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108 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 329-9555
108 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 329-9555
Regular Hours
Mercadito Chicago Llc
Mercadito Chicago
Mercadito (W Kinzie St)
Mercadito Hospitality
Mercadito-River North
Parking: Garage, Street, Valet
Wi-Fi: No
Bike Parking: Yes
Attire: Casual
Good For Groups: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Cuisines: Fine Dining, Caterers, Mexican, Latin American, Bar & Grills
Alcohol: Yes, Full Bar
Takes Reservations: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Pets Allowed: No
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Not your average taco joint. They have elevated the mexican staple to a new level. I have tried almost every one and still can't pick a favorite. I guess I will just have to go back and keep trying. Some jobs are better than others
11/08/2010Provided by Citysearch -
(CHICAGO, October 25, 2010)—Mercadito's "Tacos for Strength," a year-long campaign led by Chef Patricio Sandoval, features a taco by a different chef each month to benefit Share Our Strength®. This November, Chef Stephanie Izard—the executive chef of Girl & The Goat, a Boka Group Restaurant, and season four winner of "Top Chef"—will offer a braised chicken taco beginning Monday, November 1 through Tuesday, November 30. The braised chicken tacos, made with avocado crème fraîche, fermented black bean, nicoise olive tapenade and shaved brussel sprouts, will be available for dinner (four per order) for $16. Share Our Strength is a national nonprofit that is striving to end childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Five percent of the sales from Chef Izard's taco will be donated to Share Our Strength.
Be sure to keep an eye out for more creative, delicious tacos by some of the country's most acclaimed chefs:
•December 2010: Michelle Bernstein, Michy's & Sra. Martinez, Miami
•January 2011: Wylie Dufresne, WD-50, New York
•February 2011: Jimmy Bannos Jr., Heaven on Seven, Chicago & Jimmy Bannos Sr., Purple Pig, Chicago
•March 2011: Michael Schwartz, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink, Miami
•April 2011: Rodelio Aglibot, New York and Chicago
•May 2011: Michael Fiorello, Mercat a la Planxa, Chicago
•June 2011: Clay Conley, Miami
•July 2011: Peter Hoffman, Savoy, New York
•August 2011: Ryan Poli, Perennial, Chicago
•September 2011: Thomas Buckley, Nobu, Miami
About Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength®, a national nonprofit, is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Through its No Kid Hungry Campaign™—a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2015—Share Our Strength ensures children in need are enrolled in effective federal nutrition programs, invests in community organizations fighting hunger, teaches families how to cook healthy meals on a budget, and builds public-private partnerships to end hunger, both nationally and at the state level. Working closely with the culinary industry and relying on the strength of its volunteers, Share Our Strength hosts innovative culinary fundraising events like Taste of the Nation®, The Great American Bake Sale®, A Tasteful Pursuit®, The Great American Dine Out™, and Operation Frontline®. Visit us online to get involved in the No Kid Hungry Campaign.
About Mercadito Restaurants
Mercadito Restaurants have grown from their first New York City location in 2004 to become a renowned restaurant group specializing in Mexican cuisine and modern taquerias. The popularity of these restaurants can be attributed to the innovative interpretations of traditional Mexican cooking created by Chef Patricio Sandoval, and their partnership with renowned beverage consultants Tippling Bros., who add creativity to their beverage programs merging complex flavors, drinkability, and the unexpected.
The restaurant group currently owns and operates five acclaimed restaurants: Mercadito (New York); Mercadito Grove (New York); Mercadito Cantina (New York); Mercadito (Chicago); Mercadito (Miami); and the soon to be opened Mercadito Taverna (Miami).
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Upon arrival, we were greeted with the half smile of someone with a superiority complex and told that it would be a wait of 45 minutes to one hour. Not seeing this as an issue (as it was expected), we made our way to the bar.
The bar staff is absolutely superb. They were fast, attentive, very polite, and made excellent drinks! If this place had a primary focus on drinks and a secondary on food, I would have easily given it a much higher rating.
However, as it happens, we were there for the food.
After the first hour of waiting, it became apparent to us and others we had met at the bar, that this restaurant has a 'help your friends first' philosophy as we witnessed several people (who did not have reservations) arriving after us and being seated before us.
Finally after a two hour wait – filled with excuses like: "oh, we're so busy", and "we had reservations", we were given a table.
Because of our excessive wait, we were offered free guacamole. This turned out to be the best part of the meal. We had three different types – each better than the last. The tacos, however, were small and really nothing special. Don't get me wrong, they were better than fast food caliber, but in no way were they worthy of waiting over two hours.
Overall, for me, it was a really bad experience. If you're looking for ambiance, social activity, and just having a couple of drinks, then I would say to try it. However, I would definitely not recommend this restaurant if you are, in any way, hungry.
11/05/2009Provided by Citysearch -
Many things have delusions of grandeur. People may develop a fake accent like Madonna. Swim towels become Sham-wows, computers become Macs, backwards bathrobes become snuggies, and Mexican restaurants become Mercadito.
For who else but the delusionally-grand would charge 2.50 for a table spoon of salsa? $10.50 for a "tasting" of guacamole? Or $19.50 for a chile relleno? Not even Topolobampo. But before the ridicule, let us cover the compliments of which there are several.
The Chile Relleno was less chile and more tortilla attempting with all its might to hold back a torrent of shrimp, scallops, octopus and other swimming delicacies impatiently bursting from under a layer of melted cheese. I was amazed that $19.50 was all it cost. And the green rice casserole, (¡Dios Mio!) redefined comfort food. (Consider the value of such a statement when uttered by someone for whom all Mexican is comfortable.) But it seems that recently, all good meals have an ugly underbelly. And not necessarily the one that comes printed on the bill. We sneaked a peek at ours with drinks.
My Margarita Tradicional was excellent. Absolutely delicious. Why? Beacuse instead of using 2 parts tequila per 1 part Cointreau, they reversed the formula. Sweeeeeet. But not traditional. And not enough. If you're going to make weak-tasting drinks, the least you can do is over-serve them. My margarita had enough for 3 sips. No joke. How they got non-crushed ice to look so filling I have no idea. Same problem with the wine. The glass could not have had more than 3 ounces worth. For $10 that's abusive. The one thing I absolutely loved (enough to plagiarize the idea) is the manner of salting the glass. They dip one side of it low into the salt so that if you want some, you have plenty. If not, drink from the other side. I'm amazed I have not seen this done more often.
The guacamole "tasting" consisted of a traditional and a mole covered. For the latter, someone took a traditional and poured some very average sweet, brown liquid over it that had the remarkable consistency of canned black bean emulsion. However, the habenero salsa (which costs $2.50 per tablespoon) was the highlight of the appetizers. Beware. It'll make even the grossest entrée swim eagerly down your gullet just to put the flames out.
Finally, even though the restaurant stresses that it is a tapas-style menu, they do indeed have entrées. Thus, when a member of a party orders one, bring it WITH the tapa that's serving as the other entrée and not 10 minutes later. Overall, the meal was a disappointment not in taste but in value. With places like Province and Tocco recently opened, spending over $100 for some good but mostly overpriced Mexican food is not competetive. There was no part of the meal that should not have cost less.


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Dollar Works 2
Dollar Works 2 is a comprehensive personal financial education program developed by educators from the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Family Development. It teaches basic economic concepts to strengthen people's skills in managing their personal finances and making sound decisions with money.
People understand and use money within the context of their culture and life experiences. While there is no "right" or "wrong" way to handle money, some ways are more likely to increase financial control and independence. Families need more than just information and practice. They need to learn how to make changes in managing their personal finances. Dollar Works 2 provides educators and service providers who assist families with knowledge, tools, and strategies for managing resources, attaining personal goals, and increasing financial stability.
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For some parents, Common Core is unifying cause
Tracy Diegelman isn't one for bumper stickers or politics, but in the last few months, she's found herself swept up in a hot campaign.
She's emailed legislators and planted a sign on her lawn. She's attended community meetings, and a few months ago, she slapped a bumper sticker on the back of her car.
But this isn't about getting someone elected. It's all in the name of her son's education.
