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Updated to note that UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad is free to play for the Bruins. He will have to repay $1,600 and was given a three-game suspension that he has already served.
Five-star forward Aaron Gordon has narrowed his list to three schools, and Arizona is one of them.
Gordon's mother, Shelly, told the San Jose Mercury News via email that her son is also still considering Washington and Kentucky. That means Oregon and Kansas have been dropped.
Rondae Jefferson raved about his future school to the Daily Times of Delaware County, Pa., upon signing his LOI for Arizona.
"I just feel like as though that's a home away from home out there," Jefferson said. "The campus love is awesome, the coaching staff are great guys. It's like a family out there. They all love each other. I think we have a great chance of competing for a national championship at the college level. It's all about heart, and with me, I bring that a lot, and it tends to rub off."
Here are Miller's comments on Jefferson and Elliott Pitts from Thursday night if you missed them.
Arizona also issued a release this afternoon on Jefferson and Pitts, with some background on the players and comments from Miller.
We have posted an e-edition of Sunday's special basketball section. It's definitely worth a look if you are out of town or were otherwise unable to get a print copy via home delivery or the stand-alone sales now being done. A lot of talented people pitched in on it.
You can catch Arizona's next opponent, Long Beach State, hosting North Carolina tonight at 9 p.m. Arizona time on ESPNU.
Colorado upset Baylor in Charleston, S.C.
Mike Montgomery is hoping other top recruits will follow Jabari Bird to California.
Florida reinstated Scott Wilbekin.
Newly cleared Arsalan Kazemi is expected to make his Oregon debut tonight against Vanderbilt.
ASU received Chance Murray's LOI.


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guys SS forum is a bit dull now. So I thought of a new thing. This is what I have seen in RF sorry Remix forum of which I am a member(my fav) It is caleed the Member of the Week (MOTW). Every week a member is chosen as the MOTW. but b4 it is announced other members are to guess who the MOTW. clues about ths MOTW are given. after the MOTW is chosen the other member ask a set of 5 questions to that person ex:-
ur fav colour ? Shaina or Deepika ? what is the meaning of ur name? who is a closer friend Akanksha or Smriti? ur best frend on the forum?
the MOTW has to answer all the questions.the questions can be absolutely sillythat doesn't matter. and if the ques is like choosing between 2 ppl then those 2 ppl pls don't mind. this is just a game. Hope u guys like the idea. And if u don't mind guys I would like to take the charge of choosing the MOTW ( if u all don't mind) I'll post the clues about the next week's MOTW soon. I hope u all like this idea. pls reply.
and also we can have a discussion of the week. any other member like Praveena, Sofia or Reshma or any1 else can take up the responsibility. It is like and arguementative composition. A topic is give with 2 options. u have to choose only 1 option and write about that option.Ex- Love or Friendship etc. Thea person incharge has to read all the posts and choose a winner. 2nd and 3rd prize can also be given. The winner gets to choose the next topic of discussion and he/she will be the judge too. Then again a winner is chosen who will give a new topic and be the judge. This is how it continues. Hope u guys like the idea.
Please reply. If u all agree then we can start these 2 activities to make our forum more active.
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Test your mastery of policical history and odd facts. Answers are in a related story at the end of this one so it's harder to cheat. A collection of historic political photos are attached to this story.
1. Who is the first governor to actually be born in the state of Arizona?
2. What athletically inclined former Arizona governor was elected to his sport's national hall of fame?
3. Carl Hayden is famous for representing Arizona in the United States Senate for seven terms. What did he do before starting his 42-year Senate marathon?
4. Who was our first woman governor?
5. Who was the first Tucsonan elected governor?
6. What governor spent the shortest time in office?
7. What state has seen the largest number of its native sons and daughters become governor of Arizona?
8. How many of Arizona's 22 governors spent time as Secretary of State before moving into the executive office? How many were actually elected to their first term?
9. Everyone knows Arizonan Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice. But what Arizonan almost beat her out for that honor 15 years earlier?
10. Who is the only Arizonan to serve as majority leader in either house of Congress?
11. What significant relics of three presidential administrations can be found in Tucson?
12. Of the 52 delegates to Arizona's 1910 constitutional convention, which county supplied the most?
13. Arizona's constitution was ratified by Congress and signed by President Taft in February 1912. Less than nine months later, Arizona voters went to the polls and approved a radical change. What did they do?
14. Members of the Udall family are dotted throughout Arizona political history at all levels of government, including two who served as mayors of Phoenix. What sets them apart from, arguably, the most storied member of the clan, former U.S. Rep. Morris K. Udall?
15. How was Isabella Greenway, Arizona's first woman elected to Congress, introduced to politics?
16. Presidents Barack Obama, and before him, George W. Bush, have made Arizona a regular stopping off place. But who was the first sitting president to visit Arizona?
17. What did retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl do before going into politics?
18. What current state lawmaker replaced Gabrielle Giffords in the state Senate when Giffords resigned to run for Congress?
19. What state lawmaker has the most kids?
20. Who was the last Democrat to carry Arizona in a presidential election?
21. Who was the last Tucson's last mayor to go on to higher public office?
22. Who were Arizona's first U.S. senators?
23. Which U.S. senator from Arizona holds the record for longest tenure in office?
24. Which Arizona U.S. senator holds the record for shortest time in office?
25. Who is the only politician to serve Arizona at the highest level of all three branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial?
26. Which political party has had more U.S. senators in Arizona?
27. Which political party, Democrats or Republicans, has had more Arizonans in Congress?I28. What former governor's son has tried three times unsuccessfully to follow in his father's footsteps?
28. What former governor's son has tried three times unsuccessfully to follow his father's footsteps?
29. Who is the youngest person elected to represent Arizona in Congress?
30. How many women have represented Arizona in Congress?
31. What year did Arizona gets its second seat in Congress?
32. Who are the only two people who have been governor of Arizona and also represented the state in the U.S. Senate?
33. Who are the only father and son to serve Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives?
34. How many years had John McCain lived in Arizona before being elected to his first term in office?
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Can Science Justify Preschool?
By Verne Bacharach, Ph.D.
About 20 states have initiated or are in the process of initiating free pre-K programs for children in low-income families. These programs are enormously expensive. In my home state of North Carolina, the Smart Start program will cost over $300 million a year when fully implemented. The state of Alabama is trying to start a program called Kidstuff, essentially a replication of Smart Start, and it too is projected to cost about $300 million when fully funded. These are government estimates, so we know that the actual cost will be considerably higher.
What is the scientific justification for these programs and is there any reason to support them? The primary rationale is educational. People talk about "school readiness." The argument is that children who go through these programs will be better prepared for school. The theory is that they will be intellectually more advanced and their behavioral development will be improved. In reality, these programs are simply free babysitting.
