story always gives me a little shiver. It's both humbling and hopeful. First, the wolf of love is very popular, but who among us does not also harbor a wolf of hate? We can hear its snarling both far away in distant wars and close to home in o … [Read more...]
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. A recent survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association indicated that local pharmacists stepped up to the plate to make sure that patients' healthcare needs were met during the 2009-2010 winter season.
NCPA polled 85 community pharmacies in 26 snow-plagued states over a seven-day period in February, while much of the East Coast was still digging out from snow storms and some areas braced for additional winter precipitation.
The survey findings reveal a deep commitment to continue serving patients despite the trying circumstances:
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NOTE: This was the shot chosen by the publishers for my book on mushrooms. Interestingly it was NOT one of the several shots that I suggested to the publishers myself. Although I had no strong objections and after all it is THEIR money.
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Caps are 0.5-3 cm across, dry, scurfy to minutely scaly, convex to flat or depressed and umbilicate, with a scalloped margin, bright orange-red, and fading to orange or yellow. Gills are decurrent, well-spaced, broad, and usually paler than cap. Stalks are up to 8 cm tall by 4 mm broad, smooth, and coloured as the cap or paler. Spore prints are white. It fruits on the ground in moist woods. Also called Hygrocybe cantharellus.


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In the third city of the Aude, so much closer to Toulouse that it is no longer really a Languedoc town, but well anchored in the South-West, time seems to have stopped. It has left its sheen on the numerous old town houses, the homes of judges and other notables of the Presidium established in the upper village by Catherine of Medicis, the countess of Lauragais. It still rings with the bells of the Collegiate Saint-Michel, flagship of the faith sitting atop the old neighborhoods, almost menacing, tickling in its way the nostrils of visitors who have come for the most part to taste the iconic local dish, the ancestral cassoulet of Castelnaudary.
It is useless to try to find its roots elsewhere, cassoulet is the quintessence of rural Lauragais, of which Castelnaudary is the gastronomic epicentre, especially on the day of the 'foire au gras', the first Sunday in December. The famous stew from the surrounding countryside that women took to the bakers in the town in their conical dishes, made of clay from the slopes of the Black Mountain and the banks of the Canal, to have it cooked there is the cement of a festival celebrated at the end of every August. Town and villages dazzle for a family festival and countrified celebration of the old days.
When goose confit, pork jowls, sausage and beans release their endorphins, the weight of the present is lifted and at the Grand Basin the history of the sumptuous inauguration of the Canal Royal of 19 May 1681 is revived. This canal was the fulfillment of the dream of the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet, the dream of linking the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Castelnaudary has always sailed between the two sea without being able to choose one or the other.
At the end of the day, or on some winter mornings, in the shadows of the Black Mountain, which provides its water, the Grand Bassin, the starting point of riverboat cruises heading for Narbonne, reflects the gold of the sun and the white peaks of the Pyrenees to give new sparkle to sleepy facades.
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Taylor Swift bought a house right next door to the Kennedys after only dating 18-year-old Conor for the summer, so you'll probably be surprised to learn that ended with him immediately dumping her as soon as he started his senior year of high school (Yup.) and remembered, "Oh, right, there are chicks who'll have sex with me without turning it into a multi-platinum album. I'll bang them." Us Weekly reports:
"They quietly parted ways a while ago," the friend explains of the "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" crooner, 22, and the high school senior, 18. "It was just a distance thing. No hard feelings. They're fine."
In related news, Taylor Swift just announced her latest single, "I Spent An Entire Summer Eating Seafood, Which I Hate, But Still Blew You And All You Did Is Lee Harvey Oswald My Heart (Wicked Pissah Remix)."
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A woman found dead in her apartment Friday died of a gunshot wound to the head and multiple sharp force injuries, according to the Bexar County medical examiner's office.
Crystal Davis, 30, hadn't come to school to pick up her son so relatives went to her apartment in the 1600 block of Hedges where they found her dead upstairs, according to a police report.
Police at the scene said she may have been stabbed to death but the report also mentioned "trauma to the back of the head."
A home health care worker, Davis was last seen when her son went to school that morning. Her family found her just before 5 p.m.
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Davis was devoted to her 10-year-old son, her family said. She was also one of 10 siblings.