"This is just taking over my life," said Diegelman, a Lancaster mother who became concerned about state standardized tests after her son developed a stress disorder last year. "I've never had a bumper sticker on my car ever in my life. I've never wanted one."
She is one of thousands of parents troubled by a series of changes in public school education – from tougher new state tests to an overhaul of curriculum standards – who have become increasingly organized while seeking to make their voices heard.
Some parent groups have joined teachers unions in calling for the resignation of the state education commissioner. Other parents are working to exert pressure on state lawmakers who appoint top education officials.
And Wednesday evening, a group of Buffalo parents concerned about testing will charter two buses to take parents and teachers to a community forum in Jamestown, at which state Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. is scheduled to speak.
But it's not just parents and teachers pushing back against the state's educational reform efforts. Tea party activists in the Southern Tier have urged the state to repeal new Common Core curriculum standards. State lawmakers are holding their own meetings to hear concerns. School boards have called on the state to scale back standardized testing, and superintendents have spoken out about the pace at which change has been thrown at schools.
"There's no question that this is an issue that, certainly, over the last few months, has gotten a lot of attention," said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg. "Legislators have been talking about it. The governor's been talking about it. Certainly, the state Education Commissioner has been holding hearings and town meetings and has been in the news a lot about it."
Parents organizing
New York is one of 45 states implementing new Common Core curriculum standards, which change what students learn in each grade with the goal of better preparing students for college and careers.
Siena Research Institute for the first time last month asked New Yorkers to weigh in on the new learning standards and found that people were nearly evenly divided on whether they would better prepare students for college or careers. When it came to the number of state tests taken by public school students, more than half thought there are too many.
Concerns have been raised about the quality of education materials the state has developed to teach the new information and the pace at which classroom instruction is moving. But it's not just the curriculum changes that have pushed parents to organize.
Many parents are even more concerned about the number of standardized tests, especially those tied to new teacher evaluations, and the privacy of student information in a new state data warehouse of student records.
Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, a Clarence Republican, hosted a community forum in Akron earlier this month to hear reactions to the state's changes to public education. The meeting made clear, she said, that testing and privacy issues topped the list of concerns.
In the past, she said, one constituency might raise concerns about a particular educational issue. When teacher evaluations were enacted, for example, Corwin heard mainly from teachers. This time is different.
"This one seems to affect all the different groups," Corwin said. "The administrators have a position on it. The teachers have a position on it. The parents and students have a position on it. So that part is unique, in that it cuts across all stakeholders."
Missteps by officials
Meanwhile, public relations missteps by top education officials have inflamed the debate.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan angered parents earlier this month with a remark, reported by the website Politico, that he found it "fascinating" that those opposed to Common Core standards included "white suburban moms who – all of a sudden – their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were."
The remarks ignited a social media firestorm, and Duncan later wrote that he regretted the "clumsy phrasing" because it "distracted from an important conversation about how to better prepare all of America's students for success."
King, the state education commissioner, also fueled criticism when he cancelled a series of public forums on the Common Core that were sponsored by the New York State Parent Teacher Association, and blamed "special interest groups" for disrupting the first event. He has since embarked on a new listening tour across the state, including the scheduled stop in Jamestown this week.
Parents who have been advocating for scaling back the amount of testing in schools objected to the characterization of people at the meeting as "special interest groups."
Parents are passionate because it involves students, said Heidi Indelicato, a Lancaster mother who has been active in organizing meetings to discuss the Common Core and other state initiatives. "These are children we're talking about," Indelicato said. "They aren't going to get third grade, fourth grade and fifth grade back."
Calling for resignation
Teachers unions, including some local units that have called for King's resignation, have been pushing for a moratorium on using the results of state exams aligned with the Common Core for "high-stakes" decisions, including teacher evaluations.
Some parent groups, including Western New Yorkers for Public Education, have also called on King to resign.
But Carrie Remis, who founded a Rochester group called Parent Power Project, cautioned state lawmakers not to consider parents a monolithic group based on recent outcry at public forums on Common Core. She described involvement of members of teachers unions in local parent groups as "the elephant in the room" and said they were "strategically taking advantage of parents who feel sidelined, amplifying and even distorting our concerns."
"It's become clear to us that Common Core has become the new bogey man in education, blamed for everything from dismantled accelerated math programs to denied special education evaluations to no recess," Remis told state senators during a recent hearing on the state's education reform agenda in Buffalo.
Eric Mihelbergel, a City of Tonawanda resident, said parents like him have come to the issue after watching the way standardized tests in schools have changed classroom instruction.
A co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, Mihelbergel has helped organize parent actions and has designed lawn signs for parents to purchase at cost. The group, he said, has no formal relationship with New York State United Teachers.
Pushing for change
The parent group, which has sought meetings with top education officials, is now urging parents to contact specific members of the Assembly who influence how members of the Board of Regents are appointed.
Four regents are up for appointment early next year, and the parent group is calling for the appointment of people who support a moratorium on Common Core, "high-stakes" testing and the uploading of student information to a data cloud created by a nonprofit organization, inBloom.
"We're definitely getting people to listen," Mihelbergel said. "What we want to see now is action."
Like other parents, Mihelbergel describes the issue of education as a deeply personal one. Diegelman, the Lancaster mother, said she has one primary reason for getting involved. "My kids are my priority," said Diegelman. "I would quit my job and home-school them if this gets any worse."
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Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Dallas, April 18-21, 2004
New Techniques for Characterizing Fracture Spacing: Examples from Northeastern Mexico and Central Texas
Randall Marrett, Julia Gale, and Leonel Gomez
Previously published analytical techniques (average, coefficient of variation, cumulative distributions) used to characterize the spacing between fractures fail to quantify fracture clustering or to provide a bias-free measurement of distance between clusters. This is because these techniques ignore the sequence of fracture spacings. In addition, their results are heavily dependent on the aperture-size range of measured fractures, which are commonly restricted to only those fractures that span mechanical layers.
Using two recently developed one-dimensional techniques that take into account the sequence of fracture spacings (normalized correlogram and normalized correlation count) we were able to distinguish four types of spatial organization of fractures: 1) harmonically distributed fractures (regularly spaced), 2) fractal spatial distribution, 3) undistinguishable from random and 4) a combination of the previous three with different spatial organizations at different scales. If fracture clusters were regularly spaced, it was possible to quantify cluster spacing. Fractures of all aperture sizes that can be measured systematically at the scale of observation are included in the analysis, but a lower size limit is selected to avoid sampling truncation artifacts.
The examples presented here come from one-dimensional scanline data acquired in carbonate rocks of the lower Cretaceous Cupido Fm. in northeastern Mexico and the Pennsylvanian Marble Falls Fm. in central Texas. Comparison of the spatial distribution of layers with different values of fracture strain also provides insight into changes in the spatial organization of fractures during the evolution of a fracture network.


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ALH takes fight to Takeovers Panel
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The ill-tempered battle for Australian Leisure & Hospitality could be delayed after the nation's largest pub operator went to the Takeovers Panel over what it described as "unacceptable circumstances" involving the $970 million bid from Woolworths and Melbourne publican Bruce Mathieson.
Takeovers Panel director George Durbridge yesterday was putting together a committee to arbitrate ALH's claims that Woolworths and Mr Mathieson, who launched a $2.75 a share bid through the Bruandwo vehicle earlier this month, failed to "disclose key information in its bidder's statement".
The bidder's statement could be released as early as Monday but Mr Durbridge described this "as uncomfortably close" to an arbitration process that is expected to take a week.
This could, in turn, delay ALH's target's statement, which will contain an independent expert's report valuing the com-pany by accountants KPMG.
The panel - which has been in the news recently dealing with Gribbles Group and Rivkin Financial Services - has yet to decide whether to conduct proceedings to consider ALH's claims.
ALH, which has previously described the bid as light on detail, claims the Bruandwo bid did not take place in "an efficient, competitive and informed market". In a statement from the Takeovers Panel, ALH said its shareholders, directors and independent expert appointed to prepare a report "do not have enough information to enable them to properly assess the takeover bid".