Most states offer additional rationales, including that the programs teach better parenting skills. But I can tell you that these programs do not improve the parenting skills of parents who need it most. There is also a health component, but evidence indicates that children in pre-K programs are actually less healthy than children raised at home. All pre-K programs have plans for creating public awareness, but if you read the promotional brochures, you'll notice that they are little more than political indoctrination.
Scientific Evidence?
The only research method that can definitively determine if there is a relationship between pre-K care and the intellectual and behavioral development of children is the randomized trial longitudinal method. This method has two important components. The first is that children be divided into two groups prior to the pre-K care experience: one group that is exposed to pre-kindergarten care (the pre-K group), and one that is not (the control group). This is an important step because all research subjects must be theoretically the same in intellectual functioning and behavioral development, etc. The second component is to assess the children over a period of time (longitudinal). This is important because an effect of pre-K care at one point in time might disappear later on.
Only five studies during the past 30 years have used this research methodology. Four of the studies have been published in scientific publications, one has only been presented in a private publication. Data from these studies will be used by states to justify tax-funded pre-K center care programs.
The Abecedarian Project is the single most important pre-K care study ever conducted. The University of North Carolina did the study and it is the only one ever published in scientific literature suggesting that pre-K care can improve the intellectual functioning of children.
There were about 100 children involved, primarily from low income, African-American families. This study is a very long longitudinal study, begun in the early 1980s, and researchers are continuing to follow those individuals in adulthood. It is unquestionably the most extensive study ever done in this area and is the principal study on which the others are based.
According to the authors, at three years of age the children in the pre-K group had significantly higher levels of intellectual functioning than the children in the control group. They also found that the children in the pre-K group had significantly more behavioral problems than the children in the control group. At 21 years of age, the adults who had been in the pre-K group still had higher IQs compared to the adults who had been in the control group. But there are some serious problems with this study.
All the children had their IQs measured before they were sorted into the two study groups. The average IQ difference between the children placed in the pre-K group compared to those in the control group was six points. At age 21, the IQ difference was still six points. During the first few years of the study, the pre-K children's IQs began increasing relative to the children in the control group, but by the time they were about six years old, the differences had begun to decrease.
We find in many cases that the intellectual functioning of children will increase for a time when they are exposed to pre-K care, but by the time they enter first grade, that difference dissipates. The other problem is that, contrary to expectations, the children in the pre-K group were more likely to need special education than the children in the control group.
Although the Abecedarian study is ballyhooed as showing unequivocally that pre-K care programs have a positive effect on children's intellectual development, it probably doesn't really show that.
Project Care & IHDP
Perhaps the most sophisticated of these studies was the IHDP, which was done using low-birth weight, pre-term children. These children tend to be more at risk for poor cognitive development than normal birth weight children. The authors of this study sorted the children into two groups - again a pre-K group and a control group - and followed them over a fairly long period of time.
In the early 1990s, they reported data on these children at three years of age in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The published report claimed that the children in the pre-K group had significantly higher IQs than the children in the control group. A colleague and I managed to obtain the raw data this report was based on. After re-analyzing the data, we began writing a paper to show that the authors' conclusions were probably premature, that there was very little evidence that the effects they were reporting had anything to do with pre-K care.
While we were writing our paper, the authors of the study published an article reporting data gathered on the children at five years of age. Suddenly, the difference in intellectual development between the pre-K group and the control group was very small, but the authors insisted it was still statistically significant. When researchers start relying heavily on statistical significance, your ears should perk up, because it probably means there is no practical significance at all. In fact, the difference in IQs between these two groups at that point was meaningless in a practical sense.
Peculiarly, at the bottom of one of the pages of the article was a footnote indicating that the researchers had placed other research data pertaining to the study into an archive at the University of Michigan. We wrote the university and got the data.
Incredibly, the archived data indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the IQs between the two groups of children! These researchers had published the data that showed there was a statistically significant difference between the groups and archived the data that showed there was no significant difference. We included the archived data in our article and had it published.
The authors of the IHDP study wrote another report based on the children at eight years of age, concluding that "although it is hypothesized that the effects of early intervention (pre-K care) is most evident in the prevention of school failure, no differences were found in the children who repeated a grade or needed special education."
Thus, two attempts to replicate the Abecedarian study - one by the same people who conducted it - failed to do so, although in science it is very important that such effects can be replicated. Although the IHDP was a state-of-the-art project involving 900 children, you won't hear much about it. The first article on IHDP published in the JAMA received a lot of mainstream press, but when the second report appeared stating that pre-K care has no effect on children, we heard nothing about it.
The Perry Preschool Project
Based on the Perry findings, researchers have done cost-benefit analyses purporting to show that pre-K programs reduce crime and its cost to society. Of course, these analyses are often outrageous. Nevertheless, states buy into them, and the justification for the Kidstuff program in Alabama is based almost entirely on the findings of the Perry Preschool Project. If you read the documents promoting Kidstuff, they are filled with the results of this project.
Yet the Perry Preschool Project findings have never been reported in any scientific journal or any scientific outlet of any kind. The only reason we know about it is because the researchers started their own publication company, published their own technical reports and their own books. Then they commercialized their project, selling it to states and school districts. Their book, in my opinion, is nothing but an infomercial for their commercial operation. The fact that the study has never been published in any scientific outlet tells me that it is not science.
Taken together, what do all these studies tell us? The first thing is that pre-K care programs have no effect on the intellectual development of children. There is no convincing evidence that you can raise children's IQs by having them attend these programs. There is no evidence that pre-K programs improve school readiness or that they lead to increased academic achievement. At best, pre-K care programs don't appear to have any effect on children's behavioral development, although there is some evidence that these programs may increase the risk of behavior problems.
The Bottom Line
One answer is that politicians are looking for votes. Some of them may actually believe pre-K care programs work and are trying to help their constituents. Some are probably cynics and want to advance their political careers on the backs of children. Others may be ideologues who believe the state is a better parent than parents. Some may even believe these programs represent an opportunity to politically indoctrinate young children.
As for the scientists, I know they know better. When they promote these programs, they are either trying to further their professional careers - because there's a lot of money involved - or they may have an ideological agenda. In most cases, I think their motivation is power and money.
There is a very important political movement afoot in the United States to fund pre-K center care, to get the federal government to fund these programs and, among some people, to make them mandatory. A lot of well-meaning parents, when told that pre-K care will help their children, vote for the politicians who support it. Then there are the welfare recipients who support the programs because they will gain financially from them.
Pre-K care programs are filled with fund allocations that have nothing to do with helping young children, but they are important because they buy votes, and votes buy power, and votes buy money. Included in the allocations for Kidstuff in Alabama are the following: $377,000 for a state board, $225,000 for an audit team, $120,000 to create a form, $200,000 to set up a website, $2 million for an inspection service, $175,000 to create a rating system and, for some reason, $200,000 to prevent teen pregnancy. You know what that means; $200,000 will buy a lot of condoms. Then they'll spend at least $900,000 on their public awareness campaign and $1.2 million for a so-called parent training kit.
Pre-K center care programs do not help children. They harm children in a general way because, if the limited state and federal funds available for children's programs are squandered on programs that do not help children, then these funds will not be available for programs that do help children.
Pre-K center care programs help politicians, parents looking for free babysitting and unscrupulous educators and psychologists, but not children.
Dr. Bacharach is a professor and researcher in the Dept. of Psychology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.


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Eagle in Atlanta makes a compelling case for why Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich has a shot at history if he ends up making an epic comeback from cancer.
If he is better than his ACC Defensive Player of the Year season, he will win the Heisman. That's not hyperbole. Regardless of my BC allegiance, I believe that after the Reggie Bush nonsense, the media/Heisman voters would trip over each other in a rush to mail in their ballots for the All America, cancer-conquering linebacker from a BCS conference. The hype and pride surrounding his recovery would quadruple if Mark plays that well. No other candidate would stand a chance.
There typically aren't many scenarios where I could imagine a defensive player winning the Heisman. But I have to admit that this type of heroic hypothetical might do the trick.
If Herzlich exceeds the season he had in 2008, when he totaled 110 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 6 interceptions (with two returned for TDs), 8 pass breakups, 2 forced fumbles and 2 recovered fumbles…then he'd walk away with the Butkus and most likely be on his way to New York.
Could he win? Well…that's a lot to ask for and obviously quite a few pieces have to fall into place. If he picks up momentum late in the season and no other candidates are running away with it, he'd have a shot.
I know that quite a few people will be rooting for him just to make it through the season. Even getting back onto the field in the first place is quite a story. If he were to find a way to excel again, it would be amazing. And compelling.
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McKevitt Secures Funding For Nassau County Roadways
CHIP's funding increased from previous year
June 2, 2006
Assemblyman Tom McKevitt (R,C,I-East Meadow) has helped secure $8.6 million in Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPs) funding for Nassau County along with towns and villages located within the 17th Assembly District. The funding is an increase of over $625,000 from the 2005-06 State Budget. "CHIPs funding is essential for our communities to undertake key local projects while maintaining and improving our current transportation infrastructure," McKevitt said. "I am pleased to announce this funding for the motorists of Nassau County." The program allocates state funds to municipalities for construction and repair of local highways, bridges, railroad crossings, and other infrastructure. Each locality receiving funding must undertake projects, and the state reimburses costs that are deemed eligible under CHIPs program guidelines. The localities and their CHIP allocations are:
- Nassau County: $5.7 million
- Town of Hempstead: $1,688,864
- Town of North Hempstead: $421,667
- Village of East Williston: $29,861
- Village of Floral Park: $121,464
- Village of Garden City: $252,916
- Village of Mineola: $123,552
- Village of New Hyde Park: $84,861
- Village of Westbury: $165,822
- Village of Williston Park: $49,034


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Our choices are limited by what we "believe" our choices are. I see where you're coming from, but "free will" (ability to make (any) choice based on the information we ARE aware of) is as I see it, fundamental to our "current" experience of "reality"(within the spectrum of nothing).
Jesse Sovoda
Nicely put.
Though this choice could be based on information we are not aware of and no information at all, not just that information that we are aware of.
If our choice was limited by what we believe our choices are then that would mean that we could not choose something outside of our choice. If you asked me if I wanted either a cheeseburger or a hamburger I could respond by going to France. Our choices would not be limited by what we don't believe our choices to be.
Since we can never be "TRULY" self aware (because even what we consider our "self" is outside of awareness) we seem to get information on the relationships this "self" represents, but it's all illusion. When all we experience is illusion, the illusion itself becomes irrelevant because EVERY experience is supported by the framework it provides. So we can tag any experience with "illusion" or "simulation" or "nothing" or "existence" but I just don't see it as useful. I do see tagging experience with "perspective" useful as it allows us to take into account the totality of the most relative relationships that define that perspective.
Jesse Sovoda
Yes, I think "nothing" can be quite a useless designation but only up to a point.
Perspective can be more useful. However, this may give us a false picture of reality because it paints a reality as being subject to observation.
This illusion 'creates' perspective.
"What is the price of coffee today?" can elicit a variety of responses considering perspective.
However, as Nothing is the parent of perspective it would probably answer (if it could) that the price of coffee is irrelevant. This may help in remembering and understanding that perspective is flexible because it never reaches its ultimate destination.
I understand what you mean by "free will" being an illusion, I just don't see "free will" and illusion as mutually exclusive systems. Popping from bottle to bottle is what we do automatically as the dominoes fall within the most logical pattern (requiring the least energy or number of interactions). But this automatic "process" by which perspectives cascade through their variants is an expression of the "free will" of the system that houses perspective. Free will (the opportunity to make choice within a limited decision set) is a tool we use to enhance and express our perspective in a way that leads to "deeper" and "richer" opportunities for illusory experience. The illusory concepts of "free will" and "fate" are one in the same because the decisions we "believe" we've made are the decisions we've "always" made and we made them based on what we perceived (albeit illusory) to be our past decisions and their perceived results.
The moment there is opportunity for choice, whether illusory or not, there is "free will" automatically generated (perceived) with in that space.
If what comes next (in our nothing kaleidoscope) is what takes the least energy to come next and we can define how that energy is distributed and the framework in which it flows, then that ability is our perceived "free will". It's a self correcting feedback loop and presupposes time and decision space. Perhaps I am limited by my "current" inability to see beyond my perceived "ability to choose".
Jesse Sovoda
I enjoyed reading your illustration of how there is free will in this illusion.
It would probably be my explanation of 'free will' were it not for the nature of perspective.
Because it is all an illusion, the illusion does not really matter (as you've explained). In this, there is no illusion.
However, if all choices are all ready made (e.g., everything exists right now) there is no free will because it is irrelevant.
Making a choice implies that the separation of events in time is valid and true. It also implies a separation of
what you choose
But you and what you choose is the same. And 'both' are of your perspective.
If time is more of a function of the way the brain interprets reality than an absolute truth in the universe then 'choice' is meaningless.
What happens when you press a key on your keyboard?
We could say that we choose to press a key and it is done.
We could also say that we are trying to perceive of nothing, an act which dictates that every possibility be simultaneously created and experienced infinitely.
Because of the nature of truth, each of the two answers is as valid as the other.
Both are useful. (But only the first one is apple pie.)
You've given me something to think about.
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Junk food junkie alert. Look for Twinkies on store shelves in July.
Four former Hostess snack cake bakeries around the country, are scheduled to re-open within eight to 10 weeks.
An investment group, which bought assets and rights to several products after Hostess Brands Inc. liquidated last year, confirmed this week that bakeries in Emporia, Kan.; Columbus, Ga.; Schiller Park, Ill.; and Indianapolis will begin hiring soon.