The Melbourne company also claims its shareholders do not have "a reasonable opportunity to participate in any benefits occurring through the proposal" and asked that the bidders disclose more information to the market.
ALH's application to the panel is the latest skirmish in an increasingly hostile battle for its pubs and bottle shops.
ALH chief Geoff Rankin has rejected the bid, which values the newly-floated company at $970 million, describing it as "grossly inadequate".
For his part, Woolworths chief Roger Corbett has dismissed the "grossly inadequate" tag as "hyperbole", citing the average performance of ALH shares before the bid.
ALH shares traded around $2.30 before Woolworths began buying in early June and, with ALH performing within prospectus forecasts, Mr Corbett argues it does not deserve a large premium to the average float price of $2.33 a share.
On Sunday, however, Mr Rankin said Woolworths should pay a premium for control of his 134 pubs and 263 liquor outlets.
Some brokers have suggested ALH, which would form parts of Woolworths' growth plans in the retail liquor market, could be worth up to $3.35 a share to the retailer.


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Apple has begun assembling some of its Mac computers in the US, chief executive Tim Cook has said.
In an interview with NBC, Mr Cook said the company had been working on "doing more and more" in the country.
Apple's products are mostly assembled in China, where the company has faced criticisms over working conditions.
It was Mr Cook's first broadcast interview since taking over from Steve Jobs, who died in October 2011.


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Newsletter from DARCOF | November 2006
By H.O. Pinnschmidt, S.A. Sindberg, and J. Willas, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Ramularia leaf spot has been widespread on barley in Denmark since 2002. Resistance properties of Danish barley cultivars have been investigated and indicates that varietal resistance can be efficient in control of Ramularia leaf spot
Widespread and heavy infections of Ramularia leaf spot (RLS, see picture 1 below) on barley were observed in Denmark for the first time in 2002 (Pinnschmidt & Hovmøller 2003, 2004). Surveys and research efforts, such as investigations into resistance properties of Danish barley cultivars, have been initiated since then.
The data available to date have now been analysed to characterise the expression of RLS resistance of barley cultivars and its relation to resistance against other diseases in view of potential uses for RLS control and resistance breeding.
The major part of the data presented here is from multi-environment surveys of the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS), Variety Testing Division, in which commercial barley varieties and advanced breeding lines were grown on more than 20 sites throughout Denmark from 2002 to 2005 (Anon. 2004, Anon. 2005, www.planteinfo.dk). One data set was obtained from a field trial conducted at the DIAS research centre in Flakkebjerg in 2003, in which spring barley cultivars were inoculated with a suspension of RLS mycelium produced in vitro.
The severity of RLS and other major leaf diseases was visually assessed as percent diseased leaf area in each plot after the beginning of grain filling. Only data sets from environments with more than 10% RLS severity on the most susceptible cultivar were considered. RLS observations for a particular cultivar in a particular environment were only considered if the severity level of any other foliar disease was less than 5% and the severity level of physiological leaf spots was less than 10% on the respective cultivar in the respective environment.
From the cultivars remaining after having applied these selection criteria, only those with valid observations for at least 2 years and 4 year-by-site environments were included in further analyses. Data on RLS severity were transformed to the third root and analysed by generalised linear models (GLM) to examine additive effects of the genotype (G) and environment (E). Data adjusted for additive E effects were used to describe the expression of resistance of individual cultivars.
RLS severity levels reached 50% on spring barley (Figure 1, left side) and 50-75% on winter barley (Figure 1, right side) in several environments. Large varietal and environmental variation in RLS severity was indicated (Figure 2a and Figure 2b). Additive main effects of the genotype and the environment explained about two thirds of the total variation in RLS severity (results not shown).
As indicated by environment-adjusted data, the spring barley cultivars exhibiting lowest levels of RLS severity in a relatively stable manner were Power, Helium, Isabella, Nathalie, Cruiser and Isotta (Figure 3, left side) whereas Lonni, followed by Chess, Lomerit, Nobilia, and Carola were the winter barleys generally least affected by the disease (Figure 3, right side). Lonni moreover possesses good resistance against other foliar diseases (Table 2).
Genetically closely related cultivars (see pedigree in Table 1 and Table 2), such as Power, Isabella and Nathalie; Cabaret and Smilla; and Lonni and Carola, exhibited similar pattern in their RLS reaction.
The spring barley cultivars most affected by RLS, such as Smilla, Braemar, Cabaret and others (top of Figure 3, left side) possess Mlo-resistance against powdery mildew (Table 1, top) while the least affected ones (bottom of Table 1) do not. Other mildew resistances as well as varietal susceptibility to other foliar diseases were not clearly related to the RLS reaction pattern of neither spring- nor winter barley cultivars (Table 1, Table 2).
Ramularia leaf spot is widely present in Denmark nowadays and has the potential to reach severity levels high enough to cause economic damage. The present results suggest that varietal resistance can be an efficient means for controlling RLS. Promising RLS resistance donors may be the spring barleys Power, Helium, Isabella, Nathalie, Cruiser and Isotta and the winter barleys Lonni, followed by Chess, Lomerit, Nobilia, and Carola. However, more work is needed to develop reliable methods for efficient RLS resistance testing and to determine the nature and genetic basis of RLS resistance and its relation to varietal resistances against other diseases.
Anonymous 2004. Sortsforsøg (Variety trials). Dansk Landbrugsrådgivning, Landscentret Planteavl: 25-26.
Anonymous 2005. Sortsforsøg (Variety trials). Dansk Landbrugsrådgivning, Landscentret Planteavl: 8, 28-29.
Pinnschmidt, H.O. & Hovmøller, M.S. 2003: Ramularia, a new disease of barley a review of present knowledge. DJF rapport nr. 89: 313-321, ISSN 1397-9884.
Pinnschmidt, H.O. & Hovmøller, M.S. 2004: Ramularia-bladplet på byg (Ramularia-leaf spot on barley). Grøn Viden (Green Knowledge), Markbrug nr. 290, 6p, ISSN 1397-985X.


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The Daggers began impressively, with lively midfielder Sam Saunders going close twice in the first eight minutes.
Saunders was rewarded when his right-wing cross found Strevens unmarked to head home the opener.
And Strevens tapped in after home keeper Jim Provett dropped a Saunders cross at his feet six yards out.
Bury: Provett, Futcher, Haslam (Dorney 76), Challinor, Morgan (Parrish 54), Baker, Buchanan, Woodthorpe, Bishop, Hurst (Rouse 83), Adams. Subs Not Used: Hughes, McAllister.
Dag & Red: Roberts, Foster, Okuonghae, Uddin, Griffiths, Saunders (Taylor 89), Southam, Huke, Sloma (Green 66), Strevens, Nurse (Moore 83). Subs Not Used: Thompson, Cook.
Goals: Strevens 21, 62.
Att: 1,887
Ref: Dean Whitestone (Northamptonshire).
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Notice to Contractors
Bountiful City Corporation is requesting proposals for Construction Management/General Contractor services for the following project:
Bountiful Historical Museum and Arts Center
745 South Main St., Bountiful, Utah 84010
This Construction Management/ General Contractor (GM/GC) project includes construction of a new building addition adjacent to the existing Bountiful Davis Arts Center and renovation of the existing structure which currently serves as the arts center. The budgeted amount for the projects Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) is $1,950,000.00 (one million nine hundred fifty thousand dollars).
The Request for Proposals (RFP) documents, including the selection requirements and selection schedule will be available for download from the Engineering Department FTP page of Bountiful City website on Thursday, February 9, 2012. The web page address is: ftp://22.214.171.124/ftp/Engineering
For questions regarding this project, please contact Lloyd Cheney of the Bountiful City Engineering Department at (801) 298-6125 or Tom Smith of Smith Hyatt Architects at (801) 289-5777.
All interested Contractors are invited to attend a mandatory Pre-Proposals meeting on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. This meeting will be held in the Planning Conference Room of Bountiful City Hall. The Pre-Proposal meeting will be followed by a walk-through of the existing Arts Center. Bountiful City Hall is located at 790 South 100 East, Bountiful.