The investor partnership of Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC paid $410 million for the bakeries and rights and to make Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Donettes, Zingers, Suzy Qs, Mini Muffins and Hostess Cup Cakes. The sale was supervised by a bankruptcy court after Hostess Brands Inc. filed for liquidation.
Prior to shutting down, Hostess employed about 600 people in Utah at two bakeries, nearly a dozen retail stores and nine depots. Those bakeries remain closed.
Lead investor C. Dean Metropoulos told The Wall Street Journal that the partnership intends to pour $60 million more in capital investments into four, perhaps five, plants and hire 1,500 workers to staff them.
The four plants, possibly plus one more in Los Angeles, were among 11 former Hostess bakeries acquired by Metropoulos and Apollo. The investors believe the re-opened plants can be run more efficiently and turn out as much product as the previous 11.
About 500 people lost their jobs at the Emporia bakery when Hostess Brands Inc. shut down the plant in bankruptcy last year. The new owners, doing business as a new company, Hostess Brands LLC, said that the plant will hire 250 initially and about 50 more as work progresses.
Michael Cramer, an executive involved in the new Hostess Brands LCC operations, said the new jobs will pay "competitive wages and benefits, and I'm sure people will be pleased."
Employees who previously worked for Hostess under union contracts may apply for the new non-union jobs, he and another job recruiter confirmed.
"Experience helps," Cramer said. "We want people who are excited about working there and are energized about it."
Previously, about 15,000 of the 18,000 former Hostess plant workers around the country were represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union or by the Teamsters.
Hostess Brands Inc., formerly Interstate Bakeries Corp., had its headquarters in Kansas City for decades before it moved some executive functions to the Dallas area after emerging from its first bankruptcy reorganization in 2009.
The company had been financially troubled for years. It filed its second bankruptcy petition in January 2012, citing issues with union contract among many of its issues.
The bakery union walked out in November after the former Hostess owners sought cuts in wages, insurance and pension benefits after union members already had agreed to a series of concessions.
Spokesmen for the national bakery union were unavailable for comment Thursday.
Hostess Brands assets were sold piecemeal to bidders in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Flowers Foods, a publicly traded baking company based in Georgia, acquired 20 Hostess bakeries that made bread and buns, including plants in Lenexa, Kan., and Boonville, Mo.
Flowers has declined to speak publicly about plans for its newly acquired bakeries because of an ongoing antitrust review by federal regulators. Flowers, which already operates 44 U.S. bakeries, expected the review, which could take several more months.
Flowers paid $360 million for the plants and rights to Wonder, Home Pride, Nature's Pride, Butternut and Merita brands.
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My apartment is infested with evil roommates and sad vibes. Being unemployed, I have no refuge. But I refuse to be depressed! Mornings I pack a small bag of books, take to the streets, wander around. But one can only sit on so many benches. Am curious about comfy food places where the management smiles kindly (or just not unkindly) on quiet, unassuming customers who occupy space for many hours, ordering only coffee, or perhaps (eventually) some delicious pie … Suggestions?
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Dear Ex, We have one of the world's great reading rooms–at least for now–at the Forty-second Street Library. Having spent years in tiny, often overcrowded apartments, I promise that you will sit longer and read more there than in any café. If you get hungry, there's a Pret à Manger across the street, not to mention the restaurant and sandwich kiosks in Bryant Park. Enjoy it while you can. Other good reading places—on weekdays especially—are the side room at Cafe Pick Me Up on Avenue A, the Hungarian Pastry Shop in Morningside Heights, and Tarralucci e Vino, either the one off Union Square or the one on East Tenth Street. For weekends, I highly recommend the bar at Vandaag on Second Avenue. No pies, but excellent coffee, strupwafels, and poached eggs.


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Touring for the first time since 2007, the RCHP descend on Atlanta during their 2012 tour in support of their tenth studio album "I'm With You". The sold out tour features a unique setlist each night with the band pulling from its catalog of hits spanning their 25+ year career.
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Lighting was vibrant and brilliant for the set with photography limited to the first three songs from the pit. Varied in intensity from 1/400 F3.2 ISO1250 to 1/250 F2.8 ISO3200 the consistent changes in lighting treatment were a challenge but not as much as the bands consistent frantic movements during the high energy performance.


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ALVA, Okla. - The Northwestern Oklahoma State University baseball team used dominant pitching to cruise past McPherson College sweeping a doubleheader 11-1 and 4-0 at Myers Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Game One
Jason Martyn (2-0) threw five innings giving up just one run on three hits while fanning nine Bulldogs. The junior transfer was the beneficiary of some early as the Rangers (4-2) put together a five-run first inning.
Martyn gave up his only run of the game in the first inning, but the offense erased the deficit quickly. Trevor Long tripled home three runs after Jarad Moore, Wes Brorsen and Camilo Baldelomar all singled to start the game. Brorsen singled home Moore after a wild pitch and Patrick Johnson plated Long to make it 5-0.
The top of the order was at it again in the second. With one out, Brorsen was hit by a pitch and Baldelomar and Flores followed Brorsen with singles. Flores' single scored a run while Johnson got his second RBI of the game to make it 8-1.
Martyn continued to cruise giving up just one hit during the remainder of his stint. The Rangers added three more in the third with the big blow coming off the bat of Zach Apotheker who hit a two-run double to make it 11-1.
Michael Figueiredo pitched the final two innings for NWOSU.
Game Two
Head coach Ryan Bay got his second consecutive dominant outing of the day on the mound. Clay Thomas didn't look like a pitcher two starts off of Tommy John surgery. The junior fired a complete game one-hitter taking a no-hitter in to the seventh inning to lead the Rangers to a 4-0 win.
Thomas fanned 13 hitters. He retired 18 consecutive hitters after hitting the first batter of the game. A single in the seventh inning broke up Thomas' no-hit bid.
Jose Maysonet and George Mendoza each had RBI singles in the second inning to give Bay's bunch the lead in the second inning. George Flores RBI single plated Baldelomar and Johnson's third RBI of the day came on a single to plate Flores.
Jarad Moore had three hits in the lead off spot for the Rangers. The NWOSU pitching staff has shutout opponents twice and given up one run in another game on the young season.
The Rangers will look for a sweep over the Bulldogs with a doubleheader scheduled for noon tomorrow.
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There aren't enough adjectives to properly describe the experience of visiting New York. Everything is simply more exciting in the city: the buildings are bigger, the pace is quicker, the shops are trendier and the attractions are grander.
Guests staying at our boutique hotel The MAve have a limitless amount of options when it comes to exploring NYC, but those looking for a somewhat unique way to see the city should think about calling Manhattan Helicopters or the Spirit of New York.
Departing from a helicopter pad downtown, Manhattan Helicopters takes visitors on 15-30 minute aerial tours of Manhattan. Zooming past the Lower Manhattan skyline and along the East River, the helicopters travel past iconic NYC landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Central Park and Times Square.