Proposals, including a fee proposal, project approach, references and statements of qualifications must be received by 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Proposals may be mailed or delivered to:
Bountiful City Corporation
Engineering Department
790 South 100 East, Bountiful, Utah 84010
Attention: Lloyd Cheney
The contractor for the project must be a Utah Licensed General Contractor.
Association with other individuals or firms having appropriate professional expertise is acceptable.
Bountiful City will enter into a single agreement with the successful Contractor.
A Bid Bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Contractors Fixed Limit of Construction Cost (FLCC) made payable to the Bountiful City Corporation and a bid bond form, shall accompany the cost proposal. Bountiful City reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, or to waive any formality or technicality in any proposal in the best interest of the City.
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Travis Slated For November Release
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Randy Travis will be releasing his highly anticipated upcoming project, Passing Through on November 9, as a follow-up to his highly successful Word/Warner Bros. Records projects Rise & Shine and Worship & Faith.
Passing Through will showcase Travis's unmatched story-telling and communicative ability through song, in a familiar yet new way for his millions of fans and listeners. The project will be released into Country and Christian outlets, throughout multi-genre distribution outlets.
"Four Walls," the first single from Passing Through, will be released in early Fall.
Travis, who's #1 hit, "Three Wooden Crosses" from his project Rise & Shine, won "Song of the Year" honors at the 2004 Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs), Country Recorded Song of the Year at GMA's 35th Annual Music Awards on April 28, and received "Song of the Year" honors at the 37th Annual Country Music Association (CMA) awards show as well as from the Christian Country Music Association and The Nashville Songwriters Association. In February, Travis picked up his fourth GRAMMY Award, for Rise and Shine which won for "Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album." Travis' albums also have been the recipient of the past two Dove Awards for Country Album of the Year - Rise and Shine in 2003 and Worship and Faith this year. In addition to accepting an award, Travis also presented the "Academy of Country Music/Home Depot Humanitarian Award" to recipient Martina McBride.


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The Cool Hall of Fame #52
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It seems he fancies himself to be one of the mob bosses he writes about.
- December 01, 2006 1:00 AM
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Here's a thing :
"The word 'punk' first made an appearance in music journalism in a
1970 essay, 'The Punk Muse: The True Story of Protopathic Spiff
Including the Lowdown on the Trouble-Making Five-Percent of America's
Youth' by Nick Tosches in Fusion...Tosches...used the term to define a canon of proto-punk bands, including the Velvets, Stooges, MC5, the Modern
Lovers and the New York Dolls..."(DeRogatis, Let It Blurt, 118-119).
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so for the past few years, we've decorated pumpkins for work. my boss buys everyone their own pumpkin and we can decorate it however we like. {i don't think anyone has carved theirs since it tends to sit out for a bit...}
i was a bit of a procrastinator with mine this year.
and when i finally did do it, well, nick did it.
i only did the nose. except when i damaged him on the car ride to work... then i had to do some plastic surgery and almost super glued my fingers together before work. it was hilarious.
without futher ado, meet hootie. ;-)
i can't take credit for the idea. my boss found it online and told me i had to do it. and the picture is crappy because he's perched on top of our coffee machine. where else would an owl be seated?
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Design of an optimal surface biofunctionalization still remains an important challenge for the application of biosensors in clinical practice and therapeutic follow-up. Optical biosensors offer real-time monitoring and highly sensitive label-free analysis, along with great potential to be transferred to portable devices. When applied in direct immunoassays, their analytical features depend strongly on the antibody immobilization strategy. A strategy for correct immobilization of antibodies based on the use of ProLinker™ has been evaluated and optimized in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, stability and reproducibility. Special effort has been focused on avoiding antibody manipulation, preventing nonspecific adsorption and obtaining a robust biosurface with regeneration capabilities. ProLinker™-based approach has demonstrated to fulfill those crucial requirements and, in combination with PEG-derivative compounds, has shown encouraging results for direct detection in biological fluids, such as pure urine or diluted serum. Furthermore, we have implemented the ProLinker™ strategy to a novel nanoplasmonic-based biosensor resulting in promising advantages for its application in clinical and biomedical diagnosis.
During the last decades, biosensors have emerged as essential tools in biomedical applications, offering exceptional advantages over conventional clinical techniques for diagnostics and therapy monitoring. Biosensing platforms and optical biosensors in particular provide rapid, reproducible and highly sensitive detection. They allow label-free analysis (
In this work, we aimed to achieve a stable and robust antibody-coated surface for protein biomarker detection in biological fluids using label-free optical biosensors. We have dedicated our attention to a calixarene-based antibody immobilization strategy (ProLinker™ B). ProLinker™ B is a cup-shaped molecule first synthesized by Lee
We have focused on assessing the ProLinker™-based strategy for plasmonic and nanoplasmonic sensor surfaces. Employing a SPR platform as a model label-free biosensor, we have carried out a preliminary comparison between different antibody immobilization strategies (
Organic solvents for chip cleaning (trichloroethylene, acetone and ethanol), sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and hydrochloric acid were provided by Panreac (Barcelona, Spain). Chloroform, alkanethiols for SAM formation (16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHDA) and 11-mercaptoundecanol (MUOH)), reagents for carboxylate group activation (1-ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS)), ethanolamine, crosslinking molecule (bis(sulfosuccinimidyl) suberate, BS3), glycine, Tween 20 and bovine serum albumin (BSA) were purchased from Sigma Aldrich (Steinhem, Germany).
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) was obtained from Abcam (Cambridge, UK), Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) was obtained from OriGene (Rockville, MD, USA) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) from AntibodyBcn (Barcelona, Spain). Monoclonal antibody anti-hCG was a kind gift by the Dr. Jose Miguel Rodríguez Frade from the Department of Immunology and Oncology, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain). The antibody was purified by affinity chromatography using 1 mL HiTrap™ Protein G and PD-10 Desalting Columns (GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden). Monoclonal antibody anti-FAK was supplied by BD Biosciences (San Diego, CA, USA) and monoclonal antibody anti-CRP was from AntibodyBcn. Recombinant Protein G was from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). ProLinker™ B was provided by Proteogen Inc. (Seoul, Korea).
Copolymer poly-(L-lysine)-graft-PEG (PLL-PEG, MW∼75.000 g/mol) was from SuSoS (Dübendorf, Switzerland) and diamine-PEG (NH2-PEG-NH2, MW 10.000 g/mol) from Laysan Bio (Arab, AL, USA). Amine-dextran (MW 10.000 g/mol) was obtained from Invitrogen (Eugene, OR, USA). SuperBlock® Blocking Buffer in TBS was purchased from Fisher Scientific (Madrid, Spain). Human serum was from Sigma-Aldrich. Urine was from healthy human donors.
Buffers used in this work are the following: PBS buffer (10 mM phosphate with 137 mM NaCl and 2.7 mM KCl, pH 7.4); acetate buffer (10 mM, pH 5.0); MES buffer (0.1 M, pH 5.4); PBST (PBS buffer + 0.5% Tween 20) and high-blocking buffer (HBB) (PBS buffer + 500 mM NaCl + 200 μg/mL BSA + 500 μg/mL amine-dextran + 0.5% Tween 20).
The optimization and comparison study was performed using a homemade SPR sensor platform based on the Kretschmann configuration, monitoring the binding events in real time. A polarized light of 670 nm is divided in two identical beams though a light splitter (5 mm/side cube) which are focused to the backside of the gold sensing chip (glass surface coated with 2 nm of chromium and 45 nm of gold, 10 × 10 × 0.3 mm, from Ssens, (Enschede, The Netherlands). Measurements are performed at a fixed angle of incidence and variations of the refractive index (RI) due to biointeraction events occurring at the sensing surface are detected as changes in the reflected light intensity by a multielement photodiode. The flow system consists of two flow cells (300 nL each) for independent analysis. The device incorporates all optics, electronics and fluidics components necessary to operate autonomously. Sensograms reproduce the binding event by monitoring the increase (or decrease in case of unbinding events) of the intensity of the reflected light (ΔRpp)
On the other hand, the nanoplasmonic biosensor is based on short-ordered arrays of gold nanodisks whose LSPR is excited in total internal reflection (θ = 70°) [
Sensor chip cleaning procedure prior to biofunctionalization consisted of successive washing steps in trichloroethylene, acetone, ethanol and MilliQ water. In the case of SPR chips, the surface was then immersed in freshly prepared piranha solution (H2SO4-H2O2 3:1) for 15 s, rinsed with water and dried under nitrogen flux. For gold nanodisks substrates the piranha step was replaced for 15 min under ozone generator.
Formation of a mixed alkanethiols self-assembled monolayer (SAM) was carried out ex-situ, by coating the gold chip overnight with a mixed solution of MHDA/MUOH (molar ratio of 1:20 and total alkanethiol concentration of 250 μM in EtOH). The chip was then mounted in the SPR platform in order to immobilize the antibodies by covalent binding to the carboxylic groups of the mixed SAM. Activation of carboxylate groups was performed by injecting a 0.2 M EDC/0.05 M NHS solution in MES buffer; then, antibody dissolved in PBS buffer was injected, followed by 1 M ethanolamine solution (pH 8.5) to deactivate unreacted carboxylic groups.
Protein G diluted in PBS (50 μg/mL) was immobilized by covalent binding to the mixed alkanethiol SAM formed as described above. Then, the antibody was injected in acetate buffer and once captured by Protein G, the crosslinker BS3 dissolved in PBS was flowed (1,000-fold molar excess with respect to antibody concentration). In order to quench crosslinking reaction and remove unreacted molecules, 100 mM glycine-HCl solution (pH 2.7) was injected.
ProLinker™ layer was formed by incubating the gold chip in 3 mM ProLinker™ B solution in chloroform for 1 h at room temperature. Next, the surface was rinsed with chloroform, acetone, ethanol and water; dried with N2 flux and mounted on the sensor. Antibody solution in PBS buffer was injected followed by a BSA solution (100 μg/mL in PBS) to block remaining reactive free areas. For nonspecific binding studies, the concentration of the different blocking agents tested (BSA, amino-PEG, PLL-PEG and amino-dextran) was increased to 1 mg/mL. Experiments with nanoplasmonic biosensor were carried out blocking with PLL-PEG 1 mg/mL.
Once immobilization process was finished, running buffer was changed to PBS and target detection was carried out. Protein samples were dissolved in PBS at different concentrations and injected in the system. For direct detection in biological samples, running buffer and dilution buffer were changed to PBST 0.5%. Regeneration of the antibody-immobilized surface took place by injecting 5 mM HCl solution.
Calibration curves were obtained measuring different concentration of target proteins by triplicate, considering the % ΔRpp as signal response in the case of SPR measurements or the ΔλLSPR when using the nanoplasmonic biosensor. Curves were fitted through a non-linear one-site total binding function. Limit of detection (LOD) for each analyte was determined from the linear regression of the linear range of the calibration curve, as the concentration corresponding to the minimum measurable signal, set as three times the standard deviation of the blank signal.
Three different antibody-immobilization strategies were compared: Prolinker™ strategy (see
Sensitivity and specificity for hCG detection were evaluated and compared. An antibody concentration of 10 μg/mL was selected. The target binding with Prolinker™ strategy was considerably higher compared with Protein G and covalent approaches (See
The specificity of the antigen detection was also evaluated by performing assays with non-target control proteins (BSA and prostate specific antigen (PSA)) at different concentrations (see
Immobilization strategies were further assessed for the direct detection of two protein disease biomarkers, the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and similar results were observed. Thus, under same assay conditions (
The regeneration capability for the Prolinker™ strategy was evaluated by removing target proteins from the antibody-immobilized layer using acidic conditions (HCl 5 mM) and injecting right after the same target concentration. Experiments were performed with PBS and PBST buffer. In both cases, complete removal of target protein was observed without altering the amount of antibody on the surface (see
Experiments with undiluted urine samples were done to assess the behavior of ProLinker™-based antibody layer. The experiments were done with the CRP protein. CRP immunoassays were carried out with PBST 0.5% as the running buffer. Injection of pure urine absent of protein resulted in no background (see
Undiluted human serum was tested over a ProLinker™-based bioactive surface (
The Prolinker™ strategy was evaluated on a gold nanodisks surface. We employed a homemade nanoplasmonic biosensor based on the LSPR of gold nanodisks when illuminated at a fixed angle of incidence (70°) [
We compared the behavior of both sensor surfaces (gold film and gold nanodisks) for nonspecific adsorption of serum at different dilutions (10%–100%) when using PLL-PEG as blocking agent and those buffers that showed best results in previous experiments with SPR (
In biosensing, the achievement of best analytical features strongly depends on the sensor surface biofunctionalization. For label-free detection based on antibody recognition, the right orientation of the biomolecule becomes crucial. Among the myriad of antibody immobilization procedures reported, the one based on ProLinker™ molecule offers important advantages in terms of simplicity, site-specific capture and no chemical manipulation of the biomolecule. Although it has been previously compared with other strategies using fluorescence-based arrays [
Thus, in order to evaluate the efficacy of the ProLinker™ strategy (see
From the results obtained after comparing the three strategies (
Regarding the specificity studies, control experiments were carried out using non-target proteins to assess their binding over the antibody-coated surfaces. Results summarized in the
Besides hCG, two additional proteins with clinical significance as biomarkers were tested, FAK and CRP. FAK is an intracellular protein which plays an important role in cell growth and regulation. It is one of the principal molecules involved in cancer cell metastasis regulation and is associated with aggressive tumor behavior. It is known that FAK overexpression contributes to the development of typical features of malignancy in many tumors and its early detection has become a key factor in cancer diagnosis and therapy [
In order to complete the study, additional experiments were carried out to further assess the stability of the antibody-coated surface. It is particularly important to ensure the reusability of the sensor in case this might be necessary, either to lengthen the surface life-time, to save costs or to study the reproducibility and optimization protocols. As commented above, to our knowledge, this issue has not been addressed with ProLinker™-coated surfaces. Regeneration cycles (
From the above results, and given the high simplicity and better sensitivity obtained with ProLinker™ methodology without worsening the stability or biological activity, we continued with the assessment using biological fluids (urine and serum). We decided also to continue with CRP as protein target for this evaluation since its direct and high sensitive detection from both human fluids has important significance for several disease diagnosis and clinical relevant concentrations are already reported in the literature.
Protein biomarkers analysis is crucial in clinical diagnosis and their direct detection from biological fluids is a required demand. This analysis may become especially complex due to interferences and undesired nonspecific adsorption of matrix components present in urine, serum or whole blood. In case of label-free detection and in particular in optical biosensors, where signals are directly related with mass changes on the sensor surface, this must be minimized.