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| 2002N-0276 - Registration of Food Facilities Under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002; Reopening of Comment Period
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| The Canadian Pork Council (CPC) is pleased to have the opportunity to submit feedback to the FDA regarding Docket: 2002N-0276 - Registration of Food Facilities Under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002. The following comments are being submitted specifically on behalf of one of CPCs members, the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board (OPPMB).
Martin T. Rice
Regarding the costs related to hiring a US Agent:
1. The costs to a foreign facility of hiring a U.S. agent;
Ontario Pork's cost of hiring a U.S. agent is a $14.00 entry fee per load of market hogs crossed plus $1.50 per prior notice for information processing.
2. The number of foreign facilities that have hired a U.S. agent or negotiated additional duties from someone with whom they have an existing relationship, in response to the Interim Final Rules, instead of relying on an existing relationship with a person who qualifies as a U.S. agent;
OPPMB has relied on its existing broker relationship in response to the Interim Final Rules. Its sales representative now acts as its U.S. Agent.
3. The number of foreign facilities that have ceased exporting to the United States because they have decided not to hire/retain a U.S. agent for registration purposes;
Having to designate a U.S. agent has not effected OPPMB's exporting practices. Relationships with U.S. customers are its paramount concern.
4. The distribution of costs between submitting registrations and other services offered by the U.S. agent;
Previous to the Bioterrorism Act, OPPMB was billed an entry fee of $14.00 per load of market hogs crossed. After the Act implementation day, in addition to the $14.00 service charge, an FDA Prior Notice fee of $1.50/load is incurred to process prior notice information.
5. The assumptions underlying FDA's estimates of the costs of hiring and retaining a U.S. agent.
Although costs associated with Bioterrorism Act compliance have increased, other economical factors may have a larger impact on U.S. export
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The track features the Detroit MC making random references to several things, from rappers' feud to sex scandal between a former U.S. president and a White House intern.
Eminem has dropped a new single off his upcoming album, "MMLP2". Entitled "Rap God", the six-minute track features Eminem making references to several things, including Fabolous' feud with Ray J as well as the scandal of former president Bill Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
In the track, Eminem also lays verses about him inducting Run DMC into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2010. The Detroit MC then pays tribute to some big names in rap who have inspired him. He calls himself "a product" of rappers Rakim, Tupac Shakur, Lakim Shabazz and the members of Compton-based hip-hop group N.W.A.
The tune closes with Eminem asking, "Be a king? Think not - why be a king when you can be a God?"
"Rap God" is the second single lifted from Eminem's eagerly-awaited new album. The track follows up lead single, "Berzerk", which has peaked at No. 3 on Billboard 100.
Eminem is gearing up to release his "MMLP2" album. Featuring guest appearances from Rihanna, Skylar Grey, Kendrick Lamar and fun.'s Nate Ruess, the second installment of 2000's "The Marshall Mathers LP" is set to arrive on November 5.


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Can there be such a thing as a 'good funeral?' I think so. Of course we are sad at the passing of our loved one, our friend. Of course there are regrets, angers, disappointments. But that should not take away from the dignified marking of a person's sad passing. George Scarrott's funeral last Friday, the showman from Royal Wootton Bassett, was overwhelmingly sad. Here was a man in the prime of his life, a great local character, a wonderful father and husband. Taken away from us. And for what possible reason? Yet the outstanding priest in St Bartholomew's, the Rev Canon Thomas Woodhouse exceeded his own very high standards in a most moving service, remembering and celebrating George's wonderful life. Seven hundred or so of his friends were at the service – many of them fellow travelling showmen from all over the area. Royal Wootton Bassett is a sadder place without him; yet his funeral was an important moment of passage through this transitory life.
Then I was privileged to be invited to Lady Thatcher's very grand funeral in St Paul's Cathedral. It was right that we should have commemorated the life of this great lady with all due national honour; with the pomp and ceremony which she deserved. Her service to the nation was second to none. It was not really a sad occasion. She was a very old lady, and had been suffering terribly in recent years. She missed the great love of her life and staunch ally, Denis, greatly, and in some ways her death was a blessed release. We were mourning her, of course. But not in a sad way.
It was much more about commemorating the great contribution she had made in her long life to Britain; and in some ways it was about recognising the kind of Britain she tried to leave behind her, and to accept the baton which she was passing to the next generation. Mr Woodhouse read one of my favourite Bible readings at George's funeral. It's from Ecclesiastes: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
"A time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up...
"A time to weep and a time to laugh.... A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; "A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace."
There can be such a thing as a 'good funeral' and I am glad to have been able to attend two this week.


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The Grail Messenger, one who declaims the reason and purpose of the Grail and the Quest to attain it, is a figure that appears in the Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She appears suddenly and sometimes mysteriously, delivers her message, and then is usually not heard from again.
In some tales, she appears at the end of the story to announce the successful end of the Grail Quest, and yet in others, she is also the maiden bearing the Grail in the strange procession seen by various Grail Questers in what is known by several names, the Grail Castle.
Who is this mysterious woman? Why is she often described as hideous, having a face composed of features taken from several animals?
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All Hallows Read 2011
One of Highland Park Public Library's favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, thought up All Hallows Read last year - a new literary Halloween tradition of giving someone a scary book. On the All Hallows Read website, Gaiman, publishers, and assorted blogs around the web have provided some recommendations (including our blog post from last year, which will only remain on the web until January), but we have a few new suggestions:
Picture Books:
Poultrygeist by Mary Jane Auch
The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet
Boo, Bunny! by Kathryn Osebold Galbraith
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex
Easy Readers - JP:
This Book is Haunted by Joanne Rocklin
In a Dark Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
A Dark and Noisy Night: A Silly Thriller with Peggy the Pig by Lisa Thiesing
Juvenile Books - J Fiction or Nonfiction:
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
The Monster's Ring by Bruce Coville
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
Wait til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Half-Minute Horrors edited by Susan Rich
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
Young Adult Books - JY:
The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz
All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
As always, a display of Halloween books is in the Youth Department hallway, and you can ask our librarians for other suggestions by coming in to visit, or using our IM Reference services linked on our main kids' page.
If you have any favorite scary kids' reads, please recommend them in comments!!
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2003-2004 University Senate Executive Committee
September 8, 2003
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|Members Present:
|Donna Armstrong, Hara Charalambous, Richard Collier, Bruce Dudek, Karen Hitchcock, Andi Lyons, Carolyn MacDonald, Gwendolyn Moore, John Pipkin, Marjorie Pryse, Carlos Santiago, Joan Savitt, Glenna Spitze, Lynn Videka, David Wagner, Edelgard Wulfert
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|The minutes of the April 7, 2003 meeting were approved as amended.
President's Report:
|· Enrollment: This year's freshmen enrollment target of 2,100 has been exceeded, with an enrollment of 2,166 new students. These are divided into three academic groups: Group I represents 36% of the enrollment, and the enrollment in Group III is down to only 5.7%. Average SAT scores (1168) are 13 points higher than last year, with the University's goal being ultimately to reach 1200. The mean GPA is up also, and 22% of new freshmen are now coming from the top 10% of their high school classes.
|International student enrollment has increased; but transfer student enrollments are down slightly, as are the number of Master's program enrollees. However, on an overall basis, the University is doing an excellent job at meeting its enrollment goals.
|· Budget: Last year the University faced a $12.3 million-dollar shortfall from rollover debt and the commitment of nonrecurring funds from previous years, and the increases in SUNY tuition did not entirely compensate for this deficit. At the same time, the State of New York is facing a $12 billion shortfall for the current fiscal year. The President is not yet aware whether or not there will be a mandated mid-year reduction, but such a requirement would create an enormously difficult fiscal challenge for the University.
University Faculty Senate Report: (By Mr. Richard Collier)
The GEN corporation's online SUNY Gen Ed courses are an ongoing business issue.
Neither the Faculty Senate nor SUNY received satisfactory
answers from Hudson Valley concerning these offerings, but they are no longer an issue because GEN has decided the courses were not cost effective
and has cancelled the program.
Regarding the Trustees' recent policy mandating System-Wide Assessment of SUNY
Gen Ed, the Albany Resolution that passed last year took the
stance that the University Senate will not participate itself and it will not nominate people nor encourage people to participate. Hopefully, a white paper
will be written on it; he is on the committee to write the white paper.
Chairs Report:
|· Senate Website: Chair Pryse announced that several Council minutes are missing from the website and asked the Council Chairs to forward copies of minutes to Jayne VanDenburgh for posting on the website. She reminded Mr. Collier that the SUNY-Wide Senate Report needed to be submitted. She asked Senate Secretary Lyons to assist with keeping the website up to date.
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The long and distinguished high school varsity basketball career of Westchester's Dwayne Polee Jr. - aside from any remaining all-star games he may choose to play in - has finally come to an end, and Polee made sure it did so in triumphant fashion.
Polee, a master dunker and a stellar shot blocker with his 40-inch vertical leap and aggressiveness around the basket, has been named the Daily Breeze Player of the Year after expanding his game and having his best season for Westchester (32-3), which captured back-to-back L.A. City Section and CIF Division I state championships.
Polee, who also was named the L.A. City Section Player of the Year, averaged 21 points and eight rebounds per game for the Comets, a significant bump from last year, when he tallied 11 points and five rebounds per game as a junior.
"I've taken big steps," Polee said. "I'm more comfortable on the perimeter now."
Polee's athleticism always has been through the roof, but more of his game has improved.
" He's improved in his knowledge and understanding of the game," Westchester coach Ed Azzam said. "He's developed an outside shot, he sees the open man when we're running our offense - that didn't always happen."
It led to more chances on offense, but his defensive game did not suffer. In fact, it was bolstered.
he's really improved his overall game."
Polee may have improved on defense and expanded his game on offense, but he still loves his slam dunks, as he illustrated during Westchester's 63-56 win over Newark Memorial in the state championship game in Bakersfield.
In the first half, Polee delivered a dunk off an alley-oop pass from Kareem Jamar to give Westchester a 24-14 lead. Polee added a strong one-handed dunk in the last minute of the half that helped Westchester go into halftime with a 30-18 lead.
Polee said the dunks belonged in his top five because of the magnitude of the game.
Polee's dominance on the high school level the last four years is reminiscent of his father, Dwayne Polee Sr., who was a high school legend for Manual Arts who went on to play for Pepperdine and the NBA's L.A. Clippers.
Polee Sr. has helped provide some guidance for Polee Jr.
" "He's always had the ability to block shots, now he really understands defense," Azzam said. "Helping out his teammates, taking charges, My dad made sure I was going to be the best I could be," Polee Jr. said. "He made sure I'd get into the gym when I didn't want to be there."
Polee Sr. is the director of basketball operations for USC, a school to which Polee Jr. had verbally committed before he ever played a high school game.
But when Coach Tim Floyd left USC, so did Polee's commitment. He still has not picked his college, but he has narrowed his choices to UNLV, UTEP and Georgia.
Floyd was just named the head coach at UTEP.
"I'll choose in a couple of weeks," Polee said.
Azzam said he's stayed out of the decision-making process.
"That's his decision," Azzam said. "Dwayne and his family are working on it together."
Azzam said the school that gets the 6-foot-7 Polee will be getting a special player with a lot of upside.
"I think he'll be an outstanding college player. He'll get stronger, especially in his lower body, and he'll be able to handle the banging and pushing," Azzam said. "I think he can be an All-American on the college level."
The school that gets Polee also will get a player who is accustomed to winning. In his four varsity seasons, Westchester has gone 122-17, made three L.A. City championship games, won two of them, and captured the last two CIF Division I state titles.
Polee said with nine seniors on this year's team, there was only one way to go out.
"We felt all along that we were the best team out there, nothing was going to stop us, we were not going to let anything get in the way of our goals," Polee said. "We wanted to go out with a bang."


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The White House announced today that President Obama will sign a once-disputed defense authorization bill because authors have removed language that would have restricted the administration's handling of high-value terrorist detainees.
An initial version of the defense bill would have required military custody of terrorist suspects linked to al Qaeda; the administration -- which had threatened to veto the defense bill -- wants to reserve the right for civilian trials of accused terrorists.
"While we remain concerned about the uncertainty that this law will create for our counter-terrorism professionals, the most recent changes give the President additional discretion in determining how the law will be implemented, consistent with our values and the rule of law, which are at the heart of our country's strength," said a statement from White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Carney added, however, that "if in the process of implementing this law we determine that it will negatively impact our counter-terrorism professionals and undercut our commitment to the rule of law, we expect that the authors of these provisions will work quickly and tirelessly to correct these problems."
Raha Wala, an advocacy counsel for the group Human Rights First, called Obama's decision "beyond disappointing."
"By failing to veto this bill, President Obama will be compromising on national security and the rule of law," Wala said. "Congress has shown that it's incapable of exercising common sense judgment, and President Obama is apparently ready to appease this behavior."
The $662 billion defense bill would authorize money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and national security programs in the Energy Department, reported the Associated Press.
The House and Senate are expected to pass the measure Wednesday.
Said Carney: "This legislation authorizes critical funding for military personnel overseas, and its passage sends an important signal that Congress supports our efforts as we end the war in Iraq and transition to Afghan lead while ensuring that our military can meet the challenges of the 21st century."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Macmillan Cancer Support said two in five people were quoted higher premiums than if they had had no history of cancer, the poll of 1,137 found.
Many respondents also complained they were asked insensitive questions, such as: "Is your husband going to die?"