Urine is an ideal sample for disease biomarker determination as it can be obtained in large amounts with non-invasive methods. Human urine consists primarily of water with organic solutes, such as urea or creatinine, inorganic ions to a much less extent, also small organic substances and metabolites, enzymes or proteins [
Most protein biomarkers are not excreted in the urine but appear in blood and in those cases analysis of serum, plasma or whole blood is the best minimum invasive alternative. Direct analysis of undiluted serum (or whole blood) still remains as a challenge in direct label-free biosensing. The high amounts of proteins and lipids present in blood, which can be adsorbed onto the sensor surface, usually lead to high background signal and in the case of immunochemical interactions can also interfere in the antigen recognition. Undiluted human serum was first tested over the ProLinker™-antibody-BSA blocked layer and indeed we observed a significant nonspecific binding (data not shown). Thus we carried out an optimization study with diluted serum (10% in buffer) focused on removing the undesired adsorption. Two parameters were selected: (i) changing the blocking agent and (ii) changing the buffer composition in which the serum is diluted. The composition of the buffers is based on the blocking effect of certain compounds such as BSA or dextran, and on the presence of surfactants such as Tween 20, which reduces the nonspecific binding events. On the other hand, the blocking surface protocol was modified to include the use of antifouling compounds, such as PEGylated or dextran derivatives as blocking agents. These polymers are widely used in biomedicine because of their protein adsorption resistance and biomimetic properties [
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Motivated by miniaturization and multiplexing possibilities, nanoplasmonic biosensors are considered the next-generation label-free plasmonic sensors. However, a key factor on their final development is related to the surface biofunctionalization. Nanoplasmonic sensing configurations can offer important benefits in terms of sensitivity and selectivity, but the transfer of conventional gold surface chemistry to nanostructured substrates implies additional factors, such as the substrate effects or the stronger field confinement [
Thus, we evaluated the behavior of the Prolinker™ strategy on gold nanodisks. We employed a homemade biosensing device which can operate both in SPR and LSPR configurations, therefore allowing a more accurate comparison between isolated nanodisks and a continuous thin gold gold layer. We followed an analogous immobilization procedure for the nanodisks (see
We attempted a material-selective surface functionalization by exploiting the use of PLL-PEG as blocking agent. This compound has high affinity for glass surfaces [
Gold nanodisks substrates offer a reduced active sensor surface when compared to thin gold films used in SPR biosensors (nanodisk substrates have an approximate surface occupation of 6%–7%) (see
Finally, we performed a nonspecific binding study in order to evaluate the benefits of the nanostructured substrates for reducing undesired matrix adsorptions from biological fluids. We selected the serum in order to improve the obtained SPR results as much as possible. We tested different serum dilutions and serum 100%, using the two buffers with better output in SPR (PBST 0.5% and HBB). In comparison with the gold surface, a high reduction of the nonspecific adsorption was observed for the gold nanodisks in all the serum dilutions, even also in serum 100%, when using HBB buffer). Indeed, a 90% less nonspecific binding with pure serum was achieved when HBB was the running buffer. This result definitely brings out the exceptional advantages of nanoplasmonic biosensors for the direct detection of protein biomarkers. Material-selective functionalization can strongly minimize nonspecific fouling, thereby guaranteeing reliable label-free analysis in biological samples.
The use of ProLinker™ as orienting molecule for antibody immobilization has been optimized for SPR biosensing and afterwards implemented on a novel nanoplasmonic biosensor showing great potential for direct immunoassay of protein biomarkers in biological fluids. This strategy turned out to be highly efficient for antibody coupling in an oriented manner with a relatively low consumption of reagent, resulting in higher analysis sensitivity in respect to more conventional methodologies. The bioactive surface generated was stable enough to allow reusability to a quite remarkable extent (up to 20 detection cycles) without the need of extra stabilization steps. The strategy offers same results regardless the antibody/target considered, proving its versatility for different targets. Moreover, ProLinker™-based layer allows direct immunoassay in undiluted urine samples avoiding nonspecific adsorption while retaining same sensitivity than in standard clean buffer conditions. These results demonstrate the robustness of the strategy even in more complex matrices and including also regeneration of the biological surface. A new approach based on the use of antifouling PEGylated compounds, particularly the copolymer PLL-PEG, instead of BSA as blocking agents, has shown encouraging results addressed to reduce undesired nonspecific binding events with serum, while retaining target detection's capability. This has been particularly remarkable with gold nanodisks surfaces. The high immobilization efficiency together with the high reproducibility and stability of the bioactive surface fulfill important requirements for label-free biosensor-based immunoassays. Overall, the implementation of the ProLinker™ strategy to gold nanodisks also highlights its exceptional potential for nanoplasmonic biosensing, additionally benefiting from the sensitivity improvements LSPR can offer.
The work has been done thanks to the MULTIBIOPLAS project (TEC2099-08729) and the INNBIOD project (INNPACTO Subprogram, OPT-2011-1429-010000) from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. M. S. acknowledges financial support from "Programa de Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI)" from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. We also thank José Miguel Rodríguez-Frade and Mario Mellado from the Department of Immunology and Oncology, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) in Madrid (Spain), for kindly providing the anti-hCG antibody for this study.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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the terms of the transaction are secret.Autoliv has the right to acquire the additional 1.5% of Norma shares before Jan. 1, 2002. Norma shareholders also replaced three members of the five-member supervisory council and two of the five-member board with Autoliv's representatives. Autoliv's vice president, Jorgen Svensson, was chosen chairman of the council and Norma's Peep Siimon as head of the board. The negotiations on the purchase of Norma's shares started in mid summer. Norma, a dominant seat belt supplier to the Russian vehicle industry, has been one of Autoliv's licensees and is currently a component supplier to Autoliv. This transaction enables Norma to increase its volume of exports and to the West and offers Autoliv an opportunity ... Read the rest of this entry »
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It was my first time in San Diego, or actually my first time out to the West coast so we wanted to make the best out of our short trip. What a memorable adventure this was. From listening to the waves of the Pacific Ocean, to standing in awe of the Grand Canyon and sliding down the sand dunes in Brawley, this was a trip to remember for a lifetime! A lot of this letter was a reflection of this trip, where in hindsight I should've just took more time off to enjoy.
We flew into San Diego where Carl's parents live and set off to our first stop, Las Vegas. This trip was more for sightseeing and not so much the nightlife so we stayed at a Holiday Inn off the strip (which was still nice and cheaper). We only spent a full day in Vegas so we did some shopping at the Premium Outlet, had a delicious buffet dinner at the Bellagio and toured the hotels at night. Most stores on the Vegas strip stays open till midnight so Carl and I did some damage.
Our next stop was the Lake Mead National Recreational Area, which was only a 50 minute drive away. This area consists of Lake Mead with smaller lakes like Lake Mohave – reservoirs on the river created by Hoover Dam and Davis Dam surrounded by desert terrain and wilderness. On the drive up, you get to see the depth of the reservoirs and the different shades in the rocks. This portion of the trip took around 2 hours just to get out of the car and take some pictures.
Then we were off to check off one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world from our Bucket List, the majestic Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon defined by the Colorado River with nearly 2 billion years of geological history. Also something to keep in mind, we went on this trip in May, and considering the fact that it was more desert areas we only packed shorts with us – this was a mistake! At 7,000 feet above sea level, even in May, the weather was quite chilly. We spent the next day here and stayed at the Grand Canyon national Park Lodges. If this is where you'd like to stay, you must book months in advance!
After a 2 hour drive, we got to my favourite place on this trip, but also a place where my naive 22 year old self I didn't spend enough time appreciating (instead, we visited a random but decent outlet mall!). Up until this trip, I had never seen naturally coloured red rocks before. As Sedona's main attraction, the famous red rocks are formed by a layer of rock known as the Schnebly Hill Formation. The Schnebly Hill Formation is a thick layer of red to orange-colored sandstone found only in the Sedona vicinity (wiki). That night, we drove into a small parking area off the main road turned off the car and gazed out in the sky. To this day, I can still remember how clear the night sky was. Given the opportunity, I would definitely go back.
From the red rocks of Sedona, we made our last stop to the Imperial Sand Dunes Cahuilla Ranger Station. The Imperial Sand Dunes are the largest sand dunes open to off-highway vehicle use in the United States. The dunes begin 10 miles southeast of Niland and stretch all the way into Mexico, over 40 miles away (ISDRA Sand Dune Guide). Standing on top of the sand dunes, it felt like the endless Arabian desert minus the heat. The sand was cool to touch and fine to sand on. There is the opportunity to rent an ATV, unfortunately for Carl, it was closed by the time we got there but what we did get to see was the incredible sunset with layers of vibrant colours. This night was also a special night to remember, Carl tried his first heart-attack-Double-Down from KFC.
And this concluded our 7 day road trip to some of the coolest places by the West Coast. We're quite proud to conclude that on this trip, we drove more than 1,200 miles (that's almost 2,000 kms) and more than 20 hours of total driving time – talk about a road trip!
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I believe in what this nonprofit stands for. It's existence is critical to helping end child abuse. I am proud to know memebers of this group who work tirelessly to support their cause and believe in a better world for children.
PCAA has always been supportive of the Child Abuse Prevention Efforts I have been involved in, especially the Voices program. I have worked in conjunction with PCAA in the past and although I have moved to another area, I continue to follow and support their efforts at every opportunity. I am pleased with the continuation and increased awareness of the PinWheel Gardens and am extremely pleased that every state in the union has a PCA office. I am a Child Advocate and Speaker as a Survivor of Child Abuse and PCAA has always been my "go to" for accurate and up-to-date figures and information regarding this epidemic. I continue to be pleased they remain a leader in this movement. I will continue to support their work and efforts at every opportunity and I urge anyone I come into contact with to do so as well.
I am a retired teacher, and throughout my 30 year career, I taught preschool through to fifth grade. After disclosures from students or behaviors from families, I became involved with many abused children. When I learned about Prevent Child Abuse America, I decided to be a donor. Giving children a voice, supporting parents & making the public more aware of the needs of families, is so critical in the prevention of child abuse. I urge more donors to support this important charity.
I work with various families with different situations. I am currently a supervisor for Family Assessment Workers and Family Support Workers under the umbrella of Maternal Child Health program. I learned so much from the conference and I commend Prevent Child Abuse America for reaching out to people from all areas of life.
I was able to share the knowledge that I acquired from this conference with all of who are part of my program. In my line of work, we go out on home visits and work with our clients in their homes. The conference taught me that there are defining signs of abuse that we should look out for if there is some concern. We make it a point now to be more alert to these signs. So many children are needing people like us to be their voices. We should not be silent about these things.
It was also a plus to learn how to involve fathers with raising his child. In several occasions, fathers have been an absent parent. We have incorporated the ideas from the conference as part of our job when we are out on the field. This has been a plus for us.
Bullying is an issue that has been in the news around our nation. It should be addressed as soon as possible. We have and still are working with some who do not consider what they are doing as bullying. The conference gave great insight on how to handle and how to deal with people who bully others.
Overall, I think Prevent Child Abuse America is a MUST for all who work in a field that will allow them to be the child's voice. I think that the only setback for us who are traveling from American Samoa is the distance and time it takes for us to get to the destination. The conference I attended was held in Florida and I had to take three planes to get there with two days of traveling. It would be ideal for us to have a conference held in the West Coast. All in all, I recommend this training for any all who care about our children.
I am a retired professional that taught Early Child Development and during my tenure so appreciated Prevent Child Abuse America and the information and training that the organization afforded me. I feel my role was made more visible with the population I served because of PCAA's advertising and public posture.
Keep up the good work and it is great to see billboards with positive info regarding parenting. It is the everyday info that impacts citizens and keeps awareness in the fore front.
Prevent Child Abuse America is a wonderful organization. It is a Godsend to America's children. I am so thankful that they are out there every day advocating for children in our country. They are bringing more awareness to the public than has ever been done and are so very devoted to America's children. God bless you all for the hard work and untold hours you work to protect this country's precious little ones! Thank you so very much!!!
I work at a Child Abuse Prevention Center in North Carolina. I was very abused by 3 family members in my childhood and would have given anything if Prevent Child Abuse America or the organization I work for had been around when I was enduring that abuse. Children who are dealing with and enduring abuse do not have a VOICE, these organizations can step in and be the voice for today's children. I am so very proud to be a part of this and I now issue a challenge to all who read this: Be the adult and step up for these children. Do not sit in the comfort of your home and pretend that it does not happen in your own town, in your own neighborhood. Do not be the Ostrich with your head in the sand and think, "If I don't see it, it doesn't exist." It does exist and it is not pretty. We as adults have to stand up for today's children and very loudly declare, "ENOUGH! STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW!"
In 2013, 24 of North Carolina's children died from abuse and neglect at the hands of their parent/caregiver. Please support these wonderful folks in their efforts to end this suffering!
The Staff and Volunteers of Prevent Child Abuse America are devoted to creating compelling messages to raise public awareness; to tackle the most relevant issues of the day, such as child sexual abuse and bullying; and to implement highly effective strategies for the well-being of children.
Prevent Child abuse America, in my experience, is doing a fantastic job at creating awareness and positive outlets for children and families in awareness against child abuse. As one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, PCAA makes awareness fun! I recently helped volunteer at an event in Utah with Pro-Ultramarathon Runner Chad Weller spoke to a group of children that fall into the high statics of child abuse in the nation. Children who have suffered from child abuse might have issues with self confidence and trust. Chad spoke to the children about exercise and nutrition, highlighting his experience of running 100miles and the empowering massage that anything is possible! Creating awareness of the silent issue and also positive messaging to children and families is the best way to change lives. I am proud to be a volunteer of Prevent Child Abuse America and continue spreading this good work.
Thank you for advocating for and giving a voice to children, supporting parents and making the public more aware of the needs of families! I love the Pinwheel Gardens! They became too expensive for us, so we started building Blue Ribbon Trees. Check them out at http://www.ok.gov/health/Organization/Office_of_Communications/News_Releases/2014_News_Releases/Build_a_Blue_Ribbon_Tree_State.html
Thank you for providing an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding and preventing child abuse and neglect. I wish you many long years of excellent service.


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Today's release of Equality Now's global child marriage report, Protecting the Girl Child: Using the Law to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Related Human Rights Violations, clearly illustrates that child marriage does not take place within a vacuum. It is part of a continuum of abuse experienced by a girl and is often linked with female genital mutilation, sex trafficking or force-feeding before marriage, but also rape, domestic violence, and denies them future opportunities.
"Child marriage directly affects approximately 14 million girls a year. It legitimizes human rights violations and the abuse of girls under the guise of culture, honor, tradition, and religion. It is part of a sequence of discrimination that begins at a girl's birth and continues throughout her entire life. Furthermore, when a child bride gives birth, the vicious cycle of poverty, poor health, curtailed education, violence, instability, disregard for rule of law and legal and other discrimination often continues into the next generation, especially for any daughters she may have," said Jacqui Hunt, London Director, Equality Now
Ending child marriage internationally should be a global priority and included within the post-2015 development framework. At the national level, a comprehensive, joined-up approach is essential, which links the justice sector with healthcare, education, community and other leaders. Such an initiative should tackle child marriage not as a single abuse, but rather related to other manifestations of discrimination and violence against women and girls.
Without such structural frameworks in place, which recognize child marriage as part of a harmful cycle of abuse, girls will remain vulnerable not only to being married off at a young age, but to a lifetime of abuse.
Equality Now's report was complemented by an annex, written in conjunction with research facilitated by TrustLaw Connect, carried out by Latham & Watkins LLP, in collaboration with AQLAAL Advocates (Pakistan), Ashurst Australia (Papua New Guinea), Bafakih & Nassief Lawyers and Legal Consultants (Saudi Arabia), Dr Kamal Hossain & Associates (Bangladesh), Kirthi Jayakumar (India), MMAKS Advocates (Uganda), P&A Asia (Cambodia), Tilleke & Gibbins (Thailand) and Webber Wentzel (Swaziland).
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hello mmo champz
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Merry christmass every1!!
hello mmo champz
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Merry christmass every1!!
I must admit, despite playing with some frustrating people, I was in a better mood to handle them by having done this!
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P.S. I was not allowed to post proper links since I am a new member...
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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(Cant post actual links, sorry, so please cut and paste to see)
a big very merry xmas to all and happy holidays^-^
drakgon Eldre'thalas US
Merry Christmas everybody!
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Malificient - Daggerspine US
I hope everybody enjoys the holidays and stays safe!
Hello, I joined in the middle of a dungeon in progress
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Thank you, and Happy Holidays!
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
Here are my screenshots [can't post links directly yet, hope this is okay] -
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We lost a dps due to afk and d/c, so we pulled a new mage: imgur.com/pOU9D.jpg
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Was a nice group, we had 2 dps who didn't mind explaining the fights to tank and healer (me) who hadn't run it before. Yay, holiday spirit!
Happy holidays, everyone!
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Merry Christmas !
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Happy Holidays, good luck to everybody in the contest!
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Stuck with the same group the whole way thru! Great group!
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There ya go! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all non-trolls out there. <3
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. Quack.
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hopefully this works. this has been quite difficult for me. <3
Merry Xmas everyone I hope you all got all the wonderful things that you wanted this year
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Dungeon Ending: http://www.freewebs.com/jav_5/dungeonend.jpg
"It was a fun and challenging adventure to heal a pug heroic, but the spirit of Xmas overpowered the enemies within Shadowfang Keep because they smell."