The insurance industry said cost had to reflect risk, which was determined using the best available evidence.
Some 6% of those quizzed - who were either in remission or fully recovered from the disease - said they had been refused insurance altogether.
And 8% have resorted to going on holiday without cover, the study found.
In response, the charity has launched a campaign to get the travel insurance industry to review the insurance risk posed by those affected by cancer who are now recovering, or recovered.
It also calls on the industry to improve the level of customer service offered to cancer patients to ensure they are treated respectfully and tactfully.
Ayesha Owusu-Barnaby, head of campaigns and public affairs at Macmillan, said: "Hundreds of people contact Macmillan about travel insurance every month.
"Most people live long and active lives after cancer and that's why Macmillan is calling on the travel insurance industry to look again at the risk posed by people affected by cancer and improve the deal offered to them."
George Ritchie, 52, from Peterborough, said he was quoted up to £2,450 for insurance for a two-week holiday to Florida.
He said: "In the end, I bought insurance for £60 but it seems ridiculous that the quotes were so high."
And Tracy Neill, 40, from Kent, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease when she was 17, added she was still quoted higher premiums.
"After all this time I find it unbelievable that I am still having to pay more for travel insurance.
"I no longer even go for check ups, I am cured as far as you can be with cancer, yet insurance companies still believe I am a risk."
Nick Starling, of the Association of British Insurers, said there was always the risk cancer could return.
"The cost of cover needs to reflect the risk, which insurers assess using the best available medical evidence.
"Insurers will always take into account the most up to date, authoritative medical evidence."
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I currently do graphics design as a hobby and currently have a portfolio website. However, I also have a Resources section and do cuts/renders of images as well and would like to code a proper render gallery in which I could upload directly from the actual website into the server and actually have the images show up on the website without having to manually code the html for every single one... Obviously, I'm not trying to make this into a huge project, just trying to make my life easier...
I've seen it done on sites such as http://www.backstagegfx.com/cutgallery/index.php and http://www.officialpsds.com/psds
I've also seen it done with Coppermine Photo Gallery but that's just not the look I'm going for. Rather use my own render voids and coding to get this done.
I'm willing to learn how to code it on my own, just not sure where to start and what it entails. I'm thinking a form that is linked to an ftp uploader that links to the server but I don't have a lot of coding experience to know where to begin.
Any advice you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Hi bbyao06. Welcome to the forums.
It sounds like you need a content management system (CMS), of which there are many—such as WordPress, ExpressionEngine, MODx, Drupal, Concrete5 and so on. Some a re free and others cost a bit, but they all have their own built in ways to manage images, galleries, uploads etc. Or they have add-ons for extra functionality. So you don't need to reinvent the wheel if you don't want to.
Thanks for the advice Ralph. I don't know that much about working with CMS but I'll look into those that you listed to see which best fits my site.
These days, any site that needs dynamic functionality (blog posts, uploads etc.) runs on a CMS, so it's very common. Good luck in your searches. If you need and advice, we are here. This forum is fine, but there's also a dedicated CMS forum here.


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Regional Background:
Dodoma Region is located in Tanzania mainland on the semi arid plateau. It is a major commercial centre, due to its central location in regard to other regions. The region is renown for its wine culture as it is a major wine producer in the southern Africa. Due to the excellent irrigation schemes in the region, there is hope for a brighter future in the agricultural sector.
Dodoma is 452 Km from Dar Es salaam. It can be reached by air (1 hour), Tarmac road (6 hours) or railway (12 hours).
Population and area Facts:
The region covers 41,310Km2 and comprises of five Districts with an estimated total population of 1,640,000as to year 2000. Growth rate of the population is between 2.9 in 1967 - 1978 and 2.4 in 1978 - 88. Population density is 30 people per square Kilometre.
Natural Resources: Soda Ash, Gold, Salt, Fish
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Who Is Faisal Shahzad?
Suspected Terrorist
Authorities have accused Faisal Shahzad, 30, of parking a Nissan Pathfinder filled with explosive materials in New York City's Times Square on a busy Saturday night. A naturalized American citizen, Shahzad was born in Pakistan, entered the United States on a student visa and later married an American woman.


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Our goal is to fill your order as quickly as possible. If we are unable to fulfill your order we will contact you by email.
We ship Monday through Friday. Our last pick-up is Friday at 3pm. All orders received after that time will be processed Monday and shipped as soon as possible.
Sport Thoma Ski Shop offers FREE GROUND shipping on all orders over $50 within the continental United States. Actual shipping charges will apply to all orders being shipped to Alaska and Hawaii. At this time we do not ship internationally.
Orders are processed and shipped from our North Lincoln, NH location in one to three business days. Orders received over the weekend will be processed Monday and shipped as soon as possible after that. Of course some orders do take longer. If you need your order by a certain day, please call us at (888) 745 - 8151 prior to ordering.
If there is any delay in shipping your order, you will be notified by email.
At Sport Thoma Ski Shop your satisfaction is important to us. We hope you are pleased with your on-line purchase, if for some reason you need to return an item this must be done within 7 days of receiving it.
Any unused and unaltered item purchased from us, may be returned for a full refund (less any shipping charges) within 7 days of you receiving your order with original receipt or packing slip.
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COD returns will not be accepted. Refunds will be issued to the credit card the purchase was made on. We reserve the right to determine, at our sole discretion, the condition of returned merchandise. If we believe the item has been used, altered or is not suitable to return to the sales floor we reserve the right to refuse the return.
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*Our waterfront house is BREATH TAKING.
*We have a gorgeous waterfront condo1 block away it sleeps up to 6 people.
*Ana Banana Fishing Charters (No-Fish-No-Pay ! ! ! ! !)
*Busch Gardens (an up close African experience. Thrill rides on world recognized roller coasters) 20mins away
*Worlds largest Manatee Viewing Center (hundreds of manatees, biggest population in the world) 3 mins away
*Historical Ybor City (every night is a party in Ybor. Eat cultural food,go clubbing,smoke a Cuban) 20mins away
*Museums, theaters, concerts, amusement parks, go-cart park, fishing piers, hunting, beaches, golf, tennis, scuba diving, snorkeling, sky diving, bungee jumping, water and jet skiing, dinosaur exhibits, all less than 30mins away
*Disney World (1 hour away)
*Airport (30mins away)
Full time full service charter captain. No Fish No Pay!!! Discounts for all vacation rental groups.
Our home is in one of the nicest areas in all of Florida. You can get picked up at our dock for a 1/2, 3/4, or full day fishing trip or eco tour, island hopping, or shelling, on the Ana Banana, bask in the pool and spa, or have a cocktail at the tiki bar/hut, or catch big fish off our dock,or walk across the street for a great meal and live entertainment nightly at Circles,
Golfing, Fishing, and Boating discounts available.
The house totally exceeded our expectations! It was so spacious for our party of 13 and there were just so much for everyone to do the kids go swimming and play in the playground my friends and I got to got lay out near the pool and tan and the guys went fishing off the dock it was paradise and I enjoyed every second of the trip we will definitely be coming back to this luxury place again.
My family and I stayed for a week and it was so cool to be able to fish off the dock and swim at the pool and have such a beautiful view this will be a vacation we will always remember ...We will definitely be back next year :)
The location don't match the photos provided. The home needs major upgrades and cleaning. The owners need to fix A lot of hazards throughout the premises. The sliding door is ready to fallout the frame which can be a serious disaster ready to happen. The house was not cleaned and some extremely filthy furniture. The house was infested with all sorts of bugs that invaded my family from the kitchen to the bedrooms. I had to place sheets over the living room furniture due to stains and extremely dirty furniture in house. I had to call owner several times due to the conditions of this hocus pocus home. The pool was not clean and malfunctioning jaccuzi. The oven was a disaster the dish washer had a note stating "leaks and don't work" among several other multiple notes on tape with these same words. The landscaping was disturbing with excessive over growth and weeds taking over the entire property. The play ground area was not safe to use until I complain of missing steps. The biggest disappointment I paid for this over 2 months adhead and the day I arrived the house was not ready for my family. The owner knew we was coming in and the place was not ready. I expected something different especially with photos on this site. I've rented several properties previously but, not from this site a totally different experience than the experience my family
the house's location was not only gorgeous but the house was also perfect for me and my family with great sunsets and nice scenery the fishing was great and I'm hoping to come again soon
The house was very impressive and my kids loved it so much they didn't want to ever leave♡♡♡♡
Beautiful beachy house right on the water and for a cheap price!!!!
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You don't find perfect quality like this often in a free download, and yet here it is. Save and use to create any variety of vision of this beautiful card that could be made delicate and lovely or durable and gothic all with your choice of colors and accents. Truly a find you'll love having around for quick printing.


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ROFL at Andrew123's post.
Actually, I don't really drink water when training. All the other guys always go off the mats to take a sip of water but I never do...it takes away from BJJ time. Anyway, I'll drink when I'm dead.
I would not train at a gym unless it has the following:
Women topless serving drinks on rollerskates
on site oxygen
Instructors all who are UFC veterans
bran new gloves for every session
sauna, steam room and jacuzi
massages from swedish ladies with the option of extras
on site restaraunt preferably nandos or kfc
Still havent found a gym that meets my requirements, hence why I train in my garage
What. A. Gym.
(except the UFC vets..)
The Dungeon Sunderland / Checkmatt BJJ team
bring a bottle you lazy fuck
man, when you're the nail, hang in there....until the day you become the hammer
Any gyms want a free water fountain worth around £700? I have one if you are prepared to come and get it from dulwich south London.
It's exactly like this one. It's almost new and in perfect working condition. It's easily plumbed in too.


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National Geographic has a great article on taking pictures of animals. It made me wonder what problems our members have had in photo shoots of their pets.
For instance, I had to crop this picture of our dog, Bailey to edit out some of the explicit material he was showing.
What a TERRIFIC topic for discussion.
For me, the biggest problem (capturing candid photos in/around the house) is with distracting elements that notoriously appear in the background. It seems the animals do the 'cutest' and most picture-worthy things when they are in close proximity to some large piece of furniture.Combine that with the effect of an 'automatic' camera and its choice of when to use a flash and I often get shots with the corner of a table BLARING white in the edge of the frame. Many times even cropping is not enough, so I resort to image editing (mask the offending area and either burn or blur it).
Dodging and Burning are two techniques I had mastered back in Pre-Historic times with celluloid photography/printing. The digital counterpart is WONDERFUL because you can UNDO at will.
Simple--have them wear pants
I think my biggest problem is I don't have a crazy high-end camera, so "action" shots always come out blurred. Even if it's not supposed to be an action shot... silly animals.
One useful technique, when trying to photograph any moving object (particularly an animal) is to move the camera with the object; tracking it in the frame.Just imagine you are shooting video and squeeze the shutter at an opportune moment (or several times if appropriate).
You may get motion blur of the background, but that will only enhance the photo if the subject is in focus.
How in the world do you get your pet to look at the camera. It is such an uninteresting object for them to view so they just glance and you get .15 seconds to take a picture. I usually set my camera on the fastest shutter speed to try and capture anything.
I would say that my biggest challenge is trying to get great shots without being properly prepared. The great shots (especially hi res for printing) are rarely captured by accident or candidly. To get that great shot you need all the right conditions (gear, lighting, background, pose, etc) and that takes time and preparation.


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The Bracing Strategy for Robot Operation
Book, Wayne John
Sangveraphunsiri, Viboon
Le, Sanh
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A new strategy of robot operation, the bracing strategy, is presented. Under this strategy an arm is moved into position then rigidized by bracing against either the work piece or an auxiliary, static structure. Subsequent precision motion does not involve the entire arm, but only degrees of freedom at the end of the arm. The advantage of this strategy is that it allows high speed, precision motion with a light weight, flexible arm. Light arms require smaller actuators, less energy, may be faster, are safer, and are less expensive. Four means of clamping to the structure are considered: A simple normal force, mechanical clamping, vacuum attachment, and magnetic attachment. Each means has restrictions and advantages. Arm control with the bracing strategy requires four modes: gross motion control, rendezvous with the bracing structure, control of gross actuators after bracing and control of fine motion actuators distal to the bracing point.


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Food and Drug Administration
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee
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Holiday Inn, Gaithersburg, MD
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Security A Big Concern At Local Schools
Your kids are back in school today, and while you're happy to see that, you are probably also worried about security on campus considering the shootings we've seen at schools over the last year. Local districts have their concerns, too.
Sarah Wood of Conroe ISD says that district has a pair of new schools opening today, and security was important in designing the new facilities.
"We are going to be implementing front door cameras and buzzers for people to even come in to the entryway," Wood said. "We're always looking at the newest research that's available. We're always looking at the newest technology and designs to make sure the students have what they need."
The distance from the street to the front door at the two new campuses are longer to give officials more time to assess any threat.
Elsewhere, Spring Branch ISD Police Chief Chuck Brawner told KTRH that district will be using new technology to help keep you up to date on what's going on with your kids while they are in the classroom.
"We've added iWatch Spring Branch. It's part of the Harris County iWatch system," Brawner said. "We'll tell kids and parents how to download the app to their phones so they can send any tips straight to us."
Brawner says at the end of the day your kids can be more helpful than you think as far as stopping any threat.
"Our best eyes in our schools are our teachers and our students who are there. If they see something that doesn't look right they let us know," Brawner stated.
And after six years, the Galveston ISD is re-opening Burnet Elementary, which had to be renovated to the tune of $5M following Hurricane Ike in 2008.