Seloria - Zuluhed US
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Merry Christmas to everyone!
(Can't post links, since I only made an account like... yesterday!)
First of all, greetings everyone and merry X-mas
To be honest it was my first dungeon run of cataclysm, so I was a little worried how I would do.
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I asked them if they could please explain the bosses for me and the mage, kindly did. Too bad that the tank pulled before I could read it
Anyway, there were no whipes. I did let the tank die once due to bad assessment skills from my side. But the dps and I pulled it together and showed some great CC and kiting skills. Really great feeling to still pull it off
Anyway, it was a great first run. Kind people. Some a little bit mute, but that's their call.
(Just saw that the shaman and mage were from the same server. Prob friend or guildies )
Anyway, great idea boub! Best contest I've seen
With regards,
Breydel aka Dragnei
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By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — The labor union representing some employees at Kansas State University wants to bite the hand that pays them.
In a move that surprised some, the public-employee union at Kansas State University, the Kansas State University Employees Association, has come out against shifting control of some hourly paid employees to the local level. Instead, the union has aligned with the notably anti-union state Legislature.
Bill Glover, president of the union which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, said the reason is simple — control. The union says it easily can replace lawmakers, but can't replace officials at the university.
"We can fire them (elected officials), but it's pretty impossible to fire somebody at K-State that's not doing something we agree with," Glover said. "We can always get groups together to get rid of Gov. (Sam) Brownback if he's not going to give the dignity and respect that state employees deserve."
KSU's 1,600 mostly hourly employees are being asked to join university support staff. If that happens, decisions on pay and other employment matters will be decided by KSU administrators. At present, the hourly employees, some of whom are members of the employee association labor union, are part of the state's civil service unit and fall under the auspices of the Kansas Legislature.
Lawmaker negotiate with the union on issues involving pay, working conditions and more.
"Most people do not trust the (university) administration," Glover said. "We have seen the actions down here for years and years."
Gary Leitnaker, KSU human resources assistant vice president, said state statute protects employees from being laid off or having pay decreased if the change is made.
The employees will vote on the issue in November.
KSU employee Carol Marden, who leads a committee examining the potential change, told the Topeka Capitol-Journal that employees would do well to extricate themselves from the grip of state lawmakers. Marden said she puts more stock in local, university administrators than in a far-removed Legislature.
"It's basically, who do you have more trust in, our local administration or a further removed administration?" said Marden told the Capitol-Journal. "My trust lays here at Kansas State."
Marden did not return requests for comment from Kansas Watchdog.
But Glover doesn't share the same affinity for university administrators. Glover said he was skeptical the university would handle issues fairly. The animosity came as a shock to Leitnaker, who said he has always maintained an open-door policy with Glover.
"I kind of am surprised that they are opposed to it, because I don't think we've had a bad relationship with them," Leitnaker said.
Dave Trabert, president of the Kansas Policy Institute, a Wichita-based think tank, said the matter of local versus legislative control should be based on individual freedom and liberty in the workplace.
"It makes perfect sense (to shift control)," Trabert said. "That's one of the great benefits of freedom, especially in a right-to-work state. People should have the freedom to be treated as individuals, not compelled to be part of a group because of the majority."
In the end, though, Glover said it could be politically advantageous for employees to remain under the scope of elected lawmakers.
The Legislature is "anti-union, we can't disagree with that, but we also understand right now Gov. Brownback's approval rating is down to 30 percent," Glover said.
"We think there's a possibility that somebody will come forward to challenge him for the governorship, somebody who's going to really care about Kansas instead of the Koch brothers," he said.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0280 Tuesday, 6 February 2001
Date: Monday, 05 Feb 2001 12:17:22 +0000
Subject: 12.0264 Re: The Number 20
Comment: Re: SHK 12.0264 Re: The Number 20
I'm sorry that I didn't keep the post so don't recall who suggested that
Shakespeare may have used the number twenty so often because it scans.
Surely this is the case. It's a lovely word. It has that nice Anglo
Saxon "twel" sound, like "twelve," rather unique when you think about
it, rather like a little bell. The two ts give it a soft clinking sound,
like coins dropping on a table covered with cloth. It rhymes with
In considering content and intent we can forget that the guy was, first
and foremost, a poet. Unlike other kinds of writers who seek to vary
their choices of words, poets use the words they especially like over
and over, like gourmets who, despite the fact that they know many
dishes, will actually choose to eat the same ones over and over.
As for its numerological value, all the low value numbers have some
function, but twenty has far less significance than twenty-two or even
twenty-one. More significant is that, as has been noted, it must
function in one of the pre-literate counting systems, which were often
(always?) based on the number of fingers on the human hand. Even the
word "score" shows that one mark, or score, on a stick or surface,
indicated a set of twenty.
But surely in this case it's the pretty sound.
Stephanie Hughes


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Joran is located at the centre of HK. Easy to go anywhere. You will find amazing , traditional, exciting nearby.
In my apartment, there is 2 bedroom, each of bedroom with 1 double bed and equip with air-conditioning. Also, there has a bunk bed and a sofa bed in the living room too. So if you have big group size of people, then you can have more real bed to sleep.
Inside the apartment, I have cooking utensils for you have simple cooking. Also with refrigerator and gas cooker.
Has instant hot water supply, it means unlimited hot water for bathing after you back to my home.
Also free wifi are provided , so you will not get loss connection with your friends.
During your stay, I will not there inside the apartment. If anythings need help, you can call me for assistant.
House Rules: No smoking and pet are allowed.
And this is a private residential building, please kindly be considerate to the neighbourhood and follow the culture of HK, lower the voice after 10pm at night ^^
Please turn off the lights, water heater, and air conditioning after you leave for safety and energy saving reasons.
Please do not put towels on the floor as floor carpets. If doing this, then HKD100/towel will be charged from your deposit.
Please respect your surroundings, whether it is the materials that have been provided to make your stay as comfortable as possible or the people in the neighbourhood. Most of all enjoy your stay!
(late check in after 21:00, additional charge of HKD200 will be applied as taxi fee for me or my dad to go back home)


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Studio Ghibli film retrospective coming to NYC
GKIDS, a distributor of award-winning animation for both adults and family audiences, is bringing a complete retrospective of films from Japan's renowned Studio Ghibli to the IFC Center in New York from Friday, December 16 to Thursday, January 12.
The run will include United States premiere theatrical engagements for several titles.
All 15 Studio Ghibli feature films produced between 1984 and 2008 will be presented, including Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service. Films will be shown in both the subtitled and English-dubbed versions.
GKIDS recently entered into agreement with Studio Ghibli to handle North American theatrical distribution for its library of animated features. As the first engagements announced under the agreement, the New York Film Festival presented a 25-year anniversary screening of Castle in the Sky and 10-year anniversary screenings of Spirited Away. LA County Museum of Art and Film Independent will present these same anniversary titles in a special preview screening Saturday, November 26.
Following the IFC Center engagement, the retrospective will tour major U.S. and Canadian markets, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle, throughout the first half of 2012. GKIDS is also planning limited releases of select Studio Ghibli titles, many of which have never been released theatrically in the U.S., beginning late 2012.
Said GKIDS president Eric Beckman: "I am both excited and deeply honored to be working with Studio Ghibli to bring this amazing slate of films to theaters across North America. I am in continual awe of the brilliance of the animation, the depth and humanity of the storytelling, and of the filmmakers' understanding that even the youngest audiences are capable of appreciating all the subtlety and nuance that cinema has to offer. As Miyazaki has said, 'Children understand the complexity and uncertainty of things almost with their skin. They cannot be underestimated.'"
The Studio Ghibli agreement further solidifies GKIDS position as a home for award-winning animation. GKIDS began as a spin-off of the New York International Children's Film Festival and found early success, securing a Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination for The Secret of Kells in 2010.
GKIDS has two films competing in the animated feature category for the upcoming Academy Awards: European Film Award nominee A Cat in Paris and Oscar winner Fernando Trueba's Chico & Rita, also an EFA nominee. Chico & Rita is being released under GKIDS' newly formed LumaFilms banner due to the adult subject matter of the film.